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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
BUREAU TO PROBE
PAWN TICKET SALE
Group Here Reported to Have
Conducted 1000 Bust
ness in Six Months.

Acting on a complaint from a dissat-
isfied customer, the Better Business Blu
reau has started an investigation of an
establishment here dealing in pawn
tickets on diamonds and other precious
stones as well as in the gems themselves.
One such group is said to have trans
acted $4,000 worth of business in less
than six months by the clever scheme
that is worked
Although trading principally in sport
ing circles, the firm thought to have
introduced the business in this city oc-
cupies a luxurious suite of offices in a
downtown building and carries on a
thriving business among all classes OF
people.
one group OF manipulators are said
to operate in this manner: Self-styled
experts in diamonds, they pick up the
stones at bargain prices in Washington
and elsewhere and then pawn them
across the Potomac in Virginia. Be-
cause of their expert knowledge OF dia-
monds, it is claimed, they are able to
obtain loans Oh the stones equal to the
price they pay for them.
Then, with the visible record on the
pawn ticket of an extremely conserva-
tive valuation of the stone by the pawn
broker, they have visible proof of the
bargain they are Offering persons among
whom they solicit business. Since the
investment in the diamond is equaled
by the brokers loan, the price they OBJ
tain for the pawn ticket is the margin
Of profit.
There is nothing secret about the
pawn ticket selling. On several oc-
casions ads have been published in q
newspaper that pawn tickets and jewell
nv Of all kinds could be bought or sold
at the given address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
NEW B|CENTENN|AL +.
SUITE IS LEASED.
Woman Commissioners viii
Occupy Washington Build
ing Space Tomorrow.

Plans for the George Washington BIZ
centennial celebration In 1882 will be
advanced a step tomorrow when a por-
ton of the National Bicentennial Com
mission will take possession of Official
headquarters space in the Washington
Building here, negotiatings for which
have been closed, according to an an
nouncement made today by Weaver
Bros, agents for the building.
A suite of six rooms on the fifth floor
of the office building, on Fifteenth
street, New York avenue and G street,
has been leased for the use of the
woman members of the National BIZ
centennial Commission, it was announc-
ed. Mrs. John D. Sherman, one OF the
woman commissioners, will establish an
tiers tomorrow, which later also will be
used for the headquarters of Mrs. An
thony Wayne Cooke, former president
of the Daughters of the American Rev.
olution, who is one of the woman COM
missionerS.
The taking of this space, however
it is understood, is but preliminary TO
provision for much larger space in the
building to be employed as headquarters
for the full bicentennial commission.
Negotiations for the larger space on
another floor of the building are I'M
derstood to be in progress. Arrange
ments are being made by the agents
of the building owners with w. L. Dun
lop, administrative assistant to Repre-
sentative Sol Bloom of New York, and
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, director OF
public buildings and public parks, who
are associate directors Of the bicen-
tennial commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
Pickpocket Gets $40.

A pocketbook containing $40 in cur
rency was stolen by pickpocket from
Charles H. Welsh of Parkersburg, w
Va, in an F street theater last night.
Welsh is the eighth victim of theate1
pickpockets in the past five days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
ASKS ABSOLUTE DIVORCE

Joseph I. Clements, 312 E street
northeast, in a suit for an absolute di-
vorce against his wife. Helen Gertrude
Clements, charges that she shared a
love nest" with another man in Ia
koma Park, Md. The other man, who
was arrested it is stated, and pleaded
guilty to a statutory charge before a
justice of the peace March 19, is named
as correspondent.
The Clements were married December
%, 1928, and have one child. Clements
filed suit for limited divorce some
months ago and is paying $40 monthly
for the child's support. He now asks
the court to take the child from the
mother and give him its custody, prom
Using that his parents will provide a
home for the child. Attorney John j.
OBrien appears for the husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
POSTHUM0US HON0RS
FOR TWO u. S. SOLDIERS
Distinguished Service Cross Award
ed Men Who Died Together in
Midnight Attack.

5y the Associated Press.
Posthumous awards OF the Distin-
guished Service Cross to two American
soldiers who died together November 10
1918, when they swan the MeuSe River
in a midnight attack, were announced
today by the War Department.
The slain men were Sergt. Victor G.
Lee, whose mother is Mrs. Anna Nc
Gregor Of Denver, Colo, and Pvt. Ole
Alendal, whose father is Knut Alendal
of .Viborg, S. Oak.
Both awards were for extraordinary
heroism in action" They had volun-
teered as members of a patrol which
tried to swim the MeuSe under artillery
fire, machine guns and hand grenades
Alendal was killed as he swan, but Lee
reached the German bank before he
died,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
TWO WOMEN WIN VAIL MEDALS
FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Miss Marian Boyd, Washing
ton, Rescued Girl From
Drowning.
Mrs. Mcmillan of Winchester,
Va, Fooled Safe Blower
by Quick Thinking.

Miss Marian Boyd of washington and
Mrs. Vera c. Mcmillan of Winchester,
Va, both employees of the Chesapeake
g. Potomac Telephone Co.. have been
awarded Vail medals for distinguished
service to the public. Miss Boyd saved
young woman from drowning and
Mrs. McNfillian's quick thinking on one
occasion led to apprehension of a
burglar
While swimming at South River
Beach. Md, on June 80, 1929, Miss
Boyd, clerk in the commercial de-
partment Of the company, went to the
aid of two drowning girls. She rescued
one and swan until exhausted in an eff
fort to locate the other.
Mrs. Mcmillan, night chief telephone
operator at Winchester, summoned the
police at about am. the night of
January 20. 1929, when she heard
sound suggesting hammer blows over a
telephone located in the Office of a
creamery. Policemen rushed to the
creamery and found a burglar trying
to open safe. The man was killed as
he attempted to escape.
The medals are awarded by the COM
pany through its Vail Memorial COM
mittee in recognition of distinguished
service contributed by employees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01

moves to poorer neighborhoods and,
what means most In disbursement to
the family, the loss of the house partly
paid for.
1.-THE last report of the Community
Fund News Of Detroit, published In
March, says: Pride wholly justifable,
o. course, has kept many families from
applying for relief until every other re-
source has been exhausted. Among the
$4,000 families now being provided with
the necessities OF life by the department
of public welfare are hundreds who
withheld their applications until they
had lost their equities in homes they
were buying on contract
"All along this line of march the
mother is generally working or looking
for work and the families living on a
starvation diet. The effects Of semi
starvation on small children are not apt
to be very dissimilar."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
employees IN PROTEST
OF "UNFAIR PRACTICES"
Meeting Tonight to Discuss Wage
Cuts and Age Limit Policies
of Employers.

Methods of combating unfair prac-
tees" on the part of considerable
number of employers of Office help in
the District will be discussed tonight
at a meeting of the Stenographers,
TypewriterS, Bookkeepers and Assist
ant Bookkeepers' Association at the
Pythian Temple. Miss Ethel M. Smith
former member of the Districts Mini
mum Wage Board, will make the prin-
cipal address.
Officers of the association feel that
unemployment in Washington has
served as an excuse for no few large
employers to cut wages to "ridicu-
lousy small figure, and to change their
policies unfairly" with regard to age
limit and other employment require
mentS.
Miss Smith. it was pointed out, is
well informed to discuss the subject
through a wide contact with Office work
ers in the District over a long period
Of years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
SUES TO SEE SISTER
Woman. Also Asks $4,000, Saying
She Was Denied Entrance.

Eva J. Agee, 2O16 Sixteenth street.
today invoked both the equity and law
branches of the District Supreme Court
in an effort to visit her sister and
brother-in-law, who reside on premises
1905 Newton street, which is owned by
Maud C. and william Barber. She
obtained from Justice Alfred A. Wheat,
rule against the BARRIERS to show
cause Friday why she should not have
permission to enter their home to visit
her sick sister. On the law side, she
the BARRIERS, whom she accused of call
ing her vile names and forcibly ejecting
her when she tried to call on her sister,
March 10. Attorneys WEIGH, Daily a.
WEIGH appear for the plaintiff in both
suits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
PLEA CHARGES THREATS

Mrs. Mary Louise Tolzman, 624 r
street northeast, in suit for a limited
divorce from August Tolzman, super
intendent of the Riggs Tompkins Build
ing, charges that he threatened their
three children. They were married July
z, 1910 and the wife charges cruelty
and inadequate support. Attorneys Hy-
man M. Goldstein and Charles E.
Quigley appear for the wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
College Players Coming.

Washington is included in long road
trip to be made by the forty-second an
nual show of the Mask and Wig Club
of the University of Pennsylvania. The
production, John Faust, Phi. d." will
be presented here April IL. Among the
participants in the play are Joe Eaton,
former Central High School student,
and Ward French of Gainesville, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
TYD|NGS ATTACKS
PROHIBITION LAW
Asserts Arrests for Drunken
ness Among Young People
Have Increased Here.

Asserting that arrests for drunken
ness among young people in Washing
ton have increased under prohibition,
Senator Tydings, Democrat, Of Mary
land attacked the dry laws in a speech
in the Senate this afternoon. He cited
statistics to support his claim that pro-
hibition has been failure.
The Maryland Senator said police
reports show that arrests for intoxica-
ton between the ages of II and 81
have mounted in the District of CO.
lunbia since national prohibition went
into effect in 1920.
Presents Table of Arrests.
The table he presented set forth
that in 1919 there were 1872 arrests
for intoxication here between the ages
of II and 81. In 1920, the beginning
of national prohibition, the number
dropped to 70. In 1921, he said, it
went up to 1872, and he gave the total
for last year as 1858. Following is the
table Senator Tydings presented by rs
1912, 20; 1918, 81; 1914, IS; 1915. 20;
1916, 81; 1917. 81; 1918, So; 1919, 1872;
1920, 70; 1921, 1872; 1922, 166; 1923,
900: 1924, 269; 1925, 339; 1926, 1872;
1927, Ala; 1928, 800, and 1929, 1853.
Increase Since 1928.
The Senator used another table of
arrests for intoxication under the age
of II, which showed that while the
number under this heading went up
from in 1920 to Is in 1928, there has
been a steady decrease since then, and
turing the past two years there were
no arrests below that age limit.
The figures he gave were as follows
1912, none; 1918, /; 1914. 5; 1915, g.;
1915, S: 1917, s.; 1918, S; 1919, 8;
1920, /: 1921, 3; 1929, 4; 1928, 10;
1924, Z; 1925, 8; 1926, 6: 1927, g.;
1928, none, and 1929, none.
Presents Figures From 1856 Cities.
The Senator quoted the following fig
ureS Of arrests for drunkenness in 385
cities. excluding Chicago: In 1914,
465,753; In 1920, 20l ,S39, and in 1927,
466. 8o6.
Another table dealt with death from
United States, as follows: 2,61I. in 1910;
$50. in 1920, and 3,185, in 1928.
The number of arrests for prohibition
violations for the fiscal year 1920 to
1928, inclusive, was placed in another
table at 483,474 with 291 1853 convic-
tons. In 1920, the table said, the
number was 10,548 with ABS conVic-
tons, while in 1928, 75.307 were arrest
ed and 1888 convicted.
The total population of Federal pris-
ons and reformatories increased from
2,075 for the fiscal year 1910 to 10,06o
in 1929. another table said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
NOTICE TO NURSES
Examination of Applicants for Po-
sitions Due in Nav.

Examination for registration of
nurses will be held May and from
8 o'clock until 4 o'clock at Franklin
School, Thirteenth and r streets, by the
nurses examining board of the District
Of Columbia.
All applications must be in the Office
of the executive secretary, Bertha E.
McAfee, before April IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
Drug Agents Car Stolen.

Samuel Rakusin, Federal narcotic
agent, last night reported to police the
theft of his automobile from the 1400
block of Park road. The machine con-
tanned valuable papers and Government
requests for railroad transportation,
RRkusin. who lives at the Clifton Ter
race Apartments, told police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-21
SEASONAL GAINS
IN TRADE NOTED
Iron, Steel and Auto Indus
tries Reflect Increase in
Current Demands.

Clark, Dodge & Co., New York, in the
current issue Of Financial and Eco
nomic Review. in discussing current
business conditions, point out the sea-
sonal Improvement now taking place in
industry.
Improvement in the current business
situation Is confined to the seasonal re-
covery which normally takes place at the
beginning Of the year in such lines as
iron and steel and automobile production.
Despite adverse weather conditions, re-
tail trade Is generally showing a better
tone than production, which continues
substantially below normal One of the
most favorable characteristics of present
business sentiment is the general alb
sence, OF undue optimism. Business
men are satisfied to adjust production
schedules to actual consuming REQUIRE
ments and to await more definite signs
Of substantial improvement.
Although the downward trend in
employment has not been sustained
long enough to have any serious affects,
1t nevertheless remains one Of the criti-
cal points in the present business situ-
alton. After . year Of generally salts
factory employment, however, labor
should be in fair position to meet a
temporary curtailment in earning power
The movement of freight for the
week ended January 4 showed slightly
more than q normal seasonal expan-
sion, being 2l.6 per cent over the pre-
ceding week, the lowest point in recent
years. This compares with correspond
ing increases in 1929 and 1928 of 10
per cent and 1913 per cent, respectively.
Any pickup in business activity Is
normally reflected In q general firming
In commodity prices, particularly in
those basic raw materials entering
heavily into many lines of consumption
With the exception of steel scrap and
hides. sensitive commodity prices re-
main weak.
Activity in the steel industry appears
to have passed its low point and should
continue to expand slowly during the
FIRST quarter. A more than seasonal
gain in steel production, however, can
hardly be expected in the immediate
future in view Of the current readjust-
ment in business.
Fundamental credit conditions in
substantially within the past two
New York has greatly relieved the
money Stringency abroad. Large vol
umes OF funds attracted to this country
by high interest rates have been with
drawn. Gold has moved away from
New York, reserves of foreign central
banks have been strengthened and
gradually improving credit conditions,
both here and abroad may be expected
to continue, but such stimulus to
business usually acts slowly"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-21
LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE
DECLARED BUSINESS MEETING
Reduction of War Ship Building Costs
Would Be Reflected in Tax Bills
of the World.

It's we'll to remember that 1915 per-
sons were killed in automobile acci-
dents in New York City alone last year,
with auto congestion worse than ever.
julius Klein, Assistant Secretary Of
Commerce, has issued o decalogue for
distributors (both wholesale and retail)
for 1880. He includes 10 items. Here
they are:
/. Improve your stock records and
devise some method Of inventory con-
troll.
2. Use or develop better-trained per-
sonnet.
3. improve collection policies.
4. Organize delivery methods and
eliminate excessive delivery costs.
S. Curb the mania for gross sales
g.. Improve and simplify accounting
methods.
z. Improve store layouts.
8. Control or learn more about style
changes.
9. Seize the advantages of co-opera-
ton.
10. Keep better records and study
them.
E. B. Cosgrove, president of the Ma
tional Gamers Association, hit the nail
on the head yesterday in Chicago, when
he said in opening their meeting:
"Overproduction and consequent dis
tressed selling are disastrous, and al
though purchases at distressed prices
may mean q temporary saving to the
consumer, in the long run the consumer
loses"
While the profits to be made this
year will probably not equal those of
1929. 1t should be one Of those unusual
years which allows merchant suffi-
cient time for a careful analysis and
survey of his strong and weak points.
And this should result In q better
organization and greater profits in the
future years.
With the rediscounts OF the IL Fed
eral Reserve banks at the lowest figure
since February /, 1928, another cut in
the rate by the various banks may be
imminent, Philadelphia cut its rate
from 5 TO AZ per cent last week, meet
ing the rate which holds now in six
otherS-those at New York, Atlanta,
Chicago. Kansas City. San Francisco
and Boston. The per cent rate still
holds at Cleveland. Richmond, st. Louis,
Minneapolis and Dallas. The IL Re-
serve banks have loaned to all their
member banks $442, 1896, 900. q drop Of
over 25,000,000 in q week.
The statement shows that the banks
are taking more favorable attitude
toward the money market. Bills bought
in the open market increased by
S4,180,000 from January 9, whereas the
usual tendency at this time Of the year
Is downward.
At the beginning Of 1928, the Federal
Reserve banks started selling their open
market holdings to increase rediscounts
in an attempt to control the rapid rise
Of brokers' loans and keep the credit
situation in hand.
But such action Is no longer neces-
sary.
(CopyriRht, 1890, By North American News
paper Ailience.1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-21
BY JOHN r. SINCLAIR.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 21.-Those
who got up early enough this morning
heard over the radio the voice of King
George of England, opening the dis
armament conferences OF world powers
in London.
It's primarily q business conference,
although it has not been advertised as
such. II q way can be found to cut
down armament costs, Mr.. Average Citi-
zen win feel the relief Immediately in
the form of lower taxes.
From 1908 to 1918 European armament
expenditures amounted to over $45, 000.-
600 .000-preparing for security. The
great war costs added another $3.50, 000,-
000, 900 in four years.
But today the world ornaments ex-
penditures has again reached $4.300,-
000,00 annually, Of which two-thirds
Is being spent in Europe, one-stxth by
the United States and another one-sixth
by the rest Of the world.
The last battleship built for the United
States cost $40,000,000, or more than
the total value Of the grounds and build
ings of all Of the universities located in
the States Of Arizona, Arkansas, Della
ware, Florida, Idaho, Maine, Montana,
North Dakota. South Dakota, Utah,
Vermont and Wisconsin combined.
And such a battleship is scrapped in
10 years or less as worthless
Armament expenditures today absorb
from to 5 per cent of the national in
come of all the so-called civilized ma
tons. In the United States 1t takes IL
per cent Of the national income.
AS the conference opens 10 per cent
Of the total budgets of both Great Brit
ain and France and 80 per cent of the
total Federal budget of the United States
goes to pay for past warfare or to pre-
pare for future war.
The business man is immensely in
terested in what happens in London.
The tragic airplane disasters Sunday
in both California and Florida do not
help the airplane industry at all. It's
part OF the price civilization pays to
bring forth a new industry. Terribly
unfortunate as it Is, Airplane develop
ment must move forward.
Maj. Clarence P. Young, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics,
in his report for the last fiscal year
a population of 90,000,000 is now be-
ing served by 80 air lines carrying ex-
press, ~ carrying mail and 81 carrying
passengers.
OF 2S, 227 miles Of established Always,
1913 are lighted for night flying and
another zoos miles will be soon.
Flying increased on regular Sched-
ules from 27S17 miles a day in 1929
to 69,029 miles a day,in the last fiscal
year.
The growth in aeronautics is revealed
also by the number of licenses filed. with
the department, which jumped from
1908 last year to 42,338 this yea. New
pilots licenses increased o5 per cent.
Licenses were taken away from rs air
law violators, while 176 more paid fines
totaling $4,525.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-21
D. C. FIRMS INVOLVED
IN BANKING MERGER
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
BALTIMORE, Nd, January 2l.-The
Mortgage Bond 81 Title Corporation Of
Baltimore yesterday announced COM
pletion of arrangements to take over
the mortgage business Of the Chemica,
Bank g. Trust Co. OF New York.
This will involve, according to the an.
flouncement. the acquisition Of more
than $4,000, 600. worth Of mortgages or
properties located In 50 cities Of the
United States.
The mortgage business Of the Chemi-
cal Bank & Trust Co. formerly was
conducted by the United States Mort
gage 81 Trust Co., which recently merged
with the bank. The Baltimore institu-
ton will acquire the business through
its New York subsidiary. the Mortgage
Bond Co. of New York.
According to the terms of the trans
action, the Chemical Bank 81 Trust Co.
will secure minority interest in the
Mortgage Bond g. Title Corporation
This company was formed last year as a
holding company for the Mortgage
Bond Co. of New York and the Mary
land Mortgage g. National Title Co. of
Baltimore.
other subsidiaries are the Washing
ton Consolidated Title, Co., the Lawyers
Title Insurance Co., the District Title
Insurance Co., the Washington Title
Insurance Co. and the Maryland Title
81 Guarantee Co. The holding corpo-
ration is headed by Robert G. Merrick,
president. Charles r. Gillett was re-
Gently elected chairman Of the board to
succeed the late George A. Hurd.
The corporation will have, upon COM
pletion fof the deal, capital in excess of
$1,000, 900 and will control approximate
ly $55,000,000 Of mortgages In more
than 100 cities.