Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1933, Page 3

—_—— BPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE 1§ HERERY GIVEN THAT THE American Becurity and Trust Company has declared a dividend of two per cent on ff capital stock of $:,400.000. payable July 10th, 1933. to the stockholders of record at the close of business on June 30th. 1933. CORCORAN THOM. President. FREDERICK P. H. SIDDONS. Secretary. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: Hotel Winsion closes its doors after June 30. 1933. Notice is hereby given that all persons or firms having any claims to pre- sent_same at once to Oscar J. Bernstein. . P. A. 511 National Press Building Washinston. D. C. The Winston will_not be responsible for any debts incurred after this date. o WE WILL SELL AT G. EICHBERG, AUC- tloneer, 1227 R st. n.w. at 1% noon. lan, A one Vell motor No.” V. 8. 3 gerial 12504; one Stutz 1926 Sedan, motor No. R1958, serial No. 81257, car No. AAG. By NORTHWEST GARAGE CO. 2 SPECIAL RETURN-LOAD RATES ON FULL and part loads to all points within 1.000 miles; padded vans; guaranteed service: lo- cal moving also. . 1460. NAT. DEL. ASS( Y. ave. . _Phone NA. INC.. 1317 N. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BOARD OF Examiners in Veterinary Medicine will give an examination for license to practice. on July 6 and 7. 1933. F. W. GRENFELL, Becretary. 1916 H st. n.w. 30 I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts contracted at 638 D st n.w.. June 26.1933. OLIVER L. HARR. PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF, AR- ticle K, section 2. of the by-laws of the company, a special meeting of the stock- Tolders of the Capital Traction Co. is called be held at the office of the company at th and M sts. n.w. Washington, i e 3rd day of July. . to consider ‘the approval of a certain form of agreement for the unification of the Nansit properties in the District of Colum- ;85 contained in and provided by joint gt “to authorize the merger of street-raillway corporations operating in the District of Columbla and for other purposes.” The ~-"'; will be open from 11:15 a.m. unt'! i nocu. July 3, 1 H_D. CRAMPTOY. Secretary. ARE YOU GOING —through another Summer with a leaky roof> ~ Prevent falling _plaster. save dollars—send for us. _Feel s ROOFING 33 V St. N. O COMPANY __ North 4 i Treasury Department ©ffce of the Comptroller of the Currency ashington. D. C. ay persons who e Commercia) tional Bank of hington.” District of wllumbia, that the same must be presented fo Robert C. Baldwin, Recelver, with the legal proof thereof within three months from this date or they may be disallowed. 7 s ONN Comptroller ‘of the Curreney. INUTE ) YSTERY S Yo, P r. Fordney is professor of criminology at mous university. His advice is often sought by the police of many cities when confronted with particularly baffling cases. This problem has been taken from his case- book covering hundreds of criminal investi- Try_your wits on it! It takes but ONE MINUTE to read! Every fact and every clue n to its solution are in the Btory itse nd there is on How good a detective are you? A Lady in Ne:d. BY H. A. RIPLEY. HY did you walt so long before calling the oper- ator?” inquired Fordney. “Well, professor,” sa Doris Milton rather in- dignantly, “I was taking a hot shower | and I was alone in the apartment . . , after all . . .!” “Yes, well " “I'd been under the shower about 5 minutes when I heard some one in my dressing room. I peeped around the curtain and in the bath room mirror saw a man snatch my rings and necklace from the dressing table. 1 waited a few minutes so as to give him time to get out . . . I was so frightened! Then I dried my- sclf and called the switchboard.” “Rather difficult to hear any one in your dressing room With the shower Tunning, isn't it?” “well . . . yes . . . but he knccked over that small table there.” “Can you describe him? “I certainly can. He was a small, wiry, evil locking fellow about 30, I should say. He wore a blue suit and a light felt hat and . . . he had a gun in his left hand.” “Just about how long was it from the time you saw him until vou called downstairs?” inquired the professor. “Not more than 5 minutes,” was the repl “Then what?” “The house detective came up and after looking about suggested I call you. 1 do want those jewels back. professor. They're very valuable. Won't you help me? Please!” There was a pleading look in her eyes. “Why, yes. I'll help you, Miss Mil- ton . . . just tell me what YOU did with them. They must be heavily in- sured, otherwise you wouldn't have faked this robbery. Come, now!” WHY DID FORDNEY DISBELIEVE DORIS MILTON'S STORY? (For Solution Sce Page A-10.) Perhaps you have a story or problem you would like to submit to Prof. Ford- ney. If so, send it care of this paper. He will be delighted to receive it. (Copyright, 19 e operators of Hotel | ¥ | ference. . | cluded Mr. one answer. | ¢ GOLD ULTIMATUM THREATENS PARLEY Four Nations Say They Will Quit Conference Unless Currencies Are Pegged. (Contini m_First Page.) stated that a communication had been sent to Mr. Roosevelt, but the ac- count of this communication published by London newspapers was denied. The gold bloc ultimatum provided a new and grave crisis for the con- Virtually all the conference ac- tivities revolved about the stabiliza- | tion issue, which was rendered more acute by fresh weakness displayed by | the_American dollar. The American delegation, while still administrative matter to be dealt with by Washington, were compelled by tire situation to give most serious consid- eration to the question. Routine conference work was dumped ! overboard while private stabilization conferences were being held. The Americans held a long session at their hotel headquarters. In addi- tion to the delegates those present in- Moley, Oliver M. W. Sprague, United States Treasury execu- tive assistant, and Mr. Warburg. U. S. Group Silent. In the meantime Mr. MacDonald |and the gold bloc representatives were | holding & session which produced fire- | works. Representatives of France, Bel- | gium, Holland and Switzerland declared unequivocally at this meeting. it was understood, that they were through un- less support for stabilization was forth- coming. con%erencea over the stabilization crisis continued throughout the day. It was understood no decision had been reached as to whether the United States representatives will consider any fresh scheme for de facto stabilization. A the same time it was said it was quite possible that a new proposal may | be worked out and submitted to Wash- |ington in the next few days. | American quarters said one plan under discussion provided for action by | central banks to prevent speculation | | by restricting purchases of exchange | | to business needs. This, it was said, | is connected with the recent sharp drop in the dollar, which was ascribed by { many to speculation. | There was some disposition in Ameri- can quarters to regard the gold bloc warnings that the latter might be forced off the gold standard as a “scarecrow” to force stabilization. Sprague, when asked whether he was as cptimistic that there would be stabil- ization as he was several weeks ago, re- plied that “we are wandering around in a fog.” Confidence Shaken. The gold derstood to ve told Mr. MacDonald that the sole result of the conference so far had been to shake confidence in | their_currencies and that it bchooved the British government to take some | step to end this predicament. The gold bloc wants Great Britain | to_make a unilateral statement of its present level ard to proffer the aid of the Benk of England in maintaining the gold standard in those European countries where it now obtains. It was further understood that a | it expects Great Britain to take action, or th> four countries will cease to par- ticipate in the conference. The bloc, it was said. told the Brit- ish prime minister of an intention to withdraw all ministers and important experts, but to leave a few cecretaries in London to watch whet went on. France and her gold allies opened double-barreled pressure after threatening Prime M Donald one bv one yesterda Central bank reprosentatives met with Bank of England officials at the Bank of England. while government repre- sentatives put the prime minister on the griddle. The bankers were discuss- ing the possible text of a statement it was raid Britain might make to satisfy the gold standard nations. Gravest Crisis. The Britich were resisting these pleas, but their ultimatum, the gold bloz na- tions hope, will force the government to depart from its middle stream pad- dling and go to one side or the other. The British are looking to the Americans for the first move. mean- while throwing the responsibility for the situation on the United States. “If the United States stabilized the dollar we would settle the pound.” the British are said to have told the gold four- scme. Doubts were expressed by experts in the lobbies that the pound could keep a marriage contract with the franc should_Britain say “ves” to the gold bloc. The rapidly falling dollar, they said, would force a divorce between the ound and franc and a monetary scandal” would follow. This is the second time the gold na- tions have threatened the life of the ter Mac- economic conference and members of the bloc said they were fully aware that th[el conference was facing its gravest crisis| l24 ID you want to see me, Inspector?” the police reporter asked as he the in- came into office. Here is something you can —stole a build a story on for that series of queer thefts you are running. Can you believe that some thieves stole a golf course?” “Kidding me?” “In a way. They didn't exactly steal the whole golf course. Just hours forced the American delega- 4 i 14 racke By James E.Grant. took all the turf off the greens. Two hundred square yards of turf gone during the night.” “‘What could they do with that?” “Sold it to & cemetery. We found it the next day.” “Well, can you beat that?” golf course. “Anything to oblige, Jake. I can. A man in New Jersey went to a movie and when he came home there was an enormous hole in his front lawn. It had formerly contained a 15-foot magnolia tree in full bloom. Gone, roots and all.” printed to advise and protect i | These exposures of rackets are the public. (Cupyright, 1933.) insisting that the stabilization problem | | was outside their province and was an, dard countries were un- . willingness to maintain sterling at the | time limit was set by the bloc in which | on Britain | Whirlwind developments of the past 0 HIS photograph was made on board the Amberjack II yesterday at Lake- man Bay, Roque Island, Me., when President Roosevelt and Norman H. | Davis, his Ambassador at Large, conferred on the developments at the Geneva Disarmament Conference. Ambassador Davis was brought to| the Amberjack in the destroyer Bernadou from Boston. It became | necessary, however, because of the heavy fog which has held the presidential | flotilla, for a cutter to carry Mr. Davis from the destroyer to the yacht. —A. P. Photo. Cruise of the Amberjack 1I Party Regaled by Mr. Davis With Stories of Disarma- ment—Fog Makes Going Difficult—Bridge Popular Pastime. |be with Mr. Davis and he helped us pass the time telling us about the Disarmament Ccnfercnce and., the at- titude of these attending the confer- ence frcm other countries. As a bridge player he also proved to be the cham- pion, and whoever played with him as r nearly always won. er reports that all on board erjack have been enjoying themselves in spite of the lack of sail- ing weather. S going to the movies on the Ellis, while | the sl{mp(rf n%\'e; secms tto get to the ! . Z2 g 1C€ | end of his fund of interesting and often was so heavy we could make only 10 | amusing storles. ~ Al have e enjoy- | krots. % 10|18, the reading aloud by the skipper (At about 10).;54 George Briggs of that classic of oclock Tuesday | seafaring stories called “Liverpool night we anchored | Garge " originally published _through off ~Libby Island | the efforts of Phillip Hale. They are and received Word | telling a good story on Franklin. It from the destroyer Eliis that the skip- per would send out for us in the morn- ing. Sure enough, at 8:30 in the morning the cap- tain’s gig, with Franklin and Paul Rust aboard, loomed up out of the fogz, which ply would not We packed things and started the last a rather long trip from It was very interesting to BY JAMES ROOSEVELT. ON BOARD AMBERJACK II, Roqiie Island, Me. June 29—Well, I finally arrived back. It certainly was good to see the good ship Amber ack loom up in the fog as we ‘came into the cove Everybody aboard seems to be in good spirits. . Mr. Norman Davis, John Cut- ter and myself thought for a time we uld get here. Because of the a breakdown in the radio send- ratus of Mount Desert Rock a't lecat~ for about six hours n when we fincliy did the fcg that a kind fisherman put aboard six lobsters yesterday. and mad at being in capitivity, Frank- lin, being interested, ‘pll‘ked one up and made the mistake of putting his nose a little too close to one of the claws. With astonishing speed the lobster let g0 a straight left to the jaw and | Franklin let go the lcbster just in time to save himself, but lost the lobster overbeard. Hefce one lobster is free and one member of the crew ate light. ly for lunch. Mir. Davis and the skip- per are now going over various matters as fast as pcssible, so that Mr. Davis can get back to Bostcn for his son’s wedding to the sister of our ex-ship- mate, Amyas Ames. Incidentally, we miss him and hope he is envious of us, even in the fog. In the meantime the fog seems to be finally clearing up a bit and we have high hopes of gettirg off this afternoon for at least part of the last 40 miles to Campobello. Since they blamed the coming of the fog on my leaving. I'm certainly going to claim the credit for its lifting, if it does. Hoping the best. (Copyright, 1933.) Ancient Streets Found. An Australian expedition has un- earthed 7,000-year-old ruins on the Nil> showing an crderly arrangoment of streets along the lines of modern town planning. life. our leg of Boston. | tion, against its inclinaticn, to take sn active part in the stabilization discus- sions. The Americans still maintain the atiitude that any decision regarding stabilization must come from Washing- ton and is entirely outside the preroga- tive cf the delegation here. However, it has been uapossible, in view of the gravity of the crisis, for them to abstain at least from disc ing the issue. High American quarters said that abandonment of gold by the Furopean gold bloc might have a dan- gerous repereussion on the United | States. 1 ! The British were understood to have prepared a note attempting to reconcile the conflicting policies of countries still on gold and those off that standard, notiolv. America. | It was strongly reported that there 1s a conflict between Treasury officials | and the Bank of England, which is said to be ready to grant credits to support gold currencies. The British government thus far has declined to prejudice fur- ther stabilization negotiations with the United States by allying herself with the gold bloc A Japanese spokesman told the press that his government was prepared to consider stabilization of the yen if and when Britain, America and France achieved it with their currencies. It is impossible at present to undertake | stabilization, the spckesman asserted, | because of the small gold reserve of the | Bank of Jupan. | The Japanese feel that the r——ent | rate of the yen, in comparison with the | dollar, is reasonable and they would be satisfied to see that rate remain. Inflation seems right a Marlow's highest qua thracite TODAY, Call NA. 0311 for quick super-cleaned hard coal Marlow 811 E St. NW. Dependable Coal with Sandwiches and Beer GULDEN'S ;.-MUS'I'BTU ‘ Floor Varnish Pee Gee Mastic Pa’l nt % Stove Enamel Black... 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More than 3,000 visitors were expected today to swell Campobello’s normal pop- ulation of 1,200. Premier L. P. D. Til- ley of New Brunswick was here to greet | Mr. Roosevelt, and Dr. Murray Mac- Laren, minister of pensions in the Do- minion government, was expected to ex- i tend the greetings of Canada. b It is more than 13 years since Mr.! Roosevelt visited this island. where his father was one of the first tc establish 2 Summer home. DAVIS IS ORDERED BACK TO GENEVA TO PRESS ARMS PLAN + __(Continued From First Page) from Boston, anchored off the bay, dar- ing to come Lo nearer in the fog. Davis reached the Amberjack in the destroy- er’'s cutter after a seven-mile bit of nav- igation through the fog and rocks. It was “anchors aweigh” today for President Roosevelt as he left this iplace to start the final leg of his cruise to Campobello Island in New Brunswick. 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