davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Rail Loadings Hold
Well Above 1887
Despite Decline
Weeks Decrease Leaves
TotoI 25.5 Per Cent
Ahead Of Yeor Ago
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Association of American Rail-
roads reported today 574, 1852 cars of
revenue freight were loaded during
the week ended last Saturday.
This was decrease Of 81 1852 cars,
or SO per cent, compared with the
preceding week; an increase ofll6,-
GAL, or 2s.5 per cent, compared with
a year ago, and a decrease of 139, ,403,
or 1875 per cent, compared with 1880.
The report classified the loadings
as follows:
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Investing Companies

NEW YORK. Dec. 30 lfY-Investment
Bankers Conference. Inc.
Moon Quotations.
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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Dec 30 tP.-Dividends de-
clared (prepared by the Standard Statistics
Coz:
Accumulated.
Pc Stick of Pay
Rate. riod record. able.
Northern States Pow Del
Dd 81 p of sliai: 81 ~ 1881 is-a1 1.sS i.s"
Nor States Pw Wis S4O25 1928 lilo
No Action Taken.
Pan-American AirWays
Evening star., 1938-12-30

uecIIne OF more than seasonal
proportions was registered by rail-
road loadings for the week ended
December "a, the Associated Press
seasonally adjusted weekly index of
carloadings, based on 1929 80 as 100,
declined to 66.7 compared with 70.4
the previous week, and 62.5 a year
ago.
Range of recent years:
1898. 1887. 1895. 1864.
fnM Hish ----- 5l3 ssS32 So III $50
Evening star., 1938-12-30

Siam was opened to western inf1u-
ence in 1912 by British explorers.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Odd-Lot Dealings
By the Associated Press

The Securities Commission reported to-
day these transactions by customers with
odd-lot dealers or specialists on the New
York Stock Exchange for December %:
SAB sales involving ass .403 shares.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Boston Wool Market

a-AlSo extra or extras.
e-Declared or paid so far this year.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
New York Bar Silver

NEW YORK. Dec. 80 R.-Bar
silver 42A, UNCHANGED.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
U. 5. Treasury Notes

NEW YORK, Dec 80 lP,.-Prices quoted
IN dollars and thirty-seconds:
Evening star., 1938-12-30

Pittston Co.-Deficit, 9 months
ended September 30, was $1,4l5, ,454,
against deficit of $3.50 $50.
Evening star., 1938-12-30

.'ouotations not furnished By sponsor or
issuer: all others are obtained BY I. B. C.
from those sources.
Evening star., 1938-12-30

Dec.2 Dec. 2l. Dec. 80.
1888. 1898. 1887.
(1n millions Of dollarsl
The times-news., 1938-07-28
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
TURNING THE SCREWS IN EUROPE

Travellers often ask how it is that these govern
ments are able to spend such enormous sums on
armaments, showy public works and on spec
tacles The answer is very simple. They are spend
ing the national capital and they are lowering the
standard of life. The military socialism of Europe
is paid for not by new kind of financial magic
but by giving the people less food poorer Clothes
poorer houses, less comfort, less educational op-
portunity and less travel. 1t is being paid for out
of the accumulations of the past and out of a low
ering of the standard of life in the present
For it is as certain as anything can be that the
powers preparing for war are suffering not only
from unbalanced government budgets, but from
unbalanced national budgets. That is to say that
they are not producing enough wealth to pay their
way: They are sacrificing the future of their in
dustrial capital and of their standard of life in
the current expenditures of their governments.
This is the primary cause, believe, of the revo-
utionary tension which grips the peoples and their
rulers Europe is like crowded room in which
the windows and doors being closed and the
supply of oxygen drawn off 1t is harder and hard
er to breathe, harder and harder to move about
In this atmosphere some grow faint and give up
and sit quietly, and others grow frantic and make
desperate efforts to escape. The crueltes which
men practice towards other men in Europe are like
those which occur when crowds are in panic and
men trample each other under fot in a wild effort
to escape.
The heads of states do not really control and,
therefore, they do not really lead their peoples
The best they do is to give them temporary
relief by spending some more of their capital or
by distracting them with inSubstantia triumphS
and by DETECTING their discomfort into hatred
against some one else. For with each turn OF the
screw the preparation for war makes 1t still more
difficult to find satisfactory solution Of the popn-
lar discomfort At each turn Of the screw, as cap
ital and income are diverted from the production
OF wealth to the production Of military and poLt-
cal power the people poorer, the opportunities
open to young men are fewer. At each turn of the
screw. more oppression is necessary because only
greater and greater tyranny can cope with greater
and greater Observation-Disclosures Lippman in Char
IOtte Observer
The times-news., 1938-07-28
HOW MUCH IS A MAJORITY?

Upon the AAA announcement that 1t has deter
mined to make non-effective marketing agree
ment standardizing the grading of potatoes IN l5
states, including North Carolina, which was ap-
proved in referendum held last May. the grow
ers will have to provide such coincidence as they
can. Potatoes sold before the idea Of the agree
ment was conceived, and no doubt some demand
will be found for them
But there is interest in the reason assigned by
the federal agency for leaving off program which
had been approved by vote OF 5,52S, Tor the
plan as opposed to 1871 registering against it:
"After careful consideration, the agricultural
adjustment administration came to the conclusion
that the vote itself not strong enough eX-
preston of sentiment to warrant putting the agree
ment into effect Although the decision made will
undoubtedly dsappoing growers generally IN the
l3 states it will remove any possible assumption
that the AAA is willing to approve a program
which does not have strong support"
The AAA people are indeed careful, of minority
rights with per cent of the electors voting their
way How much of majority would they have
required to consider the plan approved by popular
sentiment? Just about the time we were ready to
protest the workings of democracy which had al
lowed a most generous delegation of the people S
rights to the executive, what seemed to be Woeful
lack of consideration for the smaller groups, we
are confronted with this smashing reputation. The
only disadvantage to this new method of most ethi-
cal balloting is that it may be some trouble to de-
termine who has won and who has lost-Gfeens-
boro News.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
WHY is EARLE so DESPERATE?

II is difficult for one at this distance to get a
clear and comprehensive picture Of the bitter Po-
litical warfare going on in Pennsylvania but one
fact is unmistakable and significant.
Governor Earle, New Dealer, nominee for the
United States senate, and the only Democratic
governor Pennsylvania has had in A years is des-
perately opposed to any grand jury investigation
of the pending graft charges against his admins
traton.
Principally in an effort to thwart the grand jury
inquiry, scheduled to begin August 8, ne has con-
vened the state legislature in extraordinary session.
Addressing the legislature at its opening, Gov
ernor Earle called upon it to smash what he termed
judicial dictatorship in the stately Keeping
the grand Jury off his administration, of course
In order to get his own hands on any evidence
in possession of his enemies that could be used TO
SUPPORT the charges of political corruption against
the chief executive and Is Of his associates, the
governor called upon his Democratcontrolled legs-
lature to subpoena the Republican district attorney
of the county in which the state capital IS situated
and also former Attorney General Margiottl.
He called upon his Democrat-controlled leglsla-
ture also to exercise its constitutional rights 10
resist overlordship" by the courts and TO take
appropriate action with respect to all persons re
sponsible for or partaking in" the move to BRING
about grand jury investigation of the charges.
Previously Governor Earle had defanded that
Margiotti then attorney general, deliver to the
chief executive the evidence he claimed would
prove corruption in Earle's administration. Mar
piotti refused to deliver saying he preferred TO
deliver it to grand jury, and the governor fired
him from office.
Such are but a few of the facts indicating how
extremely anxious the governor is to avoid having
his administration investigated by grand jury
and how determined he is to have the inquiry fore
stalled before its gets underway 1t is obvious that
Earle at least suspects Margotti has evidence IN
his possession that would be embarrassing to the
chief executive and his administration should 1t
get into the hands of an investigating grand jury.
Charlotte Observer.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
PLEASANT GROVE

PLEASANT GROVE, July %.
A revival meeting is being held
at Pleasant Grove church. Rev.
c. E. Blythe is assisting the pas
tor.
Mrs. Minor Davia of Valdosta,
Ga, is spending a few weeks hera
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
d. r. JustuS.
Mrs. Earl Gray and daughter.
Louise, who has been i'll Of flu
at the hOm Of Mrs. Gray'S par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Reed,
will return to their home this
week.
Rev. c. E. Blythe and his two
daughters, Mrs. Robert Wilson
and Mrs. James Dalton, spent
Monday at the Baptist assembly
at RidgecreSt.
Miss Mildred Gray Of Ashevillc
is spending a few weeks with he"
parents, Mr.. an dMrs. Henry
Gray.
Little Luciic Orr is visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Crouch this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mccall and
son, Allen, was a dinner guest Of
the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
w. W. Orr, Sunday.
Miss Jackie Corn and Miss Car
olyn Orr spent Tuesday night
with Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey orr OF
HcndersOnville.
The times-news., 1938-07-28


Judge Samuel Seabury, who
earned and received world fame
several years ago by hunting down
New York's evil and dangerous
Tammany tiger, has again hOrri-
fed the politicians by declaring,
"You cannot have good municipal
government, and you cannot have
good state government while the
laws place the control of either
government in the hands Of party
machines. The present cOnstitu-
tional provisions make it exceed
ingly difficult for the independ-
ent elements in the state either to
express their views or to nomi-
nate and elect their candidates on
anything like fair conditions by
comparison with the privileges
now conferred upon the party ma
chimes"
The only hope the people have
of defeating and eliminating the
dictatorial, corrupt state machines
and the equally obnoxious local
rings, is by means Of non-partisan
elections, so that party prejudices
and issues cannot be raised and
blind party allegiance appealed
to; and so that the voters may be
free to go to the polls and vote
with free minds.
The constitution Of the United
States makes no provision for par
ty politics, and ever contemplated
party control of government. Our
first president, George Washing
ton, foresaw the evils Of party
politics and solemnly warned US
against them in his Farewell Ad-
The times-news., 1938-07-28

whatever the president OF the
president of the United States
does in any public matter, he must
do as the president off the United
States. He cannot step out of his
office and act merely as the lead
er Of his party, or as a private
citizen. The power and prestige Of
his office are with him wherever
he goes, and in whatever he does
and SAYS. He cannot lay them
aside as long as he occupies the
White House.
If the president Of the United
States sincerely believes that any
person holding or seeking public
office is favorable, on unfavor-
able, to the best interests Of the
people of the United States Not
merely to the presidents party
he has not only the right but the
The times-news., 1938-07-28
BEHrND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

WTPA headquarters has
w been sorely bothered by
a problem involving both
religion and ticks. 1t might
be said that religion and
ticks don't mix or it might
be said that they do, al
though that's not the point
at issue.
A certain western state
has been more than ordi-
narily afflicted with ticks
lately-tho kind whose bite
may cause a fever which
often has resulted fatally.
Orders were issued that all
WPA workers in tie tick
area be vaccinated. But
some refused to take the
serum on religious grounds
and the state WPA officials
wrote 10 washington 10 ask
whether these objectorS
should be fired.
After consultation with
lawyers and clergymen Of
various faiths, top WPA Of
fcials replied in the mega
tive. But they urged the
state WPA people to keep
using moral persuasion be-
cause any deaths from
causes arising o, WPA work
means the government must
make insurance payment up
to $3500.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
BY RODNEY DUTCHER
,Et Service Stnn Correspondent

VIASHINGTON.-The "b ottle
w trust" may be the next target
in the series Of Justice Department
anti-monopoly prosecutions.
Members of Assistant Attorney
General Thurman Arnold's staff
have worked up a case alleging
violation of antitrust laws in the
beverage bottle industry and it
will be alleged, if suit is brought.
that there is a lack OF competition
and that prices are too high.
There is no assurance Of prose-
cution and the bottle case may be
bottled up" indefinitely, but ac-
ton is probable sooner or later.
The case of eight major motion
picture companies, against which
suit has just been brought on the
ground of monopolistic practices
which drive independent movie
houses out of business, lay around
in the department sever al months
after being prepared. It was dur
ing that period that Will Hays and
galaxy of motion picture mag
mates visited the White House.
If the big movie men care to
divorce their production-distribu-
ton ownership from their theater
ownership and eliminate block
booking, there's little question
that Attorney General Cummings
ard Arnold will be glad to call off
the prosecution
PIG, open-faced, smiling Denis
- Mulligan, director Of the Bu-
reau of Air Commerce, appears
and is just as Irish as his name
implies. When newspaper cor
respondents rushed to ask him
what he would do about punish
ing another Irishman named
Douglas Corrigan who had made
a spectacular, unauthorized solo
flight to Ireland, Mulligan told
them to forget it and remarked
that it was "a great day in the
history of the Irish people"
But brave young Corrigan has
given Mu1ligaa and other federal
The times-news., 1938-07-28

aeronautics officials cause fol
worry. No end of bright young
men are applying for permission
to make equally spectacular
flights and, worse yet, others are
thought to be secretly planning to
emulate Corrigan without asking
permission.
Aside from worrying about the
lives of such daredevils, officials
fear the effects of fatalities on
commercial aviation. Any widely
pub1icized airplane death has a
certain depressing effect on ticket
sales of air passenger lines.
copyright, 1898. SEA Service. Inc.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
CHRI TIAN HARMONY

MUSIC: Seldom Ostcen, grocer,
who runs around good deal il
there is singing that can b"
reached over the weekend, says
he doesn't take as enthuSiastlcal-
ly to Christian harmony music as
he does to the more modern type.
In fact, he says he hasn't master
ed it and therefore hasn't cult
waited an apprcciatin.
The times-news., 1938-07-28

Japan asserts she was forced
into this war with China. OF
course she was just as MuSsoli-
nj was forced to attack and seize
Ethiopia and Hitler TO grab Aus
tria!
The bunk dishcd at home and
abroad for us to swallow is no
compliment to our intelligence.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
PRESBYTERIANS WILL.
HEAR REV. II. BRYAN

SALUDA, July 2S.-Thc Rev.
Harry Bryan will be at the
Presbyterian church on Sun
day, July 81. Mr.. Bryan was in
SaIuda several summers ago and
had charge Of the church at that
time, and made many friends
here.
The times-news., 1938-07-28

llllScI lOlI IiIH , III
ically his obliga-
tion is as great
to one as to an
other; his Obliga-
ton is to every
citizen. He chose
whom he would
serve when he
took the oath of
O ic e and
probably no pres
j d e mt of this
country has ever
been e e ct c d
strictly by the
members of his
own party.
Furtherm o I c.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
MILLS RIVER
BIBLE SCHOOL
OPENS AUG. |
Churches in Township Co.
operating; Staff Is
Announced

The churches of Mills River
township are cooperating in
Daily Vacation Bible school sched-
uled to begin Monday, August
!. at the Mills River public school
building.
Mrs. A. NJ. Foster. Jr., will be
the superintendent Of the primary
group, which will also include
some undergraduates. Miss Caro-
lyn Kimscy and Miss Ruth Cor
pcning and other local young va"
men will assist her.
Miss Harriet Waihup, student
Of Maryville college. Tenn, will
have charge Of the Juniors, and
Mr.. Herman billiard Of Columbia
Seminary will teach the interme-
dates. Both Of these visiting
teachers viii have local assistants.
The school will continue for two
weeks. opening at 9 o'clock and
closing at 1870 a. IN.
Rev. w. S. HutchisOn says it IL
hoped to have children in attend
ancc from every Sunday school in
Mills River township and from
Rugby and Horse Shoe as well.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
DEER BECOME TOO TAME

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont
(UP)-Deer living in the bush
near here are demoralizing hunt
ers. They have become so tame
and friendly that the more tender
hearted hunters declare they
won't have the heart to shoot
them when the hunting season
opens.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
CITY WANTS NEW STATION

TOLEDO. (UP)-How to re-
place a 50-year-old railway sta
ton, used by six railroads, is the
problem faced by Toledo's Cham
Der of Commerce. Business lead
ers feel that a new Union station
might be financed under the new
federal program.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
CORN AT MAXIMUM: Vernon

Blythe, miller and meat cutter,
believes that corn has reached It's
maximum price and will not sell
for more than 50 cents bushel
and has therefore decided to sell
his at that price. He has been
holding for more.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

The president of the United
States is president of the Demo
Gratis, the Republicans, the hide
pendents, Of all citizens Of all po-
The times-news., 1938-07-28

The upkeep of elephants is ex-
pensive. A large elephant con
sumes 800 pounds of green fod-
der iii Is hours,
The times-news., 1938-07-28
MORE TOURISTS: News

trickles in to the effect that tour
lists have filled the hotels out the
Edneyville way and that there
are quite a number around the
city with capacity crowds. The
crowds were discouraging the
early part Of July and the num-
ber of visitors didn't increase
during the week of rain.
The times-news., 1938-07-28

Yachting in America dates from
the founding of the New York
Yacht club i'm lSii.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
SINGLETREE OR SWlNCLE.

TREE: Rafe Williams, Herschel
Allison and Lewis Reid, unpack.
ing, checking in and marking up
hadlware, noted that sinClet:ees,
swinglctrees, whiffletre,s and
whippletrees were listed as single
trees. Mr.. Williams said G. NJ.
Meetings. catalog should be the
highest authority and found that
it mentioned only Singletrees.
Then they wondered if the
synonyms had good authority.
Webster sanctions all of them.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
MUST BE SMOKING: Times

are mighty tight with Lewis Dur
ant, colored, gardner and house
hold worker for white people,
when he isn't putting away on Il
cigar. 81 can't work well until |
get up a heavy sweat and start
my cigar" says Lewis as he gives
his cigar a peculiar slant.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
JUDGE SEABURY IS RIGHT

duty to say so.
The times-news., 1938-07-28
CERTAINLY

Al 800
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
Navy Orders

Navy orders of the week include the
following:
REAR ADMIRAL
Henry " Butler. det, a Cdt. 5th Nav
DIST. Charleston, S. C. March Z, to
home. relieved all active duty.
LIEUTENANT
Basil n Rittenhouse, jr., duty as aide
to r. Adm Wilson Brown. U. S. N,
Supt. Nav. Acad.. in Feb.
MEDICAL CORPS
1t. George N. Raines, det. Nav. Hosp,
Philadelphia, Feb. !; to U. S. S. Sara
toga.
CONSTRUCTION CORPS
Capt. Ernest F. Eggert, det. Yard,
Washington, June 80; to home. relieved
all active 1usE AsEKAr1c ORDERS
1t Henry T. farrell, det. Sta. Ship,
Nanking, China, Nov. 21; to Sta. Ship,
Hankow, China.
Pay elk. Charles F. Ueltzen. det.
staff, Cdr. Yangtze Patrol; to Receiving
ship at San Francisco.
DEATHS
Adm Hilary P. Jones. U. s ~ IRE
tired), died Jan. ! at Washington.
Vice Arm. James F Legs IN c.,
| U. S. n, retiredl; died Jan. ~ at
Nav. Hnso, Philadelphia.
1t. John H Cross, L. S. N. died Jan.
| 10 at New London, Conn.
1t. Arthur T Fercivsl U. 6 N. IRE
tred). died Dec. at Alameda. Calf.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
Army Orders
Current Army orders include the fol

lowing:
LIEUTENANT CoLoNELs
Brehon B. Somerville, c. of E, New
York; to addtI. duty with Org. Res, I'd
Corps Area, April So
Thomas F. Taylor, inf. rel. Fort
keavenworth, Kan, July /; to U. of
Kentucky, Lexington.
Lucius K. Patterson. NJ. c. detailed
mor: Army retiring bd. apptd. to meet
at Fort Bliss, Tex. in par. Q, c. o., 156,
1881 as amended.
Harry r. MacKellar, NJ. c., rel. above
bd.
MAJORS
Edwin D. Patrick, inf. detailed mbr.
6. S. c. and assgd. to G. S with troops.
Aug. H. rel Nav. War Coll. Newport,
r. l.. at end of course of instr; thence
to hos, Sth Corps Area, Fort Sam Hous-
ton, Tex, until Aug. II; thence to duty
with G. S. c., same sta.
Bernard Smith, c. of E, Nashville,
Tenn, to A. and N. Gen. Hosp, Hot
Springs National Park, Ark, for trmt.
Okla, to Edgewood Ars., Nd.
CAPTAINS
Lewis NJ. Mcbride. c. W. S., rel.
Edgewood Ars., Aug. Is; to duty as
instr, F. A. Sch, Ft. Sill.
=, Robert v. Thomas, O.. NJ. C., Trenton.
n. J., to Hawaii; sail from New York,
LEAVES OF ABSENCE
Is days. March s.
Col: John F. Curry GA. c., G. S. c..
Mai Charles w. Walton. C. W. s.. 4
mos May !, with permission to visit
Capt. Albert R. Dreisbach. NJ. c.. IL
days extension.