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Evening star., 1934-09-23
Commodity Price
Changes for Week.
BY III. N. McGILL,

Editor McGil Commodity Service, Inc.
AUBURNDALE, Mass, September
% (Py.-COmmOdity prices during the
third week in September registered
slight increase representing the first
interruption in the downward trend
this month. More groups declined
than advanced, however, and out of
IA individual groups only 4 moved
upward while declined. Five groups
remain unchanged
Industrial prices since the first week
IN August have moved steadily down.
ward. This week the trend was side
wise, the index being the same as
week ago. Iron and steel activity in
creased slightly although production
is less than 25 per cent of capacity
as compared with peak of go per cent
earlier in the year. Practically all of
the capital goods industries-iron,
steel, building and machinery-capi-
tai goods industries such as textiles.
boots and shoes, have registered a de-
cline greater than seasonal proper
tions which in part is due to the
textile strike
Farm Prices Ease.
Agricultural prices have also shown
an irregular downward trend since
early August. During the past week
the index was again fractionally lower
Eight important farm products de-
clined in price. namely, wheat, corn.
oats, barley, rye, cotton, eggs, and
f1aXseed. Three advances were re-
corded-hay, beans and butter.
Live stock prices, after a substantial
decline from the peak. reached in late
August, successfully halted the reac-
ton and moved slightly upward The
increase, however, was due entirely to
higher quotations for hogs. Cattle
and sheep prices are somewhat lower
The hide and leather index gained
some ground upward, rejecting half
cent mark-up IN hides. The current
price of hides is 10 cents compared
with a low of cents in August
Non-ferrouS metals we're one of the
five groups to decline as price weakness
in tin and zinc more than counter
acted the price strength in antimony
and silver.
Evening star., 1934-09-23
INSURANCE STOCKS

NEW YORK. September 90 lP,.-New
York Security Dealers Association;
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
DEATHS

Ida w. Wilmington, 81 years, 1901
Sixteenth st. N. w.
Matte E. Ryan. 81 years, 194S K
st. S. E.
Steve Gamble, 81 years, 62 N St. S. E.
Malta H. Scale. 70 years, so v St.
N. w.
Laura V. seaton, rs years. 722
Ella c. Chappelear, IA years. 100
Park Pl. N. E.
ELAN J. Poston. IA years. Emer-
gency Hospital
Edward G. Rittue, ST years. 52OS
Sherrier Pl. N. w.
Willie e. Myers, 50 years, Gallinger
Hospital.
Nicholas NJ. Cocuzzi. ST years. 6121
Georgia Ave- N W.
Inez I. Cook, 40 years, 2O3S Eighteenth
St. N. w.
Mabel W. Galloway, 40 years. 1900
Gallatin st. N. W.
Moy Jung, IS years, Gallinger
Hospital.
Pleasant Rucker. rs years. Gallinger
Hospital.
Fannie Hill, rs years, 1919 Temper
ance Ct. N. w.
Robert W. Robinson, IA years, Freed
mems Hospital.
Alexander Jordan, 60 years, sos
Second st. S. w.
Mary E. Brooks, IS years, 1902 Jay
ST. N. E.
John Armstead, 81 years, st. Eliza
beth's Hospital.
Joseph Fox 10 months, Freedmen's S
Hospital.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
EASTER BUYING
CHEERS RETAIL
MERCHANTS

Effects Of chilly March winds
last week were offset by attractive
Easter displays, which shopper:
have found more appealing thar
in any comparative season in the
past four years, according to the
weekly survey of Dun and Brad
street. The review adds:
Diversity Of the offerings,
with apparel lines particularly
refreshing in the difference Of
line and color from the styles Of
a year ago, kept stores filled all
week with crowds which reached
the proportions of the best days
preceding Christmas.
MEN IN SPOTLIGHT
"While mems and wOmen's
ready-tO-wear garments, millin-
cry, hosiery, mems furnishings,
dress accessories, and dry goods
easily held the center of attrac-
tiOn, housewares received more
attention than a week earlier,
and the same was true of furni-
ture and rugs.
"Sales of jeweIry are expand
ing from week to week and the
call for the better grades of mer-
ChandiSe in all lines continues
unabated. Spring hardware,
paints, and garden tools and
small farm implements are mov-
ing out in nearly double the
quantities of year ago.
SALES HIGHER
"TOtal sales for the week av.
eraged 10 to Is per cent higher
than for the preceding seven
day period, bringing the total 40
to 20 per cent above the CORE
spending week of 1888. When
compared with the showing of
the week preceding Easter last
year, the gain ranges from rs to
IS per cent. In addition, sales
checks, that is the individual
sales unit, is higher this year."
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
Lawyers Use Holiday
To Press Action On
Court Proposals

F. Regis Noel. William A,
Roberts and Robert F. Cogswell,
are chairman, vice chairman and
secretary exofficio, respectively
of the committee which includes
j. Spalding Flannery, j. Miller
Kenyon and John E. Laskey.
The Municipal Court com
mittee headed by Seton Darr has
been particularly active. Several
meetings have been held and a
schedule of needed changes has
been adopted.
At least one meeting Of the
committee has been held with
judges of the court present and
these matters were discussed.
The committee has declined to
reveal up to this time, what took
place at the meetings, but it
was indicated that the judges
took under advisement some OF
the more important suggestions.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
IS PAID
POU IN RITES
At CAPITOL

Memorial services were held
at the Capitol this afternoon for
Representative Edward w. Pou
Cd Of North Carolina, veteran
member Of the House who died
suddenly yesterday in his apart
ment at the Wardman Park. Mrs.
Roosevelt attended the services.
Mr.. Pou, who had been seriously
Ill, had been considered well on
the road to recovery. He was II
years old.
Elected first to Congress in 1900,
he had served continuously ever
since. Because of failing health
he did not return to his home
State to campaign in 1880 and
1882, yet despite this he was re-
turned by the greatest majoritieS
he ever received.
During the Wilson Administra-
tion he was named to the import
ant post of chairman of the Rules
Committee, and when the Demo
Gratis again regained control of
the House in 1881 he was again
named to this post.
Chaplain James Shera Mont
gomery of the House officiated at
the memorial services. Sergeant
alarms Kenneth Romney is in
charge Of the funeral arrange
mentS.
Mr.. Pou'S body will be taken to
Smithfield, N. c. tomorrow and
he will be buried beside his son
who fell during the World War.
Mr.. Pou is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Caroline Pou, two
daughters and a son.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
DEVIL BURIED
BY M|CHAUX

Nearly 1000 persons saw Satan
committed to the "bottomless pit"
during Easter services in the Wash
ington Auditorium. Elder Solo,
mon Lightfoot Michaux, radio
evangelist, officiated..
Spirituals by the choir and au-
dience opened the program, and
during the spirituals the audience
stomped madly and shouted praises
at heaven. At the close OF the
spirituals the elder said:
"The devil is not in hell. He's
on earth raising hell"
Shouted the audience:
"Hallelujah."
So his Satanic Majesty was
killed, not with firearms or ordl-
nary weapons, but with the Gospel
of the Lord, and committed to the
nit
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
Woodstock Resident
Found Dead in Home

WINCHESTER, Va, April 2.
Delmar D. Davis, 81, prominent
retired salesman, of woodstock,
was found dead in his home last
night. DR.. William C. Ford, cor
onor, declared death was acci-
dental, due to an overdose OF a
narcotic.
The body was found by Landon
Fravel. a neighbor, who became
suspicious when, passing Mr..
Davis home, he noticed the front
door ODen.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
T. PERCY MYERS

Funeral services will be held at
2::30 p. m. today at st. Johns
Episcopal Church, Sixteenth and
H SITS. N. w., for T. Percy Myers,
who died from heart attack Satur-
day at his home, 1929 Twenty-first
St. N. w. Burial will be in Glen
wood Cemetery.
Mr.. Myers, a native of New
York, came to Washington when
a young man, entering the firm
of Lewis-J ohnson, bankers. Later
he became engaged in law and
formed partnership with William
j. Miller.
Surviving is his widow, Mrs.
Jane T. Myers.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
Bids and Proposals

DEPA RTMENT OF COMMERCE.
UNITED STATES PATEN OFFICE
Washington, D c.. March 81, 1884 Sealed
Proposals Tin quadruplicateD will be rc.
celved at this office until 10 o'clock a, m.
Saturday, April IA, 1884 and will be
opened Immediately thereafter in the nres.
ence OF such bidders as attend for produc.
ing. during the fiscal year ending june 40.
1893; 1879; by planographing, or other process,
patents; and for the reproduction of ey.
hausted copies of drawings and specifica-
tlons, ETC.. by planographing The nrices
named VIII be considered in connection
WI Ti'd n 'ne @ aoiity OF the bidder and his plant
70 40 ana denver within specified time
1lrst-class work. Under the conditions
above except that no specific number Of
pages can be estimated for prodncinr or
~reprouuclng ~ oy the color process of photo
engraving. copies OF drawings of patents
on plants. Under these same Conditions
producing by half-tone process comics nf
drawings OF patents on plants Prior In
Ii tne oeternllnaion OF an award such pre-
nmlnary investigation as to the oualifica.
tlons OF bidders and efficiency of plant will
De made as the Department shall doom,
necessary. A low bid, unsupported hv sat
islactory evidence as to ability to perform
Inc work In agreement with the terms of
the proposals and contract to be awarded
Will be rejected. All bids accented and
contracts awarded subject to an appro-
pr1atlon by Congress to meet the expense.
nuFt
of the bidder, or inadeuuate facilities or
plant with which to perform the work
specified will constitute good and sufficient
grounds for the rejection of such bid
BIDDERS WHOSE WORK HAS BEEN in.
SATISFACTORY IN THE PAST NAV RE
ELIMINATED FROM CONSIDERAT10N
ON THAT GROUND. Specifications with
forms of proposal will be furnished on an
pllcatlon to the Chief Clerk of the Patent
Office. All bidders are invited to he nres"
ent at the opening. The right to reject
any and all bids, in whole or in part ia
hereby reserved. All plates used in color
work or half-tone work to be the propPrtv
of the Patent Office The number of colors
used in the color work to be in accordance
with the drawings as furnished All work
of current issue (Class Az to be performed
in the District of Columbia No bid will
complying with the code in accordance
with Executive Order No 6646. March IA.
1884. CONWAY P. COE, Commissioner.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
Hupp Motor to Open
Plant at Cleveland

The Hupp Motor Co., closed
since December, will rehire at its
Cleveland plant at least $50 men
by April Is and will employ be-
tween 500 and 75O later in the
summer, announced R. G. Quincy,
assistant treasurer of the COM
pany.
Actual operations will start
within a week or 10 days, it was
expected. George A. McKinnon,
business agent of the Metal
Trades Council, said that Hupp
officials had agreed to hire all
union labor.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02

Easter recess of the District Su-
preme Court Of Appeals has given
the courts a breathing spell, but
has redoubled activities Of the
various committees of the Dis
trict Bar Association.
Relieved of the press Of
court attendance, attorneys COM
prising these committees have ar
ranged an intensive schedule Of
meetings during the recess and,
with the new bulletin of the aSSo-
citation at hand, will be prepared
to send many proposals to the
court through the liaiSon commit
tee Of the association.
The liaison committee with the
bench is the committee through
which will clear every proposal
which affects the courts or court
procedure and is the committee
which deal directly with the
bench when such situations arise
as necesSitate such action:
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
Disabled Rail Cars
Increase for Month

BY International News Service
Disabled cars on firSt-clasS rail-
roads in the United States rose
during February to 295,582, or
l4.9 per cent of the number on
the line, as compared with 1885,
928, or 14.4 per cent, on February
!, the American Railway Associa-
ton stated today.
Locomotives needing classified
repairs on March totaled lilo,
or 22.6 per cent, as compared
with 10,965, or 22.2 per cent, the
month before.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
MISS INEZ 1. COOK

Funeral services will be held to-
morrow in Providence, R. I. for
Miss Inez I. Cook, widely known
Washington woman and Govern
ment worker who died Saturday
after a prolonged illness.
Miss Cook was one of the
founders of the American Fedora
tion of Government Employees,
serving as national vice president
of that organization until last
year. She was also one of the
first presidents of Federal EN-
ployes Union BIO. 261.
Coming to washington in 1918,
she worked With the War Depart
ment until 1924 WHEN she trans
ferred to the Emigration Bureau.
She is survived by her mother,
Mrs. John H. Cook, and two
brothers, John and Fred Cook.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
CLOTH TONE IMPROVES

NEW YORK, April . U.N.S).-The
coarse yarn cloths market today con-
tinued to evince signs of revival, as
moderate-sized blocks of print cloths
and carded broadcloths were taken by
various operators.
little change from last weeks levels.
Many were pointing out that the spurt
last Friday was stimulated by an actual
need for goods and was without relation
to outside influences, lending credence
to the belief the current upturn will be
more of a lasting nature.
This opinion was shared by . large
number of sellers, who turned down
bids at prices which had been accepted
in some quarters on Friday.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
Rep. Bankhead Succeeds
Rep. Pou as Chairman.

Representative William B. Bank.
head O0 of Alabama is the new
chairman today of the important
House Rules Committee, replacing
Representative Edward w. Pou
CD of North Carolina who died
yesterday.
Mr.. Bankhead has served in the
House for 18 years and ranked
next to Mr.. Pou on the Rules
Committee. He is a brother to
Senator John H. Bankhead CD
of Alabama and father of Miss
Tallulah Bankhead, stage and
screen star,
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
Hog Trading SlOv
And Bidding LOUeT

CHICAGO, April 2 Q.N.SO.
Hog receipts were $4,000 today.
The market was slow and bids
lower. Buyers wanted hogs from
$40 down, but salesmen were
holding the best at $3.50.
Good steers were held at higher
prices and the commoner grades
sold steady. Cows and heifers
were steady to strong. Stockers
and feeders were steady.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
Pan American Oil
Net Loss Sl,319,157
By international News Service

Pan American Petroleum and
Transport Company sustained a
net loss of $1,319,157 in 1888,
after reorganization expenses, de-
probation, amortization and other
charges. This includes operating
results for the entire year of sub
Sidiary acquired March % last,
and excludes operating results Of
subsidiaries sold on the same
date.
Total assets on December 81
last were $66. .341, ,401. capital sur
plus $4.602. 1862. and earned sur
plus $27, ,996.556. Current assets.
including $15,650.498 cash and
D. 8. Government securities,
amounted to $50, 3,492. .091, against
current liabilities Of $10.086. .859.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
AID CLUB TO HEAR OWEN

Claude w. Owen, president of
the Board of Trade and chairman
of the Citizens Committee for the
Cherry Blossom Festival, will speak
tomorrow at the meeting of the
Advertising Club of Washington.
The meeting will be held at 1890
o'clock at the Raleigh Hotel.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
BIRTHS AND DEATHS
BIRTHS

Wallace NJ. and MiIlicent Yater, girl.
John B. and Gertrude Cress, girl.
Jack H. and Margaret Holmes, girl.
Beryl B. and Mamie Franklin, boy.
Michael and Michelina LaRusso, boy.
Willard r. and Doris Taylor, girl.
Paul A. and Mary E. Rose, boy.
John r. and Orlene v. Tow, girl.
Clarence and Josephine Bender, boy.
Charles and Louise Slaughter, girl.
Walter and Susie Harris. girl.
Arthur and Dorothy Roberts, boy.
Joseph and Daisy Cheney, girl.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02

things that go
with the vernal
season-includ-
ing plans and
blue prints fol
real estate de-
velopments.
Nearest tn {
city proper Is
the Massachu-
sets Park de-
velopment OF
the Ring Con
Struction Com
pany, of which
Mr.. G u S t a v
King, president
of The West.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
PITTSBURGH

PITTSBURGH. April 2 U.N.s.).-Hogs
5000; holdovers, 450; fair demand; heavy
$4.5O@475; medium, $4.SO@4.S5: light,
$4SO@4S5; light lights. $S. AZ;
Cattie-40O: steers steady to stronger.
steers (9OO-1, 100 lbs) good, $5.5O@6.5O;
heifers (55O-S5O lbs.) good, So 80 ;
cows good 1925 GA; bulls good beef 1926
Caives-1,OOO; vealers, $1@1.5O lower;
veaiers good and choice, $6.5O@7.
Sheep-2.5O0; steady to stronger; lam6s'
600 lbs DOWN good and choice, $3.50 @
9.75; wethers medium choice, $Sg SIS :;
lambs good and choice, $7.50@7.75;
clipped wethers, good and choice, $40
4.50,
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
GEORGE A. JOHNSON

Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at New York City with
burial at Arlington National Gem
etery for George A. johnson, SIS,
technical manager of all fixed
properties and utilities in 648 mil
itary establishments under juris-
diction of the War Department
during his services in the Army
from 1918 to 1920.
johnson, who rose to the rank
of colonel in his brief service in
the Army, was found dead in his
office, slumped over his desk, New
York police attributed death to
heart attack.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Catherine D. johnson.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02

ramrod.
This development will begin in
the near future with five houses
on Wisconsin Avenue across from
Mt. Alto Hospital at an approx
mate cost of 100000. But you
ought to see the plans-most un-
usual Colonial English with all the
newest gadgets.
Harvey Warwick, noted local
architect who designed the West
chester Apartments for Mr.. Rings
other corporation, also designed
these homes and the delineation
of the buildings was by E. D.
Stevens.
The Ring Construction Corpora
ton is also preparing to break
ground for a five house develop
ment in Silver Springs on Mont
gomery Avenue near the Com
munity Center. These houses will
sell for less than $4,000.
Major E. Brooke Lee had some
thing up his sleeve when he gave
up his political post as Demo
cratic chief of Montgomery
county and that business of ex-
tensively renovizing his Alaska
Avenue office was just a smoke
screen.
All that time, Major Lee has
been building houses and at least
four of them have been COM
pleted. Realizing the trend of
the times, Major Lee has had
his North Washington Realty
Company price these homes at
less than $4,000 and they are
expected to sell faster than his
Sligo Park homes, if that is
possible.
Scarcity of funds and rising
prices of materials are standing
in the way of many other de-
velopers who have the ground
and the ambition. The w. c. and
A. N. Miller firm, however, still
continues steadily building digni-
fled homes and selling them
through the medium Of dignified
advertisements.
With all this development,
however, the housing shortage in
the country is on the increase,
according to reports.
A survey of the National ASso-
citation of Retail Lumber Dealers,
based on a study in 883 counties
Of 48 States, reveals a conserva-
tive shortage of 100000 homes.
This is not Elementary figure
by any means. When these lum-
ber people, who want to see funds
made available-if not by the
private lender, then by the Gov
ernment-get out to make a sur
Vey, they make a real one.
The figure is based on a queS-
tionnaire sent out to hundreds
of thousands of people, revealing
that 100000 of those questioned
are Give" prospects for new
homes. In other words they are
bona fide prospective builders
possessed Of a lot of cash or
both, who want only adequate
and conservative financing to
start construction.
OF course this means a seven
billion foot lumber market.
But it also means an average
for each small house of so hours
employment for excavating, 80
hours for grading, 106 hours for
masons, $40 hours for carpenters,
Sc hours for plasterers, 80 hours
for tinsmiths. 80 hours for
plumbers, 80 hours for elec-
tricians, 102 hours for painters
and 80 hours for steamfitters.
Put those hours into actual en-
ployment and there would be
little need for CWA.
And it does not come within
the Federal budgetary expendi-
lures, either.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
AGED FOLK GUESTS

Jewish Community Center will
be host tomorrow night to IS
residents of the Hebrew Home
for the Aged at the first showing
of the moving picture, "The Wan
dering Jew" The film is in the
Jewish vernacular.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
Deaths

GUILTY, JOHN M.-Passed away on sun
day, April /, 1884 at GEORGETOWN Uni
versity Hospital, JOHN NJ. GUILTY, the
beloved husband of Lillian GUILTY Re
mains resting at the W. W.. Cham oers
Company funeral home. Fourteenth and
Chaplin SITS. N. W.
Notice of funeral services and inter-
ment hereafter.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
LIVESTOCK MARKETS
CHICAGO

Receipts, $4,000: 5-1Oc lower. Top, s4'45;
bul. $4@4.4O: heavy, $4@43O; medium,
$4.25@ light $4.2O@4.4O; light
lights, $S.90@4.So: packing sows, $31O@
Cattle = Receipts, 11,O0O market
steady. Calves. 1000: market steady.
Beef steers: Good and choice, $500
$50: common and medium. $5@6.5O;
Heifers. $3@6: cows. $2.75@4.25; bulls.
$2.50@4: calves, $4.5O@7: feeder steers,
$4@5.25: stocker steers. $3Q4.50: stocker
cows and heifers, $2.50@4.50.
Sheep Receipts. 10000; market,
steady Lambs. $S.25@9.25; common.
$5.5O@7.5O; spring, $11@13: yearlings.
sos; feeder, sos; ewes, $50 $50.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
EAST BUFFALO

EAST BUFFALO. N. Y, April :
GN.sD.-Hogs, 400; holdovers none.
Weights above 10 lbs. fairly active !,
steady to 1Oce under Fridays average;
lighter weights draggy, 1O@15c lower.
Desirable 17O-95o lbs, sass 80; top,
$500; mixed weights and palmer quail
ity $4.75 better lots. 14O16O lbs. $500
@45o; pigs and unfinished undergeights' q
81 1904 90; packing sows, So @ 5.75.
Cattle-1,3 800. Steer and yearling trade
less active than early; mostly strong, to
25c higher Good steers 900 sOGl .5oUtteds 1oG .Ss'
* 6625: heifers $500; few rough
buliocks 1,4OO lbs. $3.50: liberal supply
cows largely steady fat cows $S;29 @
$50: cutter grades, $1.35 @2.5o; medium
bulls. $3.25. ,,..
Caives-1,O 900. Vealers active; fully
steady. Good to choice. $780, common
and medium, 81 OO@6 90.
Sheep, 500. Lambs unchanged; 5000
to choice woolskins. $9.25; to mostly, Isl y
$3.50; similar grades shorn lambs. $3.50
67.75. and sparingly. $500. better lots
1910 lbs. spring lambs, $1,000 @12.5O.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April . (IN.s.).
Hogs-Recepts, $4,000: market rather
slow, mostly 10 cents lower. Top $3.50:
bulk, $3.50.
$275.
Cattle-ReCeipts, $50; market fairly
active, steady to strong. Calves: Re,
ceipts 500; market fairly active and
steady all grades in demand.
Sheep-Receipts 1000; trade largely
Sfeady
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
LOUISVILLE

LOUISVILLE. April G.N.s).-Cat
tle-75O; supply light; demand depend
able: market uneven, most slaughter
classes fully steady to strong. spots
strong to 25c higher on light steers
and heifers. Common to medium
steers and heifers, $4@5; better
finished $5.25@5.75; odd head good
baby beef type yearlings, $6. Beet
cows, $250@3.5O; good kinds higher.
Low cutters and cutters, $1.25 @2.25:
sausage strong to csc higher, $S.7S
down. stockers and feeders csc higher;
common to medium grade natives. IS @
4: we'll bred Hereford stockers. $50 80.
Calves-7OO; market not established
indications weak to lower. Bids $500
Hogs-1,sOO; market 5@15c lower
than Saturday; 17O-94O pounds, 81 40;
245-27O pounds, $4.O5; 275 pounds up,
Ss.7O; 145-165 pounds. 1855; 12O-14O
pounds. $2.2O; sows. $9.45.
sheep-5Oc; mostly steady. Medium
to good wooIed lambs, S@S; choice
$3.50; common light throwouts' So;
fat ewes. $2.5O@3.
The Washington times., 1934-04-02
REALTY FEELS
SPRING URGE
To BUILD
Rx DICK BAKER

It took only a few days Of SUM-
shine this week to bring out the
flower buds and numerous other