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Evening star., 1938-03-02
Washington Produce

BUTTER-ao score. 1-pound prints. IA;
| tub, 33: i.-pound prints. 35; 80 score,
p1In1,l D1pT.na d prints 49, tub 81; ''-pound
lambs eaH''f vsaf 0se1 seRs fftsfs faesh pork
Is: pork loin;: 30 fresh ham q; large
piece bacon. 20: compound. 1919; lard. Ii
s1as snm Iieht pigs nord5 5osnH sas me
stays. 81. down; calves. l1'aal2A.
T., Prices paid shippers; net fob; Wash,
Agricultural Economics:
EGGs-Market barely steady. Heavy
sses eggs = cent lower, ,,, G;9yernnment Graded
hna 'asfa M S ex1rss Whsss @edams shras
U. 8. standards, large. 10; U. S. standards.
mediums mediums L. Nearby unsraded eggs:
to In.
LIVE PoULTRY-Market firm at un-
CHANGED prices: Fowl: colored. heavy;
to s; roosiers. II 10 TO is. S chictens: sHAS vir-
sinia Rocks, 1s to 20; few Weighing 4
POUNDS ana % over M Delawsre Rocks and
ga and ase: IS to sins GsDGns and
| underslzes, ~ to 23.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Sales in large lots by original receivers
to am:
FLoR1DA--16 lugs avocados. 6 bushel
baskets parsley, II bushe! baskets squash,
bushel baskets beans.
CALIFORNIA; 2O-pound crates
mixed citrus fruit.
MICH1GAN-4 bushel boxes mint, 20
55-pound cartons rhubarb.
UNKNOWN ORIGINS crates mixed
'efissPsssiYi efPiEssasYLvAN1A-7s s-pound baskets
NORTH CARDINALS bushel baskets
s'1sf WEsF sFeeahR eVaIhRRo1N1A-e busnel boxes wa
VIRGINIA. barrels watercress.
APPLES-One OREGON arrived; two
unbroken cars on track. Bushel baskets,
erae Sn @arkst s1eady Marssnd Frnn
staymans; 2A-ineh minimum; 5o-GO; %ha- ~.
75-s5;. Yorks 2A-inch minimum. 40:
imum 65-75;, Black Twiss. 2H.ineh min
inch minimum. 65-75;. Delicious. 2A-inch
100; Golden Delicious. 2N-inch minimum,
~ s&-inch mnimam. %m"a@ 20; sssineh sRgn; mini:
mum. 50-65; 2s4-inch minimum 1913:
winmam 2nsh mosiIy annnna @ ?2 snsh
minimum, 1901 .oo Baidwins sN-insh
minimum. 1920. 21a-inch minimum. 60
s9ouns sD,s %n'%S% %S:s!s %S:s!s
around 70; Grimes. all Sizes 5000. Boxes
and cartons: Pennsylvania and Virginia,
| combination extra fancy and fancy: De-
| licious. 113s-150s 1.25-1.5 sOs-1O0s.
| 1.5O-1T5; Staymans. 113s-150s. 1.15-
1.25; sOs-1O0s, I.35-1 so; Golden Delici-
| GUS 113s-150s, 1.15-1 .25: SOs-100s. l.50-
1.15; Romes. fancy, 113s-150s. 1.10-1.1 3;
| 72s-SSs .35-1. so; Delicious, c grade.
1.00-1 10. as to size.
BROCCOLI-No carlot arrivals: one
mand light; market steady. Crates: Texas.
| fair condition. $50: California. 3.16-3.H5.
CABBAGE-Market dull. One Florida
| arrived; two broken and one unbroken
| cars on track. Florida, 1h-bushel hampers
Domestic Round type, 90-1 90: New York,
| 50-pound sacks, Danish type, 1.40-1 so.
CELERY-Market steady; no carlot ar
| rivals; three broken and two unbroken
| cars on track: relief one Florida arrived;
| one broken car on track. Florida, Florida
standard crates: individually washed, 3-S
! dozen, 2.25-2.50
LETTUcEs-Market steady Two Ari Ari.
zona, two California arrived: six broken
and five unbroken cars on track; Cali
dozen. aSS"s rs; mostly ESQ., SO; 60 fair
condition, 2.25.
ON1oNs-Market dull. One New York
| arrived; one broken and four unbroken
No. i: Michigan. Mtnnesots, New York
and Ohio, ysliovs, 1.3o-1.]o; few 1.5o;
Evening star., 1938-03-02

tendent of agencies, vice president
and a director He is also a trustee
of the Worcester Savings Bank and
connected with several clubs in his
home city.
He was recently elected to the
Executive Committee of the Life In
surance Sales Research Bureau at
Hartford, a high honor.
Vass to Address Bankers.
George o. Vass, vice president and
cashier of the Riggs National Bank,
will be one of the speakers at the
annual Spring Savings Conference,
sponsored by the American Bankers
Association, at the Roosevelt Hotel,
New York, tomorrow and Friday. His
subject will be Meeting the Problem
of Customer Relations"
The Riggs Nationa Bank has con-
Quoted an active campaign in Gus
toner relations for the past two years
and has accomplished some very in
teresting results. 1t is quite likely
Mr.. Vass will devote many OF his
remarks to what has been done in
his own bank. In fact, the Program
Committee made such request.
Market Committee Reorganized.
The Open Market Committee of the
Federal Reserve System was reor-
ganized yesterday with three new
members.
G. j. Schaller, president Of Chicago
Reserve Bank, replaces w. M. Martin,
president of st. Louis Reserve Bank.
j. N. Peyton, president of the Min
neapolis bank, replaces W. A. Day.
president of the San Francisco bank.
Oscar Newton, president of the At
lanta bank, replaces B. A. Mckinney,
president of the Dallas bank.
j. S. Sinclair, Philadelphia, and
George L. Harrison, New York, remain
on the committee of which Mariner
s. Eccles is chairman.
Maloney Bill Progressing.
The last obstacle to passage of the
Maloney over-the-counter bill ap-
peared removed yesterday when the
Senate Committee on Banking and
Currence joined in tentative ac-
ceptance of an amendment proposed
by Senator Bankhead eXempting mu-
nicipal dealers from all. provisions of
the measure except those relating to
manipulative and fictitious quotations.
The Special Committee of Invest
ment Bankers Conference, Inc, has
urged that the bill be favorably re-
ported, as has Francis E. rockingham,
president of the Investment Bankers
Association.
Three Speakers Announced.
Three special speakers on timely
topics will take part in Ghe first forum
meeting ever held by the District Life
Underwriters Association, set for next
Tuesday at 4 p.m,, at the Willard
Hotel. They will be Joseph A. Mari,
general agent, Penn Mutual, on "Busi-
ness Insurance; Walter ]. O'Connor,
professor of economics at Georgetown
University, on Recent Trends in Eco
nomics," and Harald D. Kraft, gen.
erai agent, Provident Mutual, on
Prestige, How to Acquire It." The
new type of program was arranged by
James A. De Force and John E.
O'Brien.
Capital Transit Stock Steady.
Capital Transit stock sold at 81 on
the Washington Stock Exchange to-
day, unchanged from the last previous
sale. The market closed with 8A bid
and 81 asked. Mergenthaler Limo
type, which figured in a 100-share sale
yesterday, failed to appear on the
board today, closing with 2012 bid
and "a asked. Other quotations were
unchanged.
Evening star., 1938-03-02
INTEREST SHOWN
IN HOME LOANS
Response to Banks Drive
for improvements and
Repairs Hailed.
3y EDWARD C. STONE.


Washington bankers reported today
that there is very decided interest
among residents of the Capital in OBJ
tanning loans for home Improvements
and other repairs under Title of the
Amended National Housing Act Of
1888. On Monday the banks in the
city launched a newspaper advertising
campaign to inform the public that
such loans are available in any number
desired, provided they are considered
sound by bank officials.
President Thomas J. Groom of the
District Bankers Association said yes
terday that the response SO far had
been highly gratifying. While the
banks have been making a certain
number of loans for renovatlng pur-
poses for long time, the demand has
been much accelerated since the spe-
cial drive got under way this week.
Mr.. Groom believes the success of this
new improvement move is already as
sured
Nineteen Washington banks are TAX
ing part in the special home improve
ments loan campaign. These banks
announce that the revised and greatly
simplified Title enables individuals
or business men of acceptable charac-
ter to borrow sums ranging up to
$4,000.
Any person who owns his own home,
his business property, or has lease
which runs six months longer than
the term of the loan, should be able to
get modernization loan without de-
lay, bankers state. After the loan is
approved the money is paid to the
borrower or to the contractor if so
requested. The loans are repaid in
regular installments.
A survey shows that these modern
ization funds are being used for ex-
tensive repairs, for new floors, new
roofing, building additions to houses,
adding porches and extra rooms. new
bathrooms. for new heating plants,
undermining of kitchens or of entire
homes, construction of recreation
rooms, or the landscaping of grounds
The arrival of spring makes all
classes of construction work easier
end cheaper to carry out 1t is now
predicted in banking and real estate
circles that large amount of this
type of construction work will get un-
der way at once. Not building
boom" but a lively spring revival is
anticipated.
Insurance Leader Here.
Vice President Stephen Ireland of
the State Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
Worcester, Mass, is in Washington
today attending a conference at the
Wilmer and Wilmer agency of the
Evening star., 1938-03-02
CHICAGO WHEAT
By the Associate Press.

bS IIIt hsSOcIHttd PreSS.
CHICAGO, March 2.-Despite dust
storm reports at some Kansas points,
wheat values ranged moderately lower
late today, upturns having failed to
hold
A handicap to friends Of higher
prices was that export purchases Of
United States wheat today were prin-
cipally for Mexico, not Europe. Vladi-
vostok continued to buy wheat, but
dealt exclusively with Australia.
At the close Chicago wheat futures
were ss-s4 under yesterdays finish,
May, 93is-4; July, 88is-H: corn un-
changed to "A higher, May. 592s July,
COS. "a, and oats unchanged to "a of.
Evening star., 1938-03-02
Baltimore Prices.

BALTIMORE, March 2 (P.-Wheat
NO. red winter, garlicky. spot, do
mestic, 98&; March, 9sa.
Evening star., 1938-03-02

company. some
time ago he made
a promise that
when the agency
here exceeded the
$1,000,000 m a r k
In new insurance,
he would reward
the staff with a
dinner. That goal
was reached in
1887.
Mr.. Ireland has
been with the
same company
since he was 19
years Of age. He
;c nouv s1lneriT1-
Evening star., 1938-03-02
NEW CAR FINANCING
SAGS BELOW 1887 MARK
BY the Associated Press. .

BY the ASSociated Press.
The Commerce Department says the
dollar volume of retail financing of
new passenger automobiles was 48
per cent smaller in January than in
the same month last year and "a per
cent smaller than in December.
Evening star., 1938-03-02
NEW HIGH REACHED
FOR FEDERAL DEBT.
$37,632,733,792 Owed by
u. S., Which Is Three Billion
Above Year Ago.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
The Federal debt rose to a new rec
ord of ss7,S32, 1884, 1872 on February
%, the daily Treasury statement
showed today.
The debt increased 81, ,2O8, 100 ,060 in
the first eight months of the fiscal
year and is now $4,000, 900 900 higher
than it was year ago.
On February 28 the deficit was
$l.053, .485. compared with s2,-
046,0l5,287 on the same date a year
ago. Including the s250,O0O, 900 new
relief appropriation just voted by
Congress, the deficit is expected to
reach s1,544,345,300 by June 80, the
end Of the fiscal year.
Receipts in the first eight months of
the year totaled $3,86e,284,765, COM
pared with s2.7l6, ,7O9,242 in the cor
responding period of the previous
year.
Evening star., 1938-03-02

Cash Market.
Cash wheat No. hard, 97k; No. 4
mixed, 30; corn No. mixed, 81; No. 2
yellow, 581z-59; No. 3 white. 67%;
oats, No. 1 mixed, 1914; No. white,
34-34l2; No. 2, 3312-34.
Soy beans, No. 2 yellow, 1.02a; bar
ley sales, TO- feed, 1858, nominal:
mailing, 81, nominal; timothy seed,
290-3.OO; red clover, 32.00-3700; sweet
clover, l0.00-50.
Evening star., 1938-03-02
New Orleans Cotton.

NEW ORLEANS March > lP,-The cot
ton market opened lower here today in an
adjustment Of prices with New York after
Yesterdays local Mardi Gras holiday but
prices rallied in later trading
Ine opening was net 10 points lower
put In the early afternoon active options
$50; July, 93a. October, Q47: Decemb.r'
"a and January at 9.35, or . points up
Exports today were 1S,12a bales
Evening star., 1938-03-02
REAL ESTATE LOANS
GAIN DURING WEEK
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Federal Reserve Board reports
q S2,00G,000 increase in real estate
loans in banks Of 10l leading cities for
the week February %. the hrst In
crease sincs January IL.
Evening star., 1938-03-02

Plymouth Oil Co.-Consolidated net
income of company and subsidiary,
Big Lake Oil Co., for January. 1888,
amount to % cents . share, against
10 cents In January, 1887.
Evening star., 1938-03-02
Treasury Position.

The position Of the Treasury on Feb.
ruary %: Receipts. S25,213 623.40: ex.
penditures. S24,896. .65O.5S: balance So.
974,67 .36O.32: customs receipts for the
month. $24.2O3,2SI.2I.
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July
~. S3. S60.2 2S4 165. .04; expenditures S4,-
913.4S3.25O. including x1.33S, 29O,-
551,29 Of emersency expenditures: excess
of expenditures. ST. O53.19S.4S5.34: gross
debt. S37 .832. 133.192 SO. an increase OF
S1.565. 751 AZ above the previous day; gold
assets Sl2.77 064 414 OF.
Receipts for February g. 1897 Com
expenditures, SIs,935. .54O.72; net balance.
$1.53s. .592, 1924: Customs receipts for
the fiscal year. S2.716. .1Oa.242.S6. Ex-
penditures. 81. .162. 2.724.53 including
81 7,19S.03 81 of emergency expendi-
lures: excess Of expenditures. 81. .046. .O15,-
247.4S: gross debt S34. 500. .7SO,711.15:
gold assets. S11 ,435, 1873, 66S.96.
Evening star., 1938-03-02
new YORK COTTON
B. the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, March (P)-Cotton
rallied today on trade and scattered
buying. which revealed shortage of
contracts.
Shorts covered on a rally of May
from 9.O7 to 9.27, but that month then
reacted to 9.l9. leaving quotations 8
to 10 points net higher by midafter-
noon.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Compulsory Benefaction.

The Washington taxpayer may ward
on the Nightmares of leaping tax rates
and hideous new revenue measures by the
SELF satisfying thought that he is a bene-
factor OF education-if that is any con-
ISOLATION for more than $250,000 of his
money spent in educating the children
Of residents OF other States in the Dis
trict schools last year.
No less than 2246 nonresident chill
dren received their schooling in WASH
ington public schools last year and only
about forty of these paid their expenses.
The rest were ION the District" through
the circumstance of a ruling which
allows them free tuition if their parents
are employed in Washington. 1t makes
no difference that these parents pay
taxes in other States instead of here.
According to the finance Office of the
District schools, the District would have
taken in $323,5l3.s4 If every one of these
children had paid the cost of their edu-
cation during the past year.
1hs presence Of these children in the
Washington schools is but another
evidence Of the national character OF
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Wants to Know Roosevelt's
Definition of Liberal.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
THE President now announces that he
would agree to give his support to
liberal Republican in an election contest
in which such a candidate was opposed
by conservative Democrat Does he
mean that he would support Republican
OF the fright sort" in Maryland should
Mr.. Tydings be renominated? If so,
just what is Mr.. Roosevelt's definition
of "liberal?" We know that Cotton
Ed Smith, George. Tydings and O'Con-
nor are Tories and conservatives
Judging on the basis of the men whom
he has supported as liberals in this years
primaries, one is driven to the conclu-
sion that a liberal Republican would
have to be one willing to subscribe to an
oath OF fealty and personal allegiance to
Roosevelt, making it clear that When
ever his personal views or his conscience
or his constitutional oath diseg egreed with
Roosevelts dictates of the moment, he
would be willing-freely and readily-to
set aside all scruples and carry out his
orders as the bounden duty OF faithful
henchman and serf who must cheerfully
bow to the will of his Leader, guide and
chieftain, governor, director, master and
steersman." (See definition of der
Fuehrer" in Fluegel-Schmidt-T -Tanger.
German English dictionary, published by
George Westermann, Brunswick, Ger
many, 1866
w. CAMPBELL ARMSTRONG.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Fires of Greed.

From the Long Beach (calif) Press-Telesram.
Smoking fax" of racial and interna-
tional hatreds continues to burn OBJ
scuring the skies OF Asia and Europe,
and causing all kinds Of rumors to agi-
tate the public mind.
Japan and Russia sign a truce at
Changkufeng, giving hope for peace in
one quarter. Then, within 48 hours,
these things happen:
Japan makes an especially vicious air.
plane attack on the Hankow area.
London and Paris hear that Hitler is
mobil1zlng more than a million reserves,
supposedly for an invasion of Czecho-
siovakia, or for some other form of mis-
chief
Italy and France come near an open
break over the matter of passports for
Italians desiring to visit France. The
real issue is Spain; and the ill-feeling
has been intensified since the Hitler
visit to Rome.
Reputable commentators on Oriental
Affairs look upon a clash between the
Japanese and the Soviets as inevitable
because of sharply opposed interests of
economic and political nature. Japan
wants to delay the fateful day until its
Chinese adventure is in better shape.
Meanwhile, the world prays for the
best while preparing for the worst
One fine day the winds of reason will
clear away the smoke of war and rumors
of it.
Evening star., 1938-09-09

who have defled both owners and police,
1t IS difncult to understand the motives
OF the youthful offenders. What fun Is
there, it may be wondered, In throwing
rocks through newly glazed windows,
smashing newly installed lighting fixtures
and plumbing. setting fires In unfinished
rooms, tearing up newly planted shrub-
berry? The children are not 30 "un-
derprivileged" Is really TO need such
employment for their energies. When
caught redhanded in their mischief. thew
can offer no sensible explanation for
their depredations. Indeed, their atti.
tude Is one Of stubborn defiance. They
appear to resent being halted In their
delinquency. Even when arrested, they
are truculent. Their parents they know.
will come to their rescue. And, the
moment they are free, they will score
of" their prosecutors" by renewing
their campaign Of destruction.
The problem. 1t seems, is insoluble.
Every contractor, however. indorses the
theory that fatherly application Of the
hairbrush to the offenders might help
toward correction Of the prevailing evil.
Meanwhile, pending . better solution.
new houses should be guarded day and
night by watchmen engaged for that
purpose by their builders,
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Maryland Declared Unwilling
To Yield Principles.

To the Editor OF The Star:
IN THEIR invasion of Maryland the
presidential burgers have overlooked
one element which foredooms their
plans to failure. What Tommy the
Cork" Drew Pearson, ct al do not,
doubtless cannot, comprehend is that
Marylanders have an intense pride in
the Free State" and its traditions. In
cidentally, nowhere Is this feeling
stronger than among the fine old
Colonial stock on the Eastern Shore
and in Southern Maryland.
Be he liberal or conservative, the,
Marylander is deeply and instinctively
attached to certain principles which
form part of the Free State" tradition.
Briefly, they are local self-government,
orderly governmental procedure and
tolerance. With this in mind, it should
be easy, even for brain truster, to fore
see the unfavorable reaction to Federal
interference in a purely State matter.
This is especially true when the at
tempted purge is conducted by nom
residents and is accompanied by threats
of reprisal and promises of reward.
These principles, fantastic though they
may seem to the New Dealers, are the
beacon lights that have guided Mary
landers for 300 years. We will not yield
them now. OLD LINER.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
No Mud Slinging?

Things have come to a pretty pass
when there is to be no mud singing In
local political campaign.
1t seems unbelievable that the heads
OF two warning Democratic factions In
nearby Montgomery County. where pol
itics is always taken seriously, have
agreed to bury the hatchet-or at least
the mud sling-for the remainder of the
primary campaign.
skeptics will watch developments
closely to see how well the agreement is
kept. They also will speculate on the
causes. 1t hardly seems possible that
the factions have run out OF mud Look
ing askance on the oficial explanation
that personalities are to be avoided to
insure success in the general elections
political cynics will be inclined to be-
lieve the mud singing is to stop because
Republicans are on the side lines, taking
careful notes. 1t might be embarrassing
in the general election campaign to hear
primary accusations repeated.
Some "reformers" may hail the Demo-
cratic pact, but the public will be dis
appointed. 1t will be reluctant to see
the zest 90 out Of the campaign. 1t will
have to turn to the past. to the days Of
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too," to the good
old undertaking days of Teddy Roose-
welt, or to the national campaign to
enjoy real political thrills.
Have the Montgomery leaders no re-
gard for their public? What, indeed, is
politics without personalities?
Evening star., 1938-09-09

wrong in getting loan on his house?
The law was for all citizens of the
United States who could qualify. Then
the other money to build a free road"
to his country estate at Darlington and
to build park and yacht basin in front
OF his home at Havre de Grace. This
to me reflects more against the ad-
ministration than Senator Tydings
Over and over from all parts of our
country we have heard of how w. P. A.
money has been wasted, and used to
buy votes.
Mr.. Lewis and his supporters will
have to acknowledge one of two things:
Either the w. P. A. which passes on
all projects before letting out the money,
utterly failed in its duty or it knowingly
granted the money expecting to buy
Senator Tydings' votes for the New
Deal. Which was it? Is not the whole
thing worse for the administration than
for Mr.. Tydings? Does it not sub
stantiate the reports current about the
w. P. A. spending of the taxpayers
money as we'll as reports along other
lines?
Representative Lewis needs to sift his
accusations more thoroughly. This one
intended to injure his political opponent
has really been more injurious to the
cause he espouses. A HOUSEWIFE.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Shooting Stars.
BY PHnANDER JoHNsoN.
Industry.

Industry.
There's always something doing
As this world keeps rolling round.
It's yearly course pursuing
Through the depths Of space profund.
Each man who seeks 1t reaches
A usefulness immense;
If you cannot make the speeches,
You can be the audience.
If you know no stories funny
You can laugh and still be gay;
If you're not the man With money,
You can work and earn your pay;
So feel no anxious nutter
AS the seasons come and 80,
There is either ice to cut, or
There's grass for you to NOV.