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Evening star., 1936-05-24
CLEARING HOUSE ISSUES
REPORT AT new YORK

BY tie Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 23.-The weekly
statement OF the New York Clearing
House shows:
Total surplus and undivided profits,
$743,339, 100 (unchanged); total net
demand deposits (average), $31 ,445, 900
Gncrease); time deposits taverage),
Sc, 1854, 900 (decrease): clearings week
ending today, s2,S44,932 ,227; clearings
week ending May 16, $3,518,759,312.
Evening star., 1936-05-24
Impressive Result
of Sanctions Shown
In Italian Exports
Special pispst tch 10 The Star.

GENEVA. May 23.-The extent to
which Italys export trade has been
hurt by League of Nations sanctions
is shown in the March trade figures
issued today by the League.
The League statement shows ex-
ports from Italy to % countries fell
from 100000. gold, in March,
1895. to $6,20o.0O0, gold, in March,
1886.
Evening star., 1936-05-24
INCREASE IN OIL
OUTPUT ADVISED
Mines Bureau Recommends
10000 Rise to
Meet Demand.
By the Associated Press.

bv the Associated Press.
The Bureau of Mines recommended
yesterday daily average crude oil
production of 2,83s,3o0 barrels for
June to meet the estimated demand.
This figure was $4,000 barrels higher
than this month and l87 800 barrels
above June. 1885. The bureau said
the increase for June reflected sea
sonal and normal gain in gasoline
consumption. mainly offset by in
creases in the recommended with
drawals from gasoline and crude oil
stocks.
The bureaus recommended daily
average production by Statess
Evening star., 1936-05-24
SILVER IMPORTS GAIN
SHARPLY DURING WEEK

BY the Associated Press.
Silver imports spurted last week to
$2,534,623 from $615,514 the previous
week, making the largest total in sew
eral weeks, commerce figures show.
Most Of the metal came from Mexico
and other Western producing coun-
tries, in line with the Treasurys re-
cent policy of restricting buying in
the world market at London.
Evening star., 1936-05-24
BANK WOMEN TO MEET.

The Bank Women's Club will have
its May meeting and dinner at the
Chastelton Hotel tomorrow. Mrs. Ray
mond Lee Jones. the president. will
preside, and the guest speaker will be
Miss Marjorie F. Webster Of Mar
jorie Webster Schools, Inc.
Evening star., 1936-05-24
$6, 1873, 900 MORE GOLD
ON WAY TO NEW YORK

BY the Associated Press.
CHERBOURB, May 23.-The flight
of Frances gold to America continued
today with the shipment of $4,000, 900
francs ($6, 6,l38,000) worth of gold to
New York aboard the S. S. Bremen.
Evening star., 1936-05-24
VIRGINIA BANKERS
TO MEET JUNE 1920
Idle Funds and Customer
Relations Included in
important Topics.
By tho Assoc :ated Press.

By tho Assoc :ated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, May 23.-New
Virginia banking legislation, the prob
lem created by 'unemployed' funds
and customer relations will comprise
some of the leading topics that will
be discussed at the forty-third annual
convention of the Virginia Bankers
Association at Virginia Beach, June
1920.
Charles P. Blinn, jr. vice president
of the Philadelphia National Bank.
will speak on The Practical Problem
of Unemployed Funds" at the opening
session. He will follow Charles H.
McComas. manager and attorney of
the Fidelity q Deposit Co. of Mary
land, who will discuss Business Reh-
tions Between Banks and Surety
Companies"
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Wall Street Surprised.

NEW YORK, May ~ IN. A. N. AZ.
The sustained consumer demand for
automobiles has been a pleasant sur
prise to Wall Street.
1t had been freely predicted that the
motor industry was due for setback,
perhaps of more than seasonal propor-
tions, now that the new models are
being introduced in the Fall instead
of the Spring. Nothing of the kind
has happened, however.
Instead, preliminary estimates OF
new passenger car registrations put
April totals at 100000 cars, against
223, 900 in that month year ago. The
bonus money will be available in June,
which is expected to give additional
stimulus to sales.
tCopyright, 1895, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. lnc.)
Evening star., 1936-05-24
Galloway Will Speak.

Trust Department Responsibilities
featured an address by Merrel P.
Galloway, president of the trust divi-
sion of the American Bankers ASso-
citation, and a general discussion of
new legislation and other matters OF
interest to trust institutions in the
State. James w. Allison of Richmond,
chairman of the committee on Trusts,
will preside.
Lewis F. Gordon. director of public
relations of the Citizens & Southern
National Bank of Atlanta, will conduct
a clinic on public and customer rela-
tions the second day of the conven-
ton, with Charles L. kaufman, Nor
folk attorney, and Jesse F. Wood. vice
president of the State Planters Bank
81 Trust Co.. Richmond, as other
speakers.
An address by Jesse H. Jones. chair
man of the Reconstruction Finance
Corp, will be high light of the last
days general sessions, after which
officers will be elected and installed.
A. B. c. Group to Vote.
Virginia members Of the American
Bankers Association will elect a state
vice president, a member of the Gen
eral Nominating Committee an alter
nate member of the Nominating Com
mittee and state vice presidents of the
divisions of trusts, national bank, State
bank and savings bank at meeting
to be held on Friday, June 19. follow
ing sessions of the convention proper.
The address of Col. j. Sinclair
Brown of Salem, president Of the as
sociation, and the reports Of other
officers and committees will be pre-
sented at the opening session Thurs
day morning, June 18.
Evening star., 1936-05-24
so TONS OF LEAD SOLD.

NEW YORK, May % OP9.-The st.
Joseph Lead Co. reports that so tons
Of pig lead from Southeast Missouri
Mines were sold yesterday at $445
per hundred pounds st. Louis.
Evening star., 1936-05-24
EARNINGS MOUNT
To 6-YEAR PEAKS
AT MOTOR PLANTS
Wholesale Value of Output
in 1886 to Approximate
$3,5OO,O0O,OOO
BY DAVID ]. WILKIE,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

DETROIT, May 23.-When the
motor car industry sums up the re-
suits of its 1886 activity its financial
sheets will show an output with a
wholesale value of approximately
3500.000,o0O The industry has
reached that figure only once before
in its history-!n 1929, when it as
sembled $500, 900 cars and trucks.
1t will not produce that many We
hicles this year, but 1t will come very
close to 5000, 900 and, more important
to the trade, it will pass these units
on to consumers with only minimum
of surplus. In 1929 it had to carry
over about as many vehicles as it as
sembled in the entire year of 1882,
when output totaled 1,43l 900 cars.
Dividends Are Paid.
The financial aspects Of the recov-
cry in the motor car industry extend
beyond the increased valuation of its
product, for, aside from stepping up
output volume, virtually every COM
pany of Importance in the business of
UlOtOA NoA . dAAo VI dSho 40 OAA
a dividend paying basis.
When the industry brought out new
cars last November and swung into
unusual activity for that season Of the
year, some of the skeptics expressed
the conviction the Spring market was
being mortgaged to the early Winter
activity. Events have proved this be-
lief unfounded, for the industry is en-
joying a greater measure of profitable
operations than it has at any similar
period. with the possible exception of
1929.
The optimistic outlook for the period
beyond the current year has been
given tangible demonstration by the
industry's huge investment in new
production equipment and buildings.
Evening star., 1936-05-24
The bureaus recommended d
average production by Statess

The bureau said that Tor the lour
weeks ended May crude production
averaged about 1892 900 barrels daily
and stocks had increased about lOs.oOO
barrels daily, indicating an actual
crude oil demand of 2,SS3,000 barrels,
or about 10000 barrels above the
bureaus estimate of demand.
Gasoline Estimates Up.
The domestic motor fuel demand for
June was estimated at AZ, ,690, 900 bar
rels. daily average Of l ,423, 900 barrels.
This figure was 13 per cent above last
June, but only per cent higher than
what the bureau termed the normal
or estimated actual.
The bureau said reports indicated
a material decrease in gasoline exports
for next month compared with last
June and the forecast, consequently,
was set at 2,050,000 barrels, slightly
below this month. 1t said stocks OF
finished and unfinished gasoline on
May 81 would remain above II ,000, 900
barrels, or $500, 600 barrels above May
81, 1885. The bureau fixed the esti-
mated withdrawal for June at A.
100000 barrels.
Export Forecast Reduced.
The bureau said 1880, 600 barrels
would be the required production OF
both finished and unfinished gasoline
for next month, on the basis of present
indications.
The forecast Of crude oil exports
was reduced slightly for June, being
100000 barrels compared with
4,200,O this month,
Evening star., 1936-05-24

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Evening star., 1936-03-22
Cus+om-made Slip Covers

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your rooms attractvely furnished at the same time
you are protecting the delicate upholstery.
Much depends upon how Slip Covers made,
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you have the choice of very wide variety of
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Here is an unusual assortment of novelty
weaves, crashes, ETC., in designs and colors
from which to select-and may suggest:
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Evening star., 1936-03-22

gathered in his arms, confidently
awaiting their coming. The animals
are his only companions. He had gone
back rather than abandon them.
All up the Potomac Valley from
Hagerstown to Hancock the low-lying
towns are deserted and desolate. No.
body knows, as yet. what happened to
some of the people in the little
villages beside the B. g. o. Railroad
on the West Virginia side of the river.
At Milestone, Md, j. P. Weller told
today of standing on the roof Of his
home and seeing 18 houses, one after
another, swept into the river from
the little cannery village Of Sleepy
Greek. Presumably the inhabitants
escaped to the hills. There is no COM
munication across the river. At least
one farm family is reputed to be lost.
Lose All Furniture.
At Milestone, between Hagerstown
and Hancock, four or five families lost
all their furniture. Those who had
boats were able to rescue some of
it from the second-story windows.
Jacob Fink did not have a boat: he
improvised one from a hog-scalding
trough, but it tipped over. With his
little daughter Eleanor in his arms
he got out of his house at 2 am.
The flood played some funny stunts
at Milestone. For example, it took
the hog pen of Robert Shikes and, an
hour later, deposited the hog pen of
his brother Mr.. Weller, who
lives a mile upstream, on exactly the
same spot. So Mr.. Shikes has a hog
pen and Mr.. Weller hasn't.
The flood-ravaged town of Han
cock, with a company Of c. C. c.
workers on the job, was beginning to
take stock of its losses today, but
from outlying communities came
stories Of farm families entirely cleaned
out. The five houses of the little
village of Cohill Station are some
where down the river, with all the
furniture of their owners. They are
being cared for at Hancock. Among
those left homeless are Mr.. and Mrs.
John Childers and their eight chill
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months.
Down at Pont of Rocks with 200
Of its 400 people temporarily homeless
and its streets covered with bean-soup
mud halfway to ones knees, the little
railroad village is trying to rehabili-
tate itself.
Some are wandering about in a daze.
They have lost everything. Others,
with brooms and hoes in their hands,
are trying to clean the mud of the
pavements, but it flows back about as
soon as it is swept away.
In spite Of timely warning Point
of Rocks did not take the danger seri-
ously until early Thursday evening.
when the waters already were wash
ing over their doorsteps. There never
Evening star., 1936-03-22

could be another inundation like that
which came with the Johnstown flood,
the old-timers said, and pointed to the
high-water marks on buildings which
had been made at the time.
Then the river began rising, 2 feet
an hour. Too late to save much Of
their property, the residents began
! carrying their furniture and utensils
to the second floors of the low houses
of the towns three or four streets.
Before most of them could finish the
task the women and children had to
seek safety in the village school house,
the Lutheran Church or the few
homes on higher ground.
Meanwhile a dramatic scene was
enacted out on 500-acre Heaters
Island In the middle of the Potomac.
There Fairfax Miskel with his family
Of 10 and their hired man, James
Lorry, till one of the largest farms in
Frederick County. Early Wednesday
afternoon Mr.. Miskel realized that the
rising river might inundate the island
before morning and brought Mrs.
Miskel and the younger children to
Point of Rocks by boat. He and the
two older boys, Luther and Jesse, re-
turned to care for the stock. They ex-
pected to remain on the island all
night.
Late in the afternoon the water was
sweeping through the barn. They
freed the cattle and horses to let them
shift for themselves. Then they re-
tired to the second floor of the house,
moving up as much of their furniture
as possible. The yellow water contin-
ued to rise, with a 40-mile current
sweeping down the river and plunging
timbers, fragments Of bridges and all
sorts Of debris against the house.
Barn Floats Away.
Miskel, Lorry and the two Miskel
boys heard the timbers of the house
groaning beneath them. It seemed at
any moment the building would be
swept away into the river. They saw
the barn go down into the current.
Then all four crept out the second
story windows into the flat-bottomed
boat they had kept ready for emer-
gencies. Already it was pitch dark.
Rain was falling in sheets. They
dared not trust themselves to the
current. So all night long, until sun
rise Friday, they waited in terror,
clutching desperately to the second
floor window casing to prevent the
boat from being swept into the cur
rent. All night they called for help,
but their cries could not be heard
above the roar of the river.
With daylight their plight was seen
from the shore and boats went out
to rescue them. They were brought to
Point of Rocks safely, but all of the
cattle and horses were drowned and
much Of their farming equipment
swept away.
There were pathetic scenes about
Evening star., 1936-03-22

5000 persons. The State Health De.
partment had requested the vaccine
to aid in the fight against disease.
State w. p. A. headquarters report
ed meantime that 100000 project
workers have been detailed to food
areas to clean up debris and partici.
pate in other rehabilitation activities.
Insurance Commissioner Owen B.
Hunt reported to the Governors office
that Jersey Shore needs chlorine TO
treat polluted water.
Scranton sent another military de-
tachment to Wilkes Barre medical
unit Of the 109th Infantry, which will
pay special attention to sanitation in
the stricken districts. Late today q
call for $50 additional troops for
Wilkes-Barre was received by Scranton
, and officers Immediately began q
roundup Of soldiers still there.
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escape to higher ground by swimming.
Some may have succeeded and are

escape to higher ground by swimming
Some may have succeeded and are
roaming about in the hills.
Typical is the story of Guy Hoff-
man as he labored hopelessly today
Just to be doing something-to clean
up his desolate little home where the
Shiny mud still is foot thick on the
floors and all the furniture and cloth
ing are ruined. Hoffman lives CLOSE
to the Hagerstown water works. He
had been warned the river was rising
but didn't pay much attention to it
He remembered some big floods there
when he was boy and none of them
had quite reached the front doorstep
Warned Of Rising River.
At midnight the watchman at the
reservoir raped on his door.
"The rivers coming up fast, Guy
he said. Maybe you'd better keep
an eye on your cattle"
He could see the water was rising
faster than he ever had seen it rise
before. He and his son dressed hur-
riedly and ran to the barn. They
began leading their COWS to the high
wall of the reservoir. They saved all
of them. but they were shoulder deep
in water as they led the last animals
to safety
Meanwhile Mrs. Hoffman had fled
| through the back door to the power
house at the reservoir, not a moment
too soon. The raging river lifted the
house from its foundations and sat
it around exactly at right angles. A
building engineer could hardly have
done a neater job with block and
tackle.
Hoffman will sell out and leave this
part Of the country, he said. It's no
use at his age to try to start farming
anew. Those mud-plastered fields
look hopeless.
A strange adventure was that of
John Barnzhoff, young farmer who
lives about half a mile above Hoff-
man. He and his brother had moved
most of the furniture out of their
house and had got their cattle to
safety. AL night they stayed in the
house, with the water raging below
them. They didn't intend to aban-
don the building to be salvaged by
wrecking crews farther down the
creek. Branzhof provided himself
with heavy cable. They were driven
to the roof. Then the foundations
gave way and the building started
down the creek Branzhoff, riding
the roof, tried desperately to throw
the rope around tree and make 1t
fast. The current was too swift. His
brother accompanied him in a boat.
once the boat had a narrow escape
from being crushed between the house
and a tree.
House Tips Over.
They didn't succeed in making the
house fast to a tree until they had
noated about 2 miles. And when they
over, -r
Bowman and his companions res.
cued some of the farm families in
ooats and brought them into williams.
port: One Of the rescued was an Old
gentleman named Knodle, who lived
alone in a houseboat on the canal
His situation was particularly desper-
ate. Once before he had been brought
out and had gone back.
The rescuers had to row the boat
through stiff current to get to him
They found him with his five cats
Evening star., 1936-03-22

stalled and every relief agency threw
itself into caring for $4,000 made
homeless by the susquehanna in the
15-mile-long region.
Gas Plant Flooded.
Over In the Valley Of Juniata, In
West Central Pennsylvania, homeless
came back to Lewistown, still under
military rule, and found $4,000 900
loss, some Of it to the big Viscose Co.
plant. Electric power was restored,
but the city gas plant was still CON-
pletely flooded.
From isolated Remove, west Of VIII
Transport, came the first definite word
since the Susquehanna food struck
the situation Is under control, said
the message, but the town was hard
hit, with virtually every home inun-
dated and one entire street completely
submerged. One house, q shattered
wreck. was dropped by the water in
the center Of a bridge.
Sleinsgrove, near Sunbury, was still
without water from flooded pumping
station. Workers labored to construct
an emergency line to the State epilep-
tic colony. At Lewisburg, not far
away, cavalry troop was remobilized
after reports of looting. In the same
sector, water was restored to the 1900
patients at the Danville State Hos
pital.
Water Shortage at Harrisburg.
The State capital city Of Harrisburg
also was confronted with a threat of
water shortage, and the Health De-
partment recommended rationing its
available supply. Militiamen guarded
the streets there, too.
The urgent need" of flood victims
for cash contributions from the Red
Cross rather than food and clothing
was voiced tonight by Gov. Earle. In
Statewide appeal he urged an "im-
mediate plea by press, radio and all
other means for cash contributions. 4"
From Washington came word that
the United States Public Health Serv-
ice had dispatched to Harrisburg by
plane enough typhoid vaccine for
Evening star., 1936-03-22
DAMAGE MOUNTS
|NPENNSYLVAN|A
Eastern. Central Area
Guards Against Outbreak
of Disease.
BY the Associated Press.

HARRISBURG, Pa, March 21-
Angry nature. her smashing flood wa
ters partially withdrawn, sent storms
and cold over eastern Central Penn
sylvania tonight, adding new misery
to the death and damage wrought by
surging rivers.
All-day rains and lowering tenn
peratures in most Of the stricken zones,
where at least 80 are dead, were fol-
lowed by a threat Of snow and sleet
over the week end, hating any hopes
of reconstruction and hampering ac-
tiyities for the relief of The widespread
suffering.
In communities patrolled by the
military to guard against looting or
activities which may result in spread
of disease, refugees returned to take
stock of the ravages left by the RAM
pant Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers
through the heart Of the keystone
State.
Food and water shortage threatened
on all sides; gas, electric light and
power facilities were either shut down
completely or badly crippled; medical
men labored against the danger OF
contagion; mud, slime and debris were
everywhere.
$4,000 Are Homeless.
Well over $4,000 persons were home
less, and damage and loss could not
be estimated In other terms than
many millions"
A plea from Democratic Gov.
George H. Earle and Republican State
Chairman M. Harvey Taylor went to
Washington for $10,000,000 of Fed
eral funds to aid in fighting back to
normalcy.
istrator Harry L. Hopkins assured the
Governor the full resources of w. P.
A. will be placed behind the program
Of rehabilitation" and that his vast
organization would work on private
property where health is endangered
Of there is a hazard to life"
Quarantine CLOSED Sunbury on the
Susquehanna presented pathetic pic
ture. Six were dead. Among them
was 5-week-old infant, accidentally
smothered as hundreds of refugees
huddled in the shelter of a school
house. National Guardsmen and po-
lice patrolled everywhere as 90 cases
Of contagious disease were segregated
and efforts were redoubled to prevent
any more. Two thousand persons were
taken to other cities and hundreds of
other refugees massed in the small
hill" section, the only spot in the
city not struck by the devastating
water.
S3.000,000 Loss at Williamsport.
Williamsport, once again in con-
tact with the outside world after two
days of complete isolation, surveyed
the wreckage and estimated So, ,000, 900
loss. Paradoxically fortunate was the
Central Pennsylvania industrial COM
munity In that it had prepared for q
flood only week ago, when the Sus-
quehanna's ice broke up, so that food,
water and medical supplies were ade-
quate in the present emergency. -Four
thousand were homeless.
Wilkes-Barre and the Northeastern
Pennsylvania Wyoming Valley anthra.
cite area. however, gave little thought
to rehabilitation yet, as it continued
its relief and rescue work in streets
still hood-covered. Two more deaths
were reported there today-a man
from exposure and a woman from a
heart attack-bringing the regions IA
talities to five. Gas was completely
shut of; electric and power was badly