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Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Stare


Special Dispatch to The Stare
BALTIMORE, Md, December 81
Potatoes, white, 100 pounds, 1.25al.75;
sweet potatoes, barrel 2.25a3.75; yams,
barrel, 2.25a2.75; beans, bushel, 4.oOa
$50; beets, crate, 2.75a3OO; cabbage,
bushel, 2.o0a400; carrots, 100, 200a
400; caulifower, crate, 1.25a2.00; cell
cry, crate, 1.5Oa2 so; eggplant, crate,
1.5Oa250; kale. bushel, rs; lettuce,
hamper, 1.25a1.75; peppers, crate, l.50a
ATS; parsnips, bushel, Local 80; spin
ach, bushel, 75a85; tomatoes, crate,
1.00a3 90; turnips, bushel, 40a50; cram
berries, box. 2.50a35O; grapefruit, box,
1.50a300 oranges. box, 200a3.75; tan
gerines, box, 1.00a1.75.
Dairy Market.
Poultry, alive-Turkeys, pound, asa
IS; old, 2Oa28; chickens, Springers,
23a26; Leghorns, 20a2S; bareback la
10; old hens, 20a24; Leghorns, 14a18;
ROSTERS, 12a15; ducks, 14a23 geese,
18a25 guinea fowl, each, 30a60; pigeons,
pair. 20.
Receipts, 1918 cases; nearby
firsts, 80; hennery, white, firsts. IS;
Southern frsts, 30; current receipts, 80
Butter-Good to fancy creamery
pound, 30a33; ladies, 23a25; rolls,
l8a20; process, 28a29; store packed,
l3a15.
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GRAIN MARKET

CHICAGO, December 81 Especially -
The. wheat market was irregular today.
Old crop months were supported by
farm board agencies, but pressure on
July forced that delivery down to the
lowest level since 1895. December, old,
opened rs to 1875; new, rs to 1873.
March, old. 1914 to 1885; new, 1881
May, old, 81 to 81ls new, 811z to 81ss.
July, 627s to So. After the first half
hour. December old, 76 to 1881; new,
rs to 1873. March, old. 70 to 1912;
new, 80. May, old, 81 to 811s; new,
81 to 8l1a. July. 81 to 621s.
Corn followed the trend of wheat.
December, old, opened 615a to STA.
March, old. 651s to IS; new, 651a to
655s. May, old, 67H to 81 new,
675s to 671a. After the first half hour,
December, old. 81 to 6134. March, old,
IS to 651s new. IS to 65H. May, old,
66 to 6634; new, 81 to 67A.
Oats were affected by the action of
other grains. December, old, opened
80 to 30a. March, old. 81 to 3lH.
May, old. 80 to 32as; new, 80 to 32l4
After the first half hour, December,
old, 80. March, old, 80 to 30ss. May,
old, 81 to 315s; new, 81 to 31%.
Provisions were lower.
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BUILDING
SPURRED BY j. S.
Schools, Churches, Stores,
and Office Structures Run
Into Millions.
(Continued Prom First Pagel

In the District for which plans we're ap-
proved during the year included the
following: The New Shoreham Hotel,
constructed by the Calvert Corporation
at $500 Calvert street. 81, 500 ,000 Frank
r. Jellef Co.'S addition to it's store at
1916 F street, $4,000; two-story college
and dormitory of the Augustinian Col.
lege at 1000 Hardwood road northeast,
$250,000; five-story apartment building
at 5000 Connecticut avenue, erected by
M. & r. B. Warren, $550,000.
WeStchester Corporation. eight-story
apartment building at 1000 Cathedral
avenue, $l,000,000: American Security &
Trust Co., ten-Story office and bank
building at 728 Fifteenth street, 81 $780,
600; five-story dormitory at George
town University, Thirty-seventh and o
streets, $700,000; second unit of West
chester Corporations apartment group
at 5000 Cathedral avenue, 81 900, 900:
Office building of the National Education
Association at 1901 Sixteenth street,
$350,000; five-story apartment building
of the Franklin Apartment House Co,
1911 Franklin street northeast, $780, 900.
E.ght-story dormitory of the Brook
ingS Institute, 722 Jackson place, $780,
900; eight-story apartment, Goldsmith
g. Keller, 1887 Rhode Island avenue,
$300,000; tWo-story garage, Washington
railway q EleCITlc Co., Zllz georgia
avenue, $375, 600; Western Presbyterian
Church and Sunday School, 1908 H
street, $4,000: five-story plant and
garage, Stone Straw Co., 910 Franklin
street northeast, $4,000
COIOred Baptists Build.
First Colored Baptist Church, 705
Sixth street southwest. $4,000; eight
story apartment building, D. L. Sterna
1850 Connecticut avenue, 100000; st.
Pauls English Lutheran Church, 1900
Thirty-sixth street, $625,000; Central
Presbyterian Church, three-story Sun
day school, 1472 Irving street, $4,000,
three-story plant, Ballouf Manufactur-
ing Co., 621 H street, $4,000; three
story school, Holy Cross College, 400l
Hardwood road northeast, S220,000:
warehouse, Mayer e. Co., 4l9
Seventh street, 100000; Japanese en-
baSSy, 2514 Massachusetts, avenue, $780,
600; st. Paul'S M E. Church South,
4700 Thirteenth street, $4,000; four
story addition to University Club, 600
Fifteenth street, $245 900; seven-story
apartment, Lee Properties, Inc, 1417 N
street, 100000; eight-story apartment,
Warren. Inc, 3133 Connecti-
cut avenue, $3,250.000.
Christ Lutheran Church. Sixteent.-
and Gallatin streets, $4,000; two-stor,
office and plant, A. F. Jorss. /"
rwenty-fourth street, $49,500.
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ALEXANDRIA SEES
GROWING ACTIVITY
DURING. NEW YEAR
Continued From First Page.l

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products plant Of the washington Gas
Light Co.
Building development here, which
has been more or less uncontrolled in
the past, win be directed along lines in
conformity with plans for the whole of
the Washington area with the compile
ton of the soning and planning survey
now under way here under the direction
Of Irving G. Root, planning engineer Of
the Maryland-Nati Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
A large number Of major projects,
permits for which were issued in 1929,
were not completed and occupied until
this year. These include the home Of
f1ce OF the Virginia Public Service Co,
constructed ct Washington and Prince
streets at q cost of $3.50 900, and the
plant of the Shell Eastern Petroleum
Products Co., which cost $4,000.
Other building here included ap-
proximately 5000, 900 for the $4,000 900
George washington National Masonic
Memorial Temple which brought the
temple TO its full height; remodeling of
the Ingomar Theater on King street at
u COSL Oh hDOub $Z0,UVU' TeDullQ1ng OF
all platforms at the freight receiving
and transfer shed of the Southern Rail-
way at Lee and Princess streets; con-
struction of a modern frame storage
shed by the American Agricultural
Chemical Co. at cost Of $4,000.
Boulevard Work Pushed.
City construction, including new
streets, curb and gutter, sidewalks and
sewers, totaled approximately $50 900,
City Manager Wallace Lawrence esti-
mates.
Also practically completed during the
year was the $435,000 grading and
drainage contract in connection with
the, Mount Vernon Boulevard, con-
tracted for by Vincent Schaivi. About
five overpasses and bridges in and near
the city were also started this year in
connection with the boulevard, the cost
to run to several hundred thousand
dollars.
Deeds recorded by Elliott F. Hoffman,
clerk of the courts, showed Jump from
1922 in 1929 to 1,765 in 1880.
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the collapse of copper, although tin and
silver reached the lowest point on mod
ern records.
Fine Textiles.
Next in line were fine textiles, show
ing a decrease of 80 per cent. One
reason for the sharp decreases in nom
ferrous metals and textiles is found in
the status of inventories copper being
100 per cent above year ago and the
world visible supply Of cotton 81 per
cent up.
The percentage price decrease in other
groups for the calendar year was as
follows: Textiles. coarse 81 per cent;
vegetable oils, % per cent; paint mate
rails, % per cent; hides and leather, rs
per cent: fuels, % per cent; livestock,
Is per cent: building materials. IS per
cent; ferrous metals. IL per cent, and
chemicals, 4 per cent.
Important Price Changes.
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BASIC CONDITIONS
ARE MUCH BETTER
Fewer New UnSoId Homes on
Market Now Than at
End of 1929.
CONTINUED From First Page.)

lConunued From First Page.)
an undisclosed principal through the
agency Of Riggs National Bank for a
reported consideration of approximately
81, SOC, 900.
Morton Goldenberg and Leo Baum
were the purchasers of the new PARK
Towers Apartments, located on Six
tenth street opposite Meridian Hill
Park, the consideration being approxi-
mately 100000. Title to the Schuyler
Arms Apartments, 1854 Columbia road.
passed during the year from Edward
Beecher Dean, sr., 10 Barney Robins:
La Raine Apartments, northeast corner
Of Connecticut avenue and legation
street, was purchased from Goldsmith
q Keller by the Beach Terrace Invest
ment Co. for q reported consideration
OF $500, 900. and five apartment build
ingS. the Windemere Harrogate. the
Guthridge. the Flagler and the Sedg-
wick, were transferred by A. Joseph
Howard to an undiScloSed new owner.
A tract Of 1871 acres of land lying
along Lee Highway about mile and
half beyond Falls Church, Va, was &C
CURED by the Strathmeade Corpora
ton for the purposes of a new resi-
Dental development.
Leasing Is Active.
During the year also many large
realty transactions were contaminated
as a part of the work of the District
and Federal governments in acquiring
sites for new Government building prof.
ectS. These included a number of large
business properties and large number
of private dwellings.
Leasing was active during the year.
as many new concerns took downtown
and outlying properties for merchan-
disc business here. Many firms also re-
newed old leases for additional periods.
Washington experienced two labor
difficulties during the year, but ami
cable settlements were reached after
strikes were called
Members of the Lathers' Union struck
for an increase in wages, tieing up lath.
ing work for some time on the Depart
ment of Commerce Building and half
dozen large private building operations.
Work on the new Garflnckel Build
ing was stopped for time, due to a
contest between structural iron workers
and carpenters over which union should
perform certain phases of its construc-
ton, an injunction being obtained from
local courts to end this disagreement.
Labor and employer leaders now are
completing new Jurisdiction agree
ment designed to prevent a recurrence
of such strikes.
Several branches of building trades
men obtained increases in wages dur
ing the year, and virtually the entire
construction industry here was placed
on the f1ve-day schedule with the adop-
ton OF this plan by q number OF unions.
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STINSON AIRCRAFT co. i,
NOW ON FULL TIME
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
WAYNE, Mich, December 27.-With
most departments working full time
and several of them now on a seven
day-a-week schedule, the Stinson Air
craft Corporation is preparing in 1881
for its biggest year to date.
Contracts for more than $450,000 In
l0-place tri-motored airliners equipped
with Lycoming engines, have been re-
ceived for delivery by March TO- Ten
of these planes are to be delivered by
February l to the Century Air Lines,
Inc, of Chicago. which will begin cp-
erations on March of frequent serv-
ice system of lines embracing the en-
tire Middle West. The remainder of the
contracts have been placed by two
other transport operators.
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NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK. December 81 Especially
After reaching low prices of the week
in the first hour the cotton market
steadied today and recovered the great
er portion of the early loss, ending
practically unchanged from Friday.
Week end covering following a loss
Of over 81 a bale absorbed contracts
and buying of July by the house OPP
Grating for cooperative associations
steadied the market before the close
Spots were unchanged at 9.80
Cotton range:
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Commodity Price
Trends of Week
BY II. n. McGILL,
Editor, Mccn Commodity Service.


AUBURNDALE, Mass, December 81
(P,.-Followirg severe price decline
during the middle of December, Christ
mas week brought not only more stabil.
ization but a moderate tendency up
ward. 1t is quite unusual in consider
ing the leading comm dity groups to
find more advances than declines, but
this is what happened during the week
just closed. OuL OF Is individual groups,
were higher, lower and 5 un-
changed The groups which showed an
upward tendency we're the average for
all commodities, industrial products,
agricultural products, on.ferrous
metals, coarse textiles and vegetable
oils.
Business Gam Needed.
It Is quite apparent that commodity
prices cannot, without the aid of BUSH
ness improvement, register q sustained
upward movement. The year closes on
the worst depression In modern records.
in many cases being more acute than
tbs readjuStment Of 1921
Industrial activity is still character
tied by radically reduced rate Of oper-
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Try-on Shoes TRANSPARENT.

Special shoes. partly made of a trans
parent material, have been introduced
by shoe store in Paris to aid men and
children in trying on footwear. These
transparent shoes are carried for each
model in the store and they are said to
aid appreciably in determining where
the foot is pinched and consequently in
choosing perfect shoe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
lpOrtant Price Changes.
St. Paul's Cathedral Safe.

st. Paul's Cathedral, in London, res
toration of which was completed last
Spring, is safe for poSterity, according
to Sir Mervyn Mccartney, who was
knighted last June for his work in
connection with the structure. He will
resign next March after "a years service
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CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 27.-Following
is the complete oflcial list of tranSac-
lions in stocks on the Chicago Stock Ex-
change today:
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BALTIMORE STOCKS.
Special DiSpstch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE, December 27-


The chestnut tree blight. which first
manifested itself here in 1909, is thought
TO have been brought to this country
from Asia.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET

Note-An stocks sold In one hundred-share lots
excepting those designated Ky the letter (80s (250s
which shows those stocks to be sold in odd lots only
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BONDS.

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Your Baby and Mine
By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

The thumb sucking child has had an
enormous amount of attention devoted
to his infantile habit. His mother prob
ably belongs to one of two groups: She
who is terrified at the very sight of her
child with his thumb in his mouth, or
the mother who Is utterly Indifferent to
It, One sees both kinds.
The baby who thumb-sucks constant
ly not only needs his attention diverted
from his thumb to some other source OF
amusement, but his diet should be care
fully checked to be certain 1t is ade-
quate. Ricketts,. coupled with thumb.
sucking, increases the child's chances OF
spelling the shape of his mouth, and all
types of undernourishment-
the result of too little food or the wrong
food or any other cause-likewise in
crease the child's chances Of finding his
thumb A thumb in the mouth Is better
+ than nothing at all. Even hungry babies
can be momentarily comforted by their
thumbs, but, of course, to let them nib
BILE on q thumb when they need food Is
the height Of folly and carelessness.
The following type of thumb-suck-
ing is the least harmful and, most au-
thorities agree, need occasion the moth
err no alarm, nor cause her to direct any
frenzied efforts to breaking 1t:
Mrs. J. 8. says--"My baby is IL
months old, healthy and happy. She
weighed pounds at birth and 1917 at
months. She has the thumb sucking
habit, but only when going to sleep. She
started this at 2 months of age and
though tapped her thumb 1t did no
good, and as she does 1t only when 60
ing to sleep have not let 1t worry me.
Is there any chance of her doing this
as she gets older? Should break her
of itP What cereals besides fine wheat
preparations and oatmeal can I give
her?"
There is probably very good chance
Mrs. j. s., that for some years the child
will keep up the habit of Misunderstanding
when sleepy. It isn't an easy habit TO
overcome, for the drowsy feeling and
the thumb in the mouth go together,
and the child can hardly succumb to the
one without the comfort of the other
See that the child does not lie awake
any length of time. This means that as
she grows older her nap times will grow
shorter, so that she Is always sleepy at
bedtime. Then the amount of time de-
voted to thumb-sucking will be too
short to do her harm. II she should
begin this In the daytime would in
crease her interest SO that she doesn't
have time to sit and thumb-suck.
The whole wheat preparations, as well
as barley, cornmeal, rye and brown rice,
are all excellent cereals for the young
child. There Is no real reason why the
child over l year shouldn't enjoy all Of
them.
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Important Things to Be Saved
BY LYDIA lie BARON WALKER.

few pieces of wrapping paper and re-
plenishes only as this stock gets low:
Extra large sheets of the paper ana
very stout twine should be kept, for they
are not easy for homemaker to get
even today and the cost Is much more
than for ordinary string and wrapping
paper.
In remodeling and mending great
care has to be taken not to be TOO
thrifty and put hours Of work on ma
terial that has very little wear LETT IN
It, Time is really thrown away when
this is the case. The good parts can
be cut out and put to new uses. II
economy would be practiced In these
matters, time must be weighed against
things.
To keep q clutter Of things about
because one has not the modern cour-
age to discard them by sending them to
some needy person Is costly economy.
Think OF the wasted time keeping them
in order and the wasted strength re-
quired to do it! It took no old-time
courage In bygone years to save such
things. Houses and barns were ample
storehouses. while shops where fresh
supplies could be had were miles away
Times have changed considerably and
conditions put different values upon
time and things--but not on health
and strength.
Copyright. le30).
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the lower edge of the band. The upper
part of the patch pockets also use the
plain blue.
The skirt fullness is provided by box
plaits at front.
The bslt marks the normal waistline.
Here 1t is for you to copy. The saw
ing is enormous.
style No. 523 comes in sizes 16. 10,
20 years; SO, 80, 40 and AZ inches bust.
Powder-pink shantung self-trimmed
Is very fashionable and fiattering to
sun-tan complexion.
Orangey-red wool crepe in broken
checked pattern Is another equally
smart choice. Cut the collar. sleeve
bands, belt and pocket on the bias for
effective contrasting trim.
For q pattern of this style, send IS
cents in stamps or coin directly to The
Washington Stars New York Fashion
Bureau. Fifth avenue and Twenty
ninth street, New York.
We suggest that when you send for
this pattern you inclose 10 cents addi-
tional for copy Of our new Spring
Fashion Magazine.
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In every life and every day
Doth enter chance A part to play.
Old Mother Nature.

Blarina the Shrew hunts by night
and hunts by day. OF course he sleeps
some, as all little people must. How
ever, he doesn't have any regular time
for sleeping He sleeps when he feels
like sleeping. and then as soon as he
is awake he Ii up and ON his way.
You see, that stomach OF his will hot
allow him to sleep LONG. He must be
hunting something to put into his
stomach. He Is active all Winter.
Now, In order to. satisfy that ire
mendous appetite, Blarina has to travel
about great deal. He Is never still d
minute when he is awake. He Is al
ways poking that sharp little nose of
his into this and that. AS a matter OF
fact. he couldn't live very long with
out eating I mean by that he would
starve In a few hours If he could get
nothing to put in his stomach. SO
Blari1a Is busy small person.
1t just happened that in his travels
Blarina came to an old tin can. 1t
was an old gallon oilcan lying on its
side Blarif1a didn't see It, because his
eyes are not good enough to see things;
but he smelled 1t and he touched 1t
with his whiskers. He didn't know
what 1t was, but he carefully felt all
along the edges of 1t, thinking he might
find some insects hiding under It. He
went all the way around that old tin
can as he went he was very carefully
examining it. When he got around to
the end he futind hole.
"Ahal" said Blarina to himself
This mttst be queer kind Of hollow
log. Holes in logs are always worth
looking into
He carefully felt all around so as to
make sure OF the size of the hole.