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Evening star., 1942-12-20
Australian War Bond
Drive Exceeds Goal

OTTAWA, Ontario, Dec. 10 (Can-
adian Press Sir William Glasgow
Australian high commissioner, has
received a cable from Canberra an
nouncing over-subscription of Aus
tralia's new war loan.
The Australian government asked
for fl00,000,000 (about $500 900 0OO)
and received applications for f104.-
100000 (about 1885 5,12o, ,000). Of this
amount 82.3O0,0O0 was in cash sub
scriptions and Ell ,900O 900 in conver-
sions of maturing f22 100 900 issue,
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coin NatlOnal |
Bank, succeed
ing Al b e r t S,
Galley, who has
retired from full
time b a n k i n G,
started his bank
ing career with
the Lincoln as a
m e S S e n G er or
runner, as they
were called then.
It was the way
many Washing
ton inanciel's
got into banking
He advanced
Evening star., 1942-12-20
Chicoqo Produce

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 QP).-Butter re-
eeipts, 4l5.147 pounds eggs, a,l9S cases;
prices firm and UNCHANGED
Potatoes arrivals 1o6, on track. 29l
total u S, shipments, 555: supplies mod
crate; trading very light: steady for best
stock; Idaho Russet Burbanks U. S No. |
1858 90; Colorado Red McClures, u S
No. /. $50; Nebraska Bliss Triumphs
o. 8. No. l. 2.S5-95: Minnesota and North
Dakota, Bliss Triumphs commercials ano
U. 8. No. /. 1.e0-2.35; Early Ohios, COM
mercial rs.
Evening star., 1942-12-20
Columbia Pictures
Reports Higher Net
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. Dec. 19.-Columbia
Pictures Corp. in preliminary
statement for the quarter ended
Sept. Is reported today a net profit
of 1912 900, equal to II cents COM
mon share, against $262.0O0 or 81
cents a common share in the COM
parable quarter of the preceding
fiscal year.
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Cotton Futures Rise.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 lP,.-Cotton
futures prices advanced to IS cents
a bale today as traders discussed talk
of farm bloc pressure in Washington
for upward revision of agricultural
prices.
The minor upturn was held in
check by profit taking and some
hedge selling, but the tone was
steady throughout the short session.
Trade buyers for mill accounts
were active in nearby futures and
new commission house buying was
evident in the later delivery con-
tracts.
The range:
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VHIVHE" 0dSH 'IdTkFI
Cash wheat prices were quoted LIZ
cents higher today basis stronger. re-
ceipts, 81 cars: shipping sales, 10000
bushels. Corn. choice, IL i HIGHER; basis
strong for choice. off grades easier: re-
ccipts. ;1nn cars; shpnjnc s"lee. 5000
bushels; bookings. $1,000 bushels Oats,
l2't higher: basis for C-,oce firm. lower
grades easier; receipts, 8 cars shipping
sales, $4,000 bushels.
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Spot cotton closed steady. 20 cents a
bale higher. Sales. 2.456: low middlne.
0c; receipts, 1873: stock. 331 ,53s
Average. price of mddling 15Il6th inch
cotton today at 10 designated Southern
spot markets was 1878.
b Bid. Nominal
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Odd-Lot DeuIinos

PHILADELPHIA. Dec 10 LP.-The Sc
curlties Commission reported today these
dealers or specialists on the New York
Stock Exchange for December IS: 4Is4
purchases involving l22,16O shares: 4 1Ss
sales. involving 136.o69 shares including
- short sales involving S02 shares.
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Weekly Financial Hiqh Liqhts

Money Call money
latest
term Government bonds previous week.
1867 New York
week. A h Bank Of previous
week. 2o ago. 29 Sources American
OF Railroads York Stock Exchange Edison
Institute American Petroleum
and g. Reserve 49, Federal
Reserve On Treasury maturity
m / per '' "o
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New Orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec 10 P,-Cotton
futures advanced here today on weekend
short covering. The market closed
steady Is to 35 cents a bale higher
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Capital Securities
lover the Counter.)

The following nominal bid and asked
quotations on Washington securities traded
over the counter as Of Friday have been
assembled for, The Star by washington
members Of the National Association Of
Securities Dealers, Inc:
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Corporation Earnings

NEW YORK, Dec 10 P-Corporate
earnings reports released during the past
week. showing profits per share of COM
mon stock, included:
Year Ended Ssntsxuh.r
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Daily Price Average.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1R.-The Associated
Press weighted wholesale price index of 80
commodities today was unchanged at
1927
Previous day 102 27; week ago 101 so:
month ago, l00.6l: year ago, "a 43
1912. 194l. 1910. 1933-39.
High 1O24S 9512 1925 9S14
Low 1854 77O3 $3.50 4l44
G926 average equals 1909
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Washington Stock Exchange

Ceported By W. Co.
TRANSACTIONS
INCLUDING
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oP in r
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Stock Market Rest!
After One Of Best
Weeks Of Year
Profit Toking Brings
Mild lrreeulority;
Average Unchanged

WHAT STOCKS DID.
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PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Sales. PUBLIC UTILITIES.
$1,000 Ana & Pot Riv r r guar IS
1000 Ana e. Pot Riv R r mod 80
15s, 900 Capital Traction lst IS ls47
5000 City & Suburban Ry mod 80
12,500 GEORGETOWN Gas Light 1st 5.
5000 Pot Elec Pow 1st 3As 1856
$1,000 Wash Gas Light 1st 5s 1850
10000 Wash Ry & Elec Cons As 195
Evening star., 1942-01-09
Chicuqo Livestock

CHICAGO. Jan o Up, Omitted States De-
partment OF Asriculture).-Salable hoss.
1000; total. 81. 800; generally SIS lower:
weights 24o poands and up OF most sood
practical top, l.65: load or 50; l1;10 and
pounds IL $3.50; Sows around 10 lower.
good 100000 pounds. 99O-l0.40; few
hghtee weights to 1866.
rbS,Edas. saiaSle sheep npVo total 300; late
loves bulk good and choice fat native and
weight yearlings, 90; choice shorn
lambs, 100. Today's trade: Fat LAMBS
1925 lower: bulk good and choice fat ma
tives and fed westerns, io.25-65: throw
to choice summer shorn lambs. II 1920:
fat sheep about steady: choice fed range
ewes 6.50-15 with throwouts mostly 4.50
SaIable cattle, 1000; calves. 400: fol-
market on good and choice fed steers and
yearllngs: common to medium Grades
steady. however: common kinds fairly active
at 9.50-1000: choice 1.2O0-pound steers
topped at 400; fey loads good to choice
cattle being taken, of market. however.
GOOD 10 choice heifers dull. but common
and medium grades steady along with
fully steady trade on cows; cutters fairly
actiye tNz again "a 49,, At sna down to 5S Gamers
pound cows, 1868; bulls frm: practical top
heavy sausage bulls, 1065: only very lieht
bulls selling under 925; vealers scarce
yealers: stock cattle scarce. steady. mostly
9.75- ii .25 on medium to good 1OO-S50
pound averages.
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Scrap Shortage Felt
Only in Civilian
Steel Output
War Orders to Take
About Third of
TotuI Production
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. "a scrap
shortage in the American steel in
dustry will have no effect on war
production, steel men said today in
noting that the scrap sold to Japan
in the past seven years would have
more than covered the want here.
The result Of the scrap lack, they
pointed out, will be felt only in
production for civilian consumption.
Because of the shortage, they said,
the steel industry in l94l produced
80, 900 900 tons of steel, or 100000
tons short of capacity and this year
may produce only 100000 instead
of an expected capacity of $4,000, 900
tons.
Caly about one-third of the total
United States steel production, the
steel men said, Is needed for
ornaments of the land and sea
forces while the remaining two
thirds are devoted to civilian needs.
They said that in the past seven
years the United States exported
approximately 22,0oO,000 tons of
scrap, about half of it to Japan,
whose annual steel production
capacity is equal to only about a
two-month production here.
The scrap shortage in the United
States now, they said, is about
100000 tons and can be expected to
remain at that figure so long as the
industry is working at peak steel
production.
Evening star., 1942-01-09
10 Per Cent Increase
Asked in Railway
Express Rates
Agency Urges !. {. {.
Approval Near End
Of St. Louis Hearing
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 9-The Railway
Express Agency. Inc, applied to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
today for an additional emergency
charge of 10 cents on each shipment.
The request came near the end Of
the commissions week-long hearing
on the application of the Nations
railroads and water carriers for a
general 10 per cent increase in
freight and passenger rates.
The express agency asked that the
special charge become effective JAN
uary 20. unless the tariff is suspend
ed by the commission for investi-
CATION.
More than $50 witnesses have
appeared before three ]. C. c. COM
missioners at the hearing, which
was expedited by introduction Of
written statements of their testi-
mony. With quick action necessary
because of the war emergency, it
was one of the speediest hearings
of a major case in the history Of
the commission.
Application Of the express COM
pany completed the taxing of testi!
mony and was followed by brief re-
buttal evidence in behalf OF the
railroads. Final arguments in the
case will begin Monday.
T.e. railroads and water carriers
claim the added revenue is neces-
sary to offset higher wages and ia
creased operating costs.
Opposition came from various
manufacturing, producing and ship
ping interests, some of which said
they did not oppose any increase in
rates the commission found nee
essary, but thought 10 per cent was
too high.
Evening star., 1942-01-09
Crude Oil Supplies
Register Slight
Gain in Week
Domestic ond Foreign
Stocks Both Larger,
Bureau Reports
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Bureau of Mines reported to-
day stocks Of domestic and foreign
crude petroleum at the close Of the
week ended January 3 totaled 244.-
440, 1000 barrels, q net increase Of
100000 barrels compared with the
previous week. Stocks of domestic
oil increased $4,000 barrels for the
week and foreign crude increased
Ice, 900 barrels.
Daily average production for the
week was 4.038, 900 barrels, or a de-
crease Of 5000 barrels compared
with the previous weeks level. Runs
to stills averaged 1851 900 barrels
daily. compared with 4,096, 900 BAR
rels for the preceding week.
Price Boost Denied.
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son denied today the petitions Of .
group Of large oil companies for
permission to raise the price Of
grade c bunker fuel oil at Eastern
and Gulf Coast locations.
Several oil companies proposed to
raise the price of bunker C fuel
oil IS cents a barrel to $150 per
barrel in New York Harbor, with
corresponding advances at other
points on the Eastern Seaboard.
Similar raises were proposed for
Gulf Coast locations.
Henderson's office issued a sched-
ule of maximum prices for fuel oil
at IA locations, ranging from a low
OF IS cents per barrel at New Or
leans and the Gulf Coast to $l55
a barrel at Albany, N. Y.
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o. p. NJ. Asks Speedup.

The Office of Production Man.
agement submitted to the countrys
steel makers yesterday plan to
speed up and expand the production
OF steel plates-one of the most
vital elements in the Governments
vast shippuild:ng program - and
urged them to operate "a hours a
day and seven days a week.
A principal part of the production
program would be a detailed plan
calling for greater Use of continuous
strip mills, War demands for steel
plates which could be produced only
on sheared plate mills, the o. p. NJ
said. were so great that these mills
should be relieved of all orders
which could be scheduled on other
plate-producing facilities
c. E. Adams, chief Of the O. P.
MS iron and steel branch. an
nounced that the program also pro-
vided the following speedup steps:
Daily reports to the o. p. M. on
plate shipments to the Army, Navy
and Maritime Commission. and
weekly reports on total production.
Appointment by each producer of
lialson man to keep in close con-
tact with the o. P. NJ
improvement with simplification
Of plate orders.
Conferences with individual pro-
ducers to iron out local problems
Adams said the program would
result in an "appreciable increase
in production. The January output,
he said, was expected to be II per
cent higher than the all-tAne high
OF 100000 tons in December. BY
March, he said. a further 10 per
cent increase should be reflected
without taking into consideration
any new facilities now under con-
sideration.
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Advance /; Extended
By Wholesale Prices
During Week
Labor Department Index
Rises 17.6 Per Cent
Above Year Ago
BY the Associated Press.
Nh

BY the Associated Press.
Wholesale prices continued their
upward trend during the week end
ed January 3, reaching point l7.6
per cent above a year ago. The
price level, however. still was below
that of the costly days of 1929.
The Bureau Of Labor statistics
index for the week was 943 per
cent of The 1926 average, or IL per
cent below January, 1929. 1t was,
however, 1l3 per cent above the
same week of january, 1887.
The index rose % per cent in
the past month and was 05 per
cent above the previous week.
The bureau reported that the up
ward movement was quite general,
with chemicals and allied products
up 81 Der cent; farm products, is
per cent; foods, O8 per cent; build
ing materials and house furnishings,
OF per cent, and hides and leather
products, textile products and mis-
cellaneous commodities, OIL per cent.
The is per cent advance in farm
products placed this groups index
at 96.9 per cent of the 1926 average,
the highest point in nearly II years
Evening star., 1942-01-09
LAIDLAW & COMPANY
NOTICE OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
CERTIFICATE

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that new
Limited Partnership has been formed to con-
tinue under the firm name of Laidlaw g. Cone
pany, the business heretofore carried on by the
Limited Partnership OF the same name (Which.
by the voluntary act of all the Partners. ter
minated on December 81, 194D and by Its
predecessors. The Partnership is to be con-
Quoted under the name of Laldlaw Company.
The business to be transacted IS that OF Duylnes
selling and dealing in and with stocks. bonds:
notes, securities, negotiable instruments and
other evidences of debt or ownership, as brokers
and agents, and not otherwise. Edward Roesler.
Kings Point Road, Great Neck, New Yori.
Gilbert U. Burdett, 159 Maple Street. Enge-
wood, New Jersey; Elliot c. R. Laidlaw. 7sS
West Eighth Street, Plainfeld, New Jerseys
Louis w. Noel, S44 East 86th Street. New York.
New York; Edward Roesler. Jr.. II Westeate
Boulevard, Plandome. New York; Lorraine +.
Pitman, Old Kings Highway, Darien, Connec-
ticut; Daniel E. MacLean, 20 North Broadway.
White Plains, New York, and William r. Van
DevAnter, SO North Monroe Street. Rdgewood.
New Jersey, are the General Partners and lsa-
bella Wood Laidlaw, 143 Dwight Place. Engie-
wood, New Jersey, and Henry McSweeney.
Ridgeway Avenue and Boardwalk, Atlantic
City, New Jersey, are the Special Partners
Isabella Wood Laidlaw and Henry McSwceney
have contributed $500 600 and 100000. re-
spectively, to the common stock OF the Partners
ship. The Partnership is to commence January
1. 1912 and terminate December 81, 1874. Ger
tificate Of Limited Partnership, signed and
acknowledged by all the partners, was hled on
January 8, 1942, in the Office of the Clerk o
the United States District Court for the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Evening star., 1942-01-09
New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.

By the ASSocla ted Press.
NEW YORK. Jan. 9.-Short COW
ering in January and trade and spot
house buying following recent Gov
ernment purchases of huge guam
titles of cotton uniform material
moved cotton futures up to sizable
gains today.
Offerings were limited to scale-up
hedging and profit taking. Activity
was restricted, because of continued
delay in announcing terms of sale
of Government cotton and a dispo-
sition to await final action on price
control.
Late in the AFTERNOON January
was SIPS a bale higher. Other
active months were up As to IS cents
! bale; January sold at 1854: March,
1874: May. 1901, and October, 1919
Futures closed 45 cents to Sl.35 bale
Evening star., 1942-01-09
Tune Oil Is Placed
Under Strict Control
Hy the Associated Press

~ the Associated Press.
The Government yesterday placed
tung oil under strict priority con-
troll and arranged to purchase all
existing supplies and all future i'm
ports.
Known also as China wood oil, a
product used largely in paints, food
carton Innings and for many other
domestic purposes. it has been OBJ
tanned principally from China. The
once Of Production Management
said that future supplies were sub
Evening star., 1942-01-09
Officers Reelected
By MiddIeburg Bank
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
MIDDLEBURG, Va. Jan. st. U.
Dudley was reelected president of
the Middleburg National Bank and
chairman of the board at the annual
meeting Wednesday. Other officers
reelected were De Lancey Nicoll, jr,
first vice president; j. B. Skinner,
second vice president; Earl H. Daw-
son. cashier, and Mrs. Lydia Arm
field, assistant cashier. Directors
were reelected as follows: Mr.. Dud-
ley, H. j. Duffey, sr.; Daniel C..
Sands, Mr.. Skinner, Miss Charlotte
N. Holland, Howell E. Jackson, Mr.
Nicoll, C. Oliver Iselin, jr.; Dr. H. A.
Splitter, Duncan H. Read and Will
liam j. Luck.
Evening star., 1942-01-09
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO, Jan 8 P.-Poultry. live, ID
trucks: hrm; market UNCHANGED.
Dressed poultry firm; turkeys young
toms, A grade. under 8 pounds, 30 rs
pounds and over. 30; B grade; y; young
over IL pounds. 29a; grade, 26; other
prices unchanged.
: Butter, receipts. sO7, 1853: Arm: creamery.
~ score, 3534-36H; 81. 35H; 81, 34s4;
30. 34Ha: 50. 3314: ss, 32sa; 30, CEN
trslized carlots. 34hz.
Eggs. receipts, 6.449; firm: market un-
CHANGED
Evening star., 1942-01-09
Two Furnaces Closed

CLEVELAND, Jan. 9 (P.-Short-
age Of scrap yesterday forced Otis
Steel Co. to shut down two open
hearth furnaces, Vice President j. E
Montgomery reported. Out OF oper-
alton were a Acton unit and a l50-
ton open hearth.
Evening star., 1942-01-09
G. M. Stock Offered

NEW YORK. Jan. 9 (P).-A public
offering of $4,000 shares of General
Motors Corp. common stock was an
nounced yesterday by a syndicate
headed by the Union Securities Corp.
and Lee Higginson Corp. The stock
was priced at s32871a a share, which
was yesterdays closing quotation on
the New York Stock Exchange.
Evening star., 1942-01-09

Unit u tTlding. TO shares. IN barK,
under Bankruptcy Act. or securitie- as
Sumed by sue. companies. Rates Of divi;
dends in the foregoing table are annual
disbursements based on the last quarterly
or semi-annuil declaration. Unless other
wise noted slecial or extra dividends are
not included xd Ex dividend xr Elk
rights. Alst extra or extras. d Cash or
stock paid last year. Payable in stock.
G Declared or 1aid SO far this year. Pay:
able in Canadian funds K Accumulated
dividends pah or declared this year.
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ject to uncertain shipping condi:
tions in the Far East and ADDED
that present stocks were relatively
low and that domestic production
was small.
Evening star., 1942-01-09
Washington Exchange

SALES.
Washington Gas common-100 at
IT'S.
Capital Traction 1St $500 at
103H. $500 at 103l4.
National Mtg. g. Inv. pfd.-3OO at
47a.
Evening star., 1942-01-09

LOttOnseed OF Closed Steady. BIeacn-
able prime summer yellow un1uoted prime
crude. 12.5O-55 January, 132ab: March,
1890: May. 13.3Ob; July, 13.30b.
Bid. n Nominal
Evening star., 1942-01-09

The Securities Commission reported to-
day these Transactions by customers with
odd lot dealers or specialists on the New
York Stocl Exchange for January r.
2,953 purchases involving 13,135 shares;
33e7 sale, involving $4,000 shares. m
cluding 20 snort sales involving @'2lo
shares.
Evening star., 1942-01-09

Cottonseed Oil.
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
ELL higher. Sales, 40 contracts. March,
IL. 81. May, 1882: July, 1880.
New Orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. 9 (P-Cot-
ton futures advanced here today with mill
price fixing and reports of a good spot
demand the controlling factors. The mar
ket closed steady. 10 to 13 points net
10
Evening star., 1942-01-09
LAIDLAW g. COMPANY
NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
CERTIFICATE
Notice is hereby given that the Certificate Of
Limited Partnership filed in the Office of the
Clerk OF the United States District Court for the
District OF Columbia on February IA. 1o4i.
under which was formed Limited Partnership
under the firm name of Laidlaw & Company.
has been cancelled. and that the following Is a
copy Of the Certificate filed for such purpose in
the Office of said Clerk on January 3. 1912:
The undersigned. being all of the partners in
limited partnership under the firm name OF
Laidlaw K Company. a certificate of the forma-
ton OF which was filed with the Clerk of the
District Court Of the United States for the
District of Columbia on February "a, 1o41.
which partnership will. by the voluntary act of
all partners. be dissolved as of December 81.
io41. do hereby declare. state and give notice
that said limited partnership will be dissolved
as of December 81, 1941, and that the said GER
tifcate OF the formation thereof is hereby cam
celled as of said date.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF. the undersigned
have hereunto subscribed their names this 23rd
day of December, 1941.
EDWARD ROESLER
GILBERT u. BURDETT
ELLIOT c. R. LAIDLAW
HENRY w. BROWER
EDWARD ROESLER, JR.
LORRAINE +. PITMAN
General Payineys
ISABELLA WOOD LAIDLAW
HENRY McSWEENEY
Special Po,trers
(The foregoing Certificate was duly acknowl-
edged by the several subscribers thereto.)
Evening star., 1942-01-09
U. s. Treasury Notes
nOMESTIr

NEW YORK. Jan. o dPp.-Prices ouotet
in dollars ard thirty-seconds.
Evening star., 1942-01-09
Odd-Lot Dealings

sSubject o Federal tal
State tncOms taxes.
Evening star., 1942-01-09

.Ex dividend. Plus extras. Books
closed, e2s extra. oo 90 .xr extra psnc sno
extra m S1.5O extra. p Paid in 194l.
$1,000 extra.
Evening star., 1942-01-09

n Nominal.
Evening star., 1942-01-28

Hospital He came out to tackle
the job of cutting and editing.
Fortunately. Alice decided her
health required a month in Arizona.
Charles trimmed his film without
interference.
And now 1t was the night Of the
press preview. Livia expected to 60
with Charles Fordyce. But at the
last moment Alice returned from
Phoenix.
"She's giving q dinner party, and
I have to 90 with her to the pre-
view." explained Charles.
I'm too nervous to go anyway"
she said.
Livia passed the evening driving
aim1essly along the coast. She did
not return home until midnight.
The telephone was ringing as she
opened the door, and she almost fell
over in her eagerness to answer 1t.
1t was Charles Fordyce, and he was
jubilant.
1.-The picture went over swell"
he told her, 1--WE been calling you
since II. You made a hit, baby.
After your scene with Terry, they
clapped their hands of. And is
Alice madl Don't go to bed now.
I'm coming over. This calls for a
real celebration"
Continued Tomorrow
tCopyrtsht 1o41, by sheilah Graham)