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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
STOCK MARKET
RISES SEEN

NEW YORK, May SO.-At this
time last year the stock markets,
having fully emerged from the
disastrous break of February and
March, were on the verge of a
broad upward price swing which
had apparently not reached its crest
when the closing gongs rang on
Saturday.
Industrial and railroad stock
values are today higher than at
any time in two decades, taking the
list of active stocks as a whole,
while scores of well-known corpora.
ton shares command unprecedented
market prices. based upon the en-
HANGED assets and the larger earn.
ing capacity of the corporations be-
hind them.
Merger plans and prospects by
competing powerful interests has
had its part in the stock price
movements of the year, but the
general broadening of American
prosperity is now. as always, the
major factor in the almost uninter-
rupted rise of stock prices.
Looking at the market as a
whole, a number of contrasts with
the similar period last year are quite
apparent.
With an almost uninterrupted ad-
vance of nearly 35 per cent in
the price of representative stocks,
there can be little expectation of a
brilliant summer upward move in
prices such as the market enjoyed
last year.
Then, again, from the industrial
standpoint, it is realized that per-
formances have been very much in
advance of either promises and ex-
pectations, suggesting that too
gloomy an attitude may now be
taken toward the declining volume
of advance orders in steel, copper
and other products.
1t will be noted that in the Pc
Rod from May to September of
last year the industrials rose about
20 points, then halted until the end
of the year, and advanced another
20 points from March l to the end
of May.
The rails gained 10 points in the
first period, halted until December
81. and surged ahead Is points in
the next five months.
1t should be noted that the aver
ages Of both the rails and the indus
trials would have been considerably
higher If number of the newly
active skyrocketers in each group
had been included in the compila-
tons, also if provision had been
made for the effects of the stock
dividends in General Motors, Wool
worth and other well-known COM
panies.
The markets have exhibited un-
usual resiliancy in the last week or
two, and there can be little doubt
that its technical position is as
strong as at any time in the post
war period.
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Wife, q, Is Slain;
Man, 48, a Suicide

sUNBURY. Pa, May sO.--Jeal.
ousy of a wife 81 years younger
than Edgar r. Miller today guided
his finger to a trigger of a gun
that killed both.
Neighbors who had watched Mil.
ler's romance change to a series
of quarrels found the bodies or man
and wife. clad only in nightclothing,
on the sidewalk in front of their
home. The woman was still living.
Miller was dead, the top of his head
blown away.
The final quarrel of the 4S-year.
old man and his 27-year-old wife
began before dawn in their bed.
room. Miller, it is believed. seized
his gun and threatened his wife,
who fled from the house.
A bullet felled her as she ran out
of the front door. Before neighbors
arrived, Miller had ended his own
life
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
TALES TOLD
BY EXPLORER
BY International News Service

NEW YORK, May SO.-WiIliam
Beebe, the aquatic explorer and
naturalist, is becoming probably the
most qualified man in the world
to tell new fish stories"
Beebe. who introduced modern
business methods into scientific
exploration, has just returned to
New York from several weeks spent
in walking about the floor of the
ocean in the vicinity OF Haiti.
During his rambles no the sea.
bottom Beebe wore diving helmet
equipped with large windows
through which he was enabled to
observe all the aquatic life about
him.
Among the strange fish he re
ported at a depth of so feet was
a bell.shaped, transparent creature
of cartilage and jelly which seized
its prey with poisonous tentacles
and swept them into his jelly-lined
stomach.
Occasionally, the naturalist said,
small fish which were immune to
the poison, would dart into the
creatures stomach, eat their fill OF
the larger fish's food and swim out
again.
Mr.. Beebe said he had found a
demoiselle which changed color
from head to foot at least once
day, from yellow and blue to
gray and black.
Specimens of nearly all the fish
were caught and transferred to
tanks aboard the schooner. where
they were studied by ten members
of the expedition.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
.COO[IDGES HEAR
WAR SERMON

"war IL not Gods way. II Il
the way Of man until such time
as he can find Gods better way"
President and Mrs. Coolidge,
along with others attending services
at the First Congregational Church.
yesterday, heard this in the ser.
mon on the Revelation Of God. ("
preached by the Rev. Don Ivan
Patch. former associate minister
Of the church, and at present Of
Westfield, N. j.
''He uses war to waken and ex.
press the courageous and heroic
qualities Of human nature, which
the days of peace may not arouse, Z"
said the Rev. Patch.
80 on the pages Of history are
written self forgetful and sacrifical
deeds of the heroes of the ages.
These personalities reveal God TO
US because, they, like Jesus, gave
their lives that we might live"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
Missing Child's Body
Is Found in Creek

BRIDGEPORT, N. j., May 30.
Missing since last Tuesday, Gordon,
the 4-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Williams. of this place, was
found drowned in Raccoon Creek,
nearly two miles from the village.
Kidnapping reports had spread and a
wide search was made. by county
authorities. The creek was dyna-
mited and dragged, but these and
other efforts to find him failed.
Men of the village arranged to put
out on the creek in all available
boats. More than SO volunteered.
The boats went out at low tide
to take advantage of scanning the
creek shores. Fate directed the boat
containing the boys father to a
point about half-mile from the
mouth OF the stream. Charles Carey,
member of this party, thought he
saw log along the shore. He had
the boat pulled in closer and the
men found the body. The supposi-
ton is that the little fellow tumbled
into the creek near his home and
was swept far away by the swift
current. The coroner issued a GER
tificate of drowning,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
Reward Is Provided
For Heroes of Air

Air heroes "for acts of valor.
extreme fortitude or self sacrifice"
will receive a bronze plaque and a
cash award in the future as the
result of the death January 20,
1918 of Lieut.. William H. Cheney
when his plane collided with
another in Italy resulting in the
death of three officers. The honor
arium will be known as the
Cheney Award" and was made
possible by relatives of the war
hero.
A trust fund Of $4,000 has been
set aside the interest of which will
be used for purchase of the plaques
and cash awards.
The recipients will be selected
each year by a board of Air Corps
officers.
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j. s. WILL AID
PRESS EXHIBIT
Photo by International

Cooperation of the United States
Government in the International
Press Exhibition to be conducted
at Cologne, Germany, during the
summer of 1928 has been assured.
The assurance was given by State
Department officials when Horst
Weber, vice president of the exhi-
bition, called there with DIR. Otto
Kiep, counselor of the German
Embassy. and explained the pur-
poses and scope of the Cologne
display.
Weber has established temporary
headquarters in New York and
plans to spend some time in this
country interesting Americans in
the project. the first international
undertaking of its kind. He hopes
to obtain comprehensive exhibits by
American manufacturers of print
ing machinery and equipment; sup
plies that go into the making of
newspapers and periodicals.; photo
garphic, motion pictures, Geographic,
telephone and radio equipment
for disseminating news and infor.
nation; historic exhibits picturing
the development of the press; ad.
Vertising and kindred subjects.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
Girl, Is, Saves Five
In Burning House

PHILADELPHIA, May sO.-Fif,
teen-year.old Henrietta Foster saved
five children whom she was taking
care OF for her aunt, Mrs. Earl r.
Overpeck when fire followed the
explosion of an oil stove in the
Overpeck home, Warwick Road
Magnolia, N. j.
The children, Anna Nav. IL
Blanche, 10; Evelyn, S; Earl. 8, and
Elsie, l, were playing in the kitchen
ut the time. Henrietta calmly all
rected Anna and Blanche to take
care of their brother while She
carried Elsie to safety.
Mrs. Clifford Demo, a neishbor
was attracted by the smoke and
aided the children.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
Maryland Guard Dead
HOnOred at Service

Memorial services for deceased
members of the First Infantry
Maryland National Guard, were
conducted by the Service Company,
composed of men from Silver
Spring, in the Grace Episcopal
Church, at Woodside, Nd, yester.
day morning.
An address was delivered by the
pastor of the church, the Rev.
Cldye Brown. A musical program
was presented by the church choir,
under the direction Of Mrs. Russell
Mcqueen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
IN D n 7 GOMERY
BREWT|ES

ROCKVILLE, Nd, May 30.-Hun.
dreds of persons from various parts
OF the country and elsewhere visited
the different cemeteries of the
county today and placed flowers on
the graves OF their departed rela.
tives and friends.
At the cemeteries at Gathers
burg and Goshen, appropriate me-
j. G. Sinclair, pastor of the Epworth
Methodist Church, speaking at
Gaithersburg, and the Rev. p. g.
REGISTER, presiding elder, of Wash
ington, delivering the address at
Goshen.
In observance OF the day, the
banks, schools and business estab-
lishments generally were closed, as
were all offices in the courthouse.
At early morning mass in st.
Johns Catholic Church, Forest Glen.
yesterday, 20 young people received
their first communion The Rev.
Charles o. Rosensteel, pastor of the
church, celebrated mass and a
musical program was rendered by
the choir under the direction of
Frank Yates.
In the afternoon, the annual May
procession was held, after which
Father RosensteeI celebrated the
benediction Of the Blessed Sacra-
ment.
Children's Day exercises were held
in the Emory Methodist Church
Oakdale, Sunday morning, an in
teresting program being rendered in
the presence Of a large gathering.
Special services in memory of the
deceased members of the Service
Company, First Infantry, Maryland
National Guard, of Silver Spring, and
| others of the First Infantry, were
held in Grace Episcopal Church,
IWoodside, yesterday morning, a large
number of former service men at
tending. The rector, the Rev. Clyde
Brown, delivered an appropriate ad-
dress and fitting music was rem
dered by the church choir under the
direction of Mrs. Russell Mcqueen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
Deed Given in 1749
Finally Recorded

WEST CHESTER, Pa, May 30.
"A land transfer that took place
in 1749. &c years before the start
of the Revolutionary War, has just
been placed on record in the office
Of the Recorder of Deeds here. The
deed records the transfer of 230
acres in Goshen Township from
Robert Roberts and wife, of Merton
Township, to Thomas Goodwin.
Though the paper Is yellowed
with age and has to be handled
with special care, the writing Is
fairly legible.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
bis Farley FOR
ARMY HERE
By VIVIAN LEE TILLMAN

Vital questions affecting every
phase of Army activity and the
future policy of the Regular Army
and its components will be con-
sidered during the series of con-
ferences to be held at the War De-
partment, starting May 81, between
the chief of staff, corps area COM
manders, chiefs of branches and
other general officers. The con.
ference, expected to go down in
Army annals as the most important
ever held, IL it accomplishes what
its sponsors hope, will have under
discussion some 102 subjects.
Among the questions expected to
be under discussion are promotion
and retirement; more extensive use
of Class B procedure in eliminating
unsuitable officers; dress uniforms
for officers; revision of Army regu-
ton: revision of court-martial pro-
forms at Army posts and deser-
lions. Many questions pertaining
to the reserve will also be con-
sidered.
Lieut.. Col. Perrin L. Smith,
Major Arthur e. Amends. Captains
Arthur M. Jones, James C. Ruddell
and Thomas G. Peyton, First Lieu
tenants Emil Krause, Robert L.
Bacon, Edwin j. House, Arthur c..
B. Wilson and Second Lieutenants
Perry McC. Smith, James w. Spry,
Gordon s. Armes, F. w. Helm, Ray
q
Smith have been promoted to the
next higher grade in the regular
army. There are 214 vacancies for
second lieutenant.
Coils. +. j. Koester and John O'Shea
will retire in June for age, along
with Maj. Gen. Benjamin Poore.
During the month of July Coils. Will
liam F.. Martin and Selah r. HI.
Tompkins and Lieut.. Col. Jasno
Defaandorf will retire for age, Maj.
Gen. william Weigel in August. and
Brig. Gen. Malvern Hill Barnum and
Mai. Gen. Eli A. Helmick in Septem-
Der, Maj. Gen. Charles H. Martin and
Brig. Gen. Robert Alexander in Oc-
tober, Brig. Gen. John Jenkins in
November, and Maj. Gems. Edward
M. Lewis, Mason Patrick and John
McRae in December.
Announcement is expected the
latter part of this week regarding
the new major general and brigadier
general, when General Poore retires
on June 10. Many believe that Brig.
Gen. Briant H. Wells, deputy chief
of staff, will be elevated to the two
star rank and Col. Sherwood Cheney
will be made brigadier general. 1t
is also stated that every brigadier
general on the active list today, If
promoted to major general in order
of seniority of retirement, could be
retired as a major general. General
Summerali is picking officers with
outstanding records when he makes
promotions for the service, and it Is
said that Brig. Gen. Hugh Drum will
receive consideration along with
Brig. Gen. Henry Smither.
(Army-Navv News SerVice)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
Phone Girl Is on Job
AS Husband Falls Dead

NEW YORK, May 30.-Seeing
her husband, Walter Biddle, so. a
constable, fall dead in their home,
Mrs. Clara Biddle tainted as she
attempted to telephone for a ply
sician.
A telephone operator heard her
scream before she fell unconscious
and notified police, who found Mrs.
Biddle near the telephone. She was
revived and DIR. Asa H. Rogers, of
Gil West Indiana Ave, was sum-
moned, who said the husband died
from a heart attack.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
EXPERTS STUDY
LINDY PLANE
BY JULIAN CAPERS, Jr.
International News Service

DAYTON, Ohio, May 3O.-While
al the world looked upon Capt
Charles Lindbergh's epoch-mak ine
New. York.to.Paris night with the
preathless interest that such intrepid
herolsm as possessed by the pilot
exacts from the layman, the flight
was followed by experts at the fly
ing fields here with an even keeneI
and more comprehensive scientific
interest.
Because at Mccook flying field
here, where many of the bewilder.
ingly rapid steps of advancement in
aviation have been pioneered there
ls perhaps a more intimate knowl.
edge of the perils that the youthful
flier faced and overeame, than any.
where else.
The experts were interested. OF
course, in the drama of the human
element and its marvellous perform
arce under terrific strain; but they
were even more interested in the
machine, and the various acces.
sories which made possible Lind.
bergh's feat.
The Metal Propeller
The all-metal propeller with which
the Flying FOOLS machine was
equipped, was perfected at McCook
field less than six months ago. 1t is
regarded as an indispensable adj
vance in air mechanics. 1t is i'm
pervious to damage which formerly
resulted when filters encountered
heavy rain or sleet storms.
With wooden. or semiwooden
propeller, a plane encountering a
storm, was frequently disabled
within few minutes, the sleet and
rain eating away the propeller as
1t revolved with terrific friction and
came into violent contact with the
particles of water and ice.
With the metal propeller, a pilot
need have no fear of disaster from
this course. The all-metal propeller
was perfected less than six months
ago, and Lindbergh's flight was
its greatest test. although it had
previously proved its merit, al.
though the South American good
Will filters also used it.
Other devices which were devel.
oped at McCook Field and used by
the birdman included the ground
Induction compass, with which
Lindbergh, with virtually no tech
nical knowledge of navigation as
practiced by mariners, kept a course
80 true that he struck the Irish
coastline within three miles of the
point he had calculated to encoun-
ter it; the turn and bank indicator.
and the drift meter, which were
valuable auxiliaries to the naviga.
ton instrument.
Wright Interested
Orville Wright, inventor of the
alrplanee, was SO stirred by Lind.
bergh's feat that he abandoned
his usual taciturn attitude and en-
thusiastically-and for him yolu.
bly-commented upon the adven.
ture, declaring that regular trans
atlantic flight service for com.
merctal purposes will be an actual
development of the next few years,
and has been brought immeasur-
ably nearer by the scientific data
accumulated by Lindbergh, during
those short 33 hours that he
winged his way from continent
to continent.
Wright suggests as the next big
step the development of a new
airplane fuel, to replace gasoline,
which has the disadvantage of
large bulk and heavy weight, the
chief obstacles to sustained long.
distance flights. When this prob.
lem is overcome, Wright sug-
gested, transoceanic flights will
become commonplace,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
Daughter Succurnbs Day
After Her Mother Dies

PHILADELPHIA, May 3O.-Un-
aware that her mother had died,
Mrs. Gladys L. Holland, 20 years,
succumbed a day later at her home
at childbirth.
Mrs. Holland had been married
less than year. Because of the
delicate condition Of the daughter
she was not told of her mothers
demise.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
Spring Flower Show
To Open on Wednesday

First exhibits in the fourth an.
nual spring show of the American
horticultural Society will be placed
in the Hall of Nations, Washington
Hotel, tomorrow at noon. the com.
mittee. in charge announced TODAY.
The public is invited on Wednes.
day from 2 until 10 p. m. and on
the following day from 9 a. m.
until 10 p. m. There will be three
awards in each class.
Mrs. William M. Jardine, wife Of
the Secretary of Agriculture. heads
the list of patronesses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
J. [. VAN ALIEN DEAD

PARIS, May 30.-James Laurence
Van Allen, Of New York, member
Of the international banking firm of
Morgan, Frenfell & Co.. died at the
Ritz Hotel here today after a short
illness.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30

The estate Of the ex-Czar of Russia
was about three times the area Of
England.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30

The deadly poison botulinus
originates in the soil, not in the
vegetable or canned fruit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-30
Bicycle Pump Bank
Missing With S1.17O

WILKESBARRE, May 30.-Lack
Of faith in public banks cost Mike
Morasky, AZ, his life's savings,
amounting to SLIGO. Morasky went
to police court, charging Jacob Fri
day with the theft on advice from
fortune teller. There was no evil
dence. however. against Friday, and
he was released by Police Magis-
trate Hickman.
Morasky reported to the police
that he used a bicycle pump as a
bank, cutting it in half and con-
verting 1t into a miniature bank.
The roots of the soap bush. found
in Mexico and Colorado, will make
a suds like soan when placed in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-16

liam s. Lee, charlotte:A. NJ Greene,
jr., Princeton; David w. Brunton.
Denver. and John L. Harrington.
Kansas City.
Wallace Clark. member. of the
American Society OF Mechanical En-.
gineers. has received the Command.
ers' Cross of the Order OF. Poland Re.
stored for his services In connection
with the Reorganization Of tobacco
and salt monopolies of Poland. He
was the engineer member OF the
Kemmerer Finance Commission
which visited Poland in 1926 at the
invitation of the Polish government.
Tie honor was bestowed in New York
CITY by the Polish minister to the
United States.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-16
DOW WILL HEAD
ENGINEERS
BY InternationaI News Service

ny international News Service
NEW YORK. Sept. Election of
officers of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers for 1928 will
be by letter ballot Of the entire mem
bership, voting closing on September
I next. Nominations for officers
were announced at a recent meeting
OF the nominating COMMITTEES:
Observation-Disclosures Dow presl.
dent Of the Detroit Edison Company,
Detroit, Mich.
Vice President H. Lawrence.
of New York; Newell Sanders, OF
Chattanooga, Tenn; Edward A. Null
Ter, Of Cincinnati. Ohio, and Paul
Wright, of Birmingham, Ala.
Managers-WiIliam A. Hanley. In.
Annapolis; Luther B. Mcmillan, New
York. and Fred H. Dorner, MiIwau.
kce, Wis.
Delegates to American Engineer.
Ing. Couneil--Alexander Dow, De.
troit; D. S. Kimball, Ithaca; r G.
Marshall, Washington; L. P. Afford
New York; H. ". Goes, Chicago; VIII.
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Shoots Man he Says
Bombed His Saloon

PHILADELPHIA, Sept 1e.+Ac-
cused of shooting a man he charges
was a member Of the black hand
gang which bombed his saloon.
James Tracey was held in $500 bail
by Magistrate Dorm, for a hearing
September 26.
His victim. Paris di Pietro. 80.
is under arrest in Samaritan Hes
pital, where he is being treated
for four bullet wounds in the back.
His condition Is not serious. A
companion, Carmelo Montalbano,
q. who was with Di Pietro at the
time of the shooting, and likewise
accused by Tracey as being a mem
Der of the band. was arrested as a
witness and held in $500 bail.
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Prisoner Released;
Death Is ExnIained

DETROIT, Sept. is. - Foster B.
Welsh, "a, arrested by detectives in.
vestigating the death of Miss Cath.
crime Hayes. August 10, in Bloom.
ington, Ind. was released by police
today.
Welsh was taken into custody
after police received a letter from
Mrs. F. A. Wooden, Of Blooming.
ton, stating that Miss Hayes, her
sister, died as the result of a
beating.
Detectives learned, however, that
the woman died Of natural causes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-16
AIR TRIPS LURE
DICTIONARIES ]
b. international News Services

BY international News Service
PARIS, Sept. 16.-one Of the most
popular side trips for American
Legionnaires going to Paris for the
ninth annual convention, September
10 to 20. win be a hop by air from
LIE Bourget Airport. where Capt
Charles A. Lindbergh landed after
his epocha1 flight. to London. With
the excellent airplane service now
existing between the French and
English capitals It il possible to
take leisurely breakfast in Paris
and eat noon luncheon in London.
For one of the strolls about Paris
the Legionnaires will put on Tom
Thumbs seven league boots" in the
form of g. giant Farman "Goliath"
or, perhaps Handley-Page cruiser.
and see the whole of the French
capital in half an hour. The num-
ming LIE Bourget Airport, in the
suburbs Of Paris. is reached either
by taxi or tram cars from the Porte
de la yillette, Gate Of the Villette.