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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07

Most of these men were acuNe as
scouts during the Sioux wars. and
the Sioux were almost always at
war with all the other tribes.
In fact. there was a constant
feud between the Arikara and the
Sioux, and the former were. like
their hunting party on Battle
Butte. in constant danger of being
driven into the river or killed. The
Sioux had stolen practically all
their stock, ruined their gardens.
taken many OF their women. They
recruiting with and scouting for
the white soldiers was the only
way out of their predicament.
We went on to the high level
plain overlooking the bottomland
that had once been the river where
the original village had stood. This
place. too. was filled with pits, but
they were not graves.
These were the old storage Gel
lars of the Indians. Most of them
have also caved in and We had TO
be doubly careful while walking
around in the tall grass, for a fall
into these meant going down over
ones head. Today these are all
empty. That is, all those that are
known.
Caches Copied
Perhaps. somewhere around the
field are some forgotten cellars
still filled with some unfortunate
Indians winter supply of food.
rotten now, of course, but it would
be interesting to see just what
they did live on in those days.
Lewis and Clark copied these
caches whenever they stored food
and equipment on Their trip up
river. Fort Benton folks still are
searching for one known to be
near the mouth of Marias river.
filled with buffalo robes and some
provisions. These caches are dug
in the form of jug. A small hole
perhaps two feet in diameter is
dug TO a depth of foot or SO;
then the hole is widened out to
the diameter needed, usually six
or seven feet.
This is floored with several
thicknesses of willow wands and
the walls lined with buffalo robes.
Into this could be packed huge
amount of food OF equipment, and
the entrance easily could be cam
ouflaged against casual wanderers
or marauders.
Cache Is Known
The Lewis and Clark cache near
Marias river plainly is shown on
their maps. but the river has
changed so much or so many times
since their explorations that de-
spite great deal of research
work. it has not been located.
However, it is definitely known
that that particular cache contains
quite few buffalo robes, some
emergency provisions, and equip
ment.
On their way back from the
coast the cache had been opened,
but water had seeped into it rem
dering its contents useless to the
party. Besides. they were travel
ing fast from there down and didn't
really need the extra load. Unless
that cache is at the bottom of the
river. it will be found some day.
Though we poked around in
those old cellars long after dark.
we found nothing of any partieu-
lar interest other than the cellars
themselves, though / think we did
unearth several new ones. At
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07

toudS 1HdI spot - Just hASt
looking field of knee-high prairie
grass. Man made things seem TO
20 out of both sight and existence
fast in this country. for only few
years ago the Indian agency was
here. and there isn't sign OF that
either.
But beyond the site of the old
fort. and bordering narrow chan
mel that used to be the main river.
is the old scouts graveyard and
the site of an old Arikara village
marked by many caved-in storage
caches. just north of the ceme-
terry is the old Indian burial ground,
where the Indians themselves have
built a rather crude but effective
concrete monument to two of their
more lllustrious chiefs. White
+ Shield and Son Of the Star. All
around this monument are holes
in the ground, so that one has TO
walk carefully for fear of failing
into a grave.
Animals Finish Them
In the old days these Indians
did not bury their dead. but placed
them in boxes and raised them on
platforms above the ground. Be
fore they died they always were
dressed in their finest. Once en-
sconced out on the prairie. the
vultures. wolves, and coyotes took
care of the bodies.
In later years they started to
bury their dead, using the same
kind of boxes. but they buried
them just below the surface of the
ground. The result is that just as
soon as the homemade casket rots
in the dampness Of the ground. the
grave caves in. usually exposing
the bones of the long dead Indian.
We found many graves with the
bones still in them, though many
had been removed and reburied
by the superstitious red men.
Dig, Then Leave
Some research workers have
come here from time to time and
dug up some of these old graves.
II is not the safest business in the
world. for the Indians are very
superstitious about their dead.
To ask them for permission to
dig Is more or less an invitation
to be run off the reservation. You
just 60 there and dig and leave
right away. None of the local
farmers have much TO do with this
old burial ground just because of
the attitude of the Indians. They
try not TO work in that vicinity.
The Old Scout cemetery is quite
an attempt at uniformity and the
headstones are all exactly alike.
These are supposed to be the men
who were scouts for the white
soldiers during the opening up of
the west The only catch is that
lot of the men are not actually
buried beneath their headstones.
Whenever one dies, no matter
where he is. mound like filled
grave is raised in the cemetery
and headstone mounted. Just
how many Of the actual men whose
headstones are there are buried
there no one seems to know, but
the little cemetery acts as me-
mortal TO them. anyway.
Fought with Sioux
1t may seem strange that these
Indians honor their own men so
highly when they aided the white
soldiers to defeat other red men.
But 1t was the lesser of two evils
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07
AUNT HET
n uonrRT oruIr<

IF We hadn't come along
Cousin Jim would o. been took
up as a vagrant. It's got so a
vagrant is anybody from out
of town that a cop gets mad
at"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07
Che Gaecma Gimes
RedSkin Monuments,
Graves Inspected
Canoeing Lynds Poke Around in Ancient
Caches at Historic Missouri River Site

Louise Bob
Jubilee celebration In the stairs
miles Tor
Missippis mouth stories
NJ
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07
BY LOUISE and BOB LYND
OLD FORT BERTHOLD-fBy Mail via Bisr

There splinter left of old Fort Berthod today In fact
actual site Of the fort isn't marked Some very ole
Indians whom could get nothing than unntel
ligible grunts, pointed out the actual spot to us
La gaceta., 1939-03-29
LISTA DE CONTRIBUYEN-
TES PARA Ell COMITE PO-
PULAR DEMOCRATICO DE
SOCORRO A ESPANA

Contribuyeron con $39.15
Fabrica de Perfecto Garcia pa
"a leche).
Contribryeron con $35.11: Fa
brica de Regensourg (leche).
Contribuyeron con $11.45: u
n.un de Panaderos.
Contribuyeron con 5000: Jo-
Sc Suarez Fernandez.
Contribuyeron con $500: w.
T. Grants, Jose Sanchez Peru
20.
Contribuyeron con $500: Fe-
lix Fernandez, Antonio Lopez
(nevero).
Contribuyeron con $500: Bar
celona Cafe, DIR. Juan Silverio.
Contribuyeron con $500: Coo
perativa La Familiar, Sardinas
Gar Sta, Ideal Cafeteria, Ell
Buen Gusto Restaurant, La u
MON Gro, Carlos Miranda, Buff
falo Cafe, DR.. Julio Gavilla, Ur.
bano Perez, Cooperative Ell RI
curse, Los Helados de Ybor, Co
lnmbia Restaurant, Conkey'S
Feed Store, Greco's Floral Store
Fernandez y Garcia.
Contribuyeron con $3.50: A.
malta LAndeira, Santos Case.
Contribuy6 con $1.25: Ma,
nuel Gonzalo.
Contribuyeron con $1.0O: OPP.
timo Restaurant, Atlanta Res.
La gaceta., 1939-03-29

Abe lyman
Una excelente orquesta, CO.
mo Sc han dido pocas en- Tampa.
la de Abe Lyman.
Como era lunes no concurrlt
Ell p1blico que Sc esperaba; pc
70 la orquesta obtuvo un gran
triunfo a~rtistico.
Abe Lyman es de los directo-
res que hacen pocos movimien-
tos.
Extraordinario ell cornetin
un hombre de mas de 800 libras,
conocido por 'Red" Pepper.
Excelentes tambien los can
tantes, una mujer, Joan Blaine,
y dos hombres.
Vaya para la orquesta y para
ell Tampa Junior Women's
Club nuestra efusiva congratula
ci6n.
La gaceta., 1939-03-29

cion del funcionamiento normal
de los rinones, ell corazon Y los
vases de Ia sangre, a dos cue Sc
debe dedicar preferente aten-
ci6n, con divide, 81 es necesa-
rio, de otras funciones del cuer-
pc humane.
Los llamados "especialistas
de intermediates masculinas"
que Sc anuncian Ell los peri6di-
COS, invitando a los enfermos de
la prostate a ponerse en- sus ma
nos, no solo les roban el dinero,
Gno que agravan la enferme-
dad. Estos chaNatanes, entire
los cuales hay muchos que tie
men titulos universitarios, han
sido denunciados, repetidas We
ces por la Association Medica A
mericana. Uno entire estos, ell
DR.. Hodgens, de Chicago, cobro
a un cliente $1,000 por una bo-
tella de medicina, que dijo ha-
bia importado de Paris, asegu-
randole que resultaba infalible.
A este mismo medico, sc presen-
to I'm investigator, medico tam
bien, enviado por ell Chicago
Tribune, ell que aparent6 estar
padeciendo de prostatitis y al
cual Hodgens lie pidi6 $500 pa
ra curarlo totalmente. Ell char
latan DR.. HOdgens base su dag
n6stico, en- ell contenido de una
botella en- la que Sc habia depo'
sitado una mezela de aqua, amo-
nfaco y anilina, qre 81 supuestt
enfermo lie llev6, diciendole quo
era una muestra de su orina. Es'
tie es entire muchos otros, un ca.
La gaceta., 1939-03-29
BY BAKER

Cafe, Alvarez y Garcia Feed
Store, Alameda Poultry, Mkt,
Valencia Importing Co., Ca
cfa's Gro, Mariana Rodriguez,
Luciano Gonzalez, Emilio Con-
zalez, Latin American Ser. Sta,
Lera's Gro, Tropical Ser. Sta,
Valentin Galan, Crco Vatdes,
Balbino Menendez, Primo Lord,
Serra's Boulevard Restaurant,
Manuel Del Rio, Jose Gonzalez,
Victor Gonzalez, Barreiro Gro,
jose Hernandez, c. Hernandez
Gro, FL Segundo Progreso, Chi
% Restaurant, Rey's Gro, Anto
10 Miranda, Carlos C6rces Ho-
os, JESUS Rocha, I'm Montanes
un Gallego.
(COntinuard)
La gaceta., 1939-03-29

tarrant, Polo Norte lee Sta. Ro-
val Fill. Sta, Reliable Cleaners,
Paraiso Cafe, La Palma Bakery
La Nacional Cafeteria, Rubio's
Drug Store, Spanish, Italian &
American Gro, Manuel Garcia,
Gro, Ybor Furniture, Mascuna-
ma Printing Co., Eagle No. 2
Drug Store, La Montanesa Gro.
Benigno Rodriguez, Joaquin Del
Barrie, Jose Campoamor, Jose
Novio, I'm Socialista, Tn Amigo
de Espaha, Joaquin Huerta, Pal
ma Cafe, Columbia Cafeteria,
DR.. Myers, La America Restau-
rant, Crackers Place, Sports
man, Lido's Cafe, La Regulado-
ra Cafeteria, Guillermo Alvarez
National Furniture, La Norm
Cafeteria, DIR. Trelles, EXPIRES
La gaceta., 1939-03-29
LA EDAD PROSTATICA
"HEALTH AND HYGIENE, NEW YORK

La tecnica de esta operaci6G
10 es para ser descripta en- un
articulo de este genera. Hay IN
extreme sin embargo, que es in
teresante destacar: la cirugfa al
remover la prostate que ha We
nido obstruyendo ell curse de ia
orina, restablece ell desagde CO.
rrecto, de manera que los rino-
mes son aliviados inmediatamen-
te de la anormal preston a que
nos hemos referido, pudiendo a.
ST efectuar de manera correcta
JUS naturales funciones. Sc ha
usado recientemente con exito
IN procedimiento operatorio, en-
i que ell electro-cauterio Sc en-
Flea, para destruir la obstruc-
ion. Este procedimiento, como
acabamos de consignar, es nue.
o y aun Sc puede consideraT
que Sc encuentra en- un periodo
lie experiments. Cirujanos mas
sonservadores emplean ell otro
metodo, pero es indudable que
hay ciertos tipos de obstruction
prostatica en- los que resulta
mas beneficioso ell empleo del
electro-cauterio.
Frecuentemente los atacadoS
por esta enfermedad, al poner-
Sc en- tratamiento, i~nquieren 81
la operation a que han de some
terse les hara perder la potencia
sexual. Debemos considerar que
este problema no es de gran i'm
portancia tratandose de indivi-
duos que va han pasado de los
sesenta amos de edad, pero es 10
cierto que algunos hombres Sc
muestran muy preocupados por
este aspecto de la dolencia o,
mejor dicho, de su tratamiento.
Els precise que Sc sepa que mas
del cincuenta por ciento de los
hombres a los que Sc les practi-
ca esta intervention quir1rgi-
ca, conservan intacta su poten-
ella.
Para concluir, creo que es
nuestro deber llevar al amino de
los hombres la idea de que una
vez pasados los sesenta amos, M
debieran preOcuparse de un de.
fecto ffsico de la naturaleza de
apuntado en- Ell parrafo prece'
dente. 10 importante a eSa edad
nos parece que es la conserva.
La gaceta., 1939-03-29
Ell NAL ALIENTO PRUEBA QUE
VD. NECESITA ESTA AYUDA

FL NAL a~liento, en- mu6hos casos, Sc
debe a intestinos perezosos y a diem
ties defectuosos.
0fende el NAL aliento y descuidarlo
invita- a muchas complicaciones de-
rivadas del estrenimiento, entire elias
dolores de eabeza, biliosidad, perdida
de apetito y energia.
No dele cue ell estrenimiento lie a
La gaceta., 1939-03-29
Matinee

Matinee
Ell domingo de Resurrection
sera festejado con bales diurnos
por las sociedades Centre Astu-
riano y Cfrculo Cubano.
Estas dos poderosas socieda-
DIES tienen contratadas a dos or.
questas de primer orden.
La juventud Sc prepare a es.
trenar sus nuevos trajes y bal.
lar.
La gaceta., 1939-03-29
NOTAS SOCIALES
(Viene de de la ga. pdg.)

vera, a beneficio de los socios es-
casos de recursos.
Todas las secciones, animadas
con ell mayor entusiasmo, cola
boran en- la buena obra.
Todos los mas important IS
detalles nos seran Facilitates a
su debido TEMPO.
Ell Centre Espanol c~elebrara
su bale de Easter ell domingo 9
por la noche.
Tocara Don Francisco.
La gaceta., 1939-03-29

bruno. Tome hoy Ell aromatico, TODD
vegetal BLACK-DRAUGHT. En- ia
manana una evacuation y TODD cam
bia. listed Sc siente completamente
bien.
Fl principal ingredients del BLACK
DRAUGHT es un t6nico laxante in
testinal. Da tono a los musculos pc
rezosos, del vientre. Millones de pa
quotes Sc usan anualmente.
La gaceta., 1939-03-29

so tfpico de los servicios que
prestan los charlatanes de Ia me
dicinas que atraen a los enfer-
mos con anuncios llamativos.
La gaceta., 1939-03-29
Ell TEMPO

Temperature suave y POGO
cambio. Nublados. Maxima aver
SO grades; minima, Ga.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21
AQm(G }hr1GzI

Miss Vauda Campbell, Mt. Morris
Pa, is the guest of Miss Gay Hamil!.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Lohr, of
Swanton, announce the birth of a son.
Saturday, September 16.
Miss Elizabeth Lippold, stenogra-
pher in the County Health office, spent
the weekend at her home in Cumber-
land.
Miss Gladys Aronhalt and James
Nordeck spent Sunday in Terra Alta
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Nor
deck.
Carlton McComas and Emroy Boil,
den were in Brownsville, Pa, last
Wednesday in conference with some
business men of that city.
Mrs. Homer Wright has returned to
her home near Gainesville, Ga, after
having visited her mother, Mrs. Abb
gail Baker, in Crellin, for some time.
Mrs. A. R. Hendrickson, Toledo, o..
is a guest of her sister, Mrs. D. NJ
Dixon, in Mountain Lake Park, and
will remain with her for some time.
A benefit, sponsored by the Pythian
Sisters, will be given in the Oakland
High school auditorium by Cowboy
10y on Thursday evening, October .
Wade H. Mason, mail carrier, enter
tanned the post office force at his sum-
mer cottage on Deep Greek lake Tues
day evening. A chicken dinner was
served.
Miss Virginia Kershner returned to
her home on Sunday from a visit with
friends and relatives in Oakland and
will resume with her classes in music
at once.
Mrs. Louise Jackson, who had Wis
tied relatives and friends in Terra
Alta, returned to the home of hel
niece, Mrs. s. H. Jackson, in Oakland
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Hubert Hilf and Mrs. I. C
Lazzelle, of Morgantown, West Va.
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. S. H
Jackson in Oakland on Sunday after
noon and evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd B. Leighton ans
their guests, Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Wiley
and son, Phoenix, Arizona, spent sew.
eral days of last week visiting the
New York Worlds Fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Paugh, Cleva
land, Ohio; Mrs. Roy Wolfe, Clarks-
burg, w. Va; Mrs. Elisha Moon anC
Isaac A. Paugh were dinner guests OF
Mrs. C. L. Paugh, Sand Flat, Satur-
day evening.
Miss Rebecca Thayer, after spend
ing the summer in Oakland with hel
father, Fred A. Thayer, returned tc
Wooster, Ohio, Saturday to resume hel
position as professor of English il
Wooster College.
Dr.. H. r. DuPuy, county health Of
ficer, attended the funeral of Mrs. r
H. Riley, wife Of DR.. Riley, Director
of the State Department of Health
which was held in Baltimore on Mon.
day of this week.
Dr.. DuPuy, health officer for Gar
rett county, will attend the Institute
on Pneumonia in Baltimore on Friday
of this week and will not be in the
Oakland office on that day nor on Sat
urday, the 22nd inst.
Joseph Johnson, Frametown, Yves
Va, visited his sisters, Mrs. Ros
Decker and Mrs. George H. Hanst, il
Oakland for a week, going to Nor
gantown Monday where he resumed
his studies as Junior in the Univer
sity of West Virginia. Mr.. Johnson l.
studying chemical engineering.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis NALL, Cumber
land, son-in-law and daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley Ashby, of Crellin
spent the weekend in Crellin witt
their parents. On Sunday birthday
dinner was served in honor of Mrs
NALL, when her grandmother, Mrs
P. X. Adams, of Oakland, was a guest
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21

Mr.. U. G. Palmer, Verona, Pa, was
in Oakland and at Mountain Lake
Park Thursday and Friday of last
week where he was in conference with
the Mountain Lake Park Mayor and
Council relative to the reopening OF
the Self-Help school at the Park. At
the time the school closed in the spring
it was the announced intention to re-
open it on Monday of this week, but
so far as can be learned this morning
the school has not resumed its classes,
much to the regret of those interested
in seeing it as a going and growing
institution.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Willis NALL, Cumber-
land, son-in-law and daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Stanley Ashby, of Crellin,
spent the weekend in Crellin with
their parents. On Sunday birthday
dinner was served in honor of Mrs.
NALL, when her grandmother, Mrs.
P. K. Adams, of Oakland, was a guest.
Evening star., 1939-05-11
Virginia Bankers Prepare
For Trip 10 Bermuda

About 500 reservations are re-
ported for the 46th annual conven-
ton of the Virginia Bankers ASsoci-
alton, which will take place on the
Queen of Bermuda, which sails for
Bermuda from Norfolk next Sunday,
returning to the home port on the
following Friday. Two full days and
one night in Bermuda will be added
to the time passed on the steamer.
Clarence L. Robey of Purceuville,
president of the association, will
preside at the business sessions. The
first speaker on the program will be
DR.. A. E. Kincaid. consulting econo-
mist for the Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond, and member of the
- University of Virginia faculty.
Another speaker at the general
sessions will be D. j. Needham of
Washington, general counsel of the
American Bankers Association, his
subject being challenge Comes to
Management"
Present Weakness in Banking
will be considered by DR.. H. c.
Sauvain of Indiana University.
Other speakers will include Gilbert
T. Stephenson, director of trust re-
search of the A. B. A., and F. w.
Selson, New York.
Evening star., 1939-05-11
New York Produce

NEW YORK, May IL lP.-Esgs. "a 1888;
barely steady. Mixed colors: Fancy to ex-
ira fancy, 1SA-20A; standards. is: flrsts,
16h-1a: seconds 1534-16; mediums 16A-
"a; dirties. No. /. 15A-1a: average checks.
14'4: storage packed frsts. 17h.,
White-Resale of premium marks. 221
25. Nearby and Midwestern premium
marks, 2O1a-22: exchange specials. 20;
exchange standards 1917. Resale of nearby
heavier mediums 1S-2lt2 Nearby and
Midwestern. exchange mediums, TN.
Bfowns-Nearby. extra fancy. 20-22.
Nearby and Mildwestern. exchange specials,
19-19i2 exchange mediums. Is. Nearby.
mediums. 16-16l2.
SSsss, Sss sssiMsss7s: 7;ss cEssmszy; M
asnSt scorej :asa ssss -s4H? & firsts 9ss.eS. aa&-
23a.: seconds (s4-s7). 2074-2l'4.
Cheese 1874 969. steader. State. whole
milk fists, held 1888. 1919 current
f5rs Dressed edii poultry irregular. Fresh. boxes;
fowls. 36-42 pounds, I5a-20ls; 4s,54
pounds. 16ha-21.ia; 60-65 pounds, 16ha-
21h. Frozen. boxes. chickens, broilers,
unquoted; fryers. 1920: roasters. 15ls-
25ka. Fowls, 36-42 pounds, unouoted: As
81 and 6O-65 pounds, 21a. Other dress
ed prices UNCHANGED.
Live poultry, by freight. weaker. Fowls.
colored. 17-1s; Leshorns. 16. Old roost-
By express. dull and weak. Chickens.
crosses 10: broilers. Rocks. 1921; crosses,
1918: Reds. 1917; Leshorns large, 16h-
II: small 13h-15. Fowls. colored. IT.
IS; Leghorns. T. Pullets. crosses; 24-2s;
Evening star., 1939-05-11
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO. May II R,;-Poultry. live,
hens. over 5 pounds: 16 q; 5 pounds snd
under, 1914; Leghorn hens IAN; Ply
mouth Rock broiIers., 1sH Leshorn breil.
fryers. 1917: White Rocks. Is; turkeys,
toms, Is, hens. II; other prices un-
Butter; 1;a54,sssl, n5m: or eIe.mery, n 80; e e ,
e. e. as; e; ss. al1s; 90. Centralized c.Fiots.
Eess, 49, sos. easy; fresh sraded. nrsts.
cars. 16A; current receipts. IAN; other
prices UNCHANGED.
Potatoes 81; on track: 2s5: total .t.i Untisa 4
weaker supplies moderate. demand SLOW:
Louisiana Bliss Tripmphs: U: s; No. .. l.
100; Alabama Bliss Triumphs: y 8; No.
O5; California Long Whites. U. s. No. /.
50 and 100 pounds sacks; few sales 200
plies moderate, demand moderate: sacked
No. i. l.4O-6O; mostly around 1.5O; Wis
consin Round Whites. U. 8. commercials.
l.2O: Minnesota Hollandale section Cob
blers. q. 8. commercials. l.20.
Evening star., 1939-05-11
International Harvester
Sales Lag Behind 1888
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
HOBOKEN. N. j.. May 11.-Sales
of International Harvester Co. in
the six months ended April &c. the
first half of the fiscal year, were
17.3 per cent under the like period
year earlier, Sidney G. McAllister,
president, told the stockholders at
the annual meeting today.
Domestic sales were down 1875 per
cent and foreign sales off IA per cent,
he added. Foreign business was put
at around % per cent of total VOL
ume for the period, against q per
cent a year earlier. In the latest
month on which foreign sales we're
complete. volume was running about
1873 per cent under a year ago.
Mr.. McAllister, asked about the fu-
ture business outlook, said: "That's
anybody's guess"
Prices farmers receive for their
crops will be a prime factor in
future sales, he said.
Asked about profits margins, Mr..
McAllister said he hardly thought
they would be as good as last year,
because of reduced volume. Inven-
tories are materially below last year,
he added.
Farm implement prices, he re-
ported, were averaging per cent
under 1888.
Evening star., 1939-05-11
Bank CIearings Drop
Sharply for Week,
Lag Behind 1888
TotoI for Leading Cities
Down as Result of
New York Slump
By the Associated Press.

oy Tic ASooCAhteQ fIcbS.
NEW YORK, May 1i.-Due mainly
to the decline in check clearances
at New York, bank transactions for
the country during the latest period
fell sharply below the volume for
the preceding week. For the third
time this year the total was under
the amount for the comparative
week of 1888.
Total clearings for % leading
cities for the week ended May 10,
according to Dun g. Bradstreet, Inc,
were $4.755 ,463 900, against $780,
AL 900 last year, or a drop of 2.6
per cent.
Clearings for the May 10 week
decreased $1,32l $50 900 from the
total for the week preceding. Be-
tween the two similar weeks of 1888
the decline amounted to s567, las 900.
New York clearings fell to $780,
581 900 from $3,136, 1882, 900 year
ago, giving a decrease of 10 per
cent. The turnover for cities out
side of New York totaled 81 1865 ,882,-
900, rise of So per cent above the
81, ,745 $50 900 recorded last year.
Decreases from last year appeared
at only three of the outside CEN
ters-Cincinnati, Buffalo and Pitts
burgh. The more important ad-
vances were as follows: Detroit, 208
per cent; Richmond, 14.8 per cent;
Atlanta, las per cent; Omaha, 1877
per cent; Dallas, 1874 per cent;
Minneapolis, II per cent, apd Louis
vile, ll.9 per cent.
Bank clearings at leading cities,
together with percentage changes
from year ago, are given here
with; also. the daily average bank
clearings for the months of March,
April, and May to date: