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Evening star., 1926-03-27
SPRING HESITATION
IN BUSINESS SEEN
Volume for First Quarter,
However, Far Ahead of
Any Other Year.

Special Dispatch to The star.

special D1epdtCn TO oSaI.
NEW YORK, March 27-Hesitation
is apparent in the business situation
today. There undoubtedly has been a
slowing up in the wholesale and manu-
featuring lines. This is an annual
occurrence at this time Of year, ac-
cording to statements by leaders in
various lines Of industry received to-
day In dispatches from widespread
centerS.
1t is worthy of npte that the volume
of business so far this year has been
far ahead of any previous first quar-
ter in the history of this country. Any
showdown that has been recorded is
far less than the corresponding drop
in Wall Street would lead uninitiated
observers to expect.
Alfred II. Swayne, vice president of
General Motors, stated today that 1t
looks like automotive products are
going to have one OF the best Spring
selling seasons In history
Evening star., 1926-03-27
Bid and Asked Prices.
BONDS.
PUBLIC UTILITIES

PUBLIC UTILITIES.
American Tel. & TelSa. As. 97I .s...
American Tel. & ,Telca. il2s .97!s 80.
Amer. Tel. & Tel. ctl. tr. 5s. 1918 ..
Anacostia & Potomac 5s 95 ~
Anacostia & Pot guar. 5s.. 95 81
q. p. Telephone IS. ..... 99a4 ..,
. P. Telephone of Va. 5s. 994 80.
Capital Traction r. R 5s. 100 .....
city & Suburban 5s. ..,..... SO .....
GEORGETOWN Gas 1st 5s.. 90 G9S
Potomac Flee. lst IS. ...... 100 NJ.
Potomac Flec. cons. 5s.... GOA. 100i4
Potomac Elec. 6s 1853. 106h -.
Pot FL. Pow. z. m. & ref IS 100 .....
Wash. Alex. & Mt. V. 5s... - ...
Wash Alex. g. Mt. V. eff. 10 $500
Wash Bait. & Annapolis 5s. 65 80.
Washington Gas 6s........ 100 49,.
Washington Gas IS. s........ 1891 i04
wsshington Rwy. & Eiec. As. SII, So
Nashington RWy. & Elec. 6s. IO2 q ..
Evening star., 1926-03-27

General Motors has less than one
months supply of cars in the hands
OF dealers. Ford output is being
steadily maintained. But employment
in automobile manufacturing centers
shows "a slight drop, although well
above the level of this time last year.
Steel men with long experience ex'
press an optimistic feeling as TO the
second quarter business. They an
ticipate that orders leading to
huge tonnage Of production will be re-
leased after Easter. Any decline in
new building construction projected
has been counteracted by the activity
on old jobs released by Spring
weather.
Contracts awarded have shown
marked gain as compared with last
year. Labor costs are advancing, out
this has not served to check EN-
plovment. Lumber prices are fairly
stable and new business, productlon
and shipments are above the records
established in 1925. The trend OF
bricl, prices and other material quota
tions are upward.
Announcement that the usual CUT
in anthracite coal prices would be
DELAYED until Midsummer has not
served TO stimulate buying. ana III
some centers dealers have themselves
made and absorbed the usual seasonal
reduction to obViate possible Feoeht-
ment on the part of the pubic
Clothing prices are moving uo"h'
ward along with costs or materlais'
and in general the woolen and cot
ton textile situations leave much 10
he desired, so far as manufacturers
are concerned. In the non-ferrous
metals, copper has reflected the plain
intention on the part of many pro
ducers to let George do 1t, When IL
comes to restricting output, Lead has
been in demand and at fair pre-
MUM, while zinc and silver nave
shown dullness.
Heavy Fruit Production.
Crop prospects indicate heavy
production of perishable fruits and
Vegetables and grain paintings, held
back because Of bad weather last Fall
promise a heavy yield Of Spring
wheat. Efforts to restrict cotton
acreage have not met enthusiastic
response and 1t will be really up to
the weather to determine whether the
South will turn out another huge crop
or not.
Sugar, with the Cuban mills in full
production, has been humping the
bottom Of the price thermometer, but
consumption bids fair TO be heavier
than ever before.
The practice of installment buying
is undoubtedly on the increase and
TO this in part Is attributed a slight
slackening of sales among the chair
stores and mail order houses.
Evening star., 1926-03-27

Continued from Eighth PAGE
Evening star., 1926-03-27

Mrs. Arthur L. Whitney and Miss
Margaret Whitney of Garden City,
Long Island, are in Washington. and
are guests at the Mayf1ower.
Evening star., 1926-03-27

Mrs. Hattie Dickinson, widow OF
DR.. James A. Dickinson, after
spending the Winter in California, has
returned to her apartment in Klingle
Mansions.
Evening star., 1926-03-27

Mr.. Will Bradley, artist and author
of Short Hills, N. j., accompanied b!
today, and while in the city will sta.
at the Mayf1ower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-04

At right: Mabel Walker
Willebrandt, Assistant At
torney General. and her
adopted daughter, Dor
othy.
g Harris & Ewing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-04

Miss Katherine Wiley of
Gal E street northeast, recently
elected president of the Alpha
Chapter of the Theta Pi So
rority.
Photo by Brooks
At Right: Miss Lillian Marie
Roper, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin A. Roper of East Orange,
N. J., formerly of Washington,
whose engagement to Arthur An
ton Rupert of this city has just
been announced.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
UnsUise to Disregard
Dancer in Liqhtnina

There are cases of persons having
garments torn by lightning while they
themselves have suffered no serious
harm. The body Is largely composed
Of water, and If the clothing is dry the
bolt will pass through the body. If
the clothing is saturated the bolt may
follow the clothing instead Of the
body. 1t is advised by some that any
one caught in q thunderstorm in the
wilds should immense himself in order
to saturate his garments, or, II this
be impossible, to expose himself fully
to the rain in order to be drenched at
once.
There are few manifestations of ma
lures power more awe inspiring and
at the same time more fascinating
than q violent thunderstorm. Com
paratively few adults acknowledge a
feeling Of terror in the presence of
this majestic display. There is, how
ever, distinct difference between
fear and caution. The danger from
lightning is never great, but it exists
and 1t should be reduced as nearly
as possible to the vanishing point.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
HUGE FUND STARTED FOR
COLORED SOCIAL WORK
Continued from page u

CONTINUED from page u
girls generally"
Further, the Association proposes
to prepare children between eight
and twenty-one years for the battle
of life through vocational training;
to have representatives visit prisons,
to encourage patriotism; and to send
representatives into homes with the
end of improving home conditions.
In addition to the home it hopes
to acquire, the Association also plans
to establish an athletic field and farm
plot of more than 100 acres outside
of New York.
The home will include swimming
pool, library equipped with Negro
literature and songs, and an auditori-
UNI and other features. A regular
course of study will be instituted.
Cadet and scouting movements will
be encouraged and mixed band of
twenty-five boys and twenty-five girls
will be organized.
A series of Sunday lectures are
planned, to be given by prominent
speakers and to be aimed particular
ly at Negro youth.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
|Weds Girl Who Found
!. So, 500 Purse He Los,

| New York.-Andrew Ragone mar
ried an honest and modest girl. Her
name before the ceremony at the
Roman Catholic church was Miss Rose
DiConco.
! Three years ago Ragone set out
from his restaurant in Spring street
for the Chatham and Phenix bank on
Broadway, carrying wallet contain
ing $4,000 to deposit. When he reached
the bank the wallet was gone.
, With little hope that so much ready
cash would be returned he advertised
In newspapers, offering q reward for
its return. The next day a girl called
at his restaurant. 1t was Miss d.
CONGO. She had found the wallet.
Ragone produced the promised re-
ward Of $500 and offered 1t to her. She
refused to take it. She agreed, how
ever, to 60 to dinner with him. Friend
ship in the course of time ripened in
to love.
And the rest" Ragone stated. "is
history"
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
College Girl Writes
With Pencil In Teeth

New York.-Although unable to pse
her hands, Henrietta Eidelsheim, has
passed through primary and high
school and now is student at Hunter
college, doing all her written exer-
cisss with a pencil held in her teeth.
Her dream is to be designer or
journalist, In which careers she
would have to put her pencil to
more delicate use than she did In
school.
Henrietta is inclined to think she
has done nothing unusual in triumph
ing over such a handicap.
people talk as though what have
done Is remarkable" she said, but
It never occurred to me. could not
use my hands to write and had to
write to 60 to school and having moth
ing else used my teeth"
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
Old Turkish Capital
I Presents Ttuo Vietus

Approaching Constantinople one
may get the impression that 1t either
Is the worlds most beautiful city or
that It is the most squalid city on
earth, depending upon whether It IL
approached from the sea or the land.
From the land the city's $50 mosques
and minarets, its 500 palaces and gar
dens, rising In the form Of an amphi-
theater above the Golden Horn. give
1t the appearance of the type Of
oriental city described in the Arabian
Nights, says q. Alexander Powell in
the American Magazine.
Alexander Won Humboldt, noted
traveller and student Of nature, de-
clared Constantinople was one of the
three most beautiful cities In the
world, Naples and salzburg being the
other two. Lord Byron also extolled
Constantinople's position as being in
comparable to any he had ever seen.
The historical interest that abounds
In Constantinople even surpasses, for
many, that Of it's beauty. The city's
history extends back nearly 5000
years. Since the corn-laden galleys
from the Black sea glided through
the Hellespont in the days Of Darius
and Alexander, and the Phoenicians
moved In from the Marmora sea,
down to the present time. when g.
gantic battleships swing at their moor
iugs Off seraglio point, Constantinople
has been an object Of desire for am
bilious military leaders and land-seek-
ing nations.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
Noiseless Plane Secret
L. Guarded by French

Paris.-French military aviation au.
ithorities are guarding with the closest
secrecy the new invention Of a silent
'airplane propeller enabling noiseless
night bombing raids. If this proves
successful, anti-aircraft artillery will
be unable to find target at the ire
,mendous heights raiding machines fly,
which is far above the reach Of the
most powerful searchlights.
Heretofore, anti-aricraft fire was d.
rected by microphones detecting the
sound Of the propellers and actuatins
the range finders and directors
The new air screw Is metal made
from q solid forging. Its silence is
believed to be due to the absence Of
tip hukes and the keen leading edges
of the propeller blades whose knife
like sharpness enables them to cut
the air with the least possible dis
turbance. With the propeller's whir
silenced, the manufacturers can muf.
ne the motors.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
ChiIds Cost to Parents

One Of the lie Insurance companies
estimates that q child costs $6,15O
This includes birth and expense until
he is eighteen years old. This rota! is
reached by adding to the initial "cost
Of being born" estimated at $3.50, the
sums Of $4,000 for food, $1,620 for
rent, reckoning the share Of the child
as one-sixth of the total so expended {;
$500 for fuel and light, 1851 fer furni-
ture and household maintenance, $14i
for FIRST cost of installation Of the
home, and for clothing 1912 for a boy
and s1.oo2 for a girl
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
Asked for IL

Said the teacher: NOW, boys, quad
ruped and biped, you know, are two
kinds Of animals. Quadruped, animal
with four legs, such as COW, elephant
and horse. Biped, animal with two
legs, such as-well, ah- Yes, there
is a biped'-pointing to a picture of
q goose on the wall-"and am a
biped, and you are all bipeds. Now,
what am II"
A breathless pause, then one Of the
bipeds answered, "A goose, sirr
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
KILLS HOME.BREAKER

New York, July 23.-David King,
postofice clerk, shot and killed Ches-
ter Bagley last week when he alleges
that he found Bagley in bed with his
wife, Mrs. Frances King. Both men
are well known and respected in
church and fraternal circles. King
is being held without bail on charge
of homicide.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
Robs Fiancee's Home
Day Before Weddins

San Francisco.-Private william
Jensen, medical corps, q. 8. A., and
stationed at the Preside here, was
scheduled to appear before minister
Ito wed Miss Helen Hoeing. But all
wedding plans temporarily were sus-
pended when Jensen appeared in the
police court to plead guilty to a
charge Of having burglarized the
home Of his prospective mother and
father-in-law the night before.
! Jensen confessed that after taking
his fiancee and her parents to thea
ter he had escorted his guests home
and later had returned and stolen
some jewelry and an overcoat be-
longing to a brother of his fancee
! He called at his fancee's home with
part of the stolen articles. He told
his fancee and her family that he had
observed a man trying to burglarize
the premises and had overpowered the
Intruder and recovered part of the
loot after q terrific stSuggle.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
-~ THE
Spof Light
BY Johnny Walton

The st. Paul kittenball team de-
feated the Phyllis Wheatley team at
Minnehaha Falls for the Twin Cities
championship by the score of lis.
Vassar for st. Paul pitched won
derful game. Hilyard and Wilson
played strong game for st. Paul.
Bryant P. Hughes and H. Gibbs
played a good game for Minneapolis.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
Back Seat" Driving
Ruled Divorce Caus,

Ean Francisc0.-"Back seat"
automobile driving Ii q Just
cause for divorce. The Su-
preme court Of California has
ruled 30, In q case here.
Claude II. Hartman sued for q
divorce on the ground that his
wife. Jessie. belittled his ability
a. a driver by constantly telling
him from the back seat Just how
he should negotiate the danger
Gus curves ahead.
A lower court refused to grant
a divorce, and Hartman appealed
to the Supreme court. The de-
cree was granted.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
GIANT FLASHLIGHTS
ROCK WHOLE CITIES
Aerial Photographers Use
Powerful Light Bombs.

:
ton photographer says "Hold til"
and pulls the chain of his fash pan,
he discharges only a pinch or two of
fashlight powder. But when Lieut..
George w. Goddard, army aviator,
takes nashlight Of a city he ex-
plodes bombs measuring as much as
ten feet in length and weighing as
much as fifty pounds.
The defamation is SO great that 1t
is not a few frightened girls who
Jump and blink but a whole city that
is shaking and hundreds of thousands
Of eyes that are temporarily blinded.
Several night photographs from
airplanes have been taken Of Dayton
and Of Rochester, N. Y. Soon all Of
the nations greatest cities are to be
snapped" as gigantic bombs are re-
leased over them with their warlike
crash and rumble.
f. High Explosives Used.
The bombs are innocent looking af-
fairs, resembling bolts Of goods In q
department store, but under the folds
Of cloth are separate compartments
loaded with special high explosive
powders concocted to give quick
brilliant light. Each Of the compart-
ments is connected to an electric fuse
which explodes them all simultane-
ously.
The bombs are carried under the
fuselage of the airship and are
dropped by the working Of a lever as
the plane reaches the designated
point. There IL first q discernible
stream Of sparks as the fuse burns
and six seconds later comes the flare.
So efficiently are the bombs con-
lstructed and SO accurately timed,
that, although Of such large proper.
Itions, they are exploded completely in
as brief a space Of time as one-flf-
teenth Of q second. So complete Is
the explosion that there Is no after
glow.
Too Quick for Human Eye.
Never has the minutest bit Of the
bombs covering been found after
ward. The fash is SO quick that al
though persons on the ground see
the illumination 1t causes, they do
not actually see the flare itself. 1t
ID too quick for the human eye.
In Dayton and Rochester photogra-
pliers also were stationed at various
points on the ground, in spires and
on tall buildings to take panoramas Of
the surrounding country by the light
of the bursting bomb. Some Of these
pictures have been exceptionally clear
and have Appropriated daylight pho
Geographic work. The Photographic
plates are usually exposed when the
warning trail Of sparks is seen and
are left exposed until after the fare.
The shutters on the cameras car
risd by the planes in the test flights
are usually four times as fast as
those on the average commercial cam
era. Some Of these cameras are be-
tween four and i've feet long with So
inch lenses, measuring nine inches In
diameter. They take photographs
measuring nine by twenty-three inches.
The usual height at which these pic
lures are taken is 5000 feet.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24

Opportunity-The golden moments
in the stream of life rush past us,
and we see nothing but sand; the
angels come to visit us, and we only
know them when they are gone
George Eliot.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24

The st. Paul Echo maintains a
branch Office at The Economy Mar
ket, 902 9Th Ave. No., Minneapolis.
For the convenience of readers living
on the North Side, any business for
the Echo can be transacted with Mrs.
Cabbell at the Economy Market. Hy-
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24

HEAR A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH
SUNDAY, JULY 25, at UNITARIAN
CHURCH, LA SALE at Sth St.,
MINNEAPOLIS, at 3:3OP. NJ.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24

Flowers are the sweetest things
that God ever made and forgot to put
soul into.-H. w. Beecher.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
Trees Liue Long

Thomas Parr, who lived to be one
hundred and fifty-two years old, Is
credited with a record, but this Ion
gevity, as well as that Of all other
members Of the animal kingdom, is
easily surpassed by those Of the vege-
table kingdom. The life of the great
forest trees varies from 100 to as much
as 5000 years, says London Tt-Blts.
Cypress trees are said to live for $50
years, ivy $50, chestnut 600, cedar 800,
oak 1000 to 1900 years, yew $500 and
the baobab tree 5000 years.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to acknowledge with sin
cere thanks the kindness shown us
during the illness of our son, Herman
Few, by our many friends and rel
atives. Also Anderson Circle, for the
sympathizing letter. We are glad to
say he is now up and getting along
fine.
MR.. AND MRS. S. l.. FEW.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
COMING
ATTRACTIONS
Big Barbecue, Aug. 4, given by the
Royal Circle of Friends. On Rondo
near Kent st.

Barbecue, Friday, August 6, Grotto
and w. Central, by the Ladies' Aid
Society of Pilgrim Baptist church.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24

Give according to your means, or
God will make your means according
to your giving.-John Hall.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24

MR.. AND MRS. S. L. FEW.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-07-24
Houses for Rent.

FOUR-ROOM. modern fiat. pleasant
and convenient. Call Colfax 2499.
The Alaska fisherman. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1923-1932, 1926-12-15

run was not general. While
there was a heavy run of he
ring in Southeast Alaska during
September, practically no fish
were packed as most of the
outfits had closed down early
in the month. The difficulty
of making a count suitable to
the buyers, has caused packers
in this district to turn their
attention to the manufacture of
oil and meal as a more profit
able enterprise. The total
Southeast Alaska pack to Sept.
80 is conservatively estimated
at little over 10000 half bar
rels and 500 full barrels, one
of the smallest packs in the
history of the industry.
Herring Market Active
The herring market still con-
tinues strong, although there
was a temporary depression
late in September due to the
report of good fishing at Sell
dovia. New pack goods are be-
ing moved out almost as fast
as received, recent sales of Sell
dovias being made at around
$35. With the exception of a
few odd lots, which are being
held for speculation, the Kodiak
pack has been entirely cleaned
up at prices ranging around
$50. Three or four carloads of
Southeast Alaska are still un-
sold, but are being moved out
gradually at around SO and $40
for halves. Eastern buyers are
still in Seattle, but are plan
ming. to return to New York
about the middle of October
after the Cook Inlet fall pack
has been completed.-Pacifc
Fisherman.
CnahcnMSha e. L
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govern them be JUST?"

presumption Of the American
Legion that they contain all
the 1000 Americans and pa
triotism especially since the
majority of that organization
in Sitka were not volunteers
but drafted men, and then I
claimed that patriotism was just
as much the motive of Indian
citizens as any other group of
men, and proclaimed the fact
that the ex-service men with
the longest term of actual ser
vice on the front line Of France
were men of Indian decent, at
least one man with 18 months
in the front line trenches, and
another (of Sitka itself) Of
three years in Europe.
Gle denounced Henry O'Mal-
ley, u. S. Commissioner of
Fisheries, as the crooked tool
of capitalists"
The word "Crooked" was
not used
"And accused Secretary Of
Commerce Hoover of extending
special favors to the cannery-
men,"
I said just that, but added
that this aid came thru the
orders and with the advice Of
Henry O'Malley. My position
in regards to this question is
so we'll known that I need not
repeat it. Every fishermen on
Chatham Straits knows about
the case of Saginaw Bay.
took exception to the ethics
of the so-cal1ed "White Pres
byterian church of Sitka" in
advertising that Indians are
not welcome there as being
discrimination totally foreign
to the doctrines of Christ. I
had in mind the situation of
last summer when the trustees
of that church refused to al
low the native children to hold
Sunday School services there
,xzhAn their own h11i1diaoc WAS
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THE MENACE"
An Open Letter
Editor Sitka Progress;

18th as above entitled written
by Eiler Hanson, an employee
of the Department of Agricul-
ture, would have carried more
weight if it were true report
of what I actually said. In
stead, the writer has written
his own views, changing to
suit his own purposes.
Allow me to review the
speech and the article.
Paul slurred the American
Legion openly and brazenly."
Mr.. Hanson might better
have quoted my language and
let the reader determine for
himself if I slurred the Amer
lean Legion openly and brazen-
ly. What I said was this;
"The American Legion for
political purposes, endorsed
literacy test for voters. The
American Legion cannot square
that endorsement with the
Declaration of Independence,
that great document of Amer
lean liberties. 1t is in direct
conflict with the second para
graph; 1--WE hold these truths
to be self evident that all men
are created equal, endowed
with certain inalienable rights
:; $ $ that to secure these ends
governments we're instituted
among men, deriving their
JUST powers from the CON-
SENT of the GOVERNED"
Then I went on to suppose
(for argument only) that there
were 1000 illiterate natives.
"Are these natives not govern
ed? Of course they are. If
you take away the elective
franchise from them, will they
be GOVERNED with their
CONSNT? Of course not. If
you govern them without their
consent, will your power to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-07
WASHINGTON.

Driving
out the
devils with
fire.
crackers"
An
incident
of the
celebration
of the
Chinese
New Year
in San
Francisco.
@ Underwood
Il Underwood.