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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
CORPORATION
REPORTS
TRENDS AND PROSPECTS OF
LEADING ORGANIZATIONS.

NEW YORK, March 13.-The follow
ing is q summary of important corpora
ton news prepared by the Standard
Statistics Co, Inc, New York, for the
Associated Press:
News Trend.
February statistical report for rubber
released this morning by Rubber Man.
ufacturers' Association, shows no def
mite trend, favorable or unfavorable
Consumption for the month increased
less than per cent, counter to a normal
seasonal decrease Of around per cent
and at the same time estimated stocks
on hand February % showed q gain OF
1.6 per cent over January 81.
The increase in brokers' loans report
ed late yesterday Of $40 900 900 over the
preceding week to 81 .819 900 900 more
than recovered the ground lost last
week. when a decline of $1,000 900 was
reported. From one point. Of view thi.
indicates a continuation OF the upward
trend which began February 4, broken
only by last weeks decline. With the
total at its present relatively low level
however, it is difflcult to rear great sig
nificsnce into these figures at this time.
Placement OF large orders by the
! Pennsylvania Railroad in embarking or
| its SITS, 000,0 electrihcation program
divided at present between General Elec-
trio and Westinghouse, together with
higher 1880 earnings by international
Match and Industrial Rayon, gave Q
favorable cast TO the days corporate
news, counteracted in part by deferrine
| Of dividend action by American Interna-
! tional Corporation and unfavorable
earnings reports from other quarters.
The Companies.
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining 1880 COM
mon share earnings, SO cents against II
cents.
Allied Chemical d Dye, valve OF Sc
| curity holdings December 81 reported
around 10000 900.
American International Corporation
directors defer action on dividends
usually declared at this time; previous
| ly paid 81 cash and 2 per cent in stock
| semi-annually; breakup value March
IL reported $22.98 common share:
Colorado Fuel & Iron 1880 COM
mon share earnings IL cents against
$6.43
Crown Drug Stores, February sales
up 55 per cent; two months up II pei
cent
Curtis Wright Corporation, new
units at start of 1880 TO ISL, January
1891; has orders for over 200 Curtiss-
Wright Juniors.
dividend, IS cents each on class A ant
common stocks.
Eigin NfSllonaI watch 1880 denci
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$70,543 against net income 81 ,972, 971,
equal to 1898 share.
General Electric expected to split
$25,000.000 electric engine contract
from Pennsylvania Railroad with West
inghouse Electric 81 Manufacturing.
Ford Motor Co, Ltd.-German sub
sidiary sold 1900 cars in 1880, fore
casts sales of 1900 units for 1881.
r. & w. Grand-Silver Stores-No
extensive expansion planned for 1881;
appraised value Of Canadian properties
in for excess Of mortgages.
Great Atlantic g. Pacific Tea Febru-
airy sales on 4.3 per cent.
Great Northern Railway additional
$1,000, 900 authorized for Oregon track
age improvement bringing total to S.
500 900 for California extension.
Grigsby- Grunow deficit, six months
ended November 30. $35S,628.
Hudson Motor Car-Reported nego-
tiations for block Of Canadian Durant
stock denied.
international Match Corporation 1890
common share earnings $4.0S against
$3.78.
Industrial Rayon 1880 common share
earnings STA against S7.62.
Kermath Manufacturing 1890 deficit
Sal, 900, against net income, $133,735.
Loose-Wiles Biscuit 10 cents extra and
IS cents quarterly common dividends.
Mavis Bottling Co. Of America pro-
pose exchanging common stock for new
class A common shares on 1-for-5 basis;
holders of new class A shares would be
given rights to subsc .tbe to additional
class A stock at $3.50 share IN ratio
/ new for held.
National Cash Register directors meet
ing adjourned until March 20, when
dividend action will be considered.
Noranda Mines 1880 common share
earnings, $1.72, against $1.9l.
Pennsylvania Railroad $25,OOO,0OO
contract for electrical engines expected
to be shared by General Electric and
Westinghouse.
Standard Screw 1880 common share
earnings 1915 against $22.75.
Southern Union Gas SITS initial div
idend on per cent preferred stock.
Union Oil of California had 1854
stockholders December 81 against 1925
year previous.
United Milk Products passes pre-
ferred dividend; paid SITS January 2.
Westinghouse Electric g. Manufac-
turing expected to split $25,000,00
electric engine contract from Pennsyl-
vania Railroad with General Electric
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
INDUSTRIES LISTED
ON PROSPECT BASIS
Chain Stores, Dairy Products and
Telephone Included in Fa-
vored Class.

The position Of leading lines Of in
duStry as to prospects for 1881, is listed
as follows by the Standard Statistics
Co.:
Most promising-Cha stores, cigar
cites, dairy products, electric light and
power, package foods, shipbuilding, tele-
phone, speciality bakeries.
Good-Flour and feed. refrigeration.
Uncertain - Beverages, department
stores, motion pictures, silk goods.
Fair-Agricultural machinery, auto
mobiles, automobile parts, automobile
tires, bread bakeries, building, canned
foods, cement, cigars, cotton goods, cleo
tr1cal equipment, fertilizers, machinery
and machine equipment, mail order,
meat packing, Office equipment, rail-
roads, railroad equipment, steel and
iron. sugar refining, telegraph.
Poor--Aircraft, apparel, coal, copper,
electrical household supplies, farm
products, floor coverings, furniture,
lead, leather, lumber, paper, petroleum,
radio, rayon, shipping, shoes, sugar pro-
ducing, tin, fractions, etc.; wooden goods
and zinc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
GIANT INDUSTRIES
RACE FOR MARKETS
Engineers Busy Seeking New Uses
for Many Different
Products.
BY JOHN H. VAN DEvENTER.

Metal producing capacity has in
creased so rapidly in our country dur
ing the past 10 years that It requires
lot of business to keep these plants
busy, even in lively times. In dull times
the problem becomes even more acute,
and furnaces, rolling mills and presses
are obliged to spend many idle hours
Research engineers in the steel, cop
per and aluminium industries are hard
at work digging out new opportunities
for the application of their products
For 1t Is to these new applications, and
not to the unlimited expansion of old
ones, that these industries must look
for the future.
All three of these important metal
industries are finding increased outlets
in building construction. Metal finishes
and decorations are becoming popular
on building exteriors, as exemplified by
the modern architecture Of the Chrysler
Building, with its stainless steel apex,
and the Empire State Building. Both
Of these New York superskyscrapers
have literally applied the metal motif
All-metal dwellings, in the form of
factory-made, but attractive, private
houses, VIII be available before many
years. Huge presses will stamp and
form the exterior and interior walls In
sections, making erection on the home
site q simple matter. Modern metal
finishing has progressed to the point
that brick, tile or stucco can be repro
duced almost in facsimile, But before
the metal house becomes really popu-
lar its sponsors will have to develop
new school of architecture best fitted
for the material and popularize it with
the public, thus following the footsteps
Of concrete and Stucco.
One Midwestern steel producer is de-
veloping q sheet steel foundation for
highway construction, designed to do
away with concrete. The aSphaltic sur
face is laid directly upon the steel sub
base.
Sheet steel blackboards for schools,
with surfaces enameled in dull-hnish
green's, browns and buffs, is another
new market" approach.
Copyright by United Business Publishers
Bureau Of Economics)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
sEx dividen
Plant at Normal Capacity.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March IS Up.
N. C. Ryding, president Of the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co., dis
closed today that operations of his
company have reached 10 per cent Of
capacity, which is considered normal
even in times of widespread industrial
activity.
"Our plant is operating at this
figure" he said, while the average for
the United States is abount So to "a
per cent" This condition compares
with operations at 30 per cent capacity
here last November and December.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
STOCK MARKET SHOWS
THOROUGH LIQUIDATION

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, March 13.-The action
of the stock market generally on I'm.
favorable corporation reports and such
a radical admission of poor business
conditions as was contained in the cut
In the New York Central rate. has been
more favorable than the Street ex-
pected. It is another evidence Of the
iiquidated condition of the market and
of the persistence Of the bull element
TO make most Of factors suggesting i'm
provement in the general situation.
The question arises whether the mar
ket can be held up, however, on the
public utilities alone. 1t Is obvious that
the rails cannot be btiiled for some
time in view OF current earnings and
more dividend reductions 10 come. At
the moment the only industrial group
that attracts speculative interest Is the
motors,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
Retail Sales Better.
NEW YORK, March 13

NEW YORK, March 10 (P.-Recent
improvement in sentiment throughout
the business world, initiated largely as
a psychological reaction to strength In
the stock market, has likewise been re-
1ected in moderate degree in consumer
buying, Standard Statistics Co. says.
A survey of leading organizations in
various retail trade divisions indicates
that demand, although still spotty, is
somewhat brisker than during the in
itial month Of 1881, the company says.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET.

CHICAGO, March Is (P.-Butter--
Receipts, 9,670 tubs; steady; creamery
extras (92 score) 80; standards go
score carlots), 29la; extra firsts (90-
81 score) 29a2s1a; flrsts, tS8aa9 score),
27a2s; seconds (S6-S7 score), 25a26.
Eggs-Receipts, 1884 cases; steady;
extra fir6ts, 21lk; fresh graded firsts,
1e1ha2O1z; ordinary firsts, iSalS'; stor-
age packed firsts, az; storage packed
extra 225a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
TIME MONEY F1RMER.

Time money stinened slightly last
week, but call funds remained un-
changed at the prevailing lowest level
in months. The average rates for both
classes Of money is given in the table
that follows, for comparable periods, as
calculated by the Department of Com
merce:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
Washington Stock Exchange

SALES.
Capital Traction 5S--$1, 900 at 8IK.
washington Gas IS "B"-SI,0O0 at
104%.
Commercial National Bank-20 at 2ls.
AFTER CALL.
Capital Traction Col at ssh, 10 at
3515.
Washington Rwy. & Elec. pfd.-10 at
sS2s, 10 at $3.50, 10 at sSss.
Bid and Asked Prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

Radio receiving licenses issued In Eng
land 30 date total 3,4l2, DOOR
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1880 AM........ 100000 1880 Noon. l. 100 900
1889 PM...... 100000 2:1o P.M........ 100000
ydsnd rates IS given in the above table the
Unit OF trading 100
IN stosk tpasabs n scrip IPIs S in stock Paid last
Py n cash or itGsE Plus s in STOCK Plus s in stock
ular rate. Plus So - - - -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS
BANKS.

NEW YORK, March Is CP.-Over.
the-cOunter market:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
STOCKS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.

Amer. Tel & Tel (9)..sle4
Capitol Traction Co. (D........ S3S Sc
Wash. Gas Light Co. DID,. l2l 100
Norfolk & w. Steamboat G2).., 100 ass
Pot. Elec. Power 50 pfd. $50, Ill lis
Pot Elec Power 5h% pfd. -. l09K lOoh
Wash. Rwy. & Elec. COM o.. 435 -
Wash. Rwy. & Elec. pfd 3D. ga osiI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
BONDS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Barber Ross. Inc, 612s...... 80 -.
Columbia Country Club 51ss... 100 l0ii
~ Pspsr Mfg. es. :.......... 50 70
w. M. Cold Storage 5s........, % 100
Wash. Cons. Title 6a - INN
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2% Sou Cal Ed. .Apr20 IL 2h 2h 2h
Sales Of Stocks ON New York Exchange.
The Washington times., 1931-09-11

Don't look for For Rent signs
. consult the vacancies advertised
daily in the Rental Columns of the
Classified Section.
The Washington times., 1931-09-11
BICENTENNIAL
PARLEY SET

Members Of the District Of Co
lumbia Bicentennial Commission
and a subcommittee of the
United States George Washington
Bicentennial Commission viii
meet Monday to, formulate a plan
Of co-ordinated activity which
will eliminate overlapping OF ef-
forts in the parts each body is
to take in the observance next
year.
The part the national commits
sion is to take was discussed at
a meeting attended by Senator
Simeon Fess. Representative r.
Walton Moore, William Tyler
Page and Representative Sol
Bloom, director.
Both groups we're established
by Congress which charged the
national body with stimulating
interest in the anniversary. The
District commission received a
100000 appropriation to stage
the local events with the co-opera-
ton Of the Federal body.
The Washington times., 1931-09-11
COLOred ELks Plan
EnrLU for Session

j. Finley Wilson, grand exalted
ruler of the colored Elks. has
named C. Tiffany Tolliver as
commissioner of transportation
and designated him to begin pre-
paration for the next annual con-
vention in Los Angeles next
August.
All subordinate lodges east of
the Mississippi River will organize
a Los Angeles Club to give
financial assistance toward car.
rying record delegation to the
California city.
The Washington times., 1931-09-11
NeighbOrhOOd Seeks
Action on St0rIingS
Photo by Internal ational
DVDEE

Residents in the neighborhood
of Nineteenth Street and Colum-
bia Road, N. W., are preparing a
protest to District health author
tiles about the nuisance caused by
large numbers of starlings in that
neighborhood.
A petition declaring the situa-
ton intolerable and asking that
some steps be taken to drive
away the birds will be presented
to DR.. William Fowler, health Of
ficer, this week.
Yesterday, DR.. Fowler said that
he knew of nothing that would
make the birds move before the
regular fall migration southwark
The Washington times., 1931-09-11
.L|NDBERGH NOT
/ TQFLY NORTH
ROUTE HOME
Colonel and Wife Undecided
About Eventual Path; Plan
Hop-off for Osaka Tonight
BY JAMES r. YOUNG
Copyright. 1891. International News


Is
Service).
TOKYO, Sept. 11.-Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh has not decided def
initely what route he and Mrs
1indbergh will follow on their re
turn flight from China to the
United States. but he has decided
definitely it will not be the north.
ern or Siberian route, he said to.
day in an exclusive interview with
International News Service. He
said:
The Siberian route Is in
advisable in the winter time
with q plane not equipped with
wheels or skis. Really we can
not determine until our visit to
China has been completed
which route we will take"
Praises WOrkmen
The interview was granted on
the eve of Colonel and Mrs. Lind
bergh's start to China, following
the colonel's final inspection of
their Iockheed-Vega monoplane,
which has now been thoroughly
reconditioned. The flier said:
"The plane has been expertIy
Overhauled and revarnished.
These japanese wOrkmen are
surprisingly efficient.
To Leave Tonight
1--WE plan to leave Kasumi-
gaura Air Fled at p. M, Satur.
day I'll o'clock tonight, Wash.
ingtOn time), and hope to reach
Osaka in three hours flying
time. We are anxious to get to
Shanghai to determine our fu.
ture course, which will be one
Of three: Across the Pacific by
way Of Honolulu; across Europe
and the Atlantic, by way of the
Azores, or across Europe and
home by way Of the South At
lantic.
I'VE don't know what date
we ill arrive back in the United
States since our return route
has not been determined"
The Washington times., 1931-09-11

few months, according to the
Brookmire Economic Service, Inc,
which has tabulated copper con-
sumption, in thousand short tons,
for the major consuming indus
tries in the past three years. In
The Washington times., 1931-09-11

creased consumption Is not ex.
pected in this year or in 1892 to
establish a return Of marked pros
perity for the copper industry
but to show small gains over
current levels.
The Washington times., 1931-09-11
Bids to Be Opened
On NeU BUILDINGS

The Mall triangle will probably
be in the throes Of excavation
work within the next few weeks.
Bids for excavation on the site
of the new Department of Justice
building were opened today and
bids for the Postoffice Depart
ment excavation will be opened
next Friday.
The Washington times., 1931-09-11
.PINEY BRANCH MEETING

The Piney Branch Citizens AS
ISOLATION will meet Monday at 8
p. M. at Hamline Methodist
Episcopal Church. Sixteenth and
Allison Streets Northwest.
The Washington times., 1931-09-11
Coal Buyer Loses
SI3 in Fake Deal

Joseph Tinker, 1925 Fairmount
st. N. W.. bought pig in
poke" yesterday afternoon. Today
police were looking for the colored
man who Swindled him.
A man, representing himself
as John Thomas, 1850 Willard
st. N. w." wanted to sell a
truckload of coal around the
corner" for $16. Tinker is out
$13 of the price. Police found
nobody named John Thomas at
the address given.
The Washington times., 1931-09-11
Gain Is Expected
In CODper Industry

Copper industry has reached
the state where a slight improve
ment may be expected within a
The Washington times., 1931-09-11

Heme seekers who want to establish
themselves in nome of their own
will find a timely home selection in the
Real Estate for Sale Columns of the
Classified Section.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-26
THE GASOLINE TAX

Passage of Referendum No. IS at the
special election May 5th will result in the
issuance of 5000, 900 in gasoline tax an
Montana taxpayer one cent in addition to
what he will pay if the referendum fails, is
pointed out by Dave Salyerds, secretary of
the Montana Automobile Association,
which has as it's aim the protection of the
interest of all Montana motorists, and the
development of our Montana highway pro-
gram.
Montana voters, by their approval in
1926 of Referendum No. 81, decreed that
all gasoline taxes collected, aside from in
dustrial refunds, should go to highway con-
struction. Part of the Sc gasoline tax, which
is continued in effect until Io4l by H. B.
No. 90 recently enacted, would be used to
pay the highway construction warrants,
which is desired to issue at the rate of
1900, 900 a year for the next four years.
The measure provides that the warrants must
all be retired by l94l from proceeds of the
gasoline tax. Should the referendum fail the
motorist still will be required to. pay the Sc
gasoline tax until lo41, or longer and the
states road program will be delayed beyond
-four years in completion and may be drag
ged along for the greater portion of the next
decade. 1t will cost as much or more than if
roads are built while construction expense
is low, and will result in Montana losing the
Sc, 900, 900 now allotted to her credit in fed
eral aid highway funds, which are piling up
at the rate of 81, 500, 900 a year.
The Montana auto owner will, under
present enactments, pay a five cent gasoline
tax whether the measure fails or carries MIR.
Salyerds said. If the measure carries he will
soon obtain the benefit of hundreds of extra
miles of fine roads. If not, he must continue
to drive his car over rough dirt and through
the mud for long stretches that could have
been improved and surfaced at no extra
cost to himself"
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-26
BISON FLAX
is APPROVED

At the meeting of the board of d.
rectors of the Montana seed Grow
ers association it was agreed that BIZ
son flax which has proved superior to
most of the varieties under Montana
conditions would be recognized in the
future as a standard variety and ap-
pl.cations for registration would be
accepted this year.
With the help of the flax develop
ment committee a large number of
tests comparing Bison flax to Re-
serve and Newland flax were carried
in the various counties in Montana
in 1880. The result of these tests gave
Bison an average yield of IL bushels
to the acre, Reserve SO bushels and
Newland Sc bushels. Bison also has
the advantage of being a large seeded
flax which is an advantage in coming
through the soil which has a tendency
to crust. This variety is quite disease
resistant and grows about four inch
es taller than the other flax grown
in Montana.
BISON FLAX SATISFACTORY
Q. There is q great deal of talk
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more in the flax growing areas. The
working out of a program for grow
ing flax on old ground will prevent
the breaking out of sod land that Of
ten should be left in sod and not be
brought in to swell the wheat or weed
acreage.
Substitute House Bill No. Oil,
Twenty-second Assembly, 1881, now
chapter 1874, will go into effect July
LIST, next.
This is a new motor act which clas-
sified motor transportation carriers,
excepting school buses, or privately
owned cars or trucks used for TRANS
porting employees, supplies OIL mater
ials for highways, CT logging or min
ing operations.
The new law covers all motor We
hicles which are "for hire"
All drivers or trucks coming under
this act will have to be licensed OPP
orators, and for that purpose will
have to appear at hearing conducted
by the board of Railroad Comission-
ers or duly appointed agents, and will
have to pay $500 this year, if their
licenses are not in good standing on
July LIST, and each year thereafter will
have to pay $1,000 for such privilege
of regularity carrying passengers,
freight or other commodities.
This will mean that all trucks max
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-26

ton about that. Are the voters of this coun-
ty going to swallow the bunk by Tay-
lor and Rasmussen again as they did about
six years ago, and again deprive this county
of their share of road building9 Some are
so proneto be sceptical here, and 50 many
are willing to look upon the wrong side of
everything, that in spite of all that has been
said and promised and pledged by the high
est officials in Montana that this can be only
a five cent gas tax and no more, that many
will vote against it and may kill it as far as
Sheridan county is concerned.
That is just what many people in near
by counties are hoping for. That we will vote
it down here, as they intend to vote solidly
in favor of this law, and in that way Sher-
idan county will continue to be left without
good roads, while those counties will get the
benefit Of our folly.
The American Automobile Association
is absolutely in favor of this bill becoming a
law, and that powerful organization has
gone into all ramifictions of the bills from
top to bottom and have approved it, and
maintain it will be the only gas tax imposed
on gasoline users in Montana and will be for
only five cents.
The Producers News claims they are
right-they together with a few attorneys
and several ~disgruntled Legislators whose pet
bills have never found favor in the eyes of
their co-lawmakers, are about the only ones
opposed to it. They remind us of the story
about the proud mother watching an infan-
try regiment marching past. Her son was
one of the 1900 soldiers, and as company af-
ter company swept past, she exclaimed,
Look, they are all out of step except my
boy"