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Evening star., 1932-11-21
Washington Produce

Butter-One-pound print (93 score),
27 tub, 26; one-pound prints (92
score), 26; tub, Is; one-pound prints
600 score), 25; tub, "a
Eggs-Hennery, whites, 35a39; current
receipts, 3oa32; storage, "a; Government
graded, extras, As; standards, Al; me-
diums, 80.
Poultry, alive-Turkeys, old toms,
10a11; old hens, 12a13; young toms ID;
young hens. 16; No. 2's, 9a10; chickens,
Plymouth Rocks, pounds and over,
14a15; 4 pounds and under, 12a13;
mixed colored chickens and Leghorns,
9a12; hens, pounds and over. Halls;
capons, z pounds and over, 20a22; small
capons and roasting chickens, 17a20;
keats, old, 20a25; young, 25a35; roosters,
7a8.
Poultry dressed-Old toms, 16a17; old
hens, 18a19; young toms, 2la23; young
hens, 22a24; No. rs, 12a15; chickens,
Plymouth Rocks, pounds and over,
16a17; pounds and under. 14a16;
capons, pounds and over, 23a26;
24a25; small capons and roasting
chickens, 20a23; roosters, 10a12.
Game-Rabbits, per dozen, 1.80a2. 40.
Fruits-Apples, bushel, 50a1 so; fancy
box stock, 1.5Oa2.25; pears, bushel, 1.50a
200: fancy box stock, 1.75a2.25 seckelS,
kegs, 2.00a2.50; grapes, Concords, g.
pound baskets, 11a12; tokays, 1.25; mus
catels, 100; Thompson seedless, 2.25a
ESQ; Malaga, $50; juice grapes,
65a7o; honeydews, 2Ooa2 40; alligator
pears, 1.25a1.75; bananas, 50a2.00; pine
apples, 3.50a425; oranges, 350a4. so;
Satsumas, 3.50a400; grapefruit, 3.75a
400; lemons, 4.50a6.00; casabaS, 200;
persimmons, 125a15 so; lines, per 100,
200; cranberrieS, 2.75.
Potatoes-100-pound sacks 1.00a1.l0;
Idaho bakers, 1.65a200; sweets, per
bushel, 50a60; string beans, 225a3.00;
limas, 3.0oa3.50; onions, yellow, COATS;
white, 75a100; broccoli. 3.00a325;
peas, 275a3O0; celery, 2.25; cucumbers,
1.25a3.o0; beets, per 100 punches,
500; carrots, per bushel, IS; let
tuce, Iceberg. 3.75; New York, 100;
asparagus, 250a4.00; satisfy, per
dozen punches, IS; turnipS, GOATS;
cabbage, GOATS; mushrooms, 50a90; kale,
40a50; spinach, 65a75; tomatoes, Cali
fornia, 30-pound lugs, 1.85a200;
parsnips, bushel, 1.25; okra, 1.50a2.00.
squash, 1.25a150; eggplant, l.75a2.00;
celery, 2.25.
Evening star., 1932-11-21

whose investments are valued ct ST.
o0O, ,00o, 900.
THE october figures are further evi-
dence of the small amount of new con-
struction throughout the country" the
survey says. Five cities reported new
Office buildings under construction, the
rentable area in five of the six build
ings totaling $4,000 square feet.
Idle Investment Seen.
"Tn the october, 1881, survey, 25
buildings having a total rentable area
of 3,930,544 square feet were reported,
and in october, 1880, 65 buildings were
reported with total rentable area of
11,054, ,562 square feet.
This lack of new construction can be
easily understood when the present va
car1cy Of 41,112,274 square feet Is trans
lated into terms of idle investment.
THE National Association Office has
been using an investment figure of
s17.5o per square foot of rentable area,
covering both the building investment
and the land value. On this unit in
vestment the present vacancy in the
cities reporting represents frozen capi-
tai aggregating $719, 9,464 1875"
Evening star., 1932-11-21
IOFF|CE OCCUPANCY
DECLINE IS SMALL
Survey of Rental Conditions
Shows Average Drop
of 5 Per Cent.
BY F. A. RESCH.
ated Press Staff wAter

Associated EIeSS 0ldlA N-IlSA.
CHICAGO, November 21.-A new sur
vey of rental conditions in nearly 1000
of the Nations Office buildings reveals
that occupancies average almost 95 per
cent of their status a year ago.
Reports from A large cities in all
sections to the National Association OF
Building owners and Managers show
the average Office building had a space
vacancy Of 2S.76 per cent as of october
1, compared with 2237 per cent May
and 1884 per cent october l, last year.
This survey includes data on 1913
office buildings with total space area
of more than 173,000,000 square feet.
Conditions Uniform.
RrSken down into regional figures,
the study shows marked uniformity OF
rental conditions throughout the coun-
try. The lowest percentage OF occu-
pancy 7129, was noted in rs buildings
in Southern cities, and the highest pro-
portion, 7742 per cent, in 681 office
buildings in cities Of Northeast States
officials of the association declare
the slight drop in average occupancy,
from 7763 per cent May to 1924 per
cent October /, is source of encour-
agement to the office building industry,
Evening star., 1932-11-21
Price for Turkey
Apt to Be Lowest
Paid i'm 40 Years
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO Inc star.
NEW YORK, November I'll
The poultry and produce markets
here worked over the entire week
end in the handling Of car and
truck loads of turkeys and the
trimmings" which will go to
make up the traditional Thanks
giving feast.
Depending on the weather here
today and tomorrow, which may
or may not bring in many live
turkeys from nearby States,
prices OF the birds will probably
be the cheapest in 20 years. The
market will receive the largest
turkey crop ever raised IN this
country.
One Nation wide grocery chain
announced over the week end
that it has some 100 carloads of
turkeys en- route to New York to
retail at 90 cents pound, dress
ed, or 10 cents below last years
price.
Both in the wholesale markets
and retail stores there is a scar
city of squash and pumpkin.
Copyright. 1922
Evening star., 1932-11-21
FALL PROVES FATAL

Carpenter Dies After Tripping on
Basement Stairs.
Adam C. Witherite, 81, of 1919 Penn
sylvania avenue southeast, who was in
jured in a fall on the basement steps
at his home late Saturday, died in
Casualty Hospital last night.
Witherite, a carpenter, was on his
way to the basement to look after the
furnace when he tripped and fell, land
ing on the cement floor and fracturing
his skull. His wife, Mrs. Minnie
Witherite, had eaten lunch with her
husband shortly before the accident. A
given.
Evening star., 1932-11-21
% Ukrainian Students Held.

LWOW, Poland, November 81 tP).-
Police in various provincial towns ar
rested % Ukrainian students yesterday
during search for illegal printing
shops. The police seized large guam
titles of political literature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08
Milk to the Fore

Milk is occupying a prominent position
in the headlines of our state papers these
days. And there isn't a concerted campaign
among them to bring home the benefits of
the fluid to those who inbibe it, Rather is
there a desire upon the part of editors to
bring home to the daily consumer the dan
ger that lies in a recent action that certain
departmental heads took with regard to sale
of milk in this state by concerns from with
out Connecticut. We are wondering if per-
haps Governor Cross may not have to enter
the controversy himself to restore order.
1t is no slight matter for Connecticut to
forbid the sale of milk within its limits by
out of state dealers. Perhaps some of us
can recall what happened when Massaehu-
setts tried to prevent contractors from other
states securing the contracts to road work in
the Bay State. The federal government en-
tered the situation in one particular instance
and practically forced Massachusetts to ac-
cept the bid of Connecticut contractor on
a section of roadway that is included in
federal route His bid was the lowest. but
as he was not of the state, it was to be
thrown out and the lowest Massachusetts,
bidder to get the job.
Connecticut is adopting similar tactics
when it tries to prevent milk dealers from
New York or any other nearby state selling
their product within our limits. It's playing
fire. No wonder Governor Roosevelt be-
came indignant and communicated with
Governor Cross. No wonder that Mayor
Curley of Boston has termed the wholesale
milk business in Connecticut a racket"
There are too many chances for retaliation
for Connecticut to practice discrimination in
this way. If Connecticut milk dealers are
finding it hard to make living due to out
side competition, they will have to resort to
something other than an embargo. Look
what they've done to us as nation. Forced
other countries to reciprocate. We don't
think that Attorney General Burrows, who
now has the proposed embargo under con-
sideration, will approve.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08
FINLAND Steps OFF
(New York Herald Tribune)

lI>eW OTk f1eTdlu- 1TlDuneD
Finland's celebration on Tuesday
of her release from the barbarism
OF prohibition seems to have been
Joyful and orderly at the same
time. 1t will be interesting now
to watch her adaptation to legal
traffic after twelve long years of
the kind of thing from which this
country suffers. How will she as
simulate and absorb into legitimate
channels of trade and industry the
horde of bootleggers that fattened
from her ill-starred experiment?
What about her politicians and
ice-holders schooled in its cor
ruption-will they settle into the
humdrum routine of honest ways?
And her citizens, used to the chal-
lenge of forbidden beverages-will
they miss the kick" Of disobedi-
ence in normal drinking habits?
No doubt a period of adjustment
is ahead which will tax the faith
of some of the proponents of her
reform. A people cannot expert
ence twelve years of rebellion
against a sumptuary straitjacket
and expect that with it's removal
the habit of lawlessness will be
Immediately erased. But in all
probability the transfer to sanity
and order will be accomplished in
a shorter time and more peace
fully than prohibitionists hope and
will help to reassure Uncle Sam in
contemplating the step. Let us
keep an eye on Finland from our
lonely, crime-ridden eminence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
Show Photos Of Wars
Horrors

If books can persuade men to
give up war, world peace ought
to be almost secure. The writer's
of the world, from Barbusse to
Remarque, have done all anyone
could ask in the way Of depicting
war for the beastly, horrible af-
fair 1t really is.
To this library of realism there
is added. now, the browning
shocker of them all - 1.-THE Hor-
ror of tt a little book edited by
Frederick A Barber and Sub
titled. Camera Records of Wars
Gruesome Scenes"
There are no words in the Ian
guage strong enough to tell
how awful war can be; but where
language fails, the camera can
come close to succeeding. If you
need any further persuasion that
war is too CHASTITY thing for
civilized nations to indulge in any
longer, I invite you to look at the
pictures this book contains.
Here we have actual, uncen-
sored battle scenes. The camera
tells you, quite clearly, just what
hot steel and high explosives can
do to soft human flesh. It shows
you the diverse side of the me-
dallion which has bright parades
and gay flags on the more familiar
side.
You must have strong nerves to
get through this book, even
though the job won't take you Is
minutes. Its exhibits are sicken-
ing-and profoundly eloquent 81,
1.-THE Horror of IT. IL published
by Brewer, Warren & Putnam. 1t
costs $3.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08

1t begins to look as If the state prison
farm might prove a paying proposition this
summer. According to present plans there
will be many acres under cultivation before
many more weeks have passed. There were
about 40 acres planted last year which sup
piled the state prison at Wethersheld with
potatoes, turnips and other vegetables
through the winter months. If present
plans are carried out the inmates of the
prison who are allowed to work the farm
will be able to take care not only of their own
needs this year but also those of the in
mates of other state institutions. Of course,
there will be many complaints from farmers
and dealers in such produce at their loss in
trade. but they will make it up in the long
run. For if the cost of operation of our
state institutions can be cut by raising of
vegetables it will mean SO much off the tax
payers bills.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08
FRIDAY, APRIL s, 1882
Highway Sidewalks

At last one section of state highway is
to have its adjacent sidewalk or footpath for
pedestrians. However, the state is not going
to build it, so long suffering taxpayers who
have been fighting for the above for years
must continue their battle for protection
State Highway Commissioner Macdonald
has granted permission for the City of Wa
terbury to build sidewalk along the Meri-
den road from the Chase School to Frost
road. Numerous accidents at this point OF
roadway in which school children have Been
run down are responsible for the permission.
The highway department will supply the
city with maps but cannot do the work nor
pay for its construction. 1t will remain
for the city to find funds for the project.
Undoubtedly the city will do SO, although
we hope that our city officials will point
out to the state fathers that they are doing
something that the state should do and is
almost morally obligated to do. The need
of footpaths or sidewalks for pedestrians
who use the state roads going to their homes
from places of business or for school chill
dren is exemplified to perfection along the
Meriden road.
The city is even obliged to station a pa
trolman at one crossing on the road. The
trolley tracks beyond the highway add to the
risks that the children and others walking
home encounter. The same is doubtless true
in countless places throughout the state.
However. the best arguments that have been
brought to bear over long period of years
have never been able to defeat the stubborn
opposition that emanates from Hartford
when the subject is discussed. True we are
progressing. The 1881 Legislature went so
far as to authorize a commission to study
the proposal and make recommendations.
They were ignored so far as we can aseer-
tain.
Waterbury may be letting itself in for
something in laying this sidewalk, but at
least it will be one community that is TAX
ing the necessary steps to protect human
lives now endangered by their presence on
motor lanes. In time the highway depart
ment may decide to widen the road and de-
stroy the sidewalk without due compensa-
ton for the city. Or it may even try to
have the city take over this stretch of high
way as happened in the case of Thomaston
avenue from West Main street to Waterville.
The city would like to give that piece of
roadway back to the state now as it needs an
entire new surface. but the state wisely re-
fuses to accept the offer. Something like
that might happen out on the Meriden road.
Still the principle involved, the protection
of our pedestrians, is worth more than the
money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08
Well Bolt, Too

According to Bishop James Cannon. Jr.,
the democratic party will witness the bolt
of the southern dry element in 1882 if it
attempts to nominate candidate whose opin-
ions on the prohibition laws coincide with
those of Alfred E. Smith. the 1923 candi-
date. Of course, it is past history that the
Southern Methodist bishop opposed Smith
in 1923 and doubtless would be as bitter in
his remarks against him this year if he were
to be nominated. But when he assures the
nation at large that there will be bolt if the
party goes wet at its national convention
he is merely inviting us to exclaim that if
the party does not go wet then there will
be bolt of northern democrats.
Although there seems to be no reason for
our stating SO we believe that there will be
no bone dry plank in either the democratic
or republican platforms this year. President
Hoover is personally allied with the dry
cause. He has proved this to the satisfac-
stion of the various prohibition organizations
in his years in office But the republican
party as whole is not as favorable towards
a prohibition plank today as it was four
years ago. 1t recognizes the fact that the
nation is slowly but surely souring on pro-
hibition. "A more open-minded attitude
towards the question is indicated. And
when such national committeeman as our
own MIR Rorabaok agree we know it must
be SO.
It's all right for Bishop Cannon to fight
for the prohibition cause We have no OBJ
lection to any man supporting it. But we
do insist on fighting against it. The Demo-
Jkrat has never opposed any move for temper
'ance. 1t even regarded the 18th.Amendment
IS a step in that direction. although, perhaps,
not one that we would have advised Now
that we have watched its results over lengthy
period we are convinced that this nation is
toward the goal of temperance in
] round about way. Our present liquor laws
were Just made to be broken. If that was
III II might not be SO bad. this disrespect for
Ihe law has created general spirit of lawless-
less, such as this nation has never witnessed.
II can only be ended by repeal of the 18th
amendment So if Bishop Cannon wants
5 lead southern dry democrats in revolt he
ii rest assured there will be counter re-
iolt IN the North and West.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08
A Long Range Bet

In 500 years, if Baton Rouge is still the
capital of Louisiana and Louisiana is still a
state in the United States of America, and if
a certain bank has not failed before that time
and lost its funds, and if financial methods
do not change in any way in the meantime.
and any other ifs you can think of a
large sum of money will be available for
the paying of an old bet.
Two contemporary citizens of Baton
Rouge argued recently about the new Louis
lana State Capitol. One maintained that it
would not last 500 years. The other main
tanned that it would. They put up $3.50,
which was deposited in bank at 4 per cent
interest to be compounded semi-annually.
with contract duly drawn up and signed,
stating that on April /. 2432, the resultant
sum is to be divided among the heirs of the
winner of. the bet The sum on that future
April Fools day has been calculated as
$2,O84,605.22.
From now on, we take it. there will be
very careful recording of family trees among
the heirs of those two men. There will be
factions arising in the fair state of Louisiana,
whose rivalries will outshine those of the
Campbells and MacDonalds, the Montagues
and Capuets. the Guelfs and Ghibellines of
history. One group will always be fighting
through the courts and the legislature to get
the building torn down for one reason Or
another. while the other fights to retain it,
no matter what its condition. To think
the altrustic betters will not be on hand to
see the finish!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08
Here, There And Everywhere

who was the keynote speaker at
the last national convention. But
to discover such fact, after the
fourth anniversary, the great ma
jority are obliged to institute more
or less arduous research.
For some time past the press
dispatches had indicated that Mr.
Shouse, chairman of the executive
committee of the democratic "a
tional committee, might be select
ed to fulfill at Chicago next June
the duties which Mr. Bowers, then
of the New York Evening World,
uperformed at Houston in 1928.
But the national committees choice
has fallen to Senator Alben Will
liam Barley, of Paducah, Ken
lucky.
Senator Barley has been an ar
dent partisan of Governor Frank
lin D. Roosevelt for the presiden-
tial nomination. Mr. Shouse is as
ISOLATED with the organization
which is sympathetic with the as
pirations of former Governor AL
fred E. Smith.
Roosevelt sentiment in the south
has grown strikingly. Senator Bark
ley was active in creating that
sentiment, and, as he is one of the
relatively few leading democrats
of appropriate age who has not
himself heard at least the suspic-
ion of presidential bee buzzing
about his head, it is with consider
able logic the committee has hon.
ored him. Barley is a moderate
liberal. He has had a respectable
If not famous career in house and
senate. He is forceful in debate,
of good presence and should
present his party's position In ef-
fective and inspiring manner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08

Good old c. Bascom .Slemp! We knew the
coming presidential campaign wouldn't be
complete without some word from him. He
contends that the democrats will only carry
five states in the national election this fall
They are South Carolina. Georgia, Louis
lana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Thanks
for the encouragement. Mr. Slemp. We hope
he isn't laboring under the deluson that MIR
Hoover has gained in strengthen those dem
ocratic states which abandoned the Smith
banner in 1923 because they didn't like his
religion. And what of the republican hopes
so sadly Nuttering at the end of 1881. Are
they restored by the sight of quarrelsome
Congress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08
WATERLOO BRIDGE
(Hartford Courant)

tHdrLIOrQ COuTdHII
Waterloo bridge is going, not to
ruins after London has become ian
habitation of bitterns," as Shelley
prophesied, but simply at the
hands of wreckers, because 1t is
inadequate. The nine massive stone
arches considered in 1917 the
great Rennie's masterpiece, was
hailed as stately straight road,
rather than bridge. To-day 1t
seems a narrow thoroughfare, as
narrow in comparison with mod
ern needs as the chariot passa ges
of Pompeii are to the Strand. The
new demand is for a six track con-
course. Buses, lorries. takes.
Rolls Royces. Austins and motor
cycles, undreamed of in the days
of the coach and the dray, Will
bring the downfall of this span
which Canova, the Italian sculptor,
pronounced worthy of the Ro-
mans" Even now it is the Oldest
bridge existing in London.
Shelley, like common mortals,
was carried away by pride in the
marvel of his day. He forgot his
philosophy of progress and per
Reliability when he wrote "the
"piers of Waterloo bridge shall
have become the nuclei of islets
of reeds and osiers and cast the
jagged shadows of their broken
arches ON the solitary stream"
Now everybody rides and every
body travels, so that new bridges
are necessary, and it is not to be
expected that they will remain
long enough to fall into ruins,
which is fortunate since metal Cir
ders and cable would not be pic
turesque in decay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-08
So They Say

A man needs only six friends
so that when he dies, they'll all
act as pallbearers.
George (Scandals) White.
.
Sports fans in this country would
bring about the popularity of bull
fighting if they only knew the
truth about the sport. Americans
demand thrills, and bull fighting
supplies them in greater abund-
ance than any other sport.
Sidney Franklin, Brooklyn mata-
dor.
know the trouble the house
wife has with the family budget.
know what goes into that kitchen,
and what comes out of it. That's
why I opposed the sales tax.
Fiorello LaGuardia
of New York.
De Valera is making great
stand against England, our only
enemy in the world. See that we
help in every way.
-Maude Come Mcbride. Irish
Joan of Arc"