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v A \ PREPARED
FOR CAS- QUIZ

Notices of public hearing
dealing with ownership of the
Washington Gas Light Company
were sent out by Earl v. Fisher,
executive secretary Of the Public
Utilities Commission, today, to
nine organizations and Albert z.
Peirce, of Chicago.
Notices to the organization
were sent in care Of the Wash
ington Gas Light Company. The
organizations are the Washington
Gas Light Company, the George
town Gas Light Company, the
Washington and Suburban Com
panies, Central Public Service
Company, Southern Cities Public
Service Company, Public Service
Engineer Company, the Patuxent
Gas Company, the Central Gas
and Electric Company and the
Westfield Trust.
The hearing probably will not
be held until late in July when
Corporation Counsel William w.
Bride returns from a European
vacation.
Inquiry into ownership Of the
local company traced control to
Mr.. Peirce, who is head Of the
Central Public Service and also
the Westfield Trust. The notice
states that the date for the
hearing will not be fixed for 10
days.
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BANKERS
ARE NAMED

Four members Of Washington
Chapter, American Institute Of
Banking have been named to
posts in the national organiza-
ton, it was revealed this morn
ing. The quartette were named
yesterday afternoon at the closing
session Of the Pittsburgh parley.
I. j. Roberts, assistant to the
president of the Riggs National
Bank was made vice chairman of
the departmental conference COM
mittee. James A. Soper, vice
president of the Lincoln National
Bank was elected a member of
the forum committee. Frank M.
Perley, of the American Security
and Trust Company was selected
as a member of the committee on
chapter administration, while
Rose M. Royce, Of the Washing
ton Loan and Trust Company,
was appointed a member Of the
National Women's Committee.
Following the closing session
last night delegates were guests
of the Pittsburgh Chapter at a
dance. The Washington group is
expected to return Monday.
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QUITS
OIL INSTITUTE

Henry L. Doherty recently has
resigned as a director Of the
American Petroleum Institute, his
place being filled by Frank
Coates, a director Of Cities Ser
vice Company, and a vice presi-
dent Of Henry L. Doherty 81 Co.,
it was disclosed today. Mr..
Doherty had for some time in
tended to retire as an institute
director.
In his letter rendering his resig-
nation, Mr.. Doherty points out
that he has not been in agree
ment with many proposals in
the oil industry, represented IN
the Petroleum Institute, for the
solution of the industry'S prob
lens. He refers to his own past
plans, particularly his proposal
for unit operation Of pools, on
which he says he could not OBJ
tain favorable action by the insti-
tute committee in 1928.
"The oil industry has lost
billions of dollars since / took
up my work and believe it
has done SO unnecessarily" Mr..
DOherty says, "and those who
have opposed many Of the Obvi-
OuSly correct plans which j have
recommended from time to time
have enforced a loss on my
stockholders, in my opinion, Of
more than half q billion dollars.
Nothing is being done or
planned now that think gives
reasonable promise Of relief at
any time, and certainly not in
the immediate future, and
things which might be done are
not even considered, and things
which might be tried are not
even being tried"
With reference to the State
oil compact proposed, which he
considers dangerous and almost
impossible of achievement, Mr.
Donerty says he doubts "that
Congress would ever be induced
to ratify a compact between the
States if the States could be in
duced 10 make such a compact.
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NEW YORK, June 13.-The
curb market was more or less OF
a state-mate in characteristlcally
dull week-end today. Price
changes except in isolated in
stances were meaningless, with
the general run of pivotal issues
holding within fractions OF their
previous close. -,
The utility group might be
termed the least bit reacGionary,
with fractional declines chalked
up against Electric Bond and
Share, American Gas and Elec,
trio, American Superpower, and
United Gas. Offsetting these de-
clines to some extent were moder-
ate advances in Brazil Traction,
and United Light and Power, but
as a rule buyers of stock found
it unnecessary to bid up Tor
their requirements.
Cities Service Off
Cities Service slipped back
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Cotton Report

The Census Bureau today issued
= the following report showing the
amount of cotton consumed, on
hand. imported and exported, and
active cotton Spindles during May,
1881, and 1890, respectively:
COTTON EXCLUSIVE OF
LINTERS
Consumed during May, total
465,770 and 473,284.
In cotton.groWing States, 362,-
1876 and 37O,087.
Held In consuming establish
ments, May 81, 1,258222 and
1,527,853.
Held in public storage and at
congresses, 5,494,o25 and 3,379,,
Ala.
Imported, 1879 and 53,32S.
Exported, excluding linters, $685..
796 and 208,695.
LINTERS
Consumed during May, 66,949
and 67,201.
Held in consuming establish
ments, 272,908 and 237, 500.
Held in public storage and al
congresses, 70.1l4 and 94,150.
Exported, 4,968 and 10,560.
SPTNDLES
Number active during May, 26,
3s7,90e and 28.3s7,s0s.
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METAL MARKETS

NEW YORK, June 13 QN.S0
Copper buying was quiet on
domestic account today and
moderate for foreign delivery
Electrolytic for domestic ship
ment was unchanged at 9A cents
a pound delivered to the end Of
November, and copper for foreign
delivery was at S.525 cents a
pound c. i. f. Hamburg HaVre
and London.
Lead buying was fair with the
price unchanged at 3.75 cents a
pound New York, and $50 cents
a pound st. Louis.
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COTTON SALES
DROP OFF

NEW YORK, June 13 G.N.S0.
A slightly easier tone was dis
played during the early trading
on the New York Cotton Ex-
change today on the unfavorable
showing by Census Bureaus May
consumption report. The report
stated that 465,770 running bales
of lint cotton were consumed in
the mills of the United States
during May as compared with
5O8,744 in April, and 473,284 in
May, 1880. Total consumption
for the 10 months ended May 81
amounted to 365, ,042 bales, against
1921, ,582 in the like period OF the
1929-30 season.
New orleans and the South
sold near months, while co-opera-
tive brokers bought July. Wire
firms sold, and there was scat.
tered selling from Liverpool and
local traders. Japanese interests
were good buyers, and the shorts
made covering purchases for over
the weekend.
At the start of the final hour
July sold at 8.56, off 4; October
at 8.94, off 4; December at 9.18
off 3; January at 9.29, off 3, anc
March at 9.49, off S.
Price-fixing by spinners became
less aggressive and buying from
other sources was deferred by the
expectation that an unfavorable
showing would be made by the
standard cloth figures to be is
sued Monday morning, as well as
the unfavorable consumption re
port issued today.
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Trading Laggard on Curb
Market; Prices Mixed

somewhat, losing 70 at its low
of 111a.
Oils were quite steady, with
Standard of Indiana, Standard
Of Kentucky, and Vacuum edging
UP slightly.
Investment trusts attempted to
set somewhat Of q record for
dullness with but q few Of the
active members of this group
putting in an appearance.
Specialties Mixed
Specialties were mixed, with
stellar performances scored by
Parker Rustproof, which rose 1B
to 933s, and Aluminium UP 1R
at 112. On the downside, Con-
tinental Roll and Steel Foundry
developed sudden we a kness,
slumping 512 points to 16.
Curb bonds backed and filled
irregularly.
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Bids and Proposals

N4Fo4I IT Ss p4ees6f Tsbnedn PAak 9tSs %
June II, 1931.-sealed proposals will be
received at, this office until 200 p, m.
opened for the installation of two heat
ing boilers and necessary piping and ar.
rangements in heating plant. in accordance
may be had at this office. Sealed pro;
posals will be received at this office until
2 100 p. m. on the 23rd day of June, 1881.
conduits and the installation of piping
in accordance with the specification
copies of which may be bad at this office.
NATIONAL BIOLOGICAL PARK, Office
June ii, 1881 Sealed proposals will be
received at this office until 200 p m:
opened. for the construction of an eagle
flight cage of frame and wire fabric in
accordance with the. specification. copies
of which may be had at this office.
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GRAINS CLOSE
STEADY

CHICAGO, June 13 GNSD.
Grains closed steady to firm to-
day. Active wheat futures were
1s to 1ac higher and June 1ac
lower; corn was unchanged to
Ac, and oats 1s to Ac higher.
Rye ruled 70 to 14c UP at the
finish.
Wheat was moderately higher
in early trading, with good buying
on strength in the Liverpool
market and advices Of dust storms
in southern Saskatchewan. Firm
ness in the Winnipeg market also
influenced some support. Trade
was moderate, with littR material
pressure evident.
Liverpool was I'D higher at the
close. Winnipeg was Ac to 12c
higher. Only scattered light rains
were reported in the Northwest.
Corn futures were firm, with
wheat and on local buying.
Weather over the belt continues
generally favorable.
Oats and rye were higher with
the general trend.
Estimated car lot receipts were:
Wheat, 1871; corn, 81, and oats, 81
WHEAT lOpenlHighI Low CLOSE
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COTTON SEED

The Bureau Of the Census, De-
partment of Commerce, has is
sued the following report cover
ing the period from August l,
1880, to May 81, 1881:
Cotton seed-Received at mills,
excluding reshipments, 4,649,832
tons; crushed, 4,649,S73 tons.
Production-Crude oil, 1920
137,363 pounds; refined, 1875
569, 1872 pounds; cake and meal,
2,130,507 tons; hulls, 1,286,317
tone; linters, S13,303 running
bales; hull fiber, 49,373 500-pound
bales.
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S1,559,525,219 5
. IN CHAIN SALES.
REPORTED
Compilation Reveals Decrease
of 4.2e Per Cent in First
Five Months of Current Year

Forty-nine chain store COM
panies including three mail Or
der concerns show total sales for
the first five months Of 1881 Of
$1,559,525,213 against $l,629,552,'
072 in the corresponding period
Of 1880, a decrease Of 4.29 per
cent, according to a compilation
issued by Merrill, Lynch & Co.
The three mail order compa'
nies alone show sales for the
first five months Of 1881 of $231,-
961 ,377, against $262,044, 760 IN
the first five months of 1880,
a decrease of 11.48 per cent. Ex-
cluding the mail order concerns,
As companies show sales for the
five months of 1881 of $1,327,.
563.836 against sales of $1,367,.
507,292 in the same period OF
1880, a decrease of 292 per cent.
Results for May, 1881, as re.
ported by 40 chain store compa-
nies, including three mail order
concerns show total sales Of
$342,343,0 ,003. against $358,827,139
in May, 1890, a decrease of 4.59
per cent. The three mail order
concerns alone show sales for
May of $51,576,823 against $751;
708,367 in May, 1880, a decrca&
of 1914 per cent. Excluding the
mail order concerns, 46 chain
store companies show sales for
May, 1881, of $290,766, ,180 against
$500, 0,118.772 in May, 1880 a de-
crease of 3.11 per cent.
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Farm, Garden, Poultry

TOM BARRON BIG ENGLISH WHITE
LEGHORNs OF blood-tested stock that
are two years old
Our breeding hens are from big. heavy.
weight Lop-Comb Birds OF the finest
Barron type and layers of large white
eggs OF high egg, power stock. we have
other breeds of the same high quality o.
blood.tested two-year.old stock. White
Leghorns, 81 IS per hundred Rhode Island
Reds. Barred Rocks and White. Rocks
50 rs: White Wyandottes and Buff orplng-
Black Ed Giants. Giants $500 per hundred.
II Foundation "A mating is wanted:
hlooG.tested chicks from two-year-oh
stock, Order direct from this ad and eays
time. LAKESIDE POULTRY FARMS
Berlin Center Ohio
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| IMOscOw Prints Paper
In 4 Cities at Once

MOSCOW, June 13.-The news.
paper, Pravda, official organ OF
the Communist party, is being
published simultaneously in Len,
ingrad, Kharkov, RoStoff ano
MOSCOW for purposes Of great
political significance"
This move is part Of a new ano
determined drive by the Com
munist party to weld the nation
into one political unit with a sin.
ole purpose-to follow the party
line" The widespread distrlou'
tion of Pravda is held to be one
Of the necessities in this cam
paign.
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Baltimore Banker
Cleared of Charqes

BALTIMORE, June 1S G.N.SO.
j. Monroe Holland, president of
the defunct Chesapeake Bank,
here, has been declared not
guilty by Criminal Judge Eugene
ODunne on charges of violating
State banking laws.
The bank closed last December,
when the State bank commits
sioner brought charges against Mr..
Holland and Milton B. Delcher,
vice president. In finding Mr..
Holland not guilty, Judge C'Dunne
declared him lucky as a singed
cat"
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40 Per Cent Slump
In Steamer Tr1UeL

LONDON. June Is Q.NS0.-
Due to a 40 per cent decrease IN
transatlantic passenger traffic
this year, shipping companies
have eliminated at least 40 voy-
ages from their schedules for
next year, 1t was announced here
today.
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Edrnuarked Gold
Off S4,6OO,OOO

NEW YORK, June 13-Daily
gold statement of the New York
Federal Reserve Bank up to 8
p. m. Friday, showed no imports
or exports. while gold earmarked
for foreign account was decreased
$4,000, 900,
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Special Notices

WILL SELL at public auction on Tues.
day, June %. at o'clock, in rear of
1417 St. N. w. Marmon Sedan. E22LL61.
for repairs and storage due N. F. Turner.
GUS EICHBERG,
AUCTIONEER.
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STOCK AVERAGES

Copyright. 1881. Standard
Statistics Company
1923 AvernKe Equals 100
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TODAY'S MOST
ACTIVE STOCKS

NEW YORK. June 13 U.N.s).-The
foiIow.nK are the high, low and closing
prices Of the 10 most active stocks on
the New York stock Exchange TO-DAY:
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Transportation worries can be over
come economically through the pur-
chase of q good used car one Of
the many GOOD BUYS listed in to-
days Classified Section.
The Washington times., 1931-06-13

ROME C. STEPHENSON
JOHN w. POLE, comptroller
of currency of the Treasury
and Rome C. Stephenson, presi-
dent of the American Bankers
Association, have been invited
to attend the annual conven-
ton of the District of Colum'
bia Bankers Association at Hot
Springs next week,
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WASHINGTON TIMES

BUSINESS OFFICE. 1917 a ST. N. W.
RATES DELIVERED BY CARRIER IN
WASHINGTON AND ALEXANDRIA
The Washington Times daily 10 delivered
by CARRIER at 10 cents per week: oaly
Times and Sunday Herald 16 cents per
week: daily Times and Herald daily 20
cents per week: daily Times and Herald
daily and Sunday 25 cents per week.
The Washington Herald daily and eun.
day is delivered by carrier at l6 cents per
week: daily only 10 cents per week. ana
Sunday only 10 cents Der week.
RATES BY MAIL
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BOND AVERAGES

Copyright. 1881. Standard statistics CO..
10 10 10 so
Ind i Rls Jtil. Binds
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financial Ne u.s. Stocks Bonds Commodities and Conn1en
New York Bond Market
United states

Fractions represent Sands
1911 means 101 1-J2
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1T CEEMC tn ME NV HAYWOOD
OG14V1O ~ 1N1L D1 BROUN

MO. thank you, I do not drink.
4N I am very much obliged, but
I never smoke.
Naturally, I hardly expect this 20
be sufficient announcement. There
are those who do not read this coll
lunn every day or every decade. And
so if I am still beset with profers of
pollution through nicotine or alcohol
my first refusal will be polite and
carry no hint of disapproval.
Indeed, I may use a simple mo-
instead Of introducing my principles
into the discussion at all. And if
the invitation to debauch myself is
reiterated I again will decline with
civility.
And that's as Tar as my conces-
sions go. Any one who says for the
third time within the space Of a few
minutes, "Ah, come on, have a
drink" will be punched in the nose.
1t isn't that I'm irritable Or on
edge. Since reformation, the world
seems bigger, gayer, and buster. I
lave UccLl O4 I11S SGI41 4OI d4IIlOSt dill
hour now, and already I feel the
benefit Of clean and careful living.
In the bad old days there were
weeks during which I did practically
no work at all. But now, emancipa-
ton yelping at my heels, I have
nerved myself up to the resolution
to work all evening on my new
book. And If anything comes up to
prevent that I shall certainly de-
vote Wednesday to. toil-well, that
is, practically all of Wednesday.
have an engagement for the
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among the Negroes in labor unions, Or in industry
At the bottom Of one Of the worst depressions
the country ever has known, the combined Com
munist vote in the nation in 1890 was only g. Goo
and the total Of dues-paying Communists less
than 10000
1t is the privilege OF Fish and his kind to get
all the fear they like out of the presence of this
puny Communist group but the American people to-
day too lsy dealing with the real problems of
unemployn- to get excited about imaginary Com
munist mensces
AS for the $4,000 Americans who voted Communist,
we inclined to think that they would multiply
under repressve laws and that the only way to
them Is by improving our maladjusted economic
system.
Indeed, Fish himself in a recent speech and
Representative Nelson of the Fish committee, have
suggested the need of improving our capitalist sys-
tenn. AS Nelson said in his minority report:
After all, social system finds it's final sanction
in human happiness and social welfare in the achieve
ment Of economic freedom for the individual through
elimination Of economic poverty"
On the basis of the evidence. even the red-baiting
Fish and his associates were forced to admit in their
report that hey found no proof of Soviet plot here
as charged by the notorious Whalen document forg-
cries. no proof that the Russian government tried to
depress American wheat prices, as charged by the
Hoover administration; proof that the Russian
Amtorg Trading Corporation connected with sub
versive activities
Such being the case, congress and the people are
apt to forget all about the Fish report and recon-
mendations and pass to matters of Importance.
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Public Poorly Informed on Childbirth

cellent results. There always is the
possibility that he will be unable to
give as many hours of time to the
individual case as can be given by
the specialist.
Furthermore, he may be called at
significant moments and he may be
required to pass from an infected
person to the care Of woman in
childbirth.
The midwife can not by the very
nature of things be as competent as
the well-trained physician. Indeed,
the most important training that
she can secure is sufficient knowl-
edge and judgment to enable her to
know when to call for medical as
SiStance.
A midwife usually can recognize
excessive bleeding, commissions,
swelling of the legs or similar COM
plications, but not many can recog-
nize unfavorable physical conditions
and wrong presentations sufficiently
early to enable the securing for the
patient Of the best type of cont l..
The determination as to whether
midwife, general practitioner, or
specialist will be called is wholly in
the hands of the patient, since
there is but few parts Of the coun-
try any adequate control of the
training or qualifications of mid
wives, and since specialistic OBJ
stetrical care in the best hospitals
Is OF necessity an exceedingly ex-
penSive commodity.
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Pests Rayage Land

EEW people realize how much
4 damage these insects and others
like them can do, or have done, which
is one reason why we have so MANY
and why so few states are taking
the necessary precautions.
The boil weevil, pink boil worm.
Mediterranean fly, caterpillar, cank-
er worm, gypsy moth and so on
have cost the American people more
money than last years stock mar
ket crash and last summers drought
put together.
Worse still, they are going to
cost the American people a great
deal more, chiefly because so little
has been done to prevent their in
vaSion and spread.
The strangest part Of our con-
versation complex is what it over
looks. Half the fields of Maine
have been taken over and DESTROYED
by that pretty weed known as the
devils paint brush; the forests and
orchards Of Long Island slowly are
being eaten up by caterpillars and
worms; Massachusetts has spent a
kings ransom trying to save her
trees from gypsy and browntail
moths; the chestnut groves practi-
cally have disappeared in north
Atlantic states. not to mention what
has happened to cotton and corn
on 1nnunerable occasions.
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Who Wants the Job?

The Presidents new power commissioners have
not improved their position before the public by put
ting Accountant William v. King back on the pay
roll accompanying their action, as they did, with an
nouncenent that Solicitor Charles A. Russell will not
be re-employed.
The commissioners made no charges against Rus
sell. There none to make. They gave no reason
for refusing to employ him.
1t is hard to think of a reason which could have
moved them except fear of publicity. Russell is
man who will not work in the dark. While he was
in Office writing opinions upon public matters, he
felt any of the public which interested was en-
titled to know what he said
It is probable that as long these commissioners
remain in Office people will be skeptical Of every
thing they do. The two commissioners who did not
participate in the discharge Of Russell and King will
share in this suspicion because they have ratified it.
They will be watched power commissioners
ever were watched, and this may be wholesome. But
their recommendations and decisions will be received
with distrust 1t is inconceivable that the senate
will proceed with the plan to extend regulation to
all interstate power companies while these officials
compose the regulating body, and that is misfor-
tune for there should be regulation soon.
1t is gratifying that William v. King is back at
work. examining power company accounts. There IS
every reason to feel confidence in his integrity.
But where will the commissioners find an able
and jealous and honest man. deeply in earnest about
protecting the public interest who will be willing to
work for the power commission as SOLICITOR
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|ANN(VER!$ARYI
r. z. LEES BIRTH
Jan. 10

NN Jan. 10, 1907, Robert E. Lee,
~ commander-in-chief of the
Confederate armies in the Civil war.
was born in Westmoreland county,
Virginia, the son of Revolutionary
war veteran.
At 10, he entered West Poirsc, was
graduated second in his class and
received commission in the en-
gineer corps. After the Mexican war,
in which he was repeatedly pro-
noted for distinguished service, he
became superintendent of West
Point.
His next service was as cavalry
commander on the Texas border
He was recalled to Washington in
March, 1861, when seven states had
formed the Southern Confederacy.
A month later Lee sent in his
resignation, ands within two days,
was made COMMUNICATIVE chief of
the military forces at Richmond.
After successfully leading his
forces in the early days of the war,
Lee finally yielded to the superior
armies Of Grant, surrendering his
army at Appomattox Courthouse,
Virginia.
Lee then accepted the presidency
Of Washington college. now Wash
ington and Lee, at Lexington, Va,
In which post he remained until
his death IN 1870.