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Description: Conservatice Production Farm Policy;
Herbert Under Fire;
To Transfer Prohi Unit;
Breakdown in Prohibition Enforcement;
Senate Committee Not To Summon Metz;
Blind Production To Farmers Bane;
Conditions Face Farmer;
Brewing Co. Not Compensated
Newspaper published in: Huntsville, AL
Source: Library
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CONSERVATIVE PRODUCTION FARM POLICY
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Warning Issued by Agricultural Department
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ADJUSTMENTS NEEDED IN SUMMER AND FALL
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Demand for Some Products Affected By Decline In Industrial Activity
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UP) – Farmers of the country were urged to follow a “rather conservative production policy” during this year in a warning issued by the agricultural department here today.
A complete outlook in the report published by the department declares that the agricultural outlook for the year showed need for further adjustments. “The domestic market may improve later in the year but it is unlikely that he demand for farm products in the summer and fall of 1930 will be as good as last summer and fall.” The statement said that the “demand for some farm products already has been affected by the decline in industrial activity since last June. Better cotton and wool have been noticeably affected and apples, potatoes and grain have failed thus far to make the usual seasonable price advances.”
HERBERT IS UNDER FIRE
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Senators Declare Immediate Removal Of Prohi Administrator
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (AP) – Immediate removal of John F. C. Herbert as prohibition administrator for Montana and Idaho was demanded in the Senate today by Senators Borah, Idaho and Wheeler, Montana on the ground of charges placed before them by department of justice investigators.
Wheeler accompanied his demand with a declaration that prohibition enforcement had broken down. He blamed the “politicians” and called upon the law enforcement commission to summon members of the republican national committee before it to determine how prohibition officers are appointed.”
Both Wheeler and Borah said they had been informed that the department of justice had investigated Herbert when he was prohibition administrator for Maryland and reported “malfeasance and corruption.”
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TO TRANSFER PROHI UNIT
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Attorney General Wants Justice Department To Handle Liquor
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (AP) – Attorney general Mitchell today urged the house expenditures committee to expedite action on legislation to transfer the prohibition enforcement unit from the treasury to the justice department.
Mitchell said he was in accord with the recommendation of Secretary Mellon before the committee favoring the transfer and endorsed the Williamson bill to affect this change.
Attorneys in the treasury department connected with the prohibition unit would be transferred to the justice department along with agents in order to carry on prosecutions, Mitchell said.
He opposed putting prohibition unit attorneys under the civil service and said they would be absorbed in the office of the justice department on an equal basis with those already in service.
Many things under the bill would have to be worked out as administrative problems, the attorney general said.
The house expenditure committee considering legislation to transfer the prohibition unit from the treasury to the justice department declined today to invite Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Methodist Episcopal church board of temperance, prohibition and public morals and F. Scott McBride, superintendent of the anti-saloon league, to testify.
The committee also decided not to call J. J. Britt, chief counsel of the prohibition bureau of the treasury department.
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BREAKDOWN IN PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT
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Wheeler Charges It To Political Influence
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FLOODGATES OF ORATORY OPENED
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Montana Democrat Suggests Republican Committee Be Called
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UP) – A “complete breakdown” of prohibition enforcement because of the political influence in the selection of enforcement agents was charged today by Senator Burton K. Wheeler, dry, democrat of Montana, as the flood gates which have been holding back the prohibition debate in the senate suddenly opened. Wheeler charged that the “fundamental fault with prohibition enforcement is that it has become a football.”
He suggested that the law enforcement commission call members of the republican national committee to ascertain how prohibition agents are selected.
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SENATE COMMITTEE NOT TO SUMMON METZ
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (AP) – Definite announcement that the senate lobby committee would not summon Herman A. Metz, New York, dye imported and Sam A. King, of Salt Lake City, was made today by Senator Robinson of Indiana, the only regular republican on the committee.
Summoning of Metz, president of the General Dyestuffs Corporation, and King, brother of Senator King, Democrat, Utah, has been under consideration by Robinson since last Thursday when the committee received testimony that Metz had contributed $1,000 to the senator’s campaign in 1922 and $1,000 to the 1928 presidential campaign of former Governor Smith in Utah.
Both Senator King and Metz said that the 1928 contribution was not used and King said he did not know of any contributions in 1922.
BLIND PRODUCTION TO FARMERS BANE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (AP) – Secretary Hyde told the farmers of the nation today that “blind production” was the bane of agriculture.
Speaking over the National Broadcasting Company network the secretary closed the broadcasting of the report on the 1920 agricultural outlook with the warning that governmental farm relief measures will be useless “unless each individual famer intelligently plans his production.”
Hyde said he wanted to emphasize that in order to obtain a higher level of prices than prevails now it appeared necessary to reduce rather than to increase 1930 production and that the problem must be met on the farm.
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CONDITIONS FACE FARMER
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Better Prices Are In Prospect But Warning of Overproduction Given
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (AP) – The American farmer is advised by the department of agriculture that he may expect more favorable marketing credit conditions this year and a somewhat greater supply of labor at slightly lower wages, but is warned against imminent overproduction in several lines.
The department’s annual farm outlook report, issued for publication today, forecast a lessened demand for farm products through the summer and fall as compared with the same seasons of 1929, although an improved domestic market was predicted for the closing weeks of the year.
The forecast for 1930 listed more favorable farm mortgage financing conditions, no immediate change in the price of fertilizers an unchanged price level for farm machinery and less satisfactory production of credit conditions than a year ago in most of the south.
Wheat prices were forecast as much the same as those prevailing throughout 1929 unless winter damage should prove severe or the spring acreage is reduced.
Cotton growers were warned against increased acreage, the report pointing out that for the last five years, with the exception of 1927, both acreage and production have been at a comparatively high level.
Dairymen were advised to cull their herds closely and send more heifers to slaughter in order to avoid a continued increase in dairy herds in 1931 and 1932. The general situation in the dairying industry was said to be “not as bad as would appear from present butter prices.”
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BREWING COMPANY NOT TO BE COMPENSATED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (AP) – The Supreme Court today held that when a business is destroyed ___ Congress the owners were not ___led to ask compensation by ta__ __duction in denying brewing co__ __ies the right to deduct the va__ loss of good will from income t__ __turns.
The right of brewing establishments, closed as a result of national prohibition to seek such compensation, was raised by the H__rete Crystal Springs Brewing Company of Northern New York.
Frederick C. Rensiehause_ of Pittsburgh, also failed in the Supreme Court today in an effort to have certain deductions made in federal taxes from 1918 to 1921 for losses he said, was suffered through federal prohibition by the large distilling company which he owned and a wholesale liquor firm in which he was a partner.