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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-14
Whittier Tells Junior C. C. Of
 Customs Work
Assistant Collector Mentions Many Functions of
 Service

'Sotewell organized is the office of the Collector of Customs, that it works quietly and few people hear or know very much about it, stated M s. Whittier, Assistant Collector of Customs, who was the guest speaker at the last Friday luncheon of the year of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, which met in the high school
 And so efficiently does this of flee function that it is able to care for many things not directly dele gated to it. continued the guest. Besides collecting a tax on foreign goods sent into the United States, our office cooperates with the Bur eaus of Air Commerce, Health, Im- migration and numerous other bur- eaus. Over 182,000 boats have been licensed by the customs office. Mat ters on legal affairs are continually being referred to our office. Ship wrecked seamen are entirely refin- anced by us, and the problem Of smuggled goods is just another one of our assignments
 A grade school track meet, spon- sored by the club, will be held next Thursday in Evergreen Bowl, wealth CT permitting.
 Robert Boggan announced plans for the annual ice cream banquet which is to be held in the High School next Friday at ' o'clock. An nual reports and the presentation of merit pins to the two outstanding members of the club will be high
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-14
NEW PLAY
 SUNDAY AT
 C0LISEUM N
King and the Chorus Girl Stars Joan Blondell and
 Ferdinand Gravel

Two items of far more than pass ing importance to motion picture audiences are found in the an- nouncement that The King and the Chorus Girl is to be presented on the screen of the Coliseum Theatre beginning Sunday.
 First, it will mark the American debut of Fernan Gravel, famous Continental film star.
 Second, 'The King and the Chorus Girl'' is the first picture made by the brilliant young Warn CT Bros, director, Mervyn LeRoy, under his new status of producer.
 The picture is swift and humor- ouS romance in which M. Gravel plays the role of a spendthrift young ex-King who, having lost his throne and Kingdom, turns to the gaieties of Paris. Then comes his rollicking, trouble-strewn and com plex romance with an American chorus girl, played by Joan Blon- dell.
 Among others in the cast are the inimitable Edward Everett Hor- ton as the worried uncle of profli- gate King Alfred VII" Mary Nash as his aunt, Alan Mowbray as 2 psuedo suitor for the chorine's af- fections, Jane Wyman as her pal and Luis Alberni as waiter with an accent heavier than the trays he carries.
 A double feature, White Bond age" starring Jean Muir and Cord on Oliver; and Gods Country and the Man with Tom Keene cast in the lead. will be presented for the last times tonight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-14
lights of the meeting

lights of the meeting.
 Bob Phillips won the best current event award on India and Malcom Faulkner won the best joke prize. Canada will be reported on at the banquet.
 A special banquet committee will consist of Dean Allen, chairman, Dick Clithero and John Talmage, program; and Lester Troast, chair man, Simpson MacKinnon, and Jackie Hawkes., subsidiary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-14

senger south on the Northland, headed for Seattle and a motorcycle trip of several weeks down the Pacific Coast.
 Fleek will take delivery of new Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Se-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-14

The U. s. department of com merce estimates there are over g. 300 900 miles of highways in the world.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-14
ALBERT FLEEK WILL TOUR COAST ON NEW
 HIGH SPEED CYCLE

Albert Fleek, of Douglas, is pas
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-14

attle and drive down the coast The new cycle, Fleek said, will do 135 miles an hour.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-14

Try The Empire classifieds for results.
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Try an Empire ad.
Evening star., 1938-07-26

argument Of labor that wages be kept
as they are, to wait and see" If the
step-up in volume turns a profit.
"Break-Even" Point Raised.
The "break-even" point for the steel
industry, with considerable variation
between plants. used to be figured at
just under so per cent several years
ago. Later. it got down to 40 per
cent. In the past year or so, the low
point of 81 per cent was reached, in
the face Of high wages, through i'm
provements and economies in opera
tions. Lowered prices may have raised
the "break-even" point substantially.
but wage reductions alone would not
be sufhcient to change the balance.
On the basis OF the first half-year's
production. the magazine Steel figures
that the cut in prices would have
totaled $42, 900. Pay rolls for that
period, with June estimated, amounted
to $2s5 1926, 600; so that a 10 per cent
pay cut would still leave the industry
over $4,000, 900 to the bad. It may
oe asked, then, why take q backward
step on wages. when only increased
sales and production volume can or
set the price reductions made, more or
less voluntarily, by the industry?
tcopyright 1888. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-07-26
80 RAIL PAY CUT
. SEEN ACCEPTABLE
Labor Believed Willing to
Take Slice on Promise of
Future Raises.
BY J. G. DONLEY.

NEW YORK, July 26.-Although
the railway wage negotiations so far
have produced little of promise, rail-
way management is firm in its con-
viction that a reasonable compro-
mise will be reached. Railroad labor
has always been q bit closer to man.
agement than Is the case in almost
any other industry, and although the
upheavals Of recent years have
brought some troublesome elements
to the top on the labor side, a basis
Of mutual understanding is not far
under the surface.
The unions have got their backs
up against the IS per cent wage cut
proposed by railroad management,
but that was never regarded as any
thing more than point from which
bargaining would start As per
cent cut would be regarded as a
very satisfactory outcome by man.
agement and investors alike and that
might not prove too difficult for labor
to take, with the promise Of better
treatment when net operating in
comes warrant.
Questions Unanswered.
No such outcome seems likely from
the steel wage negotiations, however.
The reason is that gross incomes,
production costs and the break
even" point on operations are not so
clearly defined for all to see. There
is no question that railroad freight
rates are too low in relation, to costs,
and, while more traffic will help the
situation, it will not necessarily cure it..
In the case Of the steel MARKERS
however, the progress in mechanical
ton which has been made in the last
three years, with many installations of
continuous strip mills and the demand
and production emphasis swinging
predominantly toward the lighter
products. has left some unanswered
questions in the minds of manage
ment, as well as labor. For instance.
the "break-even" point-the point
above which profits begin and losses
end-was lowered to a certain per-
centage OF capacity by the new strides
in mechanical efficiency Then came
higher wages to eat into some of the
profit prospects. and recently prices
were reduced just about all around,
again shifting the theoretical operat-
ing rate at which production may yield
a profit.
Labor has a bit Of an edge in the
argument at this stage, because there
is strong presumption, despite the
arguments Of the producers,
that sufficient volume may turn the
scale and yield good profits even at
present relatively low prices and high
wages. With higher volume in pros
pect for the steel mills there would
seem to be considerable virtue in the
Evening star., 1938-07-26

55ushel baskets. $3.50; h-bushel baskets
% MixEb Ky b'sR 1EaETAs1Es-on. e e Colorado
sT2sen sssdy esfS on EasTn
Maryland and Norfolk section busheI bas-
kets round strinsless, ,65-75; local, bushel
75; New Jersey. bushel baskets. round
strinsless 1 1--we ~
Shore MaTsand 6ush. s'f9niss Sasfes Fts So
PEPPERs--Market steady. North Caro-
nc cA6L1PEo@ERNo SITff5 SSfHs.s c.qiot .1 arrivals
%asker broken wsb0nd5 on pack Ma5s. slightly
Nes EFF sr.ss oo s.say
Georsia Io snshsI SIn baskets; RED and yellow
ss%i; Ssd ysns 81! Ssr Jersey 0u'h'' baskets
d,1oE, oRANGES-No An iSso carlot arrivals one car
caTs en rae orosfn and Se
3,55; Florida, storage stock. boxes. 800 800
LEMoNs-calfornia. boxes No. l.
'Ia IiMEsFie ag FH 4qes4 pe4si.ns. n% . boxes
BS BS0T SS sSalty b.bss IoE 50 seSd quality stoef
GRAPEPRGfF-No Fluff, ooe1o eariot arrivals on,
car ssd :, dive diverted: no cars on track. Florida,
s'1saaIa oasBAeEMLocso sEs.ei soo a5-4o per Du,b.l
e.: AS6
] SOL 65 e'
bunches '"e'
sPINACH-New Jersey. IS per bush.l
PENNSYLVANIA. 50-65 per bushel
P!NEAPPLES-Cuba, crates 2.nn-3 90.
OkRA = Florida, bushels 1.OO-1 c5 !;
REETsNPennsyivania. e.Si Sos s. per ,s bushe,
MUSHROOMS-Pen :5-pound
baskets. 5O-75
broken car on track
PEARs-one California arrived; one
unbroken car on track
Evening star., 1938-07-26
WHEAT'S DECLINE
BATTLES TRADERS
Market Sinks in Face of
Federal Plan to Give
Farmers Fair Price.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July 26.-The wheat
market, sinking despite strong medi-
cine in the new Government farm
program, had the grain trade bafied
today.
Wheat prices have declined to the
lowest point since April, 1888, in the
face of Federal proposals intended to
give farmers a fair" price The
inopportune setback has caught wheat
farmers in the midst of harvesting.
New wheat for delivery here by
the end OF summer is quoted around
66 cents a bushel, compared with
sll6 a year ago Except for 1881
and 1882, when the price fell as far
Us As cents September wheat has not
been this low in July since early in
the century In 1917 it sold as high
ss 1924 and in 1929 it was up to
Sl5l.
Estimate of s650,0O0, ,0Oc.
Grain traders now are estimating
the market value of the huge 1898
crop. the second largest in history,
at around S650,000,00O compared with
almost a billion dollars in 1887.
Scarcely two weeks ago the Govern
irfent made public two steps designed
to bolster the value of wheat-loans
on the 1888 crop and reduction in
acreage for harvest next year. But
the price has declined about cents
since and now is 7 to 9 cents below
the actual figure at which loans
can be made here.
Talk of record world wheat produc-
ton. big crops in important export
ing countries and the prospect of
heavy surplus have dominated the
market, traders said. more than Off
setting any bullish factors. Thus, buy
Reeded to absorb hedging" sales, by
which commercial dealers insure them
selves against possible loss in handling
new grain en- route to consumers.
Little Direct Bearing.
Traders said the proposal to cut
United States paintings for next
years crop almost one-third has had
little direct bearing on the market,
except possibly to show the extent OF
the effort to be eXerted to keep the
surplus down The loan program has
Iad an uncertain effect, they contend,
because, like the acreage curtailment
plan. it depends on the extent Of
farmer acceptance.
Many traders believe sharp drop
in marketings recently indicated to
some extent that much wheat would
be put in store on loan, thus holding
it off the market at least temporarily.
What will happen when this stored
Surplus mounts cannot be foreseen,
they said.
Traders said there is enough ele-
vator space in the country to hold
billion bushels. Half of this space,
they said is available at principal
terminal markets.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK.

CHICAGO July % 1F, ~. 8. Dept Asr).
While fed steers sold slowly today, prices
were steady. but the general undertone was
weak. The hog market staged a slight
rally. however. top going to S1O25. new
hieh since last October. Lambs also were
steady at 1925 down.
Hogs, $4,000. including 1000 direct:
mostly 1o-l5 higher than Mondays aver
age on weights go lbs. down; heavier
butchers. 1925 up: top, 1925; good
and choice l50-24o lbs: a;o0-10.:o;
200; packing sows.o 1910 higher; good
$50 lbs. down. 7.50-S."5: 40O-50O lbs,
6.5O-135
Cattle. 5000; calves. 1,5OO; early steer
trade steady. but one or two large packers
taking most of the crop on early rounds
others holding back and bidding lower;
largely steer run killing quality good to
choice: early top, - go but load or so
held above 1900: best yearlinRs, early.
l235; heifer yearlings. 90; fed heifers
fully steady and grass kinds getting mod
crate action at $50 down to 100 and
below; cutter grade cows strong: beef cows
slow. steady; bulls strong to 15 higher and
vealers fully steady at 1000 down: prac-
tical top weiRhty SAUSAGE bulls. 100: that
price paid freely; Texas-bred stock calves,
s.50-a25. about steady, but native stock
ers weak at 6.15-7.50, with choice kinds
Sheep, 5000. including 2 500 direct
spring lambs active. fully steady: good to
choice natives, aOO-"5: few closely sorted
to local packers, a4O 10 doubles good
to choice Idahos a25 with 10 per cent
sort: most yearlings, f. .00-1 90 sheep about
steady: native slaughter ewes upward to
3.25 and $50.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
CRUDE OIL OUTPUT
UP 22,450 BARRELS
Daily Average for Week Placed
at 3,349,37a Total-Rise
in Texas Reported.
By TIE Associated Press.

By TIE Associated Press.
TULSA, July 26.-Production Of
crude oil in the United STATES in
creased 22,450 barrels daily for the
week ending July %, bringing daily
average production for the week to
3,349,37s barrels, the Oil and Gas
journal reported today.
Oklahoma decreased 5000 barrels
daily to an average Of 434,275, East
Texas decreased 800 to 43s,e15 and
the State Of Texas increased 16,527
to 1,394,759.
Louisiana increased 1.442 to 265. .3o7.
California decreased $500 to 663 500
and Kansas increased 1850 to 157,725.
Eastern States, including Michigan
and Illinois, increased 1856 to 2ol ,657
and the Rocky Mountain West in
creased 9,240 to 1880.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
STRUCTURAL STEEL
NEW ORDERS JUMP
3S the Associated Press.

SS the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 26.-New orders
booked by the structural steel fabri-
eating industry in June were the
largest for any month this year,
amounting to e7,54e tons, compared
with 77,4s9 tons in May and 175,552
tons the corresponding month last
year, the American Institute Of Steel
Construction reported today.
The increase in business contained
none of the new orders expected from
the Governments work-relief program.
The contracts closed in June were
All per cent of normal normal based
on the yearly average of 192s-193D.
while the monthly average 50 far this
year is 34.6 per cent Of normal.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
RAILWAY INCOME.
NEW YORK SUGAR,

NEW YORK. July % ,Pi.-Susar fu-
lures were easier today under lioudation
and commission house selling promoted BY
inactivity in the spot market and unsettle.
ment in the refned situation as a result Of
the recent decline in beet sugar prices.
September No. 4 sold on from .ol to
= to ga points net lower. around > pm.
The No. :; was > to 3 points net lower.
as September declined from /. SO to l.s4
and March from l 96 to 90
Evening star., 1938-07-26
BOSTON WOOL MARKET.

BOSTON. July cs LF Omitted States
DEPARTMENT Of Agriculture) "A fairly ac-
tive demand was being received in Boston
today, on hne territory wools Good
French combins lengths fine territory
vools in original bags were bringing 65
TO o6 cents secured basis. Shorter comb
ing wools on similar lines were moving
at 81 to 81 cents secured basis Graded
eombines p blood territory wool was
bringing 5s to s" cents secured basis
Country packed mixed grade lots Of ,,
and = blood averase bright fleece vools.
onered from the country. were bringing
around 81 cents in the grease delivered
East on scattered transactions.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

CHICAGO. July 20 1Pf.-Butter, 1859,
40: steady: prices unchanged
Esss. 9.653: frm; fresh graded extra
1rsts' local and cars. 81; firsts. local, 20l4;
cars, 2O'4; current receipts 10.
Potatoes. Il; on track. 266; total United
States shipments, 1913: Missouri and Kan
sas Cobblers slightly weaker Nebraska
Cobblers steady arm undertone; California
Whlte Rose. No. |. steady; commercials
weaker; Western Triumphs weak prices
lower; supplies moderate; demand SLOW;
SACKED per hundredweight, Cobblers. Mis-
S5-a5: Kansas, U. S. No l. 90: Nebraska,
.; 5. No: l, l.o0-o5. mostly, 90: Mime
medium. l 90: California White Rose. o.
S. No. !. 1902 90; U. S. commercials.
some decay. spotted sacks. 5000, Idaho
spotted sacks, 15O.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
REICHSBANK STATEMENT

BERLIN. July 90 Al.-The Reichsbank
statement as Of July 25 Tin thousands OF
relchsmarks): Notes in circulation, s.
973 00O: decrease. 100000. Gold 20.
~ UNCHANGED. Foreisn currency reserve
$3.50; decrease. 253. Other bills OF ex-
Ihanse and checks ; 1925 7?9 decrease
1855 954: Other daily maturing obIisa-
tons 932 122: decrease. a24O Advances
3A.529: decrease. "a 5O1. Investments
o4S .5I4; increase. 156. Ratio OF gold
and foreign currency to notes IL per
cent. Rate OF discount, per cent
Evening star., 1938-07-26
s.. TREASURY POSITION.
By the Associated Press.

Position Of the Treasury July 81:
Receipts. Sa,q35.4s5 AZ: expenditures
S26.2a3, 500 e5; net balance. S5,Io3.13e-
go. !. including l.53l ,14T.s7a6s work
ing baiance: Customs receipts for the
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July
-; S23s 81 5: 0.6a; expenditures, SS26-
045 1854 .53. including Sl60.44a.6O5 10 OF
emergency expenditures: excess of expendi-
lures $3.50. .429s53.s4: gross debt S37,-
I!4 S43 ;654 66. a decrease Of Sl.O65
a!2.43 below previous day. Gold assets,
S12991511,1122
Evening star., 1938-07-26
DRY GOODS MARKET.

NEW YORK. July % GP,.-Cotton goods
markets were moderately active today
rayon challis continued in strong de-
mand. Finished goods moved in lisht
quantities. Rayon yarns sold in better
volume. Wood goods were fairly active
Silk receded. Burlap was quiet.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
BUSINESS FAILURES
DECREASE IN WEEK
BY the Associated Press,

NEW YORK, July 26.-Business
failures in the United States for the
week ended July 21 totaled 2G6, a drop
OF SO per cent from 219 in the pre-
vious week, Dun g. Bradstreet re-
ported. In tine like week last year
the total was 14S.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK: July 26 oPso,-copper
l0.30-33. Tin steady; spot and nearby,
43.15;, forward. 1880. Lead steady; spot
New New York: 4en-a:; East St; Louis, 4.75;
forward. Alb. Pig iron. aluminium. anti
mony. quicksilver, platinum and wolfra-
mite UNCHANGED.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
ODD.LOT DEALERS.
y the Associated Press

The Securities Commission reported to.
o0d-lot dealers or specialists on the New
York Stock Exchange for July 25 1905
purchases involving 310.712 shares: 1925
sales involving 296.951 shares.
Evening star., 1938-07-26

UIVlOeNd
tPlus extras e2r, extra fol2I, ex.
vember 80. 1887 3oc extra. m So extra
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Washington Exchange

SALES.
Washington Gas pfd.-50 at 99n, 10
at 99Ts.
AFTER CALL,
Potomac Elec. Pow. 3A-slo.OO0 at
106ls.
Potomac Elec. Pow. 5l2rc pfd.-5 at
l14i2.
Evening star., 1938-08-14
Gold Coins From L1ltine SPUR
Hope of Recovering Treasure

1859. at the end of fruitless, ex-
pensive search for the frigate's hoard
of S2,500,000 in yellow slabs destined
for English soldiers fighting against
Napoleon.
Since that time the salt-bitten
bronze bell has tolled off the good for
tune and the bad luck of men who 20
Gown to the sea in ships, informing
the brokers who make their living
backing the cargo carriers of the
seven oceans.
Ceaselessly through the day and
night the Karimata, worlds largest
dredger, pans the sand that its end
less chain of steel fingers tears from
the bottom of the clay spit which
guards the entrance to the zuyder Zee.
while the searchlights were PLAYING
on the "dog-watch" shift of early
morning a few weeks ago, an engineer
found in the screenings a bar weighing
Z pounds 10 ounces, worth 81. 200.
Immediately identified from its
markings as the Lutine's own. the vii.
lage OF Terschelling launched a cele-
bration like that which followed at
Suffers Mill in California in 1s48
when news of the gold strike spread
II the Karimata doesn't capture
the prize within 80 days another fail
ure will be written in the book. Kari
mata cannot navigate in wintry seas.
She was built for work in the Kart
mata Strait in the Dutch East In.
dies and she must sail for the other
side Of the world by the first OF Sep.
tember.
Evening star., 1938-08-14
HOUSEHOLDER ENDS
WOULD BE ROBBERY
'Wrests Pistol From Intruder
Although Partially Stunned
by Blow From Gun.

Fred A. Schwab, IS. slightly built
weather-stripper, last night routed an
armed would-be robber from his home
at 1108 Trinidad avenue NE. after
being hit over the head with the butt
Of pistol.
Mr.. Schwab told police young man
came to his home to inquire about
some misunderstanding. but after be-
ing admitted to the house, brandished
revolver and demanded money. Mr..
Schwab said when he refused to hand
over his cash the youth hit him with
the gun.
Mr.. Schwab, though partially stun
ned, wrestled the gun from his assail-
ant, who fed through a rear door
OF the house, police were told. Mr..
Schwabs head wound was not serious.
He later discovered the gun was not
loaded.
Meanwhile. police still were looking
Tor a colored man who held up Mrs,
Arneta Quinn. q. employe at a laun-
dry IN the 1900 block of Tenth street
NV. yesterday and took s2l from
the cash register.
lhe man. Mrs. Quinn told officers.
asked for shirt and after he was
INFORMED there was no shirt for him
unless ne had a ticket, drew the gun
and made her lie behind the counter
While he rifled the till.
Evening star., 1938-08-14
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 13.-Golden booty
from the bottom of the sea, recovered
from the 139-year-old wreck of the
British frigate Lutine, spurred the
hopes of brokers at Lloyds today that
the salvaging of the long-lost hoard
may be imminent. >
As bar of gold recently taken from
the ship went on display. favorable
reports from dredging operations in
dicated that the quest for the sunken
treasure, dating back to Napoleonic
days. may soon be ended
The giant dredger Karimata, work.
ing 24-hour shifts, reported changing
her position slightly for better thrust
at the sea- guarded cache after finding
. number OF gold coins on Thursday
News Of the initial success came in
the time honored manner-signaled
by the bell of the ill-starred frigate
itself.
Brokers at Lloyds listen for that bell
today as they have for nearly 100
years.
Hanging in the center of the un-
derwriting room, it tolls once, a long
and dolorous peal, for bad news Two
crisp strokes signal brighter news from
the ships at sea.
So. on Thursday, the traders shout
ed with Joy when the bell tangled twice
and they heard that ancient gold coins
had been recovered from the wreck of
the Lutine. locked in her sandy grave
OF Terschelling. Holland.
The Luttne's bell was recovered In