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Evening star., 1928-12-09
STOCK PRICE DROP
BECOMES VIOLENT
Market. Reaches Low Level
as Leaders Break in
Selling.
Ry the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, December 8.-Prices
crashed violently for the third successive
day on the stock market today, Radio
making a spectacular dive of ~ points
to 296, which Is l24 points under its
record price established this week. The
market opened with pools supporting a
few favorites, but all support was with
drawn when Radio began to slip diZzily.
Wright Aero lost rs points and Mont
gonery Ward, Case Threshing and
Byers 20 to "a. Sears -Roebuck lost 10,
Packard, Johns Manville and Chrysler
about and General Motors S. Among
the handful of gains, Bethlehem Steel
and General Electric each closed more
than point higher.
The violence of the reaction today
was attributed in large measure TO
forced liquidation of weakened mar
Rinal accounts. Because of the high
margins required, most speculative ac-
counts were able TO withstand the SELL
ing Of Thursday and Friday, but to-
day's drastic break neceSsitated the
dumping overheard of wide appor-
tiOnment OF issues.
Bankers generally look upon the re-
action as a natural correction of
topheavy speculative position. Unless
1t should proceed with unusual Vio-
lence. they do not anticipate that it
will have any material effect on buSi-
ness. It is likely to result, however,
in q withdrawal Of funds loaned by
corporations on securities collateral,
throwing the burden of financing the
market back on the banks.
So great was the volume OF trading
that the ticker fell nearly half hour
behind the market in the last half hour
The closing was weak.
Evening star., 1928-12-09
WASHINGTON GAS
STOCK DECLINES
Security Reaches New Low on
D. G. Exchange-Trad-
ing Heavy.

Washington Gas Light stock wound
up the week by selling at new low
on its present decline. The stock opened
en- the local exchange yesterday at
l001a. for 10-share lot. Thirty shares
then sold at 100 fiat. 10 more at 9912
and another 10 at 90. The close was
the lowest price reached in many weeks,
or since its long swing upward, which
caused so much comment, unconf1rmed
reports of pool buying and belief in
some quarters that out-of-town inter-
ests we're making an effort to gain con-
troll of the company.
Yesterday trading was heavy for Sat-
urday. Bonds claimed their share of
attention. Capital Traction IS sold in
$1,000 denominations at 1892 and
103% Potomac Electric consolidated
SIS moved at 1919. Railway & Elec-
trio As led the market in volume OF
trading, selling at 92A and closing at
%, sales involving an $1,000 turnover
Evening star., 1928-12-09

More than 5000 Ford cars are made
daily. Capacity Of Detroit plant is TO-
coo In "a hours.
Evening star., 1928-12-09

washington Gas 6s series A and B,
moved in small denominations around
recent levels.
Capital Traction stock sold at 1071a,
Potomac Electric 51a per cent preferred
at 10Sh and 108ss, and the per cent
issue at 1112. Chestnut Farms Dairy
common sold at 180 and the preferred
at lot. Barber & Ross closed the week
at 81. There we're six 10-share sales
in Mergenthaler Linotype at 1854, and
two 50-share sales at 1855, this issue
leading the session in volume.
Forty shares of Firemen's Insurance
Co. changed hands at 81. Only one
bank stock appeared on the board, Riggs
National Bank warrants moving at 500
end 3021a In the unlisted department
Evening star., 1928-12-09

The Shannon hydroelectric project IN
Ireland will be completed in 1929.
Evening star., 1928-12-09
Swiss Fight tuberculosis.

Switzerland has just passed federal
laws for prevention of tuberculosis. 1t
includes compulsory reports Of conta-
gious diseases from physicians, medical
supervision of all children and teachers
in schools, establishment of health CEN
ters. vacation camps for children pre-
disposed to tuberculosis and otner
measures
Evening star., 1928-12-09
NEW THEATER PLANNED.

The Fox Theater interests announce
the proposed construction OF a new
theater on the present site OF the Hotel
Touraine, in Boston. 1t is CLAIMED II
will be the largest theater In the world.
Evening star., 1928-12-09
A Hammer With a History.

o. S. Wilson, shoe dealer of Fenton,
Mich, has a hammer which takes the
foremost place among the family treas
ures. He has documentary evidence
that the hammer was first brought to
this country from Scotland in 100 by
.Jessy Justice, who used it in the con-
struction of some of Philadelphia's early
frame buildings. At Justices death the
hammer was bequeathed to his son.
and descending from one generation
to the next, 1t eventually came into its
present owners possession about one
month ago. The handle, undoubtedly
made from hickory sapling was placed
in the hammer 83 years ago.
Evening star., 1928-12-09
NEW BILL SIZES SHOWN.

In order to acquaint its. customers
with the new. smaller-sized currency
winch will be issued by the United
States Government next year, the State
Bank Of Chicago Is distributing certifl-
Gates the exact size and shape, Of the
new currency, on which is print2d
detailed information regarding the
changes in the currency
Evening star., 1928-12-09
MEETING DATE SET

The newly organized fiduciaries sec
tion of the. District Bankers ASSocia-
ton will hold its first meeting next
Friday at bankers headquarters.
Evening star., 1928-12-09

20 shares Of Raleigh Hotel Co. stock
sold at 90.
Evening star., 1928-10-27
FOOT BALL DRAWS
THOUSANDS TODAY
Important Games Scheduled
on Fields in All Parts
of the Country.

Many old foot ball rivalries are being
and games bearing Importantly
on conference championships played on
college gridirons in all sections of the
country today.
The Eastern program is filled with
contests attracting throngs of foot ball
fans. Thousands are in the bowl at
New Haven to see the battle between
Yale and the Army Princeton and
Cornell are battling in Palmer Stadium
at Princeton, Harvard Is meeting a
formidable foe in Dartmouth at Sol
dier Field and Navy is endeavoring to
redeem itself In scrap with Pennsyl-
vania at Philadelphia.
In the South the more important en-
gagements find Georgia Tech opposing
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Virginia
and Vanderbilt struggling at Nashville.
Tennessee and Washington and Lee
battling at Knoxville and Maryland and
Virginia Military Institute scrapping at
Richmond.
1LlcI6 10 1LUU1Il4lss Va llhblOllnA A4bC4Cob
scheduled for the day on the Pacific
Coast, but the Middle West has its
share of big games. All members of
the Big Ten are engaged in conference
struggles. The game of the section is
that at Iowa City between the unde-
feated and united Iowa and Minnesota
elevens.
At Chicago. Purdue and Chicago,
whose series is the oldest in the grid
IRON history of the Middle West, are
oppohents. Northwestern is at Cham
paign hoping to upset Illinois in the
latter's homecoming attraction.
Missouri Valley supremacy may be
settled in the battle between Missouri
and Nebraska, both sturdy foot ball
machines.
Three Washington gridirons have
games. Georgetown is facing its strong
est opponent thus far this season in
Duke at Griffith Stadium, George Wash
ington is playing City College of New
York at Central Stadium and American
University is host to Shenandoah.
Catholic University and Gallaudet are
playing on foreign fields, the Brook
landers against Mount st. Mary's at
Emmitsburg and the Kendall Greeners
against Juanita at Huntingdon, Pa.
Evening star., 1928-10-27
Court Sets Aside
Wife's Wish Barring
Mate at Funeral
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, October 27.-The wish
of a dying woman to keep her
estranged husband from attending
her funeral brought Fred Bringanzi
into a Justice of the Peace Court
seeking a writ of replevin to be al
lowed to bury her.
The writ was granted, but legal
oversight kept officers from carrying
the body from the home of the dead
woman's parents. as the writ failed
to include the coffin, provided by her
father, and officers wouldn't remove
the body.
Back in court, Bringanzi obtained
an order to sit near his wife's casket
during the funeral, but no words
must pass between him and his wife's
relatives.
Evening star., 1928-10-27
SITUATION
SATISFIES SMITH
Governor Invades PennsyIva-
mia Today for Speech; May
Go to CentreviIIe, Md.
By the Associated Press.

0J bLAC Ac2OStHtEN GACcn'
NEW YORK, October 27.-Satisfled
in his own mind that his fight for the
presidency has made forward strides as
result of his New England incursion,
Gov. Smith today carries his campaign
into Pennsylvania, an enemy stronghold
which has not felt the sting OF Demo-
cratic defeat in more than seventy
years.
For an hour late today the Demo-
cratic presidential nominee will head
an automobile procession through the
principal streets of Philadelphia, and
tonight, in the Quaker City Arena, he
will deliver the thirteenth formal adj
dress of campaign which has taken
him more than ten thousand miles by
rail and automobile.
Prior to his entry into Philadelphia,
the governors schedule called for a
half hours parade in the city of Cam
den. N. j., where his special train is
due to arrive at $3.50 pm. after leaving
the Pennsylvania station here at 1870.
big Receptions Flanneu.
Advance information received at the
nominees headquarters indicated an
other big Eastern reception for him in
the two cities. The parade in Phila-
delphia will terminate at the Bellevue
Stratford Hotel, where the governor
and his party will make their head
quarters overnight. The speech, the
subject of which remained secret to-
day. will start at pm. Eastern time,
and will be broadcast over the usual
Nationwide hook-up.
Gov. Smith worked all day yesterday
on the address, but did not complete
rough draft until late last night.
Whether the nominee will return to
New York after attending church in
Philadelphia tomorrow morning or visit
the home of John j. Raskob, chairman
of the Democratic national committee,
near Centerville, Md, remained unde-
cided today. If he goes to Mr.. Raskob's
home he will remain there until Mon
day morning and then start directly for
Baltimore, where he will open the final
week of the campaign before election
with another formal address.
Roosevelt Won State.
In going to Pennsylvania for a
speech, Gov. Smith is following the ad-
vice of his campaign managers. They
figure he stands fighting chance to
carry the keystone State, which, since
the election of James Buchanan in
1856, has returned comfortable Repub-
lican majorities in every quadrennial
election except in the party schism OF
1912, when Roosevelt won out.
Asked at press conference whether
he had any recent reports from
Pennsylvania which would warrant a
belief that he might achieve victory
there, the Democratic nominee said he
did not know anything about it" that
Pennsylvania was pretty big State, y
and he failed to see "how any one can
form an opinion about these things"
The governor did have some ideas
about Southern New England, how
ever, and he was frank In stating
them. Questioned as to his reaction to
the Boston demonstration and the
manner in which the audience received
his speech there, he said:
II certainly think after Monday
night there has been a decided change.
think the Republican candidate hurt
his cause with his Madison Square
Garden speech
Evening star., 1928-10-27
DOCTOR COMMITS
SUICIDE WITH GUN
J. O. Reed Lives Two Hours After
Bullet Passes Through
Brain.

Although no report of a gun was
heard by his family. DR.. Joseph o.
Reed, rs years old, of 1852 N street,
was found slun1ped in chair in his
bedroom about o'clock this morning
by his wife with a bullet hole through
both temples and two notes beside him,
indicating his intention to end his life.
The bullet passed completely through
his brain, but he lived for two and a
half hours after he was found uncon-
scious. He died at 8:30 o'clock at Emer-
gency Hospital.
His wife, Mrs. Ida M. Reed, told
police that DR.. Reed had been in Ill
health for four years and had recently
undergone an operation. She said 1t
has been her husbands custom to sleep
with the door of his bedroom open.
When she arose this morning the door
was closed and her curiosity was i'm
mediately aroused.
Pushing open the door, she declared
she saw DR.. Reed sitting in a chair
with his back toward her. Beside him
on the chair lay a .38-caliber revolver
with one of the shells discharged. He
was clothed in a lounging robe.
The Emergency Hospital ambulance
at the hospital 1t was apparent that
he could not live. Physicians there ex-
pressed wonder at the time that elaps-
ed before his death.
DR.. Reed had evidently intended to
kill himself yesterday. The two notes
bear the date of October 26. One is
addressed to the coroner and the sec
ond ITO the Public" The latter mes
sage Is written on his professional sta
tionery and is as follows:
'I can stand this terrible pain and
feeling of strangulation no longer.
have suffered enough, and more than
1t is possible for any one to stand and
keep going. This condition would kill
me in short time anyway, so why suf-
fer this distress and pain when have
the means Of ending it at once.
JOSEPH Q. REED"
The note was written with a pencil
and in faltering hand.
Evening star., 1928-10-27
SILENT VOTE ST|RS
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA
Winchester Section, Demo-
cratic for so Years, Finds
a Fight on Hand.
Note-This is the sixth of series of
ar icles on the political situation in
nearby MARYLAND and Virginia.
BY DONALD A. CRAIG,
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

Staff Correspondent of The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, October 27.-It
is the silent vote" that is worrying the
regular Democratic leaders in this city
and this section Of the famous Shenan-
0oah Valley, which has been safely
Democratic for SO long that politicians
Of today have either forgotten or have
never had to learn how to conduct such
bitterly fought campaign as the pres
ent one.
Winchester is the home of Gov. Byrd
of Virginia, who Is Loyalty supporting
Gov. Smith of New York, the Demo-
cratic nominee for President. Virginia's
governor and the regular Democratic
leaders of this city and of Frederick
County, of which it is the chief COM
munity and the county seat, are very
desirous of giving Smith as big a ma
jority as possible They frankly admit
however, that the normal Democratic
maiorities will be greatly reduced, and
some even express fear in private con-
versation of losing this Democratic
stronghold to Hoover.
The whole Valley of Virginia is in a
political ferment, and 1t is nowhere
more apparent than here. The Demo-
Gratis are split wide open over the presi-
dency. Pro-Smith and Anti-Smith
members of the party freely admit that
it Is "the hardest election to forecast
in so years." The significance of this
situation is that for SO years in presi-
Dental fights the result has always
been a foregone conclusion-the major
ity of this section always has gone tc
the Democratic nominee.
Democrats Claim Victory.
Openly the regular Democrats predict
victory for Smith by small majorities in
Winchester and the county. The Anti
Smith Democrats, who are well organ
lied, hope that Hoover will win, and
are working hard toward that end. The
old-line Republicans of this section pre-
Continued on Page 7, Column ID
Evening star., 1928-10-27
Reader-Confidence

The reader-conhdence in the and editorial
columns of The Star is reflected in the advertising
columns to the profit of both the reader and the ad
vertiser.
All fraudulent and misleading advertisements are
barred from The Star. Honest advertisers refrain
from overstating values.
Any complaint will be
immediately investigated
Evening star., 1928-10-27
ITALIANS BURN LOAN.

ROME, October 81 CP.-Despite
heavy rain, the ceremony of burning
100000 lire ($7,0O0,000) worth of the
Littorio loan, which had been offered
voluntarily by all classes of citizens,
took place today.
The first part of the ceremony was
held before the Unknown Soldiers
Tomb with members of the cabinet pres
ent. The other part took place in gas
factory.
Evening star., 1928-10-27
HORNSBy REPORTED
SOLD TO THE CUBS
$500, 900 and Three Players
Given as PriCe--CIub Of
ficiaIs Deny Deal.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 27.--The New
York Sun in copyrighted story today
says Rogers Hornsby, manager of the
Boston Braves, has been bought by the
Chicago Cubs for 100000, plus the
players Webb, Heathcote and Mcguire.
The story says Hornsby received a
bonus of $4,000 for signing contract
to play second base for the Cubs for the
next three seasons at a salary of $40,-
900 year.
The story by the Suns sports editor,
Joe Villa, adds that the contract was
signed and sealed after confab with
representative of William Wrigley, jr.,
Cub owner, at a New York hotel a
week ago yesterday.
The deal by which Wrigley obtained
the right to sign Hornsby is hailed
as the biggest in the history of base
ball. The payment of 100000 in real
morey for Hornsby breaks all records,
the story points out. The releases of
Webb. Heathcote and Mcguire are val
ued collectively at about $4,000.
Evening star., 1928-10-27
BERGER GUNMAN ESCAPES

EDWARDSVILLE, H., October q
Up.-Freddie Wooten, Berger gangster
and defendant In the murders of High
way Patrolman Lory Price and Mrs.
Price, escaped from the Madison County
Jail here today with Mike Kurant, who
was recently granted new trial in a
murder case.
The pair sawed their way out Of the
iail,
Evening star., 1928-10-27
OPERATE ON MRS. BUTLER

LINCOLN, Nebr, October 27 R.-
The condition of Mrs. D. NJ Butler, sis
ter of Gen. John j. Pershing, was re-
ported early today by the two physi-
clans attending her to be generally ia
vorable. Mrs. Butler was operated upon
yesterday.
Gen. Pershing was to reach Lincoln
today from Washington.
Evening star., 1928-10-27
BRAVES DENY SALE.
Cunningham Says No Deal VIII Be
Made BEFORE Election.

Cunningham Says No Deal VIII be
Made Before Election.
BOSTON, October 81 (P.-Denial
that Rogers HornSby had been sold
to the Chicago Cubs was made by off,
cials of the Boston Braves today, when
informed of report that the Boston
manager had been sent to the Cubs
for $4,000 and three players
I'VE have made no deal concerning
Hornsby yet" said Ed Cunningham,
secretary of the Braves, "and we will
not take any action until after Election
day. When the deal is made it will
be announced in Boston"
Judge Emil Fuchs, president of the
club, also denied that the deal had
been made.
Evening star., 1928-10-27
DEAL ALSO DENIED IN CHICAGO.
No Further Along Than 1t Was Six
Weeks Ago. Saws VeeCk,

CHICAGO, October 27 Cpl.-William
Veeck, president of the Chicago Cubs,
said today that no deal had been closed
as yet by the Cubs for obtaining Rogers
Hornsby of the Boston Braves.
Commenting on copyrighted story
by the New York Sun to the effect that
Hornsby had been acquired by the
Cubs for 100000 and three players,
Veeck said that "the deal is no further
along than 1t was six weeks ago when
the other stories we're printed"
Evening star., 1928-10-27
SURRENDERED TO COURT.
Woman Who Held Up Proceedings
Sent to st. Elizabeth's.

Sent 20 81. EIIZaDeLn 5.
Miss Mary Ruthven appeared in Dis
trict Supreme Court yesterday and was
surrendered to the court by her surety.
Miss Ruthven held up court pro-
ceedings yesterday when she refused to
appear in habeas corpus case and
a lunacy case pending against her.
She was returned to st. Elizabeth's
Hospital vigorously protesting against
the courts order when Justice Stafford
continued the case for one week and
allowed attorneys and bondsmen In the
case to withdraw.
Evening star., 1928-10-27
WEATHER.

%. 9. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Increasing cloudiness followed by
showers late tonight and tomorrow; ris-
ing temperature. Temperature-High-
est, IS. at pm. yesterday; lowest, 80,
at z am. today.
Full report on page 9.
Evening star., 1928-10-27

Continued on Page 2, Column l..
Evening star., 1928-10-27

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-11
Mexican Slashes
Man During Row

Ray KisSing, 81, a fruit packer,
suffered badly slashed throat
this morning during brawl with
Q Mexican workman on ranch Il
short distance west of Holtville.
The Mexican is said by police to
have gone to work at the ranch this
morning and while packing fruit
got into an argument with kissing
The argument turned into fiStic
encounter and the Mexican then
grabbed a knife and Slashed at
kissing 5 throat.
Rushed to the office of a ply
stefan in Holtvillc it was learned
that while the injury was painful,
it was not of n serious nature. The
knife was rather dull one and the
laccration was not deep. Kissling
was able to walk to his home in
Holtvile after treatment was rem
dered.
In the meantime a search for the
Mexican was started. 1t was be,
licvcd that he had boarded a stage
for FL Centre but the stage was me:
here by police and no one answering
the description was found. Polics
throughout the valley were notified.
The Mexican was described as
being of short and stock build
and sporting a blackened eye from
the encounter. His name was not
known.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-11
STAGE ENABLES
PASSENGERS TO
RIDE in COMFORT

Representing the latest word in
auto stage construction, the bus
" Merrimac'', latest addition to tho
fleet of Pickwick stages, arrived
in FL Centre this morning ON its
way to st. Louis to be placed in
operation on the company s lines
between that city and the Pacific
coast.
The "Merrimac has seating
capacity for % persons. The seats
are the latest chair type, placed in
pairs on either side of an aisle
which runs the length of the stage.
They are adjustable and afford
unusual comfort in riding, Those
in the main body of the stage are
plush covered. In the smoking com
partment at the rear. the seats are
leather covered. Each seat is
equipped with a clasp at the back,
for carving hats or other light ar
tieles. Baggage racks also extend
along either side of the car cell
ing.
4 water tank and lavatorv arc
installed for the convenience of
passengers.
An innovation in stage travelling
is a special arrangement for pro
viding cool air during warm wealth
er and warm air during cold wealth.
cr. enabling the passengers to
travel in comfortable atmosphere
at all times. Windows extend the
full length of the stage on botl
sides and in the rear. They are fit
ted with heavy shattering glass
which can be raised or lowered tt
suit the individual passenger, as
easily rs the windows in any CLOSED
automobile. Each window is alsC
fitted with an adjustable shade.
The driver is located in com
partment separate from the remain
der of the stage. An adequate space
for baggage is provided on the TOT
of the stage, equipped with heavy
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-11
GENERAL MOBILE LONGING TO
BE BACK WITH MEN ON FI4OE

saved against his own admonitions.
That account was made public eX
clusively through the United Press.
He said he left the ice cncamp-
ment because Lieut.. Lundborg in
sisted that the others would be
rescued Immediately. Now one OF
that group left there has died. The
other four are despairing of rescue
and Mobile says he is sorry that he
ever left them behind.
Mobile WINGED with pain as he
spoke. His right forearm is swollen
from fracture and he is suffering
from broken leg. He said he set
the leg himself, using splints made
from the wooden parts of the smash
cd gondola.
Ten men were landed on the ice
floe when the dirigible crashed. On'
died within few minutes after the
crash.
Six Disappear
Six sailed away in the envelope
of the craft, never to be heard from
again. hTtt OtntTS VINO ILdu Idlu
ed with Mobile walked away from
the encampment and now are giver
up as dead. Natalie Ceccioni dice
on the ice ice floe later.
The story of the crash of tn
dirigible as told yesterday by the
, United Press and the stranding OF
! these men caused Mobile mucl
mental anguish. lie plainly wa,
feverish.
He told how the nine mon, whC
survived after the crash lay in ;
tent that was not sufficiently large
for all Of them. They lay one OF
top of the other to keep warm. ll'
/ told how their only food besides
/ pcmmican was bear meat and tina
all the group suffered from indi
] gestion from the half cooked meat
! And he added suggestion rs t,
! the possible fate of six men wh'
| sailed away in the envelope of th'
] craft. He recalled that the frs
! bear killed was found to have eater
! parts Of paper and canvas from thu
! dirigible.