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Stock Market Quotations (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Previous Close Alleghany —--..Jj? A1 Chem and Dye - l?o 2 Allis Chal Mfg -.o04 American Can ..S6'a American Car Fdy .- 63 .s American Roll Mill -- American Smelt and Ref-b‘j°a A T«.and T ..193 , Am“ican Tobacco B .824 Anaconda -..?84 Arm 111 ..J4 4 Atlantic Coast Line- '2 s Atlantic Refinery..34 » Aviation Corporation ..134 Baldwin __34 4 Baltimore and Ohio---254 5an»4a!l .. 2414 Bendix Aviat ___ 84 Beth Steel .-.102*'4 Boeing Airp_ 294 Borden _5018 Budd Mfg.234 Burl Mills _•„.414 Bur Add Mach _ 184 Cannon Mills _ 63 Case J I-444 Caterpil Trac -694 Ches and Ohio-59 4 Chrysler -1274 Coca Cola _193 Coml Credit- 52 Coml Solv-21 Comwlth and South - 44 Consol Edis -_344 Cons Vultee_294 Cont Can ---43 Corn Prod ...68 Curt Wright . 104" Curt Wright A ... 314 Dow Chem -152 Dous Aire _954 Du Pont .-.189 Eastman Kod ...---234 Firestone _75 Gen El ..—-. 384 Gen Foods --52 j Gen Mot ...- 754 ! Goodrich _724 ] Goodyear _ 634 j Gt Jo: Ry Pf..574 Tnt Harvest _814 Int Tel ar.d Tel _ 274 j Johns Mar.v _1474 ■' Kennecott _534 . Lig and M B __924 Loews - a; Lockheed -332, Lorillard - 24h Mom Ward -80'h Nash Kelv --'-23^ Nat Bis...32 Nat Cash Reg._ 431 Nat Disc —-.—.69'( N V Cent..30 u No Am Av- 153j No Pac --31 Packard - IIV5 Param Pic - 6738 Penny J C--55 Penn R R -44'8 Pepsi Cola - 36-4 Phillips Pet -5178 Pitt S and B- 12 Pullman .. 63Vi Pure Oil ----20’i Radio ---—.. - 17Vm Radio K O-—— ^{744 Rem Rand .37?i Repub Stl -35*4 Reynolds B ..-.38 Vi Sears ..43 Soc Vac . IS1* Sou Pac -58Ts Sou Rv ...a3 Std Br . 45,2 Std Oil N J -. 65m Stewart War - 32m Swift ..- 39 ■* Tex Co .i.* 55 L'n Carb _104V; Unit Airl - 4o58 Unit Aire _ 33*2 Unit Ccrp .. 6U Unit Drug . 29m Unit Fruit_ 11514 Unit Cas Imo..26!i U S Indus Chem .55 U S Rubber _66m U S Smelt and Ref. 77 U S Steel .. 8834 Uanadirm _ 345s Va Caro Chem _ 10m Warner Pic _ 38m West Un A _ . ..49 West El__36 Wool worth .. 54 58 CURB Han Marconi _ 4 Hities Service___ 29 Holon Dvmt __ 574 HI Bond and Share _213i CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO. Feb. 22—UP)—(US DA)—Salable hogs 6.500: total 12, 000: active, steady: good and choice barrows and gilts 14.85; ceiling: sows at 14.10 ceiling; com plete early clearance. Salable cattle 2.000; total 2.000; salable calves 400: total 400: fully steady, active market on all kill ing classes: nothing choice here in loads lots; largely butcher cat tle and sows: Small killers and rhippers took hulk of crop; best yearling steers 16.75: bulk 14.00 16.00: most heifers 2:50-14.50: com petitive trade in beef cows at 12.50 diwn to 9.50; canners and cutters rather slow at 7:50-8.50: practical top weighty sausage bulls 13.00. heavy fat bulls 14.00; mainly 16.00 down on vealers, only odd head \6.25 and 16.50; general clearance Voad. N. C. HOG MARKETS RALEIGH, Feb. 22—UP)— (NC DA)—Hog markets steady with top of 14.55 at Clinton and Rocky Hount and 14.90 at Richmond. RALEIGH POULTRY RALEIGH, Feb. 22—(IP)—CSC PA)—Egg and poultry markets Iteady. :U. S. Grade A large 36: frvers *4 to 57. CHARLOTTE SPOTS •CHARLOTTE. N. C., Feb. 22—. IP)—Spot cotton 26.50' POLICE, MILITARY UNITS ARE BUSY Week-End Quiet Disturbec Early As Marines Re port Whiskey Theft Wilmington and New Hanovei county police ar.d local military police, and special detachment: from Camp Lejeune steeled them selves this afternoon for a ‘'busy week-end.” As early as 4 o'clock this after noon, two Marines, in town from Camp Lejeune for the week-end and George Washington birthday celebrations, reported the theft oi a quart of whiskey stolen from them soon after they alighted from their bus after coming into town. Negro Held Henry Williams, Negro Marine private, who the two marines said took their whiskey was accom panied by a woman, whom he said was his mother. The couple fled soon afterwards, but were later overtaken at 716 Orange street. The marines from whom the whiskey had been stolen called the Negro marine from the house and procured their whiskey, at which time they were threatened by a mob of Negro men and women who came from the house, the marines said. Leave Happy Happy because they had recov ered their stolen property, but obviously disappointed over what they termed the ‘‘principle of the matter” the two marines joined fellow marines and went on to their celebration. It Is estimated that people in the United States spend an average of 40 cents a year for books. MILLIONS KNOW St. Joseph Aspirin is a* pure as money can buy. j Millions prefer it for ; quality, speed and I economy. 12 tablets 1 10c. And you save even more on the 100 tablet ' size for 35c. Always get j StJoseph ASPIRIN ' DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS 4. Heavy 20. Conflict 1. Seize anxieties 21. Feelers 4. Crown 5. Afresh 22. Inscribe 7. Part 6. Location of 23. Like a 8. Cuckoos “Leaning blockhead 10. To pillage Tower" 24. Mist U. Pauses 7. Bellow 26. Varying 13. Butts 9. Cord weight 14. Tobeon 10. Fr.ar’stitle find.) one’s guard 12. Dispatches 28. Having keys mj 15. Constella- 14. Babylonian -30. Stone Yesterday’s Answer tion god 31. Female 34. Story }8. Foot-like 16. Fasten sheep 35. Hindu organ 19. Roman 33. Russian title garment 17. At home. money (former) 37. Slant 18. Claw JO. A magi ! cian’s rod 22. Norse god 24. Sharp teeth 25. Beams 26. Classify 27. Whethei; 28. Cask 29. Before' 82. Snicker’ 85. Frozen water vapor 86. Literary composition 87. A baU 38. Robust 39. Arab kingdom 60. A color 81. Jumbled type DOWN 1. Old province, N. France 2. Expression i of sorrow : .8. Turkish title ■j.jt . CRYPTOQUOTE—A cryptogram quotation D H K B IUUIK MAU BPU QUKB M R KEUA BL XRDHAXLHK ELAIK — GXW B L R. t Yesterday’# Cryptoquote: OUR TO-DAYS AND YESTERDAYS • ARE THE BLOCKS WITH WHICH WE BUILD—LONGFELLOW Distributed by Xing Features Syndicate. Inc... * i ^ I ; FOREIGN-OWNED i| ASSETS ON RISE Deposits In United States Banks Total 373 Mil lions Of Dollars WASHINGTON, Feb. 23_ ifr) _ Foreign - owned assets in the Unit ed States rose throughout Ameri ca's first three years of war to a total of S14.000.000.000 by the start - of 1945, the Treasury disclosed to ' night. . Foreign - owned dollar assets, not counting gold earmarked before Pearl Harbor. ;' At the same time, the Treasury 1 said in a statement supplementing its report on a June. 1941, census taking, gold in the U. S. earmarked for foreign account more than doub led, jumping from $1,916,000,000 to 53.937.000. 000. Foreign deposits in U. S. banks increased by S373.000.000, while foreign countries bought more than 51.250.000. 000 of short - term and $120,000,000 in long - term securi ties of the U. S. government. A rise in market prices of U. S. • corporate securities, particularly | common stocks, added more than -'.$600,000,000 to the value of foreign 'holdings of the kind between June, 1941, and 1945, with the British ! Empire and neutral and enemy occupied Europe the biggest gain ers. — CHICAGO BABY IS KIDNAPPED Four - Months - Old Baby Stolen From Carriage While Mother Shops CHICAGO. Feb. 22—CU.R)—Police reported Friday night that four month-old Laura Lieberman was! kidnapped in her buggy while her j mother, Mrs. Evelyn Lieberman. j 25. was shopping in e department store. The mother told police she left i ■ the child in the buggy outside the store for half an hour. When she returned, baby and buggy were Out Shopping Police said Mrs. Lieberman bad been separated from her husband. Lowell Lieberman, of Detroit, for j two months. | Mrs.' Lieberman told police she and her mother had gone to the store about 3:45 p. m., to do some | j shopping. The mqther said the baby was dressed in a pink bonnet, blue j sweater and wrapped in a blue robe with pink trimmings. The i buggy was covered with pink leath er. The store is in a residential section of northwest Chicago. Has N'o Money Mrs. Lieberman told police, "I don’t know why anyone should do this to me: we have no money.” She described the baby as hav ing brown eyes and reddish-brown hair. She said little Laura was born last Columbus day in the county hospital here. She was kidnaped on Washington’s birth day. DOCTORS STUDYING MEDICAL EFFECTS OF FAMED ATOMIC BOMB ROCHESTER, N. Y., Feb. 22— VP)—The Army, Navy and the U. S. Public Health Service are train ing doctors in medical effects of the atomic bomb at the University of Rochester laboratory of the Manhattan district. Col. Stafford L. Warren announced today. Colonel Warren, chief of the atomic bomb project medical sec tion, said the program, initiated last month, is designed to create a military nucleus of radiation ex perts prepared to meet medical problems which might arise from the bomb. Navy Board Will Probe Death Of Adm. Wilkinson NORFOLK, Va„ Feb. 22.—UP)— circumstances surrounding the death of vice Adm. Theodore Stark Wilkinson, USN, who died when his automobile plunged overboard from a Norfolk-Portsmouth ferry boat here Thursday, were to be studied by a naval board of in vestigation meeting Friday on or derof Rear Adm. W. L. Ainsworth, commandant of the Fifth Naval District. District headquarters said the appointment of such boards was “routine” procedure in such cases. Findings of the board may be ready for report to Admiral Ains worth late Friday, it was said'. America uses half of its annual lumber supply for ' construction the rest for furniture and other manufactured articles. BOYS UNDER FIFTEEN BARRED FROM MOTOR SCOOTER OPERATION Police this afternoon warned motorists under 15 years of age against operating motor scoot ers on the streets of Wilming ton. Chief of Police Charles H. Casteen said the law regulat ing operation of the scooters, applies to 15-year-olds in the same manner which drivers license for operating an auto bile. applies to adults. He said the boy or girl who has not yet reached their 15 years, may learn to operate the scooter before they become of age, providing they are ac companied by an older person who is instructing them. For this practice period there is a limit of one month set, prior to the time the operator becomes 15 years of age. Persons who are 15 years of age may, with their parents’ signature, get license to op erate the scooter, Chief Cas teen said. CANADA TO REPLY TO SOVIET NOTE Release Of Document Draft In Answer To Spy Ring Protest Now Expected OTTAWA. Feb. 22.— (U.R) —A formal reply to Russia’s protest against the Canadian expose of So viet espionage in the dominion and the Royal commission’s interim report on the spy ring’s activities were expected momentarily Fri day. Russia’s note of protest, which was given a Canadian embassy of ficial Wednesday, was received in Ottawa yesterday, too late to be discussed at a cabinet meeting. However, the text of the message is not unknown to the cabinet members who have been studying the version broadcast by the Mos cow radio. ±:: duuiuun, mine jviiiiiMcr w. L. MacKenzie King was expected to issue a statement on the case over the weekend. Meanwhile, a Canadian govern ment source accused the Russian press of lying when it charged Canada with starting a spy scare. At the same time, a high gov ernment source said Russian spy activities had reached ‘alarming 1 proportions’’ as far back as Sep tember. 1945, causing Prime Min ister King to discuss the situation with President Truman and Brit ish Prime Minister Clement Atlee. STILL HAVE WORD MOSCOW. Feb. 22—(Delayed) — (U.R)—The Russians have not yet said their last word concerning the Canadian espionage plot an nouncement. Further develop ments depend upon the reaction of the Canadian government. Canadian Ambassador Dana Willgress -was understood to be rushing back to Moscow from Lon don, where he attended the UNO meeting. He originally had planned a visit in Stockholm en route from London. Leon Meyrand, the Canadian charge d’affaires, is in close con tact with the British and Ameri can embassies. Vice Commissar S. A. Lozovsky yesterday handed Meyrand the Soviet government’s statement which said the Russians had received ‘insignificant se creta data’’ from Canadians and charged the Canadian government with an anti-Soviet attitude. 1 ALL HOPE ABANDONED FOR 420 VICTIMS OF GERMAN MINE BLAST DORTMUND, Germany, Feb. 22. —(U.R)—Rescue workers abandoned dope today for an estimated 420 men trapped by fires and ex plosions in the Monopol coal mine at nearby Unna. After fighting vainly for 48 hours to break through to the trapped men, exhausted rescue crews be gan sealing the mine shaft with concrete to extinguish the gas fires still blazing underground. Fifty-nine men were brought out alive shortly after the first ex plosion Wednesday, and 11 bodies were recovered. Three British mine supervisors were believed, among the victims still in the mine. WILL MAKE RACE GREENSBORO, Feb. 22 — (u.fi) _ Charles T. Hagan, Jr., Greensboro attorney, will run for the solicitor ship of the 12th judicial district in the May 25th primary, it was annowiced Friday. Prior to his ser. vice in the Marine corps, Hagan was assistant solicitor of °the Greensboro municipal-county court for two years, and acted as cam 5"m=1«£%" ™ ,h*' ” BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES— __ UNSCHEDULED ! IHMiW <309h|wOO 0\0 ■KHt rJ'2>hKi6-0'P t<=> O’OtSi l iOB .V\OK>. KiO/C) VOVi O'O't'3 ^W>0 P\ <3000 1 G'RftVlO _T CHft««v i, -vi I _ ^ OY CHftettV .HOW 1 ~j : PWt VOt VW.t'O CK<bV\? \ I rt «>VfcVi W KVVOV^ftViCt ) u OK) vvov^e res ■— voo « "Tvv'c. k>ow. P ?IF\V 1 ROO. OOKi'X igBwrl^M vt - « BPO\V VN ? I BCN BOm voo GOBVN , Wl\. I StB? N't \ G\Bt. \ SWO I VOU W^O'SWt'a VOPsB ^V\KX 1 PWYO^M^CE. AVtt. V WP\B JfcB iOBB VWOL BKOUt*. ■BOWVNG v\V OWN> --1 WOVOWiS 1 ■v JfjljM^ ■ ®*i P^ GWT , \ lv\OK>W ?' ;t H«Ot TO r H^fWi vt>V <bC«NW f\K>0| TfvVVL eNOE. 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