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Evening star., 1941-03-07
Washington Produce

LIVESTOCK-Calves, IL; spring lambs,
10: pigs under 100 pounds, 4.25-4.75: 100
40 pounds. 5:O0.5.50: 14Q-1sQ POUNDS,
550-5.75; 1Ss-220 pounds, 575-60O;
cOO-3O0 pounds 560-5.S5; SoWS. 800
4.50; calves, 950-l0.50.
From Agricultural Marketing Service.
Prices paid net fob. Washington:
EGGS-Market steady. Prices paid for
Federal-State graded eggs RECEIVED from
grading stations (March -: Whites, q. S.
extras, large, 1924: y. s extras medgms' me y
standards mediums, 17-l9; U S. trades,
15-17 Browns, U s. extras, large. 2l-23;
U. 8. extras, mediums, 1921; u. g.. stand
ards, large, 1922; U, s, standards me- me-
nearby ungraded eggs: Current receipts,
whites II: mixed colors. 10.
LIVE POULTRY-MarKet steady. Fowl:
GoI9Tsd an sizes 17,1S; RHostsTs NO RS 1a:1S; sIS
Chickens. Virginia broilers and fryers, all
sizes, 30: No; 9, 1914. Delaware, Rocks
and crosses, broilers and tryers. all sizes,
1920; No. IS 13;14 Turkeys. young
hens all sises; ~ %; No IS; IA; in young toms. s:
pounds, 1si cspons; Pounads an and ,,tI' up
1920.
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Matson Navigation
Reports S5,372,S43
Profit for 1910
Sole Of Old Ships
And Higher Rates
Boost Income
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, March T.
Matson Navigation Co. reports high
demand for ships in 1910 sent net
income up to s5.372.843 or 1924
a share from s2,3I5.65O or $1.4O a
share in 1899.
The company bought in 1884
shares of its own stock, leaving l.
653,842 shares outstanding.
Helping swell income was more
than S2000000 from sale of old
ships and charter of other tonnage,
described as homecoming. In
creased freight rates also gave in
come a boost that. was of indefinite
duration
Gross income rose to S33,684000
from S29,275,000
Evening star., 1941-03-07

savings Mr.. Marquardt, who pre-
sides at most of these sessions, is
vice president of the First National
Bank. Chicago. He has long been
leader in the A. B. A.
Many of the addresses at the
conference have stressed the great
changes now taking place in bank
ing. New methods have been Sug-
geSted for meeting the ever-groW-
ing competition.
Exchange Trading Active.
Potomac Electric Power 512 per
cent preferred opened trading on
the Washington Stock Exchange to-
day with 30 shares moving at lis,
up "a. After call 80 more shares sold
at the same price.
Washington Gas Light preferred
figured in several sales, opening at
1861, moving up to 106 and closing
at 1867. Capital Transit came out
in a 50-share sale at 1612, the 1941
high marx reached a few days ago.
Mergenthaler Linotype appeared
on the board for the first time in
many sessions, 20 shares changing
hands at 21A.
Banks Over 100 Years Old.
The District of Columbia has
three of the 249 banks in the United
States which are over LOO years
old, according to the March issue
of Rand McNally Bankers Monthly.
The National Bank of Washing
ton, established in 1909, is 1872 years
old; the National Metropolitan,
founded in 1914, is now 127 years of
age. and the Riggs National Bank,
started in 1886, is los years old,
according to the survey.
The figures are taken from the
firms 1941 directory, just published.
Financial District Comment.
Passenger and cargo traffic linked
with the national defense program
and the general business speedup
resulting from the program was q
factor in the busiest February in
the 15-year history of United Air
Lines, it was reported today.
The Federal Reserve Board an
nounced today that department
store sales in the Richmond district
in the first nine weeks of this year
were II per cent ahead of the like
1910 period, the best gain in any OF
the IL Reserve districts. The ma
tional gain was II per cent, The
IS per cent rise for the week ended
March was also the best in the
country.
Evening star., 1941-03-07
A. B. A. Cooperation
Assured in Defense
Financing Plans
President P. D. Houston
Pledges Support for
Treasury Program
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, March 7.-Assurance
of the American Bankers ASSocia-
tons cooperation in distributing
defense obligations to the public was
given the United States Treasury
today.
P. D. Houston of Nashville. Tenn,
head of the bankers organization,
uttered the pledge in an address
closing the Eastern regional con-
ference of the association.
"It is a large undertaking with
many ramifications." Houston said,
and, since it is, final plans have
not been completed. officials of
the Treasury have indicated to us,
however, that by the time of our
conference at Louisville two weeks
hence, or possibly earlier, their plans
will have been advanced to the point
where we shall be able to formulate
and announce ways in which the
banks can work with the Govern
ment in its financing program.
But I do not want to wait until
then to offer our help. I do not want
to let this opportunity pass to assure
the Treasury of our readiness to CO.
operate with it and to let the bankers
of the Nation know that another
opportunity will soon be presented
to us to again prove our devotion to
the welfare of the Nation"
If England can hold out through
August Hitler can be defeated, DR..
w. Randolph Burgess, vice chair
man of the board of the National
City Bank of New York, the Nations
second largest financial institution,
said in an address at the closing
luncheon.
OF imitation, Dr. Burgess said that
while some is to be expected. it need
not be uncontrolled. The danger
must not be ignored or underesti-
mated, but if methods can be de-
vised for intelligent, genuinely CO.
operative action by Government,
business, labor and finance, there
is real possibility of effective con-
troll" he said.
Evening star., 1941-03-07

Needham, general counsel of the
A. B. A
Mr.. Brott is a graduate of Yale
University and of the Yale Law
School He is married, has four
children and his home is in Chevy
Chase.
Special Guests Announced.
Among the many guests who have
accepted invitations to the eighth
annual banquet of the District OF
Columbia Building e. Loan League
tomorrow evening at the Mayfower
are:
Representative H. B. Steagall,
Representative Everett Dirksen,
Representative Allen Treadway,
Senator George L. Radcliffe, Pres
ton Delano, F. w. Catlett, Frank w.
Hancock, T. D. Webb, Harold Lee.
o. L. La Rogue, J. E. Collif1oWer,
Waverly Taylor. Edward A. Dent,
George T. Barse. L. A. Kelly and
Francis J. Clarke.
William N. Payne, jr., president
of the league. will preside; more
than $50 members and guests will
be present, and an elaborate en-
tertainment program will be carried
out. A reception for the guests will
precede the dinner.
PresideS at Bank Conference.
Roy R. Marquardt, president of
the savings bank division OF the
American Bankers Association, is
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK, March : tP.-Moderate
activity embracing all deliveries through
the first half of the year was reported
in cotton goods trading today Supplies
became increasingly tight at recently
established price advances
Developments in the mems wear division
of the wooden piece goods trade continued
to be dominated by pending Army con-
tracts
Rayon cloth moved in substantial volume
with prices firm and tending higher Silk
piece goods continued inactive.
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Boston Wool Market

BOSTON, March 7 lP, Omitted States
DEPARTMENT of Agriculture).-7Very few
INQUIRIES for spot domestic woods were be-
ing received today in the Boston market.
Quotations were largely nominal but hrm
because of the very limited quantities OF
spot woods available There was a little
demand for graded three -eighths and quar-
ter blood bright combing fleeces at 43-43
cents, in the grease. and in country packed
lots of mixed three-eighths and quarter
blood bright fleeces at 41-43 cents in the
grease.
Evening star., 1941-03-07
DC. Store Volumes
BPerCent Above
Same 1910 Week
Fifth District Shows
IS Per Cent Increase
Over Year Ago
BY EDWARD C. STONE.


Department store sales in Wash
ington for the week ended March |
scored another sharp advance and
were 25 per cent above the cor
responding week a year ago, the
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
reported today.
The fifth district had a gain of
Is per cent over the week ended
March 2, 1910. The bank explained
that increases for Washington and
the district were thrown out of line
by an unusual gain in sales in one
important Washington store. Sales
in Baltimore for the week ended
March 2 were 6 per cent better than
year ago, but in a group of other
cities were off 7 per cent.
Sales in the Capital were down
I per cent from the previous week
this year, and also off l per cent
in the whole district Baltimore
sales were per cent lower in this
period, but in a group of other
cities were 3 per cent higher than
in the week ended February %.
In the four weeks ended March l
sales in Washington, as we'll as in
the entire fifth district, were IT
per cent above sales in the like
period ending March 2, 1910. the
report adds Sales were up 18 per
cent in Baltimore and in the other
cities per cent.
The averages are based on re-
ports from 18 leading department
stores in the fifth district, the
Richmond bank says.
Brott HOnOred by A. b. A.
J. Oney Brott, who is connected
with the Washington Office of the
American Bankers Association, has
been named assistant general coun-
Evening star., 1941-03-07
American Smelling Buys
General Cable Shares
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 7-American
Smelling e. Refining Co. has pur-
chased about $1,000 shares of Cen
eral Cable Corp. per cent cumula-
tive preferred stock, S100 par, from
British interests, it was disclosed
today.
This brought total American
Smelling holdings of the cable COM
pany's preferred to around 28,320
shares. or roughly 19 per cent of
the 10000 shares outstanding.
Evening star., 1941-03-07

pre- S idin n G a t
m a ny Of n e
round table SeS-
sionS at the re-
gional- confer
enCe oW in
progress in New
York, which is
being attended
by several Wash
ington fnan-
cierS.
Wnlle dealing
with all problems
OF bank manage
ment, the meet
ing is giving spe-
Evening star., 1941-03-07

sci of the aSSo-
citation, EXecu-
tive M a n a 6 e r
Harold Stonier
announces.
Mr.. Brott has
been a member
of the A. B. A.
staff since early
in 1884, being
formerly con-
nected with the
Hartford = Con-
necticut Trust
Co. in Hartford.
Since 1887 he
has been aSSo-
ciatnd u,ith u I
Evening star., 1941-03-07
What Stocks Did:
Washington Exchange
SALES,

Potomac Electric Power 51z q pfd-
10 at lis; 20 at us
Washington Gas Light pfd-l0 OF
1861 at 106; l at 1O6; 5 at 1854,
Capital Transit Co.-5O at 1872:
Potomac Electric Power 5lzc q pfd-
80 at lis.
Mergenthaler Linotype-20 at 2lH.
Evening star., 1941-03-07

Quotations furnished by National Asso-
citation of Securities Dealers. Inc. which
states they do not necessarily reflect ac-
tual transactions or firm bids or offers,
but should indicate approximate prices,
and unless otherwise indicated, are as
quoted BY the sponsors or issuers.
Indicates Not quoted by sponsors or
issuers,'
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Total Sales for tn
Unit OF trading. ten snares.

Unit Of trading.
In bankruptcy receivership
bankruptcy Act or securities assumed by such
Rates OF dividend in the foregoing
entS oaseo last
Unless otherwise noted special dividends
included -
xsx o!vloend xr Hx rights Also extra Cash
far this dividends paid or declared this
- "
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Odd-Lot Dealings
BY the Associated Press,

The Securities Commission reported to-
day these transactions bv customers with
odd-lot dealers or specialists on the New
purchases involving SO, ,051 shares; 2,540
sales involving 66,S03 shares. including SO
short involving 1887 shares.
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Baltimore Stocks
Special Dispatch to The Star.
RATTTMOPF March

BALTIMORE. March =
Sales STOCKS. High. Low. Close
$40 Baltimore Transit 30 "a "a
20 BALTIC Transit pf $50 $50 $50
30 Consol Pow com 653s 65l4 65i4
100 East Sugar As VT S9s SL Si4
$50 East Sugar pf VT 2Ol4 90 2Oit
Is Fidelity g. Deposit 1862 1852 1I619
81 Fidelity & Guar BOSS 3Oss BOSS
100 Merch & Miners 1888 lSI2 1885,
l6 Mt Yer w Nils pfd - - -
40 U S Fidel e. Guar 22i4 2@L 22I4
BONDS
S200OA C. L. of Conn
81 ctfs SS SIS SS
300n BALTIC Tr deb As A 3T34 3134 3754
1000 BALTIC Trans IS A 45 as As
1000 BALTIC Trans 5s 1OOl7 1OO1a 1OOl2
Evening star., 1941-03-07
REGULAR

House cats were probably import
ed into Etruria by the Phoentcians.
Evening star., 1941-03-07

Indians in Canada are minors
under the law.
Evening star., 1941-03-07
PUBLIC UTILITY

Amer Tel 4. Tel Ca) 1851
Capital Transit I'll OO)- 1917 17A
& W Steamboat a. SO
Pot e power 6f, pfd t6l 1854 1885,
Po Elec Pw 5la0 pfd $50 ia 115IS
Wash Gas 1t com Il .5OD 81 22A
Wash Gas 1t pfd $50. 1854 1861
Wash Ry & El com tg4O) bio 500
Wash Ry e. El pfd 90 b116 1lp
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Investing Companies

NEW YORK. March : LP,-National As
ISOLATION Securities Dealers Inc:
CLOSING Quotations
Evening star., 1941-03-07
BONDS
PUBLIC UTILITY.
STOCKS

MISCELLANEOUS.
Ter RI & W Cp 1st 4l4s 1913 100
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Dividends Announced
'EX dividend
y pn1l-e rlngaL

ACCUMULATED.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-31
All Germans to
Quit Ju9osIavia

desire to maintain its neutrality
and remain at peace with its neigh
bors. Such statement would be
an implicit reputation of any Sc
cret agreement by the previous
Jugoslav government to permit
Germany to transport war materials
through Jugoslavia for an attack
on Greece)
Nazi informantS said that the
order to Germans to leave Jugo-
slavia at once was the result of
anti Gei1nan demonstrations and
the beating of German citizens.
The informants said that between
$4,000 and 10000 German citizens
were affected.
They said anti German outbreaks
were increasing.
"The German government can
not remain indifferent to these
anti-German outbreaks at a time
when the Reich and the Allies are
Involved in war" spokesman
said.
These outbreaks seriously en-
danger the Reich's prestige.
The Jugoslav government and all
Jugoslav quarters must realize that
our generosity must some day come
to an end
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-31
BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS

LONDON, March 81 CUP)-Brit-
ish warships after inflicting a
shattering defeat on the italian
navy rescued nearly 1000 italian
seamen before German dive bomb
ing planes forced them to abandon
their attempts to save between 200
and 300 more, the admiralty said
today in communique.
Before abandoning the rescue
operations, the British commander
in chief radioed the chief of the
Italian naval staff at Rome giving
him the position of the survivors
and suggesting that a hospital ship
be sent, the admiralty asserted.
"A reply was received and it is
therefore possible that some of
these men may be rescued the
communique said.
The communique told for the
first time the story of the greatest
British naval victory of the war,
in which one of Italy's two crack
cruisers and two destroyers we're
sunk, a third destroyer was prob
ably sunk, a 5,069 ton cruiser was
possibly sunk. damage was inflicted
on other Italian ships and two Ger
man dive bomber planes were shot
down.
1t confirmed the astonishing news
that in the engagement there was.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-31
Admiralty Tells
Story Of Victory

not single British fleet casualty,
except for the crew of two missing
planes. and that no damage was
done to any British ship.
1t was recalled here, as Britons
expressed astonishment at the COM
pleteness of their navy's victory,
that the Italians and Germans had
joined Saturday in claiming terri
BILE British fleet losses in attacks
by German and Italian planes.
Today's communique diclosed that
an Italian crusier captain was
among those saved by British ships
and that an italian admiral, COM
mander of the 8-inch cruiser squad
ron. was missing.
The communique, in customary
terse admiralty style, revealed
chronology of the battle.
Admiralty reconnaissance planes
had sighted Italian Warships, al
ways elusive, off the southeast
coast of Sicily, at the entrance of
the Ionian Sea where Greek and
Roman galleys used to fight, last
Thursday morning.
Light fleet units sighted $4,000
ton italian battleship southwest of
Crete, to the east, Friday morning
Reconnaissance planes flashed
word that two battleships, cruisers
and destroyers had been sighted
to the north of this position.
The Italians turned and fled
westward.
The British fleet raced in pur-
suit, and ships of the little Greek
navy, advised of the prospect of a
fight, at once proceeded at full
steam to battle positions.
Through the day navy torpedo
planes attacked the battleship as
it fled, hitting it again and again,
the admiralty asserted, and lower
ing its speed.
Royal air force bombing planes
arrived and joined in a general
plane-ship attack on italian cru
siers and destroyers.
The loss of speed to the Italians
ships was such that at dusk Fri
day heavy British fleet units ar
rived within range.
Then, in a battle the details of
which are still to come, the Brit
ish fleet smashed shells into the
fleeing Italians ships, caught af-
ter months of search
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-31
Rome Admits Loss
Of Five Vessels

ROME, March 81 CUP)- An Ital-
ian war communique today admit
ted loss of three medium tonnage
cruisers and two destroyers in a
big naval battle with the British
fleet in the central Mediterranean
Friday night and Saturday.
British losses have not been as
certained fully, the communique
said, but they were certainly
heavy"
A British crusier foundered af-
ter receiving broadside volley
from Italian heavy guns, the COM
munique claimed, and two other
units were damaged seriously.
(The British admiralty, in Lon-
don, said the navy suffered no loss
es nor casualties in the battle with
the Italian navy)
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-31

BERLIN, March 81 UP)-Au-
thorized Nazi sources said today
that the government had ordered
all German citizens to leave Jugo-
slavia Immediately.
The statement was made soon
after German informants had as
serted, and Bulgarian sources had
denied, that Bulgaria had ordered
general mobilization.
1t came also, as authorized Ger
man sources said that the govern
ment had at last received a state
ment of the foreign policy of the
new Jugoslav government which
Germany had sought insistently for
four days.
However, an authorized inform
ant added, I'VE know nothing about
it containing anything regarding
Jugoslavia's S attitude to the German
Japanese-I Italian alliance"
(This might prove to mean that
Jugoslavia had refused to commit
itself but had merely expressed a
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-31
Belgrade to Offer
Revised Pact for
Nazi Acceptance

BELGRADE, March 81 CUP) =
The government of Premier Gen.
Richard Dusan Simovitch will offer
to sign non-agrression pact with
Germany in place of the tri-power
pact alliance signed by the Cvet-
kovitch governmtnt, Well-informed
quarters reported today.
An official declaration on Jugo-
slavia's attitude toward the tri-
power pact probably will be made
after a full-dreSS cabinet meeting
Thursday, informantS said.
The pact joining JugoSlavia to
the Axis. in the form signed by the
government of former Premier
, Dragisha Cvetkovich, was said by
the informants to be unacceptable
to the new cabinet and the nom
aggression pact will be proposed
instead, they explained.
JugoslaVia'S minister to Berlin,
Ivo Andric, arrived today for con-
sultation with the government as
Premier Simovitch took certain
measures for protection of Jugo-
slav frontiers.
No specific reason was given for
Andric's return, nor could it be
learned whether he brought mes
sage from Berlin.
German Minister Viktor Won
Heeren awaited reply to a new
note demanding Qualification of
Jugoslavia's position on the tri-
power pact. Won Heeren was said
to have requested that the reply be
made sometimes today.
German and Italian nationals
meanwhile continued to eyacuate
Jugoslavia. The German legations
permanent archives were loaded
aboard two Danube steamers and
Won Heeren'S wife and children, it
was understood were to leave Bel
grade today.
Minister of Public Instruction
Misa Trimunovic ordered all Jugo-
slav schools closed indefinitely. No
reason was given.
Government quarters said the
frontier defense measures that
probably would be taken today
should cause no anxiety to border
Ing countries.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-31
British Revise
Blockade Decision

LONDON, March 81 (UP) "A
spokesman for the ministry of &C.
onomic warfare indicated late to-
day that the Franco-British naval
encounter off the Algerian coast
had discouraged Britain from re-
laxing her blockade to permit the
passage of French food ships.
Whether Britain would revoke
permission given for two United
States vessels to bring food supplies
and medicines to France was not
yet known
Assailing the continued detention
of more than 250000 tons of British
allied shipping in French metro
politan and African ports, the
spokesman charged that British
allied as well as French ships are
being used not to feed starving
babies but for traffic with the
enemy"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-31
Fascists Gun Own
Vessels in Terror
After Sea Battle
By GRATTAN p. McGROATY
Copyright 1941 BY United Press

NCopyTiBnt 1871 by Oniteu fTcSSD
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Mar. 81.
(UP)-Italy's crippled fleet, ripped
by the British navy in a historic
fight in the Ionian Sea, may have
completed its own disaster by
fighting itself after the British
ships had left, it was understood
authoritatively today.
The commanding officer of the
battleship Warspite, flagship of the
British Mediterranean fleet, dis
closed that after the British fleet
had retired from its attack, con-
siderable heavy gun firing was
heard in the distance from the Ital-
ian ships, and it was thought they
were firing at each other.
There was no possibility, he said,
that the italians were firing at
British ships as there were none
in the vicinity.
In the darkness of black night,
the commander said, such a mis-
take by the Italians was not i'm
probable because it was likely they
could not distinguish their own
forces, especially in view of the
complete rout which had befallen
them after the first few hours of
their battle with the British fleet.
1t was believed that the heaviest
firing came from the 35,000-ton
battleship of the Littorio class
which British torpedo planes had
crippled.
The ship, it was suggested, had
limped along at half speed for
hours to run into the remnants Of
the fleet the British had beaten and
a mutual mistake occurred.
The battleship had been seen to
turn for home after the first at
tack by the British planes.
It was known, authoritative
sources said here, that the battle
ship was hit three times at least by
airplane torpedos-Italy's newest
and most powerful battleship.
Two British planes were lost dur
ing a long day of attacks from the
air on the battleship and cruisers
German Junkers-88 dive bombers
appeared over the British fleet but
did no damage because of deadly
fire from anti aircraft guns and
the attacks of British fighter
planes, and two of them were shot
down.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-31
Nazis Again Bomb
British Shipping

BERLIN, March 81. (UP)-Ger-
man bombers, in widespread oper-
ations. struck at England despite
unfavorable weather, pounded two
air fields on the Island of Malta,
and attacked a large merchant
man leaving it listing heavily, the
high command said today.
Armed reconnaissance planes
made successful attacks on mill
tary radio stations in North Scot
land and the Shetland islands, the
high command said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-31
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