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Meadows to Be Improved.

Owing to the great number of sec
ond-class towns in the upper part of
New Jersey and the consequent con-
gestion of the highways, the latter are
very unattractive to the automobile
drivers who are on pleasure bent and in
order to afford some relief a self-ap-
pointed commission has undertaken to
do some systematic park and highway
planning. This committee of public
spirited citizens proposes to make a de-
tailed and exhaustive engineering and
landscape-architectu plan for the
first 20 to Is miles across the Hacken-
sack Meadows, and through the con-
gested districts as far as the Passaic
River and then make suggestive plans
covering complete system throughout
the State for future development. When
this plan has been completed it will be
sent to the Legislature IN the form of
bill which will contemplate a sys-
tematic plan Of improvement covering
many years.
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England's Coronation Stone.

The coronation chair of England in
the Westminster Abbey, on which the
Kings and Queens of England have
been crowned for many hundreds OF
years. is a high-backed, curious chair,
broken and Clipped in parts. deep
brown and black in color and giving
all the signs of extreme old age. There
is nothing attractive about the piece
of furniture and you would not give
it a second glance if you were not ac-
quainted with its story. And II you
did give it a moments examination
you would probably wonder what the
Stone under the chair was there for.
This stone was for many centuries IN
the possession of Scotland and all the
Scottish Kings we're crowned while
seated upon 1t. Tradition has 1t that
Jacob used it as pillow when he had
his vision of the angels descending on
the ladder. However that may be, It
was known as Jacobs Pillow" and
was held in reverence by the Scots dur
ing hundreds of years. King Edward l
of England removed the stone from
Scotland about 1896 and carried 1t with
him to London. He had 1t placed in
the coronation chair and there 1t rests.
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pansion and that the banks were being
used for this purpose. This was borne
out by the weekly bank statement,
which showed that out of the 11O-mil-
lion-dollar increase in brokers' loans
only million was supplied by Others"
and the other los millions came from
the banks. Since the banks are already
heavily indebted to the reserve system,
the reserve board could not stand calmly
aside and watch reserve credit flow into
the security markets.
On Wednesday morning, having been
warned of the forthcoming Federal Re-
serve Board announcement, yet not
knowing what It might contain, the
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SILVER QUOTATIONS.
NEW YORK, February II tPl.-Bar
silver, 56ls; Mexican dollars, 423s.

security prices more quickly than New
York. Beginning with Monday, prices
in these cities began to decline and con-
tinued without hesitation while New
York was still puzzling over the reserve
boards edict.
Prices on the other local exchanges
moved more closely with New York
stocks and without exception the gen.
eral level of prices closed the week at
lower levels than the previous week.
Fridays closing prices in New York
were close to the lows reached on two
occasions in January, and considerable
resistance to the decline could easily
develop at this point. The immediate
future of the market, however, is any
ones guess, but the conservative in
vestor will be willing to let the market
prove itself before buying stocks on a
large scale. 1t will take some time to
determine the real importance Of re-
cent banking developments.
Copyright. 1927
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fst End 3rd
Grade Grade Grade
(Tnvest- (Inter- (Specu-
ment) mediate> lative)
(l926=1oo)
Stock Trading Mounts.

Stock market activity increased last
week over the high level of the pre-
ceding week. The total market price of
all securities changing hands last week
on the New York Stock Exchange
averaged $375, 100000 per day, of which
common industrials accounted for
$305, 200 900.
Activity in the miscellaneous group.
which includes Du Pont and Radio, in
creased heavily, averaging over $140,-
5000 per day in value. Trading in
coppers nearly doubled over the volume
of the week before and rails increased
in activity more than so per cent. Pre-
ferred stocks were likewise more active.
Trading in utilities fell to only half
the value of the turnover during the
preceding week.
(Copyright, 1929, by irving Fishery
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May Compel Loan Withdrawals.

NEW YORK, February II P).-Threc
Federal Reserve banks, those at Mime
apolis, Dallas and Kansas City, are re-
ported to have taken steps to compel
member banks in those districts to
withdraw loans made on call in the
their rediscount privileges. Other banks
are expected to take similar action in
an attempt to carry out the Federal
Reserve policy against speculative loans
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NEW YORK, February 11-Last week
began with the general stock market
close to record high levels and most
stocks were finding the going rather
difficult. No real progress had been
made by the general market since late
November in spite of strenuous efforts
to advance the list into new high
ground With the danger that the mar
ket might actually go on to still higher
levels and absorb still more credit, the
reserve board felt called upon to estab-
lish definite position in relation to
brokers' loans.
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Speculative Shares Strongest.

The speculative issues made the best
showing in last weeks market. This
was largely of the strength Of the cop
pers Some of the higher grade mar
ket favorites had risen to levels which
they could not maintain when the SELL
ing pressure appeared. The highest
grade investment group did a little bet,
ter, however, than the intermediate
stocks.
Below are shown index numbers for
prices of three groups of stocks traded
on the New York Stock Exchange,
graded in accordance with their sea-
soning dividend history, credit strength
and size,
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CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET.

CHICAGO, February IL (P.-Butter
unchanged; receipts, 10,625 tubs;
creamery extras, 1919, standards, 40;
extra firsts, 48a481a; firsts, 46laa4712;
seconds, 44a451a. Eggs lower; receipts,
1852 cases; extra firsts, 39a40; firsts,
80; ordinary firsts, 33a36.
Poultry-Alive, firm; receipts, car;
fowls, 28laa29; springs, SO; ROSTERS, %;
turkeys, IS; ducks, 30.
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A Tideless Harbor.

Shipping in the vicinity Of Vancouver,
d. c., is considerably handicapped by
the strong tidal currents which prevail
there and in order to overcome this
condition it is proposed to give the city
a tideless, fresh water harbor The
project calls for the construction of a
dam across Second Narrows, including
a reversing spillway 100 feet wide, a
causeway and two locks; one for deep
sea vessels and the other for light har-
Dor traffic. Bascule bridges across the
entrances to the locks would permit
vehicular traffic over the causeway,
which would replace the present bridge.
It is estimated that the work could be
/ finished in the course of three years at
a cost of $5,0o0,000.
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Live Stock.

CHICAGO.-The continued high
price for beef finally has resulted in
enough curtailment of demand to
cause a reduction in live cattle prices.
which are now more than So a hundred
weight under recent levels. Packers re-
port their business continuing on about
the same basis with business fairly
good and prices steady.
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4O.3a4 Americans Visit Berlin.

BERLIN H).-Every sixth foreigner
who came to Berlin during 1928 was an
American. The German capital was
visited in 1928 by 40,334 Americans, an
increase Of 1875 per cent over 1927.
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Archery Study Required.

TOXIC LP).-A compulsory course in
archery has been added to the cur
riculum of Toxic high school for girls.
Archery" said the principal, lis an
introduction to etiquette"
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New Rail Enuinment.

NEW YORK, February IL (R-The
Northern Pacific Railways 1929 pro-
gram calls for expenditures of $46,500,-
900, including 100000 for new equip
ment.
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Crude Oil Production.

NEW YORK, February II CR.-Daily
average California crude oil production
increased 1880 barrels last week to
1872 900 barrels.
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Steel.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. - Prepara-
lions for Spring construction have re-
suited in quickening in the steel
fabricating industry in the Mahoning
Valley. Youngstown Boiler &c Tank
is operating at full capacity, while Gen.
eral Fireproofing is at 80 per cent, and
Truscon Steel Co. at 70 per cent.
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market began to fall. Some sources are
complaining that advance information
of the contents Of the announcement
leaked out and was employed to adj
vantage in the stock market, but per-
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Automobiles.

CLEVELAND.-In the last month
automobile plants here took on an adj
ditional 200 workers, bringing the total
almost to 10000.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Once

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, February 11.-Followin
is list of stocks and bonds traded in
on the New York Curb Market today:
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Commodity Notes
Oil.

MONROE, La, February 11.-Five
natural gas companies have joined
hands to build plant at Alto, in the
Richland gas fields, to extract the gas
oline from the natural gas they sell.
The plant will cost 100000 and will
handle 100,000,000 cubic feet of gas
day.
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Paper.

OTTAWA work has.
been started on newspaper mill at
Buckingham Junction to be completed
in 1880, which will cost $6,000,000.
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Flashlights are just coming into gen.
eral use in China.
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Reserve Boards Ultimatum.

The Federal Reserve edict issued on
Wednesday was prompted by the fact
that "others" were not supplying the
necessary loans for stock market ex-
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Spain viii export this year twice as
much olive oil as in 1927.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-11

The steadily growing earnings of the Cities
Service organization come from more than 100
public utility and petroleum properties. These
subsidiary companies supply 1000 cities and COM
munities in the United States and Canada with
every day necessities of modern life. Millions of
people, thousands of factories and an army of
motorists in % states depend upon the Cities Ser
vice organization for essential service and prod
ucts in three great industries - electric light
and power; natural and manufactured gas, and
petroleum.
Interest and dividends on securities of the Cities
From small beginniag in 1870. THE Cities Service egan
industrial concerns in the country and has THE second ig
ties are some of The soande5 and most progsssips ,ope'
Public Srpes Company Of Colorado, Kansas Ciy Gas ca
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Davis, Flying Fan,
Is Sorry He Can't
Own His Own Plane
Secretary of Labor Is En-
thusiastic After Week
end Flight.

Fresh from week end flight over the
Towering countryside of Maryland and
Pennsylvania, Secretary of Labor Davis
today bemoaned the fact that he isn't
wealthy enough to own a plane of his
own.
Questioned regarding report that he
had bought plane for private use, the
cabinet officer smiled and said:
I'm sorry the report isn't true. I'm
an aviation enthusiast, and I'd own q
plane in minute If could afford it.
but can't Believe me. though, hope
to buy one some day, when get rich!'
Leaning back in his chair and look
ing the picture of comfort in his shirt
sleeves, the Labor Secretary remarked
that this is the kind of weather that
makes flying pleasure.
Scenery From Air Great.
IT had wonderful trip from Pitts
burgh yesterday" he said. "Fred Jone:
and I-Fred's my business secretary ir
Pittsburgh--fiew down here in brand
new cabin ship. We made one stop, a
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MERCURY CLIMBS
TO RECORD At q
Atlantic Seaboard Suffers as
High Temperatures Grip
Entire Area.

The Official temperature at o'clock
this afternoon was 80 degrees, de-
grees lower than at the same hour
yesterday, when the thermometer stood
just one degree below the new record
of 81. at pm. yesterday.
Hope for thundershowers late tonight
or tomorrow, which are expected to
lessen the heat somewhat, was held
by the forecaSter today. He predicted,
however, that the temperature will
climb higher than 80 degrees later this
afternoon. ..
P. QuigIey, so years old, of Brad
bury Heights. was overcome by the heat
this morning, the second victim in two
days. Quieley collapsed at Twelfth and
B streets shortly before noon, and was
taken to Emergency Hospital, where he
was revived by DR.. Leon Gordon. The
first prostration was reported yeSter-
day morning when Raymond Holiday,
40 y eraosld, of 1902 E street, tainted
while on his way to church.
Heat Closely Rivaled in East.
washington's record temperature was
CtOSe1y Ilfd1CQ 1u OOA4CI CAbACSs LAVAL
records were established in Baltimore,
with the mercury standing at 90, Phila-
delphia with 90, Harrisburg with 88,
New York with 86 and Boston with "a.
Richmond, Norfolk, Asheville, Pittsburgh
and Chicago also experienced tempera-
lures far above the customary level at
this time.
Denver, with a snowstorm, and South
Chicago, with tornado, last night, were
marked exceptions in the unusual week
end.
Yesterdays temperature here came
within one degree of breaking the
standing record for the month Of April,
which was established on April 81, 1915.
The Pennsylvania avenue kiosk, subject
to reflected heat from the pavement,
reached an even 100 degrees at 4
O'Clock yesterday.
Thousands Seek Parks.
Washington parks and the relatively
cool spots in Virginia and Maryland
were besieged early yesterday by thou
sands of motorists who thronged all
highways in their efforts to escape the
city's heat. Although trafflc jams were
frequent, there were no serious acci-
dents.
Sweltering policemen were afforded
some relief early in the evening when
Inspector William Henry Harrison is
sued orders that members Of the force
discard their overcoats during night
duty. Although the order was for last
night only, it will be repeated tonight If
the heat continues.
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GANN HAS NO EXPECTATIONS
OR HOPES FOR OFFICIAL STATUS
Strictly Neutral, He With
holds Public Comment
on Precedence.
Feels His Wife and Vice Presi.
dent Are Being Mis-
represented.

Edward Everett Gam, whose wife.
the sister and official hostess Of Vice
President Curtis, has engaged the State
Department in an intricate problem in
volving her social status, has no official
status himself, doesn't wish and doesn't
expect any.
So much was said today on behalf Of
the quiet man who finds himself in the
position of a disinterested observer,
when, as a matter of fact, he is as
concerned about the position of Mrs.
Gam as the Vice President himself.
Mr.. Gam, who is distinguished. at
torney, is preserving a neutrality so
strict that only his closest friends know
how he feels about Capital society's
leading topic. He will not comment on
the matter publicly, and those closest to
him represent him as feeling that peo-
pie have taken advantage Of the stu
alton to misrepresent the Vice Presi-
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CANADA IS RET|CENT.
ON I'M ALONE NOTE.
Points at Issue in Rum Treaty
Believed to Be Basis of
Representations.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Formal representations on the sink
ing OF the rum-runner I'm Alone by
Coast Guard patrol boat in the Gulf
of Mexico have been received from
Ottawa by the Canadian legation for
presentation to the State Department.
Except for the briet announcement
by the Canadian Prime Minister, Mac
Kenzie King, that the sinking of the
vessel, which was of Canadian registry,
would be the subject of formal discus
SionS between the American and Ca
madam governments, both Ottawa and
the legation have been very reticent re-
garding the content of the note.
Unofficial views of the matter, how
ever, are to the effect that the Cana
dians are more interested In the points
at issue between the two governments
over the anti-rum smuggling treaty of
1924 between the United States and
Gieat Britain-which binds Canada as
dominion Of the British common
wealth-than they are over the actual
sinking.
Canadians Object to interpretations.
On two previous occasions, when Ca
madam vessels were seized by Coast
Guard vessels for rum-running, the
known that it was not in sympathy
with certain interpretations placed by
the Americans on points in the 1924
treaty under which the ships were
seized.
1t has been said in reliable quarters
here that Great Britain and Canada
are particularly interested in having
these divergent viewpoints Strengthened
out before a case more serious even
than that of the I'm Alone arises.
The I'm Alone case is regarded as en-
bracing most of the contested points
and enables the governments to bring
the matter up for discussion.
The usual procedure in such cases Is
for the diplomatic representative on the
spot to study the information of the
case which is available, draft a note and
submit it to his government for appro-
val or correction. The interested gov
ernment then returns the note to the
legation, either approved with instruc-
tions to present 1t, or disappearing fur
ther action and instructing the diplomat
to drop the case.
Points Are Listed.
Since it has been thought that the Ca
nadians were deSirouS of discussing the
treaty, the points on which they have
been unofficially expected to predicate
their case are these:
Whether the right under the treaty to
search and seize suspected rum runners
within lone hours sailing from shore"
Is interpreted by the Americans to i'm
ply right to pursue vessel outside that
limit for search and seizure.
Whether a pursuit lasting more than
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SEvEN-CENT FARE
IN new YORK DENIED
Supreme Court Decides Against
Interborough Rapid Transit
Company.

BY the Associated Press
The Interborough Rapid Transit Co.
of New York today was prohibited by
the Supreme Court from increasing to
z cents its present scent fare.
The court stated that the INTERIOR
ough had not established that the
scent rate was confiscatory or that a
7-cent fare was reasonable.
While the Transit Commission had
felt it could not grant an increase be-
cause of the existing contract, the nigh
est court stated the commission wanted
to try the question in the State courts.
The effect of the decision will be to
stop further proceedings in the case
now pending in the Federal Statutory
Court at New York City.
Justices Van Devanter, Sutherland
and Butler dissented from the majority
opinion.
Justice McReynolds said that the In
terborough should have appealed to the
State courts from an adverse action OF
the Transit Commission instead Of
going into the Federal courts.
The case was before the court on the
question whether the contracts by which
the Interborough Co. operated the city,
Dullt SupWayS, ana Wnlch provided Tor
a scent fare. were within the provisions
of the Public Service Commissions law
basing rates on the value of the carrier
property.
Decision in the controversy clirnaxed
a bitter fight by the city and State
Transit Commission to set aside the
order Of statutory Federal court re-
straining the commission from inter-
fering with the operation of a 7-cent
fare schedule announced February /,
1928.
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FULLER EXPECTED
TORUNFOR SENATE
Has Virtually Decided on
Seeking Seat Now Held
by GilIett.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Former Gov. Alvan T. Fuller of Mas
sachusetts has virtually tossed his hat
into the ring for the Republican sena-
torial nomination next year to succeed
Senator Gillett.
This is the same Senate seat for
which several Massachusetts, newspapers
have urged former President Coolidge
to run.
Senator Gillett is today in Massachu-
sets, where it is expected he will con-
suit with his friends regarding the sena-
torial situation. A few days ago he an
nounced that If Mr.. Coolidge desired to
run for the Senate he would step aside.
He added, however, he did not believe
the former President had any such wish
or intention.
After dining at the White House with
President Hoover last night, Senator
Gillett boarded the midnight train for
New York on his way home. He will be
in Massachusetts, for several days before
returning to Washington for the open
ing of the special session OF Congress
on Monday. Springfield, his home, is
not far from Northampton, where the
not beyond the bounds of possibility,
Senator Gillett, in view of the situation
now developing, may undertake to learn
at first hand the views of Mr.. Coolidge.
It Is true that the senatorial primaries
do not take place in Massachusetts,
until year from the coming Fall. But
the lines for the fray are beginning to
take definite shape.
Fuller Gives Views.
Mr.. Fuller, on his return to Boston
last night from the South, said In an
interview that he did not expect a
diplomatic appointment. He said very
distinctly he was not closing the door
on his becoming candidate for the
Senate.
ION the contrary" said Mr.. Fuller,
'I am opening the door. I think that
is evident"
The Democrats already are preparing
for the senatorial race, hoping to be
able to elect successor to Senator Gil
lett and thereby hold two seats.
Former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald
of Honey Fitz"-is being
groomed for the nomination and his
friends believe he should make a
strong run. The fact that Senator
David I. Walsh, Democrat, was re-
elected last November and the State
went also for the Democratic nominee
for President, Alfred E. Smith, has
given the Democrats a great deal of
confidence in the Old Bay State.
When MIR. Fuller's attention was
called to the fact that if nominated
he might be opposed by Mr.. Fitzger-
aid, he replied, with laugh:
'I didn't expect to get the senator
ship by default"
Senator Gillett has made no definite
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