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The Washington times., 1930-06-06
JACK IS BIG
PLAY:BOY
At HEART
By HYPE IGOE

ORANGEBURG, N. Y, June 6 -
Jack Sharkey's magic hands held
the wheel that sent me whiZzing
along the State road here last
evening at close to 90 miles an
hour.
I had been eyeing his amazing
Is cylinder car and he invited
me to drop into the millionaire
guest" seat, beside the driver.
We doomed along the little
back roads close to Gus wilson's
Camp-at first roaring through
wooded lanes, scattering the bob
whites and cotton tails in fear Of
their lives.
love this Hype. 1t would be
che only thing that would
want In the world, II I could
get away. be alone with flowers.
wild oats. the kids, the misSuS
and my gardens for diversion.
81 planted 5000 tulip buds
Just before / left home and.
do you know, I can't wait to
knock out Max, I'm so anxious
to see them.
"Tm going on a flower jag
when get home"
"NO Hype, don't you 60 look.
ing for me the day after the
fight. I'm giving you and the
gang fair warning. Let me see.
I'll flatten Max about 10. I'll
take the wife and the Buckley'S
and the boys out for a feed.
I'll dance a little and will get
to bed about four. At 6 I'll be
up and in the car. and ZipD--
away goes the new worlds
champion to hide out 50 he can
talk to himself and be happy"
well. don't you think that
people will want to see the
ehampion-if you wir?"
"Hype there Is no II about
this--T will win: But IN want
to get away. I want to 90
fishing. 1 want to roll with the
kids on the grass. I want to
get away j: that people won't
be chugging by my house in
rafting cars, yelling 90 look
at the big Pollok who is now
champion
We I ached the billiard table
State highway and I knew what
was coming. Spe I'd! Speed as
was directed by Sharkey's moe
casined foot against the big flat
Acce1erator. Fifty! Sixty! Sew.
enty. Seventy-five. A car comes.
He slows up. Passing the startled
Ford ct sixty. Back to seventy.
five. Then eighty. A curve.
With Paderewski hands he guided
her around the slightly banked
curve ct sixty. Funny little pip.
pin. your Adams apple. when it
comes up into your mouth, un.
invited.
Around the curve. thought on
the running board. And, oh, gosh!
q two-mile straightaway. Z.Z.Z.
Z-z.zoom! 1 glanced down at
the Big Ben day-like speedometer.
Ninety-twol Whew!
"Of course, Hype If this
stretch was a little longer I'd
lay her down to the limit-she
does 12O.
"And when she does it, Mis-
ter Champion, your little friend
Hypus will be down at the camp
speeding up in a morris chair"
Sharkey took me around the
back road to show me the spot
where Kid Chocolate cracked up.
A telegraph pole had been pulled
four feet up out Of the ground
and broken off. The side door.
the windshield. and pieces Of the
car were scattered all over the
ditch where the keed landed.
The Washington times., 1930-06-06
MOHAWKS WOULD PLAY

The Mohawk A. c.. leaders in
the Capital City unlimited race,
want a game for Saturday. Out
of.town teams are especially chal.
lenged. Call c. K. ,Amidon, Lin
coin 1861,
The Washington times., 1930-06-06
WANT SATURDAY GAME

Adelphite Insects want a game
for Saturday at 3 o'clock with a
team having a diamond, Call Co
hlYnbia O5B2,
The Washington times., 1930-06-06
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-27
FAVORABLE TRADE.
FACTORS ARE SEEN
Cleveland Bank Believes Bet
ter Business Will Follow
Turn of Year.
Special Dispatch to The star.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, November az
Definite signs arc appearing on the
business horizon which indicate that
the end of the depression is approach
ing and that better business will be
seen after the turn of the year. accord
ing to the Union Trust Co. of Cleve-
land.
Among the favorable indications
pointed out by the bank are declining
stocks of merchandise. progress in re-
adjustment Of prices. increase in con-
sumption and completion of the def1a-
ton process.
All during this year, while produc-
ton has been on the level much more
than normal, consumption of materials
and the using up and wearing out OF
merchandise has been going on steadily
and more rapidly than production,
says the bank in It's magazine Trade
Winds.
The result. naturally, is that We are
bringing about what might be described
as an accommodating shortage of great
variety of goods. When this shortage
f1ected in Immediately renewed buying.
There is some evidence that such
buying has now begun to an extent
larger than is generally realized"
The banks study of business condi-
lions declares that during the past four
weeks substantial progress has been
made in readjusting retail prices down
ward in keeping with the drastic de-
clines in many wholesale prices, with
the result that buying of goods at re-
tail is being stimulated. Continuing,
the bank says:
"Coincidcnt with the growing spread
of price declines in the retail field there
has come about an encouraging Stabi-
lization in the prices of number of
raw materiais, particularly those which
had sunk to levels below production
costs. Upturns from the years lows
have been noted in prices of coffee,
sugar zinc, tin, copper, rubber, cotton
and a number Of other commodities.
From the point of view that COM
plete defiation Of last years overenthu-
siastic speculative and business Struc-
ture is necessary before reconstruction
can begin. every additional step in the
proach of business recovery that much
nearer 1t is Our opinion that defiation
in wholesale commodity prices is now
apparently approaching an end and
that the process is also continuing with
respect to retail prices.
While the employment situation pre-
sents a difficult and complex problem
strenuous efforts are being undertaken
toward It's solution throughout the Ma
ton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-27
GOLD STANDARD PUT TO TEST
IN STERILIZATION OF MONEY
Fate of System Depends Upon It's Effect in
Controlling the Basic Value of
Various Currencies.

billie money In terms of purchasing
power, then 1t will remain as an indis-
pensable factor in the money and credit
systems OF society. If not, It will go into
limbo.
AS DR.. Karl Helfferich puts it:
Changes in the value of money. no
matter in which direction they take
place. produce conditions which create
serious alterations in the distribution
of income and wealth, disturbances in
the bases of all economic transactions
and. accordingly. in the economic life
of the community"
Experience has shown" wrote Prof.
Gregory. apropos Of the return Of Great
Britain to a gold standard, that the
control Of currency is liable to the
gravest possible abuses. and that it Is
undesirable that the discretionary
authority of the managers Of nom
metallic standards should be allowed to
continue. Within a single decade the
sufficiently to ruin whole social classes.
Nothing of this sort is to be feared from
gold. The gold standard, in addition
70 imparting comparative stability to
the price level over time, necessarily in
wolves stability In prices over the whole
of the area in which the gold standard
prevails"
We may conclude. therefore, by saying
that it is not the gold standard that is
at fault-it's the way the gold standard
Is handled that has caused the world
trouble. And If the gold standard ma
tions are wise they will see to It that
In the future the worlds gold pile is
handled much more effectively and
eficiently. Otherwise the gold standard
may be in for q peck of trouble.
Copyright, 1880, by North American News
paper Alliance.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-27
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. November 81
tSpeciall Roger @. Sullivan was elect
ed president OF the local Kiwanis Club
at the annual meeting of officers held
at the regular meeting yesterday At
the George Mason Hotel Other officers
included D. G. Book, first vice president:
Irving Diener, second vice president:
Thomas Chauncey, trustee: Roy Case,
Elliott +. Hoffman, c. Page Waller, &
D. Shelton. Harry Hammond. Thomas
Jones and @. g. Lamond. directors.
Preliminary plans for handling local
charities, which are expected to be ex-
ceedingly heavy this Winter, were made
At q meeting OF the Alexandria United
Charities held at the George Mason
Hotel yesterday. Former Mayor Will
liam Albert Smoot outlined the sitlla-
ton to be met by the organization.
Headquarters already have been opened
In the City Hall Building. where dona-
tions will be received. Persons seek
ing aid may then apply
THANKSGIVING day was being observed
here today by union church services
held in the First Baptist Church. Rev.
Pierce s. Ellis, pastor OF the church,
presided at the services. The aern1on
was delivered by Rev. G. Morgan Com
pher. pastor of the Methodist Protest
ant Church. Other churches through
out the city also held special services
in observance of the day.
An informal meeting of city council
was held Yesterday. at which time the
tentative budget was discussed.
w. L. Leitch, Boy Scout executive.
addressed the meeting of FITZGERALD
Council. No. 459 knights of Columbus
last night
Fire Chief James M. Duncan. IT.
has been named member of the Ex-
hibitS Committee Of the International
Fire Chiefs Association by Chief Jo-
seph N. Sullivan of Utica. N. Y. it was
learned here yesterday.
Raymond Brown, 400 South Pitt
street. was treated nj the Alexandria
Hospital last night for stab wounds in
the back and neck. Four stitches we're
taken in his neck
United States flag will be formally
presented TO Maury School by Alexan-
dria Council, No. S. Fraternai Order of
Americans. at special exercises to be
held on the school grounds at 3 o'clock
the afternoon of December 2. A speech
OF presentation will be made by Col.
John H. Trimyer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-27
FAIRFAX AID URGED
FOR. NEW PARKWAY
Commerce Body Asked to Aid
in Getting Capper- Cram
ton Act Ratified.
spscisl Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, November 27.-Speak-
ing before about so citizens of Fairfax
and Arlington Counties last night In
the Fairfax Court House, Hugh Lee
Kirby Of the Arlington County Cham
Der of Commerce urged the incorpora-
ton of the George Washington Memo
rial Parkway Association, Statewide
organization with local branches. The
purpose Of this association would be To
secure donations Of land and money
for the National Park along the Vir-
einia side ri the Potomac and proposed
in the Federal Capper- Cranton bill
and to work to get an extra session of
the State Legislature to appropriate the
SO. 7500 900 required by the Government
as Virginia's half the cost of this
project
On motion of Frank Lyon Of Mclean
the meeting urged the Fairfax County
Board of Supervisors TO designate a
Fairfax County representative on the
board of appraisers authorized under
the Ball act.
Kirby explained that the Govern
ment has agreed to loan the money to
Virginia without interest as soon as
pledges covering this amount can be
secured from responsible individual
corporations or the State government.
He stated that he and his neighbors
have already raised $4,000 toward the
first 100000 unit Of the parkway. He
asked the Fairfax chamber to coop
crate by securing signatures of its citi-
zens asking Gov. Pollard to call spe-
cial session of the legislature to ratify
the Capper Cramton act and to either
appropriate money in yearly install
ments for eight years or to issue eight
year bonds. He stated that in his opin-
Ion the parkway will bring in estimable
commercial and industrial opportunities
to Virginia and will do more than any
other proposed plan to remedy unem-
ployment and stimulate business &C
tivity. He stated that bronze markers
will be authorized by Congress and
erected along the route bearing the
names OF individuals and organizations
contributing to the fund
Lieut.. Col. u. s. Grant Of the Ma
tonal Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, outlined the proposed develop
ment with lantern slides Grant stated
that tourist travel in this section has
multiplied 20 times within the past FIVE
years and showed the commissions
plans for handling trafic congestion in
Rosslyn by means of elevated roads for
commercial traf11c. He said that the
commission did not wish to confscate
improved home property along the site
OF the parkway If 1t can be avoided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-27
TYSONS CROSSROADS
SIGN VERDICT UPHELD
Fairfax Jury Finds Charles K.
Myers Guilty Of Destroying
State Property.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
FAIRFAX. Va, November 27-A
Jury in the Fairfax County Circuit
Court yesterday sustained the verdict
granted the State Highway Department
last August when Justice of the Peace
A. c. Ritchie of Fairfax found Charles
K. Myers of Tysons Crossroads guilty
of destruction of State property
Myers had appealed from Ritchie's
decision which carried with 1t the
minimum fine of SIS and costs He
commended that the large signs set up
by the State Highway Department in
front of his gasoline tank, forbidding
motorists to park on the State right of
way, in order to take on gasoline we're
erected on his property and not on
State property.
These signs we're erected by the State
Highway Department May % and were
cut down by Myers May "a. Myers
claimed that they were erected one foot
within his property line. The State
claimed they ware set three and one
half feet within the State line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-27
LYON VILLAGE STREET
IMPROVING TO START
Work on Lee Highway End of
Fucker Avenue to Begin
in Ten Days.
BY a star Correspondent of The Star.

ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Va, November 27.-While It
will be impossible to widen Rucker
avenue entirely through Lyon Village,
as planned, the County Engineering De-
partment expects to start within the
next 10 days the relocating of the Lee
Highway end of this street, it was
stated today by G. L. Kihnier, county
directing engineer.
The relocating of this end Of Rucker
avenue is being done to give a more
direct and wider entrance to Lyon Viii
lage, Lyon & Fitch, owners of the sub
division, having given the strip of land
necessary for the work. 1t is also
planned to improve the Lee Highway
entrance of Rucker avenue to provide a
wider entrance to the subdivision from
that direction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-27
CANISTER RETURNS
TO LONG SENTENCE
Chicago Public Enemy Goes
Back to Joliet Prison to
Serve 80 Years.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
CHICAGO, November 27.-Tfe au-
thorities behind Chicago's drive against
public enemies" scored again - this
time by sending back to the penitentiary
for 80 years, James (FIrl Sanmohs,
beer gang g1lnman, who has BEEN at
odds with the law for more than 80
years
With little or no ceremony, but with
the utmost precision, the CRAVING gang
ster was returned to the penitentiary
at Joliet yesterday, thus becoming the
second public enemy" to be put behind
State prison bars. At Joliet Summons
joined George (Red) Barker, another
public enemy" and alleged labor union
racketeer. recently committed. Sam
mons, like Barker, was sent back to
prison as a parole violator
Arranged before Chief Justice John
P. McGoorty Of the Criminal Court, fol-
lowing ruling by Attorney General
oscar z. Carlstrom that his parole on
a murder charge in 1929 was illegal,
Summons made futile plea on his own
behalf and then was quickly hustled
away in an automobile to Joliet. At
one time he was under sentence of
death for killing Patrick Barrett, a
saloonkeeper in 1908, but the penalty
was committed to a so years sentence,
and Carlstrom ruled the parole law did
not apply to committed sentences.
Thus Summons became the ninth of
the % public enemies" named by the
Chicago Crime Commission removed,
temporarily at least, from illegal bust
nesses. Two. Jack Zuta and Joe Aiello,
were killed by gangland bullets. The
others were Sammons' fellow prisoner,
Barker Willie Niemoth. held in Mary
land for robbery; Jack Guzik and Ralph
Capone, convicted of income tax law
violations; Jack White, now held pend
Ing trial for Staying policeman. and
Danny Stanton, who is held for re-
moval to Wisconsin for trial as Zutas
slayer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-27
ATLANTIC COAST LINE
OUTLOOK Is BRIGHTER

Atlantic Coast Lines traffic prospects,
appear to be definitely improving. It is
one of the very few roads in the coun-
try to show even small increases in
carloadtngs in recent weeks, as COM
pared with last year
One OF the most favorable factors is
the large Florida citrus fruit crop this
year and the removal of restrictions on
shipments, which should prove highly
important. Last year incursion Of the
Florida fruit fly resulted in imposition
of quarantine regulations on shipment
OF fruit from the State, and this was
a severe handicap.
This year the Florida orange crop.
including tangerines and satsumas, is
estimated at l4.500000 boxes. which
compares with 100000 boxes last year
and fouryear average, 1e24-1928, of
1O,920,000 boxes. The grapefruit crop
Is placed at 10000 900 boxes. against
8.200,000 boxes for 1929 and four-year
average of 8280.000. These crops have
already started to move, but volume in
creaSes in December.
Contrary to the experience of most
railroads, comments the Wall Street
Journal. Atlantic Coast Line makes. its
best earnings during the Winter and
early Spring, when the fruit and vege-
table crop shipments to Northern mar
kets are in full swing and when the
tourist movement is at its height.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-27
F|DAC WILL HONOR
UNKNOWN'S TOMB
Similar Ceremony to Be OBJ
served in Allied Capitals
Tomorrow.

At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,
at Arlington National Cemetery, as at
other similar shrines Of other World
War allies, will be observed tomorrow
the eighth anniversary Of the oreaniza-
ton of the Federation Interallie DIES
Anciens Combatans. Tomorrow at IL
o'clock. Fidac members from Washing
ton will place wreath on the World
War shrine.
Mrs. Joseph H. Thompson of Beaver
Falls. Pa, widow of the Congressional
Medal Of Honor man, Col. Thompson,
will head the delegation as national
chairman of the American F. /. d. A. C..
Committee of the American Legion
Auxiliary. She will lay a wreath upon
the tomb. Mrs. Thompson has been
advised that representatives from en-
bassies and legations of these countries
will participate in the Arlington cere-
monies: Great Britain, France, Italy.
Portugal, Poland, CZechoslovakia, Jugo-
slavia and Rumania.
Representative Lamar LETTERS of Ala
bama, American vice president of the
F. I. D. A, c.. and Mai. Julius I. Peyser,
former American vice president of the
organization, will be In the American
delegation. y Members of the American
Legion will make up the delegation of
this country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-27
BLAZE AT C0LVIN RUN
DECLARED ACCIDENT
Fire in Which Four Died Investi.
gated by State Fire Marshal
on Sheriff's Request.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch TO me star.
FAIRFAX, Va November 27.-As-
sistsnt State Fire Marshal H. Kemp, jr,,
yesterday conducted an official investi-
cation into the circumstances of the
FIRE, which, on November 10, destroyed
the home of Daniel J. Sullivan. near
Colvin Run and burned to death his
wife and three small children.
The investigation was made at the
request of Sheriff e. P. Kirby in view
of the persistent rurnors of foul play
which have agitated the community
ever since the fire.
Fire Marshal Kemp yesterday in
spected the ruins of the Sullivan home
reviewed the official report of the
county coroner and held a hearing at
Fairfax Court House during which he
questioned Sullivan. Leo Crowell. at
whose home Sullivan was visiting when
the fire broke out: Ray Cockerille. Aub-
rey Wise and Forrest Day, laborers who
we're among the first to discover the
blaze, and several of the members of
the Vienna, Va, Fire Department, who
arrived first at the scene of the fire.
Kemp's official report states that there
are no signs either OF arson or that
Mrs. Sullivan had been assaulted prior
to her death and that the fire was due
to AN uneXplainable accident"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-27
|NSTALLMENT SALE
POLICY INDICATED
Statistics Show Stores Are
Losing Only Small Amounts
in Bad Debts.
BY J. C. ROYLE.

The ShiverS which are supposed to
run up and down the backs of careful
department store executives over every
credit are not warranted and actually
do not exist With all the furore over
the danger of credit sales and INSTALL
ment sales In times of depression. the
fact remains, according to the National
Retail Credit Survey, that 49.6 per cent
of the department store sales are in
cash-eXcluding chain stores, which do
business usually on strictly cash basis.
and the mail order houses, which have
a large percentage of cash customers.
Open credit sales account for 44.9
per cent of the business done, while in
stallment sales amount to only SIS per
cent of the whole. There can be no
bad debts from the cash sales. The
ratio of bad debts on open accounts,
according to this authoritative private
survey, is only 44-100 OF l per cent,
while the loss from credit extended on
instalIment payment accounts amounts
to only 9-10 of l per cent
Bad Debt Percentage.
The Governmental survey, which is
not confined to department stores,
shows that 6-10 of l per cent on the
open accounts and Ia on installment
business are bad debts. This provides
nothing to produce shivers.
In general this condition presents no
new basic facts to merchants. For
years they have been thoroughly con-
vinced of the essential honesty Of the
American buying public. Consequently.
in most instances they have solicited
charge accounts. and the installment
business has given push to business
which has never been equaled in retail
merchandising.
Naturally they have had to sacrifice
some of the advantages of those who
sell for cash. The survey shows that
allowances and returns amount tn 5 per
cent of total sales for cash. For open
credit customers this ratio of allowances
and returns rises to 14.2 per, while the
ratio on installment sales Is 1871. 1t
is significant that allowances and re-
turns should be high on credit accounts.
Many customers open credit accounts
because they have found that II they
are cash customers and the store has
their money. they do not receive nearly
SO much considerat ton or attention to
complaints as to quality and quantity
of goods delivered to them as do credit
customers.
Vindication Of Policy.
Full vindication of the policy Of in
stallment selling Is found. according to
investigators, in the figures for the late
months of 1929. In the early months
Of that year when prosperity was wide
spread, the average monthly INSTALL
ment payment on debts for goods
bought was little above Jasper cent
In October and November. when the
first blow of the stock market crash
made itself felt. the average rose to
above is per cent and even in Deem
Der, which is VIGOROUSLY good buying
but bad paying month, it was above
Is per cent.
The old slogan used by stores all over
the country. Your Credit Is Good"
still seems to be working actively.
tCopyrieht, 1902