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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-10
DOzU-JOneS
summary

LONDON. Copper Exporters Inc. reduced
price Of copper cent pound to 1l.Soc
c. /. F. Hamburg Havre and London.
American Gas & Electric subsidiaries
output for week ended Dec 6. was 1881
622 XVIII decrease Of per cent from Ike
II. r. MaIlinson & Co. omitted quarter
~ dividend of si.75 on cumulative pre-
ferred stock due at this time
Chesapeake bank in Baltimore with two
branches closed and taken over by state
bank commissioner. Assets on Sept. 2,
we're S9's34.0S4 and deposits over S5,oOoO0o.
Mccall Corporation declared regular
quarterly dividend OF 62la cents payable
Feb l. record Jan 20
New York & Honduras Rosario Mining
Company declared a special dividend of so
cents on common similar to payment of a
wear ago.
Standard Gas and Electric Company de-
cents on common. payable Jan. "a. record
Dec. 81.
declared regular quarterly dividends of so
cents each on common and common B
payable March 2. record Feb. II.
regular quarterly dividend of rs cents.
payable Jan. 2. record Dec. %.
Car IOadings in week ended Nov. 90
we're i02,085 cars. according to American
Railway Association. decrease of 1852
below previous week. which included
Thanksgiving day. 1925 below like
week of 1929 and 19s,4n below 1928
week.
Kalamazoo Stove Company declared reg
ular quarterly dividend Of s1.12l2 cents
on common, payable Jan. 2. record Dec. 20.
Crude oil production in week ended
Dec 6, averaged 2.229,25O barrels daily, q
4o1,300 less than i'll like 1929 period. Case
line stocks increased 455000 barrels to
37,742 600.
Psthe Exchange stockholders to vote
Jan: : on sale of assets to Radio-Keith-
Orphedm, under which company will re-
ceive an estimated s4,S5O'Oo0 or more.
Davenport Hosiery Mills. Inc. declared
regular quarterly dividend of so cents on
common payable Jan. Is, record Jan. l.
Carolina Power and Light twelve months
ended Oct. 81. profit 1886, 603 after taxes
and chs e. s4s 90. but before depreciation
months Ocotber profit s314,5 $40 Before de-
probation, against S351,O8l in October,
1929.
Utah Power g. Light. including West
crn Colorado Power, twelve months
ended Oct 81, profit S3.799,2S6 after
taxes and charges. but before deprecia-
ton. against S4O1S.417 in preceding
twelve months. october profit s2S5.942
before depreciation against S335S45 in
October, 1929.
Cliffs Corporation declared quarterly
dividend of IS cents on common. placing
stock on $3.50 annual basis, against 81
previously.
Cleaner Combine Harvester Corporation
omitted quarterly dividend of SO cents due
at this time.
Glen Alden Coal Corporation declared
regular quarterly dividend of So.
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ASKS
BROAD RIPPLE
ATHLETIC FIELD
School Board Hears Plea
for Improvement of
City-0Wned Plot.

A petition of the Parent Teacher
Association of Broad Ripple high
school bearing several hundred sig
natures of citizens asking an ath-
letic field for the school before next
fall was presented to the board
Tuesday night by Paul c. Stetson.
superintendent.
The petition circulated by S. P.
Sheard, chairman, set out that the
school board already owns sufficient
ground in the rear of the school
to answer all the athletic needs.
K. V. zimmerman, principal, and
an expert on athletics, has drawn
plans for the field. He has set out
that all required now is for the
school board to grade the land,
fence it in, and erect bleachers.
Cottage Is Available
Games heretofore have been
played on the Shortridge field.
In acquiring the ground the
school board also took over a cot
tage. According to Ammerman's
plans, this will make an ideal field
house, housing the shower baths,
dressing rooms and team lockers
coaches and officials dressing rooms
and reading and lecture rooms for
the teams.
The new school building designed
and planned for Broad Ripple by
zimmerman will not interfere with
this house. A walk will lead from
the school. past the field house and
to the athletic field, which will be
on the extreme south portion of the
grounds.
Injuries Possible
Between the field house and the
field, Ammerman's plans call for
tennis courts, baseball diamonds
and outdoor basketball court. The
running track would surround the
football field in the inclosed field.
AT present the Broad Ripple foot
ball team is required to practice
beside the building and the ground
is not wide enough to accommo-
date gridiron, a fence being on
one side line and the building being
at the end of the other side line,
with danger of injuries to players.
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Ford Hon0red
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. io.-Henry
Ford was awarded a medal by
the Illinois Manufacturers
Association Tuesday night for
his contributions to industry.
and listened without comment
to speeches in which the return
of world prosperity was pre-
dicted.
During three hour banquet,
the automobile manufacturer
retained a faint smile while
business depression, prohibition
and the. American tariff were
discussed by speakers.
Unaware of his aversion to
the use of either, walters served
Ford with a cup of black coffee
and a cigar. He toyed with the
cigar, but the coffee went I'M
touched.
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Tonnage Figures Up

Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Company declared the
regular quarterly dividend of S125
a share and the stock sold off more
than point from its early high
on profit-taking.
At - noon eastern standard time
the untitled tonnage statement OF
the United States Steel Corporation
was announced for November, show
ing an increase of 157, 1878 tons over
the figure published for October
The street had been expecting a
rise ranging from $4,000 TO $4,000
tons.
Other news favored the steel
group. Production was down, but
prospects for the coming year were
better and orders we're coming in
from various lines of industry for
1891 delivery.
United States Steel was at 141
when the tonnage statement was is
sued At that figure it vas off a
point net. 1t Immediately Sold down
TO 1402i on a string of LOO shares.
Steel Shares Sold
AS the news of the increase spread
throughout the financial community
orders to buy steel piled up. The
next sale after 1909 was made at
1407s, and then it promptly ran
up to 141h.
The general industrial list, how
ever, held around early levels,
fractions to more than point under
the previous close. There was no
particular pressure exerted against
any stocks, however, and trading
continued quiet.
The demand for Steel soon abated
and traders quickly sold the stock,
driving it down toward 140. against
a previous close of 142. The whole
market followed Steel down. Rails
made new lows for several years.
Radio met pressure despite denialS
of its president that its plants were
to close because of slackened de-
mand.
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Produce Markets

Eggs County Runl-Loss OF delivered
in Indianapolis. CSC: henery quality No. l..
SIC: No. 2. l5c.
Poultry fBuvine Pricesl-Hens weigh
ing lbs or over. i8c: under lbs. 16c:
Leghorn hens. 12c: springers. lbs. or
over nc or under 5 lbs. lse: ducks.
full feather fat white. lie: geese. &C.
These prices are for No. TOP quality
uI Butter ~ CRhoi Es l. a5essc; No
3 33c.
Butterfat-29c.
Cheese wholesale selling urtce per
pound American loaf. sic: pimento loaf
32cc: Wisconsin frsts. 27c: Longhorns sac:
New York Limberger. sec.
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Births

Norris and Marie swheay, 4os North
Rural.
Charles and Alice Jarvis. Christian hos
pital.
Russell and Emma Dalbey. 80 East
William and Iva jeff. 1908 East Michi-
gan.
Bows
James and Bonnie Weghorst 652 Martin.
Edward and Beatrice Weuand, 1871 Lay.
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CHICKEN COOP NO SOFT
BED; SEEKS DIVORCE

California Wife Charges Hubby
Forced Her to Sleep With Fowls.
By United Press
OAKLAND, Cal, Dec. 1O.-Going
to bed with the chickens did not
appeal to Mrs. Emily Mendes. Seek
ing divorce, she told a judge Tues
day that her husband forced her
to sleep in a chicken coop at the
rear of her home.
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Other Livestock
Bu United Preas

o y UWIttU FTb65
200: holdovers 800; market slow, 35G
35c lower; 15o-210 lbs. s8.60@8.65; 200
goo lbs. SO: 40@860: 26o-300 lbs, $3.50
s7@7.25. Cattle-Receipts. 10: no early
trading. Calves--Receipts. 100; market
Receipts. 1000; market slow, fat lambs
weak; others held above $780,
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BIZ Times SnecinL
BIZ United Press

EAST BUFFALO. Ny. Dec; 1o.-Hogs
Receipts. 21o0; holdovers. 300: rather
s ST mostly to psek sb Sa25G IoTsG
I7o-lb. selections. S. 23o-250 lbs. So. IS;
100000 lbs. $3.50; packing. sows, SO. 756
ceipts. ESQ., mostly cows: cutter grades.
S2.25q 3.75; common steers and heifers.
SIPS: medium heifers held above So. so
lower. $3.50 down. Sheep-Receipts. 900:
lambs generally Csc lawer; active at de
kinds and strong weights s8.75: throwouts,
S675
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By United Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 1O.-Charges that
her husband beat her once each
year, on their wedding anniversa-
ries, we're made in a bill for divorce
on file today by Mrs. Ida H. Deck
ler, "a, against Walter c. Decker.
They we're married on Oct. Is, 1927.
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FUTURES SHOW
LITTLE CHANGE
IN DULL TRADE
Prices Range IrreguIarIy Up
and Down: Corn
Sells Off.

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO. Dec. 10.-Wheat was
unevenly steady as the Board of
Trade opened today with a very
light trade at the start. Foreign
cables were steady, but had little
effect.
Liverpool was steady and frac-
tionally lower, the pool action and
low prices restraining selling Corn
reacted slightly from the rise late
Tuesday. Profit taking and selling
dropping prices minor fraction at
the start. Oats were almost I'M
changed.
At the opening wheat was IS cent
loweh to Is cent higher, corn was
unchanged to % cent lower and oats
were unchanged to Is cent lower.
Provisions were slightly weak.
Liverpool Steady
Liverpool showed no materia.
change at the opening and at mid
afternoon was Is to 4 cent lower.
Buenos Aires was IS cent lower just
before noon. Traders in wheat are
devoting more and more If theE
attention to corn and there is not
enough business in wheat to give
operators leeWay in which to work.
AS long as the fluctuations are so
narrow there is little inclination
either way to buy or sell. The ac-
ton Of the pool Tuesday in aband-
oning its European agencies has
improved sentiment in Canada and
that country now is receiving much
Of the wheat trade.
Predict Corn Rise
One of the largest operators in
corn said that if it were not for
the light speculative interest in corn
that grain would be selling much
higher and with increased trading
would eventually sell around dol
lar bushel, which would help the
farmers greatly. Meanwhile, the
cash demand continues good and
receipts irregular, following the
movement of the prices.
Interest in oats is increasing. oW-
ing to the non-activity of wheat.
The futures are being aided by the
good cash demand.
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Bank CIearlngS

INDIANAPOLIS STATEMENT
"Wednesday. Dec. 10
Clearings OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. So. ". 000 90
Debts Observation-Disclosures. $500, 000. 90
CHICAGO STATEMENT
Dec. O.
Clearngs ............ zee sat .oUO, O00. %
Balances .......- ......-.... o,9OO,OOO.OO
NEW YORK STATEMENT
Dec. 10
Glcarngs Observation-Disclosures. $685., 000, 10000
Balance Observation-Disclosures. l22 900 10000
Fdl. Res. Bnk. Or Bal. ..... 10000. 900 90
TREASURY STATEMENT
Dec. 10
Net balance for Dee a.. S39, 100 SOC. rs
Expenditures ................ %. 763. 964. 26
Customs rec. month to date 9.726,s43.17
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By United Press

spring patents. s4.50G4,s5. PorE-Quiet:
mess. $3.50. Lsrd-Steady: middle west
spot. $1,000 1880. Tallow-Quiet; special
Island. sl.25m3.50 barrel: Maine. S2.85a
$50 barrel; Canada. 45cQs2 barrel: Idaho
sacks 50cdS3. Sweet potatoes-Weak:
ket 50c@S225. Dressed poultry-Steadv
to firm: turkeys. 2l@39c; chickens. 15Q
SIC: capons. 26G42c; fowls, I462Tc: ducks
l3G22c: ducks Long Island. zoe 22c.
Live poultry-Dull and easy: geese. goa
Csc; ducks. 12625c: fowls. 14G2Sc: turkeys
20dS soc; ROSTERS. l2613c: chickens. i2G
2lc; capons. 25d35c; broilers. $50 40c.
Cheese-Quiet: state whole milk fancy TO
specials. 20@22iac: Young Americas. 1912
G21c.
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United Press

CINCINNATI o.. Dec. Io-Butter steady.
creamery in tub lots according to score.
packing stock No. l. Csc: No. 2. ISc: No
3. Ice. butterfat. 2s8soc. Eggs-Lower:
cases included: extra hrsts. sic: hrsts.
CSC. seconds. 23c. nearby uugraded 2Sc
Live poultrv-Thin and coarse stock sells
only at heavy discount Fowls lbs. and
over 2 81 i9s ss ana over. l5e; lss and
l3isc: ROSTERS. l3c: capons lbs. and
over a5c: under 8 lbs. ale: slips Gle:
stays lie: colored fryers over lbs 2Oc.
over lbs. 2oc: broiiers colored. II lbs.
and over. Ale: broiiers. partly feathered
i2c- Leghorn and OFpington fryerS over
over zoe; black springers, Ice.
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BIZ United Press

CHICAGO. Dec. lo-Eggs- Market.
Csc: firsts. Csc: current receipts. 23G24c:
ordinaries. 20a 22c; seconds. 1aql But
ter-Market. steady: receipts. $3.50 tubs:
2SiaH29iac: seconds, 26d 26c: standards.
S0i.o.. Poultry--Market.. steady: receipts.
cars. fowls. 1885,. springers, 1sc: Leg
iS624c: roSoterS i4isc CheeSe-Twins.
i66l6i<c; Young Americas. 1880. Po-
tatoes-on track lsl: arrivals. IS: ship
Round Whites. Si.35 q 80: Idaho sacked
Russets. si.To@l.eo: Colorado McClurss.
81 504lS0
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New York Bank Stocks
tsy Thomson & McKinnOn)
Net Changes
81 United Press

81 United Press
NEW YORK. Dec. 9.-CloSing
prices and net changes on princi-
pal stocks traded on the New
York Stock Exchange today fol-
low:
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Local Wagon Wheat

:. City grain elevators are paying 74c for
No. 1 red wheat and 68c for No. / hard
wheat
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b. United Press

3.400: holdovers 1873: pigs 275-lb weights.
25 a Csc lower at $3.50: top and bulk;
rough sows and stays steady ST and S.
NOM light steers low. csc or more lower
around S6.75d6.50: cows and bulls barely
steady: low cutter to good COWS. 81. so n
$50: sausage bulls So G6 or above; butcher
kind upward to s6.50G7. Caive-Receipts.
$50: uneven. mostly steady; good and
eonoies sDeaters Ss19 =; common common TO good
Receipts. 1000 fat lambs 1Oc to mostly Csc
lower or $3.50 downward on bulk: best
tb e ssS7: sheen around = ste adGlui
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! PAIR OF TRUSTEES
Two Convicted Men Go TO Prison
Alone on Tickets They Paid For.

By United Press
KEWANEE, Ill, Dec. 10.-Unac-
companied by any officer and trav-
cling on tickets which they paid for
with their own money, Alois De
Keyers and Peter Van Heck we're on
their way to Leavenworth, Kas.. to
begin serving sentences of a year
and day imposed for conviction of
violating the dry laws.
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EAST ST. LOUIS. Ill. Dec. 1o.-Hoes-
Receipts. $500: market 15625c lower;
top. SIPS: bulk 1zo-2s0 lbs. ss.loG8.20
l60-l60 lbs. s7.25M8.l0; sows. $40 725
Cattle-Receipts. 1000: calves receipts
1900. market. steers slow: one lead steady
at 'S1i so; lower undertone on mixed wear
lings. heifers and COWS; bulls and vealers
Csc lower; TOD sausage bulls. s525: top
yealers. S1l.25. Sheep-Receipts 1000.
market. fat lambs opened steady: few
choice lots to CITY butchers. 1925; packers
talking weak: common throwoutS S5l5.59:
fat ewes. $3.50 down.
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By United Press

market. Csc lower: heavies, S7.7568; me-
diums. S7@8.50; workers.. $8m825: pigs.
S8M8.25. Cattle-Receipts. so; market.
steady. Calves-Receipts. light; market
steady. Sheep-Receipts, light: market.
slow.
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BIZ United Press

DY OHtIeu FTeSS
FIT. WAYNE. Ind. Dec. 1o-Hogs-
Market steady to 15c lower; 10O-140 lbs.
200-250 lbs. s8.05; 250-30O lbs, So: 800
$50 lbs. S7.75; roughs. s6.75; stays, SIS:
calves, Sl1.50; lambs, SITS.
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NJ tNibfN fFfcb
NEW YORK, Dec. 10. - Rising
tendencies on the stock exchange
in the first part of the session were
halted around the end of the first
hour and by noon nearly all the
morning gains were replaced with
losses ranging from fractions to
more than 2 points.
News of the day was mostly bull
hsh, but it had been discounted in
the majority of instances. New
York Central, for example, rose more
than point above the previous close
in anticipation of a regular dividend
declaration. After the dividend was
declared, the stock sank to 1907,
where it was off z point net.
Railroad stocks generally slipped
10 lower grounds: Chesapeake Cor
poration was at 1885,, off rs, rec
ord low; c. & O., 1895. off Is; New
Haven, 763s, off 25s, and Southern
Pacific 963, of IL
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Other Livestock
BIZ Tnited Preaa


600; Including 1000 direct; slow, mostly
15G o. bulk; l5o32SO-ib ,wsightssa $s@sI9:
few, to $3.50; light lights. , l4O7160 lbs
10000 lbs. good and choice. S8@S.2o;
medium weights. 200-250 lbs, good and
Choice pac 81 ao9 vs. 235SSo
ter pigs 12o-130 lbs, good and eb9 dSe..
calves: 1000: choice long fed d. steers and
short feds; butcher stock and vealers
tending lower; bulls ssteaddy; fed yesrlirn 5Td
1890 and heayes $334o but some held
1szs; soo:ii0S ibs:::. good and choice: ,$i6g
So s.. .55SSa1s So: 1900. 1880 lbs, good and
mon and medium. S6.5G@lo; h bel $50
common and medium. $5@s; cows. good
and choice. $5.25@750; common ana me-
dunn. S4@5.25; low cutter and cutters. So
$4.25@6; vealers milk fed, good and c. ice.
non NOR. s5M650 '; stockeT and feeder cattle
sla common and medium. $5.5oq7 Sheep
tablished. few sales Csc lower; good fat
lambs. SO to packers; best held around
SS.OU 0SdNVWelRALS. j.
$SGS5O. about Steady: lambs. 90 lbs. down.
good and choice. $3.50 $50; medium. So. 70
m7.25: all weights common $4,75@595
SIS: ali weights Gull and common. S1@
$50; feeding lambs. 50-75 lbs. good ans
choice. S6.7507.50.
By United Press
CINCINNATI. Dec. Hogs--Receipts,
$500; holdover 430; fairly active. about
$685. some ESQ $50 lbs, sa.5o; i2o;I7o-i ID
ceipts. 300; calves. 500 steer. and heller
trade practically at standstill; few COM
mon and medium grades about steady at
S6W7T5; bids generally lower; few more
desirable kinds S9M10: cows active. steady
to strong; spots Csc higher on low cutters;
ters and Gutter COWS 1904; bulls mostly
steady practical top $3.50: good and choice
vealers soc lower at s9;50@11: lower grades
Receipts. $50: generally steady; better
grade handy weight lambs; $3.50; weighty
and ari5pf medium. largely ssG7; fat ewes, s2@s.
BIZ Times Special
LOUISVILLE, Dec 1o.-Hogs- Receipts,
eco; market loc loweri 325 lbs. up. s7.65;
l75-325 lbs.- s9.25; lSo-115 lbs. s7.S5; i3o
prime heavy Steers, $50 q 1850: heavy
Shipping steers 80 mediu and and
$50; good to choice cows. s4@5 so: medium
csners, s242:55: bulls. ss.5O@5.25; feeders,
seips Zoo market Steady good to choice
s7Gs mediums, S5q so: common to me
Oily aq se ss9 sh eeG sga is lSS g.
buck lambs $3.50; seconds. s4d4.5o:
clipped sheep. s21S. Tuesday shipments:
Cattle. none: calves. rs; hogs. 1oS; sheep.
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SELLING HALTS
UPWARD TREND
OF SECURITIES
Stee! Sold Heavily After
/ Strong UpSWing; List
Follows Lead.
Average Stock Prices

Average OF thirty industrisls for Tues
day was 1850 up q. Average Of twenty
rails was 994. Of 50. Average Of twenty
utilities was $40. UP 81 Average OF
lorty bonds was 94l5. up so.
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forty bonds was 94l5. up so.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-Unflled
orders of the United States Steel
Corporation increased 157873 tons
during November to a total of g.
500 ,636 tons at the end of the
month, the corporation announced
today On Oct. 81 untitled orders
we're 3,481, 1853 tons; on Sept. 30,
3,424,338 tons; on Aug. 81. $780, O4,
and on Nov. 30, 1929, Alps, 345.
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LONDON. Copper Exporters Inc reduced
c. l. F. Hamburg Havre and London.
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ORDERS MAY BE WIRED OR TELEPHoNED AT OUR ExrENeE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-30
Continued from Fifth Page

readable stamp on handwriting, DR.. Downey
explained. Patients suffering from melancholic
depression a disease marked by sluggish energy,
are found to decrease the size of their writing.
Patients who are maniacal1y excited often en-
large their writing. Other mental patients who
are victims of decisions decorate their hand
writing with elaborate and fantastic fourishes,
particularly If they have decisions as to their
own grandeur or importance.
If medical graphology is ever put on a firm
basis, it may explain some of the mysterious
ills from which geniuses and other historic
personages have suffered, DR.. Downey believes.
MENTIONING Shakespeare as an example.
DR.. Downey said that DR.. Charles L. Dana
of Cornell University Medical College thought
he might be able to determine the cause of
Shakespeares death at the early age of So by
to exist. The six signatures, all made within
three years of his death, show many defects.
They have even been cited as the writing Of
an illiterate man and as one proof that
Shakespeare did not write the plays attributed
to him.
The fact that Shakespeare wrote Gothic
script and not Roman accounts for some of the
wierdness, but not all. Scrutinizing the bad
form of the historic signatures, DR.. Dana saw
evidence of loss of normal control. For long
time the doctor had his patients write William
Shakespeare" in the hope of identifying the
signs in the poets signatures.
His quest was never successful. He did salts
fy himself on the negative points that Shakes
peare did not show signs of writer's cramp or
alcoholism in his writings. In view of Shakes
peares many plays it was interesting to make
sure that he had not overtaxed his writing
arm. Alcoholism as we see it was compare
lively rare in Elizabethan days, DR.. Dana