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Evening star., 1936-09-30

and VIII continue
through this evening at Chevy Chase
Club.
Present from the home Office are
H. G. Kenagy, agency executive, and
r. D. Haselton, field service manager;
members of the Washington agency
and representatives from Baltimore,
Williamsport, Pa, and Richmond.
Mr.. Kenagy, the principal speaker,
vas for many years associated with
the Life Insurance Sales Research
Bureau at Hartford, which has a
membership of 120 life insurance
companies. 1t has been said of him
that he knows more life insurance
men by their first names than any
other insurance executive in America.
As head OF the bureaus agency
building schools he has become recog-
nized as one of the ablest teachers
In the life insurance business. He
has written and edited several cooks
On selling and business management
The Mutual Benefit has been con-
Hnuously represented in the District
Bince 1845, the year of the companys
founding, when J. c. Lewis became
its representative. Mr.. Choate, pres
ent general agent, was appointed in
1925, coming to Washington from
Chicago. The agency during his
tenure has become an outstanding life
insurance organization.
Soper Heads Bank Section.
James A. Soper, vice president and
cashier of the Lincoln National Bank,
was elected chairman of the flduciaries
section of the District Bankers Asso-
Eiation for the coming year at meet
Evening star., 1936-09-30

we're elected by the sections Executive
Council.
All three officers have been very ac-
kve in the bankers fiduciaries work
for several years. With the rapid
growth of trust business in the banks
this section has become more and more
smportant.
Phone Earnings Fall Off.
Net income before dividends of the
chesapeake g. Potomac Telephone Co.
I'm August amounted to Sl36,519 as
compared with s146,601, according to
fhe monthly report filed with the Pub
lis Utilities Commission today.
Operating revenues of August were
1885, $50. Operating expenses, includ-
ing interest, amounted to S700,l Ill.
Net operating revenues were $225.752.
Net operating income amounted to
S15l.214, as compared with S170,8l8 in
August. 1895. a decrease of $19.6o4.
Washington was served by 207,059
telephones on August 81, 1885, a net
gain Of COL telephones over the pre-
vious month. On August 81, 1885,
There we're 196,o99 telephones in sery-
Ice. Telephone users in Washington
made 20,371 900 calls in August, as
compared with 1891, 900 during the
Same month in 1885.
Net income for the first eight months
of this year totaled S1.351 ,049 in COM
parison with s1,270,748 in the like
period in 1885, an increase so far in
1895 of $80,30l. A substantial increase
in operating revenues was partially off,
set by higher operating expenses.
MergenthaIer at 1886 Peak.
Mergenthaler Linotype reached a
tew peak for 1886 on the washington
Stock Exchange today. The stock
opened at 481a and closed at 49.
Columbia Title Insurance Co. stock
sold at today and Carpet Corporation
moved at 24l2. Lanston Monotype
came out at IS, UP u from the last
previous sale.
Potomac Electric Power 515 per cent
preferred was firm, changing owner
ship at 11112, ending the days stock
sales, both sales and bids having bull
market atmosphere.
Riggs National Bank common stock
and Peoples Drug Stores common are
being quoted ex-dividend.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
TOBACCO SALES HEAVY,
WITH PRICES HIGHER
BY the Associated Press.


RALEIGH. N. c., September 80
The Federal Tobacco News Service
reported fairly heavy sales and gen.
orally higher prices on the ofhcially
inspected oxford tobacco market, IN
the middle belt.
First to NTH quality lugs and prirn-
ing lugs continued in predominance,
with some wrappers bringing as much
as s62 per hundredweight.
In the orange leaf classification,
B3F dropped from $33 Monday to $3l
yesterday, but B4F went from $24 to
S2450. H4F orange smoking leaf in
creased from $25 to $26, and C3F Or
ange cutters went from SAL to SAB. In
orange lugs, X3F rose from $23 Mon
day to SIS yesterday. and in orange
priming lugs, P3F went from $3.50
to $21.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
Nav ORLEANS Prices,

NEW ORLEANS. September 30 Up
The weekly weather report stresslng un-
fsvora able crop conditions in Texas brought
higher prices today on the cotton market. .
October opened at 1905. December at
1212. January at 1910 and March a.
1908. Distant months made the best
advance gaining around so cents a bale
Some transferring of hedges from near
by to later positions helped the early tone
Bombay buying influenced a better
Liverpool market. according to cables
and this development aided the domestic
markets
Cottonseed oil opened steady. October,
Q SOB: December. q.f3b: January. a.14bi
Evening star., 1936-09-30
Agency e1 Years Old.

The Washington agency OF the
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. OF
Newark gathered here today III an
sll-dav session with home Office Off
Evening star., 1936-09-30
GULF STATES STEEL
RIGHTS TO BE GIVEN
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, September 30.-Hold-
ers Of Gulf States Steel Co. common
stock will receive rights to purchase
additional stock in the ratio Of one
new share for each two shares held
in connection with capital readjust-
ment plan, it was announced.
The price at which the rights are
exercisable has not been determined.
Proceeds Of new bond issue of ST.
600, 900 and sale of sS,750 new shares
of stock will be used to retire existing
5h per cent debentures. retire the
preferred stock and provide capital
for expansion. The company plans to
spend approximately 100000 On
expansion at it's Gadsden, Ala.
property.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
new YORK COTTON
By the Associated Press.

by INT h6bOLIdftu EIEbbs
NEW YORK. September 30.-Cot-
ton advanced further on active buy
ing Influenced by reports Of rains in
the Eastern belt and continued activ-
ity in the cotton cloth markets.
Trade and mill buying was reported
active. but. after showing net ad-
vances of lS to 81 points, prices eased
slightly under increased hedging and
realizing.
December sold up to 1929 and was
ruling around 1919, with the gen.
eral market showing net advances
of 10 to IA points in the mid-after-
noon market
Evening star., 1936-09-30

sng neld yester-
day afternoon at
the Union Trust
Go.
Irv ing Zirpel,
secretary and as
sistant trust Off
cer of the Union
Trust C o., was
elected vice chair
man of the sec
tion and J. Eliot
Moran, assistant
trust officer of the
American Secur-
sty e. Trust Co.,
was named secre-
kary- Tho officers
Evening star., 1936-09-30

Dividend rates given in the above table the annual cash
payments declarations
trading than 100 Annual rste-not
Accumulated dividends Paid this year
Paid Companies reported in receiverhip bens
reorsanized Ell dividend.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
LiverpnnI QuotAtionS.

LIVERPOOL, September 30 ,P.-Cotton
$4,000 bales. including q100 American
Spot moderate business done: prices 3
points higher; quotations in pence; Amer
ican. strict good middins. 7.66; GOOD
middlinE. T.36: strict middline. 7.16; mid
ding. 6;ne; strict low middlinE. !6;
low middline: $50: striet good ord%inary %
very steady. October. SO; December
6.6s: January. 6.6S; March. 666; MAY.
66l: July 655.
Evening star., 1936-09-30

cials and clher
Eastern repre-
sentatives to OBJ
serve the ninety
first anniversary
of the company'S S
representation in
t h e N a t ION S
Z a p i t a |. T h e
meetings, under
direction. Of H.
La awrence Choate,
general agent in
charge of WASH
ington territory,
b e G a n at t h e
w illard Hotel
i Ill .aAEa..,nn
Evening star., 1936-09-30
CLEAR|NGS CLIMB
WELL ABOVE 1885
Capital September Total Is
$16,331,524 Ahead of
Year Ago.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Bank clearlngS in washington In
September scored a gain of S16,33l,-
52402 over the corresponding month
3 year ago, according to the monthly
report made this noon by the man.
ager of the Washington Clearing
House
September clearings totaled S89,-
611,9541O as compared with S73,280,-
430O8 in September, 1885. The can
celed-check total also was far ahead
of August this year, when clearings
reached ,28O.43O08, the compari-
sons with the same period last year
and the previous month indicating
steady business Improvement in the
Capital.
Clearings for September and the
first nine months of 1886 compare as
follows with the monthly summaries
for the corresponding months in
1895:
Evening star., 1936-09-30
MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK September 80 0P.-Csll
money steady; l per cent all day. Prime
commercial paper. "a per cent, Time
loans steady; 60 days-6 months. ia per
cent offered Bankers acceptances IN
changed. Rediscount rate. New York Re
saxvs Bank, / IA Der cent.
Evening star., 1936-09-30

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed barely steady. October, l0.0b;
December. 10.22b; January, l0.25b;
March, 1030b: May. 10.33b. Sales.
27s contracts, including loS switches.
Bid
Evening star., 1936-09-30
COttonseed Oil.

Spot steady; middlinE. 1888.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-01-17
Health and
Hygiene
By DR.. w. D. Brown
ANKLE SPRAINS

Slippery sidewalks and streets
make the maintenance of posture
so hazardous that one must use ex-
IRENE care in walking, in getting
on and off streetcars and in jump
ing out of automobiles. One
thoughtless movement in such a
case may end disastrously; for in an
attempt to prevent falling one
might subject his ankles to unusual
stress and strain. Often this strain
is augmented by the presence of
some hard object on the ground
which, if immovable, gives pressure
in the opposite direction. The
ankle joint may be sprained due to
it's being forced to move within the
limits of an arc greater than nor
NAL.
The ligaments which hold the
ankle joint in place are very strong
and are usually hard to rupture
when the joint is overstretched.
However, something must give
way, and it will be the bone of the
outer aspect of the leg about three
fourths to two inches above it's
lower end.
A fracture, then, is just the re-
suit Of a sprain that is too great.
Often the only way that such a
fracture may be determined early
is by an X-ray examination. Such
an examination is advisable in all
cases of severe "sprain" to the
ankle for if there is fracture the
treatment should be started cor
rectly from the beginning to pre-
vent subsequent deformity.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-01-17
"Swan Song" Phrase Has
to Do With Final Tasks

A "swan song" is the last work
of an author, artist or composer,
especially a work produced Just be-
fore death, advises a writer in the
Indianapolis News. The phrase al
ludes to the old belief that the
swan sings beautifully while dying.
According to a Greek legend, Apol-
10, the god Of music, passed into a
swan. Plato, in Phaedo, has Socra-
ties say that swans sing at their
death mot out Of sorrow or dis
tress, but because they are inspired
by Apollo, and they sing as fore
knowing the good things their god
hath in store for them" Aristotle
and other early Greek philosophers
accepted the belief that swans sing
before death as having a proper
place in natural history. Much has
been written to prove or to dis
prove the belief. There may have
been a slight basis for it.
Although most species Of swans
make no sound at any time that
could be described as musical,
there are a few exceptions. In his
Account Of Iceland" Nicol says
Of the whistling swans Of that
island that during the long, dark
nights their wild song Is often
heard resembling tones Of a violin,
though somewhat higher and re-
markably pleasant" A statement
even more to the point is found In
George Adolf Erman's "Travels in
Siberia" that the Cygnus olor or
whooping swan 'when wounded,
pours forth its last breath in notes
most beautifully clear and loud"
The United States biological sur
vey makes the following statement:
ut seems now that notwithstand-
ing swans do not have notes that
are particularly musical, on rare &C.
casions wounded or dying swans do
produce notes which are very diff
ferent from the ordinary notes Of
the species and which might read
lily give rise to the story that the
bird sings when dying. This may
have been the original basis for the
story, and it is vouched for by the
field observations of a very compe-
tent observer, in comparatively re-
cent years."
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-01-17
Friday, January II, 1886
The Call for a National Negro Congress
A New Crisis COnfronts the Negro People

A New Crisis Confronts the Negro People
Today the whole of the United
Negroes
shakes the foundation of their social and economic existence
them terrible of depression have meant
ntoerab double exploitation both Negroes and workers.
Negro FARMS households
see wages prices against them
They longer be certain that tomorrow
employed Negro miners attacked and railroad
inundated by white inspired by bosses into quit
work. increasing number of barriers erected against
Negroes getting jobs by unions which, following anokng class
policies Negroes union privileges and union membership Negro
being literally driven out of industrial employment Negro
youth find less ndess opportunity to living This growing
futy growth of whole generation of Negro On
building discrimination against employment of
Negro artisans continues Even soed Negro jobs longer
available Unemployment Spreads and section of the nation
the Negro is fast becoming jobless
Negro population the South fast becoming land
within fifteen not only have
gained ownership they have lost possession of
than four million farm land and furthermore there
a steady decline in the already pitable farm wage
youth deprived of adequate educational opportunities
striking manifestation this the professional and technical
fields Moreover the marked renchmen in education affects
Negro especially since their Schools in
adequate BEST always curaed first and dsproporonate
and Political Contrast
Not hunger and poverty plague
The denial of citizenship rights creates double burden
ballot right citizen effectively denied
tod of the entire Negro population In the courts of the land
the Negro denied justice He is illegally kept from service
daily Negroes
obbd and nhed while cynay refuses enact
federal antynchng They excluded from public places
the Nations Capitol All of these manifestations
of Injustice have
Negroes America with indignation the
Ethiopia by Fascist Italy, threatening does to throw the entire
terrible the human slaughter of
Negroes Gold
Mothers forced into ships visit the of their
dead make The full knowledge
the which Fascsm bring the entire
nation make them their resote in their
fight against and Fascism.
Present Crisis Calls United Action
Every problem calls greater united action
organizations and individuals addressed
National Negro Congress be composed delegates representing all
Negro organizations and such other organizations white
will for rights for the Negro This Congress
called Chicago Illinois, February
anniversary the birth Douglass.
Congress will opportunity
sdering the problems that the Negro people plan
action-he collective all freedomong
population be negeny worked the
which will force real consideration public officials
single organization hope muster The sincerity of all
organizations whom this call addressed
operation in the for justice.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-01-17

The RECORDER believes should be denied the right to
humanity AS denied
mi n rights mvOae
Evening star., 1936-04-18

latest screen musical. deep in a dis
cussion with Eddie Goulding.
Guests of honor at the Owen
dinner-Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mont
gomery, and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Morgan-Franks wife. a charming
blond. A telegram for Morgan arrives
during the meat course. From an
admirer, I suppose" he says, nom
chalantly Sitting the envelope. Please
report back for work Immediately,
signature. Metro Goldwyn- Mayer" he
reads sadly.
A trip to the dunes, once chock-a-
block with film folk trying to win
money at the gambling tables, proves
disappointing. The only items of in
terest being Hal Roach. happily de-
molishing his favorite dessert-choc-
olate souffie, vanilla ice cream covered
with hot chocolate sauce and whipped
cream-and the sheriff, reinforced
by the entire Palm Springs police
torce-three men-keeping watchful
eye on the closed room of chance.
On the way back to the El Mirador,
stopped at the annual Firemen's Ball
for a quick look-over, and there
found Frank Morgan and the misSus,
dancing defiance at the studios recall
message. And so to Hollywood-ex-
hausted.
tCopyright. 1896. by the North American
NeWspaper Alliance. Inc
Evening star., 1936-04-18
DEBATERS TO BEGIN
TOUR OF 7 SCHOOLS

The Catholic University debating
team will open its annual Spring tour,
during which it will meet teams from
seven other schools, with a debate
with the University of West Virginia
team tomorrow night at Morgantown,
w. Va.
On the team are Joseph A. Spitzig,
jr., of Lakewood, Ohio, a Junior and
president of the Shahan Society, and
James F. CORTLAND of New Haven,
also a Junior, president of the uni
versity chapter of Phi Kappa. The
subject of the debates will be that
proposed by the National Intercol-
legiate Debating Fraternity, Resolved
That Congress should be permitted to
override, by a two-thirds majority
vote, decisions of the Supreme Court
declaring acts of Congress unconsti-
tutional."
The Catholic University team will
uphold the negative side of the debate
tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
Ziegfeld Girls Reminisce
Four Who Now Live Here Form Local
FollieS "Chapter"

young lass who chose the show busi-
ness as a career.
Mrs. Dorothy Walton, known on the
stage as Dorothy Mason, got her start
when Ziegfeld saw her pitcure at the
home of mutual friend and arranged
for an interview. Will Rogers, w. C..
Fields and Ray Dooley were stars
when she appeared in the 'Follies"
back in 1925, 1926 and 1927.
Claire Luce, now an outstanding per-
former on the London stage. also
was ziegfeld girl when Mrs. Walton
was "Follies" ballerina, and in fact,
was a school girl chum of Mrs.
Walton's, hailing from the same home
town, Rochester, N. Y.
Sees Others Reach Stardom.
A number Of other stars of today,
too, we're practically unknown when
these local girls were dancing for
ziegfeld. Ruby Keeler, Harriet Hoe
tor. Jimmy Durante, Frank McHugh
and Duke Ellington were in the show
with Miss Burton, but were not at all
famous at the time.
Irma L. Schubert, the typical Zieg-
field show-girl type, is the fourth girl
in the local group-tall and handsome.
She appeared in the "Follies" of 1925
and 1927 and remembers the great
producer most because he didn't like
her feet. He used to get mad at them,
she says, because he always had to
buy special shoes for them. Miss
Schubert, incidentally, is the young
lady who introduced Gladys Glad. one
of ziegfeld's best-known girls, to the
producer.
Two of these girls now are en-
ployed here by the Government, the
third is living with her mother and
plans to open dancing and reduc-
ing school, and the fourth, as was
said before, devotes her time to being
housewife. All have been invited to
attend the opening of the motion
picture, THE Great ziegfeld," based
on the life of the famous producer,
tomorrow at the National Theater.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
SHIRLEY AND HER PLAY
HELD OVER AT PALACE
Captain January" With Young
Star, Continues to Have Wash
ington Popularity.
1T REALLY isn't news that Shirley

1T REALLY isn't news that Shirley
= Temples latest film, Captain jan
uary," has been held over for second
week at Loewis Palace Theater, for,
as every one who keeps abreast Of
such matters knows, Shirley is the
No. box Office attraction of the
cinema, and an extended run is the
rule rather than the exception for
any celluloid entertainment TO which
she devotes her talents and her un-
deniable charm.
The current film is typical of those
made by the tiny star. With her In
the title role. it is extremely diverting
and pleasant to watch, but without
her. it would be just another motion
picture, and not a particularly good
one at that.
The story concerns "a tot who l.
tossed up from shipwreck onto the
rock bound coast of Maine, or some
such place, and who then is cared
for by lighthouse keeper who learn;
to love her. There are troubles, o.
course, with truant officers and tht
like, but everything turns out happily
in the end, and Shirley gets hel
beloved Capt. January.
Now there's nothing exciting abou
the story, so it's Shirley herself whit
is the main attraction. She makes i
entertainment for almost any one
and required reading for the legion
of Temple fans.
Shirley has increased gradually il
dramatic stature until she is able Il
handle some rather heavy moment
authentically in the current film, ant
no one within 2 feet of her size ant
any number of years of her age cal
outclass her when it comes to en-
chanting with song or to dancing
gaily.
Buddy EbSen is Shirley's new dane
ing partner. and her supporting cas-
in Captain January is headed b,
Guy Kibbee and Slim Summerville
|, H. M.
Evening star., 1936-04-18
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

KNOM F11L4ld " DlhlC
That's the gap they bridged
Il yesterday at the Variety Club,
when four Washington women who
once we're members of shows produced
by Florenz Ziegfeld met to form the
Washington chapter of the Glorifled
Ziegfeld Girls Club, as tribute to
the famous producer.
Mrs. Katherine Roberts Pope was
the oldest ex-Ziegfeldite present, hav-
ing been in his first show, back in
1907, which starred Anna Held, famed
as the young lady who bathed in milk
and later became the first wife of the
musical show producer.
Mrs. Pope, a niece of Tony Pastor,
started her career in show business
in a show of Claude Changers, called
"Pink Pajama Girls" or something
OF the sort, in which she was under
study to Pauline Chase, an outstanding
star Of the day, and then went into
''Mme. Napoleon" in which Miss Held
was starred She toured to the West
Coast with this revue, then took part
in Flo ziegfeld's first "Follies."
Emile Burton Remembers.
Best rememberances of Flo Ziegfeld
were offered, however, by Emile
Burton, another local girl, who worked
for Ziegfeld in "Show Girl" hack in
1929, which brings the span cf time
up to Dixie Dugan." Dixie" you
know, was the star of the j. P.
McEvoy comedy-romance about a
Evening star., 1936-04-18
REVISED PRAYER BOOK
DESCRIBED AS "GAWKY"
Former Senator Pepper Objects to
Changes in Verses of
Psalter.

Revised editions of the Book of
Common Prayer" of the Episcopal
Church were called "gawky'' by former
Senator George w. Pepper of Penn
sylvania, in an address Thursday
night to the st. Johns Mems Club.
After describing the evolution of
the book, he said: Growth is as
wholesome and necessary in language
as it Is in our bodies, but gawkineSs in
both cases is to be deplored, and much
modern American English is gawky. ]
find traces of this unlovely develop
ment in the revision of 1928"
Pepper expressed objection specifi-
cally to changes made in some of the
verses in the Psalter and said he could
not forgive the reviSers for omitting
valuable passages from the fifteenth
chapter of First Corinthians. Refer
ring to the prayer book as "a docu-
ment with a pedigree" the former
Senator declared its importance l.
secondary only to that of the Bible
ITSELF"