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Evening star., 1944-04-24
Dividend Payments
In First Quarter
Far Exceed t943
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

FirSt-quarter dividends on 49,
common stocks listed on the New
York Stock Exchange totaled s453,
63l 900, an increase of So per cen
over the total of S428. .793, 900 in tn,
like period a year ago, the Wal
Street Magazine announces.
Amusement, automotive, chemica
and shipbuilding stocks made ths
best showing, while building con.
struction. textile and companies
operating abroad did not do as vel
as last year, several mining or.
ganizations being included in thi;
list.
Dividends were paid by II more
corporations than last year. Auto
motive concerns increased quarterly
payments by $12.000,000. Railroad
stockholders received more than ST.
000,000 in excess of last years divi-
dends. The recovery in the chemical
group was noteworthy, as declines
had been in progress for two years
the review said.
rown-Maybank Bills Scored.
The Executive Council of the ABA
at the Chicago meeting attacked
the Brown-Maybank bills, now be-
fore Congress, declaring that Con-
gress should put into the law its
own interpretations of what was
meant by the payment of interest
in the Banking Act of 1885. Inter-
probation of the law should not be
left to regulations of Government
agencies, bankers said. The ABA is
already on record as against fore
ing universal par clearance of checks
by Federal law or regulations.
Bodfish Lauds G. L. Bill.
Morton Bodfish, executive vice
president of the United States Saw
ings and Loan League, has written
to building and loan officials in
the Capital that he is strongly in
favor of speedy enactment of the
G. I. Bill of Rights, which would
assist veterans in the ownership of
homes, farms and businesses. The
proposed loans of not more than
$1,000 would also help in repairs,
alterations or improvements, as
well as in the payment of bills and
taxes, he asserted.
Norris i'm Graduating Glass.
Thomas j. Norris, assistant CASH
ier of the Bank of Commerce &
Savings, will attend the Graduate
School of Banking at Rutgers Uni
versity from June 10 to July 2 for
resident courses. He graduates this
year. Mr.. Norris is second vice pres
ident of Washington Chapter, Amer
ican Institute of Banking, and
slated for the first vice presidency
next year. According to latest re-
ports, he will be the only Washing
ton banker at Rutgers.
Willis Leaves Rail Post.
Norton p Willis, Al, senior as
sistant director of the Office of De-
fence Transportation's division of
railway transport, is resigning his
Washington post to become superin-
tendent of transportation for the
Central Railroad of New Jersey,
with headquarters at Jersey City.
Elliott Thurston, E. A. Golden
weiser and Carl E. Parry have been
appointed special editors Of the Fed
eral Reserve Bulletin. They will
check more closely some of the
views which have been appearing in
unsigned articles.
The Bell System reports applica-
tions for 100000 telephones which
cannot be installed due to lack of
materials.
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New York Cotton

NEW YORK, April "a DP-Coyerinp in
spot May cotton futures prior 10 frSf
notice day Tuesday. met a scarcity OF
offerings which carried the month upward
to new seasonal high and rallied other
months, Mil and outside buying was sup
piled through scale up hedge selling and
liquidation. Continued adverse weather re-
ports IN the cotton belts coupled with talk
drmness
Late afternoon prices were 35 to 80
cents bale higher May, 2ll3: July,
20,66 and October, 1898
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Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK, April "a tP).-Foreign ex-
change rates follow Great Britain in dol
lars others in centSl: Canadian dollar in
New York oren market, 97s per cent dis
changed.
Europe: Great Britain. official, buying,
OF: selling, 4O4
Latin America Argentina. free, 25.OS,
up 41 Of cent; Brazil. free, 5.2On; Mex
Nominal
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SEC Completes Study
OF 1,106 Corporations
3y the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, April 24.-The
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion has released the final VOL
ume of seven-year study on profits
and operations of 1,106 listed Ameri-
can corporations as we'll as COM
bined totals for the entire group.
Net sales for 1942, last year COW
cred by the study, totaled $55,567,-
266,OO0, with net profit reaching
76,239,000 or 4.8 per cent for
the Is manufacturing groups rep
'eSented.
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Purchases Help
To Ease Spinach Glut
3y the Associatet. Press.

NORFOLK, Va, April 24.-Spin-
ach growers in this Virginia truck
growing section availed themselves
today of the opportunity to sell a
crop glut to the War Food Admins
tration at 10 cents bushel, but
they held little hope that the mar
ket would climb back to the near
SITS bushel price 1t was main
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Chicuqo Grain

CHICAGO. April "a lP.-Grains ex-
perienced sinking spell tooay when it
be the only buyer OF corn over the next 80
days, but the market rallied quickly and
wheat and oats recovered all the lost
ground. Rye remained comparatively
weak particularly in new crop months
>, Al noon deferred wheat contracts were
Is-M higher than Saturdays finish, July
59's, rye was A-5s lower, May, l277s, and
September barley was of u at II9
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Approximate Sales To.

Approximate safes Today.
ll:00 am 95 AGO 1900 noon 2o3 43o
100 pm. $50 200 200 pm. 1S5l7o
tUnit of trading. 10 shares; sales printed
in full. In bankruptcy or receivership or
being reorganized under Bankruptcy Act
Rates of dividends in the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on last
quarterly or semi-annual declaration. I'm
less otherwise noted, special ore extra aivl-
dends are not included XXX dividend
xr Ex rights. Also extra or extras d Cash
or stock; {, Declared or paid SO far this
h Payable in Canadian funds k Accumu-
lated dividends paid or declared this wear
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Rates of dividends in the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on the last
quarterly or Semi-annual declaration. Un-
less otherwise. noted special or extra div
tdends IRE not included. a Also extra or
Payable in stock. e Declared or paid SO
far this year h Payable in Canadian funds.
k Accumulated dividends paid or declared
warrants
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tanning at the start of last week.
The Eastern ceiling on the top grade
spinach is SITS.
The market began to slump Tues
lday and collapsed ON Thursday.
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Sears, Roebuck Elects Moore

CHICAGO, April % P).-Sears,
RoebuCk & Co. announced today
that F, j. Moore, manager of a group
of six of the companys stores in De-
troit, had been elected mesiber of
the board of directors.
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Washington Exchange
BONDS.

SALES.
Woodward g. Lothrop common-20 at 45
l at As.
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Steel Prices

NEW YORK, April "a uPl.-SteeI prices
per 100 pounds, fob. Pittsburgh: Hot
rolled sheets, base price, 30; galvanized
sheets, $50; steel bars, 2.l5.
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N. Y. Bond Market

FURNISHED by the Associated Press,)
SELECTED LIST OF RONDS.
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New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK, April "a P).-Investment
Bankers Conference, Inc.-bank and trust
Notwithstanding bid and asked prices:
BANKS. Bid Asked
Bk of Manhattan (.s0a)-- 2I5s 22%
Chase Il .40) ---- 1874 1924
City % - 3434 3634
First National (8O---1590 1880
Public Il 12) ------- 37a 40
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FIRE AND TITLE INSURANCE.
MISCELLANEOUS.

'Ex dividend tPlus extras Paid no
far this year. 2Ta extra. h SIS 90 extra.
K 10c extra. Paid in 1943. $1,000
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the shop here-more than fifty years
ago.
And speaking of old timers-here's
John Garlinger-past 70 as we told
you several weeks ago-bowling with
one of the Triplett teams and racking
up good scores. You may recall that
John went to California some five
years ago when he was afflicted with
arthritis from which he has entirely
recovered.
And Ray Clark, Bluffton roller skat-
ing impresario, gave us a back-stage
glimpse of the roller rink business the
other day. We didn't have any idea
there were so many things to do
and to know. For instance there's
the floor which is built in sections
Northern maple is the only wood
suitable for this purpose-and it re-
quires attention of an experienced
rink man to keep it in condition, es-
pecially if it is to be stored. Also if
you happen to operate an outdoor
rink, there's a lot to know about the
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threads show him he is dead on his
target, we hear him open up with
his 20-millimeter cannon-a slower,
deeper thud over the high quick rat
tie of his little wing guns.
"And as he pulls up off the tar
get, he sprays with steel the lip of
the ditch right over our heads as
we crouch in the bottom. Each time
we glimpse the pilot as he rolls in
for the attack. He wears a yellow
scarf, but for the rest, in goggles
and helmet, he might have been any
of us. don't think he notices US
he is too intent on the Fortress. It
is only that we are right in his line
of fire, and each time as he starts
to pull up, his guns spray our trench
lip before he has time to take his
thumb off the button.
"But suppose he does see us?
Some of the men had been loading
bombs when the attack came and
have their shirts off-their white
backs are wonderful targets. So
now we start to organize ourselves
in our rat trap, pounding away
with orders. If he does spot us, all
he's got to do is come right down
that ditch with his guns open.
$50 we organize with three look
outs-Lee Coats takes the southeast
corner, Bob Meyer the northwest,
and I the southwest. Each of us is a
pilot who can put himself in the
place of those .Japs. We know more
or less what each maneuver means
whether it will be just pass or
real attack. So we tell the rest of
them to take it easy, keep well
down, but they needn't roll down to
the very bottom of the ditch until
we shout the orders.
''What antiaircraft we have is
humping away now, but it isn't do
ing much good. In the first place it
is so placed that the black smoke
billowing up from the burning For
tresses gets between the Zeros and
the ground gunners, blanketing their
field of fire. In the second place, j.
was never designed to operate at
as close a range as three hundred
yards. -
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M.N.u.FeATuREs

and then they began to peel off to
clean up with strafing what few For
tresses their bombers had missed.
I'VE had started coming out of our
foxholes, but now we ran back-we
were in the rat stage now, tie whole
idea being to get the he'll out of the
target area, because there was MOTH
ing we could do. We were all run
ming and looking over our shoul-
ders to be sure there wasn't Naka.
jima coming straight with splitting
guns at the small of our backs.
"Ahead of me I could see men
disappearing into ditch-some div
ing head-foremost into it. (Bob Mey-
er almost broke his neck.) tum-
bled in, and when l picked myself
up saw a soldier deliberately, Slow
ly walking up to it, but just as he
stood at the lip he seemed to col
lapse and came tumbling down. I
thought the earth had caved in un-
der his feet. Then as he struggled
to his feet saw his whole hip had
been blown away. Now he collapsed
in the arms of a sergeant and a
private and died before our eyes
there was nothing we could do.
Meanwhile we are watching the
Jap fighters. Near our ditch is
Fortress snugly in a revetment,
which is a curved sandbag wall fit
ting snugly around the wings and
motors of plane and over which is
thrown camoufaged netting to con-
ceal it from high-altitude bombers,
but which of course is no protection
against strafng, as it isn't concealed
from low-altitude plane.
''There is sudden hammering of
guns, and we see one of the Naka-
jimas has picked out this particular
Fortress as his prey.
"Again and again the Jap comes
in-making his approach lit was
beautiful f1ying) after he has rolled
out of his turn at about $50 feet
but his flight path brings him down
as low as fifteen feet above the For
tress' wings. There is a routine
about it. AS he straightens out from
his turn and comes at the big mo-
tionless bomber, first his small .25-
caliber wing guns open up with
rattle, filling the air with skein of
tracers. Then, when these white
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Mission Feeds 267

During the month of February the
Lima City Mission provided 267
meals for transients, in addition to
assisting needy families in Lima. A.
ID. Welty, former resident of the
Settlement, west of Bluffton, is sup
erintendent of the institution.
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care of a tent which represents an
investment of around $4,000.

care of tent which represents an
investment of around $4,000.
Passersby stopped and took a Sec
ond look when they saw someone
climb through the window at the may
or's office Monday night. But every
thing was 0. Kit was the mayor
himself who had inadvertently locked
himself out of his own office, and in
cidentally keeping himself in good
physical trim thru the summers on
the tennis court and in the garden
made the emergency entrance no
trouble at all.
One of the most unusual coincid-
ences of the war concerns two neph-
ews of Mrs. Floyd Harris of South
Lawn avenue. The two soldiers
Pvt. Garnett Dean and Pfc. Lloyd
Wendorf, both of near Coldwater,
Mich, cousins, were in the south Pa
cific area.
Pfc. Wendorf, mechanic in the ma
rinecorps was killed in action, Decem-
Der 8, 1912. His cousin, Pvt. Dean
in a letter received recently said that
while looking over some old airplane
parts he found propeller bearing
the name of his cousin, together with
the date of his death, rank, etc. The
propeller apparently had served as a
temporary grave marker and after
having been replaced with perma-
nent marker had been discarded with
other old airplane parts.
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floor and spread our mosquito nets,
and Brownie went right off to sleep.
II lay awake. That ack-ack con-
voy was still moving in and getting
settled. Now and then truck-driv-
er wouldn't hear sentry call Halt!
and would go rumbling by, and you
would hear a rifle crack a couple Of
times.
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G. WHITE
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER I: The story of the famous
Lieut. Col. Frank Kurtz and his Fortress
crew In the tremendous air campaign
that saved the day for the United Nations
IN the Southwest Pacific. Lieut. Kurtz,
VINO was pilot of the old Fortress. known
as The Swoose," which escaped from
Clark Field. In the Philippines, tells OF
that fatal day when the Japs struck. He
pedals to the wreck of Old SO. finds eight
OF his crew lying in an irregular line.
CHAPTER II: Lieut.. Kurtz tells how
orders to camouflage Old SO were coun.
termanded; instead they were to load
bombs. Then he was ordered to Jerk the
bombs. reload with cameras and rush
taking pictures of Formosa. Someone
shouts, Look at that pretty navy forma.
ton. The navy formation happens to
be flight of Jap planes.
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Celilanid q Medicine

Celilanid, a crystalline substance
found in a native Balkan plant, has
proved more effective in some re-
spects than digitalis purpurea in
treatment of heart disease.
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j. E. Augsburger of Beaverdam, one
of the old-time friends of the News
was in the office the other day. He
first subscribed for the paper way
back in the days when N. w. "Dick"
Cunningham was running things in
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
The State of Ohio,
Allen County, IS.
Estate of Eliz tEliza) j. Lewis, Deceased.
Belle Augsburger of Button, Ohio, has
been appointed and qualified as Executrix of
the estate of Eliza j. Lewis late of Allen
County Ohio, deceased
Dated this 29th day of February, 1914.
RAYMOND p. SMITH.
AZ Probate Judge.
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
The State of Ohio,
Allen County, SIS.
Estate of John Althaus. Deceased
Levi Althaus. of X. r. No. 2. Bluffton,
Ohio. has been appointed and qualified as
Executor of the estate of John Althaus, late
of Allen County. Ohio. deceased
Dated this 2Sth day of February, 1914.
RAYMOND p. SMITH.
az Probate Judge.
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Mols|
DeAotsoI

March observations sugar camp
north of town with good run of sap
reported Sunday =. +. and state high
way truck stranded in a snow drift
nearby :. that nor'easter over the
week end was the worst in five years
highway department attaches said Il.
muskrats and pheasants reported
plentiful :. speaking of birds, Supt
and Mrs. Longsdorf counted % rob-
IN on their lawn the other day, prob
ably early arrivals just in from the
south +. basketball's a dead letter
since Bluffton dropped out of the
tournament :. interest vanishes when
the leam loses :. yes, Virginia,
there's a Santa Claus-and he fills
gas tanks for good girls and boys :.
:. anyway that's where the gas must
have come from for that jaunt to
Celina and back which put about 100
miles on fans speedometers-and if
you went Thursday and Friday nights,
that's 200 miles you would never
have suspected gas rationing from the
jam of cars around the Celina gym
-. and now with only one license tag
to car and it riding atop the rum
BILE seat you can't tell when you're
meeting friend on the road 4. and
Mondays rain filling long-dry cisterns
which means real luxury after you've
struggled with hard water since the
holidays ;. which brings up again our
proposal for water softener at Bluff
tons municipal plaintiffs would ben
| fit every consumer and would amply
| justify thecost there's a pro-
ject for some live wire organization
:. why can't we do something about
it and final reminder that there's
only one week left to file your income
tax return. -.
Comes a letter from Byron bar
ney" Fritchie, one of the Blufftor
News boys who is now serving Uncle
Sam. Barney has just completed his
basic training at Great Lakes and
started on advance work in signal
corps which is like the basic course
only more so-also twice week hikes,
together with swimming and Gales
thenics-just to keep the boys in con-
dition and up on their toes-and by
the way it fell to his lot to stand
watch Saturday night from 8 until
midnight during that blizzard.
j. E. Augsburger of Beaverdam, one
Of tba old ti,,oa friapdc. Of tba Nau,c
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-03-31
Help the Red Cross
METHODIST

JUNIOR CHOIR TO SING SUN
DAY NIGHT.
Sunday, April End, is Palm Sun
day, and Coolidge Methodist Church
will present full day of religious
services on the theme, "All Roads
Lead to Jerusalem" This will be
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-03-31
Mrs. Harvey Smith
Honored By Mexican
Luncheon Monday

Mrs. Harvey Smith of Vancouver,
Washington, was guest of honor at
colorful Mexican luncheon for
which Mrs. Fred Jameson was host
ess at Ell Torro in Florence Mon
day. Mexican music was played as
guests entered tie restaurant. Tab
les were spread with Mexican cloths
on which blue glass vases held red
flowers.
Following luncheon, guests re-
turned to Mrs. Jameison's home for
an afternoon of cards. Tallies and
prizes also carried out the Mexi-
can motif. Mrs. Smith was pre-
sented with a guest prize of two
pieces of Mexican drawn work.
First prize was won by Mrs. G. B.
Steward and cut prize went to Mrs.
Joe Farr.
Guests, who were Mrs. Smiths
special friends and members of her
bridge club, included: Mrs. A. T.
Bicknell, Mrs. w. D. Johnson, Mrs.
Leon Smith, Mrs. N. G. Murray,
Mrs. w. R. Elliott, Mrs. A. L. No.
well, Mrs. Steward, Mrs. Dalton
Cole, Mrs. Avis Hobby, Mrs. CEas
Reed, Mrs. Virgil Chandler, Mrs
Walter Smith, Mrs. M. M. Cooper
Mrs. Farr and Mrs. E. o. Devine oi
| Florence.
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their son, Pfc. Harold Jackson, San
Diego, met them at the home of
his wife's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Tom Ridgeway, for a family re.
union.