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Evening star., 1939-10-03
Lake Superior Iron
Ore Shipments Up
Sharply in Month
September Total Hits
Highest Mark Since
Autumn of 1881
BY the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. Oct. s.
Addition of many freighters to the
active fleets resulted in a jump in
shipments of Lake Superior iron ore
to 1855 .007 gross tons, railroad
weight, in September from 6,954. $50
tons the previous month. the Lake
Superior Iron Ore Association re-
ported today.
Shipments were the largest for
one month since the 9,173,9 ,99l tons of
September, 1887, and more than dou-
BILE the 3,284,8O0 tons of September
last year. This brings movement
for the season to October / to 30
360,774 tons, compared with 14,157,-
29O tons to the like date last year.
Current expectations are that the
full season will produce $4,000, 900
tons Of the red mineral with the
fleets operating as long as weather
permits to satisfy steel mill demand.
1t is estimated that lower Lake
stocks will amount to about 10000
600 tons when navigation closes
This would be sufficient. it is said
to carry over to the opening of the
1910 season.
Evening star., 1939-10-03
Treosury Issue
Delayed for at
Least q Week
By the Associated Press.

~ WIG AooOVAbt6o 6Le0S.
The Treasury, 1t was learned au-
thoritatively yesterday, has post
poned for "at least q week" its pro-
posed offering this week Of refund
ing securities to pay of $526, ,232 500
Of Treasury notes which will come
due December is.
The refunding was reported to
have been postponed because Of
fluctuations In the financial mar
kets occurring after ru,nors of peace
proposals and reflections among the
warning countries.
Oficials said that since they had
until December Is to undertake the
refunding, they did not want to do
it until the markets settled down q
little more.
Evening star., 1939-10-03
Chase National SetsT
New Records for g
Deposits, Assets
J. P. Morgan & Co. Gosh
More Than Doubled
In Three Months
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-Chase Ma
tional Bank, reporting its condition.
as Of September 30, today showed
total resources Of $3,o97 oil 900, q
record high, compared with $685.
435, 900 on June 30. .-
Deposits totaled $2,817 977 900, $50
record, against $2,696, ,486 900 on
June 80 and s2,376974,00O on Sep
tember 30, 1888. Holdings Of United
States Government securities were
$808 ,804 900, compared with $685.
045, 900 three months ago and $685.
918,000 year ago.
J. p. Morgan & Co.
j. P. Morgan & Co. more than
doubled the cash in its vaults dur
ing the three months ended last
Saturday-the fiscal period covering
the outbreak of war in Europe.
Cash on hand and on deposit In
banks totaled 5000, ,652 1886 September
30, compared with 3,759 1863 at the
end of June.
The big private bank during the
three months disposed of over $73,-
600, 900 of United States Government
securities, tightening its holdings of
Federal issues to $500, ,931 ,61S. Total
assets rose during the period to
S640 ,845 OPS, an increase of around
$29 500 900.
The foregoing figures include
Dexel & Co., Morgan's Philadelphia
affiliate.
National City Bank.
The National City Bank of New
York reported deposits of 81, 1877 $780,
100 on September 30 compared with
So 2,062 1923 1859 on June 30. Loans, dis
counts and bankers acceptances in.
creased to s506089,578 from $685..
144,878, while holdings of Federal
securities amounted to s656 ,SO4 293
against s626, ,450, ,839 at mid-year.
Indicated earnings for the Sep
tember quarter were 40 cents share
on the capital stock, exclusive OF
bond profits and recoveries on as
sets, which were added to reserves.
This compared with 80 cents in the
Ike 1889 perlOQ.
Guaranty Trust Co.
Deposits of the Guaranty Trust
Co. of New York in the third quar-
ter topped $4,000, 100000 for the first
time. The figure went to $2027, ,675,-
759 and 81 1893, ,O35.3O2 June 30.
Government securities totaled
S649 ,432,770, compared with $685.
527,767. Loans and bills amounted
to SAT- ,13l ,489 against S437 ,486,746.
Manufacturers Trust.
The Manufacturers Trust Co. re-
ported deposits on Sept. 80 totaled
S737 ,809 ,059 against S735, ,645,748 on
June 30. Government securities
amounted to s273, ,l98,269, compared
with s270,278,537.
Evening star., 1939-10-03
Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK. Oct 3 OP.-A moderate
Worth Street trade channels today. The
bulk changed hands only slightly below
the peak prices of last week.
Reports from finished goods market indi-
Gated brisk business continued at steady
prices
Some improvement was noted in de-
mand for overcoatines in the wooden goods
division. but trading on the whole has
slowed up due to the sharp advances in
raw and finished goods
Broader inquiry appeared in the rayon
market for spring weaves and box loom
fabrics. Silk continued sluggish.
Evening star., 1939-10-03
Boston Wool Market

BOSTON. Oct. 3 ZAP, Omitted States he.
partment Of Agriculture).-A moderate
volume Of business was being TRANSACTED
IN domestic woods on the Boston market
today. Several buyers were out Of the
market. but others were occasionally tax.
ing fair quantities Of wool While bid,
were mostly under the maximum price,
OF last week. most sales reported were
within last weeks ranges Of selling prices
Average to short French combing length
nne territory wools, in original bags. have
basis. Domestic woods OF three-eighths
and ouarter-blood grades were slow but
South American wools of comparable
grades were receiving fairly good demand
Evening star., 1939-10-03
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO. Oct. 3 dP.-Poultry, live, 4e
trucks: steady: hens. Az pounds UP, Is
Plymouth Rock springs. pounds UP. Az
other prices unchanged
Butter, 929,328; steady: creamery, 90
score, 26H: other prices unchanged
Eggs; 4,412: nrm: fresh graded extra
hrsts, local, 2OE; cars, 21H: firsts, local
1871: cars. II; refrigerator extras. 49,
standards, TN; frsts. 1871: other prices
unensnSea. eosatoes o.; on track 44e. to.., n q
shipments. $50: slightly weaker, supple,
heavy. demand fair; sacked, per cwt.. idaho
Russet Burbanks, s.. No. L.. washed
Bliss Triumphs, 90 per cent u. S. No. /
few sales. 1,4O-45; Colorado. Red NC.
Clures, U. 8. No; l. very few sales, washed
Red River Valley section. Cobblers, D. s.
No. l.. 100: Bliss Triumphs. u s. -. /
few sales: .25: s5 to 90 per cent u s. No
l, l.15-2O: Wisconsin. round whites, few
sales; y. 8; No; l. 1.1O-15: q. s. com.
Evening star., 1939-10-03
New York Produce

NEW YORK. Oct. 3 lPl.-ERes 13,434;
weak. Mxea coioIs Fancy to extra
seconds 17-is; mediums, 10: dirties. No.
l, 15ia-16; average checks 14a4-15 Re-
frigerator, fancy heavyweights. 1922 n;
standards. 1s1a f1rsts, Is; seconds. 16-
16ia; mediums ISM: dirtie& 15-15h
Whites: Resale of premium marks,
! 34h2-37; nearby and Midwestern premium
marks 31h-34; exchange specials, 81; ex-
change standards, 25-252. Resale OF
nearby heavier mediums. 221a-27 Nearby
and Midwestern. exchange mediums. 81 "
e; bullets. 16h-l1; peewees l4h-15.
standards. a4-24ls: frsts. 22-2aIa.
Browns: Nearby. extra fancy 2Sh "a
Nearby and Midwestern. exchange specials.
271a-2S: exchange standards, "a. Nearby,
mediums, 21; pullets, 10.
Duck eggs: Nearby. 25-26.
Butter. 9O5.7s6 weak. Creamery, higher
than extra 29A-3O; extra t92 score),
2ss4-2a: hrsts tss-9D. 24H-274; sec
onds (s4-sD: 22h-24.
changed.
Evening star., 1939-10-03
New York Sugar

in the domestic futures contract were
depressed today by Havana reports a
bill introduced in the Cuban House would
permit unlimited sugar production and
expectation.
Scattered offerings and pressure from
professionals sent prices down Z to
at 224 and May down at 2.2s
World futures declined with the do
mestlc list, losing 3 to 4 points. March
was quoted / .9S. or 3 lower.
In quiet raw sugar market, limited
offerings @ ot duty frees were held at $40.
with possible buyers around 365.
The amount of new business in re-
fined sugar. at the reduced price OF $50
cents was disappointing to the trade. Ex-
port inquiry was light.
Evening star., 1939-10-03
Foreign Markets

LONDON, Oct. Qo.-A note Of quiet
optimism ran through stock market oeal-
ings today while the city waited Prime
House of Commons. freer market de-
veloped in British government bonds,
nearly the entire group changing hands.
levels and oils held arm
PAR1S.-Price lines were firmly held in
the Bourse today, although deals were
proved resistant to what pressure that did
appear and international shares held up.
Rentes ended unclaimed to 80 centimes
AMSTERDAM.-Bours prices moved
lndecisively today as the market waited
more definite news on various continental
peace moves. Domestic issues on the
whole were slightly lower. while the inter
national group, OF to Q Shaky start, closed
at the days best levels
Evening star., 1939-10-03
WASHINGTON c. TUESDAY OCTOBER g. 1889
Portugal Authorizes
Carrier Equipment
Orders in U. 5.
$5,000,000 Purchases
Planned on Modified
Barter Busis
By the Associated Preas.


LISBON, Oct. 3.-Purchase OF
5000, 900 worth Of made in-America
railroad eQuipment-including loco
motives and stainless steel coaches
was authorized yesterday by the
government Of Portugal. The trans
action will be concluded on q
modified barter basis.
With $1,5o0,0o0 Of rail equipment
already on order, the government
issued q decree permitting private
and government-controlled roads to
use the national credit in new pur-
chaSeS.
The Portuguese action follows the
issuance, two months ago, of an
Export-Import Bank Of Washington
credit of $4,000, 900 to Portugal for
railroad purchases.
The decree follows several months
Of negotiations by Charles B. Nc
Daniel, jr. of Atlanta, Ca, now a
resident Of Paris.
Understanding Reached.
The railroad order is straight
away, with no strings tied to it
Portugals exchange position being
such that she can pay cash If need
be-but the understanding is that
Mcdaniel, with Washington's back
ing, will undertake to dispose Of
S., 900 900 worth of Portuguese goods
in the United States.
These goods will mostly be timber
coffee from the colonies, cork,
preserved fish, port wine and olive
oil from continental Portugal.
American businessmen here well
coined the transaction as long step
toward an increase in Portuguese
American trade. In recent years
the bulk of Portugal's trade has
gone to Germany and Great Britain.
With the former it has been to a
large extent on a virtual barter
basis.
Business authorities here asserted
the present transaction is the first
in which United States business in
terests have Successfully challenged
German traders on their own trade
ground with their own weapon-a
mutually profitable bilateral trade
arrangement. This, Of course, ex-
cepts the rubber-cotton trade with
Great Britain.
Reich Prices Lower.
In connection with the rail equip
ment sale, it was divulged that the
German prices on some items of the
needed equipment were as much as
40 per cent below the American lists.
The business goes to the United
States for two reasons-the stand
ard of the American goods and the
European war.
The first railway order is for
stainless steel passenger coaches. A
sizable purchase of locomotives is
expected to follow with the possibil-
ity that rails and switches also will
be bought.
Informed sources said the $5,000,-
600 figure was by no means the up
per limit Of the purchasing agree
ment, which may be extended to
include various other kinds of Amer
ican goods.
McDaniel's trading corporation in
the United States will be called the
Portugal-America Corp. with offices
probably in Washington and New
York.
Evening star., 1939-10-03
Paris Exchange Rates

PARIS. Oct. 3 tPl.-The United States
cents to the france in the foreien exchange
market today. compared with $3.50 cents
TO the franc in New York overnight Ex-
change on London, 176. .625. Principal
rente issues in. the Bourse: per cent.
% 20 francs: 412s "A" 73.45: 4Ias. 1887.
Evening star., 1939-10-03
Reichsbunk Statement

statement as Of September 20 Gin thou
sands Of reichsmarks):
Notes IN .circulstion. 10;sg5.O00: in
23o. Other Bills Of exchange ana checks.
10. .1O4 900; increase, 200, 100. Reserve
ratio, O.70 Der cent. Rate Of discount, 1
Evening star., 1939-10-03
Washington Exchange
SALES.

Mergenthaler Linotype-12 at II.
AFTER CALL.
Mergenthaler Linotype-36 at IT.
% at II.
Capital Transit Co.'s at 1914.
Lanston Monotype-5 at 43.
Washington Gas IS, 196O-$500 at
118.
Evening star., 1939-10-03

quotations furnished bv National As
sociation of Securities Dealers. Inc, which
states they do not necessarily reflect
actual transactions or frm bids or offers
but should indicate approximate prices
and, unless otherwise indicated, are as
quoted by the sponsors or issuers.
aAsterisk indicates mot quoted by
Evening star., 1939-10-03

Also extra or extras.
Quotations furnished by National Asso-
citation of Securities Dealers, Inc, which
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
should indicate approximate prices.
Evening star., 1939-10-03
London Bur Gold

LONDON. Oct 8 hP.-Bar gold. 1855,
UNCHANGED. Equivalent S33 IS, on basis
Of dollar at S4 O3) Bar silver 21ssd, up
"a Equivalent 80 % aents)
Evening star., 1939-10-03
Freight Loodines

NEW YORK. Oct 3 R.-Revenus
today. for the week ended September 80
|
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Investing Companies

NEW YORK. Oct. 3 P.-National As
soclatlon Securities Dealers Inc:
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Federal Lund Banks

NEW YORK. Oct. R.-Federal Land
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Insurance Stocks

NEW YORK Oct 3 LPl.-National Asso-
citation Security Dealers. Inc:
Evening star., 1939-10-03

Safety depends on you, not ON the
other man.
Evening star., 1939-10-03

New York Bur Silver
NEW YORK. Oct. 3 R.-Bar sill
yer, 351s, up Y.
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exactly two years after 1879 the English King
was again Independent of Parliament
Only one nation has been free throughout
its history, and that nation is the United
States of America. That sounds like line
from Fourth of July Grafton, and it should,
because we should never be allowed to forget
how easily liberty is lost. The roots of our
other desires are so much older and deeper.
As Lord Acton declared in one of his wise
essays, liberty has been beset by lust of
conquest and by love of ease by the strong
mans craving for power and the poor mans
craving for food" The perpetual struggle for
existence has made men ''eager to sell their
birthright for pottage, and ignorant of the
treasure they resigned
Men will fight for food because food has
been essential to them from the beginning
of life. They will fight for land, or supremacy,
or conquest, or at the word of command, as
they have done almost since the beginning of
life But you can't eat. drink or wear liberty,
and we have not yet left our animal origin
quite so far behind as not to be interested
primarily in what we eat, drink or wear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10

NeVOlutlOn, WHICH Hugnt not have ndppeIleu
but for our own Declaration of Independence.
was never mass movement As a historian
declares, ''the mass had constantly to be
dragooned into supporting it." Soon after,
Napoleon was crowned and cheering popu-
lation was on its way back to the Bourbons.
Twenty-Five hundred of the five thousand
years of recorded history had passed before
human rights were first recognized - in the
laws of the great Athenian Solon A handful
of people were comparatively free during his
life and that of Percles; then liberty died in
the grip of democracy. That seems curious,
too, but the fact is that revolutions of the
proletariat have brought about some of our
most odious tyrannies. What about liberty in
England? you'll ask. What about the Magma
Charta, which is getting lot of publicity at
the New York Worlds Fair, and what about
the English constitution that attained its
perfection with the establishment of par
liamentary restraint of the King in 1879?
Well, the answer to that is that the guarantees
of the Magma Charta are long way from
what you and would call freedom, and that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10

"A DE WERE dining with friends, and one
w of them, foreign correspondent of
w New York newspaper, remarked that
eight hundred million people have lost every
vestige of liberty since the Great War.
"Of course that figure doesn't include
England and France" he said, though there
have been serious entertainments in both
countries Excepting three or four nations so
small that they look like postage stamps stuck
to the map. liberty survives only in America
What do you mean by liberty" another
friend asked
Its easier to tell you what don't mean"
the correspondent replied. Less than year
ago l lunched in the beautiful home of
banker in Europe. An hour later the secret
police searched the premises and took pretty
much everything of value. They had no
warrant and required none That night the
family was routed out of bed and hustled to
headquarters. Next morning their property
was confiscated and they were sent into exile.
There had been no trial of any kind, and the
only charge was that the banker had given
few dollars week to oonsumptive boy of
prescribed race.
The puzzle to me is that after ages of
freedom, more than half the population of
the globe could be returned to this sort of
jeopardy In twenty years eight hundred
million people have relinquished liberties it
took centuries to win freedom of speech and
the press, freedom to criticize and oppose
parties in power, security of person and
property - in short, all the safeguards emu
merated in our Bill of Rights. Throughout
two-thirds - maybe three-fourths - of
Europe and Asia, citizens are imprisoned,
tortured and executed at the whim of one
man. Millions of them have been starved,
robbed of their savings, their land or their
businesses and put at forced labor. You can't
tell me that few leaders, soldiers and secret
police could do this to eight hundred million
people who were passionately unwilling to be
carried back into the Dark Ages"
You can't tell me that, either. The truth
is that most of these people are not being car
ried back very far; the Dark Ages are only
step behind them By far the greater part of
the world hasn't had even semblance of
liberty long enough to regard it as vital.
We are puzzled, as my newspaper friend is
puzzled, because we do not realize that liberty
is a new idea; that only small part of this
planet has experienced as much as century
or two of freedom after five thousand years of
slavery Until comparatively recently it never
even occurred to the average man that he had
any rights, and by then he was 50 used to not
having them that generally he wasn't willing
to take any trouble in the matter. The French
copyrisht, 1899. United Newspapers MAGAZINE Corpo,
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n. K. B


because of that choice. They were that
minority whom five thousand years of slavery
had not reconciled to chains. and so they
broke with tradition and the established
order and that atavstic urge to which have
referred, and decided to take a chance with
hunger and cold and life itself in search Of
freedom. truth. justice and human dignity.
Except for a few poets and patriots and
philosophers they came mighty near being the
only people who saw that light after mil
lenniums of darkness, and they and their
descendants and those who followed their
example are the only people who have ever
kept the light before them for as long as
one hundred and sixty three consecutive years.
During all that time, to millions whose eyes
were not blinded by the long darkness,
America has been less continent than an
ideal - an ideal that brought here millions
more of those whom five thousand years
hadn't resigned to slavery, and who were will
ing to abandon their homes, habits and
physical Security in order to escape it.
Can America preserve that ideal through
out the present cataclysm? Will this resur-
gence of slavery end at the borders it has
reached, with half the globe in chains once
more and the other half free? Shall we be
engulfed, too or shall we become again, as we
were one hundred and sixty three years ago,
single oasis of liberty in a world divide desert
of durance? That depends wholly upon our
selves; upon each and every one of us; upon
how much we value our liberties, and how
vigilantly and valiantly we are willing to
defend them Our forefathers priced liberty
beyond anything else. and for generation after
generation their children have known nothing
else. When Metternich and Talleyrand and
Alexander of Russia filled most of Europe
with spies and secret police and general
tyranny less than century ago, few people
minded much, because, with occasional res
pites, most of Europe was used to it. That is
still true in Europe and Asia. But most of
America hardly knows what slavery means.
This is our weakness and our strength. We
should be told, again and again. The Liberty
Bell should be kept ringing in our ears so
that we may be on our guard; 50 that we may
learn how often freedom has been lost by
unsuspecting peoples, through indifference
and preoccupation; and 50 that we may never
be among those "eager to sell their birthright
for pottage, and ignorant of the treasure
they resigned"
Evening star., 1939-01-17
Copper Concerns Cut
Production 10 Aid
WobbIy Prices
Anaconda Takes Leud
By Hoitine Operations
At Butte Mine
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-Brakes
were applied today to domestic cop
per production as the mining in
dustry sought to avoid a renewed
accumulation of unsold metal.
The Anaconda Copper Mining Co.
announced suspension Of operations
at its Leonard mine in Butte, Mont,
involving $50 workers. Mining circles
watched to see whether other do
mestic producers would follow Ana
conda in curtailing.
With the general business upturn
copper stocks started to decline last
summer after rapid increase in
the first half of the year. In De-
cember the trend was reversed and
inventories increased nearly 5000
tons as production ran well ahead
of shipments.
Metal prices, especially the export
quotation for copper, have been wob-
bly, recently. There have been ru-
mors of an impending reduction in
the domestic price of liz cents a
pound, while the foreign quotation
was a cent or SO under that level.
Anaconda also announced curtail-
ment OF operations at two zinc
smelters at its Washoe plant in
Montana. Zinc producers have been
complaining against tariff reductions
on zinc in the revised American
Canadian trade treaty, blaming the
tariff changes for weakness in zinc
prices and predicting mine shut
downs in this country.