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Evening star., 1942-10-01
CHICAGO Livestock

CHICAGO, oct / lP, Omitted States De-
5000: total, $1,000; fairly active, 1920
800 pounds, 15.15-3O few choice $50.
29O pounds, 1885: top, 15.40; good and
choice 15O-190 pounds IA, 90. IL 90, ac-
cording to weight; good and choice sows,
$50 pounds down, 10000; 400-550
pounds. 1475-15.1O.
salable cattle. $500; calves. 500; small
supply slaughter steers and hefers, 1875
hisher and uneven; all grades both classes
showing advance: strictly choice 1890
pound steers, 1880; comparable 975-
1850: bulk heifers, 125O-14.75: several
LOADS good Western cows strong at lib
1925. but natives slow, steady; Gamers
and cutters largely 7.OO-925: bulls, 1O-l5
lower practical top, 1900: few head good
heavies. 1910; vealers firm at 1850 down;
salable sheep. 5000: total 10000: late
Wednesday. spring lambs and fat yearlines
II doubles, choice Idahos and Montana
sprlnsers, IA .35 best natives, 14.1O; bulk
good and choice trucked-in lots. 1875
1I4:O0; throwouts. 1880 down: fat year
lings. II .50-12.O0; slaughter ewes $50
500; today's trade. slaughter classes fully
steady: hve decks choice Western. 1885;
one deck. 4.40: bulk good and choice
natives 13.75-14OO; few IA 10: small lots
ewes. 5.5O-75.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Maryland Employment
And PoyroI|s Climb
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 1.-The State
Labor Department reported that 687
Maryland manufacturing establish
ments paid $9,416,657 to 232,517 en-
ployes during August, an increase of
49.l per cent in payrolls and % per
cent in employees over the CORE
spending month last year.
The average weekly salary
amounted to $4050 for A hours.
In non-manufacturing Industries,
figures showed 1,073 firms employ
Ing 51,191 workers who received
81 ,535. 900 in payrolls.
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can be fixed on prices, wages or
salaries below the highest point
they had reached in the period from
January l to September Is this year.
The House incorporated the Lit
tie Steel" wage formula in its meas
ure, providing that no ceiling could
be placed on wages which had not
advanced Is per cent over levels of
January /, 194l While this was
both a floor and ceiling for such
wages, the Senate declined to write
:, the formula into it's bill as a ceiling
for all wages.
The House made its wage-stabili-
'zation provisions apply only to en-
'ployers hiring more than eight per-
SONS, but the Senate did not.
The Senate added also two amend
,ments not in the House bill. One
of these would permit the President
to veto any utility or common car
rier rate increases over September
Is levels Another would authorize
him, as he already has done, to ban
the payment of double time for Sun
day and holiday work, unless it was
j. the seventh consecutive work day.
q George Criticizes Delay.
Senator George criticized the ad-
ministration for not acting sooner
to stop a rapid rise in wages. The
absorption of the unemployed in
industry at such wages, he said,
lad already created a vast pool of
consumer buying power and created
a condition which made it impossi-
'h.e to avoid some very definite in
1Ils tio,..'
RI "You cannot stop imitation, be-
j. cause the conditions of imitation are
already here" he said.
Senator George, chairman of the
Finance Committee, went on to say
, that courageous taxation would help,
that 4 gross income tax reaching
sclose to the bottom" or a sales tax
would get at the reservoir of buy
ling power to which he referred.
: But if the Treasury is not willing
to go in one or the other of these
directions" he added, "it does not
matter much how high you put taxes
Jon individuals or corporations, you
will not reach this vast reservoir of
consumer buying power
e Senator George was speaking in
support of substitute measure by
Senator Clark directing the Presi-
dent to freeze prices, wages and
salaries outrightly at their high
est levels between January l and
September IS of this year. 1t was
later rejected, IS to Is.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
September Construction
Holds 80 PET. Above 1941
B! the Associated Press.

B! the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-September
engineering construction volume of
$7l2 ,709 900 compared with $513,077,-
900 in August and $514, 900 in
September, 1941, Engineering News
Record reported today.
Highest September value ever re-
ported by the trade magazine. the
total topped the like 1941 period by
80 per cent, but was II per cent be-
low August. Federal construction
accounted for 81 per cent of the
volume and rose 78 per cent above
year ago.
Construction volume for the week
ended october l was $203, 1921 900,
Engineering News-Record said,
against STAT 500 900 the previous week
and Sill, FOG, 900 in the corresponding
week of 194l.
The current weeks total brought
1912 volume to S7,835 1927 900, a So
per cent gain over construction re-
ported for the 40-week period in
1941.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
New Diesels Ordered
By Lehigh Valley
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 1.-The
Lehigh Valley Railroad has ordered
ten 1,000-horsepower Diesel electric
switching engines at a cost of ap-
proximately $750,000, President r..
w. Brown announced after a board
meeting yesterday.
The American Locomotive Co. was
awarded orders for half OF the en-
gines and the Electro Motive Corp.
the other five.
Brown estimated net income for
September at $625, 900. This would
compare with $488,736 for the same
month last year.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
London Bunk Report

LONDON. Oct. Lp,.-A record high was
established for note circulation as reported
in the Bank of Ensland's weekly condition
statement issued today. The increase
fs3S .O29, 900. The banks reserve reflected
an almost similar decrease.
Government securities improved more
than f6,O00.000. private deposits f5,635.-
600 and other securities also increased more
than f4,OO0.O0O. On the other hand,
public deposits were about FL f1,50uOO0 un
der the previous week
:, The proportion Of the banks reserve to
liabilities this wee. wes 80 per cent.
compared with 2s.5 the same week
year ago.
The detailed statement for week ended
Sptember 80 follows lin thousands of
Circulation. s3s. .Oaa: increase. 6a73.
Bullion. 1;6l6; increase. I'll.
Reserve. 43.5S1: decrease. 6.062.
Public deposits. 1O,264; decrease. 1.543.
- Private deposits, 1S7,220: increase.
5.635.
Government securities, 14O,s67; in
crease. 6.01O
other securities. 31.125: increase. 4,1Os
Ratio of reserve to liabilities. go per
cent. compared with 25.6 last week.
Bank rate, 9 per cent.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Bank CIearings Dip
Slightly in Week.;
-
Top Year Ago
TotuI for 23 Cities
1874 Per Cent Ahead
Of 1o41 Period
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. Bank clear
ings in the % leading cities in the
week ended Wednesday fell only
slightly under the record volume in
the preceding week and were 1854
per cent above the total of a year
ago, Dun 6S Bradstreet announced
today.
The aggregate was 1884 ,443 900,
compared with s6.814086, 900 in the
like period of l941, and only $204,-
446,000 below the years top estab-
lished in the previous week.
Some of the large outside gains
over the 1941 volume were: Seattle,
50.2 per cent Portland, Oreg., 35.3;
Denver 1872; Omaha, 29.4, and Pitts
burgh, %.
Clearings at the various centers,
together with percentage changes
from year ago and other details,
follow:
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Oct. IA grain mar
ket advance based on Senate passage
of anti-inflation legislation which
would raise commodity loans granted
by the Government to producers
was short-lived today and late
profit taking reduced or erased the
gains.
Wheat touched highest prices since
early summer before the reaction
occurred. Late selling was blamed
partly on uncertainty as to whether
higher loan rates for basic crops
were mandatory and whether they
will apply to 1912 production.
Wheat closed unchanged to "a
higher compared with yesterday, De-
cember, $1.287a-sl.29; May, sl.3ls4-
"a corn unchanged to y up, De-
cember, 855s; May, 90ls; oats, So
u lower; soybeans, "a lower to u
higher; rye, a IA lower.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Business
Continued From First Page.)

are unable to attend instructional
clinics"
Two sets of problems peculiar to
small manufacturing, Mr.. Davis
said, have tended to reinforce the
little mans inclination to do bus
iness as usual, rather than make
the effort to get into war work.
There are the many problems re-
sulting from Federal regulations
such as priorities, price control,
financing, contract specifications
and bidding practices.
Other Problems Arise.
The second set are the usual prob
lens of small business in peace ex-
.aggerated by the war, such as
migration, customer and creditor
preferment, increased labor costs,
conversion difficulties, credit prob
lens.
:. often the small manufacturer in
his confusion" Mr.. Davis declared,
docs not see the connection between
the rules he is asked to follow and
the winning of the war. He fire.
quently adverts to obvious incon-
sistencies in information policy,
using these inconsistencies as a
naturalization for incomplete con-
formity with regulations.
One small manufacturer, and he
exemplifles many more, says there's
too much crying Wolf! Wolf! Our
firm gets new set of rules every
day and we try to arrange our busi-
ness and schedules by it and before
we have digested it a new rule
comes out"
Mr.. Davis described how hard hit
Is small business in general by the
war, and he added in areas where
the war exodus is marked, there is
serious loss of retail patronage and
of employees, which most retailers are
too weak to stand for a protracted
period."
Meanwhile, the Smaller War
Plants Corp. stated that its primary
objective in making loans from its
$50, 0,0000 900 fund will be ITO hasten
winning the war"
IF small manufacturer can show
that the money he wants to borrow
will help kill Jap or German, or
In other ways shorten the war. there
Is good chance the loan will be
granted The corporation is not
going to ask for gilt-edge security"
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Cotton Cloth Output
Expected 10 Set New
Record This Year
g.
Sharp Rise Accomplished
Despite Decrease in
Mill Facilities
By tl.e Associated Press.

by Ut ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-W Ray
Bell, president of the cotton tex
tile merchants of New York, today
estimated that 1912 production of
woven cotton cloth would reach a
record level at approximately H.
500 ,000, 900 square yards.
Such volume" he said, would
exceed by more than a billion
square yards the War Production
Boards estimate for last year
ll.328, 900, 900 square yards. Is is
1000 ,000, 900 square yards more than
the average annual pre-war output
from 1885 to 1889, inclusive"
Indicated consumption of cotton
Of II 1000 bales for the year, Bell
added, would mean a yearly gain in
mill consumption of more than q
million bales over the previous peak
of 1941.
The remarkable thing about this
high rate of cotton textile produc-
tlvity," said Bell, "is that it has
been accomplished concurrently
with a substantial decline in facili-
ties. At the beginning of 1896
there were 100000 spindles in
place. Today less than $4,000 900.
The chief problem, however, is
that OF maintaining third shift op-
erations at time when manpower
is being sought by everybody, from
the Army down.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Some Tool Shipments
Exceed New Orders
R1 fhf Associated prass

3, the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 1.-Some build
ers of machine tools report ship
ments are in excess of new book
ings, Daily Metal Trade reported
yesterday, adding:
while there is no sharp letdown
in ordering. buying is more orderly
with scattered improvement in de-
liveries in some lines. Meanwhile
production continues to move up
ward each month and this increase
is due to heavy subcontracting in
many cases as well as expanded IA
cilities of prime contractors.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO. Oct. R.-Poultry. live As
and down. III; LeEhorn hens. iSR: broii.
ers, q. pounds and down, colored. Is; Ply
mouth Rock 20: White Rock, 81: springs,
23: White Rock. 22h; under pounds.
eolored; 21h: Plymouth Rock, 25A; White
ers. ish: Leshorn ROSTERS. rs; ducks. ~
pounds up, colored. II: white, 10: small.
colorsd, is: white. ID; geese. old, 13:
younx. II: turkeys, toms. old, %; young,
20; hens. old. 26: young. 30. -.
Butter: receipts, 420,72S; nrm; prices A.
creamery. 90 score. 13is; ss. 4sM: othsf
prices unchanged.
Esss,, receipts 0.731; Arm: market un.
changed.
Government sraded esss, vhits. extras.
loose. So; carton. 81.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Wholesale Food Index
At New 22-Yeur Peak
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-Continued
strength in foods and farm products
was reflected in another 2-cent rise
in the Dun & Bradstreet wholesale
food price index this week.
This brought the September %
figure to 1886, an advance of 1876
per cent over the comparative 1941
index of 1894. and a new high level
for the past % years.
Commodities moving upward dur
Ing the period were oats, hams, but
ter. cheese, eggs. potatoes. steers and
hogs, while declines included flour,
wheat, corn, rye, barley and lambs.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Meat Record Broken

CHICAGO, Oct. l (R.-Meat pro-
duction last month reached an all
time high for September, the Amer
lean Meat Institute reported today.
Output was estimated as 20 per cent
above September, 1941, and from 40
to so per cent higher than the 1929
1888 average.
Hog marketings were the highest
on record for September, up IS to
40 per cent over a year ago, cattle
marketing were the largest for the
month since 1918, ahead 10 to Is
per cent over l941, and sheep and
lamb marketing we're up to 10 per
cent over September, 1941, the insti-
tute said.
With the exception of hogs, which
increased sharply during the last
two weeks, livestock prices in general
remained steady during the month,
the institute stated.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Bond Issue Proposed
By Tennessee Central
B, the Associated Press.

The Tennessee Central Railway
Co. applied to the Interstate Com
merce Commission today for author
ity to issue $260,00O worth of first
mortgage per cent bonds to be used
as collateral in borrowing a some
what smaller sum to reimburse the
ccmpany's treasury for expenditures
for road properties during the past
year.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Grosshopper Removed
From Mans Windpjpe

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-A grasshop-
per sent Herman Stock to the hos
pital.
The insect jumped into the Arenz-
vile residents mouth and lodged
deep in his windpipe.
Mr.. Stock was brought here, where
a specialist removed the hopper.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Life Office Group
Headed by SIimmon
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. flames b.
Slimmon, vice president and secre-
tary of the Aetna Life Insurance Co.,
has been named president of the
Life Once Management Association,
succeeding Ralph w. Beeson. secre-
tary Of the Liberty National Life
Insurance Co., who becomes a mem
ber Of the board.
Edmund Fitzgerald. vice president
OF the Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance Co. was elected . vice
president.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
London Market Firm

LONDON, Oct. l lP).-The stock
market closed generally firm today.
British funds were maintained. In
dustrials finished firm with home
rails holding gains established
earlier in the session. Oils were
steady, kafflrs dull, coppers higher
and rubbers firmer.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Baltimore Stocks
Commodity Prices
Special Dispatch to The Star,

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-The Associated
Press weighted wholesale price index of 35
commodities TO-DAY, advanced to 1OI O4..
month ago. 99.33; year ego. 90
,,;- 1912. 1941. 1870. 1889.
Low 9554 1703 6S so Ii4s
u926 average EQUALS 1909
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Rail Loadings Decline.

The Association of American
Railroads reported today that 897,-
ia cars of revenue freight were
loaded during the week ending last
Saturday.
This was decrease of 5,385 cars,
or 0.6 per cent, compared with the
preceding week: decrease of
$4,000 cars, or 20 per cent, COM
pared with year ago, and an in
crease of 1920 cars, or 90 per cent,
compared with 1910.
The report classified the loadings,
compared with last week and the
corresponding week year ago, as
follows.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Leningrad and one Nazi battalion

Leningrad and one Nazi battalion
had to face 50 assaults day.
The Soviet Information Bureau
said Russian warships had sunk a
10,000-ton Axis transport in their
Baltic Sea campaign.
The Soviet radio said today Ger
man air squadrons made two thrusts
at Leningrad Tuesday night, but
Red Army anti-aircraft gunners and
fighter planes shot down four bomb
ers and two fighters and not single
raider reached the city.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Chicago Cash Market

FVn1CdKU C6sn MdTKtI.
Wheat, No. l hard 1.31; No . mixed
weevily, 81. Corn. No. yellow s4h4-
s6; No. g.. s31a-s41a: No. 4. s1s4 4-s3la;
1.10. Oats. No. mixed. 53-53L4: sample
Grade mixed. so: No. white, 53; No. A.
4934-50; No. 3 white. touch. 40: No l
special red. heavy 53i4. Barley, mailing
S3-1 log, nominal: hard. 6s-75, nominal;
feed, $50, nominal
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Freight Loudinqs

cars handled on railroads reporting today
for the week ended September IS included:
Sept. 26. Prev. wk Yr ago
<. d Q. 42,122 42,6O7 43,6OS
Pere Marquette II 637 1860 1914
Nickel Plate - 24,545 26,O25 2E7f7
Evening star., 1942-10-01

Not everybody with = dollar to
spare can shoot . gun straight-but
everybody can shoot straight to the
bank and buy . War bond.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Virginia Tobacco

b. The Associated Press.
Average prices of $40 or better we're re-
ported from several virTinia cid belt to-
day the eighth days sales OF the new
season
Poundases and average prices reported
Yesterday included:
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Weather Report

FURNISHED by the United States Weather Bureau)
District of Columbia-Warmer tonight; gentle winds
Maryland and Virginia-Warmer tonight
Evening star., 1942-10-01
ServeI, Inc, Reports
$8,026 Loss for
Three Months !
Result Contrasts With
$1,432,298 Profit in
Some 1o41 Period
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-Servel, Inc,
refrigerator makers, reported for the
quarter ended July 81 net loss Of
$36,026, compared with a profit of
81 ,432 ,298, or 80 cents a share on
the capital stock, in the comparable
period of 1941.
: The loss in the quarter was at
! tributed to the suspension of normal
activities of the company and its
conversion to war work.
Pacific Telephone.
Pacific Telephone g. Telegraph Co.
reported for the quarter ended
SEPTEMBER 30 net profit of $5,941 900,
equal to $191 share on its common
stock, compared with 4,706 900, or
1892 share on smaller number
of shares outstanding in the like
quarter IF 1941.
Consolidated Gas.
Consolidated Gas, Electric Light
e. Power Co. of Baltimore reported
net income Of $4,037, 1895 for the first
eight months of 1912; equivalent
after preferred dividends to $2.73 a
share on common stock.
The net income figure was after
operating expenses, fixed charges,
depreciation and taxes, including
Federal income taxes at an assumed
rate OF 40 per cent plus an additional
contingency provision at the rate
Of $4,000 for the full year.
For the. corresponding period of
1941 net income was $4,265,956
equivalent after preferred dividends
to 1892 per common share.
C. g. P. of Baltimore.
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co. of Baltimore reported net in
come of $2,052,017 for the first eight
months of 1912, compared with 81
O19,634 in the corresponding period
last year.
Francisco Sugar Co.
Francisco Sugar Co. reported to-
day for - months ended June 30
net profit of $924,614, equal to 1854
a share en- the capital stock. This
SoAiPdlCO Will SLZ 5l0, OF % CeQCS
a share, in the preceding fiscal year.
Mueller Brass Co.
Mueller Brass Co. reported for the
quarter ended August 81 net income
OF $118, 1856, equal to IS cents a COM
mon share, against $3.50, ,597, or 1.73
a snare, In the like quarter of 194l.
Northrop Aircraft.
HAWTHORNE, Calf, Oct. 1 (P-
Northrop Aircraft, Inc, reports a
sales increase of 870 per cent for the
hscal year ending July 81, 1912, over
| the corresponding 194O-41 period.
The figures are s32 2,983, ,762 this year
and $3,4O7,704 last.
The con,pany's third annual re-
port disclosed net profit of $3O44,-
TAI, or 9.24 per cent, compared to a
net loss of $848,778 for the preceding
period. The earnings total s7.93 per
share on combined Glass A and 3
common stock.
Rail Revenues Soar.
Tho 10 ti4x,
Evening star., 1942-10-01

SALES.
Potomac Electric Power 51aT pre-
ferred-5 at 1l41a.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
BONDS
PUBLIC UTILITY
STOCKS

MISCELLANEOUS.
Ter Ref&W cp 1st 44s 194S 1O3
Evening star., 1942-10-01

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 90, on July 10,
Lowest. s. on January IL.
Precipita ation.
Evening star., 1942-10-01

Ex dividend Plus extras. aPaid 20
FAR this year. e2ro extra. ass 90 extra
X zoe extra. m 81 so extra. pPaid in
1941. $4,000 extra
Evening star., 1942-10-01

River Report.
Potomac clear snd Shenandoah muddy
At Harpers Ferry. Potomac muddy at Great
Falls:
Evening star., 1942-10-01
NOrthrOp Aircraft.
Rail Revenues Soar.

The Association of American Rail-
roads estimated yesterday that op-
Grating revenues of class / railroads
In August totaled s683 ,8O6, ,778. COM
pared with $493, ,674,008 in August
last year.
Operating expenses were s3se 292-
3o3, compared with $313,S43,279 a
year ago. 49,,
This brought net income Of class l
railroads. after interest and rentals.
to a total of 1856 100000 for the first
eight months of the year. In the
similar period last year net income
was $298, ,968,5l7.
Evening star., 1942-10-01
Washington Exchange

SALES.