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Evening star., 1933-02-12
Upswing in Market Seen.

NEW YORK, February IL (SpeciaD
Although securities on the New York
Stock Exchange have lost in the first
days of this month practically all the
gains registered in January, and bonds
have moved down from their recent
peak, the leading advisory organiza-
tions hold firmly to the opinion that
the security markets are on the verge
of sustained upward swing Accord
ing to Gage P. Wright, editor of the
Business Economic Digest, who weekly
computes weighted average of the
opinions of more than 40 of the best
known economic and market observers.
there is practically complete unanimity
of belief that the lows of last July
marked the bottom of the long bear
market and that an upward movement
is in sight
Evening star., 1933-02-12

R-K-O, and have been subject to a
wide assortment of rumors
United States Steel and Du Pont
gained fractions, and oils generally
stiffened. Dawson Chemical was
soft spot, off point. WHY'S Overland
was also sold in some volume, and
sagged fractionally.
In the commodity markets, cotton
reacted little. closing 20 to 10 cents
a bale lower. Foreign exchanges were
mostly firm, with Sterling Gables ruling
3-16 of a cent higher at S342 1916,
and French francs UP a shade The
silver currencies, however, notably the
Shanghai tael and Mexican dollar, were
lower.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
MARYLAND TOBACCO
PROGRAM REVEALED
Producers Would Cut 1884 Crops
25 Per Cent Under Plans
Announced by A. A. A.

A production adjustment program for
Maryland tobacco, type 80. under which
producers of certain grades would re-
duce their 1884 crop by 25 per cent of
their base tobacco acreage and base to-
bacco production, was announced by
the Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration.
It is estimated that about 40 per cent
of the Maryland tobacco growers will
find it advantageous to take part in the
program, the main object of which is
to reduce production of the lower grades
and improve the general price for this
type Of tobacco. Rental and benefit
payments to growers who take part are
expected to total about $4,000.
A rental payment of $40 for each acre
taken out of production as stipulated in
the agreement would be made to parti-
cipating growers before March IS, 1884,
or not more than 90 days after the Sec
retary of Agriculture has accepted the
agreements. In addition there would
be an adjustment payment, based large
ly on the sales value of the 1884 crop,
which would go to participating grow
ers after December !, 1885, and after
they had presented proof of compliance
with the terms of the reduction agree
ment.
Growers who sign agreements auto
matically become members of tobacco
control associations in their own coun-
ties, the purpose Of which will be to
handle administrative details of the
program The cost Of operating the
county associations will be paid pro rata
by the members.
The agreement provides for division
Of rental and adjustment payments with
tenants as their interest may appear
Evening star., 1933-12-25
GROUP SEEKS CURB
UPON UNFAIR TRADE
Treaties to Be Discussed at
Property Conference at
London.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Treaty curbs on unfair competition
in world trade may be broadened at the
International Industrial Property Con-
ference, meeting in London next May
to revise the pact on industrial prop
erty signed at The Hague in 1925.
Recommendation has been made that
the treaty be amended to prohibit all
manner of acts of such nature as to
create confusion by any meals whatso-
ever with the business, products or
services of competitor" and AL man.
ner of acts, in the course CT trade. Of
such a nature as to cause injury to the
goodwill of anothers business; in PAL
ticular, false allegations of nature to
disparage a competitor, his goods or
his business"
The recommendation is one of num-
Der made by committee composed of
Thomas E. Robertson, former commits
sioner of patents. Edward S. Rogers
and Henry M Huxley.
The committee was appointed last
year by former President Hoover to
draft proposals for changes ii. the null
tilateral treaty.
President Roosevelt is expected 20
select delegates as soon as England is
sues invitations to the countries sigma
tory to The Hague treaty. Conway P.
Coe, commissioner of patents. prob
ably will be one of the delegates.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
CANDY SALES LARGE
AS YEAR END NEARS
Manufacturers Expect Christmas
Business to Lift Years Total
Above 1882 Level.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO. December 25.-The con-
fectlonery industry is depending on
heavy holiday sales to send its 1888
volume ahead of 1882.
Until December |, the candy business
had experienced alternately higher ana
lower sales months: compared with last
year although total sales from April to
October inclusive were 3.5 per cent
above the same period of 1882.
But current sales. as indicated by re-
ports to the National Confectioners'
Association, are responding 10 the i'm
proved tone of general business" and
leaders of the industry forecast favor
able wind-up for the year
Officials of the association contend
that candy prices, while slightly higher
than the level Of six months or a year
ago, have not risen in proportion TO
increased operating costs and prices OF
raw materials.
The holiday trade likewise will go far
toward determining the Nations per
capita candy consumption for the year,
but the figure is expected to be at least
as high as last year's-11.S1 pounds.
only a slight decline from the high OF
1898 reach in 1929.
Employment and pay rolls in the IN
dustrv have displayed decided rise
this Fall-attaining a point where en-
ployment was rated close to 95 per cent
Of average figures for 1926, considered
a normal year"
Evening star., 1933-12-25
FOUR POSTS OPEN
|NFORE|GN SERVICE
President Expected to Name
Ministers to Two Coun-
tries Soon.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The United States has only four
vacancies in the American foreign
service and at least two of them are
expected to be filled about the time
the new year rolls around
Until President Roosevelt nominates
Ministers to fill the vacant posts the
United States is not represented with
Ministers to the Netherlands, Czecho-
slovakia, Ell Salvador and Liberia.
State Department sources expect him
to fill the vacancy at The Hague,
caused by the resignation Of Laurits S.
SwenSon of Minnesota within a few
days. 1t is understood that the name
of New York attorney-not yet fur
ther identified for publication-has
already been sent to The Hague for
approval by the Netherlands govern
ment. Hallett johnson of New Jersey
Is charge daffaireS at The Hague
pending the appointment.
The President has not yet decided
on the appointment of a Minister to
Czechoslovakia, a post vacated by the
resignation of Francis White of Mary
land. White resigned because Of the
and because of the physical condition
Of the legation at Prague.
The legation, White reported, was
unfit to live in and too expensive to
keep up. j. Webb Benton of Penn
sylvania is charge d'af1aires pending
an appointment.
Selection of a Minister to Ell Salvador
will be withheld until the United States
recognizes that Central American re-
public and meanwhile George M.
Graves Of Vermont is acting as charge
d'affaires.
A Minister to Liberia, the Negro re-
public in Africa. will not be chosen
until some settlement Of Liberals in
ternal affairs has been made. A plan
for the rehabilitation of Liberian
finances has been approved by the
League of Nations and now awaits ap-
proval by the Liberian Congress. Nc
Ceney Werlich of the District Of Co.
lumbia is charge d'affaires at Mon
roVia.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
BUSINESS TRENDS
DECLARED MIXED
Textile Operations SIacken
as Steel Mills Avoid
Seasonal Lull.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, December 25-In its
current summary and Interpretation OF
the news of the week important to
business, Business Week says:
Just as the days grew shorter and
then longer in this single week, so are
the business weather signs mixed as
usual at this season of the year. The
year -end slackening in textile opera
tions is here and the mills are meth
odically curtailing their output under
code rules. The steel mills, by con-
traSt, grow buster, defying the seasonal
trend. Rail business for Spring rolling
is accumulating rapidly. The industry
carefully watches Weirton's struggle
with the Labor Board which may have
fateful consequences. Detroit is fever
lShly getting ready for the Big Show
and proudly unveiling new models.
November reports just becoming cur
rent show down turn in two major
ndices-employment and wholesale
prices. December prices recede still
further. But freight movement holds
up better than ordinarily expected at this
season. Holiday retail trade was graft
flying. Life insurance sales gained
about an inch over the same period
Of last year. Farm crops are AZ per
cent more valuable than 1925, and
those who sell goods to farmers feel
the difference. Europe develops busi-
ness cheerfulness almost everywhere,
with employment and retail trade ad-
vancing in step.
N. r. A. looks back on six months
work and finds it good, on the whole.
The Presidents unemployment agree
ment is extended until May l. Mean
while the gold-buying program con-
tinues slowly and deliberately.
Business Weeks weekly index Of busi-
ness conditions shows a preliminary
reading of 624 for the week ended
December Is against a revised reading
OF 62.3 for the previous week and SIT
a year ago.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
WEST TO BENEFIT
FROM SILVER PLAN
Utah and Idaho Produce
More Than Half of Na-
tion's Output.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The immediate tangible benefits Of
resented by the increased price for the
metal will be felt entirely by the West
ern reaches of the United States.
Production statistics of the Com
merce Department reveal that only IL
States Of the Union, exclusive OF Alaska
and the Philippine Islands, participate
of silver, and of these, two States
Utah and Idaho-produce more than
one-half the annual yield.
In 1882 a total of 23,981 900 fine
ounces Of silver was produced in Conti-
mental United States, Alaska and the
Philippines. OF this, Utah produced
7680,O00 fine ounces and Idaho $751;
900 Next in line were Montana. p
Nevada, 1906, 900; Colorado, 1868, 900.
In the table that follows, the produc-
ton for last year is given for other
States, as reported by the department:
caiSfornia ......... 509'0o9 600
.alCniRan ...s'....s.s..s ld'OuV
New Mexico ................. l'lOs'uuU
sostb Sstb6h Dakota aa'................ 1oss400o"
I,et, uthdS .-..--..... J'u00oo
Philippine islands $4,000
All other ................ 81 900
The belief appeared to be general,
among Washington administration fol-
lowers, at least, that ratification of
the international silver agreement would
exert a considerable effect on aiding
trade recovery throughout the world.
Many Representatives saw in the fan
of silver prices a leading cause of the
world depression, and have argued that
the most practicable way of curing the
depression was to bring about rise in
silver prices by restoring the metal to
a more important place in the monetary
systems of the world.
In support Of this argument, refer
ence was usually made to the magni-
tude of the silver-using populations.
which. counting China and India, in
cluded something like half the popula-
ton Of the world.
BY permitting silver to undergo a
great shrinkage, which touched low
level of 24H cents an ounce in 1882,
there has been caused, these men said,
corresponding decline In the buying
power of these large populations.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
INVITED To BACK
HOMESTEAD PLAN
Industries Asked to Create
Jobs Under DecentraI-
ization Project.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Industrial establishments were invited
yesterday by NJ. L. Wilson, director of
subsistence homesteads. to establish
units for the employment of occupants
OF the subsistence projects.
: "We are anxious to work In co
operation with established industry in
this program" Wilson said. I'VE desire
to get in touch With industries which
would like to establish a unit or branch
where occupants Of homesteads could
be employed.
The occupants are to produce much
OF the food for their own use. Some
of them can provide a large part Of
their income in this way. But in no
case is it desirable that the occupant
be cut of from the opportunity Of
obtaining cash income, or of becom-
ing person apart from our economic
system. They should be in a position
to contribute to the Nations purchasing
power"
Explaining that s25,0O0,OOO had been
set aside ito provide for aiding the re-
distribution of the over-balance of pop
ulation in industrial centers," Wilson
said projects for subsistence homesteads
had been submitted which would re-
quire the expenditure of more than
$4,000, 100000. Approval of approxi-
mately 80 projects is expected within
the next month.
Many industrialists. our most astute
planners, and an increasing majority
of the Nations most careful thinkers"
Wilson said, regard decentralization of
our industries. up to limited extent as
desirable and as means of providing
cushion in future periods of low
business activity.
'It has been found that The WORKER
hvlng in congested center has been
wholly dependent on his employment
and that unemployment, resulting from
depression influences. has left many
Of them on the complete mercy of pri-
vate and public charity.
This has become not only expensive
from the standpoint of the taxpayer
and the private donor to charitable
enterprises. but 1t has grave social con-
sequences; it has tended to reduce self
reliance and self-respect among indi-
viduals; it has weakened family life
and individual initiative.
Certainly 1t has had an unwhole-
some influence in cutting the standard
Of American living and in reducing pur-
chasing power
Evening star., 1933-12-25
REPEALIST ON RUM BOARD
John A. Hughes Named Ohio
LIQUOR Control Director.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, December Is H1.
The man who led the repeal forces
in the drive to eliminate prohibition
from Ohio yesterday won from Gov
George White an appointment as State
liquor control director.
Col. John A. Hughes of Cleveland,
chairman of the Ohio Repeal Council,
vas the choice for director as the Gov
ernor completed the liquor control per-
sonnel by naming lockwood Thompson.
aEo of Cleveland, as the fourth member
Of the commission.
He already had designated Yelling
ton P Leonard of Mansfield, George
O'Brien of Alliance and Edward T.
Dixon of Cincinnati as the other COM
miSsioners.
Hughes, Thompson and Dixon are
Democrats. Leonard and O'Brien are
Republicans
Evening star., 1933-12-25
TRADE ON UPGRADE
IN new ENGLAND
Total Business of 1888 Estimated
at 10 to IL Per Cent Ahead
of Previous Year.

BY the Associated Press
BOSTON, December 25.-Business in
New England in the year now nearing
close was 10 to II per cent higher
than at the end of 1882, w. L. Carter,
chairman of the Industrial Committee
of the New England Council. reported
Saturday, and added, Il am reasonably
optimistic regarding the future OF New
England industry"
Carter, who is president OF the
Nashua On. H) Gummed & Coated
Paper Co., found in a year-end survey
that industry in the six Northeastern
States had been somewhat more active
than industry outside this area. Pro-
duction has been relatively higher and
employment somewhat steadier."
Evening star., 1933-12-25
CREDIT SOCIETIES
NEARLY DOUBLED
Reporting Cooperative Groups
Showed Combined Membership Of
301,1 at End of 1882.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. y
The Bureau of Labor Statistics re-
ports the cooperative credit societies
in the United States in 1892 had In
creased to nearly twice the number III
operation in 1929.
The reporting societies had a COM
bined membership of 301,l19 at the
end Of 1882, an increase of IA per cent
over 1929. Share capital aggregated
nearly $22,000,000, and the combined
assets of the societies in % States
amounted to more than S31, 100000.
Nearly l6,5O0,OOO of loans were granted
to members during the year. while over
$500 900 was returned in dividends by
societies which reported on these
points.
Recently the A. A. A. reported these
societies had been increasing at the
rate of so a week.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
YOUNGSTOWN STEEL
PLANTS ARE RUSHED
Production This Week to Be About
40 Per Cent-Finishing Mills
Even More Active.
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio. December 25
With steel production for the five
working days of this week at about
40 per cent of capacity and with fin
ishing mills working at an even higher
rate, 1888 will close in the youngstown
district with mills more active than at
the close of the banner year of 1929.
Virtually all steel to be made next
week must be loaded on cars before the
clock strikes midnight at the close of
this year, a week from Sunday. The
steel code prescribes that fourth quar-
ter contracts must be billed before the
year ends.
A lull in the first two weeks of the
new year Is expected here, but steel
men believe that by the end of Janu-
ary the mills will be in swing again.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
WOMAN, YOUNG, PRETTY,
ENDS LIFE UNDER TRAIN
Witness Says Unidentified Victim
Dashed From Woods and Flung
Self on Tracks.
" the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. December 25.-An un-
identified woman, young and pretty,
who apparently sought a sudden death,
was killed yesterday near suburban
Willoughby when she ran onto rail-
road track in front of a speeding New
York Central passenger train.
Police said a witness told them the
woman entered q nearby woods when
freight train passed, then rushed out
again and onto the tracks as the pas
senger train approached. No motive
for her act was known.
j. H. Greer Of Delhi, Ontario. told
police the woman arrived at the out
skirts of Willoughby about 3 am. yes
terday on a bus in which he also was
passenger. He said she gave little
information about herself except to
mention she lived in Detroit and was
going to Erie, Pa. for the holidays.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
FOUR KILLED AS AUTO g.
PLUNGES FROM DOCK

BY the Associated Press.
POINT PLEASANT, N. j., December
Io.-Four members Of merry party Of
five drowned yesterday when their auto
mobile plunged of a dock into the
Manasquan River.
Streaser of West Point Pleasant, and
Joseph Dowling, Mrs. Margaret Ward
and Louis Nicholson of Belmar.
William Ward, husband of Mrs. Ward,
was taken from the river by a rescue
squad and rushed to the Point Pleas
ant Hospital. suffering from shock and
exposure.
Death came to tie occupants OF the
car IN ~ feet Of water.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
AGREEMENT BACKED
BY PEANUT MILLERS
Virginia and North Carolina Group
Vote to Sign if Code Is Ap.
proved by President.
BY the Associated Press.

III5 hsSUCIdCpu ETtSS.
NORFOLK. Va. December 25.-Pea-
nut millers Of Virginia and North Caro-
lima, in session at Suffolk, have agreed
to sign the marketing agreement pro-
posed by the Secretary Of Agriculture,
providing the peanut code now before
the N. r. A. is signed by President
Roosevelt.
The meeting yesterday was attended
by Is members of the peanut industry
from the Virginia Carolina area.
.. The Southeastern millers approved
the agreement at a meeting held in
columbus. Ga last Friday
The agreement calls for a minimum
price of $50 per ten for farmers stock
In the Virginia area. Spanish peanut
stock is set at $65 a ton, while the
runners stock Is priced at SIS a ton.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
SANTA SPEEDS ARREST
Alleged Racketeer Surrenders to
Avoid Yule Arrest.

CHICAGO, December IS R.-The
Christmas spirit even reached out and
touched John (West Side Jack) Barry,
ex-convict and reputed labor rack
eteer.
He surrendered and gave bond on .
charge Of vagrancy.
Its Christmas" he explained, "and
I don't want. to be interrupted about
tie time I am eating my dinner Mon
day"
Evening star., 1933-12-25
CHINESE MARKETS HELD.

NEW YORK, December 25 (P.-
United States exports to China continue
to hold up around 20 per cent of the
total, the Bank of America. California,
says in its weekly review. Exports to
ali the lands bordering the Pacific
Ocean amounted to $237 7,8l4,223 In the
first 10 months of this year.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
QUEBEC APPROVES CONTRACT.

NEW YORK, December IS Up
Quebec Power Co. has signed a new
contract with the city of Quebec for
supplying electricity for street lighting
for the next 10 years. Approval of the
contract by the city was believed to
have definitely put to rest rumors that
the city was planning to establish its
ewn plant. --.--.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
FACTORS WEIGHED
IN TRADE OUTLOOK
Standard Statistics Co. Publishes
List of Favorable and Un-
favorable Trends.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK. December 25-A bal
ance sheet of favorable and unfavor-
able factors in the current financial
and business situation has been pub
lished by the Standard Statistics Co.
Of New York, as follows:
Steel production continues contra
seasonal rise. Scrap steel extends price
advance. Retail trade responds sharply
to holiday demand. Automobile pro-
duction rises and sales are well sus-
tanned. Excess reserves of New York
banks increase. Meat packing COM
panies report higher earnings. Divi-
dend increases continue. December in
dustrial production estimated above
November. on adjusted seasonal basis.
Reinvestment demand expected after
first Of year Deposit guarantee be-
comes effective January l. Excitement
over currency debasement subsidies.
Monetary uncertainties persist. Con-
gress will soon convene. Treasury
deficit increases. H gher taxes are in
dicated. Market action is indecisive.
Coal production is down. Commodity
prices are mixed.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
JUDGES FATHER DIES
James Lynn, Civil War Veteran,
H. Succumbs in Delaware.

WILMINGTON, Del, December IS
dRg.-James Lynn. 89-year-old Civil War
veteran and former city councilman.
died Saturday night at the home where
he had resided for 6l.yearS. He was
the father of Municipal Court Judge
John F. Lynn. After the Civil War he
entered the employ of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co. as foreman of stone
mas0nS, retiring after 46 years service,
Evening star., 1933-12-25
RAILR0ADER DIES At 101:
Retired Employe Drove Engines
During Civil War. =.

FORT WAYNE. Ind. December IS
N'.-kirby jackson, 101, said by rela-
tives to be the oldest retired employe
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad, died here
yesterday after a long illness.
Jackson was born March 8, 1892. at
New Brighton, Pa, and entered the en-
ploy OF the Pennsylvania in 1858. Dur
ing the Civil War he was an engineer
OF Wood-burning trains which hauled
soldiers to camps.
All officials of the railroad company
took part in Jackson's Tooth birthday
celebration.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
DUPLAN PROFITS GAIN.

NEW YORK, December Is R.-
Net profit of Duplan Silk Corporation
for six months ended November 80
amounted to S475,834, contrasted with
$277,228 In the same period in 1882.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
S. P. NET CLIMBS.

NEW YORK, December 25 (P.-
Net operating income of the Southern
Pacific Railroad for the month of Mo-
venber totaled S1.4182o8, an increase
Of s969,329 over the same month last
year.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
RAIL NET DECREASES.
NEW YOPl

NEW YORK, December 25 LPt
November net operating income of the
ST. Louis-San Francisco Railroad total
ed s641SO, against S281 ,202 year ago.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
Quicksilver dealers report . more

active Interest IN the market with sales
ranging from $66.5o to so a flask,
as compared with last weeks low of SOS
Lead-Demand broadened near the
close of the week, giving producers all
opportunity Of disposing of a fair pro-
portion of the weeks production.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
Wales Picture on Stamp.

,Australia's new paper money bearg a
q watermark portrait of the Prince Of
Wales facing the King.