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Washington Produce

Butter - One pound prints, 34aS5;
tub. 321aa3sh.
ggs-Hennery, %; current receipts,
20a2l.
Poultry, alive-Turkeys, young toms
and hens, 32a33; old toms, %; Spring
broilers, 38a40; Winter chickens, 30a33;
hens, heavy, 24a25; light, 22a23; Leg
horn hens, 20; ROSTERS, 12a14; ducks,
Is; keats, young, 75aS0; old, 40. Dressed
turkeys, young, 38a40; old, 34a35;
Spring broilers, 45; Winter chickens,
3Sa40; hens, heavy, 27a28; light, 25a26;
Leghorn hens. 22a23; ROSTERS, 15al6;
keats, young, 80a90; old, so.
Meats-Beef, 131za151a; veal, 14al6;
lamb, 19; pork loins, 1921; fresh hams,
19; fresh shoulders, IA; smoked hams,
81: smoked shoulders, IL; strip bacon,
81; lard, in bulk, IL; in packages, IL.
Live stock-Hogs, heavy, 7.00a7. So;
medium and light, 500; pigs, 7.50a8.25;
roughs, 2.00a6.00; Spring lambs, 1900;
calves, 5.00a900.
FruitS-StrawberrieS, 30a35: pineap-
Piles, 4.00a5. 90; oranges, Florida, 400a
a so; California, 3.50a5.50; lemons, 4.50
as So lines, per 100, 1.75a2.00; apples,
bushel baskets, 1.00a2.00; box stock,
225a3 90; grapes, Argentina, 3.50a4 90;
pCdTS, E.OOp AlOuCyOCWo, al SCAAOAA1d, S'oN
ATS; rhubarb, Michigan hot house,
5-pound boxes, 100; home grown, per
dozen punches, $50.
Observation-Disclosures, Maine and New
York, 120-pound sacks, PTS; Idaho
bakers, 10O-pound sacks, 2.75; Florida,
new, per bushel, 500; sweets. Nancy
Halls, per bushel, $50; reds, 1.25a1 so;
cauliflower, 1.75a2.00; mushrooms, 50a-
go; squash, $50; eggplant, 4.50a5 90;
South Carolina and Georgia,
! .75a3.5O string beans, 2.00a4 90: limaS,
Cuba, 4.50a50 90; Florida, 600a6.50; GU
cumbers, Indiana hot house, per dozen,
.75a2 IS; tomatoes, three-pan contain
ers, 2.50a3.50; peppers, 2.00a5.50; car
rots, per crate, ats; beets, per crate.
ais; .turnips. punched, per crate, 2.75;
kale, 75a1.00; spinach, 50al.o0; okra,
per pan, 100; 6-pan containers, Cuba,
4.OOa4.50;' broccoli, 5.00a55 so; peas, 400
90; lettuce, Iceberg, 2.25a3.5o; Flor
ida, ESQ.
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South America, Australia and India
justify hopes that the way has now
been cleared for stability and improve
ment in their economic conditions.
Some Dividend Shocks.
"A discouraging feature of the past
month or more has been the reduction
or complete omission of dividends by q
considerable number Of the leading rail-
road and industrial corporations. In
some instances the action Of the direc-
tors came as no surprise, but in q few
cases the fact that q cut was made at
this stage, commonly believed to be
the ANAL stage, of the depression, pro-
vided an unpleasant shock to their
large body of stockholders and, of
course, had q depressing effect upon
Wall Street. It Is natural that, II the
guiding heads of the largest organiza-
lions in the country feel that the out
look for. the next several months does
not justify the continuance of
dividend that is not being entirely
earned, the smaller business men should
be inclined to proceed even more
cautiously than before with their own
plans"
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Money to Loan

Prevailing interest and commission.
Joseph !. Weller nav ssS w, "A I ( 2 Tryss
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STORE SALES GAIN
I IN FIFTH DISTRICT
Seven Per Cent Advance Is
+, Noted in Report of Fed
eral Reserve Board.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Department store sales in March in
fhe fifth Federal Reserve district, which
includes washington, Baltimore, Rich
mond and So other cities, made gain
OF z per cent over March, 1880.
This was the best showing made by
any of the IL Federal Reserve districts.
Only two others, Boston and Mime
apolis. reporting any advance In mer-
camille business over March year ago.
Boston and Minneapolis reported ex-
actly the same advance, per cent,
while the New York and Philadelphia
areas did just the same amount OF
business as year ago, reporting no
change either way.
Dallas: Tex, reported q falling of IN
March of Is per cent and the ST. Louis
district was IL per cent behind March,
kansas City were down 8 per cent.
The average for the IL districts
showed a slump Of 8 per cent for March
and 7 per cent for the first quarter,
compared with a year ago. The Fed
eral Reserve Board reported today that
the Richmond district had neither made
a gain nor a loss in the January, Feb
ruary and March combined sales.
Easter Trade Boosts Totals.
The boards index, which makes al
iowance for seasonal changes, was 81
for March. compared with SO for Feb
ruary and 81 for January. In making
the comparison with year ago allow
ance should be made for the fact that
on account of the early date of Easter
this year sales during March included
a much larger part of the Easter buy
ing than they did last year, when Easter
was Is days later.
The percentage increase or decrease
compared with March year ago and
with the first three months Of 1880
follows:
JAN No Of No.
10 reportinR OF
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Western Maryland Dairy Corp.

BALTIMORE, April 10 (SpeciaD -
The Western Maryland Dairy Corpora
ton, controlled by the National Dairy
Products Corporation, reported net in
come of $1089, 1927 for the year ended
December 81, 1890.
The balance sheet showed current as
sets of $2,244,319 including cash and
marketable securities of 1914, $50. Cur
rent liabilities were $1,374,913, indicate
ing net working capital OF 1859, 406.
compared with $S4,T96 at the end Of the
previous yeax.
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Jan. 1 No. of No.
TO reporting OF
i. Mar. 81. stores. cities.
Economic Recuperation Seen.

March figures preliminary; the month
had the same number Of business days this
year and last year.
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Baltimore Customs Receipts.

4 BALTIMORE, April 10 Especially -
Customs receipts in Baltimore last
month totaled 81 600, 2s5. SO, according
to G.. H: Pouder, director Of the Export
and Import Bureau. This is an increase
of nearly 100 per cent over February,
and it is the first time the $1,000, 300
mark has been reached since last Fail.
1t Is an increase Of $122, 770.17 over the
value Of receipts in March, 1890.
The total customs receipts from July,
1880, to March. 1881, were $9,l44,670. So,
compared with $8,728, 4S2.13 !. for the
corresponding period q year ago.
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CONTINUED On Paas ~
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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
Received by

Note-An stocks are sold IN one hundred-Share !o1
excepting those designated by the letter (00s) (2DOss
which shows those stocks were sold IN odd loN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-10
BANKERS SEE NEXT
MOVE AS UPWARD
Further Confidence That De-
cline Really Came to End
Last December.

Trade and industry became somewhat
more active the past month and with
allowance for usual seasonal tendencies
general business activity has, held at a
practically constant level since the be-
ginning of the year, the current issue
of the American Bankers Association
Journal says in its business review.
"There is a growing confidence that
the period of decline, lasting 18 months,
came to an end last December and that
the next important move will be up
ward" the journal says. $50 far there
is evidence of no material expansion in
production and sales, save in isolated
cases, as, for example, cotton goods.
Nevertheless, the basic industries such
as automobiles, steel, building and a
sfzeable list of lesser industries are
showing slow but definite gains.
IF general business activity should
hold at around its present level for the
remainder Of the year, every month
would bring narrowing of the spread
as compared with the corresponding
record Of the previous year, while If q
moderate upturn should develop the de-
Ginning trend of 1880 would be quickly
surpassed. 1t Is generally admitted
that the recovery back to theoretical
normal is not likely to be achieved this
year, although many economists are
now beginning to question whether the
normal as calculated in the commonly
used indexes of business is not too
high. Possibly the unusual expansion
during the period 1915-1930 has given
the so-called normal rate of growth too
sharp an upward curve, in which case
the indexes will have to be readjusted
downward to conform to the slower rate
Of growth that prevailed up to the time
Of the war.
Slack Demand for Money.
"Slack demand for money for COM
mercial purposes and the continued
liquidation of secured loans have been
reflected in record-low interest rates
for funds placed on call and in record
low use of Federal Reserve Bank credit.
Recent imports of gold have raised our
already excessive holdings to the highest
figure ever reached, but this need not
be considered major problem for the
reason that the world supplies of gold
have tendency to redistribute them
selves automatically to the countries
where they are needed and can be
safely used. Encouraging developments
in the political situation in Europe,
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MISUNDERSTANDING,
Direct to The Star ONCE.

10h 81 Poop Gas Chi Jan 10 Is IL 1Ih Tx IL
Dividend the above table
trading extra
Payable a last year
regular Payable Payable earned
g in
stock Plus ~ in stock Plus 81 preferred Plus
80 stock Plus lso stock. Plus Sc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
MARYLAND DROUGHT
LOSS $4O,OOO,OO
DR.. Symons Advocates Five Year
Plan for Relief of
Farmers.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. January 10.-A loss OF
$40,000Oo0. attributable to the drought,
was caused in Maryland during the
past year, it was said, at the final
session of the Maryland Agricultural
Society-Farm Bureau Federation Con-
vention here yesterday
The speaker was DR.. Thomas q.
Symons, director of the University of
Maryland's Extension Service and sec
rotary of the State Drought Relief
Committee.
To recover from the loss in the
quickest possible way and also to insure
an even production of agricultural COM
modlties IN the State. DR.. Symons, ad-
vocated the adoption of a fve-year
plan.
The plan, as suggested by the Sec
rotary of the Drought Relief Com
mittee, would involve a great reduction
in the acreage now employed in the
cultivation of wheat, q product which
the Maryland farmer cannot hope to
grow in successful competition with the
Middle West and Russia.
Since the war" he said, "there has
been a reduction of 100000 acres of
Maryland wheat. Within the next five
years there should be a further reduc-
ton of 10000 acres, which area might
be profitabiy cultivated with barley,
oats, pastures and such legumes as
alfalfa, clover and soybeans."
The need of more pasture lands Is
obvious" he added, when it is con-
sidered that Maryland dairymen now
spend more than 100000 outside of
the State for the purchase of con-
centrates."
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IRREGULAR
IN QUIET MARKET
Profit Taking Appears in
Second Grade Issues.
Prime List Firm.
BY F. II. RICHARDSON.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, January 1O.-Trading
in bonds tapered down to moderate pro-
portions today, with prices fiuctuating
lrrsgularly. There was a certain amount
of profit taking by spectators in sec
ond-grade issues. but this was Just
about offset by buying in both prime
and junior types.
New issues, though there were less
than $50,000000 put out during the
week, nevertheless offered some compe-
tition to listed bonds, and the appear
ance of new offering today-an I'M
usual event on a Saturday-was inter-
preted as an attempt to steal the mar
ket from large utility issues pending for
the start OF next week. Traders inferred
that next weeks new financing might
reach large proportions. The new issue
was a Milwaukee Electric Railway e.
Light Co. S per cent bond. due 1871,
priced at par. 1t was reported as going
we'll
Generally speaking, trading was dull.
but there were few active spots in the
foreign list German government 5las.
which are said to be supported by a
pool, were shaken down points at one
time. Later they retraced part of the
lost ground. Other Germans were UNI
changed or a shade better Warsaw rs
otetl CCu Oll lOWeT ana LIlen went 10 q
point gain. South Americans were
mostly improved. especially Brazil 8S,
up 2. French. Italian, Belgian, jap
anese and Australian issues were STEADY.
In the high-grade domestic list,
Canadian National 412s, Canadian Pa
cif1c IS, New York Central Is, Nickel
Plate AIS, American Telephone 51as,
Utah Power & Light SIS, National Dairy
Products 514s and Standard Oil of New
Jersey SIS were strong. Junior rails were
dull. Chicago & Eastern Illinois SIS
dropped nearly points There were
smaller losses, some of them Cancelled
later in st. Paul adjustments, Erie
general lien As. Florida East Coast SIS,
Missouri-Pacific As, Frisco AIS, South
ern Railway as and Seaboard Airline IS.
st. Paul IS, International Great North
ern first IS and Western Maryland As
were fractionally higher.
1ndustrials were quiet and moved in
much the same undecided manner.
Convertibles were also dull. Utilities
Power & Light SIS lost a point while
American Natural Gas 61as gained a
like amount.
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STREET HAD DISCOUNTED
FAILURE OF RAIL MERGER
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 1O.-The an
nouncemen Mt that the long pending mer-
ger of the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific Railroad systems had
been abandoned, was no surprise to
Wall Street today. 1t had been realized
for some time that the difficulties in
volved in the separation of the Chicago,
Burlington &c Quincy from the proprie-
tary lines had been a stumbling block
in carrying out the recommendation of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The force of public opinion that had
gone strongly contrary to the CONSOLE
dation since it was Professionally agreed
to by the commission last year had also
discouraged those who had been earnest
ly working on the plan since 1927.
1t has been the feeling of the larg-
est stockholders in both of the Northern
roads, that it would be dif1cult to OBJ
tain compensation in any form for the
loss of the Burlington. both from a
traffic standpoint and also in the way
OF income. which the Burlington con-
tributes annually to the treasures of
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
ciflc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
DROUGHT AND COTTON SLUMP
CAUSE POVERTY IN ARKANSAS
Temporary Breakdown In System of Agri-
culture Has Apparently Followed Hard
ships Suffered by Rural Communities.

900 farm families are going to require
financing for this next years crop
through outside funds. The Federal
Government, in the drouth relief bill
now before Congress, provides money to
be loaned for this purpose. The loans
will be secured by a lien on this year S
crop, taking precedence over other obi
cations.
Under the plan worked out for dis
tributfon of this money in Arkansas,
Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama,
borrowing farmers can be forced to di-
versify. The farmer seeking loan will
have to go to his county agricultural
agent for an application blank. On
this he will be required to state what he
proposes to plant, how much Of each
crop and the estimated cost. A town.
ship committee then will pass on the
application. After that it will go to a
county committee for approval, made
up of one farmer, one banker and one
merchant. FROM this committee it will
go to the field Office at Memphis, which
has final authority based on final IN
vestigation by district field agent.
BY using this club, agricultural au-
thoritieS expect to be able to force cot
ton belt farmers at least to grow some
food crops Besides, plantation owners,
finding their Negro families faced with
hunger, have vowed hereafter to pro-
duce food on their places. They assert
a determination not TO be caught again
in situation where they cannot pro-
vide food.
In the meantime, developments are
occurring whcih shortly will mitigate
the suffering in this area. On jan
uary 81, bids for several millions of
dollars worth of highway construction
will be let. Local labor is to be favored
In addition, railroads, although sup
piled for 1881 with all required cross
ties, still are buying and in this way pro-
viding some work. Early in March the
farmers can plant some fast-growing
food crops and before many months
the troubles of farming section with
out food can be nghtened.
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INCREASE IN BUYERS
REPORTED IN GOTHAM
Indications Are That Present In.
fux Will Exceed That of
Last Year.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, January 10.-Along with
the news that sick pay rolls through
out the country are beginning to sit up
and take notice, the cheerful tidings
reached Wall Street today that that
alert harbinger of Spring, the out-of-
town buyer, is fiocking to New York in
larger numbers than at any time dur
ing the last three years.
At the Thirteenth street headquar-
tiers for the registration of buyers the
roll is already longer than usual, and it
is indicated that the final list will top
considerably last years total of $4,000.
In addition to buyers registered there
the hotels also check an unusually large
number, particularly from the West
Coast.
Buying is heavier than last year and
wholesale houses are receiving a much
heavier volume of mail, with proper
tionately larger total orders. Through
out the trade it was agreed today that
New Year inventories must have shown
extreme depletion of stocks in all lines,
as buying is diversified and indicates,
on the whole, general restocking in
most lines.
tCopyright. 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
TWO DIVIDENDS,

Directors of F. & w. Grand 5-1O-25
Cent Stores. Inc. declared the regular
quarterly dividends of rs cents a share
on the common stock and 1921 on
the preferred. The common dividend
is payable January is to stock of rec
ord January 10. while the preferred
dividend IS payable February 2 to
stock Of record January 10.
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Unlisted Department.
STOCKS.
NEW BUILDING,

NEW YORK, January 10 tP)-New
building and engineering contracts
awarded in the 81 States east of the
Rocky Mountains last year totaled $4,-
3,6l4,0 900, compared with $5,750079.-
500 for the year 1929. Awards in that
territory in December totaled $249 $685.
500, con pared with $3.50. 573, 700 in No
vernber and S3l6, 368, 100 in December
of the previous yNar.
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Washington Stock Exchange
SALES.

Capital Traction SSH 900 at 81.
Washington Gas IS "A"-S2 900 at
1922.
Georgetown Gas 5s-$1 900 at 1903.
Capital Traction Colo at Ala, 10 at
ALA, 10 at Il z, 10 at 415s, 10 at AZ,
10 at 42K, 10 at 4214, 10 at 42as, 10
at 423s, 10 at 42l2, l at 4212, 10 at
4214.
Continental Trust Co.'s at 118.
Union Trust Cos at 224.
Riggs National Bank at $50, at $50
AFTER CALL.
Lanston Monotype-10 at 1902.
Capital Traction 5s-S1 900 at 81. o.
Mergenthaler Linotype at SO.
Bid and Asked Prices.
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I'D and Asked FIR
BONDS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Barber g. Ross. Inc, 6Ias...... 81 s31z
c c6eHn GhS ceun EgP Gus 1 iSS io
d. c. Paper Mfg. IS. .......... As IS
w. M. Cold Storage SIS mint. 80 SO
Wash Cons Title IS 100
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NEW YORK BANK STOCKS
Banks.

NEW YORK. January 10 F).-Over.
the-counter market:
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The Alaska fisherman., 1931-09-15
DAVIS WINS TRAP CASE

Decision in favor of Stuart Iavis, well-known Chinook, Wn. fish trap owner, was handed down in the federal court, Ia coma recently enjoining the Columbia River Packers Asso- citation from driving a trap on a site licensed by the State of Oregon. MT. Davis contention was that the site in question is h Washington, and the deci-
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-09-15
sion sustained this position.

sion sustained this position.
 A number of trap sites were involved in this case, which hinged upon the old and troub.- lesome question of the boundary between the two states in the vicinity of Sand Island at the mouth of the Columbia River Pacific Fisherman.
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-09-15
BOOTH FISHERIES SHOWS A
 SLIGHT LOSS

Altho showing a net operating loss Of $404,487 for the fiscal year ended May 3 this year, the annual report of Booth Fisher ies Company shows the deficit to be less than a third as great as that for 1921, the only other year in which a loss has been reported during the past twenty years. The loss for the fiscal year Of 1921 was reported at $l,-. 214,852.
 The average earnings of the company during the tWeny-year 1.eriod have been slightly less than $1,O00,0O0.
 The report gives the assets CT the company at the end of the fiscal year at $21, ,007513.13 with cash on hand and in the banks $1,O57, 1852. The funded debt of company is listed at $6,051 ,70o, end the current liabilities, $4, 445, ,097.7O.
 During the past year the en- gineering department of the. company has developed a new process, covered by patents, to be used in connection with the quick freezing of fish and other products. This new process is expected to be more efficient and more economical than any other method known.
 Nav and Paw had an awful time gettin' married. Ma would n't marry Paw when he was drunk and Paw wouldn't marry Nav when he was sober.
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-09-15

CESI0OTN BUT hEV1E OOOR1
 MAKES IMPORTANT RULING
 A supreme court decision, in- terpreting in a most liberal way the Oregon rights of commercial fishermen on the Columbia from encroachment on their fishing grounds by fish traps, Other types of stationary gear, or structures involving the use. of piling in the navigable waters Of the Columbia, was handed clown in the. Supreme Court, Monday. The decision was writ ten by Justice Kelly, and slightly modified the decree handed down by Judge Howard K. -zin1- nlerman in the case of T. l.. Dr';- coil and other fishermen against thc state fish commission ani Otto Berg. ss
 Justice Kelly holds that all citizens of Oregon have a con, mon right to fish in the Wate:s of the Lower Columbia River a.,d that tn deprive any one citizen
 4fs- of that right is to violate the s:.ate Constitution.
 The highlight of the. decision
 is that portion which ,enjQjns
 the defendant Berg and sall
 other persons from operating
 poundnet fish traps or any
 other stationary fishing, device
 in the waters of the lower Co.,
 lumbia River, or from driving
 any piling in the navigable
 waters of the channel of that
 stream which (night) inter
 fere with the operations Of
 drift net or other fishermen.
 The decision, according to As- toria attorneys represents a most liberal interpretation of the stat- ute in favor of floating gear fish ermen and will effect other cases now on appeal, such as the Strandholm case which involves both a dock and fish traps:
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