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Evening star., 1943-01-07
New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Jan. Cotton fu-
lures prices today reached the high
est levels since early June, chalking
up gains Of more than 81 a bale.
A broad covering movement fol-
lowed the delivery of the Presi-
dents message to Congress. The
strength in wheat and active re-
sumption of trade price fixing dis
closed a scarcity of contracts.
March contracts touched 1900
cents, duplicating the high level
prevailing in mid-July. Heaviness
apparent early in the session re-
f1ected some increase in hedging
after larger sales in Southern spot
markets Wednesday and liquidation
pending further action on farm
price control policies.
Late afternoon values were 81 to
S1.l5 a bale higher, March, 1850;
May, 19.49, and July, 1945.
Futures closed S1.1O to sl35 . bale
higher.
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New Orleans Prices.

SpUR'
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
no sales
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Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK. Jan. : (FN.--Late foreign
exchange rates follow tGreat Britain in
dollars, others in cents:
Canada: Ofcial Canadian Control
Board rates for United States dollars
Buying, 10 per cent premium; selling, IL
per cent premium, equivalent to discounts
on Canadian dollars in New York of buy
ins a91 per cent; selling, 900 per cent.
Canadian dollar in New York open mar
ket, liz per cent discount or SSS1 "a
United States cents.
Europe: Great Britain offcial Bank
ers' Foreign EXCHANGE Committee rates):
Buying, 400; selling, 4.04, open market;
cables, 404.
Latin America: Arsentlns. oficial,
20 ~: free 1887; Brazil, oficial, 6.05n;
free. con; Mexico. 2066n,
Rates in spot cables unless otherwise
indicated
n N~rinai,
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A dollar q day keeps the Axis
away-if put into War Bonds.
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fUnit Of trading, 10 shares: sales print
ed in full. In bankruptcy or receivership
or belng reorganlZed under Bankruptcy
ACT, or securities assumed by such COM
panies Rates of dividend in the foregoing
table, are annual disbursement based on
lhe last quarterly or semi-annual decla-
ration. unless otherwise noted special or
extra dlVldendS are not included xd Ex
dividend. xr Ex rights. a Exclusive Of ex-
ira or extras. Cash or stock. ePaid
clared or paid so far this year h payabl.
in Canadian funds. Accumulated divi-
dens paid or declared this year
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Odd-Lot DeuIinos

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 7 lPp-The Sc
curities Commission reported today these
transactions by customers with odd-lot
dealers or specialists on the New York
Stock Exchange for January s: 2,39O pur-
chases involving 65.344 shares: 1853 sales
involving 55 356 shares including 81 short
sales involving 1.19l shares
Evening star., 1943-01-07

Rates of dividends in the
FOREGOING table are annual
disbursements based on the
last quarterly or semi-an-
nual declaration. Unless
otherwise noted, special or
extra dividends are not In
cluded. Also extra or
extras. d Cash or stock.
Paid last year. Payable
in stock Declared or paid
so far this year. h Payable
in Canadian funds. kAc-
cumulated dividends paid or
declared this year. WV With
warrants. XIV Without war
rants.
Evening star., 1943-05-24
Dies Probe 10 Turn
To Axis Activities
Committee Plans Early
Report on Japanese
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The House Committee on Un-
American Activities says dissolution
of the Communist International
would accelerate the committee S
investigation of Nazi, Fascist and
japanese activities in the United
States.
The announcement was made by
Robert E. STRIPPING, committee sec
retary, after telephone conversa-
ton yesterday with Chairman Dies
at Jasper, Tex. Representative Dies
had expressed the hope that the
Cominterns action would enable the
committee to finish its work soon.
Mr.. Stripping, however. said the
Moscow announcement of the dis
solution means that the committee
now can give needed attention to
the activities of the Nazis, the
Fascists and the Japanese in this
country"
while We have been investigating
these elements for some time and
Evening star., 1943-05-24
lMNictory GardensSR:

| Only thin layer of wood ashes
should be spread over the garden
soil because heavy concentrations
may cause an iron deficiency in the
soil, as we'll as over alkalinity.
The mixing of wood and coal
ashes together is not injurious to
the soil. While the coal ashes
contain practically no plant food,
they do improve the physical con-
dition of the soil. Coal ashes mixed
with the soil tend to make it friable,
improve the soil aeration, permit
rainfall to soak in, and prevent
hard crusting. Thus the fireplace
where wood and coal helped to
stretch short oil supplies last winter
can now help to supplement the
limited supply of plant food avail
able, producing valuable food crops
for the table.
While the wood ashes supply
potash and phosphate, these two
elements do not constitute a COM
plete plant food. Nitrogen is also
needed. If manure has already
been applied to the garden, the
wood ashes will help to balance the
nitrogen thus supplied If manure
has not been used then dried COW
manure, dried sheep manure, or
poultry manure may be added to
complete the balance. Seventy-five
pounds of wood ashes together with
20 pounds of dried COW manure or
30 pounds of poultry manure will
supply the equivalent of 25 pounds
of the Victory garden fertilizer.
There's plant food in the ash pit
use it.
Clip and SAFE for Your Victory
Garden Scrapbook,
Evening star., 1943-05-24

expect to make public a report on
our findings with respect to the
Japanese within the next two weeks -
Mr.. Stripping added, "our main at
tention during the last few years
has been centered on Communism. -
Mr.. Stripping said the committees
Offices had been deluged with calls
and kilograms during the last "a
hours requesting that it continue
its vigilance against all American
activities
The committee recently was con-
tinued by the House for two more
wears.
Evening star., 1943-05-24
Traffic Rules Waste
Gas, Cab Union Says
End Of 'ObsoIete System
In District Demanded

When Washington's 5000 taxi
cabs are in operation, the drivers
are forced to waste 5000 to 1000
gallons of gas day by the Districts
traffic control system now made
obsolete through lack of traffic, Ed
win A. Glenn, business agent of the
United Taxicab Drivers, CIO, pro-
tested today to the Office of Com
missioner Young.
Mr.. Glenn said the executive
board of his union. meeting today,
might advise the drivers to make
left turns at restricted corners and
see if the courts would uphold this
forced waste of gasoline
I'VE are contending with condi-
tions which progressive cities have
eliminated long ago." Mr.. Glenn
said. 1--WE have suffered under
this as long as we can and some
thing has got to be done"
Asked about the traffic control
situation, Traffic Director William A.
Van Duzer said Washington's traffic
had not fallen off as much as in
other Eastern cities and pedestrian
traffic has increased.
Nineteen stop lights have been
eliminated this year, he said. in
accordance with the Office of De-
fense Transportation recommended
ton that they be eliminated where
less than 1000 vehicles or $50 per-
sons cross the stream of traffic in
eight hours.
mo left turn" signs are necessary
to keep streetcars and buses from
being delayed, he said. The Public
Utilities Commission and the Capital
Transit Co. favor continuation of
left turn restrictions.
Traffic in April was 81 per cent
less than in 1941 during the morning
peak and Is per cent less throughout
the day, he said. However, he added,
pedestrian traffic has increased 80
per cent,
Evening star., 1943-05-24
No. IS

are needed for
our soils. Prob
ably a small per- Nh H
centage of the '\O' -
wood ash is
phosphoric acid. another badly
needed plant food. With these i'm
portant plant foods, as well as acid
neutralizing lime, we should take
care of the refuse from the fireplace,
putting it on our vegetable gardens
where it will do the most good.
Allowing the wood ashes to be ex-
posed to rain or to become sodden
will LEACH away their food values
This waste must not be allowed
Wood ashes to be of the most value
should be kept dry until spread upon
the soil. Application in thin layers
which are Immediately cultivated or
mixed with the soil is recommended
The lime equivalent of wood ashes
is high and SO they should only be
placed where lime-loving crops such
as onions, cabbage. and sweet corn
are to be grown. Of course, they are
also good for lilacs, pansies, and
roses, but this is wartime and we
should put them on the vegetable
garden first. If there is an abun-
dance then the flowers, too, may
be fed
Evening star., 1943-05-24
Nv. H. c. EIweII Dies:
Noted Pearl Dealer
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
McGREGOR. Iowa, May 24.-Wil-
liam H. c. Elwell, 81, widely known
dealer in freshwater pearls taken
from the Mississippi River and its
tributaries, died yesterday following
a heart attack.
Survivors include his widow, Geor-
gia; son, Dean F. H. Elwell of the
College of Commerce at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, and two daugh-
terS.
Evening star., 1943-05-24
Clio Council Hits Lewis,
Asks Wage Adjustment
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 24.-Although
condemning the actions of John l..
Lewis, United Mine Workers chief
tain, the Maryland and District of
Columbia Industrial Union Council
has approved move to ask the War
Labor Board to grant the miners
IAN equitable wage adjustment"
More than 200 representatives of
local CIO unions in Maryland and
the District adopted a resolution
denouncing Mr.. Lewis
The CIO must condemn the ac-
tions of John Lewis and any others
who reject established procedures
for equitable adjustments of labor's
true grievances" the resolution said.
This man has consistently
schemed to undermine duly estab-
lished wartime agencies which have
sought in this emergency to sub
stitute conciliation for strikes and
lockouts.
I'VE must emphatically denounce
any individual who seeks to use the
legitimate grievances of labor for
irresponsible personal and political
aggrandizement and with a studied
indifference to our entire war effort"
There are more than 70 conven-
lent branch offices for Star Want
Ads" located fhrouphouf tho citv
Evening star., 1943-05-24
FIREPLACES SUPPLY
PLANT FOOD
By WILBUR H. YOUNGMAN

Last winter more wood was burned
in the f1replaces than for many
years. Wood ashes contain potash
(potassium and lime, both of which
Evening star., 1943-05-24

There are more than 10 conven-
lent branch offices for Star Want
Ads" located throughout the city.
Evening star., 1943-05-24

dI e UeeUGU lot
our soils. Prob
ably a small per-
centage of the
W Cd a S h is
Evening star., 1943-05-24

Clip and Sare for Your Victory
Garden ScruDbook.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28
Back TO the Soil

At his recent press conference with
Mime. Chang Kai-shek the President
said that this country is going TO send
more substantial help to China Just
as soon as the Lord will let us. Nine
Chang, too alert to let the oppor-
tunity pass, observed that she had
heard somewhere that the Lord helps
those who help themselves. The
news reports did not record what, if
anything, the President had to say
to that. but Governor Thomas E.
Dewey evidently is taking the sug-
geStiOn of China S First Lady to heart.
With the outlook for this years
food supply growing no brighter IN
consequence of the 'fumbling that is
going on in Washington, Governor
Dewey has appealed to the people Of
New York State to get together and
solve their own problem. And, what
is more, he has plan for doing this
that has been worked out in detail.
The appeal for volunteers has been
directed to all persons over fourteen
years Of age who are In position to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28
Municipal Divorce

Whisper it no longer-the secret is
out. Brooklyn wants divorce from
New York. In those very words, State
Assemblyman Fred Moritt, attorney
TOR the plaintiff, has already insti-
tuted proceedings in the right court,
the Legislature at Albany. He has
entered a resolution that the separa-
ton be complete. The facts in the
case are simple. Brooklyn was born
IN 1916, a descendant of the Breuck-
lens Of Holland, and in 1898, at the
tender age Of eighty-tWo, mistakenly
fell for the WilcS of the Slicker. New
YORK. Sentiment, rather than under
standing, was largely responsible for
the union, pleads Nh Moritt Now
my client, Brooklyn. is tired of being
lust plain Mrs New York for the last
fortyfiVe years, The time has come
to part"
If the municipal divorce is granted
It will be one of those friendly affairs,
uncontaminated by an ugly triangle
1 snail never marry again. says
Brooklyn, firmly. Once is enough. l
shudder to my very foundations, for
instance, at the revolving thought of
being known as Mrs Hoboken Yet
l will play fair. I demand no cash
settlement from the defendant, nor
allmOny. One thing, and one only, l
must have, in addition to my freedom
and the right to reaSSume my
maiden name of Brooklyn That is
custody Of the Dodgers. 1t would
break my heart if I could no longer
see them caVorting in wild abandon
around the bases at their Ebbitts
Field nursery. Obviously they are the
sort of thing that could only happen
once"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28
Herbert Hoover

From the EmporIa tkanS.) Gazette.
The other day an item was going about
in the press indicating that Herbert
Hoover did not draw his salary as Presi-
dent of the United States. From a men,
Der of his cabinet in that time who was
close to him personally, the Gazette
found out the facts.
AS Secretary of Commerce and later
as President. Mr.. Hoover put his salary
into a special account and spent it in
The public interest. He paid q special
staff of necessary experts for whom no
appropriation Of funds was available. He
supplemented the salary OF other men
out Of this special fund to bring them
into public service. But mostly his sal
airy was subscribed to public charity. He
did not profit personally penny by any
salary payments to himself, not even for
his own living expenses or otherwise
In 1881, when the depression hit the
land. President Hoover and all members
of his cabinet voluntarily took 20 per
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28

do any kind Of farm work. Three
State agencies and the United States
Employment Service in New York will
handle the registration and CLASH
fication Of the volunteers, and the
State will provide the necessary
training and transportation. The
whole thing is on voluntary basis,
Governor Dewey having emphasized
that there will be no directives, no
orders and no cOmpulsions."
How the program will work will de-
pend, of course, on the nature Of the
response to the Governors appeal
and the willingness Of the volunteers
to take assignments when the time
comes to go out and work on the
farms. 1t is an experiment which has
been tried successfully. however, on
a small scale in other Substantially
South Dakota-and it should prove
beneficial in New York.
In any event, it is a manifestation
of self-reliance, of will to get away
from almost slavish dependence on
the Federal Government, which is as
wholesome as it is heartening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28

voice to triumphant note and in
matchleSs phrase, disspates the night
with its dark mystery and ushers in the
morning
So it has been with the greatest Of
poets. But exquisite, glowing verse is
not adequate to heal deep wounds and
fill spaces once occupied by lovely forms.
Nor will the deep and understanding
sympathy Of friends stay the pain which
sorrow brings. I have read and pom
dered the splendid phrases Of the great
est of Philosophers Aristotle and
host of others. They reason we'll, they
scale lofty heights and guess at hfes
meaning and its ultimate end, but they
only guess Their specula tons are heart
enine and reassuring, but they will not
satisfy the loneliness and grief OF the
afflicted No, this is not enough We
crave for something more than guesses
at truth.
Only one voice has ever dared to say:
II know Only one tongue has ever
dared to affirm: Il am the resurrection
and the life, he that believeth in Me shall
never die" Christ plumbed the depths
of human misery pain and sorrow He
alone stood in a home where life had
fed and affirmed that death could not
impose an iron sleep" upon the sons of
men. It is upon this word and strength
ened by this hope that men and women
have faced the severest trials and risen
above crushing defeats This is the vic
tory that overcometh the world, even our
faith"
Pascal we'll said: The heart hath
reasons that the reason knows not of "
AS I write this brief message I reckon
with the pains and SORROWS of the present
world. know, not from speculation but
from bitter experience, what the loss of
loved ones means. 1t is out of such ex-
perience and in the face of what I have
known of the thousands who have had
like experiences, those to whom I have
ministered, that I write. I have seen
faith In Christ lift the bowed head. in
splre the sinking heart and bring peace
where only anguish and despair pre-
vailed. 1t is this faith that makes us
believe in a new world and an uncon-
querable renewal Of life. It is this faith
that distracted world needs today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28

ers, Efforts by William A. Van Duzer,
as area representative of the ODT. to
encourage formation of transporta-
ton committees have been handi-
capped by OPA's failure to give them
any official recognition.
This official recognition consists
merely in confirming to local ration
ing boards the existence of such COM
mlttees, their chairmen being en-
powered to obtain larger gasoline
allowances for the committee men,
bcrs. If the system were approved
for Washington, transportation COM
nittees would be approved by Mr..
Van Duzer and the OPA, in turn.
would make this approval official in
notices to the ration boards. Every
thing should be done to encourage
formation Of such committees. and
the procedure adopted elsewhere for
war workers. should be approved by
OPA for Washington and the Metro
politan Area
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28
Encouraging Group Riding

AS director of defense transporta-
ton. Joseph B. Eastman is urging
proper use Of private automobiles
to help relieve public transportation
facilities and he emphasizes in this
connection the benefits of group
riding to and from work Now if Mr..
Eastman's office and the OPA will
work little more closely together to
promote group riding in Washington,
more progress might be made here.
In war plants group riding is en-
couraged by the Official recognition
by ration boards Of duly authorized
Transportation committees The
OPA has confined such recognition
however, to committees made up Of
employees IN war work, and one of
Its curious discrimination has been
failure to include Government en-
ployes In the category of war work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28
ETERNAL HOPE
By the Right Rer. JAMES E. FREEMAN d. ILL., D. D c. h.
Bishop OF Washington.

The extent and wide variety of the
sorrows and trials that come to men and
women today test all that they have Of
faith and courage, Many walk in deep
shadows waiting for new daybreak:
others suffer the loss of loved ones whose
going makes the days cherries and
lonely. Letters come daily to my desk
broadly representative Of peoples of every
class and kind, some of them desparing
and without hope, others from those who
in the hour of their great grief have
found solace and assurance in a Chris
tian faith long neglected in other and
SUMMER days. One writes out Of his dis
illusionment and invalidism that he sees
nothing ahead, no solution of the riddle
of life" that
we are but children crying in the night,
And with no language but a cry"
Life is nothing more than a brief span
and most of it is misery and pain-so
my correspondent reasons 1t is not at
tractive and appealing. 1t is forbiddng
and casts a dark shadow upon the path
way of the future.
1t is the antthesis of Charles Wagner's
reasoning when at the death of his be-
loved son he writes: Thou hast soUn
with rays Of white light the pathway to
the grave and left at the gates of death
a CLEAN as of the dawn" Here hope
renounces despair, here despite the
cruelest of all disappointments it accepts
the promise of Him who said: Because
I live, We shall live also
We call it faith, but what a tragic
world this would be if faith should die
at the portal of the tomb! To-day. and
every day, thousands of homes must feel
the stern hardships that losses bring:
today anxiety and poignant grief are at
the hearthstone of many freside. The
age-old searching question is on many
lips: If man die shall he live again?"
All the reasoning of the great thinkers
and philosophers has revolved about this
question. It is as old as man himself.
TennySon in his ma jestic poem, In
Memoriam,' Wrestles with it. Over and
over again he seeks to penetrate the veil
that hides the seen from the unseen.
Now despair SEXES him, again he gives
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28
Time for Firmness

The War Labor Board has an
nounced a so-called bonus plan
which has the effect of restoring
premium pay rates for Saturday and
Sunday work on q retroactive basis.
Plainly, this is concession to a
labor group, eXacted by pressure tao
tics, which runs counter to the letter
and the spirit Of the Presidents order
"abolishing' this kind Of premium
pay,
Mr.. Roosevelt issued his executive
order because it was recognized that
there was no justification during a
war for paying time and one-half or
double time for work which happened
to fall on Saturdays and Sundays
within a regular work week. In the
case of men who worked on Satur-
day or Sunday as a sixth or seventh
working day, the premium pay rates,
Of course, were continued. This ar
rangement had the approval of ma
tional labor leaders, and as a mat
ter Of fact, certain CLIO unions which
had voluntarily given up premium
pay insisted that the order be issued
on national basis contending that
other unions were raiding their men,
bership with promises to get premium
pay.
In the case which came before the
labor board. employees of the York
pa Safe & Lock Co., and the New
Britain Conn Machine Co. had
answered the executive order by alb
staining from work on Saturday and
Sunday swing shifts The New Britain
concern said that its weekend swing
shift simply disintegrated and that
critical tools were not operated on
Saturday nights and Sundays.
The board found that the premium
pay which these employees had been
getting prior to the Presidents order
was an Integral part of the agreed
wage for their particular jobs, and
apparently concluded that the easiest
way to get them back to work was to
restore the higher pay scale. The
result, however, is to open the door
to virtual notification of the execu-
tive order, unless it is proposed to
grant premium pay to some workers
and deny 1t to others.
This is not the first time that the
board has given way in the face of
pressure from labor groups, and the
disheartening fact is that one retreat
seems to lead to another. Even within
the board itself, according to cur
rent reports, some labor members are
threatening to revolt against what
they call "dictation" from Stabiliza-
ton Director James F. Byrnes This
dictation consists of the effort by Mr..
Byrnes to put a little iron into the
boards stand against inhationary
wage increases. He realizes that this
constant chipping away at the
boards wage position eventually will
bring the whole structure toppling
down, and he is trying to prevent
such disaster. But certain Of the
labor members, who should know
better, seem determined to get Mr..
Byrnes out OF the picture, presumably
SO they can deal freely with the more
pliable public members of the board.
This is an outlook which is not
going to be improved by one capitula-
ton after another If it is seriously
intended to stabilize wages, the time
is at hand for the board to take a
stand against any further increases.
and to stick to it.