Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1929, Page 3

THE . EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, * STEADY BUSINESS GANS REPORTED Gradual But Considerable Trend Upward Is Noted by Lamont. Amcrican business has been cnar- ucterized by neither sharp booms nor siumps during the past eight years, in | the opinion of Secretary of Commerce Lamont. With two or three minor and short- lived recessions. he said in his report for the vear ending June 30, 1929, the upward ‘trend of production’ and con- sumption had been gradual, but in the aggregate considerable For the 12-month period he said the fctivity of American factories the high spot of industry, and while busi- | ness was not spotted by the feverish ac tivity of the war period and the imme- diately succeeding boom, the actual pro- | duction of commodities and services | was larger The Secretary reported that the high activity of manufacturing and mining | industry during the year was accom- panied by larger employment of labor | and reduction in part-time work. Shift in Occupations. “Throughout our history a gradual | shift has been taking place in the occu- | pations of the people,” he said. “The | proportion engaged in production of | necessaries of life has steadily fallen.| more and more labor being set frce to vanced commodities and serv- teristic of a higher standard ! of living.” Some improvement in the agricul- DOZENS VAINLY Office Seel(ers. PCI‘ Guards tg Reach BY HUBERT W. KELLY. Special Dispatch to The Star. MEXICO CITY, December 16.—Only the flowers of his campaign have adorned the garden of President-elect | Ortiz Rubio these last two weeks. They are not so pleasing to the eye, all of them, but they are fragrant—fragrant with ‘hair oil and perfume. Senor Rubio’s unannounced departure for the United States did not_entirely uproot those flowers, either. How did | they know he had gone? They did not see him go, and one distrusts rumor in | »xico. Hence one distrusts everything. Office-seckers, concession-seekers, per- sonal friends 'and political friend: deputies with their badges of immuni- ty, which make it possible for them to man a machine gun in a campaign with mpunity; suave and portly men with ark and bafling eyes; slim ranchmen in tight velvet suits, high-heeled boot: nd sombrerors with bright tassels; In- dians with serapis and copper faces as pitted with smallpox as many plaster | facades are pitted with bullet marks; women with long_hair, black mantillas and arms full of lilies—such are the | flowers that grow in the garden of | Senor Rublo. Gate Is Guarded Closely. An iron picket fence separates the | garden from the street, and one gate | | with a sentry box to guard it gives access. One must have good credentials | or a charming countenance to pass that | tural situation during the year was| noted by the Sccretary. With an ‘- | crease of 2 per cent over the year end- | ed June 30, 1928, the gross income from farm products (after deducting the | value of crops fed or used for seed) | . the 2 he report construction industry vorted by the head to have been one branches of business whi active during the year, while the net operating income of class 1 railroads was the largest ever reported, exceed- ing the figure for the previous year by 20 per cent. Service Improved. | He asserted that the quality of serv- | ice furnished by railways, as wel; as by | other public carriers, was better than | at any other time in the hiscory of the | country, with shortage of cars a rare | occurrence. ‘The other branch of transportation, American shipping, also | was reported to have progressed satis- factor! Exports continued to take an in- | creasingly large place in American in- dustrial life, with the export trade for the fiscal year 10 per cent greater in value than the year before and 43| per cent greater than in 1921-22, UNDERWRITERS ELECT. William H. Somervell was clected | chairman of the governing committee at the fifteenth annual meeting of the ‘Underwriters’ Association of the Dis- trict of Columbia held recently, Other officers elected were: A. W. Howard, vice chairman, and E. S. Brashears. treasurer. SPECIAL NOTIC! WASHINGTON, D. C.. DECEMBER 16. 1920 TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE NA- TIONAL DEFENSE LIFE INSURANCE COM- PANY: TAKE NOTICE That the annual Jmeeting of the stockhoiders of the National Detense Life Insurance Company will be held at the principal office of this Company, No. 806 17t street n.w.. Washington. D. C. o Tuescay, January 14, 1930, at 10:00 o'clock am. for the election’of a Board of Trustees of said National Defense Life Insurance Com- Pany for the ensuing vear, and for the con- sideration of any other business that may Jezally come before said meeting. MARK L. NERSEY. Secretary. el 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY | Gebts other than those contracted person- | @iy by me. GEORGE NICHOLSON. 509 n'w ath I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR | debts other than those contracted by my- | self.” GEORGE E. MARSHALL, 146 You st. ne . LOAD OR_PART WANTED, AT ONCE, TO or from Philadelphia, New Yor'. and points st return-load price. Dis 5636, 16 I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE _FOI Qebts contracted by any one but myself. LOUIS C. DAVIS, Ballston, Va. I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts other (han those contracted by myself. R._C._ COMPTON, 508 8th st —WIL E TIME TO COVER YOUR 1i_rotted manure. Call on F. 726 10th st r phune Prices low. W IS T with wel ERRELL. in 964! Also e WANTED—RET grom New York, . 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The ground floor of the Rubio iome, a three-story gray stucco house of lit- tle pretension, is the recepticn room, or. to be exact, the first reception room. Men sit upon tables, congregate in whispering groups or stand near one of several doors, ready to cpring upon the first second assistant secretary un- wise to show himself. Cloudy With Tobacco Smoke. The room is dim and cloudy with to- bacco smoke. Opals shine dimly on hands and neckties. A portly deputy with tanned skin and glittering black eyes fills_the air with perfume as he passes. Everybody shakes hands with everybody else at every passing. One deputy shakes hands five times with the same man in five minutes and re- turns as an afterthought to shake hands again. It is a comforting sort of ceremony. Senor “Slim” Hernandez, Senor Rubio’s confidential man, dares to emerge from the second reception room. He wears a long overcoat and an English muffler. He works in both: the air is very chill indoors. Immediately he is surrounded by the multitude “Just_one minute. For the love of God. It is exceedingly important.” “Certainly,” says Senor Hernandez, absently. examining a sheaf of docu- ments before he scurries out into the peopled garden. “Certainly, senor.” He worms his way out. He has for- gotten. He will say “Certaintly” again in an hour to the same persons. Pay “Messengers” Arrive. Several dusty men raise a clamor in the corridor. There is a jingle of metal. Make way! Make way! Riders from Sonora. Couriers from Chiapas. A murmur_goes up in the first reception room. The men, each burdened with | a sack of silver pesos, worm their way into the room. A hilarious cheer rises from several adjacent rooms. Pay day! Bravo! The stenographers | come out to greet the pesos. The sec- retaries come out and slap the peso- bearers on the back. It is all very exciting and very significant. A regu- lar_pay day prevents revolution. Senor Calles paid his army regularly. His army served him well. A" man-about-town strolls in with gloves and cane. The crowd makes way. He is a powerful man. Always he is “in” with the government. A few courageous ones stretch out their hands. “How are you, my beloved friend? Do you think it is possible to see Senor ldiubln one minute? I have waited three ays.” ‘The man-about-town is sympathetic. He whispers to the guard at the door of the second reception room, which already is crowded. “Pass” says the guard, and the secker after something joyously enters. He will emerge perspiring and dis- couraged in several hours. There are other reception rooms beyond. Deputies Confer Vigorously. Across the street from the stucco house—one ca&n see them between two taxis—is a group of deputies, vigor- ously conferring. They are a faction in the chamber, accused of having used rather violent campaign methods against the Vasconcelistas in the recent election. Ufidoubtedly the accusation | 1s false, for ‘one may be sure that any- thing one hears on the streets of the City of Mexico will bear thorough in- But they are conferring on some very vital subject, and anxious glances are cast at them from the men in the garden. Deputies, it is said, are privileged to settle disputes among themselves by the primitive method. But nothing happens. It is every day. It is endless. The president-elect tried to see everybody. He wanted to sce everybody. But he could not see the whole million voters. No wonder he slipped out the back door and boarded his private car elsewhere than at the Colonial Station, where everybody waited to see him off. No wonder he sought refuge in the United States to see Calles, Rockefeller, Hoover and everybody else whom, according to inexhaustible rumor, he was to visit. Just an Average House. The unkind ones have said that the house of Senor Rubio, leased by him several months ago, is a mansion for an aristocrat. But that, it is possible to announce authoritatively, is untruc. It is the sort of house the average weil- to-do business man in the United States Christmas Memorial Wreaths Composed of artistically arranged Magnolia Leaves, Red Ruscus, Pine Cones and Heather— $3.50 and $5.00 May Be Shipped Anywhere g Telephone AT RUBIO'S RECEPTION ROOMS| Friends Attempt to Pierce Rows of STORM LINE | | sonal and Political i | { President-Elect. | | would occupy. It is simple in desin | and built of brick, plaster and stucco, | | cheap enough materials in Mexico. A water tank is reared aloft to serve the house when the waterworks are shut down, a nightly occurrence. . In the rear is a small poultry pen. The garden in front is small, Calles, Portes Gil and Rubio all have sought to live simply. It is part of the | proletarian gesture. None has occupied | the grim gray mass of Chapultepec. | except for state receptions. President | | Portes_Gil lives in a little house on the | slope below the castle. Calles, whose | | enemies accuse him of squandering the | commonwealth’s money, ~what _little there is of it, occupies a light brown | | stucco house on small grounds near the | home of Rubio. The house in the| United States would cost about $75,000, no more. Favors German Things. A small military garrison was main- tained at the driveway to protect the property and occupants in Calles' ab- sence in Europe, whence he has just | returned. He has the reputation of fearlessness however, and on his recent campaign as army chief he went walk- ing in hostile cities without an escort. Senor Rubio, or, to be utterly Me: fcan, President-elect Engineer Ortiz Rubio, maintains a_rather German household. His attaches say his cuisine is German, his only alcoholic beverage beer, his hobby chess. He seldom drinks beer, and certainly, when at home, he drinks nothing stronger. “More German than Mexican,” his | confidential man says. “He has trav- | eled much abroad, but no people, ex- | cept the German, colored his per- | sonality.” (Copyricht 1§29 by North American News- baper Alliance.) (Next: Dwight Morrow's influence.) BUTLER SUGGESTED AS DRV FORCE HEAD Senator Brookhart Saysli General Would Succeed to Fullest Extent. Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler, U.S. M. C. has been_proposed by Senator Brook hart of Iowa as “head of prohibition enforcement.” Speaking yesterday at the First Congregational Church, under auspices of the National United Com- mittee for Law Enforcement, the Iowa | Senator said that if Gen. Bulter weré given proper support he would “enforce the law to the fullest extent.’ The reason Gen. Butler fafled in Philadelphia, Senator Brookhart said, was that he was not supported by the so-called higher circles.” He added that a similar condition prevalled in ‘Washington. Brookhart reiterated his previous as- sertion that Predident Hoover made a “gigantic mistake” in naming Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, and consequently in~ charge of prohibition enforcement. ‘Would Probe Judges. In addition, he said he believed the Senate should investigate the activities of Federal judges in liquor cases. Speaking at the same meeting, Clin- ton N. Howard, chairman of the na- tional united committee, suggested the creation of a separate department of public welfare to enforce the prohibition law. He proposed it as the “only solu- tion” to the problem of making effective the dry laws. Howard said that the program of the President to transfer the Prohibition | Bureau to the Department of Justice |and leave the control of the distribu- tion of industrial alcohol in the Treas- ury Department “will bore a million bung-holes in the eighteenth amend- ment.” “It is fatal to enforcement,” he said, “because it creates a divided responsi- bility and puts a financial premium upon a liberal construction of liquor permits for industrial uses.” Hails President Hoover. He hailed Herbert Hoover as the first resident _since prohibition who has “had in his heart any purpose to en- force it.” “This is prohibition's first chance,” he said, “and in a very solemn and im- perative way it is prohibition's last chance. “If we fail to uphald the hands of the President in this crucial hour, we are headed for a fearful moral reaction in the next presidential election. It is now or never for prohibition; it must be made effective under the Hoover ad- ministration, or the battle of Armaged- don Is on, Unless President Hoover can carry out his enforcement program, there is danger that the wets will stage a_triumphant come-back in the next presidential election.” Ontario, Canada, estimates that visit- ing tourists spent $150,000000 there in TIRE BARGAINS When you need a dependable Used Tire see us. We are taking them in on new DUNLOPS every day. All used tires gu aranteed to deliver mileage in proportion to price. LEETH BROS. 1220 13th St. N.W. Met. 0764 1407 H St. Between 14th and 15th Sts. National 4905 | republic’s constitution. HATTIANS ASK .S, | 10 CONTROL VOTING S i | | By the Associated Pres | PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, December | 16.—Petitions signed by the president of | seven Haitian political organizations | asking United States supervision of Lhe; presidential elections next April, wel’ei sent by airmail yesterday to President | Hoover. The signatories of the petitions claim to have more than 100,000 followers in the interior. The petitions state that only through American supervision of elections will the Haitians receive fair and impartial treatment. They charge President Louis Borno with attempts to enslave the citizenry, with denying freedom of the press and with violat- ing the personal liberty clauses of the The signers state that unless the United States takes immediate and de- cisive steps to clear the Haitian polit- ical situation through the requested controlled elections the island will re- main “In its present state of incipient | revolution.” They charge that free and impartial elections cannot exist under the French electoral system which places electoral rights within the power of a committee of 21. They allege that this com- mittee has always been bought by the | administration. The petition says: “The subscribed presidents of Haitian_associations, es- | tablished in Port au Prince and aided | by numerous outlying districts of the ! republic. take advantage of the pres- ence in Haiti of special correspondents of the press of the United States to make known to the people and the Covernment of the United States the opinion of the Haitian nation. “Recall Solemn Pledges.” “Believing that the government of | Haiti is essentially democratic and being furthermore assured that American in- tervention in 1915 was only to aid the Haitian people, we ask United States supervised elections in 1930. “The signers, presidents of leading associations, recall the solemn promises of the United States Government and demand the carrying out of these promises in their spirit and the letter of the law. We ask that in April, 1930, | the new President be elected through the loyalty of the people in sincere elections instead of through the Council of State committee of 21 which hereto- fore has been empowered to name the new President and which has always been subject to the intervention of the President and other political powers already in office.” May Remove Martial Law. ‘Those who signed the petitions were Perceval Thoby of the Patriotic Union, Seymour Tradel of the National Con- stitutional League, Antonio Vieux, jr.. Patriotic League; J. P. Mexile of the League of Rights and Citizenship, L. C. Herisson of the Public Instruction Asso- ciation, D. Bellegarde of the Haitian Association of the League of Nations, and M. Rampy of the Haitian Masonic Order. ‘The republic was quiet over the week end. The martial law established last week has been relaxed and the curfew hour gradually extended. Officers of | the Marine Corps said they expected martial law to be entirely removed early | this week. | News dispatches of the demonstra- tions in New York, Washington and | other American cities have been kept from the public by the high commis- sioner Petitions for Supervision of Presidential Elections in April Are Sent Hoover. Carnegie Institution of Washington 16th and P Streets Northwest Annual Exhibition of SC;ent;fic Work Open to the Public 2 to 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Monday, December 16 Short illustrated talks will be given each evening SCHEDULE OF LECTURES Monday Evening Motion Picture— SUNSET ON THE MOON. Chester Stock— CATS OF THE ICE AGE. E. H. Morris—AN ARCHAEOLO- GIST AT WORK 8:30 H. D. Babcock—THE STORY OF THE SPECTRUM ............. 9:00 ;\Tt:i; the PERIL of colds . . . Always a cold is annoying, often it's perilous. For colds lower the resistance of your body to disease. Fight your cold with Vapex. 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A college professor down in Heffland casually remarked “that while Jonah might have swallowed the whale, or vice versa,” he personally didn’t have “enough digestion to even swallow the story.” ‘The school offered up a prayer for him, but no further sal- ary. That will be a lesson to him to lay off Jonah in his future mono- logues. Then Gen. Smedley Butler started doing a little reminiscing out loud about some of the old-time antics of the Marines in Nicaragua, and now he is to face a senatorial firing squad. So from now on 1 even believe in farm relief. Yours, WILL. PARLEY WILL DECIDE COAL STRIKE STATUS ;Illinois Mine Reopening Is Delayed Pending Withdrawal of Troops on Men's Demand. By the Associated Press. TAYLORVILLE, Ill.. December 16— Whether the National Miners' Union strike in the Taylorville coal fields would | flourish or fade appeared to depend considerably today on the outcome of a conference between authorities and a | ;;:mmltte: of miners from Peabody Mine 0. 9. The Peabody Co., largest coal opera- tors in this district, had planned to re- sume work at No. 9 today, but results of a meeting of its local union yesterday somewhat dimmed prospects. ‘The miners voted not to go back down the shafts until the National Guards- men had been withdrawn and until the strikers were assured of their old jobs and those under arrest were assured of proper_disposition of their cases. At Pana, 16 miles south of here, the | Penwell mine prepared for renewal of work today. its union men voting Satur- day by 208 to 129 to return to their | picks. Music Typéwriter Invented. Composers may record their thoughts on paper in the same manner as au- thors by use of a “musical typewriter” | which has just been invented by a mu- sician of Italy. The device resembles a typewriter, but has 64 keys and a series of buttons and levers controlling ma- chinery which permits the writing of music in any key. MONDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1929. ! U.S. CUTTER AIDS EIELSON SEARCH |Will Carry Three Planes and, Canadian Pilots to | Arctic Region. | By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, December 16.—The Coast Guard cutter Chelan was in readiness | here today to convey three airplanes |and six Canadian pilots north to_aid | in the search for Pilot Carl Ben Eiel- son and his mechanic, Earl Borland | who disappeared November 9 while | trying to fly to the fur-trading ship | Nanuk, locked in the ice at North | Cape, Siberia. ) | “The planes will be crated and lashca | to the deck and the cutter will i | ready to sail for Seward, Alaska. as | soon as pilots and aircraft are aboard From Seward the planes will be ship- ped to Fairbanks. reassembled, and flown either to Nome or Teller, the Iatter place now being the base of | rescue operations. | ! Deckhard Heads Party. i | Maj. Howard C. Deckhard, produc- | | tion ‘manager for the Fairchild Air-! planes Manufacturing Corporation of | | New York, is in Seattle to supervise shipment of the planes and will pro-| | ceed with them to Fairbanks. Author- | | | | ity to employ the Chelan in the rescue | expedition was obtained Saturday from | naval authorities at Washington. | | Elelson’s plane carried emesgerncy | | rations for 30 dyys and a_quantity of | food for the Zanuk. Although the | Nanuk is well supplied with provisions | those on board asked Eielson to_ bring back some extras on his second trip, | mostly to add variety to the caily fare { of those aboard. Weather Handicaps Flyers. | Veteran Alaskan pilots at Teller have | had no success in taking off for Si- beria in search of their companions because of accidents and adverse weather conditions. They also have | been handicapped by lack of properly | equipped planes for Winter flying in | the Far North. | Capt. H. A. Oaks of Winnipeg, win- ner of the McKee Trophy for the best Canadian air achievement in 1927, will Swartman, m Hicks. | Hector Estonia is considering plans for erect- ing at the waterfalls of Narova River at Narva, a hydroelectric plant costing $2,680,000, and a wood-pulp mill to cost about the same sum. | | Christmas Cards Washington’s FR Pictures 1237 G Street—Open Evenings Ask for Samples and Estimates Just in Time for Christmas!!!— AUCTION SALE Of Genuine, Import ORIENTAL RUGS BY PUBLIC AUCTION Within Our Oriental Rug Gallery At 420 10th St. N.W. On December 18, 19, 20 and 21 At 2 P.M. and 8 P.M. Each Day ‘This marvelous assortment of IMPORTED, HAND-WOVE! RUGS includes ANTIQUES, SEMI-ANTIQUES and MODERNS from ?nn size to 12x22 13.'3.". These are rugs that charge. This is our Our Mr. A. EXPERT, will At this sale December 19; Friday, December 20, and Saturday, December 21, at 2 P.M. and 8 United States Storage Co. 418-420 10th St. N.W. Opposite th W. 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EACH DAY. $1,500,000 ESTATE MAY BE SETTLED OUT OF COURT Petition Filed by Heir of William McClintock, Jr., for Adjustment of Claimants’ Portions. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 16— A petition for authorization of an out- of-court settlement of the $1,500.000 estate of William (“Billy”) McClin- tock, jr., was on file in the Superior PARKING SERVICE DuLIN Yy 5 ‘a Week! ntil Christmas TR Diamond Ring 50c a Week A most beautiful diamond in a resplendent mount- i A’ great value at ing. this low price and these High quality watch at \ an extremely low price. \\ Complete with a fine metal mesh band FREE! Smart style in all our Hamilton watches. A wide variety of both strap and pocket models. \ ing aM Connecticut Ave. ana 1’ | Court here today on behalf of William Eaton, an heir, an inmate of the State Hospital at_Agnew, Call. William D. Shepherd, who was ag. cused of poisoning McClintock, woyd receive $750,000 under the terms of eie petition. 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