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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-28
BAL TlM0RE TELEPHONE
REVENUES ON INCREASE

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, May 28.-Net tele-
phone revenue Of the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co. Of Baltimore
City during the first four months of
this year amounted to $1,072, ISL .85,
compared with $sSO,S33.s1 in the like
period last year. according to a report
Just filed with the Public Service Com
mission. This was gain for the period
of more than per cent.
In the month of April telephone rev.
enue was 1926, 1913, expenses were
$896.67l and net telephone revenue was
1899, 497, which compares with net OF
$3.50, 044 in March. this year, and $275,-
217.76 in April year ago.
For IL months ended April 80 the
company's revenues totaled $14,269. 575,
expenses were Sill ,196, 229, and net tele-
phone revenue was $3073.3 which is
equivalent to $50 per cent on the ave-
rage value of the companys property
This value as Of April 80 was $47,2S7,-
1872. Taxes in April amounted to $137, :
100, an increase Of $10,609 ovsr March
and of Sl5,108 over April last year. For
the four months taxes totaling $50e, 1898
were $36,931 more than for the same
period last year.
The net gain in telephones during
April was I104, and since January l
was $3.50, giving a total Of 219,887 tele-
phones In service in the State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-28

Kreuger g. Toll and Swedish Match, to
take up final portion Of 5000, 900
German 50-year Is.
Louisville & Nashville Railroad April
net operating income on ISL per cent;
months of 24.9 per cent.
Signal Oil & Gas omits class A and
class B dividends; paid IS cents q share
on each issue March 10.
Studebaker Corporation defendant in
suit charging infringement Of free
wheeling patent held by Charles r.
Feltz
Baldwin Locomotive Works onlits
common dividend: paid 8712 cents
semi-annual dividend January 1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
old Landmark Once Stood ON Site of Public
Librury-7rugic Deaths Connected Min
Its History-Election Riots Of 1857,
When Marines We're Called to
Restore Order.

HOWEVER, in the removal Of the Western
Market. provision was made for the mer-
chants in q conveniently located building near
by, which, Of course, has not been done IN the
present case, though surely ample notice Of the
Governments intention has been given, and
at least the occupants viii be able to vacate
with their lives, which proved not to be the
case when BOSS" Shepherd decided to remove
the Northern Liberty Market which occupied
the reservation at Seventh and X streets, where
now stands the Public Library.
Shepherd, as we all know, was q man Of
dynamic force and did things that he started
out to do. But 1t would be unreasonable to
say that he always had things his own way, for
naturally he did not. Every move he made,
though, 1t would seem, some one had in mind
the injunction idea, and it just kept him busy
formulating plans to evade the service Of court
papers upon himself which would tie his hands
right In the middle Of some big and worthy
project
But Shepherd had another attribute besides
force. and that was resourcefulneSs, and he
usually managed to beat his opponents and
the courts to it-as the common phrase goes.
And 50, in 1872, when he wanted to tear up q
part Of the unauthorized tracks Of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad, (which extended from
the Long Bridge at the southern terminus Of
Maryland avenue, along that avenue to First
street, west, then to Indiana avenue, and
thence to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Station, then located at New Jersey avenue and
Q street northwest, he simply laid his plans
and saw to it that they were executed.
Shepherd had given notice Of his intention
to John w. Garrett, the then president Of the
road, who as usual regarded it as a mere scrap
Of paper" But the former was not TO be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

business was rushing, It was ut least satisfac-
tory.
"Homiller, Yeabower, George Linkins and
jolly Joe Weaver, with white aprons were pune
tual in attendance and polite in their service.
Never were there more satisfactory cuts Of
home killed beef, lamb and pork than those dis
pensed by these worthless They all retired
with good competency and were long ago gath
cred to their Father.
zoe Carroll and Mr.. HUFF (the latter is still
living were the dispensers of butter eggs and
cheese, while at the bread, pie and cake stall,
conducted by George Kraft, the First Ward
baker, Eighteenth and Pennsylvania avenue, one
was generally waited on by bIack-eyed smiling
Miss Anna, q relative Of Mr.. Kraft. Then too,
old man Miller, who possessed q small truck
farm at Twenty-flrst street and Massachusetts,
avenue, and Red-headed Miller Ito distinguish
him from the old mani were the purveyoTs Of
the best Of fresh vegetables.
1.-THE country people. white and black, lined
the sidewalk with their old broken wagons and
decrepit mules stationed nearby. The colored
folk displayed all kinds Of herbs and roots
guaranteed to cure any ailment and kill bugs
and reaches at the same time all for a dime.
There were no 1mousnes or divvers in those
days to transport the opulent to the market.
What was termed 'carry-all,' or buggy, served
the purpose for those owning them. So well
do recollect member of the most prominent
banking firm in Washington, footing it regularly
from his residence near Seventeenth street to
this market his basket in hand and, Stringing
on behind, the several small daughters, each
with q diminutive market basket. People In
those days were certainly more independent OF
neighborhood criticism In the doing Of small,
sensible things than in this day"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
BY JOHN CLACETT PROCTOR.

HE writer visited the Center Market
on New Year eve-the last day this
building was open to the public.
Some of the stands had already been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
WHOLESALE PRICES
AGAIN DIP SHARPLY
Nine of Fourteen Groups Go Lower
During Week-0ther Five
Show No Change.

During the week ended April IS the
general index number of the wholesale
price index of the National Fertilizer
Association declined fractional points.
For the preceding week a loss Of 4
fractional points was shown. The index
number on April 25 stands at a new
record low of 72.5, compared with 749
a month ago and 9i.6 year ago.
Nine of the fourteen groups in the in
deX declined during the latest week and
the remaining five showed no change.
The groups that declined were fertilizer
materials, textiles fats and oils, other
foods grainS-feeds and live stock,
metals. fuels, chemicals and drugs and
miscellaneous commodities. The groups
which showed no change during the
last week were mixed fertilizer, agricul-
tural implements. automobiles. building
materials and house furnishings.
The prices for 80 commodities showed
losses during the latest week, while gains
were made by nine commodities. Among
the commodities that declined were
petroleum, fuel oil, camphor, rubber.
copper, silver, hogs practically all
grains and feedstuTs. cheese, eggs, lard,
butter silk, wool and cotton. Slight
advances were noted i5 the prices for
raw sugar, cattle. coffee, calfskins, dried
apples, barley, cornmeal, burlap and
jute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
iREICHSBANK SUBMITS
ITS ANNUAL REPORT
Gross Profit for Year Drops, but
Net Shows Substantial
Increase.
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN. April 29.-The annual re-
port and balance sheet of the Reichs-
bank presented at today's general meet
ing of shareholders showed a total
turnover in 1880 of 86l ,8O7 900 marks,
compared with 911,47I 900 marks in
1929. A mark has a present exchange
value of just less than "a cents.
AS a consequence of reduction in
interest rates as well as a decline in
turnover, the gross profit Of the bank
dropped from 170.000000 in 1929 to
1877 900 900 in 1890, which, after reduc-
ton of 100000 for expenditures,
compared with 144,000,000s in 1929,
leaves n net profit of 100000 marks.
The net profit last year was 25,500,000
marks.
II per cent dividend amounting to
1906, coo marks will be paid this year,
while another 100000 marks will be
handed over to the Reich. Four mil
lion marks will go to the reserve fund.
The report is the first for which the
new chancellor, Hans Luther. is re-
sponsible, and it states its satisfaction
that the Reichsbank is thus able to
prove al doubts OF the stability Of the
reichsmark unfOuudcd. 1t adds that
the governments determination to
carry out its reform program already
has improved the economic situation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
CURB IS IRREGULAR
IN F|TFUL SPURTS
Market SteadieS Somewhat
After Alternate Rallies
and R1!!apseS.
BY JOHN A. CRoNE.
Bpecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 29.-After open
ing weak, stocks on the Curb Exchange
today vent through a series of alternate
rallies and relapses, showing more
steady tendency tAter midday. Volume
was considerably lower than in recent
sessions.
The market r?der, which usually
moves very closely with United States
Steel over or the big board held within
a narrow range. Perhaps it was this
showing CT Electric Bond e. Share that
confined the price swings Of American
6; Foreign Power warrants. Cities SerV-
ice came within a shade of its low rec
ord reached Tuesday, but offerings were
small
One of the outstanding features of
forenoon dealings WIS the manner in
which ali sorts of specific favorable cor
porate developments w-re ignored. A
subsidiary OF Aluminium Co. of America,
United States Aluminium, received an
order Tor $4,000 miles of wire from the
New York Power g. Light Co, but the
parent companys shares sold of more
than s points.
Henry Ford's announcement about
maintenance of wages and continuance
Of PFC dGction had no stimulating effect
on any of the Ford securities.
United Founders sank to a new low
for the year. Shortly after this move
ment a. block CT 10000 Public Utility
Corporation of America warrants sold
at "a.
Some of the recently weak utilities
showed signs of recovery at times. This
was true of American Commo nwealths
Power B, Associated Gas & Electric,
United Light e. Power A and Utilities
Power. American Light & Traction,
however, receded to new low.
SpecialtieS again were erratic. Parker
Rust Proof. dropped 6l2 points on sales
approximating $500 shares before turn
ing around. Deere G. Co advanced, but
Mead Johnson wavered uncertainty.
A further reduction in the price Of
copper failed to bring cut offerings in
that group in the forenoon, but such
shares as appeared were a trif1e softer.
Britain's failure to tax tobacco sales
brought about further recovery in such
securities as Imperial Tobacco.
SaXet Co. eased fractionally despite
further details about the purchase of
three natural gas properties and the
proposal to increase the common stock.
Acquisition of control of Gulf State
Utilities by United Gas Corporation
failed to bolster the latters shares.
(Copyright, 1881
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
FURTHER GAINS NOTED
IN HARDWARE DEMAND

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, April 90. - Further
gains in the hardware demand have
registered during the past week, Hard
ware Age will say tomorrow in its
weekly market summary. While the
Increased activity has been more marked
in some sections than in others, the
national demand has shown general i'm
prOvement. April sales levels in most
wholesale hardware establishments have
been more satisfactory, as a rule, than
was anticipated, and continued i'm
provement appears likely.
Fair and mild weather in most sec
lions of the country has developed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29

healthy consumer demand for many
seasonal hardware lines, and dealers, in
many instances, were not prepared with
adequate stocks to cope with the con-
sumner call which developed Many rush
orders for Spring lines have been re-
ceived by wholesalers for Spring goods
to replenish depleted stocks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
STOCKS EX-DIVIDEND.

NEW YORK. April 90 (Fl.-Stocks
eX-diVidend to-day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29

throughout The country, Seidman &
Seicman, certified public accountants
here issued statement today showing
new orders and shipments were greater
in March than in February. March
orders increased - per cent. while
shipments increased 26 per cent.
The number of those on furniture
manufacturing plant pay rolls was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
BONDS.
10
InduStril

Copyright, 1891, Standard Statistics Coz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
FURNITURE INDUSTRY
SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
n ,he Associatcd press.

3y the Associated Press.
HIGH POINT, N. c., April 29.--The
furniture manufacturing industry has
hit the upgrade
Based on figures received tom plants
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29

slightly less at the end of March than
at the end of February, but the num-
Der of working hours increased and the
volume of wages was per cent greater
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29

Dividend quarterly
IN
a II cash adjustment
divid &
Plus ~ in stock Plus 100 stock Plus 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29

George NJ. Laughlin, Sd, has been
elected a director Of Jones g. Laughlin
Steel Corporation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29

Fork luncheons," at which all dishes
may be eaten with fork, is new 60
ciety success In London.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 29-Following is
the complete official list of transactions
in stocks on the Chicago Stock EX-
change today:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-30
FOSTER TO SPEAK
AT NEEDLE MEET
Many Features at 3rd
Anniversary

The celebration Of the Third An
nlyersary of the existence of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Unicn will be a mobilization for the
coming struggles in the dress trade
The needle trades union, since its
existence, has been the militant lead
err Of all struggles in the needle
trades. fighting against company
unionism. LoYestoneism, gangsterism
and for union conditions.
This celebration will also mark the
opening of the General Executive
Board Plenum.
Comrades Foster, Ben Gold and
Maude White i'll review three years
Of achievements and shortcomings of
the union.
A revolutionary program Is being
prepared by Chopper who will draw
cartoons OF the company union be-
trayers-The Artef in "Waterboy''-
Edith Segal in new Soviet dance
"Udarnik" and the Third Degree, :"
music by Adohmyan. The Prolet-
Bina in "The Belt" and Tempo
Tempo. The Freiheit Gezangs
Fsrein and the Mandolin Orchestra,
under the leadership Of Jacob Schaf-
fer and Gandel of the "Artef."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-30
YOUTH AN'TI-WAR
MEET ON SUNDAY
Credentials Are Com
ing in Fast

Credentials of delegates to the
United Front anti-wsr conference
which is to tack place next Sunday
at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place
and 18th ST., are coming in rapidly.
Already the Workers Ex-SerVice-
mems League, all the branches of
the Youth Section of the Interna-
tional Workers Order and many
other youth organizations have
elected delegates. Five unorganized
shops where young workers are en-
ployed have also sent credentials.
The leaders of the Young Peoples
Socialist League have shown their
unwillngness to participate in the
conference. In New York the only
student organization that is partici-
pating in the fight against war is
the N. Y. Students League, fedora
ton of 30 student clubs.
The National Student Federation
Of America which is holding its con-
gress at Toledo split on the question
Of war and military training.
The company club of the Pilgram
Laundry had been invited to send
delegates. But under the influence
of the bosses, the secretary disre-
garded the sympathies of the mem
bers and has refused to participate.
All youth organizations are asked
to send delegates to the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-30
Chopper to Draw at
Needle Trades Jubilee

William Chopper, revolutionary
cartoonist, will draw pictures of the
three years struggle for industrial
unionism, against company unionism
and gangsterism. He will also portray
the growth Of industry In the Soviet
Union. This he will do at the third
anniversary of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, which will
be celebrated at the Central Opera
House, 67th st. and Third Ave, on
January 1, 1882 New Years night.
Comrades William Q. Foster and
Ben Gold will review the struggles Of
years industrial unionisnn. Conirade
Maude White will greet the Needle
workers In the name of the Negro
masses. Comrade Louis Hyman" will
greet the needle workers at this con-
cert.
The rest of the program viii in
clude Edith Siegel in a new Soviet
dance called "Udarniki' (Shock
Troopers), the Prolet Buhne in Belt"
and Tempo Tempo, the Artef in
Water Boy" the Freiheit Gezang
Farein and Mandolin Orchestra in
revolutionary songs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-30
Brand Report of the
Settlement Of Hat
Strike As Incorrect
Locked OutWorkers on
Strike Still Out to Win
Back Conditions

Etrikers Of Robinhood Hat Shop
IS W. seth St, in a statement to the
Women's Wear Daily, manufacturers
trade journal, branded the report Of
the settlement of the strike as in
correct. The letter follows:
ITO the Editor of the
Women's Wear Daily"
I'm the Womens Wear Daily Of
last week there appeared a state
me tn to the effect that the strike
formerly James c. Duncan. IS w.
seth ST.. was settled"
We are sorry to say that this in
formation is incorrect. The strike
at the Robinhood Hat is still on
and anyone who will take the trou-
bic to go over to the shop will see
the workers still on the picketnne.
carrying sign which declares that
the workers of the Robinhood are
on strike against the lockout.
''It is further incorrect that q
settlement was made by local "A for
80 workers. In the first place, there
were no more than so odd strikers
involved altogether. 80 Of whom
we're trimmers, members of the In
dustrial Union, the rest operators
of Local "a"
The statement that the strike
was settled is incorrect and we
strikers know nothing about 1t. The
operators it is true, were taken off
the picketline, but are not return
ing to work AS far as the trimners
are concerned, we never were ap-
preached by Messrs. Spector and
Mendelovitch who claimed to have
settled the shop. nor have they
been authorized to speak or make
any settlements in our behalf"
"We went on strike because we
were locked out and refused to join
the racketeer Amalgamated Mill
merry Workers of Acmerica. We
shall continue to strike until we
have won back our Jobs and our
union conditions"
Strikers of the Robinhood Hat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-30
BRIGHTON BREAD :
STRIKE PLANNED
500 at Meeting to Make
Demands

Following conference Of the
various working class organizations
in Brighton Beach on Sunday, a
huge mass meeting of over 500 work.
ers gathered at the Ocean Parkway
Hall Monday night to discuss plans
for a bread strike in the section.
The meeting was called by the
Women's Council, together with a
United Front Committee. A rank
and file committee of so was elected
to present demands for a reduction
of the price of bread and rolls to
the bakery owners.
A resolution adopted states that
although the prices Of flour and the
other products used in the making
of bread have dropped greatly, as
have the wages of the workers to
whom bread is the chief food prod
uct, the prices of bread and rolls
remains at the wartime level.
The workers are demanding that
the price of bread be reduced from
9 to cents a pound, that OF rolls
from 20 to Is cents a dozen and the
price of twists from Is TO IL cents.
These reductions are not to be made
at the expense of the wages of the
bakery workers.
After presenting the demands to
the bakers, the Rank and File Com
mittee will call another meeting at
the end of the week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-30
GOLDMAN SHOP
TRIES TO FORCE
NEW WAGE-CUT
Brooklyn Shop Aims at
Is to 25 P. c.. Cut
for Workers

William P. Goldman, clothing
manufacturer. Of Brooklyn, yester-
day demanded that his employees ac-
cept a fifteen to twenty-five percent
wage cut. An attempt is being made
by the manager of the firm, Rosen-
berg, to force a lockout on the work
ers in the pants and vest departments
by sending the work to be done at
other Amalgamated controlled shops.
Rosenberg hopes to force the cut by
this means.
Reich and Monatt. manager and
business agent respectively of the
vest makers local Of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Union, are rush
ing through a shop meeting Of the
workers for today, in an effort, con-
sistent with It's usual reactionary
policy, to fool the workers into &C
cepting the wage cut. Previously,
under six hundred special suits, Mo-
udIo 4OOlCu IllC WI hcIS lllIO tohlliS
a cut by inventing a lie that the coat
makers had already accepted it. Now
he undoubtedly means to try the
same ruse again.
The workers should not fall into
the trap again. A general meeting of
coat, vest, and pants workers should
be called Immediately to take up the
question of the proposed wage cut,
and direct action should be taken to
reject it.
Therank and file of the Anlalga-
mated Trade Board Committee meet
today at seven in the evening at 5
East Tenth Street. The following
matters will be discussed:
The proposed wage cut in the Will
liam P. Goldman shop. The situation
in the cutters local. Unemployment
relief And other problems.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-30
Freshmen Officials
Forced to Withdraw
Vote on Paycut Plan
and Jobless
Solidly Opposed to
Any Sort of Cut

The officials of the Pressmen's
Union No. 81 who try to railroad the
Printers League (employers) propo-
sal for fifteen percent wage cut
to he Instituted in all the pressrooms
of the city were forced to withdraw
the referendum which was to have
been voted on by the membership.
The reason given is that the Inter
national officials are opposed to it.
The mass indignation of the rank
and file Of the union caused the Of
ficials to withdraw the proposal to
vote on the wage cut, the workers
and unemployed of the trade being
solidly opposed to the cut that is be-
ing yelled as an aid to the uf1en1-
ployed pressmen. Conway, president
Of the union, in saying that 1t was
withdraw because it was not counten-
anced by the International attempt
ed TO cover International President
George Berry's part in trying to put
over the cut.
Bosses Still Want Cut.
While the plar Of the bosses, to-
gether with the officials to effect a
opening wedge for wage cuts in the
pressrooms is temporarily defeated
the employers have not given up the
idea of wage cutting. workers at the
local are saying Unless the rank
and file OF the pressInen are or gI,ard
new and other schemes to effect
cut may be attempted
In leaflet issued by the Rank and
File Committee Of f;-essmen's Union
No. 81, before the withdrawal of the
referendum. call was made for the
defeat of the wage cut scheme, de-
nanded that the 81 wage increase
due January / be given and not
waived by union action. that an I'M
employment fund contributed by the
employed pressmen and the employ
ers be set up and funds administered
by committee elected by the unem-
ployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-30
More Small Banks
Continue to Fail
Six N. Carolina Banks
Are Closed

Failure of banks in the s1n2n rural
and industrial districts continue to
be reported from all sections OF. the
country.
The First National Bank of Mount
Olive and the Citizens Bank Of
Mount Olive, North Carolina we're
closed December 90 as did the
Wayne National Bank Of Coldsboro
and the Bank Of Pikevilie. The
Planters Bank of Wilson and the
Bank of Collision were to be closed
December 20. ..s......,@
All banks are located in Wayne
County.