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Evening star., 1936-07-26

no YOU still think Of Dodge as one
II of the "higher-pricsd" trucks? II
SO, listen to thisl Dodge prices are
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Owners of new Dodge trucks report
saving up to $e5 a year on gas alone.
Ask your Dodge dealer to let you
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old or new, goes on q gallon. See
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Evening star., 1936-07-26

nomical observations. DR.. Jelstrup re-
ported that Sabine Island had shifted
6l5 meters. or nearly 1000 feet, west
of the place where it was in 1870.
Furthermore, very careful obser-
vations of its latitude indicated it had
drifted south by as much as 100
meters, or more than 800 feet.
Grave doubts have been cast by
some scientists upon Dr. Jelstrup's
Interpretation of his results. The OBJ
lection is made that the earlier obser-
vations could not have been accurate.
On the other hand. from the obser-
vations made in 1870 one can calcu-
late the probable accuracy of the posi-
tion determined at that time. AS
suming the worst possible combina-
tion of errors that could have been
introduced into the observations, and
even making additional allowances
for some uncertainty in the astro-
nomical positions of the objects OBJ
served. DR.. Jelstrup believes that
Sabine Island must have drifted at
least ESQ meters, and probably more.
in the intervening sixty-two years. At
this rate Greenland could have drifted
to the west as much as 1000 kilo-
meters. or about $500 miles, in the
last 100000 years.
Within the last few months a WASH
ington scientist. DR.. Ross Gum, of
the United States Naval Research
Laboratories. has shown that there is
constant force tending to urge North
America to move toward the west.
Another theory advanced by the
English scientist, Jolly, supposes that
there are periods of heating and cool
ingin the subcontinentalr regions owing
toradio- activity, and that periodically
in the earth's history these deep-lying
layers beneath the roots of the con-
tinents are melted by the imprisoned
heat. When this takes place the tidal
forces due to the moon will slide the
continents to the westward, exposing
the subterranean heated regions to the
ocean bottom, where it cools off. When
the heat has accumulated again be-
meath the continents. another period
of migration results. Many warm
arguments have enSued among ReOlO-
gists over Joly's theory.
Whatever may be the pros and cons
concerning the drifting of continents
in geological time. we are constantly
becoming disturbed by new evidence
indicating that terra Jfrmd is not so
firm as we have been led to believe,
and that there are tides in the affairs
of earth as well as in the oceans and
the affairs of men.
Evening star., 1936-07-26
Does Your Home Rise and Foil?
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Confinvsd from pose Two

restored to its former position as an
ocean wave passes beneath it.
Now comes a report that the observ-
atory at Zi-ka-wei. near Shanghai.
China, has found that its position
shifts with the moon. A press report
states that the longitude between China
and Germany. which was used for COM
parison, varies as much as sixty feet,
depending upon the position of the
moon.
All this is so upsetting to our con-
ventional ideas about the solid earth
that we are beginning to wonder if
the crust of the earth may after all be
sort of loose-skinned affair Perhaps
the continents themselves are in a
semi-floating condition. resting upon
a yielding substrata. Under the ter
rife pressure of the everything crust of
the earth and the internal heat due to
radio activity, perhaps the basaltic
magma is in semi-fluid state and that
tides in this magma, caused by the
moon. are responsible for this small
periodic displacement of the con-
tinents.
Some would have us believe that
the continents have drifted thousands
of miles westward in geologic history.
Such is the Wegener hypothesis. which
has caused no end of geologic discus
sion. Wegener went so far as to be-
lieve that the continents of the eastern
and western hemispheres were one
land mass long ago and that under the
stress of tidal forces the continents of
the New World separated from those
of the Old World. slowly drifting apart.
Very recently other geological find
ings have been most upsetting in re-
gard to the stability of the earth's
crust. DR.. Henry c. Stetson, Har-
ward paleontologist, dragged up some
fossils last summer while on an ex-
petition aboard the scientific yacht
atlantis" He found buried beneath
the ooze and mud off the Atlantic sea-
board remnants of life indicating that
the deep valleys and canyons in the
submarine world off the Atlantic coast
line we're formed in a most recent
geological time - perhaps within the
last $4,000 years.
These river beds and canyons be-
meath the Atlantic Ocean. according
to this authority, indicate formations
that must have been ten thousand
feet above water during the Pleisto-
Gene Age. This is startling news in
deed, for it would indicate that our
Atlantic coast line and the bottom of
the Atlantic Ocean itself have been do
ing things not beseeming the solid
earth which we have pictured our
planet to be.
Another disconcerting discovery of
recent times has come from the results
of an expedition carried on by DR..
Jelstrup in Greenland three or four
years ago. DR.. Jelstrup made his trip
to determine as precisely as possible
the position of Sabine Island, off the
northeast coast of Greenland, in order
to compare its present position with
that published by earlier investigators
from measurements made in 1869 and
1870. From a careful series of astro-
Evening star., 1936-07-26
THIS WEEK
The Jove|in Of Death
Continued from poss six

it. No one has touched it except the
doctor and myself - that is, no one
but us and the murderer. busted it
for finger prints. but found none ex-
cept the Doctors"
81 see," said Melee. Toni hadn't
used it recently?"
II wouldn't be too sure, Mac. The
murderer. might have wiped it after
doing the job. I've a sort of an idea"
"What?" said Melee.
Toni had a caller this morning."
the sergeant said with an air of mys-
terry.
Melee and exchanged glances.
yeah? Who?" said he.
maria wasn't going to tell me at
first, but she came through. A guy by
the name of Stresa. I'm bringing him
in. Toni sent him up for five years,
once. on an extortion charge. He's
going straight, now. I'm told. and is
an agent for farm equipment. Toni
was trying to help him get started.
but you know how these ex-cons are.
They never forget. He had sold Toni
that sprayer couple of days ago and
came over to see how it was working,
Maria said. They might have got into
an argument over ii"
why didn't you tell me this before,
Taite?"
II didn't want you to get off on the
wrong foot. There might be nothing to
it. Then, again, there wasn't any finger
prints on the handle of the fork except
the Doctors"
McLee's eyes dropped involuntarily
to his long number ten shoes. Silent
incredulity was written all over his
lean saturnine face.
Suppose you let me worry about
my feet" he said. What time was
this Stresa here?"
'He left about fifteen minutes be-
fore Maria found Toni in the puddle
of water" Taite said triumphantly.
McLee's face was blank. He was
squirting at the power line of the Gre
matory that ran along the rear wall.
How about that set-to Toni had
with the crematory people? That wire
doesn't improve the scenery any. l
don't blame Toni for raising He'll with
them"
l glanced at him sharply. His re-
mark seemed like very dead herring
drawn across rather obvious trail.
Taite shook his head. II checked up
on that. Nothing to it. They offered
to pay him for the unsightliness, but
he refused"
Melee bent over and picked up a
handful of the earth from the edge
of the puddle, raising it to his nose.
Smells funny" he said.
Sergeant Taite smiled indulgently.
''Arsenate Of lead and sulphur" he
said. tits poison if that's what you
mean."
so I've been told" said Melee.
"Show me how you operate those
things" he added indicating the
sprayer.
"You fill it with liquid - here.
Then, you pump up the air pressure
with this lever - this way"
Get me a pail of water" Melee
ordered.
The sergeant brought it and filled
the tank, then pumped up the pres
sure. Melee pressed the spring valve
on the metal nozzle and played the
spray about He adjusted the nozzle
until he produced a thin rope of water
that rose high into the air.
Throws quite a stream," he re-
marked as he shut the water off.
"You said Toni's hand was still clutch
ing the nozzle when you found him?
That accounts for the tank being
empty and the puddle of water. His
finger must have been on the spring.
because it shuts off automatically when
it's released"
"Ye-ah." said Taite. that's the
Evening star., 1936-07-26

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Evening star., 1936-07-26

instantly after the weapon has en-
tered"
Tate opened his mouth to reply.
Instead. he turned his head at the
sound of a motor coming up the grade.
II guess that's your man with
Stresa, Sergeant" said Melee.
Taite nodded. Let's go in and chin
him." he said Modified.
You bring him out here" said
Melee.
When Taite had gone. McLeewalked
to the upright where the hayfork had
been hanging. He looked at it in
tently, then brought out his magnify
ing glass and played it up and down
the rough surface of the wood. saw
him remove something from between
two slivers near the cleat. and put the
object in an envelope which he took
from his pocket.
Then. he walked to the espaliered
wall. raised himself chin-high by the
trellis to the top of it and looked over.
Whipping out folding pocket rule.
he measured the distance from the
sprayer to the upright. He bent low
and examined the foot prints in the
soft earth about the puddle.
''If Taite had turned an army loose.
here. he couldn't have done any more
damage" he muttered. just as the
sergeant and uniformed officer came
down the path with a small. dark
Italian between them. The fellow was
plainly frightened. He walked with
the air of a man carrying something
fragile, and his black eyes darted
about the enclosed garden as if he
were looking for place to escape.
There was nothing particularly GRIM
inal in his aspect, other than that of
any man who knew himself to be
under suspicion of something serious.
Taite winked at Melee as they came
up.
"All right, Stresa. you tell the Lieu
tenant what you told me-" he said.
Sure. l tell everything what 1
know. Toni he is my freend."
YEAH" said Taite. well. don't
leave anything out. The Lieutenant
likes his bedtime stories straight"
The little Italian shoulders sagged.
He looked at Melee imploringly.
You'll believe me, Meester?" he
begged. Il would not hurt my freend.
He is good to me, Toni. One time do
something wrong and he put me in
Jail. but he get me out on probation
because of my Liza and the bambinos.
l report to him all the time"
Maybe Maria done it" Taite sug-
gested.
"Oh. no not Maria Chantroni.
She is good woman"
Il know" said Tate. "all the Ital-
ians around here are saints on wheels.
Still. there's Toni dead with hayfork
in his neck. If he hadn't been a cop
and the last man to see him alive, the
guy he sent up for extortion n"
Melee held up his hand. when
you left here. Stresa. what was Toni
doing?" he asked.
''He was spraying with that new
sprayer. I sold it to him. 1t work
fine ="
Where was he spraying?"
''On that wall - those dlber peros
pear trees. show him how to work
the nozzle to get real fine spray"
Melee picked up the hayfork and,
raising it shoulder-high, stepped up
behind the little Italian.
did you see this fork when you
were here, Stresa? he called out
sharply.
The man whirled about. His eyes
were bulging. He ducked his head as
if dodging a blow.
"Sure. I see the fork. But, please,
Meester, I don't kill Toni. The fork,
he was hanging on that hook like he
always was" He was pointing with
shaking fingers to the Cleat on the
Evening star., 1936-07-26

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Evening star., 1936-03-29
TAXES MAY CURB
FORE|GNACCOUNTS
Drop in Trading From Over
seas Feared in Surplus
Levy Plan.
RY FRANK ]. WILLIAMS.

NEW YORK, March 20 (N.A.N.A).
Stock brokers who derive a sizable
part of their revenues from foreign
orders are beginning to worry about
possible loss of business If dividends
to aliens are taxed at the source, as
proposed in the plan of taxing undis-
tributed corporate surpluses. When
ever the Government has shown an in
clination to investigate foreign income
tax payments, accounts have been
closed, it is declared.
That possibility probably would be
more real if the American securities
markets were more on par with
other international markets. AS it is,
foreigners can obtain so much greater
income on their American investments
than on any others, that they can
pay the proposed tax and still come
out ahead.
There Is, however, a fine point to
be ironed out in the question of tax
ing foreign investors as, unless some
adjustment is made. Americans will be
paying less than the foreign investors,
because the man paying the tax at the
source will not have the privilege OF
making deductions and exemptions
allowed to the individual income tax
payer. A man who receives dividend
and includes in in his income tax
might not pay anything after deduct
ing his losses and claiming his per-
sonal exemptions. The foreigner would
pay his full tax, besides a tax in his
own country.
Considerable satisfaction was ex-
pressed among stock brokers over the
rule that compels banks to demand
equal margin requirements in securi-
ties transactions. There has been a
great deal of grumbling from brokers
who believed that bankers should stick
to bankers business and leave the
brokers to theirs. The fact that bank
ers could give their customers extra
margin accommodations brought them
business that they otherwise would not
have. Now, it is likely that customers
will feel they might just as well do
business with their brokers.
On the other hand, some bankers
complained that the rule is just one
more step in the regimentation that is
taking the element Of judgment out OF
American banking. 1t has been one OF
the pet prides Of American bankers
that they were keen judges Of char
acter and they knew the people they
could trust. Now bankers grumble
they are controlled by group of cZars
who tell them just what they can do.
how much they can lend and on what
kind of collateral.
| copyright, 1896. by the North American
Newspaper Alhance)
Evening star., 1936-03-29
RESUMPTION RAPID
AT STEEL PLANTS
Increasing Volume Of Orders
Sends Ingot Output Up
Late in Week.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 28.-Unusually
rapid resumption Of operations by
steel plants in recently affected food
districts, combined with an increasing
volume Of orders for steel products,
accounted for a recovery in the steel
ingot production rate to around So
per cent of capacity late in the week
as compared with So per cent as the
week opened.
Demand for structural steel was
stimulated for rehabilitation purposes
in f1ood-swept areas. Seasonal in
creases from pipe lines and the can
ming industry we're reported. Railroad
buying was expected to continue. Part
of the demand was being supplied
from warehouse supplies until mill
production became available. No price
change was reported.
Non-ferrolls metals were generally
quiet. The copper trade was particu-
larly interested in the possible sig
nificance of an advance of p to
cent per pound in prices for brass
tubing, but whether it foreshadowed
rise in copper was a matter for con-
lecture. Moderate demand was sup
piled at 9l4 cents for electrolytic
although several producers maintained
the price at 9la cents. Foreign prices
were easier, but partial recoveries de-
veloped late in the week.
Evening star., 1936-03-29

Building Association. treasurer. and
Esther S. Devers of the National Per-
manent Building Association, secre-
tary. William N. Payne, jr., secretary
of the Eastern Building and Loan As
sociation, and Howard B. Kramer,
American Building Association were
elected to the Board of Governors for
the ensuing three years.
Julius A. Maedel. the retiring presi-
dent, was complimented upon the COM
pletion of one of the most successful
years in the chapters history. The
members of the first graduating class
to successfully complete the three-year
course required for diploma from the
American Savings, Building and Loan
Institute were announced. They are
F. Wilson Camp, Thornton w. Owen,
Julius A Maedel Scott M. Birdsong
Cora Yowell and Esther S. Devers.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
HESITANCY PREVAILS
ON BOSTON WOOL MART

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, March % CURited States
Department of Agricultural A watt
ing attitude prevailed quite generally
in the Boston wool market during
the last week.
Purchases were confined largely to
small quantities that mills occasionally
needed to piece out stocks.
Prices realized on the WOODS in
volved in these transactions we're
around the low sides of the ranges
of prices of the bulk Of the sales
during the last month.
Nominal quotations on Ohio and
similar strictly combing f1eeces
were unchanged at 1896 cents IN the
grease for GAS and finer at 36-37 cents
for 58s. Cos. p blood. and at 4l-43
cents for 56s. % blood and 48s, SOS,
Il blood.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
GAS SEND.0UT CLIMBS
ABOVE LEVEL YEAR AGO
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 2s.-Reports
from a group of companies represent
ing approximately half Of the manu-
factured gas industry in the United
States show an increase in gas send
out for the months of January and
February of 1852 per cent over the
same month in 1885.
For the month of January the in
crease was l.24 per cent over Janu-
ary, 1885, and in the case of Febru-
ary, after adjustment for leap year
day. the increase in send-out was
8.39 per cent.
When returns are received from
natural gas companies, it is believed
the send-out for these months will
show a greater increase, since this
involves larger proportion of indus
trial use which has had substantial
gain.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
.8.1OO CHAIN STORE
FIRMS ARE LISTED
New Directory of IS Different
Lines of Activity Shows Drop
From 1880 Level.
MT Assoc,st.o pr.sx

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 28-A total Of
8,l00 retail chain store systems are
listed in the new directory of these
merchandisers issued by its brokers
division, the National Association Of
Real Estate Boards said today.
The total includes firms in IS dif-
ferent lines Of business and reveals
a decrease from the 1890 figure of 9,785
store chains grouped in Al lines of
enterprise.
In seven major branches OF chain
store activity the 1886 figure repre-
sents a gain. however, over totals for
both 1885 and 1884 Women's wear
shops, retail groceries and beauty
shops. the report said, led the ex-
panding groups
Retail grocery chains now total ,254
separate organizations as against
l,04l in September, 1884, when the
chains included 68,822 stores.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

CHICAGO March IS t9.-Butter s.976;
weak. Creamery. specials (93 score).
301aa3i; extras l92l. 30; extra frsts 90
aD. 29E4a29l2; frsts (sS-S9). 2S12a2s94;
standards 900 centralized carlots). 29l2.
EGGS. 30.430; easy; extra. frsts local
17a4: cars. 1sl4; fresh-graded frsts. local
17l4; cars. 1874: current receipts. 1624;
storaee-packed extras. 1914; storage
Butter futures storage standards,
March. 49i4; November 2534; egg fu-
lures. storage-packed frsts. April 1919;
sefrigerator standards. October. lalis.
Potatoes 124: on track. 3S2: total
gnited states shipments. s54; best Idaho
pne sshs other stick fnW
especially for fair quality; sacked per
y. g, No. l, 1.S5a2 90; u S.. No. 2. 1.5Oa
: .62la; Wisconsin round whites, U. S: No.
J, 1.25; commercial. Local .05; North
Dakota Red River section Cobblers. U. s.
NO. !. .25a1 30; early Ohios, U. S. No. l.
l.35al 40; certified seed. 1.50: Minnesota
Red River section cobblers. y. S: No. l
and partly graded. 10; Colorado Nc
SCluTes u s. No. l, 1.95ao 10; y; S, No.
l:l5; less than carlots Florida Bliss
heated and decay. 200 crate.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
MONETARY GOLD STOCK
NEAR JANUARY PEAK

BY the Associated Press.
The fall of the French franc and
other European gold currencies against
the dollar in foreign exchange deal
ings this week has raised prospects
Of a resumption Of the large gold
inflow which was interrupted early
this year.
The Nations monetary gold stock is
back near the January peak. having
recovered most of the minor dip re-
corded in February as result of about
100000 in exports to Europe and
sale Of S10,000,00O to China.
The monetary gold stock, as re-
ported by the Federal Reserve Board,
compared as follows:
Week ended March IS, s10.l77 OO0,-
600; preceding week, s10.173,000 900;
same week last year, $8,563, ,0OO, 900.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL
EARNINGS ARE LOWER
Rx the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, March 28.-United
States Industrial Alcohol Co. a pro-
ducer of industrial alcohol, with plants
at Baltimore, New Orleans. Buffalo,
Newark, N. j., and Anaheim, Calf. -.
reports net earnings of s843,742 foi
1885, equivalent to s2.l5 share on
the capital stock
This figure gives effect to s763,96l
Of "other income" including s285, 5,267
representing profit on sale of securities
For 1884 net earnings amounted to
$1,580,067, or s4.03 share, and in
cluded $953.658 of "other income" in
Guiding profit on the sale of the COM
pany's investment in Maryland,
Inc.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
FREIGHT CARS NEEDING
REPAIRS SHOW DROP

Glass I railroads on March l had
254, ,598 freight cars in need of repair
or l45 per cent Of the number on line,
the Association of American Railroads
announced today.
This was decrease of 1913 cars,
compared with the number in need of
such repairs on February /, at which
time there were 256,5l1 or 146 per
cent.
Locomotives in need of classified
repairs on March / totaled 1856 or
2l2 per cent of the number on line.
This was decrease of 269, compared
with the number in need of such
repairs on February l, at which time
there were 1926 or 21.8 per cent.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
HUDSON MOTORS REPORT
BEST MONTH SINCE 1880
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 28.-Retail
sales Of Hudson and Terraplane cars
in the United States during the first
three weeks of March totaled 5,655,
a gain of rs per cent over the same
period of last year. according to Will
liam r. Tracy, vice president in
charge of sales of the Hudson Motor
Car Co.
Based upon sales in the month to
date" said Mr.. Tracy, Hudson will
have its best March since 1880. Each
of the last five weeks has shown
sales substantially in excess Of the
week preceding
Sales records of six years stand
ing have been broken in each of the
last several weeks, and the month OF
March will continue the pace"
Evening star., 1936-03-29
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK March % R-Eggs.
S9, ,644; weak. Mixed colors: Special packs
standards and commercial standards. 199+a
20; irsts. 1917; seconds, IS; mediums. 20
pounds l7a1s; dirties. No. l. AZ pounds.
11a17K: small. 1914: average checks. 10:
storage packed frsts: 19lz.
Butter. 6,37S; slightly frmer. Creamery;
higher than extra. 3la31s.; extra tg2
2aa.a3Oi2; centralized 100 score,. 29S4a
Soie.-
Live poultry weak. By freight: AL
ericss UNCHANGED.