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The Washington times., 1934-06-19
Business Activity
Gains Are Noted

Business activity showed moder.
ate improvement in May, although
the slowing up of the rate of re-
covery observed early in April Was
extended into recent weeks, the
National Industrial Conference
Board reports.
Commodity prices in the main
showed at strength in the last six
weeks, although movements were
selective. Security prices lost
ground in May, but resisted down.
ward tendencies in the first half
Of June.
Productive activity showed a net
G&in during the month.
The Washington times., 1934-06-19

labor bill dampened speculative
enthusiasm for the carrier shares
which, combined with profit TAX
ing, brought losses running to
point. Atchison, New York Gen.
tral. Southern Railway, Southern
Pacific and Lackawanna were
outstanding weak spots in the
group.
IndustriaIs Dip
Industrial stocks we're under
pressure, with United States Steel
yielding ground. Other steel
shares also were heavy, appar"
emily reflecting the drop in oper.
ations to 56.1 per cent from 56.9
per cent last week.
Utilities continued to give
better account of themselves.
While Consolidated Gas, Public
Service and Columbia Gas lost
their early gains, the group
showed good resistance to the
liquidation and held around their
previous close.
United Aircraft Down
United Aircraft was a feature
on the downside losing more
than a point on a steady dribble
of offerings.
Oils, specialties, and chemicals
were quiet and somewhat heavy
along with the rest of the list.
Gold mining shares were quiet
and steady. American Sugar Re-
filming advanced about a point to
a new high for the year. Build
ing shares were quiet.
Trading was moderately active
with turnover at the rate of a
million shares for the session.
The Washington times., 1934-06-19
Failures Turn
Up Slightly

Another slight increase ap-
pears in the number Of business
failures in the United States.
Records of Dun & Bradstreet,
Inc, for the week ended June
IA show 251 such defaults, com.
pared with 239 and 216 repec-
lively in the two preceding
weeks and 1896 in the CORE
spending week of last year.
The increase was in the East,
the West and the Pacific Coast
States. A slight reduction ap-
peared for the South.
The Washington times., 1934-06-19

whole slackened
further, though
not as much as
some had fear
ed. Retail trade
slowed up per-
ceptibly. The ef-
feet Of political
nd economic
uncertainty Was
widespread.
OF course, all
attention W a S
focused upon
the spectacular
going on a t
w a S n i n gtoll.
But the facts
The Washington times., 1934-06-19

stock market
irregularly low
er after early
strength today.
o p e n i n 6
higher on the
adjournment Of
Congress a S t
night, the mar
ket quickly ran
into offerings
which brought
losses running
to a point in
many sections.
T h e un e x.
pected passage
of the railroad
The Washington times., 1934-06-19
25-CENT DIVIDEND

Arundel Corp. has declared the
SECULAR quarterly dividend Of Is
cents, payable July 2 to stock OF
record June %.
The Washington times., 1934-06-19
BOND & SHARE PAYS

Electric Bond & Share Company
has declared the regular quarterly
dividends Of $3.50 on the So and
$1.25 on the SIS preferred stocks,
both payable August / to stock Of
record July 6.
The Washington times., 1934-06-19
INSURANCE co. PAYS

Travellers Insurance Co. has
declared the regular quarterly
dividend of 81. payable July to
stock of record June 19.
The Washington times., 1934-06-19

Write q slogan. WIN A PRIZE! Six
CASH AWARDS are offered for the
best slogans written about the RECON-
MENDED SERVICES advertised In to-
days WANT ADS.
The Washington times., 1934-06-19
.TRAD|NG TREND
. GENERALLY
DOWNWARD
BY LEWIS HANEY
professor Of Economics
New York University

Although there was no great net
change last week, it is reasonably
clear that business activity on the
The Washington times., 1934-06-19
LOSSES MOUNT
ON IRREGULAR
STOCK LIST
BY LESLIE GOULD

NEW YORK, June 19 G.N.S).
Profit taking coupled with some
speculative selling turned the
The Washington times., 1934-06-20
Evening Comfort
Dominates

An interview with one of the
best dressed men in town sums
up the evening mode in such
concise manner that we want
to print it all, even though
some of it might be repetition.
This man says that although
the white mess jacket is still
in good favor with many peo-
pie. and is in perfectly good
taste, it has been discarded by
the men who wore it last sum-
mer because so many orches-
tras wore it.
In place of the mess jacket
we have this season dinner
jackets Of Palm Beach cloth,
either single breasted or double
breasted. They have shawl
collar and lapels faced with
the same cloth.
Trousers may be of the same
cloth or of gabardine or trop-
ical worsted, in black or mid.
night blue, which is said to
be blacker than black after
dark. Patent leather pumps
or oxfords, soft white shirt
with either soft or laundered
collar, and black dress tie
The Washington times., 1934-06-20
Summer Evening
Dress FOR Men

Young men can teach us
much, especially in the way Of
what to wear. They're not so
conservative, and so are leaders
in this day and age of more
individuality. With more time
and interest to expend on their
clothes than the average busi-
ness man, they can think out
good combinations of color and
type, and can lead the way for
men who must buy in more of
a hurry, with little time to plan.
At a recent dance, two boys
Just back from college made a
particularly good appearance,
so much so that it's well worth
describing what they had on.
One was conservative as to
color, the other not SO very.
The choice of the conserva-
tive man was a double-breasted
jacket of blue flannel with four
buttons. The only very differ
ent note was the fact that the
buttons were brass. His trous-
ers were white flannel, his shoes
white buckskin. He wore white
oxford shirt with button down
tabs and washable tie,
The Washington times., 1934-06-20
Shorts Gaining Favor Among
Tennis PLAYERS

for them-for tennis, at any
rate. It is safe to say that by
next summer this style will
have been universally adopted
and that trousers will be as
"passe" as the bicycle skirt" OF
the gay nineties.
X X \
General Russell, Commandant
of the Marine Corps, looks as
we'll in civilian clothes as he
does in uniform. which is say
ing something for a service"
man. He wears, with navy
blue suit, a shirt of French
blue and white stripes, quite
wide stripes, very sporty.
Don't know who the man
was, but he was certainly
dressed Ito the teeth" for his
game of tennis. Had on one
of those open mesh Isle shirts
with a crew neck and short
sleeves-in blue. His shorts
were made of white cotton gab-
ardine, with contrasting stripes
down the sides in blue. The
belt was one of those fish-twine
string belts and the socks were
plain white and very heavy.
His tennis shoes were very
intriguing. They had rope soles
imbedded in crepe rubber sides.
Il found out from an onlooker.
I have gotten to be such a
"snooper.") The shoes, so am
told, have the merit of being
highly nonskid, even when the
courts are wet.
Chester Lockwood really daz-
zles you with his ties. I just
wrote about a beauty he had
on the other day and I saw
him again over the weekend
wearing heavy white silk one
with big brown splotchy figures
in it-this time with a white
linen suit and white buckskin
shoes.
Gale Mclean, just returned
from Atlantic City from his
honeymoon, is another white
linen devotee. He had on an
Immaculate looking white linen
suit with a blue shirt
The Washington times., 1934-06-20
By BEAU McALLISTER

Johnny Sweeney-the man
with the Poker Face"-and the
despair of many feminine hearts
looks very we'll in bathing
trunks of dark blue, heavily
ribbed wool. He wears them
with perfectly plain dark-blue
jersey, and, of course, a white
belt. Johnny is an accomplished
athlete and does full justice to
this outfit.
Young Ralph Quinter has
taken up the "washrag' shirt
we mentioned several days ago
for golf. Made of a loose mesh,
which looks as though it came
right out of the kitchen, Ralph
thinks this shirt. is just the thing
for golf. At any rate, he looked
much cooler than the other
members of the foursome.
Reber Littlehales has not, as
yet, Succumbed to the craze for
shorts on the tennis courts.
We mention this because it is
very exceptional now to find
some one who does not go in
The Washington times., 1934-06-20
By WILMA LAVILLE

Have you considered the pos
sibilities of those dresses that
are being sold for bcacn wear
this year? They're grand for
the seaside, of course, but it
seems to me that many of them
might do for country, golf, ten
mis- or general wear around
home, too.
The newest of them combine
shorts, top and skirt in some
way or another. They may be
in two, three or four pieces,
with a kerchief top making the
fourth, if there are that many.
They allow for all sorts of vari-
ations, and for combination
with other shirts, shorts, slacks,
skirts, and so on.
One smart dress I saw down
town was of gaily plaided seer"
sucker, heavy enough so you
couldn't see through it. It was
in three pieces, shorts, kerchief
top and one-piece dress made
more or less shirtwaiSt style,
that buttoned down the front.
You could wear the shorts and
kerchief top, or the shorts and
dress. Needless to say you
could wear the dress over your
bathing suit, or a Isle shirt
with the shorts. and SO on. It
was but $5.95, for all those
changes.
Other Uses
Practical soul that I am, it
occurs to me that the shorts
and kerchief top would be ex-
cellent for a Sunday noon sun
bath on the porch, if you're not
going swimming that day. Then
you could put the dress on for
family dinner, or for any other
occupation that didn't require
dressing up.
Other combinations yo.l are
familiar with include the usual
three-piece shorts, shirt and
wrap-around skirt. If this is
the shirtwaist type, which it
usually is. and is of fairly good
material, we'll made, it can go
almost anywhere. downtown
shopping, out for golf, and so
on. They can be purchased at
almost any price, are usually
around $2.95, made Of pique or
heavy seersucker, and are use
full in the extreme.
Vivid Color Muslin
New Yorkers are wearin g
shorts and dress to match of un-
bleached muslin, yes Just plain
old muslin dyed in vivid colors.
They may be sold in washing.
ton, too. and could be made
easily AZ home.
There is almost no limit to
the way you can combine the
various pieces of your beach
dresses, shorts and shirts, if you
get them in harmonizing colors
The Washington times., 1934-06-20

Flashes from Paris and near
by race tracks confirm the very
fashions that we are wearing
here. They're a little ahead of
us on millinery, and are already
wearing hats with a fall flavor
in some places. But for the most
part we can take the news as
applicable to us, and can plan
and wear our own costumes in
pretty much the same way.
They are racing at Auteuil,
and having very hot weather.
That means that in spite of
whatver else women may have
planned, they're wearing very
Summery clothes. They wear
much more formal clothes to the
races than we do, clothes which
we'd wear to tea or a cocktail
party.
One the days that are not so
hot a few autumn millinery
fashions have registered. There
are good many variations of
the pancake beret. all medium
sized, and made of felt or val
vet. They are usually tilted for
ward on bandeau.
Cushion Brims Smart
Cushion brims are much in
evidence, and Patou is punch
ing them in at the edges to
make a triangular brim. Crowns
are so shallow in these hats
that they are scarcely percep-
tible. Stitched satin berets
The Washington times., 1934-06-20
Paris Fashion Notes Confirm
Our Own Trends

were popular and also hats were
seen trimmed with feathers.
At a ball at the Crillon, an
outstanding social event, organ
8 dies and dotted swiss gowns
rubbed shoulders with satins
and metals. were considered
just as smart. Flounces from
the knees down were seen a
great deal, as we're gowns in
the Spanish manner. flounced
even higher.
This may be hard for us to
take, but gloves were worn by
the majority of women, and
were kept on all evening. Long
colored suedes, chiffons and
meshes such as we wear here
were seen, but the majority
were short kid gloves, in black
or white. Most of the women
also wore jewels or flowers in
their hair. That seems to be a
fashion that will not die.
COttOnS More Popular
Cottons are enjoying a great
vogue. both in Paris and at the
various French and italian re-
sorts. Striped cotton evening
gowns which sound very much
like the bridesmaids gowns we
featured some time ago are
spoken Of, and so are evening
gowns of linen.
Patou makes evening gowns
Of lipen that are composed Of
nothing but a skirt and a bo-
lero-like bodice which is Joined
to the skirt at center front only.
How cool! But it is rather
startling for us.
The Washington times., 1934-06-20

For fashion information, write
Miss Laville at The Times, en-
closing self addressed, stamped
envelope, or call her at District
70OO
The Washington times., 1934-06-20
Smart Beach Costumes Must Be-
Quick-Chanse Affairs

and it will always look like you
have new costumes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-15
WOMAN TAKES
LIFE IN OFFICE
Trade Journal EmpIoye Is
Found SIumped Over
Desk by Editor.

Penning a note of encouragement
with life, Miss May Durler, 81, of
1908 Park avenue, committed suicide
today in the Office o. the Claywork-
er, a trade journal publication at
211 Hudson street
Miss Durler was found slumped
over a desk in the office of the trade
journal by James Randall, one of
the editors. She apparently had
finished the contents of a bottle of
poison which was found on a desk
by the police.
On the desk also was found a
note addressed to Mr.. Randall
which read:
"Jim-Forgive me for doing this
to you and your mother. My inter-
est in life passed with The Clay
worker, and I have not the courage
to see the finish. Call my brother
Ed and give him the packages on
my desk"
Mr. Randall said that he could
not account for Miss Durler's act.
He said that she had been employed
as an office worker for the trade
journal for the last forty years. Mr..
Randall said he knew of no business
troubles and declared that Miss Dur
Ter could have had job with the
pape.. for the rest of her life.
Efforts of the police first aid squad
to revive the woman failed and she
died in city hospital shortly after
being found by her employer. She
also is survived by brother, George
DUrler Of MartinsVille.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-15
VALLEE EvADES
COAST OFFICERS
Escapes Process Servers in
Marital Melee, Heads
East.
By United Press

By Untte0 PfeSS
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 15.-Rudy
Vallee was safe from local process
servers as he fled east to evade ap-
pearing in court this afternoon for
a hearing on two motions contesting
the separate maintenance suit of
his estranged wife, Fay Webb
Vallee.
Mr.. Vallee escaped Saturday night
by flying secretly to the Arizona
border and there boarding a train
for New York, while process servers
sought him out. His flight was to
insure his appearance in New York
for certain commercial engage
ments, friends said.
The hearing this afternoon was
on two motions Mr.. Vallee's counsel
instituted in reply to his wifes court
demand for ST 400 monthly alimony.
The first was motion to quaSh a
court order for Mr. Vallee to appear
and show cause why he should not
pay his wife alimony until her
separate maintenance suit is settled.
The second asked for continu-
ance of the suit until similar
action, filed earlier in New York, is
settled. Mr.. Vallee claims Cali
fornia has no jurisdiction to hear
the suit because neither he nor his
wife are legal residents of the state
He hopes to transfer proceedings to
New York.
Hearing on the separate main
tenance suit is set for Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-15

limit of permissible revaluation at
so per cent. Careful study leads me
20 believe that any revaluation at
more than so per cent Of the pres
ent statutory value would not be in
the public interest. l, therefore, rec
ommend to the congress that it fix
the upper limit of permissible re-
valuation at go per cent.
That we may be further prepared
to bring some greater degree Of sta
bility to foreign exchange rates in
the interests of our people, there
should be added to the present
power of the secretary of the treas
ury to buy and sell gold at home
and abroad, express power to deal
in foreign exchange as such.
AS a part of this power 1 suggest
that, out of the profits of any de-
valuation, there should be set up
a fund of $4,000 100000 for such pur-
chases and sales of gold, foreign
exchange and government securities
as the regulation of the currency,
the maintenance OF the credit of
the government and the general
welfare of the United States may
REQUIRE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-15
Need Sound Currency

If all these undertakings are car
ried out by the governments con-
cerned, there will be a marked in
crease in the use and value Of silver
Governments can well, as they
have in the past, employ silver as a
basis for currency, and look for a
greatly increased use. am, how
ever, withholding any recommended
ton to the congress looking to
further extension of the monetary
use of silver because I believe that
we should gain more knowledge of
the results of the London agree
ment and Of our other monetary
measures.
Permit me once more to stress two
principles. Our national currency
must be maintained as a sound cur
rency which, insofar as possible,
will have a fairly constant standard
of purchasing power and be ade-
quate for the purposes of daily use
and the establishment of credit.
The other principle is the inherent
right of government to issue cur
rency and to be the sole custodian
and owner of the base or reserve Of
precious metals underlying that cur
rency With this goes the preroga-
tive of government to determine
from time to time the extent and
nature of the metallic reserve.
I am confident that the nation
will realize the definite purpose of
the government to paintain the
credit of that government and. at
the same time, to provide a sound
medium of exchange which will
serve the needs of our people.
FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-15
Charles Chapman Didn't Kill
Mrs. Grace LaCkey, Visit
Satisfies Counsel.

Solution of the murder of Mrs.
Grace Lackey and wounding of
Charles Chapman today apparently
was but little nearer than it was
several Gays ago when Deputy Cor
oner E. R. Wilson began an inten-
sive investigation.
DR.. Wilson said he had not been
informed officially of questioning of
Mr.. Chapman at city hospital by
Herman L. Ridenour, attorney, en-
ployed by Mrs. Earl earle, Cleve-
land, daughter of Mr.. Chapman.
Mr.. Ridenour reported that to the
question: Did you kill GraceP"
Mr.. Chapman, unable to talk CO.
herently because of the bullet in his
brain, shook his head negatively
and mumbled what was taken for
negative answer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-15
KEEPING UP WITH CONGRESS
YOUNG HOOVER
QUIT TO AVOID
MAIL SCANDAL
Resigned Air Job to Keep
From Embarrassing
Father, He Says.

By United Press
PASADENA, Cal, Jan. Is. -
Herbert Hoover Jr. resigned as chief
engineer Of Western Air Express
in 1880 to spare his father from
embarrassment when air mail con-
tracts we're being awarded he mott
fed a senate investigating commit
tee today.
Young Hoover said that he had
proffered his resignation when ad-
vised by former War Secretary Pat
rick Hurley that "a man named
Halliburton" had charged in Wash
ington that he was using his in
f1uence to promote airmail con-
tracts for Western Air.
Instead of accepting his resigna-
ton, his employers gave min a
leave Of absence, the former Presi-
dents son wrote. He recently re-
turned to his former job at q SAL
airy Of $400 a month.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-15
Not Killer, Wounded Man
From Hospital Cot

Hospital attendants said Mr.
Chapman, however, shakes his head
no" to practically everything asked
of him.
Given pencil and paper. Mr.
Chapman made several scrawls and
indistinct marks which Mr. Ride
nour said ne would give to hand
writing expert for examination"
Mr.. Ridenour said ne was not
satisfied with progress made in
solving the case, which first was
thought to be murder and suicide,
and which later was suspected by
DR.. Wilson Of being an attempt at
double murder by a third person.
Private detectives will be employed
to aid in the investigation, Mr..
Ridenour said.
The body of Mrs. Lackey, room
ing house keeper, with two bullets
in her head, and the unconscious
form of Mr.. Chapman were dis
covered Wednesday night. Nearby
was what was purported to be a
suicide note, dated Jan. 7, which DR..
Wilson and Ridenou believe was
printed BY a third party,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-15
Asks Reserves Gold

Certa lessons seem clear. For
example, lhe free circulation OF
cold coins is unnecessary, leads to
boarding, and tends to possible
weakening of national financial
structures in times Of emergency.
The practice of transferring gold
from one individual to another or
from the government to an indi-
vidual within a nation not only is
unnecessary, but is in every way
undesirable. The transfer Of gold
in bulk is essential only for the pay
ment of international trade bal
anceS.
Therefore, it is prudent step to
vest in the government Of a nation
the title to and possession of all
monetary gold within its boundaries
and to keep that gold in the form
of bullion rather than in coin
Because the safe keeping of this
monetary basis rests with the gov
eminent, we already have called in
the gold which was in the posses
sion of private individuals or cor
porations. There remains. however,
a very large weight of gold bullion
and coins which still is in the pos
session or control Of federal re-
serve banks.
Although under existing law there
is authority. by executive act, to
take title to the gold in the posses
sion or control of the reserve banks,
this is step of such Importance
that 7 prefer to ask the congress by
specific enactment to vest in the
United States government title to
all supplies of American-own
monetary gold. with provision for
the payment therefor in gold certi-
fiCates.
These gold certificates will be, as
now. secured at all times dollar for
dollar by gold in the treaSury-gold
for each dollar of such weight and
fneneSS as may be established from
time to time.
Such legislation places the right,
title and ownership to our gold re-
serves in the government itself: it
makes clear the governments owner
ship of any added dollar value of
the country'S stock of gold which
would result from any decrease of
sold content Of the dollar which
may be made in the public interest.
1t would also. of course, with equal
Justice, cast upon the government
the loss Of such dollar value if the
public interest in the future should
require an increase in the amount of
gold designated as a dollar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-15
ENTIRE CREW SAVED
FROM BEACHED SHIP
Sinking Vessel Run Aground
in Heavy Blizzard.
By United Press

By United Press
PORTLAND, Me-, Jan. IS. - A
major marine disaster was narrowly
averted when the 2,60O-ton freighter
Sycamore grounded on Corwins
Rock, and then, sinking, was driven
through a binding blizzard and
beached at Prout's Neck, where she
was being pounded to pieces today.
Seven hours later, as surf washed
the decks of the sunken vessel $50
feet from shore, coast guards took
eff the entire crew of twenty-six
drenched, frost-bitten and half
starved sailors. Even the ships
mascot, a collie named Bozo, was
saved.
After the ship grounded, Captain
Ralph R. McDonough realized from
the rate at which she was filling
that she would founder shortly. The
rudder and steering gear had been
disabled, but he managed to swing
her Shoreward and full speed was
ordered.