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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12

The Robins and Cards continued their
mad dash toward the National League top
Thursday, by defeating the Cubs and
Dazzy Vance pitched one of the most bril-
liant games of his career in the Robins
victory. The DaZzler struck out thir-
teen. gave but FIVE hits and whitfield Hack
Wilson twice. Wilson's homer was the
Cubs only tally.
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Lyons Grabs Twenty-First
Win of Year for White Sox

the st. Louis Browns, to 4. The
Browns did most of their damage in
the sixth inning when they scored
four runs.
Charley Ruffing proved no puzzle
to Cleveland, and the Indians scored
four runs in the first inning to de-
feat the Yankees, 9 to 5. Two walks,
three singles and tumble by Ruth
accounted for the first inning TALES.
McEvoy also was easy for Cleveland.
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College Grid News

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Ind. Sept. IA
battle for the quarter back position on
Coach Pete Vaughans 1880 Wabash team
doomed today with Mathews and Ions
berry. veterans. hard pressed by Hama
cher. a sophomore recruit from Hammond.
The Scarlet gridderS went through a
lenthy offensive drill Thursday and an
other long scrimmage was on the card Tor
today.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington at Chicago.
Boston at st. Louis.
New York at Detroit
only games scheduled
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GREENCASTLE. Ind, Sept 12.-Coach
dates through a long workout here Thurs
day. with fundamentals the main item on
the program. The Tiger mentor stressed
offense.
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(only games scheduledl

AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York --...... 02o Dol 10i- II
Cleveland ....-... 4iO i21 COX Ia
Ruling, McEvoy and DickeY. Jorgens;
Brown and Myatt.
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LEAGUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh .-... 020 0Ol tlo-5 4
Boston .-........... 010 Dol 600 ii
Brame and Bool: Sherdel. Cunningham
and Spohrer.
Chicago .......-.-.. 600 600 100 5 q
BROOKLYN ..-. 200 900 COX
Bush. Ieachout and Hartnett: Vance and
~; 1 GUS. ......... goo 600 lIo-5 8
WV = DIX .-.....s--- UOO 40 100 10
. Hallahan Lindsey and Wilson: Walker.
Pruett. Chaplin and O'Farrell.
Cincinnati 02O noo o9n ia
Philadelphia. O05 500 lis IL
and Davis.
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NATIONAL LEAGrE

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh at Boston
Cincinnati at Brooklyn.
st. Louis at New York.
Chicago at Philadelphia
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CTwelve Inningsl

tTWelve 1nnlngsl
Chicago -. loo go 600 ooi- 4 2
Ltsenbee, Smith and Connolly. Heving.
Lyons and Grouse.
Washington --..-..- 021 oo1 600 10 I
st Louis .... 100 0O4 n0Y- II
Brown. Burke. Liska. Child and Spencer:
Stewart and Terrell
philadelphia and Detroit not scheduledl
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Yesterdays Results

lDIERICAN ASSOCIATION
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Apartments for Rent

SEE OR PHONE US FIRST
Furnished and unfinished apartments
in ten locations. SATISFIED TENANTS
Is our slogan.
r. II. WOODSMALL & CO.
Fidelity Trust Bldg. Ii. 1891
COLORED-Upper duplex, rms, gas,
bath: on car line; ress. II. 1898.
5-ROOM APT. Heat water, garage, rea-
sonable. nice location. 2342 Central Ave
Gail RI 1894. He. 27s3.
High Grade Apartment
Six rooms. all in first-class condition:
G. z. refrigeration: good Arrangement and
extra light: $40 per month. 22nd ana
Broadway.
DUNLOP g. HOLTEGEL.
i22 E. MARKET. II. 65l7.
COLORED-4 rooms and bath, modern,
close to town. rent reasonable. Ii. 1857.
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Miscellaneous for Sale

BABY BED-White, large size, good cond,
very reasonable. Oh. 694l.
PRINTING PRESS-7x11, Pearl; bargain.
Indiana Printers Supply.
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Rent Housekeeping Rooms

COY mod. rm.; or employed; WI
care for child. Oh. 6514-J.
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Houses and Flats Furnished

CAPIIOIl. N, l304-JOmpICteIY furn. apI.i
3 rooms. bath; upper or lower; $l1.
1885 COLLEGE
Beautifully furnished rooms and
sleeping porch apt; china and table
linen included. $50.
1871 E. ohio. Ii. 6el2
DE QUINCY. 427-3 rms. list floor. priv
apt $40 vkiy. IT. 3l90-W. ewes.
KOEHNF. 27l0-is double rooms mod
ern except tub; attractive Ha. l244-M
SANDERS. 8O3-NICELY FURN.. 4-ROOM
APT. -REAS. DIR. 6707.
VIRGINIA AVE, i5O-3 rms. everything
furnished: reasonable: steam heat.
WALNUT. f., 1I5-5 rms. bath: reduced
rent See HSkDr in basement
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MERIDIAN. N. 2i62 -First-class, good 10
cation; excellent meals: congenial: reas.
PARK 2O63-NiCt large FROM rom:
privileges Of home 81. He. 1852
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Lots for Sale

EAST MAPLE BOULEVARD and Temple;
valuable front lot $4,000; 2 large shade
once. Oh. 1861 or 1915 n. Kealing.
lockwood, GILBERT AVE.-One-half
square west Of Madison: 75x300 #. S475.
Ind 1405 Gilbert. Phone S. P. 233-W-2.
CORNER 18th and e. Riverside Drive. imp.
paid 50x135; opposite city golf links. F.
l.. Berry 227 w. 42nd. Wa. 4459.
LOTS-Choice lot on North Denny St.. 900
block. Reas. II sold quick. Oh. 1446.
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AMBASSADOR
APARTMENT HOTEL,

APAR / MEN / HI Eli
Beautifully furnished apartments, efii-
cheney and bedroom type; Frigioaire
bath with tub and shower Good parking
space Walking distance. Phone Ri. 1871
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Household Goods
Singer Sewing Machines

Due to the increasing demand for
New Singer Electrics, we have an un-
usually large number of trade-in ma
chimes on hand. These machines have
been reconditioned and carry the usual
Singer guarantee A large number from
which to choose. including both round
bobbin and long-shuttle machines.
Many of these have full sets OF attach
ments and with any machine sold we
give free instructions. Priced from
SO up. with terms as low as Toe day.
SINGER Co. 405 Mass. Ave.
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Business Opportunities

MAIL ORDER BUSINESS
Unlimited possibilities; $400 down. bal
ance from business. See MIR. CRAIG, be-
tween 81 p. m, 704 Inland Bank Bog.
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Trucks

FORD. 1923 PICKUP-s325 Easy terms.
c. o. WARNOCK, sio z. Washington o..
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lovely WOODRUFF-Ex large rm..
bitch.. $3.50; rm.. small kit, S5.75. Oh
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$500 cash. balance convenient terms;
immediate possession.
house g. farm; part bottom: priced 50 200.
80 acres Jennings county land, almost
level, cd. location, fair imp: price $1,000.
80 acres Morgan county: good house.
CHI. 1861. 141O E. Vermont.
100 ACRES SHELBY COUNTY-All till
able; one of the best general stock. and
poultry farms in central Indiana; elabo-
rate equipment: priced to sell owner,
Walter Brown, 203 K. of P Bldg. Ii. So68.
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Suburban for Sale

1 1-3 Acre Tracts
$500 Down-$2.00 per Week
Improved with gravel streets and cleo
tricity. less than 20 minuSes from Mon
ument. These are large. level tracts, fine
ton building up fast. See these today.
Call MR.. KAUTSKY. Ri. 1886. r.. 4562.
w. r HUNTER CO. REALTORS.
STRICTLY modern 5-room home. 3 lots.
sacrifice our equity; clear lot accepted;
good schools; bus line. Dr. 4663.
LYNDHURST DRIVE Squares south of
Morris St: 5-room bungalow garage. Price
So 500. Payments or trade. Ri. 562l-
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Real Estate for Exchange
Farms for Sale

EQUITY 5-rm. mod bungalow E. Wash
for suburban home. acreage. Ir. 1882.
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East

SHERMAN DRIVE. s.. 742-Thoroughly
modern. 5-room house, all improvements
paid. no Barrett; basement, garage, Hol-
land furnace. built-in features. fun front
porch rear porch; close to school and
church. This is q Bargain price, s.. $50;
terms c B. MADDEN. $50 {. Ohio st.
Ri. 72l7 or Oh. oSas.
HOYT AVE. ss4I-Five-room bungalow
Take English Ave. car to Grant st. Nicely
decorated: front and rear porches; gas.
electric lights. cement walks. front-drive
garage. No Barrett VIII sell at a bar
gain price. S2.450. on payments. NJ. T.
HUNTER. 1929 English Ave.
BRIGHTWooD-s2. 500: small down pay
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Poultry and Supplies
Live Stock
Miscellaneous Wanted

WORK HORSESHOE good mule and
harness. Rear 1914 S. Meridian.
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Radio and Equipment

WE sell and service all makes radios
Easy terms. Aerials. 81. Fournace
ATWATER-KENT desk model console:
electric; complete $3.50 terms or cash.
Kempler Radio Co. Pembroke Arcade.
AERIALS-s5 up. Radio repairing. 81 per
call. Lightning Radio Service. On. 72l0.
EXPERT SERVICE AND REPAIRING
sos n. Illinois. Ii. sl7i
MAJESTIC radios $40 down. Dolls Serv-
ice Station. 1910 Madison Ave. DR.. 1888.
CROSLEY RADIO cabinet with built-in
speaker: new; So. Aliens. 5ll Mass Ave.
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small down pay
gas. inside toilet,
gar. Oh. 725o-W.
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Business Property for Sale
Building and Contracting

STORE SITE-and garage; suitable for
speculation; all occupied at a bargain
Owner HUI 8201.
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BRIGHTWOOD-S2. 500 /:
ment: 6 rooms. lights
large lot, chicken park
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ALA. N, 1872 front rms. hot, cold
water in kitchen; strictly modern.
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Houses for Sale
$50 DOWN
10 CLOSE AN ESTATE
1886 NAOMI STREET.

1886 NAOMI STREET.
Three large rooms. pantry. inside
plum bling. nice yard paved street.
RI. 2509. N. J. FOX. HU. 1853
TO CLOSE AN ESTATE
Three good houses: mod; l semi
mod; splendid location: 1900 block Cot
tage ave. SEE EXECUTRIX, H. Roth.
1880 Cottage. Dr.. OILS.
EAST OF MERIDIAN-16Oo block south
3 rooms; gas, cleo. basement. paved
BROS. % S. Illinois.
COTTAGES rms: lots; we'll. fruit. ga
rage. Sell or rent 81 300; terms or 500
per month. 1910 Calvin st. Ri. 6783.
West
COLORED. LOOKl
Only s3.100: $3.50 cash; 7 rooms. thor
oughly modern home: 2-car garage; fine
location: near w. Michigan street car:
street paved: nice lot; very good for
roomers. Ii. 2479 Ia. 0409.
BUNGALOW
5-room modern bungalow, near good
school; excellent marlborough Price
So 600; reasonable terms. MCTARSNEY
81 BROWN BE 1909.
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1906 WoodlaWn

1906 Woodlawn
Five rooms bath. garage. Apt. No. q:
MARION REAL ESTATE.
II 61i2. Isl E. OHIO. ia 6o0l.
nth. W. 42-Nicely decorated kitchenette
apt. heat. light. gas. water and ice fur:
$500 ADplv Apt. J. The Grant
Apartment Rental Bureau
We have apartments for rent anywhere
n the city north Of Washington St; let
US help you ind one. positively no extra
commission and no obligations: we
usually furnish car and driver 70 show
apartments without extra charge Call
RI. 1871. dav and night service
MAPLEwOOD COURT-strickiy mod. s.
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Rooms for Rent
HOTEL EDWARDS
Centrally Decentralization

Special low weekly rate % men only.
HARBOUR HOTEL
ef7i7 y. illinois, pleasant warm rooms
modern cGuTeuicuces. 5000 place 10
= u ..r.---.. rna.nrLa 10
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DENTSON HOTEL
Room for Rent With Board

Paw all your bills with one CHECK
1ished 81 and up. Pennsylvania Il Ohio
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Three large rooms, pantry. insi
plumbing. nice yard paved street.
RI 25OQ N j FOX. HU. LIE
New Britain herald., 1930-09-10
LUTHERAN CHURCH
 CONFERENCE HERE
Eastern Synod to Meet At St.
 Johns in October
t. Johns German Lutheran

St. Johns German Lutheran church will have it's biggest event Of the year on October 29, 30 and 31 when the annual German Synod conference for New York state, New Jersey and New England will be held in the church.
 The German Lutheran churches of the district combined two years ago into one group. called the East ern Synod, and the first annual con- ference was held last year in An- sterdam, N. Y. At that time the conference voted to hold it's 1880 meeting In St. Johns church.
 The program for the three days conference has not been arranged. The opening session will be held on Wednesday, October 29 and it is probable that Mayor George A.. Quigley will make an address Of welcome. The synod business will be transacted on the following day, and trips about the city will be the program for the clergymen and delegates and their wives on that day and on Friday, October 31, the closing day of the conference. Announcement was made today that the Boys Band from the or phan asylum of Mt. Vernon, N. Y, will be heard in concert in St. Johns church on the evening of Wednesday, September A.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-10
Philadelphia Police Puzzled By
 Mysterious Murder of Mrs. Rader

while fighting a fire in downtown department store.
 Boston-Former Bostonian con fesses to robbery here 33 years ago
 Wakefield, Mass.-Fred Roberts ,, fatally burned while playing with matches.
 Lawrence, Ma Mass.-Joseph J. Bo- denrader, sexton of the Grace Epis- copal church, fatally burned while cleaning the church furnace.
 Brockton, Mass.-Mrs. Eliza Bill inston, 71, shoe factory worker beaten and robbed of $40.
 Brockton, Mass.-Mrs. Lena K Wales. Randolph. and son, Law renee. 6, gored by COW at Brockton fair.
 Durham. N. H-Professor Har- old B. Stanton, North Carolina col lege for women, appointed profes- sor of romance languages at Univer sity of New Hampshire.
 Stamford. Conn.-Joseph Sarge New Rochelle, N. Y. critically burn- cd in still explosion.
 Hartford, Conn.-Clarence C. Wy song, insurance commissioner for h. diana, elected president of National Association of Insurance Commis- sioners.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-10
BOOKS OF TICKETS
 FOR PUBLIC LINKS
Park Board Votes to Sell 10
 Round Coupons for S2.5O

The suggestion made by Ralph H. Benson, secretary of the Cham Der of Commerce and relayed to the park board by President Pardon C.. Hickey that books of tickets be issued for the municipal golf course was adopted at the regular meeting of the board of park commission CTS last night. The board voted to prepare books of 10 tickets each to be sold for s2.5o.
 Prices for single rounds still will be 35 cents.
 In the absence of Chairman Don aid l.. Bartlett, who was unable to be present because of illness in his family, Judge William F. Mangan presided as chairman.
 It was decided to prepare an honor list of the names of all who contributed toward the course. This list will probably be displayed in the club house.
 It was voted not to open the per manent greens for public use until later, the commissioners feeling that the greens are not yet in con- dition.
 Superintendent Clude Ellingwood was instructed to cut out the brush near No. tee, where many balls are being lost. r.
 Discuss Football Schedule
 Attorney Albert Politis of the Rams and Alex Parda of the Paw nees were present to discuss the use of the memorial field at Willow Brook park for football games. It was decided to charge $50 for pro- fessional games and s25 for semi professional. The two managers will confer on a schedule arrange ment
 It also was voted to recommend to the common council that right of way in Walnut Hill park be quit claimed to J. A. Toomey, owner of the property over which a pass way extends
New Britain herald., 1930-09-10
Hart Will Act to End Menace to Autos On Monroe and North Sts.
 By Installing New Traffic Signs

dress to the New England Confer ence of the State Federation of Women's clubs here yesterday said that unless dealers show more in terest in marketing goods with the New England quality label furnish ed by the New England council to producers, roadside stands will ap- propriate much of their business. A poll taken during the morning showed that most of the women sympathized with the farmer n charging the same prices as were asked in stores for eggs and vege- tables.
 Redfield Proctor, former governor of Vermont, also spoke.
 At the afternoon session Miss Mary Anderson, director of the Women's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, spoke on industrial conditions.
 Long hours, poor pay, unhealth- full working conditions. the absence of humane employment policies arc all too frequently characteristic of the industrial situation of today" Miss Anderson said.
 Making a plea for more beautiful roadsides to cut down the speed of motorists. James H. Taylor, Massa- chusetts highway landscape supervi- sor, urged removal Of telegraph poles.
New Britain herald., 1930-09-10
SOLID RUBBER MAY
 BE NEW DISCOVERY
Crystals Spur Imagination Of Di-
 rector Of Standards Bureau

Washington, Sept. 10 P}-Rubbor crystals. rubber from crude petro- leum, leather from pulp mill waste and sugar from cottonseed hulls.
 These were four of the scientific achievements recouHted by Dr. George K. Burgess, director of the bureau of standards, to the delegates attending the 1nter-American Con- ference on Agriculture, Forestry and Animal industry, now i'll session here.
 The crystalline rubber. he said, was produced under the direction of Dr. E. w. Washburn, head of the bureaus chemical laboratory, and opens up enormous possibilities for science and industry. He declined. however, to predict just what the eventual product might be.
 Up to the present. he explained, rubber has been an amorphoua sub stance, on the borderlne between solid and liquid, with rather speci- fic industrial uses. Rubber crystals, if fully developed, would mean solid rubber" he said, adding that it may be something having pro l. perties all it's own, and nobody can say what this would mean"
 Rubber From Oil
 The rubber reputed to have been made from petroleum, Dr. Burgess continued. came from a California oil plant, but thus far government scientists are not prepared to pass judgment upon it. The substance was produced by the extraction of certain hydrocarbons from the crude oil
 Turning to leather. the scientist said investigations had shown that
New Britain herald., 1930-09-10

Philadelphia, Sept. 10 P-Police were without a tangible clue today as they sought the slayer of Mrs. Ruth Radler, 27 year old trained nurse, found dying at the edge of a suburban highway in the Abing- ton section. She was a widow and formerly lived in Chicago.
 Elmer Murphy, a truck driver. found the woman yesterday and notified Abingdon police. She died in a hospital few hours later without regaining consciousness. A pistol bullet, fired at close range, physicians said, caused death.
 Sister Identifies Body
 The body was identified last night by Mrs. Olga Martin, of this city. who said it was that of her sister Mrs Martin said Mrs. Radler had shared her apartment here. Asked if she knew anyone who would want to kill her sister, Mrs. Martin said: Ask those millionaires." She did not amplify her statement.
 Abingdon police said they be- lieved Mrs. Radler had been shot in an automobile, carried consid- erable distance and placed along the roadside with the expectation that she would be found by pass ersby. Her coat had been folded and placed under her head. All marks of identification had been cut from her clothing and her rings removed.
 No Sign of Struggle
 There were no signs of a strug- gle where she was found, but in vestigators said her legs and thighs were bruised, her lips cut and her nose injured. One black satin pump was missing and her hat was pick ed up two miles from the spot where she was found.
 Mrs Raiders maiden name was Ruth Daney. She attended high school in Chicago and later studied nursing at Northeastern hospital. She spent the summer in Atlantic city and returned to Philadelphia only recently
New Britain herald., 1930-09-10

sulphite cellulose extracts, obtained be blended with ordinary vegeta ble tanning materials and used to pro- duce heavy feathers with satisfac- tory physical and chemical proper ties.
 The commercial significance of he explained. lis indicated by an es- tmated saving in tanning costs of from ten to twenty per cent. Its use will conserve material now largely wasted and help solve streams pol lution problems caused by the rivers
 Recent work in the bureau Of standards. he went on. has opened new possibilities for cotton growers by obtaining from cottonseed hull bran the sugar xylose which. with other sugars. constitutes about forty per cent of materials.
 "Tlthough this sugar has been sold for Sl00 pound.' he added. laboratory and semi commercial work by the bureau has shown it can be made on a practical scale for less than twenty-five cents a pound. Work is under way to con- vert the yylose into sugar and acids like citric, tartaric, tactic and acetic acids, alcohol. acetone, furfurol and other products by chemical and fer mentation methods.
 Its possible use in human and animal foods is being investigated in cooperation with medical and an- imal cXperimenters."
New Britain herald., 1930-09-10
Demand for Hardware
 Reported Increasing

New York, Sept. 10-Responding to indications of a somewhat bright CT outlook than has prevailed for some time, the demand for hard ware throughout the country has shown a slight improvement during the past week, Hardware Age will say tomorrow in its weekly market summary. An increased demand is customary at this time of the year and it is too early to determine whether the present movement is entirely seasonal, or whether it marks a definite and extended up turn in business.
 Apparently influenced by the economies effected for consumers. canning and preserving equipment is especially active. Painting sup plies are also enjoying a brisk move ment. Prospects are considered good for a healthy trade in most fall and winter lines. Dealers are placing their orders for toys and other holi- day lines and early interest is fair ly keen
 While conditions could be much brighter and the outlook moro promising. the general situation has shown a slight betterment. The feeling persists among the trade that gradual and consistent i'm movement may be expected during the balance of the year.
 Some quotations have been re- vised to lower basis recently. but few important changes have become effective. In the main, prices are fairly steady.
 Collections are slow in some sec tions. but the average is character ized as sa.isfa ctory. Few business failures have occurred of late in the hardware field and the credit situa- tion, as whole, has caused little complaint.