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Evening star., 1939-09-19
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO Sept 10 up Omitted States
Department Of AgricultureI .-Salable hogs.
$1,000; total. 10000; general market bar :
lows ,9vna and gifts steady to 10 lower than
around steady; top, s.25: sows mostly
pounds 7aO-s15: choice loads 23O-25O
pounds. late. s.20-25; 27O-30O pounds,
7.75-s.0o; 3O0-360 pounds 740-s5; bulk
good sows 27o-33o pounds, 7:l5-6o; 800
Salabe cattle 10000: salable calves.
200; fed steers and yearlings steady to
25 lower; steers and long yearlings scaling
$50 pounds upward showing most de-
cee but, general trade on light heifers
1850. paid for mixed steers and heifers.
mostly heifers; practical top, II 40 paid
for long yearlines numerous loads 1880
l. .35: best 1,"22 pounds averages at out
side price not many medium to average
good grade steers in crop. bulk being
weak; bulls and vealers- firm: cutter cows,
5.0O-s5; beef cows 625-7 90: weighty
Westerns up to $50; heavy sausage bulls
up TO 1.65; vealerS. II .00-50: very few,
II 90; most yearling stock steers S.75-
salable sheep. s 900; total. $500: late
Monday sorted S3-pound native lambs.
$50 to packers; around seven doubles rs
IS pounds Westerns $40 straieht also
to packers; other natives and Westerns
generally a25 down native ewes. 2.75-
3. %: today's trade: native and western
higher; good and choice S5-9o-pound West
erns a.40-s5: around six loads Idahos
at outside: most native lambs. $50 down;
around s3-pound Texas fed yearinss,
steady. at 500: most native ewes. 275-
3.75: few handy weights. 400.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Railroads Prepare
To Meet Increase
In Traffic
Carrier Chiefs Agree
On Repair Program
For Equipment
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Association of American
Railroads said formally today that
railroads were putting themselves
in readiness" to provide transport
tation for any increased business
now in prospect
A statement issued following a
meeting of association members
said:
The railroads are agreed upon
policy of putting into repair their
cars and engines which have not
been needed to handle current busi-
ness. In addition, as traffic and
earnings may justify it, additional
equipment will be ready to meet
demands which may develop"
Jesse H. Jones, Federal loan ad-
ministrator. estimated yesterday
that IN the past so days the rail-
roads have placed orders for new
equipment costing $125 100000 and
were considering repair program
of S5O000000 to S75000,000 in the
next six months.
The statement today told of the
roads preparations in advance of
the demand" and added:
They do this in spite of the fact
that Of late years traffic has not
required and earnings have not
been sufficient to permit, them to
keep all facilities in Immediately
serviceable shape,
"As they did in 1923, however,
raih Dads have determined to spend
money which they have not earned
IN order that they may meet a
! public need. on the faith that there
will be hereafter a square real in
public transportation policies"
The association said terminals
and tracks will be kept open and
cars will be kept moving, should
any tendency to congestion show
itself" This would be done, it ex-
/ planned. through Nationwide
permit system the association has
/ developed to prevent the accumula-
ton of freight cars beyond the
ability to unload promptly.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Federal Spending
lCHmbs Above
Y Billions
BY the Associated Press.


Treasury expenditures today passed
$4,000, 100000 for the fiscal year
which began July /.
The $2,083 1868 ,262 spending total
for the two and one-half months,
however, was nearly twice the reve-
nue. total and left deficit Of $685.
273,417. On the comparable date
last year, the Treasury had spent
81 1884, 1888, ,6l9 and had a $704,419,935
deficit.
Because somewhat better business
conditions boosted excise taxes on
automobiles and other manufac-
tured products, revenues since July
l, totaling s1,156, ,594 845, were within
about S2400O,000 of the comparable
figure last year.
Quarterly income tax receipts,
which have been coming in since
September Is, however, may tenn
porarily widen the margin, because
this years income taxes, based on
last years business, are known to
be below those collected last year
The Federal debt now is at $40
869, 9,020,615, which, while slightly be-
low the record high set few days
ago, is still about 50 500, 100000 more
than it was a year ago.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
General Index Gains.

A continuation last week Of the
broad advance in commodity prices
took the wholesale price index COM
piled by the National Fertilizer
Association to the highest point
reached since March, 1885 This
index in the week ended September
Is rose to 1858 per cent Of the
l926-l928 average from 755 in the
preceding week.
In the week ended August II the
index was 703, which was the low
est point reached since July. 1884
Prior to the sharp advance of the
past two weeks the highest point
reached this year was 1873, in the
first week OF January.
In spite Of corrective movements
last week in a number Of important
commodities the general trend of
prices was definitely upward, al
though changes were much less
pronounced than in the week pre-
ceding. The food price index rose
to a new high point for the year,
with advances in dairy products
vegetables and a number of other
items more than offsetting declines
in meats. Farm product prices
were weak, with the cotton, grain
and livestock averages all declining
slightly. These declines were offset
however, by a sharp rise in wool
and advances in some other minor
! products.
A markup in gasoline quotations
took the fuel index to a new high
| Tor the year. Continued strength III
non-ferrous metals together with
higher prices for steel scrap and
pig iron caused a substantial in
crease in the metal average. Tex
tile prices were generally higher
with 19 items included in the group
advancing during the week. Other
group indexes which moved up
ward were those representing the
prices of chemicals and drugs, fer
tlllzer materials and miscellaneous
commodities. Declines were regis
tered by the fertilizer and building
material indexes.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Equitable Life Issues
War-Risk Rules
For Policies
Regulations to Affect
Mostly Foreien-Born
Applicants
BY the Associated Press.

6S tile nooOSidttu
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-The
Equitable Life Assurance Society of
the United States, one of the largest
life underwriters in the country
has adopted War-risk regulations for
issuance of future policies, affecting
mostly foreign-born applicants.
Previously the Mutual Life In
surance Co. of New York announced
War-risk rules.
Informed insurance authorities
said today other companies were
studying similar action or had moved
toward the same objectives by care
fully scrutinizing war risks and max
ing decisions on the individual
merits of the applications.
The Equitable rules, as well as
the Mutual, do not change the
status of outstanding policies.
For foreign-born, the society
avoids the assumption of risks Of
the death of the insured within
five years for any cause while in
service outside the United States
of any military or naval force other
than that of the United States or
on the death Of the insured within
two years, indirectly or directly
from war, while the insured is out
side the United States and not in
military services.
Under these circumstances. the
liability is limited to repayment of
premiums and dividends.
Another clause, applicable to all
persons, voids any risk of death
within two years directly or indi-
rectly as result of war while the
insured is outside the Continental
United States.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Zinc Firms Ask
Restoration of
ToriffCuts
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Zinc mining and smelling interests,
in an informal meeting with the
committee for reciprocity informa-
ton, asked yesterday for restora-
ton of the zinc tariff cuts permitted
under the trade agreement with
Canada.
The agreement reduced the duty
on all zinc imports 20 per cent and
domestic producers contended this
lowered the London price to a base
they could not meet.
The committee, representing the
State and Commerce Departments
and the Tariff Commission, agreed
to study the request.
Conferees included representatives
of the industry in the tri-State area
of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma;
Idaho, Illinois. Wisconsin, West Vir-
ginia and parts Of the South.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
B. & O. Loadings Show
Bio Rise in Week
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Sept. l9.-Baltimore
& Ohio carloadings for the week
ended September 16, totaled 54,592
comprising 35,342 cars loaded on line
and 1920 received from connec-
tons
This was an increase of 1922 cars
loaded over the corresponding week
of last year, when the total was
42,310, consisting of 27,312 cars
loaded on line and 1893 received
from connections.
This was also an increase of
1926 cars over the previous week
of this year (the week ended Septem-
ber 81, when the total loads were
44,3O6, including 28,921 cars loaded
on line and 1885 received from
connections.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
More Reclaimed Rubber
Used During August

0y zfosONId
NEW YORK. Sept. 19.-The use of
reclaimed rubber in the United States
increased last month to 1874 per
cent of total crude rubber con-
sumption, compared with 300 per
cent in July.
For the first eight months of the
year, reclaimed rubber averaged 30.7
per cent of crude consumption,
against 25.2 per cent in 1888.
The Rubber Manufacturers Asso-
citation reported stocks of crude
rubber on August 81 at 161 AIT tons.
or 39 months supply, compared
with 273,841 tons, or TT months sup
ply year ago.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
National Radiator Co.
Nets $95,371 Profit
Special Dispatch to The Star.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, Sept 19.-Op-
erations of the National Radiator
Co. for the II months ended August
81, 1899, including 9 months to
June /, 1899, in trusteeship, resulted
in a net profit of $95 ,37165 or 81
cents per share on the new common
stock, after depreciation of $685.
654.35, as compared with a net loss
Of $1,060703,90 after depreciation
of 5000, $685. 38 and accrued debenture
interest of S123,11178 for the IL
months ended August 81, 1888.
1t is expected that the listing of
the new common stock on the Pitts
burgh Stock Exchange will be ef-
fective September Is, 1899.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Prices on Light Fuel
Oils Are Advanced
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSoClateu PreSS.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Stand-
ard Oil Co. of New Jersey yesterday
advanced the prices of bunker C and
B and light fuel oils by 10 cents a
barrel at New York, Baltimore, Nor
folk and Charleston.
New York prices on the new scale
are S115 barrel for bunker C, SIPS
for bunker B and $135 for fuel oil,
light.
Evening star., 1939-09-19

Free Pound Rallies
III Cents More al
New York
Remains Only 8 Cents
Under OfficiuI Rate;
Franc Also Gains
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19-The free"
pound sterling recovered today in
the local foreign exchange market
to 1894, 1112 cents over yesterdays
price and only 8 cents under the
official rate of $402. The French
franc was up .O6 Of a cent at 224
cents.
Traders said the recovery was due
to gradual realization that the
pound, francs and Canadian dollar
had become virtually blocked cur
rencies." Thus, while the pound
and franc might go lower in free
market, dealers said rigid control
by foreign governments leaves little
free exchange to fill commitments.
The nervous speculative selling of
last week has vanished from the
market, dealers reported.
Also rated in some quarters as an
influence in rallying the British
pound in terms of the dollar were
Washington reports the United
States Treasury carefully has been
watching gyrations in the English
currency in concern over possible
effects on export trade.
Exchange circles were inclined to
minimize the Importance of the
free" market, asserting the British
wartime controls and blocked"
sterling arrangements covered the
bulk of business transactions with
England.
Most European currencies recov-
cred with the pound. The Canadian
dollar also improved in terms of the
dollar, moving up OBS of a cent at
one time to discount of less than
10 cents from the normal parity with
the United States currency.
The Netherlands guilder at one
time was up 015 of cent, the Ger
man mark 0.20 Of cent and the
Swiss franc 005 of a cent.
A possible peace move by Ger
many seemed to have been among
the forces inspiring the recovery in
European exchange.
Noon rates follow:
Great Britain in dollars others in cents
Great Britain demand 3.92; Great Britain.
cables. 1923; 60-day bills 390a4: 90-day
bills, 3;s9i2; Canada. Montreal in New
York, 90;l2l2: Canada, New York in Mon
treaL 100 .S1l2; Belgium. l7.14: Denmark,
1880; Finland 2.03; France 2.23l2: Ger
many, 4Q00n benevolent. 1878: travel.
unquoted; Greece .7sn; Hungary. 10 son;
Italy. $40: Netherlands, $3.50 Norway,
. o. s;,nso,, 30; POLAND 1sson; Portugal ION;
land @2.71; .Areentina lofnciaD. unquoted;
Argentina freeI, 2325: Brazil tofictaD,
sos Brazil freel. 500; Mexico 10 O0n
Japan. % 35n: Hong Kong 24.s5; shans-
hal. 80; Yugoslavia 22Sn
indicated
Nominal
PARIS, Sept 10 fP.-Final quotation
for the United States dollar was 1880
francs G.2s3 cents to the franc) in foreign
e1cha nee dealings today compared with
2;la cents to the franc in New York over
night. Exchange on London. rs 6o5
In the Bourse, 3 per cent rentes ended
g. 80 francs: 412s "a. 72.30; 4i7s. 1887.
1920.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Capital Banker Speaks
At Luroy Session
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LURAY, Va, Sept 19.-Frederick
H. Cox, vice president of the City
Bank, Washington, addressed 200
Northern Virginia bankers here last
night on problems pertaining to in
surance and bonds for banks.
Other speakers included c. A.
Reebling, Equitable Trust Co., Bal
timore; P. w. Anderson, Marshall,
and John I. Sloat, Winchester.
Houston Newman, Edinburg, pre-
sided over the group composing the
Clearing House Association of WAL
ren, Page, Shenandoah, Frederick
and Clarke Counties.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK Sept. 10 P.-Worth
street selling agents reported only limited
business in the gray goods textile market
today at unchanged prices.
Silk fabrics were neglected Some
hosiery mills have advanced prices on
branded lines still further. Rayon fabrics
moved at brisk pace with prices firming
Burap prices moved slightly lower, re-
flecting the Indian governments embargo
placed on lutte exports which is expected
70 70 GanSe le.tnef og1an IN sidaapmen'S dae 10 10
withdrawn all spot offers showing re-
luctance to make any extended commit
ments.
Business in the wooden piece goods
market has slowed up considerably and
with mills showing a slackening interests
in raw wool requirements.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
AppIe Harvest Starts
In Western Maryland
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
HANCOCK, Md. Sept. ia f1ooc
of apples from Western Maryland
orchards heads for market today
and one orchardist here said the
harvest would be from 10 to Is per
cent higher than the normal 10
year average. He said exports tc
Europe may be curtailed consider
ably because of the war and an in
crease in ocean freight rates.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
World Tin Supplies
Decline in August
BY the Associated Press.

BY IflF HSSOCIdIeu PTeSS.
NEW YORK. Sept. 19.-World
stocks of tin dropped 4,889 tons dur
ing August to 34,608 long tons, the
American Iron & Steel Institute
reported yesterday on the basis of
cable advices from the statistical
office of the International Research
and Development Council at The
Hague, Holland.
Monthly reports disclose steady
decline in stocks since early this
year. Last March the supply was
50.853 tons and at the end of Au-
gust. 1898, the stock was 54,355 tons.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.

BY lllt HSSOCIaItu PTtSS.
NEW YORK. Sept. 19-Profit
taking and hedge selling in cotton
futures during the last minutes of
trading today caused prices to react
from mid-afternoon highs. Final
quotations were points lower to 3
higher
Evening star., 1939-09-19

Quotations furnished by National Asso-
states they do not lo necessarily reflect Ass ac-
tual transactions or firm bids or offers,
but should indicate approximate prices,
and unless otherwise indicated are as
quoted bv the sponsors or issuers
mot ouated by sponsors or issuers.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Drop in Wholesale
Food Prices Cuts
War Boom Gains
Substantial Declines
Follow Rush to
Hoard Supplies

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 19.-Wholesale
prices of food commodities, which
foretell figures on housewives gro
Gerry lists, showed substantial de-
clines today from the peaks reached
in the rush of speculative boarding
at the outbreak of Europe's war.
In that respect, market experts
said, they followed at least thus far
the pattern of food prices in the
first weeks of the World War a
quarter century ago.
Prior to trading in wholesale mar
kets today all but two of Is i'm
portant food items were lower than
the war boom peaks Two items,
potatoes and wholesale pork loins,
were lower than on the day preced-
ing the start of German-Polish
hostilitieS. Grain prices have de-
clined 5 to 10 per cent; potatoes, 20
per cent; eggs, 5 per cent; live stock,
4 to II per cent; wholesale meats,
4 to SO per cent; sugar, "a per cent,
and coffee, per cent
Buying Decreases.
However, net gains from August
81 to date amount to 19 to 80 per
cent in grains; eggs, II per cent;
butter, 16 per cent; live stock, to 18
per cent; lard, 81 per cent; sugar,
l3 per cent; flour, per cent, and
coffee, 8 per cent.
Commodity market experts at
tributed the reaction of some prices
to let-up in speculative>p purchasing
and realization that ample supplies
Of many commodities were available
to meet immediate requirements.
Buyers who jumped with the first
cannon shot now are out of the
market, traders pointed out, having
satisfied their immediate and in
some cases distant demands. The
shifting nature of European war
and political news also has en-
couraged more caution, they said.
Wholesale food prices reached
their lowest levels in five years just
before the war started.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Odd-Lot Dealings
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Securities Commission reported to-
day these transactions by customers with
odd-lot dealers or specialists on the
New York Stock Exchange for Ssptember
Is: 10,2S5 purchases involving $50 969
shares 10.5Sa sales involving 2a6 1872
shares, including 116 short sales involving
3745 shares.
Evening star., 1939-09-19

Cottonseed on closed steady. bleachable
prime summer yellow. 7.l0 nominal; prime
crude, 600; September, 665b; October.
$3.50; December, 67sb. January 6s4b
March, 692b; May. 7.00b. Bid
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Washington Exchange
SALES.

Washington Railway & Electric
pfd.-5 at 112.
Capital Transit Co.'S at 1875.
Washington Railway & Electric As
Sl500 at 1O5.
Evening star., 1939-09-19

Argentina has ordered Is locomo-
tives, costing $2,092, ,845, for its fed
eral railways.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
U. S. Treasury Notes

NEW YORK, Sept 10 P.-PriceS
quoted in dollars and thirty-seconds.
Evening star., 1939-09-19

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 10 tP1.-Trading
was mixed in cotton futures here today
with trade and investment buying absorb
ing absorbing liquidation and hedge SELL
ing. CLOSING prices were steady net un-
! Changed TO D points higher.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
BONDS
PUBLIC UTILITY

MISCELLANEOUS.
Chevy Chase CluD 1st 4l4s 1O2
Col Country Club 1st 44s l02
Ter Rel g. VIII Corp 1St AS 100 -.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
New Orleans Prices

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures CLOSED
Is to 20 higher Sales 1903 contracts
October, 7.12b, December, 725b; January
1.3lb; March 142b; May. $50. Bid
Evening star., 1939-09-19

PARIS, Sept. 10 fEH.-Final quotation
Tor the United States dollar was 1880
francs C2s3 cents to the france in foreign
e1cha nee dealings today compared with
=; la cents to the franc in New York over
night. Exchange on London. l16 6o5
In the Bourse, 3 per cent rentes ended
$50 francs: 412s "A. 1880; 4i2s. 1887.
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Cottonseed Oil.

MlddIlne, spot, J.U5. OF
Nominal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-05

Italy now has 2,430 miles of elec- trically- operated railway by far the greatest mileage of any European country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-05

Scarcity of men to unload and distribute coal has caused short age of the fuel at industrial plants in Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-05
Canada Will "Play It Safe" With An Elaborate
 System Of Safeguards For The King And Queen
How Canada will safe' with myriad of precautions Dominion May correspondent n his hird of sixa
BY THOMAS WAYLING NEA Service Special
 Correspondent

Ottawa, Canada, April 5.-The Canadian government will play 1t cafe" when King George and Queen Elizabeth make their transconti- mental tour of the Dominion in May and June.
 Many of the . safety precau- tions being taken in connection with the visit are just those which any nation makes for a travelling head of state. But others come under tn heading of added precautions and the reason for them, it is re- ported, is the fear that Irish terror ists might extend their recent Brit ish bombing activities to this coun- try.
 Dominion officials publicly have not stressed the fact that any "un- usual" steps are being taken, but recapitulation shows just how far they are going to insure the safety of the royal couple. The measures include:
 1. A search by the government for designs for armored motor cars fc" the king and queen to use on their tour.
 2. A picked body of Canadian war veterans to supplement the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Scotland ard in guarding the party.
 3. Canada's immigration list, in- cluding newcomers from the United States as well as Europe, will be carefully checked from now until the king and queen have finally said goodbye to the Dominion.
 4. Switches along the 5000 mile railroad journey will be spiked in place and special patrols will guard the tracks.
 5. Every mile, green or red light will shine, either to give the engineer the Ego ahead" or to warn him to stop.
 6. The special train will travel only during the day--except on the long gaps north of the Great Lakes and only five times during the trip will Their Majesties leave their cars to sleep elsewhere at night.
 2. The engineers on their train will have perfect vision of the track ahead, seeing it through the "speed- ing porthole," swiftly whirling disc of plate glass.
 8. A pilot train will at all times
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-05

Canadian destroyers, Skeena and Saguenay. But by morning the king and queen will have the beautiful scenery of the St. Lawrence Valley on either hand-to the north the towering Laurentian Mountains, blanketed with deep evergreen and dotted with the myriad colors of spring. To the south the narrow, fertile fields of the old Quebec set tiers, each farm with its frontage o.l the river.
 Their MajestieS will disembark at Quebec and from there on the jour- ney is by train. They will use two private cars, built for Lord Willing don when he was governor-general. Other private cars will be added to the train to accommodate the royal party, Scotland Yard and Canadian "Mounty" officers and va riouS railroad officials.