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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-13
RIGGS BANKERS
ON OUTING
By RICHARD HATTON

There are many evidences tnAt
business in Washington. as well as
in many other sections of the coun.
try Is more than holding its own as
the middle Of. November is reached.
Local retail stores are reporting a
volume of business quite equal to
that done during the same week of
1925 and retail advertising indicates
that prices of most commodities are
well below last year.
Local indications, as well as fore.
casts for the country at large. point
to brisk selling from now on until
the end OF the year.
According to the weekly statement
Of the Department Of Commerce. the
distribution OF goods as seen from
figures on carloadings was the larg
est ever recorded for the last week
In October and this indicates clearly
that there is a continuing healthy
demand throughout the country.
They are having great time at
esSleepy Hollow" up the Potomac
this afternoon. The Riggs Bank
Club is staging its annual oyster
roast anc, according to reports
from the front" there is nobody
sleepy and nobody hollow.
About 100 members of the banks
club Journeyed to the neighborhood
of Great Falls for the party which
to a glorious close at 9 o'clock to-
night.
The afternoon is being spent In
games and other out-of-door amuse-
ments. The oyster roast and a
buffet supper viii be served about
8 o'clock and the evening spent in
dancing in the banks clubhouse.
Two surprise acts will be put on
during the evening, one by the
young women and one by the young
men of the club.
Several of the officers Of the
bank Joined the younger members
Of the staff in the early afternoon.
Arrangements for the outing and
entertainment are in charge OF the
following committee: r. e. Haycock
chairnnan: Miss Mildred Archer,
Miss Mildred Hoeke, w. r. Rankin,
II. S. King. w. II. Taylor. and P.
N. Garnet.
The Mt. Vernon Savings Bank is
preparing to issue monthly publ
cation which viii appear on Jan
nary /. and will contain news items
and other matter of interest to the
bank and its many friends and
patrons. The publication will BE-
issued under the title of The
Mount Vernon News and will have
an attractiveIy designed cover. 1t
will serve as a medium through |
which the public and the personnel
Of the institution viii be brought |
into closer touch.
President John B. Cochran, OF /
the Franklin National Bank has re-
turned from a short but successful,
hunting trip in Virginia.
Vice President Francis g. Addison. |
OF the Security Savings and Com
mercial Bank, is away today in |
dulging in his favorite sport of bird |
shooting at his old home place in
Prince George County. Md.
Miss Jane Kraus, assistant
cashier of the international Elk
change Bank, who has been con-
fined to her home by illness, Is
back at her desk In the bank today.
Eugene E. Thompson. OF Crane,
Paris and Company, chairman of
the board OF the Washington Stock
Exchange. is member Of the BOAR d
of governors of the Associated
Stock Exchanges recently in con
vention in st. Louis.
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N. Y. COTTON Market
Ry InternationaI Now servlc.

NEW YORK. Nov. 13.-The cot
ton market opened steady today.
Initial prices were from points
lower to 2 points higher. December
opened at 1850, down o.; January.
1912. up % and March 1892, down
O3
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-13

Vice President Francis g. Addison.
OF the Security Savings and Com
mercial Bank, is away today in
duIging in his favorite sport of bird
shooting at his old home place in
Prince George County. Md.
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Short Term Securities

FURNISHED by w. b. Hibbs Il Coz
Bid. As"
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Liberty Bonds

Furnished bv w. n. Hibba & COZ
I,niberty Shs. due i947. $1OO13
Liberty lst AVS due 1947.. 1915
Liberty END ILs due 1912 -. 10O19
Liberty ard AS due 1928 1900 1O1.OA
Liberty 4(h ais dine i929 = lO2.36
u. s. Treasury ctfs. due l9S2le los. 81
U. S. Treasury ctfs., due 1851. 1O4.GT
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President John B. Cochran. Of
the Franklin National Bank has re-
turned from a short but successful,
hunting trip in Virginia.
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CHICAGO stocks

egurni.hsa u v. =. lllses 4 CO,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-13

Everybody can own car IL they
will take advantage OF the offers made
in good used cars listed in Times ind
Herald Classified Ads,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-13

Miss Jane Kraus, assistant
cashier of the international Elk
change Bank, who has been con-
fined to her home by illness, Is
back at her desk In the bank today.
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Local Stocks
w. w. SPAID
FURNISHED By W. b. aibbs . Coz
SALES

Furnished By W. b. iibbs q Coz
SALES
Anocostia and Potomac r. r. SIS.
81, 000@96.
washington Gas SIS, $1,000 @1014&.
Washington Gas 6's, '33, 5000
1921.
Washington Gas Light, 1902.
10@72, 5@72.
Washington Railway & Electric.
preferred, 10090%.
FEDERAL American Co., common.
4@391k.
AFTER CALL
Washington Railway & Electric.
preferred. 50090B. 50@S1.
Washington Gas 6's, '33. $1,000
102A, SOCIOLOGY, S500@10215.
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Eugene e. Thompson, OF Crane,
Paris and Company, chairman of
the board OF the Washington Stock
Exchange. is a member Of the board
of governors of the Associated
Stock Exchanges recently in con
vention in st. Louis.
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stand on the religious question, have
been released on 1000 pescos bail,
except Dolores Lemus, city hall
stenoghapher, who was unable to
produce bail. Senorita Lemus. first
to be arrested when the authorities
discovered the conspiracy, expects to
be able soon to obtain bail.
The small amount Of bail, and the
fact that the prisoners were released
at all, is taken as indication of the
authorities conviction that the af-
fair was not serious.
No crowds gathered around the
cathedral, or other places of worship
today. The Guadalupe shrine was
comfortably filled with worshippers,
the majority Of them Indian women,
but there were no crowds waiting
outside, and always plenty Of room
could be found inside.
The steps approaching the altar
were covered with flowers, for the
most part withered clusters of wild
flowers plucked by the roadside by
the Indians and carried for long dis
blooms were offered to the Virgin OF
Guadalupe, the Indians favorlte
saint.
Outside the churches numerous
little stands, for the sale of food and
drink and religious souvenirs, closed
last week, had reopened for business.
These stands last Sunday each bore
a crepe bow Of mourning. Today
many of the bows which had dropped
off had not been replaced.
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Many World NOtables
In Obscure English
Grill

Chicago, Aug. S.-(P)-Hidden be-
meath the cornIces of towering build
ings which flank it, little grill room
deep in the business district, unknown
to most of the thousands who pass 1T
daily, has won wide repute as one OF
the notable eating places of either
hemisphere.
1t is st. Hubert's English grill, and
its staunch oaken tables have been
spread to many a son of the crown
sojourning in mid America.
From its ceilings hang two hun
dred English pipes, through whose
clay stems the smoke of rare tobac-
COS has been drawn by Adventures
from around the world. Charles
Dickens, son of the novelist, found
hospice within its rough-hew gran
tie walls, and Henry Irving and Sir
Thomas Upton have come through
it's broad oak door to find what they
declared to be a genuine English
mutton chop.
A Chicago clubnlan, Willard Cen
tleman, long since deceased, founded
the grill in token to a fancy for
English foods. Finished in English
style, it is adorned with tapestries,
prints, oils and tableware of rare
origin.
The pipes were collected at the be-
hest Of Capt. Robert Forhan, English
short story writer. Under his spon-
sorship the Adventures club, a group
Of globetrotters, gathered at the grill
to trade tales .of the seven seas, with
many noted traveller as their guest,
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dent Monroe, you would feel otherwise
about the American continent.
If France were to disappear I'M
der the blows of her enemies and
of her sworn friends " (this word
friends is placed in quotation marks
by Clemenceau himself), there
would remain Of her a name to be
proud of.
Wherein have we failed to fulfill
all the demands Of duty? Ought we
to have surrendered our fortresses
to Germany when she demanded
them from US under penalty of a
declaration of war? Will anyone get
up and say we have done nothing
but submit to the inevitable? Does
Verdun prove we have fought badly ?
Yes, we have thrown everything
into the abyss-blood and money
as England and the United States
did on their side; but it was Frances
territory that was devastated scien-
tifically. For three deadly years we
awaited this declaration from Amer
lea, France is the frontier of lib
erty'-three years of blood and
money oozing from every pore.
Come to our villages and read
the endless lists of their dead and
make comparisons, if you will. Was
this not a bank account, the loss
Of this vital force of youth?
las Russia did at Brest- Litovsk,
America made separate peace with
Germany without even the slightest
suggestion of an adjustment with
her comrades in arms. That was
the blood truce with the common
enemy. Today, a money peace be-
tween the allied and associated pow
ers is being devised.
How is it we failed to foresee
what was coming? Why did we not
halt under the shells and convoke a
board meeting of profiteers to decide
the question whether it would allow
us to continue on defense of the fin
est conquest in the finest of his
tories? Must the myth of German
reparations lead up to American
cash collections?
II have spoken freely to the hon
ored head of a great people for
whom / have preserved for fifty
years my highest respect and friend
ship, because I believed that people
was destined to receive from the Old
World the torch of a great ideal of
humanity to carry on higher and
higher. 1t is now for that people
to pronounce judgment on itself.
can only offer the supreme homage
of my silence if 1 am mistaken.
with homage and my deep re-
spect, believe me. Mr.. President.
(Signed) "
GEORGES CLEMENCEAJT. -
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Collision Blocks
Traffic for Short
Time, Cars Damaged

Postoff1ce Square was the scene of
collision last evening at about 1880
O'Clock when a Chevrolet coupe driv.
en- by Raymond Pomeroy of Vassal-
boro, and a big Essex coach driven
by Louis o. Martin, State Armory,
Methuen, Mass, met to the ultimate
damage Of both cars.
Mr.. Pomeroy was rolling down
Main street while Mr.. Martin was
coming out of Elm when the accident
happened. Traffic was blocked for a
short time, due to the fact that the
Chevrolet's right front wheel was
bent into point where it could not
be readily Strengthened out, necessi-
tating the use of crow bars and sew
eral men to move it out Of the road.
The Essex coach sustained a badly
bent bumper.
Neither was travelling at an abnor-
NAL rate Of speed, the collision re-
sulting perhaps from a misunder-
standing Of just what the other fell
low was going to do. The matter
will probably be adjusted peacefully
between them.
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appointed by Director Jones as off,
cial stenographer and clerk. It will
be the aim of this department of
State Chamber of Commerce to keep
in touch with employers of labor
throughout the state in the hope of
finding for them needed employees and
in assisting to find work for the I'M
employed. In this endeavor the as
sistance of corporations, firms and
individuals throughout the state will
be solicited.
There are 46 states in which one
or more local public service stations
OF this character are conducted under
State and Federal supervision. With
Maine added to the list. Vermont is
now the only remaining New England
State which has not such a service.
Massachusetts has local public en-
ployment offices under State and
Federal supervision. Connecticut
five. New Hampshire and Rhode Is
land one each.
The officials in charge of the Great
Northern Paper Company's free labor
ogency at 60 Middle street, Portland,
have expressed an interest in the
project and have volunteered hearty
cooperation with the State Chamber
OF Commerce in the new work Just
being undertaken by the latter or
ganiZation,
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Weather Is 0. X.
Saws Weather Bureau

Washington, Aug. 7.-(H1-Those
who have been asking what's wrong
with the weather this year are not
likely to have their curiosity satisfied
by the Weather Bureau.
In the first place, the scientists
there say there is scarcely a more
abused expression in the language
than the term unusual weather.
Weather always is doing unusual
things, they say and If it wasn't, 1t
wouldn't be usual.
Not Remarkable" Half Year
Pressed further, they concede that
the spring and early summer of 1926
may have been a bit freakish, but
they refused to admit that, taken as
a whole the country over, the first
half of the year could really be called
very remarkable.
The observers summed up the sit
uation in about this way:
Spring was retarded in the north
east. Cool temperatures prevailed,
with few exceptions, until July, when
normal heat set in. Moisture\ was
deficient. Conditions improved,
however, early in the summer.
A Torrid Northwest
The Pacific Northwest, in June and
early July, suffered one of the most
torrid spells in it's history. This re-
gion, usually temperate throughout
the summer. sweltered under low
pressure area. All records were
broken at Portland, Ore, with a
temperature of 104.
Parts Of North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia were held in
the grip of an almost unprecedented
drought until the middle Of June.
Otherwise, the South had seasonal
weather. Conditions also were ap-
proximately normal in the huge ar "a
between the Mississippi and the
Rocky Mountains
East Cool, West Warm
While the South Atlantic seaboard
and central west lacked sufficient
rain during the spring, it came in
unwonted torrents in southern Cali
tornia.
The weather bureau officials are
reluctant to generalize, but one con-
dition they have noted SO often that
it has come to be automatic. When
extreme heat prevails in the western
half Of the country, the eastern half
is cooler, and vice versa. The same
divergence applies to cold.
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Plan to Establish
CONTINUED from Page One)


tablishment of a branch of that SER
vice in various lines of industry,
commerce and agriculture in Maine.
The Portland Chamber of Com
merce had been conducting free
employment bureau with much sue
cess, but the annual budget of that
organization was not sui1lclently
large to continue the service indeti-
nitely.
Director Jones took the matter up
with General Hersey, of the State OF
Maine Associates and with officers OF
the State Chamber Of Commerce,
both of which organizations recogni-
zed the need of such service, but the
only question was how it could be
handled and whence the funds for its
maintenance.
Director Jones submitted a propo-
sition which obligated the Federal
Government to furnish a stenogra-
pher, Office supplies, and a postal
granting privilege for the agent in
charge of such a bureau, providing
the State Department of Labor or
the cooperating organizations would
take care of the other expenses con-
rected with the service
The Governor and Council took an
interest in the matter and after sew
eral conferences it was agreed that
the State Chamber of Commerce
should take over this work as fea-
ture of it's State wide activities and
that it's secretary should be designa-
ted as the special agent in charge of
that department in connection with
his other duties in the Senate Cham
Der.
Commissioner Beals of the State
Department of Labod came to Port
land, had a conference with General
Hersey and the State Chamber of
Commerce officials and final plans
were made for the opening of the
employment Office Aug. 9, Secretary
\. L. 7. Cummings of the State
Chamber to be in general charge and
1f
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Tells of Good
Work Done by New
England Home Society

Mrs Parks, connected with the
r TUN OF the New England Home for
cue Wanderers in Waterville,
FFpsaAlhg OF the many physically I'M
o ot.te children who come to the
,ss.VeHt!on Of the relief workers, says
s 10, IN some cases there is such a
Sslles Of needs that it is a question to
co nUw "nere to begin. In a nearby
tbon tV there was a family where
tb ,oie were two babies living with
fst v.t parents and a sick relative. Both
Vet NET and mother were frail, under
T rTSa,lShed and unhappy individuals.
br0nse was not steady work for the
cn, nGasWlnner and no relatives who
bo S'G help. Worst of all both babies
ma nv Aarelip and cleft palates, which
eno uv II difficult for them to eat
nar, was not easy to persuade the
ssr,, that operations were neces-
the , oL out they finally consented, and
Eosn rnlidren went to the Children's
a rin gi'dl IN Boston. The older baby,
nn Sn, mad two operations and is.now
has t "a IN every way; the little boy
bac,, Nau one operation and is to so
Q0pht SSSO44Q, WHICH Will lO
maH gt be as successful as the first.
hesi.nss The child look normal and
tntnother case that has come to the
that t4 ~ of Miss Parks recently is
Of s,c oI baby boy. One of a family
bas sn: children, who was born with
Rum n ~. and badly deformed upper
live r,.. ihls child could not possibly
could g Without an operation, because he
tamiIrn NOT get enough food. In this
nothe, me father was out of work,
and tr with incipient consumption
tro,b Two other children had kidney
IN AL :, 1t was necessary to assist
ope ~ ,these needs before urging an
Of tb~ s 81, for the baby. Finally two
thew w o. older children realized that
ary e .ouid help and obtained temper
rs4i,lpIoyment to help pay for the
good "'ion and with the aid of some
churc, people attending the same
vas M no. with this family the operation
WERE made made possible and the results
will on very satisfactory, and this boy
kind fs;. lifetime of gratitude to the
out br H..sendS. and the workers sent
he Little Wanderers Home to
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July Construction
Tn New ENGLAND

Building and engineering contracts
were awarded last month to the
amount of $41,160,400 in New Eng
land, reports the F. w. Dodge Cor
poration. This was an increase of 6
per cent over June, 1925. However,
there was a decrease of 20 per cent
from July of last year. The more i'm
portant items in the July construc-
ton record were: S15,740,100, or IS
per cent of all construction, for resi-
Dental buildings; S3,014,000, or 10 per
cent for public works and utilities;
$4,93S,400, or IL per cent for educa-
tional buildings; S4,14S,200, or 10 per
cent, for commercial buildings; ST.
391, 300, or per cent, for religious
and memorial buildings; s2,067,600,
or per cent, for social and recrea-
tional projects; S1,265,50O, or per
cent, for hospitals and institutions;
and S1,24S,000. or per cent, for pub
lie buildings.
New England had s251,574,200 in
contracts for new construction work
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the huo cap. damaging the fender
ana rim. He saw the car 20 about
Ioo rect and diagonally across the
ROAD ana turn completely over. He
ana sIl MS brother rushed to render aid.
When nearing the car they heard a
man call for help and saw his leg
sucking out Of the car. With the
assistance Of some other men who
came along they lifted the man from
unuer the car. He said as soon as
gotten out. There's a woman on the
other side. They lifted the other
SIDE or the car and extricated a wo-
man. whom he later learned was Mrs.
Joseph Goulette.
pack. She had a bad cut on the
head and he sent for a towel to
Dandage 1t. He and his brother took
the baggage from their car and plac-
ed Mrs. Goulette on the back seat
and accompanied by Lowe, rushed
her to the Kennebec Valley hospital.
DR.. Left said he had driven a car
about 100000 and estimated that the
Marmon was going at least 40 miles,
probably more.
In cross examination, Left said that
he did not put out his hand as a
signal that he was going to turn be-
cause he had not started to turn;
that it was stationary when he look
ed around to see that the roads were
clear.
The second witness was Max Left,
whose testimony was similar to that
of the doctor. The third witness was
Maurice Magoon, a milkman, who
was returning to his farm on the Mo-
lunkus road. Mr.. Magoon said the
Marmon car passed him a very short
distance away from the scene of the
accident and that when it passed
him 1t was going not less than so
miles an hour in his best Judgment
and in an undertone he added, 1T
was going awfully." When asked
who was in the car he said that the
car was going so fast that he could
not see.
The fourth witness was Kenneth
Herrin, who had stopped his truck to
direct Left to Lakewood. He told of
the positions of his and the Left car
and stated that they were both we'll
out on the side of the road and sta
tionary when the Marmon car came
between them. He estimated the
speed at so miles. The fifth witness,
Carlton White, was at the home of
his mother. about 800 feet from the
accident. He saw the Marmon car
when it came between the two cars,
hit the Left car. slide and turn over
and assisted in getting the people
out but did not consider hiatt he was
near enough to make a statement
about the speed of the car.
Miss Blair told Of the nervous con-
dition of Lowe at the hospital and
said she heard Lowe say that he was
going about IS miles and that DIR.
Left, to whom Lowe was talking,
asked her if she heard the statement
that Lowe had made.
All the witnesses were given an
extensive cross examination by
Shumway. Miss Blair's testimony
closed the states evidence. At 4:3O
court adjourned and Judge Merrill,
Sheriff John w. Healey, officer
Cushman and two attorneys went to
the scene of the accident to make
further examination. The case was
continued until 10 o'clock Monday
forenoon. Mr.. Loves father, o. H.
Lowe, of Auburn, and Stanley NJ.
Cover, of Skowhegan, went bail for
loves appearance at that time.