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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11
GOV. ELY APPOINTS
ADVISER ON RADIO
George A. Harder of WBZ-WBZA
Named to Staff by Massa-
chusetts Executive.

Radio creates another portfolio in
public life with the appointment of the
first official radio adviser" to a
Governor.
This precedent was established yes
terday by Gov. Joseph B. Ely of Massa-
chusetts, who announced the appoint
ment of George A. Harder of WBZ-
WBZA, the Westinghouse stations in
Boston and Springfield, as the radio adj
wiser to the administration. That other
State chief executives will grasp the
significance of the move and follow with
similar appointments seems likely.
With political batteries now warming
up for the Nationwide presidential
campaigning and with radio destined to
play an increasingly important role in
it. Gov. Ely's appointment is a striking
illustration of the reliance being placed
in radio. The swashbuckling, gesticulat-
ing, soap-box campaigner of former
days, appealing to a street-corner audi
ence. has capitulated to the radio orator
who can forego arm waving and speak
his piece into the microphone, reaching
an audience that is city wide, State
wide or even Nation wide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11

The last Japanese census gave Japan
a grand total population of over 81
100000.
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JULY CORN AT 72z
AS CORNER ENDS
Closing Price Represents
lump of Is Cents in
Last Three Days.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 31-A corner on
corn for July delivery came to an end
today with the price at 72la cents a
bushel the peak figure which shorts
were forced to pay on the Board of
Trade. The closing price represented a
jump Of Is cents bushel in the past
three days.
Thomas M. Howell, Chicago trader
credited with other spectacular deals
in the past, was said to have executed
the corner in association with James p
Bickell Of Toronto, Canada.
All other options Of both corn and
wheat closed the day near the lowest
prices for the season September
wheat dropped at one time to 497s. an
all time low. and closed at SOFA to IA
cents; July wheat closed at As to 48ls.
a mere fraction above the low, and 81
cents under yesterdays price.
Corn for September delivery closed
at 50A to % cents, or at discount Of
more than % cents over the cornered
price for the July option.
Cash sales of corn were similarly af-
fected, the final sales in some instances
being 5 cents above yesterdays final
deals
Runor had It that Howell. a gray
haired veteran who began life 49 years
ago in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. had made
a million dollars paper profit in the
corn squeeze.
Spectacular Operator.
Howell has long been q spectacular
La Sale street operator.
Essentially grain trader. he is also
said to have made an occasional sally
into the securities market.
His name has often been linked with
that Of Jesse Livermore. New York
stock and cotton operator, especially
during 1925, when the pair was re-
ported to have cleaned up fortunes in
May wheat.
It was in January Of that year that
May deliveries jumped to $2.057s a
bushel-then collapsed. dropping back
to $l.44 at the rate Of 10 cents a day.
Howell and Livermore were credited
with being on the buying side while
the prices went up, and on the selling
side when the prices broke down.
Has Winter Home in Miami.
Secretary of Agriculture William M.
Jardine asked for q report on dealings
from the Board o. Trade, but all trans
actions were found in order.
Born in Iowa, Howell was educated
in the schools of Lincoln, Nebr. He
came to Chicago in 1900. Now he
maintains q Winter residence in Miami,
Fla, and conducts much of his ex-
tensive trading from that point over
private wires.
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fruits of the labor and not on the
public treasury. They are In the spirit
Of American initiative and self-help.
1.-THE United States Chamber Of Com
merce in April, 1891. constituted q
special committee to study means of
securing continuity Of employment in
American industry. This committee has
the brains and the personnel to func-
ton effectively.
Next month the first convention
Of small manufacturers ever held in
the country will meet at Lake George,
N. Y. The National Industrial Con-
ference Board points out that 81 per
cent of all our industrial wage earners
are employed in small plants having
q working force Of 500 or less. No
more vital question than this one could
be considered by that conference.
"Out of all this there would be sure
to come some well thought-out and
constructive plan for unemployment
relief. Perhaps 1t would not be 100 per
cent, but what is? Perhaps the need
for some legislation or governmental
supervision would become apparent.
Then that could be adopted. There Is
no reason the States or the Nation
should not help in any way which Is
economically sound and which leaves
the burden where It ought TO rest"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the United States Army Band this
evening at the United States Capitol
at 7:30 o'clock William Stannard,
leader. conducting; Thomas Darcy, sec
tond leader.
March, Festival" $500. .Munoz
Overture, Calm Sea and Happy
Tropical suite. "A Festival in Central
! America" ("Bulls Death in the
Ring" 1.-The MaSqueraderS' Dance"
The Serenade," and Peasants
. Dance") De Adalid y Camera
Solo for euphonium, Beautiful Cole
IN Musician Frank J. Jakubec].
cu iaSsf song or "Alsun Dia' i"some ''
Selection from the opera, MY Mary
land" .Romoerg
March, America First" ........ :LoSey
The Star Spangled Banner
BY the Community Center's Band
this evening at the Sylvan Theater,
Monument Grounds, at 1880 O'Clock.
James Miller, director.
March, General Lejeune,"
S'Plastidue Studies" ......,. ;. Dancers
waltz, ".Fruhling VIE 5ist du so
Schon" ...'......'.''n. LlncAe
P'Scarf Dance. dancers
s.T-he Last Dav of ,JilCioment". a, Dancers
1s.rThe EJoon'' Dancers
s"The owe Of a Mermaid. Dancers
s'Atlantis," suite in four parts"
9ssr1once Ritilelle" Dancers
i(1vert,Jre Light Calvary. .Suppe
s1A6ornin1' Dancers
song "TJeartaches'' ~ Hoffman
GThe Lake of Swans. Dancers
STARS and ST yer,
sousa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
INVESTIGATORS PRAISED.

The group Of young prohibition agents.
who reputedly built, up the evidence
against AL Capone, were praised IN .
statement made public today by Arthur
H. Briggs, superintendent Of the Call
fornia Anti-Saloon League.
Briggs said that when the Federal
Government labeled its keen and tncor.
ruptable Investigators, who were sent
out to get Al Capone as the untoucn-
ables,' 1t acquired new rights to public
confidence in prohibition enforcement:
when these untouchableS, or SINH
lar group, reach the Pacific Coast m
their assaults upon the leaders Of the
commercialized violation Of the prom.
bition law" he added, "they viii ma
the temperance groups, the church peo-
pie and the leading citizens Of this State
(California) ready to support them
wlaole-heartedly In their campaign
against the criminal liquor interests"
Prohibition Director Woodcock, al
though giving official commendation to
the group Of young agents, objected 10
the name 'untouchables." He said ne
felt all the men In his service should
80 naturally refuse to accept brides from
violators that instances Of such refusal
did not deserve special praise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
FLORIDA TO PUT TAX
OF 7 CENTS ON GAS

By the Associated PTehS.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, July 3l.-Be-
ginning tomorrow and until July /,
1888, Florida will levy a tax Of 2 cents
q gallon on all gasoline sold In the
State. It will be the highest State tax
States.
The 7-cent levy, estimated to pro-
vide $2,350, 900 q year in new revenue
for the general treasury, was passed
by the recent extraordinary session of
the Florida State Legislature.
The law providing for the tax re-
quired the governor to reduce ad va
loren taxes on real estate to the extent
Of the revenue to be derived from the
increased gasoline tax.
Three Of the cents viii go to the
ties and ! cent to the general treasure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
FORMER CONGRESS
MEMBER INDICTED
Felony Theft Charged Against
Thomas H. Ball by Houston
Grand Jury.
BY the Associated Press.


HOUSTON, Tex. July 31.-Col.
Thomas H. Ball, ~, active in the
Democratic party Of Texas and former
Congress member from this district,
was indicted today by the Harris
County grand jury on a charge Of
felony theft.
The charge related to a land trans
action alleged to have occurred during
1927 between q company of which Col.
Ball was president and the Port Com
mission here, of which he was, and Is,
legal counsel.
The indictment charged theft of GER
tain checks involving land purchase
made by the Port Commission In 1927.
Bail was set at 5000. Col. Ball denied
the charges. He was credited with be-
ing the father Of Port Houston, as he
was in Congress when the first appro-
priation for the deepening of the Hous-
ton ship channel was obtained. The
port now Is worth more than $40 ,0O0, 900.
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L
war. resolved not to accept the peace
treaties as a definite settlement The
people of France, Poland, Jugoslavia,
Czechoslovakia and Rumania resolved
not to permit any revision. And this
fundamental difference explains the
postwar chaos"
Simonds pointed out that while the
German and French peoples hold to
their present views about the treaty of
Versailles what you have is war, in eff
feet.
LAS long as the Poles and the Ger
mans stand on either side of an mag
mary line, in their present frame of
mind, the Vistula is battle front, just
as much as the Aisne or the Somme
was in the World War"
Policy Is fundamental, he said. What
Is accidental is the means employed to
carry out the purpose.
In point Of fact, arms are becoming
too expensive and dangerous to be
used. The French occupation of the
upset French national life. But the
French occupation of the mark-if I
may use that tern-waS inexpensive,
efficient, deadly. 1t foreshadows a new
era in war. It is a variation Of what
the League of Nations used to call a
peaceful blockade. You do not shoot
your enemy, but Aust as certainly you
do fight him and you do smash him
to the point where he surrenders his
policy to yours, and that is all war
was ever intended to do. Take all their
arms away from the French and leave
them their money and their present
purpose and you will have war, pro-
vided a similarly disarmed Germany Is
at once resolved to scrap the treaty."
War On, but without Arms.
Disarmament, at present, might lead
directly to armed conflict Simonds as
serted. At present, the odds between
armies are too great for conflict but.
as the margin between the armies of
the two sides is reduced, he said, fight
ing odds are lessened between two
groups already at war. ''The war Is
there, it has been going on, but not
with arms. You only make 1t more
likely that arms will be used.
when the United States appears at
Geneva pressing for disarmament she
actually enters the war now in progress
in Europe on the side OF the dlsarmed
powers. She asks their opponents to
give up one of their means for resist
ing what they consider an attack upon
their most vital interests, security for
France, territorial integrity for Poland,
existence itself for CZechoSlovakia.
But you do not ask for a parallel dis
armament of purpose and policy on the
other side. Thus in our disarmament
program at Geneva We are just as
clearly anti-French now as we were In
the World War anti-German."
Bakers Speech Opens Farley.
The institute opened yesterday after
noon with an hour-long speech by New
ton D. Baker, Secretary of War under
the Wilson administration.
Need Of openly discussed treaty and
trade arrangements and tariff adjust
ments was stressed by the former War
Secretary.
Three hundred men and women en-
rolled as students for the Inonth-long
institute and several hundred invited
guests attended the invocation at Cha
pin Hall on the campus Of Williams
College. Afterward a reception was
held at the home of DR.. Harry A. Gar
held, president Of the college and In
stitute chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
GIRL APACHE VICTIMS
BODY REACHES GOTHAM
Columbia q. Faculty Members to
Attend Funeral Of Student
Slain in Arizona
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 3l.-The body Of
Henrietta SCHNEIDER, graduate student,
killed on an Arizona Indian reservation
where she was studying tribal customs,
arrived for burial today.
Funeral services were scheduled Tor
this afternoon and officialS Of the fu-
neral home where the ceremony was to
take place said many members Of the
faculty of Columbia University, where
the young woman had been studying
anthropology, had signifled their In
tentions Of attending. .-...---.--.---
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
GENOA HAS BIG FIRE

GENOA, Italy, July 81 R.-Six per-
sons were injured and 200 rescued last
night as flames swept over the tallest
building in Genoa, in the first major
fire the city has seen in 100 years.
Thirty girls dropped five floors into
police nets without injury. The build
VENT Septembre.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
FRANK T. CASTLE DIES
Veteran Photographers, 81 Had
Been III for Three Years.

Been III lot, Inree ea4s'
Frank T. Castle, 81, veteran Wash
ington photographer, died yesterday at
his home, 1892 Harvard street after
an illness Of three. years. Funeral
services will be at Harper'S Ferry, w.
va, and burial will be in the family
plot there.
Mr.. Castle had been attached to the
nartment of Agriculture for several
wears. He had been a resident Of
Washington for about so years, COM
ing here from Brownsville, Md. Sur
yivors include his wife, Mrs. Ida @.
Castle, and O. son, Earler both OF this
city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
PAPER MILL TO RESUME
Abitibi News Print Plant to Re
new Operations September 1.

new Operatlons September I.
BY the Associated Press.
TORONTO, July 31.-The Abitibi
Power & Paper Co. will recommence
operation Of its news print mill
at Sault ste. Marie, Ontario, on Sep
TENDER /, Hon. William Finlayson,
provincial minister of lands and forests,
announced yesterday.
Operations will be on a full-time
basis. The mill gives employment to
about 1000 men in the Summer months
and about 1900 In the Winter. It has
been closed about nine months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31
DISARMAMENT MOVES
SEEN BY WRITER
AS THREATENING WAR

Continued From First Page1
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doned along with the more sensational
promotional enterprises.
Conservative Policy.
Both manufacturers and transport
companies have come to realize that
something more than the names OF
noted flyers on the board of directors
is necessary for success. 1t Is pointed
out that the majority Of the well
known flyers are not business men and
have not the experience and tempera-
ment to act as business executives.
The industry Is now struggling to
determine definitely the number OF air.
planes which should be manufactured
to meet present and future demands
With underconSumption and overpro-
duction both blamed, the industry haI
been unable to determine present. re-
uuirementS, so far as the output OF
planes is concerned. Leaders in the
industry are determined to make pro-
duction closely parallel sales.
The industry is too new to make any
comparative use out of figures on the
ratio between production and sales, out
the Aeronautical Chamber OF Com
merce of the industry Is now compiling
figures on sales and production as fast
as possible. It is hoped that within
a short time these will provide salts
factory background for forecasting re-
uuirements.
Some Of the companies have taken ar
extremely conservative stand. One To-
Gated In Ohio predicates production
only on orders on hand. This company
also plans its activities so that they fol-
low the curve of demand, which nor
mally begins to rise In January, reache:
the high point in July and then de-
clines. The report Of orders on hand i
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circulated daily to the purchasing, sales
and manufacturing departments, re-
vealing accurately just how far sales
are ahead of production. This COM
pany declines entirely to produce q
specific model for stock. The argument
advanced for this policy Is that, If q
model is overstocked, the loss is greater
than is that occasioned by the delay,
at times, arising from an inability to
fill orders Immediately from stock.
other companies are controlling prod
uction along similar lines. These trends
arr being reflected in the late figures
on manufacture compiled by the aero
nautics branch of the Department of
Commerce. These figures show an out
put for 1880 of 1924 planes, of which
2514 were for civil use. These figures
compare with a production of 6,034
machines made by the major aviation
concerns in 1929.
Engine Industry.
The aircraft engine industry natu-
rally has fiuctuated almost exactly as
has the airplane manufacturing bust
ness. but the manufacturers of motors
have not been so widely lead astray as
to demand and production.
While the American aviation compa-
MES had a year of depression, some of
the British aviation companies reported
with excellent profits for the 1880 pc
Rod. One concern showed a net of ap-
proximately 1926, 900 for the year ended
September 80, 1880. The larger part of
pany, however, are of military type
large orders for which were received
from abroad.
(Copyright. 1881
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Acid Indigestion, Gas, Pain 3 Years,
Finds Quick Way to End It

Five other ingredients in ACrDINB nsa-
transe burning acid, soothe iYritatea
stomach hninS, stop sas and headsehe
from aeidity. No other known remedy
contains this scientific combination to end
acid stomach.
Physicians are prescribing AO1DINE.
only relief from aetd INDIGESTION and
DYSPEPSIA, Ias. pain. heartburn. coated
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stomach. Pain goes like . fash.
Don't take chances with aeidity and
gas that often lead TO serious ana more
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watch how quick pain, gas end. Eat,
drink and smoke all you want without
fear from acidity. Results guaranteed.
II not delighted. maker refunds money.
Get ACfDINE from any druggist.-Adver-
tisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
GENERAL FOODS REPORTS
INCREASE IN SURPLUS
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE pam
phlet report of General Foods Corpora
ton for 1880, made public today, shows
an increase in profit-and-loss surplus
to $15134,255, as compared with SILL
S24,177 at the close of 1929, and a
ratio of current assets to current la
bilities of SO to /, as against 81 TO /
for the preceding year.
For a year marked chiefly by CO.
ordination Of companies merged in the
last few years, General Foods reports
net earnings of $19,085,595, which is
equal to $3.50 a share on the 5,256, 843
shares of no par value stock outstand-
ing at the close of the year. This COM
pares with consolidated net profits, ex-
Guiding profits of subsidiaries prior to
acquisition, of s19,422,313, or 1888 a
share, for 1929, the companys record
year.
Net earnings for 1929, including
profits prior to acquisition, were $780,
519,046, or $3.50 a share.
Sales for the year were reported at
SILT, 1853, 867, as compared with $12S,-
036,79l for 1929 However, case sales
for 1880 approximated those Of 1929.
The shrinkage in dollar sales was due,
In large measure, to lower prices. Total
income, after all charges and expenses,
but before provision for income taxes
for the year 1880, was $21 ,572, 361,
against $2l ,709,922 for 1929.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
RAILROAD MEN PROTEST
ALLEGED PAY ROLL CUTS
Ry the Assoelated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, March ia
resolution adopted here yesterday at
a meeting of the General Grievance
Committee of the New York Central
Lines East. Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, protested against what was
described as the cutting of men from
all departments in strikingly greater
proportions than reduction In business
would warrant" The committee rep
resents 10000 train service employees
who work on the New York Central
Lines east Of Buffalo and from Mont
real to the Pennsylvania border, 1t
was stated
Copies of the resolution were ordered
sent to President Hoover and A. r.
Whitney, president of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen.
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opinion Of the current campaign In the
public utilities was that Il is for dis
tributing purposes.
There are lot of Wall street people,
however, who have q different slant on
the market. While agreeing that the
public has been only Aominally inter-
ested In stocks, they believe that some
Of the largest Of the capitalistic groups
pull
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
AVIATION INDUSTRY
SEEKS SOUND BASIS
Trade Leaders Declare Pro
duCtion Has Now Returned
to Normal.
BY J. C. ROYLE.

The aviation industry, which has
been in throes of acute depression since
1929, is making strenuous and intensive
efforts to place business on a sounder
basis. Some of the beneficial results
of this activity of the last few months
already have become apparent.
Leaders In the industry declare that
production has practically returned to
the normal rate Of progress and de-
velopment. They recognize that pro-
duction in 1928 and early In 1929 was
Tar in excess of requirements, in spite
of the astounding growth which took
place in demand. OverenthuSiasm has
now been suppressed and the business
is rapidly settling down to q sound
business basis. Government of1cials
cite the fact that the wild "ballohoo"
about airmindedneSs has been aban-
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mately, it cost, including freight and
insurance, Az cents to take . bushel
of wheat from Montreal to Liverpool.
And it cost 80 cents a bushel for all
the charges from the time 1t was re-
ceived at the country elevator in the
West to the time 1t reached Montreal.
Farmers are likely to dig into this
service charge Of 80 cents very carefully
in the session of Parliament opening TO-
morrow.
When wheat is selling for IS cents q
bushel In Liverpool this means that the
Canadian prairie farmer gets only 3012
cents a bushel for his wheat. Not much
in these days, for it is estimated that
a bushel of wheat conservatively costs
the farmer to produce, under present
conditions, from rs to IS cents.
What is the answer? The Canadian
farmer himself would like to know.
(CopyriEht, 1881. by North American News
paper Alliance)
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Some features Longer sUheeIb0ss
ROOnsier, smarter Bodies BY Fisher. -. De lure
sUire sUheeIs Special chrome plated radiator
grille on sport models Stronger fuII-Iensth
frame :. e. Improved clutch and trOnsnlissiOn
-. FuIEy-encIOsedf our-sUheeI brakes Insu-
lated front compartments 5O-hOrsepOtCer
six-cyIinder engine Four Sensi-eIhptic
springs Four hydraulic shock Gbsorbers
Safety gasoline tank Adjustable
drivers seat :. Fisher nOn-g glare w sUind-
shield Liberal OsUner's Service Policy.
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" New low prices .

Roadster, e47S; Sport Roadster, e4oS; Phaeton,
$50; Standard Coupe, sSSS; Coach or Standard
Five-Window Coupe, $54S; Sport Coupe, 9S7S,
Five-Passenger Coupe, $S9S; Convertible Cab
rioIet, &6lS; Standard Sedan, @63S, Special
Sedan or Convertible Landau PhaetOn, $3.50.
Prices 4. o. b. Flint, Mich. Special equipment
extra. Low delivered prices and easy terms.