davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1939-04-23
CommodityPrice
Chongesin Week

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 22-Whole-
sale prices of many commodities
were marked up a little this week
after a slow decline accompanying
the war scare.
The Associated Press index of
IS key staples advanced, interrupts
ing six-weeks' fall. The figure
was 65.13, compared with 65.05 the
previous week and 67.76 a year ago.
Fears of war In Europe were
toned down while spectators waited
to hear what Hitler would have
to say next Friday in reply to
President Roosevelt's peace mes
sage.
The diversity Of the weeks action
In commodity markets was illus
trated by an advance in sugar and
a further drop in copper, both rated
vital war commodities. Sugar quo
tations in active trading were ad-
vanced partly under heavy buying
from Europe. Commodity circles
heard Europe was accommodating
sugar for war reserves since strug-
gle on the continent presumably
would shut of the important CEN
trail European beet sugar supply.
Wheat in Demand.
North American wheat, mostly
Canadian, also was reported in de-
mand for war stores but prices,
having moved up moderately on
the war scare, did not respond ap-
preciably to the. export demand.
On the contrary. wheat tended to
mirrow the ebb in the war tension.
Copper sellers cut prices in an ef-
fort to stimulate domestic demand.
For months metal users have been
holding down on buying and using
up inventories while waiting for
improvement In business. A smelter
finally got the domestic price down
to 10 cents a pound, fall Of a full
cent since the home market cracked
recently after holding at liz cents
for several months.
A minor recovery from the re-
cent decline brought higher prices
for such staples as hides. rubber.
cotton and tin. Silk, Influenced
for months by war conditions in
the Orient, scared to the highest
price in eight years. The sharp
advance in silk quotations since the
turn Of the year has helped make
commodity men conscious of war
aspects of their markets.
Steel Scrap Declines.
An April slowing of industrial
operations in this country was re-
f1ected in a further drop in steel
scrap. Steel mills cut operating
schedules. Hog and cocoa also were
conspicuous among the losers.
Changes generally were minor
and the wholesale price level, while
on the decline in recent weeks,
stayed close to the narrow range
1t has followed for about a year.
The Associated Press index of IS
commodities, based on 1926 aver
age prices as 100, compared as fol-
lows:
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Demand for Paper Boxes
Shows Sharp Upturn
Special Dispatch to tbs Star.


NEW YORK, April 22.-To clothe
cough drops and cosmetics, tables
and tooth brushes, the paper board
industry last year produced $780,
900 tons of its products, reports Dun
& Bradstreet, Inc, in survey of the
industry.
According to United States De-
partment of Commerce estimates,
this was a larger output than In
1896. but approximately II per cent
smaller than In 1887. Price decreases
made the slump in terms of value
even sharper. Sales of all boxes and
containers made Of paperboard are
estimated to have amounted to
1920, 900 900 in 1938-compared with
1887, shrinkage of ~ per cent.
"Comparisons for more recent
months show a distinct improve
ment In sales of both paper boxes
and paperboard. While still oper-
ating at a rate we'll below the high
levels of early 1887, the paper-box
industry appears to have completed
that part of the cycle which began
about the third quarter of 1887 with
downward spiral of both prices
and production, and to have made
good progress on the recovery trend.
For the first quarter of 1899 pro-
duction has ranged IS to IS per
cent above the corresponding period
year ago. Improved demand has
enabled paper makers and box man
ufacturers to advance prices all
along the line, but current quota
tions still average almost Is per
cent less than year ago.
Prospects for continued uptrend
In box volume during the remainder
Of the year are dependent directly
on the course Of general business.
The development of new outlets is
strengthening influence and the
industry, in this regard, mentions
prominently the milk and frozen
foods markets. The contraction In
inventories which got under way
during 1898 appears to have carried
through recent months, so that
stocks are currently In q fairly
healthy condition. On the earnings
side prices are still an important
question mark"
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Large Supply Of Wheat
Is Reported in Canada
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, April 22.-Broomhall,
English expert, said that Canada on
March 81 had 2O2 ,669 900 bushels OF
wheat in all positions, including 81, =
100000 still on farms. This, he said,
was more wheat than Canada has
had on hand tor two years.
If European demand should I'M
prove 1t would not be difficult, ne
said. to dispose OF very large propor-
tions OF this surplus lnasmuch as 1t
Is a class OF wheat usually IN very
good demand.
In May, June ana July, 1888,
Canadian exports OF wheat and flour
totaled 84,950,0OO, and II such Ship
ments should be made during the
next three months the remainder In
Canada OF approximately 5000 ,OOO
bushels would not be mucn over
normal, according to Broomhau.
The big demand tor Canadian
wheat In the spring OF 1885, he
added. was due to the small Argen-
tine crop, together with very dry
weather in the American and Ca
madam spring wheat belts whlcn
damaged spring wheat and the de-
sire OF the government to uquldate
heavy stocks on hand.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Slight Decline Seen
In Transit Revenues
Special Dispatch to The Star.

6pecl4l DISPATCH 70 1ne 6GhI.
NEW YORK, April 22.-Revenues
for the transit industry for the week
ending April Is, 1899, based on tele-
graphic reports received from rep
resentative group Of transit operat-
ing companies, showed q slight de-
crease from last year.
Transit Journals Revenue 1ndi-
Gator stands at 9o.78, which repre-
sents a loss Of 0.22 per cent from the
corresponding week in 1898.
For the week ending April 8, 1899,
the indicator was 105.09.
The indicator figure for the latest
week is somewhat lower than for the
preceding week as the corresponding
period of last year was the busy pre-
Easter week.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
BY FREDERICK GARDNER,

Associated Press Financial Writer.
NEW YORK, April 22.-With news
inspiration lacking, both at home
and abroad, the stock market today
shufaed over narrow trail at the
sloWest pace in 10 months.
Dealings, Indifferent at the start,
frequently were at a standstill in
the brief proceedings. Transfers to-
tailed only 154,960 shares, against
660,200 a week ago. It was the
smallest turnover since June 18, last
year. The weeks volume of around
2,400,00O shares was also a low hg-
ure since June.
The Associated Press average Of
60 stocks was down i of a point
at 44.2. On the week the composite
showed a net loss of S of a point.
Minor gains predominated at the
opening, but these were trans
formed into negligible declines in
many cases at the finish. In the
two hours only 435 individual is
sues changed hands. OF these 1863
were down, 1873 up and 1873 un-
changed.
Hitler Reply Awaited.
Traders were inclined to leave the
market to its own devices partly be-
cause of the fact European crises
have had way of developing over
week ends. While less apprehen-
sion was evident over war poten-
tialities abroad, many commission
house customers were disposed to
maintain a clean slate pending Hit
ler's expected answer next week to
Roosevelt's peace proposals.
There were a few new favorable
business signs on the horizon, in
cluding the summary of the Auto
mobile Manufacturers Association
disclosing a jump in first-quarter
motor sales of some 40 per cent
over the same 1898 period.
Forecasts of expanding tire sales
and building construction were also
encouraging to recovery proponents.
But most of these mildly bulnsh
items were obscured by fears of what
might transpire overseas.
Still casting a shadow over busi-
ness, however. was continue dstop-
page of soft coal mine operations as
miners and operators failed to agree
on a new wage contract.
Among issues able to emerge with
modest plus signs were American
Telephone. N. Y. Central, Great
Northern, Anaconda, Kennecott,
American Can. U. S. Gypsum, Boe-
ing. Sperry and Sears Roebuck.
Steel Leaders Down.
Unchanged to a trifle in arrears
were U. S. Steel, Bethlehem. Gem
eral Motors, Chrysler, U. S. Rubber,
Westinghouse, Union Carbide, East
man Kodak. Philip Morris, United
Aircraft, Texas Corp, North Ameri-
can and Santa Fe.
Slanting downward in the curb
were Niagara Hudson Power and
Electric Bond & Share. Niles-Bem-
ent-Pond added 2 points and small
er gains were registered by Arkan-
sas Natural Gas "A" and Cities
Service. Turnover of 77,OOO shares
compared with $4,000 a week ago.
Stocks dipped Monday and Tues
day as bitter comments came from
Germany and Italy on the Roosevelt
appeal to Mussolini and Hitler for
guarantees against invasions of
smaller countries. The list righted
itself for q modest advance Wednes-
day when sentiment improved on
announcement Britain's Ambassador
to Germany might soon return to
his post. Prices came back a bit
further Thursday. and up and down
trends were about a standof Friday.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
A. B. A. Council 10 Confer
On Seattle Conc|ave
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROANOKE, Va, April 22-To
hear and discuss reports and to con-
slider plans for the convention of the
American Bankers Association in
Seattle, WASH, this fall, the Execu-
tive Council Of the association will
hold its spring meeting at the Home
stead Hotel, Hot Springs, Monday
through Wednesday.
Col. J. Sinclair Brown Of Salem,
one Of the Virginia members Of the
council, and Mrs. Brown and c. w.
Beerbower Of Roanoke, president of
the State secretaries section of the
association, and Mrs. Beerbower will
be among the more than 400 persons
expected to attend.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Agency Invites Bids
On Relief Cornmeul
By the Associated Pres,

By the Associated Press.
The Federal Surplus Commodities
Corp. asked millers yesterday to sub
NIT bids by May on loo, 900 barrels
Of cornmeal to be distributed among
relief families.
Successful bidders viii be re-
quired to buy from Government loan
stocks one bushel Of corn for every
A pounds Of meal they sell to the
corporation. The purpose OF the
purchase program aside from the
relief angle Is to help move surplus
grain into consumption.
The corporation has bought 448 ,6OO
barrels of meal since last fall.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Resident Appraisers
ToHeur Frank Hall

The newly formed chapter OF the
Society of Resident Appraisers will
hold its next meeting at the ofices
of the Home Owners Loan Cor
poration Monday, May at 8 pm.
The principal speaker will be
Frank D. Hall, who is chief ap-
praiser for the Equitable Life AS
surance Society Of New York.
It was learned last night that
the new chapter will receive its
charter from Frank Hardinge, ma
tional secretary of the Society of
Resident Appraisers and a member
of the Board of Directors.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Dividend Meetings

~ NEW ;,, YORK, April % tspecieD Among
5ne S1s, important companies which viii hold
Tobacco Co, Bethlehem Steel Corp. Chile
COPPER Co. Freeport Sulphur Co.. United
Gas Gas, Improvement Co, and United States
panies definitely scheduled Is reported by
F1tcn investors Service as follows:
Monday, April "a.
. Atlantic Refining Co. tcommon) 90
Consolidated Edison CO. of N. Y. Inc.
tcommonl ta12 am.
N Manhattan Shirt Co. (common) 40
Sears. Roebuck L. Co. (common) (2:ao
Tuesday. April rs.
Deere Co: lpreferred) 40 am).
Madison % Square re- dsTdem dGmoc, Gorp D. Common, Comm
y, fss{S3R9 e R; / Western R,. Co. eeommon
, Phillips Petroleum Co. (common) u2:3o
Beading Co. DIST preferredl az mo.
Sefvel. Inc (common) (U:45 a.m).
United Engineering q Fdry Co. (pfe-
ferred and common) 40 a.m3.
~ United nt Gas Improvement CO. tpreferred
1pised is"sa States s st.eI R@ Corp tpre,.rred, g
ives Wss.on =, oH e = snowdrift Co.. Inc. tprs-
Wednesday, April 26.
eommen American an, TOBACCO CO. Common and
nan' A5'mssrene sn,an Cork CO. (Dreferred and COM
Freeport Sulphur Co. tcommon) $3.50
Hsekensack Watch Co. teommon) Il
IHnsersoll-Rand Go. tcommon,.
westinghouse Elec. Il Mfg. Co. (preferred
and commonl IO:15 and.
Westyaeo Chlorine Products Corp. (com-
mon) $3.50 p.m.).
Thursday. April 81.
American Home Products Corp. (com-
NOM (a:3O AMI,
commonI q p.m),
American News Co. (common).
Bendix Aviation Corp. Common.
6ethlehem Steel Corp. (preferred).
Chile Copper Co. (common).
Crown zeilerbach Corp. (preferred) $3.50
p.mD.
Friday. ADf1 -.
Grand Union CO. tprefsrrsd) (l1:8o
Heoel.Atlas oIsso @. (oo0Aso) 40
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Reduced Oil Demand Forecast
For May by Mines Bureau
New Market Estimote Well Below April
Figure and Levels Year Ago

ing this period total crude oil stocks
increased 2.737 900 barrels. Foreign
stocks declined 368 900 barrels. max
ing the decline in domestic crude
stocks 3,1o5,000 barrels, or 1ll,000
daily.
The bureau estimated the do
mestic May demand for motor fuel
at 100000 barrels. or 7 per cent
more than In May, 1898. Motor fuel
exports. it said, likely would be
1900, 900 barrels. or 276,0O0 barrels
less than last May.
Crude petroleum runs to stills,
the bureau said, likely would be l0l =
080,000 barrels, or $3.50, 900 barrels
daily. Foreign crude, it said, prob
ably would be 100000 barrels.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Much Copper in Building

NEW YORK, April 70 (SpeciaD -
Including electrical work, approxi-
mately one-third Of last years cop
per consumption In the United
States was accounted for by the
building industry, estimates Of the
American Bureau Of Metal Statis-
tics show.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
By the Associated Press.

6y Lne ASSOClAteo fIetS.
The Bureau of Mines yesterday
estimated the May market demand
for crude oil at 3,425 200 barrels
daily. or a total of 106, ,lS0, 900 barrels.
This was $500 barrels less than
the April estimate and $500 less
than the actual demand in May,
1898.
The bureau estimated runs to
stills at $3.50, 800 barrels daily, which
was almost $4,000 barrels higher
than the actual runs last May.
Daily average crude oil produc-
ton and runs to stills during the
four weeks, March 4 to April l, the
bureau said, were 3,396,000 and
3,203 900 barrels, respectively. Dur
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Farm Buying Power
Rises Above Year Aoo
By the Associated Press.

81 tbe Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 22.-Farm pur-
chasing power in January and Feb
ruary was per cent greater than
in the corresponding period last
year.
Figures compiled by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture show that al
though total cash income from mar
ketings and Government payments
was $1,105, ,000, 900, compared with
81 lot 10000 a year ago, the index
Of prices paid by farmers declined
from 126 to 120 and caused an in
crease In actual purchasing power.
A substantial rise in Government
payments largely Offset q decline in
income from marketings. Compare
tive figures follow:
Jan. n.-Feb., Jan.-Feb,
1889. 1898.
market.
inas ----S1 .00s, 100000 S1,O5e. .OoO. 900
Government
payments 97OOO.OOO 4s.OOO,OOO
Total ---s1.10b 100000 s1.1o7. .ooo. 900
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Building and Loon
Leudue Will Meet

r. Wilson Camp, secretary Of the
District Of Columbia Building and
Loan League, announced yesterday
that the next meeting of the group
would be held on Tuesday at the
Raleigh Hotel at 1890 pm. Due to
important developments in build
ing loan circles, a capacity attend
Ance Is expected.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
~ -
Preliminary.

While the ratio of all taxes-Fed-
eral, State and local-to total ma
tional income was 20 per cent In
1898, 1t has been estimated that
the actual ratio of all governmental
expenditures last year was nearly
80 per cent. the difference being
represented by debt. The Confer
ence Board estimates that Federal
collections accounted for 1873 per
cent of all taxes last year, against
220 per cent in 1882.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Millions in Butter Tuxes

CHICAGO, April 22 (SpeciaD -
With annual United States butter
consumption equal to 12A pounds
per capita, the 11.3 per cent added
to the retail cost by hidden taxes
as estimated by the National Con-
sumers Tax Commission here, pro-
duces Federal. State and, local rev.
snaas ok about 46oooo 900 . ysar.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Portraits on Aluminium

CHICAGO, April 22 (SpeciaD -
Industrial designers are experiment.
ing with a new technique for por-
trait painting on aluminium, discov-
cred by Miss Buell. Mullen of this
city. They are investigating its
possible application In muraS for
buildings, streamlined trains and
au.aluminum transport plana&.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Service Station SuIes

AKRON, April 20 (SpeciaD For
every 1000 gallons OF gasoline con.
sumed, motorists buy 80 gallons Of
motor oil and other petroleum prod.
ucts. 10 fabrication jobs, spend $24
for tires and tubes, IS for batteries,
$l4 for accessories and s. for mis-.
cellaneous labor, a study OF service
station business by the B. F. Good.
rich Co. shows.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Chicago Stocks Mixed
In Quiet Dealings

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 22-Stocks were
mixed today IN a slow Saturday
market in which transactions to-
tailed 5000 shares. OF 54 issues
traded, II closed higher, ~ lower
and II unchanged.
Bend1x Aviation closed " lower
at 2OA; Commonwealth Edison, OF
a at 26%; Great Lakes Dredge ana
DOCK, Y higher at 22H, ana Mar
shall Field, OH " at lOH.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Dentists Earn $56 Weekly

American dentists earned an aver
age of $50 a week in 1887, a Depart
ment of Commerce study indicates.
Peak of earning power in the pro-
fession was found to be between the
10th and 18th years of practice.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Baldwin Reports
March Orders
|For Above 1888
b the Associated Press,

b the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 22.-The
dollar value of March orders taken
by the Baldwin Locomotive Works
and subsidiary companies, including
Midvale Steel, amounted to $3,587,-
725, compared with $2,202, 400 In
March. 1898, the company reported.
Bookings for the three months Of
the present year amount to 421Is
62l ,507. compared with 8119l .
the same period last year.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Workers Get Goggles

Automobile manufacturers furnish
goggles for employees engaged in Ger
tain classes of work, and also employ
experts to keep them clean.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
$99, ,00O, 900 Soved

A 3.5 per cent reduction in the
average price Of gasoline In 1888
compared with the previous year Is
estimated to have saved American
motorists approximately 90, ,000, 900.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Stock Prices Narrow,
Volume Is Smallest
In Ten Months
Minor EorIy Advances
Changed to Small
Declines at Close

WHAT STOCKS DID,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-02
Churches In
Frisco Probe
FHAOffices

San Francisco, Cal, Jan. 2.--(AP)-
The San Francisco Federation of
Churches opened a campaign today
through LOGS churches in Northern
California to force the United States
Senate to investigate charges of i'm
morality and heavy drinking in the
San Francisco offices of the Federal
offices of the Federal Housing Adj
ministration.
The charges were similar to those
voiced by J. o. Davis after he was
ousted as FILA regional director. W..
J. Lockwood, deputy FILA admins
traitor for the Far West, investigated
and reported that Davis charges
were unfounded.
The church federation, however, in
letter to clergymen signed by REV.
Ralph Knudsen, president, and Rev
Otis Linn, social relations commits
sion chairman, alleged it's own inves-
tigation of FILA offices here, revealed
"deplorable conditions" 1t said "it is
the unquestionable duty of the chur
ches of this State to assert their
moral leadership in an effort to cure.
these conditions"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-02
Weather Is
In Pasadena.
Capacity Crowd O f
80, 900 Spectators Sees
Duke and Southern
California Battle for
Rose Bowl Football
Classic Honors / n
Afternoon ?.

Pasadena, CAL, Jan. 2.-(AP)-Low-
hanging cloudy obscured the sun and
provided crisp, cool weather today as
Duke University 1nd the Trojans of
the University of Southern Califor-
MIA collided in the Far Vests foot
ball titanic in the Rose Bowl.
Duke, the only team in "a years of
Rose Tournament football to enter
the classic with an unbeaten, united
and unsecured upon record found it
self in the strange position of the
EhOrt-ender.
Before a capacity crowd of 10000
spectators, these sturdy Blue Devils
from Durham, N. c., were taking the
field to prove that their record was
no fluke, and convinced the majority
of the guessing guys that they were
wrong.
In their favor was the fact that the
team on the thin edge of the odds has
won all but one of the games in the
las. five years. Added to this, was
the edge of four victories to two that
the grid elevens from the South hold
over the Vests best in the Wars of
the Roses.
Yet few except the partisans from
the South gave Coach Wallace Wade's
team the nod.
Those men of Troy, who broke the
long victory string of last years Rose
Bowl winner, were two-to-one favor
ties to add Dukes impressive scalp
to their collection.
Meanwhile, Pasadena opened a
flower-bound memory book to cele-
brate the 5Oth Tournament of Roses
with a five-mile parade Of 65 bios
(No.,4;-..o-1
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-02
Will Decide
Where Kelley
Will Be Tried

Richmond, Va, Jan. 2.-(AP)-Vir-
ginia and North Carolina officials
will confer this week on which state
will first try Roy Kelly, TO- an es-
capped convict charged with killing
two Burlington, N. c., officers and
with wounding a Virginia State troop
err. -
The young man, object of an inten-
sive police hunt in several southern
states since Sheriff M. p. Robertson
and Officer F. w. Vaughan were kill
ed in a Burlington gun battle De
cember Z, was surprised and captur-
ed Saturday as he left a South Hill,
Va, lunch room.
With an air of resignation, Kelly
said in his jail cell here that he
expected to be carried back to North
Carolina on Federal warrant charg-
ing him with being a fugitive from
justice. Oscar Pitts, North Carolina
superintendent of prisons, said the
matter would ibe discussed with Vir-
ginia officials here Wednesday.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-02
Relief And
Defense Are
Tough Spots
Crucial Session To Put
Roosevelt Leadership
to New Tests; Demo-
Gratis To Back Presi-
dent, Despite Reduced
Majority; C. o. P. To
Fight

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-(AP)-Imme-
71ate clashes over relief and defense
policies were in prospect today as
members of Congress began assem-
Wing for a crucial session which will
put President Roosevelts leadership
% new tests.
Vice-President Garner and Speaker
Bankhead will call the session to or
der at noon tomorrow. The President
will deliver his annual message We'd
nesday and the battle will be on.
Even before the formal opening.
however, members of the strengthened
Republican minority were demanding
a reorganization of WA activities
and were urging caution in develop
ing an armament program. DEMO
cratic leaders, on the other hand, ex-
pressed confidence that their reduced
majority would carry out the Prcsi-
dents wishes on these and other is
sues.
representative Rayburn, Democrat.
Texas, unopposed for reelection as
Democratic floor leader, tommented:
l think our party is going to work
ogether this session and be very har-
nonious." Rayburn and other veteran
Democrats were greeting new party
members in advance of the House
Democratic caucus this afternoon. Of
ices and Capitol corridors were filled
With Legislators renewing acquain-
ances, discussing the November elec-
ions and specializing on the 1910
presidential campaign.
Republican House members, whose
otal of 1853 is nearly double their
lumber in the 1888 session, will meet
tonight to choose a minority leader.
representative Martin, of Massachti-
sets, far in the lead for the position.
said 'the rubber stamp days are over;
gone are the days Of court packing.
breakdown and purge The American
people once more are the masters Of
their own government and are, there
fore, free" IN.
Senator Bailey, Democrat, North
Carolina, a frequent New Deal critic,
told reporters he was preparing bill
to revamp the WPA, but would with
hold it until he saw what the admin
istration would propose