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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1936..
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
$
DEATH RATE IN GERMANY
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
(rnrowga Keniary Agency)
Take SANATOGEN-then you
will not feel so
Weak nerves are starved nerves. Not dangerous yet, but a condition
"nervy"
which usually be comes worse unless something is done.
The nerves must be fed, and that is exactly what SANATOGEN does Sanatogen feeds the nerves and thus strengthens thern in a per- fectly natural way.
Give your nerves Sanatogen and that tired "nervy" feeling will disappear entirely. That listlessness, those sleepless nights and lack of appetite--all symptoms of weakened nerves
will
soon
be forgotten. You will feel healthy again and
ten years younger, Fresh red blood will flow through your veins, put- ting rosiness into your cheeks and bringing a sparkle into your eyes, Think of it: over 25,000 physicians have testified in writing to the remarkable results obtained with Sanatogen.
Follow their
advice and get a package from your chemist to-day."
SANATOGEN
The True Tonic Food- Obtainable at all Chemists.
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The Real Causes Analysed
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Now York: March 31.
QUOTATIONS
1/
18
NOTE-Figures in parentheses indieste number of letters ;
In the words required.
ACROSS 3.-For this, one gets payme
before-hand (7).
9. The only Spanish river that:
has a bore (4). 10-A kind of drill used by den-
tists (4). 11. The main
st
barrier between England and America (5). 14. The sort of lock that needs
no key" (5).
16. The answer itself is a riddle
without any question (5). 17-The desce ridants of our fore-
fathers (7),
18-A Scottish island (4). 19. It's holow, and goes under-
ground (4). 21-We find a man of this sort
a. congenial fellow (7). See clue 15).
23. To be ready for what is in
store (5).
24. Those familiar sorte we come
across in poems (5)... 25.-A short treatise in referente to an extensive area (5). 28.-Anthracite coal-dust (4). 29.-An awkward, stupid fellow
(4) 30-Extract (7).
DOWN
1-If you stand near this you may see al mole running out
(5).
2.-Being so. I cannot be dis-i
proved (11).
Or late there has been many a report dealing with the alleged in- crease of death rate in Germany and the supposed causes of i
The question looses much of its sensational Interest, if one trơi" bes to really go into the causes, and does not stop at more or less tenacious suppositions.
A bit of statistics will help a lot. From the year 1913 the death rate steadily went down year by year from 14.2 to the 1000 to 11.2 to the
New York/London Cross-rate New York Cotton-May. New York Rubber-May.
90 Bail
Utilisa
40 Bonds
Stocks
7.-Overlooking a previous sin 1000 in 1933, and in 1934 even to as Adams Express
ow as 10.9 to every 1000 Inhabit- Amer. Can ans which is the lowest death Amer. Cyanamid 'B' Am & Fox. Power rate German history, has attained.
(anagram) (11).
8.A man who takes his this
gets his punishment (5), " 12-When "he" predicts a thing. we scoff it, he's such a per- simistic prophet! (7);
good retort in o den days (7). 15's always a mistake when words are not properly this (5),
13. It was considered a
And now suddenly the firs: quar-Am. & For. P. $7 p ter of 1935 seems to upset all cal-Am. Light & Trac. culations, as the death rate again Amer. Locomotive... sprang up to 13.8 to the 1000 in Amer. Radiator...... hablants, a figure when for a long Amer. Roling M... Amer. Smelting...... alme was not registered.
The cause of these rumours has Am. Sugar Refining 1614 been traced to those persons who Amer. Tel: Tel. although they obtained figures Amer. Tobacco 'B'... from German official sources, did Amer. Waterworks... not trouble also to report the Anaconda Copper ... 20-The right time for a soldier's causes given in the very same of- Atchison, T. & S. Fe,
ficial statistics. Moreover, In has
16.Chinese ingots of pure silver
(5).
quick one! (5).
be Issued 22.-This may
volumes (5). 25.-Few like having their income
this (3).
it Atlas Corpn.
Auburn been proved to be com- pletely without foundation to say Baltimore & Ohio... that "since Her" the death rate Beth ehem Steel ... Increased, as a 1933. when Hit-Boeing Airplane Co. ler came to power the death rate Borden Co. was higher than after one year of Bklyn
26,-Some say this should come
before honesty (3). 27-The last clue, and so it's the his rule
end! (3).
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
The following is the solution of yesterday's puzzle:-
Across
FIRST QUARTER HIGH Throughout the whole world and
Last Today'ı.
High Low Close Clos
Change
4.94-9/16 4.98-1/18 kup
11.29 11.30 11:30 unchanged
10 83 10.88. 15,88
404
11.35
16.90
.0% up
Chicago Wheat
Chicago Corn
May. ---May.
971
962
分身
078
59 60
60%
Silver--Official
માન
ир #up
unchanged
Dow Jones Averages
High-1934/35 Low: Mar.18. Mar. 30. Ulanga
30 Industrials
109.87
08.71 156.54
166.37
.17 off
51.73
$7.31 47.18
4881
.3% of
36.36
14.42 31.87、
31.81
.06 off
103 24
93.43 101.91
10174
,07 of
11 Commodity Index 82 10
824 57.61
57.81
.13 up
Business Done: -350,000 shares.
******
Last Sale Mar. 26 30
12
119
37
117 1182 361
St Bule Stocks
Mar. 28 30 G. Nthern Bly. pl. 351 35
44
G. Western Bugar ............. 342
Humble Oil
713*
9 81
Int. Nickel
347
71 474 471.
371
37
Int. Tel. & Tel."
16
161
291 291
Kennecott
371
374
221
231
Loew's Inc.
4"
471
28+ 29
Lorillard
227
221
831
8+1
Monsanto Chemical 100 10
52)
521
Montgomery Ward...
163
Nat City BE.........
351*
V 92
921
Nat Dairy Prods...
231
+22
211
Nat. Distillers
311
341
341
Nat. Power & Light, 114 11ł”
721
721
New York Central...
351
321
331
North American ......
261 261
131
131
Northern Pacific
301
481
491
Pacific Gas & Eec.
361
191
192
Pacific Lighting
51
554
551
Packard Motors
111
222
221
Paramount Picture
272 271
Incor.
Manhattan Trans Corpn.
Manhattan Bklyn
Pennsylvania. R. R.
321
492
497
Phillips
Petroleum
43
Pure Oil Co
411
$8 cum. pt.
102
1024*
Pub, Service of N.J.
23
at all times. the first quarter of Case. J. I.
1471
150
Radio Corpn.
127
128
121
Radio Corpn
"B"
394*
391"
$5 of
973
'85
644
Reynolds Tob 'B...
531 534
eases of the lung, pneumonda, bad Chesapeake & Oho colds and so forth very often re-Chrysler
574
571
Schenley
451
95+
941
Schenley 5% pl. 991*894
192
19
Sears Roebuck
65
1004*
Bocony-Vacuum
14
50 501 **** 201
Sthin, Cal.
Edison
27
21
Sthrn. Pacific...
354
Stand. Brands
161
3
3
"Stand. Gas Y Elec
Stand. Of of NJ... 843
81
66.
Sterling Prods.
70
331
Swift International 813
141
29
381
71+
Texas Gulf Sulphur Transamerica-
34
13
73
177
43
253
20th Cent. For Film.
tomm: 20th Cent. Fox Film:
pr. Un. Carbide & Car-
bon
27.
35+
814
145
141
Un: Aircraft (New)
251
to 60 or 70, that there will, for a
able to raise the average term of Elec. Bond & Share living from approximately 50 years Elec. Bond & Share
231
י.
Un. Airline Trans... 183
Un. Corpn.
77
$5 pt.....
76"
time be a lower death rate, but
Elec. Bond & Share
I.
"85"
Un
151
Un. Corpn. 49 cum.
Gas Improve- ment
441
164
561*
581*
U. 8. Indus A'cohol
482 481
whose Gen. Electric
381
351
€6
45
191
281
U.S. Rubber U. S. Strel". Vanadium Warner Bros. Picts. Westinghouse Elec. 114 Call Money
28281
831
22
12 -
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the yes has always registered the Canadian Pic. Rly. highest blih rate, for the simple Chase Nat.- Bk.
Corpn. 1. Mor-bid: 6. Laurel: 10, Re-reason that during that time dis- Chesapeake fusal; 11. Derail; 12. Kafir; 13. Sleeper: 16, Lurch; 17, March; 18. State: 19, Tufts; 22. V-aunt; 25, Carbine; 29, Scar-AB; 30. Ermine: 31. Run-down: 32. A-drift; 33. S-ever-e.
Down
1. Model; 2, Rarer: 3, Irish; 4.A song in two parts (31. Dell: 5. Nude; 6. Lake: 7. A'ar-m: S.-With-by his s'de.. Cry 8."Refer; 9, Larch; 14. Enter; 15. 21, 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs Patti; 19, Tosca: 20. Flair; of war (Julius Caesar) (3). Scarf: 22. Verne: 23. Unite; 1 6.--One has to study to talk T-hem-e: 26, Abut; 27. Bide; 28
easily in this verse (3).
News.
sult in death. If, moreover, to this Columbia Gas & E normal increase comes an epidemic, C. G. & E. 6% 'A' of 101
Credit as was the case in Germiany dur-Commercial. ing the winter 1934/5. and as has Com!. Solvents been the case in many parts of the Comm, & Southern..
(ord.) world, resulting everywhere in a nigher death rate then it is clear: Comm. & Southern . (ord.) $6 cum. p. why the figures are as they actuai-
Consolid. Gas of NY. ty present themse.yes.
In towns with over 15,000 inhe Consolid. Oll bitants for instance, during the Continental O winter 1934/5 there were, as a re- Corn. Products sult of the above-mentioned flu Curtiss " Wright (C) epidemic. 3743 deaths as compar Curtiss Wright A... Delaware & Hudson ed with 1092 in 1933/4.
Another, no less important cause Distillers Corpn. Sea- for the sudden rise of death rate
grams
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is that the collapse of over-age be-Douglas Aircraft gan. To put it crudely. It's very Du Pont de Nemours 1447 natural that 11 medical sciences Electric Boat
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Un. Faciüç .................. 1314
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that of a sudden there must be a 36 pl.
rse, as, apart from the "natural" Eec. Fower & Light deaths there appear the deaths of Gen. Cigar
great portion of those, death, by medical skil, was "post-Gen. Foods poned."
OLD AGE
Of these there is in the frs place ad ago in general, which claimed 1000 more victims than in 1934. Next in rank "are "cancer, tuberculos s brain-fa.ure, paraly- sis, heart disease and a abetes. "AI! these diseases result in a higher death rate. Death by suicide has rapidy decreased, with the steady stabilisation of economic and la- bour affairs. Death by accident
Gen. Motors Gen. Rly. Signal Go'd Dust
Goodyear Tire & R.
ANTI-AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS
materials (stock accumula- tion)
ln 1035, General Ex amounted to £85,000. Oth penditure, analysed in dete the Estimates, include Headr
has however Increased with the in-Over £500,000 To Beers Staff Salaries, &c., fi
crease of trade.
If, therefore the statistics of death rate in the second quarter of 1995 are examined, its evident that the actual number has very much decreased, but that all the causes, namely epidemies, are the
samic.
Germany
The public health in is a matter very much at heart of al responsible authorities, and nothing is left undone to improve wherever necessary and possible.
Reports therefore that state one side of the problem, but fail to also state the other side, and instead voice malicious allegations, are clearly calculated to cause unrest. and do not present a true picture of the real state of affairs. (WL)
HOME FOR £2,000,000- AIR-BOAT FLEET
Kochester, Feb. 20.
A giant marine airport, housing a fleet of passenger flying-boats each larger than any yet used in Britain, will be opened in the sum mer of 1937, probably on the south coast...
It will be a terminus for: "A two-and-a-half-day servies. fire thues weekly, to India,
A four-and-a-half-day service, twice weekly. to South Africa,
and
A
Spent This Year
London, March 11. More than £500,000 is to be spent by the Home Office this year in developing its Air Baid Precau- ions Department, according to Civil Estimates issued yesterday. Nearly four-fifths of that sum will be used for accumulating stocks of anti-gas equipment and materials. The establishment of the Air Raid Precautions Department was announced in the House of Com mens last April. During 1835, £32,000 were spent. For 1936, the
atimate is 2501,250
General Expenses amounting to £477,500, are set out in the Erti hates as follows:
"
Contribution to War Office
(Chemical Defence Re
£16.500 search Department) Research and experiments.. 20,000 Training in Air. Raid
Precautions Anti-gas equipment and
51,000
Travelling, and Incidental E penses £3,000, and the Civ li Anti-gas School, to be opened aft Easter at Eastwood Park, Falfef. Glos, 28,100.
GAS ALARM TESTS Agas alarm test" was carrie out by the Air Raid Precaution Department of the Home Office Headon yesterday morning
Thirty-two observation posts wer established 100, 200, 300, and yards from the testing point 400 yards, only the warning poli whistle, blown, before each Was regularly heard. This wines is 53 years old, and has been regular uso since it was made,
Cmdr. I B. Franks, who w in charge of the teste, said the the problem of alarms from sma instruments had not been solved
While sirens sounded a strie musician played undisturbed a few hundred yards away. Shopkeepers almost opposite did not know, that the tests were being mada, and the noise of trafic drowned the sound of the alarm signals. A residen in a flat not 20 yards from the
a. crowd lih ster flying-boats ordered by Im-testa raked why per.al Airways for the new services. gathered,
Thirty-six devices were testad No estimates are yet available ranging from a rattle, such a for the airport, but the planes used at football matches, to elec alone will cost £2,000,000.
tric sirens worked from the battery of car, ship's sirens, and iro. bars beaten together.
The "ships" will be the last word in luxury. I lay in bed yesterday In a full-size model of one of them- which has been erected in the Ro- chester works. Through the win dow set at tace level, I saw desig ners and craftsmen working on the beginnings of the feet.
A few months hence the occupier
seven-day service. twice weekly, to Anstralia. Work has already started at Roof that same bed will see the. Med chester on the twenty-nine mon terranean or the African Jungle
Representatives of the W Office, the Admiralty, the n Force and Scotland Yard noted the results. Only once were loca residente startled. That was whe an American police siren wae cent ed People for miles around stoo and listened to the penetratin noise which they had heard
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