SEE around the National Capital Saas By CARTER FIELD aaa Washington.—In connection with the proposed international loan to China— aimed at preventing the Japanese from obtaining a strangle hold on that mar ket—a very interesting development, with a group of American manufactur- ers behind it, is under way. The gov- ernment knows about it, but has taken no action. Representing manufacturers who use tungsten, an American is now in China {nvestigating the possibility of obtain. ing a very large amount of this valu- able metal—enough to supply all the needs of this country for a period of years. The idea would be to ship this tungsten from China to Seattle or some other Pacific port, there to hold it as a sort of pool. Supplies would be sold from the pool as needed by the manu- facturers, The main object Is not to ald China, but to stabilize the price in this coun- try of tungsten. The price has fluctu- ated over a tremendous range, amount- fng to several hundred dollars a tom for tungsten ore! This is a situation, which is naturally most embarrassing to those using it, as it makes much more difficult the making of contracts which have any length of time to run, especially contracts where any sizable fraction of the cost is based upon the price of tungsten. But if the plan succeeds it will be of to Chin The bought enormous henefit sup- ply of tungsten millions of credit for Chi dollars. This would vide a fmports she wanted from It would not be barter the in 1 been used, for example, ex- word has connection with the proposed with Germany for blocked marks. But in draw. State exchange could the situation, hough amount of on which best of it, folks see she And the as the they neuver, is that it wonld provide ural stimulus to with tempt to force goods along new nels, and with none ulties and barriers with which of proposed barter agreements have been affll Wouldn't Stop Nor would it even put a st trade, at- ¥ no of the «i most the Imports ports of thu # gource of ex § depr posed plan, would be importe three years, of the huge pool, n creates gerve {shed by should ded too low, made, certainly capacity. In effect, advocates of the plan point out, the organization of the pool would be an advance to China of some mil eredit would China and the United States would serve just as useful a purpose as If the government—as desired Britain and about the Japanese China~had ad- vanced the money. Which Is very im- portant to the treasury because only the most optimistic think if the money were lent it would ever be repaid, others worried credit to Those working for the nool say there would be no difficulty original purchases, as banks would be glad to lend money on tungsten stored in a bonded warehouse, See Trouble Ahead A simple Rico relief measure for Porto has opened up with gar states, It all grew out of the visits to Porto Rico by Mrs. Roosevelt and by Profes brain truster, move so insist, What happened finally was that See. retary of Agriculture Wallace signed an order permitting excess sugar cane In Porto Rico to be ground inte molasses and then brought into the United States, This means, of course, that the sugar so ground was-—until this or der—in excess of Porto Rico's quota. It could have been sold abroad. on the world. market, or It could have been plowed under, Obviously this move disturbed the whole quota set-up. Already Hawall had been screaming that this very quota was ruinous to her, The beet sugar people had accepted it because they could get nothing better, but were far from happy. And the Cubans thought they were pretty nearly ruined AAA hans not pald much attention to Louisiana sugar producers. They had been benef lag. The price for thelr molasses bad eigen from 2 to 7% cents a gallon during the past year. In fact, the sugar section of AAA clulins that At least, critics of the other section from the sugar program. This was due to a more or less un. expected development-—the widespread use of molasses for the production of alcohol. And therein lies more trou ble from the Porto Rico decision. Hits Corn Belt For it brings the corn belt boys up standing—and screaming. They have fought bitterly for years for all kinds of legislative devices to increase the price of corn. Many of them backed the proposal to force all motorists to use a mixture of alcohol-—made from corn—with their gasoline, This was never enacted, but there has always been pressure for It, and it illustrates thelr interest in any proposal affecting the use of corn. Now whisky men agree that neutral spirits for blending with straight whis- ky should be made from grain. They {nsist that the taste Is different; that alcohol made from molasses does not produce as delectable a drink as If the alcohol had been made from grain, de spite the chemical similarity. And it so happens that the prime movers for this dispensation to Porto Rico on outside the Porto Rico interests themselves, were liquor people, Those most interested happen to be located in Philadelphia. Which presents a double-barreled argument for opponents of the concession. Louisiana finds herself supported by the corn belt In protesting against this upset on the sugar quota, whereas just recently the corn belt was rore with the for molasses from Louisiana. Moreover, the corn belt boys are sore because If the price molasses, liquor people using of molasses had kept on mounting, as the had hoped it would i Louisiana planters hy tiana neanle the liquor peopl 1 urned back But not iquor people are not to corn anyway, yet, Fo gatisfled, Rican mo- same cons the end is the the concession on Porto Now they de for the lasses, want the "i In & de Philippines—de- ma ma were most potent In the fight to give sugar. So now the Philippine agitators will having Philippine molasses—in excess of her sugar quota—admitted into the are preparing to make Mr, life miserable, Long Perturbed Huey 1 friends ut Long is to be The reall story is why Moody was pick wns the % ery knew They when that recommendation New [Deal Texas situation clinched thelr case told of the him famous. on high the advisers who they made as, suspected of having profits out of road contracts a masterly Job of investigating and then enmeshed the small fry that before they knew what they were ®0 into the pleture. So the Iy putting the big fellows hind—in jail »- All of which made Moody a hero. elected. In fact, his popularity lasted until he, although a Baptist and a thirty-second-degree Mason, decided to support the nominee convention for President, Nor to its popular governor supporting him. This is important at the moment for several reasons, First, because Moody knew he was running coun to public sentiment. He told at the Houston convention did not think Smith would nominated, As a delegate he did not vote for Smith, but for Jesse Jones, But Al Smith once nominated, Moody took the unpopular course and went through for the New York candidate, So that while his Judgment was sound, his determination to do what he thought was the right thing regardless of consequences was also demonstrat: ed. Afterward he retired to private life, and has been doing pretty well since at the practice of law, The Long case promises to put him back In the national pleture. His friends are enthusiastic about his pros. pects. He 1s only forty-three now, so he ean walt, But they are sure he will wind up with the sealps of both the Kingfish and Gov. ©. K. Allen, as well nx many of thelr lHeotenants. Which would make him a figure all gver the country, Copyright. ~WNU Service, J PA. And these — $ 3 v x i Zz ni my lively perfc yours when you own a Chevrolet for 1935. Ye even more economical See this Chevrolet for quality at Chevrolets. terms wmance . . . and Master De Luxe t you can buy one ly than previous car and choose low cost. AND UP, List price of Master De Luxe Coupe st Flint, Mich., $560 With bumpers, spare tire and Knee DEALER ADVERT} SEMENT TURREY-TOP BODY BY FISHER {with No Draft Ventilation) BLUE-FLAME WEATHERPROOF CABLE-CONTROLLED BRAKES SHOCK-PROOYF STEERING Senator Walter F. federal communications in Greece, commission, Tin ls Not Cheap leferences to tin through sach come as tin tin-horn mon lizzies, ny Sports made its name synonymous with cheap But it i= not cheap. In fact it is virtually a semi-precious metal. It costs twice ag much as aluminum, six times as much as copper, 13 times as much as lead and times as much as steel Collier's Weekly, expressions tin. voices and ness, yo. ahi Imitation a Sin The Greek of ancient days, with his exquisite sense of propriety. always feared for the transgressor of bounds, the mortal apeing of the divine, and or arrogance seemed to and to the un- wdonnble ®'n, never condoned by the rok divinities, nsolence teschyins Sophocles Pigmy Shrew Said to Be World's Smallest Mammal The smallest mamma! in the whole world, the pigmy shrew, has a total length of about three inches, but near ly half of this belongs to the slender tall, and its weight is a fraction of an ounce. It has the general form of a from a mouse in structure as a rabbit is from a badger, and its teeth resem- ble those of a weasel. These tiny, half-blind creatures, says a writer in the Montreal Herald, are to be found from eastern Canada and the United States northwestward to British Co. lumbia, and probably are numerous but are rarely seen by anyone except through some chance, for they kre ex: traordinarily secretive, spending their lives in searching for insects, earth worms, young mice, ete, underneath leaves, matted old grass and logs, or by boring into loose soll and punky wood; they do not hibernate, but are active all winter, even in extreme cold, Senator Clark; 8 8 and Senator Nye. Too Much Rain | Rain is a calamity, not a blessing, | in northern Chile, South America, writes RR. J. Thompson, Dilworth, | Minn, In Collier's Weekly. There they | get plenty of it. Rain not only washes | away their mud huts but it dissolves | the great nitrate beds, which are one of | the chief sources of income of] that country, and thereby throws thou. | gands of men out of work for weeks at a time, Origin of Military Salute The origin of the military sainte Is | not definitely known. It was supposed ferior to raise the palm of the hand to the front of hit cap to show that it contained no dagger. This was be cause assassinations were so common in those days. It has been suggested that time and custom have modified this to the military salute, Giant Clocks The largest clock In the world is on the tower of a factory in New Jersey, The dial is 50 feet In diameter, the minute hand is 27 feet long, and the tour hand Is 10 feet 3 Inches long. The minute hand travels 1656 feet In an hour's journey round the dial, which works out at about 8 inches In a min. pte or 270 miles In a year.—Tit-Bits Magazine, Great Bear Lake Game Birds The grouse, which are permanent residents of the Northwest territories, and several species of geese and ducks, which are migratory visitors, are the principal game birds of the Great Dear lake area and the rest of the vast territories, which embrace a mil. lien and a quarter square miles in thelr Clay Willlams, chairman of the o=Apning 8. Prall, chairman of the co Robert Ear! Linsig was born in New York without an esophagus, the nar row tube through which food passes from the mouth to the stomach. Rob ert has an even chance in his battle for life, but cannot be operated on for seven or eight years, Use for Cellulose The most interesting things about cellulose do not lie in its roles az food and fiber, but In its use AS A raw ma- terial for chemical industry. The first successful attempt at the chemical processing of cellilose was made by an English weaver named Mercer In 1844. He had observed that cotton when soaked In lye became weaker and a trifle Jeliylike. He softened some cotton yarn with lye solution, stretched it while still wet, and then dried it and neutralized the lye. The resulting fiber had a silky appearance and, In memory or dls name, Is still known as mercerized cotton.—Chlengo boundaries Detroit News, Tribune, JAP FINANCE MINISTER The year-old | patriarch Japanese | finance, RKorekiyo Tahahashi, poses for | this picture in his Tokyo office, after | approving the governmental budget for 1835. He is the finance minister of the Okada government now in power. owlish, eighty-three veteran of and | MILK AND HONEY DIET A diet of milk and honey, with now and then a little orange juice, can keep a man alive and well. This is the belief of Dr. Nykola Haydak of the Univer sity of Minnesota, who tried the diet for four months and ended up in per fect health, Kinds of Wood The forest service knows of no estl mate of the total number of different varieties of wood In the world. There are In the United States 862 species of trees, 228 varieties and §7 hybrids, making altogether 1,177 different forms of trees which produce wood. in the Amazon valley of South Amer fea mlone there are known to be at least 2500 species, and new species are being described every year by the hundreds In all parts of the world The total number, therefore, can hard. Iy be short of 5,000 or 6,000 and may be as high as 10,000,
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