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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
Washington Stock Exchange

SALES.
Washington Gas IS "A"-S1, 900 at
1017s, s400 at 1917 $500 at 10Iia,
$500 at 1919.
The Carpet Corps at 221z.
AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas 5s-$1, 900 at 1o51s.
Columbia Sand & Gravel pfd.-5 at
9412.
Capital Traction 5s-sI 900 at 1924.
Washington Gas 6s "B"-S40O at 104Ia,
500 at 1912, $500 at 1O412.
Washington Gas IS "A"-$1 900 at l02.
$500 at 1919, 500 at 1917, $1,000 at
1o11a, 5000 at 1011 $500 at 10l1z.
Capital Traction Co.-10 at 343s.
Notice-This exchange will be closed
tomorrow Good FRIDAY"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
Stock Exchange
Closes Tomorrow
In Annual Custom
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April ACTIVITY will
be suspended in the financial COM
munity tomorrow in observance of
Good Friday. The New York Stock and
Curb Exchanges and the commodity eX-
changes will be closed for the day.
Business will be resumed in most of
the markets Saturday. April 4. The
New York Stock and Curb Exchanges.
Silk Exchange, Hide Exchange and
grain market will open on that day.
Exchanges remaining closed for both
Friday and Saturday will be the Rubber.
Coffee and Sugar, Cocoa, Metal and
Cotton Exchanges.
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CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET.

CHICAGO, April (P9.-Butter. re-
ceipts, 8,113 tubs, firmer;. creamery-ex-
tras, 90 score, 2714; standards, so score
CARROTS, 271a; extra firsts, 9O-91 score,
26la 1854; f1rsts, $3.50 score, 2517-26;
seconds, 87-87 score, 241k-25. Eggs,
receipts, 2S,847 cases; steady: extra
firsts, 2012; fresh graded firsts, 19-19h;
ordinary firsts, 1872; storage packed
firsts, 2lA; storage packed extras, 21%.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
NEW SECURITIES

NEW YORK, April 2(P1. New Sc
cdrities offered today include:
Federal Intermediate Credit Banks,
$l1, 600, 900 3 per cent debentures for re-
funding purposes, dated April is, 1881,
and maturing In 8, 8 and 10 months, by
Charles r. Dunn, fiscal agent.
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Bid and Asked Prices.
BONDS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.

Bid. Asked
Amer Tel & Tel AIS 3D.. i2sIa 80,
Am. Tel. & Tel. ctl.- tr. SIS. 1862 go.
Anacostia & Pot r. r. ST.. go 80
Ana. & Pot Guar. 5s....... 94i2 100
c. e. P. Tel. of Va. SIS ......... I03 $50.
Capital Traction r. r. 5s..... 1884 80Ia
City e. Suburban 5s............. 70 .....
Georgetown Gas LIST SIS. ,...... 104 l05l2
Potomac Elec. Cons. 5S....... 1881 103A
Potomac Elec. SIS 1858 ......... l09iz .....
Wash. Alex. & Mt. Yer. cts. .....
Wash. BALTIC. & Annap. 5s..... ID %
Washington Gas 4Ias. 1914 1904
Washington Gas 5s.......... 1854 l06
Washington Gas IS, series A.. 1918 1924
Washington Gas IS, series b. los 1854
Washington Rwy. & Elec. As. 1914 80
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PARIS. RouRsE PRICES.

PARIS, April 2 Cp.@Trading was dun
on the Bourse today. Three per cent
rentes, SO francs 40 centimes; 5 per
cent loan, l04 francs SIS confines; ex-
change on London, 124 francs % CEN
times The dollar was quoted at rs
francs 56l2 centimes.
The Bourse will be closed tomorrow,
Saturday and Monday.
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MISCELLANEOUS

Barber & Ross. Inc, Glass. 80 80.
Chevy Chase Club 5i2s........, l01 -.
Columbia Country Club 5l3s... 100 l0l
D: G. Paper Mfg. 6s............. IS 90
Wash. Mkt. Cold Storage 5s.... 81 -.
Washington Cons Title 6s.. .... ..... 100
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STOCKS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.

Amer. Tel & Tel. 'lss -:
Tfpi5fi5 GG'e ass List ct Co. s 80 So
N. & W. Steamboat tl2D. ..... l69 2i0
Potomac Elec. Pow So pfd. 49,. 1924 ~:
Potomac Elec. Pow. 5l2fe pfd... ITO 1lo1
Wash RWy. & Elec. com co. AS -,
Wash. Rwy. & Elec. pfd 3D.. 1884 SO
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NATIONAL BANK.

Amer Security { TRUST Co. u5)'3395 3
Natl. Savings ( Trust Cl2D -. 435 4
Prince Georges Blk. & IT,. 20 :
V Wnsh I L5aSt ~ T2ust 90 AS
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Furnaces Relighted,

NEW YORK. April 2 [R.-Republic
Steel Corporation has relighted two
open-hearth furnaces at the Bourne
Fuller plant in Cleveland. producing
steel at the works for the first time
since June of last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02

No fewer than 90 bridges are to be
constructed on the new highway from
Pallachulish TO Inverness, Scotland.
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Sales Of Stocks on New York Exchange.
1870 AM........ 100000 1900 Noon. ...... 800 900
1889 P.M....... 100000 P.M........ 1 600 600
Dividend rates Even the above table
based the latest
Unit Of trading less hsn 100 shares tPartly
regular Payable earned
Payable in cash stock Plus SO in
Plus az in Plus 81 stock m year-no reg.
uIar rate Plus Sc in - -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27
Capone Conviction Declared
Only Beginning of Big Task

Conviction of Alphonse Capone by the
Federal Court is found to offer some
cause for public congratulation, but it
is feared that the case Is still far from
its final stages. Regret is expressed that
local authorities have failed to press
more serious charges than the income
tax offenses and 1t is felt that the pres
ent case offers little prospect OF crush
ing Chicago's gangland.
Referring to the murder of rival
Gear" by gunner on the day follow
ing the conviction of Capone, the
Springfield (Mass.) Union declares:
1.-THE object lesson of his conviction ap-
pears to have failed, at least so far as 1t
applies to activities which fall outside
the, scope of the Federal income tax
law Coming so soon after the verdict
against Capone, it seems to carry a
message of defiance to the State and
city authorities, if not to the Federal
Government"
Discussing the same incident, the
Port Huron Times-Herald remarks: rs
this perhaps a warning to the Chicago
underworld-and the Chicago police
that whatever the United States Gov
eminent does to Capone in that income
tax business is not going to interfere
with his control and operation Of the
city's vice and racketeering? Tt looks
like a def And the important ques-
ton is, will Chicago continue to stand
for it?'
AS to the intended punishment of the
Chicago defendant, the Sioux City
Journal declares: This rabbit may
have been caught, but he is not going
into rabbit stew for some time to come. :"
The Savannah Morning News advises:
Crime doesn't allow failure now and
then to halt it; justice must not allow
a victory to stop its steady work. There
are more Capones in the making. There
may be reason for some more convic-
tons shortly" The Toronto Daily Star
concludes: Zone cannot go so far as to
say that the case of Al Capone will be
pushed to its conclusion. The most one
could say as yet is that it could be-"
"The fury has indicated itself In
principle" according to the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, "convicting the defendant
on five counts. While 1t Is criticized
somewhat from the technical stand
point for its acquittal OF him on num-
Der of others, the responsibility for
passing upon the testimony belonged 70
it. and it created the impression Of de-
voting itself sincerely to its duty. While,
within limitations, the authorities are
to be congratulated on victory, no one
more than they should realize that they
have but made a beginning"
When criminals are regularly caught.
convicted, promptly sentenced and taken
to prison, then there might return some
Of that almost vanished American quail
ity, respect for law" thinks the Column
bia (S. CO. State, and the Minneapolis
Star heartily supports the Government
in its evident intention to keep its
grip on him.
The Baltimore Sun feels that, now
that Uncle Sam has begun the work,
1t is plainly up to the States to carry
1t on. IF other cities are really desir-
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vailed ever since. After fifteen years Of
acti~e field duty he became 3 manager
and eventually acquired the Chicago
franchise Of the rev American League
The creation and maintenance Of
the tunioY organization wers IN large
part the result Of c-miakey's energy and
enterprise He was always stern sx-
ponent 81 clean base ball and square
craftsmanship. When in 1918 fcardal
arose bscause Of the dishonesty Of Ger
tain members Of his pennsnt-wtnning
tean IN the world series contest with
Cincinnati he all but wrecked his
combination BY insisting upon the custer
Of these men from that club and their
blackitsting, which barred them per-
maneniiy from organized base ball. Out
OF this misfortune came the present ad-
rin.straticn. which hes carried Tire
game successfully through the seasons
Of the public To Charles Comiskey. the
odd Roman" Of the game. as he was
sfIectionately known. is due the credit
in chief for saving the sport from dis
ruption and Generalization. For some
years he has been in virtual retirement.
responsibility for management having
passed TO others, but he maintained his
keen interest in the sport with which
his name was so inssparably identified.
He was sterling player, q successful
manager and a contributor 10 the pleas
ure OF millions through his devotion to
the development Of Americas foremost
sporting institution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27
Urges Hired Thinkers
To Revive Depressed
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
A worthy member of the Presidents
cabinet, speaking on the radio some
time ago, plainly declared that I'VE
have all the tangible resources as a
nation now as we had 10 or 20 years
ago, but do lack the more intangible
resources" Here is the clue to the whole
situation faced by nearly all nations
more or less under the sway of the
spirit of modern civilization. The COM
plexity Of modern life and learning has
so incapacitated the masses for the
perception of intangible things and their
value in the scheme Of life that they
don't know that they are minus some
thing which the honorable speaker par
ticularized as faith and courage"
OF course, not all civilized peoples
have been unconsciously deprived of
these, their essential parts of being, but
1t Is safe to say that large number of
them are, in contrast with the so-called
uncivilized peoples, who are spared such
misfortune by chance of circumstances
under which they still live. It appears
to me that, next to the efforts of pro-
viding funds or work for relief under
considera ton. the equally important
service should be found in so systema-
tizing the conditions of human existence
as to enable men and women to recover
themselves, their moral or mental bal
ance.
Any butts. Ifs or excuses are certain
ly out of place at this juncture If we
consider that men and women who
committed crime or suicide today were
probably as good In many respects as
any Of us last week or last year, but
their want of that intangible something
In Sufhcient proportion must have pre-
cipitated their regrettable actions.
In view Of these facts, partly for re-
storing the intangible things of society
and partly for providing immediate work
for trained thinkers, may We propose
that each city pay regular wages to one
or more philosophical. original thinker,
who would try to evolve seine helpful
idea directly bearing on subjects of
communal and national interest. This
step, novel though it is. Is sure to dig
nifty the art of thinking, as well as
promote general interest in the duties
Of intelligent citizenship. c. PHILIPS.
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Freedom After Conviction.

However the plea OF Capone. for free
dom from prison on bail pending his
appeal from conviction in Chicago for
the evasion of income tax payments,
may result. the case illustrates 9 con-
dition which has shaken public conf
dence in the effectiveness of the law in
this country. II has come TO be almost
invariable practice for persons accused
and convicted Of crime. even major
crime. in some cases homicide. TO secure
their freedom on bail after verdict Is
rendered and sentence Is imposed. They
have been at liberty throughout the pre-
hminaries and the trial. Sometimes the
bond required Is 50 high that they have
difnculty in obtaining security. but as
rule they do so and so slow is the
process Of hearing appeals that it is not
unusual for them TO be at large for
two ard three years after conviction,
The effect Is that = verdict of guilty
and a prison sentence are not regarded
by the public as an assurance Of the
@du,in SlxatSon &C tNf1cA ASnsnAs 90
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Gus Of Kidding themselves of gangsters,"
II says, and IL Chicago is DESTROYS of
prosecuting to a conclusion the work
which the Federal Government has be-
gun in the Capone case the task viii be
easier because of the success which has
so far attended this particular legal Of
fensive. The procedure at Chicago has
proved that legal weapons are available
for Use against gangsters as against
other criminals. The next year ought
to show whether the cities have the will
to use Them
Even in this indirect manner, the
authorities have accomplished much"
asserts the Asbury Park Evening Press,
while the Manchester Leader points out
mat the trouble in the past has been
LnaC the police appeared to be help
less In the matter OF dealing with the
organized gangs. It looked as IL gang
dom had set up its own code and
that rival gunner constituted the
principal menace to gangsters. That
made it precarious life, but the men
tality Of the recruits would incline
them to the belief they were picking
the dominant gang, hence it would be
comparatively safe. II it finally seeps
into the minds of the weaklings that
the police are on the job and doing
good work in cleaning them up. the
gaps in the organizations will not be
so easily filed up, because fighting on
anything approaching even terms is not
TO the liking Of the class from which
gangsters are recruited"
Perhaps 1t means the beginning of
the end Of gang rule in America, =
states the Meridian Star. The Dayen-
port Democrat says: Conviction at
this time is a triumph for the law
and the Federal prosecutors and I'M
doubtedly ends for all time his career
as an all-powerful gangster chieftain."
The Altoona Mirror makes the ap-
praisal: This is the first time that
the Chicago gangster has ever been
convicted Of an offense that is punish
able with penitentiary sentence. The
verdict was quite what the public ex-
pected." Considering the evidence in
the case, the Oakland Tribune con-
tends: The court was asked 70 be-
lieve that, in the end, AL Capone
profted nothing from his business be-
cause he was simple enough to drop
his fortune in regular installments into
the laps Of the race track bookmakers.
1t is not likely a court would believe
anything of the kind"
The Des Moines Tribune Capital finds
In this case an argument ffor more
policing by central authority" while
the Milwaukee Sentinel feels that the
result should be Illuminating to Chi
cago and Cook County authorities"
and the Chicago Daily News AYERS
''Caponeis arraignment, trial and con-
yictton IN . Federal court make the
impotent attitude OF local law-enforcing
authorities the more discreditahle"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

define, fathom or grasp. The underly-
ing spiritual and invisible quality, NOV
ing in all and through all has become
the fundamental axiom in all religions
which have raised and benefited man
kind. Measured by no instruments,
weighed in no balances it has furnished
the basic truths of Islam, Confucianism.
Brahn1ism and Christianity.
* * x
Luxembourg Imposes
Heavy Penalties for Motor Fatalities.
LIE Soir, Brussels.-The courts of the
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg have been
imposing for some time very severe
penalties against automobilists who
have caused by their own recklessness
or negligence serious accidents Just a
few weeks since, young doctor who
killed workman who was walking
on the pathway reserved for pedestri-
ans at the side of the road. was con-
demned to four months Imprisonment
and fine of $50, 900 francs.
The following week a lawyer who
caused the death of another pedestrian
received a. sentence of three months
imprisonment and q fine of 100000
francs. Penalties like these would do
much to reduce fatalities on our own
thoroughfares.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27
Charles A. Comiskey.

Death has taken veteran of the ma
%sonAl game. Charles A. Conliskey, prin-
eipal owner OF the Chicago team of the
American League, best known as the
~white Sox." Not many Of the patrons
cf the sport OF today remember him as
. player, though at one time he was one
Of the most efacient performers on the
diamond. he started hts working life
ims . plumber, but at the age Of seven
apen he performed as . base ball player,
covering third base for the Milwaukee
club. Then he became pitcher on the
Egsn. III, team. winning every game IN
the year that he served there. Later he
went to first base on the st. Louis
Browns. where he developed new tech
nique at that position extending hts
/ area Of usefulness by covering . vice
/ spaca for the flelding Of batted balls
Us sszinlag q, - - haEs.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY pH11.ANpER JOHNSON.

As the Band Plays Home, Sweet Homo.
It Is time to depart
And the music will start
Farewells that are cordial and hearty.
No one can be sad,
All agree We have had
A perfectly beautiful party.
The phrases polite
All were spoken just right,
Nobody tried to play "snartie."
And each said at the close
Before seeking repose
What a perfectly beautiful party!"
No one drifted up stage
In a rivalrous rage
Or tried to be uppish and "arty."
Our minds grow content
Since the world can present
Such a perfectly beautiful party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

that covers every part OF American life.
Its politics, its diplomacy, its military
policy. its experiences that have moth
ing to do with justice, nothing TO do
with righteousness-in case you be
minded that way. While reading the
book as history, as biography, you will
be reioiced to come upon man, so
honest, so courageous, so straight
thinking. so prompt In action, so all OF
these things and more, that, fred. you
will yourself take a lock around for
something TO set your own teeth into.
something 10 faStea your own claws
upon. Just to get things moving along
some direct and achieving path. Great
hioaranI1v vital art constructed il. A
great American animated t. -
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taken on technicalities. sometimes TIL
fling In their nature. ard frequently
they succeed. with the result OF retriaI
greatly prosorStne the process and
sometimes leading 20 aequittals or mis-
trials through lack Of evidence due to
the lapse Of tirC.
The right Of the convicted person 70
appeal his case is not 20 be denied
But recognition OF that night should
not initiate against the effectiveness Of
the judicial procedure. The presump-
ton Is that the accused has been fairly
tried and that the verdict rendered is
Just The chances are that there Is nc
substantial ground for appeal or for
doubt as TO the fairness Of the trial.
The public welfare demands that the
first verdict and the sentence imposed
should be executed promptly.
The possibility Ct a prolongation Of
the trial process through appeals With
the defendant at liberty on bend is
unquestionably factor in weakening
the effectiveness Of the law, even 70 tho
extent Of encouraging crime. Tx
gangster with means TO hire a clever
and audacious "nouthpiece' as he CALI
his counsel. expects TO enjoy protracted
frcedom, whatever the ver5ict rem
dered at trial The records. indeed
favor expectation Of almost indefinite
continuation of his case. II he were
compelled to take his medicine" imne
diately. going TO prison at once upon
conviction and sentence. leaving his ap-
peals to be heard by the higher courts
while he is serving his term, his atti-
tude toward the Law, which he now
nouts even in the very court room itself.
would probably be changed for the
greater good of society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27
Chemistry of Thought.

Chemistry OF Thought
Are you always sure you are right
before you go ahead?"
Not absolutely" admitted Senator
Sorghum.
yet you never hesitate about ex-
pressing yourself"
That is by way Of studying reac-
tons. Craftsmanship is something like
laboratory work. You may have to
conduct a lot of experiments before you
can be sure you have hit on the right
idea"
Jud Tunkins says he hopes q five
day week will help to head of the
feiler who never learns to make much
Of anything except mistakes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

No excuses need be offered by Sena-
tor Borah If he is unable to accept the
invitation to visit Paris. Representa-
tives of all phases of political thought
regard him as likely to be for some time
to come a worker who puts in approx
mately twenty-four hours a day seven
days in the week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

strictly business must be regarded
as the motto OF a French statesman
whose American visit is distinguished
by 70 golf, no trout fishing. no movies
and no foot ball. 1t is quite evident
that NJ. Laval has no intention Of max
ing his visit the basis of literary COM
ment on the popular customs Of this
Nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

Canleramen may yet be more popular
than reporters. The photographer may
not always be hattering in his repre-
sensations. but he at least guarantees
freedom from embarrassment in inter
rogation or commentary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

This world has said in days Of yore,
"Of battles there shall be no more
We will bring peace with pillow and pen
And always love our fellow men"
Intentions good have gone astray,
Backslidings happened to delay.
Wen journey on and make it plain
That we shall never skid again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

Great emergencies are said to develop
great men to meet them. A political
genius equal to Edison in the domain of
electricity is being called for at the
present moment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

It appeared so easy for Judge wilker
son to dispose of Capone that it is a
little surprising that underworld chief
tains should have been allowed to
flourish in war paint and feathers for
so many years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

Clothes do not make the man, but
they indicate changes of condition.
Some Of those who first saw Mussolini
in q black shirt viii not be greatly sur
prised If he eventually wears ernine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

A railroad management may be in
something of the position OF theater
management called on to decide wheth-
er to raise prices or offer greater popu
lar inducements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

A waste Of material is shown in ter
rifying crime stories from Los Angeles,
which are too sensational to be utilized
as scenarios in neighboring movie
studios
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

BY taking himself with so much seri-
business @. Bernard Shaw may yet sue
coed in spelling a splendid asset which
he enjoyed in his reputation as a
hunorist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

From the Hamilton tontario) Spectator
The President Of Spain Is tired OF his
JOB and has resigned. That rumbling
noise you heard was the hearty laughter
OF ex-King Alfonso when he heard the
news.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27

A phase Of German thought frankly
assumes that those who have the larg-
est amount of money should do most of
the worrying about debts.