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Evening star., 1939-12-07
Supper Club Notes

Anchor Room-Lounge at the An
napolis Hotel; no dancing, but en-
tertainment by Matt Windsor and
his accordion.
Bamboo Garden-Floor shows at
l, 7::30 and IL, and dancing to Emory
Daugherty's Orchestra; minimum
charge.
Cafe Caprice-Pleasant, intimate
rendezvous at the Roger Smith Hotel.
There's music by Accordionist Eddie
Whitesel between and Z and by
Eddie and the Rhythmaries from 10
until l.
Hamilton Hotel-Milton Davis and
the orchestra play for dancing In
the Rainbow Room from until, z
and from 10 until /.
Hay-Adams House-Dinner music
Evening star., 1939-12-07
Rehearsal Set Tonight
For 'Other Wise Man.

Prospective participants in the
Christmas production, "The Other
Wise Man." scheduled at Luther
Place Memorial Church December
26, 81, % and 20, are urged by Bess
Davis Schreiner, director, to be
present at the first rehearsal tonight
at 1880 o'clock in the auditorium
Of the church, Vermont avenue and
N street NV.
Proceeds Of free-will offerings at
each performance, it is said, will
be used to help the poor and needy
in Washington during the holiday
season.
Evening star., 1939-12-07

taurant, with entertainment from
$50 to $3.50 and 10 to l by the Nov-
city Trio. Songs by Bert GranofI.
Pirates Den-Gay roughhousing
and tomfoolery in an atmosphere OF
the old buccaneer doings. Dancing
and entertainment nightly.
Pail Mall Rocm-Sleek, very con-
tinental, with a manner and service
which makes you feel like some one
important. Music by Bert Bernath's
Orchestra.
Russian Troika-Gay with the
atmosphere OF old Moscow, with q
sprightly Cossack revue, dancing to
Sasha Lukas' music. Minimum
Evening star., 1939-12-07

cuisine; dancing, 7:30 until 1:30, to
music by Carr Van .Sickler, Don
Shook and their orchestra. Songs by
Adelita Varela and Mary La Marr.
Mayfiower Lounge-Dick Rooms
Orchestra plays for dancing from S
to and after 10, when there's a
minimum charge.
Metronome Room-The Wardman
Park Hotels popular dance resort,
always full of happy young folk.
Music is by the Kings testers and
their orchestra, and includes a lot
Of novelty ditties.
Neptune ROOm-DoWntoWn res
Evening star., 1939-12-07

charge, except for dinner guests.
Dancing and shows Saturday nights,
too, and there's a special Saturday
luncheon.
Shar-Zad-Smart rendezvous at
the Carlton Hotel, popular after
dark and before. Music at cocktail
hour and after 10 is the staccato
rhythm of Bill McCunes Orchestra.
Minimum charge.
Shoreham Hotel-There are two
floor shows nightly in the Blue
Room, dancing to music by Barnee;
cover charge, except for dinner
guests.
Uptown-Cocktail Lounge across
Evening star., 1939-12-07
Ex-Firemon for B. & O.
Wins $52, 500 Award
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. flames Nc
Roberts, At, of Washington, Ind,
was awarded $52,500 yesterday by q
Superior Court jury for the loss of
both his legs in an accident at the
Washington yards Of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad last March 80.
Mr.. McRoberts, former fireman
for the road, had sued the COM
pany for 100000. He testified
from wheel chair that he stum-
bled over a wooden obstruction be-
side the tracks, fell and was run
over by a locomotive. He alleged
negligence by the railroad.
Evening star., 1939-12-07
nightly by Larry Hendrick at the

nightly by Larry Hendrick at the
Hammond organ.
Hi-Hat Lounge-At the Ambassa-
dor Hotel, entertainment nightly by
Carmela Lazzari and Jack Manning
string quartet.
Lotus-Shows, featuring several
acts and q chorus, at l, 1880 and
1880 pm; dancing o Bill Strick.
lands Orchestra; minimum charge.
Lounge Riviera-Gay and intimate
spot at 2400 Sixteenth street, with
dancing until 2, with music by Pete
Marcias and his orchestra, songs by
Adele Van.
Madrillon-Spanish and American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
Stock Averages
By VICTOR EUBANK,

Associated fTeSS FludDClal WrlLel.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26-Post- Yule-
tide languor gripped the stock mar
ket today and, despite specialized
recoveries, the list generally held to
narrow or lower levels.
A few aircrafts and utility pre-
ferreds were pushed up fractions to
2 points or so, but steels, motors and
other pivotal groups inclined to lag
throughout. Closing quotations
were well mixed, with small minus
signs predominating.
It was a slow-motion perform
ance most of the day with trans
fers approximating 100000 shares.
Ahead at one time or another
were Douglas Aircraft, American
Airlines, United Aircraft, American
and Foreign Power 6 and per cent
preferreds, International Mercantile
Marine and American Telephone.
Suffering more from neglect than
pressure were United States Steel,
Youngstown Sheet, Chrysler, United
States Rubber, Southern Railway,
Great Northern, International Nick
Ell, Kennecott, Johns anville and
Loew's.
Late upturns in grain and cotton
futures. together with renewed
strength in silk, helped steady the
stock department. Bonds were Sc
lectively improved. Paris, only i'm
portant European securities market
or,ora TING TODAY WAS firm
The news, on the whole, seeming
ly was unimDressive to speculative
forces. Many traders decided to ex-
tend their Christmas holidays
through New Year and attendance
in commission houses was sparse at
the best.
Little surprise was evinced at the
officially estimated drop in this
weeks steel mill production rate Of
1863 points to 1877 per cent of ca
pacity. 1t was the sharpest fall,
however, since the July fourth week
of 1884. The decline was attributed
mainly to holiday suspensions in all
steel centers and was not deemed
particularly pessimistic. It was re-
called the 1884 pre-holiday operating
rate was in the neighborhood of so
per cent, whereas the recent figure
has been 80 or better.
Neither sugar futures nor stocks in
this category were especially buoyed
by the Presidents proclamation re-
Installing import quotas on the stapH
which were suspended in September
because of wartime boarding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
Occupancy Of Office
BUILDINGS Increases

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-Business
has expanded its office space with
the pickup in industrial activity,
a survey by the Mortgage Bankers
Association Of America revealed to-
day.
Occupancy of Office buildings in "a
principal cities in 81 States now
stands at about IS per cent, the
highest figure since 1887, the report
stated.
Office building occupancy was
found to be highest-approximately
88.5 per cent-in the South, and
lowest-about 80, 4 per cent in the
Far West and mountain States,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
| Silk Prices Hit
Highest Point
| Since 1880
~ the Associated Press.

by tNc hSSOCldIeO TIcSS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-silk fu-
lures touched the highest prices
since March, 1880, today following
wide advances in Japanese markets
during the holidays.
The No. / December contract ex-
pired at noon with a gain of 1914
cents at $4.44 a pound, highest for
the life of the contract. This COM
pared with the March, 1880, spot
delivery price of $453. From jan
uary forward all deliveries were up
the 15-cent limit allowed in a days
trade. The No. contract was not
quoted.
Total open interest at the close
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
Crude Oil Prices

TULSA. Dec. 20 R).-Base crude oil
prices. Mid-Continent area: Illinois. ST .05;
Oklahoma kansas. gravity scale. go cents
Texas. gravity scale. u cents to $k.03;
East Texas. S110: West Texas, gravity
scale. 53 to 95 cents; North louisiana
Rocky Mountain area: Salt Greek Wyo.,
gravity scale. rs cents to S1.1O. Eastern
area: Pennsylvania grade bradford.
Alleghany). 80. so: same grade in South.
in Eureka lines. 81 90; same lrade IN
Buckeye Lines, S2.0b: corniug, e1.02.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

6y Tic ASSOCldtcu IIcSS
CHICAGO, Dec. 26-The wheat
market rallied strongly to score net
gains of more than a cent bushel
today, wiping out early losses Of
about 2 cents inspired by general
precipitation that brought some re-
lief to the Southwestern drought
belt.
Other grains also advanced, rye
soaring to new high for the sea-
son, and corn rising about 2 cents.
Soy Beans rose cents
Buying was attributed to short
covering which gained volume as
the rally got under way and to
realization that the Christmas snow
fall in the Southwest must be fol-
lowed by continued generous pre-
cipitation if the drought is to be
broken.
Wheat closed A-1A cents higher
than Saturday, May 1O3h-5s, July
10l-1.01A; corn 11s-1A up, May
$685.. july So: oats IA ga higher,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
Tornado Toll Drops

Losses from tornadoes in Kansas
this year were the smallest since
1922. Damage was estimated at
$49,550, compared with an annual
average of 1854 1854. There was no
loss of life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26

s Unit OF trading 10 shares.
In bankruptcy recevershp reorEansed
Bankruptcy Act securities
Rates Of dividend in the foregonE table
ments based the last quarterly
Unless otherwise noted special extra
cluded
I'd Elk dividend Ex rights extras Paid
last Payable stock lar
year. Cash stock ( Accumulated dividends paid
clared this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
Milk By-products Important

Surplus milk provides number
of products, Including cattle feed
and casein. Casein becomes source
Of plastics, adhesives. paints and
paper coatings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
Output Of Fermented
Malt Liquors Logs

By the Associated Press.
The Treasury reports November
production of fermented malt liquors
at $685. 1884 barrels, compared with
with 3,735, All in the same month
last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
New York Cotton

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. ga little for
eign buying enlivened the cotton fu-
lures market today.
Scattered hedges and commission
house liquidation was easily absorbed
by trade price fixing.
Late afternoon prices were 3 to IS
higher; January, 1896; May, 1888:
December, $50.
C0ttonseed Oil.
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
3 higher to l lower. Sales, SO contracts.
January. rob: March, 7.12; May 7.24;
July. 7.31, b Bid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
Gold Area Is Small

A narrow area so miles long in
the Rand furnishes IS per cent of
the Is 5000 900 ounces Of gold produced
annually in South Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26

of business December % in the spot
contract amounted to "a lots, the
Commodity Exchange said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26
New Orleans Prices.

NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 20 (o.-Trade
buying and covering advanced cotton fu-
lures here today. At noon prices were 4
lower to net higher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26

Jan. sos
Cash wheat, No. 3 hard, l.o3a4; sample
grade, mixed. 80. Corn, No. l. mixed.
571a-591a: No. 2. 57-5S'4; No. i. white.
63s4-65la; 2. 631a-6434. Oats, No. Q.
mixed, SO; sample grade, mixed, 3s; No.
2. white. 41A: No. 3. 39A-4O; sample
grade. white $3.50 Soy beans, No. 2.
yellow, 1.1sA No. 3, 1.17a.1.20. Barley.
inal; No. g. mating. 54-65. Rye. No. 8.
n. Timothy seed, 4.15-4.4O. Red clover.
12.5O-15.OO nominal. Red top. $500 90
nominal Alsike 14.0O-17.OO nominal,
Alfalfa. 17.5O-22 so.
Baltimore Quotations.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 20 tP).-Wheat-No.
red winter, garlicky. spot, domestic, 1.13.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-26

Cottonseed oil opened steady January.
6.47b; March, 6.5Sb: May. 6.67b; July.
6.77b. Bid.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19

undergrOWth along lne ralIIodN
right of way.
Mr.. Roosevelt was not aware of
the incident and shortly after the
disturbance he left at 9:01 a. m. by
motor for Key West.
The suspect was first sighted by
police. He was moving cautiously
through the underbrush that sep
arated the railroad right of way
and a wagon road When police
approached the man broke ano
fled.
A telephone lineman climbed a
pole and sighted the man. For q
few moments he directed the Of
ficers but he too soon lost sight OF
the suspect in the tangled under
growth
Secret service men from the
presidential special train joined II
the manhunt but the search was
futile.
The suspect wore brown sui
and had no hat, officers said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Sunshine Follows
Storm in Valley

Skies were alternately cloudy and
sunshiny in Imperial Valley Satur-
day following rainStorm that
dropped .38 moisture on El Centre,
.25 on BraWley and 81 on Imperial.
Rain, which started late Friday
after blustery day, continued most
of the night. 1t brought the years
total, as recorded at the El Centre
weather bureau to one inch and
.13.
Arizona's skies were clouded again
Saturday by rain and snow, with
the heaviest onslaught in the east
ern section Yuma. Tucson and
Phoenix escaped with light SHOW
erS and winds.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Associated Farmer Officials Recount
French Lick Meeting with CI0 Chief

G.. G.. Bennett. president of the
Associated Farmers OF lmperlal
County, and Harvey Hastain, ST,
Associated Farmer and president ol
the Farmers Transportation AS
ISOLATION, returned Friday after al
tending an international conference
CT the oxford group in French
Lick, Ind.
Bennett declared The peak OF m
terest at the conference came wheh
he met and talked with John RAM
say, president of the CIO at the
Bethlehem Steel company leader
of 5000 men.
At the start of their talk, Ben
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19

Plans for lighting the Ell Centre
stadium, authorized last Wednes-
day evening by the City Council,
were cancelled Friday as a result
of neutrality-suspicious. of the en-
gineering plans and price proposals
acting Mayor Gordon Scriven said
Saturday.
The plan as proposed and ap-
proved by the council was predi-
Gated on the assurance of the city
purchasing department that the
cost to the city would be only $ll00
and that the lights would be suf-
ficient for night hard ball.
Further examination of the pro-
posal upon which the purchasing
department had based its conclu-
sionS revealed that the costs would
more nearly approximate $500
and that the system would not
provide the perfect illumination
contemplated Proper lighting for
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
UnioniiSt
Efforts
Child ed
CIO Agent Lose in
Attempt to Inject
Opinion in Record

CIO efforts to turn a Ma
tional Labor Relations board
hearing into a radical dog
fight, was quashed in Ell
Centre Saturday when Duke
Cunningham, CIO representative,
was told to INTRODUCE evidence
by questioning witnesses instead OF
by making direct attacks upon the
honesty of testimony and records
given by Imperial Valley shippers.
Cunningham started a line OF
attack during the closing hours OF
Fridays hearing which included
asking each grower and shipper il
he belonged to the Associated
Farmers, if the association dictated
his labor policy and if he had a
copy of an association manifesto
displayed at his shed.
Saturday morning Cunningham
objected to the introduction OF
board questionnaires filled out by
the growers and shippers on the
grounds that they did not give
true picture of the shipping in
dustry in Imperial Valley and
because the growers holdings in
some cases are larger than the an
sWers would make them appear.
Examiner Joseph Mcguire, pre-
siding for the NLRB, told Cum
ningham he had an opportunity to
Continued on Page 8; Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Father, Children
Perish in Blaze
Destroying Home

NOKESVILLE. Va, Feb, Is. cUP)
Edward Hansborough, 40, and
seven of his eight children were
burned to death last night in a
fire which destroyed their home.
Hansborough's wife, Edna, 80, res
cued their youngest child aged two
but the others were trapped on the
second floor when the roof col
lapSed.
Fire Chief P. w. Howard, OF
Manassas, Va, said that the cause
of the fire was undetermined
Neighbors Of the Hansboroughs sale
there was no sign of a blaze 10
minutes before the tragedy.
Mrs. Hansborough said she anG
her husband had been reading il
their bedroom on the ground floor
and had fallen asleep She was
awakened by smoke. She carried
her baby out of doors while her
husband went upstairs to wake the
other children Before they could
escape the roof fell in and the
house blew up like a tinder box. 10
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19

nett said Ramsay said, 'I admit
the CIO has been guilty of every
thing that capital has been guilty
Of Let's start from there and get
acquainted"
When Bennett asked him if he
believed in the closed shop, he
quoted Ramsay as saying, you
have me on the spot, but the closed
shop is not American. 1t is useo
to whip a man into paying dues
1t also is not Christian"
A note given Bennett by Ramsay
read, Thank God for a farmer
like you"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19

ellis Of
Danger
Our Backs to w all =
Farm Bure au Told in
EICentro Ne ting

Refund-Or expect an as
sessment of 81 or SO an acre
on land.
In a ringing defense of the
Imperial Irrigation districts
refinancing program, Attorney Har-
ry Horton. district chief counsel,
flung this warning Friday night to
members of the farm bureau re-
funding committee, assembled at
the courthouse.
For two years we have fought
with our backs to the wall Hor-
ton declared Ito keep bondholders
from getting the $l,700000 in the
treasury as sought by them and to
prevent them from forcing an as
sessment of ST or SO on land. But
now we are at the end of our rope.
IF the people of Imperial VAL
ley fail to support this refunding
plan before another tax levy rolls
around we will be faced with a
court order turning over to the
bondholders every penny of the
districts bond principal and inter-
est fund and our money for drain
age will be gone beyond recall
Horton explained that the courts
had been sympathetic and given
every help to the district, but;
There is a limit and we have
Continued on Page 8; Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Death Sought for
Nurse Attackers

OAKLAND. Feb. 18. CUP)-Dls-
trict Attorney Ralph Hoyt of Ala
media county announced today that
indictments will be sought when
the grand jury convenes Tuesday
against Joseph Moyle, "a, and John
Orloff, %. asserted attackers OF
Miss Mary Gray, Oakland nurse.
Hoyt said "Lindbergh law in
dictments. providing a death pen
atty, would be asked. The attack
occurred Jan. II.
The federal grand jury already
had indicted the pair for robbery
of an Oakland drug store and
poStoffice
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19

Craig's testimony, given at Sc
cret committee hearing on Jan. %,
was made public as another chapter
in the story of how a French mis-
sion obtained the cooperation OF
various government departments in
the proposed purchase of 600 mill
tary planes.
Previously, the committee had
disclosed that the air, treasury and
navy departments participated in
the negotiations on instructions
from President Roosevelt, despite
protests from high army officers
against revealing to the French the
types of planes they wanted to buy g.
The president defended the deal
last night at a press conference
aboard his train en- route to Flori-
da and said that France had every
legal right to buy the planes.
Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, jr., told the senate
military affairs committee that
President Roosevelt considered the
sale of new type American war
planes to France good business.
Morgenthau said that instead of
being ashamed of the transaction
''it is something to be proud Of"
AS the committee revealed an
other chapter in the story of the
cooperation given to a French air
mission at the presidents direc-
ton, Morgenthau was shown to
have testified that the French rep
resentatives were under a pledge
that none of these planes should
leave France, and that none Of
them should be shown to anybody" "
Craig was shown to have testi-
fled that one of the objections of
the army was that France might
obtain a plane that the army was
considering adopting if it were sue
cesSful in later competitions con-
Quoted by the air corps. The plane
he referred to was a Douglas hit
Continued on Page 8; Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
s. Worlds Fair
Officially Opens;
Thousands Attend

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10. CUP)
-California's great show-the Gold
ell Gate international exposition
opened today on Treasure Island in
San Francisco bay amid brilliance,
excitement, music. thrills, beauty
noise fireworks and oratory.
President Roosevelt, from Key
West, Fla, sent his good wishes just
before sailing aboard the U. S. 8.
Houston to join the navy in war
games in he Caribbean.
Bareheaded in bright sunshine.
Governor Olson officially opened
the $5o0OO,0O0 spectacle in presence
of thousands of men. women and
children-fully half the crowd at
tired in wild west costume, includ-
ing 10 gallon hats, jeans, cowboy
boots, bandana kerchiefs and six
shooters.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Only One Charge
Remains in Noted
Oriental Mystery
Gambling Complaint Sole
Item Against Japanese
Networks Kingpin

One charge aainst one Jap
anese was all that was left
Saturday of Ell Centro's cele-
brated and sensational kid
nap-gambling case that at
one time brought repercussions
from Sacramento to MeXicali.
Dismissal of kidnapping and rob-
berry charges against Nose Shef-
field, Bob Kubo and Hideichi va
matoda Friday left a single charge
of gambling against Yamatoda, as
sertedly the kingpin of an Oriental
gaming network that formerly OPP
Grated clubs in Sacramento and
Los Angeles as we'll as El Centro.
Late Friday afternoon in Ell
Centre justice court Judge John
E. Simpson set March % for trial
of the gambling charge. On request
of Deputy District Attorney Ralph
French, the court ordered Attorney
Harry Horton, representing Yama-
toda, to produce the defendant for
Identification at that time. French
explained later that the move was
made because a misdemeanor case
may, otherwise, be tried without
the defendants presence. In event
Yamatoda fails to appear March
%, however, the bail of $1O0 he is
now at liberty under would be
forfeited.
The gambling charge, brought
last fall, under which Yamatoda
was arrested in Los Angeles by
Police Chief j. Sterling Oswalt
and brought to Ell Centro was the
first in a series of bizarre develop
ments, all linked to what Oswalt
Continued on Page 8; Col. D p
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Ivan {. Jaeger
Funeral Monday

Funeral services for DR.. Ivan c
Jaeger, 40, friend of Imperial Val
ley agriculture for many years
will be held in the Benbough fun
eral parlors in San Diego at p
m. Monday,
He died in Chula Vista Thursday
after a brief illness.
Jaeger came to the rescue of I'm
perial Valley in 1926 when Brown
Blight threatened to ruin the let
tuce industry. He was sent, by the
United States department of ag-
riculture TO find a lettuce able to
resist the blight. He developed the
type now in use and also the mil
dew resistant melon.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19

pendS upon the riVer,' L. J. Foster
chief engineer in charge of the All
American project. declared at his
headquarters in Yuma.
The water in the canal at pre-
sent is just the flow that has come
from general experiments with the
dam and desilting works. plus a
certain amount that I had turned
in to help in making a moving pic
ture of the canal"
The film, including air ana
ground shots, is being made now
by the government for educational
purposes. Enough water to reach
Pilot Knob was turned in so that
the canal would show we'll from
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
WEALTHY WIDOW HELD

WESTPORT, Conn, Feb. Is. CUP
Mrs. Aine Dunstader, 43, described
as the widow of a wealthy Sar
Francisco ship builder was arrested
on an arson charge after state po-
lice reported she admitted SETTING
fire to Compo inn early today tc
drive spirits from her room Dam
age to the inn was estimated al
$4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
False Rumor Heard
Of Olson Collapse

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18. CUP)
-Unfounded rumors that Governor
Olson had collapsed spread through
Treasure Island today at the height
of the welcoming ceremonies.
They probably originated when
exposition officials merged two OF
the governors appearances so as
mot to tire him too much.
After an open air appearance,
Olson went to his room in the
California state building to preside
at a reception.