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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-08
RUSSIA FAVORS v. s.
 INDUSTRIAL METHODS

MOSCOW, Dec. S.-The steady growth of Soviet-American eco. homie relations has been summar. ized in a series of articles publish. ed by Economic Life.
 It is pointed out that several American engineering firms and a number of individual engineers are acting as consulting agents and participating in new Soviet enter prises. One American mining firm has been working for two years in the Don basin. Two other firms have cooperated in an extensive survey of the southern railroads and ports.
 A Chicago company signed a con- tract with the central metal ad- ministration of the supreme coun- cil of national economy providing for an examination of factories and workshops. This concern is organizing in Leningrad techni-
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MELLON UNDER BITTER ATTACK
 FROM SENATOR
Big Tax Refund Allowed and Secretary of Treas
 ury Is Condemned

WASHINGTON. Dec. S.-A tax refund of $9S9,S33 has been giv- en by the Treasury to United States Senator James Couzens, of Michigan, from whom it had sought to collect an additional assessment of $10,000, 1000.
 The refund follows failure of the Governments attempt of three years ago to levy additional assessments amounting to almost S33, 100000 against the original holders of the Ford Motor Com pany stock. Senator Couzens was the principal defendant
 Senator Couzen said in con- nection with the refund: This is a concrete piece of evidence Of mismanagement of the Bureau of Internal Revenue under the greatest Secretary of Treasury since Hamilton's time.
 If Congress is able to compute the entire losses to the Govern ment under such management, it will be found to run into the hundreds of millions"
 Senator Couzens still has pend- ing a resolution proposing that the Senate ask for Secretary of Treasury Melons resignation.
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Making Dash To Alaska
 For Huskies

VANCOUVER, B. O.. Dec. s. A 1000 mile dash from Dune- din. New Zealand to the Yu- kon to obtain 40 huskies to replace 37 dogs of the Byrd Expedition who died, is being made by Bill Riley, dog driver, who arrived here today aboard the Aorangi.
 Contaminated water is be- heved to have caused the death ofkthe dogs. There were 100 huskies at first. Three went mad and had to be killed. Three of a litter of five were drowned when a seaman. un- knowing the stork's visit, flooded the mother in her ken- nel while washing the deck. There were four drivers with the expedition, Riley being one of them entrusted with this hurry-up mission.
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FATHER KILLS
 SON AS SCARE
Tragedy in St. Louis Is Re lated Evidence
 Is Borne Out

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Dee. S.-Ed- ward Leidner, aged 60 years. cash fer of the Carpenter Ice Cream Company, related how he fired a shot last night to scare his son Walter, aged 35 years, and unin- tentionally killed him, at their home.
 Leidner's account was eorrobor- ated by his wife Charlotte and Mrs. Edith Leidner, widow of his son. All said the younger Leid- ner had been drinking and was quarrelsome. He had struck his father and mother before the fath- CT tried to scare him.
 As the son died, Leidner said he moaned:
 Dad, I know you didn't intend to do it."
 Leidner was atested.
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cal branch for permanent consul tation on manufacturing projects.
 Several Americans are partici- pating as advisers in the construc- tion of blast furnaces and the manufacture of colored metals. A number of American firms are Co., operating in the development of Soviet enterprises for the making of machinery.
 Important electrical develop ments are being pushed forward with the aid of the General Elec- tric Company. Other American groups are cooperating in the manufacture of large-scale refrig- erating plants, paper and celluloid enterprises, glass making and oil refining. Approximately 300 So- vlet specialists have been sent to the United States in the past three years for the study of American industry.
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Secretary Vest Is Summoned to Appear
 Before Committee

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. - The Senate Public Lands Committee has asked Secretary of Interior West to appear at an open meet ing next Wednesday to be ques- toned in connection with his nomination as head of the Inter for Department An inquiry into the Salt Creek Royalty Oil Lease renewal to Harry F. Sinclair, which was recently declared void by the Department of Justice. was also decided upon. In connection with the West hearing. the com mittee asked Hubert Work, Chair man of the Republican National Committee and Vests predeces- sor. to appear before it on Thursday.
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RADIO STOCK
 IS SHOT DOWN

NEW YORK, Dec. s.-A nose dive in the common stock of the Radio Corporation of America of SIP from yesterdays closing price was the spectacular development of the third successive day of crashing stock pricesS the New York Exchange.
 Radio touched $296 a share which is SPA under it's record high price established only three days ago.
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u. s. MARINE
 IS WOUNDED

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. s. "A Gunnery Sergeant was fat ally wounded when Marine Patrol came in contact with ban dits in Nueva Secovia. The ban dits had assassinated a defense less peasant near Octopal. Ser geant Charles Williams, member 'of the company which intercepted the bandits, was wounded in the head by chance shot. This is the first Marine Corps tragedy since August 6.
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HOOVER IS AT
 ANTOF FACASTA

NEW YORK, Dec. 8. The American Cable Company has re- ceiyed adyices from Antofagasta, Chile, stating that the battle ship Maryland arrived in that port this morning with Presi- dent-elect Hoover. Officials of the Bolivian Government are to be welcomed there.
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4uiatIia Makes Altitude Record, Is Belief

OAKLAND, Cal. Dec. s. Confident she established a new altitude record for wom- en, Mrs. Louise Thaden, San Francisco ayiatrix landed h ere yesterday afternoon after reaching an unofficial height of 25,400 feet.
 Lady Heath, British av- iatrix, recently established an altitude record for wom- en in London.
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ALAMEDA IS
 NORTHBOUND

SEATTLE, Dec s. Steamer Alameda sailed at o'clock this morning for Alaska ports with 61 passengers aboard, the follow ing for Juneau: Jim McCloskey, w. s. George, J. H. Raymond and wife, J. Harland Norris, s. A.. Miller and wife, H. Archibald and wife, John A. Drom and Ann Rohwer.
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p PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT
 FUND PASSES
House Debates Measure. with Much Oratory,
 then Slips Bill Over
PEACE TREATY IS
 GIVEN EXPLANATION
Secretary of State Appears Before Committee
 Boulder Debate

WASHINGTON. Dec. 5.-A Pro- hibition debate which filled the record with words but no results, furnished a dive rsion for the House and gallery spectators yes terday, while the Senate continued a long debate over Boulder Dam.
 The House engaged in the an- nual fight over the Prohibition Enforcement item of the Treas ury and Post Office appropriations bill which finally passed.
 This bill, for above one billion dollars, includes the Prohibition Enforcement item of $13,500, 900. It was the first major accomplish ment of the present session.
 Kellogg Explains Treaty
 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee card Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg explain the treaty negotiated in Paris re- nouncing war. Although the Sec retary held the document would not affect the Monroe Doctrine, there is an indication move might be made attaching the reser- vation specifying the Doctrine will not be weakened.
 Borah Confident
 After the meeting, Senator Bor- ali, Of Idaho, 6aairman of tsls Com mitteesSexpressed confidence of an early favorable action on the Kel- logg Pact, in the same form as SO worlds leading nations signed.
 After leaving the Capitol, Secre- tary Kellogg reported to President Coolidge the Committees attitude toward the treaty appeared to be favorable.
 Boulder Dam Debate
 The Senate fight over Boulder Dam brought the declaration from Senator Johnson, of California, CO., sponsor of the bill, that those op- posing the Federal construction of power plant blocking the Adminis- tration's wishes, took the position when former Secretary of Interior Work advocated giving the Gov efnment an optional right to build the plant. It made that phase of the legislation an Administration desire.
 Liquor Fight
 In the debate over the Treasury Post Office bill, Representative La Guardia, of New York, opened the attack for the vets by offering an amendment to have the liquor ap- propriation allocated to vari ous States according to their popula- tion and area. This proposal was defeated.
 Representative LaGuardia con- tended that distribution of money among the states would bring bet ter enforcement than by the pres ent system under which he said cities like New York and San Francisco were singled out for op- erations of enforcement squads.
 The passage of the bill permit ted adjournment of the House over the weekend.
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Miss Ann Rohwer of the Juneau Public School staff, summoned south recently by the illness of her mother, is returning to Juneau on the Alameda.
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King George's Condition
 Remains Good

LONDON, Dec. s. = A morning bulletin today read "The King had some sleep last night. Temperature still raised on account of local lung condition. General con- diticn the same."
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Wallis s. George is returning home on the Alameda after a busi- ness trip to Seattle.
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By CLAUDE A. JAEGER GA. p. Financial Writer)


 NEW YORK, Dec. S.-The post election stock market, which now can be viewed retrospectiyely over a period of more than two weeks, has presented such a spectacle of volcanic boiling and surging as never witnessed before in the his- tory of stock speculation.
 Day after day more than half a billion dollars have changed hands in riotous trading,
 Not since 1900 has the result of a national election brought any proportionately comparable orgy of stock dealing, and the Dull" market following the election of Mckinley. while then regarded as marvel of speculative mania, was tame affair compared with the present.
 Total stock sales on the New York Stock Exchange in that year totaled approximately 140,0C0, GOO shares, in contrast to nearly 100,- 000,OOO shares in October, 1928, alone.
 "Bullish" Celebration
 Post-election markets generally have been based upon financial and industrial conditions and in the long run the result of elections has called forth little more than a "bullish" celebration. The 1900 bull market followed the termina- tion of the Spanish-Amerlcan war and the definite establishment. Of the United States as world pow CT. The elections of 1904 and 1908 caused no important move ments on the stock market, ana the 1912 election was practically ig- nored.
 Several weeks after the 1916 election the stock market experi- enced a drastic reaction, but that was attributed largely to the loom- ing of war clouds on the horizon. The market slumped after the 1920 election, when industry met depression ending wartime imitation.
 By 1924 industrial America was definitely shaking off the post war depression, and the election of Coolidge signalized the birth of this phenomenal market of recent weeks.
 Army oi inveetors
 Stimulated by the tremendous growth of Americas great corpora tions an an amazing flow of the worlds wealth to these shores, the stock market plunged forward with few setbaeks for four years. draw ing into it an army of investors. It was no. surprising. then, that the election of Hoover, who had served as secretary of commerce during this remarkable period, should prompt the plowering of this speculative enthusiasm.
 The violence of the present mar ket, however, has surpassed most professional expectations. Wall Street generally had approved both The election of Hoo
 L in most speculative quarters. Many professional traders viewed his election as largely discounted in the wild bull markets of October. and had withdrawn from the mar ket by election time in apprehen- sion of a technical reaction. The day after election. however, saw the widest Dull" session in the
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nl5tGfy or the SlOth EACnanBe and it ha5 been ontdone in several successive sessions
 "cco1dee" Market
 From November ,, 1924, until November 5. 1928, the duration oi what Wall Street has called the Coolidge market' The Assoclat- ed Press average price of 20 indus trial issaesn rose from S103.90 t1 $229.01 Allowing for stock split ups. prices more than doubled in those four years. and several is- sues increased in value as much as 10 times and more.
 In the first Ii sessions of the Hoover market, beginning No- yember ', the average price of 20 industrials rose to $25272. inereas- ing about 10 per cent, and the ay- craze price of 20 rails gained about five per cent.
 These adyances were made in the face of enormous profit-taking sales by traders who feared the market was getting out Of bounds. During the 14 sessions the up- turn was not uniform, the profit taking on the thirteenth session carrying the average price of 20 industrials down nearly $4. but this loss was more than made up on the fourteenth.
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Public Participation

The violent response of the mar ket to the election of Hoover has resulted also in enormous public participation. The ticker system has been extended throughout the country, and while about 90 per cent of the orders handled by the brokers came in the past from residents of New York City. now about half come from persons liv- ing 1000 miles or more away.
 Many come by radio from ships at sea, and by cable and trans Atlantic telephone from abroad.
 The psychological effect of an election was, therefore, never so effective. Trading in former days was dominated by professional traders, at most times keenly ana lytical. Now the public, easily swayed by enthusiasm, is major factor in the market. Brokers are
 frcptiunad ap Dapa rsyal
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Ticker Can't Keep Up

Total sales during TWO of these II sessions were carried within striking distance of the 7,000,000- share mark. Day after day the ticker fell from one to more than two hours late, but traders, all though lacking definite knowledge of price trends on the exchange floor, continued to plunge blindly. The ticker, which previously had used about a half roll of tape a day was using as many as two and one half rolls.
 Fearing that in such a tremen- dous market a drastic reaction would result in such a deluge of selling that the ticker would be rendered utterly useless and that with no knowledge of conditions on the floor, traders throughout the country would be seized with panic, the Exchange on November 22 began new quotation system which eliminated reference to the number of shares involved save al the opening. As result the ticker has been able to keep fairly well abreast of the market.
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POST-ELECTFON BULL
 MOVEMENTS RECORD
 SET, HOOVER MARKET

history of the Stock Exchange and it ha5 been outdone in several successive sessions
Evening star., 1928-11-06

walkers in order that the large traffic
movements of the present day can take
place with the maximum of safety to
all concerned
The automatic signals have proved a
boon to pedestrians and motorists alike.
but these signals lose their efficiency
and desirability if automobile traffic is
compelled to dodge It's way through
widely scattered groups of walkers
while running on the green signal. A
happy medium must be found to pro-
mote harmony among all users of the
street, and with hundreds of regula-
tions placed on the motorist there as
suredly can be no unfairness in per-
mitting them free and unobstructed
passage on the green or go signal at
intersections.
The District should either shed its
unenforced regulation or promulgate
one that will be both enforced and re-
spected. No good can come of the pres
ent condition, and it is high time that
Washington should join the ranks of
other progressive cities to promote safety
on the streets.
Evening star., 1928-11-06
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today.

The German high command has or
dered the withdrawal of the Sd and
5th German Armies across the Meuse
on the front held by the American
1st Army. Fresh troops are being
thrown in to cover this retiring move
ment from the region of Stenay north
ward to beyond Sedan, and to hold
back the Americans as long as pos
sible. With American troops
less than 6 miles away from Sedan
the enemy has fired Sedan and
Mouzon. The success of the
American forces is developing fast into
one of the greatest victories of the war
They are now on their way to write
a new story of Sedan, which will call
blessed" the name of city which the
French have hated to remember ever
since the dark days of 1871. Brit
ish and French forces from the Scheldt
to the Meuse swept forward irresistibly
today, driving back the foe for heavy
losses of ground. The German
armistice delegation has reached the al
lied lines. Germany's haste in sending
ENJOYS Ito conclude armistice" Is in
terpreted as an intention to surrender.
German war chiefs realize that the
military situation is no less dangerous
than are internal conditions. "
Eleven hundred and eighty-two casual
ties on lists published today, bringing
total to 69,488.
Evening star., 1928-11-06

discredited bandit, whose continued op-
position to the Marines made him such
martyr in the eyes of all those in this
country who howled against American
Intervention, Moncada's victory at the
polls will constitute not only vindica-
ton of the Righteousness of his cause,
which enlisted the sympathies of many
in this country, but of the fairness of
American policy which permitted the
test at the polls.
b Gen. Moncada is to be congratulated
upon the victory which the returns in
hand indicate. Leading a revolution
which if not victorious would at least
have rendered the Conservative party
in power at the time helpless,
he called off his forces, surrendered his
arms and signed the Stimson agree
ment, which guaranteed him a fair
chance at the polls. Now he will come
into power as the constitution of his
country provides, free from the stigma
of armed revolt or political intrigue,
which SO many of his predecessors in
Office have worn.
Now is presented an exceptional op-
portunity for the defeated Conserva-
tives to prove the sincerity Of their for
mer declarations in behalf of constitu-
tional government. No time should be
lost by their leaders in pledging to the
victorious candidate their full support
and loyalty. Unless defeat can be ac-
cepted gracefully, party government in
a republic cannot survive.
Evening star., 1928-11-06
Moncada's Victory.

More important to the United States
than the victory at the polls Sun
day in Nicaragua of Gen. Jose
Maria Moncada, Liberal leader, is the
fact that the election was unmarked
by violence or disorder and that the
American Marines fulfilled their mission
in assuring every Nicaraguan a right
to cast his ballot Had it been other
wise, no amount of explanations, how
ever reasonable they might have been,
could have exculpated Uncle Sam from
the charge of exercising an autocratic
dictatorship which encouraged, rather
than prevented, bloodshed. Brig. Gen.
Frank r. Mccoy, u. S. A., designated
by President Coolidge as the American
in charge of the supervision of the
election, has performed a delicate task
and comes off with high honors.
The victory of Gen. Moncada will
have a beneficial result psychologically
Gen. Moncada was the active leader
Of the revolt which brought about the
armed Intervention of the United States
His was the party which, it is claimed
the United State was barring from
power by the strength of the steel OF
Marine bayonets. His was the party
Of sandino, formerly one of Mencada''
trusted Aeutenants. but afterwa4d 9
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Spreading the News.

The Star invites all Washington and
the surrounding territory to participate
in its news display tonight when the
returns from the voting are received.
1t will conduct an unusually active
service of information, employing every
possible means of collecting and dis
tributing the news. From the Associ-
ated Press, from It's special correspond
ents and from the Western Union 1t
will get the returns from all the voting
areas, with no loss of time, 1t will
then display these returns upon the
stereopticon screens in front of its
building and will simultaneously trans
NIT them by radio over Station WMAL
in a special broadcasting service which
will include both detailed bulletins and
an occasional analysis of the situation
by one of the most competent of polit-
ical observers. Furthermore, it will
issue extra editions as early and as
frequently as the news warrants, giving
the trend of the election count in the
earlier issues and as soon as possible
announcing the verdict on the presi-
dency. AS a means of communicating
the general indications and the final
result to those beyond the range of
the screens and those who have no
radio it win flash powerful searchlight
beams into the sky according to a code
Of signals that is printed in the news
columns today and that can be readily
interpreted.
All these provisions for speedy an
nouncement are made in recognition of
the fact that the election is the most
important matter before the people at
this time. Millions who are voting today
in the Virginia and Maryland area sur
rounding the Capital and the more
than half million District residents who
are through injustice, denied the vote,
are eager for the first possible indica-
ton of the trend of the balloting. That
The Star will endeavor to give, scru-
pulously assuring accuracy and utiliz-
ing every possible agency to spread the
news to the utmost extent Of its range of
service in the shortest time. Those who,
in the keeping of long-established
custom, assemble in front of The Star
office to "read the returns" on the
stereopticon screens will be warmly well
coined, even though newer modes Of
announcement may have been evolved.
There is still a thrill in the flashing
bulletin that tells Of the tide of the
count, and The Star hopes that all who
attend its election night gathering will
enjoy happy evening.