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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
). H. Kress Reveals
S5,339,160 Earned
During 1910
Equals S2.08 q Share
Against Sl.e2 for
Previous Year
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-s. H.
KreSS g. Co. reported net profit for
1910 of $3.50 l6o, or s2Os a common
share, compared with s4,963,s7O, or
$l92 a share in 1899.
Vultee Aircraft.
Vultee Aircraft, Inc, in its pre-
liminary report for the fiscal year
ended November 80. estimated net
profit of $374,000, equal to 48 cents
a share on the average number of
shares outstanding during the year
and Sc cents share on the total
outstanding at the year end. Com
parable figures for the preceding
year were not available, as this
marks the first complete fiscal year
OF the company. Vultee reported
net sales for the year of about So
100000, including 81 100000 from the
sale OF manufacturing rights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
Hercules PowderCo,
Reports S5,807,769
Net for Year
Result Compares With
IS, 324 1872 Recorded
During 1889
special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. 81
The annual report of Hercules
Powder Co. for the year ended De-
cember 81. 1910. shows net earnings
OF s5,807,769 after all charges in
Guiding excess profits taxes. After
the payment of $524,928 dividends
on the preferred stock, net earnings
applicable to the common stock were
equal to s40l a share on 1,316.71O
shares outstanding.
In 1889 net earnings of the COM
pany were $5,324,9 1922, equal. after
payment of preferred dividends. to
1855 share on l,316,710 shares of
common stock then outstanding.
Net sales of goods and services for
the year amounted to $50, 429,l91.
Expansion Reviewed,
Capital expenditures amounted to
S4,342000, compared with S4,98l 900
in the previous year, the principal
items being as follows.
Completion of facilities at the
Hercules. Calf. plant for the manu-
facture of anhyrous ammonia. EX-
panSion of smokeleSS powder manu-
featuring facilities at the kenvil,
N j.. plant, and replacing facilities
destroyed in an explosion at that
plant.
Additions at the Parlin, ~ j., plant
to increase capacities for manufac-
turing nitric acid, nitro-cellulose,
Cellulose acetate and chlorinated
rubber (Parlon). Enlargement OF
power facilities and other additions
required to increase capacities for
the manufacture of chemical cotton
end ethyl cellulose at the HopeWen,
Va, plant.
Facilities for the manufacture OF
improved types of products and Tor
the more efficient harvesting OF raw
material stump wood at the Bruins
wick, Ga, naval stores plant.
In his statement to stockholders,
c. A. Higgins, president, said: The
war and the national defense pro-
gram are calling for considerable
efforts on the part of your company,
During the year contracts were
entered into for the design and
construction of SmokeleSS powder
plants estimated to cost $50 900 600.
Construction is going ahead rapidly,
with a speed and efficiency which
We believe will insure completion
OF the plants on schedule.
Explosion Loss Cited.
Your company own SmokeleSs
powder plant at Kenvil. N. j., suf-
fcred a severe loss in the eXplo-
sion which occurred on September
l.. The explosion. which was al
most unprecedented in its extent
and scope, presented unusual fea-
lures and the experience gained has
been incorporated in our present de-
sian and layout.
1T is gratifying to report the eX-
ccllent morale and efficiency of our |
kenvil organization who have at |,
this date completed the rebuilding
OF a substantial part of the de-
stroyed plant and are producing |
smokeleSs powder again. most of |
which is required for national de-
Tense.
of your company's total sales
over Is per cent is normally eX-
ported AS result of the war in .
Europe many former markets for
your company's products have been
either entirely closed or consider
ably curtailed. On the other hand,
there have been compromising in
creases. with the result that the per-
centage of foreign business to your
company's total sales has remained ,
about the same
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
Federal Spending
Climbs Above
| & Billions
, the Associated Press.

~ VIC AseoSaeSSa 1855
Federal expenditures for the cur
rent fiscal year passed $4,000 900 900
today under the impetus of defense
expenditures.
Although the figure of 5000 $685.
222 reported by the Treasury today
was not half Of the $13,202 $40, $40
budgeted for the year ending June
80, it indicated the pace of spend
ing was picking up rapidly after a
slow start last summer.
Defense accounted for s2,l64, ST.
1865 of the total, and was nearly
equal to the 1884 033 1852 deficit in
CURED since last July !. After max
ing allowance for differences In
bookkeeping in the two years. the
spending figure was more than ST.
100000, 900 in excess of the amount
spent in the similar period of the
preceding year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
Hog Prices Favorable
At Winchester Sole
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, Jan. 27.-On-
GERS OF the Virginia Purebred Swine
Breeders Association expressed much
satisfaction today with prices OBJ
tanned for about 40 hogs sold at the
societys annual sale here last week
end.
Prices ranged from SO to s45, with
an average of between s25 and $50.
Top price of s45 was paid by Frank
Stricken of Fincastle, Va, a Hamp-
Shire-bred SOW from the herd of B.
B. Jones of Audley Farm, near
Berryville. Hampshires led in the
offerings. Other breeds included
Duroc-Jersey, Berkshire and Po-
land-China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
New York Bonk Stocks
Show Little Chance
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

NEW YORK. Jan. 27.-New York
City bank stocks were little changed
during the last week. according to
records compiled by Holt. Rose &
TroSter.
The aggregate market value of Is
leading issues at the close on Friday,
January "a, was 81 ,486 $3.50 900, COM
pared with 81 ,486. TIA 900 at the close
of the previous week, a decrease of
$444 900, or 003 per cent.
The current average yield of the
is issues remains at 4.35 per cent:
the current market value equals 03
times the known book value.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
New York Banks Boost
Commercial Looms
Ry TIE Associated Press.

ff W z AhSoCldLto Ffebs.
NEW YORK. Jan. 27.-Commercial
loans of New York City banks con-
tinued their upward trend last week.
but the pace was slow despite an in
crease in demand for defense loans
Business loans rose $4,000. 900 dur
ing the week ended Wednesday TO
total of 81 925 100000, the highest
since December %, 1887. Since tbs
first of the year. however. the gain
in commercial loans OF the New
York reporting banks has amounted
to only S18,000.OO0.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
Alcohol Stocks jump

The Bureau of Internal Revenue
says that stocks of completely de-
natured alcohol totaled $4,000 gall
Ions at the end of December, an in
crease of so per cent over stocks on
the same date a year earlier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
Washington Exchange

SALES.
Washington Gas Light preferred
30 at l07.
Capital Transit Co.'S at Is.
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Heads Bank Group

LYNCHBURG, Va, Jan. 81 Op).-
c. T. O'Neil of Charlottesville has
been elected chairman of group four
of the Virginia Bankers Association.
He succeeds Wayles r. Harrison of
Danville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27

Quotations furnished by National As
soclatcn of Securities Dealers. Inc which
states. they do not necessarily reflect ac-
tusl transactions or firm bids or offers.
but should indicate approximate prices
and unless otherwise indicated. are as
quoted by the sponsors or issuers
Asterisk indicates, Not quoted by
sponsors issuers.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27


Quotations furnished by National Asso-
eiatIon of Securities Dealers. Inc. which
stares they do not necessarily reflect actual
transactions or Arm bids or offers, but
should indicate Approximate prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27

Heavy rains destroyed much coffee
on the trees in salvador last season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27

can be produced as was the total
demand for all types of aviation
gasoline in 1899.
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London Tin Prices

LONDON, Jan. - lP,.-Tin steady; spot
f,5S ! SIS bid. sc57 asked. future. f257 bid
f@57 los asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
U. 5. Treasury Notes

NEW YORK, Jan. 81 (Pl.-Prices quoted
in dollars and thirty-seconds
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Investing Companies

NEW YORK. Jan - p, National As
ISOLATION Securities Dealers. Inc:
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United Stotes Treasury Position

BY the Associated Press.
The position Of the Treas
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Insurance Stocks

NEW YORK jan. 80 lP.-Natlc
Association Securities Dealers, Inc
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BONDS

PUBLIC UTILITY.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
8

Next morning when he arrived at
the filling station, he saw several
policemen in front of the place. Hiram
had been shot the night before. The
man who came on duty at midnight
had found him crumpled on the floor.
his back full of holes.
The cash drawer was open and emp
ty Yet there hadn't been a lot of
money to warrant such a vicious muir
der. Hiram had been shot in the back
like an animal on the run. The ques-
ton was - had he run from his
assailant or been caught unawares?
When Dave came on the scene,
police took him into the waiting room
for questioning. They were decent
enough in the way they went about
it. They expected the fright that made
his Jaws lock, and when his voice came
they weren't surprised that it shook.
Dave lied. How dared he tell them
he had left at eleven, an hour before
he should have gone! Hiram would
have admitted that Dave asked to
get off early. But Hiram was dead,
and if Dave tried to prove that he
left at eleven instead of twelve. would
MT it sound like an alibi? Wouldn't
it look like he'd shot him and made
off with the money?
30 DAVE lied. He said he went home
a few minutes before midnight.
Hiram had been okay when he left.
They asked what Hiram's last words
were. Dave told the truth then. He
could repeat honestly the words the
dead man had spoken with his queer
cross-eyed grin: Got date with your
girl, eh? Well, watch your step. Kids
with dreamy eyes often trip"
Evening star., 1941-02-23

Marie and their baby chance to live
- could it be a bribe to get him out
of the way so that Hiram would die?
.. He went pasty-white and swayed
forward in his chair. A plain-clothes
man propped him up and another
gave him Il glass of water. ITS all
right. Hold onto yourself"
I'm DIZZY" Dave muttered and
put his head between both hands so
they couldn't see his face . Sup
pose that guy Addison was the fellow
who bumped off Hiram! That tied
him, Dave Santelli, in with the muir
der. didn't it? He'd helped whether
he meant to or not =. J.. No, it couldn't
be 1t mustn't be as awful as that
But why go to the trouble to stage
a fire alarm and give strange kid a
hundred bucks? 1t didn't make sense
unless Addison wanted to get him
out of the way. Even if Addison didn't
mean to commit murder -. But
Addison did mean to commit murder.
1t was all planned too slick to leave
any doubt. He ought to tell them
now about Addison. Now, this min
ute, while they were asking him ques
tions. He had the answer. the only
one that counted for anything &.
No, he daren't risk saying anything
about Addison. Let the police find
out. That was their job, wasn't it?
He didn't have to risk being arrested
for murder when he hadn't thing to
do with it. He might go to the chair !
Finally they let him go home. He
knew they'd probably trail him. He
was afraid to meet Marie. He knew
he wouldn't be able to hide the truth
from her for very long. Marie would
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Continued from poge fourteen

He'd tripped all right. Gosh, how
he'd tripped! Suppose they found out
about the fire alarm? 1t must have
been between eleven, when he left the
filling station, and twelve when Hiram
was killed.
Evening star., 1941-02-23

Suddenly, while they were question
ing him, the thought hit like bolt of
lightning that staggered him: Could
there be any connection bet,oesn the
alarm and the murder? =. The hun
dred dollars that was to give him and
Evening star., 1941-09-06

begins in the early morning when
she answers mail, transcribes the
previous days dictation. She often
works later than $50, sometimes
at intervals in the evenings.
u love every minute of it, she
declares, "and I believe this is the
only way person can remain
happy"
There is nothing like good base
ball game or prize fight TO make
me relax after busy day in the
Office" Miss Tully added.
In spite of the burden of inter-
national affairs" Miss Tully said,
the President never shows emotions
in his face. He has a great gift
for always looking pleasant. He
has a simply marvellous sense OF
humor."
A prolific reader, Miss Tully keeps
posted on international and ma
tional affairs by reading all current
non-fiction, magazines and news
papers and by listening to the news
Commentators daily.
When asked whether a career and
marriage could be combined with
success, the personal secretary re-
marked with a smile in her dimpled
cheek, II don't know; you see, I've
never tried it."
Evening star., 1941-09-06
BY DEWITT MACKENZIE.

Americas answer to the sub
marine attack on the u. s. S. Greer
has very firmly put 1t up to Herr
Hitler to decide what he wants to
do about 1t.
To be sure, Washington hasn't
yet officially identified the under
water craft which made the assault
However, in Reykjavik, Iceland,
where the Greer is berthed. it is
said that the submersible was Ger
man.
One uses the past tense, was"
German. because officers and men
of the destroyer say thev dropped
a depth bomb while right over the
submarine and believe they must
have damaged the craft and may
have destroyed it. Just in case the
raider did get away, Washington
has given instructions that it be
sought out snd eliminated.
One assumes such an order pre-
supposes that the identity of the
boat is known, or that any Axis
submarine entering this zone is look
ing for trouble in stormy seas.
Up to Hitler.
All these facts have been laid
before the Fuehrer by the American
press, and certainly give him enough
facts to work on. What will his
answer be?
We don't need to split hairs over
the nationality of the submarine.
Obviously it was an Axis SUBJ
mersible, and the strong probabil-
tiles are that it was Nazi because
of the location of the incident in
the North Atlantic. Now the attack
must have been the result of one of
three things: Cd The U-boat was
acting under orders from the high
command; 90 it was a mistake; 80
it was an error in judgment by the
submarine commander.
AS indicated in this column yes
terday, at least up to the time of
this incident Hitler had given every
indication that he wanted to avoid
bringing the United States into the
European war. This attitude was
purely a matter Of self-preserva-
Evening star., 1941-09-06
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

American aid to Communist
Russia in its war against Hitler
is an accomplished fact-even
though the amount of aid still Is
infinitesimal. An American oil
tanker, the Maritime Commission
has announced, has reached
Vladivostock with fuel for Rus
sia. Not only has aid to Russia
begun to flow, but there is prom
ise on the part of President
Roosevelt and other officials of
sne Government that 1t is to be
very large.
Just how far this kind of thing
will tie the United States and
the American people with the
Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics is what bothers some
critics of the administration who
hate Communism as much as
they do NaZi i-ism of Fascism. If
Evening star., 1941-09-06

court to the policies of the present
administration.
Somewhat Alien Now.
What is much worse, however, is
that the President in public
address in 1887 practically repu-
dated the process of amending the
Constitution in the manner provided
by the Constitution itself; namely, by
submission of a resolution passed
by two-thirds of Congress for
ratification by three-fourths OF the
States. Mr.. Roosevelt thinks this
method is too cumbersome. He
thinks it is much SIMPLER to appoint
seven out of nine justices who will
amend the Constitution whenever
they please. And the chief objection
of the President to the Old Deal was
that the court legislated in place of
Congress and the peoplel
Today an oligarchy rules America
anu Ill Jllc 1CCCIlb SCIAulS VI pllNdlc
property at Kearny, N. j., the Pres
ident deliberately ignored the fact
that the House and Senate each
refused to accept a conference re-
port which would have granted him
that power of seizure in certain
contingencies. If this manner of
handling the Executive Office is not
analogous to an alien form OF
government already, then the aver
age observer has been deceived in
his conception of totslitarianism
and in his fidelity to constitutional
processes. The Presidents article
might have better been left un-
written in times when it is so
hard to get national unity anyway.
Reproduction Rights Reserved)
Evening star., 1941-09-06
Pennsylvania Women Fill In
As Labor Shortage Hits Farms

monwealth showing $4,000 workers
were needed for harvesting.
with large numbers of farm la
borers, as well as students and mi
gratory workers who formerly were
available for harvest work, attracted
to defense industries, the agricul-
tural labor situation is critical" the
survey reported.
In the rich Eastern Pennsylvania
growing belt, 10000 cases of
beans were lost because the farm
ers couldn't get help, the depart
ment said, adding:
with the harvest of late crops,
spinach, celery, carrots, beets and
tomatoes, coming on, farmers are
wondering how they're going to get
workers.
They had hoped to get some from
the Civilian Conservation Corps, but
It's hardly likely that many boys
will volunteer. While they did farm
work they would lose benefits-such
as health and life insurance-which
is valued at about $62 a month. The
farmers couldn't pay that much"
Evening star., 1941-09-06
The Political Mill
Two-Porty System Formidable Check
On SocioIistic Dictatorship in U. S.

of the head of the one political
party-in this case Joseph Stain.
If any others raise or seek to
raise their heads. there is always
the purge"
PurgeS in U. S. Ineffective.
So far, political purges in this
country-at the command of the
head of a political party-have
not been particularly effective.
Once they have become so, the
United States of America as we
have known it will pass from the
stage.
Communist dictatorship differs
from other relationships in one
particular. Under the U. S. S. r.
constitution the capitalistic sys-
tenn is abolished. Article l of
the constitution says: The Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics is
a socialist state of workers and
peasants" Article 2 calls for
the dictatorship of the prole-
tariat"-which has degenerated
into the dictatorship of the head
of the Communist party. This
constitutes the political founda-
ton of the U. S. S. R. Article 8
declares that all power belongs to
working people of town and coun-
try as represented by the Soviets
of Working Peoples Deputies.
Article of the constitution is
quite specific: The socialist sys-
tenn of economy and the social
ist ownership of the means and
instruments Of production firmly
established as a result of the
abolition of the capitalist system
of economy, the abrogation of
private ownership of the means
and instruments of production
and the abolition of the exploita-
ton of man by man, constitute
the economic foundation of the
U. S. S. R."
1t is impossible to quote all the
many articles in the constitu-
tion of the U. S. S. R. However,
1t provides that socialist property
exists either in the form of state
property possessions of the
whole people, or in the form of
cooperative and collective farm
property.
1t lists specifically the items Of
state property, including the
land, its natural deposits, waters,
Evening star., 1941-09-06

Hitler is overthrown with the aid
of Communist RuSsia-and Com
munist Russia persists in the ef-
forts it has made for a decade or
two to undermine the American
form of government and life
what is to be the attitude of this
country? Is it to take the Com
munists to its bosom? These
questions are being asked.
From realistic point of view
this country would be stupid not
to give aid to Russia, or to any
other nation capable of aiding in
the defeat of Hitler, whose de-
feat has been demanded by the
President, the Congress and the
vast majority of the American
people. If and when Hitler is
defeated, other problems will
arise, and one of them undoubt-
edly will be what to do about
Communist Russia if it still exists.
One-Party Threat Seen.
The one danger to American
liberties and the American form
of government lies in the posi-
bility of one political party, with
the exclusion of all others. Die
tatorship fourishes in a capital
iStic country or in a socialistic
country only when there is but
one political party. No dictator
could stand long where a strong
minority political party con-
stantly threatened to take con-
troll of government. AS long,
therefore, as the two-party po-
Iitical system flourishes in the
United States. it will be safe
from dictators.
The New Deal has fostered
many social laws and movements
which are on all fours with the
aims of the constitution of the
U. S. S. R., an examination of
that document reveals. Indeed,
The constitution of Communist
Russia contains a lot of good
reading. 1t has an idealistic
tone.
The catch lies, however, in the
last half of article 126, which
reads: In conformity with the
interests of the working people
and in order to develop the Or
ganizational initiative and po-
litical activity of the masses of
the people, citizens of the U. S.
S. r. are ensured the right to
unite in public organizations
trade unions, cooperative asso-
Citations, youth organizations,
sport and defense organizations,
cultural, technical and scientific
societies: and the most active
and politically most conscious
citizens in the ranks of the work
ing class and other sections of
the working people unite in the
Communist party of the Soviet
Union (Bolsheviks), which is the
vanguard of the working people
In their struggle to strengthen
and develop the socialist system
and is the leading core of all
organizations of the working peo-
pie, both public and state"
There it is, in all its nakedness
the one political party state. 1t
provides for self-perpetuating
group, the kind of group that
makes possible the dictatorship
Evening star., 1941-09-06
\Xs; !; s.
~

MUSIC.
Band concert, Soldiers Home
Band, bandstand, Rock Creek
Church road and Upshur street
NV, tonight, 6 o'clock.
OUTINGS.
Hike and swim, Wanderbirds
Hiking Club, leave National Thea
ter tomorrow morning, 7:3O o'clock
and 10 o'clock.
Bird walk, Kenilworth Aquatic
Gardens, sponsored by National
Capital Parks, Kenilworth avenue
and Polk street NE, tomorrow
morning, $3.50 o'clock.
Nature walk, Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal Parkway at Seneca, Md,
sponsored by National Capital
Parks. Special busses leave 1416 F
street NV. tomorrow morning, $3.50
o'clock.
Nature and historical tour OF
Fredericksburg -Spotsylvania Coun-
ty battlef1elds, Memorial National
Military Park. Va. sponsored by
National Capital Parks. Special
busses leave 1416 F street NV. to-
morrow morning, 9 o'clock.
MEETING.
American Council on Education,
Mayfower Hotel, tomorrow morn
ing, 10 o'clock.