Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1929, Page 36

ANNUAL FIRE LOSS HERE SHOWS SLUMP Chief Watson Says Damage Was $1,058,709—Requests Pay Faise for Force, DRUG STORE FIRM OPPOSES AUCTION Objects to Confirmation of Sale of ‘Washington Building Be- cause of Lease. The Peoples Drug Stores filed objec- tion in the District Supreme Court yes-: terday to the confirmation by the court of the recent sale of the Washington Ly Building, at Fifteenth and G streets, to Hooper, Kimball & Willlams, Inc., for $4.005,000. THE EVE G dwpmm ‘Wheatley an . e oot B anthority o make sale of of the building occupled by and to the company. The saie was conducted at an unseasonable and im- the was the of its value as shown to the HONOLYLU 1‘.- ST e .|.Iel Staral Muil Steamers NI s) Bept. 18 RANGT Bee: 11 “AO] S rom Vancouver | The to the Court of Ap- points out that the|fected an appeal yu?usdvmmmmmlm lndnenua!lumuhlp-'- jeases when the company had per- | tion of the building. STEAMSHIPS. =y nnnsms TEXAS with a Day at MIAMI e STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 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All-sear freight service every Wednesday & Saturday Washington's fire loss during the fiscal year ended June 30, last, is re- garded as “low in insurance loss rat- ings,” according to the annual report of the District of Columbia Fire De- partment submitted yesterday to the District Commissioners. ‘The total property loss, $1,088,709 for the year, showed a decrease of $12.455; compared with 1928. Chief Engineer George 8. Watson declared the average loss per fire was $312, which was re- garded as “very low,” ‘or a per capita of $1.97. Slightly more than 50 per cent of the total loss resulted from two disastrous fires. The Dulin & Martin fire repre- sented $361,332 of the total amount and a $200,000 fire occurred at Gies- boro Point, District of Columbia, when a seaplane burned. Washington’s total fire loss represented a fraction over 1.52 per cent of the $71,235.876 in insurance on the properties involved. Asks Wage Increase. Except for asking that the pay of members of the Fire Department be made substantially equal to the pay in other large cities, Chief Watson made no other recommendations in his re- port. Various suggestions for improve- ment in the service for which addi- tional funds would be required pre- viously had been forwarded to the Com- missioners in the form of estimates for the 1931 fiscal year. Alarms of fire during the year were 4,185 in number, an increase of 481 over the preceding year. There were 51 fires of a suspicious nature during the year and 13 of unquestionable in- cendiary origin. A boy was placed in the psychopathic ward of Gallinger Hospital for having set fire to the Henry D. Cooke School and a woman, it was reported, is being held for the action of the grand jury in another e X BUMPERWHEAT crop | K PERPLEXES FRENCH| € Nation Has Farm Rglief Problem on * Hands, Due to Production That Leaves Surplus. For Fares, stc. Apply Can. 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A7 Boquetrgo- ¥ " | “Our_Dancing Daugnters” | —ON THE ST. STAR J ERVICE % wl,t euery U 1350 F St. N.W. g~ SALE By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 10.—France has a bumper crop of wheat, sufficient not | only for the entire requirements of home consumption, but for export, for the first time in many years. Owing to the very excellence of the crop, how- ever, France has a farm relief problem on _its hands. This was brought out Sunday in a letter from Victor Boret, French food dictator in the Clemenceau cabinet, to Jean Hennessy, present minister of agriculture. He asked that a wheat export bonus be given growers in the form of receipts which might be ap- plied against imports of coffee, cocoa, m and other commodities. ‘The premiums on wheat exports, vhu:h would protect farmers against quotations, Boret suggests, be equal to the difference be- tween the price of home-grown wheat in domestic markets and that of for- eign wheat f.0.b. at French seaports, thus delivering to the French flrmer the usual import tax levied by the government on rnreig-n ‘wheat, TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. Poli’s—“Luckee Girl,” with Billy House, at 8:20 p.m. Gayety—“Broadway Scandals,” bur- lesque, at 2:15 and 8:15 p.m. itan—“Say It With Songs,” sound film, with Al Jolson, at 10:30 am, 12:15, 2:05, 3:55, 5:45, 7:35 and 9:35 p.m. U“Ie Theater—“The Passion of Joan of Arc,” at 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:40 and 9:40 p.m. Columbia—*The Mysterious Dr. Pu! 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