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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-26
RUSSIA MAY HELP
|. MACHINERY TRADE.
Exports From u. S. Win Be
Largely Affected by Soviet
Purchases.
speeial pisnatoh . rhe star.

special Dispatch 70 The Star.
NEW YORK, August 26.-Any i'm
partial attempt to predict 1891 pro-
duction Of agricultural machinery
must reckon with the purchasing poll.
cies of the Soviet authorities. which
introduce an arbitrary and unprediet-
able element, says the Standard sta
tistics Co. Of New York, in q current
survey OF the farm machinery industry.
which continues In part:
1t Is conceivable that the receict of
stable Russian orders for delivery
next Winter win materially modify pro-
duction totals for 1881. Last year,
Russian imports Of American farm
equipment exceeded those Of any other
nation by wide margin. In addition.
large takings were reported for the
nYst two months of 1881 While of
outstanding current importance, the
Russian export market differs from
others, IN that the five-year plan calls
Tor rapid enlargement of Soviet fac
tories producing agricultural machinery.
eventually, then, Russia plans to pro-
vide fully for her own needs. But in
the interim, it is believed that Ameri-
can made machines and tools VIII be
required.
Excluding shipments of tractors
and combines to Russia, the remaining
exports Of farm machinery for the first
six months Of 1881. amounted to but
$lS,sS2,S0l. decline of 66 per cent
from the total of $56192,84i, shown
Tor the similar period of last year. The
formerly promising markets Of Canada
ana Argentina have been severely re-
strlcted. Australian finances have
practlcally precluded the possibility OF
an early temperance of that country
as purchaser of American agricultural
machinery. In fact, the industry Is
faced with the probability that q re-
sumption of demand from foreign mar
kets, which took % per cent of the
industrys aggregate output last year.
VIII be deferred for a consider
able period. and the fact that new
basic Developments threaten the per-
manent loss Of some foreign outlets. !"
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Natural Gas Ruling.

~ the Associated Press.
A Federal court has ruled gas plants
may substitute natural gas.
The decision was In the case Of the
Central Power Co. against the City Of
Hastings, Nebr.. where Federal Judge
WOodr0ngh Of the Nebraska district
held privately owned gas plants may
deliver the natural product TO con-
w1Ffners. even though the interested
cities have voted against It.
HASTINGS had voted, TO /, against
tGne use Of natural gas and when nat
itral gas mains were laid TO the city
limits permission to connect was re-
fused BIZ the City Council An in
junction restraining the Council from
Interfering was issued and was upheld
by the decision.
The franchise provided the company
should furnish gas Of certain average
b. {. u. content and the court held
there was nothing Ia the franchise 70
prevent the company from furnishing
natural gas, despite the cityis vote.
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By CARLTON A. sHIvELY.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 26.-With the
fail of the Macdonald government In
Great Britain and the organization of
a new cabinet containing strong repre-
sentation from Conservative sections Of
British politics. much is heard OF finan-
ctal reform. The phrase has rather an
unaccugtomed sound to Wall Street,
where British conduct Of economic and
financial affairs always has been con-
sidered She essence Of soundness.
Ever since the war the various Brit
ish governments have had to face the
task of steering between the theoretical
right thing to do from the standpoint
of sound finance and the practical me-
cessities. On many occasions It has been
found necessary to give ground on the
sound financial side because OF social
considerations. As a matter of sound
economies and finance. for instance, no
one has ventured to defend the dole sys-
TEN, under which industry and capital
are heavily taxed TO provide. funds To
support those out of work. It Is argued
that. under this tax burden, industry
becomes less and less able to expand
the sentiments OF humanity have joined
with socialistic theories to support the
dole.
Drive for Economy.
The drive for economy. which has re-
suited IN the change in government, has
conferred around the dole system. De.
cislon TO reduce state payments TO the
unemployed pfecipitated the crisis. Al
fairs in Great Britain have not YET
reached the stage where any govern
ment could risk failure to present bal
anced budget to Parliament. Taxation
has been carried about as far as II
could well be, and the only alternative
was TO reduce expenditures. The doll
was the obvious place to begin. as offer-
ing the largest opportunity for retreneh-
ment.
Inclusion Of Stanley Baldwin. former
prime minister. in the Macdonald cab
met b Interpreted In wall street ~
foreshadowtng q moderate tarin fol
Great Britain, long the worlds great ex-
ponent Of free trade. A few industries
nave measure Of protection under tnt
so-called safeguarding act Adoption O
small tarih on most products has been
agitated for some time, not as de'
parture from the traditional frse-fradl
policy q the country. but strlctly g
revenue zoducaun measure Onseryexs
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That something must be done is APP
parent, for as long as the banking sit
1ation remains disturbed, it may and
probably viii prove dificult to bring
about any general upward move in the
securities market, or to finance more
than a moderate seasonal revival of
business.
Rail Dividend Action Due.
Dividend action Is expected to be tax
en- today by the New Haven board. Pay
ing So per annum, the stock yields in
excess Of IL per cent at current levels,
q figure admittedly too high when COM
pared with existing rates for money.
During the first half of the current
year, the road reported net profits Of
81 .86 a share, or less than two-thirds
the semi-annual dividend requirements,
and comparing with profit Of S3.06 in
the first half Of 1880.
In the second half of last year $4.14
was earned, but 1t Is doubtful whether
the profit during the remainder of the
current year will be as great or even
SUFFICIENT to make up the full dividend.
A reduction to q -, or possibly So, an
nual basis is, therefore, not unlikely.
OIL Mergers Naturalization.
Combination of oil enterprises does
not In any way indicate that the old
monopoly which was dissolved In 1911
is being recreated. It Is merely an at
tempt at what might be called rationale
ration, which, 4 efficiently handled,
should prove beneficial not only to the
companies involved and their stockhold-
ers, but to the industry as a whole.
The latest move in this direction Is
the combination of the Standard Oh Co.
of Ohio and the Solar Refining Co., to
be ratified at meeting scheduled to
convene for that purpose on October l.
Holders Of Solar are offered either SIT
q share cash, or one share of Standard
for each SO shares of Solar Refining.
Inasrnuch as the merger is expected
to result in material economies which
should be reflected In the earnings, hold
ers of Solar stock are, to a considera-
bic extent, likely to favor an exchange
of shares rather than the cash Offer.
Indications point to gradual sub
siding Of the German financial crisis.
Notes in circulation Of the Reichsbank
have declined by about 125, 100000
marks, while loans and advances de-
creased by SIS, 000, 900 marks. so that
the demands upon the bank have been
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Markets at a Glance

NEW YORK, August 2s tP).-StOcks;
firm: rails stiffen. Bonds: Irregular;
Argentines at new 1891 lows. Curb:
steady; Electric Bond a. Share rallies
moderately. Foreign exchanges: Firm;
sterling and French franc improve.
Cotton: Higher: unfavorable weekly
weather report. Sugar: Easy; commits
sion house selling. Coffee: Lower;
trade selling.
CHICAGO, August IS (P.-Wheat:
Firm; fears frost Canada, better ex~
port demand. Corn: Firm; strong cash
markets, lack rain Southwest. Cattle +:
Easy: firm to higher. Hogs: Steady to
higher.
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MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK, August % Op).-Call
money renewed at l51 per cent today
and held steady in the official market.
In the outside market money was
available at tA per cent.
Activity IN bankers acceptances was
reported practically at a standstill,
with both demand and supply lacking.
Asking rates were unchanged. Com
merciai raper was quiet and unchanged
and time money was unchanged.
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A. B. TO MAKE PLANS
FOR EDUCATIONAL WORK

Further plans for the educational
program of the Washington Chapter.
American Institute of Banking, viii be
mapped out tonight at meeting of
the Educational Committee at the home
of the chairman, Richard A. Norris Of
Lincoln National Bank.
The Raleigh Hotel has been selected
as the place for the dinner of the Edu-
cationaI Committee and faculty on
September 8, when the whole program
viii be officially launched.
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Grain Market

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 26.-Short sellers
scurried to cover Just before the Board
Of Trade closed today, with all grains
jumping to the days highest quota
lions. Buying orders found offerings
acant. and bears were forced to pro-
tect themselves as prices ranged higher.
wheat had a much better underline
most of the day with less pressure than
of late. Traders evinced disposition
to note unfavorable crop news from
europe which heretofore they have
ignored. Corn was strong with the
September delivery showing gain of
as much as cents q bushel over yes
terday's lowest quotation.
Wheat closed firm, l to ] ik cents
higher: corn, IL to 23s up; oats, Ia
TO 2 advanced, with provisions uneven,
ranging from a l5-cent decline to 20
cents advance.
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a required,
transactions
cut in the unemployment dole
Closed Ohio Banks to Get Aid
current to the effect that the disturbing situation
resulting the
may adjusted shortly John WHY'S
president
active pertaining banking
finance.
Mr. WHY'S understood to have succeeded In interesting
Z nnt he HANKS nra md hasis
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change favors by the misuse of public
funds
Even Great Britain, which for centuries
has maintained intact the feeling of the
necessity for balancing outlay with in
come, has succumbed to unsound eco
Monies because they afforded temporary
expedients, the steadily mounting dole to
the unemployed, absorbing very consid-
cradle portion of the nations income, has
been and continued to be one Of the most
difficult obstacles to rehabilitation of
her economic structure.
The new government may succeed In
gradually revising the dole downward,
which is regarded as one of the chief pre-
requisites to whatever outside financial aid
London may need. In fact, prominent
banker Is reported to have intimated yes
terday that II the British government
would publicly and without ambiguity an
nounce a reduction in the dole there
would be no difficulty whatever in arrang-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-26
CAR LoADINGs GAIN.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Loadings Of revenue freight showed q
slight upturn during the week ended
August is as the total was calculated
by the american Railway Association.
In the figures that follow gross load
ings are given for comparable periods,
based on the associations returns:
Week ended August Is, 742.T36 cars;
previous week, 734.760 cars; same week
last year, 922, 1928 cars.
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British Buying Declines.
By the Associated Press.

The Commerce Department reports
Britain Is buying fewer clocks.
by far the heaviest recorded from any
OF the sources, decreasing Approxi-
mately 81 per cent during 1890 as COM
pared with the previous year. German
clocks alone have shown an increase
In the last three years, gaining nearly
so per cent, while French clocks have
decreased by almost the same per-
centage. Imports from all other coun-
centage being about % per cent.
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METAL MARKFT

NEW YORK. August 26 P9.-Coppel
quiet: electrolytic, spot and future, 715i
7s4.. Tin firm: spot and nearby, 27.0O
future, 1925 Iron steady, unchanged
Lead quiet: spot, New York, 440: Eas
st. Louis. 4.42. Zinc steady; East ST
Louis, spot and future, $50. Anthony
spot, eco.
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New York Cotton
special pl.patch to rhe star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 26.--With less
favorable weekly weather report than
heretofore and in sympathy with an
advance in both the stock and grain
markets, cotton prices improved over 81
a bale today and ended with gain OF
IA to 18 points. Though the market set
back Tuesday, short covering was re-
stunned today, with strengthening effect
on values. Spots were advanced 20
points to 720.
Cotton range:
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PARIS BoURsE PRICES.

PARIS. August &c tE.Three per
cent rentes, Be francs 20 centinles.
five per cent loan, 1O4 francs 80 CEN
times. Exchange On London, 123 francs
Sc centines Tsle dollar W. quoted
1t 20 francs 501x eentimes,
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o. 8. TREASURY BALANCE.

The United States Treasury balance
announced today as of close Of busi-
ness August "a was $97s 607, 334.32. Gus
toms receipts for the month to date
were $50. 055. 14784. Total ordinary ex-
penditures were sle.ose ,see 90
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FOREIGN BONDS.

Asllortage Of veterinary surgeons in
Great Britain Is making it almost inl-
possible for private practitioners TO OBJ
tain assistants
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CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

~ the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 26.--Following is
TIE complete ofacial list Of transactions
N stocks on the Chicago Stock Ex-
change TO-DAY:
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Births in England ia the last 10
years were I.250.oo0 less than in the
preceding decade
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-26

Savings deposits In the Municipal
Savings Bank Ia Viennas Austria. are
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Everybody's Business
Need of Great Britain for Financing May Result in
Cstting of Dole Given to Unemployed
in Order to Get Loans.
BY DIR. MAX wINKLER.
Special Dispatch to The star.

YORK August 26-Poticiaps rarely think of
may be swept today it
yielding multiple undertakings of expenditures
completely
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET s ss:; r. s 81: s a.:


excepting those designated By the letter (Ses) ssOsD
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Dividend rates in dollars
nual payment. Elk dividend.
. PAYABLE In cash or stock.
dividend. fPIus 81 in stock
stock. jFlus AZ in stock.
stock. n Plus So in stock. j
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-26

based on last quarterly or semi-an-
fPartly extra. fPlus ~ in stock.
b PAYABLE in stock. Adjustment
Plus 81 in stock. b Faus IL in
k Plus 1917 in stock. m Plus ~ in
J Paid last year--no regular rate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-26

NEW YONl<, August Is (11 B1n sil-
yer stesdz md X higher 81 27ksA =
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BONDS.

Copyright, 1881. standard statistics Coz
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-29

ciple as is the 18th amendment criminal laws and penal regulations should be direct. Nobody yet has made a gun that will shoot around corner.
 And that isn't quite all. Ex-Presi- dent Coolidge says, the home is the foundation of society," True, and he we'll might have added that the in- dividual in the home is the unit or legislation to those who know the meaning of Self-government. When the individual fails wisely to govern himself, the republic will die. If he hasn't sufficient intelligence to avoid the hells of over-indulgence, Con- gress cannot supply the deficiency.
 .When you ask me what would substitute for the 18th amendment, my answer is Anything that will make bootlegging unprofitable and cocktail parties less poisonous Ger tainly the taxes imposed like the taxes on tobacco products should be uniform and assessed by the federal government. As we hope to have some day a homogeneous people, and there is nothing in the suitable pun ishment of the drunkard that re- uuires special consideration of racial types or geography, strict federal reglation of the manufacture and distribution of alcohol beverages will in my opinion, prove to be the best way to restrain the uses of al- cohol. But I realize that this Is out of the question at present. The American eye Is "sot" for local op- tion, and by all means let State Sov. ereignity, the sacred COW of the re- public on election day, kick at the drink-evil until the American people learn sometime, somewhere, some how, that the man who looks to the lawmakers to provide good habits
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-29
Slavin Orders Bridgeport Trust To
 Turn Over Papers
Former Associate of American Brass, Now Living in California Who Left City Mysteriously, Wins Court Judgment After Long Delay

"Finis'' was written to one of the most interesting cases ever heard in probate court to-day when Judge Dennis J. Slavin ordered the Bridgeport City Trust company of Bridgeport to turn over to Lyman B. Comstock, formerly connected with the sales department of the American Brass company, and for a long time missing, his entire estate which totals about $60,000.
 MT Comstock is now residing in lower California, but his identity was established by photographs identified by President Morehouse of the Bridgeport bank and by Alder man Joseph Wilhelm.
 November 13, 1880, Judge Slavin appointed the Bridgeport bank trus- tee of the estate when 1t was im- possible to locate Comstock. Out side of stocks. the estate inventoried at more than $37,000. When Com stock attempted to get rid of some stock at the Corpus Christi bank, Texas, he was notified by the bank that the Bridgeport bank was trustee of his estate and he imme- diately got in touch with them, ask ink for his. estate.
 They, ins turn, asked permission from Judge Slavin who wanted proofs of Comstock's identity. Sat- isfied that the photos are of Com stock, he ordered the bank to turn over the money to-day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-29

assembled
   something  President Hndcnburg touched   disappeared into the sea!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-29

was best man. The bride wore a chiffon. She wore a gray hat trimmed with blue velvet. She car- ried bouquet of white lilacs and 1ilies-of-the-valley.
 The bridesmaid wore gown of pink lowered chiffon trimmed with blue velvet. She wore a hat to match and carried a bouquet of pink and yellow snapdragons. A reception was held following the ceremony at the home of the brides parents. Later MT and Mrs West left on an unannounced wedding trip. Upon their return they will reside in Waterbury.
 Legion Circus Starts Monday
 Starting Monday, June l, the Seeley circus and vaudeville revue will start a three days engagement under the auspices of Naugatuck post of the American Legion. The show will be at the Chamber of Commerce grounds off North Church street.
 The show takes place under mammoth tent and there are the usual circus and vaudeville acts in- cluding the Howe-Cook trio of aerialists and trick bicycle riders; Sanford's trained dogs and ponies; Madam Zetta, the mental marvel, the lady who knows all, sees all and tells all. This act Is said to be one of the highest paid acts in vaude- vile.
 Then there will be the Carpenter sisters in songs and dances; Galla- gher and Tam, the Palm Beach comedians and Chin Lin Flu com pany, in Oriental mysteries.
 Crescents Play Opener
 The re-organized Bearcat baseball team to be henceforth known as the Crescents, will open their season to- morrow afternoon at Recreation field with the Colored Giants of New Haven as their opponents. Earl Sa- linski will twirl for the Crescents with Jim Sullivan working behind the plate. Jones will be on the mound for the Colored Giants with Douglas doing the catching.
 The lineup of the locals will be Pat Heating, first base; George Foley, second base; Johnny Mueller, shortstop; Ray Lodge, third> base; Jim Burns, left field; Charlie Lodge, center field; Jim Kennedy. right field; Salinski pitch, and Sullivan catch. Bill Stanton of Waterbury will officiate.
 Mailing Notices
 Tax Collector Charles F. Daly is mailing notices to property owners who have not paid their tax of 20 mills on the grand list of 1929, due July 1, 1890. If the tax is not paid on or before June 30, lien will be filed against the property. The tax collectors office is open every after noon from 1 to 5 o'clock and on Monday and Friday evenings from ' until 9 o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-29
.SINCLAIRLEWI
 WRITES ABOUT
 OLD HOME TOWN
Sauk Centre, Minn., High
 School Annual Prints
 Story Written By Lewis in His Own Peculiar Style

Sauk Centre, Minn. May 29-(UP) Sinclair Lewis the red-haired boy from Sauk Centre who won Nobel prize for literature, to-day defend ed Main street against the world.
 Writing in the Sauk Centre high school annual, an alumni number of the "O-Sa-Ge," Lewis said he would choose a prairie town for "a sec ond boyhood" against any other place in the world.
 The article is entitled "the long arm of the small town."
 Ut is extraordinary how deep is the impression made by the place of ones birth and rearing, and how lasting are its memories" writes Lewis.
 "It is 29 years now since left Sauk Centre to go east to college. In this more than quarter of cen tury I have been back two or three times for couple of months, several times for a couple of weeks, but otherwise I have been utterly out Of touch with the town. Yet it is as vivid to my mind as though I had left there yesterday.
 'I find myself thinking of its streets and it's people and the famil- far, friendly faces when am on the great avenues of New York, Paris. Berlin or Stockholm; when I am in little stone hilly villages of Italy or sum- -basking villas in Spain. or the ancient yellow temples of Athenes.
 ITO me, forever, ten miles will not be a distance in the mathematical tables, but slightly more than a dis tance from Sauk Centre to Melrose, To me, forever, the direction west will have nothing to do with Cali fornia or the Rockies; it will be that direction which is to the left--to- wards Hoboken Hill-if you face the house of Dr E. J. Leewis.
 "So primitive and inherent are the impressions of boyhood. And I, who am writing this in Connecticut and shall go in midday to the farm have bought in Vermont, haven't the slightest regret that I was borr and reared in prairie village in. sted of in New England or New York, old England or the continent of Europe.
 "If seem to have criticized prairie villages, have certainly crit. icized them no more than I have New York or Paris, or the great uni versailles. I am quite certain that could have been born and reared ir no place in the world where would have had more friendliness.
 Indeed, as I look at these sons o1 rich men in New England with their motor cars and their travel, it seems to me that they are not having one. tenth the fun which I had as kid I swimming and fishing in Sauk Lake or cruising it's perilous depths on : raft (probably made of stolen logs tramping out to Fairy Lake for z picnic, tramping ten miles on enc with a shotgun in October, sliding on Hoboken Hill, stealing melons or listening to the wonders of ar elocutionist at the c. A. R. hall. | was a good time. good place, ant l good preparation for life."