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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-04-11
BIRD HOUSES INSTEAD
OF GUNS
EDITH BRANDS

"Bang! Bang" Mrs. May heard
from her back yard where the five lit
tie boys of the neighborhood often
played. She went to the window and
looked out" "Oh, we've a new boy"
She glanced at the clock. 81 guess it is
time for the Cookie Club to get into
action" There was an agreement
among the neighboring mothers with
regard to this club.
She stepped to the door and called
to her six-year-old, "Billy, cookies are
coming. Get ready"
Ten minutes later, when she went
out with a big plate of sugar cookies
with raisins, she found all six boys
sitting on long bench ready for her.
Their hands and faces had been fresh
ly washed, for this was the Cookie
Club rule.
While the boys ate, she looked at
the half dozen wooden guns with
which they had been playing, evident
ly distributed among the children by
y the new boy. The guns told some
thing about the stranger, whose name
she found to be George Ray. First,
he knew something about wood
working, second, he had a nice sense
of order, third, and she judged this
by the way he had organized the
group, he had considerable aptitude as
leader. Her problem, then, was to
make use of the new boys abilities
and energy to benefit the activities
which would take place in her back
yard. Such an opportunity was too
valuable to be wasted.
She listened to the chatter of the
boys as they ate, seeking clew. Billie
said to her, Mother, Georges father
is a carpenter. George knows how to
use tools, and he has set of his own.
1t must be lots of fun to make things
with a saw and hammer and nails.
George has made lots of guns. That's
why he can make such nice guns and
make them so quickly"
She turned to the new boy, who was
about eight years old. George, did
you ever make bird houses? ?"
"Only pigeon house. My father
showed me-"
"That would be very big bird
house."
"Yes'm. 1t was"
Could you teach the boys how tc
build very simple little bird house
For wrens? ?"
"They're pretty little. But my
father showed me how just to drive
nails first. If we had some blocks OF
wood and some nails and some ham.
mers, | could teach them that first
then afterwards they could learn tc
saw"
"You shall have them," said Mrs
May, and a little later she brought
two small hammers and bag o1
nails from the workshop. Present.!
she looked out again and saw how
skillfully the new boy was directing
the little boys in their nail-driving
having them take turns, showing then
each little detail. She looked abou
the house and found magazine will
the pattern for small bird house
When George was ready to go home
she thanked him, gave him the mag
azine and asked him to come back th
next day.
The Cookie Club took George int
its ranks. All the boys had cluI
club names; George became "Mr
Chips" His task was to teach the lit
tie boys how to use tools. Later on
as Mrs. May watched him showing tn
boys how to drive nails, to hold tn
saw, to draw a pattern, to cut on
pieces, she had a deep sense of salts
faction that she had so quickly beel
able to recognize the value he woul'
be to the group, and she often said t.
herself, "Bird houses instead of guns.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-04-11

Doctor-"You cough with greater
ease this morning, | see."
Patient-"Why shouldn't l? I've
been practicing all night
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-04-11
Home Education
The Child's First School IL the
49,, Family"-Froebel

Issued by the National Kinder
garten Association, 8 West 40th
Street, New York City. These arti-
cles are appearing weekly in our
columns.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Stock Averages
CO. Stock Range Since 1927:
BY VICTOR EUBANK.


NEW YORK, Feb. Stock lead
ers inclined to slope moderately
downward in today's market.
While a handful of specialties
managed to hold modest advances,
declines of fractions to a point or
so were generously sprinkled over
the list at the close.
No great Importance, however, was
attached to price shifts in view of
the slackness of dealings throughout.
Transfers were around 100000
shares. one of the low volumes of
the year to date.
Industrial news provided scant
stimulation and Wall Street re-
mained at the listening post of poll
tics on the chance the meeting Of
the Democratic National Committee
might give clue regarding the
coming presidential campaign and
the "third-term" question.
A drop in this weeks steel mill
operations of Sc points to tit per
cent of capacity, bottom mark
DillSC loSl OEpU1lllDC4- NlOuuCu oOOSho
in this group. The recession. at the
same time, was in line with fore
casts.
In arrears most of the day were
United States Steel, Bethlehem,
General Motors, Eastman Kodak,
Dow Chemical, Loft, Cluett Pea
body, American Can, Douglas Air
craft. United States Rubber and
American Telephone. Rails, utili-
ties. coppers, oils and merchandise
ing issues maintained their balance
fairly we'll.
Edging into new high territory
for 1939-40 were Brooklyn -Manhat-
tan Transit and Brooklyn & Queens
Transit stocks. Supported were
Commercial Investment Trust, Ana
conda. International Paper pre-
ferred. Texas Corp, Consolidated
Edison, Caterpillar Tractor and
TideWater Oil.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Firm Tone Displayed
By Insurance Shares

Sreclal Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Insurance
stocks IN the New York City market
recorded slight gains during the
last week, according to figures COM
piled by Holt, Rose & Troster.
The aggregate market value of
20 leading fire and casualty insur-
ance issues on Friday, February
2. was $645,062 900, compared with
$641 1851. 900 at the close of the
previous week. an increase of So
205, 10000, or 0.50 per cent.
The current average yield Of the
20 issues is $40 per cent, compared
with a yield of 3.72 per cent on
January 26. The current market
value equals 112 times the reported
iquidating value. against Ill times
at the close of the previous week.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Cargi|| Grain Hearings
Reopened at Chicago
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-Another act
in the grain trading drama known
as the Cargill case" came be-
fore the public today.
It was a resumed hearing on
charges by Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace that Cargill, Inc, big Min
neapolis grain concern, violated the
Commodity Exchange Act in the
corn squeeze" of September. 1887.
Referee Jack w. Balm of the Com
modify Exchange Commission be-
gan the hearing in Minneapolis
last September. He moved 1t to
Chicago today. The Department Of
Agriculture is presenting the case;
the Cargill side will come later.
Secretary Wallace alleged that
Cargill manipulated prices of Sep
tember and December, 1887, corn
futures on the Chicago Board of
Trade and March, 1898, corn fu-
lures on the Minneapolis exchange.
The case was one phase of con-
troversies in which Cargill found
itself with both the Government
and the Chicago Board of Trade. In
March, 1888, the Chicago exchange
expelled Cargill from membership.
Cargill promptly complained to the
c. E. c. that the Board of Trade
itself had conspired to manipulate
corn prices downward in September,
1887.
Exhaustive hearings on the Car
gill versus the Board of Trade case
were conducted last year by Referee
S. Abbott Maginnis of the c. E. C..
in Washington, Minneapolis and
Chicago.
The first witness was Leo Polish
man of Fort Worth, Tex, president
of the Transit Grain Commission
Co.. which, he testified, acted as
agent for Cargill in Texas corn
transactions in 1887. Virtually all
the first half of the days session
was devoted to the identification of
kilograms, letters and other records
relating to Cargill- Transit affairs.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Money in Circulation
Gains II Millions

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-The volume
of money in circulation increased
100000 last week after declin-
ing for five successive weeks.
The return flow of currency to
the banks after the peak of the
Christmas shopping season had re-
duced the amount of currency out
standing by $3l4,00O,000. Bills were
needed not only for Christmas pur-
chases, but also for actual gifts of
currency.
Money in circulation is now SUBJ
stantially greater than year ago
because Of the higher volume of
business activity and considerable
boarding of United States currency
abroad. Comparisons follow:
Last week, $7,376 100000; pre-
vious week. $7,365, ,000, 900: year ago
$685., ,000, 900.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Soviet Ship Loaded
With U. S. Copper
By the Associated Press.


MANzANILLO. Mexico, Feb. S.
Authoritative sources described to-
day the transshipment of 5000 tons
of copper from United States
freighters to a Soviet Russian ship
which started for Vladivostok Sat-
urday.
The freighter Mayakovsky. it was
asserted, met the American ships in
this port last week to effect the
transfer.
Along the waterfront it was ru-
mored, without confirmation, how
ever. that the copper is destined for
Germany by way of the Trans
Siberia Railroad.
New York trade circles said cop
per exports to Soviet Russia from
the United States in December
totaled 17,057 tons, an unusually
heavy allotment.
(Of the total, 5,152 tons were
shipped from the Tacoma Seattle
district. while 1905 moved out Of
New York;
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Jewel Tea Co. Nets
$1,583, 177 in Yeor
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-Jewel Tea Co.,
food distributor, reported 1889 net
earnings of 81 1,583,177, equal to $3.50
per common share, compared with
81 ,423 $50, or IS 90, in 1888. This was
the best earnings since 1896. and
with that exception, the best since
1880.
Sales totaled $24, 1872 1888, an in
crease of AS per cent compared
with 1898.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Chicago Grain
b. the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-Wheat and
corn price gains of a cent a bushel
or more today impaired strength
to the entire grain market.
Buying based on unfavorable re-
ports of winter crop conditions in
the Northern Hemisphere, particu-
larly from Europe, bolstered wheat,
while the corn market derived
strength from export business and
indications that substantial quanti-
ties are being stored for loans. Corn
export sales we're estimated at
100000 bushels, the best business in
more than a week, while more Pa
cific Coast wheat was sold to the
Orient with the help of a Govern
ment subsidy.
Wheat closed 3s-34 cent higher
than Saturday, May 97as-9714. July
GAS -94si; corn, 7s-11s up, May So
S67 IIlV S53. O9tS l. higher
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Virginia Employment
Declines in January
By the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va. Feb. 5.-A re-
port to the State Industrial Com
mission made today by Statistician
w. B. Davis indicates that there was
decrease in employment in Vir-
ginia during January, probably due
to the severe winter weather.
Davis said, using occupational
accidents as an index of employment
in Virginia, it is estimated that the
total hours of work for January,
1910, was 04 per cent less than for
January, 1899, per cent more than
for January, 1888, but IL per cent
less than for December, 1889"
Construction had the heaviest de-
crease OF 20 per cent.
During last month, II fatal and
5000 non-fatal accidents were re-
ported to the commission.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Net Of Youngstown
Sheet & Tube Sours
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. S.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. re-
ported 1899 profits of S5,004 ,484 80.
equal to $2.49 a common share after
provision of $825,000 for preferred
dividend. This compares with a
loss of $658,933.87 in 1888; a profit
of s12, 100 ,648 "a in 1887, and profit
of $1O,564, Sol .04 in 1886.
Profit from operations was $14,-
o04,537.31 after deduction of Fed
eral income tax, but before provid-
ing for depletion of minerals and
depreciation.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
wv. 7. Grant Co.
Reports Sales
1889
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-W. T. Grant
Co. today reported January sales of
$5,931 ,006, which represented a gain
of 70 per cent from $5,531, ,067 in
January last year. Sales for the fis-
cal year ended January 81 amounted
to SOB, ,761 ,688, against $97,516,419
in the preceding year.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Baltimore Quotations.
New York Cotton
By the Associated Press.

B! The ASSOclated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-The cotton
market was a colorless affair today
as prices held to a narrow course in
small dealings.
Routine mill buying and little
foreign and professional support en-
countered only light hedge sales and
Bombay liquidation in March and
May.
Around midafternoon the list still
maintained earlier gains of 4 to 9
points; March (ol6, 1898; July
(old) 10.14; October, 9.52.
Evening star., 1940-02-05

protect deposi-
tors of go in
s ur ed banks,
bringing its pro-
gram for reha-
b iii t a t ion of
known problem
banks near COM
pletion. Losses
on this outlay
are not expected
to exceed ST.
100000.
The surplus of
the corporation
increased during
1889 by $32,166,-
600, amounting
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Visible Grain Supply

NEW YORK, Feb. C9-Visible
supply of American grain showed
the following changes from week
ago Tin bushels) wheat, decreased
2,212,000: corn, decreased $4,000;
oats, decreased 67l,000; rye, de-
creased $4,000; barley, decreased
$4,000.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Dr.. Key to Speak

DR.. Cora B. Key, noted woman
psychologist, will address parents of
the National Cathedral Elementary
School on Testing in the Elemen-
tary School" at 8 o'clock tonight
in the Nursey School Building, $500
Woodley road NV.
Evening star., 1940-02-05

In August, 1889, soon after pedes-
trian control regulations were put
into effect, 139 pedestrians were in
jured. The total injured In January,
1910, was IS, a decrease Of "a.
Evening star., 1940-02-05

6ansruptcy being under
Rates Of dividend in the oregong table
Unless
included
Accumulated dividends Declared
far this Payable stock
Accumulated dividends declared year
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Cottonseed Oil.

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures moved
narrowly in quiet trade today. Steadi-
ness in outside markets checked selling
pressure but buying interest was lacking,
The list held gains of / to 3 points around
midday. March, 6.S3; May. sos; July. 7.06.
Crude oil in the Southeast was quoted 51s
cents nominal, while scattered sales were
made in the valley at 57s. Texas oil was
55s-24 bid, depending upon location.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
CHICAGO Cash Market.

Chicago Cash Market.
Cash wheat, No. > yellow, hard. LOO.
Corn, No. : mixed. 57i4-62A2; No. 3, -;
No. 4. 56l4-te; sample grade mixed gram.
%; No. l yellow. 81 5i2-5Sl2; No; .. 81 q
3 white, 65l2; sample grade, white. So.
Oats, sample erade, mixed. :}7 No. white.
41a4-42; sample grade 36i2-4Ol2. Barley
55-61; No. 4. 80: sample grade. 40; No .
mailing, $3.50: No. 3 malting, ,60-62. Soy
beans. No 4 yellow, .02a4. Field seeds; per
5.25; sweet clover sos. .25; red clover,
l2.5O-15.OO red top. s.50-9.00; alsike.
Is 00-lS.00; alfalfa. lS.0O-23.O 90.
Baltimore Quotations.
BALTIMORE Feb. 3 LP1.-Wheat. No.
. red winter, garl!cky, spot, domestic
ILL.,
Evening star., 1940-02-05
F. D. !. T.. Disburses
$72,000,000 10 Aid
Bank Depositors
1889 Payments Bring
Present Plans Close
To Completion
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Leo T. Crowley, chairman of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, re-
ported today that during 1899 the
corporation disbursed $4,000 900 to
Evening star., 1940-02-05

Cottonseed oil opened steady: March.
6.30b; May. 6.45b: July. 6.55b; September.
6.64b. Bid.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Ne,y nrIeops pricss

NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 5 dP,.-Cotton fu-
lures advanced here today on good cables
and trade buying. Trading was quiet at
noon and prices were 20 8 points net
higher
Evening star., 1940-02-15

from the levy was In the city Golfers
yesterday when Frank J. willard
receiver Of taxes. extended the pay
ment deadline to February IS. Fiscal
oficials expect the tax to Yield
$18.000,000 a year. That amount
is needed to prevent q municipal
budget deficit.
Despite the slow rate Of collections
Mr.. Willard saw signs that most pay
ments on January wages and income
would reach him before the new
deadline.
MY office is mobbed to the doors,
he said, land I am receiving checks
in the mail by the sackload."
The penalty for delinquent pay
ment is 6 per cent interest on the
tax plus one-half Of / per cent for
each part of a month, during the
first half of 1910, that the tax re-
mains unpaid.
The rush to pay began after the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld
the validity of the tax In q de-
cision February dismissing a suit
brought, with labor union backing,
by $10-a-week shirt factory worker
Previously, a three-judge Federal
court refused to rule on another suit
challenging the levy as taxation
without representation"
Evening star., 1940-02-15

novelist for years but he had never
proposed marriage.
Mr.. Lewisohn's counsel conceded
the author was the father Of her
child. born In Paris on September
II, 1888.
But the big scene was reserved for
an after-court session when the
three principals met
"I'll get that boy away from you
If it's the last thing I ever do" Mr.,
Lewisohn said to Miss Spear.
You'll never get hin-never, =
Miss Spear cried. Because you
can't find him. I've got him In safe
hiding"
Evening star., 1940-02-15
|Lewisohn Ordered
10 Pay $50 4 Week
For Support Of Son
Author Vows to Get
Boy From Miss Spear
In Scene After Court
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. IS ldwig
Lewisohn. recently married novelist.
must pay $50 a week to support his
6-year-old son, James. born out
OF wedlock to Thelrpa Bowman
Spear, concert singer.
The Paternity Court fixed the
amount after the 56-year -old author
and Miss Spear took turns on the
stand constructing the latest chap
ter In Mr.. Lewisol1ns private life.
Miss Spear, who tried vainly to
halt the marriage Of Mr.. Lewisohn
and Edna Manley. former news
paperwoman, In Baltimore 10 days
ago, testified she had lived with the
Evening star., 1940-02-15
Wage Tax DeadIine
Extended 10 DAYS
In Philadelphia
$4,000, 900 a Year
Expected From Levy
By Fiscal Officials
1y the Associated Press.

1y the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. l5.-The
original deadline for flrst-month
payments Of Philadelphia's IL per
cent wage tax arrived today, but
tardy taxpayers were given another
10 days to come across.
The tax affects every one who
works in Philadelphia, regardless of
residence. Commuters from New
Jersey, Federal and State employees,
even seamen on ships within the
Smile limit, must pay it. Collected
"at the source" the tax comes prin-
cipally from employees pay en-
velopes.
Only about 100000 in revenues
Evening star., 1940-02-15
Practice Condemned

Sending Of white feathers to men
who do not enlist In the army ID
being condemned in Australia be-
cause the practice often hits the
physically unit.
Evening star., 1940-02-15
Save ., FURNISHINGS

$l.5o and $le5 TIES widely assorted potterns--s sse
81 and $3.50 TIES smart assorted pottern SO
- to $3.50 SHIRTS whites poerns, pon coos Some soled
Not every style in every size coor------h VI Price
81 and $zz5 SHIRTS, potterns. solid eoIors
$zsc. $3.50 SHIRTS, poens, whites. mibosoms
81 WOOL HOSE. pottern Areyles-
$3.50, $Ie5 Isle 6 WOOL HOSE. all Isizes-sae
81 and $3.50 HOSE. fine Isle and wool
$3.50 and s. PAJAMAs. pottern pon
$3.50. 81 SATEEk PAJAMAS. fovored coo styIes-Szss
$3.50. $3.50 PAJAMAs & LOUNGE SUITS
81 kAIksooK UNION SUITS erond selection
$7.s5, $8S5 ROBES, flannel in pottens
90 $3.50 ROBES, sik-Ined throughout
ST. MUFFlERS silk and royon VI Price
s. end $3.50 MUFFLERs. silks rwoos----SIes 90
S. SILK OR WOOL MUFFLERs. rich eoIors patterns
$s$e5o sPoRTsWEAR. fobrc knitted coot sweoers$3es
81 SWISS LINEN HAkDKERcHEFS, hand roed-foncies 59s
Soc TIE SIDE SHORTS fine auoy pottens for 75e
75e SHORTS AND SHIRTS excellent qualities
$3.50 end s. GLOVES. pioskn. elosp
$3.50, $3.e5 PGsKIk MOCHA GLOVES $z.s4
soc GARTERS wide ond ves--------37s
$7.s5 end $s.ss GRAY SUEDE JACKETS
Evening star., 1940-02-15

t3e) $2s7s AND $35 TWEED AND SHETLAND ToPcoATs in
popular styles colors All Sizes reeuo short and Iona in.
e'uoed Now $3.50
t35) $3s AND $40 IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC TWEED TOP.
COATS. fleeces coverts and Others Many removable
z'p-in Innings Al sizes regular, short, long, Now $3.50
4s) $40 AND s45 FINE FLEECE TopcoATs blues oeys ond
light noturo Shodes All sizes regular, Short long included
in fovored styles. Now -----------$3s5o
S) $3s WoRSTEo SUITS in popular wanted potens Blue
ereys Sizes: Regular, t37, 1887. ! 1897, (4ol,
40. Shou, t37). Long, 1897. t42l. Short
Stout, t42). $zIss
t1 S35 Two-TRoUsER SUITS tweeds and woteds. sizes
Regular, ] t4o) ] t42), t44). Short, t34l, t37),
t4o). Stout. t4o. Now------------$lsss
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-25
CUTTER TO
MAKE LONG
MERCY TRIP
Fisheries Warden Far Out
in AIeutians Has
Appendicitis

The Coast Guard cutter Haida
is to sail at o'clock this afternoon
on an 1900 mile mission of mercy
to lonely Amchitka Island far out
in the Aleutian chain where Bu-
reau of Fisheries man is suffering
with recurring attacks of appendi
citis.
The fisheries warden, Carl Roy,
one of two men stationed on the
far-flung isle to patrol sea otter
herds against poaching foreigners,
has been in contact with st. Paul
Island and Seattle by wireless, adj
vising Of his increasing concern over
his condition.
AS a result, the cutter Haida is
to leave for the scene today, Dep
uty Warden Clarence Olson an
nounced this afternoon from the
Bureau of Fisheries offices here,
taking along 20-year-old Grant Rit-
ter, Juneau boy, to replace the
stricken man.
Lieut.. Comdr. R. C. Jewell Com
mander of the .Haida, estimated it
would take about six days to make
the trip, Roy will be taken to
Dutch Harbor.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-25
MUD KILLS Fish

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Jan. 25.-
The famous rainbow trout of the
McCloud River are up against an
unusual hazard caused by long
warm SPELL Melting of Konwakiton
glacier has sent flow of silt and
sand into the stream via the APPLY
named Mud Creek. The State Di-
vision of Fish and Game reports
that this has greatly reduced the
fish population because of its abras-
i've action and its covering of food
sources"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-25
Initiation Held
By DeMoIay Boys

4 kH
Frank Parsons, newly installed
Master Councillor for the DEMO-
lays, presided at last nights meet
ing held in the Scottish Rite Tenn
pie.
Two candidates received the de-
grees of the order and guest for
the evening was Mr. E. l.. Samp-
son. advisor for the Ketchikan De-
Molay chapter Mr. Sampson spoke
briefly of the value of the good
will trip made by Irving Lowell,
Edwin Messer and Richard jack
son, several weeks ago and the
benefits which the Ketchikan group
received from the visitation.
Following the lodge work re-
freshments were served in the ban
quet room.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-25
Drum Section 10
Be Featured at
School Musical

"A Night in Cuba will be pre-
sented by members of the instru-
mental music department of the
Juneau Public Schools on the eve
ming of February 2, in the Grade
School auditorium. c. Robert
White, music supervisor, will direct
the musical
The annual concert will this year
feature novelty performance by
the drum section of the band. Syn
copated rhumba rhythms will be
presented as drummers put aside
their usual snare drums, bass drums
and cymbals, to demonstrate their
skillful use of authentic Cubanper-
cussion instruments This section
OF the band has been putting III
many hours of extra rehearsal
gaining skill In the use of these
instruments and the number is
expected to be a highlight of the
program.