davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-27
c A R LOAD|NGs
REMAIN HIGH
Isy RICHARD HATTON

Check payments during the third
week of November were larger than
during the previous week. bat were
considerably smaller than a year
ago. according to the weekly state
mant OF the Department Commerce.
The distribution of merchandise,
as seen from car loadings. was at
high level for this time of year,
exceeding any week of 1925, but
falling short of recent weeks.
Wholesale prices showed little
change during the third week Of
November only wheat and cotton
being lower than for the previous
week. The loans and discounts Of
the Federal Reserve member banks
continued to decline from recent
levels, and were but little more than
at this time last year.
With the ticket demand continu-
ing strong the success of the Thea
ter party TO be given al Polls Mon
day evening by the Washington
chapter Of the American Institute of
Banking is now an assured sue
cess. Many banks have taken large
blocks OF tickets while the demand
on the part of individuals has been
exceptionally large, The entertain
nlent selected by the COMMITTEES this.
year insured q large attendance and
the energy of the conamlttae n
charge of arrangements has added
t. the original estimates
Word was received In Washiaa'
ton today Of the death in Chicago
last Wednesday OF Fred NJ, Berth
rcng, until 1926 assistant treasurer
Of the Washington Loan and Trust
Company and subsequently assistant
treasurer Of the National Geo
graphic Society. Mr.. RerthrpnG
Wa q nephew Of John Joy Edison
ana was about 30 years old. He
leaves wife and three children.
There will be no further sessions
OF the American Institute of Bank
ing classes here until next Tuesday,
according to an announcement Of
President T. Hunton Leith today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-27
masks
FOR F|RENEN

On his return today from Pitts
hurgh. where he has been studriHs
the use and care Of gas masks. Capt.
l.. L. Woo!ard was appointed assist
ant drillmaster Of the Washington
Fire Department by Fire Chief
George S. Watson,
While in Pittsburgh Captain Wool,
ard took the Pittsburgh fire depart
ment's course in the use and care
Of gas masks.
The new assistant drill master
will have entire supervision over
the instruction of Washington's
firefighters in the use of their gas
masks. Chief Watson announced.
He also will be responsible for
keening the gas masks in perfect
working condition. These duties
were performed by Capt, w I.
Dixon until his retirement two
months ago,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-27
liverpool Cotton

LIVERPOOL. Nov. 81. - spots
we're in limited demand on the cot
ion market today. Prices held about
steady. Sales aggregated 1000 bales.
while receipts totaled $1,000 bates.
Middling fair at the close was
guoted at $s.46: strictly good mids.,
1886; good lnids.. 1871; strictly mids..
sT.S1: Tntds.. $685.: strictly low mids.,
$3.50; lew naids.. s6.o1 strictly good
ordinary, $3.50. and good ordinary.
8b.Oi.
Futures closed steady with Decem.
her at S6.T2, January. $6,76: March.
s6.8z: May. $500; July. $7.01. and
October. $40.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-27
Baltimore Grain Market

Wheat easier. No red winter.
1.45Ts No. . red winter garlicky.
S1.37M. Receipts, ISL ,144 bushels.
Shipments. 1TA, sos bushels.
Corn steady. No 2 yellow domes,
tic. SIC hushel, Receipts, 4,aSh
bushels. Shipments, $50 bushels.
Oats dull, supply ample. No. 2
white domestic. SAC bushel: No 3
white. SOC husheI, Receipts none.
Shipments, a,Gl0 bushels.
RYE nominal. Receipts. 4,024
bushels. Shinments. 17.179 bushels.
Hay steady on better grades.
Flour UNCHANGED,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-27
Local Stocks

tFurnjshed by W. "A Hibhs Col
SALES
Capital Traction Ss, n 900 o 99is !;
$1,000 009is.
washington Railway and Electric
,G. s X. IS, tl,000@104; $4,000
l03ls; 5000 1904.
Capital Traction Company. 2l
I0a1s.
District National Bank. 10000.
Federal American Co. Com, 4@
Sgta.
5@10lk
After call
Washington Railway 8 Electric.
Is, $4,000 1914.
Potomac Electric Power pfd., SO
washington Gas IS, 'ss, $1,000
1925.
washington Railway a Electric
G.. & r. Os. 81. OO0010312.
Federal American Co. Com, 500
321s: lOmSai4 loosen; 50S21s
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-27
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO. Nov. 27.--Wheat
opened X to &c lower today. re.
flecting weakness at Liverpool and
the reaction at Buenos Aires. Win,
alpeg was Kc lower.
Corn started unchanged to nc
lower with a small mixed trade
Oats were Il to &c lower with
scattered selling by locals.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-27
Daily TreasurY Statement

The daily statement of the United
States Treasury shows:
Income to date this year, s1.346.,
$40. s58,i2,
INCOME to date last year. $l.2s4.-
63T .ssT.s3.
Increase. s6i sea, 065.sa.
Balance general fund today. 314O..
056.eT6.0s.
Increase, .335,453.5l.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-27
Short Term Securities
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. Nov. 27.--The cot
ton market opened steady today.
Initial prices were from 4 points
lower to . points higher. Decem,
her opened at Sass, up .O2y Janu,
airy $i2.5i, down .0l, and March
St2.70, down .04.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-27
Coffee Market

NEW YORK. Nov. e7.--The COT.
'ee futures market onened steadg
day. Initial prices were from I
pint lower to 8 points higher
leoember Otlened al 1870. up OF
farrh, 1898, up 06, and May '4.T9
lltMn OF
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
R.R. LABOR BILL
PASSES HOUSE
BY VOTE 3Sl-l3
Try pispatch A. P. wlrs1

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE
house today by vote of SS1 to 13
passed and sent to the senate the
watson Parker bill, which would
abolish the railroad labor board and
set UP new machinery for voluntary
adjustment of disputes in the IN
dustry.
The measure, drafted by. repre-
sentative Of railroad operators and
employees, carries only two amend
ments with it to the senate, where
the proposal, as agreed upon in con-
ference between the senate, and house
commerce committees before it was
reported to the house, is pending
on the calendar.
When the senate committee bill
is called up, the house measure un-
doubtedly will be brought forward
in the fomr of an amendment and
house and senate sponsors of the
plan have indicated that they ex-
pect the time of it enactment to
hinge largely on the senate attitude
toward the house amendments. These,
both introduced by Chairman Parker
of the commerce committee, provide
a guarantee of retention of all pres
ent powers of the interstate COM
merce commission and strike out the
provision of 100000 for expenses
of the board of mediation, substitu-
ting /" such sums as may be neces-
sary." G
The measure is proceeded on the
program of senate leaders by at least
three proposals which may consume
considerable time-the Muscle Shoals
resolution, the Gooding Long and
Short Haul bill and the foreign debt
settlements 1t is expected to be
pressed for action when they are
disposed of.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
new SOUTHWEST
RAILWAY MERGER
IS BEING PLANNED
fRn Dispatch A. P. wirel

WASHINGTON, March Tentative
plans for a unification OF the Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pacific and
the st. Louis-San Francisco railroads
to meet competition of other roads
contemplating consultations in the
Southwest were disclosed today at
a hearing before the Interstate COM
merce commission.
Although formal application for
authority to complete the merger
will not be made until. the COM
missions attitude toward consolida-
tions is revealed in the decision on
the Nickel Plate Project, three high
officials of the Frisco testified that
it would be in the public interest
if permission was granted them to
similar positions on the board of the
Rock Island.
j. NJ Kurn, president of the Frisco,
testified that while the proposed uni
fication was not in accord with
tentative plans of the commission,
he had learned that other roads in
the same territory were contempla-
ting mergers and that if his COM
pany was denied authority to link
it's system with the Rock Island, it's
development and growth would be
held up.
He referred particularly to the
Missouri Pacific company, which he
said, had practically completed plans
for control of properties in the
Southwest and to efforts to unity
the Cotton Belt, Missouri, Kansas
and Texas and the Kansas City
Southern. These projects, he asserted
vitality affect the continued growth
and prosperity of the Frisco.
Edward NJ. Brown, chairman of
the directors of the Frisco, outlined
the first step in the merger plans.
This, he said, INVOLVED the purchase
by the Frisco through it's bankers
of 1S3,393 shares of Rock Island
common stock out of a total of 275,-
900 shares purchased by the bankers
at it's suggestion.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02

Expressing the hope that the in
curry started today by the house
alcoholic liquor traffic committee in
TO prohibition would result in such a
recommendation, Andrews, speaking
informally, said it would do much to
quiet the public mind and aid en-
forcement work.
Secretary Mellon took an opposite
view on the proposal of his chiet
enforcement officer, however, eX-
pressing the opinion that the public
has made up its mind either for or
against prohibition and such an in
vestigation would be of little help.
Mapping out plans for its study OF
the effect of the operation of the
eighteenth amendment, the house
committee today decided to CALI An
drews as its first witness probably
next Monday Chairman Hudson in
dicated the proposal of the assistant
secretary might be endorsed after
preliminary inquiry by the commit
tee.
The senate judiciary committee has
decided to hear next Monday the
proposals of Senators Edge, repubn-
Continued on Page Tnreel
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
CHICAGO CRIME
INQUIRY STIRS
UP MIGHTY ROW

CHICAGO, March with the city's
crime conditions and hints of politi
cal significance formally aired at
Washington the petition of the Chi
cago better government association
for congressional inquiry, puts
Chicago republican factions at log
gerheads.
Intense feeling here today centered
about two photographs circulated in
connection with the petition, show
ing that States Attorney Grove was
a guest at a 1924 banquet given by
the Genna brothers and other gang
sters. One of the pictures was print
ed by the Chicago Tribune today and
was reproduction of the speakers
table at the banquet referred to
in the petition presented to the SEN
ate Saturday by Vice President
Dawes. 1t showed Grove, Secretary
of State Emmerson, Lieutenant Gov
ernor Sterling and other state and
municipal officials seated at the
table.
Friends of the states attorney
pointed out that several representa-
tives of the opposing faction, headed
by Senator Deneen, were also in
the photographs and a second one
of a party given in 1925 by "Dia-
mond Joe' Esposito, alleged boot
logger showed Senator Deneen and
others as guests.
Rev. E. L. Williams. law enforce
ment director of the better govern
ment association returned today
from washington and issued a state
ment denying that the petition for a
senate investigation of condition was
drawn with the assistance of poll
tincians.
"The banquet picture printed by
the Tribune" he asserted, shows
the best reason why 1 would not
show men from both factions seat
ed at the table. L conferred with
neither Senator Mckinley nor Senator
Deneen.'
The association issued an open
warning to Grove that it is prepar-
ed to produce evidence to substanti-
ate the charges made in the petit
tion The executive board met to
consider further moves.
The petition, which goes before
the senate immigration committee
at a special session tomorrow, al
leges that Grove attended the ban
quet, that Tony Genna, recently slain
gangster, and other gangsters con-
tributed heavily to the dinner eX
penses, and that at recent trial
of two gunmen for murder of police
officers, testimony was excluded by
a judge which would have proved
800 policemen were collecting"
monthly from the Gennas and pro-
tecting their liquor production and
shipment.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02


The homeless were sleeping in
churches, the high school building
which escaped the flames, and some
in the park. A national guard unit
was en- route to the city with tents.
fire started shortly before
o'clock this afternoon when a spark
from a flue ignited the roof of
negro cabin OH the river bank.
A high west wind was blowing and
the flames spread rapidly.
20 BLOCKS BURN
NEWPORT, Ark March n.-Ap-
proximately 20 blocks of dwelling
were laid waste, several manufacture
ing plants were destroyed and up
wards of 1000 persons made home
less today by a fire, which, driven
Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
ROBBERS STEAL
FURS DESPITE
ALARM SYSTEM
tBy D.spa,cn A. P. wire)

CBy D-spatcn A. p. W1re)
NEW YORK, March 1.-Robbers
circumvented an elaborate burglar
alarm system by a tunnel, from
which they removed five tons OF
earth, and stole furs worth 100000
yesterday from the julius Klugman' S
Sons, Inc, establishment in Manhat~
tan, it became known today.
Working within hundred feet of
police station across the street,
they are believed to have required
a week for the operation, in which
they dug a deep perpendicular hole
than 20 feet, piercing the founda-
tions of two buildings.
The robbers rented vacant store
in the rear of the fur establish
ment.
A partition was erected to cut Oft
the view of the rear of the store
from the street and the tunnel was
dug from the shop. The dirt and
rock was piled on the floor. The
passageway was routed so that when
the men broke through the last wall
the loot was easily accessible. De-
tectives working on the case said it
was one of the most painstaking
plots ever encountered.
The thieves took 1000 white and
red fox skins and 1000 Baumartim
furs.
Nine other robbers acted more i'm
petuously than the patient diggers
and today held up 35 employees OF.
the Applebaum and Cohn Fur Dress
ing company's shop in Brooklyn,
taking furs valued at $4,000.
Five of the men, wearing hand
kerchief masks, lined up the en-
pIoyes while four others stored the
furs on a truck, and escaped.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
Philadelphia Will Not
Permit Dempsey to Fight
In It's Newest Stadium
CBy Dispatch A. p. wirsD

PHILADELPHIA, March Jack
Dempsey will not be permitted to
fight in defense of his heavyweight
title at the new municipal stadium
during the sesqui- ntennial exposi-
tion, Mayor Kendrick announced to-
night after a conference with Taylot
and Gunnis, local promoters. The
promoters had been seeking to ar
range a championship match between
Dempsey and Harry Wills, preferably
at the new stadium here which will
have a seating capacity of 100000.
Kendrick said a heavyweight title
bout in the stadium would attract
too much attention and detract from
the primary purpose for which the
structure was built-a program of
events arranged purely for the en-
tertainment of sesqui-centennial Wis
itors. He made lit plain that he had
no objection to the holding of such
a fight elsewhere in the city.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
COURT
OF u. S. GIVES
CARSON AWARD

SAN FRANCISCO, March George
desert wanderer who has looked up
at the stars many nights from a
bed of sand for want of better
couch, was placed in position by
the United States circuit court here
today to receive fortune of mil
lions from the American Smelling and
Refining company for alleged in
fringement upon a patent.
Everys court into which the lowly,
sandy haired miner has brought his
case has sustained him, the list in
cluding the United States supreme
court The company sought to try
the case all over again on new
grounds, but the circuit court said
today that the book of Chrson's
legal troubles was closed and that he
should be given his due.
The case concerned improvements
and refinements in the side charg-
ing of reverberatory furnaces used
for smelling copper ore. The patent
ed process greatly facilitated the
work The smelling companies adopt
ed the process, Carson contended,
without giving himself or his patent
credit. He demanded satisfaction.
They told him that they were using
process patented in Dollar Bay,
Mich to which they had a right.
Carson carried on the fight for nine
years without weapons or resources
to begin with other than native
of speech and manner and
a few blue prints and etchings. The
United States district court of the
state of washington favored him with
an imposing judgment. The circuit
court upheld the district court The
court. There are suits pending
against other smelling companies, but
the action which was decided was
the key suit,
The court noted in conclusion:
"The ends of justice demand that
the litigation should end here"
Carson, the wanderer, with a pos
sible $2O,OO0,OOO coming to him and
his associates, can now get the per-
feet laboratory tools and retorts that
he needs in his work. 1t is some
thing that he has always wanted,
he said, but he hesitated to go ahead
with the tools that others had thrown
away, broken and worn out.
He as no plans for the future other
than his laboratory. He says that
he does not want the riches that
the action demanded be given to
him. He merely wants the salts
faction of letting the world know
that he made a valuable and lasting
contribution to the refinement of
copper ore.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
SUPREME COURT
PASSES ON MANY
RAILROAD CASES
rs.. pisparcn A.s.wlre,


! WASHINGTON, March 1.-The su
preme court went far today into the
field of cleaning up railroad disputes
arising out Of the federal control OF
railroads during the World war
In ten cases, it held that railroad
claims against the government arising
prior to federal control were not
foreclosed by contracts Of final set
tlement, and release which the rail-
roads signed when the properties
were returned to their owners,
In another case, which was re-
garded as a test of the right of
short line railroads to compensation
from the government on the grouno
that they had been taken over under
federal control, the court held that
the short line had failed to show
that it had suffered damages, and
therefore was not entitled to com
pensation. It declined to define what
constituted a taking over by the
government, leaving that question
open.
The right of the railroads to pros
ecute claims against the government
which arose prior to federal control
government in cases against the
Reading company, the Southern Rail-
way, the st. Louis Brownsville and
Mexico, the New Haven, the Central
New England and the Baltimore and
Ohio railroads, and the New England
Steamship company and in an appeal
by the Pefe Marquette Railway com
pany and a counter appeal by the
Reading company. The Baltimore and
Ohio was involved in two cases.
The short line controversy reached
the court through an appeal by the
Marion and Rye Valley railway, and
was decided in an opinion by Justice
Brandeis. The railroad claimed that
it and 400 other short line railroads
had been taken over by the govern
ment during federal control and
should be compensated and the gov
ernment contended that there had
been no legal takingl of these prop
critics.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
COUNTY'S NORTH
SOUTH HIGHWAY
RULIN G UPHELD
(By Dispatch A. P. wire)

PHOENIX, March 1.-The legality
of the law providing for the dis
tributfon of highway funds on a
basis of rs per cent to the counties
was upheld by the state supreme
court today in affirming a judgment
of the Cochise county superior court.
Wm F. Koch, a taxpayer, sought
injunction against the building of
the north and south highway through
Cochise county. This injunction was
denied by the Cochise county su-
perior court and this action was
upheld today.
The supreme court also upheld the
action of the Pima county superior
court in refusing to grant an in
junction sought by Thomas X. Mar
shall against paving construction in
Tucson. Marshall held that the con-
tractor had not posted sufficient
bond with his bid for the paving
work. The superior court refused
to- grant the injunction and in the
meantime the paving was construct
ed. The decision held that although
the bid bond might not have COM
piled with the strict letter of the
law, that, in the opinion of the
court, the city council had the juris-
diction to waive a slight irregularity.
The supreme court held that Pinal
county had a preferred claim against
! the defunct Pinal Bank and Trust
company in reversing suit brought
by Pinal county against A. r. Ham
mons, state superintendent of banks.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
Aged Mexico Resident Sends
Hundred Pesos to Governor of
Arizona, Pay for LauOlessness

then confesses that he first violated
the immigration laws in 1908 and
that in 1915, he brought his family
into Arizona in violation of the laws,
looking for work In 1918, he says,
he was without job for four months
and robbed three bee hives in the
Sierra Ancha mountains, and that he
also during the same time took a
number of quail out OF season. II
the 100 Mexican silver dollars are
not enough to pay for his violations,
he says, he will send more, or if
prison. sentence is necessary he will
give himself up without the necessity
of sending an officer "to drag" him
to jail The letter has been turned
over by the governor to G. NJ. Will
lard state game warden.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
KING OF OSACE
HILLS MAY Be
GIVEN LIBERTY
n,snatoh a I. Nirel


OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, March l..
Jail doors that closed on w. HI.
Hale. "King of the Usage Hills on
January 4, when the state charged
him with murder in connection with
an investigation of an alleged con-
spiracy of death against Usage In
dians, apparently are redy TO open.
Hale probably will be released within
a day or two and with him will go
John Ramsey, a cowboy from the
Usage country who fell into the in
vestigators' net on February 9.
Judge John H Cotteral in federal
district court today set aside an in
dictment against Hale and Ramsey
charging them with the murder OF
Henry Roam, an Usage. The indict-
ment was returned February 13 by a
federal grand jury at Guthrie, the
state having dismissed its charges
and turned the investigation over 70
federal authorities. Judge Cotteral
held that the Indian allotment on
which Roam was killed could not be
construed as land held in trust by
the federal government and that
therefore the federal authorities had
no Jurisdiction to bring murder
charges.
Roy N. st. Lewis, United States
district attorney, said he intended
to appeal the decision and this was
taken as an indication that he would
not turn the case to the state until
the supreme court passes on his
right to continue. That would mean
considerable delay.
The Investigation resulted from
rumors that band of conspirators
intent upon gaining some of the
money that has made the Usage tribe
the worlds wealthiest people, was
responsible for II mysterious deaths
in the Usage country.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
Negro of Kansas Dies
at Age of 126 Years;
Records Prove Claim


TOPEKA, Kansas, March L.
of 126 years, was registered today
ny the state board of health. A
report of the ieatlI--that of Harry
Bruce, who had lived ma Wyan-
dOtte county farm-was received
several days ago. but the regis
ter of vital statistics verified the
age before entering it in the
permanent records.
WOMAN, 1O1 YEARS OLD, DIES
&. SANTA ROSA, Calf, March L.
Mrs. II. c. ReynOldS,s 1O1, born I'm
Essex county, Vermont, died here
today. She OutIived five hus-
bands.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02

Under a Mexican decree which be-
came effective Monday, March l
Mexican silver coins in amounts ex-
ceeding one hundred pesos cannot be
imported into that country from the
United States.
The primary aim in back of the
new ruling sad to be to gradually
replace certain issues of the ma
tional silver coins of Mexico with
national currency. Coins Of one peso,
so. 20 and 10 cent denominations not
bearing the quotation OTTO at the
sides of the cable are to be called
in by July of this year according
to banking officials here, but i'm
portations for any of the issues of
the Mexican silver coins is to be
allowed only for amounts not ex-