The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-13

 so far during June they have exceeded one every day. Few dividends have been stopped or reduced.
 The monthly record of enlarged in dustrial dividend payments since the current year begun is as follows:
 January, 75; February, 46; March. GA; April, 40; May 33.
 What form have these payments taken? Extra dividends headed the list with total Of S5; followed by increased dividends with a total of 51.
 Details: Extra dividends, S5; in creased dividends, 51; initial dividends, 3S; back dividends, 30; stock divid- ends, 2S; resumed dividends, 21.
 Special dividends. 5.
 During the current year three rail roads have begun paying dividends, six have increased their distributions six have. made extra payments. one de- clared q stock dividend and three have paid back dividends,
 The United States Department of Commerce keeps a record of interest and dividend payments made by a gen. eral group of manufacturing corpora tions. banks and utility companies each month. Payments to be made by this reached $306000,000, a gain of $11, 100000 over June of Inst year or an increase of almost f per cent.
 The detailed compilation for the last fnfl miscellaneous companies, follows:
 Extra dividends: Homestake Mining company. 1; Pierce, Butter and Pierce Manufacturing company, l per cent Sherwin- Williams company, F per cent; American Multigraph company, 10 cents; United Engineering and Foundry company, 1 per cent; United States Steel corporation, F per cent; Eastman Kodak cmopany, 75 cents; Timkin Roller Bearings company, 20 cents Vacuum Oil company, 25 cents |; Hawaiian Commercial, 75 cents; Tex as Gulf Sulphur company, 25 cents :; Midland Securities company. 40; {; Central Light and Pow CT company preferred, 10 cents; com mon, 10 cents.
 Dividends increased :Kresge Depart ment Stores, increase preferred from per cent to s per cent; Warren Brothers company, 75 cents to $1; American waterworks and Electric com pany. 6 per cent preferred 1 per cent to 112 per cent; Martin Parry corpor- ation, 75 cents to $1; Missouri Port land Cement company, from 112 per cent to IA per cent; Ohio Oil com pany, from 1 per cent to 7 per cent;
 
 to $20; Glen Alden Coal company, $2.5O to $3.5O; Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company, 75 cents to $1 ; Nobel Industries Limited, per cent to per cent; Illinois Pipe Line com pany, from 8 per cent to per cent :; Thomson Starrett company; from $4 to $6.
 Back dividends: Holly Sugar cor poration perferred, 1A per cent; Front enac. .Breweries, limited, preferred cash, 35 per cent American Brick company, preferred 6 per cent; Goodwin's limited, 40A pr cent; Mengal company prefer red S% per cent; Vulcan Detinning company preferred, 1 per cent; Ar kansas-Missouri Power company pre- ny, preferred 1 per cent International
 
 Dividends resumed Holt, Renfrew & Co.,, Limited, preferrel> 1 % per cent i; Loew's theatres, Limited, preferred l % per cent Continental Motors cor poration, 20 cents; Electrical Utilities corporation, 1 per cent; New Cornelia Copper company, p cents; Mexican Seaboard Oil company, 50 cents; Ma tional Brick company of Louisiana Prairie, Inc, per cent preferred, l per cent; Columbia Sugar company, l per cent; Minnesota Sugar company, 4 per cent.
 Doehler Die Casting company, 50 cents Realty Associated 2nd preferred, Grand 5, 10, 25-Cent Store, Inc, pre- company, 8 per cent; Commercial h. vestment Trust corporation, 63 cents Consolidated Gas and Electric, Limited, of Baltimore preferred IFS per cent i; Glidden company Prior preferred IFS per cent; Consolidation Coal company, per cent preferred S1 cents Decker & Cohn, Inc, 30 cents; National Pow CT and Light company, $1.50; General Gas and Electric corporation, preferred "B' $1.75; Radio corporation of Amer ica preferred "A" 312 per cent.
 American Light and Traction, 1 per cent; Hudson Motor Car company, 10 per cent; Wiatt & Bond, Inc, 1a per per cent National Leather company, 150 per cent Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company, 10 per cent; Pathe Exchange Ind, 10 per cent: Otis Elvator company, 10 pr cent; American Power and Light com pany, 2 per cent American Gas com pany, Philadelphia, 10 per cent United Cigar Stores, 19 per cent :: American Rolling Mill company, 90 per cent.
 Special dividends Parish and Bing- ham corporation. 30 cents; Plymouth Cordage company, $3; Industrial Saly- age company, 35 cents:
 Whereas in each of the first three months of the year only three railroads figured in these lists, April brought five favorable dividends by railroad ord for April and May follows:
 Railroads: Louisville Railway per ferred, back dividends 212 per cent i; Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Rail way, increased dividend from 212 to f per cent Atlanta and West Point rail road increased dividend from to : per cent; Western Railroad of Alabama increased dividend from 6 to per cent; Brooklyn, Manhattan Transit corporation, preferred, initial dividend, S1.50; Alabama Great Southern rail road preferred extra divided 1s per cent ditto common extra dividend 1h per cent; Federal Tile and Traction corapany, preferred extra 75 cents; At Tt oas1N,sine Railroad extra