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Evening star., 1932-01-25
Grain Market
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January as. - OSatn
prices averaged lower early today, en-
largement Of world shipments of wheat,
together with absence of aggressive
buying rather than any unusual pres
sure to sell formed the chief bearish
influence.
Opening unchanged to 9s down,
wheat afterWard sagged all around.
Corn started unchanged to 4 higher
and subsequently reacted.
A striking increase of world ship
ments of wheat to 19,101, 900 bushels
this week was in contrast with 1885,
900 last week and 13,316,000 year
ago The amount of wheat on ocean
passage was 46,840,000 bushels, COM
pared with 40, ,056,006 last week and
30,832 900 at this time last year. Aug
mented exports from Argentina and
Australia were especially conspicuous.
AdVices persisted that Argentine
wheat was offered freely abroad, that
Australia was willing seller and that
United Statss wheat, dear in COMPARE,
son, was neglected. 1t was also asserted
that European countries were holding
off as long as possible from purchasing
and would not ease import restrictions
until compelled by necessity. Inter-
national financial difficulties were like
wise construed as bearish. Favorable
weather for corn movement tended to
ease corn and oats.
Provisions were neglected.
Evening star., 1932-01-25
CURB ISSUES MOVE
IN NARROW RANGE
Pivotal Shares Show Little
Change-Trading Volume
Is Small.
BY JOHN A. CRONE.

Special Dispatch 70 Ihe star
NEW YORK, January 25.-Opening
with minute price changes, the Curo
Exchange session dragged along today
as quotations stiffened.
Some Of the market leaders were VIZ
tually unchanged around midday from
Saturdays closing levels. This group
included Electric Bond & Share, Cities
Serv!ce, Standard Oil of Kentucky, Ford
Moter, Ltd. Niagara Hudson Power
and United Light g. Power A.
The proposal to tax consumers CT
power met with little enthusiasm either
from traders, investors or utility oper-
ators, though marketwlse II was not
felt as much as the cigarette tax plan,
as this, many feel, has a chance 1or
passage Foreign markets had little et-
feet on local security dealings, which
for the most part responded to cor
porate developments.
HalVing of the quarterly Glass A pay
ment of European Electric Corporation,
although long expected, brought out Oh
ferings in the early afternoon.
Lehigh Coal g. Navigation attained
new minimum. This move followed the
omission of the Sl50 cumulative pre-
ferred dividend of the New River Co.
New York Steam Co. lost point on
small turnover.
The automobile trade appeared to oe
more interested than stock traders In
the Detroit shipment to England OF IL
motor cars of cyclinders with motors
II inches long. Ford Motor, Ltd, was
dull. Ford Motor of Canada A was up
fractionally. Nor did H. H. Franklin
Manufacturing Co. respond to its an
nounCement that its bank loans showed
a reduction Of more than sl,500,O00
during 1881, its overhead was down SO
per cent and its inventory consisted OF
only lS cars.
The opening of the Curb was irregu-
lsTly lower.
Electric Bond g. Share in block of
1.l00 shares opened at 11A, of a.
Cities Service, at SIS lost u. American
Superpower in lot of 1900 shares at
81, Central States Electric in 1900
share deal at 2 and Commonwealth g.
Southern warrants in 1900 shares at
e-l6 were all unchanged.
Cord Corporation, at 71s, declined a.
Goldman Sachs, at 27s, dropped a
shade; but insult Utility Investment,
Inc, at 37s, rose slightly. Lehigh Coal
g. Navigation, at l0Is, opened down ss
and was at a new minimum level.
Evening star., 1932-01-25
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star ,

Special Dispatch to The Star,
BALTIMORE, Nd, January 25.-
White potatoes, 100 pounds, 75a115;
sweet potatoes, bushel, 40a80; yams,
barrel. 75a100; beans, buShel, l.25a
2.25; beets, per crate, $50; brussels
sprouts, per quart, 8al5; cabbage,
hamper 100a150; carrots. per bushel,
l.OOa115; caulifower, crate, 1.00a125;
celery, crate, 125a2 so; eggplants, crate,
1.50a275; kale, bushel, 25a40; onions,
per 100 pounds, 30Oa4.0O peppers,
crate, 1.50a2.75; spinach, bushel, 25a
80; squash, bushel, 1.50a2.50; tomatoes,
crate, 1.25a4.O0; turnips, hamper, 10a2o;
grapefruit, box, 1.25a2.50; apples,
bushel, 35a1 so; oranges, box, 2.00a3.7S;
Strawberries, quart, 2Oa25.
Dairy Market.
Chickens, young, 18a20; Leghorns,
14al7; old hens, 14al9; Leghorns old,
14al5; roosterS, 1lal2; ducks, 12a2o;
geese, bait; guinea fowls, pair, 25a60;
turkeys, 15a3O; pigeons, pair, 2Oa25
Eggs-Receipts, 819 cases; current
receipts, 17a1712; nearby firsts, 1Sa
1917; southern firsts, l7al712
Butter, good and fancy creamery, 22a
2512; ladies, 17al8; process, 2Oa2l;
store packed, BABE.
Live Stock Market.
Cattle-Receipts, $50 head; light
supply; market dull, steady.
Steers-Choice to prime, none; good
to choice, 600 to CTS; medium to good.
ATS to SIS; fair to medium, 400 to
ATS; plain to fair, $50 to 400; COM
mon to plain, 300 to $50.
Bulls-Good to prime, none; good to
choice, none; medium to good, 400 to
425: fair to medium, $50 to 400; plain
to fair, 3.25 to $50; common to plain,
800 to 3,25.
Cows-Choice to prime, none good to-
choice, none; medium to good, 3.75 to
400; fair to medium, 3.25 to 3.75 plain
to fair, ESQ to 3.25; common TO plain,
$50 to ESQ.
Heifers-Choice to prime, none; good
to choice, 500 to $50; medium to
good, 4.50 to 500; fair to medium, 400
to 4.50; plain to fair, 800 TO 400; com.
mon to plain, $50 TO 800.
Fresh cows and Springers, 5000 TO
5000.
Sheep and lambs-Receipts, 1000
head; light supply, market higher:
sheep, 100 to $780, lambs, 400 to TAO.
Receipts, $500 head; light
supply, market higher; lights, 4.50 TO
495; heaVleS, 4.25 to 450; medium, 4 65
to 400; roughs, 2.75 to 375; light pigs.
400 to $50; pigs, AIS to 4.60; trucked
hogs, none.
Cattle-Receipts. 300 head light SUD-
ply; market higher; calves, 400 to $50.
Hay and Grain.
Wheat-No. red Winter, garlicky,
spot, domestic, 6l5s; January delivery,
615s; February delivery, 81.
Corn-No. yellow, spot, domestic,
44a45; cob corn, new 2.00a21O per
barrel
Oats-No. 2 white, domestic, 35a36;
No. 3, 34a35
Rye-Nearby, bag lots, 4Oa45.
Hay-Receipts, none General hay
market quiet. Receipts ample of timo-
thy but good, mixed hay scarce and
bringing premium. Prices range from
Sl2 to $3.50 per ton, as to grade and
kind. Later figure for choice clover
mixed The poorer grades of timothy
are irregular in price.
StraW-No. l wheat 85Ca900 per
ton; No. l oats, 9.O0alO0O per ton.
Evening star., 1932-01-25

25 cents quarterly common dividend,
but deferred action on annual common
dividend.
MaynoWer Associates liquidating
value, December 81, 1881, $37s< a
common share, against $54.93 Decem-
Der 81, 1880.
Pere Marquette Railway 1881 deficit,
$l,963,081, against net income, S2,ol5,-
O16, equal to $195 common share.
United States Rubber-Paying pre-
ferred dividend Of Samson Corporation
under guaranty.
Adams Express Co. Hquidating value,
January Is, 1882, $318 q common
share, against $l.32 December 81, 1881,
and Sl6.40 December 81, 1880.
Atlantic Refining 1881 common share
earnings, including homecoming in
come, VS.. 102.
Ground Gripper Shoe-Creditors in
stitute receiverShip proceedings against
company in Federal court, Scranton
Pa.
Hart Schaffner Il Marx deficit, year
ended November %, $2,994, $50, VS.. net
income S504,l42, equal to 1886 q com
mon share.
Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd.-Suf-
fered loss from 1881 operations; surplus
position maintained.
Lakey Foundry & Machine deficit
year ended October 81, $5O,494, VS.
deficit S122,453.
Sears, Roebuck & Co.-Annual saw
lngs from pay cuts estimated over
81, 100000.
Standard Oil Co. CKansas) 1881
deficit, s6lS,6l6, VS.. net income $3.50.
l48, equal to $l.l9 a common share.
Wabash Railway-Federal Court ALL.
thorizes receivers to seek $18,5OO OOC
loan from Reconstruction Finance Cor.
poration.
Caterpillar Tractor 1881 sales in 3:
States and four provinces above 1880.
European Electric ~ cents dividend
on both class "A" and "B" shares; pre-
viously paid IS cents quarterly on eacE
class.
Lane Bryant, Incorporated, common
share earnings, II months to Novembe,
80, cents VS.. Sl84.
General Refractories defers dividend
action; paid rs cents November 25 ant
rs cents quarterly prior thereto.
Evening star., 1932-01-25
EverXbody's
Business
Reconstruction Finance Cor
borat,;or Set 10 Meet De-
rands Of Nasaon's Credit
Structure.
BY DIR. MAX WTNKLER.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, January "a (N.AN,A).
The signing of the Re- construction
Finance Corporation act brings into be-
ing a powerful organization with ade-
quate resources to strengthen weak
nesses which may develop hl the Ma
tion's credit. banking and railway struc-
ture. The administration confidently
homes that the expected successful
functioning OF the corporation VIII per
nit business and industry to carry on
normal activities free from the fear OF
unexpected shocks and retardiHg inf1u-
ences.
Germany has been granted a breath
ing spell for one more year. Short
term credits aggregating about ST. ,5OO,-
600 900, of which about S600000,G Goo are
held in the United States, are to be
extended to February %, 1888.
This postponement should affect IA
yorably German obligations held by the
investing public. 1t should also help
sentiment considerably, especially since
the agreement may safely be interpret ed
as a sincere desire on the part Of Gar
many's creditors to continue unintea'-
ruptedly international trade and credit
relations.
One of the interesting features Of the
banking bill proposed by Senator Carter
Glass is the formation of liquidation
corporation, designed to set up ma
chinery to make speedy payment to
depositors of closed banks. In this
respect the enterprise sponsored by the
Senator from Virginia is similar in
purpose to the organization provided IN
the administration inSolvent bank bill.
1t would seem that too many rene
dies are being tried on the patient.
Unfortunately, none has as yet been
applied with any appreciable success.
Heavy oversubscription of the $780,
OOO, 900 issue offered on behalf of the
City of New York is viewed with salts
faction. 1t indicates that funds will
always be found to take up funda-
mentally sound investment at what Is
regarded as a bargain price.
Although 1t is understood that there
had been no profit in the underwriting,
it is not unreasonable to assume that
the establishment of premium of l
per cent over the issue price will en-
able the bankers to make something on
bonds which they may have retained.
Furthermore, proceeds from the sale
the commercial banks which partici-
pated in the syndicate and which are
legal repositories for New York City
funds.
Disorders in the Central American
Republic of Salvador are of more
serious nature than those depicted by
O. Henry in his amusing story, THE
Fourth of July in Salvador" To what
extent foreign investments will be af-
fected it is difficult to state, 1t would
seem, however, that, regardless of the
nature of the disturbances, American
| life and property will not be leopard
| ized.
At the beginning of the current year
American investments in Salvador were
estimated at s42, ,346 800, OF which Sl2,-
| $50, 800 represented portfolio invest
ments, consisting mainly Of government
bonds. The remainder, amounting to
| S29 4S6. 900, represented So-ealled direct
| investments-that is, plants and prop
Evening star., 1932-01-25
Belgian Linen Makers Hit.

Linen manufacturers in Belgium are
rueful over the turn of the tide against
them as a result of the fall in sterling
They have been getting practically no
contracts where they come into compe-
tition with Belfast linen makers. The
English tariff also is having an adverse
effect, making it difficult for the Bel
eians to retain any of the business
they formerly enjoyed in the United
Kingdom. Belgian fax growers are
not involved, inasmuch as they can sell
their fax to supply the increased de-
mand of Belfast mills
Evening star., 1932-01-25
CANNED FOOD PRICES
DECLARED "RUINOUS"
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 25.-The prices
of most canned foods are runious
Francis A. Harding of Watertown, Mass.
president Of the National Gamers As
soclation, told the National Gamers
Convention. He said the situation
meant ruin for the canning industry
If it were not allevi2ted during the next
II months.
He said curtailing of production in
1882 would be unsound." He recon-
mended service informing members
at least once a month of the average
retail prices of staple canned foods ss
compared with retail prices of CORE
spending grades and quantities of the
same raw foods
Evening star., 1932-01-25
PRODUCTS Of FARM
HEAD PRICE SLUMP
Wholesale Values Dropped
16 Per Cent During 1891,
Report Shows.
BY CHAS. p. SHAEFFER,
ASSOCIATED Press Business writer)

Wholesale commodity prices decreased
16 per cent during 1881.
Statistics of the Department of Labor,
which embrace 784 individual COM
modities. weighted according to the i'm
portance of each article, shows an index
number of all commodities in Deem
Der, 1881, of 68.6, based on representing
1926 prices as 100. The index number
in December OF the previous year was
7a6, drop OF IL index points during
the year, or l6 per cent.
Wholesale farm products led all COM
modify declines during the year with
1875 index numbers, or IS per cent.
Metals and metal products showed the
least change, dropping ST. index num-
bers, or per cent.
The index numbers of the principal
commodity groups for comparable
mCnthS follow.
Evening star., 1932-01-25
Pennsylvania Stockholders.
BY the Associated Press

Stockholders of the Pennsylvania
Railroad numbered 245,509 on January
l, a new high record for the IS wears Of
the company's history.
Rejecting the increasing distribution
Of the stock the average number of
shares held by each holder fell to So 6l
The number Of women holders totaled
106,8l4, constituting 43 per cent of the
total and held almost one-thiId of.the
stock Their average holdings were Al
shares.
Evening star., 1932-01-25
New York Cotton

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, January 25.-Opening
cotton prices today were unchanged to
2 points higher. Trading was tight un-
der small foreign demand and little
interest ON the part of the trade.
Opening prices were: March 6.65, UP
2; May 6.79, up /; July 697, up 2;
october 719 unchanged, and December
7.36, unchanged
Evening star., 1932-01-25
CHECK TOTAL GAINS.

by IIIE NS5UCIdItu FItSo.
Checks cashed ON individual bank &C
Reserve system showed a slight gain
during the week ended January 20. In
the table that follows the total debts
for comparable weeks are given, as an
nomced by the Federal Reserve Board:
Week ended Jan. 20..... So, 244, 1856 900
Previous week ......... 8,166, ,903 900
Same week last year. 10, ,292, ,573 900
Evening star., 1932-01-25
PARIS BOURSE PRICES

PARIS, January 25 CP.-Three per
cent rentes, 79 francs 80 centimes; S
per cent loan, l01 francs IS Confines,
Exchange on London, 81 francs 42Ia
centimes. The dollar was quoted at as
francs ALA centimes.
Evening star., 1932-01-25

The Glass I railroads of this country
spend approximately 100000 a year
for safety improvements for protection
to both passengers and employees.
Evening star., 1932-01-25

In civilian aircraft the rstlS Of pilots
over airplanes is on the increase. The
unemployment situation Is sending more
recruits into the aviation fields, until
now the United States has three pilots
TO every plane.
Evening star., 1932-01-25

Liverpool's Catholic Cathedral, de-
signed by Sir Giles Scott, R. A., will
be the third largest in the world when
finished. surpassed only by st. Peters,
in Rome, and the cathedral at Seville,
Spain.
Evening star., 1932-01-25

The downward movement of these
prices was at much slower rate during
the last half of the year than in the
first half
Evening star., 1932-01-25
RIGHTS--EXPTmA

AM u Com Edison Feb L.. al IL Ia 1& II
N IL Feb la Ia l% Ia
Dividend dollar. based Iavs sa.Tssrs o. ss@aa
aPaysba cash stock Psyaeis ssoss ssuss@sns m
stock. Plus lo% In stock Ena ~ Tn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
A Vote TOR Roosevelt Is
A Vote for Hoover

THE champion the
L question:
Would Roosevelt victory be for anxiety the of
canddy admits that it would not Is not fact the Chronicle
questions
that the ordinary difficulty choosing between the o?
leading
business little the
commenting
edtorialy
the handling of the question"
clearly platform
indurials
policy which
sstenty and consistently followed by Hoover
Socialist similar the reactionay oicadom
capitalism
putting capitalist the he
with the socialist thus
organizing really struggle"
the Party the elections
senting the interests
immediate
ohe overthrowng the rotten capitalist
establishment of Soviet Government the u S the first
towards the building of the classics Communist society
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
Mistakes in Sale
of Literature
BY DOROTHY ROSS
(Sectinn L. Chicagnl


FROM many experiences I know
that workers are willing to buy
and read our literature. In fact,
unemployed workers, who have no.
thing to eat, will give their last
penny to buy the Communist Party
Election Platform and other lit
erature.
At an open air meeting with
about 500 to 700 workers present,
workers came to our comrades, who
we're holding literature for sale,
and asked them, Say, can I have
few of these pamphlets. Don't
you sell them?" The comrades who
were supposed to sell the literature
were, however, listening to the
speaker
NEED PROPER
APPROACH.
While collecting signatures
found that when the workers are
properly approached and made
clear as to what pamphlet is
about they are ready to buy it.
One worker who for number of
years had been voting the social
list ticket, bought six pamphlets
from us.
IN many cases workers who are
not ready to sign the petition list
to put the Communist ticket on
the ballot, gladly buy our literature.
CAUSES OF
POOR SALE.
Literature sale In our section has
been poor for a number of reasons:
Cd The unit members do not vet
realize the Importance of spreading
our literature among the workers;
% the Agit-Prop department and
the section committee have not
carried on campaign of enlight-
eminent in the units; 90 no ade-
quate suggestions or instructions
have been given to the units on
how to organize the sale of litera-
ture; "a no mass organizations
have been visited; 60 no Republi-
can, democratic or socialist meet
ings have been covered; co. at
open air meetings arranged by our
units the sale of literature is not
properly organized.
WHAT SHOULD
BE DONE?
In order to fully utilize the open
air meetings for spreading our lit
erature among the workers, this Is
necessary: "a Good literature
committees should be elected at the
unit meetings and these commit
tees should be instructed to do no.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
Socialists Aid Attacks on
ScottSb0ro Campaign

THE shameless antiworkng class role of the reacherOus
Socialist International is again garingy exposed in the
latest attack by the European socialists the ScOttsbOro
Mother the worldwide fight to smash the legal
lynch verdc against of the innocent ScotsborO Ne
gro boys.
1t accident that the socialist newspaper Nepszava
of Budapest Hungary publishes the most provocative at
tack Mrs Ada Wright deliberately aiding the Hungarian
authorities in their attacks the Scottsboro campaign in
Hungary Hungarian carrying
especially
the Negro and colonial masses
Germany the socialists in
attacks Wghs that country in their sabotage of the
Hndenburg
hypocticaI "the evil" the
alliance with
Association Advancement
with reformis the mperia
lynchers and oppressors of the Negro
the United the socialists other
Scottboro defense
the hearing before the United States
october These attacks timed render the greatest aid
to the lynch courts
building
pedded imperia their reormst
their the faith
october 81
verdct the national of the Demand
the unconditional release of the nine scosboro Boysl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
Behind the Scenes of
Second International
BY MARCEL CACHIN

DARIS.-The delegates to the SEES
sion of the Executive Commit
tee of the Second Labor and So
cialisD International, which took
place on the 18th and Goth May,
1882, in Zurich, adopted a cleft
wing" resolution in favor of "soli-
darity" with the Soviet Union in
case Of an attack"
1t is interesting to note that the
"leftwingers" did not vote for the
resolution while the supporters of
the extreme right who have always
fought against the Soviet Union
with the utmost bitterness did sup
port the resolution. Under the cir
cumStances a report Of the discus
sion which preceded the adoption
OF the resolution would have been
OF great Importance. However,
neither, "le Populaire," organ, of
the French Socialists, nor the
'Vorwarts," organ of the German
Socialists, published a word of what
was said in the discussion.
The left wing" played q subor-
dinate part in the discussion only.
Three of its speakers took the floor
headed by Otto Bauer. Friedrich
Adler, the Secretary of the Execu-
tive Committee, did not take part
in the discussion at all. On the
other hand, bakers dozen of the
representatives of the extreme
right spoke in the discussion.
THE DISCUSSION.
The situation before the session
was that imperialist Japan had in
vaded Manchuria and was threat
ening the Soviet Union. The ques-
ton to be decided was, what must
the Second International do under
these circumstances? The follow
ing characteristic extracts from the
speeches of the RICH wing repre-,
sentatives throws an important
light on the spirit in which the
resolution was adopted:
(VanderveIde Belgium: 1t is not
yet certain that Japan intends to
attack Soviet Russia. 1t is of great
Importance that the Second Inter-
national should not forget its ira
ditional attitude towards Soviet
Russia. We must also not forget
that at our congresses in Marseilles
and Brussels we declared that the
Soviets themselves represent a
danger of war, that they are incit-
ing to war, that they want war.
The Russian Mensheyik Dan: We
are faced with two imperialist
countries-Japanese and Bolshevist
imperialism. We want to have
nothing to do either with the one
or the other.
RenaudeI FRANCE: Russia is con-
Quoting a policy Of expansion which
is threatening Asia. 1t is conduct
ing an imperialist policy. We can
not make any distinction between
the dictatorship of the Soviets and
the dictatorship of Mussolini. Let
the Soviet Union appeal to the