davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1937-08-31
CHICAGO GRAIN
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 31.-Wheat prices
snapped back to around yesterday S
closing level after declining about a
cent bushel early today. Buying
power was feeble. and much of the
business consisted of selling Of Sep
tember wheat holdings and buying the
more deferred contracts by the same
interests.
After notices of intention to deliver
grain September contracts tomorrow
were announced the market rose from
the days lows, which were around the
seasons bottom prices.
Wheat closed IS lower to "a higher,
compared with yesterdays finish, Sep
tember. 1O37s -04; December, l06ls-
"a, and corn was $ off to Ss up; Sep
tember, 97-97l2; December, 62l4-3s.
Oats were "a down to IS up.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
U. S. EXPORTS OF RICE
CUBA UP SHARPLY
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, August 3l-Wil-
liam Reid, secretary of the Rice Mil
lers' Association here, said yesterday
American exports of rice to Cuba had
increased materially since that coun-
try cut its import rate in half.
The tariff reduction took effect early
this month. At the same time import
rates for Siam and other Asiatic pro-
ducing regions were increased.
Although statistics are not avail
able yet" Reid said, brokers are
aware of the increased demand as a
result of orders received"
Evening star., 1937-08-31
Carrier Profits
Well Above 1886
In Seven Months
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
The Association of American Rail
roads reported today class l carriers
had a net railway operating income of
1857 7,899,351 in the first seven months
of 1887, equivalent to an annual re-
turn of 2.73 per cent on their property
investment
In the same period of last year the
net railway operating income was
s299, 9,738,774, or 2.3O per cent on prop
erty investment.
Gross operating revenues during the
first seven months this year amounted
to $2,452 ,418,666, an increase of lo.4
per cent over last year. Operating ex-
penses were s1,825, ,538 ,587, or 9.4 per
cent greater than last year.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
CHEMICAL STOCKS OFFERED.

NEW YORK, August 81 (P).-First
public offering of Victor Chemical
Works was made in the amount Of
$780, 900. when 100000 shares of IS
par capital stock are placed on the
market by F. Eberstadt g. Co. at sls
share. Half OF the issue represents
new financing for acquisition of real
estate and expansion Of present facili-
ties. while the remaining $4,000 shares
were acquired from present stock
holders.
Evening star., 1937-08-31

Trading was light on the Washing
ton Stock Exchange today. WASH
ington Gas preferred sold in two
blocks at 1894, and City and Suburban
Is went at 10.
A. I. B. Reveals Program.
Full details of the educational pro-
gram of the Washington Chapter,
American Institute of Banking, for
the first semester of the coming year
Evening star., 1937-08-31
HEADS BANK GROUP.

OAKLAND, Md, August 81 (Pl-
Howard Dixon of Westernport WAS
elected chairman Of group I Of this
Maryland Bankers Association q.
Dud Hooking Of Frostburg was chosen
vice chairman. Delbert Davis of Oak
land will be secretary-treasurer and
Dale Snodgrass of Frostburg will Be
q delegate to the national convention.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
CLEAR|NGS REACH
PEAK SINCE 1881
August Total at $91,75O,-
668, Against S82,745,029
in Same 1886 Month.
BY HAROLD B. ROGERS,


Bank clearings in Washington are
higher than at any time since 1881.
This was disclosed today by G. H.
Bright. manager of the Washington
Clearing House Association, whose
figures indicate that August was far
ahead of August, 1886, and the first
seven months of this year exceeded
anything since 1881.
Bank clearings are always con-
sidered one of the prime indicators
OF business conditions, and the Au-
gust report, while not surprising,
evoked expressions of qualification in
the financial district, as pointing to
tine sound situation here in the
Capital
August clearings rose from ss2.-
745,029.4l in 1886 to S9l, $50, ,688. 90
In 1887, as compared to slO0.333,-
$4,000 in July, 1886, and sl1O,59O,-
257,97 in July. 1887.
Clearings for the seven months
rose from s733 ,974, ,66l .o3 in 1886 to
1888, $50, ,88l.s9 in 1887. The seven
months tabulation for several years,
back to the peak of 1929. reflects the
financial situation here as follows:
Evening star., 1937-08-31
B. & 0. L0ADINGS GAIN
SLIGHTLY FOR WEEK

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. August 31.-Car-
loadings on the Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad for the week ended August
%, totaled 50,771, including 33,l79
cars loaded on line and 1882 re-
ceived from connections.
This was an increase Of zoos loads
over the same week Of last year, when
the total was 48,763
It was also an increase of 1913 cars
over the previous week (the week
ended August 2D, when the total
was 50,643.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
FEDERAL WATER SERVICE
REPORTS HIGHER NET

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 3l-Federal
Water Service Corp. and subsidiary
companies, excluding Southern Natu-
raj Gas Co., reported consolidated net
income for the year ended June 80 of
sl,07l,485, compared with 1856, 400
for the previous year.
The company, holding and man
agement concern, supplies water In
the Middle West and Atlantic Coast
Regions.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
RURAL SALES GAINS
LARGEST IN FAR WEST

BY the Associsted Press.
Rural retail sales in the Far West
averaged 1854 per cent of the l929-3l
average during July, the Commerce
Department reports. compared with
1872 per cent in the Middle West, 100. l
per cent in the South and 1913 per
cent in the East.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
STOCK TO BE WITHDRAWN.

The Securities Commission has
granted an application by the 81.
Louis Cotton Compress Co. for au-
thority to withdraw its common stock,
$40 par value, from listing and regis
tration on the st. Louis Stock Ex-
change.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
new YORK COTTON
BY the Associated Press.

BY tHe AssocIated Press.
NEW YORK, August 31.-Althoueh
announcement of the 9-cent cotton
loan terms and of A. A. A. subsidy
payments on IS per cent Of farmers
cotton production caused further de-
clines in cotton today into new low
ground, the market encountered
enough buying resistance to hold prices
steady at the decline.
December eased from 929 to 9.16
and in midafternoon was ruling at
9.18, when the general list was l3 to II
points net lower.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
RAW MATERIAL PRICES
OFF SHARPLY IN WEEK
BY the Associated Press

by lIIe HSSUCIdIed PIPSS.
Labor Department statistics show
wholesale prices of raw materials de-
clined slightly during the week ended
August 21
The Departments index, based on,
1926 as 100, stood at IS for the week,
compared with S5.2 in the previous
week. The index for semi-manufac-
tured articles climbed slightly during
the week, rising from 86.5 to 866.
The finished products index rose SUBJ
stantially from 89.l TO 89.9.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
OIL PROFITS IMPROVE.

NEW YORK, August 81 (P.-Crown
Central Petroleum Corp, Baltimore,
reported net income for six months
ended June 80 of $378,294, equal to
9 cents common share, against &lS3,-
357, or cents . share In the like
1856 period.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
New Orleans Prices.

NEW ORLEANS August 81 LP-Cot-
ton opened steady, Is to 10 points net
lower, today. due to accumulated hedse
selling and In readjustment with the
market here was closed.
initial transactions were at new low
levels for the young season. with October
at 9."9. December at 937. January at
9,4l. March at 9.46. May at 9.5s and
July at 9.65
Trading tapered off after the start
After announcement yesterday from
Washington that loan of cents pound
and subsidy of 3 cents would be granted
growers on the present crop provided they
agreed to a 1888 adjustment program
Buyers were cautious and held of pending
further study of the loan announcement
Der. LOB October. 7.l9b: December
7QSb: January. 7.09b: March, 7.15b.
Bid
Evening star., 1937-08-31
FINANCING VOTE ASKED
BY YOUNGSTOWN SHEET
By the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, August 31-Youngs-
town Sheet & Tube Co. directors called
a special shareholders meeting Octo-
Der 19 to act on financing for plant
Improvements in youngstown and
Chicago district mills.
While plans are incomplete, the
company said, the financing probably
will total about $50, 1000. 900, with COM
mon shareholders acting on proposals
to increase common shares from g.
000, 900 to 2500,00O.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
DIVIDEND INCREASED.

NEW YORK, August 81 (P.-F. Z.
Myers Il Bro. Co.. pumpmakers, with
plants at Ashland, Ohio, declared .
dividend of Sl25 on common stock.
payable September ~ to stock Of rec
ord September l5 Dividends Of 81
were paid June as and March 20.
Evening star., 1937-08-31

were announced
by Paul j. Selt.
yer, chairman OF
the chapter Ed.
ucational Com
mittee.
Several courses
for the second
semester W er c
outlined by Self.
Zer of the Amer
lcan Security &
Trust Co., who
explained t h a
S e v e ra | m ore
classes will be
added to the cur.
riclll1lno for III.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
PENNSY TO PAY HOLDERS

NEW YORK, August 81 (P).-Penn-
sylvania Railroad Co. stated it will pay
of September the maturing issue OF
100000 series CA 31a per cent
guaranteed trust certificates dated
September /, 1897.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
SHOE OUTPUT RISES
MODERATELY IN JULY
By the Associated Press

Census Bureau figures show pro-
duction of boots, shoes and slippers,
other than rubber, totaled 34,623, 900
pairs in July. compared with 34.383. 900
pairs In june and 35,e7e,0o0 pairs In
July . year aso.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
SHORT-TERM SECURITIES.
(Reported by Chas. D. Barney Il Coz

Amer Tel & Tel 5K,s 1943 1l2ss ll2A
Auburn Auto Co 4a4S 1889 4OK 621a
Baldw Loco Wks IS 1910 1O3h2
Calf Packing Corp IS 1910 1O3R 1O4
Caro-. Clinchf a. o 5s 1888 1929 lO3
Chesap g. o Rwy IS 1889 1864 1OSh
Edison Elec lllu As 1899 104as 1863
Gen Pub Serv Bias 1899 101s
Grand Rap g. Ind 4H2S ]94l 1OSh lOSN
Houston Oil 5l2s 1910 - 1922 1O2A
4ntl Mer Marine 6s 1941 74ss 1874
init Tel g. Tel 4 i2s 1899 SSHa 500.
iaclede Gas Light 5s 1889 941a a6Ea
Lehigh Valley Coal 6s 1888 "a 95
LehiSh Valley Tr r 5s l941 1O4
Long Island Gen As 1888 1919 1924
Louis e. Nash r r As 1910 1864 1O7
Mich Cent RR As 1910 104A 1O5A
Midland RR of N j SIS 1910 81 40
Milw g. Nor RR 4Nas 1899 80 90
NY. Chi e. StL 81 notes '3S ~ 96h
New York Dock 5s 1898 57n so
New York Tel 4l2s 1899 1O7 1O7L
Pac RR of Mo As 1898 aS 9Sk4
fenn-Dixie Cement 6s 1941 9SA 99K.
penna RR Co As 1943 1O9H lib
Rio Grande Westn As 1889 70 73
Tr RR Assn StL 4 l7s 1889 1854 1O7H
vanadium Corp IS 1941 101hs 1017s
Vertientes Sugar Co rs 1912 21A 24Ia
Wabash Rvy Co IS 1880 SO Sc
Warner Bros 6s 1889 - o5 o5H
Western n Y & Pa Is 1e43 11O lilH
Western Union Tel IS 1888 10l l01N
Evening star., 1937-08-31
COttOnSeed Oil

Bleacha BILE cottonseed oil futures CLOSED
steady. ! to lower: sales. 1875 contracts
cember, :55--56: January. 15s: March
I.6S. Bid.
Evening star., 1937-08-31

n T..
1l:oO AM- loo.ooo 1900 Noon------ 220 900
400 PM.------ 2s0 900 200 P.M.--- 34O 900
Total Sales for the day. 900
trading 10 sharas
bankruptcy reoreaniyed
BANKRUPTCY act or securities
Ell dividend; Ex rights extras e Paid
last PAYABLE paid ths
year Cash or stock Accumulated paid or de-
clared this 'N'N 0N W.
Rates Of dividends FOREGOING table are annual Dis
bursements based
extra dividends are not
~ N-',NSAN. -te NV
Evening star., 1937-08-31
Winnipeg Prices.
Baltimore Ouotationx

BALTIMORE. August 81 LP.-Wheat
No. 2 red Winter. earlicky, spot. domestic,
LOS: August. LOS.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
U. s. TREASURY NOTES.

NEW YORK August 81 P.-Prices
quoted in dollars and thirty-seconds.
Approx
Evening star., 1937-08-31

Chicago Cash Market.
Cash wheat, No. 3 hard. l07A 1.08.
Corn. No. 2 yellow, l.03; No. 2 white,
l.O31a. Oats, No. white, 81 II No. 2
white, 3oA-34. Rye, No. Q, 81; No. 3,
80-80la. No buckwheat; no soy beans.
Barley sales, 74-85; feed, 1850; malt
ing, $3.50. Timothy seed, 2.50-60.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16

week ago.
Investigators reported mo pro-
eress" in their efforts to find the
38 year old society matron.
This advertisement appeared:
IN. Sennett. Come home. Tele-
phone Huntington 81"
The telephone number Is that of
Gerald M Livingston of West Neck
Road, Huntington, N. Y, near the
Parsons farm. Livingston denied
that he had inserted the ad, and
said he had no desire to act as
Intermediary.
New York police questioned a
taxi driver who reported that a
woman resembling Mrs. Parsons
rode with him from midtown Man
haitian last night to the PennSylva-
mia station. The driver, Nat Lewis,
said that another woman and a
man accompanied the woman he
believed to be the missing heireSS.
Earl j. Conelly, inspector in
charge of federal agents, refused to
discuss reports that a contact had
been made with the kidnaper.
Other sources indicated that the
G-men were concentrating on the
theory that Mrs. Parsons was dead.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
= CONTACT REPORTED ESTABLISHED
Rotation of Crops
Among Best Ways
Of Disease Control

Crop rotation is a simple, but
one of the best ways of keeping
plant diseases under control, &C
Cording to the United States de
partment Of agriculture crop 5pe-
ciallstS.
One method Is that of rotating
flax with small grains. Flax, al
though grown like small grain
crop, belongs to family of plant
widely separated from the grass
family to which wheat, oats, barley,
rye and corn belong. It is not at
tackled by the same diseases that
injure grains but has its own dis
eases such as rust wilt, and leaf
spot. which in turn, do not attack
small grains.
A variety of flax. susceptible to
wilt, however, must be grown on
clean land as ordinary rotations
do not destroy the wilt organism
in the flax-sick soil.
Since flax wilt is not present in
Imperial Valley, susceptible varie-
ties such as Punjab, may be grown
here, said Frank G.. Beyschlag,
farm advisor.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Strolls Thru Holl llyavood

earned her contract through the
insistence of Maurice Stiller, the
director.
That her studio could see nothing
great in her was evidenced from
the beginning Like all other jun
ior stock players, she was put
through the publicity mill, with no
holds barred. She was posed in
tights. during the leg-art era, and
once she was poured into bathing
suit and rushed to the University
of Southern California to pose with
the boys who later shellacked Notre
Dame.
That picture, which now would
prove sensational, was almost a
total flop in those days for the
reason that Greta Garbo was un-
known. Her metamorphoSiS from leg
pictures to awed reverence is about
the strangest fairy tale Hollywood
has yet known.
What brought this about is open
to debate. Some feel that Garbo
Just grew. There are others who see
it as an inspired bit of press agentry,
and This latter theory is the more
probable. Before her sudden rise
to overnight Stardom. Garbo was ex-
tremely difficult copy She was hard
to talk to because she couldn't ar
ticulate her Swedish ideas in terms
of good English grammar. As a
consequence. she was passed up by
intervleWers. and the future might
have been very black for her save
for one thing.
The men who were responsible
for her career decided to Withdraw
her from circulation; to make her
exclusive. IT was new move on
the checkerboard Of ballyhoo-ar
expediency born Of desperation. Il
It worked, okeh; If It didn't, there
was nothing much to lose.
On this negativistic scheme was
Greta Carlo born.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
CONFESSIONS
OF A PRESS AGENT
BY John Peere Miles

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 16 U.P)
-Marlene Dietrich, who engineer
ed the greatest and most wide
spread publicity in the history of
films when she devised the stunt
of wearing pants, found out, almost
too late, that she couldn't stop.
Her tailored trousers and suits,
both for herself and daughter, had
piled up tons of mailed recrimina-
tions in her studio dressing room.
She had achieved in the space of
few months, tremendous press
dominance over her greatest rival
for glamor-Greta Garbo, who earn
ed the distinction of being hot news
copy by shuddering at realities and
the public eye.
When Miss Dietrich saw the
handwriting on the wall she de-
cided to 90 to Europe, leave un-
pleaSantneSS behind for a while,
and return a new and emancipated
Marlene.
But she made the mistake of TAX
ing her pants along. The Euro
peans, charitable in most things
having TO do with actresses. re-
sented her trousers. In France the
people booed her. She returned 10
Hollywood. ceased being press
agent and devoted all of her time
from then OH to being all actress
in skirts
For many wears there has been
an intense rivalry between this act
reSs and Miss Ciarbo IT. was not
until some months ago, when Miss
Dietrich was alleged to have snub-
bed Garbo at the TroCadero that
Hollywood realized that these two
people had never met.
In no other place in the world
would it have been possible for
two superior beings, living seven
years in the same small town, tc
avoid one another. But this IS Hol-
lywood, where strange people de
velop strange fancies
Miss Dietrich hadn't snubbed
Carlo when the two, by accident
were sitting close together at the
well known restaurant for stuffed
shirts I'VE hadn't been introduced,
said Miss Dietrich And the fact thai
they hadn't. gave press agent thu
! inspiration for a "Snubb1ng" ru1noi
that burned up the wires
Nearly every actress, at one tlme
or another with the possible ex-
ception of Katharine Hepburn who
considered herself SUPERIOR have
! focused jealous eyes upon Garbo
There is no doubt that every CIR
who comes TO Hollywood Woulc
rather be one Garbo than ter
Dietrichs, Claudette ColbertS anC
Simone SimonS.
This is because Garbo is, re
gardless of the merits, the mos
important female in Hollywood
Others have eclipsed her for {
month or two at a time, but Wher
Garbo opens her mouth and say
"Ay tank ay go 'ome now" the 9TH
er girls must sit still until the flur'
ry subsidies.
Garbo came to Hollywood with a
little notice as the afternoon sun
No one had ever heard of her be-
fore. The Metro-GoldWyn- -Maye
publicity department only knew tha
she was Swedish and that she hat
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
DOCTOR SUES
w. c.. FIELDS ON
LIQUOR CURE

RIVERSIDE, Calf, June 16.W.P)-
w. c. Fields and his doctor were
suing each other today over a
hospital confinement during which,
the doctor said, he reduced the
apple nosed comedians Whiskey
consumption from two quarts a day
to an ounce and a half.
DR.. Jesse Citron demanded $4,000
for services rendered and Fields, in
a counter suit, asked $4,000 from
the doctor for alleged mistreatment.
Fields was expected to testify late
today
He sputtered angrily when COM
menting on the doctors testimony.
1.-TWO quarts a day, indeed! I'm
mortified! I never drank two quarts
a day. Not even in the good old
days. 1 don't drink at all now"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Auction Philosophy
BY ID. l.. ZINN
By ID. l.. ZINN

Folks, you have always wondered how things would
be if Rose and Hewes hooked up and made hard tght
together what the answer would be. Well just read the
Thursday Morning Post the Press and you Will see
the answer to your question. 49,, r.
Now hope they don't start to getting too thlck, ior
a fghtin ma ority always needs flghtln minority
to keep things on an keel just like we always neeo
those guys that are always agln everything WASH
for them the boosters would away with themselves
Roosevelt is getting congress ike we heeu, nT' w.
one that cant be led around by the We needed to
fight together and follow the leader to whip OLD man
depression but now have got hm on the run Uine
now to settle down. take stock and balance things up.
If you haven't voted yet vote If 1t isn't 100 late. ~
stay open til seven o'clock.
III be seein' YOU
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Pope Grieved by
Anti-CathOlic Row

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, June
16. U.P)-The pope, addressing more
than 1000 Pilgrims, including Ger
mans, expressed sorrow today over
the blind struggle" going on in
Germany against the Catholic
church.
His short speech was similar to
those he made on two other re-
cent occasions, deploring condi-
tions in the Reich and assuring
German Catholics of his sympathy
and support.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Premier Survives
Legislative Crisis

PARIS, June 16. U.P)-Premier
Leon Blum, safely past the cham
ber of deputies with his project
for emergency power to safeguard
the national finances, faces a hos
tile senate Friday for another fight
for his political life.
The chamber passed the project
by a vote of 346 to 247 this morn
ing, at the end of a turbulent night
session, and thus voted the neces-
sary confidence in the government.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Struggle Continued
To Form Jury for
Newspaper Staying

ALTURAS, Calf. June 16. W,P)-
The difficult, apparently almost
hopeless task of seating jury con-
tinued today in the murder trial
of Harry French with the defense
indicating it will try to show he
was justified in killing Claude L.
McCracken, newspaper publisher.
1t appeared that nearly every
venireman was either a friend or
relative of French and had formed
a definite opinion concerning the
country weekly feud Staying"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
TATTOO RULING

NEW YORK, June is. WR)-
Members of the 62nd coast artil-
lery regiment who get their skin
infected because of tattooing will
receive no pay while unfit for duty.
Col. Frank K. Ferguson, COM
mander of the post, made the rul-
ing. He said that the modern re-
cruit was just as interested in tat
tooing as the old soldier, but for
some strange reason Just can't
take it," Six became i'll within a
week from tattoo infection.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Garner, on Vacation,
Sees Plenty Rain

AMARILLO, Tex. June l6. UP
Vice President John Nance Garner
today remarked-jokingly, he said
that he had seen so much rain on
his trip homeWard for a brief va
cation that he was going to tell
the president to quit giving any
money to what was called "the
dust bowl"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
CAT SAVIOR DIES

SUNLAND, Calf, June l6. UP)-
Stray cats lost one of their best
friends when Chief White Horse
Eagle died here at the age of lis.
Neighbors had him into court once
on a complaint that nocturnal
yowlings from the direction of the
chiefs home kept them awake. The
Indian was found to be caring for
more than 100 cats.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
u a
DELIN GU N T
! Il 4 IL s I
City Of Ell Centro, California
Fiscal Year 1036-37

Notice is hereby given that default has been made
in payment of taxes due the City of Ell Centre for the
year ending June 80 1887 upon property hereinafter
described.
And unless the taxes delinquent on said prop
erty together with all penalties and costs due thereon
paid at the office of the Tax Collector IN the Clty
Hall on or before Monday July 12th 1897, at 10:O0
o'clock A. NJ all of said property described in the fol
lowing list on which said taxes penalties and cost are
unpaid will on that date and at the hour above specl-
fled by operation of law be sold to the City of E Cen:
tro and that such sale will be made in the office OF
the Tax Collector
Dated this 10Th day of June, 1887.
J. STERLING OSWALT
Tax Collector of the City of El Centrc
State of California