davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1953-10-09
CHICAGO Livestock

CHICAGO. Oct. . up, lUsDA). Sal
abe hogs 5000; fairly active, strong 10
mostly % higher on butchers; slow,
steary to mostly % lower on sows: most
choice 2n0-"60 pound butchers. 81 20
21.50; several loads 210-23O pounds,
: so; most 70-l 100 pounds, 30.35-
q 30; most 300-550 pound sows, 1870
20 30: good clearance
Salable cattle. 900; salable calves,
200; small receipts mainly cows; prims
cattle absent; choice steers and heifers
steady; kinds grading good and below
dull. weak; cows steady to % lower: bulls
weak: vealers steady to 100 higher: few
s9leS good and choice steers 1900
- 90; utility to low-good grades. 1900
1880; load high-choice $50 pound heif-
ers, - 80; utility and commercial cows.
9.!5- 300: Gamers and cutters. 80
$50; few utility bulls. l1.O0-11 so; few
choice. 15.Oo23.00; Gull and utility,
9.00-14.00.
Salabe sheep. 500; generally steady
on limited supply native slaughter lambs;
instances, SOL 90 higher; most good and
choice lambs, 17.00-19 90; top, 30 90 for
choice and prime grades; Gull to low
good, S.00-16 90; Gull to good slaughter
ewes steady at 4.00-5.00.
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New York Cotton

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (P.-Cotton fu-
lures moved in a narrow range during
the forenoon today, with lig 1t hquida-
not much significance to the dealings.
except hedge offerings from leading spot
firms were noticeably light, with prices
hJTcTing around loan levels. Nearby De-
cember selling at 1856 cents a pound
was 33 points under the AVERAGE loan
level, for the ten primary SPOT markets,
Traders looked for an announcement
soon by the Secretary of Agriculture
calling for farmer referendum on acre.
age and marketing controls of the 1854
crop in view OF the large prospective
surplus this year
Noon prices we're unchanged to 30
cents bale lower than the previous
close october 32.34, December $3.50
q nd March DO
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Competition Welcome

CHICAGO. Oct. 8 (P).-Ed-
ward l.. Ryerson, chairman Of
the Executive Committee of In
land Steel Co., said yesterday
that signs of sharpening compe-
tition now appearing in steel
should be welcomed by the in
dustry. He spoke at a regional
meeting of the American Iron
and Steel Institute.
Evening star., 1953-10-09
Insurance Firm Aide

ance firm. A
native of Mas
sachusettS and
g + a d u a t e
of Benjamin
Franklin In
stitute h ere,
M +. Pi k u |
comes to the
firm with pre-
viouS account
ing experience
in v variou S
fields of spe-
cialization He
is a member
a hn No
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Metal Quotations

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 R.-Spot nom
ferrous metal prices today: Copper 29-
Lead, l3l7 cents a pound, New York
Zinc. 10 cents a pound, East st. Louis
Tin, 81 u cents a pound. New York. At
Pittsburgh, scrap steel, No. l heavy, was
quoted at 34.00-35.00
Evening star., 1953-10-09
Bunk Looms Increase

Total loans for the ii mem
ber banks in Washington ad-
vanced slightly the week ended
September 80 as they had done
the week previously, according
to the Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond's weekly statement.
Business lending at Fifth Dis
trict banks generally resumed it's
climb, also.
A breakdown of principal
items for Washington's member
banks compared with the earlier
Week as follows lin miIlionS).
Evening star., 1953-10-09
Odd-Lot DECLINES

NEW YORK. Oct. 8 GP,.-The New
York Stock Exchange reported today
these odd lot transactions by principal
dealers on the exchange for October s.;
purchases of 109.1 .137 shares on 3.729
on 80 orders.
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Paul Porter Heads Firm

Headed by Paul r. Porter,
former chief of the Mutual Sc
curity Agency in Europe, the
Porter International Co. has
been formed here to facilitate
production of American items
overseas, principally through Ii
censing agreements. The new
firm has opened its principal
offices at 1925 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV. and is shortly opening
offices in New York and Paris.
Chairman of the board is Will
liam c. Foster, president of the
Manufacturing Chemists Asso-
citation, former Deputy Secretary
of Defense and former Marshall
Plan Administrator. Other di-
rectorS include Maj. Fred L. An
derson. former Deputy United
States Special Representative in
Europe; George L. Artamanof,
former head of Sears Interna-
tional, Inc: Kenyon C. Bolton,
president of Cleveland AirwayS,
Inc; w. John Kenney, Washing
ton attorney, and T. Reed Vree-
land, president of the Interna-
tional Bank of Washington.
In general operations of the
new firm, MessrS. Porter, Ar
tamonoff and Harold Schendell
will devote their full-time serv-
ices
Evening star., 1953-10-09
Hourly Sales on the Exchange.
11:00 am. 40 GOO ~ noon $50 600
100 pm 500 600 2:OOp.m. 900 600
Sales

LOO pm 500 600 200 pm. 900 600
tUnit Of trading 10 shares 'In hank
ruptcy or receiverShip or being reorgan-
ized under the Bankruptcy Act or secur-
ftteS assumed by such companies Rates
Of dividends in the foregoing table are
annual disbursements based on the last
quarterly or Semiannual declaration
Unless otherwise noted special or extra
dividends are not included cid Called
Ex dividend xr Elk rights a Also extra
or extras. Annual rate plus stock div
toend d Declared or paid in 953 plus
stock dividend e Paid last year Pay
able in STOCK. estimated cash value on
ex-dividend date 8 Paid or declared so
far this year. h Declared or paid after
stock dividend or Splitup. Declared or
paid this year, an accumulatiye issue
year dividend omitted deferred or no
action taken at last dividend meeting.
r Declared or paid in 1852. plus stock
issued x-dis Redistribution. wd When
distributed a
Evening star., 1953-10-09
Store Sales in Area
Remaining Close 10
High Levels Of 1852
|. By Nelson M, Shepord

Department store sales in the
Washington Metropolitan Area
remain about even with the gen.
orally high levels of a year ago,
the Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond disclosed today
Sales for the four weeks ended
October 3 we're off only | per
cent in the area compared with
the corresponding period of 1852
and those for the year to the
same date were 2 per cent lower.
Downtown stores Jared less well
with a urop of 5 per cent in COM
parative sales for the four weeks
and by the same margin over
the nine months. They were of
only per cent in the week end
ed October 3 from the previous
week, however, while sales in the
whole area remained at precisely
floo coY1oo 1ovo1
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Washington Exchange

Notice-This exchange will be closed
Monday. october 12, Columbus Day.
Evening star., 1953-10-09

tional Association of Cost Ac-
countants. He is married, with
a daughter, and lives in East
Riverdale, Md.
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Building Permits Drop

District of Columbia building
permits in September fell off
sharply from record levels of the
preceding month, but the total of
nine months this year remained
49.3 per cent ahead of year
ago, building Office reported to-
day.
September permits declined to
$4,460,953, less than half the big
total of $9.998, ,329 in August, and
were 29.7 per cent below $6,346,-
814 in August, 1852.
Nine months permits aggre-
gated $60.825,O19, and were the
highest on record for that Pc
riod. They compared with $4O,-
750,959 in the same 1852 period.
Insurance Firm Aide
Anthony L. Pikul, certified
public accountant, has become
associated with j. D. Marsh g.
Associates, WASHINGTON insur-
Evening star., 1953-10-09
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Oct. B.-Dividends
announced:
Evening star., 1953-11-01

Reviewed by Miriom Gutenberg
The Naked Angel. BY Jack
Webb. Rinehart & Co., Inc;
$2.50.)
The novelty of a Catholic
priest and a Jewish homicide
squad sergeant playing detec-
tive as a team gave the unuS-
ual twist to the authors earlier
The Big Sim" They were
bound to make a return ap-
pearance and this is it. To
compensate for the loss of
novelty, the author multiplies
his murders, tosSes in a cou-
pie kidnapings, pictures the
dope traffic in action and
cooks up more condolences
per square chapter than the
more demanding fans prob
ably can swallow. But it all
moves at brisk clip and the
two sleuthS are undoubtedly
among the most likable in the
Whodunit industry.
No Mourning for the Mata-
dor. By Delano AmeS. lives
WaShburn, Inc; $2.50D
A fiesta crowd of 10000 saw
the bull gore the matador but
Jane and Dagobert Brown fig
ure he must have been mur-
dered. The question: Who
slipped him the REFERS that
made him act so erratic in
the ring? In their usual light
hearted way. the Browns cope
with an apparent gigolo. a
ubiquitous barber of Seville,
a Yankee beachcomber. the
matador'S Irish relatives and
assorted senoritas. The Span
ish scenery is delightful and
so are the Browns.
Uninvited Guest. BY George
Harmon Coke. (Alfred A.
Knopf; $2.750
1t was going to be a lovely
cruise out of Barbados until
a drunken blond came aboard
claiming she had never di-
vorced the millionaire guest
on the schooner. She wanted
some of his new wealth and so
did everybody else on the
Griselda. Thus, her early
demise. Romance, exotic back
ground and unspectacular de-
lection are combined in be
authors slick fashion il y
suitably battling yarn.
Evening star., 1953-11-01
Harvest Art Fair

The Alexandria Branch of
the National League of Amer
lean Pen Women is sponsoring
an outdoor art show in CO.
operation with the City Of
Alexandria and Woodward 81
Lothrop department store, as a
civic enterprise for American
Art Week (Which starts today.
Paintings, graphic arts, sculp-
ture and ceramics will be dis
played on the fence surround
ing the store on North Wash
ington street, Alexandria, next
Saturday from 10 to 4. Entry
blanks must be sent by Tues
day to Mrs. H. B. Sharpe, 3073
South Buchanan street, Ar
, lington 6. There is no fee.
Woodward & Lothrop is CIV
ing parchment scrolls to 38
artists in the professional and
amateur classes, and gift GER
tif1cateS to 18 children. These
will be awarded by a jury
composed of artists and teach
ers, Donald Kline George
Washington University, Rob-
ert Gates (American Univer-
Sity) and Omar Darlington
(Corcoran School of Art), and
The Stars art critic. In case
of rain, the show will be post
poned until Saturday, No
Vember ID.
Evening star., 1953-11-01
Modern Cubuns

Group exhibitions of work by
contemporary Cuban artists
have been shown in Washing
ton in recent years, notably one
at the Pan American Union.
Now the Whyte Gallery has %
paintings and drawings by IL,
the majority of whom were
represented in earlier displays.
Roberto Diago, whose one
man show at the Pan American
was reviewed here two weeks
ago, has two small distractions,
Musical Instruments" in warm
colors and another in golden
grays. both of them more in
gratiating than the bulk of
his recent one-man show.
Julio Girona is the only art
ist in the group, now living in
the United States. He has
travelled extensively. studied
both painting and sculpture and
joined the United States Army,
fighting in France in World
War II. His Cow" is remi-
niscent of Marc Chagall's
whimsical work.
Several artists are repre-
Sented with large ink draw
Evening star., 1953-11-01

a young man who has slept
in a churchyard these 80
years begins courting the girl
secretly-at least the old man
thinks that's who it must be,
since he knows every one alive
on the ridge and can't identify
the stranger from the glimpses
he gets. But it turns out that
well, that must not be re-
vealed.
Mr.. Stuart deserves the ma
tional reputation he has won
for his stories and poems of
the mountain people-chron-
icles that combine the humor-
Gus, the quaint and the pa
thetic. His new novel starts
out as if it might be as anus
ing as Taps for Private Tus-
sie," but it never attains the
pace of that well-remembered
tale. The melodramatic end
ing is not entirely persuasive.
The details, however, remain
typical Jesse Stuart-flavor-
Gus, authentic.-C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-11-01

at the economic conference?
Or was there some reason en-
tirely aside from the known
facts?
Diplomatic BIockmoiI
Rex Campbell. the sup
posedly aggrieved husband, a
British journalist, arrives in
New York a few hours after a
crowd saw Braganza calmly
smoke a cigarette and leap
from his high ledge. Camp
bells trip to the United States
had no connection with Bra
ganza, but he is met at the
ship by an officer of the British
Consulate General. This Off
Ger, who knows Campbell we'll,
insists, with the pressure of
what Campbell calls diplo-
matte blackmail, that Camp
bell take over the investiga-
ton. After all, the British
government must know the in
side. Too much may be in
volved. And BraganZa had a
heavy, unexplained deposit in
a New York bank.
Every person who has known
Braganza in recent years gives
a presumably complete and
honest account of what he
knows of the Self-slain diplo-
matte attache. These include
Susan Taylor, an actress, to
whom BraganZa devoted fe-
verish attention during the
weeks before his suicide; Bra
ganza's wife, Hermione; Ru-
pert Handyside, Braganza's
superior in the Foreign Office;
Rajk, a Hungarian diplomatic
attache, who actually is a spy;
Jennifer, Rex Campbell's wife,
and a Greek named DianelloS,
who works for the Hungarian
secret service. There is, finally,
the verson of the man most
concerned of BraganZa.
Mr.. Gielgud manages to work
up suspense and sustain an
element of mystery, focusing
surprising interest on a single
factor-motive. In the course
of the inquiry we come to
know all the exposed charac-
terS. and they prove decidedly
interesting, despite the out
ward superf1ciality of their
lives.
If you like a good story, told
in an unusual way. you'll relish
Ride for a Fall"
Evening star., 1953-11-01

Thurber is a neat, but not
gaudy parodist.
For those who prefer him in
the mood of the hapleSs mid
dle-aged man Intellectually
coping with the drag ends of
ideas that seemed good at the
time, there is much that is
choice here. A notable entry
is his shame faced confession
of the time he bought his wife
a flag and flagpole - for
Christmas. My own favorite
is the kind of basically compli-
Gated situation he handles so
beautifully: the language bar
rier that rose up between him
and his French servants when
he tried to explain to them
about some unruly telephone
wires (f1ls) and ended up tell
ing them there were too many
girls (filleS) in the closet.
M. MEG.
Evening star., 1953-11-01

One sight of photograph from
Poland showing the white eagle
without his crown was all they
needed to dig their heels
deeper into the shifting ground
Of DIP camps.
American bounty caused one
of their worst crises. PW par
GELS, enough for one per DIP
per month, suddenly rained on
Wildflecken and a hungry peo-
pie went mad. Told that the
contents would be broken down
and stored away. they went on
strike. Only children could be
trusted to do the work of sort
ing and packing. Miss Hume
broke down when she found
out their dexterity and skill
came from working in NaZi
war factories; and she gave a
scorching speech to their ell
derS.
Looked On in Agony
The Army occasionally
brought CONSERVATION in it's
wake. Miss Hume writes a
bravura chapter about Opera
ton Tallyho," a vast raid de-
signed to net the paperlesS, the
cattle-rustlers and the black
marketerS. 1t conceded with
the morning after an epic
Christmas celebration that was
six in one for the wild and
wonderful Poles.
Through the years of door
watching" with the inevitable
complications of red-tapery,
delays, reflections, suicides,
denunciations and hope-de-
ferred, Miss Hume looked on
in agony as one after another
of her friends was caught in
the machinery. IgnatZ, when
his fate was resolved gave her
"a lesson in human dignity"
That is what this whole book is
really. It was written with a
lump in the throat and will be
read like that.
Evening star., 1953-11-01
Three MobiIists

Mobiles by three young art
lists, on view at Ursell's. 3243
@ street, Georgetown, COM
pose an exhibition of gayety
and charm. 1t will remain
through the coming week,
and can be seen from $50 to
$50 daily and Thursday to
8 pm.
Richard A. Cooper, local
artiSt-deSigner, has been a
free-lance artist, designer of
displays for a department
store, and of wrought-iron
furniture, ornamental iron and
later art director of the Engi-
neer School at Fort Belvoir.
He has exhibited widely and
has won a number of awards.
Mr.. Cooper's first mobile was
made as a surprise for his
little daughter, whose enthu-
siastic reception spurred him
to develop other mobiles. In
the current show I particular
( ly like Aquarium" playful fish
in a wire hoop, a nursery mo-
bile for a newborn tot to get
acquainted with letter r-blockS,
and the large "WallfloWer."
Barbara Blair also under
took her first mobile to amuse
a small daughter. then i'll, and
went on to more adult con-
Structions, such as Angel
Fish" and Ballet Dancers"
semirepreSentational in char
acter. She has had an extern
Sive education in fine arts,
abroad and in the United
States. She has worked as a
dress designer, and as an
occupational therapist, first
with the Army in the postwar
period, later with children.
y. Marechal Brown, a gfadu-
ate architect of the University
of Pennsylvania, now devotes
himself exclusively to making
mobiles, which in the past four
years have won for him recog-
milton for their sweep and deli
cacy, intricate interrelation-
ships in motion and overall
unity of design. Although he
has worked in metal, he pre-
fers to use wood. achieving
color effects sometimes with
paint, more often through the
contrast of the various natural
woods themselves.
Evening star., 1953-11-01
Reviewed by Belmont Fories

and in nasty journalistic eval-
uations. Now it is told, as it
deserves to be, in warmly hu-
man terms by an intelligent
observer who has watched the
effort from the beginning.
Theodore H. White has writ
ten a richly rewarding book
in Fire in the Ashes" Unlike
most reports on complicated
military and economic prob
lens, it is never dull or stodgy.
Mr.. White writes well, and he
makes Europe and it's prob
lens understandable. He has
no ak to grind, no point to
prove - except perhaps that
Americas postwar policies
abroad have been more intel
ligent and successful than
some American politicians
would have us believe.
Selection of Fire in the
Ashes" as the Book-of the
Month Club selection for No
vember should help guarantee
it the wide circulation it de-
serves.
Evening star., 1953-11-01
ChiIdren's S Art

The Watkins Gallery, Amer
lean University campus, Mas
SachuSetts and Nebraska ave-
nues, opened its 1884 sea-
son two weeks ago with an ex-
hibition of "children's art"
to remain through next Friday.
1t is composed of two groups
of paintings, one done under
the tutelage of Annelise Step
pat at the University of Mis-
sissippi with which her hus-
band, Leo Steppat, sculptor,
who formerly taught in Wash
ington, is now associated; the
other, done in various classes
throughout the Washington
area under guidance of Jack
Boul, James Caudle, William
Delorme and Frank Wright.
These young men are all resi-
Evening star., 1953-11-01

In the fall of 1947 Europe
was as near destitution as a
modern civilization can get.
Today it is we'll on the way to
recovery.
At that time the Red Army
could have marched to the
channel almost without oppo-
sition. Today the power bal
ance has shifted. On the crit
ical German front the Atlantic
nations can mass a greater
weight of men and .armor than
the Russians.
Then Europe's problems
seemed almost unsolvable. To-
day many problems remain,
but political cooperation be-
tween nations has pointed the
way toward long range solu-
tionS.
The story of Americas role
in the dramatic revival of
Europe'S strength has been
told piecemeal in terms of mil
itary and economic statistics,
in interviews with statesmen
Evening star., 1953-11-01
The Wild. Place
BY Kathryn Hume.

Fortunately for the DPS she
worked with and the book she
has written about them, Miss
Hume is not one of your stain
lessly impersonal social work.
ers who speak learnedly of
"caseloads" while overlooking
the human lives involved.
Every line of her moving story
bespeaks a passionate concern
for the hundreds of thousands
of stateless people who passed
through her hands in German
camps from 1945 to 1850.
This is not to say that she is
sentimental. She had too
much respect for them and
too much humor herself for
Evening star., 1953-11-01
Miss HuIme's Study Of DPS
Is Lesson in Human Dignity
The Wild Place
BY Kathryn Hume. (Atlantic-Little, BroDn; $3.75J
Reviewed by Mary McGrory
). (Atlantic- Little, Brown;: $3.75.J


that. Nor does she ever gloss
over the occasions on which
under dureSs of hunger or
despair they behaved badly.
But she never believed the
medical captain, a member of
the 12-man UNRRA team, who
told her cynically that "her"
Poles were professional DPS.
welfared into a permanent
state of the 'gimmies.'"
The Comp in the Alps
Wildf1ecken (the wild place.,
the beautiful site of the camp
in the Bavarian Alps, had a
permanent population of 12,-
900 with comings and goings
all the time. But the first
day when she had to issue
passes, and they filed past
her exhibiting the tatooed or
burned brands of Dachau and
Augsburg, they all became for
her suffering individuals. And
personalities emerge: Her in
terpreter, the elegant Warsaw
countess, her driver, the gall
liant Ignatz, a former Polish
pilot who knew how to do
everything but ask for help;
StaniSlawa, a diplomaed en-
gineer who had salvaged 40
beaten women who had been
the public women of Dachau
and made them into proud,
hard-working human beings.
During that first year, some
100000 wanderers rolled in
cattle cars into their mountain
fastness. Some left for re-
n a ri finn
Evening star., 1953-11-01
News
Leagues Show
At Arts Club
By Florence S. Berymon

The National League of
American Pen Women is con-
centrating much activity in the
week just past and that to
come. It's South Atlantic re-
gional conference was held in
Washington last Tuesday and
Wednesday, as reported in The
Stars news columns. The
league, founded in 1897 with II
charter members, now has more
than $50 branches throughout
the United States, with a mem
bership of more than 1000.
Next April it will hold it's BIZ
ennial convention here, with
a large exhibition at the Ma
tional Museum.
About IS of the 200 mem
bers of the District branch are
painters, SculptorS and crafts
men. Mrs. Edward r. Seal is
president of the local branch,
Mrs. Wesley K. Harris is art
chairman and Theodore Kane
is vice chairman. An exhibi-
ton of paintings, sculpture
and graphic arts by artist mem
bers of the District of Colum-
bia branch opened at the Arts
Club last Sunday, to remain
through November 13. The
show was selected by Henry
Caldwell, assistant director Of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
and Harry zichterman, the
Arts Clubs Painting Committee
chairman. The D. c. branch
is contributing to the Corcor-
ans purchase prize fund for
its forthcoming annual area
exhibition.
More than 40 paintings in
Oil, water color and pastel, a few
drawings, prints and sculptures
comprise the present show.
Outstanding are Jean Flagg'S
pastel portrait, sunny oil land
Scape of a farm in a valley,
and purple and white "Peo-
MES" Flowers are popular
subjects with other artist mem
bers of the Pen Women. Mary
Ridgway's decorative "Dah-
lias" and 10 M. Allman's pas
tel, "Lilacs." are particularly
attractive examples. Mrs. ALL
man is also showing a crayon
portrait of her husband, a
close likeness.
Corinne Dunmore's Rollers
After Storm" is an effective
marine. Kathryne Dimmitt
expresses a widespread mental
concept of Harvest" in her
capture of corn shocks. Rosa
mund Gaydash's Cape Ann,
Maine" a bustling harbor
scene, and Ferne Frost's Lady
in the Window" who lightens
an austere stretch of building
walls, are other interesting oil
paintings.
Eleanor Cox is the sole Sculp-
tor represented, with four ad-
mirable works. Her portrait
busts of two little girls vividly
bring out their contrasting
personalities.