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Evening star., 1941-04-05
Stock Leaders Drift
Downward After
Early HesitancY
Fractional Declines
Widely Distributed
At Sessions Close
BY VICTOR EUBANK.


NEW YORK, April 5.-The stock
market was surrounded by war and
labor questions today and few lead
erS we're able to break out with even
small advances.
Efforts to pick a trend were not
ably unsuccessful at The start. While
dealings were exceptionally sluggish,
prices began to slip after the first
hour and minor fractional declines
were widely distributed at the close.
Transfers for the two hours were
around 250,0O0 shares.
Shortening of commitments in
many instances. brokers said, was
due to the desire of holders to clear
decks for protection against un-
toward happenings over the week
end.
Further conservatism apparently
was inspired by bulletins from
abroad telling of the Zero hour"
being at hand in the Balkans.
Some pessimism was aroused by
the fact all Ford plants were shut
down as a result of the c. I. o.
strike and 10000 workers made
idle. In addition there was threat
of walkout in the United States
Steel Corp. affecting some 250,000.
Negotiations of "big steel'' officials
with union representative were said
to have reached a deadlock. At
the same time, Federal conciliators
expressed the opinion a number of
soft coal miners would reopen next
week whether or not operators sign
a contract with the union.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
D. T.. Store Volumes
45Per Cent Ahead
OF Year Ago
Startling Goin Loid
Chiefly to Difference
In Easter Dates
BY EDWARD c. STONE.

Rejecting very heavy Easter
trade, department store sales in
Washington for the week ended
March 30 were As per cent ahead
of the corresponding week year
ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond reported today
The startling gain was chiefly due
to the difference in Easter dates,
the week this year being before
Easter, while the period last year
was mostly after the Easter shop
ping, the bank pointed out.
Still larger gains were reported
elsewhere in the district. The av-
erage increase was 55 per cent,
Baltimore sales were up IS per cent,
and a group of other cities noted a
pickup of 66 per cent over the week
ended March 80 a year ago.
Compared with the previous week
ending March % this year. sales in
Washington stores were off per
cent. Sales in the whole district
were up per cent, advanced Is
per cent in Baltimore and II per
cent in a group of other cities, the
survey said.
In the four weeks ended March
% sales in the Capital were II per
cent higher than in the four weeks
ended March 30, l940 The gain
In the whole fifth district was also
II per cent. In Baltimore sales
were II per cent better than a year
ago and in the cities grouped to-
gether 3 per cent, the review stated.
The governors of the Federal Re-
serve System announced yesterday
that department store sales in the
fifth district from January through
March 90 ran IS per cent ahead of
last year, the best record among
the IL districts. The national gain
in the three months was 10 per cent.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
CottonSeed Oil,

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
IL to II higher Sales. 2S9 contracts.
May S.64: July, S.64; September, e.73-14;
October. $40
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Washington Produce

BUTTER-93 score, tubs. 3574; 1.,pound
seore tubs s44 pound RthIS Prints,
s4-pound prints 3594
LIVESTOCK-Calves, 101a; spring lambs,
: From Agricultural Marketing Service.
Prices paid net fob Washington:
EGGS-Market steady on Federal-State
graded eggs, about steady on nearby un-
graded eggs. Prices paid for Federal-State
graded eggs received from grading stations
lApril 81: Whites. U. S. extras. large. 90
q; U S. extras, mediums, 20-22; U. S.
standards, large, 1924: U. s.. standards,
mediums, 1921; U. S. trades. 1921;
brown U. S. extras, large, 24-27 U.
s. extras, mediums, 20-22; U. S. stand
ards, large. 2223; U. S. standards, medi-
ums, 1921: U. S. trades. 1921; for nearby
ungraded eggs, current receipts, whites. 19
2l; mixed colors. 1920.
LIVE PoULTRY.,5M5sTket, steady, fowl,
Ieghorn hens, all sizes, 1914; roosters, 10
T.; chicken, 9n ;, virginia broilerS and fgyers.
and crosses, broilers and fryers. all sizes;
1920; No. 2s, IA, turkeys young hens: all
sizes, %; No, 2s IA; young toms. all sizes.
is: No. IS, 1914.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK, April dP.-The Canadian
dollar dropped more than .O6 OF cent IN
terms of the United States dollar in open
market foreign exchange dealings today.
Most exchanges quoted had only NOM
inal market in view of the low lever OF IN
ternational transactions.
Late rates follow Great Britain IN DOL
lars, others in centS):
Canada.
Ofncial Canadian Control Board rates for
United States dollars: Buying, ~ per cent
premium. selling, IL per cent premium
equivalent to discounts on Canadian dollars
in New York Of buying, 9.91 per cent: SELL
ing. 900 per cent.
ket, 13 per cent discount, or 500 United
States cents.
Great Britain, official bankers Foreign
Exchange Committee rates., buying, 4.02;
selling, 4 .O4; open market, cables .03t2:
land. 2.05n; Greece. .6Sn: Hungary
1884; Switzerland, '23.22la: Yugoslavia,
2.30n.
Latin America.
Argentina, official, 2977; free, 2315;
Brazil, oficial. 6.05n: free, 5.00n: Mexico,
20.70n.
Japan, 234s; Hong Kong. 24.63; shans-
Rates in spot cables unless otherwise in
~ Nominal. 'For commercial transac-
tions
Evening star., 1941-04-05

7 Unit Of trading. ten shares.
r In bankruptcy or recetverShlp or being
reorganized under Bankruptcy Act. or Sc
CuritieS assumed by such companies.
Rates of dividend in the foregoing tole
are annual disbursements based on the last
quarerly or semi-annual declaration. Un-
less otherwise noted special or extra div
idends are not included
XXX dividend xr Ex rights. a Also extra
or extras d Cash or stock Paid last
year Payable in stock. 2 Declared or
paid so far this year. Accumulated div
idends paid or declared this year.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
New York Cotton

NEW YORK, April 5.-Cotton fu-
lures were steady in narrow range
today. Trade and mill absorption
offset scale up selling by spot in
terests, presumably hedging against
loan repossessions. Scattered Bonn
bay and commission house liquida-
ton was in evidence early but these
offerings were quickly taken by the
trade
Evening star., 1941-04-05

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 Also extra or
extras Cash or stock. e Paid last year.
I Payable in stock. z declared or paid so
far this year. Payable in Canadian funds.
Accumulated dividends paid or declared
this year. WV With warrants. XIV With
out warrants. war Warrants s Unit Of
trading less than 100 shares: sales are
given in full.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Jeon Rooers Seeks Divorce

LOS ANGELES, April S P.-Jean
Rogers, screen actress, filed suit yes
terday to divorce Daniel Winkler,
studio talent executive, with whom
she eloped to Yuma, Ariz,, January
7, 1920. She charged cruelty.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Washington Exchange

SALES.
Capital Traction 1st 5s-$1 900 at
1861.
AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas Light pfd.-5 at
l04.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24
Seize All Profits
Above ( Per Cent,
korgenthau Urges
Secretary of Treasury
Declares Corporation
Taxes Must Go Up

WASHINGTON, Sept. "a.
(UP) = Secretary of Treas
ury Henry Morgenthau, il,
declaring that this country
"is going to have much more
stringent laws affecting excess prof
its" recommended today that all
corporations be allowed only q six
per cent return on their invested
capital
All above this return should be
subject TO 100 per cent taxation.
Morgenthau told the house bank
ing committee during hearings or
the price control bill.
Under questioning he said heavier
taxes on corporations also are need
ed as an anti-infla ~On measure.
Referring to the recently enacted
1888 100000 tax bill, Morgenthau
said.
We would have liked then to go
further on the question OF excess
profits. I still feel that We are
going 10 have much more stringent
laws affecting excess profits.
If We are going to ask anybody
else to be patriotic and make sacri-
tlees, the owners of corporations
Continued Cn Page 8. col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24
NO SOAP, BOYS
GalsDeClineShOWersfOrTWO I WO

showers for the duration of the
drought was spUrned in rhyme to-
day.
The offer to the COLLEGES 1000
ccmely il dirty" girls was rejected.
i'll Il couplet signed by the student
government and telegraphcd to tn,
Crimson office. 1t read:
The uuWaShed misses regret.
No real necessity yet
In their invitation, tie Crimson
editors had explained that thcir
showers are big enough for two.
The invitation was teiesraphed
to the student counci! of the girls
college after the Mount HolyOkc
president, Roswell Graz Ham, had
urged the girls to forogo showers
and tub baths because of a water
shortage III the South Hadley area
The telegram read:
Have heard of your Waterles;
plight. Crimson extends inYitatiol:
to all Mount Holyokc girls 10 come
and share our showers. Harvard
men md best way to make friends
is sharing common bath facilities
Now when you feel like girls ii
soap ads and when bathleaS Yale
men won't come within 10 feet OF
you, Harvard wants to make friends.
Our showers are big enough lOr
two. RSVP.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24
Sugar And Gooey Coo

In the OLD days the Boys were q
flowery lot They adopted style
of fancy writing that back anything
OF its kind into corner.
For instance, herewith is a word
for word reproduction from the Oh
ficial minutes Of the board Of SUI
perviSorS for Jan 4 1913.
On motion duly made and passed
the following communication was
adopted.
To the incoming board Ct super
viSorS of Imperial county; California
We the retiring board OF super
visors of Imperial county, CaliIor-
MIA beg to hand you herewith, the
gavel, it is the emblem of authority
OF your chairman, one rap calls the
members to order in dcCOrum, two
rapS calls the mcllbCl5 to their
feet and three raps IS intended to
Quell a row among (lC members, 1t
has never yet been called into ac-
ton with three rapS, and We sin
cercly hope you will have no oc-
casion to use it for said purposes.
Tradition informs IL that such an
instrument has taken human life
and we're the occasion to arise to
call it into use in the third degree,
we fear history might repeat itself
Do not let this come to pass.
Use it, gentlemen. in the best in
terests of the county and humanity
in general and when you pass lron.
office deliver it to your successors
as pure and undetil"d- as you nOW
receive it, and let the remem-
brance of 1t guide your footStcp.
on through life. When the evening
shades draw near and You travel
that road which leads 10 the eternal
resting place, may you. taS Byron
so ably expressed il approach your
grave as one who wraps The drap-
cry of his couch about him and
Continued on Page 8; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24

ficers arrested Beltran near Heber
as he fled northWard after the
stabbing.
His victim was near death in a
Mexicali hospital, officers said, suf-
fering from blood poison which de-
veloped after the stabbing.
Il didn't know the man I stab
bed" Beltran said. I warned him to
let my girl alone. He didn't pay any
attention.
He calmly described how he stab
bed his rival with a knife and eX-
tracted the knife. Beltran said ne
was astOnishod when he ran his
finger along the knife blade because
there was little blood on it.
Both Beltran and his rival were
said to have served time in Sar
Quentin penitentiary in California
Beltrau for car theft. Beltran de
clincd to mention the name of his
girl
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24
NOgden Bombsight
Regarded by kazis
As No. One Weapon

NEW YORK, Sept. l. oUPD-A
witness in thc trial of 16 alleged
Nazi spies testified today that Her.
man Lang. former craftsman anG
iinal inspector for Carl L. Norden
Inc. had told him Reichs- Marshal
Hermann Goering considered the
United States secret NOrd2n bomb
light the most important military
object in the history of the world"
William c.. Sct0ld. United State.
C1'lltcreSplonaec agent who posed
a, a geStapo cmr!oyr, said undel
vlos3-eX2Imati0n IN federal court
that Lang told him in July 1910
that the No. . Na2i had made tht
,tatenlcnt to him personally.
Eebold said that Lane had boast
cd that he knew Adolf Hitler we'll
and could appeal to him and 10
Goerin9 By letter il payment was
not received for revealing details
CT the zealously guarded bomb
sight.
Lang said that he had fought
alongside Hitler in street braWls
from 1928 to 1927, Sebold testified
The witness Salo Lang had tod
him I didn't do it for money" and
had added, Il knew Ernst Udet
German flierp, too"
Sebold was questioned by George
Herr, Langs counsel. He said that
he asked Lang how much money
he had received from the German.
government for information on the
bomb Sight
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24
&C. viii Operate
Sans Secretary

FL Centro chamber of commerce
will operate for possibly two weeks
without an executive secretary, at
ter Secretary Robert Hays leaves
October to assume a similar po-
sitlon with the Santa Ana chamber
This was acknowledged Wedncs-
DAY by Gordon Seriven. chairman
OF a special chamber committee
named to select a successor to
Hays.
Scriven said the committee will
meet next week and resume con-
sideration OF applicants. but even
then it is doubtful that a choice will
be made, he said. Twenty six APP
plications for the job have been re-
ceived SO far, and additional ones
continue to come in from day to
day he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24


force as it moved northWard but 1t
left behind at least four dead and
damage to property and rice anG
cotton crops estimated in the mil
lions of dollars. ..-.
Accurate predictions of the storms
course by the federal hurricane
warning service had enabled offic-
ialS to evacuate all endangered res
identS from the sparSely settled
coastal regions which bore the brunt
of the blow.
The lubricant center struck at
Matagorda bay and swept over the
town OF Matagorda Most of the
towns 1000 residents fled but the
few who remained reported by
short wave radio that the wind
reached ITO miles an hour. that
cottages had been smashed anG
fishing boats capsized and the town
was under water.
The Bow Chemical company'S
S25 100000 magnesium plant and
the sulphur mines at Freeport were
not believed to be damaged severely.
Heavy structures throughout the
storm area were believed to have
survived without Gripping damage
Throughout the hundreds OF
square miles of affected coastal re-
gion, however, trees were uprooted.
houses were unroofed, power and
communication seViceS were dis
rup;ed, and in many cases, roads
were flooded with the torrential
rains and gulf backWaters.
Houston, where thousands of ref
ugecS from the loWlands were shell
tered III the Municipal coliseum,
public buildings and private homes,
was bufteted by 65-mile- an hour
winds which smashed plate glass
windows on downtown stores. rip
ped down power and communica-
ton lines i'll localized areas. ant
tlattened small structures.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24
v G. essels
AEre 81 DIV
Arm & q
I25 Ships Owned
By Americans Can
Garry Guns Now
~ LYLE {. WILSON

EASHlNGTON. Sept. 24.
CUP) - Armed. American
owned merchant vessels al
ready are in the British life
line and approximately l25 OF them
can be equipped with guns without
changing the neutrality act 1t was
learned today, o6 President RooSe-
welt contemplated asking congress
tC repeal that legislation.
These 1875 ships sail under the
Panamanian flag but are owned by
Americans - A5 Of them by the
United States government. Not all
OF tnen!, however, are presently
plying to British ports.
The administration tentative
plans to arm the entire American
merchant marine --- United States
flag ships as we'll as those registered
III Panama--combine with war de-
partment intentions to make anti
aircraft weapons the most critical
item on the national defense list.
The ideal gun for the purpose is the
last firing ilve-lnCn dual purpose
gun for use against surface and
air raiders Armed merchantmen
in the World war had only three
inch rifles.
"ENOUGH GUNS"
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox,
Who urged repeal ef the neuUality
act yesterday at the launching OF
the 35,000-ton battleship Massa-
.husetts, has intimated gun
shortage. Mr.. Roosevelt believes,
however, that there are guns en-
ough to go around. He told his press
conference yesterday that We were
headed toward the arming of our
merchant marine but said decision
whether to ask for repeal or amend
ment of the neutrality act toward
that purpose would not be reached
until next week.
The war department already has
Informally advised house appropria-
ton committee members that it
wants a hurry-up appropriation OF
81 ,00C 0G0000 TO accumulate adGi-
t!onal equipment sufficient for an
Continued on Page 8. Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24
RED Army SMASHES BACK At NAz| LINES
Defense Board 10
Seek Plane Truce

WASHINGTON. Sept. - up
-DCfcnse official, said t0da,
tn3t the threatened striee of
Il,C3J Wci"ers n the ColeOli-
dated Aircraft Carp, san Diego,
which ha> S7G9 100000 wol.h q.
Lomb;r contracts, will be GER
tificd to thI dotcn,, mrdiatiOn
LoArd Today or to:rorrCv."
ThcT %aid that negotiations
nov are underway here which
viii result in th2 ccrtiiicatOt
Cf enc waga dispute bctwr"I. ~"
company 2nd the .nte;natioha.
association q. machinista CiELj
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24

of the eastern front
A United States pledge to con-
slider at the proper time what role
can be played by Washington in
postwar relief and a promise by
10 allied governments most of
them in eXilc-to support the RooSe-
yelt- Churchill eight-point declara-
ton were given at the London con-
ference Russia and Britain were
leaders at the meeting.
On the Russian battlefields. the
Red army reported that it had
collapsed a German offensive to-
ward the big Arctic port of Muir
mansk, smashed a German sector
and regained important villages on
the Leningrad front. driven for
ward on the Dvina river sector Of
the central front and renewed fur
ious fighting in defense of the
Ukraine.
POUNDED
Against those Moscow claims.
Berlin reported that German forces
were pounding Leningrad defenses
necessarily with high explosives.
steadily Tightening the siege by cap
ture of new villages and blasting
the Red banner Baltic fleet to pieces
by aerial attack
Dispatches gave this detailed pic
ture of the front:
ARCTIC-The Moscow Red Star
reported that strong Russian coun-
terattackS had collapsed a German
offensive toward Murmansk with at
least 1000 dead on the field. Shows
were reported on some sectors of
the front and intensely cold wealth
er was beginning, these dispatches
said. Berlin made no definite claims
regarding Murmansk.
LENINGRAD-The Russians said
they had smashed a German at
tempt to cross a river defending
Leningrad and, in a counterattack
at night, forded the river and drove
Germans from fortified positions,
recapturirg three villages. a rail-
road station and cutting an import
ant highway. The Germans reported
they had seized a large town outside
Leningrad and that enemy counter
attacks there were becoming weaker,
with Russian corpses piled up be-
fore the German lines" The Rus
sian battleships October Revolution
and Marat again were heavily bomb
ed
CENTRAL - War dispatches TO
Moscow said the Red army had kill
ed $500 Germans and smashed for
ward on the Dyina river sector, due
west of Moscow and northeast OF
SmolensK Severe fighting was re-
ported to have ended when the
remnants of the German forces re-
treated westward The Smolensk sec
tor was reported comparatively
Continued on Page 8. Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24
Braw|eyM Man on
Draft Job Beard

HaZo w. Parker of Brawley
Wedn esday was appointed re-
employment chairman to aid IN
procuring jobs for discharged
SelecteeS.
Appointment was made by
Brig. Gen. Joseph o. Donovan,
state sclective service director.
A total of Al additional chair
mcu were appointed in Cali
fornia. The app0intaas were
said TO nave been selected be
cause CT their knowledge OF en-
p!oyJnent problems and employ
er-emE!oye relations.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24
Phoenix May Face
Citywide Inquiry

PHOENIX, Sept. "a CUPD - A
grand jury Investigation of irregu-
larities in Phoenix city departments
was demanded last night by City
Manager Donald c. Scott as votes
were counted on city charter
amendment election.
Scott requested Superior Judge
M. T. Phelps to summon a grand
jury to investigate alleged short
ages in police department fines and
evidence concerning disappearance
es" Of records of the police depart
ment and other agencies.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24
Axis Hond Seen i'm Labor
Row at cumucho Home

MEXICO CITY, Sept. "a. oUPl-
A Semiofiicial source charged to-
day that some hidden force" was
behind the carnage i'll front of the
home Of President Manuel Avila
Camacho, i'll which troops fired in
to a crowd OF striking workers, kill
ing at least II and Wounding ap-
proXimately Is.
Some hidden force is trying tc
stir up labor troubles" this semi
official source said The govern
ment is not going to stand for 1t.
1t is awful that anybody was killed
Some people thought Don Manuel
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24
&C. Delegation TO
Attend Conference

John w. Donohue, president of
the El Centre chamber of COM
mefce, Walter Hayekorst and Leo
Metzel, members. will attend a
meeting of the California State
chamber of commerce at the Am
oaSSador hctel in Los Angeles
Thursday.
The Ell Centrans planned to at
'eno committee sessions dealings
with industry, agriculture. high-
ways taxes, natural resources. and
industry and priority RATINGS.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24

Wa> soft He is not Holdina man
ltestatlons Al the presidents own
houst Is going too far"
This source indicated that he
thoaaht Axis agents might have
"stllred up the trouble. bat he
Waa not specific He sought to draw
a parallel between Mexican soldiers
dispensing the crowd Of striker.
with bullets and United States sol
dllrs taking over struck defense
plants, and alleged that the work
ers had fired on the troops FIRST.
Labor circles took another view.
1t was that some 700 members Of
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24

A company spokesman said fire
fighters got the conflagration un-
der control with live steam and
chemicals nearly six hours after it
started
Agents of the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation from Hammond and
Indianapolis came here to investi-
gate the possibility of sabotage
Thousands of gallons of high test
aviation gasoline of potential value
0 the U. S. Army was destroyed.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24

the striking federation of munitions
workers had been peaceably demon
stratng IN front OF the president
home. that their leaders sought to
see the president. that the COM
mander OF the detachment guard.
ing the president ordered the crowd
to diopcrSe, that he commanded his
men TO fire when the Strikers do
not obey promptly Union leaders
privately expressed anger md
and predicted that u
crisis might result between the gov
elnmcnt and Mexican labor. which
Is well organized.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24

AT first fire fighters believed they
had the flames cooped within a
10000 square-yard area but wit
neSses said the southeast wind had
caused additional territory to be
cngulfcd. Approximately 20 explo-
sionS were heard as tank after tank
blew up.
At one time flames shot out over
homes nearly half a mile from
the plant but q shift in the drec-
ton of the wind saved them from
destruction.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-24
e AMBLING
TX EPORTER
RR. Alias the Dog Finder

RR, Alias the Dog Finder
Some as yet unidentified FL Cen
trans lost dog is anXiously waiting
for it's owner to reclaim it from
the San Diego Humane society
Wearing an Fl Centre dog tax t"c,
this wire haired male dog was found
in San Diego 70 days or Two Woet:
ago. The owner had tctlcl hurry On
the dog will be eliminated The
humane society can kssp such ami
mails for only a limited time.
RR is only pinch hl'ting for CITY
Clerk Neal Gavin. VINO can't bca,
to have the dog abandoned perm
anently.