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Evening star., 1948-12-22
Auto Makers 10 Miss
Record Production by
Only 4-Day Output
By Dovid J. WiIkie
Assoeiotsd Press Avtome,ivs Editor

Associates Press Aufomofve Editor
DETROIT, Dec. 22.-The car in
dustry loses some production ground
this week, but it will miss record
this year by only about four days
output.
AS closely as can be estimated at
this time. the 1948 total will come
to $3.50 cars and trucks. That
would be only about $4,000 vehicles
short of the 1929 record mark: the
figures are unofficial and will be
revised upward or downward some
weeks after the years end.
Cutting into the volume of the
final two weeks of the year is the
plan of most companies to operate
only four days this week and next.
Also curtailing production are the
halting of more Chevrolet assembly
operations and the closing of Pom
tiac's home plan for new model work.
Also holding down this weeks out
put is the interruption to Ford out
put due to a fire in one of the COM
panys major assembly units in
nearby Dearborn.
In all the talk about records and
record possibilities, one thing often
overlooked is that the industry
hasn't-and probably won't for
long time-come near the passenger
ear output 1t achieved in 1929.
~ IN tliat year the factories, work.
ing three shifts and six days O
week, built 4,587,o00 passenger au-
tombbiIes.
SO far In 1948 the assembly plants
have assembled about $4,000 cars
and 1,345 900 trucks
But If the factories have missed
an output volume record this year
they have set q new one in dollar
volume-more than double that OF
1929.
Automobile Manufacturers Asso-
citation figures put the wholesale
value of the 5,358, ,420 vehicles built
In 1929 at 3,413,14S,206. This years
expected $780, 900 output will have
a value of close to $1,000 0,000. .000
Next year, say some Of the ex-
perts, the motorcar makers will aim
at a total well above the 1929 rec
ord output.
Evening star., 1948-12-22
Business Briefs
Edison Electric Institute reported

Edison Electric Institute reported
electric power production for week
ended December Is was $3.50, ,l9l ,00C
kilowatt-hours, new record for the
third week In succession. This
compared with S,704 1923 900 the pre-
vious week and was 1870 above the
1887 ,624 900 of a year ago.
Stock and Commodity Exchanges
throughout the world will be closed
next Saturday. Christmas Day
Many commodity exchanges will
close at noon or pm. on Friday
Wholesale Food Index, based on
total wholesale cost of 81 foods in
general use, climbed for the first
time in four weeks, reaching $6.23
compared with s623 q week ago
The figure this time a year ago
vas Sill.
General Electric Co. president said
sales for 1948 would reach and all
time high Of $500, ,00o, 900 or s123,-
900 900 over the previous peak in the
war. He forecast 1949 business at
or near the same high level"
New York, Chicago and st. Louis
Railroad Co. took action to reduce
accrued and unpaid dividend ar
rearages on its preferred stock by
announcing a dividend OF $3.50,
payable March Is.
Public Service Co. of Indiana reg
istered with SEC q proposed Offering
Of S12, ,000, 900 in first mortgage bonds
10 be applied to new construction.
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
officials in Cincinnati announced the
first phase Of a $4,000, 900 master
plan" to consolidate operations there
Is scheduled for completion April i.
Denver a. Rio Grand Railroad Co.
for II months ended November 80
earned $6,521 ,528 VS.. $3,547 $40 in the
same period year ago.
Chesapeake g. Ohio Railway Co
for II months ended November 80
earned $28,994,3 1853 or 1858 share
VS.. S33,7l2,020 or $4.24 in 1947 period
Commonwealth & Southern Corp
for year ended November 80 earned
S28, All, ,944 or $19.72 q share VS.
29,842 ,820 or $20.7l in ls47 period
Philadelphia Electric Co. for yeal
enoed october 81 earned $l9 ,564 ,61t
or S164 a share VS.. $l9,775,784 OF
$l.72 in 1947.
Seaboard Finance Co. for yea
ended September 30 earned $2,053,
56S or $218' a share VS.. $2,l70,97S O
S2.56 in l947.
Horn q Hardart Baking Co. TO
year ended September 80 sarnet
$l,14l.631 or $ll.47 o share w. g.,
sl7,593 or sl3.24 in ls47.
Cudahy Packing Co. for yea
ended October 80 earned $1,012,73
or 80 cents q share vs. $7,l21, TOT o
s4.32 in ls47.
Myers d Bros. Co. for year endet
october 81 earned $l,576,l32 or $7.S
q share vs.. $l,123,517 or $5.62 Il
1947.
Hygrade Food Products Corp. TO
year ended october 80 earned $424,
48l or Sl.7S q share VS.. $81l ,806 o
s3.4l in l947.
Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. an
nounced appointment of Robert M
Arnold as vice president of the firm
Petroleum & Trading Corp. an
nounced q dividend of $1,000 in tn,
t1.25 Glass A S5 par to clear VI
arrearages on the stock. payabl
pecl4ber %.
Evening star., 1948-12-22

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Evening star., 1948-12-22
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LIST INCLUDES ONLY SELECTED ISSUES

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Evening star., 1948-12-22
New York Cotton

NEW YORK, Dec. % LP.-Cotton fu
lures fluctuated in . narrow ranae in slow
forenoon dealings today. Mill buying and
short covering were supplied through New
Orleans and local selling. Dullness in cot
ture ECA cotton export prosram restricted
trading.
Noon prices were to 30 cents bale
higher than the previous close. March,
52.2O: May, 32.Ol, and July. SE36.
Evening star., 1948-12-22
Market AVERAGES
Foreion Exchange

NEW YORK. Dec. 90 lP.--Foreisn sx-
dollars, others In centsl:
Canadian dollar in New York open pen
market g. per cent discount aSounta or s2.oo
Europe-Great Britain (pound). .4.03H,
unchaneed;, Great Britain, 3n-day futures,
60-day futures. 4.ooss, uD i Of a cent:
Great Britain, 9O-day futures. 4,02h4. up
"a Of a cent; France francD, 81 u Of a
cent unchaneed: Italy 0iral. December
fxed rate, ..O017 739; November. .0017S9;
Sweden (krona), 27.s5 UNCHANGED;
switzerland urane} Gree. 1907. un-
Evening star., 1948-12-22
N. Y. Bond Markell

FURNISHED BY the Associated Press.)
LIST INCLUDES ONLY SELECTED ISSUES
Evening star., 1948-12-22

or stock Declared OF, paid SO tar this
,a. g. r.sssas % sf0ss ase Pa az
year B Declared or paid after stock
dividend or split-up. kDeclared or paid
this yeaf. an aecumulatiye issue with
dividend omitted, deferred or no action
taken at last dividend meeting. . Payable
ID stock. exact cash value undeterminse
On decla1stiea 9A&A
Evening star., 1948-12-22
Home Building Loans
!, For Nation Show Gain
! OF 70 Pct. Over 1947
Ey Edward c. Stone

About $4,000 American families
have made final payments on homes
bought through building and loan
associations, James ]. O'Malley,
president of the United States Saw
ings and Loan League, announced
today.
Final payments have been made
during the past month on many OF
these homes and the mortgages
burned, he added. Home financing
by building and loan associations in
194S will exceed 500,000,000.
View construction loans were about
20 per cent ahead Of last year and
loans for alterations and recondi-
tioning 4 per cent ahead Of 1947
Savings placed with these associa-
tions in 1948 will exceed 1947 by ap-
proximately IS per cent, the national
officer said.
Trust Company Votes Extra.
Directors of the American Security
a. Trust Co. have declared the
regular dividend Of az per cent and
an extra of 2ia per cent. both pay
able January 10 to stockholders OF
record December 81. Daniel w. Bell
president announced. The board also
voted a Christmas bonus to all
employees.
Liberty National Bank directors
yesterday transferred $5O,000 from
undivided profits to surplus account,
bringing this fund to 100000, w. T.
Vandoren. president, stated. The
regular semi-annual dividend OF
per cent was also voted, payable
January to stock of record Decem-
Der q.
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion today authorized the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad to issue $3,255, 900
of euipment trust certificates in con-
nection with new equipment pur-
chases.
District Banker HOnored.
William z. Schooley, vice presi-
dent of the American Security 81
Trust Co., and thirty-third de-
gree Mason, has been named deputy
on the Supreme Council Of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
of Free Masonry for southern juris-
dition Of the United States. He
was grand master Of the District OF
Columbia Masons in 1916.
The International Bank for Re-
construction and Development an
nounced that C. F. Dunstan has
resigned as director of marketing
10 return to the Bankers Trust Co.,
of New York. as vice president in
charge of the bond department.
The Virginia State Corporation
Commission yesterday approved the
financing plan Of the Alexandra
Water Co., which proposes an issue
Of $4,470,O00 in company securities.
Woman Director Elected.
Mrs. Carita B. Sander has been
elected q director Of the Bank Of
Commerce a. Savings. She is the
wife of DR.. I. Lewis Sander and Is
president Of the Valley Forge Dis
tributing Co., Inc. Mrs. Sander has
O Phi Beta Kappa key from the
University of Nebraska and was ac-
tive in the Community Chest drive.
President Thomas j. Groom an
nounced an extra dividend Of 81 a
share and the regular quarterly
$3.50 q share. both payable Decem-
Der 81 to stockholders Of record De-
cemner ~.
District Of Columbia Control, Con-
Gollers' Institute Of America, heard
O fne address by Lowell B. Mason,
member Of the Federal Trade Com
mission, at the Carlton Hotel last
night. He considered the basing
point decision, his remarks being
of the record. II. Randolph Bar
bee presided.
Evening star., 1948-12-22

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Evening star., 1948-12-22

Alum Co Am 9
Am Bantam car
Am L g. T 3.45f
Am MaTaCklcu
Am Superpower
ArkNatGsA .4Oe
Aro Equip 80
Bald Rub .60a
Blue Ridge .27e
Breeze Corp
Buckeye P l.. 80
Bunker Hill la
Burma Ltd
BURY Biscuit.
callite Tung
Can Marconi
Catalin Am .1be
Cent q 9 w 80
Cit Service "a
Clarostat Nfg--
Claude Neon
Colts Mfg
Creole Pet 800
Croft Brew
Crosley Mot Me
Dennison A lie
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Domestic Credit
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FchildE&A zoe
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Evening star., 1948-12-22

Hourly Sales on ths E1ehangs TeAAys
II 100 m. zlo 900 1900 noon A2o 900
100 pm 900 900 800 p.m.- 600 600
tun,t OF trading. 10 shares: '1n bank.
ruptcy Or receivership Or being rsorEan-
tiles assumed By such companies. Rates
Of dividends in the foregoing table are
annual disbursements based on the lass
rnless otherwise noted, special or extra
dividends. are not included. cld callsa.
e sxsrss. B Pius stock dividend. 4 0sb
Evening star., 1948-12-22
Washington Exchange

Potomac Electric Power eommon-So At
1874, so at 1870.
Capital Transit Co;-15 at 17h. so at
17A. so at 17L
washinston Loan & Trust Cog at 335
Potomac Electric Power commons at
Potomac Electric Power s.soS preferred
'B"-25 al 43I,
Potomac Electric Power common-l2 al
Evening star., 1948-02-15
Capt. Taylor TO Talk
lon Naval Warfare 3.

7a!(Capt, John McNeS Taylor ~. .s.N,'
will speak on Naval Warfare in
Transition at a dinner meeting Of
tbS Silver spriHgi Bdard of Trade at
7:15 pm. Wednesday at the Indian
Spring Country Club.
Capt. Taylor will illustrate the
manner in which the Navy adapted
itself to amphibious warfare In
World War II with 20-minute
sound and color movie. ITO the
Shores of Two Jima." He also will
touch on the present activities Of
the Navy and speak briefly on the
functions of the Naval Ordnance
Laboratory.
DR.. Ralph Bennett. technical ad-
visor, Naval Ordnance Laboratory,
also will be guest of the trade
group.
Holder of the Silver Star medal
and the Legion of Merit, Capt. Tay-
lor was a member of the staff of
the Commander, Amphibious Force.
Central Pacific Fleet. He partici-
pated in the operations on the Gil
berts, Marshalls, Marianas, Two Jima
and OkinaWa.
Blair Lee, III, president, has an
nounced that each member of the
Board of Trade is urged to bring q
guest to hear Capt. Taylor's talk.
Evening star., 1948-02-15
Symphony Will Play
AT Leland Junior Hiqh

The National Symphony Orches-
ira will give concert at $50 pm.
Thursday at Leland Junior High
School, Forty-fourth and Elm
streets, Chevy Chase, under the
sponsorship of the Bethesda Chevy
Chase Lions Club.
The concert program, which the
sponsors said should appeal to both
the novice and seasoned music
lover, was especially arranged by
DR.. Hans Kinder. conductor OF the
National Symphony
The Lions announced they would
devote proceeds from the concert
to the clubs charitable and civic
activities this year They also said
the program was intended to stimu-
late interest in the current CAM
paign for funds to assure continu-
ance of the National Symphony.
Senior girls of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School will usher
for the concert.
The Lions Club announced that
Kenneth Culver would supply infor-
nation on tickets. to those tele-
phoning Adams 5000 or Wisconsin
9422.
Evening star., 1948-02-15
Soybeon Lobby for Oeo Repeal Now Fights Oil Imports

in order to win its active air
for the tax repeal measure. The
soybean people are represented
as taking the position that the
provision protects an American
industry" from foreign competi-
ton.
In 1888 about IS per cent of all
the fats and oils in cleo were i'm
ported into this country and they
were mostly cocoanut oils. BY
1887 the figure had declined to
80 per cent. BY 1912 the use OF
cocoanut oil had disappeared,
chiefly because the war had cut
off the imports.
In 1916, the last year for which
full figures are available, 80 per
cent of the fats and oils in the
oleo that was colored by the
manufacturer came from cocoa
nut oil. But none was used in
oleo sold uncolored to the house.
wife.
Wanted to Avoid Argument.
The reason, as one oleo repre-
sentative explained 1t, was simply
that the oleo people wanted to
avoid the argument Of the dairy
butter lobby that foreign OILS
were being used. The oleo sup
Evening star., 1948-02-15
Bay Ferry Delayed All Night
BY Fog Offers Free Meals

Fogbound passengers on Chesa
peake Bay ferry spent the night
playing cards, working crossword
puzzles, eating free sandwiches ano
coffee provided by the State OF
Maryland and taken cat maps in the
lounge. until they were able to land
early yesterday. Alfred v. Schrider
802 Philadelphia avenue, Silver
Spring, one of them, said.
Maryland operates the, ferry
which runs between Sandy Point
near Annapolis and Matapeake on
the Eastern Shore.
Women and children were lucky
for the officers and crew OF. the
ferry, the Gov. Harry w. Nice
turned their staterooms over to
them.
Veterans" of Grounding.
Two veterans" of the grounding
of the ferry Gov. Herbert r. O'Conol
two weeks ago Friday night, which
made them 13 hours overdue, were
aboard the Nice and sang How
Soon" wanting to know when they
would reach shore, Mr.. Schride1
said.
He said one was H. A. Hollister
who is connected with the con.
struction firm building a naval all
station at Chincoteague Island or
the Eastern Shore The other, HI
said, was Navy chief petty officer
whose name he did not remember.
Friday nights run was not with.
out its excitement, Mr.. Schrider said
when a big ship looned out of the
fog and only by skillful seamanshiI
did Capt. Frank Conway of Cam.
bridge, Md, skipper of the ferry
avoid collision. AS a safety meas.
ure, the captain maneuvered along
side this big vessel, the Canadian
freighter Manx Navigator, which
was anchored, and tied up to the
ship for the rest of the night.
Then, when the fog cleared 9
little around $50 am. yesterday,
Evening star., 1948-02-15

Several cotton state Senators
-cottonseed oil is big ingredi-
ent in oleo-last week agreed to
try to attach an amendment to
the Knutson income tax reduc-
ton bill which would kill the
oleo taxes. That's one plan.
The soybean industry, repre-
sented by the American Soybean
Association, has its own ideas.
1t favors bill with a good
chance of winning enough doubt
full votes to get at least the 10
cent coloring tax repealed. The
industry is therefore behind HR.
1892, a bill introduced on Febru-
ary S by Representative Corbett,
Republican of Pennsylvania.
Bill Would Tax All Oleo.
This bill would tax all oleo,
colored or uncolored, quarter of
cent a pound. Thus the Fed
eral licensing and inspection sys-
tenn would be maintained, in
answer to the dairy-butter lobby
arguments that all sorts of
abuses would spring up if oleo
is stripped of all controls. The
license fee would be cut to 5000
Evening star., 1948-02-15

Five school days remain in which
entries in The Evening Stars Scho-
lastic Writing Awards contest can
be submitted. The contest closes at
midnight Friday. All entries must
be delivered to Room 724, The
Evening Star Building, or postmark-
ed before that time.
Already manuscripts covering all
categories of writing included in
the contest have been submitted.
Winners in the contest will re-
ceive gold Achievement Keys. and
Certificates of Merit. Up to 20
awards will be made in each classi-
fication, five being gold keys and
the other IS certificates. 'a'
The grand total of possible win
ners viii include IS gold keys and
225 certificates, although that many
awards will not be necessary to be
made. Only manuscripts deemed
worthy will win awards. It might
happen that in a particular cate
Evening star., 1948-02-15

repeal a part or all of the Fed
eral taxes on oleo. The present
tax is 10 cents a pound on colored
margarine and a quarter cent on
the uncolored variety. Hence,
most housewives buy the uncol-
ored type and mix in the color
themselves. In q States it is IL
legal to sell the colored variety.
Representative Mitchell, the
Indiana Republican who has been
making a splash with his fight
to end the taxes, has said he
wants all the taxes thrown out.
He includes the various Federal
license fees; $500 for a manufac-
turer, $3.50 for a wholesaler and
$48 for a retailer of colored oleo.
Uncoloreo oleo can be retailed
with s6 license.
Doubt Chances Are Good.
But Mr. Mitchell is a first term
Representative and some of the
older heads who have been strug-
Cling with the issue for a long
time think the chances of
frontal attack are not too good.
The dairy and butter interests
have long been powerful in Con-
gress and they are still dead set
against repeating the oleo tax.
Evening star., 1948-02-15

porters remember that most of
the State laws against sale of
colored oleo we're enacted in the
1930s when the domestic dairy
industry was suffering and had
become acutely conscious OF CO.
coanut imports. Hence, cocoanut
oil was used only in colored cleo
which, in turn, was made for
export since the 10-cent tax does
not apply to exports.
Now the soybean lobby sees a
chance to Nll off the cocoanut
oil competition from abroad once
and for all by a simple clause
in the oleo tax repeal bill Co.
coanut oil would still be used for
oleo which is manufactured here
for export. But that is a small
part of the vast oleo business.
Next month, according to
Chairman Hope of the House Ag-
griculture Committee, there Will
be public hearings on the oleo
tax repeal bill. He said yesterday
that he expects soon to fix the
exact date. Mr.. Hope added that
he thinks there Is a pretty good
chance that the committee may
report out a tax repeal bill, out
he would not say which bill.
Evening star., 1948-02-15
Five School Days Left to Enter
Star Scholastic Writing Contest

CORY no award would be given If
no manuscript was considered, OF
sufficient high quality.
The top winner in the Washington
area will receive a Royal portable
typewriter. The schools attended
by the two winners in international
letter writing will each receive an
illuminated globe. the gift of Pan
American Airways.
& The best manuscripts will be
entered In a'inational contest con-
Quoted by Scholastic Magazine. ~ +
"A panel of judges IS now" being
assembled to select the local win
nersi Judging. VIII hegirs soon efte,
the close Of the contest.
For those who desire to make
.last-minute entries and are .un-
familiar with the rules, a letter ol
post card to Scholastic Writings
Award Editor, Room 724, The
Evening Star Building, will bring
a prompt reply.
Evening star., 1948-02-15
By Chalmers M. Roberts

A new twist has been added to
the battle of rival lobbyists seek
ing repeal of the Federal tax on
oleomargarine which forces the
housewife to mix in the color
herself, it was learned last night.
The soyoean lobby is fighting
the butter and dairy lobby in an
effort to get the oleo tax removed
and thus benefit soybean growers
as we'll as housewives. But, in
turn, it is attempting to kill off
the importing of cocoanut oil
for use in oleo since it is a rival
to soybean oil.
Cocoanut oil is a major i'm
port from the Philippines to this
country. But the Philippines are
now an independent nation and
their product thus can be ex-
cluded by Congress. The islands
no longer have a delegate with
a voice on the floor of the House.
Here's the Story.
This is the story of what has
been going on:
A dozen or. more bills have
been introduced in Congress to