Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1923, Page 3

BELOSSTOLLS Building ‘COmmission Ex- plains Needs of Controller General’s Office. In recommending pesmanent build- ings to house the controller gen- eral's office and the bureau of inter- nal revenue the public buildings com- mission emphasized the fact that there is constant danger-of the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to the government through fire hazard in the more than‘a dozen buildings now occupied by these two branches of the Treasury Department. Atten- tion is called to the congestion and impaired efficiency due to this lack of floor space for these governmental agencles. These facts are set forth in a re- quest by the commission that the superintendent of the State, War and Navy Depaitment buildings insert in his estimates an item for commencing the construction of one building each for these iwo sranches of the Treas- ury Department. in Rented Bulldings. In its request the commission set| forth also that the controller gen- eral's office, which includes the gen- cral accounting division, is scattered about the city in rented buildings, «ll of which tends to reauce the ef- Teiency of the nersonnel and to cause h lost molion. The commiss.on be.jeves that the general accounting e should have a building of its/| Wi, explaining that “this office, veaitered as it is, does not have in public_mind an identity of its People are prone to think of d to refer to it as a part of the sury Department, largely, per- haps, because the main oftice still re- mains in the Treasury building. This presents an unfortunate situation, and it will continue to do so as long as the office is obliged to remain as it is. The standing and efficiency of the oflice would be materially en- hanced if these conditions could be overcome by our belng housed in one bullding suitably adapted to the needs of the office in all of its ac- tivities. Helief of Much Space. “It may be said also that if such a building was secured it would re- lieve much space valuable for person- nel and files where centralization of work is not necessary or important, besides relicving the government from the payment of rentals amounting to nore than $75,000 per annum. it was pointed out also that the Treasury annex No. 2, occupied by the bureau of internal revenue, is in a bad state of repair, and it is has only been possible through considerable emer- gency expenditures recently made that the internal revenue bureau has been able to remain in that building over the present winter. The public building program in Washington 1s{ considered by the commission to be one of the most urgent matters to be considered at the next Congress. o aE T PROGRAM WINS APPROVAL. ! “Law—Not War” Demonstrations Commended by Prominent Men. Mcosager commending the pur- pose of the “law—not war’ demon- stratlons organized under its auspices throughout the country for today re made public by the National Council for Prevention of War from Secretary Hu, , former Assoclate Justice of the Supreme Court John H. Clarke, W. J. Bryan and others. e Hughes “wrote that he was interasted in all efforts to promote the peaceful settlement) of internatfonal dispbutes and I ap-1 preciate the earnestness and im- | portance of the purpose you set! forth’ It ‘was announced the council that demonstrations were being held 1odav_and tomo iny SPECIAL NOTICES 0 ASHEVILLE, . Goob T Phose Lincoln. 6000 | { N ED THE . ‘ease and Dush and Angelo Scopelletl, located at 5425 Georgin ave nw. and notice ix hereby given to | creditors “to present claims to Ruckley C. rindley, 935 New York ave. n.w. within tiree daye from July 27, 1923 ' ¥FPRERA. OFFICE PEOPLE DESIRING snd from work in auto driven by a careful ng white man should phone Franklin 7520. aten i 289 WANT! TR- | delphia to | ITH'S TRANSFER & STOR- | TESPUNSITLE TOR ANY by myeel? on aud after July | W. HAMPTON, Bon Air Height; STOC] s of Washington. AGE (0. T Jdebts otler than 1923, THERE A GENTLEMAN ORl LADY IN xhington willing to loan a young busind n £3.000 at for two_vears, Long_clear record. D teferences. Wonld_consider dress_Box 144-R. Star_offl FOR QUICK SERVICE 0: ing, remodeling, screen: 4 Ingraham «t. nw. Col THE GENERAL PUBLIC (8 vised that I am no longer conn rTeal estate corporation of Stone & Fairfax, having sold my stock. T wisth to thaok my griends and clients for their liberal patronage the past thirty-three years. CHARLES W FAIRFAX. 1841 K ERERY AD. ted with the coping, garage floor, NORTHE, 2 €O, N.E. i nu. 500 2 Tin Roofs—Slag Roofs REPAIRED AND PAINTED. Call Main 760. Grafton&Son,Inc., o~ Heating and_Roofing E: BEAUTIFUL FLOORS C._ADAMS, Main 1457 63 F st. nw. 20 Responding to Urgent Requests F sid-nts of Mouat Pleasant, DR. W. W. THOMPSO! CHIROPODIST (Foot Speclalist) Has Reopened His Branch Office at 1416 PARK ROAD - e Phone_Columbia 927, —that fulfils your highest expectations The National Capital Press 12101212 D _et. a. ‘Blggs Puts HEAT tn Heating.” How’s the Heating Plant? Now’s the best time to have us make it ready for fall service. Fair prices. Co. The Biggs Engineering Tel. Frank. 317. Wash. Loan & Tr. bldg. M. 769, 29¢ WABREN W. BIGGS. President. 1830 14t St. N.W. © i about with ts and pans tryh cateh 0 Chelp. send. for aw. to catch the drip won' pmpl'll Our thorough work stops the leak KOONS ROOFING 14225 st. X.w. l and permanently. Call us up. COMPANY Phone Main 933, The Adams’ Impress ~—stands for satisfaction—plus in printing. *High grade. but not high priced.™ _BYRON S. ADAMS, FRINTER, 512 11th 8t Di & ~—Leaky roofs quickly eause ruin to walls and paper, hence they are mot to be neglected. . We make roofs leakproof. IRONCLAD Roofing 1416 I* st. n.w. "Compasy. Phose Majn 14, houses which had been bucketing New {houses which had bucketed stocks Nigate line of expenditures to obtain I selves unable to get new accounts. | were aware that such was the case, | Stock Exchange WONDERS WHETHER. HALF HOUR 1S AL- MOST. UP AND LOOKS AT CLOLK AGAIN STOP! QTALLS TOR TIME BV PRETENDING RE CANT QUITE HEAR WHAT SRE'S SAVING (C) Whezier Syn. In Exchanges Let Bucket Shops Loot Years Before Attacking Vigorous Action Taken Only When Wholesale System Near Collapse From Troubles Within. 1 BY R. K. TREVOR. (Copyright, 1923, by New York Commercial) Toward the close of 1921 and early in 1922 the bucket shops saw them- | selves facing a desperate situation. | Especially was this true with regar to those bucket shops which had been soliciting business almost wholly in stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange. There were a few houses which were confining themselves mainly to curb securities, and some which were soliciting nothing but buying orders on curb issues. The latter houses had obtained a whiphand in the curb market and some of them. as will be shown later, were able to weather the terrific runs on the bucket shops which developed carly in 1922. Some of the curb bucket shops were able to keep going for a year longer. The main point in their favor, as compared with York Stock Exchange securities on a large scale, was the fact that they virtually controlled the market in varlous curb stocks and most of their soliciging of buying orders had been for these sccurities. Inasmuch ns they controlled the markets in the issues on which had been placed the largest buying orders received by them. these houses were not in fear of any such big advances against them in prices for stocks as were the | listed on the New York Stock Ex- change. It was only a prolonged run which was apt to smash some of the big curb bucket shops, and incidentally it was that sort of prolonged run which eventually proved the undoing of those houses. Perilous Position. Attentlon was drawn in the preced- ing article of this series to the fact that the houses which specialized in the bucketing of stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange had bucketed large buying orders for those stocks in a perlod of depressed market prices. Attention was also drawn to the manner in which these houses had engaged on such a prof- | new customers, and had otherwise | thrown away their funds so reck- lessly that they had comparatively little reserve with which to pay off customers should a run on their houses develop. Naturally, the higher prices might go the fewer the num- ber of people who could be pald off. Some of those houses had in fact been #o very reckless with the money sent in to them for the purchase of se- curities that their overhead alone was sufficient to put them into bankruptey | even without a run being made on them—once they should find them- Collapse Foreseen. Many people who had been watch- ing the bucket-shop situation closely | and belleved that a wholesale col. lapse of bucket shops was nearing. These observers had all the more' | reagon to belleve such was the case curb houses had very slim bank rolls, because of the faet that there had| been the sort of stock market which ! means so much peril to a bucket shop —the market that goes upward very | steadily over a prolonged period of ! time without the public being at. tracted to any large extent, however, to the buying side on the vance. That sort of market means that| houses which have bucketed large ! buying orders at low marks will find | themselves, because of the lack of | new buying orders entering the mar- ket on the advance, unable to pay off old customers who want to take down their profits by handing out to those customers the money coming in from new customers who enter new buying orders. Crash Was Apparent. It can easily be surmised that such astute students of market conditions as the governors of the New York should have per- ceived that a crash was impending. Oddly enough, however, the New York Stock Exchange did not out- wardly make any big move until that LOOKS AT CLOCK “PEERS TO SEE WHETHER 1T COULD * POSSIBLY HAVE TEELS HE'S WORKED THAT AS LONG AS IT'S SAFPE AND RESUMES PRACTICING WONDERS WHV PA HAVE THE CRA2Y N THAT ALL LITTLE B OUGHT TO PLAY THE GROANS AT CLOCK REGAIN HE'S SURE TIME PED ALMOST UP LOOKS AT CLOC HALF 7O GO IDES NOT TO LOCK FIND THERE'S ONLY AMINUTE AND A METHODIST UNION Pt PLANS DISCLOSED Outline Provides One Big "Church With Two Separate Jurisdictions. RENTS COUNTS UP TO SEE Hi OTION SOON HE'LL BE 21 ovsS AND CAN REFUSE TO. PIANO TOUCH A PIANO i 4 \ By tho Assoclited Press. CLEVELAND, July 28.—Detalls of ithe plan for merging the separate gen- eral conferences of the Methodist Episcipal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South adopted by the joint commission on. unification conference here this week, were learned last night. The report of the commission of six- teen, which was approved by the joint commission, holds that these two churches are essentially one church-in origin, bellef, spirit, purpose and in policy, and, desiring that this essential unity may be made actual In organiza- tion” and administration throughout the world, proposes a plan of unifics tion and recommends its adoption by the two churches. Article 1 fs a declaration of unfon, as, follows: “The Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South shall be united in one church with two jurisdictions under a constl- tution with a general conference and two_jurfsdictional conference: Name Left to Conference. Article 2 provides that the name of the Church ‘shall be referred to the first general conference of the united church. Article 3 says that jurisdiction No. 1 | shall comprise ull the churches, an- nual conferency and missions now constituting Methodist Episcopal Church and any other such conferences and missions as may hereafter be organized by its Jurisdictional conference, with the ap- HEARS MOTHER CALL HE PLAYED THAT WRONG AND TO DO IT OVER, ML 5 K AND THE CLOCK BE- NS TO STRIKE CLoYAs WiLLIATg of Robbing Was reached that point in its operations which gave such plain indications to the wiseacres of the street that & bucket-shop crash was close at hand. The street suddenly heard of investi- gatlons by the New York Stock Ej change on activities of some of the heuses which, according to the street rumor, had long been classed as hucket shops, and following the re- ports of these investigations came announcements that the tickers of these concerns had been ordered re- moved. 1 | The Runs Begin. Those announcements were suffi- cient to start runs on the houses in question. At about the same time various publications enlightened the public on conditions then prevailing | with regard to bucketing, and the run 1 on the bucket shops by scared cus- | nIght, {Bell. tomers grew rapidly. Some ~customers went into the | bucket shops, put up enough mone. to pay outright for stocks which they had been carrying on margin and then demanded delivery of their | stocks. Others, who had margin ac- | counts, sold thelr holdings and called | for the money due them. | In either way the bucket shops | were hit. Paylng out money to the people who closed out accounts made working capital” of the bucketeers. | ‘working capital” of the bucketeers. In the case of people who called for delivery of their stocks. the bucket £hop mien found it necessary, because of not carrying those stocks. to go | {into the open market and buy them.! com One after anotheT the bucket shop: fell. Frantic efforts were made by some of the bucket shop men to last through the run, but the persistency with which the light of publicity was thrown on the situation frustrated thelr efforts. The foundation for a vigorous newspaper crusade had been laid by | some financial magazines, particularly in the work done for one of those publications by a former newspaper man, and was utilized by the dally newspapers. The financlal writer of one evening newspaper directed his attack in a manner which proved probably one of the most effective weapons azainst the bucketeers, the constant tenor of his admonitions to his readers being about like this: “Demand your stock. Don't be bluffed. Pay no attention to any ex- cuses or any suave talk. Get the stock. Curb Houses Hit. These warnings served not onl augment the run on those hou. which had been speclalizing in_the bucketing of orders on New York Stock Exchange securities, but also { caused a big run on houses which had jconfined their soliciting of business {mainly to curb securities and were suspected of being engaged in the bucketing of orders on such stocks. The runs on some houses of the lat- ter group made enormous inroads into the funds of those institutions. Inasmuch as curb securities had not scored very large advances in favor of the customers, but were instead in most cases selling below the figures t which cystomers had placed orders or them, several of these houses were able to hold out during that run. After the run had subsided these tuI 1 compared with what they had some weeks before. Nevertheless, the ldea eemed general ‘among them _that ‘with the .storm over” public favor for curb stocks would return. Con- sequently, these few houses thought they saw’ a huge business ahead for themselves, especially as there was now removed the menace of competi- tion from bucket shops of various sorts which had gone down. in the crash. Public Stays Away. However, a whole year passed and the public still falled to enter the curb market to any encouraging ex- tent. Meanwhile the curb bucket shops were groaning under the bur- den of heavy. overhead. Also some old customers, - belated in becoming scared, were continually drifting into the curb bucket shops to draw out thelr equity or pay outright for stocks which they had been carrying on margin and to call for delivery of the shares. As a result the funds of the curb bucket_shops were reacliing such low marks that some of these time against the ring of houses which for more than two years had been brazenly ‘stealing millions of dollars from the American people by bucket- ing orders for stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In fact, the New York Stock Ex- change had provided one of the most convenient mediums for the operation of those houses. This medium was its sanetion for several of those houses to install what are generally known as the “outside” tickers. The street_had presumed that the , New York Stock Exchange was maintains dng the utmost vigilance in supervis- ing what houses might or might not have the use of such tickers. This “outside™ ticker system, al- though under supervision of the New York Stock Exchange authorities, is not operated directly by the exchange, but it means virtually the same sort of ticker service to a house as mem- bers of the New York Stock Ex- change have in the ticker system of the exchange itself. The New York Stock Exchange be- came suddenly -active at the time when the bucket-shop system had houses were in grave danger of bank- ruptcy should another big run de- veiop, % ‘What they feared most of all was another newspaper '‘blast"—which is the financial underworld's term for an expose. That “blast” came a few monthy ago, and the reader knows the rest and how quickly a line of curb houses crumbled. Active at Last. ‘The Curb Market Assoclation be- came very active with regard to mov- ing against the suspected houses in its membership at the time this year when those houses were of the verge of collapse, just as the New York Stock BxeHange authorities had be- come similarly active with regard to consolidated ‘bucket shops lnxr:lhnr bucket shops just a short ‘while be- fore the latter institutions -crumbled last year. 85 It is presumed that the reader is familiar with much of the recent ac- tivity of the New York Curb Mar-. ket ‘Association -in_that" regard, and that aiso ‘he "is fanifliar with the ‘manner in which the New York Stock l a | l officials was the keynote of a meeting | of the association at 1006 E street la himself thoroughly with his new job. proval of the general conference. Jurisdiction No. 2 shall comprise all the churches, annual conferences, mission confercnces and missions now constituting the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. and any other such conferences and missions as may hereafter be organized by ite juris- dictlon at conference with the ap- proval of the general conference. Delegntes Apportioned. i The general conference and the {Jurisdictional conferences shall be composed of the same delegates, elected by and from the annual con- ferences, “provided said general and Jurisdictional conferences shall have not more than one ministerial dele- gate for every forty-five members of each annual conference and not less than one ministerial delegate for every 120 members of each annual conference and an equal number of ay delegate the regulations of each jurisdiction. very vote in the general confer- {ence shall be by juricdiction and shall require the accepted majority vote of each jurisdiction to be effective. Binhops to Be Ret: Subject to the limitations and rictions of the constitution, the general conference shall have full legislative power over all matters .. WORKERS WAT ONWAGE DEWANLS New Engineer Commissioner Given Time to Familiarize | Himself With Office. The per diem laborers and mechanies of the District government, who ap- plied to former Engineer Commis- sioner Bessen for an increase In their | scale several months ago, will! not push their case before neer Commissioner Bell untll he has had time to become more famillar with |distinetively conneotional his new work. i B h'{ps of ;h» ldwo church i a: at Sascoke L . [ Present constituted shall Le bishops Officlals of the City Employes’ As80- | ;%0 ynited church without further ciation, it was said today, realize that|action. Mas. Bell has beea a busy man fram- | The bishops shall select by a ma- 1 th sti s since he arrived a rity vote one or more ¢ their ;‘K' "" :i fmatex ey Y number from each jurisdiction to pre- ew weeks ago. side at the sessions of the general Co-operation between employes and | conference. ach jurisdiction shall have a juri t | dictional conference, possessing the was attended by Maj. | full powers of the generai conference re- which Commissicner's Mind Open. jurisdiction, except such powers In a brief talk, the Commissioner { gerance, or which may hereafter from d the man that he was entering the | time (0 time be legally delegated to istrict government with an open | the general conference by the juris- mind and was seeking to acquaint|dictional conference. Majority to Rule. Each conference shall meet quad- rennially where the general confer- ence is to assemble and immediate prior to its assembling, and when d sirable may meet during the s i of the general conference. All decisio ishall be made by a majority of the tctal membership of the council. | The general conference at its first | session will provide a method of | amending the constitution. In all matters not specifically Frank J. Bresnahan, president of t association, told the Engineer Commissioner that the association aims to be helpful both to the men and to department heads. Vice President John Brinkert explain- ed that whenever an employe grievance it is al a special commit; to determine whethe: it is a justifiabl plaint before it is taken up with the proper authorities Maj. Bell indicated that he thought set that a good system. jeral conference shall otherwise order, ithe rules of government of the 1e- spective churches shall be in full force and -effect. The plan “recommends that finan cial support of the Colored Methodist DOUBT OF RANCHER’S DEATH IN MEXIco,Eml:a?mlm(-h:m:‘ D i {cally related, and to such extent as that jurisdiction may deem wise. !JACK PICKFORD WITNESS. { Grand Jury in Los Angeles Probing ! By the Associated Press. { Dry Law Violations. MEXICO CITY. July 28.—Consider-{ 1,08 ANGELES, July 28.—Jack Pic able .mystery surrounds the case of | ford, otion picture tor, accom- the American rancher, R. E. Newman, panied by three attorneys, appeared who Is reported to have been killed by bandits in Mexico. The American embassy here received a report from the consul at Torreon on May 5 to the Mystery Clouds Statement That American Had Been Slain by Bandits. j which is said to be investigat- ing alleged violations of the Volstead act, Two checks, bearing what was said to be Pickford's signature, were | mission conferences | the | chosen according to | of the church now constituting said | as | are herein vested in the general con- | sions | of the judicial council | forth in the plan. and until the gen- | | was arrested on as a witness before the federal grand | effect that R. A. Newman, an Ameri- can, had been kidnaped by the Du- taken from one of the two men ar- rested as bootleggers last March, who, according to federal prohibition rango bandit leader, Juan Galindo, shortly afteranother American, Oliver W. Krull, had escaped from Galindo, who had held him for a fortnight for ransom. Letters signed name, dated “Durango mountains, " 5 saulted R. Thompson, a newspaper June 4. were received June 15, by a {Sauited b, T TGRSO, B TINTPARE local newspaper. stating he had been } tempted to take a flashlight photo- kidnaped April 25 by Col. Jesus Car- | graph of Fickford as he was entering rillo_and Lieut. Galindo, and was|the federal building. being held for 30,000 pesos ransom. It was added that Newman was being badly treated. Shortly afterward press reports from Durango asserted that Galindo had been murdered by another lieu tenant, Leond Chavez. An official war department statement later said that Galindo had been killed by fed- eral troops, . Inquiry at the war department to- day brought forth the statement that it was the officlal opinion Newman never was kidnaped, but that he re- turned to the United States. S ——— Exchange dealt with some members of its own organization whose names had_been brought out in court pro. ceedings as linked up with activities of cestain bucket shops interests.} Thére is no intention to criticize the very commendable work which the ! New York Stock Exchange and the Curb Market Association have both been doing recently. but it certalnly seems pertinent to ask: ‘Why did the New York Stock Ex- change, the Consolidated Stock Ex- i change. and the Curb Market Associa- tion all_have to wait until all the damage Had been done—until the very | time of the fallures—before getting ! real busy? Why didn’t the New York i Stock Exchange, the Consolidated ! Stock Exchange ‘and the Curb Mar- | ket Association begin some of those | investigations in time to save mil-| lions of dollars to the public? It'Is the same old story all through the whole rotten mess of the bucket shop scandal, whether applying to the exchanges or interests higher up in the financial world: After the horse was. stolen, the stable door was locked. ‘While on that strain, it is worthy of note that the street has heard that some of the highest banking in- terests of the country gave what ap- peared a virtual O. K, on certain highly questionable houses, shortly before the latter failed. Of those con- ditior more will be told in a latér article of this series. The next ar. ticle . will . tell something about crooked stock promotion: B o 4 actor. and the other for $115. ' Pickford was before the grand jur nearly an hour. A warrant was issued late yvester- . {aay for the arrest of Russell J. Bir with Newman's|well, press agent and “movie extra,’ who was charged with having as- Some_cops are too reckless. Police chief of Wilmington, Del.. will marry a girl he has never seen. REAL ESTATE SALESMAN. Only experienced man need apply. Address BOX 809-R, Star Offioe ime for a good picture of Baby SPECIAL SUMMER RATES Everything in' Paints, Oils, Glass and ?rushes Becker Paint & Glass Co. ; 1239 Wisconsin Ave. West 67 e e iest &1 ! HOTEL INN 604-610 S¢1: St. N.W, KForme: ax Hotel I Phcne 81088109 with ‘Tt Shower nid JavatoryeS10 2 room, 50 per cent'more. Rooms Like Mothe: "MAIN 500 TS P agents, said he had sold liquor to the | o One of the checks was for $60 | i i { i | i | {in horror, two Great Danes virtually | Park, North Bergen, The | llater was learned that the jugular | .__w ions to Hear President - - Speaking in San Francisco Six High-Powered Radio Broadcasting Stations to Carry Address to Every : State on Tuesday. The largest audience which everj heard the human voice will listen to President HaMding's speech Tuesday evening in the civic auditorlum in San Francisco. 8ix high-powered radio broadcasting stations between the Atlantlc and Pacific coasts, op- erating simultaneously, will carry the President's message to every state in the union to an audience estimated at between 3,000.000 and 5,000,000 persons. ‘Washington radio listeners will be able to hear the President’s address as clearly as those in San Francisco. WCAP, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company station, simul- taneously with five other stations will broadcast Mr. Harding's speech. Reaching of the vast audience will be made possible by transmitting the President’'s words over transconti- nental telephone lines to the six broadcasting stations, joined togeth- er for the first time by a single wire line to operate simultaneously. In addition to WCAP the other stations are WEAF in New York, WNAQ in Chicago, WPAW In_Omaha, KPO in San Francisco and WMAF at Round Hills, Mass. Preparations Complete. i The most minute preparations have | been completed by the American Tele- graph and Telephone Company to in- sure the success of the experiment. All who plan to listen should bear in mind | the difference in tfme it will take place ! at various points across the United States The President is scheduled to begin | his speech at § o'clock Pacific time. | This means he will be heard at Omaha | at 10 pm., in Chicago at 11 p.m. day- | light savings time, {n Washington at 11 | Husbands Held| Easiest by Bobbed . Hair, Says Judge Specizl Dispatch to The Star. SAN FRANCISCO, Cali July 28. —I1f you want to keep your hus- bands, ladies, bob your locks, Bob them King Tut style or like Cleo- patra of old, but bob them. This is the advice given married women here today by Superior Judge Thomas Graham, San Fran- cisco’s “great reconcher,” who sits in judgment every ‘ar on an average of 1,500 divorce cases. Bobbed hair has been a feminine vogue for a little over two years. In that time not one bobbed-haired wife has appealed to Judge Graham for a divorce. To be sure, there have been “other women,” with shorn tresses, in some of the cases before Judge Graham and occa- sfonally a husband has charged that his bobbed-haired wife pos- messed too many charms for other men, but no lock-clipped wives have been complainants in divorce actions. L “The only way a wife can keep a husband nowadays, explains Judge Graham, “is to make herself attractive. Husbands don't like wives with bedraggled hair. There is too much competition. My ob- servation is that bobbed hair will improve the appearance of most every woman.” TORN TO PIECES BY DOGS. NORTH BERGEN, J., July { While about fifty persons looked on tore to pleces Joseph Genatt, nine | vears old, of West Hoboken, at Floral this afternoon. child died in an ambulance. It| vein had been severed and that the | boy had bled to death. | Adolph Bentz, owner of the dogs, | a technical charge of manslaughter. D.m. eastern time, and New York and Round Hills at midnight daylight sa ings time. Those listening in on the New York-Round Hills circuit will en- Joy the paradox of hearing a speech on August 1 which was delivered in San Francieco on July 31. Radio waves travel at a speed eight times around the world in a second, €0 that those who listen in will hear the address word for word instantiy as it is delivered, Relays Unnecensary, The San Frangisco end of the trans- continental telephone line will have a branch running directly to a “pick | up” microphone front of the auditorium. The current coming from the microphone will pass by way of the transcontinental circuits to branch circuits supplying each one of the radio stations, In this wa each station will get the words of the President directly by wire without relaying from one station to the next. The circuit connecting the six broadcasting stations with the Presi- dent’s platform will total 2,400 miles in length. In order to insure unin- terrupted connection, a duplicate emergency circuit has been provided throughout. In case of-an accident to one of the circuits this arrange- placed " dire tly in President In the civic ment will allow one of the emergency | circuits to be Instantly switched into service. POLICE FIND NEGRO WANTED IN SLAYING' Lemuel Jackson Said to Have Con- fessed Shooting on River Excursion. / Information obtained by Policeman Delaney of the fourth precinct last night led to the arrest of Lemuel Jack- | son, colored, forty-two years old, al- leged slayer of Samuel Newman, col- ored, purser on the excursion steamer E. Madison Hall, at River View last. Sunday night. N Lieut. Holmes led a squad of police- men to Jackson's home, 39 H street southwest, about 10:30° o'clock, and- found the man and his wife, Mary Hi; Jackson, asleep. Placed under arres Jackson' entered a denial of the acc sation of shooting, but later, accord- ing to the police, admitted shooting Newman and claimed he acted in de-, tense of hix own life. Jackson was held at the fourth pre- cinct station, while his wife wasc taken to the house of detention. Ii was not until after the wife had told the story of the shooting that the hus’ band admitted it. He sald Newman displayed a weapon and enapped it several times before he fired the sho that proved fatal. o= The prisone; .45-caliber automatte’ revolver was found in a trunk in his,. room. Constable Thomas H. Garriso of Hyattsville has been in the city the week participating in the in tigation, and he will ask for the sur- render of the prisoner, to be taken to Upper Marlboro to awalt the result of- a coroner's investigation. The prisoner is a former resident” of Abbie, S. C. He came here about - two years ago, he stated, and has been. doing cement’ work for a local con | tracto Like A Summer Resort With all the comforts of home in addition The cool and inviting environment of Mammoth Oak Gardens 1609-1611 Thirty-first Street Commends them as highly desirable for summer living. You won't feel that you've got to leave town The Gardens themselves are effectively lai the small sizes most i facility for ease in housekeeping. demand—and they you have residence here, out—the Apartments are of e equipped with every An ideal place for children—where they can have freedom without annoying anyone. The rents are very moderate. Reservations rapidly made. are being Open for inspection day and evening. Boss & Phelps 1417 K Street DELIGHTFUL The Home of Homes Phone Main 4340 APARTMENTS THE ARGONNE On Columbia Road At 16th St. Commanding a View of Beautiful ROCK CREEK VALLEY Tasteful apartments in this magnificent, new. abso- lutely fireproof building. Large rooms, spacious closets, tile baths, built-in tures and pedestal Javatory. Convenient Location—Unsurpassed Neighborhood - RESERVE YOUR APARTMENT NOW AND MOVE 1IN » BEFORE THE RUSH OCTOBER 1Ist Apply to Manager on Premises or WILLIAM S. PHILLIPS REALTOR 15th and K Streets N.W. LISTEN! What Do You Thinkf REAL PEOPLE Are Buying Our Homes in DR EITH ALMOST AT THE RATE OF ONE A DAY FOR ? FORTY SOLD BEFORE ANY WERE FULLY COMPLETED FOR JUST ONE REASON AND YOU KNOW IT REAL GENUINE VALUE . By auto—ds drive due west " Go See These Homes TODAY TO INSPECT For Hard-Earned Dollars 36th and R Sts. N.W. (Right at Western High School) ive across Q' street bridge,‘turn north one block to R street and to 36th ;street (right next the Western High School). street car to 35th street and walk north to R street, or Wisconsin avenue car to R street and walk west to 36th street. Or take P HANNON & LUCHS Owners and Builders