davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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|, distributors divided his total delivery
and selling expense each month
among the varieties Of commodities
handled. Among the seven distribu-
tors four different methods of making
this distribution were used. Not all
four methods of making this division
could possibly be right, so that at least
three of the methods were incorrect
and it is believed that all four methods
other" This investigation showed
clearly that costs for delivery of milk
alone ranged from low of 274 cents
on every quart of milk delivered to a
high Of 5.23 cents on every quart
delivered.
A statistical expert concerned with
the price of foods over the years sup
piled the writer with some graphic
comparisons. Considering few basic
articles OF food, comparisons were
drawn between last years prices and
the present prices. The computa tions
are from September IA, 1896. to Sep
tember IA, 1887. Apples last year on
this date were 54 cents a pound; in
1887 they were 4.6 cents pound.
Potatoes in 1886 were 80 cents a
pound; this year they have been 1.9
cents pound. Eggs have remained
at about the same price, but are at
present Is cents dozen below the
1929 level Butter is IA cents a
pound less than last year. Steaks,
according to this source, were about
10 cents pound higher this year than
they were year ago, but are still 4
cents a pound below the 1929 level.
Roasts are 61a cents pound higher,
and cents below the 1929 level.
Chickens are about cents q pound
higher this year than year ago, but
still 4 cents pound below the 1929
level.
Pork, hams and bacon are about 3
cents more this year than last.
A MOTHER interesting basis Of COM
parison was furnished by the De-
partment Of Agriculture in its table
of Estimated retail value and equiva-
lent farm value Of quantities pur-
chased annually by a workingman's
family" This table shows the retail
value, the farm value and the margin"
Of expenditures for food. In 1929 the
retail value was $415, with .$l95 the
farm value, and margin of 1920. In
1882 the retail value had dropped to
$270, with the farm value at s88 and
the margin at $182. In September,
1887, the retail value is recorded as
$3.50. the farm value as $158 and the
margin as $201. Last years figures are
recorded as 1882 for retail value, $l6l
for farm value and $3.50 as margin.
The margin" includes all expenses
for processing and distributing.
Conversations with grocery store
proprietors and produce buyers for
food corporations reveal some inter-
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\N/ other meats skyrocketed to
v Y a point in excess of prices
since the World War; when
prices reached a level they had not
attained in two years, adding $780,
100000 year to the consumers food
bill, and when dairy products rose
14.5 per cent in two-year period, the
great American housewife began to
look about her and consider. Whereas
she had in the past paid the total at
the end Of the column without demur,
by September OF this year she began
to draw herself up before the cash
register and demand, How Gomez"
Up and up climbed the price Of beef
until for some cuts it had reached
range that was highest in seven years
and 347 per cent higher in New York
City than a year ago. The 2-inch
steak became a fond memory Of the
tired business man. Beef roasts no
longer appeared on the dinner menu
at home, and 5000 koshef shops in
New York declared they could no
longer operate unless something was
done about the cost Of meat.
With the cost of food rising 2s.6 per
cent in five years and every housewife
concerned about balancing her budget,
inquiry into the why's and wherefores
of the present situation seemed In
order.
What was causing this unprece-
dented rise? Could legislation improve
conditions? Who was getting the
profit? Why was food scarce when
crops were reported to fall under the
heading known as bumper? And
what was the prospect for alienation?
Produce buyers for large food corpora
tions, the Labor Department, expert
enced economists, the Federal Trade
Commission, neighborhood grocery
men, restaurant and hotel keepers, the
consumers counsel for the A. A. A.,
the Bureau of-Agricultural Economics
OF the Department of Agriculture and
Washington housewives have all been
interviewed and consulted for this arti-
Gle, which represents their combined
opinions and predictions.
FIRST, some generalities to sketch
the background OF relative values.
Statisticians of the Labor Department
report that, taking the 1923-25 three
year average as representative of NOR
NAL" times and fixing that average at
100. food prices rose generally from
66.7 per cent on September is, 1882, to
85.8 per cent last September IA, while
the butchers charges skyrocketed
from 75.8 per cent to lila.
In the last two years dairy products
rose 14.5 per cent and, meat increased
8.5 per cent, with the general level of
.foodstuffs increasing Z per cent. Or,
to present the facts another way. sliced
bacon In the middle Of last month was
44.s cents . pound. or 20 par cant
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front of the building. The Smith
sonian, semitic. and documents divi-
sions are to have facilities on the
second floor, where each will have an
Office, ample room for readers. issue
desks and adjacent stack space. A
reading room for bound newspapers
will also be maintained on this floor
The card division Is to occupy the
third floor where it will have ample
work space, as we'll as storage for card
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air-conditioning machinery before be-
ing redistributed over the next deck
Dust is not carried from one level to
another.
Although the bulk Of the building is
devoted to stacks, there will be many
spaces set aside for other library
purposes.
The cellar, which extends over only
portion Of the plan. is the terminus
for the tunnel connecting the annex
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or narrowed, 30 that shelving may be
easily moved. Columns appear only
every 10 feet. Self supports do not
rest on the floor, but are suspended
from overhead beams. set instantly in
place. The heavier the load placed on
them the straighter they will hang.
They may be cleared away and . work
space left. If desired, partitions and
doors which snap into place will
convert bay Of shelves into a locked
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cStlIlR 1bCtS WIFI respect 10 W1ldL TIE
housewife may expect in the near fu-
ture. Market supplies of vegetables
during the fall and winter months are
expected to be much larger than a
year ago, so that prices will probably
be lower. Celery, sweet potato and
lettuce production, they report, is run
ming about one-sixth larger than in
1886. Onion production is about one
eighth smaller than last years record
crop and the only major crop below
the 1896 level. This month. potato,
onion and cabbage prices will reach
their low level. and then the prices for
these products will advance until the
maturity of new crops the following
year, although potatoes and cabbages
will not advance as much as usual on
account of the large crops.
Throughout this month, too, apples
will reach a low point in cost. The
drop in prices is due to the 10 per cent
increase in production over 1886. In
November the price of apples will start
moving up, with an increase in Decem-
Der when supplies start moving out of
storage. These experts report that the
peak in orange prices has probably
been reached. and that prices will
start moving down as soon as supplies
from Florida and California grow.
The housewife can expect the prices
Of poultry and turkeys to remain at
their high peak. and during the holi-
days prices for these foods will be above
last years low level. The reason for
this, they state, is that this years tur-
key crop is ne-tenth smaller than the
record production of 1896, and will
compare with the crops of 1882 and
1888. About half the turkey crop is ex-
pected to move to market during No
vember. leaving less than the usual
amount for December and January
shipment. Such are the intangible
factors that affect the high cost of hv-
ing.
RUT If the housewife will be called
upon to pay high prices for tur-
keys this holiday season she may take
CtlCOuI hSCIIlcHt IiiC AdSb eAkoe
cranberries, nuts. fruits and vegetables
will be so abundant that the lowered
cost of these food products will keep
her housekeeping budget balanced.
In fact. every source consulted gave
reason for hope that the household
budget would not be strained to the
extent it has been strained in the past
few months. Whatever reason is given
by buyers, experts, economists or
farmers for the unprecedented recent
prices of foodstuffs, one fact stands out
clearly-the down curve has definitely
started and grocery bills are due for
drop.
Asked for q specific prediction that
would offer promise to Americas
housekeepers, E. D. Montgomery Of
consumers counsel stated: Meats are
coming down. The full effect of this
years corn crop will not be felt until
q year from now, for 1t takes some
time to raise hog for market, or pro-
duce beef. The reduction will be felt
In the better grade of beef, and by
the first part of 1888 we expect prices
to have fallen considerably.
Fruits and vegetables are now very
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700 feet between the termini in the
two buildings in % seconds.
A MOTHER feature of the new build
ing which modern methods have
made possible is the provision OF
shelves f1exibly designed to provide
for every need. Construction has been
performed so that study spaces may
be created in the midst of bookstacks,
so that bookshelves may be heightened
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Of the stacks Is to be separately
ventilated. The conditioned air will
be circulated over the area of an
entire deck and then returned to the
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At top: AirueD shouting the Library Congress
dnner Nth the United States Supreme Court in back
(Star Staf PhotoJ Upper left Architects drdDng
OF the Library Upper right Architects dra,Ung
OF the reading OF the Library Amer photos Harris
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enclosure, and by the same means any
deck can be segregated.
The whole interior of the building
will be air conditioned, and each deck
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BY Lucy Salamanca.

w YHEN the prices of beef and
AN/ other meats skyrocketed to
Y point in excess OF prices
yIyor1J Ma.
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| KILLED, | SHOT
FOR TRADITION

ELIZABETH, N. j., Nov. 81.
One man was dead today and an
other critically wounded as the
result of an attempt to enforce
the Italian tradition of rigid OBJ
servance of parental wishes.
Antonio Music, whose .17-year-
old daughter had been keeping
company with George Vaccaro, 20,
is the dead man. Vaccaro lies
gravely wounded in the Alexian
Brothers Hospital.
Music followed his daughter,
Rose, when she went on an Grand.
He suspected a secret meeting
with Vaccaro, with wnom he had
forbidden his daughter to associ'
ate.
The pair met not far from the
Music home. The father fired,
Wounding Vaccaro, and then sent
a bullet into his own brain.
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Races Stork
Wins, Judge
Says o. X.

MILWAUKEE,, Mis-, Nov. 81.
Arrested for driving 48 miles an
hour, Henry Lillge, 26, explained
in district court that his hurry
was occasioned by the fact he was
about to become a father.
Mr.. Lillge declared:
my wife decided the stork
was about to pay us a visit so
she sent me to get her mother
at Hartford.
1.-THE baby was born at 3 a. m.
today"
Judge George E. Page congratu-
lated Lillge and suspended SEN
tence.
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DOUBLE KILLING
LAID TO DOCTOR

HOPKINSVILLE, KY, Nov. 81
Q.N.SO. - Accused of killing his
father-in-law ana motner-ln-law,
and refusing to treat the latter as
she lay dying, DR.. H. E. Martin, 81,
was held under $4,000 bond to-
day.
A double murder charge was
placed against the physician, de-
spite his position as a respected
citizen, when investigators de-
clared their probe of the murders
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Grant Nc
Nichols, prosperous farm couple,
led to the doctors door.
Frances Griffey, the doctors 20
year-old secretary, testified at an
examining trial yesterday that
when Mrs. McNichols, mortally
wounded, was brought to DR.. Mar
tins home, he told the neighbors
who were carrying her:
Don't bring that woman in
here or I'll kill you"
Miss Griffey also testified that,
shortly before the shooting, she
found DR.. Martin practicing mark.
manship with a 22-caliber rifle in
side his home, using three of his
wife's hats as targets.
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Capt. W. n. Joyce
Dies in 8Oth Year

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-Capt.
Walter N. Joyce. national patriotic
instructor of the Veterans of For
eign Wars, died Thursday in the
United States Veterans Hospital
here. He was 80 years old.
Formerly commander-in-chief of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, he
served for several years as chair
man of its Americanization COM
mittee. He was largely reSpon-
sible for collecting 80 miles of
names" which we're presented TO
Congress in 1880 to make the
Star-Spangled Banner the national
anthem.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-27
Hitler Is Praised
For War Bravery

NEW YORK, Nov. 81 Q.N.SD.
Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, Adolf
Hitler's wartime commander, says
Der Feuhrer was a brave soldier
during the World War, adding:
He was on of the bravest and
able soldiers I ever saw. He was a
dispatch bearer for me and &C.
quilted himself very we'll"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-27
Walker Elected
Home Loan Aide

William H. Walker of the First
Federal Savings and Loan Associa-
ton of Miami, has been elected
a director of the Federal Home
Loan Bank of Winston-Salem, be-
ginning January /, Preston Del
ano, governor of the Federal Home
Loan Bank System, announced to-
day.
j. Newton Gordon, Cooperative
Building and Loan Association,
Lynchburg, was reelected for q
two-year term. Election of both
men was by mail ballot of the
banks member institutions, tabu-
lation of which was conducted
here.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-27

A beautiful former Chevy Chase
matron, whose disappearance at
tracted attention several weeks
ago, has been served with notice
Of her husbands divorce suit in
Miami, Fla.
Mrs. Marguerite Murphy Reeves,
wife of P. w. Reeves, formerly aid
to High Commissioner Paul V.
McNutt, in the Philippines, is be-
ing sued in the United States Dis
trict Court for the District of Col
umbia.
ACCUSED OF DISCRETION
Edward A. King, 40, correspond
ent in the suit, Russian English
resident of Baltimore, is being held
by Miami police pending extradi-
ton proceedings instituted by
Maryland authority on charges Of
nonsupport and desertion filed by
his wife, Mrs. Viola King,
Mrs. Reeves created quite a
furore in Washington when she
disappeared from her home early
in October. Her husband, fearing
foul play, sought the aid of Wash
ington police.
She was located three weeks
FOUND IN EVANSVILLE
later in Hyattsville, Md. Then
Reeves filed suit for divorce.
Through his attorney, Alvin L.
Newmyer, he stated he had been
married in Rockville, Nd, Septem-
Der %, 1882, and said his wife de-
srtd him last May.
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1886 Olympic gymnast.
The city executive awaited a
report from detectives who have
been checking affidavitS made by
two men who allegedly witnessed
an incident which would link the
women on a morals offense.
CHILDREN QUESTIONED
Other detectives continued their
questioning of child wards of the
city who spent time at Camp
Happy where both the 19-year-old
college girl and Mrs. Phillips
served as counselors.
William A. Gray, counsel for
Miss O'Connor, has been retained
by Mrs. Phillips to defend her
against charges growing out of the
Labor Day Staying. The former
Olympic participant is under $500
bail as material witness.
ATTORNEY CONFIDENT
Gray not only boosted that Mary
cannot be convicted on the word
of IAN ex-convict and couple of
kids" but predicted she will be
freed on bail when she receives a
hearing before Mayor Wilson
Monday on her unsigned state
ment that she killed Nancy Glenn.
The attorney added:
II have talked to Mrs. Phil
lips and am satisfied there is
not the smallest iota of truth in
the charges against her. They
had no legal right to hold her
as material witness"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-27
Boasts
Greater Surplus

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Nov. 27.-The
fiscal year ending September 80
left Maryland with treasury sur.
plus of $2.59S, 1865, the State
comptroller reported today. This
was an increase of nearly one and
a half million dollars over the sur.
plus existing October l, 1896.
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Free Trip Won
By Miss Ledman

Miss Anna Mae Ledman, 16, of
1855 Thirty-fourth st. N. W., yes
terday was declared winner of the
popularity contest conducted by
Opportunity House. 915 New Jer-
sey Ave. N. w. She will receive a
three-day all-expense trip to New
York.
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traffic death of the year.
Delano Bell, S, colored, 1899
Fourth st. N. W., died in Freed
mems Hospital. Terrell Little, 10,
of 265 Hillside Pl. N. E., was held
by police as the driver of the car
for an inquest which Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald set tenta-
lively for Monday.
FRACTURES LEG
Seven-year-old Lois Limeburg,
705 Sixth st. N. W., was hurt
when hit by an automobile in the
400 block of Fourth st. N. w. She
was said to have a fractured leg
and decorations of the head, &C
cording to Emergency Hospital
physicians.
Paul E. Barnes, 6, colored, HOB
Terrapin Lane N. W., and Julia
Mcdonald, z, colored, 1873 Pierce
st. N. w., were hit by an automo-
bile driven by Robert F. Cox, 213
E st. N. E., in the HOO block of
First st. N. w.
The Barnes child sustained a
fractured right leg and was taken
to Gallinger Hospital, after pre-
liminary treatment at Sibley Me
mortal Hospital. The Mcdonald
child was not injured. Cox was
not held.
AGED WOMAN HURT
Mrs. Mary Rogers, 70, was in
a serious condition at her home,
1908 Garfield st. N. w., after she
was hit by an automobile at Wis
consin Ave. and Woodley Pl. N.
w. She was said to have broken
nose and head decorations.
Police held Charles w. Pearce,
jr., of the 21OO block of Wyoming
Ave. N. W., said to be the driver
of the car that hit frs. Rogers,
on a charge of reckless driving.
Acting Police Sergeant Bryan
r. White, of the Fifth Precinct,
was back on duty today after in
juries received when his clothing
tangled in the bumper of an au-
tomobile. Sergeant White was
directing traffic at Fifth and L
SITS. S. E., when the accident &C.
CURED. The machine sped away,
without identity of the driver
being learned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-27
Atlantic Searched
For Overdue Ship

BOSTON, Nov. 81 Q.N.SO.
Unreported for nearly month,
the four-masted schooner Helen
Barnet Gring, out Of Eastport,
Me-, with Nova Scotian lumber for
Liverpool, today was the object
of a search in the North Atlantic.
The schooner, manned by a crew
Of eight and skippered by Capt.
william F. Plummer, Bath, Me-,
sailed As days ago. She was last
reported in Mid-Atlantic.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-27
New York Prison
Laxity AssaiIed

ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. 27 Q.N.S0.
The State commission of correc-
ton charged today in an official
report that laxity had existed at
the Onondaga county IN. "
prison, from which the three
O'Connell kidnapers recently es-
capped.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-27
Mother Killed
By ChiId's Toys

NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (C.T.P.sJ.
Her baby's playing blocks scat
tered on the floor by a window
caused Mrs. Helen Feldstein, 81,
to lose her balance and fall from
the window of her third-floor
lower Manhattan apartment to
her death yesterday while attempt.
ing to repair a broken clothes
line.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-27
Mountain Winter
To Be Discussed

Experiences during a winter
atop Mt. Washington will be dis
cussed by Robert S. Monahan, U.
S. Forest Service, at $50 p. m.
tomorrow at All Souls Church,
Unitarian. A program of Mas
senet music will begin at S p. m.
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REPORT 5 SOVIET
DIPLOMATS SHOT
in new PURGE
North Europe Victims
Said to Be Victims

PARIS, Nov. 81 QN.S).-A re-
port, originating in Stockholm,
that five Soviet diplomats have
been shot in the current Soviet
purge of the U. S. S. r. diplomatic
corps was published today by the
Paris newspaper LIE Matin.
The LIE Matin dispatch stated
that, according to a special edi-
ton of the Stockholm paper Nya
Daylight Allehanda, the Soviet en-
voys were executed in Moscow.
Victims of the latest reported
Russian cleansing" were named
as: Y. H. Davtian, Soviet anlbas-
sador to Poland; E. A. Asnus,
former minister to Finland; s. I.
Brodowski, minister to Latvia:
Victor Povolski, minister to Lithu-
ania, and M. Sjiskov, former mill
tary attache at London.
MOSCOW, Nov. q Q.N.S0.
Rumors originating in Stockholm
Of execution of five Soviet diplo-
mats went without confirmation
TODAY.
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BRITAIN YIELDS.
TO GERMANY. ON.
COLONY. CLAIMS
Concession to NaziS
Hinges on Terms"
BY KINGSBURY SMITH
Copyright, 1887. by International
News service.)

LONDON, Nov. 27.-Great Brit
ian, it was learned today. is pre-
pared to consider the return TO
Germany of some of her lost col.
onies-but at price and on Ger.
tain conditions.
The price is Germany's return
to rehashed League of Nations
and her participation in Western
European peace settlement.
LEAGUE MANDATE
The conditions are that she ad.
minister the restored colonies
under a League of Nations man.
date and guarantee the political
freedom and interests of the in
habitants in the restored colonies.
French Premier Chautemps,
when he meets Prime Minister
Chamberlain next week, will in
form the latter that France is now
prepared to join Britain in grant
ing colonial concessions to Ger
many as part of European peace
settlement.
But, it was stated reliably, Chau-
temps will refuse to agree to CIV
ing Chancellor Hitler a free
hand" in Austria.
COLONIES NAMED
The colonies which the British
Government is willing to consider
returning to Germany under a
league mandate and as part of
general settlement are Togoland
and the Cameroons, on the West
ern coast of Africa.
These are two of the least i'm
portant of the colonies taken from
Germany at the end of the World
War. Great Britain and france
respectively now share League
mandates over both of them.
In addition, Great Britain is
prepared to grant Germany eco
nomic advantages, such as access
to raw materials, in the other for
mer German colonies, especially
Southwest Africa and Tanganyika.
However, the British Govern
ment is definitely opposed to the
complete return of Southwest At
RIGA and Tanganyika, or the for
mer German possessions in the Pa
cific now controlled by Australia
and New Zealand.
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SPECIAL SERVICES

DR.. w. E. Darlington, professor
in the school of religion at How
ard University, will speak at spe-
cial services at Metropolitan Wes-
ley A. M. E. Zion Church tomor-
row at $3.50 p. m. The program
has been designated Livingstone
College Day."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-27
Morals Quiz Waited
In O'COnnOr Case

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. q CIN.S.).-Mayor Wilson today
temporarily abandoned his plan to issue warrents for
Mary keenan, O'Connor accused "tomboy" slayer of little
Nancy Glenn for her intimate friend Mrs K Phillips
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Child's Death Puts
D. G.. Traffic Toll
At "a; Five Hurt
Three Other Children Are Victims In Auto
Mish1ps Around City

Three small children struck by automobiles in Wash
ngton yesterday and child died the result of
being struck Wednesday, making the Districts ninety