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Evening star., 1941-01-20
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO Jan. 20 lP Omitted States
Department of Agriculture) .-Salable hogs.
$1,000: total, 10, 800: early trade mostly
1926 higher than Fridays average; some
interests now quoting 1918 lower than
early; top SIS; most good, and choce
l6O-23O pounds. s,5O-75: early sale, 240-
27O pou Ids butchers S35-S60; some go
500 pounds S.15-s40; good packing sows,
400 pounds down, 740-65; 4o0-50o
Iit saiable sheep, 1000; total, $500; gen:
orally steady or, all classes; bulk good and
l0.50-65: bulk fed ewes 5.00-5.3o; choice
Westerns, up to 600; Gull and common
grade downward from 4 80. o
Salable cattle, 1000: calves; 1000;
anlv meager supply fed steers sold, mostly
steady; several loads, II SOL j. 90: one
crime load, 1.213 pounds ayeraGe, 1915;
sprinklina lower grades, 9.!?-1u.50, with
feeder dealers paying UP to ll..5 on fl shy
yearlings: otherwise nothing done on fat
cattle undertone very weak: fed !le1ers
steady, mostly II 90 downward: ch-ice Of
FeringS, l2.15, but not much aho e II go;
cows slow. about stead" with !as Friday
cutters, 6."5 on weiphts: co" crop small,
bulls stead~: wec'''- usage offerings to
500 mostly 7.75 81; weight Texas
bulls BRINGING 10 Hcalers uLy Stcady
ar IL 0O-I4 90 o. w"iGhty shipper kinds;
light offerings l. 81 down; most fed steers
rur with quality good.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
Cotton Prices Turn
Downward After
Steady Climb
Spot and Current Crop
Futures Register
Largest Losses
B, the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-Cotton
prices turned easier last week after
having shown a steady upward
trend over the previous fortnight.
Spot cotton and current crop
futures contracts registered the
most pronounced losses.
On the New York Cotton EX-
change active future deliveries from
March through July were down IA
to 18 points net for the week, but
the 1941 crop deliveries, October
and December, were down only 6
and 9 points, respectively.
Easiness of the futures market
was attributed chiefly to fairly ac-
tive hedge selling, which reflected
a heavier movement of spot cotton
in the South. Sales of spot cotton
in Southern markets were of good
proportions for this time of year and
the volume for the week was far
larger than that of the comparable
week last year.
This improvement in spot business
In the South apparently indicated
a willingness of some growers and
other first hands to sell at the cur
rent price level, traders said.
Some further selling of equities in
loan cotton was also reported, but
growers generally seemed disposed
to retain their equities.
Some liquidation followed the an
nouncement of the Governments
plan to reduce the cotton acreage
this year below the minimum quotas
recently issued.
The market was supported from
time to time during the week by
trade and mill price fixing. but
such buying was much less aggreS-
sive than in the preceding week
because of a slowing down of busl-
ness in the domestic cloth market.
Sales of both unfinished and fin
ished goods were in much smaller
volume than in the Wek previous.
Prices continued firm, however.
The official report of use of cotton
by domestic mills during December
showed a slightly smaller consump-
ton than had been expected by
many in the trade, but it confirmed
the belief that the daily rate OF
operations had reached a new high
level.
During December domestic mills
used cotton at the rate of approx
mately 38,S0O males per day, COM
pared with 36,300 in November and
34,2OO in December last season.
With predictions of further ex-
pansion in general business activity
in this country in coming months,
the cotton trade is wondering if
the peak Level for cotton consump-
tion has yet been reached.
With export busines running at
about as low ebb as had been eX-
pected, statistics OH shipments OF
cotton from this country were re-
ceiving but little attention. Last
week only 10000 bales were exported,
compared with 234,OOO in the same
week last year, and during the past
four weeks only $4,000, as against
666 1000 in the same weeks a year
ago. For this season to date ship
ments aggregate only 100000 bales,
compared with 3,524,O00 in the COM
parable period Of last season.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
Decline Is Registered
By Insurance Stocks
81 ecial Dispatch to The Star

81 ecial Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-Insurance
stocks in the New York City market
showed a decrease in market value
during the last week, according to
figures compiled by Holt. Rose &
TroSter.
The aggregate market value of 20
leading fire and casualty insurance
issues at the close on Friday. Janu-
airy II. was s637,147.O 600 compared
with S644,749O0O at the close OF the
previous week, a decrease of S7,602,-
600. or 118 per cent.
The current average yield of the
20 issues is 3,75 per cent compared
with a yield of $40 per cent on
January 10. The current market
value stands at los times reported
liquidating value against 1O7 times
at the close of the previous week.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
What Stocks did
New York Bank Stocks
Lower During Week
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SbNN-o4 C4SPoNN-' " 44IC CNdI.
NEW YORK. Jan. 20.-Stocks
eased off in the New York City bank
stock market during the past week,
according to records compiled by
Holt, Rose g. Troster.
The aggregate market value Of l6
leading issues at the close on Fri
day, January Il. was 81 486 ,774O 900
compared with s1,513313,OOO at the
close Of the previous week. a de-
crease of S26,539 600. or LIS per cent.
The current average yield Of the
Is issues Of 4.35 per cent compares
with yield Of 427 per cent al tie
close OF the previous week. Tie
current market value equals is
times the known book value, again
1.O4 times on January 10.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
Wheat Is Depressed
ByCrop Reports,
Slow Demand
Winter Belt Outlook
Improved by New
Precipitation
BY the Associated Press.

- 'A4S EASoONAe etO 4eSS'
Domestic wheat markets weakened
somewhat last week under the in
fuence OF continued favorable pros
poets for the winter wheat crop.
adequate offerings for current trade
needs and only a moderate milling
inquiry, the Agriculture Department
said today.
Weather conditions continued to
favor winter wheat as widespread
precipitation toward the close of the
week added to soil moisture supplies.
The outlook was described as promis-
ing in KanSaS-major winter wheat
producing State-but conditions we're
said to be spotty in Nebraska.
In parts Of the lower Great Plains
and Missouri some adverse effects
of freezing weather in November
have appeared the department said
The crop was said to have showed
improvement in Oklahoma and
Texas, while the favorable outlook
has been maintained west of the
Rocky Mountains.
Reports Fragmentary.
The department said reports on
crop conditions in Europe were fTag-
mentary. Some flood damage has
been reported as a result of recent
thaWS in the Balkans. Crops OBJ
tanned a good start in the fall. but
unfavOrable weather in recent weeks
have caused considerable apprehen-
sion as to the final outcome. The
department said recent reports in
dicated that considerable abandon
ment of wheat seeding may be ex-
pected.
Southern hemisphere prospects re-
main unchanged. the department
said. Harvesting and threshing have
made good progress in Argentina
where the weather has been clear.
Premiums for cash wheat in
domestic markets held steady last
week, the department said. Mills
we're principal buyers, but purchases
were generally for day to day equip
ments.
Corn Prices Improve.
Corn markets strengthened with
higher livestock prices. the depart
ment reported. Offerings we're
moderate with receipts at principal
terminals totaling nearly 100000
bushels.
Growers continued to store corn
under Government loans. The Com
modify Credit Corp. reported that
24,442,000 bushels had been placed
under loan as of January II. About
half this quantity was in Iowa. The
department said continued rains in
the corn belt have retarded condi-
tioning of the crop.
At Chicago May wheat closed
Saturday at 867> cents a bushel,
compared with Friday close Of
667s-87 May corn closed at 631t -3s
cents, compared with previous close
of 635e.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
Old School Tie
Is on Rutioned List
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON.-Theo old school tie has
Joined the list of rationed articles
in Great Britain. There has been
a big demand for them in recent
weeks and dealers have had to re-
strict their selling.
There are more than 200 varieties
of public school ties alone. In ad-
ditino, they are made of artificial
silk and manufacturers were cur
tailed to two-thirds of their supplies
of 1889. Many wholesalers ran out
of ties a month ago.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
Record Assets Shown
BY Barclays Bonk
SpeClal Dispatch TO The Star

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-Total re-
sources of Barclays Bank, Ltd,
London. at the end of 1910 are re-
ported at the highest amount in the
banks history, namely G589CO1, 1874.
according to cable advices received
by the New York representative of
the bank.
Similarly, the deposits of the bank
are shown at new high of f546,9l4,-
675, an increase OF over EOS .500,0 900
compared with the end of 1889.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
Bank Loan Demand
Continues to Rise

BY the associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20-Demari
for loans is reported in banking clr-
cles to be still on the upgrade
Normally there is a letdoWn II
the volume OF commercial cred.
following the Christmas merchar-
dising season as loans to carry retail
inventories are Iquidated.
There has been no drop this year,
however. and banks say that app
cations for loans are increasinr
volume. The bulk of the dema.
for defense loans is believed to te
still ahead.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
Radio Set Exports
Larger in November
By the Associated Press.

Exports of radio receiving sets
during November totaled 53,005 units
valued at s1,072615, the Commerce
Department says. That compared
with 46,1e9 sets valued at s1o22,772
sold in the world market during Oc-
tober.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
Failures TotuI Rises

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 P.-Busi-
ness failures in the week ending
January 16 numbered 233, compared
with 262 in the previous week and
288 in the comparable week of 1910,
Dun g. Bradstreet reported today.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
Rubber Tax Levied

SINGAPORE, Jan. 20 (F).-A spe-
cial 2.5 per cent ad valorem war
tax on Singapore rubber exports
IVES lcvet today by the legislative
council in addition to similar tax
imposed last April.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
New York Sugar

NEW YORK, Jan. 90 (P,-Reported ~.
viVal Of negotiations for United States
loan to Cuba stimulated a scattered de-
mand for world sugar futures today Late
July 10 80 .
Domestic futures moved up point
on trade support March, > 90 July, 2 10
Raws were offered from 2g3 cents
upwards.
Refined held at 4 As cents
Cuban demand brought in commission
house Interests towards the close and do
meStlc futures at the finish were UNCHANGED
to 3 higher. Sales :, 80 tons
Evening star., 1941-01-20

Unit of tradIng
bankruptcy recelvershp
Ban5ruptcy Ac or securles assumed by such COMPANIES
Rates OF dividend
the last quarterly
Unless otherwise noted special
a extra extras dCssn
stock Palc last Payable in stock Declared
far this Accumulated dividends paid
yea
Evening star., 1941-01-20

The oldest known turtle on record
is a Marion'S tortoise that lived on
the island of Mauritius for 152 years.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
Steel Quotations

NEW YORK. Jan 20 lP,.-Steel prices
Der 100 pounds fob Pittsburgh; Hot
folled sheets. base price, 2.l0; galvanized
aheets. $50: steel bars, 2.l5.
Evening star., 1941-01-20

India has banned drills by nom
official volunteer military organiza-
tions.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
New York Bar Silver

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 lP,.-Bar sfivss.
349a. unchanged.
Evening star., 1941-01-20

Approxnote Soes Of Stocks the N Stock Exchonoe
II 900 n 10000 1900 Noon $50 900
100 Pm. 100000 2:O0PM 100000
Total Sales for the day $50 600
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
Term Inaugural
 On Monday
Quarter Million People As sembIing 10 Hear U. 5.
 Presidents Address

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.-Presi- dent Roosevelt's inaugural address on the east steps of the Capitol Monday will be comparatively brief, not to exceed twelve minutes.
 Secretary Stephen Early announc- ed today as trains. planes and buses brought thousands to Washington to witness the first third term in- auguration in history, that the Pre- siden's address would be approxi- mately the same length as that made on his first inaugural on March 4, eight years ago.
 With the President will be his wife. Eleanor Roosevelt, and 26 house guests, including most of the Roosevelt family.
 The Weather Bureau has forecast clear cold weather for Monday.
 The last nails have been driven in the 40,O00 seats erected on the Capitol Plaza. Along the parade route on Pennsylvania avenue standing room is being roped off.
 It is estimated that quarter of a million people are coming to Wash ington to attend the Presidents in- augural.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
TINkHAM HITS AT
 WILLkIE

WASHINGTON, Jan 13.-Repre- sentative Tinkham announced to- day he would ask the House Foreign Affairs committee to subpoena Wen- dell Willkie to testify on the British aid bill after Willkie had notified the committee he planned a trip to Europe and it would be impossible for him to appear before leaving Wednesday.
 Chairman Bloom promptly told him the committee had no such pow CTS.
 Tinkham angrily told newsmen he wanted to know what compet- ency has Willkie to advise the Am erican people on foreign policy near ly every morning. I think it is cer- tainly a possibility that Willkie is going to England as a Roosevelt emissary"
 William Knudsen. Director Gen. eral Of Production Management, said of the bill. Tt will be late this year before this country can supply any great amount of aid to Great Bri- tain"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
WRANCELL NARR0W5 ICE MENACE E OVER; MASSES
 MOVED BY WIND, TIDE

KETCHIKAN. Alaska, Jan. l8.-- Shifting winds and tides yesterday
 lolning cleared Wrangell NarroWs
 ice masses which on Thurs day threatened to block shipping
 | Point Crowley. and destroy or badly damage mooring docks and structures at Petersburg.
 No damage is reported done ac- cording to advices received at the Coast Guard headquarters here from the cutter Nemaha which was dispatched to the scene late Thurs day night.
 The Nemaha found the caisson at PioWley Rock beacon still in place, thus relieving fears that it might have been pushed over by the ice and blocking the Narrows' opening from Frederick Sound.
 Wrangell Narrows was practically devoid of ice yesterday afternoon, the Nemaha reported, as southeast CTS replaced the Takus from the north and the ice masses are be- lieved to have moved north to Frederick Sound and considered no longer a menace to shipping.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
Military, Diplomatic and Economic Conditions
 10 Be Discussed FULL DRE5S" TALkFE5T NOW SLATED TO COME UP
Germany Understood to Be Attempting Peace Be-
 tween Italy, Greece
(Ry Associated Press)

Reports from Bern, Switzerland, state that Premier Benito Musso- lini might have a conference with Hitler today or tomorrow at some undesienated place.
 A reliable informant in Sofia said Germany is trying to bring about peace in the Italian Greek warfare and concentration of German troops in Southern Rumania is part oi the argument" aimed at Greece.
 The Bern statement says it is reported in diplomatic quarters that a Full Dress" conference between Mussolini and Hitler will be held Sunday at Rennero, Italy. but some sources suggested that it will be in Germany. Mussolini repayin2 Hitler's visit to Florence on Octo- Der 28, the day Italy invaded Greece on the present disastrous campaign.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
British Are
 Informed in
 Nazi Frame
Fresh Roundup Places }, 900 Civilians in Area
 Under Guard
(BY ASSOCIATED PREsS)

A fresh roundup of British civ- ilians in Nazi-occupied France was disclosed today.
 Germans said that the roundup was "a military necessity" and gave that as the reason for the intern ment of 5000 British subjects, men, women and children living in an area which might become either a jumping-off place for an attempted invasion of England or a footholo for a British expeditionary force
 Berlin understood the action to be a rep-isal for internment of Ger mans in England.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
pLA5T|(5, WHADDYUMEAN! ANYWAY, THEY ARE HITTING
 DEPARTMENTS WITH BANG
By JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. = The Department of Commerce is slap happy over plastics. In the vast vaulted foyer of the Departments building Sometimes referred to To- cally as "Hoover's Folly" because nobody up to that time had ever thought of Commerce as impor- tan, enougn to be housed in such an edifice) there now is on dis play as big an exhibition of 'pla5- tics as Washington ever has seen.
 There is everything from false teeth to brassiers; from milady's dainty pumps to football helmets that would stop the jar of a Kim brough; from fragile-looking bits of costume jewelry to airplane windshields that toss-machine-gun bullets aside like pellets from a bean-shooter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
Fish Buyers And Workers
 Close Deals
Reported Wage Increases Mdde-WrdngelI Plants
 Are Working Anew

KETCHIKAN, Alaska. Jan. 18.-- Fish buyers called meeting today to seek a settlement of the ware housemen's strike here following word other fish buyers in other Southeast Alaska towns had signed for wage increase.
 It was declared a ten-cent an hour increase was signed for but nothing was said of reclassification of work one of the main points at issue.
 Tn Wrangell fish buyers c. C.. Mundy and the Wrangell Cold Stor- age have signed an contract with warehousemen and longshoremen al- lowing a ten-cent an hour increase for fish handlers
 R. Brueger has as yet failed to sign and has the only hot cargo in Wrangell. Other plants are working as usual.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
OSCAR 0L50N'5
 OFFICES MOVED
 TO THIRD FLOOR

Territorial Treasurer Oscar G. Ol- sons offices in the Federal Building are getting tc the point where they are no trouble at all to find--almost any door you open on the third floor belongs to the Treasurers office.
 With recent renovations to the Post Office. Olson and his crew were shunted upstairs to legislative cham bers. Now they've been moved again.
 Go into the former Alaska Plan- ming Council offices for General Treasurers Office business-that's all Alaska Road Commission space, but they've made room for Oscars crew
 In the Public Survey offices you can get information on homesteads and pay liquor stamps at the same time Oscars in there, too.
 But if you want to see Oscar him. self, try numbered door just bit farther down the hall. It's marked Private" but that's where the Ter ritorial Treasurer holds forth-in space borrowed from the U. s. Trea- sury's Disbursement Officer Charles Naghel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
GOVERNOR SENT
 GREETINGS FROM
 SEINE MEETING

Greetings and good wishes to Gov. Ernest Gruening were conveyed by radiogram today from the Alaska Salmon Purse Seiners Union con- vention at Ketchikan for the in terest you have taken and the splen- did work you have already accom- plished for the welfare Of the people of Alaska.
 The message is signed by Frank J. Peratovich, President. and Frank G. Johnson, Secretary Treasurer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
Gayda Says
 U. }. Spells
 For Warfare
Declares Roosevelt Lead. ing Rdbid Group of
 Interventionists

ROME, Jan. 18.-Authoritatiye Fascist editor Virginia Gayda ac- cused American "interventionists' headed by Roosevelt. with seeking to provoke Germany and Italy into some action which would justify the United States in going into war against the Axis
 In a four-column editorial in his newspaper, he cited the United States Senate Naval Committee re- port on the naval construction bill, issued last May Is as "belying" the argument an Axis victory would endanger America.
 Interventionists are throwing themselves into clandestine inter vention with every means. in open provocation and the most open violation of international law"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
NEW NAzI MOVEMENT
 LOOMING
Large AirfieIds in Southern Rumdnid 1eeming with
 Unusual Activity

BELGRADE, Jan. 18.-Intensiye German Air Force preparations at more than one dozen large landing fields in Southern Rumania leads to predictions the Nazis may be ar ranging hopping off places in new action in the Mediterranean area.
 It is said 1000 ground crew men are already quartered near the land- ing fields and more are arriving daily.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
WHAT PLAsTICS ARE

hho ND AAAsA
 The day I was over there, there was a fellow standing around. l asked him: "Whaddyumean plas- tics?" And his answer was: Gen orally speaking, plastics are sub stances capable of being molded or otherwise fabricated with color ng matter or a filler) into a de-
 fred solid form; this condition ,eing obtained by physical or ,hemical interaction between the molecules of a wide range of ma- terials.'
 We'll, no doubt. he knew what he was talking about, but that seems to me to be putting it the hard way. Plastics are like radio you can't explain them, but there they are. You take a little coal tar or hammered soybeans, mix them with little air or water, run them through a press and you get everything from synthetic silk to gear-shift knobs.
 The Chinese started making papier-mache about as far back as firecrackers, but since papier- mache wasn't an instrument of slaughter, it took civilization about ten centuries longer to figure ouC that it was plastic and plastici were pretty hot stuff.
 Now. after some 25 years of commercial development and about
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
{ R kCk
 TROOPS
 TAKEN
important Capture of |taI- ian Wolves of Tuscany
 Reported by Athens
BY ASSOCIATED PREss)

Advices from Athens officials con- firm other sources that the Greeks have captured 1000 of the crack It. allan Wolves of Tuscany Division in the Albania sector.
 The Grecian High Command also announces torpedoing of two Ital- ian supply ships in the Adriatic Beth were sent down but crews were rescued
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
Large BIazes, Terrific Ex- pIosion Indicate Heavy
 Damage Is Inf|ilfed
AXIS SHIPPING OFF
 DUTCH COAST BOMBED
Germans Strike al Seaport in South WdIes-Do(ks,
 Warehouses Are Hit
cBy ASSOCIATED PREss)

(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS)
 British bombers last night made a big attack on Brest, and Cnerbcurg airdromes in occu- pied France and large fires and terrific explosions indicated di- rect hits were made and much damage resulted.
 The British Air Ministry also announces that british air squadrons bombed and machine gunned Axis shipping off the Dutch Coast and four ships were hit, one left In q sinking condition. The British fliers lodged fire aimed at them and all returned safely to their bases.
 German fliers set fire to docks and warehouses at Swansea. south Wales port. center for copper. tinplate and fuel entry.
 The British Ministry admits the bombing but said casual ties we're mot large"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
pAAp PLANE lEAVE5F0R
 THIS FIELD

The PA Douglas airliner left Seattle this morning for Juneau, but heavy snow this noon seemed to indicate the ship would have to spend the night at either White horse or Prince George.
 However, if conditions better this afternoon, it is believed possible the ship may come on in.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
JUNEAU HOTEL NOW
 KARNES HEADQUARTERS

Selective Service Director An- thony E. Karnes has moved his headquarters to room POI of the Juneau Hotel, from where he will direct next Wednesdays registra- ton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-01-18
Long Range
 Planes Used
 By German,
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Unofficial advices received by the Associated Press reports Germany is using a new type of lcng range four-motored planes for all wealth CT" attacks far out on the Atlantic.