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Evening star., 1947-11-20
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO, Nov. 20 R1 sDA).-salable
and and uneven strong to S5 cents; mostly 5:
25 cents higher on all weights butchers;
sows scarce, fully % cents higher; top.
25 90 paid freely: bulk good and choice
17O-2SO pound butchers. 24.75-25. 90: good
16O-pound weights, 24.50; most good and
choice 3OO-5O0 pound sows, 23:e0-24.25
complete early clearance.
Salable cattle, 5000; total $500; sal
able calves, 700; total, ZOO; slaughter
steers and heifers very slow; few loads
choice kinds about steady. but rank and
flle medium to low choice offerings weak to
50 cents lower than Wednesdays close. OF
so to 90 under early that day: beef COWS GOV!
steady to weak: canners and cutters iully
steady; bulls $3.50 lower; load strictly
topped at 1925; several loads low-choice
1,00O-1 $50 pound weights, 30.00-3l 90;
good grade short-fed steers, 24.00-28OQ
common and medium kinds, 17.O0-23. 90;
load choice 941.pound fed heifers. q 90;
medium and good beef cows, Is .O0-20.O 90:
Gamers and cutters, 10 .00-13; 90; =. good
weighty sausage bulls, 1905 vealers Steady
to so lower at 27.00 down.
slaughter classes slow; no fat lambs sold
er. but asking was steady; 2275 bid for
good and choice wooled lambs held at %. 10
and above; no early action on other slaugh-
ter classes; load medium 52-pound feeder
lambs, 1900.
Evening star., 1947-11-20
Washington Exchunqe

AFTER CALL.
Capital Transit Co.-10 at 15b. l at
15l2.
Washington Gas S4.25 preferred-3 at
100.
Evening star., 1947-11-20
Emsco Derrick e. Equipment Co

Emsco Derrick e. Equipment Co.
earned S82O,249 or $2.15 in nine
months ended September 80 VS..
$375,375 or 81 a year earlier.
King g-Seeley Corp. profit for three
months ended october 81 was $751;
745 or IS cents VS.. $159,921 or SO
cents in the same 1916 period.
Continental Oil Co. elected Leon
ard F. McCollum president. He has
been co-ordinator of producing &C
tivities for Standard Oil Co. New
Jersey. He succeeds Dan j. Nor
gan, who retired.
Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey
appointed John w. Brice co-ordi-
nator Of producing activities to sue
ceed L. F. McCollum, who resigned.
Evening star., 1947-11-20
Stock Prices Stiffen
AS Union Pacific
Plans Stock Split
By Victor Eubonk
Associated Press Financial Writer

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-Another
big batch of good corporate news
buoyed individual stocks in today
market but failed to spur a number
of other issues concerned.
Mixed tendencies ruled from the
opening on. Prices hardened
around midday when Union Pacific
announced a planned splitup of the
common and preferred and voted an
increased disbursement. Slowdowns
were frequent but plus signs held
the majority near the fourth hour.
Belief that the list would pay
more attention to heartening busi-
ness developments inspired some
buying. Bidding for an extension
of the recent technical recovery was
factor. Many customers stood
aside, however, to await more light
on taxes, European relief and con-
gressional economic moves.
Union Pacific jumped about 9
points to 1947 high before meeting
offerings. international Business
Machines added some IL points to
its sharp weeks advance in reflec-
ton of a splitup program.
Evening star., 1947-11-20

Hourly Sales on The EAehanfe Today:
II 100 an 200 600 1900 noon 800 ooc
100 p.m.- $50 COO 2:u0 D.m. $50 ooo
tUnit Of trading, 10 snarea. sIn bank.
ruptcy or receiyership, oi being reorganixed
under the Bankruptcy Act, or securities
ae5umed by such companiss. Rates Of
disbursements based on the last quarterly
or semiannual declaration. Unless other
wise noted. special OF extra dividends ars
q Also extra or extras. Plus stock divi.
dend. d Cash or stock: Paid last year.
PAYABLE In stock. g Declared or paid %
stock dividend or stock split-up. Aecum.
ulated dividends Daid or declared thz year
Evening star., 1947-11-20
New York Produce

554: frm wv Wholesale s s0 prices fs on bulk car: car.
tons, creamery. hisher than 92 score and
premium marks tAAl, So cents; 90 score
7Ola. New tubs usually command "a cent
| q pound over the bulk carton price)
Cheese, 319,113; steady, prices un-
| changed
Egg+Market Arm: receipts, 1896
cases. Spot quotations follow (based on
wholesale sales by receivers to jobbers and
large retailers. Mixed colors: Extra
fancy, heavyweights, 81 -63; extras, ] and
large, $3.50; 81 Gad,Su sasFs lsrss. Ss,ss'
45-47; checks, 1914.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Parking At Meters

On the whole meter parking in Will
mington is working out pretty we'll.
But there is one requirement in the
traffic ordinance that is too widely
overlooked, with resultant distress for
potential parkers.
The requirement is that cars shall
be so parked that the headlights are
opposite the meter. When this is OBJ
served a driver turning into meter
space ahead or behind a parked car
has ample room to park easily.
But when headlights of a parked car
are several feet ahead of the meter,
Or behind it, nc a can get into the
open space without locking bumpers
or scraping tenders, which is never a
pleasant experience, and sometimes
proves costly both to dispositions and
pocketbooks.
1t may be that most offenders do
not know the traffic ordinance. On the
chance that this is the case it might
bring improvement in the situation if
the police on their rounds kept an eye
out for wrongly parked cars and left
a note under the windshield wiper call
ing the drivers attention to the law.
That ought to be enough. Surely
no reasonable motorist would have to
have a second notice. But in case some
person parked incorrectly through in
difference, the police could keep a rec
ord of licenses and on a second offense
word the notice a bit stronger. A third
offense naturally should be handled by
the court.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
On The Job

The hope of the world lies in the
American government - and the
American private enterprise system
which underlies it. AS our international
commitments grow, more and more
peoples in nations which bore the full
physical brunt Of war look to us for
succor.
Already, American industry has
brought new vistas of prosperity and
progress to remote parts of the world.
The work of the Arabian-American
Oil Company in Saudi Arabia is a dra-
matte example of this. The company is
financed and operated by a group of
four United States oil companies. 1t is
pouring gigantic sums the total
may run as high as $500, 600, 900 -
into Saudi Arabia to develop hitherto
untouched oil resources that are there.
In the process, it has brought modern
medicine to the peoples of the region
1t has started great agricultural expert
ment projects. It has built villages and
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Editorial Comment
ALBION'SLIyELY GHOST

Britain's outlook is somehow a degree
brighter after the family ghost of Sir Anthony
Doughty = Tichborne (motto: Pro Pugna Pa
trial was laid again.
In A. D. 1850, a Lady Tichborne decreed on
her deathbed that Annunciation day must
never pass without a gift of Tichborne flour
to each inhabitant Of Alresford in Hants. In
A. D. 1896 the distribution was missed and
the curse came to pass. The house fell, a
generation of seven sons was followed by one
of. seven daughters, the proud name died,
to be restored only by decree of His Britannia
Majesty.
In A.. D. 1947 flour is rationed, and the rule
is in socialist hands. The Food Ministry could
not possibly defer to the Tichborne Curse:
Extra rations denied. But, in prudent time,
the bureaucrat relented: Applications grant
ed.
Reading that, one remembers how socialist
coal-diggers almost took up arms against I'M
dermining an ancient castle. One remembers
that the British memory of dignity and free
dom is as vivid as the American, and many
times longer and much harder tested. Tradi-
ton. some say, is silly. Tradition is also the
refractory stuff that carries a people through
fires of adversely.
Britain cannot come unscorched through the
present fires, or with its imperial append
ages. But as to Albion herself, there are things
like the Tichborne Curse, and there's a war
ditty: ''There'n Always Be An England -
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
It May Be Bunk, But

Some years ago Maude Adams and
Otis Skinner took out a road company
in 1.-The Merchant of Venice" Without
disrespect for the lady it is only fair to
sar that MI. Skinner stole the show.
His Shylock was a thing to remem-
Der a lifetime. Miss Adams gave a
reading of Portia that impressed those
in her audiences who recalled Ada
'Rehan in the part with the thought
that she was making a frivolous wom-
an, subject to whim and fancy, of the
great feminine advocate in the court
scene.
The pound of flesh - that was the
bargain. But the drop of blood came
only as an after thought. The cunning
of the defense was lost.
But this was not intended as a dra-
matte criticism. The purpose is to note
the comment Of a spectator. "Wasn't
that dialogue" he remarked, "the
bunk?" The only answer, by present
standards, is Yes.
All Shakespeare is the bunk, as we
measure the English speech. The only
question is whether we of this slangy
generation have not thrown away ONE
thing of great value.
1t is not necessary to speak as
Shakespeare wrote. In fact we have
learned to say things with greater d.
r~ectness in the intervening centuries.
But we may well doubt if we have also
learned to say things as we'll.
This started when two high school
boys, and juniors at that, stopped at
a store window and, pointing to socks
on display, one remarked "Them's
them" Shapespeare never wrote any
thing quite so direct. At the same time
he never wrote anything quite SO faulty.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01

good roads. Thus, with free enterprise
at the helm, social progress and eco
nomic development 20 hand in hand -
PRECISELY as they have always done here
at home.
In the coming years American in
dustry in many fields will carry on
work of this nature. The techniques
developed in the new world will be ap-
piled to the resources - and the re-
habilitation - of the old. Millions of
people, who know little of American
ideals of liberty, will see the superiority
of the free enterprise system over the
t%otalitarian system - regardless of
what it wears. The American oil in
dustry is a product of free opportunity
upon which our nation was built.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Lewis Smiles Beatifically

1t is not difficult to picture the
beatific smile with which John l..
Lewis ordered this six-day layoff for
miners.
It was April 1 on which he proposed
to call a mine strike. Prevented by the
Supreme Courts ruling on the fines i'm
posed by Judge Goldsborough in Wash
ington against him personally and the
mine union he heads, the catastrophe
at the Centralia, Illinois, mine provid-
ed the chance he needed to order a
mourning period for the victims.
And so he gets his strike after all.
Not, to be sure, on the scale he had in
mind, as only three days production
will be affected, but it puts him on a
pedestal of sorts and that is what he
covets most, especially after the hui
initiation he was subjected to in the
courts.
AS it happens, the suspension of
mining may not seriously affect in
dustry, although United States Steel
may have to bank fires in eight blast
furnaces and close down some four
thousand beehive ovens.
The greatest loss will fall upon the
miners themselves, whose wages cease
while they are idle. Apparently Lewis
would rather mourn the Centralia dead
than keep payrolls in action.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01

St. Nicholas, and the older ones
St. Catharine of Alexandria.
From these simple beginnings
rose the mystery and miracle
plays which, in the latter part of
the 18th century, during all of the
18th and the greater part of the
18th, e so closely bound to the
Church.
Although religious plays were
at first given within the church
walls, they began at a very early
date to be given outside the build
ing itself, usually on scaffolds set
up nearby. They became COM
p%letely independent of the service
and grew more a d more popu-
lar. The good people of England
flocked to see them, weeping at
their pathos or shouting with
laughter at their comedy which,
losing its earlier, gentler humor,
became boisterous and worldly.
One of the favorite comic charac-
ters was Noah's wife, who made
all sorts of difficulties about en-.
tering the ark.
Some of the religious plays
were performed at the time of the
great church festivals, especially
the feast of Corpus Christi, which
was first held in 1864. A magnifi-
cent procession celebrated Corpus
Christi, with the different guilds
of craftsmen vying with each
other to make the finest showing.
Soon stages set up on Wheels-We
would call them floats today
were introduced in the procession,
and each float represented a
scene from the story of the Bible.
Presently, at different points
along the path of the procession,
it became h custom for each
float to stop. Each group would
act out the scene it represented,
then move along to the next stop
ping point, and act it out again
before a new audience. On tn e
first float might be a little play
telling the story OF creation. On
the second, the subject of the
play might be Adam and Eve.
In this way, a whole series or
cycle Of plays grew up. O often
four days or more were needed
to give the entire performance.
BY the 18th century, this pro
cessional drama had become fully
developed in England. But the
early manuscripts have been lost.
BY the 18th century, the number
of religious plays that had been
written was fairly large. The
earliest purely English play
known to us is probably one
dating from the 18th century,
telling the story of Jacob and
Esau. The four great cycles +
plays that have survived from
the 18th and 18th centuries are
the Coventry plays, h e Chester
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Draft Knell Sounded

For six years and more the flower of
American manhood has been subject to
draft call. Because an Austrian sign
painter madly set out to conquer the
world the United States was forced to
interrupt it's peaceful activities and de-
vote itself to War-such a war as had
never been fought before and which the
world could not hope to survive should
it be renewed with the terrible weapons,
including the atomic bomb, which are
the direct result of that farflung battle.
Now the young men of the nation
and their troubled parents may awaken
in the morning without dread that draft
boards will issue calls for more troops.
The draft law died at midnight last
night.
Even in the present uncertain situa-
ton the nations find themselves, it is
not deemed necessary to hold the threat
of being summoned to the colors over
the heads of the boys cAout to gradu-
ate from high school or those others
who have found employment.
There is a continuing need for troops,
especially as requirements for soldiers in
occupied zones, and to maintain the
regular Army at it's designated strength.
There is a continuing need for filters in
the Air Forces, for men in the Navy
the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard.
But with fine faith in the loyalty of
young men and with adequate exploita-
ton of the advantages volunteers may
enjoy in the armed services it is believ-
ed that recruitment can be kept up to
the necessary level.
Enlistments are not what they used
to be, when the whole thought at Wash
ington was to get youngsters. into uni
form and drill them in the manuel of
arms and group maneuvers. Enlistments
now afford opportunities many eligibles
could not otherwise enjoy. Chance is
given to perfect oneself in the trade or
skill for which the recruit is best
fitted by nature.
With the business community and
the nations industry disturbed by re-
adjustments still to be completed, it is
doubtful if many of our younger gen
Grafton could find better or more con-
genial employment than in the armed
services while, at the same time, they
acquired aptitudes that would enable
them to take an even better position
in the community once they complete
their tours of duty.
1t would be we'll for the men eligible
for service in the armed forces to
weigh carefully to changes that would
c,me to them once they enlisted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Star Dust
Mail Order Time

When the back OF winter is
broken and time is climbing up
hill to spring, the bis bulky sum
mer mail order catalogs arrived
on the farm. They always sent TWO
or three SO the whole family could
work at once on the lists for the
| spring order. Father and Mother
had been keeping a list as they
thought of things needed. Father
always added a box or two of the
chocolate Seconds and a five
pound box of the hard sugar can,
dies. To q 14-year older it always
seemed as though his sisters had
to indulge in an unnecessary
amount of giggling and whispering
as they looked over the fashions.
But the boy had real problems.
His desires and imperative needs
never balanced with the amount
of available contemporary re
sources. He needed a new fishing
rod and one of the ~new-fangled
reels; he needed a four e bladed
knife and a pair of those red top
ped leather boots. That book, THE
Unbelievable, Nerve-Tingling Ad'
ventures of a Lone Trasoper in the
Arctic Circle" was absolutely
essential. Boys and girls, men and
women, still make out their lists
when mail order time rolls around.
The heavy catalogs are must"
reading for millions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01


Today's hand from tn e world
championship Masters individual
tournament brings out some good
points in the play of the cards.
The bidding was normal and even
when the dummy went down, de-
clarer did not think the contract
was in danger. But with the de-
Tense he received, he couldn't
make it.
When the king OF hearts held
the first trick, North led the king
of diamonds. His reasoning was
that if he led a low diamond and
d~eclarer held the queen and one,
there still would be an entry into
dummy, and North wanted to kill
that entry, before the club suit
could be established. He also
thought from the bidding that
South should have at least the
queen of diamonds.
Declarer won the king of dia.
monds with dummy's ace, led E
spade and went right up with the
ace, North having marked him.
self with the king by his double.
Now a heart was ruffed in dunn.
my and a diamond ruffed by de.
c%larer, who then attempted tt
ruff It h e third heart. But NORTH
trumped with the ten-spot and
later made the ace of clubs ana
king of trumps, setting the con.
tract.
At another table declarer play.
ed a small club from dummy
after the second heart was ruffed
South put up the ten, West PLAYED
the jock and North let it hold.
West led another club and AGAR
North refused to win, because b,
playing the ten South was start
ing an echo to / his partne,
know where the missing clubs
were. By holding off with the ace
of clubs until the third round
North was able to keep declare,
out of the dummy. This line O.
defense also defeated the con
tract.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Departments
THE ENGLISH MIRACLE
A

The chief form of the English
drama in the Middle Ages W a s
religious in character. Some Of
the plays, called mysteries. dealt
with stories from the Bible;
others. known as miracle plays,
told about the lives of the saints
or about the miracles they
wrought.
The mysteries and miracles had
their beginnings under the auspi-
ces of the Church. Before the
Norman conquest of England,
some of the church services
which were, of course, in Latin
made use OF song and very
r. q action in order to make
ing clear.
,.uest example which we
know was composed around the
year 900. This was performed
during service at Eastertide. Part
of the song was sung by three
friars dressed as women seeking
the tomb of Christ, while another
part was sung by a friar dressed
as an angel guarding the tomb.
After the Norman conquest,
plays based on the lives of the
saints became increasingly pop
ular in the monastery schools,
where the younger pupils honored
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
ALBANY PROTECTS THE T1PPLER

On the last day of its session the New
York State Legislature passed a bill forbid
ding bars to use ''jiggers'' (measuring
glasses) with trick bottoms that make the
customer think he is getting more liquor than
he really is. The legal phrase is that the
glass must not be $50 constructed as to be
deceptive in appearance"
The Albany lawmakers then realized that a
jigger might have an honest bottom and yet
be constructed along slender lines, SO that
what looked like an ounce glass would hold
only "a of an ounce. Accordingly. a provi-
sion was put into the bill specifying that any
liquor measuring glass be it as big as a
bucket-must have a capacity divisible into
exact half-ounces; no shading to 3-8 of an
ounce is legal.-New York Herald Tribune.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
The Doctor Says
FEVER Il
MORE THAN LEGEND
By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M n

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. n
There really is such a thing as
spring fever. Psychologists tell Il,
that it results from the body Shift.
ing from the winter to summer
schedule when warm sun gets in
its relaxing effect.
During the winter months the
body needs extra supplies of high
caloric energy foods to counteract
heat loss and to supply material
for energy expenditure. But when
the first warm days of spring find
us on a cold weather schedule, W.
are uncomfortable as the result.
Your desire for new clothes
lighter in weight and color. is
partly physiologic and partly psy,
chologic. During the switch.
over period, the h~eat-regulat.
ing mechanisms are less efficient
and loss of heat through conduc,
ton to the surrounding at,
mosphere and by evaporation is
difficult unless encouraged by
lighter clothing.
The warm sunny days OF spring
raise body temperature, stimulate
blood flow, and cause relaxation
of muscles. We feel tired as we
try to move about and do our
work.
AS the temperature Of man is
higher than that Of his surround.
ings, there is constant loss of heat
from the surface OF the body.
Overweight persons usually notice
the heat more in the spring than
those of normal or below normal
weights.
There is no reason to watch the
salt and water intake unless one
is engaged in heavy work, but a
little salt in your water on a warm
spring day will help you to over
come that tired feeling.
The average person will also
feel better if he eats more vege.
tables and fruits and less meat,
potatoes, bread, and dessert at
this time of year.
QUESTION: Are spells of heart
palpitation due to a spastic colon?
ANSWER: No. Both the palpi.
tation and spastic colon are the
result of n~eurosis which is an at.
tempt to escape from a disagree
able situation through illness.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Religion
DayByDay
THE CELLAR OF BONES
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS

LIE OGA1f1n VI DOASAo
Not many persons have visited
the Monastery Of st. Katherine,
on Monut Sinai; but nobody who
has done so can ever forget it. One
of the curious sights Of the place
is the ancient cellar wherein the
bones of the dead monks Of cen
turtles ago are kept. They are
stacked like firewood-skulls here.
leg-bones here, arms here, ribs
and small bones here. All individ-
ual identy has been merged
into the common bone-pile.
OF late years, however, the fash
ion has been adopted of keeping
the skeletons of archbishops in.
act-as if there were any differ.
ence in rank among the bones. l
cold see no reason for it; though
there was a whimsical and rather
gruesome reason for keeping IN.
tact, in his accustomed seat at the
doorway, the bones of the old
monk who spent a lifetime as
caretaker of this hideous mausole-
um. The skeleton even wears
old robes, and insignia Of office.
Perhaps, though, these ignorant
monks, in their solicitude for
bones, are not very different from
the rest of us in our pagan en-
bellishment of tombs.
Teach us anew, o God, that
this mortal shall put on immortal
ity", and that only the spirit Of
! man survives. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
The Book OF KNOWLEDGE

plays, and the York and Towne-
ley mysteries.
Copyright, 1916, BY tn Gro
lier Society, Inc, based upon the
Book of knowledge
distributed by United Fea-
ture Syndicate, Inc.)
Tomorrow: - A Plants Struggle
in Crowded Areas.