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Smyrna times., 1940-04-18

had Mrs. Howard E. Lynch, Jr., as
the hostess.
A group of the younger married
set held a scavenger hunt recently.
ending at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. Kenneth Tuller.
Miss Jane w. Hardesty was a
weekend guest of Miss Ghertine
Yeatman at her home near York
lyn. Miss Hardesty and Miss Yeat-
man were former schoolmates at
the George School, Newtown, Pa
Mrs. C. Naniel Enterline enter
tanned the members of her club at
buffet supper and bridge at her
home Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Stuart Outten
spent Sunday in Salisbury with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Dry
den.
Mrs. William D. Watson was
hostess to the Tuesday Afternoon
Bridge Club at her home Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph M. Parvis
are moving from Wilmington tc
Smyrna times., 1940-04-18

Townsend enjoyed the occasion
with her relatives and friends and
all hope she may be able to enjoy
many more of the delightful occa-
sionS.
The Daughters of America are
making splendid progress return
ishing their lodge room. A bake
held on Saturday to raise funds to
purchase new furniture for their
use, brought a very popular re-
sponse from the public in general.
Since the first day in 1908, the
Daughters of America have given
a very helpful service both in sick
ness and death, the record of their
noble aid to vast multitude re-
mains a shining light as the patron
of human kindness.
The Town Council has wise:J Sc
lected this to be cleanup week. 1t
affords a fine chance for everyone
to lend helping hand in renewing
few spots, and leaving a charm
ing brightness to attract and win
the admiration of all concerned
whether they be residents or those
who visit and enjoy the cordial fel-
loWship while the surroundings are
likewise neat counterpart.
Smyrna times., 1940-04-18
BRIEF SMYRNA
LANDING NEWS
Budget of News and Person
ais Cleaned About Smyr-
ma River WharveS
CITIZENS MAKE VISITS

Smyrna Landing, April 17-Mrs.
Wilmer Ford, Billy Wrench, Mrs.
Marion Duhadaway of Dover, Mrs.
John Sudler, Mrs. Alan Rawley of
Smyrna, were recent visitors to
Mrs. Thomas Wrench.
Mrs. Jake Brown and children
Walter and Dolores, of Philadel-
phia, were recent visitors of Mrs
Mary Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brown
spent Friday in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Slaughter
and sons, of MiddletoWn, were
weekend visitors of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Gaulke.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Craft OF
Blackbird, were recent visitors OF
Mr. and Mrs. Olen Tarbutton.
Mr.. Harry Davis of Chester, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Simpson OF
Holly Oak, Mrs. Mofftt, of st
Georges, were Sunday visitors OF
Mrs. Emma Davis.
Mr.. Charles Brown, who is EN-.
ployed at the Tannin, Incorporated
Marine Terminal, in Wilmington
met with a painful accident Mon
day by fracturing his ankle. He il
in the Delaware Hospital. Mrs
Brown spent a visit with him OF
Monday evening.
Mrs. Louis Gaulke spent Sunday
with her daughters, Mrs. Johr
Bailey and Mrs. Walter Reed al
Marcus Hook, and with her grand
daughter, Mrs. Charles Hyllard a.
Claymont.
Smyrna times., 1940-04-18
STATE CAPITAL
NEWS BUDGET
Personal Items and Social
Mention About Dover Folks
and Their DOings
PARTIES OF THE WEEK

Dover, April II = Miss Mary L.
Kellum and Mrs. Thomas F. Dunn
spent last week in Ventnor with
the formers brother, Mr.. John w.
Kellum, and attended the wedding
of Mrs. Esther Barrett Kempter of
Atlantic City and Mr.. Kellum, for
merly of Dover and Wilmington,
which took place on Friday in the
First Presbyterian Church, Allan
tic City On their return from
wedding trip, Mr.. and Mrs. Kellum
will live in Ventnor.
Miss Dorothy Outten entertained
the members of her bridge club at
her home Tuesday evening.
Miss Helen Scanlon will entertain
her bridge club members at her
home Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Simeon S. Pennewill, Mrs.
James M. Satterfield, Mrs. John P.
LeFevre, Mrs. Joseph S. Mcdaniel,
Mrs. Harry Mcdaniel, Jr., Mrs.Wl-
bert Rawley, Mrs. Charles w. Hard
esty, Mrs. Thomas M. Gooden, Jr.,
Mrs. Howard E. Lynch, Jr., Mrs.
Harry A. Richardson II, Mrs. Mau-
rice A. Hartnett, Jr., Mrs. Stanley
! Worden, Mrs. E. Stuart Outten,
Mrs. Carl B. Scull, Mrs. Benjamin
f. Johnson, Mrs. Lockwood Rain
hard, Mrs. K. Lord Dewitt, Mrs.
Frank A. Danner, Mrs. Norman F..
Morris, Mrs. w. f. Postles, Mrs.
/ Smithers Harrington, Mrs. Hugh
/ lett Colt, Mrs. James Maloney, Mrs.
] A. B. Clements, Mrs. G. Daniel En-
terline, Mrs. w. Daniel Mckee,
Mrs. James E. Behen, Mrs. Hugh
4 EFT K. Mcdaniel, Mrs. Alfred G..
Hopkins, Mrs. H. B. King, Mrs. G..
! A. Custer, Mrs. Edwin Lewis, and
Mrs. George NJ. Fisher III were
those from Dover who attended the
benefit luncheon and bridge party
at the Round Table Clubhouse, Wy
oming, recently.
Mrs. L. Lee Layton, Jr., who is in
Washington for the annual Con-
gress of the National Society,
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, also attended the luncheon of
the national officers and state pres
idents of the National Society
Daughters of Colonial Wars, in the
Chinese room of the Mayf1ower
Hotel on Sunday.
The Monday Night Bridge Clut
Smyrna times., 1940-04-18
SOME TAYLOR'S
BRIDGE ITEMS
News of Community Interest
Cleaned From Around
ThOrOughfare Neck
BUDGET OF PERSONALS

Taylor's Bridge, April IL - The
Stump Corner All Club will meet
Friday night with Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Erieman.
Miss Mildred Deakyne of Will
mington, spent the weekend with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Deakyne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Keiser, Mr.
and Mrs. Delbert Steller, Mr.. ano
Mrs. Charles Dukes and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee David have been recent
visitors with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
B. Davidson at Port Mahon.
Mr.. Lewis Steller spent Sunday
in Virginia with Mr.. Earl Y. F'rac-
is.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Sinex and
daughter Of Middletown, spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson A
David.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Wheeler
and sons, of near Wilmington and
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry S. Wiley and
family of Townsend, spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Shock
ley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Montgom-
cry and daughter, have been visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam D. Warner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Steller and
family have been recent visitors
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James L. McClain near Blackbird.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Reynolds
and family were Sunday visitors
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Insolo near Townsend.
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Mr.. and Mrs. James Ashton, of
Wilmington, visited their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ashton, and
brother, Arthur, on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Holland had
as their guests over the weekend
their mother, Mrs. Burris, daughter
Lucille, Miss Alice Able and Mr..
William Burns, of York, Pa, Mrs.
Burns is remaining for week.
Mrs. Fannie Poore entertained
her children last Sunday: Mrs.
George Morris, daughter, Betty, of
Wilmington; Mr.. and Mrs. William
Poore and son, of Smyrna; Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Poore, of Chester.
Mr.. w. Holden, son of John Hold
en-, of Dover, has moved in the
property of Mr.. Fred Latter, of Do
yer, recently vacated by Mr.. and
Mrs. Emerson Daley.
Mrs. Elliott Melvin is in the Kent
General Hospital. Her condition is
better at this writing.
Smyrna times., 1940-04-18
BLACKBIRD
Items of Personal ana Social In
tereOt Cleaned From the Vicinity

Items of Personal and Social In.
terest Cleaned FroD the Vicinity
Blackbird, April II = Mr.. and
Mrs. James Bickling are receiving
congratulations on the birth of a
son at Kent Hospital, Dover, on
Friday, April 5th. Mother and son
are doing nicely.
Mr.. Theodore Ferguson is on the
sick list.
Mrs. w. G. Roosevelt spent the
weekend in Smyrna.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman FAIRIES and
son spent Tuesday at Laurel.
Mr.. Roland Bell of Smyrna, will
speak at the P. T. A. meeting in
Blackbird School this Thursday
evening, on the Pyramids of
Egypt" Come out and hear him.
Mr.. William Fortner shows slight
improvement from his long illness.
Mrs. Frances V. Buckson has re-
turned from an eight weeks visit
at Alliance, Ohio and Chicago, III.
Mrs. r. M. Sammons was a re-
cent visitor in Chester, Pa, with
her mother, Mrs. Ward.
Smyrna times., 1940-04-18
TOWNSEND

Items of Personal and Social Inter-
est Cleaned About NeighborhoOd
Townsend, April 1T-Mrs Joseph
Ward, of Collingswood, Pa, and
Mrs. Bert Carpenter, of Philadel-
phia, Pa, spent last Tuesday with
Mrs. Eta Townsend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Haegele, of
Philadelphia, Pa, spent the week
end with her sister, Mrs. Harvey
Naylor. They were accompanied
home by Mrs. Naylor who will
spend sometime with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Wilmer Fenni-
more and her mother, Mrs. John
Townsend, had as Sunday guests
Mrs. Retta Stradley, Miss Mary
Townsend, MIR Liston Townsend,
Mr.. Albert Townsend, all of Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Mr.. w. P. Wilson motored to his
cottage at Crystal Beach Manor,
Nd, last Wednesday for the day.
Miss Elizabeth Murphy, Robert
Murphy and Herbert Ash visited
Denton, Md, on Sunday to see Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Deisem.
Mrs. Howard Budd was a visitor
in Clayton recently.
Mrs. Paul Weigel was a Will
mington visitor on Monday.
Mrs. Marion e. Dize, of Cape
Charles, Va, spent Monday with
her aunt, Mrs. ]. M. Graves.
Mrs. Mary Joiner and Mrs. Dar-
nell were Wilmington visitors on
Wednesday.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Town
send Methodist Church met at the
home of Mrs. Elsie Hutchison Tues
day evening. Her helpers were
Mrs. Ethel George, Mrs. Margaret
Buckson and Mrs. Dorothy Hutchi-
son.
The official board of Townsend
Church held a chicken salad and
ham supper last evening.
The local firemen have been kept
busy for the past two weeks, ex-
tinguishing grass, brush and woods
fires. Several properties were
threatened, but actual damage was
slight.
Observing her birthday quietly
ON April 8, but receiving hearty
congratulations and postcards de-
noting the happy event, Mrs. John
Smyrna times., 1940-04-18
CHESWOLD
Itenrs of Personal anu Social In
est Cleaned About NeighbOrhoOd

Itenfs of Personal anu Social In
est Cleaned About NeighbOrhoOd
Cheswold, April IL Rev. w. l.
McClintock, Mr.. Earl Rich, Mr.
Gordon Casson and Miss Marjorie
Remley were among those who at
tended the youths Conference and
Banquet held in Wyoming.
Mrs. Willis Sanner, daughter
Nancy Lee, and Mrs. w. S. Scar
borough motored to Wilmington
last Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Hamilton of
Wilmington, were Sunday guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Anderson.
Mrs. Paul Carey and son, Donald
of Coatesville, Pa, are guests of
Mrs. Daisy M. Barcus and Mr.. and
Mrs. w. E. Barcus for several days
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Hamilton, of
Warrington, D. c., and Mr.. Jesse
Tyson, of Wilmington, spent last
weekend at the parsonage. Mr.
Howard Churchman, Of Sharon
Hill, Pa, was a Sunday afternoon
visitor also.
Mr.. Howard Clark, Miss Amanda
Bowen and mother, Mrs. May Bow
en-, of Wilmington, were recent
guests of Mr.. and RMS. E. j. Letter
ty and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hynson were
Philadelphia visitors on Saturday
where they attended the wedding
of Miss Dorothy Hogarth.
The Mems Bible Class held their
monthly meeting and annual elec-
tion Tuesday evening, April 2, at
the Pleasant Inn" Dover. Officers
were elected as follows: President
Mr.. l.. III. Anderson; vice-president
Mr.. w. G. Buckson, Jr.; secretary
Denney Morris; assistant, Mr.
Owen Evans; treasurer, Mr.. N. L.
Remley; assistant, Mr.. ]. e. Swain;
chairman of membership commit
tee, Mr.. E. w. Roland; chairman OF
devotional committee, Mr.. Earl
Rich; chairman of social ommittee,
Mr.. E. ]. Boggs.
Smyrna times., 1940-04-18
nARTLY
Items Of Personal and Social In
terest Cleaned From the Vicinity

Items OF Personal and Social In
terest Cleaned From the Vicinity
Hartly, April IL Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Roadway entertained Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Hazel, of Will
mington, last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Seward and
family, of Salisbury, Md, Mrs. Kate
Morris and Miss Mabel Gardner, of
Wilmington, spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. George Seward
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Morris en-
tertained visitors from New Jersey,
Mrs. Raymond Morris and children
recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Burris and
family, of Wilmington, Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Hurd, Mrs. Archer
Hutchins, of Leipsic, visited their
mother, Mrs. Lizzie Hutchins, on
Sunday.
Mrs. Charles Roadway entertained
on Sunday the following: Mrs. Wal
ter Gullett, Sr., Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Gullett, Jr., of Philadelphia;
Mrs. Price Inman and children, of
Collingdale; Mr.. and Mrs. William
Roadway daughter, Alethia; Mrs.
Virginia Cloud, daughter, Irene,
and Mrs. Marvin Coudright, of Will
mington; Mrs. II. Raymond, Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Roadway.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Oliver and
children of Wilmington, visited Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Davis on Sunday.
Mr.. James DARN, who has been
in Easton Hospital for some time,
has returned to his home here.
Mrs. Mable Wilson and children,
Of Port Mahon, spent last Friday
IN Mrs. Charles Rodway and
Irrs. Walter Gullett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Davis had as
tLeir guests recently Mr.. William
Kirk and Miss Mary Beaston, OF
N. idletown.
Smyrna times., 1940-04-18
OAKHILL COMMUNITY
Some Items of Personal Mention
Cleaned from the Vicinity

Some Items of Personal Mention
Cleaned from the Vicinity
Delaney's, April Is - Delaney's
Methodist Church, seven miles west
of Clayton on the Clayton-Massey
road, Rev. A. t. Mcfarland, pastor,
announces the following services
2 p. M, Sunday School, Mrs. Char
les Pyle, superintendent; p. m,
preaching service. Now that the
revival services are over Delaney's
Church must settle down to a real
constructive program of christian
work under its own power. Let all
get into the harness next Sunday
in the Sunday School and church
program and see what can be done
to advance the whole program of
the church in the community
Come out next Sunday and bring
your friends.
Smyrna times., 1940-04-18
ODESSA
Items of Personal and Social Inter.
est Cleaned About NeigkbOrhOOd

est Cleaned About NsigkbOrhOOd
Odessa, April 17-Miss NJ. Gilch
and sister, Mrs. L. G. Hampson
have been recent visitors in Will
mington.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hammer
and children, of Philadelphia, We're
Saturday visitors with Mr.. and
Mrs. w. w Gremminger.
Mrs. Eva Warner, of Wilmington
has been visiting her home in Odes-
sa.
The many friends of Miss Mary
Lightcap are very sorry to learn Of
her serious illness.
Mr.. Harry West has been a re.
cent visitor in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Carl Morris, of Deepwater
n. j., spent the weekend at his
home in Odessa.
Mrs. Edna Fineman and family
of Philadelphia, were Sunday visit.
ors with Mr.. A. Wilmington.
Miss Helen George. of Whining.
ton, has been visiting her home
near Odessa.
Mr.. Harry Packard, Sr., is quite
i'll at his home in Odessa.
Mrs. Clara Gremminger has beer
a recent visitor with relatives il
Philadelphia and Salem, N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Baker, OF
Delaware City. were Thursday Wis
itCrs with Mrs. Lee Orrell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel George
have been recent visitors in Viii
mington.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Wallace. OF
Smyrna, are visiting in Odessa.
Smyrna times., 1940-04-18
CLAYTON NEWS
AND PERSONALS
Budget of Items From Our
Railroad Town and Their
Personal Mention
CHURCHES AND SCHOOL

Trinity Church, Clayton, Rev.
Frederick Marx Barton, minister in
charge, announces the service on
Sunday next will be at 8 p. M, ev-
ening prayer and sermon.
Mrs. Herman Sevil and Mrs. En-
ma Meredith spent few days with
their sister in Washington last
week.
Mrs. Ella Montague entertained
the Sewing Circle on Tuesday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dicie Kitchens and
children, of Salisbury, Md, spent
the weekend with Mrs. Kitchens
mother, Mrs. Bertha Sevil.
Miss Vivian Haley of Whining
ton, spent the weekend with her
mother, Mrs. John Betz.
Miss Dorothy Hill of near town,
spent the weekend with Miss
Peachy Hill.
Mrs. Amelia Shelton of near
Massey, Md, is spending some time
with her daughter, Mrs. John Betz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Day and
children, of Wilmington, were the
guests on Sunday of Mr.. Days
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Day.
Misses Helen and Mary Murphy
were recent guests of their grand
mother, Mrs. John F. O'Neil.
Mrs. N. G.. SeVerSon spent last
week in Wilmington.
Miss Sula Davidson of Milford,
spent Sunday afternoon with her
sister, Mrs. Jack Poore.
Mr.. Charles Webb, Jr., and Mr..
Bill Conner Of Milford, visited Sun
day with Miss Doris Poore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Ford were
guests of their daughter, Mrs. Lew
is Bell over the weekend at At
lantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howell Sevil had as
their guests on Sunday Mrs. Sevils
parents from Baltimore, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter H. Bramman and also
her brother-in-law and sister, Lieu
tenant and Mrs. Parker Lewis OF
Annapolis.
Mrs. Nellie Smith of Hockessin
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Milton Voshell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Plummer anC
daughter have returned home after
spending some time with his moth.
er in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rambo spent
Sunday at State Road.
Miss Virginia Raymond of VIII
mington, spent the weekend witt
her sister, Miss Sue Baynard.
Miss Grace Machamer of vii.
mington, visited her parents here
the past weekend.
Mrs. Charles Baker and Mrs
Nellie Smith has returned home af.
ter spending a few days in Roam.
oke, Va.
Mrs. J. NJ. Boggs and Miss Haze
Willis and Janet Boggs and Mrs
James Boggs spent Monday with
Mrs. Earl Stats at Milford.
MIR. and Mrs. Jack Montague and
family were guests on Sunday OF
Mrs. Montague's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Lynch at Dover.
Mrs. j. t. Johnson entertained
the Bridge Club at her home on
Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. BaynardHay ser, Jr., of Bal
timore, Md. was weekend guest Of
Miss Elizabeth Hill.
Mrs. Minnie Wilson of Smyrna,
is spending the week with Mr. and
Mrs. Herman Wheatman.
Mr.. Charles Clayville OF Della
ware City, spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Clayville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Clayville
Smyrna times., 1940-04-18

Leipsic. ~
Mrs. Harold u,
day to be the o', ~ dorsey ii, !.
Mrs. John Ha,S,, Sa'S Of her ~
Ms. Hard J viii II Be sTsitestoa' raass ]
Barbara Harrison 'eGalsds
Mrs. Henry Ridp.,,. |
B. Richardson. T'a sly Ms d,
Harrington, and His. Mis. y. E1
rington attended 'tlss t5s 5sssie /
os,1,5 tea Of tn the Delaware ,zS saeis.tta nsstag
9nls 9nlal Danes in Wlni9ats15yy aDs,s5y 4 |
cay cay. and were among /. s.oa =. B
guest. guests Of Mrs. Hugh i y lls'l y
p 1o+Ntlll OF tho CO.: ] ,
tanned at her bor. rS,lety Who d,
mond Hill. Nan. ..s, :, Foly b
meeting in bonor - = 0etaa
Reed Of Newark. rsa n's r \
the meeting. ~ ADD
The members NJ
had Mrs. cbar1as u U me SsTaga
luncheon hostess - = Slofa d
Duval Tea HoIIsa 1dy I.
Evening star., 1940-12-24
CHICAGO Livestock

CHICAGO, Dec. "a dP,.-Hogs opened %
to IS cents hisher today on top OF yester;,
weak with weights over 24o pounds losing
most of the early advance. Cattle were un-
evenly higher, while lambs were mostly
Hog receipts were relatively light again
today, totaling $4,000 compared with 4 :
600 week ago. A top Of $40 was es-
the middle Of September, The dressed mar
ket was also higher. best wholesale pork
loins rising 81 to s14 per hundredweieht:
were up 25 cents, with the crop well cleaned
UP on the early round Prime light steers
topped at SIS. Cattle receipts were also
Omitted States DEPARTMENT OF, Agricul-
ture. .)-Salable hogs. 10000: total, $4,000;
Mondays average; closed slow and weak;
over $40 pounds most early advance lost
Top, 10. bulk good and choice 10000
butchers. 6.50-aO: good packing sows. 400
pounds down: 5.65-6.o0: heavier kind gen.
salabe cattle, 5000; calves. 1000: all
killing classes unevenly higher on very ac-
tive market; fed steers yearlings and year.
ling heifers ,25 up: crop well cleaned UP on
strong; vealers SO higher: Eastern shippers
and. large local packers bought bulk good
to choice steers and yearlines; II .5o-14 90;
little above 400 but prime light steers of
long long yearlins y,sl type topped at 1900: sevs @
Welgnty DullocKs mostly 1890 down. small
supply common and medium grades, 500
lots fed heifers, 1900: bulk, 9.5O-11 90:
cutter cows. 5.00-75: Gamers. 4.25-75; fat
cows. 6.25-7.25; weighty sausage bulls to
115O.
salable sheep 5000 total 5000 fat
lambs moderately active; early sales most
ly steady with Mondays best time; general
load good to choice fed Western lambs
and odd-lot natives to shippers. 9.s5; about
two loads comparable grades, 100-107-
9.6O-65; few summer shorn, 925: recently
shorn. $50; little done on other classes
load fed western ewes held above AIS.
Evening star., 1940-12-24

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24-Traders
In a Christmas lull, showed
something of a preference for rail
bonds today, but corporates gen.
orally moved only irregularly in a
slow market.
Chances of fractions ruled
throughout the loan lists toward the
final hour.
Inching ahead fractionally were,
among others, American Telephone
3t.s, st. Paul SIS. Illinois Central
ASS, Rock Island 412s, Portland
General Electric 412s and New York
Steam 312s.
Holding unchanged or losing
small amounts were Missouri Pa
cific 5s. Nickel Plate 512S, Pennsyl-
vania General 41aS. Southern Rail-
way 4s, Standard Oil of N. j. 2s4s,
and Western Union 5s. Paramount
Pictures convertible 3As yielded
more than point on two sales.
United States Governments fol-
lowed the general trend, with only
minor changes showing in the few
ssssues changing hands.
Sydney 512s dropped more than
points under light offerings, but
other foreign dollar obligations were
only slightly changed.
Evening star., 1940-12-24
National Income
.0f SS0,000,00o,00O
For 1941 Predicted
Heavy Industry Carries
Largest BockIoes in
History of Nation
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24-A national
income of around 100000, 900, 900 for
1941 was predicted today in usually
well-informed financial circles.
Such figure would compare with
income payments to individuals ap-
preaching $4,000 900 600 for the cur
rent year, the largest since 1929.
With heavy industry carrying on
its books the largest backlog of un-
filled orders in the Nations history,
factory operations after the Yuletide
slow-downs are expected to resume
on an even faster scale than the
last three months have witnessed.
And industrial activity this past fall
has been the greatest in many years.
Will Step Up Purchases.
Expanding pay rolls in the heavy
industry lines, especially in concerns
making needs for the national de-
fense program, such as steel, air.
planes, machine tools, tanks, guns,
ammunition and ships, are destined
to step up purchases of automobiles
and consumer goods in retail stores,
the experts say.
Heavier taking of consumer goods
will in turn bring faster operations
In those lines, giving a well-rounded
boost to peacetime as we'll as de-
fense industry.
And, in turn, some benefits will
flow to the farmer, for when fac
tories and retail trade are booming,
city populations buy and consume
more food. Recent runupS in whole
sale prices of butter and eggs to
three-year highs are attributed in
produce circles to heavier consump-
ton already resulting from wider
factory employment and the rising
national income.
Expenditures to Expand.
Government expenditures in 1941
will gradually expand to about $780,
000000 month more than they now
are and eventually defense spending
may be double the $376 900 900 spent
in November of this year" says Fitch
Publishing Co, commenting on the
outlook.
"A backlog of defense business
amounting to SO 1000 900, ,00O," it adds,
has been piled up since June"
Evening star., 1940-12-24
Chicago Grain
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-Scattered but
persistent demand, some of which
was credited to mills, impaired
strength to the wheat futures mar
ket today, and prices closed as much
as IA cents higher than yesterday.
Corn was about a cent higher and
all other commodities turned up
ward in the last few minutes of a
preholiday squirt during the short
session.
The open interest in all futures
was reduced to around $4,000 900
bushels, the lowest on record Even
ing up of the December wheat fu-
lures carried the open interest down
to 10000 bushels at the start of
trading.
Wheat closed liz cents higher
than Mondays final quotations;
May. 85la-5s; July, 8OA -as. Corn
was al cent up; May, Sis "a;
July, 611s, and oats were IS cent
higher.