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FEARS START UNsOUND
The Weather

District of Columbia, fair,
warmer tonight; Thursday increas-
ing cloudiness. followed by rain
at night; moderate south end
southwest winds, becoming fresh
on Thursday. ...-.
Maryland, partly cloudy, slight
ly warmer, followed by rain in ex-
treme west portion at night.
Virginia, partly cloudy and
warmer, followed by rain in ex-
treme northwest portion tonight:
Thursday cloudy, followed by rain
in. extreme west portion in after.
noon and in central and east por.
tionS at night; warmer Thursday
in southeast portion.
SUN AND MOON
The sun rose today at 6:12 a. m.
and sets at 5:33 p. m.
The moon rose today at 7:51
a. m. and sets at 9:38 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow at 6:13
a. m and sets at $50 p. m.
The moon rises tomorrow at
8:46 a. m. and sets at 11:40 p. m.
TIDE TABLES
High tides today at 9:41 a. m.
and at 1905 p. m.
Low tides today at 4:20 a. m.
and at 4::14 p. m.
High tides tomorrow at 1925
a. m. and at 1854 p. m.
Low tides tomorrow at 5:04
a. m. and at SOL p. m.
| TENDER ATVTRES
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(Prices Paid shippers-Net F. o. B.
Washington
By the c. S. Bureau Of Agricultural
FrOnOu0iNm

Economics
EEgs-Government graded and dated
eggs: Whites, U. S. extras, large, 43hc;
Q. s. extras, mediums, 3lAc; U. S.
mediums. 2sc; U. S. Trades, 25c; puliets
22c. Nearby ungraded eggs: Current
rs q @27c.
Live Poultry-Market weak. Fowl:
Colored, all sizes. Is q 1sc; No. Is, 129
1sc; leghorns, 12m13c; roosters, 1od lie.
Chickens: Virginia rocks, broilers and
fryers. all sizes, 16Ql7c; No. 2. 13@14c;
Delaware rocks and crosses. hroilers and
flyers, all sizes. 16@ lie: No. Is, IS q lie;
mixed colored fryers lag 15c; No. 2s II
@13c; leghorns, brOilers all sizes, 1Sa
lbs, 22c; young toms, Is lbs. and Up
20 a. 22c; No. Is. 1Sc; under 10 lbs, lSct
No. 2s, 15@16c; No. Is, 18c; under II
Tbs, 1Sc; No. 2s. 15G16c; old hens. 1Sc
old Toms, tic. Guineas, 2 lbs. and over
SOC . pair; under lbs, 40c pair.
I. G. L. express receipts at Washing
1on, d. c., Wednesday, October IL, 1898
y Florida-42 Iugs avocados, 10 lug.
itnnss, 20 busheI baskets okra, 81 busheI
b4skets squash.
s<sCalifornia-2s 12-lb. boxes figs
saafVirginia-s barrels watercress.
North Carolina-27 h-busheI baskets
south carOHna-22 bushel baskets
Unknown origin-5A crates mixed veg
,Appies-No carlot arrivals; / broker
aad I unbroken cars on track. Marke
&eady. Bushel baskets. L. S. No. !. Mary
land, Pennsylvania, Virginia and ives
VirRinia, Grimes. az inch minimum, 75c
3k.inch minimum. s1@1.lo; ~ incl
mInlnBns eI.1SG1.2Si Jonathan% S-lnG'
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BALTIMORE PRODUCE

sacks, Sweet Spanish, u. s. No. 1, inch
min, Colorado, $1,000 1.2S: Idaho, sl.l6
Peas (green)-Market about steady.
Peppers-Market dull. Nearby y
bushel hampers, 10 q zoe; few higher:
100 lbs. sacks, Cobblers,. Y. s. No. l,
$1.05@1.15; Maryland and Pennsylvania,
100 lbs. sacks, round whites, U. s. No; l,
9O@s5c; few 81; ungraded, SoG S5c;
U. S. No. l. &2.1O @2.15; few higher;
Maine, 100 lbs. sacks, Cobblers, U. S.
No. l, few sales, $1.25 O l.30.
Spinach-Market unsettled. Nearby,
bushel baskets, 75QsOc; u bushel hamp-
squash~Market steady. Florida bushel
hampers, white wrapped, small size, SEQ
2.25.
Sweet Potatoes-Market dull. Eastern
u. S. is. 7599oc. few higher; Jerseys
U. S. rs. 65975c. few higher; ungraded,
so @ 60c: bushel baskets white yams, U.
IS. is, 75@Soc, few higher; ungraded, 50
975c; Eastern Shore Virginia, barrels
Jerseys Ungraded, SIPS g 1:SO; opsnel m ne
pers Jerseys and Goldens, 25@35c.
Tomatoes-Market steady. California
lugs U. s. is, 6x6 and larger. Mostly
around $1.75; ungraded, $1.25 q 1.5O
nearby, h-bushel hamper, ripes, best, 81
a 40c: few higher. poorer, 15@25c.
Baltimore Eggs-Market firm. Nearby
ungraded eggs large size, $40 36c. Med
ium size. 2S @ soc: mixed colors, 27@2Sc
Prices include commission. Receipts
Butter, 1,443 tubs. Eggs, 1921 cases Gin
Guiding Is boat and 2O3 truck).
Live PouItry-Receipts moderate; de
mand light: market very dull. Chickens
Rocks. 17Q2Oc; mixed colors. 15919c
Leghorns, 15@16c. Fowl-Rocks, 20 21c
mixed colors, 1890; Leghorns, 12@14c
ROSTERS. 12114c; ducks, young Pekins
I146 Ice; Muscovy, 15@16c. Guineas, lbs
and over mostly soc each. Turkeys
Young, hens mostly .2sc; toms mostl!
I24c. Prices include commission.
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BAKER REELECTED

The District Building and Loan
Association, at its annual meeting
of shareholders last night, re-
elected George A. Baker as its
president. At the same time Henry
GilIgan was returned as vice presl-
dent and attorney, and F. Wilson
Camp was reelected secretary
treasurer.
Organized February /, 1911, the
District Building-Loan Association
has enjoyed a steady growth, and
its present resources of $1,335, 900
are the greatest in its history, the
shareholders were told. Reelected
directors are John H. Davis,
Charles H. Frame, William F.
Friel, Warren w. Grimes, Otis H.
johnson, Harold Austin Wood and
MeSsrs. Baker, Camp and Gilligan.
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d. C. STORES LEAD

Fifty-four department and gen.
eral stores in as cities In the Fifth
Federal Reserve District reported
an average decrease Of 4 per cent
in retail sales In September and
cumulative sales during the nine
month period this year also showed
a 4 per cent decrease. as against
the same period in 1887.
Total sales in 539 stores in the
United States in September, 1888,
were 9 per cent less than sales in
September, 1887, and cumulative
sales over the United States during
the nine month period we're 10 per
cent below the average for the
same period last year.
The seven stores reported in the
District of Columbia made the best
showing of all those in the Federal
Reserve district, showing decline
of only four-tenths of per cent
during the month Of September
1888, and only 2.3 per cent for the
nine-month period.
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1000 Growers
Apply for Wheat
Crop Insurance

Q.N.S.) Seven thousand ap-
plications for wheat crop insur-
ance have been made by growers
in six Eastern States, Leroy K.
Smith, manager Of the Federal
Crop Insurance Corporation, re-
ported today.
Although the applications were
filed in regional State offices
after the october deadline, they
will be forwarded to washington
for calculation of premiums.
Pennsylvania led in number Of
applications with 3,466. Mary
land was next with 1,436; Vir-
einia, 1880; New York, 725; Della
ware, 165, and New Jersey, So.
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'MOULTON SEES
BIG OPPORTUNITY.
FOR INVESTMENT.
Brookings Head Speaks
To Mortgage Men
Nv RICHARD r. BAKER, JR.

The greatest single need Tor q
restoration of prosperity in this
country and improvement OF Nv
ing standards is a resumption OF
private investment, DR.. Harold q,
Moulton, president Of the BROOK
ings Institution. told members OF
the Mortgage Bankers OF America
at the opening sessions today OF
the groups Silver Jubilee" con-
vention in Chicago.
DR.. Moulton chided those VINO
complain that there is a dearth Of
investment opportunities because
railroad mileage is contracting
rather than expanding; that the
utilities industry has passed its
mushroom" stage and that our
great Industries have become too
highly developed.
WHAT WE NEED
1--WE do not need any new IN
dustries to lead us from depreS-
sion to prosperity or to provide
productive outlets for the saw
ings Of the American people," ne
said. "All that we require Is an
economic and political situation
favorable to the resumption OF
capital reu:s cement and expan-
sion in existing industries.
"The American people need
additional quantities Of existing
types of commodities much more
than they need new types OF
consumption goods and services.
We need more and better houses,
more and better household fur
nishingS, more and better COM
modities Of practically every
type that enters into current
consumption.
"The expansion Of capital re-
quired to replace deprecated
and obsolescent plant and equip
ment, and to raise standards Of
living even back to the 1929
level, Is sufficient not only to
provide outlets for available
money savings, but also to abb
sorb all Of our unemployment"
More than 1900 commercial and
mortgage bankers, real estate ex'
ecutiveS, life insurance and title
and trust company officers and
Government agency heads, includ.
ing several local leaders in those
fields, were present at the open
ing sessions.
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RAIL BOARD TOLD
LABORS' DUTIES
NEARLY DOUBLED

G.N.S.) A man working on the
railroad must produce 80 per cent
more to meet the carriers fixed
charges than did his counterpart
18 years ago, President Roosevelt's
fact-finding board was told today.
The witness, George M. Harrison,
chairman Of the Railway Labor
Executives Associations renewed
the demand Of the brotherhoods
that the 5000, 100000 railroad
industry overhaul its capital struc-
ture instead of putting into effect
an ordered IS per cent wage cut
against which 100000 rail workers
have voted to strike.
PRELATE OPPOSES CUT
Earlier, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John
A. Ryan, head of the department
Of industrial ethics, Catholic Uni
versity, warned the board that the
proposed wage cut would be
against social justice" for the
workers themselves and the nation
as a whole.
Describing himself as an "al
legged expert in the field Of the
ethical side of industrial rela-
relations" the Rt. Rev. Ryan, q
labor witness. blamed the plight
of the carriers on too much bonded
debt.
Harrison, in making his claim
that rail employees today must pro
duce more per employe to meet
the fixed charges Of the carriers
said that in large measure this
was true because only half as
many persons are employd in the
industry this year compared with
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results in farming States.
But my quest is business, not
politics, and specific facts and fig
ures will be more acceptable and
enlightering.
SEES MODERATE GAINS
The head Of q large company
manufacturing agricultural ma
chinery and implements tells me
that sales this year generally are
off IS to 80 per cent from 1887.
But he adds:
"There is q moderate feeling
Of optimism In the industry.
One evidence is the increased
manufacturing schedules at our
own tractor plants. My opinion
is that we shall have q moder-
ate business Improvement last
ing perhaps until next spring"
Two CHEEKY notes: Two Darcy
Advertising Agency in st. Louis
which serves several huge and
many lesser industrial concerns, Is
this year doing the largest business
in its long history.
An increase Of no less than 20
per cert over last year is the rec
ord Of the Gardner Advertising
Agency, now celebrating its thir.
tieth anniversary, E. A. w. Schu-
1enburg informs me.
FEARS START UNSOUND
WhaE of the shoe industry? It
receives less attention from econo-
mists, index numbers, ETC.. than
its magnitude and significance
warrant. Let Chairman r. G.
Rand, Of the International Shoe
Company, tell you:
'"The first six months Of this
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Gurney TO Speak
On Air-ConditioninQ

Problems confronting the air
conditioning enginees will be dis
cussed by E. Holt Gurney, Of
Toronto, Canada, nationa! presi,
dent of the American Society OF
Heating and Ventilating Engineers,
at the Washington chapters first
meeting of the season at 8 o'clock
tonight at the Dodge Hotel.
Mr.. Quincy is a director Of the
Canadian Institute of Plumbing
and Heating and a member Of the
Royal Canadian Institute.
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Community Chest
Names 6. A. Ford

Appointment of George A. Ford,
civic leader, as chairman Of the
Community Chest drive in the
Uptown Fourteenth Street area
was announced last night by w.
w. eler, chairman Of the
metropolitan unit. Ford is presi'
dent of the Columbia Heights
Business Mems Association.
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" Picks Teams
For Annual Drive

Individual team workers for the
annual membership campaign OF
the Central Young Mems Christian
Association were named yesterday
by H. M. Brundage, general cam
paign chairman. The campaign
will be launched at 6 p. m. Friday
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that this year
the colleges and
universities of
the nation are
g oing to de-
bate the pro-
posal that the
U. S. S h oul d
cease to u S e
public un d S
for the purpose
of stimulating
business. What
is meant, is the
pump printing
polio My
opin on ! S
asked.
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SSAAANA1 SAS VAAC
lationS, restric-
ttonS are re-
senLed by sons
of the soil, un-
accustomed to
S u b m itting to
d / c ia tion. A
case Of wanting
to eat cake and
still have ia
h u m q n trait,
but not entirely
practical.
It m ay be,
therefore, that
N oV e m b er 8
will bring some
ocfoO0ichin0 no.
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TRICKERY CHARGED

Tracing accrued interest over
the 18-year period and the pay
ment of dividends, Harrison
pointed to the record dividend
payment of $598, 900 900 in 1880
and charged that it had been
made with the depression under
way in an effort to bolster the
stock market.
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Coal Aide Named

The National Bituminous Coal
Commission today appointed
Thurlow G.. Lewis, Benton, Ill,
attorney, as chief of the ariol
examining division.
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STEADY BUILDING GAIN

Will 1899 usher in q real build
ing boom2 One authority, Pres
dent B. G. Dahlberg, of the Celc
tex Corporation, replies "yes.
He states:
"Our business volume has
held at q steady level practi-
cally all year, slightly under last
year, but better than any previ-
Gus year. With the political
situation clearing up and the
war scare out Of the way, I
look forward to a steady growth
In building which will gradu-
ally bring us into the long
awaited building BOOM
Much is printed about vari-
GUS efforts to build a $4,000
or $4,000 house. A good low
priced house doubtless will do
for the building industry what
the first Ford car did for the
automobile industry. I think it
is coming. My own organiza-
ton is working towards that
end. But building prosperity
need not wait upon the develop
ment of q low.priced house. I
look for 1889 to witness the be-
ginning Of lusty prosperity.
1.-THE attitude Of large In
surance and trust companies is
encouraging. Metropolitan Life
recently invested more than
55,0O0,000 in a large housing
project in New York city.
These large investors can do no
more constructive job than con-
tinue to put their huge re-
sources to work in projects like
this"
Copyright. 1898. by B. c. ForbeS)
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"PUMP-PRIMING"
BY U. S. CALLED
COSTLY, FUTILE.
Haney Says Reaction
Follows BoomIetS
BY LEWIS HANEY

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-Before
me lies an inquiry put out by an
organization which supplies de-
baters with arguments. 1t says
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after four years of "pump-prim-
ing" we would have learned our
lesson.
The QUESTIONABLE before me,
however, does suggest a question
as to how the current pump-pr1m-
ing operations are going on. Is
there any reason to expect better
luck this time?
The President has just an
nounced that the current program
will reach its peak next spring.
But it was begun early last sum-
mer. Evidently the timing, speed,
and duration are uncertain. How
do we know when the peak or
the end will be? eve don't0
EFFECT OF STOPPING
More Immediately important, as
affecting business psychology, is
the question, what will happen
when the "priming" ceases next
spring df it ceases? CThe an
Swer is: Nobody knowSD
Will deflationary brakes be
clamped down as was the case in
the spring of 1887?
If not, will a mere tapering off
of the Government spending have
the effect of announcing that the
game is finished?
It is possible that long range
plans and investments are being
held UP right now because enter
prisers and investors can't be rea-
Sonably certain about these very
questions.
BOOMLETS TEMPORARY
When you stop to think about
It, you will recall that since 1888
the Administration has been slog.
ging away at the pumps most OF
the time. In that time, we have
had at least four distinct boom
lets, each followed by bad reac
tions.
We should by this time see that
even the figure of speech which
we use when we talk about "Stimu-
lating' business is misleading.
Two sorts of vicious circles are
being set up:
/. One is the circle Of initiation,
and resulting monetary uncer-
tainty. The more "the Govern
ment" spends, the more funds it
needs. If it raises taxes, it kills
business, so it has to borrow.
CThis causes an "easy money
policy.") But the more it bor-
rows the more debt it piles up for
the banks to carry as an "asset," "
and this debt is the basis for a
huge mass of inelaStic bank de,
posits. (This causes a tendency
to rising prices and high money
.rates.)
CUT SPENDING
2. The other is the circle of col
lectivism, or Government partner
ship" in business. The huge spend
ing requires that the Government
find means of diSbursing itS
checks and notes. 1t therefore
deViSeS schemes such as PWA
AAA, ETC., ETC., all of which tenc
to put the Government into bust
ness. Once in, the bureaucrat!
and reiefers organize and fight tt
hang on.
: The only way to get the U. S
out of business is to cut its spend
ing in half.
Won't eight years be enough?
+ -------
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CUT SPENDING

D. Elmer Layden. famous NOtrs Dame
y coach now writes football excIu-
tlVeiy Tor the washington heraIO-
Times. Telephone RE. 1894 for Home
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Midwest Looks
With Optimism
General Steady Gain Forseen; Some
Warn to Build SOundly
By B. O. FORBES

IN THE MIDDLE WEST Oct 12.-Washngton has catered
much farmers learns with surprise that dis
content is widespread in important agricultural
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Governmental checks are well
coined; but the many rules, regu.
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year were unsatisfactory. Buy
ing by shoe merchants through
out the country has been active
since July and present condi-
tions indicate a continued buy
ing through the balance Of the
year.
while the immediate stu
alton seems encouraging, I am
not optimistic about the long
pull because I fear that indus
try and commerce have not
been permitted to meet their
problems on q sound basis.
American industrial life has
suffered immeasurably from un-
wise legislation In taxes, indus
trial and social relations, bu-
reaucratic regulations and the
unfortunate attitude that our
Government has shown towards
business.
eff these factors are elimi-
mated, or greatly modified, so
that industry can operate fairly
and sanely under the guidance
Of its experience and knowledge,
sound progress can be made.
Otherwise, in my judgment, it
cannot"
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Kerensky to Talk
To Freshmen Here

Alexander Kerensky, who headed
the provisional government of
Russia in 1917, will make an off
the-record speech at the luncheon
at the National Press Club Thurs
day at 1890 p. m.
Kerensky's government bridged
the gap between the czarist and
Bolshevist regimes.
KerenSky, a moderate Socialist,
barely escaped with his life when
Lenin and his coterie of militant
Bolshevists, most of whom are
now either dead or in exile like
Leon Trotsky, took over the gov
eminent,
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Money Would Ruin Jackie Coogan, Says His Mother

the cooperation in the world
from us, but if you're not, you'll
suffer the consequences"
80 Jackie was bad boy?"
said Rains.
Yes, a bad boy, Mr.. Rains
a 20-year-old bad boy"
And what did Mr.. Coogan
say would be the advantage If
Jackie were a good boy?" pressed
the attorney.
1.-THE cooperation of his par
entS," Mrs. Bernstein replied,
and then with vigor added:
"And you don't need to smile,
Mr.. Rains. I'm his mother and
know what we've done for
him."
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AAlOAAN y III NUA 1lNNA oo q NlAAANA . "a
AS the son prepared to go to
court to obtain some of the mil
lions which his parents collected
on his screen contracts, she in
sisted tearfully she loved him and
had kept the money to save him
from himself.
PLAN TO FIGHT
His mother, Mrs. Lillian Coogan
Bernstein, and his step-father,
principals in Jackie's suit for an
accounting, also indicated while
giving a deposition that they plan
to fight the suit and cling to the
California law that a minors earn.
ingS belong only to his parents.
She didn't want to give him any
part of the 100000 he reputedly
earned and fatty denied any
promises to her son that he would
be provided for, as claimed by
Coogan.
Mrs. Bernstein declared tear
fully:
Jackie was a bad boy, and
his father was scolding him for
his actions. l was heartbroken,
heartsick. We had been work
ing all his life to make him an
upright, honorable man"
Jackie's stepfather, who mar
ried Mrs. Coogan shortly after
Jackie'S father was killed in an
automobile accident in 1885, stood
near as she continued:
His father said to him that
the law stated father and
mother own everything a child
makes. but we always took
care of him so he wouldn't go
completely haywire."
DENIES PROMISE
This talk, she said, took place
when Jackie was about 20 years
old.
Questioned by Attorneys Will
liam Rains and Frank Doherty,
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crying. When I went back I heard
Mr.. Coogan saying:
Jackie, you are breaking your
mothers heart and what you are
doing will reflect on you more
than anyone else. You're going
to regret this. You know what
the law is. Everything you've
earned up to now belongs to
your mother and myself and I'm
going to see that you don't get
your hands on any of it. If you
had a fortune you would go COM
pletely hay-wire and throw it
away in a few months. I, for
one, am going to see that such
a thing doesn't happen. If
you're a good boy you'll get all
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morning when Jackie was about
20.
"I'll answer the question,
Charlie. MY son hasn't hest
tated to embarrass me, so why
should I care about embarrass-
ing him?"
@. By Rains) Very well, will
you repeat the conversation? A.
Well, Jackie had done something
very terrible and his father was
talking to him about it. I couldn't
stand to join in the conversation
for a little while and stayed IN
the dressing room where I was
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Giant War Tank Reported in Russia

A tank Of Stupendous size is
being developed in Russia, accord
ing to an article in a German mill
tary magazine and reprinted in
the current issue Of The Infantry
Journal.
According to a report, which has
not been confirmed, in the Kraft
fahrkampftruppe, a 1,00O-t o n
tank, which is more than ten
times larger than the largest
existing tank and 100 times larger
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Boy Film Stars Parent Says He Did
"SOmethinq Terrible" as Youth

LOS ANGELES. April 19.-Jackie Coogan "Poor Little
Rich Boy of the films pictured by his mother today
youth who would only be ruined by possession of the
money he earned a child star
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than most Of the worlds tanks.
is being developed by the Red
army.
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TERRIBLE ACTION"

But Jackie, now the 23-year-old
husband of actress Betty Cradle,
was described by Mrs. Bernstein
as a youth who at the age of 20
did something very TERRIBLE
something that caused his mother
to cry, while his father, the late
John Henry Coogan, told Jackie
right there and then that all he
might thereafter expect from his
parents was their cooperation"
Rains asked if Mrs. Bernstein
and Mr.. Coogan had ever dis
cusSed with their son the POSSIBLE
ity that he would never get any of
his earnings when he came of age.
Mrs. Bernstein recalled that there
had been such a discussion one