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Evening star., 1932-12-29
BONDS IRREGULAR
IN LIGHT TRADING
German Issues Continue
Strong-Junior Rails
Are Firmer.
BY CHARLES F. SPEARE.

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, December 29.-There
were strong spots and soft spots in the
market for bonds today Accumulation
was balanced by liquidation and tax
selling, so that the price movements
were irregular.
In general. issues that had run up
quite sharply in the past week were
inclined to react, while Others that had
been quieter followed the improved
trend that has developed in those parts
OF the market where apparently liqui-
cation has been completed.
The strength of the German group
was one OF the outstanding features
OF the day. Both the government 5ia
and 7 Per cent loans We're at the high
est OF the year, showing gains of l
to points A similar advance occurred
bank and publicutility dollar loans were
strong. At the end of last year Ger
man government 5l2s were selling at
30, o. about half their present price,
and the Is at 60. against nearly 80
today. while Prussian 6s and 612s were
at an average of %. Today they
were 81.
Realizing sales occurred in United
Drug 5s, in which there was decline
Of 2l2 points after this months run
up of 25 points. Western Union SIS de-
clined 3 points. Utility Power e. Light
5s were off nearly 2 points. Inter-
borough Rapid Transit 5s and Is de-
clined ]. to IL. There was a small
gain in International Telephone is
sues and further advance in Postal
Telegraph SIS.
Copyright 1922
Evening star., 1932-12-29
CURB SHARES GAIN
IN BRISK TURNOVER
Leaders Show Improvement.
With Utilities Making
Small Advances.
BY JOHN A. CRONE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 29.-The
Curb Exchange moved slightly higher
during the noon hour today. Trading
increased as the session progressed,
with large blocks Of low-priced shares,
representing tax selling, a feature of the
market.
Electric Bond g. Share was up a half
point during most of the forenoon ses-
sion. In the same period Cities Service.
Standard Oil Of Indiana and Ford
Motor, Limited, were slightly below their
previous final levels.
The weekly electrical output was less
than in the same week a year ago,
but public utility shares ignored this
factor because the Christmas holiday
made percentage comparisons impos-
Sible.
Year end tax accounting adjustments,
rather than immediate trade prospects,
were responsible for the heavineSs of the
petroleum list. Today is the last day
to sell shares the regular way for in
come tax loans. Tomorrow such shares
will have to be sold for cash.
American Light e. Traction paid little
attention to the dividned reduction from
81 y to SO cents quarterly, as this had
been discounted Last week Puget
Sound Power g. Light SIS perferred
broke more than II points, thereby fore
casting tOday's deferment of the dlvi-
dend. The Sc perferrd, on which Gu
mulative payments also were put Off,
likewise had anticipated such action.
SteadineSs Of New Jersey Zinc at
times when most 6.her metal shares
were heavy also indicated today's decla-
ration of the regular common quarter
ly dividend. Modine Manufacturing
made no immediate response to its
regular dividend declaration. The cut
from 62l2 to so cents on Horn e.
Hardart was forecast by its softness in
recent sessions.
Consolidated Gas g. Electric of Balti-
more has been steady when some Of
the higher-priced utilities were reac-
tionary Today the Street estimated
its arnings for 1882 at S455 a share.
against $500 a share actually earned
in 1881.
Evening star., 1932-12-29

Dydend rates IN dollars based on last
dividend. tPartly extra. tPlus AZ in stock.
. Payable in cash or stock. b Payable in
in stock. G Plus So in stock. b Plus 1T,
In stock Plus 2% in stock Plus loG
in stock. p Paid last year-no regular rate
Evening star., 1932-12-29
New York Cotton
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, December 29.-Cotton
opened 5 to 10 points higher here to-
day following the better demand in
Liverpool and the strong close in
Bremen.
Initial quotations were: January,
587. up 5; March. $50, up 5; May. 6.l5.
up Z; July. 6.28. up Z; October, 6.4s. up
8; December, 662, up 10.
Evening star., 1932-12-29

SILVER QUOTATIONS.
NEW YORK, December 90 (Py.-Bar
silver easy, Il lower at 244.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
Grain Market

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 29.-BulliSh
aspects of Nebraska and Kansas official
crop reports led to late rallies in wheat
values today.
Nebraska Winter wheat condition was
placed as low as 1873 per cent in the
western part of the State. No rain of
consequence was reported in the west
ern third of Kansas.
Wheat closed firm. Il off to IS up
compared with yesterdays finish, corn
at 1s-l2 advance oats unchanged to
Il higher and provisions unchanged to
Evening star., 1932-12-29
BONDS.
- ~

lCopyrieht. 1882. Stand. Statistics Co..
Evening star., 1932-12-29
MISCELLANEOUS.
STOCKS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.
NATIONAL BANK.
Min price

following figures are not bids, bl
represent minimum prices fixed /
sshington Stock Exchange.
Evening star., 1932-12-29

Washington Stock Exchange
SALES,
Capital Traction 5s-Sl 900 at 81, 1000
at 81.
AFTER CALL.
Capital Traction 5s-S1 900 at 81, ST 900
at 81.
Capital Traction Cos at 1434, 10 at
IS 5 at IS
Evening star., 1932-03-20

neighborhood as it appeared when he was
boy and told of the slaughter houses which
then lined Reedy Branch on upper Eighth
street. spoke of the hand bridge that crossed
this stream at Eighth street and Florida ave-
nue. and the beautiful stones he would find
in the water below, some years before the great
boundary sewer was constructed under the
supervision of the late Gen. Hoxie, when the
branch from this point on became a sewer.
Not only has the writer played over the Stone
property but he recalls when Gen. Logan
bought the property about 1885 and named it
Calumet Place, and well remembers seeing the
Senator riding around Florida avenue on his
way home in unusually high carriage and
his death in the old mansion the following
year.
This estate when the old home was built in
1848 consisted, it is said, Of $50 acres. 1t was
q noted old residence and the story told Is
that the granite pillars came from Scotland.
Surrounding the house were some fine box
trees and at an early date an artificial pond
or lake between the mansion and Florida ave
nue. was among its attractions. wartime
description Of the property, written by Theodore
Winthrop and quoted on former occasion, Is
here repeated in part
I'VE occupied the villa and farm of DR..
Stone, miles due north of Wizards Hotel.
The house stands upon the pretty ter
race commanding the plain OF washington.
From the upper windows we can see the Po-
tomac opening southwark like lake and be-
tween us and the water ambitious Washington
stretching itself along and along like the shack
ly files of an army of recruits. Oaks love the
soil Of this terrace. There are some noble ones
on the fluctuations before the house Let the
uncovered stem of the Big Oak of Camp Cam
eron take its place in literature. . The old
villa serves us for headquarters 1t is re-
spectacle place. not without its pretensions.
Four granite pillars, as true grit as if the two
Presidents Adams had lugged them their
shoulders from Quincy Mass, make a carriage
porch. Here is the colonel in the big west par
lor, the quartermaster and commissary in the
rooms with sliding doors in the east, the hospi-
tai upstairs. and so on. Other rooms, numerous
as the cells in o monastery, serve quarters
for the Engineer Company. These dens are
not monaStic in aspect. In the middle
hours in the day it is in order to get pass to
60 to washington or to visit some of the camps
which now, in the middle of May, begin to form
a Gordon around the city. Our Capital seems
Evening star., 1932-03-20
Soapstoue Important to Science of Today

OAPSTONE, of the first stones to be
- utilized by man, is playing part relatively
as important in these days of invention, being
one of the most dependable materials known
for use in scientific work because of its chemi-
cal inertness
According to the Bureau of Mines, practically
all the soapstone used in this country is pro-
duced in Virginia, the quarries being located in
a broad belt, including Nelson Albemarle and
Orange Counties Other Eastern States former
ly produced soapstone, but the workings have
been abandoned long since.
The stone is dense and fine-grained, pos
sessed of great transverse and compreSsive
strength, yet it is easily workable and may
be cut tongue and grooved and bored with
ordinary woodworking tools.
Back in the days of the ancient Egyptians
and Assyrians, soapstone was used for oEna-
ments statuary and dishes because of the ease
with which it could be worked. Its use as
cooking ware was known to the ancientS and
also to the Indians of this country
The modern uses are many, but center most
ly about the chemical and electrical indus
tries Because it is resistant to acid and alkal
alike it finds a great use in the construction
of experimental tables, sinks, hoods in which
gases are generated and other such equipment
Dye works find it a desirable material for the
construction of vats, for it absorbs little or no
color and vat may be used almost imme-
diately for second color after brief rinsng
with water.
At one time soapstone tubs and sinks were
the desired article in the average home. but
Evening star., 1932-03-20

since that time, even this statement, 50 far as
any one knows may also be true. At any rate.
although many solutions have been offered, no
one has ever been able definitely to state what
became of Charley Ross
With Col Lindbergh the Washington public
is especially interested, for it was here that he
lived most of the time while his father was
serving in Congress from 1907 to 1917, and 1t
was here that he attended the Friends School
and later the Eastern High School. Naturally.
therefore, the people of the Capital City will
regard as grateful news any report OF the speedy
return of Charles Lindbergh, jr, to his parents
home
THE writer wishes to question the statement
that branch of Tiber Greek, or any other
creek, ever ran through the Stone estate. now
known as Columbia Heights, in which the VII
son Normal School is located at Eleventh and
Harvard streets, and he does so with q per
sonal knowledge Of this property running back
for more than half a century. Indeed. his
parents purchased a home at the southwest
corner of Florida avenue and w street and
moved there in 1874. AS a boy he roamed
the nearby woods and open spaces the hills
and valleys, to his youthful hearts content.
He has gathered persimmons and hickory
nuts on the Stone property where now stands
the Central High School, then densely wooded
area and long before Eleventh and Thirteenth
streets were opened He recalls with keen
pleasure coasting down Rupperts Hill, now
Sherman avenue, alongside the Garfield Hos
pital property. Can see in his minds eye today
old Reedy Branch as it crossed the fields from
Eighth street to the east and entered Sherman
avenue little south Of Irving street. con-
tinuing northward in almost straight line to
its source somewhere near Park road.
Nor has he forgotten the geese IN Cowtown
which would stretch their necks and make
frightful noises at strange little boys, and Rup
perts blood hounds and other fierce-looking
dogs educated to resent the intrusions of out
siders, and the large old-fashioned pump that
stood at the top of Ruppert's Hill to supply
the early settlers of this neighborhood. The
writer never knew of a stream flowing into or
entering Reedy Branch from the east west
after it entered Sherman avenue, nor any other
stream that flowed south and crossed Florida
avenue between Sherman avenue and Four
teenth street
Several years ago the writer described this
Evening star., 1932-03-20

with the advent of the porcelain sink and vari-
Gus types OF mechanical washers the soapstone
tub Is not in as general use as formerly. The
stone does hnd use in the private home, how
ever in the construction of sanitary partitions,
shower compartments, tiling and such things.
An exceptionally hard tile has been pro-
duced from soapstone, tile which will not
scratch, but the uncertainty of manufacture
makes its development along this line doubtful.
The soapstone has a large but varying quantity
of water Of crystallization which produces
cracking or checking at certain high tempera-
lures slightly above those desired to bring the
toughness sought in the stone. Because the
cracking temperature cannot be determined in
each sample without considerable trouble in
dastry has not taken kindly TO the soapstone
tile
Because 1t Is a non-eonductor of electricity
1t has found a place in the electrical industry
as a panel for switches and for other such
uses in which insulating qualities are demanded
In a powder form it has been employed as a
dusting powder for rubber tires and as an
abrasive when heated 10 1900 degrees Fahren-
heit to bring about toughness. It is also salts
factory in the manufacture of cement
Evening star., 1932-03-20
Il GoOd Suggestion

"willis," said the Sunday School teacher,
severely 'you shouldn't talk like that 10 your
playn>ate. Had you ever thought OF heaping
coaas Of fire on his head?"
'No. masam, hadn't, bat it's peach Of an
kiea4s
Evening star., 1932-03-20

NJ course there is still a remote possibility
~ that Charley Ross may still be found
For If living he would be only 81 years of age.
indeed, it is within the range of possibility
ehat the kidnapers may also be alive and on
death-bed might diyulge his whereabouts.
AS the writer understands it, Mr. and Mrs.
koss have long since passed away but quite
hkely some Of their children are still living.
ana II called upon to do so, might still be
able to make the identification complete.
When the writer was child, and the mys-
ferrous disappearance of this boy was referred
TO- 1t was common expression for some one
70 say that he had gone to the North Pole;
and, indeed, as We look backward and consider
0Ae phenomenal things that have happened
Evening star., 1932-03-20
w. S. STOCKLEY,
Mayor of Philadelphia. "

I'm the cause of humanity as well as for
the interests of justice, it IS earnestly re-
quested that the foregoing be given the widest
publicity in every newspaper in the United
States and Canada"
Evening star., 1932-01-01
EARLY BIRDS GET
FIRST PLACES IN
WHITE HOUSE LINE

Continued From First Page)
been in this country four weeks, having
been born and reared in Shanghai,
China.
This made it kind of tough for Hume
field. who left his home, at 225 C street
northeast, equipped with an umbrella
and brand new pair of shoes, ir time
to get to the front gate at 7:10-but in
fifth place However. the "desertion"
of the others for the White House
breakfast left him in possession of the
place of honor.
Louise Plummer, 1410 M street, a
14-year-old student at the John Quincy
Adams School, and Miss Jane Bartle-
man OF Atlantic City, who came into
line after o'clock, were asked into
the White House to await the start
of the reception when the President
saw them, and this invitation estab-
lished precedent in New Years recep-
tions just as did last years breakfast
This mornings breakfasters depre-
Gated any idea that their early ar
rival had been motivated by the pub
licity that followed the breakfast in
NiLdUlOLlo ChIcllOCu ny GAle FICS1ueIlJ lSSL
year to Charles P. Ruby and Arthur
]. DemarS of Washington, who were
first on the scene.
From Newton's District.
Young BaTows, who is the son of
Rev. Henry BarrowS, Seventh-Day Ad-
ventist missionary, said he thought 1T
would be good idea to see the Presi-
dent of the United States" while Bred
void said that he had read about the
New Year receptions in the papers and
thought he would like to attend one.
Bredvold'S home is in Minneapolis, which
is in the congressional district formerly
represented by Walter Newton of the
Hoover secretariat.
The quartet was escorted to the Ex-
ecutive Mansion by a member of the
White House police force and there
were greeted by President Hoover, who
was on his way to breakfast with mem
bers of the medicine ball cabinet" and
stopped to shake hands with his visitors
to wish them happy New Year and to
ask that they stay and have cup of
coffee" as they afterward described 1t.
The President was g2rbed for his
daily tussle with the medicine ball.
which prompted Wilson to say that
President Hoover looks like foot ball
player"
Bredvold described the breakfast as
consisting of awful good coffee, eggs,
awful sweet bacon and mullins"
Held Place in Line.
When Hunefeld was asked in he said
that he wasn't hungry and that any
way he didn't propose to lose his place
in line after having been first on five
previous occa sions.
So determined was he to maintain
his status that when William Grim, an
assistant usher at the White House,
started through the gate, Hunefeld
shouted at him:
Hey, come back here The cops
will only throw you out anyway and
you'll have to get behind me-"
At $40 o'clock Hunefeld was joined
by the little Plummer girl, who was
in line for the third year.
The next arrival was Miss Bartleman.
These three composed the Zine"
when the invitation to wait in the
White House was brought out, and
while his two companions complied
gladly, Hunefeld again declined. He
insisted that first in line meant Just
that and that there he stayed.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
CITY PINS NEW YEAR
HOPES UPON COXEY
Famous Leader of March to Wash
ington in 1894 Takes Oath as
Mayor of Massillon, Ohio.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MASSILON, Ohio, January New
Year day was a new day for Massilon,
because General" Jacob S. Coxey ST.,
was inaugurated mayor.
Change in city administration until
now has been a cut and dried affair,
the outgoing mayor simply turning over
the keys of Office and walking out as a
notary public administered the oath to
new official. Only few people wit
messed the events.
The celebration today was drawing
card for crowds to hear the man who
led his famous !"army" to Washington
in 1894 tell of his schemes to relieve
unemployment in new way.
His plan Is to issue 100000 in bonds
of small denomination and small rate
of interest for public works. He will
ask the council Monday to approve the
issue so it can be submitted to popular
vote as quickly as possible.
Although General" Coxey has been
often in public life, this is his first
public Office.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
NEW YEAR GREETED
BY SONGS In SOUTH
Rain Clouds and Warm Weather
Hit Dixie on Arrival
of 1882.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, January l. The South
was awake and joyous today as little
One Nine Three Two came toddling
around the Blue Ridge Mountains of
Virginia, strutted down the seaboard
and staggered across the bayou coun-
try.
Even 1881 was not overlooked in the
revelry, for that Southern ditty, I'm
Glad Because You're Dead, You Rascal
You" was sung to his memory.
1t was quite a day for songs and
noise. Over in Mississippi. where
swollen streams pounded their levees,
flood refugees sang River Stay Way
From My Door" Taking cue from
John D. Rockefeller's theme song, Flor
ida sang Good Times Are Coming" as
the new year brought the Winter sea-
son to gladden. hearts Of resort cities.
Rain clouds and warm weather came
with the year. Both were welcome A
dangerous drought was broken in De-
cember and truck farmers reaped
harvest Food bins were filled and
there was no evidence Of shortages that
faced sections of the rural South last
year.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
Births Reported.

The following births have been reported to
he Health Department during the last "a
hours:
Raymond M and Ruth E. Brotherton, boy.
Oscar and Angie Oste, girl.
Hubert e and yerna E. Brodie, girl.
Robert l.. and Evelyn v. Allison, girl.
Charles z. and Carolyn Leasure, girl.
Samuel and Anna Leyinson, girl.
william F. and Agnes McDade, girl.
George NJ. and Winnie Fleming, girl.
Alfred and Katherine N. Haley, girl.
George r. and Ruth HiggS, girl.
Charles E.. and Luciele Spence, girl.
Thomas w. and Betty Hartley. girl.
William I. and Evelyn G. Mushake, boy.
Elmer P. and Media E. Frain, boy.
Ralph l. and Bertha M. Horrell, boy.
Theodore r. and Gertrude Wilson, boy.
Harold j. and Evelyn A. Freeman, boy.
Armin and Julia Roman, boy.
Murdock and Annie r. Hall. boy.
william 6. and Aileen E. Flood, boy.
Russell L. and Muriel L. Clark, boy.
Odie E. and Gertrude Lynch, boy.
Royal and Anna NJ. Seymour, boy.
Maxwell and Evelyn Stokes, boy.
Henry g. and Hattie WEIGH, girl.
raymond E; and Ellen G.. Contee, boy.
Neal and Victoria G. Jackson. boy.
Ferdinand A. and Bessie Miles, boy.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been reported to
the Health Department during the last "a
hours:
Lawrence o,Dell, 70. Garfield Hospital.
aonora A; Jones, 78, 9ls Kennedy st.
HAYWARD H. JeffrieS, H. 463 NJ st.
James NJ. johnson, TO-. 2l7 Underwood st.
William H. Perry, 68, 1867 Benning rd ne
John McCullum, st. Emergency Hospital.
William w. Atkinson, IS, 900 18th ST. ne
Edward F. Morrison, 64, 4736 5th st.
Michael F. Mccain. So, 805 st. s.w.
Charles E. Withers, 81, U. s. Veterans
Hospital.
Charles s. Dunlap So. Walter Reed Hos
pital.
Clara N: Hoofer. 81, en- route to Emer-
Mary W CLARK. so, 1918 wyoming ave.
Fuller G. Sydnor, At, 1923 18th st. Sc
Herbert L. Anderson, A, 1870 Parkwood pl
James Jones, rs, 20l4 ST.
William Fletcher, rs, Gallinger Hospital
Fannie C. Brown, 70, 1911 10th ST.
John Bright. 60. 144 G st. s.w.
John Harvey, 65, FreedmenS Hospital.
Mary Scott, Al, Freedmen'S Hospital.
Alice Courtney, 43, Gallinger Hospital.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
KING GEORGE OFFERS
PROSPERITY PRAYER
Reply to Greetings From London
Says Monarch Admires Sac
rifice of People.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, January IA prayer for
the return Of prosperity. together with
"the light of hope and the strength
of united purpose" was contained in a
New Year message of King George V
today in reply to theS greetings of the
citizens of London, presented by the
lord mayor
I'VE live in times fraught with diff
culties," the King said in his message
of thanks, but during the anxious days
through which we have been passing,
the courage, determination and sac
rifice of all classes to restore the for
tunes OF our beloved country filled me
with admiration.
ut is in a spirit of confidence that
send my greetings to the citizens of
London, praying that under divine
the light of hope and the strength OF
united purpose to our lives and re-
newed prosperity to our land"
Evening star., 1932-01-01
THRQNGS
GREET NEW YEAR
Economy Fails to Dampen
HiIarity as Crowds
Jam Streets.
bers of HoIton Arms School this year made
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. January 1.-Old 1881
tottered out in Chicago last night while
thousands of Chicagoans made whoopee
in an old-fashioned hilarious manner.
In the loop alone it was estimated
that 10000 persons celebrated in cafes,
hotels and restaurants, at an average
price of $40 each, a much lower cost
than Chicago paid for making whoopee
last year
At this rate one of the Chicago
newspapers figured that Chicago paid
something like 100000 to get rid Of
1881.
Downtown Area damned.
The downtown area was jammed with
noise-making pedestrians despite un-
favorable weather
Among those who helped the Mid
west metropolis forget all about the old
year was Texas Guinan. She greeted
the customers as usual at the Planet
Mars Cafe, despite the fact the place
was raided by Federal prohibition
agents the night before. She escaped
an arraignment before a United States
commissioner, counsel for the Govern
ment having accepted her statement
CAAaG oAlC Hoo JpoG AlOoeSoo az CAIS
Planet Mars.
That wasn't a raid" she said, at
was sorority party. I've been in lots
of raids, but I want to say that Chi
cago has the best looking and the
most gentlemanly prohibition agents I
ever saw. New York'S drys could learn
lot from them"
Few Arrests Made.
Early today the fun-making was still
going on throughout the city, with an
arrest here and there for an over
jealous celebrant.
Meanwhile, James P. Altman, COM
missioner of police, ordered that the
police detail attached to the prohibi-
ton department be withdrawn today.
He said this was in accordance with
the policy of Mayor Cermak that men
be returned to duty on the streets so
they can combat real crime"