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The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
SUNDAY THEATER OPENINGS

prominently. evidence a popular de-
mand for fhis type of production,
q fact which was amply substanti-
ated by the capacity audience which
greeted the opening show yesterday.
with.a cast OF twenty-four priR-
cipals and supporting company
Approximately thousand. the pro-
duction fs sensational. Essentially.
the story of ,'The Sport of Kings"
concerns the popular world sport OF
horse racing, but inferwoven through
its startling episodes OF the things
that happen at big meets, the meth
DDS by which they are conducted,
the exposure of the bucket-shop
phase of the racing game. and the
depletion of the great. element or
gamble which attends every move
of its supporters, Is a strong dra-
matte narrative in which romance
assumes no small part. There are
typical picture thrills galore IN
cluding the burning of a liner In
mid ocean at night. the jump of a
race horse from its deck forty feet
above the water, and later In the
action, the actual cesth of a jockey
at a Southern track while riding
the horse is an episode of the story.
Matt Moore. Rogers Lytton, Wal
lace Ray, Thomas Donnellys Frank
Andrews, Amelia Gardnert Aileen
Savage, Eva Gordon and many more
have roles OF prominence. s
An orchestral setting of excep-
tional beauty and verve has. been
supplied by Arthur J. Maxwell, con-
ductor of the Strands organization
of musical artists.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
Decline in April Exports Charged
Mainly to Rec xported Merchandise

value of the manufactures exported
in the calendar year 1919 when
they totaled $3,4S6, 900, 900.
This growth in exports of our
manufactures occurs chiefly. as
might be expected, in our trade
with the nonmanufacturing sections
of the world. which means. Of
course. Asia, Africa, Oceania and our
neighbors in both North and South
America, while to the one great
manufacturing continent of the
world, Europe, our April exports
show a decline. The total value
of domestic merchandise exported
to Asia in April shows an increase
of s2S.000,000 over April of last
year; to South America an increase
of S15,000.000: to North America an
increase of $4S.000. 900: to Africa an
increase of s10.000,0 900, and to
Oceania an increase of s6.GO0O00.
And it should be remembered, adds
the banks statement. that manu-
factures form from so to 90 per
cent of the merchandise sent to all
of these grand divisions to which
our exports grew in April, willis
food and raw material form the
bulk of the merchandise sent to the
one grand division to which our eX-
ports showed a fall. Europe. Mean
time, the imports of raw manufac-
turing material continued to gain,
having been in the ten months end
ing with April. 1920 sl.S29.OOO. 600
against s969. .OOO' in the same
months of the preceding year.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
MAY COPPER SALES.

The activity Of the copper market
Is shown in the reported sales for
May, as compared with previous
months this year. The estimated
sales for the last month were e2.-
100000 pounds, this including both
domestic and foreign consumption.
In April the sales were about 101.-
o00.00 pounds. and March showed
a sales sheet of 32o.o0o.ooo pounds.
On this basis. therefore, the total
sales for the last three months
have amounted to approximately
4S3.o00.000 pounds. The falling OF
in May is something of a mystery,
1t might have been expected that
the arrangement to export to France
on a large scale would bring the
May sales at least to the level OF
those in April. Since May did not
reflect this selling. IL is proba BILE
that the bulk of the business will
show this month. This, with do
mestic consumption. should materi-
ally improve the volume Of copper
business.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
Peace BetWeen Russian Souiet
And Great Britain Seems Near
As Lloyd George Reappears

rately the conservative and anti
government attitude toward Lloyd
Georges peace parley.
Calls Gold Tainted.
m. Krassin, the Bolshevist dele
gate, arrived at NEWCASTLE yester-
day and was permitted to land.
though Mr.. Keelin, a we'll known
British trade unionist, and a num-
ber of other hapless British citi-
zens are still languishing in Boil
shevist prisons. Their release ought
to have been made a preliminary
condition to NJ. KrassinS visit. AS
this has not been done, Krassin
ought now to be plainly told that IL
will be required to leave this coun-
try.
He brings with him offers of
payment for British goods in gold.
in mining and other concessions and
in corn from the bulging bins
which Lenine and Trotzky have pa
raded before the credulity of our
politicians. The gold is stained
with human blood, the concessions
are worthless in the present state
of Russia and the corn is not there.
If 1t was. there are no means of
moving II to port in view of the
catastrophe situation of'the Rus
sian transport system which NJ.
Sosnoysky, a Bolshevist official, has
confessed.
"As another Bolshevist official told
Mr.. North, the fearless and devoted
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
STURGEON FUNERAL
SERVICES TODAY

Funeral services will be held al
IL o'clock this morning for Will
lam p. Spurgeon. managing editor
of the Washington Post, who died
last Friday. The Rev. George F.
Dudley. of ST. Stephens Episcopal
Church. will officiate at the serv-
ices, which will be held at the resi-
dence. 1886 Irving street northwest
Associates of Mr. Spurgeon on
the Post will be pallbearers. They
are: Arthur d. Marks, John F..
Major, Ira E. Bennett, Henry Jones,
]. v. Fitzgerald and Harry N
Price. A committee from the Ma
tional Press Club. of which Mr..
Spurgeon was first president. will
attend the services. Burial will be
in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Joseph Band of 1884 Vermont ave-
nue., northwest. died Saturday night.
He was Sc years old. The body will
be sent to Toledo. Ohio. Members
of the Masonic lodges of which Band
was a member will have charge.
Mrs, SalIie L. Nichols will be bur-
led at the Congressional Cemetery
tomorrow afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
She died at her residence. 302 C
street. northwest. Sunday morning.
She was 79 years old.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
STOCK MARKET
VS.. S.4FACTORS
asticLiquidation Encour-
ages Work Along Con-
structive Lines.

New York, June e.-Leading op-
orators in Wall Street are working
along constructive lines very largely
for technical reasons, because liqui-
dation has been so drastic. But they
say the immediate future of the
market hinges largely on four fac
tors. These are in the order Of
their market importance:
/. The Chicago platform and can
didates.
2. Action of the Interstate Com
merce Commission on rates.
3. Action of the Federal Reserve
Board on defiation.
4. Crops.
There is no use discussing our
foreign trade. for America has ap-
parently decided to have none ex-
copt such as may be incidental to
the necessities of Great Britain and
other countries that realize the i'm
pcrtance OF such business. The lu-
natic theory of immediate dehation
has barred the United States from
control of the worlds commerce.
Whether that same theory will re-
suit also in a commercial panic at
home depends largely on the de-
lvelopment of the four factors named
as market influences.
For months the investment world
has been drained dry of spendable
money. New financial issues have
been fioated only by raising the in
terest rates to unreasonable levels.
When Belgium wanted money it was
necessary to re-establish the lot
terry that went out of existence many
years ago in the United States. The
fact that Belgium got it's money
proves that there is a great deal
of what the foreigners call money
of adventure" in this country. In
reality ordinary business is becom-
ing adventure. The policy of the
Reserve banks hasxurned all enter
prises into gambling propositions,
and one shudders to think of the
orgy of speculation that may come
if the artificial credit situation is
strained just a bit farther.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07

The fall-off in April exports from
the United States is less alarming
now that the detail figures are
available. The original announce
mcnt indicated that the total ex-
ports of the country in April, 1920,
were s30,0O0.000 below those of
April of last year. An examination,
however, of the detailed figures. just
received. shows that most of this
April fall-off occurs in foreign
merchandise re-exported, which
amounted in April, 1920, to only
$4,000, 900, against practically S35,-
600. 900 in April of the preceding
year In domestic products. the
fall-off is only $7,50O,000. and oc-
ours exclusively in foodstuffs. of
which we have now little to spare,
while this slight decline in food
stuffs is much more than Offset by
an increase in the exports of manu-
features which are the hope of our
future export trade. Foodstuffs ex-
ported in April, 1920, amounted to
only 100000. against $292,000,-
600 in April of last year. a drop of
sl47, 100000. On the other hand.
manufactures exported in the month
of April totaled sS52, 100000 against
1921 100000 in April of last year,
and manufacturing material totaled
s175 100000 against s95,0O0,0O0 in
the same month of last year.
This big increase in exports or
manufactures. over $60,000.O0O for
the single month. as compared with
the same month of last year, makes
il perfectly clear that our exports
of manufactures in the fiscal year
xx-ifh
the first full fiscal year following
the close of the war. will be far in
excess of that of any earlier peace
year. and nearly three and one-half
times as much in value as in the ifs
cal year 1914, all of which preceded
the war. The exports of domestic
manufactures in the ten months
ending with April 1920. aggregate
s3,070, 900. 600. and should the
months of May and June show re-
spectively as large totals as those
of April. the latest month for which
figures are now available, the value
of domestic manufactures exported
in the first full fiscal year following
the war, the year ending June 80,
1920, would aggregate S3,775,000.0 900.
against s1.097, 10000 in the fiscal
year 1914, all of which Immediately
preceded the war.
Thus the growth in peace time
exports of manufactures. which was
indicated by the export figures of
the calendar year 1919, is continu-
ing right down to date, since the
1920 figures thus far received in
dicate that the exports of manu-
factures in the fiscal year 1920 Will
exceed by about s275,000,000 the
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07

British chaplain at Moscow, Russia
has nothing to export but Bolshe-
visit ideas. The real object of kras-
sins mission to Great Britain, Is as
he has admitted. to negotiate what
the Bolsheviks call peace and thus
to strengthen the Bolshevist posi-
tion in Russia which has been sorely
shaken by the loss Of Kiev and the
growing misery of the Russian peo-
pie. They are dying slowly of star
walton in that land of bulging bins
and the Bolshevist health commits
sion has recently admitted that the
death rate for Russia last year was
75 per 1000 against a birth rate of
only 13-fearful figures. They are
falling victims TO typhus, bubonic
plague and cholera as a result of
Bolshcvist misrule. Bolshevism, in
fact, Is killing Russia"
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
SHOPLIFTING CASES
INCREASE IN NEW YORK

New York. June $50 numerous
have cases of shoplifting become in
New York that the city authorities
have been forced to consider the
necessity of establishing a special
court to handle offenders. Cases
during the past week. il was said.
have averaged more than two score
daily.
Classification of the cases has
shown that the plunderers exhibit
a preference for silk shirts and
women's waists and pink under
wear, These articles in nearly all
cases are expensive. and can be Sc
creted more easily than bulkier ar
ticles by the thieves.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07

gone appearance, il q new develop
ment that Is proving one of the
photoplay sensations Of the season.
In The Desperate Hero" he as
sumes the part of q young man who
sells his motor car to pay his tailor
and voluntarily goes into two weeks
of sefvitude to a suspicious married
man when two kids set the car on
fires and leave the impoverished one
TO bear the loss.
All this Is bad enough but when
the married man lives next door to
the young fell ow's own sweetie and
when the married mans wife proves
to be the young fellows former
sweetie and the married man makes
him wash dishes and scrub floors for
two weeks, a predicament Is created
that Is not only funny but very
nearly costs the young fellow his
girl and his happiness. Like all
good pictures, II straightens out In
the end with all hands happy, but
there are some ter Sc moments that
that make The Desperate Hero" as
funny as a Sennett masterpiece.
The usual subsidiary features con-
tribute to bill of rare comedy ap-
peal at the Columbia this week.
Moore's Garden-aThe Toll Gate"
william s. Hart opened his sec
ond consecutive week at Moore's
Garden Theater yesterday in one Of
the best IL not the best picture of
his career. Written and produced
by the star himself and presented
as a Paramount-Artcraft Special
under the title of THE Toll Gate"
the production carries a thrilling
and unusually appealing story Of
the rugged days of the olden West.
Anna Q. Nilsson makes an appeal
ing leading woman, beautiful. tall
ented and convincing. Joseph Sim
gleton is the renegade, while Jack
Richardson makes an ideal sheriff.
Bill Hart's famous pinto pony comes
in for a good share of the attention
and takes a notable part in many
of the thrilling scenes. The same
musical score as arranged by Claude
V. Burrows. conductor of the Gar
den orchestra, which caused much
favorable comment during the past
week, for the perfect manner in
which it interpreted the theme. is
given again this week. Selected
short subjects complete an excep-
tional bill.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
Poli's-4The Confessio..v

Capacity audiences at Polls yes
terday laughed and thrilled alter
nately as the INSTALLATION Of Hal
Heids drama. "The Confession" ran
its course. playing deftly on the
heartstrings.
In the role of Father Bartlett.
around whom the plot twfnes itself,
! Henry Walthall assumes q charac-
ter that will stand the acid test be-
side his performance as the Little
Colonel in THE Birth of Nation"
walthall's personality Is an impor-
J tant factor IN the success of the
picture itself. His portrayal OF the
character of the priest is called one
of his noblest achievements on the
! shadow stage.
/. THE Confession" has as a theme
! the sacredness of the Roman Catho-
: lie confessional, and the inviolabil-
J ity of condolences voiced in the con-
!. fessional.
: The brother of Father Bartlett is
! held for the murder OF his fiance's
brother. The true murderer already
! has taken advantage of the seal of
the confessional and has told of his
: crime to Father Bartlett The
. priest is possessed of the only in
; formation that will clear his
brother of the crime and save him
: from the gallows. The real crimi-
; nal perjures himself on the witness
stand and Bartlett is sentenced to
!. be hanged.
This Is but one-half of the story.
-There follows a breath-taking series
sof climaxes, interviewer with the
emost poignant OF dramatic ssitua-
stions. Until the last minute of the
-play. each person in the darkened
sinterior of the theater is inquiring
sof himself. "Will Tom Bartlett be
.saved?' The answer .is-well, see
|. the picture.
: Walthall has surrounded himself
with cast, some of whom are
: familiar to movie fans. Wallace
rMcDonald and Margaret Larken, as
Tom Bartlett and Rose Creighton,
emake the most of their parts. Will
liam Clifford, long ago star in
@Western pictures. is scarcely to be
.recognized at Joseph Dumont. the
emurderer.
: Sidney Lust, distributor of the pic
sture, has taken care to see that 1t
is properly staged. Prologue and
.epilogue are acted by living char
-acters, a choir sings hymns at In
ntervals and an orchestra has been
provided with a special score. An
-array of interesting subsidiary fea-
.tures completes the bill.
> THE Confession" has received the
approval of several Catholic digni-
daries. Judging from the reception
the film was accorded yesterday.
Washington also has indorsed this
Sit filming of a notable stage pro-
rduction
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07

ture announces, is from four to six
weeks late, and replanting is said
to be still under way in all States.
Not unnaturally, the condition esti-
mate caused a rapid rise in cotton
prices when trading was resumed
on Wednesday after several days
recess, and the advances were well
maintained during the subsequent
sessions. Predictions of another
short crop are being made in many
quarters, but the cotton plant has
strong recuperative powers. and
forecasts of probable production
cannot safely be based upon May
rs condition reports.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
LAPIS LAZULI JOINS
SCARCITY COLUMN

New York dealers say there is a
shortage % lapis lazuli! Along
with sugar and flypaper and the
50-cent rubber heel, lapis lazuli
threatens to join the Great AUX. 1t
is a blue. semi-precious stone. muca
used in making rings.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
Moore's Strand-AsThe Sport oi
- kings."

Announced as one of the most i'm
portant motion picture events of
the current season in Screenland,
The Sport of Kings" an adapta-
tion of the famous story OF the same
name, by Arthur Somers Roche, and
one of the works which placed him
in the front rank of popular Amer
lean authors, received its Washing
ton premiere at Moore's Strand
Theater yesterday. the presentation
to continue throughout the week.
Recent spectacular successes in
which the race track has figured
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
Chesapeake Beach.

The return of the sunshine yester-
day. after two days of gloom. drew
a large crowd of merry makers to
Chesapeake Beach. the bay resort
just an hours ride from Washing
ton. Free dancing to music by an
eight-piece jazz orchestra was one
of the most popular pastimes. Salt
water bathing and excellent fishing
also had numerous devotees. The
picturesque picnic grounds overlook
ing the bay, twenty miles wide. ac-
commodated scores of outing par
ties. The gray boardwalk, with its
countless amusements, was well pa
tronized. The train leaving the Dis
trict line daily at 6:30 for the re-
sort Is proving popular with govern
ment employees.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07

Before buying securities il
might be well to investigate
the solidity Of the security ~
well ~ the house advising It's
purchase. Hundreds of mill
lions of dollars are taken from
an unsuspecting public each
year by schen1ing individuals.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07

The married Kaffir women are
compelled to speak a language diff
ferent from that of their husbands.
They may not even pronounce their
husbands names, but commonly re-
fer to them as ''the father of So
and-So."
The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
Great Falls Park.

, The many who spent the day at
Great Falls Park yesterday found
keen delight in the ideal resort
features. The concerts, afternoon
and evenings by the Ladies' Great
Falls Orchestra, are growing in
popularity. Each evening there will
be free dancing as well as free con-
certs. and for picnics this Is recog-
nized as the popular resort. Excei-
lent fishing is to- be enjoyed here.
Many of the outdoor attractions for
the kiddies are not to be equalled
anywhere. Fast electric trains to
and from the Falls are run.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-12-10
Chattanooga Is Growing
r Old With Becoming Grace
City Enters Glass of Octogenarans Sunday and Starts
on Toward Her Century Mile Post Suggestion
for Celebration of Event

OF machinery and appliances which
could not have been believed possible
when F. A. Parham, in 1888, estab-
lished the Hamilton Gazette down on
the river and printed the first few
numbers on the same fiatboat which
had borne his plant down from Knox
vile. They of that day could not have
conceived the possibility Of such a
press as prints The News. We of this
day could hardly believe II possible
to print anything, even a rag mans
"dodger," on the press that turned Off
the Hamilton Gazette. There are two
piers OF our bridge. How about
abutments?
Market street has been ordained too
busy a thoroughfare for the proper
use of horse drawn vehicles, and
Cherry 10 to be "one-way" street II
they had been making such a provi-
sion for the protection Of traffic on
Market street in 1852. 1t would have
been prudent for them to be a little
more specific in the language OF their
ordinance.
Otherwise, horse drawn" vehicles
would have been construed not to bar
OK drawn vehicles, and professions OF
OK teams. hauling mostly two-wheeled
carts, would have at the same time
blocked and constituted the traffic of
that street, which was a more impor-
tant one relatively than it is now. How
so? Because 1t was the only street
tnat anything or anybody could well use
to go anywhere, for any purpose. and
they wouldn't make any progress In
violation of speed regulations. even over
its surface.
The first municipal regulation OF traf-
flo that have discovered was one that
might have been thought a religious or
moral teaching on casual observation,
for the tenor OF II was keep to the
right, boys; keep to the right" 1t was
ordained in March. 1862, that vehicles
shall keep to the right on meeting 9TH
ers, and on plank roads with two tracks,
take the right hand track. And II was
forbidden that any vehicle should pass
over the macadam or plank road with
wheels locked.
But what was all that about the plank
road or plank roads? Who were they,
or what were they? At the first city
council meeting it was ordained that
the plank road heretofore provided for
be laid in two eight-foot tracks, a con-
venient distance from each other" Cap
tain John p. Long, civil engineer. who
later became city engineer, was ap-
pointed to superintend its construction.
General street conditions at the time
may be in some measure comprehended
in light of the record that Aldermen
Bryan, Parham, Hair and Crutchfeld
were appointed committee to examine
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-12-10
(BY HENRY M. WILTsE.)

Nineteen or twenty years hence
perhaps, Chattanooga will be older
than her oldest citizen, but she
doesn't enjoy that distinction yet For
II was just Sunday, the nth instant,
that she selected for quietly celebrat-
ing her eighty first birthday anniver-
sary. She was so quiet about the
function that In all probability the
city commissioners didn't know It
was going on. and ! doubt whether
even the mayor realized the import
of that day. We ought to begin
pretty soon preparations for celebrat-
ing her hundredth anniversary, 30 as
not to let that slip by without public
cognizance. OF course, the period or
her existence as a municipal corpora
tion is meant in this statement re-
garding her age, for she has been, in
some sense, an urban community
longer than four-score and one years,
and has borne her present name lit
tie longer, She was chartered as
town in 1888, and as a city Dec. s,
1851. The first city council meeting
was held Jan. IL, 1852.
1t requires no very prodigious feat
in hist orical gymnastics to bridge a
period of eighty. eighty one, or even
a hundred years. A bridge across
eightytwo years Of Chattanooga his
tory would be no great snakes" as
to length, and not so very many piers
would be required for It's support. But
If mortal eye could envision the peo-
pie and the events that have passed
across and under that bridge, there
would be another wonder OF the world
for us, and, believe. the greatest Of
them all.
Two very recent events could be
made to constitute convenient piers
on which to rest our bridge of local
history. The Chattanooga News
establishment moved into a substan-
tial, convenient, ll-equipped, mod
ern newspaper home, with an outfit
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-12-10
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