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Evening star., 1941-12-12
Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON w. BURGESS.

After visiting the Smiling Pool
and warning Little Joe Otter and
Jerry Muskrat to watch out for
traps. Bobby Coon decided that the
Laughing Brook was altogether too
dangerous a place for him, so he
| turned back into the Green Forest
and firmly resolved to keep away
from the Laughing Brook. Billy
Mink and Little Joe Otter talked
things over.
"I found three traps" said Billy
Mink. There may be some I have
not found. Anyway, it is certain
that when that trapper finds that
1 know about those traps he will set
some more. I don't believe he is
smart enough to hide trap so that
We cannot find it. But, you know,
accidents will happen. He knows
that you and I make our homes
along the Laughing Brook and he
will simply make life miserable for
us by continuing to set traps. Do
you know what I believe I'll do?"
"What?" said Little Joe Otter.
II believe I'll go away for a visit"
replied Billy Mink. I've been feel
ing rather restless for some time
anyway. and there isn't any better
time of year to go visiting than
right now, before the snow and ice
come. There's a certain brook some
distance from here that for q long
time I've been thinking of visiting
I believe I'll start tonight, and I'll
stay long enough for this trapper
to get tired of setting traps and
catching nothing
That's a good idea," said Little
Joe Otter. "I believe I'll go visiting
myself. l always did like to travel
There is no sense in taking foolish
risks, and that is just what We
would be doing by staying here. l
and stay while. The fishing here
isn't as good as it might be any
way. I wonder if Jerry Muskrat
will go visiting, too. Let's tell him
what we are going to do and see
If he wants to go along with one
of U.S."
He can't 60 with me-" declared
Billy Mink in most decided tone.
He travels too slow, I don't believe
he would want to go with me any
way, because, between you and me,
I suspect Jerry is little afraid of
me-"
Little Joe Otter grinned "I guess
he has reason to be-" said he. I've
been told that the Mink family has
liking for muskrat meat. I hardly
think he'll want to go along with
me either because he is such a
home-loving body. But anyway we'll
tell him what we're going to do and
then he can do as he pleases."
So Billy Mink and Little Joe Otter
told Jerry Muskrat how they were
going to fool the trapper by going
visiting. They urged him to do the
same thing.
Evening star., 1941-12-12
Girl Aide to General

Only woman aide-de-camp in the
British Army, Subaltern Mary Mac
Donald, was appointed by 1t. Gen
Thorne, commander in chief, Scot
tish Command. Visiting an air
transport exhibition In Edinburgh
the general praised her efficiency.
Evening star., 1941-12-12

I high-pressed Baby into POOL
IN OUR ASSETS" an befor' her
knew what it was all about I had
my two pennies so mixed up 18th
hers she didn't know which was
what!
Evening star., 1941-12-12
POINTS FOR PARENTS

BY EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE
Christmas shopping offers er-
ceptiondl opportunities for the
encouragement or discourage
nlent OF children'S selt-reIidnce.
Evening star., 1941-12-12
EVENING SIhp FEhIURES,

Star Flashes: Latest news with Bill CoYle,
twice daily; WNAL, t0;3O am. and ass pm.
Junior Star Page: The popular feature
Of The Sunday Star aired by its youthful con-
tribufor WNAL, tomorrow al t0:45 am.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-01

O!L is the blood of the earth flowing through for
{ fumes field only to enrich the courageous 1t
- sometimes reqVayds the nonthink'ng business
Stacker but it lifts the burden from the back Of
business coward Its Plus marks of generally
90 to those aoJO combine degree of thought 0Tth
action
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-01

Pa: ITS a terrible thing. 1
sold my car and mortgaged my
house and land. all to send my son
to the University. And all he does
there is smoke, drink, and take
girls out to parties"
Pal: "Oh, so you're regretting
it?"
Pa: Certainly I should have
gone myself"
The town half-wit was busy
scratching away at the hotel writ
ing desk.
Who you writing to, Happy?"
asked hotel employe.
I'm writing a letter to myself,
was the reply.
What does the letter say?"
How would I know? / won't
get 1t until day after tomorrow.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-01

It is lucky wife who does not
fade before her husband gets
rich.
No system of government will
work in a land where everybody
tries to work the government.
Sophomore: What is heredity,
Professor"
Professor: Something every man
believes in until his son begins to
act like a fool"
Her escort couldn't say much
when she ordered everything on
the menu, but when she left for a
moment to powder her nose, he
beckoned to the waitress and ex-
planned, See, that's what / get for
putting a la carte before a horse"
Evening star., 1941-03-28
Food Index Advances
To Highest Level
Since November, 1887
Grocers Soy Increased
Prices Have Not Cut
Dollar Volume
BY PAUL ID. GESNER,

NEW YORK. March 2S.-Food
prices have taken another hike.
The Dun g. Bradstreet wholesale
food price index, going up almost
steadily since the start of 194l,
advanced another cents this week
to $3.50, the highest level since
November, 1887. and compared with
1929 at this time last year.
Retail grocers say advances in
store counter prices haven't cut into
dollar volume of food sales. In
fact, stores in many outlying towns,
as well as at busy defense industry
centers, are reporting brisk food
turnover, with many individual es-
tablishments ringing up the big
gest sales for this time Of year in
history
In wholesale markets buyers in
many sections are noting higher
prices than last week for butter.
eggs, sugar, coffee, lard, mess pork,
ham, beans, rice, wheat, corn, bar
ley. sheep and lambs. A little
cheaper, however, are cocoa. rye,
oats and hogs.
Some observers think food can
ming will be larger than usual this
year, due to anticipation, not only
of heavier domestic consumption.
but also of likely export of canned
goods in quantity to Great Britain.
Bond Buying Encouraged.
This may set trend: General
Electric Co. announced today that
'in line with the company's policy
of cooperation with the United
States Government in all phases
of the defense effort" provision is
to be made for purchase of United
States saving bonds by G.. E. en-
ployes, both for cash and on the
installment plan.
Employees wishing to buy savings
bonds inform the company Of their
intention under the program, and,
if employees request, the company
will set aside small amounts of their
pay each week for purchase OF
bonds.
When the nstallment payments
reach an amount sufficient to buy a
bond, the company win buy the
security and deliver it to the en-
ploye.
British Goods Displayed.
Packing cases from Britain are
appearing in New York store win
dows these days. and attracting
large crowds. A Lexington avenue
store, in receipt of a fresh shipment
of candies from Barker & Dobson,
Ltd, Liverpool, England, has the
half-pound package piled high in
the window around the metal-bound
wooden box in which they came.
English neckties, also just received
here, are draped around their trans
Atlantic packing box in Fifth ave-
nue. mems apparel shop window.
Both boxes, grim and dusty, bear the
stenciled legend stamped on their
sides: Britain delivers the goods" "
Evening star., 1941-03-28
Washington Produce

EUrTEREs3 EUrTERrs3 score; tubs. IS; !I,pounndd
Score. 9 tubs, "a: pound prints, ss' 34iis: IL
pound prints. 35; 81 score. tubs. 33'4;
l-pound prints, .34A: h-pound prints,
34'4; 80 score. tubs. 33!a: 1-pound prints.
34; h.-pound prints. 34ia;, 50 score tubs,
e. iDound prints 33 ,DoTnd prints
LIvEsTocK-Csives, IL: spring lambs,
10: PIGS. 14O-l50 pounds. 6.s0-1 .05: 800
7l0-7. 30; 1s0-22o pounds. 1907 so;
"2o-24O pounds, 1907 o5: tops. $50;
sows. 5.5O-6 so; calves. II Oe-12OO
From Agricultural Marketing Serves
Prices paid net fob Washington:
EGGS-MaTket steady. Prices paid for
Federal-state Eraded eEgs received from
grading stations March 2sl: Whites. o.
s. extras, large, 1926: u s. extras,
mediums o0-21; U. s. standards, large.
21-22; U. S. standards mediums, 1920;
U. 8. trades, 1919 Browns, U. S. extras,
laree. 22-25: U. S. extras mediums. 20-2l {:
U. s. standards, large. 2l-22: U. S. stand
ards. mediums. 1920: U. S. trades 1919.
For nearby ungraded eggs current receipts,
whites, 17-ls; mixed colors. 1917.
LIVE POULTRY-Market steady. Fowl.
colored. all sizes. 1919: No. IS. 1913;
Leghorn hens. all sizes 1914. Roosters,
l0-l2 Chickens Virginia broilers and
fryers, all sizes. 90; No. IS. IA. Delaware
I2es M No snc gsF
all sizes: ~; No: IS, IA. young toms, ali
sizes, IS; No. IS, 1914. GqineaS, l'4
pounds, 1s, Capons, pounds and up
24-25; smaller sizes. %; No. IS and slips,
Evening star., 1941-03-28
Nef Income Of Frisco
Boosted Sharply by
Defense Program
Two Months Earnings
Nearly 1000 Per Cent
Above 1910 Mark
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, March 2S.-An in
crease of nearly 1000 per cent in
the Frisco Railroads net operating
income for the first two months
of 1941 was reported yesterday as a
direct result of the national defense
program and its stimulus to general
business.
-Four other roads headQuartering
in st. Louis-the Missouri Pacific,
Cotton Belt. Katy and Wabash
have reported increases of from
81 to 168 per cent over January and
February of 1910.
Ofhcials joined in attributing the
gains to defense spending and i'm.
proved business conditions that
have come with it.
And, said George T. Atkins, exec
utive vice president of the Katy
higher incomes are in prospect be
cause defense expenditures are Just
starting in this section of the coun-
try"
Freight loadings are soaring with
shipment of materials used to con-
struct, equip and supply military
training camps and plants for the
manufacture Of defense items, the
railroadmen reported.
Traff1c moving into Fort Leonard
Wood, Mo, has been a big factor
in the Frisco's picture.
The railroads net operating in
come for January and February
Evening star., 1941-03-28
Excess Bank Reserve!
Drop 100 Millions
During Week
$e,0l0,000, 900 TotoI
Is Lowest Recorded
In Many Months
By tie Associated Press,

By tie Associated Press.
The banks lendable excess re-
serves dropped 100000, 900 last week
to a total of $6,o10, ,0O0, ,o00-the low
est total in many months.
The decline was ascribed by the
Federal Reserve Board to q COM
bination of technical factors and
followed a larger decline the previ-
GUS week due to income tax pay
ments.
The boards statement said:
During the week ended March
rs member bank reserve balances
decreased sos, 100000. Reductions
in member bank reserves arose
from increases of $4,000, 900 in
money in circulation 500 900 900 in
Treasury cash, and $66,0OO,OOO in
non- member deposits and other Fed
eral Reserve accounts, and a decrease
of $38, 900 900 in Reserve Bank credit,
offset in part by increases of $4,000, =
900 in gold stock and $4,000,000 in
Treasury currency, and a decrease
of s7000,000 in Treasury deposits
with Federal Reserve Banks. Excess
reserves of member banks on March
26 were estimated to be approx
mately 5000 900 900, a decrease of
sl00 900, 900 for the week"
Evening star., 1941-03-28

was sl,5l3,279. almost 10 times It's
net Of $159,466 for the same period
last year. 1t wrote February in
black, with an income of $685. ,046,
against a red" of $37 OBS in Febru-
ary, 1910
Comparative net operating figures
for the first two months for the
other railroads were:
Missouri Pacific. $2,97l, ,739 against
81 $40 ,032, an increase of 81 per cent.
Wabash, 81 ,266 ,404 and S495 ,270,
an increase of 156 per cent.
Cotton Belt, s9l4,97S and s4SS 99l,
an increase Of 81 per cert.
Katy, $373.744 and s129,510. an
increase of 168 per cent.
Evening star., 1941-03-28
| Insurance Firms
To Aid Defense
Financing
Bv IL e Associated Press

bN u hSSOClaled PreSS.
NEW YORK, March 28.-Life in
surance companies will contribute
to defense by buying still more than
the $500, 100000 in Government
bonds they now own, speakers told
more than 1000 insurance sales
executives attending the annual
sales conference of the Life Under
writers Association today.
Paul F. Clark. vice president of
the John Hancock Mutual Life In
Surance Co., recalled that before
1917 insurance companies held vir-
tually no Government securities.
At the end of the war more than
10 per cent Of their assets were in
vested in Federal issues.
Clark said that the 65000,000
holders of policies we're investing in
defense, through the companies, in
greater sums than ever before.
Evening star., 1941-03-28
Venezuelan Affiliate
OF Consolidated Oil
Opens Big Field
"a ,000- Acre Concession
Becomes Development
Of Major Importance
ny the Associated Press,

1y the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 2S.-Indica-
tons of discovery of an oil field of
major importance" we're announced
last night in the annual report of
Venezuelan Petroleum Co., which
is controlled by Consolidated Oil
Corp.
A. E. Watts, chairman of the
board of Venezuelan. described its
location to stockholders as in con-
cession of $4,000 acres near Santa
Barbara, Monagas, Venezuela. He
said drilling began there last De-
cember and the discovery we'll was
brought in last month.
He continued: Further develop
ment of the property now is under
way, including the location OF a
pipe line and improvement of a
deep-water terminal property ac-
quired some years ago about 100
miles northwest of the discovery
well.
"Oil can be transported from this
terminal TO the Atlantic seaboard
north of Hatteras In substantially
the same time that is required by
tanker from Houston, Tex, to the
same destination.
The companys consolidated net
income for 1910 was listed as $685.
225, or cents share on the basis
of 4. 900 900 shares outstanding. COM
pared with S78369. or 4 cents a
share on 100000 shares, in 1889.
Hudson Motor Car.
Hudson Motor Car Co. reported
net loss for 1910 of 81 ,507, ,780, COM
pared with net loss of S1,356,750 in
s3S9. A. E. Barit, president, said
operations were conducted at a
profit during the last half of the
year. Car shipments during the
year totaled $1,000, a gain of 7 per
cent over 1899.
Schenley DistiIlers.
Schenley Distillers Corp. for the
six months ended February %, re-
ported consolidated net income OF
s2502,273 after charges, equal, after
preferred dividend requirements, to
s161 common share. Up to De-
cember 81. 1899, the company re-
ported on a calendar year basis. so
no comparable earnings figures for
the like period a year earlier are
available.
Evening star., 1941-03-28
Chicago Produce
tReported by Smith. Barney L.

CHICAGO. March 2s lP.-Poutry. live.
s3 trucks: easy: hens. ) pounds and down,
30: broilers. 21a pounds and down. Plymouth
Rock. o3: White Rock, %; SPRINGS; pounds
UP, Plymouth Rock, 24l7: White Rock. "a 4:
under 4 pounds, Plymouth Rock. "a a;
White Rock %: other prices UNCHANGED.
Butter, receipts, s72.6 .627 hrm: market
EegS. receipts, 32 ,297: firm: fresh graded
extra frsts local. 20: cars, 20l2; other
prices unchanged.
Potatoes, arrivals 14s: on track. 47e;
total U. s. shipments, 1.071: old stock,
supplies heavy: demand on best quality
Bliss Trlumphs. all sections, moderate;
market firm; other varieties, all sections,
demand light, market steady: Idaho Rus
set Burbanks U. S. No. !. 1.50-60; Ne
braska and wyoming Bliss Triumphs U. S.
No. / 60-15; Minnesota and North Da
kots. Cobblers, 50 per cent or more U. S.
No. / quality. a5-1 O5; Early Ohios, 20 per
cent U. S. No l quality. a@lz: Bliss Tri-
umphs. - per cent or more U. S. No. |.
90-l 20: Wisconsin. round whites, u s.
No /. so: new stock supplies moderate.
demand light. market about steady; Flor
ida. bushel crate, Bliss Trlumphs, U. s.
No. /, 1.60-75
Evening star., 1941-03-28
London Tin Prices

LONDON. March 2s lP.-Tin. steady
SPOT t2!14 bid, f274 IS asked, future, f27
bid E21l los asked.
Evening star., 1941-03-28
U. 5. Treasury Notes

NEW YORK March 2s tP-Prices
quoted in dollars and thirty-seconds.
Evening star., 1941-03-28
Store Sales AVERAGE
9 10 IS Per Cent
Above Year Ago
Worm, Sunny Weather
Serves os Tonic for
RetuiI Trade
Ry the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, March 28.-Warm
sunny weather sent shoppers swarm
ing into stores this week and retail
sales averaged to 15 per cent above
last year for the country as a whole
Dun & Bradstreet reported today.
After the preceding weeks snow
and cold, moderate temperatures
acted as a spring tonic on store
business. and apparel buying for ap-
preaching Easter gave brisk staple
trade an additional flip.
I'm the retail spotlight this week
were the apparel and accessory lines
which had previously been mos
affected by unfavorable shopping
conditions" the credit agency said
'Blouses, millinery, handbags, gloves
and mems and women's shoes were
we'll to the fore in demand. Ready.
to-wear, especially suits and dresses
had a brisk turnover, with lower
price brackets showing outstanding
gains"
Other lines feeling the force of
seasonal demand were farm and
gardening implements, paint, clean
ing items, sports equipment. Home
furnishings sales ran Is to 25 per
cent above last year, groceries, 10
per cent. and automobile sales. 25
per cent.
Commitments in wholesale mar
ketS continued on "a generous
basis" adding to already large back
logs in wholesalers hands, the
agency said.
The Federal Reserve Board esti-
mates department store sales in the
week ended March % were 2 per
cent less than in the corresponding
week last year, but said the decline
was due to the fact that Easter will
come much later this year than it
did last year.
In the week ended March Is sales
had been / per cent above last year.
In the four weeks ended March %.
sales were even with the similar
period last year
BY Federal Reserve districts. COM
parsons Of the week ended March
% and the corresponding week last
year were:
Increases-Chicago, 5, and St.
Louis, per cent.
Decreases-Boston. s; New York,
5; Philadelphia, 6; Cleveland, Q:
Richmond, 8; Atlanta, 2; Kansas
City, 8; Dallas, Z, and San Fran
cisco, per cent.
No figure was available for the
Minneapolis area.
Evening star., 1941-03-28
Roll Bonds Approved

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has authorized the Rens-
selaer & Saratoga Railroad Co. to
issue 100000 first mortgage 4
per cent bonds in connection with
the retirement May l of an equal
amount of outstanding first mort
gage per cent, 20 year gold bonds
Evening star., 1941-03-28
Investing Companies

NEW YORK. March % 0P.--Nationa
Association Securities Dealers, Inc.
(Closinr oIiot Afionsl
Evening star., 1941-03-28
Boston Wool Market

BOSTON, March % lP UNITED States
Department Of Asriculture) Actual trad
today. A few inquiries were being re-
seiyed for fine territory WOOL. but. the
ferinas for immediate delivery. Forward
buyint was quiet. Very little interest was
shown in fleece uools Scattered sales
were reported on the finer grades Of for
eign wools.
Evening star., 1941-03-28

New York Bur Silver
NEW YORK, March % P.-Bar
silver, 3494, unchanged.
Evening star., 1941-03-28

Quotations furnished bv National Asso-
citation 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
by the sponsors or issuers.
Not quoted by sponsors or issuers.
Evening star., 1941-03-28

S2,25O.523a6 S356s. 81
G. Z. HOUCK, Vice President.
j. R.. ADOLF, Asst. Secretary.
subscribed and sworn to before me
this 10Th day Of February. 1910.
tSeal) JOHN w. DILLON,
Notary Public
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-20
Iceland
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gen, was mentioned as a posi-
bic regent.
The treaty of union with Den
mark was signed in 1918 to be
effective for Is years.
The Iceland parliament was
said to have reached agreement
on the following points:
1-Inasmuch as the king of
Denmark is unable to execute
his functions as head of the Ice
land government under the
treaty Of 1918, Iceland must be
entitled to declare herself in
dependent.
iceland does not desire to
prolong the treaty. The nsces-
sary procedure for cancellation
can not take place before the
war Is over, but parliament now
wishes to take the aforemention-
ed step.
"a regent Is to be chosen.
"A republican constitution
will be introduced q soon ~
the connection with Denmark Is
discontinued.
1t was recalled that the Ice
land government had decided to
take over the kings functions
following the severins Of COM
munications April ., 1910, when
the Germans entered Denmark.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-20
diets British Moy Win
Without Counter-Invosion
Dlestins Of Synthetic Oil
Plsnts Rsieh's Vitel Spot

interfere increasingly with both
her industrial and agricultural
production and eventually her
military operations.
Third, while capture or con-
troll of Iraq would to some ex-
tent hamper England's opera
tions in the Eastern Mediter-
ranean area, these oil supplies
could not be gotten into Ger
many or Italy in any appreciable
volume unless the Axis gained
effective control of the Mediter-
ranean sea.
Fourth, if and when England
can achieve sufficient air super
iority to permit long range and
heavy daylight attacks on Ger
many's synthetic plants and
transportation facilities, she will
be striking at such a vital spot
that actual invasion might never
be necessary In order for Eng
land to win the war;"
The United States still has
plenty Of reserve crude and re-
finery capacity to take care of
all practicable defense needs, "
the OPM man said.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-20
Use Bait to Fight Cutworms;
Agricultural Agent Warns

before spreading to help attract
the cutworms.
On q garden basis this Is the
formula for mixing a smaller
quantity. This is sufficient for
the average farm garden of q
quarter acre: Five pounds Of
bran, three quarts of water,
three ounces of Paris green and
one pint of molasses. The tempt
er for this is one ground lemon,
orange or apple.
Batting Is most effective when
put out in early evening, for the
cutworms work at night.
STATE INSPECTION OF
SMALL FRUIT TREES
Mr.. G. A. Boyer, Director of
Bureau Orchard and Nursery In
spection, State Department of
Agriculture, sends the follow
ing information: Each year we
And various small fruit growers
wanting inspection of small
fruit plants after the seasonal
inspection work has been con-
Quoted and for this reason
would like to call the attention
of fruit growers to the fact
that If they wish to dispose
of small fruit plants, it is neces-
sary they be inspected and they
must request this inspection ut
the Lansing office at this season
Of the year as we are starting
our first raspberry inspection
this month.
Raspberry plants must be
inspected twice during the
growing season when the plants
are in full foliage. All other
brambles are inspected at the
time of first inspection and
strawberries are usually inspect
ed In late summer or the early
fall months. We are not per-
mitted to make spring inspec-
ton Of strawberries or bramble
plants and permit the grower to
sell them"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-20
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work closely with state and To-
cal governments.
The job Of arranging protec-
ton for life and property, MIR.
Roosevelt said, involves the tie
ing in of the new home guard
units, created in many states to
take the place of National Guard
companies called to Federal serv-
ice. The home guard, Mr.. Roose-
welt indicated, will help defend
all public property such as
bridges, and plants, will organ
ize fire departments and plan
for the physical protection of
key points against bombing.
Another duty will be to slim
ulate national morale and ar
range for civilian participation,
Mr.. Roosevelt said, and women's
organizations will be used in
this field.