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The Washington times., 1931-09-28
OTHER WOMAN
READY To AID
PROF, KANE
In Hiding Near Philadelphia,
Says Sister, Expecting to
Take Stand for Defense
PHILADELPHIA, Sept.

PHILADELP HIA, Sept. %
0.N.S0. - Bessie Harris Dahl,
Sea Cinderella" and focal figure
in the Kane murder mystery of
Hampton. Va, is registered under
an assumed name at a hotel
within 20 miles of this city.
If Prof. Elisha Kane, to whom
she wrote letters on which the Vir.
ginia authorities hope to predicate
a motive for Mrs. Kane'S death,
is indicted, she will testify. .
Offered the services Of two
prominent attorneys, she has en-.
gagged one. He is a former Fed
eral prosecutor.
Revealed By Sister
This much was learned today
from the. wnmaT's sister, Anna. {.
! Concerning the name of the
hotel, the family Of the former
Leviathan StewardeSs maintained
the deepest silence, thereby
aggravating the quandary of
trained detectives who have now
combed six States and the
District of Columbia in a vain
effort to find the letter-writing
divorce.
A Family Lineup
The fact that Mrs. Dahl's attOr-
ney is a former Federal prose
CutOr Is construed in some quar-
terS as an admission that she
will be represented by F. Francis
Kane, former district attorney for
the eastern district of PennsyI-
vania.
Mr.. Kane is a cousin of the
accused man, as is F. Kent Kane,
Of Bradford, Pa, counsel of rec
ord for the professor.
This would give the case a
singular family lineup. Since the
defendants father. a physician of
Kane, Pa, has already reported
his intention to testify. he had
treated his daughter-in-law for a
weak heart for years before her
death.
(Other news of Kane case on
Page e.
The Washington times., 1931-09-28
MRS. HUTTON
BARES RITES
HELD LAST
MONTH
Carl TimberIake, Accountant,
Is Groom, in Rockville;
Bride Prominent Here

The romance of the former
Mrs. Walter E. Hutton, 46, presi-
dent of the District of Columbia
Chapter, United Daughters of the
Confederacy, with Carl Timber.
lake, 35, an accountant, was dis
closed today with the announce
ment that the two had eloped to
Rockville, Md. and been quietly
married August q.
Interviewed at her home on
Newton Street today, Mrs. Timber
lake said:
"The wedding was q very
simple one but several Of my
closest friends knew it was to
take place and several of them
accompanied us to Rockville to
witness the ceremony"
She declined to give the names
OF those attending herself and
Mr.. Timberlake.
An Active Worker
Mrs. Timberlake, as Mrs. Hut
ton, has been prominent for years
in local patriotic women organize
tions. She is just completing d
two-year terms as president OF
the United Daughters of the Con.
federacy of Washington, and had
served previously, in 1929 in
the same capacity. She has taken
an active part in committee work
for the Daughters of the Am.
erican Revolution, Thirteen Col
oniees chapter, although she has
never served as an officer of the
society.
She plans to remain in Wash
ingtOn until November, when she
is to go to Jacksonville, Fla, to
attend the annual congress of the
u. ID. c.. Her successor as head
of the local chapter in that or.
ganiZatiOn will be named at the
annual election in December here.
Widow 1S Months
She first met Mr.. Timberlake a
little over a year ago when visit
ing in the South. Mr.. Timberlake
has gone South since the wedding
in August and expects to join his
wife in Jacksonville in November.
Mr.. Hutton died about IL
months ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Timberlake expect
to make their future home in the
South.
The Washington times., 1931-09-28
Train Bearing Two
Daughters Kills
Their Father

NEW GLASGOW, Nova Scotia,
Sept. % Q.N.S0 Margaret and
Catherine Wilkinson, one a reg.
1stered nurse, came up from
Boston today to visit their aged
father, Augustine Chisholm Will
kinson, a Pictou county farmer
and mail man.
Near their destination their
train ran down a track.walker.
The nurse offered her assist
ance, but was told the man
was dead. Arrived home, their
two brothers met them and told
them their father had gone to
meet them.
When he didn't return they
started search for him and
found his body in the morgue.
He was the man the train had
run over.
The Washington times., 1931-09-28

HAVRE DE GRACE RACE
TRACK, Md, Sept. 28.-Willie
Garner, who thrilled thousands
here on Saturday by bringing ~
Burning Blaze to win the $25, $50
Eastern Shore Handicap, was
injured in an accident this morn
ing in which three horses were
spilled.
The veteran Pat Brady and
Elmer Wood, trainer of the Lin
ton Farms string, were the others
to figure in the accident.
Brady astride DaiSaburo, and
Garner, who was up on Full Up,
we're racing down the home
stretch in a speed test. At the
paddock turn Wood was endeavor-
ing to pull Post Kid.
The colt wheeled and bOlted
toward the inside fence and col
The Washington times., 1931-09-28
HELPERS
OVERCOME
BY GAS
Monoxide Mists, Generated BY
Mash, Causes Tragedy in
Basement of Mt. Briar Home

One woman was killed and
two youths were ovrcome last
night by monoxide fumes from a
still in the woman'S home at
Mt. Briar, Washington county,
Md.
The woman is Mrs. Teta L.
Jones, "a, wife of Ira F. Jones.
The young meH are Stanley Jones,
%, her husbands brother, and
Howard Ferguson, 16.
All were dicovered in the cellar
OF the Jones home, where also
were found 10 barrels Of mash.
Husband Away
Ira Jones, who had been in
Gettysburg yesterday. returned at
Q o'clock last night and found
the three lying in the cellar.
Richard Drffey, acting coroner,
and Deputy Sheriff Richard
Renner investigated, and DR..
George w. LeVan was called,
pronouncing Mrs. Jones dead.
1t is believed the two youths
win fully recover. They will be
arrested on a liquor making
charge. States Attorney j. Lloyd
Hirshman and Federal author.
ities were notified.
Worked With Mash
ReconStructing the tragedy,
officers believe the two youths
went into the cellar to work
with the fermenting mash and
were overcome, and that Mrs.
Jones, wondering about their
silence, went down later and was
also felled by the gas.
This is the first case on record
in Washington county Of persons
being overcome by monoxide
fumes from mash, although of
ficers said the gas frequently was
generated in such cases.
The Washington times., 1931-09-28
Shot by Merchant,
Man Called RObber

Police today questioned William
Dunlop, 80, colored, at Emergency
Hospital. He is in a critical con-
dition after being shot in a
grocery store at Third and p
Streets Northwest, Saturday night
Dunlop was shot while trying
to hold up Abe Rosenblatt, &C
cording to the latter, in his store.
Dunlop denies the accusation.
Rosenblatt said he shot the man.
The Washington times., 1931-09-28
PyrOmdnidc Hunted
In Fire Death of ;

NEW YORK, Sept. % 0.NSJ.
A hunt for a pyromaniac, held
responsible for the fire in
crowded tenement house, which
resulted in the death of one
woman and three children and in
jury to six other persons, was
underway today. Police found
five-gallon gasoline can in the
house.
The Washington times., 1931-09-28
Jockey Willie Garner Hurt
In SPILL at fGra1U'
Photo by International

lided head on with the flying
mounts of Garner and Brady, top
ping all three lads into the dirt.
Full Up tore away part of the
inner rail and suffered cuts on her
side, but after regaining her feet,
dashed madly across the center
field to the gap leading off
the track. Garner, who suffered
bruises, escaped serious injury by
rolling into the ditch alongside
the railing.
The Washington times., 1931-09-28
Trigger Man. Dies
In ROckUieU Chair

ROCKVIEW PENITENTlARY,
BELLEFONTE, Pa, Sept. %
1.N.SD.-William C. Snipes, Blue
Spruce" bandit-murderer Of Lam
caster, S. c., went to his death in
the Pennsylvania electric chair
early today.
Snipes was convicted as the
trigger man" in the killing Of
Edward Gamils, proprietor of the
Blue Spruce Inn at TrevoSe, Pa.
The Washington times., 1931-09-28
CIVIC CLUB TO CONVENE

The Lyon Village Civic Club will
hold its first fall meeting tonight
at 8 o'clock at the home of S.
Groves Eareskson, 211 Oak st.
Candidates for the post of trial
justice will speak.
The Washington times., 1931-09-28
Georgia Judge Dies
Suddenly on Bench

MACON, Ca, Sept. 28 QN.SO. .
Judge H. A. Mathews, rs, of
Macon Superior Court, dropped
dead today on his bench here
shortly after calling court to
order.
The Washington times., 1931-09-28
THE WEATHER

Fair and continued cool tonightj Tuesday
fair with slowly rising tempersturej moderate
northerly winds, becoming gentle variable Tues
day. Temperature yesterday-Highest, 6S; low
est, IS, Humidity observation-disclosures, IS; low
The Washington times., 1931-09-28

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
INCREASE IN TRACTOR
SHIPMENTS is NOTED
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Tractors comprised larger share Of
United States farm machinery exports
during the first 10 months of 1890, the
Department Of Commerce reports, with
a total of 4S per cent, as against AZ per
cent for the corresponding period Of
last year.
Russia was the chief market, with
purchases increasing 1913 per cent in
number and $50 per cent in value over
last year. This increase was due to
heavy tractor buying in the first quar-
ter Of 1880 to furnish the motive power
for the reported large scale agricultural
operations of the five-year plan.
Although Canada was the second
largest market, there was considerable
decrease in purchases as compared with
last year, with shipments declining 40
per cent in volume, and Al per cent in
value This curtailment was caused,
the department says, by the drop in
wheat prices, restricted credits and a
large carryover Of tractors from last
season.
Argentina was the third largest mar
ket, being followed by Australia, exports
to which gained slightly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, January S up United
States Department of Agricultural -
Hogs, $1,000 head, including 10000
head direct; active; 10a15 lower than
Friday on weights above 200 pounds;
tighter weights, 15a25 lower; top, 800;
bulk, 220 pounds down, 7.75a8.O0 !;
heavier weights, 7.3oa7.70; pigs, 7.65a
7.S5; packing sows, 6.25a6.50; light
light, good and choice. 140-l60 pounds.
7.85aB 90; light weight, 10000 pounds,
7.55a8.00; medium weight, 200-25O
pounds, 755a8.00; heavy weight, $50
$50 pounds, 7.25a7 go; packing sows,
medium and good, 275-5oo pounds,
choice, 100-130 pounds, 7.35a8.00.
Cattle-14,0o0 head; calves, 1000
head; better grade fed steers and
yearlings active and strong; others
slow, about steady; butcher stock I'M
changed; bulls 10 higher and veaIers
strong; medium weights, Beeves, 1900.
and yearlings. 1925, early; slaughter
cattle and vealers, steers, good and
choice, 100000 pounds, 975a1425; 600
100 pounds, 9.75aI4.25: 1901 800
pounds, 9.50a14.25: 1901 500 pounds.
9.00a1375; common and medium, 600
1900 pounds, 6.25a9.75.
Heifers, good and choice, 550-850
pounds, 8.0oa12 90; common and
medium, 5.00a8.00; COWS, good and
cnoice, 5.Z5a1.Z5f common ana meulum,
4.00a5.25; low cutter and cutter, 300a
400; bulls (yearlings excluded. good
and choice (beef), 5.00a6.25; cutter to
medium, 400a5.75; Yealers milk fed, ,
good and choice, 10.25a13.00; medium
S.75al025; Gull and common, 6.00a8,75;
stocker and feeder cattle, steers, good
and choice, SOCIAL .050 pounds. 6.75a9. 90;
common and medium, 5.25a6.75.
Sheep-Receipts, 1900 head; lambs
mostly steady; yearlings, 25a50 higher;
ewes strong; bulk good to choice lambs,
S00a6 so; best held around 8T5; choice
yearlings, 700a7-50; lambs go pounds
down, good and choice, 7.75a8. S5;
medium, 6.50a7.75; all weights common
5.25a6.50; ewes, 90-150 pounds, medium
to choice, 2.25a3.75; all weights, Gull
and common, 1.50a2-75; feeding lambs,
COTS pounds, good and choice, 6.75a
$50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
PRICES ARE MIXED
/. IN CURB TRADING
Market Becomes More Ac-
tive, but Price Changes
Are Small.
BY JOHN A. cRoNE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 5.-Irregular
Rt the opening, today's curb market de-
Veloped some strength after the first
hour, only to lose part of it around mid
day. Trading was more active than in
recent sessions.
The market leader, Electric Bond g.
Share, was of fractionally after several
sr.an bulges. Cities Service was up
slightly most of the time. Goldman
Sachs at times was up point, following
the sale of its holdings and Manufac-
turers' Trust stock.
Public utilities, trading corporations,
packing, motor, radio and airplane So
curities formed the bulk of dealings in
the first two hours. Shortly thereafter
natural gas, copper and petroleum issues
met better demand.
The power and light shares firmed on
the announcement of specific mergers
and rumorS of consultations, as well as
attempted short coverings and better
than-eXpected earnings. United States
Electric Power Corporation and United
Founders Corporation both benefited by
the acquisition of control of the former
by the latter company.
One of the exceptions to the uptrend
in operating utilities was Bell Telephone
of Canada, which was down about a
point.
United Gas, through its subsidiary,
United Pipe Line Corporation, has COM
pleted purchase from Southern Natural
Gas Corporation of lines extending from
jackson, Miss, to Mobile, Bogalusa,
Canton. Laurel Hattiesburg, Gulfpoint,
Biloxi and Pensacola.
Following the rise of Goldman Sachs,
which will obtain a STABLE amount of
cash from the sale Of its Manufacturers
Trust holdings, and of United Founders,
other trading corporations and trust
shares turned active and higher. This
group included American Investors B,
Reliance Management, American Found
ers, which is subsidiary of United
Founders Selected Industries preferred
and Shenandoah Sornferrnd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
FARM CONVENTION
OPENS WEDNESDAY
Several Organizations to
Participate in Meeting
at Baltimore.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
BALTIMORE. January 5.--Questions
of vital interest to Maryland farmers
will be discussed at the fifteenth an.
nual convention of the Maryland Agri-
cultural Society and the Maryland
Farm Bureau Federation, which viii Be
held here three days this week. James
w. Davis Is president Of the federation.
M. M. Stewart, secretary, viii be In
charge OF the program.
The afaliated organizations Of the
federation which will hold separate
meetings during the convention are
Maryland State Horticultural Society.
Maryland Crop improvement Associ-
alton, Maryland State Beekeepers' AS
ISOLATION. Maryland state vegetables
Corporation of Maryland, Maryland
Tobacco Growers Association. Mary
land Stockmen'S Association and the
Maryland State Poultry Association.
Convention Program.
The opening session Of the conven-
ton will be on wednesday, with Z.
Thomas Massey, vice president, In the
chair. Then viii follow the annual adj.
dress Of Mr.. Davis and the report Of Mr..
Stewart. There viii be two addresses.
one by Edward A. OrNeal president Of
the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation
and vice president of the national or
ganiSation, and the other by DR.. Ray
mond A. Pearson, president Of the Uni
versity of Maryland.
On Wednesday night a style show
will be staged in cooperation with the
Cotton Textile Institute, with dancing
to follow.
The session of Thursday afternoon
will be presided over by Walter S.
Spencer. president Of the Hartford
County Farm Bureau, and the speakers
will include C. r. White, president Of
the New York Farm Bureau Federation,
who VIII relate How New York Solved
the Tax Question for the Farmer" and
Mrs Charles w. Sewell, director of
home and community department Of
the American Farm Bureau Federation,
Mrs. Sewell will outline the, women's
part IN cooperative marketing and ex-
plain other activities in which Farm
Bureau women may be of valuable as
| sistance to their organization. At this
session medals will be presented the
vocational agricultural boys Of the
State.
The annual banquet will be held
Thursday evening in the banquet hall
OF the Lord Baltimore. Thomas Par
ran Of Southern Maryland fame will be
POSTMASTER and the speakers will be
Mrs: Charles w. Sewell and Douglas
Malloch Of Chicago.
Drought Relief Report.
The final session will be held Friday
| morning, January 8, and viii be pre-
| sided over by E. p. Cohill, first presi-
dent of the Maryland Farm Bureau
Federation. The speaker will be DR..
Thomas B. Symons, director of the UNI
versity of Maryland Extension Service,
who win report on the State Drought
Relief Committee, of which he is Sec
rotary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, January 5 Especially -
Cotton prices moved 2 to points high
From the start II was evident that there
were other buying factors present than
short covering, to which all Of Sat-
urday's gains were attributed. Trade
purchases were freely made in near
months, while some operators were in
clined to take long speculative positions
In distant contracts.
Opening prices were: January old,
1924, up 8; January new, 1912, up
3; March 1890, up 2; May 1888, up A.;
July 1882, up f. october 1925, up g.;
December 11.12, up 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
COTTON GOODS VALUE
PLACED AT ST, 484, 639, OIL

BY the Associated Press.
The Bureau Of the Census announces
that, according to preliminary tabula-
ton of data collected in the census of
manufactures taken in 1880, the total
value fob factory prices) of cotton
goods produced by manufacturers in the
United States in 1929 was 81 ,484, 500 OIL.
OF this amount, $1,480,3 59,719 was
contributed by establishments engaged
primarily in the manufacture of these
commodities, and $4,279,352 by estab-
lishments engaged primarily in other
lines of manufacture.
The production in 1929 was as fol-
lows: Woven goods over IL inches in
width, s,2O7, 1877 ,912 square yards, valued
at S1,129 ,386,379; cotton yarns for sale,
623, 440,4 Ala pounds, $246, 377 ,235; thread,
19,697,2l5 pounds, SCI ,553 300; cotton
waste for sale, 434, $685. pounds, $32,-
320,762; other products, $45,000,886.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05

curities of the company the investment
rating they enjoy today.
The effect of business depressions of
the past on the dividend rate is inter-
esting in view of the present trade Sit
uation The three years in which no
dividend was paid were 1871. 1872 and
1873, in the latter of which years was
the famous gold panic which resulted in
closing the New York Stock Exchange
for 10 days, the only time in Its history
except during the four months after
the declaration of the World War in
1914. Following the crisis of 1907
Western Unien reduced its cash div
idend rate to per cent, but paid 21a
per cent in script. There was no re-
auction in 1920 or 1921. The present
So rate has been in effect since 1926
and prior to that 81 had been paid
since 1919.
At the present writing it looks doubt
full whether the dividend will be earned
with much margin to spare in 1880.
but there has been no suggestion Of
any change in the rate. With regard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
STOCK RALLY EXCEEDS
TRADERS EXPECTATIONS
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 5.-The rally
in the stock market, which began with
the announcement of the railroad con-
solidation, has gone further and contin-
.ued longer than the bears would have
admitted a week ago or the bulls had
thought probable. At this mornings
opening the average of so stocks was
up about IL points from the closing
last Monday and over Is points from
the low of that day. In individual
shares the gains have been substan-
tial both for members of the industrial
and railroad groups. The larger part OF
this improvement is due TO short COW
ering and to the cessation of tax selling.
The immediate future of the market
now depends on whether the short in
terest feels that it's position Is untenable
and whether investors, who have de-
ferred purchases until they could see
evidence of an improvement in general
conditions, will now buy on substan-
tial scale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
TRADE ASSOCIATIONS TRYING
TO STABILIZE u. S. BUSINESS
Importance of Statistics Emphasized In
Meeting Problems of Modern Industry.
Promotion Movements Stressed.

release of funds for home building and
remodeling. A large number Of associa-
tons have Joined in the effort to en-
courage repairs and betterments, urging
upon manufacturers the deSirability of
improving their plants and equipment
at this time. Other campaigns looking
in the same direction were those or
gained by appropriate associations to
interest automobile owners in repair
ing their cars. to stimulate the remod-
cling of office buildings, to clean up and
repair business premises.
Employment Problem.
The maintenance of normal purchas-
ing has received special attention from
associations representing retailers and
statesmen. While all these efforts tend
ed, directly or indirectly, to relieve un-
employment, number of associations
have given special attention to regular
izing employment, to reducing labor
turnover and promoting more stable
conditions in production and plant utili-
zation, and have sought to remedy gen.
eral conditions by balancing production
and consumption.
Many of the largest associations have
paid special attention to the elinina-
ton of uneconomic and unfair business
practices. Forty industries during the
year have held trade-practice confer
enceS and a number Of associations have
established extensive organization ma
chinery for the improvement of rela-
tons between competitors and between
manufacturers and distributors.
During 1880 the trade association
movement In America has made a no
table advance toward the great goal Of
industrial cooperation, which Is CO.
ordinated effort under group leadership
Twice q year the executive officers OF
the leading associations meet in conven-
ton to exchange information and learn
from each others experiences. In the
national organization maintained by
these executives the Federal Govern
ment has an agency through which the
members of every important industry in
the country can be reached with a min
imum of time and effort. Coordination
under group leadership now has reached
point where the national trade aSso.
Citations themselves are cooperating
effectively with the Department oil
Commerce and the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States and through
their own organization of executive
secretaries and managers. The value Of
this national teamwork should be in.
creasingly apparent during the coming
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
COMPANY CHANGES HANDS.

NEW YORK, January (P)-Harvey
D. Gibson, chairman of the Executive
Committee Of the New York Trust Co.,
announced that he and a group of un-
named associates had acquired the
major portion of the Goldman Sachs
Trading Corporations holdings of 80
per cent of the stock of the Manufac-
turers' Trust Co.
Gibson denied reports circulated in
Wall Street that the transaction had
been sponsored either by the MorRaM
or Rockefeller interests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
GRAIN MARKET

CHICAGO, January (P).-with buy
ing slack, grains averaged lower early
today. Rainy weather in Argentina and
decreased supplies Of wheat on ocean
passage failed to act as a stimulus and
SO, too, did steps toward an embargo
on wheat and feedstuffs imports into
the United States. Opening y cent on
to Il cent up, wheat later kept near to
the initial range. Corn started un-
changed to q cent lower and SUISSE
quently showed setbacks all around.