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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Steel Rate 10 Rise
To 99.2Per Cent
In Current Week
Institute Report Cites
80.3 Per Cent Pace
Of Year Ago
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 2-The Ameri-
can Iron and Steel Institute esti-
mated today that the Nations steel
mills will operate this week at 992
per cent of capacity, gain of O6
of ! per cent over last weeks output
A month ago operations were at
e68 per cent and a year ago at 80.3
per cent Of capacity.
CLEVELAND, June 2 LP.-Larger
proportions of steel are expected to
60 for Britain and defense, with
civilian uses correspondingly cur
tailed, as a result of the declaration
of an unlimited national emergency,
Steel says today.
Business as usual, with complete
supplying of all peacetime steel
needs, apparently now seems i'm
possible, even to the diehards," the
review adds
IL 10 lCkoElllGCu llldb ~ III lllCS
may be extended. inventory control
frightened over the loose rulings now
in force and civilian needs limited
more drastically.
Deliveries are becoming ever
more extended For one large maker
of plates orders now being placed on
books, where no priority rules,
specify 1943 delivery. Some makers
who had been selling half -heartedly
for 1912 delivery are becoming
stricter.
"A new inquiry calls for 100000
tons of plates for shipbuilders who
are to turn out 1913 more merchant
ships. A pipe line from Baton
Rouge, La, to New York, involving
435 900 tons of mostly 24-inch pipe,
Is about to be placed.
Tin plate capacity has been en-
gagged for 100000 tons of tin plate
for Great Britain over the next
IL months, to be shipped $4,000
tons n1onthly. For the same desti-
nation pig iron producers are &C
lively figuring on 100000 tons OF
pig iron. half low phos and half
Bessemer. one discussed plan being
to allocate among producers with
respect to their percentage of ma
tional capacity.
'Fabricators of shapes are making
new speed records for fabricating
and erecting for defense plants.
Thus Bethlehem Steel Co. fabri-
Gated. delivered and erected 1000
tons for defense shop for the
Otis Elevator Co.. Harrison, N. j.,
in under three months"
Steel ingot production last week
was computed at SO per cent of
capacity, off one point. Three dis
trict rates declined: Chicago. to
10012 Wheeling, to 88, and Cleve-
land, p to 96. Three advanced:
Detroit, to 90, New England,
TO IS. and Cincinnati, 312 to 9212.
Unchanged were: Buffalo, 90; Birm-
ingham, 95; St. Louis. 50; Pitts
burgh, 100l2; Eastern Pennsyl-
vania. 96; Youngstown, 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Utility Leaders
Open ConcIove
|Of Institute
By the Associated Press.

BUFFALO. N. Y, June utility
executives from throughout the
United States and Canada open the
ninth annual convention of the
Edison Electric Institute today with
attention centered on the power in
dustry's relationship to expanding
defense production.
From $500 to 1000 representa-
tives are expected for the four day
conference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Ell Poso NuturuI Cos
Reports Larger Net
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. June eel Paso
Natural Gas Co. and subsidiaries
reports a balance for common stock
and surplus, after all charges, in
Guiding taxes. amounting to $3.50. 254
for the month of April, 1871.
This represents an increase of
50 $50 over the s1soss3 reported for
April, 1910, and is equal to ap-
proximately 81 cents a share OF
common stock outstanding. against
80 cents per share for April last
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Two Men Over so
Meet in Five-MiIe Ruce

Joe Deakin and George Still, both
we'll over so. recently entered for the
printers race, smile cross -coun-
try event near London.
East bet cents that he would
beat the other. Both finished the
course, Still the winner by a hair.
Deakin fought in the Boer War,
where he was badly wounded. He
won the southern cross country
championship in 1908 and was a
member of the winning Olympic
team in the Smile race the same
wear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK. June LP,-Routine Mon
day price checking operations in rhe tex
tile trade today disclosed quotations arm
at top levels.
Despite the well sold-up positions Of
rayon mills new orders for standard fab
RIGS we're said to be running in line with
production.
fair inquiry was noted for cotton GOODS,
particularly specially numbers.
Silk piece goods continued quiet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Demand for Railroad
Equipment Called
Greatest in Years
Inquiries for $4,000
Cars Are Reported;
$500 Ordered
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, June 2.-Activity
In the market for railroad equip
ment in the past week has been the
greatest for any similar period in
recent years, Railway Age said
today.
In conjunction with the Nation
wide plan for freight car buying, the
magazine said, railroads have in
quired for $4,000 cars In the last
week and have placed orders for
more than $500.
Inquiries have appeared in the
trade for Is steam locomotives, with
2 steam switchers ordered, while
Diesel-electriC engine builders have
secured orders for Is units.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02

selves on geographical basis, with
each company Servicing customers
closest to its wells.
Comments one oil man:
Why should company with wells
in the West ship oil over long haul
to customers in the East. and an
Eastern company ship West. if by ar
interchange of customer contracts
the oil hauls can be shortened?"
Supply Held Ample.
At the present time, stocks of fin
ished and unfinished gasoline in
the United States total around "a
811 900 barrels. compared with 101,-
$1,000 year ago, when supplies
were ringing up record totals.
Oil men consider present gasoline
stocks comfortable, ample supply
Production in the latest week totaled
1885, 900 barrels, compared with
Is 001 900 week earlier.
Fuel oil stocks also are considered
ample.
But the fact remains that only
1000 900 barrels of crude oil, gaso-
line and other oil products from
Gulf ports are arriving at Atlantic
coastal destinations by tanker daily,
a reduction of 100000 barrels under
what would be arriving had the
Government not requisitioned ships.
Around 96 per cent of all oil
moved on the Gulf Atlantic circuit
is handled by tanker. The other
per cent is transported by pipe line
and railroad tank car.
REGARDED As Beginning.
There are reports frequently heard
In the trade that requisitioning of
so tankers by the Government-the
first Is last spring and the second
Is last months only the begin
ming. These reports have it the
Government will take over more
tankers, a few at time, as the de-
tense and aid to Britain program
proceeds.
Your guess is as good as anybody's
regarding the nearby tanker supply
outlook Even informed oil men
won't guess. Much depends on the
needs Of defense.
Both gasoline and fuel oil may
cost more Bringing either up from
the Gulf to the New York metropoli-
tan area, for instance, costs over 60
cents barrel by pipeline. compared
with about 20 cents by tanker.
As piped oil supplants tanker
moved oil, the increased delivery
costs may force upward revision in
consumer prices.
Already gasoline and oil in many
cities are selling at levels substan-
TALLY above three months ago.
o. p. M. Price Administrator Leon
Henderson Is reported making q
survey Of the gasoline price struc-
ture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
In the Business World
Rotionine Talked os Tanker Shortage Curbs
Deliveries Of Gasoline, Heating Fuel
By PAUL GESNER AND JOHN BECKLEY,
The Star,s suecial Nez- Service

NEW YORK June proceeding the theory the thing that
will bomber bullet
tank President Roosevelt given Federal Oil Administrator Harold
title coUrdnator
There implications Ickes will be sharply
ing him dictator of oil supplies and distribution.
administration
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Money Market

NEW YORK June . Call money
steady, ] per cent. prime commercial
paper. IA per cent. Time loans steady; 60
90 days, "a: four-six months. Ia per
cent Bankers acceptances UNCHANGED:
5000 days, 1z-i. per cent four months,
is-14 per cent: fve-six months. ss-is per
cent Rediscount rate. New York Reserve
Bank, | per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Coal Dumpines Log
At Hampton Roads
BY the Associated Press.

NORFOLK. Va. June Coal
dumpings during May at the three
terminals in Hampton Roads aggre-
gated 1,445,86 tons. a decline of
about 125 900 tons from the tonnage
for May. 1910. The tonnage last
month, however, was more than
100000 tons over the April dump
ings. which was attributed to the
April coal mines shutdown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02

paid so far this year. Paid last year,
Quotations furnished by National hsso-
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
transactions or Arm bids or of1ers. but
should indicate approximate prices,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Odd-Lot DEALINGS

BY the Associated Press.
The Securities Commission reported to-
day these transactions by customers with
odd-lot dealers or specialists on the New
YORK Stock . Exehanse, for May 81: sss
ssI.s inyoY 1hvoV .h.r.s insudine
"A short sales involving 344 shares
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02

Quotations furnished by National Assoc
ella ton 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 lSsuerS.
sNot quoted by sponsors or issuers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Still Seeking Gunpowder

Because of the famous gun
powder plot" of 1905. a ceremonial
search of each building of Parlia-
ment is made every year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02

The government Of Panama is
studying plans for the erection Of a
plant to refine and parity over 10000
pounds Of marine salt daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Tanker Shortage Faced.

Contrasted with 1918 and the
then shortage of gasoline supplies,
this time in the emergency of 1941
there is plenty of petroleum.
There is no shortage of gasoline.
There is no shortage of fuel oil.
There is, however, a shortage of
tankers to transport oil and gaso-
line from the gulf to Atlantic coastal
ports.
The reason for this shortage is
that the Government has requisi-
toned 100000 of the available A.
000, 900 lightweight tons of tankers
FOR movement of supplies in con-
nection with national defense and
aid to Great Britain.
Many leading Oil men here agree
there may be rationing of gasoline
before autumn.
Fuel oil is to get first call on
tanker space as fall approaches. The
oil industry has set as its first job
the providing of adequate fuel oil to
heat homes with oil-burner heating
plants.
Gasoline, if rationed, will cut
down pleasure motoring use first.
The industry will try to provide an
adequate stock of gasoline for truck
ing and general business uses.
Pipe Lines to Help.
Work Is going forward on a num-
Der of new pipe lines, which will
assist in distribution Of oil and gaso-
line supplies next year. The major
crimp, it is believed, will be in the
10 or II months Just ahead while
new pipe lines and new tankers are
being completed.
The Department Of Justice long
has frowned on too much collabora-
ton between oil companies, lest
combinations be set up which would
be deemed monopolies in restraint
of trade.
Don't be surprised now, oil men
say, if the Department of Justice
reverses itself and begins encour-
aging collaboration.
With tanker space so short and
pipe line facilities at q premium,
much oil is believed to be travelling
farther than it needs to between
producing field and consumer.
There Is a good chance. some pc
troleum executives think, that
shortly the Government may suggest
that oil concerns begin splitting up
consuming TERRITORY between them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02

mlSnI lace gdSleSS Sundays, SUCH
as those of World War No. l when
pleasure traffic was ruled off the
roads on the Sabbath to conserve oil
for military use. The situation is
becoming particularly critical in the
Fast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Investing Companies

NEW YORK, June .P.-Nationai As
sociation Securities Dealers. Inc.
CLOSING Quotations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Insurance Stocks

NEW YORK. June tP,.-Ns tional As
Socia ton Securities Dealers, Inc:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Another Side of Picture.

Another Side of Picture.
OF course. there is another side
to the picture. Farmers in the
drought districts of Szechuan have
had very hard time of it. Gen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
United States Treasury Position

b. the Associated Press.
The position of the Treasury MAJ
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09

tims foe us~ IN paying iaeome
tasss neat Ysaf. aautr. aid.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09
Administration Cost
In State Reduced

According to a survey just com
pleted by the research bureau Of
the Federal Industries Of Wash-
ington. the cost Of administration
Of unemployment compensation in
this state was materially reduced
during the year 1890 Based or the
total amount Of benefits paid IN
employed workers. the average
administrative cost in the fifty
one states and territories OF the
Union Is 1876 per cent. Washing
tons cost Is 100 per cent. com
pared with a high Of 5o.4 per cent
in South Dakota and a low OF 50
per cent in California. Only six
states. California, Rhode Island.
Illinois, New York, Michigan and
Montana have a lower cost than
Washington.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09
People in
The News
BY UNITED PRESS

Sam Darcy, onetime Communist
candidate for the goyernorship Of
California. Friday faced IL
year prison sentence on conviction
Of perjury. A San Francisco
jury found he swore 10 false voting
registration IN 1884 -.
Pvt. John v. Prochaska NAV
need a second army furlough 10
complete his threshIng. Granted
20 days leave from Fort Sheridan
10 90 home 10 Holloway, Mich.
and thresh for - nsighbors. he
said today he doesn't think ne can
make Il -.
Roberto Farinaoci. former Pas
eist party secretary, writing IN Ms
Cremons newspaper. praised vii
liam Cardinal o'Consell Of Boston.
quoting him there il no liberty In
the United States
Navy Minister William Hughes
said in Melbourne that unless ia
psnese leaders have taken leave
Of their senses." they must realize
their aggression graysly endangers
the peace Of The Pacific ..
Testimony was introduced al the
Philadelphia trial Of retired L. :.
Circuit Judge !. Warren Davis.
that ne wrote decisions favoring
William Fox. Davis IL accused of
selling justice 10 the movie mag
nate for y27 800.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09

The new gasoline, refined in the
giant new eight million dollar
Douglas refinery, is being intro
duced today to Tacoma and Wash
ington motorists. II is on sale for
the first time at the more than
$50 black and white Maxwell SER
vice stations throughout most OF
the state.
In announcing appointment of
the Maxwell Petroleum Corpora
ton as distributors of Douglas
gasoline for the state, Douglas
stated that, In his opinion, the in
dependently owned and operated
Maxwell organization was the best
and most logical petroleum dis
tributor In the state to handle his
products.
II have watched with growing
interest and Amusement the rapid
expansion OF the Maxwell PETROL
cum Corporation" Douglas said.
an q few short years II has
grown from a small concern to
one Of statewide dimensions
and 80 10 seemed to me that u
was only natural that Maxwell
should he named the exclu-
sive distributor for Douglas
gasoline, which. too, IL indie
pendently owned and pro-
duced."
In accepting the appointment.
n. d. Maxwell. president of the
Maxwell Petroleum Corporation,
and member OF the National Pc
troleum Board for Defense. de-
clared that he was happy to be in
q position TO make available TO his
thousands of customers this new
gasoline.
We offer the motoring public
this new gasoline with a great
amount of pride" Maxwell as
serted.
Douglas gasoline is the result
Of an intense desire by Donald
Douglas to create a refinery and
a gesoline which, like mis- airplanes,
smbodies the latest and most ad-
vanced manufacturing processes.
And l am doubly pleased"
Maxwell continued, ito an
nounce that this latest and
most modern gasoline is offer
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09
Hiqhliqhis in the News Of Music

only = pressure 81 ore ounce on
the records. thus preserving their
life.
I PLAYS r~eafsiz n manual
automatic - drip sequence. se=
coHding = TIE eontroi pressed -
the beginning. There are two
separate tnns arms and sanna
piek-uns. shaped liz = large Hln.
ing fork. Ore plays TIE Top sids
q the record. then the turntatle
rcserses n direction while the IN
der slde Il PLAYED. ne record
then kiides swiftly out II sight
The price 81 the machine 10 con.
siderahiy higher thar the ordinary
set now On re market.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09
Fortune Won't Change
Woman's Living Mode

NyN>r. Arb. Ars. John Grif.
fith. who lives in = thatehed-rcaf
cabin nd gees 10 town IN = ros
beat. said here she wasn't going 10
change her mode II living Just be-
cause o. : 800 900 inheritance Of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09

makes an unusually fine conoer,
schedule.
As far as can be determined At
this time, the attractions and
dates VIII be as follows:
7 IKE the international situation.
II anything. 1t seems. can hap
pen in the music world. Kristen
F1sgstsd. with many friends and
admirers in Tacoma. went TO
Sweden for visit with her family.
Recently word came that Madame
Flsgstsd would be required to stay
there for the duration OF the war.
, Marjorie Lawrence, possible
successor TO Madame Flagstad in
Wagnerian roles of the Metropoli-
tan opera, and also a favorite in
Tacoma. was booked for a summer
tour IN Central America. She had
Just started when too many anti
smallpox shots" caused partial
paralysis of both legs and she will
be In a hospital Till late fall any
way and perhaps later.
Naturally there Is much speculs-
ton as to the Metropolitsn's new
Wagnerian soprano. Nobody knows
but there are some guesses that
the Flagstad mantle will fall on
Helen Traubel.
A MERICA has become musically
a mature in the popular sense
and there is an increasing demand
for good music by the masses in
stead of the select few, according
to an article by David Even in
the current issue OF American Mer-
curry.
Chief influence in this develop
ment. though Even does not say
so, Is music study in the public
schools.
'fher. are ample signs" says
Even. that good music in Amer
lea has left ats small circle Of
admirers and 10 finding a great
popular audience. In the past few
years the screen has recruited
Heifetz, Lily Pons. stokowski.
Swarthout. Grace Moore, Tibbett,
Flagstad, Damrosch and the Roth
String Quartet.
Some 1000 radio hours were
devoted 10 good music In 1910.
The newsboy whistles snatches
from Tchaikovsky An animated
cartoon draws its inspiration from
Stravinsky's complex Rites Of
Spring Serious music recordings
are enjoying an unprecedented
sales boom"
NIHILE Tacoma In yenturing
W lightly into the field of out
door music. survey Of IN. first
six weeks OF that activity in the
United States indicates that all
previous records for attendance
are being broken. New York, Chi
eago. st. Louis, Philadelphia, Kan
sas City. Denver and Los Angeles
report the largest attendance in
many years.
A BOUT mid-Aug,ist, RCA-Victor
n viii bring out new radio
photograph combination labeled
Tn. Magic Brain" which play.
both sides OF 4 record without
turning II over.
The thing Is rather uncanny 10
watch. as demonstrated To music
dealers and music critics during a
pre-view In New York. II plays
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09

J
ed, not at advanced prices,
but at the same price struc-
ture which has earned so en-
yiable a reputa ton and wide
spread sale of Maxwell gsso-
line"
II consider Douglas Aviation
Tested gasoline the finest gasoline
on the market today. II has been
tested by the aviation industry
and found 10 he Of sufficiently
high quality 10 actually fly an air
plane with splendid performance
1t will give the same marvellous
performance In motor cars"
The new gasoline was intro
duced to the Maxwell dealers and
station attendants at a huge sales
meeting held Tuesday night In the
Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel
Winthrop. More than 165 Maxwell
dealers from all sections OF the
state attended the meeting which
was sponsored by the Douglas Oil
Refining Company Four high
officials Of the Douglas organiza-
ton came TO Tacoma for the meet
ing and appeared on the program.
They were A. L. Bergere. secre-
tary-treasursr and managing di-
rector; David c. Moore, secretary
and treasurer; o. X. Muller. jr,
sales manager. and Harry Coff-
man, advertising manager. Max
well presided over the program
which included number Of wide
ly known Tacoma and Seattle
speakers.
Details OF the Douglas advertis-
ing and promotion campaign de-
seribed as the largest ever To be
undertaken by an independent oil
company were described TO the
dealers.
AS a momento Of the occasion
the dealers were presented with a
large colored picture Of the Doug
las BIB, worlds largest sirplane.
which were autographed by Doug
las personally.
Maxwell stated that IN, addition
Of Douglas gasoline will in no way
effect the station operation or
policy OF the company. II is in
line with the constant policy To
provide the motoring public the
newest and best gasoline and pc
troleum products available.
Maxwell, who was recently
appointed By Secretary Of the
Interior Harold l. Iekes a.
member Of the National Pc
troieum Board. has been at
tending meeting Of the re-
gional marketing section Of
the board at Los Angeles. He
he" back from the California
eiiy to superintend IN. intro
dnc1on Of Douglas gasoline
and to attend q general sale.
meeting.
Since Douglas gasoline il made
BY the makers Of the world famous
Douglas airplanes. II vas only
natural that the company should
make available pictures Of the
planes So II has. Beautiful and
large. full-eolored pictures Of L. S.
AIR Force fighting planes are Dis
triouted without cost al all Max
well service stations. All on. has
to do Is TO ask for one Of the
prints. Picture Of a different plane
will be distributed each month
Greatly sought by the public is
the picture Of the Douglas BIB
worlds largest sirplane. which was
tsst-hown recently. A print Of tn.
giant bomber will soon be available
IN the IerieA
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09

- % IS records. % about two
hours ~ uninterrupted music.
without requiring human sttsn-
ton. When the concert : finished.
Il shuts itself OF
Discarded records slide swiftly
cut Of sight into vsivet-llned
pocket deep IN the see q the ma
chine. No needle changing : nee
essay. the pickup being = ssp-
phirs point which is supposed 20
- good FOR years According 10
RCA-victor engineers. II sNeFts