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Evening star., 1925-05-04
Fruit and Vegetable Review.

Todav's market report on fruits and
vegetables Furnished by the Market
News Service Bureau of Agricultural
EConomjcsl. says:
Cabbage Supplies light: demand
limited market steady, South Caro-
lima. barrel crates, pointed type. most
~ l.75: Virginia Norfolk section, bar
rel crates, pointed type, small size.
mostly 1.50.
Lettuce-Supplies light; demand
moderate. market firm for good stock;
California central district. Iceberg
type crates. As doZ., 4.O0a4.50. scme
poor condition low as 800; North
Carolina, 5-pk hampers Big Boston
type, l,00a2.00. mostly 1.50a1.15.
Onions-Suppies very light: demand
moderate. market firm; Texas. stand
ard crates yellow Bermudas. CONNER
\ Cial pack, mixed, Nos. ! and =, 2.65a
2.I5, few low as $50.
Potatoes-Old stock: supplies light,
demand light. market about steady:
New York, 150-Tb. sacks round whites.
L. s. No. l, l.75a1.S5. New stock, sup
plies liberal; demand moderate. mar
ket about steady: Florida. double head
barrels SpauldinS Rose L. :. No. |.
5.25a5.50, few SIS, some fair condition
low as 90
Evening star., 1925-05-04

Susannah Cannon. whose death is
reported in England. claimed TO he
the oldest Salvation Army lassie in
the world. She was 90.
Evening star., 1925-05-04
New Orleans Market

Opening, May 23.75: July. $500: Octo
ber. !3. 80: December. % "A. january. 23.4 5
Evening star., 1925-05-04
TURKEYS CHEAPER
IN LOCAL MARKET
Heavier Receipts Than Usual
Break PriCes-Eggs Also
Take Drop.

An appreciahle decrease in the price
of turkeys was noted by dealers this
morning, putting the king fowl lower
than prices of most meat products. II
is said that more turkeys are beinS
received this season than IS usual sc
long after the Christmas holidays
Haulers are offering no reason for
the comparatively large shipments,
Live turkeys were quoted az from %
10 IS cents. while dressed turkeys
were offered at 80 and 80 cents.
Prices of meats and chickens re
manned unchanged. a weakening OF
the egg market brought prices down
l cent, and dealers would not be sur
prised if the price should go even
lower
Yoday'S Wholesale Prices.
Butter-t'anCy. tub. 52a54: prints,
55a57. store packed, 2Oa23.
EgGs-Fancy. selected, Candled, %
a30, average receipts, Is.
Poultry, dlive-Roosters, 10: young
Winter chickens. 35a3S; fowls. IS:
geese, I5a2O. Dressed-Fresh killed
Winter chickens. 35a3S: roosters. l9a
90; fowls, IS; turkeys. 30a35: ducks,
25a2S, geese. 2Oa25; capons. 40a45.
Live stock - Calves. choice, lll2;
medium. IOa11; lean. Sa9: lambs.
Springs. l3: live hogs. l3alSl2.
Meats-Beef 17a1S; veal. IS: Spring
lambs, 80: hogs. 2Ol2a21; loins, 3la32;
hams 26a2S: shoulders. lSai9.
Evening star., 1925-05-04

New York cotton futures closed barely
steady at net declines of - to 80 points.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-01
U. s. GROUP TO BUY PART
IN TURK OIL COMPANY

LONDON, Dec. Negotiations
for the transfer to an American
group of a. portion of the shares
in the Turkish Petroleum Company
are in progress, Sir Cunliffe Lister,
president of the board of trade,
stated in the House of Commons.
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Get War Cross, Kidnap,
Rob And Toss
Out Man

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. L.
A war veteran was robbed OF
war medals and 81 and a COM
panion lost sgt, when five men
held them up.
Anthony Kelly, decorated for
bravery during the war, and
Raymond Heges, were con-
fronted by three men with
drawn revolvers, who jumped
from an automobile. A fourth
rifled their pockets and the
driver remained at the wheel.
After relieving Kelly of Sd
and his decorations, which he
carried in a coat pocket, the
bandits, who were unmasked,
ordered Hedges into the car.
AS they drove away they
rifled his pockets of $27 and
then threw him into the street,
a half block away.
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COLD STORAGE
HELD VITAL
To CITIES
Warehouse Association Opens
Convention Here With
Addresses

A city like Washington could moi
exist under present conditions with
out system of cold storage ware
houses. according to George M
Weaver, of Chicago, head of the
cold storage division of the Amer
lean Warehouse Association, which
opened it's annual convention at the
New Willard Hotel here today.
Cold storage. according to Weaver,
is the great food reservoir Of the
big cities of the country today. II
Orovides eggs all the year round,
when, measured by production, none
but the wealthy could have them
more than six months out of the
year. Big inland cities such as Chi.
cago. according to Weaver, would
be paralyzed in a matter of weeks
were 1t not for the food supply Nude
possible by storage.
Prices of storage products, the
four main ones being eggs, butter,
poultry and apples, would be out
OF sight for the average American
over half the year in the absence
Of the storage business.
About 400 delegates assembled at
the New Willard Hotel today in the
first session of the convention,
which will run through Friday,
Commissioner Frederick A Fenning
made an address Of welcome to the
delegates.
This afternoon the three sub
divisions OF the convention, com
prising the cold storage division
the household goods division and
the merchandise goods division, met
in separate session at the hotel
Discussion of problems affecting
their divisions was held.
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and charged with vagrancy and
placed under bond to appear three
DAYS later for preliminary hearing,
both disappeared.
The body Of a girl was found
near Lexington, Mo-, In the Mis-
stssippi river a few days later.
1t was identified as that Of Mis-
Garrett.
Hicks could not be found. and
when q friend told Of letter from
him that Indicated he contemplated
suicide, the theory that both had
ended their lives became prevalent
AZ want to clear up this thing
and want you to look up the rec.
ords Of the drowning" the girl told
police. I've been wandering Tor
three years, and it's got on my
mind so I cant rest until its
cleared She could not give any
clue as to where Hicks may be.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-01
Pickpocket Worked
on Police Chief;
Gets a Year
Nv international News Service

RICHMOND, Dec. Pick
ing the pocket of a chief of
police is bad business, it was
demonstrated when Glyn Bevan,
said to be the son of a we'll
known Florida minister, was
sentenced to serve a year in the
penitentiary.
Bevan was convicted of trying
to remove a wallet from the
pocket of Chief A. T. TrayIor.
of Chesterfield county, at wild
west show recently.
The entreaties of Bevan's bride
of month failed to obtain a
suspended sentence.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-01
Boston to Get P. O. Clerks

Appointment of thirty-nine addf.
tional postal clerks at Boston was
authorized today by the Postoffice
Department.
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drowned GIRL
HOME At TER
8 YEARS
Another Body Had Been lden-
titled as Grace CARROTS.
Believed in Suicide Pact

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. II
Wandering around the country for
three years with the thought in
mind that Kansas City friends and
relatives believed her dead, was
more than Grace Garrett. twenty
seven. could stand. and she was
back today to 'straighten things
up on police records.
Following an arrest in August,
1922, with William C.. Hicks, the
head of a local catering company,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-01
LONG COAL STRIKE IS
SEPARATING FAMILIES

HECKSCHERVILL Pa, Dec.
because of the long strike,
families in this region, once neigh
bors. are becoming widely scattered.
John Ryan, of the Heckseherville
valley. has moved his family Of
thirteen to San Francisco.
Another family from the same
valley is moving to Florida. Every
town in the Schuykill section re-
ports the removal of many fam.
lilies, the prosperity Of L.her Sec
tons attracting many. in contrast
10 this region, where all work has
been stopped for months.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-01
DATE SET TO ARGUE
OIL CASE DEMURRER

Argument Of counsel on the de-
murrers filed to the Sinclair Fall
Doheny new conspiracy indictment
will be heard before Justice Stafford
in Criminal Court No. 2 Friday.
The former indictment was quash-
ed by Chief Justice Mccoy On the
ground Of alleged illegal presence in
the grand jury room, when that
body investigated the case, of As
sistant Attorney General Pagan.
Attorneys Frank J. Hogan and
Frederic Kellogg will appear for
Doheny and Attorneys George Il.
Hoover and Martin Littleton for Sim
clair. Fall will be represented by
Attorneys Henry Wise and Levi
Cooke. Special Counsel Atlee Pom
creme and Owen J. Roberts will rep
resent the Government.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-01

Some weeks ago It was reported
that the American group already
had acquired an interest III the
Mosul OH Fields, and it was re-
ported that it was preparing to
sell the shares to take up conces-
sions for exclusive oil sales rights
in Turkey. The move would have
brought American support in the
mosul dispute to the side of Turkey
rather than Great Britain.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-01

Gordon Prize Says He Slew
Friend Because He Had
the Notion
By international News Service

by international News Service
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-Gordon
Prize, twenty, walked into a police
station early today and surren-
dered. Later he confessed that
he had killed his chum, George
Nye, nineteen, with an ak "be-
cause he got the notion"
Police had been searching for
Prize ever since yesterday morn
ing when his sixteen-year-old sis
ter, Margaret, was startled into
mysteries by the discovery of Nye's
body under her bed.
Took Nye's Money
After striking his victim six
times, Prize told District Attorney
John E. Mcclellan, he took $500
from the dead mans clothing, went
out and spent the day playing pool
and ended 1t by going ito a movie
and buying ice cream sodas for
three girls.
Pirie, according 20 the authorities,
ut first told conflicting stories.
His confession came after the ar
rival of girl friend, Violet
Schmidt, whom he had escorted to
her home before he had gone to
the movies.
Miss Schmidt, believing whole
heartedly in her friends Innocence,
besought him to tell the truth.
Prizes story, as retoId by the
district attorney, was that he ar
rived home shortly after midnight
Saturday and found his friend,
Nye. already asleep.
He awakened him and they chat
ted pleasantly of money-making
opportunities in Florida, whence
Pirie had just returned.
The pair were alone in The apart
gnent. Gordon's mother being N a
hospital and his sister spending the
weekend with relatives. Both
finally went to sleep.
Went Out to Get Papers
Prize awoke at $40 O'Clock Sun
LAY morning, went out to buy the
Sunday papers. He returned and
after reading for a little while fell
asleep.
1t was when he re-awol1e that
The notion of killing Nye came to
him, he said:
Going to the toolbox in the
lack to the bedroom where Nye
still lay sleeping.
II hit him six times on the
head and then looked at him to
see that he was dead" were the
words Prize used. according to the
District Attorney.
Nye, being undressed, Prize
clothed him in overalls, washed
the dead youths face with wet
towel. and rolled the body Under
The bed. Nye's clothing he hung
up in a closet after taking $500
from the pockets.
Nye's union card, as a brick
layers. helper, he burned in the
kitchen stove.
Saw Ambulance Come
Prize said he was in front of his
house when the ambulance came
10 the door early Monday morn
ing.
Attend passing asked him
what was going on in his house.
Pirie replied he did not know.
Prize walked into a station house
81 the Bronx and said to the
lieutenant on duty:
"I am Gordon Pirie. I under
stand you are looking for me-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-01
BRAND To SEEK
SUPPORT ON
DEBT
Negotiations With Washington
Will Start When Chamber
Gives Majority
By HARRY r. FLORY

PARIS, Dec. 1.-The BRAND
government will not attempt to re.
open debt negotiations with the
United States until it has been as
sured of a majority in the cham
Der of deputies, International News
Service was informed today by M.
Pierre Laval.
THE actual reopening OF the
French debt discussions with Wash
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ington will be delayed until the
cabinet has received an assuring
majority in the chamber" M. Laval
said. Naturally we are most
anxious to eliminate war debts
from the French balance sheet with
the greatest speed. Provision for
their complete adjustment will be
our primary endeavor.''
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-01
School Board to Meet

u. r. calverton. author and
editor. viii speak on THE New
American Literature at the public
forum meeting OF the Washington
Chapter Of the League for In
fiustrial Democracy to be held 70.
nfght at s o'clock at the chap
ter,s headquarters, 1712h I street
northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-01
MAN, 81, STARTS 81-YEAR
TERM FOR EMBEZZLlNC

BALTIMORE, Dec Jacob A.
Dozen. sixty-four, prominent pro.
hibitionist and Belail church worker.
entered Maryland penitentiarv today
10 start an eight year sentence for
embezZlement OF funds entrusted 10
him.
Because Of his advanced age, he
will be given clerical work,
PAGE ONE
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State Society to Meet

The MASSACHUSETTS Society of
Washington Will meet tonight at
the Washington Club, Seventeenth
and K streets northwest, beginning
at o'clock. Theodore G. Risley
solicitor for the Department Of
Labor, will be the principal sneak
er, talking on Building American
Citizens"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-01
BOY, II, IS SAVED FROM
LYNcHING BY SHERIFF

CHESTERTOWN, Md, Wilbur
Barnes. a seventeen.year-oI negro,
was spirited out of town early this
morning and rushed to Baltimore
jail by Sheriff Goodman to escape
a threatened Iynching
The youth is charged with at
lacking a nine-year-old white girl
near here. A crowd gathered
around the Jail last night, but the
sheriff dissuaded them from storm
ing the Jail.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-14
$500, 900 GEMS.
RE UR|VED To
He |RE5S
Thieves Make Trade With In
surance Company ystery
Is Deeper Than Ever
81 international News Service

NEW York. oct. 1.-THE DON
ahue. jewels have been returned,
but the. mystery Of the great gem
theft remained more battling than
ever today.
The $4,000 string Of rose
tinted pearls. once owned By the
royal household 81 Persia, and
other Jewels stolen from the dress
Ing table Of Mrs. James p Dona-
hue. daughter Of the late E. W.
WoolWorth, are now under lock
and key In police headquarters.
endeav0ring to trace the $683. 900
pany detective walked into head
quaters and delivered up the gems
which disappeared on September
80 while Mrs. Donahue was bath
ing in her apartment at the Plaza
Hotel.
The jewels are back but the
search for the thieves goes on,
according to the police.
The police claim they do not
know who stole the gems, and
the Donahues profess Ignorance.
The Insurance people have told
all they know to the police and
they won't talk FOR publication.
It is presumed that the jewels
were purchased from the thieves,
who found that they were too
easily identified to be disposed Of
and therefore offered a trade with
the insurers.
The police viii not compromise
With the thieves, however. Police
Inspector John ID. Coughlin de-
clared:
THE return of the jewels only
begins the investigation. So far
as the police are concerned. We
are going to find out who stole
them. Not until the thief is caught
and convicted does the case end
for the police"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-14
SEE NEW SPEED RECORD
I'M SCHNEIDER cup RACES

BALTIMORE, Oct. "a. Surprised
at the low speed (24s,se miles an
hourl it which the Pulitzer air
trophy was won. foreign contestants
returned to Baltimore today to con.
tinue preparing for the Schneider
Cup races here on October IA.
Captains H. Broad and Henry G.
Baird. English pilots, both declared
that they expected the Schneider
Cup winner TO beat that speed.
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ileges for our agricultural county
far races, al the law allows, then
we viii start fight to end racing
in Maryland
He charged the racing. commits
sion with discriminating against
the county fairs, in. favor Of the
owners OF professional tracks.
The commissions refusal to sane
tion betting at county fairs vas
based, Ii stated, ION the uniform
policy of the commission not to ex.
tend this privilege, which policy has
met the approval Of the people most
interested In racing as a sport.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-14
FIGHT E00NS TO
END RACING
NIN|D
Tri-c County Fair Group, Refus-
ed Betting Permit, Threat
ems Track War

BALTIMORE. Oct. IA Another
fight to end horse racing IN Mary
land was threatened today as 1 re-
suit OF the State Racing Commits
county fairs.
w. Gwynn Gardiner, attorney for
the Maryland Tri-County Fair As
ISOLATION. said:
u we cannot get betting priv
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-14
B j 5 IERINI|VA.
PL IN GAINING
FAV0R
Responsible Citizens Behind
Project, According TO
Colonel Bell

Several definite propositions on
the establishment IN washington Of
4 bus terminal are being seriously
considered. Lieutenant Colonel ].
Franklin Bell. the Engineer Com
missioner, said today.
Responsible persons are behind
the proposition, according 20 Colonel
Bell, and the building Of bus
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-14

terminal housing not only the bus
ses but possibly hotel, restaurant, \
motion picture tleater and offices,
is 1oreseen.
The selection be j site Tor the
terminal has also been gone into
but no information along this line
can be had as vet.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-14
BURDEN IS
CHECKING
TRADE
.. s. Citizens Have to Pay
Two Leyies, While Foreign
Rivals Have Only One
d ROBERT S. THORNBURGHl

0y ESODEtIIs b InOk6NOU1SSTn
An effort to enact legislation
which viii relieve from domestic
taxation earned incomes Of Ameri-
cans engaged in the expansion of
commerce in foreign countries,
viii be made at the next Congress,
It was learned ct the Treasury
today.
The proposal will have the back
ing Of Secretary Of the Treasury
Mellon, Secretary of Commerce
Hoover and other high admins
tration officials.
With the flow Of American capi-
tai into business development
abroad expected TO pass $1,000, :
0e0, 900 this year, officials believe
that the Government should take
steps to put nationals Of this
country operating in foreign
lands, on an equality with busi-
ness men Of other nations.
America Stands Alone
The United States is the only i'm.
pertanf nation which imposes do.
mestic taxation upon the earned in
come 81 its citizens who are rest
dent abroad. engaging in the expans
sion Of commerce, according to
Hoover.
While provision is made Tor de-
duction Of foreign taxes, fllis has
effect only In high taxation coun-
tries, and affords no adequate relief
precisely in those areas where we
need expansions in personnel most,
a8 IN Latin America and the Far
East, Hoover declared
All other high taxation countries
have given complete relief in this
particular, and thus our nationals
are placed at great disadvantage y
The great movement OF capital
abroad IS resulting in migration
of thousands Of American citizens,
especially to South America, accord
ing to officials.
Retaining their American citizen
ship their incomes are taxed not
cnly in the countries whore they
are operating. hui also by the United
States. Other DatiOns escape do
mestfc taxation. 80
Important 10 Business
treasury statistics disclosed that
Nae income from taxes on nationals
abroad is insignificant. On the other
hand these taxes are OF great inn
portance to business men operating
On small margins.
The present tax system is tend
ing to drive American citizens out
OF the front line Of commerce in
many countries, officials said.
They pointed out tll4t the ma
ton cannot have stable export
business in manufactured foods nor
a successful merchant marine so
long as the distribution Of Ameri-
can goods rests In the hands Of
other nations
Legislation to relieve American
nations of this burden would put
them on equality with other ma
uonals and would tend to increase
the expansion of trade. it was de-
etared.
Fighting for Trade
information obtained by the De-
partment OF Commerce discIoses
that most of the important Euro
psan nations are making a hard
fight to establish their position in
South American countries.
United States has enjoyed a firm
hold on this market since the war,
but unless steps are taken by
Congress to meet the tax problem
Americas position may be leopard
lied, officials said.
, 1925-02-11

You can't convince a brunette THAI
all Is fair in love.
, 1925-02-11
SaU Nothing Else

These days of short dresses, sheer
silk hose and up-to-the-minute styles
make life miserable for many of the
sterner sex. A sophomore mt the uni
versity was re~primanding a frosh for
see you" the freshman explained.
why, / walked within a foot of YOU
the upper classman protested. Gosh
You musta been the guy with the girl
who had on those open-work stock
ings," replied the accused youth
Columbus Dispatch.
, 1925-02-11
Chicken Story
PAGE SEVEN

Bobby was four years old when he
went to visit Aunt Mile in the
try. He heard her say that she was
going TO dress a hen and expressed a
desire to watch the proceedings. He
looked on quietly until the feather
plucking stage was reached and then
excitedly demanded, with the firss
handful of feathers:
why, Aunt Mile, you're undress-
ing 1t. aren't your indianapolis
News.
, 1925-02-11
Plausible Arsuer

How is it that while only about one
white person in ten thousand reaches
the century mark we frequently see
negroes one hundred and seventeen
years old?'
"Uh-well. sah," replied Uncle Frosty.
"as nigh as | kin proselyte de matter,
It's due to judicial lynn on de part O.
de Cullud race."-Kunsas City Star.
, 1925-02-11
Pulls DUN Tooth

IfNalter Davis, a milk dealer of Can.
Ha, n. H.. who has not missed a trip
on his route for several years, suffered
from toothache early one morning. He
went to his garage, took a pair of
pliers from his machine. pulled out n
wisdom tooth and then started to de-
liver milk.
, 1925-02-11
DEMAND "BAYER" ASPIRIN
Aspirin Marked With "Bayer Cross"
Has Been Proved Safe by Millions.

Warning! Unless you see the name
"Bayer'' on package or on tablets you
are not getting the genuine Bayer
Aspirin proved safe by millions and
prescribed by physicians for % years.
Say "Bayer" when you buy Aspirin.
limitations may prove dangerous.-Adv.
, 1925-02-11
Diamond Cut Diamond

"what's the fareT" inquired the
woman of the taxlcab driver. ms the
conveyance stopped at her destination.
1.-Two dollars, num-" was the prompt
reply.
"well, here's a dollar and n half.
I'm not such n fool ms l look"
"No." said the driver. II wish you
mum i"-Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
, 1925-02-11
Chirnpanzee in Church

The congregation OF a church Mt
Montecito, n fashionable suburb OF
Santa Barbara, Cal, was thrown Into
near panic by the appearance of a
huge chimpanzee which walked calmly
down an aisle and seated itself in a
pew. The big siminn was a pet of a
member OF the millionaire colony and
had escaped from Its home two hours
before.
, 1925-02-11
Use for Broken Crockery

Over a million pieces of crockery
broken at Wembley have been used to
make roads and paths Mt the sports
ground of the caterers.-London Mail.
, 1925-02-11
Can Be Too Formal

The ~"overformal' often impede and
sometimes Illustrate business by a
dilatory, tedious. circultous way OF
conducting the simplest transactions.
, 1925-02-11
His Vacation

Mrs. Goodsole-What induced you
to adopt the life OF n tramp?
Everett Wrest-Why, mn'am. it's my
calling. It's the one thing l do best.