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Evening star., 1938-01-22
"BABY" BOND SALES
FAR ABOVE YEAR AGO
By the Associated Press.

oy tHc ASoOCldtcQ I1cSS.
NEW YORK. Jan. 22-The sale of
baby" bonds by the Federal Govern
ment through the middle of January
were more than double the volume in
the comparable period the year before.
This is the largest indicated volume
for a single month since the spring
of 1887.
The sharp increase is said in fl
nancial circles to be the result of
tumbling security prices. for these
bonds offer no possibility of loss in
this manner since they are discount
obligations
Savings bonds sold for the month
through January 18, according to the
daily Treasury statement, compared as
follows:
This year $63, $40 900
Last year 81, ,O69 900
Evening star., 1938-01-22
new YORK COTTON
b. the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-Cotton
futures opened to IL points of on
lower Bombay cables and Bombay
selling here; March, 8.42; May, 8.51;
July, 854; October, 8.65; December,
8.68.
There were also moderate selling
orders from Liverpool the continent
the South and commission houses.
Pressure subsided after the call with
demand coming from the trade, shorts
and locals.
May recovered from 8.47 to 8.5l,
leaving quotations to IL points let
low shortly after the first half hour.
Commodity Credit Corp. reported
185,602 bales pledged to the loan
through the week for a total of T.
744,041 bales thus far.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
BALTIMORE STOCKS
UTILITY PREFERREDS GAIN.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, Jan. % (SpeciaD.-
Utility operating company preferred
stock prices advanced during the last
two weeks, according to Distributors
Groups, Inc, index of 80 stocks. The
index closed on January 81 at 70.8l
compared with 1896 on January Z.
The high for 1887 was 90.75 on Janu-
ary % and the low 69.99 on October
Is,
Evening star., 1938-01-22

Phil a d e ! p n ! a,
with Washing
ton sending a
good sized dele
CATION.
The board is
ON Sc d of
shippers and re-
ceivers Of freight
by railr Dad, who
meet three times
a year with rep
resentatives of
the oa d S
serving the Dis
trict of Colum-
bia, New York,
Evening star., 1938-01-22
CANADIAN GRAIN CROP
SMALLEST SINCE 1914

By the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Ontario, Jan. 22-The
Dominion Bureau of Statistics in its
third estimate Of Canada's 1887 grain
crops yesterday placed the wheat
harvest at 1s2,4l0.0O0 bushels on an
acreage of 25,570.200.
This represented the smallest crop
since 1914 and the fifth in a row of
less than 300,000,000 bushels.
The third estimate was $4,000
bushels lower than the second.
1887 cat production was estimated
at 268, 8,442 900 bushels, lowest since
1910.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
DOLLAR GOES LOWER
IN LONDON DEALINGS

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 22.-The United
States dollar closed 1-16 Of a cent
lower at 4.s97s to the pound today
compared with similar sterling rate
in New York overnight.
French francs improved, ending
1902 to the pound against 150.s7
yesterday.
Evening star., 1938-01-22

Is president OF
George M. Ferris
& Co., Inc. ar
investment firm.
He is q member
Of the Board of
Governors of the
Washington Ex-
change. In be-
coming treasurer
he succ e e d S
c h a un ey G.
Parker, jr., men,
ber of the New
York Stock Ex-
change firm Of
A u c h j n Gloss,
Evening star., 1938-01-22
PHILLIPS PETROLEUM
EARNINGS UP SHARPLY
By the Associated Press,

6y Cfe ASSoc1Hted Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-Frank Phil
lips, president of Phillips Petroleum
Co., said q preliminary estimate indi-
Gated net earnings in 1887 were equal
to $40 share of capital stock.
This compared with $4.02 in the
preceding year.
Directors Of the company declared
the regular quarterly dividend Of SO
cents . share on capital stock, payable
March ! to holders Of record Febru-
aty 4.
Evening star., 1938-01-22

Maryland, Pennsylvania, the Eastern
Shore of Maryland ana Delaware.
The aim of the meeting is considera-
ton of the latest shipping problems
end the overcoming of expensive
freight loss and damage The first
days program will be devoted to loss
and damage prevention. improper
packing and slowing, bad shipping
tickets an bills of lading, rough
handling, failure to label fragile
articles and overloaded containers.
Demurage matters will also get atten-
ton.
The second days program will see
discussions with the railroads on such
matters as forecasts of carloadings,
legislative trends and their effect on
shippers and carriers. tariff simplifi-
age assessments, car-building activities,
Improvement in railroad facilities, ana
other problems of mutual interest to
shippers, receivers and carriers.
Law Heads A. b. A. Group.
Washington bankers are already
looking forward to the sixty-fourth
annual convention of the American
Bankers Association, which will be
held in Houston. Tex, November IA
II, according to announcement by
Harold Stonier. executive manager Of
the association. Official headquarters
will be at the Rice Hotel
Francis Marion Law. president of
the First National Bank. at Houston,
has been named chairman of the
Houston Convention Committee and
has accepted the arduous duties
Mr.. Law was president of the Amer
lcan Bankers Association in 1933-
1884 when the annual convention was
held here. He presided at the WASH
tngton sessions and later in the year
made several visits to the Capital for
visits and conferences at the White
House.
District Sends Is Delegates.
Representatives of the Washington
Office of the International Business
Machines Corp. who will attend the
company's world business congress.
to be held in New York. January "a
to 81, will include L. H. La Motto,
Washington manager; H. c. King, M.
D. Rayner, A. w. Bowie. jr; J. L.
6chick, R. p Billingsley. o. L. Waite.
G. H. Tomkinson, H. j. Mcdonald,
c. r. Thompson. L. S. Crandall. c.
L. Segersten, c. G. Allen. r. M. Hall,
c. r. Green. L. D. Ellsworth, r A.
Ritter and j. p. Martin.
Approximately 1900 representatives
of the company and its affiliates from
the United States, Canada, Europe.
South America and Asia will be in
attendance at the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel Monday morning. the largest of
these annual conventions, started in
1914.
Ferris Active in Finance.
George M. Ferris, newly elected
treasurer of the Washington Stock
Exchange. has been active in the
financial district for several years, and
Evening star., 1938-01-22
WOOL MARKET ACTIVE.

LONDON, Jan. % R.-A good tone
was maintained in wool auctions yes
terday Is the current series ended its
first week. Liberal purchases by
home and continental traders stepped
up the days sales to $500 bales out Of
1880 offered. Withdrawals were few.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
METAL MARKET.

,ts,SX NEW y2sK ss,Tov;s 5sn ,1oi e Pd
10.s6-b0; export 10. 20. Tin steady:
spot and nearby. Al; l;37ls; future; q 50:
East st. Louis, 4.7b. Zinc steady: East
st. Louis, SPOT and future 800. IRON.
ALUMINIUM. antimony. duickstlver, platinum
and Wolframtta unchan4ed.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
$5l8,929 Earned
By Chicago Mail
Order for Year
By the Associated Press.

BY tht Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan 22.-The Chicago
Mail Order Co. reported 1897 earn
ings totaled s51s,9 1923. or 81. so a share,
a decrease of Al per cent compared
with s99l,60l, or $2S6 a share, in
1886.
Sales in 1887 totaled SIG. 6.406, 785. a
decrease of 2 per cent, attributable
to the Ohio Valley flood, general
business conditions and a sit-down
strike just preceding the Easter rush
season. E. NJ. Schnadig, president,
said.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
so TONS OF LEAD SOLD.

NEW YORK, Jan. % (Py.-St. Joseph
Lead Co. reports so tons of pig lead
from Southeast Missouri mines sold
yesterday at s4.75 per 100 pounds. st.
Louis.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
SHIPPERS BOARD
TOH0LD MEETING
Atlantic States Session at
Philadelphia to Draw
D. c. Delegation.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

BY EDWARD c. STONE.
More than AGO members of the At
lantic States Shippers Advisory Board
are expected to attend the fourteenth
annual meeting next Wednesday in
Evening star., 1938-01-22

COttOnseed Oil.
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
lower to . higher. Sales SO contracts.
March. S.6o; May. 1.66: July, 7.69b: Sep
tember. STA Bid.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
Cotton seed Oil.

Spot quiet: middline. $50.
Evening star., 1938-01-22

Ferris Active in Finance.
George NJ Ferris, newly elected
treasurer of the Washington Stock
Exchange. has been active in the
financial district for several years, and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
YOUR INCOME
 TAX
DEDUCTION FOR TAX ON MOTOR GAS

If an automobile is used for both business and pleasure, all of the maintenance and operating expens- es connected herewith, which con- stitute allowable deductions for Fed eral income-taX purposes, should be allocated to the two uses on the basis of the time that it is used for each. For example, if the total expense of operation and mainten- ance plus depreciation, for the tax able year amounted to $500. and the car was used three-fourths of the time for business and the balance of the time for pleasure, the allow able deduction for Federal income tax purposes would be 5000
 If law which imposes a tax on gasoline shows that the tax is im- posed on the consumer and not on the dealer. the consumer may de- duct as a tax, for Federal income tax purposes, the amount of the gasoline tax paid by him; but the taxpayer must have kept records of the payment of such taxes in order that the deduction may be substan- tiated as is required by the law and the regulations. The Federal gasoline tax is not deductible by the consumer. A taxpayer may as certain whether the gasoline tax is imposed by a State is deductible by the consumer or by the dealer by addressing an inquiry to the col lector of internal revenue for his district.
 In any case where the gasoline purchased is used for business pur- poses the tax may be added to the cost of the gasoline and deducted as a business expense; but where that is done, the gasoline tax cannot be deducted separately under the item of taxes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
HiII Folk 'Larn'
 Speech Of Folk
 Way Down Thar

GATLINBURG. Tenn, Feb. 25.-- Mountain folk way up hyar' are beginning to talk just like the folk "'way down thar"
 That is what Joseph s. Hall, youthful linguist of Columbia uni versity, has found in classifying the speech of more than 100 per sons in the heart of the Great Smoky mountains.
 The quaint hill-billy language which was a heritage from Scot land and England is being discard ed by the young mountaineers of sturdy Anglo-Saxon stock.
 Old Folks Still Say 'Afeard
 Unlike their parents and grand parents, they now say first" in stead of "fust" and worst" in- stead of "wust," Hall found. And he heard but one boy-who had never been to school-say "larn'' for "learn"
 Younger persons" he comment ed, "are likely to say afraid while older people say 'afeard.' It is in- teresting to note that this latter word is still in general dialectal use throughout England, Scotland and Ireland and that it was a feature of the approved literary speech dur ing the time of Queen Elizabeth.
 Some Knew Their 'Engerns'
 Fine old expressions which it is a delight to hear occasionally are fetch and 'cotch for fetch and 'catch! Year for ear is prevalent whereas year the unit of time, cften is pronounced to rhyme with pear
 An old-timer might say:
 "Thar's a bar over wander in that holler feminist (alongside) Black Mountain. Fotch me a trap and I'll go cotch him. I'll larn that critter I ain't afeard of him
 Occasionally" Hall said, "one hears rare old forms like 'engern' for onion and 'vigrous' for 'vigor- ous. It is a pleasure to hear lady say: That rattlesnake intentioned to bite me. I never heerd a snake sing. so vigorous.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
Indians Like
 PIanes

VALENTINE, Neb., Feb. 25. = Chief Kills horse and other Sioux braves on the Pine Ridge res- ervation are having their homes 'airmapped' by the soil conserVa- tion bureau of the Department of Agriculture.
 Tine Indians are interested in the equipment which allows the pilots b take pictures from attitudes of 24,300 feet, but none of them have expressed a desire to go aloft
 See plenty from ground, one chief commented.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
Goods Won't Give
 Up ThsiI I' Mtggin|l'

EDMONTON, Feb. 25 &frhe new ly-founded University of Alberta
 Anti-Muggersn Club is folding up after q vain attempt to- discourage mugging' between college men and coeds.
 Fifty coeds in tine women's resi- dence at Pembine Hall joined the club but forty-fiye have resigned The five remaining, however, are carrying on the campaign against mugging described as "hand-hold- ing, strolling in the moonlight and other forms of billing and cooing
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
Rice Given as Dole
 is Used for Liquor

SAN FRANCISCO, Fcb. 25.-In issuing relief rations, authorities decided it would be wise to give impoverished Chinatown residents plenty Of rice Mrs Ng Since Tom seemed especially appreciative.
 But Federal agents, knowing some of the most potent drinks of the Orient are distilled from rice, kept their eyes open.
 Now Mrs. Ng is in jail and her rice no longer is going into a five gallon homemade still.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
eco AT ST. MICHAEL

The Civilian Conservatio Corps is planning to establish crew of 80 men at St. Michael to rage a number of buildings which com prised the former Army Post at that point. Archie Payne will be in charge of operations. Work will start carly in March.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
KETCHfKAN POST OFFICE
 MOVES TO NEW BUILDING

Postmaster Agnes Reinert an- nounced recently that the post of flee will be moved to the new Federal building March 5 and to open in the new quarters Monday, March '. It will remain in the old location until after March l in order to handle the first of the month mail, she explained.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
CCC BOYS NOW BT WORK TYING DOWN SEACoAlST
Outer Banks of Atlantic Graveyard" Are Be-
 ing Anchored
By PAUL SIMMONS AP Feature Service Writer

a
 HATTERAS, N. O., Feb. 25.--Along side the Graveyard oi the Atlantic mere than TOO eco boys are tieing down North Carohna's rowing out CT banks with brush, grass and shrubbery.
 In the wind and spray of the At lantic, they are working on a Ma tional Park Service project to re- store the historic island fringe to a state similar to that the first white man found there. Their ter ritory expands from Kitty Hawk down by Nags Head and Hatteras to Ocracoke.
 When their work is done, pie turesque coastal park is to be, ere ated under a recent Act of Con- gress. A paradise of hunting, fish ing, bathing and other sports will be opened to thousands of outdoor pleasure seekers.
 Those who go there will be on the rim of an untamed ocean known and feared as the Graveyard oi Ships" Treacherous shoals and cur rents have taken a steady toll there ever since sea-borne traffic found the shore route
 An Early Description
 When the work began of reclaim ing the narrow strip of sandy beach between the Atlantic and the main- land sounds, the area from Curri- tuch to Point Lockout had become largely a barren, windy, wave scared stretch.
 It bore little resemblance to a primeval picture drawn by an early chronicler who described the dunes as "so full of grapes as the very beating and surge of the sea over flowed them climbed toward the top of the high cedars, and l think that in all the world like abundance is not to be found
 Kill Devil Hill Saved
 When white settlers came, they cut the wood for fuel and timber. Wild cattle and ponies grazed on the grass, and the banks were laid wide open to the wind and waves.
 Devastation went on until the gov- ernment found it would have to moor down the rapidly shifting Kill Devil hill to erect its imposing me- morial tower honoring the Wright brothers for their first airplane flight A thick mating of grass and shrubbery was induced to grow in the sandy surface and Kill Devil Hill has not budged since.
 Emanuel J. Byrum, an old saw mill man who landed on Cape Hat teras in 1884 to establish a camp made a similar discovery. He learned that by putting down brush on the beach, the sea could be made to bring back the soil it had stolen
 Brush fences are erected to catch deposits from the sea and layer after layer is added until the surface has been built back. Grass and dogwood trees then are planted to save the soil from new raids of the waves.
 Park Nucleus Formed
 Byrum and his helpers saved the famous old Hatteras lighthouse. which had been abandoned to the sea, by this process. He is now superintendent of the project to reclaim the entire outer banks from Kitty Hawk to Hatter- as and beyond.
 The government already owns ap- 10000 acres for poten- tial use in creating the coastal park and is expected to acquire much more territory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
Still Operator in ! California Fined

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Feb. g. Guido Grasso, sixty, whose elab- crate but illicit, liquor still was dis covered by state enforcement, az forcement agents back of Grasso's $50,000 Redwood City mansion last October, has been given the alterna- tive of paying a S750 fine or. spena- ing 375 days in the San Mateo coun- ty jail.
 Oscar Sweeney. liquor enforce .ment agent, testified Grasso was op- erating an alcohol still with 125- gallon daily capacity.
 Try The Empire classifieds for results.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
MUSIC FOR MADAME.

Sponsored by the Martha Society on Tuesday, will be repeated by re- quest at the Capitol Theatre tomor- row at pm, at regular admissions.
 adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
WANTED

GIRL WANTS general housework Call 137, Gastineau avenue. WANTED From owner, coupe in good condition Box 2041, Juneau DISTRICT Manager to handle cir culation for leading American magazine publisher Transporta- tion, Office, Advertising furnished qualificant. Write M A. Steele, 5 Columbus Circle, New York City. WANTED TO BUY - house, Aux Bay vicinity. Write Box 339. Ju ne2u.
 WANTED - Young woman must have work. Phone Empire
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25

DAY
 bY DAY

The following summary is con- piled from KINY Stations latest available program schedule The Daily Alaska Empire cannot be re- sponsible for last minute program changes:
 Friday-Closing Schedule 500 to 5:30-Victor Young's Dr.
 chestra
 5.30 to 5:35-World Bookman ..35 to 5:45-Golden Tones 545 to Radio Symphony Or
 chestra
 500 to 6:O5-Weather Report sos to 6:30-Dinner Music 6:30 to 6:45-Melody and Song 6:45 to 7:00-Comedy Stars of
 Broadway 700 to 7:15-Singing Strings I7:15 to 7:30-Cecil and Sally 7:30 to 3:00-Variety Booklet 500 to 8:15-The Arkansas Minstrel SIS to 8:30-Guest Night 8:30 to 8:45-Wesley Barrett S:45 to 9:00-Cub Reporters 9:00 to 9:15-Parade 9:l5 to 9:30-The House of Peter
 MacGregor 9;30 to Dinner Music 9:45 to 10:00-Empire News Broad
 cast
 l0:G0 to 10:15-Through the Holly
 wood Lens l0:15 to 10:30-Let's Dance 10:30 to 11:00-O Organ Treasures 11:00-Off the Air
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25

Saturday-Opening Schedule 200 to 8:15-Morning Thought SIS to 9:l5-Breakfast Club 9:15 to 9:30-Parade 9:30 to 9:45-Works Progress Ad.
 ministration 9:45 to 10:15-Sons of the Pioneer. l0:i5 to 10:3O-Russ Morgan's Or.
 chestra lO:30 to 10:45-Morning Chat l0:45 to l1:00-Dance Music l1:00 to ;30-Mother's Musical Al
 bum
 l1:36 to 12:00-Top Tunes of the
 Day
 l2:00 to 1215-The Serenader l2:l5 to 12:3O-Here Comes the
 Band l2:30 to 12:45-Monitor Views the
 News l2:45 to 1:00-A Hour of al Time 100 to 2:00--Midday Rendezvous 200 to 2:15-Mario Chandlers Or
 chestra 2:15 to 2:30-Round-U 2:30 to 2:45-Peacock Court 2:45 to 3:00-Auld Lang Syne 300 to -Symphonettes 3:30 to 3:45-Electric Melodies 3:45 to 4:00-Lovely Lady 400 to 4:15-Works Progress Ad-
 ministration 4:15 to 4:45-Hawaii Calls 4:45 to 5:00--Club Cabana
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25

Lode and placer location notices Or sale at The Empire Office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
RETREATS FOOD SALE

At Bert's Cash Grocery Saturday, starting 10.30 am. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
MISCELLANEOUS

TURN your old gold into value cash or trade at Nugget Shop.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-25
FOR RENT

FURNISHED CABIN for rent at 142 Willoughby Ave.
Evening star., 1938-03-31
COAL PRICE FIXING
FACTS PROMISED
Commission Gives Warning
to Producers 1t May
Reveal Data.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
The Bituminous Coal Commission
warned all soft coal producers last
night 1t might make public the Con-
ndential" cost and sales data they
have submitted for price-fixing pur-
poses.
Percy Tetlow, temporary chairman,
said he expected producers to chal-
lenge In Federal Court the commits
sion's right to make public this data.
Reasons for Injunction.
An injunction, it was learned, was
Just what the commission wanted
Here Is why:
The Guffey Coal Control Act pro-
vides that the commission shall fix
minimum prices high enough to cover
production costs.
After the establishment Of minimum
prices last December l6, the con-
sumers' counsel, the Association of
American Railroads, Associated In
dustries Of New York State, Inc, and
other consumer representatives de-
manded that the commission produce
underlying data to justify the prices.
The commission refused, saying that
the Guffey act forbade publication Of
the individual cost sheets and sales
data.
Consumers then obtained injunctions
against the minimum prices As a
result, the commission abolished the
prices February Is, and started work
on new ones.
Price Hearing In May.
1t notified the operators yesterday
It would hold hearing on prices in
May. 1t also adopted rule" saying
that it now interpreted the Guffey act
to mean the "confidential' data could
be put into evidence at that hearing.
A survey of operator sentiment in
dicated the operators would fulfill the
hopes of the commission for an injunc-
tion preventing publication of the
data. One large operator said his
cost data never would go into any
public record.
Evening star., 1938-03-31
FIJI. A. BUSINESS BOOMS
Volume Sets New High Mark for
Fourth Week,

The Federal Housing Administra-
ton reported yesterday that for the
fourth successive week gross volume of
business had set new high mark.
Mortgages selected for appraisal to-
tailed $22, 2,568,219 in the week ended
March 26. This compared with $21,-
293,061 the previous week and s14,-
970,848 in the week ended March 20,
1897.
Evening star., 1938-03-31
NAVY MEDIC SCHOOL
Will GRADUATE SO
Junior Grade Lieutenants Will
Get Diplomas Saturday.
Merriam to Speak.

Fifty junior grade lieutenants of
the Medical Corps will be graduated
from the United States Naval Medi-
cal School on Saturday morning at
the lecture hall there. DR.. John c.
Merriam, director of the Carnegie In
stitution of Washington, will be the
principal speaker.
Starting at 10 o'clock. the gradua-
ton exercises will consist OF music
by the Navy Band Orchestra: invoca-
ton by 1t. Comdr. Joseph H. Brooks
of the Navys Chaplain Corps; intro
duction by Capt. Harold w. Smith,
commanding the Naval Medical
School; the presentation Of the Ger
tif1cates Of graduation by Capt. Dali
las G. Sutton. assistant chief of the
Bureau Of Medicine and Surgery, Navy
Department, and the playing of THE
Star-Spangled Banner"
The young medical officers have
been given a six-month basic course
and this has included instruction in
gas at Edgewood Arsenal, Md. in avi-
alton at the Naval Air Station at Ana
costa, and in Marine Corps Problems
at the Marine Base, Quantico, Va.
The Navy Department said that
some of the graduates will be as
signed to ships of the fleet, while
others will be given duty at naval hos
pitfalls. The list Of graduates follows: