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Evening star., 1955-02-27
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO, Feb. 20 N1.--A series Of
selling waves swept over grains on the
Board of Trade, this week, pounding
prices substantially lower
There wasn't much resistance to the
selling. Only on Wednesday did ths
market manage to go ahead. and that
vas largely a technical rebound created
by short covering. Prices declined again
Wheat closed the week to 50. lower,
corn corn ,39s.2fs lower. oats as4-4z lower,
lower and lard UNCHANGED to cents q
hundred pounds higher.
Various resistance levels were pune
lows were, set by September and De-
cember wheat. all corn except March.
al oats except March. an rye. and May
=, At the weeks low prices wheat was
sonal peak. corn 10ls to 3iss. oats s
is iSI tS's. 10 lAi. rye Is to 4s'a and soybeans
Part Of the selling resulted from the
touching of of stop loss orders as the
various contracts reached their previous
What was behind the drop?
Grain men found little in the imme-
diate news to create. the heavy selling,
appeared to have got over a crisis in
the, Far East without getting into war
with Red China. There undoubtedly had
55een some buying several weeks ego on
Mainly. however. grain men felt the
In the various grains. These we're:
Wheat--A feeling on the part Of many
traders that supplies of wheat, particu-
larry red wheat, would be ample until
the new crop is harvested
Feed grains--Demapd for corn held
IN. store at .Chicago---which is twice rs
large as last year--has heen very lim-
tied, Daily arrivals seem to take care
OF all needs.
Soybeans--P Processing plants have cur
tailed operations but there has been NO
increase in the price of soybean oil
and meal In the cash market.
Range of prices for the week.
Evening star., 1955-02-27
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Feb 20 H9.--Dividends
announced:
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Railroads and AirIines Battle
Over New 3-Cent Mail Flights

mechanized installations at ma
jor cities.
2. Providing railroad post Office
cars in which sorting and dis
tribution are carried on.
8. Providing workers who load
and unload the mail and sep
arate it.
| 4. Providing switching, and
other terminal services.
| Complaint Explained.
The airlines, the railroads say,
are able to fill out space which
otherwise would be unused un-
der the arrangement for carry
ing Scent mail on the space
available basis. But when they
have no space for the proffered
mail or are grounded by wealth
er, the railroads have to carry
the mail and have to maintain
standby facilities to do so.
Il The railroads say they receive
an average of 70 of a cent for
carrying a first-class letter,
while the airlines receive 22s
cents for carrying the average
air mail letter.
The Air Transport Association
gives different figures. It says
the air carriers receive an aver
age of 234 cents per piece of
mail and that the railroads re-
ceive not 70 of a cent but some
thing less than "a of cent"
The Association of American
Railroads says that on first
class mail sent by railroad the
Post Office makes $39 million a
year, while it loses $29 million,
including subsidy payments, on
domestic airmail letters and
postcards.
1858 Loss Claimed.
ATA replies that for fiscal
1858 the service mon subsidy
expenses to the Post Office De-
partment for domestic airmail
letters and cards" resulted in a
loss of only SIG million.
ATA maintains that AAR Is
arguing about a rather minor
matter anyway. The airlines
organization says the sending
of Scent mail by air on a space
available basis accounts for only
about 21,000 tons of such mail.
or rs per cent Of the total, with
the railroads carrying 249, 900
tons, plus about Sc million tons
of other mail.
The railroad revenue from
first-class mail, ATA says, was
Evening star., 1955-02-27
By Froncis P. Douglas

The Nations railroads and the
airlines are engaged In a
squabble over the expanded busi-
ness of the airlines in carrying
3-cent letter mail on a when-
! space-is-available basis.
! The railroads also have some
harsh things to say about the
Post Office Department using
truck carriers to haul intercity
mail.
Thousands of railroad jobs are
at stake. the Association of
| American Railroads asserts. The
organization says that diversion
of mail traffic will mean a loss
of mail revenue of more than
$500 million a year.
The railroads maintain that
this threatens jobs not only OF
those who handle the mails but
those who operate and service
the trains. Without mail reve-
nues, according to the railroads,
hundreds of passenger trains
now operating near the break
even point of earnings would go
in the red and have to be dis
continued.
Plan Began in 1858.
The railroads attack is chiefly
aimed at the practice. begun in
October, 1953,- of sending Scent
mail by air when there is cargo
space available on planes.
Attacking also the diversion Of
mail to trucks, the railroads as
sert that the Post Office has
awarded most of the contracts
to contract carriers rather than
to common carriers. The con-
tract carriers get the business,
according to the railroads, on
the basis Of depressed labor
costs resulting from use Of non-
union employees. and non-com-
pliance with State laws and
safety regulations which the
truck and rail common carriers
must observe.
The railroads contend that
alleged savings and service bet
terments in many instances
where mail has been or will be
transferred to other carriers are
illusory." The roads argue this
way:
Rate System Cited.
Airlines and motor trucks are
paid on rates based on transpor-
tation alone. The railroad rates,
on the other hand. cover a COM
plete service which includes:
l. Provide matchmaking IA
cilities at $4,000 points through
out the country. These range
from the trackside crane at small
communities from which mail is
picked up ION the fly" to highly
Evening star., 1955-02-27
Increasing Demands
OF Consumers Offer
Producers New Goals
BY WoIter Breede, Jr.
A,,oelossd Press susinsss Writer

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Manu-
facturers of consumer and in
dustrial goods set their sights
this week on q continued upturn
In American business.
Bold predictions of rising sales
came from producers Of such va
ried items as steel; automobiles,
instant coffee. printing inks,
prescription pills and atomic
power equipment.
Lending at least some basis to
forecasts of widening markets
was a Census Bureau report on
the expanding population. Four
million babies were born in the
United States last year. Cn an
uary /, 1855, the population stood
at an all-time high Of 1889 mil
Hon.
Auto output was down this
week. After smashing records
for two weeks straight, several
of the larger manufacturers let
up a little. Biggest factor in
the decline: Chevrolet throttled
down its production after lll,ing
ahead of its toughest competitor,
Ford.
But steel production set a new
15-month high and was expected
to go still higher. It's being
!, freely predicted that steel oper-
ations-better than SO per cent
now-will top 95 per cent In the
not too distant future.
Retail sales were down q little
for the week, but this was chiefly
because of the large number of
stores which closed on WASH
!. ington's birthday. A few big city
:. department stores put on razzle-
dazzle sales promotions for the
holiday. Sales of television sets
and mems wear continued to lag,
but merchants reported brisk
business in female finery.
Department store sales at
latest report were running about
5 per cent ahead of last year.
, Total retail sales for January
were 5 per cent above the 1854
monthly average, spurred by
heavy buying of new automo-
biles.
Evening star., 1955-02-27
COMMODITY Prices

I. NEW YORK, Feb &c tP,,-The Asso-
eiated Press index OF important com
nnodi,y prices declined this week for the
fourth week In row.
The index stood at ia 49, down
from 1855 week ago. In the same
Eeek year aso the figure was 1901.
The industrial component hit a new
hiEh for 1954-55 but the food compon-
ent dipped to new low. Livestock,
krains and cotton and textiles declined
while non-ferrous metals rose
Evening star., 1955-02-27
Norge SoIes Rise Sharply

Sales of Norge appliances in
Washington during January
were 784 per cent above a year
ago and exceeded those for the
entire first 1854 quarter, reported
Milo Chavez, sales manager.
Evening star., 1955-02-27
Star stan Photo.

only $41 million in 1883 and
this was only two -fifths of l per
cent OF total railroad operating
revenues.
Evening star., 1955-02-27

Rates of dividends in the foregoing
table are annual disbursements based on
the last quarterly or semi-annual dec
laration. Unless otherwise noted. special
or extra dividends are not included.
Also extra OF extras. b Annual rate
plus stock dividend. Declared or paid
in 1855 plus stock dividend. Paid las
year Payable in stock. estimated casn
value on ex-dividend or redistribution
date z Declared or paid so far this
year h Declared or paid after stock
dividend or Split-up. Declared or paid
this year an accumulative issue with
dividends in arrears o Paid this year,
dividend omitted, deferred or no action
taken at last dividend meeting De-
dend v Liauidating dividend cid Called
ur Under rule. xd Ex dividend x-dis Ell
distribution xr Ex rights. xw Without
warrants WV With warrants VT war
rants. wd When distributed. wi When
issued, sIn bankruptcy or receivership
or being reorganized under the Bank
ruptcy Act. or securities assumed BY such
CQmparieS
Evening star., 1955-05-02

Many producers break even or
perhaps take loss on the first
run. The loot is gained in re-
runs of the shows. And now "My
Little Margie" is going after the
loot,
That's all right with Gale and
Charlie, because they share in
the profits. But during the last
days of production, both seemed
a little sad that the long run
was about over,
They we're making a wacky
chapter in which Charlie was
dressed in knee-pants and beat
ing the bushes with a butterfly
net. This seemed a bit undig-
nified for the former mayor Of
Palm Springs and still owner
of the fashionable Racquet Club.
But he was shorn of his dignity
about 100 TV films ago.
Watching on the sidelines was
Gale, who was still dazed after
being the subject of This Is
Your Life" She explained the
status of Margie:
"The present producer, Ro-
land Reed, says he won't make
any more films. He wants to
cash in on the re-runs. But
there is some question as to
whether Hal Roach, jr., will
continue making them"
Evening star., 1955-05-02
W HIGHLlGHTS
TODAY

1880, WTTG (5)-Million Dol
lar Movie: Three phases of
a Woman's life and her love
for a man who can't remem-
ber her are dramatized in
Letter From an Unknown
Woman, with Joan Fon-
taine and Louis Jourdan.
$500, WMAL (7l-Reader's Di-
gest: The efforts of Captain
Carlsen to save the Flying
Enterprise" are recalled in
"a Million Dollar Story"
with Julie Bishop and Bill
Bouchey.
$500, WRC "a - Producers
Showca ase: Darkness at
Noon," an anti-Communist
drama, stars Lee ]. Cobb.
David Wayne, Ruth Roman.
Oscar Homolka and Joseph
WiSeman.
$3.50, WMAL "a - Voice of
FireStone: Roberta Peters
sings Full Moon and Empty
Arms" "Greensleeves" and
Zone Night of Love-"
500, WTOP (9)-I Love Lucy:
Lucille Ball dances her way
into an act with Van john
son.
$3.50, WRC t4)-Robert Mont
gomery Presents: An old
woman's ideas about living
and dying are portrayed in
Bella Fleace Gave a Party"
with Fay BANTER, j. Pat
O'Malley and Chester Strait
ton.
$3.50, WMAL t0 - Boxing:
FeatherweightS Carmelo
Costa and Tony Puelo.
$3.50, WTTG (5)-Boxing: We'll
terweights Ronnie Delaney
and Virgil Atkins.
1890, WTOP (9)-Studio One:
Ideas of tradition and prog
ress in the South clash in
Summer Pavilion" starring
Elizabeth Montgomery. Mir
lam Hopkins and Charles
Drake.
HIPS, WMAL (D-Studio Seven:
"The Corner Shop" the story
of an old mans quest for
honesty, stars Ruth Warrick
and Craig Stevens.
11:25, WTOP (9) - The Late
Show: An Incident" results
when a man is badly beaten
by a gangster. Jane Frazee
and Warren Douglas star.
1880, WRC a. Tonight:
Guests are Dorothy Kilgallen,
columnist; Lionel Hampton,
jazz musician. and Leona An
derson, comedy singer.
Evening star., 1955-05-02
RADIO HIGHLIGHTS
TODAY

1880, WGMS-Washington Fu-
turama: Music of the Fu-
ture" discussed by Howard
Mitchell. conductor of the
National Symphony; Richard
Bales, music director, Ma
tional Gallery of Art, and
Day Thorpe, music critic Of
The Star.
$500, WOOK, WFAN-Baseball: {:
Milwaukee at Brooklyn.
$3.50, WMAL-Voice Of Fire.
stone: Roberta Peters sings
Full Moon and Empty
Arms" "Greensleeves" and
"One Night Of Love-"
$500, WRC-Telephone Hour:
Evening star., 1955-05-02
Now 'Morgie' Goes
After the Loot
BY BOB THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD

w wv
Gale Storm and Charles Far
rell approached the end of a
long, long trail last week-the
last of MY Little Margie" on
TV.
The lively pair made No. 1876
of the TV series and it may be
the final one. Although it has
lost its sponsor, MY Little Mar
gle" is still popular and could
probably snag another one. Then
why is it going off
The answer concerns the eco
nomics of the TV film business.
Evening star., 1955-05-02

Baritone Igor Gorin sings
Verdi's "Dagli Immortali Ver-
tici" from "Attila."
9:55, WWDC-Baseball: WASH
ington at Kansas City.
1900, WEAM-Georgetown Uni
versity Forum: Labor Be-
hind the Iron Curtain" a re-
broadcast.
1900, WTOP-Music Til Dawn:
Selections include De Fallas
Three Cornered Hat" and
Brahms Piano Concerto No.
/,
Evening star., 1955-05-02
VIEWING TV
HOLLYWOOD.


o. Henry and his fictional
character, Jimmy Valentine,
must be spinning in their liter
ary graves these days.
Hardly a week goes by now
that I don't see their ghosts
floating around on my TV screen.
With a complete lack of shame
several TV writer's have appro-
priated o. Henry's famous short
story, "a Retrieved Reforma-
tion," and palmed it off as their
own brainchild.
You probably remember that
Jimmy Valentine was reformed
safecracker. The climax comes
when his girl friends little niece,
Agatha, accidentally is locked in
a bank vault with a time device.
She is doomed unless someone
can figure way to break the
foreboding mechanical grip of
the vault. The only one who
can do it is Jimmy, but if he
does, the gendarmes will spot
him and toss him into the pokey.
Jimmy is no heel. He cracks
out the tools of his former trade,
opens the vault and saves
Agatha. This display Of moral
courage causes Detective Ben
Price to say gallantly, Il don't
recognize you,' and everyone
lives happily thereafter.
The most recent T'V treatment
of this o. Henry classic was on
"GE Theater." It was called
"The Windmill" and starred
Jimmy Stewart as a reformed
Western gunman.
X Il y
In desperate need of cash to
save his ranch, our updated
Jimmy Valentine enters a pistol
shooting contest at a rodeo. But
a transient gunman and former
sidekick of Stewards recognizes
him.
Comes the decisive climax. II
he wins the contest from the
professional killer, the latter will
rat on him and the jig is up. In
this case our hero purposely
goofs in the final round The
town banker, who previously hao
turned down Stewart for a loan
relents when he sees him choose
the righteous path and gives him
the loan.
I sid not see Paul Douglas in
the CHS Climax" show, Flight
951," but I'm told it was another
version of o. Henry's famous
safecracker.
Douglas was a doctor who hao
been involved in some scandal
and lost his license. On a trans
continental plane he was the
only one equipped to save an
other passenger who had taller
gravely i'll.
: The defrocked medic riskeo
the recognition of a newspaper
man on board by administering
to the patient, but the news
paperman had a heart as big as
the cops in o. Henry's story. 81
don't know you," he said mag
unanimously.
X X
About the silliest switch or
Jimmy Valentine took place or
Playhouse of Stars" a few
weeks back. Jackie Cooper, ar
eX-basketball player who hac
been on the take, organizes 6
church team in another town.
During the "big game" he i,
forced to use his famous over.
hand hook shot to win the much
needed prize money for hi.
church. and a sportswriter spot,
him. Need add that the minis.
ter of the church forgives Jacki,
his previous transgreSsions?
I'm waiting now for a Ty
drama about an author who ha.
a story plot involving a reformed
safecracker, but he daren't us,
1t for fear he will be accused O
plagiarism.
Finally, however, his room rem
becomes overdue and he is forcet
to submit it to a TV ,nework
Evening star., 1955-05-02
SISTER BETTY JOINS ROBERT O.
VIEWING TV
Jimmy Valentine Is
All Over the Place
BY HAL HUMPHREY

They use it, and 10 other TV
writers scream Foul"
AS the cops close in on our
author hero, one of them recog-
nizes him and shouts, "Egad
It's o. Henry, HIMSELF"
You see. he hasn't been dead
all these years after all.
(Copyright 1855, Mirror Enterprises Co. J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
Who Continued War NeedIessIy?

all of us, longing to shed more
blood unnecessarily!
Was everyone" Admiral
Nimitz? In April, 1914, at the
conference on strategy in San
Francisco he expressed the
view that we should proceed
on the assumption that Russia
would not enter the war, and
that "the operations against
the Marianas Islands would be
decisive in the Pacific"
These began June IL, ceased
July 9, and on July Is the
TOTO cabinet fell and TOTO
himself announced that the
country had come to face an
unprecedently great national
crisis.
At Potsdam, Stain knew
the Japanese were licked be-
cause they also had asked
neutral" Russia to intervene
for peace! And our intelligence
services knew it, too.
Someone obviously wanted
to continue the war and get
Russia in on the spoils.
Since so many participants
have published memoirs we
know who they were not.
BY the process of elimina-
ton we may guess who they
might have been.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
u. S., German Treaties
Filed Officially in Bonn

BONN, Germany, April 20 (Pl.
The United States and West
Germany today deposited in
Bonn the treaties to restore
sovereignty to West Germany
and to permit allied forces to
remain on German soil.
West Germany will become
sovereign, however, only when
Britain and France-the other
two occupation powers-take the
same action. French President
Rene Coty so far has not signed
the treaties, pending talks at the
end of this month between
Premier Edgar Faure and West
German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer on the still trouble
some Saar issue.
In a ceremony at the Federal
Chancellery, United States High
Commissioner James B. Conant
and DR.. Adenauer formally de-
posted the two treaties signify
ing their governments compile
ton of the ratification process.
II value this as a symbol of
confidence and friendship" DR..
Adenauer said. 1T obligates us
to carry on and deepen our mu-
tual work"
DR.. Conant declared: II am
convinced that we shall continue
to work with united strength
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
Reds Set for Immediate Attack

brought to bear on the Presi-
dent to take a hands-oh stand
on the defense Of the offshore
islands. Inspired reports re-
Gently have gone so far as to
say that the decision to remain
aloof from the offshore island
fight and make a deal for q
sort Of "trusteeship" for For
mosa had already been made.
While there was undoubtedly
some substance to these re-
ports a week ago. there is
every indication now that the
intelligence reports detailing
the immense Red buildup in
the Fukien area opposite For
moSa have brought a change
of mind. The evidence of the
intelligence reports, plus the
known intransigeance of Pei
ping in the matter of any real
agreement on Formosa short
of the abandonment Of the
island to the Reds and the
liquidation Of the Chang Kali
shek government, is now said
to have altered the Presidents
previous leaning toward Q
weak policy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20

Unless United States and
Nationalist Chinese intelli-
gence reports are completely
cockeyed. the Chinese Com
munists are all ready for an
immediate attack on the off,
shore islands of Quemoy and
the Matsus, or for air strikes
at Formosa itself. These re-
ports, backed by facts, figures
and photographs, are reliably
said to have been presented to
President Eisenhower at Au-
gusta last week.
When the Communists will
actually strike is, of course,
unknown. But the best guess
is that the decision will be
made by Chou En-lai himself,
soon after the current confer
ence of Asian African nations
at Banding is ended. The Red
military preparations are re-
ported to be complete to the
last detail, awaiting only the
push of a button by Chou to
set the assault in motion.
It is likely that the matter
of a cease-flre arrangement in
the Formosa Strait will be
brought up at the Bandung
parley. Philippines Ambassa-
dor Carlos Romulo. staunch
friend of the United States, is
ready to sound out the Red
Chinese Premier on the TASK
ing price" for peace in the
Formosa area. Washington Of
ficials. however, hold little
hope that Chou is willing to
bargain.
Despite Chou's Banding
assurances that Red China
seeks only peace, the world has
long since learned that the
Communist definition of peace
is usually whatever they may
want it to mean at the time.
In 1888, the Soviet Union, in
return for United States rec
ignition, solemnly promised to
refrain from subversive &C
tivities in America. Hardly
was the ink dry on the docu-
ments before the Soviet agents
were busily forming cells of
American Communists and fell
low travellers to work within
the United States Government
for the benefit of Russia.
When the truth about the
existence of these traitorous
cells became known, reSpon-
sible officials paid no heed to
warnings, even those from the
FBI, that the Kremlin was
honeycombing our Government
with pockets of betrayal. For
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-20
Strong Candidates, but Divided

dependent of the labor bosses,
just as some have won in the
past by defying the political
bosses of the big city machines.
It's hard to win a nomination
even in the Democratic Party
by alternating the bosses, but
it can be done.
The Democrats have plenty
Of domestic issues on which to
wage a campaign if they care
to unite on a program Of a
nonradical nature. But thus
far they have avoided a show
down inside their own ranks.
The radical Democrats, of
course, are in favor of public
ownership of electric power
which is a short step away
from state socialism in other
fields. They favor also those
tax schedules that punish
success and thrift and dis
tribute tax benefits on a politiI
cal basis rather than on a
basis of economic incentives.
The Democrats of the con-
sentative wing of the party,
on the other hand, do not go
along with such schemes and
in fact are outspoken against
them. But there are no signs
as yet that any organization
work in behalf of such Demo-
Gratis is being done among the
rank and file of the party.
Unless and until business
men and home owners and
persons generally in che mid
dle-income groups who want to
conserve their savings and see
the system Of private initia-
tive maintained are willing to
get behind men like Senators
Byrd, Russell. George and Gov.
Lausche. the faction of radi-
cals-sometimes called the
"confiscationists" - who be-
lieve in various forms of state
socialism, will continue to
WELD the dominant influence
in choosing presidential and
vice presidential candidates.
and the Democratic Party will
remain the party of special
interests and special privilege.
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