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Evening star., 1947-01-08
HOUSES FOR sALE-southeost.

ATTENTION, Navy Yard employes-At.
tractiye 5-room row house, near 14th and
G sts. Sc; S7.T50; possession at settlement.
AuERBACH & CO, DI. 3131: ewes. AD.
BBgRADBURY HEIGHTs, D. c., sPECIALS7-
rm. sernibungalow; first floor. 5-rm. bum
galow with beautiful tiled bath; second
floor has large bedrooms; new-house con-
dition full basement; convenient location;
S12,500; exceptional terms: vacant. 1130
Chaplin st.. sc. ROBERT MAGEE. re.
AN1HcosTIA, 144s Mimi. aye.-Immed.
heat. garage; suitable for dentist; PRICED
fos quick sale; M, FlIlippo. TR IT, 55s55 Sssd
HMLcREsT Hill Hi CAPE COD BRICK. Start the
new year right in this spacious home. Liv
rm. 24x13, din. rm. 14xl4: paneled den
20x12: large. twin-sized bedrooms; spark
ling kitchen with large breakfast rm.: ]
full bath tpeach tile1: powder room; rec
rm With bar and lavatory; gas heat. ROB-
ERT MAGEE. RE. TAO until 8.
NEAR 18th AND MINI. AVE. S.E.-Rov
brick, rooms and tile bath: rec. room
gas h.-w-h.: sereened-in porch refsr.: poss,
with deed Price $1,000. Mr.. Filtppo
TR. 55S4-5976 HARTMAN REALTY co.
1345 Good Hope road Sc.
CLOSE-IN Sc. LOCATION-This homs
nicely converted into 3 apartments and
showing an excellent revenue as an In
vestnent or income producing home; our
days best value. Call QUICK, DI. 2s3l'
until Q pm.
Evening star., 1947-01-08
HOUSES WANTED TO BUY.

WANT To SELL N A ! HURRY: H{lSGrs5 List sksi y;
f aIs XSp 81 NE: Fl FfRaSFEk14ws as9ak " nm will pa,
= Sssh quick e W sso 81 aSi sH
dHaRIEs 4 it S. i. GUM R9oS Sas clients vaitin.
ana nearby Maryland. FIR: 1905; ,s.
oblisaaion Oh s s9is Wilson blvd. GL. OF
II r PROMPT ATTENTION to the sale Of
PHRIEs, Realtor, s0s North Capitol. Ma
$3.50 Results since 1919. ,..,
OF colored houses in any condition; syil
Rave ayy a cENrs saih gok for or South
properties; white. or colored: equity cash
or ali cash If preferred. Call MI; Glidden,
DE. 0054: day. DI. 3347. MARSHALL j.
We We CAN SELL YOUR HOUSE at its full
value today. Our opinion entails no opli-
Realtors ssiHn fest. 1857. 1919 K st. NV. DI.
IMMEDIATE MI CASH for your property. n e
f,oi% po Yo6 G0xA WA&r c4 srEEpY R ACT AcT1oN LIST
s With p4cs us Nays issh PufsEs w
Sc. AND NE. .PROPERTY-We will nay
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VIZ ! E Will Vii PAY ALL CASH for real nice
sbass in brokers' 3 please Sc gsfe5 ST. 5ss
pay all cash, for 3-bedroom. 2.story brisk brisS
home in silyer Spring s ssss q Bethesda No
DOES UaSEs YonR HiIousE NEED REPAIR. I will
buy it from you. as is, for cash. Mr. Mr.
TAMNMAHo, AiMNHMEAsT I'M TA sMaIa IaIa me- or nearby Nd.
WaN4 VANS BRfck HH 1910 aomE Bethesda vicinity;
must must have bedrooms, fireplace and sa-
mlS sEkyISS EMF1oYI sas5 needs
MaeArthur Mac blvd. cali II. 1907. ,-l2
CASH BUYER for small or large home In IN
Ma5yand snalng lots su0gsss Wx siss iRs condition
prsalsss af5jfd MUsh22 s Co. iass 1ho s
WANTED VA 1T2o' DIRECT FROM OWNER, 8 Or 4
bsdrm hqms ans an w pay ssar al cash. no brokers
ern N home with . bedrms. and bath down,
3 bedrms up, or bungalow with finished
attic: in nearby Nd. Call 81. o125 eyes.
.s1Ss .In 6 Ssssa proRsas' ssd is
Goth st. NV, DU. 6023. Backed by 35 yrs.
of dignifed, eficient real estate practice.
HOUSES WANTED, GEORGETOWN. Foxhall,
Burleith, Glover Park; free appraisal,
EDWIN L. ELLIS, Realtor = can. sell
your house if priced right. Prefer places
suitable for renting rooms. Any size.
1910 Vermont ave. Room 217, RE. 5I40.
NEWCOMER to Silver Spring will pay all
cash for good BUNGALOW or 6-room house.
S415 Ga ave, Silver Spring. Nd Ill
GOLDSTEN BROS. CAN SELL your house at
full value; free appraisals. Call RE. 1888:
ewes, GE $3.50. 1929 L st. NV. Real
estate in all its branches. Ia
Evening star., 1947-01-08
SUBURBAN sAls-MARYLAhp

OVER D. C. LINE-Custom-built, 6-yr -old
tapestry brick containing rooms, 2 baths.
g kitchens); splendid condition; superior
construction; large lot; garage: oil h.-w.h
Most unusual terms: 75I first trust.
Prompt OCCUPANCY. ROBERT MAGEE, RE.
DUpCH bur H. COLONIAL, s1e.g5o-see this
beautiful. new brick and ciapboard home
today: exceptionally 1se. Iiv. rm with
frepl. that = leads onto 10x20-N; side
also powder rm. on first hoor; 8 generous,
size bedrms. with lovely tile bath: fuii
sar-: situated on nice level lot 70xI60 IT,:
near Sligo pkwy., In Silver Sprins; cony. TO
transp.. schools. churches and shopglng;
81 900 cash, balance easy. SUBURBAN
INVESTMENT O. INSURANCE CO.. SH.
a44Q: eYes.. aH. 2354. -
Evening star., 1947-01-08
HOUSES FOR sALE-southwest.

VACANT, near 9th and SITS. s.w.-Semi-
det., 6 rms. and bath, h.-w.h.. coal; $7.450.
A. M. ROTH. Woodward Bldg, MA. 1896.
NEAR 10th AND G SITS. S.W.-Row brick
of rms. and bath; oil heat. detached
garage; nice yard; real cal, bargain at
Bldg. MA. 1884, ewes. Or. 3703. g.
each containing 3 rms, kitchen and bath
Mr.. watkins, MURRAY CO., Ma 1896
CoLoRED-oNLY $500 DOWN. 3a2 N st.
s.w.-5-rm. brick home, modern and up
S-ROOM CORNER FRAME with bricktex
siding, good condition. Arcola heat: ga
rage; immediate possession: near 1th ana M
1888 ewes, GE. $3.50. GOGDSTEN
RROS 1929 l. St NV, -l3
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
TORNADO WINDS
PASS OVER TAMPA
Three Houses Knocked
Down In Seffner Suburb.
Lamps Upset

TAMPA, Fla, Sept. 22-U.D-
A small tornado jumped across
Hillsboro county tonight causing
damage in two suburbs of Tam
pa but state police said no in
juries nor fatalities had been
reported.
Three houses were knocked
down in the Seffner suburb, &C
cording to police, trees were
uprooted over a four block area
in the North Seminole Heights
area.
Residents of the section said
the tornado came very suddenly
and acted in a freakish manner.
Mrs. H. R. budding whose
house was slightly damaged,
said the whirling wind whipped
two lamps off a table and set
them down on the floor without
breaking them.
Rugs were rolled up by the
winds in another house and a
swing was blown out of the
front yard of another home.
The Tampa Weather Bureau
said the tornado was part of
the unsettled condition. pre-
ceding the storm which is ex-
pected to hit the coast between
Fort Myers and Tampa about
midnight EST.
Heavy rains and winds of
from 80 to 40 miles per hour
followed the tornado.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
LAST DUEL ON THE CAP

LAST DUEL ON THE CAPE
FEAR - The true story Of the
last duel fought in this section
reached this column today
through the courtesy Of Mr.. c.
C. Chadbourn of Ais S. Front
street. The duel was fought
with cowhides and proved to be
a thrilling affair in which a
short man, who was long on
courage and fast on his feet,
whipped his large opponent to
the point of submission. In the
words Of the contributor, the af-
fair is pictured as follows:
"Today there are few, if any,
survivors of either participant
duel took place way back
in the dim and distant past,
and as the circumstances are
known probably to only two
people now living, the sensible
ties of no one can be offended
by releasing the story at this
time.
"Both participants have long
since gone whittier there is no
duelling. The present genera
ton has to spend too much time
dialing even to talk about duel
ling. AS so often happened in
duels of that time, honor was
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
Along The Cape Fear

satisfied and both parties to the
duel lived to a ripe old age and
died a natural death in bed.
DAVID AND GOLIATH Sc
QUENCE - Zone of the parties
to the conflict was an under
sized gentleman with little
avoirdupois but with plenty of
courage; the other was a fine
looking six footer. The cause of
the duel was an alleged insult
to a lady friend, really a pro-
tege of the small sized citizen.
"The other gentleman, con-
trary to expectation, refused to
apologize and told his ad-
versary he was willing to fight
about it. This was virtually a
challenge and gave the little
man the right to the choice of
weapons. He chose what was
known. in those days as cow
hides. The choice was accepted
and each man provided himself
with a brand new cowhide.
"With seconds, but no doc
tors, they went to the west side
of the Cape Fear river. Nearly
100 years before that one of the
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
Retail Food Prices Soar
Here After Wee Declines
Items Among Staples,
Hit All-Time High AT
Local Markets
By BERNICE JENKINS
Star Staff Writer

Retail prices of food staples,
meat. eggs and butter-the pric-
es which hit the shopper direct
ly in the Observation-Disclosures
up again in Wilmington yester-
day following a weekend of spe-
Gals and super specials on
those items at many local mar
kets.
A survey Of large retail out
lets, including two large chain
supermarkets and two important
home-owned stores, yeasterday
revealed that prices on several
of the important food items
have actually hit all-time highs
at this writing.
W. W. Guyton, operator of
Guyton's Food store at 5O2 Cas-
tie street, had a solution to the
problem of skyrocketing prices
when approached yesterday.
The groceryman, who declared
that his meat and butter prices
were at cost and actually below
during the weekend on a few
items had the answer in one
word: "production."
produce more meat, more
eggs, more butter and more
grains," he said, land flood the
See FOOD on Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
East Coast Areas
On Alert Warning
Weather Bureau Advisory
Says Blow May Increase
In Intensity

MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 22-N.D-
Florida braced its weary
weather defenses for another
tropical storm due to strike the
Tampa-Ft. Myers area tonight
with so to 60-mile-an-hour winds
not a hurricane but strong
enough to play havoc with the
already battered citrus crop.
The Miami Weather Bureau
added a grim note to its re-
ports on the new blow by warn
ing that after it crosses into
the Atlantic near Jacksonville
tomorrow morning cit may in
crease in intensity"
This might mean a dangerous
blow for Atlantic coast resi-
dents who were mineful that
last weeks hurricane was only
half through when it crossed
Florida and then went on to
blast the Gulf coast states with
even greater fury.
The entire Florida peninsula
was put under alert, from &C.
dar Keys on the West coast
Southwark and the entire East
coast northward to Fernandina.
just short of the Georgia line.
2.20 Advisory
At $3.50 pm. EST the Wealth
er Bureau located the storm
center 60 miles West Southwest
of Fort Myers, Fla. 1t was nov.
ing Northeastward at an in
creased rate of speed-up to 10
miles per hour. Strongest winds
were so to so miles an hour.
The Weather Bureau said it was
expected to reach the coast be-
tween Fort Myers and Tampa
about midnight EST and cross
the peninsula, moving IN a
Northeasterly course. It was
expected to reach the Atlantic
in the vicinity of Daytona
Beach.
'It is emphasized that this
storm is not of hurricane force
and there is little chance of it
See COAST On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
MURDER, ROMANCE
ON RIVER BRIDGE
Span Over Savannah Scene
OF Wedding, Brutal
Bride Staying

SAVANNAH, Ca, Sept. 12-
U.D-The Savannah river was a
rendezvous today for 'ove and
marriage at one bridge and for
jealousy, murder and suicide at
another.
Near Anderson, SC. on the
Upper river, 19-year-old VIII
liam Houpt and Beverly Wild
man, II, both of Atlanta. want
ed to get married and had gone
to South Carolina for the cere-
mony. But Rev. E. C. White
explained that a new state law
required a 24-hour wait.
But the preacher suggested
that the couple get a license in
Georgia and he would marry
them on the Savannah river
bridge, he standing in South
Carolina while the bride and
groom stood a few feet away
in Georgia. The ceremony thus
was performed.
Murder AT Bridge
In Savannah, Army Capt.
John e. Curtis remarked his
divorced wife, Mona Lee. While
they had been separated, Mrs
Curtis kept company with Den
mis- j. Counihan of the Chatham
county police homicide squad.
Hearing of the marriage the
jealousy-crazed Counihan am
pushed the couple as they left
town for Wisconsin-at the Sa-
vannah river bridge just North
of the city.
When they drove up he stop
ped them, pulled Mrs. Curtis
from the car. snatched a purple
wedding orchid from her coat
and fired four shots into her
body. Counihan then killed HIM
self, fellow officers said. Curtis
and the couples two-year-old
son were witnesses of the muir
der-suicide,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
Gray Squirrel With Jag,
Runs P0Stman To Cover

WILMETTE, ILL.,, Sept. % -
U.D-A little gray squirrel per-
haps intoxicated, delayed the
US. mails today.
Mailman Anthony Hermes,
was making his rounds when
the squirrel tried to climb up
his trousers. Hermes swung
with his mailbag and slapped
at the squirrel. But the squirrel
returned after each brushoff.
Hermes ran into an alley and
crossed a lot, the squirrel after
him. He ran into a bowling al
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
Fifteen Women Selected
For JuryD Duty In County
Commissioners Appoint
Capt. Kirby Daniels Home
Superintendent
BY GEORGE KNUDSON
Star Staff Writer

Approval of a jury list includ-
ing the names of Is women,
denial of the American Legion's
request for the use OF Legion
stadium for the annual Legion
circus, appointment of Capt.
Kirby Daniels as Superintend-
ent of the county farm and the
county home, and referral to
the board of education of a
complaint against the proposed
Tenth street truck route past
the Williston Industrial school,
highlighted the regular meeting
Of the New Hanover county
board of commissioners yester-
day.
The names of SIX women
were drawn among those Sc
lected for jury duty during the
week civil term of Superior
Court, beginning October 6, and
the names Of nine more women
were included among the jurors
for the week of October 10.
The first six women to be
See WOMEN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
ONE STORE STILL
HASPREWAR TAGS
Shamokin, Pennsylvania
Butcher Sells Sirloin
Steak At 80 Gents

sHAMOKIN, Pa, SEPT. r.
R-At least one store IS still Of
fering meat at prewar prices and
sometimes cheaper.
It's a small establishment in
the main business section opera
ted by 49-year-old, 250-pound
Dick Rickert.
Advertising regularly, he Of
fers such bargains as sirloin
steak at 80 cents a pound, chuck
roast at 80, bacon at 48 and ON
one occasion at 1east-lamb chops
at IA 10.
And the bargains draw a
steady stream Of customers to
the little shop where Rickert
waits on all of them himself.
The merchant explains he
doesn't buy the "best grades" OF
meat. His goods, he says, are
wholesome" but fall into the
lover classification such as "util-
ity' and commercial". And he
looks for bargains himself and
cuts his meat economically.
I'm doing this to keep my
customers" declared Rickert.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
President Hears
Committee Report
Recommendations OF Cabf
net Group Will Be Kept
Secret For Time

WASHINGTON, Sept % -tn-
President Truman, faced with
pleas for emergency aid for Eu.
rope and with soaring prices at
home, will make a statement ON
world food problems Gin a few
days." the White House disclos.
ed today.
The announcement, was made
by Eben Ayers, a White House
press secretary, after a cabinet
food committee gave the Presi.
dent its recommendations ON
what to do about helping tho
hungry abroad.
The recommendations were
kept secret for the time being.
Ayers said the President will
study them and then make his
decision.
The cabinet committees talk
with the President was one Of
a series of foreign policy con-
ferences held as is European ma.
tons asked $780, OO, 900 in U.
S. aid for a four-year recovery
program based on the Marshall
Plan.
1t conceded, too, with British
support and Yugoslavian critic
cism of the United States in tho
United Nations General Assem-
bly, at New York.
Hector Mcneil for Britain
praised the Marshall Plan but
Yugoslav Foreign Minister STAN
ole Simie in his speech that tha
United States is trying to isolate
Russia and her Eastern European
followers behind "a dollar cur
tain"
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson, talking to reporters
after the food committee saw
Mr.. Truman. said there was no
discussion during that confer
ence of calling a special session
of Congress to act on emer-
gency needs of Western Europe.
However, there remained the
possibility that the subject came
up in other conferences Mr.. Tru-
See PRESIDENT on Pare Seven
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
AMERICANS LOSE
LIVES IN FLOOD
Army Men Report
Deaths OF Four Enlist
ed Men AT Tokyo

TOKYO, Sept. % -tR-U. S.
Eighth Army intelligence re-
ported today that four Ameri-
can enlisted men were killed in
motor accidents attributable to
the Japanese flood, two others
were missing, and three officers
we're injured.
Names of two of the dead
have been announced. They
were Pvts. Allen P. Hampton of
Lego, W. Va, and Billie Horton
of Mt. Vernon, ILL.,, who were
drowned Wednesday. Other
names were withheld pending
notification of relatives.
The officers were identified as
Maj. Andrew R. Cheek of Stock
dale, Tex, Capt. S. A. Fred
man of Los Angeles, and First
1t. Robert Buchanan of Chicago,
all injured slightly while on
flood duty.
Death Toll 1000
Japanese deaths have been I'M
Soo AMERICANS IN Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
ARMY ROBOT SHIP
FLIES ATLANTIC
Mechanical Pilot Computes
Distance, Winds, Lands
Perfectly

LONDON, Sept. %. - R -
Col. James M. Gillespie and q
crew of II fliers and observers
sat by with absolutely nothing
to do" as a U. S. Army robot
plane under his command COM
pleted a historic, 2,400-mile
flight across the Atlantic today
- a flight directed by a mechani-
cal brain.
eve just pushed a button in
the transport at Stephenville,
Newfoundland, took off and
landed here at Brize Norton" a
Royal Air Force base in Oxford
shire, Gillespie said in an inter-
view.
"The brain did all the work"
Over Brize Norton the brain
dropped the C-54 Skymaster's
landing gear and flaps and msde
a perfect landing. Not a hand
touched the controls in the flight
from Sis p. m. eastern STAN
dard Time) Monday to the time
of the landing at $40 a.. m.
(EST) today.
The brain, on which the flight
division at Wright Field, Day.
ton, Ohio, has been working for
See ROBOT On Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
FIRST FALL DAY
TO BRING FROST
Nations Vital Corn Crop
Menaced As Gold Snaps /
Sweep West
BY The Associated Press

The nations vital corn crop,
already slashed to the lowest
production level in II years by
weather vagaries, faced its first
frost danger of the season last
night and a new tropical storm
moved toward Florida.
The Weather Bureau forecast
that the arrival of fall Tuesday
would be marked by light to
heavy early morning frosts in
Wisconsin, upper and lower
and the important
corn belt sections of Northern
Illinois, Northern Indiana and
Eastern Iowa.
However,, a rapid return IL
near normal temperatures was
in prospect for the corn belt.
A cold wet spring, floods lata
summer drought and heat have
cut deeply into production pro-
spects. The Agriculture Depart-
ment reported that az of Sep
TENDER IL only about half tha
crop was safe from daraag2 ky
killing frost.
The seasons coldes. weather.
moved across the Northern
plains states, the Grea, Lakes
region, and the upper Missis-
sippi valley and Ohio valleys
Sunday night and Monday
Frost was widespread Monday
morning in Northern Wisconsin,
and North Dakota
with freezing temperatures re-
corded in Northern Iowa.
Warmer weather developed
in the Rockies and rain fell
Monday in most Atlantic states
from the Carolinas Northward
Normal temperatures and clear
weather prevailed on the West
coast.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
BATTLE OF WORDS
ENLIVENS SESSION
Western Powers
Continue Charges AT UN
Assembly Meeting

NEW YORK, Sept. %. -R)-
The battle between Russia and
the Western powers ragged hot
end heavy in the United Nations
today. Each side accused the 9TH
CT of imperiling the very exist
ence of the United Nations and
promoting the danger of war.
British Minister of State Hector
Mcneil told the 55-nation Gener-
a! Assembly that if Russia con-
tinues her present world policies
the organization will be destroy
ed and "the unstable peace of the
world will crumble and crash"
with "hideous consequences"
Foreign Minister Stanoje Sim
ic of the Communist government
of Yugoslavia declared the United
States had been following policies
lin conflict with" the United Ma
tons charter. These, he sal l,
have "sharpened international
relations and point to a
growing danger of a new con-
flagration." ....
Simic assailed the Marshall
Plan for European recovery as q
device to raise a dollar curtain
across Europe, isolate the ma
tons Of Eastern Europe and
create an American = dominated
western bloc"
More Accusations
Still another round of accusa-
tons was fired at the Western
nations by Dmitri Manuilsky,
foreign minister of the Soviet
Ukraine and fiery "old Bolshe-
vik." He renewed the Soviet
charge of "warmongering" in the
United States, which Russian
Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei
Vishinsky set off on the assem-
bly, floor last week.
Manuilsky charged that the
See BATTLE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
Publisher Of Indi?.
State Department
On Reports

New YORK., Sept %. -
tl.g - Eugene c. Pulliam,
editor and publisher Of the
Indianapolis Star, charged
tonight "that it is common
knowledge in the State De-
nartment" that when Henry
Wallace visited Russia in
,a45 he ordered his staff to
suppress all reports infavor-
able to that country.
"Tne orders to the staff
were that no matter what
they saw of concentration
camps or suppression Of free
dom they were not to be
revealed if unfavorable to
Russia" Pulliam said.
The publisher, who return
ed Yesterday from a tour of
20 countries in Europe and
the Near East, said the "time
has come when President
Truman and Secretary of
State Marshall should tell
the American people what
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
FEAR OF TYPHOID
HITS GULF CITIES
Four Immunization Stations
Set Up AT New Orleans;
Sanitation Bad
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 22-U.H

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 22-U.D
- Four immunization stations
were set up here today as authori-
ties feared an outbreak of ty-
phoid as an aftermath of the
hurricane and special DOT crews
began spraying the stricken
areas along the Mississippi Gulf
coast to keep down disease.
Every resident of the flooded
Metairie area in adjoining Jeffer-
son parish was urged to take
immunization shots. Sewage
bubbling from manholes turned
the waters covering the area into
rank poison.
Mayor Francis Hursey of Pass
Christian, Miss, said carcasses
OF livestock, swine, poultry and
dogs and cats killed in the hurri-
cane were decaying and were
posing an immense sanitation
problem. Food at home all along
the coast was spelling in non
cooled refrigerators and it was
See TYPHOID On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
TOBACCO PRICES
WAIVER ON MARTS
Middle Belt Leaf Brings
Good Returns; Eastern
Stronger, Border Weak
BY The Associated Press

Gains of from 81 to So per
100 pounds were recorded on
Middle Belt tobacco markets yes
terday while prices were steady
to slightly stronger on the
Eastern Belt, the Federal and
State Department of Agriculture
reported.
Demand was considerably
weaker" on Border Belt marts
and a larger majority of grades
were off from 81 to S. for last
Fridays prices.
On the Middle Belt, most leaf,
smoking leaf and cutters ad-
vanced from 81 to SO while Tugs,
primings and nondescript were
$50 to So recorded. Fair orange
leaf at $45, fair orange smok-
ing leaf at $51 and fair lemon
Tugs at SAT were up SO, and good
lemon leaf at $55, fine orange
smoking leaf at $58, low orange
cutters at $57, and low orange
primings at $25 advanced So.
Fair lemon primings dropped So
to $44.
Bulk of the Middle Belt offer
ings consisted of common to
good leaf, fair to fine Tugs and
low to good primings.
Wide Less Range
Fair orange Tugs, which drop
ped Sc to $36, led the Border
Belt declines while losses of SIS
were felt by good orange smok-
ing lead at $50. and fair orange
smoking leaf at $45. Best thin
nondescript dropped 81 to $12
See TOBACCO On Page Two