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The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-12-06

of the Pittsburg board of ednca- tion for many years.
 Murray was a member of the national coal production commission during lhe World war He is af= filiated with the ahighbroWa Am- eriean Academy of Political and So- ciaI Science and bas testified fre- quently before Congressional com mitlees on labor questions.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-12-06
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALASKA AT THE TOP

The Daily Alaska Empire in Ju- neau points out.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-12-06

LEW NJ. WILLIAMs--E Editor e<Prop.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-12-06
FIRST MESSAGE FOR
 SANTA CLAUS ARRIVES AT LOCAL P0ST0FFICE

Postmaster B. Y. Grant has his first business for Santa Claus for 1940. indi-. eating that despite war, famine and what-haVe-you. old Santa Claus goes oa as ever.
 Addressed to Santa Claus, Toy Land', the Post master was forwarding to the North Pole this week this typical message from Marion and Martin:
 We want a ship that eX- plodes, set of tools; one track, has 36 pieces; two guitar-ukes; two parade drums; two comets; one Hiyo Silver horse; United States puzzle map; neck and neck horses"
 There were several other items listed but it will be up to old Santa to figure them out.
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Was Athlete
 An ardent protagonist of indus trial untonism, he followed Lewis in flashing out at areaetionary craft union leaders, in the American Federation Of Labor Nevertheless. he is considered a deft conciIator.
 Many years a Republican. he sup ported Roosevelt in 1886 and plug ged for his reelection this year aI= though Lewis had lndorsed Wendell Willkie's candidacy.
 Tall. gray-baired and compaetly built. Murray. at 5I gives the im- pression of elastic Yigor. In his youth he was a star soccer player.
 School Board Member
 He speaks with a distinct Scot tish burr and is a good phrasemak- CT but does not attempt oratorical fights in the Lewis manner. He is Catholic and has been q member
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-12-06
MURRAY CAME
 HARD WAY UP
 LABOR LADDER
By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON. Dec. 6 = Child hood tutelage in trade unionism combined with a fist fight al the age of IS launched the CLOS Phil-. ip Murray on his career as a labor leader He was recently named 10 succeed John L. Lewis as chief Of CIo.
 Back in 1904 Murray Was braWny young PennsY lvaBia miner just two years out of his native Scotland One day he came out of the pit af- Ter 12 hours of work and complain ed to the company weighmaster that he was not being credited with all the coal he was sending 10 the shaft.
 Words led to a light Murray licked the weighmaster and was fired for brawling on company property The miners next morn ling went out on strike in sympathy
 In Mine At 10
 4 mass meeting was called. a Io- Ical of the United Mine Workers was organized. and the youthful Murray was elected president by aeclama- tion His father voted for him along l with the other miners.
 Murray had grown up in an at= mosphere Of British labor struggle. When he was years old his father took him to a union meeting at which settlement of a long strike was announced giving the Scotch miners a substantial daily wage in- crease. At 10 he went to work in ] the mine with his father
 He studied evenings, heard his father talk enthusiastically of un- ion gains and of the liberalism of British Statesmen William E. Clad stone and Robert Peel
 Also Diplomat ! Advancing from local 10 district union leader in western PennsyI- vania, Murray continued intensive study of the relationship between labor and industry. He became in- ternational vice president of the l United Mine Workers in 1920 and has been the right hand man of John L. Lewis in that organization for the last 20 years.
 The granite-iawed. shaggy-maned 1 Lewis has overshadoWed his less spectacular first lieutenant although Murray has been the big unions main negotiator with coal operators. He long has been rated a diplomatic but persistent bargainer, well post ed on the economics of coal and steel
 Murray led Lewis campaign to organize the steel workers. helped formulate the agreement with Un- tied States Steel and directed CLOS
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Was Athlete

fierce battle with aHtue steeI@ in .I937.
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Evening star., 1940-12-02
500 Are Registered
For Sunday School
Workers Course
Five-Doy Instruction
For Baptist Group
Storts Tonight

More than 500 registrations have
been received for a city-wide Sun
day school workers training course
opening at 7 o'clock tonight in the
Brookland Baptist ChurchS Sixteenth
and Monroe streets NE, church Of
ficess announced today.
Thirty-two Baptist churches Of
the District convention, which in
cludes nearby Maryland, are rep
resented.
The five-day course is under the
auspices of the Baptist Sunday
School Superintendents' Association
of Washington. Instruction will be
given by 10 teachers of the Sunday
School Board of the Southern Bap-
tist Convention, Nashville, Tenn.
Glasses will be divided into IL
groups, affording instruction in all
Sunday school grades as we'll as spe-
cial courses for church librarians,
secretaries and school superinten-
dents.
Following As minutes of class work
in the church Sunday school build
ing, the entire school will assemble
in the church auditorium for in
spirational messages from the fac
ulty and for reports from depart
ments. A second 45-minue class Pc
riod will close the evening.
Robert L. Haycock, first assistant
superintendent of Washington
schools and a member of the Sunday
School Association, will have SUPER
vision of the course. He will be as
sisted by DR.. Jacob P. Edmund of
the Nashville board and by officers
of the local association.
Evening star., 1940-12-02
Fear Is Worst Donger,'
Rubbi Tells Group Here

Fear is more dangerous than the
actual dangers we face, Rabbi Hen
ry Segal of the B'nai Israel Congre-
CATION told about 1000 congregation
members at their 10Th annual BAN
quet at the Willard Hotel last night
Rather than despair at world diff
ficulties, Rabbi Segal urged that
the listeners look to flaws in them
selves. Other speakers were Mrs.
Leo Garner, president of the con-
gregation sisterhood; Paul Himmel-
farb, brotherhood president, and
Mrs. Harry Rubinstein, banquet
chairman.
Evening star., 1940-12-02
1oxaway Bronfe Everman
To Be Buried Today

Funeral services for Toxaway
Bronte Everman, 81, well-known
architect, who died Saturday at his
home in Belle Haven, Va, were to
be held in Burlington, Ind, today.
The body, accompanied by his sister,
Mrs. William Humphrey, and Mr..
Humphrey, left Washington Satur-
day night.
A native of Indiana, Mr.. Ever
man was the son of DR.. Barton
Warren Evermann, famous natural
ist, an ichthyologist who held sew
eral important posts with the Bu-
Evening star., 1940-12-02
Marine Sergeant
Honored on Retirinq
After 80 Years
Fred Porquette Reviews
Navy Yurd Parade
CIimuxing Coreer

Paymaster Sergt. Fred Parquette,
United States Marine Corps, put on
his uniform for the last time today
and reviewed four companies of the
Navy Yard guard as an order of
retirement was read to him after 80
years in the service
Sergt. Parquette was rendered the
highest honor an enlisted man can
receive in the Marines when he re-
viewed the parade.
1t. Clyde G. Brandon, adjutant of
the parade, called Sergt. Parquette
TO the fore after the contingent had
passed the reviewing officer once. In
a loud voice 1t. Brandon read the
order from Maj. Gen. Holcomb, Ma
rine commandant, on Sergt. Par
puette's retirement.
Joined Corps in 1904.
Then with the colors in the lead.
and the band playing ''The Halls of
Montezuma, Maj. Harry E. Leland
ordered Sergt. Parquette to his side
and the marching men went past
at "eyes right"
A little muscle in the 54-year-old
sergeant's throat worked furiously
but he looked straight ahead and
only when the men were back in
ranks and at rest did he pump the
extended hands of the attending
officers and grin happily.
He Joined the corps in December
1904, at his home in Saginaw, Mich.
He served on shipboard with the
army of pacification in Cuba after
the Spanish-American War, with
the Haitian Gendarmarie, and six
years with the Army.
Will Live in Arlington.
He didn't want mention made of
his duties during the World War,
which kept him in the United States
when the other boys were in France.
During his seven and a half en-
&istments Sergt. ParQuette has seen
pay increases, food Improvements
(grub, he called it, and all-around
betterment of conditions in the Ma
rine Corps.
He will live with his wife at 1884
North Buchanan street, Arlington,
on the three-quarters pay the corps
provides for 30-year men.
Evening star., 1940-12-02

reau of Fisheries here, and who at
one time was vice president Of the
District Board of Education.
Mr.. Everman attended public
schools here and was graduated from
Cornell University, where he after
ward became an instructor in archi-
lecture.
He designed many types of build
ings and was architect for the pic
turesque Hilton Village, well known
to many Washingtonians, located
near Newport News, Va. He de-
signed much of the landscaping for
the Washington Cathedral. He was
associated with Edward w. Dom,
jr.. in the new House Office Building
project and the terminal buildings
Evening star., 1940-12-02
Churchill Birthday Fund
Gets $140, 900 From Juvo

Bs the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec 2.-Prince Bern
hard of the Netherlands, husband Of
Princess Juliana, Saturday turned
over to the chancellor of the ex-
chequer a check for $4,000 (about
S140,00O) subscribed by the people
of Java to Prime Minister Churchill's s
birthday fund.
The Prime Minister was 66 Sat-
,trIou
Evening star., 1940-12-02

at Mount Vernon. Va, and with
Arthur Brown of San Francisco, in
the big City Hall at Pasadena.
Evening star., 1940-02-18

It is antici- Eareld Z. Burton.
mated that as a result Of the discus
sion, the chapter Will join forces
with other local bodies interested In
securing proper legislation on this
matter of real importance to busi-
ness concerns in the District.
The technical session will be adj
dressed by Harold e. Burton, vice
president and treasurer OF Southern
Dairies, Inc, on. the subject Of
sMarketing and Distribution Costs. "
Mr., Burton's talk will emphasize the
necessity Of making adequate cost
analyses to insure that bounda-
ries Of distribution areas are not
extended beyond the point Of dimin-
ishing returns particularly in con-
aection with the wholesale market
ing Of food products, such as ice
cream and frosted fruits.
Financial District Comment.
FIFTY shares OF Washington Gas
Light preferred stock sold at l0S
on the washington Exchange yes
terday. washington Railway d
Electric preferred was strong at ll6
And IS shares of Capital Transit
moved at 14h. unchanged.
Edward g. Baltz. secretary OF the
perpetual Building Association, v.
Manning Hoffman, John Dodge,
nnbert D. ScholtzeJ John wilkins and
Tnnroe warren will leave here to-
rsorrow for Florida to board the
1alts yacht ct Miami for . fishing
Evening star., 1940-02-18

Electric customers above include
those of the Potomac Electric Power
Co. in the District of Columbia and
Maryland sections of the metropoli-
tan area; also totals of the Virginia
Public Service Corp. in Virginia Sec
tions of the area.
Gas meters are reported by the
Washington Gas Light Co. and its
aff1liates, To the District telephone
figures for January have been added
adjoining metropolitan totals for
the end of December, latest avail
able, but shade conservative.
Decline Wiped Out.
Capital Transit's new passenger
record for January more than wiped
out the decline of 1887 and 1888 and
broke the previous January high set
in 1896.
The company's street cars and
buses in the District of Columbia
handled l4,o47,732 passengers dur
ing the month";. compared with 49,.
756,273 passengers in January, 1889,
a gain Of 1,19l, ,459, or SO per cent.
January this year brought the usual
seasonal decline from December,s
record Of Is, ,279, ,8o7. however. @.
Passengers for the II months
ended January. 81 this year totaleA
1885, ,i8S, also the highest for the
period on record, and compared
with l6i. .7sS,453' in the q months
ended January 81, 1899. #
Passenger totals for January and
the IL months ended January 81 in
various years follow:
Evening star., 1940-02-18
Telenhoncs Imcree =.

Telephones Increase.
District o. Columbia telephones at
the end of January anG daily aver
age originating calls during the
month also stood at their highest
marks in history.
The Chesapeake e. Potomac Tele-
phone Co. reported 255, ,846 stations,
compared with 241 ,26l on the same
1889 date, a gain of 1885, or 6 per
cent
A striking picture of telephone
development here during the last
decade Is gained by comparison with
Isl ,285 District telephones at the
end of January, 1929. Since then
there has heen an increase of 104,-
56l telephones, or So per cent.
Even in the rush Of World War ac-
tivit7 there were only 84,4Ol tele-
phones in Washington at the close
Of 1918.
Daily average calls in January
climbed to 1862, ,923, against 1885,
1856 in the same 1889 month, q gain
Of approximately IL per cent. Com
pared with an average of 664, ,306
calls for the same 1929 month, there
was a gain of u per cent.
District telephones at the end OF
January and daily average orig
inatins calls. during January in
various years follow:
Evening star., 1940-02-18
Utility Records Indicate Steady Growth
OF Capital Area Continues Unobuted
Capitol Tronsit Joins
Porode With New
Jonuory Peck
BY DONALD B. HADLEY,

Convincing evidence that growth
Of the Washington metropolitan
area is continuing unabated, was
found last night In public utility re-
ports for the end Of January.
Electric customers and kilowatt-
hour sales, gas meters and sales and
telephone stations and calls again
registered new all-time highs.
A new January record in revenue
passengers Of the Capital Transit
Co. also was greeted as an impor-
tant addition to favorable indicators.
Out in Virginia transit passengers
Of the Washington, Virginia, Mary
land Coach Co. reached another
peak.
At the end of January there were
11,138 more electric customers in the
metropolitan area than year ago:
9,727 more active gas meters and
23, ,287 more telephones.
Compared with the same 1898
date, there were 81 ,062 more electric
customers, 1881 more gas meters
and 1851 more telephones.
Sharp Gains Recorded.
Compared with the 1885 date, only
five years ago, there were 1891
more electric customers, 45,108 more
gas meters and 95,694 more tele-
phones.
Electric customers, gas meters and
telephones in the metropolitan area
at the end of January In recent
years follow:
Evening star., 1940-02-18
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK. feb. II tR,.-The pound
sterlins. closed sossy week on . rising
After dsy-by-day declines lasting around
two weeks. the pound dug In. for frac.
ticnal gain Friday and added another n
" fcrsien cir s1chanse men said. however.
the behavior of the futures market for the
British money WAS more revealing than the
spot. The discount on 94-day stefline
narrowed y. cent TO only 8 cents h.,nv
the suot price. or close to the smallest
difference since the pound plunEed ct the
outbreak Of war abroad.
The neutral nufrencses moved alcns q
~ s9 Il eens IL Il ri r.iaticn e Is. a,iiar
y sClnsine rates follow f0reE Britain In
dollars others in cssss, cent?:
O1ciAl Canadian Control Board buying
rate for United States dollars. 1000: sell
msrt.s Tssf IN .rfss New F1sss rSTf
Great Britain. demand. 3.aHM: cables.
8. %; a0-day bills. 3.e4M: e0-day bills
3;es: SslsiHm: 1852: DsnT.rk 1879;
s.. .sSn sssnssDlsnt; i1oe); s orsscs; 7aMn:
Rupsn,s. Ss % sssn: sssdsn. ss ssSs: switssr. sS
land. 22.43: YnEoslsy1a, 2 .3Sn.
Eotin America.
Arxentina: .ofnetat x0.77: free. "a. so:
1re1l. ofhcial. 6.0b: free. $40; Mexico,
,.g.a; ) q as.4s; aoa. Kons.. Pass; sa.ns-
~ n a, sa.sSe sa,sss ssAarvi.s
Evening star., 1940-02-18
Stocks Advance
Fractions 10 81
In Brisk Rally
SteeIs and IndustriuIs
Assume Leadership;
Selling Absorbed
BY FREDERICK GARDNER,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

Oy ESEOG1SANN NnkS14NAIxbt
Associated Press Financial Writer.
NEW YORK, Feb. IT, Buyers
came into the stock market today,
sending prices up fractions to 2 or
more In one of the most active short
sessions Of the year.
Steels and industrials led the adj
vance which saw four unrelated
leaders reach their highest points
In more than q year. These were
Loft, Cluett Peabody, Cleveland
Graphite Bronze and Brooklyn Man
haitian Transit preferred.
The last named was eliminating
a one-week's rise of more than 13
points on expectation New York
City'S 2l-year-old transit unification
goal is at last assured.
The sessions transactions totaled
402, 900 shares, the best Saturday
since January 13 and practically as
large as some Of the week days of
recent date. On Saturday q week
ago volume was 319.8O0 shares.
The Associated Press average of
so representative stocks gained 0.2 OF
point at 50.4.
Turnover Expands.
Prices shaded upward at the open
ing, although the volume was tiny
and transactions slow. During the
first half hour. however, turnover ex-
panded sharply. Some of the lead
ers, under the buying wave, bounced
upward as much as 2 points.
When trading slowed, attempts at
prof1t-taking appeared, but no VOL
ume developed. Prices held their
own and, In some cases, edged
higher.
Among the best gamers on the
day were Bethlehem Steel, Youngs-
town Sheet, Allied Chemical. West
inghouse, American Can. Western
Union, International Mercantile Ma
rine, Marshall Field, Hall Printing.
Owens Illinois. Canada Dry and
United Aircraft.
Bonds were practically unchanged.
Commodities were uneven. Wheat
at Chicago closed unchanged to ~
cents a bushel lower and corn was
unchanged to u cent higher. Cotton
was unchanged to 20 cents . bale
higher.
Weeks Change Small.
Stocks on the week showed little
change. The 60-stock average at
the finish today wAs unchanged
from the. previous Saturday. The
weeks sales totaled sofa ,965 shares,
q little under the 3,374,775 Of the
week preceding. = -,
Monday the exchange was closed
in observance Of Lincoln's birthday.
Tuesday values, in modest dealings,
were about unchanged. Wednesday
they dipped a little. Thursday they
were up shade. Friday they tended
a little lower again. Then came the
upturn In today's two-hour session.
Evening star., 1940-02-18
Wheat Prices Swinq
Widely in Active
Chicago Dealings
Market Is Unchanged
To1N Cents Lower
At Days Close
BY FRANKLIN MULLIN.


CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-With trad
ing In high gear, wheat prices fuc-
tuAted rapidly over q range Of
cents .busiiel today, winding up lln-
changed to TX cents lower compared
with yesterdays hectic finish. At
one time wheat advanced about q
cent to the highest levels since
early January.
The aftermath of the scent rise
just before Fridays close proved to
be scramble of both buyers and
sellers as traders jockeyed for posi-
tions following an unusually sharp
price change.
Heavy selling was induced by rain
and snow in the Southwest and re-
ports of increased redemption OF
loan wheat. Profit takers also were
active. On the other hand, an un-
usually low estimate of Argentine
wheat production, placing the crop
at the smallest volume in "A years
stirred up more buyers, many of
whom were covering short" sales.
Final prices were: May 1.02N i .03,
July 1.00A-H, and September 1.O0A
as. The most deferred delivery
showed most strength throughout
the session, being as much as IL
cents higher than yesterdays close
at one stage.
Corn closed unchanged to u high
er, May 56la-M, July 57h; oats un-
changed to u up; rye y OF to Y
up and lard 7s higher.
Grain range at principal markets
today:
Evening star., 1940-02-18
March Cotton Rises
To 11.04 Gents on
New York Market
Scores Gain Despite
Selling Of Loree
Spot Interests 49,.
~ the Associated Press.
NrSu vtR1n4e UAJ4

~ Inv AtSoCA&tGu TIeas.
NEW YoHae Feb. the March
cotton contract rose to 11.N cents q
pound today, the best price since
nid-JanuAry. when the staple was
selling at the highest level In several
years. The market generally closed
unchanged to 4 points higher.
March advanced despite selling
pressure through large spot inter-
ests. q phenomenon which has put
the spot month on the defensive for
several weeks. Most other offerings
represented placing Of hedges
against Government loan cotton
equities.
Bombay put the market on a for
ward track at the start. Steady
trade demand and some outside sup
port kept it there the rest of the
session. Firmness of securities was
rated a bullish factor by most brok-
ers.
Worth street reports indicated the
weeks sales of textiles were far be-
low current output. Despite price
cuts on coarse yarn items, buyers
kept their hands in their pockets.
Exports Friday. 1928 bales: sea-
son so far, 4,700518. Port receipts,
20,987; port stocks, 2,964,953.
Range follows:
Evening star., 1940-02-18
New York Produce
NEW YORK. reb. II U

NEW YORK. Feb. II F.-x&gA 1b,375;
Mixed colors fancy to extra fancy, 2sh-
%; extras, 27M-2SN; storage-packed
nrsts 27N-h: sraded nrsts. 27-27M; Sec
80: sverase cheeks 23h..24.
Whites. resale of premium marks. BON
81: nearby and and MidyesteIn. premium
27-27h. Resale Of nearby heavier me-
diums. 27h.3O Nearby and Midwestern
mediums. 81; Pacific Coast jumbo and
premiums, 31A-36: specials. 2qh-3ON;
u.,,,.,. ,sand:rds ss,sMh ssh-2s; mediums ss-2sM;
Browns. nearby fancy to extra fancy.
2S24-2ah. Nearby and MidWestern apc-
cials. 2a-2aA; standards. 27-27M: me-
butter. 7oe.Sbs unsettled. Creamery,
iisher thsn sxtra 29.2gN: extra tS2
snas sssss'; ;sas as f5ss sssss ssss1sn' as-as; 'se-
Shscss. LOT; easier: state. whols
Ghaneed. I !
DTessed poultry ssnsraily steady. All
treah and frozen Prices Unclaimed.
1--we poultry ~ freteht, about steady.
FOWL co3ored. 80: Le6horns, II.
n expr4Se weaker. Chickens Rocks,
srs, cIelges iSH-20. ycwi. ecisred. South-
Ys1sss sss;. 4 ssas6s;Ss sR6 Il 1if.a ga
Evening star., 1940-02-18
Gas Demand Scars.

Gas sales Of the Washington Gas
Light Co. and afiiliated companies
In the metropolitan area during
January reached the highest level
for any month on record.
The total Of l,745 ,314 m. C. I. (thou-
sand cubic feet) showed much more
than the usual season gain from
1850 1856 m. c. t. for the preceding
month Of December and compared
with 1,366,928 m. C. f. for January,
1899, an increase Of 378, 1886 m. c. +.
or approximately n per cent.
Since the same period in 1894,
January sales have more than dou-
bled and since the same 1890 period
they have more than trebled.
January sales are shown below
along with active gas meters for the
end Of January in various years:
Evening star., 1940-02-18
Virginia Record Broken.

In rapidly growing Virginia Sec
tions the Washington, Virginia,
Maryland Coach Co. reported a new
January record of 900 ,451 passengers
compared with 322, ,230 in the same
1899 month, a gain of 77,221 or 23.9
per cent. The January total, how
ever, was down seasonally from the
December record Of 412,128 passen-
gers.
For the II months ended January
81 this year, passengers Of the Vir-
ginia line totaled 4,3l7, ,469, against
3,708,610 for the IL months ended
January 81, 1899. This also was
new record forsthe period.
Passengers for January and the
IL months ended January 81 in vari-
Gus years follow:
Evening star., 1940-02-18
Virginia Data Separated.

VHSIu1 O1t1 CSP3ISte0.
Spectacular gains In fas meters
and sales in the Virginia HActions
have played an inportaY4t1paft ~
boosting the metropolitan area fig.
urea above.
Separated from the grand totals,
they also registered new all-time
peaks at the end Of January. Both
OF them were more than double
levels for 1884.
Virginia meters at tho end of the
month and January sales in various
years were reported By the Alex
andria ann Rnsslyn sfiiliated COM,
parlies as follows: