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Evening star., 1936-07-30
PRISONER WHO SERVED
3 EXTRA YEARS FREED
Verdict Reached in 10 Minutes in
1923 Is Voided by Missouri
Supreme Court.

9y the Associated Press.
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo, July 80
John Pierce, 81, was freed from the
State Penitentiary yesterday after
Evening star., 1936-07-30
GLORIA Vanderbilt
GETS $4,000 YEARLY
Special Guardian Files Report on
Estate Administration for
Heiress.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 30.-Gloria Laura
Morgan Vanderbilt. the 12-year-old
heiress to part of the Vanderbilt mil
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ened to have her evicted from their
home.
Evening star., 1936-09-04
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, September A late
rally in steels today put life into a
previously lackadaisical stock market.
In the early proceedings communi-
cations, aircrafts and specialties de-
veloped quiet demand. At the firm
close gains ranged from fractions to
two or more points. Transfers were
around 1.150,000 shares.
That some issues were rather neg.
lected was due, brokers said, princi-
pally to the fact that many traders
had already jumped the gun on the
Labor day recess. There were frequent
profit taking intervals. but these did
not seem especially disturbing.
Business and industrial sentiment
was still optimistic, although a little
more tension over foreign affairs wa:
noted in the board rooms.
The rails generally more than held
their own following the official report
of contra seasonal expansion in car
loadings last week. A sharp decline ir
this weeks automobile output, due to
shutdowns in preparation for new
models, tended to hold motor equities
in bounds.
Prominent on the upside we're United
States Steel, Bethlehem, Crucible
Youngstown Sheet & Tube, American
Telephone, Western Union, Westing-
house, Du Pont, Wright Aeronautical
Douglas Aircraft, Electric Auto-lite
Fajardo Sugar, Montgomery Ward
Macy and Delaware g. Hudson.
Pointing moderately higher most ii
the day were General Motors. Chrysler
Packard United Aircraft, American
Water Works, Standard Brands. Shat.
tuck, Paramount, General Electric
Goodyear. Allegheny, Warner Bros.
General Baking, New York Central
Southern Pacific. Lackawanna, Santa
Fe and International Nickel.
Rail bonds were given brisk lift
Corn at Chicago ran up the limit 70,
a days dealings and finished aheao
25s to 512 cents a bushel Wheat
frmed l to z.
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Savings: S. Wilson Earnshaw, East
Washington Savings Bank; Miss
Kathryn D. Fout, Hamilton National
Bank; John NJ. Boteler, National Saw
ings & Trust Co., and Charles w.
Haas, Union Trust Co.
Committee on Standardized Safe
Deposit Forms-Chairman, James E.
Woltz, National Metropolitan Bank;
Jesse S. Cheyney, American Security
& Trust Co.; Bernard M. Grant, City
Bank; G. M. Winship, Lincoln Ma
tional Bank; A. J. Byrne, Munsey
Trust Co.; Ernest G. Rosafy. National
Bank of Washington, and Miss Sophia
Karydakis, Second National Bank.
Committee on Education and Pub
licity-Chairman, Miss Eva Kicker,
Riggs National Bank; Carl C. Smith,
Anacostia Bank; Miss Marion Bailey,
Columbia National Bank; Arthur P.
Miller, Liberty National Bank; John
Goss, McLachlen Banking Corp, and
j. Earl Whaley, Washington Loan &
Trust Co.
In addition to Chairman Hillyard,
this year section officers include Mrs.
Helen r. Sharpe, vice chairman: P.
c. Brady, secretary; Andrew R. Wal
den and T. E. Elgin, members of the
Executive Committee. The first Fall
meeting will be held shortly.
Preston Leaves for Coast.
Ord Preston, president of the Union
Trust Co., left here today for New
Evening star., 1936-09-04
SLIGHT DROP SHOWN
IN WHOLESALE PRICES
BY the Associated Press.

A slight drop in wholesale COM
modify prices last week was reported
today by the Labor Department.
Decline in food and farm products
prices, the department said, was large
ly responsible for a decrease of 0.4 per
cent in the general price level.
Farm product prices dropped is per
cent and foods 0.4 per cent from the
previous week, sending the general
level Of prices to 81.2 per cent of its
1925 average. The previous week prices
as a whole were s1.5 per cent Of their
1926 average.
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New Orleans Prices

ton prices we're to points higher al
the opening today on better cables anc
good trade buying. October opened al
IL 55. December at 11.56. January al
IL. 50 and May at 11.64. During the firsi
half hour options held around these leveR
Cottcnseed oil futures opened steady
September. a.73b October. 9.73b; Decem.
ber 9.7lb January. 9.71b; March. 9.73b
Bid
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new YORK COTTON
Ey IT, Associated Press.

Ey ths Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 4.-Cottor
was generally higher. Reduced CROP
estimates, favorable cotton cloth
market trends and pre-bureau cover
ing contributed.
This absorbed some hedging and
scattered selling on reports of rains
in Texas. The price Of December
went to 11.66, or 9 points net higher
The midafternoon market was quiet
and steady within or points Of
the best at net advances of to
points.
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BOSTON WOOL MARKET.

BOSTON. September 4 G4, %. s. Dept.
Of Agriculture) The wool market in
Boston was mostly very quiet today. but
quotations generally on greasy combins =
Graded French combing length fine ter
ritory woods were held mostly. at -s4as7
cents. secured basis. Original bag lots of
len0th were quoted mostly at around SIS
cents slight concessions being available
occasionally on small lots.
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York TO take the
Steamship Cali
fornia for a trip
to the Pacific
Coast by way of
{ he P an a m a
c a n a l. During
the round trip
he will be on the
water about 80
days. He is the
first Washington
banker to start
for the annual
conve n ton of
the Am e r i C a n
Bankers A SIS o.
citation to be held
Evening star., 1936-09-04
DIVIDEND is BOOSTED
BY PACIFIC TELEPHONE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, September A.
Pacific Telephone S5 Telegraph Co
boosted the dividend on common
stock, ordering a quarterly payment
of 50 share, after paying $1.5o quar-.
terly for three and one-half years.
No indication was given of what
payments will be made in succeeding
quarters. Prior to 1888 the stock was
on a 81 annual basis.
The payment date is September 80
record date September 19.
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LiverpooI ouotation<.

LIVERPOOL. September tP,.-Cotton.
Spot in limited demand; prices 8 to II
points lower Quotations in pence: Strict
good middling. :. 40: good middling. 10:
strict middling, $40: middling. 6.1O; strict
low middllng, 6.45 low middling, sos;
strict good ordinary. 5.S5: good ordinary
$50. Futures closed steady: October
6.26; December, 61S: January, Gle;
March. D 20; May. go; July. GIG.
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Auto Production
Declines to 3l,628
rkDuring Week
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT, September 4.-Cram's
Reports, Inc, estimated today that au-
tomobile production for the current
week totaled 31,628 units, compared
with 53,937 last week and 34,140 for
the comparable week of 1885.
Wards Reports placed this weeks
output at 81, sol cars and trucks, COM
pared with 5s,237 last week and IS 1865
for the same week Of 1885.
Wards said Ford turned out 22.5o
Evening star., 1936-09-04

ers' Association,
today announced
the S e C t i o n's
S t a n ding COM
mittees for the
coming year, as
follows:
Committee on
S t a naturalization
of Safe Deposit
PracticeS-Chair-
man, Charles K.
w e S t, Security
Savings g. Com
mercial B n k 4;
M Mrs. A l | e n e
Weatherly, Bank
Evening star., 1936-09-04
LEHMAN ORDERS DIVIDEND

NEW YORK, September (P.-
Directors of Lehman Corp, an in
vesting concern, declared a dividend
of 81 share and the regular quarterly
dividend of rs cents, both payable
October 9 to stock of record Septem-
Der IS.
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futures closed very steady. 8 to L
COttOnseed Oil.

Bleachable cotton seed oil futures
closed firm. october, 1890; Decem-
Der, 1890; January, 1O.28b; March
l0.32b. Sales, 81 contracts. Bid.
Evening star., 1936-09-04

Pullman, Inc. subsidiary, Pullman
Standard Car Manufacturing Core
ceived an order from Wisconsin Gen.
tral Railway Co. for $50 box cars.
Evening star., 1936-09-04

Neisner Bros, Inc.-August sales
we're up 7.9 per cent over like 1885
period; in eight months gain was
1913 per cent.
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hayeary
trading 100 Annual rate-not
including Accumulated dividends paid year
dividend
Evening star., 1936-09-04
H|LLYARD NAMES
BANK COMMITTEES
Chairman of Safe Deposit
Section of Association
Announces List.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

John F. Hillyard, assistant trust
officer of the National Bank of Wash
ington, who is chairman of the Safe
Deposit Section of the District Bank
Evening star., 1936-09-04

units this week and Chrysler, through
Dodge truck operations, 1900. 1t add
ed that "all General Motors plant pro-
duction lines were inactive"
Evening star., 1936-02-09
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO February lP,-Cold weather
and the resulting contraction in receipts
and Improvement In consumer demand for
meat had a stimulating effect on hog snd
lamb prices this week. but the cattle mar
ket was semi-demoreliZed.
Extremely sensitive to variations In
supplies hog prices reflected pronounced
fluctuations in marketings because Of
chanoirg weather conditions. Lifted at
one time to a peak Of S10.S5 highest price
paid in February in six years. hogs re-
acted, toward the close when marketingS
expanded. However. the net gain for the
week was around 20 cents or more per
hundre6weight
Today's market was strong to a shade
hioher on a few sales. The top was
S10.45 Yesterdays average price was
SlO.l7 and a week ago 1t was 50 "a. Re-
ceiptS for the week were around 72.00O
compared with 10000 the previous week
and OF 900 the corresponding week a
year ago.
Nothing was done in the other markets
t. -ay. Receipts of cattle and sheep were
we'll below the aggregate for the previous
week Better-srade cattle lost so to rs
cents during the week with instances Of
9 losses and more on a semi -demoralized
market at the close. Many beeveS were
taken of the market Lower grades were
- to so cents lower. Trade advices were
that moderate receipts would stabilize the
market but recent runs cannot be con-
sidcred excessive. Most lattle cattle sales
were made at $40 down to 81 50.
Fat lambs closed strong to Is cents
higher. compared with q week ago. having
lost most of the early advance.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
STOCKS HOLD UP
DESPITE REALIZING
Final Tone Is About Steady,
With Few Strong Spots
in Evidence.
What Stocks Did
Total Issue
BY FRANK MacMILLEN,

Associated Press Financial Writer.
NEW YORK. February S.-Prices
held we'll against profit taking in the
stock market today, and toward the
finish appeared to be gathering
vitality.
The final tone was about steady
for the bulk of the list, with strong
spots cropping out here and there
even while some realizing still went on.
For the two-hour session the trad
Ing pace was hustling, with turnover
in the Stock Exchange at 1852, 2,48O
shares, although lower than the previ-
Gus Saturdays l,758,972 shares.
Talk of imitation was still relegated
to the background, but received a
small flip when it became known
that arrangements had been made for
further moderate exports of gold from
New York to Paris and Amsterdam.
No change was recorded in the As
soclated Press average of 60 stocks at
60.4 The Is utilities shaded up / of
point to another new high for 1885,
36, while the Is rails were as much
down and the 80 industrials we're level.
Wall Street still looked on the bright
side of things, in general, although
many traders were not disposed to get
too far out on limb pending Mon
days meeting of the Supreme Court
and the possibility that the long
expected T. V. A. decision may be
forthcoming.
Interest was expressed in the Presi-
dents statement that he would wait
until next months income tax returns
appear before finally deciding whether
additional duties, other than those to
be imposed for the farm program,
would be necessary.
The share list moved unevenly in
the first hour. Then the aircrafts de-
veloped following. Douglas, off more
than point at one time, recovered for
gain of as much, but backed up later
to close where it started at TO- United
Aircraft held an advance of IA at
29ai and Boeing ended up y at 28h
Standard Oil of California Jumped
ias to 47as as average daily crude
production was lowered on the Pa
cifc Coast. The steels turned up in
the final few minutes, along with some
of the rubberS and specialtieS.
Among gamers of fractions to a
point or more were U. S. Steel at ST.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, February 8.-Cototn
was steady in quiet trading today.
May contracts fluctuated between
1919 and 1884 and closed at 1882,
with the general market ending steady
at net advances of to points.
The trade found no fresh incentives
in the week end news from Washing
ton and business was restricted by a
disposition to await developments in
farm and tax legislation.
The amount of cotton on shipboard
awaiting clearance at the end of the
week was estimated at 81 900 bales
against $4,000 last year and 16l, 900
two years ago.
ra,ouo fn1In,rc.
Evening star., 1936-02-09

Bleachable cottonseed oil was steady
today on the firmer trend of cotton
and lard, closing to S points net
higher; sales, 10 contracts. Bleach
able spot nominal; March closed, 1908;
May, 1904; July, 1906; September,
9.97.
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SAVANNAH NAVAL STORES.

SAVANNAH, February 8 tP.-Turpen-
tine firm. 44'.; no sales; receipts Z;
sales. II: receipts 167: shipment lO1;
stock, 81 $50. Quote B. $50; D, ; IS;
E 800; F. 4 90; G. 80; H and I. 4 40;
$50.
Evening star., 1936-02-09

Bethlehem at 535s, Sharon Steel at
271a, Goodyear at 1885. Delaware &
Hudson at 4714, and N. Y. Central at
351s. Homestake Mining, on few
sales, advanced % points to 544, a new
high.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
YEAR 1886

" o
Evening star., 1936-02-09

Spot quiet; middling. 11.65.
n-N0mina1
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Continued on Page 81
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recall the questions We were going
to ask, but they were gone. The
energy of the man swept away all
the formality of an interview, leav-
ing our preconceived plans decidedly
windblown. We found ourselves in
terested, not in what Mr.. Coward
might say in answer to our ques-
tions, but in what he would say Of
his own accord and the way he would
say it, with those quick gestures OF
his def hands.
Thinking of the methodical SLOW
ness Of the everyday English to whom
we had become accustomed, we said
lamely:
Maybe you're English, but"
Likes American Tempo.
He smiled a not displeased smile
as we explained that we supposed we
had been abroad long enough to as
sociate energy and speed with Amer
lea.
"You know" he said, that's what
I like about America-the tempo. 1t
gets things done" Then he went on
talking. only words on paper don't
have the suaye. clipped speed OF his
voice. Before he slowed up again he
had praised New York for its vitality,
discussed the madcap fun he had with
Ben Hecht and Charles Macarthur
making the film THE Scoundrel'
and denied he had written a line OF
dialogue for the picture, as confiden-
TALLY related by number Of critics.
1t was about then the telephone
rang. He snatched 1t up.
Hello" he said in an assumed
voice that might have been that OF
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q butler In the advanced stages Of
the Group. This Is Mr.. Coward's
secretary speaking. Who's
calling. please? Who? -. .
I'm sorry, Mr.. Coward Is not here"
Resuming our conversation without
pause, he told us the following things,
still talking at the undiminHhing
speed Of the Golden Arrow.
He had taken q vacation this Sum-
mer over much the same route as
King Edward VIII.
Finishes Autobiography.
He particularly likes Egyptians.
He had started and finished a
100, 00o-word autobiography during the
six weeks OF his vacation. Since his
typewriter had broken down about
chapter two or three. he had to fin
ish it writing longhand. He writes
in longhand sometimes, anyhow, the
only difference being that he finds 1t
more firing.
His favorite of his own plays Is
Bitter Sweet" OF the nine short
plays in Tonight at $780," which
will open in Washington, D. c., Mo-
vember 9, he prefers Hands Across
the Sea-" still Life and The AS
tonished Heart" He thinks ways
and Means" since it Is similar in
style to Private Lives" Is too old
fashioned.
He thinks writing witty dialogues
is too easy and distracts from the
progress of a play. anyhow. since it
calls attention to itself rather than
to development Of plot.
He likes sentiment but hates
whimsy
He writes what he writes without
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any other motive than that It pleases
him to write that way at the time,
and since it Is his chosen profession.
Meanwhile the telephone had rung
half a dozen times. Mr.. Coward had
conferred with two headline actresses.
two theatrical men and two duchesses.
Lord jeffrey Amherst had dropped in
to call, and clock hands had moved
around the dial twice.
A Paradox Still.
We paid our respects and rose to
go where we would be out of range
of the constant and machine-gun
like conversation-where we could fig
ure out what we could figure out
about this Mr.. Coward. AS We left
he was answering the phone again.
"A real ding-dong. eh?" we heard
him say. But who will be there?"
Then We were out of earshot. Out
In the night we started to total up.
But try as we might, Mr.. Coward still
remained an enigma-an English
American, a sentimental cynic. a
dreamer with apparent energy enough
to tow the British Isles across the
Atlantic to New York Harbor, a
paradox always.
NeIt: The English thedter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29
BY 1. WILLIAM HILL,

b1 i. WILLIAM IT'LL,
STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
r ONDON.-A crowd of British
dowagers was rather densely
populating the tea room OF a
- wayside inn near London the
other Sunday. Over at a corner
table two men sat for a long while
| unnoticed.
Then one Of the dowagers leaned
,, toward a companion:
Don't look now, my dear but isn't
that Noel Coward?"
The companion waited ladylike
| length of time then looked, nodded
and leaned toward the woman on her
right. The word went round, and
after the requisite number of ladylike
lengths of time the entire party arose
and filed out quietly without so much
as glance at the corner table.
Exit by Mr.. Coward.
It was Mr.. Coward whom they had
seen, and We imagine that at the
time he felt little grateful for their
reticent reserve. If that be true. how
ever, the life of the feeling was short
For outside the tea room the dow
ayers had lined up against both walls
of the corridor. AS Mr.. Coward
strobe through they still said moth
ing. They maintained that much
reticence. But what they did was
to clap their hands in dignifled ap-
plause while the playwright-actor-
composer-musician strolled on, bow
ing suavely this way and that. THANK
you. Thank you. Thank you very
much"
He might have been enjoying the
| incident-but he wasn't. Later, re-
calling it in a conversation at MS
London home, he described it as one
of his most embarrassing moments
We were inclined to believe him. En-
barrassed sophistication fitted into
| the paradoxical puzzle that Noe
Coward had always seemed to be.
We had always been curious about
him. We regarded him as one OF
those few writer's whose work was not
enough-a man who wrote and yet
did not reveal the unique personality
that made him the artist he was
If the sentimental Bitter Sweet
with its aroma of rosemary and laven-
der, revealed Mr.. Coward-what OF
the cynic who nurtured the brittle
wit of Design for Living" or the
dreamer who devised the epic gran
deur of "Cavalcade"? Which was
Mr.. Coward? That was what we re-
solved to find out when we were
given the opportunity of visiting at
his home in Eaton Square, Chelsea.
Questions Are Formulated.
We formulated questions to this
end as we contemplated the wooden
gateway to Mr.. towards residence,
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GIRL HURT IN FALL

Mary Louise Mcintosh. IA, Of the
Clifton Terrace Apartments. Four
tenth and Clifton streets, was In
Emergency Hospital today suffering
from a head injury received when
thrown from horse or Potomac
Parkway. near Twenty-fourth and r
streets, yesterday afternoon.
She suffered brain conclusion and
possibly a fractured skull. Physicians
said she would be X-rayed today.
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with its brass plate instructing the
postman to forward all mail to an.
other address.
Since the wooden gate was too high
to see over, we pushed it open. A
stony passage that seemed to disap-
pear in shadow beneath a projecting
upper story of the house lay ahead.
We followed this and finally con-
fronted door with a heavy knocker
on it. We knocked.
A silken-voiced butler wanted to
know If we were expected and then
admitted us to a tiny, dimly lit hall
way, from which we were escorted
up winding stairway. On the Sec
ond floor we suddenly found our
selves in a studio room large enough
to entertain the entire Senate and
half the House of Representatives all
at once. The butler disappeared, and
we looked hastily around, little
afraid we had missed seeing Mr..
Coward in one of the giant overstuffed
| chairs.
A draped window made up half
of one wall and served as a frame for
the boughs Of great tree outside.
| On the same side of the room the
floor was raised, like stage, with q
grand piano at each end. On each
piano was a hugh vase containing a
bouquet of mixed flowers too large
for even Sophie Tucker to carry all
at one time. Another side of the room
was covered by a balcony filled with
bookcases so that it somewhat resenl-
bled the stacks at the Library of
Congress In one corner beneath the
balcony there was a bar glistening
with hundreds of glasses and things
to put in them.
Entrance Like Genie.
We had just gotten around to no
ticing the fireplace and numerous
deep jars Of cigarettes when we be-
/ came conscious of motion at one end
of the room. Before We had gotten
our eyes properly focused Mr.: Coward
had appeared with the speed Of
genie, had learned our first name,
had stuffed a tinkling bit Of glass
ware between our fingers, had popped
down with his legs thrown over the
arm Of chair, had asked about
E. de s. Melcher, and was half way
through an account Of the tribula-
tons Of producing play.
I'VE ran Tonight at $780, i've
months in London" he said. eft
was too long. always prefer to limit
an engagement to three months"
He paused to light cigarette. In
the interval we tried frantically to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29
Noel Coward .. a paradox always.

This is the fourth in a series OF
articles on people and places in
England and France, as they dp-
pear to a Star reporter travelling at
random.
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Nert: The English thedter.
La gaceta., 1936-06-17
No lego la COmisi6n MiGtG a I'M
GcaerdO s0bre Ia enmiendG
Robinson

Washington, JUNO lila
camara sometera hoy al voto la
enmienda del senador Robinson
a la ley de deficiencia, que des-
tina $40, 100000 a p~roseguir las
obras del canal de la Florida a
condici6n de que los ingenieros
informen favorablemente, por
segunda vez. 81 la enmienda 50
aprUeba, ell dinero Sc destinara
a cOntinuar las excavaciones.
En- case contrario los trabaja-
dorese ingenieros Sc retiraran
dejando las excavaciones en- st
presente estado.
La comisi6n mixta de las dos
c&maras no pudo llegar a un
acuerdo sdbre la enmienda, aun-
que aprob6 en- conjunto la ley
de deficiencia. Los oponentes
del canal sostienen que la CANA
ra votara en- contra. Ell presiden
tie de la camara, ST.. Bankhead,
ha prometido Ell primer lugar
en- ell orden del dia a la enmien-
da y ell dictamen de la comisi6n
mixta.