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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY. MARCH 7, 1935
False Tariff Propa-
ganda Is Exposed
When President Roosevelt first
broached his trade reciprocity plan,
The News predicted that tariff con-
cessions it would be necessary for
our government to make would
arouse militant opposition, no matter
how insignificant the domestic in-
dustry affected.
T'ne tariff lobbies didn't wait long
to go into action. The Texas Week-
ly reviews an incident typical of many
others that will follow unless the lob-
byists create such an uproar that the
administration will be deterred from
carrying forward its reciprocal trade
program.
A short time before the trade
agreement with Brazil was complet-
ed. Senator McCarran of Nevada
called at the White House to pro-
test against the proposed reduction
of the tariff on manganese ore. Coin-
cidentally, statements began to ap-
pear from various sources to the ef-
fect that lowering the import duty
on manganese ore from Brazil would 1
throw thousands of American work-!
ers out of employment. President 1
Roosevelt obviously wasn't impressed ]
for, as the Texas Weekly notes, he
made a special ceremony of signing
the agreement.
Doubtless Mr. Roosevelt had the
benefit of figures which Secretary i
Hull later made public. These fig- |
ures thoroughly explode the claim
that to permit larger imports of man-1
ganese would ruin a great American 1
industry. No such industry exists, nor
does there appear any reasonable
prospect of creating one. Secretary
of three years.
Pumping Plant Finished.
The pumping plant, a five story
concrete structure, built into the east
bank of the Brazos River, due west
of Juliff, has been completed and can
lift 210.000 gallons of water a min-
jute .through its three pumps This
v ill not only take care of the approx- I
imately 20.000 acres of rice, but will
also provide sufficient water for ir-
rigation of as many more acres of
"dry land farms” when natural moil- |
ture runs too low.
The canal, which will carry the
initial flow of the water from the
river, has been built to a point a I
short distance east of Juliff, a small
community on the Houston-Angleton
highway, and forks there.
One branch goes north, then east
and finally southeast, serving the
Iowa Colony section.
The other branch of the main canal
goes south, passing a little to the east
of Sandy Point, thence east and fi-
nally southeast, where it eventually
will come within about six or seven
miles of Liverpool.
First Water March 15.
The canals will first feel the flush
of river water about March 15. ac-
cording to officials of the company.
Chamber of Commerce officials see
in the project a possibility of creating
a veritable garden next door to Hous-
tn. With controlled moisture almost
i'll crops can be successfully pro-
duced. as the soil is extremely rich-
Brazos Valley soil.
The water leases made by the
South Texas Water Company run for
a three year period, during which
time the acreage will be devoted to
rice. After that the leases may either
Hull quoted fivurex to show that the be renewed, or the land owners may
Hull quoted figures o show that the put their land to other crops,
manganese ore industry in this coun- V
try now employes only a few hun-
dred men and that even in the pros-
perous year of 1929 it employed 354
wage earners. Although it has had the
benefit of protective tariff rates rang-
ing from 69 per cent to 110 per cent
since 1922, less than 10 per cent of
the manganese ore consumed in the
United States was produced domesti-
cally. That should convince anyone
that the industry is not susceptible
of large development. Moreover, it
should demonstrate the folly of sacri-
ficing profitable foreign trade for the
protection of an uneconomic domestic
industry.
Secretary Wallace has said repeated-
ly that if we are to regain foreign
markets for our own surplus prod-
ucts we must be prepared to sacrifice
uneconomic industries which hereto-
fore have existed on tariff protection.
It is impossible to calculate how
much it has cost America to satisfy
the demands of small but clamorous
economic groups. The fact is. howev-
er, that such groups have been al-
lowed a dominant voice in shaping
the tariff policy which has recoiled
so disastrously against the cotton-
growing South It is to be hoped that
Secretary Hull will have occasion to
turn the searchlight of pitiless pub-
licity on other tariff propagandists
who seek to advance their puny in-
terests at the general expense.—Gal-
veston News.
Cherry Pie Champion
for which he pays parity prices. 1 largely, the cash income, including
On whatever stocks of clean rice benefit payments, had climbed to six
ere in the hands of mlllers and oth- billion 125 millions of dollars. The
cr* on which has been paid the secre- value of all crops in Louisiana was
tary's price in the rough, there would $58,000,000 in 1932 and the 1934 val-
be no floor stocks tax.
With reference to the 1935 crop, the 1932 your rice crop was worth less I
processing tax will operate as usual than $5 000,000 as compared to a nor-
with other crops When a lot of rough mal value of 12 or 13 millions. In
ings, will no doubt happen to all erated by the Texas Relief Commis-
other complaints and hearings, in- sion
eluding charges of license violations
against a number of rice mills in
Louisiana and Texas This view may |
ues were approximately $92,000,000 In not be correct, but that is the way 1
, 1 the situation now looks
is bought and processed, the proces- 1934 the value of the rice crop is
sor must pay into the treasury, the placed at $12,606,000.
processing tax of one cent per pound Deplorable Conditions.
This fund accumulates in the treas- There is no disragerding the fact'
ury and is used in making benefit that conditions in the rice belt were
payments to growers who have co- deplorable at the end of the 1934 har-
operated with the production control vest Tins was brought about by cer-
program Those who have not co- tain things which all of you are fa-
eperated will have to be satisfied miliar.
v ith the world price for their rice.
To Slop Philippine Rice
With respect to exports, provision
is made for rebating to exporters the
full amount of the processing tax on
the amount exported. The funds for
this rebate will come from the gen-
eral processing tax pool, thereby dis-
tributing the cost of regaining our
export markets over the entire indus-
try. The way will be opened for
American rice to enter immediately
into world markets. The processing
tax would carry with it a compensa-
| tory tax of the same amount which
CHICAGO . . . The National
cherry pic baking championship ----------------
goes to Inez Todnem (above), of would be assessed against all for-
Marshall, Minn. Miss Todnem was eign rice, and this would immediate-
state champion before competing J) stop Philippine imports.
here against other state winners By placing the plan in operation on
for national honors. The winning March 1 for the purpose of relieving
pie is to go to President Roosevelt, our markets of surplus supplies at
an early date through exports has
made more market activity than lias
what happened, and those who do not been seen since the advent of the
know the sequences leading up to the marketing agreement. The removal of
present situation know now in all its the threat of the floor stocks tax,
lurid details what has happened. The which had caused almost complete
original marketing agreement carried stagnation and the backing up of
the seeds of its own destruction, supplies in farmer's hands of recent
Those seeds have now come to full months, was also of tremendous im-
fruition and the harvest has been I ortance in stimulating markets,
fathered in an abundance of viola- To Control Production.
tions of every provision and every The most important result of all,
principle which was involved, however, will be the almost complete
Two Keneral Plans. contrlo of production. No grower in
Under the agricultural marketing | hisd right senses is going to take
ating company, will produce—and in act 1 revision was made for two broad any chances on raising* a rice crop
general plans under which an agri- on the basis of world market prices,
cultural commodity could be operat- when by cooperation with the pro-
ed. One was the marketing agree- gram he will share in benefit pay-
ments along with other producers.
An added incentive is the very de-
Increase Jurisdiction.
The irrigation of "dry land farms"
in times of lack of rainfall will mean
at the outset a considerably increas-
ed production, according to authori-
ties. These lands, which are not cov-
ered in the water leases of the oper-
many cases are already planted—a
number of crops, including truck,
corn, alfalfa, melons and other pro-
duce.
Paved roads, over a distance of not
more than 25 miles, lead to Houston
and also to Sugar Land. Produce not
readily saleable on the produce mar-
ket in Houston may find a market
in Sugar Land, where a canning plant
is operated.
Many see in the development of this
irrigation district the opening of a
new era for this part of the gulf
coast. A great deal has been advocat-
ed and said about opening up this
area to intensive development, and
there seems to be a good prospect of
this being the entering wedge in an
intensive agricultural development
around Houston.
The New Rice Program
In company with Sir Wasson and
SIDNEY BATES
throughout the state were
opened, furnishing employment and Sidney Bates, age III years, 5 months
an outlet for many of the cattle Mon and 1 day, died in a hospital in San
than 50000,000 cans of meat w re add- Antonio Texas Friday night at 9:30
ed to the food supply i r relief rail r.m. He was the son of Mi and Mix
clients of the state in this way John Bates who have lived a life
ment and accompanying license. The
other is the plan under which a pro-
cessing tax is assessed upon the ini-
tial processing and paid by the pro-
cessors into the United States treas-
ury, with such funds being used to
make benefit payments to those grow- |
ers who agree to adjust their produc- |
tion to prevailing demand. The pri- |
cided possibility that a substantial
part of the benefit payment will
probably be made in August before
the rice is even harvested, or as soon
as acreage can be measured and com-
pliance determined.
An additional advantage is one
which has been completely overlook -
mary purpose behind both plans is which has been completely overlook -
the adjustment of production to such led by commentators on the new pro-
a point that the effective demand gram and that is the fact that the full
would result in increased income to benefit payment will be made to a
producers. Nothing in either provision co-operating producer even though he
made allowance for any other than may suffer a total crop failure. Tins
40,000 Brazoria Co.
Acres Be Watered
By Irrigation Job
By MARSHALL MONROE.
In Houston Chronicle.
Something like 40,000 acres of north
Brazoria County land is to be irri-
gated through the development of
the largest irrigation project this side
of the Rio Grande Valley this year.
Tlic project is popularly called the
Juliff project .and involves a quar-
ter of a million dollars investment.
(Rice News.)
Much information and mis-informa-
tion has been and is being widely
disseminated throughout the rice belt
by various and sundry means as to
the new rice program. It is believed
that a few statements of facts, com-
ments on the background and obser-
vations as to principles involved and
probable result, may help clear the
atmosphere which is at the moment
decidedly foggy.
It has been perfectly apparent for
many months that the present rice
program, under the marketing agree-
ment could not be continued. It was
doomed from the moment that the
first marketing agreement was draft-
ed and put into effect. At that time
there apparently prevailed a child-
like faith in human nature on the part
of those responsible for the agree-
producers and producers alone. This
fact was temporarily overlooked in
the rice industry, much to the regret
of every one concerned, including the
agricultural adjustment administra-
tion in Washington.
Rice is an industry of many pe-
culiarities. not only as to culture, but
as to markets, principles, economics
and the people involved. It soon be-
came apparent that under existing
was the case in the drouth belt last
season, when the sole income for
many growers was from benefit pay-
ments. It must be remembered that
benefit payments are not payments
for rice, but are made as a reward
for compliance with production con-
trol.
The bill is in congress and has the
full support of the administration.
While no controversial subjects are
involved and passage should be rela-
law there was no adequate provision
made for many of these peculiarities, lively easy, the support of the entire
The marketing act set up rather rigid
Around 100,000 acres in that area are ment. That faith encompassed the bc-
susceptible to irrigation, and observ-|lief that, regardless of the record of
ers predict that the new development a number of individuals in the rice
may mean the establishment of one belt, there could be established by
of the largest truck growing sections edict of the secretary of agriculture,
in the South, right at Houston's door, a blind and trusting cooperation on
The irrigation project is being put all fronts among all branches of the
in by the South Texas Water Com- industry, backed up by the awful
pany, and already 249 individual land maje. ty of the secretary of agricul-
owners in the section affected have ture and the law with its implied
leased their land, totaling nearly 20,- provision to compel cooperation if it
000 acres to the water company to be were not otherwise forthcoming.
used for rice production for a term
Everyone in the rice belt knows
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requirements for the determination of
the amount of the processing tax. It
was found that if these requirements
were followed the amount of the tax
which could be applied to rice would
not be large enough to do much good
in the way of controlling production,
since the amount of the benefit pay-
ments would not be attractive enough
to warrant cooperation with the pro-
duction control program and the pen-
alties involved would not be suffi-
cient to deter non-cooperation. Fur-
thermore the existing provision re-
quiring that the proce ing tax be
only of such amount, in addition to
the current domestic market as would
return to growers the pre-war pur-
chasing power, would enable non-
co-operating growers to -ell at a price
which would return about the same
as last year.
Other Disadvantages.
Many other difficulties would have
been encountered under a plan in-
volving a small tax. For instance a
placed on imports would not have
been sufficient to keep out Philippine
rice.
As an incentive to remove surplus
supplies through exports, provision is
made in the agricultural marketing
act to rebate to exporters the amount
of the processing tax. The amount
involved under the act would not
have been large enough in the case
of rice to accomplish the purpose and
we would have to continue to bear
the burden of ever mounting surplus-
es because of the virtual loss of out-
export markets.
These three considerations alone.
rice industry should be given and no
irrevelent subjects discussed.
The Status Of The
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I and others, that would possibly have
I developed, made it absolutely neces-
I sary to obtain suitable amendatory
i legislation in order to meet the afore-
I said peculiarities and contingencies in-
■ herent in the rice industry .
| An amendment to the agricultural
1 marketin gact that will be of far
- reaching effect on its application to
. trice has been submitted to congress.
] The bill was drawn as to its details
1 by a sub-committee of the producers
committee composed of H. G. Chalk-
time on Caney.
The body was br ght overland
a A ntonio Saturday night
The W.Alawerin Girls 4-H Club anumcon . iMtermianihstruaSvadaer
sponsor I by Mrs Mabin Laird met cemetery at Matthews Rev Odis
Thursday, Feb. 21 at the s heel at Rained conducting, the religious serv-
9 a.m The meeting was called to or- ices 1
der by the president. Clara Doss The
club pledge 1 1 ■ ■ . i food for
The minute were r id eni le at David on’s Confectionery,
the roll called. The meetir I was turn Saturday March 9 beginning at 16
COLLEGE STATION Texas, March ed over to the song leader, Mildred nm. Your patronage will be appre-
Thompson ciatei by the Earnest Workers Sun-
The club rang the songs The Eyes day School Class of the Presby terian
of Texas," “John Jacob Jingle Iran Church
Texas Drouth
Cattle Value
$24,000,000
W ALDS NOT TH GIELS 4-H CLUB
R. V St. Dizier, district agent, I
made a tour of the rice section. We
talked with hundreds of farmers, bus-6. Buying 2,013,972 cattle from 150,205 |
iness men and our county agents and drouth-stricken farmers and ranch-
with this background, we framed a men in 233 Texas counties during the
letter to the secretary of agriculture last seven months, the federal gov- |
setting forth the changes that should ornment has paid more than $24,000,000 1
be made if the rice program were to for these animals, according to an es-
be attempted in 1935. timate today by George W Barnes,
Many of the leading rice farmers assistant state drouth director
and others interested went to Wash- An average of thirteen head was
ington and made a personal plea to purchased from each of the 150,000
the authorities there. Every one told ranchmen at an average price of
practically the same story that had $12.14 per head, so that approximately
been outlined to the secretary. In ad- $158 was received by each of the Tex-
dition, thousands of growers from ans who participated in Ute drouth
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas wrote relief program
Of the total purchases, 684,455 head,
letters begging that immediate ac-
tion be taken As matters now stand, or 34 per cent, were condemned
Smith." _____
The meeting was turned over to ,
Mrs. Laird We talked about gardens ,„ 2 wel af rd to attend, the
and smocks. We went outside and Vorli Day of Prayer service Friday
spaded up a little space of ground, morning at 9:30 at ‘he Presbyterian
Mrs. Laird showed us how "to fix our Church 6-1
rows and how to plant our vegeta- -______
hies Tlir meeting adjourned at 11:45.
Reporter (PATRONIZE THE ADVERTISERS
it seems that the rice farmer has been | The cattle program was startl'd, un-
granted every thing that has been der the direction of the Texas exten-
requested, even though it has re- si n service, in eight counties on June
quired a special amendment to the 6 1934 As the drouth spread over a
agricultural adjustment act, large portion of the state, other coun-
The New Program. ties were added almost daily to the
It is proposed that a process ing tax emersancy drouth area in which cat-
of one cent a pound be levied on rice the purchases were authorized until
effective March 1. 1935, as recom-only twenty-one counties were not
mended by the rice growers This taxincluded.
Moody Bible Students Volunteer
To Replace Slain Missionaries
will be continued at this rate through |
the marketing year ending July 31,
1936.
The marketing agreement and li-
cense for the Southern area will be
terminated at the date the processing
tax goes into effect but it is expect-
Soon after the program started,
twenty-two beef canning plants op-
d that the prices specified in the i
marketing agreement will be main-
tained by other means throughout the
T SUNDAY DINNER
remainder of this season so that the
growers who sell 1933 and 1934 rice I,
SUGGE STIONS
***-* nun
By NN PAUN
after March 1 will receive at least . best news possible for the
as much as those who sell prior to “ opening of Lent ia that att water
that date fish is plentiful and moderately priced.
It is recommended that the flool Eg too, are popular substitutes for
stocks tax not be levied and that rice meat and their price has declined
purchased at a price as high or high- ten cents a dozen in the past week,
er than that specified in the ex- The third most popular Lenten food
listing marketing agreement and li- is cheese and its price is low in pro-
cense be exempted from the process portion to its excellent nourishing
ing tax. qualities
T. I Meat prices continue to rise with no
It was suggested that th acreage hope of lower prices for from six
plotment and production quota al- months to a year Regardless of re-
located to the Southern area in 1935 ligious practice fish, eggs and cheese I
be approximately on the same ba is as | are good foods to choose because they )
that allocated in 1934. but that the are among the cheaper foods at
acreage and allotments to individual present.
growers be adjusted downward where Oranges, grapefruit and strawbe r-
satisfactory proof has been present- ries offer the best fresh fruit values:
ed that growers have over-rated their the best green vegetable values for
acreage and production during the this week
base period; and that upward adjust- Here are three menus made up of
ments be made to take care of in- seasonable foods adapted to different
equities found in the 1934 allotments, 1 budget levels
provided that the state allotments
and quotas are not exceeded. Imme-
diate payment has already been au-
thorized to growers who have an
equity in the trust fund established |
under the 1934 program.
The agricultural extension division
expects to administer the program as
quickly and as efficiently as possi-
ble, with the help of the farmer com-
mnitteemen. Our interest in these pro-
grams is the interest of the farmer.
When a program has been developed
and rules and regulations sent to
Low Cost Dinner
Veal Slew with Vegetable s
Cole Slaw
Bread and Butter
Lemon Snow
Tea or Coffee
Custard Sauce
Milk
re ft M a 083 we have to abide strictly by th
UEI regulation We hop that
D the program will be in final shape
J. W. BATEMAN, Director
Agricultural Extension Service
Front Rice News.
Theoretically, the AAA rice adjust-
ment program for 1934, was more
nearly perfect than any of the other
control programs being attempted by
the government in order to bring
about .stabilization of farm prices.
However, the finest of theories fail
of practical application. This is es-1
pecially true when thousands of in-
dividuals with clashing interests are
involved.
In making this statement I do not
wish to appear to be criticizing the
rice section, the millers, the farmers
nor our own organization, the agri-
cultural extension service of this state,
'the rice program, as originally writ-
ten was the only one which did not
depend upon a processing tax. It
was a three-way program involving
agreements between the farmer and
the miller and the farmer and the
secretary. The farmer was to get a
certain "secretary’s price" for his rici-
based upon grade; the miller was- to
receive certain conversion costs. Co-
operating farmers were to be paid
upon a 60-40 basis, as you all know.
The agricultural extension service
was named to administer the program
just as it has, and is, administer-
ing. the cotton, sugarcane, corn-hog,
drouth relief and other progrmas. R
A Wasson, our agronomist and all
of the county agents in the rice par-
ishes did a remarkable piece of work
before many weeks, so that it may be
presented to the farmers. Unless it is,
we are apt to be caught in the same
position that we were last season.
Time , the most important element
lust now. In order to facilitate mat-
Medium Cost Dinner
Veal Birds with Sausage Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes Creen Beans
Bread and Butter
Banana Cre im Pie
Tea or Coffee Mill.
Very Special Dinner
Brown Chicken Fricassee
New Potatoes
Cauliflower au gratin
Shredded Lettuce French Dressing
Rolls and Butter
Orange Ice Cake
Coffee Milk
ters, our office at Baton Rouge is
now checking applications for the -----------
purpo e of notifying growers of their -----
alloted acreage.1--
Apparently All x
‘Hearings’ Are
At
Enc
(Rice News.)
During December, 1934 vigorous pro- |
tests were made to officials of the
rice section of the AAA at Washing-
ton against alleged excess storage
charges to farmers for rough rice as I
one means of evading the base parity
prices set up by the secretary of
agriculture in his now famous rice
order of October 15, -934, and as a
result of these protests and com-
plaints, hearings were announced for
Washington on Jan. 21, 1935.
During the same time the Southern
They were assisted by the farmer
ley Jr. of Lake Charles, La.; L. C. committeemen. However, the finest
efforts in the world can be ruined
Trousdale of Houston, Texas; R. E.
Short of Wheatley, Ark., together
with Homer L. Brinkley, executive
secretary of the producers commit-
tee, working in conjunction with of-
ficials of the agricultural adjustment
administration. The millers commit-
tee, which cooperated was repre-
sented by W. M. Reid, executive sec-
retary and J E. Edmonds, both of
New Orleans. Congressman Reno L.
DeRouen of Louisiana was selected to
introduce the bill in congress.
The amendment provides for a pro-
cessing tax at the rate of one cent per
pound on rough rice. This tax would
go into effect on March 1 if the
amendment is passed, and present
marketing agreement will be termi-
nated as of that date. For all the
rice of the 1933-34 crop unmilled, the
producers who hold it, when selling
to the mills, will receive tax pay-
ment warrants for the full amount
of the processing tax which can be
cashed immediately, thus returning
to the grower a price in line with
the present secretary's price. A one
per cent discount is provided so that
the handling of this paper will be
attractive and payment to growers
expedited.
Subsidy for Exports.
Under the plan, mills which have
paid the secretary's price to grow-
ers for rice prior to the effectiveness
of the processing tax can secure a
tex warrant or refund if they export
the rice at the world market price.
This applies to the rice he has on
hand for which he paid parity price
and to that which he may buy and
if the job is done too late. This 1
what happened last year. The pro-
cram did not get under way until
too late in the season, and, as a re-
sult. farmers did not know exactly
what their allotments and quotas were
going to be until, in some cases, har-
vest time
Failed, But Not A Failure.
Admitting all of these drawbacks,
let us not forget that prior to the in-
auguration of a rice program, the
price of rice had dropped to as low
as $1.20 a barrel. Farmers were be-
moaning the good old days of S3
rice Well, the $4 price was reestab-
lished. True, certain things have pre-
vailed which have not been satisfac-
tory to the growers; but many of
those difficulties are being ironed
cut.
One thing that the average person
must realize is that all of the ad-
justment programs were of an emer-
gency nature. There were no prece-
dents by which agriculture could be
guided. We were all traveling in un-
charted seas. Not one of the pro-
grams was perfect, corrections had
to be made as the work progressed.
The trial and error method had to
be used.
Disregar ling the unintentional er-
rors that may have been made as
the prog cams progressed we cannot
overlock the fact that in 1932 the cash
income in this country from agri-
culture had dropped from almost nine
billion dollars in 1926 to a little more
than four billion in 1932. In 1934.
due to the adjustment programs, very
Accepting the slaying of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Stam by communists
In China as a challenge to Christianity, approximately 40 men and wo
men students of the Moody Bible Institute dedicated themselves to
missionary service in China, Twenty-one of the volunteers are shown
in this photograph.
CHICAGO—In a stirring demon-
stration of militant Christianity, ap-
proximately 40 men and women an-
swered the call of Dr. Will H.
Houghton, president of the Moody
Bible Institute here, tor volunteers
to take the places of Mr. and Mrs.
John Stam, recently slain by com-
munists in China.
In memorial services to the two
martyred missionaries, who were
graduated from the Institute in 1931
and 1932, Dr. Houghton declared
the killings were a challenge to
Christianity, and added he was sure
the challenge would be met.
At the conclusion of the memor-
ial services, at which Dr Houghton
presided, he asked tor those who
would volunteer for service in for-
eign lands.
Electrified by the strong plea for
a concrete ans wer to the martyr
dom of the Stams, many In the
crowded auditorium arose to their
feet to dedicate themselves to mis-
sionary service. The picture above
1s of 21 present students who have
China In view.
“This work,” Dr. Houghton as-
serted, “calls for a vigorous man-
hood and womanhood — vigor in
Faith, vigor in mind and in body
and an unquenchable desire to
serve even unto death for God and
humanity "
Eighteen hundred and forty-
eight men and women, former stu-
dents of the Moody Bible Institue,
have gone to the foreign fields.
1 e WEE K’S N EWS
BABE LEAVES NEW)
YORK — Jacob Rup- %
pert, owner of the New a
York Yankees, con- M
gratulates Babe Ruth ===
upon his appointment -
industry was provoked over these al- as assistant manager
leged unethical practices of a few
of the millers, sentiment had become |
strong for the elimination of any fix-
ed conversion whatever. It was con-
tended that the first conversion
charge of approximately ninety cents
a barrel was too much and that the
fifty cents a barrel ordered by Sec -
retary Wallace on October 15 was
too small. This complaint was also
fixed for hearing in Washington on 1
Jan. 21.
In the meantime the organized for-
ces of rice growers, the producers
committee and the rice section of the
AAA were working on a new pro
gram for the Southern rice industry
for the crop year 1935-36 and for the
remainder of the crop year 1933-34.
While the two hearings mentioned
above were in progress it became
known to all parties concerned, mill-
ers and growers, that the new pro-
gram, calling for a processing tax,
in which dealings would be with the
collector of internal revenue, and that
a bill amending the agricultural
marketing act to this effect would
be introduced in congress by Repre-
sentative L. DeRouen of Louisiana in
a few days, the hearings were ad-
journed pending new d velopments.
March 11 was fixed as the date for
the continuation of the hearings, but
since DeRouen rice bill is expected to
be passed and to go into effect by
March 1 it now appears likely that
all further discussions of conversion
charges and excess rough rice stor-
age charges will be at an end, inas-
much as the marketing agreement un-
der which the troubles originated will]
be terminated as it affects the South- 1
ern states on March 1, the date the
DeRouen rice bill is expected to be-
come effective.
What has happened to these hear-
of the Boston Braves
as Judge Fuchs, Babe's
new boss, looks on.
GEORGE MORIARITY, vet-
eran American League um-
pire and author of the official
league motion picture, "Play
Ball." The picture is being
made available to high
schools and civic organiza-
tions by ths Fisher Body
Division of General Motors,
whose cooperation made the
production of the sound film
possible.
CORONER FRANK NACE of Los Angeles takes recent
traffic violators for a stroll through the morgue to show
the tragic res. Its of reckless driving.
0000
■ GEORGE W. COD-
B RINGTON, President
′ jof the Winton Subsidi-
7 ary of General Motors
% ' and J. W. Rimmer,
% j Vice-President of the
s Boston and Maine Rail-
I road, shown entering
the cab of the new die-
sel-powered “Flying
Yankee,” the first]
A streamlined train to be .
used in the East. .
INDUSTRIAL SPOKESMAN
—Lamont du Pont, presi-
dent of E. I. du Pont de Ne-
mours & Co., will discuss
current problems of Ameri-
can industry during the
Forum of Liberty broadcast
over the Columbia network
Thursday, March 14, at 8:30
p.m. Eastern Standard Time. i
YOUNGEST CATHOLIC BISHOP CONSE4
CRATED—The Most / Reverend Raymond A.
Kearney," S.T. D. consecrated at the age of 32
became the youngest member of the Roman
- Catholic Hierarchy.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1935, newspaper, March 7, 1935; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696524/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.