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Evening star., 1949-02-04
New York Produce

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 lP,.-Butter; 3as.-
$50; arm. Wholesale prices on bulk car
tons: Creamery higher than 90 score
and premium MARKS tAAl, 6$ cents; 922
score (C), 61-6l1..
Cheese, l36,716; steady. prices un-
changed.
Efs prices we're lower today in the ths
cases Spot quotations follow:
Midwestern: Mixed colors-Fancy heavy
welehts. 4b-46: extra l large, AN: extra
9 large. a.: extra ! medium, 43-43h;
42: checks, 41-42.
Whites-Fancy heayyweishts; 4s-47;
extra large. 45-45la; extra 2 large. IS;
extra 1 medium. 1914.
Browns-Fancv hesvyweights. 46-46h;
extra larGe. 44A-45: extra 2 large, AN:
extra J medium. 43-k4.
Nearby ttop quotations on nearby white
and brown eggs represent highest Wholesale
selling prices for the finest marks avail
or .shippersl: whites,-Extra fancy heavy
Tishs ossFs a fsnss %edsmE
Browns-Extra fancy heavyweishts. ~:
quoted: mediums. 43-44.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Chicoqo Grain

.,,s,EIIS CHICAGO. Feb. R:.qrain prices
.ftfF 5 starting q, a, with t.ir:sizsd gains;
IS minutes and then went to pieces when hen
heavy selling swept into corn and soon
tSan som 6penns cGaa prle.s as ones oDes
again liuuidattor ~ commission houses
and local tTadsrs sent the market on
wheat near the end Of the t,rst hour
vas x.s zsE lover: MAY :so%; and ests
2.si; ana lard was u to 20 cents a a
hunseed se Decline s.4y.a 9Ts5 M'ssh a
since trsdins in the ' various SOW contrsets paas
One pit trader. trying to explain the
moTalizedn He said professional traders
assumption prices would advance to the
Government loan level as soon as the
big post.harvest movement of corn was
Instead, cash corn has continued to
come to market in volume. 1t is wet
government loan At the same time the
Government will not buy corn containing
more more than ID per cent moisture, This
of market '''Ne'
As cash handlers buy the wet corn
ing; It also means that. without other
outlets. futures contracts offer the best
place for cash handlers to get rid of
The result of all this is that profess
sional traders. who bought expecting
prices to advance, are now confronted
with the prospect OF having a lot of
wet corn dumped on them They don't
want 1t. And therefore they also have
taken to the selling side Of the corn
Wheat particularly May. shower a little
strength in early dealings 1t was re-
ported the Government was speeding UP
loadings of wheat at Gulf of Mexico
ports; The Government has raised its
wheat premium twice this week
Evening star., 1949-02-04

~" 1Il8t1U1&CtuEGT,
The attractive, blond Mrs. Lord
made fortress out of the apart
ment, The News said, after she and
private detectives "recaptured' it
from her husband, who had locked
her out for two months.
The News said Mrs. Lord told this
story in the sealed court papers:
Last September she returned to
the apartment at 333 West Fifty
seventh street to find the door
barred. Two strange men refused
to let her in.
She spent two months living In
hotels and making repeated at
tempts to get into the apartment.
On November 20, armed detec-
tives. hired by her, went to the
apartment, forced their way past
two Of Mr.. Lords hired guards, and
took over the apartment.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Amvets Is 10 | for Bonus,
Keats Tells House Group
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

Members of Amvets favor a vet
erans' bonus, Harold A. Keats, COM
mander Of the World War II vet
Grams organization said yesterday.
Mr.. Keats told the House Veterans
Committee poll of the organiza-
tion's $4,000 members showed a 16-1
majority for adjusted service COM
penSation. About one-third of the
membership voted.
The Amvets' chief proposed a
bonus of S. a day up to $500 for
home service, and 81 a day up to
S4,500 for overseas service-the
whole to- be paid in Understanding
Government bonds maturing in 1855.
Amvets also ask a service pension
of $100 a month at age IS until
Social Security can be broadened to
carry the load.
Chairman Rankin adjourned hear
ings on the pension legislation until
next Tuesday. saying he expected
to continue them all week.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Feb. 4 " (UsDA.
eral market mostly % cents higher on
all weights and sows: some sales butcher
hogs SO cents higher al through the
weight list: bulk good and choice 1s0-
Il 80; most 24o:27o bounds, 1895
20.25; bulk 2s0-326 pounds, ls.25.19.25;
few loads 34O-400 pound butchers. II so
ages at 16.0O-I6.75; few choice light
sows upward to 1900: most $3.50
pound weights, 15.e5-ls.oo; indications
broad early clearance.
salable cattle. 1900; salable calves.
200: slow; general market steady to 25
cents lower except bulls, 50 cents to
90 lower; vealers steady: choice steers
absent; several loads and lots medium
and good l.05O-1 .225 pound steers, 1900
% 90: few loads Montana and Dakota:
30 5O-22 90: load high-medium s52-pound
fed heifers. 2O50; load medium 927-pound
eow-type heifers. 1880: beef cows. 1900
eS.ters. cutter g: pr.stie.i sog vsishts
sausage bulls. 22.50; vealers, "a 90 down;
short load good SO0-pound feeding steers,
salable sheep, 500; slaughter lambs
mainly holdoyers from Thursday very
dull at Thursdays l 90 decline: bidding
we'll below. $500 on choice. light lambs:
good to choice approximately 11l-pound
averages. $3.50; no reliable outlet for
Evening star., 1949-02-04
New York Cotton

NEW YORK, Feb 4 tP.-cotton futures
ness in grains and other markets again
prompted commission house selling. Liaui-
dation in nearby March also gathered
momentum because of the large open in
terest in that contract, with only IL more
trading sessions prior to first notice day
on February %.
Atlanta advices said that mill buying
of spot cotton was limited to small lots for
prompt or nearby shipment during the
past week. Middling and better equities
continued to sell in North Alabama and
North Georgia at SIS to Sc. so a bale above
the loan, plus carrying charges.
Noon prices were 25 to 55 cents . bale
3252; May, 3232, and July, 31:,,22.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Market AVERAGES
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK. Feb 1P-roreign ex.
change rates follow Great Britain In
Canadian dollar in New York open mar
ket. u. per cent discount or 92.6sa4 U. g.
cents UNCHANGED
UNCHANGED: Great Britain, 3O-day futures
4.o31s unchsnged: Great Britain, 6O-day
futures, .4027s, unchanged. Great Britain.
Gfranc). 81 u of a cent, unchaneed: italy
llira), February fixed rate. .OO1 739; Jan
uary, .00l 739; Sweden tkrona). 27.s5
UNCHANGED: Switzerland franc) (free)
25.12. UNCHANGED
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Brokers' Loans Down
$4,000, 900 in Week
BY ths Asseeiatsd Press

The Federal Reserve Board re-
ported today that loans to brokers
and dealers on securities held by
member banks in New York City
totaled $l,l03 ,00o, 900 Wednesday, a
decrease Of $4,000, 900 from a week
earlier. and an increase of $6S7 ,0oo,-
900 from q year earlier.
Included was $7s4 900 900 lent to
purchase or carry United States
Government obligations, a decrease
Of $46 900, 900 for the week.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Business Briefs

Money in Circulation declined to
I27,556, 100000 on February 2, lowest
level since August, 1945, a drop of
5000 900 from a week earlier and
1865, 900, 900 below a year earlier
Federal Reserve Board. Circulation
normally rises at this season. The
current drop reflects decreasing en-
ployment and a flow Of boarded
funds back to the banks, commented
he Wall Street Journal.
Department Store Sales over the
Nation were TO below year earlier
IN the week ended January %
Federal Reserve Board. 1t was first
weekly year-to-year decline of l949.
Atlantic Refining Co. reduced the
price of No. heavy fuel oil 20 cents
b barrel in the Philadelphia area.
The action followed a cut by ESQ
Standard.
Pennsylvania Water & Power Co.
declared a dividend of so cents a
common share, payable April l. Pre-
vious quarterly payments were 81.
Recent rate reductions were cited.
Union Carbide & Carbon Corp.
earned $102 1886 .o53 or S355 a share
In 194a VS.. s75, ,666, 1872 or s2.62 in the
previous year.
Koppers Co., Inc, net income for
l948 was S10,552,8 ,8z5 or S8.84 VS.. s6,I-
l65,783 or S494 in 1947.
McKessOn g. Robbins, Inc, earned
t4,72s.375 or s264 in six months
ended December 81 VS.. $4,756473 or
b265 year earlier.
E. r. Squibb & Sons profit for six
month ended December 81 was
k3,511,435 or s2.O1 VS.. s1,271 $40 or
s5 cents in the same 1947 period.
Shamrock Oil G. Gas Corp. earned
t5,753,54S or $427 in IL months end
ed November 80 VS.. s2,875 ,158 or So IA
In the previous year.
Endicott Johnson Corp. net for
IL months ended November 80 was
k3,623,162 or SAIL VS.. S2,938 1896 or
1927 in the preceding fiscal period.
Hancock Oil Corp. of California
earned S1s44,402 or S764 in six
months ended December 81 VS.. ST.
B3S.S74 or $3.50 a year earlier
Pacific Lighting Corp. net income
for 194S was s7,650046 or $4.2o VS..
t7810,252 or $4.86 in 1947.
Saco-Lowell Shops, Inc, earned
s4,1oo,559 or 1887 in the year ended
November % VS.. S3,0l7,5o2 or $12.07
In the previous year.
Chase Candy Co. reported a net
loss of $267 ,035 for six months ended
December 81 VS.. profit Of $1.418,313
or s2.67 In the same 1947 period.
Family Finance Co. earned $685.
384 in six months ended December
81 VS.. 1922 1853 year earlier.
Jaeger Machine Co. net income
for six months ended December 81
was s2s6.113 or IA cents VS.. 1922, ,06a
or $2.06 in the same 1947 period.
Pneumatic Scale Corp. earned
S564.346 or 1852 in IL months ended
November 80 VS.. $559,542 or $4.58 In
the previous year.
Republic Petroleum Co. net fol
1e4s was s47s,7 ,7s6 or s1.61 VS.. s6o2,-
24o or s2.04 in 1947.
Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. earned
e167,84S or 20 cents in three months
ended December 81 VS.. 1851 ,126 OF
s1.03 year earlier.
American Molasses Co. net for SIX
months ended December 81 was
S116,799 or Is cents VS.. $110,169 OF
"a cents in the same 1947 period.
General Builders Supply Corp
elected James A. Farley president to
succeed the late John P. Kane. Mr.
Farley will continue as chairman.
Central Ohio Steel Products Co
elected B. John Heiser president to
succeed the late Gilbert L. Stiefel.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Lanston Monotype Nei
Off Slightly Despite
Increase in Sales
Rx EdWard G. Stone

Earnings from operations OF Cne
Lanston Monotype Co. for nine
months ended November 30, are
estimated at $3.50 per share as COM
pared with $252 for the correspond
ing period in 1947, David S. Hendrick
chairman of the board, announced
today.
Shipments and sales for the period
increased by $170000 over the same
months in 1947 but costs and selling
expenses also increased. Shipments
for December and January are re-
ported as very satisfactory. Net
earnings for the nine months were
$623, 800 against $633,556 a year ago
Share Accounts Increase
Savings share accounts Of Wash
ington's q building and loan asso-
Citations in the District Building ano
Loan League totaled $289, ,000. 900 al
the year end, a gain of more thar
s20,000,0 900 over 1947, Secretary F
Wilson Camp reported today. Sur
plus and reserves rose 100000 tt
S3O,ooo.000.
Combined resources totaled $347,-
727. 776, rise of SIS 100000 in 1948
The associations reported the largest
number Of customers on record, 2l9,-
600. nearly accounts 5000 beins
opened during the year.
Mortgage loan activity, while
under that Of 1947, was brisk, with
real estate loan portfolios moving ur
t16,000,000 to $317, ,462 900.
Gichner Is Reelected.
Fred S. Gichner Iron Works, Inc,
has elected Fred S. Gichner head
of the firm for the 5lst consecutive
year. He founded the company in
1898 and has given it a national
reputation. Now 78, he is still active
In all departments of the business.
Henry Gichner was named vice
president and general manager;
Joseph Blumenthal, secretary-treas-
urer: Allen G. Stern, assistant sec
tetary. Stanley Manville and
George Fulmer were reappointed
superintendents.
c. Carney Smith has been made
agent for Washington of the Mu-
tual Benefit Life Insurance Co. of
Newark. He will be honored with
l luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel
pn Friday, February H.
Transfer Officers Elected.
Directors have elected Arthur
Clarendon Smith, sr., president and
treasurer of Smiths Transfer g.
Storage Co.. with A. C. Smith, jr.,
vice president and general man
lger. Elected to the Board of Di-
tectors are Mrs. A. c. Smith. ST.,
Mrs. Donald Latnrom, Mrs. A. C.
Smith, jr., and Donald Lathrom.
Mrs. Mary ]. Ways, connected
with the company 81 years, was
elected vice president and director
f Smiths Storage Insurance
Agency, Inc. Eugene Roberts was
aamed vice president and general
manager of the furniture company.
Real Estate Bonds Rise.
The real estate bond market got
bn to a good start in January
Amott, Baker g. Co. report. The
price rise was 2.3 per cent and
wiped out the IT per cent decline
Turing 194s.
The United States Building and
Loan League reported today that
aew construction loans of s1,000.-
100000 were issued during 1913 by
building and loan associations, a
Eain of Is per cent over .947, and a
aew yearly peak.
Mutual savings bank deposits
Eained s612 1000 900 during 1948 to
each a new high of $18,400, ,000, 900.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Sales

Hourly Sales on the Exchange To-day:
~ Uu n $50 oo~ =. ~. uooa 40 600
100 pm. $50 ooo 900 N. oeo ooo
ruptcy or receivership. or being reorganized
under the Bankruptcy Act. or securities
assumed BY such companies. Rates OF div.
disbursements based on the last quarterly
"r semi-annual declaration. Unless other
wise noted. special or extra dividends are
xr TX rights Also extra or extras Plus
stock DIVIDEND. Cash or stock. E Paid
last year. Payable In stock. estimat ted
cash valle on ex-dividend date. De-
clared or laid 50 far this year. b Declared
or paid after stock dividend or split-up.
K Declared or paid this. year. an accumula-
tive issue with dividends in arrears. p Paid
this year. dividend omitted. deferred or no
action taken at last dividend meeting.
r Declared 194S payable in 1949. , Lioui-
cash value undetermined on declaration
Evening star., 1949-02-04

against her mil
lionaire husband
and kept him
away-with q rifles
for II weeks.
The News said
in a copyrighted
story that the
siege was re-
vealed In papers
filed by Mrs.
E dith \ Maria
Reuss Lord, Il.
In q separation
s u 1 t against
Robert p. Lord,
IS, q attorney and
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Bituminous Production
Down Sharply in Week
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

The National Coal Association
estimated bituminous production in
the week ended January 20 at TO-
465, 900 tons. Production the previ-
Gus week was 11,415, 900 tons and in
the corresponding week Of 1948 it
was 11,180,000.
Production from January /
through January % was approxi-
mately 45,315,000 tons. From Jan
uary through January 81 in 1948
it was 54,820,0 900.
Evening star., 1949-02-04

NEW YORK CITY
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Evening star., 1949-02-04

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Evening star., 1949-02-04

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Am SuperpoWer
| ArkNatGsA zoe
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Evening star., 1949-02-04
Wife Home
AGAINST Millionaire
BY the Assecioisd Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-The Daily
News said last night former Phila-
delphia socialite has barricaded q
sumptuous Manhattan apartment
Evening star., 1949-02-04
N. 7. Curb Market

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Evening star., 1949-02-04
N. Y. Bond Market

sT rESshff z csiI 81 sEIncTtp ssEs
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 GP-Dividends de-
clared. Pc Stock of Paw
Rate. riod. record able.
Evening star., 1949-02-04

" OHID BNk
.ptBR&O 3sT2 100
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-12-01
A Report From Britain

One acre out of three Of Scot
lands farming area consists OF
marginal and submarginal land
which now produces ten per cent
of the gross output of Scottish
farms. The target is to increase
production so as to provide maxi
mum help in Britain's desperate
effort to feed herself.
After two year study the Mar
ginal Land committee Of the Scot
fish Farmers union has proposed
the amalgamation of uneconomic
marginal land farms into larger
units to make their working eco
nomically sound" AS an alterna-
tive to amalgamation the commit
tee proposes planned rural econ
omy which win allow marginal
farmers to augment their come
from such sources as fishing, for
estry, rural crafts and industrial
development.
The committees short term pro-
posals include the continuation of
present subsidies to farmers plus
assistance by grants up to rs per
cent for grassland Improvements.
Today the British farmer receives
subsidies for the production of
potatoes ($22.40 to $3.50 per acre)
wheat and rye ($840 per acre.,
sheep, horses and cattle. He re-
ceives something over $1,000 for
each acre of grassland ploughed
and sown to approved crops be-
fore the end of the year. Grants
are made by the government to-
ward the cost of drainage projects,
the use of certain fertilizers, and
the eradication of pests. In fact,
if they're not too busy, the ex-
perts of the Department of Agri-
culture will drop around to help
get rid of farmers rats or moles.
Prices of farm products are rig
idly controlled but the farmers
don't kick because they have Jared
exceptionally well in this control
led society. In fact many normal
ly conservative agriculturalists
have swung to the support of the
labor government Food prices
are slightly lower over here than
in the United States, due mainly
to further subsidization of the
consumer. The Brannan plan has
been in operation in Britain for
some time.
AS in many parts of the Ameri-
can South, the hill lands of Scot
land can carry great many more
cattle than have been grazed on
them in the past. In Inverness
shire Lord Lovat of Commando
fame is now grazing more than
six hundred cattle on land which
was supporting only forty three
years ago. He hopes to develop
his herd to a thousand head, all
of which is entirely academic to
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-12-01

the present writer whose only
connection with the word steak is
one of fond remembrance.
A main obstacle in the way of
tipping agricultural production is
the growing scarcity of farm la
Dor. More than a thousand male
workers were lost to Scottish
farming last year - at a time of
considerable expansion.
Americas chief farming prob
lem is overproduction (or adjust
ment to the profitable market).
Britain's greatest need is the pro-
duction of more and more food
and raw materials. Strange as it
may seem, both countries use the
same means to achieve opposite
ends; in America we subsidize
to cut down production. in Britain
they substitute to increase produc-
ton.
Right now raisins are fast be-
coming non-existent over here be-
cause of the failure of the Aus
tralian crop. At the same time
the United States government is
paying out millions of dollars so
that California raisins may be
turned into hog food, which re-
minds me once more of one of the
elemental facts of this modern
world we live in: the presence of
a thousand starving children is of
no economic Importance to the
owner of thousand quarts of
milk or loaves of bread unless
the children have the cash or its
equivalent to plank down on the
barrel head for the food they de-
sire.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-12-01
Cord Of Thonks

J. B. Elliott wishes to take this
occasion to express his gratitude
to those who so kindly aided him
in his sickness and the cards of
good wishes and personal visits
of friends and especially the kind,
efficient and sympathetic care of
the nurses and DR.. Derrick dur
ing my 2 weeks CONTINENT at the
Lexington hospital. / am recover
ing now at my room with Mrs.
Dollahite.
Sincerely,
J. B. ELLIOTT
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-12-01

What can we say of man who
was often in hot water with the city
authorities. who spent months of his
time in Jail. who was called subver-
sive. and who never got along with
the established religion of his
time?
The prophet jeremiah was that
man: yet posterity honored him.
His own generation thought him a
liar. But some then knew, as we
know today, that he was a teller
Of Gods truth, spokesman Of God.
Was he a pessimist?
VI1E KNOW Ger. ID that jeremiah
w did not wish to be a prophet
in the first place, though unlike
Isaiah he shrank back not from a
sense of sin but because he thought
Of himself as mere child.
We know (chap. 20) that at times
he was thoroughly discouraged
about himself. and even cursed the
day he was born. 1t is also true that
In the last war waged by his little
country of judah before 1t was
smashed. his advice from begin
ming to end was Surrender"
No wonder people thought him a
pessimist, calamity-howler. But
before we call him such names we
must remember two things. First
Is, that his unwillingness to be =
prophet, and the fact that so to
speak he hated the job, marks q
vital fact: he. perhaps even more
than other prophets, sensed the diff
ference between his own ideas and
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-12-01

thods of financing higher educa-
ton. / had a most pleasant visit
with DR.. Fackenthal and found
him to be not an over-dignified,
unapproachable person but gen.
ial, sparkling personality who is
ound to do lot for higher edu-
ttion something that is GER
tainly needed - just as he did a
lot for Columbia.