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Evening star., 1942-08-06
OPA Starts SURVEY.


The Of1ce of Price Administration
has gone back to the corner grocer
to find out how price controls are
working.
In a statement issued jointly with
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, OPA
disclosed that special bureau inves-
tigators had left Washington to be-
gin a sample poll of wholesale and
retail grocers in 56 cities on distri-
button factors involved In merchan-
dising SO cost Of living food COM
mcdities.
The survey will cover costs. selling
prices, gross margins and total store
dollar sales. and is the first of a
series which will be made twice q
month. Information thus obtained,
OPA said, would eliminate need for
many OPA questionnaires, and will
be drawn from carefully selected
cross section of about 5000 independ-
ent and chain retail stores and about
$50 wholesale food dealers.
Cities to be covered in the survey
were not disclosed.
Evening star., 1942-08-06

Get that junk ready for = trip to
Tekio; it's no good here.
Evening star., 1942-08-06
Odd-Lot DEALINGS

PHILADELPHIA. Aug g Ur.-The Be-
transactions by customers with odd-lot
dealers on the New York Stock ExchanSe
for August s. 1913 purchases involving
43,33S shares: l,555 sales involving 39,-
254 shares. including IL short sales in
volving $50 shares.
Evening star., 1942-08-06

Cottonseed oil closed steady; detachable
prime summer yellow and prime crude
unouoted. September, 13.1Ob; October,
IL Dob; December and January, 12.7Sb.
Spot cotton closed quiet, 8 points higher.
l 66; sood middlinE. 1911; receipts 500;
stock, 26p2 2S2.
Bid. Nominal
Evening star., 1942-08-06
Bank C|earings Show
9 Per Cent Increase
Over Year Ago
Volume for % Cities
1O.5 Per Cent Ahead
Of Preceding Week

Ry tie Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Bank clear
ings for % leading cities during the
last week were reported today by
Dun & Bradstreet. Inc, at $6,875,-
059,O00, a rise of los per cent from
the previous week and 9 per cent
more than for the comparable l94l
period.
New York transactions at $3,749,-
COL 900 were up 7.6 per cent from
1941 figures, while the rest OF the
group showed a 106 per cent gain
at $3,125 $4,000.
Chicago volume showed the only
drop under year-ago figures at S39l,-
300, 900, off 6 of l per cent.
Seattle reported the widest ad-
vance from l941 with gain of 1873
per cent; totals for Atlanta were up
294 per cent: Omaha, 1913 per cent,
and Portland, Greg, 29.1 per cent.
Rail Loadings Lag.
The Association of American Rail-
roads reported today that 863,528
cars of revenue freight were loaded
during the week ending lastsSatur-
day.
This was an increase of 8.006 cars,
or 0.9 per cent. compared with the
preceding week: A decrease Of 18, ,494
cars, or 81 per cent, compared with
year ago, and an increase of 145 SOL
cars, or 20.3 per cent, compared with
1910.
The report classified the loadings,
compared with last week and the
corresponding week a year ago, as
follows.
Evening star., 1942-08-06
Many Wholesalers
Accused Of Raising
Prices ||IicitIy
Secretary Of New York
Association Offers
To Give Examples
Bs the Associated Press.

B* the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. Ga charge
that many wholesalers are "illicitly
advancing prices" In violation OF
Government regulations was made
at the closing session of meeting
of the New York State Food Mer-
chants Association by A. F. Guck-
enberger, executive secretary.
Offering to back up his charges
with specific violations, Quicken
berger said he had sent letter to
the regional Offices OF the once OF
Price Administration asking that
sweeping investigation be made.
Guckenberger said a poll OF the
associations membership showed
numerous instances where whole
salers were advancing prices to in
dividual grocers ''on the fallacious
grounds that the higher price had
been charged some customers dur
ing March of this year, the base
period of price control.
Evening star., 1942-08-06

Get that junk ready for a trip to
Toxic; it's no good here.
Evening star., 1942-08-06

Cottonseed Oil.
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
UNCHANGED to 2 higher. Sales, 2 contracts.
October, 1887; March. 1885.
Evening star., 1942-08-06

New Orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 6 P.-Trade buy
ing and profit taking from the short side
advanced cotton futures here today. Clos
ing prices were steady, to points
Evening star., 1942-08-06

Ex dividend tPlus extras. . Paid 30
far this year. e2Ta extra S. 90 extra.
k zoe extra. m S1.5O extra. p Paid IN
1941. yS10 extra.
Evening star., 1942-08-06

ner grdndcnlldren. 1naI 1rlendSnlp
will always endure.
"All of us here tonight join in
toast to the Queen"
Responding to the Presidents
toast, the Queen said:
I am greatly touched by the
friendly welcome you and Mrs.
Roosevelt have extended to me at
the White House.
This visit to this Capital City is
b me the eliminating point of my
ltey in the United States.
Great thoughts have been
thought here, and great decisions
taken, and the portraits of your
predecessors which adorn these walls
are most expressive epitome Of
America S stirring history.
Il know that, when you make me
feel welcome guest, your thoughts
are, like mine, with my country.
where at this time, in East and
West, oppression breeds resistance
and cruelty increases determination
to hold out.
These hard times will pass, and
when at last victory will be ours
my compatriots like myself will
know that this will be largely thanks
to American spiritual and materia.
forces alongside those of the other
United Nations.
Il, therefore, raise my glass to
drink the toast of your health, Mr.
President, as the head of this great
~r -
armed forces"
(Other details of the dinner las
night are given in Katharine Brooks
society story on Page B-3J
Vice President and Mrs. Wallace
will be the guests of honor at the
dinner at the Netherlands Embassy
tonight. Following wartime Gus.
tom, no complete list Of guests has
been announced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30

king SO bright against the sky that the people in far-away fields, which he'd often been wasted by the in- vader, could look up to 1t and say We still have a king"
 The sculpture described in this legend pictures the different ages of men. The first enemy man over- comes is the beast. Then he sub- dues evil among his fellows and becomes 6 ruler. But always he is aspiring to something higher, iname- ly, mastery of himself. The fourth row of figures showed men growing wings. Man rises from the beast and aspires to the angelic. Tn his own nature he must first put down the evil tendencies which rise with in him because he is born man. Then he must face evil as he en- counters 1t in the world, and over- wlieIm it. But his last and worst enemy is himself.
 And over all stands the figure of the king. No matter how highly we aspire, we are still cCilstrlcted and held back by the limitations of our nature. But we can look up from our daily work and above the high- est aspirations of men can see the statue of that One iIi Whom we can put our trust.
 All Rights Reseryedl- Babson
 Newspaper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30
Release the Men

4 year from now the Connecticut in- dustrial situation is apt to be about as critical as it ever could be. We can't conceive probably just how essential are going to be the man-hours that local factories and others throughout the state will be attempting to secure. Selective Service will have Sdueezed very dry by that time, provided the war hasn't end ed, the existing lists of available men. It may even be calling on men to make the most drastic sacrifices in order to create huge armies with which to encircle and demolish the empires of totalltarlanlsm.
 All of which means that women are going to play an ever increasing part ln the industrial picture. Their presence in the factories of New England right now is something that would never have been believed a few years ago. They are assuming more responsibilities; they are being fitted for jobs in which it was be- lieved at one time only men could be used In another week or so all over the country women will be volunteering 1n- formation upon which may be based the availability of thousands of them for all forms of work now being performed by men.
 No one knows where this war is going to lead the American nation. But of one thing we are certainly sure now, we are in it right up to the hilt. Our efforts to date may have been half-hearted, occa- sional, semi-patriotic. Henceforth they are going to be whole-hearted, constant, and patriotic or else we'll simply be left by the wayside. The war effort is the only one to which our lives can be geared if we hope for survival. We may not like this, but we have to accept it with the hope that there are better days coming. It's the hope that can carry us through the hectic days still before us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30
More Noise Needed

Even in Hartford there is trouble in noising it around that an air raid trial black-out is to be held So the city fathers up there have decided to buy Is sirens in addition to those now in use. The city at present has 30 of the noise makers. A test last Saturday resulted Ill about 200 complaints of failure to hear them, so it is reported Well, that seems to be the trouble everywhere and 1t will be exceedingly difficult to correct in cities that are as widespread as the bigger ones of Connecticut.
 We wonder if it has ever occurred to the officials to try out some other means of notification of black-out other than a siren, a whistle or even bell. Of course, warning signals from way back have been by means of some form of noise, whether it was a tom-tom beating across the jun gleS or great disc of metal struck by stone or hammer. Noise, of course, att tracts attention and that's essential when staging a black-out, real or imita- tion. But this is a technical age in which we live.
 And being that it's barely possible that we're missing something in deciding that every community has to produce Suffi- cient noise when warning of an air raid to alarm every single individual. Surely there must be some other means that an inventive or agile brain can devise? If every place falls back on the vail of the siren and insists on more and more of these devices, there just won't be enough metal to make sufficient to supply the demand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30

Go answer. Nobody any longer assumes automatically that corporation title and an upper bracket salary are evil dences of either supreme intelligence or unassailable ethical standards. Never theless, it seems highly improbable that such concerns as Carnegie-I Illinois ana Jones & Laughlin have deliberately and consistently violated the law and flouted the national will to win this war. The coveted Navy Department Els awarded to both companies almost simultane- ously with WIPES charges - in recogni- ton of their war production contribute tion, would raise question, if common sense did not.
 As for the cartelS cases, there is conl- polling ground for wondering whether some young lawyers enthusiasm for headlines did not lead them astray. General Electric, for instance, is accused of causing bottle-neck in machine tools by restricting production of tungsten car bide, under a pooling arrangement With Krupp. But c. E. says flatly that the in vention originated in Germany. It was protected by federal law, under patents. No American concern could have used 1t except by agreement with Krupp. It was only through the contract between G. E. and Krupp that we had any tungsten car bide at all. Because of the now Qe- nounced patent pool, we and our allies have been enabled to use the valuable metal against Germany.
 The same situation obtained in the case of plastic glass. If duPont and Rohm SS Haas had not entered into arrangements with the Germans, our federal law would have prevented any American corpora tion from making the product. If Gen eral Electric, duPont, Rohm SE Haas nave been price-squeezing the public, the gov ernment has a duty to act. It is an abuse of public confidence, however, if the war is being used illegitimately to destroy the reputation of loyalty of out standing industrial companies, in fur therance of somebody's dislike for Big Business
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30
Looks Like Abuse

It would be very easy, reading the headlines, to suspect that some persons or cliques in Washington are using the war to knock down a few big corpora tions which offend against certain cur rent economic ideologies. We hope this suspicion is uncharitable At the same time, we hope the unpleasant accusations which have been made by certain assist ants to the attorney general will prove to be unfounded. For some time news columns have been pockmarked with al- legations that certain American concerns have deliberately hampered our war production.
 There is the long series of cases in which Thurman Arnold and his assist ants attribute this obstructionism to international cartelS, under which Ger man producers are said to have given Hitler all the strategic materials he wanted while our corporations selfshly kept output below national requirements. More recently there is the charge that the largest producer of steel, Carnegie Illinois, and the fourth largest, Jones and Laughlin, consistently have violated pri- crity regulations over period of almost a year.
 This last accusation seems almost un- helievable, even though 1t is made by the responsible War Productions Board. Big Business has many past sins for which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30

Price Administrator Leon Henderson continues to demand that rents in vital defense areas be restored to certain levels. For the Waterbury district which also in- cludes all Litchfield County, as well as certain towns in New Haven county, the level is that of April 1, 1941, as announc- ed here some weeks ago. Presumably To- cal rent reductions to that level are be- ing left up to the discretion of the land lords themselves. No one seems to know what recourse the tenant has where the rent is now brought back to the l94l level. It's one of those things that really require official action if general satisfac- ton is to be provided.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30

The inevitable is at hand. Acting in the absence of Gov. Robert A. Hurley Lieut.. Gov. Odell Shepard Tuesday closed all forests in Connecticut Disastrous brush and grass fires which have ragged for the past ten days in many sections of the state, including right around Waterbury, are to blame for this drastic order. It may not affect many city dwellers, but there are lot whom it will impose some hardships on, as well as restrictions. It seems as if every trout fishing season of late years has been interrupted just be- cause of carelessness with fire. But over and beyond this there is the constant threat to our homes and our lives by these brush fires. Often they are caused by a careless flick of cigarette from passing auto; too often they are the re- suit of someone trying to burn off back lot with little or no care taken to prevent the blaze spreading. It's too bad that all of us have to share in the price Of such careleSSneSS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30

The President pulled a charm filibuSter on them--a favorite Roosevelt tactic when he wants to avoid talking about something.
 Apparently the President fig ured the labor leaders would make a final attempt to block the pay freeze. So he launched his ftl- buster as soon as CIO president Philip Murray walked in, by previ- ous arrangement 10 minutes ahead of the other members of the joint committee. Whatever Murray in- tended to say, he never had the remotest chance.
 The President immediately started talking about New York politics, and what he described as the "cOIOrful career" of Lieut.. Gov. Charles Poletti.
 This took up nine of the ten minutes allotted to Murray. Then before he could break in, the President said: Well, Phil, guess it's time to call In the other boys. I know you don't want to keep them waiting"
 That ended that. So Round l went to the President by 8 big margin.
 ROUND TWO
 Roosevelt took Round II by the same filibusterlng tactics and by the same wide margin.
 Again, after the laborites had been seated and amenities had been exchanged, ne launched im- mediately into a discussion of poli- ties and politicians and kept this ID in his most entertaining vein for most of the hour allotted to the conference.
 Then he pointedly ended the meeting by remarking, Well, boys, guess it's time for lunch"
 The disconcerted laborites had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30
COMMANDO
(New York Sum

The aphorism that time brings curious changes is well exemplified by the current sense of commando. this term first became familiar dur. ing the South African war, which against the background of two sub seuuent world conflicts seems to lie in some remote and unreal past and to have been a mere slxirInish. The Boers used commando" to size nifty a party called out for military service. When the call came the Boers temporarily left their peace time occupations of farming, buck led on banodeleers containing am- intuition, took their rifles, mounted their horses and sallied forth. Their officers were tall, swartlly. bearded men wearing black claw-hamTner coats and tall hats trimmed with crepe. Today's British commandos are soldiers on continual active serv-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30
Press Comment
BEARDs MAY WIN THE WAR
Christian Science Monitor)

Christian Science Monitor)
 The d,verting of razor blades to other purposes than shaving does not mean that American men will be compelled to grew boards like their Victorian forefathers. Blades may be somewhat scarer, but Yam kee ingenuity and maybe the resurrection of grandpa's razor, hone, and strop-can solve far more perplexing problems.
 It may be argued that the saving thus effected Approximately i,500 tons of high and low carbon strip steel) Is !nconsequential. But if the governments reduction of the sup ply of steel to razor-blade manufac- turers, the discussion of eeards and the possibility of a blade shortage helps to impress upon the average man before the mirror the fact that everyone must make sacrifices to win the war, this saving of steel will also help in the saving of civilization.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30

"I need the exercise. I'm trying to reduce my waiStline."
 The reporter drove on. Arriving at a hearing of the Senate Pat ents Committee, the newsrnan found Senator Homer Bone, com mittee chairman, somewhat agi- tated.
 "It Is abOu time to begin," complained Bone, but a quorum of the committee isn't present. ! wonder what has happened to Senator LaFOlIette. He's usually one of the first here."
 The reporter held a whispered consultation with Bone, after which the senator called the hear ing to order.
 we will proceed without a quorum" announced Bone, with . mlschlevOus twinkle in his eye. But want it to go in the record that this hearing has been held up by Senator Lac Policies wafstllne."
 Copyright, l942, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30
Selected Poem
FROGS IN SPRING

(By Frances M. Hill in the Boston Post) Last night I wandered with my torch Beside the little pond; With alder bushes round about,
 And swampy land beyond. The frogs were holding rendezvous; Beneath the surface slime Hosts of tapioca eggs Had matched in April cNne. And hundreds of the newly born,
 Tn form Of pollywogs, Were mingling with the parent trine-- A vast supply of frogs The din arising from the pond
 War far beyond description; A thousand throats, thousand tones, And all without restriction. a. I flashed my light! The noises stopped! The silence was emphatic; The sudden quiet of the pool
 Was every bit dramatic. I wondered how the little frogs,
 Thus early in creation, Could stop their chatter in breath, With such coordination. My light went out, and here and there heard bass and treble; A symphony of guarded sounds
 A signal to the rabble. They tuned their reedy throats again. (Twas only an illusion)-- And soon the little pool became
 A Seething sound effusion. And, as left them in their pond Beside the rotting logs I wished that could understand This language of the frogs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30

Ice, chosen for sudden fofarys be. cause of special aptitudes. .
 A battle e-training school to givl training in guerrilla and commands warfare Is being established by ths National Defense Department of tn. Dominion of Canada. The men il the guerrilla groups probably will bs called militia rangers.n They vii not wear uniforms but may be is- sued arm bands. They will largely use their own firearms and will not draw pay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30

Lack of oil may make travelling. on some of our dirt roads bit uncomfort- able this summer, If there is going to pc much traffic on any road, let alone a alrt one. However, motorists in the old eayS travelled dirt roads and they didn't nave enclosed cars to protect themselves, put swallowed the dirt in grim and uncom- blaming (?) silence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30

1. Name the director of the ofilce of government reports.
 3. What was the first number drawn in. the third draft lottery on March IT, 19422
 3. The chief religion in Burma is Mohammedanism, Buddhism O Christianity? {. The largest racial group in the population of the Hawaiian islands is Hawaiian, Caucasian, Chinese or Japanese?
 5. Was the "Appian Way" an ancient shipyard, highway, or po- litical thesis?
 6. The Dominion of Canada is larger in area than continental United tates: true or falSe2
 T. What is the English name foa the Italian city called Firenge?
 8. Name the three co-ordlnah branches of the United States gov ernment.
 g. The Authorized Version of tn, Bible was published in 1903, 1911 or 1618?
 10. Skewers are used by druggists butchers or dentistS2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30
Current Comment

We may have to take a little drab- ping when the Battle of Australia starts. but we are not going to lose this country. Lieut.. Gen. George II. Brett,
 deputy allied commander h south
 west Pacific.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30

W c I e dePlcVeu staying men;
 in the second, men slayin g beasts; in the third were war riors subduing
 their fellows;
 and in tn e fourth tn CT e were men grow ing wings. Above them all was the statue of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.

MEETING OUR WORST ENEMY
 There is a description in the Ar thurian legends of the mighty hall which Merlin built for King Arthur. Four great zones of sculpture girded it about. Tn the first, beasts
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30
About 10 million nlotor veh'cle

m the " SbaC CeS and the District of Columbia go on short gas ra- tionS May IS. That amounts to one . third the nations motor transport.
 The principal headche of th.s initial gas ra-. tioning W l l come when the school teachers who do the reg iSfArinO have fn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
New Dishes From The Capital Cupboard
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correshondenf

Cogresp0ndent
 washington, April 3O.--To some people In Washington, the explana- ton of why Pierre Laval is such a you-know-what is fairly simple. For years, they say, Laval was attorney in France for I. e. Farbell, the Ger man dye trust which through It's monopolies, patent pools and cartels attempted to maintain a strangle hold on the worlds chernscal busi- ness. Considering tic close rela- tions between the German govern ment and I. e. F.. Laval has been on the German payroll for years, so what more could you expect.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30

TODAY's COMMON ERROR Those who appreciate the real meaning of words will hardly say that Q man runs Q bnsl- ness when they mean that he manages or conducts it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-30
Washington Merry-G Go-Round
Thew Rooseves Wosereexns Plan;
 Fbuster When They coIed Put the eot Him; Administration Becoming Fed Up with Loborites Petty Policies
DREW PEARS ON
 ROBERT s. ALLEN

WASHINGTON April and Co chiefs sometimes called the Presidents
  the ban or