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0T . -. LC. FCU3 StateMau Bits for Coming out of His 20-Year Nap DTevs Behind Today's New v Cy PAUL MAI fO!i !j (ttgoti ! ' if No favor Svmyst Va: No Fear SkaU Atce -Prom First States man. March J. ISM THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHArttTrSa A. SI'RAOUB. President Member of rhe Associated Kress Tbe Associated Pre Is eiclnslveiy entitled to tbe use fur publication of ill oews dispatches credited to tt or not Other wise credited in paper. Public Power Public power took a lieki-if in the special elections held simultaneously with the primary. In most of the proposed districts jthe defeat was decisive. In view of the size of the Portland district and the fact that no PUD proposal had ever been voted upon there previously, it might be said that last Friday was the public power's darkest day in Oregon history. Utilities Commissioner Bean came forward on the fol lowing day with a proposal that the Portland General Elec tric company and the Northwestern Electric company be merged. Since Northwestern operates in Portlandonly, this issue may seem to have only academic interest for Salem and the other outlying areas served by PGE; actually it is as pertinent here as in Portland, for these areas would benefit equally if the merger resulted in any reduction in costs. - Before attempting to evaluate the merits of any such plan it is necessary to analyze the reasons for the PUD de feat These have variously been identified as (1) resentment at the interference of the Bonneville administration and oth ers connected with the federal government; (2) fear of dic tation from Washington after the PUD came into existence; (3) uncertainties of the eventual interpretation of the PUD law especially with respect to taxation; (4) realization that tot the two opposite forms of public ownership, old-fashioned municipal ownership has apparent advantages; (5) lack of confidence in the PUD sponsors' leadership and (6) lack of faith in public ownership as a principle. It is practically impossible and more or less futile to evaluate the weight exercised by the first three arguments since at least two of them are rather transitory. But it is imrtortant to evaluate the last three because they have a bearing on the future solution land for instance already has municipal ownership oi its water utility, as has Salem; and Portland voters have al ready sriven their city officials the preliminary authority necessary to go into the power business. The chances are that there will be an immediate campaign to put that author ity into action. That will mean a vote on a huge bond issue and thus there will be provided a real test on the question involved in tike sixth arxumest listed above. It is safe to say that such a proposition would than the PUD did largely argument would be eliminated. On the other hand such a vote would pose a "cold cash" question and there is as yet no assurance that it would carry. The outcome in case it is offered is of direct interest to Salem. If the PUD had been approved Marion county would have become a power orphan; on the other hand if the Port land municipality goes into the power business Marion county electricity users might get the benefit of any rate reductions. The other possible results are too numerous to mention, but one of them if the present PUD law is valid in all respects, which the attorney general denies might be that Marion county would be precluded from voting on a PUD! Thus it is evident that the question is extremely com plicated; but Its complications are not such as to prevent or discourage he two power companies from proceeding with the proposed merger. Unless there is to be public ownership, in fact, the merger is virtually necessary, for the Bonneville administration has indicated that it will not over a long period sell power to both existing companies. Whether it will make a long-term contract with one remains to' be seen. V The Question Still Begs Few and elemental have been the protests raised against the president's speech on national defense. One has come from the doctrinaire isolationists, the peace at any price, even national extinction group, whose ideas are fairly clear and need not be dilated upon. Another has come from an pposite group which deprecates alleged action on the part of the president in not' telling the nation how deep its in volvement abroad is or was and for not calling sooner for an adequate national defense. This view is not necessarily I - partisan, but does seezn to be in serious error. One i inclined to believe that had the president had ids way this country would long since have had a navy much greater than the one which it boards at Pearl Harbor, and that its army would likewise have received far greater ap Vipropriationa than the congress saw fit to give it in the W period after 1936. The best evidence of this is the extreme interest in international affairs which the president took during the rise to power of the Bavarian house painter, and his evident impatience with members or congress who sought to disparage hia ineffectual efforts to influence the course of events abroad. There was the famous "frontiers n the Rhine remark of 1939, which brought Wood pressure ef the foreign affairs committee to explosion point, but which failed to influence their later actions. There have been countless times since when tiie president, by implication or direct reference, rnxtght to convey to the nation at large his riew of the great seriousness of foreign aggressions. During1 this period the president was, in his way, far more advanced than the bulk of the nation, which was con tent to depend on the Atlantic and the Pacific as the con tinent's unassailable'- bulwarks. It was he who sought to convince the nation not with complete candor, it is trne-"-that the Nazi expansion was a potential threat to America; and it was the nation which pooh-poohed his utterances, and 7 found his speeches verging on the inflammatory. , Then came the Dutch-Beltrian invasion, the craekinir of 1 the Maginot fortifications. The - more than implement the tales of threats from abroad which he had previously expressed with a request for actual arms aid actual ships, and waa met with wide and instantaneous acclaim by a people who, having been so long from Missouri, wiere at long last convinced. It was not the president who failed, tell the people of their .involvement; it was the people who ref used to believe. " X f - This is presented not with the idea of -defending the president pr of commenting on the changeability of the popular mind; it is suggested as a clearer picture of what actually happened, whether good, bad or indifferent. The !only conclusion which one may "draw is ; that even yet 'the question is not decisifeljr settled whether this country should ,0 should not be fundamentally isolationist and non-inter- . jventionist. The president has long sought to tell us that we Vare in danger, and the country only now has-come to agree . with him- But one looks in Tain for any fundamental en largement of the German threat to America, ije any ex tension of German aspirations beyond what they were two years ago when the president first warned of them; and rate phservns on the other -side that the president's requested appropriations are far t inadequate ever to provide the l-esources necessary to stem a truly first-class blitzkrieg. In other words, the country has changed its view of events abroad, and has bought its peace for three billion dollars ; yet the fundamental questions still are begging.; Some Smart Alec on the BeUingham baseball squad rpent most of hia time in Salem hollering "Zits", at the Whiskerin os. Whose j-oat he expected to get, it would be hard to imag ine. '"All he succeeded in oing was to make a monkey of him iself. We sincerely trust that in their travels throughout the northwest the Salem Senators will so comport themselves as to create good will for, and a good opinion of, the city they represent. - - - .. . Takes a Licking of the power problem. Port-i come nearer receiving approval, for the reason that the fifth president last week did little By R. J. HENDRICKS More about early 6-21-40 Oregon postdTXIcei i y and locations of Salem postoffica In the old days: - : "la W (Continuing from May- i 8 th Mm. George J, Pearcey 26T North Winter street, Salem, remembers where the Salem postoffice located d urine the administration of John Hamilton,' seventh to the hold the office- of poet- master, la tbe 1164-5 period. She waft a Terr smair girl then but her people lived on the sec ond floor of a rambling; building that stood on the south side of State street between Commercial and Front, west of the alley- next to where work on the erec tion of the new Murphy building is coins- forward; the new struc ture to take the place of the his toric building that in the old days was called the Griawold block, or more otten Gri wold's block. Mrs. Pearce. as a little rlrl knew and liked John Hamilton, the postmaster, and the could look down from the home of her people and see customer of tht postoffice come and set their mail for the postoffice was then In a building; that stood where the new Salvation Army home now stands; and the Hamilton family lived in tbe back part of the postoffice building, facing the alley between Commercial and Front streets, north side. Another historic scene has fixed the mind of Mrs. Pearce indelibly upon the surroundings of the postoffice site of that day. Briefly: George P. Beale, saloon keeper, a fine looking, man and popular, who had come aa a boy with his people la the great 1843 immigration, had a saloon in the wooden building that stood where the Marlon hotel stands now. A patron of his. George Baker, butcher, had conspired with him to commit murder in order to get a large sum of money. "a So, on Sunday, January S 1885, Beale and Baker went from Salem to where was the famous watering trough on the Turner road that runs through ke tate penitentiary annex matter of a xntie or less from the what is now land belonging to site of the buildings of the an nez: where was -once the Oregon state reform school for boys. At the spring, Beale and Baker arranged disguises in an attempt to hide .' their Identities. They blacked their faces, to represent negroes. Then they rode on south to where the town of Turner is now, and there turned west and proceeded less than a mile, to the home of Daniel Delaney, marked as the rlctlm of their dire conspiracy. a They murdered the unsuspect ing man, haying called him to his front door, and took his money; a good deal of it, in gold; over $1400, perhaps $2000 or $3000 or more. But the murderers did not reckon with "the nigger in the woodpile;" for a small colored boy and his mother .were servants of Delaney, and the boy, fright ened at what was going on, ran and hid in the woodpile. Ills tes timony became important at the trial of the men for murder. There "was enough other testi mony to make a clear circum stantial ease. a la S For some reason or other, the trial of a part of the ease was held in "Oris wold's brick;" or at least the sentencing of the men to hang was done on the second floor of that building. The trial had- commenced Monday, March 20, and the verdict was rendered March 25. The men were hanged Wed nesday. May 17, 18S5, upon i gallows erected under two oak trees on a present well known street in Salem which was then in the country, not surrounded by buildings. Tes; this writer knows the exact spot. Bat he does not tell it, for obvious rea sons. V Bnt practically the whole Wil lamette valley's mature male population saw the hanging, for such executions took place In public then.. It was a great spec tacie. About 5000 people were present." Some years later, a new state law was enacted, prohibiting pub lic hangings. Then, when one was decreed, a temporary enclosed gallows was erected near the court house. The writer recalls a good many, in this section. In the 1880s and early 1890s; to all of which he was invited, and none of which he saw except that of Joe Drake, the colored boy. In early 18S5. Then came state prison hang ings; all legal executions in Ore gon. Then came the abolition of capital punishment,- by vote -of the people. Then, after a horrible murder, another state wide vote reinstated capital punishments in Oregon. : i . Kow they are administered at the state prison. In a gas cham ber, which is not often used. . Bat all this matter, about the crime of. Beale and Baker, and their public execution, la pre liminary to the telling of what a terrible day the mother cf Mrs, Pearce had on the date of the Beale and Baker hanging, c The mother, of the little girl had been close to some of the scenes leading to the hanging. The sentencing of the ni, by Circuit judge Reuben P. Boise, as above stated, was In the Gria wold block, -next to the home presided over by the little girl's mother. But the mother wanted to get away from the scenes of the hanging, and from the excite ment of the crowd. She took her children to her father's home, on Hlsh street, noar Center, i west side, where the Chambers build ing is now. t , , (Continued tomorrow.) . ; Burns Fatal to Child PORTLAND. May 2 0-C-Ra-mona Johnson, T, died yester day of burns suffered when her dress caught fire April 7. She was . the daughter of, Mr and Airs. Herbert S. Johnson. fiJ -AKSifr'- . . . ' ! ISXM TOmSDAT 1300 Ka. :S0 Milknsa KalodiM. 7;30 Nvw. T:49 Sing Song Tina. 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S:15 Diaaer Hoar Halodiea. :30 Vewa and Viewa Joaa B, Huliea 6:45 Orgaa MMin. 7:00 Pafinr taa Paat. 7:15 ElUett Booeerelt. 7:8S Melodic Kecda. 7:45 Amerieaa Paauly Bobiasoa. 8 :00 Keva. 8:15 MePaxland Twiaa Orcaaatra. S.-80 Salem Ceirteaoial glagar. 8:45 TwilifBt Trail 8:00 Ntwtpeper af taa Aic. S:15 Doa't Toa Beliara IV. t:3 rLtoa La via. Jr. The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman fteadent DEFEND AMERICA AT BOMB To the Editor: Though we gave. rarious European nations billions of dollars and sent our defense less men OTer there to tight In 1917. 1M0 finds many of us eag-er to go back orejE again In ngDt to tna imian, mot wnatT To saye Democracy? According to the wealth of propaganda let loose by radio, screen and news paper and magazine, yes. Actual ly the present war. like the other one. Is a struggle for the balance of power. England has held that priority for centuries and Ger many wants to break that hold. Also. Germany la retaliating for the humiliations, and denizations suffered for years after the Ar mistice of 118. - In- the summer of 193S and from then on through fall and winter. Germany nresented a sin gularly .prosperous and contented aspect. I cannot now Imagine that it people wanted t& invade Hol land and Belgium nor the other countries of Poland and Finland. etc They already knew what war meant.. But Hitler was bent on beating England and her stooge, France, to the draw. So 'he de cided he would kill anti-Naxlism zor gooa ny appropriating sur rounding countries, despite the warnings and the letters and the prayers of Pope Plus who, like all the popes, defended the rirhts of minorities. Hitler began by persecution of organised religion, particularly Catholicism and Judaism. Albert Einstein - says that "Only . the Catholics offered any organised resistance to the Nazi creed." That Is why so many of that faith including hundreds of priests hare been disrracefaUT executed, while thousands were Imprisoned. Nonetheless, while we ehonld help the Lowlands". Poland , and the rest financially because of Christian charity, there Is no reason for again ' Culttinr ear shores and flsntinr In Enrone. DEFEND ODR OWN SHORES WITH ADEQUATE ARMAMENT BRING BACK CHRISTIAN ITY TO AMERICA OCT Tf THfi ROOT OF OCR OWN EVILS AND ENDEAVOR TO CORRECT THEM THAT WILL SAVE DEMOCRACY. .... , , Joseph M. PortaL Radio Programs 8:45. Cases Poster Orcaaatra. 10:00 Phil Harris Orcaaatra. 10:30 Sterliag Yevaf'e Orcaaatra. 11:00 Ke-a-s. 11:15 Jimmy J or Orcaaatra. 11:80 The PUybcya. 11:45 Midaicht Melodies. e ' KOW TTTESD AT 8 38 Xa. :30 Snariae Serenade. 7 :00 Newa. 7:15 Trail Blaiera. 7:45 Sana Hayea 8:00 Indiana Tndlro. 8:15 Dinainf Siatcra. 8:30 Stan of Today. 9 :00 Hotel Tail Orchestra. S AS Eleanor BoottTelt. 8:80 N a tore Sketches. 8:45 Ir. 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"The C4iro Garter Murders" By VAN WtCK MASON CHAPTER Hasld Pasha meanwhile had settled back in his chair and was addressing Follonsbee. "To learn that so brilliant. a member of the British Intelligence as Ma jor Kllgour is going to Cairo at a a .a at ..- . u ims time is most interesting . "What do yoa mean, airf" the young man demanded. I A most Interesting situation has arisen there, but since Doctor Ladd has been away only a eon pie of weeks, suppose we let him ten as about the strangei ders they've had there." I mur s. sc even u as Americans, so blase about crime," the scholar began, 'these kill rags are aston ishing. Egypt is a strange laad and the unexpected always seems to happen there. "May we join yoa. Mrs. Laddf North started, so Quietly had M. Philllpides and his lovely com panion crossed the lounge The Id Greek bowed Courteously to tne outer men ana nodded- to Ben Yamen Hasld in familiar fashion. "A little reunion, is lt not? What apity we Egyptolo gists see so little of each othert" "We have even ' brought 'our excuse zor Joining yoa.- Natlka macg gave tna table a ravishinr smite. , ics, news irom Cairo ! en arr : i - It AnOthete vfrtlrn Af tta Amm.mAL.t w ...... HCWi(ll Mr. Armstrong has been found 1" , ua.iv rasaa ssi Dull npngnt. j - yes,' Natlka went on excited. ly. "Listening to the radio Just n w we heard that ' the! bdHm have found In the desert the dried body of a German named Wolff." "Eh?" Follonsbee'n volea sounded a little strident. ! "An accident nerhsnaf arJ. Ladd suggested nervously I "Unfortanatelv. ant fn ola Greek, "that waa impossible. The victim had been shot through tne montn ana he had been dead for weeks.- , i "But.- objected Lollta fn wide- eyed uneasiness, "it may hare been robbers. Dad waa ) saying there has been no garter kllllnr since last month." i "Wolff was found Wearlnn on of those . silly garters about his arm. i . i Another tirtcr mnMri tw Ladd burst oat. "How ghastly! kI don't see why the police can't fit & stop to such outrages.,! J . tlIow-ISIT "arie," cried Zaa Ladd. "Why, Mr. Follonsbefe, what is the matterf" 1 r -1 hare a letter a WnifffU Follonsbee said thickly, j I .mat's a great uitT.' Dr. Taa gave the younsr fellow s, avmna. thetie pat on the arm. "Such an end Is dreadful." ...- i Bat scarcelr aalonlalilne. v.. Uka Black lnterrapted smoothly. ""What do roi mmt KT-.l. jo erica casually. . - a iw. w WASHINGTON, May 0 First blows ef the hliUkriea- hit ever se cure American economy as hard as our defenses. Our standards of money, trices, trad and liTlog were shaken as in e h as our faith' ia oar anti-tank runs which became pa shooters in the face of the SO ton land battleships which Hitler launched in France. It because apparent lnunedl artely to Mr. Roosevelt's econo. mints that way tutd. for one ia stance, svrcumnlnted nearly f 1 9,000,000,000 of ico Id ap proximately two-thirds of : the f 28,113,000,000 known . world storKn 4o rjacrt at world which ' saddemly nicht ttare ao ajjt for it, A Gersuaai victory would , mean the flxiax of new world , standards which used gold only for braceleta, watches aad fill las; teeth. 1st Its place aronad the world won Id coane trade by barter, -syathctlc rooary, polit ical price-fixing. And ctctj if Hitler lost, the destrnctlon he had wrought among his adver sarin precladed the poaalbillty that they could retanr to their col den way of lirlnx. I The realization heran to1 dawn on the fOTernment economists that when Mr. RooseTelt said in 1933 he would try some other means ot raising; prices in caae his cold policy did not work, he was really say in t that If jumping out of the third story window failed to achieve his purpose he wonld go back . upstairs and try something else. Sorely also obsolescent In case of a German victory, aad shaken by the MltsJuiefe was the Hall trade agreement pol icy. Mr. Hull's economists hare been forced to torn their minds towards developing new meth ods. Their thlakins; now is de velopiasr toward the prospect of a political Instead of an eco nomic trade policy, especially for Latin America. That is, they see the steed for barter which coasiders oar political itecessttles for the security of this nation more than price and other matters. Aa export . subsidy Is what they hare in mind. The transition seems to call likewise for a reversal of domes tie policies toward a preparedness economy that may lead in the di reetion of state capitalism. The ast stores of armaments needed for security has caused the new dealers to start thinking first about government regulation to control supplies of raw materials aad prices. A revised reincarna tion of NRA has been talked. Some of .Mr. RooseTelt s men are even suggesting privately he intends to use some of the $200,- 000,000 blank check from eon gress to iasUtate some such co operative organization Certainly the government cannot permit prices to get out of ' hand ' and must prevent hoarding or a pecu lation in needed materials. Sheepish distrust of the stock market for price levels lately has caused the local economists also to suspect minlmam regu lations might be advisable also. Those authorities with whom hare talked are not thinking ot this regulation in terms ot social reform. All that now is a compar- "Well." said she with a little shrng of white shoulders, 'haven't business rivalries been settled that way for many thou sands of years? To live at all is a risk, a struggle. Someone always has to win and lose." Almost everyone started at such a comment from a perfectly groomed young femme da raonde Her tone had been as matter of fact as if she 'were discussing a new gown. Dr. Ladd appeared snocked. "Dear me. Miss Black, that is scarcely a Christian point of lew. I hope there aren't, many others who accept an atrocious murder so er philosophically." I have lived much In the Near east and I have observed that neither men nor nations have found any other way of set tling' vital questions." earns the untroubled reply. "Look at Syria and at Palestine. Even now guns and ammunition are pouring across tneir borders." "I wonder" Hasld Pasha lean ed forward, aa amused smile on his coppery features. "Have you not neard, Miss Black, of the Brit- isn navy ana or tne desert pa trols? how could munitions reach the tribesmen?" , f . (To be continued) I T Commerce Post Robert EL IllncUey Robert IL Hinckley, above,' is ex pected to he named by President Roosevelt for the post cf assist ant secretary - of commerce. Hinckley is tSirman Of the Civil I Asmnantin At,i4t 1 atlvelr minor matter. The new tendency ie- toward strength, not socialism. What has happened here is that all established cliches of ect nomic thought have suddenly been challenged by a great of fensive force. Such things as "de fense of the dollar," . "parity prices, and the like hare become obvious absurdities. The aeed for stew method has Mused ao greet excitement here. It is true two government economists suffered nervous breakdowns last week under them. Bat there has been no agitaUioa or dismay ia aay de gree as extensive' as la the touchy and poorly led New York (Inanclal marts, j It is appreciated here that even if old ways are being destroyed, so, are the old financial disasters which came with such revolution ary changes in the past. The gov ernment is obllgsted and baa the power now to cover this period of transition. It cannot afford to let things go. For Instance, extensive armaments expenditures can have whatever Inflationary ( force la necessary, to offset attacks on prices and loss of markets. Not that any Well-settled defi nite plan of action exists here. The blow came too suddenly. The government are nowhere near agreed on details as to whst should be done, but they are be ginning to see what must be done. The worst you could expect out of this would be inflation which is tbe opposite direction to the one la which the stock msrket went. And It could not possibly be the same kind of .inflation which corrupted pre-war Germany because the government now has the power of control over prices and materials to press the brakes as well as the accelerator. It appears probable the eco U e ra 1 c readjaat meats can be worked oat faster aad more ef fectively thaa our deficiencies la military weapons. (Diatribatad ky King restarts tyadi cats, las. HopraJnctloa ia wkels er ia part atrietly prohibited.) Today's Garden ( By L1LL1E L. MADSKN P. C. For! general delphinium cultnre, see Sunday's articled May 19. To take care of blight or black spot and root rot, one com mercial grower advises using: 1 gram, mercuric chloride, 1 gram, sodium nitrate; (H gallons of water. Apply It with a sprinkler close to the plant so that it gets down to the roots. If your soli is not healthy, this same grower advises slaking 2 pounds of lime in t gallons of water and add 4 pound tobacco dust. Dilute in portions of 1 to 12 and pour on to the ground around the plants. A. R. Use a covering of sand around the plants that the slugs bother. A sprinkling of copper sulphate In the neighborhood where the slugs work will f de stroy them. i Mrs. J. F. Cinerarias had best be treated as annuals. Even florists treat them1 as such. Af ter they have flowered, throw them away. They, will not pay you to keep. You can buy the seed and plant in x August and with eare yoa may have them la bloom in winter. Plant them in a flat as you would other seedlings. Put about an eighth of an inch covering of sharp sand over the seeds. When they are large enough to handle set them Into small pots la soil consisting of half leaf-mold and halt fine loam. Shift them Into a large sized pot as soon as they have made some growth. Use three parts fibrous loam, and one part decayed cow manure. The plants may be grown ia a shady location out of doora until September whea . the pots should be taken indoors. R. O. Cole us root easily from short cuttings at any time of the year. If you are using them for window cultnre, yoa will have best success it1 yoa grow new plants from cuttings each spring. No. 183-124 . ( . Synopsis at Aaanal Statemeat ot Tie employers' Liability Aasarance Corpor ation, limited, at Lend o a, Knfland. as the tsirtytlrat day at !eeeraber, 138, made to taa laearaace Ceaaaieaiener ot taw State ot Oresoa. paranaas ta law: CAPITAL, Statutory depieit, 8300,000.00. INCOME I Ket prsalsas recti red during tas year, 114.474.828.71. Interact, dWIdeada aad reats eoeaired Income from other eoarceo reeelred darinf taa year, 871.077.88. i Total income, f 26.01 S.5.2J 81. , UlSHURbEelENTS ' I I Vat tosaea paid daring ike year iaelad- ! las adjustment eapeneea. SlS.738.373. 18. Commissions aad ealarloe paid daring the year, 87.574.868 70. Taxes, liceasee aad free paid daring taa year, 81.1WS.331.7S. Di rid en da paid n capital stock daring tbe year, oaa. Amoant o( all Uin eipenditaree, 83, d4S.14S.7S. Total eapeaditOrea.- $35,84 1.731.84. ADMITTED ASKT8 M Valna of real oatalo earned (market value). S4.634.288.82. Valne ot bonds' awaed. (amortiird) S26.4J5.0J9. 83. Valee of etocks owned (market value). fs.iis.iia.vu. , Cash la baafca aad hand. 84.168. 581.18. ; 1 l Premlame la coslraa of collection writ ten eiace September SO, 1038, 4,160. 360.17. Interest aad rents doe aad arc road. 1 18S.88O.S0. "l; Other assets (act). $1,098 66. 10. ToUl admitted assets, $43,749,023.80. UABILITICS Greae elaiasa for loaaea Snnaid. 817.- aii.4S4.oo. . Amoant af unearned premiums as all salataadieg risks, $d,921.056 67. lis lor connmteetoa ans ' brokerace, $780,697.41. i i V All other HsMlitlee, 84.65. 20 SJL Total liabilitiee. eaceat Statutory Io- pcait, $38,749,923.80. Statutory Deposit, $260,000.00. ' Surplus aver all liabilities. 89.800.- ooe.oo. I Surplua as rasarda Policy holders. $I0, 0OO.OO0.0O. i " Total. 843. 740023 90. , hUSINKSH IS CREfiOS fOa THK VKAR net premiuma recelTed dnrin the year. Sua ir Net loasea said dnrin r tLa rear. 821. 163.6.1., , Ket lossea laaanad durine the rear. $31,148 6S. Name ef Cononr. The KmnloTers' Ua bllity Asanrtnco Corporation, Ltd. aim of United Statee tieneral Mas afr aad Attorney. award C Stone. Statntorv resident, nrtnrnev for aerTica. Lewie A Cartwricht, Portland. Oa the basis t Dsrnbtr 81. 1938 Market qootationa for all bonds and atocka owned, this rempaay'a tetal ad mitted assets wonld be inrrraed U . 640.114 08 aad Voluntary KescrTS W fd.442.018.C6. Securities carried at 81,413.830.18 la ,k aUtenaeat are depoeiled aa ro- awlred by Uw.