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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
WOOL MARKET SLOW

BOSTON, Dec. 4. G.N.S)-Do-
nestle woods were slow today,
with the exception of several
lines of Gas and finer western
woods of which a moderate guam
tity of short combing staple con-
tinued to move at the firm prices.
Greater territory and fleece woods
below the Gas qualities moved &C.
casionally in small volume with
prices rather firm in spite Of
the limited demand.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
Value of so N. Y.
Stocks Shows Dip

The mar. 'et value of so repre-
sentative stocks listed on the New
York stock exchange at the close
of business November %, was
$10,643, 081 1893, decrease of STAG,
683, 1872, or 6.56 per cent, as com
pared with $11,359, 764,315 at the
close of the preceding week, &C
cording to Paul H. Davis & Co.
At the close of the correspond
ing week year ago, these same
stocks had market value of $40,
367 ,462, O58.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
Surrey for POWer
Information Asked

Recommendation for a survey
Of the nations power situation
to assemble data on which might
be based a regulation that would
mean fair profits to the in
vestor and lowest practicable costs
to the consumer" was made yes
terday by the newly created Fed
eral Power Commission in its
first annual report.
The report pointed to the ire
mendous growth of power pro-
duction. Due to a lack of suf-
ficient data, however, it was not
possible for the commission either
to picture the present status OF
the industry or forecast it's trend.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
Big Home Building
Gain in Northwest

ST. PAUL, Dec. IA North.
west Incorporation survey shows
a gain of 11.8 per cent in number
of single family dwellings built
in 80 cities Of 10000 population
or more in 10 Northwest and Mid
west States in the first 10 months
of 1881, compared with similar
period of 1890.
New building values were 9.5
per cent above those built in the
1880 period.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
Acacia Life Has Big
November Business

The Acacia Mutual Life Asso-
citation, whose home office is in
Washington, did a good business
in November, President William
Montgomery reports, placing in
surance of 100000 and bring
ing the total in force to more
than $780,, 100000.
Net lapses dropped off 100000
as compared with the previous
month, and the number of pol
icyholders is substantially higher
than last year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
CANADIAN LOADINGs

Ca loadings in Canada for
week ended November 81 totaled
1874 cars a decrease of 2,081
from preceding week and of 1882
from corresponding 1880 week
Grain showed decline from pre-
ceding week of 1884 cars
Merchandise continued to show
improvement, with !. c. |. ship
ments at $4,000, against 14,134
the week before.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
Fernand Petit Ready
To Return to Duties

The many friends Of Fernand
Petit, formerly vice president Of
the Merchants Bank and Trust
Company, who has been N i'll
health for several years, were de-
lighted yesterday to learn that
the popular banker has entirely
recovered, and is contemplating
again becoming active in the
financial district.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
D. C.. Fire Insurance
Firm Has Good Year

L. Pierce Boteler, secretary, in
a letter to stockholders Of The
Mutual Fire Insurance Co., a
Washington corporation, declares
that in this, the seventy-seventh
year of its existence, the business
of the company has suffered little
by the prevailing depression.
He says the company has had
to charge off no losses to de-
probation of stock and bond
holdings. and forecasts the end
of the year will show the usual
satisfactory savings to stock
holders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04

tered exceptions the remaining
banks are in a strong position.
More Gold Imports
The past week saw a continue
ton of the increase in gold i'm
ports, amounting to $4,000, 900
and bringing total stocks to 81.
419,000,0 900, a drop of $153, 900, 900
from the same time last year.
Present stocks of gold were
held ample to serve the credit
needs of the country even with a
strong recovery of business. The
Federal Reserve. ratio is now 65.6
per cent, we'll above the legal re-
Quirement,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
Detroit Aircraft Co.
Votes to ReOrqdnize

Stockholders of Detroit Aircraft
Corp. have voted to reorganize,
appointing a committee of five
stockholders, who are not Off
GERS or directors, to study the
reorganization plan submitted by
directors.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
Price Fixing Probe
On Rails Completed

The investigation of the De-
partment of Justice into alleged
price-fixing on steel rails virtually
has been completed and a report
viii be laid before Attorney Cen
eral Mitchell within the next 10
DAYS, it was announced yesterday.
Mitchell said he did not know
what investigators had learned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
so Chicago Stocks
ShOW Drop, In Week

Fifty representative stocks listed
on the Chicago stock exchange at
the close of business, November
% had a market value of $1,142,-
1917, 264, which compared with ST..
209,508, 991. at the close of the pre-
ceding week, according to Paul H.
Davis & Co.
This represents a decrease dur.
ing the week Of $66,311,727 or $40
per cent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
SALES

SALES
Washington Railway and Elec.
trio pfd. 1904, 1904. 1904.
AFTER CALL
Washington Gas IS A, $1,000
lO0.'
Washington Railway and Elec.
trio Is, $1,000@85A.
Capital Traction Co., 10@21.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
D. E. Firms Among
Trade Winners

Acacia Life reports 49,
100000 November business.
Mutual Fire Insurance
Company records good year.
Soldering earnings ST..
80O,00 above last years.
Big home building gain
found in Northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
STEIN CO. DIVIDEND

: A. Stein and Co. has declared
the regular quarterly dividend Of
$1.621a per share on the preferred
stock Of the company payable
January 2, 1882, to stockholders of
record December IS, 1881.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
URUGUAYAN FARLEY.

Foreign Minister Carlos Blanco,
Uruguay, announces December Is
as the date for opening economic
conference of Argentina, Brazil.
and Uruguay. to consider stilnu"
latioN of commerce among them
selves, and organization of united
front for mutual economic de-
fence.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
rket Turns Dull and Quiet After Staging Rally in Rails
Reserve Board Officials
Hope Bank Crisis Past

the exception Of the Boston, New
York and San Francisco Federal
Reserve districts all sections of
the county have been hit hard.
Officials believe that with scat
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04
Public Utility Bonds


Public Utility Bonds l.
Amer Tel Telga 4ias... 112A ....
Amer Tel & Tel ctl Tr IS. I1O2 800.
Anacostia IL lot r r SIS. so 70
4 Z : f Pct e. Su1 y. s :, " , 81 1 IS
Cap Traction r 5s....I 20 LIS
City & Suburban IS. ........ so 10
Georgetown Gas LIST 5s... hoo l....
Potomac Elec Cons 5s.... I01 zoo.
Potomac Elec IS 'SS 80. lOi " 49,.
Wash Alex & Nj ctr. 2 -.
EashintEon Gas 4hs...... ,91H ss
Wash Gas So Series 49,. 100 I101
Wash Gas s. Series B.. los lice
Wash Ry q Elec 20 ......l S5% ssh
lIIscellaneoge Bonds
Barber & Boss Inc ShS...I 10 I...,
Chevy Chase Club 5las,... hoo l.....
Col Country Club SIS ....lloO l1o3
D Paper Mfg 6s.......". rs 10
W y Cold Storage So ....l % bee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-04

Canada
New York funds in Montreal s145
premium on $1,000.
Montreal funds in New York, $14S
discount on $1,000
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-03

they were needed in correcting the ungroomed and unkempt ap- pearance of her Eskimo pupils.
 Santa Claus Ship
 A Kuskokwim River trapper, weather beaten man in the late summer of life, sits in his cabin, hands outspread to the cheerful fire in the crude Alaska stove as the wintry wind whistles outside. The long Alaska night casts it's shadows about the room, dimly il- luminated by the rays of a kero- sene lamp. Behind a stubby beard remains trace of a former caste, of the environment of society. Some tragic episode in early life may have sent him to this far north country to forget business failures or to ease heartaches from a past romance.
 The 'Tupper will be Santa Claus ship when she sails from Seattle-a Santa Claus ship in August. She will have several tons of Christmas presents for the isolated settlements along the Kus- kokwin1, which is ice locked long before the holiday comes around. On her homeward voyage the yes sel will carry several hundred live reindeer, which will serve as teams for department store Santas in
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Don't miss the '"TsIkies!"
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the East.
WILD DUCKS DECREASED
 As RESULT 0F OR0UGHT

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug, B. (P-Drought conditions during re- cent years have caused a serious decrease in the numbers of Wilca ducks, the U. S. Biological Survey announces.
 Preliminary Investigations of the survey indicate this years wild fowl hatch will be the smallest org record. Game birds of North America are confronted with the most serious situation in U. S. history, biological survey officials contend.
 Shorter shooting seasons andl other restrictions to reduce the. kill of waterfowl this year have been authorized by Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, in an effort to conserve the supply of game birds.
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SANTA CLAUS SHIP ID
 START EARLY F0R THE l. FAR KUsK0KW|M RIVER

this year by the steamship w. M. Tupper of the Santa Ana Steam ship Company.
 The Tupper, commanded by Capt. c. s. Carlson, veteran mar finer, who has been sailing to AL aska waters for the last IS years, is posted to leave Seattle August 4, laden with passengers and freight.
 The voyage will take the Tupper in sight of Shishaldin volcano, which was in eruption in May last year when the vessel rounded Unimak Island of the Aleutian group. Captain Carlson witnessed the weird sight from the bridge of the ship at midnight.
 Volcano Lights Sea
 "Bering Sea was lighted up for many miles and the reflection of the volcano on the ocean beggared description" said Captain Carlson. Passengers of my ship gazed in awe at the strange spectacle"
 Ten days after the Tupper leaves Seattle she will sail into the broad mouth of the Kuskokwim and make her way slowly up stream to where the mission pilot boat Moravian awaits to conduct her safely through the tortuous chan nel, marked by cement buoys.
 Whistle Salute
 Approaching Bethel, the largest settlement in the Kuskokwim Val ley, the Tupper sounds a whistle salute. Instantly hundreds of Els kimos set out in motor boats and canoes and soon are circling the ship. Malamute dogs howl their welcome in chorus. Natives in gay attire line the banks of the river for the arrival of the Tupper, the only transportation link between the Kuskokwim Valley and mod ern civilization, is the signal for a holiday. Traders and trappers arrive in motorboats, accompanied by members of their families.
 There are many stores in the kuskokWim Valley, operated by shreWd and prosperous merchants who study the needs of the natives and always keep a liberal supply .of food and merchandise on hand Much of these goods are carried to Bethel each year by the Tupper and varied cargoes are loaded in exchange.
 Foxes for Ranches
 Trapping and hunting is the maln support of the country and the shipment of furs brought to Seattle by the vessel are valued at millions of dollars. Furs are &C., cepted in exchange for merchan- disc by the traders and are the principal medium of exchange
 One hundred live foxes were part of one of the cargoes of the Tupper from the Kuskokwim They were destined to Europe to stock fox ranches.
 Five dredges are in operation in the Kuskokwim Valley. The gold taken out is shipped to Seattle on the Tupper.
 Young women of the East. leav- ing broken romances and heart aches behind, go to the Kuskok- vim Valley. They teach the Es- kimos the three R's, sanitation and health and train them in the art of homemaking. One pretty miss discovered that with each lead pencil, a comb was issued bv the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She was puzzled at first, but soon saw
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
5000 ID. w. SUBS
WILL HELP SMASH NEW
WAGE CUT DRIVE!

The need for getting the Daily Worker into the hands
of of workers greater than at this
time wage cut campaign is being planned by the
bosses and the A F. of L. mseaders This wage cut
has begun with the railroad workers.
On the other hand the magnificent last Sunday
of the National Miners Union district convention in Pine
vie KY. and the rousing welcome given the returning
National Hunger Marches show that the workers of the
United States stfenng their resistance to the bosses
attacks Not enough effort being made to get the Daily
Worker into the hands of these and thousands of other
workers facing wage cuts and hunger.
So far only Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland getting
sody behind the drive. Special bulletins have been issued
mobizng sections and units and setting quotas Red Sum
days have already been held and readers conferences have
sweed the ranks of the Daily Worker subscription
Eleven workers have just joined the Detroit Friends
of the Daily Worker Group Money and subscriptions
starting to come
Workers. readers, Daily Worker agents. help unite and
strengthen the workers struggles against the wage
cut campaign Join the drive for 5000 12month subscrp
tions Set quota for yourself for your Unit for your
Section, for your organization.
Get into the fight raise the percentage of your Dis
trct and help smash the bosses brutal wage cut and
starvation offensive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
Hunger March Film
to Be Shown Sunday;
Gives Full History

NEW YORK. official moving
picture of the Hunger March, filmed
and photographed by the Workers
Film and Photo League of the Work
ers International Relief, will be shown
at tSar Casino, 107th st. and Park
Ave-, Sunday, December 20, at 1870
p. m,
Police attack and mass welcome
from tens of thousands of cheering,
roaring workers, demonstrations of
unparalleled size and militancy, from
San Francisco to Washington, every
important detail will be shown. The
historic scene at the capitol where
the Red Front Band played the In
ternationale and the workers shouted
for unemployment insurance while
cordons of police aimed machine guns
and sawed-off shot-guns with trigger
fingers tense, the barricaded White
House, the sympathetic thousands
who gathered in solidarity with the
marchers-not a point has been
missed.
Workers clubs, mass organizations,
unions and unorganized workers are
urged to come. Get tickets for your
self and your friends at the Workers
International Relief, 16 West 21st St.,
in advance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
Winters Will Report
Dec. 19, Brownsville,
for Hunger March

NEW YORK.-Carl Winters, secre-
tary of the Unemployed Council, will
report on the National Hunger
March Dec. 10 at 1918 Pitkin Ave.
Brownsville.
Winter will also speak at the Old
Town Hall in Jamaica soon, Per-
mission to use this building was
forced out of the Superintendent OF
Public Buildings by delegations from
the Unemployed Council.
Other meetings at which reports
of the National Hunger Marchers
will be heard are:
Hampstead, Saturday, 8 p. m.
at the Ukranian Progressive Home
on Uniondale Ave. and Front st.
2-FTicksville, Sunday, p. m, al
the Urainian Hall, 81 Broadway.
s.-Babylon, Sunday, 7:30 p. m, at
the Ukr ainian Hall.
4-Elmont, Sunday, p. M, at the
Finnish Hall, SO Meachan Ave, FL
mont, l.. /
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
Printers Defeat Move
to Stop Pay Increase

NEW YORK.-The rank and file
Of the Big Six Typographical Union
at a meeting of the membership in
Cooper Union, Dec. 10, voted against
a moratorium on the 81 increase in
wages for the job printers which was
provided in the last contract signed
by the union, thus defeating the
plan of the union bureaucrats and
the bosses to break the printers
agreement.
Good response was given to let
ter from the Printers League which
was read on the floor calling for a
defeat of the moratorium. The chief
advocate of the moratorium was Ed,
Cassidy, the well known socialist. He
proposed that the printers vote
against the increase in pay because
business is leaving the city. Several
printers who took the floor scored
socialist Cassidy, pointing out that
this was the same argument the
bosses were using to cut wages of
workers in all industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
BRITISH TARIFFS
SPUR TRADE WAR
Struggle Develops with
French Industry

The closing of the first session of
the new parliament for Christmas re-
cess, finds Great Britain in worse
position than before. The election
campaign was waged on the basis of
a tariff that would keep out foreign
foods and so develop home industry.
In five weeks "a tariff orders we're
issued including 100 per cent tariffs
on foods. What has resulted is an
extreme sharpening of the struggle
between the various imperialist pow
ers whose trade is affected by these
tariffs and the dropping Of the pound
to 1891.
Soon after England went off the
gold standard France put a Is per
cent tariff on all goods coming from
countries whose money had dropped
in value. This was a. direct blow
against England since Argentina, who
had also gone off thee gold standard,
was exempted. England protested
that her coal trade would be hard hit,
but France hasn't bothered to answer
yet. England followed with the above
mentioned 100 per cent duty on food
stuffs, which stopped French imports
to the sum of $65,000,000. The New
York Times admits that a tariff war
with France is on" So do the English
politicians who are taking the next
step towards another kind of war.
A member of the British parliament
is quoted as saying that 1--WE will put
on a tariff of public opinion which
requires no law and is in conflict
with no commercial treaty" In other
words, British capital is going to con-
vince the English workers that the
French are huns and barbarians and
responsible for all our ills"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
90 GROUPS MEET
ON IRISH TERROR
Plan Protests Against
Irish Free State

On Sunday representatives of 90
Irish organizations met at the Penn
sylvania Hotel to draft plans for a
determined fight against the reign of
terror instituted by the Irish Free
State recently. Included in these or
CARNATIONS were the Clan Ma Gael,
Irish Republican Army, the Irish
Workers Republican Alliance and l..
w. c. All the county organizations
and some sport clubs had their dele
gates.
Although some of the leaders of
these organizations tried to confine
the protests to an indoor meeting,
the sentiment of the majority of the
delegates was in favor of militant
picketing demonstrations in front of
the Irish and British consulates. A
committee was appointed with dele
gates from all these organizations to
meet next Sunday at the I. r. A.
Hall, Seth st. and Columbus Ave-, to
decide what should be done. The
conference last week unanimously
voted to withdraw all advertisements
from catholic weekly in America
which denounced the Irish Radi-
Gals"
The outlawing of all working class
organizations in ireland and the ban
ming of the revolutionary press should
meet with tremendous militant pro-
test on the part of Irish workers in
America. The officers of all these
organizations should be told that
there is to be no soft pedaling, that
mass demonstrations are to be
planned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
WOmen'S Council
Aids Meat Strike

The Women's Council of Boro Park
is assisting the Butchers Section OF
the Food Workers Industrial Union in
its fight against an injunction. The
Council members succeeded in get
ting the workers out of the shops and
to an open-air meeting after picket
ing was banned. Here the lawyer
of the bosses threatened to arrest
the speaker for violating the injunc-
ton. This having no effect, the
gangsters were called in to smash the
workers heads with blackjacks, De-
spite these vicious attacks that have
been taking place, the Council pledges
its continued aid to the strikers and
asks other workers organizations In
the neighborhood to do the same.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
VICTORY MASS
MEETING DEC. l6
Frame-Up Of Four by
Garveyites Smashed

NEW YORK-For three days the
International Labor Defense with its
attorneys J. Buitenkant and Allen
Taub carried on the fight in General
Sessions Court to free the four Negro
workers framed up by the Carney
snisleaders and police last spring on
robbery charges.
During the course of the trial it
developed very clearly that the basis
for the accusations was the campaign
Of exposure carried on by the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights against
the Garvyites as misleaders of the
Negro masses. 1t was brought out
many times that Garvey reformists,
with the help of the police, broke up
many Scottsboro protest meetings. in
Harlem.
In the summation of the trial
Grant was exposed as liar, and a
faker by Jacques Buitenkant. So
brazen were the lies of Grant that
after the jury brought in the verdict
of not guilty, several jurymen recon-
mended to Buitenkant that Grant be
arrested on charges of perjury.
Mass Meeting to Celebrate.
On Wednesday night, December 16,
mass meeting to celebrate the
victory will be held in the Lafayette
Hall in the Harlem section and at
the same time begin mass activities
for the defense of the Scottsboro boys
whose appeal will come before the
Alabama Supreme Court on January
18th. All organizations are urged to
help make this meeting a success
and beginning of new campaign
for the defense of the Scottsboro boys
and for . general amnesty Of all pol
iticsl prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
TAILORS TO HEAR
OF DEC. 9TH MARCH
Charge Hillman Robs
Unemployed Funds

Three taiiors, members of the
Amalgamated Rank and File Com
mittee, and New York delegates to
the National Hunger March, Decen1-
Der 7, will report on the march and
the struggle for unemployment insur-
ance, especially as it effects the mems
clothing workers at meeting Tues
day, December Is, IL a. m, at the
Irving Plaza, 18th st. and Irving
Place.
The delegates will tell of the fur
ther struggle for unemployment in
surance and how to organize to make
Hillnan pay the jobless tailors re-
lief from the funds he is now using
for his own purposes.
A leaflet issued to mems clothing
cutters by the Unemployed Cutters
Committee charges that the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers officials rot
the unemployed funds assigned fol
unemployed relief of members of the
union.
"The funds although assigned to
relieve the suffering jobless are
being used by the white slate adj
ministration" with an attempt to
corrupt individual cutters and take
advantage Of their misery and
starvation, in order to get them to
support the present clique which is
not in any way better than the
ousted Beckerman- Orlofsky gang.
"Since Hillman, through his
agents, took charge of the affairs
of the Cutters Local 4, nothing has
changed for the better, on the con-
trary conditions are becoming more
unbearabIe," the leaflet says in part.
The Unemployed Cutters Commit
tee then demands that all funds
assigned for unemployed relief bt
turned over to real rank and file
cutters committee that would admin
lister the fund.