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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. A. Spcikerman
have returned to Gonzales after
visiting friends and relatives IN
Donna.
Mrs. n RI Scott who has been
quite III Us reDorted improving az
her home South Of town.
DR.. and Mrs. M. r.. Broaddus with
MIR. and Mrs Jack Gibson we're IN
Brownsville Friday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
X. G. LIVESTOCK

KANSAS CITY. May esp
~. S. Dept. Agr)-Hogs 10000;
mostly 1920 lower; top 625 on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
SLOW GAINS LIKELY
IN SECOND QUARTER
Dividend Cuts and Wholesale Price
Situation Expected to Re-
tard Business.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOSTON, April 4--More dividend
reductions and a further weakness in.
wholesale prices, says the United Busi-
ness Service, have made the Opening of
the second quarter distinctly in
suspicious. Although productive ac-
tivity is holding close to Spring expec-
.tations it is still at depression levels
after seasonal adjustments are made;
low prices account for impaired income,
and poor earnings viii be an obvious
result until Establishments are. fully
completed. The weekly index of the
UAited Business Thermometer registers
23.1 per cent below normal, which IS
approximately the level of month ago.
Only a moderate betterment in business
conditions is forecast for the second
quarter
Both in population and income four
sections of the United States are show
ing above-the average growth, con-
cludes the United Business Service in a
study of future sales possibilities in the
various parts of the country. These
sections, in order of their rate of
growth. are the Pacific, the Southwest
Agricultural. the Eastern Industrial and
the Midwest Industrial sections Every
other section of the country shows
growth less than the average for the
country as a whole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
BANK OF ENGLAND GOVERNOR
WILL VISIT SECRETARY MELLON
Norman Expected to Discuss
World Financial Problems
on Trip Here.
Has Held Several Confer
enceS With Head of New
York Bank.

Sir Montagu Norman, governor Of the
Bank OF England, will be in Washington
in a few days for conference with
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon.
Gov. Norman has been in New York
since his arrival frcm London early in
the week and has already had confer
ences with Gov. Harrison of the New
York Federal Reserve Bank.
Being very short on newspaper inter-
views, Gov. Norman describes his visit
to this country as without any financial
significance. He has been here many
times before and always makes the
same statement.
However, the noted international
banker has his head filled with world
problems in finance and WILL CT course
talk them over very freely with Secre-
tary Mellon.
International money rates, new financ-
ing abroad, the silver situation, tariff
walls. the international depression, Rus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
OFFICE PAYROLLS
ARE ON INCREASE
Recent Revival of Bond Buy
ing Has Caused De-
mand for Clerks.

It is rapidly getting time for the
white-collar workers, vino have been
out of work for some time. to get their
laundry out of hook" and prepare to
punch the Office time clock again. This
has already been made apparent in
bank, investment house and brokerage
house circles. Employees are being add
ed to the forces not only in New York
and Chicago but in the smaller towns
throughout the country as well. This is
to. take care of the increasing invest
ment demand for stocks and bonds.
The investors who have been hiber-
mating are commencing to come out Of
their dens. Bond issues now advan-
Itageously priced arc now receiving am
pie attention from the ultimate con-
sumers. The demand TO now through
out the country has been largely confined
to the higher class bonds, but the steady
advance of these is expected to draw
attention in its train to the securities
with less gilt around the edges.
Attitude Of Investors.
The investors in many instances make
no claim as to infallibility as to their
judgment of the securities offered, but
they are both cautious and confident.
, 1t is statement heard on all sides that
depression may bring just as many
| profits as prosperity to the timely in
| weston The latter has at last learned
the lesson that there is as much profit
! in buying securities cheap as in selling
them high Bankers are pointing out
to their clients that every depression In
the history of this country has been
| followed by a period of prosperity.
The bankers welcome the gain in
confidence on the part of investors for
| they have hundreds Of millions of dol
| lars in the Golfers which are not earn
ing adequate profits for their share
holders. In fact. bankers, in some in
stances, are fidgeting about like the
| guardians of an old maid who are
afraid she will not have a proposal
They want to marry the money to
profitable investment or at least have IL
invited out once in a while. In fact
| some would not be averse to an invi-
| tation to a somewhat wild party such
as was held in 1928 and 1929, but in
general whoever makes the proposal
must show his intentions are honorable
The investment move for the moment
| is toward the taX-exempt issues, since
| it Is now obvious that the Government
will face a deficit at the end of the
fiscal year and for long time to come
i must requires sums which may have tc
be raised by an increase in taxes Of in
| dividuals and corporations.
Government Financing.
| There is sure to be a good deal Of
! Government financing and there i!
every reason to believe the Federal is.
sues will be readily absorbed. Blu
while safe, sane and sound, these is.
sues do not as q general rule return
| striking profits and the floating o.
other securities therefore will be wei
coined by the bankers.
! In the meantime, customers men arr
| re-establishing their former contact!
and bond statesmen soon will be offer
! ing their wares throughout nearly ever!
section Of the country.
Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
AUTO PRODUCTION
SCHEDULES RAISED
Makers of Medium-Priced
Cars Are Finding Bet
ter Market.
BY EDWARD MORRISON.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

DETROIT, April 4.-Studying the
production records for the month of
March, automobile executives have
found healthy sign in the increases
shown by the manufacturers of
medium priced cars.
AStute leaders in the automotive
world consider the buyers of cars in
the $1,000 class and upward the very
sinewS of the industry. They have been
the ones undoubtedly who have Spurred
the industry on to its best engineering
feats. They furnished the incentive for
automobile values long before the low
priced field was highly developed It is
small wonder, then, that hopeful eye
is turned upon the March figures of
such companies as Studebaker, Buick,
Hudson and Hupmobile.
Studebaker with TOLL units had the
largest month since September, 1929,
and an increase of almost IS per cent
over February. Untitled orders on April
] we're the highest in a year Buick
shipped 10,550 cars in March, COM
pared with 1907 in February and $3.50
in March. 1880 Hupmcbile manufac-
tured 1851 units. of which 1880 were
SKIES and 731 Fights, compared with
1908 in February Sales of Hudson
February.
Another manufacturer in the medium
priced field making phenomenal records
is Auburn. With the year only one
fourth gone, Auburn already has turned
out 80 per cent as many cars as it did
all last year Far from crying about
depression, Auburn Is cheerful with
prosperity Even in Detroit, which has
always been known as tough sales
spot for cars not manufactured in the
Detroit area, Auburn is making a good
showing
Figures released by the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce show
total March production of 1877 848
trucks and passenger cars. exclusive of
Fords. The Ford production will boost
this figure about 100000. bringing it
close to or slightly under the estimates
made early last month.
Copyright 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
MARCH BUILDING PASSES
RECORD FOR FEBRUARY

By The Associated Press.
Much more new building construction
was undertaken i'm the United States
during March than was the case the
previous month.
The increased volume is attributed in
part to seasonal changes in the industry
and the removal of distractions Winter
places on some types of outdoor work
The Department of Commerce says
the actual total of contracts for new
construction let in this country east
of the Rocky Mountains during the first
10 days of March totaled $262 ,909, 900
February contracts in the same area
totaled $685., 405, 100.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
Higher Cigarette
Prices to Follow
Advance in Cigars
Retailers Plan TO Fix Sales
Schedules at Profit
able Point.
BY BRADLEY w. TRENT.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. April 4.-Advancing re-
tail tobacco prices, forecast several
weeks ago when it was disclosed that
cigarette manufacturers were revising
wholesale prices upward. became a
reality today as two large cigar store
chains made an average boost of per
cent in the price Of cigars and pipe and
chewing tobaccos.
The retailers also indicated there
would be an early increase in the
prices of popular brands of cigarettes
IN their effort to correct "demoralized'
industry caused by cut rates.
Edward H. Davis, publisher of the
United States Tobacco journal, said he
had received a communication from a
large drug store chain indicating it
would advance prices on cigars in the
next few days. The associated retailers
OF Greater New York, representing
about 100 stores, are also ready to fall
in line with the new prices. Mr.. Davis
said. He expects IS per cent of the
trade to follow.
Retailers as well as wholesalers and
other branches of the tobacco industry
have been without reasonable profit
for years" Mr. Davis declared The
upward trend OF prices can be correctly
described as movement for self-pres-
ervation.''
David A. Schultz, president of a cigar
store chain, said the present price adj
vance in reality is a modification OF
the cut rates, some of which have been
in effect for two years. that have forced
many independent dealers out of busi-
ness because of the slim profit margins.
He believes mark-up in the prices of
popular brands of cigarettes will come
in about two weeks with the new scale
81 or % cents, instead of two for rs
cents. The 15-cent straight scale, he
said, would give the retailers a profit
of rs per cent while at two packages
for rs cents the margin is only to 8
per cent
Price sterilization is the aim of the
| large chains as well as of most of the
Independents, Mr.. Schultz said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
Bids for Bank.

BALTIMORE, April 4 (SpeciaD =
Bids for the sale of the Walbrook
branch of the Chesapeake Bank will
be opened Morday at 10 O'Clock by
Chief Judge Samuel K. Dennis in Cir
cult Court. Part 2.
Each bid, according to an order of
court, must be accompanied by certi-
fed check for $4,000, made payable
to George W. Page, receiver and State
Bank Commissioner.
Provisions of the public sale require
that the deal be ratified within 60 days
1t is understood that number of bids,
some from out Of town financial insti-
tutions, for the bank property will be
submitted.
Several weeks ago J. Monroe Holland,
former president of the Chesapeake
Bank, went before Judge Charles F..
Stein and bid $105,299 for the Walbrook
branch of the Chesapeake Bank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
WHEAT VALUES GAIN
IN STRONG MARKET
Recent Increase in Export Business
Quickens Trading at
Chicago.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 4.-Wheat scored a
brisk advance today, helped by North
American export business totaling
1000 900 bushels day in the last four
business days. The fact that large eX-
port business developed when most of
the leading markets were closed owing
to Easter holidays was taken as evidence
that Europe would need plenty of wheat
the next three months especially, and
that Asiatic buying would also be broad
enough to be factor. At one stage
today July delivery of wheat was up
nearly cents bushel over Thurs
days finish.
Wheat closed firm. unchanged to 8
cents up. corn 1922. advanced, oats
5s-.s higher and provisions unchanged
to a rise of cents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
COAL TRADE FAIR.

burning weather continuing into
last week kept anthracite moving from
retail yards at a steady pace, Saward's
Journal says. The steady call from
consumers has induced retailers to
place orders for moderate amounts Of
tonnage for replacement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05

the two is too wide. This is one of
the principal causes OF the slackness in
many lines of business.
There is now growing disposition
to question the reasonableness of wages
at the 1929 scale when there are $780,
600 or more unemployed in the coun-
try, when many living costs, especially
foods, are down 70 those of 1915, and
when it is a commonly known fact
that compromises with the union scale
are being made in practically every
metropolitan center in the United
States. The contrast is also with re-
version in nearly every country in Eu-
rope to radical decline In commodity
tcopyrisht. 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
CHEAPEST MONEY RATES
IN YEARS STILL PREVAIL

BY the Associated Press.
The money market of the country
still offers to business the most attraC-
tive rates for many years.
Ranging from ! 1. to 2 per cent for
more than a month, there seems little
reason to expect any appreciable up
turn in the immediate future, financial
students here aver, due to an unaccel-
Grated demand en- the part of business.
Currency requirements, it is said, are
around The years minimum. while gold.
already preponderantly held in this
country, continues to flow in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
Petition in Bankruptcy.

BALTIMORE, April 4 Especially =
Nathaniel c. wilson, Chevy Chase,
Montgomery County, Md, has filed a
petition in the United States District
Court asking to be adjudicated bank
rupt. The petitioner has no available
assets and $2,51S1l liabilities.
Orders we're signed adjudicat ting him
a bankrupt and referring the case 70
Holden s. FELTON,, referee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET.

CHICAGO, April (P). = Butter
1855; weak; creamery extras (92
score), 1854 standards (90-score car
lots). 1854; extra firsts (90-91 score),
264a2612; flrsts 1883 score), 25l2 "a
IS; seconds (S6-87 score), 24l2a25
Eggs, 28,412; weak; extra firsts, 20;
fresh graded firsts, 10; ordinary firsts
ID; storage packed firsts, 21H; storage
packed extras, 2I3+.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
DIVIDEND CHANGES
RAPID IN MARCH
Increased Payments Made by FL
Companies-Extras Paid by
81 Big Firms.

Dividend changes in March continued
the unfavorable trend of the earlier
months of 1881, although the picture
presented is not entirely gloomy one,
according TO the Standard Statistics Co.
OF New York Increased dividends were
reported by 81 companies. extras by ST.
initials by % and assumptions by T..
Payments were decreased by SO COM
panieS and passed by l40. Detailed
figures fer the first quarter Of 1880 and
1871 follow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
POTATO MARKET.

CHICAGO, April 4 up Omitted State.
Department of Agricultural .-Potatoe!
Receipts, SIS cars; on track, $40; tota
United States shipments, $40; steady
trading rather slow. Sacked, per hun.
Wisconsin round whites
l.50ai.65: Minnesota round whites, LAOS
$50; Idaho Russets. No. /, l.75ai.05
No. 2, i.50a1 so: Colorado McClures
branded, 2.00a2.l0.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05

course OF the mar
ket for the next
few m his or
longer. 1t is a prob
lem that few have
confidence enough
in their views to
try to solve.
Wise brokers, and
they are III the ma =
jority, when ap-
pealed to for ad-
vice will hand out
the latest Informal
ton relating to this
or that security,
giving earnings If
possible. or prom
Use to get this in
formation by pri-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
PEERLESS DIRECTORS.

CLEVELAND, April 4.-CP).-The
Peerless Motor Car Company an
nounced today election of Gsorge A. FL
lis, New York, and j. Wills Stephenson.
Marion. Ind, as directors to succeed
r. S. Geddes and. l. H. Patterson.
Other members OF the directorate were
re-elected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
QUARTERLY DIVIDEND.

NEW YORK. April Especially .---Di-
rectors of Amerada Corporation have
declared the regular quarterly dividend
of so cents per share on the capital
stock, payable April 90 TO stockholders
Of record April IA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
Business News
IN
Retrospect
Bankers and Brokers Hesi-
tate to Give Advice on
Securities During Pres
ent State of Unsettlement.
Loan Demands Slack, De-
spite Low Interest Rates.
BY l. A. FLEMING.

Bankers no less than the great in
vesting public are at sea. and almost
without bearings, when giving consid-
Grafton to the action and probable
The Washington times., 1931-07-07
Rowdy, but Not Vulgar

spurious refinement All the pictures about ladies and
gentlemen the movemen conceived ladies and gentle
to be- They excessively polite and extremely
interesting and the only traces of life in the average movie
program found in the newsree and the roughhouse
comedies Today genuine rowdneSs anmates the pictures
In nearly every picture there sequences which
thumb their at various sacred perhaps the
masculine would be accurate. They little ri
bald and little cynical Without the Hays censorship
which guarantees the purity of the pictures a whole
these bits of light mockery could hardly exist.
All this is long distance from "cean highpurposed
tertanment The pictures clean enough because the
normal activities of human beings the dramas and the
melodrama in which they find themselves not dirty
But am afraid that Mr. Hays is kidding the pictures
little when he speaks of high purpose The alkies are not
in business to gorify the morass
The Washington times., 1931-07-07
A Doubtful Victory

am dubious about these moral victories and picture
saw several weeks ago impressed with their futiy.
The picture called strangers May Kiss and it's center
illicit relationship The whole point the picture Law
in his that the girl who accepted lover was discarded
by him. suffered in the end (No the very end because
eventually everything turned out mmoray pleasantly Yet
in the middle of the picture printed title inserted con-
corning the 'marriage' of the girl and the mana title
completely nvadated half hour later when the man
that he divorced from another wants to
marry his lovely stranger"
Being moralst myself find this sort of thing shocking
in literal the clash between the inserted title and
telegram mental sheshock The first represents
irresistible force of movie morality and the second the
immovable body (o human habs) To present them both
equally victorious is immoral trick.
The Washington times., 1931-07-07
The TaIkies' Word for 1t

And yet, there to be said for it. that by making
venona bow toward morality the talkes have saved them
selves from the lfeess preying which threatened them
The takes like the Greeks have word for it. for the par
ticular it which makes morass red The talkies with
their words have not hesitaed to touch subject which
happens to be in the air. They have twisted plots about and
photographed their meanings through layers chiffon But
the patron by this time knows what all the talk
about The censorship has imposed kind of deicacy which
stern anmoraists call hypocrsy but has not eliminated
the immoral from the
The Washington times., 1931-07-07
to Type
QUARRELS OF PIOUS
BRING JOY TO
CYNICS
-Bv GILBERT SELDES-

do not suppose that most people will take the trouble
discover what the between Will Hays and his critics in
the Federal Council of Churches really about When pous
folk fall out there joy the breasts the unregenerat
and think that millions of people will merely read the
headlines and be glad know that the churches attack
ing Will Hays and that Will Hays is swapping back at the
churches The most spectacular accusation from Mr.
Hays himself that prominent minister of the gospel asked
Tor III per cent of the profits of The King of Kings
The principal charge against Mr. Hays is that he has too
assduousy cultivated the good opinion of influential
people" in the hard words we all understand he has
paid salaries to supposed to be totally impartial
The Washington times., 1931-07-07
Morals by Cutting

The best thing the report of the councils research de-
partmen the single The motion picture can
not be made good by the of scissors" think the
moraists who that used the good in
moral but is equally true that the movies
be made good the of interesting and complete works
Of art by the of scissors.
The report absoves Mr. Hays of being tyrant in the
moving picture industry and actually does not take the
moral effect Of the films ALL But it says that critics of
the industry have fallen into the habit of believing the Hays
organization to be smokescreen designed o deceive the
public and to purposes of narrowly selfish char
acter.''
The Washington times., 1931-07-07
Frankness Lacking

One reason for this that the Hays organization Off
cialy known the Motion Picture Producers and Dis
tributors of America Incorporated has been entirely
frank with the public The official title u.s. fact the
frankest thing about it. 1t is organization intended
for the peculiar benefit of the producers alone Outsiders
get the impression that Mr. Hayes refuses to allow pic
you blandy says you misunderstood All the Hays
office does to point out in advance the difficulties which
such film would be certain to have with the Individual
State censorship boards.
The Washington times., 1931-07-07
Veto in Fact

Oddly enough this pointing OUT has almost exactly
the effect of veto. Last summer the Hays office
quoted saying that certain play fundamentally
unadaptable to the screen and any denial Of
this statement The Hays office opposed censorship
it prdes itself its activity in fighting against
strctve laws This is quite natural When he has eaten
all the lambs the lion is pretty strict vegetarian
The best thing about the non-exstent Haysian censor
ship is that it doesn't work. few months ago Mr.. Hays
said that the American public 'the greatest of all
censors (and was) beginning to vote thumbs down
the ardboled realism in literature and the stage
which marked the postwar period The agreement of
the larger companies to restrict the number of gangster
decency.
The Washington times., 1931-07-07

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and fdlly guaranteed for one year.
The fountain syringe is complete
with attachments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-07

Old papers for saIe at the Em- pire office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-07
THE SEA WOLF IS SHOWN LAST
 TIMES TONIGHT
Dolores Costello Will Be Seen Tomorrow at
 Coliseum

The Sea Wolf" starring Mil- ton Stills, will be shown for the last times tonight at the Coliseum theatre. Hearts in Exile" with Dolores Costello in the leading role. will be the attraction for to- morrow only, the first presentation being at the Saturday afternoon matinee. e~t
 The Sea Wolf" smacks of salty spray and the hot breath of adven- ture. The screen version of Jack London's most famous story has Stills, Jane Keith and Raymond Hackett in the featured roles
 The picture is thrilling tale of a strange romance aboard a sealing vessel in the North Pacific, with the menacing figure of the Wolf" the master of the schooner. furnishing the powerful drama and gripping situations of the story.
 With Us nautical sequences film ed entirely at sea, even to the pre- cedent of making the cabin inte- riors right aboard the specially fitted schooner, Director Alfred