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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
STOCK APPRECIATION
MOUNTING STEADILY
Market Value Of All Issues Is
Gradually Approaching 100
Billions.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, September 21.-The
market value Of shares listed on the
New York Stock Exchange is gradually
getting up toward the 500, 000, 000, 900
mark. II 1t increases at the same rate
in the last quarter Of 1929 as 1t did in
the months Of June, July and August it
will hit this top figure before Christ
mas.
The statement issued today by the
Stock Exchange indicates that the Sep
TENDER / valuation of shares is ap-
proximately $4,000, 100000. This was
an increase Of $5,436, 000, 900 compared
with August !. The big gains last
month were in the public utilities, which
increase, and in the oils, steels, rails.
chemicals, coppers and chain stores.
Since September there has been an
additional appreciation in the public
utilities, which have held their gains
while other groups have been declining
in the unsettled market Of the past two
weeks.
The Stock Exchange for the first time
Classics the market values OF listed
shares by groups Of industries. This
shows that the highest valuation Is
that of the railroad and equipment
stocks, representing about IA per cent
of the total. Gas and electric operat-
ing and holding company shares come
next and amount to about 10 per cent
of all market values indicated. The
third most important group is that of
Oil companies. amounting to over per
cent. Then come, in their order, the
stocks of chemical companies, those
of communication companies, which
generally are classed with public utili-
ties, but In this instance are separated
from them: issues Of retail merchandise
ing houses, Of electrical manufacturing
companies. foods, iron and steel and
coke, financial companies, including
banks and investment trusts: tobacco
shares and aI1usements, represented by
securities worth 1925, 900 900, and avia-
ton by $732, 900 900.
AS q part Of the total valuation are
the shares of American companies
operating abroad and foreign COM
panies. which together aggregate $4,-
5000, 200, 900.
Eighteen months ago the combined
value Of both stocks and bonds listed
on the New York Exchange was about
500, 600, 100000. II the recent upward
tendency Of the market Is continued
the value Of stocks along toward the
end Of this year is expected to be the
equivalent Of these two classes Of securi-
ties In the earlier stages Of the bull
campaign 1s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
WEEKLY CLEARINGS.

NEW YORK, September 81 8.--
The weekly statement of the New York
Clearing House shows:
Total surplus and undivided profits
$l,424,300 decrease; total net demand
time deposits (average), $4,982,000 in
crease: ciearings eewk ending today
SiO, O59, 1871 sal; clearings week ending
September IL, $685., SOC, 662; clearings
this day 1857, 090, 65z.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
DUKE OF YORK H0N0RED.

LONDON, September 81 B-The
Duke of York has been reappointed high
commissioner for the Church of Scot
land, which will assemble at Edinburgh
on October 2, following the union with
the United Free Church Of Scotland.
The duke held this high post at the
last assembly Of the church, when the
basis Of union was approved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22


The stock pays ST. a year. The low on
the common this year has been 74hs
and the high o..
Peoples Drug Stores preferred stock
is listed on the Washington Exchange
and this, too, turned active during the
week. The last report of earnings was
highly favorable and no doubt caused
both issues to become strong. The pre-
ferred closed the week at 119k. The
low for the year is 113 and the high
1874. So far 779 shares have changed
hands on the local exchange In 1929.
washington bank clearings during
the past week were larger than the
previor1s week and also ahead OF the
same period year ago. Clearings
amounted to $50. 780, 900, against $29,-
-. The gain over last year was So
per cent. Richmond reported gain
over the previous week In clearings,
but no change from year ago. Balti-
more showed substantial increase.
If the remaining months Of the year
are as good as last year C.. & o. will
earn approximately s22.35 share on
1.48O, 941 shares of common stock. This
would compare with earnings OF $24.33
a share on 1,180,940 common shares in
1928.
The dollar volume of trade, as indi-
Gated by check payments, covering the
week ended September IA, was consid-
erably larger than in either the pre-.
ceding week or the corresponding period
of 1928, according to the Department
of Commerce.
william Gibbs McAdoo has become
associated with the Hawaiian Anyways
Co, recently formed to conduct a gen.
eral aviation business in and between
the islands of the Hawaiian group.
E2IYrpQI nf Internal Revenue re-
ports production of cigarettes during
August as IO,930. S28, 800, of small va
riety and 597,389 of large, compared
with 10, 627, 344 AIT and 59,582, reSpec-
lively, in August. last year.
Production of small cigars was 36,-
S76,987 in August, compared with
43.OS1,507 last August. Production Of
large cigars was 598,582, 100, as against
col .877, 267 last August.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
Famous Mountain
Climber Slips,
Falls 1000 Feet
Denver Mountaineer's Two
Companions Rescued BY
Forest Rangers From
Ledge Near Top of Longs
Peak.

ESTES PARK, Colo, Aug. 10. UP
c. w. Thiemeyer, widely known
mountain climber of Denver, Slip
ped from narrow ledge near the
top of Longs peak last night and
fell 1000 feet down the perpendicu-
lar rock sides of the peak, while
trying to scale the east face OF the
mountain.
Forest rangers. who discovered the
accident today when they rescued
DR.. Albert Stacker, Boulder Colo,
dentist. and Mrs. Stacker, THE
meyers companions, said Thiemeyer
undoubtedly was killed.
DR.. Stacker and his wife were
pulled from the narrow ledge to the
top of the peak on ropes lowered
to them by forest rangers. The
peak is 144,27l feet above sea level
and only a few persons have scaled
the dangerous cliffs on its east
face.
With the mercury below freezing
rangers here assumed that THE
meyer became numb and fell.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
Thirteen Vegas
Students Enter
u. of N. Monday
TWenty-Six Plan to Contin-
ue On Road to Education
This Fall; One Seeking
Masters Degree at Reno.

Thirteen or more Las Vegas young
folks will be in Reno next Monday
to begin the years work at the Uni
versity of Nevada.
Leonard Noblitt will be working
for his masters degree, Ruth OPP
pedyk will take up her work as a
junior, while Eugene Waller, Oscar
Bryan and Neil Scott will be sopho-
moreS.
Seven freshmen will be Mona Kay
who was winner of a scholarship,
Joseph Philips, also winner of I
scholarship, Elizabeth Won Tobel
Kendall NungesSer, Alice Doherty,
Fred Ferris and Jewel French.
Robert Dutton will also attend the
University of Nevada.
Tom Croal, Jr., and jake Won
Tobel will attend Santa Clara col
lege, the former as a junior and the
latter as a sophomore. school open
ing there also on August 26.
Frances Martin will enter Scripps
college as freshman September 16
and Virginia Horsey Santa Barbara
college as a sophomore on the same
day
Ivan DeSonne will enter U. S. C..
as a freshman, and Jimmie Down
also is expected to be student
there, while William Rau, Jr., will
enter California Institute of Tech
nology, at Pasadena, and Virginia
Bachert will enter Woodbury's busi-
ness college in Los Angeles.
Harry Griffiths will attend Cali
fornia Christian college, Bert Begley
Junior College of San Diego and
Nancy Craig Mills college. while
Doris Kramer and Elmer Schulz are
two others who are believed to be
preparing to enter college.
Helen Garner is said to be plan
ming to take up nurses training in a
Los Angeles hospital.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
Mead May Visit
Las Vegas Again
In Near Future
Reclamation Director Is Ex-
pected to Make Trip Here
After Ending of Interna-
tionaI Conference in Mex
leo.

DIR. EIw0Od Mead, director of rec
lamation and therefore in charge of
government activity in connection
with the building of Boulder Dam,
may visit Las Vegas again in the
near future, Immediately after the
ending of the International water
conference, in progress today in
Mexico City.
This information was brought to
The Age Sunday by E. B. Keclen,
Los Angeles business man, who
stated he will invite Or. Mead to ac-
company him here from California
by plane.
Keelen brought the group of Los
Angeles city engineers to Las Vegas
from Los Angeles by airplane dur
ing the last day of Doctor Mead 5
stay here when Secretary of the In
terror Ray Lyman Wilbur was here
to inspect the dam site.
Keelen was in this city Sunday
with c. E. Wyatt and w. N. Tif-
fany, Los Angeles business men, and
Clyde w. Smith, attorney, all of
whom were looking over the site of
the future Boulder Dam Site city,
which will be located directly above
the scene of the building operations.
They all were interested in the
making of investments for develop
ments in either Las Vegas or the
Dam Site city, and are acquaintine
themselves with the situation.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
CHINESE. SOVIETS BOTH
SAY OTHER AGGRESSOR
In MAKING NVASIONS
Chinese Minister to United States Admits
$4,000 Orientals Orderd to Border, But In
sists Protection the Only Motive; Russian
Note Warns China Against Transgression
BY UNITED PRESS


Mobilization of Manchuria's
full war strength, estimated at
10000 men, was reported today
to have been ordered by the
military commanders of the
country as new reports of bOr-
der clashes between Soviet
and Chinese troops nMssed
along the border continued to
Sift in from various sources.
At the same time c. C. WI,
Chinese minister to the United
States, announced in Washington
that the Chinese government has
ordered $4,000 troops to be moved
to the border ito prevent a re-
petition of the continual viola
ton Of Chinese territory by Rus
san troops"
The minister added, however,
that this tremendous troop move
ment did not mean war.
From the Manchuli district it
was reported that a new clash
had broken out between the Soviet
and Chinese border patrols.
A war conference was ordered to
take place in Mukden tomorrow to
cope with the new developments.
All the high Chinese and Man
churian military authorities have
been ordered to participate i'll tho
conference.
Chinese newspapers carried un-
Continued on page -
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
Boy Who Killed
Father Is Freed
Twelve -Year-OId Boy Who
Shot Millionaire Parent to
Save Mother Is Exhoner-
ated by Jury.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. l9.-W.P(-
After hearing 12-year-old Richard
Howard tell how he rushed to the
aid of his mother and shot his
father to death with rifle, COR
oner's jury of twelve men returned
verdict of justifiable homicide late
today.
The mother, Mrs, Irene Howard,
cried God bless those men," and
collapsed. The boy was not in the
room when the jurors returned at-
ter celebrating for 20 minutes.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19.-W,D-A
coroner's inquest will hear late this
afternoon the story of l2-year-old
boy who shot and killed his millioIr-
aire father, Frank S. Howard, auto
mobile dealer.
The son, Richard Howard, was
expected to repeat his original story
that he killed his father when the
latter, drunk and abusive, was
choking his mother.
Commenting unofficially on the
case, Dist. Attorney Buron Fits de-
clared that "'the boys impulse
aid his mother was natural.
hardly think he can be blamed"
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
Sun Cod Hovers
Over Miles City
RefueIing Nonstop, Round
Trip, Cross Country Plane
Ready for Last Lap on
Return Flight From N. Y.

MILES CITY, Mont, Aug. I9UP
Facing a new hazard of poor viSi-
bility. the Spokane Sun God at
tempting a re-fueling flight across
the country and return, was idling
over the airport here tonight. eX-
pecting to resume the hOmeWard
journey to Spokane in the morning
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Aug. 19,-U,Pl--
Delayed after having arrived here
ahead of schedule, the Spokane
Sun God" noSed westward again
tonight on the last half OF its
flight.
The ship. piloted by Nick Manner
and Art walker, appeared over the
municipal airport at l:25 p. m. for
its second refueling of the day.
At that time the Sun God was
more than an hour ahead of Sched-
ule, but the flyers were detained in
the air when the refueling ship was
damaged slightly in refueling after
the first contact.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
Pantages Faces
New Accusations
Theatre Man Made Un-
successful Attempt to At
tack Usherette, Complaint
Alleges; To Answer Thurs
day.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19.-(U.R)-
A three day delay was granted Al
exander Pantages today when he
was arraigned in Superior court on
charges that he attacked Eunlcc
Pringle, 17-year-old dancer.
He was given until Thursday by
Judge Aggeler to enter his formal
plea. The state made no objection.
The crowd which filled the court
room and nearby corridors was af-
forded only brief glimpse of Pan
tages during the short session. He
kept his glance averted as he made
his way through the crowd.
The district attorneys office was
expected to use the three days to
investigate further the deposition of
a sixteen-year -old former usherette
in the Pantages theater who said
she fled an attempted attack by the
wealthy man. The state was said
to be in possession of dispositions
from theater employees that Pan
tages ordered them to testify falsely
in his behalf.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
Swiss Aviators
Pass Azores on
Atlantic Flight
Plane Which Left Lisbon,
Spain For America Well on
Way; Progress at Average
Rate of 100 NJ. P. n.

PONTA DELGADA, Azores, Aug,
19.-U.P)-The Atlantic air
plane Young Switzerland" was re-
ported passing the Azores island Of
Terveira at 4 p. m, noon, eastern
standard time, today
The Young Switzerland" is en-
route from Lisbon to New York.
The Azores islands are approx
mately 1000 miles from the Coast
of Portugal, which the "YOung
Switzerland" left with Oscar Kae-
sar and Kurt Luscher aboard, at l
a. m, eastern standard time
The Island Of Tcrccira is north
west of Ponta Delgada, and is cast
of Sayal, the principal island OF tn
group. The flyers have averaged
more than 100 miles an hour on the
first part of their flight.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
Mills to Serve
Rest of Sentence

CARSON CITY, Aug 19-Holding
that the information filed by the
district attorney of Clark County
stated facts sufficient to warrant
the trial jury in finding c. E. Mills
of Las Vegas guilty of driving an
automobile while under the influ-
ence of liquor. the supreme court Of
Nevada has upheld the judgment of
conviction of Mills by the district
court of Clark County.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20

About seventy men, in three
camps between the Black Canyon
dam site and Searchlight, are now
engaged in the work of making the
survey of one of the four prospec-
tive routes for the Los Angeles aque-
duct, it was stated yesterday by N,
M. ImbertSon, topographer III
charge, who was in Las Vegas for
the day.
These crews of men, who have
been on the job in Clark county for
the past three months. probably will
spend two months more working out
details of the survey before the Las
Angeles city engineers can start
figuring definite costs of an aque-
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
MARVEL CROSSEN, SAN
DIEGO RACER. CRASHES
AT WELLTON, ARIZONA
Fourteen Feminine Air Racers Reach PhOe-
nix on Second Day of Race From Los An
geles to Cleveland; Three Others Out of
Contest; Men Battle Brush to Reach Wreck

WELLTON, AriZ., Aug. ~
UP)-TwO hundred citizens of
Yuma were making a strenuous
attempt tonight to locate
plane believed to be that of
Marvel CrOssOn, San Diego
contestant in the wOmen's air
derby, which was seen to go in
to tailspin IL miles from here
today.
The men are battling their way
through heavy desert brush which
in some places is twenty feet high.
Part Of the ground was covered on
horseback, but when the brush
was reached it became necessary
to cut trails through the mesquite
and continue on foot.
In some places members Of the
party were forced to crawl on
hands and knees, using search
lights and lanterns to find their
way
Should the searchers fail to find
the plane before dawn planes from
Les Angeles and Yuma will join
the searcherS.
PHOENIX, Ariz.. Aug. 10 UPl-
The fourteen women speeding from
Santa Monica to Cleveland Ohio,
for $4,000 in prizes halted here
tonight after the second OF their
nine day journey,
A fifteenth, Marvel Crosson, Of
Los Angeles, holder Of the woman's
altitude record, was believed to
have been forced down near Well
ton. Arizona, where search was
under way.
Opal Kunz, New York aviatriE.
was the last of the II to check
in. arriving shortly after + pm,
more than two hours after the
others. She had been forced down
at Prescott because in some un-
known manner she ran out OF
gasoline.
PHOENIX, AriZ Aug 10 UP)-
Louise Thaden, Pittsburgh was the
first eutrant in the Woman's air
derby of the national air races to
finish tCdays lap from San Ber-
nardinO to Phoenix
Mrs Thaden, One-time holder Of
the WOmens altitude record, land
ed her Travelair here at l:04 :36.
The winner CT each lap is deter
mined by elapsed time, SO until ali
Of the women pilots reach here the
winner Of the lap will not be
known.
Florence Barnes, who won yeSter-
days lap from Santa Monica Cal
ifornia, to San Bernardino, Cali,
was the second to bring her plane
across the line. She reached hero
at % 21-
She was followed at short inter
walls by Gladys ODonnell Blanche
NCyes, Ruth Nichols, Keith Miller,
Phoebe Omlie, Ruth Elder and Yer
Dawn Walker
YUMA. Ariz,, Aug. 10 UPl-Lack-
ing three Of its most prominent
the group Of women com
Dating in the W0men'S air derby
of the National Air Races took off
for Phoenix after a brief halt here.
BCbbie Trout, one time holder OF
the Worlds endurance record for
women. Thea Rasche, star Ger
ann ayiatriX. and Clair Fahy, wife
Of the holder of the mems solo
flight record, were the
pilots who failed to reach this con-
trol
"A possibility existed that Mls9
Rasche and Mrs Fahy might get
back into the race but Miss Trout
Continued on Page Six
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
Injunction in Phone
Line Building Sought

Application for injunction to pre-
vent the construction of telephone
line across certain properties was
filed yesterday against the Public
Utilities Consolidated corporation
by the Colorado River Exploration
Company, limited.
Alleging that ten or eleven holes
have been dug by the corporation
on the southwest one-quarter OF
section six. township tWenty-one,
range sixty-two to which that cor
poration has no title, Walter r.
McIallen is Signer of the complaint
The Public Utilities Consolidated
corporation is constructing line
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
Will
Leave Toxic at
Dawn Thursday
Start For America Will Be
Late Tomorrow Pacific
Time; Passengers Given
Royal Welcome In Japan.

TOXIC, Aug 10, W,P)-The Graf
Zeppelin. safe in a hangar at Kas-
umigaura airfield after flight
from FriedrichShafen. Germany,
was being prepared tonight for the
third stage of its flight around the
world
While officers ana passengers OF
the big dirigible we're honored by
Japan, the sturdy craft which had
carried them half way round the
world was being groomed for de-
parture Thursday at dawn, weather
permitting, for America.
Japan's welcome to the German
airship. when it arrived and landed
at 6:25 p. m. (4:25 a. m. eastern
time) was more emotional and more
spontaneous than probably any re-
ception so far on the long flight
from Lakehurst
In the same spirit, the entertain
ment of those who arrived on the
dirigible. 20 passengers and 40
members of the crew, was carried
out so far as possible, in view of the
WEAKNESS of the guests. The ship
had covered about 7,450 miles, count
ing detourS on its flight of 100
hours and so minutes. 1t had
passed through all sorts of climates
from the cold Of the near Arctic 20
the sultry heat Of Japan averaging
10 miles an hour.
TOXIC, Aug. 19-UP--ThC sec
ond leg of the longest and most
perilous flight ever attempted in the
history of aviation came to tri-
umphant close this afternoon when
the giant German dirigible Graf
Zeppelin alighted near here after
stop flight through the un-
charted skies of northern Asia.
Flew 100 Hours
The Graf had been in the air 100
hours and As minutes, thus COM
pleting another record-breaking
trip, perhaps improving on the
speedy cross-Atlantic flight she
made between Lakehurst, N. j., and
Friedrichshafen on the first leg Of
g. Continued on Page -
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20
70 MEN TO WORK TWO MONTHS
MORE ON AOUEDUCT SURVEY

duct over the various prospective
routes, he stated After some five
or six months of figuring they will
decide which of the routes will be
the most economical in the long
run.
Many FacIs 10 Consider
Cost of excavation, tunnelling.
types of material and comparison of
lengths will come in for conSidera-
ton, as will also the factors of lift
and upkeep after the aqueduct Is
completed.
There probably will be differ :
ence OF thirty or forty millions OF
Continued on Page 81
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20

from Las Vegas and Boulder Dam
site to outside points via Klngman,
Arizona. and BarStow. California, or
via Searchlight, the complaint
states.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20

COMPLETE ASSOCIATED
PRESS, UNITED PRESS
AND NEA SERVICES;
NOW A MORNING PAPER
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-20

HAVANA, Aug. 18.-(P)-The war
department has evolved system of
signals to order down planes which
appear over Cuban territory without
governmental permission. Three
smoke bombs will be the day signal
and three star bombs producing
green lights will be the night sign.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1929-11-01

lizacnynn pamfletom, priruckon
pre- prist 'ahovalcov alebo daja-
kou inon brozilrkouo
Ci ste sa niekedy obratil ma kan
celariu F.. L. I. S. so ziadost'ou Q
radu a informacie9
Ci schvalujete tisilie f. l.. I. s.
o oboznamenie americkej verej-
nosti ciel'om vyberania pri.
spevkov ma znovusriadenie slo.
venskeho oddelenia?
CT bude mat pre- Vas nejalSI
vyznam povedomie, ze mate svoje
vlastnc slovenske oddelenie, ma
ktort sa m6zete kedykol 'vek o
bratit' so ziadcst'ou radu in
formacie? <
Ak m6zete odpovedat' ma kto
rtikolvek z tychto otazok klad
ne, vtedy hlasujte pre- F. L. I. S
Me je treba, ably ste "a tym cie
Pom tSiti do nejalej volebne.
miesirosti, Stacf, ak vystrihnett
svnju aifesu prednej strany no
vim @Ipbo z ich Obalu a ak zaSle
Ifp il 10 slovensktho oddelenia
GH<}zojazyenej Informaenej Sluz
by Slovak Bureau, Foreign Ian
guage information Service, 22l
Fourth Avenue, New York, n. "
Toto bude znacit', ze 81 prajete
ably cinnosti slovenskeho odde
lenia bolo al nad'alej pokracova
ne. ked tomu Vase financne DO
merry dovol 'uj1, prilozte dolaro
VII alebo dva-dolarovu bankovku
Al prlspcvok co by akF maly bu
de ocenenyy leboT bude' znamenat
krok ku konecnemu ciel' zado
vazeniu dvoch tisic dolarov, nevy
hnutne potrebnych ma pokracova
ME nasej praci V roku 1890
(ZbyvajIcu potrebnn sumu po
skytnn Amerikani.)
Nezabudnite 'hlasovat'" ma O.
sOh F. L. /. s.
Slovenske Oddelenie
Cud7ojazycnej Informacne.
Sluzby.