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Bond Averages

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 8.-Corporate
bonds gained generally today, fol-
lowing news that two Of the Ma
tions most important corporations
soon will issue Sl50000 900 of new
loans in refunding operations.
Such New York traction issues as
1nterborough Rapid Transit refund
ing IS, Third Avenue As and SIS, and
Manhattan Railway Is were leading
an upward movement toward the
close
United States Steel Corp will
take advantage of chance to bor-
row money at lower interest
charge by refunding its 81. per cent
debentures. The issue dropped a
point to 1882, or y point above
the redemption price
Texas Corp, the other industrial
giant to take crack at favorable
money market, will offer S60000,-
900 issue to bond traders in a re-
funding of its 3i2 per cent de-
bentures. The current 31as dipped
nearly point 10 lO4.
Scandinavian loans were hard
pressed in the foreign dollar division
on news of British mining of Nor
wegian territorial waters. Norway
IS and Denmark 4l2s slipped around
2 points.
One of the fastest moving corpo-
rate loans. Brooklyn Manhattan
Transit collateral AIS of sc, rose a
major fraction. The advance COIN
cided with announcement the prop
critics of the company will change
hands June l under plans for unfit
cation of New York City's transit
facilities.
Interest in the new corporate
financing apparently elbowed Unit
ed States Treasures out of the trad
ing picture. A few sales crossed the
tape at Slight declines.
Marked up elsewhere were such is
sues as Studebaker IS. Utilities
Power g. Light stamped SIS of SO.
Nickel Plate 4l2s and Baltimore e.
Ohio stamped convertibles of so.
Losers included Standard Oil of
New Jersey 2'is which dipped frac-
tionai1y on heavy turnover: New
York Central IS and Portland Cen
eral Electric 4l2s.
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ZINC Production Up,
But utsShipments Lag
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April ga rise in
the: production of zinc, but a decline
In domestic shipments in March as
compared with February. was re-
ported today by the American Bu-
reau of Metal Statistics.
Zinc production in March was
57,620 short tons. compared with
54,532 in February and 45,O84 in
March, 1889
Stocks at the end of March totaled
1881 tons, compared with 67.O86 at
the end of February and 127,985 at
the end of March, 1889 .
Domestic shipments last month
were ,5l095 tons, compared with
53,o48 in February and 1921 In
March, 1899.
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Steel Rate 10 Drop
10 61.3 Per Cent
During Week
Institute Announces
Reduction After
Temporary Rise
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 8.-Steel mill
operations will contract again this
week to 61.3 per cent of the Nation s
capacity, the American Iron and
Steel Institute estimated today.
An advance last week to 6l.7 per
cent temporarily broke the long
spring decline.
A month ago output was sched-
uled at SAT per cent and a year ago
at 52.1 per cent.
After the rise to GIT per cent
last week from GOT the previous
week, some Wall Street circles had
looked for a further increase this
week.
Steel quarters, however, said that
the<slight decline was no particular
surprise to them, since the export
business, now accounting for about
Is per cent of the total, was the
mainstay of the current operations
rate.
Inquiries for further takings by
British and other foreign interests.
together with normal seasonal do
mestic requirements, some steel men
said, would seem to indicate a some
what better rate OF operations within
few weeks.
One order for 50,0O0 tons of steel
for British consumption was said
to have been placed in the last
fortnight and other substantial
foreign deals were understood to be
on the fire.
One Wall Street rumor that Brit
ish interests were arranging pay
ment to United States Steel Corp.
with shares of United States Steel
stock taken over from British in
vestors, was discredited in sources
close to the company. but some
usually well-informed Wall Streeters
thought cash for British purchases
was undoubtedly raised in part by
liquidation here of British holdings
Of American securities.
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Metal Market

NEW YORK. April 8 Chopper steady:
electrolytic spot. l125-50 Connecticut
Valley: export. 11.20-25 fa.s New York
Tin steady: spot and nearby 1900; for
bO0-5.O5: East St Louis 4s5. Zinc
steady: East St Louis spot and forward
5.75. Pig iron. No: 9: fob: Eastern Penn
1898. Aluminus. virtin 80 per cent,
1900. Antimony; Chinese spot, 1d.25.
mum, pure, 1000 Chinese wolframite.
duty paid. % .OO-24.0e nominal. Domestic
scheelite, 2200.
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New York Sugar

NEW YORK April GP-Domestic
sugar futures moved lower today. Trade
hedging and professional selling. due to
the unsettled refined price level, met only
scattered producer and local support. Mid
afternoon prices were unchanged to l
point lower: May. 1.S5; July. 30.
and speculative buying attracted offerings
from Cuban and operator sources. The
list held "a point lower to l higher: May,
145iz; December 142Ea
The refined market was disturbed by a
week end reduction by beet professors to
40, cents per pound Eastern cane re-
fners continued to quote 4.50 cents, but
there were indications Of q probable re-
duction to meet competition. so I.
Raw xusAr was quiet. Prompt Cubas
Phiiippfae and Puerto Rico's were offered
In . price range Of 2.s2 to 2.e7, depending
upon shipment dates.
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Bank Board Reports
Building Increase
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Federal Home Loan Bank
Board reports that February resi-
dental construction in cities of
10000 or more population totaled
$72,257, 100, an increase of 26 per
cent over January and of IA per cent
over February, 1899.
The same agency reports that
home mortgages recorded by all
types of lenders in February
amounted to $253, ,646 900. an increase
of 10 per cent over the same month
of 1899.
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Crude Oil Prices

TULSA, April LP.-Base crude oil
prices:
Mid-Continent area-Tllinois. S1.05:
Oklahoma-Kansas gravity scale, 6Uc to
81 10: North. North Central and West Cen
tral Texas, gravity scale. 11c to S1.o3;
East Texas. S1.10: West Texas gravity
scale. 5:3c to Csc; North louisa ma Ar
kansas gravity scale. 13c to S1.05.
Rocky Mountain area-Salt Creek, Wyo.,
Gravity scale sec to 81 10.
ford-Alleehany). S215: same grade in
southwest Pennsylvania lines $40: same
Grade in Eureka lines, S@.34; corning Sill
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Visible Grain Supply

NEW YORK, April P).-Visible
supply of American grain showed
the following changes from week
ago Tin bushels,
Wheat increased 1872 900; Corn de-
creased 143.000; oats decreased 1885,
600: rye decreased $4,000; barley
decreased 10000.
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Money Market

NEW YORK. Tpril & GP.--Call money;
fteady: l per cent prime commercial paper
" per cent
Time loans steady; 5000 days IA: 4-6
months. "a per cent.
Bankers acceptances unchansed. 5000
days, la-rs per cent: 4 months, is-l2 per
cent; Sc months. Sal. per cent. Redis-
count rate New York Reserve Bank, per
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In BANKRUPTCY or receivership or betns
reorsanized under the Bankruptcy Act. or
securities assumed b. such companies
Rates Of dividends IN the foregoins table
are annual disbursements based on the
last quarterly or semi-annua1 declara.
ton Unless otherwise noted special or
extra dividends are not included Also
extra or extras Accumulated dividends
paid last year eDecIared or uaid 60
far this year PAYABLE In stock Paid
last year h Cash or stock Accumu-
lated dividends paid or declared this year
ur Under rule w With warrants 1V
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London Bor Silver

LONDON, April s l4s.-Bar silver, 2e1sd,
unchansed. Equivalent. $3.50 cents on
the dollar basis. S4.03.l Bar gold, 1855,
unchanged. Equivalent. $685.
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Steel Quotations

NEW YORK. April 8 op.-steel prices
per 100 pounds fob PITTSBURGH: Hot
rolled sheets. base price. 40. dalvan-
ized sheets $50. Steel bars. 2.1S.
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Rubber Futures

NEW YORK: April q Nl.-Grude rubber
July, 1851; September, 17.70b. Bid.
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NEW YORK. April 8 lP.-National As.
sociation Securities Dealers. Inc:
| Quotations as of . o'clock)
Federal Lund Bunks

Aauk
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DOMESTIC BONDS.

Pied El Sias 90 4sL 4sh. a.
Wv With warrants XIV Without va
rants n New. st tstp) Stamped
sNeeotiability impaired by maturity.
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Dividend Rate. Ad
Aero Sup b .20g-.
Ainsworth .25E--.
Air Assoc (.60)--
Air Investors
Ala Ct Sou(8g)
Ala Power pf t6)
Ala Power pf n)
Alum Co Am (1s),
Alum Co pf co.
Alum Ltd t1.60s)
Am Cap pf (.zsk).
Am CentrifuEal-.
Am Cynam B so
Am Export Use
Am Gas q El $50
Am General
| Am Hard Rubber
Am Mfg (.25e)---
Am Al a m raiho
Am Meter (.75e)-
Am Pot&C 4.75E-
Am Seal-Kap .12e
Am Superpower
Am Sup 1st pf(6)
Ark Nat Gas -.
Ark Nat Gas(A)-
Ark Nat Gas pf--
| Ark p & l. pf ~
ASSo G&E (A) T)
| Assoc G&E pf (r)
Atl Coast L (1g)-
Atlas Corp war
| Atlas Plyw'd .25s.
| Austin Silv NJ tr)
Auto vot M t.50)-
| via ton & Trans
Baldwin Lo war.
Baldw l. pf 2.10
Baldwin Rub. .50a
Barium STAN Stl.
| Bath iron -
Beech Aircraft =.
Bellanca Aircraft
Bell Aircraft
Bell T Pa pf $50
Berk e. Gay Fur
Berk q Gay war
Bickfords pf $50.
Birdsboro Fdry--
Bliss tE W. -
BohacktH C)1st-
Borne Scrymser
Brazilian TrL&P
4! Breeze Corp .50g-
Brewster Aero -.
/ Bridgp't Machine
Brown F&W .20H.
Brown Rubber -
Bunker Hill .25e-
Can Col Airways-
| Can Mar W Ole
Carib Syndicate.
| Carnegie Met
Carrier Corp -
Ca SEQ Prod (1e) =.
Celan ptc pf (7a)
| Cent HERE an(
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THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. 6, MONDAY
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
~ srivsts wiss lisees = II ssas

Stock and Sales
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-11-01

Harrington, Jr., and Trooper c. G.
Serman went to investigate reports
that Mitchell was thought to be in
the burning house. After making a
search of the property, they went to
the shed, where his body was found.
It is reported that Mitchell struck
his wife in the morning, and this
argument prompted Mrs. Mitchell to
leave her home and go to the home of
a neighbor up the road. She was not
at home at the time the fire started,
and the origin of the fire is not
known.
After States Attorney Harrington
and Trooper Serman found the body,
they notified Sheriff James R. Thorn
as and Deputy Medical Examiner DIR.
Joseph X. Shriver, who went to the
scene. DR.. Shriver stated the wounds
were self-inflicted and rendered a
verdict of suicide.
Mr.. Mitchell was born in the lower
part of Dorchester county and was
the son Of the late Zebulon and Otelia
Powell Mitchell. He was 62 years OF
age. He resided in Cambridge fol-
16 years, and at Hoopersville for the
past two years. He was a carpenter
by trade and for a number Of years
lived in Panama and worked on the
Panama Canal during it's construction
Mr.. Mitchell was married three
times. His first wife was Miss Lena
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-11-01
Farm Security
Credit Should
Be Gotten Now

Like doing ones Christmas shop
ping early, there is good reason why
farm families expecting to call upon
the Farm Security Administration for
operating credit should do so at this
time Of the year. This was explained
by William T. James, Jr., Farm Sc
curity Administration Supervisor in
Princess Anne. He advises farmers
to "think ahead about their credit
needs, instead of waiting until they
get down to their last bushel of feed.
Mr.. James pointed out that farm
er applying now for an advance which
he will not need for several months
may have it withheld for future de-
livery on a specified date. Thus, the
loan does not begin to bear interest
until it is actually used.
"The advantage of applying in the
fall is that this is the in-between
season when farmers can side up their
past years business and plan for the
new year." Mr.. James stated. "The
supervisor, too, has more time in the
fall to help the farmer do the long
range planning which is fundamental
to our program, and often of more
benefit than the loan itself. All FSA
loans are drawn up on the basis of
farm and home management plans,
and sometimes the working out of
these plans requires considerable time
Every spring, we are forced to turn
away APPLICANTS who apply too late to
permit such plans to be drawn up
Many other farmers, while approach
ing us in time to receive the loans,
find themselves caught up in the
spring rush in our office just when
they are most pressed for time"
Farm Security Administration loans
are made to farm operators, whether
owners or tenants, who are unable to
obtain credit on reasonable terms
from other sources. The loans can
be made for food, seed fertilizer, live
stock, equipment and similar operat-
ing goods for periods of from one to
five years, with interest at five pei
cent. Mr.. James certifies all requests
of farmers in Somerset County. Mr.
James's office address is Phillips
Bldg, Princess Anne, Maryland.
The FSA Supervisor also called at
tention to the Farm Debt Adjustment
service. This service, which is con
fidential and free of charge, brings
farmers and their creditors together
in an attempt to find mutually ac'
ceptable solution of their difficultie:
The service is available to any farm
er, or his creditor, on request.
Mr.. James also pointed out tha
under it's Community Service program
the Farm Security Administrator
makes loans to neighboring farmers
for their joint purchase Of farm ma
chinery or services which they coul'
not afford to own individually.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-11-01
CANTERBURY WOMAN
KILLED CROSSING STREET

Mrs. Anna M. Walters, aged 65
years of Canterbury, near Dover, was
killed Sunday evening, October goth,
near her home as she tried to cross
the highway to reach the scene of a
minor car collision in which her
daughter, Mrs. William M. Chambers,
wife of the Democratic candidate for
coroner of Kent county, was involv-
ed.
The automobile which struck Mrs.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-11-01
SALISBURY MAN
PAINFULLY HURT
in AUTO MISHAP

Charles Bowen 65 years old, of
Salisbury, suffered painful bruises
and cuts, Sunday night last, when
trapped under an automobile which
turned over several times in a field
when he failed to. make a curve on
U. S. Route 10 near Leonards' Mill
Pond three miles south Of here. The
accident happened just north of the
Maryland state police station.
Bowen was pulled from beneath the
wrecked car by a passing motorist
who summoned Maryland state po-
lice. The driver with decorations of
the face and bruises was taken to the
Peninsula General Hospital by police
where he was discharged after treat
ment.
The curve on which the accident
happened is one of the three curves
that will be eliminated when the new
bridge is built across the pond.
State police preferred charges of
drunken driving and reckless driving
against Bowen. He will be given
a hearing on the charges before Judge
E. Sheldon Jones of the Peoples
Court in Salisbury.
Carroll Hastings of near Delmar
has been placed under u $1,000 bond
by Magistrate Frank Baker Of the
Delaware side for his appearance at
Sessions Court of Sussex County af-
ter being charged by Delaware state
police with assault and battery with
an automobile in the fatality of Capt.
John Stahre of Delmar. Captain
Stahre was fatally injured by car
operated by Hastings when Stahre
attempted to cross State Street on
the night of September 27.
Walters was operated by Frank Cham
bers of Philadelphia. Mr.. Chambers
was placed under $1,000 bail by Mag
istrate Walter S. Cubbage on a charge
of assault and battery.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-11-01

Tyler, of Hooper's Island, his second
was Miss Lula Won Erma, of Rega,
Russia, an dhis third was Mrs. Ida
T. Booze, of Hoopersville, by whom
he is survived. He is also survived by
two sisters, Mrs. Willie Bloodsworth,
of Cambridge and Mrs. Harley Prior,
Of Wilmington, Del.
Funeral services were held from the
LeCompte Funeral Home, Saturday
afternoon, last week at 2 o'clock,
with the Rev. T. C. Mulligan offici-
ating. Interment was in the Cam
bridge Cemetery.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-11-01
HOOPERSVILLE MAN KILLS
SELF WITH SHOTGUN

Emerson r. Mitchell last Thurs
day afternoon shot himself with a
double-barrel shot gun in a shed at
the rear of his home at Hoopersville,
Md.
His house was discovered afire
about 1:15 o'clock, Thursday after
noon, and States Attorney Calvin
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-11-01

hereby certify that have this date
inspected for =
oysters caught within the limits Of the
State Of Maryland, sold
and found the same to c0ntain--s
--bushels Of understandable
.ecOn and tSe sams hereby
added to Article ~ Of the Annotated Code
Of Maryland (1924 Editionl, title Oysters"
General Measures "a ana Snd ingpec
Section 81, to follow Immediately after Sec
tion 50 and to read as follows:
ouea 6 6y eSSs s. sn ns s. e1eot
packer or commission merchant buying
oysters in the State of Maryland shall fur
nish to the inspector assigned to his dis
the number Of bushels, bags or barrels
Of oysters purchased by him during the
Sec. 8. And be 1t further enacted. That
Section 100 Of Article q Of the Annotated
Code Of Maryland (1935 Supplement-, title
"Oysters," sub title "Oyster Culture" be
enacted, with amendments, to read as fol-
100. It shall be lawful at any time after
take oysters from such natural beds or
bars In Chesapeake Bay as the Commits;
sion may mark out for that purpose, and
nate, sbut not to exceed one month in any
one year and under such regulations az
said Commission may. from time to time
prescribe; and, provided, however, that
said oysters may be sold only for the pur-
poses now permitted under the existing
laws Of Maryland, during the season Of the
year above mentioned; and In addition
try Of pla9ting and GGltivating oysters
be delivered only upon land which may
have been leased under the provisions Of
this subtitle for said purposes Of plant
Sec. 0. And be It further enacted, That
If any provision Of this Act shall be de-
Court. such Judgment shall not affect, i'm
thereof, but shall be confined In It's opera
lions to the specific provision 80 held un-
constitutional or invalid and the inapplica-
bility or invalidity of any section, clause or
provision Of this Act In any one or more
Instances shall not be taken to affect or
invalidity in any other instance.
Sec. 10. And be 1t further enacted, That
this Act shall take effect on June 1, 1880.
Approvedi May 3, 1880.
CHAPTER 1872
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with
amendments, Sections 1, 2, 8 and Q Of
Maryland t1osS su,Pplement(. title "Wcrk.
Industrial Accident Commission"
Section 1. Be It enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland. That Sections !, q
5 and @ Of Article 101 Of the Annotated
Code Of Maryland (1035 Supplement-, title
"Workmens Compensation" subtitle Estate
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Public Library Suggests
New Educational Books

With the schools about
published in Library
and streets NV, the appeal
teachers but those interested teaching procedures educational
philosophy.
OF the readable
Women
author well qualified speak of the problems
schools which have broken traditional
significant example of the influence that political
literature the increase the number
the teaching education democracy
for Democracy" being fair thinking
the problem proceedings
Congress of Education for Democracy held Columbia University
following titles added library within
frequently the democracy"
fourth called Democracy the Curriculum
Education for Democracy Time National
ons Purposes Education American Democracy Uch
Fundamentals of Education"
book Parents Children School"
theory theory explained by examples
accompanied excellent
Whittier College
written with wealth Of specific detail
by Josephine G. and Marion Mason Scattered through
the pictures illustrating various school activities
This hundreds
Both
Though
the findings of Foundation
Interpretation of friendly
going college Hambdge advice
points out OF the shortcomings of present educational methods
Evening star., 1940-09-08
TheConyon

By Peter Viertel. NetO York:
Harcourt, Brace
The author of this simple tale
of California mountain village is
10 years of age. In many spots, his
writing has the insight and lyricism
that easily might be attributed to
the select group of well-seasoned,
Well-published persons of letters.
Peter Viertels narrative concerns
childhood, primarily adolescent
childhood, and is labeled as fiction.
At final blush, however, his story
impresses strongly as autobiography
cal in origin and design. For the
true relief which characters and
incident acquire from the very first,
the plausibility of the youthful
thought processes and actions of
his characters possess too undeni-
able stamp of reality to have been
woven with threads of imagination
and scraps of experience.
The Canyon" is all boy-the
daily problems and adventuring and
mischief of George, typical Ameri-
Cdll hlS, dlld l1lo I 1CCLO,
the little Mexican; Jimmy, the
bartender's son, and the incorrigible
Keetcheye, bully Of the canyon.
But it is George, the central figure,
who invites closest and most re-
vealing study. Georges bedtime
ponderings on the perplexing ques-
ton of whether God has an earthly
being and whether that being might
not even be he; his rough-and-
tumble good times. inclusive of
everything from bicycling to fight
ing and petty thievery; the first
awakenings of love-both the down.
to-earth and dreamy varieties-as
expended on the girls. Betsy and
Maria.
Young Viertels book has the
same unrufled, sensitive yet
straightforward approach that
marks John Steinbeck's little classic
of the knockabout paisanos of
"Tortilla Flat" In fact,sit is not
inconceivable that Viertel may be
another Steinbeck in the bud.
J. w. STEPP.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Best Sellers

The following list of best
sellers is compiled weekly from
information obtained in WASH
ington by The Star and in New
York, Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco by the North Amer
lean Newspaper Alliance:
Fiction.
How Green Was My Valley"
Richard Llewellyn: "Stars on
the Sea-" F. Van Wyck Mason;
ITO the Indies" c. ". Forester;
might in Bombay" Louis
Bromfield; Worlds End" Up
ton Sinclair; The Mixture as
Before" w. Somerset Vaughan:
"The Beloved Returns, Thomas
Mann; "Whiteoak Heritage"
Mazo de la Roche; Madame
Dorthea,' Sigrid Undset; Bird
in the Tree" Elizabeth Goudge.
Nonfiction.
Mrs. Miniver," Jan Struther:
Country Squire in the White
House" John T. Flynn; New
England: Indian Summer" Van
Wyck Brooks; '"AS ! Remember
Him" Hans Zinsser: "They
Wanted War" Otto D. Tolischus;
Il Married Adventure, Osa
johnson; "M-Day and What 1t
Means to YOU" Leo M. Cherne;
Country Editor" Henry Beetle
Hough; This Is Wendell
Willkie," Wendell Willkie: why
England Slept" John F. Ken
nedy.