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Evening star., 1939-03-24
New York Sugar

NEW YORK. March "a R.-Irregular
price movements featured sugar futures
Domestic futures sold Oh after a steady
opening. but later rallied and ranged from
points higher to 2 lower in midafter-
September was OF / net at 200.
World futures were Va higher to n lower,
with speculative and Cuban interests on
low Of III and unchanged. December
was on " at LIS
Evening star., 1939-03-24
Bond Group Approved
In Erie Proceedings
By the Associated Press.

0y IlIe ASSOclHCeu FIeSS.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission yesterday authorized a
four-member committee to rep
resent holders Of general mortgage
convertible 4 per cent bonds in
connection with the Erie Railroad
reorganization proceedings.
Members Of the committee are
G. L. Amos, Syracuse, N. Y; Fred
F. Spellissy, Philadelphia; A. G.
Kizis Of Pittston, Pa, and william
L. Jones, Pottsville, Pa.
Evening star., 1939-03-24
Rush Curio Dealers

Curio dealers In Gonaives, Haiti,
were rushed during the visit of
United States sailors when maneu-
vers were held nearby.
Evening star., 1939-03-24

IN bankruptcy or receivership or beine
reorganized under Bankruptcy Act OF
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 divl-
dends are not included
xd Ex dividend xr Ex rights. Also
ektaa or extras Paid last year. fPay-
this year Cash or stock. k Accumn-
lated dividend paid or declared this year
ur under rule WV With warrants. N
without warrants. war WarrantS
Evening star., 1939-03-24
Hosiery Orders Hold
Far Above Year Aoo
By the Associated Press.

oS stle AseOClateo PreSS.
The Census Bureau reports Or
ders for hosiery totaled 1884 ,626
dozen pairs in January, compared
with 8,985,433 in December and
1852, ,147 in January, 1898.
Evening star., 1939-03-24
Metal Market

steady; electrolytic. spot. 1925; export
1870. Tin steady: spot and nearby. I'd. so;
forward. 46.5 Lead steady; spot New
York, 1890: East St. Louis. 474. Zinc
steady; East st. louis spot and forward,
$50, Quicksilver 80 50-93. .0O Pig iron
aluminium. antimony platinum and Chi
nese wolframite unchanged
Evening star., 1939-03-24
Insurance Stocks

NEW YORK March "a QP.-Investment
Bankers Conference Inc.
Evening star., 1939-03-24

Traffic lights protect you. Watch
Them.
Evening star., 1939-03-24
New York Bunk Stocks

NEW YORK. March "a R.-Invest-
ment . Sankers Conterencs, Inc:
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THE EVENING c. FRIDAY MARCH a. 1939
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
By private wire dIree. to The Star.

Stock and Sales
Dividend Rate. Add co. High. Low. 2k5.
Aero Sup .l26e- 2 Az AZ Az T
Agfa Ansco 6OA 2Of1a 3lM a. 3Ah r
Evening star., 1939-03-24

WV With warrants. XIV Without warrants.
New st lstp) Stamped
sNegotiability impaired bv maturity.
Evening star., 1939-11-17

alarm, Chevy Chase Fire Depart
ment sent out units to combat field
and woods fires at Beach drive and
Leland street and at Beach drive
and the East-West highway, both
Of them only a short distance from
the first fire.
Boy Described to Police.
A woman resident of the area told
Montgomery County police she saw
the boy set fire to the field and then
run from the scene. A description
was furnished investigators.
Earlier in the day Chevy Chase
Fire Department extinguished a
woods fire on the East-West high
way near Columbia Country Club
and put out blazing tar wagon on
Conduit road in front of the Cabin
John Fire Department.
Chevy Chase was summoned on
the latter call because it was
equipped with special chemicals to
combat burning tar, according to
Chief Edwin Sackett of Chevy
Chase.
Another field fire in Montgomery
County broke out near the Nor
mandy Farms Inn, at Potomac, Md,
and was put out by two units of the
Rockville department.
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Fire
Continued From First Page.)

he may have been responsible fol
several others in the vicinity. A
search for the boy was being made
today.
The houses of Lily Mae Swales
and E. S. Miller were the structures
razed by the fire near Linden
Flames spread through the woods
and within a few minutes ignited
the roof of the Swales house, and a
little later the Miller home caught
fire.
Six Companies Join Fight.
Six fire companies from Rock
vile, Silver Spring, Chevy Chase
Kensington, Bethesda and Takoma
Park joined forces in fighting the
fire and brought it under control
after a three-hour battle during
which Is or 80 homes in the Linden
area were threatened by sparks
scattered by stiff wind.
Two companies from Washington
Engine Companies 81 and 90
volunteers from the Kensington
Takoma Park, Cabin John depart
ments and two truck loads of county
road workers combined in fighting
another field fire which spread over
60-acre tract near Edgemoor, in
Montgomery County, including part
OF the Landon School property.
For time the fire, which burned
for four hours, threatened the home
of the late Harry S. New, Postmas-
ter General in the Harding cabinet
1t was stopped at the edge of the
New property.
The fire reported to have been sci
by the boy started at East Wood.
bine street and Summit avenue, ir
Chevy Chase. It burned severa
acres. simultaneously with that
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Bar Group Is Named
To Confer With Judqes

Appointment of a special commit
tee to confer with Chief Justice D.
Lawrence Grorer of the United
States Court of Appeals and with
Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of
District Court, with a view to seek
ing uniformity in legal educational
requirements, was announced yes
terday by Seton Darr, president of
the Bar Association of the District
of Columbia
The special committee comprises:
Guilford S. Jameson, chairman;
William E. Richardson and As
sistant United States Attorney
George E. Mcneil. This group pre-
sented the majority report on the
subject, which was adopted by the
association Tuesday night. The
committee will seek relaxation of
an appellate court rule, which pro-
vides that after July l, 1914, appli-
cants to practice before that
tribunal, except those of the Su-
preme Court, must have had two
full years of study in college or
university fully accredited by the
official accrediting agency or the
equivalent, as agreed upon by an
examination under sponsorship of
the Middle States Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools.
The date when the committee
will confer with the judges has not
been announced. District Courts
rules for admission are not con-
sidered so rigid as those of the ap-
pellate tribunal and the association
desires that they be uniform. Here,
it was pointed out, an attorney who
tries case might not be able to
present his clients case in the
United States Court of Appeals,
under the new program.
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Slash in c. c. {. Funds
Unlikely, Moy Says

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman May of the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee, asserting
that substantial curtailment of Fed
eral spending was inevitable in view
OF prospective defense increases,
predicted today that Civilian Con-
servation Corps funds would not be
cut.
'The c. c. c. is too important an
adjunct to tamper with at this time u
he said.
Representative May announced
he intended to press for enactment
Of legislation to provide voluntary
military training for the c. c. c.
The idea has been frowned on In
high administration quarters.
Evening star., 1939-11-17

Guatemala Conferees
Reported Backing
Money Exchange Aid
Ecuudoreun Seeks Direct
Conversion Of Various
Currencies
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GUATEMALA CITY, Nov. IT,
Cesar Andrade, finance minister of
Ecuador and delegate to the Pan
American Treasury Conference, re-
ported today that conferences Ex-
change Committee had voted to
recommend his proposal for direct
exchange Of monies in the Western
Hemisphere.
At present, Andrade said, almost
no American countries quote their
currencies in terms Of other Amer
lean monies. The result Is that
Venezuelan bolivars, for example,
cannot be used to purchase Ecua-
dorean sucres, Mexican pesos or
Guatemalan quetzals.
Latin American merchants must
buy dollars pounds or francs with
their native currencies, then ex-
change these purchases for money
Of the country in which they seek
to do business.
A member. Of the United States
delegation commented that An
drade's proposal for direct exchange
was 80 simple it's dramatic. 1t
should prove of tremendous benefit
in stimulating inter-American trade
and the expansion of movement of
all goods through Latin America" !"
Final details of the plan were
being worked out today for presen-
tation to the full conference Satur-
day.
1t was learned a movement was
developing among representatives
of the 10 nations at the conference
to hold another meeting next year
in Caracas, Venezuela.
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Bar Calls Meeting
On Matrimonial Cases

A special meeting of the Bar As
sociation of the District of Colum-
bia will be held on December IA to
consider a possible new agency in
District Court that would deal with
matrimonial cases, it was announced
yesterday by the associations presi-
dent, Seton Darr.
Heading special committee,
which is studying this domestic re-
lations problem, especially concern
ing the custody of children and all
mony, is H. Winship Wnearley. Re-
Gently, Justice James M. Proctor of
District Court addressed the asso-
citation and urged that remedial &C
ton be taken, so the court might
have more accurate information
concerning matrimonial disputes.
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Fires May Bar Hunters
From National Forest

CONVICTION, Va, Nov. II R).-
The George Washington National
Forest, long mecca for nimrods
may be closed to hunters within the
next few days unless there is a
sudden drop in the number of fires
caused by carelessness, according to
M. c. Howard, forest supervisor.
The entire Hot Springs c. c. C
Camp was called out yesterday to
fight two forest fires which ragged
through the forest. one burning l5C
Evening star., 1939-11-17

acres of wooded land on Warm
Springs Mountain, while the other
blackened 80 more acres on Back
Creek Mountain. Both fires, accord
ing to Mr.. Howard, were started by
the carelessness of hunters.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17
SOME BRIGHT LIGHTS

The world, even our part of the
world, isn't quite all that it should
be. But there are few bright lights
In 1888,
The Railroad Retirement Board au-
thorized payments of annuities, death
benefits, pensions, etc., to the amount
of just under $S3,O00,00O Old age
pensions went far higher, $751;
569,567.
Thirty states and the District OF
Columbia paid unemployment claims
and benefits to the jobless of $780,
342,O97.
In other words, in these three items
alone about 26,O00,O00 was available
for hard times in 1888 that were not
even on the horizon in 1882.
1t might be worse.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17
WHEELER SCORES
LOAN AS FRAUD

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Sen-
ator Wheeler of Montana issued a
statement which shows why he is
trying to get the Interstate Commerce
Commission more power to stop CHS
cling and cheating on railroads. He
tells how the Chesapeake & Ohio got
a smaller road which it had been for
hidden to buy, and then goes on to
say:
"The loan and it's repayment in
volved fraud upon the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, hoodwinking the
|. c. c., the filing of numerous false
and misleading sworn statements;
the misuse of c. & o. railroad funds,
and the improper procurement of tax
payers money to bail out the wealthy
c. & o. At every point the trans
actions were characterized by secrecy,
deceit and an atmosphere of con-
spiracy.
Legislation is urgently needed not
only requiring subsidiaries to file re-
ports along with the railroads which
control them, but also giving the
/. c. C. power to examine the books
of banks, stock brokers and others
who play important parts in railroad
finance"
"The opportunity for this kind of
sharp dealing cannot be permitted
to continue"
Senate Bill 1910 is the one which
Senator Wheeler expects to stop such
deals.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17
MILK, BABIES, AND MONOPOLY

Frederic G. Howe, former A. A. A.
consumers counsel, told the monopoly
committee some startling things about
milk. The National Dairy Products
Company and the Borden Company
he showed, control 79 per cent of the
milk distribution in Detroit, 56 per
cent in Washington, D. c., AZ per cent
in Pittsburgh, IS per cent in Madi-
son, Wis, and 91.87 per cent in Ak
ron, Ohio.
"In Detroit" the witness said, zone
large distributor works wholly through
stores, of which he has 40. He pays
the farmer as much if not more than
the big distributors. He admits to
government agents that he is making
a handsome return on his business.
And he is selling milk at from to 8
cents quart"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17
7heCherry
- Where with our
roo Little Hatchet we
- tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly. Sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Experience is a great teacher, say
old saws.
Trouble is, most of us don't profit
by the experience of others, and must
experience things ourselves in order
to learn And then we frequently
forget the lessons, even when dearly
learned.
This must be the explanation of
why some new labor organizations
have had Communist trouble
Members haven't had the expert
ence with Communists that older
unions have, hence they have let the
Commies play fast and loose with
their organizations for while.
Now they've had a lesson and are
giving the gate to the Communists
and other advocates of totalitarian
doctrine.
Unions which have had to fight
Communist infection might have
saved themselves a lot of grief if they
had looked back few years to the
experience of some other labor or
ganizations.
International Ladies' Garmen n t
Workers Union, for one, could have
given them valuable pointers.
Communists were permitted to
gain foothold among the garment
workers in the first half of the 1920's
and what they did for a time was a
caution. They almost wrecked the
union and were only beaten after a
hard fight, in which Matthew Woll,
Edward F. McGrady and other A. F..
of L. leaders gave valuable help to
the legitimate unionists.e
Commies, it is true, have changed
their tactics since their earlier raids.
Now they disclaim all intention to
wreck the unions, once their avowed
aim, and profess great love for Amer
ican unionism.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17
FRIDAY, MARCH II, 1889.
FIXED PRICES MEAN FLOPPING
WAGES

The experts of the Federal Trade
Commission have proved before the
monopoly committee that steel prices
are fixed by an agreement on basing
point system, not by competition. But
they haven't pointed out that fixed
prices mean f1uctuating employment
and wages; and that would mean more
to more people.
Take steel. There was only the
slightest difference in steel prices be-
tween 1923 and 1888. But the steel
industry paid in wages and salaries
$1,324 100000 in 1923 and paid only
$500,00O,000 in wages and salaries in
1933-and remember that salaries go
up faster and go down lower than
wages.
The industry which fixes its prices
shifts it's production to suit the mar
ket; and to cut production means to
cut payrolls. In 1882, the U. S. Steel
Corporation reported that in that de-
preston year, average number of
full-time employees, 1888; average
number of part time employees,
139,O94."
Fixed prices can be passed on-for
time-to the people who buy steel,
and hope to pass it on to the ultimate
consumer. But lost wages are lost
for all time.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17
SHORTS

General Franco, who says that any
Spaniard who has joined labor union
is criminal, is asked to be 'lenient." !"
How does he know what the word
means?
j.
On June 80, 1885, 1O.e per cent of
American farms had electric service;
on June 80, 1888, 1871 per cent. AL
most as much progress in the last
three years as in the preceding thirty.
=
The claim is made that airplanes
cost four times as much as they did
five years ago because Of high wages.
A Congressman brought in the rec
ords, showing that the average wage
in a plane factory five years ago was
63.6 cents and last year it was 1876.
Same old bluff.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17
EMPLOYMENT BOARD
BILL BY Sen. WAGNER

Washington, d. G. (ILNS( Sen
ator Robert F. Wagner of New York
has introduced bill to establish a
permanent Federal Employment Sta
bilization Board. This would be COM
posed of six cabinet members, with
the Secretary of the Interior for
chairman, and three persons named
from widely separated parts of the
country by the President, with the
advice and consent of the Senate.
"In recent times" said Senator
Wagner, "there has been growing
realization that unemployment is a
more or less permanent problem"
"By recreating machinery for pub
lie works planning" Senator Wagner
went on, "the proposed bill would
promote the most economical expend-
iture of public funds in periods of
business depression.
"The board is also authorized to
study and investigate basic informa-
tion and material appropriate to the
formulation of plans and planning
policies for the conservation and de-
velopment of the public resources of
the United States and the several
states. This function, together with
advance planning of public works,
would give permanence to the present
operations Of the National Resources
Committee.
The board would have only advisory
capacity. 1t is modelled much on the
lines that he put through on a three
year basis in 1881.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

concentration camps last November,
when that Nazi attache was killed by
a crazy Jewish boy in Paris; and the
diet and treatment in a concentration
camp do not develop good workers.
What Germany is really doing is to
advertise to the world that she is
making arms so fast that she hasn't
men enough to man her factories
another threat, like the one she
worked at Munich.
But the billion marks of vouchers
doing duty for money tends strongly
to verify the threat. Germany's liv-
ing standards are certainly not high
enough to demand such a pace. Gen.
Goering undoubtedly told good deal
of truth when he said that Germany
was arming at pace never before
seen. But will she be able to take up
these vouchers by bluffing other peo-
pies out of their property-or by
taking it in war?
Expectation of substantial reem-
ployment from the United States re-
armament program is not justified,
economists and others are warning
Rearmament, says Elliot Janewat
economist and financial writer, 'is
not going to create any employment
worth talking about" i
Aircraft production ON which SC
many advocates of employment pir
their hopes, he goes on to say, "con-
sumes little in the way of materials
and is not mass employer of labor
not even when we are producing uI
to 10000 planes as standing force.
"This country is simply too big
and it's productive needs too great, fol
this kind of program to bring recov
cry as by-product."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17

A little, shrivelled, bald man SO
years old tasted for nearly days;
and 29-year- East Indian despot
surrendered and promised to call a
council. The little old man was Mo-
handas X. Gandhi, called by millions
of his people "Mahatma" Gandhi; the
young despot is the ruler of Rajkot,
and his last name is Dharmendra-
sinhjii. Apparently, all the people of
Rajkot and pretty nearly all the hun
dreds of millions of people of India
were watching Gandhi, and if he had
died in his protest fast, the odds are
that no prudent insurance agent
would have written policy on the
despot.
And this is the sixth time that
Gandhi has tasted some government
into yielding to his demands. They
are always moderate demands but
six times in his life, Gandhi in that
India from the line which it has pro-
posed to take.
1t wouldn't work here. They'd take
Gandhi to hospital and feed him
through tube. But in India, time
after time, it has worked.
Germany is getting so short of la
Dor that she is drafting the Jews; and
so short of money that she has re-
Gently paid more than 1000, 1000, ,0OC
mark-about $4O0,000,O00-in vouch-
ers; a voucher being simply a gov
ernment l. o. u.
Jews at most form nine-tenths o.
one per cent of the population of Ger
many; which certainly cannot ado
greatly to the supply of the labor
market. Also, half the adult male
Jews in Germany were swept int
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17
WHAT NEXT?

The Ranger Engineering Corpora
ton has announced development Of a
new streamlined airplane motor which
is the most powerful in the world in
proportion to it's size. 1t is air-cooled;
has II cylinders in inverted-v forma-
ton; develops 500 horsepower and
weighs only GAO pounds. 1t is 200
pounds lighter than any milne motor
now produced in Europe.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17

But they haven't changed their ul-
innate aim and still seek to make the
unions serve the ends of the Com
munist movement.
The Communists, you see, did learn
by experience, at least in most coun-
tries.
In Germany, they saw, too late
that if they had co-operated with the
democratic elements, they could have
prevented the triumph of Hitlerlsm.
But instead of cooperation, they
fought the democrats, tooth and nail,
with every resource of invective,
slander, deceit and violence of which
they are past masters.
They thought in the ensuing period
of chaos, they would seize power, as
they did in Russia.
1t didn't work out that way. The
Nazis beat them to it and the once
powerful Communist party was de-
stroyed.
Now the Communists seek the aid
of democratic peoples in fighting
Nazi-ism and Fascism. But once the
danger is over, the Reds will again
plot the overthrow of democracy and
the establishment of Communist
dictatorship, as in that workers
paradise" Soviet Russia.
But, say the Communists and their
sympathizers, the Communist die
tatorship in Russia is only an Inter
mediate phase" in the establishment
of new order.
1t has now lasted more than 20
years and grows more tyrannical with
age, if that is possible. Witness the
bloody purge" orgy of the last few
years.
Unfortunately, dictatorship, like
many other things, grows to be a
habit. Everything indicates it has
become habit with the Russian Reds
and that it will not be easily broken.
| In one nation-Spain-th Com
! munists learned nothing from the
German experience. They have run
true to form in the civil war. They
have proved their utterly impractical
nature by fighting to set up Com
munist regimes within Loyalist ter
ritory, when unity of the Loyalist
forces was imperative.
Part of the responsibility for the
defeat of the Loyalist government
must be placed on the Communist,
anarchist and other extremist ele-
ments. When the whole story of the
Loyalist regimes internal troubles is
told, this column predicts it will make
an astounding story
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17
A GOOD SAFETY PROGRAM

New Wilmette, Ill.-Police inspec-
tion of bicycles to insure compliance
with mechanical requirements set up
in a new ordinance will begin June l.,
when the law becomes effective, it
has been announced by the Interna-
tional City Managers Association.
Among other things, the ordinance
requires that bicycles be equipped
with horn or other signalling de-
vice, and that night riders be equipped
with a headlight visible for at least
200 feet. Red reflectors must be at
tached to the rear fender.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-03-17

The usual price in cities is 121a
cents; and in Detroit, as elsewhere,
milk is pasteurized. If all city babies
could be sure of good milk at even 8
cents quart, they would have de-
cidedly higher growth rate and a de-
cidedly lower death rate.