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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-08
Gasoline Prices Reduced.

BALTIMORE, July Especially The
price of gasoline and blends dropped
cent gallon in Maryland yesterday.
The price to the consumer, including
the tax, for gasoline now is 14.4 cents
gallon. For the dealer the price is
cent lower. The reductions in the
prices Of blends correspond with the
cut in the price of gasoline.
tive at the same time throughout all
the marketing territories, except Della
ware, Of the Standard Oil Co. Of New
Jersey. The company Topped of
cent a gallon on wagon and service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-08
10 PER CENT DECREASE
IN COTTON CULTIVATION
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
The area Of cotton In cultivation July
was announced today by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture as 41,49l 900 acres,
compared with 46,078 900 acres in cul-
tivation a year ago and 5,091 900 acres
picked last year
The area is 10 per cent less than in
cultivation year ago.
Production last year was 13,932,0 900,
equivalent 500-pound bales, or l47.7
pounds an acre.
The probable cotton production this
year will not be estimated until the
August report. in accordance with the
law. At that time production will be
forecast as indicated by the prospec-
tive acre yield applied to the acreage
in cultivation July /. Less average
abandonment in each State after that
Gate for the 10-year period ls21-30.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-08
POTATO MARKET.

CHICAGO, July 8 up Omitted States
Department of Agriculture) Potatoes.
IS; on track, ISL; total United States
shipments, 748; steady, trading fair;
sacked per hundredweight. Oklahoma
Bliss Triumphs, best. 2.25: poor, 1.50
up; East Shore Virginia Cobblers, ITO
ais: barrels, 2.soa2 go; Norfolk sec
ton, 2.65a270
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-08
NEW SECURITIES.

NEW YORK, July 8 (P.-New securi-
ties offered today include:
per cent bonds, dated June /; due 1882
to 1861, priced to yield about to $50
per cent, by a syndicate headed by the
Union Trust Co. of Pittsburgh.
Erie County, N. Y, $2,350,000 3A per
c:nt bonds, maturing July /, 1851 to
1861, priced at 1915 to yield about 1863
to 3.67 per cent, by syndicate headed
by Estabrook & Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-08
Sales OF stocks on New York Exehanre.

1880 A.M........ 100000 1900 Noon. .... 100000
l3e PM........ 100000 2:10 PM. 100000
Dividend the annual cash
payments based on the latest quarterly hayeay
unit OF trading extra :plus ~
In stock sPs, able n scrip iPlu 81 in
PLUS e in stock Plus So in stock Plus stock
this regular n Plus stock. - ~ -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-08
MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK. July 8 (P.-Call money
steady; IL per cent all day. Time
loans steady; so days, 1AalI5: ga
months. ll2a124; SIS months, l34a2
per cent.
Prime commercial paper. 2a214.
Bankers acceptances unchanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-08
WALL STREET WATCHES EFFORT
TOWARD RAIL MERGER PLANS

merce Commission. Then, receiving ap-
proval, possibly as much as a year or
two will be required actually to put 1t
into effect.
(Copyright, 1917.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-08
Sees Steady improvement.

NEW YORK, July 8 R.-Carl R..
Gray, president Of the Union Pacific
Railway, said the business trend Is
upward and indications point to . slow
but steady improvement. ..-..
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Bid and Asked Prices.
BONDS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Barber & Ross. Inc. CAS-. 80 IS
Chevy Chase Club 5zs. 100 -.
Columbia Country Club b12s... l003z 103
D. C. Paper Mfg. 6s......... 80 go
w, M. Cold Storage 5s........ - 90.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-08

Aircraft factories are being estab-
,sheS near warsaw, Poland.
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PUBLIC UTILITY.

Amer. Tel. & Tel (9....'l78 $3.50.
Capital Traction Co. ~ ...... SO 81
Wash Gas Light Co. DID,. lis l22
N 4 w. Steamboat u2l. ..... ITO 20l
Potomac Elec. Pow. IS pfd: So. 1l3K ia
Pot Elec Power 51aes pfd.... Ill l11h
Wash. Rwy a. Elec. com. o.. 500 49,.
Wash. Rwy. & Elec. pfd. 3d.. 1894 100
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

A CRAFTY old Oriental spider, so the under
world sized him up: a man who knew the
innermost mesheS in the web of the Illicit
narcotic traffic that stretches around the
world.
It was a bit unusual to see Monsieur Wang"
himself in one of these tough sailors rendez-
vous He generally sat back in the shadows
and merely pulled the strings, the rumor ran.
But this night there evidently was something
important in the wind. The Celestial looked
over the carousing mob timidly, but the to-
bacco smoke was too thick for him to see far.
He made his way gently among the tables,
bowling every time he stepped toe or
bumped chair, but gazing ntently into all
the faces.
"Ah, my old friends!" he smiled as he came
across two vilainous looking fellows at table
in the extreme corner. Obviously stokers for
there were still some telltale smudges of SCOT
around their ears.
II beard you just arrived from Smyrna this
afternoon"
Hard luck again, old Chinkey," one Of the
stokers whispered hoarsely. I'VE had half a
ton of the stuff hidden in old sacks among the
coal sent out from port, and we were just
throwing them down the chute into our old
tub when the captain looked down and got
wise. We pretended we didn't know anything
about it. and so he sent it all back to shore on
the coal boat Threatened to pay of the whole
lot Of us. What rotten tripI That half ton
would have meant fortune to U.S."
Monsieur Wang's face fell, but he looked
around carefully before he spoke. No danger.
The men at the nearby tables were shouting
too loudly to overhear.
"And there's none at all on board now?" he
asked in low, disappointed tone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

= ~ n bar ana dance NAH Oh bLc hAdiScAAso
water front running full blast.
An old mechanical piano Is tinkling
out jazz A score of sailors OF almost
as many different nationalities are lined up
along the bar mostly with girls OF the estab-
Iishrnent hanging their arms and urging
them to drink and buy more. The men JOKE,
shout, curse and quarrel in all the tongues OF
the seven seas.
The dance floor is packed with the same
noisy clientele, all doing different steps. The
small tables are filled to the last chair.
Women pass along selling dolls that the girls
imperiously demand from their partners, to
sell back again to the same women after the
fools have stumbled home to their ships. The
same trick is played with the picturesque
Algerian peddlers, both shoulders piled high
with gorgeous silken shawls and CUSHIONS.
cowardIy type of local cutthroats called "nervis,
the very scum of the sea, sink In and out from
time to time to mark some moneyed victim
they hope to waylay later in a dark alley. An
occasional detective passes by to see what the
"neryis" are about that evening in case he
has to investigate the next day.
In the midst of the clanor an elderly Chi
nese"-who would ever guess that he was one
of the cleverest agents of the United States
Treasury,s narcotic repression service?-glides
into the room almost as imperceptibly as
wrath.
monsieur Wang" has let it be known to a
few choice initiates since he appeared in the
Marseille underworld recently mat ne is tine
master mind of a vast drug distributing syndi-
cate, buyer who was in the market for huge
quantities of opium, cocaine, heroin and NOR
phine being struggled through from Constants
nople. No petty, cheap or 10 pound lots
that some stokers had hidden in the coal holds
for him. He talked in tons, in millions OF
francs!
"Mais, messieurs" he would politely explain
in such cases, even If talking to hairy apes,
"what can I do with such trifiing amounts?
It's just as troublesome, expensive and danger
GUS for me to ship I'VE pounds out OF here
as it is to ship ton, because must have all
my organization alert. I am sure you can
appreciate that, gentlemen. But If you ever
have a quantity worth my while I'll pay you
the top price. Or If you can ever tip me of
about big cargo coming in-well. you won't
lave TO work for q good many years"
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The stoker winked knowingly. ct can swear
none of the crew has any hidden away, but
we've got some cargo for New York that has
funny smell"
Monsieur Wang" held up his hand remon-
stratively. Lets not mention it, even between
ourselves my friends" he whispered pleadingly.
81 always make it a rule never to put my nose
In any one else's business. 1t saves one many
difficulties. We have old Chinese proverb,
"A happy man does not trouble about his
neighbor'" The stokers shook their heads in
solemn accord. They were just in the mood to
appreciate fine-sounding moral platitude.
The Chinese" proposed a drink, though he
only took mineral water. In fact, he proposed
many drinks, until finally he decided they were
sufficiently muddled never to remember any
thing they we're saying. 1t was safer thus.
"And you have nice lot of cargo for New
York this trip" he inquired banally as his
companions began slipping under the table
st wish had those 20 bales OF tobacco we
took on at Smyrna" the more laxative stoker
muttered tllickly. IF you'd smell them cooking
down there in that hot hold like did the other
day. I never saw tobacco with stink like
that Yeah, If had those 20 bales"
A N hour later Monsieur Wang" star foreign
8 agent of the Federal Drug Repression
Service, mailed an important letter to his chief
in Paris. The next day coded cablegram
would be hummlng across the Atiantlc, tine
sense being as follows:
agent Is at Marseilles reports cans of
morphine concealed inside 20 bales of tobacco
shipped at Smyrna on the steamship -,
due Boston in about 10 days. Unable to get
name of consignee. Crew have no contraband
Of their own this trip"
"How do they do it," the American news
paper reader asks himself wonderingly when the
narcotic squad raids ship at New York, Balti-
more or Boston and pulls out a million dollars
worth of drugs. just like the magicians pull
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
Inside Story Of the
."Cocaine Canal"
Reveals Ho90 the
United States
Government Oper-
ates a Far-Reach-
ing International
Espionage System TO
Trap agents Of
Narcotic SwdlcateS.
BY r. S. FENDRICK.

MARSEILLE, February 16, 1881.
NE o'clock in the morning. A tough
bar and dance hall on the Marseil!e
water front running full blast.
An old mechanical piano Is tinkling
out Jazz. A score of sailors of almost
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
Tem1plar Drill Team
rendered Banquet

Officers and members of the
drill team of Columbia Com
mandery No. 2, of the knights
Templar, winners of second place
in the annual Masonic competi-
tive drill, were entertained at the
Hamilton Hotel last night at a
banquet rendered by the com
mandery.
An exhibition drill was staged
for the winners by team con-
sisting of j. H. Phillips, Roy A.
Plympton and Samuel T. Farmer
of the Columbia drill corps.
Addresses we're made by Capt.
Gen! R. N. Bancock, who pre-
sided; Capt. P. F. BoeSch; w. w.
Webber, formerly Denver COM
mander; F. E. Gibson and Charles
D. Shackleford.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
Bic BAIL FACED
BY p!AMOND

CATSKILL. N. Y. April %
GNSD.-Jack Legs) Diamond,
New York city racketeer, occupied
cell in Greene county Jail today,
following his indictment by a
grand jury on a charge of second
degree assault in connection with
the torture of Grover Parks. Cairo
truckman. Diamond says Parks
is crazy"
Diamond was indicted a few
hours after being arrested on a
bench warrant at his fortified
AGRA home.
Chauffeur Also Sought
Jack Dalton, chauffeur for Dia-
mond, also has been indicted on
the same charge. Dalton is sup
posed tosbe in New York city, but
Diamond told District Attorney
Harrison I. Gardner he would
have him come here today to
answer the indictment.
When arraigned before Su-
preme Court Justice F. Walter
Bliss, Diamond was held without
bail and committed to Jail. He
pleaded not guilty, but reserved
his right to demur from the indict-
ment.
Justice Bliss is expected to fix
bail today for Diamonds release.
When Diamond was first ar
raigned before Justice Bliss, the
Judge asked that he be supplied
with the records of the racketeer.
He said:
"The court wants the record
before 1t fixes bail. 1t might
make a great difference in the
amount of bail, which would
be demanded by the court.
When the record is produced,
bail will be fixed"
Tortured With Fire
The indictment was returned
against Diamond and Dalton
after Parks had told the grand
jury he was tortured last Thurs
day night while on his way to
Carlo to deliver a load Of cider.
Parks charged several of Dia-
mond'S men dragged him from
his truck, bound him to tree,
and then scared his feet with
fire. He said they attacked him
when he refused to tell them
where he was taking the load of
cider.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
D. {. NAVY YARD
GETS Bic JOB

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Some of the old 14-inch guns are
to be rebored and remodeled, and
new ones are to be manufactured.
JObIeSS Relieved
Virtually all of the new gun
elevation machinery will be made
the local gun factory.
The effect of the mOderniZa-
ton program already has been
felt upon labor conditions at the
local yard. The period of lay
offs, furIOughS and discharges Is
virtually at an end, and, begin
ming in July, there will be a
steady accretiOn the force of
skilled mechanics and skilled
labor at the yard.
At the start, the increase in the
labor force will be slow, according
to N. P. Alifas, head of the ma
chinists' union. More than 600
Navy Yard workers are now on
lay-offs and furloughS, and not
more than a small fraction of
them will be re-employed within
the next six months, according to
the present outlook.
Job To Take Two Years
The allotment of modernization
work to the local yard, however.
has meant that the upward
trend" there. with reference to
labor conditions, is soon to get
under way.
The modernization of three bat
tleshipS will be a Two years work.
costing a total of approximately
$50, 900, 900. During the fiscal year
1888 the Washington yard prob
ably will get a larger slice of the
years appropriation than for the
coming year.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
DROUGHT RELIEF
LOANS To END
Photo by International

No farm loan applications will
be received by the Montgomery
County Drought Relief Commit
tee after April 80, it was an
nounced today at Rockville.
The Mon merry County
Drought Relief Committee has for
the past several weeks been assist
ing the Government in making
loans to local farmers for seed,
feed and fertilizer.
After a close study the COM
mittee is of the opinion that many
farmers have been greatly bene-
fitted by this method of credit.
The committee is composed of
State Senator. Robert G.. Hilton,
chairman; o. w. Anderson, secre.
tary, and G. M. Hunter, all of
Rockville. and James D. King, of
Germantown, and L. E. Riggs, of
LaytonSville.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
Marines to Return
From Canal Surrey

The field work of the Nicaragua
canal survey having been COM
pleted, Secretary of War Hurley
has directed Lieut.. Col. Dan I.
Sultan, Corps of Engineers. off
Ger in charge of the survey, to
return the troops under his COM
mand to the United States and
Panama.
Fourteen officers and 131 en-
listed men are affected by this
order, and the movement will be
made to New York by way of the
Panama Canal on the transport
Chateau Thierry. leaving Corinto,
Nicaragua, on July 16.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
Chamber Summons
Police Unit to Meet

Several matters Of unusual
Importance are to be presented to
the members of the Washington
Chamber of Commerce committee
on police and fire protection and
public safety at a meeting called
by Charles w. Darr, chairman, to
be held at noon Friday.
The chairman has requested
members to make special effort
to attend. He declined to make
public the nature of the business
to be submitted for action.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
Downtown Parking
Asked bv PetWOrth

The Petworth Citizens AsSocia-
ton last night adopted a resolu-
ton favoring no-limit parking in
the area south of Pennsylvania
Avenue in the triangle project.
In introducing the resolution,
A. D. Sartwell said this area
would be occupied by Federal
buildings and parking for the
employees would be essential.
The association also asked that
the area bounded by Georgia
Avenue. Thirteenth Street, an
alley north of Shepherd Street
and UpShur Street be used as
a general recreation tract.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
REBELS RETIRE
TOH0N0lIRAN
INTERIOR
American Officials Negotiate
For Neutral Zone; Women
and Children Are Evacuated

TEGU UCIG ALPA, Honduras,
April % G.NS0.-The American
legation, informed that the Hon.
duran rebels along the northern
coast had swung inland and were
concentrating forces around San
Pedro Sula. arranged with the
government today for establish
ment of a neutral zone in that
area for the protection Of the
large foreign colonies.
Defeated in a series of en-
counters with federal troops, the
insurrectiOnists rallied at inland
POINTS under Gen. Roman DiaZ
and planned an assault upon San
Pedro SuIa, "key city, Of north
ern Honduras.
Women, Children Flee
Three thousand federal troops
under Generals Valladares and
Alvarado moved into the threat
ened area, which also includes
the towns of Buffalo, La Lima,
and Villa Neuva. American women
and children were evacuated to
safer centers
San Pedro Sula, 40 miles from
the coast, has a population Of
some 10000. The American min
iSter here dispatched Major P. c.
Geyer, naval attache, to negoti-
ate with both federals and rebels
for the establishment of a neutral
zone.
While only two minor skirm
iSheS occurred between insured
tiOnists and government troops in
the last 20 hours, the protection
of Americans and others in the
banana coast region was con-
siderabIy strengthened by the ar
rival of the U. S. S. Marlblehead
at Puerto COrtes harbor.. The
cruiser Trenton is at TrujiIlO and
the Memphis at La Ceiba.
Rebels Are Routed
The brief fighting occurred
near Corozito and Telawn, where
the rebels were routed after losing
two men. On advices that the
bandit Gen. Arturo Ordonez was
continuing activities in the north
western region, American and
foreign women and children were
taken aboard fruit steamers in
the ports of La Ceiba, Puerto
Cortes, Trujillo and Tela.
The reported arrest of Gen. Diaz
zelaya, in Guatemala, dampened
revolutionary hopes considerably,
it was believed here. The veteran
Honduran revolutionists was seized
while crossing the frontier to join
northern rebels.
Laurence F. Cote, American
consul at Puerto Castillo, resi-
Dental section of Trujillo, Hon.
duras, cabled the State Depart
ment today all Americans in his
district were safe from the upris-
ing among the factions in that
country.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
ST ORE KEEPER
HELD IN FIRE
HAROLD LLOYD
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CONTINUED From Page u
arrived that firemen we're unable
to check the spread to the Dixie
Shoe store next door and the
Peoples Jewelry Company, at 434
Ninth st. Five alarms were
turned in before the blaze was
brought under control.
Harold Weitzman, 1928 Illinois
Ave. N. W., manager of the shoe
store could give no estimate of
the damage to his stock until
he can make an inventory today
Whole Block In Peril
For several hours it appeared
that the entire block of old
buildings was doomed.
Working on all sides of the
blazing buildings firemen kept
dozens of hose lines playing high
powered streams of water on ad-
joining stores to keep the fire
confined to small an area as pos
Sible.
The Freidlander Brothers who
occupy premises at 428 Ninth st.
N. w., reported damage amount
ing to SITS to their stock from
water. The fire did not spread
to the store.
Fire at The Mode
Fire also broke out in the office
of The Mode, mems furnishing
shop, Eleventh and F Streets
Northwest.
Charles T. O'Brien, 1920 K st.
N. W., and Sam Trictor, 92O F
St. N. W., discovered the fire as
they were. passing by. The blaze
was confined to the office and
caused damage estimated at $500.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
NeighbOrhOOd House
To Hold Spring Fete

Several spring dances and a
May Day procession will feature
the twenty-ninth annual spring
festival of the Neighborhood
House, to be held April 80, May
l and 2. at the clubhouse, 470 N
st. S. w.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
Reports of Revolt
In Panama Are Denied

COLON, Panama. April %
G.N.SO Reports of revolution
ary activity in the interior Of
Panama near Santiago today
caused the government to rush
a detachment of police to the
scene.
The expedition advised the gov.
ernment the reports were with
out foundation. and that there
were no signs of unrest.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
HOOVER VIEWS
GIRO LANDING
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planned the status and history of
the trophy and read the award.
Others who were present in
cluded Orville Wright, Secretary
of the Navy Charles Frances
Adams, Assistant Secretary Of War
for Aviation F. Trubee Dawson,
and Assistant. Secretary for Aero
nautics of the Department of Com
merce Clarence M. Young. Mrs.
Hoover, with her two grandchil-
dren, was also an interested spec
tator, occupying a vantage place
on the south portico Of the White
House.
The Collier trophy, said Senator
Hiram Bingham, is the highest
honor in American aviation and
is awarded annually for the great
est achievement in aviation, the
value of which has been thorough
ly demonstrated by actual use dur
ing the preceding year. The late
Robert j. Collier, pioneer in
American aeronautics, was the
donor.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
c, M, COOPER DEAD

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. April %
IN.SD-Charles M. Cooper, rs,
president of the United States
Encaustic Tile Works, died at his
home here yesterday after an ill,
ness of two months.
The Washington times., 1931-04-22
NEW ELEVATOR

OMAHA. Neb., April 22.-Nye
jerks Grain Co. will shortly COM
mence construction of terminal
elevator to cost $350.00O with
capacity for 100000 bushels. This
will give Omaha and Council
Bluffs 2O,50O,O00 bushels storage.