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Show COTTON IN NEW YORK: Since Britain agreed in her Anglo-American barter plan to take additional cotton cot-ton for whatever subsidy was established, es-tablished, the IV2 cents per pound rate recently announced will give her roughly 100.000 additional bales, or a total of 700.000 bales. IX WASHINGTON: The U. S. and Japan agreed to extend for one year their Philippine islands cotton pact, under which Jap exporters ex-porters of cotton piece goods agree to limit the annual Philippine Philip-pine importation of Japanese cotton cot-ton piece goods to 45,000,000 square meters. IN MEMPHIS: Pres. Oscar Johnston of the National Cotton council planned a conference with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to improve consumption consump-tion and price of cottonseed, thus averting "threatened disaster." |