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Evening star., 1934-08-29
HOG PRICES JUMP
FURTHER TO $500
Nearly So Per Hundred
weight Added to Quota
tionS Since August 3.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 29-Hog prices
today climaxed their sensational rise
of the last three weeks, the most
striking in 35. years, by passing So, to
touch $805. Close to SO hundred
weight has been added to hog values
since August 3, when the bull move
ment began with the end of the ham
dlers' strike, and no similar prolonged
upward surge has ever before been
seen at the Chicago yards.
No packer has paid SO for hogs
since August 10, 1881. However, the
packer is actually paying S2.25 more
than the quoted price, for the process
ing tax.
Yesterdays average cost was S7.42,
which with the tax brings the return
to the producer to 1857, close to SO
a hundred, and nearly 81 beyond the
$3.50 five-year pre-war average taken
by the A. A. A. as the objective OF
the price-raising drive.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
ESTIMATES DOWN.

NEW YORK, August 20 LP.-Rev-
enue freight car loadings on railroads
in the United States during the week
ended August 25 are estimated at
600,564, which, if borne out by the
official figures to be released on Fri
day, will compare with 63l ,998 cars
in the same week last year.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
TRUST COMPANIES
NATOMAs NET AT s52s.Os1

NEW YORK, August 90 (P)-Net
profit of the Natomas Co. for the
seven months ended July 81 totaled
$528,O8l, after charges, depletion, ETC.,
equal to SO cents a share on the CAPT.
tai stock July net profit amounted
to $73 300 after charges, compared
with $82 ,945 IN June.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
Washington Exchange
SALES.

Capital Traction Co.-1O at 2316, 10
at 2312.
Lanston Monotype-10 at 48, 10 at 48,
10 at AZ, 10 at At, 10 at At, 10 at At,
10 at AZ, 10 at At, 10 at At, 10 at At.
Mergenthaler Linotype-10 at 215s, 10
at 215s, 10 at 215s, 10 at 215s, 10 at
215s, 4 at 21I.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
Futures closed steady, l higher to 1
COttonseed Oil.

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed firm; spot unquoted; Septem-
ber, 7.34b; October, 73S; November,
7.42b; December, 7.54; January, 761;
February, 760b; March, 7,72. Sales,
172 contracts, including switches.
B-bid.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK. August 20 (R.-Call
money steady; / per cent all day.
Time loans steady; 90 days-6 months
Sal per cent.
Prime commercial paper. a..
Bankers acceptanceS unchanged.
Rediscount rate New York Reserve
Bank. l Il per cent.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
FREIGHT LOADINGS.

NEW YORK. August 20 0P.-Railroads
reporting revenue freight car loadngs for
the week ended August 25 included:
Week. Prev Last
Aug rs. week year
N. Y, Central SS255 s7.757 102,249
Evening star., 1934-08-29
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK. August 90 lP-New York
Security Dealers Association:
Quotations as of = o'clockD
Evening star., 1934-08-29
FEDERAL LANK BANKS

NEW YORK. August 90 QP.-Pederal
Land Bank bonds:
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Bid and Asked Prices.
BONDS.
PUBLIC UTILITY

Amer Tel & Tel AIS 80. los
Am. Tel & Tel. ctl. tr. 5s.,, 100 ,
Anacostia Pot. r. r. 5s. "A rs
Ana. & Pot, Guar 5s. -. 100
c. & P. Tel. of Va. IS 1861
Capital Traction r R 5s,, S6Ie
City & Suburban 5s., "A ri
GEORGETOWN Gas 1st 5s 1O7
Pot Elec. Pow. Cons 5S... 1O5
Potomac Elec 6s I953 100
Wash. Gas IS. 1858 9715 90
Wash. Gas 5s 1860. 100
Wash. Gas 6s. series b. 1929
Wash. Rwy & Elec. 4s... 9634 971a
Evening star., 1934-08-29
"a 3ss zonite Products. Az Az A
Sales of Stocks on New York Exchange


11:o0 A4...... 100000 1900 Noen... $40 600
100 P.M...... 100000 200 PM. $40 600
Total sales for the day 100000
Dividend rates table are the annu.
declarations. " -'ei4'
Unit Of trading 100 shares tPartly extr.
+Plus 80 in stock Paid last
IN stock ePayabe in cash 81 in special nre
ierred stock Plus AZ in stock. Accumu-
ceivershiD. m Plus Sd in stock K Ex-dYdend 0 ~
Evening star., 1934-08-29

113h 97Is K C P & L 1st t6) -
1914 64S kans City South. ..
271a 11A Kans City South pf.
1871 1879 Kayser (O&Co h50c
Az " Kelly Spring Tire.
21h 119s Kelvinator (50c)...
231s 16 Kennecott c (h15c)
7A 21s Kresge Dept Stores.
22% 131s Kresge IS 81 5000.
81 SO Kress IS H) DID,.
335s 23A Kroger Gr&Bak 1.se
Evening star., 1934-08-29

l6 Ga Baldwin Loco.
64& 27 Baldwin Loco pf .l
341s l3A Baltimore & Ohio. ..
37% 1874 Baltimore & Ohio of
46h 351a Bang Il Arros(2 N J.
6z 2k Barker Bros.
3S1a 161s Barker Bros pf. ....
10 6 Barnsdau Corp. 80.
19% 10h Beatrice Creamery.
l5h S7s Belding-Hemingwy
1884 951a Belg N Ry pit pf 5.S6
23A ga Bendix Aviation. -.
1914 121A Beneficial Loan ! "
491s 25A Bethlehem Steel. :.
81 SIS Beth Steel pf (j1%)
40 1871 Bigelow-San th1)..
16H 7A Blaw Knox. .......
6S4 48 Bohn Alumn&BrI3)
Sc rs Bon Ami (A) (t5)..
2SA 1873 Borden Co (1.60)..-
2S5s 16h Borg Warner d..
8 1s Botany Mines A (k)
1885 IL Briggs Mfg d..
371a 26 Bristol-Myers t2.30
44ss 2SA Bklyn-Man T (h75c)
SOIa 5Sh Bklyn Union Gas 8.
1OA 4 Brunswick k-Ba Ike. -
ga 31s Bucyrus-Erie..
1l1a 6 Bucyrus-Erie-cv pf
7A 8 BUdd &c CD Mfg.
A 16 Budd (E G) pf.....
Eak Rudd Wheel
1854 10k Burr Add Mach 40c.
3A IN Bush Terminal (k).
15A SIS Bush TT Bldg pt CT.
32s4 1874 Byers "a M1.......
Evening star., 1934-08-29

81 33 Jewel Tea Co (3).
663s SO Johns-Manville.
II As Jones&Laugh To pf
Evening star., 1934-08-29

SA 3h Hahn Dept Stores.
ga 31a Hall w f Printing.
24% 13 Harb Walker (h50c)
ga Ia Hayes Body.
96A STA Hazel Atlas Gl o.
12k 5H Hercules Motor.
S1M SO Hercules Powder(3)
10A AZ Holland Furnace. :.
4301k 80 Homestake M (+22)
23A IL Houd-Her( A. il 4 +.
65s Iks Houda ille-Hersh B.,
81 43 House Fin pf(S W.,
29A 121a Houston Oil. ......1
STA 35h Howe Sound (3)..-
Pan 6k Hudson Motor Car
IA ia Hupp Motors
Evening star., 1934-08-29

74 2A Yellow Truck .. 7 Az 37t az
47}s % Yellow Truck pf... 8OOs s5s IS 3S 5"
22a4 IL Young saw (h25c) 3 II 16s. 16a.
33h 125s Youngstown s &T 25 Is 17as IN
Evening star., 1934-08-12

this wagon down the hill by hand-if we can
get those cars out of the way"
NO" says Dan, and ! thought he stole a
wink at June. Il don't want to unhitch those
horses. I've decided can break them of their
balkiness by just playing a waiting game with
them They'll get hungry and thirsty sooner
or later and"
Are you crazy?" Mccain raves. 1T might
take hours before" He stops suddenly,
smacks his fists together and says: I've got it,
You don't have to worry any more about curing
that team of their balkinessl III buy them
from you right now-if you'll help me run that
wagon back down the hilli"
He jerks his checkbook out Of his pocket and
gushes on, Two hundred dollars eh?"
Sorry" says Dan, but I've grown TO like
old Stump and Stone. l couldn't think of
parting with them for such a trifiing sum-
"I see!" McClain's eyes narrow. "You figure
you've got me in jackpot, don't you? And
you're going to blackmail me out of some
money! Well what's your price?"
II wouldn't want to sell all my live stock"
Dan replies, without selling my real estate, too.
should say that 5000 would be an excellent
price for both"
Five thou" McClain gulps like he's swal-
lowing a base ball IAN right, you swindlerl
Soldl" With trembling fingers he fills out the
pink slip of precious paper and hands it over
to Dan.
\ from the wagon roadster towing trailer,
comes rushing down into the depths of Roam
Horse Gulch.
Evening star., 1934-08-12
Electricity in

source, its loudness and the pressure on the
eardrunls. If two sounds of equal loudness
the sound having the lower frequency will
have the greater intensity at its source and
will exert the greater pressure ON the ear
drums. If the piano note c, two octaves below
the middle and the G two octayes above of GA
and 1,O24 vibrations per second respectively,
are struck so easily that both are barely audi
BILE the lower note will emit 10000 times as
much energy and exert 300 times as much
pressure ON the drums as the higher note.
When sound of 1000 vibrations per second
hes been increased in loudness from the
threshold of hearing to the threshold of pain,
the loud sound exerts 100000 as much pres
sure on the eardrums and the sound energy
is increased 5000, ,000, 10000 times, states
DR.. OSbon.
THE upper classes of people in the ancient
civilizations on the Nile suffered more from
dental defects than did the peasant classes,
just as IS the case today, reports DR.. r. Woods
Leigh, dental surgeon who has made a de-
tailed study, under the auspices of the Uni
versity Of California, of 200 skulls of ancient
Egyptians In none Of the skulls examined
was DR.. Leigh able to find any evidence that
the early Nile dwellers practiced dental surgery.
On the whole, he reports, their teeth remained
sound until middle age and they made no effort
70 save them once they started to 60 DR..
Leigh attributes the dental troubles of the peo-
pie of 5000 years ago to their diet and eating
habits. The peasants VINO had the best teeth
lived ON simple coarse foods, he states. The
chief causes Of dental diseases seemed to be
attrition or grinding away of the enamel by
gritty materials IN the food. Such wearing
away of the teeth also Is found among the
American Indians, due to their practices of
grinding cereals in stone mortars or bleaching
acorn meal In sand
Evening star., 1934-08-12
Home Rule for Cctton

T HE administration Of the cotton control pro-
l gram entails a great deal Of local super
vision.
Briefly, the plan is based on a system OF
community committees. county committees and
the administration. A quota is set for the
county by the Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration. The county committee then divides
the quotas among the communities and the
community committee subdivides 1t among the
raisers. In this manner the actual amount
each individual farmer may raise is determined
by the people best informed as to his normal
production.
Under the terms OF the Bankhead bill the
amount Of cotton which may be raised is ten
million 50o-pound bales. This amount Of cot
ton is tax exempt. ANY ginned beyond that
amount is taxable at the rate Of so per cent
of the current price. which at the present Is
determined at 1l34 cents per pound
Evening star., 1934-08-12
"Brunol" June exclaims.

"Bruno" June exclaims
It's the count, all right. But apparently he
isn't in any mood for company tonight. AS
soon as he sees the road ahead is blocked he
slams on his brakes, tries turning around in
the bottom of the narrow gulch and tips his
trailer in the attempt
For heavens saker' June gasps as half
dozen hogtied lambs come tumbling out from
under the tarpaulin covering the trailer.
Then the count, fumbling nervously at his
hip pocket as he jumps out of the roadster,
pulls gun, which he points at Arnold McClain.
Keep back!" he snarls "or else"
But before he can finish his threat Dan,
who's slipped around behind the McClain car,
executes a lsopardliIze leap-and socko Down
goes the count for the count.
As soon as the night air reviyes the hattened
gent Dan starts soaring the truth out of him.
and gets it. 1t seems that the count isn't at
tached to the consular service. Nor have
marauding coyotes been responsible for Nc
Claims fat lamb losses recently. The count,
in cahoots with a crooked sheep herder, has
been carting loads of mutton down to Valley
ton. a fairly good-sized town beyond String
team, and peddling them to a thumbweighing
butcher down there-at night.
"A cheap, Misunderstanding thiefl' McClain
glares at the count. "And you had the gall to
want to marry my grill ought to" But
he's too indignant for further discourse; so
upset that he forgets all about those thousands
of dollars to be made.
Dan has to remind him Of the Importance
of getting on to Stringteam. And few min
Evening star., 1934-08-12

utes later, with the wagon removed from its
strategic position, we bundle the Count into
the McClain car-front seat-while June Dan
and yours in haste climb into the back.
RUT the car hasn't spun many moonIit
- ridges before June and Dan whispering
sweet endearments are in each others arms.
McClain finally glances around. sees what's
going on-and actually smiles.
"June!" he says, "from the way you're acting.
a person would think you still cared for that
Dan Blair fellow. and after the way he black
mailed your poor old dad out Of $5o0ot'
Rich old dad" Dan corrects but / can't
take your money and your only child, too. MIR.
McClain. My conscience won't permit, so-I'm
returning your check" And he passes the
pink slip forward
McClain throws back his head and laughs.
keep it, Dannyl" he says. It'll make a nice
wedding present for you and June. And after
it's Cancelled. I'll have 1t framed-to always
mind me what shrewd son-in-law I've gotl"
Thus blossoms the romance in the foothills
of the Powderhorns Now Dams managing the
McClain ranch, and your little willies the
rancho bookkeeper Old Macs satisfied; Junes
happier than the bird that flew from the low
swinging branch just before the kitty cata-
pulted-and the count wasn't a count at ALL
He was a duke, Duke Petrelh the polished
gangster, who stole his chiefs ritziest roadster,
lit out for parts unknown and got tripped up
in the ''rubber-tired rustling" business when
his lamb-laden trailer turned turtle
Copyright 1934o
Evening star., 1934-08-12

like beacon light. "A chance TO make thou
sands--if hurry I'm going to town. June.
III tell you about IL later when" But al
ready he's half way to the garage.
"I1l go with you. dad" the girl calls, running
after him.
minute later. while I'm standing there won-
dering where the Count is tonight, wonde- ing
how Latin lover could stay away from his lady
love on such an 20 Sole Mo night as this. the
McClain Car roars past But it's down.
hill shot and hopping into the hoopie, step on
the gas.
Down the slant rumble--past the forks in
the road. over the brink of Roam Horse Gulch--
and then it's screaming brakes and-whoal
A team of gray horses hitched to a stationary
wagon is blocking the narrow road that cuts up
through the sandrock rim the opposite side
of the ravine. Behind the wagon is the Nc
Claim car and on the wagon sits Dan. smilingly
indifferent to the shouting of the money mad
McClain, who's yelling:
Get that team out of therel I've got-I've
got-to get to town and send wirel 1 tell you.
1t means thousands of dollars to mel'
Dan climbs slowly down of the wagon Sup
pose you drive them MIR. McClain," he says.
81 can't get them to bulge"
The sheep king grabs the lines, yells, threat
ems, jerks and even swears little, but stiI old
Stump and Stone stand there placidly imperso-
mating a pair of statues. And the roads too
narrow for them to jackknife around and twist
the tongue out of the wagon this time
"Unhitch theml' McClain bellows at last.
~Maybe there's enough of us here now to back
Evening star., 1934-08-12
THE WAYS OF SCIENCE
Size Varies With Intelligence Electricity in
Cream Drops-Deuice Analyses Sound.

HERE is a connection between the
size of persons body and the de-
gree of intelligence exhibited A
correlation has been found in con-
nection with feeble minded persons,
but the survey has not been extended
as yet to normal persons. 1t probably does
not hold true for normal individuals.
Drs W. r. AShby and r. M Stewart report
in the Journal of Neurology and Psychopath-
ology an anthropometric study they have made
of 269 male detectives of various types ex-
cepting hydrocephalicS all about 16 years of
age They found diminution of absolute body
measurements roughly corresponding to the
degree of subnormality in mental age. AS the
curve Of intelligence fell the body size fell of
more rapidly than the head size.
The fact that as we go down the intelligence
scale the body shrinks faster than the brain is
compatible with the hypothesis that mental de-
fciency is essentially arrest of development"
they concluded.
ZACH fat globule in cream carries an electric
l. charge investigators in the dairy industry
department of the University of Wisconsin
have discovered in an investigation into the
time it takes to make butter out of cream.
They found this time varied with the degree
of acidity of the cream and that the amount
of electricity also varied with this factor There
is danger of getting electric shock from
drinking a glass Of milk from the more
concentrated charges in a pat of butter, as
experience has shown. They found that the
observations were useful, nevertheless, be-
cause it gave them a means of controlling
the fat losses and in reducing the time re-
quired to make butter. The less acid the
cream the stronger the negative charge ON the
fat globules. The more acid the cream the
less negative was the charge, and finally
point was reached at which the decreasing
acidity resulted in an increasing positive
charge on the globuleS.
CHEMISTS succeed very well in developing
- instruments for measuring sound and
could tell to the fraction of a decimal how
much noisier 1t is IN the Chicago Loop than
at Fifteenth street and New York avenue, here
in Washington Now they have succeeded in de-
veloping an instrument that acts as a sound
detective 1t picks clues out of the noise that
makes 1t possible to trace all the sources of
the noise that each one can be reduced or
eliminated. In an arplane test they were
able to tell how much noise was due to the
propeller. to the engine and to the air whistling
past the fuselage: IN q trolley car how much
was due to the gears. to the trolley overhead,
to the motor and other causes. The noise
analy7er was developed by w. o. Oshon, in
the Westinghouse research laboratories. He
found that noises cause degrees Of annoyance
that vary with the pitches of the component
sounds.
DR.. Osbon reports that there Is o curious
relationship between the number OF vibrations
per second Of sound the intensity of it's
Evening star., 1934-08-12
Copyright, I934.)

no wonder you swallow your sommerbier
the wrong way.
But when the novelty of the sidewalk
restaurant wears of, this self-conscious-
ness will disappear. BY next Summer
you should be able to drink and dine
at a curbside table as nonchalantly as
any blase continental, without once feel
ing that some passerby is about to toss
you a peanut. And in the meantime
.. here's looking at you'll
Evening star., 1934-08-12
Sahara
Continued from Ssrth Page

that we must grow only long grass where nov
the tall corn grows-and turn ourselves out to
pasture like Nebuchadnezzar. We can keep
our corn fields.
But it does mean that we must set regiments
of trees and phalanxes of stubborn, deep rooted,
permanent grasses sloping lands, to disct-
pline and halt the runaway soil 1t does mean
that we must throw zones Of permanently
rooted plants around the plow lands to Inn
prison the truant land.
And in all this the COW, patient, bereaved
foster mother of our human race, viii be our
chief ally. Already she Is responsible for
quarter Of the total farm income, and Secre-
tary Wallace, the farmer scientist, who is now
adding craftsmanship to his laurels, insists that
she needs lot more work.
The menace of soil waste looms like a genii
In an Oriental tale. Its possible exorcism reads
like a nursery tale Of the sunset lands:
The farmer began to plant the seed, the
grass BEGAN to hold the SOIL the COW began to
eat the gras9. the children began to drink the
milk whole cycle Of benehcenee il b
is only inaugurated in time.
Evening star., 1934-08-12
The Red
Plaster Elephant
Continued from Ninth Page.

moved the bed away from the railing 30
get behind it, wondering how many
thousand more times she would do this
before she died.
She bent over to smooth the wrinkles
from the sheet and her elbow brushed
the precariously balanced ash tray. Her
quick grab for it, as she saw it start
to go, was too late. 1t slipped over the
edge and there was a crash as it hit
something and then another crash.
Leaning over the railing she looked
down into the room. The red plaster
elephant, knocked to the floor, was
strewn in jagged red and white frag-
mentS.
She looked down at the wreckage for
a full minute, in which it seemed as
though there was no heart in her body.
Then she turned from the half made
bed and walked down the stairs, Slip
ping off her apron as she went, and
took her suit case from the little closet
under the stairs.
(Copyright, 1s34)
Evening star., 1934-08-12

mer. After IS years of speakeasy Sc
clusion you naturally find the fresh air,
the sunlight and the throngs of curious
spectators rather terrifying at first. I'm
accustomed as you are to public eating,
Evening star., 1934-08-12

Archie, of course, has the advantage
of extensive European training; he went
abroad in 1920 and didn't come back
until last year. You can't expect to
equal Archies aplomb in a single Sum-
Evening star., 1934-08-12

Wagnerian accompaniment to beer
drinking, but rain water seldom improves
the pot roa"t
A FTER mastering the mechanical de-
tails of beer gardening, the beginner
may feel that he is eligible for a place
in the first rank. But when he finds
himself actually sitting at one of these
front tables, he will discover that more
than mere manual dexterity is required.
He must develop poise and sang-froid,
for the eyes of the world are upon him.
Some diners grow reStive under the
solicitouS gaze of the hired help. A
waiter standing like a guardian angel
behind your chair can transform
chicken dinner into clinical operation.
He may be simply waiting for the pSy-
Geological moment to do his disappear
ing act (which is scheduled to take place
just about the time you need another
portion of butter), but you feel that he
is there primarily in a critical capacity,
to check up on your lapseS of etiquette
and count the spots on the tablecloth.
The waiter, however, is not half SO
disconcerting as the man in the street,
the passing stranger who stands SPELL
bound while you grapple with spoonful
of noodle soup. Who he is, whence he
comes or where he is going you will
never know; but for the time being
you and your food are the most absorb
ing interests in his life. All else is for
gotten while he watches you eat.
Under such surveillance your great
problem is what TO do with your face
aside from moving the lower part of it
up and down for purposes of mastica-
ton. What expression should you as
sumo? Should you meet his eye squarely
and attempt to stare him down, or
should you lower your gaze and nibble
away at your food in rabbitlike hu-
mility? 1t is difficult to chew haughtily,
especially when sitting down. Besides
in this age of social unrest, any display
of arrogance by an eater is likely to
provoke non-eaters to violence. If you
attempt to smile ingratiatingly between
bites, your proletarian audience may re-
gard your smile as the SNUG smirk of
greedy capitalist gloating over his gou-
lash; or, worse yet, they may interpret
it as a smile of invitation and rush in
to join your party
THE safest course is to display no emo
tion whatever. Cultivate the dead
pan, the stolid. masklike expression Pc
culiar to hardened beer gardeners. And
If that is impossible, switch from beer
to double Scotch. Archie Ditherton tells
me that he is never bothered by curb
stone kbitzerS as long as he sticks to
the double Scotch, or hey-hey diet. He
just doesn't see them any more; there
are too many pink elephants in the way.
Evening star., 1934-08-12
Continued from Ninth Page.

COHLtHu6u TOM NIHIN Fuye'
shower thunderstorm is an excellent
Wagnerian accompaniment to beer
drinking, but rain water seldom improves
the pot roa"t.