davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
DROUGHT AREA
SHRINKING

CHICAGO, Aug. IA The
drought area in the corn belt is
gradually getting smaller, &C.
cording to detailed weather re-
turns Of the past three days. More
and more points in the West are
reporting around an inch or more
moisture received from showers
at scattered. points.
Nebraska seems to have been
especially favored, and today's re.
port showed a good part Of Mis-
sour has received sufficient raoiS-
ture to warrant belief that crop
deterioration had not only been
checked, but that some improve
fne1t in general character Of re-
ports would be in evidence before
long.
In only a few instances do
weather reports suggest that
drought has been entirely re-
lieved, and even an inch Of naois-
ture at present must be followed
by further rain in order to have
any lasting effect, owing to ex-
haustion Of subSoil moisture. How
ever. precipitation over part Of
the belt with the more moderate
temperatures is regarded by crop
observers as having been effec-
tive in checking deteoriatio11.
Drought, however, has prevailed
for such a long time that there
is very little corn in big belt in
condition to Withstand another
hot wave,
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO. Aug IA uNs).--Hogs-
Receipts 10, 1000: market 15@25c higher;
top. $1o.25; bulk. $s.5o@1015; heavy
weight. Ss.4501O; medium weight
S108i6.2S; light weight, $10@10.2o;
light lights, S950@1o.15; packing sows.
$7s6@s.75 pigs, $s.250e,7s: holdcvers,
5000 s :--.. ,,a
calves--Receipts 1000: market steady.
Beer steers-4Good&an choice. $9@10.25;
common and medium. ss.56@s.5Os yearl4
inKs. 3s@11. Butche1 cAttle-Heifers,
S6O10.5O: cows. $4@8; bulls $500
$50; calves. S10@1S; feeder steers, Sc
W750; stocker steers, s5@7; stocker
COWS ana heifers $3.50@6.
Sheep--Receipts 10000: market steady.
Medium and choice lambs, $3.50 09.75:
culls and common. $S07 yearlings.
$550@I5O; common and choice ewes,
42@4; feeder lambs. $5.500675.
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
COAL ST GRACE
DECREASES

Commercial stocks Of bitumi.
nous coal used largely for indus.
trial purposes amounted 70 81
2OO, 900 tons on July 1, 1880, &C
cordink to the quarterly survey
1t1st completed by the United
states Bureau Of Mines, Depart
n1ert Of Commerce.
In comparison with the amount
on hand at the beginning OF the
previous quarter this is decrease
Of 900 900 tons and it is also 9OO,-
900 tons less than the quantity IN
storage on the same date last
year.
quarter Of 1880 averaged 1000
tons a week as against 342, 600
tons during the same period last
wear. The weekly rate Of consump-
ton within the United States dur:
ing the second quarter amounted
to 7,614,OO0 tons as compared
with 10,432,00O tons in the prevl-
oug quarter. In comparison with
the same period last year the rate
Of home consumption plus exports
shows a decrease Of 1.057 600 tons
per week, or 11.8 per cent. -
In addition to the stocks in the
hands of consumers, there was
1888 COO tons Of bituminous coal
on hand on the docks Of Lake Su-
perior and Lake Michigan on
July /, as compared with 3,977, 900
tons on April /.
Stocks of anthracite in retail
yards on July / show the usual
seasonal increase over the amount
on April i, but are slightly less,
in terms Of days supply than on
the corresponding date Of last
year.
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
GAINS
! IN JULY, SAYS
BRADSTREET

The report to Bradstreet's on
/ the values Of building permitted
foS at 206 cities Of the United
States for July this year and last
Ia very, much In line with that OF
the preliminary report from ITO
cities given in these columns last
week. The leading feature was
j the showing Of gain at all cities
! combined over June, but q de-
crease from July a year ago, the
gain over June as then explained
being due mainly to the increase
at New York city, in July over
:, June.
Detailed returns made UP this
week, however, show that while
, gdecrease in every group is shown
from July last year, no less than
). four groups, the Southern, South
western, Middle Atlantic and New
England groups; show larger or
smaller increases over June, an
indication that building, unlike
some other industries, rallied in
July over June.
ts The total value Of building per-
1aitted for at 200 cities for July
was I56.232, $780,, as against Sat-.
se67,5S4 in June and $235, ,273, ,962
IN July, 1929, at the identical
cities. There is here shown a
: gain at all cities Of SD per cent
over June, but a decrease Of 1875
per cent from July q year ago.
The New York city total for
July was $52,318,451, as against
$34,S1O,752 for June and $55, ,l38,-
664 for July a year ago, a gain
Of so per cent over June but a
decrease Of 81 per cent from July
last year. The total value Of
building at 205 identical cities
outside Of New York for July was
$103,914,499, as against $112.846,-
832 in June and $3.50, ,134,29S in
July, 1879, decreases Of, respec-
lively, 7.8 and 42.3 per cent.
For the seven months ending
with July, the total value Of the
permitted for building at all cities
reporting was $1,041, ,299, ,0S9, as
against $2,008, 1874, ,235 in the like
period of 1929, a decrease of 48.1
per cent. The July and seven
months totals are the smallest
since 1921.
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
Detroit Fox Notes
Offered bu Nat. Citu

The National City Company Is
offering at prices to yield 2.70 per
cent $4,000, 900 city Of Detroit
(Mich0 az per cent tax anticipa-
ton notes, due August Is, 1881.
The notes are direct obliga-
tions Of the city Of Detroit and
are payable from unlimited ad
valorem taxes levied against all
taxable property therein. The
city, according to 1929 figures,
has an assessed valuation of
-$3.681, ,781,130 and net bonded
debt. of $252, ,947,333. The notes,
exempt from all Federal income
taxes and tax free In Michigan,
are legal investments for savings
banks and trust funds in New
York, Connecticut and other
StateS.
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
RAINS HELP GRAINS

CHICAGO, Aug. IL QN.S0-
Advices Of numerous rains over
the belt witt beneficial moisture
in Springfield and Decatur, Illi-
r1ois,, led to catered selling Of
corn futures here today. The mar
ket was unchanged TO Ac lower
at the start, but after the first
hour value showed net losses of
70 to 11ac. Support was fairly ac-
tive on the decline.
Wheat scored gains Of " to
1Ac at the opening with buying
on fir11lness in Liverpool. Realiz-
ing brought about q setback to
around the previous closing level.
Oats were 1sc off to 1zc down
and rye 1sc higher to 14c lower.
The Washington times., 1930-08-14

s2A l2N .eltw Trk b.. 2lN 21N 2lN+ u
Ex dividend II tEhts riqs e in stock nIy. sRSy.
rate Paya6s II s.eek Psyabls when earned PAY.
stoch. Plus 81 10 stock IPlus 81 q STOCK I Plas
stock Plus 2.s% In stock plue So in stock
Subject approval stockhcdsrA Plus extfaA SUnt
less than 400 ahAEeA
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
MANIP ULATORS
MP PUBLIC
BY LESLIE GOULD

~ ASASSASAAS
For the second time in less
than six months the public ana
stockholders Of a major motion
picture company have taken .
licking"
This time it is Warner Brothers
Pictures, Inc. -
Warner Brothers common has
broken from q high price. Of
$S0.25 this year to q low :of
$25.75, reached last Monday. Last
year it only sold up to $so.25. ana
in the autumn crash fell to $50 .
share. -
The common stockholders are
now receiving nothing in the way
Of dividends. The stock was
placed on a 81 annual basis on
December / with the payment Of
. 81 quarterly dividend. Two
more such payments were made.
Dividend Passed
Last week the directors decided
to omit the dividend. The direc-
tors were to have met q week
or 10 days earlier, but were I'M
able due to the absence Of
Harry Warner who was on his
way home from Europe and the
lack Of q quorum. The omission
Of the dividend came as com
plete surprise to the stockholders.
although there had been rI1i1ors
for a week or two that 1t might
be passed.
The pool responsible for push
ing the stock above $50 averaged
between $40 and $50 a share for
the stock 1t bought, and when it
liquidated its holdings it averaged
better than SO q share. This
gave the pool u1anipulatorS q
profit Of more than $50 q share
on the stock they bought. Those
who switched over to the short
side and sold the stock short of
the market cleaned up again.
Warner Bros. was one Of the
most widely tipped stocks in Wall
Street the first few months of
the year. Then something went
wrong. The public did not find
out, or even get e hint Of it until
the pool operators were safely
out, and their profits booked.
However, one Of Wall Streets
biggest operators Is still in the
stockholm j. Raskob. There
had been reports Raskob was q
member Of the pool, but at his
office today it was said:
Mr.. RaskOb never operates .
pool in . stock. When. he
makes . purchase it Is an In.
vestment for the long pull. He
buys the stock and puts it
away. -
''Mr. RaskOb Is stiII q sub.
stantial stockhOIder in Warner.
He made his investment as 3
long pull proposition"
Banking Group Expands
Now there is to be some new
financing. Goldman, Sachs &
Co., who have been bankers for
Warner for years, VIII be joined
in the undertaking by the invest
f11ent house of Hayden, stone d
Co. The financing viii be In the
form Of q stock issue, with rights
to shareholders. "A total Of SIS.
100000 to $4,000, 900 viii be
raised with the stock probably Of.
Tered at $40 q share.
The cornpanys present difficult
ties are the result Of an arnbi-
tious expansion program and 2
sharp falling off in motion pic
ture attendance this summer.
The moral is, DO not be q
sucker. When everybody has Q
hot tip on q stock. It Is time 20
sell or put another safety pin
| on the money pocket,
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
NeW Curb Exchange
LiStinuS ADUrOUed

Committee on Listing OF the
Curb Exchange yesterday ap-
proved the adnnittance to ur1-
listed trading privileges of the
following securities: .a..
Altorfer Brothers, 225, 900 no
par common shares: jenkins
Brothers, 100000 shares, non
voting common stock; st. Louis
National .Stockyaros, $4,000 shares
capital stock; Texas, Louisiana
Power Company, $4,000 shares Of
Z per cent preferred. and Tom
Huston Peanut Company, 100000
shares no par common.
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
OIL STOCKS

FURNISHED by ". , Hlbbs & col
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
COMPLETE QUOTATIONS ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

., ~ direct wire, from Exchange
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
GRAMS lRREGUEAR.

CHICAGO Aug. II GN.s1, ,-Grains
0rened irreaular today. Wheat was
@p g to IAc; corn unchanged to &c
down and oats Ne off to hc higher.
Opening prices:
wheatL-september sskc; December,
s4R @SShc; March, s9k 99shc; May.
SIo3
Corn--Septen1ber, CSC; December. 92c;
March, sac: May, 9Se.
oats-septennber, ssh assEc; Dee4m-
Der. S2A9t2Aei Marek StSe; May
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
Engineers SerUice
OUTPUT Sets Record

Engineers Public Service Com
pany reports electrical output Of
1877 TAI 600 ki1owatt hours for the
month Of July, an increase Of II
per cent over July, 1929.
The Washington times., 1930-08-14
Made Head
Of Harris, Forbes

w. Eugene McGregor has been
elected president of Harris,
Forbes & Co., succeeding John r.
Macomber, who now becomes
chairman of the board. Henry B.
Rising. who has been with the
firm since 1904. becomes treas
urer and Albert H. Beck, retires
as senior vice president of the
company.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
Why Fat Men
Stay Fat

'sThe trouble with me. and I guess
this applies to 99ee of the men who
are putting on weight. didn't have
the energy or pep" TO keep it of.
Lost all interest in any healthy &C
tivity and just lazed around accu-
mulating the old pounds until I got
that ''Kruschen feeling"
Start taking Kruschen Salts
that's the common-SenSe way to re-
duce-but don't take them with the
idea that they possess reducing
qualities in themselves.
This is what they do-they clean
out the impurities in your blood by
keeping the bowels, kidneys and
liver in splendid working shape and
I'll you with a vigor and tireleSS en-
ergy you'd most forgotten had ex-
listed.
As a result instead Of planting your
self in an easy chair every free moment
ald letting iabby fat accumulate you
feel an urge for activity that keeps you
moving around doing the things you We
always wanted 10 do and needed TO do
to Keep yon IN good condition.
Then watch the pounds slide on;
kruSchen Salts are the up-t0-date
Fountain Of Youth. Take one-half tea
spoonful in a glass Of hot or cold water
tomorrow morning and every morning
and II they don't change YOUR whole
idea about reducing. 80 back and get
the small price you psid fer them. Get
an s. cent bottle 81 kruschen salts
lasts weeks-at Hooks Dependable
Drug Sfores-or any progressive drug
gNt anywhere in the world.-Adver-
ftement. -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
Souvenirs
Articles Taken by Guests
Cause Hotel Rates
to Be Higher.

PU Times Special
INT. WAYNE, Ind, Aug. 49,
II Articles ranging from ash
trays and towels to bed clothing
and wall pictures find a way into
the baggage of some departing
guests of Ft. Wayne hotels, &C
cording to managers.
They say the practice of gather
ing souvenirs has grown to such
an extent that hotel operating
cost and, therefore, rates are
higher because of it.
Towels top all other hotel prop
erty in attractivenesS to guests.
One manager said it was diff
cult to keep demi-tasSe spoons in
dining rooms.
Even blankets, worth from Sc to
SO, occasionally are missed.
A hotel which attenn ped to
offer relief from the heat with q
dozen electric fans, was relieved
of all but two of them within a
few days.
To satisfy those guests who
wouldn't think of stealing" but
yet enjoy collecting souvenirs,
wash cloths and match boxes,
were supplied by one hotel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
NEEDY COUPLE TO
SELL OLD PICTURE
Washington and Family in
Steel Engraving at
Terre Haute.
B,y Times Special

BB Times Special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Aug. 19.-
Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, aged
couple here, who are in need OF
money hope to derive it from sale OF
a picture of George washington and
his family, believed the only one OF
the kind in existence.
Smith. who is 70, believes the pic
ture, a steel engraving, is at least
100 years old, declaring it has been
in his family ever since he can re-
member.
The picture shows Washington,
his wife, her son by former mar
riage, George Washington Parke
Curtis, Eleanor Parke Curtis and
Willard Lee, a Negro servant.
Printing at the bottom of the pic
ture states it is the work of Edward
Savage and was engraved by ).
Sartain.
Savage was among the first Amer
lean engravers and John Sartain, a
native of England, who came to
America in 1880, is credited With
being a master of mezzotint.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
U. S. AGENTS TO
CHECK RECEIPTS
AT WAWASEE
Internal Revenue Men to
Center Attention on
Gambling Rooms
BVUnited Press

BIZ United Press
LAKE WAWASEE, Ind, Aug. 10.
United States internal revenue
agents working in Kosciusko coun-
ty today intimated that thorough
check will be made of the receipts
of the Sphinx Wawasee gambling
rooms which were raided Sunday
night.
Six deputies, led by Constable
Bert Mabie, Warsaw, seized $1,000
worth of gambling paraphernalia in
the raid.
Although no afidavits had been
filed against the Wawasee gambling
room operators at noon today, Pros
ecutor George Bowser said charges
would be filed in circuit court some
time today against the proprietor,
Bernard Cuniff, president of E. G..
Sphinx & Co., Indianapolis, and at
taches of the gambling rooms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
BOOZE BLINDED,
FACES CHARGE
Alleged Liquor Dealer Held
to U. S. Grand Jury.

Almost blind, allegedly from bad
liquor, and awaiting sentence on a
previous guilty plea, Hugh j. DAN
yer, Kokomo, today was in the
Marion county jail awaiting action
on a new liquor charge.
Danver, Mrs. Pearl Mae Herroll
and Roscoe Fisher were arrested
Monday at Danver's home in Ko-
komo by dry agents, who said they
confiscated a small quantity of alco-
hol. The three were held to the
federal grand jury on liquor charges
by Commissioner John w. Kern
today.
Pleading guilty to a liquor charge
last fall, Danver told Federal Judge
Robert G. Baltzell he was forced to
sell liquor to make a living because
of being nearly blinded by bad
booze.
Baltzell released Danver at that
time without sentencing him, in
order that he might obtain expert
medical attention in order to save
mis- eyesight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
SPIRIT MESSAGE
BY SIR ARTHUR
Words of Slate Announced
at Chesterfield.

BU Times Special
CHESTERFIELD, Ind, Aug. 49,
Horace Leaf, British scientist and
author attending the Indiana
Spiritualist meeting at Camp Ches-
terfield here, announces receipt by
slate writing of a spirit message
from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Leaf
was a friend of Sir Arthur, writer
of detective stories.
The message, according to Leaf,
was as follows:
LET the mind doubt, Leaf, for
doubt instigates an investigation
hence study, hence progress. This
is my first effort to reach any one
in America. But this is time,
place and person; hence this open
ing wedge to this great work of
advance still have to do, and /
will carefully select needed in
strument with a regard to this high
est truth"
Mrs. Laura Prudence, Cincinnati,
was the medium in receiving the
message. Leaf declares it is SINH
lar to Sir Arthur's handwriting and
the phrasing is like his. The Eng
lishman plans to preserve the slate
and take it back to England to
show Sir Arthur's widow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
S ORDERS BAN ON PROFTTEERS IN DROUGHT AREA
ULEN FIRM GIVEN
GREEK CONTRACT
Additional Work on Athens
Water Project to Cost
100000.
BIZ Times SDocial

b " 4 fmCS HBCCtut
LEBANON, Ind, Aug. 1e.-An-
nouncement is made by Ulen & Co.,
international engineering firm of
New York and Lebanon, that it
has received from the Greek gov
eminent an additional contract to
build a rapid sand filter system for
the new Athens water supply at a
cost of about 100000. American
equipment will be used. This filter
will give to the city, in the opinion
of the engineers, one of the most
complete and modern water supply
system of any city in the world.
The new work in Athens supple
ments that already accomplished by
the Americans. The Marathon dam,
faced with petelicon marble which
was used by the ancients to build
TIE classic structures of the Acrop-
oils, and the hundreds of miles Of
pipe that have been laid as well as
the reconstruction of the aqueduct
built by the Roman Emperor
Hadrian in lao A. D., are some of
the features of the work of the
Ulen engineers. Athens, which has
always been without an adequate
water supply, will receive 100000
gallons daily when the system is
completed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
MUNCIE MAYOR
CHARGES SPITE
Dale Newspaper Opposes
Cuts in Officials Salaries.

RB Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, Aug. 10. - The
current issue of the Democratic
weekly newspaper of Mayor George
R. Dale, oppose cutting of city Of
ficialS' salaries as a means of budget
reduction, and charges the proposed
reductions are the result of spite
work.
A public hearing on the proposed
budget was held Monday night.
Principally, the mayors paper OPP
posed reducing the salary of w. j.
Daniel, street commissioner, from
$4,000 to $4,000 year; a $400 cut
in pay of the building commissioner,
Cary Mckinley, and one of $240 in
that of the city craftsman, George
R. Dale Jr., son of the mayor.
The city council finance commit
tee reduced to $500 the mayors
request for $1,000 for his Office.
Items omitted We're 81 500 year for
a secretary and $1,000 for research
fund.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
BANKERS WILL MEET
Program for State Session.
at Fl. Wayne Ready.

Program for the thirty-fourth
annual convention of the Indiana
Bankers Association at Fl. Wayne
Sept. 10 and II, was announced to-
day by Elmer w. Stout, president of
Fletcher American National bank,
and of the association.
Addresses by Glenn Griswold,
Chicago Journal of Commerce edi-
tor; w. ]. Brooks, Northern Ma
tional bank president, Bemidji,
Mimi, and Walter w. Head, Chi
cago banker, will be highiights of
the first day.
Other speakers will be: A. G.
Brown, Federal Land bank presi-
dent, Louisville; Senator Carter
Glass, Washington, and DR.. B. M
Anderson, Jr., economist, Chase Ma
tional bank, New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
CIGARETS H|JACKED
Crime in New Form Appears
in Lake County.
BIZ Times Special

BU Times Special
HAMMOND, Ind, Aug. 19.-Lake
county authorities are expecting to
experience considerable trouble in
dealing with a new form of law
-cigaret hijacking. Three
times in the last few months truck
loads of cigarets, en- route from
Louisville to Chicago, have been
stolen. The trucks pass over Fed
eral road Al in Lake county.
In the most recent robbery, which
occurred last week, $4,000 worth of
cigarets we're taken. Previously two
$4,000 loads were taken. The first
hijacking occurred April 80. shortly
after the company manufacturing
the cigarets started system OF
transporting them by truck.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
POLICE RENEW
AUTO TESTING
Hundreds of Cars Checked
in Safety Lane.

Hundreds of autoists today passed
through the Safety Lane, on Nine
tenth street, between Meridian and
Illinois streets, to have their cars
checked by police department and
Hoosier Motor Club officials.
Six hundred cars were tested on
Monday, but only 10 per cent of
them were approved. Motorists are
ordered to have the cars repaired,
if they are not passed, and returned
to the lane for a recheck within
forty-eight hours.
All cars are tested for brakes,
lights. windshield wipers, rear-view
mirrors, wheel alignment, steering
and horns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
SUIT Asks $4,000
Box of Grapefruit Fell on
Woman in Store.

BJ Times Special
HAMMOND, Ind, Aug. 19.-Mrs.
Alice E. Hamilton, injured May 4,
1929, when a 20O-pound box of
grapefruit fell on her at the store
of the Chicago Produce Company,
has filed suit against the company
for $4,000 damages. She was a
patron of the store at the time OF
the accident
The plaintiff suffered fractures OF
her skull and legs and her back was
sprained. She alleges that she is
permanently injured. being unable
to talk coherently, and is lame.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-19
ISSUE BANK CHARTER
Gary Institution to Have
100000 Capital.

Charter for the First Indiana
State bank Of Gary was issued to-
day by the state charter board. The
new institution, with 100000 CAPT.
talization, will take over assets and
liabilities of the American State
bank that closed Aug. IL.
Michael Kloziack, "a, Indiana's
youngest bank president, will head
the institution.
The fourth Gary bank to close
in two weeks was the Gary Labor
bank, which did not open today.
Officers informed state officials the
bank had sufficient funds to pay all
depositorS.