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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-08
Other Livestock
BIZ United Press


Chicago, April 8.-Hogs- Receipts. 49,
600, including 4,000 SLOW, l0@20c lower
than Tuesdays average; bulk, 140-210 lbs,
$7,75@7 IS; early top, $3.50; 22o-S2O lbs,
$4,000 $50; light lights, i4O-160 lbs, good
and choice, S747.90 light weights, 160
200 lbs, good and CHOICE, ,$775@790; me-
choice, s7.f0@7 90: heavyWeishts 35O-s59
lbs, good and choice, S6.9O5a7.50; parking
sows, 275-50o lbs. medium and good,
good and choice, s7.35G775. Cattle-Re3
ceipts, 5000; calves, receipts, 400; fed
steers and yearllngs weak to Csc lower;
mostly l5025c off; slow at decline; large
best weighty steers held around 5000;
bulk early sales, $725Q850; common and
medium grade light heifers and light
she stock dull; slaughter cattle and veal
ers: steers 100000 lbs, good and choice,
$8.50@ 1880; 9OO-110O lbs, good and choice,
Choice, $8'5oaloS0 fsooi56o 16 6Ssu good at5d
and choice, S950010.50 600-1300 lbs,
common and medium, 06255s8,50; heifers,
mon and medium, $55oG7 I; cows G good and
choice, S5@65O common and medium.
S425q525; low gutter and cutter, $3.250
choice, beef, S4.50G5.75; cutter to medium,
S4@ 400; vealers. milk fed, good and
choice, $7@850; medium, $6G7; Gull and
cattle: steers, 5OQ-1O5O lbs, good and
choice, S5.25Q8.75; common and medium,
$500 Z SO; Sheep-Receipts, 10000; few
good and choice wooled lambs, $9.25@9.5O;
rest held. above $2.75: choice clippers,
S6.75; springers. S14@17 for Greek east
lambs. 90 lbs. down, good and choice.
S9.25M10: medium, S8.50m9.25; 9l-1OO lbs
medium to choice, SS.25@9 IS; all weights,
dunn to choice, $s75G5.S5; al all we %eigRt hts
Gull and common, SOAPS.
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In the Air

Weather conditions at a. m:
South wind. miles an hour;
temperature. 81; barometric pres
sure at sea level. 1884; ceiling, I'M
limited; visibility, miles; field,
good.
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BIZ United Press

CLEVELAND. April -Eogs-Receipts.
lower; 25c off and sows and stays. steady:
run grading largely good to choice; 16O-2i0
lbs. sorts, s825 220-250 ID kinds. S8:
260-300 lbs. SITS: rough sows. st. rs: stays
S4.25 Cattle-Receipts. $50: steers very
dull; around 25c lower; common to me-
dunn light kinds; eligible around S. 5O2T
around s3d5 on bulk low cutter to good
kind. Calves-Recsipts. 500 vealers weak
to mostly 10c lower: better gra des So 500
10. so: mostly SO down: Gull and Common.
500 $50: medium good So 09 Sheep
Receipts, l 100; mostly STEADY; considering
quality Of clipped lambs around ss.75mq:
rest So. rs; common to medium sorts, $3.50
CO; fat clipped ewes. IS down.
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26i.c: standards 26s4c Eggs-ExtraS.
l9isc; hrSts. lsi2c Poultrv-Heavy fowls.
Csc; medium 24c; Leghorn fowls. 2lc; heavy
ducks. Csc: old cocks, lSc; geese. I5Gl6c;
caponS. 2Sd33c. Potatoes-Maiue Green
Mt. s2.7002.75 per I00-lb. sack: Idsho
bakers. S2.40Q2.50 per l00-lb. sack
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ceipts. 2 800: fairly active: steady to weak:
bulk desirable I2o-210 lbs. Ss.40Gsso: late
trade mostly. $40: 225-26O lbs. $500
225. mostly cows: cutter grades. s225T
3.75: medium bulls s4.50dss5 Calves
Receipts, 500: vealers. steady: good to
choice. Si0Gi0 so: common and medium
s5.506s5o sheep-Receipts. 500: lambs
active; generally Csc higher: quality and
sorts considered; good wooiskins SO; good
to choice shorn lambs. se.s07s.65: shorn
ewes IS dewHa
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DOW-JOneS
Summary

u J. Newberry Company March sales
81 982. L39, against 1862, 765 in March 1880.
Ihree months S5.447 356, against s5,l06, 939.
Cutler Hammer Company shipments in
quarter ended March 81 were 1867 OOO
against So. 524 900 in like 1880 quarter
and 81, 66S,OOO in first quarter Of 1929.
April IS.
New York Central lines in week ended
April i, loaded 5j,55l cars of revenue
freight, against 5f,75S in previous week
and 6S.@77 in like 1890 week.
- c Ci ga, price var end probable.
to advance prices on popular brands 2
cents to 81 for two packages and IS
cents for single pack.
Freight loadings in United States in
week ended March %, totaled 079 cars
a decrease of 1868 from preceding week
1925 below like 1880 week and 229, 1T
below like 1929 week
Domestic crude oil output in week
ended April 4, averaged 1852. 10 barrels
daily decrease of % $50 from preceding
weeks average and 278350 below like
reports. Gasoline stock declined 1868, goo
barrels to 46,O76,O0o.
New York state bonds being offered. by
Bancamerica- Blair at 100 per cent to 345
per cent Tor various maturities.
American European securities first
quarter net profit 81 cents a common
period 1850. At end nd Of aa snf5g T net
assessment value equal to S37.45 a com
mon share against $63.78 year ago. Market
value of investment securities March 81
S22,799'685 or. S1,540, 557 in excess of cost.
Action on common dividend Of soc on
Intertype Corporation common stock due
at this time deferred from April 7. until
meeting April 81.
Durant Motors of Canada eniOined
from selling out to proposed Dominion
Motors Ltd. on application Of Durant
Motor Corporation of Michigan.
New York and Honduras Rosario Min
Ing Company declared extra dividend of
25c and regular quarterly dividend of
Csc payable April Is. record April IA.
Macmarr stores March sales $6,483. s3f.
against 81 642 1856 in March, 1886 Three
months Sl8,9ll,722, against s21,634.41
safeway stores March sales $17.262 .7s4,
against 315,UOz, liz III March 1880. Three
months $50. 7O5,905, against S54,504 422.
Lane Bryant March sales s1.5os 1853
against 81; 464 83l in March. 1880. Three
months 5s4,222.753 against s3,636333.
Daniel Reeves four weeks March %.
sales .s2.644,753 against $685., 1855 like 1890
period; Three months ended March %,
sales S8.72S,546 against s9.325, 922.
Alleghany,. CORPORATION declared regular
preferred payable May L record april 20.
Pere Marquette handled "a. AIS revenue
cars in March, against 42.116 in February
and 60,036 in March. 1880
During week ended April 4. Wabash
handled 1899 revenue cars against 1904
previous week and 20,122 like 1880 week.
Special meeting Gardner Motor Com
pany to approve plans for liquidation ad-
journed due to lack of quorum.
Copeland products stockholders ap-
prove plan to simplify capital structure
BY exchange of three shares of class A
stock for one no par common share and
thirteen shares class for one new
common share.
Reece Button Hole Machine Company
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SWINE PRICES
Off 10 CENTS.
AT CITY YARDS
Sheep Show First Definite
Market Activity in Sew
eraI Weeks.
HOGS

A weak trend was in evidence
again III hogs at the Union Stock
yards this morning. Prices were
generally 5 to 10 cents under Tues
days average. The bulk, 40 to 500
pounds, sold for $3.50 to $810. Re-
ceipts were estimated at 1900;
holdovers were 323.
Slaughter classes held steady in
the cattle market. Receipts num-
bered 900. Vealers were weak to
so cents lower, selling at SO down.
The first definite market in sew
eral weeks was held in sheep this
morning. Top lambs brought $3.50.
Receipts were 900.
Chicago hog receipts were $4,000,
including 1000 direct. Holdovers,
5000. Market very slow, with no
early sales or bids on ightWeights;
generally asking SO on choice kinds;
few medium weights to 10 cents
lower than Tuesdays average.
Heavyweights from 200 to $50
pounds sold at $3.50 to $40. Cattle
receipts, 5000. Calves, 5000, and
steady to Is cents lower. Sheep
receipts 10000 and 25 cents higher.
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BUYING ORDERS
HOLD FUTURES
TRADE STEADY
Nearby Corn Options Move
Up; Deferred Months
Unchanged.
BY HAROLD Z. RAINYILLE
United Press stan Corr.snond.,,.


CHICAGO, April 8. 49, Wheat
opened around steady in a small
trade on the Board Of Trade to-
Gay with nothing new developing
overnight to change the complexion
OF the grain situation. Liverpool
was dull and about steady. A
scattering Of buying orders raised
the nearby corn futures and the
deferred months did not move. The
undertone was firm. Oats held
steady in a very quiet trade.
At the opening wheat was u cent
lower to Is cent higher with May
unchanged, corn was unchanged to
a cent higher, and oats were I'M
changed. Provisions were slow and
easy.
liverpool Is Lower
Liverpool was a fraction low, as
expected and at mid afternoon held
a y to 4 cent loss. Buenos Aires
started a cent higher. Considerable
long wheat came out late Tuesday
which disturbed holdovers and sent
prices to the lowest Of the day.
from which there was little or no
recovery.
Technical rallies are all that the
trade looks for unless the unexpect-
ed happens. Weakness in cotton
and stocks we're contributing fac
tors Tuesday. The southwest is
selling here in good volume on the
prospects of large crop.
Corn Options Bearish
Corn was as beariSh as wheat at
the close. The farmers are busy in
the fields, due to the good weather
which will restrict hauling and re-
duce terminal receipts. Navigation
on the lakes opened officially Tues
day, which may boost cash sales.
The market has been setting aside
the fundamentals and following
wheat.
Adverse sentiment in grains
found expression in oats Tuesday in
the last few minutes of trading, and
old May went to the lowest of the
season, and the lowest since 1906
As in corn, the fundamentals are
being overlooked
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-08

Religious and civic life in Russia
will be described by the Rev. I. S.
Prokhanoff, president of the ALL
Russian Evangelical Union, at the
weekly fellowship dinner at the
University Park Christian church
tonight.
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Net Changes

By United Press
NEW YORK, April Closing
prices and net changes on principal
stocks traded on the New York
Stock Exchange follow.
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BIZ United Press

TOLEDO. April s.-Hogs-Receipts. 300;
market. loc to zoe lower; heavies. $3.50
7.25; mediums. s7.50Gz75; workers. S7506
light. market, steady. Calves-Receipts
light. market, soc lower. Sheep-Receipts
light: market steady.
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LOUISVILLE. Ky. April s-Hog@Re-
lbs, up. s745; 1920 lbs ST. go; i3o-I75
i s9 q SAG: 100 lbs. down, $6;45; roughs
100; market, Slow steady prime hesvv
steers S8q825; heavy Shipping steers
$500 q $50; medium and plain steers
mon to medium heifers. S5d650: good to
choice COWS. S425d5.50 medium to good
cows. S3:50@425; cutters. s32563 so;
Gamers, S25063; bulls, S3.5065: feeders
S6.5047; medium to good feeders. S5M6;
stockers, s5@7. Calves Receipts. $50;
$50; other $3.50 down. sheep@ReSc 9.yygt
so; market steady; fall eve and wether
lambs, $3.50; buck lambs. $780, seconds.
$3.50; clipped sheep. S364: spring lambs
Sl0d12. Tuesdays shipments: Cattle
none; calves. none; hogs. none; sheep.
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STOCK SHARES
WEAKEN AFTER
EARLY UPTURN
Optimistic Steel News Is
Signal for Renewed
Buying.
Average Stock Prices

Average Of thirty industrials for Tues
day was l67o3. of 2.69. Average Of
OF twenty utilities was 65.03 OF 81. Aver
age q forty bonds vas 95.sl OF Is.
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Local Wagon Wheat

CITY grain elevators are paving zoe for
No ] red wheat and sec for No. ! hard
wheat
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BIZ United Press

EAST ST. LOUIS. Ill. April s.-Hogs-
Receipts. 10 500; market steady: top. $3.50:
b by X 1920 lbs, 81 75@79O; 24O-30o lbs,
$s:499g aS5; loQ7l4o lbs $75og7S5; sows,
receipts 1900; market. liberal steer run
htdnddlng limited outlet; vealers SC lower at
showing weak undertone. Sheep-Receipts
$50; market lambs Csc higher; small lots
wooded lambs, $3.50; bulk prime clipped
lambs, $3.50; common throwouts. S6.50Q7.
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noes
HOGS
Reeeipts. 4. 600; market. lower.

HOGS
Receipts, 1000; market, lower.
Light Lights
(l40-160) Good ana choice IS 1850 1875
Light Weights
'(l60-l80) Coca and chose o.. $40
l80-200) Good ana choice .... 8.000 $40
Medium weights
(200-220) Good and choice. 1900 800
(220-250) Medium and good, 7.70Q ITO
Heavy weights
(220-250 Medium and good ... 7.50G ITO
t220-250) Medium and good 800. 7.250l7.50
Packing Sows-
(275-500) Medium and good. 5000 6.75
Q10-120l Slaughter pigs ...... 7.50M IT'S
CATTLE slaughter Glass;
Receipts, 900; market. steady.
Good and choice. ...........s 7.5001000
Common and medium, .-,o,o,.... 5.50@ 7.5O
Good and choice ............. 775@loOO
Medium ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000 tbs
-Heifers-
(5OO-85oJ
Good and choice, .............s 1900 goo
Common and medium ........ 5.00Q 750
G G92a and an 6hq @sdum 555& s sss
Low cutters and cutters ...... ALSO 400
Bulls (yearlings excluded
Good and choice beef. ....... 4.25G1 5.25
Common and medium ........ 5000 AIS
CALVES AND VEALERS
Receipts. 600; market, lower.
Good and choice ............ $500 900
Gull and common . 4So@ ga ga
Calves
Good and medium ........... s.5o@ ESQ
Common and medium ........ 5000 $50
STOCKERS AND FEEDER STEERS
Good and choice .........S $3.50 800
Common and medium .....,. 4.50Q 625
Good and choice ,.. ....c $3.50 500
Common and medium ........ Also 6.25
SHEEP AND LAMBS
Receipts, 600; market, steady.
Good and choice ........... $500 $50
Common and medium 800. 1909 $50
Ewes
Medium and cnoice .......... 5000 450
Gull and common ............ 1909 800
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Reece Button Hole Machine Company
depreciation. federal taxes. etc, equal to
30 cents share. Par $40 on 1000, 900
shares against Sl07, $50 or SLOT a share
in 1929.
Associated Telephone Utilities Company
in 1880 earned S2.10 a common share
against 81. in 1929
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BN Tnited Preaa

PITTSBURGH April 8.-Hogs-Receipts
100 100 h}9qnld99Eeersi $50 market loa2oe
lbs. So. 25 q $40; 220-260 lbs. $7.85d825;
270-320 lbs, s7.60@78 medium to good
packing soWs. S6.35W6.75. Cattle-Re-
ceipts. 40; market little change. common
heifers, $5.15a5.65 cutter to medium cows.
SS75@4.50- Calves Receipts. los: market
mostly steady. good to choice medium
weight vealers. 5000: light weights. S7@
$50; Sheep---Receipts 400. market, about
steady; good to choice shorn lambs go lbs
down. SO. 75d $50; heavier WEIGHTS 81 501u
$50: medium t ogoOd spring lambs. sl31
l4.75; choice kinds UP to sic; good shorn
wethers around SIS.
TT WAYNE. Ind. April 8.-Hogs. l5c
lower: l00-140 lbs. $40. 140-I5O lbs.
200-220 lbs. $3.50: 22O-24O lbs. $3.50: 240-
260 lbs. 80: 26o-28O lbs S7C0 10000
lbs. $3.50; 300-350 lbs. $40; rougns. s625.
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TREASURY STATEMENT

April b
Hearings ..s.-s.... .-s.. 9ol 9vU 0Vu Y.
Balances Observation-Disclosures. 5000 0000
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Net balance fer April g.. S526. o54 sf4 rs
Expenditures Observation-Disclosures. 35.216.S43 81
Customs reefs. month to date I.l69 .66504
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BIZ Unitcd Press

ST. LAFAYETTE r. EFT q .Ind Ag5il 8.Hogs -
200-22O lbs. $3.50; 22O-2fO lbs. sT70: 30
2e0 lbs, .$7.60;a 260-260 lbs. 81 so; 28O-30O
lpso 81 20: 3o0-325 lbs. SIPS l4O-l6O lbs
roughs. $3.50 down: top calves. So: choice
lambs. sS09; spring lambs. $40.
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The City
i'm Brief
THURSDAY EVENTS

THURSDAY EVENTS
Appomattox Day celebration, 2:30 p.
m, Fl Friendly.
Advertising Club luncheon, Columbia
Club.
indianapolis Engineering Society lunch
con, Board of Trade.
American Business Club luncheon, Co
lumbia Club.
Real Estate Board luncheon. Indian
aDolis Athletic Club.
Sigma M luncheon. Lincoln.
Shrine Caravan Club luncheon, Murat
temple.
Sigma Chi luncheon, Board of Trade.
DIR. William Charles White of the
United States Public Health Serv-
ice and DR.. Kendall Emerson, man
aging director of the National
tuberculosis Association, will speak
at the annual conference dinner
April IA of the indianapolis Tuber-
culosis Association at the Lincoln.
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Chicago Grain Table

CHICAGO. April 8.-Carlots: Wheat. AZ;
corn 81; oats. 10: rye. l. and barley, 0.
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Two hundred delegates of Lambda
Chi Omega sorority will meet at the
annual convention to be held in In
dianapolis June 20 and 81. The So
rority has a chapter in Ft. Wayne.
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lol9d0 lOhloJ zoo
1881 King ahts reserved
The Washington times., 1931-11-11
RAILS FIRM, BUT
|NDUSTR|ALS
SLIP AB|T
Stock Exchange Trade Dull
as Grain Pits Close in
Chicago and Canada
BY w. s. COUSINS

NEW YORK, Nov. II QN.S0
Firmness in railroad stocks and
Specialties and slight reaction
in the industrialS featured a dull
and quiet session on the big board
today.
All trading on the stock ex-
change, as we'll as the curb mar
ket and the commodity markets.
was suspended for two minutes at
IL o'clock. Business in the whole
sale and retail quarters was also
halted for that period.
Speculative interest in the rail
road stocks was based on the
prospect of an adjustment" in
rail wages growing out OF the
conference between railroad
heads and union labor leaders.
Loadings for the week fell off
$4,000 cars, only seasonal
shrinkage. New Haven and New
York Central moved up a point
each to lead of the upturn.
With the Chicago and Winni-
peg grain exchanges closed, the
stock market did not have the
influence of grain price changes,
one way or the other. Cotton
was steady and silver futures sus-
tanned loss of 60 to 125 points.
The Washington times., 1931-11-11

tral district, of which Richmond
is headquarters, $305,500? rquir-
ing 52,400 man-hours; Roanoke
district, which includes Lynch
burg, Danville, Pulaski, Radford,
Norton, and other southwestern
Virginia cities and towns, 1885,.
500, and 25,500 man-hours, and
the Tidewater district, including
Norfolk. Portsmouth. Suf o k,
Newport News, and Hampton,
$3.50, 900 and 1000 man-hours.
Major items of plant being pro
vided under these projects include
erection of approximately $500
poles, and stringing about 1900
miles of wire.
In Washington Suburbs
Northern Virginia central Off
ces are now served by 1854 tele-
phones, which is net gain of l.
33s since January /.
Telephones in Alexandria num-
ber 1924, a net gain for the year
of 349.
Clarendon is now served by T.,
218 telephones, 364 having been
added to the system here since
January /; Fairfax, 307; Falls
Church, 1882: Herndon, 262; vi
emma, 1877, making a total in this
area of 6,056, and net gain OF
569.
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STEEL UP THIRD
WEEK IN ROW

NEW YORK, Nov. II GN.S0,
For the third consecutive week,
steel ingot production has gained
slightly, being estimated at 81 per
cent of capacity, against 80 per
cent last week, and 20 per cent
the week before that, the weekly
Iron Age summary reports today
Against an average output Of
27.75 per cent in october, this is
declared to be the most consistent
increase in steel activity since last
spring.
The review points out that
while its Importance could easily
be exaggerated in view Of the
sluggishness of some branches OF
the industry, there is hope Of fur
ther slight betterment during the
remainder of the year, particu-
larly in automobile tonnage.
The Iron Age composite price
for pig iron has declined to $14.96
from SIS last week, but steel scrap
is slightly higher at $8.75, COM
pared with $8.N last week. Fin
ished steel is unchanged at 2.116
cents a pound.
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General Cigar Net
Higher in Quarter

The earnings report of the Gen
eral Cigar Company for the third
quarter and the first nine months
of the year, issued yesterday,
made a favorable comparison
with the preceding year. In fact,
earnings for the September quar-
ter were in excess Of the cor
responding period of 1880, while
net for the longer period was
only moderately lower.
The tobacco industry Is in good
condition at the present time,
and while some minor price re-
ductionS have been made, the
volume of business shows little
recession from q year ago.
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{ j R B MARKET
IRREGULAR

NEW YORK, Nov. II GN.SD.
The pattern of price movements
on the curb market today was not
unlike the reactionary trend in
evidence yesterday. Turnover was
again of small proportions with
prices continuing to work irreg-
ularly lower for the better half
of the session.
Utilities were generally lower, al
though Commonwealth Edison
gave a fine individual perform
ance in pushing ahead to 152 for
a gain of 114 points. American
Gas and Electric, Electric bond
and share, American Superpower,
Brazil Traction, United Gas, and
United Light and Power we're
among the active favorites to
ease off fractionally. Curb bonds
shifted about aimlessly, with few
changes of Importance registered.
The Washington times., 1931-11-11
GROWTH
|SDEFENDED

CHICAGO, Nov. lie. F,
Loomis, of the National Automo-
bile Chamber of Comm cree,
speaking at the twelfth annual
meeting of the American Pc
troleum Institute here today, de-
clared that this statement is
based on the assumption that
trucking may grow into great
consolidated systems comparable
with our railroads.
Mr.. LoomiS, using Government
traffic surveys, declared that 81
per cent of our trucks are owned
by shippers who carry their own
goods: II per cent by truckers
under contract arrangements
with shippers. and 5 per cent by
agreements with those in the
business of catering to the mis-
cellaneous needs of many ship
perS.
Only 2 per cent Of all trucks
are in common-carrier truck lines
over regular routes comparable
to railroad service.
It is the application Of this
individuality Of freight transport
within limited areas, comparable
to the personal transportation
furnished by the automobile, to
which Mr.. Loomis ascribes the
expansion of trucking.
On the question Of taxation,
Mr.. Loomis said that trucks and
buses in 1880 constituted 13 per
cent of the vehicles registered,
but paid in special taxes $27O,.
100000, or 27 per cent OF all
motor vehicle fees.
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american Stores
October Sales Dip

American Stores Company re
ports sales for the period Of four
weeks ending October 81 Of So, 1854 :
146, as compared with sales Tor
the four weeks ending November
/. 1880, of $10,862,704. This is a
decrease of $S9S. $50, or S.27 per
cent. ,.,u
GSales for the 10 months ending
october 81 were $113,231,731. as
compared with $118,350,38S Tor
the 10 months ending November
i 1890. This is a decrease Oh
118657. or 4.32 per cent.