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The Washington times., 1931-09-24
Spanish Farm Hands
Battle Civil Guards

LONDON, Sept. "a U.N.SO At
least five persons were killed and
several were wounded today
when Spanish farm laborerS
attacked civil guards in villages
southeast of Toledo.
The Washington times., 1931-09-24
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as of Septem-
ber %, $685., 1885. .414.37; expendi.
lures, $4,451, 1882; customs re-
ceipts, $25,356, 1854.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
PEPCO CONFERS
ON NEW SCALE
Times Staff Photo

Consideration of the recent
Public Utilities Commission order
setting up a new sliding scale for
fixing electric rates is scheduled
for the meeting today of the Po-
tonac Electric Power Company.
The new sliding scale, having
the effect of vacating the consent
decree handed down by Equity
Court in 1924 under which elec-
trio rates have since been fixed,
cuts the basis rate of return from
71a to 7 per cent.
Undoubtedly the company will
carry it's fight to court in an
effort to void the commissions
order. The company has taken
the stand that the commission
is without Jurisdiction to disturb
the consent decree since it is an
order of the District Supreme
Court.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
Tiny Mildred Offers
President Copy of
Felix the Cat

Grasping in her little hand
a tiny lead specimen of Felix
the Cat" Mildred May, S, came
to the Executive offices today,
telling Pat McKenna, the presi-
Dental doorkeeper, that she
wished to give Felix" to the
President to hold down his
papers"
Mildred said she was from
Charleston, w. Va, and that
her father, who had brought
her to Washington, was an
electrician or chief engineer "or
something like that" She said
she had no mother and wanted
to know where the Presidents
wife and the dogs" were. She
insisted that Felix" be given
to the President even though
he could not see her personally
as he was a very busy man.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
7 TALk|ES FACE
SCHOOL TEST
IN DISTRICT
Grammar School Graduates
And Teachers to Meet Here
For Picture instruction

One hundred and forty-seven
grammar school graduates and
teachers from the States and
the District of Columbia will
assemble here July 6 to devote
four days to testing the value of
talking motion-picture instruction
in the curricula of the public
schools of the United States.
President Hoover has invited
each governor and the District
Commissioner to select a public
school teacher and a boy and
girl, graduated this year, to par
ticipate.
George Washington University
has offered it's facilities for the
test, while films will be provided
by Harley L. Clarke, president of
the Fox Films Corporation. A
committee of experts, chosen by
the Office of Education in the
Department of the Interior, will
be in charge.
President Hoover called the
meeting at the request of a num-
ber of city and State superin-
tendents of schools. Advocates
of visual education have long
cOntended that zone picture is
worth a thousand words"
To ascertain the advantages of
the talking movies, from an edu-
cational standpoint, the boys and
girls upon arrival will be given
an examination upon certain sub
jectS. Then for two days they
will view educational talking pic
lures on these subjects. The last
day they will be given a second
examination to determine What
they have learned.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
c. D. P. FIGHTS
p. FOR 10 POSTS
IN COUNTY
Full Slate in Arlington Near
as 14O Make Ready to Meet
in Lyon Park on July 10

Selection of full slate of can
didates for county offices in
Arlington is expected when the
Republican party holds its con-
vention at the Lyon Park Com
munity House on July 10.
This will be the second time in
the history Of the county that a
full slate has been nominated by
that party for a local election, a
similar field Of candidates having
been put forward four years ago
in the last election.
14O at Meet
With one delegate to the con-
vention for each IS Republican
voters in the last national elec-
ton, more than 140 are expected
to be present at the convention.
These will be selected in mass
to be held in each pre-
cinct of the county on July 7.
In the last election, B. M.
Hedrick, candidate for the county
judgeship in this election and a
candidate for the county board
of supervisors at that time, was
the only candidate on the Re-
publican ticket to be successful.
10 Offices Sought
Since that time, however, the
organization in the
county has made rapid progress,
and belief that an organized
group can win over
the scattered forces Of the Demo
Gratis, who hold no primary elec-
tion, has led to the decision to
nominate a complete slate for
county offices.
The offices to be filled are:
commemorative attorney, sheriff
county Judge, treasurer, commits
sioner Of revenue, and the five
members of the county board of
commissioners,
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
SHIP LINE SUED
. BY MRS. NJ HE
Harris Ewing Photo

A new episode in the life OF
Mrs. Isabel D. McHie, the woman
who has willed her $400, 900 estate
to the S. P. C. A. because Of
her dislike for the human race,
was revealed yesterday in New
York.
Trial of a suit over Mrs. McHie'S
property disclosed she is suing the
Cunard Lines for personal indigni-
ties and injuries received in 1928
when she alleges the officers of
the liner Lancashire placed her
in the vessels brig.
Only last month, Mrs. Nellie
escaped, with the aid Of a promi-
nent Episcopalian clergymen, from
the Enoch Pratt Hospital at Tow
son, Md.
Mrs. McHie is now living in
Brooklyn, N. Y, and has obtained
a ruling from New York courts
that Maryland courts are without
Jurisdiction in her case. She is the
daughter of Mrs. Susan j. Null
hall, of Washington.
Acting at request of the Cunard
line, an assistant U. S. consul in
Southampton, England, took depo-
sitions from Leslie Walter Price,
assistant manager, and Charles
Balderson, night porter, Of the
Southwestern Hotel there.
The dispositions told Of Mrs.
McFIie's calling Balderson fre,
quently on the night of August
II, 1928, to look for man under
her bed.
Both described the room as in
disorder.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
AIDS MOTHER
IN EDITING
POSITION
Six-Year-0Id Daughter of Late
Speaker Fond of Russian
Tales, alice in Wonderland

Serious-faced, terrifically in
tense for a child of her age, Pau,
lima Longworth has discovered
literature.
The 6.year-old daughter of the
late Speaker of the House and
Mrs. Nicholas LOngwOrth has de-
veloped a decided interest in read
ing.
Making a brief visit in Wash
ington recently. Mrs. Longworth
and Paulina stopped at their
favorite book shop to stock up for
the summer Paulina and her
mother are spending the warm
weather at a cottage recently
leased at jamestown, r. l., just
across from buster and more tasn-
ionable Newport.
Has Taste of Her Own
Mrs. Longworth makes a prac-
tice of reading to her small daush-
ter. and she has discovered that
the diminutive damsel has de-
cided preferences in her selection
Of reading matter. One Of the
Youngsters present favorites is
set of Russian fairy tales, Paullna
glorying in the grim side Of Slavic
humor. She adores, according }
her mother, a certain chlld's HIS
tory of Ireland, and "Hitty," a
story of a 1O0-year-old doll, is one
of the cherished treasures OF her
book shelves.
Mrs. LOngwOrth is a member
of the editorial board of the
Book League of America. Her
decisions on juvenile books, she
admits, are largely based ON
PauIina's judgment, books the
yOungstr rejects being Sternly
turned down.
Fond Of "Alice"
"Alice in Wonderland" has al
ways been a favorite Of the
former Alice Roosevelt ana
Pauline shares her enthusiasm
for Lewis Carroll's little heroine.
It was a thrilling never to be
forgotten day in the Longworth
household when Mother Alice in
troduced Paulina to the beautiful
story.
Mrs. LOngwOrth, herself, is not
particularly fond of fiction. She
loves folk lore, biographies, his
tory, and books of adventure.
When she is in Washington she
is q familiar figure seated under
the shade of one of the huge
trees along the Potomac with her
book. Usually she walks as she
loatheS motoring unless neces-
S2ry.
Has Own BoOkplateS
Paulina has her own little
library and her own book plates.
The books on her nursery shelves
were selected by the little miss
herself with a few suggestions,
not always accepted, from her
mother.
Mother" has taken a keen de-
light in producing her to her
own childhood favorites and
Paulina's library boasts such
classics as Back of the North
Wind" THE Princess and Cur
die" and six Girls" the ma
pority forgotten in these days Of
movie heroines.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
SOU AD
SAVES WOMAN

The Fire Department rescue
squad ambulance again beat
Emergency Hospital on a hurry
call yesterday when Mrs. Elsie
Kicker, 18, mother of a six
months-old child swallowed a
quantity of mild antiseptic by
mistake for cough medicine.
One call was made to the hos
pital when Mrs. Kicker, after de-
tecting the mistake, called a
resident of her home at No. 2
Logan Circle. After the rescue
squad arrived a second call for
the hospital ambulance was made.
In the meantime, police of the
Second precinct appeared on the
scene in the precinct car and as
sisted the firemen in giving the
woman first aid. After the am,
bulance finally arrived Mrs. Ric-
ker was treated by the ambulance
inferno and taken to the hospital
where it is said her condition is
not serious.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
Bethesda Will Haze
NeW VOtina Precinct

Bethesda will have a new vot-
ing precinct with the establish
ment of precinct No. 4. which
will include all territory west of
Wisconsin Avenue and the Old
Georgetown Road.
There are now three voting
precincts in the Bethesda district,
one at Chevy Chase, one at Cabin
John, and one which includes
all territory east of wisconsin
Avenue, east of Old Georgetown
Road, and north of Bethesda
Bank.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24

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The Washington times., 1931-06-24
BROOME SCHOOL
PLAN D. K'D

Approval of the 1881 county
school construction program as
submitted by Edwin w. Broome,
superintendent of schools for
Montgomery county, was approved
yesterday by the Montgomery
County Commissioners.
The program provides for an
expenditure of $311,000 to be
paid for out of funds raised by
the sale of a bond issue approved
by the last session. Of the State
Legislature.
Immediate start of construction
as soon as bond proceeds are re-
ceived was advocated by Mr.
Broome, who is desirous of having
the projects completed for the
opening Of school in the fall.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
Mrs. AnGbelIe Dyer
Files Divorce Action

Mrs. Annabelle Dyer, Of Ber-
wyn, Md, filed suit for an abso-
lutte divorce from Louis L. Dyer,
of Jessups, Md, on grounds of
desertion in circuit court at Upper
Marlboro yesterday.
They were married in 1915 and
have one daughter, whose Gus
tody Mrs. Dyer seeks.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
WILL GO TO RUSSIA

BALTIMORE, June 24.-Mrs.
Mary A. Gill, 72, is planning to
join her son, Charles A. Gill, Bal
timore and Ohio railroad engi-
neer, who is now in Russia as one
of the American experts rehabili.
tating the Soviet railway system.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
University
Sun1r1erSChOOL Reudu

The twenty-first summer ses
sion of the Catholic University of
America will open here Friday
with more than 1000 students reg.
istered for the six weeks course.
The enrolment is the largest in
the history of the school.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-13
Livestock
so. ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK

South St. Paul, Nov. 13.-(PeU.
S. D. A)-Cattle-2,200; trade OPEN
ing slow; prospects about steady with
Thursdays average; liberal share of
run due to arrive late: choice fed
killers held upwards of 1000; bulk
ordinary shortfeds at warmed ups
5.50-750: palmer grassers to 4.50 and
below; beef COWS 3.0O-3.75; heifers
3.50-475; cutters 2.00-2.50: bulls little
change; bulk 3.00-325; feeders and
stockers in moderately broad demand; !;
common and medium grades 3.75-4.5O; /;
better grade offerings salable 500 and
up. Calyes-2,300p vcalcrs steady;
medium to choice grades 4.OO-5,50;
closely sorted kinds to 600.
Hogs 10000; market very unever
hogs scaling around ITO lbs. and ur
steady to 10 lower: underwelg..t It's
strong to Is or more higher; sows
about steady; better 100 to 300 It's
$50 to $50; top 4.60 paid by ship
pers for several loads $50 to 2l0 ID
weights; and by packers for butcn-
ers around 220 lbs. up; pigs mostly
400 and bulk packing sows 3.75 To
4.25; average cost Thursday 4.5O;
weight 205 lbs.
Sheep 1000; run mostly natives;
market opening around steady With
Thursday; coed to choice native ARD
Dakota lambs largely 600: medium
grades 500; common throwouts BIS
to 400; fat ewes salable 200 down:
late Thursday good to choice range
feeding lambs 4.25 to 4.53.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-13
SALES
WEAKEN NPRICES0N
MART AT CHICAGO
Quotations Tumble to 9 Cents
Under High Marks Re-
Gently Established

Chicago, Nov. 13.-(P)-Stop loss
selling which broke out near the end
OF trading caused a lively setback in
wheat prices Friday, the market
tumbling to cents under its recent
high point.
New DEGREES in France rigidly con-
trolling breadstuff imports was more
or less responsible, fears being ex-
pressed that way had been opened
to create import quotas according to
countries. An increase of 100000
bushels In Canadian crop estimates
also was bearish factor. Fresh 'ex-
port business in North American
wheat was meager, only 400, 900 BUSH
els.
Wheat closed nervous at the day S
bottom level, IA to 3-8 lower
than Thursdays finish, Dec. 50 to 50
l-8, May GA to 64 1-8. Corn l to
7-8 off, Dec. Al 3-4 to 7-8, May As
3-4 to 7-8. Oats 5-8 to ga down,
and provisions at cents to 10 cents
decline.
Opening unchanged to l-2 cent
lower, wheat afterward held near the
initial limits. Corn started un-
changed to 7-8 off and subsequently
showed little alteration.
A more two-sided market than has
recently been the rule developed in
wheat. During much of the time,
sellers were less urgent than Thurs
day. and buying was more confident.
Bulls showed disposition to stress
war news from Manchuria. Much no.
tice also was taken on report from
Riga that insolvency of the Russian
government was officially admitted by
Molotov, president Of the council of
peoples commission and associate of
the Soviet Dictator Joseph Stain.
Some Chicago grain trade authori-
ties drew the inference the Riga dis
patch implied a collapse of Russia S
dumping policy. and that despite
spaSmodic exports Russia would not
cut the figure in the international
wheat trade this year that was earlier
expected. On the other hand reports
Of rains III parts of Texas and Kansas
tended to stimulate wheat selling as
indicating a betterment of domestic
crop prospects. Corn and oats fol-
lowed wheat.
Provisions were neglected.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-13
Tribune's Grain, Livestock and
Market Report for Fri, NOu. l3

and choice (beef) 3.75-4.50; cutter to
medium 2.25-4.00; vealers milk fed)
good and choice 5.50-7O0; medium
4.50-5.50: Gull and common 350-4.50.
Stocker and feeder cattle: Steers
good and choice 500-1O50 lbs. 5.25-
7.25: common and medium 3.50-5.25.
Sheep 10000; mostly steady with
higher tendency: good to choice ma
tive and fed western lambs 5.50-625;
best held above $50; rangers absent;
fat ewes 2.0O-2.50.
Slaughter sheep and lambs: Lambs
80 lbs. down good and choice $50
6.65; medium 4.50-500; all weights
common 350-4.50: ewes 90-150 lbs.
medium to choice 1.25-275: all
weights Gull and common 1.00-1.75:
feeding lambs 50-75 lbs. good and
choice 4.50-5.o0.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-13
NEW YORK

New York, Nov. 13.-tR)-Butter
8,27l; strong. Creamery-higher than
extra 80; extra t92 score) 80; first
1881 score) 30-311a; seconds 29-29k.
Cheese 57,971: steady, unchanged.
Eggs $500; firm. Mixed colors, re-
frigeratorson seconds 18-18As.
Jersey and other white premium.
marks 1850; nearby and nearby west
ern hennery white, closely selected
extras 44-48; average extras 38-43;
extra firsts 1896; firsts 30-3l; near
by and western henrery browns, quail
ity fancy to extra fancy 43-46; gath
cred extras or average best 1912; ex-
ira firsts unquoted; firsts unquoted; ;
Pacific coast white, fresh. shell treat
ed or liners. closely selected extras
46-47; extra firsts 43-45.
Poultry, live, firmer. Chickens by
freight is to 20; express 18 to q;
broilers by express Is to %; fowls by
freight IA to %: express 16 to %;
turkeys by freight 20 to Is; expires;
Is to 80: ducks by freight IA; express
81. Dressed steady, unchanged.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-13
SIOUX CITY

Sioux City, Iowa. Nov 13.-(F)-CU.
8. Dep. Agr.)-Cattle, 1900; calves
800; slow. slaughter steers, yearlings
and she stock mostly weak: bulls and
vealers unchanged; stockers and feed
ers largely short feds $50 down: scat
tering lots short fed heifers 625
down; bulk COWS 800 to 400; few
choice light stockers 600; good to
choice stocker steer calves up to $50:
heifer calves $50 down; practical
vealer top 600; medium bulls up to
S.25.
Hogs. 10,5OO; moderately active.
steady to mostly 10 to 15c lower than
Thursdays average; top 4.60 for
around 225 pound butchers early:
bulk ITS to 300 pound weights AIS to
4.5O; most 120 to 100 pound weights
400 to 4.25; desirable slaughter pigs
SIS; sows maily 400 to 4.25.
Sheep. 5000; fat lambs opening
steady: early sales fed westerns. fed
clipped and natives $50 to SIS to
packers: few natives to shippers 600:
aged sheep and feeders scarce, fat
ewes quoted up to 2.25: deck yearlings
4.50: feeding lambs eligible around
400. quoted to 4.5o.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-13
CHICAGO

Chicago, Nov. 13.-(P,-fU. S. D. A.
Hogs $4,000, including 1000 direct;
weak to 10 lower; some heavies 1875
off; 190-220 lbs. 4.85-5.00; top 500;
10000 lbs. 4.85-4.o5; 140-l60 lbs. 4.50-
400; pigs 40o-4.35; packing sows 4.35-
4.60.
Light light good and choice 140-l60
lbs. 4.50-4.80; light weight 10000 lbs.
4.60-500; medium weight 20o-250 lbs.
4.85-5.00; heavy weight 250-350 lbs.
4.75-500; packing sows medium and
good 275-50o lbs. A.35-4.55; pigs good
and choice 1O0-13O lbs. 4.00-4.5o.
Cattle 1000; calves 600: generally
steady on all classes; two loads 1,446
lb. steers 1850; general quality plain;
bulk steers eligible to 500 down.
Slaughter cattle and vealers: Steers
good and choice 6oo-s00 lbs. 7.50-
l1.50; 90o-110O lbs. 7.50-1l.75; 110o-
1900 lbs. 7.50-l2.00: 1300-15oo lbs. 7.75-
1900: common and medium 600-1300
lbs. 3.75-7.75; heifers coed and choice
55O-35O LIS. 6O0-l0.25: common and
medium 3.00-5.50; cows good and
choice 3.75-5.25: common and medium
3OO- 400: low cutteG and cutter 2.Co-
800; bulls (yearlings excludad good
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-13
Produce Markets
CHICAGO

Chicago, Nov 13.-(P)-Butter was
firm in tone Friday as offerings fell
off and pirces were steady to 1sc
higher.
Eggs were firm and quoted lc
higher.
Poultry ruled mixed. steady 70
wea..
Butter. 1858, firm; creamery spe-
cials (93 score) 30-301s: extras (92
score) 291A: extra firsts (90-9l score,
28-281z; firsts (88-39 score) 26k-
271a: seconds t86-87 score) 24-25;
standards go score centralized car
lots) 1914.
Eggs. 1894. firm; extra firsts 1882:
fresh graded firsts 1890; current re-
ceipts 24-27; refrigerator firsts 18-
1872; refrigerator extras 1917 20.
Poultry. alive, cars. AZ trucks,
steady; fowls 13-l7h; springs 15k:
ROSTERS IL; turkeys 81; heavy white
ducks 1915: colored 1915: geese II.
Cheese. per lb.: Twins II Ia; Dais-
les Is; Brick is 1-2; Lirnburgcr IL
to 16 IL; Longhorns Is; Young
Americas IA IL to Is; Swiss % to 80.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-13
STOCK QUOTATIONS
SLUMP SHARPLY ON
NEW YORK MARKET
Wall Street Shows Uncertain
Trend Until Grain Prices
Show Weakness

New York, Nov. 13.-(AP)-The
stock market slumped under active
selling in the last hour of trading
Friday and principal shares closed
about 1 to 5 points lower. Rails
were dumped in considerable volume
and the general market closed with
a weak tone. Sales approximated
one and a half million shares.
The share market oscillated un-
certainly until it turned emphatical-
ly downward in the late trading.
Speculative quarters had looked for
further bullish endeavors in the
wheat market and the fact that
wheat closed off about cents, at
the lowest Of the day, presumably
contributed to the late selling of
shares. Bonds also yielded in spots,
although U. S. governments were
again firm.
Renewed talk of dividend reduce
tions accelerated the> decline in rails.
Many miscellaneous issues closed
about 2 to points lower.
Coppers were firm for time. but
lost their gains in the final dealings.
General Electric and Radio held up
well, sagging only fractionally.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-13

Wheat. No. I dark northern IS SO
to 78 5-8; No. do. 73 5-8 to II SIS:
No. 3 do. II 5-8 to rs 5-8; No.
northern IS 5-8 to 78 5-8; No. 2 do.
73 5-3 to rs 5-3; No. amber durunl
73 IA to "a IA No. 2 do. II ID to "a
IA; No. durum 60 IA to y IA;
No. do. SO IA to Y Ia; No. mix
cd durum IS IA to 86 IA; No. z do.
Ga 1-4 to &c IA; No. red durum
81 Ia.
Flax on track 1.47 IA to $50 Ia;
10 arrive LAT IA to LAT 3-4; Nov.
LAT ii; Dec. 1.42 IL; May 1!43.
Oats, No white 26 7-8 to ~ 3-8.
No. rye So to So -1-2.
Barley, choice to fancy 43 to 46;
medium to good IS to 40.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-13
MINNEAPOLIS WHEAT
SHOWS LOWER TREND

Minneapolis. Nov. 13.-tP)-A Cana
dian report on production in west
ern provinces was bearish Friday and
offset Argentine frost damage news
so that the wheat market dipped
sharply after a steady start on firm
Liverpool cables.
Around a cent decline resistance
was noticeable and prices steadied
with trade increasing and outside in
terest gaining.
December wheat futures closed &c
lower. and May 1Ac lower. Oats
dipped sc, rye closed unchanged, bar
ley 3c lower, and flax &c higher for
December and 4c lower for May.
Cash wheat tone was slow and easy
at the opening of the session. De-
mand lacked force and no premiums
were paid for diversion point offer
ings. Winter wheat was in quiet to
fair demand.
Cash corn demand was strong and
prices higher. Oats demand was fair
to good. Rye demand was good from
elevator companies and fair from
miller. Barley demand was fair gen.
orally and good for the best mailing
types. Flax offerings were light and
In good demand.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-13
For Sale

For Sale
FOR SALE-A cabinet folding bed
Call at 1909 Rosser Ave. or phone
1712-M.
FOR SALE-1931 Ford Tudor. Used
for pleasure only since May. Guar
anteed in AL condition. Also Midge,
radio. cheap Phone 1904.
DELIVERED any place in town. sal
vaged bricks of capitol building.
$l.OO per yd. load Inquire S. F.
Lambert. Phone 1927.
CHOICE CANARY singers: Import
ed Rollers Hartz Mountain and
Choppers. native singers. Cages
seeds Jacob Bull. phone ll5-J.
Dickinson. N. OAK.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-13
WEATHER FORECAST

For Bismarcl, and vicinity: Gener-
ally fair and warmer tonight: Satur-
day increasing cloudiness and warm
er.
For North Dakota: Generally fair
and warmer tonight: Saturday in
creasing cloudiness, rain or snow and
colder north portion. somewhat warm
er extreme southeast portion.
For South Dakota: Fair and some
what warmer tonight and Saturday.
For Montana: Unsettled tonight
aud Saturday, rain or snow west por-
ton: colder east of Divide Saturday
and northeast portion tonight.
For Minnesota: Generally fair to-
night and Saturday; slightly warmer
tonight; warmer in central and south
portions Saturday.