davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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Chicago Cash Market.

Cash wheat, No. red, ll9; No. l
hard, 1923; No. mixed, 1.19l4; corn,
No. mixed, 100; No. mixed, o9a
100; No. yellow. old, Ill; old lake
billing, Ito; No. yellow, 99a1 0olz:
old. 1922 No. yellow, 97a99; No. 4
white, l.00al.02; No. white, 9S12a
100: sample grade. eo12a96; oats, No.
white, 4614; No. 2 white, As; no rye;
buckwheat, No. 3, 100; soy beans, No.
and 2 yellow, l25al251a; No. 3
yellow, 1.23al IS; No. yellow. 1.241a;
barley, actual sales, 75al.15; feed, 65a
IS, nom; mailing, 1.00al.44. nom;
timothy seed, 5.65a5 IS hundredweight:
new, 5.35a5.60 hundredweight; clover
seed, 22.00a29.00 hundredweight.
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Liverpool Wheat Prices.

Winnipeg Prices.
WINNIPEG, November B OR.-Grain
range today:
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.tcontinued On Twenty third Pase.)
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Today's Trading on ExchanFe.


Warrington Gas IS, 1860, were
ttrong on the Washington Stock Ex-
change today. $1,000 again selling at
the high for the year Of 125. Capital
Traction S. were In demand, three
$1,000 and two $500 sales being re-
corded at 92h, against a high for the
gear Of 93H.
Mergenthaler Linotype is now being
quoted ex dividend, with 81 bid and
b6 asked. Other bid and asked prices
were strong, with few changes.
October bank clearings in Balti-
more reached the highest total for
That month since 1890, amounting to
k37s, Gal .519 and exceeding the figure
in October q year ago by $57,234, ,104,
6r 81 per cent. For the first 10
months Of 1885 clearings increased IA
per cent over 1885 in the same
months.
Voters Of 1856 municipalities located
IN; 40 States during the month Of
October approved municipal bond is
kues aggregating $7,74s,325, as COM
pared with $4,8ls,900 bonds approved
during September, according to the
Daily Bond Buyer.
State and municipal financing for
the month Of October aggregated
$50, ,4os. .760, As compared with $70.-
e27, 76e In October, 1888.
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Ohio Edison Co-Preferred share
earnings, nine months ended septem.
Der 30. were $s.e7. against $7.s1.
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C0ttonseed OIL.

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed steady. December. ss7; Jan.
uary, 1905; March, 1918; May, 1o.22.
Sales, 81 contracts.
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Baltimore Quotations.

BALTIMORE, November 8 lP.-wheat.
No. 2. red Winter. garlicky, spot domestic,
1.1734; November, 1.1124.
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that universal urge to look and marvel on the
creatures of this teeming earth, would like
to stand some day in front of big glass cage
in our Reptile House and stare in complete
fascination at Fishing worm" twelve feet
long!
am, admit, partial to the giants of the
earth never hear the familiar, There we're
giants on the earth in those days without
wanting to revise it in the light of the ex-
perience of thirty years to. There are giants
on the earth in these days." For the race of
giants is not dead yet, and if it were ever
possible to gather together all the giant species
of living animals, side by side in cages with
their smaller relatives, they would certainly
compose the most spectacular geological col
lection the world has ever seen.
am speaking, of course. of the true giants,
not merely of Extraordinarily large individuals
for while abundant food and exceptionally
favorable conditions may cause member of
the smaller species to grow to gigantic size,
its bulk is abnormal and unstable. The real
giants are born giants.
A few of them have passed through the
New York Geological Park - woefully few,
it seems, when think of all the giant species
in the world. The most spectacular was un-
doubtedly the giant monitor of komodo that
we exhibited few weeks in 1926 and again
in 1884. A lizard eight and half feet long!
Edward Harkness one of the men who brought
back our specimens, saw one monitor on the
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little lizard. saw his scaly gray back and
tail for an instant before he vanished under
the steam pipes. How he got in there was no
mystery. Dozens of those common little in
habitants of stone fences, brush heaps and
abandoned outbuildings come to us every year
and now and then one darts away to freedom
until keeper spots him.
What contrast! Two lizards, both stem
ming from the same root in the Permian
period - perhaps 2OO,OOO,OOO years ago
one reaching the limit of its development in a
form five or six inches long, the other a veri-
Confinved on poge 13)
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- ONE years ego l said publicly that if
anybody asked me what animal most
- craved to see on exhibition, would
~ say, IAN okapir' without moments
thought, because no geological garden had
ever had one and beast that looks some
thing like a cross between zebra and
giraffe is surely one of the strangest of all the
strange creatures that have come out of
Africa.
And then, l said, if took second thought,
Imight say, IAN Australian giant earthworm."
Since then the okapi has been exhibited in
Europe and the present king, Edward VIII,
presented one to the London Geological Gar
den, it having come to him as gift from the
Belgian royal house still like to dream about
an okapi in one of our corrals, perhaps in
corral next to our extremely rare and lovely
bongo; but don't mind admitting that the
fact that it has been exhibited and studied in
other geological parks takes just little of the
edge from my still keen desire to have the
animal under my charge. On the other hand,
don't believe anybody in Europe or America
has ever seen giant earthworm. -.
In scientific interest the okapi and prob
ably dozen other animal rarities consider
ably outrank Australia monster earthworm
and as scientist it would give me lifelong
thrill to study giant panda, white rhi-
noceros, Bornean frog and plenty of other
things that shall probably never see. But
Just simply as a man who occasionally feels
Copyriaht 1914 Inite Nevsps nara Mssaxioe Cornors
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RAYMOND L. DlTMARs
!Cvrutor Of fMommois ond Reptiles
- New York Geological Pork

at the east end of the Reptile House We keep
that room at tropical temperature all through
the cold months because it houses our other
big lizards (some of which rival the komodo
dragons in length, although not in bulk
and our collection of giant Galapagos tor
toises
The cameramen and one of our keepers
were doing all the work. The keeper was in
the cage with the dragons" shielding his
legs with stout board while rolling eggs
within reach of those formidable mouths.
had nothing to do except to direct the keeper
as he maneuvered the great reptiles into
camera positions.
As l stood inside the tortoise corral, abb
sorbed in watching the ponderous shifting of
those giant lizards, the lightning flick of the
long forked tongues, ready to warn the keeper
if tail we're turned in such position that it
could slash at his unprotected side, | felt
something run across my shoe.
For years have trained myself to stand
perfectly still in the face of an instinct to
jump or make some other abrupt motion when
dealing with snakes. and merely glanced
down to see what small creature was loose in
the tortoise cage 1t certainly wasn't giant
tortoise that stepped on my shoe.
1t was simply nervous little fence swift -
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island of Komodo in the Dutch East Indies
that he thought was easily thirteen feet long,
and they certainly attain a length of twelve
feet. Who can deny that those big monitors
are true giants?
| think the size of our specimens never
really impressed me more than on the day our
1894 monitors were put on exhibition and half
dozen newsreel cameramen came up to the
Geological Park to take pictures. The monitors
came in mid-May, but it was still dangerously
cool for them in the fenced runways outside.
So the cameras and the powerful incandescent
lights were set up in the glass-roofed wing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-04-20
"Walk" Lights Get
Test This Week at
| T1UO intersections

Pedestrians will get their first prac-
teal lesson in traffic safety and their
first chance to cross the street I'M
harassed by motor traffic when
"walk" lights are installed this week
at two r street intersections.
Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer announced today that two of
the new signals, which allow a sepa-
rate period for pedestrians to cross
the intersections, will be installed on
r street at Twelfth and Thirteenth
streets. The work will be started
Thursday or Friday.
Special police traffic squads will be
stationed at the intersections to guide
pedestrians for the first several days
and to enforce regulations while
motorists and pedestrians are be-
coming accustomed to the new signals.
1.-THE walk lights will provide
pedestrians with a safe interval for
crossing the street if they will use it.
Increasing safety takes cooperation
by the pedestrians, as well as the
motorists, and we expect to accom-
plish it without appreciably delaying
traffic once people get used to the
lights"
As funds become available, addi-
tional lights will be installed at other
corners, Van Duzer explained.
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Retired Marine, 81, Climbs
Steps to Monument Tip in 1859
Proud of Feat, Declares
He Wasn't EUen Out
of Breath.
Challenges Run,Or Girl
Made Ascent in u
Minutes.

~LIMBING the 1913 steps of the
Washington Monument in the
record time of minutes and
~ SO seconds on his 54th birth
day anniversary yesterday is just
starter for Benjamin K Morrow, re-
tired Marine sergeant, who held the
service record for the standing high
jump for 26 years.
Morrow made the climb after H. H
Pohlmann, 69-year- retired St.
Louis grocer, established record of
16 minutes several weeks ago. Pohl-
mann came down in 8 minutes.
Morrow, a guard at the Lincoln
Memorial, pointed out he mounted
the steps in less time than it took the
grocer to descend them. Morrow de-
clared he wasn't even out of breath
when he reached the top.
The guard was timed by two fellow
employees of Lincoln Memorial, one
stationed at the top and the other
at the bottom of the Monument.
Pohlmann also was timed.
Morrow challenged rumor that a
17-year-old Pennsylvania girl had
climbed the steps in IA minutes.
THAT is just hearsay and not Off
cial," he declared.
The guard came to The Star today
to have his picture taken in the
medals he won in the Marine Corps
as runner, jumper and fencer. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-04-20
HOUSE UNIT TOLD
RESULT OF STUDY
ON SPORT CENTER
Proposed Plant in Anacostia
Park Would Cost About
$20,OO0,0O0.
STADIUM TO HOLD
10000 IS PLANNED
Bill Authorizing Project Has
Many Indorsers-Roosevelt
Stand Explained.

Plans for development Of huge
sports center in Anacostia Park at the
foot of East Capitol street that might
attract such sport classics as the
Olympic games and championship
heavyweight prize fights, were de-
scribed today to the Parks and Play
ground Subcommittee of the House
District Committee.
c. Marshall Finnan, superintendent
of the National Capital Parks, and
Thomas S. Settle. secretary of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, revealed that detailed
studies of the project already had been
completed and tentative plans ap-
proved in principle. The ultimate
cost was estimated at between S18,-
100000 and s22,O00,00O.
The subcommittee was given a pic
ture of the project during a hearing
on a bill that would authorize its exc
cution The measure provides for con-
struction of stadium. parade field,
swimming pool and other recreational
facilities.
Plans for Stadium.
Finnan told the subcommittee,
which is headed by Representative
Jennings Randolph, Democrat, of West
Virginia, that the plans propose a
stadium as large as that at Soldier
Field, in Chicago, with a seating ca
pacity of between 10000 and 100000.
He said the proposed parade grounds
already are being graded with P. w. A.
funds and that the Pennsylvania Rail-
road would run sidings into the area
if the project is authorized.
Settle, however, explained that the
Budget Bureau had reported that the
bill is not in accord with President
Roosevelt's financial program at the
present time.
Leo See, legislative assistant in the
corporation counsel's Office, reported
the Commissioners had no objection to
the proposed development if it is
financed and maintained entirely with
Federal funds. Miss Elaine Eppley,
vice chairman Of the Highways, Parks
and Waterways Committee of the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations. testi-
fed that the organization Endorsed the
bill Saturday night on condition that
District revenues are not used in car
rying out the development.
Others Indorse Bill.
The bill also was Endorsed by James
L. Gammell, Alfred D. Calvert and
j. w. Barse of the Lincoln Park Citi-
zens' Association and Leo F. Prick.
representing the Southeast Citizens
and Southeast Business Mems Asso-
Citations. Calvert also suggested
widening of Twenty-first street north
east to provide a connecting link be-
tween the proposed sports center and
the National Arboretum.
At brief executive session follow
ing the hearing, the subcommittee
decided to give the bill further study,
but ordered favorable report on an
other measure designed primarily to
permit the operator of golf course
in East Potomac Park to operate
public swimming pool under construc-
ton there until the expiration of his
present lease on the golf course two
years hence. After that the bill pro-
vides that the golf course shall be
leased to the highest responsible
bidder
Finan announced that the SWIM
ming pool would be completed in July.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-04-20
D. C. JEWRY HONORS
RABBI SILVERSTONE
500 Attend Farewell Dinner for
Head of Tifereth Israel
Synagogue.

At testimonial dinner last night
in Tifereth Israel Synagogue, Rabbi
Gedaliah Silverstone exchanged fare
wells with more than so members of
the congregation and leaders of the
orthodox Jewish community in Wash
ington.
Rabbi Silverstone. who is retiring
after 81 years active participation in
church affairs here. will leave soon for
Palestine, where he will make his
home.
Rabbits Solomon Metz, S. Klavans
and Zemach Green spoke at the din
ner, outlining Rabbi Silverstone's
many services to the Jewish commu-
nifty here. He was delegate to the
Sixth Zionist Congress in Switzerland,
and for many years has been a d.
rector of the Hebrew Home for the
Aged.
AS a token of appreciation, purse
of $1,000 and a scroll engraved in
English, Hebrew and Yiddish, wishing
him success and happiness in his resi-
dence in his homeland, was presented
to Rabbi Silverstone
Replying, the 64-year-old rabbi ex-
pressed regret at leaving Washington
and the synagogue where he has spent
the last IL years. and promised "I
shall never forget you, and at the
wailing wall of Solomon's Temple I
shall pray for you"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-04-20

rested with two former convicts on
parole from Sirg Sing.
Ash was involved in the local in
vestigation through Identification Of
his fingerprints. A reward Of $3.50
had been offered for his arrest and
conviction by fidelity and guarantee
company of Baltimore.
Police said Ash was known vari-
ously as Bean. Doc" Jimmy Strang,
Thomas Hastings and Thomas Parker.
He was to be returned from New York
by Detective Sergt. Frank Brass of
the robbery squad.
One of the strangest features about
the bank robbery here was the fact
that police received Tip off" on the
job month before it was staged. The
information came from fairly reliable
underworld source, and for weeks a
squad Of officers lay in ambush with
riot guns. The robbers did not appear
however, until after the watch had
been withdrawn.
During the early morning hours,
two bandits broke into the bank while
third remained in an automobile
outside. They seized the janitor and
other employees as they came in and
locked them in the basement. When
the cashier arrived and opened the
vault, the two men covered him with
revolvers and escaped with the money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-04-20
BUREAUS DECISION.
ON PLEA FOR MORE.
D. c. AID CASH DUE.
Request of Commissioners
for Relief for 10000
Hangs in Balance.
BUDGET UNIT ALLOWS
HEARING AT ppm. TODAY
City Heads Marshal Array of Evil
dence to Effect Wide Suffer-
ing Followed Cuts.

Budget Bureau officials were eX-
pected to determine today whether
they will oppose or support the plea
of the Commissioners for an addi-
tional District appropriation of $685.
600 held to be needed for relief of
more than 10000 persons up to July l..
The plea was filed by the Commits
sioners about two weeks ago, and last
week Acting Budget Director Daniel
w. Bell told reporters he had been
too busy on Capitol Hill to study the
request and did not know when he
would be able to. The Commissioners
were notified this morning they could
have hearing at pm. today.
Arguments Are Prepared.
Criticized by Bell for not being
aggressive enough" in presenting their
appropriations request, the Commits
sioners prepared to go TO the bureau
armed with AL possible aggressive,
enthusiastic and forceful arguments
at their command" one official said
Two months ago the Commissioners
oClIJ W CliC OuIGdu lCluCoIS lOl ouEJp1C-
mental District relief appropriations
of 100000, which they said was neces-
sary to prevent thousands from being
dropped from the relief lists, with
consequent widespread suffering. The
bureau slaShed that item to S250,000,
and as it passed Congress the amount
was raised to s350.000. As a result the
District was forced on April l to
drop Abb cases of persons said to
be in the employable class and repre-
senting about 10000 individuals. They
retained about 1890 unemployables,
said to represent between 10000 and
IL 900 persons.
Suffering Declared Result.
Welfare Director Street said today
relief officials are just as convinced
now as they we're two months ago that
additional money is needed and that
"a vast amount of suffering" has
resulted in the dropping of the 4.100
cases.
Approval of the S258,OO item would
raise the total of the supplemental
relief appropriations to the s6OS, 900
originally sought by the Commits
SionerS.
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FAMILY Of FIVE
FACING EVICTION
Veteran Gains Days Grace.
Relief Aid Cut Leaves
$3.50 Rent Due.

Only 9 o'clock threat of rain
saved World War veteran, his wife
and three children from eviction
from their home today as curtailment
of public relief aid left them without
sufficient funds to meet their living
expenses.
Rent delinquency on the frame
house on Gales street northeast
amounts to $3.50 at the present
time. In June. the veteran, nonor-
ably discharged as a sergeant. first
class. expects bonus of STAB from
the Veterans Administration and he
has offered to pledge any overdue
amount at that time. The property
owner, however, has insisted on evic-
ton and unless some compromise is
found today. the marshal's Office must
proceed tomorrow.
Both the man and his wife are
employable and work whenever en-
ployment is available. Today the
wife is helping nurse nearby family
for 25 cents per hour. Tomorrow the
husband has a days work promised
which he expects will net him $3.50.
In past months the family has re-
ceived $50 per month supplemental
relief from the Public Assistance Di-
vision. Earnings Of the man and
wife, the man explained today, have
ranged from Sll to $50 per month.
The relief income ended on April /.
1T has cost us all of this to live"
he said. "All of us have to eat and
most of the money for clothes has
to go to my Oldest girl and boy. She's
IA and in junior high and we can't
send her to school with ragged clothes
and no shoes. He's II and goes to
Pierce School over here"
The third youngster, Anne Marie.
3, stood around with wide-open eyes
this morning while deputy marshal
talked things over with her father
ard warned him that the landlord
was being insistent about eviction.
With the $3.50 rent falling due on
April 7, the man said his wife had
taken $50 to the landlords office abou5
the first of the month, but that it had
been refused because it was not the
full amount coming due.
The man is registered for w. P. Il.
employment, but never has received
any, he said.
Asked if he knew any other places
where he might live, he said he had
been unable to find any who would
take the family without rent in ad-
vance.
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100 DIAMOND CABS
MINUS 400 TIRES
AFTER WILD NIGHT
Quartet Held Were Chauf-
feurS of Rival Hack
Concern.
OUTBREAK SURPRISES
PRESIDENTS OF FIRMS
Officials Deny Vandalism Was
Result of Any Row in
Drivers Union.

Hack inspectors believed today the
arrest of four cab drivers had ended
the search for the men who slashed
$50 tires on 100 Diamond cabs early
yesterday.
Harry C. Davis, president of the
Independent Cab Association, Dia-
mond operators, this morning esti-
mated the damage at S7,500-S5, 600
in ruined tires and $4,000 in damaged
wheels.
I'VE don't expect any trouble from
this" Davis said. 1T wasn't the re-
suit of a union row. It's all over.
The men who did it were just feel
ing good"
Diamond detectives cruised WASH
ington streets all last night keeping a
sharp lookout for any indication of a
They found none.
THE cab owners who were damaged
by the tire-slashing are going to de-
mand prosecution and damages to the
limit" Davis said.
Seventy-five Diamond owners had
listed themselves with police as COM
plainants by 10 am.
Surprised at Outbreak.
II am just as surprised at this out
break as anybody" Charles Hupman,
City Cab president, said. The action
of these men means their automatic
dismissal" They all drove City Cabs.
Two of the men under arrest are
said to be on the Diamond CO.. black
list" banning them from employment
by this largest of the city's taxi or
CARNATIONS.
The wife of one of the held drivers
exclaimed:
MY husband has been framed. He
is innocent"
The license number of the cab
driven by the first driver picked up by
police was said to correspond to the
number of a cab in which two tire
slasherS were seen to speed away at
$50 am. yesterday.
This driver cut the tires on the Dia-
mond cab of Gabriel Firtag parked
before his home, 2109 Eighteenth
street.
Neighbor Phones Victim.
neighbor telephoned Firtag and
told him he had seen two men drive
up IN City Cab, step out, slash his
four tires and sped away.
Within the next hour and half
100 other cabs and u private cars, all
within the area bounded by Eleventh,
Thirteenth. NJ and N streets, and the
neighborhoods about Belmont street
and Spring road, suffered similar dam
age.
Firtag sought the help of Hack IN
Spector Ray Aggleson and A. P. Griffin
when he verified the report of the
damage. The inspectors proceeded at
once to the City Cab garage and ar
rested the driver of the cab allegedly
seen in front of Firtag's home
A friend found with him was seized
and their story to the police resulted
in the arrest of the two others. One
of the latter was released yesterday
but rearreSted this morning.