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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

Confused Identities.
"A man wants to talk to you about
prohibition" said the secretary.
How did you come to let him IMP"
He misled me. I thought he was
your bootlegger."
Jud Tunkins says a man may be ex-
cused for making one mistake, but he
is to be feared when the same mistake
gets to be habit.
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to the use for republication of all TewS dis
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special dispatches herein are also reserved.
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Entertaining.

Entertaining.
why did you quarrel with your
wife?"
She insisted on entertaining"
Should you object to that?"
ct think so. She wanted to be night
club hostess"
I'm the final figuring" said Hi Ho,
the sage of Chinatown, IT find that
there are but two distinct social
classes-the lenders and the borrowers. F."
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"a camp meetin'," said Uncle Eben,
sis a mighty helpful occasion, remindin'
folks of how good dey would like to be
an mebbe holdin' for a while"
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Modes of Travel.
The airplane started for the sky
With gracefulness complete.
big Birdie, 60 your way" said I;
I'm satisfied with feet"
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Arr 0.ho- St.tes and Canada

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The Evening Star Newspaper Company
Business once:
18th st. and Pennsylvania ave-.
4 Chicago once Lake Michigan Building.
! European once: IA Regent St., London
England.
Evening star., 1929-12-04
JAPAN MAY SEND
DANCERS TO FETE
Cherry Blossom Feature Is
Favored at Meeting of
c. c. Directors.

Action which may result in the Jap
anese government sending a troupe OF
dancers to this country to take part in
Washington'S cherry blossom festival
in the Spring was formally initiated by
the board of directors of the Washing
ton Chambcr of Commerce, meeting in
the Homer Building last night. The
possibility had previously been discussed
at a recent meeting of the general COM
mittee in charge, but no definite steps
were taken at that time.
The board last night went on record
as In favor of the idea, and requested
President Charles w. Darr and Mai.
Gen. Anton Stephan, chairman of the
committee, to do all that is necessary
to bring such troupe to Washington.
1t was suggested that communications
be addressed to Secretary of State
Stimson and the Emperor of Japan for
this purpose.
Festivals in Japan.
President Darr tol6 of the annual fes-
ttvalS in Japan at the time of the bios
Soming Of the cherry trees and of the
dancers who take part in the celebra-
tionS. He said that if a troupe of the
japanese dancers could be brought here,
that alone would insure the success of
The festival planned for the coming
year.
In his monthly report to the directors
Mr.. Darr praised highly the police and
firemen of the District, and predicted
that if the bill for an increase in their
pay Is passed by Congress the standard
will be raised to still more elevated
plane.
Appreciation to Hoover.
The board voted to send a letter of
appreciation to President Hoover for
the proposal in his message to Congress
for the enlargement CT the public build
ing program.
The Senate bill providing for aboli-
ton of the present form of District
government and substitution of a city
manager system was introduced, but
action was deferred pending a report of
the committee on national representa-
ton, to which it was referred.
The chamber decided to appropriate
$40 for membership in the National
Safety Council.
Evening star., 1929-12-04
COMMISSION CALLED,
Special Session of League Group t.
Study Palestine Disorders.

GENEVA, December 4 R.-The con-
cern in League of Nations circles over
the Palestine disorders of last August
Is reflected in the summoning of ar
extraordinary session of the Leagues
mandates commission in March to re-
ceive the British governments report
on the troubles.
The commission would regularly meet
in June, but it wishes to hear as soon
rs possible the findings of the inquiry
by Great Britain, mandatory power re-
sponsbile for Palestine. The commits
sion'S report will then be ready for the
League Councils meeting in May.
The council in September urged that
all information on the Arab-Jewish
clashes should be forwarded to the
mandates commission, so that the
commission might study the question
thoroughly.
Evening star., 1929-12-04

through window into a dining room
in Wards nome, where Mrs. Miller and
other guests were dining with Ward,
and poured five pistol bullets into
Wards body while he sat at the din
ner table.
Morgan then fled TO the street and
while Ward was dying in the arms Of
the woman fired two shots into his
own head and fell mortally wounded.
He died later in a hospital.
The shooting was the result Of an
old feud between the men over the
affections of the divorcee. Several
weeks ago Ward had drawn a revolver
on Morgan and mysterious shots had
been fired into Wards home. A load
ed revolver was found beside Wards
body.
Both men were unmarried and prom
inent in Shreveport business circles.
Evening star., 1929-12-04
Purnell, 4s, Heads Steel Firm.

YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, December 4
R).-Frank c. Purnell was elected
president Of the Youngstown Sheet &
Tube Co. by directors of the company
IN session yesterday. Purnell succeeds
James A. Campbell, who becomes chair
man OF the board. Purnell at 43 is one
Of the youngest steel executives in the
country. He. became assistant presi-
dent Of the firm two years ago.
The directors authorized an expendi-
ture Of $4,000, 900 on minor improve
mentS in the Youngstown district.
Evening star., 1929-12-04

fraudcd of more than 100000 through
come of its officials. was begun in Dis
trict Court here today.
The suit, filed yesterday by Fred r
White, county attorney, at the instiga-
ton of six stockholders, climaxed ar
investigation into alleged irregularities
of the company's funds. started last
April by Charles F. Hobbs. State super
intendent of insurance. Mr.. Hobbs said
check had failed to account satisfac-
torily for approximately 100000.
E w. Merritt, president, and Massey
Wilson, chairman Of the board of di-
rectors. resigned when 1t became known
the action had been filed.
Evening star., 1929-12-04
Let Us Remember The Useful Gifts
Gifts that like old friends throughout the years
Gifts that abound by the hundreds at Woodward Lothro
SketChed
Left

"A necessity for
even the one-roon
apartment an
Electric Grill. A
low gift price. ,$15
B-"Wames when
ever we like them"
the gift of this
Manning Bowman
Waffle Iron .$s.25
C-Among the in
teresting Electrical
Gifts is this Electric
Beater .$24.50
D-A M a n in O.
Bowman Gift Iron;
equipped with an
automatic heating
device .$7.75
E-The Sunkist
Junior Fruit Juice
Extractor is a most
popular gift among
moderns .....$14.o5
FAN Electric Cof-
fee Percolator that
Is a connoisseur in
its line .......$8.50
Evening star., 1929-12-04
MAN TAKES OWN LIFE
AFTER SLAYlNG RIVAL
Shreveport Divorce, Object of Their
Attentions, Is Wounded in
Fatal Fusillade.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHREVEPORT, La, December A.
Mrs. Iva Mae Miller, divorced wife of
railroad freight conCuctor, is recov-
ering from a pistol wound in the leg
and shock from the Staying of Marina
duke Kard and the suicide of Vernis
Morgan, her friends
She was wounded Monday night when
Morgan, 30-year-old lawyer, broke
Evening star., 1929-12-04
SUIT ASKS RECEIVER
FOR INSURANCE FIRM
Charges of Fraud Made Against
Officials of Federal Reserve
Life Co.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Kans.. December A.
Hearing of suit asking for nomination
of a trustee and appointment of a tenn
porary receiver for the Fede.al Reserve
Life Insurance Co. of Kansas City, Kans,
on grounds that the concern had been de-
Evening star., 1929-12-04
Sketched
at Right

Ga Gift Clock
from across the seas
-. colorful as mod
ern kit C h e ms. A
splendid timekeeper,
$2.o5
H-A Vegetable
and Fruit Slicer that
is an efficiency ex-
pert in tod avs S
X i t c h e n S. A low
price 1925
I-Artistic Kitchens
like these clever Fish
Moulds for their
dishes. Three sizes,
SOC to 45c
"A new and at
tractive ensemble of
Refrigerator Moulds
ten modern men,
bers included,
$5.45 set
Evening star., 1929-12-04
COL. FAUNTH0RPE DIES.
Noted Collector of Indian Mammals
for American Museum.

for American Museum.
NEW YORK, December 4 CP.-The
death of Col. j. c. Faunthorpe, the
Englishman who, with Arthur s. Var
ney, was largely instrumental in obtain
ing for the American Museum Of Nat
ural History the finest collection oi
Indian mammals in the world, was an
nounced in q cablegram received yes
terday by Henry r. Osborne, president
of the museum.
Col. Faunthorpe died in Lucknow
India, where, since 1920, he had beer
British commissioner.
Evening star., 1929-12-04

The Bell Telephone laboratories.
largest in the world, spend approx
mately S17,o0O,O00 annually on research
work
Evening star., 1929-12-04
Not Sketched

Imported Porcelain
B r e a d and Cake
Boxes; gay colors
and designs :. .$5.o5
Imported Serving
Trays. .$2.75 to 81
Imported Decorated
Bread Board a nd
Knife Sets,
SIPS and $2.75
Imported Dinner
Gongs.
$3.50 to $10.50
HOUSEWARES
FIFTH FLOOR.
Evening star., 1929-12-04
MARRIES SEVENTH TIME.
Former Miss Elsie Hesse Gave Her
Age as SO Years:

MASCATINE, Iowa, December 4 Cp).
She who is years ago was Miss Elsie
seventh marriage, Mrs Elsie Hesse-
Larsen-Smith- -CroSsley- Seeman Metz
er-Lord-FleSher.
Two previous husbands died and
divorce separated her from the others.
Married to James Flesher yesterday, she
gave her age as 49,
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CLANS Bred for Buttons.

Several of our Southwestern rivers
are the source Of our supply of CLAIMS
which are used in the manufacture of
buttons and nature is not quite on her
job for the button manufacturers are
always quite up to the supply of raw
material. 1t has been greatly increased if
supply could be greatly increased if
some method were found to properly
coddle the baby clans. In their in
fancy their lives are largely sacrificed
to the appetites of the fish which fire.
quent the rivers. There is also said to
be a scarcity of the food which the in
fantile CLAIMS require for their proper
development. A scientific person has
discovered a means of supplying the
necessary element of food by artificial
means and it is being tried with the
hope that there will be more clans and
consequently more buttons.
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Refrigerated Motor Truck.

There has been built and put in use q
mechanically refrigerated motor truck
that is intended primarily for short
nauls and to take up the transportation
of cold-Storage comestibles where the
refrigerator car leaves off. This is a
logical step forward in the distribution
of perishable foodstuf1s. These trucks
are entirely self-contained and capable
of a rather prolonged operation and the
entire refrigerating equipment weighs
less than 800 pounds.
Trucks of this type make it possible,
so 1t is claimed, to save considerable
time and money on shipments between
nearby cities-Such, for example, as New
York and Boston: and they facilitate
the movement of less than carload lots
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Radio for Deaf Students.

zMany a child in the schoolroom Is
condemned as stupid when the fact is
that 1t is suffering from impaired hear
ing. This deficiency may be Just
enough to be a serious handicap and
the child struggles along without the
real condition being realized by the
student or the teacher. It may take
a medical examination to reveal the
fact. For such as these, radio system
for. schoolrqems has, been devised by
which the Student thus afflicted may
properly get all the information dis
tributed by the teacher. The main
part of the apparatus is hidden in
table used by the instructor and wires
are carried along back of the seats with
connections for head sets wherever they
may be desired.
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Early Gaming Cards.

Some authorities believe that the very
earliest wood block prints of Europe
were playing cards. The earliest of
these which we know are also French,
two Wallets or knaves which are thought
to have been made in Provence not lat
ar than 1440.
Before the end of the fifteenth CEN
tury Germany was making cards in
great quantities not only for herself but
for Italy and Sicily and other European
countries. Perhaps because the cards
were made in such quantities and not
treasured, they are the hardest Of all to
find today. In 1448 the card makers Of
Venice protested to the Doge against the
importation of these German cards.
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Commodity Notes

CHICAGO, July 81 Especially Hot
weather again has served to slow UP the
dressed meat trade. Beef cuts declined
sharply during the past week, while
lambs were mostly So lower. Pork trade
barely held steady.
cLEvELAND.-The Lincoln Electric
Co. has awarded to the Austin Co. a
contract for erection of an addition to
its plant. Work will begin Immediately
and completion Is set for September
The building will require 100 tons Of
structural steel. No rivets will be used,
for construction will be effected by the
Lincoln welding process.
ENID, Okla-Many fields in Northern
Oklahoma are now being cut because of
the rise in wheat prices, which would
have been fired or plowed under, ac-
cording to reports reaching here. The
grain Is averaging in many instances
four bushels and less to the acre, and
Is of low grade. Much of 1t Is going
into storage.
HELENA. Mont-The thirsty soil of
the ranges has licked up all the mois-
ture which has fallen In this State and
the grass Is getting short on the ranges
and the water holes are drying up.
This is bound to affect range cattle to
some extent.
SACRAMENTO, Calif-During the
two years just ended California con-
structed 1000 miles of new highways.
The State spent 41,074,7 for con.
struction, reconstruction and main
tenance, deriving the funds from the
State governments half Of the Scent
gasoline tax.
OKLAHOMA CITY. sold
in Oklahoma in the last month showed
an increase of per cent over that of
a year ago, and for the first six months
an average increase Of per cent. The
total insurance sold was $10,184 900.
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COTTON PRICES RISE.
Unfavorable Weather Features
Have Bullish Effect Today.

NEW YORK, July 81 P.-Cotton
opened firm today at an advance OF IA
to 20 points on a continuation OF the
recent buying movement, which ap-
peared to be stimulated by higher cables,
unfavorable features in the weather
news and continued talk of increasing
weevil damage.
October contracts sold up to 1910 and
March to 1914, or 20 to % points net
higher, and the market was firm within
a point or two of the best at the end OF
the first half hour. However, the ad-
vance met considerable realizing and
some Southern selling. There was o
feeling that the Eastern belt was getting
too many showers in view of the boil
weevil situation and that rain was
needed in West Texas.
\ Liverpool cables reported local, contt-
mental and Bombay buying In that mar
ket on adverse weather reports from
the South
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-31
Safety for the Electric Iron.

Called away from her work at the
ironing board the thoughtless servant
or occasionally the housewife herself
may leave the electric iron on the
board, thinking she will be away but a
few seconds. but a longer detention
may result in the scorching OF the ma
terial being operated upon or perhaps
may be the means Of starting a fire.
Several means of overcoming this
danger have been devised, most of
which consist OF holders which cut of
the current automatically when the
iron Is placed upon It, The newest Of
these devices consists of a spider leg
arrangement on the iron which is al
ways spread out Of the way when the
operators hand clasps the handle, but
as soon as the hand Is removed the four
legs of the invention are drawn to-
gether with sufficient force to lift the
iron above the surface on which it Is
supported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-31
Investment Shares Jump.
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, July 81 Up UNITED States
Department of Agriculture .-Hogs-
Receipts, $4,000 head, including 5000
direct; mostly 15a20 higher on hogs
scaling over $50 pounds; top. 1915; bulk
good to choice 170-220 pounds, ITO
to 1900; 250-290 pounds, 1100all 40;
packing sows, 9.35al000; butchers, me-
dunn to choice, 250-300 pounds, 1O.5Oa
Las; 200-250 pounds, 11.10a12.05; 100
to 200 pounds, 1l.25a12.15; 130-160
pounds, l1.00a12.00; packing sows, 600
al0.00; pigs medium to choice, 90-130
pounds, 10.75a11.50.
Cattle-Receipts, 5000 head; calves,
granted steers, yearlings and fat cows
and heavy heifers about steady; all
other grades and classes demoralized
with bids and general undertone I'M
evenly lower; not enough to make a
market; early top, 1850; slaughter
classes, steers, good and choice, 1900
$500 pounds, 13.50a1675; 1,100-1, 800
pounds, 1325a16.75; 950-1 100 pounds,
13.00a16.50; common and medium, $50
good and choice. 750-s50 pounds. 1900
a16.00.
Heifers-Good and choice, $50 pounds
down, 1300a15.00; common and medi-
UNI, 8.O0a13.00; cows, good and choice,
8.50a1200; common and medium, 6.75a
$50; low cutter and cutter, 5.75a6.75;
bulls, good and choice (beeD, 9.5Oa
$780,, cutter to medium, 7.00a9.50;
vealers milk fed, good and choice,
13.OOa15.75; medium, 120oa1300; Gull
and common, 8.0Oa1200; stocker and
feeder steers. all weights, good and
choice. Ills a13.25; common and me-
dunn, 9.00a11.75.
Sheep-Receipts 10000 head; active,
steady to strong; fat natives mostly 1925,
few $780, good range lambs, 1300a
1925, choice kinds held around 1875;
fat ewes steady, 5.00a6.50; feeding
Spring lambs, Gull and common, 1275a
1878; medium, 11.25a12.75; Gull and
common, 8.25a1125; medium to choice,
92-100 pounds, 4.75a6.50; ewes, medium
to choice, $50 pounds down, 475a6.50;
Gull and common, 2.50a5.00 feeder
lambs, good and choice, 12.50al3.65.
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UTILITIES LEADERS
ON CURB EXCHANGE
Investment Trusts Also Have
Good Day From BuIIish
Standpoint.
BY HARRY H. BECKER.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, July 31.-Utilities and
investment trusts almost monopolized
trading on the curb exchange today.
Prices in both groups advanced rapidly
under active demand and the ticker
fell far behind business on the floor.
The feature again was the insult
stocks Middle West Utilities old, which
had closed at 46434 yesterday, new
high, ran up to SOC, where 1t was VI
over 40 points on the day. There was
some subsequent reaction. The trad
ing was started in the new stock to
be outstanding after the 10-for-1 split
up. the first sale being 10000 shares
at So corresponding to 500 for the
old stock.
after News Is Out"
insult Utility Investment, the hold
ing company, rushed forward more
than is points, also to a record high
Seldom has there been such a showing
in the case of stock after the news
was out" as has been seen in Middle
West Utilities and its associated issues.
Realization of the benefits to accrue
from the recapitalization plan in
creased as time went on.
Commonwealth Edison opened I'M
change at 400, the previous high,
This stock had gained over SO points
yesterday.
Other utilities were buoyant. Electric
Investors advanced violently 18 points.
There have been rumorS Of a five-for-
one split-up in this block, but its large
holdings in the shares of other power
companies are sufficient explanation for
the strength. Among the companies in
which Electric Investors is interested
are North America, American & Foreign
Power, American Power & Light,
Electric Power & Light and National
Power & Light.
Central States Electric new was ac-
tive and higher. It was predicted to-
day that earnings for the third quar-
ter ended June 80. Associated Gas &
Electric made a new top, rejecting
confidence in the program of expan-
sion. American Light & Traction
joined the advance up 10 points at 348
and at new top.
Investment Shares Jump.
Among the investment companies
strength was in evidence in Stone &
Webster, which opened at an advance
of points and National Investors at
a new high above $50 after its 19-point
gain of Tuesday.
Among induStrials the amusement
stocks were favored. Advances were
recorded by General Theatres EQUIP
ment, International Protector and Ma
tional Theatre Supply. Marconi In
ternational Marine was another feature.
The first sale was 2l,800 shares at
fractional advance and the gain was
increased thereafter. Trading was be-
gun in the new Shattuck stock to be
outstanding after the stock dividend.
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She Goes $4,000 Miles to Wed.

Balham Is on her - mile vovase e
to marry her fiance, who is employed
on a sheep ranch in Queensland, Aus
tralia. He Is % years old, and they
have known each other for 10 years.
When he sailed from Liverpool four
years ago. they were just boy and girl
friends. The youth asked her to write
to him each mail and they correspond
ed regularly. He proposed and was &C.
ceptea by mail.
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FLEECE WOODS MOVING.

BOSTON. July 81 (SpeciaD More
interest was displayed today in fleece
woods than has been seen for some time,
but sales were moderate. Territory
combing clean was quoted at 90, French
combing, 80 to 90; half blood, 90 to 95;
three-eighths blood, 90; quarter blood,
70 to 80. Fine Ohio fleeces were quoted
at 38 grease basis; half blood. A; three
eighths blood, A TO As; quarter
blood. AZ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-31
Slow But Steady Growth.

The dairy of q student Of Upsala
University, Sweden, written during the
latter half of the fifteenth century, was
recently found in the library Of that
university. Astronomy was the main
study and the text was written by
Sacrobosco. In the fifteenth century
Upsala had six professors and 100 stu
dents; today there are 400 professors
and instructors and 5000 students.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-31
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
(Quotations furnished by w. B. Hibbs & co.,
Nominal gold Selling checks

NEW YORK, July 81 P.-Foreign
exchanges easy. Quotations in cents:
Great Britain, demand, 4s4 1916; Ca
bles, 485 5-16; 60-day bills on banks,
480 Lie. France, demand, 3.91&;
cables, 3.91 1916. Italy, demand,
5.22ss; cables, 523.
Demand-Belgium, 1890; Germany,
1889; Holland, 40.06: Norway, 1854;
Sweden. 26.791a; Denmark, 1858;
Switzerland. 1924; Spain, 1852; Greece,
1924; Poland. 11.25; Czechoslovakia,
295A; Jugoslavia, 1.7512; Austria,
1903; Rumania, .591a: Argentina. 42.04;
Brazil, 1913; Toxic, 1885; Shanghai,
58.06; Montreal. 99.75.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-31
Giant Elevator in Germany.

Vessels weighing 1000 tons may be
lifted as high as 100 feet in the air by
a giant elevator which will be part Of
the equipment connecting Berlin with
Stettin, the German seaport on the
Baltic. Believed to be the largest of
the kind in the world, it will replace
four locks near Nieder Finow, near
Berlin. It will cost approximately
S6,000,000. The foundation is under
construction and the elevator Is ex-
pected to be ready for use late this
year.