Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1928, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. . FRIDAY. AUGUST 24 19%. ¥ UMBER MILLWORK PAINT HARDWARE BUILDING SUPPLIES Whatever Your Needs Talk With Us First! Small Orders Given Careful Attention No Delivers Charee J. Frank Kelly, Inc. 2101 Georgia Ave. N. 1343 Millwork—Du Pont Paint ding Sunolies A Trial Will Convinee You That MENU PEAS Are Superior. Ask Your Grocer JAMES M. DENTY Whalesale Distributar Gus Eichberg, Auctionesr 50 AUTOMOBILES By Auction Saturday, August 25th (12 noon) 462 Pa. Ave. NW. Inelnding 1228 Olds Coupe. 1.400 miles 1925 Buick Coarh 1934 Ryick Sadan 1973 Dodze 4-vass. Coupe 1926 Ford Coupe Coupe <. Knicht Sedan Ford Ton Truek 3 sets Assorted Piston Rings _ihe adove cars in Arst- GUS EICHBERG Offeial _Auctioneer U. 3. Government The New Radiola Super Heterodyne No. 60 | manufacturing production, the 'STEADY INCREASE N BLINESS S Commerce Dept. Says U. S.| Production and Consumption Show Unparalleled Stability. ' 'EXPLORER'S WIF With Frien Mo | Fawcett still clings bravels B (a the hope that her husband, Col. P. i The United States is enjoving A TFancett. the explorer, may he alive despite Comdr. Dryott's radi Wesincement to The Star and American Newspaper Alliance Famee(t party perished in the Brazilian wiiderness. | She tells why, in the fol- Towing article period of almost unbroken increase in production and consumption without exhibiting any of the characteristics of a “business boom." the Department of Commerce declared vesierday. follow- ing an exhaustive survey of business conditions throughout the country. Business conditions during the past six months and the faw years just pre- ceding were said by tne department to have exhibited “a generai stability un- paralleled in the history of the United States or any other important indus- trial country The department's report was based upon the showings of all the statistical barometers which have peen set up by the Government, with the peration of a variety of economi~ agencies, to de- teet the ebb and flow of tne currents of trade, traffic. production and consump- tion. It shows that. with only occa- sional minor recessions. such as ap- peared, for example, during 2 few months of 1927, “business and industry 2s a whole remained at a high le a long period of time A FAWCETT. AU - SUR - MER, France | August 24 -The radio message f{rom Comdr. Dyott is the first authenti: news of the Fawcett expedition I have ceen for three years, since the time th little party. including my husband, Col P. H. Fawcett, and my son Jack appeared into the unknown interior of Matto Grosso. Brazil Comdr. Dyott, whose message sa the Fawcett expedition perished at t hands of hostile Indians in July, 192 succeeded in striking Col. Fawcett trail and following it to a point con- iderable bevond the place where my husband sent out his last dispatches in May, 1925 Fortunately. Comdr. Dyott also came across the same Indians who accom panied Col. Fawcett down the Kuluens River after his departure from Dead | Horse Camp. And it_was from these Indians that Comdr. Dyott got the in- formation that my husband and his party had been killed The Indians agreed to show Comdr Dvott the bodies, or what remained of in the jungle. but he was pro- Savings and Investments Cited. There have been unprecedented amounts of savings and investments of new capital in recent vears, it was them e "Lhls investment. togsther with | vented from going to the spot and making an identification because of improvements in methods. have greatly increased the efficiency of industry and the output of work The general quantitative index of most | comprehensive of all measures of in- dustrial activity, in the first half of 1928 exceeded the previous high record | of the first half of 1927." the depart- ment declared “The building industry. which has been during all recent years A very important factor in creating demand succumbed to illness and had been o aufactured products and for | buried by friendly Indians. it is un- Hoorshowed greater activity than in | likely that any trace would have been any other six months' period in Ameri- | left after three vears interment in a can history The automobile industry | tropical jungle A e conspicuously reflects the | I foresaw all this last year when the buying power of the people. had A | e larger output Ihml" at any time except it e COURT AIDS TWO FACING CHARGES OF VAGRANCY Mail Orders Largest on Record. “The sales of mail-order houses were Collection Is Taken for Traffic Vie- tim With One Leg and complications with another tribe Trace Now Unlikely. But it seems to me that if my hus- band and his party had perished at the hands of Indians. who in those parts judging from Cnl. Fawcett's previous experiences, are of cannibalistic tenden- cies, there would have been nothing left to identify. 1f. on the other hand. the party had the largest on record, a fact partly due 1o the establishment of retail store out- lets by the leading houses. The gen- eral volume of industrial d commer- as reflected by the | TO HOPE HUSBAND IS ALIVE Mate of Missing Brazilian Expedition| Leader Believes He Is Living dis- | BAPTIST HOME CHILDREN GIVEN SWAN BOAT RIDE Twelve Ar;<ull:'r’lr of The Star nni Child Welfare Society's Vessel at Basin, E STILL CLINGS Twelve children from the Han'ls"l Home for Children, 904 Newton street northeast, were guests of The E\'rnlng‘ | Star in a ride on the swan boat, the | | property of the Child Welfare Society, | {on the Tidal Basin vesterday. The | children were in charge of Mrs. Mar-| yaret Martin, house mother of the home. | The trip was the eighth of a series | dly Indians. | relief” expedition was being discussed and I took the precaution of procuring specimens of buttons and cloth used | for the clothing my husband and son | of free rides being given to the children wore into the interior. These speci~ |of various institutions around ‘Washing- homs were sent to Comdr. Dyott to |ton by The Evening Star, which orig- take with him |inally presented the boat to the Child | ; e Welfare Society. Under the present ar- | | ¢ BUk with, his pians complicated Y | rangement The Star hires the boat from | Ble for Cenar, Dokt to idenbity, Whes | e Society St e proceeds go toward | o T Baah al. (k.| e Nilthariiceiofiihe Wik of the lat- | Mame of the Pawcett expedition, We | eLorganization | have only the word of the Indians to | 20 upon WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF OFFICES, STORES AND THEATRES THE BRADFORD 18th and K Streets Food Is Scarce. I draw certain deductions from what my husband once told me: That there's far more danger for a large expedition in those parts than for a_small party for food is scarce and the Indians have plantations sufficient, only for thers own needs. Therefore, when they se¢ | a large party, such as that with Comdr Dyott. their first impulse would be 1o chase the intruders out of the countrs The story the Indians told migh have been a ruse to effect the immedi- ate departure of the Dyott expedition implying that if they didn't leave im- | Furmshed and unfurnished mediately they would meet the same apartments 1 room and hath fate that befell the other white men ta 7 rooms and 2 haths Elec i And if my husband had succeeded a= tric refrigeration. 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