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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
BUSINESS
BRIEFS

Heavy Construction contract
awards in the holiday shortened
week ended September totalee
SPAS, 1863, 900. compared with
l$6l6,641, 900 in the preceding
five-day week and $375,714,00C
in the like four-day week Of
l955.-Engineering News Record
Loans to Brokers and dealers
on other than United States
Government securities held by
member banks in New York City
totaled $1.18 billion Thursday, a
decrease of SIS million from 9
week before and a decrease OF
1916 million from year before
Federal Reserve Board.
Pennsylvania Railroad an.
nounced it will extend its truck
trailer hauling service between
the Southwest and New York
Philadelphia and other Eastern
points, beginning tomorrow.
Prudential Insurance Co. has
granted a $40 million mortgage
loan to Observation-Disclosures Inc.
to complete financing costs OF
the Mayfair Shopping Center
west of Milwaukee.
Hercules Cement stockholders
have cleared the way for a pro-
posed three-for-one common
stock split. They voted to in
crease the stock to one million
shares from 100000, Of which
230,536 shares are outstanding
Curtiss- Wright announced the
signing of a $l0-million contract
with Flying Tiger Line for the
overhaul of engines.
Montgomery Ward reports Au-
gust sales totaled $94,812,634, a
gain of 81 per cent from $751;
206,094 last August. Sales fol
the seven months ended August
81 totaled $607, 991 .S91, up los
per cent from $548, 025, 967 in the
like 1866 months.
North American Aviation di
Irectors set $38 a share as pur-
chase price for 1,145,011 shares
of capital stock being offered to
stockholders on a basis of one
share per six held at the close OF
business today.
Crude Oil and Lease conden-
safe daily average production de-
creased 1890 barrels in the week
ended August 81, totaling 7,107,-
$50 and compared with 6,661,-
l876 barrels a year ago-American
Petroleum Institute.
Consolidated Foods reported
earnings Of $3,031,25O, or SLIT
IA share. in the year ended June
80, compared with $2,578,81S, OF
I$l.54 a share, in 1855.
Other reported earnings:
For Six Months Ended June 80
Bon Ami -. $4i.ssa $S5.iiss
For Year Ended May 81 ~
Taxis lndust-- $240,66S $623,97a
Per share - 0.22 0.Bt
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D. c. PRODUCE

Quotations supplied by the United
States Department Of Agriculture.
Apples--N J FrT va p.l,c,o,, -.
bushel cartons loose pack. 2Tss up. 4. IS:
bushel basket. ia" up, 4O0-4 rs: Pa.
95TTa,yensteIn eastern box y. S. No. j,
basket. o. 8. No. Im: ala ap. s5os S.5ns
Va: Summer Rambo, cartons traY PACK,
Y. g; No. I Sss and zoos, .3.25: Golden
Siici 0p casnel h6 basket y. s. NO. l.
Bananas-40-ib. carton. cut. 400.
400. some poorer lower.
crs Gtsnta! sSs 5 westsias, Jumbo
!, !orapss--callt.. lugs: TOkays. s.s5-
eneass Der eoan sss Bog soo essrss0 i6 yS
I ~ ;5H-4 s7 IA ilOs, 4.00-4.50; is6s. $50;
Peaches Maryland liberia. bushel
E Paissss bus r N Basket gp NJ s9o R
min, 80; :" up. S.s5; az up. $50.
Va, Elberta, bushel basket u. S, No. i.
"a UP. fair condition. 2.75-3,0n; Rio
0s9 GEM pushed basket. U. 8. No. /.
VEGETABLES
beans fSnapl. sacks, hampers and
contendefs and Valentine isir w ausiIty;..
:. 16-D.OO; poorer condition. 75-2 o5
Maryland, Valentine, ordinary quality
ana condition, 200. fLima). insufficient
cabbsye--Domestl Round. ia, bushel
crates Delaware and N. y. 125-f 80:
some fair qualify. Idol rs. Pa. .3b-
40: repacked locally. 1ss bushei crate,
carrots--Topped & washed: Calf.
crates ~ III hlm BAGS $50. J0-lb
sacks 21J-3.uO. 75-lb sacks $50: Colo.
crates - lib Aim bags 500: n. ..
ousnei oassket l.2J-l,5O Ohio l2-qt
yellow; Crates approximately
20 dozen: Maryland 1911 N. j.
l5J, N. Y. l.75-2.O0, Pa. so.
Greens---Maryland bushel basket Kale,
Collards, Rape a Mustard .0O-I rs.
Pa: "a bushel crate Collards, Mustard
"a Turnip Tops DOL .25.
Pota toes New 50-lb burlaD sacks,
unwashed US=i size A tunless other.
wise stated: Idaho 10O-lb sacks. washfd
Extras Russets 5.25; Wa3hinaton RusSets
washed Extras 2.00-..25 few 100.
Nebraska Pontiaes paper 5Os open VIM
dow I.90-f;, 90: Delaware Katandins n.
cluding some. IN paper sos f.f5-i Is.
n. r. lLong Island paper sos: Chip
pewas 1.i5-l.2l. Katehdins l15-f %.
T0metoes--t Nearby eectionsI Picks A
ripes "a bushel basket .75-l 80 Accord
inz, 70 quality 4 condition. some hiahcr
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BALTIMORE
MARKETS

Poultry: Market steady on fryers
Prices mostly unchanged. Fresh ar.
rivals and carried, supplies light. Offer.
very heavy for the light demand. Dealer,
continue TO offer at lower prices in ar
effort to clear. Offerings OF caponette,
and niuscoyy. ducks heavy for the liRhi
demand. wholesale selling prices pei
Broilers or fryers: 3 lbs. and ovei
25-26. Hens: Heavy type 1920. liRhi
type IA. Ducks: Muscovy, few at %
Livestock Markets
Cattle 100; sales largely confined "a
. rail shipped loads utility and COM
mercial grade sausage bulls 1880
Calves: None estimated. but few lot.
choice and prime vealers held from
Thursday 23.00-25.00.
Hogs: None.
Sheep: None: quotations nominal,
UNCHANGED at $3.50 down on sprinI
lambs and UP to 500 for choice ewes.
Flour - Receipts ash %' s.ss4 1oo-pount
Wheat - Receipts. 1904 bushels
shipments BIZ Z, l7t.557 bushels; stocks. &
i ise;Sl sna bushels No. red winter gar
CornEReceipts. 98.s2s bushels: ship.
ments, 1896 bushels; stocks. 799, l2C
Oats = Receipts. none: shipments
none: stocks, 430.236 bushels.
Barley - Receipts. 2S,7pS bushels
shipments, 5000 bushels; stocks. 249.-
Rye@Receipts. ife.s45 bushels; ship.
ments, 10000 bushels; stocks, la2,02s
soybeans- Receipts. none: shipments
none: stocks. 42,706 bushels.
Millfeed-Receipts, none.
Egg Market
yesterdays QuOtatiOnsl
EGGS; market weak Prices on large
ana mediums mostly cents lower.
smalls / cent lower, other sizes mostly
unchanged. Demand fair for ample
offerings. Receipts moderate.
Prices paid By first receivers. delivered
OBJ. Baltimore, cases included: Large
min. 90 pct. quality. whites. 4s-52;
80 pct. A quality. whites. 49, smalls u.
standards ~. current receipts few az IS
Prices to retailers: Graded according
to Maryland eag-Rrading law. Grade
large whites, 1896; brown and mixed
53-55. Grade A medium whites, .43-4ii
whites. 20: brown and mixed. 80. Grade
b large whites, 4j-4G, brogn and mixed
43-46. tEggs in cartons mostly . cents
higher.l
Receipts: Eggs 5000 cases BY truck.
EEs Market
Eggs--Warket unsettled; prices on
large whls> mostly a cents lover; me-
dunn Whit EGGS Renerally "a cent higher
and small 1 cent higher. demand fair 10
good for the fully ample offerings; ar
rivals OF locally produced egEs HEAVIER.
total receipts moderate; Prices PAID BY
cases included: Large, min. 80 pct. a
quality. whites. 471z-5Ota; brown and
mixed, ~ -32I3; smalls, 20 standards. 81
Receipts, 2,J00 cases, BY truck.
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BY ELMER ROEssNER :

The food industry is angry
with Government statisticians
Food men say their role in the
economy is being misrepresentec
to the people.
There are three main COM
plants:
/. That the figures compiled
for the Consumers Price Index
by the Bureau of Labor Stats
tics are misleading.
2. That the Agriculture De-
partment reports on percentage
of prices received by the farmer
are deceptive.
3. And that failure to diStin-
guiSh between part-time farm
ers and commercial farmers dis
tortS the agricultural income pic
ture.
When to Shop?
The first complaint has been
voiced by Ralph B. johnson, ex-
ecutive vice president of the
National American Wholesale
Grocers Association. He said that
BIS shoppers obtain food prices
during the early part of the
week, thus they do not take into
account the advertised spe-
cialS" and weekend specials. >
Therefore. he commended, the
prices used are not representa-
tive and distort the size of the
food budget.
Evan Clague, Commissioner Of
Labor Statistics, has a persuasive
answer. He points out that the
index measures the fluctuatior
in prices consumer pay. His
shoppers, he comedies. take
prices during the first part d
the week containing the 18th
day Of each month. If the rate
OF rise or fall is the same a:
from Monday in one week tC
Monday in another as it is from
one Saturday to another Satur.
day, Mr.. Clague is right. Or
the other hand, if the rate Of
fiuctuation varies, the index i.
lopsided. A million dollars anc
an act of Congress could deter.
mine the answer in no time
say two or three years.
The complaint about the farm.
.ers' share of retail prices wa.
uttered by Frank M. Atchley
agriculture consultant of tn,
Grocery Manufacturers O.
America. He did not question
the f1gures-which usually SHOW
that farmers get half or les.
of the retail price, but he ques.
toned the way in which they
are presented.
Wants value Added" Recognized
Reports on these studies, HI
said. do not point out that value
is added to farm products BY
professors. transporters and dis.
tributorS.
Without the spread of price,
between farm and store, he said
mot only manufacturers and dis.
tributorS, but farmers as well
would be out of business. Oul
bread would be wheat on a Kan.
Sas farm; our cheese and butter
would be milk in a pail in Wis.
consin, and our breakfast juice
would be on the trees in Flofids
or California orange groves.
Without spread, there would
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NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, Sept. z C9.-cotton fu-
lures were Quiet during forenoon deal
ings today. with prices at or near the
lows for the day. Most traders were
inclined to await the Government cotton
crop report on Monday. Ideas in the
trade. as reflected in four private sur
veys issued this week, ranged from
l2,333 500 bales up to 1851. 600 bales
as compared with the August oficiaI re-
port of 13.552.000 bales
The CCC reported that It sold 20S, 4S4
bales Of export cotton to shippers on
bids submitted on September A. The
average price OF middling one inch at
average locations was 26l4 cents a
pound, while the minimum price ac-
cepted, basis middling Isths inch was
unchanged at $500 cents a pound. AT
the previous sale the CcC sold 1574OO
bales. with the average price Of mid
ding one inch at average locations
26.11 cents pound. The CCC so far
has sold a total OF 3.4S6.125 bales OF
cotton under the current export program.
Noon prices we're 5 cents 9 bale lower
TO rs cents higher than the previous
close; Oct: 1874. Dec. 1918 and
March 1874.
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Tobacco Use Reported
On Rise Over World

ROME. Sept. Z R.-Tobacco
consumption increased lin al
most all countries" last year, the
u. N. Food and Agriculture
Organization reports.
A new annual FAC report on
food and agriculture said this
included the United States,
where cigarette consumption
had weakened in 1858 and 1854"
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CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO. Sept z R.-Fitm pricei
ruled for. grains In active dealings or
the Board of Trade today.
The market opened higher and pushed
It's way up further during early trading
II then met resistance. falling back from
us TOP levels; The seli-nff d. not carry
prices down to the previous close.
Small receipts OF cash grain and &C.
companvine strength in cash prices
hopes OF exports In both wheat and snv.
bean oil and some concern over the sue,
situation we're behind the buying,
wheat near the end of the frst houl
was a 70 one cent HIGHER. SEPT. 50 .ssis
Corn. " 70 "a higher Sept. 81 sou,
TO - hisher Dec. ~ Az: soybeans Il
70 Y higher. Sept. S2.34A and lard
to z. cents q hundred pounds higher
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
METAL QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK. Sept. Z tE9.--spot non.
ferrous metal prices today: Copper 90.
- cents ound. Connecticut Valley
Lead ~ cents a pound. New York
Louis. Tin 81 .O0s. Bound New S' YORK
Foreign silver Boa cents per troy ounce
New York, Scrap steel No. / heavy
5s.00-59 90. Pittsburgh
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Sales
Stock and Add Net
Dividend Rate 90 High Low 1:i6 chg
Zenith 2l.e Io7ls Io7 lo7Ih
Hourly Sales on the Exebange
ilMO an $50 700 ~ noon $40 600
I:O0pm go ooo zoo p.m 600 600
unit Of trad'ng 10 shares or sales IN
full Rates OF dividends IN the foregoina
table are annual disbursements baxed or
the last quarterly or semi-annuat deela.
ration tinlesS otherwise noted special
or extra dividends are not Included
Also extra OF extra Annual rate
plus stock dividend o Declared or paid
IN 1900 plus stock dividend Declared
or paid 50 Tar this year PAYABLE IN
stock during 1895. estimated cash value
on ex-divideno or redistribution date
2 Paid last year b Declared OF paid
after stock diyidend VI split.up kDe.
elared or paid this year an aecumuls.
tive Issue with dividends IN arreara
. Paid this year dividend omitted. De.
ferred or no action taken AZ last dirt.
deno meeting 2 Declared or paid IN 1850
plus stock dividend Payable In stock
dlrins 1885 estimated cash value on exc
dividend or redistribution date Liqui.
dating dividend cid Called RE- divi-
dend. x-dn y dlstrlbutlon ~ q riEhts
I'd When distributed VI When sSusd
M Next DAY delivery In BANKRUPTCY OF
rseeiycrship or being reorgani1ft under
the BANKRUPTCY Act or securities a.
sameo 81 such eompaniea.
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DEALINGS

NEW YORK, Sept. z OP,.-The New
YORK Stock Exehange reported today
these odd-lot transactions By principal
Is PURCHASES Of ia3.s9t shares. Sales
Of 5;i.gu3 shares includins S2s shares
sold short.
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DIVIDENDS

NEW YORK, Sept. GPD.--Diyidends
announced.
INITIAL
Pc Stk. Of Pay
Rate riod. record. able.
North Am AVA 2 4Oe Ola los
Extra
North Am AVA y tac ola 1o-5
INCREASED
Marine Midi Corp zee Ola 1o-1
Colonial Accept a DC 9-16 9-lo
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Sales
Stock and Add Net
Dividend Rate 90 High Low 1:lh chg,
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Y YslssI SAW - 4 So y y ~ +"
lnssh&Tu a. ~ lo55s io1k ioy , y
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UNITED STATES TREASURY POSITION
81 ne Aasoctat Preas

3 Nlth eorrespondInr ~ !
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-17
DORIS FLEESON

The struggle has formally
begun over civil rights legis-
lation, the issue most deeply
stepped in the politics of this
presidential year.
1t is the issue most divisive
of Democratic unity. At the
same time, it holds for Repub-
licans an enormous vote po-
tential in the pivotal States.
That potential is the more i'm
portant to them because Of
farmer unrest in normally Re-
publican territory.
The story breaks into two
separate and distinct parts.
One is the merits of the
legislation proposed by the
Eisenhower administration, for
which Attorney General Brow
nell, who wrote it, has fired the
opening salvos.
The other part is the pol
itics of the struggle. With few
exceptions, the Senate will be
mostly concerned with the
second part, and it is there the
real hand-to-hand fighting
will take place.
G. o. P. appetite for the
battle has been whetted by
their own and other polls of
the Negro voters. These show
that Northern Negroes are
breaking to the Eisenhower
administration after 20 years
of Democratic near-solidarity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-17
Issue Divides Democrats and Holds
Biq Vote Potential for G. O.P..

under their idols. Franklin
Roosevelt and Harry S. Tru-
man.
This has come about through
nothing congressional Repub-
licans have done. It is due
to President Eisenhower and
the antisegregation decision
of the Supreme Court, headed
by an Eisenhower-appointed
Chief Justice, Earl Warren,
the former liberal Republican
Governor of California.
G. o. p. stakes are high:
Another four years in the
White House. the possibility of
regaining control of Congress
via the Eisenhower coattailS,
another chance to rebuild
their minority party.
Obedient to the virtue of
their political necessities, con-
gressional Republicans plan to
break their long pocketbook
alliance with the Southern
conservatives and follow
Brownell on civil rights.
Northern Democrats who
could never get enough Re-
publican votes for civil rights
until this year will furnish the
margin to force the admins
tration program to the floor.
Southern Democrats under
stand political strategy: their
adeptness at that game is what
has given them immense power
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-17
Four Democrats in the Leod-Now

AS it is. Speaker Rayburn
can have q good deal to say
about the second place on the
ticket. If selected for the vice
presidential nomination. john
son would not have to resign
from the Senate or from his
position as majority leader
during the campaign. He would
merely move from the Senate
floor to the rostrum in the
event the Democratic Party
were successful at the Novem-
Der election. Certainly, his
heart ailment would be less of
a handicap in the Vice Presi-
dents chair than If he were to
remain as party leader in the
Senate.
So it may be a Hartman
Johnson ticket or a Stevenson
Johnson ticket If Senator
Kefauver doesn't want second
place or If his convention
forces aren't strong enough to
get it for him. Obviously a
coalition of Stevenson and
Hartman forces could control
the majority Of the Chicago
convention and name the
ticket.
So. whichever way the situa-
ton is viewed, the names for
the top place are Stevenson.
Hartman and Kefauver, with
Truman as a compromise
choice Of all three. especially
if there is a feeling on the
part of the organization lead
ers in the populous States that
only the former President can
make the kind of campaign
needed to win. A Truman
Johnson ticket cannot be
crossed off as impossible, for
there is an awareness in the
Northern cities that something
must be done to placate the
Southern wing of the party
and Sam Rayburn and Harry
Truman are close, friends and
political allies.
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DORIS FLEEsoN
Civil Rights Legislative Struggle

over the years despite their
own minority status. They now
expect a shrewdly timed on
slaught on their prepared posi-
tons and they will filibuSter.
admitting the harm it will do
their party on the eve of its
national convention and the
presidential election.
What they hope to do and
probably can. as they control
the Senate machinery. is to
postpone the battle until after
the rest of the legislative pro-
gram has been handled. But
as Of now, they see no alterna-
tive to a bruising struggle on
the home stretch.
Republicans can afford it:
They have no Southern organ
ization and depend solely on
EiSenhower's personal appeal
to SouthernerS. Dem ocrats
must pay the price of being a
national party.
For the first time in 20
years, Republicans also have a
President to re-elect who will
benefit from their efforts. In
the past they embarrassed a
Democratic President by drag
ging their feet.
Their cup ran over too when
memorable seniority made the
rampant white supremacist,
Eastland of Mississippi, chair
man of the Senate Judiciary
Committee. Eastland, hated by
Negroes, needs must be in the
forefront of the struggle, q
focus for the headlines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-17

The visit to Washington of
Indonesia's President Sukarno.
20 be followed in July by that
Of midas strong man, Prime
Minister Nehru, means more
than an actual courtesy call
of heads Of state to President
Eisenhower and the American
people. 1t is intended to set the
stage for an eventual change
of policies and a more friendly
feeling on the part of the adj
ministration toward the CO.
existence shibboleth advanced
so energetically by the Krem-
lin leaders since the summit"
conference at Geneva.
It also is intended. accord
ing to observers close to the
Executive. to test the ground,
public-opinion wise, for a
visit from top Communist
leaders such as Yugoslavia's
dictator Tito and the now
famed Bulganin- Khrushchev
pair.
President Sukarno is not a
Communist; neither has he
ever shown any particular
friendship for the Communist
doctrines. He is just a strong
neutralist who sees that the
future ofshis 80 million people,
once under the paternal
domination of the Dutch and
for a short time during the
last war slaves of the tenn
porary Japanese conquerors,
can be safeguarded by the
closest possible relationship
with Communist China.
This explains why he stated
as soon as he set foot on
American soil that the Pei
ping regime must" be adj
mitted into the United Nations.
This statement could be re-
garded as a diplomatic mis-
take; Sukarno could have
sideStepped the American re-
porters' query by saying that
it was a matter for the United
Nations as a whole. Yet the
able IndoneSian statesman
preferred to be blunt. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-17
His Former Bockers Seen as 'ConceIinq'
Senator'S Lease for Younger Man

i'll and were unable to attend
to their duties for the last two
years of their tenure.
But a man who has given
a great part of his life to the
Senate hates to give up, as they
demonstrated. and so it is,
too, with Senator George. He
learned what others have
learned, too, about gratitude in
politics. For he had been earn
est and untiring in the interest
OF the economic powers be-
hind politics in Georgia-the
Georgia Power Co., Coca Cola.
banks, textile corporations. He
watched after their interests
as a member of the influential
Senate Finance Committee.
Through the years he had
moved to the top, not only of
that committee but also of the
Foreign Relations Committee.
A few years back he had the
choice of the Craftsmanship of
either. Foreign Relations was
attractive to him. offering pres
tige and a chance for service
OF a high character in that
time of national crisis. But
the powers-that-be financially
and industrially in Georgia as
well as nationally politely let
him know that they wanted
him to take Finance. which he
did.
A few years later he had the
choice again. This time he did
take the Craftsmanship of For
eign Relations. There he be-
gan to build himself a new and
more widely recognized career
in comanagement Of foreign
policy which that post entails.
Here he Powered and. sensing
the yearning of our people and
of people everywhere for peace.
he became a champion of the
cause of peace, and his name
grew with the plain people.
1t was he who first suggested
the Geneva conference at the
summit" where President Eli
senhower met last summer with
the leaders of Russia, Britain
and France.
He seemed to mellow in
other respects. He surprised
many who had followed his
career for years by taking a
much more liberal attitude on
domestic issues Of finance and
economies. He campaigned
vigorously for cuts in taxes
on low-income groups and
charged that they had been
neglected while the rich had
been unduly favored. He took
stands against the desires Of