Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1929, Page 22

REAL GAININ WHOLESALE MARKET EXPECTED D. C. Dealers Prepare for Brisk Week Following Easter Holiday. As the fasting period of Holy week drew to a close, local wholesalers of meats and poultry were preparing for a brisk ‘rade next week, a reaction expected from cautious buying of a fortnight past. The sale of eggs, quick- ened by tomorrow’s Easter celebration, reached a high mark today, with sup- plies plentiful, prices level and the de- mand strong. ‘The market for fresh vegetables and fruits also was active today as Spring supplies come in from Southern truck farm Fish, particularly shad, trout and oysters, were in great demand yes- terday. Supplics are scarce in this line, and a slight rise in prices is anticipated. Wholesale Row Active. The wholesale commissioners® row, from Ninth to Tenth strects on B street, was a scene of brisk activity yesterday and this morning, with a strong de- | mand reported for fruits and vegetables of all sort: ‘Tomatoes from Florida, in particularly fine grades, are available at $6 and $7 a crate of 40 pounds, or $3.50 and $5 a crate for the less choice lots. Casaba mellons, shipped from South America, are $4 and $6 a crate of 9 to 12 each, while hot-house grapes, also from South America, selling for 60 to 75 cents a pound. Florida oranges and grapefruit are plentiful, and strawberries, very scarce for a few days past, are expected in larger quantities next week. Those on hand are selling at 40 to 50 cents a | quart, depending on the size and con- | dition. Old potatoes are lower just now than | for several weeks past, with Maine and | Michigan products priced as low as $1.75 to $1.85 a bag. Other Vegetable Receipts. Asparagus is coming in fast now from South Carolina, although prices remain | high. Beans are scarce on the local market, selling for $3 to $5 a bushel, Ctb a l;xln:s beans are bringing $5 to $6 | a bushel. ! Hothouse cucumbers from Ohio are | priced 4 to $4.50 a_ crate of two| dozen boxes, while Texas beets and car- Tots are bringing $3 a crate of 5 dozen bunches. rown kale, spinach and other | s are coming on the market just , priced at from 75 cents to $1 a§ hile Spring onions from near- and and Virginia will soon be | plentiful. | New potatoes are late this year. They | are priced at $7 to $7.50 a barrel, Today’s Wholesale Prices. Buiter—One-pound prints, 46'%a47; tub, 46a46!,; store packed, 28a30. Fggs—Hennery, 29a30; fresh selected, 28a29: current receipt: 48a50; roosters, Leghorns, geese, 20; keats, 240. Dressed— Leghorns, 32; ge, 3 1], 38a40; ducks, 32a33; geese, 20a : keats, 80a1.00. Meats, fresh killed—Beef, 20a23; lamb, 30a33; veal, 25a28; pork loins, 28a 30; fresh hams fresh shoulders, 20; oked hams, 27a2 moked shoulders, bacon, 22; lard, in bulk, 13%zal ‘kages, 14'2al15; compound lard, 13a | ways in an uproar. (@ complete rest from all housekeeping ESTATE. THE EVEN A Change of Menu. ATILDA put down her pencil with a furtive air and folded up the newspaper. She had been looking over the adver- tised sales of groceries for the next day, and she wondered if Marie, her maid, had sgen where she had the paper open. Madtilda was essentially a home body. She loved to cook and plan, thoroughly enjoyed going to market and inspecting everything she bought. “I would like to get a stout brown basket and go to market,” thought Matilda wearily as her housekeeper entered. “The stuff the French cook prepares tastes all alike; I'd rather have a good dish of corned beef and cabbage than any of the filet mignons or chicken a la king.” Mrs. Briggs coughed significantly as she stood before her employer, She did not intend to allow any newly rich to keep her standing; positions were too plentiful for that. “Good morning, Mrs. Briggs, what is it?” “I am not satisfled with my rooms I like more sun of a morning.” Mrs Briggs did not use ma’am in her con- versation. She was the reduced widow of an Army officer and never permit- ted herself or others to forget that fact. “As I aMvays sald to my husband, the captain, I require a great deal of sun- shine and milk; that certified milk I've been drinking has not been real good {;Lelv I changed milkmen this mor- 8- “Are you drinking certified milk?" queried Matilda. “Certainly,” Mrs. Briggs tossed her pale red head. “I require the best of food to keep me fit for my duties. I told the man servants to change my | furniture into the front rooms on the | third floor—" “But those are guest rooms! Some people are coming tomorrow—" began Matilda excitedly. “What's all that noise about?” Brown had just entered and he looked crossly at his wife. ‘This house is al- I came home to be quiet and find the halls filled with fur- | niture. You may go, Mrs. Briggs, I wish | to speak to your mistress- * THE NG STORY and,” she paused a moment thinking, “when we lived there before we never had any money to spare. It would be pretty nice, Jim, to go back and have something to draw on when donations were wanted. Do you remember how mortified we were that year that we could not buy chautauqua tickets and everybody wondered why we didn't go, and the Taylors were always offering us their seats saying they couldn't use them? I've often thought that Agnes guessed that we were short and lent them for that reason.” Jim stared back at his wife’s ani- mated face. In the hall outside the bumping had ceased, but the pert tones of the ladies’ maid could be heard arguing with the captain’s relict: guess I have been chasing shad he sald at last. “Shall I go down and tell Jenkins I'll accept that offer?” Matilda beamed. “Yes and we'll close up here and go back?” He nodded. “Do you know I believe I'll plan our first dinner. Think, Jim, of going down to old Mr. Blair's butcher shop and se{l’ng exactly what we're going to gel “The first night we're back, Mat, let's have corned beef and cabbage,” he said, and Matilda smiled assent. (THE END.) (Copyright, 1929.) T MRS MISSING MAN WRITES. Relatives Hear From South Caro- linian After 30 Years. IVA, 8. C, March 30 (#).—The whereabouts of Mason Sherard, who disappeared from Iva 30 years ago, has just been discovered. He is in New Orleans. After almost two score years in which no message had been received from him, a letter was received by Post- master Reed here asking for informa- tion about members of his family The postmaster, a brother-in-law of the missing man, replied at once. EVENING T|yond the north shore of Siberia. STAR, WASHINGTON, AIRMAN FLIES OVER BERING STRAIT Water Where Asia and Amer- ica Nearly Meet Crossed by Plane. Bering Strait, where Asia and Amer- ica nearly meet, recently was spanned by air when an aviator flew from Nome to a vessel lying in the Arctic Ocean be- “Less than 300 years ago, Bering Strait had not been crossed by a boat with a civilized navigator in command, says a bulletin from the National Geo- graphic Soclety. “Since then, whalers, Arctic explorers and adventurers have passed through and across the strait. “About 20 years after the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, two Russian expeditions sailed along the western | bank of Bering Strait without seeing| the American side. Later a trading sta- tion was established on the Russian bank, but it was nearly a century later that Alaska was explored from the west. “Rumors were current at the Russian trading station that there was an island in the strait, hidden by the fog that en- | velops the region, and that America lay to the east. The ‘island’ proved to be two islands now known as Diomedes. Today one of the Diomedes belongs to Russia, the other to the United States for the international boundary line runs between them. They are inhabited by Eskimos who make their living chiefly as ‘g0 betweens’ for American and Rus- sian traders. Strait, Sea and Island. “Bering Strait and Bering Sea take | their names from Vitus Bering, & | Danish navigator, who enlisted in the | Russian navy in 1703. Peter the Great | ordered him to the east coast of Siberia | in 1725. He went overland to Okhotsk | and then to Kamchatka, where he built | Again the red head reared itself pride- | fully, “I am: considered an expert housekeeper and the furniture is being moved for my comfort. As I always told | my husband, the captain, I cannot put | forth my best efforts unless I am thor- | ougly comfortable. There are the house- | keeping bills for last month. Consider- ing the rising prices, I think them very | reasonable.” | Mr. Brown sank wearily into a chair |as the door closed sharply after the | angular form. “I wish I again hear of ‘my husb: tain.'” he muttered then. Matilda, have you been running a} boarding house? The bills are half as| much again as they were last month, | and they were simply outrageous then!” His wife looked at him helplessly. “I | don’t know what to do. I cannot seem | to grasp the right way of running such a large house. Mrs. Briggs resents it | greatly if I ask what she is going to order each day. Says that that is her part, to save my time, but I feel as though I lived in a hotel. Do you think it helps your business much to live in such grand style?” Jim looked up from the item—certi- fied milk—with a puzzled frown. The sum total seemed astonishingly large to him, but he supposed that his wife | needed the costly milk. “My business?” he repeated, “why, no, I keep up this great house and retinue of lazy servants | simply for your comfort. We saved and | scrimped so long that I resolved that if I ever could afford it you should have might never | the cap- | Great Scott, | cares and live a life of serene leisure, You've always been a good wife, Mat, and if it pleases you to go about all Our Furnished Home 1433 Whittier Street Will Be Open Sunday and Daily For Your Inspection. FEATURES Nine rooms, three baths, concrete porch, Eng- lish casement windows, open fireplace with artis- tic mantel, wrought iron stair rail, rubber tile floors in kitchen and pantry, hardwood floors upstairs and down, floored attic, slate roof, hot water heat, cedar closets, tastefully landscaped 14,750 - Completely Furnished and Decorated by grounds. W. B. Moses & Sons & D. O. SATURDAY. MARCH 30, 1929. a ship for his explorations. He sailed up the Berlnf Bea coast, but America was hidden in the. fog. On a sub- sequent voyage, in 1741, he saw the American continent for the first time. On his way back to Siberia, Bering's ship was wrecked on what is now known as Bering Island in the Com- mander group. Sailors who reached the mainland carried the story of the fur trade possibilities in Alaska and soon ussian trappers and traders moved to the new continent. . “If the international boundary line continued north and south as it does through the strait, half of the Aleutians would belong to Russia. But at the south end of the strait it veers south- westward, mt.mnf the western end of the Aleutian chain by about 150 miles. “Treasure Islands” of Alaska. “The Commander Islands form the only group on the Russian side of the line, while the United States acquired the St. Lawrence, St. Matthew, Nunivak and the Pribilof Islands, when Seward paid Russia $7,000,000 for the famous ‘Seward Ice Box,' as Alaska was called by critics of the purchase. “Perhaps the most important and best known of the American islands are the Pribilofs, where the United States Bureau of Fisheries maintains a sealing station and fox ranch. During the Summer months, several hundred thousand seals inhabit the rocky shores of the Pribllofs, the world's largest fur seal breeding ground. Each year furs worth more than half a million dollars are shipped from the Pribilofs to the St. Louis fur market. A century ago the Bering Sea was also a whalers’ paradise, but, as in the North Atlantic, the supply of these huge mammals is scarce and the old whaling vessels are fewer in the ‘waters. “Bering Sea is 38 times larger than Lake Michigan. The Gulf of Mexico could be swallowed up in its area. If the Bering Sea were placed on a map Distinctive—Charming New Chevy Chase Home of the United States, with its north- ernmost, point at Chicago, the Aleutian Islands, which form its southern boun- dary, would dot the northern shore of the Gulf of Mexico. In the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries, with- out modern navigating instruments, the early explorers steered their frail ships over the vast sea, frequently imperiled by floating ice from the Arctic. ng the Winter months of the year a large pmloi;utmmhmemdbylu MINERS, THOUGHT DEAD, ARE RESCUED ALIVE Two Men Walk Out of Diggings Only Slightly Hurt After Cave-in. By the Associated Press. SHAMOKIN, Pa, March 30.—Two miners, entombed in the Cameron mine of the Susquehanna Collieries Co. for 19 hours and who had been given up for dead, were rescued early yesterday and they walked out of the mine only slightly hurt, Seventy-five tons of coal were moved by rescue crews to reach the two men— Walter Adamskie, 40, and George Ritz- | man, 27. They were caught in a rush of coal yesterday when a pillar which Ritzman started to drill gave way. They were unable to answer when rescuers tapped to them, and all hope of flgdlnl them alive had been aban- doned. Arrowroot, & valuable source of starch, is produced commercially only in the| Island of St. Vincent in the West Indies. Opportunities Three Different Period Designs Overlooking Chevy Chase Club Beautifully Landscaped Sites Very Enchanting Approach Six to Nine Large Rooms Side and Center Hall Entrance Two-car Detached Garages Prices That Please Exhibit Home 125 GRAFTON STREET In Exclusive Section Two REAT ES RED TAPE CLOGS SOVIET COURTS Jurists Are Working Out New Civil and Criminal Code. By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW .- -So much red tdpe has been found in local courts and in So- i viet_district prosecutors' offices by the All-Russian Congress of Soviet Jurists that a new and sir2ie code for both civil and criminal procedure is being worked out. Some of the cases brought to light have been denounced as ex- amples of ridiculous official stupidity. One of the investigations disclosed a police court in which children of 6 and TATE, awarded to an examining magistrate who used 387 days to tnven'uarz 8 mere Caime to a1t Tad oot w1 Sty % a] ost all significance and was dropped. o 1$100,000 THEFT CHARGED. Two Men Arrested for Stealing Screen Actor’s Bonds. LOS ANGELES, March 30 (#)—Carl ’Colemm. 25, and Morris Goodman, 24, | were under arrest here today in con- nection with the theft of $100,000 in boa)d,s owned by Wallace Beery, screen actor, The men confessed having the bonds in their possession, but said they were {smlcn by a third man whose name they did not know, according to police. Payment on the bonds, taken from Beery's coat at a motion picture studio, was stopped and new bonds issued to Open Until 9 P.M. Drive west on Grafton St. from Chevy Chase Circle two blocks to home, 9 years of age figured as defendants. nim The tots had been asked for their 2 names, ages, occupations, professions and similar bureaucratic data. They even had been required to sign written promises not to leave the country. | A magistrate in the Kalmik province | questioned 1,200 witnesses on some trifling affair. The records of a dis- trict attorney showed he had examined | 31 witnesses on a case involving the| alleged {legal expenditure of 13 rubles, | equivalent to about $6.50 in United States coin. But the palm—or piece of rubber pie (#).—The Norwegian Cargo steamer Kaituna. at $365,000, to Great Britain. was proceeding to bews were seriously Melbourne. Just Completed in North Cleveland Park All-brick homes of astonish- ing size and unusual beauty that establish new standards of value for homes in their price class—and offer the op- portunity, at last, to acquire a home that mcets your every Dimensions of house: 43 ft. deep 26 ft. wide at bay requirement as to size and equipment. . . . Eight spa- cious rooms, two baths, attie, cedar closets, cold storage room. Built-in garge. Chas. W. Morris & Son, Builders Crew in Ship Sinking Saved. MELBOURNE, Australia, March 30 cargo siteamer Selje was sunk west of Cape Otw: yesterday in collision with the Union ‘The Selje was carrying 114,000 bags of wheat, valued The crew was rescued by the Kaituna, which Her damaged, however, or whatever the prize should be--was'and she wirclessed for assistance. dressed up and stay up half the night playing cards with a lot of idle people, why. it's all right. I'm trying to learn to like this kind of semi-public life, and NATIONAL MORTGAGE LOVE FOR DOG STOPS ELEPHANT’S RAMPAGE | Hears Bark and:Quiets Down After | Tearing Out of Arena and Breaking Down Fences. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, March Tex, 30.—Love for a dog chum stopped & circus ele- phant on a rampage here Thursday. The pachyderm tore out the side of an arena at the Christy Brothers Circus ‘Winter quarters, terrorized motorists on a highway and threatened to enter a farmhouse before it was subdued. When a leopard being trained to ride the elephant around the arena rebelled, the huge beast became excited, breaking its chains and butting its the huilding. Fences went do the elephant as it crossed and recrossed | a railroad track and motorists were sent scampering to safety as the fugitive Jumbered down the Galveston Highway for a mile. waving its trunk wildly. Slim Walker, “bull man,” hung on to & hook in the elephant’s ear, vainly trying to quiet the beast. Finally, at a farmhouse, a dog barked furious ‘The elephant hesitated. ‘Then Walker showed his wil “Here, Rover! Here Rov He called, tugging at the elephant's ear. The huge animal quieted down, listened to the keeper for a few minutes, and then tamely submitted to being led back to the circus headquarters. “He thought the dog was his chum, which rode in the car with the elephant for several seasons,” Walker grinned. Shop Employes Given Increase. CHICAGO, March 30 (#).—An in- crease of from 3 to 5 cents an hour in the wage rate of approximately 10,000 shop employes of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Rall- | grimly. if business would only pick up—" he pulled up abruptly and reddened as Ma- tilda's sharp eyes studied his face. “Finish your sentence,” she com- | manded in the old tone she had used when she had taught in the grammar | school back in Franklin. “You are | keeping something back from me.” | He squirmed in his seat and ruffled the sheaf of bills in his hands while | Mrs. Briggs’ sharp tones could be heard | amid the moving of furniture in the hall outside. “Tell me, Jim,” urged Matilda with | an awakened gleam in her gray eyes, | “have you been keeping up this big | establishment just to pleasure me?” | ‘The quaint phrasing brought a rem- ' | iniscent smile to his tired face: “That is my aim in life,” he admitted rather briefly. “I want to see you col tented. I figured that with charge ac- counts at all the big shops, plenty of | friends and a housekeeper to run the household you'd be right pert, but——" “*But’ is just the word,” said Matilda Let's have an understanding. You hinted something about business picking up. Are you losing money?” “It's most all lost.” He did not meet | her look but kept his eyes on the bills. | “I had a chance to sell out today for | $25,000 to a concern that wants to merge my patents in with another busi- | ness, but the interest from that sum | would not keep us in this style. I shall | try to get some more business and pull | through, but I guess I'm getting old. I| don't seem to have the same zest for a fight that T used to have. I am getting | tired of the strain and struggle. Life | goes too fast for me here in the city— Matilda’s face was a study. To gaze at the pleasant, middle-aged counte- nance one would never have guessed that she had just listened to a report of losses. The worried lines about her mouth relaxed and her lips curved in | a tender smile. “Tell me, Jim, do you | get homesick for the old town? For the cool, pleasant streets where you feel at home and where you can turn in any gate and_ find a welcome? What is money? It hasn’t brought us any hap- piness. I've never felt really at home way was announced yesterday by J. T. Gillick, vice president in charge of operations. The increase will involve about $1,000,000 a year, Mr. Gillick in this big house, but I had an idea it helped you in business. Twenty-five thousand dollars would be a fortune ' [B[e—=[o[c———ol——=—lol——— TRUTH CONFIRMED back home. We would never want to spend more than the interest of that 1004 Vt. Ave. Main 5833 3709 WINDOM PLACE—Open Sunday and & INVESTMENT CORP. | J. €. Douglass Co. 5 ' 3604 QUESADA ST. 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