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Evening star., 1940-02-09
Netherlands May Force
War Bonds on Public
BY the Associated Press.


AMSTERDAM. Feb. e-Con-
fronted by failure of its last effort
to float a loan. the government
asked Parliament yesterday for a
300 ,000, 900 guilder (S162 900 ,000)
bond issue with a proviso for forced
participation by the wealthy If
necessary.
The loan, to be issued at par,
bears 4 per cent interest, and ma
lures in 40 years. It is made neces-
sary partly because of the Neither
lands mobilization costs, 100000
guilders (about $918,000 a day.
If the loan is not fully subscribed.
wealthy taxpayers will be forced to
participate at 3 per cent interest
Those possessing 10000 guilders
(s16,200 will be required to sub
scribe up to one-third of l per cent
of their fortune.
The percentage of forced partici-
patton will mount to per cent of
the fortunes of millionaires. In
vestment institutions will be re-
quired to subscribe up to per cent
OF their capital, and companies one
half OF l per cent of their last years
book profits.
A proposed loan of 10000 900
guilders IN December fell fiat when
only 100, 100000 guilders (about $54,-
0OO,00O was subscribed. The
Netherlands has floating debt of
about 80O,000,000 guilders ($432,-
600 0,000).
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Excess Bank Reserves
Register Decline
OF S40,000,000
Money in Circulation
And Treasury Tax
Collections Gain
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Federal Reserve Board said
Yesterday that lendable excess re-
serves of banks declined $4,000, 900
to S5,520.000,000 in the week ended
February 7.
The decline was due mostly to
temporary increase in money in cir
culation and Treasury tax collec-
tions.
The boards statement said:
During the week ended Febru-
ary 7, 1910, member bank reserve
balances decreased S53,000O00. Re-
ductions in member bank reserves
arose from increases Of $83 900, 900
in Treasury deposits with Federal
Reserve banks, SGT 100000 in money
in circulation, S21 100000 in nom
member deposits and other Federal
Reserve accounts and 100000 in
Treasury cash. offset in part by in
creases of $67000,000 in gold stock,
Sl5,000,000 in Reserve Bank credit
and S2,000000 in Treasury currency.
Excess reserves of member banks on
February 7 were estimated to be
approximately 100000, de-
crease of $4O,O0O,0 900 for the week" ;"
Changes in member bank reserve
balances and related items during
the week and the year ended Feb
ruary 7, 1910, were reported as fol-
lows:
Feb. :. Jan. 81, Feb S.
1910. 1910. 1889
In millions of dollars)
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Copper Reported Going
To Germany Via Mexico
By the Associated Press,

BY tne Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 9.-New in
dications that the Mexican Pacific
port OF Manzanillo is bsing used for
transshipment of American copper
to Russia, and perhaps Germany,
was seen yesterday in report that
the 5,964-ton freighter Harpoon of
Portland, Me-, is there awaiting ar
rtvavl of Russian ship.
The Harpoon was reported to have
brought 5000 tons of copper from
New York for transfer to the Rus
sian ship.
Copper, used in shells, torpedoes,
ship piping and communication
lines, Is one of the vital raw ma
terials Germany needs, but the
Transsiberian Railway is the only
route over which it can be carried
from Vladivostok to Germany.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
D. {. Repayments Sc
Pace for Country,
H. 0. |. {. Reports
Borrowers Return
1920 Of Principal
Indebtedness

District of Columbia borrowers
have paid back their loans to the
Home Owners Loan Corp in a VOL
ume which makes their showing a
considerably better record than for
the Nation as a whole" a report on
the corporations financial transac-
tions in this city discloses. District
borrowers have paid back $3,482. .242,
or approximately 282 per cent Of
their principal indebtedness.
More than 1850 families today
"are on their way to debt-free own
ership or already have achieved that
goal" the report said.
OF these, the H. o. L. c. said, 210
have pal din $1,131 ,O89 to discharge
their debts in full, while l.341 are
either entirely current, less than
three months in arrears, or are
meeting all current bills and making
monthly payments to liquidate ar
rearagee Another 285 borrowers
are making adjusted payments to
KEEP their accounts active. The great
majority of these are expected to
rehabilitate themselves, the report
said.
The H. O. L. c. now owns IL homes
in the District which it was forced
to acquire through voluntary deed or
abandonment. 1t also has sold 206
hOmes-Of which 50 were sold last
year-for s1,378,087, about s171, 700
below their capitalized yalue-repre-
senting book loss of $3.50 home
in addition to selling costs, including
commissions of s75,506. The homes
now owned. capitalized at $l23A A3.
have present market value Nof
$106 6,840.
The H. o. L. c. granted 2,091 loans
in the District prior to the close Of
its lending period in June, 1886,
amounting to $l2.143.s7o.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
National Lead Co.
Nets S5,780,
During Year
Profit Compares With
$4,283,140 Earned
In Previous Yeur
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-National
Lead Co. and wholly-owned domes-
tic subsidiaries today reported net
profit for 1899 of $5,78O,500 after all
charges and deduction of a non
recurring loss of ST 602,22
This equaled S1.23 share on COM
mon stock after allowance for class
"a" and "B" preferred dividends.
and compared with s4,283, ,140. or rs
cents common share, in 1888
Company said the homecoming
loss was made up principally of pro-
vision for a reserve of $1,000 900 for
German investments and loss
of more than S50000O in for
eign exchange transactions incurred
through liquidation of cash remit
tances from foreign subsidiaries.
McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. and
subsidiaries, publishers of trade and
technical periodicals. today reported
preliminary net profit for 1899 of
S620.265. equal to s103 a share on
common stock This compared with
S410,922, or 68 cents share, in 1898.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO. Feb. Q lPl.-Poultry, live, 10
trucks; steady; prices unchanged
Butter: 552'169; frmer: creamery, 93
score, 30!s-s4 81, 29a4: a1. 29l2: 30.
lots 2S34
Eggs; 1906: firm fresh graded extra
frsts, local, 26l2: cars, 26l2: frsts. local,
25l2; cars, 1854; current receipts, 25,
=. Potatoes, 81; on track, 1924; total United
states shipments S77: about steady: sup
ples moderate: demand slow: sacked per
hundredweight. Idaho Russet Burbanks,
q S. No. 1,s0-90; Colorado Red Nc
S!ures. U S. No. l.. few sales $50:
2.O1l2; mostly 100 80 per cent u. S, No.
/; l.s5; IS U; S. No. l. unwashed, / so:
Valley section, Cobblers, 65 to SIS per cent
y. s: No, l, 115-2ll Bliss Triumphs, IS
70 Z5 per cent U; S. No. l, 1.1O-25; new
stock dull, supplies light. demand very
slow; Florida Bliss Triumphs. U. s. No. i.
washed. no track sales reported, generally
asking 2.10 a bushel crate
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Foreign Markets

LONDON Feb. (P.-British govern.
ment bonds resumed leadership of the Sc
curities market today as new institutional
Domestic rail stocks also bulked iarre in
the market eye, closing at the days TOPS
after wide fluctuations. Brazilian loans
market. Industrial leaders shared the i'm
proyement and most commodity issues
tended upward.
PARIS.-Price changes in the Bourse to-
day were erratic. Considerable uneasiness
appeared generated in the market BY the
fear approach of spring might bring new
Rentss, except the dollar guaranteed issue:
were still in demand
AMSTERDAM.-Amer shares ad-
the wake of yesterdays improved Wall
Street prices. Domestic equities slipped
after a firm opening
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Boston Wool Market

BOSTON. Feb. LP.-(United States
Department of Agriculture) Domestic
woods were receiving very little attention
in the Boston market today. The price
situation remained unsettled because of
the lack of demands. Low. croSs-bred
South American woods weer fairly active
and prices were showing q STRENGTHENING
tendency on a demand from Canada Wool
tops were very quiet in Boston and deliv-
cries on old orders were showing a decline.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
$50 Tons of Lead Sold

NEW YORK, Feb. 9 P.-St.
Joseph Lead Co. reported 300 tons
of Southeast Missouri pig lead sold
yesterday at s4.S5 per 100 pounds,
East st. Louis; 500 tons at s5.05, New
York, and $50 tons at the New York
average.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Stock Seat Price
Boosted $1,000
To $4,000
BY the Associated Pres

NSSOOIdVtu
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Arrange-
ments were made today for transfer
of a membership in the New York
Stock Exchange at $50,000, an in
crease of $4,000 from the previous
sale. High price for the year was
$4,000 paid on January 10. Two
weeks later, the lowest since 1918,
or $4,000, was established.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Washington Exchange
SALES.

SALES.
Potomac Electric Power 81 pfd.-2
at l15L2.
Capital Traction 1st 5s-$2,00O at
987s.
Washington Gas Light common-2o
at 1884.
Notice-This exchange will be
closed Monday next, Lincoln's s
Birthday.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Poris Exchonoe Rates

PARIS; Feb. Q lP.-The United States
.S.s3 cents to the france in foreign ex-
snsHse ss5s cenfs nesngs rs today compared With
overnieht. Exchange on London. I76. .625.
Prlnclpal rente issues in the bourse
ee Sere; 8 per cent. 53.55 francs; 4l2s "a"
Evening star., 1940-02-09
|New Securities
| Show Increase
|Durinq Week
By the Associated Press.

9y the ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Public Of
ferings of new securities during the
week ended yesterday totaled $32,-
825,800, compared with $17,361 ,563
the previous week and $10,425 ,661
year ago, Poor's Publishing Co.
reported today.
The latest amount was made up
principally of corporate issues to
refund existing obligations. Only
10 per cent of the total represented
q demand for new money.
Comparisons follow:
Municipal.
Last Week. Previous Week. Year Ago.
S4,9OO,sOO S14,6l7,5OO s74os.661
Public Utility.
Railroad.
Industrial.
$4,000 -------- $4,000
Miscellaneous.
2122O0O 100000
Stock.
100000 622.os3 1,777, 900
Total.
32,s25.sOO 17361,563 1O,425 6s1
Evening star., 1940-02-09

Quotations furnished by National Asso-
citation Of Securities Dealers. Inc, which
states they do not necessarily reflect ac-
tual transactions or firm bids or offers. but
should indicate approximate prices and
unless otherwise indicated are as quoted
by the sponsors or iSsuers.
HNot quoted by sponsors or isSuers.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Metal Market

eeetToytie sIM SPOT eo ii25 expors "a
New York. II .35. Tin steadier: spot and
nearby: As Is: forward. $500; Lead steady;
4.s5. Zinc steady: East st. Louis spot and
forward $50. Pig iron. aluminium, anti
mony, quicksilver. platinum. Chtnese VOL
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Odd-Lo DEALINGS
BY the Associated Press

The Securities Commission reported to-
DAY these transactions by customers with
0oo,lot dealers or specialists on the New
YORK Stock Exchange for February s: 3SSS
sales. involving 1921 shares, Including
% short sales involving 1881 shares.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
London Tin Price

LONDON Feb 9 [P.-Tin spot. s23s
los BID f239 asked: future f23s los bid,
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Cost of Schools

The cost of education in the
United States, shown by the last
available census, was $3,250, ,000, 900
annually.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Alleged Boil Jumper
Caught as Liner Docks
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Alexander
Besmanof, 40, who allegedly jumped
bail i'll San Francisco in 1888, was
arrested by Federal agents and New
York detectives when the liner
Washington docked yesterday.
Detectives said Besmanof was an
ex-convict, having served a term in
Alcat1az Prison. Police records
showed he previously was arrested
Is times and was convicted 6 times.
Included in his records were arrests
in Harrisburg, Pa: Massachusetts,,
Florida and Washington, D. G.
According to police records, Alex
ander Besmanof was arrested here
in November. 1888, on false pretense
charges.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
London Bar Silver

roNDON, Feb. 9 P.-Bar silver 21Ad,
~ l.. iEouivalent, 1888 cents on the
dnllar basis. S4.03D Bar gold, 1855, un-
cbanred (Eouiyalent, S33 .S5)
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Westchester 1.2Oa)

ALSO extra or extras
Quotations furnished by National Asso-
ciation OF Securities Dealers, Inc, which
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
should indicate approximate prices.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Rubber Futures

NEW YORK. Feb. 9 GP.-crude rubber
futures opened to II higher March
1914: May, 1870: July. 1s.40b. Bid.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
New York Bar Silver

NEW YORK. Feb. 9 R.-Bar sill
yer, 34s4, unchanged.
Evening star., 1940-02-09

tPlus extra. d 35c paid in 1889. e2%
extra gS14.00 extra paid December 23
1889 k20c extra. N 81 so extra Soc
1889 50c paid December 20. 1889
vS1 90 extra paid January. 1910 1851
extra.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Feb. lP1.-Dividends de.
clared-prepared by Fitch Publishing CO :
Initial.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Federal Land Banks

NEW YORK Feb. lP.-Federal Land
Ae nlk han
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Investing Companies

NEW YORK. Feb Q fP-NationaI AS
sociation Securities Dealers, Inc
Evening star., 1940-02-09
U. S. Treasury Notes

NEW YORK Feb 9 lP.-Prices quoted
In dollars and thirty
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Insurance Stocks

NEW YORK Feb 2 lP. P.-National As
sociation Securities Dealers, Inc: +
Evening star., 1940-02-09
United States Treasury Position

comparable date
Evening star., 1940-02-09
BONDS
PUBLIC UTILITY

MISCELLANEOUS
Chevy Chase Club 1st 4As- lo4
Col Country Club 1st 4Ls lO3
Ter Ref & VIII Corp 1st 4As 100
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Short-Term Securities

tReported by Smith, Barney &; COZ
Evening star., 1940-02-09

Feb. :. Jan. 81, Feb 5,
1910. 1910. 1889.
(In millions of dollars.)
Nogales international., 1940-02-24
R. E. Butler
Victim OF
Auto Crash

Nogales was grieved to learn OF
the death of City Manager r. E.
Butler, SIS, of Tucson, formerly OF
Nogales.
He died Wednesday night OF in
juries received in an automobile COL
lision at the intersection Of Country
Club road and East Speedway, Tue
son, Saturday evening, involving
cars driven by Butler and Miss
Sarah Anson. Mr.. Butler was
thrown from his car. Miss Anson
and passenger in her car were IN
jured, but not critically.
A native Of Texas, Butler came to
Arizona to take a job in the auditor S
office of the Southern Pacific at
Tucson. In a short time he became
a cashier with the Southern Pacific
at Nog2les and then got a job IS
teller with the First National Bank
of Nogales and later became cashier
of the Nogales National Bank. Leav-
ing here he became assistant cas-
Nogales international., 1940-02-24
Arizona Publicizing Sonora

A lot of people have wondered why so many tourists
"A are visiting the west coast of Mexico this winter
figures showing that Sonora is getting tourists
now than ever before
One Of the main reasons is publicity given the neigh
boring state by the Arizona Highways magazine,
published by the Arizona Highway Department.
Page after page and column after column, and
merous beautiful illustrations have appeared in the
Arizona Highways in recent months pubiciZing So
nora and giving that state thousands of dollars Of
free advertising advertising that benefits Nogales
immensely for the reason that ninetyfve percent Of
tourists going into Sonora must come through No
gales.
We believe are safe in saying that the Arizona
Highway Department is doing more to aid Nogales
in promotion of tourists business than any other
ganzation did before, Nogales being publicized
the road to Guaymas, fisherman's paradise,
and other interesting places in Sonora
The highway magazine reaches all parts of the Unit
ed States and in addition to giving much space to
Guaymas fishing, and Sonora in general as play
ground for tourists it tells about the bulfghts at No
gales and lot Of other things that attract tourists
from the snowbound East.
When the highway magazine speaks of Mexico it
is concerned only with Sonora for the reason that So
is next door to Arizona. The tourists attracted
there by the magazines publicity spend big wad of
money at Nogales enroute to and from Sonora points
Tourists come to Arizona for vacation. After a
few weeks basking in sunshine and visiting points Of
interest in the state their feet get itchy and they want
to see something else. The highway magazine Incl
dentaly, the most attractive publication of the kind
ever saw tells them that the ideal place for side
trip is Sonora
Nogales international., 1940-02-24
Prohibit Spuds
From Sonora

Fo''cI'" cement was nade yester-
da'' by C. E. Bells. District Super
visor U. S. Department. that Irish
potatoes would no longer be per-
mitted entry at Noeales unless salts
factory evidence is presented that
they are actually grown in Sonora.
t~'~'o NGcaSr"ry
"rn'Ise federal restrictions govern
inf, the entry of potatoes prohibit
them from areas other than Sonora.
Potatoes from Sinaloa are now be-
ing sold in the Nogales, Sonora,
markets.
Ihu prohibition on potatoes from
areas other than the State of So
nora, is to prevent the possible en-
try Of injurious insects and plant
diseases.
Nogales international., 1940-02-24

ier of the Consolidated National
Bank in Tucson.
Butler was a former member OF
the Pima county board Of super
visors and was appointed city man
ager of Tucson in 1881. He was :
member of the Tucson Rotary Gu
and attended the annual Rotary dis
trict conference at Nogales las
April.
VERY POPULAR
Speaking of his popularity tie
Arizona, Daily Star of Tucson Thur"
day morning said:
He was one of the city's most
widely known and popular figures.
counting among his friends not
only those with whom he associ-
ated politically, but his political
opponents as we'll. He was @ ia
vorite aancng the news'7apermen
who covered the city hall because
Of his unfailing courtesy and
readiness to give assistance in
gathering the news of municipal
affairs"
Nogales international., 1940-02-24

Pierrepont B. Noyes, president
of the corporation, and Holton v.
Noyes, a director, had played with
the orchestra for years. Senti-
mental ties were too strong to per-
nit the breaking UP of an asso-
citation so closely binding the past
and present.
AS known today. thirty mu-
sicians make up the ensem BILE.
Under the sponsorship of Com
munity Associated Clubs Can em-
ployee organization of Oneida
Ltd.) monthly free concerts are
given in the Club House. Hun
dreds attend from distant points
and as a rule standing room Is ct
a premium.
Eighty-five years old. and now
at its best, this orchestra COM
mands high place as an organiza-
tion historically unique in the ann
ais of music.
Nogales international., 1940-02-24

that warm January afternoon. AllS
were members of the Oneida Com
munity, one Of the many economic
experiments of that day and age.
Lincoln, the weary President of
the war-divided Union, had pro-
claimed that on January /, 1863,
he would by emergency edict set
free, forever, the black peoples OF
the slave-holding states.
The Community was fervently
abolitionist and old time records
say that a great throng of visitors
gathered on New Years night
1S63-to hear the Emancipation
commemorated in music.
The eighteen members Of that
Arst orchestra (the second Oldest
Nogales international., 1940-02-24
Nogales Boosted In Star Edition

CONTAINING 116 pages, the sixteenth annual rodeo
edition of the Arizona Daily Star of Tucson was
issued yesterday
The edition is big boost for Arizona and bound to
attract thousands Of tourists and settlers to the
state.
One of the features making big hit with Nogalians
is entire page of Nogales pictures giving the bor
der metropolis hundreds of dollars worth of publicity.
1t is the attractive special edition issued
by The Star and each and every person who had any
thing to do with the big task Of putting out such
number is entitled to much credit
Nogales international., 1940-02-24
New Deal
Business Index

This is the way that Babson's re-
r~r'e on business sum up condi-
tions over the period covered by
the New Deal:
During the year 1888 business
activity averaged 105 per cent high
er than in 1882.
In 1884 the average total of bust
ness was per cent greater than in
1888
The early months of 1885 showed
a gain of As per cent over the same
months of 1884 Business in the sec
ond half averaged IT per cent above
the latter part of 1884.
1886
General business in 1886 averaged
16 per cent above the level for 1885.
1897
Business activity for the year 1887
averaged per cent above 1886.
1898
First quarter averaged 25 per cent
below 1887, bottom was reached in
May, and then business surged
ahead Is per cent in second half.
1889
Business gain for year equals 1875
per cent.
Nogales international., 1940-02-24
Building Boom Sure To Come

THE acute housing shortage in Nogales will be rem
Aedied before long.
We say this for the reason that demand for houses
is bound to eventually result in building boom.
Tourists are coming here by the hundreds and many
would stay here months at time if they could rent
houses apartments and too certain percentage of
those folks would become permanent residents at
least buy property and build homes in which to spend
the winter each year where the climate is incompar
able.
Thirty years ago we saw the same sort of housing
shortage at Phoenix exists in Nogales today Even
tually there became great demand for houses, re-
sultng in building boom that has never let up.
Nogales will become much larger city just soon
houses and apartments available for hundreds
of tourists who would like to locate here
Nogales international., 1940-02-24

in New York State) began playing
together in 1854. History says
the members of the symphony
never elected a leader, but every
man did what seemed right in his
own eyes," Nevertheless, the his
torian says "Ole Bull was pleased
to visit and play with them, and
Jenny Lind could find no fault
when the curious old instruments
supported her first and only song
In. the great hall"
The old Community was reor-
ganized in 1880. Silversmithing
as well as its other industries be-
came the basis for the new cor
poration-Oneida Ltd.
Nogales international., 1940-02-24

Mrs. Foster Rockwell marguerite
Adams) stopping at The Casa de
Sierra and her husband at The
Montezuma during the cattlemens S
convention. Account of the big
crowd both couldn't get accomoda-
tions at the same hotel. They own
the famous Hotel Adams in Phoenix
founded by Mrs. Rockwelrs father,
the late John G. Adams. Mr.. Rock
we'll in his college days at Yale was
Nogales international., 1940-02-24
Mathews

THE latest "rumored entry" into the race for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination III Arizona
this year is William R. Mathews, publisher of the Ar
iona Daily STAR at Tucson whose friends have been
planting feeers to determine public reaction to his
entry into the race.
Bill Mathews has some very definite ideas gov
ernmental problems, and (ke too many newspaper
pubshers) he voices those ideas forcefuy and with
out restraint
Mathews, with cooperative legislature, would TN
doubtedy make good Governor but he could not be
elected.
His newspaper has been outspoken against Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the New Deal He has also bitterly
criticized the administration Of Gov Bob Jones' Mart
ews has found very little in Democratic state
tional administrations which he could defend sup
port.
At the hectic state convention held in Tucson, in
May 1886, Mathews assailed the President and the
New Deal drawing vigorous booing from the assenbl-
ed Democrats and blow the chin from Andy
Bettwy former mayor Of Nogaos-a "bozo" stunt On
the part of Bettwy Mathews landed in sitting po-
siton as reward for utterng the thoughts he SIN
cerev entertained If he enters the gubernatorial
rest this wear he will be knocked flat by avalanche
of Democratic ballots marked by people who feel de-
spite all faults, that the New Deal and President
Roosevelt are still the hope of the nation.
We are positive Bill Mathews with a cooperative
legislature, would make good Governor but we know
he cannot be elected. (Coconino Sun, FlagstafD
IF al the candidates who have avowed they will
make the race stay in and do not withdraw and with
the entry Of at least two Others Bob Jones will be re-
nominated and reelected for second term! (Coco-
nino Sun)
Ioo1I fo,