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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14

Employment Boosted
By A. c. Spark Plug
snecial DISPATCH TO The Star.

FLINT. Mich. Oct. l4.-Some
1000 employees are now on the pay
roll compared with 1850 at this
time last year. L. Clifford Goad.
president and general manager OF
A. C. Spark Plug Co., declared today.
Spark plug production and sales
during the past month, he said, were
higher than in any normal month
in the company's 32-year history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14
B. & o. Loodines Drop
Below 1899 Levels
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 1.-THE Bal
timore & Ohio Railroad reported
today 52,768 freight cars handled
during the week ended October II
compared with 57908 handled dur
ing the corresponding week last
year. For the week ended October
the total was Sc, 1913.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14

molding public
opinion and in
creasing con-
sumner accept
ance of products,
in an address be-
fore Washington
Chapter, Char
tered Life I'm
derwriters, at a
luncheon at the
Cosmos Club this
noon. He stated
that in 1889 ad-
vertising helped
the retail indus
try to sell S37,-
On0 OO0 600 Of
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CTS Tons Of Lead Sold

NEW YORK, Oct IA LP.-St
Joseph Lead Co. reported 275 tons
of Southeast Missouri pig lead sold
Friday at $50 per 100 pounds, East
st. Louis; ITS tons at $3.50, New
York, and 225 tons at the New York
average.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14

Advertising Values Stressed.
Seneca NJ Gamble, advertising
manager of the Massachusetts, Life
Insurance Co., stressed newspaper
advertising as a prestige builder in
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Unit OF trading.
In bankruptcy recevrship being reoreanzed und.
Bankruptcy Act or securities
Rates of dividend the foregong the annual
sements based the asst quarterly
included - ~N N-'-Ne-Oe "Ie ho'
Ex dividend Ex rshts. extra or extras ae
cumuated dividends
TINS year fPayabe
Accumulated dividends paid declared this wear " sA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14
New York Cotton
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Oct. 14-Cotton fu-
lures dipped slightly today. Octo-
Der liquidation and hedging met
trade and local support. Leading
spot interests were active on both
sides of the market. Though rec
ord September consumption was
somewhat disappointing, being l5,-
600 bales under trade expectations.
Midafternoon prices were 2 to 4
points lower; October, ga; Deem
Der, GAL; July, 9O6.
CottOnseed Oil.
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures re-
and made moderate advances in forenoon
dealings today. Light hedging Appeared
on the upturn. but generally sellers were
heSitant
Noon prices were up . to 2 points, octo-
Der > 40: March. 5.54 May. $50
Crude oil was bid A. cents in the
Southeast and valley. Texas bid 4.l5-@5
cents depending upon location.
New Orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS Oct IA tP-Cotton
futures were easy here today under. hedge
selling. At noon prices were unchanged
fn naf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14

Der last year; and in the New Eng
land States. 4,724l48. compared
with 4,64O,996 and 4,957,516.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14

Cash wheat, No ! hard, .s6-s6ig. Corn,
old. No ! yellow, 65-66as: No ., 65-66 IA;
No 3. 1855; No f.. 65a4: No l white,
76i4-'4: sample srsde;. So new; No 1
yellow, 6@I7-63. No. 5. I'll n; sample grads'
33rs: sample grade, csl4: No. 2 white.
"a No 4, 33-33l.; sample grade, 2s9,.-
as. No 3. "a No. T. 80 No / mixed heavy.
34i4-I2: No. l red heavy. 34i4-la; No.
] red extra heavy. 34i4 Barley. maltins.
4S-63 nominal: feed, 35-47 nominal No.
/. 81: sample srade, A.: No. . mailing.
81 soybeans, No. > yellow, 71h4-19; No
q 15i2-7Sl4 Field seed tper hundred
weight. nominal: Timothy seed. 3 So:
alsike cloverseed. 9 0G-l 90: fancy red top.
75O-S 90; red clover. s.00-10.00. Buck
wheat, No. -. l OIL Oh.
Baltimore Quotations.
BALTIMORE. Oct. IA lN.-Wheat. No.
. red winter. garlicky spot, domestic.
91ia; october, Ola. Corn, 1881.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14

Cottonseed oil opened steady October
4.S5b; December. 4 a3h' January, 495b;
March. 5.04b: May, 5.13b.
b Bid.
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Approximate Scles Of Stocks the NJ Y Stock Exchonoe
HOO AA.------. 10000 II 200 Noon 200 900
100 M.------- 100000 200 Pm - 500 600
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futures were easy here today under. hedge
selling. At noon prices were UNCHANGED
a naf nu-er
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Scattered Fuvorites
Rise for Time, but
Retreat Later
Stock Averages
60-Stock Range Since 1927:
By VICTOR EUBANK,

Compiled by the Associated PressJ
Evening star., 1940-08-13
$1,000, 900 Cable 10 Link
D. E., Baltimore Phones

A new underground cable between
Washington and Baltimore is part
of new 1910 construction program
to cost a total of $21 900 900, it was
announced in New York yesterday
by the long lines" department of
the American Telephone & Tele-
graph Co., which is expanding facil.
tiles in step with national defense.
Old wartime records of the flow
of telephone and telegraph messages
were studied to estimate increased
loads out of Washington and other
vital centers, and from large indus
trial centers, railroads, seaports and
troop concentration points, the As
sociated Press reported.
The 81 900 900 cable between here
and Baltimore will follow a different
route from other lines and provide
valuable alternate path along the
Washington-New York route. The
new line is expected to be in opera
ton by the end of the year.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
| Ex-CIown Does
Act at Zoo With
Charging Animal

It took a former circus clown to
turn an animals wild charge into
comedy act at the Zoo yesterday.
Roy Jackson, now a keeper OF the
animals he used to exhibit In the
sawdust arena, was feeding a here
tofore docile cross between a jack
ass and zebra
Suddenly. the beast lowered its
head and galloped for Mr.. Jackson,
who dropped his bucket and fell
back on his circus training.
The keeper grabbed the animal
under the neck and hung on. Circus
fans will remember the trick1a
howling clown clinging to the neck
of a kicking jackass. The most i'm
portant part of the trick is to hold
the jackasS so he can neither bite
nor land kick.
The Zoo animal was temporarily
baff1ed. Mr.. Jackson took advan-
tage of the moment to dive through
. gate and escaped injury.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Girl, 9, Wants
To Give Senators
Lowdown on War
~ the Associated Press.

BY ire Associated fTeSS.
NEW YORK, Aug. L3-If Jo-
sephine Allfrey, 9-year-old refugee
from the battle of Britain, has her
way, the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee is going to get the low
down on what war means to school
kids.
She is going to Washington today
with Mrs Harold T. Pulsifer, chair
man of the Women's Mercy Ships
Committee, who will urge passage of
the Glass bill to amend the Neutral
ity Act to allow American ships to
evacuate Europe's child refugees.
II would like to tell the Senators
what it means to be over there" "
said Josephine. Its so much finer
than living in cellar"
Josephine. her brother Philip. S,
and four other British children are
living with Mrs. Pulsifer in East
Harpswell, Me. Their parents re-
manned in England
Josephine and her brother were
born In the United States while
their father. Robert E. Allfrey, was
employed as an airplane designer at
the Curtiss plant in Buffalo, N. Y.
They returned to London five years
ago.
The girl said her father was en-
ployed in England as an airplane
designer when the war started and
Il hope he still is Her mother, she
said, is an ambulance driver.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
9Th Military Mission
Established by U. 5.
In Latin America
Two Air Corps Officers
Are Assigned to
Legation in Quito

The United States Government
has established its eighth military
mission in Latin America. Army Or
ders revealed today. with the as
signment of two Air Corps officers
to the Legation in Quito, Ecuador
Maj. Walter K. Burgess, now serv-
ing sat March Field, Calf, and First
1t. Harry N. Renshaw, on duty at
Randolph Field, Tex, were ordered
to Washington for a short training
period with the Intelligence Section
of the War Department prior to
going to Quito.
Military observers here believe
this is move by both countries
toward the further development of
an army and an air force in Ecuador
which could cooperate with the
United States in the defenses of the
Panama Canal Zone Ecuador is
within short flying range of the
Canal.
When asked about the new mis-
sion, Capt. Colon Eloy Alfaro, Equa-
dorian Ambassador here, said, Il
have not been officially advised of
the establishment of the new mis-
sion"
However" he said, Il am greatly
pleased to receive this unofficial in
formation"
The assignment of the two Off
GERS brings the total to 80 Army
officers now members of military
missions in Latin America OF these,
nine are stationed in Brazil, seven
in Argentina, one in Guatemala,
three in Haiti, four in Colombia,
three in Chile and one in Mica
ragua, an official tabulation by the
War Department, as of the first of
this month, indicates.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Green Is Reported
Opposing Proposed
Labor Act Changes
Quoted os Fovoring
Law us 1t Stonds to
Offered Amendments
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Members of the Senate Labor
Committee quoted William Green,
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, as saying today that
he would prefer to have the Ma
tional Labor Act remain as it is
rather than to see enacted without
change amendments which the
House has approved.
Chairman Thomas of the COM
mittee and Senator Ellender, Dem
ocrat, of Louisiana, described Mr..
Green's testimony after the labor
group had heard him in closed ses-
sion.
Every committee member present,
Senator Ellender said, had been
under the impression that Mr..
Green had supported the House
amendments in full. However,
Senator Ellender related, Mr.. Green
told the committee that the A. F..
L. had acquiesced in all the pro-
posals in the hope of defeating in
the Senate those portions which the
organization opposed.
Senator Thomas and Senator Ell
lender reported that he expressed
opposition to provisions which would
replace the present Labor Board
with a new three-man body and
would vest administrative powers of
the unit in the hands of single
administrator.
Mr.. Green, it was further reported,
advocated retaining the present
board with the addition of two new
members and leaving the present
powers of the agency undivided.
The A. F. of L. president also op-
posed the definition Of agricultural
labor approved by the House, Sena-
tor Thomas told reporters, on the
ground that it would remove from
jurisdiction of the act between
10000 and 100000 workers in
processing plants, elevators and
farm-to-market trucking operations
Members said Mr.. Green also
asked that no limitation be made on
the back pay allowed workers re-
instated after strike.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Red Cross Gives Aid
In French Town
Hard Hit by Raids
Only Few Hundred Of
Arcis' 5000 Persons
Left After Brief Attack
BY ROY p. PORTER,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
ARCIS SUR AUBE, France Via
Berlin) Aug. 9 Delayed Virtually
razed by bombing planes in less than
an hour during the battle of France,
Arcis sur Aube in the Champagne
region of German-occupied France
is being given American assistance.
OF all the bomb-blasted towns I
have seen in battle grounds of the
new war. Arcis-famed as the birth
place of George Jacques Danton,
French revolutionary leader-pre-
sented the worst picture
Out of more than 5000 inhabit-
ants, only a few hundred remain.
Bodies of many still lie in the ruins.
Entire blocks of houses have no
more than few walls standing and
the 18th century church is a wreck.
Today, for the first time since the
German military push, American
Red Cross trucks rolled into Arcis
with food and medical supplies.
Death Toll Unknown.
The Germans and French are CO.
operating in the reconstruction.
Those residents who are left can
not even agree on the date of
bombardment, although the Mayor,
short red-faced farmer, said 1t
was around June A." They all agree
1t came in mid-morning. lasted
about an hour and left the town a
mass of blazing ruins.
I'VE were bombed continuously
for almost an hour" said the Mayor.
When the planes had flown over
once, they circled, came back and
dropped more bombs, both explosive
and incendiary.
I'VE do not yet know how many
people were killed"
Residents wounded in the attack
still needed medical attention, so
the American Hospital arranged for
doctors and nurses German Army
doctors gave first aid when the Nazi
troops entered, but could not remain
as the advance toward Paris con-
tinued.
Food Supply Low.
Life on the whole is returning to
normal, although the inhabitants
are short of food and wine, for two
reasons: Retreating French troops
took all they could carry and Ger
man troops of occupation requisi-
toned supplies.
One of the sights near Coulom-
miers is the airport where previously
l saw a large number of French
fighter planes and bombers lined up
for action. They still are therein
ruins after an aerial raid.
Blasted bridges over the Mame
River have been replaced by COM
bination steel and wood structures
by German engineers
Residents of these towns largely
nave returned and their numbers
are swelled by refugees en- route
farther north.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Ex-Wife Sues Mondl
For S22,666 AIimony
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Aug. l3.-Fritz
Mandl, former munitions magnate
and former husband of Screen
Actress Hedy Lamar, today was
confronted by S22,666 alimony de-
mand from his first wife.
Hella Strauss of Zurich, Switzer-
land, the No. l spouse, said the
amount represented payments
Mandl had not made since March
l. 1888. Her petition said she had
married Mandl in 1921 and divorced
him two years later.
Mandls attorney said his client,
an Austrian expatriate. was in
South America with his third wife
and hadn't been properly served
with papers. In addition, he con-
tended a lump-sum settlement upon
Hella had been approved by the
Paris courts.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
War Guilt CHARGES
Are Formally Lodged
Against Frenchmen
List of Defendants
Still Is UndiscIosed;
Petuin to Broadcast
ey the Associated Press.

ey the Associated Press.
VICHY, France, Aug. 13.-
Frances new Supreme Court-from
whose judgments there is no appeal
was called today at Riom to hear
the reading of a formal complaint
against military and political lead
ers accused of leading the nation
into the disastrous war with Ger
many.
The names of those designated
in the accusation to be presented by
Public Prosecutor Cassagnau were
not disclosed.
M. Cassagnau was expected to de-
mand secret hearing for the ac-
cused.
Sharing interest with preparations
for the war guilt" trial was a
scheduled broadcast today by Mar
shall Philippe Petain in which he
was expected to outline his govern
ment's plans for reconstruction and
to demand national cooperation.
Members of Marshal Petain's cabi-
net conferred until late last night
with other officials from the Ger
man-occupied and free" zones Of
France on measures to reorganize
and CO. ordinate the country's indus
tries.
The ministers announced that
DEGREES would be issued soon initiat-
ing action to aid in reopening fac
tories and in transporting the un-
employed to districts where they
can be given work
1t also was announced that
schools would reopen September l
with a reading of the governments
plans for national youth organiza-
tion.
Evening star., 1940-08-13

sion of the British government, were
delivered after war was declared.
Mr.. Rieber stated that Texas
Corp. had not a cent Of permanent
investment in Germany and that
the company has had no such in
vestment there for more than 20
years.
He also stated that Texas Corp.
and It's subsidiaries had not de-
livered a single barrel of oil, either
directly or indirectly, to the Ger
man government since before the
present war started.
Met Westrick in Business.
Mr.. Rieber said that in the
course of certain business trans
actions in Germany he met DR..
Westrick and had retained him on
occasions for the Texas Corp. be-
cause of his reputation as an able
and responsible lawyer; that recent
ly, when DR.. Westrick visited the
United States, Mr.. Rieber had ex-
tended to him business courtesies
and loaned him a Texas Co. car.
DR.. Westrick, rather than make
use of the company car, stated he
would prefer to have one of his
own. Because of exchange restric-
tions. Mr.. Rieber arranged for the
advance of the money to buy a car.
which money was to be thereafter
repaid to the Texas Co.
Mr.. Rieber stated he had seen
DR.. Westrick on three occasions;
that he had never been in his
Scarsdale residence; that he had
not seen him since June IL, and that
so far as he. Mr.. Rieber, knew, DR..
Westrick was here only IN the in
terest of promoting business be-
tween the United States and Ger
many and had in the furtherance of
that end seen many prominent busi-
ness and professional men in this
country.
Born q Norwegian.
'As for himself, Mr.. Rieber stated
that this country has honored him
with ltS cltlZenSnlp and that under
no circumstances could he be identi-
fled with, or sympathetic to, any
kind of un-American activity.
He said that while he was born
Norwegian he had spent practical
ly his entire life in this country, and
that he had entered the employ of
the Texas Corp. at the age of %:
that it was with real regret that he
submitted his resignation as chair
man of the board of the Texas Corp,
with which the greater part of his
business career had been identified.
However. he said that in view of
the harm that might be done to the
company by reason of the unfair
and unjust criticism which had ap-
peared recently in the press, he felt
it his duty to the stockholders, as
well as to the organization, to re-
sign as chairman of the board of
the Texas Corp. and as an execu-
tive officer of the corporation and
its subsidiaries.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
j. ). {. Of {. Official
Opposes Haste on
Excess Profits Tax
Urges EorIy Enactment
Of Defense Plant
Amortization Plan
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An official of the United States
Chamber of Commerce told Con-
gress today there was mo need for
extravagant haste" in enacting an
excess profits tax.
Ellsworth v. Alvord of Washing
ton, chairman of the chambers
Federal Finance Committee, recon-
mended at a joint Senate House tax
hearing. however, that there be no
delay in enacting permission for
industry to deduct from taxable in
come the cost of plant expansion for
defense purposes.
The excess profits tax and the de-
fense plant amortization plan are
now linked together in single
measure.
Henry B. Fernald of Montclair,
N. j., chairman of the Executive
Tax Committee of the American
Mining Congress, made the same
plea as Mr.. Alvord-separation of
amortization and tax plans and i'm
mediate enactment of an amortiza-
tion bill.
Mr.. Alvord noted that Secretary
of War Stimson and Defense Com
missioner William S. Knudsen had
said early enactment of an excess
profits tax was desirable, so manu-
facturers would be informed of their
tax liabilities in advance.
The chamber representative COM
mented that the proposed tax plan
was almost wholly without prece-
dent" and that potential tax LA
bilities cannot be ascertained or
estimated with reasonable certainty
either Immediately, or by next March
Is, or prior to entering into a de-
fenSe contract
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Former R.A.F. Aide S Ashes
Scattered al Mi. Vernon

Il request and direct that my
ashes be scattered on the Potomac
River. at a place in the vicinity of
Mount Vernon. at ebbtide."
Such was the strange request in
the will of the late Henry Foster.
former employe at the 1925 F Street
Club which was filed yesterday in
District Court. Mr.. Foster died at
the age Of So on July 10.
A friend of Mr.. Foster said the
terms were carried out. Mr.. Foster,
who was a photographer with the
British Royal Air Force, left the
bulk of his estate to fund for the
relief of the aged in Paigenton, Dev-
onshire, England. Attorney Charles
E. Fitzgerald of the Washington
Savings g. Trust Co., administrator,
said the estate probably would be
quite small"
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Senators Seek Defense
Factories for Middle West
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Fourteen Middle Western Sena-
tors called yesterday on William S.
Knudsen, production chief of the
National Defense Commission, to
urge that defense factories built or
subsidized with Government funds
be placed in their section of the
country.
One of them. Senator Miller,
Democrat, of Arkansas, told re-
porters afterward that the confer
ence was very satisfactory"
Asked whether the group in
tended to oppose the administra-
tions bill to permit amortization
in five years of the cost of new
private defense plants, unless the
demands for location of Govern
ment-flnanced factories in the
Middle West were met, Senator
Miller said:
That has not been discussed as
a group. I wouldn't say that it
would be done. After all, the ma
tional defense comes first. We do
want consideration of our areas and
I think we will get it,
Senator Miller said that those
who called on Mr.. Knudsen in
cluded Senators Clark, Democrat, of
Missouri; Truman, Democrat, of
Missouri; Herring, Democrat, of
Iowa. Gillette, Democrat, of Iowa;
Shipstead, Farmer-Labor, of Min
nesota; Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota; Bulow, Democrat, of South
Dakota; Gurney, Republican, of
South Dakota; Burke, Democrat, of
Nebraska; Reed, Republican, of
Kansas; Capper, Republican, of
Kansas; Thomas, Democrat, of Ok
lahoma, and Slattery, Democrat, of
Illinois.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Harry Slattery Appointed
Defense Power ConsuItant

Harry Slattery. administrator of
the Rural Electrification Admins
tration, has been named a con-
sultant to the subcommittee on
electric power problems, Edward
Stettinius, jr.. of the National De-
fense Advisory Commission an
nounced today.
Mr. Slattery will continue as ad-
ministrator of the r. E. A. He is
native of Greenville, S. C. He
was assistant to Secretary of the
Interior Ickes when the latter
headed the Public Works Admins
tration.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Harlan Wood Resigns
Memorial Day Post

Harlan Wood. past department
commander of the American Le-
gion, has resigned as vice president
of the Grand Army of the Re-
public Memorial Day Corporation.
He was one of the representatives
of the Legion when the corporation
was formed in 1928 and has served
continuously since in various ca
pacitieS.
While aiding the corporation Mr..
Wood had secured many famous
soloists for the Memorial Day ex-
erciSes, as well as fresh-cut flowers
for the $4,000 graves in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Measles Incopocitote
Infantry in Moneuvers
By the Associated Press.

OGDENSBURG, N. Y, Aug. 13.-
An attack of German measles cut
of temporarily today an entire COM
pany Of infantry in Northern New
York's first Army war maneuvers.
With one exception the three Of
ficers and II enlisted men of the
181st Infantry, Worcester, Mass,
were quarantined for 70 hours.
The exception, Pvt. John w. War
rington, Worcester, member of a
three-man medical attachment and
the victim, was interned in Platts-
burg Barracks Hospital "for the
duration of the war"
Evening star., 1940-08-13
-Four in Louisiana
AppeaI Convictions
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Monte E. Hart, j. Emory Adams,
Seymour Weiss and Louis c. Lesage
appealed to the Supreme Court yes
terday from convictions of defraud-
ing Louisiana State University.
The appeal was from decision
by the Fifth Federal Circuit Court
upholding their convictions and
sentences to prison terms.
Weiss and Hart we're sentenced to
80 months and fined $1,000 each,
while Lesage and Adams were sem
fenced to one year and day and
fined $500 each.
The convictions were under the
mail fraud statute.