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Evening star., 1942-01-10
Peace Rumors Unfounded, i,
Finnish Paper Asserts
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HELSINKI, Jan. 10-Declaring
foreign Finnish Russian peace ru-
mors absolutely unfounded," the
newspaper Uusi Suomi asserted to-
day Finland awaits peace-but will
gain it for herself through combat
and final victory"
The newspaper acknowledged that
the Russians had taken the offensive.
but referred to the Finnish Russian
War of l939-40 with the comment:
From his experiences in winter war.
the enemy knows what it cost him
even with fresh and unlimited re.
sources"
Evening star., 1942-01-10
First-Aid Drive BEGUN

A company-wide drive Of the
Washington Gas Light Co. to qualify
every possible worker to care for
injured under the civilian defense
setup was begun last night at q
meeting in the Raleigh Hotel. The
Is trained instructors present heard
Miss Mabel Boardman Of the Red
Cross stress the importance of first.
aid training for every one.
Evening star., 1942-01-10
Brett Promotion Affirmed

The Senate Military Affairs COM
mittee approved yesterday President
Roosevelt's nomination of Mai. Gen.
George Howard Brett. recently desig-
mated as deputy commander Of the
Allied forces in the Far East, to be
. lieutenant general. The commit
tee also approved the Advancement
Of Maj. Gen. Stanley Dunbar EN-
bick to the rank Of lieutenant gen.
eraL
Evening star., 1942-01-10
Shot Down in Desert,
r. A. F. Pilot Returns
To Lines on Camel
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Egypt. Jan. l0.-Shot
down on the Libyan Desert on
New Year Day after destroying
a Messerschmitt fighter, Sergt.
j. D. Case, %, Of London. On
tario, rode back to the British
lines on q camel, guided by
Arabs.
CAIRO. Egypt. Jan. 10 R.-
An American officer vouches for
this story:
At Basra, one Of the ports Of
entry into Iraq, an Arab was
seen daily along the waterfront
with a dancing bear. The bear
danced so well that 1t finally
attracted suspicion. Investiga-
ton proved the bear to be an
enemy agent wearing a bear
skin.
Evening star., 1942-01-10
Mayor Is Appointed
For U. S. Film Capital
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASS0CIHCeu FIcb4
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10.-Holly-
wood, now only mythical city, has
mayor again.
Mayor Fletcher Bowron Of Los
Angeles named John B. Kingsley,
president of the Hollywood Chamber
Of Commerce, ex-ofncio mayor Of
the fllm capital In recognition Of
Mr.. Kingsley's work in co-ordinat-
ing defense activities tn the area.
Hollywood was incorporated and
had real mayor from 1908 to 1910,
when 1t became q part Of Los
Angeles.
Evening star., 1942-01-10
Crush Kills Air Cudet

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. 10 (P.
Naval Aviation Cadet Fred T.
Rowland of West Medford, Mass,
was killed yesterday when the plane
he was plotting crashed while at
tempting a landing near Green Cove
Springs.
Evening star., 1942-01-10

WHERE PHILIPPINE DEFENDERS HOLD OUT-studded line
indicates location Of MacArthurs Philippine defense
line described by Department spokesman here The
right flank the marshes of the Pampanga River Dea the
left flank In the Cabusan Mountains with United States forces
defending road functions at Layac and Dinauphan. Flag
symbols indicate extent of still defended by American
Of Pampanga and Zambaes Provinces the
rugged Batan Peninsula subc Bay the naval station at Oon
gapo and Corregidor. "A. F. Wlrephoto.
Evening star., 1942-01-10
Farm Price Vote
Senate Grunts Veto
Power on Ceilings
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The tollowing is the pote by
Dhich the Senate adopted, 48 to
81, an amendment to the price,
control bill to give the Secretary
OF Agriculture a Deto power orer
price ceilings on farm commodi-
ties:
Evening star., 1942-01-10

Record Temperature This Year.
Highest, 5s, on January 2.
Lowest, z, on January 8.
Humidity Tor Last ~ Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. a6 per cent. at 1 30 an. today.
Lowest, so per cent. at / 80 pm. res.
terday.
Evening star., 1942-01-10
Weather Report

BY United states weather Bureau
District Of Columbia vcnty-Fair colder
lowest temperature
Evening star., 1942-01-10

Join the United States Coast Guard
today.
Evening star., 1942-01-10

River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
It Harpers Ferry: Potomac clear at Great
Evening star., 1942-01-10
PreciDitatien.

half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital {current month to date):
Evening star., 1942-01-10

Tide Tables.
Furnished BY United States Coast and
Geodetic SurveyO
Evening star., 1942-01-10

The Sun and Moon
Evening star., 1942-03-12
National Refining Contest
Due Over Presidency
B, lht Associated Press.

By lht Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, March IA di-
reCtors' dispute over selection of
new president for the National Re-
fining Co. was disclosed yesterday in
statements accompanying proxy So
licitations for the March 25 annual
meeting.
The statement showed five direc-
tors propose to promote Louis S.
Peirce. vice president-secretary gen
eral counsel. who has been serving as
chief executive ofncer. and favor re-
election Of the present nine-man
directorate
-Four other directors favor eleva-
ton of K r. Proctor. vice president
in charge Of sales, and propose add
ing Raymond T. Kelsey and Ray
mond E. Lawrence to the board to
achieve their object.
The five listed for Peirce are Oscar
L. Cox. !. F. Frieberger, E. B Greene
R. c. Norton and Peirce. while those
favorlng Proctor are Cyrus S. Ea
ton. Nationals board chairman, Will
liam H. Lamprecht II CW. N. d.: :
Walker H. Nye and Proctor. The
Proctor solicitation is being made by
Lamprecht, Nye, Nye's wife and her
mother, Mrs. Margaret H. Fretter
The vacancy arose with the resigna-
ton last June of President Paul
Ryan. who was critically injured in
an airplane crash. and all concerned
are Clevelanders.
The company has rehneries in
Ohio and Kansas. and gasoline sta
tions in many States.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
FOREIGN
Wushinqton Produce

BUTTER;-93 score. tubs 37H; 1-pound
score. tubs, 35a4: pound prints, 36i.
i4-pound prints, 3?l4; 81 score tubs. 35;
!-pound prints. :;5l2: 14-pound prints. 30:
30 score. tubs. 35: 1-pound prints, 35l =:
l+-pound prints, 30; SO score, tub ., 34i2;
l-pound prints, :}5; L4-poupd prints, :}5la:
IS score, tubs. "a; l-pound prints, 34la;
l4-pound prints, 35
IVESIOCK-Calves. 14ta: spring lambs,
From Agricultural Marketing Admins
tration. Prices paid net fob. Washing
ECGs-Market steady: Prices paid for
Federal-State GRADED eggs from grading
stations March I0: Whites. U. S. ex-
traS large. 30-3l, mostly 30; U. S. extras.
medium. 21-21l2 mostly -: u. s. stand
y. S: extras, large. :;sl2:2a, mostly 20: y.
s. extras. medium 2121l7, mostly -; U.
s standards, large. 21"s: mostly IS; U.
nearby ungraded eggs. current receipts,
whites, 26-27 mixed colors. 800 Re-
celptS. Government-eraded eggs. So" cases.
LIVE POULTRY-Market steady. Fowl,
colored 4 pounds and up. u -23: Leghorn
hers, ga pounds and up, Is No 2s. 10.
Roosters. 1914 Chickens. Virginia Rocks.
broilers and fryers. all sizes 3O-2I: No
IS. 1874; Delaware and Maryland, Rocks
and Crosses, broilers and fryers all sizes.
e0-21: No. IS. 1914: Reds. 1920. Capons,
5-6 pounds, 25; pounds and up. 2S-2S.
Turkeys. youns toms Is pounds and un.
"A: young hens. 10 pounds and up, 2S-2a:
No. IS and undersiZes. IS. Guineas. young,
all sizes, 20. Old 10.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
Bank C|earings Hold
1856 Per Cent Gain
Over Year Ago
Volume lo.4 Per Cent
Below 1912 Peak of
Previous Week
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March l2.-The
volume of bank clearings last week
slipped 1874 per cent from the pre-
vious weeks 1912 high to a total
of $3.50 25O,000 in % major cities,
Dun & Bradstreet reported today
That was 1855 per cent ahead Of
the comparable 1941 period.
While New York clearings at
$3.345 $4,000 were up only 9 per
cent from the s3,O6S, ,S2l 900 reported
for the comparable week of 194l,
half of the other reporting cities
showed gains of 80 per cent or more
over last year.
Kansas City led outside cities with
an increase of 81 per cent over 1941
volume Other important advances
included Seattle, 36.1 per cent; De-
troit, 355 Baltimore, 329; Cincin-
att, 80; ST. Louis, 31.8; New Orleans,
3l4, and Minneapolis. 3l3.
Chicago volume rose to 1858 300,-
900. rise of 15.2 per cent from last
years $319,800000.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
Morgan & Co. Seeks
Federal Reserve
Membership
Conversion to Regular
Commercial Institution
Now Completed
By tie Associated Press.

BY TIE Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 12-J. P.
Morgan & Co. has applied for men,
bership in the Federal Reserve
System, it was learned today.
The historic banking firm, which
rose to eminence primarily as an
investment banking concern, ceased
operation in that field in June, 1884,
and since has continued business as
a commercial bank doing a regular
lending and deposit business.
Wall Street saw the step as q full
turn of the wheel 1t completed
conversion Of a private bank which
had sold the securities of some of
the leading corporations. acted as
their depository and fiscal agent,
and had even been the purchasing
agent of the English and French
governments in the last war, into
regular commercial institution
The Morgan firm had no comment
to make on the report but other
authoritative quarters confirmed the
fact the application to join the Ma
tons central banking system was
pending
The application automatically car
ries with it request to join the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the
agency which insures all deposl,s
up TO $1,000 in each account in the
event of failure.
This brought some smiles in Wall
Street, where doubt was expressed
that the Morgan bank, primarily a
bank for bankers and for big cor
porations, had any accounts as small
at $1,000.
This final step in the trenSforma-
ton of the Morgan firm had been
proceed about SIX weeks ago by the
announcement that, for the first
time in history. the public could
buy stock in the bank.
It's shares had been held by a
group of about 80 persons who had
close connections with the firm and
who offered for sale a block Of l6,-
500 shares at $206 a share. The
Offering, made by an investment
banking concern. was gobbled up
mostly by insurance companies, edu-
cational and charitable foundations
and other institutional buyers.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
Idle Tools in Maryland
Auto Shops Revealed

BY the Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md. March Ia
Gov. OConor was told yesterday
that large supply Of machinery,
skilled mechanics and manufactur-
ing space is lying idle in Maryland's
490 automobile dealer shops.
The report of Nation wide sur
very of dealer establishments was
sent to Gov O'Conor by Joseph w.
Frazer, president of Willys-Ove
lard Motors.
On the basis of the survey. the re-
port estimated that an arms factory
of 100000 square feet and employ
ing 1850 skilled mechanics could be
harnessed to the war effort if all the
machinery existing among dealers
in this State were pooled.
The factory. it was estimated,
could be equipped with 240 lathes,
$50 grinding machines. 20 shapers,
$50 electric drills and other equip
ment.
Results of the Maryland survey
were included in the national report
sent to the War Production Board.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
Priorities 10 Take
Al Least Half Of
Cotton Cloth
Growing War Needs
Cited in Report to
Association
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 12.-Priority
orders would take at least half the
Nations cotton cloth production
under recommendations made today
to the Association of Cotton Textile
Merchants.
The suggestion, made by the
groups War Activities Committee,
will be urged upon textile mills, a
statement said.
w. Ray Bell. president of the asso-
citation, predicted that distribution
of cotton textiles would be guided
more and more by requirements of
the War Production Board. He said:
The present action of the War
Activities Committee has been taken
in an effort to anticipate adjust
ments which we feel may be in
evitable"
The committees recommendation
said
Consolidated requirements al
ready issued on cotton duck, drills,
sheets, comforters and blankets are
generally far in excess of 1941 pur-
chases. Similar procurement pro-
grams for other fabrics and articles
are undoubtedly in course of prep
aration. To fulfill these demands.
in the opinion of the committee. will
require the utmost ingenuity of the
industry and a major job Of plant
conversion"
Bell said the industry already faced
abnormal demand for coarse cotton
fabrics to replace jute and burlap
(for bags, which are imported from
India. and added that some mills
already were operating up to 100 per
cent on specialized war fabrics.
practically the entire production
of cotton duck has been pre-empted
for military and naval use" Bell
said. Other mills have converted
their entire production to alternate
+ constructions of drills, twills and
sheetings as supplementary fabrics. -
Evening star., 1942-03-12
Chicoqo Livestock
PUBLIC UTILITY

CHICAGO; March T. P ~, s. Dept: Dept:
fairly active; mostly 5-l5 higher, top;
1855; bulk rsood and choice 10000
pounds f340-6O: some 30O-330 pounds.
13.35-5o; good and choice 160-ls0 pounds:
largely 13 .00-5n: most good 400-5o0 pound
sows, 1o.35-l3.l5.
salable sheep, 900; total .1@.5Oo; late
strictly choice pa pounds. I'D; bulk good
and choice. 9o-l05 pounds. IL 1,5:l" %;
below; fat sheep steady; choice fed fed range 1n1s
sales fed wooled lambs steady to 10 lower;
choice around 95 pounds rs: several
ZOO; strictly choice 92-9S pounds, held
I@25 ana upward.
Salable cattle. 4 900: calves. 300 steer
trade slow steady; except on few loads
choice; these getting action but steady;
around three loads strictly choice. 1885; ;
weights. including 20 -1.250 pounds and
also around 1.4O0 pounds. most steers me-
dunn and good grades. Il .9n-l3 =; heifers
strong to l5 hicher: bulk. lO.o0-lH 81:
cows fairly active. strong: cutters and
plain beef cows. S.00-50; bulls steady; good
heavles as high as 1880: vealers 80 high
er; top, 1880.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
Construction Awards
Continue Slightly
Above Year Ago
Sl33,267 900 Volume
Is 8 Per Cent Below
Preceding Week
Bv II { Associated Press.

By II Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March l2-Engis.
neering construction awards In the
week ended March II amounted to
sl33 ,267 900, slight gain over the
comparable 1941 period but per
cent lower than in the preceding
week. Engineering News-Record re-l
ported today. 60,
A tabulation of the awards fol-.
lows:
Total. =
Wssk Mareh Les s5s noo eE.T Tesk e1o
12I67,O0O 20,6s3OoO 2176s.ooo
Public.
121.IO0.OOO 1I1.s43.ooO 123.635 900
state and Municipal.
11,O52,oOO 27,62O.OOO 1O,766.o0O
Federal.
1I0,O4s, 900 S4,323,OO0 1I2 s69, 900
The publication announced awards
made in February totaled s634, 1923 900
and averaged s158,706,000 in each
of the four weeks, a volume second
only to the record average of sl9l.-
733 900 last July. The average, how
ever, topped all previous records es-
tablished in February.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
Plan 10 Merge Otis
Steel With J. 81.
Is Announced
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, March IA plan
for merging the $3s 100000 Otis Steel
Co. of Cleveland with Jones &,
Laughlin Steel Corp. the industry's
fourth largest. was announced yes
terday.
In the making for several weeks,
the proposal to sell and liquidate
the small Cleveland producer will
be submitted to shareholders at a
special meeting April "a.
Liquidation, said President E. j.
Kulas, was decided upon as a result
of certain disadvantages arising in
keen competition with much larger
units"
Consideration OF these disad-
vantages impelled Otis directors to
the belief that the best interests of
the shareholders would be served by
uniting the properties of Otis with
those Of company having greater
financial resources, more modern
plants and a more diversified line
OF products sold in wider market, "
The president added in a letter to
stockholders.
Kulas to Get Post.
H. e. Lewis. chairman and presi-
dent of Jones & Laughlin, said
KulaS probably would be elected a
director and vice chairman of Jones
& Laughlin's Executive Committee
II the merger is effected.
The deal, biggest in the industry
since Republic Steel Corp. took
over Corrigan, Mckinney in 1885,
would increase by about 100000
net tons Jones & Laughlins pres
ent ingot capacity Of 1891 200 net
tons annually. The giant Pitts
burgh concern would remain fourth
largest, however.
Terms Are Outlined.
Under the liquidation plan hold
ers of Otis convertible first pre-
ferred stock would receive for each
share: One-quarter share each OF
Jones & Laughlin per cent cumu-
lative preferred, series A and B,
500 par value: one share OF Jones
e. Laughlin common. no par. and
accrued dividends on Otis preferred.
Holders Of Otis common would
receive for each share one-quarter
share of Jones & Laughlin common
and 81 In cash.
Organized in 1873 by Charles A.
Otis with $500 900 capital. Otis Steel
Co. was the first in the United
States to be established for the ex-
elusive purpose of producing open
hearth steel. From its founding
it has been identified In some way
with steel for transportation.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
London Market
Improves in
Dull Trading
3y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 12.-Firmness
ruled generally throughout a quiet
stock market today.
British funds were up slightly on
investment demand. In the foreign
list Chinese and Chilean bonds were
easier.
Industrials were steady. Kafirs
eased after early improvement, while
rubbers were flrmer. Oils were mac
tive.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
Baltimore Livestock

BALTIMORE, March IL Up Omitted
States Department Of Asriculture) Ill
am. quotations.
Cattle. 700. Trading slow; prices of all
classes fully steady with those on Monday;
early steer top, 1880 for good to choice
1.420-pound steers; load and part load
good grade steers, I2so0-40; medium grade
shoce S5ty esrs part 6 eW So9d
beef cows mostly 725-s50: few head
beef bulls 100; several head sausage
calves, 200. Steady; good and choice
grades, / 1lO0-14.50.
Hogs, 1900 Butcher hogs. 21O pounds
up and packing sows, 10 hisher; weights
2l0 pounds down UNCHANGED; practical
top, 1890; good and choice, 1s0-2l9
pounds. 13.65-90: 160-1SO paunds and
So poSnds 1s sSuass soass 14o.iso Bounds: 1919,
rs; 260-3O0 pounds 13.00-25; 130-140
pounds. 12S0-l3.05; 120-130 pounds.
125o.a5; packing as.e sews .ms 1s19oso ,o4 ,ound
lambs, 1900; small lot nearby native
lambs, 10 so.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
u. S. Capital Sought
For Latin America
E. t,t Associated Press.

81 z { ASSOCIaled FrtSS.
NEW YORK, March l2.-Eduardo
de Villasenor. director general of
the Bank of Mexico, said yesterday
United States capital must enter
Latin American enterprises if those
nations are to continue purchasing
United States goods.
The dislocation of international
trade caused by the war. Villasenor
said in an interview. threatens stag
nation of United States economy
and world trade. but he indicated
a belief that could be avoided by a
flow Of investment to Latin America
Evening star., 1942-03-12
Rail LOadings Lag.

The Association of American Rail-
roads reported today that 770,697
cars of revenue freight were loaded
during the week ending last Satur-
day.
This was a decrease of l0,722 cars,
or IA per cent, compared with the
preceding week; an increase of
% 0SO cars. or 38 per cent. compared
with year ago, and an increase of
l50,l0l cars, or 242 per cent, COM
pared with 1910.
The report classified the loadings,
compared with last week and the
corresponding week year ago, as
follows:
Evening star., 1942-03-12
First Dividend Voted

PITTSBURGH. March II (P.-
The Follansbee Steel Co. today de-
clared its first dividend. S125 a
share, on preferred stock. Payment
will be made April l to stockholders
of record March %. Follansbee
Steel is the reorganized Follansbee
Bros. Co.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
FOREIGN Exchange

NEW YORK, March L. tP'.-Late for
eign exchange rates follow Great Britain
in dollars, others in cents:
rates for United States dollars; buying. 10
pr cent premium selling. l per cent pre-
MUM, equivalent to discounts on Canadian
cent: selling. zoe per cent.
Canadian dollar in New York open mar
ket. 111s per cent discount or SS.1212
United states cents, down ,l2ia cent.
Europe: Great Britain. official Bankers
Foreign Exchange Committee rates., buy
ing .O.; selling. 04 open market; cables,
4 4o4.
Latin America: Argentina official 2a.11:
free. % So. down .O3 cent Brazil official,
O5n: free, 520n: Mexico 20.65n.
Rates in spot cables unless otherwise
Indicated. n Nominal.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
Jump in Poperboord
Operations Reported
BY the Associated Press.

By he Associated Press.
Paperboard mills are reported by
the Census Bureau to have oper-
ated at a peak of 993 per cent of
rated capacity in January. compared
with 942 in December and 77.3 in
January of last year.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
General Motors Corp.
Boosts Deliveries
Sharply in Quarter
Sloan Predicts Jump
Of so Per Cent Over
Final lo41 Period
Bv the associated Press.

BS the associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 12.-Alfred
P Sloan, jr., chairman, predicted
today General Motors Corp. would
increase deliverise of material so per
cent in the first quarter of this year
compared with the final three
months of 1941.
The increase over the uly-Sep-
tember quarter last year, Sloan
estimated. would be will over 100
per cent.
The corporation, Sloan revealed In
message to stockholders, was
making an important proportion of
the countryS total requirements for
such war essentials as machine guns,
army trucks, diesel engines. aviation
engines and several types of tanks,
as we'll as substantial amounts of
anti-aircraft guns and other items
Sloan said General Motors share
of the tremendously accelerated war
production expansion plan scheduled
in go days following Pearl Harbor
based on all projects under con-
tract or under study ultimately run
ming at peak production concur
rently for year, was multiplied two
and three-quarters time"
But, he warned. because the
mass production technique, to an
extent not generally realized, re-
quireS machinery and tools specially
designed for the manufacture of
specific product. such facilities
are relatively inflexible. Their adap-
liability for production work other
than that which they were designed
is correspondingly limited.
Therefore, when a new product
is to be produced there is required
a very definate period of prepara-
ton for retooling existing machinery,
for procuring essential new ma
chinery and for laying out and es-
tablishing the production process
and procedures"
National Supply Co.
The National Supply Co.. makers
of oil field machinery. reported 1941
net profit of s5,722 269. equal, after
prior preferred and preference share
dividends. to $305 share on COM
mon stock. compared with 1910 net
profit of 81 $50 297. equal to IS so
share on the combined prior pre-
ferred stocks
Indiana Public Service.
The Public Service Co. OF Indiana.
Inc. in its annual report showed
194l net income as s3.l59, ,636, which
is equivalent to s2l32 share on the
5 per cent preferred stock outstand-
ing. The report includes the COM
bined income OF the five Indiana
utilities which were consolidated to
form the company last September.
Earnings applicable to common
stock. after deducting annual divi-
dend requirements on the preferred
stock, aggregate s24lS697, or s2lS
share.
Crocker- Wheeler.
The Croker Wheeler Electric
Manufacturing Co. reported to stock
holders that 1941 was the largest
year in the company's history. with
the s8.040.672 in orders booked repre-
senting an increase Of 233 per cent
over 1910.
Net income after reductions for
Federal income taxes and other con-
tingencies was s73l.562 The deficit
on December 81, 1910, was $500, ,405,
leaving a net surplus at the end of
194I of s222,157.
Evening star., 1942-03-12
Washington Exchange
SALES.

Washington Gas Como at Is. 20
at Is.
American Security Il Trust Co.'s
at 1893. 10 at 1879.
Peoples Drug Stores com.-lo0 at
1873, 100 ct 1875, 100 at 1873.