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Evening star., 1947-08-17
Baltimore Markets

BALTIMORE Aug. 16 P.-:Apples,
bushel baskets un1sss
West virginia, Duchess. 2a-inch, few,
@ 90; weslshiss; 2d;inchs,SI,ins d saIaa1!r Up.
inch UP, 150.
Potatoes-Market about steady: 100
pound sacks !unless otherwise stated
ssw Ss1n.yvsn. Jersey ceSSfrs .' gssS
2.25-60: fair quality. 200; U. 8. rs, 10
MARYLAND. Virginia Eastern Shore: bysnei ne
asafpr T. soo = some
Poultry Quotations.
broilers, dull on fowl; receipts. liberal,
fryers and broilers. 35-37. mostly 36-37;
lightweights Ieghornsl, mostly, %. few
as foxl e0lErsa 5os@ mssty sos1
(ncluding pullets), too few sales to quote.
Livestock Market.
CATTLE-Nons. Compared with week
ago: Good and choice slaughter steers
steady to strong; medium srades unevenly
iower Ie Bulls sci 90 s0 ioxers ne bulk low and
1900 lbs "a OF; ~ 90: TOP sood srasseTs
iisht weights grassers Is. s.00-23.5o; most
medium and good grassy heiferso 1900
1890; Gamers and cutters 9.00-l2. 90;
Sdd 0us snd xoo6
aium Seshss 91s 1ns medium and and
bs doSs saa tssaeF steers from
cALvEs-None. Compared with week
and and eheics iso.sao X. s.oo-ss. s 90. o. strict M
seGiss stoH eGi: sTonna soo snd medium
Hods-None. Compared with week
over fSi ATE pracsies top $500; so! 5000 sns
Saoi't f6s os6rsS: and tis frGR
u 90: Ieo:25o lbs. q: :5o-2s 90; $50
25o ss r.: ss g. Rbo 1Hs ,Ss
2s.26 down.
sHHEP-None. COMPARED with week
ehoe. M 'mei spsns lambs 'Gs
ss.oo-s4 90; mixed lots medium and ,soed
1e.00-22 90; Gull and common 90;
SS ssI:fs ssors ewes :t'sS
7.00-50; common and mediums 3y50-6.60
Grain Market.
Eour--Receipts, 1924 1oo-peupd sacks.
WheatReeeipts az Be- i2s'2o6 bushels sai sh,n y
Ss%sss2is: s 2 ;4$; T u. % red winter: gar: Gar:
cornNRsseipts. 1so,147 bushels: ship
ments, none; stocks. 753,H5 bushels.
Oats-Receipts, 5,Q71 bushels: ship
ments, 1888 bushels: stocks, 1879
bushels: No. white oats, 1.21-1 .33.
Barley-Receipts, none; shipments, none;
RyeSRsceipts, 1000 bushels; ship
ments, none; stocks. s7.171 bushels:
soybeans-Receipts, none: shipments,
Miilfeed-Receipts. 4s3 tons.
Hay-General hay market steady; tim
othy. clover and mixed hay prices, 21 to
% per ton. For all Grades Of hay below
No. prices are irregular.
straw-Market steady; wheat straw, No.
2, Is to 16 per ton.
Batter and Esgs.
kgs-Markst steady; receipts moderate;
demand moderate.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Knufson Asks Chance
In Treasury Ruling
On Stock Options
By the Assoeiossd Press

Revision Of q Treasury ruling af-
fecting stock options which an en-
ployer may give his workers is be-
ing demanded by Rep. Knutson,
Republican. of Minnesota, chairman
of the House Ways and Means Com
mittee.
Mr.. Knutson's insistence on the
treasury's changing the regulation
is disclosed In publication In the
Congressional Record of lengthy
exchange of correspondence between
the committee chairman and treas
ury officials.
Under treasury regulation
t550D issued April IL, 1916, Mr..
Knutson said, a worker is required
to report as ordinary income, at the
time the stock option Is exercised,
the difference between the option
price and the fair market value of
the stock on the date Of purchase,
Even though the option was given
to enable the employe to have o
stake in the business"
This defeats the purpose for
which the option was given" Knut-
son said in a statement included
with the correspondence, "as in
many cases the employe is COM
PEELED to sell the stock thus acquired
to pay his individual income tax"
A. L. M. Virgins, undersecretary
Of the treasury, however. has advised
Mr.. Knutson that "in our view
treasury decision 5507 correctly
interprets the applicable law"
IF we should make a mistake In
the application of a law in a par
ticular tax matter, the taxpayer can
secure a reversal of our position
through the courts, mfr. Virgins
added.
But Mr.. Knutson contended that
cases previously decided show the
treasury could have taken the other
view and hberalized the regulations
to specifically cover cases where the
option was given by the employer
to enable the employe to have q
stake in the business"
Mr.. Virgins expressed the opinion
however that any change in the
treatment OF stock options should
be done through enactment Of speci-
f1c legislation.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
BOND SUMMARY

Furnished By the Assoeiatkd Press)
-. a eeiected list Of aeslve Bonds ON the
Nsy York Stock Exchange. Showing tie
hfshs low and elesinE price for the week,
and the net change from the previous
Evening star., 1947-08-17

Prices were irregular on the
Georgia Florida flue-cured tobacco
markets Friday and more losses
than gains were reported.
Averages generally continued a
downward trend. Declines ranged
from rs cents to So per hundred
pounds.
Little change was noted in gen.
eral quality. The volume of sales
was heavy and markets faced next
week In q blocked condition.
Sales amounted to 8,073, ,754 pounds
Thursday, at a $31.18 average, a new
daily low for the season.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Chicago Gruin

CHICAGO, Aug. 16 .QP.-Proft- taking
appeared an the corn pit on the Board Of
an early run.up. Oats followed the action
OF corn, but wheat held relatively steady.
Some OF the selling in corn was based on
Iowa. In addition, . late Weather Bureau
forecast predicted scattered showers to-
night, changing an earlier prediction that
the State would obtain no rain.
Offerings OF cash corn by the country
were fairly liberal for Saturday, pur-
chases on to-arrive basis amounting to
100000 bushels
Wheat closed unchanged to " lower.
Sssptsmessr SaMts ssnt:mSsh; 23sh; ss sorn vas ~ to
were 1 to / 70 lower, September, l.O4h-A,
Evening star., 1947-08-17
CURB SUMMARY
(Furnishea by Ii,

Tufnished by the Associated Press,1
A seiected list Of active stocks On the
New York Stock Exchange, showing the
high. low and CLOSING price for the week
and TIE net change from the previous
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Government Blamed
As Chief Offender
In Price Advance
By J. B. WoIIoch
North American Newspaper Alliance

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-Business,
which only matter of weeks ago
was being urged in High govern
mental quarters to conspire to lower
prices, has now been threatened
with criminal proceedings If it can
be proved that 1t has conspired to
raise prices. Executives who were
deferred from price Lowering COM
binations by the antitrust law, may
be glad they weren't fouled by good
intentions.
While it Is understandable that an
administration that has consistently
bungled every economic problem
should seek scapegoats for high
prices, it Is less understandable
why, if laws have been broken, the
Attorney General should wait until
prices attained peak levels before
acting to prosecute the offenders, if
any.
To businessmen, it hardly seems
necessary to conduct an investiga-
tion, or inquisition, to learn the
causes Of price rises. The Govern
ment, which has spent billions of
dollars for lend-lease or giveaway
to foreign nations. is in an excellent
position to know the causes, especi-
ally the causes that it created with
Credits"
Since the Department of Justice
is branch of the Treasury Depart
ment, it would not experience much
difficulty in fixing blame for the
dollars declining purchasing power.
Fiscal policies that deliberately de-
valued the dollar are the culprits.
The dollar that's worth less buys
less.
Labor might be asked to take the
stand. too. Featherbedding is a
direct aid to imitation. Jurisdictional
disputes that tie up production and
make for artificial scarcities also
are price inflaters. Practices that
reduce labor's productivity conceiv-
ably might be exposed as the arch
price-raising conspiracies.
Nobody. in all probability, will
give business clean bill of health.
There have been short-sighted op-
portunists in business, as everyone
knows, but the public itself is far
from guiltless. The new automobile
purchaser who pays premium,
under any guise, for the delivery of
his car is conspirator, too.
Because more than IS per cent
of the increase in living costs of
the average American family has
stemmed from high food tickets,
Congress- investigation might be
directed to farm prices and the
causes thereof.
Evening star., 1947-08-17

Georgia Florida Prices.
VALDOSTA, Ga, Aug. 16 R}.-
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Washington Stock Exchange
fResort Compiled b. Esehanse ofessls.)

on xssssHs x S sk ss zasSsr 1gs e. YEAR is7 UP
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Tobacco Markets

BALTIMORE, Aug. is LP>.-While
volume remained high. prices on the
Southern Maryland tobacco auction
markets experienced drop as much
as $16 per 100 pounds this week, the
United States Department Of Agri-
culture reported.
Net sales Thursday amounted to
2.763, 1856 pounds at an average price
OF $4214 per hundredweight. That
brought sales for the season to a.
1894 pounds for an average of
$46.73.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Carolina Border Markets.

RALEIGH, N. c., Aug. 16 Rl-
Markets of the border tobacco belt
were closed today after the first
seven selling days Of the 1947 season
The Federal and State Depart
ments Of Agriculture reported that
18,106,566 pounds Of hue-cured to-
bacco had been sold on the II mar
kets through Thursday at an aver
age price of $4713 per 100 pounds
The average has declined slightly
almost daily since sales began
August 7.
Quality was of again Friday with
price drops ranging down to $6 per
hundred on fair and common orange
leaf.
Evening star., 1947-08-17

Wr1BnE d&fB .IO 3Vd AZ x7HT -
Rates OF dividends in the foregoing tabls
are annual dibursements based on the last
quarterly or semiannual declaration. Un-
less otherwise noted. special or extra divi-
dends are not net INCLUDED i ,s Also extrs Or
stock. Paid last year. Payable ID
stock. g Declared or paid SO far this
year b Payable in Canadian funds.
K Accumulated dividends paid or declared
this year. n New issue. WV With war.
rantS. xW Without wArsAntA
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Gen. Hershey Confirmed
To HundIe Draft Records
By the Assoc;o,,d Press

BY Inc ksSoei0s0d Pfeks
The Senate yesterday confirmed
Mai. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey as di-
rector of the Office of Selective Serv-
ice Records.
This is the agency authorized by
Congress to maintain draft records
collected by selective service, which
Gen. Hershey also directed.
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Error Blocks Salaries
For EMPLOYEES in Navy

The Navy Department today
planned to ask the Senate Appro-
priations Committee for authority
to transfer funds to pay the salaries
of several thousands employees for
the rest of the fiscal year.
A miscalculation in estimates finds
the department lacking enough
money to pay these employees their
salaries up to June 80.
Navy officials denied published re-
ports that mass payless furloughs
will be ordered for department en-
oloyes. They expressed confidence
that Congress will straighten out
the matter
y Department spokesmen said they
do not need additional money. but
want the authority to transfer funds
for other activities for the payment
of salaries. This authority was
granted the department for most OF
It's employees last week by the House
Appropriations Committee, but Navy
officials later discovered the funds
were not enough to cover all of its
employees
Evening star., 1947-04-03
|FbI Is Due 10 Start
Moving Next Week
From District Arnory

The Federal Bureau Of 1nvestiga-
ton Is scheduled to start moving
lout OF the Districts National Guard
lArmory next week.
| Public Buildings Administration
loficials responsible for doing the
moving job said today they hoped
1.-THE moving could start Monday,
but were not certain this would be
the case.
The PBA buildings management
branch, which does the actual heav-
ing, hauling. rewriting. partition
ing and general fixing up OF Offices
when they change hands, said II
thas hundreds of men working In
two shifts to make the series OF
office shifts due to be completed
this spring.
| Right now, one official said, the
movers have their hands full shift
ing the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the
Army Navy Munitions Board out OF
the new War Department Building,
lTwenty-first street and Virginia ave.
nue. NV, and into the Pentagon.
Meanwhile, offices vacated in the
War building by the Army's Corps OF
Engineers are being refurbished for
the State Departments use. The
latter is to take over the entire new
War building plus its satellite tenn
porary buildings and former apart
ment houses.
The moves are part of a long
chain OF Office shifts aimed at
squeezing Federal agencies back
| into something like their prewar
offices. Leased buildings and those
borrowed from the District are to
be vacated first. Then, as many
temporary buildings as possible will
be vacated.
Long-range phases Of the moving
plan call for building number OF
permanent Federal buildings and
eventually demolishing all tempo
raries, including the Navy-Munitions
group.
This program Is likely to take
years as indications are that Con-
gress will choose to make short
term economies by using the tenn
poraries rather than long-range
savings by building permanent
| structures.
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Camp Peory Demolition
High Bidder Announced
By the Assoeioisd Pres.

NEWPORT NEWS. Va, April g.
Austin Givens, Inc, Of Pittsburgh
has submitted the, highest bid to
the Navy for demolition OF ap-
proximately one-half of Camp
Peary, huge wartime Seabee base
near williamsburg, 1t was an
nounced by the 5th Naval District
The firm, competing with 1G
others, offered $340, 200 for all build
ings and Quonset huts, including
all above-ground installations.
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Senate Group 10 Decide
Tuesday on Court Visit

The Senate Public Works Com
mittee will decide at a meeting
Tuesday whether to inspect District
Court facilities in connection with
Its study OF legislation for new
structure here, committee officials
said today.
Members OF the House Public
Works Committee toured the court
buildings last Tuesday. The Senate
committee next Tuesday will take
up the Revercomb bill to authorize
a $400,000 expenditure for prepara-
ton of plans for new courthouse
Chairman Revercomb said the COM
mittee will decide at that time
whether to make a flrst-hand exam
nation of crowded conditions at the
present buildings,
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Stove Explosion Is Fatal
To One of Two Children

A 3-year-old boy was dead and
his 2-year-old brother was in a
serious condition today as the re-
suit of an oil stove explosion yes
terday morning in their home at
1927 Delaware avenue S.W. 4
Is John MeGill. colored, died at
Gallinger Hospital late last night.
His brother Charles Is suffering
from severe burns to his body and
face.
Police said the explosion occurred
while their mother, Mrs. Frances
McGiu. had gone to grocery store.
Evening star., 1947-04-03
District Area Churches Prepare
Good Friday and Easter Services

Churches listed by Father Gedrs
follow:
Baptist: Calvary.
Catholic: Immaculate Concep-
tion, st. Stephens, Holy Redeemer's
Incarnation, Sacred Heart, st. Mat
theW,s Cathedral, st. Dominic's, st
Francis, Epiphany, Holy Comforter
st. Agnes, st. AIMS, st. Anthony's
st. Patrick's, Blessed Sacrament, st
Mary,s, st. Vincent de PauI,s, st
Aloysius, st. Francis De Sales.
Disciples of Christ: National CITY
Christian and Fifteenth Street
Christian.
Episcopal. st. Columba's, Calvary
st. Luke,s, st. Georges. Good Shep-
herd, st. Agnes. Washington Cathe.
dral, All Saints, Christ Church (62t
G. street S.E.), Christ Church
fGeorgetown). Epiphany, st. James
st. Johns Lafayette Square,, st
Johns (Georgetown). st. John.
Bethesda, Md, st. Margaret's, st
Marks, st. Paul's. st. Thomas, st
Stephen and the Incarnation. Trim
ity, Esther Memorial, st. Georges
TRANSPORTATION.
Evangelical and Reformed: Con.
cordia.
Lutheran: Christ, Reformation
Grace, st. Paul's Luther Place Me-
mortal, Trinity, Christ (G1enbrook
Md, Arlington Resurrection.
Methodist: Asbury. Metropolitan
Memorial, Calvary, Mount Vernon
Place, First Wesleyan. Foundry
Trinity, Epworth, Union Wesley.
Presbyterian: Fourth, Covenant
First, Eastern.
United Brethren: United Breth-
rem Memorial.
Unity. Unity Cat New Colonial
Hotel. Fifteenth and M streets
N.W).
Uniyersalist: National Memorial
The Catholic Daughters of Ameri-
ca will sponsor a service from moor
to 8 pm. tomorrow at Court Forest
Glen and the Washington City
Church of the Brethren will hold q
similar worship.
A Good Friday service in French
will be held at $50 pm. tomorrow al
st. Johns Episcopal Church, La
fayette square, with the Rev. Andre
F. Liotard officiating.
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Bankrupt Laundry Auciion
|BrinQs More Than S56, 900

Hyman Miln1an, owner Of Needle
Cleaners, 1888 Buchanan street
NV, is richer today BY about 5000
pieces Of clothing and 500 large bags
full Of laundry.
Mr. Milman picked up the articles
yesterday at the auction Of w. D.
HoWards, Inc. held at the bank
rupt firms laundry and dry cleaning
plant at 1347 South Capitol street.
The clothing, bought In bulk by Mr..
Milman, represented unclaimed dry
cleaning and laundry left by Gus
toners at the plant of one of the
company's II bankrupt stores. It
cost Mr.. Milnan $1,650.
All together. the sale brought
more than $50, 900 for three ware
houses full of machinery, equipment
Evening star., 1947-04-03
THE EVENING STAR, washington D G = All
1.

and furnishings, according 70 Henry
i. HOFFMAN, one Of three trustees in
the bankruptcy. Yesterday they
turned down j. blanket bid Of t25, 600
for everything.
Heaviest bidding. according to-
Auctioneer Ralph A. Weschler, was
on roomful Of laundry paper and
Evening star., 1947-04-03

cardboard boxes still 3 big head
ache to launderers because Of the
paper shortage. The stock went for
50, 500, he said.
Fire reports that consumption Of
flour Ia the country averaged asa
pounds per person last year.
Evening star., 1947-11-14
Rescued Flyer, Wife dreamed
of Hombu urgers' on Icy Peak

12,716-foot> crest of South Burro
Peak, was one of the coolest so far
this winter in Northern Utah. Res
cuers estimated the temperature
was "far below zero"
DR.. Dykes father, r. H. Dykes,
reported his son had suffered
frozen toe and frostbitten hands
but Mrs. Dykes had only a few
bumps and bruises" from the crash
Both were suffering from shock, hi
said.
Three ranchers from Lonetree
Wyom., James Gregory, Glen Wads'
worth and Claude Bullock, reached
the plane first yesterday morning
Three other rescue parties later ar
rived at the scene.
Thank God Thank God!" thu
Dykes shouted when the horsemei
! opr,roa q ched
Evening star., 1947-11-14
Rythe Assoeioted Press


EVANSTON, Wyo., Nov. IA
young doctor and his wife, rescued
after five days on an icy ledge more
than $4,000 feet high, told today
how they dreamed of hamburger"
and kept from freezing by conserv-
ing their energies.
Woodsmen rescued DR.. and Mrs.
Robert Dykes of Taft, Calf, from
the ledge in the Uinta Mountains OF
Northeastern Utah yesterday, DR..
Dykes, 20, had pancaked his light
plane on the ridge Saturday.
The young pilot and his 28-year-
old wife Marjorie were completely
exhausted" on their arrival here last
night after riding IA miles down an
lev mountainside and journeying Is
miles more over all but impossible
mountain roads to reach this city IN
i Southwest Wyoming.
With unintentional understate-
ment, Dykes said it was disturb.
ing" when he and his wife hearo
a report on their plane radio thai
we wouldn't be found till spring"
THE roughest part OF our stay
wasn't physical" he said in an inter
view with a reporter for the Sal
Lake Tribune-Telegran. 1T wa!
mental"
The flyer reported the couple hae
nothing to eat after their crash unit
rescue ships dropped supplies tt
them Wednesday after their wrecked
plane was sighted from the air BY
Lawrence Modula of Evanston.
The food dropped in one pack
age" he said, made us i'll. Finally
we had to drink only tomato Julc'
and ignore the other foods
To keep from freezing, he said
I'VE sat in the cabin, both OF u
in the same seat, and we tWinet
out legs and arms around eacl
other.
1--WE didn't keep warm, but W
kept from freezing by conserving
our energies"
Finally, he said, II took tn
carburetor air cleaner bowl fror
the engine. I filled 1t with gaso
line from the tank and covered
with the planes registration plat
with a hole punched in 1t. I ha
an Eskimo lamp. Marjorie made
wick of some stockings.
"It worked, but it worked to
good. 1t burned all the oxyge
from the cabin and filled it wit
II oorhon roonayide That ended tn
Eskimo experiment..
Someway, when the supplies wer
dropped, DR.. Dykes lost one she
and for Is minutes ran around !
the snow and rocks with one foe
bare. Later when an Army c.
plane dropped package containin
warm flying clothes he was too ez
hausted to bring 1t in.
That night, their last below tn
Evening star., 1947-11-14

mended two and a half beds per
death, the association pointed out.
Under the proposed program, the
Catawba Sanitarium would be pro-
vided with 100 additional beds,
bringing it to a total of 500; Blue
Ridge Sanitarium would be given
1870 additional beds, to bring its ca
pacity to 500, and so new beds would
be added at Piedmont Sanitarium
for Negroes, which would bring its
total to 800 beds.
1t also is proposed to construct
a new 3o0-bed hospital for Negroes
in Eastern Virginia. The associa-
ton noted that the death rate from
tuberculosis among Negroes in Vir-
ginia Is more than three times as
great as that for the white popula-
ton.
Evening star., 1947-11-14
|S7,500.OOO tuberculosis
PROGRAM Set in Virginia

A s7,5O0,0O0 program designed to
place tuberculosis treatment facili-
ties in Virginia on par with those
of other States will be presented
at the next session Of the General
Assembly by State Health Com
missioner J. L, Roper, the Arlington
tuberculosis Association announced
today.
Although Virginia has one of the
highest death rates from tubercu-
losis in the Nation, it provides less
than one and one-half beds pei
death as compared with the recon-.
Evening star., 1947-11-14
.Conordi Recital Listed

Austin Conardi, pianist who is an
instructor at the Peabody Conserva-
tory of Music in Baltimore, will give
a recital at Dunbarton College OF
Holly Cross at 4 pm, Sunday. He
has been soloist with symphony
orchestras in this country, Europe
and Canada.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-25
Brunswick Commissioners
Cut Tax Rate Fiue Cents

ty for the county is 81, 979, 913. Cor
poration Excess values total $685.
lat.
The total amount Of the budget
estimate prepared by County Au-
ditor R. c. St. George, and tenta-
lively approved by the board, calls
for S24O, GOO. 90. OF this amount
$50, 5000 goes into the debt SER
vice fund.
Effective July l the salary Of the
county attorney will be 10000 per
month, with that official relieved
of responsibility for bringing tax
suits, save only when he is paid
on the same basis as other local
attorneys who are doing some OF
this work. In a conference with
the commissioners County Attorney
R. I. Mintz reported ~ suits in
stituted by him during the period
from December, 1916, to July l,
all Of these to be brought to COM
pletion.
The E. H. Smith estate was Civ
en- permission to afterlist 3 acres
of land for the past 5 years at a
valuation of sos. 90.
The commissioners have ap.
proved the erection of a S., 600. 90
colored school at Longwood and
unanimous approval has been Civ.
en- the special bond election for
the Leland school district.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-25
WEIGHTS, MEASURES
DEPARTMENT UNDER
CONSIDERATION HERE

The long discussed problem Of
establishing a weights and meas
ures departments is going to get
a decision from the city council
and county commissioners acting
as a joint body.
The two groups agreed on such
action at a meeting yesterday.
Brief discussion on the proposal
terminated with the members vot-
ing to name a committee to make
a detailed study of the proposal.
Mayor E. L. White named Coun-
Gilman Burnett and Commissioner
Harry Gardner to bring in a re-
port.
The matter some weeks ago was
brought before the commissioners
by j. K. Simmons, locksmith who
urged establishment of such a de-
partment after contending that all
scales and measures in the COM
munity are not properly inspected.
That charge brought a rejoiner
from state inspectors that such is
not the case as they make regular
inspections.
The commissioners then referred
the matter to the joint group stu
dying budget requirements for the
ensuing II months.