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Evening star., 1950-07-31
Big Military Orders
For Steel Reported
Unlikely Until Fall
By the Asseeicitad Prass

CLEVELAND, July 31.-Impact
of new military demands upon the
steel industry will not be heavy
until fall, Steel magazine predict
ed today.
Munitions orders are beginning
to trickle through, but it will be
weeks before military releases
come out in volume" the magazine
said. Then it will take some time
for armaments production to get
rolling at converted mills"
with production of steel
pushed at capacity level, a tre-
mendous tonnage should continue
to be available for civilian goods"
"CutbackS in civilian goods
manufacture are likely to sick
from diversion of steel facilities
to war production. labor shortages
and sitter credit controls rather
than steel shortages"
However, current supply
stringencies will intensity in
sheets, strip. plates. bars, alloys
and specialties.
Many steel consumers are
turning to the high cost conver-
sion and gray markets as the
mills. jammed with orders, move
slowly on commitments" Steel
said. But even there. the supply
is limited"
Mandatory allocations. if ap-
piled, would remove even these
markets as areas of unrestricted
supply"
Steelmaking last week rose an
other half point to 995 per cent
of rated capacity production.
Evening star., 1950-07-31
Aircraft Shares Up,
Other Market Groups
Drift Gently Lower
BY the Assoeiated Press

NEW YORK, July 31.-Stock
prices drifted gently lower today
in one of the slowest markets in
weeks.
Despite the downward trend in
almost every category of stock,
issues of aircraft manufacturers
advanced with a rush, gains in
this group reaching as high as 50
a share.
The demand of aircrafts re-
flected the news that the United
States Air Force had authorized
IA plane makers to start work
on roughly triple the amount of
orders that Congress has made
appropriation for to date.
Business was extremely slow
and the ticker tape frequently
idled.
Rails. oils and distillers fire.
quently were lower as group.
with steels, motors. utilities,
chemicals and copper mining
stocks ductuating In a thoroughly
scrambled pattern. In addition
to aircrafts. only metal mining
stocks showed general improve
ment.
Higher prices were paid at times
for United States Steel. General
Motors. Goodyear, Homestake
Mining, American Woolen, United
Air Lines and international Nickel.
Trimmed bit were Youngstown
Sheet. Chrysler, United States
Rubber, American Smelling, Union
Carbide, American Tobacco, South
ern Pacific. Philip Morris and
Gulf Oil.
AircraftS making a strong show
ing were headed by Douglas, which
jumped 21a points higher before
the advance was reduced a trifle.
Others up point or more at times
included Boeing, United Aircraft,
Lockheed, Bell and Republic.
Evening star., 1950-07-31
Cherry Orchordist
FeHs 100 Trees in
Protest on Prices
BY the Associated Press

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. July
31.-Fred E. Reed of nearby Sut-
toms Bay went to market Satur-
day and found that the cherries
from his fine orchard would bring
only four cents a pound this year.
So by way of protest he went
to work with an ak. By dusk
yesterday. Mr.. Reed and a crew
he originally hired to pick cher
ries had chopped down about 100
of his $50 cherry trees.
Micfigan's abundant cherry
crop for 1850 has been estimated
at 1900 tons-a third larger than
last years.
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Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK July 81 lPl.-Foreign ex.
A1ange rates follow (Great Britain in dol
ars, others in cents): Canadian dollar in
punt or e0.871a United States cents. un-
hanged.
Europe-Great Britain (pound, .2.80b,
lnchanged; Great Britain 30-day futures.
htures, 2.S01s, UNCHANGED; Great Britain
b0-day futures, 2.S01s, unchanged: Bel
lium Qrancl, 1.9sh, UNCHANGED; France
and (guilder). 1927, up O1 of cent
taly dira), 16i2 of a cent, unchanged;
Portugal lescudo), 3.45h, unchanged;
tweden tkrona, 1897, unchanged;
hanged.
Latin America-Argentina (free), 11.20.
Unchanged; Brazil (free). $50, unchanged;
boiiSSr) aiSS 5o1o Gnehsrsead unehansed 'eheAue'a
Far East-Hong Kong dollar. 1888. un-
Evening star., 1950-07-31
New York Cotton

NEW YORK, July 81 GP.-Trading was
heavy, with most of the selling coming
through commission houses, mainly
profit taking.
I Some hedges came into nearby deli
veries, and dealers reported a consider
able let up in textile mill demand which
week.
Noon prices were 130 to EOS a bale
lower than the previous close. October,
1851.
Evening star., 1950-07-31
Many Cars Show
Defective Brakes

NEW YORK.-Many cars and
trucks are in need of brake serv-
ice, recent 15-State check shows.
Out OF the 23,106 cars stopped on
the road and checked. one in
every six needed brake repairs.
OF the 693 trucks examined, one
in every five required brake serv-
ice. Faulty headlights were sec
ond on the list of items needing
attention.
Evening star., 1950-07-31
Nepol Gets Air Service

KATMANDU, Nepal. Nepal's
capital was connected with the
outer world by plane for the first
time this summer when weekly
service between Calcutta and Kat.
mandu was started by Indian Ma
tional Airways.
Evening star., 1950-07-31

Committee Chairmen Named.
Harvey E. Emmart, president
of the Maryland Bankers Associa-
ton, is shaping plans for an active
year and has named the follow
ing chairmen for the leading
1950-51 standing committees:
Agricultural Committee - Hubert p
Burdette,. president First National Bank
OF Mount Airy; Convention Committee
Thomas IN, Mcconnell .,,H,o vice president SShaa
tionai Committee-Bernard F. Armstrong
assistant cashier. Baltimofe Branch, Fed
eral Reserve Bank; Federal Legislative
Western National Bank of Baltimore; STATE
Legislative Committee-Addison H. Reese
president County Trust Co. of Maryland
ReedeT Wee
ident-secretary Union Trust Co. of Mary
land. Baltimore.
Mr.. Reeder will supervise a
study of a proposal to effect far
reaching changes in present bank
ing laws. such revisions. If
adopted, to become national in
scope.
1t has been decided to hold the
1851 annual convention at At
lantic City on May 21-22.
Agents Complete Course.
Three Washington Life Insur-
ance managers were among 81
students completing management
courses in Chicago few days ago.
They are Charles C. Gearhart.
New York Life; George A. Hatzes,
Fidelity Mutual, and j. Mitchell
Owens, John Hancock. Mr.. Hates
also appeared on the program.
The graduate school was con-
Quoted by the Life Insurance
Agency Management Association,
Hartford. Conn. Courses covered
financial management, morale
building, rebuilding established
organizations, and all procedure
for managing an agency.
Bolton Names Judges.
Nine prominent Americans
have been named as committee
of judges in the American Public
Relations Associations awards
competition for achievement in
public relations, it was announced
today by Paul H. Bolton. vice
president of the National Associa-
ton of Wholesalers, Washington,
and chairman of the Awards Com
mittee.
Howard Bonham, Red Cross,
Washington; will be chairman of
the committee. Other members
include Boyce Morgan. Washing
ton: President Cloyd H. Marvin,
George Washington University,
and Graham Patterson. Washing
ton, publisher of the Pathfinder.
Blaw-Knox Office Expands.
The Washington Office Of the
Blaw-Knox Co. has moved from
the Munsey Building into larger
quarters in the Wire Building.
Manager Marvin Marcus an
nounced today.
General Foods Corp. has ap-
pointed the Washington Whole
sale Grocery Co. distributor for
frosted foods in this area.
Stockholders of Zenith Radio
Corp. has approved the company's
new profit-sharing retirement
plan.
The Prudential Insurance Co.
paid Washington policyholders
and beneflciaries $1,721 900 in the
first half of 1850 VS.. $1,560,000 a
year ago.
The National Institute of Gov
ernment Purchasing will give the
President full support in efforts to
check panic buying and boarding
Evening star., 1950-07-31

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Evening star., 1950-07-31
Odd-Lot Deulinqs
By the Associeted Press

The Securities and Exchange Commits
customers with odd-lot dealers or speeiai, i.
lists on the New York Exchange for july
rs: 6,325 purchases involving 1876, 740
shares: sales involving 172,54S shares
involving $3.50 orders including 1855
shares sold short on 46 orders.
Evening star., 1950-07-31

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Evening star., 1950-07-31
Metal Quotations

NEW YORK. July 81 P.-Spot non
ferrous metal prices today: Copper, 22h
pound, New York; zinc, Is a pound. East
st. Louis; tin, 90 cents pound, New York
Evening star., 1950-07-31

Lullaby-type music at bedtime
makes some patientss fight, tests
in London hospitals disclose.
Evening star., 1950-07-31

Hourly Sales on the Exchange To-day:
1900 am. 37o 900 1900 noon $40 900
loo D.m.- 2so 600 $500 p.m. o 900 ooo
tunit Of trading 10 shares. sIn bank.
under the Bankruptcy Act or securities
assumed BY such companies, Rates Of divi-
dends in the foregofns table are annual
or semiannual declaration. Unless other.
wise noted. special or extra dividends are
not included. cid Called. xEx dividend.
stock dividend. Cash or stock, epe-
ln stock. estimated cash value on ss-S..i-
9r paid after stock. dividend or sniit-up.
Declared or paid this year. an accumuls.
t,ys th,s issue With M dividsnds in arrsars. Pad
DECLARED 1912 payable p 1880. yiiaui.
cash value undetermined on declaration;
Evening star., 1950-07-31
Washington Exchange
SALES.

Potomac Elec Pwr com-10 at 1917.
Garnnckel 5a&e pfd-4 at %.
Garflnckel com-25 at II.
Virginia E1ec &, Pwr com-lOO at 17N
Evening star., 1950-07-31

Committee Chairmen Named.
Harvey E. Emmart, president
Of the Maryland Bankers Associa-
ton, is shaping plans for an active
year and has named the follow
ing chairmen for the leading
1950-51 standing committees:
Evening star., 1950-07-31
N. Y. Bond Market

LIST INCLUDES ONLY SELECTED ISSUES
Furnished by the Associated Press)
Evening star., 1950-04-13

44OdOCs ~ " v IL
have held some hearings on bills in
troduced last year, but the consid-
Grafton given them has been de-
sultory at best. Now it has been
agreed to hold up further con-
sideration until joint subcom-
mittee can hold hearings "in the
field and this junket is not to be
undertaken until the Rivers and
Harbors bill has been disposed of
by the Senate.
The Rivers and Harbors bill,
commonly called the pork barrel
bill, was passed by the House last
year, carrying a cost of nearly
$1.2 billion. AS reported out by
the Senate Committee it contains
projects with a total cost of ST.
564 ,000, 900. It is now at the top
of the Senate calendar and may
soon be disposed of.
Power. Propaganda Drive.
The foot-dragging on the eva
proposal comedies with an ex-
tensive propaganda drive by the
country's private power companies
against all such undertakings. BY
institutional advertising and other
means the companies are spread
ing the Republican liberty versus
socialism" bugaboo far and wide
tying it directly to the public
power issue. Just announced IS a
breakfast for Washington CORE
spondentS to be given by the Ma
tional Association of Electric Com
panieS next Wednesday morning
Purcell Smith, 100000 year
president of the association and
popularity known as the towns
Evening star., 1950-04-13
Press Experts Agree
Politicians Probably Treated Better
Than They Deserve by Reporters

speech they can match their COM
mentators with any mans.
There is nothing very new in the
fact that press personnel here,
like the Supreme Court. tends to
follow the election returns. In
the glorious days of normalcy
most of them saw nothing wrong
with the Republicans. That party
is still far from friendless.
Yet Senator Cain undoubtedly
reflects a feeling in his party that
it is failing to compete on equal
terms these days in the court OF
public opinion. Being human. they
think the cure lies with the re-
porters. not with themselves OF
their party policy.
Astute Get Along.
In 1916, when Republicans
triumphantly carried Congress
after Is long years. Representative
Clarence Brown of Ohio, who had
master-minded the feat, jocularly
declared: We've got a new Con-
gress and in two years we'll get a
new President, but we're stuck
with the same old gang in the
press galleries" Being an astute
politician and companionable
enough to be a Democrat, Rep
resentative Brown. like James A.
Farley. treats all reporters alike,
whatever their political opinions.
The result is that like Mr.. Farley
he gets along fine.
Senator Cain has expressed
COP. Illustrations in a manner
generally condemned. There can
be no doubt however that some
of his colleagues condemn it only
as bad tactics rather than bad in
itself.
The Republicans hunger to win
after five straight presidential
defeats. They are in a no-holds-
barred mood and the best proof of
it is the support Senator Nc
Carthy attracts among them. It
is almost incredible that Senator
Taft, widely acclaimed for his in
tegrity, son Of a chief justice of
the United States, graduate of the
Harvard Law School, should say
that he told Senator Mccarthy
If one case falls down. bring up
another" But he did.
Senator Taft has probably never
done anyone a personal injustice
in his life. But he wants to win
so he is apparently able to believe
that the Truman administration
is running the country-and on
purpose,
Evening star., 1950-04-13

fools or knaves. 1t is the ac-
ceptance of "the argument ad
hominem"-the diversion of at
tention from the merits or de-
merits of the argument itself
to the motives and associations
of the person making it. It Gre
ates a mental atmospere in which
reason cannot function. Yet DEM
ocratic government assumes that
If men freely debate and deliber-
ate their affairs in the light Of
reason, they will arrive, on bal
ance, at reasonably proper poll
|cies.
Basis of Candid Judgment.
I think it was Thomas a
Kempis who said, do not en-
quire who says a thing; enquire
rather, whether what he says
be true" This is the only basis
for candid judgment.
Mr.. baltimore knows as much
about the Far East as any living
American.
Educated at a British public
school, st. Bees, and later at
Harvard, he went to China at
the age Of 20, where he was en-
ployed as a reporter on the
Pekin and Tientsin Times, edited
by a Briton, H. G. w. Woodhead.
Mr.. Woodhead, now in this
country. recalls that young Latti-
more then, by reason Of a British
accent acquired at st. Bees, and
the youthful affectation of a mon
ocle, was derided by the American
colony. and once appeared with
a black eye, won in the course
of knocking out two rude Amer
leans in q German restaurant
who had called him "a blasted
limey."
This British newspaper financed
Mr.. baltimore. in 1926. on his
first (and hazardous) cross
Evening star., 1950-04-13
On the Record
Being an Anti. Communist Endows
Nobody With Universal Wisdom

China trip which ended up in
India and produced his first book
Desert Road To Turkestan"-
dedicated to Mr.. Woodhead
Thereafter, in England, he re-
ceived an immense reception from
the Royal Geographical Society
presided over by Lord Curzon.
At the meeting of the Institute
of Pacific Relations, in Banff
British Columbia) in 1888, it was
Woodhead who proposed Latti-
more for the vacant editorship of
Pacific Affairs" which he ac-
Icepted.
Weight of Evidence.
From this, a mind like Senator
McCarthy's might argue-by as
sociation-that Mr.. baltimore was,
from 1920-1933 an agent" of
British imperialism. But the op-
posite was true. Mr.. baltimore
early believed that Asia would
shake off "the white mans bur-
den," whether British, German,
French, or Russian, and that is
the substance of his view today.
If, at points, it conceded with
Russia's cry thatsthe U. S. A. get
out of Asia, it included the anti
Communist conviction that Russia
should do likewise. and, apart
from sympathetic aid, both leave
the Far East to its own develop
,ment.
Mr.. Lattimore's views may, as
he says. be partly or wholly wrong.
I would greatly enjoy hearing a
point-by-point discussion between
"a Chinese Nationalist. Mr.. Latti-
more, and Mr.. Woodhead-who
also has spent a lifetime in the
Far East. is not a British ''im-
perialist." and would. I think,
agree with Mr.. baltimore, in
much, but differ on particulars.
But whether I, who (unlike Sen
ator Mccarthy am no authority
on China, were convinced by any
participants in the discussion
would depend on the cogency of
the arguments and the weight of
evidence. For that is the only way
intelligence can function.
The worst thing. perhaps, about
communism is that it creates a
total blockage in the mind.
But being an ti-Communist
endows nobody with universal
wisdom.
(Released BY the Bell Syndicate. Incl
Evening star., 1950-04-13
This Changing World
Russia Attempting to Put Blame on u. S.
In Protest on Baltic Plane Shooting

From what can be gathered
here and at American headquar-
ters in Germany, it appears out
of the question that the Navy
plane was of it's course as far as
Lepaya. On the other hand, there
is a strong probability that the
Privateer was shot down between
Swinemuende and Bornholm, on
the way to Copenhagen.
The Soviets have fortified
strongly the Polish and Soviet
coast from Stettin eastwards
Only recently they have COM
pleted their submarine bases at
Peenemuende and Warnemuende.
New platforms for launching
guided missiles have been erected
in many portions of the strictly
forbidden coast" Any observa-
ton of the size of these platforms
would give a foreign nation a fair
idea Of the new type of guided
missiles which the U. S. S. r.
possesses.
Russians Guard Secrets.
German specialists have worked
on such projects since 1916. They
are suspected of having completed
plans for the V-3 and VA rockets
which were only in the blueprint
stage when Hitler's empire col
lapsed. Russia jealousy guards
it's military secrets. The mere ap-
pearance Of a plane not bearing
Red air force markings would
prompt them to shoot first and
ask questions afterward.
All these factors. carefully put
together, lead to the conclusion
based on logical assumption but
not actual proof-that the Pri-
vateer was shot down without
warning, just as Marshal Tito's
planes shot down two American
planes in 1946 because they deyi-
ated slightly from their course.
In the opinion of many officials,
the Privateer may not even have
been off its course, but because
it carried the usual Photographic
equipment was ambushed by So
Wet fighter planes in fear that
it might get close enough to the
forbidden coast to take pictures.
The intention of the Soviet for
eign Office to carry out a diplo-
matte coup before we could lodge
charges against the Russians is
understandable. Moscow is at
tempting to place the blame on
the United States in advance of
investigation.
Evening star., 1950-04-13

might not be a bad idea to
change the unwritten rule and
make it okay for members to an
nounce their selection in the priv
acy of their boudoirs, or send
them to sea in ketchup bottles,
or include them in their wills.
Picked Winner Once.
Truth is. there isn't any way to
select accurately the major league
winners, the runners-up, and so
On down the line until one pulls
UP at Washington and the Cubs.
A fellow can tear himself away
from New York in the winter,
make the miserable trip to Flor
ida, California and Arizona with
the ball clubs, and still come up
empty handed insofar as knowing
how the teams will behave when
they get out of the citrus circuit
and start playing for keeps.
During my years as baseball
writer I must have worn out half
the shady spots in Florida quiz
zing everyone from managers to
batboys. yet I don't recall having
picked the major league winners
but one year-and that was the
year I refused to tear myself
away from the enchanting slush
and cold of New York to undergo
the rigors of tropic cline with
the ball players.
And I didn't pick the winners
that year. if I must be honest.
1t was done for me by one of
the loveliest ladies in the United
States. and one of the great au-
thorities on baseball.
The lady is Miss Ethel Barry
more. and if you don't think she
knows her baseball just talk about
it with her sometime. I am quite
sure she could manage a club
better than some of the managers
I have known.
tried to reach Miss Barrymore
by telephone yesterday, but
couldn't locate her. For some rea-
son or other I have found that
collect calls to California go
through much slower than the
other kind. Maybe it's my imagi-
nation, but it seems that way. any,
how.
Not being able to reach Miss
Barrymore, I suppose I'll have to
make my own selections. It's a
shame to do this to a bunch of
nice family newspapers, but
don't see any way out.
In the American League I like
Boston. I like Boston because it
seems to me that 1t is about time
Manager Joe Mccarthy had good
year. His team has been having
good years right along, but not
Evening star., 1950-04-13
On the Other Hand
Regional Authority Idea, Was Born
In Republican, Not Socialist, Brain

best-paid lobbyist, has suggested
to the correspondents that they
bring along their editors or other
friends who may be here for the
annual meeting of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors.
Opposition to all regional au-
thorities is voiced in the platform
adopted at Republican Chairman
Gabrielson's February meeting
This has caused Judson King,
director of the National Popular
Government League and probably
Washington's worst-paid lobbyist,
to dig up some almost ancient
history. He finds that the real
father of the regional authority
idea was Senator Theodore E
Burton of Ohio. one of the great
Republican stalwarts of his day
a conservative.
Killed States Rights Joker.
1t was Senator Burton. Mr.
King recalls, who. as chairman
of the House Rivers and Harbors
Committee, killed States rights
joker in a bill granting a private
company the right to develop
water power at Muscle Shoals
Burton's action protected the pre-
cedent of Federal authority over
the rivers and made possible the
later development of Muscle
Shoals into the Tennessee Valley
Authority. That was in 1898.
Ten years later, Senator Burton
as chairman of the Inland Water
ways Commission, in a report to
President Theodore Roosevelt
recommended the development OF
the Mississippi from mouth to
source, with provision for flood
control, land reclamation, refor-
estation and water power, all
co-ordinated. The projects, he
said, should be planned, built and
managed by an independent COM
mission, exclusive of established
agencies. There was the valley
authority idea in its infancy. Not
at all the child of European So
cialism." as alleged in the COP
February platform.
Mr.. King also recalls that one
of the stoutest supporters of Sena-
tor George w. Norris in his long
battle to save, Muscle Shoals for
the American people was Senator
Charles L. McNary of Oregon, the
Republican candidate for Vice
President in 1910.