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ON TOE PACIFIC COAST
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 22. UP)—
Thru William F. Humphrey, attor
ney for Herbert Flcishhacker,
powerful Pacific Coast shipping
and banking interests have taken
the first definite steps toward ac
quisition of the United States
Lines fleet of shipping board ves
sels.
They have organized the United
States Lines Co., a Nevada Corp.,
and \yhen the shipping board con
*ract is issued on October 25 it
will be made out to this holding
company.
The United States Lines Co.,
was identified by R. Stanley Dol
lar. vice-president of the Dollar
Steamship Lines, as the corpora
tion organizatio nformed by Hum
phrey to take over the ships for
tha Dollar interests, Kenneth D.
Dawson, Paul Chapman and Her
bert Fleishhacker.
FSSTEH READING TO SE
STUDENTS’ TIME URGED
AMES, la., Oct. 22. (/P) — By
learning to read more rapidly the
average student may gain seven
hours a week. So contends Dr. A.
R. Lauer, associate professor of
psychology at low'a State College,
following a study of 135 students.
The average student, he says,
spends 2 to 25 hours a week read
ing material that could be read in
12 to 18 hours—an excess equiva
lent to 36 days yearly.
He recommends that students
keep their minds on the subject,
see phrases instead of words, then
comprehend whole paragraphs,
read silently, never take notes, re
lax occasionally and summarize.
VALUE OF DOLLAR IS 1B
CENTS ABOVE 1921 BITE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22. (/P)
! —The purchasing power of one dol
ilar in cost of living in the United
[States has increased from $1 to
'$1,183 during the last five and a
'half years, according to a state
; ment by Ethelbert Stewart, Com
Imissioner of Labor Statistics, De
partment of Labor, made public.
I Mr. Stewart says the change in
the cost of living of the American
workingman’s family between De
cember. 1925, and June, 1931, the
latest month for which complete
figures are available, shows that
food has decreased 28.5 per cent,
clothing has decreased 13.8 per cent,
rent has decreased 15 per cent, fuel
and light have decreased 11.5 per
cent, and house furnishing goods
have decreased 17.4 per cent while
miscellaneous items such as street
car fares and doctors’ fees have in
creased 1.5 per cent.
These figures represent a general
decrease of 15 per cent in the var-i
ious items that go to make up the
cost of living of the workingman’s
j family, he says. On the other hand,
i the total amount of money dis
; bur.sed as wages in the manufactur
ing industry dropped almost 40 per
! cent during the same period. This
i pay roll decrease does not mean
; that individual wage rates have
I been cut in any such proportion,
Mr. Stewart explains, but that the
| income, and consequently the pur
chasing power of employees in
manufacturing industries as a
whole is less by 40 per cent than it
was in the last month of 1925.
O. E. Wheeler, oldtimer of Nome,
passed away recently, according to
the Nome Nugget.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21. (/P;—
k world-wide boycott o 1 Cali
fornia good£ was advocated by Tom
Mooney in a letter sent to the
Mooney Pardon Convention at the
Divic Auditorium, asserting this
ivould be a most “effective wea
pon” in the fight to secure his re
ease from prison.
Mooney suggests that the boy
cott be carried to the extent of dis
couraging tourist travel to this
State and that it also be directed
igainst the Olympic Games, to be
leld in Los Angeles next year.
Thousands of Mooney sympa
thizers crowded the Civic Auditor
urn for the rally, which was pre
ceded by a parade that passed the
joint where the Preparedness Day
)omb exploded 15 years ago, for
vhich Mooney was convicted.
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