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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, July up UNITED States
Department of Agriculture) Hogs. as
600 head, including 5000 head direct;
mostly strong to 10 higher; largely
92Oa9 40; market for 10000 pounds;
top, 945 paid for 270 pounds; light,
good and choice, 140-160 pounds. eOOa
9l5; lightweight, 10000 pounds, elsa
$40; medium weight, 200-250 pounds,
9 20a9 As; heavyweight, 250-35O pounds,
S.90a9.40; packing sows, medium and
good, 275-350 pounds, 790a8 so:
slaughter pigs, good and choice, 10O-I30
pounds, 8.25a9O0.
Cattle, $500 head; calves, 1000 head;
slow, steady to strong market: top.
1850 paid for weighty steers; best long
yearlings, 1925; bulk fat steers. 9.OOa
HOO: packers slow, weak, but scarce;
slaughter cattle and vealers, steers,
good and choice, 100000 pounds, 9.5Oa
!l50; 900-1 100 pounds, 9.75a12.00;
l,lOO-1 300 pounds, 1000a12.5O: 1900
1900 pounds, 105Oa12.5O; common and
medium, COOL 300 pounds, 6.OOalO. rs;
he1ers, good and choice, 55O-850 pounds,
925alO75; common and medium, 6.00a
800; cows good and choice, 7.0Oa9 90;
common and medium 475a7 90; low
cutter and cutter, 3.50a475: bulls
tyearlings eXcluded). good and choice
(beeD, 6,25a825; cutter to medium,
5:OOa6.50; vealers (milk fed, good and
choice, l0.00al1.50; medium, 8.50a10 90;
Gull and common, 6.00a8.50; stocker
and feeder cattle, steers, good and
choice, 500-1.050 pounds, 8.00a9. rs;
common and medium, 5.75a8.00
Sheep, 5000 head; better grade fat
lambs, 25a50 lower; throwouts and
sheep around steady; bulk, sorted ma
tive lambs, HOO; choice Westerns held
around lips; slaughter sheep and
lambs, lambs, 90 pounds down, good
and choice, l0.50a11 25; medium, as
1880; 9l-l00 pounds, medium to choice,
6.00a875; ewes, 90-15O pounds, medium
to choice, 2.00a375; all weights Gull
and common, 1.00a275.
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FARM BOARD 0. KS
HOLDING OF WHEAT
Body Endorses Move to Avoid
Congestion at Terminals
Over Country.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Federal Farm Board has Endorsed
the move among farmers to hold "suf-
ficient wheat off the market to prevent
congestion at terminals with the hope
it will improve prices"
In statement disappearing the mar
keting of the wheat crop direct from the
thresher, the board said the present
tendency of farmers TO keep more OF the
wheat at home was a movement In the
right direction.
The tendency of growers for the last
several years has been TO market the
wheat crop direct from the combine or
thresher,' the board said While this
Is convenient way of handling wheat,
1t is our judgment that the change is
an expensive one for the grower.
Somebody must provide storage and
other carrying charges for that grain
from the time it is delivered to a local
elevator until it is needed to supply the
demands of consumption. The cost Of
this transaction is far greater than the
cost would be to the farmer IL he stored
portion Of his crop until such time as
there was a demand for it,"
The rushing of large percentage Of
the crop 10 market often resulted, the
board said, in congestion at terminals
to the extent that owners OF private
elevator space are enabled to I'LL their
bins at prices substantially below the
current market value at the time the
wheat is shipped
This process the board said also has
the disadvantage of putting much Of
the available supply of grain in the
show windows, where the buyers real
lizing that somebody is paying money
to carry this wheat every day 1t is there.
have the advantage of knowing they
can get it quickly and too frequently at
their own price"
None Of us can tell what the fu-
ture will bring, but in view of the fact
the probable available supply the COM
ing year IS not likely to exceed the
available quantity a year ago. we have
every reason to hope for a better aver
age price than now prevailing" the
statement concluded.
Declining to disclose the plans of the
board for immediate sterilization oper-
atoms in either wheat or cotton. Chair
man Legge said he had written more
checks today for commodity loans than
at any one time since the board started
tunctioning. He refused, however, TO
specify the loans
Loans on the new wheat crop. ne
said, probably would be on a basis of
about 30 to IS per cent of the market
value of the wheat.
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NATURAL GAS LEADING
CONVENTION TOPIC

Development of natural gas having
reached such enormous proportions In
q comparatively short time, discussion
of that subject promises to be one OF
the notable features of the twelfth an
nual convention and exhibition of the
American Gas Association at Atlantic
City october 1917, according to an
nouncement made by association head
quarters in New York.
At both the general sessions and sec
tional meetings all Of the many prob
lens which present themselves to the
industry will be discussed by men who
are believed to be the best qualified
for this purpose through their training
and experience.
While natural gas topics will play a
prominent part in the proceedings, as a
whole the convention this year will
have a strong sales slant. Prominent
men and women have been invited TO
speak on merchandising from various
angles, industrial sales as well as do
meStic sales.
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DIVIDEND REDUCED
julius Kayser Drops Payment
From 81 to So. so Annually.

NEW YORK, July 1 (Pl.-Directors
of Julius Kayser &J Co., manufacturers
of silk apparel, today reduced the an
nual dividend basis to $3.50 from 81
by declaring a quarterly payment of
62l2 cents a share. The reduction was
decided on some time ago.
S. H. Kress a. Co. has declared an
extra dividend of so cents on the COM
mon, payable in special preferred stock
Directors of the Mohawk Rubber Co.
failed to act on the quarterly dividend
of SITS due at this time on the pre-
ferred stock
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1881 BUSINESS REVIVAL
NOW DECLARED CERTAIN

The recent disappointing behavior of
business, commodity prices and stock
prices has made more uncertain the
prospect for an important recovery in
the Autumn of the current year. but
has made still more certain the pros
pect for important and sustained re-
yiVal in 1881, according to the Standard
Statistics Co, which continues. in part.
We still maintain the position that
1881 is TO be relatively good business
year. We believe that business recov-
cry will be strikingly In evidence by
next Spring and that the main trend
Of activity for the year as whole will
be upward.
THE current low level of productive
activity. and the prospective low level
of activity during nearby future months,
are certain TO create moderate deficits
of goods which must later be filled"
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FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
quotations furnished by w b. Hbbs & CO..
Nominal gold Selling checks

NEW YORK. July ! (P).-Foreign
exchanges irregular. Great Britain, de-
mand, ABS 1916; cables, 4.86 1-l6; 60
day bills on banks, 4.8334. France, de-
mand, 1929; cables, 3.93. Italy, de-
mand, $685. cables, 5.23a4.
Demands: Belgium, 1895; Germany,
1882; Holland, 40.l9; Norway, 26.77;
Sweden, 2683; Denmark, 26.75; Switzer-
land, 1888; Spain, IL 81: Greece, 1.293s +;
Poland, 1925; CzechosloVakia, 2.96$s ;
Jugoslavia, 1883; Austria, 14.11: Ru-
mania, .591z; Argentina, $3.50; Brazil,
IL 80; Toxic 1910; Shanghai, $500;
Montreal. 1895 5-l6.
Great Britain IN dollars: others in
cents.
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RECORD TRADE IN JUNE.

NEW YORK, July Trading on the
New York Stock Exchange in June to-
tailed 1882, 100 shares, the highest June
on record. For the like month last year
sales totaled SO, $40, 500 shares. The total
or 493,257,900 shares for the six months
ended June 30, however showed a de-
crease of 44,3l0 700 shares from sales for
the like period last year.
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FORCE Is ENLARGED.

NEW YORK, July l LP).-Advices
from Winnipeg state that 100 addi-
tional men were put to work this week
at the Sheriff Gordon mines as a re-
suit of the speeding-up program of the
Film Flon Smelter, the date of compile
ton of which has been moved up a
month.
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o. X. STOCK INCREASE.

NEW YORK, July l ).-Stockhold-
ers of the Great Lakes Dredge q Dock
Co. have approved an increase in the au-
thorized capital stock to 100000 no-par
shares from 10000 shares of 500 par
vaule. Holders of the old stock will re-
ceive eight new no-par shares for each
500 par share.
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ON PHONE BOARD
Baker and Armstrong Named Di-
rectors of C. g. P. Co.

rectors of G. & P. Co.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, July William c.
Baker, senior member of Baker, Watts
g. Co., of Baltimore, and Alexander Arm
strong, president of the First National
Bank of Hagerstown and former attor-
ney general of Maryland, were elected
to the board of directors of the Chesa-
peake 81 Potomac Telephone Co. yes
terday.
The board authorized additions and
improvements to the system, officials
announced, that will call for an ex-
penditure of $675,370. making total APP
preparations for Improvements this year
Sl,547365
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PARIS BOURSE PRICES.

PARIS. July OP).-Price changes
were irregular on the Bourse today.
Three per cent rentes, 81 francs IS
centimes; per cent loan, 102 francs
Is confines. Exchange on London, 1913
francs $50 centimes. The dollar was
quoted at 25 francs As Centimes.
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RUBBER IS LOWER.

NEW YORK, July l &C. P. Al
Rubber-Crude rubber, smoked ribbed
sheets, was "a lower at today's noon
quotation of 1914 cents. This compares
with 1894 a month ago and 203s year
ago
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AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas IS "A"-S1 900

Washington Gas IS "A"-S1 900 at
1922, 81 900 at 1903.
Washington Rwy. g. Electric 4s-Sl 900
at sc.
Capital Traction 5s-$2 900 at 81, 81, 1000
at 81, 81 900 at 81, $500 at 81.
Potomac Electric 5l2 % pfd--4 at 108.
Washington Gas $500 at 1903.
Capital Traction Colo at 58k, s.
at 58i2.
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Washington Stock Exchange
SALES.

Potomac Electric Cons. 5s-$4,00O at
1927.
Washington Gas IS "A"-$lOO at lOI,
$500 at I02.
Norfolk g. Washington Steamboat rts.
wis at Is, at 16, at 1919.
Potomac Electric So pfd-5 at Ill.
Federal American National Bank-l0 at
275, 10 at 275.
District National Securities pfd.-1O
at ST.
Peoples Drug Stores pfd.-10 at 1031s,
10 at 1892.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
STOCKS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.

Amer Tel & Telga "209a4 49,.
G @ashins T5n't9 aa f GG Co. W is 1 49,
N. e. W. Steamboat t2dl...... 2l5 255
Norfolk & W. Stmbt. rtS VII. l6 1872
Potomac Elec. Pow. g. pfd... 1904 1l2
Potomac Elec Pow. 5l2'c pfd... l07ss l08
Wash Rwy. & Elec. com o.. $50 49,.
Wash Rwy. g. Elec. pfd G).... 1914 99la
Wash Bait, Annap. conn.,. .....
Wash, Bait. Annsp. pfd...... .....
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-01

The letters TINT" stand for trini-
trotouol. the high explosive. II acts
more quickly than 1t is pronounced.
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BONDS.
Bid and Asked Prices.

Bid. Asked.
Amer. Tel. & TelRa 4i2S 81 1871 49,.
Am Tel. & Tel ctl. tr. 5s...... lO4ta -.
A1aCostia 81 Pot r. r. 5s.... SO 80,
Anacostia a. Pot. guar. SIS ... "a -.
C. a. p. Tel OF Va ssh. l02 $50.
Capital Traction r. r. 5s.. 90 81
City a. Suburban 5s............ 81 49,.
GEORGETOWN Gas LIST 5s........ 10l 800.
Potomac Elec. cons So l02 1921
Potomac Elec IS 1858 .... IO6 -.
Wash, Alex. e. Mt Vernon eff 6 -.
Wash, Bait. a. Annap. 5s..... IS .....
Washington Gas 5S--.......... 102 .....
Wash Gas IS, series A........ 102 100
Wash. Gas. IS, series B....... los JOG
Washington Rwy. & Elec. As. IS Sc
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1880 PM........ 1.595.2O0 2:10 PM.......1 S38 900
Dividend rates as given the annual cash
nase on the latest quarterly half yearly
IN stock Payabe IN scrip tpuS sc year
regular rate payable
z Illus
Plus az in stock Plus 80 in stock 81 stock Plus
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DIVIDENDS DECLARED

NEW YORK, July (A0.-Dividends
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Barber & Ross. Inc, com ,dIss'a 20
CHEVY g. G5 PejF rsy pfd pfd o. 1913 90 iss
Dist Natl Sec. pfd. 90. ;...., s. 80
Emer Bromo-selz; "a, 'D......, 90 ,S2
Fed Am. Co com. q 900 ...,.. 90 80
Fed Am. Co. pfd. 90 .........- se l0l
N Men Tr SG stps com, Jio iosla los
Mer. n stEe n PFC dno 81 a. &C. l o.,
Natl. Mtge & Inv. pfd ....... 47s 81.
Peoples Drus S ptd. !Slal 49,. 1903 100
Real Est NJ. & q. pfd. 3D.. Ga 80.
Ter Ref lei { WI. Corp; (S)...... a7la s?
Wash, Mech. Mtge. com. d.. ei5 10
Wash. Med. Bldg, Corp. ,........ 92 go.
Woodward & Lothrop ptd. Cd. los liz
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NATIONAL BANK.
TRUST COMPANY

Amer. Sec. g. Trust Co. C5),...'370 40
sentimental Trust C6) ....... 100 l40
Merchants Bank Trust r. t 90, LIS LIS l lsS
Prince Georges Bank & Trust. 81 80
Union Trust (8gl......,.....,..'245 500
Wash Loan & Trust (l4) .... $50 500
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CONTINUED on Fourth Page.)
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The list of prominent guests who
will be present at the Old English Cof-
fee House talk, given by the League of
American Pen Women of the District
tomorrow afternoon In the National
Press Club. is headed by Mrs. Edward
Everett Gam, sister of Vice President
Curtis. Mr.. Harry Warner will the
speaker of the occasion and will have
as his subject. 1.-THE Birth of Sound"
Others prominent in official and social
circles who have accepted the invita-
ton of the league for this occasion
are Senator and Mrs. Charles S. De-
neen, Senator and Mrs. Clarence Dill,
Senator and Mrs. Henry J. Allen, Rep
resentative and Mrs Maurice II.
Thatcher, Representative and Mrs. Fred
S. Purnell, Representative and Mrs.
William e. Howell, Commissioner and
Mrs. w. B. Ladue, Miss Jessie M. Dell,
civil service commissioner; Commits
sioner of Education and Mrs. William
John Cooper, Miss Bess Goodykoontz,
assistant commissioner of education;
Commodore and Mrs. Philip Lauman,
Commodore and Mrs. Lucien Kimball,
Maj. and Mrs. j. Garfield Riley, Mr..
and Mrs. Isaac Cans, Mr.. Henry Gill;
gan, DR.. and Mrs. william F. Corbin,
Mrs. Thomas w. Sidwell, Mrs. Charles
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Mrs. ]. A. p. Ramsdell has motored
to Washington from her home in New
burgh, N. Y, and is at the Carlton for
few days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-09

Of starting Washington's campaign to-
ward raising its quota for the purchase
and maintenance of "Stratford." Many
Washington hostesses are expected to
entertain parties on this occasion.
Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun
left for New York yesterday after an
early and informal tea for Lady Isabella
Howard at Rossdhu. Mrs. Calhoun will
attend a party given by Mrs. Rollin
Pierson Grant in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clark Howell Of Atlanta. Mrs. Grant is
we'll known in Washington as Miss
Sadie Hall Of Tennessee, the cousin of
President Polk. The Constitution re-
minds its readers that as commissioner
from South Carolina to the Atlanta ex-
position, Mrs. Calhoun captured the
gold medal for interior decorating and
an enconium from Thomas Nelson Page
for having assembled the best collection
Of Colonial portraits and miniatures
ever brought together at any one place
In the South before.
Mrs. C. E. Nugent, who is passing
several weeks at the Wardman Park
Hotel, has had with her for a few days
her daughter Miss Jayne Nugent, who
left last night for Boston. to return
to her studies at the Mount Ida School,
at Newton, Mass. Miss Nugent spent
most of her holiday at Fort Monroe,
Va. Mrs. Nugent will remain for few
weeks more at the hotel before return
ing to her home In Minneapolis.
Mrs. ]. A. p. Ramsdell has motored
to Washington from her home in New
burgh, N. Y, and is at the Carlton for
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Darrell Jeffries Of
Greenwich, Conn, are at the Willard
for an indefinite stay.
Mrs. H. H Seldomridge of Evanston,
ILL.,, is at the Dodge Hotel for a short
stay.
Mrs. E. " Townley has arrived from
Paris and Is passing some time at the
Wardman Park Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Crawford of
Newark, N. j., are passing some time
at the Carlton.
Mrs. Grosvenor Dave, who returned
in the Fall to Washington to reside
after an absence of several years, spent
the holiday season with her sons and
their families, in New Yotk, and Is
again in her Washington home.
Mrs. Dave will join Mr.. Dave the
first Of February for two months stay
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served following the meeting, when Mrs.
Benjamin will be the hostess.

ocllJdtLlul Will NC Vic uOotcoo'
The weekly hunt of the Riding and
Hunt Club will be held at Massachu-
sets avenue extended Saturday after
noon at o'clock. Following the hunt a
breakfast will be given by Mrs. Charles
Drayton in the club house, on P street
at Twenty-first street
At meeting of the officers Of the
Riding and Hunt Club this week, Mrs.
Frank M. Andrews, daughter of Gen.
Henry T. Allen, and Mr.. Charles Dray-
ton and Maj. William Grimes were
added to the board Of governors Of the
club
Maj. Harry T. Leonard and Mr.. l..
Perry West, two of the executives of the
club, are attending the Association Of
American Horse Shows, which is being
held in New York this week.
Among the debutantes who will take
part in the Soiree internationale In the
Carlton Wednesday, to be given under
the auspices of the Colonial Danes Of
America, will be Miss Ellis BoStrom,
Miss Vittoria Catalani, Miss Elsie Eken-
gren, Miss Laura Wolcott Tuckerman,
Miss Caroline Roebling, Miss Mary
Henry. Miss Janet Ball, Miss Betty
Thorpe. Miss Clara Lutz Boiling,
Baroness Ungern Sternberg. Miss Jane
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McHarg, Miss Isabel Lamberton. Miss
Mary Parrish Bradley, Miss Katherine
Dunlop, Miss Elvira johnson and Miss
Barbara Wright. daughter Of Mrs. Ham,
ilton Wright.
Mrs. Joseph e. washington is director
for the District of Columbia for Robert
E. Lee Memorial Foundation, which will
give a subscription dinner Tuesday.
February 4, in the Willard, with q view
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Army and Navy League Gives
Recention and Gard PARTY Tonight

Army and Navy League Gives
Reception and Card Party Tonight.
The reception committee for the
Army and Navy League reception which
will take place tonight at 2400 Sixteenth
street, at 8:15 o'clock, will consist of
Mrs. Charles P. Summerall, Mrs. Charles
Mrs. Merritte w. ireland. Mrs. Herbert
o. Crosby and Mrs. William M. Con-
nor.
Among those who have taken tables
for the card party are Mrs. Henry L..
Stimson, Mrs. Charles Francis Adams.
Mrs. j. Mayhem Wainwright. Gen. Wen
dell C. Neville, Mrs. William r. Merriam,
Mrs. Joseph Letter, Mrs. Henry F. Dimock,
Mrs. John T. Myers, Mrs. Hugh Rod
liam D. Kilduff, Mrs. Joseph CASTOR,
Mrs. Ray Spear, Mrs Rush wallace,
Mrs. H. S. Gilmore. Mrs. L. D. Gasser,
Mrs. H. H. Barton, Mrs. Carey D. Lang
horne, Mr.. Duff, Mrs. Allan Buchanan,
Mrs. R. w. Morse, Miss Sarah Munroe,
Mrs. Kregar and Mrs. H. A. Dunn.
Mrs. Edwin st. John Greble Is in
charge of arrangements.
"Women in Public Life" will be the
subject of a talk to be given by Miss
Margaret Baxter, London clubwoman
and lecturer, at the forum luncheon
Saturday at / o'clock in the Women's
City Club at % Jackson place. Miss
May Baxter, a sister, will also be a
guest Of honor. Miss May Baxter was
matron of Coulter Hospital in London,
which was founded by Mrs. John Mock
of Washington. Mrs. Lyman B. SWORN
stedt will preside and Mrs. Laura A.
Bradley. who arranged the luncheon,
will be hostess. Among those making
reservations are Mrs. John Mock, Mrs.
John James Walsh, Miss Myrtle Bum,
Mrs. Ethel George Harris, Mrs. Robert
Bates, Miss Catherine l.. Vaux, Mrs.
Gladys Ball Middlemiss. Mrs. Charles
Wilcox, Miss Elaine Eppley. Mrs. Mil
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Mr. and Mrs. D. Darrell Jeffries Of
Greenwich. Conn, are at the Willard
for an indefinite stay.
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G. worthington. MFR. and Mrs. Claude
s. Watts, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilton J. Lam
Mrs. Albert Nicholas Baggs, Miss Nellie
Grant Ross and Mime. Jean Labat.
Among the pleasant events of the
IN0ntinIied IN Fourth pa0eO
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dred M. Nea, Mrs. M. II. Laws, Mrs
Caroline B. Stephen, Mrs. Elizabeth r.
King. Miss Alice Terrell. Mrs. Pauline
E. Everhart, Mrs. c. e. Cooke, Mrs
Albert Manly, Miss Virginia S. Ben
Stewart.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-09

The Sigma Tau Lambda Fraternity
will give a dance tomorrow evening in
the Hotel Roosevelt Mr.. Gordon Polta
is chairman Of the committee on ar
rangements.
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in Florida, where Mr.. Dave has been
doing constructive work for the State
for i've years.
Evening star., 1930-05-21
Mr.. Roberts Confirmation.

With almost precedent-establich
speed in the case of nomination of
such importance the Senate yesterday
confirmed without dissenting vote the
appointment of Owen j. Roberts OF
Pennsylvania to the Supreme Court
bench. Thus ends the period of distress
for President Hoover which set in with
the ill-starred nomination of Judge
Parker and eventuated in its rejection.
Once again our Federal tribunal Of
highest resort is equipped with its full
quota of nine members.
Apart from the signal tribute to his
excellence, Justice Roberts prompt con-
firmation carries lesson which will
hardly be overlooked at the White House
or by the country. That lesson is that
had the Parker nomination been that Of
man of unquestionable eminence there
is small question that it would have
prevailed. The North Carolinian, de-
spite qualities which even some of his
foes conceded him, could not overcome
the handicap of failing to measure up
to that outstanding stature in the law
which Americans traditionally associate
with the Supreme Court. Chief Justice
Hughes personified perhaps in far great
er degree the rights of property as
against so-called human rights. But Mr..
Hughes lowered to such heights in the
legal profession and had so unassail-
able a record for -mindedness and
acumen that opposition accusations fell
short Of establishing his un-
fitness to head the court.
Justice Roberts goes worthily to the
Supreme bench. He will adorn it. The
predominance of the North" in its
new makeup happily had no influence
on Southern sentiment in the Senate.
1t is a reassuring token that Dixie
knows no sectionalism in tribunal
truly national in its scope and purpose
regardless of geographical factors in its