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Evening star., 1942-07-14
United Fruit Shows
S9,941,o00 Profit
For Six Months
Estimute Before income
Toxes Will Be Lost
On Quarterly Bosis
p, TIE Associated Press,

Rs tfe Associaso Press.
NEW YORK, July l4.-The United
Fruit Co. estimated its apparent
earnings" for the six months ended
July were s9,94l 900 before in- ,
come taxes
The company also announced in a
statement that until conditions
become normal the quarterly esti-
mates would be omitted.
The statement said:
Under present conditions 1t Is
particularly difIicult TO state with
any accuracy the United Fruit Cos
results for any period other than
a full year, because of the various
factors that affect its unit costs and
the final disposition of reserves.
These factors have become so
difficult to determine, particularly
any estimate of the quantity OF
bananas to be imported In the year..
that the company has determined
in the future until conditions be-
come normal to omit the quarterly
estimates"
Endicott johnson
Endicott johnson Corp. and subsi-
diaries reported for So weeks ended.
May 30 net profit of s2,310,361. equal
to s4.80 a common share. compared
with s2,342,243, or s488 a share. in
the comparable period year ago.
Mathieson Alkali.
Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc. re-
ported for the quarter ended June
30 net profit of s211 ,23l, equal, after
dividend requirements on the pre-.
ferred stock, to 20 cents share on
the common stock. This compared
with 1898 $50, or 66 cents a common
share, in the June quarter last year.
In the March quarter this year
profit was s344,361, or 81 cents Q
share.
Evening star., 1942-07-14
Odd-Lot Dealings

PHILADELPHIA. July IA lF.-The Sc
curities Commission reported today these
transactions by customers with lot
dealers or specialists on the New York
Stock Exchange for July 13: 533 pur-
chases involving 1920 shares: ,o3l sales
involving 35 ,039 shares, including / 8 short
sales involving sos shares.
Evening star., 1942-07-14
Baltimore Stocks
Commodity Prices
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK. July 1.-THE Associa ted
Press weighted wholesale price index of 35
commodities today declined to oS14
Previous day. $3.50; week ago. es15;
month ago. ~ IS; year ago. 1912.
1912 1a41 1910. 1889
High --- 9e.72 a512 1925 aS.14
Low -- 1884 77.03 $3.50 41.44
1a26 average equals 100
Evening star., 1942-07-14

So excited did Dionisio G. Her.
rera. traffic policeman, become while
watching a novice fighting bull in.
Mexico City arena that he
dropped dead from a heart attack.
Evening star., 1942-07-14

8 Unis Of trading, 10 shares. r In bank
ruptcy or receivershlp or being reorganiIe1
under Bankruptcy Act. or securities as
sumed by such companies. Rates of divi.
disbursements based on the last quarterly
or semi-annual declaration. Unless other
wise noted. special or extra dividends are
not Included. xd Ex dividend. xr H
rights. Also extra or extras. Cash or
stock. e Declared or paid SO far this year.
able in Canadian funds. k Accommodates
dividends pa1d or declared this year.
Evening star., 1942-07-14
Freight Loudinqs

NEW YORK July II tP-Revenue
freight cars handled by railroads reporting
today for the week ended July II in
Evening star., 1942-07-14

wheat. No / hard. .I7s.; No. hard
1,l7h2; No. ? mixed. / II; tough No 3
mixed. .13. Corn, No. / yellow. s6l.; No
. $685.. No s. s5'.-s11a; No 4. s41a-
sstz: sample grade yellow, so No. ]
white, :01s.: No 2. .o0h. Oats, No. l
T. 47A Barley. mailing. 72-a6, nominal
hard, SO; feed and screenings. 50-61
Soybeans No. yellow. LIBEL rs.
Evening star., 1942-07-14
Bank Loans Reduced
100000 More
During Week
$e,456,0O, 600 TotoI
Holds $523, 900, 900
Above Year Ago
2. the Associated Press.

2. the Associated Press.
The Federal Reserve Board said
that commercial, industrial and ag-
ricultu. al leans of banks in l0l lead
ing cities declined $4,000, 900 in the
week ended July 8.
These loans totaled S6.456. 900 900,
and were $523 ,O0O, 900 higher than a
year ago.
The boards statement gave the
following summary of assets and
liabilities on July 8, together with
the increase or decrease since the
previous week and the correspond
ing week last year Tin millions OF
dollars:
Evening star., 1942-07-14

Don't BE aione-MAKE a loan
to Uncle Sam. Buy War bonds now
Evening star., 1942-07-14
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Stocks D;':s, :: '''s''i to n. w.: s;.,

Stock and Sales
Dividend Rate. Add 90. High Low. Close
Evening star., 1942-07-14
ASSETS

Cur. vk. Pv. wk. Yr. ago.
Loans and invest
Loans-total 1066l 70 r 20S
Commercial, in
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Minnesota DAV Asks
Court 10 Settle Row
B, the Associated Press

B, the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 15.-The Min
nesota Department of the Disabled
American Veterans and the Mime
apolis and st. Paul Chapters asked
Federal District Court yesterday to
declare vacant the Office of National
Comdr. Laurence r. Melton and ap-
point an officer to control the organ
lzation until duly authorized
convention can be convened"
They also asked the court to deny
petition Of DAV national officers
asking valuation of the officers de-
cisions, including cancellation of
this years convention. The objec-
tors petition asserted the DAV
constitution vested supreme power
in a national convention to be held
between July 81 and August 81 and
contended the cancellation because
OF the war; was unjustifed.
National officers petitioned the
court last month to approve revi-
Evening star., 1942-09-15
WiIheImshaven Hit
By British Planes;
Fires Set in Docks
Only Two Raiders Lost
In Assault on Noyo!
Stotion, London Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 15.-The Raj
hurled a strong force Of bombers
last night against Wilhelms-
haven, chief German naval sta
ton on the North Sea, and kin
died fires which participating
pilots said we're LETT spreading
right bang in the middle of the
docks -
From this assault-by perhaps
hundreds of bombers-only two
raiders were lost, the Air Ministry
said. The Wilhelmshaven attack
was the second by the RAF in as
many nights and the ninth this
month on Germany.
Wilhelmshaven is so miles airline
northwest of Bremen, the main tar
get of the night before.
Pendulum Swings Back.
The constant pounding of Ger
many marked full swing of the
pendulum from two years ago, when
it was Britain which underwent sue
cessive smashing attacks.
Today is the second anniversary
of the battle of Britain's climax, and
Allied air chiefs commemorated the
event with the promise that their
air armadas would help destroy and
defeat the Axis enemies.
The Berlin radio gave the first
word OF the new assault on Ger
many, the second in as many nights,
without naming the exact target.
The Berlin announcement said
fires were started and some dam
age was caused to buildings, mainly
in the residential district" Four
of the attacking bombers were re-
ported shot down.
Follows Double Allied Blow.
Last nights raid followed by "a
hours double blow by the RAF
and the Russian air force at Ger
many and her Axis partners, Ru-
mania and Bulgaria.
Several hundred British bombers
scourged Bremen for the Tooth
time with tons of bombs aimed at
U-boat yards, the Focke-Wulf air.
plane factory, railways and indus
tries. The Russians said their
bombers started fires in Bucharest
and the Rumanian oil center of
Ploesti and Axis reports said
Budapest, Berlin and Koenigsberg,
East Prussia, were other targets of
the Red raiders.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Gunsfon Hall Closes
After 50 Years in D. +.

Gunston Hall, girls boarding
school in operation here for half a
century, will not open this year, it's
principal, Miss Mary B. Kerr, an
nounced yesterday. She refused to
say why the school was being closed,
but revealed it was not being taken
over by the Government.
This is the third girls school to be
closed in the Washington area since
last June. Arlington Hall Junior
College in nearby Virginia was taken
over by the War Department. Last
month it was announced that Ma
tional Park College in Forest Glen,
Md, would be used by the Army as
an adjunct to the Walter Reed Gen.
eral Hospital.
Gunston Hall, in the 1900 block of
Florida avenue NV, was founded
by Mr.. and Mrs Beverly Randolph
Mason and named after Gunston
Hall on the Potomac, home of Mr..
Mason's great-grandfather.
Originally in Georgetown. the
school was moved to Thomas Circle
in 1895 and six years later to Florida
avenue.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Miss Mamie D. Sobotka
Dies at Home Here

Miss Mamie D. Sobotka, for many
years an employe of the War De-
partment, died yesterday az her
home, 1880 Ingraham street NV,
following long illness.
Miss Sobotka was corresponding
secretary for the Society of Natives.
She is survived by two brothers,
John A. and Frank J. Sobotka
Services will be held at pm.
tomorrow at the S. H. Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV,
with burial following in Prospect
Hill Cemetery.
The following committee, selected
by the Society of Natives to attend
the funeral, includes Charles H.
Bates, president; Mrs. Alice w. New
hard, John A. Saul, Mrs. Katherine
Rumbough, James F. Duhamel, Mrs.
Josephine B. Miller, Miss Eta l..
Taggart, Mrs. Ada Hodge and Mrs.
Bessie B. Broaddus.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Cab Driver Attacked,
Robbed Of Cash and Car

Shirley Charles Chadwell, 49,
year-old cab driver Of 1l12 H street
NE, reported to police today that
he was robbed of S485 and his cab
was stolen by five men and a woman
early this morning.
-Four men hailed his cab at Ninth
and H streets NE, he reported, and
ordered him to drive to Fourteenth
and H streets NE, where another
man and girl were picked up.
Then Mr.. ChadWell was told to
drive to an address on the Marlboro
pike.
In the 5000 block of Benning road
NE, he said, he was struck from
behind, then hit in the face. His
passengers robbed him and threw
him out at Alabama avenue and
Naylor road Sc, driving off in the
cab, he reported.
The taxi driver described some of
his assailants to police; said the
girl was named Hazel, that he
thought she had red hair and that
he could not describe the others,
but could identify them.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
81 Allied Merchant Ships
Sunk, Germans Declare

NEW YORK, Sept. IS (R.-The
Berlin radio quoted the newspaper
Volkischer Beobachter last night as
saying 81 Allied merchantmen total
Ing 243,500 tons and three Allied
warships had been sunk by German
submarines during running fight
with westbound Atlantic convoy.
Volkischer Beobachter based this
conclusion on a German high COM
mand communique which, as broad
cast by Berlin earlier yesterday, gave
the impression that the Nazis were
claiming only 10 Allied cargo ships,
two destroyers and a Corvette.
The newspaper had taken a Ger
man Sunday communique which
claimed l8 merchantmen and Mos
days apparent recapitulation of 19-
then added them together to make
81 cargo ships.
Allied sources had no immediate
comment on either claim.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Madagascar Situation
Is Extremely Grave,
Vichy Is Informed
y. S. Charge d'Affoires
Confers With LuvuI
Aooin on British
BY the Associated Press.

VICHY, Sept. 15.-The situation
in Madagascar is one of "extrema
gravity" Admand Annett, governor
general of the island, advised the
Vichy government today as British
columns drove closer to Tananarive,
the capital.
Annett said South African mo-
torized column pushing southeast
from Majunga, its landing place, had
captured the small village of Antsia-
fabositra after occupying Maevat-
anana, $50 miles by road from Tan
anarive
The governor general said French
resistance was continuing and that
the British now were in difficult
mountain terrain.
There was no report on activities
of British forces moving inland
from Morondava, $50 miles air line
south of Majunga, and from Anban-
ia, in northern Madagascar.
Chief of Government Laval re-
IClFtu llIC OlilJcu SUdtcS Illdi SC
d'Affaires, S. Pinkney Tuck, yes
terday for the second time in three
days to discuss the new British drive
in Madagascar.
1t was believed Mr.. Tuck handed
him the State Departments fan-
swer to representations which Laval
was understood to have made Sat-
urday over the Madagascar cam
paign.
A French communique, mean
whlle, attributed the fall of Maveta-
mana to the arrival of new British
equipment at the battle scene. 1t
referred to South African motorized
troops equipped with "a large guam
tity of material"
The communique also disclosed
for the first time that the Vichy
military command in Madagascar
had organized irregular partisan
groups into combat groups to sup
plement the regular fighting forces.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Texans Resent Ration
Plans, Governor Says
BY the Associated Press,

oS INC hSSOCldteO PreSS.
AUSTIN, Tex, Sept. 15.-Gov.
Coke r. Stevenson said yesterday
projected gasoline rationing in
regions like Texas "gives evidence of
mental confusion in Washington. d"
Earlier he had protested to OPA Ad-
ministrator Leon Henderson against
the step.
The Governor said at press con-
ference many Texans feared the
move would wreck the States big
gest industry-oil
Texans, he said, volunteered in
great numbers for all branches of
the armed services, they fell in line
quickly with all the Governments s
requests for war aid, but the recent
slump in bond sales demonstrated
the undercurrent of grim resent
ment against an order of this type. "
He said he believed Texans would
give only "grudging submission" to
the order.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
New Wave Of Terror
Reported Spreading
Through Balkans
Stote Of Siege CIomped
In Macedonia Area After
Killing of Officials
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, Sept. 15.-A new wave
of Axis terror and anti-Axis revolt
was reported spreading through the
Balkans last night following redou-
bled efforts by Adolf Hitler to wiring
greater tribute for his war machine
from occupied but still recalcitrant
southeastern states.
The Germans themselves contrib
uted to the accounts of trouble on
their hands, reporting revolt in Bull
garian Macedonia in addition to the
previously announced execution of
300 persons in Bosnia, mountainous
western area of Occupied Yugo-
slavia.
A state of siege was clamped on
the district and city of Skoplje, now
part of Bulgarian Macedonia and
formerly a part of Yugoslavia, after
the killing of many Bulgarian off,
clals by Yugoslav patriots, said Bal
kan dispatches received in Switzer-
land. One account said these disor-
ders were set off by efforts of Ger
mans, Italians and Bulgarians to
loot the district of its fall harvests.
Planes Drop Ammunition.
One Sofia dispatch told of the ap-
pearance of mysterious planes over
the Skoplje area from which were
dropped leaflets addressed to the
population and ammunition for
Macedonian insurgents.
AT one stage of the outbreak.
these same dispatches said, an at
tempt was made to assassinate Peter
Grabovsky, Bulgarian interior min
lister. In two villages every last Bull
g,-rian official was declared slain
by Macedonian bands.
Macedonian circles in Sofia were
quoted as saying Bulgarian SEN
tlment in Skoplje was flaming high
with one group of patriots demand
Ing an autonomous Macedonian state
and the other agitating for COM
piete separation from Bulgaria.
Mopping- Up Progresses.
Inc mass executions in Bosnia
ana the Berlin radios announce
ment that 'mopping-up operations
there are progressing according to
plan" were taken here to mean that
the Germans were making a su-
preme effort to smash guerrilla re-
Sistance.
Inc continuing activity of these
patrlots was best evidenced by an
Italian casualty list for August
showing 295 of Mussolini's soldiers
Killed and 387 wounded that month
alone "on the Balkan front"
Evening star., 1942-09-15

sion of the organizations name
from the Disabled American Vet
Grams of the World War to Disabled
American Veterans and to expand
the membership to include disabled
veterans of all wars.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Folse Trouble Calls
Annoy Policemen

Police were heckled this morning
by a series of false alarms which
sent scout cars rushing through
downtown streets to the aid of po-
hcemen reported lin trouble"
The first call. shortly before 6 a m,
reported a policeman shot in the
300 block of I street NV. Shortly
afterWard there was a call that five
soldiers were attacking a policeman
IN the 14O0 block of Pennsylvania
avenue NV, then a report that six
Marines were ganging up on po-
lceman In the 1900 block of E street
NV. Scout cars responding to the
calls found no policemen, no SOL
dlerS, and no Marines.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
-Four Merchantmen
And Canadian Escort
Vessel Are Sunk
Increase in Tempo Of
Enemy Activity OFF
East Coast Reported
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Sept. 15.-An Atlantic
convoy battle in which Axis subma
rines sank four Allied merchantmen
and the Canadian escort vesse
Racoon, the latter with all 38 hands
was announced yesterday by the Ca
madam Navy Ministry
The Sinkings were known to have
occurred off the Canadian east coast
where, the navy said, there has
been an increase in the tempo of
enemy activity"
tSince the Canadian Navy
makes practice of delaying an
nouncements of losses until the
next of kin have been notified. it
was believed the sinkings dis
closed yesterday occurred some
time ago and had no connection
with a big Atlantic convoy battle
mentioned by German communi-
ques the last two days.
(The Germans announced yes
terday that U-boats had sunk 10
ships totaling $4,000 tons, two
destroyers and one Corvette out
of an Allied convoy in the North
Atlantic. There was no Allied con-
firmation of this report, which was
similar to a German claim Sunday
that 18 Allied ships totaling l2l,-
500 tons had been sunk and a
10Th ship torpedoed)
Navy Minister Angus Macdonald
said 10 officers and men of the four
Sunken merchantmen were lost.
The Rocoon, an armed yacht, was
the eighth ship lost by the Canadian
Navy since the wars start.
Mr.. Macdonald, speaking at
Hamilton, Ontario, last week, said
the Canadian Navy had achieved
some notable successes against u
boats which would be announced in
due time. 1t was understood, how
eyer, that he was referring to
engagements previous to the attack
announced yesterday.
In announcing an increase in the
tempo of enemy activity off the
Canadian coast, the Navy's state
ment implied that German undersea
raiders had swung northward from
the coast of the United States and
South America, where shipping
losses have shown decline in recent
weeks.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Commercial Frustrution
Is Defense in Suit
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. l5.-Munic-
ipal Judge Julius P. Green extended
judicial recognition to that some
thing described as commercial frus-
tration.
Dorothy w. Clemens, gift shop
owner, sued under lease for $1,275
rent. contended she had been COM
mercially frustrated by the war,
which made Catalina Island mill
tary zone and ended the tourist
trade.
Judge Green denied a motion by
the plaintiffs attorney to strike out
, the defense as sham. He'll decide
about the rent later.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Western Atlantic Toll
Raised to 46o Ships

By the Associated Press.
The announced sinkings off Can
ada and the loss of a ,Panamanian
merchant vessel off South America
brought to 469 today the Associated
Press total of United Nations and
neutral vessels announced as sunk
IN the Western Atlantic since Pearl
Harbor.
The United States Navy said the
Pamanian ship went down in the
Atlantic late last month. All 46
men aboard including 8 gunners,
were rescued.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
K. of G. Meets Tonioht

Exemplification of the first de-
gree will be conducted at a meet
ing OF Rosensteel Council knights
OF Columbus, at $3.50 o'clock tonight
at Rosensteel Hall, Forest Glen, Md
The ceremonies will be conducted by
the officers, headed by Leo G. Keep
fle, grand knight.
Evening star., 1942-09-15

To keep our independence, instead
OF being kept in dependence, start a
regular bond-buying program right
now.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Arlington Tenants to Meet

The Arlington Tenants Associa-
ton will meet at o'clock tonight
in Woodrow Wilson School, 1901
Wilson boulevard. Participation in
the scrap drive will be discussed.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
FOUND.

BRING OR REPORT ABANDONED. STRAY
ANIMALS to Animal Protective Association.
339oo wheeler rd. Sc, AT: 1858. Present
facilities limited 70 that class only
PINK SHE'LL FRAME GLASSES. at Conn.
Emerson 5143. after z pm.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
ID Nurses Graduated
From Takoma Park Schoo!

Fourteen nurses were graduated
from the Nurses Training School of
the Washington Sanitarium. Ia
koma aPrk, at exercises in Columbia
Hall.
The principal address was given
by the Rev Donald w. Hunter of
Lansing, Mich, formerly chaplain
at the sanitarium. The diplomas
were presented by DR.. Robert A .
Hare, medical superintendent of the
institution. Miss Meta Hudson
director of the School of Nursing,
presented the school pins
Members of the graduating class
Nogales international., 1942-04-24
No Word From
Son In Islands
Since Nou. Is

c. D. Cummings, a visitor here
Wednesday from Patagonia, said he
has not heard from his son, Lieu
tenant w. Morse Cummings, United
States Army, since November 25-1S
days before the United States en-
tered World War II.
The letter received on November
25 was mailed on November 2 from
Regan Barracks, Daraga, Albay,
Philippine Islands, where Lieut..
Cummings was stationed and where
the Japs dropped their first bombs
in the Philippines after the out
break Of war.
Albay, where Lieut.. Cummings,
only son of Mr.. and Mrs. G. D.
Cummings Of Patagonia, was last
heard from, is about $50 miles south
east of Manila.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cummings received
a picture of their son on February
8. It had been mailed on Novem-
ber 25. No letter accompanied the
picture.
Nogales international., 1942-04-24
Nogales
International
hem from being beautiful in their own right

them from being beautiful in their own right.
La Fiesta de las Flores and especially the opening
parade among the best municipal advertisements
this city has If sincerely want to aid in promoting
our general welfare, we can't pass up opportunity
to make this publicity venture complete success
It's doubtful that business firm or organization will
ever be able to directly account for the money spent
on float bringing in increased income individually,
but from general prosperity which spreads outward
in vast network from those who directly receive the
benefits of tourist trade this is the kind of gesture
that pays big dividends in good will and good hard
cash.
According to legend, Helen of Troy had face
which launched thousand ships surely any one
of the three candidates for fiesta queen has enough
beauty to float hundred floats.
There are lot Of people who can't afford to give
others piece Of their mind.
Waiting for something to break is what keeps
lot of folks broke.
When girl keeps fellow guessing she usually
keeps him.
Nogales international., 1942-04-24
RICHARD LOWE HOME
ON Today FURLOUGH

On Today fl1rlough, Pvt. 1st
Glass Richard Lowe is visiting his
parents, Sheriff and Mrs. j. j. Lowe
at their home on West street.
The young man is stationed with
q. ON detachment at the recently
completed internment camp near
Florence, Arizona. 1t is camp
where between 5000 and 5000 aliens
will be housed during the war. Al
ready, few Japs have been brought
there.