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Evening star., 1939-05-09
Wholesale Commodity
Index Aqain Rises

Rising for the third consecutive
week, the wholesale commodity
price index compiled by the Ma
tional Fertilizer Association in the
week ended May 6 advanced to the
highest point reached since March.
This index last week was 727 per
cent of the 1868 average, compared
with 724 in the preceding week, 72.l
month ago. TAO a year ago and
1913 two years ago. The low point
for the year and also since 1894
was 721. reached in the first and
second weeks of April
A slight decline occurred in the
index of food prices, but this was
more than Offset by rising quota
tions for farm products and in
dustrial commodities. Increases in
the cotton and grain price averages
took them to the highest points
reached this year.
Livestock prices were also higher
for the week. The textile index rose
to the highest point reached since
January, 1898, with seven price series
included In the group advancing
and jute the only item to decline.
Fractional increases were also reg
istered last week by the indexes
representing the prices of fuels and
fertilizer materials. In the metal
group another decline in steel scrap
Offset q slight rise in tin.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
c. A. A. Orders Inquiry
Into Airline Rate Cut

The Civil Aeronautics Authority
has ordered an immediate general
investigation Of the practice OF
commercial airlines in permitting
business firms to purchase air travel
tickets in quantities at reduced
rates.
The purchases, 1t is said, have
been made under the so-called
card plan introduced about five
years ago with the purpose of stim-
ulating business at a time when air.
lines were seeking to expand their
field of operations.
Under the arrangement. a bust
ness firm or individual deposits a
certain amount of money with an
airline and cards are issued to des-
ignated persons permitting them to
obtain air tickets at any point on
the route of any airline. The tickets
are charged against the deposit, at
a price amounting to Is per cent
discount.
The Civil Aeronautics Act pro-
hibits the airlines from issuing
passes for free rides or granting any
reduction in fares below schedules
approved by the c. A. A. and, 1t is
believed, would prohibit use Of the
card" plan.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
Maryland tobacco Prices
Near Levels Year Ago
enecial Dispatch to The Star.

enecial Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, May 9.-Receipts of
the 1898 crop of Maryland leaf to-
bacco during last week totaled 1,276
hogsheads. The sales were 589 hogs
heads. 1t was the first week the
market had been open since it was
closed in December because of the
dull season.
Prices ranged mostly from S to
40 cents per pound but the very
commonest was not sold. As a
whole, prices per grade are about
the same as last year, but as the
1898 crop is materially better in
color the average prices are higher
The present stock Of Maryland
tobacco in warehouses now totals
11,453 hogsheads. Sixteen hogs
heads of Ohio tobacco were received
last week, bringing the total of this
product now in warehouses up to
73 hogsheads. There were no sales
of Ohio tobacco.
Quotations on Maryland tobacco
are as follows:
MARYLAND firm leaf-Nondescript
and unsound, pound, 3a4; dull and
greenish, 4a10; sound to good COM
mon, sails; medium to short bright,
19a3O; good to fine, red or bright
3Oa40.
Seconds-Common, sails; medium
16a26; good to fine, 27a33.
Badly mixed hogsheads from zoo
to 500 lower.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
Stock Averages
Compiled by the Associated Press)
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, May 9.-The stock
market took a new lease on life
today and leading issues pushed up
fractions to around points.
There were few fairly fast buy
ing flurries, but equally slow periods
kept the ticker tape from working
overtime. At that, the turnover
for the five hours of approximately
100000 shares was about double that
of the preceding session and was the
largest for any day since April 13.
Brokers attributed the rallying
shift partly to the effort of Presi-
dent Roosevelt to settle the six
weeks old soft coal tieup which is
presently menacing the Nations
industry and transport. With min
ers' and operators representatives
meeting with the Chief Executive
at the White House, the financial
district saw hopes of quick truce.
Lessening of war tension abroad
also was cited as a prime influence
marketWise Stocks at London.
Paris and Amsterdam tilted forward
before the opening here.
The exceptional lightness of SELL
ing in the stock division recently
it was suggested, may have attracted
traders on the theory the market
had seen the worst.
Business news was still spotty. but
here, too, were signs bottom may
have been reached in some lines.
Best share performers included
United States Steel, Bethlehem,
Chrysler, General Motors. United
States Rubber, Sears -Roebuck,
Montgomery Ward, Uuion Carbide,
Westinghouse, Santa Fe, Great
Northern, Loew's, Douglas Aircraft.
Johns -Manville, j. l. Case, Interna-
tional Harvester and American TEL
ephone.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated fTeSS.
CHICAGO, May 9.-Wheat prices
mounted liz to more than cents a
bushel today to the best level since
last July in renewal of buying
stimulated by demand for May con-
tracts and by unfavorable crop and
weather reports.
May wheat scared "a cents from
an early low to 76s4, while July and
September contracts reached 74ss,
approximating the seasons highs.
Short covering was induced by crop
complaints from the Southwest.
need of rainfall in the Northwest
and duststorms reported in Canada.
Last-minute profit taking re-
duced the gains slightly. but wheat
closed l to 15s higher than yester-
day July and September. 74-737s>,
corn Il off to IS up July, 51-507s;
September, 52-517s), and oats lls-
l5s higher.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
FOREIGN Exchange

NEW YORK. May 8 P.-Continued
strength Of The Netherlands guilder IN re-
istion H to the dollar dominated the foreisn
Demand came chiefly from trans
Atlantic money centers bankers said. re.
decting q generally cheerier OUTLOOK on
The latest continental political shifts.
gain Of .O7 Of q cent = the gullder
placed the unit at the top OF the current
recovery move Sterling and the belga
advanced narrowly while the french franc
and swiss franc were UNCHANGED.
Future rates continued to improve; Inc
Swiss franc due in 90 days, FOR instance,
was quoted at the same price Is the spot
rate.
Great Britain in dollars. others in cents.
Great Britain, 4.6sA; 6O,day bills.
4 67s.: Canada, Montreal in New York,
9a'56X: Canada. New York in MontreMal, M
loo. AN; belgium. 1903: Denmark. 2O:sO;
d2;ae; a9.ee: oessyo;eniH ss%; Hunssrs 1s7a itsIy.
S'SSM: Yusoslavia, 2.30: Nethsrlands.
S3 40: Norway. 2352; Poland. 1887; Por.
tugai 4.27; Rumania. ~; Sweden. IL:
SWitzerland, 2246h; Argentina, 3! ION;
Hrazii, 6.O5n; Mexico City, 2OAQn; Japan,
81 Al: Hong Kong. 2s. SO; Shanshai 1913
Rates in spot cables unless otherwise
indicated.
n-Nominal.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
Mill Supplies Index
Advances in March

Special Dispatch to The Star. ~
NEW YORK, May 9.-The month
of March saw the sales indicator Of
industrial supply, distributors rise
from the February peak Of 100 to
106, a point that had not been
reached since December, 1887, &C
cording to the current issue Of Mill
Supplies.
The North Atlantic, Southern
and Western areas had the strongest
increases In volume.
The average dollar value per order
rose from $l55S to $l6.0l, while the
number Of orders booked per work
ing day was OF from 80 to 80.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
Ferris & Co. Buys
Cumberland Issue
BY the Associated Press.

CUMBERLAND, Md, May o.
The Mayor and City Council yester-
day sold an issue Of $3.50, 900 water
improvement bonds to George M
Ferris e. Co., Inc, of Washington
D. c., at an interest rate Of ~ pei
cent and a price Of 1o2.115 per 500
A $50, 900 issue Of work relief bonds
was sold to Burr g. Co., Inc. New
York, at an interest rate of 2A pei
cent and a price Of 100.33 per 500.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
Better Price Is Paid
For Treasury Bills
Hy the Associated Press

By the AS80Cl0Ceu FfeSS.
Secretary Morgenthau announced
last night the Treasury's weekly sale
Of 500, ,000, 900 worth Of 91-day bills
brought an average price Of 800 098
per 500 unit, equivalent to borrow
ing at .009 per cent. Last weeks
average price was $se 0o7. equivalent
to .0l2 per cent.
Evening star., 1939-05-09

PARIS, May 9 R.-The United
States dollar was quoted 37.7525
francs (2.649 cents to the france in
closing foreign currency dealings to-
day. In comparison, the franc was
1850 cent? in New York overnight.
Exchange on London, l76.73.
Three per cent rentes in the
Bourse were 80 francs; AIS "A"
87.70; AVS, 1887, 1880.
Evening star., 1939-05-09

Edison Bros. Stores, Inc.-April
sales were on S7 per cent: four
months up 10 per cent.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
Dollar Is Unchanged
In London Trading
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, May 9.-The United
States dollar finished net unchanged
at 4.68h to the pound in the foreign
exchange market today and corre-
sponded with a similar rate for ster-
ling in New York overnight.
French francs also we're un-
changed at 1869 to the pound.
Evening star., 1939-05-09

Accidents are the children Of dis
seder. Keep cool and stay safe.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
New York Cotton
BY the, Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 9.-Continued
reports of tight spot supplies Of cot
ton were reflected in aggressive
trade and Wall Street buying OF
futures today.
Prices rallied to IA points by
midafternoon, with old-crop months
in the van. Light offerings from
Bombay were readily absorbed. New
Orleans bought May and July, which
was offset partly by hedge selling.
May sold at high of S.86, up IL.
July, at 8.54, was IA higher.
Evening star., 1939-05-09

Chicago Cash Market.
No cash wheat sales. Corn, No. 2
mixed 81 "a: No / yellow. 52-52A; No. l
white SIS; sample grade. white. so. Oats
No. 2 white, 35t4-3; sample grade white
| 32s4-34. Timothy seed. Q 2.s5-3 Is nominal;
red clover seed. 13 00-17 90 nominal; red
top, 925-75 nominal.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
CottOnSeed Oil

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
3 lower to 5 higher. Sales. 130 contracts.
May. 6.6Ob: July, 6.77; September 6.94b:
October 6.97; December sos. Bid.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
New Orleans Prices,

NEW ORLEANS May 2 LR.-Increased
trade and foreign buying supported the
cotton market here today, and at mid
session prices were 2 to 12 points net
Evening star., 1939-05-09

trading
r1n bankruptcy reorganized under
dividend in the disburse
special
Ex dividend. TX rights Also
Payable stock Declared thl
stock Accumulated dividends or de
cla mis- year -
Evening star., 1939-05-09

Winnipeg Prices.
WINNIPEG. May 8 LR,.-Grain ran
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Recognizing. Plan Details
To Be Made Public Feb. 5

Details of the plan for re-organiz-
ing the District government will not
be made public until Sunday. Feb
ruary 5, it was announced today
by Representative Kennedy, Demo-
crat of Maryland, chairman of the
special reorganization sub-cOmmit-
tee of the House District Commit
tee.
Meantime, Mi Kennedy said the
experts who developed the plan will
put it into final shape and have it
printed for consideration of men,
bers of the House and Senate Dis
trict Committees.
E. O. Griffenhagen, head of Chi
eago firm of public administration
and finance specialists employed to
prepare the plan, discussed various
features of his forthcoming report
at a conference late yesterday with
Mr. Kennedy and Chairman Collins
of the House subcommittee on Dis
trict appropria
The purpose of the conference
was to seek Mr.. Collins co-opera-
ton in shifting funds in the ap-
preparation bill to meet any changes
that may be made in the admins
trative set-up.
Representative Collins, it was
said, indicated he would support
any legislation that would increase
the efficiency of the municipal
services.
Three plans are believed to be un-
Evening star., 1939-01-27
'Kick-Back' Law Applies
To District, Elliott Rules

Acting Controller General Elliott
ruled late yesterday that the "kick
back" law for the protection of con-
struction workers on Government
jobs is also binding on contractors
building with District OF Columbia
funds.
The question was raised by the
District Commissioners because the
statute did not specify the District
in laying down regulations under
which the Treasury and Interior
Departments have been letting con-
tracts.
The law was passed to prevent
builders from requiring employees to
return a certain amount of wages
originally paid on the prevailing
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Nazi, Soviet Prosecutions
Condemned by Lutherans

Persecution of Jews in Germany
and Christians in Russia was pro-
tested yesterday by the National
Lutheran Council at the closing
meeting OF its twenty-frst annual
session. Twenty-three church lead
ers attended the meeting, held at
the Ambassador Hotel.
The council called on America to
maintain a vigilant guard against
all forces (which today threaten the
liberty. the peace and the happiness
OF the whole of humanity"
In the councils opinion, philoso-
ply is spreading which denies God,
ignores the evil in man, disrupts
humanity, glorif1es might, and at
Evening star., 1939-01-27

tacks the essential foundations Of
Christianity"
The Rev. DR.. Clarence, E. Krumb-
holz of New York made a plea for
the cooperation of all Lutheran
bodies in assisting refugees from
persecution in Europe.
The delegates discussed plans for
the world gathering of Lutherans in
Philadelphia May "a to June 2, 1910.
Evening star., 1939-01-27

der consideration. One provides
for a single administrator" form
of government, which means either
city manager or business man
ager replacing the present Board of
Commissioners Another calls for
creation of new executive Office
of co-ordinator. the function of
which would be to act as a liaison
between the Commissioners and the
department heads. The third pro-
posal would set up a city council,
either appointed by the President
or elected by District residents, to
serve in an advisory capacity To the
Commissioners.
Evening star., 1939-01-27

wage scale necessary to obtain a
Federal contract.
Mr.. Elliott said that while the
act does not name the District, its
terminology might be viewed judi
clally as sufficient to include build
1ngs and works of the District Of
Columbia"
The controllers Office generally
does not pass on points of criminal
law, but made this exception in the
absence OF judicial determina-
tiOn."
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Catholic U. Law School
Lecture Tonight

Catholic University Law Scool will
present its second and final series
Of law lectures given in celebration
OF the golden jubilee year of the
university tonight at 8 o'clock.
David j. Lyme Of Boston will dis
cuss the function of law in society
today. He is vice president of the
Boston Bar Association.
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Organ Concert Toniqht

An organ concert will be pre-
sented at the Washington Chapel,
Sixteenth street and Columbia road
NV, at 8 o'clock tonight by D. Ster-
ling Wheelwright. Numbers by Bach,
Mozart, Goss, Liadow, Wagner,
Mulet and Chauvet- Guilmant will
be included on the program.
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Foxes Ruin Farmer

Foxes ruined him, declared John
S. Orwin, a poultry farmer, in
Bankruptcy Court in Peterborough,
England, explaining that he lost
500 birds in four months through
reynards which dug under his poul-
try houses.
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Conference Speakers

DR.. Mitchell Dresse, professor of
educational psychology at George
Washington University, and DR.. Jay
B. Nash of New York University
will be the principal speakers at a
day-long conference of the Dis
trict Physical Education Association
February II at the Y. w. C. A.
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QUESTION:: When should les
pedeza be seeded for hay crop?

peueZd NC SeSuSu 4OI nay ClOP'
ANSWER: This legume should
be sown on small grain in Feb
ruary or March. The Korean
variety terminated in about two
weeks and care should be taken
not to seed too early. The other
varieties terminate in from four
to five weeks and may be seeded
earlier than the Korean. If old
seed are used, these should be
tested for termination before
seeding. All seed should be
sown early enough to insure the
young plants becoming we'll es-
tablished before hot, dry wealth
er, but late enough to avoid
heavy freezes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-02
SIR WILFRED GREENFIELD
Thirty Thousand Fishermen
Tell Him Their Symp-
toms.

One of the happiest men on
earth is Doctor Grenfell, of La
brador. His hair is grey, his
eyes are tired, and his hands are
rough from frost-bite and artic
winds.
He has been shipwrecked four
different times among the ice
bergs, and has slept all night on
the floating ice. He has been
lost in the wilds of Labrador and
almost frozen to death. He has
been so hungry that he even ate
the sealskin straps off his boots.
He is past seventy, he hasn't
any money.
But don't feel sorry or Doctor
Grenfell, of Labrador. l don't, I
envy him; for he has found about
the only things that matters in
the world-happiness and con-
tentment.
Forty-fve years ago, Doctor
Grenfell was graduated from OK
ford and opened his office in the
ultra-fashionable Mayfair section
of London. His practice grew, he
prospered, and he was apparent
ly head for big things in Eng
land: but he needed a rest. So
he decided to spend a summer
vacation among the fishermen of
Labrador.
DIR. Grenfell was astonished to
find that there was not one ply
sician to care for the thirty thou
sand fishermen inhabiting this
bleak and frosty coast.
He did what he could for them
that summer; and, in the autumn,
he returned to London. But pre-
scribing pills for his rich patients
! in fashionable Mayfair seemed
trifling and inconsequential. He
had caught a vision. The North
was calling him. So back he went
and for forty-two years now, he
has been sailing up and down
the treacherous coast of Labra-
dor; and has made himself the
bestowed physician in all the
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Elect Officers
OfCOmmu unity
Club In Lansing
Mrs. c. E. Carly Is Reelected
AS President. Mrs. Young
Is Secretary.

The January meeting Of the
Lansing Community Club was
was held at the home of the pres
ident, Mrs. c. E. Carly on Janu-
airy 18, with eleven members
present.
This being the first meeting of
the year, the election of new Of
ficers was held. Mrs. Carly was
reelected president; Mrs. Charles
WEIGH, vice-president, and Mrs.
Mrs. Worth Young, secretary and
treasurer. A program commit
%tee was appointed, composed of
Mrs. Ray Clark, Miss Lillian
Sutherland and Miss Ernestine
Carly.
The guests enjoyed Chinese
checkers, after which Mrs. Carly
served delicious cup cakes and
hot tea. The next meeting will
be at the home of Mrs. Victor
Clark.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-02

world. King George of England
knighted him for his unselfsh
and heroic services.
Doctor Grenfell recently talk
ed to me for hours about his ex-
traordinary experiences. Once
he called to see an old woman
who had fallen on the ice and
crushed her leg. Infection had
set in, and her leg had to be am
putated. But the pious old wom-
an, nurtured on the precepts of
the Old Testament, refused to
take chloroform. She believed
God had sent her the pain and
that it was her Christian duty to
bear it. Nothing less than a load
of dynamite could have changed
her mind.
So she had her five grown sons
sit on her and hold her down
while Doctor Grenfell cut of her
leg. She didn't whimper; but the
Doctor told me that experience
almost wrecked him.
The most exciting experience
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-02

Mrs. DR.. Thompson and Mrs.
Edwin Duncan of Sparta visited
DR.. and Mrs. B. E. Reeves this
week.
DR.. and Mrs. B. E Reeves and
Edwin Duncan, Jr., visited Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Wilson this week
and attended the funeral of Mrs.
Lizzie Wilson Hall, relative OF
Mr.. Wilson.
Mr.. and ]. A. Wayman, of Gun
tersville, Ala, are visiting friends
and relatives here this week. Mr..
Wayman is a IVA engineer.
Mrs. Ed. D. Barr and daughter
Betsy have returned home after
visiting relatives in Hickory for
several days.
Mr.. Dan Mullis has been i'll
with cold this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Weston of
Boone who have recently re-
turned from California where
they attended the Rose Bowl
Game were visitors in town yes
terday.
Mrs. George w. Hendrickson
of Baltimore who spent several
weeks at her home in Roaring
Gap during the recent illness Of
her father, Mr.. E. M. Osborne, is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Van
noy and Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Van
noy here this week. She expects
to return to Baltimore the latter
part of the week.
Mrs. r. H. Stone and daughter
Martha Hamlin and Mary have
returned to their home at Jeffer-
son after spending several weeks
with Mrs. Stones parents, Rev.
and Mrs. d. j. Blackwell of
Leaksville. While there both
Martha and Mary had measles.
Mus. Blackwell RETURNED home
WIN MIS-. OtOne ana is SpenQln2
this week with her.
Mrs. o. D. Badger is spending
this week visiting her mother in
Baldwin, Md.
Miss Ethel Handy, formerly of
West jefferson, is visiting here
this week.
Rev. Mr.. DENLY of Silas Creek
was a visitor in West Jefferson
Saturday.
Miss Thel Handy of States
is visiting friends in West Jeffer-
son.
Prof. John Donnelly is spend
ing this week in town IN inter-
est of business.
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Of Doctor Grenfell's life occurred
on Easter Sunday, in 1908. An
emergency call came from a man
sixty miles away. The poor fell
low was in agony, and would
soon be dead unless he could be
operated upon. So Doctor Gren-
fell harnessed his dogs and set
out with his sled, racing against
death.
To save time, he took a short
cut across the floating ice in the
bay. Suddenly the wind changed.
The ice starting drifting out to
sea. The situation was desperate.
The dogs made a mad dash for
shore. But it was too late. The
soft ice gave way, and they
plunged into the frigid water.
Doctor Grenfell grabbed his
knife and cut the dogs loose from
the sed. The sled sank, but he
and the dogs swan to a floating
cake Of ice.
Doctor Grenfell lost all his
warm clothes when the sled sank.
The few clothes that he had on
were of no use for they were
soaking wet with ice water. A
bitter wind was blowing and
night was coming on. He felt
himself growing numb with cold.
He was droWsy. He knew he was
freezing to death.
There was only one way out. So
he took his pocket knife and
killed three of his dogs. Piling
up the dead bodies of the dogs
to acts as a wind break, he wrap
ped their furry skins about his
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shiveri2g body I'D lay down and
slept al r;z,,lt CT the ice pm that
was ~cc'zi:2c about il The sea.
When morning came, he took
the bones of his dogs, tied them
together to make a pole, tied his
shirt to the end of the pole, and
then waved it frantically, hour
after hour, at the lonely cliffs on
the shore. It, seemed utterly
hopeless.
Suddenly, he saw the flash of
an oar in the bright morning SUM-
light. A boat was fighting it's
way through the ice and he was
saved.
What an experience, and what
a man!
When said as much to Doctor
Grenfell, protested.
Come now" he said, "you
mustn't try to make a martyr, of
me. It has all been jolly good
fun, you know"