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Evening star., 1936-02-17
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer.


NEW YORK, February I7.-Utility
shares in the widest swing in years
stamped the stock market today with
the mark of an historic wrong guess
as the Supreme Court handed down
T. v. A. decision favorable to the
Government.
But once the first impact Of the
truth shook share prices to their
lowest point. a firm undertone de-
veloped and formed the basis for par.
tial recovery.
The dam of long pent-up enthu-
siasm broke in the Exchange when
the Chief Justice started his one-hour
reading of the ruling, and 1000 to
10000 blocks of utility stocks we're
bought at steadily rising prices, which
reached to 3 points upward.
AS the breath of uncertainty ap-
peared, the gains were shaved off
gradually until the final rush of selling
put the ticker 5 minutes behind trans
actions for the second time, and block
selling was the rule.
Net losses of fractions to around a
point or more were shown by Con-
solidated Gas, Western Union. United
Corp, United Gas. National Power g.
Light, American Water Works. Union
Pacific, Santa Fe and General Motors.
Losses Of 2 points or more we're made
by Telephone and Chrysler.
United States Steel was fractionally
higher, as were Westinghouse. Packard,
Anaconda and New York Central.
The turnover approximated 5000 900
shares. the largest in several years.
Evening star., 1936-02-17
Liverpool Grain Prices.
LIVERPOOL. February II up
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO. February II lIFp (U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture Hogs. 12.00O. in
lower; spots to 10 lower than Fridays
average; top. 11.10 bulk 170-250 pounds.
10.90a11 90; 260-350 pounds. 1O.5Oa9O;
most 140-160 pounds. l0.75a1I 90; bulk
good Sows, 9.65a10.00.
Cattle. 100000 calves. 1900: largely
steer run; medium graded predominattng:
weighty offerings scarce; early demand
narrow; undertone about steady; all heifers
steady: lower grades 700 down to 6 90
getting better action than kinds of value
to sell at $50 upward; beef cows easy but
cutter cows fully steady at $50 down: due
market dull and weak; selected veaiers UP
Sheep 5000; fat lambs opening slow;
about steady feeding lambs little changed:
good to CHOICE fat lambs bid 1000 and
down. now held 1923 and above; scattered
Ofncial estimated receipts tomorrow:
Cattle. 1000; hogs, 14,00O; sheep. 5000.
Evening star., 1936-02-17
New York Cotton

| By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 17-After
showing advances of 8 to II points
with late months relatively firm on the
progress of the farm legislation in
Washington. cotton reacted under
liquidation and scattered selling, fol-
lowing the break in the stock market
on the T. v. A. decision.
May sold off from 1897 to 1888,
but the pressure subsidized with the
mid-afternoon market steady and net
unchanged to points higher.
Liverpool Quotations.
LIVERPOOL. February II UP,.-Cotton,
] 900 bales. American nil; spot quiet; prices
points lower; quotations in pence:
American strict good middlings 6.ss: good
middling. 6.5S; strict middling 63S; mid
ding: 6.1s: strict low middling. Sol: low
middling, $40: strict good ordinary, 5.56;
good ordinary. 5.26 Futures closed quiet
and steady. March 5.92; May, 5.s3; July.
5.74: October. 5.51: December, SAY; JAM
uary. 5.47.
Evening star., 1936-02-17
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 17.-Weakness
characterized wheat markets today,
especially in the late dealings
Sympathy with downturns of secu-
rites after the Supreme Court T. v.
A. decision was responsible to a no.
ticeable degree. The maximum set
back was liz cents a bushel.
Wheat closed nervous, 1s-7s under
Saturdays finish, May. e73s-12; corn
unchanged to "a higher; May. 6l1a;
oats, ls-l4 off, and provisions un-
changed to Z cents down.
Evening star., 1936-02-17
VISIBLE GRAIN SUPPLY.

NEW YORK, February II R.-The
visible supply of American grain
shows the following changes in
bushels: Wheat decreased 1885, 900;
corn decreased 1!048,000; oats in
creased $4,000: rye decreased 20l 900:
barley decreased $4,000.
Evening star., 1936-02-17

Continued on Seventeenth Page0
Evening star., 1936-02-17
MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK. February II lP, (Noon).-
Prime commercial paper, three-fourths OF
/ per cent.
Foreign exchange irregular; demand
rates Great Britain in dollars, Others in
centsl: Great Britain, 49oh: France,
ada, 100.1S%.
Evening star., 1936-02-17

Pullman. Inc.-Subsidiary. Pullman
Standard Car Manufacturing Co., re-
ceived an order for 500 box cars from
Atchison, Topeka g. Santa Fe Rail-
Evening star., 1936-02-17

New York Air Brake Co. 1885 deficit
was $101. .667 VS.. net income Of s54, ,556.
Evening star., 1936-02-17
Chicago Cash Market.

Cash wheat, no sales reported; corn,
No. 5 mixed. 5614a5S; No. yellow,
5914a61 oats, No. white, SO; sample
grade, 25a28; no rye; barley actual
sales. 62a86; nominal feed, 30a45:
mating, 54aS6; timothy seed, 3.I5
hundredweight; clover seed, 12oOa
1875 hundredweight.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-03-18
The Colonial Council will meet

The Colonial Council will meet tomor.
row. Among the items to be discussed
is the Bill amending the holiday
ordinance. There seems to be general ap
provsl, if we may judge from the num-
Der of citizens who have approached us
with the request that we push for the
Sunday closing of business
The Bill provides for the closing of
groceries and stores on Sundays and it
provides for early closing of business on
Friday afternoons. 1t has been suggested
that, instead of closing at 2 O'Clock bust
ness houses close at II o'clock noon on
Thursdays. 1t has also been suggested
that the half holidays be for six months
instead of the whole year.
The Bill goes over to the second read
ing tomorrow, the first discussion having
been closed at the last meeting.
DR.. Canegata with whom the idea orr
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-03-18

It is rumored that bureau will be
established in Washington to handle the
affairs of the American colonies. 1t will
be an American colonial office
Dissatisfaction in the Virgin Islands and
an alleged attempt to overthrow the Gov
eminent of Puerto Rico have presumably
brought the New Dealers face to face with
the fact that fixed policy must be es
tablished in dealing with the people in the
United States island possessions. The men
at the head of such division of the
United States Government should have
the experience necessary and should al
ways bear in mind the cause that gave
rise to the secession of the United States
from Great Britain. The exercise of di-
plomaey and sympathetic regard for their
political aspirations will not always be the
remedy for dissatisfied people, but will
60 far in soothing their feeling.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-03-18

Ethiopian reports tell of the destruction
of air Abyssinian Red Cross unit through
Italian air raid
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has an
nounced that the Tripoli will be revived so
that it benefit the farmers in the same
manner as it formerly did. There will be
five regional directors.
Jafsie Condor returned to the United
States yesterday. Newspaper reporters
rushed to meet him. Jafsie lacked himself
in his room on the ship. He said he had
no comment to make on the Hauptmann
case.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-03-18
Baseball Notice

1t is requested hat all members and
persons who may be lnterestedlu playing
ball this year WIKI tn Ath et!c Club
should attend me-ringro be held at he
home OF Mr.. L. VIII fley on March n,
1885. The meeting will art at 7 80 pm.
sharp: Every one is as <ed TO BE- on lime
as noth'ng that has one been discussed
VIII be taken up twice d three times.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-03-18
St. Thomas New;
ST. THOMAS LOuKIN ) UP

The Bluebeard Castle Hotel has
been forced to turn awdv nearly aun-
dred persons this sea son. Ii mas been RIM
ming full house for some time with re-
servations made for several m1nths.
AT the Grand Hotel and otner places
prepared TO Accommodate s.raogers tos
conditions are similar. DISAPPOINTED VI
sltors who are unable to get suitable
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-03-18
"wednesday March 18th 1886
Random Notes

Austioneer Golden will today continue
the sale of articles belonging to the es-
tate of Mp Innis Behagen, late mer-
chant of Christiansted. There were two
previous sales and today will be the fl
nal SALE
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-03-18

ginated, said that the purpose back of the
Bill is t0>encourage the people to take
some time for recreation. Too much time
is spent in business places where the bust
ness itself neither warrants nor demands 1T.
Leaders In sports regards the half holiday
as the impetus that is needed to give sports
the place it should occupy in the life of the
community.
Those who do not take part in cricket,
baseball and football may go to the beach
and otherwise enjoy their half holiday.
There will be a game of football on
Parade Ground between the Sports A. G..
and the boys of the @ G G on Sunday
afternoon.
The arturo" sailed yesterday with
mail.
Germany announces that her troops will
stick to their station and that Germanys
occupation of the Rhine is Germany's bust
ness.
The fight in Abyssinia continues. En-
peror Halle Selassie has ordered the draft
ing of men who have served and returned
from the front.
There is some talk in the United States
States about banning the sale of United
States flags made in Japan. American
business is worried about the serious com
petition of Japanese merchandise
An important agency Of the New Deal
is recommending that the US. Government
cease to compete with private business.
Such competition is declared to be destruc
tive 1t is Suggested that. instead of going
into business the Government stick to the
functions of government and cooperate
with business to the fullest extent.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-03-18
Christiansted theatre
SIS Tomorrow THURSDAY Nigh 815
GLAND PATERSON, BECK, CANsINO
and
CHARLIE CHAN IN EGYPT

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An priest
Tomb
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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-03-18

There will be game of football on
Parade Ground between the Sports A. G.
and the boys of the G G G on Sunday
afternoon.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-03-18

The Arturo" sailed yesterday
mail.
Evening star., 1936-02-24
THAWiNG RAIN
WILL FREE RIVER
Warmer Weather Is Forecast, but
Little Flood Danger Is
Seen Here.

warmer weather and a thawing rain
were in sight today as the Potomac
above Washington lay locked under
heavy ice. This condition extends to
tributaries in basin partially covered
by snow.
No flood danger is anticipated here
however. unless several days of thaw-
ing weather serve to loosen the icy
deposits and precipitate them down.
stream in a general movement.
The current forecast is for cloudy
and probable occasional rains tonight
and tomorrow. Rising temperatures
with a low tonight of about so de-
grees. Moderate to fresh south and
southwest Winds"
The mercury today had risen above
freezing and gave promise of mount
ing well into the 40's under sunny
skies.
At Harpers Ferry this morning, at
the confluence of the Shenandoah
and Potomac, the ice held fast and
the river was at normal level fol-
lowing several days of sub-freezine
weather.
The ice was gradually softening
and clearing away in the lower Poto-
mac and on Chesapeake Bay. Both
have been virtually closed to naviga-
ton for weeks.
The Coast Guard cutters Seneca
and Saukee reported slow but steady
progress in breaking ice in the lower
Potomac.
In the channels bordering Wash
ington, from 10 inches to several feet
OF ice remains. Tugs towing gravel
barges have been the only craft able
to keep channel open.
The Coast Guard cutter Travis re-
ported that four boats out of Crs-
field. Nd. had been able to break
through the softening ice to Tangier
Island, OF the Eastern Shore of
Maryland. The island and its fishing
colony have been ice-bound for
weeks.
Evening star., 1936-02-24
FLOODS THREATEN
THIRTEEN STATES
7 Die in California, While
Warmer Weather MeIts
Nations Deep Shows.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 24.-Floods
threatened to take their annual toll
of lives and property damage in at
least 13 States today. ..
Seven persons were dead in Cali
fornia where streams inundated thou
sands Of acres. Two more were miss
ing on Government navigation light
tenders houseboat which disappeared
from the mouth of the Green River In
Indiana. They were George Pete and
his wife.
The iood-threatened States included
California, Idaho, Texas. Iowa. Ne
braska. South Dakota, Missouri. Illi.
nois, Indiana. Ohio. KentucEy, Michf-
gan and Pennsylvania.
Red Cross officials, the Coast Guard
and other governmental agencies as
sisted thousands of families in threat.
ened lowlands to move their live stock
and personal belongings to safer terri
tory.
A sharp rise in temperatures over q
wide area yesterday from Northern
Minnesota to New York and in the
South from California to Alabama
added to the flood dangers. Forecastel
c. A. Donnel of Chicago said today
would be even warmer.
Unusually heavy SHOWS and con.
tinued subfreezing temperatures gen.
orally in the Northern half of thu
Nation added to the flood menace.
Many cities stored explosives te
tSee Fl .OOD paoa Ain,
Evening star., 1936-02-24
TA[MADCE GUSTS
STATE Controller
Official removed for Refusal
to Sign Governors
Warrants.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, February 24-Gov. Eu-
gene Talmadge removed Controller
General William B. Harrison from
Office today. commissioning Adjt. Gen
Lindley Camp to serve the order, fol
Harrison's refusal to countersign war.
rants under the Talmadge dictator
ship" set up in the absence of 1886
appropriations act.
The Governors order suspended
Harrison until the 1887 session of the
State Legislature.
Adjt. Gen. Camp, who heads the
States National Guard. went to Harri-
sons Office and escorted him from his
post.
Camp was in civilian attire.
wants Some Soldiers"
Several National Guardsmen in
civilian clothes stood outside the door
as the adjutant general was closeted
with Harrison and remained there
after Harrison left.
Camp said that when he went in to
serve the suspension notice Harrison
told him II want some soldiers"
Camp said he answered, I'm some
soldiers"
The Governors order removing Har-
rison said:
1T appears from trustworthy in
formation that the controller general
of Georgia. William B. Harrison,
grossly neglects his duties and Is
guilty of conduct plainly violative of
his duties and demeans himself in
Office to the hazard of the public
funds and credit of the State"
The order placed G. B. Carreker.
chief clerk of the Department OF
Agriculture when Talmadge was agri-
cultural commissioner, In the once
of controller general.
Carrekers first act was to sign the
warrant of more than 100000 for the
States charity institutions, which
Harrison had refused to sign.
The warrant Immediately was trans.
mitted to Treasurer George B. Hamil-
ton. who placed it in an inside coat
pocket, with the announcement: i
am taking it under advisement."
Hamilton has said he would back
up the ousted controller general by
refusing to sign any warrants for 1886
revenue.
Gov. Talmadge actually took over
the financial dictatorship of the
State January because of the fall
ure of the 1885 Legislature to neact
an appropriations bill.
Evening star., 1936-02-24
LEWIS FIGHTS TRADE
PACT WITH FRANCE
Cor Any Other Nation Which
Cheats Us Out of War Debts"
He Says.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Lewis, Democrat, OF Illi-
nois, told the Senate today the United
States should decline to negotiate a
trade treaty with France or any other
nation (which deliberately cheats us
out of the billions they owe us on
the war debts"
Reading press accounts of French
efforts to negotiate an extension of
the Franco-American most-favored-
nation treaty and of a tri-partite
loan arrangement between Great
Britain. France and Rumania, Lewis
said:
Instead Of reciprocity, the hour
of retaliation Is at hand"
He said the United States should
announce policy whereby it would
decline to enter any commercial
treaties with any nations which rifle
our Treasury while lending to other
nations for profit or for war;
Evening star., 1936-02-24
HUNDREDS REPORTED KILLED

Adds ABABA. February "a LR.-
Ethiopian troops penetrated the
northern Italian line of communica-
ton between Makala and Aduwa,
government communique said today.
and killed hundreds of Italian and
native Eritrean soldiers.
The government announced today
that its troops had killed 4l2 Italians,
destroyed Is bomb depots and cap
tured 80 tanks in an engagement in
the region of Aksum.
The Ethiopian forces were COM
manded by Ras Imru. a cousin of
Emperor Halle Selassie, and governor
of Gojjam province. where a rebellion
recently was suppressed.
The fight was Ras Imru's first
engagement with the Italians.
A government communique said an
unspecified number of trucks and
(See WAR, Page 81
Evening star., 1936-02-24
SWANSON IS BETTER

The condition of Secretary Swanson,
who has been Ill of pleurisy and q
fractured rib, was reported today. to be
considerably better than it was two
days ago. sssh4
Capt. George G. Thomas; Naval
Hospital commandant, said the ~
year-old Navy chiefs improvement
Continues slowly" and that he Is
getting along Is we'll as anybody
could expect."
Evening star., 1936-02-24
"RAREST BEAR CUBS"
ARE BORN AT zoo
Quartet Produced by Crossmating
Of Brown and White
Animals.

Zoo officials today proudly an
nounced the birth of four of the
worlds rarest bear cubs, cross be-
tween a kodiak mother and a polar
bear father.
Headkeeper William H. Blackburne
learned the good news shortly after
the arrival of the cubs Friday. but
kept the secret lest undue attention
annoy the mother in her den.
The same cross-mating between the
brown and white bears produced two
cubs about this time last year, but
the tiny, silver-gray creatures lived
only few weeks.
Evening star., 1936-02-24
Child Health Can,D
Viii Be Relocated
At Bald Eagle Hill
Viii Replace Plant of
Tuberculosis Associa-
ton at Upshur Street.

Bald Eagle Hill. property OF the
National Capital Parks. was selected
today as the site for the new Children's
Health Camp to be constructed by
the Works Progress Administration
and operated by the District Tuber-
culosis Association.
Bald Eagle Hill is located immedi-
ately east of Blue Plains at the
District line in southeast Washington.
Selection Of the site was made
after several months Of search by
special committee created last Fall.
The committee was. composed of En-
gineer Commissioner Dan l. Sultan,
Arno B. Cammerer. of the National
(See HEALTH. Page l0)
Evening star., 1936-02-24
SOVIET ASKS TOXIC
FOR PEACE BODY
Proposes Commission to
Halt Mongo|ian Border
Clashes.
BY the Associated Press,

MOSCOW, February 24-A Soviet
suggestion that immediate steps be
taken to malt incidents on the borders
of Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia
confronted Japan today with a vir-
tual Russo-Mongolian joint stand
against any Japanese -Manchukuan
aggression.
Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs
B. S. Stomoniakoff proposed to Jap
anese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota. in
a week end conference, that a mixed
commission be appointed to study
means for preventing the clashes on
the Manchukuan Mongolian from
tiers.
While the japanese Ambassador
consulted the Toxic government by
wire concerning the suggestion. neu-
tral observers gave special attention
to Stomoniakoff' assertion that Soviet
relations with Outer Mongolia have
been ''unalterably friendly"
No Invasion Tolerated.
ANY AhtCA PICtCu CIllS dS all open
indication that Moscow would not
tolerate any invasion of the Far
Eastern buffer state, delivering an
advance answer to any question as to
whether Russia would intervene in
the event of an attack on Mongolia.
Ota, after receiving the suggestion
for an inquiry into Manchukuan :
Monaghan incidents. informed Sto-
moniakoff that the Japanese govern
ment could not accept a Soviet pro-
posal for inclusion of neutrals in a
mixed commission to investigate the
January 80 clash on the Soviet Far
Eastern and Manchukuan border.
The Soviet vice commissar agreed
that Russians would participate in a
commission consisting only of Japa-
nese, Russians and Manchukuans If
the Soviet delegation was equal to
the combined japanese and Manchu-
kuan delegations.
Ota also consulted his government
on this stand.
The government press followed up
the official declaration that the Far
Eastern situation was causing the
Soviet Union serious concern with
statements that the danger of war
was increasingly apparent"
Red Army Anniversary.
The statements were issued yester-
day in connection with the eighteenth
anniversary of the organization of
the Red Army, now force of 1,300,-
900 men, which the newspap pers as
serted was the Soviet answer to any
threats of war by Japan or Germany.
Gains by the proletarians in the
Japanese parliamentary elections were
said by the Soviet press to reflect a
growing dissatisfaction with the
japanese military adventures" on the
mainland.
The newspapers, however, stated
that further "provocatory raids" were
planned on Mongolian border posts,
basing their predictions on an accu-
sation that the japanese were con-
centrating troops near Lake Bpr on
the Mongolian frontier.
Marshal vasile Blucher. COM
mander of the Soviet Far Eastern
Army, issued statement in connec-
tion with the Red Army anniversary
calling on his Far Eastern troops to
be ready to spring to the defense
of Soviet frontiers on a minutes
notice.
Evening star., 1936-02-24
TRIO R0BS STORE,
FLEES WITH $35
Two Men and Woman Hold Up
Manager of Grocery
Firm,

Two colored men and a colored
woman held up the Sanitary Grocery
Store at 1916 North Capitol street
this afternoon and fed with $35 from
the safe, after hitting John Bittle. IS.
the manager, over the head with the
butt Of a sawed-off shotgun.
Bittle, who lives at 9l6 Ninth street
northeast, was taken to Sibley Hos
pital where his condition was said
to be not serious.
He was alone in the store at the
time,