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Evening star., 1944-05-04
Keen Interest Shown
By D. T.. Investors
In Hecht Stock
BY EDWARD c. STONE.

by EUW AND y. SlONE.
Washington investment dealers
today predicted a large oversub-
scription for the l91,515 shares of
Hecht Co. common stock which are
expected to. be offered the public
about May Is. The registration
statement was filed with the Securi-
ties and Exchange Commission late
in April. 1t is stated the price will
be around $22 share.
All dealers in the city say they
are having constant inquiries about
the stock, many customers intimat-
ing they will want large-sizec
blocks. Much of the stock naturally
will be sold outside of the Capita
as the nationally known investment
firm of Goldman, Sacks g. Co. il
acting as principal underwater
The stock to be distributed is about
one-fourth of the 740,376 common
shares outstanding, all of which has
been held by members of the Hecht
family.
The Hecht Co. is one of the few
remaining large retail organizations
which until now has not been oper
to public ownership, though $780,
900 of AZ per cent preferred stock
was sold last year to big life in
surance companies for investment
ID. C. Banks Surplus Grows.
Surplus of Washington's % banks
on April 13, 1914, totaled $21 ,440, ,000
against $40, 100000 on December 81
and $2O,228, 900 on June 30, l943
Controller Preston Delano an
nounces in his latest bank survey
Undivided profits aggregated $10,-
294,000 compared with $10,545 ,0O0
last June, while reserves showed lit
tie change, 1879 900 comparing with
$1,802,000 on June 80.
Total liabilities and capital &C.
counts advanced from $707, TAI ,00C
last June to s790, ,426 900 on April 13
Southern Rail Nets Lower.
Glass l railroads in the Southern
region in the first quarter Of 1914
had an estimated net income, after
interest and rentals, of 10000 ,00C
comr/ed with SAL ,32O, ,654 in the like
1943 period, and a net railway oper-
ating income of $45 ,631 ,905 compared
with $5a,256,046 year ago.
Operating expenses totaled $685.
434, 1859, an increase Of Al per cent
compared with 1943, while operating
expenses totaled $203, ,785, $50, an up
turn of Is per cent.
In March alone these roads had
an estimated net income Of $10,000,-
600, against $15.416,520 in March
1943.
d. C. Firm 50 Years Old.
The firm of Dyer Bros, 734 Thir-
teenth street, distributors of paint
products, is observing its 50th anni-
versary this month, having been
founded by Giles Dyer in 1894 dur
ing the administration Of President
Cleveland The first store was on
Eighth street, the company moving
to the present location in 1911
Manning Dyer, son of the founder
became president in 1887, taking
over the management and succeed
ing an uncle, Clinton Dyer, upon his
retirement.
q, Store Sales Boom In South.
Department store sales were very
heavy in Southern cities in the first
quarter, the Federal Reserve Board
has Just announced. Sales In Knox
vile were AZ per cent ahead of last
year; Nashville, %; Chattanooga,
%; New Orleans, %; Jacksonville,
%; Montgomery, 10; Atlanta, %, and
Miami. 26,
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Market AVERAGES
BONDS.
Odd-Lot Declines

PHILADELPHIA, May R.-The Sc
curities Commission reported today these
dealers or SPECIALISTS on the New York
Stock Exchange for May g.: 1852 pur-
chases, involving 1921 shares; 3,O0S
sales, involving 2.100 shares, including
46 short sales, Involving 1870 shares
Evening star., 1944-05-04

AppfOX1mate Sales Today,
l1:00 AIM. l2s 4eo 1900 noon ais 42o
100 PM. 900 $40 2:OOpm. $50 3ao
tUnlt OF trading, 10 shares: sales printed
in full In bankruptcy or receivership or
being reorgani2ed under Bankruptcy Act
Rates OF dividends in the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on last
quarterly or semi mi-annual declaration. I'm
less otherwise noted, special ore extra divi-
xr Ex rights. a Also extra or extras. Cash
or stock; e Declared or paid so far this
h Payable in Canadian funds. Accumu-
lated dividends paid or declared this wear
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Washington Exchange

SALES.
American Security & Trust Coo at 230.
washington Gas common-100 at 22h.
National Mortgage g. Investment preferred
-120 at 5Ia.
washington Gas $5 preferred-20 at 1O6.
5 at 106.
Evening star., 1944-05-04

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Chicarn Cash Maxh,

Wheat. none; Barley. mailing 1.25-
4412 nominal; feed. 1.15-1.22E. NOM
mai Field seed, per 100 pounds, timothy,
5.75-6 90, nominal; red top, IA 00-1 5 90,
nominal: red clover. 81 so, nominal: sweet
clover. 1880, nominal
Evening star., 1944-05-04

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Q " 3 69-64 Dec1c
2As 66-60----11
NEW YORK CITY
IS 80 ----- ]
FOREIGN.
Australia IS b5-
Buen A 4hs IT.
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Col 3s 70 ----
Peru rs 50
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CNW Ans 2O37
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Evening star., 1944-05-04
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO May. 4 GP.-Paced by an
advance of more than cent in May rye
which moved to new. high for the past
three months, grains exhibited a firm tone
on the board Of trade today. Part Of the
buying OF May rye represented short
covering and the contract was strength
ened by scarcity of offerings.
Deferred rye contracts. while higher,
were not able to advance as much as the
nearby month. Gains in other pits were
confined to small fractions. While trad
ing in all rye deliveries was active. not
much interest was shown in other. cereals;
from a commission house with milling
connections.
May wheat, oats and barley held at cell
ings. Active. wheat futures closed un-
changed to % higher, July 1.7oh; active
oats UNCHANGED to " higher, July 79H,
and active barley "a higher, July 1.25.
Rye closed ss-1 y higher. May 1.32A-ss.
May 1.733s 1.73A 1.73h 1.735s
July 1.7oB 1.7QH 1.70 I.7oh
sepesIbssr beeember .ssM ss ss ssn 1ss issHHh isSHH
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July 1.3s% 1855 1.2sh 1857
Deeemberz-- 1.24B 1858 1.24N 1851
BARLEY
July 1.e4M 1.25 1.24,. i.25
September 1.19 1.19A 1.1sA 1.19A
Evening star., 1944-05-04

Rates Of dividends IN the foregoing table
quarterly or semi-annuai declaration. On.
less otherwise noted special or extra div.
idends are not included. . Also extra o,
Payable in stock Declared or paid SC
far this year b Payable in Canadian funds
K Accumulated dividends paid or declaret
warrants
Evening star., 1944-05-04

AS O4N
FROM PEE
80,
Air Associa so. ~
Air-Way II .30g ~
Ala Grit Sou9g-. 1901
Alum L pf g. 80 %
Alum Co Am q. 81
Alum Am pf g. Ill
Am Cen MfgAe- 81
Am ForkAH Ne l6z
Am Gen So pf 2 37l
Am Hard Rub l. Is
Am 1t d T 1.20. ~
Am Mfg Aae---- 30
Am Maracaibo-. ~
Am Meter Ne 25l
Amp Pot&Ch1 hg 4ol,
Am Repub he-- LII
Am Writ Pap ~
Aro Equip .40e- eI
Art MetWks 80. 1o1
Att Coast r Ae- 8
Atl Rayon .55g-. g.
Avery pf 1.50--. 23I
Ayrshire Pat 1oz
Baldwin pf 2.10. 20
Baldwin VIZ g.
Bsrium Steel n
Beau Brml zoe o.
Beaun Ms IN ~
Beaunit pf 80 al
Bliss (EW) 1 II
Borne Scry 2Ng as,
Braz + L&P h1e 1o1
BreezeCor .40e IL
Bridgeport Oh 1oi
Brown For Dist 22l
Brown Rub ---t q
Buff N b Z P Of 151
BunkHill&S We. 81
Burms Ltd II
BURY Biscuit ),
Cable&W pf. ..05e y
Callite T .1Oe =. 9
Carman B Ae-- -
Carnation Ia .-- -,
Carter wv 60 d
Cessna Air Is 8,
Charts Co., -
Chesebro 4a---.11o
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Cities 9erv1ce-- Ia
Cities serv pf 1o2
Cities Sve pf B.. -
CLARK Cont Ne. 10
Clev Tract %e-- 16l
Colonial Air -. ~
Col G&E pf 8 -. 631
Com p svc 100 224
Cons GE B $50 s.
Cons Royal. 06e- z
Cons Steel Ne 1oL
Contd&Epr pf z 71o2l
Cop Range Ag-. 6h
Creole Pet Mg 754
Croft Brew .O6g. ~
Cr'n c Pet .10g- ~
Cub Att sus L. 2o1
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Darby Pet We 354
Dayton Rub Ne 16z
Denni MI A.4Oe- ~
Derby o 81 1Ok- II
Driver-H $40 2e
EG&F prpf4.6O 6AI
Electograph Ae. -
Equity Corp 1l
Eo Cp $3pf 1hk 36l
FairchE&A .20g ~
FansteelMet Ag Isl
FordMotL .111g ~
Gen Sh of Cd 0oz
Glen Alden .40e 13
Gorham Inc A 81
@ A&P 1st pf 7 ia
Greenf T&D hg 81
Hall Lamp 20 ~
Harvrd Brw.10e -
Hearn Dept Str ~
Rates Of dividend
are annual disburser
quarterly or semi-al
Evening star., 1944-05-04
N. Y. Curb Market

Furnished b. the Associated Prsss.)
LIST INCLUDES ONLY ISSUES CHANGED
FROM PREVIOUS CLOSE
Evening star., 1944-05-04
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, May 4 R.-Dividends de-
clared:
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n. 7. Bond Market

ssIscrsp = ils aisr r,cSsisss 81 sSHpss sssss
Evening star., 1944-05-04

sEx dividend. fPlus extras, (a) Paid 90
far this year (e) % extra. (n) S5 extra.
(k) 10c extra. tp) Paid in 1943. ty) so
Evening star., 1944-06-05

the city now are being guarded.
The west coast flank of the Ger
man 14th Army must seek another
route of, escape.
Tanks led by 1t. Col. Bogardus
Cairns of Decatur, Ga, and in
fantry units including those COM
manded by 1t. Col. Frank Izenour
of Los Angeles and 1t. Col. Joseph
Crawford of Humboldt, Kans., were
in the forefront Of the spectacular
American drive into Rome yester-
day from the area of fallen VAL
montone.
Straight up the Via Casilina they
came, bowling over opposition put
up by mobile 88-millimeter armorec
self propelled guns. I found that
keeping up with the scout cars ol
Capt. Roy Manley of international
Falls, Mimi, was a fantastic job
Half of Saturday afternoon I spent
jumping into various bitches while
snipers' bullets and mortar shell.
came far too close
1t has been an armored war all
the way, with some of our tanks left
behind as burning, tragic milestone.
on the victory road.
Maj. Harold Blodgett of Denton
Tex, sitting in the tank Tactics.
Texan" below the smoking hilltop
town of Colonna. apologized Satur.
day, because, we've only made SCOT
yards in five hours; we keep bump
ing into those damned self propelled
guns"
Evening star., 1944-06-05
Nazi Attacks Hurled Back
By Russians in Romania
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, June 5.-Apparently at
tempting to smash Russian prepara-
tions for q new offensive, the Ger
mans continued to attack yesterday
north and northwest of Iasi In
Romania, but were hurled back with
tremendous losses In men and ma
terial, Moscow announced today.
A broadcast Soviet communique
declared that in one sector alone
LOO Nazis were killed and 80 tanks
were knocked out of action. The
bulletin indicated the fighting was
on a considerable scale, saying the
Nazis had thrown large forces of
both infantry and tanks into the
fray.
Sharp air battles accompanied the
ground fighting and A Nazi planes
were brought down in combat or by
antiaircraft fire, the Russians said
They reported the rest of the front
was quiet, but noted a Soviet tor
pedo plane had sunk a large Ger
man transport in the Gulf OF Fin
land.
Evening star., 1944-06-05
New Precautions Are Taken
After False Invasion Report

Additional safeguards, with the
aid and approval of Allied censor
ship authorities, have been put in
effect in the London Office of the
Associated Press as a result of an
erroneous invasion fash sent Sat-
urday inadvertently by an mex
perienced girl operator and trans
mitted over all A. p. news wires.
A message yesterday from Robert
Bunnelle, chief of A. P.'s London
bureau, said appropriate action had
been taken in full consultation with
the authorities to guarantee censor
ship control and Transmission super
vision over facilities furnishing di-
rect connections between A. P.'s Lon
eon and New York ofhces.
Evening star., 1944-06-05

edictine Abbey atop Monte Cas-
sino, but resulting ground attack on
Casino fails.
March 15-Allied planes raze Gas.
sino but fail to dislodge Germans.
May 5-Allied planes wreck Pes.
cara Dam on Adriatic side of front
loosing torrent on German positions
May 18th and 5th Armie.
launch big drive between Cassine
and Tyrrehenian Sea at II pm.
May 18-Cassino falls.
May 19-Nazis abandon Gaeta anc
Allies break into Hitler Line aftel
crushing Gustav Line.
May 23-Anzio beachhead force.
launch their attack.
May 24-Beachhead troops Gu
Appian Way: Canadians break Hit
Ter Line farther inland.
May 25-Both fronts merge int
single line moving on Rome.
June 2-Velletri, fortress town l,
miles southeast of Rome on Appial
Way, falls; Valmontone. 20 mile
from Eternal City on Via Casilin;
farther inland, also captured.
June 4-Rome captured.
Evening star., 1944-06-05

By the Associated Press.
Sept. 8, 1943-Gen. Montgomery
British 9Th Army, including Cana
dians, invades toe of Italy across
Messina Strait from Sicily; secret
military armistice with Italy signed
in Sicily, effective September 8.
Sept. 8-Gen. Eisenhower an
nounces Ita1y's unconditional sur
render.
Sept. 9-Gen. Clark's 5th Army of
Americans and Britons lands at
Salerno below Naples; Germans
bomb and sink Italian battleship
Roma.
Sept. 10-Germans seize Rome
disarm Italians in north, Allies oc-
Icupy Taranto.
Sept. 12-Germans announce they
had freed Mussolini.
Sept. 18th and 9th Armies es-
tablish contact after bloody fighting
at Salerno, which fell September II;
80 italian ships, including five bat.
tleships, surrender in Allied ports,
Sept. 28-Eighth Army occupies
Foggia's important network of air
bases.
Oct. NAPLES falls.
Oct. 3-5th Army wins Bene-
vento, 9th lands at Termoli or
Adariatic next day.
Oct. 13-Italy declares war or
Germany after Premier-Marshal
Badoglio and King Victor Emman-
uel elude Germans in Rome and
escape to South Italy.
Oct. 18th Army crosses Vol
turno, heavy rains slow drive and
Germans dig into strong mountain
positions.
Nov. 30-British crossing Sangre
River break into enemy's main win.
ter line.
Dec. 81 to Jan. 81, 1944-In slow
bitter fighting British cross lower
Gargliano River; Americans and
French close in on Casino on main
road to Rome. Canadians take Or
tona on Adriatic.
Jan. 22-5th Army troops lano
at Anzio below Rome, but fail t.
divert Germans from Casino OF
cut German communications alone
Appian Way
Feb. 15-Allied planes attack Ben
Evening star., 1944-06-05
De Luce
Continued From First Page.

lips and cheers in their throats
Some were lying across the German
machine guns they had tried t,
seize barehanded.
why were you so long coming
We expected you four months ago.
said some Of the Partisans.
Impromptu Parades.
Others in unwhimpering silence
asking no questions, waited for thei
wounds to be bandaged.
Thousands of the people of Rome
marched jubilantly in impromptu
parades with the occupying forces
They waved flags and red banners
splashed through water from broker
water mains to grasp the hands o
the troops, almost smothered tn.
liberators with roses and kisses.
They shrieked curses at blinking
German prisoners, cried at the sigh
of a dying. American soldier. With
shrill cries they warned of hidden
antitank guns and machine-gur
nests.
Mothers held up their children te
be kissed by the grimy, bearded
doughboys, in sight of a dying Ger.
man scout car crewman from whose
chest gushed a stream of blood.
But the doughboys just swung
along in tired shuttle in the fact
of all this demonstration, awe.
struck by the famous avenues that
had been their goal for nine long
dangerous and wearying months.
Insists on Helping Out.
I saw 10-year-old boy carrying
ammunition for his elder brother or
sniper patrol. A stubbly-bearded
gray-haired peasant in his middle
f1fties begged to be put into action
A dark-haired girl with bandoliel
insisted me Partisan, too"
BY military standards the battle
for Rome was merely heavy skirm.
ish with the objectives temporarily
being to secure the Tiber bridges
From just behind the leading tank
however. I found the struggle a.
hard on the senses as getting hit
between the eyes with bras.
knuckles.
Several tanks and one heavy self.
propelled gun held up our armor fol
seven hours yesterday at a point
miles outside Rome. But the Alliet
commander accepted unusual risk
rather than bring down a devastat.
ing fire on areas where civilian.
might be sheltering or cultura
treasures harmed.
AS the final push sent Gen. Sher.
man tanks gathering through Cen.
tocelle's alleyways and green fields
their machine guns drove score
of German snipers from cover. Ital
ian partisans rode the American
tanks or preceded them like gam
beaters.
III bet there are enough Fascis
Party badges in the Tiber today t.
make the fish SICK" said one officer
Near the San Lorenzo railyards il
Rome the partisans shrilly warne,
Evening star., 1944-06-05

of German 88 about 200 yards be-
hind the next corner. Light tanks
swerved and hit 1t from the rear
while weeping mothers murmured
blessings, kissed the hands of the
tank destroyer crewmen and lifted
up their children to be kissed on
the cheek.
Within a few seconds after the
first tanks crossed under the arch
|of Porta Maggiore, one Of the gates
of Rome, the avenue ahead was
filled with what seemed all of the
population OF Rome. Crowds, in
order to clasp our hands. waded
through water from water main
broken by the Germans in destroy
ing Fiat factory.
AS we passed the Basilica of Santa
Maria Maggiore, Romans from upper
apartment windows shouted warn
ing that a German scout car was
ahead.
We were proceeding down the Via
Nazionale in front of the Bank of
Italy-one block from the Roman
forum-when a German heavy ma
chine gun suddenly began firing.
My driver, Pfc. Kenneth Kopplin
Of Huron, S. Dak., headed straight
into the entrance of big store.
When the shooting stopped we saw
the wrecked scout car ahead with
two Germans dead and another dy-
ing, with blood gushing from his
chest.
1t. Robertson, commanding one
Of the leading platoons, stationed
men before the Palazzo Venezia and
the Victor Emmanuel Monument
after sharp and bloody street fight
block away.
Despite the ambush fighting of
the Germans inside Rome's walls,
religious and cultural treasures ap-
parently escaped damage.
Thousands of Romans marched In
an impromptu parade with the first
Allied troops to enter the city. They
waved red banners with hammer
and sickle in addition to Italian
flags.
Even when a German machine
gun cracked in the Via Nazionale
they sought only temporary cover,
then linked arms again with the
doughboys.
Some Romans died today in the
fight for freedom, cigarettes between
their lips and cheers in their throats.
At police station adjoining the
Forum officers said all was quiet in
Vatican City and the last Germans
were fleeing from their rendezvous
near the Colosseum.
Ancient Rome, the goal of nine
months of heavy sacrifice, left the
Allied troops awestruck as they
swung in a tired shuttle along her
famous avenues, their grimy faces
bearded, their hands and cheeks
kissed by the swarming populace.
AS darkness settled they famed
out into all corners of the city,
firing their rifles in the air to keep
the Romans out of the way of the
heavy Army vehicles following.
Most of the troops caught sight
OF st. Peters high dome for the
first time from the Via Casilina on
the outskirts of the city, but the
great stone ruins of the Forum were
a surprise saved for the last.
The bridges over the Tiber in
Evening star., 1944-06-05

To prevent any recurrence of this
almost unbelievable mixup, it has
been arranged that henceforth copy
will be handed by the censor to the
A. P. traffice supervisor, who in turn
will make sure that the transmit
ter is clear and that no tape is
hanging before giving the dispatch
to the transmitting operator.
Warnings given operators against
practicing near live cable channels
have been underscored. Addition
ally, Western Union, whose trans
Atlantic cable is used, will check
the heading of each message as 1t
passes through its London office, to
make certain 1t actually bears the
stamp PBc-"2assed by Censor"
Evening star., 1944-06-05
IS Excursionists Die
As Launch Capsizes
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PORT STANLEY. Ont, June s.
Fifteen persons were believed to
have drowned in the capsizing of
this Lake Erie harbor of the motor
launch Olga, crowded with Sunday
excursionists. Thirteen others were
rescued.
The bodies Of three young women,
Lillian Babcock, %, of London, Ont,
Bernice Wood, %, and Barbara
Martin, 20, both of nearby st.
Thomas, were recovered shortly
after the Olga filled and partly
overturned when a wave struck her
broadside after the motor failed.
Twelve others were listed as miss
ing and believed drowned: Sidney
Smith, one Of the Olga's operators,
Stella Meays, II, half-sister of Miss
Babcock: Russell Hannent and Cor
don Hannent, 8, his nephew; Jacl
Gardner, II; Joe Adill, 8; Earl Book
16; Donald Ellis, II, and his brother
Robert, IL, all of London, Ont; Ed.
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sides of st. Thomas, and Clifford E
Skeath, a member of the RCAF sta.
toned there.
Ted Vining, co-operator of ths
launch, said he was In the wheel.
house when the accident occurred
THE passengers yelled anc
screamed; / can't describe it," he
said. Nothing could be done. II
was an accident. If the passengers
hadn't become panicky it never
would have happened"
The capsizing occurred about 9
mile from shore, in full view oil
spectators on the pier and on the
beach. An RCAF crashboat ane
motor launch based at Port Stanle,
and private sailboat reached ths
scene quickly.