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The Phoenix index., 1941-01-25
Abolish PeOnage
Committee Seeks
Three Witnesses

CHICAGO-(ANPJ-Three wit
nesseS who are said to have escaped
from the alleged peonage farm OF
w. 7. Cunningham in Oglethorpe
county, Georgia, are being sought
by the Abolish Peonage committee
to furnish testimony to the federal
government in this case, it was
announced last week by Bob Wirtz,
secretary Of the committee.
The persons sought freeman
Maddox, last known to be working
for a Mr.. Maxwell at Lexington
or Crawford, Ca; Wilbur Yancy
last known to be residing at 922
Tyson street Baltimore, and Cleve-
land johnson.
These persons or others knowing
their present whereabouts, are
asked to get in touch with the
The Phoenix index., 1941-01-25

idential car moved by.
SECRET SERVICE MEN ACTIVE
Many Secret Service men walked
about the platform, carefully scru-
tinizing the crowd. Guards were
etarioned on the roof, both, at the
White House and Capitol.
Less than an hour before the
inaugural ceremonies were sched-
uled, a fire broke out in mop
closet near the main entrance Of
5le house side Of the Capitol and
sent fumes through the corridors.
The blaze was extinguished
quickly with no apparent damage.
Police, firemen and Marine Off
GERS quickly shut off access to the
closet. They said the fire ap-
pa.ently started from spontaneous
combustion, because, to their
knowledge, the closet had not been
used since late Saturday night.
Several children climbed a tree
on the Capitol lawn for q better
view Of the proceedings. One fell
and was injured He was taken
to a hospital
There were four generations Of
Roosevelts IN a lively reunion at
the White House. Among the
group was the Presidents eldest
son James, who arrived uneXpect-
edly Sunday after obtaining last
minute leave from the Marine
Corps. His next son, Elliott, also
was here in the uniform of a cap
tain in the Army Air Corps.
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The Phoenix index., 1941-01-25
Woman Is Victim
OF Flim-FIammerS

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
Mrs. Gertrude Myrick, of 25I
Pine Street, N. E., was u victim
Of the flimflam racket Monday af-
ternoon, police reported.
The victim said the pocketbook
gag was worked on her at the
corner of Forsyth and Walton SITS.
Police reported the woman lost
$ll.
The Phoenix index., 1941-01-25
LARGE CROWD AT
CEREMONIES

The crowd was large as usual
but less noisy than the throngs
which have seen past inaugura-
tons.
A man carrying a pistol in his
pocket was picked up in the in
augural grandstand in front Of the
White House, police reported. Of
ficers said the man was about 100
feet from the Presidents reviewing
stand.
Two other men were taken in
for questioning-one who was at
tireo in faded soldier uniform carr
rying a sword and another who
yelled at the President as the Pres
The Phoenix index., 1941-01-25
$4,000 ON PLAZA IL liza
Sc CHIEF TAX 7:
Oath OF OFFICE
Roosevelt Declares Democracy
Is Not Dying, eve Have Seen
It Revive and Grow" in Address

WESTINGHOUSE -(SNS)-The eyes of $4,000 shivering
persons glued Franklin d. Roosevelt Monday he
repeated the Presidential oath of office for the third time
Standing bareheaded beside Chief Justice Evans
Hughes, Mr. Roosevelt placed his hand old Dutch
family Bible promised to defend and protect the Con
stitution.
1t a solemn oath taken by the thirdem President.
The Chief Executive delivered brief inaugural address
The Phoenix index., 1941-01-25
GARNER sWEARs rN WALLACI

GARNER SWEARS IN WALLACE
Before taking the oath, Presi-
dent Roosevelt sat attentively
while John Garner swore in Henry
A. Wallace as his successor in the
vice presidency.
The Presidents words recalled to
his hearers his call for action
eight years ago, at the time of his
first Inauguration, when banking
crisis faced the Nation.
'MoSt vital to our present and
our future is this experience of q
democracy which successfully sur
survived crises at home; put away
many evil things; built new struc-
lures on enduring lines. and
through it all, maintained the fact
Of democracy"
In the outset he said:
Democracy is not dying. We
know it because we have seen it
revive and grow.
DEMOCRACY CANNOT DIE"
'We know it cannot die, because
it is built on the unhampered
initiative of individual men and
women joined together in COM
mon enterprise-an enterprise un-
dertaken and carried through by
the free expression by a free ma
jority..
I'VE know it, because democracy
alone has constructed an unlinit.
ed civilization capable of infinite
progress in the improvement of hui
man life, "
On the platform with the Pres
ident were members of his family,
including his wife and mother. Vice
President Wallace never removed
his eyes from the President. Mrs.
Wallace sat beside Mr.. Garner
and Governor M. M. Nicely of West
Virginia.
Mr.. Garner attended the cere-
monies in borrowed silk topper.
The two he owns, he had left in
Texas, and he would not think Of
renting one.
The Phoenix index., 1941-01-25

Abolish PeOnage Committee at
Room 609-610, 1872 North Clark ST.,
Chicago.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
American Rolling Mill
Almost Doubles Earnings
By the Associated Press.

nv IIle Associated ITeSS.
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, March S.
The American Rolling Mill Co.'S
consolidated report for the year end
ing December 81, 1910, will show a
net profit of s7642,713 after pro-
vision for interest, depreciation, de-
pletion and income taxes, Calvin
Verify, vice president and general
manager, said today.
The total is equal, after preferred
dividend requirements, to s196 per
share on common stock.
This compared with a net of
$4,011 ,908 for 1899, equal to SO cents
on the common.
Mr.. Verify announced that a divi-
dend of 35 cents share on common
stock had been authorized, payable
April to stockholders of record
March IS. In December, 1940,s a
dividend of Is cents was paid on
common.
Improvement in the net income
was achieved despite low prices for
steel products and the largest Fed
eral income taxes in the company's
history, Mr.. Verify said. Sales for
the period were exceeded only by
those of 1887 and the total 1910
shipments were the largest for any
year on record.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

AoSoS4aINA L ASoo 4 A4AaAANAd4 "AAtCEs
NEW YORK, March 5-Minor
downward currents controlled the
stock market in a liStless session to-
day.
Declines of fractions were COM
mon for most leaders at the close.
although the first hour was featured
by small gains. About 100000 shares
changed hands.
Observers found most operators
confining themselves to testing"
transactions, prevented by the pres
ent inconclusive war news from en-
gaging in sizable commitments.
Chief obstacle to trading action
was the continued debate on the
lease-lend bill, the uncertainties of
the Balkan situation and the lack
of knowledge concerning likely mod
ifications of Federal taxation.
Among issues on the off side were
Bethlehem Steel, General Motors.
Chrysler, Harvester, Eastman, West
inghouse, American Smelling, Amer
lean Telephone and Great Northern
preferred. The few gamers included
Allied Chemical, OWens-Illinois and
American Rolling Mill.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Washington Produce

BUTTER-93 score. tubs. 1924: pound
score. tubs. 3194: 1-pound prints 32
14-pound prints, 1924; 81 score. tubs, 3024;
pound prints 31H; A-pound prints,
3134: 90 score, tubs, 81: 1-pound prints.
81 "a; A-Dound prints, 81; 80 score. tubs
30la 1-pound prints, 81; A-pound prints,
81 y; IS score, tubs, 30h; l-pound prints,
30a4; l4-pound prints, 31H.
10; pigs, under 100 pounds 4.25-4.75;
pounds. 55O-5.75; 1S0-22O pounds, 5.75-
500; 100000 pounds 5.60-5S5; sows,
3.50-4 so: calves, 9.50-1050.
Daily report on Washington egg and
live poultry markets. Prices paid net fob.
WASHINGTON:
Market steady Prices paid for
Federal-State graded eggs received from
s. extras, large. 1924: U. S. extras, medi-
ums, 1921; U. S. standards. large, 20-22:
U s. standards mediums, 1913; U. S.
trades 15-17. Browns. U. S. extras, large,
21-23; q. s. extras, mediums, 1921; U. s..
standards. large. 20-22; U. s.. standards.
mediums, 17-19: U. S. trades, 15-17. For
nearby ungraded eggs, current receipts,
whites. II: mixed colors, 16.
LIVE POULTRY-Market about steady.
Fowl. colored. all sizes. 17-1S; No. 2s. 12-
y; Leghorn hens, 1914. BOOSTERS. 9-19;;
sizes. 20: No, 2s;; 1914; Delaware, Rocks
90; No 2s., 1914. Turkeys. young hens,
sizes. is: No. IS, 13-i4 Guineas, 10
25: smaller sizes %; No. Is and slips
1920.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
BONDS

PUBLIC UTILITY.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
New York Central
Reports Annual Net
AtS11,265,OS4
Burroughs CO. Shows
$3,146,248 Profit for
Parent Concern
BY the Associated Press.

.
NEW YORK, March 5.-New
York Central Railroad Co., includ-
ing all lines operated under lease,
reported today in its preliminary
statement net income for 1910 of
S1l ,265 O84, or SITS a share, COM
pared with S4,5O9 ,236, or 10 cents a
share, in 1889.
F. E. Williamson, president of the
road, reported to stockholders:
During 1910 the company expert
enced an encouraging improvement
in business. The net financial re-
suits we're the best since 1890.
Total operating revenues were
1910, ,545, ,875-S29, ,459, ,167 or Sc per
cent greater than in 1899. All trans
portation revenues other than pas
senger were better than in the pre-
ceding year.
''Freight revenues increased by
$50, ,143 1863, while passenger revenues
declined S2,O90,672 Commodities of
all kinds, except agricultural prod
ucts, moved in substantially in
creased volume.
"a notable increase was in man
ufactures and miscellaneous load
ings, the revenue from which in
creased 1925 per cent.
The improvement in business
experienced in 1910, which has been
maintained thus far in 194l, en-
courages us to look forward to re-
suits as good or better in the cur
rent year"
Burroughs Adding Machine.
Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
| (parent company only today re-
ported net profit for 1910 of S3,146,-
248, or So cents a share. These
earnings include the parent COM
| pany's profits on sales to customers
| of foreign subsidiaries received in
dollars and $654,159 in dividends
| from foreign subsidiaries.
A comparable basis for earnings
in 1899 is not available, but in that
year the parent company and sub
salaries reported net profit Of
$2.200.814, or "A cents a share.
Excluding the dividends from
| foreign subsidiaries, the 1910 net
profit was So 2,492 089, compared with
81 ,209 ,248 in 1899.
American Radiator Corp.
American Radiator & Standard
Sanitary Corp. and domestic sub
sidiaries reported for 1910 net profit
of $7,349,011, equal to 10 cents a
common share, compared with
$3,712,193 or "a cents. in 1949.
American Rolling Mill Co.
American Rolling Mill Co. an
nounced a net profit in 1910 of
$7,642,713, equal to S196 common
share, compared with S4,011 ,909 in
the preceding year, which was equal
to SO cents a share on the common.
/ McKeesport Tin Plate.
McKeesport Tin Plate Co. stated
it's 1910 net income amounted to
S523,619, equal to 72 cents common
share, against $l78,486 or "a cents,
in 1939
| Victor Chemical Works.
Victor Chemical Works reported
1910 net earnings of 81 ,007 ,504, equal
to 81 AS share on the capital stock.
This compared with $1,104,4 ,403, or
S159 share, in 1889.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Commercial Looms Rise
Outside of New York
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 5.-Con-
tinued expansion in commercial
loans of banks outside New York
City Offset a decline in commit
ments of institutions of the finan-
cial center last week.
Business loans dropped off $13,-
100000 at New York City banks, but
increased $21,000,00O at reporting
banks in 100 other leading cities. 1t
was the 22d consecutive gain in
commercial, industrial and agricul-
tural loans for the country as q
whole.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Boston Wool Market

BOSTON, March 5 Up Omitted States
Department of Agrieulture) The market
for spot domestic woods was mostly quiet
in Boston today. Occasional inquiries
were being received for small lots OF fine
wools needed TO piece out stocks on hand.
considerable quantity of the new clip
woods have already been contracted in the
Western States and large part of these
contracts have been turned over to manu-
facturerS. Demand for the finer grades
of South American woods continued good.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Corporations to Develop
Alaska Asked by Ickes
BY the Associated Press,

tfolOO4dEEW
Secretary Ickes asked Congress
yesterday to authorize the establish
ment of development corporations to
promote the settlement and eco
nomic development of Alaska.
The corporations would be private
ly financed and publicly supervised.
Each corporation, in selecting set
tiers to whom it would offer guar
anteed employment, would be re-
quired to give preference in at least
rs per cent of the openings to Amer
ican citizens. Qualified immigrants
would make up the balance.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK. March QP.-SellinE
slackened in the cotton goods market to-
day with large buyers exhibiting some
resistance to new price levels. An in
creasing number of woolen mills are re-
ported switching machinery to the manu-
facturer of fall and winter fabrics, having
fulfilled spring wear commitments. The
was heavy with prices tending upward.
S~ks were quiet.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Bankers Warned
To Fit Operations
To Changing World
Association President
Cites New Forms of
Competition in Field
BY the Associated Press.

.
NEW YORK, March 5.-Bankers
were warned today that they must
mold their operations to fit chang
ing world if they are to survive
against new forms of competition.
This admonition was the recur-
ring theme of speakers before the
Eastern regional conference of the
American Bankers Association.
P. D. Houston, president of the
association and chairman of the
board of American National Bank,
Nashville, Tenn, told the delegates:
I'VE have been caught up in a vast
wave of Capitalization which has
swept away many of our old moor
ings and greatly complicated our
operations.
This Capitalization movement
will probably continue during the
war emergency ..
Centralized Controls Grow.
During the past 10 years, CEN
tralized, national controls have been
set up over various aspects of bank
ing. These Federal controls have
been superimposed on the exist
ing State controls. New central
lied agencies have been created,
some to supervise and regulate and
some to complete.
with some of them we have to
work; with others we have to COM
pete. But we have to live with
them all And always We have to
understand them and adjust our
selves to their existence and to their
activity"
Gwilym A. Price, president of
PeopleS-Pittsburgh Trust Co.. Pitts
burgh, said: Every banker must
consider the possibility that the
world wide war =" will be followed
by an equally tremendous period of
reconstruction.
I'm recent years, banks have lost
much of the business which once
was theirs. Some types of banking
services have practically diSap-
peared. New competitors have
sprung up and have entered fields
which We once regarded as safely
ours.
Face Multiplied Problems.
MANY customers who formerly
depended upon us have learned to
do without us. Banks face new and
multiplied problems. We have
moved out of a sellers market and
into buyers market, and the tram
sition has not been pleasant.
IN this buyers market in which
We find ourselves, of which excess re-
serves, uninvested funds, low inter-
est rates and Government compe-
tition are such marked symptoms,
we must be just as ready as other
businessmen are to change our
habits of thought and of action.
I'VE must be ready to extend
additional and more comprehensive
services to larger and more varied
groups in our communities. We
must be ready to finance, not only
for production, but also for diStri-
button and consumption"
Bank delegates we're present from
Connecticut, Delaware, the District
Of Columbia, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts,, New Hampshire.
New Jersey, New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Seors-Roebuck
February Sales
Show Gain
BN the Associated Press.

bF tllt HsSOCIdItu FItSS.
CHICAGO, March 5.-Sears, Roe
buck & Co. today reported gross
sales of s49,s91 ,529 for February,
compared with s4O,835,743 during
February, 1910, an increase of 22.4
per cent.
Evening star., 1941-03-05

Also extra or extras. e Paid last year.
Quotations furnished by National Asso-
citation of Securities Dealers, Inc, which
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
transactions or firm bids or offers, but
should indicate approximate prices.
Evening star., 1941-03-05

trading
bankruptcy recelvershtp
Act securities assumed by such
Rates OF dividend the foregong table osourse
ments based the last quarterly semannua declaration
Unless special
Ex rights. q
stock Paid last PAYABLE stock Declared paid
far this Accumulated dividends paid declared
Evening star., 1941-03-05
London Gold and Silver
(Reported by Smith, Barn

LONDON. March 5 Up. - Bar silver,
233sd UNCHANGED equivalent, 42.39
cents) Bar gold. 1855. unchanged (equiv-
alent, S33 $50. Exchange. S4.03.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Washington Exchange
SALES.

Washington Gas IS 1960-S1 900 at
128%.
Capital Transit Coo at 16z.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Insurance Stocks

NEW YORK. March 5 dF1.-Natio As
soclatlon OF Securities Dealers. Inc:
Evening star., 1941-05-17

he discovers he has been duped into
acting as the innocent tool of a
Fascist-minded "philanthropist" who
reeks with wealth and plan for
controlling the country. To recount
his fable Capra employs symbols
that are unmistakable; his charac-
tiers may come alive but his hero
is definitely white and his villain
is definitely black. Gary Coopers s
John Doe is straightforward young
American, down on his luck but
brave and proud, honest to the core
and full Of faith in his fellow man.
Edward Arnold's D. B. Norton is
unregeneratedly Nazi-minded, cruel
and faithful only to himself, and
not too sure even there.
Not little of the credit for max
ing Meet John Doe" a successful
entertainment venture must go to
Mr.. Cooper. His portrayal of a one
time baseball pitcher who becomes
the average American In a news
papers circulation campaign only
because he wants enough money to
get his arm fixed up, ranks along
with the best things Cooper has
done. Barbara Stanwyck, the COL
umnist who gets him involved with
all these affairs. contributes a ster-
ling performance, too. And Arnold,
at the head of an able supporting
cast, is top notch.
Most fascinating of the minor
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National-"Fantasia," the much
discussed Disney, with music con-
Quoted by Stokowsk 2:20 and $3.50
pm.
Citizen Kane" the ini-
tial Orson Welles film venture; 230,
and $50 pm.
Earle-"Meet John Doe" Frank
Capra examines today: 1890 am,
lis. 4:05. 6:55 and GAS pm. Stage
shows: 1885, 3:25, 6:l5 and 9:o5
pm.
Palace-'Road to Zanzibar" Hope.
Crosby and Lamour on the loose
again II am. los, 3:15, 5:25, 7:35
and 9:45 pm.
Capitol-"That Certain Feeling
romantic comedy with Merle Oberon
II am, las. 4:30, tbs and 10 pm
Stage shows: 1880, 3:35, 6:25 and
9:l0 pm.
Little-"The Girl in the News"
another of those deft and daft Brit
ish thrillers: 11:25 am, lao, $40,
$40, TAO and GAS pm.
Metropolitan-"Penny Serenade,' ~
story of romance, with Irene Dunno
11:30 am, 2, 4:35, 7:05 and 9 40 pm.
Columbia-"Ziegfeld Girl" musi-
cal story of three of them: 10:45
am, 1:25, 4:10, 6;55 and $40 pm.
TranS-Lux-News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am,
Evening star., 1941-05-17

members will come as delightful
surprise to movie audiences, had
precisely the right talent for
Citizen Kane
WelleS, himself, is superb in the
Kane role, thing of such diversity
as to destroy the inadequate actor.
Excellent is Everett Sloane as the
loyal, but loveless, executive genius
of kane's journalistic enterprise:
Joseph Gotten. dS the school days
friend who becomes Kane's drama
critic and whose patrician honesty
gets him fired when he ridicules the
masters blond paramour as an
actress; Dorothy Comingore as the
pathetic mistress. later second wife,
of the tycoon who was determined
to make her a great star; George
Coulouris as the banker, Thatcher,
who took the boy Kane as his ward
and lived to rue the day as few
days are rued. Down to the smallest
part. indeed, the persons of Kane's
merage are played with a skill that
testifies to Welles' merit as a
director.
AS BELTS picture dealing with a
life of such opulence as Kane's,
Welles has given this one a splendor
of setting that is nothing short of
magnificent.
In fact, that is what Citizen
Kane" is-magnificent.
Evening star., 1941-05-17

John Doe" the Capra film for l94l
which opened yesterday at the
Earle, the master continues to fol-
low the pattern laid down by Mr..
Deeds Goes to Town" You Can't
Take 1t With You" and "Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington" all devoted to
proving the thesis that the wealth
of gold is as nothing compared to
the wealth of human affection. The
result is film as gayly diverting as
a thought-provoking picture can be
and as thought-provoking as a
cinema comedy can be-
Meet John Doe" however, is not
a great motion picture, to employ
the adjective literally and honestly.
1t is good, but it does have its
faults. They are not glaring ones,
maybe, but faults as obvious as 1t is
obvious Mr.. Capra was too close to
his own brainchild to notice them.
Capra is reported to have finished
his editing, for instance, convinced
he could not sacrifice another inch
of celluloid to reduce the pictures
considerably more than two hours
running time. Now his fable OF the
uniting of the Nations John Does
bogs down at times and there will
be some squirmy moments for the
more nervous types in the audience,
moments that can most politely be
called leisurely.
Still Capra film is something
apart from the general run of pic
lures, too many of which bog down
only to remain begged. When a
Capra photoplay slows it's pace it is
always safe to relax patiently, as
sured that things will be all right
again in few minutes. They always
have been. and are again in Meet
John Doe" which has its fun and
builds finally to smashing climax.
There has been, it might be noted
right here. a considerable discussion
of the matter of the ending of Meet
John Doe" several solutions to the
story having been devised since the
first was not liked by preview audi
ences. 1t has been hinted that a
story which did not lead naturally
to one ending must have some in
herent faults. To the skeptical, it
must be reported that Capra must
have been wrong the first time. Now
Meet John Doe" arrives at a cli-
max-one which should not be re-
vealed, for Capra builds to it with
all the suspense of Hitchcock or
a Carol Reed-which is as logical
elimination of the preceding
events as life itself could arrange.
The Capra plea for brotherly love
and the rights of the little people"
is woven this time into the story
of a John Doe who becomes the
symbol for all the other John Does.
He inspires them to union then
comes face to face with ruin when
Evening star., 1941-05-17

hate for the "hee1ots" is a thing OF
beauty.
This long-winded report awakened
by Mr.. Capra's newest entertain
ment leaves little room for discus
sion of the Earle's stage show. Suf-
flee to say that it is all very pretty
and graceful, the three attractive
Reed Sisters singing pleasantly,
Marina Lord dancing spectacularly,
the Roxyettes adding flip Of
brightness with two intricate ma
neuvers, expertly accomplished.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
From Broadway

Michael Ames, New York stage
actor, has been signed to a term
contract by Warner Bros. and cast
Immediately in an important role in
The Flight Patrol" starring James
Stephenson and Ronald Reagan. 1t
was while he was playing the
juvenile lead in the current Broad
way hit, my Sister Eileen" that
Ames was seen by J. L. Warner, vice
president of Warner Bros. in charge
of production, who signed up the
young actor without waiting to have
him tested.