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Evening star., 1937-02-11
Florida Has Mountains"

LOS ANGELES P.-Chamber Of
Commerce officials viewed o news
reel purportedly put out by the Miami
Beach. Fla, publicity department.
showing four girls riding aquaplanes.
They stared - incredulous - then
rushed to telegraph office. To Mayor
Louis F. Snedigar Of Miami Beach
went this wire: I'VE are glad to share
out beautiful girls, our sun-kissed Pa
ciflc Ocean but don't you agree
that our lovely mountain-girded
shoreline as background for Flor
ida picture is surprising If not ac-
tually startling?"
Evening star., 1937-02-11

Meals need not suffer because of meatless days Daily
menus can be just nurtously complete and well bal
ancedand still be economical! Giants stock of Lenten
foods is complete tempting selection of fish, both fresh
and canneddeghtfuly fresh avorsome dairy products
crisp succulent, vegetables and frusal offer plenty
OF variety for appetzng dishes And best of ALL they rep
resent the utmost SAVINGS. Come Giant for Lenten
foods and LOW PRICES.
Evening star., 1937-08-02
Girl Wants Earrings.

Having proved that she is the
granddaughter of Theebaw's Queen.
who gave no end of trouble in fight
ing for her rights after King Theebaw
of Burma was defeated in the Bur-
mese War of 1885, girl has presented
a problem to the Burmese govern
ment at Rangoon. She demands as
a right S9,375 to have her ears pierced
for earrings by Buddhist priests in a
manner befltting a granddaughter of
King Theebaw. In yellow petticoat
and green hat she appeared before
Sir Archibald Cochrane, the Governor,
and stated her demands. The Gov
ernor is puzzled as to what to reply,
but the princess believes she holds
a trump card because the Indian
government before Burma became in
dependent paid $35,O0O for the ear
piercing ceremony of her mother and
her three aunts.
Evening star., 1937-08-02
.STEELS ADVANCE
IN LATE TRADING
Rails Continue to Sag-Gen.
I eraI Motors Is Lively
Performer.
Stock Averages
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 2-Steels
rallied in today's late stock market
dealings and some recently hesitant
leaders made a better showing
Rubbers and farm implements ex-
hlblted strength from the start. along
with an assortment of specialities
which were buoyed by earnings and
dividend developments.
Many issues, at the same time,
lacked vigor on the upside and
moderate losers were in evidence at
the finish
Rails continued to drOop and util-
ltles lost their buoyancy of the pre-
vious week
General Motors was a relatively
lively performer on the advance IN
anticipation of pleasing dividend
news scheduled for release after the
close. Chrysler improved at the last.
An upturn Of IL points in this
weeks stele mill operations tended
to bring IN support for these stocks.
Although Wall Street was none too
happy over the Senate passage Of
the wage-hour bill. little selling was
ascribed to this turn of affairs. Hopes
for an early adjournment were an off,
setting factor
Transfers approximated 100000
shares.
Prominent with gains up to points
or so were United States Steel, Bethle-
hem American Rolling Mill. Vara-
dunn. Crucible Steel, General Motors,
Chrysler, Goodyear, United States
Rubber, Goodrich, Allis Chalmers,
Westinghouse. Du Pont. Anaconda,
international Nickel Roam Antelope,
Union Bag & Paper. National Cash
Register. Collins & Aikman. Armstrong
Cork. National Department Stores and
United Aircraft
Good crop news aided the farm ma
chlnery department j. l. Case got
up or so at the best and Deere. In
ternational Harvester and Oliver Farm
pushed up to 8
About unchanged TO off around a
point were American Water Works,
Consolidated Edison. Electric Power
e. Light, New York Central. Southern
Railway, Baltimore e. Ohio, Atlantic
Coast Line. Northern Pacific. Para
mount, Columbia Gas and Chesa peake
Corp
Coca-Cola stock was llStless despite
a boost in the dividend from so to IS
cents and a substantial upturn in
earnings.
Evening star., 1937-08-02
FARM IMPLEMENT
RECORD FORECAST
Domestic Sales Expected to Near
Half-Billion Mark and Set
New All.Time Peak

New All-Tlme Peak.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 2-The 1887 har-
vest Of the farmers best money crops
in to 10 years will swell domestic
agricultural implement business be-
yond all optimistic expectations, ac-
cording to reliable sources in the in
dustry today.
Authoritative private forecasts in
dicated domestic sales will eclipse all
previous records, a projection Of actual
first six months gains reported by
important units within the industry
indicating domestic sales may total
close to half a billion dollars. which
would top the 1929 record Of $685.
100000. Last year the total was
around $400,000,000, while in 1882 1t
was estimated at less than 100000
900.
The implement manufacturers are
making up for the lean years Of 1881.
1882, 1888 and 1854 period of small
volume and sales during which equip
ment in use was not being replaced at
q normal rate. The result was that
production fell to as low as $ll6,-
100000 in 1882 and $l20,000,0OO In
1888 and showed little improvement in
the drought year, 1884.
Evening star., 1937-08-02
Frog Plague Alarms.

Hungarian singing frogs. imported
to stop a plague Of mosquitoes, do not
always sing on key, but they in
variably sing too loud. This Is averred
by the people of Stone-in- Oxney,
England, all Of whom declare they
cannot sleep because Of the croakers,
which are four times the size Of
English frogs. Villagers nocked to a
meeting held in Memorial Hall to
find ways OF stopping the frog plague,
which Is spreading to villages Is miles
away. It was decided to appeal to
the local member of Parliament, the
ministry of agriculture, the Kent
County Council. the Tenterden Rural
Council and the English House of
Commons. A plan to use red flannel
to entangle the frogs teeth was dis
carded when an appeal for red
flannel petticoat failed.
Evening star., 1937-08-02

Italy Is promoting the production Of
synthetic rubber.
Evening star., 1937-08-02
Driver Faces Murder Charge.

. SIDNEY, OHIO, August 2.-Pros-
ecutor Leo Winget said today he would
file murder charge against Robert
James, 20, held in the death of
Jaunita jenkins, 16. The girl died
Saturday, four days after she was
found in a cornfield suffering from q
skull fracture Police Chief William
O'Ieary said James told him the girl
fell from the running board Of his
moving automobile.
Evening star., 1937-08-02
CHICAGO GRAIN
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, August 2-Infuenced
more or less by nearly 100000
bushels increase of the United States
visible supply total. wheat today fell
234 cents bushel maximum.
This increase compared with only
7,578,000 bushels increase at this
time last year. but was less than last
weeks increase of 20,573, ,00C bushels
New domestic Spring wheat in larger
volume is now beginning to be mar
keted
At the close wheat was 1i4-1S.
lower compared with Saturdays fin
ish; September. l.l5-l.l5is; Decem-
Der, l.l6l4as; corn, L.. off to 3 cents
up; September. 94Ss-$. December,
66-661a. and oats "a down
Evening star., 1937-08-02
new YORK COTTON

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. August 2.-After de-
cllning to new lows for the life Of
present contracts again today on fa-
vorable weather over the week end,
cotton ruled quiet with traders await
ing more private crop estimates.
Small rallies occurred at times on
covering. but the undertone was easy
and buyers cautious. A holiday at
Liverpool resulted in small foreign
operations.
December declined to 1851 and
after rally to 1867 again eased to
the early low. In midafternoon ths
entire list was to 9 points net lower,
Evening star., 1937-08-02
Money Circulation Dips.

NEW YORK, August 2 (P).-Money :
in circulation dipped slightly in the
week ended July %, according to
the credit statement of the reserve
banks. The setback was seasonal,
the normal accompaniment of slow
ing Summer trade
Money use, reported by the Reserve
Board, compared as follows:
Week ended July 20, s6,424 600, 600
Previous week, S6,436,00O,
Same period last year, $6,l23, 000,-
900.
Evening star., 1937-08-02
Japs Ask 84.Hour Week .

Government authorities at Tokyo,
Japan. needing recent agitation, have
drafted 4 bill to reduce the number
Of the workmen's hours from Is to
II. The Japanese workman, toiling
seven days q week, will have an 81
hour week II the measure becomes
law.
Evening star., 1937-08-02
New Orleans Price Says.

NEW ORLEANS. August 2 tP,.-
Cotton started the new season TODAY
by making new lows for the first move
ment Though occasional profit
taking flurries were encountered
prices were to points net lower at
the beginning of the final hour.
October contracts traded at 1911
after selling off at 1868 December
sold at 1910. January at 1916, March
at 1888 and May at 1888.
Most OF the selling was made up of
hedging against the new crop and
little tired long liquidation.
Evening star., 1937-08-02
Steel Production
Gains l.2 Points
During This Week
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 2-Operations
in the steel industry for the current
week advanced IL points to s5.5 per
cent of capacity. compared with 84.3
per cent last week, the American Iron
& Steel Institute estimated today.
A month ago operations averaged
673 per cent of capacity while a
year ago the rate was TIA per cent.
Evening star., 1937-08-02
SUBSIDIARY OBTAINED
BY ROOT PETROLEUM
BY the Associated Press.

ASSUCIHVt FItSS.
OKLAHOMA CITY, August a.
CromWell-Franklin Oil Co., Oklahoma
City, today became subsidiary Of
the Root Petroleum Co., Shreveport.
La, when the Root company acquired
lO,897 of Cromwell-Franklin's l5.-
568 outstanding shares of stock at an
average price of $40.
The deal was announced by Stuart
G. Lyon Of Lyon, Pruyn 81 Co., New
York fiscal agents for Root, an inde-
pendent company owning a rein1-v
and pipeline holdings in Louisiana and
Arkansas.
Evening star., 1937-08-02
CHICAGO STOCKS

CHICAGO. August 2 A9-Scattered
issues scored modest advances in to-
days quiet Chicago stock trade. but
the bulk of the list was unsettled and
prices were irregular. Buying CEN
tered In few specialties.
Evening star., 1937-08-02

unit Of trading 10 shares
bankruptcy act or seeuritie: assumed by such companies
based the last quarterly
Unless otherwise noted special dividends
included
last Payable in Declared
this
Evening star., 1937-08-02
New Gas Stock Sells at Is,


Trading in the new Washington Gas
Light common featured business on the
Washington Stock Exchange today.
The market opened with a 100-share
sale at 25, followed by Is and 10 share
lots moving at the same price. The
closing bid was 2434 with 26 asked.
New York bank stocks were slightly
lower at the end of the week according
to Hout, Rose g. Troster, bringing the
yield up to 3.29 per cent for l6 issues.
Insurance stocks also eased off.
Shipments of oil burners during
June totaled l4,724 units compared
with l4,4O6 units in May and 1859
units in June, 1886, the Department
Of Commerce reports.
Production of boots, shoes and slip
pers, other than rubber, amounted
to "a, 4,240 1868 pairs in June compared
with 7o,370,504 in the corresponding
month Of last year. the Department
e Commerce reported.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02

EVANSVILLE, Md, Aug. 2.
The annual flower show Of the
HyattSville Horticulture Society
will be held Friday night in the
First Presbyterian Church at
johnson and Wine Avenues. The
show will be opened to the pub
lie at p. m. but the judging Of
the exhibits will begin at about Z.
Prizes are to be awarded for
best exhibits in three classes and
81 sub-classes. The first class is
for gladioli only, the second for
arrangements and the third for
children's exhibits. A sweepstakes
prize will be awarded the person
receiving the highest number Of
points in the displays.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
WOMEN PICKETS
FIGHT GARMENT
PLANT WORKERS
Leader Of so Reported
FeIIed in Indiana

KENDALLvILLE. Ind, Aug. 2
GNsO.-Violence flared today as
so pickets, mostly women mem
bers of the International Ladies
Garment Union, attempted to pre-.
vent employees from entering the
Trenton Garment Company's fac
tory to work.
Harold Schwartz, of Chicago,
alleged leader of the pickets, was
reported to have been knocked
down. Police were sent to the
scene.
The Trenton plant was moved
here recently from jackson, Mich,
where its strike-bound factory was
closed. Pickets encircling the
plant here were from jackson,
Mich, authorities said. After the
battle, Schwartz telephoned to
jackson for reinforcements for
the strikers, police said.
The fight occurred on the open
ing day. A reported understand
ing permitted peaceful picketing,
it was said here. After the strug.
gle, in which several nurse d
bruises, Mayor U. C. Brouse said:
81 intend to see that persons
are permitted to work at this
factory if 1 have to deputiZe
half the city to do 1t"
The company has not operated
since last May. o. C. Dutzenhiser
is president. In Michigan it was
said to have employed about 300.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
FLOWER EXHIBIT VIRGINIA COURT
AT EVANSVILLE DEF|ED BY DAIRY

ARLINGTON, Va, Aug. Ode
spite an Injunction served on the
firm yesterday by the Virginia
Milk Commission, the Highland
Farms Dairy will continue to de-
liver milk to its TOO customers in
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS area at
II cents a quart, officials an
nounced today.
The restraining order, issued by
Judge Frank T. Sutton Of Rich
mond law, is the second granted
the State Milk Commission in its
latest fight to establish a 14-cent
minimum price for the Northern
Virginia section.
T. L. and r. E. Hazel, propri-
etors Of HazePs Dairy, Falls
Church, were cited to appear be-
fore the court in Richmond today
to show cause why a permanent
Injunction should not be granted.
44ACy OOlN uA11h dG IL CC1AUo q NudA Y
until the order was served two
weeks ago.
Contending that the restraining
order served yesterday on Vernon
Steele, deliveryman, does not ap.
ply to tn Highland Farms Dairy,
Philip Rosenfeld, company attor-
ney, said today:
The Highland Farms Dairy
does not sell milk at any price
in the Arlington Alexandria
area. 1t delivers milk in inter-
state shipment on orders mailed
to the company office in Wash.
ingtOn from its Virginia custom.
erS. We believe that the Vir.
ginia Milk Commission has re-
ceived erroneous information
and has presented such to the
court"
The order cites the Highland
Farms Dairy to appear before
Judge Sutton in the Richmond
court on August 16.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
First Painless
Dentist Is Dead

OCEAN CITY, N. j., Aug. 2 Il.
N.S0.-Dr. William T. Wyckoff,
credited with being the first man
to perform painless tooth extrac-
ton, was dead today at the age Of
70.
DR.. Wyckoff, the Oldest practic-
ing dentist in Pennsylvania until
his retirement a year ago, per-
formed his famous extraction in
Philadelphia in 1902.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
ADVERTISEMENT
Kidneys Must
Clean Out Acids

The only way your body can clean out
Acids and poisonous wastes from your
blood is thru million tiny, delicate Kidney
tubes or filters. but beware of cheap. dras-
tic, irritating drugs. If functional Kidney
or Bladder disorders make you suffer from
Getting Up Nights, Nervousness, Leg Pains.
Backache. Circles Under Eyes, Dizziness,
Rheumatic Pains. Acidity, Burning, Smart
ing or Itching, don't take chances. Get the
Doctors guaranteed prescription called Cys-
tex (Siss-Tex). Works fast, safe and sure.
In 4S hours it must bring new vitality, and
is guaranteed to do the work in one week
or money back on return of empty package.
Cystex costs only Sc dose at druggists and
the guarantee protects you.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
Interior Workers
To Dance Aug. IL

The first dance in the recrea-
ton rooms of the new Department
of Interior Building will be given
by employees Wednesday evening,
August II. It will celebrate forma-
ton of the new Interior Depart
ment Recreation Association, with
Hillory A. Tolson, Park director,
as president; Ian Forbes and Eve
lyn Adams, as chairmen Of enter
tainment committee.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
OFFICE SEEKERS
HAVE BUSY DAY
in ALEXANDRIA
Polls Open Tomorrow
At Sunrise

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Aug. 2.
Closing one Of the liveliest election
campaigns here in recent years,
candidates for city offices in to-
morrow's Democratic primary were
making last minute efforts today
to line up additional support.
Letters, telephone calls, radio
speeches and newspaper advertise
ments were being employed to
reach every voter. Automobile
torchlight parades will hold a
super-climax tonight. From sun
rise to sunset tomorrow the candi.
dates will have their workers fur.
nishing free taxi service" to and
from the polls.
At least two Of the four contests
for city offices are expected to be
close enough for photo finish"
The other two are not regarded by
anyone as easy races.
Race for Delegate Seat
The race between Maurice D.
Rosenberg, incumbent, and Court
land H. Davis, for the Alexandria
seat at the Virginia House Of Dele.
gates, is probably the feature bill
of the days card, with the Albert
v. Bryan.William S. Snow match
for commemorative attorney
pushing it for top ranking.
Rosenberg's outright stand for
q bill to make elective, instead Of
appointive, the offices Of city at
torney and city collector has given
impetus to his contest with Davis.
The latter has taken no stand on
the question, other than to abide
by "the desire of majority Of my
people for an amendment to. our
city charter to effect change in
the method of selection"
A third candidate in the House
of Delegates race, William E.
Sellers, has not entered this phase
of the contest.
Price Victory Expected
other contests for city offices
are between Judge James r. Dun
can and E. Joel TRIGGER for civil
and police justice, and Elliott F.
Hoffman, incumbent, and Fred
Petit for clerk Of court. 1ncum'
bent candidates for commissioner
Of revenue, city sergeant, and city
treasurer are unoppoSed.
In the gubernatorial race, Lieu
tenant Governor James II. Price Is
expected to record an overWhelm.
ingly victory here as well as in
other sections of the State In his
contest with Vivian L. Page.
Election officials will have a II
hour day atgthe polls, which open
at sunrise, $40 a. NJ, and close
at sunset, 7:18 p. m. A record vote
of near 5000 ballots is expected to
be cast by the city's record voting
population of 1910.
Voting Place Changed
Two members of the City Demo
cratic Committee also will be
elected from each Of the six wards
of the city. ArIniStead L. Boothe
and Charles E. Davis, incumbents
in the first ward, have opposition
from George Nails. The only other
committee contest is in the fourth
ward, where r. Samuel Luckett,
incumbent, Stanley King and
Ernest L. Mankin are the candi-
dates.
The voting place for the second
ward has been changed to GadS
by'S Tavern.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
Trips Son
Turns OUer to Police
Loot in Robbery

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2 G.N.sJ.
The father of a man arrested in
Cleveland, Ohio. today had turned
over to police $1,000 in 500 and
$50 bills which, he said, his son
left with him July % with the
request keep it for me-"
The father Is Herman j. Wild
naer, Of st. Louis. He voluntarily
turned over a package, containing
the money, to police with the ex-
PLANTATION that when he learned
his son, James Widmer, had been
arrested in Cleveland in connec-
ton with a series Of bank rob-
berries there, he concluded the
$1,000 was part of the loot, and
that he wished to return 1t to its
rightful owners.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
Police Chief Freed
On Bond in Staying

WINFIELD, w. Va, Aug. 2
0.N.S0.-Police Chief Ote Bias, Of
nearby Hurricane, was released
under $4,000 bond today on a
charge of murder in the death of
Tom Lucas, %, whom he arrested
on an intoxication charge. Corp.
Paul r. VaSsar said Bias told him
his gun was discharged in a scuf-
fle for its possession as Lucas re-
sisted efforts to put him in a Jail
cell.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
Boy Grass Inhaler
/ is Sent to Hospital

= PHILADELPHI Aug. 2
CI.N.S0.-John Freeman, nine, of
Tulsa. Okla, today received treat
ment at Temple University Hos
pital for a lung infection suffered
two months ago from inhaling
several blades of grass. Physicians
began an examination to deter
mine whether an operation would
be necessary.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
Outdoor Dancing
Set for Tonight

outdoor dancing will take place
from 9 to II o'clock tonight on the
pavement of the Ellipse, which
will be roped off between Six.
tenth and Seventeenth Streets.
Music will be furnished by the
WPA dance orchestra of the Dis
trict of Columbia, made up Of nine
Federal music project musicians.
This is one of a series of Monday
night outdoor dances here Spon-
sored by the National Parks Serv-
ice.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
Police Wrap Up
Girls Cut Thumb

The police department rendered
first aid to little Patricia Myers,
6, yesterday. That is, 1t wrapped
UP her cut thumb. The thumb suf-
fered when Patricia experimental
with her mothers new mixer. She
got it started, then stuck her
thumb in to see how it felt. Pa
tricia screamed, and her mother,
in . panic, called police. They
live: at 1928 Fourteenth st. S. E.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
BOles EXtOrtiOn
Plot Jails Woman

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 G.N.s0.
Mrs. June Bates, 38-year-old
mother Of four children, was
called to Federal Court today to
face charges of attempting to ex-
tort $500 from John Boles, screen
actor. Mrs. Bates was arrested in
Oakland, Cal, after assertedly
writing q series Of weird letters in
which she demanded the money.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
Boy, Is, Branded
Thief By Father

NEW YORK, Aug. 2 Q.N.SO.
Accused Of robbery, a soft-spoken,
18-year-old boy, branded by his
blind father as a thief before po-
lice, was to be arraigned today.
SightleSs Fred Klow said he
wanted to be the first complainant
against him. The boy. Richard,
shrugged, smiled, and said nothing.
The Washington times., 1937-08-02
GERMAN BARON DIES

BERLIN, Aug. 2 U.N.SO.
Baron Frederick Hans Won Rosen-
berg, German foreign minister
in 1929, was dead at his Bava-
rian home today at the age Of 81.
Evening star., 1937-09-13
Open Bid to Banditry?
If Piracy Concerns Us Elsewhere, Why Does 1t Not
Concern Us in Mediterranean?

great nation in the world. The Rus
SLAMS have caused considerable inter-
national annoyance by stating bluntly
what they believe to be the origin
Of the pirate ships. Indignant charges
are made that the Russian is not 4
decent form of government. But from
the standpoint of international law
there is only one pertinent question:
Whether the Russian accusations are
true.
The dilemma which is presented to
They advocate that America withdraw
whenever, under whatever circum-
stances, trouble breaks out between
nations. Do they now go step fur
ther and say that If pirates. sea-gang-
sters, whom no nation acknowledges,
set out to hold up passersby on the
highways of the world, we shall with
draw from all those highways? Do
they honestly think that such with
drawal will be, in the long run, in the
interests of peace? Would it be in
the interests of domestic peace If,
when bandits appeared in a certain
section of town, all Of the business
men of that section were advised by
the police to close their shops and
move away? Do our friends of peace
honestly advise that international
highways the property of all human
ity, should be abandoned If bandits
are abroad? Is that not an open in
vitation to banditry? At what point
does the issue become a matter of
principle? At no point? Does it con-
Germ us if submarines hold up (elr
shipping just of Nantucket? Or if they
sail into the Hudson River? Or If
they infest the Panama Canal? And
If it concerns us there, why does it
not concern us in the Mediterranean?
And if piracy can be winked at in
the SECS, why not in the air?
Nothing can bring you peace, !"
said Emerson, bat the triumph of
principle" A world without law is a
world at war.
Copyright. 1887, New York Tribune. Inc.)