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Evening star., 1939-07-21
Retains Hearst Trophy

RICHMOND, Va, July 81 (R.-
Richmond Blues-Company G, 1st
Virginia Infantry Regiment-has
won the Hearst Trophy for excel
lency in craftsmanship for the third
consecutive year.
Evening star., 1939-07-21

IRAN for Gehrineer in ninth
Washington -------- 2Ol 600 23O-s
Detroit - OOl 1O4 OOl-7
Runs batted in-Lewis, Wright t2). Esta-
Greenbers 60. Cullenbine. Averill. Two
base hits-Case t2) Three-base hits
Lewis (2). Homes runs-Averill. Cullen
bine. Greenberg Estalella. Sacrifices
Leonard. Wright Double plays-York to
Higgins TO- Greenberg. Lewis to Vernon,
Travis to Myer to Vernon. Left on bases
Washington. s. Detroit a. First base on
balls-On Kelley. ]: Of Benton. 2. Struck
out-By LEONARD 8: by Kelley. !; by Ben
ton :; ,nn;1es by hevsom IN Hits1on Leonard.
of Benton, q in 61s innings: of McKain,
3 in ! y innings; OF Newsom. ! in IA
innings. Hit by pitched ball-By KELLEY
CHiegins>: Winning pitcher-Kelley Los
ing pitcher---McKain. Umpires-Messrs.
Rue and Hubbard. Time-1:5S
Evening star., 1939-07-21
Score

'Batted for Croucher in ninth.
tBatted for NewSom in ninth.
+Pop for Cab hriroor ~, ,,;n,h
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Union Bag & Paper Boosts
Working Capital Sharply
Special D,spatch to The Star.

special DlSpAtch 10 Ane Stal.
NEW YORK, Feb. II. - New
financing by Union Bag & Paper
Corp. has raised the corporstiou's
working capital to approximately
So, 1000 and resulted in a ratio Of
current assets to current. liabilities
Of over 4 to /, according to 4 state
ment made today by Alexander
Calder, president, in which it was
announced that the company's new
financing has now been completed.
Sale of new securities has also re-
suited in a presently outstanding
funded debt of only about $5,050, 900,
Mr. Calder said. approximately
s45O,OOO consists of notes given in
connection with timberland pur-
chases which mature at various
dates up to January S, l943.
New financing for the corporation
consisted of two long-term note is
sues of s2.30O,0OO each sold to the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and
the Prudential Insurance Co. of
America, and of 2lO,455 new shares
of capital stock. OF the new stock,
160,lO5 shares were sold to stock
holders and 30,203 shares to en-
ployes; the balance of 20.147 shares
was taken by an underwriting group.
The loans made by the two insur-
ance companies mature over a l2-
year period; the first maturity oc-
ours January l, l94l, in the amount
of $150,00O.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Industrial Loon Firms
Announce Dividends

Three industrial loan companies
affiliated with Southeastern In
dustrial Bankers, Inc, announced
dividend payments during the past
week. according to Clifton M. Eisele,
president of the parent organization.
Directors of the Bethesda In
dustrial Savings g. Loan Co. de-
clared a regular quarterly dividend
of 7 per cent on preferred and 10
cents a share on common stock was
declared, payable February II.
Stockholders of record February
will receive dividend of per cent
on preferred stock from the South
eastern Discount Corp, it was an
nounced.
The City Industrial Savings e.
Loan Co.. Hyattsville, Nd, declared
a regular quarterly dividend of 7
per cent on preferred stock and 10
cents a share on common.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Copper Futures Volume
Sets Another Record
Py the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.. Feb. 11.-Turnover
of copper futures contracts in the
New York Commodity Exchange to-
day established record for the ex-
change with 356 contracts Of Is
tons each involved.
The previous record was 349 con-
tracts established October II, 1888.
Traders said the activity was due
to switching from March contracts
to those of future months OF the
total involved 1886 were switches.
prices ranged from .03 of cent to
OF of a cent a pound higher.
With export copper at 1910 cents
a pound and the domestic price re-
manning at 1114 cents, there had
been some fear recently that the do
mestic price level might be forced
lower. Producers have recently
been selling metal at the lower fu-
lures price, through the exchange,
it was said.
Traders on the commodity ex-
change floor said today that the
T. v. A.-Commonwealth & Southern
deal for the purchase of the latter's
electrical properties in Tennessee
had frightened the prospects for
the power companies and thus the
possibility of greatly increased use of
copper in electrical expansion pro-
grams.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Auto Production Curbed
DESPITE untitled Orders
e, the Associated Press.


DETROIT, Feb. 1.-THE manu-
featuring division of the motor car
industry has put the brakes on tenn
porarily. although it still boasts an
accumulation of untitled orders.
The leveling off more closely to re-
tail distribution is designed to avoid
the overstocking of any dealer out
lets during the fortnight or so that
curtailment of consumer require
merits is expected to last.
This development is wholly in line
with expectations expressed by the
producers as far back as last No
vember when the current models
were introduced and in no way
alters previous estimates by the
manufacturers that they will as
semble at least 100000 units of
these models during the first three
months of the present year.
The uncertainties of the labor sit
uation and general business condi-
tions make it impracticable to ven
ture predictions regarding second
quarter output. say most of the car
makers, but they are not willing to
revise downward earlier assertions
that close to 100000 cars and
trucks will be assembled during the
present model season.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Cottonseed Crush Declines
Below Level Year Ago

The Census Bureau reported yes
terday cottonseed crushed in the
six-month period. August l to jan
uary 81, totaled 3,079, ,348 tons, COM
pared with 4,322,932 tons in the cor
responding period year ago. and
cottonseed on hand at mills January
81 totaled 1,053, ,602 tons, compared
with 1,434 ,345 year ago.
Cottonseed products manufactur-
ed in the six-month period, and or
hand January 81, were:
Crude oil produced 953 1901 ,98z
pounds, compared with 1,314,673254,
and on hand l78,202,644 pounds,
compared with 210,084271.
Refined oil produced 752 1922 1863
pounds, compared with 999,916.886,
and on hand 609 ,949,946 pounds,
compared with 492, 10000.
Cake and meal produced 1,378567
tons, compared with 1,924,239, and
on hand 289, ,286 tons. compared with
212,812.
Hulls produced 1851 tons, COM
pared with 1,106,040, and on hand
1882 tons, compared with 1888.
Linters produced 753,712 running
bales, compared with 983 ,565, and on
hand 548,359 running bales, COM
pared with 464,055.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Commodity Price
Changes in Week
BY A. A. PATTON,
Associated Press statistician.

NEW YORK, Feb. ll.-Commodity
prices resumed the downward course
Of recent months this week, slipping
to the lowest levels since last sum-
mer.
Weakness was general, although
declines were moderate in most In
stances.
The Associated Press weighted in
dex of IS important wholesale spot
quotations dipped to 66.0S per cent OF
the 1926 average from 66.27 the week
before and compared with 7l.l2 last
year.
Hardest hit were grains. The
weatherman provided a protecting
snow blanket to large areas OF the
Central belt and Southwest. allaylng
fears that low temperatures might
kill a portion of seed already IN the
ground Wheat, corn, rye and oats
all felt selling pressure.
Cotton of Fractions.
Among other farm staples, cotton
was fractionally lower. Livestock
was mixed, an upturn in hogs bal
ancing a dip in lamb.
Items entering the housewives
market basket tumbled again into
new low ground for about five years.
heavy supplies OF cocoa, flour and
lard aroused only limited buying
interest and the resulting price re-
cessions more than Offset a sharp
rally in eggs. The last named had
recently suffered a deluge of selling,
partly of seasonal origin. hence the
recovery was considered technical y
Industrial raw materials, excepting
textiles. were mostly lower. Tin,
hides, rubber, bituminous coal and
.urpentine all yielded fractions. Con-
sumer demand remained light await
ing Qualification of the business out
look, which has been clouded by a
slow recession in activity for almost
two months.
Resist Decline.
Steel scrap, lumber and burlap,
however, managed to breast the re-
ceding tide, as did wool and silk.
Since the first of the year burlap
prices have been bid up 16 per cent.
Supplies in India were reported
scant and Great Britain is known to
have practically cleaned available
stocks by 200 900, ,00O-bag order re-
Gently placed for defense purpose.
The index, with its components
based on 1926 as 10O compared as
follows:
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Leaf Tobacco Stocks
Rise Above Year AGO
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated freSS
The Agriculture Department re-
ported that stocks of leaf tobacco
owned by dealers and manufacturers
in the United States and Puerto
Rico on January / totaled 1884,
593, 900 pounds.
These stocks compared with
2,222,019,0 900 pounds on the same
date in 1898.
The stocks were divided among
types as follows: Fue-cured, 1,06s,-
931 900 pounds; f1re-cured, 144,194,-
600; light air-cured, including bur-
ley, 680,934,O00; dark air-cured,
81 $780, 900; cigar-f1ller, 164, ,467, 900;
cigar-binder, 120,362 900; shade
grown, 1914, 900; miscellaneous do
mestic, 2,043, 900; foreign-grown cigar
leaf. 10,416,000, and foreign-grown
cigarette leaf, s6,23e, 900.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Refunding Is Approved
For C|eve|ond-CIiffs
BY the Associated Press.


CLEVELAND. Feb. 11.-Stock-
holders of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron
Co. today approved a plan proposed
by directors for refunding $13,230,-
900 in AZ per cent bonds
Present bonds will be redeemed
March IS at los. First mortgage
and collateral trusts 312s totaling
S11 100000, dated February /. 1899,
and due February l. 1851, will be
sold to banks and insurance COM
panies along with S2,5OO,O0O notes,
due $500,000 annually through Feb
ruary l, 1914
Interest rates on the notes will
vary from IL to 212 per cent, ac-
cording to maturity, or an average
OF PIG per cent. Interest cost on
notes and bonds combined will be
8 80 per cent.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
All Groups Blamed
For Policies LEADING
To 1878 Slump
Government, Industry
And Labor Declared
Jointly Responsible
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-Presenting
the findings of large-scale study of
depression problems, the National
Association of Manufacturers said
today that Government. industry
and labor all must share the blame
for policies which retarded business
recovery in the years l932-1937 and
led to the 1878 slump.
The study was preliminary to
forthcoming report listing conditions
deemed essential to sustained pros
perity after recovery has been
achieved. 1t was described as the
first large-scale study by any group"
of depression problems and repre-
sented the fruits of an 18-month
survey by 50 business leaders and
| economists. ,@~s
kAs""fhe Nations manufacturers rec
ognize that all groups in our econo-
my have been contributing factors
to depression" said Howard Coonley,
president of the association.
Federal Moves Hit.
Among immediate factors" of the
1878 decline, the report men
toned:
Wrongly timed Government acts,
including the raising of member
bank reserve requirements by the
Federal Reserve Board and drastic
instead of gradual reduction in Fed
eral cash deficit expenditures.
"Sit-down" strikes, accompanied
by governmental indication that
seizure of property by sit-down
strikers might be lawful"
/ Expression of belief by Govern
ment officials that many industrial
prices were too high, thus creating
confusion and doubt among business
men as to economic policies which
could be safely pursued"
proposals to reorganize the Fed
eral judicial system, including the
Supreme Court, thus creating the
belief that we might be moving in
the United States toward a central
lied government, with lessened au-
thority in the States, impairment of
constitutional rights and removal
VI COllSIlCuClOlld4 plOCCSs
ton of all minorities."
The report dealt extensively with
governmental activities, listing
among "depressive elements" excess
sive and unsound taxes. unsound
regulation of business, the theory
purchasing power could be created
by artificial" price fixing and sup
port of wage rates and an "un-
sound" relief program.
Trade Policies Cited.
Business policies cited as con-
tributing to depression included:
Unwise inventory expansion and
consumer credit policies; failure of
many companies to reduce fixed
charges and to develop satisfactory
labor relationships; too ready ac-
ceptance of apparent effects of Gov
ernment spending policies and
making business calculations there
on"
The cumulative effects of Gov
ernment policies. the report held,
undermined confidence in the
American economy and restricted
the 1932-37 recovery, with the result
that the 1878 depression started
from much lower level than the
Nations past economic history
could have led us normally to ex-
pect and extended to greater depths
than otherwise would have been
the case.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Hearings on New Haven
Plans Are beloved
By the Associated Press.

By the ASS0cI6ted PfESS.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission postponed yesterday from
February q to March ~ the begin
ming Of hearings in the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
reorganization proceedings.
The New Haven and various pro-
tective committees had asked for the
delay because studies Of various SUBJ
salaries have not been completed.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Rock Island Requests
Bids on Two Trains
By tie Associated Press,

CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-THE Rock
Island lines today advertised for bids
on the construction of two seven
car streamline, lightweight trains
for their Chicago-C Colorado service
Each will consist of a baggage
car, two coaches, a dining car, two
sleeping cars and an observation
lounge car.
They will be powered by 1000
horsepower Diesel locomotives, and
when placed in operation will pro-
vide service between Chicago and
Denver and Colorado Springs.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
| Markets Closed
|For LincoIn's
Birthday
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE birth
of Abraham Lincoln will be COM
memorated Monday, February 13,
with the suspension of trading &C
tivity in all leading security and
commodity exchanges.
Chiefly affected will be the New
York Stock Exchange and Cotton
Exchange and the Chicago Board
of Trade. The New Orleans Cotton
Exchange and Savannah naval
stores will operate as usual, as will
the Chicago livestock markets.
All foreign and Canadian markets
will be open.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
American Can Report,
S13,645,498 Profit,
Or $4.35 a Share
1888 Result Compares
With $l7,927,833 in
Preceding Year
B, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE Ameri-
can Can Co. and subsidiaries re-
ported today 1898 net income of
$l3,645, ,498, equal to s4.35 a share
on the common stock, compared
with profit of $l7,927,S33, or s608
a share in 1887.
The lower earnings we're attrib-
uted to a decline of nearly 10 per
cent in sales volume and a rebate
to customers.
Childs Co.
The Childs Co., operator OF a
chain of restaurants, showed 1888
net loss of s736.222. compared with
a net profit of $42l,80l in 1887.
which was equal to 40 cents share
on the common stock.
S. S. Kresge Co.
s. S. Kresge Co., chain store oper-
ator. and subsidiaries reported 1888
profit of $8,997 ,051, equal to sl.63 a
share on the common stock, COM
pared with sl0,7l2,513, or sl94 a
share in 1887.
George w. Helme Co.
George w. Helme Co., snuff manu-
facturer, recorded 1888 net profit of
$l,639, ,036, equal to 1884 a share
on the common stock, against ST.
678.10A. or s6 a share in 1887. The
company has plants at Helmetta,
N. j., and Yorklyn. Del. and ware
houses at Hopkinsville, KY, and
Lynchpurg, Va.
American G. & E.
American Gas g. Electric Co., and
subsidiaries reported 1888 net in
come of $l2,130,316, equal to 1928
a share on the common stock. COM
pared with $l3,648,222, or .$256 a
share in 1897.
Iron Fireman.
Iron Fireman Manufacturing Co.
of Cleveland and Portland, Greg,
reported its 1888 net earnings were
S606,901, or s169 a share. Net in
come in 1887 was Sill .46O. Directors
have voted 1899 dividends of Sl20
a share totaling s431 ,029.
General Fireproofing.
General Fireproofing Co. reported
net profit of s335,005 after charges
for the year ended December 81,
compared with Sl,147,557 in 1887.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
More Snuff Consumed

Americans consume nearly 40
100000 pounds of snuff a year, or
about one-third of a pound for
every man, woman and child in the
country, according to Department
Of Commerce figures. This is 80
times the quantity Of SNUFF con-
sumed In 1870.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Express Anniversary Neurs

Express service in the United
States will be 100 years old on March
4 next, the first "'expressman having
been William F. Harnden, who car
ried packages between New York and
Boston in a car oetbag.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
January Corn Grind
Laos Behind Year Aoo
srecisl Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, Feb. ia corn
grind of 5,740,338 bushels during the
month Of January for products 60
ing into domestic use was reported
today through the Corn Industries
Research Foundation in behalf of II
refiners of starches, sirups, sugars
and other products of corn.
This compares with grind of
6,131 1903 bushels in December of last
year and $3.50, ,64 bushels in jan
uary, 1888.
Evening star., 1939-02-12

GUEST SPEAKER-Stuart A.
Rice, chairman, Central Sta
tistical Board, Bureau of the
Census, will address Wash
ington Chapter, National As
sociation of Cost Accountants,
at the Kennedy-Wa We'd
nesday evening on THE Sta
tistical Relationship of Gov
ernment to Industry" He has
an enviable record as a statiS-
tician, has been on the faculty
of three universities and is one
of 20 American members of
international Statistical Insti-
tute.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
F. B. |. Joins Investigation
OF Seized Arms Salesman

Investigation of a 47-year old al
legged international arms salesman
was being continued today as the
probation office at Police Court
Joined the Federal Bureau Of 1nves-
tigation in checking on his story.
Police Court Judge Walter j.
Casey continued two insurance cases
against the man, Gerald Francis
Laughlin of the 1900 block of G
street NV, for one week, while
Chief Probation Officer Joseph San
ford went into details of the de-
PENDANTS record.
The F. B. l., which began a probe
after Laughlin's arrest Thursday
when papers were found in his pos
session indicating he had solicited
orders for machine guns from en-
bassies, continued a separate inves-
tigation.
At Laughlin's trial yesterday, in
which he was charged with false
pretenses and with soliciting insur-
ance for firm which had no IL
cense to operate in the District, De-
tective Richard Felber told OF
Laughlin's alleged solicitations in
the arms business.
Mr.. Felber said cards indicated
he had called at the Polish and Fin
nish Embassies seeking orders fol-
rifles, mortars and machine guns
A business card in Laughlin's pos
session, the detective said, asserted
he was the vice president of Paris
(France) brokerage" firm.
Judge Casey took under advise
ment the insurance cases against
Laughlin. He pleaded guilty to the
license charge, innocent to the
charge of false pretenses. He ad.
mitted selling a policy for the Acme
Life Assurance Society of Atlanta
Ga. to Miss Priscilla E. Pratt o.
30O9 South Dakota avenue NE.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
pre-Trial Session
Acts on 36 Cases
To Speed Calendar
Laws Congratulated
As New Procedure
Is lnuuguroted

Driving ahead today to rid the
civil calendar of District Court of
cases that can be compromised,
stricken or simplified, or set for trial
on a definite date, Justice Bolitha
j. Laws, in charge of pre-trial pro-
cedure, was receiving congratula-
tions on the new program inaugu-
rated yesterday.
Twenty-six cases were considered
in the pre-trial court as John H.
Sullivan, in charge of the clerical
staff, checked off the calendar.
Eight cases were actually pre-tried
and set down as ready for trial;
seven were disposed of either by
agreed settlement, dismissal by at
torneys or disposition by the court,
while a number of the cases were
partly pre-tried and some were con-
tinued to give attorneys additional
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Garbage Collection
Winter Schedule
IsAnnounced
Twice-o-Week Pickups
To Be Made Starting
Next Monday

The winter schedule of tWlce-a-
week garbage collection service will
be placed in effect next Monday by
the city refuse division.
Collections will be made Mondays
and Thursdays in the following
areas: The section bounded by
Massachusetts and Wisconsin ave-
nues, Upton street, Connecticut ave-
nue., Albermarle street and Rock
Creek; the section bounded by the
District line, Ingraham and Hamll-
ton streets; the section bounded by
Buchanan street, Rock Greek Church
road, Park place, Michigan avenue,
North Capitol street and Rhode
Island avenue; the section bounded
by Lamont street, Columbia road, v
street, Florida avenue, U and Six
teenth streets; the section included
between S and Fourteenth streets,
Constitution avenue and Rock Greek
Park; the section bounded by B and
Fourteenth streets Sc. and the Ana
costa River and the entire section
south OF AnacOStla River.
On Tuesdays and Fridays collec-
tions will be made in these areas:
The section bounded by Rock Creek,
Ingraham, Hamilton, Buchanan,
Rock Creek Church road, Park place,
Columbia road, Randolph and Shep-
herd streets; the section bounded by
Rhode Island avenue, North Capt.
tol, B, G, Sixth and Fourteenth
streets, K and I streets Sc; the
section included between Constitu-
ton avenue, U, North Capitol, E
Sixth and Fourteenth streets NV.
the section bounded by Sixteenth, S
Irving, Albermarle. Wisconsin ave-
nue. and Rock Greek, and most of the
area between the Potomac River
Massachusetts avenue and Thirty
fifth street.
On Wednesdays and Saturday!
collections will be made in these
areas: The section bounded by Ran.
dolph, Shepherd, New Hampshire
avenue, Park road, Georgia avenue
Lamont and Irving streets anC
Rock Greek; the section bounded
by Michigan avenue, North Capitol
First, Second, S, Seventh and {
streets; the section from the Po'
tomac River to Constitution avenue
Sixth and E streets in the North
west; North Capitol, K, Fourth, H
Seventh, I, Fourteenth and D in th'
Northeast, and Sixth, G and Four
teenth streets in the Southeast; th'
section bounded by U, Rock Greek
Thirty-fifth and Thirty seventh
streets and the Potomac River, ant
the section bounded by Calver
street and Reservoir road, Thirty
seventh and Forty-second streets.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
time in which to seek to simplify

time in which to seek to simplify
the issues.
Stipulations were made by oppos-
ing counsel in a number of civil
cases and these included hospital
records, traffic regulations and the
admission of photographs-designed
to save the time of the official Gus
todians of these records and the
photographers who took the pictures.
Off1cials sponsoring the pre-trial
procedure believe that it will save
time for the court, counsel and wit
nesses
When District Court convenes for
Evening star., 1939-09-19

the fall term on October 2, Justice
Laws expects to have large num-
ber Of cases pre-tried, so that the
half-dozen justices hearing civil
trials will be able to 60 into the
simplified cases without delay.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Dr.. Douglas to Lecture
In First Congregational

Lloyd G. Douglas, author Of Mag
nificent Obsession" and other novels,
will deliver four lectures as q dia-
mond jubilee feature in the First
Evening star., 1939-09-19

Congregational Church, Tenth and
G streets NV, october 3, 4, S, 6, 1t
was announced today by Harvey w.
Goddard, chairman Of the church S
18th anniversary committee.
DR.. Douglas, clergyman at the
Luther Place Lutheran Church at
Thomas Circle from 1908 to 1911, will
lecture with the purpose of bringing
the best of scientific, psychological
and philosophical findings to bear
upon personal problems.