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¶On the Tariff Commission's recommendation President Hoover last week upped the duty on green peas (3¢ to 3.9¢ per lb.) and McKay sewed shoes (20% to 30%). He downed the duty on egg plant (3¢ to 1½¢ per lb.), green peppers (3¢ to 2½¢ per lb.), crude feldspar ($1 to 50¢ per ton), turned shoes (20% to 10%), window glass (25%). He left unchanged the tariff on (among other things), lumber, cement, pens, Spanish moss, pineapples, snap beans, cucumbers, okra, fresh tomatoes and lima beans.
¶ For Christmas presents Mrs. Hoover paid $80 for 40 pairs of candlesticks fashioned from the copper of illicit liquor stills. They were the product of veterans undergoing occupational therapy at Walter Reed Hospital. The Washington Police Department contributed the material following 'legger raids about the city.