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CLASSIFIED FINANCE STOCKS CURB EDITORIAL SOCIETY LETTERS NEWS behind PAUL MALLON mS Daily Eagle 1 NEW YORK CITY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1934 Washington, Dec. 12. RESULTS The Treasury did not intend to, but it gave out the other day what amounts to box score of New Deal results for the first year. The data were contained in a survey of 1933 taxes. You will have to shovel BIG BUSINESS Producing and raising a set of quintuplets is something "way beyond a biological and medical feat.

It is Big Business. It took a visit to New York by the little Canadian doctor, A. R. Dafoe, to call that fact to the attention of local promoters who have been struggling with such trifles as railroad bonds and sales taxes. To help those who have a real desire to Make Good, we sent our special How-to-Get-Along-ln-Life scout, to round up details.

For your information: The Canadian government has appointed four guardians for the five little Dionne girls. Why there shouldn't be five guardians for five babies is a State secret. Certainly there's more than enough, work to keep three of the four busy handling the economics of the enterprise. The fourth guardian is Dr. Dafoe in person, who is supposed to devote ClQ.Pilat side a few million figures to get at the nugget of information, but it is there.

It shows that in the. first year the New teal failed to restore dividends, wages and salaries, interest, rents and royalties, but It did immediately improve business, profits from sale of real estate, stocks, bonds, and the income of partnerships (largely professional men). The income of those who UUUUHllUinii I riot's Pv A i yMs Kjsar t-r- Qr "fr. wi-vT. I -c CJj Paul Mallon were helped at all Increased $610,000,000 over the previous year.

The income of those classes not helped decreased 1 billions. Keep in mind, however, that these results came before the NBA really started boosting wages to whatever disputed extent it has now boosted wages. Also before the AAA began to increase farm income. It must be remembered, also, that the figures re loaded down somewhat with results of two pre-Roosevelt months (January and February, 1933) before the upturn started. SCORE For the purposes of analysis, the figures may be charted as follows: DECREASES IN 1933 Wages and salaries $568,000,000 Dividends 362,000,000 Interest 198,000,000 Rents and royalties 81,000,000 his energies solely to the children's dietary and medical needs.

But he, too, becomes involved la the complicated financial problems that keep cropping up. HPHE doctor doesn't need any assistance to keep track of his own income. For assisting the quintuplets into the world he drew $25 as a fee. This was quite a strike for him; made it possible for him to buy a suit of clothes, the first new one he's had in three years. Out of his own savings (the doctor Is a thrifty soul) he bought a new soft hat, with a little orange colored feather sticking up from the band.

As Income producers the Dionne quintuplets can give pointers not alone to Dr. Dafoe but even to such experts as Shirley Temple. Right on top of earning $5,000 or $6,000 in 1934 for picture rights, a new contract has been signed moving the five babies up into the five figure class for 1935. That seems to indicate six figures for 1936, and we can't even imagine what else thereafter. This is all velvet for the quins.

Father and Mother Dionne, being plain folks in sort of a tough spot, are supported (as are 98 percent of their neighbors) by government home relief. Maybe a friend now and then will bring in a side of -bacon or a fresh-baked loaf of bread, but that doesn't make the Dionne parents feel stuck up. They know it's Just meant as a kindly tribute to a pair of folks who happen to be related to certain persons of importance. It's something like being an uncle of Huey Long's or Mickey Mouse's cousin. But let Dr.

Dafoe say the babies need this or that anything from a hospital to a set of teething rings and folks rush right up to hand it over. And with never a thought of publicity. Or, at most a casual thought. Only a short time ago a soap manufacturer asked Dr. Dafoe for an indorsement of his product.

The doctor scratched his head, said he didn't finally drove 2 miles Total los $1,209,000,000 INCREASES IN 1933 Business $106,000,000 Profits from sale of real estate, stocks, bonds 391,000,000 Partnerships 113,000,000 Soviet Barrel Staves, Mexican Chickpeas, Umbrellas, Turtles All Arrive Here gait', r.V? Jk mirrx Zry, TWO countries which have had unusual influence on yiy ti wrWSW rank Muno ii hoicn looking at bottlei ranging from bits of Mexican title to A I tr al ian tonka beam. The other viewi are of the Nets York Dock Company property where Frank or one ihowing the handling of newprint, the other indicating hoie even in the coldest dayi of I a it Winter the commerce of the world could not itop. Total gain $610,000,000 The-box score for the year now closing will be sharply different. But you will not know the extent of the difference from such a responsible source as the Treasury tax figures until the Internal Revenue Bureau gives out its data at this time next year. EXILES Some of these New Dealers slip off into exile In the middle of the night without anyone being aware of the real reason for their departure or even of the fact that they are gone.

For instance, the exit of Benjamin Squires as executive of the Textile Labor Relations Board is still an inner circle secret. Mr. Squires left virtually before he got his coat off. Upon arrival, he hastily threw together a staff and began gathering the data to decide whether the unions or mill owners were right. Within a few weeks he presented his findings to the board, "but nothing happened.

Weeks passed and the board made no decisions. Squires got impatient and served notice that unless It acted he would quit. Then the union, which had liked the way Squires went at his Job, went over the board's head to Secretary asking that he be retained. She was- cold to the plea, so Squires went back to Chicago without saying goodby. the Brooklyn waterfront in last few years are Japan and Russia.

Basis of this feeling is a chat with George E. Finni-man, general superintendent, and "'Frank Munoz, chief wharfinger or harbormaster of the New York Dock Company, which owns and operates about two and a half miles of piers and warehouses stretching from Brooklyn Bridge to Erie Basin. For example, If you buy import L. 1 1 ntmammmmammmmmmimiti ifii iSBasffii ed Christmas toys this season, the chances are that they came into Brooklyn via the who found not enough air-dried white oak available for barrel staves. Dr.

Hammer, as a result of relief work i-i Russia in 1921, knew there was plenty of the precious white oak properly seasoned by two or three years in the open air, in the Ukraine. So he and his brothers, Harry and Victor, quickly made exclusive contracts with the Soviet for millions and millions of staves. Munoz recalls, has taken out scrap iron, and that, ironically enough, was 5,000 tons consigned not to the Soviet, but to Germany, its archenemy, via Poland. Among other nations evidencing new importance along the waterfront is Mexico. In this connection George Fenniman mentioned that recently the first full shipload of Mexican garbanzos arrived hare.

Garbanzos are usually called chickpeas, because they have a clear profile of a chicken. There are several things of interest about them, including their history. sidered only as a vegetable, 4s said to be traceable to a campaign by distributors to convince people the garbanzos make excellent eating along with cocktails! Of course, not every country which invades the local waterfront stays there Take the case of Estho-nia and its potatoes, as told by Capt. George Holt of Forest Hills, marine superintendent of the American Scantic Line. Esthonia, of course, is a tiny republic of approximately 1,000,000 persons' carved out of pre-war Russia at the end of the last world struggle.

Third Article of a Seriei N. Y. K. (Nippon Yushen Kaisha) line pier, No. 17, at the foot of Montague St.

last Summer. Japanese umbrellas, chinaware and a thousand more cheaply-priced, shrewdly marvel at. On one ship the men eat four to a table, with four tables in a room, which reminds Frank Munoz of a chapel. A curtain at one end of the saloon, when drawn back, reveals a reading room with a wide variety of books, a radio and a victrola, and lamps which would do credit to a passenger liner. The sailors do not even have to keep their staterooms cleam.

That is part of the duties of the stewardesses, usually two to a cargo ship. This, incidentally, is anoth. blow at tradition, which has it that women may not dwell harmoniously with men at sea. Not only that, but the Russian sailors will tell you how in Leningrad, and other Soviet ports, women do much of the stevedoring and other manual labor which in this country is reserved for the supposedly stronger sex. cross country to the quintuplets' private hospital.

He found that particular brand of soap was not used on the Dionne juniors. "We don't use your soap," he explained to the manufacturer, "so I can't indorse it." And he didn't. Neither did he tell our scout Just how to go about getting set up in the quintuplet business. ANIMAL MAN Byron Voegelin, 8 Huntington Road, Port Washington, is one of the leading South American animal men in this country. He's 25, a Yale graduate, holder of mate's papers and handsome.

Smiles whenever any one mentions his business; laughs about how his office is in his pocket. Byron got into the wild animal business because be missed a ship in Ecuador several years ago. Just a few months out of college, he took a Job as a Junior officer on a merchant vessel. In Guayaquil port he'd become so interested in watching honey-bears that he forgot sailing time. Had to stay ashore more than a week, till his ship stopped on its return voyage to New York.

Soviet Barrel Staves devised articles are being brought in in increasing quantities, not Mexican Chickpeas only to this pier, but to the line pier in Atlantic Basin and elsewhere along the waterfront. Potatoes From Eethonia rnAPE DETECTIVE Another unpubliclzed New Deal reform invention is "the ticker tape detective." There are two of them. They sit at SEC headquarters each day reading the regular commercial Wall Street ticker tapes through the magnifying glass of their own experience in pool operations. It is generally believed in the financial trade that they can detect an ordinary, pool operation within 20 minutes after it occurs on the floor of the Exchange in New York. 1 At the end of the day, they put the tape on a reel and read it backwards, Just to make sure they have not overlooked anything.

Soviet Asbestos I The brothers established a factory at 80 Columbia near Warren, and have brought approximately 20 boatloads of staves to Pier 27, then to a warehouse on Amity St. and then to their factory. Each ship carried from 600,000 to 800,000 "rough" staves, chunks of wood averaging 26 inches in length. The chunks were cut to shape in the factory, given a beveled edge by machinery, softened in a steam-box, put together and shipped all over the country. The activity along the Brooklyn waterfront during the past year which has most Interested Frank Munoz, has been the shipping of scrap iron to the Far East for war purposes or for building new Nipponese merchant vessels.

Women Sailors T)EACEMAKER An unreported speech by Ed McGrady, righthand man of Miss Perkins, will ff imt rl Of ancient Egyptian origin, chickpeas, up to recent years, were grown only in French and Spanish Morocco and Spain. Then Gen. Alvaro Obregon, Mexican leader, later assassinated, introduced them on his ranches in Sonora and later the industry spread to another province, Sinaloa. Arthur Gonzales, who was probably the rst Brooklyn Importer of chickpeas, though there are now others In the field, notably H. M.

Gldden, told us how Indian workers in Sinaloa earn $2 a day getting in the crop. After the bushes have dried In the hot sun three or four days, a mule is tied to a and goes round and round trampling the pods. Then the crushed mass is thrown up in the air and the shells fly off, the garbanzos falling to the ground to be easily collected. All of which would not be so interesting were it not that' increased use of the chickpeas, usually con- The Russians rarely attempt to rival the Japanese in manufactured goods. They specialize in raw products, like lumber or asbestos (which looks a lot like cotton but does not burn).

The Amtorg, government-owned vessels (and the Russian merchant marine is something new, too) usually dock at pier 46, Erie Basin. Both Japanese and Russian sailors for years have felt out of place in the American waterfront scene, the Japanese because of immigration laws, the Russians because until recently their country was not recognized by ours. That is one reason why you don't notice them so much on the streets. Occasionally a pair of Japanese sailors may be seen pacing aloofly along a Brooklyn Heights sidewalk, but not often, because the companies must pay heavy fines if one sailor is missing at sailing time. Exporting Scrap Iron The thought of how the waterfront here would look with women sweating over winches and driving electric tractors is something to conjure with.

Incidentally, there Is no Russian rule against women sailors, and one Soviet freight ship is said to have a woman mate, though- she htn't appeared along the Brooklyn piers as yet. Of local manufacturers have not been slow to take advantage of Soviet products and Soviet ships. In the last year and a half, for example, Dr. Armand Hammer has built up an enormous beer barrel industry here, based largely on Russian lumber. When beer was legalized in this country there was a sudden scratching of heads among distributors Last year Maine potatoes were high In price and the Idea of Importing potatoes came naturally to shrewd business men.

First in the field was GUI Brothers, a vegetable house, which began dickering with Esthonia It took six months to complete arrangements and another six weeks to begin delivery. The first .2,000 tons of Baltic "spuds" arrived here last Spring, but in the intervening months the price of domestic potatoes dropped so badly that the importers, according to Captain Holt, "took a sereve licking" and dropped the scheme entirely, though they deserved better luck for their courage and planning. At the moment Captain Holt Is most interested in the American Scantic Line's new venture, the American Caribbean Line, whose ships have recently been bringing in large cargoes of live turtles, each of them two to three feet in diameter, from the Virgin Islands. The turtles are kept on deck, where a hose may be played on them twice daily to keep them alive, but they must be left on their backs, in which position they are helpless, unable to kick and bite. The turtles are consigned, of course, to restaurants dealing In turtle soup.

Tomorrow: Romance of a Channel. Every Japanese ship leaving this port has been taking out from 1,000 to 2,000 tons of the stuff and some as high as 8,000 tons. Not only that, but the Barber Line, the Kerr Line and other non-Japanese companies using Brooklyn piers have been taking scrap iron to Japan on every trip they have made. Only one Russian ship, so far as give you a hint of current Inside efforts to clear up the existing lack of understanding between capital, labor and New Dealers. McGrady recommended in a talk to the hosiery workers a few nights ago that the .3.

Chamber of Commerce, the A. F. of L. and the National Manufacturers' Association appoint committees to get together, particularly on New Deal labor legislation for the coming session. Prospects seem to be fairly good for appointment of such a committee, although there is the usual haggling among labor leaders about agreeing on a precise program.

AILS The only index now going backward is freight car loadings. You would think that, with business activity increasing, the railroads would be getting their share. They are sharing, but the drought hit them so hard that their average traffic figure is suffering: Livestock and grain shipments are down to about 60 percent of normal. Ore and lumber are also down, but other items are holding their own. Shore Leave -V- On the shore end of pier 17, however, you can see the Japanese sail ors in the N.

Y. K. playroom, which contains a pool table and other means of entertainment, devised to give a feeling of welcome in an in Ull Kinds of Ptopi 13 E. different port. The Russian sailors have something of the same aloofness to the local scene, but they present a challenge to steamship operators the world over, a challenge none the less In that week Byron got to know the honey-bears and their owners quite well, poked about New York on his return hunting up honey-bear customers.

That started it, and before long he decided his calling wasn't the sea at all, but birds, beasts and reptiles. Deals now In everything from boa constrictors, which are big snakes, to ocelots, which are diminutive leopards. OOS, according to Mr. Voegelin, aren't the heaviest animal purchasers. Best customers are wealthy people who keep private menageries.

And, you may be surprised to know, there are more than 100 private wild animal collections on Long Island alone. Noted amateur collector was Al Smith while he was Governor. Leaving public life he got rid of his zoo, making the Albany City menagerie the greatest legatee. Best private menagerie in the country now, from a point of size and rarity, Is that of Alex Goodwin, who lives near Philadelphia. Most popular number right now Is the ant-eater.

And that Means Mr. Voegelin is sitting prettily, because he has a corner on the Colombian i ant-eater trade, happening to know most of the ant-eater men personally. All ordeis are filled on a custom basis. Animals aare ordered from trappers who work right out In the wilds, if none of type wanted are available nearer home. When we saw him he was about to dash off to Flushing because he had an order for an agouti from an old lady In Plymouth, Mass, and he knew a man In Flushing who wanted to get rid of an agouti.

Such a break as that saves time, Mr. Voegelin told us, because agoutis, most common In Venezuela, are hard to catch. And then there's the long trip up here, making one in Flushing Infinitely easier to get at. The agouti Is "something like a mix between a guinea pig. a rabbit and a rat," striking because completely un known to the general public.

In a Soviet ship class distinctions An Easy T. B. Test By Science Service 1 When Mr. Gage died, Mr. Tollner and he were no longer owners of the restaurant.

They had sold out in 1911 to the firm of Cunningham St Ingalls, for whom Mr. Tollner acted as manager. Cunningham passed away, and Ingalls wanted Mr. Tollner to be his new partner, but the latter refused, contenting himself with being an employee. Later Brad Dewey bought the restaurant and persuaded Mr.

Tollner to stay on in his old capacity. The firm name was Incorporated, and, as such, has come down to the present day. Dewey's greatest trouble is getting Mr. Tollner to cease working. The founder comes In at 7:30 every morning and works until 5.

And, on Sundays, when the store is closed, he can be found down there puttering around, checking on this, taking care of that. There will be no special celebration for Mr. Tollner's birthday. Why not? we asked. The proprietor THE WORLD WAR Day by Day Dec 12, 1914 CTOCKS soared as the New York Stock Exchange was opened after a lapse of 19 weeks.

English cruisers were hot on the trail of the Dresden, last survivor of Germany's ill-fated South Atlantic fleet and an American named Miller was held in Geneva as a German spy. After 18 weeks of war the situation on both fronts was still up In the air as far as noncombatants could tell, with all parties claiming they were well satisfied with the way things were going and everyone full of optimism for the future. (So they said.) Petrograd reported the German lines in Poland had been pierced in two places and the Allies took the left bank of the Yser Canal away AT 7:30 this morning, Eugene Tollner inserted a key into the columned door of Gage St Tollner's Fulton St. restaurant Just as he has been doing for the past 55 years. And Eugene Tollner Is 85 years old today.

In the same room, with the same furnishings, whose walls looked down on the eating figures of Henry Ward Beecher, Diamond Jim Brady, Mayor Schroeder, Mayor Gaynor, John F. Jones and Theodore Tllton. Mr. Tollner, the city's oldest restaurateur, goes about his Job of preparing delicacies for the borough's most particular epicures. No longer a partner, Mr.

Tollner Is now Just an employee of the present owner of Gage Tollner's. Brad Dewey. And he likes it a lot better than being the big boss. "I don't have any responsibilities except to do my Job," Mr. Tollner said.

"Of I'm Interested in seeing the business a success, but I don't have any of the worries that come with being the owner of a place of my own. I Just do as I'm told." A short man, remarkably straight for his years, Mr. Tollner Is baldish and maintains a close-cropped white mustache. He likes to speak of Fulton St. where he is now as "uptown Brooklyn." Downtown, to him, is that section of Fulton St.

that begins at Borough Hall and runs down to the old Fulton St. ferry. It was there that all the big business of the city of Brooklyn was carried out. Wechsler Si Abraham's department store used to be down there then; it has moved "uptown" now and is known as Abraham St Straus. And it was there that Tollner sold cigars, particularly to a Wall St.

broker named Charles M. Gage. One day he and Mr. Gage got to talking and formed the partnership of Gage St Tollner, an association that lasted from 1879 until Mr. Oage's death Jn 1919.

and they never had an argument. Witness whereof, Mr. Tollner's only son is named Gage Tollner. nave virtually vanished. People have said it couldn't be done at sea, but these Russian ships have come close to accomplishing the impossible.

In the first place, everybody lives amidships. There is no foc's'le, as in the old-time sailing vessels, or stern quarters, as in many modern steamships. The captain lives on the bridge In the Soviet ship. Next, going down, come quarters for the officers, engineers and stewardesses. Finally come the crew, who sleep only two to a stateroom provided with a small lamp, a desk and such luxuries as sheets and pillow cases.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12 Science can now tell In a flash whether you have tuberculosis. Florence Seibert of the Henry Phlpps Institute announced today she had Isolated tuberculin, thus obtaining In pure crystals the tuberculosis test material. This substance is the purified protein derivative of the tubercle bacillus, For 60 years scientists have been trying to Isolate it. Now with its isolation It's easy as pie to apply It to a person's skin, testing whether a person is a tuberculosis victim.

The test also works on animals, chiefly used now testing cows, Life of ItuHxian Goh Everybody eats the same food on a Russian cargo vessel. The dining saloon lor the crew Is something to laughed, turned to his accounts with cryptio challenge "Wiiat tor?" from the Germans In the West..