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Evening star., 1932-05-27
STOCKS IN SLUMP
DURING LAST HOUR
Trading Increases In Final
Dealings as Sharp Break
Occurs.
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.

NHeS4oA bAopdlCH " ne Stdr.
NEW YORK, May 27.-The stock
market, after pursuing leisurely lower
course during the first four hours.
Slumped to a fresh low level for the
pear market in the closing hour TODAY
cline.
The fulcrum that disturbed the list
was the reduction of the dividend on
General Electric common from 81 an
nualIy TO 40 cents. Immediately large
plocks OF General Electric were thrown
on the market and the price was forced
Gown an eighth between sales until a
new low was reached, nearly 3 points
unoer thursdays closing price of 1919
Westinghouse was sold as actively
cropping to net loss on the day of
around points. This unsettled the
entire active list.
In the rails Union Pacific was off
points. Atchlson was within an eighth
OF It's previous low. The leading utility
issues made new bottoms. American
Ieiephone was of nearly points, Con-
Solloateo Gas over 2 points and Public
service CT New Jersey more than 3
points. General Motors equaled its pre-
vious low.
Apart from the glcominess of rail
and industrial earnings reports and the
oNldend omissions. there was little ir,
the news. Developments in WASHINGTON
were not encouraging to those who he
ieVe that a general sales tax is the
way oout OF the buGgetary problem.
STOCKS opened irregularly. sold off
rallled. and at noon were only slightly
unoer the preceding close. Weakness
developed in Beechnut Packing, which
proke points on moderate offerings.
FOR the first quarter the company re-
ported net for the common equivalent
to sl.07, against s1.2O a share in the
same 1881 period. The balance sheet
position as Of March 81 was exception
ally strong. Cash alone was more than
four times all current liabilities. besides
which there were United States Gov
eminent bonds of a value more than
three times all current debt. There is
nothing so far as known in the COM
panyS financial condition to warrant
the break in the stock. Presumably it
was another case of liquidation without
reference to value
American Stores was another stock TO
go into new low ground here. As else
where in the list, the process seemed to
be bringing into line" stocks which had
not been subjected to pressure hereto
fore
frelerreo STOCKS sagged, as they have
consistently in recent sessions. and this
was true OF the investment and specu-
lative types alike Public Service Elec-
trio & Gas preferred. only a fraction
above its extreme low, was an example
OF the former, and American Smelling
q Refining per cent second preferred,
at new low, an example of the latter.
Rails yielded a part of the ground
gained yesterday The April earnings
statements coming to hand made the
usual dismal showing. to which the
Street ought to be hardened by this
time. The period covering their re-
ceipt, however, is hardly a time to ex-
pect any rally in carrier shares. New
York. Ontario & Western was again an
outstanding exception. with increases OF
gross and net over April. 1881. Bangor
e. Aroostook increased its net also, but
neither of those stocks has any i'm
portant speculative qualities
Evening star., 1932-05-27
TRUST COMPANIES.
New York Cotton
Special pispa tch to The Star.

NEW YORK, May 27.-After holding
steady for several hours. the cotton
market weakened today under increased
selling pressure induced by a decline
in securities and July sold at 5l2 cents,
the lowest price since the first Of the
month. Rains in the northern tier of
Cotton States we're beneficial and
brought contracts on the market and
the list closed with a loss of to 10
points on the day. Spots were reduced
5 points to 5 CO.
Gotten range.
Evening star., 1932-05-27
Colombian Bond Interest.

NEW YORK, May q (P).-Halgarten
& Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co., fiscal
agents for the $25000,00 Republic of
Colombia per cent external sinking
fund bonds, dated July /, 1927, due
June I, 1861, have received funds for
Evening star., 1932-05-27
U. S. TREASURY BALANCE.

By the Associated Press.
Treasury receipts for May 25 were
S62,723110.63 expenditures. s70,965,-
95837: balance, $434637,047.30 Gus
toms duties for Is days of May were
Sl4q25 6lqo8
Evening star., 1932-05-27
SILVER QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK. May 81 PD.-Sil-
yer futures steady; sales. $50, 900 ounces.
July. 27.95 bid: September. 281o bid;
October. 1895 bid December, 28.70 bid /;
January. 1896 bid
Evening star., 1932-05-27
Sales of Stocks on New York Exchange

1880 AA........ 100000 1900 Noon. ...... 100000
1880 PM........ 100000 21o PM-........ 100000
rPary tPlus 4s Paid
rate PAYABLE in stock Payable in cash sock tPlus s
stock k Plus 81 il stock Paid last
Plus So Plus 2la.s
Evening star., 1932-05-27
Unlisted Department.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & co.,
Nominal gold Selling checks
Evening star., 1932-05-27

23lz 9i2 Underwood ELF 90
10l SEA- Und-EllFish pf 90.
l0l. g.. Union Bag & Paper. q.
Evening star., 1932-08-07

money then. Furthermore" Lasses says, ~now
that we have a few bObs think you better
find another place for Mahogany to stay, as 1t
does not look nice for my husband to be living
with horse"
Well, going by the jockey house on my
way home, thinking how nice it is that Hymie
Banjo Eyes will no longer have to live with
Mahogany, and what fine thing it is to have
a loyal, ever-loving wife such Lasses. who
risks her nerves roofing for her husbands
horse, when run into this dizzy SCroon in
his street clothes, and wishing to be friendly,
I says to him like this:
Hello, frankie" I says. You put up
nice ride today
Where do you get this Frankie'?" Scroon
says. My name is Gus"
Why" I say, commencing to think of this
and that, so it is but is there a jock called
frankie in the sixth with you this after
noon?"
Sure" Scroon says. Frankie Madeley. He
rides Side Burns, the favorite; and 1 made q
sucker of him in the stretch run"
But of course, I never mention to Hymie Ban
jo Eyes tnRt 1 figure his ever-loving wife roots
herself into dead faint for the horse that will
give her to Brick McCloskey, because for all I
know she may think Scroons name is Frankie,
at that
(Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-08-07

she watches the board and can see she is
under q very terrible nervous strain indeed, and
I am very sorry I go around thinking her
nerves are the old alzo. Pretty soon the guy
hangs out no. 9. and No. is nobody but old
Mahogany and at this hear Lasses screech
and all of a sudden she fopS over in faint
and somebody carries her under the grand
stand to revive her, and I figure her nerves
bog down entirely. and I am sorr;er than ever
for thinking bad thoughts of her
I 90 not see Hymie Brick or Lasses again
until the are over, and then I hear of
big going under the stand, and go to
see what is doing and who is having the row
but Fyrnie BANJO Eyes and Brick McCloskey.
1t seems that Hymie hits Brick clout the
beezer that stretches Brick out and it seems
that Hymie hits Brick this blow because as
Brick is paying Hymie the five C's he makes
the following crack:
L do not mind losing the dough to you Ban
jo Eyes, Brick says, but am sore at myself
for ever laying the price. 1t is the first time
in all the years am booking that make such
overlay. The right price against your wife
Brick says, lis maybe two dollars and a half"
\ A /ELL, as Brick goes down with busted
wv beeZer from Hymie's punch, everybody Is
much excited who steps out of the crowd
around them and throws her arms around Hy-
mie Banjo Eyes but his ever-loving wife
IasSes and as she kisses Hymie smack dab in
the mush, Lasses says as follows:
My darling Hymie," she says, Il hear what
this big flannel-mouth says about the price on
me, and," she says, Il am only sorry you do
not cripple him for life. I know now love
you. and only you. Hymie." she says, and I
will never love anybody else. In fact Lasses
says, Il just prove my love for you by almost
wrecking my nerves in roofing Mahogany home.
I am still weak she says, but have strength
enough left to go with you TO the Sunset Inn
for a nice dinner and you can give me my
Evening star., 1932-08-07
Tobacco Milde7v Puzzles Science

ONE group of agriculturists faced with
~ pest which threatens ruin to their groups
can get no other advice from the Federal ex-
perts than to hope for the best.
The particular offender is known as tobacco
downy mildew blue mold and is highly de-
structive to the seed beds, apparently having
no effect on plants after they have reached
the stage in which they can be transplanted.
The mildew is caused by a fungus known
peronospora hyoscyami, and has been known
for long time in Australia, but has been in
frequently found in this country.
1t hrst appeared in the seed beds in this
country in 1921 when it threatened to wipe
out the tobacco seedlings in Florida ana Georgia,
but although no effective means of combating
it were worked out, it disappeared of itself and
was not found again until last year. Last
Evening star., 1932-08-07

races but never before do hear of guy bet
ting bis ever-loving wife.
But can see that both Brick McCloskey and
Hymie Banjo Eyes in dead earnest, and
about this time Tasses tries to cop a quiet
sneak, and Hymie sees her and speaks to her
follows:
Hello. Baby Hymie says Il will have your
five yards for you in few minutes and five
more to go with it, as I am Just about to clip
a sucker. Wait here with me, Baby" Hymie
says
NO" Lasses says: I'm too nervous to wait
here I am going down by the fence to root
your horse in she says, but she goes away
see another look pass between her and Brick
McCloskey
Well, all OF a sudden Cassidy gets the horses
in a nice line and Iets them go, and as they
come busting down past the stand the first
time who is right there on top but old Mahog
any, with this dizzy Scroon kicking at his
skinny sides and yelling in his ears AS they
make the first turn, Scroon has Mahogany
length in front, and he moves him out another
length as they hit the back side. But some
thing is coming very fast the outside. 1t
locks as If Mahogany is in tough spot, be-
cause halfway down the stretch the outside
horse nails him and looks him right in the
eye, and who is it but the favorite Side Burns.
They come on like a team, and I am per-
sonally giving Side Burns a great ride from
where am standing, when hear doll yelling
out loud, and who is the doll but Lasses, and
what is she yelling but the following:
Come on with him, jock!"
Come on!" Lasses yels again. Let him
roll!" she yels. Ride him, boyl" she yells.
Come on with him. Frankie!"
She is still yelling when the horses go past
the finish line the snozzles of old Mahogany
and Side Burns so close together that nobody
hardly tell which is which.
In fact, there is quite wait before the num-
OO nm , eff
with her program all wadded up in her fist as
Evening star., 1932-08-07

year a serious outbreak occurred and it has
extended from Florida far North as Lam
caster County, Pa
Although scientists of the Department Of
Agriculture have studied this pest industriously,
no effective control methods have been de-
veloped. All sprays and busting powders so far
used have been found to be worthless and the
only remedies found to be at all effective have
been the development of successive and sepa-
rated paintings OF seed with only the best
stock from each seed bed going into the fields.
The mold does not grow in hot weather SO
that once the plants are established, they are
free of danger from that source. So serious
was the damage this year, however that 1t Is
expected that in many sections the crop OF
tobacco will be poor in both quality and guam
tity.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
Gr0Wth
Continued from Eleventh. Page

went after another extract Then another
When he was quite sure that he had the one
he wanted he decided that it was time to use
a human being as a subject
He found a 9-year- old dwarf girl who
wanted to be taller. She had stopped growing
when she still needed half an inch before she
would be three feet tall She weighed only
271a pounds at the time.
She wanted to be taller If she didn't gain in
stature she could never be grown up she knew.
Injections of the extract were made regularly
into her system from December 4, 1880, to
August IT, 1881. She started to grow.
She added 2.7 inches to her height. She
weighed rs pounds more than she had in the
days before the treatment was started Even
her head grew larger in circumference.
She isn't nearly as tall as she should be now,
of course. The United States Childrens Bu-
reau has a standard which places her correct
height at 49.4 inches and her weight at 57.1
pounds Since the chances are that some day
she will be the proper size she doesn't want
people to remember that she just missed being
a dwarf. She isn't letting any one know her
name. Miss J. M. is quite enough by which TO
no.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
Continued from Tenth Page

ting his ever-loving wife. voice behind us
says as follows:
Against how much?"
Naturally Hyrnie and I look around at once,
and who does the voice belong but Brick
McCloskey. Of course, figure Brick is kid
ding Hymie Banjo Eyes but Bricks voice is
as cold as ice as he says to Hymie like this:
Against how much will you bet your wife
your horse wins this race?" he says. L hear
you saying you are sure this old buzzard meat
you are running will win" Brick says. 80 let
me how sure you are. Personally" Brick
says II think they ought to prosecute you for
running broken down hound like Mahogany
the ground of cruelty to animals, and fur
thermore," Brick says, Il think they ought to
put you in an insane asylum if you really be
lieve your old dog has chance. But 1 will
give you bet,' he says. How much do you
wish me to lay against your wife?"
Well, this is very harsh language indeed, and
I can see that Brick is getting something off
his chest he is packing there for some time.
The chances are he is putting the blast on poor
Hymie Banjo Eyes on account of Hymie grab
bng IAsses from him. and, of course Brick
McCloSkey never figures for minute that Hy-
mie will take his question seriously But Hy-
mie answers like this:
You are a price maker he says. What
do you lay?"
Now this is a most astonishing reply, indeed,
when you figure that Hymie is asking what
Brick will bet against Hymie's ever-loving wife
Tasses, and I am very sorry to hear Hymie
ask, especially as I happen to turn around and
find that nobody but LasSes herself is listen
ing in on the conversation, and the chances
are her face will be very white, if it is not for
her makeup, Iasses being doll who goes in
for makeup more than somewhat.
YES" Brick McCloSkey says, Il am price
maker. all right and I will lay you price, I
will lay you five Cs against your wife that your
plug Goes not win" he says.
DRICK looks at Tasses as ha says this, and
probably take pop at guy who looks at my
ever-loVing wife in such way, if I happen to
have any ever-loving wife. and maybe 1 will
take pop at my ever-loving wife too. If she
looks back at guy in such way, but of course
Hymie is not noticing such things looks at
this time, and in fact he does not see IAsSes
as yet But he does not hesitate in answering
Brick.
You are a bet," says Hymie. Five hundred
bucks against my ever-loving wife LaSses. 1t
is chiSeler's price such as you always lay" he
says, and the chances are can do better if l
have time to go shopping around. but it is"
he says, 'it is like finding the money and will
not let you get away. But be ready to pay cash
right after the race, because I will not accept
your paper"
Well, hear of many strange bet on horse
Evening star., 1932-08-07

SO. Act of prear-
ranged combat
between two per-
sons.
36. Name of ancient
Persia.
SO. Brushes.
40. Allows.
Al. Sacred musical
composition.
AZ. Joyous.
"A. Chopped cooked
food.
As. Dehle.
46. Pertaining to an
cient Rome.
40. Quote.
so. Thing, in law.
81. Brazilian fish.
So. Noted French
musician: 1886
1922.
So. African antelope.
81. Token of remem-
brance.
SIS. Small African
animal.
Sc. Musical drama.
81. Curiously made.
SO. Most stately in
appearance and
carriage.
81. Last Visigoth
king.
So. Doctrine.
"a. Electrical unit.
IS. Entertain royalty.
81. Coal scuttle.
68 Entreaty.
SO. Greek goddess Of
youth.
II. Casket for sacred
utensils.
70. Town, CoSenza
Prov. Italy.
73. Telling the truth.
IA. Clamping con-
trivance.
IS. Restrain.
76. Military reviews.
II. FOOQ.
73. Hero of the Char
lemagne legends.
80. With the natural
voice; music.
81. Average weather.
80. Brilliantly colored
bird.
SO. Those who load
ships holds.
&c. Stopwatches.
80. A play in roulette.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
Sunday Morning Among the Cross Words

"a. Town in Belgium.
85. Biblical high
priest.
8e. The buckWheat
tree
81. Brilliancy-
IS. Vex; colloQ.
SO. Dance step.
81. Two-footed AMI
mals.
90. Tropical Indian
astringent gum.
"a. Fucharistic
vessel.
as. Realities.
81. A continent.
90. Crtp of a bird.
100. Tooth surgeon.
1o2. Chinese depend
ency.
104. Leafy vegetable
1O6. Affirm.
lO7. Ward off.
lO8. Judge.
mo Raced
11o. A very low sing
ing voice.
Ill. Guides.
DOWN.
/. Believe.
2. Solve.
3. Assistants in holy
orders.
T. Head covering.
S. Arctic base in
Greenland.
6. Ship propeller.
Z. English naval
station.
3. Perfume.
9. Patron saint of
England.
10 Graninaceous
plant.
II. Sense Of hearing.
IL. Concave food
vessel.
10. Backbone.
Il. Connections.
Is. Abyss of primeval
chaos; Babylon
myth.
I6. Digit.
IT. Cave -dweIlers of
Mount SER;
Deat. ii-12.
Is. Exact copy OF a
legal record.
10. Abandons.
%. Longest river in
France.
30. Hinted.
The Washington times., 1932-02-08
EASTERN STAR MEETING

The Arlington Chapter, No. 80,
Order of Eastern Star, will meet
tonight at Firemen's Hall, Cherry
dale.
The Washington times., 1932-02-08
QUARLES
To HEAD FETE

WINCHESTER, Va, Feb. 8.
Prof. Garland r. Quarles, princi-
pal of Handley High School, will
be in charge of the pageants for
the ninth Shenandoah apple bios
som festival to be held here
about the first of May, Nelson F..
Richards, director general, an
nounced today.
AS in former years, more than
1000 school children will par
ticipate in the pageant to be
given each day during the festi-
val in the spacious Handley
bowl.
Abundant moisture has fallen
throughout the Shenandoah Val.
ley in recent weeks and horti
culturalists declare prospects are
favorable for one of the greatest
apple blossom displays in years
Upwards of 11,0OO,00O apple trees
comprise the world-famed Shen.
andoah-Potomac- Cumberland ap-
pie belt extending over portions
Of Virginia, Maryland, West Vir-
g1nia and Pennsylvania.
The Washington times., 1932-02-08
FRIENDS RALLY.
To SUPPORT
Of HERSON
Suspended Methodist Minister
Invited to Preach Sunday
in Presbyterian Church

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, Feb. s.
Former p a ri S h i oners and
friends of the Rev. DIR. Joseph
T. Herson, pastor of the Cal
vary M e h d ist Episcopal
Church here, awaiting trial at
the annual June conference on
charges of "imprudent and
unministerial conduct, " have
hastened to express their con-
fidence in him.
DIR. Herson, formerly pastor of
the Hamline Methodist Episcopal
Church in Washington, has been
invited to preach in the, First
Presbyterian Church of Annapolis
next Sunday, by the Rev. DR..
SilaS Persons, pastor.
DR.. Parsons will preach in the
Calvary Methodist Church, where
the Rev. DR.. Chesteen Smith,
superintendent of the Baltimore
conference, preached yesterday
Members of various local de-
nominations, according to Mrs.
Herson, have made personal calls
to assure the suspended pastor
of their faith in him. Former
pensioners of the st. Marks
Church, DR.. Herson's pastorate
before he was transferred here,
and of the Hamline Church IN
Washington have assured The
minister Of their confidence in
personal visits.
The Washington times., 1932-02-08
Police Chief Knows
Little About
Plumbing

Chief of Police Alvie A.
Moxley. of Montgomery county,
didn't have to take bath
Saturday night. He got it
Saturday afternoon.
Moxley was showing the
county treasurer the new
shower installed in the base
ment of Rockville headquar-
terS.
He was asked:
How does it wOrk?"
The chief stepped in and
turned on the spigots. The
demonstration was very salts
factory. That is, to everyone
but the chief. He was drenched
The Washington times., 1932-02-08
VIRGINIA HOUSE
FACING BUSY
CALENDAR
Redistricting Measure Most
important; Reform Bills
Next

RICHMOND, Feb. 8.-With
what may be their last long
weekend recess over, members
of the Virginia General Assem-
bly, this week are expected to
dispose of the redistricting
problem, get under way with
the county government reform
bills, chain store measure, the
bus-truck legislation and the
efforts to regulate fee officers.
The Hall-Wright redistricting
bill, eliminating the Tenth con-
gressional district by absorption,
was favorably reported last week
and has been made a special or
der of business on tomorrow's
calendar. Favorable action is ex-
pected from the house, but the
senate, which includes the pa
irons of the Early bill, which
would eliminate the Eighth,
rather than the Tenth district,
Is still uncertain.
The budget bill should reach
the house by Wednesday. The
committee was expected to ap-
prove the bill, leaving untouched
the governors recommendation
for a general 10 per cent salary
cut.
Several members of the Senate
have suggested that the cut IN
pay for State employees should not
hit those receiving below $1,000.
About 5000 of the 1000 State
employees make less than $l,5QO.
In addition to about $3.50, 900
worth of cuts in the governors
recommendations, expected to be
suggested by the House Commit
tee, the budget will be subjected
to steady assaults which. some
pessimists fear, may keep the
Senate from getting at the meas
ure until near the end Of the
session.
The Washington times., 1932-02-08

is one thing a girl can acquire.
And we're glad to have her get
it with us. where we know it's
the right kind"
AFTERWARD, WHAT?
That's why, he said, that his
girls are all so young.
Chorus girls range from II
to 49," he declared, "ShOw girls
from 10 to 22 or %. Not that /
make any stipulation about it
I don't care about the girls age,
so long as everything else Is all
The Washington times., 1932-02-08
VIRGINIA Group
PICKS OFFICERS

LYNCHBURG, Va, Feb. 8.-Be-
fore adjourning the annual "Y"
convention, the State delegates
elected Alfred Anderson, Norfolk
attorney, as chairman. of the
State Young Mems Christian AS
sociation, adopted it's budget, and
heard K. M. King, of Atlanta,
discuss the Y. M. C. A. foreign
work. Other officers named were
John B. Winfree, Lynchburg, vice
president, and H. E. Robinson,
Richmond, secretary.
The Washington times., 1932-02-08
Stafford to Speak
At LGU BANQUET

Justice Wendell P. Stafford Of the
District Supreme Court, will be
the chief speaker at the thirty
seventh annual banquet of the
Washington College of Law to be
held at the Mayflower Hotel next
Saturday night at 1880 o'clock.
Justice Stafford will deliver an
lode to Washington" of which
he is the author. Other interest
ing features are planned in spirit
with the opening of the Bicenten-
NAL. Dean Grace Hays Riley will
preside.
The Washington times., 1932-02-08
BAL LT|MORE FIRE.
STOPS SERVICE

BALTIMORE, Feb. ga small
fire, starting from the pipe organ
motor, which filled the edifice
with smoke, halted the service last
night at the Westminster Presby-
terian Church.
The smoke swept over the con-
gregation as the Rev. DR.. Bruce II.
Mcdonald was singing. He dis
missed the congregation. which re-
manned outside until the blaze was
extinguiShed. Then the service
was continued.
The Washington times., 1932-02-08
SPEAKER EXPECTED
Photo

A Bicentennial speaker is ex-
pected to address the Oxon Hill,
(Md.D Parent-Teacher Association
tomorrow night.
The Washington times., 1932-02-08
international Photo
MARJORY

right, but that's the way it
works out"
What happens to chorus girls
when they pass 10? Look in Hol-
lywood, on the speaking stage, in
Park Avenue apartments, and
you'll find the answer. according
to Ziegfeld. Some of them stay
with musical shows and become
principals-some get married.
The chorus is a fine school, he
observed, and points with pride
to it's graduates.