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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-02
HERE FROM COBOL

George Bolyan and daughter Dace were arrivals from Cobol mines carly this week and while the latter will remain here for the present a
Evening star., 1941-08-25
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Continued From First Page :

line of communication from the
Persian Gulf in the event the Ger
man drive in the Ukraine develops
into a threat against Russian oil
fields in the Caucasus.
The British operations were di-
rected from Simla by Sir Archibald
P. Wavell, newly appointed COM
mander in India, who engineered
Britain's brilliant desert campaign
against the Italians in Libya last
winter.
But the British doubted that Iran
resistance would develop on a ma jor
scale and were counting on diplo-
macy to win as much as arms.
Diplomatic quarters said every effort
would be made by British Ambas-
sador Sir Reading Bullard ut
Teheran, the Iran capital, to con-
vince the Iranians of the "futility
and waste" of fighting both British
and Russians.
Naval operations were in charge
of Admiral Sir GeofIrey Arbuthnot,
commander of the East Indian sta
ton, and it was believed the minute
Iran Navy would be easy prey for
the East Indian squadron.
The Soviets presumably were NOV
ing through the difficult passes from
Armenia. west of the Caspian Sea,
with Tabriz their first objective. The
Russians charge that a tentative
German headquarters has been
established there near the Caucasian
froRtier.
The British push from rrs4 was
intended first to cut the railway
Evening star., 1941-08-25
Time Buying Rules
May Be Tightened,
.EccIes Warns
Says Purpose Of Order
Is TO Cut Demand,
Not Production
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Chairman Mariner S. Eccles Of
the Federal Reserve Board cautioned
today that installment buying regu-
lations which go into effect Sep
tember were subject to change
as experience develops "and as eco
nomic conditions require a further
dampening of buying power in order
to safeguard tine interests of con-
sumers and the public generally"
The regulations issued Friday
were designed in general to limit
mstallment payments and loans to
18 months and to fix certain mini
mum down payments.
The purpose of installment credit
regulation" Mr.. Eccles said in
statement discussing the boards
order, lis to help dampen demand
for goods the civilian supply of
which has already been reduced and
! must be further reduced because of
| defense needs. In a word, the pur-
pose is to dampen demand, not to
diminish production. If production
could keep pace with both civilian
and defense demands, We would
have no price imitation troubles"
He declared the people could not
continue to spend increased incomes
and 60 into debt without precipi-
tating price initiation that would
recoil ruinously upon all of U.s."
AS one means Of helping avoid
imitation, Mr.. Eccles urges the peo-
pie TO take advantage of higher in
comes to reduce their debts "or get
| out Of debt"
Evening star., 1941-08-25

Inc mere lQed OF SuCn q system,
which would place an industry under
central control and eliminate COM
petition between companies, Is
enough to raise the hair on the
necks of most businessmen. It Is
close to being system of state
socialism.
These are not normal times, how
ever. If O. P. NJ. should decide
that some such program would in
crease output, businessmen prob
ably would have to like it.
Good Seen in Price Boosts.
The advantages Of keeping prices
under control and preventing .
sharp increase in living costs are
pretty we'll appreciated. Economists
point out, though, that higher prices
are a tremendously important fac
tor in increasing production.
An example of this is a survey by
the Arizona Department of Mineral
Resources, which estimates that cop
per production in Arizona could be
increased $4,000 tons q year by
higher copper prices and provision
of necessary working capital. With
copper supplies already too small to
fill the Nations needs. there Is little
doubt that this added production
would be very welcome If it could
be achieved in time to meet the
emergency.
AS a way Of meeting the situation
Henderson's price control Office is
considering an increase in copper
prices to apply only to marginal pro-
ducers.
Current Bids a Headache.
Railroad executives here had big
headache recently when asked for
rates on moving huge quantities Of
cement for the Panama Canal.
Eastern cement companies, To-
Gated in the Lehigh Valley and
along tbs Hudson River. were bdA-
Evening star., 1941-08-25
28h Division Units
Arriving in Virginia
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne ASSOcld dted Press.
FREDERICKSBURG. Va. Aug
25.-Advance units of the 28th Di-
vision, formerly Pennsylvania Ma
tional Guard. were arriving today
at the A. P. Hill Military Reserva ton
in Caroline County.
The entire division of about 5000
men is scheduled to be in position
tomorrow night for three weeks of
field msneuvers beginning Wednes-
day. The division started moving
from its base at Indiantown Gap,
Pa. Saturday.
Maj. Gen. Edward Martin. division
commander: his staff and head
quarters company arrived in the
camp area last week to witness
demonstrations of tactics for de-
fense against mechanical attack
and set up headquarters for division
operations.
Anti-tank units of the 28th have
been in the Caroline camp for the
last three weeks.
Evening star., 1941-08-25
Steel Rate 10 Rise
To 96.5 Per Cent
In Current Week
Institutes Estimate
FruetionoIIy Ahead
Of Previous Mark
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Steel mills
of the United States are expected
to operate this week at 965 per cent
of capacity, the American Iron &
Steel Institute reported today.
The rate is 0.3 of / per cent higher
than last week, and compared with
operations at 976 per cent of ca
pacity a month ago.
The rate as given today was re-
vised on the basis of an annual do
mestic output Of 86,148,700 tons, as
announced last Friday. and COM
pared with the previous American
steel capacity of 84,152 ,292 tons a
year.
Both the comparative output ig-
ures given for last week and for a
month ago were based on the new
capacity. A year ago the industry
was operating at 913 per cent Of
the previous capacity.
CLEVELAND, Aug. Is (P.-Some
plants already have been forced to
suspend operations on civilian goods
because of priorities recently ap-
piled to all forms of steel, the maya
zine Steel reported today.
Although not yet in the critical
stage, indications are that such
suspensions will become widespread
resulting in large unemployment
during at least temporary period
in turning from civilian goods pro-
duction to Defense" the trade pub
hcat ation continued.
Under the stringent new pig
iron regulations one Southern pro-
ducer finds it hereafter can ship tc
only about 10 per cent of its Gus
toners, who are engaged on priority
business: the remaining 80 per cent
are threatened with shutdowns.
Last week mills analyzed their
order books to determine what
finished products are least involved
in defense. Fewest priority orders
involve wire and next fewest apply
in cold-rolled sheets and strip, GAL
vanized sheets, hot-rolled sheets and
strip and tin plate in that order
Some semi finished steel now going
into wire Immediately will be di-
verted to products such as plates
which. come largely under high
priority.
Plate consumers hope the new
regulations may result in better
shipments as it is believed material
for shipbuilding has been accu-
mulated in shipyards faster than it
can be fabricated. Rating of A-3
for railroad car building material
may not be sufficient to keep up
production"
Evening star., 1941-08-25
| Nine Sentenced in Plot
To Kill japanese Leader
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Aug. 20-Nine persons
involved in plot TO assassinate a
pro-British Japanese elder states
man" with dynamite during the
blockade of Tientsin in 1889 were
sentenced by Toxic court today to
terms ranging from 10 months to I
years imprisonment.
Authorities have refused to dis
close the name of the statesman.
The sentences were more lenient
than the prosecution had asked. six
of the accused plotters being granted
q stay of sentence and placed on
probation for three years.
The alleged ringleader, Ikko Sasai.
president of the Japan party" was
given suspended sentence of l8
months. but Kenichiro Homa, anoth-
er alleged leader, was ordered i'm
prisoned for IA months and Seijo
Shimuzu for years.
Evening star., 1941-08-25
Escaped Murderer
Returns 10 Prison
Facing NewCharge
WoIter Ross Gives Self Up
And Is Accused in SIoying
Of Automobile DeoIer
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOC1aLed PresS-
RICHMOND, Va. Aug. 2S.-Wal-
ter L. Ross, 81, convicted slayer OF
Elmer A. Davidson, Washington at
torney, who escaped April 10 from
a Tazewell County convict camp,
has voluntarily returned to prison
and been charged with another
murder.
Commonwealth Attorney Walter
H. Carter Of Amherst County said
he had sworn out a warrant charg-
ing Ross with the murder of FREQ
w. Boyce, Lansdowne Pa automo-
bile dealer who was found fatally
shot near Piney River four day,
after Ross escaped.
State penitentiary officials sale
Delegate c. L. Spangler, a Patrick
County attorney, wrote penitentiary
officials that Ross wanted TO give
himself up and that he had brought
Ross to the prison within the las
week"
State Police 1t O. E Smell told tht
Lynchburg News that Ross sur
rendered several days ago to Stat.
ford County authorities.
Maj. Rice M. Youwell. superin'
tendent of the State penitentiary
said Ross had been viewed in tn,
prison by persons who sought Il
link him with the Boyce murder
Ross, a former marine. was SEN
fenced to 10 years in 1897 on con
viction of second-degree murder II
the Davidson case.
The body of Mr.. Dawson, sho
and stabbed, was found off tn,
Richmond highway in Stafforc
County October 4, 1887. His wrecked
car was discovered near Triangle
Evening star., 1941-08-25

ding on 1000, 900 barrels Of cement
for the Panama Canal. Bids were
to be submitted on the basis OF bulk
delivery by use Of wooden lined
freighters.
Hauling the cement to tidewater
and loading it aboard ship would
have required special covered cars
and unloading equipment. Rail ex-
ecutives here estimated IT'S carloads
of cement would have had to be
unloaded in so hours.
One railroad went so far as to
take an option on a piece of land
on which special unloading equip
ment could be installed.
But when the bids were opened,
it was found that Texas and Cali
fornia cement companies were the
lowest bidders. 1t was labor lost for
Eastern interests.
Steel Progress Cited.
An addition of 1000 900 tons ca
pacity during the first six months
of the year may not look like much
to the layman but in steel circles
it is regarded as an achievement.
BY the end of this year the steel
makers will have made a two-year
addition to their productive Ca
pacity equal to Japan's entire steel
industry.
About one-fifth of the increase
in the Nations paycheck this year
will be spent on food, experts es-
innate.
National income payments to in
dividuals are expected to exceed
$85 5,000. 900 600, compared with $75,-
500 600, 900 in 1910. Bigger food pur-
chases will take about s., 600, ,000, 900
OF this $10 600 900 900 pay rise partly
because Of higher prices, partly be-
cause Of bigger appettes and more
pay 70 buy things - sstafy than.
Evening star., 1941-08-25
Failures Increasing
Among Small Firms
AsCosts Climb
More CopituI Now
Required to Finance
Same Volume
,neeial DISPATCH to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOSTON, Aug. 2s.-RisinE costs
as a result of infiationary forces are
tending to increase the rate Of busi-
ness mortality among small con-
Germs. says the United Business
Service in a report released today.
The service points out that rising
prices call for q correspondlngly
larger amount of capital to finance
the handling of the same volume OF
merchandise An article is bought
for a dollar and sold for sl.5o, but
to put another on the shelf costs
perhaps sl15. Unless an unusual
proportion of gross profit is put
back into the business, inventory
can be maintained only by finding
new capital or by . rising dollar
volume of Indebtedness to suppliers.
Small retailers and dealers with
limited capital feel the effects OF
this situation most severely. The
ratio of retail sales to loans clearly
shows a deterioration in the COM
mercial credit situation. In spite
of rising sales. loans have increased
faster. In other words, business
men are having TO borrow more to
finance each dollar of sales This
invariably leads to an increase in
bankruptcies among financially
weak firms.
For a time. this trend can be
largely offset by more rapid turn
over. Thus far, probably most of it
has been. But with credit limits
imposed by the Government, and q
progressive scarcity of many items
of consumer goods, this source Of
relief tends to disappear. Higher
labor costs, the service points out,
are also adding to the difficulties of
both producers and dealers-parti-
cularly in the case Of smaller con-
Germs.
Evening star., 1941-08-25
American SmeItinq
Reports S6,7@,S1S
Net for Half
Result Shows Gain
Over Sc, ,405 $40 of
Some 1910 Period
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-American
Smelling & Refining Co. and sub
salaries reported today net in
come for the first six months of
1941 of S6,768,8l8, equal after pre-
ferred dividend requirements to
1929 a common snare, compared
with S6,405 ,92O or $2.l2 a common
share. in the first half of 1910.
The company's report showed net
income before taxes in the COM
parable periods was $13,807, ,556 in
194l against 1924 ,646 in the 1910
half. The 194l tax provision ac-
counted for the disparity. 1t was
s7,O38, ,739, more than double the
sass. .726 set aside in the first
half of 1910.
F. E. Myers 4 Bro.
F. E. Myers & Bro. pump manu-
facturers. reported today net profit
of $775.275 for the nine months
ended July 81. equal to $387 a COM
mon share. compared with 1862 ,438
or S4,3l common share for the
nine months ended July 81, 1910.
For the quarter ended July 81 net
profit was s318,756, equal to $l.59 a
common share, against $324.077 or
s1.62 a common share in the July
quarter of 1910.
Virginia Carolina.
Virginia Carolina Chemical Corp
and wholly owned subsidiaries for
the fiscal year ended June 80 showed
net profit of s359, 1886, equal to sl.69
O share on the per cent partici-
pating preferred on which dividends
are in arrears, against s6l5.460 or
$2.89 on the same stock in the pre-
ceding fiscal year.
D., L. & W. Railroad.
The Delaware, Lackawanna g.
Western Railroad Co. reported for
the seven months ended July 81 net
income of s22975 equal to ST. SO
q share on the capital stock. This
compared with a net loss of S618.-
702 for the same period in 1910.
The company's July net income
amounted to S324,717, against loss
of sl98,701 for the like month last
year.
Northern Pacific.
Northern Pacific Railway reported
for the seven months ended July 81
net income of 81 500 1872, equal to IS
cents a share. against net loss of
$2,757,975 for the like period in 1910.
Evening star., 1941-08-25
1912 Packard Models
Exhibited Ahead Of
Original Date
ChYsler, Studeboker
Showines Also Set
For This Week
By DAVID J. WILKIE,
Associated Press Automotive Editor.

DETROIT, Aug. 25-Packard Mo-
tor Car Co., which has a major
part in the national defense pro-
duction program assigned to the
automobile industry. announced lts
1912 model automobiles today.
Changing original plans for mid
September presentation, Packard
showed the new units to gather
ing of some of its retailers and an
nounced plans for showings later
this week in New York and Chicago
and in other cities early in Sep
tember.
The new vehicles which Packard
has produced in limited volume
since the start of the new automo-
tive year, generally follow the styling
lines of the Clipper" model it
brought out late in the 194l model
period. The Clipper was the first
to present the wide sweeping fend-
ers that taper off into the 'front.'
door panels.
Two other car makers will show
their 1912 models in private pre-
views this week for newspaper and
magazine writer's. with public pres
entations planned early next month.
Chrysler Show Tomorrow.
Chrysler Corp. has scheduled its
showing for tomorrow as part of an
all-day program intended to empha-
size the corporations participation
In the production of national de-
fense material. Studebaker, which
also has a big part in the armament
production job, will hold its new
model showing at Solth Bend on
Wednesday.
The ChrySler showing will include
models of each of its divisions
Chrysler, Dodge, De Soto and
Plymouth. Hudson and Nash
already have shown 1912 models to
news writer's at dealers meetings.
General Motors and Ford, each with
defense ALLEGATIONS running into
hundreds of millions of dollars, are
scheduled tentatively to make their
initial new model presentations in
mid-September.
General Motors. already turning
out defense materials in heavy
volume, probably will combine its
previeW presentation of Chevrolet,
Buick, Olds, Pontiac and Cadillac
models in one general showing.
Production Started.
Most of the motorcar companies
were in production last week on
their 1912 models, although the
volume of output varied widely
among the different plants. Several
Of those which began new model
activity early this month were able
TO further accelerate their produc-
tion. The others contributed only
fnodestly to the weeks total of
45.52S cars and trucks.
Last weeks volume brought the
aggregate for August to date to
around 137.500 vehicles. making it
appear certain the months total
would not fall far short of zoe, 900
units. A year ago the total for the
first month of the model year was
about 10000 cars and trucks from
United States plants alone.
The new models currently coming
from the assembly lines boast con-
siderable bright trim both in interior
and exterior finish. Most, if not all
of this is to be dispensed with when
current stocks of the trim material
were used up. Thus most of the
car makers will have two distinct
types of 1942 models on the road.
Evening star., 1941-08-25
British Declared Carrying
Food for Ironjons

SIMLA, India, Aug. Is LP-The
British troops entering Iran are
carrying food supplies for the popu-
lace. British sources said today, be-
cause the country is reported in q
state of near-famine from heavy
German food requisitioning, pre-
sumably for storage.
Every precaution has been taken
to handle Iranian resistance, it was
stated.
A statement issued by Gen. Sir
Archibald P. Wavell's headquarters
said the British-Russian entrance
into Iran was decided on to prevent
the Germans from using the coun-
try as base for attacks on Russia,
India and the Moslem Middle East.
Evening star., 1941-08-25
| |Opening Sugar
| Deal Exceeds
| u. S. Limit
" the Associated Press.

by tHS ASSOtldtcu EiSco-
NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-Tradins
in domestic sugar futures, suspended
since August l3, was resumed today
The first sale was at 2.70 cents a
pound, which, when the duty
of 90 cents a pound is added tops
the 3.5O-cent ceiling fixed by Fed
eral order.
Traders said the deal either was
intended as the basis for a court
test of the ceiling order or repre-
sented liquidation.
A recent modification of the price
order by the ONCE of Price Admin
stration and Civilian Supply has
been interpreted as permitting such
sales In Hardship cases"
All early bids for domestic sugal
contracts were above the market
equivalent of the ceiling price.
Evening star., 1941-08-25
In the Business World
Strieter Controls Coming for Industry,
ALLEGATION Of Orders Expected
BY PAUL GESNER and JOHN BECKLEY.
The Stars Special News Service.

Aug 25-Government controls sricter than
industrial leaders the Nation
swings further toward a full defense
which pushed to
find their operations central
the would decide
what each should manufacture and whom these
products should be sold.
would be eliminate the
all through central
would assigned manufacture those items which
chnery best suited, and only those items.
Evening star., 1941-08-25
Red Army Marching
South From Caucasus
In Iran Invasion
Forces to Be Withdrown
As Soon as Nozi Peril
Is Removed, Envoy Told
By the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, Aug. 25.-The Red
Army marched south from the Cau-
casus into Iran today in a joint cam
paign with British forces entering
from the west and south to end Ger
man activity in that oil-producins,
Middle East kingdom.
Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mol
otov handed a note early this morn
ing to Mohamed Saed, veteran Rus
sian-speaking Iranian Ambassador
to Moscow, promising that the Red
Army would be withdrawn as soon
as the Soviet government was salts
fied that all Nazi danger had been
removed.
1t also pledged the territorial in
tegrity of Iran.
A communique announcing that
Britain and Russia had resorted to
force said the Allied drives began
after three warnings to the Teheran
government over Nazi activity.
Nazis Accused of Plot.
Molotov's note charged that Ger
man agents were plotting to create
disorder in Iran, arouse the Iran
ians against Russia, foment coup
d'etat in Teheran and send wreckers
into Azerbaijan, Baku and Soviet
Turkmenia.
The situation created in Iran is
pregnant with danger" 1t said. 1T
requires of the Soviet union imme-
diate execution of measures it has
not only the right, but also the duty,
to adopt in the interests of self
defense"
The note recalled warnings given
Iran June 26, July 10 and August is,
commenting that unfortunately
the Iranian government refused to
adopt measures which would have
ended disorders planned by German
agents within the territory of Iran"
Details Not Issued Yet.
Details of the campaign were not
issued Immediately and the mid
day Soviet Information Bureau bull
letin ignored this new military ac-
ton. the first undertaken jointly
by Britain and Russia since they
became Allies against Germany.
The Soviet note listed German
agents declared to be operating in
Iran, group estimated in allied
diplomatic circles at about 5000.
The invasion was designed to
forestall any Germany attempt to
take over the country just south of
Russia's vital Baku oil bases and
the rich terrain of the Caucasus.
Iran also is situated strategically
on possible route for trade between
Russia and the British Empire and
| could serve as communication link
too. between Russia and the United
States.
The eight-page Russian note re-
called a paragraph of q 1921 Rus
sian-Iranian agreement which gave
Russia the right to send troops into
the country ''in the interests of self
defense" if Iran proved unable tc
cope with any action of . third
power endangering Russia.
1t emphasized the danger of a
conspiracy by Nazis in Iran. espe-
cially since the invasion of the Soviet
Union, and pledged that as soon as
| the peril was removed the Soviet
government will Immediately with.
draw its troops
Russia's action is in no way d.
rected against the Iranian people
and does not threaten their SOW
ereignty, it declared, assuring the
Teheran government, that:
Military measures taken by the
Soviet government are directed ex.
clusively against the danger created
by inimical activity of Germans In
| Iran"
Evening star., 1941-08-25
Father of Seven at IS

On his 95th birthday, John Shell
ton, of Dungog, Australia, boasted
of being the father of seven, the
Oldest son being 72, grandfather
Of six, great-grandfather of five and
great-great-grandfather Of one.
Evening star., 1941-08-25
Washington Exchange
SALES.

Capital Transit Co.-40 at 15s.
Mergenthaler-4s at "a, 8 at "a
Anacostia and Potomac Mod 3s4s-
81 900 at 107s4.
Riggs National Bank conmon-1 at
270
Evening star., 1941-08-25

Quotations furnished by National Asso-
eiation OF Securities Dealers, Inc, which
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
transactions or firm bids or offers, but
should indicate approximate prices and
unless otherwise indicated, are as quoted
b5 the sponsors or issuers.
mot quoted by sponsors or issuers.
Evening star., 1941-08-25
Steel Quotations

NEW york. Aug 25 tP-steel prices,
per 100 pounds, fob Pittsourgh; Hot.
foiled sheets bass .price, 10; galTenuec
0eets, $50: atAAl hA1s, z.1b.
Evening star., 1941-08-25

sEx dividend tPlus extras. ta) SOC
% $500 extra paid December rs, 1910
(h) So. 90 extra tk) Zoe extra. im) 81 30
extra (p) loo paid July IS, 1871.
ts) S2.o0 paid in 1940. (y) $1,000 extra.
w. - when issued.