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Evening star., 1941-12-09
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 9-Possibilities Of
more stringent price control meas
ures for agricultural commodities,
weakness of securities, liquidation
selling and rumors that Hitler might
declare war on the United States,
together with reports of hostile
planes off both seacoasts. had an un-
settling effect on the grain markets
today.
Prices f1uctuated wildly at times
over a range of as much as cents
for rye Wheat at times dropped
around cents and corn was off
even more
Soybeans were relatively firm
throughout the session and for the
most part held at the topmost levels
permitted by the board at the re-
quest of the commodity exchange
administration. Ceilings" we're
placed over wheat and soybeans for
today only at yesterdays closing
levels
At the close wheat and corn were
near the days lowest
Wheat closed unchanged to 4
under Mondays final prices. Decem-
Der, 1921; May. 1865; corn was
IL to 2is lower, December. 76ss
oats. 1ss-2Is off; rye. 214-2I2
down; lard. Is to 20 cents a hundred
pounds lower, while soybeans closed
unchanged at the top permissible
limits.
Evening star., 1941-12-09

'Ex dividend tPlus extras ta) Paid
so far this wear fe, &C, extra. ID
SIS 90 extra paid December 2s, 1910.
thl $500 extra. tkl zoe extra. tml 81 SO
extra. Isl So 90 paid in 1910. tyl $1,000
extra.
Evening star., 1941-12-09
Dealings in Coffee,
Pepper and Cocoa
Futures Hailed
Suspension Is Ordered
On PIeo From O. P. A.
After Sharp Rise
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9-Trading In
coffee, black pepper and cocoa fu-
lures, imported commodities, was
suspended today on the New York
coffee and sugar and produce ex-
changes at the request Of the off1ce
of price administration.
The suspension, asked for today"
was ordered by the exchanges until
further notice"
Futures prices Of cocoa bounded
.21 to "a of cent pound yester-
day to the highest levels in four
years at 861 to 8.85 cents a pound
for deferred deliveries.
Santos and Rio coffee futures also
shot upward, gaining around 4 Of
a cent pound.
Black pepper futures climbed
about - of a cent a pound to a
range of $50 to 6.88 cents a pound.
Evening star., 1941-12-09
Chicsgo Cash Market.

Wheat, No. 2 hard, 1881: sample grade
hard; % a, Corn. old No. yellow, IS;
5la-761a. No. 3, N.Y.; sample grade
yellow, 64i .-s9 No. white. 70 Oats. No
! mixed; 54iz: No 3 white, .54: sample
Barley maltinR: 1898 nominal; feed and
screenings .45-5s, nominal No / mailing
No : yellow lei 49, No g. .66-i Il:
No 4. .62-1 "a; sample grade yellow, 70
Field seed, per hundredweishts, nominal.
timothy. 6.15-t 90: alsike, 145O-11 90: red
top. s.00-S.15: red clover, 15.O0-l1 90;
sweet clover. 650-900.
Evening star., 1941-12-09
Reserve Board Points
To Strong Financial
Position Of i. ).
Bank Reserves, Gosh
Declared Adequate
For Emergency
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
The Federal Reserve Board assured
the Nation today that its existing
supply of funds and of bank reserves
Is fully adequate to meet all present
and prospective needs of the Gov
ernment and of private activity"
The board declared in a formal
statement to the press that it is
prepared to use its powers to make
sure that the Government has no
difficulty in financing its war effort
and also to maintain stable condi-
tions in the Government bond
market.
The statement followed a similar
one by Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau complimenting bankers
and the public in general upon con-
ducting their transactions on finan-
cial markets today without undue
disturbance.
Evening star., 1941-12-09
Washington Exchange
SALES,

Mergentraler Linotype-10o at 2aIz
Washington Gas common-10 at
1924.
Washington Gas preferred-10 at
103.
Mergenthaler Linotype-1oo at 28Ia,
100 at 28l2.
Washington Gas preferred-25 at
103.
Washington Gas common-l5 at
1881.
Evening star., 1941-12-09

In bankruptcy or receiverShip or being
reorEanized under the Bankruptcy Act or
securities assumed By such companies
Rates OF dividends IN the FOREGOING table
are annual disbursements based on the
last quarterly or semi-Annual declaration
Unless otherwise noted special or extra
dividends are not included. Also extra or
extras. Cash or stock. Paid last year.
Payable in stock. Declared or paid %
far this year. Payable in Cana dian funds
Accumulated dividends paid or declared
this year. WV With warrants. xv With
out warrants. war Warrants. Unit Of
trading less than 100 shares; sales are
given in full
Evening star., 1941-12-09
New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK. Dec. Q National As
socistion of Securities Dealers. Inc:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29

BUT on the same day it is reported
that ship yards are two weeks behind
in getting steel for ships.
Organizing for war is a huge job.
No Job ever was 50 big. Things are
bound to go wrong here and there.
But somehow Uncle Sam ought to
find way to properly inform all citi-
zens, to the end that there may be
Justice all around. Workers must have
Jobs and it is mighty serious thing
for a Washington official to reach out
arbitrarily to say YOU have to stop
work"
Nations that win wars today have
to be united. We have lot of dis
unity today, much of it due to confu-
sion about such things as shortages
and priorities.
Everyone knows that there must be
much sacrifice The kicking that is
going on is not against sacrifice, but
against muddling and maladjusted
sacrifice.
Uncle, please set things straight.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29
THE PLIGHT OF
THE LITTLE FELLOWS"

Washington is hearing more and
more pounding about what is happen
ing to small manufacturers and their
employees.
Essential materials are shut off.
Plants have to shut down. Workers
have to hunt new jobs Jobbers don't
get products. Retailers are hard hit.
More and more there is an inclina-
tion to challenge the government when
it says materials are short. Specific
cases turn up. An example is the case
of a plant that has tons of brass
heaped up for machines that will not
be in place for six months, while al
most next door there is a plant that
can get no brass at all.
Maybe that story isn't quite true,
but it goes the rounds, with dozens of
other similar stories.
A manufacturer who uses sheet steel
says he KNOWS there is plenty of
steel, he knows where it is and he
knows talk about steel shortage is
hooey.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29

cause, and expressing friendship for
the wage worker. AS organized work
ers, you can readily grasp the value of
reciprocity in assisting your friends
in preference to ali others. AS one
good turn deserves another, it follows
that those advertisers should get the
benefit of the purchasing power of or
ganized labor and its friends. Hot air
never accomplished anything. Intelli-
gent action is the constructive force
of our movement. Buy from those
who help your cause by making the
labor press of America possible Pat
ronize our advertisers, who are en-
titled to your support.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29
us. Seeks To End Strike In
IL Coast Milling Companies

Portland, Ore. ILNS). = Federal
Labor Conciliator Jesse E. Jacobson
has begun conferences with millers and
union representatives in an effort to
bring an end to Northwest cereal
mills strike which has closed L plants.
The A. F. of l.. Cereal Professors
Union seeks an increase of 10 cents
an hour, a figure 212 cents below the
original demand.
Duncan Campbell, A. F. of L. or
ganizer, has indicated that a long
strike may result if the matter is not
settled at once. Campbell says it will
be impossible to hold the men, as they
will be able to find other work in va
rious defense industries.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29
ARE WE NEARER TO WAR?

Where do we stand as to war? The
President says we are no nearer to
war than we were.
But he does not say how near we
were!
Since that statement we have the
developments in Japan, we have the
decision to ferry American bombing
planes to Africa and we have the de-
cision to call Russo British -Ameri-
can conference, which obviously is in
tended to nail down Joe Stain to stay
in the war to a finish-a finish in Ja-
pan as well as with Hitler.
We think we are awfully near to
war. And the rest Of what else we
think is this: 1t would be healthy
and a tonic thing to KNOW where we
are going-to end the suspense-to
get a program. We KNOW we have
to stick with Britain until Hitler is
licked That has been promised. But
We don't know HOW and that is what
millions Of Americans want to know
and really need to know, to enable
them to give their best support to
Uncle Sam. If we've got to do the
job, LET'S GOl
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

you write letters. Always V and the
Morse symbol for V, which is, as most
now know, three dots and dash,
Isn't it interesting, that just as
Morse operators find the use of Morse
dying thing, more people know at
least one Morse letter than ever before
in the history of telegraphy!
1t all shows what can come from
an idea.
In many quarters people are getting
sick of the phrase "bottleneck," just
as they get sick of endless repetitions
of so-called popular songs on the air
But there are bottlenecks, just the
same.
The Burma road to China is bot
tleneck. Lack of tankers to bring
crude oil from Texas to the Atlantic
seaboard constitutes bottleneck.
Lack of skilled workers may soon
constitute a bottleneck. What's the
use of expanding production capacity
in an industry that is now using all
the skill there is?
Maybe we shall have to pay ter
rife price for the depression. The de-
preston shut off the making of ap.
prentices. There was no future fol
apprentices, so why have them?
Today the haunting, spectral feal
of lack of skill for intricate machine.
and involved processes is beginning
to give terrifying jitters to some o.
those high in officialdom.
Labor will find its burden heavier
and heavier as we move on into thi:
epic conflict to dethrone the hydra
headed dragon of Europe. And labor
will do superhuman things, if giver
half chance and a fair deal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29
Large Membership Gains
Listed By Boilermakers

Kansas City, Kans.-Officials OF the
International Brotherhood of Boiler
makers. A. F. of L. affiliate, reported
that nearly all past records for gains
in membership and collective bargain
ing are being exceeded by the union.
During July the increase in member
ship was the greatest for any single
month in many years. New agree
ments have been negotiated with
great variety of industries, and all
have carried higher wages, improved
working conditions, vacations with
pay, clearly defined bargaining rights,
and many other benefits.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29

Come on, crazy world; shell out your
secrets. Tell us what our lives are
going to be like a year-two, or five
years hence.
Imagine Hitler knocked into a
cooked hat, Germany again disarmed-
we hope all the world bereft of its
shooting irons.
Freedom of the seas, which doesn't
much bother folks who live inland, but
which does affect every one of us. Ac-
cess to raw materials-ah, there's a
tough one. To WHOSE raw materials
and on what terms.
Raw materials mean coal in Penn
sylvania, iron in the Messaba range
and in Tennessee, wheat in the Da-
kotas and silver in Colorado
They mean mercury and dozens of
other things in Mexico; coffee in Bra
zil, beef in the Argentine, mahogany
in Central America.
Access on what terms and to whom
AND, all of these things are under
private ownership. Suppose the pri-
vate owners say no"
The wisdom of Solomon is needed to
see US through to real and lasting
peace. Will that wisdom be available
or will green again cut the pie?
But maybe these things are too re
mote. Maybe the war first has to be
decided and maybe that's a job foi
four years, or eight years.
Perhaps, after all, we first have tC
get organized to get the war won fol
freedom.
i
~ for Victory" is spreading. Nov
you can buy window posters to hans
in your window and you can buy little
stickers to put on your envelopes wher
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29

cut their buying power, they also read
the financial pages of their newspa
pers and find there that dividends are
doing very well, thank you-and please
pass the pie again.
Those who don't like to hear
talk about wage increases ought
to do something to hush up those
financial pages. They really
should.
Now there isn't any issue whatever
that is big enough to cause the loss of
defense materials.
The mediation and conciliation serv-
ices are big enough and fair enough
to help settle any issue.
By and large the unions have shown
admirable estraint-eXcept some of
the wilder c.. |. O. unions.
But, while these things are so-and
there should be no stoppage of work
it remains true that there will be more
wage demands. They must be ex-
pected.
And employers must know that they
cannot stand across the road to prog
ress, blocking proper readjustments.
They can't wrap themselves in the
flag and yell that labor is all wrong
and that it is holding up the parade.
The parade holder-uppers are those
who refuse to see and admit that
workers have got to live and that they
have right to be protected at least
against reduction in standards by ris-
ing prices and static wages. THAT
is not the way to victory.-C M. w.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29
WHAT NEXT?

Canned goods are now packed by
one company in double cans. Punch
holes in the outer can and air coming
in contact with cheficals heats the
contents of the inner can to the right
heat for eating.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29

soldiers. The work includes construc-
tion of 600 tent platforms, 80 company
streets with overhead lighting, ana
barracks building to accommodate 5oo
men. A new baking oven has also been
installed by the WPA. Heated by a
rotary oil burner, it can produce 3,ooo
loaves of bread day.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29
ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES
ANOTHER

The advertisers in this publication
deserve the support Of organized la
Dor and its friends. They materially
assist in making it possible for this
paper to be Of service to the workers.
The individuals and firms using our
paper are showing interest in our
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29
Army Temporary Housing
Also Includes Bake Oven

New York, N. Y. (ILNS). - WPA
workers under direction of the Post
Quartermaster at Fort Hamilton in
Brooklyn New York; are building
temporary housing facilities for 5000
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29
WISDOM

peace should enable all men
to traverse the high seas and oceans
without hindrance." = Roosevelt and
Churchill
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29

Sooner or later we shall emerge
from the twilight zone of price fixing
in which we now wobble around like
the half blind in a war blackout.
There will be legislation-an we
don't yet know what provisions it will
contain.
BUT, meanwhile, with restrictions
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29

A good many economists who have
struggled with this problem are not
economists at all. They are hoodwink-
ers. They spout a line that sounds
high and mighty, but has no sense.
The homes of the workers are the
places where the real economists, in
this situation, are to be found
And there's another element: Not
only do workers find that higher prices
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29

on some things that amount to price
fixing, with restrictions, too, on in
stallment buying, we are cropping
along in situation that does NOT
stop increase in the cost of living.
In an effort to catch up on the cost
of living increase, unions seek wage
increases.
1t must be expected that there
will be more wage demands-it is
to be hoped they will be balanced
and reasoned.
But the employer who raves and
rants when a union asks for more
wages should first get the facts before
he raves.
Mostly demands for wage increases
are actually not for INCREASES
they are for RESTORATION of the
standard Of living.
When prices go up, existing wages
buy less. So the worker really takes
cut when prices go up.
He seeks more wages to get himself
back where he was, in point of buying
power
Those who believe there should
be no wage demands should have
been on the job to prevent price
increases.
But, it is countered, some prices
needed to go up-they were too low.
Perhaps that is so-but SO were
some wages too low, and when prices
went up they were, relatively, even
lower
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29
THE
CHERRY TREE
THE

Where with our Little Hatchet we tell
the truth about many things, sometimes
profoundly, sometimes fippantly. some
times recklessly. =.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second-Cl Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-29

~ for Victory" is spreading. Now
you can buy window posters to hang
in your window and you can buy little
stickers to put on your envelopes when
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

If such an ascent
is made too rapid
~ as in a fighter
plane seeking out
high-flying bomb
ers the pilot is
about like a deep
sea diver W h o
comes TO the sur
face too rapidly.
The pilot, in effect,
suffers fro m a
kind of bends"
such a divers en-
counter.
Gases in [ h G
blood sire a m
bound there by
normal air pres
sure, turn into tiny
bubbles of gas
that have actually
been observed in
the human body.
The effect is like
taking out the
cork and suddenly
releasing the pres
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

living aerial laboratory.
With all this apparatus
in place Starnes' total
weight was 276 pounds.
What he wore is de-
scribed beneath his pho
tograph.
Or. Ivy, whos recent
~ presented the scientif-
-tc summary OF Starnes
previous ar a C h u I e
Jumps ION one he
dropped 1880 feet In
free falD, says that all
sensations OF that gone"
feeling, experienced in a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

fully than does the
normal sh allow
breathing whic h
most people use
This e xce sive
breathing hyper
ventilates the lungs
and makes the arm
and leg cramps.
Moreover. there
seems TO be a close
link between stage
fright and [ his
same hyper-ventila-
ton. Most people,
the first time they
make a public adj
dress or stage APP
pearance will slut
ter, become tongue
tied so that they
cannot talk at all.
or their knees will
tremble and shake.
Fear is the basis
of stage fright and
this fear leads to
rapid bre a t h in &
which is often done
completely uncon-
sciously by the vic
tim. The "a pie
breathing produces
the stage fright
sym p I o m s; the
sp S m s of the
muscles of the ton
que that block all
speech. the trem-
bling of the leg mus
cles that make the
snees knock and the
clammy sweating
II there is one
things doctors rec
ognize, it is that
breathing and the
emotions are closely
related. The gasp of
pain or fright is no
myth. Neither is
the sigh Of love. Or
the sobbing of grief.
All these are just
different ways of
breathing for the
different emotions.
But the biggest
trouble of all TO the
human body in fly
ing is the increasing
lack of oxygen in the
air as the planes fly
higher. Most people
can be comfortable
at 10000 feet alti-
tude although some
people ought to use
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

reaches its terminal velocity
Starnes during his drops, does not feel as
though he were floating in space as some
times has Been suggested He hears the rush
OF wind inside his helmet and he constantly
feels the pressure of the air stream pressing
over his body AS ne spins and tumbies end
over-end this pressure passes over different
parts of his body. and he can get a rough
idea Of how he is turning from this FEELING
alone ------ ---------------
starnes' mind is perfectly clear during his
drops
II took him just under two minutes to
drop the first 2900 feet and two minutes TO
come the last 1900 via parachute
During the great drop he breathed fourteen
times: six deep and eight shallow breaths
The entire electrocardiograph of all his heart
beats during the drop is now recorded on wax
records for future scientific study.
Few people can fly up, ina plane and make
a drop like that of Starnes even If they had
the skill and courage TO do II, but everyone
can sit right in his own home and do an
experiment which will bring home one i'm
portant danger which every pilot must guard
against.
THE experim ent is to ereatea hyper
ventilation in your lungs by very rapid and
deep breathing. Representation is believed
to be the cause of some mysterious airplane
accidents where the pilot freezes on TO the
controls and crashes his plane on the ground
Such accidents go into the record books
as pilot failure" but doctors in aviation medi-
cine want TO know much more than that.
They have settled on Approximation as
logical cause
Want to try the test Ready let's go!
Start breathing rapidly and deeply Keep
il up for about a minute. Notice that you
are getting hght-headed and dizzy Does the
room start going round and round?
All right you're dizzy. But keep on with
the rapid breathing. DO you notice a numb
ness and a tinglng sensation in your arms
and legs? You do?
That's fine, now keep on with the breathing.
DO you begin to feel scared and show signs
of panic? Don't worry, that's just normal
reaction Want to stop? All right, stop.
But if you want to 60 with the rapid
breathing for about five minutes there will
be other sensations. Your muscles will start
to cramp up. and your fingers will start to
curl You will feel as If you cannot get
enough air and you will breathe still faster
and faster you are slowly suffocating.
you are dying or so you think.
And right then. really stop, else you
will fall over in a faint
The strange thing is that the cramps
which you get from breathing too fast and
too deeply are the same kind of leg cramps
cramps are not to be confused with the more
serious stomach cramps caused by swimming
too soon after eating.
The deep and rhythmic breathing used in
swimming ventilates the lungs much more
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

sure on bottle of champagne or ginger ale.
Blood circulation is thus blocked in the
small capillaries of the body and there is pain
in the joints feelings of heat or cold, and pains
i'm the nerves as in neuritis. These are the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

usual physical symptoms of aeroembolism.
Passengers in commercial transport planes
seldom experience this condition for the ascent
is made slowly to prevent the condition, and
the extreme altitude of flight is never much
over 10000 feet.
Continued flight at high altitude without
oxygen masks causes altitude Sickness which
is an insidious aiment for it comes on very
slowly and is accompanied by bouyant. con-
fident feeling of well-being somewhat akin
TO man who has had few drinks but is
not yet in that stage of drunkenness where
he becomes depressed.
All this knowledge Of pilot behavior in the
strange environment of flying is vital in
wartime where extreme conditions are en-
countered but it is vital, too. for safer peace
time aviation.
In war an exact knowledge Of how pilots
body behaves in flight means superior pilots
and pilot safeguards that translate into more
enemy airplanes destroyed
But these same findings, too. will help
passenger transport in the days after the
war when routine commercial planes which
have the speed and flying ability Of modern
bombers.
Then, more than ever the safety OF the
lives of passengers will rest in the skill ana
physical stamina of the man at the controls.
Aviation medicine, now. is paving the way
for that future day.