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Evening star., 1935-05-19
SPRECkELS' FORMER
WIFE is REWED SOON
Divorce Is Married to Third
Husband by Same Judge
Who Gave Decree.

BY the Associated Press.
RENO, New, May 18.-Pretty. So
cially prominent, Lois Clarke De
Ruyter Spreckels, divorced only yes
terday from her second husband, was
married here today to Frank c. Gin
ton of San Francisco and Los An
geles.
The marriage was performed at the
Washoe County court house by Dis
trict Judge Thomas F. Moran only
"a hours after he had granted the
brides divorce from Adolph Bernard
Spreckels. wealthy San Francisco
sugar fortune heir.
Mrs. Spreckels gave her age as "a.
Clinton is 23
Clinton is the son Of J. e. Clinton,
retired Los Angeles business man, and
has been connected with a San Fran
cisco brokerage firm (Hutton & Co..
for the last nine months. He said
today he recently had resigned his
position, and added that he and his
wife intend to make their home In
Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1935-05-19
DOLLAR-STERLING
STABILIZING URGED
L. D. Edie, Economist, Sees
Move Most Forward Step
in World Today"
ny the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 18.- Stabili-
zation Of the English pound and the
American dollar, not necessarily on a
gold basis, was characterized today
by Lionel D. Edie as the most for
ward step in the world today"
Writing in the Spring issue Of Eco
nomic Forum, just published, this
well-known economist declared that
instead of letting sterling seek its
natural level" in relation to the dol
lar. the United States and Great
Britain could fix de facto ratio be-
tween sterling and the dollar and let
the price Of gold seek its natural
level"
DR.. Edie continued: 1.-THE most i'm
portant forward step In the world to-
day would be to bring about stability
as between the pound and the dollar
"It does not have to be final. It
can be provisional. It can be de facto.
But let the period Of competitive de-
probation between the pound and the
dollar come to an end.
with this stability Of Anglo-Saxon
currencies established as a basis Of
support the world econmy would be
better prepared to absorb the shock
OF currency readjustments in Western
Europe"
Evening star., 1935-05-19
AIRLINES MERGER TALK
DENIED BY c. R. SMITH
President of American Line Gays
No Negotiations Are
Pending.

Denial that any merger with Cen
trail Airlnes Is contemplated by
American Airlines was voiced here
yesterday by C.. r. Smith, president
Of American Airlines. Rumors that
such a merger was being negotiated
had reached officials of the Post
ONCE Department and caused a stir
in Official circles.
There Is nothing to these rumors,"
Mr.. Smith said. I'VE never have had
any negotiations with Central Airlines
for such purpose nor do we intend
to start any"
Smith said that, in his opinion,
such merger would be illegal under
the new airmail laws. The question
Of legality also had been raised by
Charles P. Graddick, superintendent
OF the airmail service Of the Post
Once Department.
American Airlines right now has
all the routes 1t cares to handle un-
der the present conditions" Mr..
Smith explained.
Evening star., 1935-05-19

size of fist to immense boulders
Is feet in diameter, with only an oc-
casional patch of sand.
Attempts to dynamite a passage
through the channel between Wilkes
and Peale Islands, to enable launches
and margeS to reach the lagoon and
avoid unloading the steamship North
Havens stores on the unprotected
ocean side of Wilkes, have been no
more successful than the attempts to
find fresh water by blasting holes in
the island. The coral rock in the
channel is as hard as that under the
island Each dynamite blast dis
lodged only enough to fill a good
sized dishpan, so the efforts were
abandoned. Only a dredger equipped
with dynamite could cut the granite
like barrier.
Lights on Wake Island.
Brilliant electric lights now glow
nightly from Wake Island, whose
abrupt, low-lying reefs have menaced
navigation for many years. A pole
was erected by the first landing party
as temporary lighthouse to guide the
North Haven at night when she moved
out to sea. Now, with an electric
generator running, the pole has been
raised higher and more powerful
lights installed.
A two-pole radio station has been
erected, with its own wooded house
and sent its first message direct to San
Francisco Tuesday morning. This
message went through the air more
than 1000 miles from the worlds new
est station, with the cali letters KNBI.
Tents, each with a board floor and
cots for two to eight men neatly line
the company street, with electric lights
in the center. Farther along is the
mess tent, with oilcloth-covered tables
set for so men. and nearby is the
cooks tent and piles of food supplies
under tarpaulins. Still farther on are
rapidly growing hills of materials
Evening star., 1935-05-19

Poland Plans Roads Loan.
To finance road construction in Po-
land, an internal loan will be fioated.
Evening star., 1935-05-19
ALL WATER SALTY
ON WILKES ISLAND
Base on U. S.-ASia Airline
Found Lacking Supply
for Drinking.
BY JUNTUS 3. WOOD.

WAKE ISLAND, May 18 (By Wire
less) (N.A.N.A0.-With several thou
sand miles of water in every direction,
Wilkes Island, originally selected as a
Pan-American Airways base on the
projected United States-Asia airline,
hasn't q drop to drink.
Several days of Herculean digging
under a broiling sun have demon
strated that Wilkes Island is barren
in the fullest sense of the word. Al
though it was so reported in previous
cursory naval surveys, an unidentified
hole which the charts described as
''well" existed on the island and the
suppoSition was that previous itinerant
inhabitants had found water there.
Any water they found was undoubt-
edly salt water, like that at the shore
only few feet distant.
The Pan-American Airways expedi-
ton not only excavated this rubbish
filled well but dug four others in diff
ferent locations before being convinced
of the unusual geological formation of
the island. Four feet down the dig
gers always struck a two-foot-thick
strata of solid rock and coral. When
this was drilled and blasted by dyna-
mite, salt water was always found be-
meath it.
"Divining Rod" Works.
The only touch of humor to the
ck-breaking toll was that woods
man with the expedition, equipped
with "divining rod" cut from one of
the islands abundant trees, invariably
located water, but demonstrated that
the rod was unable to distinguish
whether the water was salt or fresh.
To the amateur geologist wilkes
Island apparently has merely loose
covering over solid rock, which sheds
rainwater like a roof. The islands
structure differs radically from that
of Midway Island, where the sand
stores rainwater above the level of
the sea and one is able to find suit
able drinking water by digging few
feet.
With hopes of finding fresh water
abandoned, pipes are being laid and
electric pumps installed to bring water
from the ocean and distill limited
supply. Meanwhile tarpaulins have
been spread and eavetroughs made for
every canvas roof to catch every pos
sible drop whenever it rains.
Peale Island Different.
In contrast with Wilkes Island.
Peale Island, a half mile away on
the opposite side of the lagoon, is
covered with sand and stores suff-
cient rain water to maintain life.
There is a centuries-old accumula-
tion of coral consistently on the north
eastern side of each of the three
islands-Wilkes, Peale and Wake
which has the consistency of a Stag
heap at a steel mill. AL three is
lands are covered with trees and vines,
densely interviewer, and the colonists
must use machetes to cut a path
through the jungle. Without foliage
Wilkes island would be an expanse of
black-stained coral varying from the
Evening star., 1935-05-19
TREES TO BE MOVED
Patent Office Oaks to Be Taken
to Lafayette Park.

The Master Tree Surgeons, Inc, Of
Holliston, Mass, Immediately will be-
gin removing the oak trees on F street.
between Seventh and Ninth streets, to
Lafayette Park, to make way for the
widening of that downtown thorough
fare and the removal of the south
steps of the old Patent Office.
Secretary 1ckes approved the award
ing of a contract for s2,187 to this
firm for the job and the announce
ment was made yesterday by C.
Marshall Finnan, superintendent Of
the National Capital Parks. The park
chief explained that the oak trees are
fine specimens, although they have
been growing on a busy downtown
street. They will be set out in
Lafayette Park as part of the perma-
nent scheme there.
Evening star., 1935-05-19

being dragged by tractor from the
shore.
The unloading Of stores does not
halt even during rainstorm, for the
men strip to their waists and toll un-
complainingly on the most inhos-
pitable spot of land that human beings
ever tried to make habitable. But
they know that in a day or two they
will enjoy movies and all the comforts
of home.
(Copyright 1885. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1935-05-19
1857 Babies Subsidized.

Germany spent approximately s6l0
each for 1851 loan" babies born
last year, the expenses connected with
their birth and rearing being subsi-
diZed by the government under the
"law for promoting marriages"
Evening star., 1935-05-19
Confession Takes Week.

1t required a week to write the
supposed confession of Henry M.
Robinson. aged 81, who is alleged to
have been connected with SIS cases
Of housebreaking and shopbreaking in
Liverpool, England.
Evening star., 1935-05-19

A group Of goods at the Uni
versity of Arkansas tried to tele-
phone Jean Harlow, movie blond.
but allegcdly were told Miss Har-
low didn't know anybody in Ar
kansas and didn't want to talk to
them. The snub brought a protest
from moving picture theaters. with
one manager suggesting a boycott.
This action was followed by
s6.45 telephone call from Miss Har-
low to Miss Henderson, coed, with
an apology explaining she did not
get the original call. "A. p. Photo.
Evening star., 1935-05-19
Sect to Build Shrine.

The former villa Of Mayor Ginjiro
Katsuda of Kobe, Japan, which is
said to have cost s150,O00, has been
purchased by the Hyogo-ken branch Of
the Tenrikyo. and the sect will build
a shrine there.
Evening star., 1935-05-19
Aerodromes Increase.

Twenty-one towns in England have
municipal aerodromes and % others
plan to establish them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
RENEWED DEMAND
FOR STEEL IS SEEN
High Hopes Are Held for Ac.
tive Fall Manufac-
turing Season.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. September 3.-The
magazine Steels weekly review stated
today steel works operations remained
unchanged at 5212 per cent last week
in the face Of generally strong mar
ket conditions.
Fresh commitments, mainly for the
lighter steel products, overcame an
easier market tendency in the early
part Of the week and lifted opera
tions in some districts.
Decline NeutraIized.
A decline in operations of points
to 81 per cent at Chicago was neu-
tralized by an advance Of point. to
A per cent at Pittsburgh, an ad-
vance Of 5 points to Sc In Cleve-
land, 5-point advance to 40h per
cent in Birmingham, points to rs
per cent in Wheeling and 2 points
to So per cent in youngstown.
Other districts retained recent
gains.
The magazine said daily average
steel ingot production made a strik-
ing recovery in August after falling
for five consecutive months. Opera
tions averaged about 81 per cent for
the month.
Preliminary estimates for August
indicate a rise in output of % per
cent. while the daily average pig iron
output gained about per cent. halt
ing a two-month decline.
Dividing Line Seen.
Labor day suspensions, said the
magazine. may affect steel works op-s
erations this week, but producers are
Of the opinion that this day marks
the dividing line of an expected re-
newed demand for the Fall manu-
featuring season.
Steel's scrap composite rose 4 cents
to $i2.37. Its steel composite was up
cents to $3278 and the finished
steel index advanced 10 cents to
s54.10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
Beans Replacing
Old "Applesauce"
For House Paint
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September a.
"You could paint your house with
applesauce, but"--a paint manu-
facturer used to advertise. You
can paint 1t with beans without
any butts.
And American homeowners may
do that In big way some day, II
production Of soybeans, strongly
encouraged by the Department Of
Agriculture continues to mount.
Already many paint manufac-
turers use from 10 to 20 per cent
of soybean oil In their ready-mixed
paints instead Of imported lnseed
oil.
The soybean is probably the
worlds most versatile vegetable
or is 1t q fruit?-and its latest dis
covered virtue is its possession Of
that one of the alphabetical vita
minis which helps, indirectly, Of
course, to populate the Nation.
Chemists have found more than
300 widely assorted uses.
(Copyrisht. 1880
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September "a heavy
tone in bonds of the United States
Government gave the listed market an
unsettled appearance today. Losses
among Federal issues ranged from
2-32 to 1882 and final figures were
around the lows Of the day.
Corporate bonds finished with gen.
eral mixture of small gains and losses
about equally divided. Atlantic Coast
Line AIS we're l point higher at IS.
New Haven collateral IS were that
much lower at 81 and Western Mary
land As were unchanged at 95l2.
Closing prices of other leaders in
eluded Consolidated Gas 5l2s, up "a
Of a point at 106sS; Peoples Gas IS,
up y at 107; Bethlehem Steel Re-
funding IS, off y at 109l2. and U. S.
Rubber IS, up L at 96l2,
Foreign bonds were comparatively
steady, with the exception Of Italian
issues, which yielded or more points
under light offerings.
Argentine IS were y higher at 90
and Peruvian loans made a slight ad-
vance on news from Lima that the
government would consider resumption
of service on its dollar issues as soon
as internal conditions improved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO: September 3 up ~. 8. De-
partment Of Agriculture) .-Hoss. IA. 0OI.
including 1000 direct: mostly l0a1 )
cents higher. than Fridays average: light
% .I,l and sows 10a25 cents higher
1i.d9a11.s5; 26O-35o pounds, Ii.i5a
ll;S5; most light lights. 1O5Oall .0C:
St Cattle; %; 900, calves, 5000: choice fed
steers fnn snd yearlinss about steady; early
most bids % cents or more down. but not
enough sold on early rounds to make a
market. Liberal supply fed steers here.
year!ings:. strictly Choice .heifers up ITO to
,ra.t. Stockers and feeders steady to
gutter cows 1Oa15 cents off: bulls tending
a1wef' with $50 practical top: vealers
Sheep $4,000: fat lambs active, 25a
= ,, &C cents higher: sheep firm: feeding
SaTe fheiee ranse lambs Including hrst
less; natives. S,S5a0.25; native ewes. 2.z5
a3.25 mostly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
RESERVE BORROWING
is VIRTUALLY NIL
Member Banks Have Been "Outn
of System for More
Than Year.

BY the Associated Press.
Member bank borrowings from the
Federal Reserve System remain vir-
tually nil. They have been "out" Of
the reserve for more than a year. The
only important expansion of reserve
credit in the meanwhile has been the
extension of $40 1000. 900 In small loans
to industry
Some bank experts. however. see a
potential stimulus to member borrow
ing in the recently approved bank bill,
which removed the old eligibility re-
strictions.
Total reserve bank credit outstand-
ing, including $2,430, 100000 in hold
ings of Government obligations, COM
pares as follows:
Week ended August 28--$2,471 .000, 00o
Preceding week 2,469 900, 00C
Same week last year. 2,463, 000. 0oC
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
Id Out of Cash Balance.
EXPANSION IN IMPORTS
is TREASURY WINDFALl
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Expansion in imports, mainly farm
products, has provided windfall for
the Treasury. which needs all the
money it can collect to hold down
the Governments deficit.
Customs collecting in the first two
months Of the current fiscal year ex-
ceeded $64,000.000. compared with
about $40,000,000 in the comparable
period of the preceding fiscal year.
Part Of the gain came from liquor
imports. But the largest share has
been contributed by other commodi-
ties. Despite larger collections from
liquor duties, they contributed in July
only 2.S per cent Of the total, COM
pared with 10.l per cent in July, 1894.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
LOS ANGELES BOND ISSUE.

NEW YORK, September OP.-
An issue of $2.505,000 Los Angeles
City High School District 4 per cent
bonds was offered to the public today
at prices to yield from l to $40 per
cent, according to maturity. The
bonds, recently purchased from the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. are due
serially from 1886 10 1856.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
RETIRING OF BANK
NOTES EXPEDITED
Treasury Receives in Ex-
cess of 500, 900, 900 for Re.
demption in August.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Retirement Of national bank notes
from circulation Is proceeding at Q
sharply accelerated pace.
The Treasury received we'll in ex-
cess of $4,000, 900 for redemption in
August. according to its latest state.
ment. None was issued.
That was the largest reduction ir
the net amount outstanding since the
retirement began early in 1884. II
was expedited in recent months by
the calling of the per cent consols
and Panama bonds bearing the circu-
lation privilege.
Repayment Gives Impetus.
The repayment Of these bonds in
July and August gave impetus to the
return Of national bank notes. About
SIPS, 000. 900 came into the Treasury
in those two months against an outgo
Of only $4,000.
Consequently. about one-third OF
the notes out early in 1884 have been
withdrawn from use, reducing the to-
tai to about s6l5, ZOO, 900, as shown in
the daily Treasury statement.
They have been supplanted In cir
culation by silver certificates and Fed
eral Reserve notes.
Officials estimated last Spring II
would take about a year to complete
the withdrawal Of the private bank
notes.
Repaid Out Of Cash Balance.
AS they are Cancelled the Treasury
makes use OF the s646, 5000 in gold
profit" from dollar revaluation set
aside for repayment of the Panama.
and consols. The bonds actually were
repaid out Of the Treasury's cash bal.
ance, but it assumed the notes as it,
own obligations and took the gold in.
crement into its working balance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
NEW CORPORATION FORMED.

NEW YORK, September CP.-
Frank Phillips, president Of Phillips
Petroleum Co.. today announced the
formation OF the Polymerization
Process Corp. through which patent
licenses will be available to the Pc
troleum and natural gas industries for
the practice of the polymerization
process for making premium grade
gasoline from refinery and natural
gases. Several of the larger oil COM
panies, including the Texas Corp,
Standard Oil Co. Of Indiana and
Standard Oil Co. Of New Jersey are
interested financially in the new outfit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
ARGENTINE BONDS FUND.

NEW YORK, September P.-
J. P. Morgan 81 Co. and National City
Bank of New York, fiscal agents, have
notified holders Of Argentine external
sinking fund per cent bonds due Oc-
tober /. 1859, that $297,815 will be
available for sinking fund purchases
on october /. Tenders must be below
par.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
RAW SILK DEMAND
STRONGEST IN YEAR
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 3-Con-
sumner demand for silk continues strong
in preparation for an expected excel
lent Fall finished goods business. &C
cording to several of the largest silk
houses in New York August mill TAX
ings were estimated by trade observers
at $4,000 to $4,000 bales, which would
compare with 44,166 bales delivered in
July and 36,247 in August, a year ago.
The current spot raw silk price is the
highest since September, 1888, and
nearly so cents a pound more than
that prevailing last July.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK, September 3 01.-Foreisn
exchange IRREGULAR: Great Britain in dol
mand. -4.e6: cables, 4.o6; 60.day bills
495i France. demand, 6.6OHs; cables
560hs; Italy, demand, S.15h: cables
S.15h.
Demands-Beleium. 1888; Germany
free, 40.24: reg. tourist, 2775: req com
mercial, %, so; Holland, 6772; Norway
Finland, go; switseriand. ss.so; Spain
1865, Portugal, SO; Greece, 94h;
Poland. 1897: Czechoslovakia, 4.l41S;
Yugoslavia. 2.3Qh; Austria. 1871: Hun
gary 29.7 .Rumania. 90: Argentina,
33.0Sn; Brazil, 8.62n; Toxic, 30 33;
Shanghai. 81 So Hongkong. so. 90; Mexico
90.53M; New, York in Montreal. 100. 46h
Nominal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
LOWER PASSENGER
RATES CONSIDERED
New Deal in Eastern Ter.
ritory Regarded in Wall
Street Quarters.
BY the Associated Press.

~ WIG hooOSidtCa EACoDs
NEW YORK. September "A new
deal in railroad passenger rates In the
Eastern territory is regarded in Wall
Street quarters as virtually certain Of
development this year despite the nom
commital attitude of the railroad
managers.
In this region alone the 3.6-cent-a-
mile tariff survives. 1t has been dis
carded by the Western roads and by
most Of the carriers in the South
eastern territory. As some observers
have put it, it is one Of an infinitesimal
number Of things in the price realm
which were not touched by the defa-
tionary trend Of the last six years.
Issue Frequently Discussed.
For a matter Of two years or more
the managers Of the roads east Of the
Mississippi have at intervals talked
behind closed doors on the advisability
Of discarding the old base tariff in
favor of rate more in harmony with
the present-day transportation pur-
chasing limits Of the public.
They are said to have lined up on
both sides Of the question. with the
principal passenger carrying lines
holding out for maintenance Of the
old rate. In this connection, such
roads as the Pennsylvania, New York
Central and New Haven have been
mentioned as least in favor Of
change Baltimore g. Ohio and some
of the smaller systems have been rep
resented as favoring a lower base rate
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion may have something TO do with
breaking the deadlock. Some time ago
the commission assigned one Of its
examiners to the task Of looking into
the question of passenger rates, and
after exhaustive inquiry he recon-
mended to the regulatory body that
lower rates be adopted.
Endorsement Likely.
While the commission In the past
has not in every instance adopted the
recommendations of its examiners in
the matter of rate changes, its action
in this particular case Is likely to be
an Endorsement of its inquisitor's find
ings, in the opinion of those who fol-
low railroad affairs.
This judgment is based upon the
assumption that the commission will
be influenced by the reports of ex-
ecutives Of Western and Southern car
riers that reduced fares, adopted as
an experimental measure from one to
two years ago. have produced results
and are being continued.
Buses May Be Factor.
There is another factor, according
to observers, which may induce the
roads to give up the old rate irrespec-
tive Of the action Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Statistics
from various sources indicate that the
principal motor bus lines have enjoyed
a large increase in business this year,
a much larger gain relatively than
that claimed by the railroads.
the cost of long distance interstate
bus travel averages less than that of
the steam carriers, and railroad men
in all territories have ever been willing
to charge a considerable part Of the
passenger traffic loss in the past dec
ade to this form of competition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03
STEEL RIGHTS ACQUIRED.

NEW YORK, September GP.-
Exclusive American rights to manu-
facture and sale of new magnetic
alloy steel have been acquired from
a British concern by Allegheny Steel
Co., it was announced today by w. F.
Detwiler, vice president Of the COM
pany.