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The Washington times., 1937-03-22
Hunt Is Abandoned
For Plane Suicide

BAKERSFIELD, Cal, March %
O.N.SO.-Search was virtually
abandoned today for Anatol
Maren, 80, who plunged 1000
feet to his death in a spectacular
suicide from a San Francisco-LoS
Angeles passenger airpIane.
A posse which combed the DESC
late Lost Hills region go miles
northwest of here announced the
mans body may never be found.
Friends and relatives could assign
no motive for his suicide.
The Washington times., 1937-03-22
Hitler Bars Jews
In Labor Service

B E R L IN, March %.
Chancellor Hitler promulgated
today a decree, barring Jews from
membership in the Nazi labor
service. Persons partly Jewish,
however, will have to serve in
Germany's labor army, but will be
entitled to no promotion.
The Washington times., 1937-03-22
Stuart
Dies in Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA, March %.
E d wi n Sydney Stuart, 83,
only man ever to become both
governor of Pennsylvania and
mayor Of Philadelphia, was dead
today at his home in Overlook.
He was elected mayor of Philadel-
phia in 1891. He was governor
from 1907 to 1911.
The Washington times., 1937-03-22
Capital Woman's S Kin
School Blast Victim

Jean Grosche, 1882 R st. N. W.,
learned through a long-distance
call from New London, Tex, yes
terday of the death of her half
brother, Daniel Archer, in the ex-
ploSion that destroyed the New
London schoolhouse and claimed
more than 400 victims last Thurs
day.
Miss Grosche, a Government
employe, said she made seven
calls, but couldn't get any word
until another brother, who flew to
New London from Panama, tele-
phoned her yesterday. Archer was
a science teacher in the school.
The Washington times., 1937-03-22
70 AIR RAIDERS
SET FIRE TO
PINEGR0VE
His Italians in Flight,
Franco Opens Drive
On Railroad

ROME, March ~ U.N.SD.
Three to four thousand Spanish
loyalist troops we're burned to
death by incendiary bomb S
dropped by 10 rebel airplanes
on a pine grove near TOrija, on
the Guadalajara front, the war
correspondent Of the newspaper
La Tribuna reported today. The
wood is still burning, he wrote,
and every leftist in the area
was lost.
The Washington times., 1937-03-22

Estate law against indecent exhibi-
tions.
He and his confreres decided to
send four of their best artisteS to
show the three justices that the
strip act is educational, instruc-
tive, and esthetic."-
The Washington times., 1937-03-22
Treasury Condition

International News Service
Treasury balance March 49,:
$1,667, ,179,676.T0; internal rev.
enue: $75,195, ,280.S9; custom re-
ceipts: $34,256,242.65.
The Washington times., 1937-03-22
Tufts Speaks Tonight

Col. William o. Tufts, chair
man of the board of trustees
of the Goodwill Industries of
Washington, will address the
monthly meeting of the North
Capitol Citizens Association at
Mckinley High School, tonight
at 8 o'clock. Col. Tufts address
will follow the regular business
session of the association.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
LOFTS REDUCES
DEFICIT SHARPLY
Quarters Loss at $143,719
Against S3O7, ,658 for
Same 1886 Period.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Loft's. Inc,
and subsidiaries reported March quar-
ter net loss of Sl43,719, against net
loss Of s307,658 for the same period
last year.
Company manufactures confections
and ice cream and operates retail
stores in New York metropolitan ter
ritory, New England, Baltimore, New
Orleans and Washington
Curtiss Publishing Co., Philadel-
phia, reported for March quarter net
profit of sl,513,740, compared with
revised net profit of s1,572,54o for
March quarter last year
Patino Mines & Enterprises Con-
solidated, Inc, reported for the year
ended December 81 net profit of f10O,-
$50 about s4s4,774) after depletion,
taxes, contingencies and reserves,
equal to the equivalent of approxi-
mately 80 cents a share on the capital
stock. This compares with f29,272
(about sl44,31O, or the equivalent
OF II cents share, in the preceding
year. The company, with headquar-
teTs in New York, has extensive tin
mining properties in Bolivia.
Net profit of Kelsey-Hayes Wheel
Co. and subsidiaries for the quarter
ended March 81 was reported at
$177,677 before undistributed profits
surtax, equal after dividend require
ments of the Glass "A" stock to 20
cents a share on the Glass "B" This
compares with s325,86O, or 81 cents
a share, on the combined Glass "A"
and "B" stocks in the same period of
last year. The company's plants are
at Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
WOOL MARKET STEADY
TO VERY FIRM IN WEEK
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April "a Omitted States
Department of Agriculture) Volume
Of business on the Boston wool mar
ket was small during the past week,
but prices were mostly steady to very
arm.
In domestic woods, original bag lines
Of Western brown woods received most
attention. Australian woods moved
occasionally at strong prices. Buyers
showed little interest In the new
medium-grade heeces from the Middle
West.
Nominal quotations on graded
combing Ohio neeces were steady at
44-46 cents in the grease for fine
delaine, At 47-48 cents for combing
halfb blood, 47-49 cents for combing
three-eighths blood and 46-47 cents
for quarter-blood.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
SLIGHT INCREASE SEEN
IN TRANSIT REVENUES
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Revenues
for the transit industry for the week
ended April II, 1897, based on tele-
graphic reports received from rep
resentative group Of transit operating
companies, showed a moderate increase
over last year.
Transit Journals revenue indicator
stands at 10342, which represents a
gain of 342 per cent over the corre-
spending week in 1886
For the week ended April 10, 1887,
the indicator was 101.64
A somewhat higher rate of increase
in the industrys revenue was appar-
ent for the week. Gains were generel
for the whole country and for cities OF
all sizes.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
WHEAT UNSETTLED.
BY RAIN REPORTS
OVER WIDE AREAS
Prices "a Lower to 3s
Higher at CIose-LiverpooI
Market Advances.
BY FRANKLIN MULLIN,

ASsOClaleu fIeSS udIket WIlleI.
CHICAGO, April 24-Wheat prices
fluctuated erratically within a maxi
mum range Of ia cents today.
The markets unsettlement was at
tributed largely to reports Of benefl-
cial rains in many sections OF the grain
belt, but enough buying found its way
into the pit to keep prices fractionally
higher most of the session.
Some of this buying, which repre-
sented short covering after yesterdays
late rally was associated with more
than cent upturn at Liverpool and
further selling Of Canadian wheat for
export largely to Germany.
Wheat closed "a lower to q higher
compared with Fridays finish, May
1.30la-5s, July 1184-ss. September
1.l534-7s. and corn was y up to ia
off, May new 125a4-26, July new
1.l57s, September 1.OSla-ss. Oats
were Il off to "a up, May 1875 -4s, Rye
"a off to y UP, May 1.lo14, and pro-
visions cents lower to 3 higher.
Take Both Sides.
Professionals supported wheat at
times but houses with Eastern con-
nections were on both sides of the
market. Export sales Of Canadian
wheat were estimated at about 500 900
bushels, including sales to Germany.
Further sales of red garlicky wheat for
August shipment from Baltimore were
reported. Some of the carlot receipts
here were believed to be arrivals of
grain recently moving in this direction
from Kansas City.
Traders generally believed crop
conditions are better Further rains
were received over the Northwest and
in sectio,ls of the Winter wheat belt.
Official forecast of possible frost in
Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri at
tracted little attention Crop author
tiles said it would take heavy frosts
to damage wheat at this stage.
Professional dealers were credited
with persistent liquidation of May
corn contracts which knocked the
price down almost cents q bushel
at one stage. More deferred corn
futures, however. were not so weak.
Argentine Corn Arrives.
Incoming Argentine corn, while
little can be delivered on contracts,
nevertheless, is believed to be de-
pressing corn future to the extent
that demand from cash interests is
satisfied. Reports were that arrange
ments have been completed to move
100000 bushels of Argentine corn from
Montreal to Chicago during May.
Oats and rye paralleled the action
Of wheat.
Provisions eased slightly in SYM
pathy with Fridays hog market de-
cline.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
COTTON IMPROVES
IN QUIET TRADING
Closes ] to 6 Points Higher
After Liquidation on May
Contracts.
BY the Associated Press,

ny lie hsSOCl6teO fleS6.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Cotton
moved irregularly today over a mar
row range in quiet trading. July,
which had reacted to 1918 in early
trading, rallied to 1927 and closed at
1924 with final prices l to 6 points
net higher.
The market opened l to 4 points
higher in sympathy with the action of
Liverpool and on trade and foreign
buying. During the first half hour
prices reacted under the May liquida-
tion partly for New Orleans account.
The offerings were not active how
ever, and the market again responded
to covering and trade buying to send
all positions to new highs for the day
in the late trading.
Amount of cotton on shipboard
awaiting clearance at the end Of the
week was estimated at $1,000 against
$4,000 last year and $4,000 two years
ago.
The range follows:
Evening star., 1937-04-25
PIERCE & co, SUED
FOR OTIS PAYMENT
Nv the Associated presx

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, April 24.-The old
partnership Of Otis g. Co. filed suit
today against E. A. Pierce & Co.,
seeking LOTS 900 as payment for the
partnerships brokerage business
which it said E. A. Pierce g. Co.
acquired in 1881.
The petition said the Pierce con-
cern has paid nothing for the busi-
ness.
The present Otis d Co., corporate
successor to the partnerships invest
ment business, announced it was not
involved in the action.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
RURAL RETAIL SALES
GAIN MOST IN SOUTH

By the Associated Press.
The Commerce Departments index
Of rural retail sales, based on 1929
1881 Is 100, registered the greatest
upturn in the South during March.
Southern sales climbed 20 per cent
above March, 1895, compared with
increases ranging between Is and 20
pr eent IA othsr regions aud 1875
- Gant u ~ eenky - . vhoie.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
SALES OFFICES MOVED.

NEW YORK, April "a (P.-General
sales offices of American Steel & Wire
Co., subsidiary of United States Steel
Corp, are being moved to Cleveland
from Chicago in order to centraiize
them at the company's headquarters.
Regional sales Offices will be main
tanned in New York, Chicago and
Baltimore.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
CLEARING HOUSE ISSUES
REPORT AT NEW YORK
By the Associated Press,

Dy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24.-The weekly
statement of the New York clearing
house shows:
Total surplus and undivided profits
unchanged at $884, 780, 100. Total net
demand deposits (average) decreased
$35, ,475,000. Time deposits (average)
increased 34,e75, 900. Clearings week
ending today, $3,253,87o,36S. Clear
ings week ending April II, S3.es3. $780,
t32J, ,. .--, .", t-..
Evening star., 1937-04-25
STATEMENTS FILED
FOR NEW SECURITIES
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Registration statements for pro.
posed new securities filed yesterday
with the Securities Commission 70
cluded:
Metropolitan New York Corp, New
York real estate firm, $l,002, 900 Of 81
par common stock, purpose not
stated; underwriters, George B. Cabot
and Huntington D. Sheldon.
Third Investment Counsel Corp.
Boston investment trust, $1,2s4,e
Of no-par class A stock, no under.
writer.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Chrysler Plans
Large Additions
To Windsor Plant
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WINDSOR, Ont. April 24-John
D. Mansfield, president and general
manager Of the Chysler Corp, OF
Canada, announced today that addi-
tions costing between $4,000, 900 and
100000 will be made to the Cor
poration's Windsor plant.
He did not state purposes of the
additions but the corporation has been
reported planning to manufacture
parts and motors here for the Cana
dian and export trade.
Evening star., 1937-04-25

Cottonseed oil closed steady. Bleachable
prime Summer yellow 1020a40: prime
crude nominal May. Q.5Ob; July. 9.62b;
September, 9.6sb: october, 9.55b; Deem
ber. 9.55b.
Bid.
Evening star., 1937-04-25

Chicago Cash Market.
Cash wheat: No. l hard 1861.
Corn: No. 4 mixed 1.31; No. 2 yellow
1856; No. yellow 1921; No.
white 1922. Oats: No. 2 white So
55l2; No. 3 white 55-55A. Soy beans:
No yellow 178 Barley; feed 1887
NOM; mailing 1.00-38 nom.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Earnings
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Corporate
earnings statements released during
the week, showing profits per share,
9pr1rdeT
Evening star., 1937-04-25
The range follows:
COttonseed Oil.

Cottonseed oil was irregular today
with the near months lower under
scattered May liquidation, while the
later months held steady. Final prices
were points lower to net higher
with sales of lib contracts. Bleach
able spot nominal; May closed 996,
July 10l4, September 1918, October
1908, December 1901.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
W;nn;ne1 Cash Market

Winnipeg Cash Market.
WINNIPEG, April "a P).-Cash
wheat, No. l Northern 1929; No. 2
Northern 1904; No. Northern 1925.
Oats, No. 2 white 567s; No. white
555s.
Evening star., 1937-04-25

New Orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS. April "a LP.-Cotton
futures closed steady. net unchanged to 4
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Quarter Ended March 81,

Is Weeks Ended January Il.
Twentieth Century-Fox 100
Evening star., 1937-04-25
LEADING BAROMETERS

Al sthks sssss1d. Cam6si4ss Asseeiatss, Boston
Evening star., 1937-09-03

conditions
China they of wishes friendship
for she hopes for
is
to do nothing eopardize
enoachmen the territory other International
settlement by her soldiers might affect pans position later
On the military the destruction
objective to destroy the the Chinese holding
terrain to north Shanghai
ordinaed ofense
This requires time, Uhle the inpadng
being augmented by the
not be Immediately oordnated
unit machine from
base to the most tar-fun0 point in the line
Before perfected
When must be able destroy with frontal encic
force into retreat the
The situation still aDors the Chinese that they
along their
friendly territory 1uhH the Japanese
supply.
Military experts admit that
Shanghai The Chinese
Every inch the Mkados further
dfcutes increase They
practicable then
Chinese. Here too, Russian watch nervousy
those whose business
hesitate predict what she will because of her
But similar that which
Chinese don't need they need equipment Nobody
will be surprised Russian officers planes
Chinese
Evening star., 1937-09-03
It's Been Tried Before
Cotton Control Leads to Many Evils, Including
Political Royalst.

ernment pegged the price Of cotton
high and gave Brazil her start in in
ternational competition. The smoot-
ing cotton export trade. The A. A. A.
In 1888 plowed under cotton and ac-
celerated the scarcity by putting on
sales tax Of ~ cents 4 pound.
which effectively reduced domestic
cotton consumption.
In 1888 and also in 1894 We loaned
on cotton to the point where the
Government was carrying over s.
600, 900 bales-to disrupt the market
And now we are just going = step
farther in the same direction. And
the net effect OF 1t all has been that
the cotton planter has not only lost
his foreign market-he has seen his
domestic market rapidly diminish.
Meanwhile, the American house.
wife. whether she Is the wife Of a
worker or z middle-claSs professional
man, looks in her linen closet and
observes that she needs sheets, pill
low cases, and towels that she can't
AFFORD to buy. and she'll find that
lard substitutes from cotton seed are
going up in price. Meanwhile, in
four counties of Mississippi, where
cotton Is grown and where for three
fourts Of the year most people wear
cotton clothes, the Federal Govern
ment has just paid w. P. A. workers
$4,000 in salaries to collect old
clothes, in order that other w. P. A.
workers may make them over for still
other relief clients who are given
hand me-downs because they can't
afford new things!
Incentive Killed.
The incentive to get out and find
new uses for cotton, by the kind of
research which the rayon manufac-
turers have carried on, to rationalize
the production Of cotton. so that 1t
can be produced profitably at low
price, is dulled by providential gov
ernment that penalties everybody else
to keep the price high.
Exactly what kind Of production
control will be passed by the next
Congress we do not know, but we do
know what the ideas Of the admins
tration are. They are embodied In
Bill H. R. 1912 Of anonymous author
ship. This bill introduces the pet
idea Of Secretary Wallace of the ever
normal granary.
The ever-normal granary Is the old
Hoover farm-board idea OF putting
agricultural surpluses in Jail" The
fallacy ought to be obvious. II a
bumper crop succeeds previous
bumper crop-and German experience
proves that crop control can prevent
this possibility-the State granaries
and warehouses, already overlooking,
are to pile up even more.
The consumer is to be protected by
the Government releasing these sur
pluses if the price goes too high.
Yeah? When do prices 60 too high?
Who is going to decide? The farmers?
The representatives of the farm vote?
They are going to vote to lower the
price by releasing surpluses? Because
Of the protests Of unorganized con-
sumers? Name the time.
Planned economy means economic
nationalism. We can't plan for the
whole world, or even for ourselves in
Evening star., 1937-09-03

the demand of the people-and not
by organized producers.
The latest step is in connection
with the cotton loan The cotton
crop is magnificent; the yield per
acre preternaturally high; the world
demand enormous. But we have prom
ised to loan the planters 9 cents
pound, and to grant additional cash
subsidies to bring the net price up
to II cents. This, only however, in
return for the pledge that Congress,
at the next session, will pass law
restoring Government crop control. We
don't know just how law is to be
passed which will be constitutional,
in view Of the decision on the A. A. A.,
but that, OF course, has almost ceased
to be consideration.
Reduces Export Crop.
The subsidies with some irony, are
to be taken from fund put aside
from tariff revenue to promote agri-
cultural exports. The production con-
troll program with the beneficiaries
have pledged themselves to support,
will reduce the cotton acreage and re-
duce the amount Of cotton available
for export.
The theory back of the loan and
prices pegged by Government sub
sidy is that a large crop automati-
cally means a low price in a free
market. James Boyle, professor OF
rural economy at Cornell University,
has published figures which definite
ly refute this.
He shows that the price of cot
ton is fixed in world markets by two
factors, the size of the world S
crop and the demand of the world
market. The cotton crop was low
in 1921, and the price WAS high. 1t
was low in 1922, and the price was
highlsh; it was high in 1923 and the
price was relatively higher than the
relative increase; the crop increased
in 1925. and the price decreased.
But in 1927 the crop was enor-
nous, and this bumper crop had 4
very high price because Of brisk
demand.
The Roosevelt administration Is
continuing the policy of Mr.. Hoover's s
Farm Board in 1929. That year Gov
Evening star., 1937-09-03
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
v. F. W. Member Stirs
Drive for Peace at
Convention.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

r SEEM6 knAoIe tnAt q gOOd all.
around mixer would be a better
germ-carrier, and infect more
L people with desire for peace and
disarmament than would a scholar or
recluse. The latter may know a lot,
but he doesn't get around much, and
too frequently he's just talking TO him.
self. A brass rail frequently is q good
conductor of ideas.
Hence, there is significance and In
terest in the anti-War fare-up OF the
Veterans of Foreign Wars at their
convention in Buffalo. These lads not
only are gregarious, but they know
about war from experience. One of
the most gregarious and outSpoken Of
the lot is Milton Solomon, genial joiner,
member of 80 or 40 clubs and organiza-
tionS, deputy controller Of New York,
former national commander of the
Marine Corps League and now an ar
dent advocate of United States war
only on the home grounds.
Mr.. Solomon Is chairman Of the
Veterans Committee Of the New York
Worlds Fair. He reports that Pres
ldent Roosevelt favors the idea of an
international peace conference Of vet
erans at the fair. Mr.. Solomon and
his group propose "a supreme council
for peace, made up Of representative
war veteran groups of all nations"
This, they believe, would be an effec-
tive instrument in promoting peace
and understanding throughout the
world"
Mr.. Solomon, Al years old, on the
up-take in Tammany politics, is sup
posed to know possibly more people by
their first names than any other per-
son in New York An attorney, he
has been active in organization and
leadership Of soldiers organiza tions,
and is former national patriotic In
structOr of the Jewish War Veterans.
He is native of New York, reared in
the GreenpOint section of Brooklyn
where first names fourish-and is a
graduate Of the Fordham Law School.
This department likes to spot up any
body who helps get good idea out of
library or cloister and get it into
circulation.
Copyright, 1937)
Evening star., 1937-09-03

ar from being the
TO stand good wings japanese
the Italians else
British on they will outrag
Mediterranean.
on the other hand they continue
on Lonuon willing
mlasts Chamberlain
New
menaced aggressiveress
LORD Pamerstons days the machine
would brought
" on the personal
at Nanking-has brought Just mel OF
Evening star., 1937-09-03

Jobs break down the of competitive examinations
of Federal n
AS foreshadowed
other Securities
bad bears wild bulls Of Wall
No immediate effect commodity
atey argescale usually
believe the
OF hedge
o
Copyright
Evening star., 1937-09-03

whether
these ships
Should be
all hopes Of reconciliation
international situation today.
Mussol indicated teD weeks that he plhng
bygones be In his
Sicily
II make better q
Uhch n
Speaking about Ango-aan relations said
Britain ground finally
dress that cemetery where the hopes for buedhe
Italian Enp but death
that would
As is natural British having the
White Ensign and Union Jack
but considers it un
dgnned to issue official
1he French who were ready to swallow the pill
OF British vessels London
warned Musoni"
Evening star., 1937-09-03
He Needed Witnesses.

ELkHART, Ind, September LP).-
Howard Stametz says he has witnesses
to this one:
He cast his artificial mouse bait into
a pond and reeled in, on one line, two
large-mouth bass, one Of them II
inches long and weighing nearly 8
pounds. The other scaled better than
pound.
Evening star., 1937-09-03

abundance, a n d
the whole case
against capital
ism, is its control
Of the market,
a n d monopoly's
habit of artificial
1y ere a t i n 6
scarcity to main
tain high prices
and high profits.
This, in spite of
the fact that the
very thesis Of
economic LIBERAL
ism is that prices
should be fixed by
h1y
Evening star., 1937-09-03
More Repairs Needed.

OMAHA, Nebr. (P).-When Mrs.
Blanch Kohlert had trouble with the
brakes on her automobile, she had
them fixed by Garageman Howard
Peters.
Then she drove home As she turned
into her driveway, another car crashed
into hers. The driver was Howard
Peters
Evening star., 1937-09-03

The evil that men do, and that
includes congressman, lives after
them, and. in the latter case, after
Congress adjourns.
It's the spoils system again,
and you are going to hear a lot
more on the subject. Former Civil
Service Commissioner White, now
back on the faculty Of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, and others who be-
lieve in the merit system for Gov
ernment employees, are preparing to
Evening star., 1937-09-03
South Facing
Loss in New
Deal Error
Restricted Production
Policy Proving
Costly.
nv DAVID LAWRENCE.

- OMETIMES 1t takes years for
facts to overtake Government
propaganda and for a govern
- mental policy to be thoroughly
sdebunked."
Politicians, of course, who sit in the
seats of Government, never admit any,