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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-20

of the Daniel Webster Elementary
School in New Rochelle, N. Y; DR..
Fowler D. Brooks, professor of edu-
cational psychology in DePauw Uni
versity; Miss Beatrice E. Ritter,
Dean of the School OF Nursing IN
Temple University; DR.. Lemual Ray
Johnson, principal of the Clifford j.
Scott High School in East Orange,
N. J.
DR.. Arthur c. Cope, associate pro-
fessor of chemistry in Bryn Mawr
College; DR.. Alexander H. Frey, pro-
fessor of law in the University of
Pennsylvania; Dr. Richard 4. b.
Powell, professor of law in Colum-
bia University; Prof. l.. c. Helder-
man, Of the History Department of
Washington and Lee University; DR..
T. B. Stroup, associate professor of
English in the University of Florida;
DR.. A. P. Hudson OF the Univer-
sity of North Cardinals English ia
Guilty, who has been teaching at the
University of Florida's first Summer
Session; DR.. L. NJ Riddle, professor
of French in the University of South
ern California; Robert Wallenborn,
pianist and lecturer in the history of
music; Miss Hope Twisdale in the
physical education department of
New York University; DR.. Raymond
Leech Taylor, associate professor of
biology in William and Mary Col
lege.
DR.. Howard w. Odum, head of the
Department of Sociology, will in
struct two classes which he had pre-
planned to teach during the
fircf forc,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-20
BURKE PWA PROJECTS
TOTAL OVER 2 M1LLlON

Morganton, July 2O.-it hasn
taken John d. McCaskill engineer
inspector of the PWA, long to reallze
what a tremendous volume OF pup
lie works is under way In Burke
county.
Recently assigned to the Morgan
ton office, McCaskill represented the
PWA in charge of street, sewer and
water improvements in Morganton,
Burke county school construction
and additions, street paving IN Val
desc, and water, sewer and street
improvements in Drexel, all OF
which amounts to over $740,OOO.
An additional temporary assign
ment places him for two weeks IN
charge of the $1,374,000 building and
improvement program now under
way at State hospital, while the reg
ular engineer inspector, Ben How
ard, is off on national guard duty at
Ft. Bragg.
This brings under his supervision
PWA projects amounting to over
So, 100000, which he admits is
mighty lot of work for one county.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-20
McNuti Gives Press
Good Impression
Continued From Page One1

Continued From Page One1
strictly s'sub rosa" Nevertheless,
that's the theory.
The HooSier is a gingery Spieler,
anyway, both in substance and man
ner. Likewise he can tell good story
It isn't a secret that he doesn't be-
lieve unqualified independence will
be a good thing for the FilipinOs. He
said SO long before the Press club
entertained him-and before he en-
tertained the Press cluu. Yet there's
no denying that a majority of the
Filipinos have asked for it. Paul ad-
mitted as much. The trouble is, he
argued, that children often. want
things that indulgent parents make
a great mistake (for the kids own
good) in granting to them.
Hornet?
Thereupon he illustrated, with one
of those yarns of his. 1 don't think
he'd consider it a breach of "off the
record" confidence to publish it.
con my way to Washington" he
related, "between indianapolis and
Chicago, a woman, a small child and
the child's nurse got onto the train.
The child was most ebullient. He
kept hollering, Gimme it! Gimme it,
each time he did so the mother
reproved the nurse, Let him have
it,
"Finally the child sounded off very
vehemently.
Nurse cried the mother angrily,
I've told you repeatedly to let him
have it,
"' Madame," answered the nurse,
he's got it,
sAnd it turned out to be hor-
net" !:
Dispatches from Manila indicate
that Paul, as our Philippine COM
misser, has converted a lot of Fill
pinos with these anecdotes.
Two Sides to 1t.
Yet the pro-independence Filipinos
have their own side.
Some years ago we had in Wash.
ington, as Philippine commission
er, one Pedro Guevara, ardently pro-
independent. There was a deal Of
talk to the effect that the Filipinos
weren't "ripe for Independence
weren't educated up to it. I called
in at his office to put the question
to him. u
It was in prohibition days. Senior
Guevara was reading a local news
paper. Its first page was simply
frescoed with accounts Of killings by
dry agents, warfare between boot
leggers, all sorts of wet-and-dry
violence
Well, I put my query-"Are the
Filipinos ripe for self government"
''That," replied Senor Guevara, els
our business. You Americans promis-
ed it to us. Are you going to keep
your promise?"
agreed" I acquiesced, 'but are
you ripe for it?''
Senor Guevara flopped over his
newspaper so that I could see the
front page of it. eve can beat this,
he commented.
Not So Handsome. Il
Paul McNutt has been done an in-l
justice.
He's been described as extraordi-i
narilv handsome. He isn't any hand |
somer than lots of New Dealers-or
Old Dealers, for that matter. He'sl
physically big and has white hair, /
but those items Oughtn't to be count
ed against him.
Abrahan Lincoln had an ugly
mug.
B Is there any reason for discount i
ING paul McNutt because, accord \
inc to some tastes, he happens to be
REGARDED as good looking?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-20

Fat folks are always jolly-says
a psychologist. Not just after they've
stepped off the scales.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
Rockingham Peach Crop
Shows Sharp Increase
By the Associat ted Press.


RICHMOND, Va, March 25.-A
commercial peach orchard survey
showed yesterday that Rockingham
County's peach crop in 1887 was
nearly 10 times that of 1886 with an
average yield of 2.1O bushels per
tree of bearing age.
Albemarle County ranked first in
total production with 1862 ,O30 bushels
and second in yield per tree with
LIS bushels. The report said the
large number of young trees coming
INTO bearing in Botetourt and
Roanoke Counties resulted in mailer
yields there than during the pre-
vious year.
The survey, conducted for the Vir-
ginia Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service by the Works Profress Ad-
mlnlstratlon, showed new paintings
in 1888 totaled $4,000 trees in coun-
ties which the survey covered, or
AZ per cent of the new paintings in
1887.
This indicates" the report said,
that growers are still planting a
considerable number of trees but not
nearly as many as for the previous
few years. The number of trees Of
bearing age increased from 584 900
trees in these counties for the 1896
crop to 100000 for the 1887 crop or
an increase of 20 per cent. This in
crease is, of course, due to the large
paintings Of the past few years,
which are now coming into bearing"
Evening star., 1939-03-25
Improved Inventory
Situation Shown
By New Indexes
Conference Bourd Finds
Sharp Correction
Of Overexponsion
epecis' Dispatch to The Star,

NEW YORK, March 25.-Notable
Improvement in the inventory situ-
atlon OF American industry is shown
oy three new monthly indexes de-
Veloped during the last year by the
economic research division of the
Conference Board and announced
today by Virgil Jordan, president.
Important declines in manufac-
turers' stocks of raw materials,
semi-f1nished and finished goods
during the last six months, as re-
vealed in the indexes, are inter-
preted as going far to correct the
overexpansion OF inventories which
occurred late In 1886 and through
out 1887, and which is regarded as
one OF the major causes of the re-
cent recession.
According to these indexes, based
on the volume of stocks held in
1886, the shrinkage In finished
goods inventories began in Febru-
ary. 1898, and that in raw materials
and semi-flnished goods began in
the spring of last year.
Between June, 1898, and the end
OF January, 1889, the index declines
were as follows: Raw materials. in
cluding cotton at mills, from 1897 to
1912; semi-finished goods, from
1918 to 1l08. and finished goods,
from 1884 to 1897.
The new Conference Board in
dexes are based on industrial hold
ings of 80 individual commodities
from January l. 1888, through Janu-
ary 81, 1889. and cover a represen-
tative sample of approximately one
fifth of all such inventories. The
data used in their preparation were
gathered from trade associations,
Government sources and direct from
manufacturing concerns.
The creation of these composite,
month-to-month indexes of indus
trial holdings of raw materials,
semi-f1nished and finished goods is
expected to provide American busi-
ness with valuable current informa-
ton about the balance or unbalance
OF production and consumption and
give due warning of any trend
toward serious overproduction in re-
lation to current consumption
They should go far to eliminate one
OF the most serious blind spots" in
American business statistics.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 25.-Suffi-
cient selling appeared in the bond
market today to bring an irregular
trend in most groups.
Rail liens made show of strength
In early dealings on the favorable
February income of number of
important roads, but a trickling OF
offerings whitfield down the advances
before the close. Active issues in
cluded New York Central IS, Balti-
more g. Ohio first SIS, Erie IS and
Great Northern 4s.
The majority of industrials and
utilities held close to Fridays final
levels. With minor gains near the
finish were Pacific Gas 334s, Armour
Is and Columbia Gas SIS. Leaning
backward were Bethlehem Steel
334s, International Hydro Electric IS
and International Telephone IS.
u. S. Governments were extremely
quiet. Only four issues appeared
on the tape in the first hour with
most of the deals concluded within
tiny fractions either way of the
previous days close.
Foreign dollar bonds were featured
by rise of more than point in
Italian Government Is and Italian
Public Works Is Some South
American loans also registered gains.
German 5l2s were lower.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
Washington Produce

BUTTER-ao score tub. e5: % score
1-pound prints. IS; tub, 27 i4-pound
MEATs-choice beef. 49, GOOD beef, is;
IS; smoked regular ham "a smoked
skinned ham. 20: large smoked skinned
23: compound 10; pure lard 9
LIVE STOCk-fieS, 120-l4O pounds.
6.10-645: light pigs, l4O-16o pounds,
g 45-SS0 100 pounds, 7.20-1.3O; 210-250
pounds. S.70-6.90: o5O-3OO pounds q 60
6.65: sows 6.90-7.iO: stays, 3.3O down;
calves. good grade 10.00-1 90 down.
Prices paid shippers, ne. fob. Wash
tnston: BY the United States Bureau of
Agricultural Economics:
EGGS-Market steady. Government
graded and dated eggs March 25): Whites
q 8 extras large. 81 U. S; extras, ne
diuExf II; U. S. standards. large is; u
g. standards. mediums, IA: U S. trades
13. Nearby ungraded eggs Current re-
ceipts. white. l6 to 16l2: mixed colors. Is
LIVE PoULTRY-Market steady Fowl:
Colored, all sizes, Il to IS: No. IS 12 to
I3; Leehorns. l3 to IA roosters 10 to 1c
Chickens: Virginia Rocks, broiers and fry
ers, all sizes, is to 10: No. IS. II to 49,
Delaware Rocks and crosses, broiiers and
mostly 13 Mixed colored fryers, IA to Is
Leehorns. broilers. pounds and up I6
to 1612 under : pounds. IA to 15.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
|. 7. & 7. DiscIoses
$7,03S,590 Profit
For Last Year
TotoI Compares With
$l0,236.l48 Recorded
In Previous Period
By the Associated Press.

% WAC 7AeOCiStCu 1ICSos
NEW YORK, March 25.-1nter-
national Telephone e. telegraph
Corp. in a preliminary statement
reported 1888 consolidated net in
come Of $7.038590. equal to $l.l0 a
share on capital stock. This COM
pared with $1o,23e,148 in 1887, or
$1.60 share.
Gross earnings were $67 SIS, 700,
against $63, ,453, $40 In 1881. The i'm
provement in gross, the report COM
mented, was more than offset by
increased taxes, increased interest
charges and a reduction in income
as related to the previous year, re-
sulting from the inclusion in the
1898 accounts of foreign exchange
losses.
United Gas Improvement.
Net income Of the United Gas
improvement Co. in 1898 was $685.
053, $50, decrease of $2,096, 800 from
1887.
After providing for the preferred
stock at S. per share $22 ,227 ,870 re-
manned for common stock, equal to
96 cents per share. compared with
s105 in 1887. After payment of
the common stock dividend of 81
per share there was a deficit of
$1,O23894.
The company's main source of
revenue is from dividends of sub
sidiary companies. This decreased
$47,3 from 1887
Borg-Warner Corp.
Borg-Warner Corp. reported for
1898 consolidated net loss of sl9,966.
compared with net profit of $8,348,-
088. or $3.50 a share of common
stock in 1887.
c. S. Davis, president, in his letter
to stockholders. said the year 1898,
with nine months of almost un-
precedented low sales volume, and
sudden vigorous recovery in the
last quarter, was perhaps the most
unusual in the history of the COR
poration." Sales during the year.
Davis said, were only So per cent
of the 1887 volume. Improvement
which developed in the final 1898
quarter. he said. has continued dur
ing the first quarter of 1899.
Ford Motor of Canada.
Ford Motor Co. of Canada re-
ported 1888 net profit of s3253,176,
including S1,65l,473 dividends re-
ceived from overseas subsidiaries
and after depreciation. Canadian
and other income taxes. This re-
suit was equal to s196 a share of
class "A" and class "B" stock.
For 1887 the company reported
net profit of s3,773,O43, including
S3,429 489 dividends received from
overseas subsidiaries, equal to s2.27
a share.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, March 25.-Wheat
prices ruled steady today, opening
fractional losses being quickly re-
placed by gains of as much as 4
cent at times. Trade was very light.
Firmness at Liverpool and some
reports of renewed political tension
abroad counteracted reports of good
rains in the southwest winter
wheat belt.
Due Isl, up on the basis of ac-
tion here yesterday. the Liverpool
market opened unchanged and
closed unchanged to i higher.
Cables said weekend covering offset
cheaper Southern Hemisphere Of
ferings. Sale of two cargoes of
Australian wheat to China also
helped steady the market. 1t also
was reported that traders were in
clined to await Mussolini's speech
tomorrow. Rotterdam closed un-
changed to p off and Buenos Aires
was unchanged to 1s of.
Additional moisture fell overnight
in parts of the domestic wheat belt,
and good rains we're reported. in
Texas, where they were badly need
ed. Additional moisture was FORE
cast for much of the belt by The
weekly weather report. The Gov
ernment's estimate yesterday that
the 1899 American wheat crop would
be 685 600, 900 bushels attracted little
attention. despite the fact that this
would be substantially under last
years 100000 -bushel crop.
Corn also held steady, advancing
as much as ss cent at times.
Stronger Buenos Aires prices, which
closed 1s-A up, extending yester-
days 1s-5s advance, attracted at
tention. The Commodity Credit
Corp. announced that Government
loans on 1889 corn through March
16 totaled 3,317 ,3O9 con 181 ,4s5 ,089
bushels, an increase for the week of
8,711 ,359 bushels.
Oats and rye trade was very light,
and prices were slightly higher with
wheat and corn. Lard prices were
steady.
Around midsession wheat was
A-ss higher compared with yester-
days finish (May. 677; July, 68),
and corn also was A-ss up MAY,
47N; July. 491a).
Evening star., 1939-03-25
Pennsy Announces
February Earnings
Far Above 1888
$3,735,617 Net Contrasts
With S1,952,530 in
Month Lost Yeor

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 25.-Net rail.
way operating income of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Co. for February
was $3,735, GIT, an increase Of ST.
952, $3.50 over February. 1898.
Net railway operating income for
the two months of this year was
S8,734,413, an increase of S4, TOO ,566
over the same periods last year.
New York Central.
The New York Central Railroad
reported for February net operating
income OF $561,65 compared with
a deficit of sl,588,789 in February
last year.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
Associated Output Up

NEW YORK. March Is (SpeciaD
For the week ended March II
Associated Gas e. Electric System
reports net electric output of 93,-
4l4,026 units kwh). This is an
increase of 9,503,883 units. or 11.3
per cent, above production of $780,
l43 units for . year ago.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
Kincuid Sees Gain
In Trade Prospects
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE. March 25.-Four
factors account for a brighter busi-
ness outlook, DR.. A. E. Kincaid, pro-
fessor Of finance at the University
of Virginia. told the North Balti-
more kiwanis Club. He listed the
factors as:
Adjustment of factors causing the
1878 recession; growing demand
for materials, arising from home
constructions; outlays for plant and
equipment by industry. and larger
public expenditures for construc-
ton.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
Clearing House Issues
Report at New York

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 25.-The
weekly statement of the New York
Clearing House showed:
Total surplus and undivided profits
unchanged at $685. 8.809 300.
Total net demand deposits (aver-
age) decreased $24,329, 900.
Time deposits (average) decreased
5000, 900.
Clearings week. ending today, $3,-
42,240,597.
Clearings week ending March II,
$4,OO5, ,592, ,467.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
U. 5. Treasury Position
BY the Associated Press.

The position of the Treasury on March
%: Decelpts. S1S.a64 1OS.23 expendI-
lures S23,94l 1874. net balance So
@ @439 '9se 1919 s5, including 7s5.443-
Nas.2S working balance. customs receipts
for the month S22 005214a7
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July
- S4.344 531 .466o4 expenditures. So
32i ~ OF emergency eXpendituress excess
OF expenditures: s. @13.051 .O221l: gross
ddebi, $50 956 436.3.7 30. an increase Of
assets. S15,0a3142. .956 05
Evening star., 1939-03-25
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. March Is tP.-Cot-
ton futures opened 2 to higher on
buying by spot interests, Bombay
and Wall Street. There was some
selling from the South and hedging
May, 8.l8; July, 7.95: October, 7.60:
December. 755; January. 7.55.
Trading was mostly of a local
character during the first hour.
Initial gains were maintained and
the market stood 3 to net higher
around midmorning. Adding
points to its opening price, May was
ahead S net at $40. July advanced
to 796 for a net gain of 3.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
ESQ Tons Of Lead Sold

NEW YORK, March Is R.-St.
Joseph Lead Co. reports so tons Of
Southeast Missouri pig lead sold
yesterday at $40 per 100 pounds
East st. Louis, $50 tons at $3.50 New
York and SO tons at the New York
average.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
Stock and Sales

r In bankruptcy or receivership or being
reorganlZed under Bankruptcy Act or
securities assumed by such companies.
Rates OF dividend In the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on the last
quarterly or semi-annual declaration Un-
less otherwise noted special or extra divi-
dends are not included
xd Ex dividend .xr Ex rights. Also
extra or extras. Paid last year. fPay-
able In stock. Declared or oaid SO far
THIS year Cash or stock Accumu-
lated dividend paid or declared this year
ur Under rule WV With warrants. XIV
without warrants war Warrants.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
Rubber Futures

NEW YORK. March rs UY.-Crude rub
Der futures closed 0-13 lower: Sales, No.
l standard, "a contracts. July 16.O4b;
September, 16O5-O6. Smoked ribbed spot,
16.O6n, b Bid. n Nominal.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
Chicago Stock Market

CHICAGO. March 25 t4N-Following is
ehe complete list Of transactions on the
CHICAGO Stock EXCHANGE today:
Evening star., 1939-03-25
London Bar Gold

x LONDON March 25 dP.-Bar gold. las,
"a s;3; unohansed. Equivalent S34T5J Bar
siiVer snner 2od. UNCHANGED. Equivalent 42.i4
Evening star., 1939-03-25

Spot: nominal: middlinR. S,92.
Nominal.
Cottonseed Oil.
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
S-3 higher. Sales. % contracts May.
= Sab; July. 7o3: September. 7.12b: Oc-
tober, 116b. b Bid
Evening star., 1939-03-25
Investing Companies

NEW YORK. March 25 R,.-Investment
Bankers Conference Inc:
Noon QuotatlonS)
Evening star., 1939-03-25
THE EVENING WASHINGTON SATURDAY, MARCH % 1885,
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
By private wire direct to The Star.

Stock and Sales
Dividend. Rate. Add 90. High. Low. Close.
Aero Sup(A)1.50- 20 20 20
Aero Sup B .l25e- 2 Az an Az
Evening star., 1939-03-25

NEW YORK March 25 LF-Investrer+
Bankers Conference, Inc 'e''Iiienl
Evening star., 1939-03-25
NEW YORK BOND MARKET

By private wire direct to The Star.
Evening star., 1939-03-25
New York Bank Stocks

sNesotiability impaired by maturity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
VICCO 5. BIRD
 IS SENTENCED
(Continued from Page 1l

A prison-mate will be Albert w. Kraft, New Haven, former president of the United Illuminating O.. who was sentenced last month to one to five years on charge of embezzle- ment of $2OO,000 of the corporations funds.
 Until his surrender to authorities last week, Bird was the most in- cut. He held directorships in sev- eral banks, was past president of fuential utilities head in Connecti- the Guild of Gas Managers and was a member of several national en- gineering associations.
 Native of Copenhagen
 A native of Copenhagen, Bird was graduated from University of Copen- hagen and completed sctudies at M. I. T., where he received degrees of bachelor of science in 1908. The same year he became associated with Hammond V. Hayes, Boston consult ing engineer, and in 1910, went to Stone & Webster of the same city. From 1911 to 1913 he was superin- tendent of the Fall River, Mass, gas works.
 Stone & Webster bought the Con- necticut Power O., in 1913 and Bird was named manager at New London. When the company was taken over by the Hartford Electric Light Co.,, in 1922, he was named vice-presi- dent and general manager.
 In 1883 he was elected president of the Connecticut Power Co., and in 1885 president of Hartford Elec- tric Light Go.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
JAPAN HOLDING
 KEY TO EUROPE
Continued from Page D

The United States obvious interest in Japan's future alignment or non- alignment would be determined by the degree to which Japan might be- come a party to worldwide power politics" and the effect of her posi- tion on control of the Pacific.
 Close Cooperation
 While events abroad concentrated attention on this country's foreign policy, a report of the foreign policy association urged closer cooperation between the president and Congress on that subject. The study said the current dilemma over foreign policy derives largely from the coinci- dence of popular revulsion against war and the outbreak of new wars on three continents"
 It contended that Irresponsible criticism and factional obstruction on the part of Congress" drives the president to the "subterfuge of secret executive agreements, personal agents and spectacular appeals to the public"
 In a radio address last night, Ad- miral William D. Leary, chief of naval operations. said the nayy's great building program in which 75 warships areson the ways, is needed so that the United States can defend itself against "any and all ag- gressors."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03

signed to meet a possible attempt to dominate the world by force.
 Only last Saturday, Nazi Fuehrer Adolf Hitler had defied the demo- cratic powers challenge, warned that Germany would fight any att tempt to encircle her and scoffed at suggestions that the Nazis sought world domination.
 Beck arrived at Victoria station at 4:40 D. m. and was greeted by Lord Halifax, who had rushed from the House of Lords to the station.
 As the foreign minister of Po- land was welcomed to London, Chamberlain. was telling the House of Commons that during the Czech- oslovak crisis Great Britain did not believe that the threat of Nazi world domination was great enough to risk war. But now, he said, the challenge has become SO grave as a result of the destruction of Czecho- slovakia that the government has been forced to adopt a new policy distinctly different from its tradi- tional viewpoint.
 Emphasizes Poland Pledge
 Emphasizing the importance of the pledge to Poland, Chamberlain said:
 Indeed, to have departed from our traditional ideas in this respect constituted a portent in British pol