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DECLINE IN RAILROAD
INCOMES is REVEALED

Special Dispatch 70 The Star.
NEW YORK, March 26.-The few
railroad reports so far published for
February make a poorer showing than
those for January Lehigh Valley Is
on 43 per cent In net operating income.
Norfolk 81 Western, so per cent, and
Union Pacific, so per cent.
On the other hand, the March car
Ioadings appear to indicate some i'm
proyement In trafic for, while they
are much below the totals Of year ago,
they indicate a rising trend compared
with declines in the same period In the
previous three years. To illustrate: In
the three weeks from February %. load
ings this year have gained by $1,000
cars. In the same term year ago they
were of $4,000 and in 1929 and in 1928,
or 1900 cars each. This gives some
reimbursement for the belief that turn
inYaiirOao earnings may come with the
March reports.
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featuring 1880 common share earnings
1921, against 1914.
Timken Roller Bearing 1890 common
share earnings 1912, against $3.50.
United Aircraft & Transport 1880
common share earnings, based on aver
age number of shares outstanding and
including profit on sale of securities,
were $128, against $5.42, same basis,
in 1929.
U. S. Smelling, Refining g. Mining
1880 common share earnings 1925,
against 1881, based on average number
Of shares outstanding in both years.
u s. Steel ingot production week
ended March % averaged about 55h
per cent Of capacity, against SIS per
cent preceding week, 80 per cent like
1880 week and 81 per cent 1929 week.
Yale g. Towne Manufacturing 1890
deficit $296,931, against net income
$2,585, 624, equal to $5.31 common share,
in 1929.
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ANACONDA. DIVIDEND CUT.

NEW YORK, March 26 R.-Direc-
tors of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.
today placed the stock on q $50 an
nual basis against $3.50 previously by
declaring afuuarterly disbursement OF
37h cents.
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TREASURY CERTIFICATES.

scotland has . safety FIRST" drive
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CORPORATION
REPORTS
TRENDS AND PROSPECTS, OF
LEADING ORGANIZATIONS.

NEW YORK, March 26.-The fol-
lowing is a summary Of important cor
poration news prepared by the Standard
Statistics Co., Inc.s New York, for the
Associated Press.
News Trend.
Railroads which have reported NET
operating income for February show
comparisons with February, 1880, even
poorer TRAN had been expected.
Thek Aggregate income of 10 roads was
40 / Ter cent below February, 1880, and
SOL per cent under the same month OF
1929. Only few individual roads, par
ticularly New York, Ontario g. Western
and Chicago Great Northern, have re-
ported an operating income above Feb
ruary of last year.
Reports indicate that progress is be-
ing made in merger negotiations be-
tween Canadian paper interests, and
that actual agreement between three
important units may be announced
shortly.
The days corporation news contained
two items which might well have de-
pressed stock prices noticeable. yet the
actual drop Of the market at yester-
days Close in the opinion of many, was
not as great as It might have been. The
fact that dividend cuts by Baltimore &
Ohio and Westinghouse Electric &
Manufacturing both were not entirely
unexpected, may account for the small
size Of this decline.
The Companies.
Atlantic Refining cuts tank car gaso-
line price " cent gallon In all ter
ritories.
Gray Telephone Pay Station, IS cents
extra and so cents quarterly common
dividends; paid extra rs cents Janu-
airy I.
international Paper g. Power plan
for merger Of Canadian international
Paper, Abitibi Power g. Paper and Min
nesota-O Ontario Paper reported to have
reached advanced stages.
Philadelplia Rapid Transit minority
stockholuers take steps TO organize Proc
tectiye Committee; would attack Mitten
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RAILROAD EARNINGS.

NEW YORK, March 20 lP).-Rail-
roads reporting today their February
net operating income, with comparisons
with last year, included:
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351z, 80 at 35s, 80 at 1914, 20 at
35M, so at 351a, 6 at 35h, 3 at 351s,
at 35K.
Potomac Electric So pfd.-5 at 1929.
Washington Rwy. & Elec. pfd.-12 at o.
Columbia Sand & Gravel pfd.--10 at "a,
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The Washington times., 1931-10-08
Martin Again

And so, as this baseball writ
ers' special swings on toward
st. Louis, the pendulum of base
ball supremacy is just as rap
idly swinging toward the Ma
tional League, which hasn't en-
joyed a worlds championship
since 1923, when the Cardinals
grabbed the gonfalon at the ex-
pense of the New York Yankees.
But there's only one thing to
write about this rapidly expir-
ing series, and that is Martin
John Leonard Martin to his
mother, Pepper" to the Car
dinals, and Poison" to the Ath-
letics.
Putting on his one-man act in
the fifth game of the set, all
Mad Martin did was to drive in
four of the Cardinals five runs,
hammer a home run with
Frisch on base and field his job
as if he were riding one of his
native Texas pinto ponies in
stead Of riding one of Connie
Mack's white elephant pitchers.
It sprinkled somewhat before
the game, and. in conclusion,
let us say it sprinkled only
enough to settle Pepper" Mar
tins dust.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08

SSASS SA1SSeSSSNSS~~
Meditation" said Connie to
his bedraggled athletes, "is o. X.
for people like those Cardinals,
but what we will have to do is
to plot, provided Sherlock
Holmes doesn't reach st. Louis
in time. 1 have wired him, be-
cause he seems to be the only
person ever heard of who could
solve every riddle, and 1 mean
to put it up to him to tell us
how to laSSO that intOlerable
person named Martin"
''Well, let's not worry too
much," sOOthed his boys. you
know that George Earnshaw
will be there on Friday-gOOd
old George"
"Yes, good old George" re-
spOnded Connie, "but didn't /
read somewhere in the box scores
that this inSufferabIe creature
landed q few haymakers on
good old George the first time
they met, and SOcked him twice
more upon the occasion of their
second joint adventure. be-
lieve such facts to be truth, the
whole truth and hardly any
thing else, and that is why we
either must receive guidance
from the aforementioned Mr..
Holmes or second money in this
baseball sweepstakes, which is
not as it should me, we being
the great AS, ETC."
"We're in. a spot now where
1t doesn't seem as if we can be
nOsed out" commented Gabby
Street before tossing farewell
salvOs to the Quaker town.
1--WE have Grimes, who
stopped the AS with two hits
on Monday. BurIeigh ought to
deliver again. If he should be
treated by the A'S in a fashion
not in keeping with his age
and dignity, we'll have Der
ringer to rush to his rescue.
And, IL we don't grab that de-
ciSiOn, we still have Bill Halla-
han who has stopped those
blOkes twice and is ready to
act as the pause committee
again for the third time.
".Meanwhile," added Street,
"The only fellow the AS have
who has caused us to gnaw
at our nails in anguish is
EarnShaw. Yet we've beaten
him once in two starts and
it's $3.50 that we can Iang
him overheard the next time.
After EarnShaw there is Grove
whom we've hammered for %
safetieS! HOyt, who was batted
out Of the box, Walberg, Rom
nell and Mahaffey, who have
caused us no distress whatSO-
ever"
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
MARTIN IS HERO
Of HEROES

EN- ROUTE TO ST. LOUIS, Oct
8.-The exclusive topic Of conver
sation is Johnny Martin, the most
glamorous world series hero since
the classic began.
Others, in the drifted years
have flashed brilliantly for one OF
two games, or have placed some
spectacular play upon the records
50 that their memories live fo1
this year or that. But Martin has
been the mighty man in every
game played so far, and the more
difficult becomes his role the more
amazingly does he perform.
Since he ratified three SafetieS
off Grove in the opener, and since
he pilfered the first sack from the
arm Of Mickey Cochrane, he has
been "ganged" by the Athletic
team. Cochrane and the pitcher
and the infielders have tried every
conceivable trick to stop him
from hitting and halt his reckless
daring on the paths. Failure has
been their only portion.
He has SmaCked every starting
hurler and the reserve squads
as well. He has connected with
everything shat q baseballer
can thrOw-except a fit.
He has dominated the Cardinal
attack and demoralized the superb
machine that Connie Mack put
together.
And the strangest feature of
it all, in the career of Martin, is
that he had to "steal" his way
into the big league. The Cards,
who picked him up in 1924
thought so little Of him that when
they ordered him to report at
their 1925 training camp, some
body forgot to send him a ticket
or money. Martin was suffering
from q bit Of depression at the
time and so, to get to camp, he
had to ride freights or the brake
beams of passenger trains-with'
out permission of the railroads,
His arriving wardrobe consisted
Of the clothes he was wearing.
Thus the saga Of JohnpXs Martin
not merely rivals, but Il -eclipses
any story ever penfed by the
immortal Horatio Alger.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
Nick Altrock Says:
BY NICK ALTROCK

EN- ROUTE TO ST. LOUIS,
Oct. 8.-Uncle Nick can conscien-
tiously say Pepper Martin isn't
having a field day this series. He
is putting on the full olympic
games. Among other depredations
yesterday he bunted a single and
hit home run. There is practi-
cally no novelty left for him to pull
now except bunt a home run and
steal first on a foul ball..
Even the Philadelphia fans are
cheering the boy. For the asking,
he could have that city hall statue
of William Penn for a paper
weight. The pecanS in center field
almost downed him with paper
when he went out to his position.
The demonstration beat New
York's reception to Lindbergh by
1,700 waste baskets full. When
Pepper gets out to st. Louis they
are liable to give him the MiSsiS-
sippi River.
Well, the Cards are now one up.
If they only took out Martin the
series might go On forever.
About Pinch Hitters
Connie Mack juggled his team
around the latter part Of the
game. Connie was so diSguSted
some of his outfielders were lucky
they weren't moved to Altoona
and Shamokin. The AS only
batting strategy now GEMS TO be
to kill the Cards pitchers with
batted balls or else Ireak their
hands. Grimes almost got his
finger tipped off by a liner Tues
day and yesterday Gwo sharp
Athletics hits glanced off Halla-
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
Isn't Much Left

"And how are they going to
Stifle Burleigh Grimes tomor-
row?" is topic which no
doubt is the subject Of some
Mackian conferences today. Be-
cause if they don't, they'll be
gone ganders insofar as the
1881 world series is concerned,
and me mates, there isn't much
Of it left.
Charles Buck" Herzog, the
only one of the trio that snares
the 12.hit world series record
who was in Philadelphia, was
around the Cardinal dressing
room after yesterdays game,
congratulating Martin on his
feat and wishing him success
in st. Louis in his effort to
create a new and better record.
AS a whole but one member
of the Athletics is playing in
this series up to his regular
season form, and that gentle
men is the one and only AL
Simmons, who got a double
and two singles in the fifth
game to swell his batting aver
age somewhat nearer normal
proportions. His third hit was
the one that developed the AS
only run of the day.
An indication of how cleverly
Hallahan was pitching was
when Simmons came to bat in
the eighth round, after having
made three consecutive hits and
with two on bases and a chance
to tie the score with a home
run, he bounced ieebly to High
for a forced play at third.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
|Pickups and
Putouts
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

A0ANA0
C. Edward "PrOf." Beckett,
who retired from Y. M. C. A.
after 43 years devoted to ath-
letic work, recalls when . peach
basket was the goal in basket
ball. Beckett is said to be re-
spOnsible for the bottOmIeSs
basket type Of goal Mike
Thompson, former Georgetown
football and athletic director, is
writing q series Of the Olden
days for the Saturday Evening
Post. also, Charles Warren
authors "DuCkpin DivOts" for
the bOwlers' official paper. .
Dutch" Bergman made himself
more solid with the scribes by
erecting that palace" rs q
press box atop the Catholic U.
Stadium. it's heated, too, and
protected from the wind. =.
twas q time when the boys
were warmed by good cheer
from Tom McLaFney, Turk"
Murphy, REDS" DiGiuIian and
= few more hardly souls who
braved the elements Dick
''Pal' OBrien entertainS
thoughts Of dyeing his hair,
which is flaming red.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
Leonard to Fight
In Boston Oct. q

NEW YORK, Oct. Benny
Leonard, former lightweight cham
pion, said today he would box
in Boston October 81. He said
he would continue his attempt to
come back as a middleweight,
despite the ruling of the New
York Boxing Commission that he
could not go through with his
proposed fight here in Madison
Square Garden against Paulie
walker.
The commission took the posi-
ton Leonard was not in shape
for a comeback campaign.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
BIG
PUNCH IN AS

Grove and EarnShaw may pitch
brilliant ball for the Athletics,
but unless AL Simmons. champion
batter of the American League,
leads the way the other members
Of the cast fail. Until Simmons
began to hit the Athletics did not
look like a world series winner.
True, in the opening game they
shellacked the offerings Of Derrin-
ger after weak start, but even
then Connie Mack was none too
confident. He wanted to see
Simmons hit in the pinch with
the certainty of his league days.
The second game found Simmons
as weak as a pitcher at the bat.
Connie Mack knew Simmons
was batting at bad balls and that
is not Simmons style. All along
Simmons maintained that he was
not in a slump, but his batting
figure for the first three games
was exactly .167, not a mark
calculated to impress his admirers
that he still had his eye on the
ball.
"My timing Is perfect" said
Simmons. II am meeting the
ball and hitting 1t, but it is
going straight at players.
When you don't get good ones
to hit at you have to hit at
something"
Simmons proved yesterday and
the day before that he is the
hit barometer Of the champion
Mackmen. He connected safely
two times in four trips to the
plate on Tuesday and delivered
three times in four tries yester.
day. He looked the champion
hitter he was during the season.
The statement by Simmons
that he has to hit at bad balls
was borne out by the story Of
Burleigh Grimes. When Simmons
planted that drive over the right
field barrier in the ninth inning
of the third game, the most
surprised man in the park was
Burleigh Grimes, who purposely
threw the ball wide so Wilson
would catch McNair, who was on
first, going to second.
Simmons has driven in five OF
the Athletics IL runs.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
FANS WATCH
PEPPER
CLOSELY

EN- ROUTE TO ST. LOUIS,
Oct. 8.-Westward bound, Pepper
Martin finds himself dominating
the shifting scene as no un-
heralded player has succeeded in
doing since 1906, when a Substi-
tute infielder, George Rohe,, sin
gle-handedly, swung the world
championship to the Chica a o
White Sox by his sensational hit
ting.
Martin was nearly the last
Redbird to don civilian plumage
and leave the Cardinals dressing
room underneath the right wing
of the Shibe Park grandStand yes
terday.
Congratulations on tying the
record" piped . st. Louis
rOOter.
"What recOrd?"
twelve hits"
"Sure 1 got IL hits. Is that
a recOrd?"
Informed that he had dead
locked the worlds series and rec
ord for most hits, Martin replied:
"Say, that's great. Why, may
be I'll get another bump or two
out there and then that will be
a new record, won't it?"
Martin yesterday became a real
center of public attention for
every move he made. The fans
view with delight his observance
Of his two special SuperstitionS.
They buzzed when he stepped out
of the batter'S box after missing
a swing at the ball, picked up a
handful of loose gravel and tossed
it into the batter'S box ahead of
him before reSuming his batting
stance.
Will Walk Plenty
In the eighth inning a fan
tossed a veritable shower of score
cards over the pavilion railing.
Martin called time and held up
the game about five minutes until
he had picked up every last frag-
ment of litter, for the second of
his two pet lunches is keep the
outfield in back of him free from
extraneous matter.
How Martin got a homer on
that curve HOyt threw him Is a
mystery to all Of u.s." said one
of the Mack coaching staff af.
ter the game. "We're getting to
feel that right now this fellows
weakness is a base on balls. He'll
get lot of walks from now on"
Martins drive for the worlds
series base-stealing record was
blocked when Cochrane shot him
down in the eighth. Pepper needs
two more steals to tie Jimmy
Slagle's record Of six, made in
1907.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
NO STOPPING
MARTIN, SAYS
COCHRANE
BY MICKEY COCHRANE
Catcher, philadelphia Athletics

EN- ROUTE TO ST. LOUIS, Oct.
.S.-If we're going to win our
third consecutive world series
crown for Connie Mack we'd bet
ter do something and very
ouickly-about this Pepper Mar
Tin. He's making a one-man show
of this annual baseball classic
and all to the Athletics diSad-
vantage.
Three times in this series we
thought we had Martin stopped.
He wasn't. Each time after we
managed to get him out he'd
come back with Just as much
power and strength as on the
opening day when first he broke
into the spotlight.
Martin has put us in the hole
once more. Yesterday he was re-
sponsible for four of the st.
Louis Cardinals five runs. He
beat us though credit must also
be showered upon Bill Hallahan
for his splendid pitching. Waite
Hoyt, q cool veteran with an un-
derstanding of batting stance,
tried Martin on inside curves and
also fast ones outside. There
also was a change of pace in
serted in an effort to get rid Of
this sensational youngster. He
hasn't weakness.
HalIahan had great control.
He was even better in my eS-
timatiOn than in St. Louis. He
had great judgment and showed
that he's improving all the
time. Last year he relied largely
on his fire ball. Now he mixes
his physical assets with baseball
sense.
Hoyt didn't pitch a poor game
for the AS. He would have gone
on but for Martins homer. In
fact, our pitching was good
though not quite so good as that
Of Hallahan.
We haven't an alibi to offer.
The Cardinals have played great
ball. They've had air-tight pitch
ing, timely hitting by Pepper Mar
tin and splendid fielding to throt-
tie any Mack uprising.
We haven't been hitting as a
team. Simmons did some deadly
work yesterday but others-il-
cluding myself-fell down in the
pinch. With EarnShaw and Grove
available to oppose Grimes and
Derringer we are still confident of
success.
Two more wins and we'll still
be champions.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
MACK'S TEAM
MUST RALLY
TO WIN
By BABE RUTH

EN- ROUTE TO ST. LOUIS,
Oct. s.-The pitchers Gabby
Street has sent out have done
nobly, but no pitching staff in
either league figures to hold .
team like the AS down around
the 200 mark in hitting. When
Mack'S team can score only II
runs in five games there is some
thing wrong with the attack,
and it can't be the other fellows
pitching.
The position Of the AS today
is a tough one. But 1t is not an
impossible task that confrontS
them. I recall that we won two
out Of three from the Cardinals
on their own field in 1925, and
came back to New York in the
lead, three games to two, Just as
the Cardinals are now. We fig.
ured it would be an easy task to
win one of the two games at tho
Yankee Stadium, but the Cards
stepped out and took both games
there, to win the series. That is
what the AS must do this year II
they are to win. :;
Cardinals Show Best
On the play so far in the series,
the Cards look like the better
team, but I have seen the AS
come back so often, when they
seemed beaten, that I won't be
surprised to see them put on the
big rally.
It wouldn't surprise me o bit
to see Mack send EarnShaw out
in his effort to tie up the Sc.
ries in the sixth game.
Big George is a great world sc.
ries pitcher, and the seventh
game will have to take care Of
itself, as far as the AS are con-
cerned, until the sixth is played.
II Earnshaw again pulls the AS
back on even terms, Mack will
have Grove for the final game
Of the series, and Lefty is still
great pitcher, in spite Of the
way the Cardinals have been
swinging into his pitches. .
I look for Derringer and Grimes
to pitch for the Cardinals in that
order, but Street may start Grimes
tomorrow, and come back with
Derringer, if another game is
necessary.
That Pepper Martin is becOn.
ing more and more amazing
every day. Before the series I
read a lot of dope shout the
players Of each team, and Mar.
tin appeared to be rated aS just
an ordinary hitter who could
gaIIOp around the outfield. :;
figured up the Cardinals Scors
ing and found that Martin had Q
hand in all but three Of the IA
runs scored by Streets team since
the series started. The AS simply
are helpless to keep him from hit
ting and stealing bases.
Copyright 1881. by the Christy
Walsh Syndicate.)
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
Pepper Martin May
Break RHth'S Marx

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 8.-Babe
Ruth's record batting average Of
.625 for a world series seems
doomed. Martin jumped to .667
yesterday. Thoughtful Statistici.
ans pointed out that If sacrifice
flies were being scored this year
as they were in 1928, Martins
up-to-the-second average would be
no less than .75O.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
LEONARD DIVORCED

FRESCO. Calf, Oct. S.TMrS.
Sibyl Hit Leonard, wife of H. B.
Dutch" Leonard, today had been
awarded divorce decree from the
former major league baseball
pitcher. They were married in
Massachusetts,, June %, 1927.
The Washington times., 1931-10-08
Martin WIFE
IN TEARS

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. S.-While
the fans were cheering wildly for
Pepper" Martin. World Series
hero extraordinary, when he
clouted out his homer in the
sixth inning yesterday, a woman
in the stands was crying softly.
1t was Mrs. Martin, the Pepper.
Pots" wife.
Mrs. Martin confessed that
the uncomfortable pepper"
has always b en- her hero, and
that she has been cheering
him since their grammar school
days.
Now, as she hears the multi
tudes cheering her hero. tears
come to her eyes. They were
married before Mrs. Martin fin.
ished school and they have a
baby.