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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Rainy Weather Hampers
Virginia Leaf Market
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Rainy, cold weather hampered de-
liveries on Virginia's old belt to-
bacco markets yesterday and prices
continued somewhat off because of
the preponderance of poor offerings.
The Danville tobacco market dis
posed of 903 ,998 pounds of leaf for
s140,02357, an average price per
hundred pounds of S16.37.
Market officials there said the in
creasingly inferior quality of offer
ings indicates that many growers
are now disposing of their last lots
of tobacco.
South Boston, second largest mar
keting center in the State, reported
an average of only Sl5.l6 hundred
for 313 800 pounds sold. Lawrence
vile. where better leaf was in evil
dence, reported an average of S1904
for 21,636 pounds.
Petersburg disposed of 41,668
pounds at an average of $3.50.
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625 Tons of Lead Sold

NEW YORK, Oct. 81 (P.-St. JOS
eph Lead Co. reported $50 tons of
Southeast Missouri pig lead sold yes
terday at $535 per 100 pounds, East
st. Louis; 275 tons at $5.55, New
York, and $50 tons at the New York
average.
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Jersey City Livestock

JERSEY CITY. Oct. 81 R.-(United
States Department OF Agricultural Cat
tie, $50 salable; total, 1.31o. Steers about
steady with Monday three loads medium
1.l5O-1.2O4 pounds 9.75-10.10: one load
-,090 pounds, 9.25. Cows, slow to lean
6.50-6.25 lower; medium. 6.25-7.00: cut
ter and common, 5000. so: Gamers, 800
$50. Good sausage bulls, 7.25-15: me-
dunn, 6.25-75; cutter, 5.75-6.00.
VealerS, 80 Salable: total, 1,020. Veal
ers scarce, about steady: top, 1900; ne
dunn to good, 9.00-12.OO; culls mostly
6.00-7.00.
Hogs. none salable; total, 5,O4O. Market
nominally steady at 6.35 down.
Sheep, 40 salable; total, $3.50: one
deck good to choice, 73-pound lambs steady
at 9S5; no others on sale: slaughter ewes
nominally steady at 2.50-4.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Norway Will Issue Loan
For New Public Works
B the Associated Press.

OSLO, Oct. 31.-A short-term
state loan of 100000 kroner bear
ing per cent interest will be sold
at 99A, it was announced today.
The loan will be taken by banks and
insurance companies. Proceeds will
be used to meet extensive new public
works projects.
(The Norwegian kroner is quoted
nominally at New York at 22.72 per
ST.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31

BOSTON Oct. 81 Up UNITED States De-
partment of Agriculture) Only a few
sales were closed on domestic woods on
the Boston market today. Graded comb
ing lengths of fine and half-blood territory
woods were sold at frm prices compared
with last weeks quotations moderate
volume Of business was transacted in fine
and half-blood grades of South American
woods that had arrived or were due TO
arrive in Boston within 10 days Prices
on South American woods were firm. but
under the levels Of prices on domestic
woods Of similar grade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Wholesale Sales Gain

The Commerce Department re-
ports that 1924 wholesale firms
throughout the country sold / per
cent more goods in September than
in August, but 81 per cent less
than in September, 1899. Whole
salers reporting inventories had
an increase of 0.3 per cent during
August.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31

In bankruptcy or recelveTship or being
reorganlZed under the Bankruptcy Act or
securities assumed by such companies.
Rates Of dividends in the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on the
last quarterly or semi-annual declaration.
Unless otherwise noted. special or extra
dividends are not included.
A Also extra or extras. Cash or stock
e Declared or paid so far this year fPay-
able in stock. g Paid last year hPayable
in Canadian funds. k Accumulated div
idendS paid or declared this year WV With
warrants. XIV Without warrants. war War
rants. Unit of trading less than 100
shares; sales are given in full.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Odd-Lot DECLINES

The Securities and Exchange Com
mission reported today these trans
actions by customers with odd-lot
dealers or specialists on the New
York Stock Exchange for October
30: 1924 purchases involving 1886
shares; 1864 sales involving 94,226
shares, including 40 short sales in
VolVing 1895 shares.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
| Dodge Begins
| Work on 27,50O
| Army Trucks
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Oct. 3i.-Chrysler
Corp. announced today that its
Dodge division has begun assembly
operations on a s16,5OO.000 order for
1,500 specially designed trucks for
the United States Army. 1t ex-
poets to complete the order by next
April.
AL the trucks are to have four
wheel drives and instead of the Gus
tomary straight hood have a slanted
hood with a protuding, rounded
front end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
U. S. Treasury Notes
NEW YORK. Oct. 81 GPD.-Prices quoted
in dollars and thirty-seconds:
Metal Market

NEW YORK. Oct. 81 P.-Copper.
steady: electrolytic spot Connecticut VAL
ley II 90; export fa.s. New York, 1880
HOO. Tin, steady; spot and nearby 81 80;
forward, $3.50. Lead, steady; spot, New
York. 55O-55; East st. Louis 5.35. Zinc,
steady; East st. Louis spot and forward,
T25. Pig iron, aluminium. antimony.
quicksilver, platinum, Chinese wolframite
and domestic scheelite unchanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK, Oct. 81 dR-Cotton goods
Business scattered and quiet at un-
changed prices
Wooden goods-Arl numbers move at
full asking prices.
Rayon Foods-Market quiet. but price
tendency points UP.
silk eoods-Prices hold apund recently
prevailing lows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Crude Rubber Futures

NEW YORK. Oct. 81 QP.-Crude rubber
futures (oldD opened 3 higher. December.
5000, bid: March, 1890, bid; May. 1880.
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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-Prepared BY
Fitch Publishing Co:
Extra.
Pc Stock of Pay
Rate Rod. record. able.
Inland Steel-- 81 90 - Ills 1873
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Raw Sugar Futures

NEW YORK. Oct. 81 QP.-Rav sugar
futures. No. g. opened 1 higher. January,
100. bid; March, S.e7; May, 200, bid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31

111O'7V 0-
increased, with coal and miscel-
laneous freight showing the broad
est gains. The only declines were
in less-than-carlot merchandise and
ore shipments.
The rise in total loadings was con-
trary to the normal trend at this
season.
The Associated Press seasonally
adjusted index Of loadings, based
on 1929-30 as 100. advanced to 767,
compared with 1910 the previous
week and 76.4 year ago.
1910. 1889. ! 93s 1887 1884 g.
HIeh - ~ 1875 -l3 S22 S45
Low - 67.6 $40 55.7 62.5 $50
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New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK Oct 81 R-NationaI As
ISOLATION Securities Dealers. Inc:
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ww-With warrants xw-Without war
rants. New. st (Stp)-Stamped
sNegotiability impaired by maturity.
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Freight CarIoadings
Gain 29 Per Cent
Over Previous Week
837,65l Revenue Cars
Are Handled, Highest
Since October Il, 1889
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCldLeu fEeSS
The Association of American Rail-
roads reported today 337,651 cars of
revenue freight were loaded during
the week ending last Saturday.
This was an increase of 23,742 cars
or % per cent, compared with the
preceding week; an increase of g.
293, or l per cent, compared with
year ago. and an increase of 129, 061
or 1872 per cent, compared with 1888
Loadings for the week were the
highest since the week ended Oc-
tober 81, 1889, when they totaled
1855, 289.
The report classified the loadings
as follows:
Miscel-
laneouS
freight 357.541 = $3.50 +19.s73
Less than
carlot mer-
chandise -156724 - 2.065 - 1865
Grain and
grain
products 4o.421 = 3679 r 1s9
Western dis
trictS % 1913 - 1865 = 1.S23
Livestock 22,509 - $50 = 2.Oa9
Western dis
trictE 1880 1873 = 1924
Forest
products 43fO2 + 200 = 5.a77
Ore ~ 6S.435 - DOB - 6,273
Coke IL .9S9 200 31f
IOadinpS of most tvnpS of freight
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Boston Wool Market

a Also extra or extras.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET

t5-
d 90. High. Low. 1855
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/ pa 2Ss pa
zoos "a 93% "a
50s 80 80 80
6 7M 81 81
2 - - s.
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25s SO SO So
20s l1SH l1SA llSh
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1905 II IT IT
5 1914 19 19
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FOREIGN

5 Bsqn T T q rs Is g g 49, 49, 3sn
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26
France Begins
With Italians
Laval Holding Talks With
Officials Similar To
Those With Nazis
PEACE DRIVE SEEN
Overtures For Cessation OF
War Might Be Launched
Through Roosevelt

BERN, Switzerland, Oct. 25.-R
France already has begun nego-
tiations in Paris with Italian rep
resentatives through Vice-Premier
Pierre Laval, following ur direct
contact with Adolf Hitler, diplo-
matte sources reported tonight.
Laval, these sources said, is
holding conversations with Italian
government representatives SINH
lar to those he held with Otto
Abetz, the German 'ambassador''
to France, and with Joachim ven
Ribbentrop, the German foreign
minister, prior to Adolf Hitler's
meeting with Marshal Philippe Pc
tain, chief of the French state.
Whether Premier Mussolini
would meet Petain later was not
known here.
To Return to Vichy
X. When Laval's negotiations with
this Italian end of the Axis are
completed, it was understood, he
will return to Vichy to make a
joint report with Petain to the
French cabinet Saturday after
noon.
The agreement which is expect
ed to result from negotiations with
the Germans and Italians, French
sources said, will on paper at least
be clearly to Frances advantage
and probably will mean moving
northward to the Seine the line be-
tween occupied n unoccupied
France, the return of the French
government to Paris, and the re-
lease of many French war pris-
oners. ....
It is highly unlikely, these in
formants added, that he price
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26
WILLKIE DEMANDS
new MANAGEMENT
New Deal Has Been
Unable To Solve Un-
employment Problem

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Oct. 25.-
R-Declaring it is time to get new
management" in government, Wen
dell l.. Willkie asked tonight:
"What have you got to lose in max.
ing a changer"
'I ask you to put me to work." the
republican presidential nominee said
II know that this job (of government
management can be DONE"
In an address prepared for an audi
ence in the heart of the anthracite
country, Willkie continued;
"Here you have a management in
the office of your government which
has had a fair trial of eight years and
in all that time it has been unable
to solve the problem of the farmer,
industry, or provide our peo-
pie with jobs. And now that man
agement tells us that it can't be
done.
"Under such circumstances, what
have you got to lose in making a
change? Isn't it about time to get
management that believes in the fu-
ture of this country and believes that
the job can be done.
Asserting that 1--WE want to build
up America" the candidate said peo-
pie need more food, more houses and
more of the products of industry.
"By all the rules Of justice and
common sense" he continued, those
who can produce those things should
be able to produce them; and those
who need them should be able to get
them.
"But what is actually happening?
have people on the farms who
need the products of industry while
9 900, 900 men are out of work and
many factories are idle. We have
people in the cities who need the pro-
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26

Lewis Endorses Willkie For Presidency
FOLLOW THROUGH
IAN

NA4N
The city commission is commended for taking steps to
relieve the water situation at its meeting yesterday morning.
The people of Wilmington are gratified to know that
plans have been mapped at the city hall to do something about
a permanent supply of fresh, pure water and will gladly
withhold further criticism if the commissions decisions are
followed by prompt action to put them into effect.
AS reported in the Star and News, the commissioners
made three moves. The first was to engage an engineer for
a survey Of all available sources of supply. The second was
to apply for a WPA grant; the third to prepare the machin-
cry for a bond election.
The first move is unnecessary. There have been sur
veys OF water sources, the results of which are in the city
hall files. 10 make a new survey would be both costly and
time-wasting. Commissioner of Public Works Wade must
know what can be done to give Wilmington fresh water on
a year-round basis. Further search would merely set the
project back.
The second and third moves should be pressed with all
possible speed. The federal grant, already pledged, we I'm
erstand, should be taken up at once and every source of in
fluence employed for it's quick c~onsummation.
No time should be lost in presenting the bond issue.
And in this connection it is pertinent to say that the present
enthusiasm for fresh water should not be allowed to fade
out during the time necessary to prepare for an election.
It is to be remembered that only by the vote of those
entitled to cast ballots can Wilmington hope to get what it
wants. There is danger that the popular demand, at high
pitch now, may subside before an election can be held, unless
the people who object to salt water in the mains keep their
part in a bond election p%erpetually in mind.
And in the meantime, it is essential for the health and
safety of the people that the temporary relief to be had
from wells be provided without an unnecessary moments
delay.
The continued presence of salt in the domestic water
supply has created a definite menace, an explosion hazard.
Salt water corrodes pipes quickly. There is no telling when
boilers containing hot salt water will burst or what damage
and loss of life will follow such an explosion.
Furthermore, the heavy financial losses to a great va
riety of business firms, due to salt water, must be stopped.
1t will be a good economic step to get fresh water into
the mains at once.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26
Draft Boards.
Post Number.
Lists Today.
Numbers Assigned To Con-
scription Cards OF 6,043
Men In City, County
ARE AT CUSTOMHOUSE
Lottery To Determine Or
der OF Call Will Be Staged
In Capital Tuesday

New Hanover county's two draft
boards today will post tho serial
numbers assigned to CONSUMPTION
cards of 6,O43 young men in the
city and county.
H. G. Carney, chairman OF city
draft board No. ,, said last night
AL CONSUMPTION cards of men
of draft age had received serial
numbers, as compared with the
number of 4,469 who registered
recently in the city proper.
John Alexius, chairman of coun-
ty draft board No. 2, reported
1852 cards of men residing in the
county outside the city limits had
been stamped with the serial num-
bers, as compared with the num-
Der of 1,7O4 men who had signed
up in the area for compulsory
military training.
Are At Customhouse
Carney and Alexius said serial
numbers assigned to city and coun-
ty CONSUMPTION cards would be
posted at room 124, customhouse,
Market street entrance.
The number of serial numbers
assigned locally-6,0 43-compares
with the total CONSUMPTION registra-
ton of 6,173 young men in both
the city and county on October Is.
Nearly a week vas required by
workers at the local draft board
headquarters to complete the task
of listing serial numbers of all
r~egistrants, for which there were
cards, in the city and county.
Draft board officials said they
expected the receipt of additional
draft registration cards for per-
sons who were out of the city and
county on registration day and this
would bring about, a slight increase
in the number of cards with serial
the number of cards with serial
numbers locally. Count draft
boards officials said they had re-
ceived registration cards from as
far west as California.
Drawing Tuesday
On next Tuesday when the num-
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26
FLIGHT TRAINING
PROGRAM SECURED
Ten OF 100 Competitors
Will Be Selected For IS
To 40 Hours Instruction

The Wilmington Junior Champer
of Commerce has secured the ClViI
heronautics Authority flight tram
ing program for the city, j. e. An
derson, Jr., aviation commlttee
chairman, said last night.
The project, a part Of the national
defense program, will take up 10
100 competitors, ten of which, IN
Guiding one girl, will be selected ZOE
IS to 40 hours of flight instruction.
which will give them "a private pH
lots license, Anderson said
Age limits for the course are from
10 to 2e. All persons interested IN
taking the curse are asked to con-
tact Anderson, corner of Front ana
Princess streets.
Wilmington has become n OF
three cities in North Carolina 10
secure the CAA flight training pro-
gram. Anderson said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26
WARREN HONORED
AT CELEBRATION
Jesse Jones Makes
Principal Address At
Washington Meet

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.- Up -
Notables of the state as well as thou
sands OF his constituents today
honored Rep. Lindsay C. Warren,
who will retire November 1 to become
comptroller general of the United
States.
Among the notables who attended
the celebration, which included a
parade and an old-time picnic, were
Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones,
who made the principal speech,
Admirals r. r. Waeshe and L.. Z.
Covell of the coast guard. Governor
Clyde Hoey and former Governor o.
Gardner.
A parade, which included nine high
school bands from over the First dis
trict, assembled at Warren's home
here shortly after noon for a march
to the Washington field museum,
where the exercises were held on a
specially constructed pavalion.
Lindsay Warren, SAID secretary
Jones, lis not what you would call a
vociferous member of congress but
he is a most effective one. He seldom
speaks but when he does, his col
leagues in both parties and in both
houses are glad to listen, for they
know something of the depth of his
thinking. They know too that he is
a real patriot and statesman"
Business here was generally sus-
pended during the celebration. War
rem was presented with a chest OF
silver anC. a new automobile. Heroer'
C. Bonner his secretary and demo-
cratic candidate to succeed Warren,
was given a chest of silver also.
Edmund Fl. Harding of Washlng'
ton, presided.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26
British And German Guns
STAGE Duel Over Channel

gagement involving two heavy bat
teries on the German side.
Early this morning the British cor.
voy still was under fire in the chan.
mel, and the British guns we're
pounding the German batteries.
Great sheets of flame lit up the
clouded sky and the glare reached
all the way across the channel to the
English side.
While the artillery duelled about
dusk, German planes launched a
mass attack upon the British convoy
and it's barrage ballons. There was
a sharp battle, as every ship returned
the fire with all guns. The noise
increased when British fighter planes
Joined the engagement.
German planes dropped some 80
bombs around the ships. No direct
hit was reported but some might
have been struck by splinters, =
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26

ROME, Oct. 25.-R- Mussolini
has set up a tremendous" air base
of his own on the French side of
the English Channel, informed 1tal-
ians said tonight, and his filters al
ready are s%plashing the streets OF
London with bombs marked "made
in Italy"
This disclosure (coincident with a
German high command announce
ment that Italians, for the first
time, accurately raided 1.-THE east OF
the British Isle" from their own
base yesterday, was followed by
indications of intense activity on
the Italian front in Egypt. There
were predictions in Rome that the
fascist forces. now entrsnched 70
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26
continued on Page Two; Col. 2.
Engineer Dies In Wreck
OF Florida Coast Train

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla, Oct.
e-tf7-Engineer r. l.. Montaigne,
sou' %, Was killed and a negro fire
~ was seriously injured late today
No.. sue oerailment of a northbound
foa 'ua East Coast passenger train
~ uAles south OF mere.
MI Ae boiler of the locomotive x
u' and Montague was severely
"s' reports said two passenger
,snsalso left the track, and an ambu-
Oe Was called for one woman pas
ser Who was said to have suffered
B back injury.
tbo explosion of the boiler wrecked
locomotive, parts of it being scat
IN along the track.
Inc fireman. identified by police
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26

here as Luke Johnson, suffered bad
scalds and was taken to the railroads
hospital at St. Augustine.
A railroad official at the company's
st. Augustine offices said no pas
senger received serious injuries.
The train, No. "a, was composed OF
dav coaches. three pullmans, a mail
a and a baggage car. 1t left Miami
shortly before noon and was u III
Jacksonville at 1920 p. M.
The wreck occurred in a SCRUB
palmetto section considerably distant
from any automobile highway, and
rescue parties had difficulty reaching
the scene. A railroad wrecker was
sent from here to clear the tracks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26
BERLIN RAIDED AGAIN
LARGE Formation Raids On
London Leave Wide Trail
OF Destruction

LONDON, Oct. 25.- Up British
bombs exploded early today from
Berlin to Rotterdam-from Hamburg
to the west French coast and on war
supply depots in far interior Ger
many-in one of the longest and most
violent counter-attacks yet delivered
in six weeks of almost endless aerial
attrition.
The attack on Berlin-the 23rd of
the war - was declared by the air
ministry to have gone On intermit-
tently for nearly three hours, the
raiding pilots cutting down through
great cloud banks 1000 to $1,000 feet
deep.
Rail Stations Hit
Two railway stationS-the Putlitze-
Strasse and Lehrter stations were
hit hard for the second night in a
row, the ministry said, and a huge
fire" set off down below guided
squadron after squadron Of planes
which swept over the city.
Extensive damage" was claimed.
Gin Berlin the German high COM
mand announced an unstated number
of dead and injured in Berlin and
Hamburg; said there was fire and
property damage in the harbor and
elsewhere in Hamburg; spoke of
damage to houses and a lumber yard
in Berlin.
(The German wireless broadcast
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26
Commissioner Wade Says
WPA Will Provide 70
Per Cent Oh Cost
TO EMPLOY ENGINEER
Will Make Survey OF Kings
Bluff To Determine
Best Water Source

Preliminary steps to the filing
of an application for WPA aid in a
project designed to give Whining
ton a new and permanent fresh wa.
ter supply will be started this
morning, James E. L. Wade, city
commissioner of public works, said
last night.
The work is in accordance with
action taken by the board OF city
commissioners yesterday morning,
at which time the officials voted
to call a bond issue election at the
earliest possible moment for the
purpose of raising funds for the
project.
Will Cost $1,000 O0
Under the original Recommended
lions submitted at a meeting of
the board Wednesday by Commits
sioner Wade, the work of securing
a new water supply will cost APP
proximately 5000, 900.
Wade said that through a verbal
understanding the WPA Will pro-
vide 70 per cent Of the total
amount.
The commissioners yesterday al
so voted to employ an engineer to
make a survey of Kings Bluff as
a possible source for the city's fu-
ture water supply. However, Wade
said last night that until the plans
for the project have been set up
that the engineer will not be I'm
ployed.
The new survey is to be beyond
Strawberry Bluff on the Cape Fear
river, where a survey was made
by ]. L. Becton in 1882. Other pos
sible sources of water will also be
Investigated.
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