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Evening star., 1953-09-02

offer to sell the $399.50 set at
1854. This was on a basis of
cash and buy it today.
Department Stores View.
The final inquiry was at a
department store. The price tag
was the same, $399.50.
"Discount?"
mo. It's good merchandise
at a fair price, and we stand
behind it,"
That's the department store
position. 1t will sell at reduced
prices when, like the TV and ap-
pliance store, it makes an ad-
vantageouS buy and can pass
along the saving. But on current
merchandise. no price cutting.
The department stores do a
substantial amount of the total
business.
- One distributor put the vol
ume of TV, radio and appliance
business in this area at about
$110 million a year. Others said
the figure was too high or too
low. so probably it is not far
from actuality.
"All this giving of discounts
is self defeating" one distributor
said. "The customer never
knows whether he has obtained
the ultimate in discounts. and he
loses confidence.
Another distributor said the
dealers cut prices when they
don't have to. He cited mer-
chandiSe for which advertising
has built up a demand, leading
the customer to go into a store
to ask for it with the expectation
of paying the nationally adver-
tised price. But, the distributor
said, the dealer will sell it at 90
per cent less.
The discount houses do a big
business in the aggregate. A
distributor estimated it at about
Is per cent of the total. Even
at an aggregate business of $1OO
million year, that would be
SIS million.
Color TeleviSiOn'S Effect.
Is the recent agitation for color
televiSion hurting the existing TV
business?
One discount house said it is.
He said his television sales had
gone down to a trickle.
A distributor said it has not
hurt yet. He looked for some
upset when color comes, but
expects manufacturers to keep
the diSlocation of the market
at a minimum.
A retailer dismissed the ques-
ton with the assurance that
there would be no problem. He
argued that color TVS would
cost twice what other sets would
cost and that the other sets,
and those already in use, could
get the color broadcastS in black
and white.
He predicted that the cheapest
color TV set would be a table
model with a small picture cost
ing from $3.50 to $375.
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Foreign EXCHANGE

NEW YORK. Sept . R,.-Foreigr
exchange rates follow (Great Britain ir
dollars, Others in cents):
Canadian dollar in New York open
market IA per cent premium or 1OI %
United States cents, of IL of a cent.
Europe - Great Britain (pound)
$2.S0ls. of "a of a cent: Great Britain
3o-day futures, 2;soll. on /. Of a cent;
Great Britain 6O-day futures. 2.SO,s
OF H OF a cent: Great Britain 90-day
futures, 2.S0is, of /. of cent; Belgium
Mranc), 2.O0a. up ..001s of a cent;
France franc). .2Sss of a cent, un-
changed; Holland (guilder), 1894, of
.O012 Of a cent; Italy Oira), 1873 of a
cent, unchanged; Portugal (eScudo), $50
unchanged: Sweden (krona), 1894, un-
changed; Switzerland Nranc) (free)
23.34h unchanged; Denmark Ckrone),
1852, unchanged.
unchanged; Brazil free), 2.65, un-
changed; Mexico. 11.65. unchanged;
venezuela (bolivar), 30.03. UNCHANGED
Far East-Hong Kong dollar, 1880
UNCHANGED.
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Pepco Earnings Lag
Behind Year Ago in
July and Z Months

Including collections from a
litigated rate increase, net in
come of Potomac Electric Power
Co. Jagged behind a year ago in
both July and IL months ended
July 81, the company reported
today.
July net income was $5O7, 900,
including around $4,000 from
the litigated rate increase. 1t
compared with $548,000 in July.
1852.
Net income for the IL months
was $6,078,100, including around
$3.50 900 from the contested rate
increase. 1t compared with $6,-
lat 900 in the previous period.
Earnings per share amounted
to Sill in the IL months VS..
SLIP in the preceding IL months,
both figures being based on S.
117.04O shares now, outstanding.
July operating revenues of $4,-
423, 900 were Al per cent above
July, 1852 while operating costs
of 1856, 900 we're up 6.1 per cent.
Operating revenues for the IL
months were $40 9,409, 900, a gain
Of 6.8 per Get from the preceding
period, while operating costs of
$40, lis, ZOO were rs per cent
higher.
Company sales in July totaled
262, ,757 900 kilowatt hours, a
gain of % per cent from July,
1852. Residential sales were up
8 per cent, low-voltage COM
mercial sales were per cent
higher and high-voltage COM
mercial sales were up 8 per cent.
Sales in the IL months reached
1888, 100000 kilowatt hours, a
rise of 5.4 per cent.
Directors approved additional
construction projects amounting
to 1902, ,938 in August, including
$616,655 for transmission and
distribution facilities.
Evening star., 1953-09-02

gan, controller of the American
Security & Trust Co., will be
chairman of the program COM
mittee and Harold G. Hayden,
vice president and treasurer of
the Potomac Electric Power Co.,
will head the employment and
placement committee.
Howard G. Oberlander, con-
troller of the United States News
Publishing Co., will head the
nominating committee. William
r. Little, controller of The Eve
ming Star Newspaper Co., and
Raymond G. Lochiel, vice presi-
dent of Capital Airlines, will
serve on the same committee.
Other committee chairmen:
H, Randolph Barbee, vice presi-
dent, Federal Storage Co., ad-
missions; Charles L. Carr, con-
troller, Potomac Electric Power,
archives; Franklin A. Gibbins,
jr., controller. the Riggs National
Bank. arrangements; G. Stewart
Phillips, controller. the WASH
1ngton Post Co., auditing;
Charles L. Atherton, controller,
Army Times Publishing Co., edu-
cation; Charles E. Sener. jr.,
controller, the Chesapeake & Po-
tomac Telephone Co.. publicity.
CupituI Exchange Quiet
Share trading on the Wash
ington Stock Exchange slowed
Seasonally from the preceding
month in August, but was above
year ago. Volume for eight
months this year remained be-
low a year earlier.
The exchange traded 17,035
shares in August VS.. 1895 in
the previous month and 1919
in August, 1852. The eight
months total was 127,190 shares
vs.. 1882 in the same period
last year.
August bond transactions
were limited to $4,000, all in
Capital Transit refunding As Of
1864, and compared with $500
in the previous month and
$11 900 in August, 1852. Eight
months bond sales totaled
$176.000 VS.. $161,000 a year
earlier.
Gasoline Coins Shown
District gasoline consumption
in July rose above a year ago
for the first time this year, but
consumption for seven months
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Il Million Veterans
Placed by Job Service
By the Assoeioted Press

More than 112 million veter-
ans were placed in jobs through
the Federal-State Public EN-
ployment Service during the
year prior to June 80.
In announcing this today, the
Labor Department said the
figure represents an increase of
$4,000 over the previous year.
More than 10000 of the job
placements were for Korean
veterans.
The department. said the in
crease in veterans job place
ments was primarily due to
favorable job opportunities. The
expanding rate at which Korean
veterans were discharged and
special job-f1nding services Of
fered by local public employ
ment Offices.
Evening star., 1953-09-02
! Lehman Urges Overhaul
! OF Immigration Act
BY The Associated Press

Senator Lehman, Democrat
Liberal, of New York. has urged
anew that President Eisenhower
get behind his bill to give the
McC Carran- Walter immigration
Act a drastic overhauling.
He said his measure was not
Democratic bill but IAN Amer
ican bill in the best traditions
of this country" and that he
expected it would be given BIZ
partisan support in the next Ses-
sion of Congress.
Senator Lehman is in France,
but he cabled his statement to
Washignton and arranged for its
release by his Office.
The statement replies to, a
letter Senator Watkins, Repub-
lican, of Utah has written to
President Eisenhower, recon-
mending that no more changes
be made in the basic immigra-
ton law at this time.
Evening star., 1953-09-02

District gasoline consumption
in July rose above a year ago
for the first time this year, but
consumption for seven months
Evening star., 1953-09-02
V Dealers Find Some Woes
In $77O Million Business Here

for a rehearsing of the discount
problem but to take an overall
look at problems of merchan-
dising and dealer-supplier re-
lationships.
William A. Blees, assistant tc
the president of the Crosley
Corp, is down for a speech on
Facing the Evils of the In
dustry." Mr.. Webster said thiI
will not be from the point OF
view of wrangling over discount
operations.
Cites OverprOductiOn.
Mr.. Webster sees discounts al
only one of the industry's prob
lens. He said it results from
overproduction by manufacturers
who dump their produtcs on the
distributors who, in turn, dis
pose of them to the discount
operators.
He pointed out that discount
house stock items on which the
customer already is sold through
advertising. He suggests that, il
the manufacturer wants dealer
doing business in the usual way
to show the product in a display
room, do a selling job and adver-
tise the products and it's avail
ability, the manufacturer might
pay for all that service.
The industry in Washington
usually refers to a discount house
as a "shlock house" and the
operator of it as a "shlock
artist"
A Library Of Congress expert
said the term may come from the
Yiddish "shlak," which is a
classical word meaning calamity
or misfortune, or "shlacht," the
word for slaughterhouse. The
latter derivation is suggested by
the idea that prices are slaugh-
tered.
Low Overhead Helps.
Overhead is low in these estab-
liShments. This Is one of the
things that irritates dealers with
shiny stores, fleet of delivery
trucks and elaborate service de-
partments.
One distributor said bitterly
that discounts have made Wash
ington "the laugh of the whole
country" A magazine pub
liShed survey of television
selling last June, however, and
said discount sales we're prevalent
in many cities.
Retail stores generally do not
advertise price cuts in current
models of television sets. But,
said distributor, grimly, They'll
cut 'em on the floor"
This reporter made the rounds
to see what deal he could make
on a 1858 model 21-inch console
television of a well-advertised
standard make.
| At a store which is one of a
chain, he was told the model
sought was not on hand but
could be obtained. The price
would be approximately 1899.
Discount? No.
At another shop, he was Of
fered from a catalog a set at
1912. It was said to have list
price of 1895.
The set sought was found in
a third store. It had a price tag
Of $399.50. It could be had for
1854.
At a fourth store, the discus
! sion of discount ended with an
Evening star., 1953-09-02

Committee chairman for the
District of Columbia Control of
the Controllers Institute of
America were announced today
Evening star., 1953-09-02
By Froncis P. Douglas

The television and appliance
industry in Washington is a bis
business suffering from discount
diStemper.
What might be done about II
is to be discussed at a regiona,
meeting of the National Ap-
pliance and Radio Dealers AS.
sociation to be held here on Sep
tember Is.
The occasion is to be taker
for efforts to form an association
of dealers here. Such an aSSocia.
ton would not go so far as to
try to police the industry, &C.
cording to present plans. But il
would provide the means for ar
interchange of ideas helpful to
the business.
One Chain Bankrupt.
The present turbulent status
of the business is indicated by
the fact one big retail chain has
gone bankrupt.
Distributors at wholesale gripe
about the big retailers and the
way they cut prices. They say
that about so per cent of the re-
tail business in the Washington
area is in the hands of a group
Of dealers in a 10-block area
downtown.
The dealers, by controlling
volume, are able to dictate to
the distributors, one Of the dis
tributors said.
The dealers position is that
they are doing good job of
merchandising; that the Gus
toner benefits, just as he should
when competition gets tough.
They are on the alert for good
buys, which enable them to pass
along savings to the customer.
These good buys may come
when a factory changes a design
and closes out its supply of the
discontinued model. Or when a
factory overproduces and offers
a good price to move it's accumu-
lated stock. The dealers buy the
goods, advertise them at big cuts
from the original list prices and
sell them "in the original factory
cartons"
Dealers Complain, Too.
The dealers have their gripes,
too.
One is over the practice de-
scribed by the old phrase, II can
get it for you wholesale" One
dealer said there are too many
sales distributors at their back
doors to individuals. Distributors
deny it.
Another gripe-this from both
distributors and dealers is over
another level of the business,
the discount houses.
A discount house may be q
small store crowded with mer-
chandise, most of it in the fac
tory cartons. Most discount
houses do not advertise, except
by word of mouth. But they
announce, perhaps with a sign
in the window, they will cut
prices down to per cent above
wholesale rate.
The problems are to be aired
at the dealers meeting to be
held at the Shoreham Hotel in
September. George c. Webster,
general manager Of John G..
Webster & Sons, Inc, is general
chairman of the meeting. He
said the meeting is not intended
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Stockholders Back
ShirIington Co-op's
Sale 10 GoIdenberq' s
By DonoId B. HodTey

Stockholders of the Shirling-
ton Cooperative Department
Store in nearby Virginia last
night approved the sale of it's
assets to the Goldenberg Co.,
Washington department store
organization.
The Goldenberg Co. took over
operations of the store today.
President Sol Greenberg of
the Goldenberg Co. declared,
however, that there would be no
announcement of future policies
or plans for the store for about
10 days or two weeks.
It is understood that acquisi-
ton of the Shirlington store in
volved mostly cash and notes,
but detailed terms were not dis
closed.
The store will operate under
the name of Goldenberg's Vir-
ginia.
Auto Sales Above 1852
Sales of both new and used
cars in August and eight months
this year were ahead of a year
ago, data from the Traffic
Bureau disclosed today.
New-car titles in August to-
tailed 1,840, down seasonally from
1882 in the previous month, but
well ahead of 995 in August,
1852. New-car titles in eight
months totaled 17,746 VS.. 1873
a year earlier.
Title transfers, barometer of
used-car sales, totaled 3,421 in
August VS.. 4,061 in the previous
month and 3,219 in August, 1852
Eight months title transfers
of 1892 compared with 33,377 a
year earlier.
Total automobile registrations
of 1873, 1863 on August 81, after de-
duction of transferred registra-
tionS, compared with 185,434 on
the same 1852 date.
Committee Chiefs Named
Committee chairman for the
District of Columbia Control of
the Controllers Institute of
America were announced today
Evening star., 1953-09-02

by Milton A.
Barlow, presi-
dent. Mr.. Bar
low is vice
president and
treasurer of
Hot Shoppes,
Inc.
H. j. Alt
house, treas
urer of Peoples
Drug Stores,
Inc, will head
the committee
on State and
local taxation.
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Started as Office Boy

S. w. Antoville, who entered
it's employ as a vacation time Of
flee boy 80 years ago, has been
elected president Of United
States Plywood Corp, worlds
largest plywood organization.
Mr.. Antoville succeeds Law
renee Ottinger, only president Of
the company in the "a years
since he organized it in 1919.
Mr.. Ottinger continues as board
chairman and chief executive Of
ficer.
The company has a branch
office and warehouse here at
2142 Queens Chapel road NE.
CopitoI Office to Open
Harry Doniger, president Of
David D. Doniger & Co., manu-
facturers of McGregor sports
wear, today announced his COM
pany will open regional sales Of
fees here in the Albee Building
about September 8.
Norman Ellison, Eastern sales
director, will be in charge. He
will be assisted by Jerry Neuwelt
and Earl Margolis.
Distributor Appointed
Bern E. Hynes, president Of
Hynes Bros, Inc. Washington
appliance distributors. today an
nounced that his firm had been
appointed distributor for the
Steward Warner radio and tele-
vision lines in this area.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-05-28

Ii tIse day. he gess is Il s q dock.
and / try 10 get ID bed 81 I1 BE-.
cause ny da starts &C { O'Clock
il The morning
eek ends is he only time you
have pleasure Ca I1lay night
/ So out with the boys and hive
drink Bit | Do II ii turn Is there
are
We're i happy family NE al
seem ID agree ard think Til 4
j good thing snt
The war seems Is save altered
things III this count i0Fs
are better. Babies look ana
mothers take more trouble with
them tllan they used q. They Sc
tidier.
We seem to Sc aeitlg plenty
of ever thin really think il
three years tine people his
country WiIl be better off then they
k1aNN NNEk 4esii
o, I'm net going 10 TIE eoro.
nation I'LL Wateh II an
e have our oVr M husband
riAy two boys at home ard / each
pitch III four Shillngs i week ID
pay for
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there never was Tie ieeIin 81
hose aiat there IS this one
They're at doing something about
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body ae queen She must s.
Roy sy Is something pe Is az
ways had IA Io0 ID. Bit pep
PIE u our class don see s of
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Coach AID 5 Spanking Bays
Will Take Queen u Growing

EaK Square where naaEy Americans
VIII dll The stands b. the kogefn.
flent buildings
Along Fan Mall some II HE IA
llEus mems clubs haye ID Eli sslr.
rendered dignity its 10 build stands
own entrances.
After ISL James S I'D he
homes cf many lords proeeed
down piccadiIIy toward ApsIeyI
House IL Hyde PARK corner snd
notice gaping hole a tie rielll-
hand skyline. 4 German bomb de-
ssFoyed tie home there where
Elizabeth once lived wh1n lei
faiher Was Duke 81 York Look
sharp q the LEFT. oWard C0nsIi
tuition Hill where INMATES Tires
finles tried Is Hill oSeen
East Carriage niNa
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LONDON ii Btiiain,s royal
iamily Il The living symbol d her
sIobal empire.
But II Is people like Mrs. Lucy
Mary Tanner who keep that enls
pire going with their sweat, sons,
and quiet Lifelong courage
Mrs. Tanner IS one Of those ii.
domitable C0chney charladies that
impress most London visitors. she
IN . subdned but cheerful woman
|of IS with dark eyes and grazing
hair, and shes stilE slender IS 4
girl although she has had 10 chill
drel.
Besides doing al her own house
work, she still does six hours out
side work each day three spent d
cleaning offices, and three sweep.
ing and tending Hat next door
and the flat ii which ( am staying.
This brings her SI1 20 wee
before taxes and i goes into the
family budget.
There is wistfll quality about
MIS- Tanners face, THE look 81
living things wear khat hear the
yoke 0f sacrifice and hardship over
nnany years. one morning ] asked
her 70 tell me the story u her lie.
and she laughed and said %. 4
would I'll 4 book.
But she sat down, and over 1
cup Of tea she told me this
~ came 0f i large family and
went ia work at Il, and / have
been working ever since I married
81 II, ana have lived So years III
The same rented house
Il have eight bpys and one girl
alive, ana ] lost another girl young
Most BIZ INV Iiie I worked m /
laundry ironing When YOU ia roE
4 biz family. yos must srr one ia Il
and then another But nv husband
and / share tie same purse
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its1rn1anv one Is NorinaIlkIv And
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hattie thAt sunk the Seharn
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theYn
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ss psopls IL limited 81 Their inability 8 apprssl.
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4 shlldren could nans tAemsslsss. thers would i
soms changes made
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Auhogs lind 4 aIfeat q helisva TIT there II per-
sons whc Az nct $50 books
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Being frank i ii 30 D anpepularsy. unlorsunass
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I'm theory cE khe IN me hut II pkactca sha -
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Evening star., 1953-10-15
Sand Shrimp.

Common sand shrimps are
edible. They range from Labra-
dor to North Carolina on the
Atlantic coast and from Alaska
to Southern California on the
Pacific coast.
They are found in abundance
on sandy shores at low-water
mark. When left by the tide, it
makes haste to bury itself in the
moist sand. It's color varies with
the location, rendering it incon-
spicuous and almost invisible.
Upon the sandy shores it is
translucent, pale in color and
often freckled so much It re-
Sembles the sand.
This shrimp is devoured by the
millions by fishes. The body is
broad at the anterior end, taper
ing to a sharp posterior extrem-
ity. A pair of broad, divided ap-
pendages are on the cylindrical
segment next to the last on the
abdomen, together with the
sharp telson, form a fan-.ike
tail. AS in all shrimps. the an
tennae are long and have scales
at the base, fringed with hairs.
The California sand shrimp is
about three inches long. 1t is
distinguished by its larger size
and by the greater length of the
Evening star., 1953-10-15

Many OF us love to parrot the
phrase "the Kings English;
and we speak of "the well of
English, pure and undefled. /"
But we use both phrases in
ignorance of the fact that
English" is a polyglot language
which has never been pure.
English is strictly a borrowed
language from beginning to end
"a composite of Low German
tAnglo-Saxon), Latin, French.
Greek, and almost every other
tongue, ancient and modern.
From the American Indians
we have such words as: moose,
Yankee, skunk, succotash, okra,
hammock. From our friends
South of the Border (American
SPANISH we have adopted: !:
tobacco, tomato, chill, alligator,
mesa, canyon.
Practically all military terms
have been lifted from the
French: battalion, canteen. ar
tillery, barrage. chevron, cay
Evening star., 1953-10-15
Natures Children
By Lillian Cox Athey

chela which folds parallel to the
side of the claw instead of across
it's extremity. This is the shrimp
gathered by the Chinese.
At low tide hundreds of Chi
nese are out with light baskets
harvesting this cheap form of
meat. After cooking the shrimp
the meat is stored for use in
many shrimp dishes much in de-
mand in California. Much of the
meat is dried and cured to be
exported
Compared with the Gulf
shrimp, the sand shrimp is not
as fiavorsome. Cooked in water
with a generous amount of herbs,
the result is better, though to a
Shrimp-WiSe person, there is still
something lacking. 1t substitutes
best in salads or with spanish
sauce.
Evening star., 1953-10-15
Fumous Fables
By E. E. Edgar

FEEDING TIME-During
the last years of his life,
electrical genius Nikola
Tesla developed an attach
ment for pigeons. Every
night, when the city was
quiet, he would leave his
New York hotel and go to
the park to feed them.
One night, on his way to
the park, he stepped off the
curb before the light
changed, and was hit by a
taxicab. He was hurt, but
Tesla refused medical aid.
Clutching the bag of feed,
he asked only to be returned
to his hotel.
When he reached his
room, he phoned the tele-
graph Office down the street
and asked to have a mes
Senger sent over.
When the boy arrived, the
inventor handed him the
bag of feed, gave him money
for cab fare, and told him
to hurry to the park.
Only when the messenger
came back with the infor-
nation that the pigeons
had not been disappointed,
did Tesla agree to an
examination.