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-four prices and between -four and
bread prices during the war was asso-
ciated with increases In wages, rents
and other costs, and that there still
was a relationship to the higher price
level maintained since the war.
Factors contributing to the wider
spread, the department said, include In
creased freight rates on -four.
Presumably" the report continued,
higher wage rates are largely respon-
sible, but the possibility of increased
costs due TO the development of service
competition should not be lost sight OF"
Dependent on Price Wars.
The statement added that changes in
prices in the individual cities certainly
suggest that in any given city the price
of bread Is likely to be quite as de-
pendent upon price wars and other fac
tors pertaining to the status of compe-
ton In the individual cities, as it is de-
pendent upon the price of wheat or of
-four"
1t was pointed out that If a baker
followed the general practice of making
81 loaveS of bread from flour obtained
from one buShel of wheat, and if the
entire reduction in wheat prices was re-
Elected in bread prices, wheat would
have to drop 81 cents bushel to effect
a 1-cent reduction per pound loaf of
bread
There are. of course" the report
added, "other costs involved, and
changes in those may justify greater or
less declines than would result from de-
Ginning wheat and -four prices"
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CENTER UNIT SITE
TO Be CONDEMNED
Commissioners Act Against
Properties at C and Third
and Others.

The District Commissioners yesterday
ordered condemnation Of the properties
fronting on G street between Third
street and the alley east Of John Mar
shall place. In connection with the
building of the first unit of the new
Municipal Center, c street will be
closed as far east as the alley. This,
according to Assistant Engineer Com
missioner H. L. Robb, who recommend
ed the condemnation, will have a dele
FERROUS effect en- the properties fronting
on C street east of the alley and the
Commissioners accordingly ordered
them condemned.
It was also decided to condemn the
last remaining lot in the line Of b
street in the Municipal Center area, all
the others having been acquired by pur-
chase.
Agreement on Occupancy.
The Commissioners decided to au-
thori2e the Ford Motor Co. to continue
to occupy the building at John Marshall
place and Pennsylvania avenue &C.
quired by the District as part of its
Municipal Center site from January l.,
1882, to February 90, 1882, in exchange
for the Ford company'S allowing the
District to use 10000 square feet Of Of
fee space on the second floor Of the
building for the municipal architects
drafting force working on the Muntc-
ipal Center plans.
All bids for the Klingle Valley Bridge
were rejected by the city heads as being
too high, and the project was ordered
readvertised, with alternatives giving the
contractors the option Of bidding on
concrete instead of stone facing in an
effort to bring the bids down within
the $500, 900 appropriation for the work.
To Pass on IncineratOrs.
The Commissioners also designated
Building Inspector John w. Oehmann
as the agent of the municipality for
passing on all private incinerators, in
connection with their plans for building
two municipal incinerators. The act Of
March 4, 1929, providing for the con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Stag party, woodmont Country Club,
Bethesda, Md, 3 pm.
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Stag party, woodmont Country Club,
Bethesda, Md, Q pm.
Meeting. Washington Philatelic So
ciety, 1918 K street, pm.
Meeting, West Virginia State Society
Washington Club, Seventeenth and K
streets, 8 pm.
Banquet, Insurance Club, Lee House,
Fifteenth and L streets, pm.
Meeting, Washington Society Of En-
gineers, Cosmos Club, BIS pm.
Get-together, Mount Pleasant Citi-
zenS' Association. Wilson Teachers Col
lege, Eleventh and Harvard streets, 8
pm.
Meeting, Washington League for the
Hard Of Hearing, 826 Connecticut ave-
nue., 7:30 pm.
Bingo party, National Lineal Society
United Spanish War Veterans, Pythian
Temple; 8 pm.
Business meeting, Women's City Club
1856 jackson place, 8 pm.
Meeting, Kenneth Nash Post, Hamil-
ton Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Sons and Daughters Of Lib
erty, Fourth and East Capitol streets,
pm.
Finals, District of Columbia one-act
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struction Of the two municipal trash
burning plants, provides that all COM
bustible refuse shall be sent to those
plants to be destroyed. There is an ex-
ception, however, in favor of hotels,
apartment houses, business houses, or
residences equipped with incinerators.
In such places the combustible refuse
may be destroyed on the premises pro-
vided that the incinerator plant Is ap-
proved by an agent of the municipality.
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The economists found that the widen
ing of the spread between wheat and
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Glass Skyscraper Planned

Embodying all the latest modernistic
ideas, glass skyscraper is planned for
the PotSdamer PLATE, in Berlin. 1t will
be at least Is stories in height and will
resemble glstening circular tower. In
contrast, brick wings to the building
will be entirely without windows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04

Meeting, Washington Philatelic So.
ciety, 1918 K street, pm.
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Meeting, West Virginia State Society
Washington Club, Seventeenth and X
streets, 8 pm
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CLAFLIN
Opfician-Optonaetrist
922 18th st. NV.
Established 1889
Brighter DAYS!

You need not punish a sluggish system
with purgatives that do violence.
Just chew pleasant Cascaret before
bedtime. Next morning you'll be a
new person. Candy Cascarets are
made from cascara-which doctors
say actually strengthens the bosCel
muscles. So their action is always
beneficial. They clear up a stubborn,
bilious, headachy and constipated
condition every time. You awake
with coating gone from tongue; with
eyes frightened; breath sweetened:
appetite on edge. For bright morn
ing, try a Cascaret tonight. Then
you'll know why 20 million boxes are
used every year.
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, play tournament, Mckinley auditorium
Second and T streets northeast. e:ls
pm.
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FUTURE.

Executive meeting, Randall High
lands--Orr p. T. A., Orr School, tonor-
row, $3.50 pm.
Luncheon, Phi Delta Delta Legal Fra
ternity, Washington Chapters, Women s
City Club. tomorrow. 1915 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
WASHINGTON HoN0RED
Congress Passes Bill to Place Face
on Next Years Quarters.

The classical features Of George
Washington probably win adorn next
years quarters.
Congress passed bill to place the
memoration of his 200th birthday an
approved 1t and so, doubtless, will Presi-
dent Hoover.
What will go on the other side of
the new two-bit piece Is up to the
Treasury
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
Men or Machines

Looking through these beau
tiful reproductions, I am
struck by the divergent inter-
ests, and think that Russia
herself must be, as Wells says,
doing two things at once. On
one side it intends to create a
sweet brotherhood of man: on
the other. to create a vast in
dustrial civilization. The pic.
lures of machinery are magnifi-
cent, but they are not Russia
they are America; the pictures
Of individuals are Russian, and
so are the pictures of the vast
Russian land. But which of
these two is to conquer, is a
question not to be answered by
prejudice or propaganda.
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
All Our YESTERDAYS

Pictures of quite another sort
occur in Russell Crouse'S 1T
Seems Like Yesterday" an al
bum of the days of Ward Nc
Allister, Canfield's gambling
parlor. high-wheel bikes, the
Florodora Sextet, simple pugil-
ism, undertaking, and the old
style saloon. Mr.. Grouse has an
inquiring mind and an in
dulgent feeling for the past, so
that his range is actually far
wider than the score of years
between the $50 dress suit and
the $50 secondhand motor car.
He thinks that America has.
to an extent. outgrown some of
the silly things 1t used to do;
for instance. American fathers
now prevent those marriages
with European mobiles which.
two generations ago, American
mothers so eagerly arranged.
But I fancy that ten years
from now Mr.. Grouse may get
photographs of small cars bear
ing the legend. Chicken, here's
your COUP" which will not be
exactly a tribute to American
intelligence in the early 1930'S.
If the Stage-door Johnny has
disappeared. the Valentino and
Vallee clubs have come to take
his place. And the great change
in political reform, as Mr.. Sea.
bury can testify, is that the
muckraker no longer writes for
the magazines; he is written up
by the magazines because he
is a public official.
In a week Of shorter or
longer comments on parts of
H. G. Wells work, Wealth,
and Happiness of Mankind" I
haven't, probably, given a COM
plete account Of its range and
Of its value. It seems to me far
superior to any textbook on
economics and politics I have
ever read, and far more inter.
esting than most compendiums
and outlines of knowledge. It
has, on every page, something
relative to the immediate prob
lens Of the day. 1t is illumi-
mated by intelligence, not in
Spired by evangelism, although
its single purpose is to change
the minds and hearts Of human
beings.
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
Farmers Heed Buy
EUrLU' for YuLetide

Farmers who live within 80
miles of Washington are taking
advantage Of the early showing
of Christmas gift suggestions by
local stores, according to Edward
D. Shaw, secretary of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Asso-
citation.
No effort is being made to keep
an accurate check on the num-
bers visiting National Capital es-
Establishments from the farms, but
merchants report that there Is a
large increase over 1880 figures.
They attribute this to apprecia-
ton of early displays as well as
to the better crops in 1881.
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
No More Novels

Wells is continually asked to
give us another 'Tono-Bungay"
land some misguided people
want him to write another Ann
Veronica"D. I don't see why he
should, unless he wants to write
a story. no-Bungay" was, the
swan-song Of the old ordel; in
all its brilliance (Which misled
uS) you could feel the CONNER
cial system crumbling. drag
ging down good men and bad,
exploiterS and victims alike. No
new order has taken the place
Of the old; we have the chaos
The Washington times., 1931-12-08

you; when he says book is masterpiece,
somewhere in the back of his mind he must
have a justification for it, and somewhere
on his balance sheets he sometimes finds
sales of $1,000 which proves that he was
right or sales of 20 copies which also, in an
odd way, proves that he was right
Who Read This?
Miss Edna Ferber's american Beauty"
was called mastery by critics, so the aver
age reader has no alternative. Inasmuch as
the word has, now, been practically stripped
of all meaning, we can let it go. But why
is tho hook nersistentlv advertised AZ the
The Washington times., 1931-12-08


story wealthy millionaire who returns to his Connecticut
birthplace which about accurate saying that Hamlet
play produced in Russia just after the first revou
tion Or that Othello the story of romantic opement
The millionaire in the story at the beginning and at
the end in between is of Miss Ferbers large themes
again illustrating the maxim that fine idea for novel does
not necessarily produce a fine novel,
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
True to. TYPE
DO PUBL SHERS READ
THEIR OWN BOOKS
OR NOT9
Rv GILBERT SELDES

Mr. ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT has been wondering, in
I New Yorker, whether the artists who draw book
jackets read the books My own wonder whether the
publishers them what they OF their books
50 nalnahx wrong Not that publisher would mislead
The Washington times., 1931-12-08

which 7ells foretold, and chaos
is not a good subject for a man
18th an orderly mind.
Writers Despair
1 noted, a few weeks ago, the
despair which comes over nov.
elists, their feeling that they
have to turn to practical politics
and 70 radical endeavorS in or.
der to make themselves effec-
TIVE. Russian and Italian poets
become defenders of he exist
ing der; English and Ameri-
can writer's become its critics.
None of them has great faith
in his own function.
Mr.. Wells has developed his
secondary passion of genera
ton ago into a primary one.
FortunatH in a scientific train.
ing, he has virtually abandoned
fiction to make fact more inter-
eSting to US. I know no one else
who could do it as well. And
since we already have his
novels, there is no use crying
over split milk. Especially as
the milk Of fiction has been so
obviously sour for many yearc.
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL

DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
Accumulated excess of temperature
since January I. 1881. 996.
Excess of te~Serature since Decem-
Der /, 1881, "a.
Accumulated deficiency Of precipita-
tion since January 1. 1881. 7.98.
Deficiency of precipitation since De-
cember l, 1881, so.
TIDE TABLES
Today-HiEh tides. 6:I6 a. m. and
7:I9 D. m Low tides, 1:10 a. M. and
1921 o. M
Tomorrow-High tides. 1898 =. m.
and S:01 u. m. Low tides. 2:02 a. m.
and 2:12 D. M.
THE SUN AND THE MOON
The sun rises today 1913 a. m. and
sets 4:46 D. m.
The sun rises Wednesday 7:4 q. m.
and sets 4:46 y. m.
The moon rises today 6:31 a. m. and
sets 3:49 D. m.
The moon rises Wednesday 7:46 a. m.
and sets al D. m.
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
Looking at Russia

-SO'~'
The Eyes on Russia" of Mar
garet Bourke-White are her
own and her cameras. The
camera has already done much
for Russia, in the hands OF
Eisenstein and Pudevkin par
ticularly, giving us memorable
pictures Of the bitterness Of the
Czarist regime, of the frenzy
when the revolution came. Pu'
devkin. who made Storm Over
Asia" and other Soviet movies,
illustrates the uncertainty Of
Russia today. He came to see
Miss Bourke-W White and after
looking over her photographs,
most of them industrial, asked
for a copy of a head of a Great
Dane: almost all the other Rus
slams were interested in indus
trial subjects,
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
The Weather
WEATHER DETAILS

For the District of Columbia-Increas.
ing cloudiness with slowly rising tcm.
peratureS followed by snow. changing
to rain. late tonight or Wednesday;
minimum temperature tonight about
20 degrees; moderate northeast ard
east winds.
For Maryland-Increasi cloudinsss,
probably followed by snow, changing
to rain. Wednesday, and by snow in
west portion tonight; slowly rising tenn
perature; fresh northeast winds.
For Virginia-InCreasing clCudiness
and not quite so cold. followed by
snow or rain tonight; Wednesday rain
and warmer; fresh northeast winds, in
Creasing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24
TRANCE HAS NOT YIELDED FULLY
 TO THE BRITISH
Have Agreed to Certain Limitations in Naval Armament = Italy Still Demands Equal Rights With France
BY RALPH HEINZCN (Unitd Press COrrcSpOn(icnt

Paris, Feb 24.-(UP)-Great Britain to-day met apparent French willingness to restrict their naval armament construction program so total tonnage in 1886 would be 630,- 900, not S0G.000 as planned, with even more severe demands.
 The British, already most insist ent on elimination from the French building program of 23,333 ton super cruiser and 12 submarines seek another 10000 ton cut, chiefly in the submarine class, it was learned as negotiations, preliminary to agree ment on the London naval treaty were resumed.
 <, These negotiations at the "most delicate stage" by admission of the British representatives, H. V. Alex ander, first lord of the armiralty Arthur Henderson. Foreign Secre tary Robert L. Craigie and two oth ers, are certain to result in prolonged argument by supporters of tht French naval plans.
 r. The British demands, if agreed tt would wreck plans for a submarine coast defense. it was pointed out.
 The English opposition to the su
 per-cruiser. it was learned, was du' to the fact the proposed French craft would be capable of speed two knots faster than the British Rod ney. Opposition to the submarines ap parently was due to the rapidity il construction that was planned fol the total of 9S proposed, includin: a 3,250 ton submarine cruiser ant 25,000 tonners of the redoubtabl' clas scapable of cruising 5000 mile at 10 knots.
 Under the French plan, in 193; she could concentrate 85 submarine anywhere in the channel as gray threat to British ports and coasta shipping.
 This, apparently, constituted tn
 reasons back of Great Britain's in sistence on further reduction. While Alexander, Cragie and tn
 British experts talked with Rem
 Massigli. French foreign office; Ad
 miral Darlan and Admiral Durant
 Viel. naval chief of staff at the maya
 ministry, Foreign Minister Briant and Henderson talked at the foreig
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24
DIVORCE CASES IN | SUPERIOR COURT
Wives File Complaint Against Husbands and
 Ask to Be Set Free
CHARGE CRUELTY

Two divorces were started by women plaintiffs in the superior court to-day Both cases are return able in court the first Tuesday of March. Mrs Anna Parisi Potenza of Waterbury seeks divorce from Ralph PotenZa of New Britain on grounds of cruelty. They were mar ried Jan 26, 1921. Custody of their children and alimony is asked by the palintiff.
 In the second suit, Antoinetta Falmieri of Naugatuck asks a div cree from Peter Palmieri of Derby on grounds of cruelty. They were married Feb 12, 1927. Since March 1, 1927 the defendant is alleged to have committed acts of cruelty on the plaintiff. Custody of two children and alimony is also asked by the plaintiff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24
26 BIRTHS, 43 DEATHS, TEN MARRIAGES
Vital Statistics Reveal Boy Babies
 Outnumbering Girls
Five New Families Take Up Local Residence Building
 Permits Total $9,8OO During Past Two Weeks

$9,S00 and five new families moved to Waterbury. all during the last two weeks.
 In the birth column of the report it is shown that of the total num- Der registered. f9 were boys and seven were girls, or more than a two to one ratio in the boys favor. In the death column of the AZ deaths recorded, 23 were males, 17 married females and three unmarried.
 Of the new families, two came here from Bridgeport, two from New York city and one from Boston. The building permits were taken out by the following:
 Thomas DiLorenzo, store changes, 316 s. Main street, $500.
 Stanley Kontout, dining car, Elm street, $4.O00.
 Harry Brenner, store changes, 412 North Main street, $1,O00.
 Waterbury Steel Ball Co.,, fire re- pairs, East Aurora St, $200.
 Albert Realty & Invest. Co.,, frame house, Anderson Ave-, $3,S00; frame garage, $500.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24

office. It is understood they dis
 cussed chiefly land disarmament
 preparations to be brought up at
 Geneva in 1932.
 After the delegates finished their
 conversations at noon, they joined
 Briand and Henderson at the foreign office and there resumed their bitter haggIing over the super-cruisr which
 the French insist is necessary to their defense.
 Inclusion of French naval officers in negotiations was expected as the conferences progressed to-day. The French, it was understood, were willing to reduce their demand for naval superiority over Italy, to 1S0,000 tons, and to change their submarine building schedule for as
 surance from Great Britain of CO., operation in protecting the security of France in time of war. Two major obstacles, hence, re- mained to be cleared. CD the fact
 that Italy has adamantly refused to
 admit Frances claims to naval su-
 premacy, and demands. equality on the seas. in principles if nothing
 more; and (2) Britain at London a year ago consistently rejected Frances demands that England guarantee French security as price l for French adherence to the Lonodn
 treaty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24

manded tl.e resignations of the con- troller and assistant corporation counsel after disclosure of alleged irregularities in their departments.
 The accountants made their offer after the board of finance voted 10 halt the audit whichis being made bv ]. Edmund Miller. accountant. who is also a member of he board of finance Killers firm made an audit last year revealing a deficit of $421,- 900. Since then, it is charged. an- other of $392,000 has been found land $193,O0O appropriated to apply against the floating indebtedness YVES listed in the city's surplus, through ] clerical error.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24
Permanently Hurt,
 Brings $1O, 900 Suit
Mrs Jennie Winestine Sues Manchester Man as Result
 of Auto Accident

winestine machine had reached the
 intersection of the Boston Post
 road and the White Plains road and
 was about to proceed out of tnr
 latter road, when the defendant. operating his machine at an alleged excessive rate of speed, drove in front of the Waterbury car, caus. ing the collision.
 Mrs Winestine suffered a cut over her, right eye, an inch and quar- ter in length and numerous bruises
 and contusions about the face ana head She charges she will be per-
 manently scared as result Of her injuries X
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24

Damages of 1$0,000 are asked in a civil action started in superior court today by Mrs Jennie Wines tine of Waterbury against Joseph W. Dunn of Manchester. The plain tiff seeks to recover for alleged per- as a passenger in the car of her husband, Frank Winestine, she was struck by the defendants car on the Boston Post Road last April Sth. The case is returnable in court the first Tuesday of March.
 According to the complaint the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24
Litigation Over
 Shapiro Estate
Trustee Sues Administrator for Sum Amounting to
 $36,OOO

The Colonial Trust Co, trustee for Louis Morganstern has started a civil action against the Merchants Trust Co as administrator of the es- tate of Isadcre M. Shapiro, in which the foreclosure of mortgage on Canal street in the amount of $36.- 500.
 John Morganstern has been ap- pointed temporary receiver as col iector of rents in the property, ac- cording to a petition signed by Su- perior Court Judge Frederick M Peasley
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24
ACCOUNTANTS OF NEW HAVEN OFFER
 THEIR SERVICES

New Haven, Conn, Feb 24-UP) Thirteen certified public account
 ants have volunteered to make an audit Of New Haven's muddled fi- | nances free of charge. The offer
 was being considered today by May or Thomas A. Fully. who has de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24
ROYALTY WILL
 RECEIVE THEM

London, Feb 24.-UP) The an- nouncement of the four dates Of which King George and Queen Mary will hold court this year aroused high interest to-day. Dates were |announced at Buckingham palace on May 1920, and June 9-10. Severa! American women will be among those presented for the first time, it was indicated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24

Although there were 26 births registered in waterbury during the last two weeks, there were 43 deaths in the same period, the semi-month- ly report of the Waterbury Credit Rating bureau of the local Cham Der of Commerce, issued to-day, re- veals. The report shows there were five marriage intentions filed, 10 marriages consummated, six applica- tions for building permits totaling
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24

For sale by all druggists. Be sure to get the genuine product with Chas. H. Fletcher's signature on wrapper, and this familiar name plate:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-24
FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE
 ON MERIDEN PROPERTY

Foreclosure of mortgage on Meriden property and the appoint ment of receiver is asked in civil action started in superior court to- day by the Community Bond & Mortgage company of Waterbury against F. J. Schipritt of Meriden. Damages of $2,500 are asked in ad dition.