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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-15
Detroit Stocks

Sale. High Low 1900 ch'gs
D' p MA Il the he ,.te.ps. .ab. ar. a,
amounts derisrrd NJ paid 80 fst thi. sssr'
unipss otherwise nntpt. ILLUMINATING divi
dena, bon Accommodations, hs-Esadividerd,
s-steek dividend.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-15
Steel Man Tied
To BIdek Market
InHiggins' Deals
U. S. Acts Against Texan;
OPA Also Links Detroit
70 Illegal Metal Sales

CLEVELAND, Aug Ii GNS).-
Willard p. Markle of Houston.
Tex, today was under court order
to desist from alleged wildcat deal
ings in the black market in steel.
The office of price administra-
ton filed suit in federal court in
Cleveland, charging Markle with
price ceilings violations on five
counts in connection with his pur-
chase and resale TO companies
headed by Andrew J. Higgins, New
Orleans shipbuilder, of more than
$4,000 pounds Of steel products.
DEALER RESTRAINED
District Judge Robert N. Wilkin
granted the OPAs petition for a
temporary order restraining Mar
kle from further dealings.
The suit was the result OF the
cancellation by the maritime COM
mission Of a contract with Higgins
for the construction of % liberty
ships on the grounds there is an
acute steel shortage, and Higgins
consequent objections to the can
collation. which brought about an
investigation by congressional
subcommittee.
Frank Higgins. son Of Andrew
and general manager of the ship
yards, in testimony before the sub
committee, revealed the existence
of the black market in steel stat
ing his company patronized the
black market rather than wait to
cut the red tape of priorities.
DETROIT COMPANY
Although the suit filed today is
concerned only with steel sales ia
Markle by two concerns, OPA
investigators were sitting evidence
involving. they said, 10 other COM
panies in Houston, Mobile Dallas,
! cleveland, Detroit and cincinnati
Markle. in a Cleveland hospital
lconvalescing from an eye opera.
ton, declared today.
'T'm tired out. l want TO rest.
I have nothing to say"
The seriousness of Markle' $
operation could not be learned
Immediately. Hospital attendants
revealed only that he is "a bed
patient"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-15

KEARNY, n, j., Aug. Is GNS)
The y. s. s. Waller, destroyer
was launched here today at the
ways Of tho Federal Shipbuildine
and Dry Dock Company.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-15
FAST RUTEALn

EAST BUFFALO. Aug IL tTNs) -
HOGS Receipts. 300 market 1920
higher, good and choice, 1910 new high;
butchers, SIS rs: trucked -ins sis759
IS 90, rough sows, STA fOIi3sS
CATTt,E F Receipts 500; market arm.
moderately covered steers and hefere, sia
n W 50, common steers ana heifers, SIT.
beef cows, Si0.751 n cutter and common,
bulls Sf2
CALVES Receipts $50 market m.
changed good and choice. SIS. connmna
and medium. SIT soTIbS0
SHEEP Receipts 500. market 2s.snA
higher good and choice ewes and wethsrs.
$3.50 IS 30: mixed io's natives SisNS
1850; yearling vethers STA handyvarst
ewes 81
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-15
Cash Purchases
Climb as Retail
Sales Gain Here
Closing Out OF Many
Charge Accounts Also
Noted by Detroit Firms

A continued upswing in employ
ment and pay rolls together with
cool shopping weather has favor
ably influenced retail distribution
in this area. according to Dun q
Bradstreet. Inc. A steady increase
in percentage of cash buying Is In
evidence. and there are indications
that individuals normally purchas-
ing on credit have been closing out
some of their accounts.
Reports from department stores
lack uniformity, and in the case OF
a few units sales dropped around
5 per cent from a week ago but
volume continued 5 to IS per cent
above the corresponding period
of 1871.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-15
Livestock Markets
ptrrsntrpntt 40 ftNn

PITTSBURGH, Aug - NNe) CAT.
TLt-Receip,s IS; market steady, steers
choice, fiiri5. medium 20 good si3Hii,
common, sie6i750 heifers medium -
good. Si2 10 so, common, IS 2sG 1nl
cows. medium to good IS 80 1925: cam
ners and cutters. s61s.50. bulls good 20
IS 30 q 10.
HOGS Receipts 100 market sc,ive Zoe
higher iso-iso lbs, SIS 3SHia.5o $50.
200 lbs, SIS. so = Is so; 2o0-22O lbs SIS 80
q 10. 22025o he SIS 3sT1Ss 40 $50. goo
lbs, s15dib3S 2e0-3bn lns siinis,
loo. $50 he. ti3 Tad lbi roughs, s131
1880
SHEEP Receipts 100: market steady
u strong. choice lambs ti4HifbO me-
dunn 20 good ti2ni3 common lambs,
S. 10 a 10, ewes, s5d 5 500 we,hers, ~ Is
a6Rb
CALvFs-Receipis 81, markc, steady
70 strong good 10 choice. $50 ~ Is me.
dunn. N3Gi4.5o. culls and common. $50
1i.b0.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-15
Dividends

Brown Fence and Wire Com
pany has declared a dividend Of
10 cents on the common, payable
September 3 TO holders OF record
August rs. This is the first com
mon dividend since 1899.
Copperweld steel Company has
declared a dividend OF % cents on
the common. payable. September
10 Ia holders Of record september
I. The same amount was paid
June 10.
Grown Eellefbach Corporation
has declared the regular quarterly
dividend of % cents on the com
mon. payable October l 10 holders
Of record September IA.
Mergenthaier Linotype Company
has declared a dividend Of 81 80
payable September 20 10 holders
of record September 2, The FIRM
paid 81 so September 30, last year,
and 81 June 26, this wear.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-15
Sales Tax Now
Unlikely, Says
Senate Group
Politically impossible,
Finance Committee
Is Expected 10 Report
Rv WILLIAM :. NAL

IN N rNA-aNA~
International Nsws sefNios >tsH writer
WASHINGTON. Aug IS. Sen
ate finance committee leaders TO-
dzy forecast rejection Of proposals
Tor inclusion Of n sales tax raising
two 20 three billions in the House
approved S6.27l 900 600 tax bill,
but conceded that il might be nee
csSary before the war IS over.
I'm my judgment the commit
lee and the senate will not adopt
a sale tax in the pending tax
biil," said Senator Tom Con-
nally Cd OF Texas "My view
Is that the committee will adopt
a sales tax only In the event
that II r. imperattveiy needed 20
finance the war"
~ SALES TAX OPPONENTS
The said opposition of the ad-
miniStration. labor unions ano
some farm organizations 10 sales
tax was said by leading admins
tration members OF the committee
10 make IL politically impossible
70 impose a sales tax.
Two two major methods Of rails
ing revenue loomed as the admin
istration pressed for addition OF
50. SOC. 10000 10 the House bill
Connally disclosed "details Of a
proposed individual excess profits
tax. and some administration
members said that the House with.
holding tax may be revised so as
actually TO yield $4,000, 000, 900 "a
$1,000. 000. 900 in revenue.
Connally said that under his
plan all individuals subject 10 the
income tax would first pay the
same general individual income
tax.
TAX ON INCREASE
An individual then would aver
age his income for the last FIVE
wears. and II il increased. he
would pay an excess profits tax
OF so TO 60 per cent ON the in'
crease
An example An individual av-
erased $1,000 yearly for the last
erAged 5000 yearly for the last
FIVE years. This year he makes
$50. 900. He would pay about 800
600 tax at the general rate apply
ing 10 all taxpayers, having 500.
600 left. This would be $4,000
more than his average FOR the last
five wears. He would pay 4 tax
of say so per cent. on the $4,000
This would get the brokers
mad others who have been maxi
ing outrageous commissions on
war business" said Cohnalk.
Under The House bill a 5 per
cent Withholding tax was i'm
posed, bat 1t applies against in
come taxes.
Some members predict that a
straight 5 per cent withholding
tax. in addition to other income
taxes, may be imposed I'd provide
revenue. The withholding tax az
passed BY the House admittedly
viii he revised by subcommit-
tee before il finally is acted upon
NOW IN CONFUSION
Senator Danaher tIs) Of Con.
necticut, member of the subcom.
mittee. said the Withholding tax as
il how stands is an impohder.
able maze" which must be revised
He declared, however, that the
way the >Siil is written the social
security pay roll tax principle
cannot be applied 10 a withhold
ing tax
With the finance committee In
recess for week, treasury and
congressional tax experts plan q
series of conferences on amend.
mehts proposed during hearings
on the bill.
Business was assured OF some
relief from provisions 6T the
House bill but u was conceded
that tax rates must be kept high
In order 10 produce MONEY needed
for war purposesh
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-15
GIN Negotidtes
Half Billion
Dollar Y Loan
Credit May Reach
Billion Marx as War
Output Hits Peak

General Motors Corporation Is
reported negotiating the largest
bank credit in history--a credit
that may total anywhere from half
billion to a billion dollars--it was
revealed today by the Wall Street
Journal.
The present record line Of credit
is 100 millions. a sum advanced by
banks this year 10 the Chrysler
Corporation.
The Wall Street Journal said
Negotiations for the largest
bank credit ever granted 20 a
private industry are In progress
between General Motors Cor
poration and q syndicate of at
least is Of the nations largest
hanks. While the amount Of
credit has not been disclosed, IL
Is understood to be $500, 600, 900
initially.
AS the corporations war
work expands, II ultimately may
be increased to somewhere In
the neighbor h I'd of $1,000
600, 900.
Interest rate to he carried
by the credit probably will be
about "a per cent"
GUARANTEED BY q.
The credit will be established
under regulation of Federal Re-
serve System and some time must
elapse before the whole deal Is
concluded. Under this regulation
various federal reserve banks may
act as fiscal agent for war and
navy departments and maritime
commission in financing war pro-
duction.
These departments are author
lied under executive order No,
l9112 10 guarantee any financing
institution making loans to facili-
tate war production against loss
on such loans. This guarantee obi
gates them to purchase within 10
days after receipt Of demand upon
federal reserve bank. their fiscal
agent. designated percentage of
the loan. In some instances this
may amount to 100 per cent OF
the amount of the loan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-15
CHICAGO

CHICAGO, Aug. ~ uNsl --HoGs-
cepts. 5000. market steady, top SIS .2St
bulk, S14.75Ti52o: heaviss, Si4.5ohi5;
mediums. sl475Hi5 30; lights, si4sb ~
1928. light lights. sii.25Tiis5; packing
sovs, ti3 $50 1870; pigs, si33l4
CATTLE-Receipts, ], 300; market steady.
Calves Receipts, 500 market steady Beef
steers--Choice ssaisss medium, siin
Is; yeariings, sli ais.5O. Bu,chers-Heif-
ers. si09i52b. cows. seGi2; bulls. 50 SO
Mi7 Is; calves, ssdi5.75, Feeders. seq
II 20 stookers-steers, sl09i3 rs; cove
and heifers, Ss9i225
SHEEP Receipts. 7 500: market steady;
lambs, SifH - 10, common, sl2ai3so;
yesrlings, Sll Is "a IL so. feeders, sl26i3i
ewes. H9625
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-15
SPECIALTIES BUSY

Specially stores are enjoying
gains of about 5 per cent over last
week and continue to run ahead OF
last year by margin ranging
from 10 to Is per cent. In most
lines fall buying is not yet in full
swing. Substantial increases are
reported in footwear running up
10 as much as so per cent over
1871. attributed in part at least to
publicity relative TO anticipated
leather shortage.
In the sale Of male apparel.
lower and popular-priced merchan.
disc continues TO move well. VOL
ume running about even with or
a little better than last week. but
we'll above last year. one large
chain making an increase OF 40 per
cent. High-priced lines. however,
are very quiet. Summer spot
wear is still active.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-15
Grown Eelietbach Corporation
FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS

NEW YORK Aug isThe following Is statement NJ the ~
BANK. H. showing the increase or
decrease since August 81
,os,,;. z" Isa
Evening star., 1942-05-22

ism in the 18th century-before the
lethal hand of the city desk man fell
upon the creative soul of the working
reporter. Obviously, no sordid scrab-
bling after facts bound the ship news
man of the old Journal. He did not
trouble about passenger list, crew list,
owners name, tonnage or cargo. He
simply told a fine story of wreck, let
ting his dislocated adverbial clauses fan
where they would. Certainly, he said
nothing about treasure either. Yet later
accounts put the recoverable valuation
Of the Faithful Steward at half million.
If this were so, then clearly it is not
part of Providence's plan to bring. that
negotiable wealth within human reach.
For, to date, all but very few of the
pieces found are Irish copper pennies,
totally without commercial value, even
as collectors items One can only think
that they have been allowed to wash
ashore for the express purpose of serv-
ing romance in q grim and sterile age.
And that the few gold and silver pieces
which have accompanied them likewise
have come to keep alive the hope, to
remind US Of a vanished day so inno-
cent. by comparison with our own. that,
In 1t, the quest for shining metals was
the worst crime men could think Of.
Evening star., 1942-05-22
Man Power Priorities

Since man power has become one
of the critical resources of the
Nation, it is but logical that there
should be a system of prioritieS on
the use of it. The setting up of such
system is, in effect, provided for
under the series of directiveS an
nounced by Chairman McNutt of the
War Man Power Commission. AS the
demand for skilled workers in eX-
banding war industries has increased,
1t has become evident that something
must be done to bring about more
efficient distribution of men Of draft
age.
In the past there have been many
instances where men trained in
specialized technical work have
been taken from jobs in plants
essential to the war program and
indicted into the military service,
where their skills have been totally
wasted. The drain. on industrial
man power was not a serious prob
lem in the early days of Selectlve
service. but it has attained grave
proportions as the battle of produc-
ton has peen regularly stepped up
toward greater and greater goals.
Recently there has been talk in some
official quarters of prospective
drafting of man power needed IN
industry or on the farm. Certainly
it is more logical to defer men whose
services are essential to victory on
the production front than to create
a labor shortage by Shortsighted-
ness in administering the Selectlve
Service Act and then to resort to a
labor draft to flll the void.
The War Man Power Commission,
IN seeking to remedy this chaotic
condition, has directed that critical"
occupations be catalogued by the
United States Employment Service
for the guidance of local draft
boards, which will be expected to
defer men engaged in any essential
trade or profession. Moreover, the
list will be a guide to men with
dependents who desire to transfer
from none essential to essential work
and thus qualify for deferment. The
employment service will give priority
to applicants for jobs deemed vital
to the prosecution of the war. AS
Mr.. McNutt points out, this program
is designed to preserve as far as pos
sible the voluntary aspects OF war
employment as opposed to the actual
drafting of labor for factory or farm.
Success of the program will depend
on the publics cooperation. If the
voluntary program should fail, more
drastic measures undoubtedly must
be taken if the production front is to
do it's full part in the war.
Evening star., 1942-05-22
Poets Souvenirs

Edwin Markham was an authentic
American bard, and it is "altogether
fitting and proper" that a memorial
exhibition of the literary relics OF his
life should be staged at the Library
of Congress in the midst of a great
war to decide the fate of democratic
civilization.
Nations, obviously, exist because OF
their philosophers and poets. All
human experience confirms the ludg-
ment that: Where there is no vision,
the people perish" The author OF
1.-The Man With the Hoe" was a con-
vinced believer in the doctrine OF
responsible freedom. He saw his
country as a beautiful land in which
a noble ideal hour by hour is trans
lated into monumental fact through
the conscious and deliberate labor
of his fellows, inspired, as he was, by
the miracle of such a privilege.
If ever thethiStory of the United
States be written in terms Of evolving
patterns of faith and achievement,
Mr., Markham will be mentioned for
the indictment which he launched
against the masters, lords and
rulers" of the world in behalf of the
poor and the oppressed. He is assured
of his place in the company OF Walt
Whitman and Abraham Lincoln,
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin
Franklin, because, like them, ne
helped to make America articulate
e In spiritual expression. His interpre-
tation of Millet's pathetic toiler, dis
torted and soul-quenched,' was but
one of his works to be crowned with
applause. He was 81 when he died
on March 7, 194O Nearly to the end
he continued to write, constantly
learning, consistently acquiring in
creased mastery of his art and its
materials.
The Library of Congress display
of Mr.. Markham's manuscripts and
letters. opening today, has been
arranged through the kindness OF
Mrs. Florence Hamilton, his secretary
and friend during more than a quar-
ter century. She it was who pre-
served the field notes" of his verses,
by study of which it is possible to
understand not merely how the poet
himself developed but likewise how
America grew in glory and in pride.
Scheduled to be shown during an
Evening star., 1942-05-22
Food or Medicine?

At a magistrates court in the
Bronx a trio of storekeeperS were
found innocent OF Sabbath viola
ton charge involving the selling of
soap on Sunday The acquittal hinged
on the technical classification of soap.
When sold by grocer, his honor
ruled, it is a food, and therefore not
legally dispensable on Sunday; when
sold by a drugstore, it is medicine
and therefore legally dispensable on
the day of rest. @. E. D. This was as
good way as any to cut the Gordian
knot and let the defendants of,
though the decision will hardly con-
vince any Bronxite that soap is either
a food or a medicine, and certainly
not both at the same time.
Children are a. different matter.
Those ranging from five to thirteen
will agree in part with the magis-
trate, denying that soap is a food, but
concurring that it is medicine-bad
medicine, in the Indian sense of that
term. Taken internally, to wash out
bad words from the mouth, its me-
dicinal characteristics are obvious.
Used externally 1t is less obviously
drug-certainly not a habit forming
one-but children tearfully insist
that it has severe and dangerous ef-
fects on the system, totally destroy
ing that sense of ease and well being
caused by wearing a healthy growth
of dirt pleasantly accumulated
throughout a day of strenuous &C
tivitieS.
Evening star., 1942-05-22
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles z. Tracetcell.

| In the bird world there is very little
! fighting, comparatively speaking.
Crows, hawks, jays and grackles are
among the worst of the bird enemies of
other birds.
The individual bird observer can do
no more than form his likes and dislikes
on what he has seen.
If he finds a mockingbird acting the
away all other birds from feeding box,
although he may not want the food him.
self, the observer will naturally come to
think of all mockingbirds as manifesting
this type of i'll action
The blue jay is such a comic, that it
is difficult for those of us who have not
seen him kill any other birds to realize
that he will do 1t, upon occasion.
Yet. seeing Is believing" here as
elsewhere.
Audubon pictured the jay. in his IA
nous plates, as holding the dripping egg
Of another bird in its claws.
Perhaps this gave the bird bad repu-
tation right from the start so that those
who came after were always looking for
1t either to break eggs or kill fledglings.
Maybe we find what we look for, in a
sense. Or 1t may be that jays only kill
young birds when they cannot find a
sufficient supply of other foods.
|. 1t must be kept in mind that love is
an invention of the human mind and
heart The animals know little of it.
Love without doubt, is humanity's
best invention. 1t will exist long after
airplanes and tanks are forgotten.
Love has paved the way for all of the
best that we know and are. II we permit
our other and lesser inventions to push
it out of the picture, so much the worse
for US.
The birds know nothing Of love. in
the sense we mean. Perhaps we should
say that the love OF which we speak is
Gods love. too Perhaps He invented it
first; no doubt He did
But the animals and the birds and the
fishes, although they show some simple
manifestations of real true love. in the
best sense, get only glimmer of what
has been given to us.
All the worse, then. is our abuse of
| this great and grand idea and ideal.
1t seems to us that we have little
right to feel upset about the jays CATCH
ing and destroying an occasional chicka-
dee baby, when men everywhere are
tracking and killing each other.
Let us first look at the gun in our own
hands and pray that the birds and the
beasts and the fishes never learn how to
handle tommy guns and airplanes and
tanks and submarines. And that the
insects never learn how to create gases
and spill them upon us as We have upon
them.
If We must feel indignant about some
thing, let us forget the occasional bad
blue jay, and remember the bad enemies
| of good men everywhere, those enemies
who let loose hell upon the world every
Is years.
Evening star., 1942-05-22
SeurchIiqhts

The lances of the searchlghts cledps
the sky
In leagues OF swinging sptrdls.'
overhead
Across the round, star-chapeled
night they fly,
And circle Uhere the shndop-
ranges spread,
Like cropping arms from other ,oorlds,
like beams
From Cyclopsan eyes. No,o rocket
s,Dift
They leap to faint horizons, noD one
streams
Straight to the zenith NTH
knitelike lift:
And no,o they panish, and the dark
comes back,
And peace returns. But as the last
flames 90,
/ ,conder phat they sought on that
,oeird track,
And uhat they found; and am con-
tent to kno,D
That ,ohen all searchHghts fade, and
he Uho seeks,
Still shall the ohostly stdr-shins
croton the peaks.
STANTON A. COBLENTz.
Evening star., 1942-05-22
Our Submarines

As depredations by German U-boats
continue with distressing frequency
along our Atlantic coast line, there
is a measure of consolation in the
news that American submarines have
been giving the japanese something
to worry about.
Six recent sinkings we're the first to
be credited to our submarine fleet for
nearly a month A lull in reported
offensive operations by our subma-
rines followed in the wake of the
japanese conquests in the Java Sea
area, presumably because of loss OF
certain Allied bases which had
facilitated underwater operations
against the invading forces. Earlier
in the year our submarines had
scored some notable successes in dar-
ing forays far inside enemy waters.
The official total of japanese ships
sunk by United States submarines
now stands at forty-two.
Before Pearl Harbor the Navy had
Ill submarines and was planning a
60 per cent increase in submarine
tonnage. Several weeks ago Gov
ernment officials indicated that all
of the 200 O00-ton increase in naval
tonnage granted by Congress would
be in submarines. 1t would be pos
sible to build more than 100 subma-
rineS within this tonnage. Such a
fleet would be formidable menace
to Japan's thinly stretched supply
lines. Even with our present ton
mage, Japan has good reason to fear
our submarines, even though they
must operate under conditions far
more trying than those confronting
Hitler's U-boats in the Atlantic. In
order to strike at Japan's supply
lines in the China Sea, American sub
marines must operate over far
greater distances from their bases
than German U-boats, and through
long stretches Of ocean patrolled by
japanese carrier Launched or land
based planes. Yet the reward is so
great that daring operations are well
justified. Japan is ill-equiwed to