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Evening star., 1935-10-27
"WHITEHEADED BOY"
TO BE GIVEN BY GUILD
Blackfriars to Present Famous
Abbey Players Drama on
November As.

"Whiteheaded Boy" play by Len
nox Robinson, which first was pro-
duced by the Abbey Theater Players
in Dublin in 1916, will be presented by
the Blackfriars Guild. November 4
and S, at st. Paul's Auditorium, Fiji
teenth and V streets.
The play was brought to New York
in 1921, and is one of the favorites of
the Abbey Theater group, almost al
ways being included in its repertory.
The cast of the local production by
the Blackfriars includes Teresa Will
son, Jeanne Bateman'and John Mann.
who is recreating the role he had in
the play at the Little Theater in Glou-
ceSter, Mass.
The play is being directed by An
gela Keir. who has had considerable
professional experience on the Broad
way stage, having been under the
management of David Belasco and
having played with E. H. Sothern. She
will be remembered locally for her di-
rection Of Big Hearted Herbert" pro-
duced last year by the Blackfriars
Guild.
Evening star., 1935-10-27
COMMERCIAL BANK
RULING APPEALED
Shipping Board and Attor-
ney General Fight Suit
Over Deposits.
BY the Associated PresA

BY the Associated PresA
Solicitor General Stanley Reed filed
In the Supreme Court yesterday an ap-
peal from ruling of the United States
Court of Appeals for the District OF
Columbia refusing to dismiss the
United States Shipping Board Mer-
chant Fleet Corp. and Attorney Cen
eral Cummings, successor to the alien
property custodian, from suit
brought against them and others by
Thomas E. Rhodes.
After the Commercial National Bank
of this city was taken over by the con-
troller of the currency in February,
1888. the receiver for the bank paid
In full the deposits which had been
made by the Emergency Fleet Corp,
the alien property custodian. the Phil
ippine- Manila Railway Co., and the
controller of the currency.
Rhodes brought suit in District Su-
preme Court complaining that he and
other depositors had received only so
per cent of the money they had on de-
poSit with the bank and insisted that
JllC Wy IlllIl
be compelled to return so per cent
of what had been paid them. He in
sisted it was unlawful. unconscionable,
and fraud on his interests to make
the defendants preferred creditors.
The Government contended the suit
had been improperly brought and
should be dismissed so far as the Gov
ernment officials and the Emergency
Fleet Corp. were concerned. 1t as
serted Rhodes should have made his
demands concerning them on the re-
ceiver of the bank or the controller of
the currency. 1t also insisted that
under the trading with the enemy act
the Attorney General as successor to
the alien property custodian could not
be made party to such suit.
The District Supreme Court refused
10 release any of the defendants from
the suit, but the Court of Appeals
ordered the suit dismissed as to the
controller Of the currency and Urey
Woodson, former alien property Gus
todian. 1t refused to release the
Emergency Fleet Corp. or the Attorney
General.
Evening star., 1935-10-27
PEN WOMEN WILL HEAR
DR.. MARY M, ATKESON

DR.. Mary Meek Atkeson, authority
on country life in the United States
and Mexico, will address the District
Of Columbia League Of American Pen
Women at the Burlington Hotel at Q
pm. tomorrow.
She has just returned from a month
in the Southern Mexico rural districts,
where she studied many phases OF
Mexican Indian life which are seldom
seen by visitors to Mexico. The topic
for her address Is Country Life In
Mexico
Dr. Atkeson Is the only woman
writer on agricultural topics listed in
Rus" the agricultural Who's Who"
She has written a variety Of plays,
articles and stories on country life.
Evening star., 1935-10-27
u. s. GRAND JURORS
TO HEAR OIL CASE
Fraud Alleged Here and in
Other Cities in Sale OF
Royalties"

After lengthy investigation by post
Office inspectors, Federal grand jury
here tomorrow will get what authori-
ties say is an oil fraud case, centering
in Washington, in which investors
have been swindled out of thousands
of dollars.
The charges involve the sale of So
called oil royalties, and one local man
is reported to have been defrauded out
of 100000 In another instance. a
woman in Ellicott City is said to have
lost $4,000.
The grand jury will be asked to
Evening star., 1935-10-27

Sizes II to 1s. Swag-
ger, double breasted.
All-wool coats, full
belted style. Wool
lined. Dressy mixtures.
Evening star., 1935-10-27
WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY
TO RECKLESS DRIVING

Harriette B. Stuart, 80, of 3OO7 Al
bermarle street, pleaded guilty on a
reckless driving charge before Judge
Walter ]. Casey in Traffic Court yes
terday and was fined $50. She had
been arrested Friday, after a collision
in the 5000 block of Park place.
Harold S. Brannock, $500 Colorado
fense speeding charge.
James c. Bristow. 81, of 1873 Co.
lumbia road, demanded a jury trial
on charges Of reckless driving. He Is
accused Of having struck Marian
Wright. colored, in the 800 block of
Fourth street southwest, Friday. The
child was not seriously injured.
Evening star., 1935-10-27
v. m. |. ALUMNI HERE
TO OBSERVE DATE
Informal Smoker to Mark Ninety
sixth Anniversary of
Founding.

The ninety-sixth anniversary Of the
founding Of the Virginia Military In
stitute will be celebrated by local
alumni Monday evening, November
IL, at o'clock, by an informal smoker
at the Army and Navy Club.
Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, super
intendent, will be the principal speak
er. r. Walton Moore. Assistant Secre-
tary of State, will be the guest of
honor.
DR.. Llewelyn Powell, president Of
the District chapter, will preside
Members Of the Arrangements Com
mittee include Stuart B. Marshall,
chairman; j. Carroll Noel, James
Greene, Robert Norman. Tucker Me-
kins, Frank Grimes, Gen. Richard c.
Marshall. Humphrey Daniel and G..
Adams Howard.
In the ninety-six years Of the insti-
Evening star., 1935-10-27

tute at Lexington, Va, there have been
only five superintendents, Gems. Smith,
Shipp, Nichols, Cooke and Lejeune.
Most prominent in the history of the
college are Stonewall jackson and
Matthews Fontaine Maury.
Final arrangements will be held at
q luncheon at the club November 4 at
1890 o'clock.
Evening star., 1935-10-27

part OF a program Of improvement Of
the burial grounds in progress since
June, 1888. The workers were re-
quired to move stones. weighing more
than two tons. They reset 6,572 feet
Of stone and 664 individual markers,
graded 6,828 yards of ground and
seeded and sodded ! 5-l0 acres.
Evening star., 1935-10-27
GRAvESTONES RESET
C. c. c. Workers Improve Gettys-
burg National Park.

Four hundred G. c. C. workers have
reset and Strengthened thousands OF
headstones marking the graves of
Civil War soldiers killed at the Battle
Of Gettysburg and buried in Gettys-
burg National Park, it was an
nounced yesterday.
Preservation Of grave markers is
Evening star., 1935-10-27

THOMAS c. FARROW,
Who, after 81 years of service in
the Adjutant Generals Office in
the War Department, was retired
yesterday at the age of 68 to allow
time for his toy-making hobby and
with his grandchildren. Friends
in the A. G. o.. including Brig.
Gen. Edgar T. Conley, acting ad-
jutant general, presented him with
a purse and a signed testimonial
as he left the office. Farrow, born
in England. served in the United
States Cavalry in the '9Os, but left
the service to prospect for gold in
the Klondike. In 1898, he re-
turned to accept position in the
A. G. o. and has served there ever
since. Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1935-10-27
ADDRESSES WOMEN

Or. Lubin Cites Increase in Com
pany Unions.
NEW YORK, October IS CP-Sixty
per cent of the present company
unions wer organized in 1888, 1884
and 1885. Dr. I. j. Lubin, chief of the
United States Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics, asserted in an address today
before the annual Conference for
Women Trade Unionists.
This is interesting he said, 'in
view of the fact that N. R. A. is sup
posed to have discouraged company
unions"
Evening star., 1935-06-09
n. r. 4. Continuance Is FauOred
By Majority of Credit Men

universally approved by the "revi-
Sionists."
A second question on the N. r. A.
asked: After two years experience,
do you favor continuance of the
price fixing section of the codes?"
In response to this 78 per cent of
the membership voted in favor of dis
continuing price-fixing sections in
the codes.
In a breakdown" of the voting
on the N r. A., the association re-
ports that of the manufacturers voting
10 per cent favor the N. r. A. "as
is" Forty-one per cent are opposed
to it entirely and 40 per cent favor it
with revisions. The bankers voted on
the N. r. A.: Eight per cent for con-
tinuance "as is"; 50 per cent COM
pletely opposed and 40 per cent in
favor with revisions.
In a breakdown" by sections of
the country the Southwest reports
are IS per cent for continuation 'as
is" Sc per cent mot at all" and 90
per cent for revision. The Far West
votes per cent "as is" go per cent
mot at all' and "a per cent for re-
vision. The Midwest votes per
cent "as is" Al per cent mot at all"
and As per cent for revision. The
East votes 10 per cent "as is" 80 per
cent mot at all' and 48 per cent
for revision. The South votes 81 per
cent "as is" % per cent mot at all''
and Sc per cent for revision.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
INSURANCE SALES STAGE
SHARPRISE WITH SAVINGS
Life Policies in Capital Up 81 Per Cent
Over 1894 Period-Deposits Also
Reflect Business Recovery.

ington agents obtained 1.701 applica-
tionS for SIS, 155 900 in new business, all
previous records for siX-day cam
paign being smashed. No such sue
cess in insurance sales had been at
tanned in this city even before the
Wall Street crash.
The same recovery trend is revealed
in savings deposit increases. So far
this year marked increases in bank
deposits, including savings accounts.
have been reported in most parts of
the country. Official reports COM
piled by the American Bankers Asso-
citation show that savings deposited in
banks through savings accounts and
time certificates gained 3.5 per cent
last year over the previous year. an
increase of $742,l3200O when trans
lated into figures, the first upturn
since 1890.
Total savings depositors in the
United States also gained in number,
going from 39262 .442 in the previous
year. to 39,562l74 last year, gain
of 299,732 Four years ago there was
one depositor for each % persons in
the United States. Now there Is one
account for each 80 persons.
The vitality of savings has proved
truly remarkable. When it was dis
closed that the savings of nine years
had been wiped out in three. there
were those who said that is this era
of plenty, savings were no longer an
important factor, that they were un-
necessary. Yet II months OF stable
banking and slight turn in industry
with expanding employment was re-
fiected in increased savings and
greater success in return to thrift.
Total savings in the United States
last year amounted to S2l 867 ,666 900
divided among 39.562l74 savings de-
positors. or Sl73 per person as the
national average and a gain of s5
per capita. or 3 per cent over the
previous year. Thus the tendency and
the actual improvement are both
significant. adding their value TO other
recovery indicators.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
RETAILERS TO OPEN
CHICAGO SESSION
5000 Expected to Attend
Mid Year Convention,
Starting Tomorrow.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


CHICAGO, June 8.-Chicago will be
the mecca of retail distribution this
week as some 5000 store owners and
executives from department., dry goods
and speciality stores throughout the
country convene here for the 1885
mid-year convention of the National
Retail Dry Goods Association-the
largest Summer gathering in the his
tory of the largest retail trade organ
ization in the country.
Approximately $500 stores repre-
Senting an annual turnover Of business
of more than $4,000 900. 900, are men,
bers of the association. The conven-
ton will open Monday morning, June
10. at the Stevens and continue until
Thursday Thirty-five sessions are
scheduled for the various divisions and
groups of the association during the
four days and approximately l25
speakers and discussion leaders are
listed for the program. The retailers
will be welcomed by committee of 60
prominent business men who, under
the leadership of Leon Mandel of
Mandel Brothers, have served as a
committee to arrange for the conven-
ton and to entertain the delegates
during their stay in the city.
Important questions in every field
of retail store operation will await dis
cussion by the retailers. Many of
them will be linked either directly or
indirectly to the march of events in
the State and National capitals. OF
these, the situation engendered by the
invalidation of the N. r. A. by the
Supreme Court will be highly impor-
tant With the initiation of currency
still in the minds of many live sub
ject and credit imitation in the minds
of others a practical certainty. the
subject of initiation will be dealt with
in a number of the discussions. Tech
nical problems of store operation rang
ing from accounting practices to the
problems of promotion, merchandise
ing, training and delivery will occupy
the attention of the store men during
a large part of the meetings.
Every division and group in the as
sociation will conduct sessions includ-
ing the Controllers Congress. Store
Management Group, Sales Promotion
Division, Merchandising Division,
Credit Management Division. Person.
mel Group, Traffic Group and the Re-
tail Delivery Association.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
Butter Shortage Wiped Out
By Record Storing in May

tains such features as unusually low
production early in the season, with
stocks at record-breaking low levels,
highest prices in four to five years.
greatest importations of foreign butter
in more than a decade and greatly
increased use of substitutes. The pro-
duction- price consumption situation,
however, is now believed in most quar-
ters to be righting itself.
Total May l butter holdings in the
United States was 5,500,000 pounds,
and while official figures for June l
will not be released until next week,
trade authorities expect the total to
be around 100000 pounds. Storings
in recent days have been double what
they were at this season in 1884, al
though production is believed to be
slightly below a year ago. Merchants
point out, therefore, that consumption
has been the important factor in in
creased storing, coincident with the
normal seasonal expansion of produc-
ton.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
n YEW YORK. June 8-Continu-
M alton of the NJ r. A. is ad-
VI vocated by ST per cent of
L the membership of the Ma
tional Association of Credit
Men, according to a straw vote"
conducted by the association during
May among its membership of 10000
firms in manufacturing, banking and
distributing lines in every section of
the country, it was announced by
Henry H. Heimann, executive man
ager of the association.
The vote was part of ballot sur
vey to be used by the association in
connection with its fortieth annual
convention which opens in Pittsburgh,
June II. Two thousand delegates are
expected to attend.
Because of the recent N. r. A. de-
cision by the Supreme Court, the
association announced that it was re-
leasing the preliminary returns in
advance of the convention to indicate
the feeling of its membership on the
matter
Breaking down. the votes on the N.
r. A. question the association found
that approximately four out of each
five votes for the N. r. A. were
coupled with requests that N. r. A.
be revised, eliminating various fea-
lures. Minimum wage scales and
maximum hour scales were almost
Evening star., 1935-06-09
FRANC is STEADY
AT WEEKS CLOSE
Rate Unchanged in New York as
Nervousness Lets Up in
Foreign Cities.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Foreign exchange markets ended the
week with a quiet and orderly per-
formance yesterday. in contrast to
the nervous fluctuations prevailing
over most of the week when political
and financial tension was rife in
Paris.
The British pound sterling ended in
New York IS of cent lower at
s4.9214, after the dollar had shown
slight improvement in London at
S49l"s
The French franc held unchanged in
New York at 662l4 cents. The Paris
exchanges we're closed on account of
the Summer schedule.
Based on the franc at its final New
York rate. the dollar was valued at a
premium of 16-l00 of l per cent. the
same as on Friday. and compared with
62l00 a month ago.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
of the best barometers pic
turing business swings and
other economic conditions


L life insurance and savings de-
posits-continue to reveal
steady and impressive progress indie
ative of national recovery. Substan-
tial advances in both new insurance
and savings accounts, reported unofh-
cially, back up the latest official COM
pilations along these lines.
In the first four months of the
present year new life insurance was
So per cent ahead of the similar pc
riod in 1894. During this same pc
riod Washington piled up a gain of
81 per cent in insurance sales. In
April alone new insurance written in
the Capital was 35 per cent ahead of
the total for April, 1884
The Life Insurance Sales Research
Bureau of Hartford. Conn, reports
that there were approximately u.s.
100000 life insurance policies in force
at the beginning of this year, the
amount of insurance represented by
these policies being approximately
S98, 8,000, 100000.
There was a 10 per cent gain In the
total amount of new insurance
bought in the United States in 1884.
People seeking better protection, or
investment for their funds, put Sl4,-
900, 100000 into new policies during
the y months. In the same period
the insurance companies disbursed an
aggregate sum of S2,700 O00,0 900.
Insurance leaders. banking on con-
stantly improving business conditions,
predict that the present year will see
last years total we'll exceeded. This
claim is partly based on the national
aggregate gain of more than per
cent in the first four months of the
year Figures for the Capital are
almost certain to surpass last year by
sweeping margin.
During the special insurance week
drive concluded few days ago, Wash
Evening star., 1935-06-09
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
~HICAGO, June S.-What trade
4 observers believe to have been
l the heaviest storing Of butter
~ on record for May has wiped
out a national shortage OF
100000 pounds compared with
year ago and created surplus OF
around 5,000,O 900 to 100000 pounds.
Tumbling wholesale prices as re-
suit have completed the alteration OF
the domestic butter market picture in
more striking manner than usually
occurs with the opening of the Spring
production season.
What amounted to a housewives
boycott of high-priced butter, accord
ing to produce merchants. played an
important role in the 80 per cent
price decline since February and the
piling up of butter reserves to a point
at which the Government again Is
contemplating buying for relief pur-
poses.
The 1885 butter market story con-
Evening star., 1935-06-09
A. T. & T. Reports
Decline in Net to
Sl.249.15S Level
BY the Associated Press.

BY The ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK. June 8.-Net operat-
ing income of the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co. in April
amounted to s1249158. compared
With S1.375 664 in the same month
last year. The figures cover operating
activities only, excluding non-operat-
ing income. such as dividends. inter
est and other revenues received and
incorporating charges such as inter
est and rent paid.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
RUSSIA RECEIVES
BIB CZECH LOAN
Large u. S. Contracts Call.
ed Prelude to Renewed
Trade Talks Here.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 8.-Cables and
radio dispatches TO Business Week
give the following survey of business
abroad for the week ending today.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS here this
week featured two developments Most
important is the agreement by which
the Czechoslavakians agree to guar
antee a five-year, per cent Soviet
government bond issue, the proceeds
Of which will be spent for Czech goods
this year. Total amount of the loan is
$40. 400 900, about half of which is be-
ing absorbed by Czech banks. and the
remainder by the Czech industries
which will benefit from the business.
MOSCOW attaches a good deal of
significance to the loan. 1t is the first
one which has been granted by
foreign government to the Soviet
Union. Several years ago it was an
nounced that the Swedish government
would back a loan to be spent in
similar manner for Swedish goods,
but the deal fell through.
Export Credits Guaranteed.
Half a dozen European govern
ments guarantee up to 10 per cent on
export credits granted by their indus
tries on Soviet purchases and within
the last few years these credits have
developed in some cases into what is
generally called medium-term credit,
running UP to five years. Moscow
hopes now to secure further grants in
other markets where large equipment
orders might be placed if terms were
favorable Soviet purchases from the
Czechs last year amounted to less
than S1,750,000
only little less interesting to the
American Moscow public was the
second announcement, that the gov
ernment had signed contract with
the Alec Co.. subsidiary of the Ameri-
can Locomotive Co. for the purchase
of Sl,250,000 worth of oil refining
equipment. Only few months ago
contract was signed with the
United Engineering Co. of Pittsburgh
for $3,250000 worth of rolling mill
equipment. These are the two largest
orders placed in the United States by
the Soviets in several years. Moscow
takes them as an indication of further
business likely to be placed soon, prob
Continued on Page 2, Column ID
Evening star., 1935-06-09
FEWER BONDS LISTED
ON NEW YORK EXCHANGE

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 8-As of June
l, there were $50 bond issues aggre-
eating s43,719,S24 par value listed
on the New YORK Stock Exchange,
with a total market value of 9.617.-
835,87e and an average price of sso.62.
On May l, 1881 bond issues aggre-
eating 4,266,533,S56 par value had
a total market value of $40. .147 9,897
at an average price of S90.69.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
General Motors Sales Soar.

NEW YORK. June tSpeciaD -
May sales of General Motors cars to
dealers in the United States and
Canada, together with shipments over
seas. totaled 134.597, compared with
l32.837 in May year ago. Sales in
April were 184.059 Sales for the first
five months of 1885 totaled 1872.
compared with 6O3 1895 for the same
five months of 1884.
Sales of General Motors cars to
consumers in the United States totaled
109,051 in May, compared with e5,253
in May a year ago. Sales in April
were l43.909. Sales for the first five
months of 1885 totaled 5l1 ,053. COM
pared with 1921 for the same five
months OF 1884.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
CURB ADMITS SHARES
OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June S.-The New
York Curb Exchange has admitted to
the trading list 250,000 shares of 81
par value new common stock of Uni
versal Pictures Co. in substitution OF
250,0O0 shares of old common without
par. The new stock is exchangeable on
a share for share basis for the old.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
TOBACCO INDEX GAINS.

NEW YORK, June 8 (P.-The aver
age price of United States type 81 air
cured hurley tobacco during the week
ended June 8 was II cents a pound,
compared with 1853 cents in the pre-
ceding week and 9.7 cents in the same
week last year. according to H. A.
Stitch, tobacco economist.