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Tobacco Markets

UPPER MARLBORO. Nd. July 81 up
Omitted States Department Of Agriculturel
The heaviest volume of tobacco in
nearly two months was auctioned on the
Southern MARYLAND markets this week
According to the Federal-state Market
for an average Of S4919 per hundred
This average was only 10 cents under last
weeks. Season sales reached 90 $50, | 90
pounds. averaging S4a.sa. Average prices
by grades were generally steady to slightly
higher. The general quality Of marketings
was little lower.
Average prices increased for around
one-hah OF the grades sold. Gains were
usually for lower quality offerings and
from 81 to So hundred pounds Several
grades declined around 81. Better quality
cigarette type grades remained generally
steady
The proportion OF nondescript offerings
increased slightly. Principal marketings
we're fair and low grade of heavy crop.
thin-crop, seconds and tips in that order
Around 10 per cent of net auction sales
vas delivered to the Maryland Tobacco
program during the week. Receipts for
the season amount to about 13H2 per cent
approximately 7la per cent Of net pound
age had gone under loan during the
corresponding period last year.
Net receipts for the Baltimore hogs
head market for the season were reported
as around ZOOS, 600 pounds. This COM
bined with net auction sales totals of
about 24.4 million pounds indicating that
slightly over go per cent of the 40 million
pound crop estimate has been delivered
Auction bid averages per hundred
pounds on limited number Of repre-
sentative U. s. grades were as follows:
U. s. Wk. Changes From
Grade Grade Ending Prev. Week
Thursday
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Floods and Strikes
Cause Problems for
Business, Industry
By Richard Fiske
AsSocioted Press Busines. Writer

NEW YORK. July 21.-Factory
wheels hummed again this week
In most Of the Nations industries
But there were many rough spots
due to floods. strikes. slow con-
sumer buying and delayed de-
tense purchasing.
The steel industry, basic for
most others, continued its phe-
nomenal output at 1919 per cent
OF rated capacity. Freight car
loadings were high, showing goods
were going to market.
Many a large manufacturer was
planning to expand his facilities
with one hand while he turned
out goods at speeds he seldom at
tanned in other years with the
other.
Soft Spots in Economy.
But there were soft spots in the
economy, notably in the textile
industry.
Some of the Northern and
Southern mills extended vacations
or discontinued premium shifts as
they cut down production to meet
the demand.
Industry spokeSmen explained
that an ability to produce more
than they ever believed possible
was filling warehouses and store
shelves.
Reluctant buying by the con-
sumer and delays in long-expected
defense orders, they added, had
contributed to high inventories.
Flood Damage Heavy.
In industrial sections of the
Midwest flood waters caused dam
age measured in hundreds of mil
lions Of dollars.
Losses In production were un-
counted and practically none of
the damaged firms carried flood
insurance.
A month-olo strike at the Alum
mum Co. Of Americas Cleveland
plant was beginning to worry air.
plane engine manufacturers.
Operations at Hudson Motor
Car Co. in Detroit continue to be
halted daily after a few hours
work. This situation has pre-
vailed for six weeks. The dispute
involved the manpower on various
jobs. On Friday Hudson deferred
dividend action.
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Bonds Of All Types
Gain During Week
In Extended Trading
By D. A. WiIlioms
Associoted Press Finonciul Writer

NEW YORK, July 21.-Bonds of
all kinds advanced in active trad
ing this week as the first offering
lof the new Federally guaranteed
,low-rent public housing loans was
snapped up by investors.
h Corporates gained consistently
with a number of issues adding
several points. Governments
CLOSED Friday with gains for the
week ranging from 1882 to 8/32
|of point for 81 of Is issues. The
Others were unchanged.
Evenly the recently slow-moving
tax exempt municipal issues
shared in the upward movement
and holdings still in dealers hands
declined about $45 100000 to a
low point for several years.
japanese bonds for the most
part continued their rally based
on the peace treaty signing as
sembly called for San Francisco on
September 4. Profit taking at in
tervals. especially on Friday, mar
roWed some of the gains. Ad-
vances for the week ranged from
3 5/8 to 10 on top of the 7 IL to-
l9 1/2 points added in the previous
weeks. Shinyetsu Electric 6 1/2s|
dropped 2 7/8 ON profit taking
Monday and Tuesday and did not
trade the rest of the week.
A Is per cent decline in dollar
value of new corporate securities
reaching the market during the
first six months of this year from
the like 1850 period was reported
by Investment Dealers Digest to-
day.
The dollar value drop occurred
despite greater number of offer
ings.
A total Of BAT new issues valued
at 81 ,942,174,841 was marketed
compared with 319 issues valued
at S2,601 ,967.l19 during the 1880
period.
The publication described as
significant the trend toward nego-
tlated financial deals in contrast
TO the traditional competitive bid
alng from transactions.
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Commodity Prices

NEW YORK. July II Pl-Wholesale
commodity prices on the average have
dropped to the lowest, level since No
vember l3 the Associated Press COM
modify index showed today
Declining for the 18th week in a row.
the index this week was down to fa4.3l
from 1860 last week end and compared
with 1S0.36 a year ago.
The base year of this index of 35 i'm
portant wholesale commodity prices is
1926. which equals 100
Three of the commodity groups repre-
sented were at new 1881 loWs-induS-
trials, grains and cotton and textiles.
The food component also declined from
last week. while nonferrous metals held
unchanged and livestock rose moderately
The index with comparable figures
for last week and a year ago. follows
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Norway Nearly Doubles
Output of Electricity

OSLO. - Norway's electricity
production has nearly doubled in
the past five years-from 9,845
million kilowatt hours in 1945 to
1900 million in 1850. The latter
figure is 10 per cent above the
preWar level.
Norway leads the world in per
capita output of electricity. In
total power production Norway
stands 10th and in hydroelectricity
OUTPUT ranks Siytl1
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Mutual Funds

NEW YORK. July 81 fP3.-National As
scciation Of Securities Dealers Inc:
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Rates Of dividends in the foreroinc
taoie are annual disbursements based on
the tne last quarterly or semiannual declara-
tlon Unless otherwise noted, special or
extra dividends are not included. VI
Ex dividend. xr Ex rights. cid Called
ps pa Fart paid ur Under rule. War War
warrants. Also extra or extras. pins
stock dividend. d Cash or stock. e Paid
last year Payable in stock estimated
clared or paid so far this year. Declared
or paid after stock dividend or spiit-up
K Declared or paid this year, an accumu-
lative issue with dividends in arrears
Paid this year. dividend omitted, deferred
or no action taken at last dividend meet
ing. Declared or paid in 1851, plus
stock dividend wd When distributed
x-dis Ex- distribution y Liouidating divi-
dend Payable in stock, exact cash value
undetermined on declaration date.
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The following bid and asked prices are
obtained from the National Association Of
Securities Dealers. Inc, and other sources
but are unofficial. They do not represent
actual transactions; they are intended as
guide to the approximate range within
which these securities could have been
SOLD indicated by the bidD or bought
indicated by the 'askedD at the time Of
compilation d2:00 noon Friday Origin
OF any quotation furnished on request.
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Washington Stock EXCHANGE.
BONDS
JBLIC UTILITIES


TRANSACTIONS
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BOND SUMMARY

FURNISHED By the Associated Press.D
A selected list Of active bonds on the
New York Stock Exchange, showing the
high. low and closing price for the week
and the net change from the previous
Evening star., 1951-07-22
CURB SUMMARY
FURNISHED By the Associated Pres.

FURNISHED by the Associated Press.)
A selected list of active stocks ON the
New York Curb Exchange, showing the
nigh, low and closing price for the week
and the net change from the previous
weeks close.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-12
Zoos Baby Giraffe Dies
After Mother Ignores Her

The giraffe born February 3
at the Washington Zoo is dead.
The giraffe, called Temporarily
Alice by Head Keeper Frank
Lowe because Zoo Director DR..
William Mann had not formerly
named the animal, died at 8 am.
Friday. A shortage of space in the
giraffe pen and the mother
giraffe's refusal to nurse the
baby, made an orphan of Tenn
porarily Alice.
Lodged in the antelope house,
she was fed cows milk from ster-
ilized pop bottles.
Mr.. Lowe said he did not know
exactly what caused Temporarily
Alice's death. It may have been
that she missed her mother but
he thinks it was because she got
chilled.
Mr.. Lowe said the temperature
in the house dropped from rs to
SIS degrees due to heating diff
Guilty Hot bricks and blankets
failed to warm the baby giraffe
and she refused to take nourish-
ment, Mr.. Lowe said.
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Two Firefighters Injured
In 2-AIarm House Blaze

Two flremen were injured slight
ly yesterday while fighting a two
alarm blaze in a three-story brick
row house at IS Bryant street
NV.
Occupants of the house, Mr.. and
Mrs. Luther Harris, colored, and
their three sons. Willie, Thomas
and Sherwood, escaped uninjured
from the dwelling.
Treated and released at Emer-
gency Hospital were First Bat
TALON Chief L. B. Wilson, who suf-
fered head cuts and other in
juries when struck by falling
bricks, and Sergt. w. c. Summer
vile Of No. 9 Engine Company
who received cuts on his hands
and wrists.
Fire Chief Joseph A. Mayhem
said the fire apparently started
in the basement of the house
Cause Of the blaze has not been
determined.
Firemen said the fire burned
out the basement of the house
and caused considerable damage
to the interior. During the As
minute blaze. occupants of at
tached SO Bryant street were
forced to leave their home be-
cause of the smoke.
Six engine companies, two truck
units. two rescue squads and two
ambulances responded to the two
alarms.
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Civil Defense Posters
Printed by Millions
For Distribution Soon

The Federal Government is
printing many millions" of civil
defense posters that will be dis
tributed to each home and indi-
vidual in the United States start
ing IN a few weeks. 1t was learned
today.
The posters, printed on heavy
cardboard, are designed to be
placed in conspicuous places in
homes and buildings. In a con-
densed way. they tell what to do
IN case of an air raid alert or
an unexpected atomic explosion.
The corners of the large poster
contain small, pocket-sized cards,
bearing the same information, to
be cut out and carried by indi-
viduals of a family.
Distribution Plan Discussed,
Distribution of the posters.
when they are printed, will be
handled through State and local
civil defense organizations, Fed
eral official said. The detailed
plan of distribution is among the
subjects that was discussed at a
meeting of all State civil defense
directors held today in the old
State Department Building.
In addition to description of
approved afraid warning signals.
the new poster gives the proce-
dure to be followed in case an
attack comes without warning.
which adds up to diving for any
available cover and burying face
in arms.
If there is a warning, the official
advice is to turn off stove burners,
seek an approved shelter, and obey
instructions. Similar instructions
have already been distributed to
many District residents through
gas and electric companies.
Food Standards Set.
The Civil Defense Administra-
ton also released today the emer-
gency standards under which
food and water, contaminated by
radioactivity after an atomic at
tack, might be safely consumed.
It was pointed out that such con-
tamination might be a serious
hazard in case of ground-level or
underwater atomic bursts.
. AS worked out by the Atomic
Energy Commission, the standards
for emergency use serve as the
guide for local civil defense Off
Gals in measuring the radioac-
tivity of food and water after an
attack, using measuring equip
ment now available.
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to the right and continued to the
Navy Yard bridge.
1.-The old bridge was a little to
the right and a low level timber
and plank bridge at that time. +"
Msgr. McAdams said. "It was here
that Sergt. Silas +. Cobb chal-
lenged him and he said his name
was Booth. You have to remem-
Der that everything was relaxed
because the war was just over.
Lee had surrendered on the 9th
and this was the 14th. The ser
geant let Booth go through. He
was alone then. It is thought by
many that David Herold, the 49,
year-old, weak-witted clerk who
accompanied him, was the man
who gave his name as Smith and
crossed ten minutes later. They
met on the road"
We crossed the bridge and wen.
up Nichols avenue and turned to
the left on Good Hope road
eventually turning to the right on
Naylor road, crossing the Military
highway, passing the Quonset Inn
and turning to the right again on
Route at Silver Hill.
you see," said Msgr. McAdams
Il knew the Surratt family. A
grandson of Mrs. Mary Surratt
(who was hanged as one of the
conspirators) was a classmate OF
mine at Loyola College in Balti-
more. He became a physician. DR.
Reginald Tonry. Through him ]
met his uncle, John Surratt. Mary
Surratt's son. He was not ap-
pretended at the time but was
arrested in Egypt two years later
and brought back and tried in
District Court before a civilian
jury who could mot reach a YER
dict. He was employed by the Old
Bay Line in Baltimore when
knew him. He was one of the
handsomest men I have ever seen.
believe he was in the conspiracy
to kidnap Lincoln but not to
murder him.
And let me tell you something
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McAdams. This is the Dogtown
or Five Points road"
At the end of the road we came
to a little gasoline station.
Read that sign" said our guide.
IT forget what Five Points i
called today"
The sign on the gas station
read: .-
William P. Wade, postmaster
whiskey and beer off premises
only. Malcolm, Charles County
Md"
We turned to the right ano
after a short distance the home
of DR.. Mudd could be seen across
the fields and across another road
that came in diagonally on the
left.
I'm 1901" our guide said, "Os-
born H. Oldroyd. collector OF
Lincolniana who is the real father
Of the museums on Tenth street
walked the Booth trail. It took
him II hours to get here. Booth
on horseback. did it in six. The
distance is II miles. Mrs. Mudd
the doctor widow, was living
here at the time and Oldroyd had
talk with her which he included
in his book. I have a copy of the
book.
1.-THE house is now occupied by
Joseph Mudd, a grandson of the
doctor. He's a tobacco farmer"
We drove up the lane to the
house. It's exterior had changed
in only one respect from the pic.
lures in the history books-thert
was a television antenna on thu
roof.
There was q dead fox and 8
possum. both frozen stiff, on thu
back porch. One of the Nude
boys had trapped them. Mrs. 10.
seph Mudd took us in the parlor
THE couch on which the lee
was set was over in that corner, ;
Msgr. McAdam said.
rs the couch still in Balti.
more?" he asked Mrs. Mudd.
! Well" said Mrs. Mudd. Mrs
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that I got from the Surratt family
that you won't find in any Of the
books. Louis Weichmann. who
lived at the Surratt boarding
house and was the chief witness
against her in the trial before the
military tribunal"
Here I interrupted.
''Monsignor." I asked. "is the
Surratt boarding house still stand
ing?" e-4
Certainly" he said. cts on H
street near Sixth. Five forty-one
was the number. It's a Chinese
restaurant now"
He resumed his story:
lone day in the Surratt living
room. while young Weichmann was
helping Annie Surratt. Mrs. Sur
rats daughter and the mother of
my friend, DR.. Tonry Weichmann
tried to kiss her.
Nov Weichmann was from
Baltimore. His parents were work.
ing class Germans. Mrs. Surratt
was a jenkins, an old Maryland
family. She had attended Miss
Martins finishing school in
Charles County. Her daughter
knew she was not a girl to be
kissed by a boarder whom she con-
sidered beneath her. And she laid
him out. He never forgave her.
That's why he had it in for the
Surratts at the trial. He later
drank himself to death, saying
he was responsible for the death
of an innocent woman"
We came to Clinton which was
once called Surattsville.
Except for the removal of a
fence, the Surratt house looked
just as it did in pictures made
of 1t 30 years ago. 1t was a
tavern then. Mrs. Surratts' hus-
band died early In the Civil War
and she decided to run a Washing
ton boarding house, leaving a
tenant in charge of the country
tavern. The Surratts were South
ern sympathizers, as was almost
everyone in Southern Maryland,
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Stofberg Quits as Special Aide
TOD. Heads After 8 Years
Returns to Baltimore
For Participation
In Family Business

Charles Stofberg, special as
sistant to the Commissioner for
more than eight years, announced
his resignation today to join his
family's firm in Baltimore.
In a letter to Commissioner
John Russell Young, Mr.. Stofberg
said:
Reluctantly, submit my resig-
nation effective Immediately. AS
I have discussed with you in the
past, my family's private business
in Baltimore is in the process of
expansion and it is their request
that I return to this business.
You and the Board of Commits
sioners have been wonderful, and
I wish for all of you the best Of
health"
Mr.. Stofberg will return to Bal
timore, his birthplace, the vice
president of the Allied Bedding g.
Manufacturing Co., of which his
brother, Samuel Stofberg, is
president.
The firm, now employing go per-
sons. is adding a second story to
it's building with the expectancy of
a bigger business. :.
Has Been Aide to President.
Since November, 1912, Mr.. Stof-
berg has acted as assistant to Mr..
Young, as board president, but also
has assisted the board as a whole.
Part of his work has been that of
public relations, in acting as a
press secretary, and planning and
participating in public welcomes of
dignitaries.
He handled administrative de.
tails for Mr.. Young and was the
boards spokesman.
Mr.. Stofberg found an Office in
the District Building at the end
of newspaper mans beat.
After graduating from Washing
ton College and later George
Washington University In 1888, he
joined the Washington Post as
police reporter and then was as
signed to the "city hall" beat.
Vice President of Company Here.
On January 1, 1912, he was made
public relations officer for the Dis
trict rent administrator, and II
months later moved into the Dis
trict Building. He is now SO.
Mr.. Stofberg also has an interest
in the Capitol Auto Laundry here
and is vice president of the COM
pany. His job at the District
Building pays $500 a year
For the past two years the Com
missioner's assistant has been Sec
rotary Of the National Council of
Christians and Jews Brotherhood
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and her son John was engaged as
a courier to the South through the
latter years Of the war.
"Weichmann testified that he
drove Mrs. Surratt out here on the
afternoon Of the 18th, the day Of
the assassination. and that she
carried package containing
glass which proved to be John
Wilkes Booths binoculars.
Booth and Herold stopped here
Booth didn't get off his horse
Herold went in and got the binocu-
lars and two carbines that had
been concealed there several days
before from the tenant-operator
a man named Lloyd. He also got
| a bottle of whisky. Booth drank
on horseback. Lloyd testified later
that when Herold brought back
the bottle it was pretty nearly
drunk
| We resumed the drive along
ANOOUN y all Ooo G11C 1 1oSdVdWdy w
T. B.. named after it's first resi-
dent, Thomas Brook-not after
tuberculosis.
Here" said Msgr. McAdams,
Booth turned off his course. He
had taken this back road instead
of the road through Oxon Hill
to avoid the soldiers at Fort
Washington. Here he had the
choice of turning right on the
Stumpy Oak road and making his
way to Port Tobacco or turning
to the left on the Benedict road
The main road, Route S down to
La Plata, was not here then. That's
the trouble. People have a hard
time following Booths route be-
cause they make the mistake OF
thinking in terms of roads that
were not then in existence. Booth
turned to the left because his
leg was bothering him and he de-
cided to 60 to see DR.. Samuel
Mudd."
We drove several miles on thc
Benedict road.
Turn right here" said Msgr
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0verheated Stove Blamed
In Death Of ST Canaries

Seven canaries were singing and
chlrplng as usual in a Seat
Pleasant home today but 81 of
their companions died last night.
The birds, 81 newly-hatched,
died when they "got exhausted"
from an overheated stove in the
room where they were kept, Mrs.
John w. Brown, 5808 Rollins
avenue, said.
Mrs. Brown, who is rs, had been
raising canaries for four years.
When Mrs. Brown discovered
the birds plight, she sprinkled
them with water, but only five
males survived. Mrs. Brown
doesn't plan to build up the brood
again.
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Natural Gas Supply
Enough for 50 Years,
Geo|ogist Tells FPC

There is sufficient natural gas
in sight to care for the Nation
needs for at least so years. a
geological engineer today told the
Federal Power Commission.
The witness, Ernest E. Roth of
New York City, vice president of
the Columbia Engineering Corp.
and consultant to the Columbia
Gas System, testified in a hearing
in which the Washington Gas
Light Co. is opposing threatened
increase in wholesale gas rates.
The Washington Gas Light Co.
has warned that consumers here
will be asked to pay higher rates,
if the commission grants the in
crease.
The Atlantic Searboard Corp.
and the Virginia Gas Transmits
sion Corp. about a year ago
Jointly filed proposed changes in
their natural gas rates, which
would mean a Jump of more than
$248,000 annually to the gas COM
pany here.
Hearings Resumed.
Today's hearing before Exam
liner Ewing G. Simpson was a re-
sumption of the case which halted
January IS, and marked the start
of rebuttal testimony, which may
take 10 days.
MIR. Roth, placed on the witness
stand by Attorney Richard Rosan,
representing Atlantic, testified
that his company is making ex-
periments on manufacturing gas
from coal. He declared that this
manufactured gas could be stored
in the ground in sands that now
hold natural gas.
The only thing that will prevent
this development would be lower
cost natural gas, the witness de-
clared.
Could Be Cheaper.
Mr.. Roth asserted that it might
be cheaper to cassidy coal in the
east, than bring in natural gas
from Wyoming in years to come.
The Bureau of Mines has made
laboratory tests on Columbia's
coal reserves and found them suit
able for classification.
Mr.. Roth told Examiner Simp-
son that there are very extensive
regions in the United States par
ticularly and on the North Amer
lean continent that have not been
tested for natural gas.
He based his prediction on suf-
f1cient natural gas supplies on the
known fields, deeper drilling meth
DDS, better pipe and bits, stronger
steel castings under high pressure,
greater strides in geophysical pros
pecting to determine the best areas
to drill and the reduction of vast
age Of gas by conservation
methods.