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NEW YORK BANK STOCKS
NEW YORK, May 10 lR|.-over the
SHELTER IS CLOSED.

NEW YORK. May 10 P).-The
American Smelling g. Refining Co. has
closed its plant at Matehuala. State of
San Luis Potosi. in Central Mexico, be-
cause of drought. 1t was said that
unless conditions are Immediately
alleviated in the northern part of the
state, the mines of the region will have
to cease operation, and the American
Smelling Co.'S plants at the City of
San Luis Potosi also may have to shut
down
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DIVIDEND DOUBLED.

The directors of Hazeltine Corpora
ton have voted to increase the regular
quarterly dividend rate from rs cents
per share to SO cents per share. In
accordance with this action a regular
quarterly dividend of so cents per share
was declared payable on May 81 to
stock holders of record at the close of
business May is.
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year. Abandonment to May l was 7.9
per cent, compared with 1875 per cent
last year. Condition on May / was
81 per cent, compared with 87.6 last
year and 86.8. the 10-year average.
Condition of hay on May was 1913
per cent, compared with 87.8 last year.
and of pasture, 77.3 per cent, compared
with 86.9. Hay remaining on farms
May ! was 12,497 900 tons, or 1919 per
cent of last years crop, compared with
II ,159,000 tons, or. IT'S per cent OF the
1928 crop, on farms May last year.
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FIRM PAYS 10 PER CENT.

Directors of Rudolph Karstadt, A. c.,
German chain store organization. have
declared a dividend of IL per cent for
the year, according to cable advices re-
ceived by the company's bankers in
New York. A dividend of the same
amount was paid in the preceding
year.
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CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET.

CHICAGO, May 10 R).-Butter, u.
g6l tubs: easy: prices unchangeo. Eges
80, s2a dozen: easy; prices unchanged.
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CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May Following is the
complete official list of transactions In
stocks on the Chicago Stock Exchange
today:
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Former Estimates Compared.

The Governments estimate OF con-
dition, acreage and indicated yield Tor
Winter wheat compares as follows with
the similar estimates of one and two
years ago:
May /, May ~, May l.
1880. 1929. dsSo.
Condition :. 1857 836 1S.6oo
Acreage So. 3s,676000 4o,467,000 3s,676'oo0
crop. bu. .525.o7oooo seS.ss5.ooo 47s,oae, 600
The departments estimate OF the
Winter wheat crops condition on May
for a series of years, its estimate oil
acreage planted and of acreage remain
ing in May, together with the May fore
cast of actual Winter wheat yield. pro-
vide the following comparisons: Inc
figures of acreage and yield Tor tne
current year are those OF the May esti-
mate; for other years they are the
actual result of the harvest.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET s s=:: III. :; ;: c x

Notice-Au stocks are sold share lots
excepting those designated by the letter (65s) (zs5l
which shows stocks to be sold in odd lots only
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TWENTIETH INSTALLMENT.

~ y GU are fond of music?" Don
80 " Jaime queried. Roberta
nodded and he tossed
l. quick order in Spanish to
one of his d11Skv maids
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INVESTMENT TRUSTS

NEW YORK. May 10 tp.-over the
afaFs hot
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STOCKS.
BONDS.

Copyright. 1880, Standard Statistics co.,
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5000 sooo s sou I'm Gas Gas So iiSSa 1872 Il
1000 Unit Am Util IS 40. 964 98ls
Stock sales today, 176, 900.
Bond sales today, $1,000.
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.deduced that Thomas had fallen or
slumped forward while walking. His
hat was lying nearby and nothing had
been disturbed in the vicinity.
Thomas had been at work as usual
Tuesday in his office, at No. Thomas
circle He went out shortly before
noon to make some calls, and was last
seen by a business acquaintance about
O'Clock, examining papers in the ONCE
OF title and trust company.
Car Found Parked.
A search was begun by police and
relatives late Tuesday, but 1t was not
until shortly before nightfall Wednes-
found At that time Dom Thomas,
others automobile parked near Chain
Bridge.
Throughout Wednesday night, Thurs
day and yesterday civilian and police
searehers secured the river bottom and
banks for the missing man.
Keaie, who lives at 1910 Carolina
place, had been fishing In the canal,
and, getting no bites, started across the
partially dry river bottom toward the
Potomac.
Keane notified a store proprietor at
Chain Bridge, who telephoned police.
Oficers j. G.. AremdeS and L. d.
Phillips and Detective j. E. Burke re-
sponded from No. precinct, and later
Lieut.. Kelly
Thomas, who had resided at 3710
Military road, leaves a widow and two
young children.
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on the ground, the better to see what
was going on above them.
Passengers and crew were unanimous
In their belief that the trip had proved
beyond question the feasibility Of trans
atlantic commercial airship con1muni-
cation.
THAT the giant ship rode smoothly
through a 75-mile-an-hour gale with no
discomfort to those on board was CITED
ly passengers as the best evidence OF
her stability A trimming glass OF
water. placed on table in the cabin
of the R-lOO before the departure from
Montreal, did not spill q drop all the
way across the Atlantic.
The R-100 passengers acquired
sense of absolute security within a Few
hours after the start Of the voyage.
The ship averaged q speed approx
mately three times greater than that
of the fastest Of ocean liners. once,
aided by a southwest gale, she attained
a pace of 81 miles per hour.
Bi-weekIy Service Forecast.
Oficers expressed the belief that II
more prompt meteorological data had
been available the navigatorS OF the
R-l00 might have avoided the storm
which hit the alrShlp early FTloay. by
shaping q more northerly course the
craft could have circled the bad area
and thus made the crossing in. less time.
Following the ships arrival the sug-
gestion was made also that there might
have been more cooperation between
maritime authorities of Great Britain
and Canada in mapping North Atlantic
weather. Comdr. Colmore, Maj. Scott
and other officers asserted that the
R-l00s success was an augury OF q
regular airline service between England
and Canada.
Sir Dennistoun Burney, the crafts
designer, said he looked forward to a
biweekly service with de luxe atrships,
each carrying 100 passengers and from
TO 10 tons of mail, operating under
the direction of the British and Cana
dian governments, Meanwhile, he said,
the R-100 should be used for some COM
mercial purpose and be sent back to
Canada for further experimental work.
The aircraft, he declared, should make
frequent transatlantic flights with pas
sengers and mail instead of lying idle
at Cardington.
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DRUG TRAFFIC new
CHINESE PROBLEM.
ti-0pium League Wants
Exports to South Sea
Islands Stopped.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NANKING, August 16-Opium traffic
among the Chinese living in the South
Sea Islands has provided the National
government of China a new source of
worry.
The China Anti-Opium League, a
semi-g governmental institution wants
the traffic stopped on the grounds that
it is injurlng the prestige of the pres
ent regime at Marking, and is pre-
pairing a protest to the foreign powers
having colonies in the South Seas.
Sun Fo. minister OF railways an
official of the Anti-Opium League and
son of the late DR.. Sun Yat-Sen, Is
the man responsible for the agitation.
He has just completed, on behalf of
the league, a survey of opium traffic
in the South Seas, as well as the Brit
ish Malay Archipelago
There are 100000 Chinese living in
the South Sea Islands, Sun Fo states,
and Of this number approximately
400 900 are opium users. The traffic in
the drug, he claims, is enormous and
is conducted largely by the Chinese
themselves, and not by foreigners, as
commonly supposed.
In the British Malay Archipelago,
the report continued, one-Ghird of the
entire annual revenue of the colonial
authorities for 1929 was derived from
opium and, as in the South Seas,
chinese are the principal dealers in
the drug.
, Similar conditions, Sun Fo says, ex-
list in the Dutch possessions in the East
Indies.
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ATTEMPT TO ROB
BANK IS CHARGED
Grand Jury Given Case of
Ex-Janitor DiSarmed by
Georgetown Cashier.

Charged with assault to rob G.
Wendall Shoemaker, cashier of the Po-
tomac Savings Bank, and Cessna Boyd,
janitor of the bank, Leroy Cooper, col
ored, rs years old, was held for grand
jury action from Police Court today
under $4,000 bond after q preliminary
hearing.
Cooper was surprised in the base
ment of the bank building, at WiScon-
sin avenue and M street. Thursday
morning by Cashier Shoemaker, after
the former had bound Janitor Boyd.
Cooper, armed with two revolvers and
his face covered with coal SCOT and a
mask, meekly allowed Shoemaker TO
disarm him. Subsequent to this Cooper,
a former tanitor of the bank, had
bounced on Boyd and bound him TO
bale of paper.
"He asked me when the vault would
be opened" the janitor told Judge Rob-
ert E. Mattingly today. "and declared
that he was going to rob 1t.
Both the janitor and shoemaker Ooto
the court that they were scared TO
death" when they looked into the race
of Coopers automatics.
at sensed that something was wrong
when I first entered the bank" Shoe
maker said, "I went to the oasemenI
and about the first thing I saw were
the pistols pointed at my head. some
one shouted out of the semi-darknesS'
put up your hands don't remem-
Der what I did I was so scared
"You know me, Mr.. Shoemaker SAID
the bandit, 1T was only playing,
At this juncture,, Shoemaker salo
that he gathered courage, walked up
to the former janitor, pushed the gun
aside and took them away from the
man. Boyd, the janitor was unueo:
Cooper was placed in the nanos Oh
seventh precinct police. ,.,,,,.
Assistant District Attorney Wilbert
McInerney. represented the Govern
ment. Cooper entered a plea OF not
guilty.
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THREE AIR ACCIDENTS
ENLIVEN WAR GAME
Navy Pursuit Plane Falls Into
Ocean and Submarine Rescues
Pilot Off California.
Ry the Assooiated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 10
Three airplane accidents, including the
rescue of a Navy flyer at sea by a
submarine, gave q touch of reality to
ArmyNavy war maneuvers in the San
Francisco Bay district yesterday.
A near casualty resulted when
pursuit plane of the attacking "black"
naval forces fell into the Pacific Ocean
near the Farralone Islands, IS miles
west of San Francisco. The submarine
W. saved the pilots life, but failed to
name him in the radio report on the
planes fall
A marine plane piloted by s. r.
Jack and john Bartless fell in San
Francisco Bay. The plane sank but
the flyers we're rescued.
An Army craft, piloted by Lieut..
William Campbell fell near Burlingame,
in San Francisco Bay. Campbell also
was rescued uninjured.
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BRIBERY WITNESS
INVOLVES Jones
Says Dry Senator Obtained
License for Radio Plant
for Liquor Ring.
nx the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash, August 16.-The
story Of alleged bribery and intrigue
told by Alfred M. Hubbard, Govern
nient witness, against Roy O. Lyle,
ousted Federal prohibition administra-
tor, and four others charged with being
in league with big rum running organ
i3ations, echoed in political circles to-
day as their trial stood in recess over
the week end.
Involves Senator Jones.
Hubbard said United States Senator
Wesley l.. Jones, vigorous supporter OF
prohibition and author OF the Jones
ave and ten" law, obtained the license
for a radio station, which Lyle and 9TH
ers had established at Grays Harbor,
district. Hubbard said the prohibition
officials visited Grays Harbor to pro-
tect liquor runners.
Hubbard, admittedly q former rum
runner and more recently q Federal
prohibition agent under Lyle, testified
Lyle and his chief assistant, William
NJ Whitney, one of the five on trial,
solicited and received from Roy Ohm
sted, head of q large liquor smuggling
organization, and others $1,000 for use
in the senatorial campaign OF 1925.
Admits Handling Payment.
The witness, presented by the Gov
eminent as the alleged intermediary be-
tween rum-runners and Federal prohi-
bition officers, testified he himself
handled the $4,000 payment to Whitney.
Leslie Z. Salter, Assistant Attorney
General conducting the prosecution,
then directed Hubbard's testimony into
another channel.
The witness testified he made several
payments of protection money for mem
bers Of the Olmsted ring direct to Lyle
Ia June or July, 1926.
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CHARGES MINORITY
BLOCKS BUSINESS
---1-----s-----
Lucas Says Leaders Have
Opposed Hoover'S Re-
lief Measures.

Taking ONCE today as executive direc-
tor of the Republican National Com
mittee, Robert H. Lucas of Kentucky
issued statement charging Democratic
leaders with blocking administration
business and unemployment relief to
preserve depression as y campaign
issue.
simultaneously, David Burnet took
over the post Of commissioner of In
ternal revenue, succeeding Mr.. Lucas.
He was appointed yesterday by Presi-
dent Hoover.
Mr.. BurneE, q native of West vir-
10 years ago from Ohio and was APP
pointed deputy commissioner last VIM
ter by Mr.. Lucas.
Opposed Hoover Plans.
'The Democratic leaders," Lucas said,
put their party in direct opposition to
every effort made by the Nations Chief
Executive and his administration to
restore business and provide employ
ment for all the people. Having selected
the natural misfortune of the Nation
the suffering of the unemployed-as q
campaign issue for 1880, the Democratic
any corrective measures without de-
priving their party Of battle cry for
the campaign.
And the country has continued to
Suffer-busineSS Is slow to recover
workers walk the streets looking for
work while the Democratic StrategiSts
confer and consult and issue statements,
all the while fearing an Improvement
In business, before tbs election. They
hold to the fallacious idea that If things
will just remain as they are until cleo
troll of Congress"
Makes "Quack" Comparison.
The Lucas statement-the opening
gun of the Republican national organ
nations participation in the Fall cleo
ton ampaigns-compared the Demo-
cratic party 20 q "quack" and the Re-
publican organization to the "old fam
lily physician" needed to deal with q
serious illness. The new director, whose
task as commissioner of internal rev.
enue was surrendered to David Burnet
of West Virginia, simultaneously with
taking over the Republican ONCE,
charged the Democrats with having
waged "a campaign of misrepresenta-
ton and confusing propaganda"
THAT campaign has had q demoral-
izing effect upon business" he said.
THAT Misrepresentation has made its
impression. That propaganda has taken
hold It Is well there Is yet time TO
get the truth to the people. ="
1.-The country is facing q crisis. We
are In the midst of temporary, but
serious depression. II, by reason of
this situation the Democratic party
additionally known as the free trade
party and the party of unrestricted
immigration - should gain control OF
the legislative branch of the Federal
Government, what chance would there
be for a restoration Of normal business?
Elect a Democratic Congress in 1880
and this country will not see normal
business again for some years to come"
Lucas concluded with q statement
that he believed voters would elect q
Republican Congress to support, Presi-
dent Hoover.
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DECREASE SHOWN
BY PRESBYTER|ANS
| 1884, 108 Members in Year
Ending March 81, 20,359
Below Previous Mark.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, August 16.-The
Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America, through REV. DR..
Lewis Seymour Nudge, stated clerk Of
It's General Assembly. announced yes
terday that the total communicate
membership for the year ended March
81, this year. was l 1884, 108, q decrease
of 20,359 over the previous year.
TWO factors are mentioned in the an
nouncement as mainly to account for
the decrease. One is that no Easter day,
when large numbers of members are ac-
cepted, was included within the last
church year. The other is the increas-
ingly rigid requirements for the reten-
ton Of names on the communicate
membership rolls. 1t is stated all Pres
byterian statistics on membership are
based solely on communicates in good
standing.
Sunday School Increase.
The total number of Sunday school
members enrolled was 1,596,030, a net
increase of TIT. The actual increase, 1t
is stated, Is much greater because of the
Increasingly rigid standards adopted
with reference to enrolment.
The number of churches stands at
9327, a decrease of "a. The total num-
Der of ministers is 9,987, increase 81.
There are fully organized churches in
every State in the Union.
The total contributions for all pur-
poses was $63.048,063. a decrease of
S3,o65 DAT. OF this total SAC, 296, s31 went
for congregational expenses.
Ten Largest Churches.
The 10 largest churches and their
membership are:
First Church, Seattle, Wash, 1885;
Emmanuel. Los Angeles, 4,087; First,
Tulsa, Okla, 3,207; Tabernacle, Indian
apolis, 3,144; Central, Denver. Colo,
3,088; First, Oklahoma City. 3,059; Pasa-
dena, Pasadena, Calf. 2,974: First,
Portland, Greg, $500: First, Pittsburgh
Pa, 2736, and Madison Avenue, New
York City, 2,674.
The five largest synods and their
membership are Pennsylvania, 368. 491 |;
New York, 261 ,9o8; New Jersey, 166, 087;
Ohio, 160, 043, and Illinois, 3l,150.
The five largest Presbyteries and their
membership are Pittsburgh, Pa, 1882;
Chicago. 49,41s: Los Angeles, 48.097;
Philadelphia, 44,176, and New York
City, IS $3.50.
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FUND
TO BE ALL0CATED
AS DROUGHT AID
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cult at this time and Secretary Hyde
already has initiated steps to provide
aid. Several million sheep and about
500 900 head of cattle soon will need
feed in the central part OF the State
reports indicated, and immediate ac-
tivity to move the cattle to better graz
ing land or to ship in emergency food
is to be initiated.
Hope of general relief throughout the
drought area was revived by the reports
of additional rains. Secretary Hyde saw
In these not only helpful psychological
factor for the farmers, but said also
the rains probably would rejuvenate
much pasture land.
Agreeing with this view, Thompson
said the cooler weather also would be
a great aid as the pastures would not
deteriorate so fast. He added that corn
that is still green, but without ears on
1t, would make better forage.
Rains in Many Sections.
Some of the Western plains States
and some other States in the drought
area were reported today by the
Weather Bureau to have had rain In
the past "a hours.
States in which rains were reported
included Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska,
Missouri, Western Iowa, Western South
Dakota, light rains In Montana and
rains In central portions Of Alabama,
Mississippi, Georgia and generally over
South Carolina.
Rains also were reported in the North
Atlantic States and in some of the
South Atlantic States showers fell.
Birmingham, Ala, reported the
heaviest rain with a fall of 224 inches.
Springfield, Mo, had 1874; st. Joseph,
Mo, 1.12; Valentine, Nebr., $50; Rapid
City, s. Oak, 49, Omaha, Nebr., "a.
and Oklahoma City, .04.
Fort Smith, Ark, reported q maxi
mum temperature for yesterday OF lO4
degrees, with oil inch of rain.
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SLIM CONTRACTS
ROUSE REFUELERS
Pass Record SO Hours as
Manager Complains of
Generosity Lack.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, August 16.-The endur-
ance monoplane Greater st. Louis, in
which Dale Jackson and Forest OBrine
regained the sustained flight from the
Hunter brothers, still was aloft at Sill
central standard time) today. At that
time the plane had been in the air 625
hours, more than SO hours longer than
the Hunters record.
Thus far Bill Pickens, manager of the
flyers, had been able to close but four
contracts, totaling about 81 800, for the
flyers. and this comprises their sole
reward" except for $1,000 they will re-
ceive from an oil company whose prod
ucts they are using. Pickens complained.
Great Efforts Sighted.
",J,lst to think" he walled, there are
those two boys making the greatest en-
durance fight in history, and great
big New York company says $1,000 Is
too high a price to advertise one OF It's
products. What those boys need is
high fence around their ship. The
other night half of the people in st.
Louis came out here and we didn't coll
lect a dime. A free show and they all
came out"
Despite all his troubles, however,
Pickens is trying to keep up the old
spirit, and so far we have not cut our
price, because the one big mistake in
the promotion business is to ask for
1000 when you could have had $4,000"
st. Louis lack of financial generoS-
ity' is no mystery to Ptckens. The city
is too close to big achievements in avi-
alton"
"Lindbergh spoiled you folks" he ex-
planned, and unless a show can be
made TO rival TRANSATLANTIC crossing
you are not interested-at least, not
financially"
one Of st. Louis largest theaters will
give a midnight show tonight for the
benefit of the Jackson-O Brine ex-
cheQuer.
Twenty seventh Day in Air.
Today was the twenty-seventh in the
air for jackson and O'Brine in the
monoplane Greater St. Louis. Appar-
emily they were not nearly so worried as
their manager on the ground. The
only complaint that had come from
them was that "the air surely Is roll
ing"
The pilots still had given no indica-
ton of when they would land, but have
promised to give suffieient notice" of
an intended landing for spectators to
assemble at Lamhert-St. Louis Field,
over which they are flying. A note from
the plane last night read:
TELL those people not to wait for US
to land now. We will notify them in
plenty Of time for them to get to the
field"
A special contact between the en-
durance plane and the refueler was
made last night to take cigarettes and
matches to the flyers.
Mechanics at the field today still
said they were unable to detect any
faltering in the Greater st. Louis,
motor.
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BUILDING WAR GANG
: STAYS z CONTRACTORS
Third Wounded in Fresh Outbreak
in "Little ITALY" on Upper
East Side, New York.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press
NEW YORK, August 16.-Two men
were killed and another was seriously
wounded in what police said was
fresh outbreak of a building racket
war IN Little Italy" on the upper East
Side.
All the men shot were in the con-
tracing business. They we're sitting in
the second floor Office of a building in
East 18th. street owned by Pietro
Morello when the door was flung open
and two men opened fire on them.
Morello and Joseph Perano fell dead
and Casper Pollard was wounded.
Police said Morello was a STEP
brother of Giro Terranova, whose din
ner to Magistrate Albert WHALE last
year was held up by gunner, leading
TO revelations that resulted in removal
OF Vitale from the city bench.
After the shooting yesterday the
gunner fed. and Pollard, though
critically wounded, stumbled to a
window and jumped to the street. The
fusillade drew an excited crowd of more
than 1000 residents of the district.