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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-16
TUF.,; GUYS

When the Tufts basketball team played Hcly Cross in the Boston Garden recently (and absorbed a 7l28 beating) one Tufts undergrad uate must have known what was coming. He showed up at the Garden with his date and they played cribbage through the entire game, taking notice of the action only when the ball landed near their seats Wonder how many points he had to give?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-16
SLTKA CAGE0S
 SCHEDULED TO
 PLAY TONIGHT

BULLETIN = The Sitka Ca gers arc here and games to- night are as follows: Moose vs. PAA; Darnells vs. Sitka.
 Tcmcrrow-imperials vs. Vets; Juneau High vs. Sitka.
 Saturday-PAA vs. Douglas; Mikes vs. Sitka.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Washington Stock Exchange
(Repor, Compiled by Erchan0e oncialsJ

y WARRINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE FOR YEAR 1947 UP T
AND INCLUDING FRIDAY, AUGUST 29.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Maryland Tobacco

BALTIMORE, Aug. 30 OP.-sales were
heavy but prices for most grades again
during the last week Of the southern Mary
| land tobacco auction season which offciaily
closed yesterday, the Department of Agri-
However. this weeks losses we're smaller,
ranging from so cents to So per hundred
| pounds.
The net volume of sales amounted to
3,295.372 pounds at an average OF S34, ,05
per hundred; The average was only s
cents lower than that Of the previous week.
offerings and steady or only slight changes
in the , prices for better quality bright
hold hold the weekly average, % in spite spite Of Of TIE TIE
smaller additional losses.
although prices for most grades were
clines during the previous two weeks Chief
losses were suffered among dull crop. tips
and seconds low brisht crop. These were
Better grades Of light red dull crop.
bright . srop and seconds were steady 70
eanse Sny sshy h e d1sy 1st hs5s mofe oa srass
in the percentage OF nne and ehoie Of
There was practically no difference in
the proportionate amount Of better and
medium grades or nondescript. Sales were
da erop 10 wand fair pe fair and sood
seconds, low dull and nondescript.
Net AUCTION sale for the season amounted
| S447 II per hundred. Sales including re-
| ceipts on the Baltimore hogshead market
| totaled around 44,257,0 900 pounds.
While the, Marlboro and Hushessille
Plata and Waldorf will hold final sales
| Carolina Markets.
| RALEIGH. N. G. Aug, 30 tR.--Price
averages on the fiue-cured border belt Of
! South Carolina and North Carolina today
| showed increases from 81 to 81. while
| the eastern North Carolina belt found
/ prices remaining in most instances steady
| with a few losses for limited number
/ Good lemon cutters established q new
| high OF S6l on the border belt, and the
majority Of leaf and iugs sained from s3
| and nondescript on the border .@but less
! good and fine. The bulk Of sales was com
1 posed chiefly of low to good leaf. smoking
/ leaf and lugs and low and fair cutters,
| with volume OF sales heavy.
/ The eastern belt probably had tta
/ heaviest sales Of the season. The. quality
was slightly better than Thursday's sales.
and drops were from 81 to 50 per hun
i dred However. the declines were for ths
I lower quality offerings. and the volume o.
those grades was very hmited. be-
Evening star., 1947-08-31

mature December 4, 1947, were
opened at the Federal Reserve Banks
Friday.
Lyme Joins Stein Bros.
OF interest in financial circles is
the return of Richard G. Lyme who
recently joined Stein Bros. & Boyce,
Washington office He formerly was
manager of the First Boston Corp.
Office here and later manager of the
bond department of Robert G. Jones
| Co.
Mr.. Lyme, native of Orange, Va,
and graduate of Virginia Mill
tary Institute, is returning to busi-
ness after more than four years OF
Army service.
He is a veteran of both wars and
holds the Purple Heart and the Le-
gion Of Merit.
Montgomery Business Grows.
Commercial activity is on the up
grade in Montgomery County. An
employment survey by Russell S.
Davis, chairman of Marylands S
Employment Security Board,
showed 200 more firms covered by
unemployment compensations were
operating in the county in March,
1947, than in the same month OF
1946-an increase of 20.7 per cent.
Service establishments topped all
industry groups with a rise of TO
per cent; the construction industry
increased 81 per cent: retail trade,
exclusive of chain stores, 20 per
cent, and manufacturing 16 per
cent.
Directors of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia
yesterday approved expenditures
totaling $3,615,000 for improvement
and expansion of telephone facilities
throughout the State. 1t was the
largest amount authorized any
month this year.
The appropriations bring to
$23,OOO,00O the total authorized eX-
penditure this year.
Personal Notes.
Robert K. Oakley of Alexandria
has become associated with Robert
c. Jones & Co., the firm announced
Yesterday. Mr.. Oakley has spent
many years in the financial business
and formerly was connected with
Francis I. Dupont e. Co., the present
New York correspondent of the
Jones firm.
Chaplin B. Bauman, president OF
the Oriental Building Association,
will return to his desk Tuesday
after a month in Florida. Ralph A.
Xander, Oriental secretary, has left
for a motor trip through New
England.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Weeks Increase Seen
In Crude Oil Stocks
By the Associofed Press

The Bureau of Mines reported
that stocks of domestic and foreign
crude petroleum totaled 227,642,oOo
barrels on August %, net increase
of 1,566,00o barrels for the week.
Domestic crude increased 1924, 900
barrels; foreign crude increased
272 600.
Daily average production was
5,153 900 barrels, decrease OF 5000.
Runs to stills averaged 5,217,O00, an
increase of $4,000.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Tile Output Expands

NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (SpeciaD -
Ceramic tile production, spurred by
record demand for tile in postwar
bathrooms and kitchens, totaled
40,6780O0 square feet for the first
half of 1947, A per cent greater than
in the same 1916 period.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Tractor Tire Output Soors
AKRON Ohio. AUG 3n lSnecj

AKRON, Ohio, Aug 30 (SpeciaD.
On top of passenger-car tire pro-
duction speed that already has
brought supply abreast of postwar
demand, the tire industry in 1916
and 1947 turned out more than
triple" the prewar average Of farm
tractor and implement tires, about
100000 units each year, according
to James J. Newman, vice president
of the r. F. Goodrich Co.
Evening star., 1947-08-31

IS Going to COnclaVe.
A delegation of IS Washington
savings and loan leaders, headed by
Rudolph w. Santelmann, will leave
Friday to attend the 51st annual
convention of the United States
Savings and Loan League in San
Francisco.
Mr.. Santelmann. president of the
District Building and Loan League,
and Edward L. McAleer, first vice
president, are official representa-
tives to the convention.
The group will travel by special
train with delegates from nearby
States. They will visit the Canadian
Rockies before going to the West
Coast city where the convention
will open September is. About $500
are expected to attend.
Store Sales Behind 1916.
Department store sales in Wash
ington for the week ending August
% were up per cent over the pre-
vious week, but were per cent lower
than the corresponding week OF a
year ago, the Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond reported.
For the four weeks ending August
% sales were down per cent under
the comparable period last year.
Sales for the Fifth Federal Re-
serve District for the week were
per cent below the 1916 week, but
10 per cent above the week ending
August 16, 1947.
The Treasury announced that
tenders for 1890, 100000 of 91-day
bills to be dated September and to
Evening star., 1947-08-31

mature December. 4, 1947, were
opened at the Federal Reserve Banks
Friday,
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Pullman Has Big Backlog

CHICAGO, Aug. 80 (SpeciaD -
Pullman-Standard Car Manufacture
ing Co. reported a $257, 1000, 900 un-
filed backlog of orders for railroad
passenger and freight equipment as
of August /, illustrating the scope
Of American railroads equipment
replacement propram
Evening star., 1947-08-31

TRANSACTIONS ON
Evening star., 1947-08-31
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY, AUGUST a. le1
Lower Nets Reported
Bye. &P. Telephone,
Potomac Electric
By Vincent DIVER

Net operating income of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Co. for July was $153,639 under the
figure for July, 1916, monthly re-
port Of the company disclosed yes
terday.
July's net operating income was
$131,457 this year as compared with
$285, ,096 last year. Operating reve-
nues we're $2,459, 1888 against $685.
4S5; operating expenses, $2,144,569
vs. 81 1,931 1923.
The company's net operating in
come for the first seven months
this year was well below a year
earlier. This years total was 81 $685.
812 against $2,25S,964.
At the end of July there were
394,04l telephones in service in
Washington VS.. 372,520 a year
earlier.
PEPCO Net Income Down
The monthly report of the Po-
toinac Electric Power Co. showed
that company's net income for July
was $6,055.25 less than for July
last year. Figures are s244,161 so
for this year VS.. s250216S5.
Operating revenues for the month
were 33,38417 compared with
$2,014 ,10811 for July, 1916. Operat-
ing expenses we're up to 81 ,427 ,879 "a
as against S1,192, 1926.
Pepco's net income for the first
seven months of this year was $179,-
614.13 less than the net for the
first seven months of last year.
This year the figure was 81 ,875, 1893 20
as compared with s2,054,So7.3 for
1916.
Operating revenues for 1947.
through July 81 were $15,266,52 as
against s14,015,738 for the 1946t
period Operating expenses were up
to 5000, ,224 VS.. $7,725, ,457.
CIearings At New Peak.
Bank clearing here were $3.50, ,924,-
526 for August, new top figure for
the month. For the eight months of
this year clearing totaled $2,187, ,424,-
434 as against 5000, ,32S,907 for the
first eight months last year. Monthly
totals for 1947 and 1916:
Evening star., 1947-08-31

MARKET AVERAGES COM
piled by the Associated Press
are traced on the chart above.
In the last week, stocks and
bonds moved lower. Com
modities improved slightly.
Evening star., 1947-08-31

fUnit of trading 10 shares. sIn bankruptcy or re-
ceiversp being reorsanized under the Bankruptcy
Act, or securities assumed by such companies. Rates
Of dividends in the foregoing table annual dis,
dsciaration Unless otherwise noted special or extra
dividends are not included. xEx dividend x e
Cash stock Paid last year tPayabls in stock +
Canadian funds. Accumulated dividends paid or de-
clared this year.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-08

10-year history of the group which
earned the contempt of such lib
eral leaders as the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who des-
cribed its methods as ''sordid" and
urged its abolition.
An introduction by Henry A.
Wallace asserts:
Unless they are stopped. the
present methods of fighting
Communism and socialism by
whipping up hYsteria and invok-
ing systems of thought control
will give US police stale here.
1--WE cannot preserve and i'm
prove our system Of democratic
capitalism by undermining our
high standard for human rights
and civil liberties"
THE PAMPHLET presents doc
.umentary proof of the commit
tees approval of such pro-fascist
organizations and individuals as
the Ku Klux Khan, which it
termed IAN American institution"
and Gerald L. K. Smith, to whom
it granted forum.
Words of praise for the commit
tee by the German American
Bund, Court Asher, Leon Dear
yam, Gerald Winrod, Mrs. Eliza
beth billing, and others of that
ilk, including the convicted sedi-
zionist, William Dudley Policy, are
also quoted.
The 46-page expose, it was point
ed out, is the most thorough, con-
else report ON the committee to
be published. It can be obtained
for Is cents at the CRC's Chicago
office, 1870 N. State st.
ITS publication was expected to
stir wide interest in the national
conference on civil rights.
Mrs. Eleanor Salkind. secre-
tary of the CRc's Chicago Of
flee. said that Robert Morss
Loveft. Paul Robson. and Dr..
Harry F. Ward will keynote the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-08
Stars to report
on red smear

Several screen writer's and
actors involved in the recent
Hollywood investigation" by
the House un-American Activi-
ties Committee. will give Chi
cagoans a firsf-hand account
of their role in the Washington
hearings. the Illinois Chapter
of the Civil Rights Congress
announced today.
AS participants in a public
meeting TO be sponsored by the
Civil Rights Congress at Or
chestra Hall on November FL.
the Hollywood figures will join
with Robert Morss Lovett. for
mer University of Chicago fac
ultY member. Dr.. Harry F.
Ward. Of Union Theological
Seminary. actor singer Paul
Robson. and southern news
paperman. Sfetson Kennedy. in
urging abolition of the House
Committee.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-08
Urge Thomas group be dumped
End shameful
probes Murray

WASHINGTON - (FP) -
CLIO Pres. Philip Murray asked
the responsible lie a d ers of
Congress Oct. 81 to repudiate
the House unAmerican activi-
ties committee and prevent
the heaping of any further
infany upon the name of the
u. S. Congress"
Murray expressed himself in a
letter to Sen. Arthur Vandenberg
R., Micho, president pro tempore
of the Senate, Sen. Wallace R.
White tR., Me- and Sen. Alben
Barley Cd, Ky.5, House Speaker
Joseph Martin R., Mass) and
Reps. Charles A. Halleck Or. Ind0
and Sam Rayburn Cd, Tex)
Referring to the Current an
tics" of the committee, Murray
said labor has "felt the whiplash
of this committee and its prede-
cessors" and has known and I'M
derstood its willingness to use the
cloak of congressional immunity
for purposes of SANDER and char
acter assassination.
POLITICALLY we have I'M
derstood its operations to repre-
sent the same kind of thought con-
troll which characterized the po-
lice state of the nations who were
our enemies in the recent war.
Economically we have understood
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-08

its efforts to weaken labor unions
in their struggle for Improvement
of working and living conditions.
In the current shameful DEM
onstration with respect TO the
motion picture industry. the
committee has fully exposed for
all to see both IFS detectives and
the scandalous character of its
procedures"
Charging the un-American COM
mittee with attempting to dictate
the content of motion pictures,
using hearsay, rumors and reports,
Murray said the entire perform
ance has been conducted in a MAN.
ner which know you will agree
reflects no credit on those respon-
sible for its staging" He said the
committee had for many years
constituted a shameful blot on
the pages of American legislative
action and a reflection upon our
standards of decency and fair play.
THE new depths TO which This
committee has now descended
poses TO the responsible leaders
of Congress sharp challenge
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-08
.CRC opens drive
tor petitions

The anti-democratic role of
the House Un-American Com
mittee was laid bare this week
by the Civil Rights Congress.
The CRC is collecting hall
million signatures on petitions
asking that a resolution by Rep.
Adolph SABBATH Cd, Hid which, if
passed by the House of Represen-
tatives, would end the committees
own "un-American activities"
The anti-laRor, Jew-baiting, Ne
CIRCULATING actions of the House
un-American Committee were ex-
posed by the CRC in a pamphlet
issued in connection with its call
for a national conference on civil
rights to be held here Nov. 21-23.
THE pamphlet, America S
Thought Police" documents the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-08

Chairman J. Parnell Thomas
R., MIA Wall ST. insurance
broker before coming to Con-
gress in. 1886; still director of
a building and loan association;
member of the un-American ac-
tivities committee since it was
started by Martin Dies in 1898;
chairman in 80th Congress.
Thomas launched phony spy.
scare involving Oak Ridge,
Tenn, atomic plants this year,
being paid an authors Zee for
a magazine article from a So
called secret committee report
which was not even available
to Congress or the press.
John E. Rankin Cd, Miss.)-
His name linked forever with
the late Sen. Theodore Bilbo
into whose seat he is trying to
climb as an unashamed racist,
Rankin sees a Jewish Commu-
nist-Negro plot in almost every
decent bill that has come be-
fore Congress in recent years.
In 1945 Rankin swung dis
organized House into changing
the un-American group from
special to a standing commit
tee. Makes almost daily speech
es attacking minorities and Ia
Dor. Original member of Dies
committee.
Karl E. Mundt IT,. S.D.) -
Member of original un-Ameri-
can committee, Mundt had his
fathers real estate and insur-
ance business as a sideline be-
fore coming to Congress in
1886. He told the House in 1916
that: IF any one man in Amer
lea has set the standards for this
committee it is Mr.. John w.
Davis" who is attorney for J.
p. Morgan & Co. of Wall ST.
John Mcdowell R., PAD -
Named head Of subcommittee
to investigate fascist activities,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-08

Mcdowell promised big things,
then dismissed his first hearing
in 10 minutes for lack of bust
ness. Western Penna, liberals
have protested the use of racial
SANDERS in papers he publishes.
Richard M. Nixon R., CALI
Eager freshman who tried red
batting on witnesses before
House labor committee during
Taft-Hartley bill h earrings;
deadpan serious always as he
votes the straight COP line.
Richard B. Vail R., llo -
Heads the Vail Manufacturing
Co. in Chicago, and was cited
by the NLRB for his unfair la
Dor practices with NLRB
bringing court action to force
reinstatement of Is discharged
members of United Steelwork-
ers, CLIO. On Investigating fas-
cists, Vail said: 1T wouldn't
know fascist if / had one by
the tail.'
John B. Wood Cd, Ga.)-
Committee chairman between
Dies and Thomas regimes, Wood
let Rankin run the show. A
former judge, Wood said: "The
threats and inti1nidations of
the Ku Klux Khan are an old
American custom-just like il
legal whiskey making"
james H. Peterson Cd, Fla.)-
Peterson quietly casts his vote
with the antilabor reactionar-
les, has been in Congress Is
years, previously was city at
torney and criminal court pros
ecutor.
Herbert c. Bonner Cd, N.C0
Got the unsAmerican COM
mittee to dig up a so-called red
plot in Winston-Salem, NC,
when Food, Tobacco, Agricul-
tlral & Allied Workers (CIO)
struck the r. J. Reynolds
Camel plant for a living wage.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-08
"A stone flung
in a public square

The fruit of the Un-American
Committee probe is already
bearing its tragic fruit. Gregory
Peck. film actor. declared this
week.
"A word flung Historically in
a hearing room becomes a stone
flung deliberately in a public
square" the actor exclaimed. in
referring TO the riotous fracas
which broke up the Philadelphia
meeting sponsored Nov. l by the
Progressive Citizens of America.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-08

q challenge to maintain the
name and standing of the insti-
luton they represent. II creates
for leaders like yourself an OBJ
legation TO the people of the
country to act promptly and de-
cisively TO repudiate the commit
tee and TO terminate its exist
ence once and for all"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-08
? tyrants against
the Bill Of Rights

THE nine members of un-Amercan activities
II committee probing Hollywood cast nine solid votes
enactment of the Taftarey anti-abor bill
and three other key issues of the 80h weakening
wagehour law portal pay bD. cut
anti poll tax House voted against
80 times. right five failed once.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-08

conference at the opening meet
ing in Orchestra Hall Nov. I'll.
Conference sessions will be held
at Hull House.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-08

SCREEN WRITER John Howard
Lawson indignan tIY chal-
lenge the right of the House un-
American committee to demand
that American citizens disclose
their politics. Lawson was elected.
along with all other witnesses who
declined to be cowed by the in
QUESTION of Chairman J. Parnell
Thomas.
Evening star., 1947-01-15

sEo ylss ae apHIRs house perm asS
furnished: prefer NV oG, or sn,onros' suburb No y,
ssss Hessaass, 0i al Pea dsy Sal. Sat and and sun 90.
OFFICIAL Of national oreanization perm
anpn soas sssnes sor sy rent c sSn
snpied sold. must yaeate; =. Of Md area.
coNGsEssMSss %ss sss w skcY pSs Wishes houss
asa a. 1875 sfo aas '1Safss Or ss nsh S
= ! or os' : BEDROOM HOUSE or apt. un-
furnished, approx. $50 to 500 per mo.
RlSo Il i PMS oisFsfs sla a0q@is before
NAVY ei5s pocfoR. MS 'ff Wife. 1s-yr. .-old da1ph-
shsa sssss apt Cali DR n aAfPSss
RsEGULAR ARMY LIT. COL. wife, son, de-
pref: Arlnston or NV. Call LAUGHLIN,
bbfsrINGUfsaED bE Hn" 9irLoMAT seSafSs desires Or
Ne sss'4n ssdrs T9t 'Sf sfS aYoR ts6t co
GO 6 sa HoNsI sysi' 6R RE asf sfs bedrooms, l6 nm
to SI15; sign years lease at Sl50. DE.
i0li, Ext. s, till 5 pm, After, DE. 4400,
ARMY COLONEL. no children or pets,
wisfes - bedroom unfurnished house;
MARRIED COUPLE. both WORKING, nc
children, wish to rent small house n
Arlington area. Ask for MR.. ARMSTRONG
Si 900 ADVANCE RENT for approximately
10 months for .2-3 bedroom house. ArlinF-
ton or Alexandria; Regular Army 9mcef
ary 90. RE $500. Ext. 36Ss., IL
WANTED. A HOUSE. 4-5-6 rooms. II
redecorate when leaving if necessary
BUSINESS EXECUTIVE. veteran. perma
3-bedroom unfurnished house. D C. OF
suburbs; 3 adults, small baby; washington
references. GE 9i6S.
manent residence. urgently need , or 4
bedroom apt. or house. D. H. MosToLL ER
Me 1920. 2lf
WILL PAY months rent in advance for
% bedroom house or apt pref unfur-
nished Call DU 1000, Extension SOB,
COL H. K MOONEY 2ls
Evening star., 1947-01-15
ROOMS Observation-Disclosures ost.

BROokLAND, 27O1 9th n.e.-I5 minutes
downtown; living room and bedroom, twin
beds. girls. So each; laundry privileges.
. sth ssT ST. N'E-Iarge room: next bath;
eonv: trsnsp.; s35 month. After pm.
i, 1isr MORSE ST: NE.-Lsrss front J room; n;
sil&s HaMIiS fHfaaM,I1nSn' ST. or SE-Room. Hs men.
f. Rtau1ts on 6taGiIa: 6lsIine IS. f:so soffs fA 15.
IS sT-Large Iront room next to oantt bath. IT,
%sS 1soi End End s2 s. ssfn Front nm rm twin beds
semny sonps Or 0sh men fHe: M pG 6ss5 NSns
Ills 9TH ST. N.E.~sinele room with rum
ming water: for gentleman; quiet home
30 30 'R0 ST. IL NE., f.oI Apt. sos-single room
private home, clean gentleman $50 mo.
iii. 4. CAPITOL sT.-Large. front. dou-
couple or men only: S45. AID 4O42.. IF
ST NEsleepnE rm priyate f4a0 homqe sqasr
8.s D ST. S.E.-Large. sunny room IN
quiet pryae home ne3F 6spo tor and
worker. SO week; references required
l5Ie A ST. NE,-Front sleeping room,
or couple: new radio, unlimited phone,
block from carline; $3.50 each. Phone
I;Os CAPITOL AVE. N.E.-Rm for couple
or " men. twin beds, fully equipped; con-,
trarTp kit. pri' ileges; $50 month II 7
1913 H. j. AVE-. N.E.-Att~a activei" fur
nsAcd rcer1, twin be-s, for : girls Or
couple next N bath: trsns, al COP, ~
rim to town So mo. each. DU. 3!6l, L >
2%i. 9th ST. N.E.-Ne3r trsn~n N!celT
furn. r drn,, gentleman only: 50" a mort.
9aa. LINC'%.N RID. MIN. with in
closed poreh, $40 mo: gentleman. 10.
i:Io EAST CAPITOL sr.-Nicely fu-n.
Sleeping rm. for employed couple: conV
transport tion: no drinking; 81 ca
COLOEED-I28 10TH PL. N.E.-Coupie,
student veteran preferred, not more than
child. home privs; to live with student
CoLoREDmiIs QUINCY PL. N.E.-,Lge
front rm suitable fer coy oHupe or r snss 81
with another man, S. wk DE s24s-, ,
married couple; $40 a week; privileges
Call after $50. D.