davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1951-10-26
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO, Oct, ae tRl CUsDA.-sal:
cents lower on butchers; closed slow
weak at decline; sows . cents lower
19,40-19,5o latter popular price: 1896
paid sparinely; other weights scarce
choice sows 400 pounds and under. 1925.
1850: most 400-50Q pounds. 16.5O-1725
few odd heavier weights as low as 1875
salable cattle. 1000: salable calves
400; mature slaughter classes scarce
to to fully 90 lower; two loads hish.
$500 scattered sales commercial to hieh.
good steers, oa.0O-34 90: few commercial
and good heifers. .2s. s.0o-32 so: high -util-
ityr : and commercial COWS. 255O-29 90;
and cutters; 17,50,,21 50, few light can
ners down to 1880: utility to good bulls.
25 5o-e9 20: most commercial to choice
vealers 3o00-36.00: odd prime. $500.
Salable sheep, 1900: lambs and ewes
gGenerally, steady; choice and prime native
T.. lambs: Is, 81 00-32 90; choice and prime
choice ewes. 13OO-15. O0
Evening star., 1951-10-26


Hourly Sales ON the Exchange To-day:
II 100 am. 45o 600 200 noon 800 900
1.nn p.m $50 600 300 D. m 600 600
tUnit Of trading 10 shares. sIn bank
rnptcy sa or Or rees,versnip or peing reorganized
assumed by such companies. Rates of divi-
dends in the foregoing table are annual
or semiannuaI declaration Unless other
wise noted special or extra dividends are
not included. cid Called. Ex-dividend
stock dividend. d Cash or stock Paid
last year: PAYABLE IN stock estimated
cash csa value .3a On ex-dividend date. gDe-
clared or paid after stock dividend or
split-up.. k Declared or paid this. year. an
rears. p Paid this year, dividends omitted.
deferred OF. no action taken at last divi-
dend meeting. Declared or paid in
dividend z Payable in stock, exact cash
value undetermined on declaration date,h
Evening star., 1951-10-26
Standard Of New Jersey
Reports Record Income
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-Standard
Oil Co. New Jersey, reported
today it's estimated net consoli-
dated earnings for nine months
ended September 80 amounted to
a record $403 million. equal to
$685. a share on 60,57l, ,092 shares
of stock outstanding.
In the same period a year ago
estimated net was $274, 100000. OF
S4.53 share after giving effect
to the two-for- -one stock split OF
June IL, 1851.
Other earnings included:
For Nine Months Ended September 30.
Evening star., 1951-10-26

the j u n e 3U
land October 10
/ bank calls. a
statement from
/ Robert v. Flem-
ling, b o a r d
|chairman a n d
|p r e S / d e n t.
SHOWED today,
yLoans were re-
|duced. but re-
m a ! n e d sub
|stantially above
la year ago.
| Cash and due
from banks on
Evening star., 1951-10-26
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO. Oct 26-The conservativ.
Party victory in the British election lee
to some buying in Erain and soybear
futures today.
Soyoeans climbed more than cent!
hushel at times, reaching new seasona
highs. Advances in grains were modest
however.
Near the end OF the first hour. wheat
ia-9s cent higher than che previous fin.
ish, December 2.55h: corn was up i2-7a
December so, and oats were l4-i.
higher. December 907s. Soybeans were
up l24-oh4 cents, November 3.0l u. anC
lard was unchanged to cents a hundred
pounds higher November 1902.
Evening star., 1951-10-26

Mr.. Fleming. October 10
totaled $84.559.137, a gain of ST.
1854 since June and $5,808. SAT
above the October 4, 1850, bank
call.
Holdings of Government obliga-
tions. both direct and guaranteed,
amounted to $l50.113,168, a rise
Of $4.sl1.S4 since June and $780,
345 above a year earlier.
Outstanding loans totaled S83.-
27S.678, drop of $3,519,174 since
June, but remained $1l,281, $50
above October, 1850.
Assets reached S341,113,621, an
increase of s8.129.363 since June
and $l2.302,866 above a year ago.
Deposits of S319,422,174 were
s7.54o,938 above June and SlO.-
533,140 above levels of October
last year.
Undivided profits of s3.675,616
on October 10 were up $137,79
since June and s9o7,440 above a
year earlier.
Deposits Boosted After Call.
Most bankers commented that
their deposits surged upward in
the week after the call and the
Richmond Reserve Bank reported
that demand deposits of IA re-
serve member institutions here
jumped $33.44l, 900 in the week
ended October II. The total of
$912,766, 900 also was $80,905, 900
above year earlier.
Loans of the Il banks showed
little change in the week. Amount
ing to s310,792,000, they were
$547 900 higher for the week, and
$21 .265 900 above a year earlier.
Debts to demand deposits in the
week ended October II totaled
1926. .663, 900, gain of 0.2 per cent
from. the previous week, and were
7.8 per cent above the like 1850
week.
Speaker for Fiduciaries.
Howe P. Cochran, prominent
Washington attorney, will discuss
current tax problems involved in
estate planning at the fall dinner
meeting Of the Fiduciaries Section
Of the District Bankers Associa-
ton at the Washington Golf and
Country Club Tuesday evening,
Frederick L. Church. jr.. chairman
Of the section. announced today.
Mr.. Cochran. member of the
bars of the District of Columbia
and New York. is a nationally
known speaker who injects humor
and interest into tax lectures. He
has spoken at bar meetings in
many States and at many univer-
stiles.
Newbold Named Director.
John L. Newbold. jr., president
Of Merchants Transfer & Storage
Co., has been elected a director of
the International Bank of Wash
Evening star., 1951-10-26

lngCOn, u PHI
vate institution
recently taken
over by a group
o II industrial
lists, including
Henry Ford II.
Mr.. Newbold
Is q we'll known
Wash in G on
bust n e S S m a n
and comes from
a family long
active in Capt.
tai affairs. A
notive Nf the
District, he was
Evening star., 1951-10-26

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Evening star., 1951-10-26

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Evening star., 1951-10-26
Riggs Increases Cash
And U. 5. Obligations,
Deposits Up Sharply
By DonoId B, HodIey

Riggs National Bank, the Capt.
tails largest bank. increased its
cash and holdings Of Federal
Government obligations between
Evening star., 1951-10-26

Safeway Stores earned S4,781, ,248
or S139 in the So weeks ended
September 8, VS.. S9.406,916 or
S341 in the 1850 period.
Evening star., 1951-10-26

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Evening star., 1951-10-26
Washington Exchange

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Evening star., 1951-10-26
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Evening star., 1951-10-26
N. Y. Bond Market

Furnished By the Associated Press.)
LIST INCLUDES ONLY SELECTED ISSUES
Evening star., 1951-08-14
Man Arrested Here
In North Beach Theft

North Beach CMd.) police today
held a Washington rooming house
operator on larceny charges in
connection with the theft of $51
Sunday from Uncle Billie'S res
taurant.
Arrested by District police, Will
liam Spencer, 43, was turned over
to Police Chief George Kellam OF
North Beach after waving extra
dition. Police said Spencer oper-
ated a rooming house in the 100
block of Twelfth street Sc, and
has only one arm.
About $50 pm. Sunday, one
armed man who had been playing
a slot machine at Uncle Billie's
grabbed a bag of change from the
cashiers cage and fled.
Later two men were seen throw
ing away a cloth bag about two
miles from North Beach. Police
then arrested another Washington
man in an 80-mile- hour chase
in Calvert County and held him
as suspect in the theft.
However, he later was absolvec
in the crime, but was held OF
traffic charges.
Evening star., 1951-08-14
Juvenile Court Lists
SAB Cases Involving
children in 7 Months

The Juvenile Court reported to-
day it received 264 complaints in
volving children in June and 279
in July.
The monthly reports. showing
the source of complaints against
the children by age groups, the
types of complaint and an analy-
sis Of delinquent acts against
property and persons, do not give
the court disposition of these
cases.
Of the 264 complaints made
about dependent and delinquent
children in June, rs were between
16 and 18 years, 100 were be-
tween 13 and 16 years and 80
were IL years and younger. The
main source of the complaints
was police.
An analysis of 214 delinquent
acts in June showed IA were ac-
cused of unauthorized use of an
auto, As accused of housebreaking
and unlawful entry, 8 accused of
robbery, II accused of tampering
or taking property, 8 accused of
sex offenSeS, % accused of assault
or attempted assault. % accused
of acts of carelessness or mischief,
Is accused of traffic violations
and one accused of violating drug
or liquor laws.
The July report showed sharp
increases in complaints of un-
use of an auto, which
rose to 81; housebreaking, which
rose to 78; tampering or taking
property, which rose to 90; acts of
carelessneSs or mischief, which
rose os65, and sex offenses, which
rose to %. Among other offenses,
the report showed IA robbery COM
plants, 81 assaults or attempted
assaults, II traffic violations and
one violation of drug or liquor
laws. In all. 333 delinquent acts
we're reported for July.
In the July group were % de-
pendent and 257 delinquent chill
dren. OF the combined total, 80
were in the 16 to 18 year group,
118 were between the ages of 13
and 16 years and 70 were IL and
under.
Evening star., 1951-08-14
r. Months Mean Romance for Oysters

them out a little, and perhaps
they're not quite as tasty. But,
frankly, we're having oysters on
our banquet menu tomorrow
night"
The oyster men failed to borrow
an idea from Julius Caesar, and
that's what gave rise to the super
stition banning the eating of
oysters in the summer, Mr.. Toner
said.
Caesar got his oysters in Eng
land, packed them in snow to
keep them fresh, and then brought
them across his military highway
to Rome for his lavish banquets, .
he said. Some people say that's
why he conquered England-for
the oysters
But refrigerated food shipments
of today are of recent origin
And unrefrigerated oysters spoil
rapidly. That's the reason they
weren't eaten, before in the sum-
mer months.
Mr.. Toner'S knowledge of oyster
history is broad.
"They were a big food item for
the Indians" he said. Then
after the first settlers arrived here
they ate many oysters"
In Caesars time. a man named
Evening star., 1951-08-14

Community Chest agency. Last
year, $225,000 of it's budget of
$259,907 was received from the
Community Chest.
But we haven't enough
money or people to do the COM
prehensive job we know is des-
perately needed for United
Community Services in the Dis
trict, and all we can do is hope
that the public will respond
with even greater generosity
this year than it has in the
past" she said.
Miss Grifis is a native of
Eldorado, Kans. She attended
Overlook School for the Blind
and Pendel Hill, a Quaker grad
uate school in Philadelphia.
She came here from st. Louis,
where she had been a student
in Washington University's
school of social work,
Evening star., 1951-08-14

old Sudeten-German girl, Mrs.
Herta Flannery. was able at last
to stand beside her husband as an
American after four years of mar
riage and unceasing efforts to
meet the provisions of an arbi-
trary section, since modified, of
the Internal Security Act of 1850.
Both new citizens took the oath
of allegiance to the United States
along with 48 others administered
by Judge Walter M. Bastian.
Mr.. Nussbaum first came to
this country in 1892 and remained
for seven years. He went back to
his homeland and established his
own wholesale shoe business in
1908. He prospered until 1889
when the Nazis dissolved his trade
because he was a Jew, n 1912
they threw him and his wife,
Jenny, into a concentration camp
near Prague.
His wife, he said, died of starva-
Ition. He and numerous other in
mates were bailed out of Ger
many and into Switzerland in
1916 through an American relief
fund especially for that purpose.
He lives with his son, a doctor
of political science, at 5109 Illi-
nois avenue NV. A daughter,
Mrs. Bertha Atkin. lives a block
away, while another daughter,
Mrs. Ruth Teitz, lives in Cincin-
natl.
Mrs. Flannery, pretty wife of
former Army Maj. James Edwin
Flannery of 1912 Burns place ne,
made it out of the Sudetenland
in 1947 disguised in an Army uni
form. She had worked as a char
woman in her husbands military
occupation Office in Konigsberg, in
the Sudeten province of Czecho-
slovakia.
Until today, her husband, a
summa cum laude graduate of
Georgetown University Foreign
Service School, who is soon to
return to the Army. fought un-
successfully to obtain citizenship
for his wife due to a provision
of the law which banned any
foreign-born person who had once
belonged to a totalitarian group.
She had been forced to join the
Nazi Youth organization when
she was 10.
The Flannerys have two chill
dren, James Edwin, jr., 3. and
Heidi, II months.
Evening star., 1951-08-14

Lucretius operated the first known
oyster farm. raising them prin-
cipally for his private banquets.
Mr., Toner is quite an oyster farm
er himself, with 5000 acres scat
tered under the waters near
Greenport, N. Y.
"Oysters used to be the first in
rank among the seafood items. u
he said, "but now they've Slipped
down to seventh. Such things as
the salmon industry, halibut
shrimp and sea scallops showed us
down." But it's still a $1OG mil
lion a year business.
The list of topics set for dis
cussion during the convention
which opened today, indicates the
need of the oyster men to get to-
Igether to talk about their prob
lens.
On the agenda are such things
as Impact of Mobilization on the
Shellfish Industry" Price Con-
troll and Oysters" "Oyster Pro-
Icurement for the Armed Forces
The Transportation Challenge, ~
and "Techniques of Quick -Freez-
ling oysters"
After tomorrow's banquet, there
will be a showing of Alice in
Wonderland"
Evening star., 1951-08-14

"We receive all kinds of re-
quests" she said. Just the
other day, a grandmother who
lives here telephoned me. She
had just heard of our service
and explained that her grand
child in New York was blind
and that she wanted to send
him gift that might be help
full as well as fun.
"She also told that her
daughter, the childs mother.
was having a great deal of
difficulty dealing with her
little boy. who was mighty un-
happy because he couldn't do
things other kids could. For
tunately, I was able to refer
her to a source there that
would provide family counsel
such as our own department
gives here"
Miss GriffiS' organization is a
Evening star., 1951-08-14
Futile Plea Is Made
For Truck EMBARGO
On Shirley Highway

Trucks apparently are going to
keep rolling over Shirley highway
until the question of whether they
constitute a traffic hazard is
settled.
That attitude was taken by Vir-
ginia Highway Commissioner
James A. Anderson yesterday
after a Northern Virginia delega-
ton met with him and Gov. Battle
in Richmond to urge that an en-
barge be placed on through truck
traffic along the highway.
State Senator Charles R. Fen
wick of Arlington, who headed the
group, said today, however, that
he will try to get a bill through
the General Assembly to make it
mandatory for Gen. Anderson to
ban trucks, if relief is not obtained
before the legislature convenes
next January.
Jurisdiction Divided.
The newly constructed dual
highway connects Washington and
Woodbridge, bypassing Alexan-
dria. The State has Jurisdiction
over the section between Wood
bridge and the Leesburg pike,
while the Federal Bureau of Pub
lie Roads has authority over the
remaining portion.
Senator Byrd and Representa-
tive Smith, Democrat, of Virginia,
have promised to try to persuade
the Bureau of Public Roads toI
prohibit trucks on it's portion of
the highway. But Gen. Anderson
read a letter from the Federal
agency at yesterdays meeting in
which the bureau said a survey
had shown trucks should be per-
mitted on the road.
Gen. Anderson also said he
doubted whether he has authority
to ban trucks unless he can show
they constitute such a traffic haz-
ard as would justify such action.
Fenwick Differs With Anderson.
He also expressed doubt whether
trucks could be excluded from a
highway built with public funds
and capable of carrying heavy
equipment.
But Senator Fenwick pointed out
hat Gen. Anderson apparently be-
ieved he had such authority be-
'ore because he had banned trucks
before last May, when the high
ways fourth lane was under con-
4 |
Evening star., 1951-08-14
By Jack Jonas

You can go ahead and eat
oysters tonight If you want them,
but the oyster men would just as
soon you didn't.
They're not too concerned about
the old superstition of not eating
oysters during months with no
'r," Royal Toner. vice president
of the Oyster Institute of North
America, said.
Along with the Oyster Growers
and Dealers Association of North
America and the National She'll
fisheries Association, the institute
is having its annual convention
this week in the Statler Hotel. Mr.
Toner calls himself the man
who speaks for the oyster because
the oyster can't speak for him
self"
Right now, he pointed out, the
oysters are spawning, preparing
new oysters for the half-shell
items on menus of two or three
years hence.
THE oyster men are very con-
servation minded" Mr.. Toner
said. That's why we'd just as
soon oysters aren't eaten during
the summer months when they're
spawning. All that love life tires
Evening star., 1951-08-14
Blind Leads the Blind TO Self Confidence

In this case, the blind leads
the blind with insight.
For three years as a staff
worker for the Family and Child
Services, Miss Gretta Griffis has
been showing sightless persons
in Washington how to depend
on themselves.
Her teaching comes from ex-
perience. Miss Griffis has been
totally blind for 13 years, and
for most of her life before that,
she was almost completely blind.
Miss Griff1s, who spends hours
of her time aiding the sightless,
doesn't advocate coddling them.
strangely enough" she said,
families often discourage
people without sight from car
ing for themselves, making
them more dependent than they
need be and often driving them
further into withdrawal from
life"
To counteract such treat
ment, Miss Griffis, in her ap-
proximately IS visits each
month, urges those not handi-
capped by other serious physical
ailments to keep active and oc-
cupied.
Many of those I visit are
elderly" she said, "and fire.
quently have lost their vision
as result of some disease that
has become chronic with age.
But in most cases, there is
something constructive they can
DO, such as knit, crochet, make
rugs or lampshades."
Once Miss Grifis gets her
program under way, her pupils
become eager.
L have even had pupils so
eager to learn that they have
sandpapered their fingertips in
order to sensitize them to feel
ing Braille letters" she related.
Miss Griffis' visits are short or
long, depending on the needs
OF the person she's seeing. One
slghtless woman she sees each
week also has a heart ailment
and diabetes. But under Miss
Griffls' tutelage, the woman has
learned to make rag rugs, pot
holders and lampshades.
Some who have what is called
travel vision" visit Miss Grit
f1S at the Family and Child
Services Offices at 1922 Eleventh
street NV.
Some of them have shopping
problems. She either goes with
them to the stores or arranges
for personal shoppers to meet
them and guide them on q
shopping tour.
Evening star., 1951-08-14
'Anti-'Poachinq' !
Steps Urged
.AgaiinstCabs
Officials Study Ways
To Halt Infringement
On Bus, Roll Business

A new regulation to crack down
on licensed and unlicensed cab
drivers who "poach" passengers
from railway and bus terminals
here was urged on the Commits
Isioners today.
District enforcement officials
and representatives of the term
Iinals declared it is difficult to OBJ
tain conviction under a present
Public Utilities Commissions reg
ulating banning solicitation of
passengers by cab drivers.
They said that "poachers" are
becoming an increasing problem tc
the terminals, particularly with
respect to servicemen en- route
back to camp.
Incidents Reported.
Capt. Howard V. Covell of No.
/ police precinct told of an in
stance where a bus company had
sold tickets for IT bus-loads on
a scheduled trip. only to lose four
bus-loads to cab solicitors.
Capt. Covell complained that it
was hard to make cases stand up
in court even where police could
see what was going on unless the
actual solicitation was heard.
He suggested that the regula-
tions be strengthened. He also
proposed some coordination of
bus schedules and the hours at
which servicemen are due back
in camp.
New Regulation Proposed.
George E. Hamilton, jr., repre-
sentative of the Washington
Terminal Co., proposed a new
police regulation making it illegal
for any one to approach another
person in or near railway or bus
stations "for the purpose of secur-
ing passengers for transportation
by himself or another"
1t was pointed out that one
practice is for the cab driver to
have another person approach
prospective passengers for him.
Mrs. Mary A. Silver of the
Board of Revocation and Restora-
tion of Operators Permits. said
her board knows of drivers who
do nothing but solicit passengers.
But the boards hands are tied,
she said, when there was no wit
ness to hear the actual solicita-
ton.
Francis J. Ortman, represent
ing Safeway Trails, Inc, and Vir-
ginia Stage Lines, Inc, told of a
Navy wife who was intercepted
by a solicitor at the terminal,
told there were no more buses
that night to the Patuxent Naval
Base and charged $85 for the trip
there.