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Evening star., 1951-04-27
Banks in District Buy
More Treasury Bills,
Business Loans Drop
By Donald B. HodIey

Washington banks holdings of
Treasury bills increased in the
week ended April 18 while busi-
ness loans turned down and total
loans showed only a small in
crease, it was revealed today by
the Richmond Reserve Banks
summary of the condition of Ia
member banks here.
The IA banks increased holdings
of Treasury bills to $48, ,733 900, a
gain of $3.988, 900 for the week
Total investments rose to $780,
215,000. gain of $2,982, 600. Fed
eral bond holdings of $223. OFT ,o0O
were of $1.0o7, 900.
Total loans of $316,564, 900 were
up $366,000, despite a $4,000 de-
cline in commercial. loans to $142,-
100000. Brokers loans of $2,-
$4,000 were up $552,O00. while
real estate loans of $97 ,327 ,000
also were up $416,000. Other
loans, mostly consumer loans, sank
to $72, ,465. 900, a drop of SAT-, ,000
Demand deposits of $844, ,238, ,000
were down $4,532, 900, while time
deposits of $184.809. 900 were up
$4,000. Debts to demand deposits
in the week ended April 18 totaled
$246, ,963. 900, drop of LIS per cent
from the previous week, but re-
manned 26.1 per cent above the
like 1850 week.
Patrick Hayes to Join WGMS.
Patrick Hayes, Washington con-
cert manager and radio commen-
tator, will join Radio Station
WGMS as director of sales and
Evening star., 1951-04-27
Produce Markets

Produce quotations from Baltimore, fur.
nished by the Agriculture Department:
ern; Bushel baskets. and bushel boxes
.. s. No. ] Maryland Romes, 2ha inches
up, high color. 200; New Jersey Romes
Potatoes-old. barely steady. q, s
No l. size A, unwashed Pennsylvania Ka-
tahdins d l0o-pound sacks, fair quality
200; 6o,pounsd ID sacks, 11o-25' most, LIS
Sweet potatoes-about steady; busheI
baskets. Y, S. No. / Maryland and vir-
saan Fna epesns fey few best ne New 9ssrss essts
No. Goldens, / i.75-2. 90; few, 2.25; Puerto
Ricans, ) ! doo o75; Jersey type; 1,50-55; white
type, LOO; nearby "a bushel hampers, Col
dens and Puerto Ricans. 1.15
Poultry Quotat tions.
Poultry-market dull: receipts. light
sfsaps sht type fsS g. few
supplies insufficient to quote.
Grain Market
Flour-Receipts. 3,121 100-pound sacks
Wheat-Receiptsi 1aoaSo 20 bushels; aaa !dI, ship
s4f5s AgSlI Nsi Ss 5shsE snn.
ms5si nRas ss0ot sasRs DusRfs p
ments, none: stocks, ls7;646 bushels;
none: Stocks saSa basSei BEES shipments
Rye-Receipts, 92. .75s bushels; ship
ments. none; stocks 1,244,3S4 bushels.
Soybeans-Receipts, none; shipments
none: stocks. 66235 bushels.
MilIfeed-Receipts. 253 tons.
Butter and Eggs.
Eggs-rnarket firm, large whites. about
steady others: demand slow: offerings lib
eral to rather heavy current receipts
Wholesale prices, large, 53-5S; mostly
54-56; mediums, 5l-54; large, 50-52;
current receipts, ungraded, 42-45, accord
weight
Recepits-butter, 2S,091 pounds; eggs,
1850 cases.
Evening star., 1951-04-27
Earnings Analysis
Shows Record Sales
Offset Higher Taxes
By Sam Dowson
Associated Press Financi1I Writer

NEW YORK, April 27.-Higher
taxes drag at the coattails of in
dustrial profits this year. But
record sales volume still pulls
earnings one-fourth higher than
a year ago on the average.
Company after company. report
ing profits for the first three
months, show that business is very
good.
The Korean wars effect is very
plain in a sampling of 88 COM
lpanieS among the first to report.
Tax increases and mounting costs
lof labor and materials are slowing
down the profits uphill rush The
80 had total earnings of $924.60I.-
i205, compared with $734,597,4 Ala in
the 1850 first quarter, making the
average gain 25.8 per cent.
Industrial profits, however, were
much better on a year~to-year
basis last year. The Federal Trade
Commission and the Securities
land Exchange Commission report
today that the Nations manufac-
turers made 43 per cent MOI e
profits in 1850 than in l949 after
taxes. Before taxes the gain was
81 per cent.
Before the Korean war the max
iimum corporate income tax was
SO per cent. Now it is At per cent,
iplus n per cent levy on earninos
in excess of IS per cent of the
Icompany's average profits in the
three best years of the 1868
period. That's complicated, and
costly to industry. It's also one
reason the Treasury is showing a
surplus of more than $4 billion
these days.
Showlngs Of individual COM
panies vary widely within indus
tries. Some firms report the big
geSt profits of any first quarter in
their history. Others drop behind
the trend of their industry as q
whole.
Evening star., 1951-04-27
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK. April 81 P.-Foreisn ex.
change rates follow Great Britain in
dollars. others in cents AsS
Canadian dollar in New York open mar
ket, 6ls per cent discount or 93SlM
United States cents, of ID of cent.
Europe-Great Britain (poundi. 28oHs,
unchanged: 30-day futures. 2sS09s. un-
90-day futures, 2.S034. unchaneed: Bel
gium tfrancl. 1882. UNCHANGED: France
ffrancl, ."SSs of cent, unchanged; Hol-
land (guildeD. 26.27. UP .0I of a cent:
Italy fliral, I6h of cent. UNCHANGED:
Portugal (escudol, 3. 80. UNCHANGED; Sweden
fkrona), 1897. unchanged Switzerland
franc. freel 23.17. unchanged
Latin America-Argentina (free). T 25,
UNCHANGED; Brazil (free), $50, UNCHANGED
Mexico 11.57. unchanged; Venezuela
tbolivarl. 30n3 unchanged.
Far East-Hong Kong dollar. 1850, un-
changed
Evening star., 1951-04-27

advertising Ilrm OF OSlOW o.
Brown here. Ray Wilson, chief
announcer for the station, has
been named senior account exec
utive for the WGMS sales staff.
National Time Sales has been
named national representative for
the station.
Mr.. Hayes will continue to direct
the Hayes Concert Bureau, but
will discontinue his out-of town
booking activities, managing road
tours. of Fred Waring and other
popular artists. He came to
Washington in 1941 as manager
of the National Symphony Or
cheStra and is vice chairman of
the Cultural Development Com
mittee of the Washington Board
of Trade. A veteran of the Navy
in World War II, he still is a
Reserve officer.
Bank of Washington Reports.
Loans and discounts of the Ma
tional Bank of Washington on
April 6, date of the latest bank
call. totaled $14,247,618, a rise of
$1,665, 1876 since December 80, the
banks statement disclosed.
Cash and due from the Federal
Reserve Bank totaled $24, 100 ,544,
a rise of $2,330,862, while the
amount due from banks was $3,-
098,02f. a gain of $1,570,174.
Holdings of Federal securities
were reduced to 66,363,748, a drop
of $5,990,78 Deposits of $104,-
247,516 were down $364,767
Assets of sos, ,164. .O04 were $482,-
$50 below December 30. Undivided
profits of $448, ,269 were UP ST.
SGT. Barnum L. Cotton is presi-
dent.
Insurance Veteran Retires.
After 80 years of service, Mrs.
Ruth G. Stout today retired as
secretary treasurer of the Mutual
Insurance Agency, Inc. A grad
Evening star., 1951-04-27

1OCo nAO44 Wiz
agency since 1880 and has been
active in fraternal and club affairs
in Bethesda for many years.
Morris W. Wells, formerly as
sistant treasurer, was promoted to
treasurer and Pauline L. Jones,
formerly assistant secretary, was
elected secretary.
Ice Secretaries in Capital.
Secretaries of ice industry as
soclations of the United States
and Canada are in Washington
for the annual conference spon-
Sored by the National Association
of Ice Industries. Meetings at the
Mayflower Hotel opened yesterday
and will continue through tomor-
row.
James H. Simon, president OF
Simon Distributing Corp, has as
sumed additional emergency re-
Sponsibilities by accepting ap-
pointment to the Wholesale Con-
sumer Large Durable Goods In
dustry Advisory Committee of the
Office. of Price Sterilization. The
committee will meet May Z.
Greber Brothers, Washington
distributors for Hallicrafters and
Gibson products have appointed
two new district managers Jack
B. Simms, formerly with Kelvi-
nator Corp. here, has been as
signed to Southern Virginia
Maryland and the eastern part
of West Virginia. Edison Eweu
native of Salisbury, Md, has been
assigned to the Eastern Shore OF
Maryland.
Heads Corn Products.
DR.. Ernest w. Reid, who served
as deputy director general Of op-
erations for the War Production
Board here prior to 1943, has
been elected president of Corr
Products Refining Co. He sue.
ceeded Morris Sayre, who became
vice chairman of the board.
The A. W. Defenderfer Genera
Agency of the John Hancock Mu.
tual Life Insurance Co. will move
into new Offices in the Boss &
Phelps Building at l417 K street
NV, on Monday.
Evening star., 1951-04-27
Rail and Oil Stocks
Lead Board Advance
On Active Exchange
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 27.-Active
demand for railroad and oil
stocks stirred a broad advance in
today's market. Gains of a few
cents to around SO a share were
widely scattered through the. list
Motors, steels. copper mining
and many chemical issues fol-
lowed the leaders into higher
ground as average prices climbed
within striking distance of the
years high.
Trading hit a fairly active pace.
Early dealings saw blocks of as
many as 10000 shares change
hands at higher prices.
Investors found good reading
in a new batch of favorable
earnings reports and dividend ac-
tions based on first quarter
operations. And the buying en-
thusiams was not dulled by the
Presidents call for new ano
stiffer controls designed to head
OF inflationary pressures.
Showing the way among the
rails were Santa Fe, with a rise
|of more than 3 points at one time.
Baltimore & Ohio, which, opened
on block of 5000 shares; Nicke
Plate. Illinois Central, Southern
Railway. New York Central and
Pennsylvania.
Standard Oil of New Jersey
added to its gains of yesterday
Ohio Oil responded to news of q
75-cent dividend declaration
Others higher included Texas Co.
Gulf Oil. Bethlehem Steel (Which
reported earnings for the frs
quarter almost equal to the 1856
period, Chrysler, General Motors
Kennecott Copper, Anaconda Cop
|per, Du Pont, Dow Chemical
American Cyanamid, j. I. Case
Montgomery Ward. U. S. Rubber
and Warner Brothers, which
started higher on a 7,O00-share
transfer.
Among the few laggafds were
Douglas Aircraft, Johns-Manville
Union Pacific and Philco.
Corporate bonds participated ir
the upturn on the exchange, while
Government obligations were
steady in over-the-counter deal
ingS.
Evening star., 1951-04-27
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO. April 21 Pl.-Grains drifted
along with only minor fractional changes
on the Board of Trade today
Wheat corn and soybeans eased Wheat
met hedging pressure. Prospects of 9
large corn acreage caused mild selling In
that cereal. Reports that crude vegetable
found reflection in the bean slump.
Oats and rye held relatively steady
Buying of oats continued to be based on
of wet weather. Belief that rye condition
had deteriorabed along with wheat sup
ported the brown grain
Wheat at noon was 9s-h lower. May,
2.5l ls; corn was unchanged to "a lower
May, 1874 oats unchanged to u higher,
May, 907s; rye (old style) unchanged to
u higher MAY, 2.06; soybeans unchanged
to la lower. September 323 and lard 3
70 10 cents a hundred pounds lower,
May 1857
Evening star., 1951-04-27
Market Averages
New York Cotton

NEW YORK, April 81 u9.-Cotton fu.
lures turned firm in forenoon trading as
active commission house and New Orleans
5uylng carried prices INTO new high gropno
off when the December 1851, delivery
moved through 1850 cents pound which
had been considered resistant point in
the market Inflationary sentiment ard
the belief that a large cotton crop this
year will not relieve the tight situation In
cotton supplies to any marked degree,
also encouraged buying in new-crop
months.
leading spot firm up to forenoon sold
about 1000 bales of nearby May futures
at the ceiling.
Noon prices we're unehanged to las a
bale higher than the previous close. May
45 80, July 1924 and October 40.16.
Evening star., 1951-04-27

promotion on
May l. it was
announced to-
day by M. Rob-
ert Rogers, vice
president and
general man
ager of WGMS,
Cecil Rich
ards has re-
signed as sales
manager for
the station to
become an ac-
cnI1nt executive
for the public
relations a n d
Evening star., 1951-04-27

uate of West
ern H / g h
S C h ool. Mrs.
S t ut joined
the agency as
a stenographer
in 1921.
Directors of
the a g e n C y
elected Claude
v. Hyson, a vice
pre- S i d ent, to
the board to
S ce e d Mrs.
Stout. He has
h q @ n aSS0cj-
Evening star., 1951-04-27
detroit Stock Exchange wis ad-

vance its opening and closing
times one hour, beginning Mon
day, to 8 am. to 2::15 pm. Mon
day through Friday and 9 am. to
11:15 am. Saturdays-all Eastern
Standard Time. The new hours
were adopted to conform to Day
light Saving Time which goes into
effect on the New York Stock
Exchange next week.
Evening star., 1951-04-27
Hourly Sales on the Exchange Today:
100 am. Szo coo IL 90 noon $50 ooc

tUnit OF trading 10 shares. in uank,
ruptey or receivership or being reorganizet
under the Bankruptcy Act or Sr;urlt1el
dends In the foregoinS table are annual
disbursements based ar the last qua, .oriy
or semiannual declaration Unisss othe.
not included cid Caliad xE. Dividend
xr Ex rights q Also extra or extras Plus
stock dividend: d Cash Sr ;tock { Paid
last year Payable N ftock estimated
clared or paid So far this year 4 ne.
eIared or paid. after stock af.Ictnd OF
split-up & Declared or aafd this year an
accumulatiye issue with dividends in al.
rears. p Paid this esar dividend ousittas.
deferred or no action taken Et iast divi
dend meeting. Declared or paid In
1851. plus stock dividend Liquidattne
dividend. Payable in stock. exact cash
saIue undetermined on declaration date
Evening star., 1951-04-27
N. Y. Bond Market
LIST INCLUDES ONLY SELECTED ISSUES
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Evening star., 1951-04-27

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Evening star., 1951-04-27
MetoI Quototions
NEW vnPY A t,rif

NEW YORK, AprH AZ d4s 4s--Metal nrices
today: Copper. 24H cents q pound, Con-
necticut Valley: lead, II cents a pound
New, York; Zinc 17ia cents a pound, East
scrap Steel No. ] heavy. 44.00. Pittsburgh.
Evening star., 1951-04-27

Great Northern Railway re-
ported deficit of $3.50. .636 in
the first quarter, VS.. a deficit of
$6.724.S37 in last years quarter.
Evening star., 1951-04-27
Washington Exchange

Potomac Elec Pwr COMO at 1917. 10 at
1874, 200 at l3A ="
Hecht com--60 at 81 u. so at 32la
woodward & Lothrop com--f0 at 3;534
PUBLIC UTILITY BONDS
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-26
FEW FAMILIES ABLE
TO MEET COSTS FOR
POLIO PATIENT CARE
Infantile Paralysis Cases In Old
er Age Groups Rising In Ma
ton, County Director Points
Out

Everyone giving this year to
the March of Dimes is asked to
remember that the National Foun-
dalton for Infantile Paralysis to-
day faces it's greatest patient
load, at a. time when the value of
the dollar has decreased. More
money than ever is needed to pay
for hospital care, professional
help, iron lungs, hot pack ma
chimes and braces.
Polio Is Expensive
When infantile paralysis strikes,
very few families can afford to
pay the entire cost of patient care.
This may range from few hun
bred dollars up to $4,000 or more,
depending upon the degree of ply
steal involvement and the months
or years of necessary care. March
of Dimes money is a Godsefid, a.
valuable to everyone who needs it.
For example, March of Dimes
funds amounting to $4,000 have
helped one Texas boy stricken in
1913. Hospital and physical Their
apy charges came to over $11 900,
nursing almost $4,000.
Polio Rise
The number of infantile paraly-
sis cases in the older age groups
is rising in the United States.
Approximately Is per cent Of
the total diagnosed some years
ago were over Is years of age.
Today about 25 per cent are over
To-. The age group most generally
affected still is in the 5-to-9 brac-
ket, but older patients tend to be
more seriously affected. Bulbar or
respiratory cases make up 10 per
cent Of the total number, and Of
these, half are apt to be 10 years
of age or older.
The 1851 March of Dimes, now
nearing it's conclusion, gives ev-
eryone a chance to strike back at
infantile paralysis. Dimes and dol
lars given to the March of Dimes
will help the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis carry on
the fight.
"The conquest Of polio will be
worth all our efforts and all the
money we can intelligently put in
to it," the County March Of Dimes
director said. "Let us all do our
best to raise more money than
ever before. The need has never
been so urgent"
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-26
THREE MORE MEN
ENLIST FROM
D A r E COUNTY

The Dare County Selective Ser
vice Board was notified this week
by the Coast Guard Recruiting
Station in Norfolk of the enlist
ment this month of two nineteen
year-old youths from Avon. Har-
ry Miller Gray enlisted on Janu-
airy Is, and Gerald Davis Will
liams enlisted on January II.
When registrants with the loo
al board become 10 their names
are removed from the deferred
list, and they become eligible for
induction along with the other
older registrants. On the oath of
this month Leland Reese Midget
became 10, and Dare County now
receives credit for his enlistment
in the Navy last July on it's quota
of men supplied for the services.
The board was notified this
week Of the re-enlistment in the
Air Force of Julian Erford Haz-
en-. Hazen previously served IL
years in the Air Force between
1915 and 1947; he re-enlisted in
the grade Of private first class.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-26
THEATRE DAMAGED BY FIRE
Cause of the Fire Not DeterminabIe With Certainty.
Loss to the Uninsured Building Not Yet Estimated.

Fire broke out in the air con-
ditioning room of the Pioneer
Theatre in Manteo last Sunday
noon and within very few min
utes destroyed the screen, the
sound equipment at that part of
the theatre and caused extensive
smoke damage to the interior fur
nishings of the whole theatre.
The quickness with which the
fire spread can be understood when
one considers that an employee of
the theatre company had been in
the building within fifteen minu-
ties of the time when the fire de-
partment arrived and had seen no
evidence of fire. A very few min
utes after his departure the
flames burst out, the alarm was
given and the Manteo Fire De-
partment was hurrying to the
scene. A large crowd of spectat-
ors soon gathered, also, as the a.
larm was given just as Manteo
churches were out.
The department played water
on the flames through upper
windows in the west wall and at
the rear of the building. The
fire was brought under control
in a short time and was COM
Dletely extinguished within an
hour. But a great deal of dam
age had been done to the build
ing, owned by H. A. Greet, be-
fore the fire was uut ont. Mr..
Creef says it is impossible, as
vet, to estimate the amount Of
loss. The building was not in
sured.
The theatre is a new one and
many Of the interior decorations
have only recently been put ir
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-26
FLETCHERS TO ATTEND M
MACS HEAD FOX HUNT

Inglis Fletcher, author of Ben
nett's Welcome, a current best sell
Ter, and husband, John Fletcher,
plan to attend the annual Valen-
tine Season Fox Hunt at Mays
Head on the three days following
Valentine Day, February IA. The
Fletchers attended the hunt last
year when it was held for the first
time. The Fletchers live at Ban
don Hall, a pre-Revolutionary
War plantation near Edenton.
Also attending the fox hunt will
be Lord Downes of Scarborough,
England, who took part in the ev-
ent last year primarily to witness
the work of the famous Ameri-
can Walker Hounds. A total of
200 hounds are expected to take
part in the chases this year which
will extend from Kitty Hawk,
southwark to Oregon Inlet. The
largest packs of hounds will be
brought to Mays Head by the
Bunch brothers of Edenton and
the Watkins brothers of Oxford.
Headquarters for the hunt will be
the Carolinian Hotel.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-26
MANTEO DOWNS CENTRAL
TWICE FRIDAY NIGHT

Manteo high school boys and
girls basketball teams took pair
of well-played games from Gen.
trail high school of Elizabeth City
on the Manteo court last Friday
night. Both teams won seven
point victories. The boys score
was 34-27, the girls 1926.
Betty Rae Sanderlin and Caro-
lyn Gaskill led the local girls in
scoring, with 16 and IL points;
Jane and Doreen Midget domin-
ated play in back court. A for
ward named Jones Tailed Is
points for the losers.
Jack Cahoon, Carroll Wescott
and Punk Daniels popped in ten
points apiece to pace the boys
teams attack.
Both games were Rural Abe
marie Conference affairs. They
established both Manteo squads
more firmly in the drivers seat
at the head of the leagues stand
ings.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-26

use. 1t is going to be necessary
for the theatre to remain closed
down, perhaps a month, perhaps
longer, until necessary repairs can
be made. But the theatre manage
ment promises that it will begin
to show movies in the building
again as quickly as it is possible.
No one really knows how the
fire started, but the two theories
which seem most consistent with
the circumstances are these: a
spark from trash being burned be-
hind the building may have blown
in through an open window and
set fire to some excelsior inside
the theatre; or, the motor in the
air conditioning room became
shorted and set off the fire.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-26

WILLIAM ROY TON,
since 1887 a member of the N. C.
Board of Conservation and De-
velopment and at the time of his
death Chairman of the CONNER
cial Fisheries Division died sud-
IDENTIFY Wednesday morning in the
Washington County hospital fol-
lowing a sudden heart attack.
Mr.. Hampton had served as
State Senator for the Second Dis
trlct, and gave many years SER
vice on the school board of his
town and county. He was immen-
sely popular throughout the state,
and had a wide circle of friends,
particularly in the fishing indus
try.
He attended State College, was
a Mason, and a member of the
Episcopal church. He was SON
Of Lulu and the late w. II. Hamp-
ton Of Plymouth, a prominent
family and is survived by his mo-
Their, his wife, and two sons, W.
r., Jr., and Tom Hampton and a
daughter, Mrs. Norman Gliddens
of Washington, D. c., a sister,
Mrs. L. w. Whitehurst and four
grandchildren.