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Show bt Arthur BrUban He Warship Question Cheaper Cars Coming? ! Standard and Shell ? Diamonds From Sugar RAMSAY MacDONALD arrive toon to talk over armaments at sea. I probably Comes prepared to ratify officially a program already agreed upon, substantially. H ; would , not want to return with nothing, after f- gnowden'f triumphant round trip to I' fop Hague. . , Sfce British, well Informed by their I i-larate air department, care little about surface ships for any future i war. They know that ships will out no figure. , j But they have 70,000 miles of sea coast to patrol In their empire. Their 5 ' cruisers ae really floating forts or ' police stations, boarding houses for ; marines that can f. be landed when needed, then moved on to sooths the ' next troubled spot - If the president would establish a separate air department, appointing a ,' head engineer with others under hint, all controlled by Engineer Hoover, to ) develop new ideas Uncle 8am might f - not spend his life copying Oermany, I Italy and Britain, and we would not worry about warships. , , , Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors, told stockholders he ' i bought "a ' substantial Interest" la I I Opel, great German automobile eon-1 I cent, to develop German manufacture of automobiles rather than supersede I It with organisation and methods en-1 i tlrelr American. ; This country depends largely on ex- port of manufactured artlolea. It Is, I therefore. Interesting to hear from Mr. Sloan that in Europe his eom- I pany in 1928, In dollars and number of I units, sold more automobiles than any $ European concern manufactured. Mr. Sloan plans for Europeans the I kind of car they want at a price they I can afford. .Not so rich as we, they I do not demand so much luxury. Mr. Sloan, Mr. Ford and others I in this country may need to produce I here a cheaper car than any now I offered. I General Wood, head of Sears, Roe- 1 buck, plans a - oar for 1200. . Henry I Ford years ago showed the writer a I small, powerful engine made for a I car to sell at 9260. He probably has I kept the plans for that product. t . ... ' ' ,- fi Prof. Hershey of MoPherson Cot lege, told scientists at Minneapolis I that genuine diamonds, of superb I color, can be made by subjecting or- I dlnary table sugar to a pressure of t ten tons to the square Inch. -i He has produced such diamonds In his laboratory. ; In another laboratory, the Senate, , Mr. 8 moot is about to prove that he can produce for friends enough mon- t( ey to buy all the diamonds In South j" Africa by subjecting ordinary table sugar to a tariff pressure of two eQ s or so per pound. 1 Standard and other oil stocks bare been going up despite the British isr vaaion by "Shell." The tOHHt - shares of Standard Oil of New Jar- f sey are worth about two billion deV f lars now ( That Is Just one fragmeU of old Standard Oil, built up by Mr. Rock- I efeller, and chopped into pleeea by a rampageous government because It was supposed to be worth "nearly a billion" altogether. What old Standard is really worth 4 now nobody knows. Including oil In ; the ground, ten billions probably I would be a reasonable price. Mellon needing $500,000,000 for I Uncle Sam's use, Invited subscriptions 1 to treasury certificates. He was of- I tered $1,486,000,000, almost a billion more than needed. S, And not pay nine per cent, or the Federal Reserve six per cent discount ' rate either. I Mr. Mellon could have bought the I $500,000,000 of certificate himself, and saved on Income tax, but he T avoids all business connected with government I And besides, he knows how to la- vest more profitably. I In his government Mussolini held eight posts. Now the powerful Italian resigns seven of his cabinet offices, remaining Premier and Minister of E Interior only. p The King announces the changes by w royal degree. ,- Mussolini told, him what to an-V an-V " nounce. , The years are passing, MussoUal knows it, and seeks to build a government gov-ernment machine that will survive. The Italian question is: "After Mussolini, Mus-solini, whatr " Twenty eight European nations are working at a plan called "The Unjted States of European plan." Germany says she will Join.' but not If there is an " an ti-American paot" That's another hint to President Hoover and others responsible te I make this country strong enough te f take care of itself. The circus is bow a trust. John Ringllng having bought all of any slse. The "what U It," sacred white elephant,- Siamese twins, lady bareback bare-back rider will soon cone out on the ticker In stock quotation, as they do j- In real life, on the sawdust. - Highway sign painters and their t cos torn ere make th country hideous. Illinois has a plan to fight that erll Trees and shrubs will be planted elose together along highways. Beginning Be-ginning with places where offensive signboards are already located. Other statee might adopt the Idea, not patented. pat-ented. .---4 |