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Evening star., 1942-08-21
Washington Produce

BUTTER-93 score. tubs 44L: l-pound
S SSeo5s; tubs; . ~. Bound Prints. lax:
42A: 1-pound prints. 43A: L-pound
prints, 43a4; 80 score tubs, 42h; l-pound
prints, 50: A-pound prints, 43la 50 score
tubs, AZ: l-pound prints, 42h K-pound
prints AZ So score. tubs, 4lh: l-pound
prints ~; A-pound prints. 42Ia.
LIvEsT C K-Calves, IS; spring
lambs, a.
~. From Agricultural Marketing Admins
p.5.leSs EGGsMMarket frm: Prices paid Tor
Ens Stations nsaota Husas s 5eseysa Wb.s t.om
Y. s: Extras, large, 44ha-46: average, 49,;
y: s. Extras. medium, 40-42, syeraxe,
41A: y: s. Standards, large, 39-41: aver.
age a9h: U. 6; Standards, medium, 35-
Browns--U. 8. Extras, large, 44.4b: 444ss' aver. .r
age. AN; U. s. Extras. medium, 39-4i;
%: average, $shs: g. Gssaasas s standaIds ARDS ms- ss-
dium,, 34-37; average. 35h: b. S. Trades
1898; average, 32Ka Nearby unrraded
eggs-Current receipts. whites 3g-33
mixed colors, 3O-31. Receipts. Government
graded esgs, ~ cases.
LIVE POuLTRY-Market steady. Fowl.
colored, 5 pounds and up. 2I-22; under 5
pounds. 1920: Leghorn hens. 3h pounds
and up; 1918: No, Is. 1O-1l. Roosters,
l5-i6. Chickens, Delaware and Maryland.
Rocks and Crosses. broilers and fryers. ali
sizes, %; No. 2s, 20: Reds, 2R-27; Leg.
horns, 90. Turkeys. young. toms and
hens IS.
Evening star., 1942-08-21
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO, Aug. 2l lR Omitted states
hoss, 5000; total. 5000; market closing
weights; good to choice 1S0-240 pounds,
14.S5-l5.05: top. 15. 10: 240-70 pounds
1470-l5.0Q; 270,360 pounds I4.35-SO;
sows mostly 10 lower; good and choice
$40 pounds down. IA .25-35; 330-400
pounds 14.oo-25; 4oo-55o pounds, 1880
Salable cattle, 1000; calves. 900; fed
steers and yearlings steady to % lower;
mostly steady to weak; less desirable kill
ing quality considered: general undertone
showed less strength than earlier in week.
however, on all grades and classes except;
ing strictly good and choice steers and
yearlings; best steers today. 1875; these
scaling 1880 pounds: bulk, 12.75-14.75;
no choice heifers here; best around 400;
medium grade heifers weak: 25 under
weeks high time; beef cows dull and weak
at $50 upward; canners and cutters
weak. with 1l;s5 practical top; vealers
Salable sheep. 1000: total, IL 900; late
Thursday; spring lambs slow. strong to 10
higher: other classes steady; best native
spri1sers. 1850; todsny's trade; al 81, classes
native lambs, 1500-35; light throwouts.
1880 down: buck lambs discounted
Loo choice 115-pound fat ewes 6.75:
several decks common to medium lots un-
sorted. 5.50-75. scaling S0-S6 pounds.
Evening star., 1942-08-21
Bills discounted
Chicago Grain
81 TIE Associated Press.


CHICAGO, Aug. 2O.-Wheat prices
fluctuated within q range OF only
u cent bushel today and other
grains except corn held to q cor
respondingly narrow span as the
market reflected contraction OF trad
ing interest because of the uncer-
tainty as to the nature Of anti
imitation proposals now being
drafted in Washington.
Reports that some Government
officials were studying plans that
would mean eventual virtual stabili-
zation on farm prices around parity
levels chilled both buyers and
sellers. Traders said there was no
incentive for investment or specu-
lative action until this situation is
clarified and as a result the market
was guided almost entirely by small
scale commercial transactions.
Wheat closed u lower to Y higher
compared with yesterday, Septem-
Der, 1.18A: December. 1.21N-A;
corn, As-1. higher, September, 49,
IS; December, 87as-h; oats, M
up; rye, h-As higher; soybeans un-
changed to II lower.
Evening star., 1942-08-21
Strike
Continued From First Page J

strike until he had explored the pos
sibilities of settlement. 1t. Col.
George E. Strong of the Army Air
Forces also told the unionists a work
stoppage in aluminium production
would cause an acute danger as I'VE
certainly cannot have adequate air
power if there is an interruption to
aluminium supply"
The delegates from plants at New
Kensington. Pa: Detroit, Edgewater,
N. j.; Alcoa, Tenn; Bauxite, Ark;
Badin, N. c.. and Bridgeport Fair
field, Conn, have been in daily ses-
sion since Wednesday discussing the
War Labor Boards ruling which
found that straight-time hourly
earnings on a company-wide basis
had increased 1873 per cent between
January, 1941, and May. 1912, while
the cost Of living increased Is per
cent.
Stoppage Called Unauthorized.
The board set policy in the
Little Steel case of permitting
wage increases to Offset the cost OF
living increase. Labor members of
the WLB dissented, saying the
ruling in the aluminium case did not
apply the wage formula "in just
and equitable manner"
Union leaders said the stoppage
at the California plant was unau.
thorized, but William B. Taylor
West Coast director of aviation fol-
the CIO United Automobile Work.
ers, said he had been authorized t,
ask presidential Intervention unles.
a settlement was reached at a meet.
ing of union officials and manage.
ment representatives today. Com
pany officials denied there had beer
lockout and said production ha,
been affected only slightly.
Evening star., 1942-08-21
PeppereI| Predicts
Limited Earnings
For Duration
Textile Firm Reports
$l,%5,145 Profit
For Fiscal Year
b. the Associated Press.

BOSTON, Aug. 2l.-Declaring
that for the duration OF the war, at
least. the outlook is for limited net
profits" the Pepperen Manufactur-
ing Co. today reported a net profit
of $l,965,145. after all charges. IN
cluding depreciation and taxes, for
the fiscal year ended June 80.
The net compared with 81 1855
for the preceding fiscal year, the
textile company said in statement.
The firm asserted it has become
increasingly dif1icult to maintain
the conf element of skilled workers
needed for capacity production" and
said that with the exception OF ray
ons the production of It's mills was
now "preponderantly devoted to
goods essential to the war effort"
"All plants are, Of course. operat-
ing at the fullest capacity which the
gradually lessening labor supply per-
mits," the statement added.
"At present about so per cent of
the total pounds of cloth Is being
woven in the Southern mills of the
company, as against 40 per cent in
the Northern mills"
Commenting on the outlook" the
statement said:
Price ceilings have been placed
on all cloth sold and are therefore
rigid, whereas some of the elements
OF the cost Of production are dis
turbingly not rigid.
For example. at the time of writ
ing this report, the all-important
factors In cost, namely, cotton and
labor, have not been frozen. These
elements. together with very severe
tax schedules, combine to erect an
impregnable barrier against any
large net earnings in the immediate
future.
The present substantial surplus
has been built up over long period
OF years and will serve. 1t is hoped,
to assure continuity OF return to
stockholders.
Evening star., 1942-08-21
Army Is Being
|Mexicunized.'
Foddis Jibes
Pv the Associated Press,

Disclosure by the War Depart
ment that 1887 civilians with no
previous experience as military off,
GERS had received Army commits
sions during the 60 days beginning
last June /. brought from Repre-
sentative Faddis. Democrat, OF
Pennsylvania, today the comment
that the United States Army lis
getting Mexicanized"
Mr.. Faddis, sponsor Of legislation
requiring the armed services to
make periodic reports on civilian
commissions, said he was surprised
that "the list isn't bigger
They've curtailed some," he COM
mented, probably because the gen.
eral staff has been cut down and
they can't get around to issuing
the commissions so fast now"
They've probably commissioned
every movie actor who can stane
| up by himself" he declared. TITS
hard to find anybody below a briga
dier general"
Secretary of War Stimson said il
announcing the number of commits.
sions that a large percentage wer,
much-needed doctors and othe
technical men.
Evening star., 1942-08-21

with an invasion from the Crimea.
were credited officially with sink
ing 7,000-ton Nazi transport In the
Black Sea.
Local fighting persisted on the
Leningrad front. Concentrating
Red Army troops were reported to
have forced river crossing to dis
lodge the Germans from settle
ment Guerrillas were said to have
re-won two villages and killed 80
Germans in that area recently.
Other guerrillas, operating In
White Russia behind the invaders
central front lines, killed three
German generals, 104 other officers,
$50 Gestapo agents and AIT troops
during July, special government
statement said.
Evening star., 1942-08-21
Colgate e-Pa|moIive
Reports S1,241,073
Net in First Half
Result Slightly Below
81, 3o9 ,074 Earned
In Some lo4l Period
B, the Associated Press.

BS tne ASSOCldteu FTesS.
NEW YORK. Aug. 21.-Coigate-
Palmolive-Peet Co, soap manufac-
turers. reported net profit of s2,24l.-
073, or $10l common share, for
the 1912 first half, compared with
81, ,399.074, or $109 share, in the
like 1941 period
Net sales of $58,614,993 compared
with s51, ,742 ,439 in the similar l94l
half year Accounts Of subsidiaries
and branches outside the Western
Hemisphere were excluded from the
report.
Borden Co.
Borden Co. reported net income
for the six months ended June 30
was $3,378 ,186, or II cents a share,
compared with $3,510,581, or 80 cents
a share, in the like 1941 period.
Income for the six months was
after provision of $1,000 900 for
special contingencies against $780,
600 set aside in the comparable 1941
period
AS much evaporated milk was pro-
duced in the six-month period as
the total for all of 1941, the COM
pany said, adding that the increase
was to meet Government needs.
Pere Marquette.
Pere Marquette Railway reports
$328,875 July net income against
$3.50 ,539 the same 1941 month. For
the seven months net totaled ST.
! 498, ,42l, against $2.151 ,293.
American Cyanamid.
American Cyanamid Co. reported
for six months ended June 30 net
income of s2,089,001, equal to 6s
cents a share on the common stock
This compared with 81, 2,592. .762, or 81
cents a share, in the first half OF
l941. The companys tax bill this
year was $7,767 ,0O4, against IS, ,o62, ,191
in the first part of 1941.
Great Northern Paper.
Great Northern Paper Co. reported
for six months to June 80 net profit
of s843,2l4, equal to IS cents a CAPT.
tai share compared with 81 ,288, ,485
or $l29 share, in the comparable
period of 1941
Vanadium Corp.
Vanadium Corp. of America re-
ported for the first six month net
profit of $152. 2.598, equal to 81 cents
a share on its capital stock, COM
pared with $703, 1852, or $173 a share
in the like months OF 1941.
Evening star., 1942-08-21
Wholesale Price Index
Highest Since 1926
~ tn. A.sociatad pr.s,

Rs the Associated Press.
The Labor Department reported
Yesterday wholesale prices during
the week ended August Is reached
the highest level since October, 1925.
At 98.9 per cent of the 1925 level
the index has risen 0.6 per cent, in
the past month and is 10 per cent
higher than at the corresponding
time last year.
Average prices for food rose o.s
per cent during the week and farm
products increased o.6 per cent.
Department records showed that
the index in the corresponding week
OF 1887 stood at 875. In August.
1929, it was 96.3.
Evening star., 1942-08-21
BY EDDY GILMORE,

hsSuSlhtcO EIeSS war NUITcbpOHQeHt.
MOSCOW, Aug. 21.-Adolf Hitler
launched his unsuccessful assault on
Leningrad a year ago today, be-
sieging the former capital with 3d.
900 soldiers.
After IL months, the city's de-
tenders fight on.
The Soviet Information Bureau
announced at noon that more than
1000 Germans had been wiped out
in 48 hours of local fighting on the
Leningrad front and that Russian
troops captured an important stra-
tegic position in a limited offensive.
I'VE destroyed 10 machine guns,
three mortars and two ammunition
dumps and seven enemy artillery
batteries were silenced," the bureau
said in summing up the latest de-
ivelopments of the struggle Joined
when the Germans struck August 81,
i1941.
People Helped Fight.
Civilians called into action by
Marshal Klementi Voroshilow from
the population of 100000 helped
sRed Army divisions to stem the on
lslaughts. ..r.
Stand firm to the end" was his
.erder, and they did even more.
The Communist Party newspaper
Pravda said the Nazi high command
Aligned 50 infantry divisions, four
smotorized divisions and four tank
tdivisions against Russia's second
scity-previously known as st. Peters,
sburg and Petrograd.
The Germans hauled up 5000 big
guns, $4,000 machineguns. $500 NOR
ktars and 1000 tanks and supported
Hhese ground weapons with 1000
tplanes, expecting to smash into
Meningrad Immediately.
(There is no question that the
Germans believed the fall of
! Leningrad was a certainty at this
I time last year American corre-
4 spondents In Berlin were told so,
! and a trip was arranged so that
they could see the triumphal
entry.
(The Germans planned to per-
NIT the Firms to enter first and
the correspondents were sent to
Helsinki. But on their arrival
Finnish officers told them: ''The
only way you'll get into Lenin-
grad is by parachute. A few
days later the correspondents
were back in Berlin, twitting high
German officials who had ar
ranged the wild goose chase.)
Women Take Up Guns.
The Red Army dug in against the
assault. Workmen dropped their
tools In factories and took up guns.
Women and children replaced the
workers to keep industrial wheels
turning.
Bombs fell by day and by night
and long-range guns hurled explo-
sives into the city, but neither the
Red Army lines nor the civilian
population cracked.
M To the accompaniment of the
sceaseless bombardment and German
Threats from three sides. summer
faded into autumn and autumn into
v terrible winter siege.
6 Through everything, one thin line
Evening star., 1942-08-21
InfIution
Continued From First Page.)

were raised in certain areas to iron
out inequities. Fluid milk prices,
for example, were permitted to rise
In several sections to bring an un-
balanced distribution back to
normal.
Second, because below ceiling
price sales came to an end and re-
tail stores restored their prices to
the allowable maximums.
Third, the ever present pos
sibility of small-scale violation of
the ceilings. ...
The reports on Judge Rosenman's
job said he is finding SO many diff
ferent opinions among the various
Government agencies that he feels
that the administration attack on
imitation should be unified by put
ting all the important officials con-
nected with the problem on the same
committee.
In the Norfolk address to rally of
war workers, Mr.. Henderson asserted.
1T Is question of whether we want
to win this war or whether we want
personally to profit from it."
Saying Americans must choose to-
day because tomorrow may be too
late, Mr.. Henderson said. Now, in
the ninth month of war, we face one
stark, certain fact-unless we now
move ahead in our fight against in
flation, that battle will be lost" he
continued.
Il have already begun the battle.
am working with the Secretary of
Agriculture on plan for a ceiling
on some farm prices. Many prices.
over which we have so far had no
substantial control, are now up. In
enect, that means that the farmer is
going to be asked to take less for his
product. 1t is my firm conviction
that he must take less, from now on
for many of his products"
Placing wage and salary increases
during the last year at 81 200 .O0O. 900
a month, Mr.. Henderson said the
cost Of living "has not even begun to
catch up" He added:
I say to you once again in all
seriousness that If we are to
win this fight against imitation in.
creases of that sort in the income OF
any one group must not continue
Can we afford to fight a war for
the profit of any one group?
"The wage Garner must be pre-
pared to forego wage increases be-
yound those clearly dictated by ne
cessity. He must be prepared to ac-
cept stabilization of wages. He must
be prepared to enlist in the offensive
I am proposing.
Does that mean that the farmer
and the wage Garner alone must &C
cept these sacrifices. BY no means
Corporations-big and small-must
also accept the necessity for reduced
income both for their shareholder.
and for their officers"
Evening star., 1942-08-21
Petroleum
Continued From First Page.)

that approximately $4,000 tank cars
will be in service hauling oil to the
East. as compared to only 1000 in
January. 1941. The stepping up of
tank car service was necessitated by
submarine action against ocean,
going tankers and diversion of those
ships to military needs.
Tank cars will no longer be used to
transport motor gasoline in all of
Middle West and Southwest States
with the exception OF New Mexico.
That State was omitted from the
ban, it was explained, since it has
no oil pipeline facilities.
Deputy Co-ordinator Ralph T.
Davis said that the new diversion
means that almost 10 per cent of
all cars in petroleum service In the
United States will be assigned to
the East Coast.
The States affected by the order
are Texas, Louisiana. Mississippi,
Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Ten
nessee,. Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, and North and South Dakota
A spokesman for the OPA said yes
terday the petroleum supply situa
ton in the East was getting worse
rather than better" despite steps
taken thus far to increase the flow
and conserve stocks. He described
both fuel oil rationing along the
Atlantic seaboard and gasoline ra-
tioning farther West as inevitable ir
any solution of the problem.
May Extend Gas Rationinx.
Rationing of fuel oil alone would
not clear up the situation, he said
This step would conserve the stocks
during the heating season. There
must be gasoline rationing at least
as far west as the Mississippi anc
"soon," he added. so that oil stocks
may be built up to take care of the
first demands Of winter.
OPA has been working out the de-
tails for fuel oil rationing SO thu
plan will be In readiness should
such rationing be decided on. Se
far . decision has not been reached
on whether to have coupon ration.
ing or q limitation OF oil deliveries
Rationing, however, is considered
inevitable although 1t will supply
only part OF the answer.
Z The omcial said that while per
Evening star., 1942-08-21
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK Aug Il l4N.--Late foreign
exchange rates follow Great Britain In
dollars, others in cents):
Canada: Official Canadian Control
Board rates for United States dollars:
per cent to dseounts
on Canadian dollars in New York OF buy
Ing. 9.9l per cent; selling, 300 per cent
Canadian dollar in New York open mar
ket, 1Oi. per cent discount or 80.56A
United States cents. down j. cent;
roTsirn 91sn. Britan aeai
ing. 402; selling, 4.O4 open market; cables.
4O4.
Latin America: Argentina official. 90. n;
free. %. .6S, down 1-5O cent; Brazil. official,
6.o5n: free. 5,2On, Mexico, 20.66n.
Rates IN SPOT cables unless otherwise
indicated.
Nominal .=.E
Evening star., 1942-08-21
Chicago Produce

80; nrm; hens, over pounds, %; 5
2Oh; broilers. 2ta pounds and down. col
Rock. 26h; springs, 4 pounds up. colored
"a; Plymouth Rock. gan. White Rock. 25;
under pounds, colored. %; Plymouth
chickens. 1890: roosters, 15h: Leghorn
roosters,. .1b; ducks, Al pounds up; eol-
14h: white, l4h; reese. 10; turkeys.
toms, 20; hens, 80
Butter receipts, 754,1s2; Arm; prices as
quoted by the Chicaso price current;
creamery. 90 score. 41s4; other prices un-
changed
Eggs. receipts. 1916; frm; market un-
changed.
Evening star., 1942-08-21
City Offers to Buy
Frankfort Utilities
By the Associated Press.

By Inc A9socIated PreaS.
NEW YORK. Aug. 2l.-Mayor c.
T. Coleman and members Of the
Frankfort Ky) Electric Plant
Board, representing that city. yes
terday offered to buy electric and
water properties In Frankfort oper.
ated by the Tri-City Utility Co.
Representatives Of Tri-City and
its parent company. Associated
Electric Co., met with the Kentucky
delegates In preliminary discussions.
The sum offered was not dis
closed but one person attending the
meeting. who declined to be identi-
fled, said representatives were not
agreed on the price.
Evening star., 1942-08-21
German Agent Killed
By Soviet GuerriIIos
a, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. 21.-Red Star re-
ported today that Adolf Beck, Ger
man agent for IA $50 acres Of Lenin-
grad Province farm lands, had been
killed by guerrillas.
The army papers story said his
assistants also were slain, his ONCE
twas burned and farm machinery In
stended for Germany wkS seized.
Evening star., 1942-08-21
London Market Firm
In Final Dealings

By TIE Associated Press
LONDON, Aug. 2l.-The stock
market closed the week today with
firm tone.
1ndustrials ended irregular with
home rails dull, oils steady, dia-
monds higher, kaf1airs easier and
copper firmer.
British funds advanced and Bra
lillian bonds rallied in the foreign
list.
Evening star., 1942-08-21

OF supply and reinforcement was
kept open to the city by train,
sledge and truck. Food ran short
and malnutrition cut down many,
but defenses held.
Soviet counteroffensives finally
threw the Germans back and the
spring and summer brought relief.
Although the pressure is still on it,
the city's position is eased.
Evening star., 1942-08-21
SoIomons
Continued From First Page.)
patton OF these bases virtually
was completely
RaidnHs RA4urn Cafnlu

/ patton OF these bases virtually
& was completely
4 Raiders Return Safely.
& All the Allied raiders returned
&afely from the Timor mission, said
hhe bulletin, which made no men
tion of any Japanese aerial opposi-
Zion.
q One of the pilots returning from
tthe Maobisse raid told of seeing "a
lot Of Japanese soldiers running for
their lives for the shelter of the
1ungle."
q The bombers dropped to low lev
els to attack the place, native
settlement II miles south of Dill, in
The Portuguese part of the island.
Z Diving on their targets, the bomb
Nrs hit fuel or ammunition dumps,
and when they pulled out Of their
dives their gunners peppered OBJ
tectives with machine-gun bullets.
The leader of the bombers was so
satisfied with the success Of the raid
that he ordered bottle Of beer is
sued to each member of the raiding
party-a luxury in their northern
Australian base.
Reconnaissance Activity.
Macarthur headquarters only
reference to the situation in the
Solomons-where Allied bombers
were reported to have attacked
japanese warships the previous day
IN the Bougainville area at the ex-
treme northern end of the archi-
pelago-was terse line In the COM
munique saying:
Northeastern sector-Reconnais-
sance activity only
A spokesman at the headquarters
declared, however, that no infer
ences should be drawn from the
lack of activity reported in that
sector. t
Dispatches from Auckland, New
Zealand, quoted informed sources
there as saying the japanese were
busily reorganizing their naval ano
air forces In the northern Solomons
apparently in preparation for some
sort of counterblow against the
newly won Allied footholds to the
south.
Japanese land forces in the Sol.
onions, these sources declared, were
waging a bitter delaying action II
the evident hope of receiving rein
forcements, and they declared the
outcome still hangs in the balance
with the scale at present tipped II
favor of the Allies.
Following is the text OF Nav,
communique No. 109, based on re
ports received up to $50 pm. yes
terday:
South Pacific area:
II. United States Marines are en-
gagged in 'mopping up remnants Q
the japanese forces on the island
which were recently captured in tn
Solomon Archipelago.
20. Casual bombardments of ou
shore positions by enemy aircraf
destroyers and submarines have in
fiicted only minor damage.
"3. An enemy destroyer or cruise
was bombed and set afire by ou
aircraft.
-. There is nothing to repol
from other areas"
Evening star., 1942-08-21
Policy
Continued From First Page.

trying to undermine public conf
dence In the Government. Why
should members of that Govern
ment help him along by undermin-
ing 1t themselves?
Where honest differences OF
opinion exist no one would propose
to suppress them. Nor would any
one attempt to. interfere, with the