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Evening star., 1934-09-12
BUILDING INCREASE
SHOWN IN NATION
Dun & BradStreet Says Gain
May Be Result of U. S.
Drive.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September l2.-First
indications of increased building,
which may have sprung from the Fed
eral home renovation drive, were seen
yesterday in Dun and Bradstreet's
tabulation of building permits let in
2l5 leading cities during August.
The total of s34.423,338 was IL
per cent above July, although there is
usually decrease from July to August,
the average month-to-month decline
for the past several years having been
9.8 per cent. The August total was
6.3 per cent over August of 1888, and
24.9 per cent over the same month Of
1882.
But building, still one Of the most
depressed of major industries, has far
to go to get back to prosperity levels.
The August total was little more than
third Of the total for August. 1881,
less than quarter of August of 1880,
and barely IL per cent Of the figure re-
corded for that month of 1927.
1t is impossible to tell lust how
much the home renovation drive,
launched August Is, had to do with
the showing. Loans are being made
for numerous repairs for which it is
not necessary to take out permits in
most cities, although any considerable
renovations usually require permits.
This tabulation eliminates public
works prospects.
The tabulation by regions, with
comparable figures for August of 1888,
follows:
Evening star., 1934-09-12

Gen Goering, Hitler's right-hand
man, is the butt Of jokes from his
countrymen because of his Unsuitable
passion for brilliant uniforms and
show. He is the most decorated man
in modern Germany and does not
miss an occasion to wear all his
medals, ribbons and stars.
A few weeks ago. when he had to
make a speech in Berlin, he donned
one Of his gorgeous uniforms, but his
valet was in despair. He could not
find his most snowy orders. A thor
ough search proved fruitleSS, and the
police were informed that the deco
rations of Hitler's most powerful min
lister had been stolen. Shrewd detec-
tives Immediately decided that this
must be another Jewish plot. Goering
went to the meeting with just a few
orders.
When he came back detected
and iHtempered his Ualet ,DaS oil
smiles. Your Ercellency," he
bedmed, ~ haze found your Or
ders.' "Where Dere they'? Goer-
ing asked eagerly. "They lDere on
the pajandS His Ercellency ,Oore
last night"
\ X \
Like most of the other countries, the
citizens of the Soviet are rapidly be-
coming airminded and fond of stunts
At last months parachute contest
in Moscow the prize was won by a
jazz orchestra Of 10 men, who jumped
from airplane in parachutes. giving a
performance on the way down to
earth, with the greatest self-posses-
sion and SKILL" SAYS the official report.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
COL. c. B. V0GEL WINS
HAITI SERVICE MEDALS
Congressional Action Required
Before Citations Can Be
Given Marine Officer.

The Haitian government has award
ed Lieut.. Col. Clayton~B. Vogel, officer
in charge of Marine Corps recruiting
at Chicago, the Haitian distinguished
service medal and Haitian brevet of
merit medal for his service in the
republics native constabulary, the
Garde d'Haiti.
For year prior to the withdrawal
Of the Maines from Haiti last month,
Col. Vogel held the rank of major gen.
.eral commandant of the garde.
Secretary of the Navy Swanson has
forwarded the decorations to Secre-
tary of State Hull, inasmuch as Amer
lean officers cannot officially accept
foreign decorations without the sane
tion of Congress. They will be held
at the State Department pending con-
gressional action.
Col. Vogel makes his home here at
S714 Ingomar street.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
ARKANSAS A. F. OF L.
RAPS N. R. A. METHODS
Declares It's Operation Works
Against Labor, Although All
Right in "Spirit."

Right in Spirit"
BY the Associated Press.
PINE BLUFF, Ark, September 12.-
The Arkansas State Federation of La
Dor in annual convention here today,
Endorsed "the spirit of N. r. A." but
condemned present operation as being
against labor"
The organization called on the Fed
eral Government to adopt the N. r. A.
policy as permanent policy, through
passage of law placing enforcement
of all codes in the hands of the Gov
ernment."
A companion resolution indorsed the
textile strike and pledged the Arkansas
Federation's moral support to the
strikers.
The federation went on record after
H. M. Thackery, secretary OF the State
group, attacked N. r. A. operations in
his annual report and asserted that
lin Arkansas, so far as labor is con-
cerned, it has been a farce"
Evening star., 1934-09-12

ing through conservation of soil re-
sources and using land for production
Of those crops for which it is best
adapted.
100 Million to Farmers.
One hundred million dollars was
set aside yesterday for loans to farm
ers of SIS cents a bushel on farm
stored corn in the Midwest.
The action, taken to conserve feed
and seed supplies and promote or
derly marketing of the 1884 crop,
was announced both by the Recon-
struction Finance Corp. and Secre-
tary Wallace.
Last year $66,000,0oO was lent to
corn farmers at the rate of As cents
a bushel. About $10,000,000 has been
repaid, with 122,O00,OOO bushels still
remaining under seal on farms.
The new loans will be available to
eligible producers at per cent in
terest on the security of merchant
able ear corn, graded No. or bet
ter, properly stored and warehoused
according to State warehousing regu-
lationS in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas. Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, Ohio and South Dakota.
The 1884 program, announced at
a time when the A. A. A. is con-
ferring with local farm leaders on a
1885 corn control plan, supercedes
the extension granted on 1888 loans.
Evening star., 1934-09-12

The unyielding attitude of the Japa-
nese government, the troubled situa-
ton in Europe and the inevitable fail
ure of the next Naval Conference
have determined London to seek a
rapprochement with Japan. The po-
sition of the empire is too vulnerable
to permit the British the luxury OF
having Japan a potential enemy.
x X X
Sir Maurice Hankey secretary to
the Committee of National Defense,
has been sent to South Africa and
Australia on a goodwill mission.
Sir Maurice's job is to persuade
the leading politicians in the Do
7ninions of the desirability OF an
"Entente" 1Dith Japan.
This scheme has had for quite
DhiIe the backing of the important
naval, military and ARMAMENT in
tereSts in Great Britdfr.
Important newspapers like the
Daily Telegraph and the London
Times have already festively intro
duced this subject with a series OF
articles and special japanese num-
bers which are meant to influence
public opinion in the empire.
A British commercial miss" Is
at present visiting Manchukuo with
the purpose of establishing closer
trade relations between Great Britain
and the puppet empire of the Far
East.
X X
OF course, the strong anti-JapaneSe
Feeling in Australia and Canada will
have to be overcome before such a
policy of rapprochemen can be put
into effect. And that is Sir Maurice S
job.
The British government is con-
Uinced that iOhtle the Australian
and Canadian government 10tH re-
main adamdnt and continue to
Jear the yelIolU peril, public opinion
in beth these countries could be
persuaded in tdDor OF pTo-JGpGn-
eSe policy. Sir Maurice'S strongest
argument is that friendly Japan
is much less dangerous and less
costly to the taxpayer than hos
tile Japan.
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An inSidious anti-French campaign
is conducted at present in Poland.
The French are no longer 'our great
allies" and the wishes of the Paris
government are completely ignored by
the Polish foreign Office. AS a mat
ter of fact, Col. Beck, the Polish min
lister of foreign affairs, is at the head
of the pro-German movement.
This change in the attitude Of the
Poles is not due only to the fact that
France is too far away and cannot
easily come to Poland's assistance in
case of trouble. The principal reason
for this arrangement is Frances
renewed alliance with the Soviets.
X X
Everything, even sports, are being
drafted now in the great game OF
politics. The European cabinets
think that sports and national pres
tige are closely allied, and it is openly
admitted that international sport is
an important factor in international
politics.
MuSSolini has instructed the Itdl-
ian football authorities that their
teams must dltDays Dtn against
foreigners.
Relations bettOeen the British
government and the cricket teams
are Uery close.
British ConSuls in Europe haze
frequently protested against the
poor quality OF British touring
soccer teams, holding that their
Evening star., 1934-09-12
CRAB PICKERS' STRIKE
SHORT LIVED ON SHORE
Workers Win Temporarily as
Packers Agree to Old Pay
for Short Time.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CRISFIELD, Md, September IA
short-lived strike of $50 crab pickers
was ended here yesterday when pack
ing plant officials agreed to maintain
pickers' pay at 35 cents gallon.
The workers walked out yesterday
morning and were back at work yes
terday afternoon after packers an
nounced they would pay 35 cents until
the present supply of crabs has been
picked.
A meeting to decide the future price
will be called after the danger of
spelling has passed. The minimum
N. r. A. code price is 80 cents a
gallon. which the packers tried to
enforce.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
UNIFIED CONTROL
OF CROPS STUDIED
A. A. A. May Group Sectional
Products Under Single
Contract.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Farm Administration is con-
sidering Jumping the South'S major
crops-cotton, tobacco and peanuts
for unified production control.
This was disclosed today as renewed
study was given to a unified program
for grains grown chiefly in the Mid
west-corn, wheat, fax, barley, rye
and grain sorghums
A. A. A. officials, seeking to evolve
a system of production control by
producing regions, have put techni-
clans to work on the Southern pro-
gram.
These officials point out that a
single adjustment contract would be
much more simple to administer than
series c. contracts applying to crops
adapted to a particular region, and
would develop a better system of
farming through less intensive use of
land.
May Start in 1886.
Unified programs, however, could
hardly be undertaken before 1886.
Tobacco control plans already started
extend into next season. The wheat
contract has been extended also Pre-
liminary work is under way on a
1885 peanut program. A new corn
plan is under discussion.
A. A. A. officials are holding a
series Of regional meetings in the
corn belt to sound the farmers senti-
ment on 1895 corn-control plan.
They point out it is time to begin
shifting emphasis from piece-meal
programs for raising prices of in
dividual commodities through removal
of surpluses. to a general program
Evening star., 1934-09-12
100000, with outstanding loans
valued at more than $85, 900 900.

President Bergman, who is acting
as contact officer between the F. H. A.
and the building and loan associations
of the District, said that several III
stitutions in the league have qualified
to make the Federally- insured loans,
but that he thought they had made
none as yet, inasmuch as a longer
time for repayment is allowed under
the building and loan plan than under
the F. H. A. installment plan, and,
hence, installments are smaller.
Therefore, he said, many potential
borrowers prefer to borrow under
building and loan regulations, giving
a deed of trust on their property.
Under F. H. A. regulations a loan is
made on the character and earning
power of the borrower, with no other
security than his signature on the
note.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
This
Changing
World
Great Britain Now Seek
ing Friendship of
Japan.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
~ RETTY women and politicians
have the privilege of being as
changeable as they desire. and
l. nobody can do anything
about it.
Only year ago, Great Britain was
denouncing Japan as the arch enemy
of peace, while Poland and Germany
were at loggerheads and ready to
jump at each others throat at the
slightest provocation.
Today Britain is seeking Japan's
friendship and the Poles have FORE
saken their traditional" friends-the
French-for the sake of Germany.
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Evening star., 1934-09-12
$38,516,915 INCREASE
IN SILVER CERTIFICATES
Treasury's August Figures Show
Per Capita Cash 80 Cents
Higher.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Silver certificates in circulation in
creased by $38,516,915 during August,
according to the Treasury Depart
ment.
At the same time, there was a per
capita rise of total money in circula-
ton from $42.04 to $42.64. That,
however, was still below the $44.60 in
circulation on August 81, 1898.
Silver certificates were reported at
$533, ,937, of which $437, ,497 ,201
was in circulation.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
VETERAN ACTRESS SAYS
SHE WILL DIE WORKING
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, September IL.
An indomitable will to be of the
theater until they consign me to my
feet of sod," has spurred Mrs. Les
lie Carter to return to the stage again
after an absence of more than two
years.
The veteran actress, who many years
ago scorned fortune and family to
build a career behind the footlightS,
opens at the Hollywood Playhouse next
week as Lady Kitty in THE Circle" a
role she estimated she has portrayed
at least l 200 times.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
D. c. CAMPAIGNS
BUDGET IS $1,000.
House Modernization Drive
Set-up Is Completed
by Committee.

A tentative budget of $4,000 for
putting over the Washington modern
ization compaign under the Federal
Housing Administration was adopted
yesterday at the second meeting Of
the Executive Committee, under di-
rection Of Thomas P. Littlepage.
The committee also decided to ar
range an exhibit of building supplies,
possibilities to be achieved in the
modernization program. and other
publicizing features, in connection
with its house-to-house campaign
which will urge home owners to take
loans for home improvement.
1t is possible that an old house may
be placed in some public spot and
renowned, similar to the moderniza-
ton job done to the old house on
Pennsylvania avenue and Fourteenth
street two years ago in the Board of
Trades renovize campaign, it was
said.
Use Shoreham Building.
The campaign headquarters will be
set up in ground floor Offices in the
| Shoreham Building, which were do
mated to the drive by Weaver Bros.
An office force will be set to work i'm
medlately to make detailed plans for
the campaign under a campaign d.
rector to be named by the Executive
Committee shortly.
Enough room is available in the
Shoreham Building, it was said, so
the exhibit, suggested by national
F. H. A. officers, may be set I'D there.
or some other location may be de-
termlned upon. Arthur B. Heaton was
named to take charge of the exhibit.
The new offices will be opened with
ceremony" when the drive is "set"
Tor an opening, Mr.. Littlepage said.
There will be addresses by civic lead
ers and other factors to aid in getting
tne campaign OF to flying start.
To Hold Mass Meeting.
The opening is to be followed by a
mass meeting, probably at the United
states Chamber Of Commerce audi
tor1um, at which representatives of
some rs business and civic bodies will
be present and will be urged to take
a part in the drive to make Washing
ton leader in the national campaign
to move the depression.
The dates for the mass meeting and
the grand opening of the headquarters
will be announced later.
Money for the $4,000 budget will be
raised through public donations, and
any person or firms wishing to con-
tribute are asked to do so. Most of
it is to be used for salaries of Office
workers.
At the same time, Raymond J.
Walter, director of the Washington
Compliance Board Of the N. r. A.. was
named general counsel for the cam
paign. 1t was also announced by
Mr.. Littlepage that John Poole, con-
servator of the Federal-American Ma
tional Bank, had been named to the
growing Executive Committee, which
now numbers more than 20 members.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
ioeak performances Dere blo,u to

ioeak performances ,Dere blotU to
national prestige.
When a team from the Dominion
visits England, everything is done to
impress these citizens of the empire.
They are given a grand time every
where they go. Recently the Aus
tralians played the army team at
Aldershot. During the game giant
army bombers and chasers droned
over the field, and the Australians
were invited to witness the next day
a display of tanks and war planes
They were duly impressed with Great
Britain's might.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
BANKS ON TRIAL,
ASSERTS WARBURG
Yielding to Government
Would End All Private
Business, He Says.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, September 12.-James
p. Warburg, vice chairman of the
Bank of Manhattan Co. of New York
addressing the Financial Advertisers
Association today declared the private
banking system in this country is ION
trial for its life"
THE case is now being prepared
by the prosecution" he said. THE
President Is the judge and Congress is
the jury. A decision will probably be
reached during the coming Winter"
Mr.. Warburg, one of the original
members of President RooseveIts
brain trust and later an outspoken
critic of New Deal policies, opposed
Government banking.
Business Would Follow.
Picturing what might happen un-
der Government banking, he con-
tinued:
Il do not hesitate to say to you
that, if we pass the sentence of death
upon the private banking system and
go in for system of Government
owned and operated banks, We shall
have passed the sentence of death
upon all private business, upon all pri-
vate capitalistic enterprise and upon
our political, social and economic
freedom.
Government control of credit, Gov
ernment control of prices, Govern
ment control of production cannot
but mean the end of democracy, can
not but mean the end of all individual
enterprise and the substitution of an
all-powerful and arbitrary central au-
thority for the voluntarily delegated
authority vested in the Government
of free country by free people"
He proposed an overhauling of pres
ent banking laws to modernize and
Improve the private banking system,
particularly with respect to the issu-
ing of currency and the rediscount
functions of the Federal Reserve sys-
TEN.
Fate Up to Banks.
"If the bankers decline to take a
hand in working out the necessary re-
FORMS" he said, they cannot Justly
complain If the train leaves without
them"
He described the banking system
which failed to stand up under the
stresses of the depression as "a hotch-
potch of hybrid remnants of various
old systems incompletely and loosely
knit together by an unfinished attempt
to build up system by means of the
Federal Reserve mechanism"
'"The old order needed renovating in
the worst way-still needs it. The
old order was in many respects no
order at all. but a disorder, because
we failed to modernize our laws as
conditions changed. But that is no
reason to scrap the whole system. 1t
is the best Of reasons to modernize
it." he said.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
SPECIAL NOTICES.


MARCEL PROVOST. OPERATING GEN
eral repair and auto painting business at
2l3O l. st. NV. Washington. D. C.. hereby
gives notice that he will not be responsible
Tor any debts other than those personally
contracted by him 13'
ELEC. REFRIG. SCHOOL-ONLY TRADE
that is not crowded tuition reasonable;
actual shop work. sl7 18th NV. Dist. 1850.
WANT TO HAUL FULL OR PART LOAD
to or from New York. Richmond. Boston.
NATIONAL DELIVERY ASSN. INC. 1877
n. z ave. Natl. 1850. Local moving also.
CHAIRS FOR RENT, SUITABLE FOR
BRIDGE PARTIES. banQuets weddings
and meetings, l0c up per day each; new
chairs. Also invalid rolling chairs for
rent or sale. UNITED STATES STORAGE
Co. AIS 10th St NV. Metropolitan 1874.
GRAPES-JUICE
TO ORDER. Follow M st. NV. Canal rd
Chain Bridge. Route o. through Vienna,
Va. Chilcott Bros. phone Vienna 1s-F-3. :
Concord and Niagara
Grapes; Apples at Quaint
Acres.
Silver springg- colssviIle pike Routs 2s,,
FURNACES ~ xAcUTM G. !Ge CLEANED M
perience; furnace parts Estimates on plumb
ing and heating. Terms. CARL ROBEY,
4ne-' 31s Farragut st. ne Geo. 3347. l2'
Evening star., 1934-09-12
S. Submarine Visits Washington Navy Yard for Brief Stay

Right.
Lieut.. Il. g. T. B. KIakring,
torpedo officer,
ringing the ships bell.
LoiDer:. Wash day aboard
the submarine.
E. A. WhittDorth and
T. F. Schmidt
are hanging up clothes that
1UouId do credit to
any laundry.
The CuttletiSh Uds
commissioned in June and
made her
shdkedo1Dn cruise to Southern
,DdterS, piSiting a
Udriety OF ports. She
carries 5 officers and IS
enlisted men.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
$5(D,ODO LOANED
FOR D. c. HOMES
Building and Loan Groups
Extend Funds Under
FIJI. A. Since June.

Building and loan associations In
the District have made home mod
ernization and repair loans totaling
more than $5OO,o0O since passage OF
the Federal housing act June 81, Carl
j. Bergman, president of the District
Building and Loan League, announced
today.
The loans have been made under
regulations of the associations, how
ever, he said, and not under the
Federal insurance authorized under
the act.
Bergman explained he did not be-
hevs establishment of the F. H. A.
was to urge the special guaranteed
loans, but merely offered them as an
added inducement to modernize-
minded property owners.
Improved General Conditions.
He added that the S500,000 worth
Of loans for home improvement, al
though not under F. H. A. insurance
were contributing to the general end
sought by the housing group-stimu-
lation of building industry and all
industry, unemployment Of unem-
ployed and ultimate routing of the
depression.
Washington has % building and
loan groups and was one of the first
cities to take advantage of the plan
offered by such associations. One OF
them has been in existence for 81
years and their total assets amount to
Evening star., 1934-09-12

The neWeSt pig boat"
in Uncle Sans NGUy-noW
at the
Washington Many Yard,
Uhere she 1UiH stay
until Monday nert, lDhen she
departs for
Ne1D London, Conn.
The UeSSel may be Die1Ued
from
the docks at the gard, but
UiSitOrS are not
being GlIolDed aboard
Navy Department authorities
said.
Star STAFF Photos
Evening star., 1934-09-12

The unyielding attitude of the Japa-
nese government, the troubled situa-
ton in Europe and the inevitable fail
ure of the next Naval Conference
have determined London to seek a
rapprochement with Japan. The po-
sition of the empire is too vulnerable
to permit the British the luxury of
having Japan a potential enemy.
Smyrna times., 1934-02-28
ONCE HIT BY HARD TIMES
But He Opens His Purse and
HELPS His Friends

Canton, Ohio.-Seventy-1ve Can
ton resldents+the higher type de
preston victims-who once held re-
sponsible positions but lost them In
the tide of economic backwash, each
received a $40 money order from an
anonymous business man here who
once was In the same plight
The donor, Canton man who
had lost a large fortune and had
been made almost penniless, but
who fought back to prosperity,
chose the recipients by announcing
his plan through daily newspaper.
Applicants were asked to famil-
larize the donor with their true cir
cumstances. with the understanding
that their identity would be held
confidential. The man asked that
letters be sent to B. Virdot, the
name he assumed. general delivery.
"virdot" said that he set aside the
$3.50, which he divided Is ways, be-
cause he realized that there are
men, like the giver. who have once
held high positions but have been
deprived of their income, who hest
tate to knock at charity's door"