davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Construction Awards
AT 10-Year Peak
During August
Privote Listines Hit
Best Average Since
April, 1888
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-Heavy
engineering construction awards for
August totaled $3l1, ,222, 900, the big
gest volume for that month since
1929, Engineering News Record re-
ported today.
Weekly average awards for August
were $62, 2,244,000, a gain of 81 per
cent over the weekly average for
July and per cent greater than
the same month year ago.
Private awards, on weekly aver
age basis, were the highest since
April, 1888, and were IT per cent
above month ago and 88 per cent
higher than the same period last
year. An increased volume of COM
mercial and industrial buildings and
unclassified construction were re-
sponsible for the large gains in pri-
vate building activity.
Public construction was % per
cent above last month but 13 per
cent below a year ago.
Comparisons follow:
Total
Last month. Previous month. Year ago.
(5 Weeks) "A WeekS) IA weeks
S311,222 900 S1S1, 1,469,OOO S231,771 900
Private.
1O7,s59OOO 4s,722,OOO ASSOC 900
State and Municipal.
159,I74OOO 10S,4620OO 135,s94 900
Federal.
44,lS9,OOO 24,2S5,000 50.011,000
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Boston Wool Market

BOSTON, Sept II. up fU. s: Dept. Agro
transacted today in the Boston wool mar.
ket and prices were very strong. Graded
French combing-length hne territory WOODS
have realized prices ranging S5 to 30
cents. secured basis. Average 12.nnonth
Texas wools in original bags have broueht
IS to SS cents, secured basis while choice
lots running bulk staple combing lengths
have brought 30 to % cents Graded
comhinR bright fleece wools have moved
AT 40 to AZ cents, in the grease. for tnree-
eighths snd quarter blood grades.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

Use your head instead Of your
horn. I
Evening star., 1939-09-12

Stock and Sales
Dividend Rate. Add 90.
Acme Wire .45g-. 1905
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Electrical Machinery
Sales Up Sharply
3y the Associated Press.

The Commerce Department esti-
mates July sales of manufactures Of
electrical machinery and apparatus
were 19 per cent larger than in the
same month last year. In the same
field sales of wholesalers were Is
per cent higher than year ago.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

rim BANKRUPTCY or receivership or beinR
reorganized under Bankruptcy Act or
securities assumed BY such companieS
Rates OF dividends in the foregolns table
are annual disbursements based on the last
quarterly or semi-annual declaration un-
less otherwise noted. special or extra d1vi.
bends are not included
xd Ex dividend xr Ex rights Also
extra or extras Paid last year PAY
able in stock Declared or oeid so Tar
this wear Cash or stock Accumu-
lated dividend paid or declared this year.
ur Under rule wv With warrants ~
without warrants var Warrants
Evening star., 1939-09-12
NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE

~ privsGs wire direct 70 Ths Star.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
BONDS ON N. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE

sy prtvats wire Nrees - fhs ssas.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
London Bar Gold

LONDON. Sept. 10 0,.-Bar gold. 1885,
unclaimed. BASED h on sterlins at Sao4
of IL. Equivalent based on sterling at
S404, is 31a5 centSl
Evening star., 1939-09-12

Stock ana Sales-
Dividend Rate Add 90.
St Regis Pap pf-- 25s
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK Sept. 12.-Dividends de-
slared. Prepared by Fitch PUBLISHING Co.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK Sept. IL Pl.-National
Association Securities Dealers, Inc:
(Ouotations as of 2 o'clock)
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-02-03
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY ,. 1899

ciahkS..
And how about the Supciln-
tehdent? II" doesn't believe IN
letting a glrl who maJorcd in
domestic science teach Latin.
He ought to know darn wei! that
this girl IS Il must proposition,
with a letter from the Governor
campaign manager Committee
man = is all for firing the super
intendrnt, bat the chairman
smiles patiently. ....
Wrong way. says The Chm.
Give him hcii-sure. Blu then
raise his pay. see?"
OF course, some states have
laws sufficiently tight to prevent
the appointment Of teachers not
qualifiedt and though it is al
ways easy for lawyers-politicians
to get around The law, these
states are fortunate. But almost
anywhere there has been in the
past decade a shocking decline
III educational standards. To rea-
lie this one has but to visit the
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-02-03
THE SCHOOLTEACHER
RACKET
(By a Schoolteacher)

Teaching school is pleasant.
The hours are short; the vaca-
tons are long; the pay is ade-
quate; and the security would
satisfy even a leftist New Dealer
addicted to hashish. So if you
want such a job just drop into
the nearest saloon and see the
politicians in the back room.
If you are not trained for
teaching, that does not matter;
somewhere close to your home
there is Board of Education
which winks at details of that
sort. All you need is the cupidity
and sometimes the cash = to
to corral votes. You do not have
to reveal your college record to
anybody. If you have never TAX
en- a course in physics, you are
not thereby disqualified from
filing vacancy in the Physics
Department. You went to COL
alege, did not you? Okay. Buddy
You can teach anything. >.
Tobacco juice stains t h e
floor of the School Committee
room as the members sit paunch-
lily and fiabby-jowled through
night long sessions. Faces i'm
passive, eyelids dropping, they
consider angles" and make
plans and swap political horses.
The chairman's nephew, who
majored in Spanish at the State
university, can fill that Chemist
ry vacancy IF the brother of
Committeeman No. 2 gets the
Truant Officers job. Committee
man No. a will vote to give the
fire insurance for the Junior Hi
building to Committeeman No.
B, but Committeeman No. , will
have to agree to put in a helper
for the janitor. And they will
need the vote of Committeeman
No. 5 too, but that is easy; Com
mitteeman fife has a crt}a.h
little understanding with a text
book salesman.
Here's a letter protesting that
the boys who got the last three
appointments were not recon-
mended by their colleges. What
the hell? Some people are
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-02-03
ORDER OF PUBLICATION

WEST VIRGINIA: In the
Clerks office of the Circuit Court
OF Mcdowell county, January,
%, 1899. .. y.
CLEO PHIPPS
Plaintiff
VS.. In Chancerv
DOC PHIPPS
Defendant
Pending in the Circuit Court of
said Mcdowell County
The object of this suit is to
obtain from the defendant by the
plaintiff a divorce from the
bonds of matrimony and for
general relief.
And it appearing from ar
affidavit now on file wit h the
papers in this cause, t h a t the
defendant is a nonresident OF
the state of West Virginia; il
IS therefore ordered that the
SAID defendant do appear at the
Clerks office of the Circuit
Court of Mcdowell County with
one month from the date of tn,
1lrst publication of this orde,
and DO what is necessary to pro
tect his interest herein.
And it is further ordered tina
a copy of this order be published
once week for three successiv,
weeks in some newspaper O
general circulation in said Nc
Bowel County.
A copy, Teste:
-. ALEX D. CYPHERS. Cler]
of the Circuit Court, Mcdowell
County, West Virginia.
JOSEPH G. TRAVIS, P. @.
90 Date of first publication, Jan.
27, 1889.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-02-03
GARY PARENT

Continued from Page u.cJ
appointed because they thought
he would be or nigh be at
fever heat rs Of yore in n poll
teal fights but he was 4 nice,
cool and calm, modest, but enSi-
bic, timely placid, and couvinc-
ing with logic not to be denied.
Public Spirited Men Voluntarily
rendered their Cash
Among the public spirited
men VINO just voluntarily ten
dered their automobile 10 90
after members of the Glce club,
may lie mentioned Mis- Geor-
Gia Il g e d, Mrs. Mae MARSHALL
Martin, Mr.. Robert Simmons,
Attorney Stuart A. Calhoun,
". Mark Smith (white) offered
his automobile, as did Mr.. w
irwin. but the good fathers and
tmothcrS who ow nedthrcinoV
mothers who owned their own
icaTs ii Gary did not ask for and
din not allow the Keystone folks
+ nave 10 come for or take back
their children. Therefore the
! trip made by the philanthropit
spirit of Keystoneites was JUS
imply a token of cooperation.
Money Contributors
There is no way to speak anC
tell who and there should MOI
The any reason to sing out any
one who contributed to thi,
worthy cause. In the first place
there are a large number OF
people who are ready right now
and are offering their services
to help complete the job of re.
pairing the church with THEN
money. There are a number who
are sorry and ashamed at moi
turning out to hear and see thi.
remarkable demonstration.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-02-03
ORDER PUBLICATION

WEST VIRGINIA: In-ths
Clerks office of the Circuit Court
of Mcdowell county, January.
25. 1889. ....
CHARLEY OGLE
Plaintiff
VS.. In Chancerv
ETHEL OGLE
Defendant
Pending in the Circuit Court of
said Mcdowell County.
The object of this suit is to
obtain from the defendant by
the plaintiff a divorce from the
bonds Of matrimony and for
general relief.
And it appearing from an
affidavit now on file with the
papers in this cause, that the
defendant is non resident of
the state Of West Virginia: it
is therefore ordered that the
said defendant do appear at the
Clerks office of the Circuit
Court of Mcdowell County with
one month from the date of the
flrst publication of this order
and do what is necessary to pro-
tect her interest herein.
And it is further ordered that
copy of this order be publish
ed once a week for three success.
slve weeks in some newspaper or
general circulation in said Nc
Dowll County.
A copy, Teste:
'..,ALEX D. CYPHERS Clerk
of the Circuit Court. Mcdowell
County, West Virginia.
JOSEPH G.. TRAVIS, P. O.
49, Date of first publication, Jan,
27, 1889.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-02-03
ORDER OF PUBLICATION

WEST VIRGINIA: In the
Clerks office OF the Circuit Court
Of Mcdowell county, January -,
1899.
Neyada Georgia BOGGS
Plaintiff
vs.. In Chancery
henry Benton BOGGS
Defendant
Pending in the Circuit Court of
said Mcdowell County
The object of this suit is to
obtain from the defendant by the
plaintiff a divorce from the
bonds of matrimony and for
general relief.
And it appearing from an
affidavit now on file w t h the
papers in this cause, h a t the
defendant is a nonresident of
the state Of West Virginia; it
is therefore ordered that the
said defendant do appear at the
Clerk office Of the Circuit
Court of Mcdowell County with
one month from the date of the
first publication Of this order
and do what is necessary to pro-
tect his interest herein.
And it is further ordered that
a copy of this order be published
! once a week for three successive
weeks in some newspaper of
general circulation in said Nc
Dowell County.
A copy, Teste:
ALIEN ID. CYPHERS. Clerk
of the Circuit Court. Mcdowell
County, West Virginia.
lCAPEHART & MILLER, p. @
Date Of first publication. Jan
20, 1889. ........
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-02-03

.maBajkes Mt be derived of a
foundation program. The de-
signation Of the valuation of
1888 as a factor in determining
the amount Of state aid a
county may receive when the
proposed measures become law
will be a step away from equali-
zation due to government pur-
chase Of land or removal of in
dustry or for any other cause
will bear the consequences. The
state will not be permitted to
send additional money to them.
Schools must absorb the deficits.
II these measures are TO be
come law. they should be a.
mcndcd to prevent the children
from becoming the victims of
an unavoidable reduction in
valuations or from a failure of
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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-02-03
ORDER OF PUBLICATION

WEST VIRGINIA: In the
Clerks office of the Circuit Court
of Mcdowell county, January 10,
1889.
OLGA STEPP
Plaintiff
VS.. In Chancerv
TILDEN z. STEPP
Defendant
Pending in the Circuit Court of
said Mcdowell County
The object of this suit is TO
obtain from the defendant by
the plaintiff a divorce from the
bonds Of matrimony and for
general relief.
And it appearing from an
affidavit now on file with t h e
papers in this cause, that the
defendant is a non resident of
the state of West Virginia; it
Is therefore ordered that the
said defendant do appear at the
Clerks office of the Circuit
Court of Mcdowell County with
one month from the date of the
iirst publication of this order
and Go what is necessary to pro-
tect his interest herein.
And it is further ordered that
a copy of this order be publish
ed once a week for three success
sive weeks in some newspaper of
general circulation in said Nc
Dowell County.
A copy, Teste:
ALEX ID. CYPHERS. Clerk
of the Circuit Court, Mcdowell
County, West Virginia.
CAPEHAKT & MILLER. P. O.
Date Of first publication, Jan.
20, 1899.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-02-03
Lowest Annual Rainfall

The lowest annual rainfall ever
recorded - l.33 inches - was in
Egypt. The average annual rainfall
on MI. Waialeale at Kauai, Hawaii.
s 45l inches.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-02-03
Model Civ

Shanghai, the chief seaport of
China, located II miles from the
mouth Of the YanGtzc river, is the
model city Of the East. 1t is in
tn" latitude of Jacksonville, Fla.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-02-03

Location Of Snakes Hearts
Snakes, hearts are about one-ffth
o. the distance from the head to
the end of the tail.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-02-03
Discovered Circulation

The circulation of the blood was
discovered by DR.. William Harvey,
an English anatomist.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-23
Hoey to Act
In Cases Of
CONDEMNED
Won't Interfere With
Execution of Alleg-
hany Negro for Slay-
ing; Hearings Planned
for Others of Six Set
To Die July 7

Raleigh, June 23.-(AP)-Gover-
nor Hoey announced today that he
would not intervene in behalf of
Glenn Maxwell, Allegheny county
Negro scheduled to die with five
other men in Central Prison gas
chamber July T. At the same time,
the governor said hearings would be
held June 20 and 80 into clemency
requests for two of the six, Bricey
Hammonds, Robson county Indian,
and James Henderson, New Han
over Negro, both convicted of mur-
der
The governor said that attorneys
had requested reprieve for James
Goodwin, convicted in Guilford of
killing a textile worker after escap-
ing from the Lexington jail with the
help of the jailor's daughter. God
win also is scheduled to die July T.
Studies are being made of the
cases of the other men, Alfred Cap
er, of Robson, and James Cureton,
of Forsyth
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-23
Jesse Jones
ToHeadNew
Credit Body
RFC Chief Named for
Lending Agency Not
Yet Even Created by
Congress-; John Car
mody To Head Fed
eral Works Agency

Washington, June % (AP)-
President Roosevelt chose Jesse
Jones, head Of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, and John Car
mody, chief of the Rural Electrifi-
cation Authority, today to fill the
two key positions in his proposed
$3,860, 100000 lending program.
He named Jones to administer the
Federal loan agency, which will
come into being July l, and Car
mody to run the Federal works
agency to be created at the same
time. For the time being, he left
vacant the position Of administra-
tor of the new Federal security
agency, third of the trio of $4,000
a-year jobs established by a re-
grouping of bureaus under the terms
of the government reorganization
bill.
The appointments of Jones and
Carmody must be confirmed by the
Senate to which Mr.. Roosevelt sub
mitted their nominations.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-23
u. .S.,Britaiin Ii
Sign Barter
For Cotton
Each Seeking War
time Reserves a n d
United States Will Get
Rubber Stocks In Ex-
change for Cotton

London, June 23.-(AP)-Oliver
Stanley, president of the board Of
trade, told the House of Commons
today he and United States Ambas-
sador Joseph Kennedy would sign
during the day a barter agreement
by which United States cotton would
come to Great Britain for use in war
time, with British rubber going to
the United States.
Negotiations for the large scale
transaction involving the exchange
of certain raw materials required as
strategic reserves in both countries
were opened more than a month ago
The details, Stanley said, would be
announced later
Assurances were given at a spe-
cial committee meeting Of the Liver
pool Cotton Association that the cot
ton stocks in question would not
come on the market for at least five
years.
Futures jumped II to 18 points at
the close of yesterdays dealings on
the Liverpool cotton market
The Canadian government had
protested against the agreement.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-23
.FDR Desires
NoExe1nptiior,
Upon Loans
Congress L e a d e r S
Study Vast New 3d.
$780, 900, 900 Lending
Proposal; Project May
Not Be Enacted So
Near Sessions End

Washington, June %. = (AP)-
President Roosevelt expressed the
hope today that government securi-
ties issued to finance his proposed
new $1,000, 100000 spending pro-
gram would not be tax exempt
AS administration leaders at the
Capitol studied the vast lending pro-
posal to determine what new legisia-
ton may be necessary, the Presi-
dent answered many new questions
about it at press conference.
Asked whether the securities
which would be issued by various
federal agencies to raise funds to
lend on wide variety of self-li-
quidating projects would be exempt
from taxes, the President said he did
not know the law on that point, but
hoped tho you'd not. He added he
hoped Congress would make it clear
that no more public securities would
be exempt from taxation.
Replying to a question as to the
interest rate to be charged local gov
ernments for the loans, the President
said this should be as low as possi-
BILE, and he expected both the prin-
cipal and interest to be paid.
Much of the lending would be done
by the new Federal Works Agency
which, under the recently-approved
government reorganization plan, goes
INTO operation July l.
The President said he expected to
send to the SenatO during the day
the nomination to head that agency
and one of the other two new agen-
cies under the reorganization.
Because Congress already is rush
ed with pre-adjournment legislation,
there were some expressions Of doubt
that it could enact at this session the
six-point, 'seven-year plan involving
projects classified as self-liquidat-
ing.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-23
Solution Of
Lost Colony
MayBeNear
Second Stone Found
on Chowan River In
dicates Staying of Ra-
leigh's Pioneers b y
Savage Indians

Gainesville, Ga, June 23.-(AP)
The roughly carved lettering of a
granite SLAB that may prove to be
the gravestone Of Virginia Dare,
first white child born in America,
was disclosed today by DR.. H. J.
Pearce, president of Brenau College.
In addition to Virginia Dare, the
stone bears the names of her father,
Ananias Dare, and of Is others
presumably murdered by Indians in
1891, four years after they set foot
on the New World. 1t is signed with
the name of Eleanor Dare, mother
of Virginia.
DR.. Pearce said that if the authen-
ticity of this and a companion stone
now in the Brenau College museum
can be established, the mystery OF
Sir Walter Raleigh's fame "Lost
Colony" will be near solution.
One stone was found on the bank
of ChoWan river near Edenton, N. c.,
in 1897 by a tourist. It's inscrip-
ton purports to be message from
Eleanor Dare to her father, Gov
ernor John White, says saVages had
slain all but seven Of the colonists.
1t tells of the burial of II on hill
and refers TO stone at the bridal
site listing the dead.
Governor White had gone back to
England for supplies soon after
Continued on Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-23
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, June 23.--North Caro-
lina's general fund revenues for the
fiscal year which ends in week will
exceed the thirty-four and half
million dollars upon which the 1889
Al biennium's budget was based,
Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Max
we'll said today.
Not only will it do that, he said,
but it will go above the mark with
out any diversion of gasoline tax
money from the highway funds. The
1939-41 budgetary estimate included
in the $34,5OO,OOO Of likely general
fund revenues, transfer of $2,000,-
600 from the highway funds.
In view of the Maxwell state
ment, which is based on close study
of tax returns to date, it appears
there will be no diversion Of high
way funds unless a thorough study
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-23
Japs' Envoy
IsSurrln1olled
At London
Britain Aroused By
Treatment of Nation
ais at Tientsin; Repre-
sentations by u. S.
Consul Made in Be-
half O f Americans
There

London, June 23-(AP)-Japanese
Ambassador Shigenitsu was called to
the British Foreign Office today for
consultation on what Prime Minister
Chamberlain termed "intolerable in
suits" to British by Japanese at
Tientsin. The prime minister told the
House of Commons that Foreign
Secretary Lord Halifax had asked
the japanese ambassador to see him,
and that Halifax would "make it
very clear what he thought of the
new incidents reported last night.
Asked if the British government
would put retaliatory measures into
operation at once, Chamberlain said,
II do not think we have got to that
stage yet" Chamberlain made his
statement on the Far Eastern situa-
ton in response to numerous cues
tlons similar 10 the barrage directed
at him yesterday urging Strong ac-
tom against Japan.
"The honorable members will no
doubt have seen reports Of further
indignities to which the British ma
tionals have been subjected" Cham
berlain said. "My noble friend (Lord
Hallfax) has requested the Japanese
ambassador to see him in connection
with these incidents today"
Cheers greeted his statement.
(Tientsin reports over night had
told how the British consul general
in Tientsin issued a statement say
ing eight British subjects had been
forced to submit to indignities, in
Guiding stripping, and lengthy ex-
animation in full view of Chinese
COOLEST
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-23
Tax Revision Bill Is Enacted
House Accepts Minor
Senate Amendments
to Bill Fixing Flat 18
Percent Levy on Big
Corporations; To En-
l ar g e Wilmington
Channel

Washington, June 23.-(AP)-The
House concurred today in minor
Senate amendments to the. business
tax revision bill, and sent the meas
ure to President Roosevelt for his
signature
The legislation, rushed through
both houses of Congress in less than
week, wipes out the undivided
profits tax, which many business
men denounced, and fixes flat 18
percent levy for large corporations.
Haste in pushing the bill through
Congress was mOtivated by eXpira-
ton a week from today Of excise
levieS which the measure re-enacts.
Congressional leaders, meanwhile,
called for a post-adjournment study
looking toward tOp-tO-bOttom
overhaul of the revenue structure
next year.
The bill, carrying levies designed
to put $1,000, 100000 in the federal
till for 1890, swept to Senate Pass
age late yesterday.
Major General Julian Schley,
chief Of army engineers, recon-
mended to Congress navigation i'm
provements in the Cape Fear river
between Wilmington, N. c., and the
sea, estimated to cost 100000 be-
yond present approved expenditures.
The engineers proposed modifying
existing plans to provide for length
ening the southerly approach to the
anchorage basin from 1900 to 4,5O0
feet, and for a depth Of 80 feet in
the channel between the outer end
of the ocean bar channel and Will
mington, and in the turning basin.
Promotion of Brigadier-G General
II. B. Ferguson, a native North Caro-
linian, president of the Mississippi
River Commission, to the rank Of
major general, was proposed by
Senator Bailey, Democrat, North
Continued on Page Three)