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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-27
BY CHARLES r. SPEARE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK. November 27.-Tn mar
kets of such small proportions as those
currently witnessed, where public in
terest in them is at such low ebb and
little attempt Is made to support issues,
an exaggerated Importance may be
given to the size of the decline in in
dividual securities. This also leads fire.
quently to rumors Of important liquida-
ton that, If traced, prove to be without
foundation.
There have been such reports lately
in connection with operations by in
vestment management trusts and by
fixed trusts. 1t has been claimed that
such corporations were selling out a
great many stocks on which they had
losses and replacing them by other
issues in which they had greater
degree of confidence. Undoubtedly a
certain amount of this has taken place
during the year. 1t is not believed,
however, that it has been much of a
factor in determining the trend of the
market in the past month.
Wedding Out Rail Stocks.
It is still going on in a small way
among those trusts that had a rather
high proportion of railroad stocks in
their portfolios. These have gradually
been weeded out. When the 1881 lists
are published next year, it will be found
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Money TO Loan

Secured By flrst deed Of trust on real estate.
Prevailing interest and commission.
Joseph |. Weller s SiS, w. n NV NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-27
BUSINESS IN HAWAII
Is REPORTED QUIET
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Honolulu Chamber of Commerce
reports that business in the Hawaiian
Islands continued at low level dur
ing the last month.
Grinding has started on the 1882
sugar crop. which is estimated at 915,-
300 short tons. Weather conditions are
especially favorable and the crop is
well advanced for this season.
Banking conditions are reported as
sound There has been some increase
in frozen credits, but savings deposits
are higher than at this time last year.
The effect Of the release of Christmas
savings funds" amounting to about
81 600 900, has been partly Offset by
November tax payments.
Inter-isIand freight and passenger
traffic is lower than at this time last
wear. Real estate is reported quiet,
with building and construction at low
level.
fRetrenchment by pineapple compa-
nnes during the month has added to the
list of unemployed, though the situa-
ton with regard to ordinary labor has
not become troublesome. Unemploy-
nlent among skilled professions, iI1clud-
ing clerks, stenographers, engineers.
etc, however, is more acute.
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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
Received Pnvaew Direct . once

stocks .ea ia % ,S a except these a''Fn''sd By letter
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, November 81 (R.-(U. s.
Department of Agriculture.) - Hogs,
$4,000 head, including $4,000 direct;
5a1O below Wednesday. Packing sows,
steady to weak, 17O-210 pounds, Asa
ASS; top, 4.6o; 22o-31o pounds. ASA
3.75a415; packing sows, 3.90a4.10;
light light, good and choice, 140-160
pounds, 435a45o; light weight, 100
200 pounds, 440a4.60; medium weight,
200-250 pounds, 4.40a4.60; heavy
weight 250-350 pounds, 4,30a4.4 AS;
packing sows, medium and good, 275-
500 pounds, 390a4.20; pigs, good and
choice. 100-130 pounds, 3.75a4.25.
Cattle 5000 head; calves, 1000; all
grades fed steers and long yearlings
steady; today's crop includes about 100
loads international Show throw-outs;
best weighty steers sorted off show
herds, 1900; several lots, 12.00a
1850; mostly 675a1000 on medium to
good grade regular market steers; light
yearlings and most classes she stock
weak to Is lower; stocKers very SLOW
Slaughter cattle and vealerS: Steers,
good and choice, 100000 pounds, lisa
Ills; 9oOa1, 100 pounds, 8:ooa125o;
1,100-1 300 pounds: 8.00a13.00; 1900
/ 800 pounds, 8.00a1300; common and
medium, COOL 300 pounds, 4,00a800
Heifers, good and choice, 550-950
pounds, 6.5Oa1O.o0; common and me-
dunn, 3.00a400; low cutter and cutter,
2.25a30 90. :
Bulls (yearlings excluded, good and
choice (beef), 4.00a4.75; cutter to me-
dunn, 250a425; vealers (mfA-feO +,
good and choice, 5.75a7.75; medium
4.5Oa5.75; Gull and common, 3.00a4.50:
stocker and feeder cattle, steers good
and choice, 5O0-1, $50 pounds, 5.00a700;
common and medium 3 75a5s0
Sheep, $4,000; weak to Is loves SELL
ers resisting decline: go1d to choice
lambs, 5.75a6.25 to packers; few $50 to
city butchers; best held higher; white
faced feeders, AIS steady. Lambs, 90
pounds down, good and choice, 5.i5a
675: medium, 500a575; all weights,
common, 4oOa5 90; ewes, 9o-130 pounds,
medium to choice, 1.75a325; az. weights,
Gull apd common. 1.5oa225; feeding
lamps, 50-.5 pounds, good apd choice,
4.50a5.00.
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SCopyright. 1917
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"a PCT. GAIN REPORTED
IN MONTHS BUSINESS


NEW YORK, November 27.-Fidelity
of business for October If 81, 442 900
compared with $3,568000 in October,
1890, a gain of $874,000 or PAS per cent
and one of the largest monthly gains
reported thus far this year. For the 10
months of 1881 annuity contracts
totaled SAG, 1902 900 against $4O,16O, 900
in the corresponding 10 months of last
year, an increase Of $6,542,000 or 1853
per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-27
U. S. TREASURY BALANCE.

The United States Treasury balance
announced today as of close Of business
November "a was 1929 ,299 33.
Customs receipts for the month to date
were $22,861, 12858. Total ordinary ex-
penditures were S7,555,15717.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-27
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

NEW YORK, November 81 (P).-Bar
silver quiet and 1sc lower at 293ac.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-27
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS
Banks.

NEW YORK, November 81 (P.-over.
the counter market:
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WHOLESALE PRICES.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Wholesale selling prices rose a frac-
tionai point during the week ended No
vember q, as their trend was calculated
by the Commerce Department. In the
figures that follow the level is given
for comparable periods, based on repre-
senting 1926 averages as 100. In addi-
ton the selling price for ton of COM
posite' steel products is given for like
periods: .
All Cofnmod. Steel
Week ended November 2l.... 68.s $3e. g
SreVIous week ;........"s... go sS9. 65
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-27
CLEARING HOUSE FIGURES.
SILVER QUOTATIONS.

Washington Clearing House figures
for today: $685., 1925.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
PIT. A. To TALK
CHILD HEALTH
NELLIE VERERKA

With child health and protec-
ton as the central theme Of its
meeting, the District Congress Of
Parents and Teachers will hold
it's annual convention tomorrow.
Beginning at 10 a. m. at the
Wilson Teachers College, Eleventh
and Harvard Streets Northwest,
the association first will take up
reports from various chairmen,
and at ii a.. m. Miss Katherine
Lenroot, assistant chief of the
Children's Bureau, will speak on
the children's charter as promul-
gated in the White House Con-
ference on Child Health and
Protection.
Child Health Is Theme
Following the theme Of child
health, former Senator Ransdell,
of Louisiana, will address the
group at the Fellowship dinner
at the National Press Club in
the evening on the subject of
the benefits reaped from the Fed
eral Governments new Institute
of Health. He will give special
attention to the research done
by the institute in connection
with diseases common mon g
At the same dinner, Col. Camp
bell Hodges. military aide to
President Hoover, will speak on
the Importance of discipline Of
children in the public schools
and it's relation to the parent
teacher movement.
Mrs. Mears To Be Guest
Mrs. David o. Mears, one of
tie founders Of the parent
teacher movement, will be a
guest at the dinner. Paul Wooton,
local newspaper correspondent,
will be toaStmaSter,
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
LID BLOWS OFF
On STRAW HAT
It won't be long now.

It won't be long now.
In fact the various Lids" of
the Straw Hat Club of America
are even now preparing to drag
out the old hay tiles and sport
them publicly.
Several years ago Ed Callow,
Roy Golf and Frank Hight or
ganized Washington Lid No. l
and since that time branches
have sprung up in all of the
States.
The purpose of the club is to
further the wearing earlier and
later of straw hats and let the
urchins do their worst.
R. B. Norton, president of
Florida Lid, No. 10, at Clear
water, braved Washington in a
hay hat today and announced
that even though he may duck
the baseball game he intends to
stick to that shredded wheat
skinner.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
Z |NC|NERATORS
FACE DELAY

Construction of two District in.
cinerator plants is likely to be de-
layed for a year as the result Of
objections raised concerning bids
and specifications for the project.
Comptroller General J. Ray.
mond McCarl has been appealed
to by one of the bidders and called
upon the District Commissioners
for data concerning the probject.
The Commissioners sent an 18.
page explanation to Mr.. McCarl,
and on Saturday a 10-page
answer was returned.
Acting Engineer Commissioner
Donald A. Dawson today declined
to discuss the matter, stating that
it was one for the Commissioners
to settle. He did say, however,
that Mr.. McCarTs 1O-page letter
had been sent to Corporation
Counsel William w. Bride for .
legal opinion.
Specifications for the project
were drawn by Metcalfe & Eddy,
a Boston firm, which was retained
by the Commissioners. Bids were
opened on March II.
Criticism concerning the man.
ner of the bids arose, which
eventually eliminated with the
complaint to Mr.. McCarl.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
Hospital Patients Urged
To Paw IF Possible

Calling attention to the fact
that a great deal of free service
+ being given in Washington
Hospitals, the American Public
Health Association today urged
that efforts be made to have
everyone who can pay something
for the service to do so.
Urged In Health Report
This recommendation was in
cluded in the fourth report of
the association made after a sur
vey conducted under the auspices
of the health committee of the
Washington Council of Social
Agencies.
The report contains two refer
ences to this problem. 1t states:
"The general tendency
throughout the country is to
have an increasing percentage
of patients pay part or whole
of the cost of hospital service.
The extension of insurance and
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
CLEANUP ESSAY
CONTEST GETS
UNDER WAY
$4,000 Public School Children
to Compete for Medals;
Identification Also Begun

AS the big essay contest spon-
Sored by The washington Times,
in connection with the 1881
cleanup campaign, was officially
opened today, the $4,000 children
in the public schools who are COM
peting were spurred to action by
statements of approval issued by
three officials of the District of
Columbia school system.
In every classroom in every
school within the boundaries of
the District Of Columbia, the one
topic on the tongues of all the
children was the essay contest and
its reward of medals and honor
certificates. Enthusiasm was at a
high pitch and principals and
teachers reported that each child
was imbued with the ambition to
write a winning essay.
Learn by Experience
Since the first announcement
of the contest was carried in the
columns Of The Washington
Times last Monday the children in
many schools have been gaining
actual experience in cleaning-up
work and methods of beautifica-
ton, and indications were that the
ranks of the experience seekers
would be greatly augmented dur
ing the next day or two.
That the school children could
have no doubts about the fact
that the school system is cooper.
ating Whole-heartedly in the con-
test, DR.. H. Barrett Learned, presi-
dent. of the Board of Education;
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superin-
tendent of schools, and Stephen
E. Kramer, first assistant superin,
tendent, in their statements,
stressed the educational impor-
tance Of the contest, its purpose
and it's value.
Contest To End May Is
The contest will be officially
ended on Friday, May Is and
each of the $4,000 essays which
will be submitted on that day
will be on the subject, "o 2auti-
flying Washington for 1892"
That is the year of the George
Washington Bicentennial, and
one of the aims of this years
cleanup campaign is to make
Washington so spick and span
and beautiful that the thousands
of visitors who will come here
for the bicentennial will carry
away a most favorable impress
sion of the nations capital.
COincidently with the opening
of the contest the 1881 cleanup
campaign also got under way to-
day. 1t is being conducted by
the Washington Cleanup Cam
paign Committee Of which Fred
eric A. DelanO is chairman and
George ]. Adams is executive sec
retary. The contest idea was the
inspiration of the committee,
which sought an avenue through
which the children could be inter
eSted in the drive. The cam
paign will end on May 1S but
the essay contest closes three
days before.
Statement by Learned
In the schools today teachers
generally were making prepara-
tions to acquaint their pupils with
CONTINUED on Page II, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
FLEES, LEAVING
SLUGGED MAN
UNCONSCIOUS
John E. FaIe Lies Seven Hours
Before He Is Able to Call
Friend to Open Locked Door

Lying unconscious in his apart
ment for nearly seven hours after
he had been attacked and robbed
last night, John E. Fale, 927 H
st. N. W., was recovering today
from severe head cuts after being
treated at Emergency Hospital.
Followed To His Home
Fale told police he was fol
lowed home from a drug store
at F and Ninth Streets North
west, by an unidentified white
man, who forced his way into
Fale's apartment. The man de-
manded money and when Fale
refused, he said, he was struck
on the head with a blunt inStru.
nlent.
Fale lay unconscious until 3
o'clock this morning, he said,
and when he came to, he found
he was locked in the room. His
assailant had locked the door on
the outside.
Finally Called Friend
At 4 o'clock, Fale said, he sum-
moned a friend who removed
him to Emergency Hospital.
Fale described his assaiIant as
about 35 years old, weighing 165
pounds, feet, eight inches tall.
His suit was gray and he wore
light gray felt hat.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
Times Staff Photo


wOrkmen's compensation is aid
ing in some places in effecting
improvement burt there still is
and will continue to be a per-
centage of the population for
which the public must become
responsible for the providing Of
hospital facilities"
Recommendations Made
The recommendation in the re
port is:
THAT as a great deal of
free service is being given in
the hospitals in Washington,
efforts be made to increase the
proportion of paying patients
by giving every patient the Op-
pOrtunity of paying something
for the service provided him
and while not Withholding ser.
vice making sure that those
who can pay something do So"
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
P. j. c. RENEWS
PEPCO RATE
BATTLE
Bride Proposals Not Disclosed;
New Sliding Scale Schedule
Believed Part of Proposal


The Public Utilities Commission
is scheduled to make another at
tempt to settle the long-hanging
controversy over the reduction in
electric rates at it's meeting this
afternoon.
Corporation Counsel William w.
Bride has submitted his recon.
mendations for the commission
to follow in settlement of the
wrangle.
Details UndisclOsed
Mr.. Brides report, which is
being cloaked with deepest
secrecy by Maj. Gen. Mason M.
Patrick, chairman of the com.
mission, is to be discussed at the
meeting.
Judging from the stand Mr..
Bride has taken since the wrangle
began it is almost certain he
recommended that the commission
proceed on its own initiative and
draw up q new sliding scale Of
rates.
This move is considered the
more advisable since, as undoubt-
ably the fight will eventually wind
up in court, the Potomac Electric
Power Company would have to
shoulder the burden of proving
that the scale is unfair.
Lacks Advantages
On the other hand, if the COM
mission moved to revalue the
property of the company, this
procedure would be long drawn
out and would eventually termi-
nate in court with the commits
sion not enjoying the advantages.
Mr.. Bride was asked for an
opinion of the best course Of
action to follow about two weeks
ago by the commission. In max.
ing the request, the commission
outlined four or five proposed
courses of action, which it de.
clined to make public.
This request was made after the
company informed the commits
sion it was content to stand pat"
on the existing electric rates and
declined to enter negotiation for q
reduction. The commission pre-
viously had carried on much cor.
respondence with the company,
urging that it join the commission
in reducing the rates.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
Models of Pigs Help
Buuers Pick Grade

What kind Of pig will you
have? Live stock buyers can take
their choice from clay models
made by Mrs. Justine Warner, an
artist in the Department of Agri-
culture. Each clay pig represents
one of the six different grades
of such animals established by
the Government for the guidance
of dealers.
The department grades pigs as
prime, choice, good, medium,
common, and Gull.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
New Director of Traffic
/" Studies D. 6. Problems
Times Staff Photo

District, which he takes over OF
July /.
Colonel Grant said:
81 have asked Mr.. Van
Duzer to study two important
problems which we will have
to settle in the near future.
One is the general problem of
parking and automobile con-
ditiOns within and about the
new Mall triangle of public
buildings. The other is the
development of the regional
highway system around Wash
ingtOn."
1t is expected that Mr.. Van
Duzer will make some recon-
mendationS with respect tc
motor conditions in the Mall
triangle and in the vicinity OF
other public buildings that will
be presented to Congress nexj
winter.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
7-Ye0r Prison Term
GiUen to RObber, So

David Weiss, SO, must serve a
total of seven years in prison
for robbery and attempted rob-
berry, Justice Gordon ruled in
criminal court.
Weiss robbed Abraham Amouri,
at the latter's store at SOL New
Jersey Ave. N. w., March Is and
four days later was apprehended
in an attempt to rob the store
of John Krosrofian, 1907 Twelfth
st. N. w. He used a gun in
both instances.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
Canoe Upsets in Tidal
Basin; 2 BOYS Saved

Two boys we're rescued from an
early season dip" today when the
canoe in which they were riding
upset in the Tidal Basin.
B. D. Domnemellor and B. D.
Dickson, both of Chevy Chase,
Md, got the sudden bath. Howard
M. Grantham, operator of the
Swan Boat and Owen Selby, man
ager of the boat house rescued
the boys.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20

Two months in advance of his
assumption of office as local direc-
tor of traffic, w. A. Van Duzer,
former member of the Pennsyl-
vania highway commission, today
began his study of local motoring
conditions.
Mr.. Van Duzer has been ap-
pinted temporarily a consultant
and assistant to Col. U. S. Grant
Sd, superintendent of Public
Buildings and Parks, on traffic
problems, and held preliminary
conference with him this morning.
Mr.. Van Duzer said his work
under Colonel Grant will consti-
tute.. an excellent introduction to
the office of traffic director of the
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
PETWORTH UNIT TO MEET

The Petworth Citizens Associa-
tion will meet in the Barnard
School auditorium, Fifth and De-
catur SITS. N. W., at 8 O'Clock
tomorrow night,
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
Traffic Buttons
To Be Illuminated

The latest type of experimental
traffic guide buttons will be placed
on the overhead bridge turn on
Washington Street, in Alexandria,
next week. The new buttons,
which were ordered by City Man
ager Lawrence today, are said to
show up as brilliantly in the night
as in day time,
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
Engine Hits Auto;
Woman Is Injured

Daisy Armstead, colored. is in
the Alexandria Hospital suffering
from injuries received last night
when the automobile in which
she was riding, driven by Wallace
Armstead, hit a shifting engine at
Fayette and Madison Sts., Alexan-
dria.
The ArnStead CO. -~oS wrecked
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
Hoover Will Plant
Tree at White House

The first of 100000 trees that
will be planted in the United
States between now and the cele-
bration of the bicentennial of the
birth of George Washington next
year, will be planted in the North
grounds Of the Write House to-
morrow by President Hoover.
It will be an American elm.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
AUTO INJURIES CHILD

Margaret Baker. 8, yesterday
was treated at Emergency Hos
pital for decorations on her face
received, police said, when she
was felled by an. automobile
operated by Harold Dixon, 1900
block Corcoran st. N. w.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-14
PLIERS REPlRTEI A5 - MISSING ARE NOW
 BELIEVED To BE SAFE

Considerable apprehension was felt here today upon the report from Anchorage that both Alon- Izo Cope and Frank Dorhandt of the International AirWays of Alaska were missing and were supposed to be down somewhere in the Cook Inlet portion oI the Kenai Peninsula Further reports however, were to the effect that Cope was safe at Big Lake which news had evidently been taken back to Anchorage by Dorbandt.
 It appears that Cope, who has made many thrilling flights with norbandt, going as mechanician, took off from Anchorage on a solo flight down the Inlet, ex- peeting to be back the same day. When he had not returned Sun day, Dorbandt dropped avery- thing else and went in search of his puddle and partner. Then Iit appears that nothing was heard from either of them for more than two days and Anchor age became intensely concerned By reason of the fact that the wires have been down, nothing was known here of the circum- stances Latest advices this morning seem to indicate that both men are safe but no parti- culars as to the condition of
 Cope's plane, or what arrange ments are for getting him back
 to Anchorage base,
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-14
HEAVY NET SNOW
 PULLS DOWN WIRES

The snow IS deep and heavy in the vicinity of Tunnel and GrandvieW, according to arrivals from Anchorage Tuesday Who were two days on the trip over, being compelled to spend the night at Tunnel. The last storm added several feet of nev SHOW giving a total of IS feet on the .guage at Grandview The rotary with three locomotives pushing had a hard battle all the way in from Tunnel, but turned around again this morning Iaad- ing a mixed freight back to An- chorage.
 Communication has beeH res- tored although the lines We're down in several places. The rotary crew has been unjustly censured for knocking down the wires with flying chunks of snow" said one traveller. abe- cause ! know this IS not true The boys were very careful and switched of the outgo wherever necessary to avoid hitting wires. The real cause was the extraor- dinary weight of wet snow that gathered on the wires, simply tearing them down with excess loads"
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-14
THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Great frost prevailed in England, continuing to March 40.
 l643 Dr. John Boyse, transla tor cf the Bible, died
 1890 Seventh appearance of the Star Of Bethlehem since the birth of Jesus. announced
 1891 Free coinage bill passed by the United States Senate.
 1898 President Mckinley urg- ed prompt payment of Boring Sen award.
 l93l-Decided by Rivers and Harbors Commission to fit up Seward Breakwater with hot and cold showers for sea gulls and a "shoot the chutesN for cod.Al- so a hand ball court for crabs.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-14

Miss Alverra Anderson and MT. Russell Keith, both Of Valdez, were recently married in that city. according to the Valdez Miner The bride has been a school teacher at Valdez for the past year and a half. The groom is connected with the Alaska Road Commission.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-14
WHAT AND WHY

Althrop Port on northwest shore of Chichagof island, nam ed by Vancouver in 1794.
 Alaska Views at the Alaska Shop.