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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-11-07

blow that stunned him. In that frac-
ton of a second Bowie, thrusting
his left leg upward, caught the
squatter's right arm under his knee.
When this released his own left hand
his fingers flew at Blood's neck.
Despite the rolling and writing,
the squatter was held in wise that
cut off his wind. lowering close to
the two men as they threshed about
the floor, stood Pedro, alert to help.
Sinmie, with pistols in each hand,
stood inside the door ready to shoot
either way-to repel squatters if
Blood's one frantic yell had been
heard or to finish Blood himself. But
no squatters appeared.
The squatter, half choked, hoarse
and bloodshot, hair and beard wild,
his shirt torn away in the scufae,
was quickly bound with rawhide
strips. 1t was light enough to make
out faces. He burst into torrent of
profanity. 'I'll have the law on you
for this, you greaser's pig!" he
shouted.
EASY, Blood" suggested Bowie,
unconcerned. eff you want your
coat pick it up. You're taking
ride"
what do you mean?" Numbered
the squatter. Then suddenly he
wrenched furiously at the thongs on
his wrists; but Pedro had tied too
many raWhide knots to feel uneasy
over his efforts.
81 mean you're going to Monterey
for failing with a charge of murder
against you"
There was dancing that night at
the merienda. The camp was light
ed by bonfres and torches, and dons
and donas, old and young, were
stepping to the music of guitars and
the swapping rhythm of castanets.
The light voices and the laughter
ringing through the pines, the soft
beating of the guitars, the serene
shadows of the dancers moving
through the figures of quadrille and
minuet, and the scene lighted by the
SIdIS dllu SlOW VI CIlG SCdLC6TGQ LTGS
struck into Bowie's sensibilities as
he neared the camp on his pony late
in the evening. He was alone and,
lettering his mount, he walked to
the fringe of the spectators.
1t took some little time for him to
single out one he was looking for.
She stood among the onlookers but
little apart, her eyes fixed on the
dancers.
| She heard a mild voice behind
her: "You are not dancing, seno-
rita?"
She almost whirled to meet the
words. She clasped her hands. "Oh,
Senior Bowie. Thank God, you are
back!"
"Only keeping my promise"
She regarded him with startled
eyes. "You are not hurt?"
"No indeed"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-11-07
CARMEN RANCHO
WNU Service
g Frank II. Speorman

just awakened. Bowie, making no
answer, knocked third time.
"Who's there?" This time the tone
was savage.
''Hit's Deaf Peterson, Mort. Got
any whisky? One O. the boys ez got
a bad toothache-keepin' us all
awake"
"What boy?"
"Can't hear y, Mort. Got any
whisky? One O. the boys ez got a
bad toothache-keepin' us all"
"What did you wake me up for?"
demanded Blood sourly. With this
abusive retort he threw open the
door.
Pedro understood then why Bowie
had taken the east door. The faint
rays of light already in the eastern
sky struck Blood, standing barefoot
in shirt and trousers, pistol in belt
and knife in scabbard.
Bowie, facing west, stood with his
face in shadow. He had neither
pistol nor knife on his person. For
what he meant to do, either might
prove his undoing. Simmie and Pc
dro had ample coverage if needed.
Like the spring of a mountain lion,
Bowie came down on the squatter,
pinning both his arms at his sides.
In vain Blood tried to get his right
hand on the grip Of the pistol in
his trouser band. Raging, he strug-
gled with his left hand to reach
the haft of his knife. But he was
held in a loop of iron muscles capa-
BILE of cracking his ribs.
Blood bit and gouged in his in
sane way until Bowie delivered a
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-11-07
1t Must Re Admitted That
Clerk Had No Snap of Job

The theatrical agents new clerk
entered the private room and said,
"There's lady waiting to see
you, sir
els she good-looking?"
eyes, sir"
"Show her i'm
Ten minutes later the clerk was
summoned.
"Well," said the agent, grufly,
you're a nice judge of beauty, I
must say"
"Ah, but I had to be careful,
sir. I've got to look after my job.
For all I knew, she might have
been your wife"
eyes" said the agent, acidly,
"she was"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-11-07

THE DICTATOR AT HOME
Dictator (returning home after
bumptious day)-Hail!
Wife-Hail my eye! Remember
you're not at the chancellery now.
Dictator-Do you realize to whom
you are speaking?
Wife-I'm the only person VINO
does
Dictator (still unable to shake OH
the dictator mood)-My smoking
jacket, please! :.
Wife-You know where it is, don't
you?
Dictator-Get it for me at once,
Ella.
Wife-Get it yourself. You're no
cripple.
Dictator-I warn you, you are ex-
hausting my patience.
Wife-Aw, cut out that line, Toots!
Dictator (wincing)-Toots!
Wife-You never used to object to
me calling you that,
Dictator-That was away back be-
fore before, I, er
Wife-Before you got all those uni
forms, emblems and ideas for
salutes. You were a nice boy in
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-11-07

those days Little did l ever dream
you'd turn out like this.
Dictator-There you 60 belittling
me again!
Wife-I'm not belittling you.
Dictator-Yes you are. Gle lights
a cigar.)
Wife (sternly)-Put out that nickel
stogie! You know better than to
smoke in the living ROOM.
Dictator-I'll smoke where wish.
This is my house.
Wife-Lissen, you either put that
roman candle out or you 60 out on
the back porch and smoke it. And
no back talk!
Dictator (who knows when he is
licked)-Oh, all right, but I want it
understood that my action is not to
be misinterpreted as sign of weak
ness. am not establishing prece-
dent. I know my rights and x.
Wife-Aw, Joe, pipe down! You
sound so silly.
Dictator-I resent your studied at
tempts to undermine my self-confi-
dence. It's not very nice of you.
Wife-You've got me wrong, Joe.
All I want you to understand is that
you can't get away with all that
boss of the universe stuff with me.
I knew you when.
Dictator-You ought to be proud
of me.
Wife-Why?
Dictator-Look what I've done!
Look where I've, risen! And all on
my own ability.
swelled head. Don't I get any cred
it? Who designed that emblem? I
did. Who thought up that color
scheme for the shirts? Me. Who
sat up with you night after night
studying history and trying to point
out Napoleon's mistakes?
Dictator-Have we got to go over
all that again? You helped me, I
admit. But l had to have brains.
Wife-Baloney All you had to
have was a radio and your nerve.
Dictator-Let's not argue. Is my
steak ready?
Wife = What makes you think
you're getting steak?
Dictator-I told you I wanted
steak tonight.
Wife-So what? You're getting
cold roast beef.
Dictator-I will not have my or
ders ignored with IMMUNITY. l will
not be treated so contemptuously.
I will not permit my authority to be
disrespected.
Wife-If you knew how funny you
looked talking that way, you'd cut
it out, Toots.
Dictator-Don't call me Toots. Do
you know what millions of people
are calling me? They are calling
me their hope, their idol, their peer
less leader!
Wife-Yeah. And do you remem-
Der what the boys used to call you
back in your boyhood days?
Dictator-What?
Wife-Peewee!
Dictator-This is too much. I'll
60 down to the palace where the
boys respect me for what I am.
Wife-Okay, as long as you don't
bring 'em up here.
eight types of Near Beer Being
Tried in Germany. Headline. So
that is victory!
CAN YOU REMEMBER
Away back when the word ode.
tense" generally referred to foot
ball?
Marshal Petain is for a back
to-the-farm movement. The Man
With the HOch.
ALLIANCE
Three bowling dogs got out one day
Into such blustery weather
That lest they be blown off the map
They tied their tails together.
H. Langeler.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-11-07
NEW IDEAS

ADVERTISEMENTS are your guide
II to modern living. They bring you
today's NEWS about the food you eat and
the clothes you wear. And the place to
find out about these new things is right
in this newspaper.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-11-07
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Evening star., 1940-08-14
Bright Leaf tobacco
Prices Move Upward
Ry the Associated Press.


VALDOSTA, Ga, Aug. IA
Bright leaf tobacco prices moved
upward as buyers bid briskly for
medium-grade stock yesterday.
Unofficial reports indicated a
steadily strengthening market. with
averages apparently better than the
18.43 cents pound set for the first
two days of sales.
At Waycross the Journal-Herald
reported a definite upturn," with
medium quality grades and lugs
bringing advanced prices and the
average well above the 2O-cent
mark" The range was from 4 to
% cents a pound. with the bulk
going from 20 to 26 cents.
Sales Manager Joe Spence at
Pelham reported sales averaging
about 10 cents The market moved
342,510 pounds at an average OF
1854. The range was from 6 to
20 cents pound.
A scarcity of good tobacco and
heavy offerings of low and medium
leaf were reported from Hahira by
Sales Manager w. R. Salter. Sales
ranged from 6 to % cents a pound,
with the bulk at from 18 to 20
cents. Official report showed 283 ,036
pounds sold for s52,965 -25-an av-
erage of 1871.
The Tifton market appeared firm,
with an average near 20 cents and
a range from 5 to "a cents. Yester-
day 83l ,238 pounds yielded s171 ,829,
an average of 2055.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Machine Gun Makers
Ask Taxes Be Eased
As Development Boon
One Concern Asserts
Ii Has Had Continuous
Losses Since 1918
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Machine-gun manufacturers asked
Congress today for tax considera-
ton for losses said to have been
suffered over period of years in
the interest of developing an "efh-
cient" military weapon.
Prev Savoy of Washington, rep
resenting the Auto Ordnance Co.
of New York, urged that the pro-
posed excess profits tax law permit
concerns engaged since the last war
in making standard military equip
ment to include patent and develop
ment losses in capital assets. Such
assets would be a factor in figuring
the tax.
Mr.. Savoy asserted that his con-
Germ had been in operation since
the last war and had lost money
each year, expecting to make up the
deficits when an emergency arose.
An official OF the United States
Chamber of Commerce, meanwhile,
urged Congress to delay enactlng an
excess profits tax, while represent
atiye of the National Association OF
Manufacturers, said he favored
carefully drawn" tax of that type
as a temporary, emergency meas
ure"
Ellsworth C. Alvord of Washing
ton, chairman of the chambers
Federal Finance Committee, recon-
mended that Congress pass, sepa-
rately from the tax, legislation per-
mitting defense contractors to de-
duct from their taxable income the
full cost of new plant installations.
Carl N. Osborne, vice president
of the NJ. A. Hanna Co, Cleveland.
and vice chairman of the N. A. M s
Government Finance Committee,
advocated an excess profits tax ap-
plicable to this years earnings. He
said, however, that the tax should
not be made permanent because it
involves 'inequities."
Both Mr.. Alvord and Mr. Osborne
testified at a joint hearing of the
Senate Finance and House Ways
and Means Committee.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK. Aug. IA DP.-The British
free pound climbed / cent to 81 .0l "a today,
highest price of the year and only cent
under the official British Treasury rate.
Foreign money dealers said the rise
tions which have tended TO sweep the
market clean Of free, sterling and thus
force use of nothing but official sterling.
The Canadian dollar moved UP Is OF a
cent to S6ss United States cents. Other
leadins, free currencies remained un-
Noon rates follow oGreat Britain in dol
lars, others in cents.
Canada.
Official Canadian Control Board rates
for United States dollars: Buying, 10 per
cent premium: selling, l per cent premium.
lars in New York of buying, 9.91 per cent;
selling. 9.09 per cent.
Canadian dollar in New York open mar
ket. 1885 per cent discount. or S6.62l7
United States cents.
Great Britain. official Bankers Foreign
Exchange Committee rates.: Buying. 81 or
selling. 81 O4: open market. cables. 81 OF "a !:
Germany 40.05n: (benevolent). 1925; Fin
land, 2.05n; Greece. .6S: Hungary. son:
Italy. sos: Portugal. 1856; Rumania. ASH:
sweden q So; Switzerland $3.50; Yuso-
Latin America.
Argentine. official, 2977; free 2".6O
20.35n.
Far East.
Japan. 23.4s; Hong Kong. 1926; Shans-
hal. 5.55.
Rates in spot cables unless otherwise
indicatedD n Nominal.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Stock Averages
60 Stock Range Since 1927 ::
BY VICTOR EUBANK,


NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-The stock
market recovered its balance today
and steels and aircrafts staged a
mild upturn.
A few shares got up as much as a
point, but minor gains and losses
were the rule as the list resumed a
quiet drift after its sharp drop in
the preceding session.
Transactions slackened to about
250OO0 shares, less than half the
volume yesterday.
Despite continuance of fierce
aerial warfare over England, traders
appeared TO have taken a calmer
view of the war events in contrast
with the nervous apprehension dis
played the previous day. Brokers
pointed out the London stock mar
ket. closer to the fighting. held up
much better than the Wall Street
market.
Up fractions to around a point
most of the day we're Bethlehem,
United States Steel. Douglas Air
craft, United Aircraft. Great North
ern preferred and Westinghouse.
Early gains were partly or wholly
eliminated before the finish, par
ticularly in motors.
Small losses were recorded in
Sears Roebuck, Anaconda, General
Motors and Texas Corp. Du Pont
and American Telephone were down
a point or. more in late trading.
In the curb American Cyanamid
"B," United Gas and United Wall
Paper rose fractions. Most shares
barely moved, and some did not
trade at all.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Reply TO Monopoly Suit
Cites T. 7. {. Report

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 14-George w.
Hill, president of the American To-
bacco Co.. cited yesterday a 1887
report Of the Federal Trade Com
mission to back up his claim that
American and other big tobacco
companies were not guilty Of the
charges brought by the Department
of Justice in its anti-monopoly suit
filed in the Federal Court at Lex
ington. KY, on July "a.
Mr.. Hill gave his comment in a
72-page pamphlet history of Amer
ican tobacco and the domestic to-
bacco industry. 1t was prepared for
distribution among the company S
stockholders.
That genuine competition be-
tween the various tobacco manufac-
turing companies has existed since
1912" said Hill. lis well known not
only to those who have studied the
industry, but to Government repre-
SCllbdllfCS WllO IldFC dlldlS Ecu tIl6
business from time to time in the
course of various investigations.
Hill quoted from the Trade Com
missions findings:
The companies concerned have
consistently denied that they ever
exchange information regarding
prices or contemplated price
changes or arrive at any under
standings concerning them The
circumstances stated suggest that
there are advance understandings,
but there is no evidence to support
conclusion contrary to the repre-
sentations by the manufacturers.
Their statements. which are sup
ported by documentary evidence,
shoI that it is entirely possible for
the price changes to be accom-
plished almost simultaneously with
out any previous understanding
The Department of Justice
charged the major tobacco COM
panies employed price fixing de-
vices to eliminate competition and
abused their position of dominance
by exacting harsh and oppressive
terms from those with whom they
deal"
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Rich Tennessee Valley
Resources Awakened
By Defense Needs
Industries Spring Up
In Virginia Area, Bolstered
By Economic Demands
By tie Associated Press.

KNOXVILLE. Tenn. Aug IA
world at war is reshaping the eco
nomic scenery in the Tennessee VAL
ley, which suddenly has found itself
in the limelight as strategic region
in the Nations defense plans.
Cotton fields are being plowed up
for factories. New industries are
spending millions in building. The
tempo of life has changed for thou
sands of farmers who are leaving
the pillow for the machine
The ton of the South
under the drum beats of war on
other continents, has been quickened
beyond the realization of most of
the inhabitants.
Resources Draw Attention.
Industry has at last turned its eyes
on the valleys rich resources in
labor. materials, electric power. rail
and water transportation facilities
temperature. climate and inland Sc
curity in event of possible future
invasion by enemy forces.
The, valley. included in the region
which President Roosevelt once
termed THE Nations No. l eco
nomic problem, is in the midst OF a
dramatic period spawned by the
turn of world events.
Defense Gives a Boost
Here is a section which has suf-
fered from underdevelopment in all
its natural possibilities, but the de-
fense program has given it an op-
portunity to prove it is ready and
able to carry its share of responsible
ity for production" said David E
Lilienthal, Tennessee Valley Author
ity director, after tour of inspec-
ton which carried him to key de-
fense industries and projects in the
valley.
Mr.. Lilienthal will visit the Presi-
dent this week to give him an oral
report of the national defense pro-
gram in the T. V. A. region.
Il shall give the President a very
optimistic and heartening report on
the national defense aspects of the
valley" Mr.. Lilienthal said.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
End Of To-Day Wait Law
May Expand Securities
Rv the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Aug 14-The Wall
Street Journal said today two mpor-
tant results were probable from
security legislation passed by the
House of Representatives yesterday
and awaiting presidential signature.
allowing the Securities and EX-
change Commission to cut down the
20-day waiting period" between res
istration of new securities and public
offerings:
"One is a gradual expansion OF
public offerings of stocks and bonds.
if the E c. effectively uses the
accelerative powers which the new
measure invests in that body.
The other is a sharp decrease in
the amount of bonds sold privately
to few big insurance companies
without going through registration.
The paper added that until indus
try and finance have had a chance
to examine the new legislation the
chances are there will be no Imme-
diate food Of proposed issues
While no one knows exactly how
much time will be required in eXam-
ination by the S. E. C. of any par
ticular issue of securities, the belief
of some observers is that the ordi-
nary stock issue should be able TO
emerge from registration within
three days - =" the paper said.
Investment banking concerns have
particularly sought change in the
waiting period provisions of the
Securities Act of 1888, because they
contended that delay of 20 days
before marketing often meant the
difference between favorable and
unfavorable marketing conditions.
and that the failure of an issue
brought not only loss to the under
writer's but damage to the credit
standing of the company offering the
securities.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Cushman' S Sons Net
Trails 1889 Total
,y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Aug. 14.-Cushman' s
Sons, Inc, New York, yesterday re-
ported net income for II weeks
ended July 13 of S52,3l4, equivalent,
after per cent preferred dividend
requirements, to SO cents share
on SO preferred stock. This COM
pared with $8l ,664 net income for
the same period a year ago, or
Sl.36 a share on So preferred stock
Net income for the % weeks
ended July 13 was S188.479, COM
pared with S259, ,967 for the CORE
spending 1889 period.
Hawaiian Pineapple.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. IA (P)-
Hawaiian Pineapple Co. reports So
1924 net profit for the fiscal
year ended May 81, against 81, ,408,-
429 In the preceding year. Net per
share on common stock was $40,
against s1.06.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
New York Produce

NEW YORK. Aug. IA QP.-Esgs. 2s,646;
Arm. Mixed colors: Fancy to extra fancy.
.1h-25h; extra. 20-21; storage packed
dirties No. 1, 14Hs4: average checks.
13h-s1
whites: (Resale of premium marks. 3o1a-
33): nearby and Midwestern premium
marks. 27la-30: specials. 26-27; standards,
?11s: resale of exchange to fancy heavier
mediums. 23E-27); mediums. 22ia-23:
Browns: Nearby and Midwestern fancy
standards. 2O-20Ia: mediums. 211a.
Duck eggs: 17-1a.
higher than extra 2S-2SA extra t92
score). 27h; hrsts (sS-9D, 26-27h: sec
onds ts4-s1) 24A-25h.
Cheese. 165,170, steady. Prices un-
chaneed.
Other produce prices steady and un-
changed.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Metal Market

NEW YORK. Aug. IA Cooper
ley. 1O.75-1 90: export. fas New York
90 Tin steady; spot and nearby. 81 90:
forward, 50.25. Lead steady; spot New
steady; East St. Louis. SPOT '' and forward,
6.25. Quicksilver. 1873. .0O-1 90 90 Pig iron.
aluminium. antimony. platinum. Chinese
changed.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Scientific Exports Rise
68.8 Pct. in First Half
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Exports of scientific instruments
and apparatus in the first half of
1910. the Commerce Department
says, increased 68.S per cent over
the similar period last year to
s3.193.424.
Canada continued to be the larg-
est single market. but increased
sales also were made to many other
countries, particularly Japan and
the Netherland West Indies.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Department Store Sales
Expected to Advance
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Aug IA Nation
wide survey of merchants opinion
indicates expectations that DEPART
ment store sales will increase 7
per cent this autumn, the National
Retail Dry Goods Association re-
ports.
The organization said more than
81 per cent Of retailers canvassed
anticipate general improvement in
business and employment in the
fall on the basis of present con-
ditionS.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Maryland Tobacco

The Agr>cultursl Marketing Service re-
ports average prices for tobacco sold August
II and I3 on the Southern Maryland auc-
tion market were steady on all the better
Qualities of tobacco and somewhat stronger
on the lower qualities. as compared with
prices on August Z TO O. Granulating sec
onds showed good gains from l.25 to 300
hundred. Offerings this week have been
fairly heavy in volume and the quality of
the tobacco offered continues good.
Average prices per 100 pounds by quail
ity, and approximate ranges on bulk of sales
follow.
Evening star., 1940-08-14

Also extra or extras
eDeclared or paid so far this year.
Quotations furnished by National Asso-
states they do not necessarily reflect
actual transactions or firm bids or oners
Evening star., 1940-08-14
1875 Tons of leod Sold

NEW YORK Aug. IA iP1.-St. Joseph
Lead Co reported so tons OF southea a s.
per 100 pounds East St. Louis and $50
tons at the St. Louis AVERAGE, 125 tons
at 81 so per 100 pounds New York and
$50 tons at the New York averase.
Evening star., 1940-08-14

OF 1889, it was
learned today.
July sales rose
from 626,781, 900
cubic feet IN
1889 to 698,956,-
900 last month,
a gain of 72,l75,-
900.
Sales for the
irst S ev e n
months of 1899
were 7,379,1 ,154,-
600 cubic feet
C o m p a r e d to
8,805 ,908,000 for
t he sim ii a r
DeriOd in 1Q40
Evening star., 1940-08-14

11:00 AM------- $4,000 1900 Noon 100000
100 M.------- 10000 20OP.M 10000
Total Sales for the day. 100000
Unit of trading. 10
In bankruptcy receIverhip
Bankruptcy Ac securities assumed by such companies
included ~ - ~ ~ " INV
xEx dividend; xr Ex rights. Also
epmuated dyldends paid last Declared paid far
thlS PAYABLE in Paid
Accumulated dividends paid declared