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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-09-17
CARRIERS REPORT
DROP IN INCOMES
Pennsy Shows July and 7
Months Nets Well Below
1886 Periods.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, September l7.-virtu-
ally all major railroads reporting July
net income yesterday showed decreases
under the corresponding 1886 figures,
and, in most cases, seven months in
come figures likewise were under those
for the same period last year.
They included the Pennsylvania
Railroad which showed for the seven
months net income after taxes and
charges of $500, 1886, equal to 81 20 a
share on the capital stock, compared
with $16,359,142, or s124 share, in
1886. July net was placed at s3,119.-
637, against s4,084.428 year ago.
Southern Pacific Co. had a seven
months net of $559,784 or IS cents
share, compared with s1,320.977. or
IS cents a share, in 1886. For July
net was s722,832, against S1,207. 065 in
1896.
Southern Railway reported a seven
months net of s1,573.179, or s2.62
share on the per cent non-cumula-
tive preferred stock, compared with
S446, 744, or "a cents a share. in 1896
July net loss was placed at S149.O29.
against net income in July, 1886, of
S400,641.
Union Pacific Railroad systems net
for the seven months was S3.439. 1856.
or so cents a share, compared with
S4,339, 295, or 81 cents a share last
year. July net was S1,247,266 against
1892, 776.
Others to report included:
Chicago g. N. W:
seven months
net loss 800 S10.063,529 S9,7SS, 534
July net loss 1,625,196 695.S5S
Illinois Central:
seven months
net loss - 2,0l2.611 2,073.642
july net loss 393,123 5lO44
Reading Co.:
Seven months
net loss 459I,5sO 34o7 goo
July net income 463,73S 462' %
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Apollo Steel Co.-Common share
earnings, six months ended June &c.
were Gill.
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ww--With warrants
xv--Without warrants.
New. st fstp)-Stamped.
tNeeotisbility impaired by maturity
accompanies reported in receiyersfip.
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Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. TO- $40 pm. yesterday Year
ago, 80.
Lowest. SO. am today. Year ago, SIS
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest 81. on August 90
Lowest. 10. on February g.
Humidity for Last "A Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. 100 per cent at am. today.
Lowest 20 per cent. at noon yesterday
Tide Tables.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-09-17
CONSTRUCTION AWARDS
LAG BEHIND YEAR GO

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 1.-THE
Engineering News-Record reported a
total of s47,347 900 in engineering con-
struction awards for the week ended
September IA.
This is a decrease of is Der cent
from the corresponding week of 1886,
but gain over the previous week,
short week due to the Labor day holi-
day. The awards compare as fol-
lows
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-09-17

aAI6o extra or extras.
gDeclared or paid so far this year.
The Washington times., 1937-02-18

Made from sturdy cellulose fibre
that wears remarkably we'll and looks
a lot like cloth. SO inches wide and
feet long.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
RRAWLEY AND CALEXICO CAGE
SQUADS PREP FOR CRUCIAL
VALLEY LEAGUE GAME FRIDAY

Brawley and Calexico basketball teams today began
workouts for what is expected to be the most bitterly
contested cage game of the season Friday night the
Brawey gymnasium.
A win for the Calexico team will give the Bulldogs
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
PONIES LINE
UP FOR SANTA
ANITA ADDED

SANTA ANITA PARK, Arcadia,
Cal. Feb. %. WP)-A record field
of % priced 3-year-olds parade to
the post late today for the third
running of the $5O,Oo0 added Santa
Anita derby.
A capacity crowd of 10000 was
expected to jampack the green
Stucco racing plant for what will
be an acid test for many hopefuls
who will go on III the more historic,
but less lucrative, Kentucky derby
less than three months hence.
With Case Ace, the future book
favorite, scratched, the field lacked
a single candidate that could be
regarded as an outstanding favorite
Case Ace was declared Saturday
because of a shoulder injury.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
TODAYS-
Sports Parade
BY HENRY McLEMORE

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Feb. %,
WPp-It seems downright incredible
that time marches on SO swiftly,
that tempus fugits as fugitively as
it does, but it must because here
it is 205 years after George Wash
ington's birth. and less than a
month from the time when the
successor to Ty Cobb and Babe
Ruth will be discovered once again.
Why, it doesn't seem day more
than 200 years since Washington,
who was the greatgrandson of Col
onel John Washington 1634-l6 i.
who came from Yorkshire, Eng,
in case you don't know, was Justify
delivered at Mount Vernon, then
called Hunting Creek.
And it certainly doesn't seem any
where near year since the last
baseball spring training season. and
the reports that the Athletics or
the Giants or the Tigers Or the
Red Sox Il forget which, had un-
covered red-faced rookie from
what Cheer, Ia, or Social Circle,
Ga. or Santa Claus. N. c., Il forget
which, who could run and field
like Cobb and hit like Ruth.
AS a matter OF fact I have even
forgotten the name Of the red-faced
rookie, but I am sure there was
one. There always is Death and
taxes must run second and third
in the certainty sweepstakes to the
fact that every baseball training
season will produce super-super
rookie who has the speed of Mer-
curry, the power of Thor mot Harry
X, and the lightning reactions of
Willie Keeler, the old Oriole or
thrush who could hit en- where
they aint"
Right now. swinging along with
baseball hired hands as they move
south. is the unknown rookie who
will achieve immortality, if only
or week He may be on the
bound boat with the
Giants, hanging out the port hole
With galloping NAL de mer; he may
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22

be iii a bus crampled legs curled
atop his wicker suitcase, en- route
to the Cardinals here; Or he may
be-he may be anywhere.
Speaking of being able TO 20 left
or right, it always had amazed
me that baseball authorities lay
such stress on chaps ability 10
move in both directions. Frankly,
never have known anyone who
wasn't able to navigate in such a
manner. Take me, for example.
No one has ever singled me out
as remarkable person. yet for as
long as I can remember l have
been capable of turning right or
left or even completely around, at
will I have my mothers word
for 1t that since I was two years
of age, when I was vaccinated on
my left arm, I have been able to
gee and haW with the astuteness
of even the most astute mule. And,
confidentially, there have been times
when I not only could move to the
right and left, but in circles. Large,
looping concentric circles.
He will be hot as depot stove
for a week or two and then, just
when he is planning to go to
CooperstoWn to pick out the spot
he would like to have his bronze
bust placed among the immortals,
something inside of him will snap
and, overnight, he will become
three-eye league all over.
The critics, amazed and sadden-
ed that this would have happened
TO them for the ump-teenth con-
secutive year, will return to their
stud poker. And the rookie, his
mis-mated feet aching wearily, will
return to tell mama and papa and
grandpappy df his ear trumpet is
in working ORDER how he just
couldn't bear to leave the farm,
even for fifty thousand a year.
Grandpappy (ear trumpet or no
ear trumpet will say.
"Eh!'
And that will end the matter
until 1888.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
Hardin Young Nabs
First at Speedway
CHAMP DEFENDS
RACEHONORSIN
MIDGET EVENTS

Hardin Young's cupboard
midget .speedster roared in
to the lead on the first lap
of the main event Sunday
afternoon, and literally ran
away with the race against one
of the fastest fields ever assembled
at the Ell Centre speedway.
Young, who also won the trophy
dash and first qualifying heat
demonstrated the same speed and
daring which made him champion
Of the valley last season and def
initely tabbed himself as an out
standing contender for the title
this season.
Hobe Herrick. runnerup in last
years races, grabbed second place
in the main event and Frank Het-
eel took third.
Salmen. one of the pre-race ia
vorites, experienced more than his
share of bad luck.
While driving No. 8 in quail
flying heat Salmen turned over
Then driving No 18. and headed
for certain second place IN the
main event, he was forced out of
the race by an auto driven by c.
Napier.
Young. Salmen. Swarthout. Man
tell and Davis grabbed first spots
in qualifying races.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
Coca Cola
Wins, Loses
At Yuma

Coca Cola baseball team invaded
Yuma Sunday afternoon and re-
turned with a record of one vic
tory and one loss.
The Bottlers walloped The Nc
Daniels Packers in the first game
9-5 but dropped a 6-5 decision to
the Yuma Valley All Stars IN the
nightcap.
Bob Elliott. who has been hitting
the baseball at a furious clip all
season. climaxed the winter ses-
Sions Sunday with seven hits in
eight times at bat in the two
games. Bob poled out three hon.
ers, two triples and two doubles in
an exhibition of hitting that over
shadows anything witnessed on the
Yuma diamond.
Two of his home runs scored
over a row of trees in left field
that group of major leaguerS
strained their backs in a futile
effort to clear last year.
Jimmy Ridge pitched brilliant
ball to lead the Yuma All Stars to
their victory but it was two errors
in the seventh inning which paved
the way for the Yuma win.
The Coca Colans had the ball
game iced when the two errors al
lowed four runs to cross the plate
The Score
Coca Cola 200 023 % Is 2
Packers 022 900 Is 9 ,
Harris and Price; Thomas and
Scale.
Second Game Score
Coca Cola 120 0l0 10O-5 7 2
Yuma 100 0l0 40x-6 2
Pilip and Farewell; Ridge and
Price.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
WINTER TRACK
NEARS CLIMAX

NEW YORK, Feb. %. U,P)-The
winter track and field season ap-
preached its grand climax today
with amateur athletic union Off
cials boasting the greatest array
of board track jockeys ever assem-
bled for the national A.A.U. in
door championship in Madison
Square Garden Saturday night.
With four world records already
established in the earlier indoor
invitationals. prospects were bright
for the breaking of half dozen
more new marks. The national
champions prepared to defend Their
individual titles.
i7he blue-ribbon entry lists in
cludes % Olympic athletes from
five nations, four of them cham
pions. Thirty holders of indoor
and outdoor world records are
among those to compete.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
7 q
Club Meets
]. {. Toniite

Olsens Terrible Swedes, premier
transforming team of the United
States, will meet Central junior
colleges Arabs tonight at o'clock
in the Ell Centre gymnasium.
The Swedes, who are slated TO
meet Brawley Oilers at 7:30 in the
Brawley gymnasium tonight, will
present one of the finest aggrega-
tions ever seen in the valley.
Expert passing, fancy dribbling
and shooting and brilliant floor
work are merely part of the rou-
tine for the Swedes. and they DEM
onstrate a list of trick plays and
formations that will overshadow
anything shown on valley court
Coach Taylor announced he would
start his regulars in the first quarter
but planned TO Use every available
player
The high school varsity will meet
the J. c. reserves i'll preliminary
game starting at 7:30
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
IS Qualify
For Valley
Golf Meet
{ Continued from Page u

{ Continued from Page u
Is when he hooked his second into
the trees and took six. jenkins
played with Les Rogers. Barney
Burke, and Dick Lott.
Laddie Willoughby of Calexico.
out for a practice round. shot a rs.
Sunday qualifiers and scores.
73-Logan Jenkins
79--John DePauli
a2-Dr. w. A Clarke
Bred Hensler
S5-Harold Engle
86-A. II. Mcclure
87-Jerry Fox, Noland Smith.
Virgil Sims
s8-Paul Pace. Bill Apple
8e-F. w. Manley
90-Percy Thacker. Ray Edwards.
w. r. Sprecken. Walter Walsh
s1-Judge McPherrin
92-Jack Donohue. Howard Jones
Jim Stone
&C. C. Smith, Frank Fernan-
dez
96-J. w. Noonan
CIV. L. Huebner. A. c. Yaeckel
Jim Carson, Norman Deaton
s8-Jerry England, Dave Roberts
99-Ronald Swerdfeeer. John
Tyler, Ben Ryan, Allen Nuffer
100-Glen Smith
10l-Harry Forman, Louis Moore
107-J. P. Carter
108-Peter Yugoyen
l09-W Wallace, DR.. George
Holleran
113-J. B. Concelmo
116-Herb Anderson
1l9-Stanley Russell
l20-Louis DeVita
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22

a tie for first place in the league
standings and a chance to win
the valley championship.
A victory in the Brawley column,
however, will clinch the title for
the Wildcats and leave only Sec
ond spot for the Calexicans.
Brawley high Eighties, who have
already clinched the title i'll their
division. are expected 10 make the
Calexico midgets their 26th straight
victim.
Ell Centro, battling desperately
10 maintain their third place posi-
ton. will battle comparatively
strong Holtville quintet.
Calipatria will have bye this
week as the Imperial varsity cage
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
Lenglet to Meet
Preacher Fighter

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. %. {UP)
Fight experts today saw anotrer
tossup in the third meeting OF
Andre Lenglet and Phil Brubaker,
heavyweights, tonight at Dream
land auditorium. with both fight
ers reported in peak condition.
Betting was even despite Len
glet'S third round knockout victory
in the last clash of the pair. Bet
tors remembered Brubakers strong
finish that earned him a draw
in his first tangle with Lenglet
and they reckoned in Lenglet's
defeat by Sonny Boy Walker 10
arrive at the decision that any,
thing might happen In tonight's
bout.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
PLAYOFF TO
DECIDE GOLF
MEET WINNER

TOWNSVILLE Ga, Feb. %. UP)
Ed Dudley of Augusta, Ga, and
Dick Metz. young Chicago pro, met
today in a 16-hole playoff to decide
the winner of the $4,000 ThomasYille
open tournament.
Cracking par by four strokes over
the watersoaked Glenn Arven course,
both Dudley and Metz posted cards
of 284 for the 70 holes OF medal
play to tie for the 500 first prize
money.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
FRED PERRY
WHIPS VINES

OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. %. up
Fred Perry. outstanding, English
professional tennis player. last
night defeated Ellsworth Vim S
two out of three sets with scores
OF 8-6,3 6,and61
This was the 22nd match be-
tween them and the score now
stands II TO II. Perry defeated
Vines in two out of three sets in
San Francisco Saturday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22

Write to F. S. Tooker, Union
Stock Yards, South San Francisco,
for premium list of the coming
Interstate Junior Livestock Show.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
SHORTY HOGUE
TO MEET KOCH
IN S. ID. TONITE

Shorty Hogue, popular Jacunba
amateur fighter, will battle Fred
Koch of the u. S. Navy at the San
Diego Coliseum tonight in the semi
windup.
Hogue walloped Koch Ill a pre-
vious meeting two weeks ago and
is heavily favored 10 make it two
In row tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
BALL CLUB SOLD

SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. 22. WD-
The Seattle baseball club of the
Pacific Coast league today was in
control of William II. Klepper who
purchased a block OF stock from
George Vanderveer.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-22
FIELD OF %

SANTA ANITA, Cal, Feb. %. W,P)
As more than a score of speedy
colts and fillieS were getting their
final going over for the $4,000
Santa Anita derby today. a last
minute scratch cut the list which
will face the starter to %.
Evening star., 1937-05-13

ease be pulled from the stem, whereas
the sedges have solid stems, that are
as a rule slightly triangular. near the
top. The leaf sheath is in one piece
about the stem and is not split down.
You will find the sedges seeking
the more moist spots. The grasses
do not need so much moisture. Make
the simple test for yourself. It Is
then more pleasure each time you
visit these spots, to see how many
Of the lovely sedges and grasses you
can recognize.
The cotton grass, in fruit. makes a
very delightful Summer bouquet when
arranged with brightly colored flowers.
The service rendered by the cotton
grass and her family may seem quite
small, until you realize they grow in
such vast numbers, and in numbers
there Is strength. Their root system
helps to hold the soil, and their
leaves, dropping In late Autumn, help
Evening star., 1937-05-13

danger, merely stretching up their
necks and opening their mouths for
more food
Now, those babies were in no danger
from Farmer Browns Boy. OF course,
not. Not for the world would he have
hurt them. But Teeter's four babies in
the other nest were in danger. They
were in danger of being stepped on, for
he had not seen them. What did
Teeter. do? He gave a little signal.
And what did the four baby Teeters
do? They left that nest as fast as
their tiny legs could take them. They
ran in four directions a short distance.
and then each squatted down among
the small stones and pebbles, and be-
cause of the color Of its downy coat
and the fact that it kept perfectly still
looked like part of its surroundings.
And remember that those babies were
only day old.
Meanwhile Teeter was Hopping and
tumbling along the ground and drag
ging a wing as If badly hurt. He did
it very cleverly, very cleverly, indeed.
But 1t was a mistake. Yes, sir, it was
a mistake. Farmer Browns Boy saw
him and knew just what it meant.
So said he, you have a nest around
here. too." At once he began to look
for it. He was looking for the eggs for
he knew how little there was to look
for in the way of a nest. In a few
minutes Teeter, satisfied that the
babies were safely hidden, stopped pre-
tending to be hurt and few away.
What a difference there was between
those two sets of babies!
CCopyright 1887
Evening star., 1937-05-13
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Babies differ, but, you know.
It is well that 1t is SO.
Old Mother Nature.

ER. AND MRS. LITTLE
M FRIEND, the song spa1rows,
W. were busy people. They had
4 i their hands full most Of the
time. I should say, rather, their bills
full -Four babies eating more than
their own weight every day left little
time for anything but hunting for
food. Such helpless babies as these
we're! They could do nothing but
stretch up their necks, open their
mouths and gulp down whatever was
thrust into them. They did nothing
but eat and sleep. To their parents it
seemed sometimes that they did moth
ing but eat. Even when they were we'll
feathered out and had begun to have
real wings they were helpless and re-
quired more Of father and mother than
when they were tiny, for they needed
more to eat. BY the time the fourth
mouth had been filled the first one was
open for more.
Their nearest neighbors were Tee
ter the Sandpiper and his children.
No. Mrs. Teeter. wasn't there What
had happened to her? Nothing. She
had quit being mother, that was all.
She had quit being mother before
she really was one. She had gone
gaddlng about as soon as she had fin
lshed laying the eggs, leaving the en-
tire care of these, and later of the
babies, to father. Little Friend
thought, and declared, this was scan-
dalous
Having them for such near neigh
bors, the nests being but a few inches
apart, Mrs. Little Friend could hardly
help noticing Teeter's babies They
were three days younger than her
own, yet were running about, While
her own were still helpless and only
beginning to show feathers. In fact
those Sandpiper babies were back and
forth, in and out of the nest the very
day they were Matched.
"1t-it-it just isn't decent for babies
just out of the shell to be so strong
and forward" protested Mrs. Little
Friend to her hard-working mate
Babies are supposed to be helpless"
TT is a good thing for Teeter that
his are not" replied Little Friend.
Later that day who should come
that way but Farmer Browns Boy.
He knew nothing about those nests
and the two little families He came
walking straight toward them. The
Little Friends at once set up anxious,
rather frantic, chirping, which he at
once understood.
80" said he. you have nest
around here. thought it likely when
saw you"
Farmer Browns Boy at once began
Evening star., 1937-05-13
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.

BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.
IF YOU are familiar with spagnum
bogs you will have noticed the
beautiful ornamental cotton grass
4 50 called, but In reality a sedge.
It loves the cold, mossy bogs. At
night they are ghostly looking as
their white or gray plumes show up
against the blackness.
Cotton grass is common in these
damp places from Newfoundland to
Alaska. south to assachusetts, Penn
sylvania and Wisconsin. They flower
In early Spring. later in the North.
The lovely plumy heads show at their
best in June and July.
There are 5000 species of the sedges
and grasses. They rank low among
plants and are the simplest of flower
ing plants" They really do not have
flowers as we know them, for they
do not possess petals or sepals but
there are indeed very few stamens
and pistil. Those are closely hid
den under dry, overlapping scales.
called "glumes"
AAA~S'S oAAAoAA AAOWC1o d1C w 1Uullu
at the tip Of a stem 10 to 20 inches
in height. When the seeds are ripe,
the soft white bristles are very lovely,
and wave gently to and fro with the
breeze. Over a bog with thousands
Of these grasses in bloom, from a
distance they make the place appear
as If clothed in a fleecy cloud or mist.
So many nature lovers have asked,
What is the difference between a
grass and sedge?" They look Sc
much alike to the student, for both
have jointed stems. The long, slender
leaves have sheathing bases and their
flowers are inclosed in chaffy scales
There is a very decided difference
when you examine them.
Take the grasses first. The stems
are usually round and nearly always
hollow. The sheath Of the leaf is
split down on one side and can with
Evening star., 1937-05-13
Amend Pension Law.

Amendment of the law providing
pensions for widows and orphans Of
the Irish Free State will enable the
Dublin government to enlarge the
scope Of its benefits. A years expert
ence with the measure revealed the
need of aiding many who did not
come under the provisions Of the
insurance feature. The law applied
to the widows and orphans Of wage
earners who made the necessary con-
tributions. The new act will provide
pensions for widows and orphans
whose husbands or parents were al
ready dead when the contributory
system began. 1t will also aid in cases
which may arise where man insured
under the contributory plan failed to
have sufficient qualifying contributions
to his credit at the date Of his death
Evening star., 1937-05-13
How 1t Started
BY JEAN NEWTON.
Green.

A RNoLD BENNETT, visiting in the
Spring painter friend who lived
where Mature initiates art" conflded
that he, too, dreamed of painting the
countryside which was "so-so-so."
Seeing the noted author stammer.
ing in search Of the proper word, the
painter attempted to help him out
suggesting. among others rocky, hilly
rugged, wild" none Of which struck
just the right note.
After awhile 1t came to Bennett
himself, $3.50 green
Green" was precisely the word for
fields and hillsides alive with land
scape draped in verdant raiment.
1t is from the Old English creme
rooted in the Anglo-Saxon growan, to
grow, with which grass and craze are
also akin.
tCopyright, 1877
Evening star., 1937-05-13
Divorces Jam Courts.

Steady increase in the number Of
divorce suits in Britain is giving legal
circles problem that they appar-
emily cannot solve. Recent comments
by judges in London, including Lord
Chief Justice Hewart and Justice
Swift, have emphasized the need for
reform in the handling OF hearings
The number of petitions entered each
week exceed the number tried in the
same period. When the last term Of
court ended more than 500 cases
We're uutried.
Evening star., 1937-05-13
Natures Children
Virginia Cotton Grass (Eriophorum
virginicun., :

to enrich the soil. Their beauty In
the Summer speaks for itself.
The wind carries the seed children,
each on its snowy white bristle, to
other bogs. Many are lost by tho
wayside, but those that fall on ac-
ceptable ground, make the most Of 1t.
(Copyright. I937.)
Evening star., 1937-05-13

Fishing OIL the coast OF New South
Wales, an angler recently hooked a
6-foot shark and was hauling it in
when tiger shark over Is feet long
swallowed the 6-footer, was caught on
the hook and landed after a fierce
fight.