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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
PUBLIC SERVICE CORP.
DECLARES DIVIDENDS

Central Public Service Corporation Of
Chicago, which controls the Washing
ton Gas Light Co., has declared quar-
terly stock dividend Of IA per cent
In class A stock on class A stock, pay
able December Is to stock of record
November IS. Regular quarterly divi-
dendS Of SITS on the 81 preferred,
$3.50 on the $6 preferred and 81 on
the 81 preferred were also declared, all
payable January l to stock of record
December IL. Similar dividend on the
class A stock was paid In the previous
quarter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
CHANGES IN RAILROAD
Is OFFICIALS ANNOUNCED
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, November IT.
with the resignation of Harry M. Adams
as president of the Western Pacific
Railroad. three lines in which Arthur
Curtiss James, capitalist, is heavily in
terested, will come under new manage
ment after the first of the year.
Adams, whose resignation was an
nounced here yesterday, will be sue
ceeded by Charles Elsey, now executive
vice president Of Western Pacific. Elsey
q specialist in the financial end of rail-
Incorporating, will tackle the whole job
of Etnning the road, abolishing his posi-
tioFFof executive vice president.
Previous announcements of changes
on the James Lines were that Ralph
Budd, now president of the Great
Northern, would 60 to the presidency
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
and that William p. Kenney would sue
coed Budd as president Of the Great
Northern.
Adams resigned to ''take a rest"
headquarters of the Western Pacific
announced. He has sought to leave
the road since 1926, but was prevailed
upon to stay until the Great Northern
Western Pacific link at Bieber, Calf,
was completed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
BY CHARLES r. SPEARE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, November Tiff the
experience of the st. Louis Southwest
ern Railway popularity known as the
Cotton Belt" is a fair example of the
delays that attend railroad consolida-
ton, it will be another IS years before
general progress in the unification of
American steam carriers Is effected.
The Cotton Belt" which runs south
out of st. Louis and covers q portion of
Eastern Texas, has been wooed by sew
eral Suitors in the transportation field
in recent years. It might be said that
1t has gone through the phase of COM
panionate marriage" with the Kansas
City Southern, which divorced It,. Later
it found a congenial mate in O New
York corporation that was supposedly
interested in real estate but eventually
turned up as the holder of 5000
shares Of its preferred stock, for which
it paid a fancy price and afterward
the penalty that comes from buying
Real "Suitor" Appears.
In July 1880, the Cotton Belt" had
a real sutton and one whose attentions
were based on the benefits that might
accrue from legal union. The South
ern Pacific Co. had been looking at this
road, which perfectly supplements its
own lines In Texas, Tor many years.
While he was alive, Julius KruttSchnitt,
the operating head of the Southern Pa
cific, made several surveys of the Cot
ton Belt" and, long before L. F. Loree
thought he ought to have this former
Gould road the Southern Pacific had
quietly discussed its purchase with in
terested parties.
The basis for the offer made last
year by the Southern Pacific to holders
of the common and preferred shares
of the Cotton Belt" was looked upon
at the time as a liberal one AS market
prices have gone 1t proved to be an &C
cident Of fortune for the IS per cent of
the ST. Louis line who accepted 1t. It
was not such good piece of business,
however, for the Southern Pacific, but
it had made its offer and is standing by
it. The opposition consists of a small
group of minority stockholders who
have been buzzing around in the
affairs of the Cotton Belt" for some
years and have objected to practically
every proposal that has been made for
sale or merger. This was to the ad-
vantage of the majority stockholders in
the road up to the time when the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
OIL OUTPUT HOLDS
STEADY FOR WEEK
Increases in Some Fields Offset by
Declines Elsewhere-Daily Aver
age Slightly Higher.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, November 17-Slight
increases in some fields were balanced
by small decreases in others to render
the daily average oil production of the
United States virtually stable the last
two weeks, the Oil and Gas journal es-
Inmates show.
Total production for the week ended
November IA was 2,462,l30 barrels
daily, as compared with 2,456,S64 bar
rels the preceding week, or an increase
last week of 5,266 barrels daily.
Oklahoma production was up 9,075
barrels daily to an average of 543, 285
daily. East Texas production was down
BIB barrels at AL ,265 daily.
Kansas produced 102, ITO barrels, as
compared with previous figure of
106,130. The total for the entire Mid
continent area was down 1885 barrels
at l, sgt ,952 barrels daily.
Eastern production was 40, 900 bar
rels, as compared with previous read
ing Of 1920
The Rocky Mountain pools produced
daily average of 90 1858 barrels, o 233-
barrel increase California production
was up 10,650 barrels at 5o6,150 barrels
daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
New B. G. O. Director.
special Dispatch to The Star

BALTIMORE, November II (Spe-
ciaD Howard Bruce, chairman of the
board of Baltimore Trust Co., has been
elected to the board of directors of the
Baltimore q Ohio Railroad, 1t was an
nounced yesterday by Daniel Willard
president.
Bruce was elected at stockholders
meeting to fill the vacancy OF the late
Delos w. Cooke. Other members OF the
board were reelected, including:
Newton d. Baker, Bernard M. Baruch
John ]. Cornwell, Robert Garrett, John
R, Mormon, Frederick H. RawSon, Henry
Buhlender, George M. Shriver, John F
Stevens Paul M. Warburg and Joseph
E. Widener.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17

son to assume that the leading pro-
ducers will agree to restrict output to
5000 tons per month. This curtail-
ment will afford temporary relief, but
genuine improvement in the industry
depends upon the increase In the con-
sumption Of the metal, which to q very
appreciAble extent Is dependent upon
the international situation.
Retail sales OF Chevrolet cars for Oc-
tober were considerably greater than
total production during the month, ac-
| cording to H. j. Klinger, vice president
| and general sales manager Of the COM
pany, which Is q division Of General
Motors. Mr.. Klinger also points out
that as result Of the increase in sales
dealers stocks are down to very sat-
isfactory level.
probably viii be completely suspended
until metal prices show q decided i'm
provement, according to Donald A. Cal
lahan, president. He adds that the
only work done at the company's mine
since June consists of diamond drilling
to explore the parallel vein in the
galena property. The company's opera
tions continue to show a loss, even
though somewhat smaller than in the
corresponding period last year.
R-K-O Plan Held Essential
II the reorganization plans drawn up
in connection with the Radio-Keith-
Orpheum Corporation could not be car
| ried out, the company probably would
be placed in receivership. according to
B. B. Kahane, vice president in charge
OF legal affairs. Opposition to the plan
seems to be based upon the feeling that
it involves an involuntary assessment
Of IS a share on the class "a" stock,
with the alternative Of losing rs per
cent OF the equity If the new bonds are
not subscribed.
Despite the partial recovery in the
price of coffee futures, 1t appears that
the only solution resides in the stop
ping Of overproduction. Brazil'S pro-
ducing capacity exceeds by far world
requirements, and is likely to continue
to DO so, perhaps on an increasing scale,
since all the activities of the leading
coffee interests in Sac Paulo tend to
create the belief among coffee growers
that they have nothing to risk In grow
ing as much coffee as they can, because
somehow or other some one will take
care Of them.
Norwegian Banker Hits Debts.
Lasting improvement in international
! trade cannot be expected until inter-
national debts have been reduced sufi-
GENTLY to be IN reasonable proportion
to the prevailing price level, according
to z. Sandberg, president Of the Den
Norske Bankforening Norwegian Bank
ers' Association.
Mr.. Sandberg ascribes existing inter-
national complications to the interna-
tional debt burden. Commenting upon
the situation in Norway, he empha-
sized the necessity of a considerable
reduction in public expenditure, adding
that the country is fully prepared to
hold Its own In the present interna-
tional economic struggle.
Exclusive OF the refund received by
the North German Lloyd from the
United States, income for the year.
based on the business done for the first
nine months 70 expected to more than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
BANKING STUDENTS
CHANGING BYLAWS
Chapter to Vote on 80
Amendments at Special
Meeting Thursday Night.

A meeting Of Washington Chapter,
American Institute Of Banking, has been
called for Thursday, November 10, at
900 pm, In the chapter rooms at 1913
r street northwest, for the purpose of
presenting to the members, In detail,
certain proposed amendments to the
articles OF association and bylaws
which have already been approved by
the board OF governors and the national
ONCE.
The board Of governors, feeling that
the growth Of the chapter and the re-
sulting expansion Of its activities called
for certain changes In its governing
rules, appointed special committee to
study the subject and report its recon-
mendations to the board The commit
tee was composed of: Aubrey o. Dooley,
Federal-American National Bank &
Trust Co.; James A. Soper. Lincoln Ma
tional Bank; I. j. Roberts. Riggs Ma
tional Bank; Richard A. Norris, Lin
coin National Bank: A. z. Hence, w. B.
Hibbs d Co.; Frank M Perley, Ameri-
can Security & Trust Co.; T. Hunton
Leith, Security Savings g. Commercial
Bank, and Robert H. Lacey, Columbia
National Bank, chairman. The COM
mittee held several meetings during the
Summer, and in addition to reviewing
the present articles of association and
bylaws of Washington Chapter, also
studied the constitutions and bylaws of
several other chapters in cities of COM
parable size.
Thirty Changes Proposed.
Altogether there are more than 80
changes proposed of varying degrees of
Importance. Some of the major changes
are:
The treasurer will be bonded in an
49, ~
be determined by the board o: gov
ernors.
The chief consul will appoint his con-
suls, with the approval Of the board of
governors. The old article provided
that each bank would elect a consul to
represent it on the board
Article VI, covering Government"
has been changed to include on the
board Of governors any member or
members Of this chapter serving as an
elective officer or ON the executive coun-
ing.
Eligibility to Office.
Article VII, section 8, which covers
eligibility 20 Office, has been changed to
permit the first vice president or sec
ond vice president to be elected to a
higher office even though he is subse-
quentiy promoted to a grade higher
than that Of cashier or treasurer in his
own institution.
Article III of the bylaws, covering
the appointment of the Advisory Com
mittee, has been changed SO that the
president Of the chapter does not auto
matically become chairman, as hereto
fore provided.
Two new sections have been added
to the bylaws, which provide for the
annual appointment of a Finance Com
mittee and Membership Committee.
After these proposed amendments
have been presented at the meeting
Thursday. scond meeting will be held
on Friday, November 81, at which time
they win be voted on for final ratifica-
ton and adoption.
The last changes in the articles Of
association and bylaws of Washington
Chapter were made in 1927 under the
direction of committee headed by T.
Hunton Leith of the Security Savings
g. Commercial Bank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
Everybody's
Business
Rail Coop Building Group
Head Says Hoover Hous-
ing Plan Seems to Prom.
Use Relief From Indus.
trys ImPasse.
BY DIR. MAX WINKLRR.

special Dispatch 70 me Star.
NEW YORK, November 17.-PreSi-
dent Hoover's housing plan seems to
promise early and permanent relief
from the stagnatton In the hometown
ing and homes building fields now exist
ing. according to George A. Martin,
president of the Railroad Cooperative
Building and Loan Association Of New
York.
The President, continues Mr.. Martin,
has offered a plan in broad outline, but
with certain fundamental requirements
dictated by sound considerations and
practical experience in banking and
junior financing.
Mr. Martin concludes his observa-
tons by stating that much Of the sue
cess of the plan will depend on details
Of structure and operation as worked
out by Congress in framing the neces-
sary legislation.
Byoir Would Aid Confidence.
Prompted by the belief that fear
alone prevents the restoration of normal
spending habits so essential to re-
vival of business, Carl Byoir, publisher
OF tie Havana Post and Havana Eve
ming Telegram and wartime associate
chairman OF the governments commit
tee on public information, submits a
plan to bolster the nations psychology.
Fear can be killed, according to Mr..
Byoir, and the business situation and
employment conditions definitely i'm
proved by a national cooperative effort
OF business men who will recognize the
fact that the United States possesses
all the necessary elements for its own
prosperity.
The plan provides for the organiza-
ton OF IL divisions to create public
confidence. Mr.. Byoir's idea of ending
| the present crisis is by creating among
the American public the win to buy.
| adding that the natural consequence
OF this will, created among those who
are hiding, boarding and saving money,
Will take care Of those unemployed who
! now have no wages.
Copper Curb Planned.
A favorable announcement regarding
the copper curtailment plan is expected
to be made in the very near future.
Relative flrmness of copper shares Is
! generally regarded Is foreshadowing
such developments.
Although details of the plan are not
known ct the moment. 1t is within rea-
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cover expenditures. The refund was
employed toward reducing short term
debt incurred In connection with the
purchase Of additional shares Of the
Hansa and Hamburg South American
steamship companies.
The company has q 8 per cent dollar
bond issue outstanding In the New York
market, which is quoted on the New
York Stock Exchange ut 80, to yield
currently well over 16 per cent. In
view Of the reported improvement In
the companys AFFAIRS, current quota
pressed.
(Copyright 1891, By the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
New York Cotton

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, November 17.-Opening
cotton prices were l point lower to 2
points higher today. Trading was in
moderately active volume, and in all
positions trade buying and hedge COW
ering served to Offset liquidation by
commission houses.
Opening prices were: December. 500,
on /; January, $40, unchanged; March,
$50, up /; May, SIT, up Q; July, SOS,
up 2, and October, 7.20, up l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
POTATO MARKET.

CHICAGO, November IT up Omitted
States Department of Agriculture) =
Potatoes, 46; on track, 222; total United
States shipments, SIG; steady, trading
rather slow; sacked per hundredweight:
Wisconsin round whites, 70a05; Min
nesota, North Dakota Cobblers, 75a80;
Red River Ohios, 85a95; Idaho RussetS,
No. ], 1.35a1.50; Commercials. lilo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET.

CHICAGO, November II R.-But-
ter; 14,155, firm; creamery-specials (93
score), 3134a32A; extras (92 score)
31A; extra f1rsts, (90-91 score), 29a30
f1rsts $3.50 score), 27a28; seconds (86-
81 score). 24a26; standards go score
centralized carlots), 29A. Eggs, 5,293,
firm; prices unchanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
PARIS BOURsE PRICES.

PARIS. November II (P).-Three per
cent rentes, 81 francs 80 centimes.
Five per cent loan, 101 francs so CEN
times.
Exchange on London, SO francs 811a
centimes. The dollar was quoted at
rs francs 54A centimes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
Net Revenue Gains.

NEW YORK, November II (P).-In-
ternational Paper & Power Co. reported
for. the third quarter net revenue of
$40, 720, 400, compared with SO, 724119 in
the corresponding quarter of 1880.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
RIGHTS-EXPIRE
Ire Direct to The Star once.

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DtssnG cellars Oe;sa
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
BONDS.
20

= (Copyrisht 1881, Standard Statistics Cos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17

Hornblower & Weeks-We do not ex-
pect the current decline to carry much
further without experiencing at least
technical rebound Of fairly substantial
proportions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-24
FIVE INJURED
IN SERIES OF
AUTO CRASHES
Boy in Stolen Car Drives
Off After East Side
Collision.

Walking with a companion, Ger
aid Cox, Il, of 2140 North Talbot
street. Tuesday afternoon was
struck by an auto driven by Dan
Brown. 50, of 1868 South Illinois
street, on the Bluff road.
Leon Shelton, Is, of 500 Church
street, accompanying the Cox boy.
was knocked down, but not hurt.
Cox was treated at the city hospital
for bruises and cuts and taken
home.
Three men were injured Tuesday
night when two cars collided near
the resident of one of the drivers.
J. G. Kirby, 20, Meyers road and
May drive. Kirby's car collided
witch another driven by M. E. Franz.
335 Limestone avenue. Franz was
arrested for failure to give a signal
and Kirby for passing a car at an
intersection.
Kirby suffered arm and leg cuts
and Claude Campbell, "a, of SO
Lyons street, and erode Lilies, 90,
Of $50 North Belmont avenue, riding
with Kirby, were bruised.
Virgil Page, SO, of 9OS South Della
ware street. suffered minor injuries
Tuesday night when struck by an
auto driven by Curtis Which, IS, of
Martinsville. Page was treated at
city hospital.
Police today sought the thieves
who stole an auto and then fed in
it after it was involved in an &C
cident Tuesday night at Emerson
avenue and New York street. The
stolen car struck an auto driven by
Mrs. Clarence Wardeld, "a, Of 1910
North Delaware street.
Mrs. Warfield told police the
driver of the car, who appeared to
be boy, failed to stop after the
collision. Several other persons
were in the stolen auto, she said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-24
"The Defiance
Lawn Mower

This improved Defiance 4 is
we have often been told
the best mower made at
anywhere near the price. 10
inch wheels, tool steel keen
cutting blades, ball bearing,
easy running.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-24
'UKELELE IKE DIVORCED

Cliff Edwards, Screen Actor, Gets
Decree From Ex-Follies Girl
By United Press
LOS ANGELES, June 24.-Clifton
A. Edwards, who sings on phono-
graph records and the screen as
"Ukelele Ike" was granted a divorce
Tuesday from Irene E. Edwards, for
mer Follies girl.
The decision did not set aside a
property settlement under which
Edwards already has given his wife
100000 in property and agreed to
pay her one-third Of his income for
the remainder of her life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-24
ARMY GAME is HINTED
Negro Salesman" Flees, but Leaves
His Assorted wares"

''Wanta buy some army goods,
MISUSE"
When Mrs. Lester Ammermon,
1850 Schofleld avenue, had this
proposition made to her Tuesday
afternoon by a Negro who was
heavily laden with his wares" she
called police.
The Negro fled. Not far from
Mrs. A1nmernon's house police
found the "arny goods"
The goods consisted of two license
plates, drivers license, letter file,
police raincoat, gloves, ten pairs of
army shoes and forty-one shirts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-24
Start Medical Examinations

One hundred thirty-one students
of eleven colleges and universities
have started three-day state med
ical examinations in the house of
representatives Five of the group
are women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-24
WISE CRACKER LEARNS
Something" Is Bounced Of His
Head at Brookside Park.

At city prison today, Edward
Ritenback, 2197 North Gale street,
is trying to figure out who and what
hit him.
Police charged Ritenbach with
vagrancy after his wise cracks at
persons in Brookside park are
alleged to have made visitors irate.
Police said they found him nursing
a swollen head and could not ex-
plain how it happened.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-24
GRANITE IS DEFENDED
FOR CLARK MEMORIAL
VIII Outlast Limestone, Is Reply to
Schortemeier Protest.


Pointing out that the George
Rogers Clark memorial at Vincennes
is national project financed large
ly by congress, c. B. Coleman, sec
rotary of the Clark commission, to-
day denounced the effort made to
have it constructed of Indiana lime
stone.
1t is common practice to use gram
tie as the base material for such
permanent memorials, Coleman
points out in a formal statement.
The statement was brought forth
by a visit to Governor Harry G.
Leslie by Frederick Schortemeier,
attorney for the Indiana Limestone
Company, in which he urged lime
stone construction to save $500, 600.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-24

His is the tremendous task Of
stabilizing employment. AT least,
Donald H. Sawyer (above) has
been appointed director of the
federal employment sterilization
board, and also will act as its
consulting engineer.
He will supervise the advance
planning of government building
work and will keep the President
advised of construction trends.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-18
OCEAN FLIERS
STRAIN TO GO
Improvement In Weather
Conditions Encourages
Prospective Flights

NEW YORK. June l5-P-Good
weather prospects today gave fllers
hope OF starting transatlantic
flights soon
DR.. James II. Kimball. govern
ment forecaster. noted general i'm
provement in conditions and the
absence OF headwinds over the At
lantic. He advised that there be no
start till visibility at sea improved.
His announcement started act :
ity az various Long Island fields.
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty,
who want to circle the globe. hoped
TO be the first TO get away. Their
plane was already loaded and fuel
ed az Roosevelt field. They intend
ed to flv 70 Harbor Grace. New
foundland. before crossing the At
lantic.
Miss Ruth Nichols. who plans a
colo flight to Paris. tested her plane
In a dash from New York to Balti-
nore yesterday and made arrange
nents for a possible start today for
.--arbor Grace.
At Floyd Bennett field. CLYDE
Pangborn and Hugh Herndon. Jr.
are conducting tests with a plane
in preparation for a ( ght TO
Moscow. and thence ~round-the-
world.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-18
Elects Directors,
Changes Organization Plan
To Conform to Farm Board

toned by the board In Its neEotia-
tons with the exchange and these
were: Limitation OF earnings on
stock 10 eight per cent. and plac-
ing OF all stock in the hands OF
actual growers.
While we are not looking 10 the
Farm Board 10 lend US money this
season with which 10 add TO our
facilities. We have been anxious to
conform TO the Capper-VolStead
act % that We will be In a position
TO qualify for a loan at some future
date should We need IT," John II.
Shary. president OF the exchange
stated The cry that has been
raised by a few OF our critics that
We yer not a true cooperative has
now been silenced. for all provisions
TO comply with the act have been
made by the stockholders"