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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-13

Radio programs that introduce
you to your neighbOrs, both famous
and obscure, and act as community
get-togethers are getting more pop
ular every day. Charles Martins
"FrOnt Page News" and "Thrill of
the Week" have been renewed for
a year. Edgar Guests cit Can Be
Done," Bob Ripley's program and
Gabriel Heaters eve, the People"
are slated for long and successful
life. Paul Wings Sunday morning
spelling bee over NBC has a list of
applications yards long from peo-
pie who are eager to test their
prOwess.
Jean Muir was a very unhappy
girl when she left Hollywood few
weeks ago. For the three years or
so that she was under contract to
Warner Brothers she had been
pleading for a good role in one Of
their big pictures, but they relegat-
ed her to dull parts in quickly
made films. Now Jean can rejoice
that Hollywood let her go. She
opened in a play in London and
two talent scouts cabled Hollywood
that she was the big find Of the
year. She will probably come back
with a contract calling for much
bigger salary, much better parts.
*
The most important member of
Benny Goodman's swing band is q
woman, and she doesn't play an in
strument. She holds the checkbook.
So while you won't see her with
the boys in Hollywood Hotel" you
can just figure that she is there in
spirit. She is Ethel Goodman, eld-
er sister of Benny, and in the year
that she has been with the band
she has not only kept all accounts
straight, she has mothered the boys,
taking care Of them when they were
i'll, bullying them when they wouldn't
eat their spinach or get enough
sleep, sympathizing with them when
they were unhappy.
Marek Weber, distinguished Wen
nese orchestra leader beginning his
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-13
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DUST !;
Movie /. Radio !
*** BY VIRGINIA VALE XXX

I INSPIRED by the swarm of To-
i Gusts in "The Good Earth"
and the terrific storm in Gold
wyn's Hurricane" several
motion-picture producers have
set out to capture honors for
staging spectacles that make
your hair stand on end.
Advance reports indicate that
Twentieth Century-Fox have topped
all in the matter of spectacular de-
struction. This company in filming
elm Old Chicago" staged a fire
that destroyed a sixty-acre city. In
the midst of stampeding cattle and
terror-stricken crowds, gas mains
burst and shoot pillars of flame high
into the air, oil gushes from tanks
and sets the river ablaze, iron Cir
derS melt.
Before this cycle of horrors
catches up with our screens, we
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-13
Our Presidents

ZACHARY TAYLOR never
Il stayed in one place long
enough to qualify as a voter.
During the panic of 1887
Martin Van Buren, could not al
ways get his salary.
Woodrow Wilson and his wife
slept in Buckingham palace.
Theodore Roosevelt, in COM
menting on living in the White
House, said: "You don't live
there. You're only Exhibit A.
to the country"
Andrew Jackson was the first
territorial governor of Florida.
Warren G.. Harding went di-
rectly from the United States
senate to the White House.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-13

direction of the Car
nation "Contented
Hour" this month,
succeeds DR.. Frank
Black, whose duties
as general musical
director Of NBC
forced him to relin-
quish the baton.
With Weber's debut
as conductor, "The
Con t e n t e d Hour"
enters upon it's sew
e n t h consecutive
wear on the air In
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-13

should give thanks
to Carole Lombard
for providing us
with another COM
pletely loony COM
edy, "True Confes-
sion. No one can
play a girl who
seems not quite
bright with the gus
to of the beauteous
Lombard and in this
she has the perfect
role for her, that of
a girl who just can
not tell the truth.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-13

cry type of room and purpose.
Making lampshades, rugs, otto
mans and other useful articles for
the home. Readers wishing a copy
should send name and address,
enclosing Is cents, to Mrs. Spears,
210 South Desplaines St., Chicago,
Illinois.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-13
Hopeful Impulse

Every heart that has beat
strong and cheerfully, has left
hopeful impulse behind it in the
world, and bettered the tradition
of mankind. - Robert Louis
Stevenson.
Evening star., 1938-03-04
Washington Produce

BUITER-92 score. 1-pound prints "a;
n-Im., Pound prints 80; tub 80 H-pound
smps Ssa 0ss sxs Il H. ifyfs ffess pork af
"a; pork loin, 81; fresh ham. 81; large
kd skinnsd ham: IS: smoked ham; %; smoked
s,1s1 LIVE sTocK@Pisso St l;S-lsS gnc pounds,
stass 6l4 down; calves, ii 3aa12A.
-, Prices paid shippers, net f. Q. b..
OF se 1nsd states Bureau
EGGs-Barely steady to weak Prices
Goyernmsnt graded and dated ,ssss;
large 1sfa; i. S. Standards mediums,
l6la. Nearby uneraded eggs; current re-
at UNCHANGED prices, Fowl eeiored, Seayy;
sn. RoePs esGste1i Is 3e cs'saiaS yf
and Crosses. Is to 81: mixed colors. Il
90 ssaaas tasksSs ssd ssss e e 81 .o; S
and undersizes % to 23.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Sales in large lots by original RECEIVERS
broken AsIast car on tracf sushei baskets, y; ;:
Market me: steseY. aeeeyes Maryand Pennsyuanis,, anna,
Virginia and West virginia, staymans.
nch aa,1H mInmum ,1nnS So;s5 ya1t, ainsh snn6 Mn
minimum. 40; 31a-ineh minimum. $3.50;
234-inch minimum, 60-65; Black Twies,
sh-inch MINIMUM so-65; :, Sa4,insh h, min
mum 65-75;, 2la-inch minimum, 9O-l 90;
Golden Delicious. 2h-inch minimum. 90
go; a,a-inch minim1m, NJ ao. 1885,; 5 , Romss
imum., 6o-55; spys ala,ineh minimum.
SO; 90. inch minimum, 65.75; Baldwins
ah-inch minimum $3.50; ,2' ,2ss-ineh min
and sn easa eartons: combinasion ai extr. fsnes
and fsncy; oo Delicious l1aclS9s 1s5- s5
1901. .e5: staymans 113s-150s, 10
125; go sos-l9os 135-l6o; s5e ods narascns s
1851 so; e grade Delicious. 1.oO-1 10;
Paragons $500, as to size: ,
mand light market steady. California
'rsssi; czsshas-No 3 sSs carlot arrivals; on.
sorda RFSesn 81 Ta'f
f9Snd o s sps ssk eeep rs'fp; Passs ssa orf Ge'y
pound sacks Danish type. 1.4o-1 80,
CELERy-Market steady. One Florida
Florida standard crates, Individually
washed. 3-6 dozen. 2.25-2.50. -,
LETTUCE-Market slightly stronser;
one unbroken cars on track. Cahfornia,
Western crates Iceberg type. i've dozen,
oNIoNS-Market steady. One Mime
sofa arrived: two broken cars on track.
Fitty-ponnd sacks, .; .. No. l3-MichiEar.
1.25-1 40 few .5fli Observation-Disclosures
three-inches and larger, 1.6o-fPb.
Evening star., 1938-03-04
TRADE REGISTERS
MODERATE GAIN
Retail Volumes Still Lao
5 to II Per Cent Behind
Same 1887 Period.
B, the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 4-Retail buy
ing at leading centers of distribution
this week rose / to per cent over last
week for the country as whole, but
Jagged 5 to II per cent under the like
week Of last year. Dun & Bradstreet
reported today.
Wholesale buying also showed a gain
over last week. but ran Z to 1s per cent
under last year, trade reports showed.
March opened with retailers in
ventories in better balance than a
month earlier, with consumer demand
stronger for seasonal goods" said the
credit agency.
"Women's spring apparel moved
into front positions. Purchases of
sportswear were larger: millinery still
moved slowly. Price cuts helped to
clear fur coat stocks; interest centered
on fur scarfs. Final clearances of
Evening star., 1938-03-04
WOOL TRADE SLOW
ON BOSTON MARKET
Outcome of Growers Efforts to Get
Government Loan Is
Being Awaited.

ky The Associated Press.
BOSTON March 4.-The CONNER
eial Bulletin will say tomorrow:
The wool market has been more or
less in state of suspense during the
current week, waiting to see what hap
pens with respect to the loan which
has been sought by the wool growers
from the Commodities Credit Corp.
This fact is shown by the gradual de-
cline in futures of about 212 cents on
the later months
Some wool bought in Texas. how
ever. at 1856 cents, clean basis at
Boston, indicates rise of to 4 cents
pound clean over recent sales there.
The market is up from the low point.
but unwilling to anticipate too far the
basis Of the expected loan.
Foreign markets are firmer on fine
vools. but little changed on the me-
dunn to lower qualities
The piece goods markets offer very
little that is encouraging.
'Mohair is quiet but steady"
Evening star., 1938-03-04

mems suits were we'll patronized; call
for furnishings improved"
Regarding wholesale trends, the
agency reported:
Easter preparations we're evident in
the operations of the principal whole
sale markets. women's and mems
spring apparel predominated m the
larger bookings made, but commit
ments for gift novelties, toys. jewelry,
candy and books were included in the
merchandise taken for promotions
during late March and early April.
Many of the retailers that re-
turned for new styles, launched since
initial spring trips. commented upon
sales holding above last years or 60
ing but little beiov."
The agency added. however, that
wholesale buying "in all branches still
lacked the incentive of rising prices
and revealed the determination TO
curb inventories"
Evening star., 1938-03-04
WALL STREET JOBS
REDUCED SHARPLY
Every Twelfth Worker Forced Out
by Dwindling Volume on
Market During 1887.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March 4.-Everr
twelfth employe of New York Stock
Exchange member firms lost his or her
job last year, the New York Stock
Exchange has revealed.
In the first official compilation of
brokerage house employment ever
made, the stock exchange reported
that as 1898 opened. member Arm en-
ployes numbered 47,300.
This was a reduction of 8.6 per cent
under the 5l,740 persons working in
member firms at the opening of 1887
The foregoing figures do not reflect
the total reduction in workers. for
they do not take into account employees
of "a firms dissolved during the year
The employment figures were given
in the New York Stock Exchange
Yearbook. just made public
Dwindling volume Of trading in both
stocks and bonds, especially through
the lean months accompanying the
business recession which set in last su-
tumn. was blamed in financial circles
for the sharp drop in brokerage house
employment. The number of shares
traded in the full year 1887 was the
smallest in two years. and bond trans
actions were the fewest since 1890.
Evening star., 1938-03-04
Reduced.
No Action Taken

No Action Taken.
Automobile Finance.
Natl Enamel IL Stamping.
Passed.
First Cleveland Corp A.
Do. B.
Evening star., 1938-03-04

BY the Associated Press.
The Association of American Rail-
roads reported today 5l1.93O cars Of
revenue freight were loaded during the
week ending last Saturday
This was a decrease of 23.86O cars.
or 4.5 per cent, compared with the
preceding week, decrease of 180,463,
or 26.l per cent compared with year
ago. and decrease of 315.s30, or 3s.1
per cent compared with 1880.
The report classified the loadings as
follows:
Evening star., 1938-03-04
EASTERN GAS & FUEL
REPORTS HIGHER NET
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. March 4.-Eastern
Gaas and Fuel Associates reports for
the II months ended January 81, 1898,
total income of sll.373,954 available
for Federal taxes, depreciation and
depletion reserves. interest and divi-
dends. This represents an increase
Of s78l,8l7 compared with the same
period for 1887.
After all charges the net income
available for dividends exclusive OF
inter- company profits, amounted to
$3.095, ,646. an increase of S37o.035.
The dividend requirements amounted
to $1,l08.732 for AZ per cent prior
preference dividends. s2244,s28 for
6 per cent preferred dividends and
s4s.304 for State taxes on dividends:
these requirements exceeded earnings
in the amount of s306.21s This rep
resents an improvement of $685.
over the same period year ago.
Evening star., 1938-03-04

CALLS
VOTE ON CHANGES
Members to Ballot in Next
Two Weeks-EIection
to Follow.
b. the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, March 4.-The Gov
erning Committee of the New York
Stock Exchange yesterday approved
series Of amendments to the ex-
changes constitution designed to re-
organize administrative machinery
and submitted the amendments to the
membership for vote.
For the next two weeks the mem
bership will ballot on the amendments.
one Of which calls for a paid presi-
dent of the exchange. and if they meet
with members approval the most rad
ical reorganization of the exchanges
administrative set-up in its history
is due.
In addition to salaried exchange
president, the amendments cali for
election of representatives of the pub
lie to, and reduction in the number
of, governors from so to 80.
The consensus in Wall Street is
that the membership will approve the
amendment-hence administration re-
organization-with relatively few dis
senting votes.
Formal selecting of a candidate or
candidates for the post of paid ex-
change president-a job it is believed
will carry salary of between $4,000
and 100000 years. not expected
until vote of the membership has as
sured reorganization.
To facilitate speedy readjustment
of tho administrative Set-up IL hos
been reported in Wall Street that
when reorganization, through approval
Of the amendments by the member
ship, is formally adopted the present
board of governors will resign in a
body, wiping the slate clean and en-
abling nominating committees to Sc.
lect candidates for the succeeding
smaller board of 80 with greatest lati-
tude.
Evening star., 1938-03-04
FEDERAL LAND BANKS
RUBBER FUTURES.

NEW YORK March 4 GP--Crnde rub
Der futures opened 5 lower to lower.
March. 14.70h; May, 14.s1b, July, 14.97b.
- b Bid.
Evening star., 1938-03-04
IRON. STEEL IMPORTS
BELOW 1887 AVERAGE
By the Associa ted Press.


The Commerce Department saws
January imports of iron and steel
products, totaling 29,409 tons. worth
Sl,68O,955. were 2l.8 per cent lower
in volume and l7.6 per cent lower
In value than the 1897 monthly aver
age.
The January imports we're III per
cent larger in quantity and 10 per
cent greater in value, however, than
December purchases.
Evening star., 1938-03-04
Extra of Is Cents.
Ordered by Board
OF Mead Johnson
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 4.-Mead
Johnson G Co. announced an extra
dividend of IS cents and regular quar-
terly dividend OF IS cents on common
stock, both payable April to stock
Of record March IS.
Extras of $1.75 were paid in De-
cember and IS cents in October, 1887.
Company manufactures diet mate
rails and has plants at Evansville,
Ind. and iceland, Mich.
Evening star., 1938-03-04
DIVIDEND IS VOTED.

NEW YORK. March 4 tSpeciaD -
Directors of the Broad Street Invest
ing Co., Inc. have declared a quarterly
dividend of Is cents a share on the
capital stock, payable April to stock
holders of record at 10 am. New York
time, March is.
Evening star., 1938-03-04
FREIGHT LOAD|NGS
AT 5l1,93O MARK
Weeks Drop Sends Total
26.1 Per Cent Under
Same 1887 Period.

NEW YORK. March 4.--The Asso-
ciated Press seasonally adjusted weekly
mex In!.o 81 q freight carlosdinss. based on
5s.5. compared with $50 the previous
week and $50 a year ago.
Range of recent years:
1898. 1897 1896. 1898, 1874
Hieh 80, So S45 I'll $50
Low 5S.@ f25 CO., $50 50!
Evening star., 1938-03-04
10 Low Yield Bonds
BY the Associated Press


NEW YORK, March 4.--Mixed
movements prevailed today in the
bond market.
Wide declines were made in various
Baltimore & Ohio. Missouri Pacific
Northern Pacific and other rail liens.
Southern Pacific Alps of SO. Rock
Island 4s of 8S, Eric SIS of rs. Lehigh
Valley 412s of 40. Southern Railway
Is of Sc showed slighter losses. Great
Northern As of As. Nickel Plate 81 ,s
of "a, MKT SIS of so were on the
upside.
United States Government oblga-
tlons were irregular. with losses pre-
dominating. Foreign governments
moved both ways.
Among active domestic industrial
issues GOODYEAR 5s of 81 and Penn
General AS of IS were slightly
ahead.
Evening star., 1938-03-04
DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED

NEW YORK March 4-Dividends de-
elared tprepareo by the Standard Statis-
tics CO..:
Initial.
Pc Stock of Pay
Rate. Rod. record able
Canada s l. s. pf SOC 3-21 Al
Extra.
Evening star., 1938-12-05

the ultimate shibboleths. Clark opposed them all.
Actually, the truth lies
extremes The Holding Company Act is the only item
the Clark record which makes hard for him that he
has approved REFORM while fighting extension
executive Great grants of he has attacked from
the start beginning with the with
first A. A. and the N r. A, continuing the
ent blank check spending
On the other hand he supported the Banking 1885,
A. law the Securities and Exchange Acts the
national labor relations His labor good He
social welfare legislation He has invariably voted with the veterans
In act the picture which sreWd conservative
opporunst willing with social forces
when
issue squarey drawn.
Unless the Democratic repudates
real present
conservative opportunist as his successor
There is nothing with oppounist conservatism,
Indeed healthy phenomenon permits social
change with minimum and minimum damage
existing
nation and his acksonan
tive specimen of the type.
But that is scarcely likely influence
White House recently asserted that
overture to the President Clarks friends that
overture made On the other hand conies talked
him in ST. Louis before his
jnket state that Clark will everything his
concate the President the coming
HIS strong opinions
on foreign policy the President makes another
the court bill he will doubt it. But he will
to be White
Clark has multitude of He
picturesque talke hearty laugher
Evening star., 1938-12-05

And What
They Do
Hortnett Is Cited
As Leader Of
Iron Man Clan
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.

Prevailing fashions in iron men
make us proud Of our own model.
We cite big, smiling, durable Gabby
Hartnett, batting .296 over q period
Of 16 years. with a high Of 1854,
dropping only three pop flies in all
that time and still pegging the ball
to second with no letdown in
machine-gun speed and precision.
Phil Wrigley, owner Of the Chicago
Cubs, ups him 5000 in a $27 500
player-manager contract, for his
18th season with the Cubs. For
several years, he has been a pinch
manager. He became manager last
July, succeeding Charley Grimm.
Gray About Ears.
He's growing gray over the ears,
but this department is ready to lay
bet that he'll still be in his
catcher's armor after the overseas
iron men have been sent to the
showers, even If they are batting
1000 at this moment. There are
those who predict that he will still
be on the job when St. Johns
Cathedral Is finished.
He's marvellous handler Of
pitchers, with a laugh that eases
tension and keys down nerves. DR..
Jacoby, of his own Chicago, writing,
you Must Relax" might have taken
Gabby Hartnett for model.
At Woonsocket, Long Island,
where he grew up, he was Charles
Leo, name long since lost. It was
in 1922 that he signed, for what
looks like a lifetime stretch, as a
rookie catcher for the Cubs.
Schultz Is Slayer.
D. A. Schultz shares a distance
record with Gabby Hartnett. For
At years, with only one vacation, he
has ridden his little bird-cage ele-
vator to dingy little shirt-sleeve
Office. Just now his Schultz Retail
Stores Corp. is going through a re-
organization and Mr.. Schultz sweet
ems the pot by tossing in loose
million.
Things aren't quite as they were
when he dished $1,000 900 for a spot
on Times Square, or 5000, 900 for
the Overholt Distillery, but Mr..
SCnulte ISL I tne least plt truckSOre
| in his long marathon.
Earned 81 Weekly.
At the age of Is, he earned 81 a
| week in a cubbyhole cigar store on
the site Of the Pulitzer Building.
When he was 30, he owned the store
and began building his string of
stores. He thinks much of his Sue
cess was due to his study of popu-
lation trends, as guide for his To-
cation of stores.
In building his personnel of thou
sands of workers, he has passed up
college lads. He has said they
wouldn't stay the distance. But that
was before college graduates were
trying to get into the police and
fire departments. as they are now.
| {Copyrisht, 1881
Evening star., 1938-12-05

ment, has been trying to secure more
liberal treatment for Hollywood. The
British Parliament last spring en-
acted law which establishes quotas
until March 81, 1948. According to
the American contention, the statute
arbitrarily operates to the detriment
of our movie industry. 1t rations
the amount of footage Of foreign
"cinematograph films" on the basis
Of an allotted percentage Of the do
mestic production. American pic
lures are overwhelmingly popular
with British moviegoers. Our Clark
Gables and Myrna Logs are just as
we'll known from Lands End to John
o Groat as they are from coast to
coast here at home. British pro-
ducers, resenting this competition.
finally persuaded Parliament to pass
the semi-prohibitive law against
which thus far all Yankee protests
and remedial efforts have availed
pot.
1t was thought possible that while
Secretary Hull was dickering for a
reciprocal trade agreement, he
would be able to extort British con-
cessions for Hollywood. The indus
try had its day in court when hear
lngs on the proposed agreement
were under way at Washington, but
discovered that the situation in Brit
ain is governed by the 1888 act of
Parliament, and that Uncle Sam
was powerless to ask for anything in
the trade pact beyond most-fa-
vored-nation rights for the movies.
In his latest annual report, Gear"
Hays stated: American pictures
face increasing distribution obstacles
abroad. Quotas, restricted currency
expectation, excise taxes and other
assessments upon American films
are imposed for the purpose of pro-
viding an actual subsidy for foreign
motion picture production. These
restrictions derive from the world
situation of perplexity and fear and
extreme sensitiveness, resulting in
repression of free speech in many
nations, the Unsuitable demand for
increased revenue. resistance to the
presentation of American merchan-
disc and the ambition to promote
domestic production at the expense
of the American motion picture in
dustry."
Patricia McGerr, young Nebras-
kan, MA. of the Graduate School of
Journalism at Columbia University
Evening star., 1938-12-05

the committee is worth noting be-
cause it is the first time any official
committee around here has taken in
all ends at the same time. thus max
ing it possible to look at the govern
mental picture as whole Likewise,
as Senator O'Mahoney remarked in
his radio speech, the governmental
agencies themselves are under scru-
tiny to determine what functions
should be added or subtracted
changed or rearranged, to meet the
new conditions which have arisen
in our national economy.
What the first few days of the
hearings brought out was that as
America has increased her popu-
lation production has not kept pace
and likewise there have been Sc
we're fluctuations in the employment
curve. What shall be done about
it? The 1888 idea was to legislate
first and study afterwards. The
1889 idea is to study first before
starting another series of legislative
acts which affect the whole system
or private competition.
Business and labor will both have
chance to testify voluminously.
The hearings ought to prove of in
calculable aid to that school of
thought in America which insists
that what is needed is regulation
of abuses, rather than drastic pro-
hibitions which impair incentive,
stop capital flow and tend to slow
up the very economic system which,
according to a few charts already
disclosed before the T. N. E. c., re-
quires increased instead of lessened
production to absorb each year the
youth who come on the labor mar
ket, as we'll as their elders who
have been without jobs.
The T. N. E. c. has made con-
structive start with fair and objec-
Evening star., 1938-12-05

sanction behind our Bill of Rights,
and our other constitutional lib
critics. So it Is disturbing to see
our conservatives applaud foreign
statesmen who are tough with
labor and our liberals develop a
blind eye when faced with the
early eXcesses of the Spanish
Loyalists or the blood -drenched
"dialectical materialism" of the
Russian Communists. Each side
cheers the form of government
that gives its friends apparent
omnipotence and curses the set