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Evening star., 1951-03-07
Business Briefs
LIST INCLUDES ONLY SELECTED IssIlE

Wholesale Food Index, based on
the cost of a pound each of 81
foods in general use. increased 2
cents this week to $7.27 and was
24.3% above the like week a year
ago.-Dun g. Bradstreet.
Electric Power Production in the
week ended March 3 totaled 6,822,-
098,000 kilowatt hours, VS.. $685.
100000 in the previous week and
was 16To above the year-ago out
put.-Edison Electric Institute.
New York Cotton Exchange will
resume futures trading tomorrow
after almost weeks supension
awaiting price freeze order clari-
flcation.
Air Express Shipments on the
nations certificated airlines totaled
418,256 in January-a record for
that month and second only to
December. 1850.
Sears, Roebuck g. Co., February
sales totaled sits, ,997 PSI, up 1910
from 1850.
Montgomery Ward g. Co. Feb
ruary sales totaled s77.572. sos. up
21.6%o from 1850.
Kroger Co. sales in 4 weeks
ended February "a totaled S76,-
034,719. up 20.6G from 1850; for
8 weeks ended February "a, S149-
025.719, up 21.7% from 1850.
F. w. Woolworth Co. February
sales totaled s42,871.139, up 5.3%
from 1850; for 2 months $685.
7l6,350. up 8.2Te from 1850.
National Tea Co. February sales
totaled S28,677.613. up 269&o from
1850; for 2 months ended February
"a, $55,955,901. up 27.9%e from
1850.
w. T. Grant Co. February sales
totaled $13.717,34l. up $50 from
1850; for 2 months $27,816,815, up
l4.4% from 1850.
S. H. Kress g. Co. February
sales totaled $10.923.17l, up 4.1Go
from 1850; for months, S22,-
24S,350, up 8,29o from 1850.
G. c. Murphy Co. February
sales totaled $9.652,316, up 9.8%
from 1850; for 2 months $19,132,-
009. up 1867 from 1850.
Neisner Bros. February sales to-
tailed $3,557,142. up 6.1% from
1850; for 2 months $7,109,274, up
9.19o from 1850.
Eastman Kodak Co. in So weeks
ended December 81 earned S61,-
858,957 or $3.50 share VS.. S49,-
770,699 or $3.50 in 1949.
Distillers Corp. Seagrams in 6
months ended January 81 earned
$32, 2,272,174 or $3.50 a share VS..
$22,732,922 or $3.50 in 1850.
Emerson Radio e. Phono. in 13
weeks ended February 8 earned
S1.518.856 or 78 cents a share VS..
81 ,225 ,912 or SO cents in 1850 Pc
riod.
Other earnings included:
For Year Ended December 81.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
|Steadiness Is Keynote
|0f Market With Range
Held 10 Within 81
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 7.-Steadi-
ness was the keynote today in
the stock market. The movement
on the upside was held under a
dollar for the most part, and
few losers went down more than
that amount.
The narrowness of the price
range was accompanied by low
volume of business. Most of the
attention was focused on a few
individual issues affected by cor
porate developments.
Cities Service, which moved to-
day from the Curb Market to the
Big Board, opened up % at 89ha
It traded sluggishly in that area.
Eastman Kodak gained frac-
tionally on good earnings re-
port. Distillers Corp. .-Seagrams
was the standout in the distilling
group, also with a fractional gain.
Textron was up fractionally
after declaration of a quarterly
dividend of SO cents on common as
compared with IS cents previously
paid.
Glenn L. Martin was up, while
some of the other aircrafts sagged,
after announcement of a fourth
order for its anti-submarine sea-
plane for the Navy.
Trading in Government bonds
was made quiet in the over-the-
counter market than earlier in the
week. but quotations continued un-
der pressure. Corporate loans in
the bond market were neglected.
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Vepco Outlines Plan
To Increase Capital
To Push Expansion
By Nelson M. Shepard

Considerable interest was Gre
ated on the Washington Stock
Exchange IN Richmond, Va, an
nouncement that new capital to
finance a planned expansion pro-
gram will be sought by Virginia
Electric g. Power Co. through in
creases in both its preferred divi-
dend and common stocks.
The utility's board of directors
met in New York yesterday and
approved tentative plans for the
financing operation. Company
officials announced 100000 shares
of the $4.2O dividend preferred
stock will be offered to the pup
lie this week. Vepco stock is
widely held by people in the
Washington area.
The issue has been underWrit-
ten by Nationwide investment
banking syndicate headed by
Stone & Webster Securities Corp.
The stock will be offered at $102.50
a share. officials said. Expansion
of the common stock is planned
tentatively for June, but no de-
tails have been announced.
Spaatz Named Director.
Gen. Carl Spaatz, U. S. A. F.,
retired. who commanded strategic
bombing operations in the Euro
pean theater during World War
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Produce Markets

Baltimore quotations supplied by the
United states Agriculture Department:
and boass dsaaaa aodsn
ga. inches up, 175-2.00; Staymans. 2R
peleous sp &r inches sGes ap Bae
Twiss, 21a inches up, 1.75: staymans. 2h
inches up. 2.00-25; boxes U. s. Ii wrapped
Potatoes-Old. about steady: u S Is
size A, unwashed Pennsylvania Katahdins.
50-pound sacks. s5-95; few. 100; fair
:, Sweet po.atoes-Dull; bushel baskets
Puerto Ricans. 1852 90; New Jersey
Godens eFi T. g. IS iha paShen NEARBY RasSfss @
bushel hampers Goldens. ITO
Snap Beans Weaker.
Snap Beans-Slightly weaker; Florida,
few best $50; fair quality. i.50-a.oo, ''''
bushel hampers, 4.o0-4,50; few higher;
Brussels sprouts-Repacks. per quart,
Carrots-Topped, washed, New Jersey
fnq rs; reonsylvana poorer % oushel baskets 15o-
Poultry Quotations.
Poultry-Market Arm hens. barely
moderate: Fryers. 3-Sls pounds. 81 fs.33;
3A pounds and up. 34-341a, under 5
pounds ~. Hens. heavy type 1896; light
Sype' 40. Otners: SuppneS lnSunclent to
Livestock Market
,Sssttie' 3ou hardly enough any class
sold to establish trading basis; scat
good and choice slaughter steers, "a so;
low choice heifers, 1880; utility cows
S3 SS33.55o0-%5.oO; Gamers and cutters, 2lD0-
Calves. $50; slow but steady. run
largely good and choice vealers including
a few medium grade offerings bulk good
he tnr
common SoT an and d. medium; 81 .oO-34 90; culis
Hogs; 600: fairly active, steady, but
! o-220-pound barrows and gifts, s3.o6-
PSunds pS gS s3o 5o,nds adsoso9 400 pounds
1875 down; 1sO-I46 pounds, iS.75NI9,S5;
] 140-l60 pounds, 19.75-2075: sows under
4oo pounds mostly 19.0o.25; good 400
1928 down
Sheep, none.
Grain Market
Flour-Receipts 5.506 l00-pound sacks
Wheat-Receipts 139, GA bushels; ship
ments, 277,736 bushels; stock. 1870 ,O33
bushels bushels. Ne 2 red winter garlicky; spot,
a9meS'ts; a4Ps: No. go g T. f4Hs' March No. q
corn-Receipts. isao5a bushels: ship
ments, 1926 bushels; stocks, 3.271 $3.50
oats-Receipts 74,O71 bushels; ship
none; stocks, 43,39l bushels.
bushels
Soybeans-Receipts. none; shipments,
none1s stocks, 1891 bushels
Millfeed-Receipts 232 tons.
Butter and Eggs.
Esgs-Market, barely steady; receipts
selling prices; A large, $3.50; A mediums.
$3.50. large, 53-55; current receipts.
ungraded, 47-49
ReceipteEsss. 1.451 cases; butter, 81
576 pounds.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO; Mar, 7 tP,.-salable hogs,
5000: butchers steady. to strong, with
top % cents under, early Tuesday; sows,
largely steady; good and choice 19o-a70
and an above, several gs loads a1o,24o-pound
270-300- pound butchers, q ;5o,22 90; few
lots, 310-330 pounds, 81 ,00-21,25 sows,
$50 pounds and less, 1S.7520.00; 450-
900 pounds, 11.75-l9i;00; clearance, goo1,
Salable cattle, 5000; salable calves,
500: slaughter steers, fairly active, steady
to strone; heifsers, slow, about steady
choice and prime steers, 3S,50-42, 90; load
around .1,200-pound weights at 1900.
ass5i fey oG 90 loads ea 1 1'33o,I 800. pound
good steers, 81 O0-34.25; bulk good and
choice heifers, 81 3l.00-36.00; load or so
held higher; utility and commercial cows,
23.50-27.5Q; Gamers and cutters. 20.00-
23.25; utility and commercial bulls. 200
$3.50; medium to choice vealers, 1900
81. 90.
salable sheep 3,O0O no slaughter
lambs sold; asking strong to hieher or
1880 and better; big packers bidding
weak to lower or generally under 1000;
ewes scarce, steady. mostly 21 ,00-23 90.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
New York Produce

NEW YORK Mar Z tP,-Butter, 133.-
$40; easy. Wholesale prices on bulk car
tons: Creamery higher than % score
CAD. fresh. 80 cents; o. score tA,. fresh
81 "a; 90 score tBl. fresh. 66a4; so score
tcl, fresh, 66A ....sm. r,. -,
changed.
Eggs. 12,946 firm; New York, spot quo
tationS. follow
Midwestern: Mixed colors-Fancy heavy
weights. 55; extra l large. SO; extra l
medium. 52-52l?; current receipts, 40
491a; dirties 4112-4S; checks 4612-47
Whites-Fancy heavyweights 57 extra
large 55la; extra | medium, 53-54.
Browns-Fancy heavyweights, 81: extra
l large, 55k2.
Nearby Extra fancy heavyweight quota
tions generally are based largely on ex-
change trading.
Whites-Extra fancy heavyweights, 81;
fancy heavyweights, So; others large, So
mediums. 54-55
Browns-Extra fancy heavyweights. 81;
fancy heavyweights, So; others large So;
mediums, 5455.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO. Mar 4Pt.-Wheat came up
with a show of strength on the Board OF
Trade today which surprised most of the
local traders.
tRer Re 0ehse difecton 5anS Msed n trends
at the opening in corn. oats and soybeans,
They firmed bit in later dealings, largely
in sympathy with wheat
Wheat near the end Of the first hour
corn was ~. higher gY Nay; Nay l,ss7. ss2 and and
beans were " lower to ? cents higher.
May 3.33. and lard was 5 to 90 cents a
hundred pounds higher. March, 1895,
The early uptgrn in wheat & puzz ed the
iacf icf' Of offerings combined with an. &C;
emulation of small orders in the hands OF
commission houses. One broker. said he
thought the local crowd, which has been
bearish, had got itself into an oversold
Nearly 25 million bushels OF wheat were
delivered on March contracts today. Some
of this was believed to have, been wheat
held for several months by a leading spec
ulator. Traders said good portion was
taken by an elevator house, and the pre-
SUMPTION was that it was now of the
market entirely.
Weather was clear over much OF the
Southwest over night and the forecast was
for only light SHOWS in the extreme west
ern portions Of Kansas More reports OF
cutworm infestation are coming out OF
Oklahoma, and traders said this way
have caused some covering by previous
short sellers.
Both hard and soft wheat is being
loaded oIt of here by local elevators, In
dicating that some exporters are being
granted permits on export shipments.
There were 10 cars loaded out yesterday.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK. Mar. 7 1P,.-Foreign ex-
dollars. others in centsJ
Canadian dollar in New York opc
market - per cent discount or 95 .6s "a
united states cents. unchanged.
Europe: Great Britain (pound), a.SOis.
unMehansed; Y M Great Britain 30-day futures.
ss0Is' unch,: Great Britain 60-day fu-
lures 2:S054. ZIP Ia: Great Britain
2;s0ss. up Is of a cent; Great Britain
90-day futures. 2.S0is. unchanged; Bel
gum uranc). 1884,, up .00A Of a cent;
changed; Italy 0ira). .16A of a cent,
uncnanged: Portugal tescudol, 34S, un-
changed; Sweden (krona1, 1897, un-
unchanged
Latin America: Argentina Iree) 7.e5,
unchanged: Brazil free). $50, UNCHANGED:
mexico, Il.57, unchanged; Venezuela
tbolivarl. 30.03. unchanged,
Far East Hong Kong dollar. 60, un-
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Hourly Sales on the Exchange Today:
1900 am 400 600 1900 noon 74o 600
LOO q, m 600 600 2:O0pm 600 600

tUnit Of trading 10 shares in hank
ruptcy or receivership or being reorganiZed
under the Bankruptcy Act or securities
dends in the foregoing table are annual
disbursements based OF the last quar .erly
or semiannual declaration. Unless othe.
wise noted special Or ev',s diy'dends. sre
xr Ex rights q Also extra or extras Plus
stock dividend. d Cash or 7+tock e Paid
last year Payable IN stock estimated
cash value on ex-diy;dend date gDe.
clared or paid so far this year h De-
clared or paid. after stock alsidend or
split-up k Declared or ,a,d this year an
accumulative issue with dividends in al
rears. p Paid this year, dividend omitted
deferred or no action taken st last divi-
dend meeting. W Declared or paid In
dividend. Payable in stock. exact cash
value undetermined on declaration date
Evening star., 1951-03-07

II. was elected
a director of
the U n i t e d
Services Lif e
Insurance c o.
at the annual
S t oc k h olderS'
meeting yester-
day.
Other direc-
tors e-elected
are vice AQ-
miral Harry G.
H a m | e t, re-
tired: Vice Ad-
miral Clark H.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Bendix Aviation Corp. in

Bendix Aviation Corp. in 8
months ended December 81 earned
$2,578,458 or $1.21 a share VS..
$3,798.919 or $1.79 in 1949 period.
New Hampshire Public Service
in year ended January 81 earned
$2,062 1852 or $1.82 a share VS..
$2,281,141 or $2.05 in 1850.
Evening star., 1951-03-07

Pakinstan's largest sugar fac
tory. with an annual production
capacity of more than $4,000
tons, was opened recently at
Mardan.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Market AVERAGES
Metal Quotations

NEW YORK Mar. tP-Spot non-
ferrous metal prices today; Copper. "a "a
cents pound. Connecticut Valley. Lesd,
II cents a pound New York. Zinc. 17ia
cents a pound. East St. Louis. Tin. 81 81
a pound nominal New York. At Pitts.
burgh, scrap steel No. l heayy was quoted
at "A
Evening star., 1951-03-07

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Washington Exchange
SALES.

Hecht com-100 at :36A
washington Ges con1--3O at 26ss.
Hecht com-25 at 36A
woodward e. Lothrop com-15 at "a,
Mergenthaler Linotype-3s at 36.
Gapltal Transit lst ref 4s--S4 600 at 100
washington Gas IS l96O-Sl 500 at III.
$500 at III.
Garfnckel 4EaG pfd-10 at 23t..
washington Gas conl--l at 2634, IA at
Evening star., 1951-03-07


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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Mar. 7 lP,.-Dividends
announced.
Pc Stock of Paw
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N. Y. Bond Market

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-20
THE PASSING OF THE PENNY
 POSTCARD

Comes New Years morn, the familiar penny postcard will be a thing of the past. Replacing 1t will be the new two-cener recently authorized by Congress.
 This is the latest development in Fair Deal leg isation aimed at the poor downtrodden businessman Not only is the postage rate doubled for this class o mailing, but Fair Dealers are determined that the commercial use of government postcards shall become unproftable For this is the joker additional ten per cent will be charged all purchases Of 50 or more postcards
 Whether this is an earnest effort to put Post Office operations in the black is debatable Sponsors of the bill say it s although nothing has been said about curtaing the abuses of the postal system by government agencies themselves. Seems to us that postal rates could be reduced little if we could devise some of limiting the propaganda output of the bureaus
 For instance, our daily mail runs about thirty to forty per cent publicity handouts from as many government agencies who the mails to attempt Justification of their taxconsuming programs Were the postoffce department able to collect postage on
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-20
SHOT MORALE

Naturally, all this makes for dis couragement among the many tax agents whose job it is to collect the nations taxes. Backbone of the tax organization is the intelligence unit, made up of some of the high est type men in Internal Revenue. It is their job to detect fraud. These men are trained in the rules Of evidence and know their busin- eSs.
 When they have finished an in- vestigation, and when their rec ommendation for prosecution has teen ok'd by the senior special ag- ent and the special agent in charge of division, it is almost inconceiv- ahle that they have recommended prosecution of an innocent men. Yet during the Truman admins tration about 60 per cent of the tax-fraud cases later have been quashed in one of three places:
 l. The chief counsels office un- der Charles Oliphant, now resigned.
 2. The Justice Departments tax division, under Lamar Caudle, also resigned.
 3. U. s. Attorneys offices in dif- ferent parts of the U. s. A.
 The details of how this has been done will be told in a subsequent column. But meanwhile discourage ment and illustration has spread through the ranks of the many honest tax collectors and special agents as never before.
 One agent in the field can col lect about $80 for every dollar spent on his salary and expenses one of the biggest untapped sour- ces of revenue in the nation. Yet thanks to politics and corruption at the top, we have started on the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-20
JC.D.A. HOLDS INITIATION

The Junior Catholic Daughters of America held its formal initiation Thursday evening at the Parish Hall.
 Initiated at the meeting were Andrea and Christine Hudert, So- phie Isturas, Jean and Shirley Vavalis, Rose Marie Charles, Rose Marie Mills, Stephanie Gueanson, Josephine Bierly, Mercedes Quin- to, RoXana Holaka and Jamie Hol- lenback
 After the page brought the mem bers into the meeting, Rev. Whelan asked them questions and then gave short talk. Ann Furness closed the meeting.
 Guests at the meeting were Bish- op Dermott O'Flanagan, Rev. Whe- Ian, Rev. Gallant, Rev. McElmeel, Sister Mary Marcellus, Sister Mary Bernard, Sister Mary Rose and Sis- ter Mary Ethel.
 Beverley Poole, reporter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-20

practice law, leaving behind him his friend Dan Bolich, who be- came deputy commissioner in Washington-the No. 2 spot for collecting the taxes of the entire nation.
 Among Nunan's clients, incident ally, were the night-club owners of New York, which includes the king of the gamblers, Frankie Cos tello.
 At about this time, also, Harry Anslinger, narcotics commissioner, was watching Costello for possible connection with the dope rackets, hut, because of his limited staff, he had the help of 12 Internal Revenue agents. This was a natur- al cooperation, since both narcotics and revenue are under the treas ury.
 But suddenly Bolich demanded that the 12 Revenue men be taken oil the costello assignment. An singer protested, but it did no good.
 I had been following Costello for some time, and reported Bolichs lack of interest in Costello to Tom Clark, then Attorney General, who promised to see that the agents were kept on Costello.
 However, the Justice Department has not even moved to deport Cos tello for perjury in connection with his naturalization; meanwhile, Be- lich played a part in delaying gambling cases-the Guaranty Fi- nance Company of California.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-20
MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA Sy LEE

suggest good thank you" letter for bride 10 n appreciation of a wedding gift?
 A. prints will wonderfully sweet of and thank you Hoping that coming to wedding Very sincerely yours Mary Jones'
 e. dining another stops should the girls
 
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 A. would give money Often such gift is hurt feelings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-20
Broadway Given Real EyeiuI
 Oi Celebrities

NEW YORK, Dec. 20-tR-Broad- way got an eyeful last night, enough to make even the most blase New Workers crane their necks to see the goings on.
 It all happened at the glitter ing opening of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra" star ring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
 Snowman Billy Rose and blonde Joyce Mathews-the other woman were there, making their first pub lie appearance together.
 Roses wife, Former swim star El- eanor Holm, is suing the Broadway producer for separation on the basis of his friendship with Miss Mathews, former wife C. comedian Milton Berle.
 Seated in the same row with Rose and Miss Mathews was Margaret Truman, glamorous in white er- mine cape and a powder blue off-the shoulder evening gown. Margaret's escort was French movie star Jean Pierre Aumont.
 Aumont was the husband of act ress Maria Montez, who died last Sept. of a heart attack while taking a hath in their Paris apartment
 And Berle was in the audience, too, with a girl named Ruth Cos grove, who was not further identi- fled.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-20
Daily lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN NIISUSED: Do m hadt they gone" Say they gone"
 MISPRONOUNCED: Finesse Pronounce fines, in LESS second syllable.
 NIISSPELLED: Granddaughter;
 Serviceabe beneficial practical
 WORD STUDY: Use word three times and it yours Let vocabulary mastering word each Today wod breathing. labe) awakened certain ertoous sounds emanating the adjoining
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-20
20 YEARS AGO FIFE {rG% EMPIRE
DECEMBER 20, 1881


 Pekovch Alaska Admiralty Gold Mining business planned to return early the next week to the property Christmas the California Grocery Front Street Yuletde with welarranged tree branches and festooney
 Delegate Alaska shall naugrate bureaucratic Alaska declared George Gsby whose candidacy for the Democratic nomination had been announced recently.
 lighted at o'clock this throng and girls gathered to Christmas carols led by Mrs w. Ellis Mrs G. E. Krause played Wiring done employees furnished for illumination.
 3day visiting the Pacific Northwest Bela Williams clerk the Education returned O She Jessie Oregon E. her home here for the
 Weather High 36 30; partly cloudy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-20
MoRGENrHAU's TAX SYSTEM

Following this tax cleanup, the Roosevelt administration settled down to long period of reason- ably honest tax-collecting. There were some tax cases fixed in Roose- yelts day-to be discussed in a la. ter column. But eager beaver Hen " Morgenthau made such a squawk about them that even FDR was reluctant to arouse Henry's ire.
 Furthermore, Morgenthau built up the most efficient tax-collecting system this country had ever seen. His counsel of Internal Revenue was Robert Jackson, who did such an outstanding job that he was later elevated to the Supreme Court; while the chiei of his in- telligence unit was an incorrupt- ible old tyrant named Elmer Trey.
 In Jackson's old place, Truman appointed weak-sister Charles Oli- phant, recently pathetic witness before the King Committee; and in Irey's place he appointed w. H. Woolf, honest but not vigilant.
 Az Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Truman appointed me- diocrity named George Schoene- man, who previously had been mixed up in a matter which could not bear the light of day; while as deputy commissioner he appoin- ted Dan Bolich, who when he took the oath of office, received so many flowers that the swearing in ceremony looked like gang ster's funeral Obviously a lot of people were overjoyed that Bolich should be collecting taxes, and some of them later turned out to be gangsters.
 All these appointments were made after Bob Hannegan, friend of the big-city bosses, took over the Democratic National Commit tee and the political fortunes of Harry Truman.