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The Washington times., 1930-12-13
I TRADE ENTERS
CHRISTMAS
CYCLE
Frightening Of Outlook Seen
For Next Few Weeks; See
Future Prospect Obscure

With the end of the year little
more than a fortnight distant
business here reflects the charac'
teristics which are common to
the holiday season.
Several important factors have
changed the situation from the
conditions Of settled times, but
on the surface movements are the
same that always appear at
Christmas time. Holiday shop
ping and relaxing industrial ac-
tivities are familiar phases toward
the end of December and the
main attention of those con-
cerned lies in the future Of gen.
eral tpade.
Prospects Underlined
Prospects are underlined in
many instances, although weekly
trade reviews say that in some
quarters signs of SteadineSs are
apparent. Commodity prices re-
main unsettled and the general
outlook for commercial enterprise
is obscure.
The next few weeks, brokers and
business men here agree, will be
very important in the economic
situation of the country. They
believe that definite trend will
be established in this period and
point to every sign as one in
which an upward development is
indicated.
Opinions Split
Others connected with the finan-
cial and economic situation
however, believe that the depres-
sion will remain at the present
level for some time before an up-
swing is started. However. both
sides admit that anything can
happen now"
r. Weir Waters, assistant
cashier of the Takoma Park
Bank for the past six years, has
been named cashier of the insti-
tuition. He will fill the post left
vacant by the death of w. Pres
ton Gibson, who served as cashier
from the time of formation.
Mr.. Waters joined the Takoma
Bank in 1922, coming there from
Upperville, Va, where he was
cashier of a banking organize
ton there. He entered the
service of the Takoma institu-
ton as note teller. Some time
previous he served eight years as
cashier of the Culpeper Va0
Bank.
Paul E. Keller, well-known in
Washington financial circles, has
joined the firm of Fenner and
Beane, where he will serve as
customers man, it was an
nounced by the firm today.
Mr.. Keller was formerly con-
nected with the firm of Harri-
man and Company and has since
been affiliated with Prince and
Whitley.
Stock of the Federal-American
National Bank and Trust Com
pany has made its appearance on
the Washington Stock Exchange.
The old Federal-American Ma
tional Bank stock and the Mer-
chants Bank and Trust Company
stock were stricken from the
list. This is the final step in the
merger Of the two institutions.
The Washington times., 1930-12-13
RALLY WAITS.
BUSINESS
CHANGE
Action of Stocks in YeSter-
days Market Leads Expert
to Advise Caution in Buys
BY THE SPECTATOR

A sudden sinking spell in
the closing half hour Of
yesterdays session broke
through the last vestige OF
support which had been set
up earlier in the day, and
the averages Of industrials,
rails, and composite stocks
were forced to new lows for
the year.
The heavy furry Of sell
ing was in large part unex-
plainable, and therefore Gre
ated the greater apprehen-
sion, inasmuch as offerings
of the best grade issues
such as U. s. Steel, Ameri-
can Telephone. General Elec-
trio, and the like were par
ticularly in evidence at their
low levels Of the day.
The Washington times., 1930-12-13
See Sales Climax

There are a number Of sources
which are not altogether dis
turbed by the failure Of the mar
ket to make headway on Friday.
These quarters hold to the opinion
that Thursdays decline consti-
tuted a selling climax, and they
further point out that following
such selling climaxes Of the past
six months, stocks have usually
heSitated for two or three ses.
SionS at around their lows before
staging a rally Of any consider
able proportions.
This was true on November II
and IL, following the climax Of
November 10, as well as in the
week following the October 10
climax, in the three days follow
ing the August climax, and in
the five days following the June
ID climax. If recent market
history repeats itself this time,
stocks will not stage a rally of
any large proportions for several
days.
The Washington times., 1930-12-13
Chain Stores Grow

An extensive survey by an
investment service of chain store
stocks draws the conclusion that
chains have, for the most part,
good possibilities of further con-
siderable growth over period of
years, although this expansion
will continue henceforth at a
slower pace than it has in the
past decade. The mail order
chains and some of the 5 and 10
cent chains in particular appear
to be facing period of at least
a year or two of consolidation
before they can think of making
profitable new inroads into the
field of independent retailers.
The Washington times., 1930-12-13
McKeesDOrt Tin Gets
Fisher Can CO. Plant

Metal Package Co. suosidic ry
Of McKeesport Tinplate Co., to-
day acquired the Fisher Can Co.,
of Hamilton. Ohio. manufac-
taasagg Of syrup cans.
The Washington times., 1930-12-13
The Future Trend

It is hardly necessary to point
out that the course Of prices dur
ing today's abbreviated session
may determine the immediate
future trend of stocks. II sup
port is again given to the pivotal
leaders around their former lows
for the year, it is very probable
that bullish traders will take new
heart and make more determined
efforts to run the shorts to cover.
On the other hand, if such buy.
ing is not forthcoming, a decline
Of serious proportions is not
without the realms of possibility.
The Washington times., 1930-12-13

Bid Ask
Title Insurance stocks
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Real Estate .........s.....ll 100 llU
Title Inv Co Md com. .... 20 80
Miscellaneous Stocks
Barber & Ross Inc. Conn., Il l5A
Col Medical Bldg Corp. ....1O0 l2S
Col Sand & Grav pfd. ....... so 50
D C Paper Mfg pfd. ........ 10 49,"
Dist National Sec pfd. ...... 6S 20
SEmer Bromo SELF "A"..... 80 u
Federal Storage Pfd ......ll0 lSO
Fed-Am Co com...,........ 29A 81
Fed-Am Co pfd 9S12 1902
Lanston Monotyp4 .........IlO0 llu4
Mer Tr Stge Com. .l07 3ll2
Mer Tr & Stge pfd ....... 95 100
'~~j' Ttra'~r Tao ...... S5iI SO
atl Mtge & Inv pfd, ,...... 5is 5h
peoples Drug Stores pfd 97R 100
Real Est NJ & G Pfd ... ia
Security Storage. .Ilo9 ll2
Ter Ref & VIII Corp..... - SO,
The Carpet Corp ........ - Th
w Mech Mtge com. ......... Sht t....S
Wash Med Bldg Corp -. 30 ::.YS
wdwd & LothrOp Pfd ....,.n0S lllS
SEx-dividend.
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Culion Island as cured within the past four
years. But Diki-dikds case was too far ed
vanced.
He was allowed to return to his people TO
bid them good-by before he was taken to
Culion, but his dread Of the disease wore him
down, and shortly after he arrived In Ubian
he caught pneumonia and died, the last Of his
line.
ME second ruler you may not respect very
highly you judged solely by his rather
informal attire, In the accompanying photo
graph OF the king and his wife. King Lucas
Of the Negritos" seems q wrinkled. barefooted
specimen TO be Q real ruler but he has the
power Of life and death over the members OF
the primitive tribe who call him their supreme
chief.
The Negrito shares with the Australian bush
man the honor OF being the worlds most
backward human. Most of them have no fixed
habitations, but wander through the forests
digging out roots and catching small animals,
roosttng at night In the trees.
The tribe Of King Lucas was 50 fortunate
as to live near the United States Army camp
at StotSenburg. During the American occupa-
ton, period Of almost 80 years, these natives
have been gradually trained to grow crops and
adopt some Of the artif1cialities of a more adj
vanced civilization.
The American officers welcomed King Lucas
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with open arms. In recognition Of his faith
fulnesS to the United States. he was made
colonel Of the Balugas In 1921 by Brig. Gen.
Charles g. Treat, q. 8. A., commander OF
Camp Stotsenburg. In 1922 Lucas was dubbed
"Brigadier General" and he was ofncially made
king in 1928 by Brig Gen. johnson Hagood.
Gen. Hagood on March AZ, 1924, decorated
King Lucas with "Lorder du Cheval Mort"
and "Chevalier du Foret," and on December II,
1924, Col. Cavanagh, q. 8. A., awarded him the
"Seagirt 1905" medal. King Lucas also pos
Sesses q scroll saying that on November II,
1918, he was given citation "Du Roi Res
Negritos" by none other q parsonage than
Marshal de France Lafayette.
WITH all this, Lucas is friendly fellow.
and Is always willing to discuss the DIFF
ferences in custom and ideas between the
strange Americans and his own people. But
steer clear Of his dinner Invitations, for on
special occasions the main course that so de-
lights the palate Of his people is dead mule
donated by the Army.
King Lucas greatest experience was In 1924.
when he was taken on an airplane ride with
Gov.-Gen. Wood as another passenger. Camp
Stotsenburg is an Army airport and a dozen
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planes swooping through the air are no unusual
sight to the Negrito.
King Lucas Is gentle ruler, despite his au-
thority. The maximum punishment he i'm
poses Is q $50 fine in case Of murder. This u
practically the only crime among the Negritos,
as private property is unknown. He Is priest.
doctor. judge and ruler OF his people. and
enjoys his job.
FLOR NTRENCHERADO, one-time Emperor
Of the Philippines" by his personal mag
netism and leadership was able to sway the
ignorant masses and bring about q revolt In
the rich sugar province Of Occidental Negroes.
For a day, bolo-armed, barefooted mobs held
the richest towns OF the province, before trained
constabulary could be brought to the scene and
use their high-power rides to force Emperor
1ntrencherados men to retire.
Intrencherado began as Q common or garden
variety Of prophet such as flourish among the
ignorant and superstitious masses In the Philip
pines. Somewhere he had read or heard of
Roman history, and intended TO follow the
footsteps of Numa Pompiius, successor to
Romulus, who, according to the half fabulous
half-historical accounts Of the early Roman
empire put the growing nation on its feet after
being unanimously elected king by the Roman
people.
"As in the time Of the early Roman en-
pre-" 1ntrencherado announced in his plat
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Here Are the Intimate Stories o Trio of
MonarrhS Who We're Permitted to Keep
Title and C1o10n, although No Royaltyb
Recognised Under the United States Flag.

my army is twice as big as Kirims," Diki-
did told an American Government agent who
came from Zanboanga on the report that there
might be trouble in this section of his district
land II that fellow doesn't stay away from
Princess Ajaratol am going to kill him."
The American of6cia1 managed to talk both
parties out Of open war, and persuaded the de-
feated rival that in this twentieth century the
ladies had to be permitted to say whom they
wanted and when, and that, speaking from
experience, married life was not so romantic
and generally DESTROYS rs Hiram might have
imagined.
The rival ousted, Diki-diki went to work in
earnest. He found the lady willing to con-
verse with him and enjoy outings in the royal
yacht but she put him OF when he, with pro-
testations Of love, asked her to reign with him
on North Uniian happily forevermore.
Diki-dih became so insistent that at last she
turned him down with a fiat no" The little
sutton. heartbroken, wept in his palace for o
week, and then, ON the advice of his prime
minister, called consultation of the neighbor-
ing chiefs. They liked the little fellow. and
besides, his island was one Of the most promi-
nent in the group. and with his title of Pang-
lima, his friendship with the Americans and
his pugnacious spirit he had quite position
OF authority.
THEY agreed 70 60 to Princess Ajaratol and
use their combined power Of persuasion on
the unwMIing bride. Two days and nights Of
hattery and argument and pleadings finally
won the miss over, and she agreed to marry
Dtki-dtk.
The two were welded in Jalo by the leading
priest Of the Sultan Of Sulu, and Kiram, the
defeated rival, recovered sufficiently from his
sullks to act O. best man.
Dfki-diki and his bride did not enjoy their
welded life very long. The time came when he
was sent to be examined by specialists, m
Manila, and they found that he had the dread
disease, leprosy. and that life for him was but
q matter Of Q few years.
LeproSy can be cured today, because Of the
efforts Of Gov. Gen. Wood during hts admin
istration, and more than 900 patients have
been released from the Government hospital on
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ME constabulary we're on the scene by night,
but four offlcialS in the province were
killed and q number Of Intrencherado's men
were shot down before, with their emperor"
they retreated across the strait of Guimaras
and, armed with daggers and bolos-the Fill
Pine hunting and working knife-flocked to
the nipa and bamboo headquarters of the
emperor, near the town Of Lloilo, swearing to
die rather than permit his surrender to the
authorities. Intrencherados loyal following
was ut least $4,000 fanatics, and the situation
was critical.
larry and the small United States Army de-
tachment In the Philippines could have forced
the surrender with dif1culty and hundreds Of
ignorant natives would have been killed
Gov-Gen. Wood rushed down to Iloilo in his
little yacht. the Apo, and succeeded in having
negotiations. After breakfaSting with the chief
executive, and . good heart-to-heart talk, In
trencheradO agreed to surrender disband his
followers and leave for Manila And so he did
Gradually the forces Of superstition disn-
tegrated, with the old man in San Lazaro,
where he was put because it was too dangerous,
because Of all those credulous followers to
prosecute their emperor for sedition. Under
the public health rules Intrencherado was
quietly restrained while his followers were
given o chance to calm down.
Intrencherado early in 1924 had predicted
the end Of the world to take place on Feb
ruary A.. 1929. There was o revival Of excite
ment In Occidental Negros and Iloilo provinces
before this date, when, according to the prophet,
"the winds will blow at speed Of 1850 miles
an hour and whatever objects they blow on,
be it Of stone or iron, all will be blown to
pieces"
When the fatal day passed, with nothing out
Of the ordinary occurring, faith in Intrench-
erado began to weaken.
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FORM" "there viii be no troubles. there will be
peace, there win be no punishments: win do
nine times better than Numa did"
WHAT really drew the masses to follow him.
w however, was not his grandiloQuent
speeches on the glories Of Rome, but q promise
to reduce the unpopular headtax or cedula from
81 to only 10 cents, and his plans for q gigantic
army composed Of officers, with places for all
his friends.
He had his paper army drawn up to the
minutest detail. There were to be:
Six kings, % counts, last generals, 2534
brigadiers, 6,O68 colonies, 1876 majors, 2O272
captains, 1854 neutenants, 81 008 SergeantS,
162.77s corporals. 275.l99 privates.
The combined salaries Of all these men were
TO be in excess Of $135, 900 900 annually.
Intrencherado. at FIRST, was thought to be q
harmless maniac peddling his "Book of SAL
walton" in which he outlined his plans for five
centavos . copy, but one day town officials Of
Occidental Negroes woke up and found them
selves in the grip Of barefoot army that had
quietly gathered the night before. The town
police were helpless
Intrencherado's commands to his men were
first to take charge of the government and then
to take possession of the Chinese stores. Retail
business In the Philippines is monopoly of the
Chinese, and they are thought of by the
natives as the repository Of wealth. An in
ventory Of the stores was to be made; one
third Of the goods and money was to be
given to Intrencherado, one-third to the leaders
and one-third to the soldiers of Intrencherados
army.
For the most part the army" was orderly.
At La Castelana, three Spanish plantation
owners were tied to posts and logged The
policemen on duty were captured by throwing
sand In their faces and then tying them up
Only In Bago of the larger towns assaulted,
were the insurgents unsuccessful. Here the
ma fT9utt aA NfA fvavRa a.
the municipal buildings and the jail before
taking over the government After herding
them inside the jail, he slipped out and locked
the people inside.
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pines. They were not very power
full, except over a limited area but
each had distinguishing marks that
set him out from the common herd. Knowing
peculiar personalities such as these Is one OF
the rather doubtful rewards which come to
those whose livelihood takes them among
strange peoples.
The first was q king indeed over little
island in the northern Sulu Archipelago, though
he was but three feet two inches in height.
His death, not long ago. extinguished his line,
as he was childleSS. The second Is the Negrito
chief of a tribe near the United States Army
post of Camp Stotsenbwg. The third, EN-
peror of the Philippines" was recently liberated
from the San Lazaro Asylum, in Manila, but
his followers held for q day the richest prov
ince in the Philippines. and their fanatical de-
votion to their emperor" presented one of the
most knotty problems that faced the latter
months of the administration of the late Gov.
Gen. Wood Of the Philippines.
The dwarf king, Panglima Diki-dili, was
hereditary ruler Of the island OF North Ubian.
Hunt up q detail map Of the Philippines and
YOU win be able to find it. The Moro people OF
his island. full-grown and Unsuitable warriors
they are swore allegiance to him instead Of to
President Hoover principally because the great
chief 10000 miles across the waters was totally
unknown to them
So long as they kept reasonable order among
themselves, the American Government agents
Sulu have never bothered the people Of this
NttIe island Gen. PerShing, who served Tor
eight years among the MoroS Of Mindanao and
SuIu said that the Moros Of North Ubtan and
surrounding lands were "the most stubborn
and persistently rebellious people under the
American flag"
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BY HIRAM MERRTMAN.

vNDER the flag Of the republic, three
kings have held sway in the Philip
pines. They were not very power
full, except over a limited area, but
each had DISTINGUISHING marks that
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ZEN PERSHING'S statement was quite some
~ praise, and set them apart Is fighters Of
the first order. for our American troops In the
early years of this century found tough going
IN their pacifcation Of the Mohammedan peo-
DIe in Mindanao, In the Southern Ph11pplneS
They were fond of fighting had been warning
for centuries with each other and with OUT
Siders whom they disliked, and 1t took ten years
before the MoroS turned in their arms and,
with occasional outbreaks to jar the monotony
settled down to the humdrum pursuits OF peace.
Men such as Wood, Pershing, Tasker II.
Bliss Robert L. Billiard and many others led
their troops against hordes Of fanatics, and not
a few American boys in khaki saw the sun for
the last time just before Moro brave with
his keen blade put an end to their existence.
Even today in Lanao Province nearby, young
American constabulary MeutenantS are keeping
the peace on Americas last frontier, where the
restless MoroS occasionally break out against
the Government In their isolated posts, these
Americans mete out justice to fierce, alien
and proud people, and If need be, go out pistol
Ia hand and fight face-to-face with recalci-
trants. That is tale which should be told.
But rebelliously inclined or not. Panglima
Diki-diki with all the dignity of his feet
inches kept his followers swearing loyalty TO
him and at the same time because OF his
friendship with three four American COVER
nOrS and Army men in Mindanao made his
little kingdom a place OF peace and OF little
trouble to the Government administrators.
On the whole he ruled with an indulgent
hand asking only that he be acknowledged
by his followers as Number One, that his
modest bamboo palace" be kept in repair and
that his royal yacht always be ready with Its
full complement Of sailors. The yacht" was
q 20-foot Moro vinta or sailboat, and its crew
numbered four, all barefoot MoroS, but each
one Of them, don't forget, carrying in his
'waistband a wavy-edged murderous kris, or
war knife.
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DIKI-DIKI lived bachelor until he was SO.
- Then the springs Of youthful love bsgan
to run through him and he cast about for
lady-love He found an enamorata In the per-
son of Ajaratol Q dwarf princess appropriately
a trihe shorter than he, living on an island not
so far away.
The first obstacle in DiIi-dikis path was
rival the diminutive ruler Of South Ubian, Ma
harajah Kiram feet inches in height Hiram
had been counting the coy princess for almost
D year before Diki-did appeared on the scene.
1Ank the 50-year- Panglima with his knowl-
edge of the world went to battle with 80 much
energy that Hiram was soon placed in the dis
card. and retired to South Ubian disgruntled
and privately breathing words Of defiance as
TO what he was going to do to Diki-diki.
1t looked for while as though war might
be declared between the people Of the two
Ubian islands, as wars have been waged before
for hand of lady fair. Kirams counselors
pointed out to him, however, certain advan-
tages In Diki-dikis favor, one being that the
latter was Panglima, q civil title correspond
ing to general In military life, while Maharajah
in the Moro Blue Book is only mere colonel.
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tion."
Continuing the Independent reads
Mr.. Harris and his chorts a lesson,
saying:
"The Democrats did every thing
they could to disgust the American
people by unreasonably trying to in
crease every emergency appropriation
to the point of righteousness in order
to give the Republican Party bad
name"
"The Democratic Party is a party
of unfair criticism and fault-finding
and never have an idea, or remedy to
cure the evil it complains of. It dis
sipates it's energy and destroys its
usefulness in futile efforts to keep
the Republican Party from legislating
for the relief Of all people. The
dominant idea of the Democratic
Party is, "We don't know how to dc
it ourselves and you shall not do it."
This policy of destruction and obstruc'
ton has characterized the Democratic
Party since tbs organization; and will
ket it negative quantity in the poll
tical affairs of the nation for the
next fifty years, as it has done for
the last sixty years. "
N. A. A. G. p. UR0Eo THEM 10
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