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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
WEATHER H|NDERS
CANADIAN TRADE
Building, Farming and NaVi-
cation Profit by Extra
Warm Fall.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MONTREAL, November 26.-Cana-
dian wholesale and retail business dur
ing the past month presented no new
features, says the Bank of Montreal in
its current review. The mild weather
of the month has been of advantage to
building undertakings, to navigation
and to farmers, permitting the latter
to complete Fall blowing and keep their
nerds in pasture. On the other hand,
buying Of Winter goods has been de-
ferred.
The opening of the Canadian Pacific
Railway shops affords employment to
some thousands of people who had been
out of work for several weeks and will
help retail trade in the cities in which
these shops are situated.
The latest estimate of the field crops
Of Canada places this years yield of
wheat at 298,o0o,o0 bushels, an in
crease of 26,6oo,000 bushels over the
September estimate, but 100,000,000
bushels less than the crop Of 1880. All
this wheat was produced in the three
prairie provinces, with the exception of
100000 bushels grown mainlv in On
tario.
While transportation companies have
been hit this year by reduced COM
modify movement on land and water,
grain shipments from the port Of Mont
real have been about 100000 bushels
in excess of those OF last season, many
tramp steamers having engaged in the
trade. Ocean freight rates are relatively
low and with scant inward cargoes bus
mess has not been satisfactory.
Car loadings have improved during
recent weeks. During the four weeks
ending November there was an in
crease of 3,0l3 cars as compared with
the preceding four weeks, the total
being 61,17l cars. The improvement,
however, was largely confined to wheat,
brisker movement of which was caused
by rising prices and increased demand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
AUTO STEEL ORDER
IS EXPECTED SOON
Ford Company May Lead
Way in Making 100000
Ton Purchase.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 26-The
Ford Motor Co. Is expected to place
substantial steel orders this week for
December rolling, and in addition will
contract with the steel mills for its first
quarter requirements, calling for a
in its weekly review of the iron and
steel industry.
"Fords needs may amount to as much
as 10000 tons of STEEL" the Review
says, although this will depend on
retail sales of motor cars.
Release Of this business, which ill
be accompanied by similar blanket or
ders for other materials used in auto
mobile manufacture, may do much
chaSeS of other automobile manufac-
turers, since delays in Fords production
OF new models have held back final
plans of some other companies. As
sembly of new Ford cars will, it Is said,
be begun about December Is.
December output of automobiles, ac-
cording to estimates gathered by the
Iron Age, will be between 125, 900 and
100000 units, compared with $4,000 in
october and probably a slightly smaller
number this month. The steel that will
be needed next month for automobile
manufacture may tend to Offset the
usual year-end decline IN miscellaneous
consumption, prompted by inventory
retrenShment.
aside from the automobile COM
panies industrial activity, as reflected
in steel orders, Is still marked by ex-
trene irregularity, gains in some di-
rectionS being nullifled by losses else
where. The net result, partly influ-
enced by the holiday, is decline in
steel ingot production this week to
20 per cent of the counrry's capacity,
compared with 81 per cent in the two
preceding weeks.
There has been a restriction Of in
got output in the Pittsburgh, Young
Stown, Cleveland and Eastern Pennsyl-
vania districts, with the Chicago area
remaining at its last weeks low point
of % per cent. Products of the steel
mills are variously affected, the slight
increase in orders for sheets, strip steel
and bars, mainly from the automobile
industry, being insufficient to overcome
the light buying Of structural steel,
plates and pipe for building construc-
ton and the general postponement of
railroad orders, which may be still
further protracted because of the fall
ure Of the railroad unions and the
carriers to agree on wage reductions"
The Iron Age composite prices are
nchanged-finished steel at 2.116 cents
a pound. pig iron at $14.96 a ton and
steel scrap at $8.75 ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
VIENNA BRIDGE PARTIES
THREATENED WITH TAX
Municipal Levy May React to End
Popular Game of Last
( Eight Years.

VIENNA IN. A. N. A).-Vienna's little
cafe bridge parties are threatened with
extinction. Its eight years and more
since the city took rather paSSionately
10 bridge. Then came the financial
collapse and social life at home was
transferred to the cafes. This gave some
clever Viennese women an idea They
were poor and in some cases their hus-
bands were out of work. They began
togtake special rooms at the cafes and
to organize little bridge parties, later
on getting up circles for rummy and
other card games.
There are now about 100 of these
bridge rooms m the cafes of the city.
Already their "nnanageresses" have to
divide their incomes with the cafe
owners and now officialdom has stepped
in and the municipality wants a share.
too. If the matter becomes an official
one it is thought that the little bridge
parties will come to an end.
(Copyright, 1881, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
PLATINUM is SUGGESTED
AS BASE FOR CURRENCY
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, November 26-One of
the current suggestions for curing the
alleged faults of the gold standard for
currency, declares the New York Trust
Co., is that platinum be used to supple
ment gold as a currency base.
Inquiries among some local authori-
ties on the subject, however, revealed
the fact that the worlds supply of
platinum is small and the yearly pro-
duction is falling of rapidly because Of
the exhaustion of the mines in the Ural
Mountains. Little more than 5000, 900
ounces Of the metal has been produced
since its discovery in 1876. At 500 an
ounce this would be worth only $780,
100000, or less than per cent of the
total gold reserves Of SO countries.
Platinum said one gold base devo-
tee, could admittedly be placed in alloy
with some other metal SO as to render
it available for coinage, but if it were
adopted as a currency base, it would not
likely be used in that form at all"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
Preferred Stocks.

NEW YORK, November 26 (Spe-
cial) Liquidation has again broken
out in some of the public utility shares
of companies under the influence of
poor earnings and dividend changes
both in junior and senior issues. A
new low record has been established
in American Power 81 Light 5 per cent
preferred. American Power & Light
is in the section Of the country which
shows the largest decrease In consump-
ton of commercial power in the United
States. The omission Of dividends on
Baldwin Locomotive preferred has re-
duced the price Of this stock to the
lowest since it was issued. Rock
Island per cent preferred has
dropped to % per cent income basis.
Engineers Public Service per cent
preferred, Kansas City Southern per
cent preferred, Atchison per cent
preferred and Virginia Chemical 7 per
cent preferred are other dividend pay
ing senior stocks that have made new
low prices
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
FRENCH LAWYERS WORK
ROADS TO EVADE TAXES
Members of Bar Association Use
Method to Protest Against
Increasing Levies.

MONTPELIER (N.AN.A.). - The
Montpelier bar have been staging
novel protest against the ever-increas-
ing taxation. The local rates became
altogether too much to be borne, so the
association Of young lawyers addressed
letter to its members telling them
that they were expected to cooperate
in exercising the ancient right of every
French citizen, inherited from feudal
times, of paying levies in kind.
They were to present themselves with
spades, pickaXeS and hammers, clad in
stout boots and leather gaiters-protec-
tive glasses for flint breakers being pro-
vided. And forth they went as road
members upon the highways! More
over, they consumed their midday sand
witches on the scene of operations, like
thoroughgoing workmen.
Now they await the results of their
demonstration against the perpetual
augmentation of various imposts" Not
every navy would put it that way
tCopyright. 1881. By the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
AMERICAN BANKING
SYSTEM ANALYZED
Bfitish Financiers Find No
cause for Alarm in US.
: Situation.

BY CYRIL b. UPHAM.

IN official and banking circles much
satisfaction is expressed concerning
published results of an inquiry made
into the banking position of the United
States By the Midland Bank, Limited,
one of London's big five" financial in
situations. 1t Is regarded as reassuring
that British bankers have an intelligent
appreciation of the fundamental
strength as well as of the mechanical
detail of the banking structure here.
The current monthly review OF the
London bank, in an analysis of the sit
uation in this country, under the title
Recent Developments and Current
AnKtetieS," assures Europeans who have
BEEN inclined to fear a breakdown in
the United States that anxieties as to
the stability Of American banking in
Stitutions are groundlesS. Neither the
immediate nor the final outcome need
cause dtsquiet, is the conclusion.
Strength Of System.
The summary of the situation, after
referring to any suggestion of a general
breakdown as ridiculous, goes on to
say: There Is no possibility of hope
less melee Of insolvency and morgan
1Hed moratoria. The strength of the
American banking system is, at bottom,
the strength Of America; its resources,
its solid assets, are beyond question; the
available supplies of cash are sufficient
to meet all eventualities that have any
immediate claim to serious considera-
ton. True, the system has defects,
which the trials of recent years have
rendered more and more obvious to all
eyes. But they are not such as to en-
danger the stability Of the structure as
whole, nor of those parts of it which
occupy leading positions.
There may be many fore failures
yet TO come-there always have been
many failures yearly-but these will not
shake the foundations Of the system,
which are essentially solid and well
laid"
After reviewing the record Of bank
failures In this country, the Midland
Bank tells its English readers that the
number of failures in the United States
in itself becomes unimportant when it
is remembered that the Americans work
on the unit system comprising items
ofs thousands of separate, or at least
nominally separate, banks" The re-
view expresses amazement at the small
size OF many of these banks THE
average deposits involved were we'll be-
log 100000 per failure" it says, IAN
almost incredibly small sum for an in
stnution designated as a bank. Fail
ures in such system can be and are
looked upon. very largely, as constitut-
ing natural process of selection
neeessitated by a system still lacking in
cohesion"
National Credit Corporation.
The National Credit Corporation is
spoken OF as further measuring de-
velopmant," which should restore the
1iqslidity Of many banks bordering on
insolvency"
Testimony Of this character from
such a source is expected to go far to
strengthen the confidence of those
Americans who have been inclined to
regard the present situation with pes
siIniSm. Praise from so conservative
AND so influential an institution is re-
gafded here as praise from Sir Hubert"
and is valued accordingly.
Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
KENYA COLONY HIT
BY LOCUST PLAGUE
5000 Reward Offered for Means
to Destroy Pests in
Africa.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NAIROBI Kenya, East Africa
Kenya Colony is again suffering from a
severe plague of locuSts and as yet no
satisfactory remedy has been found.
The last invasion of Kenya began in
May, 1928. and did not cease till March,
1880. The insect was then the variety
known as the desert locust and came
from the Sudan and Abyssinia. Breed
ing grounds are believed also to exist
in the French Sahara. and confer
ence was opened in Rome this Sep
TENDER to discuss ways and means of
international cooperation to combat
the pest
This year, however, the species is
the migratory locust. 1t Is even more
destructive than the desert locust and
harder to deal with. It's breeding
grounds in Central Africa are as yet
unknown. The government Is using
various measures Of defense and re-
ward of $4,000 has been offered for an
effectual method of destroying the
second generation as 1t emergeS from
the eggs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
VALUED LETTERS FOUND
List and Beethoven Notes Uncov-
cred Near Budapest.

BUDAPEST (NANA).-Publicit
seems ever to have been great neceA :
sity to the artist. Among some hither-
to unknown letters from Beethoven and
List that have been found by a mer-
chant OF Dombovar is one addressed
by List to Mrs. Pleysel. q Viennese
pianist. asking her to play his newest
composition as often as possible at her
concerts. Unfortunately the letter Is
not dated SO one cannot tell to which
of his works it refers,
Another letter, from Beethoven, is
dated 1919 and thanks Degen, as presi-.
dent OF the Philharmonic Society, for
electing him as a member. Jacob Deg
en-, Viennese merchant, was the
great-grandfather of the Dombovar
merchants wife, and the valuable col
lection OF letters has been found among
his correspondence.
(Copyright, 1881, by the North American
NewspaDas Alliance, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
STOCK DIVIDEND VOTED
BY BUSINESS MACHINES

Directors Of International Business
Machines Corporation, which has a
plant in Washington, have declared the
regular quarterly dividend of $3.50 a
share on the capital stock and, in ad-
dition, a 5 per cent stock dividend,
Thomas J. Watson, president, an
nounces. This is the fourth consecu-
tive annual stock dividend of this
amount declared by the company.
Both the stock and cash dividends
are payable January IL to stock of rec
ord December 81. The stock payment
will add SO, 493 shares to the company's
outstanding capital stock, increasing the
total number of shares to 703344.
FOR the past 10 years the corpora
ton has shown continuously increasing
earnings and has added more than
$18,OOO,0OO to surplus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
AVERY Is NEW CHAIRMAN
OF MAIL ORDER BOARD
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 26. Sewell
Avery, head of the United States Gyp-
sum Co., was elected chairman Of the
board of directors Of Montgomery Ward
g. Co. yesterday, succeeding Silas H.
StraWn, who becomes chairman Of the
Executive Committee.
George B. Everitt retains his post as
president in the realignment Of officials
of the big mail order and retail chain
house.
The board of directors, still In ses-
sion at the noon hour, issued the follow
ing statement:
1.-THE company is in excellent f1nan-
cial condition with credit ratio of Is
to l. Glass A dividends Of SITS a
share, payable January /, 1882, to stock
holders Of record December 90, 1881,
were declared"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
Eight Tons of Clippings.

ASBURY PARK, N. j. (P.-All that
was printed about the human, non
military side of the World War-at
least all that DR.. Joseph Broadman
could collect-makes about 10000
p 3 I'VE Pc chpplngS ana more IMAM
papers. The whole business weighs
eight tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
Dividend Decisions.

NEW YORK, November &c Especially -.
There are a number of important de-
ciSions to be made on December 8,
which the market is awaiting and
which it may discount in advance. On
that day are dividend meetings OF the
directors of the New York Central and
Northern Pacific. Then also will come
the reply of the railroad brotherhoods
to the application Of the carriers in
connection with the 10 per cent cut in
wages. The postponed New Haven
dividend meeting Is also scheduled for
about that date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
CAN COMPANY EXPANDS

NEW YORK, November 26 R).-
Continental Can Co. has acquired the
assets and can manufacturing business
Of the Gordon Can Co. of Omaha,
Nebr. The property acquired includes
o modern four-story concrete plant
with good side-track facilities, although
80 per cent Of the present business is
within trucking area of Omaha.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
NPLING COMPLAINS
: OF TAX ASSESSMENT
Declares Levy on House Is Too
High, but Committee Refuses
Reduction.

HASTINGS, England (R.-Rudyard
Kfpling has complained that his taxes
are too high.
In protest to the Assessment Com
mittee here the noted author declared
the committee would be lucky to get
$4,000 now for $4,000 house buf1t in
1924. 40
Furthermore, the river near his home
at Burwash, his secretary said, sWamped
tennis court and forced him to use
plankS to leave or enter the house.
Other houses in the district are rated
at lower figure, he said.
The committee decided not to make
any reductions, however.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
MUNICH DRINKS MILK
City Losing Claim to Fame as Con-
sumer of Beer.

MUNICH Munich ap-
pears to be losing one of its major
claims to fame. The city is taking to
milk! The home Of Germany's most
famous beer and of the worlds greatest
beer drinkers simply will not believe it,
but the official statistics clearly show
that Munich people are drinking more
milk per head than the inhabitants of
any other city.
WaggiSh visitors want to know
whether the citizens are going to eat
bread and milk instead Of Sausages and
schnitzel. Replies are either contempt
uous or highly explosive.
Copyright. 1881 by the North American
NEWSPAPER Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
PRISON TEAM AGAIN STIRS
High School to Meet Sing Sing,
= Defeated by Police.

NEW YORK CN.AN.A.).-Sing Sing
Prisons foot ball team. which Warden
Hawes, like the famous Coach Roper
Of Princeton, always called lousy
before a game, to pep it up, is getting
milk with its shredded wheat.
THE Port Jervis police force, which
did a noble job within the Sing Sing
confines a week ago, took only SIS OF
the $1,000 received at the gate. Now
a. crack high school team will take on
the Ossining eleven, which is in strict
training.
Art has been suggested that stadium
81 set up.
CG0Byright, 1881, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, 1nc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN
HONORED BY HEIDELBERG
Picturesque University Town Re-
named Part of City for For
mer q. s. Diplomat.

b Inc ASSOClaIed PIeSS.
HEIDELBERG, Germany-The city
fathers Of this picturesque university
town have renamed part of Lower
NeckarstrasSe after Jacob Gould Schur-
man, former American Ambassador to
Germany.
Mr.. Schurman, who once studied at
Heidelberg, never forgot his alma mater
and was instrumental in securing funds
from wealthy Americans for the erection
of new university building dedicated
sum himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
OUTPUT OF ELECTRICITY
SHOWS GAIN FOR WEEK
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW. YORK, November 26.-Produc-
ton Of electricity in the United States
last week showed a gain of about 49,
100000 hours over the previous week.
The decline from the corresponding pc
Rod year ago was 39 per cent, the
smallest recession since early in Octo-
Der. Output on the Atlantic Seaboard
was of six-tenths Of per cent from
1890 although for New England, taken
alone, there was a gain of is per cent.
The Central industrial region showed a
drop Of ga per cent, compared with
last year, and the Pacific Coast a de-
cline Of "a per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
PARIS B0URSE PRICES.

PARIS, November 26 (P).-Three per
cent renteS, 83 francs 80 confines: 5
per cent loan. 101 francs.
Exchange on London, 80 francs, rs
centimes. The dollar was quoted at
IS francs 56h centimes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26

The Irish National Teachers Organi-
Zation, of the Irish Free State will de-
mand full political rights for teachers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
Wall Street Bonuses.

NEW YORK, November 26 (SpeciaD. .
The long-maintained custom of
stock exchange houses Of giving their
employees Christmas bonus was quite
generally abandoned last year and will
be completely so this year. Some firms
that operate on a profit-sharing basis
we're able to pay their employees small
dividend in october, when the average
daily turnover was above that of pre-
viouS months. 1t is estimated that
there are from 80 to IS per cent fewer
on the Wall Street pay roll today than
at this time in 1929.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
RAILROAD EARNINGS.

NEW YORK, November IS RJ.-
Railroads reporting net operating in
come for October. with comparisons
with last year, include:
1881. 1890.
Reading ..... $1,e56,673 $780, 41
New York, New
Haven and
Hartford ..... 1,776,432 2,590,543
Boston q Maine 827,093 1,345, OFT
The intimate association of frogs and
toads with v ter earned for them a
reputation On bng primitive peoples as
custodians Of rain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-13

There were no bidders for Esther. vile, Iowa's old city hall when i was offered for sale. A new build ing replaced it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-13

with complete sound apparatus, was one of the startling modern inn provements used in filming the picture.
 The perfect recording Of voices is largely due to this rustic theatre which reproduced the action and sound filmed the preceding day.
 Developed on Location
 Instead of sending film hum dreds of miles to the home studios in Hollywood, "Eyes of the World film was developed on location and previswed there for possible defects.
 The previous practice for loca- ton companies was to await re- ports from the studio. If these reports were unfavorable the scenes were refilmed. The portable thea tre did away with this waste Of time. Another innovation of the four weeks sojourn on location was complete sustained camp, with it's own electric light system, running water, shower baths and mess tent where 40 persons were fed daily.