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Evening star., 1938-12-27
Bituminous Industry
Faces Frightening.
Outlook in 1899
Weekly Production Rate
Rises Above Year Aqo
At Close of 1888
Py the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27-The btu
minous coal industry is approaching
1899 with a brighter outlook than
a year ago at this time, thanks to
the broad general business recovery
OF the past five months.
Early in July of this year produc-
ton was running close to 80 per
cent under 1887, but due to rising
industrial trends, the weekly rate
OF output at the start of the current
month was around 2 to per cent
above last year.
Sharp expansion in steel produc-
ton, railway freight loadings, elec-
trio power output and general in
dustrial activity which got under
way around midyear generated the
larger demand for coal and accom-
panying speeding up of mine opera
tions.
Most observers hold the near-term
production outlook bright.
Since the coal consuming indus
tries are operating at better levels
now than earlier in the year, and
1urther improvement is in prospect
Tor the early part of 1899, bituminous
coal production should continue to
increase over the next several
months" Fitch Publishing Co. states
IN study of the industry.
Hope is being held out by mine
operators the price situation in 1899
may be clarified. Price sterilization
is regarded as requisite to better
earnings.
Since the cancellation of mini
mum bituminous rates early this
year, prices have been low" Fitch
says The National Bituminous
Coal Commission is holding hearings
now though, and a new schedule
OF rates is expected to be put into
erect during the first quarter of
1889" "
Not much change in costs has
been noted this year Wage rates
are still high and other items of
expense have not been reduced to
any extent.
Prospects for continuation of in
dustrial revival over the immediate
future portend further improvement
IN bltuminous coal output. Low
prices may tend to restrict earnings
progress of all but the very low cost
producers for a time, but new mini
mum prices which should be an
nounced shortly promise to bring
measure, OF relief to the entire in
dustry."
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Insurance Stocks Lag
Slightly for Week
Brecial Dispatch to the Star.

6IeCldl OlSpdtSu W 0tdA.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Insurance
, stocks in the New York City mar
ket ended the week at slightly
lower levels, according to records
compiled by Holt, Rose & Troster.
The aggregate market value of 20
leading fire and casualty insurance
issues on December % was $780,
899 900, compared with $577,315,0 900
at the close of the previous week,
q decrease of SCALE, 900, or Ill per
cent.
The current average yield of the
20 issues is 404 per cent, compared
with a yield of per cent on De-
cember 16. The current market value
equals LOB times the reported liqui-
dating value, against 109 times a
week ago.
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Rubber Futures

NEW YORK. Dec 81 LP.-Crude rub
January. 1888; March. 16.49: May. 16.4S
Evening star., 1938-12-27
New York Sugar

NEW YORK. Dec. 27 R.-The NO,
sugar futures contract held steady today
on further buying by trade interests while
the No. fell back under offerings from
houses with Cuban connections
January No: 3 sold at 1.s3 and May
WAS quoted at I.14Ia and September lis.
or " point net lower around noon.
Raw sugar was unchanged at 2.S5 for
spots with no sales reported.
Refined remained at 4.35-4.45 for fine
gfAnulated,
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Metal Market

sNEW YORK. Dec. 81 R-copper
steady electrolytic, spot, 1875; export.
Io 46-47k. Tin steady; spot and nearby.
New York; 4.s5-9O; East ST. Louis. 40,
Zinc steady; East st. Louis. spot and for
pgs1d; gsIdsr 4;5o Pig G iron, M No. fob, Eastern
bama. 90. aluminium, virgin. 90 Der
et;n cent: 70 o. 6An.imony. spot. 400. quick
Chinese. wolframite. duty paid, i9.0o.22 90
nominal
Evening star., 1938-12-27
New York Produce

NEW YORK Dec, y lR;IEgss. 14so,6; ass,5;
paeks' ssaus soh-sa; 80 standards SO; tlrsts. 50;
mediums 2s diEties No l. Ss sneeis, syeG
s4h-26; standards, 23la-24; hrsts. 22A-
80 Butter 446.T41; ffirmer,, Creamery;
Higher than extra 2SH-29; extra l92
scoreJ, 27Ia-2s: frsts (SS-9D. 26-27a;
seconds (S4-s7l. 241a-25H.
Cheese 140,951; quiet. State. whole
milk flats. held, 1887. 19Aa-21; fresh
fancy. 15-16la.
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Montreal Silver

MONTREAL. Dec. 27 R.-Silver fu-
lures opened unchanged. December, 40.75
bid
Evening star., 1938-12-27
New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK. Dec. 27 (P.-Investment
Bankers Conference, Inc:
Evening star., 1938-12-27

wv-With warrants xw-Witho,lt war
rants n.New st fstp)-Stamped
SNegotiability impaired by maturity
TCompanies reported in receivership
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Cancellation Of Contract
By Newspaper Backed

By the Associated Press.
Girard Reilly, solicitor for the
Labor Department, has given the
opinion that the State Journal, a
Lansing (Mich0 newspaper, did not
violate the Wage Hour Act when it
notified Mac Myers, 13-year -old
newspaper delivery boy, that it
would cancel his contract under
provisions Of the act.
The boy has filed a suit to prevent
the paper from canoeing his con-
tract, which was done in accord
ance with the acts provision that
no one under IA shall be employed
In or about a business establishment
engaged in interstate commerce.
Miss Katherine Lenroot. head of
the Labor Departments Children's
Bureau, announced that the De-
partment would not intervene in the
case, which will be heard tomorrow
before the Gratiot County Circuit
Court. She made public Mr.. Reilly's
opinion, in which he said the facts
indicate the act has not been vio-
lated, since the Interstate COM
merce provisions do not apply and
also because the boys duties are not
performed in or about the news
paper establishment.
Young Myers delivers papers only
In Ithaca, his home town, which is
about a miles from Lansing, Mr..
Reilly pointed out,
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Mai. Charles Pollard, Sc,
Dies in Indiana

Mai. Charles Robert Pollard, 56,
a practicing lawyer of this city. died
Friday night at La Porte, Ind, a
few hours after suffering a stroke
while en- route to washington by
automobile with his law partner,
D. Louis Bergeron.
Mai. Pollard had been away from
Washington since leaving here for
a business trip to Chicago about two
months ago. He lived here at 1850
Harvard street NV. and had prac-
ticed law in this city about seven
years, following service as an attor-
ney in the Department of Justice.
A veteran of the World War, Maj.
Pollard served overseas as major
of infantry, U. S. A. Born in
Delphi, Ind, he was educated at
Culver Military Academy and the
University of Illinois.
Surviving are his widow. Mrs.
Addie Pigman Pollard, and daugh-
ter, Miss Lille Howard Pollard, this
city: his mother, Mrs. Sallie Pollard
OF Delphi, and a brother, Thomas
Pollard, Beloit, Wis.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow in Fort Myer
Chapel Burial will be in Arlington
National Cemetery. The body is
scheduled to arrive here today and
will rest at the Wright funeral par
lors, 1887 Tenth street NV.
Evening star., 1938-12-18

Baker-Vanderbilt- -McKim Emerson
Emerson is her maiden namep. She
was married to Alfred Gwynne VAN
derbilt, who died when the Lusitania
was sunk. and to Charles Minot
Amory of Boston. the latter marriage
ending in divorce in West Palm
Beach, Fla, in 1884 The prospective
brides father was Mrs. Emerson S
second husband, Raymond T. Baker,
director of the mint during the ad-
ministration of President Woodrow
Wilson.
Mr.. Topping is only recently di-
vorced, the decree separating him
from Actress Jane Shadduck being
granted in Bridgeport, Conn, only
last week. The blond movie starlet
had married Mr.. Topping on August
6, 1885, just after she had been di-
vorced from Playwright Jack Kirk
land. Mr.. Kirkland, who is now mar
ried tothe blond Haila Stoddard
also was married previously to Ac-
tress Julia Lizard Betty Buck and
to Movie Star Nancy Carroll. The
latter, red-haired movie actress.
after she divorced Mr.. Kirkland,
was married to Magazine Editor
Bolton Mallory. Then they in turn
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Aged Woman Dies in SquoIor,
Leaves $35O,OOO Fortune

Half a century ago she came to
Tampa with her husband. Soon, he
died and since then she seemed to
take little interest in life. living
alone with a parrot for a compan-
ion, in the squalid house.
Court Named Guardian.
Occasionally she went downtown
to bank-and often borrowed"
an envelope from one teller, paper
from another, a stamp from a third
to write letter.
A few months ago some Tampa
cousins-whom she almost never
saW-persuaded a court to name a
trust company her guardian. Only
then did the shack get a bathroom
and running water. An old Army
cot and blankets we're thrown out
and a bed, mattress and sheets sub
/stituted.
Gibbons said Mrs. Graham left a
will, but he would not disclose its
terms. Attorneys predicted a court
battle for her unsuspected wealth.
She was known to have seven cou-
sins in Georgia and Florida, but no
closer kin.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Col. Louis Burgess
Dies at Walter Reed

Col. Louis r. Burgess, ST, u. S. A.,
retired. distinguished artillery Off
Ger, died yesterday in Walter Reed
Hospital after long illness.
Col. Burgess, who had been at
Walter Reed since April, had lived
In East Granger. NJ j., since retiring
from the Army in 1884, after AZ years
service.
A native of Salem, Wis, Col. Bur-
CESS served in the Philippine Insur-
rection. the Boxer Rebellion and the
World War. He received decorations
for services in the Philippines and
France.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Flor
ence D. Burgess, East Orange; two
sons, Donald c. Burgess, East
Orange, and Capt. Henry c. Burgess,
U. s. A., stationed at Fort Benjamin
Franklin, Indianapolis; a daughter,
Mrs. r. v. Lee, Ridgewood, N, j.;
two sisters, Miss Celia Burgess and
Mrs. Edith Jameson, both of Ia
coma, Wash, and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 3
pm. Tuesday in Fort Myer Chapel.
Burial will be in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-12-18

by inc ASkOClhCed frc&S.
TAMPA, Fla, Dec. 17-Yester-
day, death ended so years of squalor
for Mrs. Letitja v. Graham. Today
Tampa learned she left a $3.50, 900
fortune-its source a mystery and
its extent shock to the few who
knew the 93year-old recluse.
Mrs. Graham died in a four-room
shack on Tampa's outskirts and her
passing drew little notice in the
press or among neighbors. one of
whom said, "she dressed like char
woman and lived like a share
cropper."
Born on Plantation.
Today, her attorney. M. G. Glib
bons. said an inventory disclosed
she had $4,000 in cash: s184,000 in
savings bank accounts; $4,000 in
postal savings; enough gilt-edged
securities to total a conservative
$3.50 900.
Gibbons said even he knew little
of her life. nothing at all of how she
gained her riches. She was born. he
said. on an ante-bellum plantation
near Coldwater, in Northern Missis-
sippi.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
n. 6. Theurer Expires;
Was Postal Inspector

Herbert G. Theurer, the post Of
fee inspector who was generally as
signed to presidential tours to handle
the mail. died in Los Angeles Thurs
day night, it became known here
yesterday.
Mr.. Theurer. who was 48. had been
in the postal inspection service since
1923 and had travelled thousands of
miles with President Roosevelt to
supervise receipt and dispatch of
ofhcial mail.
The inspector had been out on the
West Coast on business trip with
Kildroy p. Aldrich, chief post ONCE
inspector. Death resulted from a
heart attack.
The funeral will be held Tuesday
in Gloversville, N. Y, where his wife
and mother survive.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Toy Matinees in Five
Nearby Theaters 10
Aid Needy
Clothing and Conned
Food to Be Good as
Tickets Tomorrow

Toy matinees, sponsored by civic
and business interests of nearby
Maryland. will be held at 4 pm. to-
morrow at five Sidney Lust theaters
for the benefit Of needy families in
the suburban area.
Admittance to the shows will be
a toy, article of clothing or canned
food, which will be turned over to
charitable organizations for dis
tribution.
Santa to Attend.
The lobbies Of the theaters will be
decorated with Christmas trees, and
a Santa Claus will be on hand to
greet the children.
In Bethesda the Boro Theater. in
cooperation with the Bethesda Vol
unteer Fire Department and the Be-
thesda- Chevy Chase Tribune, will
offer Gene Autry Western, "Oh
Susannah." as well as a Popeye car
toon and Our Gang comedy.
The Milo Theater in Rockville.
which is working in cooperation
with the Holiday Exchange Commit
tee and the Montgomery Sentinel.
will present Laurel and Hardy in
Way Out West" and Popeye car
toon and Our Gang comedy.
Legion One Of Sponsors.
The Cameo Theater, Mount Rain
ier. also will show Way Out West"
together with Popeye and Our Gang
short subjects. The sponsoring or
ganizations are the Charles r. Hun
temann Post, American Legion, and
the Prince Georgian.
In Hyattsville the Arcade Theater,
in collaboration with the Welfare
Board. Kiwanis Club and Hyattsville
Independent. will present Jane
Withers in Keep Smiling" Popeye
and Our Gang comedies will aug
ment the program.
Checkers" another Jane Withers
f1lm. will be the attraction at the
Marlboro Iheater, Upper Marlboro.
sponsored by the Lions Club and
the Enquirer-Gazette.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PALM BEACH. Fla, Dec. 17.-An
American matrimonial merry go
round will spin again Monday when
glamorous Gloria Baker becomes the
second bride of 24-year -old Henry
j. Bob Topping. jr., thus unit
ing two fabulous fortunes.
The pretty l8-year-old brunette
is heiress to considerable part of
the $4,000, 900 fortune established
by her grandfather, the late Capt
Isaac Emerson, who left his Chapel
Hill. N. c.. home to manufacture
patent medicines in Baltimore and
to marry twice.
Young Topping. already wealthy
will inherit another $4,000, 900 in
three years. This fortune comes from
the estate of his grandfather, Daniel
Gray Reid, who went into industry
at his Richmond. Ind, home. gained
control of the American Tin Plate
Co. and sold it to J. P. Morgan for
$40 900 900. Mr.. Reid. too, before
he died. in 1925. was confirmed
advocate of multiple matrimony
He was married three times.
Miss Bakers mother is the four
times-married Mrs Margaret Amory-
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Search for Assuilont
Of Policemun's Wife

Maryland police continued their
search last night for a colored man
who attempted to assault the wife
of District policeman early yester-
day In her Oxon Hill tMdD home
Scene of the hunt centered in the
section near the home of Mary
Brown, whose strange kidnapping
two weeks ago still is being investi-
gated.
Mrs. Welt Braziel said she was
awakened at 3 am. by a knock at
the rear of her home and when she
opened the door a colored man
sprang at her. She said she fought
him off and after he fed she went
to neighoor S house.
Her husband was on duty at the
time.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Smithsonian Excuvotinq Site
Of Pocohontos Kidnapping
Location of Jomestown-Ero Indian Town
Identified by John Smiths Map

beene in many ships, yet hee caused
his wife to fame how desirous she
was to see one, that he offered to
beat her for her importunitie, till
she swept. But at last he told her,
if Pocahontas would goe with her,
hee was content; and thus they be-
trayed the poor, innocent Pocahon-
tas aboard, where they were all
kindly feasted in the cabin. Iapa-
Jaws treading oft on the captaine' s
foot, to remember he had done his
part; the captalne when he saw his
time persuaded Pocahontas to the
gun roome; flaming to have some
conference with Iapazaws, which
was onely that shee should not per-
cieve hee was any way guiltie of her
captivity; so sending for her again
he told her before her friends, she
must goe with him, and compound
peace betwixt her countrie and us;
wheareat the old Iapazaws and his
wife began to howl and erie as fast
as Pocahontas, that upon the CAP
taine's fair perswations, by degrees
paclfying her selfe; and Iapazaws
and his wife, with the kettle and
other TOTES, went merrily on shore;
and shee to James Towne.
"A message forthwith was sent
to her father, that his daughter Po-
cahontas he loved so dearly he must
ransom with oure men, swords.
peeces, tooles, etc., hee trecherously
had stolen.
News Troubled Powatan.
This unwelcome newes much
troubled Powatan, because hee loved
both his daughter and our commodi-
ties we'll, yet it was three moneths
after ere he returned us any answer:
then by the perswation of the coun-
cell, he returned seven of our men,
with each of them an unservicable
musket. and sent us word that when
we would deliver his daughter, hee
would make us satisfaction for all
injuries done us. and give us five
hundred bushels of corne, and for
ever be friends with us.
THAT he sent we received in part
payment, and returned him this
answer: That his daughter should
be we'll used; but we could not be-
leeve the rest of our armes were
either lost or stolne from him, and
therefore till hee sent them, We
should keepe his daughter.
This answer, it seemed, much dis
pleased him, for we heard no more
from him for a long time after:
when with Captaine Argals ship,
and some other vessels belonging to
the colonie; Sir Thomas Dale with
a hundred and fiftie men we'll ap-
pointed, went up into his owne river
to his chiefe habitation, with his
daughter. With many scornful
bravados they affronted us, proudly
demanding why Wee came thither;
Our reply was, Wee had brought his
daughter, and to receive the ran
some for her that was promised, or
to have it perforce."
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Washington Movie Club
Awards Six Prizes

The Washington 8-mm. Movie
Club at its first annual dinner
Wednesday at the Washington Hotel
awarded six prizes, three for "edited"
and three for "unedited" pictures.
o. 8. Granducci. Mark Taylor and
M. Hejnal won first, second and third
prizes in the edited films division,
and Byron Roudabush. w. S. Nc
Connell and T. B. Bliss won the
three prizes, in that order, in the
unedited films division.
Walter M. Edwards, National Geo.
graphic Society; Arch A. Mersey
assistant director of the United
States Film Service, National Emer-
gency Council, and Frederick G.
Beach, technical consultant for the
Amateur Cinema League. we're guests
Of honor. Mr.. Beach delivered the
address Of the evening.
Joseph H. Gawler, club president
presided. Arrangements for the din
ner were in charge of H. H. Rogers
chairman of the committee. The
Contest Committee included j. M
Feigley, jr.; w. S. Mcconnell ano
r. B. Armstrong, jr.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Highway TO Panama
Improved With Grave
Over Half Way
Most of Route Lies
In Mexico-GuutemoIo
Sector in Good Shape

Nearly half of the projected inter-
American highway from Laredo
Tex, to Panama is now improved
with gravel or higher type surface,
according to the 1898 annual report
OF the Bureau of Public Roads of the
Department Of Agriculture.
When completed, this highway
will extend 1906 miles through
Mexico, Guatemala. El Salvador
Honduras. Nicaragua, Costa Rica
and Panama.
The present improvement is re-
ported as follows: 1883 miles of
paved road. AT miles of gravel road
43 miles Of graded earth road and
1882 miles Of ungraded road or trail.
Over half Of the entire route lies
within Mexico, where 805 miles have
been improved and LOIS miles re-
main unimproved. All of the 236
miles lying within Guatemala have
been improved. The route within
the other countries is reported as
follows: Ell Salvador, 103 miles i'm
proved, 88 miles unimproved: Hon.
duras. % miles improved, ST miles
unimproved; Nicaragua. IS miles i'm
proved, 2l0 miles unimproved: Costa
Rica, 48 miles improved, 3O8 miles
unimproved. and Panama. 1913 miles
improved, a miles unimproved.
Substantial progress was made
during the year ended June 80, 1898,
particularly in constructing bridges
and in locating and planning links
of the highway, the report states.
In each of the countries traversed
by the route interest in road con-
struction has been aroused and ef-
forts concentrated on the route from
Panama to the United States.
The first 765 miles of the route,
from Laredo. Tex. to Mexico City,
has been constructed by the Mexi-
can government and is now carry
ing large numbers Of tourists from
the United States. The report re-
veals that If highway programs are
carried out as now projected. an all
weather road will be completed as
far south as Choluteca, Honduras,
a distance of 2,307 miles, by the end
OF 1941.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Investment Loan Firm
Prepares 10 Answer
Fraud Charges X
S. E. C.'s Injunction q
Application to Be p.
-, ,-, :
Heard Thursday
BY the Associated Press.


An official of the Securities and
Exchange Commission said yesterday
that the Fidelity Investment Asso-
ciation was preparing to answer the
S. E. C.'s charges of fraud in con-
nection with the sale of $500 900 900
securities to the public.
The commission has charged that
the company, whose Board of Di-
rectors included on June 30, 1898, a
former United States Senator, q for
mer Governor of North Dakota and
former high Government oficials,
used fraud and deceit" in the sale
Of its contract certificates.
The company has headquarters In
Wheeling, w. Va, and ofiices In So
leading cities.
The commission last Wednesday
filed bill of complaint in the Fed
eral Court for the Eastern District
OF Michigan. 1t asked that the COM
pany be enjoined from the sale of
securities in violation of Federal and
State laws.
Agree to Continuance.
The S. E. C. official said:
we have agreed with Fidelity to
file on Monday morning a request
to the court for a three -day rom
tlnuance. Fidelity is preparing to
flle an answer. but has been unable
70 get 1t up. The application for an
injunction will be heard at 10 am.
on Thursday.
The commissions complaint said
about 10000 purchasers throughout
the United States send in monthly
payments regularly to the company.
From November 9, 1920. to date
Fidelity Investment Associa ton is
sued and sold to the general public
securities called contract certifi-
Gates" for a total face amount OF
about $500, 1000, 900, according to the
complaint.
Investment Loan Associa ton.
On June 80. 1888. total of l12 2.5t
OF these certificates was outstan1.-
ing for a total face amount O:
s276.223.45O.
The commission charged the COLI
pany failed to buy and deposit D..
| trust sufficient bonds and other sc
curities, as required by the Wesr
Virginia laws end by the terri,
OF the various contract c:tr,.ties.
The company IS an investment
loan association. 1t sells investment
contract securities and bonds cal,-
ing for monthly payments In
veStors.
The contracts provide for ether .
lump-sum payment at a certain cate
or periodic payments over jsriod OF
years, The company agrees ~ re-
invest the funds.