davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1940-01-18
Bituminous Output
Up Sharply in Week

The National Coal Association,
from incomplete car-loading reports
from the railroads. estimates BIZ
luminous coal production in the
United States for the week ended
January 13 as approximately TO-
100000 net tons. Production for the
corresponding week: 1899, 8,O30 900
tons; 1888. 1905 900 tons. Percent
age of change: 1899, increase, 27.5
per cent; 1888, increase, 34.6 per
cent.
The report of the Bituminous Coal
Division of the Department of the
Interior shows production of 1882.
600 tons for the week ended Decem-
ber 30, 1899, and 8,890,00O for the
week ended January 6, 1910.
Production calendar year to jan
uary 13: 1910, 19,l3O,0O0 tons (sub-
ject to revision; corresponding
period 1899, 15,678,oO0 tons; increase,
22.0 per cent.
Evening star., 1940-01-18
Baltimore Tobacco
Prices Move Higher
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 18.-Southern
Maryland tobacco sold on or
through the Baltimore market dur
ing December totaled 897 hogsheads,
or 513,655 pounds. During the pre-
vious month the sales reached 1,199
hogsheads, or 686,43O pounds, but
during the previous December sales
were only 720 hogsheads, or 417,175
pounds. The figures have been
compiled in a summary of the re-
turns made by selling agents.
The average price received for the
tobacco in December was slightly
above that received in November
and substantially above that brought
in December, 1898. The average
this December was 0.1692 per pound,
as compared with 01625 in Novem-
ber and 0.1333 in December, 1888.
Evening star., 1940-01-18
Two Are Convicted
Of Stock Manipulation
BY the Associated Press.

6y the ASSOClAteo FIeS4.
NEW YORK, Jan. 18:-The first
convictions under the criminal stat
utes of the 1884 Securities and Ex-
change Act prohibiting stock ma
nipulation were obtained in Federal
Court last night against Norvan w.
Minuse and E. H. Pelletier, New York
stock dealers.
A jury convicted the two on
charges of conspiracy to rig the mar
ket in class A common stock of Tasty
Yeast, Inc. The Government con-
tended they manipulated the price
from ST so to 81 share in 1886.
The jury failed to agree on ver-
dict for third defendant, Russell
Van Wyck Stuart, and was ordered
to resume deliberations today. The
convicted men face possible i'm
prisonment for two years and fines
of $4,000 each.
Evening star., 1940-01-18
Morgenthou Opposes
Support for Market

By the Associated Press
Secretary Morgenthau said today
he was still opposed" to proposals
to loan Federal money for the pur-
chase of British owned American
securities to prevent their sale in the
open market from disturbing price
levels.
The British own approximately
81 ,000000,000 worth of American
securities and, it is reported, have
been selling small amounts ever
since the war began to get American
dollars with which to buy airplanes
and other supplies.
Evening star., 1940-01-18
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. 18-The cold
wave had a bullish effect on grain
prices here today. Wheat advanced
about cent, rye 3 cents and corn
and oats fractions.
Private reports that the weather
forecast predicted zero temperatures
in some sections of the Southwest
ern winter wheat belt where there
is little or no protective blanket of
snow caused some buying of wheat.
The area expected to be affected in
cludes Northern Oklahoma and the
panhandle. Increased livestock con-
sumption of such feed grains as corn
and oats was expected because of
the cold Bitter cold prevailed in
important reproducing regions of
the Northwest.
Wheat closed 7s-14 cent higher
than yesterday, May, 1.021s-A; July.
993s-': corn ss-5s up. May, $685.;
July, 58s4-7s; oats ls of to u up
and rye 2-23. hipher
Evening star., 1940-01-18

Trade Activities
Committee of the
District Bankers
Association, and
real estate Off
Ger of the Ma
tional Savings &
Trust Co., re-
ported to the as
sociation at the
midWinter meet
ing just held.
Metropol i t a n
Washington has
never seen a
year that could
t0,lch 1920 in
Evening star., 1940-01-18
Sales in RuroI Areas,
Small Towns Gain
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
The Commerce Department re-
ported today that its index of gen.
eral merchandise sales in rural
areas and small towns reached 1878
in 1889, compared with 114.1 in
1888, 1917 in 1887 and 125 in 1929,
which was the first year in which
figures were gathered.
December sales in these areas also
were the best since records have
been kept, reaching 211.7 per cent
OF the 1929-1931 average, compared
with 1897 in November and 1895
in December. 1888, on a seasonally
adjusted basis.
Evening star., 1940-01-18
Heads Baltimore Marker

BALTIMORE, Jan. 1s (speciaD
Joseph Smelkinson has been elected
president OF the Baltimore Butter
and Egg Exchange. Other new
omcers selected are Harrison Rob.
ins, vice president; James w. Stew.
ems, secretary; Walter II. Feaster.
treasurer, and Harry Weitzel, ser.
geant at arms.
Evening star., 1940-01-18
Boston Wool Marker

BOSTON. Jan. lS LP, United s.at.,
Department Of Aericulture) Trade Wss
MODERATELY active today on South African
and South American wools. seuth
12-months' growth were bringing aS "a a.
cents. secured basis, including duty. Only
an occasional sale was being closed on
was on orieinal bag lines Of fine tsrritory
wool at prices ranging 81 to 81 .O3, scovred
oasis. for good French combine length. and
to averaEe French combine iensth. '''
Evening star., 1940-01-18
New York Cotton

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 18.-Cotton
futures made modest advances in
thin market today.
Trade. spot house and Wall Street
buying developed in sympathy with
flrmness at Alexandria and Bombay.
Offerings were limited to scattered
hedges against loan equities and
foreign and domestic liquidation.
Midafternoon prices held un-
changed to 2 points higher; March
(old), l1.03: May (old, 1890; De-
cember, 9.75.
Evening star., 1940-01-18

ChicagO Cash Market
Cash wheat. sample. mixed toueh) qs
Corn, No. l yellow 5ga4 4-6Ol7; No 3
59,2-60; No, B. aa1A-'4: No. Il white
66i2-'.. Oats, Nc. > mixed 42ia; sample
No. 3. 42l7 sample grade. white. asa
Barley. mailing. 54-66. NOM: feed 1880,
nom. Soy beans No 3, yellow l1l-112
Timothy seed 4.65-s5, nom sweet
clover. 4.5O-5.25 nom Red clover. Is So
1900, nom. Red top. s.50-a.OO; NOM
22. so, nom.
Evening star., 1940-01-18
Pullman Dividend Voted

CHICAGO, Jan. 18 (R-Directors
OF Pullman, Inc, declared a divi-
dend of Is cents q share, payable
March Is to stock of record Feb
ruary 23 A similar dividend was
paid December Is, 1899.
Evening star., 1940-01-18

In bankrupcy recevershp being
BANKRUPTCY Act securities assumed BY
Rates of dividend foregoine table are annual dis
based the
Unless otherwise
included. ~ - -
Accumulated dividends paid last Declared
stock Accumulated declared this year
Evening star., 1940-01-18
Agricultural Chemical
Reduces Deficit
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 18.-American
Agricultural Chemical Co. and sub
sidiaries reported net loss for the
last half of 1899 of $198,7l8 after
charges, compared with net loss of
$285 1902 in the comparable 1898
period. Plants are near leading
agricultural centers in the South,
East and Midwest.
Evening star., 1940-01-18
All Former Records
In Home BuiIdinq
Smashed in 1899
Cotton Also Stresses
Sharp Trade Advance
Recorded in Capital
BY EDWARD c. STONE.

Washington, during the year 1899,
reached new peaks in building, pop
ulation and workers., Barnum L..
Cotton, chairman of the Commercial
Evening star., 1940-01-18

New. Orleans cottonseed oil opened
steady January, 6.5Ob; March. 6.56b:
May. 6.61; July. 6.1Sb: September, 6.So.
Evening star., 1940-01-18
New York Bur Silver

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 @.-Bar
silver. 5lx, unchanged.
Evening star., 1940-01-18
C0tt0nseed.

New commission house buying and short
covering in detachable cottonseed oil fu-
profit taking. Prices around midday were
unchanged to 3 higher March. 7OS; May,
7.2O Six additional transferable notices
issued the total to rs
Crude oil sold in the Southeast and Valley
at cents pound. Texas quoted SIS:
6. nominal.
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 1S Pi.-Cotton
futures advanced here today under strong
foreign markets and trade buying At
noon prices were / tn 4 points net higher
Evening star., 1940-01-18

Denmark's 1889 fruit crop broke
all records.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-29
REPUBLICANS HOLD RALLY

Republican leaders from all parts
of the state are gathered at Seattle
tonight for the gigantic rally marking
the platform appearance of Joseph W.
Martin Jr., chairman of the Republic
can National Committee before
crowd of thousands in the Seattle mum
icipal auditorium.
"Joe Martin Night'' festivities in
clude big torchlight parade with red
fire, brass bands and a procession OF
illuminated and decorated floats enter
ed by congressional and state candi-
dates "A features of the parade will be
a capacTous and ancient jalopy carry
ing large number of plain citizens,
Haunting a banner reading, "We the
People,, sponsored by Cal Short and
the Young Mems Republican Club.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-29

"'You wouldn't let people starve,
would you9' say New Dealers, excus-
ing nearly billion dollar debt per
year before counting anything for re-
lief, WPA, or Defense. Let's have
action for defense, not alibis for debt, "
Elect Frank Miller to Congress.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-29

Dill has an interchangeable record
as Congressman from 1915 to 1919
and as us. Senator from 1923 to- 1885
Hear G. G. Dill every evening at S:15
oven Station KGA, Spokane.
(This advertisement paid for by
friends Of G. G. Dill.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-15
National U. Pilots
Will Hold Air Contest

The National University Flying
Club will hold an air meet Sunday
1t Hyde Field, Clinton, Md.
Fifteen student pilots in the uni
versity's flight training course will
compete In precision landings and
other events based under regulations
OF the National intercollegiate Fly
ing Club and the Civil Aeronautics
Board.
A breakfast at 1890 will precede
the contests, which are to begin at
1880 pm. Thomas Gates of the
Aeronautics Board will act as
starter. Judges will be Charles s.
Logsdon. assistant secretary of the
National Aeronautic Association
Contest Board, and Arthur Hyde.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-15
Mother, Child Die in Fire

LEVELLAND. Tex, Nov. IS R).-
Mrs. Lonnie E. Williams, 20, and her
3-year-old son. Mickie, burned to
death last night in flames of a gaso-
line stove. The husband also was
burned, but not critically.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-15

The San Francisco earthquake and
f1re caused damage estimated at
$3.50, 900 900.
Evening star., 1940-01-11

not because Stain, but Style says we
must.
Drunk with power and not content
with our present miseries, Dame Fashion
goes back into the past and annexes the
pinched waist-oh. me, dare We not
whisper one complaint! Still unsatisfied,
she demands that our children be pun
ished, too-yes, they, too, must be frozen
and we have nothing to say about it. If
our innocents get sick we call the doctor
and apply anything but warm clothing,
because the dictator says mo-
If you are dining in restaurant, you
make light under your nose and raise
your swastika of smoke to the dictator.
(Plenty Of subjects for the comic strip
if the dictator didn't frown so.) You
may be making another kind of cross
for your fellow diner, for smoke mixed
with his food may be very disagreeable
to him, but that does not matter. There
was day when courteous gentlemen,
before smoking, asked ladies in their
company If it were Objectionable to them.
But under the dictator courtesy is in a
concentration camp.
The cocktail may be a bitter pill to
you and you may have seen with your
own eyes where it led some of your
friends. You don't want to risk your all
like that, but before the voice OF caution
Is loud enough to be heard, it is scorned
and shares the fate of courtesy
And so on and on-and we Americans
condemn others for their blind allegiance
to dictators. ESTELLA S. HAINES.
January 2.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Parks Are to Be Used

The series of Star articles dis
cussing what other cities have ac-
complished in development of their
park systems emphasizes recreational
use Of the parks above other things.
Every effort is made to encourage
such use. Baseball diamonds, tennis
courts, bathing pools and beaches,
picnic grounds and lodges-every ia
cility, in short, that will attract peo-
pie to the parks and increase their
enjoyment, is provided.
In Washington some progress has
been made in this direction in recent
years, but we still have far to go.
Golf courses, tennis courts and some
pools are regarded as concessions"
and run at profit to the concession
naire. Lack of funds, cumbersome
red tape and statutory prohibitions
hamper adequate maintenance and
improvement. There is much en-
phasis on 'front.'" great energy in
building high-speed boulevards Of
smooth concrete, but little effort and
less direction toward full recrea-
tional development of the parks. In
other cities the taxpayers demand
and obtain park development for
their use and enjoyment. In Wash
ington the taxpayers furnish most
of the money for acquisition, devel-
opment and maintenance of the
parks But the manner in which
they are developed, the excellence
and wisdom of the maintenance
policy, are beyond any effective local
control
Washington has high hope that
Secretary Ickes will continue to fol-
low up the interest he manifested in
finding out what is wrong with local
park development and maintenance
by effecting the remedies which have
been pointed out. One Of these is for
administration of the Washington
park system in a manner that will
make possible its full enjoyment and
recreational use by the people Of
Washington.
Evening star., 1940-01-11

which would prevent its payment in
bulk for large groups Of voters.
Among the important matters to
come up for consideration is the
condition Of the public schools. An
increase Of two and half million
dollars will be sought, principally to
increase the number of teachers and
to raise their salaries. Efforts
to attain full enforcement of the
States compulsory elementary edu-
cation law also will be made This
program includes an expansion Of
vocational training and adult educa-
ton in an effort not only to better
the condition of those now living in
the State, but to attract higher
types Of new residents, and, through
them, new businesses and industries.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Night Parking

For many years sporadic but futile
attempts have been made to solve
the problem of all-night parking, a
situation which is peculiar to Wash
ington among the larger cities.
These efforts have been ineffective,
not because automobile owners would
not prefer to protect their invest
ments by keeping their cars in
garages or on suitable parking
spaces, but solely because sufficient
facilities do not exist.
A new phase of the search for the
solution to the problem will be
entered on February 7, when the
Zoning Commission holds public
hearings on a proposal to require
henceforth that all new apartment
houses, hotels and other buildings
used by large groups provide or
street garages or parking areas. Thus,
over period OF many years grad
ual elimination of all-night parking
WILL De accomplished.
During the past five years an ac-
emulation of restrictions has mate
rally reduced the space along public
curbs available for this use. For
nearly five months of the year it is
completely prohibited on most of the
important thoroughfares under the
provisions of the snow-removal reg
ulations. Almost monthly a few
more streets are added to the list on
which parking is forbidden all or
part of the time. This, with the
gradual population increase and ad-
ditional automobile registrations,
makes the need of planning for the
future more pressing.
Expensive as the Zoning Commits
sion's proposal would be to private
builders, and thereby to individual
tenants, it is an expense which must
be borne eventually. With many
streets in densely populated sections
of the city now saturated" so far as
parking facilities are concerned, the
day of accounting is at hand.
Two methods are available. Dras-
tic and sudden prohibition of all
night parking may become unavoid-
able within a comparatively few
years. The result would be distinct
burden to thousands. On the other
hand, gradual restriction, assisted by
the means now advocated by the
Zoning Commission, can accomplish
the same result in reasonable time
without imposing undue hardship on
the average individual.
Evening star., 1940-01-11

The captured materiel In itself
would outfit a good-sized Finnish
force. It included, the Finns say,
102 cannon, 43 tanks, 10 armored
cars, an airplane, 20 tractors, 278
different cars including 16 anti-air-
craft cars of four guns each, IS auto
matte rifles, an assortment Of other
arms and, in addition, Ito horses
and At field kitchens.
Various reasons have been ad-
vanced for the collapse Of Russian
military strength under TIE impact
of numerically far inferior Finnish
armies. Today's Russian armies are
fighting with little more success than
did those the Poles and Firms routed
a score of years ago, and there is a
close and discernible relationship be-
tween the crumbling of Russian
armies in the field and the commu-
nistic system, relationship which
can be traced to the nature OF the
theology which seeks to undermine
world civilization.
The test of any system of society
is the material and spiritual goods
which it provides It's people. BY this
test Soviet Communism has utterly
failed. If the stories Russian prison.
ers tell of conditions in the Soviet
Union are true Of conditions
throughout the country the Russian
worker and peasant are in just as
miserable plight as their fathers and
mothers under czarism. Russians
captured by the Firms are said to
have told of privation and suffering
within Russia and of being driven
into battle at the points OF their
officers pistols.
Morale is as vital a factor in mill
tary operations as superior technical
developments and wealth of natural
resources. But personal courage
springs from a nourished body and
soul, possession of something worth
fighting for, and confidence in lead
erShip. These things f1t the individ-
ual to fight not only as cog in a
machine but as an independent unit.
These things the Russians lack.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Virqiniu Assembly

Seldom has a greater number OF
pressing problems of State govern
ment been presented at one time to
the Assembly of Virginia than are to
be considered at the session which
opened in Richmond yesterday. Al
though exhaustive studies have
been made by agencies Of the State
government and by special commits
sions appointed by the Governor,
many of these questions involve
highly controversial features.
One of the more far-reaching pro-
posals emphasized in Governor
Prices message to the Legislature
calls for reorganization and modern
ization of the State government.
Closely allied is plan for establish
ing a closer contact, in an advisory
capacity, with local and county gov
ernments and the complete abolition
of the fee system of compensating
public officials within the Common
wealth.
Fairly unanimous opinion may be
expected on suggestions for consoli-
dating the primary and secondary
roads of the State into a single sys-
tenn and developing them over a
twenty-year period. Similarly, pro-
posals for increasing the State police
force to strengthen the traffic safety
laws, reforms in the penal system,
establishment of means to eliminate
pollution of streams and tidal waters
and the adoption of stricter regula-
tions to provide greater safety in
mines and industry may be expected
to receive general approval.
But revision of the election laws
and attempts to prevent diversion
of gasoline tax revenues to general
funds are bound to meet with strong
opposition from organized groups.
Responsible leaders Of Virginia long
have charged that the poll tax and
the absent voters privilege have been
fagrantly abused. The Governor
now proposes reduction Of the tax to
a dollar a year. with a strict law
Evening star., 1940-01-11
A Pathetic Appeal

So far air raids on Britain have
done negligible military damage, and
many are inclined to wonder why
the Nazis bother to make them. The
answer is just now coming to light,
and it also explains why Scotland
has been so persistently selected as
the scene of activities. 1t is all ex-
planned in the typewriter list Of
emergency instructions issued by a
large hotel somewhere north Of the
Clyde, giving detailed account OF
what to do when the raiders come.
The most important instruction
comes right at the end. Word for
word, it reads as follows: Dining
room customers who wish to 60 to
the shelter should tell their waiter,
who will present their bill imme-
diately."
Evidently with fiendish ingenuity
Hitler has ordered his minions to
strike the British Isles in their most
vulnerable spot. Visitors to Scotland
are strongly urged, in the name of
common humanity, to alleviate this
stark horror by needing the local
ground rules. Even though obsessed
by the unquestionably laudable am
bition of saving their own lives, they
should neither carelessly nor with
malice aforethought add one iota to
the sufferings Of the Scots. Let
them emulate the glorious code Of
sea captains, and do their duty be-
fore leaving. Let them remember
that they can die only once, but that
a Scottish proprietor with an unpaid
bill dies a thousand deaths. Pay
that bill. The waiter, if tipped, then
gladly will lead the way to the near
est shelter.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
States Case for War and
Navy Department Workers.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The STAR
The adverse ruling of the House Ap-
propriations Committee with respect to
increasing the pay of civil service en-
ployes accentuates the many in
equalities found in the civil service.
This is especially so in the War and
Navy Departments, where administra-
tive positions are nearly all filled by
Army and Navy officers. Since the
Civil Service Commission permits only
those who act In administrative capaci-
ties and who have direct supervision
over others to attain the better pay
grades, the civilians in these depart
ments can only hope for crumbs, or for
an opening on the outside" or transfer
to non-military branch Of the Govern
ment where civilians have chance.
The youngster who graduated from
West Point in 1929 now sports q cap
tain's bars and the first lieutenant Of
that year is now major and the buck
private has at least received three
"fogies" totaling is per cent increase
in pay; he may even be q sergeant. Pay
increases of soldiers and sailors and
their officers are automatic, and in ad-
dition, every expansion means that hun
dreds Of officers are promoted and the
relative standings of those not promoted
are moved up so they are that much
closer to promotion. Not so with the
civilian employe. Chances are that his
rating Is the same as in 1929 with about
the same pay.
Since an ofiicer seldom remains on
one assignment for more than two years,
it is the civilian personnel who keep
the machinery running in the interim,
who break in the new ofhcer, who dis
creetly cause the stuffed shirt to think
such and such were his original ideas,