Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1928, Page 12

12 D.C.ARLEGION 10 BEGIN FLYING ‘Training Plane Furchased by 150 Students Is Delivered Here. After many weeks of grinding away in the classroom on the -fundamenta of aviation, 150 student pilots, wh have banded together as the D. C. Air Legion, are 2zhout to enjoy the thrills of actual flying in a ning plane delivered here which they will purchase this week. For many of them it be the first actual air experience. They intend to keep at it until they are able to obtain pilots’ licenses from the De- partment of Commerce and branch out s_independent flyers. % ¥ e leased the Wind- ham estate, near Four Corners, Md.. as a landing field and will go there in a body to build a hangar and prepare the field for flying. probably before the end of the week. The plane, a Lincoln-Page LP-3, has been flown here from the factory of | the Lincoln Aircraft Co. in Lincoln, Nebr., by Lieut. Walter A. Brooke, Legion instructor and Naval Reserve instructor at the Anacostia Naval Air Station. The ship is being housed at the naval air station until fiying opera- tions begin at the Legion field within 10 days. The LP-3 has a 100-horse- power OXX-6 motor and 2 top speed of 105 miles an hour. It has dual con- trol for training purposes and will carry a pilot and two passengers. Dimensions of Cralt. It has a wing span of nearly 23 feet and a length of nearly 24 feet; weighs 1,374 pounds empty and will carry a Joad of 826 pounds. The fuel tanks have a capacity of 42 gallons, which give a flying range of 500 miles. The machine is said to be unusually well adapted to training purposes, having a landing speed of only 35 miles per hour. Lieut. Brooke said today that he will start the members of the legion off on their air careers with “hops” of about 10 minutes each. “It will be a novel experience for many of them,” he explained, “and I do not believe they will be able to do more than stare around. I certainly don’t expect them on this first hop to Jearn anything much about piloting a plane. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 19238, o= flyifg school, and later served at the various navai air stations in this coun- try. He then was assigned as flying instructor at the Pensacola Naval Air Station and later at Hampton Roads. He now is executive officer and in- structor of the VN-6-R Naval Reserve Squadron, at the Anacostia Station, | where he conducts a training class cach Wednesday night. Three Classes Weekly. | He holds classes for the Legion stu- | dents cach Tuesday. Thursday Friday night. Lieut. Brooke for a year was an airplane engine inspector for the Department of Commerce, and in this capacity became thoroughly fa- miliar with all types of American avia- tion motors and manufacturing plants. He has put two classes of Legion | students through “ground school.” and will open the third ground school class | Friday night. 76-YEAR-OLD WOMEN | HURT IN ACCIDENTS Charlotte McCullouck and Mrs. Katie Reese Require { Treatment. Two women who were each 75 years old were among the victims of week end traffic accidents. Neither is thought to be seriously injured. 3 One of the women, Mrs. Charlotte McCullock, 2220 First street, suffered a laceration of the scalp when she was | struck at First end V streets by an | 2utomobile operated by Robert Cran- |ford, 111 Thomas street. She was treated at Sibley Hospital. The other, | Mrs. Katie Reese, 215 C street north- |cast, was injured on the chin | right knee when she was knocked down {in front of 340 Indiana avenue by a | bicycle ridden by John Smith. 8 years old, 301 C street. She was treated at | Casualty Hospital. | Elizabeth Wren. 9 years old, 1370 |Harvard street. and O. G. Wren 40 |years old, 1410 H street, were both treated at Children's Hospital for cuts and bruises received when the auto- mobile in which they were riding, op- erated by W. T. Wrenn, 1370 Harvard street. was in collision at Thirteenth and Riggs streets with an automobile operated by E. Frank Heim of Balti- more. Thrown motorcycle to the street skidded on when his some * loose ]Hra\‘el on Tunlaw road, in the rear of e > | Mount Alto Hospital, Policeman Wil- On the second flight, how-|jiam O'Connor of the seventh precinct and | and | YOUNGSTOWN STEEL AT 87 PER CENT CAPACITY NEW YORK, September 24 (#).— Steel operations in the Youngstown dis- trict are at 87 per cent of capacity, with 46 of the 53 open hearth furnaces active. Output of Bessmer steel by in- dependents is at 90 per cent. Out of the 123 sheet mills, 113 are under power. Tin plate operations of independent companies are close to 100 per cent. sl o WASHINGTON AUTHOR DIES IN NOVA SCOTIA Charles Sheldon, 3022 P street, re- tired railroad official and author of 7 several bocks on the Northern wilder- ness of North America, died at his Sum- mer home, in Kedgemakooge, Nova Scotia, Friday, according to word re- ceived here. Burial will be in Rutland, [ Vt.. tomorrow. A native of Rutland, Vt. Mr. Shel- emy, Andover, Mass, and from Yale University in’ 1890. He was general manager of the Consolidated Car Heat- ing Co. in Albany from 1894 to 1898 and was vith the Chihauhua & Pa- cific Railway in Mexico from 1898 to |1902. Mr. Sheldon was 60 years old. Retiring irom the railroad business in 1902 he spent. considerable time explor- ing in Alaska and Mexico. He had written ~ “Wilderness of the Upper Yukon” and “Wilderness of North Pa- cific Coast Islands,” also various reports, articles and pamphlets on con- servation and natural history, in addi- tion to magazine articles on hunting and conservation. 7 He served here as a member of the | Naval Intelligence Service during the World War. He was.a member of the | Cosmos Club of this city, the New York Zoological Society. the Biological Socicty |'of this city, the Psi Upsilon and Scroil and Key. In addition he belonged to the Boone and Crocket Club, the Uni- versity Club, the Century Club and the Explorers Club of New York City. He is survived by his widow. Louisa Gulliver Sheldon; a son, Willias G., and three daughters, 'Carolyn, Louisa and_ Eleanor, all of whom will attend the funeral services in Vermont. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET CHICAGO, September 24 (#) (United States Department of Agriculture).— Hogs—Receipts, 31,000 head; market mostly 10 to 20 lower; spots 25 lower than Friday's average; top, 12.60. paid for a few loads of choice 185-250 don was graduated from Phillips Acad- | |New York peaches were offered this - | features CANNING FRUITS | FEATURE MARKET Melons, Peaches, Pears and Other Products Offered in Attractive Showings. Both wholesglers and retailers are re- minding housewives that the canning | and preserving season is in full sway. Displays of fruits, some from nearby and some. from the Pacific Coast sec- tion, were exceptionally attractive along B street this morning. Dealers had offerings of peaches, pears, grapes, damsons, prunes, plums, quinces and other fruits for canning and preserving, while Persian melons and Rocky Ford cantaloupes also were much in evidence. Persian melons, some weighing as much as 20 pounds, e offered at from $2.50 to $3.50 a crate, prices of cantaloupes depending upon size and condition of the fruit. For pickling purposes, dealers offered cucumbers, peppers, onions, tomatoes, okra and other vegetables. Tomato prices continue high, 2-peck baskets selling from $1.50 to $2. Lima beans also were scarce and high this morning, very few homegrown beans being offer- ed. Most of today’s supplies came from the mountains of Pennsylvania, accord- Ing to dealers, and were offered at $3 a bushel, shelled stock selling at 70 cents a quart, Long Island cucumbers were quoted at $2.50 a bushel, caulifiower at $2.75 and $3 a crate, California peas at $5.50 a bushel, lettuce at $1.75 and $2 a crate, carrots at $1.75 and $2 a bushel and peppers at 75c and $1 a bushel. morning at $2.50 to $3 a bushel basket, the stock from nearby gradually play- ing out. Continued firm conditions of the butter, egg and meat markets and higher prices for eggs were interesting of the morning'’s market. light, market about steady; California, crates Iceberg type, four-five dozen, mostly, 6.00; New York, two-dozen crates, Big Boston type, 1.50a1.75, most- ly.around 1.50; fair quality and condi- tion, 1.25. Onions—Supplies moderate; demand slow, market dull; Indiana and Michi- gan, 100-pound sacks, Yellows, U. S. No. 1, medium to large size, 3.7524.00; New York, 100-pound sacks, Yellows, U. S. No. 1, medium to large size, 3.50; Wash- ington and Utah, 100-pound sacks, Va- lencia type, U. S. No. 1, large size, 3.75. Peaches—Supplies liberal; demand light, market weak; New York, bushel baskets, Elbertas, U. S. No_ 1, large size, 1.75a2.00; few, 2.25; Pennsylvania, bushel baskets, Elbertas, U. S. No. 1, large size, 2.25a2.50. Grapes. Grapes—Supplies of Western stock | liberal; demand light, partly account | holiday, market dull; California lugs Flame Tokays, 1.50; lugs Malagas, 1.30; Eastern stock, no supplies on market. Pears—Supplies light; demand slow, market steady: New York, no sales re- ported: Oregon, boxes, Bartletts, fancy, 3.0083.25. Potatoes—Supplies moderate; de- mand light, market steady: Pennsyl- vania, 150-pound sacks, round white, United States No. 1, 2.00a! 100- pound sacks, round white: States No. 1, 150a1.60; Virg 3 top stave barrels, Cobblers, United States No. 1, 2.50. Y ’ Sweet potatoes—Supplies light; de- man light; too few early sales reported to_quote. bushel hampers, few sales, $4.50a5.00. Carrots—Supplies _ light; demand light; market dull; Colorado, Western lettuce, crates, bunched, 5 dozen, 4.00. B. & 0. BUILDS PLANTS FOR TREATING WATER CUMBERLAND, Md., September 24 (Special).—Five electrical pumps and water treating plants are being con- structed: on the Cumberland division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at a cost of approximately $1.000,000. The pumping and treating plants will soften water for locomotive use and prevent excessive boiler scale. Poultry prices showed a slight advance, Today's Wholesale Prices. Butter—One-pound prints, 50a51; tub, 4815a491;; store packed, 30a32. Eggs—Fresh, selected, 40a42: hen- nery, 48a50; current receipts, 38a40; storage, 35a36. Poultry—aAlive, turkeys, 30a35; fowls, 28; Spring chickens, large, 33a34; me- dium, 32a33: small, 32a33; Leghorns, 19a20; keats, young, SILVER QUOTATIONS. NEW YORK, September 24 (#).— Bar silver, 57%; Mexican dollars, 43% Lima Beans—Supplies light; demand | 4 light, market firm East Shore Maryland, |} Money and Prices Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW HAVEN, Conn., September 24.— ‘The wholesale price index slumped last week to 99.8 after gstablishing the pge- vious week a new high for the year ‘of 100.3. The dollar's purchasing power consequently appreciated 6-10 of a cent, the eighth alternating week's rise and fall in the buying power of the dollar. Although the dollar's buying power continually registers fractional fluctua- tions, it is important to note that its largest deviation since the beginning of 1923 from a value of 100 cents was in July, 1927, when its buying power was 109.8 cents. Nevertheless a continued close perusal of the dollar’s course as gauged by buying power is interesting as well as necessary for a satisfactory and safe understanding of nptional as well 1s personal economic welare. Domestic Money. Fluctuations in the general wholesale price ievel and in the purchasing power of the dollar are given below for various periods. The average for the year 1926 is the base used. Purchasing Power: cts. Wl?ok‘- Departure re 1926. P | B NSO Foreign Prices. Cables from Europe report foreign ‘holessle commoditv prices as follows: (1926=100) England. France. Italy. Week ended— t. 21 Jewel Tea Sales Rise. NEW YORK, September 24 (P).— Sales of Jewel Tea Co. Chicago, for the first 36 weeks of 1928, rose to $10,- 652,550 from $9,784,849 in the previous corresponding period, up 8.87 per cent. FOREIGN TRADE OUTLOOK GOOD Countries Abroad Regaining Purchasing Power—Steel Looks Up. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, September 24.—Inquly here today at the New York Chamber of Commerce, the National Foreign Trade Council and at the offices of lead- ing exporters and importers reveals more optimism with regard to the foreign trade outlook than has ap- peared at any time this year. There countries are rapidly recovering their purchasing power. Several stabilizing factors are cited as possibly contributing to a more | satisfactory condition of world com- merce, among them the new under- standing regarding international steel markets and production, brought -about by James A. Farrell, president of the Y. S. Steel Corporation, in last Sum- mer’s conference with heads of the Europeal steel cartel. While European iron and steel in- dustries are-now more prosperous than | at any time since the war, the American industry also shows an upward trend in prices and increased activity durin; the last two weeks. Recent foreign steel output and prices are regarded as an index of the general rehabilitation of world industry, with a resulting stim- ulation to the American export trade. Both chambers of commerce and the foreign trade council report a sharply marked increase in public interest in foreign trade, as indicated by the fact that inquiries regarding this field are about four times the volume of that of a year ago. Most of these letters, it was explained, are from manufacturers or shippers ready and equipped to shove aggressively into the export field, and apparently sceing a timely moment in the hopeful foreign outlook. There are is an undivided opinion that foreign | eign trade bureaus, an increase of 32 in four years. Latest available statistics on the dol- lar volume of business in the United States show that the month of Septem- ber, to date, is running well ahead of the same period of last year. Bank clearings for the week ending last Sat- urday were 8.2 per cent above the total for the same period of last year, (Copyright. 1928) FARM LEVELS FALL. Purchasing Power Recedes Thres Index Points for Week. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW HAVEN, Conn., September 24 — Farm purchasing power receded threa index points last week, mainly through falling cotton, corn, hay, live hogs and lambs price levels. Beef steers anq wheat prices bolstered somewhat. hut not enough to influence the index frend Non-agricultural price levels strenath- ened slightly. : Index numbers of farm purchasi power and of agricultural and non-agr. cultural prices for various periods are given in the following table, in which the average for 1926 represents 10 Farm A=ri-Non purehasing cultwral ¢ . prices 1087 i Week ended-— September 71, September 14. July “average. June averace. Mav average. Aoril average..... March averace. February 3333328555 e R 1928 Tae (Copyright. 1928. by $17 A SHARE SEEN FOR NORFOLK & WESTERN NEW YORK, September 24 (#).— Arthur C. Needles, president of the Nor- folk & Western, says present prospects point to earnings of around $17 a share on its stock this year. Miscellaneous business was holding up well to last year’s level, and general business in the road's territory was ex- pected to be as good in the next few months as it was last year. He esti- mated August net income, after fixed ng Fisher.) now 63 cities in America having for- charges, at $2,500,000. ever, the novelty will have worn off somewhat and they will be able to 60a80; old, 30. Dressed, turkeys, 40a45; fowls, large, 33a43: small, 28a30; Spring chickens, large, 38a40; medium, 38a40; small, 38; Leghorns, 37; capons, large, 42a45; small, 30a35; ducks, 28a30; keats, young. 80a1.00. Meats. fresh killed—Beef, 22a27; veal, | was taken to Georgetown Hospital early 3 . | this morning and treated for injuries pay a little more attention to the |ty opne knee’? His condition wxs] pro- handling of the ship. . | nounced not serious. The student-members of the legion | “Hattie Irving, colored, 46 years old, then will be taken on 30-minute flights | 1439 Swann street, suffered severe head with Lieut. Brooke uniil they master|injuries last night when she was struck pounds butchers; medium to choice, 250-350 pounds, 11.60a12.60; 200-250 pounds, 11.60a12.60; 160-200 pounds, 11.00a12.60; 130-160 _pounds, 10.40a 12110; packing sows. 10.25a1135; pigs, medium to choice, 90-130 pounds, 9.50a 1 the rudiments of fying and are ready | and knocked down on T street | Fourteenth and Fifteenth streefs | automobile operated by Brooks Glenn | of New York City, at present stopping |at 1026 Lamont " street. for the “solo” stage. Composed Only of Students. ‘The District of Columbia Air Legicn is said to be the only organization of its kind in this part of the country. It 1s composed entirely of students and has no paid officers except a secretary, Ed- ward L. Brimley, who is in charge of the classroom and headquarters, room 711, International Building, 1319 F street, and its instructor, Lieut. Brooke. Other officers of the legion, themselves stu- dents, are C. D. Suppes, president; G. A. Eifman, vice president, and M. G. Dooley, treasurer. The legion is rec- ognized by the Bureau of Aeronaufics of the Department of Commerce and numbers 10 employes of the Dep: ment of Commerce among its membe Membership in the legion is open any person who wishes to become a pilot and who can pass the necessary physical examination required by the Department of Commerce. Each of the students will have an interest in the training plane and’ in the flying field. Lieut. Brooke, who has been retained by the students as their instructor, has been fying for 11 years. He enlisted in the Navy in 1917, and, after taking a ground course at the Massachusetts | where her tween by an The _woman to Emergency Hospital, condition was said to be was taken serious. Donald Manger, 3 years old, of Balti- more, Md., was bruised but otherwise uninjured = yesterday when he was knocked down on a bridle path in the Agricultural grounds by a pony ridden by Peter Jones. 501 L street. He was treated at Emergency Hos=ital. Ella Barnes, colored, 22 years old, 317 Clarks court southwest, was treat- ed at Emergency Hospital for lacera- tions to the face, bruises and shock, received when knocked down by a street car operated by Motorman George Oden, at Pennsylvania avenue and Fourth street. GRAHAM SETS RECORD. NEW YORK, September 24 (#).— Shipments of Graham Bros. trucks from Dodge Bros. factories in August set & new record for any month this year, ex- ceeding July by 10 per cent and a gain of 60 per cent over August, 1927. The plant in Stockton, Calif., reported its Institute of Technology, went to a naval Here's th in the Maine wo best month. They fill the big round. bellied iron - bean pot. o B 1.25. Cattle—Receipts, 26,000 head; calves, 4,000; choice and good fed steers scarce; steady; lower grades, including native and Western grassers, weak to 25 lower: she stock sharing declined, Very slow; early top, fed steers, 18.25; slaughter clas: steers, good and choice, 1,300-1, pounds, 14.75a18.5 1,100-1,300 pounds, 14.50a18.50; 95 | 1,100 pounds, 14.50a18.50; common and medium, 850 pounds up, 9.25a14.50; fed yearlings, good and choice, 750-950 pounds, 14.50a18.25; heifers, good and choice, 850 pounds down, 13.75a17.50; common and medium, 8.75a13.15; cows, good and choice, 9.35a10.75; common and medium, 7.0029.25; low cutter and cutter, 6.25a7.75; vealers (milk fed), good and choice, 16.00a17.00; medium, 13.50a16.00; cull and common, 850a 13.50: stocker and feeder steers, good and choice (all weights), 12.00a14.25; common and medium, 9.00212.00. Sheep—Receipts, 23,000 head; mar- ket slow, around steady: bulk, desirable Western lambs, 14.00 downward: most natives, 13,50a13.75; throwouts largely, 10.00a10.50; fat ewes, 6.00a6.50; lambs, good and choice (92 pounds down), 13.0a14.25; medium, 11.50a13.00; cull and common, 7.50a11.50; ewes, medium to choice (150 pounds down), 4.2526.75; cull and common, 1.75a5.00; feeder lambs, good and choice 13.25214.25. 20a28; lamb, 26a29; pork lains, 34a36; fresh hams, 27a28; fresh shoulders, 24: smoked hams, 28: smoked shoulders, 22a23; bacon, 24a26; lard, 15%al6. Fruits and Vegetables. Apples — Supplies liberal; light, few sales account holida; dull; bushel baskets, Virginia, U. 1, 215 inches up, Grimes, 1.25a1 classified, 2 No. 1, Delicious, 2.25, mostly 2.00; . inches up, Delicious, 1.50a: Cabbage—Supplies moderate; demand moderate, market steady: New York, 90-100-pound sacks, domestic round type, 2.25a2.50; Virginia, barrel crates, appmxin}atc]y 100 pounds net, round ty] 2.75. Cantaloupes—Supplies limited: de- mand high, partly account holiday: market dull; Colorado, pink meats, jumbo and standard flats, all sizes, 90a 1.25: miscellaneous ‘melons, supplies moderate, demand light, market dull; Persian melons, extra jumbos, 2.50a3.00: jumbos, 2.25a2.50; standards, 2.00; ponys, 1.50a1.75. Celery—Supplies moderate; demand light market dull; New York, two-third crates, wide range quality and condi- tion, wide range prices, 1.75a2.50. Lettuce—Supplies moderate; demand demand market e way they bake beans ods Prices that are withowut precedent 1% ton [ i MODEL T-30 Ppneumatio tires MODEL T-42 $1395 d few important glimpses: More need for 1Y wer and speed than will ever be or used + » » 72}, and 2-ton m H.P. (at 2500 I'(Pé\a els, 89 H.P. (at 2! 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