Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1924, Page 11

FLYING ACCIDENT PROBERS DETAILED Army Air Service Post Com- oceurs on & cross-country or an air- ways flight, and it is found Impractica: ble for-a special investigating officer to reach the scene, the senior Alr Service officer with the flight will act as in- vestigator. In the event, however, that all members of the flying party are in- capacltated by the accident the first Air Service officer to visit the scene will un- dertaks the investigation. 22 SALOONS RAIDED. Owners of HE SUNDAY GERMAN PRODUCERS HIT AT U. S. MOVIES Seek More, Stringent Regulations Governing Importation of Foreign Films. STAR. time. Under this program, it is hoped to arrange fixed ratlo between for- elgn and German fllms which w good for, at least, two years. Herring sald the whole matter merely tentative and there is no in cation that the German government has taken sides in the controversy. CITY STARTS RAT HUNT, Oakland Rodenis Infected With Bubonic Plague. Mr is di- DECEMBER 28, FOODSTUFFS BOOM NOVEMBER EXPORTS Demand for Raw Materials Also Aids in Bringing' Total Ex- oceeding 1923 Figures. 1924—PART $118,668,000, partly manufactured stuffs, $50,872,000, against $48,955.000. Imports: Raw foodstuffs, $38,074,- 000, against $40,134,000; foods ready for consumption, $29,091,000, against $36,690,000; raw materials for use in manufacturing, $112,843,000, against $97,814,000; manufactured commodi- tles, $61,463,000, agninst $64,110,000; partly manufactured goods, $2,931, 000, against $50,825,000. 1 Wanted a Stimulant. From the Wall Street Journal. DAGUERREOTYPE PIONEER DIES IN OHIO AT AGE OF 96 C. E. Holden Was Associate of Jay Cooke, Who Financed Civil War~—Lincoln Adviser. By.the Associated Press. NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio, De- cember 27.—Charles Edwards Holden, 96 years old, retired clay manufac- which then had but three houses, and} through “his efforts, made the placd into an important coal and clay cens ter. Following funeral services Morday, at Canton, the body will be taken ] New YorkK for burial. WILL STUDY FLOOD CURB, Army Engineers to Take Up Mis¢ sissippl Spillway Project. manders Told to AsSign |summonses Left for Special Men : 4 Newark Places. NEWARK, «N. J,, December 2 Federal prohibition agents from New York swoeped down on Newark this afternoon, raiding 22 saloons..in this city and in Harrison. The agents left a summons at each place, direct- ing_the proprietor to appear before a United States commissioner to an- swer charges of violating the pro- hibition law. Samples of liquor were seized. Somie time ago moson picture fims made in Germany found a large and popular. market in the United States. Their importation was viewed with alarm by American motion picture producers and recently the actress who took a leading part in the fea- tured films and the director came to this country and are now making pic- tures in California. Now the situation has changed and the shoe is on the other foot, the De- partment of Commerce was advised today by Commercial Attache Herring at Berlin. German motlon picture producing companies are agitating for more stringent regulations of film imports and for the abolition of the present contingent system. The pro- ducing companies have arranged a tentative program which s to be brought up before a general meeting of the film Industry within a short A large increase in'American ex- ports during November was chiefly due to foreign taking of foodstuffs and .raw materials, it -is shown by Commerce Department figures, giv- ing a preliminary analysis of the month's foreign trade. Total exports were $493,597,000 against $401,484,000 during tha same month a year ago. The following export and {import classifications with comparisons with the corre- sponding totals for November, 1923, are given: Exports: Army Engineers, with the consent of Secretary Weeks, have taken une der advisement & proposal to con+ struct a sp'liway in the Mississipp) River below New Orleans, La. The project is intended to diver! flood waters from the Mississippi and reduce pressure at flood stages to in< crease mafety of the levees. Fire Damages Deaf Institute. MONTREAL, December 27.—Fire; which for a time threatened to dee stroy the Deaf and Dumb Institutd here today, did damage to the ex< tent of $65,000. There were 150 ine mates In the bullding at the time tha fire was discovered, but all escaped here, uninjured. turer, banker, edltor and merchant who owned the first daguerreotype studlo in New York, at Broadway and Lispenard streets, in 1848, died at his home in Canton, Ohio, today. Mr. Hol- den had been a resident of Canton since 1911, when he retired from active business. Mr. Holden aided Jay Cooke, who financed the Civil War, and it was through a suggestion of Holden that President Lincoln made a test of Aus- trian arms, which led to the discovery they were defective. Mr. Holden's first newspaper em- ployment was in the old New York Sun office, where he was a type- setter. In 1864 he came Ohio, 12 The only sure way to command a good price is never to cheapen one's stock in trade. A Texas justice of the peace re- ceived an inquiry from a neighboring city attorney in regard to a judgment that had been entered against a cer- tain client. He inclosed a stamped envelope for reply. Some few days later the inquirer received a post card bearing this information: “Your {nquiry duly received. T beg to inform you that my time is highly valuable just now. Hay cutting is most nigh here, politics is sizaling hot and automobiling is mighty fine. If you would inclose @ dollar bill it might stimulate me some. 1 paid $2 once to a lawyer for answering a question and all he said was ‘No.""” OAKLAND, Calif., December 27.—A widespread rat extermination cam- paign was under way today after a report by health officials that 5 out of 40 rodents examined were infected with bubonic plague. No cases among human beings have been re- ported, and as the section inhabited by rats is! remote from the city proper, there is little fear of the dis- ease spreading. Restrict ons have been placed along the western water front where the infected rodents were found, and ships docking in this section must be fuml- gated, according to Dr. R. H. Creel of the United States Public Health Service, Officials of Alameda, Berke- ley and Oakland conferred with health officers to effect an extensive campaign to rid the district of the disease carriers. officers of Regular Army Air Service stations are instructed in a War Department circular made pub- i esignate an Alr Serv- flicer to act in the special capacity ccident investigating officer. It wiil he duty of the special officer, when- ever an af ft accident resuits in dam- uge or injury to personnel or Govern- . to visit the scene of the 'n as possible and conduct Raw foodstuffs, $58,599,- 000, ~against $14,461,000; foodstuffs ready for consumption, $54,800,000, against $52,295,000; raw materials for use in manufacturing, $196,385,000, against $160,846,000; manufactured commodities, $124,939,000, against Camille Flammarion Il PARIS, December — Camille Flammarion, the French astronomer, is reported to be in a critical condi- tion. 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