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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-13
THE HOSTESS
By Alice Blake

Mid d-March-the fag-end of win ter. Our bodies are crying out for sunshine, our taste is jaded with the heavy foods most of us eat in these months. We long for spring and fresh fruit and vegetables. How strawberries would melt in the mouth just now!
 But we can't change nature. We can, however, outwit her somewhat. With what she gives us during the cold weather we can make tempting dishes in endless variety-enough, indeed, to satisfy, even whet, any appetite.
 One of the best and most delicious ways to vary the fruits which are available now is in salads. Oranges. apples and grapefruit are plentiful in these weeks and, made in salads, provide the means of change in diet. Those recipes have been carefully worked out. Not only are they most healthful, but they taste so good! And the names call up visions of sunshine and warmth.
 Mediterranean Salad grapefruit, free from membrane
 and cut in sections 3 oranges, free from membrane and
 cut in sections
 IF maraschino cherries. halved crisp lettuce
 # cup mayOnnaise
 Arrange grapefruit and orange sections and cherries on lettuce. Garnish with mayonnaise. Serves G..
 Tropic Salad bananas, diced tablespoon lemon juice % tablespoon confectiOners' sugar x cup dates, seeded and cut in pieces
 # cup nut meats, broken x cup celery, cut in thin strips.
 Dash of salt
 1.3 cup mayOnnafse 1-3 cup cream, whipped
 Sprinkle bananas with lemon juice and sugar. Chill 10 minutes. Add dates, nuts, celery, and salt. Toss together lightly with dressing made by folding mayonnaise and additional tablespoons each of lemon juice and sugar into whipped cream. Serve on crisp lettuce. Garnish With rings of maraschino cherries. Serves 6.
 And here is a delicious dressing which can be made with mayon- naise.
 Cream Dressing 1 cup mayonnaise 1.3 cup thick cream, whipped
 Fold mayonnaise into whipped cream. Serve with fruit salads. Makes 1 4 cups.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-13
Children's Party
 For March 17th
Entertainment Features Decorations and Lastly the # Eats

An invitation in the shape of q shamrock in much more interesting than one telephoned or written on orr slinary note paper. So start the party off with flourish by cutting the irl- vitations from green paper of bristol board and inscribing thereon those words which bring joy to all chil- dren. Come to my party"
 As for any children's party, the entertainment should be planned ahead of time. There are all sorts of simple games and contests which can be made appropriate to the day. Some of the old favorites adapted to the occasion are given below:
 1. Let someone play snatches of familiar songs on the piano-just a they are. At intervals play the ''Wearin' of the Green for which song the children should clap their hands instead of giving the name. Anyone who calls out the name of this song is out of the game. To distinguish the outs. mark each one with a green dunce cap and send them to the other side of the room.
 A Potato Race Is Fun.
 2. A potato relay race is always fun. Form two sides, lining the children up one in back of the other. At given signal start the first per- son in each line with a potato on a spoon to goal opposite. They run around the goal carrying the pota- to. and return to hand it to the sec ond in line who dashes to the goal. It will be dropped often but must be picked up with the spoon. Continue until the last person in each line is reached. The line that finishes first is the winning team, and each child on it should be rewarded with a favor. A colleen cap and apron in green and white crepe paper would be nice for the girls. Boys would like miniature clay pipe.
 3. A guessing game. On a table pile group of objects or pictures to the day-a shamrock, a pipe, a harp, green bow of rib bon, a potato, high hat, an Irish flag. etc. Let the children take one look, then cover it up. Give each child pad and pencil to write down
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as many of the objects as he can remember. Be sure to award a prize to the winner.
 4. A lively game, Equip each child with green balloon and a pin. Form two sides. Each side tries to prick the balloons of the persons on the other side and to protect their own team mates. The side with the most whole balloons eff any) after five minutes wins.
 Time For Refreshments.
 When the time for refreshments comes take the children into the dining room, where no food is in evil dence, but a high green hat in the center of the table with green rib- bons. as many as there are children, stretching out from it. At the end of each ribbon is a shamrock card with a child's name on it. They all pull their own ribbons and at the other end is a small roll of paper which, when opened, tells each one to look in some particular spot = behind the davenport, or near the telephone, or under the desk, etc. Ii will only take few minutes to Io- cate the treasures which are green baskets or boxes filled with the lunch. Each one contains several sandwiches, little cake frosted with green icing, and some nuts and candy. Cocoa is passed as soon as the group settles down to lunch.
 The sandwiches will be more in- teresting if made out of different kinds of bread. Whole wheat nut bread for one. peanut butter bread (which is always favorite with children) for another, and white for the third. Recipes for the first two are given below together with a re- cipe for a simple white cake that may be baked in sheet or in indi- vidual cup cake form.
 Whole Wheat Nut Bread
 cups whole wheat flour
 l cup bread flour
 l teaspoon soda
 teaspoons baking powder
 teaspoons salt
 5 tablespoons brown sugar
 1-2 cup mo1asses
 3-4 cup milk
 1-2 cup water
 cup walnuts, cut in small pieces tablespoons melted Crisco
 Mix whole wheat flour, flour, soda, baking powder, salt and sugar together. Add molasses,s milk and water and mix we'll. Add nuts and
 
 into a greased loaf pan and let stand 20 minutes. Bake in slow oven (300 degrees F) l to 1 1-2 hours.
 Peanut Butter Bread
 2 cups bread flour
 2 teaspoons baking powder
 1-2 teaspoon salt
 1-2 cup sugar
 l jar peanut butter, 6 IA oz size tablespoons Crisco
 l cup milk
 2 eggs, beaten light
 Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together. Work peanut butter and Crisco into mixture until well blended. Mix eggs with milk, add to dry mixture and mix thoroughly. Turn into one medium sized greased bread pan. Bake in moderate oven (325 degrees F) IA to 3-4 hours, depending upon the size of the pan.
 White Layer Cake
 1-2 cup Crisco
 l cup sugar
 2 cups flour
 egg whites
 2 teaspoons baking powder
 2-3 cup milk or water
 l teaspoon flavoring
 1-2 teaspoon salt
 Cream the Crisco with the sugar to light, airy mixture; stir in al- ternately the liquid and the sifted dry ingredients. Fold in thoroughly the stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into two we'll greased layer tins and bake in very moderate oven (S65 degrees F.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-13
By CAROLINE D. KING

ing, helps me to make use of the
 accumulated stale bread, and last but by no means least, gets more milk into my family's diet, and pro-
The Washington times., 1931-07-17
SALES
SET RECORD

BOSTON. July l7.-Tonnage
sales Of First National Stores for
the five weeks ended June q,
third period Of the first quarter
of the new fiscal year, were not
only the largest on record for q
similar length of time, but make
the best comparison to date with
year ago.
The gain was almost 1914 per
cent compared with the previous
best increase of 141a per cent for
the four-week period ending
May %.
With food prices falling steadily
throughout the quarter it has
been almost impossible to i'm
prove the showing of dollar
volume.
Decrease in retail prices in the
latest period was full 2 per cent
greater than in May, or 1873 per
cent against 1873 per cent. Aver
age weekly sales in June were
$1,000, 900, or slightly under the
$2,1O6,O 600 and $2,104,00O figures
respectively of May and April.
Including new stores being
opened up by the Bridgeport divi-
sion and the so-called summer
stores" First National Stores, Inc,
now Is operating 2,575 stores.
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FIRM JUNE GAIN
19PER CENT

ITHACA, N. Y, July 17.-Sec-
ond quarter sales of the Morse
Chain Company, division of Borg
Warner Corporation. were 10 per
cent above those Of the previous
three months, it was announced
today by C. S. Davis, president of
the parent corporation.
Timing chains and sprocket
contracts placed by large automo-
bile manufacturers, as well as in
dustrial orders for power trans
mission units have been response
BILE for this substantial gain. Dur
ing June the company also re-
ceived several orders from automo-
bile manufacturers in Holland
and England.
The Morse Chain Company, in
addition to its Ithaca plant, has
one in Detroit.
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BYFR|G|DA|RE

DAYTON, Ohio, July 17.-Sales
of household Frigidaire electric
refrigerators doomed throughout
the country during June, ectab-
fishing increases over June, 1880,
that ranged as high as 79.5. per
cent, it was revealed today in the
final compilation of June reports
of Frigidaire Corporation.
Final figures showed that q
per cent more Frigidaires were
sold for homes and apartments
throughout the United States this
June than during the correspond
ing month of last year, E. c..
Biechler, president and general
manager, said.
He reported such gains as Balti-
more Washington, GOT; New York,
1877 per cent; New England, 37.4;
Philadelphia, sos: Pittsburgh,
64.3; st. Louis, 48.5; Chicago,
4O.6; Kansas City, 1872; Daven-
port, 1875; Birmingham, 3S; At
lanta, 69.8: Roanoke. 54 and
Knoxville 21.5 per cent.
The July production schedule
several weeks ago was set at 80
per cent above that of July a
year ago, and today the schedule
again was increased to care for
present demands, it was an
nounced.
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ALTON AWARDED
To B. { D.

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission today authorized the Al
ton Railroad Company to acquire
the lines of railroads formerly
constituting the Chicago and
Alton Railroad System.
At the same time, it authorized
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
to acquire control of the Alton by
purchase Of capital stock.
Acquisition by the Alton of con-
troll of the Louisiana and Mis-
souri, River railroad and the Kan
sas City. st. Louis, and Chicago
by purchase of capital stock and
under lease. and of the Joliet and
Chicago railroad under lease was
also approved.
The Alton was also authorized
to issue 250,000 shares of common
capital stock, valued at $25, ,00O,-
600. It was permitted to assume
obligations and liabilities in re-
spect to the payment of dividends
on stock on certain lessor COM
panies: 45,35O,O00 of 3 per cent,
50-year gold bonds issued by the
Chicago and Alton, not exceeding
1896, 400 of outstanding equip
ment-trust obligations, and not to
exceed $1,50O,OOO of receivers
notes already authorized to be
issued
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CABLES. UP

NEW YORK, July II G.N.S0.
The New York Cotton Market
displayed a steady tone during
the forenoon trading today, with
future contracts a few points
above the previous close.
Buying activities at the open
ing were stimulated by the inn
proved character of the foreign
news and higher than expected
Liverpool cables. However, after
the initial accumulation of orders
had been filled, renewed selling
was attracted by the better price
levels, and the general list de-
clined from the earlier highs.
At midday, October sold at
9.48, up /; December at 9.72, up
8; January at 9.83, UP 2; March
at 1902, up S, and May at 1919,
up S.
Rains over the cotton belt were
very general and beneficial, and
the forecast was for cloudy un-
settled or Showery weather. All
this favors growth, but some sug-
gest, however, that it also favors
the spread of the weevil, the
shadow that goes with the rains.
Complaints of increased weevil
activity came from southern
Texas and Louisiana.
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BANKS
HELD OUTSIDE !
Of DEBT PLAN
Senator Glass AssaiIs Idea
That Federal System Be
Drawn Into Controversy

LYNCHBURG. Va, July II.
Assailing the proposal that the
Federal Reserve Banks shall be
drawn into the European debt
controversy as an utterly law
less thing" Senator Carter Glass
predicts that Congressional &C.
ton may be taken if this dis
creditable proposition is carried
through II
Senator Glass is a member ae
the Senate Banking and CurreneS
Committee charged with recon-.
mending changes in the Federal
reserve act. He was Secretary a
the Treasury in the Wilson Ad.
m1nlStratlOn. ats
Commenting on a statement by
Under Secretary Mills Of thA
Treasury Department, in which
that official asserted the Govern.
ment has no control over the foSS
eign policies Of the Federal RI
serve banks and that they haVa
been kept free from executive in
fluence or interference, Senator
GLASS SAID: EyA
"Mr. Mills is both technically
and fundamentally right, excepc
that the State Department. at
Washington, without any SanC.l
tIOn Of law. has sought to con-
troll private credits and to intera
fere with the Federal reserves
system" ~
But, he said, according to presA
dispatches, the Federal Reserve
banks are, without any semh,
lance Of statutory warrant, to be
drawn into the situation by Join
ing other central banks in guar
teelng tremendous credits to for
eign governments. af
He denounced this as a "dis
credltable proposition'' and 70
garding proposal that President
Hoover in conjunction with the
dominating figures" of the NeR
York Federal Reserve Bank, rnigAA
direct Federal Reserve Board
action, said that the President
has not and never was intended
to have authority over the sy&
TENS policies. ~
The Washington times., 1931-07-17
FRANKLIN PLAN
FIRMS MERGE

The merger plan whereby
Franklin Plan Corp. will head a
consolidation Of five personal fl
nance companies was completed
when stockholders of National
Cash Credit Assn. formally ap-
proved by stockholders Of the
other participating companies, in
Guiding the American Cash Credit
Assn, the Franklin Thrift and
Loan Assn. of America and the
Franklin Plan Co. of America.
George S. Groves. president of
the Franklin Plan Corporation,
pointed out today that the consoli-
dation will result in a simplified
capital structure, substituting two
widely held Stocks-Franklin Plan
preferred and common-for the
various stocks of the merging
corporations now outstanding. Ap-
plication will be made to list pre-
ferred and common stocks on the
New York Curb Exchange.
With total resources of approx
mately $4,000, 900, the new cor.
poration controls 81 loan offices
in IA states and maintains execu-
tive offices in Philadelphia and
Baltimore.
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BY LEWIS HANEY
Director New York University Bureau
OF Business Research

OF Business Research
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July IT,
In Birmingham I find the worst
business conditions thus far met
on my trip.
The story is easily told. On
top of the collapse Of a real
estate boom has come a drastic
recession in the local steel and
iron business.
These things have resulted in
numerous bank failures and
much unemployment. The bank
failures are probably over, bat
the unemployment Is being in
creased by q shutdown Of GER
tain iron and steel mills starting
July 22.
Realty Collapse
I find no industry in this ter
ritory that is looking up. The
cement industry, which. is i'm
portant here, has been doing
fairly well on road contracts. But
that business is tapering off and
prices are low. Dealer business is
dead.
OF course, back of all this lies
the long depression of cotton
farming. Cotton is still king in
the South and rules even this
Dixie Pittsburgh"
From 1928 to the middle of
1928, this city was in the thrOeS
of a real estate boom. Property
was marked up to five or even
ten times it's original price. There
are so many lots laid out in Bir-
mingham, and envirOnS that If all
were built on and q family lived
in each house, the population
here would very nearly equal
that of New York City.
Credit inflated
Inflated credit was abundant,
almost anyone could finance" a
building with practically no cash.
Then came the crash. Building
permits reached the record figure
of nearly $23,0OO,O0O in 1927, in
1880 they had fallen to a little
ever $3,O0O,000. The little COM
munity banks went under. Even
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Demand for seasonable goods
has been stimulated during the
past two weeks not only by the
advent of warmer weather, but
also by the generation of in
creased public confidence result
ing from alleyiation of an acute
foreign situation, says the Stand
ard Statistics Co. Of New York,
in its current review of retail
trade, which continues in part:
Reports of June sales, which
now are being made public by
the leading chain organizations,
disclose the most favorable CON-
parsons with 1880 results ex-
perienced so far this year.
Units operating in the sand
1O-cent to 81 field recorded
SiEeable gains over . year
earlier.
Exclusive Of the three mail
order houses, which expert
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CLOTH MARKET EASY

NEW YORK, July II GN.SO.
The rise in raw cotton today
failed to have any appreciable eff
feet in the coarse-yarn gray goods
market today. Cloths continued
on offer at easy levels in first and
secondhand channels. Buyers
lacked interest in gray goods, de-
spite the fact that several centerS
were getting more business on
percaleS and other finished fab
RIGS. Print cloths were quiet, with
sales small. Carded broadcloths
declined on sales. Sheetings were
of, little interest. Only scattered
small lots of drills, sateens. twillS
and other goods were wanted.
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ranciaI Ne1vs Stocks Bonds Commodities and Comment
Long Pull Due to Restore
Alabama Prosperity

building and loan associations
have had to suspend interest
payments on certificates.
All the independent community
banks in Birmingham are now
eliminated through mergers" or
closing down. Some will pay 10
per cent and others IS per cent.
The gross deposits of the failed
banks were about $7,OOO,9Oe. The
depOsitOrs will get about half that.
Blast Furnaces Close
The production of both pig
iron and steel here is on the down
grade. In June a year ago there
were only Is blast furnaces active.
In June, this year there were but
IL.
BY August it is predicted that
not over seven will be in blast.
The Ensley rail mill of the Steel
Corporation subsidiary will close
in a week and with it must go
blast furnaces and open hearth
steel works.
Pig iron has been piling up in
the yards during the. past three
or four months. Birmingham
producers are selling iron in
northern markets for as low as
$40 ton, am told.
Pipe Mills Hard Hit
One reason for this condition is
the disappointing nature Of the
pipe business. Alabama produces
from so to 60 per cent Of the ma
tion's cast iron pipe.
The pipe mills here are operat.
ing at less than so per cent OF
capacity, which for this Time OF
year is not good. Municipal buy
ing has not amounted TO much
since a little squirt early IN the
spring.
Eighty per cent Of building
trade workers in Birmingham are
now idle. Thousands Of iron and
steel workers are unemployed SO,
of course, there is some real Suf-
fering among labOrerS and retail
ira ae is poor.
It will take two years to liqui-
date Birmingham real estate and
get rid of the last piece Of distress
property.
The Washington times., 1931-07-17

Amtorg Trading Corporation for
relief from an additional assess
ment Of income taxes amounting
to $23, ,846.
Notice was filed on the Amtorg
corporation tby Commissioner of
Internal Revenue David Burnet
that the bureau had disallowed a
deduction of $211,97 from the
gross income Of the agency.
Money Went to Soviet
The bureau indicated that the
deduction was diSallowed because
it represented operating profits
distributed to the Union of Social
istic Soviet Republics"
The net income Of the AmtOrg
Corporation for the year ending
September 30, 1929, was reported
In its tax return as $171,149,
while the income as adjusted by
the bureau amounted to 1891, sos.
$4,000 For Amusement.
Included in the reductions at
first sought to be made was S.,
334 paid to S. G. Bron, president
of the Amtorg, as entertainment
expenses. This also was diSal
lowed by the bureau.
The bureau also refused to de-
duct from the company's gross
income for tax purposes dona-
tions made to a number OF or
ganizations. These donations
were small items, and according
to the record. went to the Rail
road Yardmasters Association,
Railway Express Employees Asso-
citation, Officers Association of
the New York Fire Department,
the Order of Railway Clerks,
Thomas W. Lamont, treasurer"
and the Fireman's Association.
However, before the tax board,
the only question involved will
be the disallowance of the so
called excise tax paid to the
Soviet.
The Washington times., 1931-07-17
HIGHER LEVELS
On CURB MART

NEW YORK, July II UN.S0
Curb stocks improved their posi-
ton somewhat further in a quiet
session today, with continued
short-covering and scattering of
speculative demand, resulting in
generally higher price levels
throughout the list.
The utility group gave a par
ticularly impressive performance,
with the best gains chalked up
by American Gas & Electric,
which was IA points higher at
6512; American & Foreign Power
Warrants, up 13s at 1734; ConSoli-
dated Gas of Baltimore, UP 19s
at 88T; Electric Bond & Share,
up / at 393s; Midwest States Utill-
ties, up 13s at 1919, and Tampa
Electric, up ! at As.
Cities Service held firm. Show
ing nominal gain at its midday
high of 1912.
Solar refining was bright spot
in tie oil list, not so much be-
cause of it's nominal price gain,
but the fact that it was able to
enter new high ground for the
year. This company has been
prominently mentioned as in line
for acquisition by some leading
factor in the industry, and its
persistent strength for some time
has added weight to this belief.
Selected speciality issues were
substantially higher with good
gains chalked up to the credit OF
aluminium which was up 3 points
at 1875. Parker RuStproof up 2A
at 9O3s, and Deere up 11s at 1874.
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FINANCE co. OF AMERICA

Net profit of Finance Co. of
America, Baltimore. for six months
ended June 80, 1881, was $82,849
after interest, federal taxes, ETC.,
equivalent after dividend require
ments on per cent preferred
stocks to SO cents share on
l25, 900 combined no-par shares
of class A and class B common
stock. This compares with $685.
263, or 73 cents a share on the
combined class A and class B
stock in first half of 1890.
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Seasonable Improvement
Noted In Retail Trade

enced a drop of nearly IL per
cent in contrast with June,
1880, the 40 systems which
have thus far reported show
an increase of 1.3 per cent.
Leading department stores like
wise are believed to have closely
apprOximated results of a year
earlier.
Nevertheless, the comparison.
Of May and June figures in all
divisions shows that only a few
concerns were able to maintain
sales at the May level"
With the prospect for no
marked expansion in retail de-
mand before fall, the review says,
distributors are confining their
acquisitions on jobberS and manu-.
facturers to immediate needs and
probably will continue this pol
icy during the balance of the
current month at least.
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Credit Men Appoint
.WOOL0rd SecretQru

The Washington Association ef
Credit Men has named J. RAY
Woolard secretary and executive
manager, a post in which he has
been acting since the resignatioa
several months ago Of John II
Reilly. '7
William Gordon Buchanan Waa
elected treasurer, and Charles W.
Clayton. president, announced the
membership of the standing cotR
mittees. sas
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Government Cost
LOUeSt in GeOrqi0

While the per capita cost Of
operating the State government
in 1929 was lower in Georgia
than in any other State in the
United States, it was almost
three times as high as it was in
1917, according to figures released
Monday by the Census Bureau.
The cost of maintaining State
machinery in Georgia was $602
per capita in 1929. In 1917 it
was $227. The nations average
was $1162. Nevada was highest
with cost of $29.83 and Illinois
was next to Georgia with $6.82.