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IiNernnnI Grain PricnS
CHICAGO PRODuCE-

CHICAGO June I3 LP.-PouItry, live.
is trucks, unsettled; hens pounds and
less. 10, more than pounds. Is: Leg
"5iz White Rocks, -; colored, %; fryers.
- Plymouth. White Rock and Colored
brollerS. 23 harebacks. 3Oa@2: Leehorns
roosters. II. Leghorn roosters. 1212: tur-
KEYS. l3al6; heavy old ducks, L.; heavy
young, Ii; small white ducks II; small
coloreo, 10: young geese I5; old, II.
Butter, 15,9l9. firm. prices unchanged
Eggs, 21.3l5. firm extra frsts local.
u =; cars, -: fresh graded firStS, local.
2094: cars. y "a; current receipts. POI ,;
storage packed. extras, 2234 storage
packed, hrsts. .9ia.
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7y the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June l3-Gains Of
fractions to around points in few
spots put life into the bond market
today.
French Is were up about 2. Frac-
tions to about point were added by
Uruguay Is. Warsaw City rs, Australia
SIS. Rome 6 12s and Norway IS. Poland
Is gave up about a point
In the domestic corporate list me-
dunn and low priced rails bumped
into profit taking. A little lower were
st. Paul SIS. Northwestern 4a4s, South
ern Pacific 4l2s and Southern Rail-
way As.
A few carriers were resistant, with
New York Central IS and Nickel Plate
AIS scoring small upturns.
Shortly before the close the United
States Government list was irregular,
about 4-32 higher to 1882 lower.
Gamers were the Treasury AIS, the
IS of 1851 and the 234s of 1915,
Losses were suffered by the 3iIS of
1914 and the 3s of 1916.
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new YORK COTTON
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 13.-Cotton fu-
lures opened easy. 2 to 9 lower under
liquidation and on easier Liverpool
cables. July, 1859; October, HOB;
December, 100; January, HOO;
March, 1104; May, 1109.
Reports of further showers in the
Eastern belt may also have been a
factor on the opening decline, which,
however. was attributed largely to the
recent easing of the technical posi-
ton.
October, after selling off to ll06
on the call, or about II points from
the high level of yesterday, steadied
on a renewal of trade and commission
house buying and the market held
fairly steady at the end of the first
hour. Active months were to 5
points net lower.
Liverpool cables said that liquida-
ton and week end profit taking had
been absorbed by trade calling at the
decline.
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CHICAGO GRAIN
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, June 13-Anxiety over
high temperatures and dry weather in
the United States Spring crop belt did
a good deal today to lift prices of
wheat
Predictions of leading unofficial crop
authorities were that few days of
extreme heat before general rains are
received Northwest would render the
crop situation there much worse.
Vessel space was chartered today for
shipment of 100000 bushels of wheat
to Buffalo from Chicago.
Wheat closed nervous, ssa7s above
yesterdays finish July, 85a8518:
September, 861sa8614; corn unchanged
to 5 up; July, 61A; oats, LAS ad-
vanced, and provisions unchanged to
IS cents down.
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WHEAT
Chicago Cash Market.

Cash wheat-No. 3, hard, SO. Corn
No. 2, mixed, 62al No. 5. mixed. So;
No. /, yellow, 63l "a; No. 2. yellow,
63 i2-$4 No. 3, yellow, 62l4 -l2; No. 2,
white. TO; No. 3, white, SO; sample
grade, 54-55. Oats-No. 3, white, 26-
%; No. 4, white, 24-25I2; sample
grade, 23'4-i2. No rye, Barley-Feed
3O-46, nominal; mailing, 1892. nomi-
nal. Timothy seed, 3.20-3.45 cwt,
Clover seed-I3.OO-2O.OO cwt.
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CURB SHARES co
TOLOWERL LEVELS
Some Mines, SpeciaIties and
Utilities Resist, but Gains
Are Small.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 13.-Stocks were
offered at lower levels over a wide
section of the curb list today.
A scattering of mining issues, in
dustrial specialties and utilities ignored
the general trend, but their gains were
unimportant in most cases
Declines ranging from fractions to
more than point appeared in Alum
mum Co., American Cyanamid B,
Creole Petroleum, South Penn Oil and
International Petroleum.
Bunker Hill g. Sullivan, a strong
feature throughout the week, moved
up major fraction. Other firm
spots included Electric Bond & Share,
Novadel-Agene, Aluminium Co. pre-
ferred, Adams-Millis first preferred
and Ferro-Enamel.
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New Orleans Prices.
Liverpool Quotations.

1000 bales. including 90 American Spot
moderate business done; prices ) points
lower; quotations in pence: American
~; strict middline. 697; middling 6.77;
strict low middling. GA; low middling;
III strict good ordinary 5.97; good
ordinary 567 Futures closed quiet and
steady July. 6.2s; October. ) "a; Deem
Der. 5.s5; January, 5.s5; March. 5.S5;
May 5,S5
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Dividend rate in dollars based on last
quarterly or semI-annual payment tan
nuaI rate-plus extra. Accumulated divi-
dends aPaid this year. bPaid last year
accompanies reported In reCelyerShip or
being reOrganiZed ePayable in stock,
fPlus partial distribution Of assets
E8-dividend.
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NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK. June II tP,.-Butter. 15.-
Q4S; firm Creamery hisher than extra
$ui 4a31: extra t92 score). 2994a30: frsts
tSS-91 scoresl- 2S14a2a: seconds 6S4-S1
Cheese. cS9. 500: firm Prices unchanged
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CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO. June 13 R.-Following is
the complete official list of transactions in
stocks on the Chicago Stock Exchange to-
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Cottonseed Oil.

Cottonseed Oil.
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
steady July. 9.0lb; September. S.93b:
October S.s7; December, SOB. Sales. 10
contracts. Bid.
New Orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS. June 13 tP.-Cotton
futures closed steady. net l point UP to
DoInr down
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METAL MARKET.

NEW YNRK. June II. R,.-Copper
nearby; nearby, = "a: future, 4fs7Na' Anti
mony, s. - 1870, Other metals nom
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U. S. TREASURY NOTES.

(Reported by Chas. D. Barney & Cob
Bid. Ouef.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET
BY private wire direct 20 The Star.

Stock and Sales
dividend Rate Add 90. High. Low Close.
Adams Mills lar
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By private wire direct to The star.
Transactions Today.
T e A s U R Y.

HOME OWNERS LOAN
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GRADUATES TO GET
EMPLOYMENT TIPS
Art Occupations in Industry Con-
ference to Be Held in New
York Citv

Recent college graduates and those
who will graduate in June may obtain
valuable suggestions to aid them in
obtaining employment from the dis
cussions scheduled by the Arts Oc-
cupations in Industry conference,
which meets Saturday at the club
house of the American Woman's As
sociation, 353 West Fifty-seventh
street, New York City.
Announcement of the conference
was made yesterday by Mrs. Jouett
Shouse, chairman of the board Of the
Institute of Women's Professional Re-
lations, the organization arranging the
conference. Discussing the subject
of employment opportunities, Mrs.
Shouse said:
There are more opportunities for
jobs in this field than is generally
known and recognized. Leaders en-
gagged in business and industry will
tell of the range Of work to those
seeking career"
simultaneously it was announced
that an exhibit of modern industrial
design will be open Thursday, April
%, as a preliminary to the con-
ference and continue until May 1.
Like the conference, this exhibit will
be held at the American Woman's Asso-
citation. Conference sessions will be-
gin Saturday at 10 am. and will
continue throughout the day.
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BALLOU TO OFFER
BU|LD|NCPROGRAM
Final Draft of Five-Year
Project to Be Given to
Board Wednesday.

A final draft Of the bill to authorize
the proposed f1ve-year school building
program will be presented to the Board
of Education by Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent, Wednesday, and the
Legislative Committee is expected to
act at once on the measure in order to
speed it to Congress at the earliest
possible date.
Two more preliminary reports on
the program also will be presented by
DR.. Ballou. The first of these will out
line the construction and enlargement
needs of Wilson and Miner Teachers
Colleges, and the second will provide
for the administrative Offices.
Details of the final draft of the bill
will be made public with its presenta-
tion to the board and will be the
nineteenth report prepared by DR.. Bal
lou and his staff covering the physical
needs of the present overcrowded
schools.
At the meeting Wednesday, the
District Of Columbia Society of the
1st Division, A. E. F., will present
rules and requirements for the award
Of three four-year scholarships, COW
ering all expenses, to the Citadel, mill
tary college of Charleston, S. c., to
be awarded graduates of the Wash
ington high schools.
Several routine reports also are on
the docket of business for the session.
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TRIAL Of REAGUER
OPENS TOMORROW
Undertaken Accused of Kill
ing Girl, Bride of Virginia
Highway Worker.

William H. Reaguer, 57-year-old
Culpeper, Va, undertaken. will go on
trial in District Supreme Court to-
morrow for the murder of Mrs. Willie
Mae Wood, 81. who was almost be-
headed with a pocket knife in
Houston Hotel room last october II.
The trial is expected to last week.
1t will be the first before Justice Oscar
R. Luhring in the new Criminal Divi-
sion No. 3, established to clear the
docket by the Summer recess.
Police found Reaguer, a married
man with grown children, lying with
his head on the body Of the slain
girl, who had been married just II
days before to Herbert R. Wood,
young Virginia Highway Commission
worker.
Psychiatrists to Testify.
Assistant United States Attorneys
Irwin Goldstein and Cecil r. Heflin,
who will prosecute the case, said they
have more than 80 witnesses, among
them psychiatrists who may be called
on to rebut an expected insanity de-
fense Attorney James A. O'Shea,
well-known criminal lawyer, will rep
resent Reaguer.
Under the pretext of driving Mrs.
Wood from the Culpeper home of her
parents to Fairfax Station, Va, where
she lived with her husband, Reaguer
allegedly brought her and her 17-year-
old cousin, Annie T. O'Bannon, to
Washington. Miss O'Bannon lived
here.
The trio registered at the hotel as
III. L. Thomas and party, Richmond,
Va" and were assigned two rooms
on the ninth floor.
Both Found in Room.
The prosecution contends Mrs.
Wood never entered the room she was
to occupy with her cousin, but stayed
with Reaguer. About 4:30 am. loud
scream was heard by hotel employees.
They found Reaguer with blood flow
ing from wounds, apparently self-in-
f1icted, on his left wrist and left upper
arms.
Subsequent investigation developed,
police ST., that Reaguer had been
friendly with Mrs. Wood since she
was IT years old and opposed her
to Wood.
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BOY SHOT IN ATTEMPT
TO FLEE STOLEN CAR
Four Companions Escape as Off,
Ger Opens Fire After Forcing
Machine to Halt,

Shot by policeman while attempt
ing to escape from a stolen automobile
in which he was riding with four COM
panions, Rudolph Johnson, Is, colored
1924 Fourth street, was reported In a
serious condition at Casualty Hospital
last night.
Police were hunting the other four
boys for questioning. johnson, accord
ing to police reports, stole an auto
mobile belonging to Franklin r. Fisher,
1145 Oates street northeast, about
10:30 pm. Half an hour later Officer
L. A. Hartnett of the traffic division
spotted the car and forced it to halt
on New York avenue northeast near
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad yards
AS the five occupants of the car ran
away when the officer approached
Hartnett said. he shot at the group.
the bullet striking johnson in the alb
domen, passing into the boys hip. The
other youths escaped.
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Subcommittee Expects to
Draft Goals on Receipt
of Testimony Proofs.
SAFETY MAIN CONCERN
OF ALL SUGGESTIONS
Parking and Related Issues to
Be Touched Upon as Incl.
dental Matters.
BY JAMES E. CHM.

A comprehensive report embodying
recommendations and suggestions de-
signed to lessen the traffic hazards
in Washington streets, will be under
taken this week by a special sub
committee of the House District Conf
mittee which recently completed a
far reaching study of traffic condi-
tions
Chairman Carpenter announced
last night he would call his sub
committee together to begin prepara-
ton of the report just as soon as
galley proofs of the testimony taken
during the series of public hearings
are turned over to him by the
Government Printing Office. The
stenographic transcript of the testi-
mony was sent TO the printing Office
last week after delay due to neces-
sary changes in some Of the exhibits
placed In the record by witnesses.
Fundamentally, all the recommen-
dations will be in the interest of
safety. Parking and other related
traffic problems may be touched on
incidentally.
Police Increase Urged.
Carpenter indicated one of the prin-
cipal recommendations would be a
substantial increase in the police
force, especially in the traffic divi-
sion. He and Representative Schultz.
Democrat, of Indiana, who also took
an active part in the traffic study. be-
lieve more officers mounted on motor
cycles are needed to curtail speeding
and reckless driving.
Improvement of traffic conditions
around some of Washington's numer-
GUS circles, particularly Scott, Dupont
and Thomas, are expected to be
urged. In addition the report may
contain a recommendation for con-
struction of pedestrian underpasses at
strategic points beneath Pennsylvania
avenue between Seventh and Fifteenth
streets.
The subcommittee gave serious at
tention to the pedestrian underpass
proposal during the hearings. Opinion
was expressed by number of wit
nesses that such underpasses would
protect the thousands of Government
workers who are forced to cross
Pennsylvania avenue at least twice a
day. and at the same time aid in eX-
pediting the movement of traffic.
Circle Tunnels Urged.
What to do at the circles, however.
is a problem that is puzzling the sub
committee. Some experts suggested
tunnels under the circles for either
pedestrians or vehicles. Others pro-
posed widening of the area around
the circles by elimination of sidewalks
This plan, it was said, would prevent
congestion.
The subcommittee also is expected
to make reference in its report to
so-called ticket fixing" Some of the
witnesses condemned the practice,
but others took the view it had not
become an evil in Washington, and
should be continued in minor cases
in which the cancellation of a ticket
would serve as warning to a traffic
violation.
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ROBERTSATTACKS
MERGER FIGURE
Commission Asked to Re-
consider $478,537 for
w. R. T. Stock.

Insisting that the price to be paid
by the Capital Transit Co. for the
Washington Rapid Transit Co should
be much lower than the $478,53
which the Public Utilities Commission
has said it would approve, Peoples
Counsel William A. Roberts yesterday
advised the commission to reconsider
its judgment.
Roberts did not state what he be-
lieves a fair price would be. He rec
commended that any indication of a
price which the commission would
accept be based "or the market value
of the present equipment" of the w.
r. T. as supported by the evidence
of the commissions own witnesses"
He agreed with the commission that
1t should reject the present proposal
of the companies for payment Of
$3.50 900 for the w. r. T., including
payment of its stock and assumption
of a debt Of $327,000 owed to the
North American Co., which has finan-
cial control over both concerns.
Fare Increase Question.
Roberts raised fears the Capital
Transit Co. would be in a position
to increase its fares because the
cost of additional equipment, he said,
would be necessary for interchange
able service. He said large addi-
tional sums would have to be charged
the public for retirement of the addi-
tional busses.
Commission members declined to re-
ply to Roberts letter until they had
time to study his arguments, but it
was indicated they would not change
their decision, reached after weeks Of
study
Chairman Riley E. Elgen and Vice
Chairman Richmond B. Keech, it
was recalled, have explained several
times that the price paid for the w.
r. T. cannot be charged to operating
expenses and thus passed on to the
public, but must be charged to Cap
ital Transit Co. surplus funds.
Several Positions Hit.
Roberts attacked several positions
taken by the commission in its notice
A4Ady W GAlC oIA CCJs CoA COAAPoAAJ 1AA
which it announced the price of the
stock of the w. r. T. must be sliced
from $40 to 81 a share and other
changes made to shave total of $685.
900 off the $539,0Oo price agreed upon
by the companies for the stock and
the $327,000 debt.
Acquisition of the necessary new
equipment to permit interchangeable
operation with the service of the Cap
ital Transit Co." Roberts wrote,
would Immediately increase the ac-
cruals for retirement by $4,000 to
5000 per annum.
IF rate adjustments were sought by
the Capital Transit Co. on the con-
solidated operation at the commits
sion's estimate of market value, it
would be necessary for the general
public using the service Of the Cap
ital Transit Co. to pay more than $75,-
600 additional per annum."
Roberts said the commissions deci-
sion calling for reduction of the in
terest rate on the debt from 6 to per
cent was "unquestionably q step in
the right direction" but added there
is no evidence in the record which
would warrant a lower interest rate on
this note, while at the same time sup
porting the reasonablenesS of the face
Of the note"
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POLICE WILL RETURN
THREE BOYS TO SCHOOL

Three boys said to be from the Har-
grave Military Academy at Chatham,
Va, were picked up by Washington
police yesterday and slept last night
at the Receiving Home, pending their
return to the school today.
The boys are Richard Roberts, IA,
of Madison, N. c.; James wilkins, 13,
of Norfolk, Va, and william Callahan,
IA, of Richmond, Va.
Seeking to see the sights Of the
Capital, the trio left the academy
early yesterday. The headmaster no
titled the boys parents of their disap-
pearance and the search was insti-
tuted here at the request Of one of
the fathers.
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Banning Zioncheck's Driving
Problem If He Is Convicted

If Representative Marion F. Zion
check of Washington is found guilty
in Traffic Court Tuesday of driving
an automobile 70 miles an hour on
outer Connecticut avenue early yes
terday, the District traffic director will
have tossed into his lap the decision
whether to invoke the regulations
under which he has the power to "sus-
pend the privilege of operating an
automobile in the District Of Columbia
and forbid Zioncheck to drive
Two officers who said they followed
a speeding automobile 2 miles booked
the driver as Marion A. Zioncheck.
member of Congress. zioncheck later
professed to be mystified about the
charge, but eighth precinct police said
they remembered him from previous
visit when he was booked on a drunk
and disorderly charge growing out of
complaint that he had plugged in
many of the telephones on an apart
ment house switchboard.
In its recent drive against speeders
the TRAFFIC Department haN followed
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q formula following convictions as
follows:
Thirty-five to orty miles an hour
Permit suspended Is days.
Forty to forty-f1ve miles an hour
80 days suspension.
Over SO miles an hour-Permit re-
voked.
Representative Zioncheck, accord
ing to police, said he was operating
on a permit issued in his State of
Washington. While the District police
have no power to revoke this license,
it was pointed out last night, the law
authorizes the traffic director to sus-
pend the privileges of driving an auto
mobile in the District.
zioncheck appeared in Police Court
to defend Louis Holmes Lloyd, 21-year-
old student, arraigned on drunken
ness charge. Questioned by reporters
about the speeding charge, he lodged
with a series of noncommittal remarks
about the improbability of Repre-
sentative being up and out driving 10
miles an hour at $50 am; his friend
lSee ZTONCHECK. Pare R.20
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Presidents Wife
and Girls Party
SeeCrime Museum,
J. Edgar Hoover Escort
on Justice Department
Sightseeing.
BY the Associated Press.

J. Edgar Hoover escorted Mrs
Franklin D. Roosevelt yesterday on a
visit to the Justice Department Crime
Museum.
Wearing her Easter blue suit, with
fox fur scarf, Mrs. Roosevelt went
to the new Justice Department Build
ing at the head of dozen Todhunter
School girl graduates, sightseeing from
New York.
Mrs. Roosevelt had said earlier that
the "G-men" topped the list of what
the girls wanted to see in Washing
ton.
But so well guarded was Mrs. Roose-
welt and her girls that only the Bu-
reau of Investigation knows whether
the Presidents wife was fingerprirted.
as casual visitors often are as part
of the trip through vast rooms filled
with fingerprint files.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
P. FRAUD CASE
OPENS TOMORROW
Seven Go to Trial in Let's
Court on Charges in
Texas Project.

Trial of seven men accused Of con-
spring to defraud the Government
of almost half a million dollars in
connection with a $4,853, 900 P. w. A.
irrigation project in Willacy County,
Tex, is scheduled to begin tomorrow
morning in District Supreme Court
before Justice F. Dickinson Let's.
The defendants are William A.
Harding, director of the Willacy
County Irrigation Board; James P.
Barry, San Francisco engineer with
the Hammond & Little River Redwood
Co., Ltd; Leonard c. Hammond, vice
president of the Hammond Lumber
Co.. San Francisco; Harry w. Cole,
president Of the California Redwood
Association and vice president of the
Hammond & Little River Redwood
Co.; Perry A. Welty, former engineer
examiner at the P. w. A. State Office
in Fort Worth, Tex: Charles r. Oh
berg, engineer examiner in charge of
irrigation work at P. w. A. headquar-
tiers in Washington, and Frank P. Nc
Elwrath, Corsicana, Tex, contractor
and banker. They will be represented
by George Hoover and George Horn
ing, Washington attorneys.
Indictment Last Spring.
United States Attorney Leslie c.
Garnett and his assistant, John w.
Fihelly, will prosecute the case, on
which they have been working for
months. The indictment was returned
by a special grand jury last Spring.
Alleged efforts by the defendants to
change specifications for a huge irri-
CATION canal project from an open
gravity system to high and low pres
sure pipe system, constructed of red
wood, provided the basis for the
charge against them.
Originally the Willacy County
project was for canal system, cover
ing l25,000 acres. and as finally ap-
proved by P. w. A. covered $4,000
acres. A huge wooden conduit, 215
miles long, was to be constructed
Specification Rewriting Charged.
The Government contends that the
redwood people persuaded the other
defendants to make certain changes
in the specifications so as to eliminate
piping other than of redwood. Welty,
who was in direct charge of the en-
gineering work in Texas, allegedly re-
wrote the specifications which then
were forwarded to Olberg in WASH
ington for his final approval.
Efforts will be made to prove that
both Olberg and Welty were offered
jobs by the redwood interests.
Twenty-eight overt acts were set
out in the indictment, which was
written in 18 pages and required six
weeks work by Fihelly and the grand
jury.