davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Curnution Co. Votes
ST Extra Dividend
B, the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 7.-Directors of
the Carnation Co.. in addition to
the regular quarterly dividends, to-
day declared an extra dividend Of
$1.OO a share on the common stock
payable December 20 to holders of
record December IA.
Regular quarterly dividends de-
clared were S125 a preferred share
and so cents a share on the common.
both payable January 2. l94l. to
stockholders of record December IA,
1910.
Evening star., 1940-12-08
AIS Tons of Lead Sold

NEW YORK, Dec. 7 tP).-St. Jo-
seph Lead Co. reported so tons of
Southeast Missouri pig lead sold yes
terday at s535 per 100 pounds, East
st. Louis; 125 tons at s5.55, New
York, and $50 tons at the New York
average
Evening star., 1940-12-08

trict of Columbia
B uil d n g and
Loan Leagues
Annual Banquet
Committee, for
third time, it was
announced last
night, when 1T
was also stated
that the l94l
dinner will take
place on the eve
ming of March 8
at the MayhoWer
Hotel.
The 1910 BAN
ouet drew $50
guests Mr.. COOK
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Metal Market

NEW YORK. Dec.'7 GPl.--Copper STEADY: &
.lectroytic spot Connecticut Valley o l2iTM; 90;
export tas. New York; 10 q 29o So forward 9g
$3.50 Lead Steady; spot New YORK:
a.5o-55; East st. Louis, 5.3o. zinc steany ny,
East St Louis spot and forward n.i2: rie
iron. aluminunn antimony, oulcksllVer'
platinum Chinese wolframite and domestic
Gheelite unchanged.
Evening star., 1940-12-08

covering the entire country, the Cen
trail Western Shippers Advisory
Board is voluntary organization OF
farmers, industrialists, bankers and
marketing and trade bodies cooper
ating with the railroads in the pro-
motion and maintenance of adequate
transportation service and car supply.
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Range follows:
Cottonseed Oil.

Cottonseed Oil
Rehner hedglng in deferred deliveries of
cottonseed oil futures offset local support
today. The market turned down from
steady opening and final prices were / to >
points, lower on sales OF 20 contracts AT
me Close January traded al 5.sl, Nav
) 90 and July 6 O6. Crude oil was bid
4'A cents in the Southeast and valley:
Iexas, $50 to so. depending upon loca-
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WinnipeE Cash Markef
New York Produce

NEW YORK. Dec. GP.-Dressed poul-
Try irregular. Fresh Boxes and barrels
turkeys, western young hens. l6-o3l2:
young tens, 14-21h. Other fresh. all frozen
prices unchanged
Live poultry. by freight, slow. Fowls,
colored. 1917; Leghorn. l3 Old roosters
10: BY express. nominal. no sales
Evening star., 1940-12-08

came the young
est general agent
for Penn Mutual !
Life Insurance
Company at the
a age of %. Now,
In 1910. he has
been the longest
in c on t i n uouS
service in the
field as general |
agent for that
company.
Mr.. Brown has
iust rounded out
25 years as a
member of the
Evening star., 1940-12-08
New York Sugar

NEW YORK Dec P.-The sugar
futures market sat tight today while
traders weighed the possibility the 1874
quota might be announced over the week
end.
Domestic futures closed point higher
to | lower on sales of $3.50 tons; S,400
tons represented switches. World fu-
of only 800 tons: March. .1612b: May. rob.
Raw sugar offerings were generally held
at go cents a pound but some supplies
we're believed available as low as 2.SS.
Refined remained locally at 4.35.
No. RANGE follows:
High. Low. Close
January - x1 S1b
March 194 1Q4 1p4b
September - x2 orb
Bid. Z xswitches.
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Chain Drug Volumes
Luruerin October

By the Associated Press
The Commerce Department esti-
mates that October sales Of chain
drugstores were 2 per cent higher
than in September and 7 per cent
higher than in October, 1899.
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Hudson Names H. 0. Ward
Advertising Manager

Special Dispa tch TO The Star.
DETROIT. Dec. THE appoint
ment of H. o. Herb" Ward as ad-
vertising manager was announced
Evening star., 1940-12-08

ChIcaEo Cash Market
Cash wheat no sales reported Corn.
new No, mixed. .65'. No. 3, .66l.: No. 4 :.
.6l'4; No. 4. 56ia-59s4: No. :. .55-.56Ia:
No 3 white. .67i. No. 4. .64a4- -.65: No. 5.
81 l,- sample, .53,a-.59; old No. l yellow
h5i2-s4. Oats No. | white. SO: sample
white heavy, .35. Soybeans. No. .. yellow,
.a6i2.24: No. g. .94i2; No. a. .93i3- a45. !:
sample. .93ia. Barley mailing 81 "a a
Field seed. unchanged
WinnipeE Cash Market
WINNIPEG. Dec. tP.-Cash wheat.
No. l Northern. .13i1: No. >. .509.; No. 3,
Evening star., 1940-12-08

Cottonseed oil closed steady Bleach
able prime summer yellow. 5.65 nominal:
prime crude. 40. December. 52Sb: jan
nary, -5.3lb; March. 5.42b; May. 552b:
July. : sob
Bid. n Nominal
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Rail Expert 10 Address
Shippers Conference

L. M. Belts of Washington will be
the principal speaker at the morn
ing business session of the Central
Evening star., 1940-12-08
New Orleans Prices

NEW ORLEANS Dec (P.-Cotton
futures were irregular here today with
Ionss and shorts evening UP for the week
END: Closing prices were steady UNCHANGED
to | point net lower
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Se|ective Rally
Closes Week on
Stock Market
Upturn Led by SteeIs,
industrial SpecioIties
And ShipbuiIdings

WHAT STOCKS DID.
Evening star., 1940-08-22

trayed" was delivered to a New York
publishing house. The book charged
that the Stain regime had stif1ed
Marxist socialism under a brutal
bureaucracy and had substituted for
the workers and peasants republic
founded by Lenin, totalitarian
state comparable to the Nazi regime
in Germany and the Fascist govern
ment of Italy.
In turn Stain declared Trotsky
aimed at q Fascist dictatorship for
himself, pointing to confessions OF
his former adherents that they had
plotted with Germany and Japan
to force losing war upon the Soviet
Union in order to discredit and
overthrow the Moscow government.
Fundamentally the two differed
because Stain had decided that the
militant communism" Of Trotsky,
which kept vision of world revolu-
tion as its goal, was failure, that
the spread of communism could best
be accomplished by erecting strong
state whose successful practice of
the tenets of Lenin would convince
the masses Of other nations that in
that system lay their salvation.
Underlying these political aspects
was mutual personal hatred. Neither
ever forgave his rival for aspiring to
the power and prestige of Lenin and
their quarrel developed to the point
where Stain sought the execution of
Evening star., 1940-08-22

Australia has about 100000 men
under arms. '&
Evening star., 1940-08-22

by certain Trotsky followers % like
ly new head Of the Fourth Inter-
national-said:
I'VE plan to hold the funeral here
to give the working people Of New
York an opportunity to show their
reverence for the memory Of this
great leader and their hatred and
contempt for Stalinism.'
In the chapel, Trotsky's face
showed through glass cover Of the
caSket. A satin coyerlet extended
to the chest, over which his hands
lay folded. The bandage still re-
mained on his head, but a deep cash
showed over the right ear where
the assassin drove the pick into his
brain.
The face Of the goateed little
Russian appeared pale.
Crowd Gathers.
On the wall was a red banner Of
the Mexican section of the Fourth
International.
Despite the late hour at which
the body reached the chapel, a crowd
gathered and moved slowly through
the chapel for the remainder Of the
night. In death the Mexican public
saw much more Of Trotsky than It
did in life. He was virtual prisoner
in his own walled-in house In near
by Coyoacan-mortally fearful of
death at the hands of Stain"
Police stood guard inside and out
side the chapel.
Evening star., 1940-08-22

his foe as q traitor" and Trotsky,
according to confessions of his con-
vited followers, made the aSSaSsina-
ton of Stain a part of his scheme
for return to power.
Exile, as such, held no terrors for
Trotsky. In fact, he passed only 80
years and six months in his native
Russia and 18 of these years covered
the interval between birth and his
first arrest.
He was born october 26, 1879, the
son of Davyd Bronstein, prosper
ous Jewish farmer who lived near
Zinoviesk, about 80 miles north OF
Odessa In the Ukraine. Family cir
cumstances permitted unlimited
schooling, but Lev Bronstein and his
father disagreed on social questions
and the sire's choice Of engineering
as a profession for his son, and they
party company.
In 1896, at Nikolayev, he and sew
eral other youths organized a social.
ist cell" which grew into the South
Russia Workers Union. On Janu-
ary %, 1898, young Bronstein and IS
of his associates were netted in a
police roundup. For two years he
was in Jail at Kherson and Odessa,
then spent six months in the trans
fer prison at Moscow and in the
spring of 1900 was banished to Ust
Kutsk In Siberia.
In the summer of 1902, aided by a
Evening star., 1940-08-22
Slayer Admits Acting
For Oqpu. Lowyer Soys

CHICAGO, Aug. % (R.-Albert
Goldman, American attorney for
Leon Trotsky, asserted here that the
aSSailant of the eXiled BolShevik
leader had admitted acting as an
agent Of the Soviet Russian secret
police.
Il talked by telephone with Trot-
sky guards shortly after the attack" I"
Mr.. Goldman said in an interview
last night on arriving from New
York by plane. They told me that
Vandendreischd admitted he had
been ordered by the Ogpu to kill
Trotsky or forfeit the life of his
mother in Russia"
Mr.. Goldman learned Of Trotsky's
death on his arrival. He later
boarded a plane for Mexico City,
where he hoped to question the as
sailant, Jacques Vandendreischd,
also known as Frank Jackson"
Mr.. Goldman said Trotsky's slay-
ing might dispel the mystery sur
rounding the attempt on Trotsky's
life at his Mexico City home last
Nav.
Evening star., 1940-08-22

international" to spread the doctrine
Of world revolution. Sweden and
Norway were his havens then until
the Moscow trials sent him fleeing
to Mexico.
Married In Prison.
With him In Mexico was Natalia
Ivanovna Sedoff, who since 1908 had
shared his fortunes and misfortunes
and borne him two sons, Leon and
Sergei Sedoff. She was the second
woman in Trotskys life. The first
was Alexandra Lvovna Sokolovsky,
who was one of the group which
formed the first "cell' of the South
Russia Workers Union, and was
arrested with Lev Bronstein in
January, 1928. They were married
in the transfer prison at Moscow in
1899 because, under Czarist police
rules, only married couples could be
sent to the same village of exile.
When her husband escaped in
1902 he left her in Siberia with two
daughters, Zinaida and Nina, whose
lives ended in tragedy after their
husbands had been arrested by the
Stain regime in 1928. Trotsky said
In 1887 he had lost all track Of his
sons-in-law.
Nina. the younger daughter, wife
Of Nevelsohn, journalist, died a
few months after her husband was
arrested. Zinaida, the elder of the
sisters, married Yolkoff, a teacher,
In 1881 she left Russia to seek
medical treatment abroad. Trotsky
charged that the Stain regime de-
prived her Of her citizenship, thus
preventing her from returning to her
children, and in January, 1888, she
committed suicide in Berlin.
The mother of these unfortunate
sisters lived for many years in Rus
sia. As there had been no divorce,
she always called herself Alexandra
Bronstein.
Evening star., 1940-08-22
kerensky Holds Trotsky
Victim of Own Methods

NEW YORK, Aug. % R.-Alex-
ander Kerensky, Russian leader
whose revolution overthrew the
czarist government, said today that
Leon Trotsky, most merciless of all
bolshevist terrorists, died by the
same means he sponsored"
He agreed with Trotsky, however,
that Trotsky's death was dictated by
Stain.
He was the victim of the system
OF secret police instituted by him
and Lenin against all opponents" 4"
Kerensky continued, describing
Trotsky as an "admirer of the ter
roristic system of government"
Kerensky, who voiced his opin-
ions in a press conference, asserted
that this "is not the first assassina-
tion by Stain and his agents. In
1887 Stalin's agents assassinated q
man of great influence in Switzer-
land, while in Paris two White Rus
sion generals were killed by boil
sheviki secret police"
Evening star., 1940-08-22
Senate Body Explains
Action in Bridges Case
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate immigration Commit
tee said 1t was mot interested In the
alien involved" when it recommended
recently that Harry Bridges, West
Coast labor leader, be investigated
by the Justed Department rather
than deported Immediately.
The committee made known its
views yesterday in a report to the
Senate explaining its proposal to
substitute an investigation for a
House-approved bill calling for sum-
mary deportation Of the Australian
born alien.
"The fate of the individual alien
is not important as compared with
the fate of ali our people VINO might
ultimately be injured thereby the
committee said.
I'VE in America inherit treasure.
That treasure is not in gold or land
or other resources. 1t Is the treasure
of liberty. The right to be free, the
Evening star., 1940-08-22
Trotsky
Continued From First Page)

Stain. head Of the Soviet Union
and longtime political foe OF
Trotsky, and the OGPU, with re-
sponsibility for the second assault
on Trotsky within three months.
May "a he escaped harm in a ma
chine-gun attack, for which more
than 20 Mexicans were arrested.
Jackson confessed Immediately
after the assault Tuesday night. but
police resumed their questioning q
few hours after Trotsky died.
In his first statement Jackson said
he decided to kill Trotsky after be-
ing "disillusioned" by the Russians
recently expressed political views.
Police said they would publish his
latest statement. perhaps tomorrow
They added that Jackson was not
Belgian, as he claimed, but an Amer
ican citizen formerly Of New York
City.
Police also detained woman
listed as Sylvia Agaloff Of Brooklyn.
N. Y, whom they said was Jackson's
sweetheart, but whom Trotskys
associates said they thought was
Jackson's wife.
She said she was unaware OF any
assassination plot and wept as she
recalled she had introduced Jackson
to Trotsky. She said she was sister
Of a former secretary Of the exiled
Russian.
Mrs. Trotsky Weeps Softly.
Mrs. Trotsky and surgeons were
in Trotsky's tiny hospital room when
he died. Mrs. Trotsky wept softly
and said THAT is life"
At first the hospital said the body
would be kept there over night for
an autopsy but early today-after
death mask had been made by the
noted Mexican sculptor, Ignacio
Asunsulo-it was removed to the
chapel of a private funeral home
to lie in state.
President Lazaro Cardenas. who
gave Trotsky refuge after Norway
expelled him at Russia's behest,
sent Gen. Hernandez Lamont, a
member of his official staff, and three
aides to the chapel to pay Mexico's
respects. The officers took a turn
at standing guard of honor.
Lamont said he brought a per
sonal message of coincidence from
the President" for Mrs. Trotsky. She
went to the home of friends to spend
last night.
Funeral Plans Uncertain.
Funeral plans were uncertain.
Some of Trotsky's aides said burial
very likely" would be in Mexico
City. but definite plans had not been
made.
In New York James Cannon, secre-
tary of the Socialist Workers party
in the United StateS-and mentioned
Evening star., 1940-08-22

right to think and speak, and TO
print, and to worship-these are our
inheritances. He who strikes at
them strikes at our democracy itself"
Attached to the report was q letter
by Attorney General Jackson saying:
IF this bill were to become law 1t
would be an historical departure
from an unbroken American practice
and tradition. 1t would be the first
time that an act Of Congress has
singled out q named individual for
deportation. 1t would be the first
deportation in which the allen was
not even accused either Of unlawful
entry or of unlawful conduct while
here"
Evening star., 1940-08-22
Moscow Press Prints
Short Story of Attack

MOSCOW, Aug. % (P.-The at
tack on Leon Trotsky in Mexico City
was disclosed to the Russian public
today by seven-line dispatch in
the newspapers, but up to noon his
death had not been announced.
A Tass (official Soviet news
agency dispatch from New York
merely quoted United States news
papers as reporting an attempt on
the exiled Communist leaders life
and added:
The person who made the at
tempt belongs to the followers most
closely associated with Trotsky."
Evening star., 1940-08-22
CoIIeae Accepts Two Girls

Two girls from this section, Estelle
B. Ratensky Of Alexandria, Va. and
Virginia M. Wagner, Chevy Chase,
Md, have been accepted for admis-
sion to the freshman class Of Wilson
College, Chambersburg, Pa.
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Here From South to Become
Winthrop Managing Director

Announcement Of appointment
Of Hayward Ayres. widely known
IN hotel management circles On ths
Pacific Coast. a. managing diree-
Tor Of Hotel Winthrop. WAS made
Thursday BY Henry A. Rhodes.
president ~ ths board Of directors
Of the hotel property.
Selection u Ayres. who win as
sumo his new duties Feb !. Was
made at a meeting 81 directors u
the h0tsl late Wednesday.
Ayrss. who viii direct manage
mens At the hotel, said there would
be no changes IN present personnel.
George 4. schrelneF. VINO has
been manager Of the hotel. VIII
continue In the same capacity. coz
operating with Ayres. whose prin-
eipzl duties VIII BE- 70 attract
visitors 10 Tacoma and establish
the hostelry a. major tourist and
convention headquarters IN the
Northwest.
Rhodes. in commenting on seiee-
ton Of Ayres 10 the new post. said
directors were most fortunate in
being able 70 obtain his services.
We have felt for = long time
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column ~
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MILLIONS FOR
j. s. DEFENSE

WASHlNGTON-Pr n I
Roosevelt Thursday asked con-
gress to appropriate record
breaking national defense fund of
81 .s3s, 600. 900 for fiscal 1s4l to
finance unprecedented simultane-
Gus construction of 10 battleships
and boost Americas airfleet TO
almost 10000 planes.
In addition to outright military
and naval costs of 1888. 000. 900.
Roosevelt proposed some $4e7 .000.-
900 of semi-defense and quasi
military expenditures. which boost
ed the overall budgetary total for
defense and related activities To
1885. 1877 .000--or about one dol
lar out of every four proposed for
federal spending in fiscal 1871.
Highlights of Roosevelt's defense
proposals:
l-s369, 0O0, 900 naval construction
fund. to add "a new warships
and continue construction OF %
grand total Of 1l6. including 10
battleships.
o-Funds to boost navy aircraft
4 close to 5000 and army air
craft to $500 total OF $3.50
by the end Of fiscal 1871.
2-Appropriations to give the ma
- ton an armed force of 647.91
--160,91l for the navy, $4,000
marines. 227 900 regular army
235, 900 national guard.
Am emergency defense pro-
= gram of s574 900, 900 for the
balance of the current year and
the 1871 fiscal year. to remedy
pressing defense deficiencies.
Roosevelt said he did not be-
lieve the ma Jority OF the public
wants TO reduce the 81. SOC. DOC. 900
budgeted national defense items.
Continued on Page IL. Column y
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MURDER WRIT
ISSUED OVER
WOMAN DEATH
Injured Daughter of
Fred Nickle Report
ed Recovering From
Knife Slashes

Sheriff John c. Bjorklund
prepared 10 take over the
guarding of Fred Nickle, 65-
year-old pocket-knife slayer,
at st. Joseph's hospital some
time Thursday.
A justice court warrant charging
first degree murder OF his wife.
Mrs. Elma Nickle. late Tuesday
night in front OF their home at 1908
So. 14th ST.. was to be served on
the man in his hospital bed where
he has been under guard Of city
police since he tried 10 end his
own life.
Police guards were to leave
when the sheriff took over. Nickie's
condition was described az good
and improving" at noon Thursday.
When he mends sufficiently from
his own throat slashine. the
prisoner viii be moved TO the court
house where he probably will be
the first occupant Of the new hos
pital cell In the county jail. The
hospital ward, on which construc-
ton started only a week ago, was
getting its final coat OF paint
Thursday County Health officer
Norman r. Magnussen then VIII
have the duty of caring for the
accused murderer.
Prosecutor Thor c. Tollefson and
Deputy Bill Goodwin were prepar-
Continued on Page IL. Column 81
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under the current years
estimated expenditures.
Roosevelt forecast treas
ury revenue at Sc, ,0O0,-
OO0-third highest on
record-and budgeted for
the governments 18th con-
secutive deficit.
Relief costs were sliced 10
81, ABB, 100000. a record
low.
National defense costs
are going up to 81 ,S39, 0Oo'-
600, compared with 81, l59',.
100000 in the current fiscal
year. The naval program is
increased to 10 battleshlps,
of which six now are build
ing, and the combined arr
force will be increased to
10000 planes.
Government reorganiza-
tons savings were estl-
mated at a mere S11, 0OO,-
900, so far.
The budget message, read
to the senate and house by
reading clerks, reported
highest production and con-
sumption levels in our his
tory. but said agriculture
still was not getting its
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-05
FIREMEN HUNT
BLAZE VICTIMS

M1NNEAPOL1S. MINI. - Ftremen
dug through the ice-coated ruins
OF Marlborough apartment hotel
today searching for the bodies Of
missing persons who were believed
to have died when flames de-
stroyed the three-story fram~ and
brick building. Eighteen were
known to have died. five were
missing and 20 were In hospitals.
James A. Craigie, assistant fire
chief. said he believed bodies OF
some victims might have been 30
charred they were overlooked by
sesrchers. Others were believed TO
have been buried beneath debris.
Red Cross workers checked reg
istration lists In an attempt 10
account for the missing. as fire
department investigators sought 10
determine cause OF the holocaust
Fire Prevention Chief Arthur y.
spottswood said investigation in
dictated the fire had started at the
bottom OF garbage disposal
chute. Firemen believed a eigsret.
licked into the chute, may have
caused an explosion.
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+. d. Proposes 8
Billion Budget

proper share of the national
income.
Roosevelt did not specify
sources of new revenue, but
said:
Il hope that congress will
follow the accepted principle
of good taxation of taxing
according to ability to pay,
and will avoid taxes which
decrease consumer buying
power.
The president feels that
excise or processing taxes
would violate that principle,
but that income taxation is
Continued on Page 3, Column l.
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THREE CONGRESSMAN
Die IN THREE DAYS
WASHINGTON-Rep.

WAsHISGTON-Rep. Wallace
f. Pierce. r.. y. Y. died Wednes-
day in the capital after a heart
attack. He died in the office Of
Or. George c. calver, congress
sionsl physician. shortly before 5
D. m. He had gone there about
an hour previously, complaining
Of a pain In his heart.
Pierce's death was the third In
the house membership in as many
days. Tuesday Rep. George h
Heinke, r.. Eeb-. died Of injuries
suffered in an automobile accident
The previous day Rep. William A.
Ashbrook. D.. o., died at his home.
Pierce. IS. was serving his first
i, term IN congress-.
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OIL COMPANY EXECUTIVE
FOUND SHOT TO DEATH
VANCOUVER, n. C.--CbarleI

VANCOUVER, n. C.--cbarles r..
Money. oil company executive on
Vancouver island. was found shot
To death so yards from his parked
car near Langford station. 10 miles
from Victoria. provincial police re-
ported today.
Money had not been seen since
he left his home early yesterday
until Robert scafs. a I.angford
farmer. found the car and the body.
Constables X Marshall and w.
Murray said Money apparently had
blown his head off with a shotgun,
which was lying nearby. Ills wife
and three children survive