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Evening star., 1939-09-17

a-Also extra or extras.
Quotations furnished by National Asso-
cistion Of Securities Dealers. Inc which
states thev do not necessarily reflect ac-
tual transactions or firm bids or offers but
should indicate approximate prices
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D. G.. Securities

Quotations by Johnston. Lemon & Coy
Yesterdays CLOSING bid and asked quota
tions on Washinston securities which are
traded over -the-counter follow:
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Commodity Prices

NEW YORK. Sept. 16.-The Associated
Press weighted wholesale price index oi
35 commodities today advanced to 1923
Previous day. 1SS2; week ago 12.21;
month ago IA 90: year ago, 61.4G.
Range of recent years:
M, 1889. 1898. 1897. 1a33-36
High - 1882 7437 1914 1922
Low 631S 63S6 1885 4l44
Q926 average EQUALS 1OOD
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New Orleans Prices

NEW ORLEANS Sept is P-co,ton
FUTURES encountered increased LIQUIDATION
in todays short session and fnal quota :
oU Dojntx - w
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Washington Stock Exchange
BONDS.

W. &
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Federal Lund Bonks

NEW YORK Sept. Is P.-Federal Land
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o exit
havech
keep is fact In nmind in STUDY
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Investing Companies

NEW YORK. Sept Is tP--National
Association Securities Dealers. Inc:
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How Is Business?

Showing Activity Compared
Year Ago.
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New York Bonk Stocks

NEW YORK, Sept Ia LP.-Natlonal
Association Securities Dealers. Inc:
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Sales. PUBLIC UTILITIES.
$4,000 Ana & Pot Riv r r Ist g.
$500 Capital Traction 1st So /
1000 Cty h Sub Hy 1st So
1000 GeorEetown Gas Lght 1st
$4,000 Wash Gas Light 1st 5% l96
700 Wash Ry d Elec cons 40
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Cott0nseed Oil.

Spot nominal; middllns, $50.
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GENERAL BUSINESS ACTIVITY 'e Mhed s Debts cay
i"dess S<i"ss from M twelve ssrEs.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25

Pilot Jack Jefford left Unala- kleet for Kaltag and Nulato. He will pick up Herb Johnson at Nulato and fly him to St. Mich ael.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25
Fur Rendezvous
Anchorage, Alaska
 Jan. 20, 1889
(By Kay J. Kennedy)

(By Kay J. Kennedy
 ANCHORAGE, (SpeciaD = Walter Winchell isn't the only one to have a keyhole. Alaska radios tuned to KFQD last Thurs day night got an earful of key hole, listening in on an Anchor age Fur Rendezvous committee meeting
 Clyde R. Ellis, manager of the event, called the meeting to or der. Tom Bevers, in charge of furs, reported each mail brings inquiries regarding furs and curios and some furS are already arriving for Rendezvous sale Feb. 20th.
 Mrs. Alfred Balls, chairfan of the queen committee, told the meeting that "ten pretty girls" were candidates for Queen of the Rendezvous-all 1889 graduates and alumni of the Anchorage high school, which she called the school of queens" She said the committee considered each of the candidates well qualified, as the group represented the typical modern minded, capable, charm ing and beautiful 1889 girl.
 Leonard Hopkins, head of the sports committee gay the low down on athletic plans. Said he, Counting our local athletes who will participates in games and events, we have invited 200 bas- ketbali players, 30 hockey play CTS, l2-prize fighters, 50 skiers- round total of 300 athletes. Sounds like a miniature Olympic meet, doesn't it?"
 He promised a run of the en- tire sports program with little overlapping of events. When re- plies from invitations are in, al schedule of events will be an- nounced. Invitations have gone to Fairbanks, College, Wasilla, Palmer, Eklutna, Seward, Cord ova, U, s. C. G. Spencer, Juneau
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25

The Pioneers of Alaska an- nounce their schedule for this seasons card parties and dances:
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25
Funeral Services Lee Warder Reat We're Held Today

Funeral services for Lee Reat were held this afternoon at 2 pm. at the Federated Church, Rev. Vincent Widney conducting the service. Pallbearers were: Lincoln Ost, Ernest Burgh, Geo. rge Martin, Roger Bockman, Martin Willoya, Harold Berg, Emery Martin, and Herbert Turn CT and the ushers were Kevin Walsh and Daniel Jones, all friends and schoolmates of Lees
 Lee Warder Reat was born July 31, 1921, in Denver, Colo rado. When he was five years old his family moved to Florida where they lived for three years, The following four years he liv- ed in Indiana and Illinois, and the year previous to coming to Alaska was spent in Seattle. The last six years his home has been in Nome. and at the time of his death he was a member of the senior class of the local high school.
 He was a very ardent fisher man and hunter He had gone on several hunting trips with local native hunters for seal and wal rus on Boring Sea. He had many friends among the Eskimos and was Well-known too, and loved by, many Nome residents many years his senior. He was much interested in automotive mach inery and had planned on attend ing an engineering school in the States next fall.
 His surviving relatives, besid- es the parents, are his grandma thers, Mrs. L. M. Jones of Au- burn, Indiana, and Mrs. J. l., Reat of Charleston, Illinois, an aunt Miss Ruth Reat of Nome, and an uncle Ivan L. Reat of Larned, Kansas.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25

The Chamoer of Commerce pamphlets just printed by The Nome Nugget giving Interesting Facts About Nome and illustrat- ed with pictures, a large quan- tity of which will be mailed to the States on Thursdays mail plane, are so designed that they will fold and fit nicely in 4x10 inch envelope. Business houses and others are requested by the local Chamber to insert them in their letters when mailing to friends in the States. The Mug get has obtained a sufficient mum Der from the Chamber to insert one in each subscribers paper.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25

What might have been ser ious fire yesterday afternoon was averted by Chief Laws, who when in the neightborhood of w h te's restaurant, noticed smoke issuing from the home of Herbert Greenberg on Second Avenue. The Fire Chief immed- lately called Messrs. Greenberg and Robinson by phone, who hur riedly came from the Nome Liz uor Store, and unlocked the dwel ling. Upon entering they found quantity of wood blazing and the house filled with smoke.
 It was learned that MT. Green berg had placed some green wood in the oven to dry when he left for his store, it having become ignited and blaze about three feet high extended above the stove. The fire was extinguished without calling out the fire department. No dam age resulted.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25

and other Southeastern towns.
 Emery Kunkle sent a report on finances and urged whole-heart- ed support Bert Wenerstrom re- ported on dances and entertain ment. Mrs. Clyde Ellis, pinch-hit- ting for A.B. Cummings who was i'll and unbale to attend, said plans for a gala Mardi Gras pa rade with masks and color were under way. Kay Kennedy outlin- ed what has been done in public izing the Rendezvous.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25

Following the return of the Coroner's Jury verdict Monday, Joe Hanaka, an Eskimo, was ar rested, charged with the murder of Mrs. Emily Pederson, aged Eskimo woman, whose body was discovered late Sunday. He was placed in the Nome Federal jail by U. s. Marshal B. B. Mozee.
 Tuesday morning Hanaka was brought before U. s. Commis- sioner C. C. Tanner where upon waiving examination on the charge of murder, he was immed lately bound over to appear be fore the spring Grand Jury, with out bail. The murder is alleged to have occurred about Jan. 1st
 Hanaka, who had served a term at McNeil Island Penitent- iary, for larceny, returned to Nome last spring on the first boat, as a parolee.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25

treatments will be served im- mediately after the playing of cards; and on dance nights, the dance will be from 1l:00 pm. till ZOO am. It is suggested that you reserve the above dates, so that you will not miss any of the series and thereby be in the race for the Grand Prizes to be given during the dance on the night of April 1st. All of the above part ies are to be held in the l O O F Hall.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25
Captain Parker Is New Commander of
 Boring Sea Patrol

SEATTLE, Jan. 24 (P) Gap tain Stanley Parker, who sailed in the Northland, now U. s. Mari time Commission Training Ship at Oakland, California, was ap- pointing Commander of the Der ing Sea Patrol. Word was rec eived while he was commander of the San Francisco Division of the Coast Guard and that Cap tain James Alyer will succeed him.
 Where is my wandering boy to-
 night?
 No more the parents wonder. They know he's out in the family
 car
 Hitting it up like thunder.
 The 1899 California Worlds Fair on t easure Island will op- en next February 18 and contin- ue for 288 days.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25

This afternoon the business houses of Nome closed their doors between 1 and 3 o'clock, out of respect to the funeral of Lee Reat. The local schools also adjourned for half day in order to give the school children and student body an opportunity of attending the funeral services.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25
NEWS ITEMS

Born-a baby girl to MT. and Mrs. Barney Vogan, Tuesday, at Maynard Columbus hospital. Mother and infant are reported to be doing nicely. Nomeites will remember the mother as the former Miss Ethel Marx.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25
PAA ACTIVITIES

The PAA mail plane is sched- uled to leave Fairbanks Thurs day for Nome, weather permit ting. Mrs. Morcom, wife of Dr Thomas Morcom, will be an out going passenger on the next plane.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25

Recent purchases of additional space by big exhibitors at the 1899 California Worlds Fair are considered a business barometer indicating improved financial conditions.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25
Wien Airways Activities

Pilot Sig Wien left Fairbanks for Nome this morning. He had two passengers for Yukon River points and one for Nome.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25

Pilot Wien arrived Nome about } pm. via White Mountain. Jack Whaley was passenger from Fairbanks, and one passenger was brought to Nome from White Mountain. -z..-.-..
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25
AirpIane News
 Nome Airport
MirOw Air Service Activities

Pilot Hans MiroW returned Tuesday afternoon from a trip to St. Lawrence Island, acconpan- Jed by mechanic Bill Jeff2rd. The plane brought mail and a cargo of furs and ivory.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-25
JANUARY 1889

Even the Constitution of the United States is designed to serve the people of the United States.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Police Boys Club

The Boys Club of the Metropolitan
Police no longer is an experiment.
Established five years ago by Major
Ernest w. Brown, it has justified its
existence in terms of useful service
to the entire community. More than
twelve thousand young Americans
are enrolled under its banner. The
purposes of the organization are ito
develop correct speech, beneficial
sports and clean habits among the
boys of Washington; to cooperate
with all recognized agencies in their
work for the development of good
citizenship; to teach boys the funda-
mentalS of law observance; by a
proper direction of recreational
activities to lessen juvenile delin-
quency." Five branches and sum-
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Joke DERBY

For weeks the world has been
waiting in an awed hush for the
official running of Herr Goebbels'
highly-touted Joke Derby. Week
after week, struggling statesmen
made superhuman efforts to post
pone the next war in Europe, so
that nothing might interfere with
the contest. 1t is over now. The
winner turned up in long shot, who
had previously been regarded as a
mere selling platter. His triumph was
remarkable, in that he was German
laborer who had been training on
three dollars week, with military
vacations, and had had little oppor-
tunity for workouts in humor.
Goebbels took great pleasure in pre-
senting him with stupendous purse
of forty dollars, and warned all other
nations that Germany was self
sufficient in the joke department and
that a humor blockade would be
useless.
The truth of his last remark is
evident upon careful perusal of
the winning effort A chlorine clad
only in helmet and sword is sup
posed to have addressed a male COM
panion with a mezzanine front
somewhat reminiscent of Goerings,
expressing her unwillingness to carry
on her entertainment in that cos
tune. The man emits a couple of
tuts tuts and cluck or two, and
inquiries if one saw too much. mo,
you old FOOL says the lady, "too
little"
Place money, consisting of four
dollars and a homegrown ersatz
cigar, went to the entrant who de-
picted another man gazing at yet
another scantily clad girl. She, it
seemed, had been buying her clothes
on the installment plan, and he COM
plimented her on the snappy appear
ance of the first installment. This
was not regarded as form upset,
as it first broke into the money in
the court of Rameses II and even
percolated into Philadelphia in Ben
Franklin's day. Far back among the
also rams were why does chicken
cross the road?" and who was that
lady I seen you with last night?"
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Exit Volunteer Firemen

Arlington County is contemplating
major step in the development of
paid fire departments, an advance
that comes inevitably with suburban
growth, and if present plans are
approved funds will be appropriated
to station three paid firemen at each
department in the county.
1t is indicative of the progressive
ness of Arlington's residents that the
request for paid firemen came from
the volunteer companies themselves.
Frequently volunteers fight to the
last against efforts to introduce paid
fire fighters.
1t is generally true that volunteer
flremen typify the highest type of
unself1sh public service At great
personal sacrifice and risk they save
lives, and property, and often serve
as the hub of community social life.
They have some justification, there
fore, in contending that a valuable,
though intangible, element of COM
munity life is lost when volunteers
are replaced by what might be called
professionals.
But the most ardent and highly
trained volunteer must admit that
the time inevitably arrives when the
community grows from a town into
a city and merits the protection of
full-time paid flremen. Already in
many communities surrounding
Washington the first steps toward
paid departments have been taken
one or more paid firemen are on duty
at almost every flrehouse. The re-
mainder of the transition may not be
completed for many years, but it
should be accomplished with the
| minimum of friction.
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to depend on the willingness or other
wise of Italy and Germany to quit
the peninsula without a substantial
quid pro quo for their contribution to
insurgent victory. Franco has yet to
supply categorical evidence that he
means to establish new regime in
Spain, unblighted by the shadow of
the ROme-Berlin axis.
Meantime British preparations to
arm to the teeth, afield, afloat and
aloft, regardless of cost, remain the
surest pledge that peace will not be
wrecked by the aggressor nations.
They recognize force when they see
it, respecting nothing else.
Evening star., 1939-03-11

mer camp are maintained to these
constructive social ends.
Major Brown offers as proof of the
efficiency of the work the convincing
fact that there has been a steady
decline in arrests of juvenile Offend
ers since 1888. The number OF boys
apprehended for criminal offenses
has been reduced from three hundred
and ten to sixty-six. But the whole
story is not told in figures. The
beneficial effect of the Police Bows
Club cannot be represented by
arithmetic. It Is at once intangible
and demonstrably real-a phenom-
enon like electricity, which cannot
be recorded in ledger, weighed
in a scale, yet is an authentic
force of incontrovertible power. The
result of it's development is a new
relation between the youth of the
Nations Capital and law and order
as a philosophy of life. It breaks
down the traditional hostility be-
tween boys and constituted authority:
it builds up a respect, friendship,
partnership between boys and civic
responsibility personified in the police
system.
The budget for 1899 approximates
seventy-f1ve thousand dollars. Volun-
tary contributions are being solicited.
1t should be privilege to subscribe.
Gifts in any amount are welcome.
Every reader of The Star is invited to
help. Campaign headquarters are at
400 II ctrnat mort huoct
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Jefferson Memorial Aquin

Discussion regarding the debate
provoking Jefferson Memorial has
been revived by a report to Congress
in which the Fine Arts Commission
throws additional light on circum-
stances surrounding adoption by the
Jefferson Memorial Commission of
the controversial pantheon design
for the Tidal Basin shrine. The re-
port contains an appeal to Congress
to take eleventh-hour steps to alter
the memorials design before it be-
comes too late to correct what the
Fine Arts Commission believes would
be serious esthetic blunder.
The report makes clear to the gen.
eral public number of facts that, as
the Fine Arts Commission says, have
never been fully understood" It is
emphasized that the Memorial Com
mission failed to seek the advice"
of the Fine Arts group before an
nouncing adoption of the pantheon
design, that the Fine Arts Commits
sion favored a competition among
architects and that when the pam
theon design of the single commits
stoned architect was submitted to
the Fine Arts Commission in March,
1887, it was not approved.
One of the graver disclosures in
the report from the standpoint of
defenders as we'll as of critics of the
present design is that the architects
are of the opinion it will be impos-
sible without additional funds to
complete the interior Of the me-
mortal in marble, as provided in the
plans. Cheaper materials will have
to be used If the project is to be kept
within the $3000,000 appropriation
made by Congress. This situation
would be most unfortunate, in that
1t would "lower the standards for
great memorials erected in the Ma
tional Capital" the report pointed
out.
There is yet time for Congress to
reconsider the Jefferson Memorial
problem. Congress set up the Fine
Arts Commission to give advice in
just such matters as this; it can i'll
afford to disregard the commissions
counsel in so vital a case. According
to the commission, an open circular
colonnade design of greater fresh
ness" and of uniformly high-grade
materials could be built on the foun-
dation now under construction. Con-
gress should give the commissions
report prompt and careful attention.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Comments on Fixing of
Mason and Dixon Line.
March 6.
To the Editor OF The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Apropos of the query regarding the
Mason and Dixon line in the DEPART
ment conducted by Mr.. Frederic J..
Haskin in recent issue of The Eve
ming STAR it may not be amiss to add that
David Rittenhouse, the distinguished
astronomer, actually laid the foundation
of the work for which Mason and Dixon
received the credit This statement is
not made to detract from their eminent
achievements, however.
The origin of the Delaware boundary
disputes is traceable to the vague and
overlapping grants of the Stuart Kings
Of England, which precipitated nearly
century of conflict between the proprie-
tary house of Penn and the Lords Balti-
more. The final agreement between the
two families was concluded in 1850,
and it provided for circle to be drawn
"and markt out at the IL miles dis
tance from the town of Newcastle" This
circle was to be shorter than the original
one drawn in 17O1.
Rittenhouse, then embarking on his
career of fame, was employed to run
the curve, which today separates Penn
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Alley Dwellings

Nine years ago the first Alley
Dwelling Act was drafted and put
before Congress. It centered around
provision for ten-year program to
eliminate the unfit and socially dan
gerous slums hidden away in the
heart of Washington. Today, after
having received only one full appro-
priation, the A. D. A., so far as it's
original purposes are concerned,
stands practically in enforced idle
ness. Following up House action of
cutting the annual fund for this
purpose in half, the Senate Appro-
priations Committee has eliminated
it entirely.
Reasons advanced by the commit
tee for its action overlook the pur-
poses for which the A. D. A. was
established and confuse the slum
clearance and housing programs.
The committee felt, it announced,
that the eight million, four hundred
thousand dollars which the A. D. A.
hopes to borrow, in addition to the
six million, six hundred thousand
already approved by the United
States Housing Authority, is suf1i-
cient to demonstrate what can be
accomplished here. But the money
received from the U. S. H. A. cannot
be used for the major part of the
slum clearance job. 1t can be used
to provide low-cost housing. But
construction of loW-cost, new housing
is only one part of alley elimination.
Since many of Washington's alley
dwellings are in areas where replace
ment with proper housing is not
feasible, the rehabilitation may take
the form of commercial construction.
or conversion to other uses. For this
the money borrowed from the U. S,
H. A. cannot be used, and it was for
this the Alley Dwelling Act was
designed.
The A. D. A. was proposed nine
years ago to provide a ten-year pro-
gram with an annual loan from the
Treasury of half a million dollars.
Five years ago it was adopted and
the first half million appropriated.
Another three hundred and sixty
five thousand dollars was allowed
between then and last June when, at
the insistence of the President, Con-
gress saw the necessity for speed
ing up the program and changed
the provisions to a five-year plan
financed by an annual loan, repay
able with interest, of a million dol
lars. But the first years loan was
not appropriated and it was left out
of the deficiency bill later. Now the
second installment has been elm
mated in committee.
The need for wiping out the CEN
terS where social distress is bred in
Washington has not changed since
the bright days of last June. The
situation has changed only eight
hundred and sixty-fve thousand
dollars worth since nine years ago.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
DeplOres Lack of
Respect for Flag.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Living in Nation populated by
people who are greatly envied for their
liberties we (my friends and y refuse to
sit idly by and watch public demon
stration of neglect and unpatriotism
While attending a movie the other
evening we noticed several people, un-
willingly and with apparent disgust.
finally agreeing to arise as the flag was
produced on the screen. AS is customary.
the words of our beloved national anthem
are included in the picture for the pur-
pose of having the audience sing. We
heard none whatsoever. At the close of
the feature presentation, which had as
its background one of our service acade-
mics the final scene was one of realistic
beauty. Old Glory was to be seen, flying
gallantly from the heights of West Point.
One lone patron valiantly started to
applaud, but stilled his hands abruptly,
as if caught in the act of some crime.
Our indignation becomes uncontrol-
liable at the repeated sight of outright
indifference to this flag which represents
a land OF tolerance and freedom. If
the practice of "disinterested spectator"
prevails, the example that we are set
ting for our children will eventually
dissuade them from recognizing in any
way whatsoever this emblem that SYM
bolizes a really great democracy. If
this occurs there will be no place in the
annals of history for that beautiful
phrase, "Oh say does that Star Spangled
Banner yet wave, DER the land of the
free, and the home of the brave"
March d. SAMUEL w. SMITH.