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Chicuqo Livestock

CHICAGO, March Is LP.-Livestock
prices steadied today at the small net
gain registered this week despite increased
supplies. The Quotable top of SS.05 per
nundredweieht in the hog market was
equal to yesterdays best price but not
enough animals were put on sale to test
values accurately.
Salable hogs, 300: total, $500: only
few small lots on sale: undertone steady,
quotable top around sos; salabe supply
too small to provide a test of market;
holdovers, 500; compared week ago: Good
and choice barrows and gifts steady to 10
higher. packing sows steady.
Salfble cattle, 200; no calves: compared
Friday last week: Lightweight steers,
yearlings and strictly choice weighty steers,
strong to 25 higher; bulk 9.25-12.5O, few
loads, 13.00-14.0O: top. 1435: several
loads good and near-choice big weights,
1O.50-11.T5: active market on cows and
heifers: Most heifers, 9.OO-11 90: beef
cows largely 7.00-S,50' bulls 1915 high
er, desirable heavy sausage type, S,O0-S.25:
top. $50 vealers. weak to so lower: stock
ers and feeders, dull; most sales medium
and good fleshy feeders, 9O0-105O: few
loads 1.000-lbs., 10.75-10.S5: Ohio and
Illinois chief buyers.
Salable sheep, 500: total. $500; late
Friday, Fat lambs. very draggy: few loads
shorn and woolskins unsold: market steady
to 10 lower than Thursday; top II 10,
sparinely: bulk good and choice medium
ana handy weight fed wooled lambs. 1885
II 90 heavier kinds. downward to 1875:
iat sheep scarce: steady Small lots bet.
ter natives, h50-6.50; common and Gull
kinds. downward from 4.75.
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Acacia Outlay
On DC. Policies
Top S636,000
Salaries, Commissions
In Capital Exceed
Million in Year
By EDWARD c. STONE.

During 1910 policyholders and
beneficiaries of the Acacia Mutual
Life Insurance Co. in the District of
Columbia received payments ag-
gregating more than S636000, PreSi-
dent William Montgomery an
nounced yesterday. This figure re-
presents the largest volume of such
payments by Acacia in any single
community in the country, he added.
Acacia also paid during 1910 to
its 526 home Office employees and
agents in the Capital salaries and
commissions totaling more than ST.
100000, Mr.. Montgomery said. In
the same period the company
cleared 22OOO,OOO through WASH
ington banks, while the average
local bank balance stood at ap-
proximately $1,000000.
Administering through its home
Office the more than $425 100000 of
insurance in force throughout the
United States, and its S95000,000 in
assets, the company annually
places very large sums in circula-
ton in the Greater Washington
area, which contributes directly to
the welfare of the community, Mr..
Montgomery asserted.
During the past year the company
purchased in Washington supplies
such as furniture and stationery, to
a total of $4,000 while real estate,
premium, D. G. unemployment and
other taxes Federal and State eX-
cluded), amounted to more than
S75 900. Payments to local public
utilities for electricity, gas, tele-
phone and telegraph service, ap-
preached 100000.
Citing further figures to show the
company's Importance to the Cap
ltal, Mr.. Montgomery turned to
mortgage loans. At the end of
February these loans in Greater
Washington numbered 5,196 and
amounted to nearly s31,000,000 in
volume. The great majority are on
single dwellings, thus
stimulating home ownership, he
pointed out.
Long Among Special Guests.
DR., Perrin H. Long, professor of
medicine at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity Medical School, and one of the
pioneers in the use of sulfanilamide
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Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 15.-Stern
warnings have been issued that no
one is to become a millionaire as a
result of the defense effort, it is
pointed out by Standard & Poor's
Corp. To assure this, the Defense
Commission is keeping an eagle eye
on both raw material and consumer
prices. The wrath of the admin
istration and the displeasure of the
public have been threatened against
any one who violates the edict to
hold prices down.
Yet the fact remains that it has
been impossible to prevent a gen.
eral rise in prices. Since the war
began, the speculative commodity
price index has risen some 80 per
cent, and it is up some 20 per cent
from last fall. The slower moving
Bureau of Labor Statistics index of
all wholesale prices is at the highest
point since 1887, and the National
Industrial Conference Board cost of
living index is at the highest since
the beginning Of 1898.
1t is true that the rise in prices has
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Fast Cotton Rally
Fails 10 Hold in
Late Hedging
Prices Retreat to Close
z Lower to ; Higher
On New York Market
BY tire Associated Press.

NEW YORK, March l5.-Cotton
futures raced up as much as IA
points today before late hedging
and liquidation forced a retreat.
Final prices. around the season S
best. were 2 lower to higher.
The fast buying which has ap-
peared most of the week developed
again in early trade after a sharp
advance in Bombay and Washing
ton reports indicating possible
clarification of the administration S
farm. program over the week end.
At the sessions highs spot in
terests started to sell May and July,
apparently against purchases of
cotton from the Government loan
or equities in such cotton.
Motive power behind the week s
advance was the heavy turnover in
cotton textiles at advancing prices.
Business in print cloths was figured
at double peak production. Heavy
sales were also written in coarser
goods.
No exports Friday: season so far
789,606 bales. Port receipts, 7,488;
port stocks. 3,466 O60.
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BY the Associated Press.


CR1SFIELD, Md, March IS
Commercial fishermen of the Lower
Chesapeake Bay, taking advantage
of every bit of fair weather, are put
ting out their pound poles and
nets for the opening of the spring
season, which gets well under way
late this month
Although few herring are caught
early in March, most fishermen wait
until after March 81 to place their
nets, and so escape the danger of
damage from storms.
A new War Department regula-
ton, applicable only to the 1941 sea-
son, permits the setting of longer
nets in Virginia waters. Maximum
length allowed is 1900 feet, except
in waters of the Eastern Shore south
of the entrance to Eastern Bay,
where the allowable length is 1900
feet.
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Insurance Sales
In Capital Top
1910 Levels

New life insurance written In the
District of Columbia in February
totaled IS ,222 900, a notable gain Of
10 per cent over February a year
ago, the Life Insurance Sales Re-
search Bureau, at Hartford, reported
yesterday.
In the first two months of l941
sales in Washington totaled s10,136,-
900, a gain of per cent over the
like 1910 period, the report said.
The South Atlantic gain in February
was 4 per cent and in the two
months 2 per cent.
The average gain in the whole
United States in February was per
cent and in the two months 3 per
cent over the corresponding is41
periods.
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The present Board of Directors
was reelected, including William F.
Ham, Frederick w. Doolittle, H.
Rozier Dulany. jr.; James H. Ferry,
Robert v. Fleming. William H. Lips
comb, William Mcclellan, Lennard
H. Mitchell Ralph E. Moody, Alfred
G. Neal and Harry L. Rust, jr.
Alfred G.. Neal was reelected
president of the company, the other
officers including James H. Ferry,
vice president, chief engineer and
general manager: Harold A. Brooks,
vice president and commercial man.
ager; George NJ Thompson, Sec
retary and assistant treasurer;
Robert w. Wilson, treasurer; Edwin
D. Detwiler. assistant secretary;
Harold G. Hayden controller. and
Charles L. Carr, assistant controller.
Evening star., 1941-03-16

Association Of
American Rail-
roads in Wash
ington, will be
the principal
speakers at a
meeting of the
Southeast Ship
pers Advisory
Board in Biloxi,
Miss, on Thurs
day.
Mr.. Parkes
will speak on
Democracy at
Work" and Mr..
Kendall will de-
eoriha tho no.
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New York Sugar

NEW YORK, March Is (P.-Despite the
influence of the highest spot raw sugar
prices, since late 1929. domestic futures
as s points in early dealings.
Final prices were ] point HIGHER to l
lower on sales of 13.300 tons after Cuban
and local buying had lifted quotations to
the highest of the season.
The world list came to life under
broadened demand and closed "a to l
ahead of turnover of 10,450 tons, May.
.1a12b: July Sab
Numerous offerings of spot raws were
available at 335 cents pound
Refined locally was firmly maintained
at 4 IS cents.
No. 3 range follows:
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Metal Market

NEW YORK, March Is (P-Copper,
steady: .electrolytic spot, Connecticut VAL
ley l. 90; export, fa.s New York, 1880
forward, 51.25. Lead, steady: spot New
York, 5.15-SO: East st. Louis, $50 Zinc,
steady; East st. Louis spot and forward.
7.25. Pig iron aluminium. antimony,
quicksilver. platinum. Chinese wolfranlite
and domestic scheelite, unchanged.
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company at the
annual meeting
held yesterday.
At the same
meeting. M a j e.
Gen. Albert L.
Cox, who is COM
manding officer
of the District
National Guard.
very prominent
figure in selec-
tive service. as
well as berg a
Washington at
ey. was
added to the
Board of Direc-
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Miscellaneous Markets.

miscellaneous Markets.
Additional New York markets as COM
piled by the Associated Press:
COFFEE : Spot quiet; Santos No 4,
S1234: Rio No. :. 6. Cost and freight Offer
ings included Santos Bourbon 3s and 5s at
s.3o-.5O. Santos No. D. futures closed
higher to 1 lower. Sales, 24,50O bags.
March, sem; May, s.44; July. S.64 Rio
No. "a" futures 3 higher. No sales.
LEAD-Futures closed unchanged to 1
b65b. JULY % SOB NOS No sales Ot in tin futures
CRUDE RUBBER-Futures closed 5 to 8
higher sales Nc SsandaTd Has 4, contrsets acts
July, ,21 .95; September, 21.45n. Smoked
ribbed spot, % .75n.
COCoA-Futures closed 10 to 13 higher
Sales. $3.50 tons. May, 7.1s; July, 1877;
September, 7.33
WOOL TOPS-Futures closed . to Z of
cent lower. July, 121 OBJ: October. 1850;
December. 1850 Spot tops, 12S.5n
RAW HIDESLFutures closed % to 33
higher. Sales, 5c20ooo0 pounds. March
spot No. / western light native cows. 13Han
Bid. Nominal.
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ana lCS uerlVa-
tfves in the
United States,
will be one of the
honored guests
at the fifth an
nual dinner of
District of Co
lumbia Chapter,
Chartered Life
Underwriters, at
the Carlton Hotel
i ueSudy cFelllIlS.
He will speak
briefly.
Richard Girls
80 1nr
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poets between $50 and 300 members
and guests at the dinner, many
prominent business and professional
men having accepted invitations.
Claude L. Benner, vice president
of the Continental American Life
Insurance Co., will be the chief
speaker.
Holcombe Parkes and Warren c.
Kendall, associate director of public
relations and chairman of the car
service division, respectively, of the
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Odd-Lot Declines

The SECURITIES Commission reported
Yesterday ;st day these transactions by customers
New York Stock Exchange for March IA
l,I53 purchases involving 45,04l shares;
,So6 sales involving 47735 shares, in
cluding "a short sales involving 555 shares
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New York Produce

NEW YORK, March IS R,-Dressed
poultry generally. steady. Fresh and frozen
prices unchanged.
ems. colored. IL fowls, coiored, 81; Leg
horn, is; old roosters, IA. By express,
nominal. No sales.
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Range follows:
Cottonseed Oil.

Cottonseed oil futures were boosted ia
new seasonal peaks in the most active short
Saturday session on record. Sales totaleG
331 contracts.
A broad demand came in from prac-
tically all quarters rejecting further sd-
vances in lard strong crude oil market
ard higher prices in securities and wheat
Selling was light and limited chiefly to
profit taking and scaled UP hedging by re-
finers
Final prices were up 10 to Is points:
March 30 bid: May, T45 bid: July. SO
bid: September. : SO, and October. ~ bid
Southeast and Valley bids were IA higher
az 612 cents pound. Texas also bid Ia
higher, at 63s.
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Commodity Prices

NEW YORK, March 15.-The Associated
Press weighted wholesale price index of 35
commodities today advanced to 1915, new
1941 high
Previous day. 1906; week ago, 1919;
month ago, 77.2s: year ago, 72.50.
Al 40 30 '33-'3S
High -- 1915 1925 1922 aS14
Low 77.O3 $3.50 637S 4144
O926 average equals 1000.
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Chicago Cash Market.
Cash wheat, no sales reported. Corn,
old No. /. yellow, 6s-6Sia; new, No. B..
mixed. so; No. .. yellow. 65l2; No. 3.
6394-65l2; No A. 6034 -63H: No. 5, 60
6Ii2: No. 3, white, 20. Oats, sample, red,
36la; No. 3, white, 80; sample, white 3534-
36l2: No. . mixed heavy, 80: No. :. . white.
heavy. 80; No. ., white heavy, 3a1a-s4
Barley mailing, 5365i2 nom; feed, 4S-
%: nom: screening, 35-45, nom: No 1,
65a. Soybeans. No. 3. yellow 1O134
Field seed unchanged.
WINNIPEG, March Is (P.-Cash wheat.
No, l, Northern, 767s; No. ., 747s: No. g.
717s. Oats, No. 2, white. 35; No. 3. 34ls
Evening star., 1941-03-16
James Ferry Named
General Manager
For Pepco
Maj. Gen. Albert Cox
Added to Board at
Annual Meeting

James H. Ferry, vice president,
chief engineer and a director of
the Potomac Electric Power Co.,
was elected general manager of the
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New Orleans Prices.

and speculative buying in cotton futures
here today carried the market to the
highest levels since March, 1870 However.
profit taking from the long side trimmed
the gain. The close was steady points
Ter To -
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Cottonseed oil closed steady Bleach
afde a1e prime ye!9g S5b Ma Ms1 @ rim
July Dob: Sept, 7.20b; Oct. 7.23.
Bid. a Asked
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81 paid 1910. Egg extra. k 20 cents extra.
PSI paid 1910. Plus extras
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u. S. Treasury Notes

NEW YORK March Is LP.-Prices
quoted in dollars and thirty seconds.
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(See INDUSTRY, Page E-3o
Evening star., 1941-06-29
Russian and German Locked Fo Combat War Enters New Phase

"Citizens." President Risto Ryti Of Fin
land told the Firms on Thursday, Cen
turies have shown that
Finnish on the site on which fate
Dilemma fate has placed this ma
ton permanent peace
cannot be achieved. The pressure
of the east is always upon us. To reduce
this pressure destroy the eternal menace
and secure a happy and peaceful life
for coming generations, We now en-
bark upon our defensive battle. Our
confidence in our army and their field
marshal, Baron Mannerheim, is abso-
lutte"
In England on Sunday Winston
Churchill, Prime Minister, condemned
the German move against Russia and
extended the offer of British friendship
to Moscow. On Tuesday Anthony Eden
Foreign Secretary of Great Britain
greeted the Russians as British allies
and here President Roosevelt pledged all
possible American aid to Russia. Mr.
Roosevelt declined 10 proclaim a state
of war in existence between Germany
and Russia and so made it possible for
American ships to carry munitions to
Yladivostok, the Russian Pacific port.
Evening star., 1941-06-29

during two days of fighting of 5000
prisoners, the destruction of 300 Ger
man tanks and the shooting down of 127
Nazi airplanes But the Russians lost
Brest-Litovsk, in East Central Poland,
and the towns of Kolno and Lomza in
North Central Russian Poland. A Ger
man army headed for Riga was making
its way toward Siauliai, Northern Lithu-
ania, but the Russians on Tuesday tenn
porarily halted its advance.
Russia slowed down the invader on
the central fronts Wednesday and at
some points counterattacked. Moscow
claimed that this movement cost the
Germans one entire mechanical division.
News reached Vichy Thursday of a
gigantic tank battle in progress in South
east Poland, with Germany getting the
worst OF it. Moscow said her armies
checked the Germans moving north
easterly toward Oszmiana and Wilma
from Brest-Litovsk German tanks cut
Evening star., 1941-06-29

Gently signed a non-aggression pact with
Russia. Slovakia, German puppet, de-
clared war. Croatia, Italian puppet,
declared it would respect its treaty OBJ
legations toward the Axis. Hungary
severed relations with Russia and then
declared war. Rumania. we have seen
is in the war. Sweden, restating its neu-
traity after the action, permitted pas
sage of a division of German troops
across its country from Norway to Fin
land. For Finland it was trying week.
In his speech Sunday morning an
nouncing the coming of the war with
Russia, Hitler claimed Finland as an ally.
But he spoke too soon. 1t was not until
Thursday that Finland officially ranged
itself on the side of Germany, and then 1t
attributed its act to what it considered
unprovoked Soviet bombing Of Finnish
terrain and cities. German troops have
been in Finland since March.
Evening star., 1941-06-29

ment. MinSk is 400 miles from Moscow,
the Russian capital. Another advance
based on East Prussia carried the Ger
mans northward through. Lithuana to-
ward the Latvian Baltic port of Riga
Parachutists-with whose use the Rus
slams early experimented-were landed
behind the Russian lines
Aeriol by the Germans. The Luft-
Combot waite was reported spread
ing death and destruction
among moving Russian columns OF
troops. concentration points, strategic
naval and land bases, rail functions and
stations. armament factories, fuel depots,
munition centerS and arsenalS. That is
in accord with the blitzkrieg practice
The Moscow communiques and semi
official reports insisted that the Russians
were having greater successes in the air
than were the Germans, but the Ger
mans have more planes to lose than the
Russians. The Russians bombed re-
peatedy three Rumanian centers-the
port of Constanta, the oil field city of
Ploesti and the capital. Bucharest. They
bombed Turku in Finland and Koenigs-
berg and Memel on the Baltic. The
Germans bombed Odessa, Kiev Sevasto-
pol. Lenngrad. Riga, Libau and in the
neighborhood of Minsk.
Germany in the middle of the week
told of successes that would be an
nounced battling to the imagination"
Pravda, the Moscow paper, said the
same day the world will be amazed by
the forces which the Soviet people in
their indignation and wrath" will hurl
against Germany. Neither boast was
made good by the weeks end. The Nazis
kept almost all details of the war from
the German people.
The Russian ArmYs first communique
on the war said that the Germans were
fought to a standstill up to noon of
Sunday, but by Sunday night the Ger
mans had penetrated miles into Lithu-
ania and 10 miles into Northeastern
Poland. In Lithuania the Germans were
headed eastward toward Kaunas, the
capital, and in Northern Poland toward
Grodno, directly south of Kaunas. Sum-
day night Moscow, Leningrad and other
principal cities of Western Russia were
blacked out. The Russians claimed that
IS Nazi planes were shot down during
raids on Kiev, Sevastopol. zhitomir and
Kaunas Revolts against Russia broke
out in the three Baltic states.
The German attack is "perfidy un-
paralleled in the history of civilized ma
tons VyacheSlav MolotOv Foreign
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better than the Poles, for instance. are
considered rather small Russia has
tremendous msnpower; Russia has a
large mechanical force. But it has
neither the necessary brains in high
places to lead the army nor the facilities
to replace without delay the losses of
tanks and airplanes it must sustain in
a war against the Reich and its allies.
The several five-year plans of the Soviet
government have improvised an industry
which is interesting, considering that it
was completely none existent in the past,
but this improvised industry cannot
stand the strain of a mechanical war
against a country which has all the in
dustrial resources of Europe at its dis
posal
There are many wishful thinkers who
are comparing Hitlers campaign with
that which sounded the death knell of
Napoleon 1t is true that Russia is the
same vastness that it was in 1872, but
the means of Hitler are different.
Napoleon's men moved on horse back
and on foot. His supplies came in horse
move in trucks. tanks and airplanes
The supplies for the fighting infantry
and the cavalry, of which he has thrown
no less than 10000 into the battle
against the Soviets. come by fast trucks
and whenever needed by huge supply
planes.
Nazi specialists i'm Russia.
Furthermore, the Germans have been
Russia's ally since September, 1889
While the number of specialists sent to
assist the "ally" from Berlin was not as
large as Berlin wanted, at least 10000
German specialist" have been active
in various capacities. Some of these
| GERS of the high command and divisional
and army corps commanders. How much
termiting they have been able to do will
be seen in the next few weeks.
| 1t is believed here that a number of
Russia's military leaders have been sue
| cessfully tempted" Without doubt
these are going to be the future Quislings
| feared but not loved. The day the purg-
| ing power is out of his hands there is no
! question that a number of high-ranking
| officers will be willing to consider the
setting-up of a new regime without the
| present dictator.
He is known only by name and photo
graph to the army. Unlike his Italian
and German colleagues, he is not SOL
dier and has never kept in touch with
the armed forces.
All these conditions point to defeat of
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
If Washington is concerned over this
probable defeat it is not because it holds
brief for the Caucasian ruler of Russia
or for his political philosophy. There is
not much to choose between Josef
Stain and Adolf Hitler. They have
Evening star., 1941-06-29

have been built. Now the government
has co-ordinated building into a master
plan for pre-fabricating standardized
freighters for assembly at the Sydney
yards. The plan calls for construction
Of so 10000-ton ships
The naval program calls for so 800-ton
anti-submarine patrol vessels and is
more than half completed Many Of
these will patrol the 1900 miles of Aus
tralia's coastline. Work also is being
hurried on a craving dock at Sydney.
where battleships may be repaired.
Step Up Plane Production.
Aviation production men hope that
Australia will be turning out 200 war
planes every month by the end of 194l
This figure includes preliminary train
ing planes.
In 1889 as in 1914, Australia faced
industrial handicaps lack of aircraft and
automobile manufacturing plants lack of
flow oil and vital defense raw materials
like aluminium.
Now, a second great steel plant is to
be built in the recently developed center
of Port Kembla on the southern end of
New South Wales coal coast.
Six years had passed since Australian
ship yards had built a vessel of even
1000 tons.
The first problem was production of
arms. The government began with a
plan that framed a pattern of produc-
ton for the country. All of Australias
$4,000 factories capable of meeting a war
order were fitted into the master plan
and designed to do the work of a single
big arms plant. After two years the
change-over is complete.
Guns Manufactured.
The United States and Britain helped
with the problem of machine tools, and
the Bren gun now is on a mass produc-
tion basis in the government arms plant
at Lithgow, New South Wales. This is
a gun which requires $4,000 separate
tools, jigs and fixtures.
Since last April the British 2-pounder
anti-tank gun has been in mass produc-
ton, with so engineering companies in
These two guns are vital parts of Aus
traias new armored division of $40
units now being built.
But Australia is struggling for indus
trial self-sufficiency. Before the war,
most Australian gasoline was refined To-
cally from crude oil imported from the
Middle East and the United States. Now,
not only as defense measure but also
to preserve dollar exchange with the
United States for vital war purchases,
Australia has rationed gasoline, holding
private car owners to 1000 miles Of driv-
ing year.
The Government is trying to find sub
stitute fuels. The Power Alcohol Com
mittee has plans for producing $780,
900 gallons of spirit from Australian
wheat and sugar surpluses.
Another achievement has been estab-
ushment Of mills in Tasmania to make