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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
Pedestrian Injured
By Toxicob Here

A 3lyear-old man was admit
ted to Casualty Hospital with a
possible brain conclusion yeSter-
day after he was hit by an auto
mobile at R street and Florida
avenue NV.
Police said Otha j. Davis, col
ored, of 1880 First street NV,
was struck by a taXicab as he
walked across Florida avenue.
Driver of the cab was identified
by police as William w. Stephen
son. 81, colored, of 843 Eastern
avenue NE.
Police said investigation Of the
accident showed no evidence of
improper driving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
Movie Company
Discovers Oil in
Own Back Yard

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 13.-The
Twentieth Century-Fox movie
company has discovered oil in
its own backyard.
Universal Consolidated Oil Co.,
which began drilling lost Novem-
Der on the studio lot. announced
yesterday that "a new deep oil
and gas zone at approximately
1000 feet" had been discovered,
The drilling was done with a
derrick swathed in glass wool
mattresses. to deaden noise.
The company said only brief
test has been made and sit
would be premature to attempt
to evaluate the discovery at this
time. But when drilling was
started the company said 10
holes were planned if the first
was successful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
German Liner Resumes
Atlantic Passenger Trips
BY ,he Assoeie,ed Pres.

NEW YORK. Feb. IS. - A
North German Lloyd liner-the
l9,000-ton Gripsholm--sails into
New York today. marking the
return OF Germany to the trans
Atlantic passenger service after
Is years.
Carrying an alderman crew
Of $50, the GrIpSholm was char
tered by the German firm from
the Swedish American Line. She
will be renamed Berlin later this
year.
Her captain. Heinrich Lorenz,
SIS. was once commander of the
Bremen. which was sunk during
the war along with most of the
German merchant fleet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13

FREDERICK, Feb. 13.-Camp
Detrick admitted today accident
ally causing the death of thou
sands of fish in Carroll Creek,
which runs through Frederick to
the Monocacy River.
Upwards of 1000 dead fish
were found along the banks of
the stream Wednesday and other
fish life. mostly suckers. but in
Guiding eels and frogs. have been
found along a five-mile stretch
of the creek since.
1t. Col, Cecil D. Miller, COM
handing officer of Camp De-
trick, the Army biological war
fare center, announced today
that the fish killer was ammo
mum hydroXide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
San Francisco Bay Bridge
Ticket Taker Is Slain
ey the Associoted Press

SAN FRANCISCO Feb. 13.-
Mrs. Fay Shelton. ticket -taker
in the bay bridge train station
on Yerba Buena Island in the
middle of San Francisco Bay,
was found dying in her booth
last night. apparently the vic
tim of a bandit.
The middle-aged woman was
found by California highway
patrolmen checking her where
abouts for her employer, the
Key System Transit Lines.
She died without recovering
consciousness. Police said she
had been shot and her receipts
taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
FHemen Halt Blaze, Then Fix
Elderly Woman's Fireplace

Firemen from Engine Company
% became bricklayers today to
provide heat for an elderly
woman living at 1913 Twenty
sixth street NV.
The f1remen went to the adj
dress to put out a small blaze
in the basement. They found
that loose bricks in the fireplace
had dropped Goals to the base
ment. starting the fire.
Capt. John r. Barry, seeing
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the Russian tactics as shabby.
He said the Molotov proposal
gives me a cold chill"
In effect, Russia has thrown
up a roadblock to Austria's in
dependence that may stand for
years. With Austria now added.
Mr.. Molotov's interlockirg net
work of diplomatic snares for
the West has grown appreciably
in the first three weeks of a
conference called to relax ten
Sions.
AS he has outlined Russia s po-
sition. there now cannot be an
Austrian independence treaty
until both the Trieste and Ger
man problems are settled, there
cannot be a German treaty until
both the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization and the European
Defense Community project are
liquidated, and there cannot be
peace in Asia until Red China
is granted an honored place
among the worlds big powers, a
place the West insists she does
not presently deserve.
Onyl on the Asian front do the
Western ministers see any hope
in the closing days of the con-
ference. Mr.. Dulles indicated
his own despair of progress by
asking that committee be
named to map out the confer
ence's unfinished work. He said
he could not remain indefinitely
in Berlin. but must get back to
Washington next week to report
to President Eisenhower and
Congress before going on to
the Inter American Conference
opening March / at Caracas,
Venezuela.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
Walter Urges House
To Outlaw Red Party,
Cites Hoover Report
BY the Associated Press

The top Democrat on the
House Un-American Activities
Committee, Representative WAL
ter of Pennsylvania, says Con-
gress should make Communist
Party membership a crime now
that FBI Director j. Edgar Hoov-
er says the party has gone un-
foreground.
The only reason this hasn't
been done before, Mr.. Walter
told the House yesterday, is that
Mr.. Hoover has said it would
drive the party underground.
In the past few days." he
continued. Hoover said the par
ty has already been driven I'M
derground. Now I think the par
ty ought to be outlaWed."
Answers Dies Query.
Mr.. Walter gave his opinion in
response to question by Rep
resentative Dies. Democrat, of
Texas, who was chairman of
the Un-American Activities Com
mittee more than a decade ago
and who is among the authors
of bills to outlaw Communism.
"We have definitely estab-
lished the fact that communism
is a criminal conspiracy" Mr..
Walter said, land we ought to
be consistent and outlaw COM
munism."
Mr.. Dies told the House that
in 1941 his committee submitted
to the then Attorney General.
Francis Biddle, a list of 1924
Federal workers about whom I'VE
had reliable evidence of Com
munist connections"
He said Mr.. Biddle told the
committee that the list was SUBJ
mitted to the FBI. The Texan
said the committee ought to
follow through now and find out
how many were fired and whether
any still are on the payroll.
FBI Would Do Job.
Representative Wier, Demo-
crat. Of Minnesota, asked Mr..
Dies If it would be necessary
for the IN American Activities
Committee to continue opera
tionS if the Communist Party
were outlawed.
Mr.. Dies replied that, in that
event the Justice Department
would take over the task of fer
reting out Communists for
prosecution.
But Mr.. Walter said there still
would be need for Investigations
of subversion on the part of
groups other than Communists.
Representative Mccormick
Democrat, of Massachusetts, as
sistant minority leader and
chairman of a committee that
probed un-A american activities in
the sos, agreed with Mr.. Walter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
Ship Sinks, 10 Missing

YOKOSUKA, Japan. Feb. 13
LP. - A 600-ton Japan Sc
freighter capsized and sank $50
miles south of Tokyo last night
and Is of its IS crew members
are missing. A United States
Navy ship reached the area early
today and radioed that an eight
hour search had failed to locate
any of the 16 men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13

the only heat in the house came
from the fireplace, decided
something would have to be
done for the occupant, Mrs.
Lulu Littlejohn, colored, who is
in her late los.
PvtS. David l.. GreenSpan,
James Byrnes and William G.
Brown went across the street
to a construction job and bor-
rowed cement, sand, water and
trowels. Within the hour, the
fireplace had been repaired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
Big Four
Continued From First PageD

hard to imagine anything more
brutal and cynical than the
Austrian treaty demands which
Mr.. Molotov has put before the
parley here.
Meanwhile Mr.. Molotov was
believed to be in touch with Mos
COW and probably the Chinese
Communist government at Pei
ping on the Western proposal for
calling of a Korean peace con-
ference April Is at Geneva,
Switzerland.
Red China Still Problem.
Under the Western plan, the
United States, Russia. Britain
and France would send invita-
tons to the conference. but Red
China would not be one of the
sponsoring powers.
Mr.. Molotov has insisted that
China be accepted as a great
power and that what is needed
is a five-power meeting on the
Far East. The argument which
has been going on here, there
fore. is over acceptance OF Red
China as big power and on
this point Western officials say
there will be absolutely no COM
promise.
Today's session was pegged to
the Austrian question and while
it was still to be formally APP
proved the first Sunday meeting
of the Big Four in Berlin was
set for midafternoon tomorrow,
again on Austria.
Other Meetings Expected.
Some Western diplomats said
they expected another secret
meeting on the Far Eastern sit
uation to be held Monday and it
may be that the ministers will
have another session on the
problems of Germany and Eu-
ropean security. Western dele
cations now are pressing fer con-
cluslon of the work here late
next week.
!. The debate over Far Eastern
problems, on which three secret
sessions have now been held. be-
gan with Mr.. Molotov's insistence
that the Big Four should be
turned into a Big Five by the
addition of China's Communist
government.
Mr.. Dulles, Mr.. Eden and Mr..
Bidault told him they would
not deal on specific sub
jects - particularly Korean
peace settlement and an end to
the war in Indo-China.
Specific Plan Presented.
To compel Mr.. Molotov to re-
Spond to the Western ideas. the
three presented him a specific
plan that the Big Four-not the
Big Five-should join in spon-,
soring Korean conference as a
first move toward settling the
Indo-China fighting. Geneva
and April Is were suggested as
the place and time.
1nformants said the place and
time we're not particularly i'm
portant from the Western view
point and, in fact, are largely
academic unless Mr.. Molotov is
willing to abandon his idea of a
Big Five conference. This would
mean for him a kind of slap in
the face to Red China. There
is no great optimism here about
reaching agreement on a Far
East plan.
Adamant before pleas from
the West. Mr.. Molotov declared
yesterday that Russian troops
will remain in Austria until a
German peace treaty is written.
To this new condition he added
an old one-the troublesome
Trieste problem also must be
solved first.
Western delegations indicated
clearly the conditions could not
be accepted. They now see no
chance for completion of the
German peace treaty for years.
And Yugoslav-Italian squabble
blocks efforts OF Britain and the
United States to pull their troops
from Trieste, the strategic free
territory at the head of the Adri-
attic
Secretary Dulles denounced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
AIexundriun Gets
5 Years in $500 Theft

A former employe of the Alpha
Van Lines, 1923 Wilkes street,
Alexandria, was sentenced to five
years in the Virginia Penitenti-
airy yesterday for stealing 5000
from the firm last May.
Judge William P. Woolls sem
fenced Thomas Maurice Harley,
jr., colored, &c, after detectives
testified Harley was identified by
a palm print found by identified
ton bureau officers in the moving
company office. Harley pleaded
not guilty. He was tried without
a jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
Bubble Is Useful

Bubble from bombed ruins was
used to fill and topped with loan
to convert 38 acres of rough
ground into Butlin Playing Fields
at Whitley, England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13

PUPPY. cocker, female, white and tar:
or good home. XII 1855.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
FOUND.

CAT. female, all black, big copper eyes:
VIC 1000 Mt: Eagle pl.: owner or
COCKER, male. black, wearing collar
with Norfolk tag. Owner call XII.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-24
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Jan. % A,.--Dividends
announced:
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Business Briefs
BituminOus Produ,

BituminOus Production in the
week ended January 16 totaled
SITS, 900 tons compared with
9.560,000 in the like week q
year .ago.-National Coal Asso-
citation.
Motor Vehicle Output in the
week ended January % is put
at 1882 cars and 24.416 trucks
compared with 114,148 cars and
24.953 in the previous week and
l12.955 and 27.44l in the like
week a year ago.-Ward's Au-
tomotive Reports.
j. Crude Petroleum Stocks, do
nestle and foreign, in the week
ended January Is totaied 1885,
576 barrels. up 1902, 900 for the
week.-Bureau of Mines.
Cotton Spinning Industry in
December operated at 1882 of
capacity on two-Shift, 80-hour
week compared with 1912 dur
ing November and 130.9% in De-
cember a year ago.-Census Bu-
reau.
Intl. Business Machines Co. of
Canada announced 1t will open
a new addition to its plant at
Toronto on Tuesday.
Chesapeake Corp. Of Va. an
nounced q dividend of so cents
share payable February IS to
stockholders of February s..
Securities Dealers Assn. of
New York reelected Harry r.
Amott as president.
Mullins Mfg. Corp. in IL
months ended December 81
earned $3.330.1S3 or 1914 a
share VS.. $3.595.549 or $2.63 in
1852
California Water Service in
year ended December 81 earned
$1,637.433 VS.. $1,252,145 in 1852.
John B. StetsOn Co. in year
ended october 81 earned $685.
208 or 1920 a share VS.. $844.013
or 1928 in 1852.
Cons. GrOcers' Corp. in IL
weeks ended December IL earned
1884 AL or Al cents q share VS..
$804,845 or 81 cents in 1852 Pc
Rod.
Omar, Inc, in "a weeks ended
December IL earned $216,493 or
SO cents a share VS.. $344,482 or
Sill in 1852 period.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-24
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. Jan; 20. 1.-THE cot
advance this week.
the New, York Cotton Exchange showed
$3.50 Z bale Nearby July was the
standout performer.
ports that the Government was con-
sidering . plan to harter cotton ACQUIRED
under the price. support program for
soantries another SUSTAINING lseton
was the continued heavy moyemen; Of
cotton into the Government loan. and
the prospect Of tight supply situation
scattered lionida lion checked the ad.
vance: Also on the bearish side was a
Sumption Which leD oRowed
previous month than the average rate
OF decline In recent seasons.
Mills used $4,000 bales per day dur
ing December compared 10 35.100 in
November and 36.4O0 IN December q
year ago; Domestic use for. the Ave
per Sss en fssn 1.pqs e o oa
with s,s47,ooo At Ii. same time '1 last
wear
With cotton moving into the loan
the total amount held 81 the Govern
ment at the end OF the season mieht
rel Ts r sa.a million bales Or mor.;
100000 Bales An are s1 entered in ihe Joan
after mid-January. it was noted;
Exports for the week ended January
Il. .a@s week n. n ss b
before and 10000 in the comparable
sons total e Tabloid bales. IS COM
pared to 1.613.000 . year earlier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-24
Corporafes Advance
Sharply and Federal .
Issues Sci New Peaks
By Arthur Merims
Assoeiofed Press Financial Writer

NEW YORK. Jan. 2s.-Cor-
porate bond prices climbed
sharply in heavy trading for I'VE
successive sessions this week.
Most Government bonds estab-
lished 1854 peaks on Wednes-
day, then steadied.
In the background Of the
bullish bond market was a grow
ing abundance of investment
capital and a hardening of re-
sistance to debt financing. Bank
ers report diminishing demand
for business loans and in Con-
gress. key lawmakers appear de-
termined to fight any increase in
the national debt.
All signs point to declining in
terest rates. eventually prevailing
our whole economy.
High-grade corporate bonds
found solid support this week
utilities, industrials and rail-
roads. Most convertible and in
come obligations also improved.
making the advance Of the cor
porate list nearly unanimous.
Moreover. volume topped 81 mil
lion par value every day on the
"big board"
Long-term Treasury bonds
continued their steep climb. The
30-year 314s rose 1882 at
106 20/32 bid over the week. Vic
tory loan 2las Of 1912 were
up half a point at 81 1882 bid.
The 234s of 1861 advanced 1892
at 102 26/32 bid.
German dollar bonds slipped
sharply this week. reversing their
strong advance during the previ-
Gus four days which was their
first on the New York Stock Ex-
change in IL years. For example,
Young 5las lost 3Ez points at
7714. Polish and Greek bonds
were irregular. Japanese inched
upward. Other foreign liens were
fairly steady.
The Treasury's borrowing cost
on 91-day bills dropped to an
average interest rate of 1908 per
cent. This is the lowest charge
the Treasury has had to pay for
short-term securities in the past
three years. A week previous it
was 1896 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-24
Mutual Funds

NEW YORK, Jan. % LPI.-National
Association Securities Dealers. Inc:
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Additional Financial News
on Poqe BIS


enues. Interest on loans amount
ed to ssl2,s2o VS. $2S7,oso in the
previous year.
Operating expense rose to
$628.410 from $587,769. It re-
flected higher taxes and costs Of
building improvements, including
air-conditioning.
Provision for taxes amounted
to 1885,. a jump of $23.181
from 1852. Taxes amounted to
1855 a share of capital stock
although our actual earnings
were subject only to a small ex-
cess profits tax" Mr.. McLachlen
declared.
Book value of capital stock was
$167.65 q share at the end Of
1853 VS.. $163.27 q year earlier.
Loans and discounts on De-
cember 81 totaled $7,146.295 VS..
$6.903,511 a year earlier. Deposits
of $21,735,397 were of slightly
from $21 100000.
With $4,000 added during
1858, surplus at the years end
totaled $500, 1000. Capital re-
manned at 100000.
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Commodity Prices

NEW YORK. Jan. 90 1P.-The Asso-
ciated Press index Of "a important com
modities advanced this week for the
third consecutive time to 174.5S 1t
was 174.2S q week ago and ] rs Sc q year
year OF 1926.
The food component reached a new
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or $29.72 a share. After taxes.
reserves and depreciation. net
income was $82.642 or $13.77. a
share on 5000 shares of $50 par
value stock outstanding. This
compared with $72.877 or $12.15
in 1852.
Increased loan volume at mod
erately higher interest rates was
the largest factor in higher rev.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-24

Gus year and
resulte d in
improved net
income. Pres
ident Archi-
bald McLach-
! e n reported
yesterday.
Net income.
before reserve
for t a x e S,
amounted to
S 2 0 ST 3 2
or $34.28 a
share, COM
pare d with
S l z 3 8 q 8
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McLachIen Banking
Posts Record Gross;
Net Income Rises

Gross operating income of the
McLachlen Banking Corp. set a
record of $740,877 in 1853, COM
pared with $685.. 926 in the previ-
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Rates Of dividends in the foregoing
the last quarterly or semiannual declara-
ton Unless otherwise noted. special or
extra dividends are not included
distribution. vi When issued. wd When
distributed. cid Called. pt pd Part paid
warrants. XIV without warrants. Also
extra or extras. b Annual rate plus stock
dividend. dDeclared or paid in 1868
So fsr this year, Payabls ID stock e Is.
timated cash value on ex-dividend date.
er sScE IA Sydend or sDtup as
or paid this year. an accumulative Issue
with diyidendS IN arrears. Paid this
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Bond Summary

tFurntshea ~ the Associated Pfess.b
a list Of most active bends on the
Nav york Stock ExchalGe, sh0WinB the
hish. low and elosing prices for the week
and the net ehanee from the previous
weeks eloso.
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American Summary

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A list Of NEST active stocks On the
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Over-the-Counter Market

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