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Evening star., 1927-04-12
MINING STOCKS.
Wall Street Briefs

NEW YORK. April IL LP).-Wan
Street hears that the lease terms of
the proposed plan for consolidation of
the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific probably will not be in shape
for publication prior to April Is. the
date fixed for the deposit of shares
by stockholders asserting to the plan.
1t is also said it may be some time
later before the plan can be presented
to the /. G. c.
First-quarter sales of Victor Talking
Machine Co. are estimated at $10.-
$4,000. against s9.559.003 for the first
quarter last year.
Otis Steel hung up new high rec
ords in March for production and ship
ments Of finished steel products. Pro-
duction exceeded $4,000 tons, gain
of IS per cent over February. and
shipments more than $1,000 tons, a
gain of about liz per cent.
February operating income of the
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
declined to S3,117.320 from $3.553. 799
in February last year and for the first
two months this year to $500 900
from S7,225,411. February gross of
1886 22G was about $4,000 larger
than a year ago.
Hope Engineering G. Supply Co. has
completed 200-mile pipe line system,
with distribution lines in nine towns
served by the Northern Texas Utilities
Co. with natural gas. The line starts
in Wheeler County and serves various
towns on the way to Wichita Falls,
Tex
Goodyear Tire & Rubber had it's
biggest month in March, with total
production OF more than 1900 900 cas-.
ings and 1900 900 tubes at prices sub
stantially below those OF 1926.
February operating income Of the
Western Union Telegraph Co. declined
to 1923, ,7S9 from SS59,546 in February,
1926, and for the first two months this
year. to $1,697.s64 from S1,941,573 a
year ago. February gross also was
smaller. $9,8S7,161, against S10.o72 ,037.
The report OF New York Gamers,
Inc. for the l3 months ended Jnnu.,
ary 81 shows loss of $604 797 before
charges, but after adjustment of In
ventories to prevailing values. I'm
portant developments in policy and
management are planned to meet con.
ditions in the industry. Additional
financing OF So 100000 five.year con-
vertible notes is being considered to
provide permanent working capital.
At the annual meeting in Rochester.
May ,, change in the conpany's
name to Snider Packing Corporation
will be proposed. q
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO. April II CP).-U. .S.D.A)
--Hogs-Receipts 81 900 head; slow,
Is to 25c lower on better grade hogs
compared with yesterdays best prices;
packing sows around 10c lower; gen.
eral market steady with yesterdays
close big packers Inactive bidding
10 10 15c lower than yesterdays late
trade; top. 11.50; bulk desirable light
hogs, 11.10a11.40; most 210 to 240 ID.
butchers. 10.S5a1125; bulk ESQ to 300
pound butchers, 10.50a10.75; packing
sows, 940a9.75 mostly; heavyweight
pigs, 10.75a11.25; heavyweight hogs,
10.35a10.S5 medium, 10.45a11.30 light,
10.85a11.50; light light. 1075a11. 40;
packing sows, 9.15a9.90; slaughter
pigs, 10.50a11,35.
Cattle-Receipts, II 900 head: dull,
weak trade on practically all classes:
killing quality fed steers plain; heavy
kinds very scarce; best heavies held
at 1875; bulk, 975a11.75; stockers and
feeders slow. steady; mostly S.00a9 90;
bulk medium bulls, 7.00a725: toppy
Holsteins around 735; little done on
vealers; bidding around soc lower.
Sheep-Receipts, 10000 head: no early
sales to packers or city butchers;
bids weak to csc lower; holding fat
lambs for steady prices; sheep steady.
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MAY WHEAT DROPS;
OTHER MONTHS GAIN
Prospective Damage From Rust in
Kansas Has Bearish Effect
on Prices Today.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April 12.--Prospective
damage from rust in parts of Kansas
tended early today to lift prices Of
new.crop deliveries of wheat. May
wheat, however. was inclined to sag.
Opening unchanged to Il higher,
wheat soon scored gains for July and
September, whereas May underwent
some decline. Corn, oats and provi-
sions were easier, corn starting at Il
off to Il up and subsequently show
ing a slight general setback.
According to reports current here
today. the Kansas State Board Of Agri.
culture says rust damage to wheat
in that State is likely. Complaints are
made that persistent rains have rem
dered wheat growth rank over vari-
Gus sections and that more rain may
bring about positive injury.
On the other hand. approaching
Easter holidays were talked of as lead.
ing to lull in export wheat circles.
British importers were also said to be
looking for a food of grain as result
of opening of navigation on the Ameri-
can Great Lakes. Under such circum.
stances the May delivery here, repre-
senting wheat already on hand, parted
company at times today to a notice
able extent from later months, which
stand for wheat yet to be harvested
this season.
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THE BUSINESS OF GETTING
AHEAD.
FicISIeness Among Office Workers.

Ficlkleness Among Office Workers.
Office workers become increasingly
valuable as they absorb the detailed
policies Of their employer. 1t is there
fore obviously desirable to pick EN-.
ployes who will stick. The turnover
Is frequently rapid as ambitious young
men and women feel that they are not
climbing up the ladder of business sue.
cess with sufficient celerity. The aver
age Office worker is more given to un-
rest at one age than another Some
of the leading corporations have re-
Gently made Investigations to deter
mine at what age office employees are
likely to be most stable.
The results thus far indicate that
different age standards must be ap-
piled to men and women. These data
constitute interesting sidelights on the
human aspects of privates and top
sergeants of industry.
Generalizing on the basis of the eX.
perience of the life department of the
Aetna Life Insurance Co., Hartford,
Conn, during the years 1920, 1921,
1922 and 1923, when 635 persons were
employed, DR. Marion A. Bills, an ex-
ecutive of the company. says in the
Journal of Personnel Research:
19 to 25 Critical Ages.
"a casual survey of the people who
left seemed to indicate that 19 and 25
were critical ages.
There is a decided difference be.
tween the sexes. If man under 19
years of age is hired. his chances of
remaining are only II per cent. If
hired between 10 and 25, the chances
of remaining are 81 per cent, and II
hired over %, they are 81 per cent.
With the women the highest percent
age of permanency Is found among
those who are under 19 and over 25.
Several persons who have had con.
siderable experience both with hiring
and with the supervision of these en-
ployes offered the following explana-
tions of the difference in the perma-
nency of men at different stages:
THE boy just coming from school
views job as much more interesting,
attractive and leading more quickly
to promotion than is actually the case.
If he joins the company just as he
comes from school at 16 or II years
of age, 1t often happens that the job
does net come up to his expectations.
and, feeling that the trouble Is with
the Job, he leaves it to take another
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LIVERMORE CREDITED
WITH $4,OOO,OOO COUP
Freeport Texas Co. Shares Re-
ported Vehicle for Profitable
Pool Operation.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April IA sensa.
tional stock-market coup Of 81 900 600
was attributed to Jesse l.. Livermore
by the New York Times today
Reports in Wall street from persons
known to be in Mr.. Llvermore CON
fldence. said the Times. were that the
coup was made In a cleveriy maneu-
vered pool operation in stock OF the
Freeport Texas Co. The stock yester-
day touched 74Ss. u below it's high
for all time, reached Saturday. It's
low mark was in 1925 and it was
1919 in 1925. After yesterdays high
mark 1t had a break. closing at 72.
Mr.. Livermore Is reported 10 have
directed the pool operation. The Times
points out that If the pool has not
been dissolved. Livermore's tabled pro-
fits are still largely on paper and
there is yet the possibility OF their
being reduced.
Freeport Texas Co. has come to be
known as the most interesting spec.
ulative issue on the New York Stock
Exchange. 1t has been a market spec.
tacle for some weeks. Dividend pay
ments on 1t on an annual basis ot 81
were resumed last February. This
was recently increased to 81 through
the declaration of a quarterly divi-
dend of 81, payable May 2. The COM
pany owns sulphur and oil properties
and public utilities.
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one which momentarily looks better
to him. He may do the same with
the second and even the third job. but
in the early 20s the gloss will have
worn off his ideal Of a job and he
will come to realize that the only way
for him to get ahead will be TO take
a job and stick to it through number
of rather tedious years. The company
which employs him in this frame of
mind will be likely to find a perma-
nent employe."
Help to Adjust Youngsters.
I quote the foregoing. not so much
for the guidance of employers as in
the hope that 1t will help youngsters
out of school to adjust themselves to
the business world. 1t might also give
parents wider background in advis-
ing their children during the critical
years when they first undertake TO
earn a living
DR.. Bills continued: Another expla-
nation may hold good only for Hart
ford. The young man comes TO lis
from high school and after a year or
two discovers that some Of his high
school companions are working in the
factories and making considerably
more money than he is He leaves
and goes into factory work After a
year or two he discovers that the
chances of advancement are very lin
tied and he turns back to clerical work
again. Again, the company which
engages him on the rebound is likely
to get a permanent employe.
"One constantly hears ambitious
men doing clerical work express the
opinion that they could not possibly
be contented with their present jobs
unless they had tried out one or two
other Jobs with other firms or for
themselves. In contrast to conditions
20 years ago. the man who now works
for only one company a great part of
his life usually develops-uniess his
promotion is very rapid - a feeling
that he could have done better else
where. This leads to a feeling of un-
rest. and, if the man is not too old
or has not too great responsibilities,
to his leaving the company"
The observer finds the experience
with woman employees more puzzling
particularly because only IL per cent
Of the Withdrawals were caused by
marriages.
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COTTON IS STEADY
IN TRADING TODAY
Early Advance Meets a Little
Southern Selling, and
Market Is Quiet.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, April 12.-The cotton
market opened steady at an advance
Of to 5 points on covering combined
with scattered commission house and
trade buying, promoted by reports of
unsettled weather in the South and
a private report pointing to a reduc-
ton of 1872 per cent in the prospective
acreage. The rather steadier late rul-
ing of Liverpool also was factor, but
the advance to 1923 for July and
14.79 for December met little South.
ern selling, or realizing, and the mar
ket was comparatively quiet at the
end of the first hour.
The private acreage figures pub
lished this morning placed the prob.
able decrease in the Texas acreage at
u per cent and in Oklahoma at Is per
cent.
Private cables reported hedging and
Bombay selling in Liverpool had been
absorbed by trade selling.
New Orleans Market.
NEW ORLEANS, April ~ P.-
Realizing pulled cotton prices down
to ~ points in the early trading to-
day after they had opened or
points up. May traded 1920, July
1896 and October 1850, or points
above yesterdays close. A private
estimate of acreage reduction of 1872.
per cent was issued.
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WOOL MARKET STEADY.

BOSTON. April ~ (SpeclaD. The
wool market continued steady today
apart from a slightly lower basis of
sales in fleece woods. The Govern
ment report on receipts of domestic
wool at Boston In the first quarter
shows 21,25S.00 pounds, against 21..
499, 1000 a year ago. March receipts
were S,600,000 pounds, against II 800
600 in March, 1925. Fine territory
was quoted today at 1.0Sa1.12. clean
basis French combinE at Local .O5.
half blood at 9sa1.o2, three.eigbths
blood at SSa92 and quarter blood at
7SaS2. Fine Ohio delaine fleece wool
was quoted at 45a45h, grease basis;
half blood at 44a45, three.eighths
blood at 4Sa44 and quarter blood at
43a44.
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Seek to Stop Cock Fights.

How to clear the Philippines Of the
increasing number OF cock fights is a
problem puzzling those who wish to
stop the sport that is now f1ourishing
in many parts of the islands. One
plan recently advanced is to introduce
counter sports to draw the interest of
the young from the cockpits. Those
who have investigated say that cock
flghting is the only form OF amuse.
ment in the rural communities, and
that those who follow it do not do so
for the sake of gambling so much as
for the association with other men,
and thus the cockpit is really the com
munity club.
Evening star., 1927-04-12
RALST0N PURINA co. BUYS
ARMOUR co. SUBSIDIARY

CHICAGO, April 10 Op.--The Raj.
ston Purina Co, Of st. Louis yester-
day announced the purchase of the
Mapl-Flakes Mills. Inc, an Armour
Grain Co. subsidiary. The deal. de.
tails Of which were not dlvulged. was
reported to have involved properties
appraised at upward of $4,000 900.
The Ralston Co. announced II will
take immediate charge OF the Mapl-
Flakes business, including manufac.
turing, sales and advertising.
At present the Ralston Purina Co.
has mills in st. Louis. Buffalo, Kan.
sas City, Minneapolis. Fort Worth,
Nashville, East st. Louis and Wood
stock, Canada.
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EARNINGS SHOW GAIN.

NEW YORK. April 70 Op).-Sinclair
Consolidated Oil Corporation learned
$500 a share on the common stock in
1926. against $1.01 a share in 1925.
Net earnings were s42 $685. an In
crease Of $13,994.S62. Surplus income
available for common stock was Sl6,.
1920. a gain of s11 .691 ,e71. Gross
revenue, exclusive of intercompany
sales and transportation charges, was
32,193,4s5 greater than the $l59,544,.
PIG for 1925.
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WESTERN PACIFIC.

SAN FRANCISCO, April IL OP).-
The report Of the Western Pacific
Railroad Company. filed with the
State railroad commission, shows
profit of $2,420.263 for 1926. Total
revenue from operations amounted to
S16,057 ,065. with operating railway
expenses $11 ,275,139 Deductions from
gross income aggregated S2,460, ,4S5
The profit showed an increase of
Sl9,196 over 1925.
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At 1O3. He Trims" His Man.

William Y. Taylor, claiming at 103
to be the Oldest man in west Australia,
has just died. A few months ago he
attracted attention by appearing in
court on a charge of violently assault
ing a man. Taylor, who declared that
the man deserved what he got, was
discharged.
Evening star., 1927-04-12
sKELLY OIL DIVIDEND.

TULSA, Okla, April 10 Op).--Di-
rectors of the Skelly Oil Co. yesterday
declared their regular quarterly divi-
dend Of SO cents per share. The divi-
dend is payable June 1 to stockholders
Of record at the close of business May
16. No other business was transacted
by the directors.
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BUTTER UNCHANGED.

CHICAGO, April IL OP.-Butter
unchanged; receipts, 1921 tubs Eggs
unchanged; receipts, 1920 cases.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Once

Following is a list of bonds and
stocks traded in on the New York
Curb Market today.
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SPEAKER ASSA|LS
PRIVATE UTILITIES
Offers Figures Showing Low
City-0Wned Rates.

The people of Indiana should have
an appeal from the decisions of the
public service commission through
refendum vote and municipalities
shhould be allowed to own and
operate their own public utilities, de-
clared Jap Jones of Martinsville,
former State representative, before
the Indianapolis Federation of Com
munity Civic Clubs meeting at the
Chamber Of Commerce Friday night.
Municipal owned utilities have
proved to be positive method of
relief from privately-owned utilities,
who are Systematically robbing the
people," Jones said.
He pointed out that Martinsville is
paying $1.75 for a thousand cubic
fee tot gas, the company being owned
privately, compared to the 30-cent
rate at Maysville, Ky, a municipal
ly owned utility.
Among Indiana cities owning their
own light and power utilities, Lo.
gansport with Scent rate, built a
$250,000 city hall from the profits;
Blufton's 5000 consumers built a
$l25,000 community house from
profits derived from a 7-cent rate.
Anderson used profits from their s.
cent rate to reduce its own taxes;
and Richmond built 100000 addi-
ton to its light plant from profits
from a Scent rate, Jones said.
Privately owned light and power
utilities are charging from 10 to Is
cents all over the Satte," Jones con-
tinued.
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READ THE STORY. THEN COLOR THE P1cTUREl

The Tinymites dropped from the
tree, an dScouty said, "Well, good
ness me, we surely sent that alliga-
tor scooting out of sight. We had
a right close call, I'd say. l never,
never want to play with things like
that because l know tbs likely they
will bite"
The Clowny spoke right up and
said, "No alligator do 1 dread.
only ran to give you all a scare. -"
The other TIMES laughed out loud
to think how very, very proud wee
Clowny was. They knew he had
a sense of humor rare.
Just then they heard a nearby
sound like something tramping on
the ground. "Oh, gee" walled
Clowny suddenly. Hes coming
back, l fear" well, what of that?"
some one replied. Then Copy very
loudly cried, Say, if he does I'll
bet my life that you will not be
here"
The sound, however, that they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-12
WALL STREET INTERESTED
c. & o. Center of Nickel Plate
Merger Is Belief.

~ HfCU PTCSS
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-Wall
Street today viewed the application
of the Chesapeake G. Ohio railroad to
the Interstate Commerce Commission
for authority to acquire control of
the Erie and Pere Marquette Rail-
roads as indicating that the Chesa-
peale G. Ohio would be the nucleus
of the proposed Nickel Plate system.
1t has been inferred that the
system in it's final evolution will be
of interlocking ownership. Each
component road will possess shares
of one or all of the others of the
system. In this way opposition of
almost any nature by any of the
units Of the system would be auto
matically overcome, financiers be.
lieved.
Objection was made by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission last
March that the proposed Nickel
Plate merger would not take care
of the minority stockholders rights.
The new plan is developed to over
come this objection.
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heard, was furnished by a funny
bird. 1t trotted up in front of them
and settled in the sand. They
looked it DER from tail to head
"Why, it's an ostrich" Scouty said
ITS acting very proud because its
feathers are so grand"
All, here was Clowny's chance
again. He jumped up from the
ground and then he shouted, II will
show you now that ! am not afraid
Although it's something I've ne'er
ride" He smoothed the ostrich
feathers down until a seat was made
In climbing on he was discreet
The ostrich jumped up to its feet.
guess it sort of wondered just what
Clowny had in mind. And then, in
just a moment more, off down the
beach it quickly tore. Wee Clowny
hung on tightly while the others
trailed behind.
Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Incl
The TIMES get surprise from an
ostrich egg in the next story.
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Deaths

Mary Carver. 81. 430 Massachusetts,, 10.
bar pneumonia.
Michael Carroll, so. city hospital. dia.
betes
Nellie Carmichael. 80, Central Indiana
Hospital status epilepticus.
Richard Eugene. Sullivan, "a days, 1910
RoGf iSSei " leof BoWer 60 Methodist Hos
pital lobar pneumonia.
Mary .wilcher, II, 245 Detroit, lobar
pneumonia.
Infant, Robbins. Long Hospital, prema.
ture birth.
Ernest Layton Joiner, 81 1927 Sunset
urenha.
Harold Jones. /. e15 DarnelI, wnooping
cough.
Albert Wood. IS, city hospital, uremia.
Anna Matilda Guedel. So st. Vlncent's
Hospital, chronic myocarditis
John Wesley Roger, 49, Methodist Hos
pital chronic gangrene.
Rachel Hermann, 46, Christian Hospital
arterioscerosis.
Hattie Bel, Porter, SO. 1888 Cornell. To-
bar pneumonia.
Rosa Anna Williams, SO, Ill Kansas
cardio vascular disease.
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TONE OF MARKET
HIGHLY IMPROVED
AS WEEK CLOSES
General Motors Heads In
duStriaIS' Upward
! Shove.
BY Elmer G. Waller

Manager United Press Financial Service
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-The week
in the financial community ended
with, stocks showing a distinctly
better tone and with the old leader
back in the harness. General Motors
guided industrial issues into higher
ground through the session, buying
in this premier industrial being
based, not on the SO dividend declara-
ton which had been discounted, but
on the report of January sales
which were considerably higher than
expected. All financial markets
closed Saturday, Lincoln's birthday.
High grade rails also came to the
front, replacing the recent rise in
the low-priced issues of this class.
Wheeling & Lake Erie came out on
the tape a few times during tho
session, showing a depreciation of
"a points for the day, while the
Vfeferred lost 81, New Haven, New
York Central, Atchison and other.
high grade dividend paying carrier
shares advanced. Chesapeake &
Ohio experienced particularly good
buying demand which sent it up 32s
points.
HarVesters
Harvester stocks also moved high
Ell, International Harvester scoring
a gain of 5A points and Case
Thrashing Machine "a points. An
other group was heard from-the
whisky stocks-with National Dis
tillers making a sensational rise of
Ak points for the common and 6b
for the preferred. A measure is said
to be in the making in a congress
sional committee for the manufac-
ture of spirits for medicinal pur-
poses.
This would benefit National Dis
tlllels, since the company is said to
own large stocks of grain alcohol
and whisky. Coty. Collins and Ak
man, Independent Steel shares,
Loose-Wiles and several other spe-
cial issues were sharply higher
Curb Active
Losses were by no means absent,
but gains far outnumbered them.
New York Gamers first preferred
fell off Is points and Electric Re-
frigeration 21s. Trading for the day
was on an active scale, total trans
actions running over two million
shares.
The curb market also experienced
an active session, with oils and in
dustrials rising sharply, while utili-
ties were under moderate pressure
Rpnds continued to decline on the
bck Exchange in quiet trading.
This weeks new bond offering to-
tailed $200,7O1 900, compared with
1897 100000 last week. a record for
a single week. The total since the
first of the year in new financing
now runs over million dollars.
Cotton prices were about steady at
the close, while wheat held firm. For
eign exchange was steady, the
usual fireworks furnished by pesetas
and Norwegian kroner being absent.
Dutch guilders were strong.
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COURT. SUMMONS DILLON
Ordered to Appear in Case Involving
Goodyear Control.
Bu United Press

AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 12.-Clarence
Dillon, head of Dillon, Read & Co..
New York, and one of the holders of
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
management stock, was ordered by
Judge Scott D. Kenfield to appear in
Summit County courts here to de-
fend the action of minority stock
holders to remove him from control
of the Goodyear company or accept
a default judgment.