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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-04
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Aug. 4.-Hog prices
were mostly 10 cents higher than
Monday and the market was active
on shipping account. Packers
bought slowly and indifferently.
Receipts were $4,000 against $4,000
week ago. Top reached $3.50
compared with $14.05 last Tuesday.
Cattle of good quality sold steady
to strong again and the lower
grades showed weakness. Cows
and heifers were generally steady.
Bulls sold steady to strong and
calves were on a firm basis. Stock
ers and feeders showed more ac-
tivity..
Lambs were mostly steady at
Mondays decline of so cents.
b,FSeT B1K m top
Weight. is.5o@14.6o; lightweight. 1900
Q14.5O; light lights. 1850 1910; heavy
packing sows, rough ITS @12.25; pigs.
CATTLE 10000; market.
best steaay beer and
prime, 1926 G15.25; medium and good
11.00 @1S.5O; sgood and choice lS'0o@
1925; common and medium, 1000 / ? 90
cows, 4.25@s.5O; bulls, 4.OO@7.5o. Can
ners and cutters-Cows and heifers
25005.0O; Gamer steers, 5.00@7.00;
veal calves Qight and handyweight),
sSoSI259 tsedsn steers ZEE ,to5ker cows
and heifers. S.50&6.OO; stocker calves
5.000S 500.
sHEEPT7Rsssipts, 10000. so %q Z set:
lambs (culls and common), 11:0O@
1900; yearlings, 11.00@13.00; wethers,
., 90@1i.OO; ewes, 7OO@S.25; ewes
Cculis and comfnon), 2.OO@4.O0 breed
ing ewes, s.OO@1s,5O; feeder lambs
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AutonOtiYe
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE !

paons cla..it.sa Aa. q Main $3.50
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HIGHER PRICE LEVEL
FEATURES CURB MARKET

NEW YORK, Aug. "A higher
level OF prices prevailed in every
section of the curb market today.
The public utility and industrial
stocks were swept forward from 2
to Is points in an active buying
wave in, which a number OF prom.
inent stocks reached. new high
price levels for the year. The oil
stocks were firm with Humble Oil
recovering IL points and South
American oils displaying a strong
tone.
1ubize silk jumped 10 points to
16o at the head OF the industrial
sto.n list. Victor Talking Machine
was up points.
Public utility stocks continued to
advance. Humble Oil sold up to
62%, against yesterdays low al
61A; Standard OIL Of Indiana was
fractionally higher.
American Ice per cents sold a
point higher at 1904: Standard Gas
and Electric 64zs were fractionally
lower.
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WIFE, IS, BLOWS
HEAD OFF IN
ROOM
Mrs. Walter Hough Leaves
Religious Meditation to
Commit Suicide

LEESBURG, Va, Aug. Mrs.
Walter Hough. of Clarke's Gap,
three miles from here, after spend
ing the afternoon in religious de-
votion at the Purcellville bush
meeting. returned to her home and.
going to her bedroom, blew her
head off with a double-barreled
shotgun yesterday.
Her family, assembled in the sit
ting room, were unaware of her
intentions of suicide until they
heard the shot.
Rushing to the bedroom, the wife
and mother was found dead. Writ
ten on the top of a pasteboard box
was a final message: Goodbye.
Lay me away and forget me-"
Mrs. Hough. who was fifty-three
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Baltimore Grain Market

BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. A.
Wheat, firmer. No. red winter
domestic, $3.50; No. 2 red winter,
garlicky, domestic. $1.54. Receipts,
6O,13O bushels; shipments, GO. OSS
bushels.
Corn, firm. No. 2 yellow domes-
tic, $1.27 bushel. Receipts, 1,l77
bushels; shipments, lab bushels.
Oats, quiet, supply ample. No. z
white domestic, old, Sc cents bushel
asked. Receipts, 1925 bushels;
shipments, 2S,681 bushels.
Rye, nominal. Receipts, p bush
els; shipments, none.
Hay selling sparingly.
Flour firmers Ian
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les
lngton and Alexandria. - cents per
s orders can - sent - man. o. ssle.
phone Main g3ee. Collection 10 made
weekly BY carriers.
RATES NJ MAIL
lPayabIs in Advance.l
DAILY TIMES
one Year ...............
Thrss I Months . .::......:.:;..: is
One Month ..ss...sssssssbs.ss -
Announcements
PheMs clasd1isd Ads q Main $3.50:
LOST AND FOUND l
BAR PIN LosT.PI. ATINUM SET dT
PoFfoSn1c s ss7s-W W. 80
BRoocH--Gold. diamond center. sur
rounded by pearls; on %. bus or s, % %
EYEGLASSES Lost. tortoise rim, Mon
day Afternoon bet. 4 q s. Line. 546t.
Reward.
FINDERs-If you find anything and
cannot locate the owner through the
Lost and Found ads in this news
paper, call at Room 423. Hearst Bldg,
and go through the Lost and Found
Index, which contains q complete list
of all lost articles that have been
advertised in this Newspaper in the
past two (21 months
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MEXIcANS ADOPTING
ELECTRICAL HEATERS

Sunny Mexico early this summer
experienced 4 most unreasonable
cold spell, during which one cleo
trical dealer sold $50 electric heaters.
The almost medieval charcoal
brazier which, until recently, was
the universal Mexican means or
heating and cooking, Is being
supplanted by m o d e rn electric
ranges and heaters.
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Local Stocks
FURNISHED by w. B. Hibbs & Coz
SALES

tF'urnished by w. b. Hibbs & Col
SALES
Washington Gas IS, 81, O0O@99M
Washington Gas Is, 80 5000
1917, $2,5OO@103A.
Washington Railway & Electric
IS, $1,00OQ7915, $2,0OO0791a, 10000
1917.
Potomac Electric IS. 1868. $1,000
1854.
Capital Traction, 5@1OO1s, 5000.
Capital Traction SIS, $1,000 @9S75
81. O00@9S11.
washington Railway & Electric
preferred. S@84A, 1O@S4A. roo
SAN, 1O@84h. 10@86, 1O@S5h.
National Mortgage & Improve.
ment preferred, SOW9h, 5O091a, 100
@9h.
After call
Potomac Electric. LIST. SIS. 81 900
@1O01a.
Lanston Monotype, S@84X.
Washington Gas Light, 20@62,
1O@62, 10@62.
Chesapeake 4 Potomac. Telephone
IS. $1,000@190.
Capital Traction Company $1,000.
Washington Gas IS, 'S3, 5000 q
1929.
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PRECINCTS
ACTIVE
Democratic Chairman Thinks
County VIII Give Majority
to Byrd

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Aug. A.
with considerable activity at each
Of the precincts today. indications
are that a heavy vote will be polled
In Arlington county.
Eleventh.hour efforts were being
made by leaders last night .in an
effort to carry Arlington county for
their respective candidates for gov
ernor.
william r. Bragg, chairman OF
the Democratic county committee,
in a statement today, declares that
the county will go for Senator
Harry F.. Byrd by a small vote.
The polls opened at 5:11 a. m. and
will remain open until TIT p. m.
The ladies OF the Civic Club OF
Clarendon announce that lunches
will be served at the polls from |
to 3 o'clock.
The annual meeting of the North
ern Virginia Odd Fellows Aesocia.
ton will be held in Culpeper, Octo
Der Z. instead of October Il.
with hundreds of colored lights
strung on the ground. the tenth
annual carnival OF the Ballston
volunteer firemen's fire department
opened last nighf with more than
800 citizens, including county off
Gals, in attendance.
The carnival, which is being held
on the grounds Of the Ballstor
school,, on Wilson boulevard, will
continue through Thursday.
Rand concerts by the BalIstor
band and special attractions each
night have been arranged, accord
ing to Howard A. Smoot, general
chairman.
With the board Of supervisors
room at the Arlington county court,
house crowded yesterday, the board
failed to take any action regarding
the rule issued a week ago by
they show cause why a mandamus
should not be issued calling upon
them either to build a new Jail OF
to make the present building safe
and sanitary.
Efforts on the part of Supervisor
Edward Duncan from Jefferson dis
trict to make motion that an
architect Immediately be employed
to make an investigation as to
whether it is feasible to build a
new jail or remodel the present one
failed
Judge Brent stated he wanted
to give the board sufficient time
to discuss the rule, and would con-
tinue the case until the second
Tuesday in September. at which
time he would expect an answer on
the rule issued.
The supervisors, in accordance
with a motion offered by William
j. Ingram, will discuss at their
regular meeting, Monday, the ad-
Visibility of employing an architect
to prepare a report as to whether
the present building can be re-
modelled or new building is
necessary.
The regular meeting. of Arlington
Lodge, No. 1913, l. o. o. F., will be
held tonight in the community
hall at o'clock, at which time
large class of candidates will re.
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ELEcTRI cWELDER MAY
END NOISY RIVETER

TIL deafening CHATTER Of the rivet:
ing gun may soon be heard no long
err when the steel structure OF a
modern building IL being put In
place. Instead of the riyetng gun,
engineers predict. electric arc weld
Ing VIII be used. Thus the frame
work Of such a building will be a
single welded unit. The work done
will be just as strong as the best
riveting and considerably cheaper.
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Texas County Under
Hoof And Mouth
Quarantine

HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. A.
Harris county was again under
quarantine against the dreaded
hoof and mouth disease.
The infection was discovered
in a herd of ninety-seven high
bred Brahma cattle, imported
from Mexico by Doctor William
States Jacobs. 1t was dis
covered on the same range on
which the Federal Government
slaughtered thousands of cattle
last winter in an effort to
stamp out the disease.
Doctor w. E. Cotton, Govern
ment expert, will arrive in
Houston today and go to the
scene of the infection to dag
nose the disease. If he finds
the cattle infected with the
hoof and mouth disease, the
herd will be slaughtered imme-
diately, according to Doctor N.
F. Williams, State veterinarian.
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The regular meeting. of Arlington
Lodge, No. 1913, /. o. o. F., will be
held tonight in the community
hall at o'clock, at which time
large class of candidates will re-
ceive the third degree.
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Plane Carrier Speedy

The u. S. 8. Saratoga, the navy's
new airplane carrier, has such
powerful electric propulsion equip
ment that it could cross the At
lantic in less than four days. a
speed that breaks the record of the
fastest OF the ocean greyhounds.
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years old, is survived by her hus.
band and six children.
The husband and sons are en-
ployed as builders in Washington.
This is the second woman in a
week to commit suicide by the
shotgun route in Loudoun county.
Mrs. Harrison, of Bluemont, was
the other victim,
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REAL BARGAINS
Ford Sedans, all al shape. $4,000
s Ford Tourings. starters and lights.
$4,000 and up.
Buick Tourings all in al shape
FoTd Worm Drive Trucks. in good
shape, $12500 and up.
Ford Buses, in good running oraer'
$I25.0O and up.
NoRTHEAsT AUTO CO. GARAGE.
g. II st. n. E. Fr. S5o3.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
Teacher, Seeking
DiUorce, Charges
9 Years Neglect
Coat, Dress and Shoes.
Sole Gifts, Partly Paid
for by Spouse.

Mrs. Helen w. Coffren. teacher
in the public schools, today asked the
District Supreme Court for limit ed
divorce from Joseph T. Coffren. who
conducts billiard room at 202s
Fourteenth street.
She charges cruelty and non-sup-
port. and tells the court that during
married life of nine years her hus-
band has given her only one dress.
one coat and a pair of shoes. These,
she asserts, were Christmas or birth
day presents, and bought on the
installment plan, the husband neglect
Ing to keep up the payments. so that
she was required to meet the balance
When they were married in Balti-
more March Z, 1915. the wife states
her husband suggested she continue
to teach until the close of the school
year, when she would not have to
work any more. He failed to keep
the promise to support her, she says
and she had to resume teaching
There are no children. Attorneys
Joseph A Burkart, Harry 1. Quinn
and Richmond B. keech appear fol
the wife.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
BACKERS PLAN NEW
CHILD LABOR FIGHT
Refuse to Accept Verdict in
13 States as Final Word
on Amendment.

Plans were drawn up here today
for a renewed drive for ratification of
the child labor amendment.
Officials of the Organizations As
sociated for Ratification of the Child
Labor Amendment conferred on ways
and means to secure reconsideration
In the 13 states where there have
been adverse votes on the proposal.
Mrs. A. c. Watkins Of the National
Congress of Parents and Teachers,
who presided at the meeting, later
Issued statement declaring the ad-
vocates OF the amendment were work
Ing against a "monstrous campaign
OF organized misrepresentation"
She refused to recognize rejection
OF the amendment by one branch of
a State legislature as rejection by
the State.
Further efforts will be made to OBJ
tain ratification of the child labor
amendment by the Ohio legislature
despite the adverse vote of one house
Representative Foster, Republican
Ohio, who sponsored the amendment
in the House, today informed Presi-
dent Coolidge.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
SENATE |MPASSE
AMUSES GALLERY
Even Senators Laugh at In
ability to Get Action on
Any Measure.

With the conclusion of the long
night over the postal pay and rate bill
the Senate worked itself late yester-
day into legislative impasse, reach
ing the point where 1t even was un-
able to add on a resolution to pro-
vide reviewing stands for the inaugura-
ton of President Coolidge.
Objections, some more or less vehe-
ment. rolls calls and speeches fol-
lowed each other in quick succession
Senator's Joined the galleries in the
amusement the situation afforded
Chairman Borah of the foreign rela-
tions committee finally pointed the
way out with a motion for an execu-
tive session.
Smoot Starts Impasse.
With the passage of the postal bill
Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah,
sought unanimous consent for imme-
diate consideration of the Government
reorganization bill. Objection was
made and he moved to take Ii up.
Meantime, Senators Sterling, Republi
can, South Dakota, and Swanson,
Democrat, Virginia, wanted the Utah
Senator to yield to take up the $15,-
1000 State aid good road bill. He
refused.
On a record vote the Senate re-
Smoot was pressing. Then 1t voted,
without a record vote, to take up the
good roads bill, after Senator Borah
had objected to unanimous consent
because he wanted to discuss ii.
His objection was removed by as
surance of Senator Sterling that once
the measure got preferred status 1t
would be laid aside temporarily. Re-
marking that Congress was ever
NJ
Treasury, but apparently unwilling to
save the Government money, Senator
Smoot upset this calculation by OBJ
jecting to the laying aside of the
measure.
Chairman Ball of the District of
Columbia committee then asked
unanimous consent to consider the
inaugural resolution, but Senator
Smoot then objected. Later Senator
Watson, Republican, Indiana, pleaded
with Senator Smoot to withdraw the OBJ
lection, explaining the purport of the
resolution.
II don't care, ] object" insisted
Senator Smoot, amid laughter from
the floor and galleries.
During the mix-up, Senator Harri-
son, Democrat, Mississippi. pointed
out that administration leaders had
voted against taking up the reclassi-
fication bill. recommended first by
President Harding and later by Presi-
dent Coolidge. He included in his list
of administration leaders. Senators
Brookhart of Iowa and Frazier of
North Dakota. whereupon Senator
Edge, Republican. New Jersey de-
manded to know il he was proceeding
, by classes
After Senator Smoot had objected q
to the inauguration resolution, Sem
ator Harrison brought more laughter
by remarking that another admins
tration leader even was objecting to
paving the way for the Inauguration
of the Republican President
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Continued from First Page.)
fact. has been steadily reducing the
force of employees of the Interior
Department since he became head OF
the department, reorganizing the Bu-
reaus of Reclamation and Pensions
and being at present engaged in a
survey in another bureau OF the de-
partment.
Put on Furleusk.
The Interior Secretary said it has
been his practice that whenever sur
plus employees are eliminated, they
are not actually discharged. but are
placed on furlough without pay. This
means, he added. that whenever a
vacancy occurs in the bureau from
which they have been furloushed
they are in reach. trained and imme
diately will be recalled to duty.
With turnover of 21.3 per cent,
with employees constantly being sep
arated from the service through
resignation, death and from other
causes, Mr.. Work said 1t was evident
that very few of the furloughed en-
ployes lost their jobs permanently.
One Bureau Cut Half.
AN illustration of this occurred
IN the reorganization of the Pension
Bureau year ago. There were 1874
surplus employees furloughed from
this bureau after a survey, in which
much duplication of work and lost
, motion was eliminated
"Of these 1854 persons furlousbed.
two o-thirds are still in the Govern
ment service. most of them were re
instated in the Pension Bureau filling
vacancies that occurred in the or
dinsry turnover of the bureau,
| others secured employment in other
branches of the Governments: of the
one-third permanently separated from
the service the greater part of them
were employees who had reached the
retirement age and were retired on
annuities. A similar situation exist
| ed in the Bureau of Reclamation last
year, when it's force was reduced by
so per cent and the surplus employees
placed on furlough."
i Before the reorganization of the
Reclamation Bureau last year. ap-
proximately $500 were on the pay roll
of the bureau. A policy of retrench.
ment resulted in reduction of the
working force, chiefly in the field, tc
2.600 employees, so per cent cut.
Evening star., 1925-01-31

by the plumbing inspector, the
Water Department and the Fire De-
partment.
To Begin Survey In Spring.
Dr. Fowler stated today that as
soon as the Winter season Is over
he plans to concentrate his sanitary
inspection force on careful survey
of all the alleys. with instructions
to serve notices on owners and oc-
cupants TO correct all insanitary con-
ditions found.
similar intensive inspection OF
alley dwellings was conducted by
the health officer during the months
Of October and November, with the
following results:
A total of 1,04S notices were served
on owners and occupants to correct
conditions affecting health, requir-
ing that they be abated within a
specified time.
In 226 cases defective plumbing
was found and referred to the plumb
ing inspector for correction.
In 269 instances structural defects
were observed and referred to the
bu. ding inspector for action.
Referred TO Condemnation Board.
In 14l other cases conditions were
found which resulted in reference
to the board for the condemnation
of insanitary buildings, to order the
necessary repairs made or have the
buildings condemned.
In six cases conditions constituting &
4 fire menace were reported and re-
eerred to the Fire Department for
attention.
In SO cases leaking water pipes
were reported and referred to the
Water Department for correction.
In 10 of the alleys it was found
advisable to make report to the
Street Cleaning Department.
Until the effectiveness of the alley
closing law has been determined by
the outcome of the test cases now
in court the Health Department will
continue to make periodical surveys
of conditions in the alleys
Evening star., 1925-01-31
HEALTH OFFICERS TO INSPECT
ALL ALLEYS IN WASHINGTON
FOicler Announces Order for General Surrey to Be
Made Early i'm Spring to Cire Best
Standard to Homes.

A thorourh inspection of all alleys
and alley dwellings with a view to
correcting any insanitary conditions
that may he found to exist In them
VIII be ordered by Health Offlcer
Fowler early in the Spring.
TIL" law providing for the abandon
ment OF dwellings in alleys became
effective in June. 1929. but its en-
forcement Is awaiting the outcome of
several test cases now pending In
Police Court to determine what
classes of alleys Congress Intended
should be abandoned for housing e
purposes.
Meanwhile both Commissioner Oys-
ter and Health Officer Fowler are anx-
tous to keen sanitary conditions in
the alleys on as high level as pos
sih1e
Various departments OF the District
government have certain functions to
perform to keep the alleys in good
condition, but the task dcvolves prin-
cipally upon the building inspectors
office. the Health Department and the
street cleaning division. Here Is how
the burden is divided:
Division of Work.
The building ONCE has one inspector,
A. S. j. Atkinson, who devotes all OF
his time to directing the affairs OF
the board for the condemnation OF
insanitary buildings. While his
duties require him to observe such
structures wherever located, most OF
his work Is In the alleys. He is con-
&tantly making tours OF inspection
and ordering owners to make repairs
where they are needed.
In the Health Department the sani-
tary inspectors look after conditions
that effect health more directly than
structural defects.
The street cleaning division is
charged with the job of cleaning the
alley roadways without relation to the
houses.
When the health inspectors make
their rounds, however, they find GER
tain conditions that call for action
Evening star., 1925-01-31
MINER STAYS WIFE
AND TWO CHILDREN
Special Disps tch to The star.

CUMBERLAND, Md, January 31.-
After numbering his wife and two
children last night Russell Martin, a
miner of Midland, Md, tried to kill
himself.
He was overpowered by members Of
a posse who had followed him to q
local poolroom, and is now in Jail,
suffering from gashes on the neck.
Frank Gray, posseman, was cut on the
hand in the struggle with Martin.
At the home Of the miner his wife
was found bound to chair. her
throat cut, and the bodies of their
two children were found, each with
slashed throat. One of the children
was 4 years old and the other 10
months old. Martin is 2S.
Walter Winters, roomer at the
Martin home, was awakened by a
disturbance and left the place to sum
mon the police. Martin went to the
poolroom after his crime and had
snatehed a cheese knife from the
lunch counter. when he was seized.
Evening star., 1925-01-31

laying foundations for a Christian
Hair nets were used as a medium
of illustration.
Women bob their hair in America
and in China she said, "other wom-
en-, making hair nets, starve. Child
labor laws in America are declared
unconstitutional and efforts failed to
curtail child labor in China. where
children as young as years old work
Il hours a day for 10 cents.
Hair Nets Made In China.
Comparatively few of the women
who still use hair nets realize that
the great center of the hair net in
dustry is in the city of Chefoo. China.
Yet only a short time ago letter
from a friend in CHEZ foo contained
this sentence: I don't know what
will happen to us IL you women in
America don't stop cutting your hair.
We are all losing our jobs. There
were $4,000 women and girls in the
hair net factories here two years and
a half ago and now there are only
a few over 1000. The worst Of 1t Is
that they are going into the SILK
flatures, where conditions are bad
enough for men. but unspeakable for
women and children.
other Speakers ON Program.
Among others who spoke yesterday
were Mary E. Wooley Of South Had
ley. Mass; DR.. T. Kasawa of Japan
and Prof. Rufus Jones Of Haverford
College, Pa.
This afternoons program includes
addresses by Rev. DR. William P.
Schell of New York and Rev. DR..
James Endicott of Toronto.
The program tonight will be on the
theme: THE Church in the Mission
Field" Rev DR.. j. II. Mclean OF
Chile. Rev. T. Bhaskar Hiwali OF
Bombay, Bishop st. George Tucker.
recently Of Japan. and Rev. DR.. Harris
e. Kirk Of Baltimore will speak.