PAGE TWELVE
THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
December 27, 194f
Makheti and tyincuuual
STOCK MARKET
GAINS
FAVORITES
: NEW YORK, Dec. 2? (IP) A
late brisk upswing In tobacco
and steel stocks today enabled
the stock market to shake off
many early minus signs and
finish with a majority of ad
vances ranging from fractions
to 2 points for an assortment of
favorites and 4 or so in iso
lated cases.
Heavy tax selling and fears
of war eventualities in the Far
East served to keep numerous
shares under blankets.
The last 'Saturday of the year
also proved the liveliest, trans
fers for the two hours approxi
mating 1,000,000 shares. This
' was the largest turnover for a
short session since last Novem
ber and compared with 892,100
shares in the final Saturday of
1940.
In the forefront of the for
ward push were the "B" shares
of American tobacco, Reynolds
and Liggett & Myers. Others
participating included U. ,S.
Steel, Bethlehem, Southern
Railway Du Pont, Philip Mor
ris Allied Chemical, Interna
tional Harvester, Douglas Air
craft and Boeing.
- Failing to make much pro
gress were U. S. Rubber, Good
year, Goodrich, General Motors,
Sears Roebuck, N. Y. Central
and General Electric.
Bonds were mixed and com
modities slightly higher.
Closing quotations:
Air Reduction .
351
11
Alaska Juneau
Al Chem & Dye
-139
Allls-Chalmers
American; Can
26!
58
31J
- 3i
- 101
- 39
119
Am Car & Fdy
Am Rad Sta San
Am Roll Mills
Am Smelt & Ref
Am Tel & Tel
Am Tob "B"
Am Water Works
Am Zinc L & S
- 49
- 21
3J
Anaconda
261
Armour 111
21
Atchison
27
Aviation Corp
Bald Loco
Bendix Avia .
Beth Steel ;
Boeing Airp
' Borden .
33
134
391
633
181
181
Borge-Warner .
201
Calif Packing
Callahan Z L ,
17i
Calumet Hec
Canada Dry
Canadian Pacific
5i
12
31
Cat Tractor
371
Celanese .;
19
Ches & Ohio .
Chrysler ....
Col Gas & El
321
- 431
- 11
- 71
Com'l Solvents
Comm'nw'lth & Sou ,
Consol Aircraft
..932
- 208
Consol Edison
12
Consol Oil
Gont'l Can
Corn Products
Crown Zellerbach .
Curtiss Wright
Doug Aircraft
Dupont De N .
Eastman Kodak
El Pow & Lt
General Electric
General Foods
General Motors
Goodrich :
Goodyear Tire
Gt Nor Ry pfd
Greyhound
Illinois Central
Insp Copper
Int Harvester
Int Nick Can
Int Pap & P pfd
Int Tel & Tel
Johns Manville
.. 51
- 231
- 508
10S
- 81
- 65i
-140
..134
251
36
30
141
101
191
10
51
101
451
251
66
11
50
Kennecott
351
Lib O Ford
Lockheed . ,,
Loew's
Long-Bell "A"
Montgomery Ward
Nash-Kelv
Nat'l Biscuit
Nat'l Dairy Prod .
Nat'l Dist
National Lead
N Y Central
No Am Aviation
North Amer Co
Northern Pacific
Ohio Oil
20
215
... 361
21
251
. 3
. 131
121
231
121
. 7
... Ill
... 91
. 4
... 81
Otis Steel
. 41
188
.- 11
. 141
... 141
... 761
. 171
... 291
... 448
. 501
. 12
... 221
28
. 91
,. 161
... 431
- 501
,. 15
.. 71
.. 171
.. 101
.. 281
- 32
19!
Pae Gas & El
Packard Motor
Pan Amer Airways .
Paramount Pic
Penney (J C) ,
Penna R R
Phelps Dodge ...
Phillips Pet
Proctor & Gamble
Pub Svc N J
Pullman
Radio
Rayonier
Republic Steel
Safeway Stores
Scars Roebuck
Shell Union
Socony Vacuum
Sou Cal Edison
Southern Pacific
Sperry Corp ..
Standard Brands
Stand Oil Calif ..,..
Stan6Oil Ind 281
Carload Potato Shipments
Day of
Month Season 1941-42 Season W40-41
Dec. to Season Dec. to Season
Dec. Daily Date to Date Daily Date to Date
1 21 21 2666 3 3 2979
2 9 30 2675 28 31 3007
3 23 53 2698 24 55 3031
4 31 84 2729 31 86 3062
ii 21 105 2750 32 Hi 3094
6 24 129 2774 28 146 3122
7 0 129 2774 41 187 3163
8 . 25 154 2799 4 193 3167
9 24 178 2823 40 233 3207
10 33 211 2856 35 268 3242
11 36 247 2892 23 291 3265
13 33 280 2925 36 325. 3301
13 22 302 2947 28 353 3329
14 1 303 2943 34 387 3363
15 47 350 2995 8 395 3371
16 27 377 3022 35 430 3406
17 34 411 3056 3! 462 3438
18 57 468 3113 35 497 3473
19 42 510 3155 48 545 3521
20 54 564 3218 38 583 3559
21 0 564 3218 52 635 3611
22 39 603 3257 7 642 3618
23 . 22 625 3279 46 688 3664
24 36 661 3315 29 717 3393
25 0 661 3315 0 717 3393
26 31 692 3346 18 735 3411
28
""Si '
31 I
Month Shipments by Truck
Grand Total
Stand Oil N J
Stone & Webster
Studebaker -
Sunshine Mining
Texas Corp
Trans-America '.
Union Carbide
411
41
38
3!
39
4
698
121
Union Oil Calif
Union Pacific
59
United Airlines 9!
United Aircraft 348
United Corporation .
United Drug 41
United Fruit 661
U S Rubber 158
U S Rubber pfd 65
U S Steel 521
Vanadium 171
Warner Pictures 5
Western Union 22!
Westinghouse 758
Woolworth 231
. POTATOES
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27
(AP-USDA) Potatoes, 9 cars
California, one Idaho, 13 Oregon
arrived; 35 unbroken, 13 broken
cars on track: market steady
very few sales; Oregon Klamath
district Russets No. 1, $2.25-50;
i-vuiuiuauon graae .?i.uu-z.uu.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 27 fAP-
vtUA) No potato auction re
ported today.
CHICAGO POTATOES
CHICAGO. Dec. 27 (AP.
USDA) Potatoes, arrivals 69:
on track 323; total US shipments
317; supplies moderate: demand
fair; market steady; Idaho Rus-
sei uurbanks US No. 1, $2.50-70
Nebraska Bliss Triumphs $2.45;
Minnesota and North Dakota
Bliss Triumphs. Sl.55-2.00: Cnh-
Dlers $1.45-55; Wisconsin Rurals
$1.30-40; new stock supplies
light; demand light; market
about steady; Florida Bliss Tri
umphs, $2.35-50 per bushel crate.
S. F. LIVESTOCK
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO.
Dec. 27 (IP) (Fed. State Mkt.
News) HOGS: For four days:
1100 compared Friday week ago:
general a cents higher, most
good 185-235 lb. barrows and
gilts $11.75-95, Friday closing
top $11.85; medium to good sows
$O.OU-.BU.
CATTLE: For four dav BOO.
Compared Friday week ago; gen
erally jo-za cents higher, few
choice yearlings SI 1.50. fow
dium grade steers $10.50-60, me
dium to good load-lots scarce,
quotable $10.75-11.25. One load
940 lb. heifers $9.75, graded
good. Good young cows salable
$8.35-75, around 10 loads me
dium aged range cows, mostly
$8.00-50. Medium sausage hulls
$8.00-75, few good weighty $9.00;
tuives; ior lour days 25 cents,
mostly 25-50 cents higher, good
to choice vealcrs to $13.50, dozen
calves $12.00.
SHEEP: For four nW 11 an
Compared Friday week ago: Of
ferings large shorn lambs, about
six decks good 77-80 lbs. Wash
ingtons $11.00, woolcd lambs
quoted $11.00-12.00, untested.
Medium to choice ewes quoted
$4.50-5.50,
Many states of the union have
slate flowers and stnto birds
chosen by a vote of the school
children.
(1940)
PORTLAND LIVESTOCK
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 27
(AP-USDA) HOGS: For week,
salable 2400; the shortened holi
day week found a smaller sup
ply of hogs on sale but the de
mand was also curtailed and
prices slipped back from the
relatively high close of the previ
ous week. Sales were general
ly about 25 cents lower with in
stances as much as 35 cents low
er at the start; part of the de
cline was attributable to de
clines at outside markets which
left local values relatively high;
packing sows shared the decline
and feeder pigs were a little
weaker; most of the good-choice
butchers weighing around 170
215 lb. cashed at $11.75 with
only a few at $11.85 and $11.90.
Medium weights sold around
$10.75-11.00 with a few to $11.25
while light lights made $10.50
11.00; packing sows bulked at
S8.50-9.00 with off grades and
heavies down to $8.00 and
smooth lightweights to $9.25 and
over; the best feeder pigs on sale
Drought $10.50-75.
CATTLE: For week, salable
2040, calves 120; a reduction in
cattle numbers and particularly
in me supply of fed steers and
wen finished she stock, sent
such offerings to new high price
ground for the year; the demand
lor sausage material, however,
was limited and dairy typo cows
as wen as all bulls moved on a
steady basis; vealers also sold
about steady; fed steers ad
vanced fully 25 and in cases 35
to 50 with medium-good beef
cows and heifers at a general
25 cent advance; the top on fed
steers advanced to $13.00 for a
sorted load of 1000 lb. kinds;
other fed offerings bulked at
$11.50-12.50 with common steers
ranging downward from $10.00
to $8.50 or under; one lot of rath
er plain stockers was noted at
$9.50 but finishing steers Were
scarce; odd head of fat heifers
sold up to $10.75 but most of the
heifers consisted of common-medium
grades at $7.50-10.00; can
ner and cutter cows brought
$4.25-5.50 with shelly cows down
to $3.50 or under; fat dairy cows
scored $6.25-50 or over with me
dium-good beef cows at $7.50
8.50; medium-good bulls cashed
at $8.25-9.00 with odd head at
$9.25; good-choice vealers were
taken at $12.00-13.00 with heavy
calves usually at $11.50 down.
&HEEF: For week, salable
1485; the demand for well fin
ished lambs was fairly broad and
prices worked a little higher
with the top of a new high for
recent weeks; sales reflected a
strong to 25 cents higher trend
with most sales 10-15 cents up:
fat ewes were 25-40 cents or
more higher; load lots of fed
lambs made $11.00-15 with, the
best truck-ins around $10.75, medium-good
truck-ins selling at
$10.00-50; common lambs went
down to $8.50 or under with in
ferior light kinds as low as
$4.50; shorn lambs brought $9.75
to $10.00 with fall shorn offer
ings up to $10.25; one lot of fed
ewes scored $5.90 for a new re
cent high while other offerings
sold mainly at $5.25-50 with
common ewes downward to $3.
Read the Classified page.
GERMAN RAD 0
RELATES NEWS
II T
BERLIN, Dec. 27 (From Offic
ial German Broadcasts Recorded
by U.P. Listening Posts in Now
York and London) Tho high
command said today that Russian
attacks along the Donets river
were repulsed and that in Libya,
"the evacuation of Benghazi was
curried out according to plan
and occupied by the enemy with
out fighting."
The daily communique said
that the Russians wore repulsed
at the bend in the Donets, "with
heavy losses and Italian Slovak
troops participated in the de
fense." Of the fighting around Mos
cow, the communique merely
said: "Heavy defensive fighting
continues. Numerous soviet tanks
were destroyed."
Radio Berlin said that yester
day on the central sector around
Moscow, the Russians attacked
strongly at several points and
that they penetrated the Ger-'
man lines at one point "but later
were cut off and annihilated."
The only other reference to
the Libyan front was a line in
the communique which claimed
German bombers attacked mili
tary operations on the north
coast of Cyrenaica."
The communique claimed an
other Russian attempt to break
out of Leningrad was halted and
tne enemy lost over 1OU0 dead.
and 19 tanks, including some of
the heaviest type, and six other
tanks were set afire.
The Transocean news agency
claimed that Russian attempts
to establish land communica
tions with Leningrad "have fail
ed .. . even ice-covered Lake
Ladoga, which offered some pos
sibility for reaching the other
side of the lake, is constantly
guarded by the German air force
. German reconnaissance
planes established the fact that
on the ice there arc huge masses
of debris of smashed motor
lorries and numerous dead."
The communique said that the
German air force attacked
enemy troop columns, barracks
atjd railroads on the central sec
tor of the front as well as around
Leningrad. It claimed hits were
scored on supply trains along
the Murmansk railroad and that
"on another point on the front
Italian fighters shot down four
soviet planes."
The official news agency DNB
claimed that German planes last
night sank a 3000-ton British
merchant ship east of Whitby
on the eastern coast of England
and. seriously damaged four
other merchantmen totalling 17,-
uuu tons.
CHICAGO. Dec. 27 (IP) Sov.
beans rose more than 3 cents a
bushel, corn 11 cents and wheat
and rye a cent or more today as
the grain market stepped out of
its recent lethargy with the
sharpest price changes in more
man a week.
Ihe advance In soybeans
toucned off buying of grains. It
was inspired principally by re
ports mat tne office of price ad
ministration is preparing to raise
ceilings on fats and oils which
have been in effect two weeks.
Wheat closed 1-11 cents hieh
er than yesterday, May $1,261-
. July 81.27H: corn 1-lc up,
May 841-lc. July 85Mc; oats 8
1c up; rye 1-lc higher; soybeans
21-zic nigner.
Pine Orders Take
Big Jump in Week
PORTLAND. Dec. 27 UP) Or.
ders for western pine lumber
totaled 82,966,000 board feet for
the week ending Dec. 20, up
from 69,286,000 feet the previ
ous week and 67,839,000 feet for
the corresponding week a year
ago.
The figures, reported tnriav hv
the Western Pine association,
gave shipments as 07,476,000
feet in the week ending Dec. 20,
68,379,000 the previous week
and 60,927,000 a year ago. In
me same order, production fig
ures were 59.327.nnn font ns .
054,000 eet and 57,888,000 feet.
CHRISTMAS TREE LOOTED
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 27 (IP)
David Colescott. 7. and hi
three-year-old brother awakened
their parents Thursday, tearfully
whimpering.
Santa didn't leave us any
thing."
Their father found a down
stairs lower window open, the
Christmas tree looted by a thief.
"SPY" MAKES CENSUS
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Dec. 27
(IP) San Diego's first spy scare
was quickly solved Friday with
announcement that three men,
using binoculars while padding
through trees and making notes
In Balboa park were only taking
the annual bird census.
NEWS OF THE THEATRES
-
U- ft.
WHOM DO YOU THINK she ought to marry? Brian Ahsrnt. th
daihlng bachalor on Claudotto Colbcrt'i lelt. who promlioi to
pnd th rest of hit 111 showing her tho moon, or, Ray Mlllnnd.
hr former husband, who bg for a second chanc to make up
for th romantic neglect h showed during tholr fire years of
marrlad life. The problem la loWod In th glddieil, wlttlott
comtdy of the season. Paramount'! "Skylark." which opens Now
Year's day at tht Ejqulre.
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msffA ur.'
They moot in a bomb-iholtor . , . and it's tho most poncoful
moment in their romance. Don Ameche and Joan Bonnolt in a
scone from "Confirm or Dony," tho now 20th Contury Fox hit
soon to play at tho Pelican thoatro. Don is cast as "Yank"
Mitchell, tin-hatted and tough war correspondent, whilo Joan is a
fighting English girl with a heart full of courage and lorel
'".. '. ',- :. ". w:w "
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The "First Actress of tho Screen" , . . Botte Davis ... In her
characterization of tho title role
tle Foxes! Tho film opens Sunday
Raid Warning
By Interceptor
SEATTLE, Dec. 27 (IP) Brig.-
Gen. Carlyle H. Wash, com
mander of the second interceptor
command, explaining the air
raid warning service and its pur
poses in the Pacific northwest,
pointed out today that the sys
tem is now operating on a full
war-time basis. Describing haw
it works, he said: '
"Tho air raid warning service
is a scientifically operated plan
for air defense which has saved
the life of England.
"It means that planes can wait
on ground alert Instead of in the
air. It means that one pursuit
plane, ready to take off, can do
the work it would require 16 to
do on air alert or air patrol. ,
On receipt of word that an
unidentified flight is approach
ing a given locale, our informa
tion center checks to see if they
are our own ships, or those of
the enemy, fcr civilian airplanes.
If in the process of elimination
there is no identification, the ap
proaching planes arc classified
as enemy ships.
Pursuit ships are dispatched
to Intercept them while they are
still a very long distance away.
The basic plan of Interception is
to intercept an enemy mission
before ho reaches his target. If
the contact is made, tho enemy
will not be seen over tho city
which is his target.
"Other things may happen af
ter this first warning. The iden
tification process, continuing,
may establish that it is not nn en
emy formation, just as a patrol
man, finding a stranger as he
1r .
BT 1 Tl
V.' 'V-ry"-'
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ftp .
of hor latest triumph, "Tho Lit
at the Pelican theatre.
Plan Aired
Commander
walks his beat, may find that ho
Is not a robber but a responsible
citizen on legitimate business.
Tho 'all clear' is sounded.
"... Everything approaching
our shores must bo challenged
and guarded against. If, after
the first warning has been sound
ed, it turns out to be one of our
own plnnes, that docs not make
It a 'fnke' tip or n 'phony' alarm.
Tho warning Is still real, urgent,
and in tho exorcise of the disci
pline that an aroused and alert
people should have, It means
that certnin prearranged, pre
scribed steps must bo taken.
They should be taken twithou
question and without discussion
because they affect tho common
good, tho defense of tho entire
community.
"If lt is an enemy formation
that has been located, it may bo
vary far from our shores. We
do not know In which direction
lt will turn. It may head north
or it mny head south, Ignoring
what seemed to be tho original
target. If we are mistaken, if
wo guess wrong, the wnrnlng
KISSES
Have you found tattle-Isle ttrej
on the glow of your honeymoonr
Are kistts on a park bench losing
their punch) Whst you need I e
romance refresher!
EEC .
id Kx,
Subs in Pacific Accomplish I
What Nazis Failed in 1918
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27 (AP)
The milling Japanese sub
marines In the Pacific are nut to
arcnmpllnh what German U
hunts fulled to off tho const of
I ho Aliunde In 1018.
In liulh rnmpalgii the two
main objectives are tho siiiuu
diversion of naval units from
combat duty with the fleet for
strictly defensive patrol opera
tions In homo waters, and the
disruption of American shipping.
Although the Japanese are not
considered by naval men to he
in the same class with the grim
ly efficient U-boat veterans nf
World war I, and nltlmtiKh their
submarines must operate, over
vastly greater distances, they
were conceded two advantages
the Germans larked.
Renewal
Japan Is believed to have a
much larger fleet of long range
submarines, with about 40 cup
nblo of operating off tho Pncltlr
coast, and hor raiders are not
menaced close to their home
bases by the deadly type of anti
submarine warfare which the al
lied navies were able to waiio In
the North sea during 101711)111.
The current renewal of sub
marine warfare In American
wnlers Is expected to follow the
general pattern of the last con
flict, nnd tho World war experi
ence nf the Atlantic coast gives
the Pacific coast some Idea of
what to expect.
It may have been one of these
long range subs whlrh, the army
disclosed Thursday, had been
blasted Into "debris"! off Cali
fornia by an army bomber.
Also, Secretary of tho Navy
Knox announced Sunday that at
least 14 enemy submarines hud
been "probably sunk or ilnmng
ed" In tho Atlantic and. several
"effectively dealt with" In the
Pacific.
Sounds Imposing
During one slx-mnnth period
In 1018, tho Germans sent six
hugo cruiser typo U-bnnts Into
American waters. They planted
mines at the entrance to New
York harbor, cut communica
tions rabies to Europe and South
America, attacked coastal ship
ping with gunfire and lorpedoea
and, according to naval records,
sank 170,000 tons of merchant
or war craft.
Imposing as this record
sounds, tho U-boats did not
achieve their objective. The
World war secretary of the navy,
Josephus Daniels, set down tho
verdict in a book somo years
later.
"In their chief mission of pre,
venting transportation to Europe
the U-boats failed utterly," he
wrote. "Tho flow of troops and
munitions to France and Eng
land was not for a moment In
terrupted. In fact, It was precisely In this
period that It was increased nnd
wo transported to Europe over
300,000 soldiers a month."
But whllo the bridge of ships
held up and there was nn weak
ening of the naval fleet overseas,
the navy set up an elaborate
system for protecting shipping
In coastal waters, relying chiefly
on smaller patrol boats, mine
sweepers and sub-chnsers. Mer
chant vessels wcro ordered to
will quickly be followed by an
'all-clear.'
"The second air force presents
this explanation In the hope that
it will enable the people to un
derstand why there may he
warnings. Berlin had threo the
first day of the war. London
had 12.
"They are warnings that
something may happen. They
arc not promises. Every citizen
has a patriotic duty, for himself
and his country, to carry out
orders, that are the result of
these warnings, no matter how
many there are, no matter If he
never sees an enemy plane. For
after all, seeing no enemy planes
Is the best break ho can get."
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Grading Sketches
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Iruvcl at night when expedient
and always to run close to shore.
Across Sea .
These provisions, however,
were by no means any guaran
leo of safely, as subsequent
event proved. Tho navy assum
ed control of shipping on June
3, 1(1111. Early tho following
mmvlh tho U-lAtl pulled off one!
of tho inont speetuculur raids of
the submarine campaign.
Tim U -1 .1(1 had travulad across
tho North Sea and around the
Shetland islands disguised as a
freighter. On July 7 sha had
sunk Iwu small Norwegian ships.
Four days later, to the amaze
ment nf natives and a host of
alarmed summer visitors, sha
suddenly appeared oft Massa
chusetts al Capo Cod.
Tho tug I'erly Amuoy, towing
four barges, was making hor way
along the coast and tho sub
marine promptly opened flrsj
with her deck guns. From near
by C'huthnm air station planes
went nlnft with depth bombs to
destroy Ihe raider.
Hundreds of persons wulelied
Ihe buttle, many In fear Unit tho
sub's guns soon would bo turned
on the coast. She poured shells
Into the tug and hnruos until tho
little vessel went up in flames
and the barges sunk. Tho all
plane attack proved futile for
the depth bombs failed to ex
plodo. The U-156 went her way un
harmed and for several days
worked havoc with tho New
Kngliiml fishing Industry but
when finally she turned home
ward It wu to meet her doom.
She struck a mine attempting to
run the North Sea mine barragn
mid sunk within a short time,
the only one of the six U-bnals
that operated on the American
side of the Atlantic which failed
to return humo safely.
Some yearn after the war the)
navy department's historical sec
tion printed n long record of
German submarine activities on
tho American side of the Atlan
tic. This showed that submarines
captured and sank by explosives
or Mink In battle by gunfire, HI),.
40.1 tons nf shipping, Another
MB. til tons were sunk by sub
marine torpedoes and 52,280
tons were either damaged or de
stroyed by mines a total of
200.835 tons. Of these 40.320
tons were salvaged, resulting In
a net loss of 160,500 Inns.
S. F. Narcotic
Agents Arrest
Dope Sellers
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27
(UP) Narcotic agents In a se
ries of raids Friday arrested
nini! men and a womuii In the
Sun Francisco bay area, Islcton
and Stockton on charges of
growing, possessing and selling
marihuana, Joseph Manning,
chief of Ihe local fedrral nar
cotics bureau, announced.
Agents confiscated a larga
cache of marihuana and de
stroyed marihuana plants found
growing In the Sacramento-San
Joaquin river delta area.
Names of three persons ar
rested wore withheld. The
others wero Identified as Ra
monn Rodriguez, Eduardo Avlla,
Joseph Gonzales, Ignaclo do Es
teban Rodriguez, Fnustlno Her
nandez, Ysrael Luna, Rlcardo
Gonzales and Herherto Agulrre.
Manning .said contact with
the gang was established when
an agent purchased a number
of marihuana cigarettes from a
woman said to be ringleader of
the band. Sho and Avlla, whom
police said was her common-law
husband, wero arrested In Oak
land, Exclusive of tires, one make
of automobile on tho market
uses 48 pounds of rubber In Its
construction.