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Evening star., 1947-12-14
Chicago Livestock

GRIcAoo Soss ado Pee - AZ 5
30 to mostly IS lower; sows 1.00-1,25
ssl,shls liable. es.tl. 800 Estimated: total
.Sppy @ sa e 70 fass
81 s5'ass en es % s e SG e.ss s.d
c5oice light and medium weIsht steers
rsssh:d naa .ss ssGo ov.p nsx r.a; ss na p
un.ysnness on shortisds: ied heifers
id d.ent IT, 90 eFe s0Se y sy'ss S IS
bulls f.so-s,5S up; Veslers and SLAUGHTER
but barely ely steady choiee G long % yesriins saihss
est price after. 80 90 on weiehty offerings
1928 lbs; high medium to Slightly better
than average good grades at 23.50-30. 90
showed full decline; common steers and
average Choice topping a. 80; but fltd1: high
choice mixed steers and heifers reached
81 so, cutter cows closed at 1880 down:
good beef cows at a2.00: .heavys sausage
bulls reached 2l;90. beef bulls 2;2o0;
ssia6le sheep $500 testimated: total
not given; compared week ago. Slaughter
lambs steady to 25 higher; yearlings steady
to so higher. good and choice showing
and choice fed wooled lambs 24.O0-24. rs,
closing top 244Q, medium and good WOOL
with mixed Gull and common lightweights
16.00-16 80; load choice II 1 lib. fed clipped
lambs fall shSrn pelts 245O, load good
good and choice fed yearlinE wethers
20.25-21 80. load common lightweigf1ts
1900: few choice closely sorted slaughter
ewes 1000, bulk mixed common to
choice s5O-a.2b; four loads sood 7o-lb
shorn feeding lambs No. / pelts 2O.5O,
sorted 90 per cent 10 90
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Cotton Textile Trade Lags
Despite Strong Demand
~ the Assoejo,sd Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Despite
continued strong demand for goods
both for nearby and future delivery,
there was a sharp decline in cotton
textile business during the past
week.
Buyers met with little success In
their search for goods for nearby
delivery. Mills also had little to Of
fer through the first half of 1s4s in
print cloths, sheetings and broad
cloth fabrics. They were reluctant
to sell much additional goods for
third quarter delivery because Of the
continued rise in raw cotton prices
There were some reports that cot
ton goods were not in such urgent
demand as previously for third
quarter delivery. On the other hand,
some inquiries were reported for
print cloths for delivery in the
fourth quarter Of 1913.
Emile Rieve, president Of the Tex
ills Workers Union of America
(CIO), reported that 10 per cent
pay raise for 10000 New England
textile workers is provided in q new
contract negotiated by the union
with 80 cotton and rayon mills. Mr.
Rieve said the agreement would
serve as a pattern for the industry
throughout the country.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Science Calendar
Technical Society
Meetings Listed

These scientific and technical So
ciety meetings were announced for
the coming week by the Joint Com
mittee on Press Relations of the
District Council of Engineering and
Architectural Societies and the
Washington Academy of Sciences
All meetings listed are open to the
public.
Monday.
Instrument Society of Washington,
7p.m., auditorium, Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co. Annual dinner and
business meeting; entertainment
Reservations: Mr.. Deeter, TR
1897.
Tuesday.
Patent Once Society, $40 pm,
Commerce Department Audi
torium. w. w. Cochran, solicitor
Of the Patent Once, Examiners
Actions as Used by the Courts. "
Also talk by We'd P. Mithal, execu-
tive oficier, Patent Once, Do
minion Of India.
American Society OF Mechanical
Engineers, Management Division,
8 pm, chemistry lecture room,
National Bureau of Standards.
Fisher S. Black, assistant to the
president, Potomac Electric Power
Co., Round Table Discussion Of
Utility Management Problems"
Special Libraries Association. Trans
portation Group, 8 pm. National
Archives conference room. Gra-
ham B. Callahan, c. & P. Tele-
phone Co., "Microwaves and Their
Use In Communication and Navi-
CATION" Also q speaker from the
Federal Communications Commits
sion to speak on the use of radio
in transportation and its regu-
lation.
Wednesday.
Society of Engineers,
Sis pm, auditorium, Interior De-
partment Building. Eighteenth and
G streets NV. Annual business
meeting. Showing of captured
German color Aim, "Girl of My
Dreams" Film Of especial inter-
est because Of its exceptional color
technique. Ladies Night.
Thursday.
Society of Mechanical
Engineers, Power & Fuels Division.
8 pm. :. Inspection trip, Central
Heating Plant, Thirteenth and G
streets s.W.. Subject: Underfeed
Stokers.
Saturday.
Philosophical Society Of Washing
ton, 8:15 pm, Cosmos Club audi
torium. DR.. j. B. Green, Naval
Ordinance Laboratory, THE Spec
ira Of the Atoms"
Evening star., 1947-12-14
D. T.. Store Sales Even
With 1916 as YuIe
Shopping Expands
By Edword 6. Stone

Indicating seasonal increase in
Christmas trade. department store
sales in the Capital for the week
ended Saturday, December 6, were
"a per cert ahead of the preceding
week this year, the Richmond Re-
serve Bank reported yesterday.
Sales in the 5th district were up
~ per cent and in Baltimore SO
per cent.
Compared with the similar week
year ago, sales in Washington
stores were unchanged in dollar
volume. They rose l per cent in
the 5th district, per cent in Balti-
more and per cent. in a group of
other cities.
The trade review said Washing
ton cumulative sales in the four
weeks ending December 6 were 2
per cent ahead of the like 1916
period and were 3 per cent higher
in the 5th district.
From January through December
6, sales in the 5th district were 2
per cent better than last year, while
in the IL reserve districts the gain
averaged 8 per cent.
Stock Listed on Exchange.
The two new issues of Potomac
Electric Power preferred stock were
listed on the Washington Stock Ex-
change Friday. Listing covered
100000 shares of $50 per cent pre-
ferred A and $4,000 shares of $50
per cent preferred B stock.
These preferred stocks were issued
when the Washington Railway &
Electric Co. was dissolved and Po-
tomac Electric carried out new
financing. Both A and B stocks
pay $180 per year were quoted on
the exchange Friday at As bid;
offered at 46. They are expected
to be among the leading issues on
the board.
Potomac Electric Power new COM
mon and new common, when issued,
led the exchange in share turn
over during, the past week, selling
around 1875; Capital Transit closed
at IAN, ex-dividend. One bank
stock, Union Trust, appeared on
the board at 40, unchanged.
Issues quoted ex-dividend on the
exchange, payments being due soon,
include Capital Transit, American
Telephone, Norfolk g. Washington
Steamboat, Lincoln National, Union
Trust, Carpet Corp, Garfnckel COM
mon and preferreds. Mergenthaler
Linotype and Peoples Drug Stores,
Inc.
Metropolis 81 Years Old.
Tomorrow will mark the 81st an
niversary of the founding of the
Metropolis Building Association, Sec
ond old home financing institution
in the city. Located on Capitol Hill,
Metropolis has been a landmark
since 1865. Harry G. Wilson is pres
ident and Rudolph w. Santelmann
Evening star., 1947-12-14
CURB SUMMARY
the Assseiated Press. }

NurnisheA b. the Associated Press.)
New York Stock ExeSsnss. sSswinE the
high. Isv and clssins price for tie week
end The net ehanse ffs1 the previous
S2tuHday,a elsao
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Rail Bonds Improve,
Low-YieId Issues
Continue 10 Ease
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Railroad
issues finished the week on a rising
note in the bond market today.
Trailing after advancing stock
prices, the carriers showed the first
average week-to-week gain since
July. Mark-ups during the short
session were mainly fractional, q
few topping a point.
Trade bulked comparatively large
in two American Telephone issues,
as has been the case during the
week, without nudging prices very
far one way or the other.
World Bank IS, a popular selling
target for months, recouped 6/32.
Of recent losses at SO 6I32. The
short-term 2As were untraded.
Low Prices Tempt Buyers.
The improvement in the carrier
division. small as 1t was for the
week, suggested to some observers
that investors were finally tempted
by prices to which many issues have
been pounded since early August.
Demand was apparently height
ened. too, by the possibility that the
Interstate Commerce Commission
will grant all or part Of a requested
boost in freight rates. In this con-
nection. market men studied the
latest report of 100 class / carriers
to the ICC. For the first nine
months the railroads reported net
operating income of $557, ,744,8 1853,
against $366,819, ,199 in the compar-
able 1916 period, and net income
of $315, 5,135,53f, compared with $685.
261 ,947 last year.
Low-yie1d issues continued under
pressure. The Associated Press in
dex Of 10 such bonds dropped S
Of one point from a week ago to
1881. lowest since 1910. The fresh
losses among top-grade corporates
re-emphasized the widening spread
between those bonds and United
States government obligations. Fed
eral bonds ended with little varia-
ton from q week earlier, in part
because Of new support by the Fed
eral Reserve Open Market Com
mittee.
Financing Successful.
The new money market was en-
couraged by the favorable response
accorded the weeks offerings, par
ticularly utility company bonds. Top
billing was given Cleveland Electric
Illuminating Co.'S s2O,000,O00 mort
gage bonds. due in 1882 and bearing
a 3 per cent coupon. The issue was
marketed publicly at 101.08 to yield
295 per cent and broad interest
developed, notably among institu-
tional buyers.
Utility liens also figure promi-
nently in offerings scheduled for
sale in the near future.
Evening star., 1947-12-14

Rates nf dividends IN the forsGoirg tebls
are annual Disbursements based on TIE last
,ess Otherwise noted, special OF extra divi-
dends are not included. Also extra or
extras. Plus stock dividend. d Cash or
stock. DECLARED or paid 30 far this
snd. q p. 8 Sesan1.a ts 1.s S,
issue. wVNtth warrants. ~ Nithous
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Listed Bond Values
Reduced in November

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-The New
York Stock Exchange announced to-
day that at the close of business
November 20 there were 888 bond
issues listed on the exchange with
q market value Of $137 500 1886, All
or an average price of $10046 per
bond. Par value totaled $136,878,-
893, ,224.
Comparative figures as of October
81 indicate the same number of is
sues aggregating $136, ,710, 1856 .801 par
value and . market value of $780,
1896, 1888 ,665 with an average price OF
$1O1.19.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
British Spinning Rote
Climbs to New Record
BY the Assoeiofed Press

MANCHESTER. Eng, Dec. 13.-
The first week of overtime opera
ton in the spinning industry in
Great Britain set up a production
record, the Government Cotton Con-
troll announced.
Production of cotton, spun rayon
and mixture yarns the week ending
November 20, the first week of over
time work since the war, was 49,
040, 900 pounds, exceeding the best
previous postwar week by 25o,O00
pounds.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Washington Stock Exchange
o AHp MeIu6fNo % FRfphY. 5IcEMsER Il. -

YEAR le47 Up TO
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Film on FBI to Be Shown

Holy Comforter Episcopal Church
Mems Club will see q motion pic
ture, "On Guard" depicting work of
the Federal Bureau Of Investigation,
at $50 pm. Tuesday at the church,
Seventh and Oglethorpe streets
NV,
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

What do the Russians think Of
collective farming" commu-
nized agriculture under the Sow
cts? Well, I asked a friend of
mine, Paul Ward of the Balti-
more Sun, who got this story
from a Russian, a good Commu-
mist, whom he met in Moscow.
After a few vodkas the Russky
used to tell stories. This was
one: Stain and Roosevelt were
driving through the countryside.
A COW got into the road in front
of them and wouldn't move. The
driver tried to shoe it away but
it wouldn't bulge. Finally, Stain
got out, went up to the cow and
whispered into its ear. The cow
gave one frightened look, jumped
over the fence and disappeared
in the distance.
"What did you say to the cow
to make it do that?" Roosevelt
asked.
Stain smiled. Don't tell any
body, but / said to her: IF you
don't get out Of here. but quick,
I'll put you on a collective
farm.'"
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
Free World
Is at Stake

Exports to Europe already have
been cut down. That will affect first
employment of people in this coun-
try in such export industries as ra-
dio, electrical appliances and like
gadgets which can be spared It is
quite possible that there may be
sufficient increase meanwhile in en-
ployment in construction or other
domestic industries which will alb
sorb this unemployment and keep up
the purchasing power Of the con-
sumer sufficiently to maintain pres
ent farm prices. In any case, there
probably will be six months lag
before prices are greatly affected.
Eventually, the marginal surplus
would be touched (if Europe is not
stimulated as it was in 1920. Then,
you recall, grain prices dropped. al
though exports were still heavy.
However, the demand at that time
was not great enough to absorb the
entire American output. 1t is this
marginal surplus" which decides
the prices at home. When the de-
mand for the first bushel over and
above the domestic surplus ends, it
affects the whole price structure.
Before such . situation arises,
Il 10 Nrmly believed that the
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
NEWS REVIEW
NEWS REVIEW
Showdown Near I'm U.N.:
Grain Exports Reduced
SHOWDOWN:
Russia's S Choice

Secretary of State George Mar
shall sounded like a man who was
getting a lot of things off his chest.
What he said in an address before
the U. N. general assembly of SIS
nations amounted to a call for a
showdown with Russia.
The Soviets, he intimated, have
held to their stubborn, veto-bound
course in the United Nations long
enough.
To make the delinquents come to
time, Marshall proposed four
point plan of action to the general
assembly:
I He suggested creation Of a new
assembly committee Of IS coun>
tries which would operate without
veto and would remain constantly
in session to consider world security
questions ocsI 1McSic1 as board Of
appeals. Potentially, the committee
would be a rival to the security
council.
= He announced that the u. S. was
L.ready to relinquish, in all but the
gravest cases, it's veto privilege and
implicitly challenged Russia to do
likewise.
, He blamed Russia for the u. S.
O.Soviet deadlock in Korea and
said that America would submit the
case to the general assembly for
action.
n He blamed Russia for using
T.vetoes to protect Yugoslavia.
Albania and Bulgaria from being
pronounced guilty of meddling in
Greece. He said the U. S. would ask
the assembly to vote guilt for the
three satellites and to demand that
they refrain from interfering in
Greece.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

senator himself last year was de-
nounced by Mr.. Truman for his part
in writing a price control extension
bill which the President branded as
being worse than no controls. Mr..
Truman's subsequent veto of the
bill allowed price controls to expire
automatically.
Mailing down the first plank in
what apparently is designed to be
his campaign platform for the 1948
presidential nomination, Taft as
sailed the administration record
on taxes and spending.
The country must elect Repub-
ican president next year if it is gen.
timely interested in reducing taxes
and spending, Taft observed.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
NO EXPLOSION POSSIBLE
Science Now'Spa||iates'Atom

Scientists now can split the atoms
Of five more metals-lead, bismuth,
thallium, platinum and tantalum-
achievements destined to open new
roads toward mans ultimate mas
terry of the atom.
However, there's no need to worry
about the possibility that a "cheap"
atomic bomb could be made by
splitting the atoms of such a COM
mon metal as lead, according to
Prof. Glenn T. Seaborg. University
of California physicist, who played
a dominant role in development Of
the first atom bomb.
The day has not yet come when
atomic bombs could be made with
common elements such as lead and
bismuth, DR.. Seaborg said. empha-
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

realistic" side of the picture
will be brought home fOrcibly
to America. The average citi-
zen, as well as the farmer and
the exporter and others directly
dependent on International trade
as whole, will realize that
what is at stake is something
far greater than the dollar
Americas stake in the preserva-
ton of free wOrld-a world
which will perish if Europe is
underfed.
Russia has only about one-sixth of
the amount of wheat which the Unit
ed States is able to spare, accord
ing to current estimates. The Unit
ed Nations food and agriculture or
ganization estimated it as 70 mil
lion bushels against our 400 million
bushels, as stated above.
Our own situation, we admit. is
not too good. Nevertheless, we are
in much better position on a COM
petitive basis, than Russia. There
appears little doubt in the minds of
the men most familiar with the facts
that when the full force of this
situation and what it means is real
lied in this country, Europe may be
saved for democracy and the
farmer will have at least
two-thirds Of the credit due him.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

sizing that the fission Of such ele-
ments "opens no possibility for the
production Of self-sustaining chain
reaction"
AS a matter of fact, he added,
they can't even be used as sources
of atomic energy for purposes less
violent than that Of blowing man.
kind to bits. They don't emit enough
energy for that.
Actually, the atoms of the five
metals are not split-they're splin-
tered. Scientists call this splintering
process equalization" to distinguish
1t from plain ordinary fssion.
What good is the spalliation of
atoms If they can't be utilized di-
rectiy for atomic bombs or energy?
Their purpose is humanitarian.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

They will greatly enrich the field of
scientific and medical research by
adding at least 100 new radioactive
isotopes to the more than 500 al
ready produced.
It is the beginning of new phase
Of nuclear development, he said.
Next step is to create machines that
develop such high energies that
man will be able to create matter
out of energy, thus reversing the
process of the atom bomb which
turns matter into energy.
Apparently the prospects for en-.
tering this next energy region are
good. Thus we may look forward to
even more amazing developments
in the fields Of nuclear science" DR.,
Seaborg predicted.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

abroad, the nation should have its
secretary of defense in Office and
functioning. The conditions, which
he did not specify, probably were the
current unrest in Trieste and the
u. S.-Russian stalemate in the
United Nations, topped off by Sec
retary of State Marshall's challeng-
ing speech before the general as
sembly.
Now presiding over the unified
army, navy and air forces, Forres-
tai is the armed forces only repre-
sentative on the Presidents cabinet.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

gram of aid to
western Europe
envisioned in the
M arshall plan.
Part of the coun-
try seems unsym-
pathetic, or at
least Indifferent,
toward the effort
to win the fcold
w a r. a G a in S I
Russia with pure
ly e C o n o m j C
weapons, because
it means sacri-
fees on the part
of the American
~:A:- cR
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
PRICE BATTLE:
Exports Cut

Secretary of Agriculture Clinton
P. Anderson had a "Horatio at the
bridge" air about him as he an
nounced that the government had
made drastic cut-back of grain and
flour ALLEGATIONS for export in No.
vember.
, The move generally was account
ed as another noble stand against
the forces which are causing domes-
tic food prices to spiral dizzily. This
one, however, had the blessings of
the grain trade as 'a step in the
right direction"
Reducing the export ALLEGATIONS
for November was in line with the
government surprise revision of
the nations 1947 export goal from
some $50 million bushels of grain
down to $50 million.
Tin a significant sidelight, An
dersOn scoffed at the prospect
of returning to rationing by
pointing out that such a pro-
gram could not be put into ef-
feet before the need for it would
be Over.)
Next move, it was limited, would
be an attempt by Secretary Ander-
son to put through sharp reduction
Of total food exports-not just grain
AS the only practical way of pull
ing down prices.
The u. S. state department, how
ever, committed to its "save Eu-
rope" program, no doubt would OBJ
ject vehemently to any such action.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03


ficials In the administration, sup
porters of the Marshall plan in con-
gresS, and few diplomats at home
and abroad, are frightened by this
attitude.
Until recently this correspondent
has been pretty much distressed,
too. But feel better after talking
with certain officials whose names
seldom appear in the news. These
men are not cabinet officers, they
are not diplomats, they are not the
leaders in congress whose faces ap-
pear in the news pictures and whose
adumbrations are quoted in the
daily dispatches. They are just the
men who do the work for which
Uncle Sam ''pays the wage"
They are paid for knowing
about American farms and
American farmers. Their con-
sensus is embodied in the first
line of this dispatch: The Amer
ican farmer is going to lick COM
munism. / believe the farmer
will do it, not because he knows
it will pay him in dollars now,
but because he is going to be
convinced before very long that
it will pay America. The Amer
ican farmer will do it by pro-
viding the food necessary to halt
chaos in Europe just as he
proved the verify of the slogan:
GOOD will win the war;"
The history of Europe since the
war is that every government falls
when the bread ration is reduced.
The men who know tell me that
whatever the total amount in goods
or dollars demanded by the Mar
shall plan, it is safe to say that
two-thirds of it will be for food
either the food commodities them
selves or the dollars with which
to buy them.
American dollars are growing
very scarce in Europe but there
are three things which the Euro
pean purchaser hesitates to quit
buying-grain, coal and fats.
You will notice that France,
when it reduced its imports (as
all European countries are do
ing as their dollars decline)
tried to hold on to her grain,
coal and edible fats as long as
possible.
Even if the Marshall plan were
not put into effect in time to pro-
vide extra dollars, for their grain
purchases, there will be a lag of
some months before the farmer is
touched in his, pocketbook. BY that
time, if nothing is done. the Euro
pean countries starve.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
u. s. Former Will Beot Communism
American Food Can Halt
|Chaos Threatening Europe
By BAUKHAGE
News AnaLyst and Commentator.

WASHINGTON.-The American farmer is going to lick
communism!
That's what your worried capital saying today Ameri-
representatives abroad and at home submitting
report after another which register gains in the Soviet battle
to build Communstc world out of chaos.
reports Belgrade Sofia, from
Budapest showing
police gradually choking little countries
there The
Of
block the efforts of the struggling free
governments n and France.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

q &sS|OAAANoA AoAAJ
in Los Angeles
that If President
Truman had not
jumped the gun in
scr appin 6 price
controls the current
imitation spiral
might have been
delayed a while
longer.
Exactly how Taft
arriv re d at tn a t
rather hazy conclu-
sion was not inme-
Is-11 PTJI-
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

QeIenS6 IOr announcer
week, but Presi-
dent Truman, mani
festly alarmed over
the trend Of world
events, ordered the
former secretary of
the navy to jump
the gun in taking
over his new job.
Mr.. Truman OBJ.
served that in view
of conditio s
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
HELP WANTED-MEN

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Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
Atom After-Effects

( Although the atom bomb explo-
sions in Japan have caused some
sterility among the people, they
have not affected the soil adversely
and may even have brought about
an improvement in the rice crop.
DR.. Shields Warren, Harvard pro-
fessor, recently returned from ia
pan where he studied after-effects Of
the bomb. said that its effects on
human beings may carry into the
third generation, producing freaks.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
SPEED-UP:
FOrrestaI In

James v. Forrestal wasn't due to
be sworn in as U. S. secretary Of