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Evening star., 1937-07-04
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK July 3 GFN.-Due to Wall
Streets pre-Independence day holiday.
foreign exchange DEALINGS were virtually
nominal today and fluctuations were in
q narrow range.
The French franc moved upward .09i.
Of cent in light volume. while sterling
added Is of cent and the Swiss franc
dropped .02 of cent. Canadian dollars
closed LEA of a cent higher.
In London the dollar slipped "a cent to
end at 4,94n. to the pound
Closing rates follow: Foreign exchange
Great Britain in dollars. others in cents.
4.a4s.s: 6o-day bills. 493s... France. de-
mand, 3.S4s. cables, 3.s4sa. Italy, de-
mand $3.50; cables. 5261.
Dema nds-Beleium. 1854 Germany,
free. 40.11: registered, 1900 travel
$500. Holland. 5499; Norway 24S6:
Sweden 1850; Denmark %. .os; Finland
2.la: Switzerland 22.S5; Spain. un-
quoted Portusal: 4:5O; Greece. 81: Po-
land, 1925: Czechoslovakia, 3.4sA: Yugo-
Nava, 233: Austria, 1S.75n; Hungary
Iaso; Rqmania, -; Argentina. 3a 95n;
Brazil. s;s0An: Toxic, 1915: Shanghai,
80: Honskons. 3036; Mexico City
2 IS: Montreal in New York 99.s7i:
New York in Montreal, 1oo12t1.
r-Nominei.
Evening star., 1937-07-04
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO, July ? tP, tunited States
Department OF AericultureD Hogs 1000.
including ? 500 direct: Market nomnally
steady; one load to shippers, 1850: ship
pers took 300; estimated holdover 500;
compared week ago heavy butchers most
~ lN-4O higher: medium weights 1880
stgher; light weights and light lights most
y 1880 up: packing sows. 1920 higher;
Cattle, receipts zoo: calves. receipts
100; compared Friday last week: Two-way
5o-75 higher; closed active at advance;
grassy and warmed-np offerings. SOL 90
lower, mostly 80 down: excessive run
southwestern grass steers and grass cows
30 off; weiehty qualities grass cows and
EralnfedS. IS lower; all grass heifers. so
J 90 down, but erain-fed heifers mostly
30 higher, very scarce; vealers 25-bO low
fed steers, 1900: test long yearlines
1875; very active market at / 5 90 upward
especially SO at IA 90 upward but equally
es dull at 1870 down to 200 and below
lots to 1900. but light common grass heif-
ers as low as 500 stockers and feeders
$3.50 lower; supply mainly southwesterns
Sheep. receipts, 3.50o including 5000
directs. Compared Friday last week
Spring lambs. 75 to LOO lower, having
resalned small part Of early losses: GOOD
TO choice yearlinss unevenly 1915 lover;
lambs 1900: closing top, 90: bulk ma
tives to larger interests. II OO-l1 SO COM
mon Ia, ana medium throyouts: s.5O-l 90;
spfnsT sG"m to eh0ff pan pounds a4poahG 5dahG
1885 pound fed California Spring lambs
tUooledI; l0.50-1o o.s5: double 7a-pound
short,tsd 81 caIitornias. $50; weeks hes,
slaughter ewes 300-4.50.
Evening star., 1937-07-04
S. &. c. ISSUES REPORT
ON MEMBER DEALINGS

Bs the A'soci'ted Press.
The Securities Commission reported
transactions for their own accounts
Of members Of the New York Stock
Exchange totaled 1923 per cent OF
all dealings on the exchange in the
week ended June S.
Member trading included 57s per
cent in transactions initiated on the
floor of the exchange. 454 per cent
off the floor and s6S per cent by
specialists.
On the New York Curb Exchange.
member trading was 1915 per cent
Of all transactions.
The commission also said the weeks
volume on the stock exchange was
3.l46, 900 shares. or SIS per cent more
than shown on the ticker, and the
curb exchange volume Vas 777,s25
shares, or Sc per cent more than the
ticker reports.
Evening star., 1937-07-04
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

CHICAGO. July 3 P.-Butter. 157s7
No session today. Esgs. 11.11l. No ses-
sion.
No butter or egg futures, poultry or
cotton market today
Potatoes, 43: on track. 22e: total
United States shipments. r69: slightly
stronger: supplies moderate demand fair:
sacked per hundredveiEht: California
White, Rose; q. 9; No. !, 1.sO-sO: baker
sinia Cobblers. Norfolk section. q. s. No.
/. l.40: heated. Spotted sacks. 1.3O: q. 3.
No q .65-75; North Carolina Cobblers,
u 8. No. !. 1.35-40: Commercials 2O-3O;
U. 8. No. 2. -.65-7O: Missouri Cobblers q.
8. No: / and partly graded. 1:25-3O: un-
graded, 115.2o; Maryland Cobbiers. .. Q
U. 8. No. !. car. 1.75: Oklahoma Bliss
Triumphs. U. s. No l. badly decayed. 30:
Kansas Bliss Trlumphs. U. s. No. l.. .:5.
/. 2lO.
Evening star., 1937-07-04
DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED

NEW YORK July 2-DIvidends de-
elsred-prepared by the Standard Sta
tstics Corp.
Pc Stk Of Paw
Rate. rod record able
Automobile Finance --1Oc - IS 1-l5
Gibraltar Plre e.
Marine 1ns 2Oc - STA 81
Special.
Nicholson File 2Oc - 6-la IL
Initial.
Glooe Hoist CSC O us 80
sundstr Ma Tool 25c 1-I0 Ills
Resumed.
Col Foods Corps soc 6-I5 Sis
Accumulated.
Columbus Food
$3.50 cv Of $3.50 S-15 Sis
Passed.
First Nat Bk OF Wallinrford Conn.
ReruIar.
a:7..sS am ser1y . ss ,,2soee 2oe g s-l,a u
Folumb bus Foods
Edwards Mfg So $50 1-15
Gibraltar Fire Il
Marine Ins soc S-l4 q-1
Highl Dairy ~ pf Sl.75 @ 6-24 -
Nicholson Fire 30c @ S-19 IL
Valve Bag Co
6& pf S S1.5O @ 6-19 II
Evening star., 1937-07-04
NEW JERSEY CENTRAL
ASKS TIME EXTENSION
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press
The Central Railroad Of New Jersey
asked Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion authorities yesterday to extend the
time in which it may pledge 81 1,l74. 900
OF general mortgage per cent bonds
for loans or other purposes
The authority expired June 30, and
the road asked its extension to permit
sale or pledging Of the bonds III
necessary to meet fixed charges or
other corporate needs"
The application did not set any
specific date to which extension was
sought.
Evening star., 1937-07-04
DROUGHT KILLS WHEAT.

An official report from Ottawa.
Canada, said drought had ended hope
for . commercial wheat crop this sea-
son in Saskatchewan. Prospects were
reported still fairly good In Northern
and Southwestern Alberta, with the
outcome depending upon generous and
timely rains.
Evening star., 1937-07-04
SUGAR PRICES REMAIN
SLIGHTLY BELOW 1886
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July 8 Although
domestic sugar prices in the first six
months of 1887 ran slightly below a
year ago, quotations for sugars in the
world markets were appreciably high
er, Lamborn & Co. announced The
trasted with q gain of more than %
per cent in world prices on a fob.
Cuba basis.
Evening star., 1937-07-04

Spot steady; middlins. 12.4a.
Evening star., 1937-07-04

DFdend rates In the are The
- - .i' 'Ne-'' SeSr
s., Unit Of trading shares tAnnual rata
- nos hcuoihR e1trss a Psld last Paid
Z nj
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
WASHINGTON LEADS COUNTRY IN CONSTRUCTION VOLUME
Concrete Residence
Built i'm 8 Hours

BETHESDA, Md, Fek. 20.
While Federal Housing officials
and building engineers looked on,
Karl P. Billner, Swedish-born con.
crete expert, New York, made good
his boast yesterday and built q
house in less than eight hours.
with the aid Of 16 workmen and a
concrete vacuum-drying process Of
his own invention.
When the workmen knocked off
at 5 p. m, the five-room bungalow
on the northeast corner Of JET
ferson and Mckinley Streets, just
off the old Georgetown road-waS
roofless and a long way from being
habitable, but the foundation,
double concrete walls and parti-
tions were standing eight feet,
four inches above the ground.
covered with a coat Of spotleSS
white. What still remained to be
done, according to Mr.. Billner and
the building experts, was a mere
matter Of detail. The new process
has demonstrated its worth to the
apparent satisfaction Of all the
experts.
Frank L. Dyer, former general
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
REALTY FORUM
ANNOUNCED

Active and associate members
Of the Washington Real Estate
Board will be the audience at a
series Of lectures to be staged by
the organization beginning March
3, it has been announced by Nor
ris Cafritz, chairman Of the pro
gram committee. .
All Of the lectures, to be called
1.-THE Forum" will be given on
Wednesday evenings in the audi
torium of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce. The first
will be on "Appraising," by Joseph
A. Herbert, jr. Other speakers,
and their topics, will appear IN
the following order: Morton j.
Luchs, Selling Business and In
vestment Property; G. Calvert
Bowie, Financing Real Estate
Transactions; Francis A. Murray,
Property Management; J. Gar.
rett Bethel, Selling Houses; and
Edgar M. Mayne, Real Estate
Contracts and Titles"
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
N T W HEATERS
BURN TRASH

There are now available from
several manufacturers combina-
tion domestic hot-water heaters
and incinerators. These units pro-
vide a ready and convenient
method of garbage disposal, and
at the same time the dried refuse
becomes fuel and is utilized in the
heating of hot water.
The units are of cast iron and
utilize coal as the principal source
of fuel. 1t is important where this
type of hot-water heater is used to
install a well-insulated storage
tank of ample size and also an
automatic draft regulator which
will prevent too rapid burning Of
the fuel, as slow burning is eco
nomical and lengthens the time
between firings.
An inspection should be made of
the chimney to which the heater
is connected in order to be sure
that it is unobstructed and that
joints are tight.
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
WEAVER OPENS
APARTMENTS

Persons desiring q small but
comfortable apartment at a rea-
sonable rent will do well to in
spect the new apartment house
being erected by Weaver Bros,
Inc. at 1914 Massachusetts, Ave.
N. W.
Containing no less than 81 in
dividual apartments, ranging in
size from one room. kitchen and
bath to two rooms, dinette,
kitchen and bath. 1914 Massa-
chusetts Ave. will be ready for
occupancy on April /.
Every modern convenience has
been installed in the eight-story
building, which will be managed
by Weaver Bros, with offices in
the Washington Building.
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
FOR RECL0SURES
DECREASE

Mortgage foreclosures in the
year 1886 were lower than for
any 12.month since 1880, the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank Board an
nounced yesterday on the basis
Of its annual average index.
The indiceS, calibrated on 1925
as 100 per cent, give 274 for 1886
and 235 for 1880. The mean fig
ure of 366 for 1885 compares
with 370 for 1894, 395 for 1888,
1872 for 1882, and 800 for 1881.
On a monthly basis, the index
increased from 23E in November
to 268 in December, 1886, but
foreclosures last December were
IL per ent lower than those in
the corresponding 1885 month.
The rise in the December, 1896,
foreclosure index over that Of No
vember, was attributed to sharp
increases in the large cities of
New England, New York, New
Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Else
where in the country, December
foreclosures were practically the
same as in November.
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
Lack RefriSeratO1'S
hl2.OOO.OOO Homes

and comfort that flow from the
possession Of q satisfactory re-
frigeratOr."
'It is a curious thing that the
family that would be ashamed to
own an automobile five years old
still clings to a refrigerator more
than 10 years old, and appears to
be satisfied to do without the i'm
provements and conveniences that
have been added since the original
refrigerator was bought.
"JuSt as the automobile industry
developed a technique Of manu-
facture and sale that brought the
advantage of mechanical transpor-
tation to the great majority of
Americans, so I believe it is pos
sible for those interested in elec-
trical consumption and electrical
appliances to develop correspond
ing techniques to carry the ad-
vantages of mechanical refrigera-
tion to the great mass of American
homes"
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
CARM0DY HILLS
LOTS SOLD

New home construction in Car.
mody Hills, the subdivision devel-
oped by the o. B. Zantzinger Com
pany, has climbed to its highest
point since the recent street inn
provements by the Prince Georges
county authorities and the laying
of water lines by the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission.
More building activity has been
reflected in the past few months
in Carmody Hills than has been
the case in the several years Of
the Subdivisions existence, it was
reported by Franklin D. Zant.
Finger, in charge of sales for the
developer. The largest recent sale
included "a lots, purchased by F.
L. Watkins, Seat Pleasant MD.
banker, who will erect six five.
room dwellings on the land.
The Washington times., 1937-02-20

, counsel for the late Thomas A.
Edison, went so far as to say:
This process perfected by
Mr.. Billner, Is the greatest ad-
vance in concrete work and
building construction in the past
40 years."
The process itself is simple. BY
means Of a motor-operated vacuum
pump, mounted on a truck and
connected with the concrete molds
Of the house by a labyrinth Of rub
Der hose, like some giant octopus,
an atmospheric pressure Of 1,500
pounds to the square foot is ex-
erted on the freshly poured con-
crete.
The pressure forces out Of the
mixture the surplus water-esti.
mated at one-half the amount
originally added-forcing the ce-
ment to return rapidly to its orig.
inal rock-like formation. It is
claimed by Billner that the quick
hardening process, together with
the pressure exerted while the
concrete is still in q plastic state,
produces a stronger and more com.
pact mass.
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
80 Per Cent Rise
In BuiIdinq Seen

The Architectural Forums fore
cast for building in 1887 estimates
that building will increase dur
ing the year 80 per cent. Resi-
Dental building, which involves
the largest budget of all classes
for the year, the magazine eSti-
mates, will advance 40 per cent.
This estimate is in accord with
that recently made by Federal
Housing Administrator Stewart
Mcdonald. Forum predicts that
in 1887 approximately $1,250, ,000.-
900 will be spent for new homes.
The Washington times., 1937-02-20

NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb. 20.
Decrying the DOGGY Of Saturation"
in the electric refrigeration indus
try, Marvin S. Bandoli, domestic
sales manager of the Kelvinator
Corporation, pointed out today
that only 100000 of America S
21,887, 900 homes wired for elec.
tricity are actually equipped with
electric refrigeration, in an ad.
dress before public utilities execu-
tiveS and electric appliance deal
erS and distributors here.
He declared:
'When we reflect that there
are $4,000, 900 automobiles regis
tered in the United States, as
compared with 100000 refrige-
ratOrS, 1t is apparent that there
still exists an imposing list of
prospects for refrigerator sales.
The great field for expansion
lies in the homes Of the more
modest income groups not yet
aware Of the dividends Of health
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
Telephone Niche

In almost every house there Is
some place under a stair or off
the coat closet or beside chin
ney where a telephone niche can
be installed. Below this niche
there may be a space with per-
pendicular divisions for telephone
books. Somewhere in a convenient
spot in the niche should be a pad
and pencil for memoranda. -
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
Luchs Named Chairman

Morton J. Luchs, first vice presi-
dent Of the Washington Real Es-
tate Board, has been named chair
man Of the conference committee
for the local delegation to the
First Regional Conference Of the
Central Atlantic Area of the Ma
tional Association Of Real Estate
Boards. The sessions, during which
the directors Of the national body
will hold their quarterly meeting,
are scheduled for May IA and is
in the Hotel Biltmore, New York
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
BUILDING HERE
FARAHEAD0F
BALTIMORE
Nation 90 Per Cent
Behind 1929; D. c.
13 Per Cent

According to the dollar volume
construction index number in the
February issue Of the Washington
Business Review, total construction
in Washington last year was only
13 per cent below the base year
1929, while throughout the United
States it still is about so per cent
below normal.
The Review, which is published
by Rufus S. LuSk, declares:
''WhiIe at the present time our
residential construction is run
ming about IS per cent more than
in 1929, in the neighboring city
of Baltimore during 1886 house
building was only a third Of
what it was in 1929. A cOmpari-
son of construction in the two
cities in percentages, which is
about the only way it can be
done, and leaving out the fact
that Baltimore is a much larger
city, shows that residential build
ing is almost six times greater in
in the Capital than in the Monu.
mental City. The peak, or per-
haps plateau, is a better word, is
here; 40 miles away residential
building is still in the valley.
VOLUME VACILLATES
The following table shows the
total volume of construction in
Washington from 1920 through
January, 1897, together with the
index number for each year and
for months from January, 1886, to
January, 1887.
Total Dollar Volume Of Construction
Washington, D. C.
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
English Style Home
Read y For Buyer

has been installed, especially in
the up-to-date kitchen. The house
will sell for $11,65O, and the price
includes the lot measuring As by
120 feet.
Homeland, a tract of so acres,
can be reached by going up Wis
conSin Avenue to the 4400 block
and then turning left. Brandywine
Street is only two blocks frSll
Wisconsin Avenue.
The Washington times., 1937-02-20
Building Cabinet

If a kitchen cabinet is to be in
stalled over a mechanical refrig.
orator, it must be hung so that
there is at least six inches OF
space between the top of the re-
frigerator and the bottom of the
cabinet. This is to allow the
heated air from the refrigerator
to escape.
The Washington times., 1937-02-20

Another new residence in Homo
land, the Cafritz Company de-
velopment near American Univer-
sity Park, has been placed on the
market. It is located at 4530
Brandywine st. N. w.
Built in stone and brick in an
adaptation of English STYLE" the
house contains seven rooms and
two baths. Heat is provided by
oil and every modern convenience
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-11-18
THE NOME DAILY NUGGET NOME, ALASKA

We got out to a point where the ice was crumbling. l knew there was nothing to do but get on a big piece of ice and hope it went out in open water. We oated that way for four days and nights. And then steam whaler, the Thrasher, found us, and took us back to Barrow"
 The same year Brewer, who has saved the lives of countless other men gave the crews of seven other whalers-about 300 men-food and lodging for year when the vessels were crushed or caught in the ice packs.
 He has earned his title-King of the Arctic
 He has too many memories and too many ties-he cannot abdi- cate.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-11-18

eight days and most of eight nights, and sixteen of the men died. Their shoes came off, and their clothes tore. We had noth- ing to eat but pieces of ice. Twice l shot seals, but they both sank before we could get to them One man committed suicide. Others went insane. Others couldn't go any further, and we had to leave them behind. We had all agreed that there was no chance for any of us unless we kept walking and everybody knew that man who went down was gone.
 We Left Him
 One big fellow, who had been a blacksmith in Minnesota, stay ed on his feet almost to the end. His shoes came off, and his knees were out to the bone from fall ing, and he left a trail of blood. God, he was game! But finally he couldn't walk any farther. We left him.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-11-18

How Father Knick erbocker looked to the American Leg ion Convention, as
 more than 5W,00C veterans of the Wor Id war marched in their five day meet ing. Down 5th Av- enue where they marched 20 years ago on their way to war, the veterans paraded again in a procession lasting lo hours. Music from 500 bands echoed through the sky scraper canyons. It was the biggest con ventlon the Ameri- can Legion ever held said Command CT Colnlery. A new national command CT was elected to take the place Col mery stepped down from.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-11-18
CHAS. BROWER NOT ABDICATE
 PIT. BARROW
ALASKA HAS A KING WHO WILL NEVER ABDICATE, TOO MANY TIES KEEP BROWER IN ALASKA

SEATTLE, They've been say ing for weeks that Charlie Brow CT of Point Barrow, the White Kig of the Arctic, was going to abdicate.
 An airplane pilot told some body up in the endless wilder ness of the North and somebody else heard, and soon the word filtered out to the coastwise ships along the jagged Alaskan shore.
 They said the man who has lived on the roof of the world so long he has become an almost legendary figure; the man who has been trader and whaler, re- presentative of the law, and bear CT of the white mans burden" north of Wainwright for fifty three years, was going to come outside to live the rest of his days at Santa Monica or Pasadena
 They Ddn't Tell Charlie
 But they didn't tell Charlie Brewer about it He didn't hear until recently when the steam ship Yukon tied up at Pier 2. He thought about it while he rode uptown. with the rattle and clat- ter of civilization in his ears, to the Frye Hotel And then he de- cided the rumors were wrong.
 He sat on bed in his room, white-haired, chunky man with the edges of the long woolen un- derWear they wear in the North peeping out at the edges of his cuffs, and rubbed hsi face with a square, muscular hand, and squinted at the ceiling
 What the hell do l want to retire for?" he asked himself. I'm 76 years old, all right. But don't feel it-though a doctor told me to take taXis when l was in hurry to go up hills. don't think I look it. I'll stay outside the winter. Maybe I'll stay out side longer. But I'll be going back to Barrow. That's my home. I'm not old enough yet to like civil ization, for longer than a few minutes at time l left New York to get away from 1t when I was a kid and I still feel the same way
 The urge to move on has made his life story read like fiction; has brought him adventure and brushes with death, and fame and has won him fortunes and lost them for him.
 Sailor at Age 17
 When he was l7 years old Brewer was sailor on a ship moving down the coast of South America. He was in Australia at IT. He was fleeing South Ameri- ca at 19 to keep from being press ed into the Chilean navy for ser vice in a war with Peru. He was in San Francisco a little later, trying out the business of being a newspaper reporter.
 In 1883, while collecting news for The San Francisco Call, he heard of an expedition to Point Barrow. Steam whalers going in to the Arctic needed coal and the party was bound north to the top of the world to look for it in frozen ground. Brewer went al- ong. He came outside after year, collected an outfit, and went back to establish whaling sta ton. He's been there ever since.
 Survived Journey
 In the autumn of 1897 he lived through one of the most terri ble journeys men have endured in the Arctic.
 The steam whaler Narach was partly crushed in the foes off Icy Cape, and drifted north with the ice pack. Brewer was aboard When she was near Point Barr ow the crew, with Brewer ab- andoned her, and started drag ging the ships boats over the ice
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-11-18

toward open water. The boats were battered to pieces and the crew was forced to return to the derelict.
 Brewer shot five polar bears, built a canoe and covered if with their hides, fur side out. With thirty-two men he started again across the ice. The captain of the vessel promised to follow with the skin boat. He did not. At nightfall Brewer and his band, without the boat, were cut off from retreat by an open lead. The pack was drifting north, and Brewer and the men began to walk to stay near open water in the hope that ship would pick them up,
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-11-18
Clothes Unfit

He talked about it yesterday:
 The men didn't have clothes fit for the Arctic-just old things out of the ships slop-chest, and the cold got them. We walked for