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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-16
Washington Produce

From the War Food Administer ton
Prices paid net fob. WASHINGTON
E0GS--Market Arm. Demand continue.
70 exceed supply and receipts are iight
arrivals Western eggs. fresh and storage
limited. Small lots Of Graded eees arrived
Prices paid for Feeeral-State Graded eggs
from GRADING stations November 16)1
whites, browns: mixed colors: q. S. grade
f. large. So; U. s. grade A, medium, 40:
q. g. grade B. large, AZ: U. s.. Grade b
medium. 3S; commercially eraded, isrEe A.
55-5a: medium, 43-47: large B, AZ.
TURKEYS-Two full truck loads arrived
today. These increased arrivals are far be.
low current demand ane' do not indicate
any r e1sin so q tns supply situation. 49,.
eisht full truck loads and three mixed
truck loads arrived today. Most OF the re-
ceipts were fowl with only Z few off-Srsde
nrotlers and fryers included. A few guineas
and ducks we're In the mixed loaes. The
ducks were the nrst live stock Of this class
reported this season. Those heavier re-
ceipts are NO indication that the supply
situation Is easier, Today's arrivals were
deliveries on purchases made some time
ago. Prices shown reflect sales reported
SS KIT IN EXISTING price control regulations,
out ao not cover other poultry sold on the
market for which prices were not obtain
able. Prices paid net fob. washington
permitted transportation charges Included
accordfng to MILEAGE: Broilers and fryers.
81 -3lh; fowl, 26-cS.4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-16
Rails, 5peciaIties
lead SeIectiye
| =
Market Recovery.
BY VICTOR EUBANK,


NEW YORK, Nov. l6.-Rails and
specialties today led the stock
market on q selective comeback
and while heavy volume was lack
ing, gains OF q point were well
distributed with isolated issues
lacking on or more.
Improvement arrived after the
opening, though many pivotals ex-
hibiteo rising reluctance. The pace
slowed at intervals. Large blocks
of low-quoted issues helped put
the five-hour aggregate at around
BOO, 900 shares. Minus signs were
plentiful near the clost, but plus
marks had the best Of the argu-
ment.
Pleasing dividends were the prin-
cipal bolstering influence for indi-
vidual climbers.
At peaks for 1914 were Loew's and
the preferreds Of General, Steel
Castings and Pittsburgh Coal
Ahead most Of the day were Santa
Fe, Southern Pacific, Pullman
American Telephone, Chrysler
Woolworth, United Aircraft and
Goodrich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-16

u the A8ooclate0 Sfeee.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Nov. 49,
George N. Graham, 81, retired auto
mobile executive and former news
paper publisher. died Ut his home
here today.
He served as vice president In
charge Of sales at various times for
Pierce ARROW, Chandler, WHY'S
Overland and Rockne. He retired
II years ago after an association
with the Studebaker Motor Co.
During the World War he was
chairman Of the Truck Committee, a
member Of Herbert Hoover's Safety
Committee, and as spokesman for
the automotive industry at Wash
ington was credited with persuade
ing the Government to allot the in
dustry enough steel to permit 1t to
remain active.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr.. Graham
made his start by selling newspa-
pers. He later became copy boy on
the Philadelphia North American
He was made sports editor Of the
newspaper and finally became part
owner.
AS sports editor, he wrote about
racing cars until he became inter-
ested in the motor field and &C.
cepted an offer from Pierce-Arrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-16
Paul B. West Reelected
By National Advertisers

NEW YORK, Nov. l6.-Paul B
West, Scarsdale N. Y, was REELECTED
president Of the Association of Ma
tional Advertisers for his 18th sue
cessive term, the organization an
nounced today.
Others elected at the annual meet
Ing yesterday were Charles c. Carr
Pittsburgh, chairman of the board
j. P. Miller, st. Louis, and P. S. Eli
son, New York, vice chairmen; Hugh
Hitchcock, D. H. Odell and Carleton
Healy, all of Detroit; D. B. Stetler
and R. B. Brown, New York; Will
liam Connolly, Racine, Wis, and w
B. Potter, Rochester, N. Y, directors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-16
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Nov, 16 lR fwFA).-saiable
strcng on weishts 270 pounds down; sooc
ana choice 190-270 pounds. .142O-14 80:
TOP, 1885: few l50-1S0 pounds, 1880.
14.I6: weiEhts over go pounds steady al
II44.141: lows steady. 10 cents higher. largely
"a, S.i.5ls, cattle, 900: total. 5000: sal.
s stssady to strong; medium grfdes sloE
1870: heiferS steady. bulk. 17.25: approxi-
metsiy half receipts comprised Of cows
e sns c's IS sssady g cents lover esnner
dssline; cutters; $50 down: mott bee
100: bulls and vealers. steady, mosi
vealers 1900 down: stock cattle slow
opened steady, older classes arm: early
sales good and choice native lambs, IA so
With others held for 1873. load strict,
fall shorn pelts held above 1900. JUS
5000 and choice around l0O:pound fed
i2:5: ewes out at l1.75: deck good AND
500 down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-16
Virginia Tobacco Markets
By the Associated Press

old-belt markets in Virginia and North
SSalro2nna VII observe 2 two-day salei
tional Thanksgiving Day, the Tobacco As.
sociation q the United States has an.
served in yirEinia Thursday. November so
pu[ IN North Carolina on the earlier date
:. =. r Patterson Of Danville announced
n lsst night 4 patority Of the MarketinS
Y favor OF holiday Thursday and Friday
Novsmber 90 and "a AucticninS viii 81
resumed Monday Moyember 81.
we're brisk and some markets estsbiished
pew volume records. The Danviile market
iarseSt Of the belt, hit new ton sycrsGe
LOT the sesson when 1t sold over I million
p0u1ds Of leef ct an ayerese Of $3.50 pei
nundredwetght The market sold 4 totaj
Of l,0S9, 644 pounds to return net totai
Of $a6l .1S3.4o to the farmers.
south Boston market recorded the heay.
iest volume day Of the season, hsndiins
o66.626 pounds Of leaf for return e
per hundred pounds being $4,000.
-. ronnaases and AVERAGES on other mar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-16
IN. 7. Bond Market

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SEC Sets Nov. ~ Hearing
On Cities Service Tax Plan
BY the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 16. - A
Cities Service Co. application to
amend its contract with subsidiaries
governing the consolidated Federal
income and excess profits tax return
Will be considered at a hearing No
vember 20, the Securities and Elk
change Commission said today.
The amendment is proposed so
that benefits from the utilization
of a special amortization granted
Cities Service Refining Corp. may be
returned to the refining corporation
rather than to all OF the subsidiaries
flling the consolidated return.
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New York Cotton

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 tF9. Cotton fu-
lures 4uctuated IN an narrow range today
gram. Prices eased on light hedeing,
which was absorbed through min buying
There was Z fair amount OF switching from
December into later months.
Late afternoon prices were Is cents Q
bale lower to 10 cents hfeher. December,
alta; March. 21.85; MAJ. 21.o6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-16
odd-Lot Dealings

PHILADELPHIA. Nov. Is lR.-The Sc
curities Commission reported today these
dealers or SPECIALISTS on the New York
stock kxchAnse for November is: 1894
purchAses involving 100,041 shares: $500
short SAles involving /. 9p6 ahAres -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-16
Washington Exchange

lWashington Gas IS pfd.-10 ut 100. q
Meryenthaler Linotype-15 at 81 e.
Peoples DruE stores common-4O at 20.
Hecht common-60 at 81.
BoND0.
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Market Ayerooes

Compiled BY the Associated Press,
STOCKS 30 Is Is 60
lndust. Rails util atks
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N. Y. Curb Market
LIST INCLUDES ONLY ISSUES CnANGEI
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unapproved.
approved.
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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Nov. 10 0P,.-
Aeeumslat ted.
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far sis ,s.a s.s1s s :ssr 70
/ 10 cents extra. Paid In lo43, $40
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-14

ably cannot be checked un.
Ill after the war, but ex-
plorers concede that there
could be a mountain in the
wilds of Sinkiang Province
topping Everest in height.
In Western China very
little surveying has been
done and, as American air
men stationed there have
discovered, most OF the
maps are inaccurately
plotted. Pilots have found
difference of as much as
1000 feet between the alti.
tudes shown on their charts
and the height AT which
they have 10 flS-to clear the
tallcst mountains. One crew
discovered a disparity OF
10000 feet but this was an
exception.
1 LIKEWISE the weather is
- usually so thick in that
part of China that peaks are
in the clear only on certain
days. The mountain which
the pilot spotted is so
hcmmed in by other high
ones that a man on the
ground might not realize its
tremendous height.
Mount Everest, itself,
doesn't seem high when APP
preached from the India
side because OF the mighty
peaks from 10000 10 $4,000
feet that spring up in front
OF il. But seen from Tibet,
it towers grandly aloft.
The pilot, whose name
cannot be revealed because
Of military reasons. hopes
in the near future that he
Will be able 10 make a re.
connaissance flight over the
same area with a sealed
Paragraph
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-14
.CHOOLCHILDREN may

soon find that they
~ have something brand
new in geography 10 learn
perhaps towering Mount
Everest, the king of the
Iiimalayas, no longer can
claim the distinction of the
highest mountain on earth.
The stated y Everest,
whose peak is five and a
half miles above sea level,
may be showed back into
second place if recent re
ports from China about a
neWly-discoveTed and as yet
unnamed mountain are Veri-
fled.
According TO dispatches
from Il United States air
base in China, an American
pilot. flying off his course
north OF Tinghsiang in Sin.
kiang Province, accidentally
stumbled onto a peak a lot
higher than the 29,141 feet
altitude Of famed Mount
Everest.
THIS Filler said that he
was winCing along at 81
600 feet when he was sur
prised 20 see a mountain top
sticking right up through
the clouds He estimated
its height al 1000 10 5000
feet above his flying level.
AT the time / was more
concerned a bout getting
back onto my course and
finding my way home" he
said, The real significance
OF what ] had seen occurred
10 me only when / was fly.
ing down out OF the noun.
tains and realized ! had
found one 1000 or 5000 feet
higher than Mount Everest "
The pilots discovery prob
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-14
Leg muscles lame? Apply

a few drops Of Absorbine Jr.,
rubbing it in. This helps to in
crease circulation in the affected
areas 40 that fresh blood can
carry fatigue acids away You'll
get real relief soon! Always
keep Absorbine JF. handy.
1925 a bottle at drugstores.
". r. Young. Inc. Springfield. Mass
Evening star., 1944-09-21
SABBATH Refuses COP
Demands for Inquiry
Into Pearl Harbor
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Assailing Republican demands for
congressional investigation OF the
Pearl Harbor disaster as pure po-
litical bunk" Chairman SABBATH of
the House Rules Committee said
today he has no intention of call
ing the committee to consider res
olutions demanding an inquiry.
Mr.. SABBATH disclosed his stand as
Chairman May of the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee turned a
deaf ear to a request for a joint
military committee investi-
CATION and as verbal repercussions
from the Jap attack continued to
echo through Congress.
Its politics, pure political bunk, "
Mr.. SABBATH said in commenting on
a resolution introduced earlier this
week by Representative Harness,
Republican, of Indiana, proposing a
special committee to determine who,
/ II any one, was negligent at Pearl
Harbor. Mr.. Harness says he wants
1t shown whether persons lin high
pIdCcS were Negligent.
Calls Move a Gesture"
The resolution was referred to the
Rules Committee, and unless Mr..
SABBATH is overruled by his group, it
will gather dust there until forgotten.
They knew there wasn't time to
consider it before the recess we ex-
ject to start this week" Mr.. SABBATH
declared. They're just making a
gesture for political reasons"
They're trying to make the peo-
pie believe that Mr.. Roosevelt is re-
sponsible for the war This isn't a
Roosevelt war; it's Republican
war, caused by Republican politics. =
The same Republicans who now
ask for a Pearl Harbor investiga-
ton were the first ones who shouted
war monger' when the President
wanted us to be prepared" he added.
May Won't Heed Request.
Before leaving for Kentucky Mr..
May said he had no intention of
needing a request by a three e-man
Naval Affairs Subcommittee that a
joint naval-military committee in
vestigate the Jap attack The re-
quest was made yesterday by Rep
resentatives Hebert. Democrat, OF
louisiana; Hess, Democrat. of
Ohio, and Cole, Republican, of New
York, in letters to Mr.. May and
Chairman Vinson of the Naval At
fairs Committee.
Congress, Mr.. May explained, al
ready has directed the War and
Navy Departments to investigate.
Hours of congressional discussion
have been devoted to Pearl Harbor
in recent weeks, Republican House
members demanding that the full
facts" be made public before the
election.
Evening star., 1944-09-21
ID. {. Heads Approve
Plans for GaIIinqer

The Commissioners yesterday
formally" approved plans for de-
veloping Gallinger Hospital into a
municipal medical center over a
period OF five years at cost Of some
81, 2,500. 900.
Last Saturday Commissioner Guy
Mason announced that "the Com
misStoners have approved program
contemplating the complete develop
ment of the Gallinger Hospital into
a municipal medical center
Explanation for yesterdays action
advanced at the District Building
was that the city heads had previ-
ously been polled individually on
the general plan and that yesterday
1t was placed before the Board of
Commissioners.
Expected to cost $1,250, 900 in the
next two years, first units Of the
plan call for a new pediatric build
ing, new laboratory, an out
patient department, administration
building, superintendent's home, in
Evening star., 1944-09-21
Three Youths SOUGHT
In False Alarm Spree

Police are seeking three colored
youths who early today sent fire ap-
paratus rushing through the North
east section when they went on a
spree of false alarm pulling.
From 2:02 am, when the first
alarm was sounded from Thirteenth
and E streets NV. until 3:46 am,
apparatus from Engine Companies
8 and 10 and Truck Company 13
dashed madly about the area. Five
false alarms were sounded in that
period, police reported.
Residents of the neighborhood of
Twelfth and D streets NE, awak-
ened by the sirens, were looking out
of their windows when three colored
youths drove up to fire box in
green sedan, pulled the alarm on
that corner, and sped away, police
said
Evening star., 1944-09-21
Civil Service Submits Bill
For Overtime Customs Paw

The Civil Service Commission an
nounced today it has submitted to
Congress the draft of a bill to pro-
vide overtime compensation and a
differential for regularly scheduled
night work for certain Customs Bu-
reau employees.
The overtime provisions provide
that compensation for work which
is required and regularly scheduled
in order to provide customs service
on a 24-hour basis, and which Is in
excess of 40 hours a week, be paid
at one and one-half times the reg
ular rate.
Proposed pay differentials for reg
ular night shifts provide that Gus
toms employees be paid a 10 per cent
differential for work between 6 pm.
and 8 am. in regularly scheduled
tour of duty. This differential would
be in accordance with existing prac-
tice' in many party of the Federal
service and in industry.
Evening star., 1944-09-21

of Churches. the Right Rev. Henry
st. George Tucker, president Of the
council, has announced.
Bishop Tucker said Mr. Dulles
who recently completed discussions
on foreign policy with Secretary oi
State Hull, had asked the council
whether he should continue q
chairman Of the commission during
the presidential campaign.
Evening star., 1944-09-21

cinerator, psychopathic building and
new ice plant.
The program, when completed,
will increase the bed capacity from
1000 to 1900. The present psyche
pathic ward will be converted into
an ambulatory ward or convalescent
building.
It was predicted by Mr.. Mason
last week that when the program is
finished I'VE will have municipal
medical center comparable with the
best In the country"
Evening star., 1944-09-21
Maurice Evons Promoted

HONOLULU, Sept. 81 (R.-
Maurice Evans. the Shakespearean
| actor, who forsook Broadway for an
actor -director role In the Army's
special service, has been promoted
from captain to major.
Evening star., 1944-09-21
Dulles Remains Head
OF Church Peace Group
By the Associated Press

~ tne AoSUcl1te0 rIesb. -1 -
NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-John
Foster Dulles. foreign affairs adviser
to Coy. Thomas e. Dewey. will re-
main as chairman Of the Commits
sion on q just and Durable Peace at
the request OF the Federal Council
Evening star., 1944-09-21
SCHOOL DAYS

are filled with dangers for
young folks full of fun
and vigor. Should an acci-
dent happen, it might
mean heavy expense. Ask
about our Students Acct
dent Insurance.
We do not sell insurance TO client,
He buy it for them
Evening star., 1944-09-21
q District Men Ordered
To Report for Induction

Draft boards ordered these 80
District men to report today for in
duction into the armed forces at
Fort Myer:
Bloom, Lee E. Gemmell, John D.
Brown. James B. Holland. Frank H.
Darr. Charles E. Houston, Richard H
Dickey. Earnest E. Hunt, Malcolm H.
Hargrave. George. jr. Lehman, Jacob L.
Harris. Donald D. Mathews, Robert T.
Horn, William F McGahie William
Jennette, James R. MouliS, John P
Johnson. Earl c. Paulsen Donald A.
Tart, Garlic B. Peterson, Eugene F.
Wallace. Vern B. Plotkin, Gerald N.
White. William I. Post, Richard F.
Atkinson. James r. Pott. Francis H.
Ballentine. James B. Thompson. Moody c.
Black, Arthur O.. jr. Troxel. David l.
Blackburn, Joseph Zimmerman. John r
Evening star., 1944-01-12
u. 5. Land Purchase!
Hit as Striking
|At Local Taxation

Charges that the Federal Govern
ment "has been undermining the
tax structures Of local governments
by the continued acquisition OF
private properties, which automati-
cally removes them from the local
tax rolls" were contained in a letter
to members Of Congress, made pub
lie today by the Kern County
(Calif.) Board of Supervisors.
The letter, signed by A. w. Noon,
chairman of the Board of Super
visors, was caused by proposals that
the Government condemn oil lands
owned by the Standard Oil Co. of
California in the Elk Hills reserve
in Kern County. Public hearings
soon to be held before the House
Naval Affairs Committee, are ex-
pected to center about the question
|of whether the Navy Department
should condemn the reserve or enter
into a new unit contract with
Standard for its operation.
A contract calling for joint de-
velopment of the reserve by the
Navy and Standard Oil was can
|celed last June at the demand of
the Justice Department, which held
terms of the agreement were illegal
and contrary to public policy.
The Kern County board, in its
letter, broadened the attack on the
proposed Elk Hills condemnation
into an argument against the Fed
eral tendency toward extensive land
purchases.
Under the guise of the war ef-
fort. Federal land acquisitions have
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been extended unnecessarily" the
board charged. LANDS have beer
acquired where leases would have
suf1iced or some form Of contract
could have provided the necessary
services or controls"
Removal of these lands from loca'
tax rolls diminishes the revenues OF
the local governments, thereby re-
ducing the quantity and quality OF
their services or forcing higher tax
rates on the local taxpayers, the
board maintained.
'"The Federal Government then
must step in and supplement local
governments through subsidies, or
take over some of their functions, >
the letter stated. "In fact, the whole
recent trend has been to relegate
local governments and individual
citizens to an insignificant place in
an all powerful bureaucracy"
In the case of the Elk Hills lands
the board said, needs of the Navy
for petroleum reserves in the area
can be met by some form of equi-
table contract rather than by con-
demnation."