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Show THREATS FAIL TO STOP OPERATIONS OF GINS WASHINGTON-, Oct. fi. The government's gov-ernment's cotton ginning report today to-day showed a total of f.,712.0riT bales ginned prior to October 18, and Indi-' Indi-' cated that the sporadic attempts In ! the cotton belt to keep the gins closed . until the price of cotton advanced to ! higher levels had had little effect I The glnhlngs this year aggregate 7,95 I : bale? nioi.e than the quantity ginned I to October is last year when the i crop was 794.UOO bales baleH smelter i than the forecast for this year. On the government's forecast of i crop of 12.1J3.000 bales this year, the ginninns to i . tob.-r IS appeared to be about 47 1 iter cent of the total. Thi-is Thi-is a higher percentage than was ginned I last year to October 18 43.5 per cent but lower than the average '. v.9 for I the last 18 years. oo |