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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
CORN PRICES ARE HIGHER:
SUPPLY Is THE SMALLEST

CHICAGO, December 6.-Anxiety
regarding coal shortage, together
with the fact that the visible supply
Oh corn is one of the smallest on
record. has tended during the last
week to. make corn prices average
higher. Quotations this morning.
compared with a week ago. varied
from y decline to gains of PA. Oats
showed an advance of n to &c. In
provisions the net difference ranged
from so cents loss to $160 upturn.
Although month end liquidation on
the part of holders who had no gov
eminent license brought about some
thing of a tumble in prices in the
corn market. the drop was soon more
than offset by attention to the scan
tness of the stock OF corn here and
at other primary centers and by an
ticipations that as a result of coal
strike developments the movement of
corn from rural sources would be
more restricted than had before
seemed likely.
Shutting down of big industries.
however. as we'll as new low records
for British exchange. did much to
temper bullish sentiment later, and
so likewise did evidence that reduc-
ton of general freight had enabled
the railways to enlarge their han
ding of corn.
Export sales gave some independ-
emf firmneSS to oats.
SlacknesS of demand for lard was
feature in provisions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
FLOATING MINES MENACE
INCREASES IN NORTH SEA
Swedish Mercantile Marine In
spector Predicts Great Losses in
Shipping Coming Winter.

STOCKHOLM. November 25.-The
danger to shipping from floating
mines in the north sea is increasing,
according to the chief INSPECTOR Of
navigation of the Swedish mercantile
marine for that district. who predicts
that this winter the mines will con-
stitute greater menace than at any
period since the mine fields were laid.
During the week ended today, De-
cember 6. the sinking of one American
steamer and the damaging of another
from striking mines in the North sea
have been reported)
So extensive were the mine fields
and so numerous the mines. saws the
inspector, that large numbers of them
escaped destruction by the English
and American mine sweepers. notWith-
standing the energy and diIi4,ence
with which they worked. More mines
than ever before now are said TO he
loose and drifting toward the swedish
coast. Efforts are made to sink such
mines as are seen by shooting them
but it is impossible to cone with them
all in this way. Along the .Jutiand
coast in the course of a single dav re-
Gently the skipper of one craft renort-
ed sighting not less than seventy.two
drifting mines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
POINDEXTER BLAMES
UNREST ON COMMUNISM

CHICAGO, December 6:-senator
Poindexter, in addressing the Ham
ilton Club yesterday. declared that the
present unrest in this country is not
a dispute in good faith over wages or
conditions of labor. but the result OF
national and international communis-
tic propa ganda which has for It's ann
the naturalization of all property and
the destruction of the wage system
\ The result of this course would be
a class dictatorship and the worst sut-
ferers would be the laboring men
themselves" he said.
I'm meeting the menace too much
time has been spent in talk. What is
needed is action. 1t is a direct at
tack upon the government itself as
we'll as on the lives. comfort and
property of citizens, and the govern
ment should before this have adopted
effective and comprehensive measures
to protect itself"
In discussing the coal strike he said
the mines should be operated by the
government, either with or without
the cooperation of the mine operat-
ors. pending final settlement of the
dispute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
DAIRY MARKETS.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md. December s Ear
rivals by boat).-Poultry- chick
ems. young, large, smooth, pound, goa
80: do, small to medium. pound, 29a
80; do. white leghorns, %: do, rough
and poor, 81; do. old roosters. pound.
20; do. old hens, over four pounds.
pound. 29a30; do. small. pound. 25a2s;
do. white leghorn hens pound, 25a28.
Ducks. Muscovy, young. pound, 27a28:
do, white Pekin. young. pound. 30a31 !:
do. puddle, pound. 29a30; do, smaller,
poor. pound. 25a26; Geese, nearby. fat
31a32. Turkeys, choice. young. pound.
40: do. old, pound, 38a39. Pigeons.
old, pair. 25a30: do, young, pair 25a
80. Guinea fowl. young, over one and
one-half pounds, each, 1.20; smaller,
75a90; do, old, each, 20. Dressed
poultry, turkeys, 39a42; chickens,
young. 30a32: do. old. 29a31; old
BOOSTERS, 21a22; ducks. 30a32.
Eggs-Western 5Maryland. Pennsyl-
vania, nearby, dozen. IS: eastern
shore Maryland and Virginia. dozen
rs; western. rs; West Virginia, doZ-
en-. II: southern. dozen. IS.
Butter-Creamery. west. separator.
extras 73a74: prints, one-half h., ex-
tras. liars; do. prints, one pound, ex-
tras. 73a74; nearby creamery, extras
70a71; dairy prints, Maryland, Vir-
GINA and Pennsylvania, extras. 50a52;
do, West Virginia, extras. 4Sa50; do.
Ohio. extras, 4sa50; process butter,
51a59.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
DISTURBANCES
STIR CHINA AND JAPAN
Exchange of Notes Over the Kill
ing and Wounding of Chi
nese Students.

TOXIC. Wednesday. December 3 (by
the Associated Press).-The recent
disturbances at Fuchow, in which
seven Chinese students were alleged
to have been killed and three wounded
by Japanese, have led to an exchange
of notes between the Chinese and
Japanese governments.
Japan's Reply to China.
Japan, in reply to the note on the
incident presented to the japanese le-
cation at Picking by the Chinese for
reports on the disturbances indicated
that the causes Of them were not the
same as claimed by China
The Japanese note added that anti
Japanese outbreaks in different parts
of China were largely due to laxity
Of official control of disturbing ele-
ments. The only object for Japan's
dispatch of warships to Fuchow was
the protection Of Japanese, the note
by a Joint commission.
A Peking dispatch under date of De-
eign ministry had handed a note to
the Japanese legation dealing with
the Fuchow disturbances The note,
the dispatch said, demanded the re-
moval of the consul at Fuchow; the
payment of an indemnity for the loss
of Chinese lives at Fuchow as a re-
suit of Japanese attacks and also the
payment Of medical expenses incurred
by the Chinese wounded: adequate
punishment of the Japanese ring
leaders responsible for the attacks on
the Chinese and that the Japanese
consul at Fuchow make an apology to
the Chinese authorities of that city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
THE WEATHER.

The District of Columbia, Maryland
and Virginia, IAN tonight and tomor-
row morning, followed by partly
cloudy weather tomorrow, rising tenn
perature; fresh east to southeast
winds.
West Virginia, rain and warmer to-
night; tomorrow clearing.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of
the thermometer and barometer at
the weather bureau for the twenty
four hours beginning at 2 pm. yes
terday:
Thermometer-Yest 4 p.m., 80;
pm, 81; IL midnight, 81; today, 4
am. 80; am, 80. Maximum, 80, at
pm. yesterday; minimum, 20, at 1870
am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum, 81 minimum, "a.
Barometer-Yesterda pm. 1925;
pm. 30.32: u midnight. 1882; to-
Tide Tables.
Compiled by the United States
coast and geodetic survey
Today-Low tide. 1858 am. ant 1:01
pm; high tide. 6:S2 am. and $3.50 pm
1857 p.m.; high, tide, 1923 am. and
1855 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose, 7:12 am; sun
sets, 4:46 pm.
sets, 4:46 PM
Moon rises, AIS pm; sets, sos am
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
FURTHER RECOVERIES IN
WEEKS STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK, December 6.-The trend
of prices in the stock market this week'
excepting transportations where further
weakness was manifested, was mostly
toward further recovery from thef MID
November setback, but the investment
situation as measured by demand con-
tinued unsatisfactory.
In large part the weeks improvement
in stocks was made possible by the OBJ
stinacy of the short interest. which again
overplayed its position, with disastrous
results in several of the closely heid
speculative shares. ~
Sentiment among traders was more
cheerful, as evidenced by apparent IN
difference to such unfavorable develop
ments as the menacing coal situation,
the Mexican crisis and the further ex-
traordnary shrinkage in foreign eX-
change.
These conditions were neutralized TO
a degree by the easier money rates and
indications that many of the leading
manufacturing industries had increased
their productive capacity despite the
handicaps imposed by labor unrest.
Apart from the new discounts establish
ed by remittances to London and CONT
mental Europe, there were additional
cross currents in the international imam
cial situation.
Heavy exports of gold from this mar
ket to South and Central America PROB
ably originated in London ana Paris
and American bankers believed that fur-
Their extensive shipments in payment OF
raw materials are probable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
JOHN D. McCHESNEY DEAD.
Disbursing Agent for Geological
Survey Was III at Hospital.

John D. McChesney, prominent res
ident of this city for fiftyfive years
and sole disbursing clerk for the
United States Geological Survey since its
organization, died yesterday afternoon
at Garfield Hospital. where he had
been i'll for more than a month.
Mr. McChesney was born in Brook
lyn, n. Y. Seventy-seven years ago.
He came to this city at the age of
twenty and has resided here ever
since. For some time past he has
lived at 1852 Kilbourne street.
His wife and family were at the
bedside when the end came.
Mr.. McChesney had been an active
member of, the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church and was still
with the survey at the time of his
death.
Surviving him are a wife, who was
formerly Miss Agnes Fuller of this
city; a son, Capt. Albert G. McChes-
ney. U. S. A. and four daughters. Mrs.
Charles G. Stott. Mrs. Lee D. Latimer
and Mrs. Agnes McChesney Evans. all
of Washington, and Mrs. johnson r.
Morgan of Wilmington, Del.
Complete arrangements for the fu-
neral have not been made. but it is
expected that the services will be held
Monday afternoon at his late resi-
dence and at the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
U. S. IMPROVED HOUSES;
COULD NOT RAISE RENT
Interior Department Report to SEN
ate Shows Salisbury Act Hit
Government Projects.

A report from the Interior Depart
ment on war housing needs in the
District of Columbia and the disposal
made of houses in square 633, bound
ed by New Jersey avenue, Arthur
place, B and c streets northwest
was transmitted to the Senate yes
terday. The report showed that from
March 5 to December 1, 1919, a total
rent of $2,139 had been collected
from tenants of these buildings. Ex-
penditures on these houses by the
housing corporation to put them in
shape for occupancy amounted to
$23,S29.49
The houses were taken over by the
housing corporation after the war be-
gan, but have now been turned back
to the Interior Department. On ac-
count of the Salisbury law, it was
found impossible to increase the rent
in many cases, and the houses, al
though improved, continued to rent for
the proverbial song. Some of the
houses rented for the period from
March to December 1, nine months.
for $45 or $50 month. The highest
amount received from any one of these
houses was $3.50. From some of the
houses the rent obtained was as low as
S11. $40. 50 and even 81.
Now that the Salisbury act has been
declared unconstitutional by the courts,
and the Ball rent commission bill is
to take its place anyway, these ten
ants may find that they will have to
pay more rent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
TRADE CONDITIONS.

NEW YORK. December 6.-Brad-
streets review of trade says:
"Reports as to trade distribution and
those rejecting industrial conditions as
affected by the bituminous coal strike
show even more of a contrast than has
been hitherto noted. In the former,
buying both at wholesale and retail Is
still eager, only cheerful reports eman-
ate from most large centers as to early
holiday buying, and complaints as yet
come mainly from those who have not
been able to secure adequate supplies OF
wanted goods.
ION the other hand. the industrial
situation has refrigerated rapidly, the
pinch of want of coal has caused many
shutdowns. especially in east and west
central states. and zero weather mas
communities whose fuel supplies have
been reduced or disappeared.
Especially acute supply conditions
are reported at Chicago. where hun
dreds Of thousands of workers have been
cut down in working time or have been
rendered idle. and in smaller industrial
centers east and west of that city
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06

only six of which, he said, have legiti-
mate medicinal use. On another occa-
sion. he said, there were on the market
a number of hair tonics having alcohol
as their principal ingredient that were
hair tonics in name only.
Question of Responsibility.
There was some discussion as to
where the responsibility should rest
in the case of the improper use of
non-beverage alcohol. and contention
was made that manufacturer. dealer
Or consumer might be the offender.
according to circumstances. Thomas
f. Lannen. counsel for the National
Manufacturers Association of Fruit
and F'lavoring Extracts. said manu-
facturers could not always determine
whether their products were being
sold for strictly legitimate purposes.
and If sold without their knowledge
by a retailer for beverage purposes
the responsibility should rest on the
dealer. Mr.. Canrey said the govern
ment would take the same view OF
the case. and J. L. Clawson OF Phila-
delphia asked that some attention De
paid to the consumer who seeks alco-
holic preparations for the gratlhca-
ton of an abnormal appetite.
VIII BE Controlled Mt Source.
AS manufacturers of beverage
alcohol must be licensed by the gov
eminent after January 10 next. !ne
date constitutional prohibition be-
comes effective. the bureau of inter.
nal revenue will be able to control
that product at it's source and. Wnlie
promising protection to every lesl~
mate industry and public need. Com
missioner Kramer made 1t plain 10 the
conferees that the law would be rig
idly enforced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
ALCOHOL PRODUCTS
TUBE REGULATED
Prohibition Commissioner
Kramer Confers With Man.
ufacturers and Retailers.

With the conclusion Of Il series of
conferences with manufacturers and re-
taiIers OF on-beveraGc alcohol products.
announcement has been made by PrOhi-
bit ION Commissioner Kramer that regu-
lations governing the manufacture and
sale OF such goods under constitutional
prohibition will b" issued during the
first week in January.
Beg nninS December ! three confer
enccS were held. the first with those IN
terested in BARRIERS supplies and toilet
articles containing alcohol. the second
with representatives of drug industries.
pharmacists and physicians. ana the
third with those concerned in the manu-
facture and sale of flavoring extracts.
The members of each group promised
the government Il full measure oil CO.
operation in enforcing the letter and
spirit of the prohibition amendment, and
in turn the government offclals pledged
to keep the interest of legitimate in
dustry and the consuming public con-
stantly in mind.
Anti-SaIOOn Counsel Present.
Prohibition Commissioner Kramer, DR..
A. r. Adams, chief chemist of the bu-
reau of internal revenue. and j. q. CAT
fiery represented the government at the
hearings. and a representative OF the
bureau of chemistry was present at each
hearing. but took no part in the discus
sions. Though the public health service
Co-opcrates with the bureau of internal
revenue when requested, it was not di
rectly represented at the hearings.
Wayne +. Wheeler. counsel for the
Anti Saloon League. attended the con-
ference as "A spectator. but gave assur-
anccs that il was not the purpose of the
league to interfere with the use of nom
beverage alcohol except where it was
being used for beverage purposes
Suggestion was made that in toilet
articles intended for external use only
small percentage of tartar emetic be
added to make it unfit for drinking even
by confirmed alcoholics, but whether the
bureau will enforce such regulation
was not stated.
Few Have Medicinal Use.
DR.. Adams presented a list of twenty
three alcoholic preparations made in ac-
cordance with the United States Phar-
macopoeia and National Formulary,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
EVERY D. c. EX-SERV|CE |
MAN IN lob CHRISTMAS
New Citizens Employment Com
mittee to Begin Drive Monday
With This Slogan.

"A job for every Washington ex-
service man by Christmas"
This is the slogan of the new
citizens employment committee. an
nounced today which will begin an
intensive drive next Monday to place
! every unemployed service man in
Washington in a job before Christ
mas. The new organization takes the
place of the United States Employ
ment Bureau of the Department of
Labor. and is situated in the old offices
OF the bureau, at 1410 Pennsylvania
avenue.
To the end that every local service
man may have a job as a Christmas
present. the local office, working I'M
der an executive committee composed
of Louis Brownlow. chairman: Charles
J. Columbus. Mrs. Walter S. Ufford l..
H. Weir, Mrs. Raymond Morgan, Mrs
Lyman B. Swormstedt and the Rev
John O'Grady. is sending out today
letters to every Washington employer
asking that opportunities for jobs be
listed SO that the right man for the
place may be secured. The commit
tee is working with the cooperation
or all the welfare agencies located in
the city. and has the active co-opera-
ton of the War Department.
During the fifteen days beginning
next Monday intensive efforts will be
made by the committee, in which it is
hoped Washington employers will
participate. to procure jobs for every
service man. The committee feels that
lucrative job is a more worthwhile
present to the service man than any
other material gift he might receive.
Competent examiners will be on hand
to test the fitness of the men for the
n nd iS
the hope of the committee that there
will not be a Washington service man
lacking job by the end of the drive.
The women's bureau, under Mrs.
Raymond Morgan. is seeking the CO.
operation of local employers of wom-
en- and gives assurance that with
the cooperation of employers strenu-
Gus efforts will be made to place every
woman who applies for a job. The
bureau is not prepared to handle do
mestic help. however. but will limit
it's service to filling applications for
clerical and professional help.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
SAYS MEN LACK BREAD,
Appeal Made in Berlin for Return
ing Baltic Troops.

BERLIN. December 5.-An APPEAL
is published by the pan-German new s.
papers for funds, clothes and positions
for returning Baltic troops, who, they
say, sacrificed everything for the
high ideals of the fatherland and who
now stand without positions and with
out bread with the future before
Them
The appeal is signed by twenty
privy councillors, government council
lors and many persons prominent dur
ing the imperial regime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
NATIONS IN THE WAR
ARE NOT BANKRUPT
Evening Post Financial Bu-
reau Discusses Effect of
Treaty Fight on Finances.

From y. Y. Evening Post Financial Burcan.i
NEW YORK. December 6.-This
weeks great decline in exchange on
London--from 81 to the pound sterling
last Saturday to sS.S5 yesterday after
noon-brought the rate to level,
cent depreciation. This is posi-
by the largest discount at which the
pound sterling has been quoted in a
foreign market since the modern sys-
tenn OF international credit was estan-
lished.
The famous Bullion report" to par
Lament. drawn up a year or two ar
ter the Napoleonic wars. and examih-
ing into the currency. the gold pre-
MUM and the foreign exchanges OF
depreciation as the extreme. That dis
count was quoted on sterling at Ham
burg. 1t occurred during the war and
not on return of peace. Indeed the
gold premium in Lombard street was
falling and the foreign exchanges
moving rapidly in London's favor az
soon as the war was actually over.
This present extraordinary fall in the
pound sterling. as valued in Amer.
can currency, has occasioned soou
deal Of vague talk as to what must
be happening to financial Europe.
Nations Not "Insolvent."
Occasionally one hears. even fISm
>,
the off-hand remark that the/recent
belligerant states of Europe not ex-
cepting England, are "insoFent. A
government whose preseyt annual
revenue is $S,00O.000,000. while its an
nual interest charges are IS1,650.00O.
600 (the yearly charges onI its debt to
America are approximately S215.Ooe.-
00O). is scarcely bankrupt But the
position which has arisen in foreign
exchange is one which needs to be
dealt with very soon and very com
pFehensively. 1t would have been
thus dealt with months ago but for
the fact set forth emphatically Thurs
daN by the chamber Of commerce
\.psadiug the ratification Of the
treaty, thus establishing a known
tional trade. no adequate credit plans
can possibly be established"
The Chambers resolution goes fur
ther. warning both Congress and the
commercial world of what is happen
ing and what must happen in the way
of losing our legitimate export trade
so long as the Senate refuses to
make peace with Germany and to ar
range the status of our future rela-
tions with the rest of Europe.
Treaty Fight Affects Finances.
Coupled, as these warnings from the
most responsible quarters are. with
such a movement as this weeks in
all the foreign exchanges, it is easily
possible to foresee the treaty contro-
versy as a paramount influence before
very long in all the financial markets.
Wall Street Is Divided.
To what extent it will rise to such
a position ii remains for the markets
to discover. Wall street including IN
that designation all the large imam
cial. industrial and investment inter
ests of the country-is undoubtedly
divided in it's view as to amends
ments" or reservations" 1t is as evi,
IDENTIFY divided in it's attitude toward
the opposing factions of the Senate
Rut a time often arrives in such con-
troversies when the business com
munity's knowledge of the actual
financial and economic issues which
are Immediately at stake supersedes
all other considerations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
Korean Prince Disappears.

TOXIC. November 13 Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).-A SEN
sation has been caused by the report
that Prince vi Kong of Korea, the
present head of the Korean dynasty.
is missing and that his whereabouts
has been unaccounted for during the
past several days. 1t appears that
the prince was last seen in the streets
of Seoul
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
DISCUSS WoMEN's CLOTHING.
National Manufacturers Hear of
Only Means for Reducing Prices.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. December g.
Lower prices of women's clothing will
be possible only when productiveness
of labor increases. demand for finer
grades of wool recedes and styles are
adjusted to the supply of fabrics
These assertions were made by
speakers before the annual meeting of
the National Cloak. Suit and Skirt
Manufacturers Association here.
AS a means of adjusting styles to
was adopted calling for cooperation
between garment makers and pro-
ducers.
Much of yesterdays session was
given to consideration of labor prob
lens.
Fish. Cleveland, president; Dudley
Palmer Chicago. vice president; H. F..
Livingston, Cincinnati. treasurer. and
Philip Frankel, Cleveland, secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
Gets Fifteen Year Sentence

Louis Randall. .co&ored. recently
Gonvicted , or an attempted assault,
June 50 last. on colored farala
school teacher. was sentenced today
by Justice Stafford in Criminal Divi,
sion to serve fifteen years in the
penitentiary. Randall is also charged
with an assault on white woman
about the same time. but the case has
not been tried.