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Evening star., 1939-03-11
Advisory Council
Opposes Abolition oi
Traffic Department
Appropriation Held
utterly Inadequate
For 1910 Fiscal Year

The Traffic Advisory Council, at a
meeting last night in the District
Building, unanimously approved the
report of its Executive Committee
which opposed the Griffenhagen re-
organization plan in as far as it af-
fects the Department of Vehicles
and Traffic. The council also held
that the appropriation for the de-
partment for the 1910 fiscal year, as
reduced by the Bureau of the
Budget, utterly Inadequate" No.
tice of the councils action will be
forwarded the Commissioners.
The committees recommends
tions, in part, follow:
Il. That the Commissioners be
advised the Traffic Advisory Council
considers the proposed abolition of
the Department of Vehicles and
Traffic and the distribution of its
functions among the various other
departments Of the District govern
ment unwise and productive of an
unavoidable situation.
Sees Reversal of Trend.
ut is believed that the proposed
concentration of both planning and
enforcement in the traffic division
of the Department of Police is con-
trary to the trend of action in the
cities and States of the country. Our
information indicates, in fact, that
it is considered the best practice to
have the planning and enforcement
authorities separate and co-ordi-
nate.
In considering this question 1t
should be borne in mind that the
director of vehicles and traffic has
many of the functions of a State
as we'll as a municipal officer.
1T is recommended that in any
reorganization the Department OF
Vehicles and Traffic should be in
cluded as one of the administrative
departments coordinate with the
Department of Police.
90. That the Traffic Advisory
Council advise the Commissioners
that the appropriation for the De-
partment of Vehicles and Traffic for
the fiscal year 1910 as reduced by the
Bureau of the Budget is utterly in
adequate to carry out the functions
and duties Of the department, and
recommends that every effort be
made to restore to that budget the
amounts and items originally ap-
proved by the Commissioners.
Want to See Committee.
SO. The committee further recon-
mends that the council express 10
the Commissioners their desire to
confer with the Appropriations Com
mittee of Congress provided the
Commissioners have no objection
The council also approved COM
mittee report favoring a continuous
educational safety campaign to be
carried on through the newspapers
radio, theaters, transportation serv-
ices and schools. Fifteen thousand
dollars will be asked of Congress tt
carry on this campaign. according tt
the councils resolution.
The establishment of safety isles
on wide streets to aid pedestrians
also was proposed.
Arthur j. Sundlun, acting chair.
man, presided.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Woman Jurors Faint
At Numbers Choroe
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMDEN, N. j.. March 11.-Four
women jurors tainted yesterday when
accused of placing nickel numbers"
bets in jury room.
Frank Harding, 56, colored juror,
had pointed them out as his Gus
toners for lottery slips In the Cam
den City Hall jury assembly parlors
Wednesday.
Seven others of % women Jurors
required smelling salts although not
accused. All denied guilt.
Harding has been held on open
charges since his arrest for cir
culating the bets. A judge is in
vestigating the Jurors conduct.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Rush Dance

Henry A. Schweinhaut, chief of
the Civil Liberties Division, Depart
ment of Justice; Representative Sc
crest of Ohio and Prof. j. Harry
WEIGH of the Washington College
OF Law faculty will be guests of
honor tonight at a rush" dance to
be held at the college by Alpha Rho
Chapter, Sigma Delta Kappa Ma
tional Legal Fraternity.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
FerrulI to Give Talk
At Hearing Aid Exhibit

Modern feminine headgear is
more cumbersome than modern de-
vices to aid the hard of hearing
John A. Ferrall of the Agriculture
Department will contened tonight
during a chalk talk arranged as a
feature of the exhibition of old and
new hearing aids at the Washing
ton Society for the Hard of Hear
ing, 1116 Vermont avenue NV.
Bridge, Chinese checkers and re-
freshments are to follow the talk
No admission is to be made, but
visitors are requested to wear an
example of odd headgear.
The exhibits, brought together by
the society in cooperation with the
Army Medical Museum and the
Volta Bureau, will be open to the
public until 10 pm.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Music Appreciation Plan
Spreads Through School
Booth Schedule

The special Music Apprecia-
ton Campaign booth in the
lobby of The Star Building is
open from 8 am. to 6 pm. each
weekday fox distribution of the
sets of recordings of Schubert's
unfinished Symphony" and
the electric record players. The
booth will be closed Sundays.
Evening star., 1939-03-11

The Gotha Almanach the official the world
nobility used to be impartial publication abiding bv
the rules of the is published Germany but hereto
fore its editors did not permit politics the
character OF the almanach The 1899 edition. been
puosned recently shows that Herr Goebbes had something
~
The Hapburg family something like 30
pages III the editions
the heir to the Austrian throne Aduke 1899 edition
contains one Lne refers the
Evening star., 1939-03-11

t n e U n ! t e d
S t a t es must
somehow be add
Ing m a t e rally
to our popula-
ton.
Just the re-
verse happens
to be true, as
has been learned
by inquiry this
week among Of
fetal sources.
For the fact
Is that in the
last eight years
the Uni t e d
States has lost
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Governors Meet in June

ALBANY, N. Y. March II (P-
The Conference of Governors will
hold its 1889 meeting in Albany and
New York City "the last week in
June" Gov. Lehman said last night.
Gov. Lehman said the chief execu.
tives would meet here for two days,
land two or three days in New York
City, where the World Fair will be
in operation"
Evening star., 1939-03-11

portunity Of hearing the great musi-
cal classics, either in the school,
room or at home. I don't see how
any parent can afford to pass up
such an opportunity as The Star is
making possible. Fine music should
be imbedded in the minds of stu
dents"
Evening star., 1939-03-11

Roosevelt favors,
at least agrees
to, the need of
slashing Federal
expenditures "if
it can be done" ;"
There is a catch
in the la S t
phrase. Perhaps
the Pre- sident
does not believe
that ut can be
DONE"
N o OOn e r,
however, d oe S
S e n a tor Pat
Harrison of Mis-
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Policy Group Meets
To Study Soft Coal
Pact Demands
United Mine Workers
And Operators Study
Mechonizotion
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March 1.-two
committees today tackled final pre-.
liminaries to the contract-writine
conference of operators and labor
of the soft coall industry.
The policy-making group of the
United Mine Workers of America
met with the expectation it would
approve demands to be presented
to operators of the eight-State Ap.
palachian area Tuesday.
The Mechanical Mining Commits
sion, joint body of operators and
miners, also met, to prepare its re-
port for the joint conference. Fol-
two years it has been studing the
problems arising from mechaniza
ton of soft coal production and its
displacement of human labor.
Wage Plans Not Disclosed.
The operators 16 representatives
agreed upon policies in one day
session yesterday, but neither they
nor the miners have disclosed their
attitude towards the all-important
question of what wages will be paid
the 350,000 miners in the Appalach-
ian area during the life of the new
contract. The present agreement
expires March 81.
The session of the unions Policy
Committee, representing the United
States and Nova Scotia and British
Columbia, was contingent upon the
Subcommittee of national officers and
district presidents completing its
draft of union policies. he task was
delegated to the smaller committee
Thursday.
The report Of the joint commits
Evening star., 1939-03-11

in 1914 represented small
fraction of Britain's man power,
there were something like 100
900 trained men ready to go
across the Channel as quickly as
they could be equipped. They
were good soldiers. Today Britain
has only 100000 competent
soldiers. Men were war weary
after the last holocaust and did
not join the territorials as they
had done before 1914,
Evening star., 1939-03-11

necessaray The stars Such opinions are presented IN The
Stars effort to gve all sides OF questions OF interest
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly OPPOSED to The Stars
Evening star., 1939-03-11

manipulation. relaxation of the
rules against trading by in
siders-these are two of the
things the exchanges want. And
these are precisely the policies
which the S. e. c. regards as
the very heart and soul of effec-
tive regulation. Repeal or modi-
fication, the S. E. C.. will prob
ably say, means return to 1929.
No repeal or modification, the
Evening star., 1939-03-11
u. S. Deputy Named

United States Marshal John B.
AColpoys has appointed George c.
Taylor as a new deputy marshal
Mr.. Taylor was sworn in yesterday
At District Court.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
The Capital Parade
Stock Market Appeosement Talks Scheduled;
SimpIified Registration Statements Proposed

JOSEPH ALSOP ROBERT KINTNER,
An exquisiey embarrassing incident begin
ming OF next week Business the
stock exchanges will right down
New Deals doorstep has been
d And the New Deal In the of the Exchange
commissioners will probably pretend that the
neighbors cat, pursuing his in the alley
Though embarrassing incident be remarkably
significant test OF the
spoken to business Secretary
Evening star., 1939-03-11
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Economy-now you see it, now
you don't. The report comes from
economy advocates in Congress who
talk with the President that Mr..
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Alien Entry
Exceeded by
Outflow
U. S. Has Chance to
Acquire Cream Of
European Skill
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Most people have been taking 1t
for granted that, even under our
restricted immigration laws, the
number of persons legally entering
Evening star., 1939-03-11
This Changing World
chomberoin Is courting Failure in Move
For World Limitation Of Arms PorIey
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

By CONSTANTINE BROWN
Chamberan trial balloon for international limitation
arms with special regard air disarmament III
ability going to have the fate the previous
world ornaments.
Limitation Of possible years ago
with definite territorial
world at least the impression strength
too late II the British and the French willing
with all
Evening star., 1939-03-11

obtain a limitation Of arma-
ments on the present basis. That
Is to say, leaving a tremendous
military advantage to the totali-
tartan states.
\ 4
It Is improbable that the
United States Government will
pay serious attention to Cham
berlain's proposal. The State De-
partment is always willing to
entertain disarmament ideas-it,
Evening star., 1939-03-11

seraphic Undersecretary of the
Treasury, John w. Hanes, and
many others. Now business waits
to see whether the fair words
will be followed by pleasing deeds.
The background of the forth
coming incident seems to indi-
cate that such an outcome is un-
likely, to say the least.
X X X X
The question at issue be-
tween the exchanges and the
Evening star., 1939-03-11

IS Federal regulation markets THE beef wide
spread that the hot breath of Federal dried the
markets to mere deserts About
and anxious Commissioners initiated
careful study of - -
Elaborate preliminary data collected Then not long
ago. s. E. c. Chairman William assigned the commits
sons assistant general counsel H.
data into usabe form. OBrien ready with set Of
amendments to the Securities Public
Utilities Holding Company Act-the commissions
The most important reform basic regis
aton statement will serve both
when corporation floats
Other technical problems the amend
nents will be gratifying securities traders
But they won't be gratifying ago
study OF the Cs work begun independently
the Nations stock of
Exchange Recently exchange got data ready
for action And Monday O Bros,
businessman popular with the New
into Washington discuss their final
UnhapNN there indication what exchange
representatives will ask different E.
ready to give "Clarifcaon" of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11
Stock Averages
80 Is IS 90
1ndust. Rails. Util. Six.
BY VICTOR ECBANK,
ASsocia ted Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Soaring
steels led another war-boom stock
market today in which gains ran to
II points or SO for favorites and
numerous new highs for 1889 or
longer were recorded.
With word from England that
long-draWn conflict was likely,
traders saw visions of huge foreign
demand for all sorts of American
goods raising the net of many cor
porations to proportions not enjoyed
in years.
In addition, the proposal for a
special session of Congress to amend
the Neutrality Law to permit cash
and-carry" business with belliger-
ents revived the speculative appetite
for stocks of companies that stand
to derive exceptional benefits from
the sale of war materials The re-
suit was rush for selected issues
at the start.
Brokerage offices were crowded
with customers eager to climb on
the bandWagon, and orders from all
over the country swamped perspir-
ing clerks who. only few weeks ago,
contemplated the loss of jobs be-
cause of dWindling commission
house activities.
In the first hour the ticker tape
was as much as minutes behind
throughout. There we're intermit-
tent SloW-doWns, but the recording
machinery again was in arrears in
the final hour. There was some
csshing-in at the last and closing
quotations were somewhat under
the tops.
Transfers for the five hours ap-
proXimated 100000 shares, one of
the largest turnovers in about two
years.
Bethlehem Steel, chief of the
days war babies" spurted to
around par for the first time since
1887. This stock opened on block
of 5000 shares at SO, up A. 1t con-
tinued to stretch its advance until
the approach of the closing gong.
Dealings in International Mercan-
tile Marine. another recent bride"
of war tinge, were suspended for q
brief period in the afternoon when
buy and sell orders got tangled up.
Dealings eventually were arranged
and the stock was a little better
than even at the finish.
Steels had the benefit of the Of
fetal estimate that this weeks mill
operations would be up 11.6 points
at 70.2 per cent of capacity, a peak
since September 81, 1887. Bright
ening the picture was the report
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad had Or
dered more than 300 men back to
/ work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11
Capital Store Sales
8.6Per Cent Above
1888 in August
Eiqht-Month Volume
Registers Increase
OF as Per Cent
By EDWARD C. STONE.

Department store sales in Wash
ington in August scored a sharp
advance over August, 1888, showing
an increase of Sc per cent, far better
than the July gain of l per cent
and we'll ahead of the 38 per cent
gain last year over August, 1887,
This advance placed retail sales in
Capital stores as per cent ahead in
the first eight months of this year
of the like period year ago, the
rise comparing with drop of 26
per cent last year in comparison with
the previous year.
The Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond reported today that sales
in the whole fifth district in August
in 81 department stores were per
cent better than last year and per
cent higher in the first eight months
than in the corresponding months
last year. The fifth district record
was not quite up to the national
record which showed a per cent
August gain and per cent eight
month pickup in 500 stores.
Washington was slightly behind
Charleston, S. c., and Huntington,
w. Va, which had 10 per cent gains
in August, but the Capital was ahead
of the other cities in the fifth dis
trict.
Comparisons With Other Cities.
Percentage comparisons for August
and the eight months of 1889 with
the similar periods in other fifth dis
trict cities are as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11
Winnipeg Prices
WINNIPEG PrlteS.
Grain range at principal markets to-
New York SUGAR

NEW YORK. Sect II lP.-Domestic
sugar futures were steady today in a mar
row market. Late afternoon prices were
2 lower on the September position and 3
at 215. up T.
World futures were . to 31a points lower
in late afternoon responding to Cuban
selling, hedging and some profit taking.
December sold at 2.3Oh,. off 90.
The raw market was uuiet with refiners
reluctant TO hwy because of the unsettled
outlook for futures. Refined continued to
meet heavy demand from wholesalers and
jobbers and distribution facilities were
taxed. Eastern ref1ners- still in the mar
ket continued to quote 575.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11
Chicago Grain
Sv the Associated Press

by Inc ASSOCIATED PreSS.
CHICAGO, Sept. 11.-Wheat prices
pushed upward more than 2 cents
a bushel at times today in a re-
newal of speculative buying similar
to that which caused last weeks
war boom.
Trading was on a smaller scale,
however, and persistent hedging and
profit taking was in evidence, which
tended to hold the upturn in check.
Milling interests were on the buy
ing side and there were reports
that flour business continued in ex-
cess of milling capacity. Shippers
sold more than 100000 bushels here.
Although reacting just before the
final bell, wheat closed 11s-l5s cents
higher than Saturday, September,
1875; December. 1915 "a. Corn, IL
Ii up; September. SIX Is; Decem-
Der, 5658-l2. CAST, sis higher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11
Aug. 8 mo. Sto. Cit.

The boards index number stood
at SO for August compared with 80
a year ago and IS in July, this year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11
Reichsbunk Statement

BERLIN Sept. II LP,.-The Reichs-
bank statement as of August FL lin thou
sands of Reichsmarks): Notes in circu-
lation. 1O.969. 900: increase. So Gold,
1918: decrease, $50; Other bills Of ex-
321 900. Reserve ratio. o70 per cent.
Rate OF discount. Der cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11
New Accounting Field Seen

Inc BOARD S INDEX number stood
at SO for August compared with 80
a year ago and Sc in July, this year.
New Accounting Field Seen.
Boris Baievsky, a Washington
certified public accountant. is au-
thor of an article on Housing and
Accounting Systems appearing in
the current Journal of Accountancy
in which he sees an active new field
for accountants in connection with
the management of vast housing
projects. He says the trend is in
changing from individual house
ownership to the renting of houses.
Many builders are now operating
and maintaining the housing units
which they construct, and doing so
at a profit.
The author says the facts indi-
cate new investment field for
arge-scale housing enterprises, call
ing for a high degree of managerial
control methods Here is where &C
counting comes to the front, the aim
being to show at all times the status
of administration, operation, main
tenance and finance. He says &C
countants must apply their systems
to large projects, which have mu-
nicipal administrations, as well as to
units operated on smaller scale.
Banking Courses Announced.
During the past few days a good
deal of pressure has been exerted
on Junior bankers in the city to get
them to take banking studies in the
institute. Chairman Edward M.
Blackjack of the Educational Com
mittee announced yesterday that
the following courses will be offered
In the first semester:
Banking INSTRUCTORS, Eliot H.
Thomson, Washington Loan & Trust
Co., and William T. Vandoren, vice
president and cashier, Liberty Ma
tional Bank.
Law Illustrator, Raymond B.
Dickey, dean of faculty
Economics II-Instructor, Norman
E. ToWSOn, assistant treasurer,
Washington Loan & Trust Co.
Banking 1I1-1nstructor, Ralph
Endicott, assistant treasurer, Wash
ington Loan g. Trust Co.
Accounting - Instructor, D. L.
Mitchell, partner, James A. Coun-
cilor & Co.
Heard in Financial District.
Today's boiling stock market
sWamped the local brokerage offices
with customers, the over Sunday
gains in war stocks being astonish-
ing. Wall Street gossip says the
public has plunged into the market
in a way that temporarily rivals
1929.
Receiver Justus S. Wardell of the
Seventh Street Savings Bank will
soon start payment of 5 per cent
dividend, amounting to $4,000 to
2,657 former depositors. The pay
ments will be made at 1914 K street
NV. This will bring payments to
IS per cent of the amount due
claimants.
Potomac Electric Power 5l2 per
cent preferred stock sold at lis on
the Washington Stock Exchange to-
day and Washington Railway &
Electric preferred again moved at
116. The bid for Washington Gas
Light common advanced from 26 to
2612 and the asked priced was push
ed up from 81 to 2712.
Morris Plan Convention Set.
Appointment of Wallace D. Nc
Lean as general chairman for the
Goth annual convention of the Nor
ris Plan Bankers Association, Octo-
Der 8, 10 and II at Rye, N. Y. was
announced here today. He is chair
man of the board of the Morris
Plan Industrial Bank, New York
City. Elwood G. Childers of Wash
ington has been made chairman
of the Auditing Committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11

Chicago Cash Market
Cash wheat, sample grade, red Uoughl,
$50. Corn No. 4 mixed, 57a4 No l
yellow, 5Sl4-5ai4; No ! white. 20 Oats,
No; l gray, 37i2: No. > mixed, 3si4: No 3.
Boa No white, $3.50 thinl. 36i2: No 8,
37-31i2; sample grade, white, 36l.-37.
Barley, mailing, 50-56 nominal; feed, 40:
No. 3, GA Timothy seed. $500 nominal.
Red TOP, S.oO-9,00 nominal. Alsike, - 90
1900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11
All Districts Reveal Gains.

The Federal Reserve Board gov
errors announced that store sales
increased more than the seasonal
amount from July to August, were
per cent above August. last year and
per cent better in the eight
months. Atlanta led the 10 Reserve
districts with a Is per cent gain in
August. Comparisons with last year
follow:
Aug. mo. Sto. Cit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11

Continued on Page Aid
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TONS ON THE NEW YORK STOCK E
By Private Wire Direct to The Star.

the heavy trading, the individual sales
After close market
sales of each stock sent the ticker ana
will be inserted complete in the $40 edition.
Evening star., 1939-01-15
Nazis Joining Jazz Dances
Twice Sinners. Paper Saws

BERLIN Correspondence of the As
sociated Press For German to dance
to modern jazz is a sin, but for a ma
tional Socialist to do so is double sin
in opinion of Die Bewegung, organ Of
the Nazi student union.
The magazine bemoans the foreign
spirit" in private life-particularly in
dancing and other amusement-and
calls on the students for cleansing
in accordance with Nazi Weltanschauung
PHILOSOPHY Of life).
"Jazz flourishes in the finest hotels,
which at same time are symbols of the
German Reich for foreigners. just as
1t does In the bars which open their
doors only after sundown," the article
scolded.
And how they dance when the music
begins and the lights in the ballroom
become several shades dimmer To be
sure, one doesn't see swing as, perhaps,
1t could be learned in dance schools,
but the essentials of this modern in
ternational dance creation begin to
appear.
Whoever, as q German, joins In
such doings sins. Whoever participates
as national Socialist, sins twofold."