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Evening star., 1953-07-07
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
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FINANCE DOCKET NO lI71e
WISCONSIN CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY
REORGANIZATION

Notice Of Submission ef Plan of Recrsanfsstloa
The United States District Court for the DIS
erict OF Minnesota. Fourth Division. and the
Interstate Commerce Commission. have approved
. plan for the reorganization OF the Wisconsin
central Railway Company, pursuant 70 secuoo
u Of the Bankruptcy Act. as amended.
er rejection 70 creditors and preferred stock
holders holding claims against and interests N
the debtor OF the following classes:
Class T. Claims evidenced by the de6tors
first general mortgage bonds exclu-
sive Of claims for interest accrued
on and prior 10 July l. 1882
Class Claims evidenced by the denlOTa
Superior and Duluth Division and
Terminal first mort gage bonds exciu-
slVe Of unsecured deficiency claims
for interest in excess OF the value of
the mortga aged properties.
Class D. Claims evidenced by the debtors
first and refunding 4-percent mort
gage bonds exclusive Of claims for
interest evidenced by interest ccu-
pons matured October l. 1887. -
prior thereto.
Gass & Claims evidenced by the debtors
first and refundinE 5-percent mort
sage bonds exclusive OF unsecured
claims for the additional 1percent
interest in excess OF 4percent in
fereSt originally provided IN the
mort gage securing said bonds.
clas< .. Claims represented by interest sua-
pons matured April L. 1883. to Octo-
Der l. 1887. both dates inclusive.
on the first and refunding 4percent
mortgage bonds Of the debtor &C.
CURED by the guarantor Of such
coupons
10. General unsecured claims against
the debtor which were outStA nding
on December 2. 1889. when the re
eelFer was appointed in its pFioe
equity receiverShip proceeding.
CLASS H. Unsecured claims for interest 80
crued after December g. 1889. upoa
the debtors Superior and Duluth
Division and Terminal hrst mort gags
bonds and first and refunding s. per-
cent mortgaB bonds
Class II. Interests evidenced BY certificates q
preferred stock Of the debtor.
Only persons holding such securities ciatra
o. preferred stock ii IL SO pm. on June az
1858. will be entitled TO vote on the plan
Holders Of such securities. claims or prefsrred
stock who shall not promptly ballots by
mail may obtain such ballots together with
copies Of the plan OF reorganization, the Com
missions reports thereon. and the memora ndum
decision and findings Of facts. conclusions cf
law. and order Of the court approving tho plan.
BY writing to the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion. Washington Is. d. G.
In order for ballot to b. vAnd It must b
hlled out, In duplicate. and filed with the Com
mission on or before August 4. 1883 or the
envelope containing the ballot must hear post
mark showing II vas placed in the mali q -
before that date.
GEORGE LArRn
Acting SecretAry.
Washington. n e.
June s5 ln5S
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New York Cotton

NEW YORK. July z OH.-Proft tax
ing and hedging caused cotton futures
the highs Of day in forenoon trading
today. At the same time the demand
Tor contracts Slackened with traders
watching crop developments and await
Ing the Governments crop report tomor-
Private advices reported a small de-
survey said the cotton crop made Tood
progress in the Southeast during the past
week. The Arizona and California crop
aiSo maze SatiSIactory progress. The
central belt still lacked q general rain
the survey indicated Some parts Of
Texas were helped last week by rains,
remained dry, the survey Commented.
Noon. prices were 30 to IS cents a
bale higher than the previous close
July. 334 October. 34.14 and De-
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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, July R).-Dividends
announced.
Initial.
Pc Stk. Of Paw
Rate. riod. record. able
Minute Maid Corn 1Oc SIS OF
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Odd-Lot DEALINGS

NEW YORK, July z CP.-The New
York Stock Exchange reported today
dealers on the exchange for July 6:
Purchases of 123,379 shares on 4,35S
orders: sales of S3.715 shares on 3.226
orders including 6l5 shares sold short
Evening star., 1953-07-07
1747 Beet Sugar First

PARASITIC first beet sugar
was made experimentally in
Europe about 1747, but it was
not until about 1900 that pro-
duction was attempted on a
commercial scale, stimulated by
the difficulty of importing cane
sugar during the Napoleonic wars.
Evening star., 1953-07-07
Metal Quotations

NEW YORK. July z @n.-spot nom
ferrous metal prices today: Copper
ley. Lead 1914 cents a pound, New York,
Zinc J. cents a pound. East ST. Louis.
Tin S4s4 cents a pound. New York. At
quoted at 45.OO-46
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or extras b Annual rate plus stock divi.
denc d Declared or paid In 1853 plus
stock dividend Paid last year Pay.
able N stock; estimated cash value on ex-
far this year, b Declared or paid sitter
stock dividend or splitup. Declared OF
paiS this year An accumulatlve issue
year dividend omitted. deferred or no
action taken at last dividend meeting
dividend Liquidating dividend W When
issued. Kids Ex-dDtribution. Nd When
distributed
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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGES
Nurnished By the Associated Press.l
Sales

Stock and Add Net
Dividend Rate. 90. High. Low. 1915. chg.
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Hourly Sales ON the Exchange.
II 200 am. 17o 600 IL noon $40 900
100 pm. 40 600 300 pm 600 600
tunit Of trading 10 shares Elm bank
ruptcy or receivership or being reorRan.
i3ed under the Bankruptcy Act, or secur.
tiles assumed by such companies. Rates
annua, disbursements based on the last
quarterly or semiapnus declaration Un-
less otherwise noted special or extra
d1vidends are NOS included cid Called
Z Ex dividend. 1t Ex rights. q Also extra
Evening star., 1953-07-07
100000 in Boxing Industry

NEW YORK.-Nearly 100000
persons are employed in the
baking industry in the United
States. They receive the fourth
largest payroll in the entire
food-proceSSing industry.
Evening star., 1953-11-30
And Perhaps a Cricket

These are days for a cracking fire and
pleasant moments at the hearth. There is
warmth for more than the body in the flames
of an open fireplace. The man with fireplace
can begin from there to count his blessings.
There are both memories and dreams in the
leaping blaze. The rain and chill wind outside
are far removed, and other realities vanish with
the lighting of the kindling and the nursing OF
the flame The dreams crystalline. The fireplace
closes in and stabilizes the personal world.
The fire on the hearth once was the prin-
cipal source of winter heat, and the house
which possessed fewer than three could barely
be called home. The hungry coal scuttle was
bane of childhood. Or, where wood was plenti-
full, trip into the cold, and sometimes snow,
to replenish the fuel, was made with reluctance.
Cleaning the flue was another bothersome
chore. But when the fire was lit and going, and
the coal scuttles full or the wood piled high,
the fireplace was the center of activity. The
scholar studied there. 1t was there that socks
were darned and magazines and the evening
paper read. The cat slept amicably alongside
the dog.
The fireplace today has the advantage Of
luxury. Toting the wood and cutting the
kindling are part of the ritual and the dis
sension is concerned not with who shall be
forced to do these jobs, but with who shall have
the privilege. brightly burning fire. bowl
of popcorn and an apple or two-that is the
prescription for casting OF todays worries, and
recalling yesterday or dreaming OF tomorrow.
1t is a most palatable medicine.
Evening star., 1953-11-30

E. A. r. of Gaithersburg, Md. writes:
Il hope you live to be hundred and
will still be writing for The Star.
II hope that I may live as long and
be able to read and take as much joy
and interest in your column as I do
now.
ITO be able to be interested in life
as long as I live is all ask.
Gas a child I was interested in the
red haw apples that grew by the fence,
the brown cocoon I found in the dried
maple leaves, the jewel weed that
turned silver when held under water.
st have not lost the wonder found in
things, and I don't intend to while /
live.
Last week I visited the old town of
Frederick.
'As I stepped out on the sidewalk. /
saw many bright colored leaves, so i'm
mediately wanted to learn everything
l could about them.
II never saw such gorgeous coloring.
I can't describe them. but they were
the most colorful I've ever seen.
"They were the color of ripe peaches,
gold and rose, mixed with green and
brown.
81 am sending you sample for !
know that you will recognize them and
will tell me all about them"
The tree, was the striped maple. often
Evening star., 1953-11-30
By Charles E. Trocewen
Observer.

might just as well have dogwoods.
Pennsylvania naples and the like.
These smaller trees are real trees, no
mistake about that.
Many other naples come in the class
of smaller trees.
Even if a summer storm blows one
down, the damage will be light, COM
pared with that done by a giant oak.
The suburban community is a thing
in itself
Fortune magazine in its November
issue recognized this in an article done
in its usual elaborate style.
Selling Opportunity: The New
Suburbs" was the name of the article.
Residents should keep the idea in
mind, and realize that the new suburbs,
with their thousands of newcomers,
mean many amateurs in planting.
The cult of keeping the big trees
had its good points, but it has cost
many thousands Of dollars. Most small
gardens do better with small trees.
planted much farther apart than seems
right at first. but they will grow.
The goosefoot maple is q good ex-
ample of fine small tree. handsome,
interesting and safe.
The holly tree is another good small
one.
The japanese cherries must not be
omitted. In the various trees mentioned
here, one finds as much tree goodness
as o small place needs.
Evening star., 1953-11-30
This and That

called goosefoot maple, moosewood
maple, and Pennsylvania maple.
This is small tree. about 80 feet
high, and one of its names comes from
the State in which it was first found,
as does its scientific name, Acer
pennsylvanicum.
The name of striped maple is due
to the chalk-line lines on the bark,
which is dark olive.
Goosefoot maple comes from the large
bowl-like leaves, with the three lobes
well above the middle of the leaf
The name Moosewood maple refers
to the eating of the sugary bark and
buds by moose and deer.
A feature of this beautiful tree is
that the bark is alive.
On most trees, the outside bark is
dead.
So here we have an interesting
specimen, one that might well replace
many of the large trees so common
on city and suburban property.
Houses cost so much today, and so
much to get repaired (if one can find
the workers to do IT'D that harboring
very large trees that may fall on homes
and garages is not only dangerous but
also costs too much.
Every one loves the trees, but the
time has come to recognize that the
very large. very tall ones are not good
city or suburban companions. when one
Evening star., 1953-11-30
Odd Way to Do Business

In rejecting the Arnold Lines plea for a
general buS-fare increase, an Interstate Com
merce Commission examiner has thrown new
hight on the odd tie-up between the Virginia bus
company and the owners of it's terminal build
Ing in Arlington. 1t is family relationship
that obviously has been to the advantage of the
common ownership of the line and terminal.
But the examiner in diSalowing terminal
rental item, has made it plain that the public
goes not benefit from the arrangement. On the
contrary, he has suggested "the possibility that
the owners of the property are unjustly enrich
Ing themselves at the expense of the public"
This is a serious accusation-one that the
1CC should consider very carefully. The criti-
cized relationship is not something new, how
ever. 1t began back in 1941, the examiners
report said, when Joseph Arnold, president and
principal owner of the buSline purchased the
property on which the terminal is located Since
tnen the Arnold ownership of the bus company
has leased the property from the Arnold owner
ship of the terminal at annual rentals ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000 over the years. In 1850,
when the annual rent for the terminal was
$60,0O0 Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold drew UP 15-year
lease under which the Arnold Line agreed to
pay to the Arnold terminal $72,O0O A remark
able aspect of this deal was that the 10000
lease previously in effect was not due to expire
the negotiations leading to the new lease. He
found that there was no bargaining of the sort
that bus company ordinarily would be
expected to enter into in an effort to keep its
rental expenses down. Examiner Charles H
Riegner reported:
In pointing out that there were no nego-
tiations between the ArnoldS and respondent
(bus company prior to the execution of the
new lease increasing the rental of the terminal
$4,000, Mr.. Wahle (eXecutive vice president of
the Arnold Line) testified that he considered
Joseph H. Arnold to be his superior officer and,
therefore he signed the lease as directed by Mr..
Arnold. AS pointed out in =. the 1852 fare
case, the Arnolds owned, controlled and man
aged respondent corporation and for reasons
OF their own chose to maintain personal title
to the terminal. Respondent as motor car
rier had no independence in negotiating lease
with the ArnoldS. It does not appear that any
responsible and prudent businessman or cor
.poration would voluntarily agree to pay an
increased rental such as in this instant case"
Under the circumstances, the ICC would be
Justified in disallowing the rental increase as
recommended by the examiner. If that is done
the need for the general fare raise asked by the
company would be considerably eSsened It is
the public interest, not the interests of the
Arnold family, which should be the controlling
factor in determining fares to be charged by
this publc-Service organization.
Evening star., 1953-11-30

worker lays out all his pay for hours
and 10 minutes making eggs cost more
than II times as much in Russia. On
this basis. measured in real wages,
eggs cost the Russian exactly as much
as they would cost the American if
they sold here for SO dozen.
A quart of milk costs the American
only 8 minutes pay, but the Russian
must work SO minutes for it and then
he gets it only if he holds a food
ticket. For any infraction of factory
working rules his food ticket is revoked
or suspended. Without the ticket he
can't get into a government grocery
even with wheelbarrow full of rubleS.
The average United States factory
worker can purchase a good pair of
black work shoes for 6 hours and 10
minutes pay; in Russia the worker
must lay out 116 hours pay for work
shoes.
The American worker can buy a nice
tour-door sedan for 153 days pay. In
Russia. the lowest-priced bantam"
type car costs 458 days pay.
In America, good table-model radio
costs Is hours and % minutes average
factory pay: in Russia a cheaper model
Qocked at the wave length the Krem-
lin wants you to listen to- costs 14O
hours and 80 minutes pay.
A detailed study of wages and prices
behind the Iron Curtain, as completed
recently by the United States Bureau of
Labor Statistics, reveals that in 1853
the average Russian factory worker
must work 145 hours to buy the same
amount OF food Gin five basic items)
ne could have purchased in 1928 for
100 hours wages. This means that the
general standard of living in the Krem-
Evening star., 1953-11-30
Flows in Senator's Reasoning

Senator Butler evidences serious flaws
in his reasoning when he compares
liberalism with communism. This coun-
try was founded upon liberal principles
which can flourish only in an atmos-
phere of freedom. 1t was great liberal
general and our first President who
freed us from oppressors in the Old
World. Our second liberal President
guaranteed the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness to every
one of us. A third one freed large
group Of us from the humiliating
shackles of slavery.
At the turn of the century a great
liberal lawyer stood fast in our court
rooms In the cause of workingmen who
worked twelve hours day, seven days
week for starvation wages. Within
our own generation the greatest liberal
of them all did his best to provide
freedom from want for all of us. The
slave state of communism cannot toll
crate liberals. Neither can the police
state which Senator Butler and some
Of his fellow travellers appear to be
inclined toward.
Roland Bieren, MD. {.
Evening star., 1953-11-30
The President Should Answer

There are good and obvious reasons why the
President should refuse to demean himself and
his Office by engaging in McCarthy-l like de-
bate with Senator Mccarthy. But the Senator
posed one question in his speech last week
which should not 60 unanswered.
Senator Mccarthy led up to his question by
impugning the veracity and loyalty of John
Patton Davies, career diplomat still in the
service. Mr.. Davies. the Senator said, was part
and parcel of the old AcheSon-Lattimore-
Vincent-White te-Hiss group, and he was "unani-
mously referred by the McCarran Committee
to the Justice Department in connection with
a proposed indictment because he lied under
oath about his activities in trying to put
listen to this-in trying to put Communists and
espionage agents in key spots in the Central
Intelligence Agency"
This, said Senator Mccarthy, is a case in
which the Republican administration is bat
ting zero" Then he asked his question:
Why is this man still a high official in our
Government?
There are good reasons why President Eisen-
hover should answer.
The first is that the question reflects on his
own integrity. For Senator Mccarthy was
using the question to accuse the President of
retaining in high office an official who is both
a perjurer and traitor. He did not say it
directly, put this is the plain implication OF
the question and the setting in which it was
laid. The President should not permit silence
on his part to suggest assent to the implication.
There is, however, a still more compelling rea-
son. And it has to do with the good name of
Mr.. Davies.
The Department of Justice, under both Demo-
cratic and Republican Attorneys General, has
not sought an indictment against Mr.. Davies
because he "lied under OATH" The Loyalty
Review Board ruled year ago that there was no
reasonable doubt as to his loyalty. The Board
said it had cleared Mr.. Davies on the basis of
top secret material which had been made avail
able to it and on testimony given by Gen. Bedell
Smith, then head of the CIA.
So why is Mr.. Davies (actually he is charge
d'affaires in Peru "still high official in our
Governments" The Star hopes that the Presi-
dent will answer this question-that he will
answer it in order to rebuff the attempt to
throw mud on him, that he will answer it as
a simple matter of justice to John Patton Davies,
and that he will answer it so that the American
people may have the facts on which to accu-
rately appraise the truth of Senator McCarthy's
charges.
Evening star., 1953-11-30
The Invalid

To her, hemned In so long By bedroom
fD1llS,
Trifes assume undue significance.
A dolly, crooked tDhen a neighbor calls,
Will sometimes cause an epening's
petnlGnce.
Her toast shade too broDn
buzzing fly.
And yet her still unddunted sense of
hunlor,
Retained though normal liping passed
her By,
Can suck the penom from malicious
Tunlor.
And courage such as hers that, bearing
much,
Has turned self-pity long since from
her door,
Can dry the slow discouraged tears.
and touch
A match to hope for doubling ones
once more.
And some take from her room, bright
on their faces,
A neD-tourd glimpse OF inter-stellar
spaces.
Eloise Wode Hoekett
Evening star., 1953-11-30
Our Propueondists Abroad

constantine Browns eye-opening
revelations on the almost total lack of
accomplishment by our Army or Coy
eminent propagandiSts abroad (The
Star, November 20) should be made
must reading for Senators and Con-
gresSmen.
The misnamed United States In
formation Agency which conducts our
So-called propaganda abroad, is cur
rently bombarding Americans at home
and especially members of the appro-
pr1atlonS committees Of the Congress,
with steady stream of Self-serving
promotion designed to keep the U. S.
I. A. exec utives" in useless and
unneeded jobs they've created for them
selves both at home and overseas.
Mr.. Brown pointed out how, in fact,
ant1-American propaganda abroad has
been helped both openly and under
cover by number of men who are
expected to present America in favor
able light"
In other words, the sorely pressed
American taxpayer is paying the salaries
and fantastic expenses" for a group
of $500 boondoggling individuals who,
according to Mr.. Brown, "are afraid
that they may soon become McCarthy's
targets and their pleasant jobs in
Europe and elsewhere would thus be
jeopardized."
On November 81 the New York Times
published dispatch from Tel Aviv,
which gives current evidence that those
in charge of the U. S. ]. A. are either
deliberately sabotaging American good
will abroad or are utterly naive, or both.
The Times dispatch reported that the
U. S. I. A. was subsidizing Hebrew
translations of American books pub
lished in Israel. in "a new phase of the
cultural war between the United States
and the Soviet Union"
According to the report, the books
being subsidized for translation include
"All the Kings Men," by Robert Penn
Warren; '"The Troubled Air." by Irwin
Shaw, and "Gentlemen's Agreement" !"
by Laura z. HobSon. The Warren book
is the story of an American political
demagogue of the Huey Long stripe:
Shaw'S novel relates how Mccarthy
ism" has invaded radio and television.
and Mrs. Hobson's contribution gives
an incredible account of anti-Semitism
in New York and Connecticut.
To believe that Mrs. HobSon's book
can possibly do anything for us in
Israel but create still more anti
Evening star., 1953-11-30
The Russian Works but His Plan Doesn't

fAs ranking Republicnn member
OF the House Committee on Foreign.
Affairs. Representative Laurence II.
Smith toured Europe and the Near
East last summer to inspect admins
trdtio1l OF United States assistance
programs. His observations on cur
rent HDi7ig standards behind the Iron
Curtain present the workers Father
land" in a netD light
By Lawrence H. Smith
Representative From Wisconsin.
EEW Americans realize the deplor-
II able standards of living behind
the Iron Curtain. Communist propa-
ganda always depicts gigantic state
projects under construction. but is sig
niflcantly silent on wages and living
conditions imposed upon the workers.
who are frozen to their jobs by police
state regulations.
One has only to look at a Communist
zone in Europe, or Asia. to realize that
living conditions are barely up to a
subsistence level. Because of rigid
Kremlin restrictions on official Statis-
tics and public information, the real
picture has been withheld from the
world. Only recently have our United
States intelligence agencies been able
to get at the figures. They show, in a
word. that living standards in Soviet
Russia today are considerably below
the 1928 level in the same areas. Stated
another way, Russian production, under
cruel state RECOMMENDATION, has not even
kept abreast of normal population in
crease for the last quarter century.
Since the comparative figures have
become available, American working
men and women are taking a new look
at the workers paradise" behind the
Iron Curtain. Nowhere else in the
world do the great masses of farmers
and workers get so little for their
money.
Although the Russian worker puts in
six-day, 48-hour week, his weeks wages
will buy for him only about one-fifth
the amount Of food a weeks wages
(but here only 40 hours) will purchase
for the average American wage Garner.
In Russia the average factory worker
must labor 6 hours and 13 minutes to
buy ! pound Of butter. but the Amer
lean worker can obtain a pound of
butter for 81 minutes work.
The American can buy a pound of
white bread for minutes paw: in
Russia the worker gets pound of
black rye bread for 19 minutes pay.
pound OF sugar costs the American
wage Garner 4 minutes pay; in Rus
sla a pound Of sugar costs hour
and So minutes pay.
A pound of chuck roast costs the
American % minutes pay; in Russia
the same grade of beef per pound costs
8 hours and 10 minutes pay-more
than eight times as much work!
dozen eggs costs the American
~ minutes pay, while the Russian