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Evening star., 1934-05-09
TRADE PACT MADE
BY THREE NATIONS
Italy, Austria and Hungary
Agree on Reciprocal and
Preferential Duties.

Copyright. 1884. bv the Associated Press.
ROME, May 9.-An Italo-Austro-
Hungarian economic agreement was
reached today, and will be signed
probably Saturday.
This agreement is based on reclp-
rocal and preferential duties, a min
imum export price accord, and an
agreement between the three nations
to purchase fixed quantities of certain
products.
The major points of the agreement,
which has been in negotiation for flve
weeks by DR.. Richard Schuler, the
Austrian Minister; DR.. E. De Winckler
Hungarian export chief. and DR.
Chiancarelli, the head of the economic
section of the Italian foreign ministry
are as follows:
!. The minimum export price ac-
cord-Austria and Italy agree to buy
Hungarian wheat at a price approx
imating 40 lire a quintal, that Is, about
e2.6 cents a bushel figure appre-
ciably above the present export price
Hungary and Italy agree to buy
Austrian lumber and wood pulp Tor
paper-making also at price appre-
ciably above the present internal price
in Austria. The minimum export price
accord is an effort to raise prices and
increase buying power.
2. Italy agrees to buy approximately
100000 quintalS (7,40S,000 bushelS)
of Hungarian wheat and Austria
agrees to buy 2,25O,O00 Quintals g.
334 900 bushels, thus practically elm
mating Hungary's surplus OF $500 OOo
ouintalS. The feature OF this agree
ment is that Italy agrees to buy
whether she needs wheat or not ana
has the right to re-export any portion
of this purchase that she does not
need either as wheat or flour.
3. Austria and Hungary agree TO
lower their tariffs 10 per cent on the
products of any country which go
through Trieste and Fiume. This is
an effort to build up these ports at
the expense of North German ports,
particularly Hamburg.
4. Italys and Austria'S industrial
products are given large preferential
treatment by Hungary. So consider
able is this preference that an expert
said IN the future only Italian auto
mobiles would be sold in Hungary.
S. A permanent committee has
been appointed whose chief members
are Winckler, Schuler and Chianca-
relli.
The experts believe that the eco
nomic agreement, which was negoti-
ated by Premier Mussolini of Italy,
Chancellor DollfuSs of Austria and
Prime Minister Goemboes of Hungary,
will lift Austria and Hungary out Of
their economic difficulties and make
Austria more independent CONNER
cially.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
MRS. MARY BURCH
DIES AT AGE OF 81
Widow of Vincent Burch Was
Washington Resident for
rs Years.

Mrs Mary C. Burch, 81, died yes
terday at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Emily Higdon Rose, 1856 Tenth
street southeast, after an illness of
more than two years. A native of
Howard County, Maryland, Mrs.
Burch had been a resident Of Wash
ington for IS years.
In addition to her daughter and a
son, Charles Burch, also of Washing
ton, Mrs. Burch is survived by seven
grandchildren and nine great grand
children. She was the widow of
Vincent Burch.
Funeral services will be held Fri
day at 10 o'clock at Christ Church,
on G street southeast, with Rev. Ed
ward Gabler, officiating. Burial will
be in Glenwood Cemetery.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
STATISTICS SHOW
BUSINESS UPTURN
Virtually All Lines Gain.
Foreign Trade Figures
Reveal Increase.

With the exception of the construc-
ton industry, there was general up
ward trend in business along virtually
all lines for March and through April
2e. according to the monthly Survey
of Current Business published today
by the Department of Commerce.
The survey is digest of more than
2,200 compilations of business statistics
by both private and public agencies.
adjusted to allow for differences In the
indexes used.
The general expansion Of productive
activity has been accompanied by an
increase in pay rolls and employment.
trade totals and an advance in primary
distribution.
April Construction Drops.
Construction showed an increase
from 18 in March, 1888, to 43 in
March of this year, but this gain was
considerably offset by drop in the
first three weeks of April. The season.
ally adjusted index of construction has
receded to 35 per cent of the 1923-25
average, which is % points below the
index of last December.
March manufacturing production
figures were at 81 per cent Of the
1923-25 level. That is Is per cent
higher than last November. which
marked the low. point of the four
months decline after the peak of July,
1888.
The chief gains in manufacturing
were shown in the automobile in
dustry. Increased production was also
shown by the iron and steel, lumber
and plate glass industries. with gains
also marked for the textile and ce-
ment industries Food production in
dustries, however. showed a decline
Of more than the usual seasonal
change.
Factories Hire More.
Factory employment in March
showed a gain of % points. a jump
from TAT in February to 769. The
amount of pay rolls showed an even
greater increase. climbing Al points
from 592 to 633. A similar gain was
shown in non-factory pay rolls and
employment, although the number of
unemployed remained large and relief
demands continued to be heavy.
Changes in price levels since Feb
ruary were reported TO be slight.
Wholesale prices declined in the six
weeks ending April 81 from 1873 TO
1873 per cent of the 1926 average.
The March average of 1877 was, how
ever, the highest for any month since
April. 1881.
In foreign trade the usual increase
of exports in March over February Is
IL per cent. but the survey shows
gain of II per cent for March of this
year. In general imports the usual
seasonal gain is about II per cent
whereas the value in March over Feb
ruary this year was 10 per cent.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
NATIONAL SILVER
PLAN EXPLAINED
Morgenthau Says Fabri'
Gated Metal Would Be Ex-
Cepted if Law Passes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Naturalization of silver, if realized,
will not take away the baby's silver
spoon.
Nor does it mean losing the candle
stick wedding present or silver cocktail
shaker.
Matchmaking silver Secretary Nor
genthau says, means going "thI Iough
the same process" as was done with
gold-that is taking title to the metal.
In other words, fabricated metal
would be excepted. as in the case OF
gold. That would cover silverware and
ornaments. Also, commercial stocks
held under license would be excepted
Huge quantities of silver are used in
many industries, particularly photo
graphic
What would be taken in by the
Treasury primarily under nationaliZa-
ton are some 200,000,000 to 250.-
100000 ounces of floating silver which
has no immediate commercial or trade
IA.
But once silver was nationalized
the Treasury probably would have to
buy scrap silver if offered for sale
This classification would take in the
familiar spoons and cups.
You have to recognize scrap silver
just as you recognize scrap gold Nor
genthau says.
But in the case of scrap gold, the
mints will not accept it unless at least
one ounce is offered. In the case OF
silver, probably many ounces would be
required to make sale.
When gold was nationalized, it cov-
cred any imports except where the
metal was earmarked for a foreign
central bank or was merely passing
through the country in bond No hint
has been given of what would be done
in the case of silver imports.
Naturalization of gold was coupled
with the withdrawal of gold and gold
certificates as a circulative form OF
currency This would not be done ir
the case of silver which would con-
Itinue to circulate in the familiar dimes
quarters, half dollars and dollars.
Evening star., 1934-05-09

Continued From First Page)
basic commodity, the new law i'm
poses a processing tax which shall
not exceed the reduction in the sugar
tariff. Returns from the tax will go
into benefit payments to growers for
decreased production.
Production quotas for continental
United States are fixed at 1900 900
tons annually for beet sugar growers
ard 100000 tons for Louisiana and
Florida cane producers.
Limitation Of Imports.
Off-shore production in Cuba, Ha-
waii, Puerto Rico. the Philippines and
Virgin Islands will be regulated by the
Secretary of Agriculture through linn
itation of imports based on the ave-
rage production in those areas for
any three years between 1925 and
1898.
The Agriculture Secretary is en-
powered to adjudicate contract dis
puteS between growers ana process
sors. He is authorized to provide
minimum wages in contracts between
products and field laborers and grow
ers and professors.
The limitation and regulation Of
child labor through contract control
also is in his hands.
No processing tax will be paid on
surplus sugar now on hand which has
paid the sugar duty and which is not
intended for resale. Repeal of the re-
fund clause in the floor tax provision
provides funds for purchase Of more
than half of the estimated 100000
ton surplus, and it is expected by
many that Federal relief agencies will
dispose of the rest to leave the market
clear for the administration of the
act.
Reduction in tariff is a vital part of
the sugar control program. The bal
ancing of the processing tax and the
tariff reduction is designed to insure
against an increase in the price OF
sugar to be consumed.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
BRITISH "CRAZY FLYING"
INCLUDES NEW GAMES
Pilots Will Pick Handkerchiefs
From Ground With Hooks
on Planes.

LONDON CP).-The British brand
of crazy flying" which America has
seen at her national air races, is to
be improved this year.
Sir Alan CobhamS air circus will
introduce the aerial version of pick
up the handkerchief" A pilot will
pick handkerchiefs from the ground
with tiny hooks fixed to the wing tips
of his plane.
Another stunt takes it's idea from
trapeze specialties. An airplane is to
be looped through large wooden
hoop fixed close to the ground.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
Automobile Submerges.

KAUKAUNA. Wis. Dr. was
more like driving a submarine than
an automobile, Walter J. Johnson
decided. When he cranked the mo-
tor the car plunged off the bank into
the Fox River.
johnson clung to the running
board, but when the machine sub
merged he swan ashore.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
NOTED BRIDGE RUINED

MATSUE. Japan R).-The O-ha-
shi, or long bridge crossing an arm
of the sea here and immortalized by
Lafcadio Hearn in his lyrical essay on
"The Chief City of the Province of
the Gods was wrecked when the
current swung a heavy barge into one
of its piers. Six persons were
drowned.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
MODERN ENOCH ARDEN
Hungarian Farmer Returns Home
After War Illness.

BUDAPEST (P).-Joseph Marcus,
wounded on the Western front in the
World War, recently remembered
himself as owner of a 60-acre farm
in Hungary, but returned to find him.
self legally dead, his land sold, his
wife remarked and moved to an un-
known address. Marcus was mental
case in a London hospital until 1925,
then recovered sufficiently to go to
Ceylon, whence he journeyed home.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
MEXICO WATCHES MOVE
Official Says Nation Is Concerned
With Silver Settlement.

MEXICO, D. F.. May P).-Com-
menting on reports from Washington
that President Roosevelt would seek
an agreement with Mexico and Can
ada before approving any legislation
to increase the use of silver, Puig
Casauranc, foreign minister. yester-
day said that Mexico has always been
interested in an international settle
ment of the silver problem"
He pointed out that Mexico had
urged the necessity of such an agree
ment at the Montevideo Conference.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
Tires. but No Autos.

HAMILTON, Bermuda (P).-While
Bermuda bars automobiles from its
streets and highways, the island does
import secondhand tires. They are
used as buffers along the docks to
protect the piers from the bumps
of ships.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
Balzac Awarded Prize.

Although he has been dead 81 years,
Henri de Balzac has just been awarded
a literary prize of $625. The French
Society of Men Of Letters, in Paris,
has decided that no living writer was
worthy to receive the award this year.
The money will be given to the Balzac
House in Paris.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
First Virginia Wine
Hijacked Before 1t
Leaves New York
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, May 9.-The
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board yesterday was notified
that its first shipment of do
mestic wines had been hijacked
before 1t got out of New York.
The shipment was hijacked
between the warehouse and the
deck. 1t was a consignment of
17O cases, ordered at a cost of
3l,9O6.
The company notified the
board of its difficulty and said
the shipment was being dupli-
Gated.
These wines were largely for
use in the new State liquor
stores. Private licensees, who
have been selling wines since
Friday, purchased their goods
through statesmen, with the ap-
proval of the board.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
Cotton Loans Extended.

The Commodity Credit Corporation
has extended maturity date on all
1O-cent loans on cotton from August
l, 1884 to February !, 1885.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
BRITAIN REFUSES JOBS
TO FORMER CITIZENS
Prodigal Sons Get Cold Welcome
on Return to Mother
Country.

LONDON (P.-John Bull is steel
ing his heart against his former
countrymen who have become citizens
of the United States and returned to
Great Britain.
Applications from naturalized Amer
leans of British birth for return to
the mother country often are granted
but only on condition that they will
not take any employment, paid or un-
paid. during their sojourn here.
Hundreds of cases have occurred.
says the home Office. where former
British subjects have come back from
abroad, looking for jobs.
Requests for permission to work are
rejected lin the interests Of our own
people, who have borne the brunt OF
the depression The rule against
foreign workers applies mot only to
aliens of foreign origin, but aliens OF
British origin"
Evening star., 1934-05-09
SPECIAL NOTICES.

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS
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eame6 7B5rs OF Local T5 rs
Thursday. May 10, at 2. m. m.
FOUND "A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN
buy dozen strictly fresh eggs for 93c
from Shenandoah Valley. Va. DE. 432s.
to %AM1 or from ON New New york. Richmond. boston,
abf s D9sssS ss Ffsf5
N Y. ave Ma 1860 Local moving also
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
once of the Comptroller Of the Currency.
Washinrsitoon., lir p; C.
Notice Is hereby given to all persons
who may have claims against the United
trct of Columbia. that the same must be
to Garter Keene
asaosed Tsa6s from this faf q cosN6R s5sy @a'
Comptroller Of the Currency.
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Central Auto Works. 443 Eye NV. Will be
sold to cover same at Gus Eichberg's Auc-
tion Rooms. 1887 R st. NV. on Saturday.
May 10, 1894.
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and meetints 10c up per day each: new
chairs Also Invalid rolling chairs for
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CO, 41s 10th Sc. NV. MEtropolitan s44,
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hearses and ambulances. 25 undertakers
and assistants
FLOWERS sYRSISG s}IekNG,.1 COAL
Can be installed with fire burning.
Complete with two controls $40.
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We've made a speciality OF THIS WORK IN
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Evening star., 1934-05-09
Storm Stops Fishermen.

lay-of of shellfish gatherers along the
Firth of Forth coast in Scotland.
Evening star., 1934-05-09
PRESIDENT SIGNS
SUGAR MEASURE
AND LOWERS TARIFF

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-05-09

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS
MONTGOMERY DAVIS. 107 r ne %
SPECIAL MEETING OF PLASTERERS
and Cement Finishers' Local No. 90,
sTh1IrsdaY Nav lN q u
Evening star., 1934-09-30
D. c. SCHOOL CADET
OFFICERS NAMED.
Col. Oswald J. Wines of
Armstrong to Command
9th Brigade.

Field, staff and line officers have
been selected and approved for the
9th Brigade of the Washington High
School Cadets, it was announced yes
terday. The officers named will
serve throughout the 1934-5 school
terms.
Brigade commander will be Col.
Oswald J. Wines of Armstrong High
School, and members of his staff will
be Mai. Virgil Tracey (adjutanD, Maj.
Robert Clay. intelligence officer; Maj.
Robert Briggs, supply officer, and
Mai Willis Madden, plans and train
ing officer.
Other officers will include:
TWenty-fourth Regiment - Lieut..
Col. Charles w. Clark, and Capts.
Nathaniel L. johnson, Pinckney Hat
ton, Reginald Matthews and Robert
Ferrebee. Tenth separate battalion
Lieut. Col Kermit Jones, and Capts.
Napoleon Banks, John Patterson and
Julian Brown. Twenty-fifth Regi-
ment-Lieut Col. AlonZo Rivers, and
Capts. James Davidson, Eugene Jeter,
CI OlIldllu Lay dIlN 1NOpCAb oClb'
First Battalion - Maj. Joseph P.
Martin and Lieuts. William Lightfoot
and Perry Cook. and Mai. Carroll
Burton and Lieuts. Raymond Smith
and Leroy Winston. Second Bat
talion-Majs. Robert Mcneil and
Robert Goodloe, and LieutS Adelbert
jenkins, Talfour Pierce, Elmer D.
Jones and James Hudson.
Captains serving will be Robert
Jones. Dennette Harrod. David Cross.
Frances Chunn, John Euell, Bernard
Ferrell, Roland o. Smith, Leon Brax-
ton, Bernard Hughes, Robert Young,
John o. williams, Harry C. johnson.
Lieutenants serving will be William
A. Randolph. jr.; Philip Butcher,
Charles J. Runner, Charles N. Brown,
j. Woodwork Barnes, Clarence
Clemons, Harry Carter. Horace Hicks,
Charles U. Carter, Robert w. King,
George McLeeSe, Kermit Mehlinger,
Earl Hyman, Bernard Taylor, James
Brack, Pembroke Duvan, Oliver Beck
with, Edward Lacy, John A. Stanton,
Jasper Pookrum, Volney Clagett. God
frey Dunmore, Walter Patterson.
Charles Winston, Harry Lancaster,
Irving Stevens, Albert R. Bishop,
Thomas w. Curtis, George R. Will
Nams. Clifton Ford, James R. Carson.
Milton B. Wright. Sylvester Hamil-
ton, Joseph Gibson.
James T. Wright will captain the
hand detail, and will be assisted by
Lieuts. Clarence Johnson. Luther Mil
Ter, Aaron Gibson and William White.
Evening star., 1934-09-30
HARTMAN Halls
NEW N.R.A. SET-UP
Trade Leader Says Johnson
Resigned "Just in
Time"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, September 29.-Henry I.
Hartman, president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce and a
member of the N r. A. Industry Ad-
visory Board, today said the resigna-
ton of Gen. Hugh johnson ard the
reorganization of the N. r. a. came
just in time.
The national recovery act had
fallen into serious disfavor and dis
repute," the Boston industrialist de-
clared. Extremists among the ou-
reaucrats had extended it into fields
it never was intended to invade.
Let us hope the shift IL control
will result in lessening cf offensive
regimentation. AS it stood, N. r. A..
was an agent for the Generalization
of confidence among the business men
of the nation. I am sorry to say it
was delaying the recovery 1t was
meant to bring about.
While it has accomplished some
outstanding good, its value i'll the
form it took under Gen. johnson was
very questionable.
Discussing the future Of the N. R
A., Hartman said he hoped it would
eventually evolve into a wise measure
that would enable business to correct
many of its defects.
without in any way limiting fair
competition, it should function to end
ruthless, cut-throat, suicidal compe-
tition," he said.
Evening star., 1934-09-30
AUGMENTATION UNIT
PLANS BROAD PROGRAM
School Association Will Conduct
Extensive Educational Work
This Winter.

An extensive educational program
has been outlined for the Americana
zation School this Winter by the
Americanization School Association,
headed by Col. Frederic A. Delano.
In addition to the regular courses
in Americanization and English, a
drama is being planned by the Dra-
matte Committee for December, A. S.
A. library work is being planned by
Fritz Zimmet, the A. S. A. Band will
meet weekly and informal groups will
discuss bills before Congress relating
to immigration and naturalization.
Glasses will include journalism, gar
dening and handiwork, theory of aero
nautics and general science, economics,
current topics, everyday law.
Evening star., 1934-09-30
DISTRICT VOLUNTEERS
GIVEN NEW CHARTER
Unit Here Put on Parity With
States Through Reor-
ganization.

Placing the District unit Of the VOL
unteers of America on a parity with
units of the organization in the vari-
GUS Stats, the local comand of the
organization yesterday afternoon was
presented with a new charter by Col.
Earle F. Hites, national social service
secretary of the Volunteers.
The charter was made possible by a
reorganization now being effected in
the Volunteers which eliminates the
former territorial method of control
and makes the State commands inde-
pendent. In presenting the charter
to Adjt. H. Mills Eroh. the local COM
rnander. Col. Hites was assisted by
Maj. Leo r. Kelly of Detroit.
Evening star., 1934-09-30
Rayon Boom Expected.

Rayon manufacturers of Germany
expect boom as a result of their
new advertising campaign conducted
in collaboration with government au-
thOritieS.
Evening star., 1934-09-30
Deep-Cushioned Comfort in the
New Karpen Upholstered Suites

Karpen Living Room Furniture is an old favorite
with us for it possesses worthwhile quality fea-
lures, some of which are exclusive to Karpen.
Style and comfort, too, have always been
Karpen features. The styles are luxurious
Now the new Karpen Suites seem to be even
more comfortable Deep-cushioned sofas and
chairs with just the right pitch to the backs to
make them loungy and easy. And, oh! You ought
to see the soft, new colorings. They're lovely.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-01-11
SYNOPSIS
Copyright by Edison Marshall

His yacht. the Intrepid, abandoned
py its crew. Felix Horton. millionaire.
Win his mother, his daughter Nan.
ana Roy Stuart, puts into Squaw Har-
DOT Alaska, to recruit. He engages 4
ouhcn or nondescripts tranded there.
a gigantic Pole. Sandomar. In their
ieader. Captain Waymire, the Intre-
pius skipper, engages Eric Ericsson.
an old friend, to sail as chief officer.
nan and Eric indulge In a moonlight
irritation. The Intrepid Is wrecked.
Eric leaving her in a small boat. with
norton and his party. Sandomar kills
.aptain Waymire and leaves the ship
with his crowd. On landing. Erie
isaTnH there Is no communication with
tne outside world. Fireheart, priestess
u the Island, descended from a. whita
man IN the remote past. knowing a
little English, welcomes the cast
.Ways. Sandomar declares there shall
De no law on the island, but Eric.
having the only gun, cows him. de-
slarlnG ne Is the law. Eric's love for
nan swelis. and he tells her he means
70 WIN her. She LIS not unwilling. Fire
neart claims Eric, and realizing the
Importance OF her friendship he In
forced to ~temporize. Defending him
sell from attack, Eric's rev0Iyer an
parently misires, but his assaiiant.
nee Eric finds the revolver, which had
peen Waymire's. is rim-f1re, while five
% lis six cartridges are center-nre
Erie mas one effective cartridge.
oWede, makes an attempt on his life.
~ uses his one cartridge. killing
o"eoe, but is left defense1es..
.nousn master OF the situation. since
ne alone knows his gun is useless.
Ffreheart's threats culmfnate IN an at
temp on Mans life. Eric saves her.
re makes Nan understand the depth
OF MS love, but she is uncertain of
her " heart. In a sudden. terrific
storm, q child Of the tribe Ia LEFT helm
less on a sand spit. Facing almost GER
tain death. Eric. with two OF sando-
mars rang, goes to save her. In one
OF the native boats. He leaves the re-
with Roy.