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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Raw Material Markets
Puzzle Textile Maker9

It is rather paradoxical that a
boom should be underway in cotton
prices. The Commodity Credit Ccrpo-
ration holds some 1000, 900 bales on
which loans have been foreclosed,
plus nearly 1000, 900 under loan
from the 1898 crop. The total ex-
ceeds Is per cent of the normal
United States crop, only so per cent
Of which is normally used by Unit
ed States manufacturers. The other
so per cent was exported in former
times but a substantial surplus has
piled up in each OF the recent years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Auto Makers Project
Larger 1910 Output

First quarter schedules now call
for the production Of more than a
million and a quarter automobiles
and trucks. This is better than a
Is per cent increase against the
output for the first three months Of
1889 and is close to the best rate
for this period in the United States
and Canada.
Predictions for the full year place
production of automotive units in
the ncighborhood of four to four
and-a-half million in comparison
with total production in 1899 of
about 3,709,0 900 units.
Higher material costs and pro-
spectively higher wage rates may
force price increases but If the
general level Of national income
continues to gain, higher prices will
probably not meet undue resistance.
A factor in the increased pro-
duction projected for the first quar-
ter is the delayed schedule of the
Chrysler organization because of
labor trouble. Other manufacturers,
however, whose production has not
been interrupted, are planning on
maintaining output above the 1889
level.
The export market for the coming
year is a puzzle defying prediction.
Restrictions on gasoline sales for
private use in the belligerent ma
lions, plus other difficulties, is des-
tined to virtually eliminate the Eu-
ropean market for passenger cars.
The sale Of trucks for military and
other governmental uses has begun,
however, and is expected to show
further increases, possibly pushing
truck exports above passenger car
totals.
Shipments Of both cars and trucks
to Latin American countries should
show an increase since German
automobile exports have been i'm
portant in these markets. Whether
American auto makers can capture
this business depends on solution
Of the foreign-exchange difficulty.
Perhaps financing through the Ex-
port-Import Bank will be possible.
The automobile industry is watch
ing with direct interest the treat.
ment the reciprocal trade treaty
program receives in this session of
congress. The industry has been a
major beneficiary under the pacts
and congressional action will have
direct effect upon automobile ex-
port business.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

required to train an essentially I'm.
skilled populace in the handling OF
complicated machinery, and a scar
city Of capital. Production Of tex
tiles, however, is steadily mounting,
and other lines are being develop
ed as rapidly as possible. One of the
greatest difficulties which this ma.
ton faces is a continuation Of tight
money, both for international ex.
change and for the development of
domestic industries. This will tend
to be offset by increasing prices for
raw materials, if European hostili-
ties continue for a sufficient period.
Brazil is now one of our potentially
active markets.
Government officials are fully
aware Of the possibilities il this dir
ection, and if they are able to de-
wise some plan for sound develop
ment Of these South American mar
kets without treading too much on
the special interests, they can fos-
ter an impressive increase in our
foreign trade. We are now being
provided with a second opportunity
to cement friendly relations with
Latin America, and this time our
attitude appears to be more realis-
tic.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

enterprise will have it. This dream
would evolve a ~rejuvenated Ameri-
can spirit, a new burst Of energy
and enthusiasm, new wants, new
ambitions, and the shirt-sleeved will
to satisfy them. Such dreams have
come to reality in the past, origi-
mating, frequently, from such a
drably apathetic atmosphere as has
chung throughout the Thorny Thir-
ties. Perhaps in the Forties we will
create a method Of using men as
skillfully and as efficiently as we
have learned to use machines.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
DESPITE BOOM
IDLE ARE PROBLEM
Production Gain Is Likely
To Leave 100000 Still
Unemployed
Rv Cambridge Associates

WIN o.
ling the highest rate in our history
about eight.and-a-half millions of
our citizens who want work, who
are able to work, are either idle or
engaged in some form Of pHblicly-fi-
nanced employment devised to uti-
lie their services nd provide them
with a means of livelihood.
Furthermore, even though 1910
brings a 10 to Is per cent increase
over the high level of business acti-
witty in the last quarter Of 1899,
there is no real prospect that pri-
vate industry can absorb more than
three or three-and-a-haH million of
| these idle workers.
Since 1929 the supplysof would-be
workers has been augmented by
| soc, 900 each year. This is the excess
Of new workers over the number
removed from the roster of employ
able by reason Of age, illness and
death. That means there are about
SIX million more people working or
seeking jobs than there were in
1929. And in that year the American
Federation Of Labor estimated L.
S64, 900 were without jobs.
INDUSTRY MORE EFFICIENT
But industry is more efficient
than it vas in 1929. Output per man.
hour during the first half of 1889
was approximately rs per cent high
err than in 1929. Even with the
shorter work week and consider
ing that increased demand would
units, manufacturing enterprises
would probably not require many
nor than a million additional EN-.
ployees to produce 10 or IL per cent
more goods than are being turned
out now.
A sustained building boom. of
course, would mean more employ
ment in that field but an optimistic
estimate would not put the number
Of new men that could be hired in
the near future at more than a mil
lion.
Mining, transportation. the distri-
button, service and miscellaneous
fields will naturally enjoy comula-
tive benefits if long-continued, high
geared production of heavy goods
supports and accelerates the demand
for consumer goods. How many
might be re-employed in those fields,
it is impossible to guess. The mum.
Der might be large but radical and
permanent changes have occurred
since 1929. High taxes have d~iscour-
aged some types of spending Import
ant in 1929 and unemployment. in
turn, seems destined to be a contri-
buting factor in keeping taxes high.
The thought that a genuine, sky
rocketing war boom might reveal
jobs for all does not appear to have
a very sound basis either. The de-
mand for workers which appeared
i. late 1915 and 1915 was partly
caused, at least, by the shutting-off
Of the labor supply which America
had been accustomed to receive each
year from abroad in the period pre-
ceding the war. During the year
ended June 80, 1914 our population
was increased 5000 by inhmigra-
ton. The following year the flow
had been cut to 1928. 900. Since 1881,
immigration has been negligible and
a complete cessation OF the influx
would have no appreciate effect on
the labor market at the present
time.
Shutting Dur eyes to dismal Stats
tics, however, it is possible to dream
of another golden era when every
n who wants a job in productive
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

TO rayons' which have n.s.
technical progress, nlaos g.s.,
VI women cosiery for ., -Eec
part, however, are stfr 'He rroy
the use of natural silk. Ts. asi t
IN the commodity marka. I-e '0o,
the cost of materials N "'S FajSe
per pair of hosiery NJ % Cen,
VIII be a proving-ground |to. .s%' L,
chemical marvel which W. ne os,
ed has all the required elas y ese
natural silk and in addiri.@' .
greater wear-abilitv oA Ia
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
TRADE WITH HOLLAND TO.

The Netherlands Eas. Indie NY
increase both its expor, VI
port trade with the Uni-ea 8 ~
during 1910, and the Ns.5sS S,a.1
empire as a whole is ey,Aa.,
maintain its position '.eo 4,
among world nations in yo,r. .''H:
trade with the United S,s,.9 d
ton B. Turck, Jr., president .. 10
land House Corp. Of the W. n.
lands, announced in a va
statement on Holland. An ~
trade. ~s'.a,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Bank Clearings Rise
$8,OOO,OOO In 1899

Bank clearings, usually considered
an excellent index to business con-
ditions, rose nearly $8,000,0 900 in 1899
over 1898, figures released by D. w.
Darden, secretary Of the Whining
ton Clearing House association,
show.
The clearings, which represent de-
bits to accounts, totalled 1872, 267,.
0SS.56, for the year, the figures re.
veal.
Clearings in 1888 totalled 1924.
672,2S4.74.
With the exception Of the years
Of 1887 1881 and 1880, the year 1899
had the greatest total bank clear
ings Of the decade just ended, the
figures show.
In 1897, the total bank clearings
$780, 03, 739. 80, while those of
1881, were $137,6 O,726.2S. The 1880
%clearings, greatest Of the decade,
were $171 GAG, S2227.
For the decade, known to some
as the Threatening Thirties and to
others as the Thriving Thirties, the
total bank clearings here were ST.
1913, 1888, 165.53.
The bank clearings for the decade
we're as follows:
1880 $171, 946,822.27.
1881 $137,670, 726.2s.
1882 $91,447, 5S6.86.
a1933 $74,s21,252.S3.
1894 $97, O,491.77.
1885 sos, 318 ,997.61.
1886 $122,409, 1881.
1897 $136, 500, 1880.
1888 1924, 672, 284.74.
1899 $132, 267,08S.56.
Total $1,198, S~88,165.53.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
URBAN HOUSING ADVANCES

Urban housing will exceed $1,000
units in i940 for the first time in
the last ten years, according to
Byron T. Shutz, president of the
Mortgage Bankers Association OF
America.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

Secretary of Commerce
Hopkins played semi,profss..>
baseball to finance part =. u
course at Grinnell college, 1or. l.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

These three nations account for
about 60 per cent Of our exports to
South America and u per cent Of
0ur imports from that continent.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Researchers Perfect
Method 10 Sharpen
1eIevision Eyes
Invention Also Will
Be Used 10 Measure
Light Of Stors
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press. .--
URBANA, ILL.,, Feb. 3.-The Uni
versity of Illinois announced today
that its electrical research labora-
tories had perfected a method to
increase the keenness of television
"eyes" and improve their response
to colors.
The development, the university
said, is to television what the newest
supersensitive panchromatic Aim is
to photography. Both increase the
response to light and at the same
time give more accurate translation
Of colors.
The invention will also be espe-
cially valuable for the electric eyes"
used by astronomers to measure the
light of stars. 1t will help the
sound quality of movies, too, by re-
ducing background noise and the
amount of amplification needed in
making the sound track record
audible.
The development, patented by the
university, was carried to completion
by Prof. Joseph T. Tykociner, known
as the father of the sound-on-film
for movies. The patent also named
Jacob Kunz, University of Illinois
physicist and pioneer in the dis
covery of the sensitive photoelectric
cell who died in 1898, and L. P.
Garner. research assistant, who left
the university staff last year.
Prof. Tykociner said his method
consisted of bombarding the light
sensitive potassium surface in
photoelectric cell or electric eye"
with atomic hydrogen and electrons.
THE bombardment is done in a
high vacuum" he said. Light
sensitivity of the potassium is in
creased 10 to so times"
At present. Prof. Tykociner ex-
planned, television "eyes" are using
q substance for their light-sensitive
surfaces which does not respond to
color like the human eye. Potas-
sium has response more like the
human eye and by the new treat
ment becomes as much as four times
as sensitive as the presently used
substance.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
John c. O'LouehIin
Honor Guest at Dinner

John G.. OIaughlin, IS. of 1904
Underwood street NV. was given
dinner last night at the Lotus Res
taurant by about so friends and as
sociates on his retirement from the
Engineer Division, Bureau of En-
craving and Printing. after Is years
Of service.
Mr.. OLaughlin, a native Of Re-
nova, Pa, has been a resident of
Washington for 80 years. Prior to
going with the Bureau of Engraving
he was employed at the navy yard
for IA years.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Robot Requested
TO Answer Queries
, About Weather
3Y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 3.-Fig-
uring his ofnce loses a lot OF
time answering the telephone
$50 to 5000 times a day, Fed
eral Weather Observer w. s.
Brotzman asked for a robot to
recite the forecast when the
phone rings.
The average days calls are
$50. Eight thousand came in
one day in January. 1887, when
the city's three rivers were
rising.
Mr.. Brotzman is looking for
a civic organization to back up
his request, saying ito get such
q service usually requires little
pushing down in Washington"
! He said Weather Bureaus in
New York, Chicago and Newark
are equipped with the "mechan-
icAI voice" and offices at Balti-
more and Detroit are getting
them.
Evening star., 1940-02-04

question M r. clarence "A. csFeu
STREET. William T. Stone, vice presi-
dent of the Foreign Policy Associa-
ton, will preside at the meeting, and
participate in the discussion.
Mr.. STREET served overseas with the
American Army during The WorM
War, and later was attached 10.
the archives division Of the Ardefa-
can peace mission at Versailles. Fol-
lowing the war he won a Rhodes
scholarship and later was q foreign
correspondent in Rome, Constan-
tinople, Paris and other European
cities.
Now on extended leave of absence
from the New York Times, Mr..
STREET is chairman of the National
Organizing Committee OF the In
ter-democracy Federal Unionists As
sociation formed last year to pro-
mote in this country the plan for
federal union of free peoples
throughout the world.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Plons Made for Dance

Plans for the annual spring dance
were made last night at the monthly
meeting of the st. Gabriel's Troop /,
Junior Catholic Daughters of Amer
lea, at the home of Miss Teresa
Childs, AS Upshur street NV. Mrs.
Ethel Balik, troop counselor, spoke.
Evening star., 1940-02-04


speak at Town
Hall, at the
Shorehan Hotel
ut 8 o'clock to-
night.
The Rev. Ed
mund A. Walsh,
S. j., vice presi-
dent of George
town University,
and Felix Nor
ley, editor of
the Washington
Post, will be
members of a
panel which will
Nv
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Dr.. Massey to Speak

DR.. L. M. Massey of Cornell Uni
versity, president of the American
Rose Society, will address the Po-
tomac Rose Society Wednesday at
3 pm. at the National Museum,
Constitution avenue and Tenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
STREET. Will Speak
AT Town Hall Toniqhf

Clarence K. Streit, foreign cor
respondent and author of Union
Now" in which he advocates estab-
lishment of federal union of all
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Hockodoy Is Loose Again!
Scutters Chickens for Peace

to horses back and turned west on
Fiftieth street, roaring his tidings
of peace and chickens with the cop
In pursuit.
At Sixth avenue he halted, and
began giving away more chickens.
Men and women held out their
hands. Kids scrambled into the
wagon and seized chickens. Feathers
flew. And finally the pufnng cop
arrived. Santa Claus showed q
chicken into his face.
Another policeman ran over.
I'm just giving away chickens,
shouted Santa Claus.
So they took him to the West
Folty-Seventh street police station.
The far-famed Woody-he was
booked by the gendarmes as Hook
aday-was charged with cruelty to
animals on the complaint OF an
agent Of the A. S. p. c. A. and then
was sent to Bellevue Hospital for
observation after he tried unsuc-
cessfully to escape in front OF the
station.
It was the first time, so far as
could be learned, that Hockaday
had used live chickens In his spec
tacular demonstrations. Chicken
feathers have been his medium here
tofore: He once dumped pounds Of
them on Secretary Of War Wood
ring and repeated the stunt ct Z
Detroit meeting Of the Rev. Charles
e. Coughlin.
In the past hs has called himssll
"chi8 Pow wow.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Capital Is Due to Escape Rain
On Coolest Easter in Years
~Churches to Hold Extra Services;
Most of Nation Shivers
Most Of Nation Shivers

What promised to be the coldest
Easter in II years blew in this morn
ing on great blast of polar air
which sent thermometers tumbling
throughout half of the country, but
Washingtonians took comfort in the
fact the weatherman foresaw no
rain.
The mercury was expected to 60.
down to 18 degrees this morning at
about the time early worshippers
turn out for mass in the Catholic
churches and Holy Communion in
the Protestant churches. A reading
Of 18 would be the lowest since the
Easter Of April l, 1923, when the
mercury reached IS.
The forecast called for increasing
cloudiness and continued cold to-
day. followed by fair and continued
cold tomorrow. Gentle to moderate
northwest and north winds were ex-
pected.
The raw March weather NAV turn
Evening star., 1940-03-24
picture on Page B-2.J
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 23.-Whoop-
ing and roaring, q man dressed in
Santa Claus costume topped with an
Indian headdress rode a creaking
wagon into Rockefeller Center today
and tried to distribute 600 live
chickens ''in the interest of world
peace"
TN Santa Claus from Santa Fe," 4"
he roared, "and I'm Civ. g away
chickens. Chickens with feathers
on 'em. Peace! The whole worlds
going to have peace"
Pedestrians In the plaza stopped.
The crowd around the SKATING rink
turned to the strange figure who
grinned amiably.
I'm old Santa Claus from Santa
Fe," he beloved. "On the G. T.,
though, I'm old Woody Hockaday.
Have q chicken, my friend"
He held out two birds, but specta-
tors SHE'D.
Come on, my friends, ," he shouted.
"Old Santa Claus chickens won't
bite you. Take one home for the
kiddies. Any chickens today? The
same old Santa Claus coming your
way"
A policeman came over. Santa
Claus tossed the chickens In the air.
1hen he opened . crate and freed
@ms more. Then another crate.
he chickens looked scared and
1odgsd smong the SPECTATOR.
e Eegt 0an&e leapo4 from WAGON
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Auditor Donovan Believed
Likely to Succeed Allen
List Of candidates.
For Commissioner
Continues to Grow
BY DON s. WARREN.

Maj. Daniel j. Donovan, veteran
District auditor and budget onlcer,
who for many years has been a key
official in the municipal setup, .ap-
peared last night as a likely" choice
as successor to Commissioner George
E. Allen, who will relinquish his post
April IS, according to talk in politi-
cal circles about town.
1t was emphasized there has been
no commitment made so far and
that there is growing list of names
being proposed for appointment to
the $1,000 commissionership, several
of whom, it was said, are gaining
strong backing.
Prominently listed among other
possibilities" were Coleman Jen-
nings, a past president of the WASH
ington Community Chest; Ringgold
Hart, an attorney in private practice
here, who formerly served as as
sistant corporation counsel Of the
District; Richmond B. Keech, vice
chairman of the Public Utilities
Commission; Seton Darr, a past
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Neutrality Law Joker
LET'S j. :. Vessels
Call al MarseiIIe
On Way Home From East,
They Garry Cargo and
Passengers Out, Not In
BY the Associated Press.

6y tne hSSOCldteU FISeb
NEW YORK, March q. The
American Export and the American
President Steamship Lines, it was
disclosed today, have for five months
permitted their ships to call at the
port Of Marseille, France, under a
technicality of the American neu-
trality law.
Spokesman for the lines said the
directors believed the service had
been legal, although it was under
stood State Department officials in
Washington are now studying the
question of whether an American
flag vessel can legally enter a bellig-
erent port.
The neutrality law prohibits an
American vessel from entering a
zone of combat defined by the Presi-
dent, and also from carrying pas
sengers and cargo into belligerent
ports. It does not deal, however,
with the carrying of passengers or
cargo out of a belligerent port.
Marseille, on the Mediterranean,
was not included in the combat zones
proclaimed by President Roosevelt,
but under the law is belligerent
port.
The American ships, it was dis
closed, have taken cargo and pas
sengers out Of the French port but
not into it. They have called there
on their way home from the Far
East or the Levant.
Company officials said they had
not been instructed by Washington
to omit the French port. The Amer
ican President Lines announced,
however, that its next homeward-
bound vessel, the President Gar
field, would omit the port.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Woman ond Boby Go
To Jail After Shooting
By the Associated Press.

HAZARD. KY, March 23.-Mrs.
Georgia Miller, 27-year- -old Eastern
Kentucky mountain wife, and her
5-week-old daughter, Lou Caroline,
were in the Perry County jail to-
day, the mother charged with shoot
ing and wounding her husband, Sam
Miller, 20.
Sheriff's Deputy Bill Cornett said
the woman told him she learned last
night her husband was in a road
house with another woman, and
carrying Lou Caroline and q rifle
IN her arms she trugged two miles
along q narrow mountain road to
the tavern.
The deputy said Mrs. Miller re-
lated she handed the baby to some
one inside the roadhouse and then
shot her husband. Mr.. Miller Is in
. critical condition. In q Hazard hos.
pital with . bullet wound in the
abdomen.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Recupture Of Lingshon
Claimed by Chinese
BY the Associated Press.


CHUNGKING, China, March "a
(Sunday).-The Chinese Central
News Agency reported today that
Chinese troops had recaptured Ling
shan, In the South China province
of Kwangtung, Friday morning and
that Japan suffered more than 1000
casualties in fighting in that sector
during the past five days.
Earlier, q Chinese spokesman said
the Japanese suffered heavy blows
in q thrust northward from Ling
shan and that the Chinese had re-
taken q number of vantage points
around the Manning -Yamchow high
way.
The Central News Agency said the
Japanese are In full retreat toward
their base 1T Yamchow.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Theft Of 5000 Ring
Solved; Puppy Is CuIprit
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, March %.
Police learned the identity Of the
thief" who made of with q sap
phire ring valued at 300 by George
Hughes, but didn't prosecute.
Mr.. Hughes told detectives IA
hours after he reported the ring
missing the culprit was neighbor's
playful puppy.
The ring had been tied up in a
handkerchief for safe keeping, he
explained, and the dog had ap-
parently tugged it from his pocket
during q romp. The handkerchief,
ring still safely inside, was found un-
der q table.