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Industry
Continued From Page B-5.)

ton of munitions and other war
equipment.
AS incentive for further expan-
sion of shipbuilding yards, approxi-
mately s500,000,000 in additional
United States Navy contracts were
placed, increasing the already large
backlog of future work in that re-
juvenated and booming industry.
A sample of what might be forth
coming in way of new plant and
equipment expenditures when the
defense outlay gets up speed was
found in the announcement Pack
ard Motors would spend 10000 900
to get into production of airplane
motors.
Uncle Sans procurement men
continued to place hefty orders for
cotton goods and other textiles to
clothe and house the growing mill
tary forces. Cotton dealers espe-
cially were grateful, because the
big continental market under Nazi
control has been closed to export
of the South's chief farm product.
Clinging to climbing factory pay
rolls, June figures on retail trade
revealed striking improvement. The
Federal Reserve Board reported de-
partment store sales for four weeks
ended June 20 were 10 per cent
ahead of June, 1899, figures. Rec
ord-breaking June sales were re-
ported by the big Sears Roebuck
mail-order house, with an increase
of lis per cent over the 1899
month.
Evening star., 1940-07-07
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK July 9. Up.-The free Brit
ish pound today resained 9 cents Of Fri
days 14-cent drop
The Canadian dollar which ignored
sterling's decline yesterday. added u cent
at S71s United States cents The Swiss
franc improved .0l of a cent,
Foreign money dealers emphasize the
smallness OF trade in sterling in explain :
Ing the wide fluctuations Sales that in
the old days of freer trade were regarded
as lnsigniflcant were now sufficient TO
swing the rate cents at time
Closing rates follow Great Britain In
dollars. Others in cents):
Canada
- Official Canadian Control Board rates for
United States, dollars: buying 10 2er cent
premium, selling IL per cent premium
equivalent to discounts on Canadian dol
lars IN New York OF buying 9.9I per cent,
market l2h. per cent discount. or s7.s7Ia
United States cents.
, Great Britain. cables. 377: Finland
1928; Greece son: Hugary 17.65n: italy
Sweden 23ss: Switzerland 226s; Yuso.
Latin America
Argentina official oa.77. free el,4o;
81 Brazil official sos. free 5.10 Mexico
, Japan as.4s: Hong Kong 1882; shans-
Rates in spot cables unless otherwise
indicated) Nominal.
Evening star., 1940-07-07

few medium and good grades mixed
9.75-l025; odd head fat slaughter
ewes, 800 down; old thin sheep as
low as 100.
Grain Market.
Opening prices were: Wheat, No.
2, red, winter, garlicky, spot, domes-
tic, bushel, old, 80; July, new. n
Settling prices were: Wheat, No. 2,
red, winter, garlicky, spot, domestic,
bushel, old, 83.
Closing prices we're: Wheat, No. 2,
red, winter, garlicky, spot, domestic,
bushel, old, SO; July, new. 76la.
Corn, No. 2, yellow. domestic,
bushel, 73a76. Western billing at a
premium over this price. Cob, corn,
barrel 3.50a3.70; country prices re-
ported, 3.3Oa35O.
Oats, bushel, No. 2, white, domes-
tic, 5la56; Pacific Coast, No. l.
white, 72a74. On all sales of oats to
the local trade. excepting those on
track, there is an additional charge
of 1s4 cents per bushel for storage
and elevation, which Is paid by the
buyer.
Rye, No. 2. bushel, 55a6o. Barley
bushel, 45a47. Hay, ton, 14.00a17 90
Wheat straw, ton, 9.50a10O0.
Flour, barrel, winter, patent, $40
a5.70; winter. straight, 4.20a4 As;
spring, patent, 5.o5a5.3o: spring
straight, 4.80a5.00; hard winter
patent, 470a490; hard winter
straight, 4.50a4.75; rye flour, dark
to white, 330a4.10.
Mill feed, ton, spring bran, 27.O0a
$500; standard middling, 30.o0a3l 90
Evening star., 1940-07-07
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO, July 8 (P,.-Butter, 1,45s.-
709; eggs, 15,62S: prices nominally un-
changed; no trading on Saturdays during
Potatoes, 90; on track 3e1: total U. S.
SHIPMENTS. 584: new stock supplies rather
sections, steady; Cobblers and long white.
all sections. slightly stronger: sacked, per
hundredweight, Idaho Bliss Triumphs, u
2.15-35; .virginia Cobbiers. u. s. /,
l.55-60; North Carolina Cobblers, q. s.
l. 1.50-60;. Oklahoma Bliss Triumphs, fair
bama Bliss Triumphs, U. s. i. 1869 O5;
Missouri Cobblers: fair to generally good
quality; 1850; Missouri Bliss Trumphs,
generally good quality. 1.35-4O; Kansas
Cobblers fair quality 11O-2O; Kansas
Bliss Triumphs, fair quality, 1.15.2O.
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Charter No. 2038.
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Not quoted by sponsors or issuers.
ciatiop of Securities Dealers, Inc. which
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
transactions or drm bids or offers. but
should indicate Approximate prices and
unless otherwise indicated are as quoted BY
the SPONSORS or issuers.
Evening star., 1940-07-07
New York Produce

NEW YORK. July 6 LP,.-Dressed poul-
Try steady. Fresh and frozen prices un-
changed =
Live poultry by freight. nominal no
sales. BY express. steady. Broilers. crosses,
1919; Leghorns 10.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Midwestern Boycott
Of Maryland Hinted

The suggestion that Midwestern
States might boycott Maryland
products in retaliation for any at
tempts Senator Tydings and other
Maryland members of Congress may
make to defeat bill to open the
District milk market to dairy farm
ers In all parts of the country was
made yesterday by Representative
Schultz, Democrat, of Indiana.
Aroused by speech Monday by
Senator Tydings before the Mary
land-Virginia Milk Producers Asso-
citation, Mr.. Schultz said the recent
reduction in the price of milk from
IA to 13 cents quart in many
Washington stores was a "camou-
flage." He repeated his prediction
that milk delivered to the door here
will soon sell for IS cents a quart,
and issued the following statement
regarding his bill to open the WASH
ington milk market:
MY chief object Is to give the
thousands of farmers in Maryland
and Virginia-the real honest-to.
goodness farmers, not the 'highfa-
lutin' farmers-an opportunity to
participate in the Washington mar
ket.
Il wonder how the Senator from
Maryland would feel if the people
of Indiana. Ohio, Illinois and Wis
consin - the big milk-producing
States-would say to the manufac-
turers in Maryland: In view of the
attitude taken by your Senator in
favor of barring the milk produced
in our States, what is to prevent us
from barring the products manufac-
tured in Maryland?'
Il cannot understand the Sena-
tor when he says my bill is not
in the interest of the people of
Washington. Does he infer the peo-
pie of Washington don't want a re-
duction in the price of milk?"
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Oil Price Hike Attempt
Is n. R. A. Without
Curb, Arnold Charges
Companies Counsel
Says They Are Just Trying
To Remove Distress Evil
By the Associated Press.

BY the AsSOCldteu fleSS
Thurman Arnold, Assistant At
torney General in charge of anti
trust enforcement. told the Su-
preme Court yesterday that an
effort by Midwestern oil companies
to raise prices constituted "an at
tempt to set up the N. R. A. again
without control
Speaking vigorously, Mr.. Arnold
said: Industries all over the coun-
try are watching this case to see
IL some new defense of fair trade
is going to come out which will
entitle them to stabilize prices at
the levels which they think nor
NAL"
He added that practically every
industry in this country is on a
surplus basis" and that if the oil
companies could raise prices by
agreement the other industries
would follow the same procedure.
This case," he shouted, repre-
sents the most dangerous threat to
the enforcement of the antitrust
laws ever seriously presented to this
court"
Mr.. Arnold argued after William
j. Donovan, counsel for the oil COM
panies, had contended that they
had engaged only "in voluntary
cooperative effort" to remove a
competitive evil-distress gasoline.
Mr.. Donovan, who was in charge
of antitrust prosecutions in the
Justice Department during the
Coolidge administration, said the
record contains no substantial COM
petent evidence that the combina-
ton either in purpose or effect un-
reasonably restrained trade within
the meaning OF the Sherman Anti
Trust Act"
The Federal District Court at
Madison, Wis, convicted II major
companies and five individuals OF
conspiracy, in violation of the Sher-
man Act, to raise the price of gaso-
line sold in 1856 in 10 Midwest
ern States. The Seventh Federal
Circuit Court set aside the convic-
tions and ordered a new trial. The
oil companies appealed to the Su-
preme Court to dismiss the Gov
ernment's suit.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
Continued debate on $1,13S, 900 900
independent offices appropriation
bill.
Foreign Relations Committee con-
siders Finnish loan bill.
Labor Committee hears Philip
Murray, c. I. o. leader, testify on
Wagner Act amendments.
Judiciary subcommittee continues
hearings on anti-lynching bill.
House:
Debates SLOT, ,000, 900 appropriation
bill for State, Commerce and Justice
Departments.
TOMORROW.
May take up Export-1mport Bank
loans to Finland and China, II
pending appropriation bill is passed.
Special subcommittee, executive,
on amendments to Hatch law, 10
am.
Commerce Subcommittee hearing
on Newark Airport, 10:30 am.
House:
Expects to consider Ramspeck
civil service bill.
Smith Committee continues in
vestigation Of National Labor Re-
lations Board, 10 am.
Labor Committee considers
amendments to Wagner Act, 1880
Am, -
Evening star., 1940-02-07
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. THE British
government served notice on 400. 1000
British school children today that
their wartime holiday must end to
save them from growing de-
moralization"
Lord de la War;, president Of the
Board of Education, announced in
the House of Lords that school at
tendance for children still living in
the so-called danger areas will be
made compulsory.
The new policy was announced in
reply to a question from the Arch
bishop of Canterbury.
Out of nearly 1,250,000 children
now in the danger areas-those from
which children were removed early
in the war to places safer from air
raids-about 100000 are getting nc
school1h Do L. War; said.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Wartime Holiday Is at End,
Britain Warns 400, 900 Pupils

De La War; said that whatever
the risks of air raids-and he said
he thought they still were great
I'VE must see that every child goes
to school somewhere"
IF parents are not willing to
send their children to the compara-
tive safety Of reception areas, then
they must send them to school in
town." he said. "The moment the
children can be accommodated, at
tendance must be enforced"
Full-time schooling is the objec-
tive, De La War; said, but half
time provision for all children by
April will be an acceptable mini
mum.
Efforts are to be made to have
school buildings commandeered for
war purposes returned, and In some
cases the same buildings may be
shared by schools and civil defense
orgsnNation.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Nazi Peace Bid Rumors
Are Received in Oslo
BY the Associated Press.


OSLO, Feb. THE Stockholm
correspondent of the Oslo newspaper
Tidens Tegn said yesterday that
rumors of German peace bid were
taking shape.
The paper said reports from The
Hague, Brussels and Berlin indicated
some neutral state would offer the
peace plan reported drawn by a
committee established by Field Mar
shal Hermann Wilhelm Goering and
approved by Adolf Hitler in January
The plan was reported to have
six points:
l. No country would claim war
damage.
2. Economic problems must be
solved Immediately.
3. The Sudeten regions Of the
former Czecho-slovak republic would
remain German.
4. Poland would cede to Germany
all territory which was German be-
fore the Versailles treaty.
S. A plebiscite would be held in
Austria under Austria -German-Brit-
ish-French control.
6. A British French German COM
mission would decide on the Czech
Polish and Slovak states Of the
future in order to guarantee a peace
full attitude toward Germany.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Womun Dies After 18th
Blood Transmission
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. IA medical
case that caused a Nation wide
search for donors of an uncommon
type of blood ended in death today
for Mrs. Melanie Cournand, 80.
The victim, wife of Edouard Cour-
nand, wealthy importer, had been
i'll for 10 months from sub-acute
bacterial endocarditis caused by a
streptococcus veridans germ. She
died after her eighteenth transfu-
sion.
Thousands of persons responded
to newspaper and radio appeals for
volunteer donors who had suffered
from the infection and recovered,
but in most cases their blood was
not the proper type.
In the quest for donors, Miss
Lynne Crider, a friend, visited near
ly 200 hospitals in Cleveland, Co.
lumbus, Chicago and st. Louis.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Cance||ing War DebI
For Navy Bases in
Caribbean Urged
1t. Comdr. OIch's Plan
Would Not Impair
lsIonds' Sovereignty

A suggestion that the United
States accept foreign naval estab-
lishments in the Caribbean as part
payment of European World War
debts was advanced today by 1t.
Comdr. Isaiah Olch of the Navy.
Writing in the semi-official United
States Naval Institute proceedings,
he said such a transfer need not
impair the sovereignty of the island
possessions themselves.
Proposed in Congress.
Taking over the entire British
and French island colonies as pay
ment on the debts has been pro-
posed in Congress.
1T is hardly probable that we
shall ever again condone the action
OF our legislators in purchasing ter
ritory and its resident population
as we did in the past" Comdr
Olch commented.
But it might be logically possible
to exchange in return for the can
collation. of the debts the abandon
ment Of whatever naval establish
ments along our shores our debtor
nations might have"
Bases Not Designated.
His article did not specify what
foreign bases should be transferred
to the United States, or define the
extent Of "our shores" Within
range of "our shores" are French
fishing islands off the lower Atlantic
Canadian coast and British-owned
Bermuda, as well as French, British
and Dutch islands Of the Caribbean
area.
"The acquisition of these nava,
bases for our own use without i'm
pairing the sovereignty of the pos
sessions themselves or the absolute
destruction of these naval facilities
would be of material advantage tc
us in the furtherance of our policy
OF decided interest in the Carrib-
bean and adjacent areas" the COM
mander wrote.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Dr.. Mann and Wife
To Garry Rival Flags
Into African Wi|ds
Explorers Hope Zoo
Head Cun Outmoneuver
Geoerophers' Bonner
BY w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr

The flag presented by the Ex-
plorers' Club last night to Zoo Di-
rector William M. Mann may or may
not win first honors on DR.. Mann S
Misunderstanding expedition to Lii
IBERIA, Africa.
DR.. Mann warned his fellow ex-
plorers at their stag o6nner in the
Army Navy Club that his wife,
Lucille Quarry Mann, also had been
presented with a flag-the emblem
of the Women Geographers' Society.
However" DR.. Mann said, ac-
cepting the flag, I'VE men must stick
together. Ill do my best to put our
flag several feet further east into
the Liberian jungle than the Women
Geographers' flag. If the worst
comes to the worst, possibly I can
compromise by planting them side
by side"
Il sincerely hope So" said the
presiding officer, Capt H. T. Cowl-
ing. Perhaps an old campaigner
like you can win for our side by a
bit of strategy"
Il know!" said DR.. Mann. Maybe
my wife will let me carry the COM
pass. III lead the party in a circle
through the jungle, and when we're
headed toward the coast I'll say with
gallant gesture:
Ladies first, my dear!'"
1t sounded like a good idea, but
the betting odds were slightly against
DR.. Mann as he took his seat with
the flag folded proudly before him
DR.. and Mrs. Mann were given the
emblem to take on the Smithsonian
Observation-Disclosures expedition tt
Liberia, on the west coast of Africa
They plan to sail from New York
next week, accompanied by two keep.
ers from the Zoo, for several months
of collecting specimens in west coas
jungles.
Flag No. 101 of the Explorers
Club was brought from the New
York headquarters of the organiza
tion for presentation to DR.. Manr
by jeremiah Hunter, an officer o.
the New York group. Mr.. Hunter
wished DR.. Mann success on his ex.
pedition and good luck when it cam,
to planting the flag ahead OF the
woman geographers. He seemed
to think the husband might neee
luck.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Barry Asks Dies Probe
Of Finnish Relief Groups
0y the Associated Press.

~ tue ASSOClaLeQ FTcSS.
Charging that the name of former
President Herbert Hoover was being
"exploited" in connection with Finn
ish relief, Representative Barry.
Democrat, Of New York called on
the Dies committee yesterday to in
vestigate the operations of Finnish
relief organizations and other groups
that have been created to assist
foreign countries"
The New Yorker, in a letter to
Acting Chairman Starnes, Demo-
crat. Of Alabama, of the committee,
recalled that sympathetic appeals
for aid to Belgium preceded
Americas entry into the last war
and said he was Convinced that the
propagandists have found new
Belgium in brave little Finland and
that every effort is being made to
exploit the unfortunate situation of
that country so as to inflame Ameri-
can public opinion"
"Our society people from Boston
to Palm Beach, most of whom be-
lieve that feeding needy Americans
through the w. p A. is bankrupting
the Nation, are in frenzy trying
to serve on relief committees for
Finland" he added.
Mr.. Barry said that in the last
war the allies, by persuading Ameri-
cans to participate in relief work,
"made them, unconsciously identify
the allies cause as the cause of
America"
Isn't 1t strange coincidence, !"
Mr.. Barry continued, that Herbert
Hoover is getting as much publicity
In connection with Finland as he
did with Belgium during the last
war? OF course, I don't question
Mr.. Hoover's motives. I believe,
however, that his name is being
exploited"
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Gov. Olson Refuses Delay
In Bion Extradition Case
b the Associated Press

~ tne ASSOClAteQ PfeSS.
SACRAMENTO, Calf, Feb. T.
Gov. Culbert L. Olson refused yes
terday to delay an extradition hear
ing for William Bioff, Los Angeles
labor official, and set February IL
for the hearing.
Counsel for Bioff, whose return
to Illinois is sought for an uncom-
pleted sentence after his convic-
ton 18 years ago Of pandering,
argued for continuance. Counsel
contended California and Illinois
could exercise no jurisdiction until
the disposition of income tax eva
sion charges now pending in Fed
eral Court at Los Angeles. His
trial on those charges is set for
May %.
Gov. Olson said the conclusive
factor in his findings that the
State could exercise jurisdiction at
this time was statement filed by
United States Attorney Ben Harri-
son of Los Angeles.
The Governor quoted Mr.. Harri-
son as saying the indictment OF
"Biof shall not influence your de-
cision In one way or the other.
We neither favor nor oppose the
extradition."
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Obligation 10 Aid
Russia Is Denied
By Nazi Sources
No Military Agreement
Exists, Authorized
Berlin Circles Say
LOUIS P.LOCHNER,
ssociated Press Foreign Correspondent.

Associated Press Forelgn correspondent
BERLIN, Feb. 7.-Germany has
made no commitments to extend
military or technical aid to Russia
in the war against Finland, au-
thorized German sources said today.
No military agreement whatever
exists between Germany and Russia,
it was said.
This does not mean a cooling Of
of relations between Berlin and
Moscow. these sources said, but
merely public restatement of what
was emphasized at the beginning of
the Finnish conflict. 1t was stated
then that Germany is disinterested
in the Russian-Finnish war, al
though she has full understanding
of Russia's position.
Temporary Partnership.
Germans mostly regard the part
nership with Russia as a political
necessity for the duration of the
war, but active participation against
Finland on Russia's side would be
decidedly unpopular.
Authorized sources insisted that
no military or technical aid was be-
ing given Russia in the Finnish war.
THE Reich never has been asked
for military assistance or technical
aid of military character and no
agreement exists for extending such
help" these sources said
Reports received here had indi-
Gated that part of the Russian
strategy was to frighten the Firms
by holding up the prospect of Ger
man intercession on the Russian
side.
No Basis for Mediation.
Yesterday authorized informants
said the German government had
decided there was no basis for me-
diation in the Russian-Finnish con-
f1ict. This decision, it was stated,
was reached after the German
ENJOYS to Moscow and Helsinki had
returned here to make personal re-
ports on the situation.
The same sources denied reports
of German intrigues in the Balkans.
They charged that the French Near
Eastern Army under Gen. Maxine
Weygand, which they called the
Balkan Army" was inadequate
for any real success in that region
and merely served the purpose of
keeping Southeastern Europe in a
state Of uneasiness and disturbing
its normal relations with Germany
Weygand's army is concentrated
mostly in Syria.
The question Of German-Russian
military cooperation was thrown
into the field of diplomatic con-
lecture with the surprise signing OF
the German-Russian 10-year non
aggression pact last August %.
A month later, as Russia and
Germany were dividing Poland be-
tween them, their armies Cooper
ated in establishment of a mutual
frontier in the conquered territory
On September 20 the two powers
signed a three-point treaty further
cementing the Moscow Berlin part
nership. 1t provided for co-opera-
ton between the two powers to urge
Britain and France to end the wal
and to restore peace; for estab-
ishment Of mutual frontier in
Poland, and for an economic pro-
gram worked out so that "the vol
ume of the German-Soviet exchange
OF goods will again attain a high
peak" Supplementary agreements
have provided for the supply OF
large quantities of fodder and other
essential supplies by Russia to the
Reich.