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Evening star., 1943-12-22
Business Briefs

A Growing Surplus of Raw Steel
VIII ease the production strain this
Christmas week. with some mills
observing the Saturday holiday. &C
corulng to the magazine Iron Age.
A drop in operations from about
9S.5'e to 9lCr this week will not
leopardlze a l943 goal of about So
100000 net tons. nearly So, of the
entire worlds output, the magazine
said.
Electric Power Production in the
week ended December 18 set an
other new peak Of 4,6l2 $4,000 kilo-
watt hours, compared with 1885,
905,000 in the previous week and
1915 ,673,0 900 year ago, the Edison
Electric Institute announced.
Ton Miles of Reveue Freight ham
dled by the railroads in November
wereabout 6l2Ct above year ago
the Association of American Rail-
roads announced.
Declining Wholesale Egg Prices
AT Chicago and Minneapolis was
blamed on sharp drop in demand.
Chicago prices were as much as H.
cents under ceilings. Minneapolis
prices for best grades have fallen
from Sc to 80 cents dozen in the
last week
United Air Lines stockholders ap-
proved all features of financing
plan expected to raise s10,0OO,O 900
foK postwar development. 1t in
cudes 100000 shares of cumulative
preferred, 100000 shares of man
agement stock, an increase in au-
thorized common to $500 900 shares
ana change in common par value
from IS to $40.
Consolidated Nultee Aircraft Corp.
turned out 126000.OO0 pounds Of
planes in 1943, compared with So
100000 in 1912 Chairman Tom M.
Girdler reported.
Nickel Plate Railroad reported
on a gross of s8,517.l32. compared
with S844181 on S7739.253 a year
ago Net for II months was So 454.-
All on a gross of s92,102,225, COM
pared with S8,59l, ,480 on S80,356, 1868
ayear ago.
.Servel, Inc, earned S1,829,236 or
s105 a share in the fiscal year
ended October 81. compared with
Slo52.846 or 81 cents share in the
previous year.
9Unlted States Smelling Refining
& Milling Co. declared preferred
dividend of S7i2 cents share and
a, common dividend of SO cents q
share, payable January Is to hold
ers of record December 81. The
common dividend does not establish,
a.regular rate.
Associated Gas & Electric Corp
Trustees were authorized by Fedora
Judge Vincent L. Leibell in New
York to acquiesce in the sale by its
subsidiary, United Coach Co. ot
interest in three Reading, Pa, car.
rierS to Beneficial Loan Society Of
Wilmington, Del. The carriers are
Reading Street Railway Co. Read
Ing g. Southwestern Railway Co
and Reading Traction Co.
Tom Moore Distillery Co. stock
holders, who failed to exchange ole
stock for new certificates under the
organization plan, cannot do Sc
now in order to participate in 6
whisky dividend, Federal Judge
Shackelford Miller, jr, ruled al
Louisville. The deadline for ex.
change was June 9, 1912.
General Motors Corp. reported
common and preferred holders fol
the fourth quarter numbered 421 ,94'
against 414380 in the third quarter
ai1d 413349 a year ago. Most of The
recent increase was laid to issuanc,
Of cenlmo for acuisition of yellow
Truck & Coach.
Evening star., 1943-12-22

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Evening star., 1943-12-22
R-K-O Pensions Voted

NEW YORK. Dec. % (P).-Floyd
B. Odlum, chairman of the Board of
Directors of Radio o-Keith- -Orpheum
Corp, announced today that a pen
sion retirement plan for employees
had been approved by the board and
would be put into effect before the
end of the year.
Evening star., 1943-12-22

Alum Ltd hSa rs
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Evening star., 1943-12-22

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Evening star., 1943-12-22
THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. G. s*' A-19
"WEDNESDAY
Chicoao-Groin

CHICAGO Dec 2a LP.-Grains fluctu-
ated in 4 nervous and cratic manner to-
day, with traders Watching price trends in
the December contracts which 30 on the
board at the close.
'After startins lower. all grains rallied
led the upturn with an advance Of more
than cent from early lows. But the
rally did not last and as offerings ex.
panded the market turned downward and
n some cases sank below the previous
the .hnsl minutes, closing out at, l..72-
we're t.-is hisher: May 'a57.
Oats Pats we're s unchanged to "a lover; Nay Nay
to Il lower. May, / o2s,.
wheat-open High Low. Close.
Rsv Rss 81: az ss': az LIE 49, li$, 81. '
july = .s3s4 $40. 63ta 1S4
Sept 1921 ,63s. 6:'. 63-1 .s27s
81: S;: $:! E:!: ;:; #::: f. fl; III Fl: ;.s
Rye
Dec Dec 1s3,. 1ssns ss, 1S,s; Sla 1Gss.-1 At "A
sspt ss9s 81. = SO: & III. $i i.$$i: i$$:''
PC Pc, 12s 2s,. ! 1,ss ss, 1s5s. 25s. 49, .Gss.
s3i4 SAMPLE grade. white, SOL. Barley
maltins. 1901 As, nominal: feed, 15-
pounds FmoTy nHmns Fss sefS nomn, Rss eG reG
top, u. o0-l 5 90. nominal; red clover 81 80,
nominal: sweet clover, 10 so, nominal.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Odd-Lot Declines
PHILADELPHIA, Der -

PHILADELPHIA, Dee. - tF'.-The Sc
curities Commission reported today these
transactions py customers with odd lot
dealers or specialists in the New York
Stock Exchange for December 81: 3146
purchases involving 81 .762 shares; 3 523
short sales involving so7 shares.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Arsenic Stored

Arsenic reported to total $4,000
tons is being held by large mining
company in Sweden, and six large
silos are being constructed to store
it while extensive research is con-
Quoted to find new users for the
product.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Market Averages
STOCKS.
BONDS.
N. 7. Bond Marker
FURNISHED by the Associated PressJ
SELECTED LIST OF BONDS

Lac G 5 las so D %
LC&N 4las 81 A 81
Leh VIC 5s 54st 81
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} MKT As 80 B 5AlA
J No P IS 65 A 55lA
Mo p IS 77F S.
} Mo Pg 4s rs 22h
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} Nor & E s. 55 46i4
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NYC en- As s98 57lA
NYC ev3hs e5zs
NYChSL 51is74 96ia
NY Dock As 81 70
NY Eds 3k4s SO lo6ia
NYNHH IS 4S Ae
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NYNHH a. IS 45L
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WOW r As % 64s !
NYOW G As b5 4
NYWB 4lss 40 le
Norf 8 81 2Ol4 3el4
Nor P 6s 2O47 1894
Nor p 5s 2047D e5iA
Nor P ass Ola
Nor p Is 2O47 50 /
O&L Ch As 4s 1914
P G&E 3Has 66 llo
Pac TT 3As66B lo7A
Pan EPL IS go 1oAiA
PenP&L3las69 loe'A
Pen RR g IS 6S l1Ass
Pen RR 4 y sd70 97ih
Penn RR 3i4s52 99B
Peo & E As so - s.
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ph RC1 IS 73s st 3eta
PCCSL Ans II 1924
PittC&I 4Has So 1o2A
Prov Sec As 81 l5l1
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Sdg 4has a7 A 92A
Rem r 31as 56- 1o5iA
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Rio @ W Is 40 A3ia
RAIL 4pas "a 56A
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StLIMS As 33 st 94!4
StLSF IS 80 B 35 |
StLSF 4kas rs 27b
5tLSF Is so A 3134
StLSW ri IS 30 56iI7 /
StLSW I'd As SO 66iA /
SeaAL COS As 27is !
SeaAL IS 80 st 4oA !
Sea-AF 6s 35 A 36!I7 !
SO Pac 41as 6s 65ib
So Pac RI ~ bb 81 |
So Pac cit IS 40 97h |
Sou Ry en- Is "a 1OAia |
Sou Ry G As SO -
$50 Ry As 81 81 1904
SW Bell 3s 6S LOG
Std o NJ IS 81 1854 !
5tdbkr 6s As lo7
T&P 5s n B soN
Tn Ave As so 71I5
TStL&W As 80 1o1
Un Pac 3las II lo2
Ut Drug 3As So lo1ih
US Stl 2.40s 81 lo1i1
Wab RI 5i2s t5 81
Wab 4hs 81 52M
lWarRy3 12s20O0 361A /
W Sh As 1851 S5ib
IWestchLt IS so 1854
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West Tn IS so 1919
West Un 4has 501o1B
Wis Cen IS 40 SPA
Wis c IS SD SO 15A
wis Z P 3i2s So l1o
Evening star., 1943-12-22
N. Y. Curb Market

Vufnishsd b. the Assoeiate1 Pfess.b
LIST INCLUDES ONLY ISSUES CHANGRD
FROM RREYI0US DAY
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Approximate Sales Today.
l1:0o am 100 $50 200 Noon 22l $50
100 pm 3oe $50 2:O0p.m 1876 go

tUnit Of trading. 10 shares: sales printed
In full In bankruptcy or receivership or
being reorganized under Bankruptcy Act,
or securities assumed hy such companies
Rates or dividends in the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on last
Jess otherwise noted speciai or extra .divi.
dends are not included xd Ex dividend
xr Ex rights a Also extra or extras d Cash
or sock Paid last year PAYABLE ia
sotck 2 Declared or paid so far this year
h Payable in Canadian funds. Accumu.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
New York Cotton

NEW YORK, Dec % LPl-Approac of
the weekend holiday restricted trading in
cotton futures, but prices moved upward
on prive fixing and covering.
Quiet spot markets and uncertainty
over the war and price control were addi-
tional retardina. factors
Late values were 30 to 45 cents q bale
higher; March, le41: May, 1924, and
July. 1900.
Every time you lick a War savings
stamp you help lick the Axis.
Evening star., 1943-12-22

Rates Of dividends In the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on the las
quarterly or semi-annusl declaration On.
less otherwls. noted. special or extra div
idends are not included. Also extra or
extras. Cash or stock Paid last year
Payable in stock. Declared OF paid SO
far this year. h Payable in Canadian funds
X Accumulated dividends paid or declared
this year Wv With warrants. ~ Without
warrants
Evening star., 1943-12-22
United States Treasury Position

By the Associated Press.
The position of the Treasury
year ago.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26

out, and he found himself play
ing the hand at three hearts with
a singleton ten-spot.
See if you can take seven
tricks with the North and South
cards. Here is how Won Zed-
tWitz did it.
West won the second spade
trick with the king and led a
small club, which was won in
dummy with the nine-spot. Two
more clubs were cashed, then
Won Zedtwitz played the ace Of
diamonds. West ruffed and led
a small heart away from his
king queen. East refused to
cover North's ten-spot with the
jack.
Won Zedtwitz then ruffed a
spade in dummy with the nine OF
hearts and led small diamond.
West failed to ruff, North won
with the king of diamonds, and
the ace of hearts gave him seven
tricks.
OF course this was not, good
score, as North-South can make
five diamonds.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
. SO THEYSAY

Guard duty consists of walk
ing no place in opposite direc-
tons, keep constantly on the
alert for something that never
happens. TO Keep En- Flying,
Miami Beach, Fla, Air Force
publication.
One very important principle
has been made evident in this
war. 1t is that purchasing pow
or docs not determine the DOM
nation of goods. 1t is rather the
need for pooling all available
resources for inflicting as much
damage as possible on the axis
that determines goods produc-
ton and distribution. Maxi
milan p l.. Steenberghe, presi-
dent, Netherlands Shipping Mis-
sion.
Whatever our views may be
about Communism, Russ a
stands today as the savior of
democracy in Europe. Wen
dell Willkie.
In the past we have permitted
much. both in our social and in
ternational relations, which we
now condemn. Mankind will
march to little purpose unless
we try to achieve better way
of life in the future for all men,
irrespective of who they are or
where they live. British AM
bassador Lord Halifax.
We must cling for dear life to
our sense of proportion and per-
spective. Yes, even to our sense
Of humor. President Everett
Case of Colgate.
IL we are TO retain our liberty,
we must cultivate in the largest
possible number of our future
citizens an appreciation Of both
the responsibilities and the bene-
fits which come to them be-
cause they are Americans and
are free.
President James B. Conant of
Harvard u.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
RUG HOOKER LAMOUR

Add incongruOuS sights: Dor
othy Lamour done up as an In
dian maid sitting on Para
mount set placidly hooking a
rug. The Indian getup is for her
role in Riding High" The rug
is intended for her bedroom.
George Brent is trying to
convince Ann Sheridan that they
should try matrimony again. But
she isn't listening. Arthur
Murray has a sign on the wind
shield of his bantam car which
reads: For Me and My Gallon"
Which reminds me that
comedian Gus Schilling is
threatening to write song
titled The Best Things in Life
Are Free-Zed."
Ingrid Bergman, who never
wears high heels unless she has
to, and who won't have to in
Saratoga Trunk was gazing
up in awe at Gary Cooper.
Cooper. who's six feet three
without them, was wearing cow
boy boots with three-inch heels.
What" grinned Cooper, "are
we going to do when we play our
love scenes?" WELL" replied
Miss Bergman, they could put
me on a ladder."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
By ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Service staff Correspondent

MA service StdtI NoTTtspoHuent
Birth of gag: Fred Astaire
is showing Dorothy Kelly how
to stop a run in her stocking in
a scene for the picture The
Sky's the Limit Fred exam
ines the stocking and what's in
side the stocking He dabs a bit
of colorless nail polish on the
run. Like shooting horse" he
says. That will fix it."
At this moment Robert Bench
ley, who plays Miss Kelly's
boss in the picture, appears in
the doorway Don't let me in
terrupt," says Benchley. Not
at all" says Astaire, inspecting
his handiwork.
Gould l help" says Benchley.
Suddenly he chuckles. Director
Edward H. Griffith froVns
Cut" says Griffith. You don't
laugh there, Bob"
Il know says Bob. But ]
got an idea. Suppose say, i
wouldn't like to leave you out
on a limb Griffith's frown
changes to a smile. That's it, "
he says. So they add Benchley' S
ad lib to the scene.
END OF A CAREER
Short short Hollywood story;
A director of not too great
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
Q IN HOLLYWOOD

fame died the other day, leaving
instructions for the reading at
the funeral of a poem he had
written. An hour before the
funeral two of his director pals
showed up at the chapel and
RE-WROTE the poem!
Promised and hoped for;
M-G-M Producer Sam Coslow' S
featurette Heavenly Music. "
Great music masters of the last
800 years get together in heaven
and discuss how many. if any,
original scores or combinations
of musical notes exist.
Kathryn Doris Gregory, the
Fort Worth, Texas, gal dis
missed from the WAACS for
appearing as a strip teaser, will
play a role in Danger, Women
at Work" Seven of the
young Warner players who en-
acted scenes volunteering for
the air force in the Jimmy
Stewart short Winning Your
Wings" are now in the armed
forces. But not one is in the fly
ing corps.
Alfred Hitchcock, first i'm
ported to Hollywood from Eng
land to direct Titanic" which
was never filmed, has settled
for Life Boat" It's the title
of his next at Goth Century
Fox.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

local committees and beginners.
The normal press run on one Of
thee leaflets is 100000 copies,
but in a great rush of optimistic
enthusiasm, a brave bureaucrat
in the Department of Agricul-
ture decided to go all-out on this
thing and ordered half million
copies, which the Government
Printing Office said it could de-
liver by Feb. l.
POPULAR LITERATURE
So heavy was the initial de-
mand for this pamphlet that by
February the order had
been raised to a total to three
million copies, and it is doubt
full if this will satisfy the de-
mand. Victory Gardens" Mis-
cellaneous Publication No. 483
of the u. S. Department of Agri-
culture, therefore promises to
become the best-seller of 1943
and its circulation will probably
break all records for govern
ment publications.
And by the way, just to keep
Uncle Sam from being plowed
under by requests for free cop
les, this Victory Gardens
r -mphlet sells for cents, and
should be ordered directly from
the Superintendent of Docu-
ments, Washington, d. c.
What the Department Of Agri-
culture experts emphasize, how
ever, is that their pamphlet is
general, and that it is impossible
to prepare any gardening guide
that is applicable to the entire
United States. All correspond
ence school, beginning garden
res who want real information
on what should be grown in
their state, when it should be
planted and what should be done
about it, should write to their
state agricultural colleges, coun-
ty agents, extension services and
the experiment stations, or con-
suit local gardening experts.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Recently Waldemar Won Zed-
twitz and ! we're discussing the
confusion that is sometimes
created in the opponents mind
by peculiar bidding, as demon
strated by the hand shown to-
day, which was played by Won
Zedtwitz with c. f. Van Week
as partner, using the Van Week
system.
The two-diamond bid made by
Van Week is not forcing under
their system. In fact, it is a
semi-preemptive bid made with
less than an original bid. West
overcalled with two spades.
Won Zedtwitz thought that the
opponents best spot was prob
ably hearts and decided to bid
that suit. If they doubled, he OF
course would go to four dia-
monds-but they passed him
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY the Associated Press
UNSUNG-HEROISM DEPT,

SEATTLE, WASH.-Mrs. Eu-
gene Chriest went to a shoe re-
pair shop for pair of heels.
aren't they ready YETI" she
asked, firing Of waiting in
stocking feet.
Alas, the cobbler had given
the shoes TO another customer by
mistake.
He rushed across the street to
buy her new pair.
No rationing book.
Mrs. Chriest dug into her
purse.
No rationing book.
She walked home in unclaim-
ed shoes from the cobbler's shelf
and they hurt!'
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
BY PETER EDISON

The Victory Garden idea has
caught on so we'll that Depart
ment of Agriculture people in
charge of the campaign are all
wearing broad smiles, though
the request for information has
just about buried them at the
bottom of a compost pile of cor
respondence. Trying to analyze
the why of all this sudden mid
winter interest in gardens, the
agricultural experts don't figure
this is inspired by any great
wave of patriotic support for the
war and food rationing - it's
just matter of self-preserva-
ton, desire to have more food
in period of shortages, and a
natural necessity to keep down
the increasingly high cost of eat
ing.
In honest appraisal, therefore
tie success of Victory Gardening
can be attributed to no higher
psychological motive than en-
lightened self.interest. Call it
just plain selfishness if you
must, but anyway more people
today are interested in main
tanning their own full bellies
than there are in the visit of
Nine. Chang Kai-shek and the
lend-leasing Of aid to China,
North Africa, or Soviet Russia.
When the Department of Agri-
culture began its campaign, a
little Victory Gardens" pamph-
let was prepared as a guide for