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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
PERSONNEL CHANGES
IN ARMY ANNOUNCED
Many Officers Given New As
signments by War
Department.

Col. Thomas S. Bratton, Medical
Corps. has been transferred from The
Hawaiian Islands to Fort Mcpherson,
Ca: Col. Thomas L. Rhoads, Medical
Corps, from the Philippines to Cover
nors Island. N. Y; Col. Daniel w
Hand, Field Artillery, from the Philip
pines to Fort Ethan Allen, VT: Col. w.
F. H. Godson, Cavalry, from Fort Des
Moines, Iowa, to Detroit.
First Lieut.. Francis r. Johnson,
Corps of Engineers, at Fort Humphreys,
Va, has been ordered to his home to
await retirement; Capt. Charles D.
Carrie. Infantry, from Amarillo, Tex, to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
LONDON FACING PESTS!
Gate-Crashers Now Annoying May
fair Hosts and Hostesses.

IdII I1UsIS anu 4AOSNCSSCSs
LONDON R-London socity has
found itself the victim of an organized
social gate-crashing group that would
do credit to the coaching of One-Eyed
Connolly.
Mayfair hosts and hostesses have
been forced to ask their guests to pre-
sent invitations at the door and some
predict that if the unlimited pests con-
tinue their activities. all invitations will
be accompanied by large badges to be
worn by duly accredited guests.
Last season proved particularly profis-
able for the gate-crashers, and host
esses in all the best circles this year
have banded together to abolish the I'M
pleasantness of greeting persons whom
they did not invite.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
Cuban Beauty Contestant Sails.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAVANA. June 8.-Senorita Elvira
Moreno has left for Galveston. Tex,
where she will represent Cuba at
the Galveston international beauty con-
test. The Cuban beauty is an ardent
sports fan, being a member of the
women's basket ball champions and an
excellent tennis PLAYER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
REVERE HIS MEMORY.
Czechs Seek Body of King Who
Ruled in 1910.

PRAGUE (P). A diplomatic ex-
change is on between Czechoslovakia
and the grand duchy of Luxembourg
for possession of the body of Prince
Johann of Luxembourg, who was chosen
King of Bohemia in 1910.
For 500 years Prince Johann has
slept peacefully in the little castle at
Saarbrucken. While the present owner
of the castle has no objection to Civ
ing the body to the Czechs, the Luxem-
burg government thinks 1t should re-
main in its original burial place.
CzechoSlovakia wants to enshrine
Prince Johann in a national mausoleum
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
BE SURE TO VISIT
RHODODENDRON FESTIVAL

RHODODENDRON FESTIVAL
at
Asheville, N. c., from June 18th to June
Nd. 1929. Specially Reduced Fares;
Convenient Schedules. A wonderful OPP
poNunity to see this gorgeous Floral
Display. Consult Ticket Agents,
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM, 1910
H st. NV, Phones Main 1465-l466,
or Union Station
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
NIGHT TURNED INTO DAY.
London Witnesses Wearing of Eve
ming Gowns in Afternoon.

LONDON P).-Throwing bomb at
the Kings carriage and attending the
opera in anything but evening clothes
in well bred LONDON.
The first section of "Goetterdaem-
merung" recently opened at Covent
Garden at pm. and ended at $40
pm. with the result that shop girls and
clerks hurrying homeward from work
saw women in low-necked gowns and
men in full dress crossing the Strand
for hasty dinners. There being no fog
in London that day, it was still bright
when the diners returned to the opera
at 8 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
Montevideo to Mark Accord.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay. June q
The university and community will
celebrate Friday the Tacna AFRICA accord
between Chile and Peru.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09

Tenn, to the public high schools Of At
lanta, Ca; the resignation of Capt.
Barton w. johnson, Medical Corps,
has been accepted by the President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
Air Mail to West Indies.

Postmaster General Brown announced
yesterday that the foreign air mail serv-
ice to the Canal Zone will be extended
to the Dutch West Indies beginning
june 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09

Bolton Town, England, has approved
town extension plan that will cost
more than S3,000,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01

DANVILLE, Va, February 1.-The
Danville Traction 81 Power Co. lost
over $4,000 the past year, it is revealed
In the annual statement to stockholders
by G. G. Holland, president. It was the
heaviest loss ever sustained and was
ascribed as due chiefly to the tendency
of automobile owners to pick up friends
who are waiting for stree cars and give
them a lift thus losing a cash fare OF
cents to the company.
This Is a wide practice in COM
munity of this size, where most people
know one another, Mr.. Holland re-
ported.
Another factor was the curtailed time
schedules in the local textile industry
which helped to reduce patronage.
Mr.. Holland has been reelected pres
ident of the corporation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01
TRADE HOLDING UP
IN FIFTH DISTRICT
Sales Seasonal, Bank Loans
Lower, Building Permits
Doubled, Report Says.
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, February Sea-
sonal levels in volume of business were
maintained in the Fifth Federal Reserve
district in December and early January,
while business showed the usual adj
vance over that of November, it Is
stated IN the monthly review issued by
the bank here today.
Retail trade as reflected in depart
ment store sales last month was frac-
ton of / per cent below the volume of
| business done in December a year
earlier. which had one more business
day than December, 1928, the review
said. Debts to individual, firm and
corporation accounts in "a leading
| cities during the four weeks ended
January 8, 1929, set record for four
weeks, not only exceeding debts for
| the corresponding periods ending De-
cember IL, 1928, and January II, 1928,
but surprising the previous record Of
the four weeks ending January IL, 1927.
Loans and Discounts Lower.
A decrease was shown in the loans
and discounts Of So regularly reporting
| member banks in the larger cities Of the
fifth district between December IL,
1928, and January Is, 1929. These
banks also reduced their rediscounts at
the reserve bank.
Country banks, however, being more
directly dependent on agriculture, have
not been able to liquidate their in
debtedneSS at the reserve bank as
promptly as the city banks, and last
month additional accommodation was
extended to the country banks in suffi-
cient amount to increase slightly the
Federal Reserve Bank Of Richmond'S
holdings of member bank paper.
Rediscounts held by the Richmond
Reserve Bank on January IS, 1929,
totaled approximately so per cent more
than rediscounts held on January IS,
1928, and the circulation Of Federal
Reserve notes was also higher on the
1929 date. Deposits in member banks
lower than year earlier, time deposits
as well as demand deposits declining
last year.
Fewer business failures were reported
in the fifth reserve district in December,
1928, than in the same month Of 1927
Building Permits Doubled.
The value Of building permits issued
in December for new work was more
than double the amount reported for
new work in December, 1927. Coal
duction In November, 1928, but ex-
ceeded that of December, 1927.
Textile mills In the fifth district used
less cotton last month than in either
November, 1928, or December, 1927.
Prices for fire-cured and hurley to-
bacco were higher last month than in
December, 1927, but f1ue-cured to-
bacco, which makes up the bulk of the
crop in Virginia and all Of the crop In
the Carolinas, brought lower prices than
In either November, 1928, or December,
1927
The volume of business transacted in
1928 was moderately lower than that of
1927. the report said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01
BY KENNETH S. VAN sTRUM.

BY KENNETH S. VAN STRUM.
NEW YORK February Last year
the automobile industry made new
production record of over 4,500,0 900 cars
Even the most conservative expect pro-
duction during the coming year to reach
at least 100000, and there seems to
be an excellent possibility that in the
next few years the industry will average
100000 cars annually. These figures
indicate that earnings of the larger COM
panieS should be greater in the future.
Rivalry.
It is unwise. however to estimate
conditions within the industry by pro-
duction, for low-priced cars are far out
of proportion to middle and high-priced
ones. Ford and Chevrolet alone will
probably produce about so per cent of
the total production in 1929. But the
other low and medium priced models,
as well as the higher grades, are all ex-
pected to expand, also. The only ques-
ton seems to be who will get the busi-
ness.
Public favor shifts from one manu-
facturer to another so rapidly that the
companies with widely diversified models
are most certain of their future. This
factor is encouraging the trend toward
combinations and larger manufacturing
units.
In Many Price Fields.
General Motors, in many ways the
largest industrial concern in the world,
is the most widely diversified motor
company 1t has car "for every purse
and purpose" each of which completes
favorably in its own price field. The
company's growth in recent years has
been reflected in the sharply rising
prices of its stock, yet present prices
are not out of line with those of other
standard industrials. Making allowances
for many changes in capitalization,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01
SHARP RISE IN UTILITY STOCKS
is JANUARY MARKET FEATURE

senting the oil refining and producing
companies, in which there have been
heavy net losses, especially among the
Standard Oils. AS all Of them have
enormous share capital, the depreciation
of January, combined with that Of De-
cember, will erase much of the huge
gain made in November.
Motors in January were also irregular,
with indications that professional trad
ers were shifting into other sections of
the list. The weight of this selling has
fallen chiefly on Chrysler, which Is off
20 points for the month. Studebaker
reached new high during January
and has held most of it's gain. The
metal shares have been strong at times
and again weak, with International
Nickel leading the market for consider
able periods in point of turnover, but
with most of the other active coppers
showing net losses. The chain store and
distributing stocks have not been so
prominent as they were in the last quar-
ter of 1928.
Altogether, January has been notable
for the shifting currents of speculation.
Groups of stocks that have been popu-
lar for while have been suddenly
abandoned and the entire attention of
the Street focused elsewhere. This sug-
geStS a large volume of liquidation in
issues that have long been prominent
and the transfer of sales of these stocks
into other groups that have long been
lying dormant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01
RAIL LINES INTERESTED
IN SUSPENSION FIGHT
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, February steam
railroads and electric lines operating
between here and Washington are
greatly interested in the fight which
the Interstate Commerce Commission
is making to have Congress give it
power to suspend all lines deemed I'M
necessary.
This is especially true of the WASH
ington, Baltimore Sc Annapolis Rail
way, but the Baltimore & Ohio and
the Pennsylvania Railroads also are
watching the move with considerable
interest.
There are five bus lines now carrying
passengers between Baltimore and
Washington-the Red Star, Nevin,
Miller Tours, Marion Coach and the
Greyhound. Many other lines through
out the State operate In interstate
service and would find themselves
forced to prove their service more es-
sential than the rail lines connecting
places on their routes.
The w., B. g. A. has been hit as
hard as any line, because the five bus
lines skim the cream off its traffic.
The B. & o. and Pennsylvania Rail-
roads suffer also, but not so much,
because their longer routes, even when
paralleled by bus lines, are not so much
affected as the 45-mile interstate cross
ing to Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01
LEADERS IN INDUSTRIAL
WORLD FORGING AHEAD
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, February Those two
industrial giants-the United States
Steel Corporation and General Motors
have just published their 1928 reports.
United States Steel, after paying for
all the material used in its manufac-
ture, wages for 100000 employees. in
terest on its bonds, found $192, POP 900
left. This the auditors call earnings"
From this great amount first was de-
Quoted depreciation and sinking fund
charges of $67,314 ,0OO-more than
$5,O00,000 a month. Next was sub
tracted other items, mostly interest.
And the sum OF Sis, 998, 900 was left.
From this amount preferred stock
dividends of $25,219,000 were paid, and
then $49,813,000 In dividends on its
7,116,235 shares of common stock. The
balance, amounting to $38,965, 900, was
added to surplus.
Tax refunds are not included in this
statement.
General Motors did even better. After
paying for materials, high wages, large
depreciation, its officers had $279,-
100000 left. This is equal to $3.50
a share on the old stock and $500 on
the new stock, after preferred stock
dividends were paid. Compare this with
$235, 100000 earned in 1927--a gain of
1877 per cent, or with $186,231, 900
earned by this automobile leader in
1926.
Follow these reports UP with the
du Pont, which earned net. after in
terest and Federal taxes, a total or
$64, OCT 900, equal to $21.9 a share on
its 2,674,10 average number of no-par
shares outstanding during the year.
This company dominated entirely
and owned almost exclusively by one
family, shows total assets on December
81, last, Of $463, 333, 900. an increase
of more than Sill 100000 during the
year.
The natural accumulation of the
proverbial snow ball rolling down hill
seems to hold true in business, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01
Special Dispatch to The star.

4
NEW YORK, February 1.-The month
OF January, which is additionally an
uncertain period in speculative markets,
will go down in financial history as one
in which larger number of new high
records were made for public utility
stocks than at any time during the bull
campaign and in which so-called in
vestment railroad shares exceeded the
level attained 20 years ago.
T It has been the rise this month in
these two classes that has added ap-
preciably to the market values of all Sc
curities listed on the New York Stock
Exchange and on the New York Curb.
The rails were late in starting, but
with the gains made today the average
for the group is considerably higher
than at the end of December, in which
month there was a decline in railroad
stock prices. The public utilities have
been boiling" for several weeks Net
changes in them since the end of 1923
range all the way from to Is points.
A third group that has legged, but
which was taken up this month. we're
the tobacco stocks. Iron and steel is
sues did better for a while under the
leadership of U. S. Steel common and
with the resumption of dividends on
Bethlehem Steel common, but the group
as a whole ends the month with not
much gain.
One of the weakest bodies of stocks
during January has been that repre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01
January Trading Report.

NEW YORK, February (P-Jan-
uary was the second largest trading
month on record for the New York
Stock Exchange. Sales totaled 110,-
803.940 shares, against the high record
OF lis, 433,835 shares set last November.
For the New York Curb Market the
month established a high record Of
42,s94,e00 shares, compared with 3d.
$4,000 Ia November. the previous high.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01

DANVILLE, Va, February 1.-The
Tobacco Board of Trade has decided to
terminate the present tobacco Market
ing season on February 28. This is two
weeks earlier than usual, but the course
taken is warranted, officials say, because
of the short crop and realization that 1t
has been virtually cleared. Final figures
for Danville are expected to show 49,
100000 pounds sold for about $4,000 900
since last November, when the market
ing season began,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01
LAUREL BANK ELECTION.

LAUREL, Md, February 1 (Spe
ciaD AT the annual election Of officer
of the Citizens National Bank the fol
lowing were chosen:
George w. Waters, jr., president
William Stanley, vice president: D. M
Fisher, chairman Of the board: G. e
Little, cashier, and w. M. Cole, assistan
cashier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01
Dividend Payments Gain.

NEW YORK, February (R.-Div-
idend payments in January tota.ed
$246, 73l ,436, against $198,507,930 in
January, 1928. December payments,
usually larger than in January, were
S408 O06,l09.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01
NEW YORK BANK CLEARINGs

NEW YORK, February 1 Especially -
New York bank clearings, $2,088, 900,
900; New York bank balances, $685.
100000; New York Federal reserve
credit balances, $157,000,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
VOTE ON FLEXIBLE
PLAN IN TARIFF BILL
EXPECTED MONDAY
Continued From First Paee.)

Continued From First Page)
alton and the American Association OF
Creamery Butter Manufacturers and
secretary of the National Dairy Union.
Position of Industry.
The position of that industry, he
wrote, "is that flexible proviso better
than the present one, corrected to pro-
ministration, should be written and re-
main in the BILL that substantially
the same kind of a tariff commission
as now exists, should be continued, and
that the right of approval or veto, and
if approval of enforcement OF recon-
mended tariff changes should continue
in the hands of the President"
Senators Robinson of Arkansas, the
minority leader, and Connally, Demo-
crat, Texas, led the opposition to the
flexible provisions in yesterdays de-
bate, while Senators Fess, Ohio. and
Gillett, Massachusetts,, Republicans,
spoke for the proponents.
The flexible policy, Fess contended,
represented the most progressive step
taken by the Government in 40 years.
Although doubling the wisdom of a
President voicing his opinion of leg
is.ation pending in Congress, the Re-
publican whip Stoutly defended Presi-
dent Hoover's action in issuing a state
ment urging retention of the flexible
principle in the bill. He said he prob
ably would have advised against the
course had he been consulted, however.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
D. C. SUPREME COURT
TO CONVENE TUESDAY
Three Branches Will Undertake
Task of Cleaning Up
Criminal Docket.

From the $50 Edition of Yesterdays Star.
This District Supreme Court will be-
gin its Fall term next Tuesday with
three criminal branches in an effort to
clean UP the criminal dockets. Justice
Gordon will preside in Criminal Divi-
sion l, Justice Hitz in Criminal Division
and Chief Justice Mccoy in Criminal
Division 8.
The other assignments of the justices
as announced yesterday by Chief Justice
Mccoy include Circuit Division /, Jus
tice Siddons: Circuit Division 2. Justice
Bailey; Equity Division l. Justice Stat
ford, and Equity Division 2, Justice
Wheat.
Justice Hitz, it is expected, will be
occupied throughout the month of
October in the trial of. Albert B. Fall
former Secretary of the Interior
charged with accepting a bribe of
100000 from Edward L. Doheny. mil
iionaire oil magnate. in connection with
the leasing of the Elk Hills oil reserve
in California.
On request, one of the justices will be
assigned to preside at the hearings of
the condemnation proceedings for the
acquisition of property by the Govern
ner1t within the Avenue triangle and
in District condemnation cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
SECRETARY WILBUR
FINDS WATER is CHIEF
CONSERVATION ISSUE
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Continued From First Page)
royalty basis of discoveries and with
due consideration to conservation for
the future. The policy of transferring
Federal lands for school purposes is
we'll established. 1t could be further
initial ted wherever State laws and State
policy warrant the transfer"
Public Domain Abused.
Secretary Wilbur talked plainly and
convincingly to many Western leaders
and audiences on the vital issues that
confront them. He told them that the
public domain had been abused. over
grazed and not respected in many Sec
tons. Unless Westerners cherish and
care for the lands now in possession of
the United States, in forests and pub
lie domain, Dr. Wilbur roundly warned
that we of the West will repeat the
fall of ancient Ninevah and Tyre which
was due to the abuse of plant life and
water failure, or suffer the degradation
Of Korea and parts of China, with man
made barrenneSS, floods, erosion and
decay"
The Secretary of the Interior adjured
the West Ito stop thinking in terms OF
immediate production. in viewing the
land of today. The forests must be pro-
tected or harvested conStructively, over
grazing must be checked and experts in
plantl ife and water conservation must
be our guides" Dr. Wilbur freely ac-
knowledges that it is difficult to under
stand and properly control such prob
lens from Washington. He thinks the
National Government can still be help
full in building dams. in protecting navi-
gable streams and in assisting with
State compactS like the Colorado River
agreement regarding Boulder Dam, but
he believes Uncle Sam should withdraw
from the details Of management of COM
munity enterprises properly subject to
State laws.
Adequate Federal appropriations for
care of the Indians comprise the biggest
problem with respect to the Nations
redskin wards. Secretary Wilbur says
More money is needed for education
and for safeguarding the health of the
Indians. The national park system is
becoming an increasingly important
governmental interest. Visitors to the
parks are increasing at the rate of about
a third annually. DR.. Wilbur points out
due to constantly improving travel IA
cilitieS and the country'S growing desire
to see the aboriginal America in its wild
and primitive state, especially animal
life. This is being preserved to the
fullest possible degree that circum-
stances permit, Secretary Wilbur ex-
plains.
(Copyright, 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
OF Y. W. C. A. STARTS
Sessions of Staff Workers Open at
Ramp Kahlert, Md. Ending
Monday.

The annual conference for staff work.
ers of the Young Women's Christian
Association began today at Ramp
Kalhert, Md. Sessions are to continue
until Monday, when the Fall conference
of board members, staff members, COM
mittees, chapters, clubs, departments
and individual members of the asso-
Building here.
Sessions for the second conference
will be held afternoon and evening,
with dinner between.
Mrs. Frederic Paist of Philadelphia.
former national president, and Miss
Helen Thoburn of New York City are
to be the principal speakers Monday.
The subject of the conference is AS
ISOLATION Thinking" and will be de-
veloped by the various speakers along
the lines of the individual. the COM
munity and the world. with Mrs. VIII
liam Adams Slade Mrs. Elwood Street,
Miss Helen Hudson, Mrs. John T.
Schaaff, Miss Bertha Pabst and others
taking part.
Mrs. Thomas Edwin Brown, president
of the board of directors of the asso-
citation. will preside at the afternoon
meeting, and Mrs. Edwin B. Parker
will occupy the chair at the dinner.
The committee for the Fall con-
ference includes Mrs. Harry Z. Hull,
chairman; Mrs. T. E. Brown. Mrs. Edwin
Parker, Miss Hettie p. Anderson. Miss
Lois Gates German, Mrs. Irving W..
Ketchum, Miss Saida l.. Hartman, Miss
Gertrude Enness and Miss Mignonette
buckingham.