davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Shorn Wool Output
Above Last Year. S;
Market Is Bright
Defense Buying and
Better Consumer Demand
Improve Outlook
By the Associated Press.


The Agriculture Department esti-
mated yesterday the quantity of
wool shorn or to be shorn in the
United States this year at 1888 1892, 600
pounds.
This estimate is 1000 900 pounds
or per cent larger than shorn wool
production last year and per cent
above the 1928-193S average. The
figure Goes not include approx
mately 64,000,000 pounds to be pulled
from slaughtered sheep.
The department estimated the av-
erage domestic fleece this year at
8.03 pounds, as against 1876 pounds
last year.
Market Outlook Good.
The market outlook for domestic
mill consumption continued favor
able, the department reported, as
the result of defense buying and
improved consumer demand, al
though wool sales at Boston in
July declined and prices weakened
slightly. Uncertainty in the for
eign situation tended to offset fa-
vorable domestic factors, however,
the department said.
Stocks of apparel wool held by
domestic dealers and manufacturers
June 29 totaled 259,000,000 pounds
and were about 100000 pounds
larger than year earlier, but con-
siderably smaller than June-end
stocks in the 1858 period. This
total did not include the consider
able stocks held by farmers and
rancherS.
Apparel Imports Larger.
Supplies in this country July /, in
Guiding 1910 production, were esti-
mated at 545,OOO,OOO pounds and
were described as about equal" to
the average 1858 July l stocks.
Imports of apparel wool for do
mestic consumption in the first half
of the year totaled 100000 pounds
and were larger than in the CORE
spending period of any recent year
except 1887, when 121 100000 pounds
were imported.
The June rate of mill consumption
was IA per cent higher than in May,
but 10 per cent lower than in June
of last year.
Supplies of wool available for ex-
port from Argentina and Uruguay
July l were estimated at 10000 900
to 100000 pounds, about the same
as year earlier. The extension of
the blockade, the department said,
had limited South American wool
sales largely to United States buyers.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
U. S. Treasury Report
Tho nosition ~ the

The position Of the Treasury August 10:
Receipts S23,S49. .705.12.
Expenditures, S3O,639 ,91S.39
Gross debt, S20,005, ,35006.
Increase over previous day, S6703,-
Evening star., 1940-08-13
The Chicago & Eastern Illino

The Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Railway Co. today reported a net
loss for June of s155,707, as COM
pared with s226,299 for the same
month year ago Net loss for the
six months ended June 80 was 1884,
TAT, as compared with Sl,035 1863 for
the corresponding 1899 period.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Two Railroads Report
Lower Net Losses
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Aug. 13.-The Chicago,
Milwaukee, st. Paul g. Pacific Rail-
road today reported a net loss for
June of 81 ,927, 1886, as compared with
S2,3l5,077 for June, 1889. Net loss
for the six months ended June 30
was S8,296 5S8, as compared with
s11 ,298 ,024 for the same 1899 period.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Freight Loodines

NEW YORK Aug. l3 PO-Revenue
freight cars handled by railroads report
Ing today for week ended August 10 in
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Chicago Stock Market

CHICAGO Aug. l3 lP,-Following Is
the complete hist OF transactions on the
Chicago Stock Exchange today:
High Low CIose
Evening star., 1940-08-13

n Nominal
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
81 lower: sales, l 50 contracts; September,
Sab: October, $40: December. 5.60b;
January. 5.62b: March, 5.71. b Bid.
New Orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 13 R-News
from abroad indicating that the Nazi
blitzkrieg against British Isles was at
tened cotton futures here today Closing
prices we're steady, to 8 points net
Evening star., 1940-08-13
BONDS ON N. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE
By private wire direc, 80 The star.

Approximate Transactions Todoy.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK Aug l3 1P.-National As
sociation Securities Dealers, Inc:
Evening star., 1940-08-13

ww-With warrants. xw-without war;
rants New st (stp)-Stamped.
sNegotiability impaired by maturity.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
NEW YORK CURB MARKET

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
Book Highlights

Authors of the ~best-selling 1--WE
Married an Englishman,' the
Hoffman twins from st. Paul,
Mimi, Ruth and Helen, provide
another entertaining book in
Our Arabian Nights (Carrick
& Evans: $2.75). How these tai
ented sisters overcame backward
ness of the natives to set up a
modern home along the Tigris
and their stay in a harem make
an amusing absorbing tale. Char
acteristic is this description OF
their struggles with the native
language:
By this time, we were reading
and writing Arabic. Our progress
was slow. but we were we'll into
the Arabic school readers-about
third grade. We read about
monkeys who weighed cheese for
cats, ducks who were friendly with
turtles, and all about how to eat
at table and be a good boy. At
first we had been defeated by such
sentences a. the following:
when the word begins with a
hemza which has dhumma, the
alif is also the carrier, but when
hemza with dhumma occur in the
middle of a word, beginning with
4 syllable, the carrier is usually
waw; or, if likewise in the middle
Of a word hemza ccurs with kes-
"a, the carrier is va without dots"
1t was these last words espe-
cially that got us down: the car
rier is va without dots. ...
The phrase began to spring out
at us from around corners. We
saw it printed owe the type in
newspapers. We started to scream
it in u sleep 1.-THE yarrier
is wa without dots-with dots"
-. and then we simply ended up
one day by reciting to each other:
"'Twas brilIig, and the slithy toves
Did va and aIif in the wabe,
All hemza were the borogroves
And the carrier %outgrabe."
After that, everything cleared up.
That is, until we discovered in
an issue of the Royal Central
Asian Journal that, according to a
prominent Arabic scholar, every
Arabic word has five meanings:
1. The original meaning.
9 The onnosite.
8. Something poetical and moth
ing to do with the first two.
4. Something connected with a
camel.
S. Something too obscene to be
translated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
THIRD OF GERMAN
NAVY SENT DOWN
Reynaud Declares
Allies Lost No Vessels
During Past Week

PARIS, April 16.-CR-Premier
Paul Reynaud told the French Sc
nate today that Germany has lost
almost one-third of her navy in the
past week of fighting in Scandina.
Wan waters.
Specific figures, the premier de.
clared, are, officially, 80 per cent of
the Nazi navy, including 20 per cent
Of Germany's cruisers and rs per
cent of her d~estroyers.
Reynaud placed the Nazi S e a
losses at $4,000 tons during the
past week when, he said, the allied
navies had lost mot a single pound
(He evidently referred to British
and French merchant shipping.)
This amount of military and mer-
chant German shipping, the pre-
mier declared, has been either sunk,
scuttled or captured.
The senators stood and cheered
when Reynaud referred to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's p a n-American
speech yesterday.
mo one asks whom Roosevelt
meant when he said he condemned
forces the premier said.
He mentioned Roosevelt by name
and his statement brought prolong-
ed applause from all benches.
II cannot bring you news that
might hinder Jul operations, which
are still going on" Reynaud told
the senate.
But he cited admiralty figures for
his report of German naval losses
and said that, in addition to the
Nazi cruisers and ~destroyers sunk,
Is per cent of Germany's destroy
ers also had been damaged and sew
eral German submarines sunk.
He recalled to the senators that
seven German destroyers were sunk
at Narvik and that the Baltic sea
Germany's backyard-has been min,
ed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
'OfficiaP Valuation
Of Pound Is Accepted

WASHINGTON, April 16.-R-
The treasury, acting to stave off
possible harm to American bust
ness, adopted today the British gov,
ernment's "official' valuation of the
pound.
The customs bureau ordered its
collectors to value British merchan-
disc at the fixed "official" price of
S4.O2 IL per pound when assessing
customs duties, instead of the free
market rate, currently about $3.50.
In effect, the action will make
some British merchandise more ex-
pensive in this country, and pre-,
vent the British from increasing
sales here through currency depre-
citation,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
War Abroad Boosts
u. S. Export Trade

WASHINGTON, April 16.-R-
americas war-stimulated foreign
rade sent export figures climbing
again in March to $344, 600, 0OO-30
per cent above a year ago.
The March total was about S..
ooO,oO0 over February figures, but
still about $14,O O0, 900 under the De.
cember-January level.
Secretary of Commerce Hopkins
today attributed the increase to
larger sales of machinery, trucks,
iron and steel products, other metals,
chemicals and airplanes. Sales OF
cotton, meat, lard, corn and fruit
however, dropped off slightly.
geographically, the principal
gains were made in Canada, France,
Japan, Russia, Argentina, Finland
and the Philippine Islands. England,
which has been expanding pur-
chases here rapidly, bought slight.
ly less last month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
RAGGED GUARD
FIGHTING NAILS
Hungarian Riflemen Take
In Battle On Side OF
Norwegians
Bv DANIEL DE LUCE

prrDAPEST, April 16.-CP-In
Norwegian mountain passes, far up
:, the Arctic Circle, volunteers from
peaceful Hungary, known as the
oRagsed Guard" are reported fight
- in their third wal in eight
months.
Norway, proud Magyars say, has
hooome another crusade for this
uunrarian band, a small group of
,orh2ps 400 men, that already has
oomr3icned for Poland and Finland.
Three days after the invasion OF
Scandinavia these Hungarian rifle
men were reported to have crossed
from Finland and to have offered
+bpir services to Norwegian army
commanders.
Officially, the Hungarian govern
ment does not recognize these. citi-
7ens fighting on foreign battlefields,
hnt most Hungarians follow with
keen interest the continued exploits
of this free corps, the Rongyos Gar
ia, whose name literally means 1.-THE
Ragged Guard
These volunteers, it is said here,
are the younger generation of the
Rougyos Garda which was first
formed in 1919 to fight for Hun
.ary's postwar resurrection. Wher-
ever Hungarys interests We're
threatened, they went into action.
TrresuIars dressed in odds and ends
Of both military and civilian clothes,
they started out fighting the Mos
c~ow-inspired Red regime that had
been set up in Budapest.
When the Trianon peace treaty
was siened at the end of the World
val. these daring irregulars return
ed 10 their prosaic jobs. 1t was al
most forgotten by the general pub
lic.
Then d year ago the organization
sprang TO martial life. Germany was
breaking up Czecho-Slovakia in
March, 1889, and the eastern tip of
thai unhappy country, Ruthenia,
was coveted by empire builders from
all sides. 1t had once belonged to
Hungary. 1t was Hungary's chance
to set a common frontier with Po-
land,
Last August several guardists
were decorated publicly by the Hun
garian regent, Admiral Nicholas
Horthy, for their valor in Ruthenia.
Now these volunteers are report
ed in action again.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did va and aIif in the wabe,
All hemza were the borogroves
And the carrier outgrabe."

ious spur on the upper part of the
nasal septum, which touched one
of the turbinate bones. 1t seemed
a very small for half a life
time of semi-invalidism, but as soon
as the defect was corrected the re-
suit was good. In making this cor
rection it was found that the nasal
passages were obstructed quite con-
siderably in many places.
| A blocked sinus will cause head
laches.
Eyestrain will produce a pratic-
ular kind Of headache. It comes on
in the evening. These headaches
come from need of glasses or the
use of badly-fitting glasses. Very
frequently they begin after glasses
have been prescribed because cor
rect glasses are not fitted.
High blood pressure sometimes
auses headaches.
The most frequent form of head
ache is so-called m%igraine.
Next in frequency to migraine
are headaches due to over.
strain, emotional reimbursement
and lack of knowledge of how to
relax.
Questions And Answers:
e. T.: us there any treatment or
cure for bronchiectasis? I have
been told there isn't"
Answer: Much relief can be OBJ
tanned by postural drainage; drap-
ing the body over a chair or a bed
and hanging the head and chest
down. Limitations also. Remove in.
fection in nose, A hot dry climate.
Complete cure is rare
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
Medical Care
BY LOGAN CLENDENING, NJ. D.
What can be done for babies
and children who have no ap.

petite?
Anorexia, or lack of appetite, is
found in the majority of children
seen by the general practitioner or
the c%hildren's specialist, in some
form or other. 1t may be real or
imaginary. In the later case it de-
ponds on the failure of the child to
conform to standards set up by the
parents. We are all inclined to
create a sort Of dietetic mold for
children into which they may or
may not fit.
Lack of appetite is, of course, a
part of the prodrome Of all conta'
gious, infectious fevers. 1t may be
an indication that the diet is not
balanced.
Anorexia is serious when it lasts
from three to six months and re-
suits in a steady loss of weight.
One particular vitamin, vitamin B,
is supposed to influence appetite
and to be responsible for lack of
appetite when the diet is unbal-
anced. It may help to give very
small doses Of vitamin B to a child
with tickle appetite.
In order to overcome lack Of ap.
petite which depends upon emotion.
al or factors, the parent
must make a careful and conscien.
tious search for stress or maladjust.
ment in the child's life. Patience,
and plenty of it, must be used, and
it is particularly important not to
call attention to the symptom and
not to badger the child, urging it to
cat. In most cases, the condition
will correct itself.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17

likely than It's
Predecessors t q.
bring the tale to
a happy ending.
In preparation
is a bill which
would make $780,
100000 available
Tor e c onstruc.
ton Of the is
lands economy.
Plan is to set
up a new overall
lending e ncy
with $40. 900
capital and au-
thority to borrow
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17

ly at their trade
of making up ac-
tresses f o r the
movies, O of
t h Q Westmores
haven't done so
well at making
up with the &C.
tresses they mar
ry.
This time, as
you m a y have
been reading, it's
Perc. Perc a n d
Gloria Dickson.
Ironically, Miss
Dickson n o w is
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
Danish Crown Prince
Father Of Daughter

COPENHAGEN, April 1e.-LP-
A daughter was born today to
Princess Ingrid of Denmark, the
wife of Crown Prince Frederick. 1t
is their first child, and would have
been heir to the throne if it had
been a boy. Prince Knuo, Freder-
ick's younger brother, remains Sec
ond in line of succession.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17

playing Ill d picture dL Idld1lAoullI
called II Want a Divorce" It's real
ly a strong preachment against di,
vorce, but she wants one just the
same.
She said, II shouldn't have mar
ried him in the first place. 1t was
just one of those things. Perc was
having trouble arranging his ma
terial for a radio show, and I knew
quite a bit about radio, and I help
ed him, and we went on from there.
1 felt he needed me, and I'm the
sort Of person who has to be need
ed"
Gloria's Disappearance
Was Perc's Idea
She's about the splitup,
but it isn't a new experience for
Perc. His first wife, Mrs. Virginia
Thomas Westmire, divorced him
nearly three years ago, declaring in
court that he found married life
monotonous. He tried again, though,
in 1888, with the actress whom he
often made up at Warmers. They've
been estranged for several weeks,
and the publicity-loving Perc + ok
advantage of Miss Dickson's east
err personal appearance tour to is.
u a story that she had disappear
ed. While the story was breaking
he was telephoning her frequently
in Pittsburgh.
Wally Westmore is the only one
Of the four brothers whose first
marriage turned out a success. His
wife is a non-professional, and they
have a family and live quietly, ex-
cept for his distress O e r t h e
troubles of Ernie, Wallie and Bud
dy.
When Ernest Westmore married
Ethlyne Claire on February 1, 1880,
his first wife, Veoda Westmore, and
7-year-old daughter, Muriel, were on
the steps of the church. AS bride
and groom emerged, little Muriel
stretched out her arms in an ap.
pealing gesture and a process serv-
er slapped a summons on Westmore
i an appearance in court regard.
ing alleged arrears in alimony. Just
then a photographer snapped a pic,
ture, so the troubled groom charged
off through the crowd, caught the
photographer and smashed his cam
era. He had to pay for it.
Ernest and Ethlyne separated
August rs, 1887, and a couple of
months later he wa. rushed to a
hospital with self-slasned wrists.
She Don sued for divorce, won it,
and got alimony and a property set
Element. BY court order, Ernest had
to will half of his estate to the two
children of his first and second mar
riages.
Last March Q, Ernest Westmore
married Peggy Ann Kent, 22-year.
old, twice-wed daughter of Sirney
r. Kent, president of 20th-Fox. She
had been divorced a year before in
london by John Royland Hodge,
who named Westmore as core.
spondent. She was quoted as saying
that she had gone into the West
mores' beauty shop in 1888 for a
little bleach and had come out
with Ernie. Her first marriage, in
cidentally, was an elopement at Is.
Youngest of the brothers, Ham,
ilton Westmore, called Buddy, mar
ried Martha Raye during a Las
Vegas elopelnent May 80, 1887. He
said he was 81, but when their di-
v"rce came up the following Sep
TENDER 4, Brother Perc was appoint
ed guardian because Buddy hadn't
reached his majority.
Domestic tragedy began for the
Westmore clan in 1881, when their
father, George Westmore, died from
an overdose OF sleepin. tablets af-
ter his young wife had divorced
him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
Many Sources OF Heaches
What are the cause of head.

A great many headaches are
caused by nasal obstruction. An ex-
ample is the case of a woman of 30,
who thought she had had migraine
since the age of IA. An examina.
ton of the nose showed a suspic.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17

Soo'ooo'ooO more. The idea is that
with capital available new indus
tries might be set up; crops like va.
ililia' qulnlne and sea island cotton
can be grown in Puerto Rico, the
government experts say, and there
are good possibilities for the manu-.
facture of glass, toys, novelties and
curios.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, April 1s.-An.
other chapter in the unbannu
VI the new deals attempt to hrins
sooaoinlc revival to Puerto Rico is
pelnG Wrltten-and it seems M
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17
In Hollywood

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, April 16-The only
clan who can rival the record of the
Marrying Mdivanis are the Brothers
Westmore. While getting along nice
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-17

AASo - l11T
WIN capital available new indus
tries might be set up; crops like va.
nllla' qulnine and sea island cotton
can be grown in Puerto Rico tbe
government experts say, and there
are good possibilities for the mann.
facture of glass, toys, novelties and
curios.
PLENTY OF CAPITAL
BUT NO BORROWERS
Inc catch apparently is, however
that the island right now has more
capital available than it can use
Bank deposits in Puerto Rico are
higher than ever before and bank
loans are lower. Insular bankers
say they can't find any borrowers.
and the condition worries them.
What bothers the represe natives
OF Puerto Rican business groups
Eere is the thought that if congress
should adopt this new scheme, Item
bers would feel that they'd done all
that was needed; whereas, it is ar
gued, the only real relief for the s.
lane will come through a boost in
It's sugac quota or an amendment
to the wage-hour act that would
permit revival of it's needlework
and other handicraft industries.
There's no chance at all of getting
the former; Governor Leahy will
probably come here in April to de.
mand the latter, and if the ,.dminis-
tration gives him a hand he mig It
possibly get it.
During the past seven years the
government has put close to $780,
100000 into its Puerto Rico recon.
struction program.
PARTY FINANCIERS
MAY GET HEADACHES
If the new Hatch bill gets through
the house with its provision limit
ing campaign contributions TO $4,000,
the party treasurers will have a
tough time of it this summer. No
accurate tabulation of recent gifts
exists; buth source of light on pas.
performances is the report of the
Lonergan committee covering coil
tributions in the 1886 presidential
campaign.
This shows that the republicans
got 2C5 contributions between 5000
and $500. with the democrats get
ting 120. Republicans got nine gifts
between $500 and $4,000 and the
democrats got eight; in the $500 :
$4,000 level, the republicans got 35
and the democrats Is. Of gifts above
$4,000 the republicans got % and
the democrats %.
BILL is FREE
OF LOOPHOLES
Politicians are taking some COM
fort from the fact that the bill
hasn't passed the house yet. There
doesn't seem to be any loophole in
the BIZ, on over-s500O contributions,
though.
The bill says that any sun over
$4,000 Contributed, expended, f {
nished or advanced by n person.
directly or Indirectly shall 'e
deemed excessive, and that penal
ties shall apply to any person "whe
directly or indirectly contributes
such an excessive sum. Senator
Hatch says he thinks this is ampll
to keep a man DESTROYS of giving
$685. 900 from calling in five truste :.
employees, handing each one $4,000.
and letting them contribute.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-02-05

dealer: North. Neither side
Vulnerable.J
In either duplicate or rubber
bridge, it is more profitable to set
your opponents three tricks. when
neither side is vulnerable, than to
make game O: your own, but
less profitable ilSset them only
two tricks. That was the main
point Of this deal East bid l.
Heart, South diamonds, North
3-Diamonds, East 3-Hearts, South
4-Diamonds and West doubled,
guessing that ne could set the
contract three. considering that he
Distributed by King 7
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-02-05
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
BY Shepard Barclay
-Ths Authority On Authorities"

had partner who bid Up to three
unaided by him.
West made a somewhat unor'
thodox lead of the spade 2, dummy
ducking and East taking with his
K. East returned the heart K and
heart @, West playing first the 4
and then the ! That should have
indicated to East that West, want
ed him to switch. but East paid no
attention. He followed with his
heart A, which the declarer ruffed
in his own hand, discarding a club
from dummy.
That one mistake was fatal to
East and West. Thereafter they
could get only one trick in clubs.
Added to the three already in,
plus the diamond A. it brought
their total to just Ave, setting the
contract two instead Of three. If
there is any one defensive mistake
which usually is the worst posi-.
BILE, it is in leading a suit in which
the declarer is blank in both his
own hand and dummy,