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Evening star., 1940-12-17
CONSUMPTION
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that couple of years should see
several million trained men.
II is realized that men can be
trained only as rapidly as there are
guns for them to master, housing
and clothing to keep them in health
and other equipment essential to
soldiers. But it is hoped that within
the next few months the manufae-
ture of ordnance and other military
necessities will take such a squirt
that speeding up in the man
power schedule will be logical.
During the World War 10000
men were sent to France between
April 6, 1917, and November IL. 1918.
but as veteran Army officers recall
with a tinge of bitterness. many of
these men were badly equipped and
lll-tralned.
ThoroughneSS in training and
adequacy in equipment. housing food
and every other essential are laid
down as minimum requirements in
the present peacetime military pro-
gram.
Its up to Congress" said a field
officer at selective service headquar-
terS who has been in touch with
every section of the country. The
system is we'll organized We can
deliver 100000 men instead of S0O,-
600 to the Army this year if Congress
so DEGREES and the War Department
is ready for them
The 100000 men which the selec-
tive service law permits to be mo-
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Wholesale Commodity
AVERAGE Saqs in Week

After remaining unchanged TO"
three consecutive weeks, the whole
sale commodity price index compiled
by the National Fertilizer Associa-
ton declined fractionally last week.
This index in the week ended
December IA was ITO, compared
with TIL in the preceding week,
TIL a month ago and IT'S a year
ago, based on the 1868 average
as 100 For the past month the
index has f1uctuated within the mar
row range of ITO to TIL.
Foodstuffs were a little higher last
week. but the effect of these in
creases was offset by declines in
farm products and in other COM
modities. Although price changes in
the food group were evenly divided,
with eight items advancing and eight
declining, upturns in several of the
more heavily weighted commodities
caused a small increase in the group
average
Rising prices for wool, burlap and
cotton goods were responsible for
an upturn in the textile index.
Higher prices for livestock were more
than offset by declines in cotton
and grain quotations; the net result
was fractional decline in the farm
product price index.
Recessions in cottonSeed meal and
cattle feed quotations lowered the
index representing the prices OF
miscellaneous commodities. The only
other group average to record a
change was the fertilizer material
index, which declined.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
'Firemen Called
To Silver Spring
Blaze ) Times

The Silver Spring Fire Depart
ment this afternoon was still fight
ing fire in the nearly completed
Piney Branch Apartments which
broke out at 1l:40 am for the third
time since it first was reported at
$40 o'clock last night.
Two fremen were overcome by
smoke in bringing the first blaze
under control The fire started in
the kitchen of a second-floo apart
ment, apparently because of short
circuit in the wiring, firemen said.
About am today the firemen
were called to the apartment build
ing second time. The high wind
is believed to have famed a smoul-
dering ember into flame. 1t was
quickly extinguished.
The men overcome Ey smoke were
Ernest Brandt, 26, and Staten Alden,
% Treated at the Washington
Sanitarium, their condition was re-
ported as not serious.
The apartment building is located
on Piney Branch road near Sligo
parkway, in Silver Spring. Until
the outbreak of fire for the third
time damage had been estimated at
about $4,000
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Beuverbrook
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that same measure of preparation
was carried cut in Germany last
Winter-tanks and dive-bombers to
destroy the French; the same
thoroughness will be employed
against us when the time comes"
Lord Beaverbrook told Britons
they were much too confident" and
added: There is no justification for
overconfidence now"
"It must be acknowledged that
Hitler is still military master of
Europe, but not quite SO much the
master he was" he went on.
American planes are arriving in
England "in an increasing flow
very, very many of them" Lord
Beaverbrook said
They are fine types of fighting
planes, he added, and some of them
are equal to the best we produce
here" He described the Curtiss
P-40 as the equivalent of the Brit
ish Spitflre in performance and
speed.
By 1912, he declared, 5000
American-built planes will have
reached Britain
Regarding Britaln's own produc-
ton, he said that III the months Of
August. September, October and
November the output was double
that of the same period last year.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Chicuqo Livestock

CHICAGO, Dec. u .yP, CU. S Department
total: A 600: fairly active; mostly 10
lower than Mondays average; top, 6.35:
bulk, 200-320-pound averages. 6.o0-35
comparable fS0-200- pound lights 6.15-3O:
most 0-l10-pound underweights cool ):
good packing sows. - pounds down gen
orally 5.35-65: heavier kind. 5.OO-"5
Salable cattle, $500: calves. l.5OO fed
steers and yearlingS slow but steady COM
paratively scarce general killing quality
improved over Monday: vet good grades
predomlnatlng in crop, several loads choice
TO prime here however. but relatively few
common offerings: early top - 90 paid
for strictly choice l,235-pound averages:
some, held higher; most early sales 1o75-
1850; with moderate supply OF value 10
sell at 13.I5 upward. stOckers and feeders
scarce. steady, medium to good heiferS
dull and weak: no strictly choice offerln2s
available; canner and cutter cows strong
TO Is higher: beef cows slow however;
common and medium grades selling very
CLOSE to strong weight cutters. latter
bringing 575 down: bulls active. weighty
sausage offerings UP to 80 VealerS also
stronger at Q .50-10.30.
Salsble sheep, 4 900: total, 600: open
!ng slow few early sales steady; load fed
choice wooled lambs held to a@5 and
slightly above: load good TO choice handy
Weight fed Texas yearlingS. SIS; SLAUGHTER
ewes scarce good to choice lght-weights
kuoted UP to so.
Evening star., 1940-12-17

the production decline in the fac
tories lis lmmaterial"
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels, addressing workers of the
big Blohm & VosS shipyards at
Hamburg, lauded their discipline
despite many nocturnal air alarms, -
and told them their forging of Ger
many's sea armor gave the best
proof of the failure of the British
night raiders to disturb Hamburg s
war production even at a single
point.
'The British have reported re-
peated Gripping raids on Ham
burg IN general and the sprawling
Blohm & Voss shipyards in par
ticular)
Informed sources said last nights
British raiders also dropped bombs
on Basel, Switzerland.
Reports from Basel said u
bombs were dropped on the CITY
and a nearby village. killing four
and lnJuring number of others.)
German bomberS. meanwhile,
were reported to have scored a hit
on 2,500-ton ship 300 miles west
OF Ireland and to have sunk
3,000-ton vessel 10 miles north of
the spot where this attack took
place.
The Germans said they had
doWned two British planes during
the last day and night, but had lost
none themselves.
German speedboatS fought a short
sklrmish with a superior force of
British destroyers in the western
waters Of the English Channel Sun
day night. informed quarters re-
ported, the skirmish ending when
the British vessels drew out of sight
of the Nazi craft, which returned to
their bases safely.
Germans also took occasion to
describe British propaganda" about
developments of the war in Greece
and Northern Africa as foolish" q"
The British accounts were held COM
pletely out OF proportion to the
limited military Importance of
local successes over Italian troops" "
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Big Stocks Depress Lard
To Seventeen Low
By The Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. l7.-Althoueh
domestic consumption of lard con-
tinues at record levels, the heavy
volume of hes slaughter and
mounting stocks during November
aid The first half of December have
pulled prices at Chicago to the low
est level N sever years, provision
experts said today.
Spot laru Yesterday was quoted at
AIS cents pound. compared with
6i2 cents year ago. In 1888 lard
sold below the 4-Cene level
Although exports have been cut
almost in nalf by the war. domestic
consumption IN November was about
81 per cent greater than a year ago.
thus lifting total disappearance of
lard above year ago levels. accord
ing to compilations by provision
experts.
However. nth hog slaughter at a
record nigh for the month in No
vember. production of lard increased
to 145.000,000 pounds with the re-
suit that stocks of lard in the
Uniteo States increased by more
than 8.50O,O00 pounds to 23l 1923 600,
compared with 1886 90 on Decem-
her /. 1889
Of that amount 3o.69s.000 was
bought from packers by the Gov
ernment hut undelivered and 49,
091 900 was held by the Government
in outside storage.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
British Raids Kill 10,
Injure SO, Nozis Say

BERLIN, Dec. II (P).-British air
raiders killed 10 persons, injured so
and inflicted damage with fire and
explosive bombs in attacks on West
ern and Southwestern Germany last
night. while Nazi bombers heavily
blasted two unnamed important"
cities in the British Midlands, the
Germans reported today.
The high command said Mann
helm, inland port on the Rhine,
and another undisclosed town bore
the brunt Of the British attacks. In
Mannheim a castle and hospital
were among the buildings damaged
and at the other place hospital
and two factories were hit.
The official account said, however,
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Mannheim
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that coastal command flyers carry
ing out heavy raid on the docks
and U-boats at Bordeaux early to-
day" did not sight land from the
time they left their base until they
we're near their target on the Bay
OF Biscay.
Effects of the heavy bombs were
such that observers in the aircraft
had the impression of large buildings
being lifted in their entirety into the
air before they disintegrated," it said.
When one raider came over the
docks and let go Salvo of large
callber bombs a wide column of
flame rose 10 a height of 300 feet.
Other bombs fell on corner of the
U-boats dock basis, followed by an
immense flash which produced a
bright glow in the sky over Bor-
deauX"
The attacks on Mannheim followed
what were claimed to be extensive
raids over Berlin, the Kiel shipyards
and the port OF Bremen the pre-
ceding night.
Five days ago, Royal Air Force
flyers bombed Mannheim and re-
ported the citys petroleum tanks,
her Rhine River docks and her ex-
tenslve railroad yards were hit.
Bad flying weather held the Luft-
waffle attacks on the British Isles to
minimum last night, and London
had only two short alarms.
King Tours Raided Areas.
An undetermined number of per.
sons were killed or injured when a
bomb struck a theater in a North
west English town. Several persons
were. believed trapped in one Western
MidlandS town in the wreckage OF
six houses shattered by explosives.
Two bombs fell in London. one
near a nurses home, but slight dam
age was reported.
In other parts of the country
little damage was done, and very
few casualties were caused" Joint
communique Of the Air Ministry and
Ministry OF Home Security said.
KING George VI yesterday toured
parts OF the devastated areas of
Bristol and saw how bombs had de-
stroyed nearly every building in a
e-Quarter- mile area.
The King stood on heap of
blackened ruins which had once
been the home of Mrs. Beatrice
Herbert while she told him how
she and her baby and three other
daughters were buried under tons of
rubble IN recent air raid.
"We're Not Downhearted,"
Il thought none of us would ever
come out alive, your majesty" the
woman said. 1T seemed DAYS
'rather than hours before we were
dug out
You are very brave woman" the
King told her as they walked to-
gether through the debris Uttered
section.
The King talked with many sur
vivors, and at several points his car
was slowed by crowds shouting:
We're not doWnhearted.
In one area, the King saw how
nearly every building for a quarter
If mile had been reduced to twisted
glrders and few SCARED walls.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Vivisection Society
Will Meet Toniqht

"The Cruelty and Futility of Vivi-
section and Vaccination" will be
discussed at meeting at 8 o'clock
tonight at the National Church of
Positive Christianity, 172e H street
NV, under the auspices of the
National Society for Humane Regu-
lation of Vivisection.
Speakers will include Clarence
Richard, managing director Of the
National Anti-Vivisection Society:
DR., Jonas E. Miller. director of the
Washington Health Foundation !;
Representative Lemke of North
Dakota and Charles Edward Rus
sell, author.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Middies' Yuie
Vacation Cut
To One Day
y the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, Dec. IT
There isn't much a Naval Academy
midShipman can receive for Christ
mas except vacation, ana this year
he's going to get little of that
Rear Admiral Wilson Brown,
academy superintendent, has writ
ten the midshipmens parents and
guardians. advising them not to
send periShable food The usual
gift staples-soX, ties. shirts-are out
because 'midshipmen are author
lzed to wear only regulation articles
of uniform and clothing And,
Admiral Brown reminded the par
ents, middies may have only cer-
tain articles in their rooms.
Midshipmen usually get two weeks
of for Christmas. But the ma
tional defense program stepped up
the academic schedule so the seniors
would graduate February instead
of in June, so leave this year will
be from 3:l5 pm. Christmas eve to
supper formation Christmas Day.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Retail Sales in 1899
1871 Over 1895 and
1917 Under 1929
Dollar Volume Placed
By Census Bureau
At S42,023,sla,000

Retail sales in the United States
last year totaled s42 ,o23 900, an
increase of % per cent over the COM
parable total of S32,79l ,2l2,000 in
1895, the Census Bureau reported
yesterday. In dollar volume, 1889
business was only l3 per cent below
that of 1929, when the general level
of consumers goods prices was
higher.
Nevada and Florida led the coun-
try in the rate of sales increase
since 1929, with gains of 27 per cent
and "a per cent, respectively. fol-
lowed closely by the District of
Columbia, with 81 per cent.
Other States ahead of 1929 in
dollar sales are South Carolina,
Delaware, New Mexico. Idaho, Vir-
glnia. Louisiana, New Hampshire,
Maryland and California, The in
creases for Virginia and Maryland
were, respectively. 6 per cent and l
per cent.
BY geographical divisions, the
South Atlantic States set the pace
for the country, with an increase
in sales since 1929 substantial enough
to offset entirely the 10-year diff
ference in the general level of con-
sumner goods, Dollar sales in the
South Atlantic States registered an
increase of approximately per
cent.
In 1889 retail stores in the United
States numbered 1,770904. a 20 per
cent increase since 1929. Most of
the gains have occurred since 1885.
The increase since 1929 included
120343 filling stations and 17l,03S
eating and drinking places Food
stores increased by 78.907. The
Census Bureau reported 22.376 more
fuel dealers and 6,727 more florists
than in 1929
Evening star., 1940-12-17

Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, but
whether any change in Franch
policy has taken place"
Until Otto Abetz, Adolf Hitler's
Ambassador to Paris, reports from
Vichy no information will be
divulged concerning Germany's Off
cial attitude toward the French up
heaval they said.
Seek to Fathom Motives.
I'VE are continuing our efforts to
fathom the motives which led the
French government while still in a
state OF war supplanted by an
armistice with us, to bring about a
change in that post which for the
purposes of French-German rela-
tions is the most important in the
French cabinet, namely that of
foreign minister"
When asked whether French Chief
of State Henri Philippe Petain, in
his recent message to Hitler. had ex-
planned the motives behind Pierre
Etienne Flandin's appointment to
succeed M. Laval, these sources said:
Apparently not"
They further intimated that since
the meeting between Hitler and
Marshal Petain at Tours-where, it
was said, mere principles had been
discussed-there had been no con-
crete agreement on details of rela-
tionS between Vichy and Berlin.
Extraordinary Interest.
German interest in Vichy de-
velopments is naturally extraor-
dinarily great" they added
Recapitulating French-German re-
lations since the defeat of France
which they described as the most
complete in modern history-the
authorized sources said GERMANY
wanted a new Europe in which
France would have an appropriate
place provided only that she under
took certain corrections in her his
toric attitude, notably that of enmity
toward Germany.
France. these sources said, ap-
parently was animated by the same
desire; both countries wanted a new
Europe of French-German co-opera-
ton.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
London Bank Eases
Ban on Trading in
j. ). Securities
Dealings in Deposit
Receipts Must Have
Official Approval
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Dec. 1.-THE ban on
dealings among British residents in
l22 different overseas and dollar
stocks and bonds was modified yes
terday by the Bank of England.
The bulk of the issues concerned
is in safe custody in Canada. and
trading will be carried on mainly by
means of security deposit receipts,
but the sanction of the Bank of Eng
land is necessary in all cases.
The list of issues "unfrozen" in
cludes International Nickel, Grand
Trunk Pacific bonds and debentures
of number of Canadian cities and
provinces.
The securities concerned are the
property of residents of the United
Kingdom. After the ban on these
dealings ordered in June the owners
deposited their securities with banks
They learned in July the securities
had been transferred to Canada for
safekeeping.
The Financial Times said edi-
torially that the list presented was
"a welcome addition" to that issued
three weeks ago, which was rather
disappointing for its exclusion of the
more popular American shares"
The newspaper said it was possible
that "a reasonably good American
market would be re-established in
the stock exchange.
Favorably rated news from the
economic and battle fronts of the
war kept prices pointed up in the
London securities market today.
Dollar securities took the fancy of
many dealers after the trading ban
on certain issues was removed.
Prices ended on a firm footing.
Renewed strength in most oil
stocks was linked directly to cheer
full reports of developments in the
Middle East and Albania. After
starting hesitancy because of profit
taking. the group advanced sharply
under leadership of Anglo-Iranian
Mexican Eagle and Canadian Eagle
Oil,
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Check Volume Declines
Below Previous Week
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Federal Reserve Board said
yesterday that banks in 274 leading
cities cashed SO 100000 worth of
checks in the week ended December
IL, compared with S9,83l,0 100000 in
the preceding week and S923O,000, 900
in the corresponding week last year.
Officials explained that the decline
from the preceding week was due to
heavy pay roll transactions the week
before. The volume of debts to in
dlvidual accounts also was slightly
under a year ago, apparently due to
the fact that the corresponding week
last year ended on December 13,
which was two days closer to Christ
mas than the similar week this wear.
BY Federal Reserve district. COM
parsons with last year Tin millions
of dollars follow:
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Friek Co. to Repair
Idle Coke Ovens
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
UNIONTOWN, Pa, Dec. 1.-THE
H. c. Frick Coke Co., subsidiary OF
the United States Steel Corp, dis
closed last night it is starting work
Immediately to renovate 400 coke
ovens at its nearby Collier mine,
which have been idle since World
War days.
The job will involve several hun
dred thousands of dollars and will
increase to about $500 the number
of ovens being used in this rich soft
coal mining area to supply needs of
the booming steel industry.
Coal will be trucked from a mine
at Kyle to supply the ovens.
Frick and other coal producing
subsidiaries of the corporation are
expected to turn out approximately
100000 tons of coal this year, the
greatest total in more than decade.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
| Small Decrease
In Insurance
Sales Seen
iy the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Dec ia decline
of one-half of l per cent in the
amount of new life insurance writ
ten in the first II months of 1910
as compared with the like 1889 pc
riod was reported by the Associa-
ton of Life Insurance Presidents.
The association. embracing 40
companies having 81 per cent Of
the total life insurance outstanding
in the United States, reported new
policies in the last II months to-
tailed s6,624 ,322 900. compared with
S6,656, ,352 900 in the first II months
of 1889
In November the new policies to-
tailed $500, ,912 900, a decrease of As
per cent from the $587 ,4o8, 900 in
November, 1899.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
BerIin's Interest Centers
On Changes in Policy

BERLIN, Dec. II LP.-Authorized
Nazi sources declared today that
Germany's interest in changes in
the French government at Vichy
centers on the question docs France
intend to continue advancing the
European policy which recognizes
the principle of German victory or
not"
These sources said Germany was
not interested in who supplanted
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Greeks
Continued From First Page.


armies on this front and in the
northern battle zone near the Yugo-
slav frontier said the Greeks were
pushing relentlessly ahead despite
freezing temperatures, snoWdrifts
into which men sank to armpits,
and hazardous systems Of supply
over icy mountain trails.
On the northern front where the
Greeks are driving toward the mid
Albanian base of Elbasani from the
mountains near Lake Ochrida OH
the Yugoslav frontier, Italian posi-
tions were being shelled with am
munition taken from captured Ital-
ian supplies.
Greek planes flying less than
200 feet above the ground are
strafing Italian troops mssSed in
ravines on the northern front
military dispatches to Salonika
reported today. One heavy bomb
fell on an ammunition dump. the
explosion killing many Italians,
they said)
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Bank Loans Extend
Rise for Eleventh
Consecutive Week
Financing Of Industry
For Defense Output
Is Major Factor
sy the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
Financing of industry for defense
production caused the eleventh con-
secutive weekly rise in commercial,
industrial and agricultural loans of
banks last week.
The Federal Reserve Board said
that in banks of 101 leading cities
the gain in the week ended Deem
ber IL amounted to S50,00O,0O0. In
the eleven weeks. the increases to-
tailed S4l6 100000 and brought the
total of business loans in these cities
to S4992 900 900, which is $576,OOO,-
600 more than year ago.
Largest gains last week were Sl8,-
100000 in New York City and So
100000 in the Chicago Federal Re-
serve District.
The boards statement gave the
following summary of assets and
liabilities on December II together
with changes for the week and with
the same week last year, in millions
OF dollars:
Evening star., 1940-12-17
9. W. Sellers and Wife
Mark 50th Weddino Doy

George w. Sellers, secretary of
the Association of Retired Police
men, and Mrs. Sellers last night
received congratulations of friends
at their home, 4405 Kansas avenue
NV, on their 50th wedding ami
versary.
Mr. Sellers edited the old Police
Bulletin prior to his retirement in
1880, He and Mrs. Sellers were mar
ried IN Baltimore by the Rev. Henry
l.. Nice, father of former Gov. Har-
ry Nice of Maryland.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Washington Exchange
SALES.

Potomac Electric Power 5laT pfd.-
5 at lis.
Lanston Monotype-20 at %.
Garfinckel pfd.-4 at 274.
Capital Traction lst $500 at
1857,
Evening star., 1940-12-17

ciation of SECURITIES Dealers, Inc, which
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
transactions or firm bids or offers, but
should indicate approximate prices. and
unless otherwise indicated. are as quoted
by the sponsors or issuers.
'Asterisk indicates, mot quoted by
sponsors or aSSuers