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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-18
COLLECTS SLEEP RECIPES

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. = Mrs. Fred Clarke has been collecting on insomnia for 10 years. Her collection of suggestions in- clude counting sheep and walking in the dewy grass.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-18
WANTED TO BE HELPFUL

CANNELTON, Ind. = So many persons went to see the bees that had started a hive under the floor of his house that Glenward Hafele cut hole in the floor and put 5 glass over it for clear view. <
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-18
MRS. GOETZ IS TO LEAVE
 FOR DOUGLAS NEXT WEEK

Mrs. A. E. Goetz and children Lu- cile and Billy will be northbound next week, leaving Vancouver, R. O., August 27 on the Princess Lou ise, according to Mir Goetz.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-18
MRS. WARNER TO TENAKEE

Mrs. Jack Warner and daughter Aleda Lee left last night on the Estebeth for a couple of weeks visit at Tenakee Springs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-18

Try an Empire ad.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-18
LEAVING SUNDAY

All ready now to leave for her
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-18

Alaska" by Lester D. Henderson.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 1l.-Bonds
pushed ahead today to new peaks for
the April-May advance under further
spirited buying of rails and utilities.
Higher from the start, gains in both
groups gradually widened until many
leaders were up to around points in
late trading. Volume expanded near
the final hour.
The move to establish peace" be-
tween public utilities and Government
power agencies was an important in
fluence in the acute demand for the
power company bonds, according to
trading circles. Rails continued to re-
feet hopes for early Federal flnan-
cial aid.
Leaders of the upswing included
MKT SIS, 50; Erie SIS, rs; Columbia
Gas e. Electric 5s May; Great
Northern As. Ct" As; International
Telephone IS; Illinois Central ASS;
Southern Railway As; Utilities Power
e. Light SIS; Southern Pacific 4l2s,
'68; Northern Pacific As, and New
York Central SIS. Brooklyn-Manhat-
tan Al 2s scared up about on active
dealings.
U. S. Governments moved in a
thin range, with prices mixed in the
final hour
Brazilian issues showed little rally
ing power following a sharp break on
political disorders in Rio de Janeiro.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
IN WORLD
INCREASE IN YEAR
Total Number Now Put at
638,487-Briggs Nets
$317,007 Profit.
BY the Associated Press,

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE Inter-
national Telephone g. Telegraph Co.
today reported an increase of 1880
in the number of telephones in serv-
ice in 1887, bringing the number to q
total Of 638,487 at the end Of the year.
The principal gain was in Argentina,
where there were 343,137 units in op-
Grafton, an increase of 24,82S over the
preceding year. The company's
pamphlet report stated there was a
decline of 10.525 in use in Shanghai
scene of severe Sino-Japanese HOSTILE
ties during the year.
Since January /, the report showed.
the company has acquired 1884, 900 Of
its l0-year convertible Az per cent
debentures at cost Of 1914, 600 and
has reduced bank loans by s403,485.
AS previously reported, consolidated
net income in 1887 totaled sl0,236,148,
compared with $4,000, ,l03 in 1896. Net
income OF the parent company only
was 1851, 1874, compared with s2o6,055
in 1886.
BrIggs' Net PrOht.
Briggs Manufacturing Co.. manu-
facturers of automobile bodies and
related stampings, reported a consol-
idated net profit Of s3l7,007 for the
March quarter, equal to is cents
share, compared with s2,474,89e, or
sl25 share, the corresponding quar-
ter last year.
The company's operations are CEN
tered in the Detroit area.
Western Union Loss.
Western Union Telegraph Co. re-
ported net loss of S1,079,74 for the
March quarter. compared with a net
income of sl.444.372, or s1.38 a share,
the corresponding period last year.
Western Auto Dividend.
Directors of Western Auto Supply
Co. have declared dividend of 25
cents share on the common stock,
payable June l to stock of record
May 20. On March l quarterly
dividend of 40 cents was ordered.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
OIL MEN ESCAPE
WORST OF SLUMP
Earning Power of Industry
Less Affected Than
Other Lines.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 1.-THE Oil in
dustry entered the second quarter this
year with earning power less affected
by the current recession than general
industry.
A recent tabulation by the National
City Bank stated the first IA report
ing petroleum producing and refining
organizations earned 81 per cent less
in the quarter ended March 81 than
a year ago. while 280 representative
companies had profits cut 81 per cent.
This industry, one Of the largest
from the standpoint of both invest
ment and value Of product, has been
favored by relatively stable crude oil
prices. Mid-Continent crude, for in
stance, was quoted yesterday at $1.16
a barrel, unchanged from last year.
For almost two years now the oil
producers have been able to sell all
their output at this fixed, compare
lively high price.
Demand Increases.
Steadily rising demand for pc
troleum products-crude oil for home
heating and gasoline for automobiles
has combined with the relatively
favorable crude price structure to
maintain earnings at high level.
The record stocks of gas
oline on hand, however, have caused
sporadic price cutting-especially in
the Middle West-and tended to de-
press profits Of concerns operating in
that section.
California companies were enabled
to chalk up the best net income in
nine years during the first three
months because gasoline prices con-
tinued firm.
A factor Of jor Importance in
bolstering the industry's profit-and-
loss performance recently was the So
called Iowa" plan of service station
management. This involved turning
over company-owned stations to inde-
pendant operators on contract basis,
enabling the producers to maintain
sales volume and at the same time
eliminating many of the problems
inherent to station operations.
Hurt by Price Wars.
One recurring malady company
owned stations were faced with was
retail price wars. Losses were wholly
borne by the parent company and
prices often slashed to disastrously
low levels. Under the Iowa plan of
operation, however, both the leasee
and the company shared the losses.
During the current recession, price
wars have remained strictly local in
character. No large company-owned
chains were involved with the wide
price shading, resulting from cuts in
one area, to bring the entire chain
in line.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
TEXTILE ACTIVITY
FAR BELOW 1887
Index Down 80 Per Cent,
With Wool Showing
Widest Decline.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SpeCili DlSpdtCH 10 ne SL6E.
NEW YORK, May 11.-Textile
Worlds index Of textile mill activity
for the first quarter of 1888 was 80
per cent below that for the first quar-
ter Of 1887. but only 1s per cent
below the corresponding period Of a
normal" year 1924-31 average. OF
the individual fibers, wool showed the
greatest decline from last year, So
per cent; rayon next with 40 per cent,
cotton third with 35 per cent, while
silk, with a decline of Is per cent,
was the best performer in relation to
9937. The latter was due to the fact
that full-fashioned hosiery has been
in better position thus far this year
than most other branches Of textiles.
Textile Worlds price index for April
showed very light declines in some
items in the cotton and wool groups
and no change in the silk and rayon
groups. The only item on which there
was more than minor drop was wool
cloths, due to the fact that reductions
made in March did not have their
full effect on this index number until
April. Based on 1923-25 average az
100, price indices for February with
change from the previous month are
as follows
Cotton-Raw cotton, 80 down y;
yarns, As (down y; gray goods, 40
(down -; colored goods, 81 (un-
changed. Wool-Raw wool, 81 Gun
changeO; tops. 81 (down -; yarns,
66 (unchanged) wool cloth, 80 down
81. Raw silk, % (unchanged). Rayon.
% (unchanged).
Evening star., 1938-05-11
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

CHICAGO. May IL P.-Poultry. live
II trucks. heavy hens and chickens
steady. small hens easy; hens. 5 pounds
and under 20; rooSters. IA; Leghorn
roosters. l3; geese. IL; other prices .un-
chaneed
Butter-92T SIG: steady; creamery
extra firstS C90-9l score,. "5-25A; firsts
$3.50. 2?9.-a4; standards go central
lied carlotsD. .5i4; otner prices un-
changed. Eggs-,:.:, steady; prices
unchanged.
Potatoes, a. on track ?59; total United
States shipments. 1876: new stock steady;
best clean stock. demand fair; showing
dirty: demand light; supplies moderate;
per hundredweight. Bliss Triumphs. U. s.
No. !: Louisiana, l.75-2.20; U. S. No; l.,
size B, so Alabama. / 80; less than
carlots. California, loo-pound sacks,
White Rose. U. S. No. l. 80 hundred
weight: old stock Idaho Russets slightly
stronger, demand fair; Northern slightly
weaker: demand light; supplies moder-
ate; sacked, per hundredweight Idaho
Russet Burbs nkS. U. S. M. /. .60-75;
Michigan Green Mountains. U. S. No. 4
1.20; Wisconsin Round Whites. U. S.
commercials. l.oo-05; North Dakota Cob
blers. IS per cent U. S. No. l, l.1O; Early
Ohios. 80 per cent U. S. No. !. 1.20.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
PARKER PEN EARNINGS
REVEAL YEARLY GAIN

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, May 1.-THE Parker
Pen Co. earned s645, 1853 net after all
taxes, or 1929 per share on 196.082
common shares outstanding. according
to the annual report for the II months
ended February %, 1898, released to-
day. The company has no preferred
stock or bonded Indebtedness. This
is an increase from $500 a share on
194,50 shares outstanding in the CAL
endar year of 1886.
Meantime. the company changed
from a calendar year basis to a fiscal
year basis commencing March /, 1887,
and the statement shows additional
earnings Of $67.285.56 after taxes for
tie two. months interim, January and
February, 1887.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK, May IL. GPt.-The foreign
exchange market was featured today by
further improvement in the Belgian bega
in terms of the dollar. Other major Euro
pesn currencies stayed in a narrow groove
The belga apparently under impetus of
oficial control operations, advanced .OOhz
of . cent. Speculative selling against the
unit continued. according to banking cir
cles but at reduced rate,
Sterling and the French franc were un-
changed Guilders bounced .0s OF a cent
while the Swiss franc was also unchanged.
Noon rates follow-Great Britain in
soIars others in cents Great Britain bi1, de-
4 4as's: France. demand. $50: cables.
Demands-Belgium. 6.s3ia; Germany.
4o1S12; benevolent. II 80; travel "a 90.
Holland. 55.43: Norway. 25.0l: Sweden.
e5.65; Denmark. 22.23; Finland. 2..22;
Switzerland, 22.S4; Spain unquoted: Por-
tural. 453: Greece. %; Poland, 1890:
Czechoslovakia, 3.4sha; Yugoslsvia 235;
Austria unauoted; Hungary 1890; Ru-
mania. rs; Argentine 33.2On; Brazil
(free). soon: Toxic. 1900; Shanghai,
o515: Hong Kong, 3O.92; Mexico City.
1915. Montreal in New York. 99.34ss;
New York in Montreal. 100.65ss.
Nominal.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
U. S. TREASURY POSITION.
Rx the Associated Press,

The position of the Treasury on May a.:
Receipts, S41. .06S. .436.9S; expenditures.
$40 300, 500 "A; balance. S2.sl5.622. =
S42.44; customs receipts for the month.
receipts for the fiscal year tsince July
~. S5.2a4 .31S. .293.as: expenditures. So
576,543. sos .6S. including S1.S00. 646. =
ss52S of emergency expenditures: excess
OF expenditures. Sl2s2. 225.2157 gross
deb, as s539t an increase Of
gold assets. S12.S79.14S. 2.0l.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
NEW RECORD LOW.

NEW YORK, May II LE).-Bankers'
acceptances outstanding at the end of
April totaled s27s, TOT $40, a new record
low. and decrease of sl4,O34.375 dur
ing April and a figure sll6.323,339
below the end of April, 1887.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
ROOFING SHIPMENTS
GAIN DURING MARCH

By the Associated Press.
Shipments OF prepared roofing for
March, 1888. totaled 4,52o,563 squares,
an increase of 97.7 per cent over Feb
ruary and up 932 per cent from
March, 1887, the Department of Com
merce reported.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
DEBTS TO INDIVIDUAL
BANK ACCOUNTS, GAIN
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Debts to individual accounts, as
reported by banks in leading cities for
the week ended May 4, totaled 1885,
100000. or per cent above the pre-
ceding week and Is per cent under the
like 1887 week. the Federal Reserve
Board reported,
Evening star., 1938-05-11
Kansas Standard
Nets $l.53 a Share
In First Quarter
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. May l1.-Standard
Oil Co. of Kansas reported for the
March quarter net profit of $168,908
equal to $153 a share on the capital
stock, compared with $113,489 or "a
cents in the 1887 comparable quarter.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED

NEW YORK. Nav l1-Dividend' de-
clared Cprepared by the Standard Statistics
CO...
Pc Stock of Pay
Rate Rod. record. able.
Accumulated.
Intern Pow Sec Sc of A 81 6-1 eli
Reduced.
q C Murphy Co &c @ 5-2l 6-1
Deferred.
New York Air Brake
Evening star., 1938-05-11

Norfolk Southern r. R.-March
quarter deficit was $26l ,076, against
deficit of $139,885.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
FREIGHT CARLOADINGS.

NEW YORK. May II LPl. - Revenue
freight carloadines on railroads reporting
today for the week ended May Z included:
Evening star., 1938-05-11
NEW PLANES TESTED.

LOS ANGELES. May II (SpeciaD.-
Factory test flights on the first two
planes of a s765 900 order for Trans
Canada Airlines have been completed,
according to officials of the Lockheed
Aircraft Corp. The planes will be de-
livered to the Vancouver, British Co.
lumbia, headquarters OF the line this
week.
Evening star., 1938-05-11

NOTICE OF REDEMPTION
THE POTOMAC JOINT STOCK LAM
BANK OF ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
Az PER CENT BONDS
(COUPON
Dated June 1909
Callable June l. 1a3S
COue June /. 1858
Notice is hereby given, as provided BY rules
ana regulations prescribed by the Farm
Credit Administration, that the under
signed. The Potomac Joint Stock Land
Bank OF Alexandria. Virginia. has called for
rec oe1emp;lon en- pd on June / 1898, all Of its
Said bonds are payable at par upon pres
entation e1 at The Riggs National Bank.
Washington: D. c. on and after June !
! S3s. on which date interest thereon viii
May 4. 1888.
THE POTOMAC JOINT STOCK LAND
BANK OF Alexandra. Virginia.
Attest: prss1dan.
(sisned) AUDREY B. cARRoII' R5esloens
Asst. Secretary.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK May II tP,.-Investment
Bankers Conference. Inc.-bank and trust
compa anies-openng bid and asked prices:
Evening star., 1938-05-11

WE WILL BUY
Bond Apartment Notes.
ChondIer Bldg. Notes.
lo Sole Apt. South Notes.
Ooklown Terroee Notes.
Shorehom Hotel Notes.
Commodore Hotel Notes.
Mckinley Properties Notes.
RoveneI Apt. Notes.
Homilton ReoIty IS, IS.
MoyfIower Hotel IS, 50.
Not. Press Bldg. 3-5s. 80.
Wosh. Auditorium IS, "a.
Washington Properties Is, 81.
Borber & Ross Deb. IS, As.
Borber & Ross Pfd.
Consld. Terminoi so pfd.
Columbia Not. Bonk.
Not. Metropolitan Bonk.
HomiIton Not. Bonk.
City Bonk.
Federol- -Amerieon Pfd.
Not Mort. 6 Inv. Com.
Washington Boseboll.
Woodward & Lothrop Pfd.
Inquiries Invited
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The Washington times., 1938-06-29
GOVERNOR PRICE
MAY AID DODD'S
camp AIGN RACE
Smiths Opponent Seeks
Machine Hell p
BY EARL GOODWIN

RICHMOND, Va, June %
Governor James H. Price may be
drawn into the fight which young
William E. Dodd, jr., is making
in the Eighth Congressional Dis,
trict of Virginia against Repre-,
sentative Howard w. Smith.
Dodd, who believes he can de,
feat the veteran, is in Richmond
today trying to enlist the gov
ernor's support in the only excit.
ing congressional fight in the
State.
Dodd puts it up to the governor
to support him, because Dodd
argues that the Byrd machine
which Governor Price broke down
is now being oiled up to defeat
young Dodd.
There is grave doubt Governor
Price will give Dodd any oper
support at this time, but the Dodc
forces are confident that before
the votes are cast in the primaries
August 2, the governor will have
let it be known he is opposed tc
Smith and favorS Dodd.
However, Representative Smith!
friends reached the governor be
fore Dodd. It is understood here
that Smith has been quietly work
ing to get the support of bott
sides of the Byrd-Price factions.
1t became known today that
Dodd is ready to concede the city
of Alexandria to Representative
Smith, even though the districts
strongest union labor vote is In
that city.
IF Smith can't carry his own
home town, then he can't carry
single county out of the Is in
the district" is the Dodd claim
Incidentally the lead that Repre-,
sentative Smith generally counts
on in the city of Alexandria, is ex,
pected to be cut down heavily by
the canvassing now being done
by members and friends Of organ
lied labor who resent Smiths at.
titude toward labor legislation,
especially the wage-and-hours bill
on which Smith voted no"
Arlington county with heavy
population of Federal employees,
mostly New Dealers, is key coun'
ty. The Dodd forces are sure
expect an even break in Fairfax;
expect to carry Charlottesville by
a big majority. and if they do
that, claim that they can lose all
the other counties and win.
The Washington times., 1938-06-29
By E0alw Walsh Mclean

are cranky, mean people in the key positions
which always happens in such terrific task as
this one but don't think you can olalne tne
President for this.
He may be entirely wrong, don't know IN mix
ing I'D in State politics, but at least the man Is
sticking by his convictions and acting by them
and have always said would rather go down
fighting for what believed than shillyshally and
try to please everyone. You remember that old
song "You can please some Of the people some OF
the time, but you can't please all the people all
the time"
Now take me- for instance. don't pretend to
know anything about politics, but I have very
firm convictions about certain things. With my
love and devotion to so many Senators, it is
distressing and saddening thing for me to write
about them the way do at times. My one con-
ISOLATION is that none Of them see it, But after
ALL it is what really feel and UP to date nothing
has changed my opinion on what have stated in
this column, and firmly stand by my convictions
The Washington times., 1938-06-29
But Elliott Gets No
Credit
NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS

oVercoat with him, expecting
no special session.
From the Presidents an.
nouncements, it would appear
he was right, but other leaders
are still expecting special ses-
sion on railroads and farm
legislation around November 16.
*%
Government Monopoly
THIS Government investiga.
l. ton of monopolies may have
to pause from pursuing steel
and cement prices to look into
the beer situation in the House
restaurant.
Beer is obtainable at the
Capitol only on the House side.
CThe Senate is above such
thingsO Government restaura.
teurS in the House have fixed
the price at 20 cents a bottle,
which seems to be somewhere
near 100 per cent profit, as
such Government business is
free of all beer taxes.
That's what happens when
Government monopoly sup
plants both private monopoly
and private competitive busi-
ness. They not only boost the
price to the consumer but avoid
taxes and use the monopoliStic
profit to offset the deficiency
on food sales.
And the poor Congressman
have to pay for it-with salaries
which they collect from the
taxpayers.
Speaker Bankhead-"f u n d a.
neutrality-suspicious. a no
opposition for reelection but is
campaigning anyway. When
Congress adjourned he diSdained
the beaches and resorts, got out
his car and started back to his
district to spend the summer
travelling around to country
stores talking with his people.
II **
Sum total Of the White House
classifications in affirmation and
negation seems to indicate that
just about the only absolutely
una adult Grated "Roosevelt-no-
more-no-less man" is Mr.. Roose-
velt himself.
The Washington times., 1938-06-29

upsetting many old-time standard banking Gus
toms-and upsetting many Of the country's
most powerful bankers. He promptly fell into
line with the new day, the new order, the new
requirements with the result that his institution
has grown amazingly, reaching fourth place in
America.
The backwardness of banks in playing a
maximum part in helping things along Turing
recent years has not been wholly their fault
While one wing of the New Deal kept urging
and urging them to lend more freely to stimu-
late business, especially small business concerns
other Washington authorities disapproved.
The Washington times., 1938-06-29
Trying to SOlUe Problem

At least, the President is trying to save the
unemployed and the starving. The men
around him, with few exceptions, may not be
great politicians but they are at least not Sparing
themselves and are working far into the night to
help the under dog. They are trying desperately
to start flow Of bank credit by liberalzed sys-
TEN of bank loans. And when you consider the
Commerce Department reported that, with all
this awful depression, the incomes earned or re-
ceived by individuals in May were only 10 per
cent less than May, 1887, it doesn't sound so bad.
No, the President may be right and he may be
wrong, but say am not one Of the experts who
can say which he is. At least through his deter
mined fight to get these millions into circulation
he is beginning to bring back confidence in the
American people and he is going straight ahead
doing what in his heart he thinks is right-and
more power to him if he can pull it off!
The Washington times., 1938-06-29

his own organization in the last
midmonthly WPA survey bulle-
tin, June Is. But son Elliott,
who qualified as a "yes, but
man" under the last White
House fireside definition, made
his complaint in Radio Com
ment a week earlier, June 7.
Unofficial observers therefore
are scoring the change as a hit
for Commentator Elliott, and a
delayed double steal by Pater
Roosevelt and Hopkins "a "yes,
yes, yes" mani, under the new
white House classification.
The Washington times., 1938-06-29

OF course, this gives every
one that predicted it the right
to say: II told you so. All this
money Congress voted him will
be used to intimidate the
voters and keep the Demo
cratic party going strong"
Well, now, wonder. I have
always been firmly convinced
the President is utterly sin
cere in what he does. right
or wrong. If anyone has a
firm conviction that he is
The Washington times., 1938-06-29
B. G.. Forbes SayS---

For example, Chairman Jesse Jones Of the
RFC not only counselled bankers to exercise more
courage in lending to business concerns, but
scolded them roundly for not doing so--and
was backed by Secretary Morgenthau. But wren
bank examiners found other than Shortterm
loans, they criticized severely, dubbed them
"Slow" undesirable, and ordered them cleaned up
This working at cross purposes by the authori-
ties put bankers in a quandary. They were
damned if they didn't damned if they did.
All Factions Brought Together
HAPPILY, all different Federal factions, as we'll
~ as State bank commissioners, have been
brought together and have agreed upon prac-
tically uniform rules to govern examiners
Under these new arrangements, banks will be
permitted without incurring cenSure, to extend
accommodation to business concerns for periods
far beyond the former 90-day limit. Obligations
having as long as 10 years to run now may be
accepted from borrowers considered sound. It
will now be permissible for bank to buy bonds
issued by local business concern even though
there be no market for them. "Slow" loans, so
long as the borrowers give promise Of being
able to pay ultimately, will not be accounted
unacceptable by examiners.
In other respects Washington has been CO.
operating helpfully with bankers.
Copyright, 1888, by B. c. Forbes)
The Washington times., 1938-06-29
Tydings to Speak
At BerWyn Rally

Senator Millard E. Tydings, OF
Maryland, will be the principal
speaker at a rally of Berwyn Dem
ocrats that will be sponsored by
the Twenty-first District Demo
cratic Club at 8 p. M, July 6. in
the Branchville fire house.
Representative David ]. Lewis
Of Cumberland, Senator Tydings
opponent, will address the club at
a later meeting.