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Evening star., 1941-10-21
CHICAGO Livestock

CHICAGO Oct. 81 dP ~ s. Dept AgrN
Salable hogs. 5000: total; u 600: mod
erstely active fully steady: spots $40
hisher: top 1920: bulk. 2nd-27n pound
l0.n026 most 10000 pounds q15-
1910; good and choice t5o-iSo pounds
q H.50-hn: good S00-36O pound sovs. To-
so: 400-50O pound kinds. S.4n-a.0o
Sslable sheep, 5000; total. ZOO: late
Monday fat, lambs, 1925 higher; other
classes steady. few choice native lambs
L. 90: bulk good end choice natives and
classes around steady: several lots choice
natives and Western fat lambs lI75-a0:
holding strictly choice Westerns at 1900:
few decks good Westerns. sorted. II so
with throvout natives $50 down: good
TO choice fed yearlings, a5O-s5; bulk fat
ewes 415 up
SslabIe cattle. . 500: calves. 500: year
ljngs and lightweight steers slow. steady
but supply running 10 steers with weight
and increased by liberal csrTy-over medium
weight and weiehty bullocks: very dull
trade on steers with weight bidding weak
TO 25 under Mondays @5 loss: choice
l0lS-pound yearlings, 1915, and load
yearlines from show lot held above 1855.
but bulk steers TO sell 10.15-li.T5: bulls
active. Io-l5 higher with q 100 paid freely
for heavies; other classes steady; choice
vealers freely a. 1900, few Western
grsssers in fresh supply: stocker and
feeder trade more active. prices fully
steady for two days.
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New York Cotton
Rv III. AssccIated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Oct. 21.-Cotton ad-
vanCed as much as 81 a bale today
on active mill price fixing against
yesterdays large gray goods business
and Secretary Wickard's s statement
he did not believe agricultural prices
were too high.
Some buying was believed to be in
anticipation of further sales in Worth
Street. which might be made when
the ceiling prices were scaled higher.
Outside demand and short cover
ing were also in evidence. Hedge
pressure was light.
Late prices were under the days
best, but still 25 to 80 points higher:
December, 1929; May. 1912, and
July 1915.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Big Army Order
For Phone Wire
Is Disclosed
,y tire Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 2l.-Brig.
Gen. John w. N. Schulz revealed
today that the War Department has
purchased more than 100000 miles
Of field telephone wire for the cx-
panding United States Army.
This amount was considered nee
essary, Schulz said in speech for
the National Metals Congress, after
a survey showed that the American
forces at the front between June
and November. 1918, used more than
100 900 miles of wire.
Gen. Schulz Is director of pur-
chases and contracts in the Office
of the Undersecretary of War.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Odd-Lot Dealings
BY the Associated Press.

The Securities Commission re-
ported today these transactions by
customers with odd-lot dealers or
specialists on the New York Stock
Exchange for October 20: 2.356 pur-
chases involving 62,313 shares: 2.716
sales involving 63.77l shares, includ-
ing SO short sales involving 1888
shares.
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Larger Dema nd Forecast.

The Bureau of Mines today fore
cast the Noyember demand for
domestic crude oil at 122 100 900 BAR
rels, or 4070000 barrels daily.
This was 57,100 barrels higher than
the estimated daily demand for
October and 13 per cent above the
actual demand for November. 1910
The bureau estimated November
crude oil exports would amount to
3.500000 barrels, compared with
actual exports Of 3805,00 in the
same month last year.
Domestic demand for motor fuel
next month was forecast at 55 500,-
600 barrels, an increase of IS per
cent over the relatively low actual
demand in November, 1910.
Bank Loans Gain.
Business loans of banks gained
for the 25th consecutive week in
the period ended october Is
The Federal Reserve Board said
that in l0l leading cities, CONNER
cial. industrial and agricultural
loans of banks increased SGT 900, ,0OO
to total of S6,568 100000 in the
week ended october Is. With occa-
sional Interruptions. the trend of
these loans has been upward ever
since the beginning of the defense
program and in the l0l cities. the
total of such loans was 81 1,846 900, ,00O
larger than year ago.
Gold Imports Higher.
The Commerce Department said
today gold imports in the week
ended October Is totaled sl0,254, ,189
This was about s30O0000 more
than the preceding week, but about
a similar amount less than two
weeks ago
Principal shipments were $685.
e47 from Australia and $3,540, ,296
from Canada
Foreign gold deposits under ear
mark in the Federal Reserve Banks
declined s2,076,241 to total of
S2,018,929,0l4.
Evening star., 1941-10-21

r In bankruptcy or receivership, or being
reorganized 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 a Alxo extra or
extras Cash or stock Paid last year
Payable in stock Declared or paid so
far this year h Payable in Cana dian funds
X Accumulated dividends paid or declared
this year ww With warrants XIV With
out warrants war warrants Unit of
given in iull
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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Oct. 2l-Dividends de-
elared. Prepared by Fitch Publishing Co
Extra.
Pc Stock Of Pay
Rate riod. record able
Whltaker Paper 81 90 l2-l5 l2-27
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Washington Exchange
SALES.

Capital Transit Co.-lo0 at 1914
Washington Railway g. Electric pfd.
3 at III
Mergenthaler Linotype-2o at 26is.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Freight Loudinqs

NEW YORK. Oct. 81 lP,.-Revenue
freight cars handled by railroads report
ing today for the week ended october Is
included
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Commodity Prices

NEW YORK, Oct 21.-Th. Associated
35 commodities today advanced to 9O.67.
Previous day. 9015: week ago, 81 .43;
month ago, 92.31; year ago. 1919.
1871 1910. 1899. 1898
High - 94:7 1926 1922 asI4
Low 1903 $3.50 637S Ala
1925 average EQUALS lnOl
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Daily Oil Production
Shows Increase Of
32,975 Barrels
louisiunu, Kansas
And Tex1s Outputs
Up Most in Week
By the Associated Press.


TULSA Okla. Oct. 21-Daily
crude oil production In the United
States increased 32e75 barrels to
4,ll7,475 for the week ended October
IS, the Oil and Gas Journel said to-
day.
Louisiana production was up 1920
to 345505; Texas, 1850 TO 1865 700:
East Texas, 200 to 36o 900; Cali
fornia, 1,4O0 to 664150; Michigan.
200 to $500, and Kansas, $3.50 to
1900.
Oklahoma decreased $3.50 to 418.-
$50, Rocky Mountain States. 1860
to 3,l40. and Illinois. 835 to 420.615
Eastern fields we're unchanged at
li3,500.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
New York Bar Silver

NEW YORK. Oct. 81 lPl.-Bar
silver, 3474 unchanged.
Evening star., 1941-10-21

CottonSeed Oil.
Bieachable cottonSeeG oil futures closed
CO.'S hlsher. Sales. IFS contracts De-
cembeT. IL 40b, January. l24Ib; March
25O-51: MAY. 125I-52.
Evening star., 1941-10-21

Subject 20 Federal taxes but not to
State income taxes.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK. Oct "l p, National A..
socistion Securities Dealers Inc
Quota tions as of . o'clock
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New York Suqur

futures moved into higher ground TODAY on
trade and local buying. Liquidation dried
up Prices gained TO "A points in late
afternoon. reflectins the tight spot situa-
tion: December. 2.5l; July, 245.
The domestic contract was inactive.
Raws and refined were unchsnEed.
Futures No. 3 closed unchanged to 5
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u. 5. Treasury Notes

NEW YORK Oct 81 tPi.-Prices auotec
in dollars and thirty-seconds
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Jury Not in Courtroom.

Later. Catoe told Walter M. Shea
of his defense staff that he couldn t
remember what had happened, He
said he had a spell" and every
thing went black. The marshal told
Evening star., 1941-10-21
NEW YORK CURB MARKET

Stock and SaleS-
Dividend Rate. Add 90. HishLow. Close.
Quaker Oats 80 l70s 69s4 6S5s 6SJs
Quaker oats pf 6 zoos l49la l49 l49
Republic Aviat'n 8 Ala A Az
Roch G&E pf DIS SOS iO3s. 1885, 1881.
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Baltimore Stocks

Special Dispatch to The Star.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Beech-Nut Packing.

Beech-Nut Packing Co., food prod
ucts, reported for the nine months
ended September 30 net profit of
s2,27591l after estimated Federal
normal income and excess profits
taxes. equal to $500 a share on the
common stock This compared with
s2142617, or S490 a share. in the
like period OF 1910.
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Stocks
(By Private wiz. Direct to The stsrJ

STOCK and Sales
Dividend Rate Add 90 HirhLow Gloss
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BONDS
PUBLIC UTILITY
STOCKS
PUBLIC UTILITY

Ter RI 4 W Cp Ist ga 1o4s II
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-24

fatten. Pigs were pigs and apples were
apples, but with fish the laws Of nature
We're not applied, even if water does
still run down HILL
In this connection l am reminded
of the experience of a friend who was
the livestockman of big land-ownlng
corporation. He needed four hundred
ewes to properly stock the grass From
previous experience with the New
York office my friend got foxy and
asked for eight hundred head. The Of
flee got liberal for once and insisted
the acreage could carry two thousand
head. The shepherd was on the spot;
he had to take at least one thousand
sheep. Nature took its course, and
before long losses from overcroWd-
ing brought the number down to what
the range could properly carry. Sheep
grow wool and fish have scales, but
the same general law Of nature applies
to both.
What am trying so feebly to bring
out is the fact that support and not
propagation and preservation is the
proposition we are up against in the
bass business. For a number of years
| have checked on bass fry by count
ing all in sight along one side of the
river in several one hundred feet
takes" along a half mile of water.
Year in and year out this rule OF
thumb census has given me an aver
age of better than three thousand
black bass fry to the mile. If such nat
ural stocking holds out, there is no
need for more; this is far more than
the natural food supply can grow to
any size. 1t was a source of no small
qualification to me, when the more
careful and more accurate checkups
by the State fish culturist made the
number on another stretch of the river
gave the estimate Of over two thous-
and bass fry to the mile.
They tell me that black bass grows
his length in four years. After that
age he may grow heavier, but the in
crease in length is small if any. They
tell me, too, that the record of growth
for a year-old bass is fifteen inches.
This one was nursery grown and
hand fed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-24

Outside organizations were trying
to sabotage the U. S. Army, House
committee was told by General
George Marshall.
Tests covering selectees showed
that Alb percent are above normal
compared to 81 percent of the popula-
ton in general.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-24

The number of civilian airplane
pilots in U. s. has increased over 100
percent in past year. There are now
82,277 certified pilots.
Internal revenue tax collections in
Maryland increased from $134, 449 ,049
to 1888, 000,737 during the past year
ending June 30.
Fourteen southwestern Kansas
counties, part of the "dust bowl" is
now producing one of the greatest
wheat crops in history.
Ickes called for a one-third volun-
tary reduction of gasoline consump-
ton in the East and the government
called for so percent cut in auto
mobile output.
A new concept that cancer springs
directly from a breakdown in the
growth mechanism of body cells was
advanced by a Baltimore specialist.
Head Of the America First Com
mittee charged that Roosevelt had in
tended to take over Dakar, Cape
Verde and Azores but army officials
stepped in and prevented the occupa-
ton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-24
States Relief Bill
Reduced 10 Percent

Maryland's public assistance burden
in June was % percent lighter than
in May and about ten percent lighter
than a year ago, Director j. Milton
Patterson of the State Welfare De-
partment, states.
All types Of assistance last month
cost the state 686,444, as compared
with $701,778 in May and $75O,696 in
June of last year. The most marked
decrease was in general public assist
ance
All types of assistance aggregated
28,083 cases in June as compared with
28,612 in May and 3O,532 in June of
last year. Garrett county showed a
decline in obligations for all types of
assistance.
Surplus commodities valued at Sill
471.53 were distributed in the state
during June.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-24
Aluminium Plentiful
But Hard to Extract
From Earth's Surface

Aluminium, for which there is a
drive this week, to produce 20,OOO,O0O
pounds from pots, pans, etc, no
longer useful to housewife or bust
ness person, is one of the most
abundant and one of the hghtest of
all metals, and with the exception of
silicon and oxygen, the most widely
distributed element in the earth's
crust.
But it has not been found in a pure
form in any part of the world and
must be produced by complicated
method of separation from other ele-
ments.
Aluminium is urgently needed for
production of airplanes and other
mechanisms for defense Of this
country. 1t is needed in addition to
what factories are already producing
and what contemplated factories will
produce for the next several years.
That is the reason that every
citizen of this country has been
asked to gather up all articles of this
metal that are not now being used
and contribute them to the govern
ment.
Aluminium is two and one-half
times as heavy as water, one-third as
heavy as iron, about one-fourth as
heavy as copper or silver and one
seventh as heavy as gold. In tensile
strength it eXcels all other metals ex-
cept iron and copper; yet it may be
hammered into sheets or drawn into
wires like gold or silver. 1t requires
heat of 1160 degrees Fahrenheit, to
melt it.
Pure aluminium was not in exist
ence until 1854 when it was produced
chemically. The metal was of no
practical value until the last decade
of the nineteenth century after a new
process was discovered for the reduc-
ton of aluminium by electrolysis.
How Produced
Aluminium ore in the form of baux-
lite is mixed with a readily fusible
mineral called cryolite. The bauxite
dissolves in the molten cryolite and is
decomposed by the current. Mott
aluminium is set free at the mega lea
electrode and runs down to the hos
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-24

more for black bass. | have the idea
a government report is in the process
Of making; documentary evidence
showing how wet those fish mongers
were when they set out to grow big
ones out of all the little ones.
OF course, know there is a school
among us superstitious fishermen to
accord to the willy black bass uncanny
talents of divination. These mystics
hold that as soon as the bass were
informed of the legal minimum length
of ten inches, the great council of
fishes instructed their schools to fix
the maximum length of the bass not
to exceed nine and three-quarter
inches. That this end was accomplished
you will know had you just gone a.
fshin'.
While admitting that have known
black bass which did read, write and
cipher, | cannot believe their talents
to reason from cause to effect have
yet been developed to such remark
able degree.
The laws of nature apply to fish as
we'll as others of the animal kingdom.
This is finally being recognized by
those clothed with authority to write
and speak | hear them now say a
given body of water can support only
so many pounds of fish. If this given
number Of pounds are small, there
will be more in number; if large the
number will be less. The next cautious
step will be the assertion that the
many mouths Of smaller fishes will so
deplete the natural food supply they
will eat themselves out Of house and
home, as the saying is. This trouble is
progressive, so that a given body Of
water will produce fewer and fewer
pounds Of fish as the years come
and go.
The orchard men always did know
their trees naturally set much more
fruit than can possibly be grown to
perfection. They prefer compare
lively few fine apples of salable quail
ity to a big crop Of small, Indifferent,
runty apples, which will deplete the
vitality Of the tree and even break it
down The farmer knows to thin out
his corn to get crop, and the stock
man to keep only the number of head a
given acre Of grass will grow out and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-24
FISHING FEVER HITS CAL
PRICE IN POCAHONTAS
COUNTY, WEST VA.
Vet Editor Can't Keep Mind On
Getting Out The Paper

Cal Price, in the Pocahontas Times,
Marlinton, West Va, says:
This is Friday, and while there is
a paper to be made ready for next
issue, my mind is not on the busi-
ness in hand Tomorrow is Satur-
day, and with its dawning comes the
open season on bass. 1t is beyond COM
prehension why body's mind should
dwell in anticipation Of the short chore
Of -stepping into the river behind the
garden and taking out a frying Of
eight legal-sized bass. Nevertheless,
the romance Of it holds me fast,
though | fully realize a telephone call
to the meat market will bring deliv-
cred just as many pounds of fish
nicely cleaned and ready for the oven
with the dealer taking the sporting
chance on getting his money within
the next thirty days The amount of
money involved is just about the same
as the cost of bucket of bait. The
market man is willing to wait, but the
bait boys terms are cash in hand or
no deal. The only logical explanation
of the whole matter is that us fishers
are just plumb crazy, anyway you
take US.
After snorting around for many
years, the game commission was at
last persuaded to bring the minimum
limit for black bass down from ten
inches to nine inches, but not before
the ten inch limit just natlsrally
stunted the fish to pony size Oh,
science, what sins the know it alls
do commit in your name!
| must confess | had the idea all
along this matter Of small bass was an
infiction peculiar to the waters Of
this mountain region Of West Virginia
the Greenbrier, Cheat, Elk, Gauley,
South Branch, Tygarts, etc. 1t is now
beginning to leak out that it is a ma
tional problem in the streams where
ever there has been established by law
a minimum length of ten inches or
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-24
Savage River Dam
Will Be Completed

Assurance that the Savage river
dam construction would be COM
pleted on time was given by Owen E.
Hltchins, secretary of the Upper Po-
tomae River Commission, There had
been reports that work on the dam
was to be halted.
Hitchins also said that concrete for
the huge spillway would probably be
poured the latter part of this month
Water will be in the dam by 1913.
Lack of skilled men for various de-
tense plants has caused many men to
leave the job for higher wages in
these industries but they are being re-
placed, according to Hitchins. Scores
of WPA men have received training
as skilled workmen on the project.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-24
Fifty-Two Killed In Traffic Acct
dents In Maryland During June

Traffic crashes in Maryland during
the month of June claimed 81 lives and
1872 injured, an increase Of per cent
over June, 1910. Traffic has increased
about 10 per cent over last year and
motor vehicle registrations have in
creased about II per cent over the
same period.
Comparing these figures, the traffic
death rate per miles travelled during
June was actually a reduction rather
than an increase over June, 1870
Baltimore City had six deaths while
the counties had 49,
Kent county continued to maintain a
perfect record, with no deaths re-
ported Garrett county is one of five
counties in the State with one death
in each since the first of the present
year
Duling the month of June Garrett
county had eight accidents, no deaths
but with fifteen persons injured.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-24
MILLIONS OF DAYS LOST

An official survey has just revealed
that 2,485, $50 man-days Of employ
ment on Army defense work have been
lost in the first six months Of the year
through strikes. This is a staggering
total when translated into terms Of the
military equipment that might have
been built in that time.
1t is even more staggering when we
remember that these figures are only
for Army work. They take no account
either of Navy contracts delayed, of
strikes like the soft coal and West
Coast shipping disputes which admit
teddy tied up large quantities of de-
Tense work, or Of losses Of time in
plants which depended upon the COM
panies in question to keep their own
operations going. An earlier unofficial
estimate placed defense man-days lost
in the first five months Of 1871 at over
3,500,000, and that is probably nearer
the whole truth.
Delays like these have a significance
that is worldwide in its implications.
The real meaning has been well out
lined by one speaker:
what does this mean in goods? 1t
means that we could have been nearer
our goal by 1900 tanks. ThermOpyIae
was lost because there were too few
tanks
eve could have been nearer our goal
by 100000 machine guns. Greece was
lost for want of machine guns.
owe could have been nearer our goal
by 1000 airplanes Crete was lost be-
cause there were not enough planes"
1t is bitter to realize the truth when
it is presented in those terms. But it
is better to face the facts now than to
repeat the same tragedies again thru
failure to understand their ultimate
significance. According to observers,
defense strikes have declined lately
in number and intensity. 1t is to be
hoped that this is a sign that the great
rank and-file of labor, shown by polls
to place the national safety above all
other considerations, are beginning to
make a certain number Of misguided
and disaffected elements understand
their point of view.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-07-24
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
TELLS OF HORRORS OF WAR
Robert st. John, Wounded While
In Balkans, Back In y. S.

Robert St. John, an Associated
Press foreign correspondent, described
in a recent broadcast from New York
some Of the horrors of warfare he
witnessed in the Balkans and in Greece
during which he was wounded by ma
chine-gun fire.
st. John, who reached New York
Sunday, was introduced over the Red
network of the National Broadcasting
Company by Kent Cooper, general
manager Of the Associated Press, who
said he was proud to present the cor
respondent, mot as his chief but on
behalf of all the newsmen with whom
he has been serving abroad"
st. John began his story in Bel
grade, Yugoslavia, on last Palm Sun
day, the day that the Nazi war ma
chine sent its first wave of death deal
ing bombers over the city, and carried
his listeners through thrill-packed,
grueling days and nights of war that
saw him make a treacherous journey
through the islands off the Greek
coast, become all but given up for
lost only to arrive at Cairo, Egypt,
from where he sent his first eye-wit-
ness stories of the conflict.
Arrested In SaraievO
Fleeing Belgrade in the wake Of
devastating bombing, st. John SAID
he and his companions later arrived
at Sarajevo, birth place of the first
World War, and there they were I'M
mediately arrested by policeman
who boasted he had killed forty-nine
Fifth Columnists and was eargerly
seeking number fifty.
1t was at Petras, Greece, st. John
related, that he suffered leg wound.
There, in railroad car fairly
bullying with troops, St. John sat as
a Messerschmidt swept low and so
close he could have touched its wings
from the train window and blasted
away at the occupants with blazing
machine guns.
At each succeeding stop, St. John
said, he and his companions seemed
always to arrive just in time for
new bombing venture of the Luft
waite and to see great funeral pyres
and horrible wreckage.
Good To Be Back
'Now," he concluded, q am back
from the land of silent people. Those
people who crave only to live and let
live, but who are constantly being
stirred up by ambitious politicians
and Jealous propagandists. Those peo-
pie who now live under a shadow that
stretches from the Baltic to the Med
itelranean. They are all living in a
hope that somehow America will find
a way to make it a better world for
them. And so it's good to be back in
this land Of my own"