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Evening star., 1940-07-26
Brokers' Looms Guin
$1,000, 900 for Week
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The Federal Reserve Board re.
ported today that last weeks loans
to brokers and dealers on securities
held by reporting member banks in
New York City totaled $288 600, 900.
For the week ended Wednesday the
total represented an increase OF
$1.000,O00 when compared with the
previous week.
Loans for the corresponding week
year ago totaled 1923 900 900.
Evening star., 1940-07-26
Washington Exchange

SALES.
Capital Traction 1st $500 at 1O2.
Georgetown Gas $500 at 1852.
Potomac Electric Power 51s % pfd-
at 11334.
Washington Gas Light pfd-lO at
los; 10 at los.
Riggs National Bank common-l5 at
26l: 10 at 261.
Capital Transit Col at 111a; so
at IL.
Mergenthaler Linotype-10 at IA.
Capital Traction 1st 5s-S5 900 at
102; $4,000 at 102; $1,000 at 1O2.
Evening star., 1940-07-26
| New Securities
Decrease After
Busy Period

BH TIE Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 26.-Public sale
Of new security issues fell off during
the week ended yesterday to s22.-
08l 900, Poor's Publishing Co. re-
ported today The decline followed
two successive weeks of unusual
activity in which new offerings had
exceeded Sl0OO00,O0O.
Most of the weeks offerings
represented municipal financing, no
corporate issues of any size reach
ing the market.
Comparisons follow:
Municipal.
This week. Previous week. Year aeo
SlS.941,oo0 SIS. .541,00O S9.414,5U0
Public Utilities.
S",3o0.000 S6:1, ,66O.OOu S26,50O 600
Industrial.
$50. 100000
Railroad
---- S6.460.U0O -
Miscellaneous.
Sio0000 S9,500,00O S11a 600
Stock
$4,000 S3.709 900 S464s 600
Total.
S22,0sl 900 Sill $4,000 500
Evening star., 1940-07-26
Listing Fees Waived
By Chicago Exchange
n, the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOClated PreSS.
CHICAGO, July 26.-The board
of governors of the Chicago Stock
Exchange voted yesterday to waive
until December 81, 1910, the usual
fees for original listing of securities
on the exchange, except issues now
listed on the New York Exchange
which have never been listed here.
Chairman Arthur NJ Belts said
the action was taken upon recon-
mendation of the special commit
tee appointed last Monday to study
plans for stimulating volume on the
Chicago Exchange.
Evening star., 1940-07-26
Member Bank Deposits
Drop at New York
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 26-Member
bank deposits for reserve account
with the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York decreased about S80,000.-
900 during the past week, the banks
condition statement disclosed.
Gold certificates on hand and
due from the United States Treas
ury rose around $83000.O00. The
United States Treasurers account
with the bank was S27,OO0,000
larger.
Federal reserve notes in actual
circulation declined about $4,000 900.
The condensed statement follows:
Gold certificates on hand
and due from U. S. Treas
r1,gI ury -----------sa -sa.oi;.Il4.ooo
Bills discounted:
Secured by U. S. Govt. OBJ
legations cS3,OOO
Total bills discounted $4,000
Bills bought in open market Nil
Industrial advances 1aai. 900
Total U: S. Govt. securities 75l,1O1 600
Total bills and securities 1888 a. 900
Uncollected items 157,62O,OOO
Federal Reserve notes in ac-
tnal na,oii circulation n--------- 1'3s2,s:3,ooO
Member bank-reserve &C
count " 1891 ~ q, 900
Total deposits --- S.406.4 459, 900
Ratio of total reserves to deposit and
Federal Reserve note liabilities combined:
93.1 per cent.
Evening star., 1940-07-26
Odd-Lot Dealings
BY the Associated Press.

The Securities Commission reported to-
day these transactions by customers with
odd lot dealers or specialists on the New
purchases involving 1890 shares; i.s43
sales involving 40,131 shares, including
81 short sales involving 2,O63 shares
Evening star., 1940-07-26
New York Bur Silver

NEW YORK, July rs tF.-Bar
silver, 3424, unchanged.
Evening star., 1940-07-26
'Ex dividend.

+PIus exsfas d eoc paid June Is. 1910
e 90 extra gS14.00 extra paid Decem-
ber %. 1899 20c extra. m 81 80 ex-
tra, p SOC paid September 20. 1898.
1910. vS1 90 extra paid January 1910.
$500 extra.
Evening star., 1940-07-26

Approximate Soes OF Stocks the N Stock Exchange
1l:o0 A.M------. 10000 1900 Noon l40, 600
100 Z. NJ. 100000 NJ 10000
Total Sales for the day, 27000O
Unit of trading, 10 shares
In bankruptcy Iecelvershp
Rates of dividend annual
burSemens based the last quarterly
on Unless otherwise noted
49, ~
Ex dividend; xr Ex rishts aAso extra extras
cumuated dVdends Declared
this year fPayable in stock PAID last Cash
k Accumulated dividends
Evening star., 1940-07-26
BONDS
MISCELLANEOUS
STOCKS

Col Country C 1st 4l4s 1857 1O3
Ter RI & w Cp st 4l4s 194S 100
Evening star., 1940-07-26
Stock Market Turns
Moderately Higher
In Quiet Rally
SteeIs, Motors, Rails,
Aircrofts, SpecioIties
Are Favored
Stock Averages

CO. Stock Range Since 1927:
Evening star., 1940-07-26
BY VICTOR EUBANK.

Compiled by the Associated PressD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-19

thinking that II 1t were not quite all
. newspaper story" the whole thing
was very much exaggerated. 1t was
elating to be in London at last
what with stopovers in Bermuda and
waiting for the plane In Lisbon I
had been 10 anxious days on my way.
1t had been five years since I had
been in London. The city as came
into 1t looked very much the same.
The streets seemed busy and peace
full.
The first SOLDERING sensation was
the score OF bomb damage my avia-
tor companions were keeping. At
what we decided was the edge Of
London proper-having chalked up
Is hits in well over 100 miles of
motoring-we began a new score. We
had not gone half a mile before the
new score was double the old and
for the first time we saw gaps be-
tween rows of houses-gaps where
other houses had been. Bomb DAM
age Is freakish in extreme. I shall
come back to talk of it. But when
1 refer to building in London as
having been demolished by a bomb
l do not mean damaged or made
uninhabitable or partially destroyed
or even in ruins. BY demolished I
mean demolished. Here where a
house stood, its rooms furnished, its
walls papered and its plumbing in
tact, clothes in its closets and car
pets on its floors, cooking utensils
in the kitchen and tooth brushes in
It's bathrooms, shades on its win
dows and roof overhead-here
where all these things were there is
but nothing. Literally nothing.
No Pile of Ruins.
There is no pile of ruins. Under
meath the nothing it is fiat. It is
a fllled-in hole in which what was
this house is pulverized into such
small pieces that the pieces are in
distinguishable.
I am still talking about a house
that's been demolished. OF all the
houses that are bomb damaged in
LONDON there are relatively few
that are demolished. But when they
are demolished they are exactly as
l have described. AS you stand
looking at the place the house was
l ride past it as 1 did that first dav,
looking out the window-you see
only the bottom of the nothing
where the house was, and in this
bottom there seems to be no thing
bigger than the size of two fists put
together. and of all the things tina.
are packed into this bottom to moth
ing the only recognizable shape
seems to be Of broken bricks.
1t is this pulverization of a house
that produces the word rubble. Rub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-19

Bile Is very dusty and people who are
lucky enough to walk out Of house
in which rubblizing has taken place
emerge as If they had crawled out
of a flour bin.
1t was between the edge Of the
city proper and my hotel that first
saw places where buildings had
been demolished. One does not take
in the significance of demolition at
first sight. For the reason I have
explained that one does not see a
ruin. One sees nothing-and so is
unable to visualize what was there
before the conversion to nothing
happened.
Standard Joke.
This phenomenon produces a
standard London joke: About the
young lady who had just come to
town and whose guide pointed to a
break in a row Of buildings, ex-
planning, That's where a bomb
dropped last night" Said the young
lady, "Oh, but wasn't it lucky that
the bomb missed all those houses
and fell in that vacant lot"
And so on my first morning in
London it was not the extent of
damage to any one place that sur
prised or shocked me-because
couldn't take it in I remember this
very distinctly. 1t was simply the
fact that having counted only Is
bomb incidents in over 100 miles I
now counted 80 in half a mile. 1t
simply dawned on me gradually
that here something had really
happened.
l left the American aviators, with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-19

enemy must be hindered by cross
fire. mines, traps and the natural
distractions Of rivers, woods and
hills.
Traffic Becomes Heavier.
Closer to London, where the road
chose to widen and run straight, we
did come upon devices to prevent
enemy aircraft landing on the high
way. These turned out TO be lengths
of concrete sewer piping set on end
10 or IS feet high, in regularly
spaced rows on either side Of the
paving.
During all the first half of our
trip civilian and military life was
hopelessly intertwined. Each seemed
to be going about its respective
business without disturbance to or
consciousness of the other. Motor
cycle dispatch riders plowed through
bicyclists; delivery trucks and ar
mored cars followed one another in
line, here was field of barbed wire;
there a field of truck gardening.
Only at one point where the road
swung parallel to the south coast
for a few miles did we see roads
barricaded off with sandbags and
barbed wire and guarded with SEN
JURISPRUDENCE Of zones wholly for
hidden to civilians.
AS we came nearer to London
the activity of soldiers lessened,
Il q
suburbs began to eat up the coun-
tryside. Traffic became heavier and
almost wholly civilian We had
passed through the defenses Of the
south coast.
Absence Of Clues.
The trip took a little over three
hours. 1t was halfway over before
we noticed the most characteristic
thing of all: The complete absence
of clues as to where We were. At
the crossroads there are no sign
posts whatever, but this is only the
beginning. In each town wherever,
on a sign or the glass window OF a
store front, the name OF the town
or the country might have been re-
vealed it was carefully painted out
Even the commercial trucks on the
road had addresses and telephone
numbers conspicuously painted out
Englands roads are complicated
things. Later, even when 1 was driv-
ing with officers who had grown up
in the country, we were continually
getting lost or stopping every little
while to ask directions Of passerby
I always found that directions were
cheerfully given, but was told that
this cooperation was simply evil
dence that the September invasion
scare had passed.
On our long drive into London,
the houses that we'd seen which had
been hit by bombs had been dam
aged, rather than demolished-a
front blown out, windows shattered.
1t was not until we got toward the
center of London that We began
TO see buildings not damaged but
demolished.
demolished" Means demolished
BY the time the drive to London
was over I was feeling very clipper.
The warlike countryside with its
machine gun strong points, its tank
traps and its sentries with bayonets
in their rifles, had been extremely
interesting and the lack of damage
from bombs on the ground or any
enemy aircraft in the air were COM
pletely reassuring. I remember
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-19
whom I had journeyed from Lisbo,

whom I had journeyed from Lisbo1
at another hotel and proceeded
the Dorchester. I went to the Dol
chester because another travels
the Swiss courier, had told me thu
several people I wanted TO see wer
staying there. I went there despi-
a warning from a man I'd meet
Lisbon that I should avoid the Do
chester like a plague because
fronted on a park and London
parks are inhabited by anti-aircrai
batteries that shake the puildina
around them and inhibit sleep.
I got there a little before moor
(To Be Continued)
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Inc, IN the United States. Canada an
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Copyright Union. Reproduction in VII
or N part strictly forblddenl
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

full musicians provided the tempo
for the bugs to do their jittering by
George Washington and his boys
who are very promising, although
youthful musicians should 90 far.
II their first public showing is any
indication of their musical talent,
With much hard work and a con-
tinued interest in making them
selves into topnotch band, the boys
have much to look forward to.
Paul Foster and his boys played
for the after-game dance. Among
those rug cutting and jitterbugging
we're: Wyzie Saxon, Merdesta Muir
ray, Mamie Barksdal, Mary Dogans,
Gloria Merritt Val Walker, George
Duncan, Cleo Murray, Emmett
Mathews, Hattie Foster, Robert
Stanford, Doris Blackwell, Sarah
Sapps, Oscar Thomas, Nellie DAN
iels tthe prettiest girl there). James
johnson, Lonnie and Mrs. Gertrude
Buckley, Barbara and Betty Ann
Wheeler and Mrs. Irene Thompson.
John Bussie, Eddie FELTON,, Ralph
Gibson and Collie Johnson were
Birdhurst basketball players who
stayed over for the dance. And who
tried to find relief from a strenuous
game in relaxing and watching the
others doing some fancy rug cutting.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

Beck's husky, blue throated voice
SO much so she had the place
rocking and swaying with her,.
OF course that blue of the Woman
from St. Louis is her best seller
Grounding and Joe would do
netter to leave those old jokes bur-
led ...as they're too muchly over
worked .. But then the boys try
hard to give you some deep laffs.
and so
Making her debut at this sin spot
Mickey's costume has her looking
quite blimmerable and her tap steps
something worth Cabling about.
U must c her.
Nltellfers were sorry to learn
that owner Marshall Harris OF this
spot has been i'll for several weeks
$50. they all wish him a speedy re-
covery.
Seems that some emcee's do have
some fondness for the press as an
nouncing the mike way that Yours
Truly and Girl Sunday were the
celebrities present, e.. thanks to Joe
temcee) and for our ringside table
thanks to Marshall Harris.
AL Roman, fellow writer was in
the party Of your nitelife scribe
and dug up some few monickers Of
those present as: Inez Doyle, Mild
red Ellis (who Al says was pref
test girl present., Dora Mays,
Samuel Harris tof W Va. Digest
paper. Marshal Mason, Pearl Kelly,
Clarence Hill, Ruby Jean Clark,
Mr.. and Mrs William Brown, Jr,
Mr-ahd Mrs, jerks, Mr. and Mrs.
Salone, Wanda Knox, Thelma Giles,
Earmie Harris (who Yours Truly
thinks has lots of "omph," and
many others, all having a blowing
good time at this nitery.
Lucky has some new boys in his
band as Lanny Scott, pianist and
Rocco Moss, trumpet who with
Harold Arnold, sax and Lucky on
the skin heads make all the good
music you could ever want to
hear. and 50.
BOUT SHOW FOLKS
Teddy Wilson and his boys will
be at the Stone called Gray come
February 26.. Jean Eldridge, that
pleasant voiced lady Of song will
do up the sweet lyrics on that
grand occasion. Wilson, long an
important member Of Benny the
Goodman's famed sextet is now a
topnotch and star pianist bring
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17
Ttterbug Royalty
Crowned Saturday

More than several hundred Per
sons were present at Brewster Cen
ter last Saturday night when the
king and queen Of jitterbugs were
crowned by popular applause.
Only four couples took part IN the
contest although a fen minutes
later there were more than 40
couples jitterbugg.ng in the audi
forum, However the four couples
willing 10 compete for the three
prizes gave a good exhibition Of
the many ways bug can do the
j.,ters
The winning couple was Raymond
Winchester and Beulah Ware who
were awarded loving cup as first
prizes. The cups were donated by
the Supreme Linen and Maxwell
Laundrles.
Second prize went to Pedro Ad-
kins and Sally Reynolds while third
prize winners were Dorothy Ting
pen and a James who left so sud
denly we were unable 10 get their
full names. They were apparently
much elated over winning a basket
OF groceries for their efforts.
The second prize was donated by
S. Gibbons Of the Cut Rate depart
ment store, while the groceries were
from the Public Outlet store,
A l4-p.ece aggregation of youth
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17
Tops Contest
TOName Best
Entert amer

Michigan Chronicle theatrical de.
partment is opening a tops" contest
to select the most popular enter
tainer, band and cabaret in the
entire Motor City. II the name OF
your favorite popularity candidate
does not appear on this list, send in
his or he- name 10 the Theatrical
Editor, Larry Chism, 1858 Eliot street.
CABARETS
Henry's Grill Blue Bird Inn
Breads Grill II. and l. Inn
Midway Club Cozy Corner
BARS
Turf COG Adams
Lark's Swing Club
B. and c. Rhythm Club
Bandbox
EMCEEs
Billy Carter Peggy Joyce
Bob Person Joe Mintner
ENTERTAINERS
Billie and Mile Hazel Mickens
Willie and Willie Josephine Beck
Ella Lee Bob Howe
Van Epps Peaches johnson
Grounding Basic
SHAKE DANCERS
Sugar Brown Claudia Wheeler
Shanghai Lii Dixie Brown
BANDS
Lucky Hill Leroy Smith
Carl Bradley Reuben Evans
Lanky Bowman Rocco's Rockets
Bill johnson Perry Shelton
Cecil Lee
Use the coupon below to vote for
your favorite enteStainer. cabaret
or bar and band. Send the filed
coupon with your selection to the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17
COUPON
.hu rrnta To-.
2 Appear In Joint
Recital At Atlanta

ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. l6-The ap-
pearance Of Lola Hayes. soprano
and William Lawrence. pianist, at
Spelman college last week in a joint
recital, was one of the most delight
full and pleasing events of the
season
Miss Hayes, a native Of Boston,
Mass, is a newcomer to the concert
stage. She is a graduate OF Rad
cliffe college, and has had intensive
training under Frank Bib of the
Peabody Conservatory. On Broad
way she has sung at the Center
theatre in the musical play, "Vir-
ginia"; and in London, she sang op-
posite Todd Duncan at the Drury
Lane Theatre Royale.
Mr.. Lawrence. who serves as Miss
Hayes accompanist, is known in
concert circles the world over as
aecompanist for many years to Ro-
land Hayes. He is former director
Of music at South Carolina State
college.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

A double pitcher has been invented
TO enable the taste Of purifying chem
icals to be filtered from drinking
water.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

ing his own music note readers ur
in first class style. This should be
a must date for all you 'Swingers'
and Burgers"
Zip Zap Upper, the latest dance
craze OF the big light city was
just introduced by Gene, Drummer
man Krupa last week. Wonder
how soon local Sepians will be do
ing it?. With all the hepcats round
about, il just shouldn't take long.
Claude Hopkins is slated for a
six weeks stay at Golden Gate
CNYC). o.. .Rumors have it that his
Highness Of Hi-De-Ho Galloway
has cleaned house Of most of his
old boys. Those gone with the CAL
loway breeze are: Chauncey Hugh
ton, Claude Jones Orombonel;
Keg johnson, Lamar Wright, De-
Priest Wheeler tthe brass section).
Two Eddies now grace the ether
waves, one with Jack Benny and
other with Tommy Biggs and Betty
Lou. e.. Eddie Green. one time on
commercial with Satchmo Arm
strong has a contract now with the
Quaker Party on Mondays. . While
Eddie Rochester consistently steals
the show from Jack Benny and his
Jello party.
Darktown SHUTTERS ball, a much
awaited and loudly publicized Sc
pia film work has signed Stuff
Smith for the musical background
Shelton Brooks, author Of the show
title song will be starred in the pic.
Duke Musicmaster Ellington has
two year contract to do record
ings for Victor. -. the price is $780,
900 guarantee.
Jimmie Lunceiord is way out
the golden state california; way
with the boys making musical hey
in the land OF sun shine and roses
Givens ana Creme dance team
are down the famed Alamo way
tTexasI Givens is following in the
footsteps OF his comedian father,
Billiken Grimes, lately producer at
local Cozy Corner.
A QUESTION
Kid Lips Hackette goes into a
long spiel to prove music the way
he plays it can't be too hot for
dancing as some seem to think. He's
the hottest drummer bar none and
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-02-17

ttige and increased forcefulnesS 10
he cause Of the picketers. Mrs.
Roosevelts actions in regard to the
Negro have in the past been impec-
cable. So let us be temperate in our
chastisement of her now.
Helen Hayes is appearing at the
Cass this week in Hecht and Mac
Arthur's Ladies and Gentlemen"
one of those omnibus things. It is a
trivial piece about the loves and
Lives of the ladies and gentlemen
serving on the jury during a murder
trial. We hope to review it for you
in our next column.
Incidentally, we wish they would
take Helen Mencken's weekly radio
serial, Second Husband" off the
air. 1t has long since passed the
low-water mark Of implausibility
and pathos. 1t is a shame to keep
so fine an actress playing in this
piece Of poppycock week after week.
Naciremas forthcoming play,
'Caponsacchi," will go into re-
hearsal this week, and will be di-
rected by Gladys and Clement Mills,
who have handled all Nacirema's
shows for the past 70 years. It should
be a production Of major conse-
quence, as it will utilize the his
trionic talents Of the best OF De-
troits tried and true thespians. We
have been amused at the public's
reaction to the title OF this play. Mrs.
Mills tells us that one very original
gentlemen referred to it as "Hackan-
sackett," and somebody else dubbed
it "Nagasaki." The play takes its
name from the chief character,
Giuseppe Caponsacchi, a priest.
JUBAL AWARD RECITAL
Erma Morris is playing the third
it the series Of Jubal Award piano
recitals this Sunday, Feb. 10, at
1870 pm, in the lecture hall Of the
Art Institute. Chopin and Scriabine
are the composers whose work she
will play. We hope that all of you
will attend these recitals, for they
nave been undertaken for the pur
pose Of giving an award to some
deserving Negro violinist or pianist
for further study.