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Evening star., 1933-12-04
RAIL ORDER AUTHORIZED

ST. LOUIS, December 4 R.-Fed-
eral Judge Faris has authorized the
Missouri Pacific Railroad to purchase
Is, 600 tons of steel rails which together
with other accessories will make an
aggregate cost OF 81, ,725, ,160. The road
viii pay for the rail and track materials
out Of earnings.
Evening star., 1933-12-04
Washington Stock Exchange


Washington Gas IS 1e60-Sl 900 at
102la.
Washington Gas IS "B"-S1, 900 at
1925, $1,000 at 1925, 81 1000 at 1925,
at 1925.
Potomac Electric 5la% pfd-5 at los.
S at los.
AFTER CALL.
Potomac Electric IS 1851 900 at
1075s. $1,000 at l07l4. $1,000 at l07.
$1,000 at lot.
Capital Traction Cos at 1872, S at
1872.
Bid and Asked Prices.
Evening star., 1933-12-04
DIVIDEND IS REDUCED.

NEW YORK, December 4 R.-
Lambert Co. today reduced its annual
dividend basis to SO from 81 by declar-
ing a quarterly dividend of rs cents a
share, payable January Q to holders OF
record December 18.
Evening star., 1933-12-04
MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK. December CF.-Cau
money steady: "a per cent all day.
Time loans steady; so days-4 months.
Sal; SIS months, 1a1i4 per cent.
Prime commercial paper. Ia.
Bankers acceptances unchanged; 30 days.
SAL: so days. ssa1z; 90 days. 94ass;
months, 94ass; So months, 1a7s.
Evening star., 1933-12-04
MONETARY GOLD TOTAL
UNCHANGED IN WEEK
Nv tho Assoriatnd preSs

BY TIC Associated Press.
Monetary gold stock of the United
States recorded no change during the
week ended November 20 as the record
was calculated by the Federal Reserve
Board. In the table that follows the
total stocks are given for comparable
periods, as announced by the board.
Week ended November 20. S4,3.3. .O00. 900
Previous week ......... 4,:i.s:S. .00O. 900
Same week last year r...... 4.306,000,O00
Evening star., 1933-12-04
WHOLESALE ORDERS JUMP.

NEW YORK, December Dr.
Buyers were active In the wholesale
markets last week, their purchases cov-
ering a wide variety of holiday mer-
chandise ranging f-cln cp2acol to home
Evening star., 1933-12-04
PHONE TOTAL DECLINES.
NEW TORK. DfOfQDrT ( (fl-Tnt

New York Telephone Co. reports net
loss of 1.34I stations in Noyember In
October the company gained 1899 sta
tions, while for November, 1882, there
was a loss of 14,519.
Evening star., 1933-12-04
CURB SEAT PRICE DROPS.
NEW YORK, December 4 (R.-Sale
today.

of a New York Curb Exchange member
ship for S25, 900, off 81 500 from a trans
today.
Evening star., 1933-12-04

Money Wanted for Investment I'm
Sound First Misunderstanding Sc.
TYLER AND RUTHERFORD. INC.
1920 TX" St. NV. Ma. OATS
Evening star., 1933-12-04
DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED

NEW YORK. December 4 11s ,i,,s
declared; ''-DNIoenos
Company Rate riod Toek s9 OF ray
REGULAR.
LAMBERT co......75c @ Dec. Is Jan. /.
Reduced.
East Steamship Lines
FTss sPid 8 8 Bee Dec Is Is Jam Jam 8
20 20 paItici stk loo 8 Dec. i9 Jan 5
Oo plo. S1.75 @ Dec 10 jan :
Evening star., 1933-12-04
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS
Quotations as Of . o'clock

NEW YORK, December 4 (R.-Over
the-counter market:
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Sales of Stocks on New York Exchange
11:O0 AM........ 10000 1900 Noon. .... 800 900
/ PM........... 100000 200 PM....... 500 600
Dividend rates above are the annual
~
ian
81 in stock Paid last regular
stock Paid this
Evening star., 1933-12-04
TTlGT fhnt N mini VRRR6faI tn inn

content is being reduced. SO It Is worth
less But in the case of silver cur
worth more, leaving the currency un-
changed, so that its purchasing mower
will increase along with the silver i'll
it or behind 1t.
Evening star., 1933-12-04

IA. 21k Yellow Truck. ...
~ IS Yellow Trucb pf.
1915 3la Young Spr & Wire. .
37ss 71a Youngstown Sh & T.
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ga II Zenith Radio. .......
SI2 31s Zonite Products. ....
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Evening star., 1933-12-28
FRANCE PROPOSES
T0L|M|T BOMBERS
Would Join Other Nations
in Destroying One. Half
of This Type Plane.
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, December 2s-with q pro-
posal to destroy half of her bombing
planes, France offered proof today of
the governments determination to push
policy of disarmament within the
League Of Nations as now constituted.
Provided other nations would agree
to do likewise, 1t was learned on high
authority last night. the aircraft would
be destroyed Immediately upon signing
of disarmament convention now being
drafted in consultation with France S
allies for submission at Geneva.
Broadly, the proposed disarmament
program was described as based upon
one formulated at Paris last September
in conversations between French and
British statesmen.
l6 Squadrons, would be left In active
service should Frances present strength
of such planes be cut in half, accord
ing to available figuresD
Previously, the French government
had announced formally its decision to
refuse to enter into direct talks with
Chancellor Hitler regarding Germany s
rearmament proposals. Also the cabi-
net has put its stamp of formal ap-
proval upon the stand against Premier
Benito MuSsolini's proposals for re-
forming the League.
Foreign Minister Joseph Paul Bon
cour continued directing his efforts to-
day toward arraying all the nations
possible in support of his policy of
disarmament through the League
Foreign Minister Paul Hymans of
Belgium pledged that nations adher-
ence yesterday to the united front
of European powers France has rallied
to her side.
Evening star., 1933-12-28
NINE. sTAHL DENIES PLOT.
Tells Paris Magistrate She Is Not
Connected With Spies.

PARIS. December 20 LP.-The mys-
terious Nine. Lidia Tchekalof Stahl,
middle-aged Russian scholar whom
police charge with being the brains Of
a huge international band Of spies.
coolly denied to an examining magis-
trate today that she was connected with
espionage activities in Finland.
She acknowledged that she lived in
Finland In 1915 and in 1920. but in
sisted that she never was connected
with the alleged spies-including two
Americans-recently arrested in Hell
singfors in what the Finnish govern
ment claimed to be another espionage
plot.
The French police said the case OF
Mime. Stahl apparently was entirely
separate from that involving Mr.. and
Mrs Robert Gordon Switz, an Ameri-
can couple held In Jail In connection
with the alleged espionage.
In the course of her examination by
the magistrate, Nine. Stahl sketched
the story of her life. Apparently she
had wandered over much of the world.
in the course Of her travels picking up
q master of arts degree from Columbia
University, New York.
She told Magistrate Benon that she
had lived in the United States in 1928
and 1882, studying at Columbia. Pre-
vouSly, she said, she had studied chem
istry and mathematics at the Sorbonne,
later devoting herself to the study of
the Chinese language and civilization.
Evening star., 1933-12-28
BOMBS MAR CUBAN
HARMONY PARLEY
New Plan Envisages Grau as
President, With Coalition
Cabinet to Aid. y
By the Associated PRESS.

By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, December 28.-A half dozen
bombs doomed a discordant note in
Havana early today as government
leaders talked new plans for political
peace In Cuba. No casualties were re-
ported.
Benjamin Fernandez de Medina,
Uruguayan Minister to Cuba and author
Of a political conciliation plan, con-
ferred until early morning with Presi-
dent Ramon Grau San Martin. The
Minister declined to comment upon the
nature Of their conversation.
government spokesman, however,
said there was a possibility that con-
ciliation negotiations between Cuba's
warning political factions would be re-
opened.
Such negotiations would be based, he
said, upon 0rau remaining in the
presidency with a coalition cabinet
Medina said he saw several opposi-
tion leaders while In Miami within the
last few days and that they were "all
anxious to return to Cuba-they all
desire peace"
DR.. Antonio Guiteras, secretary Of the
interior, war and the navy announced
that martial law will be lifted January
S. He also said that all officers who
figured in the National Hotel battle, ex-
cept few leaders, will be released early
next week.
DR.. Jose Gonzalez Rubiera, former
Havana University professor, prepared
today to assume the post OF secretary
Of public instruction, following Grau's
announcement Of an expected cabinet
change. Nostales Latatu now holds the
Office.
Evening star., 1933-12-28
DRIVER IS DETAINED
IN PRIESTS KILLING
Coroner's Jury Holds George R. Al.
liscn After Detective Testifes
in Mishap Probe.

George r. Allison, 10, colored, was
ordered held for grand jury action by
a coroners jury today. following an in
quest into the death of Rev. Francis x.
Cavanagh, pastor of the Church OF the
Assumption, fatally injured in an au-
tomobile accident on December IT.
Detective Sergt. William j. Liverman.
who investigated the mishap, testified
Allison admitted being the driver of
stolen car that crashed into the priest S
machine at Eleventh and l streets
southeast. Allison, according to the de-
tective, said he had been drinking. He
was driving without a permit, Liver
man added.
Liverman obtained the statement
after Allison was discharged from Gal
linger Hospital. where, until yesterday.
he had been under treatment for IN
juries received in the mishap, He
made a similar statement when QueS-
toned at the hospital the day after
the accident, Liverman declared
Rev George T. Bowling, assistant
pastor of the church, who was riding
with Father Cavanagh, still is under
treatment at Casualty Hospital for
serious injuries
Allison. on the advice of his attorney,
Louis whitestone. declined to make
statement to the jury, which was pre-
sided over by Acting Coroners A. Ma
grauder Macdonald and Christopher J.
Murphy.
Evening star., 1933-12-28
HOLDS N. R. A. CRITICS
SHOULD GIVE PLAN
Richberg Asks Boston Audience
"Is It to Scrap Civilization
or Constitution"
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, December 28.-Donald r.
Richberg, general counsel for the N. R.
A., said last night it was only fair to
ask any one who calls upon the Ameri-
can people to scrap the N. r. A." to
state his alternative. rs it to scrap
civilization-or to scrap the Consti-
tution?'"
Speaking at a meeting sponsored by
the Massachusetts, State Recovery
Board, Richberg asserted there were
only two alternatives which could be
presented by those who cry Scrap the
N. r, A."
1.-THE first" he said, "is to scrap all
effort at q planned economic recovery.
to scrap all effort to bring order and
justice into our industrial civilization,
to relapse into anarchy or unrestralned
self-seeking, to return to the law OF the
jungle and to let the most ruthless and
selfish of OUR breed survive-in a word,
to scrap civilization
"The seconi alternative is to estab-
lish new Government endowed with
power to own and operate oil essential
enterprises, free from the obligation to
preserve individual liberty Of action or
individual rights of poverty-in q word.
to scrap the Constitution. .--..--
Evening star., 1933-12-28

Senate and House District Committees,
probably tomorrow, without a state
ment of what should be the sales taxes
and license fees. 1t was said, however,
the Commissioners may suggest license
fees and taxes later. Originally it had
been planned to leave these to deter
minaticn by Congress.
Donovan has been directed to pre-
pare estimates to cover the salaries
and other expenses which would re-
suit Immediately from the proposed
creation of an Alcoholic Beverage Con-
trol Board and its staff, which would
administer the license system.
Earlier there we're reports that Mary
land leaders would insist the District
taxes be set at a figure no lower than
those existing in Maryland.
While the bill was being drawn 1t
was reported the Commissioners were
considering a sales tax of $l.l0 gallon
wines, possibly 60 cents gallon. They
had in mind a scale of license fees of
$4,000 for distillers, $1,000 for hotels,
$500 for other retail establishments
and top scale of $500 for private clubs.
Hearings Delayed BY King.
1t appeared rather definite that Sen
ate, District Committee hearings would
not start before the middle Of next
week. Chairman King thought o few
days ago the committee might be called
by the end of this week, but he wants
as many members as possible to be here
when the hearings are held, and several
will not arrive for day or two.
The Senator has promised to give
local organizations ample opportunity to
present their views and intends to seek
full information on the Government
dispensary plan and other methods Of
sale as we'll as the private license sys-
tenn, on which the Commissioners bill
is based. --------4,A--.-A--
Evening star., 1933-12-28
FINLAND PROBES
ARMY pO|SONpL0T
Officials Claim Conspiracy Is
Aimed at Technical
Groups.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HELSLNGFORS, Finland, December
28.-Authorities announced today they
had discovered a large-scale plot to
poison high officials of the Finnish
Army's technical groups and ordered a
dead officials body exhumed in the
belief he was murdered.
The alleged plot, they claimed. is
part Of what they describe as the
espionage conspiracy in connection with
which two Americans, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arvid Jacobson of Michigan, were a.
rested October 27 Jacobson was n
mathematics instructor in the North
vile (Mich) High School three years
The body to be exhumed is that Of
Lieut.. Col Fritz Walter Asplund, direc-
tor of the state munitions works until
his sudden death last April. Police
physicians will conduct an autopsy to
determine whether he really died from
Inflammation of the lungs, the cause
given on his death certificate.
Police say the symptoms of death
from lung Inflammation and from Ger
tain kinds of poisons are similar.
1t was recalled today that, at the
time OF Asplund's death three other Of
ficials were suddenly taken seriously Ill.
They were Engineer Mantsas, Bureau
Chief Terra and Engineer AK, all i'm
portant personages in the Army's tech
nical works.
Authorities said these three probably
were poisoned together with Col.
Asplund, but that he was the only
fatality
A. A. Oksala, national defense min
lister, announced definitely that Asplund
had been poisoned and that the lives
of the others had been attempted. He
ordered an intense investigation of the
reputed plot.
Evening star., 1933-12-28
President PnrdOns
Two Men Convicted
Under Dry Statute
Second Action of Kind
Since Repeal of Pro.
hibifiOn LatU. s~
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
President Roosevelt today granted
pardons for violations Of the prohibition
act to Arthur C. Colvin and Isaac E..
Colvin, convicted in the Western Mich
igan Federal Court
The Colvins were to have begun SEN
tences of a year and day in the
Chillicothe, Ohio, Reformatory today.
The President stipulated the men
must pay their fines OF 5000 each
within six months.
Mr.. Roosevelt granted a pardon in
a prohibition conspiracy case to Mayor
Dale of Muncie, Ind, shortly after the
dry law was repealed. Dale had not
begun his prison sentence.
There was no indication that the
White House was extending general
amnesty to prohibition violators.
Evening star., 1933-12-28

These things would be alarming were
it not for the fact there is inside evil
dence that the readjustment period Is
over and business is getting ready for
Spring squirt.
Mr.. RooseUelt's economists haze
discovered there is sharp dctiUttv in
the manufacture of tools for indus
try That is first sign OF greater
industrial production to come. At
the same time they knOtD the auto
mobile industry is making optimistic
plans which lUiI bring an Improve
nlent in that industry and in steel
from January to April.
Similarly, the retailers had a good
Christmas season (possibly 18 per cent
better nationally in dollar volume than
last YEAR, Their stocks are depleted
They must replenish.
At the same time the public works
and c. W. A. programs are accomplish
ing a small but important strengthen
ing of purchasing power.
Mr. Fails to Aid Wages.
You can check up on the N. r. A.
fairly well from the table.
Unquestionably it helped to restore
a proper relationship of employment
and production. but it has not done
so much for wages. You will notice
that in recent months wages have de-
clined a little faster than employment
out of line.
A fair statement would be that the
N. r. A. theory has been helpful and
necessary, but it has accomplished far
less than it set out to accomplish.
The building cOntra1S figure places
a somewhat more favorable light on
that phase than is warranted.
That industry usually has a seasonal
setback in November and December
This year it did not, largely because
the public works was pumping money
out at better rate.
All contracts awarded in November
amounted to $f62,OO0,0O0, an In
ioorks m ,oas SIS 900, 900, 50 actually
the private building industry suf-
tered a setback OF million dollars.
However, Interior Secretary Ickes, TO!
the first time since he started, was able
to put out more than hundred million
dollars in one month. The exact figure
for November was $104 100000, or FIVE
eighths of all the building contracts
awarded that month.
The really bright feature in private
building was an unexplained increase
in residential construction from S2l,-
100000 in october to $4,000, 900 in No
vember. OF that amount 5000 00(
went for dormitories &C. c. c..
Advocates of large building programs
as a relief measure will find little cause
for cheering, even In Mr.. Ickes' i'm.
proved figure.
When you break down his $104 900 ,00t
November expenditure you find $50.
000C00 of 1t went for highways anc
S45, 5,740,000 for waterfront develop
ments.
THAT Leaves less than 10 millions
actually spent on public building
construction.
His expenditures have been increas'
ing each month and should contribute
greater impetus to the Spring rise.
II the administration is dong an!
censoring of statistics it Is not yet ap
parent
Miss Perkins at the Labor Depart
ment gave out the wages and employ.
ment figures, which certainly did no
go the way she would like to maxi
them go. The same is true of indus
trial production figures from the Fed
| eral Reserve Board.
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Evening star., 1933-12-28
PAIR HELD FOR FLORIDA
AUTHORITIES POST BOND
Husband and Wife Are Freed
Pending Removal Hearing
January 2.

Mr.. and Mrs Edward Young Clark
were at liberty under $4,000 bonds
each today pending a removal hear
Commissioner Needham c. Turnage on
charges Of using the mails to defraud
brought In the Federal courts of the
Northern district of Florida
The couple was arrested yesterday
by United States Deputy Marshals Gus
Ceremile and Elmer Graves at q local
hotel. Commissioner Tlrnage was not
informed Of the nature OF the case
which lay behind the charges, but was
requested by the Florida Jurisdiction to
fix the bonds at not less than $1,000
each.
Evening star., 1933-12-28

Hattie caraway Of Arkansas, while the
latter was attending a party at the
White House last March. Repetitions
Of this on the part Of Major re-
suited in his being sent to Q local vet
erinarian, where Il was discovered his
unfriendly actions were due to three
cysts. These were removed and It was
supposed that Majors behavior in
not improve much, however, and he was
finally exiled.
Nothing has been said at the White
House today just what would follow
in Meggie's case 1t is thought,
however, that the little dog will be
given another trial before any drastic
action Is taken by Mrs. Roosevelt.
Miss Furman Is the wife Of Robert
v. Armstrong, correspondent Of the
San Frauciaco Chronicle.
Evening star., 1933-12-28
BESS FURMAN is RECOVERING
FROM BITE BY ROOSEVELT DOG

Miss Bess rurman, Associated Press
stan writer, who was bitten on the lower
lip yesterday by Mrs. Roosevelt's pet
Scottie, "Meggie." while at the White
House, Is confined to her home, 1854
Edmunds street, today, but II Is UNDER
stood that no serious effects are likely
to follow her experience.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who was greatly con-
cerned about the affair and who per-
sonally hurried Miss Furman to the
Emergency Hospital after the dogs at
tack and then motored her to her home,
was relieved today when she learned
This behavior on the part Of Mrs.
Hoosevelt's little black TERROR was un-
expected. Major, the Rooseyelts'
police dog, recently sent back to Hyde
Park, bit several persons before being
banishsd. Among them was Sanator
Evening star., 1933-12-28
Gq23-25 is 1000
7 . : :
IndUs. Fac
Industrial Drop Checked.

The first thing which should strike
your eye Is that the steady decline In
industrial production since July was
stopped in December.
That is largely due TO the sharp
activity in steel during the last two
weeks. The steel mills had to clear
up their orders before January under
the codes. Textiles and all the con-
sumers' goods industries are down,
largely because of stocks on hand.
Electrical production also is off slight
ly. Lumber is about the only thing
which increased with steel.
Automobile production is getting
started so late the impetus of that in
dustry will not be felt before January.
These declines in production since
September have been accompanied by
weakening of factory employment and
factory pay rolls.
Evening star., 1933-12-28
Son Born to Kansas Governor.

TOPEKA, Kans., December 28 o.
Gov and Mrs. ALI M. Landon became
parents of an 8-pound son today.
"Everything's just fine" the Gov
ernor reported.
The Landons have a 16-months- old
daughter. The Governor also Is the
father Of a 17-year-old daughter, Miss
Peggy Ann, Landon, whose mother died
In 1Q12
Evening star., 1933-12-28
COLORED AUTHOR WINS
$1,000 Literature PRIZE
James Weldon johnson Gets Award
for Best Book Written by
Member of Race.

NEW YORK, December 20.-James
Weldon johnson, colored author, diplo-
mat, song writer and professor of Eng
lish literature at Fiske University, was
awarded the w. e. B. Dubois prize OF
$1,000 for Negro literature yesterday.
This Is the first presentation Of the
award. johnson receives it for his
book BLACK Manhattan" judged the
best non-fiction book written by Negro
during the past three years. The award
Is intended to correspond to the Pulitzer
prizes for general literature.
Oliver La Fargo, author of Laughing
Boy" and chairman of the Committee
of Judges, presented the prize to john
son at a ceremony attended by leading
literary figures.
Evening star., 1933-12-28
Fined for Making
Son Dance in Snow
For Lousy Dollars
BY the Associated Press.

BY the AssocIated PftsS.
CINCINNATI, December 28.-
A father was fined total Of 500
and costs today for making his
5-year-old son dance bare-footed
in snow-covered street for
what the court called "a few
lousy dollars"
The father, Raymond Miller,
81, Of Newport, KY, was fined
$50 and costs for street begging
and $50 and costs for abusing a
child. Police testified the man
was begging from passersby as
the half-frozen boy danced.
They found, they said, the boys
shoes and stockings and 1921, in
the fathers pockets.
Evening star., 1933-12-28
DURABLE INK URGED
North Carolinian Advocates State
Law for Use in Preparing Records.
CHAMPAIGN TN Deremhar % (Ey

VIANIr HIJN, Ill., UtCemUpT 20 THJ.
The enactment Of State laws requir-
ing that public records be prepared with
durable ink and paper and deposited
in State depot was advocated today
by A. R. Newsome, secretary of the
North Carolina Historical Commission.
Addressing section of the forty
eighth annual meeting of the American
Historical Association on the University
Of Illinois campus, Newsome said laws
should be enacted to prohibit the abuse
and destruction of public records, re-
quire their delivery by retiring officers
to their successors and provide for their
easy availability to Investigators.