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The Washington times., 1926-10-18
DRUMMER'S JOB HINGES
ON GIRLS HEART BEAT

For three weeks a drummer has
been tapping on a big African
jungle drum, trying to make a girls
pulse jump 10 beats a minute. He
has run it up to, five. If he makes
it 10 he gets a job. If he doesn't
he's through.
1t is the unique way John Benton,
New York night club king. has of
getting the right tone for his band
music. Benton has been engaged by
the board of governors of the Club
Pirates Den. now being organized by
service officers. Government Off
Gals, and business and professional
men. to manage their clubhouse.
Benton wants soft, low, weird.
whispering VoodoO music that makes
the blood Jingle. He tests the effect
on a girls pulse.
mo blaring. snarling. shrieking.
crashing jazz notes" Benton has de-
creed. "They cause indigestion,
ruffle the feelings, initiate against
real pleasure
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
Chicago Livestock

Hogs-Receipts. 81 900. Market
steady to 10c lower. Top, $14.
bulk. S11.50G13.S5; heavy weight.
S72.60014 medium weight. $1325M
1895: light weight. $12.90M13.Sj:
light lights. S11.75m13.40: packing
sows $10M 80: pigs. $11.25MI2.
Cattle-Receipts. Al 900. Market
25c 10 400 lower Calves: Receipts
5000. Market 25c lower. Beef
steers: Good ard choice $10i11:
common and medium, &7TT50; year
lngs. s7M12. Butcher cattle: Heif.
ers. $5.5oM11: cows. $4.7508; bulls.
S4.5On 50: calves. S12GI14: feeder
steers. SGm SIS; stocker steers. s.. 80
1850; stocker COWS and heifers
SlTt6. Western range cattle: Beef
steers. $6.50Q9. Cows and heifers.
t4.50M7.50.
Sheep-Receipts 90, 600 N1arkc4
steady. Medium and choice lambs
Fl3.50m14.50;- culls and common
S"911; warnings. $e011.50: com,
mon and choice ewes. $4M7: feeder
limbs. SD n1J19-5
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
$4,000 HOME
SHOW OPENS

A model city of business shops
and homes will be on exhibit in the
Washington Auditorium tonight at
the opening of the Better Homes
and Building Exposition. under the
auspices of the Washington Real
Estate Board
The exposition will be opened at
Z o'clock and will open each day
during the remainder of the week
at / D. M, closing at IL p. m.
The exposition will be composed
of about 100 booths.
The show will include everything
that goes to make up the modern
home. Down in the basement there
will be full-sized model house OF
the Spanish bungalow type. con.
tanning five rooms.
The house was built in record
time 1t took only II hours. Henri
de Sibour, of the De Sibour Con
struction Company, directed the
work.
One of the features of the show
will be music by Happy Walkers
Golden Pheasant Orchestra. An
other feature will be a series OF 16
lectures. two each afternoon and
night during the middle # the
week
Every phase of home building. in
Guiding financing. planning, build
ing, insuring and furnishing will be
demonstrated.
1t is estimated that the exposition
represents an outlay of a quarter
of a million dollars.
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
New York Cotton

NEW YORK, Oct. 18.-Fav Orable
weather conditions in most sections
of the cotton belt over the Weekend
and disappointing Liverpool cables
induced renewal of general selling
and liquidation in the local cotton
market today. Prices responded
after the call. with losses Of approx
mateIy 81 bale. forcing the Decem-
Der option to sell once more around
the 12l2c level.
The opening was disappointing
affair, only moderate demand com
ing from trade interests. New Or
leans and shorts which was insuffi-
cient to absorb the rapid offerings Of
the South commission houses, Wall
Street. spot and local traders.
Initial declines were extended into
the second period on continued pres
sure. Noon prices were: December
1870. down %; January 1917, down
%: March 1902. down %, and May
1923, down 20. The Liverpool market
closed quiet and steady. with October
at 6.7G; January. G.8%: May, 705; July,
40, and August. 1.l2.
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
RAILS RALLY IN
SECOND HOUR
By InternationaI News Service

IHIcEHdtAOn0A AFCNO fSCNtACS
NEW YORK, Oct. 1S.-Stimulated
by active buying of the railroad
stocks at slightly higher prices. in
dustrial stocks staged a moderate
rally at the beginning of trading
today, the incoming weekend sell
ing orders were apparently easily
absorbed, after which General Mo-
tors, Steel. and other well-known in
dustrial shares sold up two or three
points above Saturdays close. At
this level more selling was encoun-
tered, and the market was again
reactionary.
While the decline in prices has
improved the general technical posi-
ton of the market, it has caused a
large withdrawal of outside traders
from the bullish ranks, and for that
reason offerings of stock in recent
sessions have not been very well
received. The business summaries
today gave little promise of wide
expansion in American industry this
fall, though no shrinkage in pivotal
industry appears to be in sight.
Wall Street has taken the view that
this is distributing time for many
of the outstanding stocks, and looks
for no sharp rallies in them until
the process has been completed.
Saturdays bank statement showed
100000 decline in reserves,
but money market conditions were
practically unchanged, with call re-
newals at per cent and banks and
banks reporting a good volume of
funds available for stock market pur-
poses. Cotton slumped 81 bale.
A 5-point rally in Chesapeake and
Ohio to 172 in the second hour
stimulated active buying in the rail
road list, Nickel Plate advancing
points and New York Contra, III
Motor stocks also firmed up in that
period.
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
BAPTIST MEET
CONvENES

The general Baptist Conventio
among colored churches of the Dii
trict of Columbia and vicinity opene
its sixteenth annual session toda
at Salem Baptist Church. n Stres
Between Ninth and Tenth Stree
Northwest The Rev. DR.. r.
Grimes presided.
The morning was occupied wit
enrolment of delegates. appointmer
of committees and receiving repori
of the treasurer, statistician and eCi
vention committees.
The Rev. DR.. W. D. JernagiI
president of the convention, was tn
principal speaker in the afterno0
session when he delivered his al
nual address. He spoke upon tn
general theme of the cow ntioI
Christian Cooperation"
Miss Sarah r. Whetts will pr
side at the meeting tonight at
o'clock, which, will open with son
service
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
S4,259 IS TAKEN
BY THIEVES

Thieves during the weekend here
stole jewelry, clothing and personal
belongings totaling S4,25S in value.
Paul L. Sweeney. 3419 Wisconsin
Ave. y. W., special attorney tor
the Department of Justice. reported
the loss from his home of two dia-
mOnd rings, one valued at 81 500
and the other at 5000. and bar PIN
worth $3.50.
Leaving her diamond and ruby
ring in the rest room at the Dis
trict Building, Mrs. Janet H. Gattis,
1926 NJ st. n. W., returned a short
time later to find it gone.
Thieves stole clothing worth $500
from the home of Ernest Santan-
gini. 1877 F St. n. w.
Joseph Chase, manager of the
apartment house at Cpl Nineteenth
st. n. W.. reported the theft from
the lobby of Il red and green rug
and a mahogany tatie. 500 in
value
While his car was parked at Fiji
teenth Street and Pennsylvania Ave
nue. Northwest, Dr. John O'Brien,
5000 Connecticut Ave. n. w. lost
a case of surgical instruments worth
$125.
Elmer Schalz, 2100 I St. n. w,
lost a pistol and wine worth $73
Harvey d. Buck, of the Naval Air
Station, lost a camera valued at
800. John Irvine, 2141 Newport
Pl. N. w. lost clothing worth $50.
Mrs. Bell Frazier. of Rochester,
n. Y, while in front of 81 II St
n. E. was approached by a 15-year-
old boy, who grabbed her pocket
book containing $40 and made his
escape.
Frances 1sac, Colored, 3015 NJ ST.
y. w, reported that she was as
saulted by a colOred man and robbed
of SO. She gave police the name
of her aSsailant
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
DOM|N|ONS Of
BRITAIN NEE
By International News Service

LONDON, Oct. fS.-The BIRTHS
imperial conference. which is z:
pected TO make vital decisions -
empire matters. opens here tonol
row.
Some newspapers have drawn p
tention to the tendency of the Dt
minion to draw away from the EN-
pire ana have expressed the OPT
ion that the conference is bound
see the dissolution of the empire.
Premier Mackenzie King. of Car
ada, in an interview set at rest a
rumoFs, however, that Canada 4
considering annexation by III
United States.
THE talk of annexation is pdr
ly party politics and should not q
taken seriously Premier Mackenz
King said. sa
Trade questions viii be considers
and it is anticipated that imperh
preferential duties will be rein
posed on many commodities, pal
ticularly foodstuffs.
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
TENN. COLORED SCHOOL
NOW Is so YEARS OIL

Many Washington alumni I
Meharry Medical School, at Mas
vile. Tenn. have prepared to 81
tend the fiftieth anniversary of tia
institution. which opens Octob'
20 and ends October %.
Maharry is the medical depai
ment to Fisk University. and rant
second in size to Howard Universit
Hundreds of its graduates throug
out the country are expected
gather there during the celebrate,
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
BOTTLE OF GIN CAUSES
ARREST OF ]. T. BECG. JR

\ little party" in a Columbia
Road lunch room wound up at the
Tenth Precinct Police Station for
James r. Begg, jr., son of Represen-
tative Begg of Ohio. in the wee
sma' hours yesterday morning.
Beeg. who is II years old, was
charged with possession of a bottle
of gin
He was released on $50 collateral
for a hearing in Police Court to-
day. Sergeant Macdonald and
Private Tolson called during the
party" made the arrest.
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
A. r. HEINRiCH'S HORSE
WINS TITLE AT HURDLES

A. r. Heinrich's horse. Crescent,
won the title of cup defender" yes
terday in the weekly hurdle event
staged in Rock Creek Park by the
Rock Creek Hunt Club.
In a special competition against
the former titleholder, Becky Sharp,
Crescent took the hurdles perfectly
twice. lie duplicated this feat "A
third time against a field of 10
horses
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
GOES ON TRIAL FOR
BEATING MAN TO DEATH

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 1S.-Fred
A. McAloon, charged with beating
Bruce Phelps, local gambler. to
death. will go on trial here Friday
on a manslaughter charge.
McAloon. who is the general agent
here for the State Life Insurance
Company of Indiana, is alleged 20
have caused Phelps death by the
beating he gave him in an alleged
quarrel over Il racing bet.
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTS
Will HEAR JARDINE

Secretary Of Agriculture w. NJ.
Jardine will address a joint meeting
of the Association of Official Agri-
cultural Chemists. the Association
Of Dairy, Food and Drug Officials
and the Association of Feed Control
Officials at the New Willard Hotel
Wednesday,
The affiliated organiza tons are
holding their fOrty-second annual
meeting here this week.
At todaY's session of the Agri-
cultural Chemists. technical papers
and reports were presented dealing
with the past years work.
The National Fertilizer Associa.
ton, meeting in conjunction with
! III" convention OF Agriculture
| Chemists. viii hold its annual din
! ner at the Willard tonight,
The Washington times., 1926-10-18

Local Stocks

FURNISHED by w. B. Hibbs & Cob
Washington Railway and Electric,
preferred, 10@S9A.
Riggs National Bank, 34 444.
Merchants Transfer and Storage
common, 10@113.
Merchants Transfer and Storage,
preferred, 100000, 5000.
Peoples Drug Stores. preferred,
5610S.
Georgetown Gas 5s. $4,000 99A
AFTER CALL
Potomac Electric Power, preferred,
10I075s.
Union Trust Company, 7@225.
Washington Railway and Electric
G.. & r. IS, 81 ,5004102%
Federal American National Bank.
30313.
Money-call loans. 5Q6 per cent.
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
Q <. Asked On New Line

~ ""l"r 10 tan LARGE timber ana
coy resources in West Virginia
ire S-""ll VALLEY Railroad asked
70 Interstate Commerce Commits.
SION tn1av for authority to con
F-rn"t branch line from Ruper,
~ D"' w. Va. The line will be
> miles long.
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
DIVORCED BY WIFE,
BELGIAN KILLS Sci

ROCK ISLAND. H., Get /
When he learned that his wife
Belgium had divorced him, MedaI
van Hobbeke. 80. crawled into a
oven at the Rock Island Met
Foundry. where he worked, ar
turned on the gas.
Fellow workers found his body
few hours later.
The Washington times., 1926-10-18
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. oct. lS.~-Initial
prices in the local cotton market
were % TO 81 points lower today.
December opened at $3.50, down
80: January $I2.G8. down 80, ana
March, $1,000, down %.
The Washington times., 1926-10-18

Don't just THINk-BUY. Many
worthwhile homes for sale are listed
in the classified ads of The Times
and Herald
The Washington times., 1926-10-18

Young S & t.. 9115 8ll< 8115 8lA
HOURLY SALES
liam I3 noon pm. 2p.m. Sp.m
54S,900 94G,4
High Low Clos
Money ,,............. Az
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-25

that progress can only come as the
result of the application of consider
able energy to the task of organiza-
ton.
Those who control the lives of the
wage earners will not surrender that
control voluntarily. They will only
yield when they are compelled to yield
by power intelligently directed.
The industrial autocrat may conceal
his power and exercise caution when
the workers are aroused, but behind
the velvet glove of his "benevolence'
is the iron fist. He fills his plant
with spies while he assumes pater-
nalistic attitude with his company
union, stock ownership and bonus
schemes.
Back of all of his behavior, how
ever, is the determination to control.
He objects to the workers having a
voice in determining the conditions
of labor, the one thing which dis
tinguishes a free man. No man can
be free who exercises no control over
the means whereby he lives. Organ
ization brings in some measure such
control.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-25
BROOM MANUFAC-
TURERS' PRISON.
LABOR POLICY

Chicago, Ill.-The Western Broom
Manufacturers Association at it's re-
cent session protested against prison
made goods and urged every manu-
facturer, dealer and grower to urge
members of congress to enact the bill
allowing the states to control ship
ment of prison-made goods coming
into each state.
The association then declined to ac-
cept the plan submitted by Will R.
Boyer, secretary treasurer, Broom and
Whisk Makers international Union,
fef the organization of the broom
making industry, employers and work
ers, to carry on joint campaign to
eliminate prison labor competition.
"While the association did not take
on our proposition" states Secretary
Boyer, eve set them thinking and
results are sure to follow"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-25
RAIL MEDIATION
BOARD APPOINT
ED BY COOLIDGE

Washington. ~ President Coolidge
has appointed four out of five mem
bers of the board Of mediation Gre
ated by the Watson-Parker act to ad-
just railroad labor disputes.
Those selected were former Repre-
sentative Samuel E. Winslow, of
Massachusetts, for a term of five
years; former Gov. Edwin P. Morrow,
of Kentucky, for four years; G. Wal
lace Hanger, of the District of Co.
lumbia, for two yaers, and Hywel
Davies, of California, for one year.
Winslow is former chairman of
the house interstate commerce COM
mittee. Morrow and Hanger were
both members Of the "public group"
Of the defunct railroad labor board
Davies was formerly president of the
kentucky Coal Operators Associa-
ion and is now conciliator in the
United States department Of labor.
The salary of the board members |
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
TRADE UNIONIsT IN JAIL

Founders of the Republic who really
had faith in liberty (some of them
didn't believe in liberty except for the
select few must have turned over in
their graves when they heard that
SO women and men had been sent
to jail in Chicago for alleged vio-
lations of orders issued by a notorious
injunction judge during strike of
garment workers.
1t is hard to realize Jnat men and
women still go to prison in this sup
posedly free country for not obeying
orders of judge. The nation has
travelled far from the path marked
out for it by Thomas Jefferson and
other great champions of democracy
to permit such judicial tyranny. The
news from Chicago is fact, not fic-
ZION, oespiIe us dlIiiost uipeiieVdpie
nature. Forty-six union members
went to jail and will serve their sem
tences unless pardoned by the gov
ernor of Illinois.
Evidently labor still has a long,
hard fight ahead of it if tyrannical
judges are to be curbed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-25
Oils Used in FIauoring

For many years the United States
has been the greatest producer of pep
permint and spearmint oils, and from
present indications bids fair to main
tain the lead Japan, Russia, Ger
many and England are also consider
able producers, the last two countries
turning out oils of the highest COM
mercial quality. No accurate statis-
tics of the worlds output of these
commodities appear to be available,
but it is the impression among those
best informed that the annual produc-
ton of oil exceeds 100000 pounds. of
which the United States contributes
about 250,0O0 pounds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-25
South American Art

Quito, the capital of Ecuador, the
second highest townsite in the world
$1,000 feet above sea level) is regarded
as the cradle of South American art
Franciscan monks took workmen
thither, and one of the most beautiful
of buildings Is the San Francis church
at Quito. 1t took 100 years to erect,
after it's construction had begun in
1885. Much of its internal work is
designed in the Moorish style. while
parts of the building favor IndoC Chi
nese, mingled with Roman and Gothic
examples of decorative taste.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-25
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DIVIDENDS AND DEATH

Drawing dividends is not a danger
Gus occupation. but doing the work
that produces the dividends is often
dangerous in the extreme.
The workers who died in the terri
BILE explosion in Gary steel plant
on June IA gave up their lives in a
hell of molten metal and burning
acids that Judge Gary and other steel
stockholders, big and little, might re-
ceive their regular dividends. The
stockholders are safe and sound, while
many of the workers are dead and
others are horribly injured.
Death waits at every turn in the
steel mills, ready to kill or MAIN.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-25

BROOKHARTS VICTORY

SHOCKS EASTERN BIG BIZ"
Profound astonishment and chagrin
is manifest in the circles of "big
business" throughout eastern cities
over the sweeping victory of Smith
w. Brookhart for the senatorial NOM
nation in the Iowa primary.
Leaders in finance and business had
confidently believed that the United
States senate had seen the last Of
Colonel Brookhart, and that the vot-
ers of Iowa would ratify the action
of the senate two months ago in
sweeping him out of his seat They
are uncommonly detected over the
Brookhart triumph
Defeat of four administration
stalwarts, classed among the major
reactionaries of the senate, in the last
two months has shaken the confidence
of corporate and major business in
terestse in the reputed grip of the
Coolidge administration on the fancy
of the nation. The Mid West is as
serting itself, although one of the fall
len four, Senator Pepper, is from
the state of Pennsylvania.
Political wiseacres who have stud
led the returns from the primary in
the "tall corn" belt see more than
mere popularity of Colonel Brook
hart in the outcome. They see a
wave of resentment on the part of
the republicans of Iowa over the
action of republican senate in un-
seating a republican senator, and
putting a democrat, class as "sane
and conservative" in his place.
Brookhart's custer is now recog-
nized in big business circles in the
East as major tactical mistake on
the part of the senate stalwarts. Ger
tain it is that Brookhart, one-time
champion rife shot of the world, has
scored bull's-eye against his East
ern critics.
Reactionary business and financial
| leaders who have been opposed to
farm relief legislation in any form
just as in the past they have opposed
the eight hour day and higher wages
have believed that Iowa would rally
to a vindication of the action of the
senate reactionaries. That they have
misread the signs of the times, and
undestimatetd the wrath of tht
farming interests, is thoroughly dis
turbing to them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-25

OUR BAD ROADS

The Press believes there isn't
county in the whole state of Ohio
where worse roads to be driven over
are to be found than right here in
our own Butler county. Outside the
main arteries the roads, in many
places, are in horrible condition. 1t
is all ones life is worth to drive over
many of them and in many instances
auto springs and other parts are
wrecked in an attempt to navigate
the bumps. And even on the main
roads many bad holes have been al
lowed to grow so that these roads
have to be travelled with care if one
wants to get back home whole.
Princeton pike which was condition
ed just last year is fast getting into
bad shape, and the infrmary hill is
in an awful shape to drive over. If
it gets much worse, driving over the
hill will have to be discontinued as a
safeguard to life, limb and machine.
What is the matter with the COM
missioner who lives on Princeton pike
getting busy and getting some action
on this road to get it back where one
can drive over it with safety?
Before the election two years ago
we were promised much if we would
only place in control the present ad-
minis tration. When those now in
charge took hold the people and auto
lists in general looked for much i'm
provement in our country roads, but
alas things aren't bit better than
they were before-if as good
Come on, Mr.. Commissioners, get
busy, show some speed, start some
thing and better our roads.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-25
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LONG FIGHT ENDED

From Indianapolis comes the good
news that a dispute of many years
standing between the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners and
the Sheet Metal Workers Interna-
tional Association has been settled by
mutual agreement. The agreement is
tentative but it is expected it will
be approved by the governing boards
of both unions.
When labor falls out and wastes
time and energy fighting within itself,
the enemy makes hay. Labor should
never forget this.
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UNIONISM A NECESSITY

Too much emphasis can not be
placed upon the Importance of trade
unions to the welfare of the workers
and society in general. No wrong can
be righted or ideal realized without
the driving power which comes from
unity through organization.
Men have wasted their lives in fu-
tile petitions for improved conditions
without achieving any success. Not
until men organized and generated
the power to compel redress were
their hopes realized. Again and
again men must be shown that there
is no royal road to better day and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-25
Why He Did It

Player-Did you see my ball hit that
tree, caddie?
Niddle-Aged Caddie-No, sir, hain't
got but one eye and that amt prime.
trse?'
mo, sir. / be bit ard of 'earin'."
"Then what the deuce are you doing
carrying clubs?"
We'll, sir, they told me as 'ow it
would be good for my fits"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-25
PREVENTION >
CONFERENCE CALLED

Washington.-An industrial acci-
dent prevention conference to con-
slider the value of statistics for acci-
dent prevention has been convened by
the United State bureau of labor
statistics to meet in Washington July
14-16, 1926.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-25
ANTI-UNION WORK DAY
DEMANDED BY BALDWIN

London.-Prime Minister Baldwin
insist in his determination to force
longer work day on the coal min
ers. But he leaves untouched the
millions of pounds of unearned roy
alties taken by the industrial lords
who own the coal deposits