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Evening star., 1938-09-29
TOMORROW.

Luncheon, Halloween Committee Of
Washington Board of Trade, Willard
Hotel, 1880 pm.
Luncheon, District Bankers Asso-
citation, Willard Hotel. 12:45 pm.
Luncheon, Phi Delta Theta, Lafay-
ette Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting, District d. A. r. Commit
tee on Junior American Citizens, Will
lard Hotel, 1880 pm.
Dance, Tau Beta Phi Sorority,
Wardman Park Hotel, 10 pm.
Evening star., 1938-09-29
DR.. Bloedorn Is Host,

,Dr Philip Manson-Bahr, director of
the clinical division of the London
School Of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine was the luncheon guest yes
terday Of DR.. walter A. Bloedorn, dean
Of George Washington University
School Of Medicine. The luncheon
was given st the Army and Navy Club.
Evening star., 1938-09-29
Lineman Is Killed.

WINCHESTER, Va, Sept. 20 (Spe-
ciaD w R. Crauswell. %, of Warrior,
Ala, employed here as a telephone
lineman, died early today as the result
Of injuries sustained when . pole fell
with him In nearby Clarke County.
Evening star., 1938-09-29
Will Elect Officers.

Mount Vernon Chapter, Military
Order Of the Purple Heart. will choose
officers at 8 O'Clock, Monday night, at
Moose Hall. 1414 street NV. The
new odicials will b installed i'm
mediately.
Evening star., 1938-09-21
INVESTING COMPANIES

NEW YORK. Sept 81 R.-1nyestmenl
Evening star., 1938-09-21
PRODUCTION CURB
CHEERS OIL FIRMS
Industry Believed to Have
Achieved New Sense of
Balance.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
TULSA, Sept. 2l.-In some quarters
there was a feeling today the oil in
dustry had achieved a new sense of
balance.
Curtailment Of production was al
most universal. Good signs were
Texas decision to continue well shut
downs two days a week until at least
October % and the Bureau of Mines
estimate that October demand for
crude oil would be s,366,s0o barrels
daily.
That figure, down only 1880 barrels
daily from September and only Z per
cent less than year ago, was con-
sidered highly encouraging.
Reflners took heart from the bu-
reau's estimate that October motor
fuel demand would be per cent over
October last year at 45,800 900 barrels.
That motor fuel demand figure
brought a hearty cheer from optimists
WHO nave Deen taking Tor weeks about
chances for an unusually good fall
business, a trend distinctly against
the usual sharp slackening at the end
of the summer.
Crude operators who customarily
keep sharp eye on the statistical pic
ture noted with satisfaction another
Bureau of Mines report that crude
stocks as of September 10 were down
again nearly two and half million
barrels to total Of 282 ,457 900 barrels.
That figure, the lowest in Is years
or more, gave a healthy tone to the
crude market and helped to Offset
such unfavorable developments as a
l5-cent cut in the crude price in the
smackover field of Arkansas.
The marketing end still was gloomy
over prices. Nobody wanted to talk
about the effect of European war
clouds on oils, but it was conceded,
naturally, an outbreak of hostilities
would increase the demand. Marketers
reported gasoline still soft, natural
gasoline unsteady and heating oils firm
under the influence of fall buying.
Evening star., 1938-09-21
COTTON INDUSTRY
LIFTS OPERATIONS
Spinning Mills in August Run
at 76.2 Per Cent of
Capacity.\
CENTS "a
MlSkel
BY the Associated Press,

by tne Associated Press.
The Census Bureau reported to-
day the cotton spinning industry op-
Grated during August at 1872 per cent
OF capacity, on an S0-hour-week basis.
compared with 7o.2 per cent during
July this year and 852 per. cent
during August last year.
The bureau explained that enact
mnt of the new Wage-H Hour Act, pro-
viding for maximum of 80 hours for a
two-shift week during the next two
years, caused a change in the method
of calculating the monthly percentage
of activity. Previously this was COM
puted on a basis of the weighted av-
erage hours Of operation for the day
shift for all of the mills.
Spinning spindles in place August
81 totaled 26,3l2,694, Of which 22,-
1885 were active at some time dur
ing the month. compared with 26,376,-
2l0 and 2l.9l6;166 for July this year
and 26,923,712 and 24,353,l0 for Aug
ust last year.
Active spindle hours for August to-
tailed 1874, 4,79l ,306, or an average of
280 hours per spindle in place. COM
pared with 5,9l9,306, ,5s2 and 224 for
July this year and ,ls4,56l,738 and
304 for August last year.
Spinning spindles in place August
81 in cotton-growing States totaled
18,778,l66, of which 16783,5lt we're
active, compared with l8.79S,244 and
16660.094 for July this year and 49,
831 .e86 and 17,775,1l0 for August last
year. and in New England States,
6.733.456 and 4,755,728. compared with
6,777,446 and 4,6s4,796 for July this
year and 7,173,030 and 5,855,10s for
August last year.
Active spindle hours for August in cot
or or an average Of 30s hours per spindle
in place, compared with 4.7OO,37l.514 and
$50 for July this year. and $685., ,SSS. .O33
Ensana s saes es'uit ast and and in
and i. .s45, ,456a14 and sss. - "
age per .pae in pse. oe
s'1tsi, Mabams! 1s'iovi v4iss1ss sss and sss; Con-
ass',s9 ana ass 'ns Maine s4 Gs05s.
81: and 3l1: Massachusetts. ia. 4.s:7. Az
and 100: Mississippi. 56344. 964 and
s os New New YoTH YsnDshFe oI5Ss ana ,as .na
RSode islsna !4s' 2ss5os 2sisiS and ado 80:
South Carolina. .:o32 500. .34s and 354;
81, sOl .Os0 and .347: Virginia. 2os235, :
1s4 and 32S; all other States, 1865.
IA: and 1919.
Evening star., 1938-09-21
UNION PACIFIC NETS
S2,658,842 IN MONTH
the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Sept. 21.-Union Pa
cific Railroad, among the first Of
major roads reporting for August,
placed net operating income (before
fixed charges and other income) at
s2,658.842, compared with $2,8eS, 726 in
August last year. Gross income for
August advanced to $l5,l08,440 from
$14,975, 1924 a year ago.
Evening star., 1938-09-21

General manager OF Railway
Express Agency, Ne1O York
City, 1Dill talk on Express
Takes to the HeGDenS" before
the KiWanis Club of WdShing-
ton tomorrow. He 1Dill tell OF
the development OF air express
SerUice since it 1DaS started in
1927.
Mr.. Merritt began his career
as a clerk in an express office
at Baltimore. Long interested
in traffic Development, he
entered that phase OF the er-
press business in 1880, and
rose rapidly to his present po-
sition, 1Oith Headquarters in
NeD York City.
He is a member OF the Sales
Executives Club and the Trat-
fc Club of Ne10 York. A large
part of his time. is passed in
personal contact Uith Railpay
Express activities in all parts
OF the United States.
Evening star., 1938-09-21

in 1928. He was employed by the
Federal Reserve Bank Of Philadelphia
while in the university. first In the
transit department and later in the
research department.
From 1922 to 1928 he was in the
division Of research and statistics Of
the Federal Reserve Board; from 1928
to 1880 in Berlin with the ONCE for
reparation payments; from 1880 to
1888 In the reports department Of the
New York Federal Reserve Bank, and
from 1888 to date In the division Of
research and statistics, Federal Re-
serve Board. He has been assistant
director Of the division since Novem-
Der, 1884.
Close Student Of Policies. ~
His work has been primarily con-
cerned with analyses of business and
financial conditions, with special ref
erence to their bearing upon the ac-
tions and policies Of the Federal Re-
serve System. He assisted Edmund
E. Day in preparing a Bureau Of
Census monograph on the growth of
manufactures, published in 1928.
His work with the Federal Reserve
Board from 1922 to 1928 was concerned
primarily with analysis Of business
conditions and he was responsible for
compilation Of the Federal Reserve
Boards Index OF production. At the
New York Reserve Bank he made a
study Of the question of brokers' loans
and the New York money market in
general, with special reference to Fed
eral Reserve policy. His present work
at the board covers all phases of busi-
ness and financial conditions and he
has direct supervision over preparation
OF the Federal Reserve Bulletin.
DR.. Thomas will not start his class
until week from Thursday, although
Evening star., 1938-09-21

other classes Of the institute started
this Monday. About $50 persons are
enrolled in the various classes.
Evening star., 1938-09-21
B0STON WOOL MARKET.

BOSTON Sept. ., m UNITED States De
partment Of, Aericuiturel rel.-scattered sa4es
The volume Of wool sold; hovever. wa:
to 63 cents secured basis for sood French
secured basis. for short French cornbing
Moderate veight Of Graded conbtng bTtsht
three-eiThths and quarter-blood heecs
cents = IL 0reaS6. 4
Evening star., 1938-09-21
MONTREAL SILVER,

MONTREAL. Sept. 81 lP1.-Silver fu.
lures opened unchanged. Bids: September
rs: December, 1850.
Evening star., 1938-09-21
Cash and Stock
Dividends Ordered
By Philip Morris
Ev the Associated Press.

Ev the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept 21.-Philip Nor
ris & Co., Ltd, yesterday declared a
dividend of ~ share Of common stock
for each share held in addition to a
cash dividend of IS cents share on
the common.
Both dividends are payable Novem-
ber Is to stock of record November /.
The regular quarterly dividend Of
$1,25 was declared on the preferred,
payable December to stock Of record
November IS.
On July is, last, a cash dividend OF
rs cents was paid on the common.
Evening star., 1938-09-21

Board, the Junior
bankers will study
the role of the
Federal r E s erve
s Us t e m in the
economic ord er.
The study will in
clude a n a lysis
q n d interpreta-
ton Of the weekly
condition sta t e.
ments Of the Re-
serve banks along
with re q sury
statements. CON-
mercial bank sta
tiStics and other
hiIsinecs opd ~.
Evening star., 1938-09-21

NEW YORK BAR SILVER.
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 P).-Bar
silver 1924, unchanged.
Evening star., 1938-09-21

nancial data. Factors affecting bank
reserves, the expansion or contraction
of credit and the relation of credit
developments to the course of business
activity will be studied.
Graduated At Wharton.
Dr. Thomas has an exceptionally
fine background to offer his class. He
was graduated from the Wharton
.School Of the University Of Pennsyl-
vania in 1922 and received his DOCTOR
ate from the Brookings Graduate
School of Economics and Government
Evening star., 1938-09-21
A. !. B. TO STUDY
RESERVE SYSTEM
New Class This Semester
Under Guidance of Dr.,
WoodIief Thomas.

A class on the Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn and the money market, which is
being added this semester to the courses
OF Washington Chapter. American In
stitute OF Banking. is attracting atten-
ton.
Under the guidance of Woodlief
Thomas, assistant director, division Of
research and statistics, Federal Reserve
Evening star., 1938-09-21
U. S. TREASURY POSITION.
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
The position of the Treasury Septem-
Der ~ Receipts. $S7 .629, ,43O.6O; ex-
penditures. S5O377 a222 "a net balance
S3,OS3.572. s04.30. including S2.4s4, ,O53.-
446.as working balance: customs receipts
for the month. Sl7,S6o, 19s.O".
Receipts for the fiscal year tsince
July i. 81 1852 2S5. s94 95; expenditures
81 go, 436. S44 81. including $500, $40
o4".37 of emergency expenditures; excess
debt s5sss4 5, 3s66o. decrease sroei 81
81 ,7ol % below the previous day
gold assets, S13. 535 994 .6:52 90
Evening star., 1938-04-01
GUFFEY |NDORSES
WILSON FOR SEAT
Backs Mayor in Senatorial
Race, Revokes Previous
Stand for Earle.
By the Associated Press.

bS tiic hSsoclateo Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, April limited
States Senator Joseph F. Guffey de-
clared today for Mayor S. Davis Wilson
of Philadelphia for the Democratic
nomination for United States Senator.
revoking previous Endorsement given
Gov. George H. Earle for that office.
Senator Guffey split with the Demo-
cratic State Committee over its Stating
of Charles Alvin Jones. Pittsburgh
attorney, for Governor and threw his
support to Thomas Kennedy, who is
backed for that nomination by C. 10.
Chieftain John l.. Lewis. The COM
mittee also slated Gov. Earle for the
Senate.
Senator Guf1ey indorsed the entire
ticket OF Mr.. kennedys running mates.
with Mr.. Wilson substituted for Gov.
Earle. with this statement:
Herewith present to the Demo-
cratic electorate of Pennsylvania the
~~-"~osNo oAiA tiiouSdIlOS Va
veteran Democrats will support at the
primary election on May II:
For Governor-ThomasK Kennedy
For United States Senator'S. Davis
Wilson.
For Lieutenant Governor-Ralph
H. Smith pittsburgh judge.
For secretary of internal affairs
Mrs. Edith B. Dewitt (vice chairman
OF the State Committee.
During the primary campaign I
shall make known " = why / am SUD-
porting these four outstanding liberals
and why 1 am opposing the
ticket selected by Contractor Boss Nc
Closkey, at the head of which is a
man who tried to prevent the selection
OF Franklin D. Roosevelt as our party's S
nominee for President at Chicago"
Senator Guffey referred to Matthew
II. McCloskey, co-leader of the Phila-
delphia Democratic City Committee
and to the State Committees stating of
Mr.. Jones for Governor.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
D. C. POLICE SEARCH
FOR MISSING WIFE
Husband Says She Failed to
Return Home Following
Apartments Tour,

Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, pretty 19-
year-old former acrobatic dancer,
today was the object OF a police
search started at the request Of her
husband, Wallace Anderson of Nash
vile. Tenn. who said she failed to
return to their furnished room at
1917 Kalorama road NV from an
apartment-hunting expedition We'd
nesday afternoon
Mr.. Anderson, an engineer and in
ventor. expressed fear that mis- wife
had been stricken with a sudden ILL
ness. explaining that she had been
very sick about month ago. She
became his bride in Nashville last
November, he said.
The Andersons came here Wednes-
day, and the husband was to have
gone to work for a contracting firm
today. His purpose in coming to
Washington. he said, was twofold-to
obtain employment and to try to pat
ent some inventions that he recently
perfected.
His wife left him, he said, with the
explanation that she was going to
look at an apartment" in the same
block as the house in which they were
rooming. At the apartment building,
however, 1t was said that no one an
sWering her description had been
there.
Mrs. Anderson, at the time of her
disappearance, was both coatless and
hatless and had no money. She was
described as being about feet inches
tall and weighing about los pounds.
she has reddish hair and was
clad in brown russell suit
Evening star., 1938-04-01
GENERAL ELECTRIC
REDUCES SALARIES
Cuts Up to 20 Pct. Listed
for Employees Earning
More Than $1,000.
By the Associated Press

oS tiie hSsoCIoLeC fTeSs.
NEW YORK. April 1.-The Gen.
eral Electric Co. today announced
graduated pay reductions. effective
April II. for all full-time salaried
employees earning more than $4,000 a
year. In no case. however. will the
first $4,000 be affected Gerard Swope,
president. said.
Even AS the announcement-whi
said March business declined so per
cent as compared to March. 1887
was being posted in all works and the
Offices of the company non-salaried
workers in six plants were going to
work under a contract signed by the
mana cement and the United Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers of Amer
lea, c. l. o. affiliate.
The union contract affected 10000
workers, James B. Carey president of
the union, said. The contract main-
talned the present scale of wages and
hours. Mr.. Swope's posted statement,
explaining the reductions, follows:
Decrease in Work.
Early in 1881 the General Electric
Co. went on five-day week of eight
hours per day for all salaried people
and this normal working week of 40
hours has been maintained since that
time throughout the company.
With work decreasing in the shops,
unfortunately many of our employees
are being laid off while most of the
others are working less than 40 hours.
These people. therefore, have already
taken a reduction in their weekly in
, come, although there has been no
reduction in rates of pay. either wages
or salaries, in any part of the organ
ization.
Orders received in the first two
months of this year. as published
showed a decrease Of So per cent from
the same period last year. This down.
ward trend continued in March, with
an estimated decrease of so per cent
from March. 1887.
Scale Is Given.
ITO reduce the expenses of the COM
pany to meet these conditions and in
order to spread the burden of such
reductions as equitably as possible:
Effective April II. 1888. the sala-
ries of all employees working full time
will be reduced as follows:
The first $4,000 of salary per year
will not be affected
That portion of salary over $4,000
per year and up to and including
$4,000 per year, will be reduced 10
per cent.
That portion of the salary over
$4,000 per year up to and including
S25.OO0 will be reduced IS per cent.
That portion of the salary over
s25, 1000 per year will be reduced 20
per cent"
Ten Per Cent of $500.
The announcement said this means
that a man paid $4,000 year. for
example, will have his salary cut 10
per cent of the 5000. or $40, a slash
of l per cent of his total pay.
The contract with the union was to
run from year to year unless either
party gives 80 days notice of intent
to terminate it. The company recog-
nizes the union as sole collective bar
gaining agency for employees in
Bridgeport, Conn; Lynn, Mass; Sche-
nectady, N. Y; New Kensington, Pa;
Fort Wayne, Ind, and Cleveland.
Workers are not forced to join the
union, however.
Not covered by the agreement are
workers in plants in Philadelphia,
Bloomfield, N. j.; Erie, Pa, and Pitts
field, Mass.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
Refusal of Role
By Bette Dauis
Brings Penalty
Star VIII Get No Paw
Until She Returns
to York Again.
B, the Associated Press.


HOLLYWOOD, April blond
Bette Davis, first ranking actress on
Warner Bros. lot, was suspended to-
day for refusing a role in Comet
Over Broadway"
She will draw no salary until she
goes to work in another picture, prob
ably six weeks hence Miss Davis,
Massachusetts blond whose most re-
cent screen portrayal was New
Orleans coquette in "Jezebel,' has
been at odds with her studio before
In her first strike. she went to
England when Warmers wanted her
TO play in Gods Country and the
Woman" Legal action forced her to
return, but she came back to a differ
ent picture
Studio officials said they are con-
sidering casting her with Paul Muni
IN "Maximilian and Juarez" or The
Sea Wolf" Both Miss Davis and Mr..
Mum have won movie academy
awards for acting.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
1lUO More Dead
after Injections
MCu,lcerCus
Orlando Toll N0,U 9
as Man and WOna,,
Succumb.
Pictures on Page A-3.)

By the Associated Press.
ORLANDO, Fla, April IA man
and a woman died in hospitals early
today, bringing to nine the number
OF persons who have succumbed after
being injected with cancer treat
ment serum.
Mrs. Lydia Morrison, 40, ana c. S.
Pore, IS, both of Orlando, died today
within two hours of each other.
Six women died Wednesday and
another yesterday and two other pa
tients-a man and a woman-stricken
at the same time were gravely i'll
today.
DR.. T. A. Neal said the IL and
another woman admitted to hospital
last night all had received the serum
at his clinic from a single bottle.
Physicians said tetanus treatments
had no effect on those who died, a
fact which puzzled them. They said
the patients had all the symptoms of
the disease except their lack of re-
sponse to the usual treatment.
Meanwhile, a coroner's jury was in
recess until investigations were COM
pleted.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
By the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, April 1-President
Lazaro Cardenas was understood to-
day to have found prospective pur-
chaSerS abroad for Mexicos rising
stocks of oil taken from the 100000
coo properties of appropriated Ameri-
can and British companies.
Bernard E. Smith, New York stock
broker, and Francis w. Rickett,
British promoter who negotiated a
famous Ethiopian oil contract, have
conferred with the President and other
high Mexican officials.
Persons in the oil industry said it
was understood they had reached an
agreement in principle" to purchase
government oil at an extremely low
figure for resale in the world market.
Neither would comment on their ac-
tivitleS here.
MI. Smith this morning conferred
with Gustavo Espinosa Mireles, whom
Catdenas named general manager of
the National Petroleum Co. estab-
lished to find foreign markets for
MeNico's Oil production.
Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Rickett made
reservations for today's New York
plane, but Mr. Smith said he was
staying on for few days"
Evening star., 1938-04-01
Cordenas Held Ready to Sell Oil
To U.S.. Broker and Englisl,man
Francis Rickett of Ethiopian Pact Fame
and B. E. Smith May Buy at Lou
Cost for World Resale.

Lack of markets since Cardenas
took over the $4OO.00O,0O0 plants OF
II British, American and Netherlands
companies on March 18 has swelleG
storage tanks to capacity.
Spokesnlen for the appropriated
companies said last night they had
decided to petition the government for
revocation of the appropriation decree
as well as to attack it in the courts
as unconstitutional.
The decision was reached at a con-
ference Of attorneys. Final details of
procedure are expected to be worked
out at another meeting tomorrow.
A group of Senators deferred action
on their announced intention of put
ting series of questions before Car
denas on the state of the nation and
the outlook for the future.
Their announcement had threat
ened rift in the hitherto solid con-
gressional support accorded the chief
executive.
1t was learned reliably the govern
ment had imposed strict secrecy con-
corning reply to representations by
United States Ambassador Josephus
Daniels on the appropriation.
Parallel British representations were
expected shortly.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
PILOT DIES IN SEALED
CABIN AS PLANE FALLS
Ten-Ton Substratosphere Ship
Crashes in Maiden Flight
Near Brussels.

BY the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, April IA lotion
substratosphere plane crashed near the
Evere Airdrome today ON its maiden
flight, killing the pilot in its hermeti-
cally sealed cabin.
The tri-motored plane, built by the
Belgian inventor Renard, weighed 10
tons. had Widespread of II feet and
was designed to carry a crew of 3 and
20 passengers at height of 10000
feet.
Renard, spurred by the stratosphere
balloon ascents of Prof. Auguste Pic
card, sought to design a plane for SUBJ
stratosphere attitudes. This plane had
cruising speed of 22O miles an hour.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
GERMANS IN MANILA
REFRAIN FROM VOTING
Note From Washington Indicated
as Reason for Cancellation
of Balloting.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, April 1.-For some un-
announced reason, Manila Germans
and Austrians did not vote today, as
they had planned to, on the April 10
plebiscite on Germanys annexation of
Austria.
Three hundred German and Aus
trian residents of Manila met infor-
mally aboard the docked German
liner Burgeland and renewed their
oath of allegiance to Chancellor Hit
Ter, but German Consul G. A. Sakow-
sky said ne had Cancelled balloting on
confidential information of an official
nature"
One source indicated the vote was
called OF after Germans received q
message from Washington.