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able form of blockade Is proper
means to that end"
Iincoln,s corrections:

able form of blockade Is . proper
means to that end"
Lincoln's corrections:
In Mr.. Stewards version the above
read: "As to closing the blockade, you
will say that by the laws of nature
and the laws Of nations this Govern.
ment has d clear right to suppress
instructions. =" =" In place Of
"the laws of nature" Lincoln substi-
tuted "our own laws"
The letter:
~ No one of these proceeding
will pass unquestioned by the United
States in this case. ."
Lincoln's corrections:
%" = No one Of these proceedings
will be borne by the United States in
this case" was Seward's version.
The letter:
British recognition 20: the Con-
federacy) would be British interven-
ton to create within our territory a
hostile state by overthrowing this
Republic itself. :" AS to the treat
ment Of privateers in the insurgent
service. you will say that this Is q
question exclusively our own. We treat
them as pirates. They are our own
citizens or persons employed by oul
citizens preying on the commerce Of
our country. If Great Britain shall
choose to recognize them as lawful
belligerents and give them shelter
from our pursuit and punishment, t'.e
law of nations affords an adequate
and proper remedy"
Lincoln's corrections:
After the words "overthrowing this
Republic ITSELF" the original Seward
draft went on to say, I'VE, from that
hour, shall cease to be friends and
once more-as we have be- twice be-
fore-shall be forced to be enemies
OF Great Britain" Here, Lincoln
erased the entire sentence.
After the words, proper remedy
CLOSING the above quotation from
the letter., Seward had written;
And we shall avail ourselves of it.
And while you nee not say this lr
advance, be sure that you say nothing
| inconsistent with it," "Out,
wrote the president.
The letter:
- We see how, upon the results
Of the debate to which We are engaged
a war may ensue between the United
States and one, two or even more
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WARRANT FOR ACOSTA

MINEOLA, N. Y, February IL (P,.
A bench warrant for the arrest Of
Bert Acosta. famed American aviator
who recently flew for the Madrid gov
ernment forces in the Spanish civil
war, was issued here yesterday.
The order for his arrest followed his
failure to appear in Children's Court
to answer the claims of his estranged
second wife, Helen. for funds to sup
port their two children,
Evening star., 1937-02-12
BY WILLIAM C. McCLOY.

Abraham Lincoln is least remem-
bered, probably, as an editor. Yet
his blue penciling of the letter drafted
by Secretary Of State Seward to
Charles Francis Adams, United States
Minister to Great Britain, at the be-
ginning of the Civil War, is master
piece of diplomacy.
The background Of the situation is
not so clear to us now as 1t was to
the American people rs years ago.
Briefly, Mr.. Seward was the leader of
a group of men who long sought to
prevent the war between the States by
forcing a quarrel with either Great
Britain or Mexico, thus uniting the
country against a foreign foe.
In addition to that, the inability
of the Manchester Cotton Mills to get
cotton from the United States created
a sentiment in Great Britain favorable
to the newly formed Southern Con-
federacy. Leading English politicians
we're eager to profit by this condition.
The great liberal statesman, William
E. Gladstone. was so outspoken on the
subject that the British cabinet was
forced publicly to disavow a speech
he made.
There were, however. number OF
influential people in Great Britain who
earnestly sympathized with President
Lincoln in his views on slavery. These
were led by the celebrated Quaker
John Bright, whose speech on the
evils that would result from the dis
memberment of the United States is
one of the greatest in American
history.
The danger at the moment was that
an unwise protest from the American
State Department would nullify the
efforts of Bright's followers and en-
able Lord John Russell, British foreign
minister, to turn serious interna-
tional question into an exchange OF
briefs between two political lawyers
himself and Seward. Lincoln fore
stalled this and, at the same time
cleverly ignored Fernando Woods pro-
posal that New York City secede from
the United States and declare itsell
q free port. Lincoln summed up his
views on this complicated situation
in the terse sentence, "One war i
enough at a time"
A study of the erasures, substitu.
tions and amendments to Secretary
Stewards letter made by Lincoln con.
veys a finer sense of the meaning o,
words, a more comprehensive knowl.
edge of the situation and more
thorough appreciation of the grave
results that might follow than the
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KIWANIANS MEET

Hear Representative Patrick.
Joint Luncheon Planned.
Representative Patrick, Democrat,
of Alabama yesterday addressed
members of the Washington Kiwanis
at their weekly luncheon at the May
flower Hotel.
The club voted to hold a joint meet
ing with the Alexandra Kiwanis Club
March 4.
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ing for the crime" was Stewards way
Of putting it. Lincoln wrote: Forty
years Of suffering for the error"
tcopyright. 1887 BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.J
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ARMY EQUIPMENT USE
ASKED. FOR JAMBOREE
Representative Hill Introduces
Q Measures to Aid Gatherings
Of Bow Scouts.

of Boy Scouts.
A bill directing the War Depart
ment to turn over obsolete equipment
to the National Boy Scout Council
for use during the Scout Jamboree in
Washington in the Summer was in
troduced yesterday by Representative
Hill, Democrat, of Alabama.
Hill also introduced q measure au-
thorizing the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau to waive taxes on steamship
tickets and the State Department to
issue free passports to American
Scouts who attend the jamboree in
Holland in 1888.
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A Iittle-knoUn side OF Lincoln Is
disclosed here in q description OF
his handling Of an important state
letter ,Dritten at q time tohen rela-
tions between the United States
Government and Great Britain had
been strained by English tdUoritism
for the cause of the Confederate
States.
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Winter Sports Filmed.
Filming Winter sports is fashion,
able recreation In England this Winter.
Evening star., 1937-08-12
Stock Averages
Compiled BY ths Associated Press.)
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer


NEW YORK, August l2.-Stocks
took on recovery tinge in tadays
market and numerous issues pushed
up fractions to a point or more.
Principally favored in the comeback
were selected steels, motors, oils, rub
bers. rails, utilities and specialties.
While late profit selling reduced ex-
treme advances in a number of in
stances, the majority of leaders closed
near their tops of the day.
Frightening business prospects
rather than any change in the imme-
diate news picture. brokers said. ac-
counted for the moderate revival of
buying.
There apparently was little or no
market response to the nomination of
Senator Black to the Supreme Court
vacancy
The list turned up modestly at the
start, slipped OCCASIONALLY and then
tilted forward again in the final hour.
Volume was larger than in the
preceding session. transfers approx
mating 100000 shares.
Among the better acting stocks were
United States Steel. Bethlehem,
youngstown Sheet l. Tube. Crucible
Steel, General Motors, Chrysler, Motor
Products, Mack Trucks, Standard Oils
OF New Jersey, Indiana and California,
Texas Corp, Socony Vacuum Radio,
UnitedtStates Rubber, Goodrich, Santa
Fe, Atlantic Coast Line, Southern
Railway, Northern Pacific, Colorado L.
Southern, j. l. Case. International
Harvester, Western Union, Electric
Power l. Light, Chicago Pneumatic
Tool, Paramount, Corn Products.
Schenley. Zenith Radio, Barnsdall.
Armstrong Cork, Houdaille Hershey
and International Hydro-E Electric.
Narrow to down point at the worst
were Goodyear, Republic Steel, Sears
Roebuck, Woolworth, United Airlines.
Loew's, International Nickel, An
aconda, Kennecott, American Water
Works, Baltimore & Ohio, St. Joseph
Lead and American Telephone.
Macy was a strong performer, get
ting up around g. The stock was ex-
rights and ex-dividend The rights"
opened at 1916 and went above ! on
heavy turnover.
Carrier loans achieved popularity
in the bond division. Grain and cot
ton futures dipped
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Freight Volume
On Ohio Climbs
To Record Levels
BY the Associated Press.

CINCINNATI, August 12-Freight
shipments on the Ohio River reached
4 peak of more than 100000 tons
for the first half of 1897 to set a new
record for q six-month period, the
Ohio River Division oflce Of the
United States engineers reported to-
day. The previous record Of 8.694. .439
was set in the first half Of 1885.
AL towboats capable of pushing
. barge are in operation" said Capt
w. s. Chandler, superintendent Of
navigation. Most Of them are work.
ing at capacity, with loads ranging
up to ~ barges on tow"
He said heavy shipments OF steel,
coal, gasoline and oil made up 4 great
part Of the increased trafnc, but that
other commodities also had increased
proportionately.
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CHICAGO GRAIN
BY the Associated Press

4
CHICAGO, August l2.-Four cents
bushel tumble in the price Of Sep
tember delivery of corn formed an
outstanding feature of the grain trade
late today.
The Accent drop carried September
corn contracts down to 96s. cents, the
extreme immediate permissible limit.
and tended to pull all grain values
lower. Purchases of new crop Texas
corn for shipment to Chicago had a
notably disturbing market influence.
AT the close, corn futures we're 1Ia-4
cents under yesterdays finish: Sep
temoer, 96$4; December, 65ss-a.
wheat. $50 cents down; September.
ll2'2- 3s; December, ll3l4-ss, and
oats. l4-5s off.
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Anaconda Profits
At $2.2l a Share
During Half Year
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August l2.-Anaconda
Copper Mining Co. reported earnings
of 1921 a share in the first six months
this year, against 81 cents a share In
the same period last year.
Consolidated net income totaled
$l9,l27,99 compared with S5,S27, ,425
in the first half of 1885. Net income
is before depletion of metal mines and
Federal surtax.
In the quarter ended March 81 the
company reported net income OF $8,-
537,100, equal to SO cents a share,
compared with $2,80s,320, or 81 cents
share in the March quarter last
year.
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Sales in Other Districts.

Sales in July in the whole Il Fed
eral Reserve districts averaged 4 per
cent better than in the same period in
1886 and 10 per cent better in the
FIRST seven months of this year, COM
pared with the like months year ago
Cleveland made the best July gain
II per cent-and also the best gain
II per cent--for the seven-month
period. Chicago came second in both
comparisons.
It seems rather strange, but the
Midwestern industrial districts showed
the largest gains over last year. The
Reserve Boards index of department
store sales, adjusted for seasonal Vari-
alton, stood at "a in July, SO in June,
SO in May and 81 in July. 1886 Per-
centage changes for July and the
seven months compares as follows
with last year:
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VERTIENTES DEPOSIT
PERIOD is EXTENDED
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, August 1.-THE Pro-
tective Committee for the Vertientes
Sugar Co. and Camaguey Sugar Co.,
recently reorganized as the Vertientes-
Camaguey Sugar Co., have extended
until October the period within
which bonds may be deposited to ac-
cept the reorganization.
It is expected stock OF the new COM
pany and subscription rights will be is
sued to holders Of record on October
/ Of certificates Of deposit for the old
bonds.
Subscription rights to the new bonds
will terminate Ga November is.
Evening star., 1937-08-12

Chicago Cash Market.
Cash wheat-No. 2, red, l.17A-l8: /,
No. hard, ll7h2-20 No. mixed,
1.ll-ll12. Corn. No l mixed, l.o2;
No. yellow, 1861. Oats, No. l
mixed. 3012-s4; No. white, 80; No.
2 white, 30A -3la. Rye, No. 2.
6512. No buckwheat or soybeans.
Barley. No. 8, Illinois mailing, 80:
feed, 1856 nominal, mailing, 65-82.
Timothy seed, 2.50-60.
Baltimore Quotations
, BALTIMORE, August IL lP-Wheat
NO red Winter. garlicky. spot. domestic,
1.16l,; August. l.16I2.
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SALES OF NATIONAL
CASH REGISTER DROP
By the Associated Press,

~ VAC AOoVSA2tCu C4S8o.
NEW YORK, August 12.-National
Cash Register Co. reported July do
mestic orders dropped 2.3 per cent to
$1,757. .450 from 81 ,799, 800 In July last
year. Seven months orders, however,
showed an increase Of 81. 6 per cent to
$17,sl2,325 from $l4,733, 400 In the
1896 period.
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new YORK COTTON
BY the Associated Press,

0y tHe ASSOCIATED PreSS.
NEW YORK, August l2.-The cot.
ton market declined today under in
creased Southern hedging and mod
crate commission-house liquidation,
prompted by lower Liverpool cables
and general tendency to await de-
velopments in Washington relative to
crop loan.
Traders were apathetic. and business
was small. September sold down to
1913. then rallied to 1922
: At the beginning of the last hour
the general list showed net declines
of 4 to points.
Futures closed barely steady. IA to II
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NINE TO BE RE0PENED.

NEW YORK, August IL R.-
United States Smelling & Refining
Co. plans to reopen its sunnyside mine
at Eureka, Colo., 1t was announced.
Production will probably start within
month. The property. primarily
lead and sinc, has been closed since
October, 1880.
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AVIATION CORP. REPORTS
$143,156 LOSS IN HALE

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August l2.-Aviation
Corp. and subsidiary companies re-
ported their net loss for the six
months ended last May 81 amounted
to $l43,l l56 after writing of all charges,
including $l68,8l3 in engineering, ex-
perimental and development costs.
This compared with a consolidated
net loss of Sl74.270 for the six months
period ended June 30, 1896. Sales for
the 1887 period totaled 81, ,s3s, ,2ss and
other income amounted to $2l2,902,
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PHILADELPHIA PRODUCE.

PHILADELPHIA August IL R.-Live
poultry: Fowls fancy, Plymouth Rocks.
q: mixed colors. -22-23: Leehorns, fancy.
reds. 24-2b
Dressed poultry: Fowls. fresh killed, in
boxes, 191z-26h: old roosters, 16-lsh.
Butter unclaimed
Eess,. Arm. 1886 cases. Prices un-
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METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK. August IL R-Copper
export. 14.4O. TIN drmer: spot and nearby.
&C; .12; future. 5O5O-69.62. Lead
Ious ;pot s3 zne Yosa aa. e.. 81 Ias eas
spot and future, 1.7b. Antimony. spot,
1928. Iron. alumjaum, quicksilver, plat
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DIVIDEND IS ORDERED.

CHICAGO, August II R.-Direc-
tors Of the United States Gypsum Co.
voted yesterday regular quarterly divi-
dends Of so cents on the common AMI
SITS on the preferred stock, payable
October l, to stockholders Of record
September is.
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cities the month had the same num-
Der Of business days this year and last
year, but in July this year there were
five Saturdays as compared with four
, year ago.
Uniform Accounting Stressed.
General lack of uniformity in bank
accounting is noted by the Bank Man.
agement Commission of the American
Bankers Association, in report just
made public.
at was felt that much would be
contributed to bank accounting if a
suggested list of general ledger ac-
counts could be set up with defini-
tion of the items which each account
should include, then to arrange these
accounts in a sequence which would
facilitate the preparation of the vari-
ous statements required by bank super
yising authorities, and finally to set up
p suggested statement of condition or
balance sheet, and an operating Or
prof1t-and-loss statement" H. H. Girls
void, chairman of the commission,
suggested.
Bergan Named Co-Manager.
John B. Bergan, for many years
connected with various New York
Stock Exchange firms in the financial
district, has become associated with
Winthrop, Mitchell &, Co. as CO.
manager of the office The other man.
Ager is Joseph Dowdall, who opened
the Office some year ago and has been
In charge since that time.
Winthrop, Mitchell g. Co. has just
Installed one of the standard electric
stock quotation boards. The board is
carrying the usual New York Stock
Exchange quotations and an extra
large number of commodity prices be-
cause of the present interest In grain
and other commodities.
Heard in Financial District.
William Townsend Pheiffer of ANA
rillo, nephew Of the late Julius Gar
hnckel, and an executor of Mr. Gar
f1nckefs estate, is in Washington on
business In connection with the duties
OF his trusteeship. Mr.. Pheiffer is q
member Of the law firm of Shannon
Ochsner, Pheiffer g. Little of Amarillo
and president Of the Amarillo Bar AS
sociation. During his visit he is stop
ping at the Carlton
Harry w. Finney, member of the
investment firm of Y. E. Booker Co.
leaves Washington the last of the
week for a vacation trip to Vermont
and other places in New England.
r. Colladay, trust officer and gen.
eral counsel of the Second Nationa
Bank and president Of the Washing
ton Board of Trade, is in Californis
on q vacation. He will be home shortl!
after Labor Day.
w. w. Spaid, senior partner in th1
brokerage firm of w. B. Hibbs & Co.
Is now at Saranac Lake on vacation
New Gas Stock in Demand.
Washington Gas new common stocl
was in lively demand on the Wash
ington exchange today. The marke
opened with 100 shares selling at q
Fifty then sold at 267s and 100 NOR
at ~. After call 10 came out at 26H
and % more at ~. Ten shares o
Liberty National Bank stock move'
at 155.
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D. c. STORE SALES
SLUMP IN JULY
Drop ia Per Cent Below
1885, but 7 Months
Total Is Higher.
BY EDWARD c. STONE.

Sales in Washington department
stores in July dropped l1.4 per cent
below the record made in July, 1896.
the Federal Reserve Bank of Rich
mond reported today. Cumulative
sales for the first seven months of
1887, however, were slightly ahead of
last year, 0.9 per cent to be exact. s.
The trade slump in the Capital
compared with gain of 17.3 per
cent year ago over the previous
year, spending of bonus money at that
time being factor in bringing about
rather abnormal conditions. Last
years gain in the seven months over
the previous year was 1871 per cent
for Washington.
Most of the other cities in the
fifth district were ahead of last wear
In July, Winston-Salem leading the
list with 10 per cent advance.
Business in Baltimore was up 81 per
cent. The slower sales in Washing
ton and some other cities caused an
average drop for the fifth district of
per cent under July, 1886, although
the first seven months of this year
disclosed gain of per cent. Since
the July reports were compiled, the
weekly reports by the Department of
Commerce have Shown an upturn in
trade here.
Fifth District Comparisons.
The Richmond Reserve Bank pre-
eents the following comparisons for
July and the first seven months of
1887, with the like periods in 1896:
1897 1897
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Cottonseed OIL,

Cottonseed OIL.
Heachable cottonseed oil futures closed
steady: l higher to 5 lower, Sales SIS
contracts September SOSb; October.
s:Ob;. December s.O5b; January, s'oSb;
March. $40. Bid.
New Orleans Prices
NEW ORLEANS. August IL P-Cotton
opened steady today, to g points lower
on liquidation and selling induced by
loans.
Speculative interests were out OF the
market and trade demand was lacking
As . result business was quiet in early
dealings.
October opened at 1925 December at
1881, January 1925, March 1913, May
10.46 and July 1O.4S
Near monthe lost 5 points additional
after the start and toward the end OF the
hrst half hour the general market was 4
to Il points net lower.
Cottcnseed oil opened steady septem.
6er. SOB; October. 7.64b; December
7.64o; January, 1850; March, 75eb. =.
..b-Btd.
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Unit Of trading shares
In bankruptcy reorean,zed und.r
osnA1up.cs act or securities assumed BY such
Rates Of dividends the foregoing table annual dis
oufsements based the last
included ~ ~ 0' s~'-~ u'''oeaos ~fe no'
Ex dividend Ex extra or extras epaid
last year Payable in stock. Declared
year Cash or stock Accumulated paid or de-
Evening star., 1937-08-12

July figures preliminary; in most
cities the month had the same num-
Der of business days this year and last
year. but in July this year there were
five Saturdays as compared with four
year ago.
Evening star., 1937-08-12

Sales Of Stocks the n Stock Exchange
l1:oo AM------ 100000 1900 Noon------ $4,000
100 PM-- 460 600 200 Pm. ----- $4,000
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-06-24
HURRICANE SEASON AT HAND

The hurricane season has come again
and for several months people in the areas
affected by the most destructive mete-
geological disturbances will keep a close
eye ON the special storm warning service
of the Weather Bureau.
Weather men look for a tropical hur-
ricane any time from June to November
and carefully watch the formation of con-
ditions which indicate the possibility of
one of these whirling storms which have
raked the eastern seabOard for many
years. In the last fifty years, 127 tropical
storms of hurricane force have hit the
coast between Texas and North Carolina,
with 80 hitting Florida, "a hitting Texas
ard 16 reaching the land along the shores
of Louisiana.
The greatest number in any one year
was twenty-one in 1888. Last year there
were sixteen, the second gratest number
reported in any one season
Readers may be puzzled by the re-
ports of storms, with wind velocity above
eighty miles an hour. when they observe
that it takes some time for the hurricane
to travel a few hundred miles. This dis
crepancy is easily explained when one un
derstands that these tropical disturbances
have whirling motion, where great speed
is attained, and a progressive motion,
which is comparatively slow. The de
struction is caused by the force of the
whirling wind but the storm travels for
ward at the progressive rate which is not
anything like as fast as the rotating wind.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-06-24
BELIEVING NONSENSE

Most high school graduates turned
loose upon the world this year, and every
year. look upon life with minds befogged
with superstition. according to DR.. H. J.
Arnold. eminent psychologist of Witten-
berg College. who recently enumerated a
few of the silly beliefs he found prevalent
among them.
Upon asking freshmen entering pSy-
chology classes last year to submit to ex-
aminations on their beliefs and disbeIiefs,
he discovered that so percent of more than
200 believed that women have powers of
intuition with which men are not equip
ped, that expectant mothers can mark
their unborn by frightening experiences,
that beavers know when to prepare for
long, cold winter, that red makes bull
wild, that chess develops powers of con-
centration.
Nearly half of them believed that
dogs bowling foretold death. that long
slender hands indicate an artistic nature
that civilization is almost entirely prod
uct of the white race, and that if you
stare long enough at persons back you
will force him to turn around. 80
As many as 25 percent stin cling TO
the idea that receding or stream-lined
chin denotes lack of will power, that silent
men are deep thinkers. that fat ones are
always good-natured. and that you can
read character by bumps on the head, or
by depressions in the skull
And every one of the ideas mentioned
are without the slightest foundation in
fact All are sheer nonsense