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Training Teachers for Alaska.

Teachers sent from the States for
work in Alaska are quite seriously
handicapped by the difficulties of adj
justment, so that time is lost before
they can be of any great service. The
greatest handicap is the severity of the
Winters and 1t requires some time to
familiarize themselves with the peculi-
arities of the customs of the natives
and the acquaintance of the work for
the native, which includes the promo
ton of native industries, domestic arts,
personal hygiene, village sanitation and
morality, as well as the elementary sub
jects usually taught in the schools.
Residents Or Alaska presumably under
stand these things and are already fully
acclimated. To remedy this situation, a
two-year Misunderstanding course will be
inaugurated in the Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines, located at
Fairbanks. Graduates of the new
courses may be considered for appoint
ment as teachers in the schools for
Alaskan natives conducted by the Bu-
reau Of Education. Their familiarity
with the climate and general conditions
Of the territory is expected to be adj
VantageouS.
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grand jury laid it's cards on the table,
announced his retirement.
Reyes, the grand jury said, had en-
gineered the Julian trial which result
ed in the acquittal of every defendant.
AS one witness put it: 1.-The verdict
nearly knocked Judge Doran off his
chair"
The jurors asserted that Reyes had
conSpired with the Julian promoters
to obtain either the dismissal of charges
or acquittal in the event of trial.
The money involved in the alleged
bribery was not large, the indictments
diclosed. Officially it totaled $38, 200,
but rumors sent it soaring to huge
sums. A United States district attor-
ney said Berman made 100000 of
the Julian collapse.
First evidence of a ripple in the
smooth workings of Reyes Office came
when an employee of the tailor shop,
Milton Pike, angered at the Getzoffs
for alleged salary differences, brought
a little diary to county official.
1t recited the frequent meetings Of
Reyes and various defendants in GetZ-
offs shop. Pike said he and other en-
ployes overheard interesting" CONVEX
sations in the partitioned Office. A
three sided mirror facing the Office re-
fiected the actions of the occupants and
Pike said he saw large sums of money
exchanged. Subsequently. others relat-
ed alleged surreptitious deals in Keyes'
office centering about the Lasker and
Julian cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
CURB SHARES SAG
UNDER LIQUIDATION
Canadian MarConi Shows
Further LosS-UtiIity
Group Is Lower.
BY WILLIAM F. HEFFERNAN.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 3.-The trend
on the Curb Exchange today was toward
lower levels, with liquidation heavy in
q number of recent speculative favor
ties. 1t was evident that the develop
menES in the Canadian Marconi Situa-
ton last week had caused nervousness
over what might be expected of the
market for other volatile issues which
had been bid up to exorbitant heights.
1t was over an hour before the mar
ket for Canadian Marconi opened to-
day. Then the initial transaction in
volved block of $500 shares at 81s,
a further decline of two points from
the Saturday final. The stock was
heavily dealt in thereafter within
range of 2 points. Marconi Wireless
Telegraph, Ltd, opened on a block
of 1000 shares down over points at
201s and fuctuated erratically there
after. The market for these issues,
however, was handled with less diff
Guilty today.
Losses in the utility group ranged
from fractions to almost S points with
United Gas and Improvement, North
eastern Power, American Super Power
issues and Electric Bond & Share
Securities under pronounced pressure.
The oil stocks reacted with the gen.
eral market, but declines were confined
within 2 points of last weeks final in
most instances. Mining issues were
featured by a break of almost 5 points
in Noranda Mines and a sharp runup
to new high record in Bahia Corpora
ton. Evidently the demand which was
in evidence at the close last week for
the latter issue was based upon some
important development at the property.
Stutz Motor, after opening up 2
points at 367s, broke to 305s between
sales, then rallied several points. Fire
stone Tire dropped almost points.
Against these losses new high records
were marked up in Borg Warner, which
jumped from the last previous sale
some time ago Of 1861 to 145, and in
Dominion Stores, which reached its
best at 100, a gain Of more than 2
points.
Dubilier Condenser, which went up
sharply to its best for the year last
week at 10, was pressed for sale
below today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
STOCK PRICE INDEX
SHOWS INCREASES
Industrial Common Shares
Reveal Slight Gains During
Weeks Trading.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, December s.
Industrial common stocks listed on the
New York Stock Exchange increased in
price last week by an average of 2 per
cent over the previous weeks level. The
general rise was evidenced by increases
particularly in coppers, auto accessories
and miscellaneous stocks and to some
extent in motors, oils, foods and stores.
SteelS alone among common industrialS
receded. Rails and preferreds rose while
public utilities fell.
The coppers index rose to 1882 from
2170 owing mainly to price increases
in Inspiration Copper and Federal
Mining and Smelling. Auto Accessories
advanced to 1852 from 1920, because of
gains in Stromberg Carburetor, Good
year Tire and Martin Parry, while the
miscellaneous group moved upward TO
1852 from 1899, on account OF re-
newed strength in Radio, Du Pont and
International Harvester prices.
SteelS fell to 1872 from 1888 through
declines in Colorado Fuel and Iron,
United States Steel and American Lo-
connective quotations.
Graded induStrials common stock
prices advanced uniformly. First grade
stocks rose to 1905 from 1882. Second
grade stocks advanced to 1875 from
l64.3, while third-grade induStrialS
moved upward to 1867 from 1897.
The price index of the SO industrial
common stocks most actively traded in
last week showed per cent rise over
its value for the previous week.
compact survey of Stock Exchange
movements is given below by indexes
and per cent of return:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
WILL co ON TRIAL
Asa Reyes, Los Angeles
Prosecutor, to Face Jury
on Bribery Charge.
BY the Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, December 3.-Two
weeks after he steps from Office, District
Attorney Asa Reyes, a figure Ill Los
Angeles political circles for a quarter
of a century, will go on trial charged
with one of the most astounding bribery
plots in the city's history.
Keyes' name is identified with many
sensational trials, including the Aimee
Mcpherson case and the murder trial
of William E. Hickman for the STAY
ing of 12-year-old Marian Parker.
The famous prosecutor will sit in
a familiar court December II while
Buron Fits, his elected successor and
one-time aide in Office, seeks to prove
that Keyes accepted brides to secure
the acquittal of the notorious Julian
Petroleum Corporation promoters.
The history of that alleged oil scam
dial will be as much a part of the
trial as the stocky prosecutor himself,
for three of the men charged with
part in the swindle of more than 10000
investors also have been caught in a
grand jury's charges of corruption.
Reyes Tried Alone.
Reyes, it has been agreed, will be
tried apart from the others. The CO.
defendants are Jacob Berman, known
up and down Broadway as Jne Drlgnt
youngster" of the Julian fiasco; the
Rosenbergs, Ed and Jack, promoters;
Charles Riemer, special investigator in
Reyes office; Ben and Dave Getzoff,
father and son proprietors of an OBJ
scure Spring street tailor shop where
the "pay-offs" were alleged to have
been made during the Julian trial, and
A. I. Lasker, former head of defunct
finance COMPANY
The Lasker case, separate from the
Julian trial, was an embezzlement ac-
ton in which the grand jury accused
Reyes of accepting bride to dismiss
The case against Reyes is all the
more sensational in that it involves
man upon whose name scandal never
before touched in long public career.
Keyes' prosecutor, once lieutenant
governor of California, was elected
after Reyes, q short time before the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Nature Starts Barn Fires.

A conservative estimate places the
annual loss from fires on farms and in
rural communities at approximately
$150,000,000, with attending losses of
$500 lives. Of the total property loss,
1t is estimated that 20 per cent or
$30,O00,000, can be charged to sponta-
neous combustion. 1t is common
knowledge that most so-called "nys-
FERROUS" fires occur in the harvest sea-
son and that as Winter comes on the
number declines. Uncured hay, it is
explained, continues to live for some
time after it is cut and heats when
stacked in large piles. Also, the fer
mentation of bacteria, yeasts and
molds, which multiply rapidly in un-
cured hay, green pea vines and other
damp roughage, generates heat, which
accumulates at the center of q heavy
mass of these materials. eventually to
such an extent that the small amount
Of air that filters into the pile can
cause ignition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
"Being Presented" Tedious.

Presentation at court involves con-
siderable preparation in advance and
those who have been favored with this
honor must adhere strictly to the de-
tails of the program. A few minutes
lateness is objectionable and would, in
all likelihood, result in the disappoint-
ment of the candidate for royal honor,
which would be tragedy indeed after
having undergone the long and tedious
process of preparation. This often
means long string Of carriages and
automobiles forming for hours before
the time set for the reception. Here
the debutanteS and others to be pre-
sented wait sometimes for as long as
three hours till the time for entering
the palace arrives. 1t is still daylight
when the blockade of cars forms and
swarms of curious people walk up and
down the Mall close to the curb and
gaze through the windows of the We
hicles at the faces and gowns Of the
ladies in their court dress. The scru-
tiny is far from timid and casual, In
many cases quite impudent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Seek the Secret of Cellulose.

At the University of California there
are some research Investigations being
conducted with reference to the secret
by means of which nature arranges the
glucose nolecule in the formation of
cellulose. The tremendous strength of
cellulose fiber, of which the glucose
molecule is the essence, makes it a
highly important tool in the hands of
the manufacturer, who has been able
to employ it in hundreds of useful ways
without knowing the secret of its
chemical composition This secret would
provide mankind with the means of
manufacturing many products of high
degree of unitarian value.
BY means of exhaustive experiments
and studies Prof. Sponsler and his
associate have determined fairly well
what disposition the molecule assumes
in the wall structure of cellulose. What
force of nature it is that brings the
molecules into that particular arrange
ment, and whether that ARRANGEMENT
can be produced by some artificial
method offers vast field of inquiry
and research that promises results of
tremendous Importance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
WHEAT IS HIGHER
ON INITIAL DEALS
Corn Starts Unchanged to Three
eighths Down-0at Prices
Are Easy.
BY the Associated Press.

1oy bALC AocON4dbCd GASoos
CHICAGO, December 3-Scarcity of
wheat offerings, December delivery in
particular, led to early higher prices
today for wheat, despite the fact that
the Liverpool wheat market had proved
relatively unresponsive to Saturdays
upturns on this side of the Atlantic
Opening at * off to % up, Chicago
wheat later showed general gains
Corn and oats were easy, with corn
starting unchanged to % down, and
subsequently holding near to the initial
figures. Provisions went lower.
Continued meagerness of deliveries on
December wheat contracts here had
much to do today with turning prices
upward at times. Only 10000 bushels
Of wheat was shown to have been thus
handed over today at the outset, with
future delivery offerings likewise scant,
The market soon gathered force on the
buying side, especially as hot winds were
reported as prevailing in South Argen-
tina.
Predictions of cold weather, likely to
hasten the movement of the corn crop,
gave an incentive to sellers in the corn
market. On the other hand, Depart
ment of Agriculture advices were cur
rent, indicating that potential demand
for corn appears about equal to last
season. There are fewer hogs, but
more cattle in feed, and relative prizes
favor feeding both of cattle and hogs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
EARNINGS REPORTED.

NEW YORK, December 8 Up.-Net
profit of the General Gas and Electric
Corporation of New York in the year
ended October 81 was 1851, against
$3,069,72 in the preceding year. e.
Peerless Motor Car Co. of Cleveland
ended the quarter on September 80 With
a net loss Of $339,677, against profit Of
S102,205 in the corresponding 1925
period. Net loss for the first nine
month of 1923 was $937,205, against
profit of S180,713 in the first nine
months of 1927. 81
Brillo Manufacturing Co., Inc, of
Brooklyn. reports profit of S220,357 for
the first nine months of 1928, compared
to $260,116 in the corresponding 1927
period. -
Net profit of the Tung Sol Lamp
Works, Inc, of Newark, N. j., In the
nine months ended September 80 was
$546,243, against $541 ,628 in the first
nine months of 1927.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
COTTON IS STEADY 1
IN EARLY DEALINGS
Market in Opening Shows Decline
Of z to II Points on
Liquidation. -
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 3.-The cot
ton market opened steady at q decline
Of to II points with the active months
showing net losses of about 8 to Is
points during the first few minutes
under liquidation together with some
Southern selling which was promoted
by relatively easy Liverpool cables. The
initial offerings were quite readily abb
sorbed at the decline to 20.18 for jan
uary, and the market recovered to about
Saturdays closing quotations, after
which trading was quiet and fluctua-
tions rather irregular. e.,
AT the end of the first half hour
prices were about to 10 points net
lower, with December relatively easy
under liquidation. Private cables sale
there had been local, London and Con-
tinental liquidation in Liverpool, but
that cloth demand was well sustained
with further business pending.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Sees Gain in Traffic.

NEW YORK, December 3 R).-
President Storey of the Atchison, To-
peka g. Santa Fe believes the rail-
roads traffic and revenues in the early
1929 months will show an increase over
the same months of this year, although
November loadings are running little
below November, 1927, figures. All rail
orders have been placed. The company
will buy about 1890 freight cars, but
very few locomotives. Mr.. Storey said
there were no plans at present for fur
Their financing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
FRUIT WORKERS STRIKE.
5000 Mexicans Protest Action Of
New York Corporation.

VERA CRUZ, Mexico, December
R).-Three thousand workers were on
strike today against the Di Giorgio Fruit
Corporation of New York in the Hule
banana region.
The workers claimed that the man
agement failed to comply with its con-
tract as to the selection Of the admin
istrative personnel and chose men out
side the workers syndicate.
The management asked the authori-
ties to intervene.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Plans New Stock Issue.

Permission to issue new stock to a
value of $4,000 was sought from the
Interstate Commerce Commission today
by the ST. Paul Bridge and Terminal
Co., operating in Minnesota. OF the
funds derived from the issue, $4,000
will be used to pay a maturing bond
issue,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Alfalfa Grows on Black Land.

COLLEGE STATION. Tex, CP)-
@. w. Garrett, who lives on a black
land farm near Mesquite, Tex, is dis
proving the theory that such type soil
is unsuited for alfalfa He has cut
$50 tons of baled alfalfa hay worth
$3,375, from an eight-acre patch during
the last three years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Coal Production.

NEW YORK, December 3 GP.-The
Pittsburgh Coal Co. of Pittsburgh pro-
duced 1,010,017 tons during November,
against 1,106,623 in the preceding month
and 646,64 in November, 1927.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Tobacco Sent to Orient.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, LR.-A
steamer now en- route to the Orient
has in her cargo 1926 hogsheads and
$500 cases of Virginia leaf tobacco val
ued at $4,000 the largest tobacco ex-
port ever loaded here or probably in
any American port
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Policeman Makes Violins.

STOCKHOLM CR.-C. P. Friberg
traffic officer of the Police Depart
ment, in his spare time has developed
into a violin maker of wide fame. Jan
Kubelik and Misha Weisbord own yio-
Inns made by him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
PARIS BOURSE PRICES.

PARIS, December 3 P).-Prices
moved irregularly on the Bourse today.
Three per cent rentes, IS francs. so
centimes. Five per cent loan, 90 francs
40 centimes. Exchange on London, 1874
francs 11l2 centimes. The dollar was
quoted at Is francs 58l2 confines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Motion Pictures.

NEW YORK.-One of the latest
Christmas shopping ideas is for women
to have "talkie" movies made of them
selves, which they present to friends
instead of photographs on cards of
Christmas greetings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Power Output Gains.

NEW YORK, December R.-
Toledo, Ohio. Edison Co.'S November
power output totaled 40,420,074 kilo-
watt hours, against 32,005,380 kilowatt
hours in November, 1927.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Common Stock Increase.

NEW YORK, December GP).-Ar-
cher-Daniels- Midland Co. of Mime
apolis, has notified the New York Stock
Exchange Of q proposed increase In
common stock to 10000 shares from
$50 OO0A .sszxa - at,aEsss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Store Sales Make Gain.

NEW YORK, December CF9.-Sales
Of Neisner Brothers. Inc, of Rochester,
N. Y, chain stores in the past II
months totaled $8,198,915, against S.
1873, los in the first II months of 1927.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Pottery.

EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio.-Now that
the unauthorized strike of potters is
over, the potteries here are back at full
operations. There is a strong demand
for both general ware and porcelain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Cotton.
NEW ORLEANS

NEW ORLEANS.-Accordi to one
South, the present outlook is for q crop
of only 13,500,000 bales, as against the
Government forecast of 14,133,O00 bales.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Automobiles.

DETROIT.-The Ford production
program for 1929 has been set at 2,O0O,-
900 vehicles. Chevrolet plans to build
1850, 900 of its new skies. =.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

Following is a list Of stocks and
bonds traded in on the New York Curb
Market today:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Tomatoes,

SACRAMENTO late tomato
yields in California have proved far
below expectations and prices have been
holding up we'll in consequence. ~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03

Ford employs 10000 men in the
United States.
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Commodity Notes
Steel.

PITTSBURGH, December 3.-Al-
though the slight slackening In some
steel business Is noticeable, the men in
the trade here anticipate distinct
revival Immediately after January J..
The improvement has already been
manifest in automobile sheets and tin
plate. Can makers are placing pre-
liminary orders for plates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03
Reduced Stock Activity.

Low C2e. '27. '2S) 75.6 S8:3
New Britain herald., 1928-07-12

hibltion and an intimate friend OF
Governor Smith.
He is rated the financial geniv
81 the General Motors corporation
and is vice president of the E. ].
Dupont and Nemours company. He
is a Catholic, charter member of
the American chapter of the Knights
OF Malta and is listed in Who's
Who" as republican. He is chair
man of the American Olympic COM
mittee.
Recently when asked to ascribe
the reason for his financial success
he said: 1T may have been luck but
who knows" What l do believe is
that there is a divinity that shapes
our ends. I'm positive that it has
been so in my case"
Against Prohibition
He Is against prohibition because
he believes 1t breeds intolerance
THE menace of prohibition laws,
he said. lis the spirit OF intolerance
underlying their adoption. and this
il bound to result in rebellion" He
is a director OF the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment
He II not drinking man, he said.
recently but that does not mean I
never take a drink
New Britain herald., 1928-07-12

use their entire forces If necessary
to clean up gambling, was in direct
reply to an allegation by Leon Hey-
mann. chairman of the retail mer-
chants bureau Of the association,
that he was in possession OF reliable
information that one gambling
house in the city had paid members
OF the police department $1,000
within short time" for protec-
ton.
Horse Race Bets
Vigorous objection was voiced to
hand books where 1t was said 4 bet
on a race horse might be placed ov-
er the telephone for as small
amount as twenty-five cents and to
the publication of racing informa-
ton in newspapers.
"A very definite position will be
contained in an uneQuivocal state
ment to be issued by the council in
the early part Of the coming week."
Commissioner r. Semmes Walmsley,
acting mayor in the absence OF May
or O'Keefe who became i'll, told the
meeting.
New Britain herald., 1928-07-12
LIQUOR BOARD WILL
ENFORCE new RULING
Seizure OF Constgnments Values Al
Half Million In Canada Is Suf-
fictent Proof

Toronto, Ont. July II GP-Seizure
of liquor consignments valued at
100000 have evidence today that
the Ontario liquor control board
meant TO enforce Its recent ruling
against the storage surplus liquor
stocks along the border.
The liquor stocks on the CARING
and Nathaniel docks at Windsor
were seized yesterday by Inspector
F. E. Elliott.
THE practice of forwarding liquor
into Ontario to be held at strategic
points in the hope OF a possible ex-
port or perhaps illegal distribution
in the province will have to cease
if anything this board can do will
stop it," Sir Henry Drayton, chair
man of the board. said after the
seizure
The recent rule of the board gov
erning the amount OF liquors that
could be stored in the province was
invoked when it was learned tina.
the western provinces we're flooding
Ontario with stocks far in excess Of
the needs OF the province. The rule
provided that thereafter liquor ship
ments must be routed through the
province by the most direct way and
that the export docks were not to be
used for storage purposes except as
necessary movement in transporta-
ton.
Sir Henry said It ad been dis
covered that liquor said to have
been sold on one dock for export
had been merely moved to another
dock. and that beverages placed
aboard steamers for export often
had been returned.