Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1926, Page 38

- CITY ENPLOYMENT SLUNP REPORTED Conditions Take Downward Trend for November, Survey Reveals. ugh general employment con- Althol ditions in Washington during Novem-| ber were not as satisfactory as durin e vnwal i during the past 30 days, xh(’ r fo \\a mngmn said arge labo: Bx \ding was in good volume, with a xnu]( ority of the resdent tradesmen emplo d. Many of the stores increased operating | forces in preparation for the holiday rade, ard the director sald & demand still exiets for (okrul domestic help that is bard to Practically nll hld ustries in Balti- more are operating, the Maryland di- yector reported, with unskilled labor- ers and clerical workers constituting the bulk of the small number un- omp oyed in the largest city in the jtate. The large voiume of building olm on in Cumberland was said not 0 be sufficient to absorb the resident Iupp\ of bullding tradesmen, while wirtually the same condition exists in Industrial _employment conditions throughout Virginia during November were described as satisfactory by the State director, with major industries operating on practically full-time @chedules and the labor supply and demand well balanced in most locali- Increased production of soft coal in ! price A. C Motor Fuel Now Developed From Coal, Bureau Says Moving toward conservation of the petroleum resources of the United States, the Bureau of Mines announced yesterday the possibil- ity of obtaining motor fuels from coal, practicable for use in internal combustion engines, but prevented ‘now from being commercially rofitable by the relatively low e. r of the bureau re- turned from a European several processes for making mo- !‘ tor fuel from coal. One of them, e 4 in Germany, developed in motorcycles dn This process, he declared, provide In the future ample quan tities of substitutes for the prod ucts now obtained from petroleum and the time when such a process may be profitably worked will be determined by price levels. West Virginia increased the volume of employment in the State during November. Many of the mines were working at capacity, and in some lo lll“f‘l’l the demand for labor exceeds he supply. The last 10 days of November sroughit a noticeable reduction in em- ployment throughout the country, ac- cording to a summary of Nation-wide employment made by the United States Employment Service. This was largely due to termination of sea- sonal work and a decline in the vol- ume of building, together with reduc- tion in the forces of nutomoblle fac- tories and accessory plan THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1926. DEATH OF PUGILIST IS HELD ACCIDENTAL Carl Augustine Released After Cor- oner Clears Him in the Berglund Tragedy. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.,, December 16.- died from a cerebral hemorrhage, suf-' fered when his head struck the floor of the ring after Augustine had knocked him down with a left hook, 15 seconds before the end of the fight. Efforts to revive Berglund, known in the ring as “Berg,” failad and he was taken to a hospital, where he died early yesterday Berglund's death was the first in a professional ring here since boxing was legalized in Minnesota. here have been two deaths in amateur or unauthorized fights. 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