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Prices On Stock Exchange Take Rest After Four Rallying Sessions MINOR CHANGES NOTED IN LIST Associated Press Average Of 60 Stocks Is Un changed At 33.4 NEW YORK. May 4.—1^1—Except for climbing senior utilities and specialties, the Stock Market today took a rest after four successive rallying sessions. Advancing tendencies were the rule at the • start, with American Telephone up nearly 2 points. This bellwether eventually retreated to finish at its Saturday's final Quota tion and extreme gains elsewhere were reduced or cancelled in many cases at the close. While scattered favorites were up 1 to 4 points on negligible trans actions. price changes on the whole were in minor fractions. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks was unchanged at 33.4 transfers of 259.711 shares compar ed with 300,680 last Friday and were the smallest for a 5 - houi stretch since April 22. Selective bullishness continued in Wall street despite the lack of out standing stimulation in the news of war, business and taxes. In the matter of the tax question, the thought persisted that congress would enact a measure less oner ous to industry that proposals put forward by the treasury. As in the recent recovery of the stock composite, such bidding as appeared today was attributed to the belief the correction of the lengthy backswing still had some distance to go if technical prece dents were to be considered. Broad jumpers among power and light company preferreds included those of Public Service of N. J., West Penn Electric. Columbia Gas and North American. In the common class gains of a point or so were pinned on Philip Morris, Eastman Kodak. Dow Chemical and J- C. Penney. Lesser improvement was retain ed by U. S. Steel, Santa Fe, U. S. Rubber, Douglas Aircraft, Anacon da. Great Northern, American Can, Standard Oil (N. J.). Texas Co., General Foods. Greyhound Corp., Loew’s, Schenley and J. I. Case. A shade under water were Beth lehem Steel, Republic Steel, Gen eral Motors. Chrysler, Montgomery Ward. N. Y. Central. Pennsylvan ia. Western Union, Westinghouse. General Electric, Du Pont and Car bide. U. S. Government loans sold off on the Treasury’s new offering. Australian dollar issues also weak ened but other bonds were fairly steady. At Chicago wheat and corn were unchanged to up 3-8 of a cent a bushel and off 1-8. respectively. Hogs were up 10 cents. Cotton was unchanged to 40 cents a bale high er. In the curb advances of 9 to 10 points were shown for cities serv ice preferreds on a few sales. Slgilt yahead were Aluminum of America, American Light & Trac tion, American Gas and Humble Oil. Volume here aggregated 42,915 shares versus 48,608 in the previous full session. 3 STOCK AVERAGES 30 15 la GO Indust Rails Util Stks Met chg\_ a.l unch uneh uneh Mon. _ 47.7 15.5 23.0 33.4 Prev. dav_47.G 15.5 23.0 33.4 Month ago ___ 50.3 1G.0 23.4 35.0 Year ago _ 55.2 17.0 30.S 39.4 1942 high_5G.0 17.G 27.3 3S.7 1941 low _ 40.0 14.7 21.1 32.0 1941 high_ 03.9 19.0 35.5 45.0 1941 low_ 51.7 13.4 24.5 35.4 60-Stock Range Since 1927: 1930-40 1932.37 1927-29 High _ 51.7 75.3 157.7 Low _ 33.7 1 G.9 61.8 CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, May 4.—(A>)—(U. S. Dept. Agr.)—Salable hogs 13,000, total 16,000; fairly active; mostly 30 higher than Friday’s average on all weights and sows: good and choice 180-300 lbs. 13.00-14.15; top 14.20: 160-180 lbs. 13.50-14.10; good 400-500 IJis. sows 13.65-90; few lighter weights 14.00; shippers took 2,000; holdovers 1.000. Salable catle 10,000, calves 1, .000; fed steers, yearlings and heifers 25-40 lower; largely 11.75 14.00 steer trade; top 16.50 paid for choice to prime 1428 lb. aver ages; little above 14.25: strictly choice 1040 lb. heifers 14.25; sows •weak to 25 off; beef cows show ing most decline: few beef cows above 10.00; cutters 8.50 down on late rounds; weighty sausage bulls dropped to 10.50 and below on late rounds; vealers weak at 15.50 down; little above 15.00. Salable sheep 9,000, total 11.000; lamb trade slow; several loads wooled offerings strong to 15 high er at 13.75-14.25; clearance incom plete at 1 p. m. with choice wool ed lambs held above 14.25; few throwouls wool skins 11.00-13.00; clippers scarce, some light weights 11 75; ewes quotably steady. -V middling NEW ORLEANS, May 4— UP)— The average price of middling 15 16 inch cotton today at ten desig nated southern spot markets was 1 point higher at 10.10 cents a pound; average for the past 30 market days 20.22; middling 7-8 inch average 19.51. -V spo't cotton NEW ORLEANS, May 4.—CA»)— Spot cotton closed steady 5 points higher. Sales 6.25. Low middling 16.57, middling 19.87. good mid dling 20.32. Receipts 287; stock 4777447, "—" " Closing Bond Quotations BT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GOVERNMENT Treasury 3Vis 46-44 _104.18 2% 45 _104.14 3%s 499-46 _107.27 2s 50-58 IM'ch —--101 2%s 60-55 __110.2 2 % a 59-56 _109.12 2%s 63-58 _109.17 2%a 72-67 _100.18 Fed Form Mtg 3 Vis 64-44 - 104*6 DOMESTIC AT and SF 4s 95 - 109% B and O Cv 60 St - 23% Can Pac 4s Perp - 70 Vs CB anjl Q 4%s 77 -- 70% Chi and E 111 Inc 97 1- 26% Chi Gt West 4s 88 _ 07% Cri and P Bfg 4s 34_ 14% Clev Un Term 5%s 72- 82% Clev Un Term 4%s 77c- 63% D and'Rg West 5s 55 - 4 Fla East Cst 5s 74_ 11% Hud Coal 5s 62a - 44% Hud and Man Rfg 5s 57_ 46% 111 Cent 4%s 66 _ 47% Int Gt N Aj 6s 52- 1% Mk and T Hj 5s 67- 21% Mo Pac Gen 4s 75 _ 3% N Y C Rf 5s 2013 - 54% Nor Pac 6s 2047 _ 68% Penn Rr Gen 4%s 65 - 102% Phil Rd C and I Cv 6s 49 — 8% Seab A1 Cn 6s 45- 10% So Pac Rfg 4s 55 - 70% So RyR Cn 5s 94_ 90% So Ry Gen 4s 56 - 67%. Third Are 4s 60 - 52 West Md 4s 52 - 89% FOREIGN Australia 5s 55 - 58% Australia 4%s 56 --- 53 Belgium 7s 55 - 92% Brazil 6%s 26-57 _ 27% Rio Gr Bo Sul 6s 68- 14% Closing Stock Quotations BY THE ASSOCIATED PKESS Adams. Expx -. ^r,% Air Reduction - 31% A1 Client and Dye-121% Alaska Jun- 1% Am Can -'- 60 ,t Am ComI Alco - ?% Am Pow and Lt- % Am Rad and St S- 4% Am Roll Mill - 10% Am Smelt and Ret - 37 U Am Sug' Ref - 16% A T T _ 11% Am Tob B - 38% Anaconda - 24% Arm 111 - 2% A T Sf_ 37% ACL_ 22% Atl Ref _ 15 Aviat Corp - 3 Baldwin - 10% B and O _ 3% Barnsdall - 3%. Bendix Aviat - 32% Beth Stl _ 54% Boeing Airpl - 10 Borden _ 13% Borg Warner - 22% Briggs Mfg - IS Budd Mfg _■- 2U Budd Wheel _ 6% ADVANCE IN WHEAT PRICES IS ERASED Market Runs Into Profit Taking Later During Trading Session CHICAGO. May 4.—OP)—Wheat prices tried to extend their recovery today but ran into profit taking which wiped out practically all of the one cent advance scored early in the session. The highest prices since April 13 were posted during the firsi few minutes of trade but this, together with the fact that net gains since last week’s low point ranged from 4 to 3 cents, attracted enough sell ing to unsettle the market. Early buying came from mills and professional dealers inspired large ly by approval of the marketing quota system and loan program. However* failure of flour business to expand to proportions that some traders had expected tempered en thusiasm. Wheat closed unchanged to % higher compared with Saturday, May $1.21%-%. July $1.24%-%; corn un changed to % down, May 85%, July 88%; oats unchanged to % up; soy lieans % off to % up; rye 76-% high er; lard unchanged at ceilings. Open High Low Close WHEAT: May _12176 12276 12114 *1% Jly. _ 12576 12414 124% 124% Sep. _127% 127% 12676 127 CORN: May _ 8674 86 >4 85=4 85 "4 Jly. _ 88*4 88% 88% 88% Seii. _ 91 91% 90% 90% OATS: May _ 56% 56% 56% 56% Jly. _ 5611 56% 56% 5674 Sep. _ 5 6 74 5 6 74 5 6 74 5 614 SOYBEANS': May, old-178% 17874 177% 177% May, new -___ 17976 •Tly., old ... 182% 182% 18116 18176 •Tly., new____183% Oct. - 178 =4 178-74 177% 17876 RYE: May - 75 76 75 76 75 75% Jly. - 78 76 78% 78 78% Sep. _ SI 76 8176 81 8174 DAKD: May - 12.82 Jly.- 12.82 Sep. ;- 12.82 NEW YORK COTTON NEW YORK, May 4.—(iP)-—Cotton Prices moved up today under lead ership of later month deliveries. Closing quotations were unchanged to up 40 cents a hale. A combination of factors aided the advance, brokers said, including crop conditions in some sections, ex pectation of a further increase in the J > of consumption and poli tical developments at Washington 'which were regarded as favorable by some. The March, 194;!, delivery paced the rise, that month getting beyond 20 cents at one time. The range follows: Open High Dow Close May _ 19.20al9.24 19.18 19.18n unch Jly. — 19.47 19.54 19.42 19.42 unch Oct. . 19.70 19.77 19.68 19.70 Up .07 Dec. _ 19.85 19.90 19.81 19.82 Up .05 Mar. _ 19.95 20.05 19.95 19.97 Up .08 Spot cotton nominal 20.94 for 15-16 inch middling. A—Asked. -A FINAL BOND SALES Total today 8,835,600. Previous day 3,426,000. Week ago 6,488,800. Year ago 9,097,100. Two years ago 3,872,600. Jan. 1 to date 837,077,350. Year ago 806,699,075. Two years ago 590,407,100. CHICAGO BUTTER CHICAGO, May 4.—M—Butter was easy and unsettled today; 93 score 39 1-4; 92, 38 1-2; 91, 38 1-2; 90, 38 1-2; 89, 38 1-4; centralized carlots. SO score 38 1-2; 89, 38 1-4. Burl Mills- 16% Bur Add Mach - 6 % Calumet and Hec_ 6 Can Dry - 3% Can Pao - 4% Case J I —- 59% Caterpil Trac - 32% Ches and O -- 28% Chrysler - 53 % Coca Cola - 65 Colum G and E —_- 1% Coml Credit - 18 Coml S%v _ 7% Comwlth and fe’ou - 7-32 Consol Edis - 13% Con Oil - 5 Cont Can - 23 _ Corn Prod _ 43 M Curtiss Wright - 7 Curtiss Wright A - 22 Del Lack and W - 3% Doug Aire - 54 Dow Chem - 9S Eastman Kod _11a DuPont _107% Elec Auto Lt - 24% Elec Pow and Lt - 1_ Firestone _ 14'A Freeport Sul -2- 28 Gen Elec -- 22% Gen Foods - 28 Gen Mot - 32% Gillette - 3% Glidden - Goodyear - 14.« Goodrich - 10% Graham Paige- % Gt Nor Ry Pf - 23% Hud Mot - 3''f Hupp Mot - 1% 111 Cent. - Int Harvest - 11% Int Nick Can - 25 Int Tel and Tel- 2% Johns Man - 51 vi Kenneeott -l- 28 is Kroger Groc - 23,2 Libby Of G1 - 22% Loews _-- 38/t Lorilard - 11:s Louis and Nash- lit! Mack Tr,uck - 30 IVi'cCrory Stores - 10% Mont Ward - 25 "a Murray Corp - 5% Nash Kelv - •> Nat Biscuit _ 13% Nat Pish Reg- 11% Nat Dairy Prod - 13% Nat Dist _ 19 Nat Lead - 13% Nat Pow and Lt- 2’s N Y Cent _ 7% No Am Aviat - 10's North Am- 3 Nor Pac - Ohio Oil - 6% Otis Elev - 12% Pac G and E- 16% Pac Mills - 16% Packard - 2% Param Pix - 13 Penny J C - 58% Penn Rr - 20% Pepsi Cola - 18% Phillips Pet -s- 33 Pub Svc N J - 11 Pullman- 23% Pure Oil- 7-js Radio - 2% Rad K O- 2 Vs Rem Rand - 7% Rep Stl - 13% Reynolds B - 23 Seab Oil - 16% Sears _ 11% Shell Un _11% Socony Vac - 6% Soil Pac - 11% Sou Ry - Sperry - 23% Std Brands - 2% Std Oil Cal - 19 Std Oil Ind - 20% Std Oil N J - 32% Stewart Warner - 6 Studebaker - 4% Swift _ 21% Tex Corp - 31% Tex Gulf Prod - 2% Tex Gulf Sul- 28% Timken Det Ax - 28% Transamer - 4 Un Carb - 59% Unit Aire _._ 2G% Unit Corp - 9-32 Unit Drug - 4% Unit Fruit - 51 Unit Gas Imp -.- 3% US Ind Aico- 2G US Pipe- 22% US Hub _ 15% US steel _ 4G% Warner Pic - 4% Western Union _ 25% West Elec and Mfg- G7% Wilson _ 4% Woolworth _ 22%, Yell T and C_-_ 10% Youngs S and T_ 31 Pinal stock sales, 259,711. CURBS Assoc G and El A_ 1-16 Can Marconi _ 7-16 Cities Service _ El Bond and Sh _ Gulf Oil _ -V STOCKS IN THE SPOTLIGHT NEW YORK, May 4.—UP)—Sales, closing price and net change of the fifteen most active stocks today. Unit Gas Imp 5,700, 3%-%. Am Tel and Tel 4,500, 111% no. Gen Elec 4,100, 22%-%. Std Oil N J 4,000, 32% up %. Int Tel Tel 3,900, 2% up %. Woolworth 3,400, 22%-%. Greyhound 3,200, 11% up %. Consol Edis 3,200, 13%-%. North Am Co 3,200, 8 no. Gen Mot 3,000, 32%-%. Tri-Cont. Co’rp., 2,700, 1 up %. Comwlth and Sou 2,600, 7-32 no. Am Rad Std San 2,500, 4% up %. N Y Central 2,100, 7%-%. Coml Solv 2,100, 7%-%. Unit Corp 2,100, 9-32-1-32. Anaconda 2,100, 24% tu> .%. , BONDS MAINTAIN A STEADY TREND Listed Prices Move Nar rowly During Monday’s Trading In Market NEW YORK, May 4.—W—With the financial community concen trating on the U. S. Government’s initial steps to raise a total of $4,000,000,000 for the war effort in May and June, listed bond prices moved narrowly but with an over all steady trend today. The main corporate groups had a small preponderance of gains; foreign dollar bonds except those of Australia held up well and while most treasury loans receded in the face of the new offerings, losses were generally light. Transactions amounted to $8. 835.600, par value, compared with $8,319,700 last Friday. The Associ ated Press average of 10 indus trial bonds attained a new 1942 high at 103.6, up .2 of a point. Existing treasury obligations ended the day generally lower. On the stock exchange losses ranged from 3-32 to 16-32 of a point against only a few small gains. The trend was similar over the counter. The outstanding 2 l-2s of 1949-51, which closely approximate the newly of fered 2 l-2s, got down to around 100 12-32 bd 100 14-32 asked against Saturday’s price of a little better than 100 20-32. • Dealers described the market as entirely free of pres sure and said the small recessions represented mostly dealers’ adjust ments. Corporate loans adding moderate sums included Southern Pacific 3 3-4s at 89 3-4., Ann Arbor 4s at 69 7-8. Baltimore & Ohio Stamped Convertibles of ’60 at 23 5-8 and Southern Railway 4s at 67 1-4. Losers included Montana Power 3 3-4s, Western Maryland 4s, North Western 4 3-4s and Lehigh Val ley 4s. Australia 4 l-2s and two issues of 5s were hard hit in the foreign department, giving up 4 to 5 points each under light offerings. Other foreign loans held steady. BOND AVERAGES 20 no 10 10 Rails Indus Util For Net chg. _ d.l a.2 a.l d.2 Mon. _64.9 103.2 94.1 47.7 Prev. day 63.0 103.4 94.2 47.9 Month ago_ 65.5 103.4 95.2 45.4 Year ago _ 66.0 104.6 101.3 43.4 1942 high _ 65.6 103.5 100.6 48.2 1942 low_ 60.8 102.6 93.6 41.5 1941 high_ 66.5 105.4 102.2 51.4 1941 low _ 58.3 102.9 98.9 38.0 10 Low Yield Bonds Mon. _ 112.0 Month ago _112.4 1942 high__ 113.1 1941 high _115.1 Prev. day_ 112.2 Year ago _112.8 1941 low _111.7 1941 low _ 112.1 -V CHICAGO POTATOES CHICAGO, May 4.—UP'— (U. S. Dept. Agr.l — Potatoes, arrivals 132; on track 205; total US ship ments Sat 586; Sun 53; supplies rather light, demand moderate market steady; Idaho Russet Bur ganks US No. 1, 3.10-45; Michigan Russet Rurals US No. 1, 2.35; Maine Katahdins 2.50: Wisconsin Green Mountains and Rurals US No. 1, 2.15-20; new stock; supplies moderate, demand moderate, mar ket steady; Texas Bliss triumphs US No. 1, 2.25-40 per 50 lbs sack; California long white US NO. 1, 1.65; Louisiana Bliss Triumphs US No. 1, 4.0 Oper 100 lbs sack. -v DRY GOODS NEW YORK, May 4.—W-Cotton goods traders were still preoccu pied studying problems incident to the new frozen price schedule for grey goods which became effective today. Mills and selling agents were also confronted with working out schedules on goods not pre viously covered by maximums and several days may elapse before trading basis is arrived at. Wool trading was also hampered by adjustments necessary to con form with government price lim itation order. Yarn shortages and uncertainty over May cloth allotments were reflected in rayon textiles. —.- -V NAVAL STORES SAVANNAH, Ga., May 4.—— Turpentine 55 1-4 to 1-2; offerings 209; sales 10,450 gallons; receipts 172; shipments 243; stocks 6,993. Rosin; offerings 789; sales 311; re ceipts 715; shipments 300; stocks 44,047. Quote: B, 2.37; D, 2.62; E, 2.75; F, 2.79; G and H, 2.88: I, 2 90; K. 3.00; M, 3.12; N, 3.16; WG. 3.30; WW, and X, 3.50. (Receipts and shipments for Sat urday included) THIS CURIOUS WORLD Ferguson ^ CROSSES OR. X-A\ ARKUS ARE USED TO SIGNIFY BECAUSE PERSONS OF EARLIER DAVS, WHO COULD NOT SIGN THEIR NAMES, PLACED A C&OSS ON IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS AND , IT AS A PLEDGE OF GOOD FAITH/ IN ACTUAL. <502. AT, S' THE POTATO IS Thi= WORLD'S £AJ2G^Sr CAZO/=>.... BUT IT IS NEARLV n^7®e/ T. M„ REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. (i \ < COPR. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. [ /\ GREAT DANIE IS BIS / WHEN HE'S SMALL"Says \ Betty Lou nelson, l L WHITEWATER, WlSC. , 1 Clinton Residents Complete Red Cross First Aid Courses CLINTON, May 4. — Instructors certificates were awarded to a class of 28 men and women here this week following completion of a 15-hour course in First A i d which was held at the Sampson county courthouse, Wallace McA Huff of St. Petersburg, Fla., spe cial field representative of the water safety. First Aid and Acci dent prevention division, American Red Cross was the instructor and the following received certificates at the close of the course: Grace S. Davis, Mt. Olive; Mable C. Faison, Ellen Goodrich, Mar garet D. Grady, Lucy H. Graham Turkey; Doris A. Gurley, Emma W. Hubbard, Graham Jacks on. Newton Grove: Mario W. Kimrey, Mary K. Knight, Mt. Olive; Ger trude Martin, Lucy F. Merritt, Ethel Moore, Essie M. M o ore, Lucius L. Moore, Frank W. Nee ley, Ruth H. Nester, Gussie D. Parker, Lola Proffit, James K. Register, Leona P. Register, Mar guerite Rogerson, Rozelle R. Roy all, Estelle H. Sampson, Saran L. Small, Fannie Belle Smith, Mrs C. W. Stevens, Clifford H. Wood, Sarah Helen Yoder. -V—__ CASH GRAIN CHICAGO, May 4.—(IP)—Wheat No. 2, mixed 1.21 3-4; No. 2 hard 1.22 1-4. Corn sample grade mixed 84; No. 1, yellow 84 3-4 to 86 3-4; No. 2, 84 1-2 to 86 1-2; No. 3, 84 to 84 1-2; No. 4, 83 to 83 1-4; sample grade yellow 81 to 84; No. 2, white 99 3-4; No. 3, 98 3-4; No. 4, 98; sample grade white 76. Oats No. 1, mixed 58 to 58 1-2; No. 1, white 58 3-4 to 59; No. 2 58 1-4; No. 3, 56 1-4 to 57 1-2; No. 55 1-8 to 1-4; sample grade feed 53 3-4. Barley malting 83 to 1.03 nom inal; fe^l and screenings 56 to 65 nominal; No. 2, barley 93 to 94; No. 1, malting barley 1.02; No. 3, 98. Soybeans No. 2, yellow 1.80 1-2; No. 4, 1.71 1-4; sample grade yel low 1.67 1-2. 2 -V NEW ORLEANS COTTON NE WOKLEANS, May 4.— <iP) — Cotton futures advanced here today on trade buying and record breaking consumption estimates. Closing prices were steady 4 to 8 points net higher. Open High Low Close May — 19.22b_19.17b Jlv. 19.51 19.56 19.45 19.47 Up 4 Oct. 19.97 20.00 19.1 19.93 Up 8 Dec. — 20.08 20.12 20.03 20.04b Jan. „ 10.12 20.12 20.11 20.06b Mch. __ 20.22 20.28 20.22 20.18b May_ 194^ - 20.34 30.34 20.34 20.29b B—Bid. SPOT COTTON CHARLOTTE, May 4.—(#)—Spot cotton 20.45. —-V The oldest town in the world is said to be the ruins of Tepe Gaw'ra, in northern Mesopotamia. CAMP DAVIS VOLLEY FIRE BOOM TOWN BOOMS Soldiers at Camp Davis have not lived until they visit Holly Ridge on Saturday night. With a resident population of a few hundred, the village does its best to absorb sev eral times that many service men on Saturday night. No use trying to describe the scene; it’s just “Holly Ridge” that's all. The soldiers call it Boom Town. It’s only about 6 0 feet from Camp Davis to Holly Ridge, across U. S. Highway 17. Saturday night the village has a carnival atmosphere. The chatter of rifles at the shoot ing gallery. . . .A fortune teller looking for customers. . . Pic colos playing a weird melange of tunes, ranging from semi-classical to jive. . . .The buzz of the tatoo ist’s needle. . . .Clicking billard balls. . . .Three-for-a-dime photo shop. . . .Dancing. . . .Conversa tion drifting out the open doors and uniting in a steady roar. . . . M.P.’s with their black arm bands and business-like expressions. “It s almost too good. That s the way one Holly Ridge business man described trade last Saturday night. For the first time, Camp Davis soldiers were paid on a Sat urday, an occurrence that meant much to the town which two years ago had a population of about 30 persons. Boom Town has a permanent spot in the memories of all the men who have received or are re ceiving thir training at Camp Da vis. It’s terrific! A SAD CASE A New Yorker assigned to Bat tery L of the Officer Candidate school persuaded his gal in N.Y.C. to pay him a visit. But, alas, when the young lady appeared on the scene, she found her beau con fined to the battery area, required to sign in at the battery orderly room every two hours. As the bat tery correspondent reported, “He had to keep one arm free to sign on the dotted line.” WHERE’S THE TUBE? The men in camp are learning from painful experience that they can’t buy toilet articles in collap sible metal tubes without present ing empty tubes in exchange. Al though there was an announce ment of this requirement, it seems that a majority forget the “re placement” on their first trip to the post exchange. POPCORN, BUTTERED ALL OVAH! In each theater at Camp Davis is a popcorn machine, and the popcorn business is quite some thing. The theater office reports that statistics show one out of every three movie patrons buys a box of corn. Last Sunday, one of the theaters had an attendance of 511 and sold 257 boxes, thus bet tering the average. FOUR STATES HOLD ELECTIONS TODAY Indications Are Vote Will Be Small Due To Lack Of Public Interest The first multi-primary election day of the war rolled around today (Tuesday) with international issues absent and even domestic issues soft-pedalled. Primaries' are being held in four states—South Dakota, Indiana, Ala bama and Florida—but observers anticipated only further indications of a decline in public interest in politics due to the war and parti cularly in view of the public’s cur rent preoccupation with the sugar rationing registration. The coun try’s first wartime primary, in Illi nois last month, demonstrated such a decline. Candidates will be chosen for 28 House seats and two senatorial posts but Senator Bankhead has no opposition in Alabama. Senator Bulow’s bid for renomination in South Dakota’s democratic pri mary probably will attract chief interest.. Bulow has said he would support President Roosevelt’s war program but reserve the right to oppose any domestic policies he believed un sound. Opposing him are Thomas Berry, the state party chairman and a former governor who is an all - out Roosevelt supporter, and Edward P. Burke, attorney and former state legislator. Bulow has remained in Washington through out the campaign, sending home some transcribed speeches for broadcast. On the republican side, Gov. Har lan J. Bushfield, who was a candi date for the republican vice-presi dential nomination in 1940, seeks the senatorial nomination opposed by a woman school teacher, Olive Ringsrud, the secretary of state. Reapportionment following tne census gives Florida six House seats to fill this year instead of five, and reduces Indiana’s delega tion from 12 to 11. All 12 of the incumbent Indiana representatives —eight republicans and four demo crats—are seeking another term. Five of the Indiana republicans, representatives Springer, Halleck, G'llie, Landis and Wilson, are un opposed. Rep. Larrabee alone of the Democrats has no opposition. Redistricting attached Larrabee’s district to that represented by Springer. Two representatives are to be nominated in South Dakota and nine in Alabama. In the latter state only representatives Patrick, Grant and Jarman are opposed. South Dakota and Alabama also will nominate gubernatorial candi dates. 3 Army Takes Over Buying Of Canned Goods For Services WASHINGTON. May 4._ The Army has taken over war 7 ing of canned fruits and veget ? for all armed services and ?.f! cipal government agendo.' ' '.7 War Department disclosed'tod? It predicted buying of other (7’’ of supplies soon would be 7',' larly pooled. The new procedure \\-lS s under a War Production Board ? location, it was explained. "t0 ?,!’ sure that all Federal agencies ' ing a vital part in the war would be able at all times to oh tain the highest quality canned goods. The central buying wii; fll, tinue for the balance of the \-c' Canners will benefit, it Wa,* f by being able to learn y their goods meet army speci " tions long before contracts V " closed for delivery. In addition to buying for the i forces, the Army Quartermasie Corps will act as purchasing a for the Navy. Marine CorpV y-’. erans and Lend-Lease Admini-v tion, and the Treasury proci', ' ment Section. ---V FOREIGN EXCHANGE NEW YORK, May 4,— r. eign exchange closing rates form’ (Great Britain in dollars, others i i cents). Canada: Official Canadian cor.' trol board rates for U. S. dolls ^ buying 10 per cent premium, sc.! ing 11 per cent premium, eqi;: lent to discounts on Canadian <l';. lars in New York of buying 9.5' per cent selling 9.09 per cent. Canadian dollar in New y open market 11 7-8 per cent da count or 88.12 1-2 U. S. cents. Europe: Great Britain, off id.' (bankers foreign exchange cor mittee rates) buying $$4.02. see ing $4.04 open market: cable; $$4.04. Latin America:. Argentina of;. cial 29.77; free 23.73: Brazil off. cial 6.05n; free 5.20n: Mexici 20.67n. (Rates in spot cables unles: otherwise indicated). n—Nominal. WHAT STOCKS 1)11) Mi m. ?:,• Advances _t'U Declines _165 Unchanged _166 Total Issues _566 4, More Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH Here is a pleasant way to overcome loose plate discomfort. FASTEETH. improved powder, sprinkled on uppc and lower plates holds them firmer >1 that they feel more comfortable. No - gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feck r. It’s alkaline (non-acid'. Does not s-> Checks ‘‘plate odor” (denture breath,I Get FASTEETH today at any drug ^ - • Notice-Beer Dealers Notice City and County Beer Licenses Expire April 30th, 1942 Before new license can be issued if is necessary io file application to sell beer with the undersigned. Any person, firm or corporation selling beer without a license is liable io indictment for violating said ordi nance. C.R. MORSE City and County Tax Collector RAPID PACKAGE DELIVER! Between Wilmington and Jacksonville North Carolina Only Packages of 150 lbs or less accepted for Transportation POR FURTHER INFORMATION Wilmington Jacksonville Dial 3311 Dial 3226 THE GUMPS_ Andy Gets The Ruby—Across The HeaC
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