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The Washington times., 1929-09-26
At Chantecler

Among those who will entertain
at the opening of the Club
Chantecler this evening are the
first secretary of the legation of
Ecuador, Mr.. Barberis; Lieut..
Comdr. w. K. Harrill. John
Hinckley, Bishop Hill. George P.
Marshall, and William H. Staub,
of Baltimore.
Miss Corrine Budna, of Detroit,
Is the guest of Miss Margaret
Staley, daughter of Capt. J. ].
Staley, L. 8. NJ c., and Mrs.
Staley at their apartment at the
Ambassador. Miss Budna and
Miss Staley will attend the
Immaculate Seminary this year.
Col. Thomas C. Treadwell, U.
S. M. c., retired, and Mrs. Tread
we'll are sailing today on the De
Grasse for Europe, where they
will be for several months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Denegre
have closed their summer place
at Manchester. Mass. and are at
the Ambassador Hotel in New
York for a few days, on their
way to Washington.
II X
Mrs. Frank Let's has returned
from Europe, where she passed
the summer and has opened her
house at 2342 Massachusetts, Ave.
X
Robert Clifford. son of Col. and
Mrs. Edward Clifford. has en-
rolled as a freshman at Princeton
University.
Major and Mrs. Oliver P. New
man are making an indefinite
stay at the Leverich Towers
Hotel, Brooklyn, n. Y.
The Washington times., 1929-09-26
| NEWS AND GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON SOCIETY
Visit of Distinguished American
Comedies With Arrival of Officials
Benjamin Fleisher, Edi-
tor of Japanese News
paper, Is in Town

While ttthe powers that
be" in Washington are pre-
pairing to receive with much
pomp and ceremony, the no.
table group Of japanese
naval officials, headed by
Vice Admiral Nomura, COM
lnander of the training
squadron Of Japan, who are
arriving in town today for
n brief visit, a distinguished
American, Benjamin Wilfred
Fleisher, who has won lau-
rels in the Far East as edi-
tor and publisher of the
Japan Advertiser at Tokyo,
happens to be in town at
this time for a visit.
Celebrated
Mr.. FIeisher has ranked as
Japan's most illustrious unof-
ficial foreign resident, having
been one Of the outposts of
American commerce and culture
IN the Far East for more than
20 years, though he is a native
OF Philadelphia. He was
founder and general manager
Of the China Press, at Shanghai,
and also founder and first vice
president of the America-Japan
Society. Mr.. Fleisher has also
contributed at various times to
periodicals, on subjects pertain
Ing to the Far East.
# r u
Strictly American!
The Japan Advertiser Is Amer
ecan in makeup, language and
point of view. It's. staff consists
mostly Of young graduates Of
American schools of journalism.
and though the offices were de-
etroyed by the earthquake in 1923,
the progress Of the paper was
unhindered.
It is published seven days a
week. and Is geographically as
perfect as any daily paper in the
United States. It maintains its
own American and European cable
news services.
Mrs. Fleisher
Mrs. Fleisher is with her nus.
band. They are staying at the
Carlton Hotel, where they will be
for a=week. And during their visit
In the Capital they are being ex-
tensively entertained by members
of the diplomatic corps.
They have friends at practically
every embassy and legation in
Washington with whom they have
become acquainted during their
long period of residence in the Far
East.
A diplomats life Is of such a
migratory character that in the
course Of a career Of any length,
he Is very likely to be stationed in
the Far East at some time.
X X
Sailing
The Assistant Secretary Of War,
Patrick J. Hurley, will sail October
Is aboard an Army transport for
the Panama Canal Zone, where he
will be for several weeks.
y X
Jacob Gould Schurman, United
States Ambassador to Germany,
and Mrs. SchurMan sailed yester-
day on the S. s. Bremen for a sew.
eral weeks visit In this country.
Mrs. Schurman has recently been
in i'll health
i II
Representative and Mrs. Noble
I. johnson have taken a suite at
the Cavalier.
The Washington times., 1929-09-26
'SIAMESESTAFF
AGAIN IN
CAPITAL
Officials of Legation Re-
turn From Summer in
Bass Rocks

The Minister of Siam, Maj. Gen.
Prince Amoradat Kridaxara, who
has been passing the summer at
Bass Rocks, Gloucester. Mass,
has returned to Washington, hav-
ing motored from the North Shore
accompanied by his son and two
daughters.
The members of the legation
staff. who were also at Bass
Rocks during the summer, re-
turned to town earlier In the
week.
Many Parties
The President and Mrs. Hoover
will be hosts at dinner Monday
evening, October 7, in honor Of the
British Prime Minister and his
daughter, Miss Ishbell Macdonald.
And the following night. the Brit.
ish Ambassador and Lady Isabella
Howard will entertain in their
honor at dinner, TO be followed by a
reception.
On wednesday evening, the Sec.
retary of State, Mr.. Stimson, will
give a dinner party in honor or
Mr.. Macdonald and his daughter.
at his new home, Woodley.
~
Former Senator and Mrs. James
w. Wadsworth have opened their
home at $500 Woodland Grive.
They spent the summer at Cen
eseo, n. Y. Mrs. Wadsworth left
Washington last evening for a
short stay In New York.
The First Assistant Secretary Of
the Interior and Mrs. Joseph M.
Dixon have as their guest at
the Wardman Park Hotel Mrs. ].
c. Murchison. of Orlando, Fla.
who will pass a few days with
them. Miss Betty Dixon, who has
been with her parents. has left
for Radcliffe College. where she Is
a student.
Demarest Lloyd and his son, De-
marest Lloyd. jr., are staying at
the Wardman Park Hotel. Mrs.
Lloyd has remained at their sum-
mer home in Massachusetts, and
will probably Join them at the no
tel the middle Of next week.
Mrs. Louis Greene and her
daughter, Miss Anne Carter
Greene, have returned to their
home on Connecticut Avenue,
from Europe, where they have
been for several months. DIR.
Greene met them in New York.
The Washington times., 1929-09-26
PRESIDENT IS
LUNCHEON
HOST
Chief Executive Enter.
tains Insurance Men at
White House Today

President Hoover entertained at
luncheon today at the White
House for a group of men con.
nected with the National Associa.
tion of Life Underwriters, who
are here attending an insurance
convention.
The guests included Paul r.
Clarke, Of Boston, president of
the association; julius Myrick. Of
New York; Seaborn P. Whatley,
of Chicago; John H. Russell, of
Los Angeles; Ernest J. Clarke, of
Baltimore; Frederick H. Ecker, of
New York; Thomas I. Parkinson,
Walter L. Crocker, of Boston:
Harold A. Lay, of New York;
DR.. F. S. Huebener, of Phila-
delphia; and William Duff, Of
Pittsburgh. :
The President had as over.
night guests at the White House,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur S. Draper,
of New York. The former is on
the editorial staff Of the New
York Herald Tribune.
Buys House
Mrs. Elliott Strauss. wife Of
Lieutenant Strauss, U. S. N.
has purchased the Alden p.
Barker place In Newport, which
they will occupy while Lieutenant
Strauss is on duty there.
Mrs. George e. Farrand has
joined her husband, who Is gen.
eral counsel of the Federal Farm
Board, at the Mayflower where
they have taken an apartment.
Their sons, Knox and Stephen
Farrand. are in college in Cali.
fornia, the former at the Univer-
sity of Southern California, md
the latter at Stanford University.
Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan Philips
have been guests at the May
flower for several days and are
returning today to their summer
home in western Pennsylvania.
They will open their house at
1900 Twenty-first ST., the first
Of October.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
Washington Ticker
BY CLINTON COFFIN.
Associated. Press Financial Writer.

One of the jobs that the oncoming
regular session of Congress will be asked
to tackle is the consideration of the
scope and. purpose recently given to
holding corporations in the railroad
and public utility field. Chairman
Couzens of the Senate interstate COM
merce committee has counsel working
on the problem during the current
congressional recess, and will have one
or more legislative proposals to offer
on the subject, and expects also that
committee hearings on the legislation
will throw considerable light on what
has been increasingly conspicuous A.
nancial resort with relation both to
carriers and utilities.
In railroad matters, the two most
noted creations of the kind are the
Pennroad Corporation and the Allie
gheny Corporation. the first of which,
sponsored by the Pennsylvania System,
has acquired ownership of the Detroit,
Toledo g. Ironton, of terminal prop
erty at Baltimore and Cleveland, is
credited with owning the Pittsburgh
g. West Virginia, and has some general
stock holdings The Allegheny Cor
poration is the central institution of
the Van Sweringen rail enterprises,
with outside interests. In the utili-
ties field, several great groupings have
come to focus under holding company
associations.
80 far as the holding investment
corporation comes into railroad opera
tons, my legal advice is that no doubt
can arise as to Federal Jurisdiction over
them" Chairman CouEens commented
on his program in the matter. "An
amendment to the transportation act
might make the exercise Of the author
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26

in the work, land to be careful not IN
allow bias as to business prospects.
good or bad, to influence their findings.
What the regional groups do is to esti-
mate in advance the operating service
carriers will have to meet for the first
three months of the year, and the check
OF conditions now beginning will be, it
is felt on all sides, one of the most i'm
portant we have undertaken"
Shippers and rail officials in South
ern territory will meet at New Orleans
December to assemble their forecast
those OF the Pacific Coast at San Fran
CISCO on the same day, those in Great
Lakes territory at Cleveland Decen,ber
., while other sessions will be at Pitts
ourgn, December IL, and Chicago, De-
cember 10.
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ity little easier, and I think it will be
effected before any important railroad
consolidation steps are advanced.
LAS to utilities, my present DISPOSE
ton is to offer q measure creating q
Federal utility commission to deal with
power and public service matters. The
electrical distribution particularly is
getting TO be matter far beyond State
authority. So many States export
power, to cite one point. for use beyond
their boundaries that State regulation
fails to meet the situation. There is a
Federal Power Commission now, COM
posed of three cabinet members, but
that system makes for a division of
responsibility. and nobody likes it.
President Hoover has suggested in
formally that compacts between States
might be reached, under Federal per-
missions, to let them control power by
regions. That has been tried in refer
ence to the Colorado River control, and
in one or two other instances, but APP
pears to have limited usefulness.
II don't look for any early action on
either branch of the subject, but /
think that the Senate committee at
least will hear a few witnesses"
Next week railroad officers and ship
pers' representatives in Is different
regions of the United States will begin
special studies of the freight traffic out
look for the first quarter of 1890, under
direction of the American Railway AS
ISOLATION. Their findings will have a
particular bearing on the railroad pro-
gram of capital investment during the
year, and in view of President Hoover's
recent call to rail arrangements and all
other business leadership to maintain
business impetus by continuing better
mentS and extensions, the forecast is
going to be made with unusual care.
1--WE have asked all of the railroad
participants in the traffic studies to put
as much emphasis as possible on gath
ering accurate predictions" said H. q.
Taylor who represents the association
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
STOCK PR|CES,SAG
IN PROFIT TAKING
List Turns Heavy on Renew
ed Offerings of
Stock.
BY STANLEY w. PRENOsIL.

NEW YORK, November 26.-The
stock market ran into steady stream
of selling today which carried O long
list of issues down to IL points. Only
a few stocks were able to move against
the general trend, and these had diff
Guilty in maintaining their gains. Trad
ing was only moderately heavy in
volume.
In the absence of any adverse news
developments, Wall Street was inclined
to attribute the selling to a RESUMPTION
of bear" attacks following the aban-
donment of the New York Stock Ex-
changes daily QUESTIONABLE demanding
the name and amounts of stocks bor-
rowed to cover short sales and the
identity OF the sellers. While this
questionable was in effect bear" oper-
atoms were rather restricted in char
acter because of the possibility of some
restrictive regulations to govern this
selling.
Copper Stocks Heavy.
Coppers were heavy from the start on
persistent but unconfirmed reports that
producers were having diffculty in
in maintaining the 18-cents-a-pound
price for the red metal, and that any
reduction in the price might endanger
the dividends of some producers. Wall
street heard a report that an order
had been placed for $4,000 shares of
Anaconda Copper at rs, and the stock
held fairly well just above that level.
National Lead dropped 6A points,
Cerro de PaSco, Az, and Calumet g.
Arizona, 4. and Eastman Kodak, Au-
burn Auto. Allied Chemical, Southern
Railway, Midland Steel Products pre-
ferred, A. M. ByerS, Johns-M anville,
American & Foreign Power and Brook
lyn Union Gas were among the many
issues to sell down to 5kpoints.
Call money renewed at Az per cent
and held steady at that figure. Heavy
holiday demands for funds created a
firmer undertone, however, loans in the
outside market being quoted at per
cent as against a rate as low as
the past few days.
Dividend Announcements.
Several more favorable dividend an
nouncements were made during the
day. Directors of the New Haven rail-
road raised the annual rate from SIS to
Sc, a per cent stock dividend was de-
clared on Allied Chemical, an extra div
idend of Is cents was authorized on
American Chicle common, and the an
nual rate on International Business
Machines was raised from SIS to Sc.
U. S. Steel was well supported around
yesterdays closing price in the early
tracing, but the offerings became 50
large that the stock quickly dropped
down points to 1885, or nearly 10
points below last weeks high. Western
Union dropped IL points. Jersey Cen
tral 8, General Electric 715.
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Dividend Announcements.
SUBSIDIARY FORMED.

NEW YORK, November IS R.-The
Maine Seaboard Paper Co. has been
formed as subsidiary of the New Eng
land Public Service Co.. and ground
has been broken at Buckports, Me-, for
the first large newsprint mill to be
erected in New England in several
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
PARIS BoURsE PRICES

PARIS. November 26 CR-Priees
moved irregularly on the Bourse today.
Three per cent rentes, 81 francs SIS
confines; S per cent loan, 105 francs
40 centimes.
Exchange on London, 123 francs IS
centimes. The dollar was quoted at Is
francs 3834 centimes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
COAL PRODUCTION,
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Coal production figures for the latest
week reported by the Bureau Of Mines
and comparable periods are as follows:
Week ending November IS, 1885,,
600 tons.
Preceding week, IL ,0S1, 900 tons.
Same week last year, 10,924, 900 tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET

CHICAGO, November 26 (P).-Butter
steady: receipts, 1927 tubs; prices
unchanged Eggs steady; receipts,
1902 cases; extra firsts, 81 to SO;
graded firsts, AZ to 40: current flrsts,
40 to AZ; ordinary firsts, 81 to 49,;
refrigerator extras, 81; refrigerator
firsts, SO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
BRANCH TO OPEN SOON.

Operation of the Seaboard Air Line
Railways branch from near Bellwood
to Hopewell, Va, is expected to start
by January 1. Whether a shuttle pas
senger service will be inaugurated has
not been determined, although the line
is being constructed primarily for
freight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26

1880 A.N..s.... $4,000
1850 PM. ,1.SS4.SOO
Dividend rates as given In Il
payments based on the latest ulis
"Unit of trading less than
~ in stock. sPlus SO in prefe
q Paid last year--no regular ratl
in stock. d PAYABLE when earn,
in stock. K Plus 1laE q share IN
1I25 of q share in stock.
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GERMAN BONDS AND STOCKS.

Ger Govt E2ad Tno,, ,,,.t S., bru Asked.
ctfS attached per 100 M SO on 81 m
Ger Govt Red Loan without VS
drawing ctfs per 1000 r M "a 90 ~ On
- tQuoted in dollars per million marks ~
Hamburg 4l2s 1918. IS 90 as M
(Quoted in dollars per thousand marks
German Gen Elect Alas pre-war % 90 "a On
german Gen Elect 4I2S I9l9.... 2.25 500
Berlin IS pre.war. :...,....,..... 4.50 $50
Hamburg IS. 3IaS & Is pre-war 10 an
Hamburg American Line 4as. 81 90 S3l0
North German Lloyd 4hs...... 81 90 $500
krupp 5s 1921 ...,..,.........,.. las 20O
Dusseldorf As pre-war ..,.. 10 al !
Frankfort AM Is pre-war...... 10 80
Munich Is pre-war. 10 40 |
tQuoted in dollars per share.l
@ German &c Elec). go. 400 46 90
q German Gle Elecl pfd 900 IL. 90 I
Commerz and Privat Bank. 4i.0o 1890 |
] G. Farben. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1890 so 90 /
Disconto Gellschaft ............ $500 40. 90 |
Berltner Handels. ...........,.., 1900 90 |
Dresdner Bank, ................ $500 5000 |
Deutsche Bank .,.,,............ $500 40.0 90 |
parmstaedter Bank. .......,... $3.50 SIS. 90 |
Heyden Chem .................. 800 1000
Mercur Bank Vienna. :......,. 2.50 500
North German Lloyd. .........,, 1000 I2n9
Austrian 4 3 q General Elec). zoe $50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26

Pittsburgh 81 West Virginia Railroad
has filed an amended application with
the I. c. c. on its proposal to acquire
control of the Western Maryland Rail-
road. which modifies its original papers
by stating specific stock which 1t would
acquire and designating the prices it
would pay.
Paramount Famous Lasky Corpora
ton receipts from domestic film rentals
in the first eight ~weeks of the fourth
quarter broke all records for any con-
secutive eight-week period in the his
tory of the company and were rs per
cent ahead of the corresponding weeks
last year.
Frank Wood. former Washington res
ident, now educational director of Rich
mond Chapter, American Institute OF
Banking, is a visitor in the city.
Following eight successive weeks OF
decline, commodity prices advanced
two-tenths of l per cent during the
week ended November %, according tc
the wholesale price index of the Ma
tional Fertilizer Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26

Persians are taking up the piano, so
instruments having been imported into
the country last year.
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The statement of operation of the
Washington Gas Light Co., filed with
the Public Utilities Commission, showed
net income for October of $56,l94.76
and one of $708,755.62 for the year to
date. Net income for the month was
$30,044 in excess of that for October,
1928, and that for the 10 months a
$l52,021 .88 improvement over the CORE
spending period last year.
Financial gains we're also recorded
for the Georgetown Gas Light Co, net
corporate income of which for last
month was $l2,087.97, a gain of 81 ,61O.38
over the same month last year Its in
come for the year thus far is $119,282.50,
or $26,845,02 more than the compare
tive period a year ago,
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Cardiff, Wales. win spend $2o.oo0,o 900
in port development.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-18

The troops, for the most part, were kept ina.the suburbs. It is out side the walls of the city that fu- ture troubles, if they come, are like ly to be started. The industrial rev olution, the housing crisis since the war and other modern developments with the growth of Paris itself have brought about q migration from in side the city to it's suburbs of a good ly portion of the proleariat. The descendants of the revOlutionists who stormed the Bastille in 17S9 i and the Rue de Rivoli during the l commune of 1871 are living in great numbers these days, not in Paris it. self, but in the industrial centcrs surrounding the capital.
 2,000 Rushed to City
 The number of soldiers brought to Paris to keep an eye on potential trouble-makers on May l and Aug
New Britain herald., 1929-10-18

her walls.
 Before the war, the garrison of Paris counted 10000 bayonets and 4,00O sabres, with the artillery, the engineers and supplementary serv- ices bringing the number of men above 25,000. Today only 2,500 Poilus are on duty in the capital.
 Whenever the prt,ce of the city seems menaced, troops are brought in from the provinces by rail-l00 men from one town, 200 from an other, and so on.
 Twice this year the army has brought battalions to Paris form the country to be ready to aid the police. The first occasion was on May Day when trouble from the Communists was feared. The second time was August l, for exactly the same req son. Nothing happened on either ! day.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-18

ust 1 of this year was reported to have been 2,00G. This would have increased the strength of the gar rison to 4,500 men.
 If that number is correct, Gal lieni of today would not have to commander every taxi in Paris to convey his garrison to a battlefield. The Paris of 1929 has four or five taXis for every soldier on her streets.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-18
PARIS GARRlSON'S
 STRENGTH REDUCED
],5OO Troops Now Guard City,
 25,O00 Old Figure

Paris, Oct. IS P}-Paris, the goal of many an invading army since the time of Caesar, has not only done away with the three rings of forti- cations that encirCled her before the great war, but has greatly de- creased the troops that once were ,1 constant peaCc-timc duty within
New Britain herald., 1929-10-18
WILL OF MRS. MAIETTA

According to the terms of the will of Mrs. Concetta Maietta. the en- tire estate with the exception of $500 which she leaves to her moth CT in Italy, is left to her husband, Andrew Maietta. The will was ad- mitted to probate court today.
 Fhe witnesses were pr. C. G. Cayward, Carmen r. Basile and Will liam MOntanite.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-17

tep dressing upoA what was sup. posed to bs underneath the late top dressing. Delay h constructing the new road has bsea caused by the fact that when the old teD -lrsssing was removed 1t was disesvsred that there vas nothing but dirt under. meath. Now the city. through the park board, must 90 to the expense of placing down . base of crushed stone bsters the smooth pavement te-come can be applied. And in addi. ton. the Park Commission is con. fronted with the necessity of con- structins . drain down the hill, @ that waters following rain reach the sewers without weakening the new pavement after 1t is put down. This, indeed. is an important part of modern road building. as little of permanence is accomplished unless drainage is properly looked after.
 Although the improvement will cost the Park Commission more money than probably was anticipat. ed, citizens will be pleased at the prospect of . smooth pavement inte the park. It will be an improvement that has been needed for many . year.