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Evening star., 1939-08-24
Construction Awards
Decline a Per Cent
From Year Ago
News-Record Reports
70 Per Cent Decrease
From Last Week
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-Engineer-
ing construction awards for the past
week Of $43,s50, 900 were "a per cent
below the corresponding 1898 week
and 28 per cent under last week as
reported by Engineering News
Record.
Construction volume for the year
to date totaled $1,965, ,406 900, . is
per cent increase over the S1,710,-
OBS 900 reported for the initial "a
week period in 1888.
Private construction for the week
was 4 per cent higher than in the
1888 week, but 50 per cent lower
than the high previous weeks total.
Public awards were 80 and IA per
cent lower. respectively. than last
year and the previous week. Values
of awards for the three comparative
weeks were:
Last week. Prev week Last year.
Public 500, 202. 900 S3S. sol 900 S47 ,533. 600
Private 1074s.000 22.350.0O0 1924 900
Total 43.950,00o 60.s51000 57907.0O0
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Aus: "A aR United, States
DEPARTMENT OF Agriculture) .-Salable hogs
10000; total 13 900; open strong to 10
higher than Wednesdays average; closing
mostly 1918 higher; top, $50; bulk good
and choice 1s0:240 pounds 6.45-6O; a4o-
go pounds. .35-55; 270-30O pounds, 8 49,
6.45: bulk 210-30O pound sows. 5.40-6O;
3oo-360 pounds. 5.1O-5O; 100000 pounds.
salable cattle, $500: salable calves.
900; fed steers and yearlings steady to
strong; strictly choice medium weight and
heavy steers very scarce: supply mostly
9.75; latter paid for medium weight and
light yearlinss; fed heifers scarce. strong,
mostly $50. down; beef cows slow, weak;
Gamers and cutters steady; bulls strong;
practical top sausage bulls. 6.s5; vealers
steady to 25 higher; mostly 1880 down;
few selects 1918; stockers and feeders
fully steady.
sslable sheep 5000; total. $500; spring
lambs and yearlings active; strong to 25
higher: Idaho and Washington spring
lambs. SIS and $40, respectively, native
springers, .S.0O-10: few SIS: medium to
good yearlings. 6.25; sheep stronger; native
slauehter ewes, 2;25-3.25: four decks me
dium Texas wethers. 3.75; 2-year-olds.
4.15.
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Foreign Exchonoe

NEW YORK, Aug % R.-The foreign
tne n &, pound sterling heavily offered, but
maintained by, the British equalization
tund unclaimed at S4.6Sh Offerings for
Toward delivery were likewise heavy, but
bankers reported few takers
. AS result. the discount on the unit due
IN W DAYS W1dened to 33s cents from "a
at yesterday's close.
The French frarc was on .OO1. of
cent the Swiss franc dropped .O4ia Of =
cent and the Canadian dollar .23,L Of a
cent The Belgian belga was UNCHANGED
5ankers said the action Of the Bank OF
England in doubling its discount rate con,
sterling as takers must now Day 4 rer
cent for so and 30 day bills,
Noon 'ates follow:
Great Britain In dollars others in cents
Great or Britain; demand, 1914; Great Brit
99a=day As. 4s4si; Canada. MOI Montreal q; n
New New York, 1913; Canada- New York in
mark 20e1. Finland. 10Y: rrance % ? 64a: Hen:
Gserlman., S M ,.a Coz; BENEVOLENT: 1926 travel,
poisnMG ppIiSMi Neshsria1ds s 50: so; Norway. 1888:
fo,ans; 20. su,sGsa dss3; PortuEsl. 4.27; Rumsnia
Affaentina -, fofhciaD, 3l.21; Argentina
Hreel' 23.3O; Brazil toficiaD 6.O5: Brazil
Iree), 5:1O; Mexico, 700, nominal: Japan
2I3l; Hong Kong 2S.47: Shanghai. 74O:
;1ueosiavia. 2.33. Rates in spot cables un.
less otherwise indicated.
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Wheat Is Unchanged
10 Slightly Lower
After F|urries
EorIy Climb and Later
Decline Followed by
Afternoon RoIIy
BY FRANKLIN MULLIN,
Associated Press Market Writer.

CHICAGO, Aug. 24.-After alter
nate waves Of buying and selling had
churned up excitement in the wheat
pit today due to the European war
scare, the market settled down and
closed unchanged to slightly lower
compared with yesterdays finish.
An early advance Of almost 3 cents
a bushel and subsequent drop Of al
most S cents was followed by a rally
that kept quotations near yester-
days closing levels much of the time.
The welter of rumors from abroad
caused most of the confusion in the
trade although indications that
Canada has resumed offering wheas
for sale abroad tempered bullish en-
thusiasm. Most traders expressed
belief the days developments re-
suited IN little change in the inter-
national situation and they, there
fore, preferred to await further
news from abroad.
Wheat closed unchanged to 5s cent
lower compared with yesterday, Sep
tember, 70-697s; December, 70A-b;
corn, 1a-1h lower, September, 45A,
December, 45A-as; oats, u of to rs
higher.
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Low-Cost Housinu
With Private Capital
Hopkins Goal
Industrial Economics
Division Created
By Secretary
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary of Commerce Hopkins
has set his new coterie OF experts
to work on a plan to induce private
capital to invest in low-cost housing
The basic idea on which the group
started work was to figure out
means OF modifying building code
requirements or complying with
them economically, and suggesting
materials and methods which would
give the most for the money. The
private construction is intended to
supplement public enterprises
financed by the United States Hous-
ing Authority.
The project was the first assign
ment Of the Commerce Depart
ment's Division of Industrial Eco
nomics, whose creation was an
nounced only yesterday. Richard
V. Gilbert, former public finance
expert of Harvard University, Is
director of the division. He and
Undersecretary Edward J. Noble as
signed Robert L. Dawson, James
Hughes and Robinson Newcomb to
the housing study.
Actual details will not be worked
out until these three consult an
advisory committee of six prominent
businessmen to be named soon.
Some working ideas to serve as a
basis for discussion were laid down
at yesterdays meeting, however.
These essentials include:
/. The work must be done and
financed strictly by private business
and capital, with the Government
only advising and encouraging.
2. Homes or apartments should be
designed to rent to persons with
incomes ranging from $1,000 to
$1,000 a year. No sale properties
are planned, at least for the present.
3. Building costs should be re-
duced by using scientifically selected
materials, put together to provide
adequate strength and eficiency
without costing as much as tradi-
tional methods.
The National Bureau of Stand
ards, which has been making tests
for two years to determine how
costs can be reduced within safe
limits, is expected to be the back
bone OF the new campaign.
Evening star., 1939-08-24
FOREIGN Markets

LONDON. Aug "a P.-Prices were
largely q matter of direct nesotiation today
as the Stock Exchange Committee acted
curities Quotations elsewhere were marked
down drastically as continental news bull
letins continued to pile UP tension. The
and turnover was negligible The German
Dawes loan slumped more than e. at one
time. Most European and far Eastern
loans scaled lower. Trans-Atlantics broke
fractions to more than points Ali other
groups followed the general market pat
tern
today, but in late dealings prices received
some support Signs of panic selling were
absent. but many non-professional traders
issues were not quoted because Of heavy Of
fers and no takers. Rentes tumbled 80 to
100 centimes
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Bank CIearings Hold
Well Above 1888
In Latest Week
Fifth Consecutive Gain
Is Reported by Dunn
& Brodstreet, Inc.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-Despite a
lower total of check transactions
than was reported for the previous
week, clearings were still well ahead
of the volume for the corresponding
1888 week. This makes the fifth
consecutive week of increase over a
year ago.
Clearings for % leading cities of
the United States in the latest
period, as reported to Dun g. Brad
street, Inc, amounted to $4,727,-
$4,000, up IL per cent from the
s4,413,859,000 recorded in the sim
liar week last year.
The volume of transactions in the
current period was $305, 100000 be-
low the total for the preceding week,
while the decrease in the two cor
responding weeks of 1888 amounted
to $3.50, ,991 900.
Total clearings at New York City
amounted to $2,727 .484, 900, as COM
pared with $2,677,972, 900 last year,
an increase of 1.8 per cent. In the
81 outside cities, transactions ag-
gregated $2,OOO,47O, 900, representing
a rise of 1872 per cent over the
$l,735 1887 900 reported in the like
1888 week.
All of the outside centers regis
tered increases in the volume of
clearings over last year. The more
outstanding gains included: Cleve-
land, 25.7 per cent; Chicago, 1858
per cent; New Orleans, 1877 per cent;
Detroit, 1874 per cent; Louisville,
1870 per cent: Philadelphia, 1863 per
cent; Atlanta, 159 per cent; ST..
Louis, Isl. and Dallas, 1873.
Bank clearings at leading cities,
together with percentage changes
from a year ago, follow; also the
daily average bank clearings for the
months of June, July and August
to date:
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Foreign Silver
Price Boosted
AT New York
By the Associated Press.

~ the AesOclateo FreSS.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-Handy q
Harman, leading bullion dealers, to-
day raised the price Of foreign silver
here 23s cents an ounce to 39as
cents, following a rise equal to 2
cents an ounce to 10 1-16 pence in
the London market. Domestic silver
remained unchanged at 70N cents.
Trade sources attributed the Lon
don price rise to heavy speculation
by India traders, buying silver and
selling the pound sterling.
In the Montreal silver futures
market prices shot up 300 points, the
maximum swing permitted In a
single day. September delivery was
1920 cents an ounce, bid.
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Pere Marquette
Reduces Loss
To $236,537
= the Associated Press.


CLEVELAND, Aug. "a Pere
Marquette Railway Co. reported to-
day deficit of $236,531 for the same
month Of July, compared with a
deficit Of $338,768 for the same
month last year.
Deficit for the first seven months
of 1899 was shown as $893, ,282, COM
pared with a $2,551,776 deficit for
the corresponding period Of 1888.
Net operating income, before fixed
charges and other income, of other
railroads reporting today for July
included:
1889 1895.
Northern Pacific - S4S2,720 S10S,230
Union Pacific - 1,217336 1,SS4,225
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Associated System Output
Special Dispatch to The Star.

opecIdI OIspHtCH % 1nt 6tH1.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24-For the
week ended August 18, Associated
Gas & Electric System reports net
electric output Of 90. 8.490.648 units
(kilowatt hours. This is an increase
Of 8,704 ,546 units or 81 per cent
above production of SO, ,7s6,102 units
for a year ago.
Gross output, including sales to
other utilities, amounted to 108,-
896, ,283 units for the current week.
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Asks Delay in Hearing

The New York, Ontario e. Western
Railway asked the Interstate Com
merce Commission yesterday to post
pone hearings on its plan Of reorgani-
zation for six months or to dismiss the
plan as 'impracticable" The plan
had estimated the carriers earnings
at $260,l77 a year, but the petition
today said that figure docs not rep
resent the full earning capacity"
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Southern Maryland Tobacco

The Agricultural Marketing Service re-
ports a decline in average prices for to-
bacco sold at Hushesville and Upper Marl-
compared with period of August l6 and II.
The downward trend was general with the
exception of the better qualities of dull
crop and all qualities of stemming seconds
which continued steady
Greatest decline was. shown in granu-
latinE seconds and the fair and low quail
ties of bright crop and dull. Total sales
ct both points for the month ending July
81 amounted to 1868 59S pounds. bringing
the total to 4 4246 $50 pounds
Since July 81 over 800 900 pounds have
been marketed making a seasons total to
date OF approximately 5000 900 pounds
Friday, September s. has been set as the
closing date for these markets
Average prices per 100 pounds by quality
ana approximate ranges on bulk of sales
follow:
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Great Britoin to Buy
South American Beef
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MONTEvIDEO, Aug. 24.-Great
Britain has decided to buy $4,000
tons Of frozen beef in Argentina,
Brazil and Uruguay, 1t was revealed
here today.
Uruguay will get a share Of ap-
proximately 100000 Uruguayan
pesos ($400, ,000), 1t was understood
The news caused sharp rise in
livestock prices to the highest level
since the World War.
Evening star., 1939-08-24

Chicago Cash Market.
Cash wheat. No. 3 yellow. hard. 70.
sample Grade white. 45Ha. Oats. No. 8
mixed. 81 81 "; No. 2 white, 321a: No 8,
31A-32; No. 4, 3Oa4-31A: mixed grain, 20.
35-4O: nominal Timothy seed, 365-90.
Buckwheat, No. 2, 1.30-1.35: nominal
Red top, s.50-9.0 nominal Alsike
12.00-15.0O: nominal
Baltimore 0uotations.
BALTIMORE Aug "a R.-Wheat No
2 red winter garlicky spot domestic, 74h
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Metal Market

NEW YORK. Aug "A R.-Copper
steady; electrolytic. spot 1880; export,
1880. Tin steady spot and nearby, As so;
forward. 1885. Lead steady: spot, New
York, 5Q5-510 East St. Louis. 400.
Zinc steady; East st. Louis. spot and for
ward 4.75. Pig iron. aluminium. antimony,
quicksilver. platinum and Chinese wolf
ran1ite UNCHANGED.
Evening star., 1939-08-24

Quotations furnished by National A..
soclation OF Securities Dealers, Inc, which
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
transactions or hrm bids or offers but
unless otherwise indicated, are as quoted
oy the sponsors or issuers
Indicates. Not quoted BY sponsors or
Evening star., 1939-08-24
225 Tons of Leud Sold

NEW YORK, Aug. "a R.-st.
Joseph Lead Co. reported 125 tons
Of Southeast Missouri pig lead sold
yesterday at $3.50 per 100 pounds
East st. Louis, and 100 tons at the
New York average.
Evening star., 1939-08-24
New York Sugar

NEW YORK. Aug "a [P.-Early gains
in world sugar futures were Cancelled later
today. Prices were unchanged to 212
lower In the late afternoon Some early
demand was based on disturbing news from
abroad, September sold down to 1.2312,
off ga
Domestic futures were up l to 3 points
with December UP at l.96 and May UP
/ at 100
The raw sugar market was established
3 points higher with a sale Of 5000 tons
of Philippines for August-September ship
ment at 2.sS cents. duty paid basis. Re-
fined was unchanged at 4.30-4.40.
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Odd-Lot Dealings
BY the Associated Press,

The Securities Commission reported to-
day these transactions by customers With
York Stock Exchange for August 81:
1853 purchases involving 125.963 shares
4.4l4 sales involving 122,764 shares, in
Guiding Ill short sales involving $500
shares
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Rubber Futures

NEW YORK. Aug. "a Op,-crud. rubber
futures opened 6-16 hieher; September.
16.71-12: December, l652b; March.
l6: 6:55-65: Bid.
Evening star., 1939-08-24

Also extra or extras.
Quotations furnished by National As
soclation Of Securities Dealers. Inc. which
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
should indicate approximate prices.
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Washington Exchange

Anacostia & Potomac 5s-$l 900 at
941s.
Potomac Electric SO pfd.-l at
114h.
Potomac Electric 51a% pfd.-l0 at
114A.
Riggs Bank pfd.-1 at 102.
Evening star., 1939-08-24

Ranges quoted do not represent extreme
price range in each quality. but only on
bulk OF sales. approximately two-thirds
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Gold Loss FOreStalled.

Another objective was to make it
more profitable for foreign investors
to keep their balances here, rather
than withdraw them with conse-
quent losses of gold by Britain. The
British gold stocks have been used
vigorously by the government STAB
ilization fund to keep the value
of the pound around 4:681s in its
relation to the United States dollar.
A committee of three was ap-
pointed by the rubber exchange
to close that market for seven days
in the event of an emergency.
Gold to the value of about
s534,00O currently nearly $780,
000) was disposed of in the bullion
market, but this was considered rela-
lively small and more a reflection
of concern that in the event of var
gold might be sequestered and
therefore not be so desirable for
boarding.
Evening star., 1939-08-24
London Bur Gold

LONDON. Aug. "a P-Bar gold. 14ss
) d. of III pence Equivalent S34 .745
Bar silver. 1a,sd; up penny. Equivalent,
40 1R rerts)
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Rediscount Rate
Doubled in London;
Stock Prices Fixed
Commercial Credits
Restrictions Allow More
Gosh for Government
THOUSANDS OF
PERSONS UNEMPLOYED
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 2.-The Bank of
England's rediscount rate was raised
from to per cent today amidst
growing European tension.
This far-reaching step marked the
first change since June 80, 1892,
when the bank rate was lowered
from 21a per cent to per cent.
Today's change was announced
while the London Stock Exchange
Committee met with its chairman,
Robert Pearson, to arrange the fix
ing of minimum prices for trading
in gilt-edge securities. Trading was
virtually at a standstill
German Bonds Slump.
Broadly speaking. the minimum
prices fixed were last nights closing
prices. The 31a per cent war loan,
weather vane" of government
stocks, was fixed at 8812, up u on
the overnight close.
Heavy declines were shown by
German bonds, 5 per cent issue
losing 5l2 points. Far Eastern bonds
were weaker.
The doubling of the banks redis-
count rate to per cent compared
with 10 per cent which prevailed in
1914 from August l to 6. When
Britain went off the gold standard
in September, 1881, the rate reached
6 per cent.
The immediate effect OF the rate
boost was to restrict commercial
credits and thus make more capital
available to the government for
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Federal Lund Bonks

New York Bar Silver
NEW YORK, Aug. ~ R.-Bar
silver. sos. up ~ cents.
Evening star., 1939-08-24

Italy has appropriated 42,O80, 900
for road construction in Albania.
Evening star., 1939-08-24
U. S. Treasury Notes

NEW YORK. Aug. 24-Prices quoted In
dollars and thirty-Seconds
Evening star., 1939-08-24
Insurance Stocks

NEW YORK. Aug. "a Dr.
association Security Dealers, Inc.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-04
T E S T 7 o u r
KIN WI E DIG Z
Can you answer seven CT these
test questions? Turn 90
PAGE 4 fer the answers

/. State the official name for
Russia.
2. What proportion Of U. s
Senators are elected bien-
nially?
3. Can the President order the
coinage of u. s. money
4. Name the capital of the Ma
deira Islands.
5. Has an absolute vacuum
ever been attained?
6. What is the correct prOnun-
citation of the word labOra-
tory?
z. Name the only city in the L.
S. where two Presidents Of
the u. S. have been born
3. On what island in the Pacific
did the mutineers of the
ship Bounty" settle with
their Tahitian wives2
9. What is static electricity
10. Where are the Dry Tortugas
Islands?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-04
ONE DAY: 100000 DEADl

Erich Maria Remarque, German
author of cali Quiet on the Western
Front, !" is on visit to this country, where
he wants to see the people "who so i'm
press every one in Europe
The German writer has been living in
Switzerland, having lost his German citi-
zenship. His report on the outlook for
peace is not encouraging.
The popular conception in Europe,
says this author, is that world war will
break out and that 100000 persons will
be killed the first day. From a little
fire" the conflagration will spread
throughout Europe until it involves the
whole world.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-04
FLYING TO EUROPE

Now that the ALTON Yankee Clipper,
giant plane of Pan-American Anyways, has
made a survey flight to Europe, it may be
assumed that regular passenger service
across the Atlantic is only matter of
time
Even the most confirmed moss-back
should realize, by this time, that the air.
plane has reduced the size of the world,
so far as man is concerned. The ocean
that once required months and good winds
fer its crossing is to be spanned regularly
in day.
What the automobile has done in the
development of this continent, the air
plane will do for the world. Gradually,
the old globe shrinks, whether it yields to
planes of peace or bombers of war.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-04
TENT SERVICE
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-04

This column does not envy the next
President of the United States; he will
have difficulty to extricate himself from
the mess to which he becomes heir-unless
he continues the spending policy of the
Administration for another four years. 1t
is possible that the inevitable deluge may
much longer. The Augean stable must be
cleaned up eventually, why not during
the next four years? 1t is not probable
that the present Administration will even
think of attempting it, much less make a
start, though the President has several
times promised to do so.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-04

The county commissioners, most potent
political body in the state, at a meeting re-
Gently held in Jacksonville, went on record
among other legislative suggestions, as IA
voring the erection of new insane asylum.
If the National government and the state
legislative bodies keep on adding to the
existing taxes the need of another state
asylum for the bounded businessman will
be apparent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-04
STUDENTS GET PAID
FOR THEIR CLASSWORK

CHAPEL HILL, N. c, April 4.
Students in the dramatic class
es of Prof. Fred erick H. Koch al
the University of North Carolina
write plays and get paid for
them. k
Koch, who is director of the
Carolina Playmakers. has -sjust
distributed more than 500. in
royalties to members of the. or
ganization whose plays were pub
hShed in Carolina Folk Plays.