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Evening star., 1942-08-25

Drottningholm which brought
American repatriates from Europe.
Mr.. Grew said that only when his
compatriots still in the territory he
had left had returned to their home
land would "our cup of happiness be
full"
Victory Predicted.
II can add only this" he said
I'VE have come home to contribute
our maximum efforts to the winning
of the war, in whatever way we may
find or to carry out whatever part
we may be called upon to make.
1--WE shall win through, with ou,
national spirit and determination
without any shadow of doubt to ulti-
mate victory. I thank God we are
here to contribute to that victory
The envoy said that all in varying
degree had passed through diff
cult months and terribly Difficult,
moments" and added:
ITO be actually standing on the
soil of our beloved country again
brings to us climax of happiness
too profound to describe in mere
words. I cannot even attempt tx
do so.
That feeling has grown with
every mile of the more than 18,00(
miles that we have travelled since
leaving Japan, and those who have
come from China, Indo- China, anc
Thailand have travelled almost a.
far"
The white-painted vessel bearin1
large diplomat" markings was tn,
first neutral passenger ship to en-
ter the port OF New York since thu
German submarine blockade causet
Portuguese and Spanish ships te
travel farther south In July.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Russia
Continued From First Page.)

-the tanks remained cut of from in
fantry support.
q Referring to this action, the mid
ssday communique said "the men OF
en- unit killed over 200 Hitlerites" in
defense of a position.
(The Nazi arm pressing north
eastward from Kotelnikovski was
regarded by British military
sources in London to be the most
menacing to Stalingrad. These
sources said Russian counter
attacks were believed to be hold
ing the Germans back in the Don
Elbow and southeast of Klet-
skaya).
Soviet mines were reported to
have destroyed 20 German tanks,
Red Army engineers at times drag
ging the explosives into position
while the ). enemy columns were
rumbling down on them. Red Star
said the tanks often were blown up
at one end of a drag rope while en-
eineers still held the other end
Defense forces were declared
u6utlI1S 10 tIlC lbSt pQAlct. E
Heavy Toll Of Germans.
Russians fell back in both the cen
trail Caucasus and below Krasnodar
In the west, but levied a heavy toll
on the Germans, it was announced
Soviet planes covering the Rec
Army withdrawal south of Krasno-
dar, on the Kuban River so miles
northeast Of the Black Sea port ol
Novorossick, were declared to have
destroyed five tanks and 10 trucks
and wiped out about a company
Goo mem of enemy infantry in 9
day.
German infantry attacks were re.
ported repulsed on a number o1
northwestern front sectors and q
Russian assault led to hand-to- -hanC
fighting in the Nazi trenches.
Employment of German Alpine
troops in the Central Caucasus cam
paign developed speculation that
invaders hoped to try to cross the
Caucasus Mountains by either the
Ossetian or Georgian military roads
The Ossetian highway starts only
Is miles from Prokhladnenski anc
leads over the high ranges more
than 100 miles to Kutaisi, itself II
miles northeast of the Black Sea
oil port of Batum.
The Georgian military road, on,
OF the finest such routes in tn.
world, winds 1872 miles from Ordz
honikidze, so miles south of Pro.
khladnenski, to Tiflis. At one plac,
1t twines through a pass 1900 fee
high. Beside the road is the extinc
volcano Kazbek, which rises 1854!
feet.
1t Is approximately $50 mile
down the Kura River valley from
Tiflis to the Caspian Sea and tn
Baku petroleum fields.
On the upper Don south of Vo
ronezh, Soviet bombers were re-
ported to have rained explosive
on enemy artillery batteries, de-
etroyed large column of machine.
and infantrymen and wrecked ,
concentration of 125 trucks withou
meeting aerial opposition.
A dispatch from the voronezl
front said the Russians repulse,
two Hungarian counterattacks t,
retain control of a battle-scarre,
west bank settlement.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Continued From First Page.)

with WPB, not with the Army,
Navy or any other agency.
Controls which have been de-
veloped during the last eight
months Mr.. Houghton said, ARE
now being put into effect. For the
first time reasonably complete
supply and demand picture of
American industry is available, The
War Production Board is taking an
other long step away from simple
priorities toward ALLEGATION of ma
terials in accordance with the needs
Of the war program.
further changes and adjustments
will be necessary as long as the
strategic situation keeps shifting
probably as long as the war lasts
but we are satisfied that the new
system Is the best one available
under the present circumstances,
and that it will do the job"
During the third quarter of the
year the country's leading manu-
.facturers, nearly 10000 of them,
were brought under the production
requirements plan, but applications
were not received in time for analy-
sis of overall requirements. So, dur
ing that quarter. preference ratings
were assigend and delivery of ma
terials authorized in accord with
the priority pattern on the order
books of each producer.
= Shipping Unset Balance.
Despite these difficulties" said
the announcement, 'ft was possible
during the third quarter to keep
the authorization for deliveries of
carbon steel under PRP to within
3 to 10 per cent of the amount of
steel which was to be made avail
."able to PRP units in accordance
with Requirements Committee de-
Examinations. This balance was,
unfortunately, not fully reflected
in the shipping schedules of the
steel mills, since the summer Sched-
ules were largely made up before
the majority of the third quarter
PRP APPLICATIONS were processed."
For the fourth quarter, it was
explained, the PRP has beentrsns-
formed into "a method of obtaining
a report on about 95 per cent of
war industrys basic materials re-
Wuirements."
Under the new plan, one copy Of
Eteach application is sent to the
Bureau of the Census, where the in
4dicated total of materials require
4ments will be tabulated in terms of
3more than 200 end products-such
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spouse and dependents, where those
benefits naturally would apply, pro-
vided that Canada and Mexico
granted reciprocal exemptions to
citizens of the United States.
Under present law, Treasury Off
cials said, Canadian who COM
mutes to work in the United States
is granted only single mans ex-
emption, $3.50, on his American in
come tax, regardless of whether he
is married and has children.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
New York Cotton
p the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Aug. 25-Cotton fu.
lures charted an irregular course in
continued slow trading today. From
an hesitant start prices rallied then
backed down little from the best
levels in mid-afternoon, on renewed
hedge selling.
Outside traders were not aggres-
sive either way pending anti-infla-
tlonary developments at Washing
ton. Expectations for an eventually
broader spot demand to take care
OF Government orders, and reported
threats of holding movement among
Southern producers restricted SELL
ing.
Late prices were so to IS cents a
bale higher. October, 1903; Decem-
ber, 1927; March, 1874.
Cotton futures moved upward In
the last hour as broadening de-
mand found contracts scarce. At the
finish values were at the best levels
OF the day and up more than doll
lar bale.
!, Futures closed $1.35 to $1.40 a balls
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Shorp Rise Recorded
In Cotton Ginninqs
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Census Bureau reported yes
terday that cotton of this years
growth ginned to August Is totaled
232,016 running bales, counting
round as half bales and excluding
linters, compared with 74,079 bales
year ago and 169,465 bales two
years ago.
Ginnings by States, with compara-
tive figures for a year ago, were:
Alabama, 4,706, compared with
$4,000; Florida, 1,071 and 2,099
Georgia, "a, ,26e and 81, ,064; Louisiana,
1888 and l06; Texas, 193,335 and
1910: al other States, 1852 and 453,
Evening star., 1942-08-25
IN. & W. Reports
| July Net Of
| S1.O5 q Share
FINANC CIAL.
Nv the Associated Press.

Nv the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25.-The
Norfolk IL Western Co. reported to-
day net income for July of sl,550,-
1880, equal to $1.05 a common
share, compared with $3,l97, 79l 80,
or $222 a share, for the same month
last year.
The company had net income OF
SIC, ,783 .392.l9 for the first seven
months of 1912, equal to $7.29 a
common share, compared with ST.
1873, 800 40. or $l1.84 share, for a
similar period In 194l.
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Apple Harvest Neors

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Aug. rs tP).
Apple growers are preparing to
pick about September l a harvest
described as one of the best in years.
Prospects are bright for good prices,
they added. Marketing of the last
of the Elberta peach crop will end
this week.
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Use Of Copper Barred

The War Production Board has
prohibited the use Of copper or cop
per alloys in manufacture of any
fuse parts except parts carrying
electric current. The order, ef-
fective In Is days, Is expected to
save 1000 tons OF copper a year.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Tobacco Prices Up

RALEIGH, N. c., Aug. IS (P.-
Opening prices on the Eastern North
Carolina tobacco belt brought an
unofficial average of between 80
and 40 cents pound today, several
cents above the last seasonal average.
Quality of offerings was slightly
below expectations.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Production Award Won
By Bauer & Black

Bauer & Black division of the
Kendall Co., Chicago manufacturers
Of surgical dressings and allied
products. has been selected to re-
ceive the joint Army Navy Produc-
ton Award for outstanding per-
Torrance in war production, the
War Department announced yester-
day,
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Reading Co. Reports
Guin in Earnings
By the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 24-The
Reading Co. reported net rail-
way operating income of $10,971, ,s91
for the first seven months of this
year, an increase Of 1880, 1887 over
the corresponding period of 1941.
Net railway operating income for
July was $1,940, ,798, an increase Of
$82o,l89 over the same month last
year.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Bond Drive Starts .
In Rubber Industry
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 25.-A
three-week Nationwide campaign
in the rubber and allied industries
to achieve goal of 10 per cent of
the total payroll invested in War
savings bonds was inaugurated to-
day at the indianapolis plant of the
United States Rubber Co.
John E. Cady, plant manager
opened the drive with the raising of
service flag dedicated to each en-
ploye now in the armed services.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
GripshoIm

Continued From First Page)
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Wabash Asks Approval
Of Equipment Issue
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
The Wabash Railroad Co. asked
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion today for authority to sell $2,-
100000 of 21s per cent equipment
trust certificates which would ma
ture in 10 annual installments.
The company said that the best
bid 1t had received was 1925 per cent
and accrued dividends, from Halsey,
Stuart & Co., Inc, Chicago.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Joins Lehman Boord

NEW YORK, Aug. Is (SpeciaD -
Lehman Corp. announced that at
board meeting yesterday Harold v.
Smith, president of the Home In
surance Co., was elected a director.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
London Market Steady
In Quiet Dealings
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 25.-Trading was
quiet in the stock market today and
prices generally steady at the close.
Among industrials home rails and
oils were quiet, kaf1lr development
shares easier with dividend payers
maintained, diamonds dull and cop
pers firm.
British funds finished firm and
Brazilian bonds rallied slightly in
the foreign list.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Bunk Looms Down

The Federal Reserve Board said
today that commercial, industrial
and agricultural loans Of banks in
101 leading cities declined $35, ,00O,-
600 to total of 1890, ,000, 900 In the
week ended August 10.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
and costs, and George Sherrer, Ken.
sington, IS and costs.
Confused hv Fire Sirnal


Harry Mccain, 8706 Reading
road, was given a suspended fine
of $40 after he explained he was
confused by the alert signal blown
by the Silver Spring Fire Depart
ment. He turned his lights off on
this signal, but turned them on
when the fire station siren blew
again a few minutes later, actually
the beginning of the raid test.
Mrs. Marion Hafferman, mana
ger of the NorBud Shoppe, Georgia
and Thayer avenues, was given a
suspended fine of SIS after she
explained policeman had approved
a dim green light in the store kept
burning to meet insurance company
requirements.
Three cases were continued until
September, IL.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Washington Exchange
SALES-AFTER CA

SALES-AFTER CALL.
Potomac Electric Power 5hTo pfd.-
at ia.
Washington Railway IL Electric
pfd.-10 at 1l2A.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
New York Produce

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 P9-Eggs, 1879;
nrm. Mixed colors: Fancy to extra fancy,
3Sh.44; extra. 3s;, graded frsts,. SO;
dirties. No. l, 34h; average checks, 33
Whites: Fancy to extra fancy, 43A-
~; specials, AZ A standards, 80; fancy
heavy mediums. 42-45: mediums Ala.
Browns.-Fancy to extra fancy. 42h-4s;
specials. Al y -41h; standards, 3SH-3Sh;
mediums, 40.
Butter, 960,613; steady; creamery.
higher than 90 score and premium marks,
3934.
Cheese, O5,941; firm; prices unchanged.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Odd-Lot Declines

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. rs R.-The Be-
curities Commission reported today these
transactions by customers with odd-lot
dealers or specialists on the New York
Stock Exchange for August "a. 1907 pur-
chases involving 47,030 shares; 1903
short aaleS invoking k3h shares.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Futures closed $1.35 to $1.40 a balls

Cottonseed Oil.
detachable cottonseed oil futures closed
nomlnaily & to 10 higher. No sales.
= New Orleans Prices.
NEW YORK. Aug. 25 UP. -- Cotton
futures advanced here today on reports
that Senator Bankhead of Alabama urged
growers to withhold their staple from the
market until the price had reached the
ceiling OF 211a cents pound. CLOSING
net higher.
Open. High. Low. Close.
December 1894, 1854 1882 1888
M.4ahy sinqfhry-- 1885 1892 1883 1s..s 1ssS 1sSSSe
Miy suiy iis.s9b - - 11ssssssSS 11ssssSS
Cottonseed oil closed steady, Bleschsbls
prime simmer yellow and prime cruCe un-
quoted. sertember. 13.05b; October. De-
cember and January. 12,92h.
Spot cotton closed steady, 80 points
hisher. Sales. cal. Low. middlinS, 1881:
middlins. 1887; sood middlinR. 1912: re-
ceipts, 1,102: stock, 197,6SS.
b Bid. Nominal.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
CIT Buys Electric
Equipment Firm 10
Diversity Activities
Holtzer-Cubot Co.
Of Boston Acquired
By Finance Firm
BY TIE Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25-Commer-
cial Investment Trust Corp, one of
the leading installment finance
companies, today had taken the first
step toward broadening its scope of
activities by purchasing the Hotter
Cabot Electric Co., of Boston.
The need for diversification of its
field was pointed out by Arthur o.
Dietz, president, in a recent state
ment to stockholders outlining some
of the problems the company faced
with wartime restrictions on normal
consumer credit lines. Heretofore the
company had confined its operations
to the wholesale and retail financing
OF consumer durable goods and to
factoring through loans to war in
dustries.
Holtzer- Cabot was a subsidiary
Of the Gamewell Co. and produces
electrical products, including tele-
phone and signal equipment. AT
present 1t Is engaged in producing
war materials. The announcement
stated officers and personnel of the
company would be continued under
the new ownership.
A month ago the Commercial
Credit Co., also leading finance
concern, broadened its field by &C.
quiring the Kaydon Engineering
Corp, Muskegon, Mich. 1t wa.
stated at the time the engineering
firm, its entire capacity engaged II
war work, would fit in with Com.
mercial Credits program to devote
a portion of its resources to financ.
ing production of war materials.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Freight Loudinqs

NEW YORK. Aug. rs P.-Reyenue
freight cars handled on railroads report
ing today for the week ended August 90
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Enforcement Held Vital.

DETROIT, Aug. Is tP.-Commis-
sioner Robert E. Healy of the Sc
curities and Exchange Commission
declared yesterday that the en-
trance Of the United States into
the war had emphasized the need"
for continued enforcement of the
Holding Company Act to attain
sound financial structures and
practices.
Indicating that the SEC would
pursue its strict enforcement of the
death sentence" provisions of the
act, Healy told a section meeting
of the annual convention of the
American Bar Association:
Whatever the evils in normal
times, the luxury of unsound utility
financing can be afforded even less
by the Nation at this time"
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Baltimore Stocks
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Sales SSTpcKs e ~, High. Ley. c,e;s o
10 Cons Pw 4hs M 1iiH Iii "A Iii y,
II Fidelity a. Guar 3OA 30A 30sz
100 Merch d Miners % 20 20.
BONDS
5000 Bal Tr deb A. A 81 81 81
1000 Bal Trans 81 b 1o4 l04 104
Evening star., 1942-08-25
Casualty Firm Acquired.

BALTIMORE, Aug. rs (P.-The
Commercial Credit Co. of Baltimore
today announced 1t had purchased
more than 95 per cent of the out
standing shares Of the Pennsylvania
Casualty Co. of Lancaster, Pa.
Pennsylvania Casualty wrote net
premiums of about 5000, 900 in
1941, and will expand its facilities,
said A. E. Duncan, board chairman
OF Commercial Credit and Voris
Lyons, vice president and general
manager of Pennsylvania Casualty
E. G. Wareheim, executive vice
president of Commercial Credit, will
become president of Pennsylvania
Casualty and Lyons will be execu-
tive vice president, continuing in
direct charge OF operations.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
National Power Asks
Years Extension Of
Dissolution Order
Two Other (. B. & S.
Units Told to Wind
Up Affairs
By the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25.-Na-
tional Power e. Light Co., a major
subholding company of the Electric
Bond 81 Share System, today asked
the Securities g. Exchange Commis-
sion for one-year's extension of an
SEC order directing dissolution of
the unit.
The SEC set September Is for a
hearing.
The request came on the heels
of an SEC dissolution order against
two other Bond e. Share SUBJ
holding companies, American Power
e. Light Co. and Electric Power &,
Light Corp.
The action against National on
August %, 1941, was the first step
by the commission against Bond e.
Share under the death sentence"
provisions of the Holding Company
Act.
Pleas Are Rejected.
Yesterdays order directed Bond
& Share and the two subsidiaries
to proceed with due diligence" tc
submit plans for the dissolution.
The SEC rejected the companies
contention that plans of reorganiza-
ton already filed were bar to entry
of the dissolution order and assert
ed that nothing contained in the
plans is calculated to i'm
part a useful function to these COM
panies."
Describing the system as "pyra-
mid-like structure" the commission
said Bond & Share was the apex
with five subholding companies cre-
ating an intermediate tier and ap-
proximately 236 direct and indirect
subsidiaries of the latter forming
the base.
Evening star., 1942-08-25
BONDS
PUBLIC UTILITY.
STOCKS

MISCELLANEOUS
Ter Rf&W Cp 1st 4As 194S 1921
Evening star., 1942-08-25
PUBLIC UTILITY.

BIG. Asked
amer Tel d Tel go ------ 11SA
Capital Transit (a.6O)-- 22E 23K
y. q ": Steamboat (t4)---. .105 -"--
Pot 81 Pow SO pfd (6)-s114
Pot Fl Pw 5hM pf $3.50 -"113h
Wash Gas 1t Com Il 6O) Is
Wash Gs 1t cum CIV pf (4.5O) 93 96
Wash Gas 1t cum pf 5000 100 103
Wash Ry El com (a19 90 s445 545
Wash Ry 1 El pfd (5O--s111 Tia
Evening star., 1942-08-25
hica go Cash Market

yr,I CA3H NI1fket.
Wheat, No; 2 mixed. IJ9E: No. red
Co1n e2ugh NJ t21-22; ss;, No hard, weevily, Il5.
NO NO; g. .. S3-s4h, No; T.. s2h-s4: sample
eTaae zas yellow. Ma s1h-s2 Oats, No. / mixed.
4aA-50A: No. 8, 47ss-4eA; No ~ "
aI-47Ha. Barley, mating, s0-9s, nom.
inai an iced: 53-65, nominal; sample rrsde.
neans sample grade yellow, i .8s' Eeid
sesd' ger hundredweight, nominal: Timothy.
Uo-sSi too. oo. sadsike, 16.oo-19.50: fancy red
Evening star., 1942-08-25

REINFORCED GERMANS STILL ADVANCE-The battle for
Sangrad grew critical today German heavily
supported by tanks and planes maintained rdgehead
east of Kletskaya 40 miles angra the extreme
southern battle Germans drove the Prokhadnen
area. A P Wirephoto
Evening star., 1942-08-11
India
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
slightest incident might set off this
sort OF strife
"On a previous occasion Moslem
beggar kicked a dog; Hindu po-
liceman kicked the beggar. and 1t
started an 18-day communal riot in
which many were killed" said a
Bombay police official.
Again, a Hindu teacher whipped
Moslem child Thirty days of
nasty rioting followed.
Three months of rioting with
many deaths came after a Moslem
storekeeper refused to sell GER
tain piece of goods to a Hindu"
He pointed out that Hindu stu
dents already had thrown rocks at
Moslem shops in Bombay.
In Lucknow Moslem shops re-
manned open while Hindu stores
practiced 'hartal"
Japanese radio stations, mean
while, were making a great play OF
the Indian disorders in their broad
casts in native dialects from Singa-
pore and Rangoon.
The Indian press is giving rela-
lively complete account of develop
ments. Spokesman of the outlawed
Congress party. of course, have no
access to the press to further their
campaign. Their publications in
some cases are being distributed
hand to hand. The use of long g-dis-
tance telephone and telegraph also
is barred to Congress party spokes-
men, In previous civil disobedience
campaigns their leaders have been
barred, too, from the trains, but SC
| far no such action has been taken.
Evening star., 1942-08-11
Seaboard Receivers Ask
Tenders Of Certificates
BY the Associated Press.


NORFOLK, Va, Aug 11.-Holders
of Seaboard Airline Railway re-
ceivers certificates will be asked
within the next few days to submit
tenders, stating amounts held and
the prices at which they are willing
to sell. the general Offices of the road
here disclosed today.
Letters to the holders of these GER
tificates are now being prepared
and will be mailed this week. The
amount of certificates to be bought,
if any, will be determined by Federal
District Judge Luther B. Way, after
hearing set for September IL.
Judge Way on July 80 asked the
Seaboard receivers to call for
tenders, and holders will be re-
quested to submit their offers not
later than September 2.
Of1icials of the road estimate
that approximately IS ,000, 600 will be
available for the purchase of the
certificates. of which there is about
SIS ,000, 900 par value outstanding
If the court gives its approval.
Receivers certificates of par
value of about 100000 recently
have been bought under the terms
of an order entered by the court
last June is. directing that the
price paid not exceed IS per cent
Of par value.