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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-18
BREAD PRICE PROBE
REPORT APPROVED
Senate District Committee to
Give Resolution to Senate
in Few Days.

The Capper resolution for an investi-
CATION of bread prices in Washington
will be reported favorably to the Senate
within the next few days, the District
Committee having approved it yeSter-
day afternoon after brief preliminary
discussion of the question. Further de-
Velopments in committee will await the
SenateS action on the resolution.
In bringing up the question, Senator
Capper told his colleagues he had re-
ceived a number of letters from citizens
complaining that while wheat and flour
had gone down, there had been pract1-
cally no reduction in the price of bread.
He then outlined the price data he COL
lected IN preliminary study before
drafting the resolution for an inquiry.
Cost Factors Cited.
L. A. Spiess, attorney for the Employ
ing Bakers Association. discussed the
problem briefly with committee men,
bers, pointing out that labor costs, dis
tribution costs and the individual VOL
ume of business of each concern are
factors to be considered, aside from the
price of wheat, in passing on bread
prices.
Mr.. Spices explained he was not there
on the defensive, but came by request
of US" He suggested that the commit
tee indicate what it wants the bakers
to present.
The committee did not go into de-
tails in advance of Senate action on
the resolution, but members discussed
the matter generally with Mr.. Spiess
before the meeting adjourned.
Senator Cappar said one of the COM
plants he wanted to find out about was
Sc k.o1S ,,ef SSn Al
country. Mr.. SpiesS replied that there
is too much competition in the baking
industry ever to have monopoly. Mr..
Spiess added that sit can't be done"
Will Provide Food.
Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New
York, said he understood a bakery gets
about 81 loaves of bread from bushel
of wheat, and that, therefore, it would
seem there would have to be decline
of 81 cents a bushel in the price Of
wheat to justify a 1-cent reduction in
loaf of bread The Senator said it
was quite understandable that "the pub
lie cannot understand why the price OF
bread should be the same when wheat
goes down. The Senator said there
are other elements to be determined. He
favored the resolution.
MIR. Spiess told the committee that
the baking concerns he represents are
fully alive to the distress situation and
are on record to the effect that If there
are any families out of employment,
they would be provided with bread.
I'VE don't expect any one to go with
out food II we can aid them" he added.
George M Roberts, superintendent OF
weights and measures, explained to the
committee the law here regulating the
weight of bread.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-18
CITRUS CROP SALES
LARGER IN FLORIDA
Orange, Grapefruit and Other
Products to Bring State Between
$45,oOO,OOo and 100000, 900.
~ the Associated Press

~ the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, December 10.
--Florida's citrus crop is pouring into
the markets of the Nation and gold to
the amount of quarter of million
dollars a day is coming back into the
State.
The State Marketing Bureau esti-
mated today that one-third Of the crop
has gone TO market and that the Florida
citrus industry has received between
S15,000,000 and $20000,oo0 in return.
The entire 1880 crop will return be-
tween S45, GOO, 900 and $50, 1000, 900.
Oranges lead with daily movement
estimated at $50 cars and a total
through last Sunday of 1859 cars. Only
4,453 cars of oranges had been shipped
TO the same date last year.
Mixed citrus is moving at the rate Of
$50 cars daily, grapefruit, 90 cars daily,
and tangerines 40 cars daily. Figures
show that 6,376 cars of grapefruit had
been shipped through last Sunday in
comparison with 4,984 cars last season,
while l,l63 cars of tangerines had
been moved against 420 last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-18
CHANGING CONDITIONS
BLAMED BY DR.. WI
Chinese Minister Also Says Disobe-
dience of Foreigners Has Caused
Marking Trouble.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, December 18.-Failure
Of missionaries and other foreign ma
tionals to heed warnings of impending
danger, DR.. Chao Chu WI, Chinese
Minister to the United States. said in
an address here yesterday, has placed
the Chinese government in embarrass-
ing positions several times because Of
kidnapings.
The Marking government, DR.. WI
said, has done its utmost to preserve
order in the midst of the banditry that
has accompanied chaotic economic and
social changes.
He blamed the transition from civil
ization centuries old TO one affected by
Western ideas for the upheavals of
recent years. The family, DR.. WI said,
Is disappearing as the social unit, being
Supplanted by the individual.
Half the members Of the present min
istry hold American university degrees
and the head of the judiciary is a
graduate of Yale, he pointed out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-18
CANADIAN PACIFIC BUYS
CONTROL OF MAINE LINE

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Me, December 1S.-The
Press Herald says in a dispatch from
Caribou that the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way has acquired control of the Aroos-
took Valley Railroad through the pur-
chase of a majority of the stock held
by United States Senator Arthur r.
Gould Of Presque Isle.
The information, the paper says,
came from Judson c. Briggs of Caribou,
representing the Maine Senator in the
transaction, which involved the trans
fer Of some 1000 shares at price Of
$533,0o0.
The line, operating 80 miles of track
in Aroostook County. is an electric road
used extensively as a feeder line for the
freighting Of potatoes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-18
DEATH HELD ACCIDENTAL
Wealthy Retired Connecticut Ply
stefan Is Bullet Victim.

POMFRET. Conn. December 10 CP).
A verdict Of acciden-- death was given
last night by officials following the ind
ing of the body of DR.. r. @. Good
bridge, So, retired wealthy physician,
yesterday with a bullet through the
heart.
The body was found in a thicket on
the physicians Abingdon estate. His
rife. with one discharged shell. was
found at his side.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-18
White Leghorns

Every egg carefully candled be-
fore shipment to stores. They are
not strictly fresh, but we stand
behind every one as to their eat
ing and cooking qualities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-28
HELD ON CHARGE
OF R0BBING STORES
Former Resident of Manassas Ar.
rested in Arlington County
This Morning.

william Keys, alias Johnson, 20 years
old, former resident of Manassas Va.
who says he married a Manassas widow
with three children in Rockville Md
week ago, was arrested near, Wilson
Boulevard and Villa road, Arlington
County, Va, about O'Clock yesterday
morning and held on q charge Of house
breaking.
w E. Thompson, special trafiic off,
Ger in the county, made the arrest and,
with the aid Of Deputy Sheriff H. L.
woodward Is reported to have obtained
q confession from the prisoner that he
recently robbed chain store on Lee
Highway, Park Lane.
1t was because of numerous store
robberies in the county that the special
traffic officer has made early morning
trips about the county in an effort to
solve the robberieS, and yesterday morn
ing he reported finding Keys near a
store with a rock wrapped in paper,
as If ready to smash a window.
Following the arrest and alleged con-
fession of Keys, the special traffic Of
flcer and deputy sheriff visited the
prisoners home in the 1900 block of Wis
consin avenue, Washington, finding his
wife and her three children there and,
they reported, recovering alleged stolen
goods.
The prisoner was brought to police
headquarters later in the day to be
measured and f1ngerprinted, and his nm
gerprintS will be compared with prints
found on windows OF stores recently
robbed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-28
BUCHANAN TEAM
LEADING IN MEET
Scores Ten Points-Georgetown
Playground Second, Rose.
dale Third.

With five events completed, Buchanan
Playground team, with 10 points, was
leading in the annual girls city cham
pionship track meet of the Municipal
Playground Department. being held to-
day on the Plaza Field. Georgetown,
with points, was second and Rosedale,
which won the meet last year and year
before, was third with points,
Points scored in the unlimited class
were not being counted.
The summaries:
Goal throwing for accuracy, unlimited
class-Won by Zabeth Miller Mont
rose); second, Becky Goldstein (Plaza1s
lips. The winner made z out Of Ia
shots
Base ball throw for accuracy, 115-
pound class-Won by d. Sweeney CBu-
chanan); second. A. wilmer (George-
town.; third, M. Thompson (Ray-
mond). Winning throw within inches
of circle.
Basket ball throw for distance, 100.
pound class - Won by Mildred Hook
(RoSedale); second. Sarah Curtin Ben
ning); third, Kathrine Hutchins (Fill4
more. Distance, 681s feet.
Forty-yard dash, 70-pound class -
Won by Agnes Folin (Georgetown);
second, Mildred Hodgkins (PlaZali
third, Antoinette Pilla Park View.
Time, seconds.
Fifty-yard dash, s5-pound class -
Won by May Nally (Buchanan); Sec
ond, Anna O'Connor New York Ave-
nue); third, Betty Moore (Brightwoodl.
Time, 2-5 seconds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-28
COUNTY OFFICIALS REPLY
Demurrers to MObIey Suit Deny Plaintin
Relief in Equity.

ROCKVILLE. Md, August % (Spe-
ciar The county commissioners ana
j Forest walker, county treasurer,
through Attorney Joseph Q. Cissel, 70.
dav fled demurrers IN the circuit
Court here to the amended declaration
in the suit recently instituted against
them by walter w. Mobley, prominent
farmer and dairyman of Derwood, this
county.
Mobley seeks to have the defendant
account to the court for all moneys PAID
on behalf OF the county TO the Mary
land Publishing Co. of Silver Spring for
county advertising and other printing
during the time members OF the Board
of County Commissioners were directors
or stockholders in the Silver Spring
company and up to the time they re-
signed as directors and relinqulsheo
their stock and to require the commits
sioners individually to restore TO the
county treasury the money so palo, es-
tirnated at around $4,000.
The demurrer on behalf OF the COM
r1issioners holds that even II the state
ments contained in the declaration are
true. the plaintiff has no relief In equity.
and so far as County Treasurer Walker
is concerned. it is contended that he Is
purely an administered ofhcer and paid
the money upon the order of the COM
irnissioners, he is not properly de-
PENDANT.
Judge Robert 3. Peter is expected to
fix an early date for hearing arguments
on the demurrers and should the de-
r1urrers be oVerruled time would then
be set for hearing the case on its
merits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-28
ACCOUNTING DEFENDANT
ASKS SUIT DISMISSAL

vasil Mackey, president of the. Vasil
Steam System Co. and one of the de-
PENDANTS in suit for an accounting
and receiver recently filed in the Dis
trict Supreme Court by John Brolmas
and nine other Greeks, today asked the
District Supreme Court to dismiss the
proceeding.
Through Attorneys Charles v. Inlay
and George @. McLeish, Mackey charges
that the allegations of the bill OF COM
plant are too vague, indefinite and I'M
certain to be entertained by the court.
He declares the bill contains no allega-
ton Of fraud, nothing to show that the
Vasil Steam System CO. has any earn
ings, or that the defendants have re-
ceived any earnings from the company,
and no charge of wa ting or diminish
ing OF assets, or that the company is
not being properly managed.
Notice has been served on Attorney
Calman Mayer for the plaintiffs that
the application for the dismissal will be
presented to the court october 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-28
FREED OF MURDER
WOMAN IS SLAIN
Third Husband Shoots Her
and Then Commits
Suicide.
Ry one Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 28.-Acquitted
two years ago of the Staying of her sec
ond husband, Mrs. Frances Kirkwood
Van Cliff, "a years old, was shot and
killed last night by her third husband,
Eugene Van Cliff, who then committed
suicide.
This was the theory of police based on
O note found after the two bodies were
discovered in q Brooklyn rooming house.
The note, addressed to Ida Van Cliff,
daughter by previous marriage,
read
Please forgive me for what I have
done. 1t is the best way out. Your dad,
Eugene"
The note was found in a furnished
room hired by Van Cliff.
Police learned Van Cliff, who married
Mrs. Kirkwood year ago, recently had
met financial reverses in a roadside
stand he conducted. Prior to discovery
lieve the woman shot the man and then
took her own life. A pistol frcm which
four shots had been fired WIS found
near her hand.
She had a bullet wound in her right
temple Van Cliff was shot in the breast
and his temple had been grazed by a
bullet.
The woman's second husband, DR..
Glenn Kirkwood, veterinarian was
stabbed to death In their home In
Queens At her trial on charge of
mAnslaughter she said the veterinarian
was killed accidentally in the struggle
for the weapon with which she intended
to commit suicide.
Her first husband was John A. Me-
Avoy, A textile designer. whom she d.
vorced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-28
PREFECT OF TACNA KILLED.

BUENOS AIRES, August 20 (P).-An
africa dispatch to La Nacion said yes
terday that the project of Tacna was
killed when he refused to lineup with
the southern military tllnta which be-
gan the Peruvian revolt in Arequipa
last week.
He was shot by Comdr. Beytia,
Tacna officer who few to Arequipa and
placed himself under orders Of Lieut.
Col. Luis NJ Sanchez Cerro, chieftain
of the revolt.
Beytis returned yesterday in the
same plane, accompanied by Lieut.
Maldonado delegate of the Arequipa
junta. They were met at the Tacna
Airfield by Col. Ricardo Luna, project
of Tacna, and his aide, Lieut.. Vizcarra.
Comdr. Beytia presented credentials
from Sanchez Cerro and demanded de-
livery of the prefecture. Col Luna, in
dignant, shot and wounded Beytia, who
fired from the ground five times, kill
ing the project and wounding Vizcarra
In the arm. Both Beytia and Vizcarra
were operated on, with Beytia remain
ing in serious condition.
Capt. Alfredo Vargas Rojas is acting
as project of Tacna.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-28


cution Of the proprietors OF notorious
gaming establishment on the Bladens-
burg road. beyond the District of CO.
lumbia line. Mr.. Parran, States at
torney for Prince Georges County, has
assured the county commissioners of
the county that he will submit the
matter of the guilt of the men respon-
sible for this place to the county grand
jury when 1t meets in october next
In connection with the above, 1t has
been brought to my attention that GER
tain automobiles are engaged daily in
bringing patrons from the District of
Columbia to the gaming place in Mary
land, for hire, without hackers licenses
the method OF procedure being for the
proDrietors TO pay each week to GER
tain men, whose names are mentioned
in q copy OF letter to me, which /
inclose.
These parties hire a driver and the
drivers daily bring the patrons from
Washington from Pennsylvania avenue
and Seventh street. and ct night from
Seventh and F streets, as detailed in
the copy OF the letter to me. II the
plan indicated is followed, such action
Is, in my opinion, violation OF the
laws and regulations Of the District of
Columbia, by the owners and the driv-
ers of these automobiles.
Drivers Names as Yet Unvcrified.
II have had verified the names of
the owners of the automobiles, given
In the list furnished TO me, as shown
by the copies of letters from the dep
uty commissioner of motor vehicles of
Maryland, and the License Bureau OF
the District of Columbia, copies of
which inclose. have not as yet veri-
fied the names of the drivers of these
automobiles, nor the essential fact. as
to whether they are engaged in the
unlawful service stated. Your men
should have no trouble of aScertaining
the fact Of the names OF the drivers and
the fact Of the employment of the au-
tomobiles for hire, from the District OF
Columbia to Maryland, without proper
licenses.
Il am reliably informed that all of
these cars, or the drivers of them, car
ry pistols, which is clearly a violation
of the law Of the District of Columbia. ="
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-28
WARDMAN FINANCE
COMPANY PROBED
Stockholders in Mortgage and
Discount Concern May
Face Big Loss.

Acting on behalf of group Of Wash
ington stockholders of the Wardman
Mortgage and Discount Co., Oscar H.
Brinkman, q local attorney, Is investi-
eating the records of the concern Gin
an effort" he said, Ito see If there is
any possibility of them getting their
money back"
A large part Of the 10000 shares of
stock in the company, which was organ
lied in 1924 and is headed by Harry
Wardman, was purchased by residents
of this city. Brinkman said they paid
$125 a unit-being a preferred and q
share of common stock thrown in--and
the price Is now quoted at SIS No
dividends are being paid, he explained.
Holds Loss Is Large.
"On the basis of the present quota
ton of these units of stock" Brinkn1an
said, stockholders stand to lose S1l0
on each unit they possess"
Brinkman Is the official investigator
Of the Blaine Subcommittee of the
Senate District Committee which 1:
conducting an inquiry into the local
real estate situation. Although he had
to obtain permission from the Blaine
Subcommittee to undertake his if1vesti-
CATION into the records OF the Wardman
concern, the inquiry has nothing to dc
with the Senate investigation.
Was Cooperative Plan.
Mr.. Brinkman started his investiga
ton yesterday and continued today tc
study books of the Wardman Arm
permission to do this having beer
granted him nv Daniel Thew WRIGHT
Wardman's attorney.
The investigator explained that q
number of women are included in the
group of stockholders he is representing
Some of these, he said, had put then
entire life savings into the stock.
The firm, it was explained, was or
gani2ed as q cooperative proposition
for the purpose of financing other &C.
tiyities OF the Wardnar organization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-28
YOUNG IS PRAISED
ON QUITTING BOARD
Hoover and Mellon Express
Regrets That Reserve Bank
Head Is Leaving Post.

Roy A. Young, governor Of the Fed
eral Reserve Board, will leave the serv-
ice Of the Government September /. to
become governor of the Federal Reserve
Bank, at Boston, at q considerably in
creased salary.
His resignation after three years
service was attributed in a letter to
President Hoover, made public yester-
day, to the need of a higher-salaried
position in the private banking world.
His present post pays only $4,000 q
year, while the Boston governorship will
give him at least twice that amount.
Had Postponed Resignation.
Young told the President he had
postponed his resignation until the dis
turbed state of the country's credit con-
ditions had settled down.
Now" he said, at Is clearly evident
that the credit structure of the coun-
try Is in an easy and exceptionally
strong position"
In accepting the resignation, Presi-
dent Hoover combined with praise OF
his services statement that sue
cessor would be hard to find. This Sc
"
rotary Mellon paid high tribute to Mr..
Young in letter In which he said:
Praised by Mellon.
II regret extremely, not only from
the standpoint of the Federal Reserve
System, but from a personal one, that
you feel compelled to tender your resig-
nation as governor of the Federal Re-
serve Board. You have conducted the
very responsible duties Of your Office
with q high degree of skill, sometimes
under extremely difficult circumstances,
and your three years of service have
been of very distinct benefit to the Fed
ersl Reserve System. Our personal re-
lations have been the pleasantest pos
sible. and you will carry with you from
Washington not only the respect but
the affection of your associates on the
board"
At Boston Mr.. Young will succeed the
late w. P. c. Harding, who died last
April Harding also was a former Fed
eral Reserve governor. Young is only
48, but has had a distinguished ffnan-
cial career. At 81 he was governor of
the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank.
He is a native of Marquette, Mich.
CITES Low SALARIES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-28
JUR|STS TO,CLOSE
FESTIVITIES HERE
Federal Bar Will Be Host at
Dinner for British and
French Visitors.

The washington visit of leading at
torneys and jurists Of Great Britain
and France will be closed tonight with
a dinner at the Carlton Hotel. when
they will be guests Of the Federal Bar
Association, made up Of lawyers con-
nected with the Government, and with
reception at the French embassy
later on in the evening.
Tomorrow the distinguished group
will leave the Capital for Annapolis
where they will be received by Gov
Albert c. Ritchie of Maryland, and by
officials of the u. s. Naval Academy
Later in the day the visitors will be
taken by boat to Baltimore, whence
they will start their journeys back to
England and France.
Sir John A. Simon Speaker.
Sir John A. Simon will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the dinner tonight. He
is head Of England's India Statutory
Commission, and will speak on Some
Aspects Of the Indian Situation" His
talk will be broadcast over a Nation
wide chain OF the Columbia Broadcast
ing system from Station WMAL.
Sir John will be introduced by Will
liam r. Valance, president of the Fed
eral Bar Association.
This morning the visitors devoted to
sightseeing. golf, tennis and other pur-
suits with the members of the Capital
Welcoming Committee.
At 1890 this afternoon they were
guests of the Barristers' Club, q local
organization of lawyers, at luncheon on
the roof of the Hotel Washington.
Trip to Mount Vernon.
After luncheon the lawyers embarked
on the u. 8. 8. Porpoise, at the Wash
ington Navy Yard, as guests of Secre-
tary Of the Navy Adams, and were
taken to Mount Vernon, where they
were to be guests of the Mount Ver-
non Ladies' Association at a recep-
ton at the historic Virginia home of
George Washington.
Yesterday afternoon the lawyers and
their wives were guests of Secretary OF
State and Mrs. Henry B. Stimson at
the historic Stimson home, "Woodley .
Last evening there was gay round
of dinner parties for them, followed
by formal reception at the British
embassy as the guests of the British
Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay.
Lady Simon on Slavery.
Lady Simon, wife of Sir John, widely
known as a speaker on international
topics, discussed slavery throughout the
world. over a National Broadcastine
hook-up from Station WRC this morn
ing.
She spoke Of the League of Nations
Commission formed for the study and
abolition of slavery throughout the
world, in Arabia. China, in parts OF
tropical Africa and elsewhere in the
world.
Thousands of men, women and chill
dren today are under the yoke OF
slavery, she said, living under condi-
tons impossible to imagine, their lives
the playthings of their owners, their
bodies tortured with work. their minds
sunk in the abject lives they live.
She urged the organization in the
United States Of a sister society to the
British Anti-Slavery Society OF which
she Is member, to work with the Brit
ish women, who are seeking to stamp
out slavery throughout the world.