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Evening star., 1938-11-18
81 the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Nov. 18-Medium-
priced railway loans tilted upward
in an otherwise even bond market
today.
Rail leaders, scanning the new
trade pacts with Great Britain and
Canada giving the United States
wide concessions on duties on farm
products. saw possible stimulation
of freight traffic if tariff moditlca-
tions carry out their intended pur-
pose of stimulating Anglo American
business
Fractions to one or more higher
near midday were Erie First 4s OF
96, Delaware & Hudson Refundlng
As, Illinois Central 434s, Northern
Pacific As, and Southern Railway As.
A shade lower were Nickel Plate
412s and 51as.
Industrial and utility loans were
steady. Fractions higher were Beth
lehem Steel Alps, Goodyear IS. and
Columbia Gas & Electric IS May,
and slightly lower were Remington
Rand AZ and American Foreign
Power SIS. Allegheny SIS Of 49 were
around a point off.
U. S. Government stood almost
neglected, with scattered trades
showing gains of 1-32d of point
declines of 3-32ds.
Italy Is edged ahead in the foreign
list, while japanese issues were
easier.
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New York Produce

NEW YORK. Nov. Is H.-Eggs. 6.797;
irregular Mixed CoorS, special packs,
34h2-3i: standards, "a; frsts. .9i7; sec
onds.. 25-2G mediums. 241z; dirties. No.
l. ~, average checks. 81 i2-22. Refre-
orator. specials. ,a4'.-a7h: standards
Whites: Resale of premium marks 40
a.. Nearby and Midwestern. premium
marks. 31-:a; exchange specials, 36. Mid
western exchange standards, 80 Nearby:
fancy mediums, 81 I2-34la. Nearby and
Western. exchange mediums. 30ia:. pullets.
80 Nearby and Midwestern, refriserator.
specials. 29-32; standards. 27-2s; hrsts.
$3.50
Browns: Extra fancy. 31a-3a. Nearby
nearby. exchange mediums. 2s.
Duck eggs. fancy. 33-34.
higher '' than extras. 57fa-3sH; extra 90
scorel. 2f'4-27I4: firsts (ss-9D. 25-26A;
seconds ts4,s7,@ @ @22la-24h s,. ,.,.
milk fats, held 1887. 19la-2l; fresh fancy.
Live poultry, by freight. steady to n1m.
Leghorn, II. Pullets Rocks % Old
roosters, 15. Turkeys, hens rs; toms. Fl.
BY express irregular. Chickens. Rocks.
IFS. Broilers, Rocks. 1872; crosses. Il
ored. %; Leghorn, 1919. Pullets; Rocks
hens 70. toms ,,c-.3 Ducks. ls.
Dressed poultry generally steady. Fresh:
Boxes chickens. broilers. l5-2o: fryers.
l5-2O: roosters, Is i2-e3. Frozen: CHICKENS.
broilers 17-26i2 Other fresh and frozen
prices UNCHANGED.
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Better Tone Appears
As London Market
Studies Pad
Security Prices Firmer;
Pound Scores Coin
Against Dollar
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. l8.-The Anglo
American trade agreement bright
ened the tone of the stock market to-
day. Recently it has been under
the shadow of the International
political situation.
British government stocks were
fractionally firmer in early dealings.
Leading industrial and textile
shares affected by the tariff reduc-
tions were marked slightly higher.
Transatlantic issues were about
in line with the previous New York
closing quotations.
In the foreign exchange market
the pound sterling improved early
against the dollar. 1t touched
s4.7lss, compared with yesterdays
s4.701a, but later eased to s47o7s.
The official exchange control sold
dollars late in the day, but renewed
continental buying of the American
unit held the price relatively steady.
Final rate was S47OA, off /. of a
cent.
In the stock market final prices
were a shade under the best levels
of the day, but the closing tone was
firm.
Some exchange dealers expressed
the belief the trade agreement would
have brought a better tendency for
sterling against the dollar had it not
been for the German-JeWish situa-
ton, which was said to have been
inducing holders to retain their dol
lars.
At Liverpool enlarged import
quotas for American hams. cured
pork and other pork products had
weakening effect on the provision
market American Wiltshire bacon
in the 55-65-pound range declined
shillings about ST. a hundred
weight to 10 shillings about sl7.50).
Canadian Wiltshires were of
shillings.
PARIS. Nov. l5 lPD.-United States
dollars were quoted 3787 francs
'2.640 cents to the franc in final
foreign exchange transactions to-
day. In comparison the New York
overnight franc rate was 2.636 cents
Exchange on London, 1884.
In the bourse principal rente
issues we're: 3 per cent. 80.50 francs,
4l2s a. 0400; 412s 1887, 1880.
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Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Nov. 1s Dr. UNITED States
Department Of Agriculture Hogs, 10000
including $500 direct; steady to 10 lower
than Thursdays average: weights 100
pounds up generally 5Sd 5.lo OF; top, 7.79:
l4O-1SO pounds largely 7.5O-65; good 35O-
500 pounds packing sows, 1890.
Cattle. 1000; calves. 500; generally a
cleanup trade on all killing classes at
mostly steady prices: light supply steers
bulkng from S.25-10.OO: load 1,:,OO-pound
weights. 9.75; 1.125 pounds. 1l.OO; two
loads Wyomings l,039-pound cows. $50
low cutters and cutters. 4.OO-5 90; demand
for bulls rather light; undertone weak;
vealers weak: most sales 1000 down:
stockers and feeders closing the week fully
steady; only moderate carry-over.
Sheep 5000. including 500 direct: late
Thursday fat lambs closing 1920 higher
choice natives and fed Westerns to packers
one double whte-faced feeders, 7.75.: to-
days lambs strong to y higher; closely
choice natives. 9.25-5O; sheep steady; few
fat ewes. 3.50-4 90.
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Boston Wool Market

BOSTON Nov Is LP, UNITED States De-
partment OF Agricuture) Business in the
Boston wool market continued quiet today
Most of the trading was on the finer grades
of territory wool at steady prices. Orig
inal bag lines OF fine territory wool. run,
ming bulk good French combins length and
containing some staple were movins At %
to 20 cents secured basis. Averese TO
short French combing original wool were
bringing mostly 65 to 81 cents. secured
basiA
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General EIettric:Co.
Orders Dividend Of
70 Gents a Share
Roises 1888 Payments
To go Cents, Against
$2.20 in 1887
BY the Associated Press,

NEW YORK, Nov. 18.-Directors
of General Electric Co.. declared a
dividend of 20 cents share on the
capital stock, payable December %
to stockholders of record December
2. Same amount was paid in Octo-
ber and July, while 80 cents was
disbursed in April.
At the November meeting last
year directors ordered final pay
ment of ST share, bringing total
1887 payments to $220, against 80
cents in 1898.
Merck e. Co.
Directors of Merck & Co. declared
dividend of Is cents a share on
common stock, payable December 8
to holders of record November %.
This is the first dividend declared
on common thus far in the year,
while last year a total of SITS a
share was disbursed. Company
manufactures medicinal chemicals
at Railway, N. j.
American Hide.
American Hide e. Leather Co. di-
rectors ordered a dividend of IS
cents share on the 6 per cent
cumulative preferred stock. payable
December % to holders of record
December 49, The last payment
was similar amount in December
last year. Tanneries are in Lowell,
Mass, and Ballston Spa, N. Y.
Atlantic Coast Line.
Directors of Atlantic Coast Line
Co. of Connecticut, an investment
holding company, owning mostly
securities of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad, declared a dividend of 81
share, payable December 81 to
stock of record November %. On
December "a, last year, dividend of
50 share was paid.
Lehn & Fink.
Directors of Lehn e. Fink Products
Corp, declared a dividend of Is
cents share on the common stock,
payable December IA to stock of
record December /. Previous pay
ments in 1888 were 80 cents in March
and 20 cents in June.
SOll i dkCht
Directors of Colt S Patent Fire
arms Co. have declared an extra
dividend of 50 share and the regu-
lar quarterly dividend of so cents
on the common stock, both payable
December 20 to stock of record De-
cember /. These payments will bring
1888 disbursements to 81 a share,
the same as in 1887.
Long Island Lighting.
Directors of Long Island Lighting
Co. voted to omit dividends due at
this time on its 6 and per cent
preferred stocks to conserve working
capital and because of the heavy
damage and loss of revenue suffered
in The hurricane which swept
through its territory in September.
AT the end of 1897 the company cut
dividends on both classes of stock
in half, but maintained that rate
through the third quarter.
Anneuser-B Busch.
Directors of Anheuser- Busch, Inc,
st. Louis brewers, declared an extra
dividend of 40 cents share, pay
able December -, along with the
regular dividend of 30 cents, to
stockholders of record December l.
A total of s160 a share has been
paid or declared so far this year.
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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Nov. lS.-Dlvldends de-
eared prepared by the Standard Sta
$istics Coz:
Accumulated.
Pc Stk of Pay
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U. S. Treasury Position
B. the Associated Press.

The position of the Treasury November
16: Receipts. SS.400. .995.34: expenditures,
$50, 1921 .7O net balance S2,529.35g,-
1867 including S1.9l7,537 .0l9.93 work
ing balance. Customs receipts for the
month. Sl4.2S5 124.S4.
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July
u. S2.1O4 1877 .569.25; expenditures, So
1854, 7s3. 1870, including 81 :0s3. OLD
l9446 of emergency expenditures excess
Of expenditures. Sf.26O. .645,613.45; gross
debt. S3a $50, $40 s76.30, an increase, of
Gold assets, $14. 1852, 163.994.79.
Evening star., 1938-11-18
Rubber Futures

NEW YORK. Nov. ls UP.-Crude rubber
futures opened 6 lower to B higher. De.
cember. 100000; March 1909; May,
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New York Bur Silver

NEW YORK, Nov. 18 F.-Bar
silver 42Z, unchanged.
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Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S P.-Cotton gray
goods markets were slow today. but prices
continued strong. Wash goods sales were
larger and more business was done in per
Gales. Rlyon yarns were fairly active.
Wool goods markets turned quiet o.. mills
weighed possible effect Of the Anglo.
American trade pact. 1urlap was quiet
and drm.
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Afso extra or extras.
eDeclared or paid so far this year.
9PSid last year.
Evening star., 1938-11-18

In BANKRUPTCY or receivership OF oeins
reorganized unde! the Bankruptcy Act or
securities assumed BY such compAntes-
Rates OF divide nds In the forego1ns table
are annual disbursements based on the
las; quarterly or semi annual declarations
Unless otherwise notsd special or extra
Alison extra or extras eDcclared OF
paid SO far this year no regular rate.
b Cash or stock Accumulated dividend
paid or declared this year w With
warrants. ~ without varrsntA var War.
rantA
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Investing Companies

NEW YORK Nov. Is DPl,-Investment
Bankers Conference. Inc:
moon quotatlonsD
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FOREIGN BOND

Nippon Gas SO so Go 80
Sante A As A. st 5S4. 5s9A 5Sa.
ww-With warrants. xw-Wlthout war
rants. n--New. st tstpI-Stamped
SNegotiabiity impaired by maturity.
tCompanies reported in receivershIp.
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sQuotations not furnished by sponsor or
issuer; all others are obtained by !. B. c.
from those sources.
Evening star., 1938-12-09

mittee is studying include the
Gray Ladies, Health Aid Corps, Ad-
ministration, Home Service Corps,
Motor Corps, Canteen Corps, Braille
Corps, Production Corps and Staf1
Assistance Corps.
Those attending the session in
cluded the widows Of two former
Presidents, Mrs. william Howard
Taft and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
Evening star., 1938-12-09
Red Cross Volunteer
Services Discussed

Training of women in the nine
volunteer services of the American
Red Cross was discussed yesterday
at the annual meeting of the Ma
ticnal Volunteer Service Committee
at national headquarters here.
Miss Mabel r. Boardman, ma
tional director of volunteer service
presided. She pointed out that the
International Committee of the Red
Cross Conference, meeting in Lon
Evening star., 1938-12-09

don last June, had recommended
that the other 60 Red Cross So
cieties of the world extend oppor-
tunities for the women of their
nations to organize for emergency
or war work along the lines Of the
American organization.
I'VE feel that one Of the best
ways to serve at home, as well as
to build morale she said, lis to
occupy women in worthwhile work
while their men may be engaged in
emergency operations. This applies
to disaster relief work, as well as to
other abnormal situations"
The nine services which the COM
Evening star., 1938-12-09
Jackson Day Dinner
Plans Completed

The jackson Day Campaign Com
mittee of the District Aaid today
plans have been completed for an
intensive four-week campaign in
each State, beginning next Monday
and ending on Saturday, January Z,
when Jackson Day dinners will be
held in various cities.
Each person contributing or
pledging $25 will be invited by the
Democratic National Committee to
Evening star., 1938-12-09

assistant surgeon January II, 1888.
During the World War he was in
command Of the Naval Medical
Supply Depot, Brooklyn, N. Y. He
assumed command Of the Naval
Hospital, Great Lakes, ILL.,, in Oc-
tober, 1919. At the time Of his
retirement, January II, 1880, he was
attached to headquarters Of the
Sd Naval District, New York. He
had no active duty in Washington.
Capt. Crandall held the Spanish
Campaign Medal, the Sampson
Medal for service at Santiago, Cuba
Evening star., 1938-12-09
Capt. R. P.CrunduII Dies:
Was in Navy AZ Years

Capt. Rand Percy Crandall, Navy
Medical Corps, retired, who served in
the Navy ~ years, died yesterday at
the Naval Hospital, New York, the
Navy Department has been in
formed.
Capt. Crandall, q native of New
York, where he was born January
81, 1866. graduated from the Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania Medical School
in 1887 and was commissioned an
Evening star., 1938-12-09

aboard the U. 8. s. Iowa, and the
Victory. Medal.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs.
Ronnie Trey Crandall, also of New
York.
Evening star., 1938-12-09

the thinner celebrations. Tic man
celebration will be held in Washing"
ton a. the Mayflower Hotel, whc%1
President Roosevelt will speak.
Cabinet members. Senators, Rep
sreser tatives and other Government
omcials have been invited to speak
at dinners in other parts of tae
country.
The Campaign Cornmitaee said
each glest at the dinner here Wall
contribute 500. A $50 banquet will
be held in New York City ana $25
banquets Win be the rule e'sewhsre.
Evening star., 1938-12-09
Seal Drive Nets $1,74o

A total Of $1,749 has been received
by the Arlington County (Va)
tuberculosis Association for Christ.
mas seals, according to the second
weekly report. The goal set by the
State organization is $3,763. q figure
exceeding last years quota by $50.
Evening star., 1938-12-09

Scientists say Spanish Moss
neither is q moss nor from Spain. II
is not parasitic, as moses are, but
takes nourishment from the air.
Evening star., 1938-12-09

Cuba will modify some OF its taxn.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
THEY HAVE EVERY
RIGHT TO COMPLAIN

The men whose jobs on the Bennett
Taylor contract along the All American
canal were jeopardized because labor
union officials did not approve of them
have every right in the world to COM
plain. Theirs is the sort of case that
is swinging public opinion into mounting
opposition to modern labor union tactics
Those men performed their work in a
way that caused no dissatisfaction to the
employer. Most of them were Imperial
Valley residents. Some of them were
World War veterans. They have as
much and probably more right to work
on the All American canal than others
who came to the valley from other re-
gions solely to find work here.
Their only Offense was that they were
not in good standing with the lab9r un-
ION. Therefore the union demanded their
discharge. If the men had joined the
union (thOse who were not members),
or paid $50 fine Chose who were men,
bers until the recent Lewis-C Chambers
strike), the union would have been con-
tent to let them work.
1t was not so very long ago that the
city of New York was purged by daring
special prosecutor of racketeers who
charged merchants and business men
large sums for mythical protection. If
the large sums We're not forthcoming,
the gangsters sent hoodlums around to
bomb the business establishment, or 9th
erwise wrecked the merchants trade.
Threatening man with loss of his job
unless he obeys labor union dictates is
another form of coercion. 1t is legal un-
der our laws, so the fault is not the labor
unions. The fault is the laws.
In Imperial Valleys case, with especial
reference to the Rannptt-TaVlOr 6ifficul-
ties, the man who is not we'll versed in
unionism and its methods has a hard
time understanding what all the trouble
is about-and why the nOn-union men
should be fired.
The All American canal is a federal
project, operating under the Public
Works Administration, the aim of which
is to provide work for those who might
otherwise not find work The Bennett
Taylor job itself is not closed shop job.
1t is supposedly open to both union and
non-union men, Yet the union demanded
discharge of men, both union members
not in good standing and non-union men,
bers, who had worked while a so-called
strike was in progress on the Lewis
Chambers contract.
Even the authenticity of the Lewis
Chambers strike has not been decided
1t is a tragedy that construction of
the All American canal-dream of pio-
neers who held no thought of hours,
wages or petty strife-should be marred
by labor troubles, but Imperial Valley
cannot help sympathizing with those
men who want to work, are able to do
good work, and yet whose discharge was
demanded simply because they did not
agree with labor union leaders.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Famous Sayings
Bruce Cation Says
- World Hears Burglars at the Window

A world with the jitters is like
once healthy man who begins to
notice the first disturbing symp-
toms of some deeprooted disease.
Jitters in themselves are not i'm
portant they are worth noticing
as symptoms of a deeper more
trouble.
A fair sample is the fuss which
was made in the Philippines the
other day when someone reported
that a mysterious fleet of warships
had come to anchor in an out-of-
the-way harbor in Mindanao Is
land.
These ships, said a frantic local
official, were submarines or
possibly they were destroyers, or
even cruisers. Anyhow, they were
grim and ominous engines of war,
they had no business being where
they were, and they were obviously
up to no good.
Now this used to be a world in
which people no more got nervous
over naval apparitions than does
the average householder get pam
icky over the creaking of floor
boards in the dead of night But
it is not that kind of world any
longer.
And so this mysterious fleet"
in Mindanao panicked American
officialdom in the Far East and
ruffled the nerves of American
newspaper readers back home q.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
IS BOY FILM STAR
PARENTS PROPERTY?

Jackie Coogan's suit against his moth
er and step-father in an attempt to re-
cover some part of the $4000000 he
earned as a child film star is a distinct
blow to idealists who have convinced
themselves that all parents, merely by
the fact of being parents, have become
noble.
Whatever the facts of the case, what
ever the law on the matter, it sounds a
very gloomy note on the scale of human
nature that a man who earned $4,000
900 as a child-providing luxury for his
parents-shOuld be cut off without a
cent at the age of 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

man who got an idea and stuck to
it through thick ana thin?
John James Adbudon.
That isn't his real name. but
the name of the man who adopted
hint This French boy, born on
the Island of Haiti was adopted
by a man named Audubon; and
the boy took his name-and will
make it famous for ten thousand
years.
As a boy the neighbors thought
little of him. He sat around in
trees all day watching birds, imi-
tating their calls and making
sketches. He was queer. He had
an idea and would let nothing turn
him aside.
He came to New York and. got
a job in an office. This was far
removed from the woods and birds.
He failed
He went to Pennsylvania where
he got a Job. Failed.
He went to Kentucky, launched
a business in partnership with an
other man. Failed
The children liked to eat. He still
made drawings Of birds. Finally
he became deeply in debt, was ar
rested and put in prison. Trees
were near the prison-he kept on
studying birds.
At last the law saw it had taught
him a lesson and turned him loose
without a dollar. But he had two
possesSions-his clothes and his
bird drawings. A man he owed
money pounced on him, looked at
his clothes.
Bah They amt worth any
thing" He looked at the bird
drawings. They amt worth any
thing. either"
Out of Jail, Audubon went right
back to studying birds.
He worked his way down the
river to New Orleans, but his rep
utation went too. He was the man,
people said, who didn't have any
more sense than to sit in trees and
make sketches of birds. Why! he's
just got out of Jail in Kentucky!
He went from place to place, ask
ing for job. Sometimes he got
little work, much of the time ne
didn't. Reduced to begging, he
nearly starved
Audubon thought he could sell
some Of his drawings in England.
He engaged man to do this fer
him, but the man decided not to
go. The only thing left was for
him to go. He wasn't a salesman.
he told himself. But he had to
sell.
He went to England and can
vassed from door to door-and sold
$4,000 worth of drawings!
AT his death he was rich and
world famous. Y'see, he didn't
know any more than to get an idea
and stick to it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

although if a similar rep
been circulated ten years
one would have been in I
disturbed.
A great many of our sea.
less foundation in fact. A
tourist exercises his pocket
and a spy scare is born;
Sea trading schooner visi
forsaken atoll for water,
brand-new naval air statit
shape before the eyes of st.
All of which simply me.
We have got the jitters; v
turn, is a symptom of the !
of health that the world
itself into. For the grim
deniable fact is that we d
the kind of world wherei
VIOLENT gestures are to be
Perhaps we could III
why economic recovery is
delayed if we look at it in
of that fact. Business bui
base of confidence, and CO
is the one commodity of v
world is regrettably she
days.
AS long as We live u
shadow of an approach
clysm, take the approach
cataclysm for granted, and
ing to avert it beyond gett
to do our share of the
when the time comes,
we be surprised if prospe