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BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT
SEEN DURING. NEW YEAR
d. the Associated press.

haeOAIHGEu EIE6h.
NEW YORK, January s.--There is
increasing evidence that 1891 will be q.
year of gradual, though possibly inter-
mittent, Improvement In business,
Standard Statistics Co., says in q cur
rent survey. Broadly considered" the
survey says, I'VE believe that aggregate
results for the first quarter will be bet
ter than those for the last f1ree months
Of 1880, but substantially under the
showing for the initial quarter of last
year"
The survey says a moderate expan-
sion, expected in the latter part of the
first quarter this year, SHOULD possess
the inherent characteristic Of reeenera-
ton"
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RAIL OFFICIAL DIES.

LOUISVILLE, KY, January Dr.
George z. Evans, IA. executive vice
president Of the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad Co., died last night after
a brief illness OF pneumonia. A native
of Cambridge. Ohio, helentered the en-
ploy of the Baltimore a. Ohio Railroad
as . telegraph operator.
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COMMODITY PRICES.
BY the Associated Press.

Commodity prices continued to de-
cline last week as their change was COM
puted by the Department of Commerce.
In the index that follows the average
wholesale selling price is given for COM
parable periods, based on representing
1926 averages as 100. In addition, the
selling price of ton OF composite steel
products is given for like periods:
AL modities-Week ended January
8, 1875; previous week, 1910; same week
last year, $50.
SteeI-Week ended january 8, $3i So:
previous week, $31.66; same week last
year. $3.50.
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J. c. Penney Co.. Sales.

NEW YORK, January (R.-J. @.
Penney Co. reported for the year 1880
sales Of S1o2, 930, 1852, q decrease of 7.99
per cent from the total of 5000, 500, AIT
reported for 1929. December sales total
ed 423, 7O3 ,22O. q decrease of 1880 per
cent from sales Of s29, $50, 24S, reported
for December. 1e29.
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DIVIDENDS COMPARED
IN 1890 WITH 1929
Reports Show Unusual Number Of
Reductions During Past
Twelve Months.
special pispatch to rhs STAR.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January s.-unfavor.
able dividend changes in 1880 hume
bered 1882, Of which 405 were de.
creased and BAT passed, according to
the Standard Statistics Co. The 1929
decreases numbered Sc and those passed
22S. Detailed figures for December
and the IL months for the two years
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FAILURES OF BANKS
DOUBLED LAST YEAR
4. G. Dun & Co. Reports 934 for
1880, Against 437
in 1929.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

opbCIaI UIepaJCh 70 The Star.
NEW YORK, January 8,-Failures of
banks in the United States in 1880
were more than double in number and
more than four times greater in liabili-
ties than in 1929, according to a report
issued by r. G. Dun & Co. yesterday.
The mercantile agency gives the num-
Der OF failures as 934 and the liabilities
as S006,157, 1873, compared with 437 fair
ures involving $218, 1862 in 1929.
The following table, compiled by
Dun g. Co., shows the number of fall
ures in 1880 and 1899 and the liabili-
ties IN the former year:
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URGES
CHECKS ON CREDIT.
Head of Bankers Association
Discusses Relation of Price
Level to Surplus.
Special Dispatch to The star.

CHICAGO, January 8.-In discussing
factors which enter into successful and
orderly business life under present con-
ditions, President Rome G. Stephenson
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Total ............ as4 az

The report points out that with the
exception of the Pacific Coast district
the increase in failures was country
wide.
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Chinese Dollar Declines.

SHANGHAI, January 8 CP).-The
Chinese silver dollar declined today to
23.16 gold cents, new low level.
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Note-An stocks sold in one hundred-share lots
excepting those designated by the letter (80s (250s,
which shows those stocks were sold In odd lots
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08

with warrants.
xW-Without warrants.
New.
w-When issus6.
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firmly in place The stitches cover the entire
surface of the flag and its backing with a very
strong yet hardly visible network Of circular
peshes about half an inch in diameter. The
thread is dyed to match the colors of the flag,
Where there are gaps or missing parts of the
jacent parts Of the old bunting, complete the
Of the parts that are gone.
A FTER perfecting the method Mrs Fowler
preserved one Of the Annapolis flags for
Admiral Cole. In June, 1912, the admiral took
this flag and the tattered remains of Perry's
famous battle flag before Congress, exhibiting
the two side by side. When the members saw
the rejuvenated appearance of the preserved
flag in contrast with the dilapidated condition
of the one which bore in rude letters the dying
words of Capt. James Lawrence, Don't Give
Up the Ship" the requested appropriation Of
$4,000 for the restoration of all the Naval
Academy flag collection was forthcoming.
Forty needlewomen under Mrs. Fowlers d.
rsction, were soon at work preserving the 172
flags in the Annapolis collection. Mrs Richey
assisted in the work.
One of the most treasured exhibits in the
National Museum today is the Original Star
Spangled Banner" the flag that Francis Scott
Key saw flying above Fort McHenry from his
position as prisoner aboard British ship in
Baltimore Harbor on September IS and IA, 1914,
that inspired the words Of the national anthem.
After the British were driven away the flag
was presented to Maj George Armistead, who
was brevetted lieutenant colonel for bravery In
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the defense of the fort. The flag remained in
possession OF the Armistead family for nearly a
century, during which time 1t took the breeze
on several national occasions. In 1912 Col
Armisteads grandson. Abel Appleton, presented
it to the National Museum. Two years later
came the dire announcement that this old Flag
Of Glory was wearing out. What was to be
done?
Again Mrs. Fowler was appealed to and again
she fulfilled the demand. For six weeks corps
of needlewomen under her supervision sewed a
million and half tsix-sided" stitches to secure
the treasured flag to linen background which
would preserve it for the generations to come
The work was done in hall OF the Smithsonian
Institution. Washington, D. G.
Mrs. Richey has been increasingly busy since
her mothers death working on collections Of
various States, museums and individuals. One
of the largest collections which she has pre-
served is that of the State House of Massa-
chusetts, in Boston.
OF paramount interest among the Massachu-
sets collection is the flag Of the Constitution
"Old Ironsides "-Yhich, commanded by Capt
Isaac Hull, defeated the British frigate Guer-
riere in 1912 and in her entire career never lost
q battle This grand old ship was recently re-
built and preserved by money contributed by
the school children of America
THE little flag with which Barbara Fritchie,
that indomitable loyalist, defied the Con-
federates has also been pTpyerved by AIRS.
Richey and Is now on exhibit in the Barbara
Fritchie Memorial, Frederick. Md Mrs Richey
said that the tradition that patriotic woman
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kept her flag folded in her Bible was verified h
its condition when she received it. for the fiat
plainly showed the creases where it had been
folded to fit in such a space.
"I can almost tell the history Of an old flag
by examining it." she said 1.-THE texture of the
silk or bunting as the case may be. places it in
definite period, and its condition reveals
whether it was hung, rolled or folded, or whether
it was put away while wet, as frequently hap
pened the battlefield
""Bloodstains, of course, are unmistakable
aS bullet holes"
Recently Mrs. Richey received flag from
woman in Boston with the request that she pre-
serve it. When she exan ahmed the nag she
realized that she was handling one of the very
few Revolutionary War flags in existence today.
The woman who owned it knew nothing Of
its history beyond the fact that i. had been in
her family for a number of generations.
THE type of bunting definitely places It in
the Revolutionary period" said Mrs. Richey. in
dicatins is homeopathic appearance as it lay
her workroom table. 1.-The design, IS stars
and Is stripes, is of that period also. Some
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times get nag of this design which b NOT
actually of the Revolutionary period. but mere.
ly copy made at later date. In this case
however, the bunting authenticates it. There
are probably less than dozen genuine flags Of
this period In existence today"
Copyright, 1872
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~ HUGH PENDExTER, JR.

MERICA still has q Betsy Ross, o
modern reincarnation in spirit VI
that worthy seamstress who FASH
toned the first Stars and Stripes.
\ BY an appropriate coincidence she
also dwellS in Philadelphia and Is
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Police, Juvenile Court, Re-
corder of Deeds, Traffic
Get First, Second Floors.
MUNICIPAL AND POLICE
COURTS UP TO SIXTH
Superintendent of Weights, Meas
ures and Markets to Share
Seventh.

Assignment of space for the first
unit of the new Municipal Center, ten
tatively decided upon, was announced
yesterday by Assistant Engineer Com
missioner Holland L. Robb, chairman
Of the Space Assignment Committee.
The Police Department, the Juvenile
Court and the office of the recorder of
deeds will occupy the frst and second
floors of the building. The new De-
partment of Vehicles and Trafic also
will be installed on the second floor.
Floors for Police Court.
The Municipal and Police Courts
will have the third, fourth, fifth and
sixth floors. The municipal archl-
tect's office and the Office of the super
intendent of weights, measures and
markets will share the seventh floor.
There has been some talk Of assigning
space in this building for the library
Of the District Bar Association, now
housed in the District Supreme Court
building. but there has been no de-
cision on this subject, according to
Maj. Robb. The building will face
John Marshall place and extend from
Pennsylvania avenue to Judiciary
Square, extending back to the alley
between John Marshal place and Third
street.
Designing of Foundation.
The foundation for the building now
Is being designed in the drafting rooms
of the municipal architect. The por-
ton of the building nearest Judiciary
Square will rest on concrete footings
similar to those used in building the
ordinary residence, except that they
will be designed to carry a much larg-
er load.
Toward Pennsylvania avenue the
building will rest on concrete piles.
put in place by driving steel shells into
the ground, scooping out the dirt with
a sand hog" and then filling up the
space with concrete. Assistant Engin-
eer Commissioner Hugh P. Dram is
chairman of the Committee on Design
of the Foundations.
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DISTRICT TO OPEN
Jobs TO COUNTRY
Engineer Positions in Six De-
partments to Be Made
Available.

The Districts policy of employing
municipal workers from the District
only, in preference to those from the
various States Of the Union, will under
go a partial change soon, and at least
one type of job will be thrown open
Unfortunately to all who apply and
have the necessary qualifications.
The ruling will affect inspectors en-
ployed by the various engineer branches
of the government, including the offices
of the municipal architect, inspector of
buildings. electrical engineer, plumbing
inspector, superintendent of trees and
parkings and the highway, sewer and
water departments There are about
ITO inspectors employed in these de-
partments and their pay ranges from
81 ,260 to $4,000 per annum.
Board Is Named.
Machinery is now being perfected for
rating of applicants for these positions
although it has not yet begun function
ing. The Board of Civil Service Exam
liners for the engineer departments,
District government, to rate the appli-
cants on their experience and other
qualifications, has been set up. On the
board are w. j. Hamacher, an employe
of the Civil Service Commission; As
sistant Engineer Commissioner Donald
A. Davidson, Capt. Herbert c. White
hurst, District highway engineer; S. B.
Walsh, assistant municipal architect,
and Roland M. Brennan, chief clerk
of the District engineer department.
Mr.. Brennan acts as secretary of the
board.
Job analysis sheets have been for
warded to the Civil Service Commission,
which will decide the weights to be at
tached to the various qualifications.
When this has been done, the board
will begin its work. No inspectors will
be appointed in these divisions unless
rated and recommended by the board.
% The recommendation to throw these
jobs open to applicants regardless Of
residence was made by Acting Engineer
the ground that it was impossible to
secure good highway inspectors locally.
Most of them are now secured from the
various State highway commissions on
recommendations of the Federal Bureau
of Public Roads.
Only Two Exceptions.
When the order was first put through
last year, making appointment to the
clerical and other lesser positions in
the District service possible only
gibility lists, the commissioners stated
that only District applicants would be
accepted, and that policy, except in two
instances, has been followed since.
The two cases involve guards for
the penal institutions and nurses for
the various municipal hospitals, where
the question was not one of policy but
one of expediency. 1t proved impossible
to secure competent nurses and guards
from among the District residents. But
those positions are still intended pri-
marily for District residents, who would
be given preference over residents of
the States, assuming that their qualifi-
cations were equal.
The order relating to the inspectors
is the first definite departure from the
original policy.
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EDUCATION FILES
THIEF SNARE GETS
D|SBARRED LAWYER
S. L. McLaurin, CoIored,
Charged With Attempting to
Substitute Exam. Papers.
NIECE APPLICANT
FOR CLERICAL JOB
Janitor Tells Police of Money Of
fered, and Watch Is Placed
in Building.

what police charge was an effort to
substitute fraudulent examination papers
for papers with a failing average in the
files of the Board of Education yester-
day resulted in the arrest of Sylvester
l.. McLaurin, 49-year-old disbarred coll
ored lawyer of PIT street.
McLaurtn was charged with false
pretenses" after his arrest by head
quarters detectives in the examination
file division at the Franklin Administra.
ton Building.
According to police, McLaurin first
visited the building last week, when he
approached Frank Carter, colored
Janitor, and represented himself as an
associate of Howard H Long, in charge
OF the Board Of Education's examina.
ton division.
Declares Money Offered.
Carter told Detectives Robert Barrett
and John Wise that McLaurin offered
him large sum of money to help him
gain access to the files in the examina-
ton division. Carter said that after
McLaurin gave him dollar for cigars"
and told him to keep num-" he left.
stating he would return later for the
keys to the files.
Carter reported the matter to Long,
who In turn informed police Yesterday
Detectives Barrett and Wise concealed
themselves in a room adjoining the file
division and watched McLaurin's
activities through a transom
The detectives reported that Nc
Laur1n entered the file room, care.
fully wrapped his hands with handker.
chiefs and used key supplied him by
the Janitor to open the files. The
omcers said they believed that Nc
Laurin was about to take the exam
nation papers of his niece, Will May
McLaurin, from the files and substi-
tute paper with the passing grade.
Detectives said they found the fraud
ulent examination paper in Nc
LaurinS possession. McLaurin was
brought to headquarters and cues.
TONED. McLaurin told police he had
nothing at all to say about the matter.
Niece Job Applicant.
Detectives reported that McIaurin's
niece had made application to take an
examination for a clerical Job with the
Board of Education. They said records
In the files show that she failed to
pass the examination.
In 1880 McLaurin was adjudged in
contempt of court on charges that he
appropriated $500 from an estate
which he had managed. The court
gave him an opportunity to make good
the loss, which he did. Later the Bar
Association Grievance Committee filed
charges against him, and he was or
dered disbarred last May. He noted
an appeal, which still is pending.
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Beauty Has Cash Value
Business of Keeping Women Looking Their Best Is
of Staggering Proportions, District
COMMISSIONERS Learn.

"A thing of beauty" famous poet
once wrote, lis a JOY forever" It is
more than that. The poet wrote be-
fore the days of mass production, busi-
ness methods, and high pressure eco
Monies generally. A thing of beauty is
now good cash investment. It pays
dividends, and a new trade has sprung
up to collect the dividends, and to keep
those who do not quite measure up to
the best of the collectors standards
away from the gravy
These thoughts are inspired by the
literature recently forwarded to the
Commissioners by the Washington Hair
dresserS and CoSmetologistS Association,
which finally resulted in the issuance
Of an amended set of regulations apply
ing to barber shops and beauty parlors.
The association has a picturesque
way putting things. To-day" says one
of the documents, "even as all women
wear silk underwear, so do most women
other phrase: Beauty culture Is here
to stay-and in large proportions"
The layman will be readily convinced
new trade when he reads in their pro-
posed set Of regulations what a hair
dresser Is. One would normally think
Of a hairdreSser as person who dresses
hair. Not so! For turning to the pro-
posed code again it will be found that
ANY person who engages for compen-
sation in any one or combination of
the following practices: Arranging
dressing, curling smuggling, waving. per-
manent waving, cleansing, cutting,
bleaching. tinting, coioring, or similar
work upon the hair of women, shall be
known as a hairdreSSer" Rank sex
I{cN 1fV1o vrFI1n d
that person who performs all of these
dexterous operations on the hair of a
mere man can only call himself a
barber.
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RESERVATION of the scenic and
- historic sites along the Potomac
River above and below the Ma
4 tional Capital will advance a
step nearer fruition Thursday
when the newly created board OF trus-
tees for the George Washington Me-
mortal Parkway meets to discuss meth
DDS of carrying out the project
The board has undertaken the gigan-
tic task of collecting $500 with which
to match a like Federal contribution so
that development OF the parkway may
proceed.
The George washington Parkway,
when completed, will be the most mag
nificent memorial of its kind In the
world, stretching from Great Falls
along both banks of the Potomac to
Mount Vernon on the Virginia side and
Fort Washington on the Maryland side.
Passes Historic Site.
North Of Washington the parkway
will take in the rugged bluffs overlook
ing the river, the rushing rapids and
falls and the quaint Chesapeake and
Ohio and Patowmac Canals, the latter
built by George washington. Opposite
the city it will pass stately old Airing
ton Mansion, home of Robert e. Lee,
and the wooded hillsides of the Airing
ton National Cemetery, while to the
south it will skirt the majestic, bay
like river, passing Alexandria with its
famous houses and Fort Hunt, the
home Of Tobias Lear, George WASH
ington'S secretary.
For the acquisition Of land for the
parkway Congress In 1880 passed the
Capper- Cramton act authorizing the
$7,500,000 appropriation, which must
be matched by contributions from the
State of Maryland or Virginia, or po-
litical subdivisions thereof, or from
other responsible sources. Already
Congress has made available 100000
of its donation for land purchases, but
this cannot be spent until a like
amount has been raised, either from
the States, counties or municipalities
bordering on the parkway or by private
contribution.
That the day be fastened somewhat
for completion Of the project, Congress
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CHILDREN'S HOME
FOUNDER SUCCUMBS
Mrs. Mary Davenport, 90, Was
Widow of Pastor 80 Years
in Anacostia.

Mrs. Mary Converse Davenport. 81,
founder of the Episcopal Home for Chill
dren here. died yesterday at her home,
1903 Mapleview place southeast. She
was the widow of Rev. DR.. Willard Goss
Davenport, for more than 80 years pas
tor of Emanuel Episcopal Church in
Anacostia. He died IL years ago.
A native of Vermont, Mrs. Daven-
port was educated at Mrs. Buell's
School here and came to Washington Al
years ago to live. She married DR..
Davenport 81 years ago and one son,
Right Rev. George w. Davenport, is
Bishop of the Maryland Eastern Shore
Diocese
former president of the Daughters
of the King, an Episcopal woman's or
der, Mrs. Davenport also was the found
err of the Junior Daughters Of the
King, similar organization for young
er women She also was a charter
member of Electa Lodge, No. 2, order
Of the Eastern Star.
After funeral services Monday at
Emanuel Church, her body Will be
taken to Brandon, VT, for burial beside
her husband in the family lot OF his
grandfather, Thomas Davenport, 1nven-
tor of the electric railway motor.
Besides Bishop Davenport, she Is sur
vived by four daughters, Frances Vir-
ginia and Mary Emily Davenport, Mrs.
Anna H. Mullikin and Mrs. arthur w.
North.
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Hours SpentinHun
For Gem; Detective
Finds 1t i'm Moment
Elusive $4,000 Brooch
Turns Up on Window
Sill for Officer.

This is the story Of $4,000 diamond
brooch which should have been COL
lar-button.
Yesterday morning Francis Russell
v. Dichowsky. 1910 Macomb street. lost
the brooch Yesterday afternoon 1t re-
manned lost.
Dichowsky knew 1t was In the house
he had had 1t In his hand at 8 o'clock
in the morning. Hours later he peered
from above conglomeration Of shirts,
boxes, chiffoniers and maybe q few
collar buttons-and he had the look Of
a beaten man. He lost his temper. He
went to the telephone. He said:
"Give me police headquarters" Then
a moment later, Listen, you fellows, y
he told a detective, 1--WE lost brooch
I've searched all day for 1t and can't
find it. Send up couple Of your ex-
pert brooch hunters"
Detective James Tolson responded.
He looked around for moment, finding
the brooch on q windowsil- about two
feet from DiehowskN