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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-19
RESERVE REDUCES
ACCEPTANCE RATE
Cut by New York Bank Is Fifth
Downward Revision in Less
Than Four Weeks.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 1s.-The Federal
Reserve Bank Of New York today re-
duced its buying rate on acceptances
by one-eighth Of l per cent-to / per
cent for bills maturing in Is to 90
days.
The reduction Is the NTH downward
revision in less than four weeks. As
quotations on acceptances are In per-
centage yields. the reduction Is equiva-
lent to an increase In price. The lower
yields are another step in the Federal
Reserve policy TO force money rates
downward as an aid to business. Ac-
ceptances constitute an important form
Of commercial credit.
One leading dealer reduced his bid
and asked rates on bills maturing in
80 days or less by ne-elghth Of per
cent. making the new rates ! per cent
bid, seven-eighths Of per cent asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-19
N. Y. BANK STOCKS HIT
new LOWS FOR YEAR
Yields Advance, Is Prices Have
Dropped in Past Few
Market Days.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, May 1.-the New York
City bank stock market during the past
week registered q new low for the year,
as indicated ty the Dollar-Index figures
compiled by Holt, Rose q Troster. Based
upon May 10 prices Is leading bank and
trust company shares were quoted at
1871 times known earnings against IT'S
times at the close Of the previous week.
The yield now stands 4.e7s per cent,
against 4.402 per cent q week ago. The
current yield compares with yield Of
low point for last year, and with 2,326
per cent on April 81, the high for 1890.
On May IL, 1880. the yield was ISL
per c.nt and the market times earnings
was 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-19

CHICAGO. May 10 R)-Butter-Re-
ceipts, 1888 tubs; steady; creamery
extras % score), 24l4; standards go
score), car lots. 22Ia; extra firsts (so-sl
score). 2la2lE2; firsts $3.50 score 4.
2Oa2012; seconds 1851 score), 18i2a
10. Eggs-Receipts, 29,545 cases; steady
to Arm; extra firsts, le: fresh grade
frsts, I7A: current receipts, l5al6:
storage packed firsts, ls; storage packed
extras, fek.
Poultry, alive--Receipts. car, 80
trucks; hrm: urices unchanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-19
COAL OUTPUT INCREASES.

Production Of bituminous coal an
creased IS per cent during the week
ended May ., as calculated by reports
TO the United States Bureau Of Mines.
The following totals show the output
for comparable periods:
Week ended May Q, 0,7O0, 900 tons.
Previous week. 6,z22, 900 tons.
Same week last year, sass 900 tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-19
TREASURY STATEMENT.

Treasury receipts for May Is were
%, 456, s36.o7; expenditures, e1o.232,-
2es.2s: balance, Si92, sra s4.25. Gus
toms receipts for the month to the close
Of business May 10, Sfe.03s, 459.2l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-19
Washington Stock Exchange

Anacostia a. Potomac IS Gtd.-Sl 900 at
96, $4,000 at So.
Washington Gas SIS "A"-$l 900 at
1929.
Washington Rvy. & Elec. $50, 900 at
89la, $4,000 at 891a, $500 at 8934.
Capital Traction Colo at 341s, 10 at
34ls.
Washington Rwy. q Elec. pfd.-3 at
e7la.
District National Bank-10 at 2ol.
Federal-American National Bank &
Trust-1O at so.
AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas IS "A"-3300 at 1925.
Washington Gas IS "B"-$500 at 1861.
Capital Traction Co.. at 343s.
Washington Rwy. & Elec. pfd.-25 at
9734, 10 at 97%.
Mergenthaler Linotype at 1914, 5 at
1917. at 79Z.
Bid and Asked Prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-19
SHoRT-TERM SECURITIES.
(Reported By J. & W. seligman

BID. OneR
Alis- Chalmers Co SIS 1887 49,. ioiIa 1919
American Tel. g. Tel 5lzs 1913 ll024 Ill
American Thread 5Ias 1888 -. 100 1904
Baltimore & Ohio 4l7s 1898. . l0l 1914
Batayian Pet. Corp. lfss le42. e3sa en
BeiI Tel OF Canada SIS 1857 iooss lo4
California Pet Corp. Sss 1898. eih 9i4
Canadian Nor. Rwy. 41zs 1895. 100 102ls
Chi. Northwestern Fl. r. SIS 1898 i003s l0lh
Chicago Rock Island Is 1884. eeJs e1A
Chile Copper Co. SIS i947 am. e93e 90
Denver a. Rio Grande 4izs 1895 1904 i0i
Gen. Mot. Aecep Corp. 6s 1897 lo4 10lM
General Petroleum Corp IS 1910 1924 1925
General Theaterg Equip. IS 1870 50 41sa
Goodyear r. & r. IS 1857 .... 1914 90
Grand Trunk Of Canada IS 1896 1885, i0oH
Gulf oil OF Pa. SIS 1887. ....... 1914 101
Humble q 49, s.ss lssa i: is.i 1917: iss'
Mariand Oil S. 1882. ....... lola l02
New York. Chi. & st. L. 65 1882 1905 i00sl
Phillips Pet Co. 6i4g 1889. ..... 81 So
Pure OIL Corp. 5lss isS7..... % %
Shell Union Oil Co. IS 1917. IA 699z 10
Sinclair Crude OIL Co Si2S 1888 1914 100
Standard OIL y, Jersey % 1875: 1885 1857
Standard OIL n York 4iss 1891 9eh 9eA.
st. T.. Inns. Ry. RE Is 1888 97M %
81 L. Southwestern Ry. Is 1882 60h e9M
Unissd brns co. s. isss 80. lois ioiN
Y sui slss.t Z: i e. s. is.t ,M
Wheeling Steel Corp. 61ss i94A 81 %
wheeling Steel Corp. 4lss 1873 7sk 90
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-19
STOCKS.
NATIONAL BANK.
ITRuST COMPANY

con si Ses trust 9sj. . .'.....: lis
Natl. Saw. & TT. (i2t) ..... 4lS
Prince Georges Blk. 4 IT,. 28
WASH ton' L .Ss2 4 Trust do. lis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-19
Reduce Copper Materials.

NEW YORK, May 19 R-Ths
American Brass Co. has reduced prices
on all copper and brass materials 4
quarter of a cent pound
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
CITIZENS PROTEST
HIGH GAS PRESSURE
Takoma, D. c., Association
Also Objects to Penalties
Charged by Utilities.

Reduction of gas presSures in the Dis
trict to inches the maximum formerly
allowed by the Public Utilities Com
mission, was advocated last night by
the Citizens Association Of Takoma,
D. G.
The association took the position that
the adjustment of gas appliances to
operate efficiently on the recently al
lowed 8-inch maximum pressure lis
en- expensive. unnecessary and wholly
siahdeuIate method Of correcting the IN
Justice being done the users or Gus
toners"
The Utilities Commission, the asso-
citation declared, loves it to the citi-
zens to require the Washington Gas
Light and the Georgetown Gas Light
companies to keep the gas pressure
within some standard limitation" and
that the allowable pressure "be such
as is most efficient and economical
from the standpoint Of the user or Gus
toner"
Objection was also made to the
method of charging bills, and in reso-
luton adopted 1t was stated that there
is no reasonable warrant or justitlca-
ton for either the washington Gas
Light Co, the Georgetown Gas Light
Co. or the Potomac Electric Power Co,
recurring either the user or customer to
De CDdTB6GDiB dG fdI yA4lB haCCo AL VAN
different months with the payment of
bills rendered by the companies, or to
subject the user or customer to pen
atty of 10 per cent per month on bills
rendered. particularly when the COM
panies have the power to require secu-
rity from users who are not financially
responsible and have the additional
power of penalizing delinquent user
by disseminating service"
ri 80. ~rvsr1 Ia ~
of Education to fireproof the stairways
of all the old graded District schools.
It will also request the purchase of the
squares bounded by Underwood, Van
Buren,. Third and Fifth streets for a
new senior high school and also that
a new school be provided in the section
lying north of Underwood street and
east of the tracks of the Baltimore g.
Ohio Railroad. A teachers room for
the Takoma Park Public School will
also be requested of the Board Of Edu-
cation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
SURVIVOR TELLS
OF BLAST HORROR
Night Explosion Scatters
Bodies Amidst Wreckage
of Sealing Ship.
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asunder and parts of the wreckage were
tn own in all directions. Men lay dead
and dying in the tangled planking and
ropes, then it started to burn. The In
jured were groaning and screaming fol-
help.
Manned Borne From Ship.
Every able man made a mad dash
nrst panic was over the uninjured re-
turned and risked their own lives to
rescue their comrades.
All those alive-even though they
were manned and dying and the fire
danger was getting greater all the time
were extriCated from the wreckage
and cared for as far as possible. Some
went down with the stern of the ship
ana others, I think, we're killed outright
IN their berths and cabins
The fire started Immediately after
the explosion and consumed the main
part OF the ship. BY the light of the
burning vessel we were able to extract
more OF the wounded and dead from
the debris before she finally slid be-
meath the ice.
Timbers, planking and woodwork
were SpILnGered into match sticks by
the explosion and parts of the ship flew
out onto the ice for hundreds of feet
around in all directions.
Blast Is Mystery.
81 don't think it will ever be known
what happened" he continued. Some
say 1t was the boiler and Others saw it
was the powder magazine. don't think
1t could have been the boiler because
the ship wass topped in the ice for the
night ano the steam pressure was at its
lowest. believe il was the magazine.
containing the explosives we used to
blow our way through ice jams, because
the stern of the ship went up, while
the midship and forward part escaped.
II the boiler amidships had burst il
would have wrecked her altogether"
The trek over the ice to Horse
Island was pathetic. Men with broken
arms and legs were forced to scran1-
BILE over the hillocky ice. Blind, dazed
and manned men, they toiled YEARLY
along Ike soldiers returning from a
ohell-torn section of trenches after
relief had arrived Little parties here
and there lugged the body of a
friend. On they marched toward the
beacon fires on the headland lit by
fishermen who had seen from afar
the lurid glare of the explosion and
fire that marked the destruction of
the Viking
(Convripbt 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

of northbound mail, which he carried
from Richmond to Washington. From
this point north, however, the storm
was so bad the mail was sent on by rail
Treat, none the worse for his har-
rowing experience in the storm near
Laurel, Nd, Sunday night, was back in
Washington today ready to take up the
Shuttle" plane from Washington to
New York at $3.50 this evening. After
taking the shuttle North, he is going
to double up and bring back his regular
night plane, leaving New York at o
o'clock, Richmond bound.
A barnd-new parachute was received
for Treat at Boiling Field this morning
to replace the one which saved his life
Sunday night His old chute must
undergo thorough inspection and re-
packing before being reissued Treat
will wear the new parachute when he
takes or for New York, -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
BOY FILES $4,000 SUIT

Thomas D. Fitzgerald, jr, a minor,
through his father, Thomas D. FitZ-
gerald, 1450 Girard street. today filed
suit in the District Supreme Court to
recover $4,000 damages from William
H. and Frederick A. Hessick. trading as
w. H. Hessick g. Son, coal merchants,
for alleged personal injuries
Through Attorneys A. Coulter Wells
and William H. Carey. jr. the boy tells
the court that he was invited to ride on
a truck of the defendants Eeb uary 8.
1880. at Fourteenth street and Columbia
road. and as he had mounted the run
ming board preparatory to entering the
cab with the driver the vehicle made a
sharp turn throwing him from the truck
and infiicting serious injuries resulting
from striking q parked automobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
Is DEAD, 11S SAVED
|. IN VIKING TRAGEDY
VariCk FrisseII, Cameraman
and Explorer Numbered
Among Those Missing.
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and his two companions sailed with
sound motion picture equipment to take
additional scenes for Frissells picture
Of the seal fisheries, which he began on
an earlier trip.
He is q years old, a graduate of Yale
University and a member of the Royal
Geographic Society. He is the son of
DR.. Lewis F. Frissell of New York and
relative OF Gov. Pinchot Of Penn
sylvania
Sargent is a graduate of Harvard
College in the class of 1912. He has
engaged in exploration and research
work and spent last year in Scandi-
naYia.
Worst Disaster in II Years.
Penrod the cameraman, was formerly
associated with Prof William H. Bristol
at Waterbury, Conn, in the develop
ment of sound picture apparatus.
The sinking Of the Viking is the
worst disaster that has overtaken the
Newfoundland seal fishers in II years.
In 1914 the steamers Newfoundland and
Southern Cross were lost with a total
of 215 lives. Records of the sealing
trade shaw that SAT lives were lost in
ITO years, to which must be added the
toll Of the Viking when the exact
figure is ascertained.
When disaster overlook her, the Vik-
ing was the only ship to be separated
from the rest of the fleet, which sailed
from here March g. The other vessels
passed through the Strait of Belle
isle into the Gulf of st. Lawrence sew
eral days ago. The strait is now damned
with ice, making it impossible for the
others to get back to the aid of the
Viking crew.
The Newfoundland Legislature was
adjourned when word of the Viking dis
aSter reached the chamber. Govern
ment officials Immediately dispatched
ments handling the situation to remain
open all night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
TWO IN NARROW ESCAPE
AS AUTO AND CAB CRASH
Small Sedan Nearly Demolished
After Turning Over Follow
ing Collision.

Two men had a narrow escape from
serious injury today, when the auto
mobile in which they were riding over
turned at Third and F streets, follow
ing collision with taxicab.
Aaron Nader of New York City, a
passenger in the overturned car, was
treated at the Office of DR.. j. Rozier
Biggs in the Investment Building, for
cuts and bruises about the arms and
legs. Herbert Todd of 500 Longfellow
street, driver of the car, escaped in
jury. The car fell On its left side, where
Mr.. Nader was sittings
Although the small sedan in which
the men were riding was considerably
damaged, the cab, driven by Leslie Lait
of 210 Flower avenue, Takoma Park,
escaped serious damage. No arrest was
made a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
MRS. IDA H. HARPER
TO BE BURIED IN MUNCIE
Writer and Lecturer, Noted as Suf-
frage Leader, Died Here Sat-
urday Night.

The ashes of Mrs Ida Hustled Harper,
author. journalist and lecturer who
died in Homeopathic Hospital here Sat-
urday night. were being sent today to
Muncie, Ind, for interment in the FAM
lily burial plot
Mrs. Harper was widely known as a
protagonist of woman suffrage. Her
best known books were THE Life and
Work of Susan B. Anthony" and the
History of Woman Suffrage"
Since 1904 she had been a delegate
to European conferences of the Inter
national Council OF Women and the In
ternational Suffrage Alliance. At the
time of her death she was living at the
headquarters of the American Associa-
ton of University Women here.
A daughter Mrs. Winifred Harper
Cooley of New York, survives
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

Continued From First Page.l
at 3:05 o'clock this morning bound for
Boiling Field. The clouds were heavy,
with snow and rain falling along the
line but he hoped, with the aid of the
range beacon service, to get through.
Clouds Block Landing.
After following the beacon course
As or SO minutes, which normally would
have put him within sight Of Boiling
Field, Jameson was "pinched of" b5
clouds and fog, which closed in COM
pletely and made 1t impossible for him
to land. He turned back toward Rich
mond to land If necessary and try
again when the fog had lifted.
When he reached Richmond, how
ever. he found a hole through the
blankets Of clouds overhead and decided
TO climb UP above the clouds and try
to find another opening through which
he might descend in the vicinity Of
Boiling Field. He climbed for an hour
cloud banks at an altitude Of 5000
feet
Picking up the radio beacon signals,
Jameson again came up to Washing
ton. When he judged by the strength
Of the beacon signals that he was nearly
over the city the radio cut out complete
| ~ for some reason he could not de-
| ternine.
without anything to guide him he
cruised around two miles high above the
| clouds looking for a hole through which
I he might drop with some assurance of
safe landing While he circled around
/ W. B. Martin, in charge of the Boiling
Field airmail station at night, could
hear his motor from the field below
| Martin switched on the field foodlights
but the fog and clouds klanketed even
their powerful beams from the view OF
the pilot above.
Fuel Supply Runs Low.
I Jameson finally was forced to turn
back to Richmond as his fuel supply
began to run low. While he was flying
around the wind was picking up, with
out his knowing it, and he went back
south en- the wings of g 65-mile-an-
hour tail wind. When he came down
Gut Of the clouds he found himself 80
miles south Of Richmol,-- He turned
back north once more and landed at
Richmond at 6:25 o'clock, after being
in the air 3 hours and 20 minutes.
His plane was refueled, and Jamie
son took of for Washington once more
at o'clock. BY this time the morning
sun had begun to beat down the clouds
and mist, and he was able to &c,
through. landing at Boiling Field al
$40 o'clock. After a flve-minute stoT
here he completed his run to New York
Pilot John Armstrong, who few tbs
mail rescued from Treats demolished
plane down to Richmond early yester-
day afternoon, followed Jameson VI
to Washington with a second section
leaving Richmond at 8:15 O'Clock.
Larry" Pabst, former Marine Corps
pilot, succeeded in breaking through tn
storm yesterday afternoon with q loaG
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
PROBE AID RUMoRED.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, March 17.-The New
York Herald Tribune today said w
Kingsland Macy Republican State
chairman, had gone to Washington to
seek President Hoovers support of a
legislative investigation of the city gov
eminent.
Mr. Macy will appeal to the Presi-
dent, the paper said, to persuade VII
liam L. Ward, Republican leader of
Westminster County, to withdraw his
opposition to a resolution pending in
the State Senate. Senators Seabury
c. Mastick and Walter w. Westall thus
far have blocked passage of the meas
ure, purportedly under orders from Mr.
Ward.
The New York Times said The State
Democratic party had been split into
three factions by the agitation for an
inquiry. They were named as the
leading Tammany grouC headed by
John F.. Curry, the supporters of Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the follow
ers of former Gov. Alfred E. Smith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
CAPTAIN MAKES REPORT.
Commander of Viking Lists Ten Men
as Missing.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March II
GP).-In the first report he has been
able to make to his government. Capt.
Abram Kean, jr.. told this morning of
the explosion which cost him his ship
and the lives of probably 25 men Sun
day night. His report was cabled the
Canadian press by Hon. H. B. @. Lake,
minister of marine and fisheries
Capt. Kean said he was on the bridge
when the explosion tore his vessel He
was hurled to the ice, through which
the steamer was slowly pushing her
way, and was severely injured.
He said a check had been made of
1l8 survivors who had succeeded in
reaching Horse Island over the eight
miles of heaving ice foes. AS a result
Of this check, he reported, his three
American passengers, Varrick Frissell,
A. E. Penrod and Harry Sargent, were
missing, as well as the navigator, Capt.
w. Kennedy; the chief engineer, j.
Murphy; the second engineer, F. Par
nell; the third engineer, H. Hanniford;
the ships physician, DR.. w. ]. Roach;
the wireless operator, c. King, and the
steward, S. Ulett.
The mate, Alfred Kean, he said, was
still on the ice with broken leg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
EUGENE w. CISSEL
COMMITS SUICIDE
Rockville Resident Shoots Himself
in Head at
Home.
Special Dispatch to The star.


ROCKVILLE, Md, March 17.-Eugene
w Cissel shot and killed himself at his
home here last evening on his forty
first birthday anniversary. His wife told
police that she had feared for some time
that her husband was contemplating
suicide.
Mr. Cissel, who was a member of a
prominent Montgomery County family,
is said to have been respondent for
more than year. His health was not
good.
After a conference last night with
States Attorney Stedman Prescott and
Policeman Harry Merson, DR.. G. V.
Hartley, who was called into the case
by Mrs Cissell, issued a certificate of
death by suicide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
ALBRIGHT TAKES STEP
TO VALIDATE MARRIAGE
Leaves to Visit Archduke Otto to
Make Formal Remuneration of
Royal Rights.
az the Assoclated Pc.

BUDAPEST, March I7.-Archduke
Albrecht, one-time candidate for the
Hungarian throne, left for Belgium last
night, where he will visit Archduke
Otto to make formal remuneration Of
all his royal rights in order to obtain
valuation as a private individual of his
marriage TO a woman not Of royal blood.
Albrecht's wife, formerly Nine Irene
Lelbach divorced wife Of the Hungarian
Minister to Sofia, whom he married in
England last August, is expecting the
birth of a child The archduke hopes
to make his marriage valid by obtaining
a announcement from the Catholic
Church that his wife's FIRST marriage
was economically Illegal.
Archduke Otto, who recently became
head of the House of Hapsburg and
Sretender 10 Km4gary's empty throne
on attaining his majority, is student
at the University Of Louvain. Promi-
nent monarchists have started move
ment % place him on the throne.
Albreeat Is AZ years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
SEEKING
HOOVER'S SUPPORT
Macy Says He Urged Ap-
pointment of Judge, Not Aid
in Municipal Probe.

BY the Associated Press.
w. Kingsland Macy, Republican state
chairman of New York, said today that
he had not conferred and had no inten-
ton of comforting with President Hoo
yer regarding a State investigation of
the municipal affairs of New York City.
Macy said he had wired the appoint
ment of State Senator John Knight for
Federal judge of the western district of
New York.
He RECOMMENDED Knight for the job
two months ago. but the appointment
was not made after organized opposition
to his appointment arose in Erie County.
The White House also said there "was
no truth" in published reports that
Macy had attempted. to interest Presi-
dent Hoover in securing an investiga-
ton by the New York Legislature.