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The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
AUDITOR IS ADVISED ID PAY SALARIES
 BY RUSTGARO

JUNEAU, May IS, (R-In an exhaustive opinion rendered to auditor Cash Cole, the legality and validity of the salaries paid from Territtoral funds to the highway engineer, the secretary of Alaska the governor and the, governors clerks. was upheld by Attorney General John Rustgard The Au- ditor was told not to have any fear of prosecution for misfeasance or malfeasance in approving the payment of the vouchers for eucr service.
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
HOSPITAL WILL
 BE REBUILT

CLEVELAND, May IS, (P)-The Clinic Hospital, where one hundred and thirty five persons lost their lives todate, will be rebuilt under plans formed by thirty-five promin- ent citizens. Dr. George Crilehead will be one of the directors. The institutions loss by the explosion and fire is set at seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Most of the medical records were de- 'stroyed.
 It is feared that all who will die from the poison fumes have not yet been taken i'll. Three firemen and three policemen who aided in the rescue work, were suddenly stricken with the effects of the gas and taken to the hospital. Others were stricken and taken to their beds at home.
 Physicians say that the next "A hours is expected to be the crisis. Grave concern is felt for those in- jured. Seventy-five are reported missing. They consist of patients
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18

The opinion is in answer to q Cole and also Treasurer Smith re- gently by Attorney James Wicker sham, in which he charges that appropriations for the clerical staff in the governors office was illegal, as there was no specific appropriation for that purpose, and that no salary could be paid the highway engineer. Rustgari takes up each of Wickersham ms protests in the order named and deals with each conclusively
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
CITY OFFICIALS ARE
 BANK ROBBERS

Reed, the city attorney, is charged with being an accessory and re- ceiving stolen property. Reed is said to have received ten thousand dollars and his arrest followed the capture of three negroes on access sorry charges and the recovery of one thousand dollars in travellers
 checks reported to have been part of the fund stolen. Three men
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18

PINE BLUFF, Ark, May 1S,(R City officials are at liberty un- der twenty five thousand dollars bond, and nine other persons are jailed charged with complicity to hold up the Peoples Bank and Trust Co.
 On April 26th, the bank was robbed of twenty thousand dollars by five unmasked men. Ralph
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
GRAF ZEPPELIN RETURNED TO FRANCE
OR, ECkENER TO PERSONALLY
 INSPECT ZEPPELIN ENGINES

Freiderichshaffen have given the engines an exhaustive examination no report will be made as to the cause of their failure regardless of rumors. A new effort will be made to make the flight within two weeks, Eckener announced. The Graf Zeppelin will not make further flights until it has been thoroughly overhauled. Despite the voiced suspicion of many per- sons that sabotage had caused the failure of the flight, high officials in the Zeppelin works deny that anyone would harm the engines wilfully
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18

and those who had appointments for examination at the clinic.
 Their names have been given out so that if they were in or near the building at the time of the blast they may report for gas ex- animation. The officials laid the cause of the fire and explosion to spontaneous combustion in the K ray room.
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
ZEPPELIN LANDED AT CUERS

CUERS, France, May IS, R)- The Graf Zeppelin, after an all day struggle against storms, land ed at eight thirty-five last night, two thirty-five in the afternoon Eastern Standard Time The huge ship. including the crew and pas sengers, entered Cuers hangar with the assistance of a large force of troops which stood by
 while the dirigible was making a gallant struggle against disaster.
 The dirigible was safely landed beside the only landing mast in Francs, it being the same which r xsrve<A sa,' moul the French dirigi- ble, "Dixmunde," which was lost in storm over the Mediterranean
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
CHICAGO CANISTER
 GETS ONE YEAR

PHILADELPHIA, May IS, (P,- Less than twelve hours after his arrest, when leaving a motion pie ture theatre, Al Capone, the Chi cago gangster was indicted by the grand jury on a charge of carry ing concealed weapons Frank
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18

were arrested in New Orleans with seven thousand dollars in cash on them. They are said to have been among the five which actually staged the robbery. Two men and one woman were arrest ed in Little Rock the day after the robbery on accessory charges.
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
PIONEER CANNERY
 MAN DIES 0N BOAT

KETCHIKAN, May IS, R-R. H. Walsh, pioneer cannery man for many years, and owner of Wards Cove Packing Company, died here while asleep last night aboard the cannery tender Wards Cove" on which he was returning from a three days trip to the fish
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
WILKINS DON'T
 LIKE ZEPPELINS

CUERS, France, May IS, (P-- Not all the passengers aboard the Graf Zeppelin took the adventure calmly. Sir George Hubert Will kins said: ''I would have given anything to be on land again. I would prefer to fly above the North Pole than start the same voyage over again"
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
FIRE IN POLAND.

LONDON, May IS, P)-The Ex- change Telegraph Company reports said that more than one hundred persons were killed in a fire at Iwie. Poland, and that mere than four thousand persons were home less and destitute when almost the entire township was burned.
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
SAILORS UNION
 FOUNDER Is DEAD

SAN FRANCISCO, May IS, R Everett Anderson. aged seventy, founder of the Alaska Sailors Un- ion, and latter connected with the Ferry Boatmen's Union, dropped dead tonight in the ferry building. He lived in Berkeley.
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18

Cline. his body guard, was also indicted. The pair arrived yester- day from Atlantic City They were kept in jail all night as they were unable to raise thirty-fve thousand dollars bail They were tried and sentenced to year in prison.
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18

traps.
 Physicians said that Ward over ate and died from dilation of the heart Walsh was fifty years old and is survived by widow who will accompany the body South on the steamer Admiral Rogers, to- morrow for burial in Seattle.
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18

Sea, nearly six years ago. The Graf Zeppelin returned from her rerilous voyage after thirty eight and an half hours flight, nine of which were spent in tenacious tard Wind" which flows down the Rhone valley internationally.
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
WILL PERSONALLY
 EXAMINE ENGINES OF
 GRAF ZEPPELIN

CUERS, France, May IS, (R- Dr. Eckener has taken charge of sour motors which failed him in his attempt to fly to the United States on its second voyage. Un- til Eckener and the experts from
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18

cargo includes sled propelled by an airplane motor and tractor for use on the Arctic trails; also the first radio broadcasting set sent to the top of the world. and q sea sled capable of making 30 miles an hour. She carries radio receiving sets for the Eskimos liv- ing on the Arctic rim of Alaska The broadcasting set is for the Presbyterian Mission at Point Bar row.
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
CLEGHORN WINS BOUT

TACOMA, May Is, Waiter Cleghorn stopped Willard Dix, of Bellingham, the light heavyweight, in the third round of a six round
 bout.
The Nome nugget., 1929-05-18
LONG DISTANCE RUNNER DIES

NEW YORK, May 16, (R-Ed- ward Payson Weston, famous long distance hiker, here at the age of ninety.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-23
WHEAT IS HIGHER
IN OPENING SALES
Reports of Unfavorable Weather
in West Cause Price
Advances.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 23.-Active buy
ing of wheat and all around new high
price records for the season resulted to-
day from unfavorable weather over
domestic Winter wheat territory Re-
ports of sub-zero temperatures with
little snow protection in Nebraska and
Kansas were given special attention.
Opening unchanged to y off, Chicago
wheat sagged a little more and then
scored a decided general advance
Strength developed also in corn, oats
and provisions, with corn starting IA to
IS down and declining further, but then
showing gains.
Faced by lively purchasing and by
scarcity of offerings. the wheat market
here advanced fast today after down.
turns at the start. Initial weakness
was ascribed to nearly complete failure
of Liverpool wheat quotations to reflect
yesterdays advances this side of the
Atlantic.
Rapid broadening out of buying in
the Chicago market. however, soon sent
prices upward, particular notice being
taken of word that wheat in Western
Kansas was frozen, and that, with low
temperatures prevailing, the ground was
bare in the Western main wheat belt
Other reports tending to hoist wheat
values were to the effect that in various
places snoWfalls had melted into sheets
of ice which have sealed up the fields,
preventing proper ventilation. The in
ference was drawn that this could not
help but be injurious although the full
measure of the damage might not be
apparent for several weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-23
BY KENNETH S. VAN sTRUM.

NEW YORK, January 23-Last year
it cost railroads only 70 cents out of
every dollar to operate, whereas the
year before it cost "a cents. AS a
result of this greater efficiency the rail-
roads earned more money in 1928, even
though the amount of traffic handled
was smaller than in 1927.
Railroad results last year justified
the tremendous expenditures for new
euipment and Improvements. which av-
eraged hree-quarters Of billion dol
lars between 1921 and 1923. Because
of these expenditures it is now possible
to move the average freight car 303
miles per day, compared with 224 miles
before the great improvement programs
were carried through. The savings in
speed, the greater car capacities, the
savings in fuel. and many other econ
omies have had tremendous influence
in giving the public the most efficient
railroad service ever known.
Injustice.
But all during the year that the
public was enjoying the increased rail-
road efficiency the railroad car and
locomotive builders, who were so large
ly responsible for the increased ef-
ficiency of the railroads, went through
the poorest year in quarter CEN
tury. Railroad equipment stocks actual
N closed the year lower than at the
start, in spite of the spectacular rise in
the general stock market.
The obvious explanation is that the
improvement programs had been COM
pleted. Railroad car and locomotive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-23
ECONOMIC CHANGES
STUDIED AT FARLEY
Unemployment Conference Is Prob
ing Various Factors in U. S.
Industry.

Money, banking and price changes in
the United States in recent years are
being analysed by the committee on re-
cent economic changes of the Presi-
dents unemployment conference, which
will report this Spring its recommended
lions and conclusions on shifting eco
nomic trends as found in the study.
The committee, of which Herbert
Hoover is chairman, is holding its seS-
sions at the Metropolitan Club. In
Guided in its membership are some OF
the foremost economic and financial
figures in the country
The survey of recent economic
changes in the United States is now
well advanced, the committee having
already studied recent changes in
try, transportation, marketing, agricul-
ture, labor and management. The fact
finding has been made possible by
grants made to the conference by the
Carnegie Corporation of New York and
the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memo
rial.
What effect the changing economic
currents have had on finance, banking
methods, foreign markets and loans and
allied subjects occupy the attention of
the committee today.
In addition to Chairman Hoover the
members of the committee are Walter
F. Brown, Renick W. Dunlap, William
Green, Julius Klein, John Lawrence,
Max Mason, Adolph C. Miller, Lewis E.
Pierson, John j. Raskob. A. w. Shaw,
Louis j. Taber, Daniel Willard, George
McFadden, Clarence M. Wooley, Owen
D. Young and Edward Eyre Hunt, sec
rotary. All the members were present
with the exception Of Mr.. Hoover, who
is in Florida; Lawrence, Mason, Raskob
and Wooley.
DR.. Edwin F. Gay and Dr. Wesley G..
Mitchell. directors of research of the
National Bureau of Economic Research,
headed the survey for the bureau, which
has had the cooperation of such or
CARNATIONS as the Social Science Re-
search Council the Bureau of Railway
Economics, the Personnel Research Fed
Grafton, the Institute of Economics, the
American Engineering Council and va
rious departments of the Government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-23
U. S. AUTO PRODUCTION
BREAKS RECORD IN 1928

BY the Associated Press.
A new high production record was
set by American automobile makers
during 1928.
The total output of machines for the
year was reported yesterday by the
Commerce Department to be 4,357 1874
This was $4,000 machines greater than
the previous record output reached in
1926, when 4,301,1 machines were
turned out. The 1927 years total, due
largely to the shutdown of the Ford
plant, was but 3,401, 1926.
OF the 1928 production, 3,826,6l3
machines were claSsed as passenger
cars and 530.771 were trucks. The Ca
madam output for 1928 was also rec
ord, and amounted to 242,382 cars,
against the previous high record of
204. 1877 in 1925 and the 1927 output of
17S,427.
The December monthly production OF
automobiles in this country, which en-
abled the 1923 figure to be calculated,
was 233, 1875 cars This was compare
lively small monthly total and was ex-
ceeded by every previous month in the
year except January. The highest
monthly output of the year, which also
was the largest for any like period, was
reached when 46l ,298 cars were turned
out. The figures were furnished by 152
manufacturers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-23
FOREIGN BONDS.
Baltimore Markets

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, January 23.-Po-
tatoes-White, 100 pounds, 1.00al.25;
sweet potatoes, barrel, 1.50a3.25; yams,
barrel, 225a350; bushel, l.00a1.75;
beets, 100, 4.00a6.o0; beans, bushel, 400
a6.50; Brussels sprouts, quart, 15a25;
cabbage, hamper, 2.Ooa2.5p; carrots, 400,
400a6.00.
Celery-Crate, 1.50a325; caulifiower,
crate, 1.50a2.00; egg plants, crate, 500a
500; kale, barrel, 1.00a1.75; lettuce,
hamper, 1.00a175; onions, 100 pounds,
.50a450; oyster plants, 100. 6.00al0. 90;
parsnips, basket. 60a70; peas crate. $50
Assoc; peppers, crate, 400a6.00 spinach,
bushel. 60a90; tomatoes, crate, 75a
ITS; turnips, basket 40a50; savoy cab
bage, buShel, LOCAL. rs.
Apples-Bushel 75a2.00; cranberries,
half barrel, 900a10.00 grapefruit, box,
2.00a350; tangerines, per half strap,
1.50a2.50; oranges, box, 2.50a4.OO;
STRAWBERRIES, quart, 50a55.
Hay and Grain Prices.
Wheat-No. 2 red Winter, garlicky,
spot, 1868 January delivery, 1865.
Corn-No. 2 export, January delivery,
1912; No. yellow spot, 1.12; cob corn,
5.25.
Oats--No. 2 white, domestic, spot, 6la
60; No. 2 white, domestic, spot, 59a60.
Rye-Nearby, 1.10a1 20.
Hay-Receipts none. While hay Is
arriving here in limited quantities only.
it is more than ample for the demand,
which is being supplied, mostly by
truck, from nearby points, few carloads
being received There is not enough
business passing to establish prices on
the various kinds on merit at range
of 16.00a18.50 per ton of timothy or
clover hay.
Straw-No. wheat. 11.00a12.00 per
ton; No. l oat, 12.00a13.00 per ton
Dairy Market.
Poultry, alive-Young turkeys, pound,
35a40; old, 25a30; Spring chickens, 33a
80; small and poor, 20; old hens, goa
3d. Leghorns, 20a26; capons, 33a48; old
roosters, 17a18; ducks, 20a30; geese.
18a26 guinea fowls, each, 4Oa8O;
pigeons, pair, 80. Poultry, dressed
Turkeys, young, pound, 30a40; old 25a
80; chickens, young, 30a35: old and
mixed, 25a30; capons, 34a42: old roost-
ers, 1920; ducks, 25a30; geese, 20a26.
Eggs-Receipts, 1923 cases; native
and nearby flrsts, free cases, SO; cur
rent receipts, 30a35.
Butter-Good to fancy creamery,
pound, 45a49; prints, 49a51; blocks,
48a50; ladies, 34a38; store packed, %;
process butter, 41a42.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-23
COTTON PRICES DROP
IN EARLY TRADING
Liquidation Shortly After Opening
Causes Slump Of II
Points.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 23.-The cot
ton market opened easy at a decline OF
9 to points. Right after the call prices
slumped II to % points net lower I'M
der liquidation by old longs and active
selling promoted by somewhat larger
official ginning figures than expected.
The report showed 13,891,857 bales
ginned prior to January Is, or about
100000 bales above some of the recent
private reports, the figures comparing
with 12.501 ,447 bales ginned to the same
date last year. The early selling forced
the price of March and May off to 1895,
but there was more trade buying just
below the 20-cent level. and after the
first rush of selling subsidized somewhat
prices steadied on covering.
Private cables said there had been
hedging and liquidation in the Liverpool
market, but that China was active III
the cloth market and that fair cloth
sales we're reported to South America
and the Near East.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-23
EXPANSION OF BUS
LINES is FORECAST
Railroad and Railway Lines Are
Expected to Increase De-
velopment.
BY ]. C. ROYLE.

BY J. C. ROYLE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 23.-Expansion
of the steam railroads into the motor
bus field undoubtedly will increase
rapidly from this time on. This is in
Dictated plainly by the announcement
of the Pennsylvania Railroad that 1t
eventually proposes complete co-ordina-
ton of bus and rail service in territory
served by its lines.
The Pennsylvania road has started
off with the acquisition of three bus
lines running from New York to Wash
ington and from Philadelphia to At
lantic City and westward in Pennsyl-
vania. But it will be long time before
the steam roads catch up with the
strides made by electric railroads in
that direction.
Operation of buses by steam roads.
even on through tickets, is no new
thing. At present 81 roads are oper-
ating about 1000 buses. Ten thousand
buses, on the other hand, are operated
by 375 electric roads. Independent OPP
orators number 6,750 and they run
$4,000 busses or 3.8 BUSES to each indi-
vidual operating company. That makes
about 38 900 BUSES not in operation as
common carriers.
In addition there are some $4,000
BUSES operated for the benefit of school
children. These are not, however, in
the common carrier class. Neither are
the 1000 BUSES operated by hotels.
real estate promoters and other lines of
similar type.
The $4,000 BUSES engaged in COM
mon carrier traffic undoubtedly will in
crease in number during this year. The
railroads will do their bit in the eX-
hn CT CrjI
account for a still greater growth. From
this time on, according to expert trans
portation men, the paths of the two
classes of carriers will diverge. The
steam railroads are inclined to leave
city routes and suburban feeders to the
electric railway companies. The latter
in turn are seemingly not anxious to
invade the interurban field with bus,
lines. preferring to leave the develop
ment of this traffic to the steam car
riers. The street railways will continue
to urge the purchase of opposition bus
lines and taxicab companies
The development of the bus lines by
steam roads will be confined at the start
to the two extremes of territory. 1t will
grow fastest perhaps in the heavily
populated industrial and suburban
regions 1t is also due for startling
developments in the almost unnhabited
regions, where scenic attractions are
drawing more and more tourists each
year.
This is going to mean a decided in
crease in productions of buses by the
manufacturing companies. The esti-
mates made for the first half of 1929
indicate an outturn of 2.700.000 pas
senger vehicles and 100000 trucks, as
compared with 2,074,000 and 252, $50,
respectively. in the corresponding
period of 1928.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-23

builders reached the reight of their
prosperity in the midst of the railroad
rebuilding era, about 1923. Today, I'M
less their sales are to be confined to
replacing WORKOUT equipment, it is up
to the equipment makers to convince
the railroads that present-day equip
ment will pay for itself because Of its
economy.
Locomotives.
The three largest builders of loco
motives are American Baldwin and
Lima. They sold so many locomotives
during the rehabilitation period that
their business has declined sharply dur
ing the last few years.
Because of valuable real estate hold
ings in the business section OF Phlla-
delphia, estimated to be worth $3.50 a
a common share, Baldwin offers specu-
lative possibilities that the others do
not. In the last six years it has av-
eraged Sl097 a share. including real
estate operations, and it pa 81 odlvl-
dends. American Locomotive is 81 an
exceptionally strong financial position,
and its business is so well diversified
that many believe that it offers good
investment possibilities. Average earn
ings for past six years have been
1882, and 1t has paid So In dividends,
part coming out OF reserves. Lima,
while smaller than either OF the TWO
other companies. should also share In
any increased business that comes to
the Locomotive builders. It has aver
aged $3.50 a share and has paid 81 in
dividends.
1t is doubtful if locomotive builders
will show profits for 1928, but they
enter the new year under somewhat
better conditions. During the past few
years new orders for locomotives av-
eraged 81 a month, and in the last
three months new orders jumped from
8 in October to SO in December: UNI
filled orders averaged 600, and they
rose from ITO in october to 282 IN
December
Railroad Cars.
Freight car manufacturers also have
suffered from depression. American
Car e. Foundry, largest freight car
manufacturer, owns substantial interest
in American Locomotive and has ex-
banded into motor trucks, motor boats
and other fields. Its strong financial
position and income from outside IN
vestments have helped to pay Sc In
dividends during the past seven years,
when earnings averaged $3.50.
Pressed Steel Car is another large
builder of railroad cars. 1t Is generally
considered more speculative, since Its
business is not so we'll diversified and
it pays no dividend. Relative to price,
it fiuctuates over wider range than
any of the other stocks.
orders for freight cars have recently
shown signs of improvement. Over
period of years new orders average
6.48O freight cars monthly. while
during 1923 they averaged about 3,086'
although by December they had IN
creased to 4,668. There were untitled
orders for $4,000 cars in November
compared with an average of $4,000
during recent years.
While many locomotive and freight
car builders receive large income from
outside investments, making their Sc.
curities more stable. the fortunes OF
all depend to a large extent upon
volume of equipment buying. 1t is
necessary to follow current orders
being placed by railroads in order to
tell how fast these companies are COM
ing out of their depression.
Copyright, 1920