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Evening star., 1939-02-01
W. P. A. Rolls Quickly Reflect
Ups and Downs of Business
Many Workers Are Dropped Each Month,
But in Bad Times They Are Replaced

degree of accuracy what the number
will be a year hence.
One can assume that if business
continues to pick up steadily the
number will be greatly reduced. But
even that is uncertain, for former
w. P. A. workers by the thousands
who left in previous years to go on
private jobs returned to the fold
after two months, six months or a
year.
One Sixth Remain on Rolls.
The records show that at least
one-sixth of the persons placed in
w. P. A. jobs since 1885 have re-
| manned continuously on the rolls.
The one-sixth may represent the
,misfits among the employables who,
for the most part, are ineligible for
| old-age pensions and who, even in
| normal times, fill the permanent
ranks of the unemployed.
Throughout the program there
has been a constant coming and
going of project workers regardless
| of conditions. The month of July,
1888, is a typical example.
In spite of a net increase which
brought total employment close to
the 100000 mark, a tota, of 1861
600 persons left projects during the
month The figure represented a
81 per cent turnover in project en-
ployment.
About $4,000 of these separations
were known to have been made be-
cause of jobs offered on the outside
Of $1,000 others who left without
giving reasons, a large proportion
was believed to have left for the
same cause
$4,000 Discharged in July.
Discharges and layoffs numbered
$4,000 during July, accounting for
q per cent of all separations. Dis
ciplinary action, quota adjustments,
cancellation of certificates. illness
and deaths were important reasons
for such Examinations.
Accessions to the w. P. A. in July
were reported at 100000, the corre-
spending figure for June being
slightly under. OF those added to
the rolls, $4,000, or Al per cent, had
not previously worked for the w.
P. A. They were mostly new casual
ties of unemployment. The re-
mainder were those whose loss of
temporary employment on the out
side again brought them back to
the w. P. A. rolls.
Evening star., 1939-02-01
Butler Brothers Earns
$718,908 During Year
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-Butler Bros,
wholesale dry goods and general
merchandising firm, reported in pre-
liminary unaudited figures net
profit for 1888 of $718,9O8, compared
with S1,673,389 the previous year.
This was equal after preferred
dividends to % cents share on the
common stock, compared with SLIP
on each share of common stock in
1887. Included in the 1888 figures
were special homecoming credits
totaling $377 $3.50, arising from ad-
justment of Federal income tax pro-
visions for 1884 and recovery of
processing taxes paid prior to Janu-
ary 6, 1886.
Because of a decline in primary
markets, especially in textiles, until
May, the company had an inven-
tory loss of s500,000 the first half of
the year. Inventories on December
81 were IL per cent under year ago
Evening star., 1939-02-01
|FjnoI Dividend
Is Paid by
Kreuqer & Toll
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Feb. IA final divi-
dend of 3.74 per cent from the
bankrupt American estate of Kreu-
ger e. Toll, keystone of the bizarre
financial structure erected by the
late Ivar Kreuger. has been dis
tributed by Edward S. Greenbaum,
American trustee.
With this payment, creditors of
the American estate have received
approximately 40 per cent of their
original claims allowed against the
company, Mr.. Greenbaum said. In
addition, holders of the company's S
5 per cent secured debentures have
received thus far more than IS per
cent of claims allowed against the
estate.
Mr.. Greenbaum held out the hope
to creditors that a further divi-
dend might be possible, through
payments from the Swedish estate
of the company, which might bring
the total payments up to 43 per
cent for the general creditors.
Evening star., 1939-02-01
Deaths Reported

Ella F. Cotter "a, 1850 30th st. NV.
Mary Jane Cranston. 80. 415 9th st. s.w.
Herman Knock 80. st. EliZabeth's Hospital
Charles c. Henning. 81, U. 8. Soldiers Home
Irving otho M.see. so. 1880 Van Buren,
Edmund Cecil shorey 70. Emergency Hos
Samuel Schwartz, ~, 1855 Wyoming ave-
John o.Lsary. II. U. s. Soldiers Home
Benjamin L. Jane. 70. 1905 varnum st. n; ~
Edward w. Smithers, SO. 3743 Mckinley
john r Raley. 80. 1900 U st. ne.
Daniel E. Davis. SO. 2154 F st. NV.
Joseph P. Wilson. 90. Sibley Hospital.
Nora Cannon, SO. Garfield Hospital.
Brank F. Watson. SO. $50 Farragut ST. NV.
William r.; Bradley. So, Georgetown Uni
Edward W. Myers. 4e. 4ee H st. s.w.
Irwin L. Walker 40. 1850 wisconsin
oo5aon . (: sievers, 25. sibley Memorial
Infant John Michael Gawthrop. Children S
Infant ] Richard 1,t, sDofrord. GEORGETOWN Uni
Mary II. james, 5s. 632 18th st. NV.
Lucy Jackson "a Freedmen's Hospital.
Edward E. Dannis. 50. st. Elizabeths Hos
George Lomax. A. s15 st. s.w.
Ethel E. Brown, 90. 1912 9Th st. NV.
Mary K. Jackson. IA. Gallinger Hospital.
Infant Jane 4urriss. Children's Hospital.
Evening star., 1939-02-01
Your Income Tax
No. g.
WHEN TO REPORT INCOME

OF the millions of income-tax re-
turns filed annually, the vast ma
jority are from salaried persons and
wage earners whose income is de-
rived from personal services.
In general, compensation for per-
sonal services should be reported for
taxation purposes in the year it is
received or unqualifiedly made sub
ject to demand. Compensation
credited to the account of or set
apart for taxpayer, without any
substantial limitation or restriction,
and which may be drawn upon by
him at any time, is subject to tax
for the year during which SO cred
tied or set apart, although not then
actually reduced to possession. II
the services were rendered during
the year 1887, or even prior thereto,
but the compensation was not re-
ceived or made unqualifiedly sub
ject to demand, by the, taxpayer
until the year 1888, the entire
amount is taxable in the year re-
ceived or made unqualifiedly subject
| W llCllldllI, WilCll Vic tohPoJSA 40
reporting on the cash receipts and
disbursements basis, which is the
! basis used by most persons in re-
porting net income
The names of all employees to
whom payments Of 81, 900 or over a
year are made must be reported. The
| information return should be made
on Form 1899, accompanied by
transmittal Form 1896, showing the
number of returns filed. These re-
turns should be filed on or before
February Is, 1889.
All of the various types of compen-
sation, unless specifically exempt by
statute. or exempt by fundamental
law, should be included in the tax
payers return of gross income, such
as salaries, wages, fees, commissions,
bonuses, tips, honorariums, prizes,
awards, retiring allowances for past
service, etc Where services are paid
| for in whole or in part with some
thing other than money, the fair
market value of the thing taken in
payment must be included as in
come. Other items subject to tax
are fees received by ministers of
the gospel for funerals, baptisms,
masses and like services; executors
fees; directors fees; Federal jury
fees, and prizes received in contests
of various kinds.
The salaries of Federal officers and
employees are subject to tax, includ-
ing the salary of the President of
the United States and judges OF
courts OF the United States taking
Office after the date of enactment of
the Revenue Act of 1882, which was
June G, 1882. The salary Of the
Vice President of the United States
and the salaries OF members OF the
House of Representatives and the
members of the United States Sen
ate are also subject to income tax.
Evening star., 1939-02-01
Inland Steel Co.
Reports Net Income
OF S4,916,203
Youngstown Loss Set
At $65S,933 in
Preliminary Statement

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb. Inland Steel
Co. and subsidiaries reports CONSOLE
dated net income for 1888 of $4,9l6,-
203, after all deductions, subject to
final audit. This was equal to $3.12
a share on 1910 shares of capital
stock outstanding, and compared
with 1887 net income of $12,665,317,
equal to $805 a share.
For the final three months of 1888
net income was $l,759,785. after all
deductions, compared with 1857 $50
net in the final 1887 quarter
The company declared a dividend
of so cents a share on the capital
stock, payable March l to stock
holders of record February ID. The
dividend equaled that paid in the
preceding quarter.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. l (P.
youngstown Sheet & Tube CO. re-
ports loss of S658,933.87 for 1898
IN a preliminary earning statement,
subject to final audit and adjust
ment.
The loss, after the deduction of all
charges but before preferred divi-
dends which were paid for the year,
compares with a net profit of sl2,-
19O,64864 in 1887 and $10564, $40 for
1886.
The statement indicated that
fourth quarter earnings resulted in
a net profit of $90,1O8, compared
with net loss of 727,546 in the
third quarter and net profit of ST.
696,O22 in the last quarter of 1887.
The net loss for the first nine
months of 1888 was S749,O42.
Adding the $825 900 paid in pre-
ferred dividends to the loss of 1888
a total loss of ST ,483 1888 81 was in
dlcated for common shareholders
equal to about 80 cents a share.
Evening star., 1939-02-01
Births Reported
Elkins and Elizabeth Hale. girl.
lanes and Mariorie Hirshfleld. boy.

Elkins and Elizabeth Hale. girl.
James and Marjorie Hirshfield. boy.
Kenneth ana John Bowers. boy.
Robert and Marion Beach. boy:
Earle and Ernestine. Hiscock. girl.
Paul and an Gladys Finesan. girl. -,
Edmund and Elizabeth sullivan. girl.
Edward ana Dorothy Godfrey; boy.
E: Dorranee an and a., Amy ,ydstaS Kelly Soy boy
William and Lorene olson. boy.
Roy and Agnes Claxton. boy.
Harry and Alberta Benfleld. boy.
Sanford and Catherine Rollins. boy.
Hoke and Nora Smith. girl.
Paul and Ann Widmayer, girl.
Wizard WThsa, a% and Is catherine Beauiae. girl.
Charles and Mildred Barr. girl
Ebert and Bernice St. Clair. girl.
Raymond and Eva Frye. boy.
Wilbur and Anna Clark, boy.
John and Mary Steele. boy.
Stanley and Dorothy Smith. boy.
Robert and Lillian McNally. boy,
Robert and Elizabeth Reinhold girl.
Claude and Frances, Boswell. girl.
Hunter and Louise Jordan: boy.
Roy and Lillian Brooks. boy
Charles and Alice Hanson. boy.
Aaron and Louise Solomon, boy.
Edison and Dorothy Olds. boy.
Norman and Mary Csrnwell. boy
Walter and Dorothy Meuse, boy.
owen and Margaret Windsor; boy.
Carlyle and Mary Helber. girl.
Lloyd and Clara Brown. girl.
Joseph and Fern Campbell. girl.
Curtis and Ruby Dull. girl.
James and Jane Wheatley. girl.
James and Olga Johnson. boy.
Charles and Frances HurrwitZ. boy.
John and Margaret Tapscott, jr.; boy.
Augustus and Minnie Cooper, girl.
Evening star., 1939-02-01
Savings and Loan Groups
Grow in Maryland
BY the Associated Press,

BY ASSUCIHlHu
BALTIMORE, Feb. Home loans
totaling S1,487 900 were made by
Maryland's savings, building and
loan associations during December
the Federal Home Loan Bank Board
reported.
A total of 2,27O home loans were
made by the Al insured savings and
loan associations in Maryland dur
ing the year. These associations
closed the year with 23.877 members
whose savings totaled $16,664 400 on
December 81.
Assets of these institutions in
creased 6,926, ,480 to $26,872, ,480 dur
ing 1888.
Evening star., 1939-02-01
Telephone Stations
Increase in Maryland
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 1.-The Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co. re-
ported today net operating income
of $2856979 for the year ended De-
cember 81, 1898. That, compared
with $2,855, ,902 in the preceding
year.
Telephone stations in Maryland
increased l3,403 during the year to
262 ,45O.
Evening star., 1939-02-01
Bullock Fund Assets
Gain During 1898

SItclaI Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. Feb. Met asset
value per share of Bullock Fund,
1t. was $3.50 on December 81, 1888,
compared with sl269 a year earlier.
Total assets. with securities at
market quotations, were 80,495
at the end of 1898, against S1,812,-
ITO on December 81, 1887.
Evening star., 1939-02-01
Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK, Feb. / LP-Some quarters
ard print cloth constructions in Worth
Street today. although inquiry was limited
Rayon mills expressed satisfaction over an
improved situation in dress fabrics Burlap
was quiet owing to a holiday in Calcutta
today and tomorrow. SheetingS of broad
cloths were inactive.
Evening star., 1939-02-01
Washington Exchange

SALES.
Washington Gas Light common-1O
at 80, 20 at 30. 10 at 30.
AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas SIS, 196O-s6,OOO at
12534.
Evening star., 1939-02-01
London Gold and Silver

71ad, up 1h pence. Equivalent S34 7T5
Bar silver. 19lad. OF 10. Equivalent Alloy
centS)
Evening star., 1939-02-01
Crude Rubber Futures

NEW YORK. Feb tP,.-Crude rubber
futures opened to 12 lower. March,
15.sO-s1; July, 1852: September, 15.61-62.
Evening star., 1939-02-01

Quotations not furnished by sponsor or
iSsuer; all others are obtained by !. b. c,
from those sources.
Evening star., 1939-02-01
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Feb Prepared by Fitch
Publishing Co.
Accumulated.
Pc Stock of Pay
Rate. rlod. record. able.
Am Oak Leather
81 cum pf SIS 1-37 2.1O
Sherwood Diaries
Ltd cum ptc pf- 2Oc $40 Al
Resumed
Butler Bros - 20 81
Arrears.
BigeloWSan Carpet pf So 2-14 81
Repu
Evening star., 1939-02-01
PUBLIC UTILITY
PUBLIC UTILITY


Plus extra e2T extra. f3g ex-
ira; g,Sl400 extra paid December 90
l"3S. 2oc extra. m s 80 extra. SOC
| 1888.
Evening star., 1939-03-19

plays one of the new tunes for me.
After listening and listening, and
thinking over the story that goes with
the song. begin to figure out what
might be a logical routine for the
scene. After what seems like endless
labor land | call it good day If | get
twoncw steps perhaps have whipped
the dance into sufficient shape to try
it with my partner Then we rehearse
1t. making constant changes until we
are satisfied. 1t actually takes six or
seven weeks of daily rehearslng to
ready the dances for picture.
And OF course I'm continually
haunted by the fear that l may run
out of ideas or forget the new ones.
One Sunday decided to drive to Palm
Springs left the house at nine IN the
Evening star., 1939-03-19

morning. and had driven only block
when an idea for dance flashed into
my mind Immediately l turned the
car around and raced for the studio. |
had to get there before anything
blurred the picture. Once there, |
worked until four in the afternoon.
Now | come to all those natural
born" dancers who stand on their toes
before they are three l hate to dis
illusion fond parents but almost any
Young child can stand on its toes. And
- this is important - standing on the
toes when too young is the only way
in which dancing can harm child
physically! The bones of a child's toes
are not strong enough to be pounded
against the floor and to carry the
weight of the body, no matter how
Evening star., 1939-03-19
REAL TRAINS ARE HIS TOYS
Continued kompo

is being towed East in less grandlose
style.
For his Worlds Fair pageant Ed has
assembled what is probably the largest
collection of motive power and rolling
stock of all periods ever to be brought
together for a single exhibit. Fifteen
full trains hauled by such historic
engines as the Stourbridge Lion, the
Tom Thumb and the Best Friend OF
Charleston, together with their most
modern counterparts from the Cen
trails shops. will be shown in the play
itself. Elsewhere on the premises will
be exhibited in stationary form twenty
other locomotives of various periods.
There will be five complete foreign
trains on view from Italy, Great
Britain, France, Poland and Russia.
The pageant itself will contain such
historic scenes as the Golden Spike
Ceremony at Promontory, Utah. May
10, 1869, when the Union Pacific
ioined the rails of the Central Pacific
and established the first transconti-
mental railroad, and there will be
up-to-the-minute scenes of freight
handling and train dispatching with a
cast of $50.
Railroads on Parade" will be a
must" for rail fans young and old.
from the camera-toting members OF
the Railroad Enthusiasts to the schol-
arly curators of the Railway and
Locomotive Historical Society, if for
no other reason than that it has been
written and designed, produced, di-
rected and devised by the greatest rail
fan of them all - Ed Hungerford.
Evening star., 1939-03-19

SHOULD YOUR CHILD BE TAUGHT TO DANCE?
lnteSnes hV FxedA

slight that weight may be. A child
may be proficient in every branch OF
dancing, and by sheer ability he may
be ready for toe work, but reliable
teachers claim that no child should
stand on his or her toes before the age
of ten. Remember this and there will
be no malformed feet, no over
developed muscles.
Dancing is gentle art. The right
kind can never hurt child. But there
will always be a few accidents. just
as there are in roller skating or playing
hide-and-seek.
When was small boy broke my
arm turning cartwheels. but outside of
that my accidents during twenty
seven years of strenuous dancing have
been rare Once Adele and l did a
dance in which we ran toward each
other from opposite directions and
then swung around One evening we
met so hard that we toppled over
backwards, and the audience liked this
so much that we left it in the act. That
dance strained my back for a time.
started dancing at the age Of six.
So can understand the average boys
violent aversion to certain types of
dancing lessons have son and l
know, from my own experience. what
| want him to learn and what shall
guard against.
For me, dancing school was espe-
cially harassing because, at the time
| was first sent there, had but one
ambition - to be the best second
baseman in America!
Adele had talent from the begin
ming Mother enrolled her at school.
just went along to keep her company.
1t wasn't until we had taken lessons
for several months that we actually
began making up steps together, and
that commenced to realize how much
fun dancing could be. That is one
reason why | believe IN presenting
dancing to children as fun. as another
means of athletic training, as some
thing to invent and something in
which they can all equally participate.
Achieve this. and both girls and boys
will enter wholeheartedly into the
spirit of it.
Evening star., 1939-03-19

three games Of rummy that, ram or
shine. in sickness or in health. he plays
with Mrs. Hungerford every evening
before retiring.
Nothing in the world so fasclnatcs
Ed (unless it's covered bridges, an
other even more unwleldy but pas
sionatc hobby as discovering and
collecting vintage locomotives. For
the filming of forthcoming railroad
ep,c. a Hollywood studio acquired four
ancient "muzzlc leaders and a con-
siderable variety of rolling stock. but
1t would hardly have been a days
work for Ed, who rounds up venerable
eight -whcclers. Moguls and Pra'rle
types by the tens and scores without
batting an eyelash.
He recently heard that on lumber
railroad in Georgia there was still
functioning one of the original steam
engines that ran on the Sixth Avenue
elevated in New York in the seventies
Delighted with his find, he plans to
purchase the relic and put 1t on the
lawn of his country place - II ever
He has country place.
The now abandoned but once rich
and famous Virginia and Iruckee
Railroad in Nevada has always proved
happy hunting ground for railroad
collectors, and from its dlsused round
houses high in the Sierras, I'D has
acquired numerous antique items OF
importance His most recent acqu's'-
ton. a graceful American-type loco
motive in beautiful state OF
reservation, he planned to drive East
himself as an advertisement Tor the
Evening star., 1939-03-19


Canada, more than six million
children between four and four
teen are taking dancing lessons, In any
language that adds up to lot of boys
and girls. And many of their mothers
write to me asking questions that read
astonishlngly alike:
Are dancing lessons necessary: What
kind of dancing should my child
study? Should boy go to dancing
school? Will dancing lessons give my
little girl overdeveloped muscles? Can
they hurt her physically? My little
gix is a natural-born dancer, When
she was only three years old she stood
right up on her toes!
think | can answer these ques-
tions. But first let me say that no
normal child wants to. be left out OF
anything 1t is human nature to yearn
to do what the other fellow does. so
ifyour child classmates dance. she -
or he - will want to JOIN the fun.
Bat. understand, it must be tun. II
YOUR child hates dancing class. II you
must force the lessons, then those les
sons are wrong The teacher may be
stresslng artificial. minclng poses and
losing spontanelty - spontanelty
that is so much of d child's nature that
basic dancing exercises today are the
same as those taught in ancient Rome.
where wise citizens insisted that
dancing was an essential branch OF
education.
Remember chlldren's dancing
should be spontaneous thing.
happy thing And it should all be
teamwork. Each child should be
taught that a minor role helps to build
the whole. They cant all be stars.
If may speak Of myself, | realize
that NV dances must bc a definite part
of a story. If they do not serve to
further the plot, to aid a mood. then |
discard them -- fiat
When my sister Adele and ! re-
hcarscd for a stage show We hung
tull-lcngth mirror against the wall.
In 1t we used to watch our feet do this
or that, over and over, to the beat OF
the music. Gradually we began to do
the same steps as the same bar re-
peatcd itself That was how we Spon-
taneousy built our dance, Sometimes
we got half a dance and not the rest.
\Our nerves would key themselves on
ed~ And throughout long nights the
RHYTHM would hold us awake as 1t
pounded through our heads. Early
each morning we would go at IT again,
irving to find out what had cluded us.
For maybe two months we would
hammer on the problem. 1t was work,
don't mind saying,
As for dancing on the screen, when
start on a picture always shut myself
up in a room with a pianist who can
take 1t. Over and over and over he
Evening star., 1939-03-19
Continued from poge six

Worlds FAIR, but the Interstate Com
merce Commission ruled that it would
need new boiler tubes before they
could permit it to run under its own
power over a regular right of way. so
the project was shelved and the engine
Evening star., 1939-03-19

utions cultivate
plants in water,
sand or cinders
from seeds, slips
and seedlings;
how to expert
ment for un.
| usual results,
! etc SIS atyo4r
| book5fore, de.
Nj bArimeuf store,
Evening star., 1939-03-19

IT'S AS EASY
AS THIS
/. Wire cave 10 hold
plant. 2. GlASS or
eArthea jar. 3. Nvtri.
ent solution.
Zone Of the ; meth.
DDS explained in
S0ILlESS GROWTH
OF PlANTS.)
at once. Its concisI
TRATIONS show
Sinple eo,ltDment
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-03
EXTEND tenant
FARMS BUYING

Official notification from Secre-
tsry Wallace approving selection
Of Pierce county FOR extension Of
the farm tenant purchase program
under the Rsnkhead-Jones Farm
Tenant act. has been received by
Robt ". Mckay. county RR super
visor. Farm Security Administers.
ton. e2s Fidelity building. Tacoma.
However. new regulations provide
that. unless satisfactory farms can
be obtained AZ reasonable prices.
no loans VIII be made In this eoun-
~. but the funds win be made
available 70 other counties that
meet the requirements Of the
Tenant Purchase program.
Loans viii be made for pur-
chase OF family-sixed farms and all
applicants must be competent
tanant farmers who are bona fide
residents Of Pierce county" said
Mckay.
All applications must he made
a, the county FsA office. a2s
Fidelity building. Tacoma. Farm
ers wishing to make application
who are unable TO call in person
may write for blanks.