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Evening star., 1941-01-17
By the Way
Beth Blaine=

Most exciting and even week end will present
with political
focking
galore and tomorrow afternoon will the Capital fling wide its
tculary will the William
honor Painter
Chick Visiting
Melyyn Douglas
important Government officials.
evenings of
George Maurice Morris honor Ahduke Otto Austria
Snowden Fahnocks visiting
frendS-the TeViS Huhn attached
State advertising
York; and musical and attractive Dorothy Justice
Mrs William Douglas dinner given
Mrs. Hiram Bingham.
Sunday there the given Committee
home Of Committee Chairman and Mrs Joseph Davies well the
Hggnson
house honor the gwe The Representative Margaret
Smith will give large honor Gov Sewa Of
letter from Robbins
that she will be back Washington about the of the
after seven-monh South America. She of in
Dominican Republic where visit the Ame-
Minister
American legations which recently decorated for the United
States Government that will
againand then queries plainivey hoe?"
apartment
hunting she back
Of the small partiesand
honor the British assistant Anthony
Coeby with British Fleet his wife
Mary Coeby The included the first the Embassy
gold
rube the third Anthony Ruhbod Mr.
blue
Mrs Coeby has taken the Highlands
and the small Coebys will remain during Codr Ces absence
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Elizabeth Braxton
Engaged to Wed
H. B. Anderson

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank E. Braxton
of Tampa, Fla, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Braxton, to Mr..
Harold B. Anderson. The en-
gagement was announced at q
party given in the Madison suite,
at the Wardman Park Hotel,
last Saturday. Miss Braxton at
tend the University of Tampa
and is member of Kappa Delta
Sorority. Mr.. Anderson attended
the Illinois State College and Ma
tional University School of Law
in washington, D. C. Mr.. Al
derson has lived in Washington
for the last eight years.
The wedding will take place on
Easter Monday, April IA, at the
Sacred Heart Church.
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Mrs. d. H. Kincheloe
Is Entertained

MrssSnavid H. Kincheloe, wife Of
Judge Kfncheloe of the United
States Customs Court. New York, is
spending the week at the home Of
DR.. and Mrs. William Kinnan, 1905
Huntington street NV. Tuesday
she was the dinner guest of the
Federation of Women's Clubs at the
Mayfower Hotel, and she was a
luncheon guest of friends at the
Shoreham Hotel Wednesday.
This evening she will be guest
singer of the Kentucky Society at
the Willard Hotel, her part OF the
program being from $50 to $50
o'clock. Judge Kincheloe was Repre-
sentative from the I'd Kentucky
district for many years and he was
president of the Kentucky Society
of Washington for three years.
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Three Events
Of Interest

A luncheon, cocktail party and
dinner held attention in social
circles yesterday. Nine. Hurban,
wife of the Minister of Czecho-
slovakia, was the ranking guest at
the luncheon, given by Mrs. Walter
r. Tuckerman at the Republican
Club.
Donna Julia Brambilla was host
ess at the cocktail party which was
held at the 1925 F. Street Club and
honored Mrs. Virginia Rodgers
Barker, niece of the hostess, and
Capt. Carl Darnell, U. S. A, whose
marriage took place at noon today
at the home of the brides mother,
Mrs. Philip Coffin.
Mrs. Frederick Sterling
Honors Mrs. Atwill.
The dinner was given by Mrs.
Frederick Sterling, wife OF the
United States Minister to Sweden,
and honored Mrs. Lionel Atwill.
Guests at Mrs. 1uckerman's
luncheon, besides Nine. Hurban,
included the Comtessa de Sylvia,
Countess Bohdan de Castellane,
Countess de Marencheo, Countess
Buyer Mimeure, Countess Ramaer,
Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, Miss
Margaret McNeirney, Mrs. William
D. MacDougall, Mrs. Perrotto. Mrs.
Mary Stewart, Mrs. John Biglow,
Mrs. Sydney Andrews, Mrs. Edward
w. Sturdevant, Mrs. John j. Hemp
hill and Mrs. Harrison Stanton.
At Mrs. Sterling's party for Mrs.
Atwill guests included the Irish
Minister and Mrs. Robert Brennan,
Senator and Mrs. Millard Tydings,
Representative and Mrs. Hamilton
Fish, Mr.. and Mrs. Hallett Johnson,
Mr.. James Clement Dunn, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel H. Kaufman, Gen.
Allen Gulhon, Mr.. Myron Hofer
and Mr.. AXE Sjolin, attache at the
Swedish Legation.
Evening star., 1941-01-17

Mrs. Bernard Gamnie entertained
at luncheon Tuesday at her home
in Takoma Park, Md, in honor of
Mrs. Verna Lands of Queens, N Y,
who is visiting Mrs. Theodore Sar-
tain Of Washington. Besides the
honor guest and Mrs. Sartain, other
guests were Mrs. Frances Perkins
and her mother, Mrs. Eddy; Mrs,
Howard H. Harrigan, Mrs. James
Thomas and Mrs. R. L. H. Jones.
Mrs. William J. Kettler enter
tanned at dinner and bridge Mon
day evening at her home in Silver
Spring, Md.
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Mrs. Butler Leaves

Mrs Gordon c. Butler and her
son. Gordon c. Butler, jr,, left to-
day to return to their home in Dem
yer after spending the holidays with
Mrs. Buffers mother, Mrs. John T.
Talman.
Evening star., 1941-01-17

Assistants to Chairman Include
Leaders to Capital Society.
Mrs. John Russell Young, wife of
the District Commissioner, Is among
others who will assist Mrs. Dough-
erty as hostess at the dinner and
others in the large group will be
Mrs. Lucille Foster Mcmillan, Mrs.
Nellie Tayloe Ross, Mrs. George C.
Marshall, Mrs. Harold r. Stark, Mrs.
Thomas Holcomb, Mrs. George T.
Pettengill, Mrs. Paul v. McNutt, Mrs.
Ellen S. Woodward, Mrs. Wilbur j.
Carr, Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, Mrs.
James Lawrence Houghteling, Mrs.
Russell r. Waesche, Mrs. George E
Allen, Mrs. Irene Caldwell, Mrs E.
Milburn Colvin, Miss Eleanor Mary
Connolly, Mrs. Albert Cox, Miss Mar
garet Davis, Mrs. R. H. Dunlap, Mrs.
Riley E. Elgen, Mrs. Robert Vedder
Fleming, Mrs. John K. Herr, Mrs.
Gilbert M Hitchcock, Miss Cecil
Lester Jones, Mrs. Hans Kinder,
Mrs. David McCoach, jr.; Mrs. Ed
ward Beale Mclean, jr; Mrs. Will
liam Beverly Mason, Mrs. Carroll
Miller, Miss Marthamary Morgan,
Mrs. Edgar Morris, Mrs. Lawrence
Wood Robert, jr.; Mrs. Bruce Smith,
Mrs. Horace B. Smith, Mrs. L. Cor
rim Strong, Mrs. Charles Warren,
Mrs. Parker w. West and Mrs, John
r. Williams.
Horse Show at Fort Myer
Will Be Brilliant Event.
Fort Myer will do It's own part
toward increasing the fund for the
fight against infantile paralysis and
Is arranging one of their never-to-
be-forgotten horse shows for Thurs
day and Friday, January % and "a.
which will be bright spot between
the Inauguration festivities and the
Birthday Balls.
Col. w. w. Gordon is chairman of
the Horse Show Committee and al
ready many of the boxes have been
taken. Senator and Mrs. w. War
ren Barbour were among the first
70 subscribe for q box and others
include the Philippine Resident
Commissioner, Mr.. joaquin M.
Elisalde; the major general COM
mandant Of the Marine Corps, Gen.
Thomas Holcomb; the former United
States Ambassador to the Argentine
and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, the
former United States Minister to
Canada, Mr.. James H. r. Cromwell;
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Garrett,
Mrs. Reeve Hoover, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas P Morgan, jr.: Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Wallace ChiSwell, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence Wood Robert, jr.:
Mrs. Christian Heurich, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edgar Morris, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur w. Godfrey, Mr.. Harry H
Semmes, Mr.. Ernest w. Greene, Mr..
L. H. La Motto, jr.; Mr. E. F. Sells
and 1t. Col. w. C. Crane.
Four Expert Horsewomen
Will Take Part in Show.
The show will not be entirely a
mans show for four expert woman
riders will take part, Mrs. Lesley
McNair. Mrs. Charles B. Lyman,
Miss Elizabeth Steig and Miss Eli
Leh. The committee assisting Col.
Gordon includes Maj. John H. Col
her and Maj. George G. Elms, vice
chairmen; Mr.. A. Smith Bowman,
Mr.. A. S. Carhart, Mr.. H. R. Dula-
ney, jr.; MI. Arthur Godfrey, Com
missioner Melvin c. Hazen, DR.. E. M.
Horgan, Mr.. Sterling Larrabee, Mr..
r. P. Morgan, jr.; Mr.. Thomas T.
Mott, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Mr..
Stewart Preece, DR.. Archie Ran
dolph, Mr.. A. w. Riggs, DR.. F. R.
Sanderson, Mr.. Daniel C. Sands and
Mr.. Harry H. SemmeS.
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Lacvs in CAPITAL

Mr.. and Mrs. Sterling B. Lacy
of Leesburg, Va, are in Washington
for a months stay. They are oc-
cupying an apartment at the Ward
man Park Hotel.
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Presidents Birthday Balls
To Follow Closely After
Inaugural Festivities
Hollywood Stars to Be Guests
AT Dinner Party; Fort Myer
To Have Horse Show

Following closely the festivities Inauguration will the Presi
dents Birthday Balls will
than
balls will be
dinner the Holly
during Washington
be the largest and most elaborate
Is loaded
an
Mrs John Allan DougheTy chairman the Hostess Committee
for the dinner has Wallace,
wife of the Vice Presdent-e will ranking the
Others who will hostess Mrs Corde Hull
expected have sufficiently illness
the inaugural
l. H.
Mrs Claude Wckard the Secretary
Labor, Miss Frances Perkins.
Chief Justice,
Birthday Balls will head
Stanley the only other this will
Dougherty hostess the dinner before January
Evening star., 1941-02-24
u. ). Orders Provide
Bulk Of Douglas
Aircraft Backlog
SEC, $40, ,744 SoIes
And $l0,S31,97l Net
Reported for lo40
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SANTA MONICA, Calf, Feb "a
President Donald w. Douglas told
Douglas Aircraft Co.'S stockholders
today that of a record $348,866, ,237
backlog as of last November 80
United States Government orders
totaled S232, ,780 ,281 and foreign mill
tary orders $80,385 1853.
The remaining S35,700,403 repre-
sented domestic and foreign COM
mercial plane orders, his annual re-
port stated.
Approximately s1990o0000 OF
United States Government business
in the backlog is in cost -plus-hxed
fee contracts. From these contracts
the company may not retain profits
in excess of per cent, before income
and excess profits taxes"
Sales totaled S60970.744 for the
fiscal year ended November 80, a
record. while net income rose to
s10831 ,971.
Although 1910 earnings amounted
to S1805 a share. sl305 was retained
in the business to finance inventories
and other operating requirements.
The SIS dividend was paid on the
100000 shares outstanding and
s32l9,85l was put back into new
buildings. machinery and equipment
to help the companw meet national
defense conditions and demands, the
report stated.
The company's 1910 payroll totaled
SGT ,l26.269 paid to 1925 employees.
BY February IL. 194l, however, the
personnel had increased to 22,30O
indicating, the report, stated, an an
nual payroll of about $4,000 900.
Evening star., 1941-02-24
Your u. S.
Income Tax
Prepared by Bureau OF
Internal ReUenue,
Treasury Dept.
DEDUCTION FOR TRAVELLING
EXPENSES.

To obtain deduction for travel
ing expenses. which form an i'm
portant item in the returns of many
taxpayers, certain regulations must
be observed.
The taxpayer is required to at
tach to his return statement show
ing the nature of business in which
engaged, number of days away from
home during the taxable year on &C
count of business, total amount of
expense incidental to meals and
lodging, and total amount of "other
expenses" incident to travel and
claimed as a deduction. Among the
"other expenses" are tips, provided
they are reasonable in amount.
Travelling expenses are deductible
only when the trip is on business.
They are limited to such expenses as
are reasonable and necessary in the
conduct Of the business and directly
attributable to it.
Travelling expenses incurred in
connection with journey to an
other city to accept or seek employ
ment are not deductible. Subur-
banites who commute daily from
their homes to their places of busi-
ness are not permitted to deduct
the cost of transportation, it being
a personal expense.
Claims for deduction for travel
ing expenses must be substantiated,
when required by the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, showing in de-
tail the amount and nature of the
expenses incurred.
Evening star., 1941-02-24
Danaher Will Preside
AT Insurance Banquet

Senator John A. Danaher, Of
Connecticut, will be toastmaster at
the third annual dinner of the Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter, Char
Evening star., 1941-02-24
Limited Profit Plan
May Be Tested in
Mining Industry
Prices Held Stable
As Producers Foce
Huge Demand
BY FREDERICK GARDNER,
Associated Press Financial Writer.


NEW YORK. Feb. 24.-Can the
United States build the arsenal Of
democracy" on limited profit mo-
tive?
The mining industry, some kusi-
ness leaders say, may provide the
answer.
Veteran mining men were brought
up on the tradition of wide f1uctua-
tions in demand and prices. They
recall how copper zoomed from 13
to around 80 cents a pound in the
World War, sank below S cents in
1882. Market change was the breath
of life for the metal seller.
Gambling with constantly chang
ing fortune for a profit, the metal
producer used to count on making
enough in the good years to offset
the lean. In the farm phrase, he
made hay while the sun shone. When
strong demand drove prices up, he
accumulated fat in the profit-and-
loss account.
In this war, economic planners
are taking a hand to control the
blind struggle of buyers and sellers
in the market place. Mining men
have had the extraordinary expert
ence Of a clamorous demand for
copper, zinc and other metals with
relatively stable prices.
Experiments Watched.
They are watching, with a mixture
of misgiving and approval. signif-
cant experiments at home and
abroad with wartime controls to
tame the market and prevent the
classic spiral of rising prices, yet
bring out maximum production for
war needs.
From the standpoint of the busi-
ness man whose reward sums up
in the price he gets for his product,
limitation Of prices amounts in large
part to limitation Of profit.
Canada's controller of metals,
George C. Bateman, spoke to a
gathering of mining engineers here
recently, recounting British empire
experience with metal rationing and
price control. Touching the profit
angle, he said:
I'VE have adopted planned
economy. Profit is no longer a
dominating factor in our indus
trial life"
AS 1910 earnings reports of nu-
merous corporations testify. both in
the United States and Canada, war
time price control so far has not
eliminated profit gains. But there
has been plenty of evidence that
higher taxes and Government froWns
on price boosts have kept producers
from cashing in on the unprece-
dented demand for essential metals.
In copper, the question Of war
profits particularly agitates mining
men. The domestic price the last
six months has held around IL cents
a pound. Demand meanwhile has
been record-breaking, outrunning
home capacity.
Defense planners, as part of the
evolving strategy of price control,
have obtained r. r. c. funds to
buy 10000 tons of Latin American
copper to supplement the domestic
supply.
At u cents, 1t is claimed, the
lower-cost producers can make fair
profits. Some trade authorities in
Evening star., 1941-02-24
Auto Firms 10 Start
Arms Production
In Few Weeks
'Moke-Reody' Period
OF Many Months Is
Approaching End
BY DAVID J. WILKIE,
Press AutomotiYe Editor.

|
DETROIT, Feb. 24.-The motor
car industry which for many months
has been whipping its facilities into
shape for the mass production of
armament is about lover the hump"
of the "make-ready" period. Within
a few weeks it will begin to turn
out tanks, aircraft engines, parts
and sub-assemblies. gun carriages
and other items in the volume
many persons believed could be
! achieved almost over night.
This is the word from an authori-
tative source close to the manufac-
| turing division of the industry, and
despite the fact it may mean a
curtailment of normal activities,
most of the industry's leaders hear
it with considerable qualification.
Time Required.
Many Of these car manufacturers
felt that to certain degree the
motor-car industry had been put
on the spot" when it became ap-
parent that a major portion of a
gigantic defense undertaking must
be handled within the automobile
industry. There was a widespread
conviction among the uninitiated
that industrial wizardry that pro-
duced $4,000 to 10000 automobiles a
day could be applied instantly to
the manufacture of instruments Of
war.
1t took a lot of explaining over
and over again to make it clear
that months of planning, regiment
ing of supply sources and co-ordi-
mating of individual functions
rather than legerdemain made mass
production possible.
The car manufacturers have
pledged their fullest cooperation
in carrying out the defense pro-
gram; they hope to be able to prove,
too, that they can fulfill this pledge
and continue the production Of pas
senger cars at the same time. None
will venture a prediction, however,
as to whether there will be an
arbitrary limitation on the volume
of such production as was imposed
during the last year of the World
War.
Oppose Curtailment.
Holding that the automobile,
through the direct and indirect en-
ployment it creates, represents a
vital part of the national economy,
the motor-car manufacturers gen.
orally believe that continued dis
tribution of vehicles for normal uses
will contribute materially to the
capacity to absorb the taxation
necessary to defray defense costs.
Thus, although none of the car
makers will be quoted directly, it
may be said that they are prepared
to dispute any suggestion that a
curtailment of car buying would aid
the national defense.
The assembly plants last week
turned out 129,240 more passenger
cars and trucks, stepping up still
further the approximately 100000
vehicles now making up the reserve
stock.
Evening star., 1941-02-24

sist maintenance of the market
around that level is wise because a
sharp rise would invite heavy i'm
portations from Latin America over
the Accent tariff wall.
Nevertheless, there are copper
men who contend the defense plan
ners soon must decide whether
prices should be elevated to let the
profit motive exercise its traditional
function as the handspring of the
capitalist system.
Plenty was said about the profit
motive in the depression debates
about planned economy. AS many
supporters of capitalistic free en-
terprise expounded it, the profit
motive was what made the system
of production tick in this country
When demand outweighed sup
ply in the market place, the ex-
PLANTATION went. prices were sd-
vanced. The producer. seeing op-
portunity for larger profit, increased
his output; used part or all his
profit to expand his capacity or his
improved credit to borrow for ex-
pansion.
In that way the profit motive was
supposed to operate as the bait In
raising output to balance supply and
demand, making an automatic sys-
tenn out of the uncontrolled opera
tions of the market.
Meanwhile, economic planners
have intervened. For the profit
motive, in whole or part, they sub
stitute Government financing OF
plant expansion, rationing Of de-
mand to balance supply, and such
expedients as building up reserves
against the time when there may
be market shortages, as in r. F. C.
accumulation of rubber, tin and
copper.
How effective these may be re-
mains to be seen. Some copper men
contend boost in the price of the
metal-say to Is or 16 cents a pound
would add considerably to domes-
tic production by bringing mines
more expensive to operate into oper-
alton.
At the same time, they hold, 1t
would permit lower cost producers
to accumulate reserves for a possible
postwar slump in business and
make up for losses in the depression
years of low prices.
Advocates of control say it is
doubtful whether higher prices, at
least few cents a pound, would
add much to production in the near
future. They note it takes months
or years to bring new mines into
operation. Unstable prices, they
argue, are partly responsible for sud-
den increases and drops in demands
which have caused wide price
changes in such products as copper.
The tug of forces in copper, argu-
ing pro and con on the question OF
higher prices TO give the profit
motive wider play as an incentive to
production, may apply on a wider
scale through industry, business
sources say.
Evening star., 1941-02-24
Figures
What TheyMeon
BY JOHN L. BECKLEY,
Associated Press Statisticisn.

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Banking
statistics disclosed today that the
expansion of bank loans to busi-
ness is assuming broad proportions.
Commercial, industrial and agri-
cultural loans rose $22, 900 600 at re-
porting member banks in New York
City this week. Banking circles
said the increase reflected a wide
demand for credit rather than a few
large loans.
The rise virtually assures that
Mondays statement for reporting
member banks in 10l leading cities
will reflect another big increase In
business loans.
At these banks commercial. in
dustrial and agricultural loans
have increased $155,000,o00 in the
first six weeks of the year. In the
latest two weeks, moreover, gains
of 100000 and $48,000,O00, re-
spectively, have been chalked UP.
indicating that the flow of banking
funds into business is speeding up
If this weeks figures reveal an
increase of as much as $4,000 900
business loans will be roughly
5000, 900, 900 greater than year ago.
Evening star., 1941-02-24
Steel Quotations

NEW YORK. Feb. "A [49.-steel prices,
Der 100 pounds, fob Pittsburgh; Hot
rolled sheets, base price, 10; galvanized
sheets, $50; steel bars 2.15.
Evening star., 1941-02-24
New York Bank Stocks
Higher During Week
81 ecial Dispatch to The Star.

SEecltl DlSpatcn 10 Inc St&r.
NEW YORK. Feb. 24.-New York
City bank stocks recovered during
the last week, after touching a new
low point for the year, according to
records compiled by Holt, Rose &
TroSter.
The aggregate market value of is
leading issues reached a new low
of 1880. .669 900 on February 19, but
closed on Friday. February 81, at
s1,421 ,599, 900. This compared with
s1,401, ,357 900 at the close of the
previous week, a net increase of $20,-
$4,000, or la per cent.
The current average yield of the 16
issues of ASS per cent compares with
yield of 4.6l per cent on February
IA. The current market value equals
SO per cent of the known book
value against 81 per cent week ago.
Evening star., 1941-02-24
Egg Production Sours
To January Record
speeial Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch 10 The Star.
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.-The Ma
tion's hens turned in a new Jan
uary record at the nest last month
with an output of 2,831 900 eggs, an
all-time high for the season, De-
partment of Agriculture scorekeep-
ers estimate.
In this stellar of season per-
formance, the average biddy, well
fed and favored by unusually mild
weather, broke all of its previous
January batting records, scoring
8.73 eggs, against 725 year earlier
and $50 eggs on the average in
the l930s.
The January achievement con-
tinued a string of successes which
include five new monthly total pro-
duction records in the past six 30
day periods in the face of a smaller
than average number of producing
units.
Evening star., 1941-02-24
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Feb 24.--Dividends de-
clared. Prepared by Fitch Publishing Co.:
Pc Stock of Pay
Rate. Rod. record. able.
Evening star., 1941-02-24

| tered Life I'm
d erw r tiers, at
t h e Garlic n
Hotel on March
18, it " a S an
nounced yester-
day.
Senator Dan
a h er as a n
a c e d e m ic de-
& r e e fro m
Yale and is also
a gra d u ate of
the Y ale Law
School. He is a
member of i'm
portant Senate
Evening star., 1941-02-24
Budd Wheel Declares
Preferred Dividends
BY the Associated Press.

by Lne AbSocIhteu FTtbs.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24.-Ddrec-
tors of the Budd Wheel Co. have
declared a regular quarterly divi-
dend of $1.75 share plus a parti-
cipating dividend of rs cents a
share on the company's preferred
stock. Payment as of March 81 TO
shareholders of record March IT.
Evening star., 1941-02-24
Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK, Feb. "a lP.-Demand in
textile markets centered chiefly again
today in heavy industrial cloths and
special numbers, where a tight delivery
situation hampers any substantial turn
over. Woolen piece. goods prices con-
tinued strong and buyers found mills
reluctant to negotiate sales at this time.
Spun rayon cloths were in active de-
mand and buyers experienced difficulty in
securing deliveries on certain requirements.
Silk piece goods business was quiet.
Evening star., 1941-02-24

Z q III III 7 JVtto, oeH"'"F HHHer'
former Assistant United States At
torney. for two years was the secre-
tary of State of Connecticut and
was commissioned officer in the
World War.
He is particularly interested in
matters pertaining to insurance and
spoke at the dinner a year ago. 1t
was announced yesterday that there
will be about 300 present at this
years banquet, including a very
large guest list.