The La Crosse Tribune from La Crosse, Wisconsin • 21

Thursday Evening, April 2, 1942 EA CROSSE TRIBUNE AND LEADER-PRESS PAGE TWENTY ONE gtoek Market Quotations Born In Lifeboat Former Black River Man Gets Army Post San Juan, Puerto Rico (IP) Colonel Thomas R. Phillips, military affairs writer, yesterday was appointed chief of staff of the Puerto Rican department by Maj-Gen. James L. Collins, commander. Phillips is a native of Black River Falls, Wis.

The Phillips family lived in Black River Falls in the latter part of the 19th century, moving away about 1894. Thomas Raphael Phillips was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Phillips and was born here Jan.

27, 1892. Both of his parents were Wisconsin-born, and his father was a bookkeepers for D. J. Spaulding. The family lived on German Hill, a section of the city.

Wheat In Dive To Its Lowest Mark In Months Chicago (iT) Wheat Prices slumped more than a cent a bushel at one stage today to the lowest quotations posted here since early last December, before Pearl Harbor. May contracts sold only slightly above $1.24. Poor demand for flour and the favorable crop prospect, promising to augment the nations already burdening domestic surplus of wheat, were principal factors in the fesh retreat. Small scale selling that touched off fractional price declines ran the market into ground were numerous stop loss orders had been placed and execution of these accelerated the downturn. Receipts were wheat 9 cars, corn 117, oats 21, soybeans 5.

Wheat closed cent lower than yesterday, May July corn Y4 lower to higher. May 88-, July 90-; oats unchanged to lower; soybeans higher; rye Winona Livestock Quoted Ily SWIFT AND COMPANY Winona, Minn. Buying hours at Swift Co. will be from 8 a. in.

to 4 p. fti. weekdays and 12 noon on Saturdays. All livestock arriving after closing dra 'Nill be propeny cared for and the following morning. GCOD TO CHOICE TRUCK HOGS iro'Jfn pounds ave- 12.30-12.55 10J-1S0 pounds 12 55-13 25 180-200 pounds pounds 13.30-13.50 Pounds 13.30-13.50 IVl'H Pounds 13.30-13.50 270-300 pounds 13.25-13.45 oUU-eiiiQ pounds 13 25-13 45 GOOD TO CHOICE SOWS 23? Pounds 12.95-13.13 3S-33 Punds 12.95-13,15 Pounds 12.95-13.15 JbU-400 pounds 12.90-13.10 400-450 pounds 4a0-500 pounds 12.70-12.90 500 pounds up 12.60-12i80 Stags 9.90-loi75 REMARKS-Unfinished nnd medium Quality discounted in line with values.

Market 15 to 20 cents higher. Extreme top. 13.50. CATTLE Market steady. STEERS Good to choice Medium to good Common to fair YEARLINGS Good to choice Medium to good Common to fair HEIFERS Good to choice Medium to-good Common to fair COWS Good to choice Fair to medium Common to fair Canners and cutters BULLS Beef Bologna, 1200 lbs.

up Bologna, 1200 lbs. down CALVES Steady. Extreme top Choice Good Medium to good Common LAMBS 25 cents higher. Extreme top Good to choice 75-95 lbs. 11.25-11.75 Medium 10.00-11.00 Common 9.25 down Ewes 2.50- 6.50 All livestock carrying excessive fill will he discounted.

Hogs Reach $14 With U. S. Lard Buying Rumored Report OPA Planning Readjustment Of Its Ceiling Levels Chicago (JP) Hog prices hit a peak of $14 a hundred pounds today, another new high for the past 16 years, as trade circles were influenced by rumors of heavy government lard buying and a report that the office of price administration may. readjust some pork ceiling levels. The market gained momentum as trading advanced and closing quotations were up 10 to 20 cents a hundred One choice load brought the $14 peak with most offerings going at $13.75 to $13.90 a hundred pounds.

Sows shared the upturn. At present prices hogs are above levels prevailing on March 10, when the OPA announced it would freeze wholesale pork prices. Todays peak compared with a top of $9 immediately prior to Americas entry into the war and with $8.70 in the same week last year. SsHtanaBiry WILL A. DUVE Will A.

Duve, 55, formerly of La Crosse, died in a Los Angeles, hospital after an illness of 10 days, according to word received here. He is survived by his wife; his mother; several brothers; one sister; find several nieces and nephews. Mrs. F. E.

Cabanis, 1802 George street, is a sister-in-law. While in La Crosse he was a member of the city fire department. The family left for California about 12 years ago. Funeral services were held Monday in Los Angeles. MRS.

CATHERINE SCIIMIDT Mrs. Catherine Schmidt, 81, formerly Catherine Wetchen of Pine Creek, passed away yesterday afternoon in St. Paul. Committal services will be held at the Toledo Pine Creek, Saturday at 2 p. Morning Star chapter.

Order of Eastern Star, La Crescent, in charge. CLARICE RUPP Funeral services for Mrs. Clarice Rupp, who passed away Tuesday evening, will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. at the north chapel of the Sletten McKee company.

The Rev. O. S. Paulson will officiate and interment will be in Oak Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel tomorrow evening.

Mrs. Rupp is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Helmer Melbo of La Crosse; one son, William Rupp of Milwaukee; one sister, Mrs. Carl Wendling of La Crosse; three brothers, Adolph Engh, Plemert Engh and George Engh, all of La Crosse and one grandchild. CLARA A.

HARTMAN Mrs. Clara A Hartman, 65, wife of Joseph Hartman, 2128 George street, passed away at a local hospital yesterday afternoon. She was born in Muscatine, July 31, 1876. Besides her husband, she is survived by one daughter, Mrs. W.

W. Figgie of La Crosse; one son, Ralph C. Hartman of Bay City, Mich; three sisters, Mrs. H. Schultz and Mrs.

A. Brendel of Muscatine, and Mrs. A. Tobias of Rock Island, two brothers, Charles and Frank Schaeffer of Muscatine, and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 3:30 p.

m. at the north chapel of the Sletten-McKee company. The Rev. H. R.

Kinley will officiate and interment will be in Oak Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel this evening. CHICAGO GRAIN TABLE WHEAT May Open, 1.25-; high, 1.23; low, 1.24; close. 1.24-. July Open.

1.27- high, 1.27; low, 1.26 close, 1.26. Sept. Open, 1.29; high, 1.29; low, 1.28; close, 1.28-. CORN May Open, 88; 88; low, 8 close, 8 8 July Open. 91-90; high, 91; low, 90; close, 90-.

Sept. Open. 93-92; high, 93; low, 92 close, 92. OATS May Open, 56; high, 56; low, 55Bclose. 55.

July Open, 55 55 close, 65. Sept. Open, 55 53; close, 55. SOYBEANS May old Open, 1.90; high, 1.90; low, 1.89; close, 1.90. May new Close, 1.92, July old Open, 1.92-: high, 1.93; low, 1.91; close, 1.92-.

July new Close, 1.94. Oct. Open, 1.85: high, 1.86; low, 1.85; close, 1.86. RYE May Open, 79; high, 79; low, 78; close, 78. July Open, 81; high, 82; low, 81; close.

81-. Sept. Open, 84; high, 84; low, 83; close, 84. LARD May Close. 12.82.

CHICAGO CASH GRAIN Chicago C-P) Wheat: No. 1 mixed, 1.25; No. 2 red. 1.25; No. 2 mixed, 1.24.

Corn: No. 4 mixed, 79 No. 1 yellow, 86-87c; No. 4. 79-Slc; sample grade yellow, 75c; No.

4 white, 91 c. Oats: No. 1 mixed, 57-57c; No. 2, 57c; No. 1 white, 58c; No.

4, 54c. Barley: Malting, nominal; feed and screenings, 55-65c nominal. Soybeans: No. 4 yellow, 1.77. Local Markets (Quoted by Swift Co.) Heavy hens 4 lbs.

and up, 16c. Light hens under 4 13c. Leghorn hens, 13c. Heavy stags, 14c. Leghorn stags, 12c.

Heavy old roosters, 12c. Leghorn old roosters, 10c. Wisconsin Grade A Eggs. 28c. Wisconsin Grade Eggs, 26c.

Wisconsin Undergrades, 21c. No. 1 cream, 39c. No. 2 cream, 36c.

Barriger To Report. On Railroad Operation Peoria, 111. John W. Barriger, federal manager of the Toledo, Peoria and Western railroad, has been called to Washington to report on the governments operation of the road to Joseph B. Eastman, coordinator of transportation.

Methods to be followed in reaching a contract with the railroad brotherhods were believed to be on Barrigers agenda for the conference. The road was seized March 21 by the government, the first such seizure since World war following refusal by George P. McNear, president, to arbitrate the dispute on his 239 mile road, a vital link in defense transportation. Readstown Man, Hit By Car, In Hospital A Readstown man, Guy Adams, 48, was in a La Crosse hospital today with injuries described by his physician as serious received in an automobile accident near Readstowm early yesterday. Sheriff John Hassler of Viroqua, who was summoned to the site of the mishap, said Adams apparently stumbled in the path of a moving automobile driven by Richard Smith, 26, of Janesville.

He was first taken to a Viroqua hospital, then to La Crosse. Driver of the car was not held. Jlarket Favorites Up 1 To 2 Points In Day ew York () Demand for number of recently ailing blue imparted quiet strength to sections of todays stock FVany issues failed to be im-rressed and held to a narrowly ir-reeular route. Gains for favorites r-ned from 1 to more than 2 Joints. Prices were near the best jt the close.

Tr answers CO shares. g. COTEUXMENT BONUS Treasury S(P)B Setsury 4s 2s HOLC 2s HOLC 33 52-44 104.12. NEW 1'OltK STOC KS itlied Chem. and Dye, 124.

Chalmers 26. American Can, 6t). imerlcan Locomotive, 8 Vi-American Rad. and St. 4.

Cedcan Smelt, and 39. American Tel. and 116. American Tobacco, 38. American Zinc L.

and 4. Anaconda Copper, 25. Armour Illinois, 3. Aviation 3. Bendix Aviation, 3a Bethlehem Steel, 59.

4'alumet ftnd Canada Dry Ginger Ale, 10. Canadian Pacific, 4. Chesapeake and Ohio, ..9. Chrysler 55 11 Columbia Oas ann llf 1 4. Commonwealth Edison, 19.

Consolidated Aircraft. 19. Consolidated Copper 6. Consolidated Edison, 12. Curtiss-Wright, 7.

Kastman Kodak, 11 1 Kleetric Power ana 1. General Electric, 24. General Foods, General Motors, 34. Goodrich, 15. Goodyear T.

and R-, 14. Gt. Nor. Iron Ore, 17 V. Gt.

Northern 23. Greyhound 11. Illinois Central, 6. Inspiration Con. Copper, 10.

Int, Harvester, 43. Int Nick. Can, 26. Int Paper, 12. Int.

Tel. and 2. Johns-Manville, 59. Kennecott Copper, 32. Kroger Grocery, 25.

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass, 22 Vi. Marshall Field, 10. Montgomery Ward, 26. Nash Kelvinator, 5. National Biscuit, 13-.

National Steel, 48. N. Y. Central, 8. No.

American Aviation, 11. North American 7. Northern Pacific, 6. Owens Illinois Glass, 45. Packard Motor, 2.

Pan. American Air, 12. Penney, 64. Pennsylvania Railroad. 21 Phillips Petroleum, 33.

ublie Service N. 11. Pure Oil, 8. Republic Steel, 17. Sears Roebuck, 49.

Shell Union Oil, 10. Simmons 12. Socony-Vacuum, 7. Southern Pacific, 11. Standard Brands, 2.

Standard Oil California. 19. Standard Oil Indiana, 22. Standard Oil N. 34.

Studebaker 5 Vi. Swift and 22. Texas 32. Un. Carbide, 60.

Union Air Lines, 8. United Aircraft, 31. U. S. Rubber, 15 Vi.

V. 8. Steel, 50. Western Union 27. West.

El. and 68. Wool worth, 23. Yellow Tr. and Coach, 12.

Youngstown Sh. and Tube, 33. NEW YORK CURB Cities Service, 2. Cities Service 36. Elec.

Bond and 1. Pittsburgh PI. Glass, 56. Chicago Storks G. Helleman Brewing Co.

Northwest Bancorp. Swift and Co. Trane Co. Wisconsin Bankshares 7 Vi -7 io-n 22 8-8 4 Vi -4 Quoted By HOLLEY, DAYTON Jt GKRNON Investment Companies Boston Fund 11.10-11.94 Chemical Fund 7.59- 8.21 Incorporated Inv. Trust 12.01-12.91 Massachusetts Inv.

Trust 14.26-15.33 Selected American Inc. 6.50- 7.09 Pnblle Utility Stocks No. States Power 6 Pfd. 4 6 Vi -48 No. States Power 1 Pfd.

52-54 Wis. P. and Lt. 6 pfd. 904-94 W'is.

P. and Lt. 7 Pfd. 95-99 Wis. Public Pfd.

93-97 Bank and Insurance Stocks Bank of America 29-31 Chase National Bank 22 Vs -23 National City Bank 21-22 Vi Home Insurance 25-26 National Fire Insurance 50-52 Vi Industrial Stocks Chicago Molded Products 3 -4 biddings and Lewis 114-12 Gisholt Machine Co. 12-14 Kan as-Nebrask a NatI Gas 4 -5 securities Acceptance Corp. 4 Vi -5, t. S. Truck Lines 8 -10 CHICAGO POTATOES Chicago iP) (U.

S. Dept. Agr.) atoes: Arrivals, 79 cars; on track, total U. S. shipments, 775; sup-rues moderate; for Colorado Reds demand good, market strong; for northern white stock demand light, market dull with slightly weaker reeling prevailing; Nebraska Bliss Triumphs U.

S. No. 1, 13.50-63; Colors111 McClures U. S. No.

1. 3.25-v Michigan Green Mountains U. S. kY 2-20; Minnesota and North Laot Bliss Triumphs U. to.

No. 1, Cobblers, commercials, Wisconsin Katahdins U. S. No. new stock: supplies moder-teadyiemaD moderate; market CHICAGO PRODUCE VP) Poultry: Live, i.pu,ar; 39 trucks: hens, 21-25c; liarewi, springs, 23 -27c; uu chickens, 22c; roosters, lv- i clucks, 22-24c; geese, 18-'dflceys, tom, old 20c.

young "'p hens 28c; capons, 30c; slips, 27c. Receipts 1,008,056 pounds; uriD creawery, 90 score, 35 other Pru-es unchanged. Receipts 38,596 cases; receipts, 26c; stor-hnchanged'1 30c other prices Weather Record s. weather bureau i.o0r Rather -windy and Cder toightailnesota: Colder todaY and 0Wa: Rather windy and ornwhat colder in west and rth Portions today; colder tonight. RA CROSSE DATA Ple 6:44 a.

CWT. 7:33 P- m-. CWT. 9:10 P- CWT. v'5? temperature yesterday 45.

temperature April 1. 40. parture from normal 5. Ration-wide hecords Baby Is Born In Lifeboat After Sub Sinks Ship Doctor, Rihs Crushed, Delivers Child While Waves Toss Norfolk, Va. (IP) Courage was the only necessity his mother and his doctor had when Jesse Roper Mohorovicic decided to enter this life Sunday night in a packed lifeboat plunging through darkness and 15-foot Atlantic waves.

So they used much of it with success. The eight-pound baby boy birth amidst the rolling waves followed the torpedoing by an Axis submarine of an American passenger-cargo ship on which Mrs.De-sanka Mohorovicic, 28, of New York, was traveling. Three crewmen were killed and 29 other persons were still missing today, but the mother, her baby and 87 other survivors reached Norfolk safely. Young Jesse was born 13 hours after the launching of the lifeboat in which rode 24 persons. The mother, wife of an attache of the Yugoslav consulate of New York, had then been in labor three or four hours.

Dr. L. H. Conly, of Brooklyn, N. ships doctor, suffered from the fracture of two ribs received in a drop from the ship into the lifeboat.

He had no anesthesia and only the simple instruments of the life boats medical A sail, only cover at hand was stretched across one end of the lifeboat as a makeshift protection for the mother, and the job was done. Jesse did his part by living out the next 24 hours until a rescue vessel came, cradled in a womans turban and tucked beneath his mothers dress against the cold wind of the sea. The infant, his mother and a two-year-old sister, Visna, were in a Norfolk hospital today, showing no ill effects from the experi- 6I1C6. Mrs. Mohorovicic told reporter in a combination of halting Eng- lish and french that she had expected a child to be born this week, but I thought hed be here in New York in free America.

But it wasnt so badly. Were here, we're well grace de dieu. Sea Was Rough The blond, husky young woman had had other harrowing experiences on her trip to America. We went under bombarding on the way to Cape Town from Ankara where Visna was born, she said. That was badly too.

The sea was very, what you call it, rough, she said describing the height of the waves with sweeping motion of her descriptive hands. I was in the cabin with her, pointing to Visna. The torpedo strike. I take up her and blankets and start up stairs. The second torpedo, she strike us; I failed down the stairs.

See marks on me," she said pointing to black bruises on her legs. According to Dr. Conly, the mothers ordeal was unexpectedly easy. Kept Babe In Lifebelt The child was born in two and a half or three hours after labor began, he said. She kept him inside her lifebelt which was like a kangaroos pouch.

It was the only place where he could be kept at all warm. She tried to nurse him. After that first night, when she was too weak to move, she sat up and stayed there the rest of the time holding the almost naked baby against her chest. She is a remarkable woman. The physician reported that he did not have to bathe the new born babe.

Gen. Grimert Takes Command Of Area Chicago (JP) Major General George Krunert took command of the sixth corps area today, succeeding Major General Joseph M. Cummins as chief of the army in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. He arrived from Providence, R. where he was in command of the sixth army corps, with his wife and their daughter, Mrs.

H. R. Wynkoop. Mrs. Wyncoops husband is an infantry major serving in Bataan.

Gen. Grunert was commanding general of the Philippine department until Oct. 31, 1941, when that post was taken over by General Douglas MacArthur. He said the Japanese had been trained strictly as offensive fighters, and that it will be interesting to see what happens when the Japanese are' placed on the defensive. I believe they will crumble, he stated.

Gen. Gunert came up through the ranks, having joined the army as a private Sept. 29, 1898. He is 61 years old. Jews Observe 8-Day Holiday Of Passover Jewish people of La Crosse and elsewhere began celebrating the Passover, the oldest holiday in the Jewish calendar, last evening for a period of eight days.

Reform Jews will observe the holiday for seven Orthodox Jews will celebrate for eight days and hold services on the first and eighth days. Eating of unleavened bread, or Matsos, connected with the festival, is a symbol of the haste with which the Jews left Egypt. According to tradition there was no time to wait for the bread dough to rise. The holiday commemorates deliverance of the Jews from oppression of the Pharoahs and their entrance into the Promised Land as a religious people. Hart Indicates Allies Can Hold Australia Washington (JP) Chairman Connally (D-Tex) said today that on the basis of information given the senate foreign relations committee today by Vice Admiral Thomas C.

Hart he was encouraged to believe that the United Nations forces were sufficient strong to hold Australia as a base for. future offensive action. Hart, appearing before the committee in a closed session, was said to have been questioned in detail about the disposition of Allied forces in the southwestern Pacific. Mrs. Desanka Mohorovicic, her daughters, Visna (left) and after escape from torpedoed ship Coordinator Arthur B.

Newhall (above), former executive vice-president of B. F. Goodrich company, was given supreme power over rubber production and distribution by WPB Chief Donald M. Nelson in Washington. Central Students Sell 849 Easter Seals This Weclv Campaign Is Sponsored By Student Council Of School The annual Easter seal sale, conducted in the public schools of the city, got off to a good start this week at Central high school under the direction of President David Emmert of the Student-Teacher council.

At the close of school yesterday the council had sold 849 seals. This amount, however, is not the complete total. All receipts have not yet been turned in. The privilege of handling the sale of Easter seals has been awarded annually for the last three years to the Student-Teacher council and the president of that organization is a member of the La Crosse county unit of the Wisconsin Association for the Disabled. The seals are distributed to the home room by the STC representatives.

Back From in Norfolk, hospital with Jessie who was born in lifeboat in the Atlantic. (NEA Telephoto) River Problems Meeting Subjects Of Badger Club Sportsmens Group Will Meet In Legion Hall Tonight Important matters relating to the upper Mississippi river and its hunting and fishing will be discussed by members of the Badger State Sportsmens club at their regular meeting tonight in the American Legion club rooms, 215 South 6th street. The major one will concern the carrying of guns in boats, especially during the migratory water-fowl hunting seasons. The club has a letter from Rep. William H.

Stevenson giving an informal department of justice ruling that firearms may be carried on boats with the permission of owners. In most instances, duck hunters own their own Identification cards for boat owners, a requirement of the U. S. coast guard, also will be discussed. Officials of the coast guard already have spent four days here issuing the cards to persons having boats 16 or more feet in length, and plan to return again in a short time.

The deadline for issuing the cards will be June 30, with the law to be enforced on and after July 1. Committees in charge of the April 16 smelt fry also will give reports during the evening. Several reels of fishing and scenic films from the state conservation department will be shown. Mrs. Ben Pfaff Dies At Melrose Melrose, Wis.

(Special) Mrs. Ben Pfaff, 67, of Mindoro, died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Mabel Heuer here at 2:40 today from an illness dating back to a stroke she suffered three years ago. She was born May 15, 1872 in the town of Burns, daughter of Henry and Lillie Wadel. She was married to Mr.

Pfaff 49 years ago in February. She was a member of the Burr Oak Lutheran church. Survivors include four children, Mrs. Heuer, Roy of Melrose, Lawrence of Mindoro and Ray of La Crosse; 17 grandchildren; two brothers, Charles Wadel of Bangor and Alfred Wadel of Mindoro; and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Brook man of Sparta and Mrs.

Frank Amborn of Melrose. No funeral arrangements have been announced. Philippines Illinois State Regional Chief Of CIO Resigns Policies Not Aiding In Bringing About Unity, He Says In Statement Springfield, III. (JP) Ray Ed-mundson, Illinois district president of the United Mine Workers of America, resigned today as state regional director of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Edmundson made public a letter to Philip Murray, national CIO president, in which he declared the policies of officers and executive board members of the CIO in my judgment do not contribute to the necessary unity within the labor movement, or the nation, for the greatest possible benefit in the prosecution of the war The CIO leader also announced he was quitting his post as president of the Illinois State Industrial Union Council, a state federation of CIO unions.

Edmundson said that technically the Illinois district No. 12 of the United Mine Workers is still affiliated with the CIO and the state industrial union council, but declined further comment on recent reports that the UMWA international union might sever its affiliation with the CIO as a result of disagreements on policy between Murray and John L. Lewis, UMWA international president. A close friend of Lewis, Edmundson said he resigned from his CIO post wholly on my own initiative. Edmundson returned last week from a meeting of CIO officials in Washington, but denied that he had consulted Lewis before resigning.

He said he was the first UMWA leader to resign from a regional CIO post. Edmundson would not say with which CIO policies he disagreed, but in his letter to Murray he commended Lewis proposal of last January that conferences be resumed between the CIO and AFL in the hope of reuniting the two labor movements. The Lewis proposal met with opposition at that time from Murray. 1 Firms May Deduct Cost Of Shelters From Taxes Washington (A) Treasury experts expressed the unofficial opinion today that factories and other businesses could deduct blackout or bomb shelter expenses in computing their income tax. But, householders could not.

One of the experts said that he believed, although no formal ruling had been made yet, that small expenditures for blackout shades or other materials by business firms would be classified as ordinary and necessary business expenses for business establishments. More extensive outlays, such as bomb shelters, he said, probably would have to be regarded as capital expenditures and deducted over a period of years. In the case of householders, blackout costs are not considered by the internal revenue bureau as business expenses and apparently do not fit into any other type of deduction. Intermediate Plane Spans Gap For Pilot Wright Field, Dayton, O. To bridge the huge gap between flying a single engine army trainer and a multi-engine AAF service craft, the air corps has designed a new type of trainer called the twin-engine transition plane.

Two related types have been in service since 1941 the multi-engine pilot-trainer, and the navi-gator-bombardied trainer. The new ship is a low wing monoplane with a 40-foot wing span. It has. a gross weight of 5,125 pounds, and is powered with two radical engines in the 270 horsepower class, fitted with two-blade constant spee'd Standard equipment includes a full complement of training instruments, and conventional retractable landing gear. Instructor and student pilot sit side by side.

These planes have the same general performances and operation characteristics of the big war planes. With the new transition trainers, the prospect is considerably brighter for training pilots and crews for multi-engine planes in sufficient numbers for the air force expansion program. F. R. Vetoes Longevity Pay For Postal Workers Washington (P) A bill which would have established a system of longevity pay for 222,500 field employes of the postal service was vetoed today by President Roosevelt.

The president informed the house in a message that this is not an opportune time for this type of legislation, and he found it necessary in the public interest to withhold his signature. The measure contemplated pay raises starting next July 1 for employes who had completed 10 years of continuous The president said this would have meant about three-fourths of all employes covered by the bill. Refugees from the parks during a cold spell, 1,000 ducks formed a flotilla on the Thames near Wandsworth, England. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK Chicago (U. S.

Dept. Agr.) Salable hogs, total, 15 to 20c higher 011 all weights and sows; good and choice 200 lbs. and up, 13.75 to 13.90; extreme, 14 one load; 180-200 13.60 to 13.85: 160-80 13.25 to 13.75; good sows. 400-550 $13.25 to 13.60. Salable cattle, calves, 800; fed steers and yearlings steady to 23c lower; good grades off most; top 16.15 paid for strictly choice 1,312 lb.

averages; few loads, 15 to 16; latter scaling 1,272 mostly 11.25 to 14.75 steer trade: heifers steady; best, 13.50; cows 10 to 15c lower, however; bulls 10 to 15c higher; weighty sausage offerings to 10.50; vealers steady at 15 down; largely fed steer run; scock cattle firm, scarce, mostly 10.50 to 12.50. Salable sheep, total, market on fat lambs not yet established; some interests bidding $12.50 on choice offerings held up to 12.75 and above. MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK Milwaukee (JP) Hogs, 1,800: 13 to 25c higher; good to choice lights, 180-350 13.65 to 13.85; good to choice heavy butchers, 375 lbs. up, $13.25 to 13.60; good to choice lights, 150-170 13 to 13.50; bulk of packing sows, 13.25 to 13.50; rough and heavy sows, 12.75 to 13. 15; thin and unfinished sows, 10 to 12.50; stags, 10.50 to 13; boars, 7 to 8.50.

Cattle, 700; -weak; steers and yearlings, choice to prime, 12.25 to 14; common to good, 9 to 12; dry fed yearling -heifers, 11.50 to 12.50; dairy bred heifers, 6.50 to 9.75; good to choice cows, 9 to fair to good, 8.50 to 8.75; cutters, 7.50 to 8.25; canners, 6 to 7.25; choice weighty bologna bulls, 9.75 to 10; bulls, common to good, 8.50 to 9.75. Calves, weak; fancy selected vealers, 13.75 to 14; bulk of vealers, 125-140 12.50 to 13.50; good to choice lights, 100-120 10.50 to 12.25; tlirowouts, 5 to 9. Sheep, 200; steady; good to choice lambs, 11.50 to 12.25; fair to medium, 10.50 to 811; clipped lambs, 9.50 to 10; yearling wethers, 6 to ewes, cull to good, 3 to bucks, 4 to 5. SOUTH ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK South St.

Paul, Minn. (JP) Mkt. Service) Cattle, salable 3,800: slaughter steers and yearlings opening about steady and rather slow; run includes 18 loads Canadian cattle; two loads good 1,158 pound steers, 13; other small lots good medium weight steers, 11.75 to heifers, cows and bulls fully steady; bulk canner and cutter cows, 6.50 to most common and medium kind, S.50 to 9.25; medium and good sausage bulls, 8.75 to 9.75: strictly good beef bulls, 10; stockers and feeders scarce, about steady: few medium feeder steers. 10; dairy cows firm; good and choice weighty closeup kinds. 100 to 130.

Calves, vealers steady; bulk good and choice, 11.50 to 13.50; strictly choice koshers, 14 to 15. Hogs, salable 8.500; market somewhat slow; sharply higher asking prices retarding sale; opening bids 20 to 25c higher; on good to choice butchers 170 lbs. upward at 13.50 to 13.65: holding for more advance; good sows mostly 20c higher on bids of 13.35. Sheep, salable nothing done early. MINNEAPOLIS FLOUR AND BRAN Minneapolis iP Flour, carload lots, per barrel in 98 pound cotton sacks: Family patents, unchanged, 7.45-65: standard patents, unchanged, 6.05-25.

Shipments, 22,823. Pure bran, 35.60-36.00. Standard middlings, 35.00-50. CABINET MEETS TODAY Washington (A) Because tomorrow is Good Friday, the usual Friday cabinet meeting was advanced to this afternoon. White House officials said the president probably would have a minimum of engagements tomorrow and probably would cancel his usual Friday morning press conference.

River Readings STATIONS Hastings Prescott fC.TM Dam No. 3, T. W. Red Wing iAke City Reads Dam No. 4.

T.W. Dam No. 5. T.W. Dam No.

5a, T.W Winona (C.P.) Dam No. 6, Pool Dam No. 6, T.W. Dakota (C.P.) Dam No. 7, Pool Dam No.

7. T.W. LA CROSSE Dam No. 8, Pool Dam No. 8.

T.W. Lansing (C.P.) Dam No. 9, T.V Dam No. 10, T.W. Dubuque Davenport St.

Louis Tributary Stream River and Station: Chippewa, Holcombe 8 Chippewa at Durand 11 Zumbro at T'neilman 10 Buffalo above Alma Whitewater. Beaver Trempealeau. Dodge Black at Neillsville Black at Calesville 12 La Crosse, W. Salem Root at Houston Kirkapoo at Steuben Wisconsin. Muscoda Stage for yesterday.

RIVER FORECAST From Hastings to Genoa: Increased flow from the St. Croix river will produce slight rises from Hastings to Dam No. 3 the next 36 hours; elsewhere throughout the main channel the falling tendency will continue with daily falls averaging 0.3 foot. All tributary streams will show a slight recession the next 48 hours. 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 Body Of Woman Found In Parked Automobile Janesville, Wis.

(P) I feel myself slipping, read the last line of a note found in an automobile-parked in a schoolyard near Evansville today. The note was in the lap of Mrs. H. Brooks Gabriel, 38, of Evansville. She was dead.

Coroner E. J. Overton said a rubber hose was attached from the exhaust pipe into the car and that Mrs. Gabriel died of carbon monoxide poisoning. He termed it a suicide.

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High Commissioner Francis Sayre, and her 15 year old son Bill Graves, after their recent arrival in San Francisco from the Philippines. She is the first woman to arrive from the islands since the fall of Ijlanila. (NEA Telephoto) Lew Ayres, motion picture actor who declined to bear arms for his country, sits on his cot after reaching the conscientious objectors camp at Camp Wyeth, Ore. He was the 171st enrollee at the camp..