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NEW YORK RUBBER.

NEW YORK, Aug II tp..-Crude rubber
futures opened 2O-3O higher. September,
1e.2o-27: December. 16.35.36: March,
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dicted today by
Arthur j. Morris,
founder of the
banking system,
who was in the
city today for the
board meeting of
the Morris Plan
Bank of Wash
tngton.
"Our loans have
b e en- increasing
steadily sin c e
early this year,
and for the last
II years they
H.>,A
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Total Bales Tor the dAy.l. .lUO.OO0
sActual sales: unit Of trading 10 shares.
bankruptcy receiveshp being under
Bankruptcy Act securities assumed By such companies
10 share preference stock share of S.
n Paid last Cash stock. k
dividend paid declared this
dividends the annual dis
declars-
otherwise noted
Included " - ~ ~ " "
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Hecla Mining Co.-Declared divi-
dend of S cents a share, payable Sep
tember Is to holders Of record August
IS. Last previous payment was 10
cents q share March IS, 1888.
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fornia on June / reached the all-time
high figure Of 9,066,955 cases. with
peaches accounting for approximately
80 per cent Of the total and apricots
around 20 per cent.
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CONSTRUCTION AWARDS.

NEW YORK. Aug. II P.-Engineering
construction awards for the latest week
date to S1.612. .149 900. an increase of L.!
per cent over the. 81 ,5a4 SIS, 900 reported
Tor the corresponding period last year. En-
gineerlns News Record reported today.
The weeks total. S16.431 900. was 33
per cent above the previous weeks and
50 per cent above the corresponding 1887
week
Private construction was AZ per cent
above the corresponding 1897 week due to
q hieh volume of commercial building and
large-scale housing projects.
Among large awards were S4 5OoOon for
an Oakland: Mo-. apartment, syndicate.
S2.O0O,OOO for a o3n-mile oil pipe line
for the Continental Oil Co. in Wyoming and
Colorado
Values Of awards for the two COM
narrative ueeks
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Approximate Sales Of Stocks on the NJ Y Stock Exchange
11:00 A.M-------. 100000 1900 Noon-----. 4sO 900
1:00P.M-------- $4,000 2:O0 P.M-----. 100000
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MORRIS PLAN BANK
LOANS INCREASE
Founder of System Predicts
$300,00O,O 900 Volume
for Present Year.
BY DONALD B. HADLEY.

Morris Plan Banks over the Ma
tion will handle approximately $780,
100000 in loans to approximately
100000 persons this year. it was pre-
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CHICAGO GRAIN
By the Associated Press.

.
CHICAGO, Aug. 29.-The wheat
market ran into profit-taking today
after Saturdays upturn of almost 3
cents, and prices retreated fractionally.
Foreign grain markets responded
meekly to the tense European political
situation. Reports indicated Canada
and the United States had reached no
agreement for cooperation in Market
ing the North American surplus.
Thus, buying sentiment received lit
tie stimulus, with result that profit
taking and hedge selling dominated
the trade. Liverpool closed only frac-
tionally higher. having lost an early
advance Of more than a cent, and no
weekend business in domestic grains
for export was reported.
The Government bought only 35 900
bushels of Pacific Northwest wheat for
export, having turned down most of
the offers on 100000 bushels because
prices were too high.
Corn also declined under profit TAX
ing, many traders expected receipts
would diminish as result of an ad-
vance on the corn-loan rate which
puts the value on grain on the farm
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COAL ASSOCIATION
PROTESTS RATES
Tells I. C. C. Freight Charges
Were Boosted When Prices
Were Going Down.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The National Coal Association filed
with the Interstate Commerce COM
mission today a protest against ex-
tension of present freight rates on
bituminous coal beyond December 81,
1888.
The I. c. c. granted temporary in
creases on coal last October 10, and
the class l railroads have petitioned
for an extension. The increases
ranged from to Is cents a ton.
The association said that probably
no other industry in the country Is in
such deplorable and hopeless flnan-
cial condition today as the bituminous
coal industry"
1t said that at the time the increases
were granted the coal producers were
in worse condition than at the low
point of the depression in 1882"
Conditions have been growing
steadily worse" it continued. The
price structure contemplated by the
Bituminous Coal Commission Act has
not been operative and there is no
indication that it will or can become
operative in the reasonably near fu-
ture.
Coal prices are at lower point
than at any time in the immediate
past and the trend is still downward"
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u. S. STEEL IMPORTS
DECLINE DURING JULY

BY the Associated Press.
The metals and minerals division of
the Commerce Department reported
that imports of iron and steel products
(excluding scrap) into the United
States in July were valued at s955,215,
compared with sl,O35,536 in June and
$2,084,4o1 in July, 1887.
The Commerce Department an
nounced that July imports of asbestos
were valued at sss3,87O, compared
with s371,895 in June and $685.
in July, 1887.
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PRIVATE PAY ROLL
DETAILS REVEALED
Sales Executives to Be Aided
by New Compensation
Board Data.
By DONALD B. HADLEY.

Washington sales executives can
gauge their market among private
wage and salary earners here much
more accurately as a result of COM
pilation from the District Unemploy-
ment Compensation Board.
While the latest month covered by
the compilation, March, 1888, shows
pay roll of only $l6,477 961 and much
later figures have revealed the month
ly average for the first seven months
of this year reached Sl7,629,9l5. the
detailed report discloses for the first
time the proportions of employers, en-
poyes and pay rolls in various kinds
of business.
The March report shows IN addition
to the $l6477,98l pay roll, 1o,697 en-
ployers and 15l,222 employees. Gen
eral merchandise establishments. in
cluding IS units. l1.197 employees and
a pay roll of S957, 1885. ranked
above other ClaSsificatlons Eating and
drinking places listing 663 units, TO-
469 employees and pay roll of $64l,-
68l.55, also we're near the top. Real
estate firms listed 1924 units. 9,246
employees and pay roll of S7l1,11452.
Hotels. furnished rooms. etc, in
cludlng 232 units, had 6.11S employees
and pay roll of Sd73,41460
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nearly cents higher than the mar
ket price.
Corn receipts, however, were fairly
large, being estimated at 243 cars
and shipments overseas of Argentine
and United States corn were larger
Oats showed little change, but rye
declined with wheat.
Provisions were unsettled, although
strengthened by the hog market.
Around II am, wheat was 1s-3a
lower, compared with Saturdays
finish, September 64k4, December 66,
and corn was 3s-5s down, September
53ls, December 5l5s.
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DOLLAR VALUE FALLS
IN WHOLESALE TRADE

by tne Associated Press.
The Commerce Department reported
that dollar volume of wholesale trade
declined l8 per cent during July, COM
pared with July, 1887. The decline
was based on reports from $3.50
wholesalers cooperating in the
monthly study of the National Asso-
citation of Credit Men and the BuYeau
of Farm and Domestic Commerce
Sales in July totaled $l66,000.000,
compared with $2o2,00o,o00 in July,
1897.
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ORDERS BY TELEPHONE.

Railroads operating 148,666 miles of
road now transmit train orders by
telephone, compared with 88,502 miles
where such orders are sent by tele-
graph.
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sActual sales. unit OF shares
Bankruptcy Act securities such
LILO share Of s. preerence Stock 1s5 share Of 81
preference stock Declared paid
IN stock Pad last year, h Cash stock Accumulated
dividend oaid or declared this
Rates OF dividends in the foregoing
Unless otherwise extra
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ROLLER BEARINGS USED.

Roller bearings are being used on
practically all new locomotives that
are being built.
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POWER IS INCREASED.

The average tractive power Of rail-
road locomotives in this country is
now 81 per cent greater than in 1920.
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BELLS ARE AUTOMATIC.

The bell on steam locomotive,
in majority of instances, is now
operated automatically. -
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Auto busses Of Moscow carried 200,-
000,000 passengers last year.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

May %: that the lending-spend.
ing bill would be taken up in the
House this week, and that the tax
conference report would reach
the Senate this afternoon and the
House tomorrow.
NEUTRALITY DISCUSSED
The House leader was asked
whether the Nye resolution, which
would abandon the Spanish neu.
trality act. had been discussed.
only Incidentally Rayburn
said. Personally I am opposed
to any monkeying with the neu-
trality law at this time"
He refused to divulge the Presi.
dents position. Yesterday, as the
U. S. s. Philadelphia docked at
Charleston, Mr.. Roosevelt in
dorSed a recent statement of Sec
rotary Hull indicating that this
Government desired to remain as
impersonal as a "cigar store In.
dian" in connection with the Span.
ish civil war.
Speaker Bankhead arrived for
the conference on crutches. He
said his injured toe was coming
along, but declined to discuss the
conference with the President.
GARNER, BARLEY SILENT
Garner and Barley declined all
comment, but it was understood
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
RETA TO TAKE
BABY TO n. Y.

WINsTON-sALEM, N. c., May
9.-Reunited with her eight.
weeks-old baby and still wanting
to marry the Fort Myer (VaO
soldier who she says is the child's
father, 18-year-old Reta Lowell
rested in a private home here
today.
The unwed mother said she
planned to take the baby, Ronald,
back to the New York city home
of her foster parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Senfner.
Reta was reunited with her
baby, which she gave to a truck
driver, Watson futile, jr., after
pleading guilty to a charge of 81
legally surrendering" the infant
two weeks ago.
She will remain here several
days before beginning the trip to
New York, welfare officials here
indicated. Decision to leave the
baby with the foster parents was
reached at court in Greensboro
Saturday.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

longer the head Of the Ethiopian
government in fact, although the
Council will not go so far as to
recognize King Victor Emanuel
of italy as Emperor of Ethiopia.
Fireworks also are promised by
Julio Alvarez del Vayo, Spanish
government delegate to the
League, and DR.. wellington Koo,
Chinese emissary.
PLANS ARE LAID
Viscount Halifax, British for.
eign secretary, in chamber
sessions with individual delegates,
has already laid the groundwork
for what he wants to facilitate
recognition of Ethiopia as Italy's.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
2 Who Lost Sight
Living Happily

LONDON, May 9 (I.N.S.).
Two children whose parents
once were faced with the
same alternative confronting
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman COlan,
Of Chicago, were found to-
day, living cOntentedIy de-
spite their blindness.
The children are Jane
GOOch, 6, and Peter ChiIds, 5.
Both were victims Of maIig.
nant eye tumOrs at birth.
Their parents consented to
operations which spared their
lives but took their sight.
They are now living at the
National Institute for the
Blind at East Grinstead,
Sussex.
Both children today are
clever, happy, contented and
far advanced" said the ma
tron Of the school, Miss OyIee
tombstone.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

GETS LIFE Term

LONDON, May 9 G.N.S0-Ac-
cused Of spying for Russia, Count
ess .Actavie Wielapolska, 20, has
been sentenced to life imprison.
ment by a secret court in Berlin,
the Daily Express reported today
from Warsaw. She is the Russian
born wife of Polish Count Wielar
polska. The Express said word If
her sentence was taken to Warsaw
by a Polish diplomat.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Slayer Appeals
Death Sentence

BALHOUsIE, N. B., May 9
Q.N.S0-An appeal will be taken
in the case OF Robert Barbour,
sentenced to death on the gallows
for the murder of his sweetheart,
Margaret Harris.
Barbour was found guilty of the
girls murder and sentenced Satur-
day to die July %. He was con-
victed Of killing the girl because
of a quarrel arising over jealousy.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
AIDES PROMISE
ROOSEVELT 7 0
SPEED SESSION
President Talks to
Hill, Leaders
By GEORGE DURNO

G.N.SD. President Roosevelt,
fresh from his nine-day Caribbean
cruise, received a comprehensive
report on the legislative situation
from Capitol HILLS 'big four'' to-
day soon after he returned to the
White House, and laid plans with
them to speed the New Deal pro-
gram and adjournment of Con-
greSs.
Vice President Garner, Speaker
Bankhead, Senate Majority
Leader Barley and House Ma
jority Leader Rayburn were
closeted with the Chief Executive
for an hour and a quarter, but
were reluctant to discuss details
of the session as they emerged
from the big mansion.
TAX REPORT FIRST
Rayburn would say only that
the President had been advised
the controversial hour-wage bill
would come UP in the House on
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Flames Damage
La Toilette House

FRANCONIA, Va. May 9.
The roof of a pre-Revolutionary
farmhouse owned by Senator Rob-
ert M. La Toilette of Wisconsin,
was damaged by fire here yester-
day. Members of the Franconia
volunteer Fire Department pre-
vented spread of the blaze. Dam
age was estimated at $500. The
three7story house was occupied by
w, H. Coleman and family,
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Ex-CircuS Aide and c. Man
Sentenced in Tax EuaSiOr1

NEW YORK, May 9 U.N.S).
John M. Kelley, former vice presi-
dent and general counsel Of the
Ringing Brothers, Barnum &
Bailey combined circus, today was
sentenced to 10 years and fined
$4,000 for income tax evasion by
Federal Judge Murray Hubert.
Two former internal revenue
agents also were sentenced for
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Davies Transferred
To Belgium Post

President Roosevelt today nomi-
mated Joseph E. Davies, well
known as an attorney in the Dis
trict Of Columbia and recently
United States Ambassador to
Russia, to be ambassador to Bel
GUM. The nomination also in
cluded the mission of Mr.. Davies
as minister to Luxembourg.
Mr.. Davies succeeds AmbaSsa.
dor Gibson, who retired.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

The specialists, called upon to
decide the fate of the child whose
life is menaced by the dread
glioma, tumor of the optic nerve,
met behind closed doors. They
decided to resort to the surgeons
knife as the sole means of saving
the infants life.
It was decided to remove the
left eye, which is already blinded
by the tumor reaching out toward
the brain. The result of this
surgery will be watched to see if
the cancerous growth is halted.
MOVE SWIFTLY
Wasting not a second, the COM
mittee agreed that an operation
must be performed at once, At
tendants at Garfield Park Com
munity Hospital were notified by
telephone to prepare the operating
room.
DR.. Robert H. Good Of the hos
|pital staff, was chosen to WELD
the knife. DR.. e. v. L. Brown Of
Billings Hospital and other sur
geons assisting.
During the momentnus confer
ence, DR.. Good was heard to ex.
claim:
after all, saving lives is our
business. AS long as there is
some hope, we should operate"
HOPE TO SAVE ONE
It was planned to use radio
therapy on the infants right eye
in the hope of partially saving the
sight. Because high voltage x
rays might damage the lens of the
eye, it was learned the physicians
were prepared to take the greatest
possible precautions.
Whether the surgeons knife
could bring relief in any event was
a matter Of conjecture and was
debated from both sides. The
disease will claim the child's life
within eight weeks if no operation
is performed.
The parents, as well as three
rabbis and an attorney were pres
ent at the colemn conference.
II want my baby's life Saved!"
Mrs. Estelle Colan emerged from
secluSion today to utter a stirring
plea on behalf Of Helaine.
MOTHER DRAWN, WORN
Drawn and worn as result of
the suffering imposed upon her
by the necessity of deciding
whether to let nature take its
tragic course or order an opera.
ton that would doom Helaine to
lifetime Of blindness, Mrs. Colan
clearly indicated she chose blind.
ness to death, saying:
whether she has one eye or
no eyes, I want my baby. Let
them operate. If there is hope.
Let them do anything, but save
my baby"
For spiritual guidance in their
deliberations, the 10 had the
aid of three rabbis invited at
the insistence of the mother. The
baby's father as well as Mrs
Colan'S father, DR.. Morris Hersh
Continued on Page 8, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

helping Kelley dodge taxes that
should have been paid by the cir
Gus and the late Charles Ring
ling.
One, Nathan F. Rabner, of
Washington, was given a year and
a day and fined $1,000. The other,
Charles D. M. Greer, Sarasota,
Fla, was sentenced to three
months and fined $1,000.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
GIN Plant ReOpens
AS Parleys Begin

BAY CITY, Mich, May 8 Q.N.S.)
The General Motors Corp. Chew
rolet parts plant reopened today
with a normal working force while
negotiations to settle the dispute
which closed the plant last week
continued in Detroit. The plant
was closed last Tuesday after an
eight-hour "stay in strike, termed
a wildcat strike" by union of,
ficialS.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

IOlSt meeting.
And because the Council must
bow before the stress of high in
ternational politics and open a
way for Britain and France to
recognize the italian conquest of
Ethiopia, the session will be the
first Of a new era that will find
the League weaker than ever be-
fore.
NEGUS TO APPEAR
Halle Selassie himself, the black
bearded Negus of conquered Ethio-
pia, will probably appear before
the Council before the week is out
and plead his case there for the
last time.
The chances are that later the
Council will decide that he is no
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Drop to As, Fair Skies
Due to FOllOw Rain TOdQu

Fair Skies were promised follow
ing this mornings drizzle, with
cooler weather tonight and tomor-
row. A low Of 48 was forecast for
tonight.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
You Guess When
Congress to Quit!

Your guess as to when Con-
greSs will adjourn Is as good
as anybOdy's-at least it's as
good as Speaker Bankhead's!
At tOday'S conference be-
tween administration leaders
and the President, which
lasted for some two hours at
the White House, the Speaker
was asked by newspaper men:
when will Congress
adjourn"
Speaker Bankhead replied:
Il have quit guessing. You
will know when the gavel
falls"
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

Yesterdays high mark was only
II at 2 p. m. and the mercury
dropped to Sc at 4 a. m. today. It
was only a few degrees higher
this afternoon.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
LOST

LOST
6LACh ana tan dog lost, name Fiji. Re
ward. 3707 10th st. N. E., apt. 4.
CAIRN TERRIER-Lost, male, gray, black
ears; muzzle: name. Foxy" SH. 1882.
pin. bearing initials B.
S. e. Call WEST 2733. Reward.
small, black, clipped, gray
streaked ears and chin. years old de-
cayed teeth: name. Smoky; reward.
SHep. 1929.
Other Lost and Found Ads on
page "a, Col. b.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
NLRB TO RESCIND
RULING IN STEEL
LABOR DISPUTE

CHICAGO, Mays Q.N.S0.-The
National Labor Relations Board
today announced that on Thurs.
day, ''unless sufficient cause to
the contrary is shown" it will va
cate its order inStructing the In.
land Steel Company to sign q
contract with the Steel Workers
Organizing Committee, CIO at.
filiate.
I. S. Dorfman, attorney for the
board, announced the action here
CORRECT PROCEDURE
Explaining that the purpose Of
the step is to correct procedure
he said:
1--WE want the case tried on its
merits. The Inland Steel Com
pany has attacked the decision
of the board with respect to pro-
cedure. In order to avoid any
possibility that the courts will
decide on the technicality of pro-
cedure rather than merit, the
board has decided to set aside
its order and conform its pro-
cedure to every requirement set
forth in the Morgan case"
The Morgan case involved .
stockyards dispute in Kansas City
and the courts recently ruled
against the NLRB on the basis o.
a complaint that the procedure de
MED the parties the right to oh
ject to the evidence before thu
board at Washington made 1T
ruling. ..,...
LENGTHY HEARING
The hearing on the Inland case
which involved $4,000 workers a
the East Chicago and Chicag'
Heights plants, lasted four months
during which 1000 witnesses wer
heard,
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Sightless Eye
To Be Removed
AS Only Chance
Mother Pleads With Doctors to
Prevent Death of Girl
By CHARLES A. HUNT

CHICAGO May QNS).-A supreme court of medical
science, comprising 10 Of the c outstanding specialists
today returned faefu verdictfor operationn the
pitiful case Of Baby Helaine Judith Colan.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
League Council Set
To O. K. Italy Victory
Conquest of Ethiopia to Receive Approval;
Chinese, Spanish Protests to Fail

GENEVA, May (INS. )-For what is likely to prove one
of the most dramatic sessions in the history of League
Nations Council diplomats gathered today for the councils
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
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The Washington times., 1938-05-09
NICHOLS SPEAKS

Representative Nichols, how
ever, was the first to speak on
the bill, and Immediately told the
House that unless the report is
adopted the entire burden will
revert to property owners in the
District.
The committee chairman, had
announced previously that in kill
ing the business privilege tax,
which affects his constituents in
Baltimore, he will seek to raise
the real estate rate increased
from the Sits figure carried in
the bill to either $1.9O or 50.
Unless this bill is passed.
Nichols told the House, 1--WE will
place the entire burden of meet
ing the deficit on District resi-
dents who have been thrifty
enough to build their homes"
TAX NOT IDEAL"
Nichols stated that he did not
believe the tax on business, which
represents a levy on gross receipts
scaling from one-tenth of per
cent to two-fifth of / per cent, is
the ideal tax.
He pointed out, however, that
the House has already rejected the
income tax, that there would be
objection to a sales tax, and that
the only other avenue was the pro-
posed tax on business.
my own opinion" he said,
sis that the tax base should be
broadened. I believe that there
should be an income tax, plus
a small sales tax, plus a reason
able rate on real estate so that
everybody who is able to pay
would contribute a small share
to the Government. However,
I'm supporting this conference
report as the best way out"
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
BUSINESS TAX
DOOM AVERTED|
IN HOUSE MEET
PalmisanO's Move
To Kill 1t Spiked
By JULIA A. BONWIT

Pointing to the business priv
lege tax as the only possible way
out of the Districts revenue di-
lemma, Representative Jack
Nichols CD Of Oklahoma today
spiked efforts of the chairman of
the House District Committee to
kill the 1899 District revenue bill
when the measure came up in the
House.
The conference report on the
bill, already adopted by the
Senate, was called up by Repre-
sentative Vincent L. Palmisano
Cd Of Maryland, committee
chairman. who announced he
would oppose adoption of the re-
port.