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Evening star., 1926-12-09
LONDON CLEARING HOUSE
is DUE TO TWO LAZY MEN

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 9.-The Lon
don Bankers Clearing House, through
which checks for f40,437 ,119 900 passed
during 1925, is really the outcome OF
two lazy bank clerks ideas.
Before the clearing house was estab-
lished the collection Of checks was
a laborious affair, each bank sending
messengers to another bank to cash
checks over the counter. About the
year 1910 two clerks. each going to the
others bank, happened to meet In q
tavern, and 1t occurred to them much
trouble would be saved by exchanging
checks and settling the difference In
cash. This arrangement worked so
we'll that other clerks copied It. and IN
that year the yard Of the Five Bells
public house, near Lombard street, be-
came the recognized meeting place
for clerks to exchange checks.
Eventually bankers adopted the lazy
clerks idea and rented a room for the
purpose, but actual rules were not
drawn up till the beginning of the
nineteenth century. In 1854 joint
stock banks had become so strong they
were admitted to the clearing house.
which now handles all checks passed
through the banks, strikes a balance
each day and credits or debts their
accounts at the Bank of England.
Frequently more than a million
checks are passed through the clear
ing house in q. single day.
Evening star., 1926-12-09

buildings may well be located
south of Pennsylvania avenue along
Fifteenth street to b street, on the
land already purchased and awaiting
such occupation.
"3. Both sides Of the Mall. with the
exception of the space needed by the
Department of Agriculture on its
grounds, should be occupied by mu-
seums and other buildings containing
collections in which the public gen.
orally is interested, but not by depart
ment buildings.
~. The space east of Fourteenth
street between Pennsylvania avenue
and the Mall should be occupied by
public buildings"
Programs Present Status.
Reporting on the present status of
the building program activities, Secre-
.ary Mellon said:
Congress has authorized q program
for the location and construction of
buildings to accommodate the depart
ments and other executive offices now
housed in temporary structures and
4 privately owned buildings, and has
limited the area of purchase and loca-
ton to the space between Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland avenues, Fif-
teenth street and the Capitol.
within this area the Government
has already acquired the squares be-
tween Pennsylvania avenue and the
Mall, Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets;
the square bounded by Eleventh,
Twelfth, Little B and G streets, and
the block bounded by Tenth, Twelfth,
Little B and 3 streets. This area is
available for the construction of de-
partment buildings already authorized
by Congress-.
Congress has also provided for q
site within the specified area for an
archives building and for its construc-
ton. Congress has further provided
for the extension of B street east to
the Capitol. thus throwing into the
Mall all of the area east of Sixth street
and south Of B street, and providing
two building sites facing both Pennsyl-
vania avenue and the Mall. Within
the specified area the Government
owns the Post Office Department build
ing and the Center Market.
Urges Economy Purchase.
1.-THE available sites in the re-
mainder of the area will be required for
Federal activities now occupying pri-
vate buildings or temporary Govern
ment structures, so that all of the land
lnCluueu WITHIN the limits set Dy Con-
gress must be acquired. From motives
Of economy all Of these squares should
be acquired at once. Otherwise Gov
ernment purchases made piecemeal
will enhance the value of property re-
naming in private ownership, and
these increased prices must be paid on
later acquisitions"
The first projects designated for
early construction, Secretary Mellon
reported, were buildings for the
archives, Internal Revenue Bureau,
Agricultural Department, Liberty
Loan. Department of Commerce, and
Government Printing Office. Other
than to give the general location Of all
of these except the printing office as
being in the triangle area, the Secre-
tary did not specifically designate
their positions in his report. The
Public Buildings Commission in a re-
cent meeting, however, definitely set
their locations.
Other Federal functions which Sec.
retary Mellon said it would be advis-
able to include in the triangle area
were named as the Department of
Evening star., 1926-12-09
PROSPERITY TIDE
NOT TO EBB, SAYS
MELLON REPORT
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be called the liquidity OF bank assets.
This trend has in no way endangered
the strength Of our banking system,
but it is a movement which may re-
quire care, lest it go too far.
He also suggested that there might
have been some overbuilding, put
called attention that this and other
unhealthy situations. including the
"land boom in Florida" had subsided
without serious injury. Likewise, the
bumper crop may hurt the growers
temporarily, he said, but on the other
hand it will give the textile industry
an opportunity for recovery"
Urging the necessity for maintain
ing adequate tax rates until the real
measure of present prosperity and
power of the present revenue bill had
been made Mr.. Mellon said he had no
objection to returning this years
prospective surplus by credit to In
come taxpayers Of 80 per cent on each
Of their first two installments next
year. proposal presented to Con-
gress by President Coolidge.
Evening star., 1926-12-09
SUPREME COURT HEARS
-. APPEAL IN PAPER CASE
Trade Board Seeks to Enforce
Orders Against Pacific Coast
Associations.

The United states Supreme Court
yesterday heard the appeal of the Fed.
eral Trade Commission to enforce or
ders against number of Pacific
Coast pap6r associations The Pa
cific States Paper Trade Association, "a
general organization, and the Seattle
Tacoma Paper Trade Conference, the
Spokane Paper Dealers, the Portland
Paper Trade Association. the Paper
Trade Conference of San Francisco
and the Los Angeles Wholesale Job
bers' Association are affected
In the lower courts it was held that
while each local association had its
own agreed price lists. there had been
no restraint of interstate commerce
except in a few isolated cases of no
Importance.
Counsel for the commission contend.
ed yesterday that in some instances
orders taken upon these agreed price
lists were filled directly from mills
that this constituted violation of Fed
eG'al laws.
Attorneys for the local paper asso-
cations asserted that this practice did
not affect interstate commerce, as the
dealers could have filled the orders
out Of stock, but instead, to save
freight and other charges, ordered
shipments direct to purchasers from
the mills.
Chief Justice Taft took issue with
counsel for the associations on the
legal aspects of such shipments, ex-
pressing the view that they consti-
tuted interstate commerce.
Evening star., 1926-12-09
MELLON ASKS LANIr PURCHASE
FOR BUILDING NOW, AS SAVING
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Continued from First Page.)
question of the Federal building pro-
gram from a broad viewpoint with
relation to its importance to the fu-
ture Of Washington and to the place
of Washington among the great CAPT.
tails Of the world
Discussing the matter of the kind
OF structures which will grace the
great area facing the Mall from the
Pennsylvania avenue side, Secretary
Mellon said: 1.-THE general character
and bulk of the buildings of a depart
mental nature differ generally from
those already occupying the Mall
frontage and those of future possibil
ity of the museum type. A sense of
order, harmony and fitness seems to
Indicate the separation of these types
OF buildings into distinctive general
locations.
Set Planning Example.
The requirements as to space in
architectural setting, accessibility and
the number of people. both employees
OF the Government and other going to
and from these buildings, are so dis
similar as to reinforce strongly the
argument for their collective separa-
ton. Again. the buildings on the Mall
although not necessarily finer than
those of the departments, should be,
architecturally speaking, of more
plastic, decorative and a more gen
orally varied form, SuitinG their loca-
ton in the park
"A large portion OF the area desig-
mated as the triangle will be neces-
sary for the accommodation of the
buildings now projected. Even If it
we're not possible to foresee the ulti-
mate use of all of the land, neverthe-
less it may be stated with conviction
that the choice of the site for the
buildings, the provision possibly of
parking space for automobiles and of
adequate road circulation and ap-
proaches to the buildings, and, in
short. the economic and orderly plan
ming of the area Immediately required,
cannot be made unless the area is re-
planned as a whole for this purpose.
1t may well be urged also that unless
all the land, with minor exceptions.
is now taken by the Government, the
construction of the new buildings and
the removal of the markets as pro-
posed will induce a rise in values of
the remaining land, making it more
costly to acquire.
''In the Capital an example should
be set for the country as a whole in
the matter Of planning. Our national
monuments will attract seekers Of the
ideal in art. More and more it will
become the tendency to establish the
headquarters of societies of literature
and art in Washington and to make
bequests of collections to the National
Capital as we'll as to other great cities
of the country. Already there is
definite project to establish here in
Washington a national gallery of
painting. Thus the Capital may be
foreseen as an art center, responding
to the desire of visitors from all over
the world and satisfying that demand
Paris Is Cited.
"The example of the great capitals
of Europe may be cited, that in par
ticular of Paris. Although the char
Evening star., 1926-12-09

upbound coal carriers was liberated.
With the coal carriers started on their
way efforts concentrated on the down
bound channel and the steamer Coulee
was "snaked out
Darkness ended the rescue efforts
Tuesday, but the mild weather held
through the night, and, with dawn.
the Ste. Marie and the battling tugs
went at the task again.
Some of the upbound fleet Of coal
carriers have passed the locks here
for Lake Superior ports. while others
have tied up here to wait for COAL
their bunkers having been exhausted
during the long siege in the river.
Not a pound of coal is available here.
however, until the Lake Carriers AS
sociation arranges for the purchase of
the cargo Of one of the fuel-laden ves-
sells and empties it on local docks.
Evening star., 1926-12-09
WOMAN DROPS MASK
OF WORKING AS MAN
Joins Husband on Farm After En-
ployment as Hotel Clerk, Miner
and Rodeo Rider.
By the Associated Press.

MANDAN. n. Oak, December 3
Masquerading as a man for more
than a year. working as a hotel clerk,
cement worker, miner and rOdeo rider
ended yesterday for Mrs. Dorothy
Halling. %, when she joined her hus
band on a farm near Price. n. Oak.
Her unmasking came when she
cashed a check in Bismarck without
having sufficient funds in the bank.
She made good the amount and paid
fine. but authorities were suspicious
and called in a nurse and physicians.
Discovery followed
known as Bob Watson, Mrs
Halling lived here for more than
year. doing a mans work. She said
she didn't like farm life.
why. I've been wearing mems
clothes and working as man for
years. she told police. MEMS clothes
cost a lot less than girls clothes. and
besides. posing as a man. / could
travel with my husband and get jobs
along with him. I've been wearing
mems clothes ever since was q little
girl. 1 like 'em."
Mrs. Halling exhibited newspape,
clippings and pictures telling of prizes
won by the boy wonder" riding
bucking bronchos and steers at rodeos
In Butte and Anaconda.
i've had lots of fun out of life, any
way" she said.
Evening star., 1926-12-09

acter Of TIN, cities of Washington and
Paris diffeE; in respects favoring the
embellishments of our own Capital
Paris, besiGAas being a capital, is also
q great bust "A ess and industrial center
Under the H.1 uSsmann plans of devel
opment of Paeis, during the period OF
some 80 years, beginning about the
middle of the Nineteenth century, the
sum of $3.50 O,O0OA0O0 was spent on the
opening of thorcAughfares and in gen.
eral civic establishment. A similar
sum was authort ed for further de-
velopment at they beginning of this
century, and in between those periods
other great sums VIE re authorized and
spent, estimated in yill as upward of
half a billion dollars.
1.-The Great War delayed the later
program, although tina work involved
has been and is being slowly carried
out according to plan. 1t is generally
recognized that the reaAy splendid ma
ture of city development in Paris is
responsible in a large degree for the
number Of visitors and th.at this work
has contributed very largely to max
ing Paris the artistic ctsklter OF the
world.
I'm the plan of future de velOpment
Of Washington the treatment Of the
great triangle of land south of Penn
sylvania avenue to the tall will play
an important part. A. :estly. the
character, height and design of the
great front to the south str1'tching
from Fifteenth street toward the Cap
itol must be carefully considered as a
whole. 1t may be said to be the real
frame o. background of the Mall, with
it's museum buildings and memorials,
present and to come. Opportunity
M tcf hn Crix 70 -hnl IN
relation to the Mall. The problem of
location of buildings today, although
it involves difficulties, is made less
difficult by the existence of the general
plan of the commission of 1901. Cor
respondingly. the work in the future
will be rendered easier and less costly
if the plans Of today are made with
foresight.
Needs Close Study.
mo expenditure Of the magnitude
contemplated under the new building
bill should be undertaken without q
comprehensive study of the entire sit
uation. AS has been outlined above,
many features must be taken into con-
sideration, but the outstanding one is
that the public buildings, as finally
located and constructed, should place
Washington in the forefront of the
architecturally beautiful cities of the
world. This result can only be OBJ
tanned by a thorough and comprehen.
sive study Of the entire subject. No
building should be located or it's archi-
lecture decided upon until study has
been made of it's effect upon the neigh
boring buildings to be built in the flu
ture and the carrying out Of the COM
plete plan"
General considerations governing
the program as a whole, as laid down
by the Public Buildings Commission
in 1917, were repeated by Secretary
Mellon as having his approval. They
are as follows:
Il. Public buildings, other than
those Of the executive departments,
should face the grounds of the Capitol.
80. New executive departmental
Evening star., 1926-12-09
Gas Pipes Yield
Gasoline When
Lines Get Mixed
By the Associated Press.

ny tHC ASSUciateu FTesS.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Decem-
ber 9.-Residents of the Marshall
College section of Huntington yes
terday reaped a rich harvest of
gasoline from their gas pipes when
the pumps at the Standard Oil Co.
storage tanks became connected
with the mains of the Huntington
Development and Gas Co. Several
hundred gallons of gasoline were
pumped into the gas mains.
Representatives of the oil COM
pany and the gas concern were
unable to explain the occurrence,
but it appeared that pumps un-
loading several river barges of
gasoline were connected with gas
service line instead Of the gasoline
pipe line.
Stoves below the levels of the
gas mains spouted gasoline. while
many of the residents were said to
have drained quantities of auto
mobile fuel from meter connec-
tions.
Evening star., 1926-12-09

Justice, the Department of Labor, the
General Accounting ONCE and the in
dependent establishments of the Gov
ernment.
Secretary Mellon also reported
progress in the building program out
side of Washington, for which ma
tion-wide survey is under way. Some
construction has already been started.
Evening star., 1926-12-09
Mechanical Train
CSC

An f m pire express
train, with locomotive,
tender, car and circular
track.
Evening star., 1926-12-09

Metal Bridge and Junior Floor
Lamp, with marble bottom. {
Regularly $3.50. Special. go. .
Mahogany Boudoir Lamps, ,
shades in rose, ,taupe and gold.
Regularly $500. Special. .......,
Bed Lights, georgette lined silk,
in various colors. Regularly $3.75.
Special, each..-.~-....--..........
Evening star., 1926-12-09
Electric Range
$3.50

1t has white enamel
door and splasher-and
four aluminium cooking
utensils.
Evening star., 1926-12-09
S24.5O Lincoln
Auto, $16.5O

Blue enamel finish,
running board, tenders.
bumper, windshield and
headlights.
Evening star., 1926-12-09

Newsboys in Panama have thei-
battles, two being arrested and fined
recently, following an argument over
the merits of n small Panama publ
cation in which the two said sever..l
things with stones.
Evening star., 1926-12-09

Government railroads of India car
ried nearly 600,000.000 passengers in
The past year.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-02-27
Northwestern Sailed from
 Seattle This Morning at 3

SEATTLE, Wn., Feb. 27. (P)-The S.S. Northwestern of the Alaska S.S. Co.,. sailed from this port this morn ing for Alaska with two hundred pas sengers. Those booked thru to Sew ard are:
 Lars Segen, Orvic Meehan, Ed. Bru- min, Miss Ethel Mclean, J. H. For man, J. Johnson, Ed. Richter, How ard Mcdonald, Nell Koutson, K. Lar son, Ruby Turner, Ben A. Grier, F c. Fleecker, B. H. Barndollar, Mrs. B T. Smith, Tom Kennedy and wife and daughter, G. Johnson, F. W. Beoley E. Hutchinson, M. Dundas, A. Mathew son, L. w. Randy, W. c. Lyon, Mrs A. H. McNear, Miss L. Frank, Mrs A. Flames and eight steerage.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-02-27
Stone Bruise On Foot
 Necessitates Trip To
 Seward for Operation

Twenty-four blue fox pelts from Ben Benson's fox farm on Guyushak Island, which lies between Chignik and Kanatak, were shipped to Seattle on the steamer Victoria the first of the week Mr. Benson is raising blue fox only, the red fox belts having been purchased from natives.
 MT. Bensen, who is a pioneer of Alaska, has been on the island for six years, and is specializing in high grade fur. His dark blue. pelts al ways command the highest prices on the fur market. Next fall he proposes to purchase a number of fox from Jas. Collias, on Elizabeth Island, for breed ing purposes.
 MT. Benson is just another resident of the westward who contends there never has been another skipper in the world like Capt. o. A. Johansen, com mander of the SS. Starr. He doubts he emphatically stated, if any other captain would drop anchor off the fox island for two-hour period for the sole reason of finding out how he and his wife were making out in their lonely vigil, for it had been many months since the captain had seen them, but that is just what Captain Johansen did on the recent return trip from the westward and it was forum ate that he did, fortunate for MT. Ben son in that he had been suffering tor lures for many months caused from stone bruise on the bottom of one of his feet. He knows not from what 1t started from but he first began to notice the bruise eight months ago and since it has grown worse, stead fly.
 Following his arrival in Seward he went over to Anchorage, where he ex- pected he would have to undergo an operation and have the bruise cut out. He planned returning to Seward in time to make connections with the steamer Starr on the vessels next trip west, March s, Monday.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-02-27

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The local Igloo, Pioneers of Alas ka, will hold services at 2 p. m. Sunday, March 7, for the late Jacques Jaunte. Later, two members of the organization will take the ashes of the former well known cit izen of Seward and from a small boat, cast them into the waters oi Resurrection Bay.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-02-27

J. J. Chisholm, wholesale broker, re- turned to Seward this morning from a
 business trip to the Tacoma office of
 the West Coast Grocery Company. MT.
 Chisholm's home and headquarters are in Anchorage.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-02-27

Wolfe Simon, Anchorage clothier, following three-months' business trip to the States, returned this morning from Seattle on the Alameda.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-02-27

Trying to initiate a movie hero,
 John Vitali, of New York, set fire to his swetheart's home expecting to rescue her, but the house failed to burn and John was jailed.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-02-27

Ex-King Manuel, of Portugal, is said to have won about $200,000 playing baccarat at Cannes
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-18
PLAY A. B. C.S
L. and H. Nine in Rub Fray
Thursday.

With one game to the credit of
each team, the battle Thursday aft.
ernoon at Washington Park be-
tween the A. B. C.s and the Indian.
apolis Light and Heat. champions
of the Capital City League, is ex.
pected to draw a large crowd.
The contest will be the deciding
one in a series of three arranged by
the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball
Association to raise money for the
expenses of the two I. A. B. A.
teams that will represent Indianapo-
lis at the national amateur baseball
tournament in Philadelphia next
month. The A. 3. C.s won the first
game of the series and the Light
and Heat players the second.
The Light and Heat team will
play the second of a three-game
series with the Seventh Christians,
champions Of the Marion County
Sunday School League at River.
side diamond No. 1. next Saturday
In the first game. played last Satur
day. the Capital City League cham
pions won, to 0.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-18

In conjunction with the Poffce and
Firemen field day program this
week, there will be a boxing show
at the Coliseum, State Playground,
Saturday night. There will be five
bouts and a battle royal.
In the main go, Orlando Rover
beri. hailed as a body punching de-
mon from South America, will bat
tie over the ten-round route with
Chuck Virgins, Indiana's champion
pugilist. Roverberi is said to have
defeated Spalla, Italian heavy
champ. He is managed by Billy
Mccartney and Joe Jacobs. New
York fight promoters.
Pal Moore. vet Memphis bantam,
will box Mickey Satnick, Akron,
Ohio, in another ten-rounder Satur.
day. The prelim card calls for two
six-round scraps and four-rounder.
Tickets are on sale at the Clark
and Cade drug store. Prices range
from 81 to SO. no tax.