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Evening star., 1932-01-20
NEW SALES MARKS
SET At AUTO SHOW
Many Dealers Report Pur-
chases Exceeding Records
of Other Years.
BY ROBERT MOUNTSIER.
Special Dispatch to The Star -

Special Dispatch to The Star. -
NEW YORK, january 2O.-New
York's thirty-second annual National
Automobile Show is now a matter Of
automotive history, but its sales spirit
is marching on, not only In the metro
politan district, but, If the omens OF at
tendance and purchase records are
properly prophetic, to the automobile
shows in Brooklyn, Detroit and Ch.-
cago and to the passenger car business
through the rest of the country.
With attendance greater than at any
other automobile show in the past fve
years, including the record year of
1929, the big majority Of the companies
represented at Grand Central Palace
report sales well above last years, sew
eral of them achieving all-time selling
records for New York's shows.
Packard Sets Record.
Packard sold 1877 cars at retail. The
best previous record in the entire his
tory of the Packard company at the
New York show was So sales and
Packard has been in the New York
show since the first exhibit in 1901. 1t
is to be noted also that this figure of
127 cars sold from January 9 to 1e
does not include sales made at metro
politan dealer stores or by other East
ern dealers and distributors at Grand
Central Palace
Graham-Paige, whose new line Of
Blue Streak eightS embodies distinctive
advances both in body and chassis de-
sign, sold more than four times as
many Graham cars at the exhibit and
at their Manhattan and Bronx sales
rooms during the six and half DAYS
! of this years show as were sold during
the seven and half days Of the 1881
show ~
Cadillac-La Sale, it is understood
more than tripled its sales of last year
for the show period IN the metropoli-
tan district. Auburn, featuring its new
dual ratio, reported an increase of 81
,, per cent in sales of Auburn cars for the
first five days Of the show over the
same period of the 1881 show-and this
makes new all-time show record for
Auburn.
Hupmobile dealers working at Grand
Central Palace in connection with the
Hupmoblle factory exhibit sold at least
l03 cars, more than double the number
OF Hupmobtles ever sold at any previous
New York exhibit. The highest pre-
vlouS figure was 48 Hups, sold at the
1928 show.
Others Haven't Reported.
Reporting only on actual deliveries.
Studebaker placed 50 cars in the hands
OF customers during the show period.
as against 80 delivered during last
yeasS show.
Almost all of the other companies
exhibiting at Grand Central Palace
mad increased sales at the show and
IN their own and metropolitan dealers
salesrooms, but they are; not ready to
give OUT any definite figures or COM
parsons at the present time
And, taking all cars together In TIN.
district, little old New York plus di5n'r
do so bad with its sales of 127, 600 new
passenger cars last year. as conpared
With the peak of 10000 in 1929,
Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-01-20

Three radio networks covering the
country from coast to coast will tap
Washington tomorrow for the feature
speakers on the National Life Insurance
day program. Senator Robert F. Wag-
ner of New York, who will be introduced
bv the superintendent of insurance Of
that State, George S. Van Schaick, will
be heard from II As to u noon, E. S. T.,
over the Columbia network. Senator
Arthur Capper of Kansas will be pre-
sented by w. T. Grant, president of
the Business Mems Assurance Co. OF
Kansas City, Mo, on the N. B. c.
WEAF chain at 2:30 to 2:45 pm,
e S. T, and Merle Thorpe, editor Of
Nations Business, will be heard over
the N. B. C.-WJz hook-up from 7:45
to pm, E. S. t.
Albert G. Borden Of New York, chair
man of the National Life Insurance
Day Committee, announced yesterday
that these brief addresses will be of in
terest to Sd per cent Of the population
of the United States, who own Sl09 ,000,-
600 900 worth OF life insurance. He said
many of the 68000,0 900 policy holders
of the country have been informed OF
the plans for the day, thus assuring the
speakers Of a good audience.
Evening star., 1932-01-20
Baltimore Markets
,cial Dispatch to The Star.


BALTIMORE, Nd, January 20
sweet potatoes bushel, 40a80; yams,
barrel. 75al.25: beans, bushel, 1.25a2.25;
beets, per crate, 1.50al go; Brussels
sprouts, per quart, 1920; cabbage
hamper, local 65; carrots, per bushel
9OaI1O; caulifower, crate, l.25a1 .35;
celery, crate, l.25a2 so; eggplants, crate
5Oa2 rs; kale, bushel, 30a40; onions,
per 100 pounds, 3.o0a4.00; peppers,
crate. l.5Oa275; cucumbers, bushel, 2.75
a4.50; spinach, bushel, 25a90; squash
bushel, 1.50a2 so; tomatoes, crate, .00a
325; turnips, hamper, l0a20; grapefruit,
box, l.25a2.50; apples, bushel, 35al SO;
oranges, box. 2.oOaS.75; strawberries,
Wheat-No. Red Winter, garlicky,
SPOT, domestic, 621a; January delivery,
62lz; February delivery, 63.
Corn-No. . yellow, spot, domestic,
44a45; cob corn, new, 2.00a2.lO per
barrel
35lb; No. 8, 34a3412.
Rye-Nearby baglots, 40a45.
Hay-Receipts none. Market un-
changed.
Dairy Markets.
Chickens--Young, 1920; Leghorns,
15af6; old hens, 15a20; Leghorns, old,
l5a16; roosters, lla13; ducks, 12a20;
geese, 13a17; guinea fowls, pair 25aoo'
turkeys, 15a30; pigeons, pair, 2oa25.
Eggs-ReceiptS, 653 cases; current re-
ceipts, IT; nearby firsts, l7F2aIs;
Southern firsts, II.
Butter-Good and fancy creamery
s2a25I5; ladies, IT a 1S; process, 20a2l; |;
store packed, 12al3.
Live Stock Market.
Cathe-Receipts, 5ohea d;l light sup
ply; market dull.
S{eers-Choice to prime none; good
q 10 choice, 900 to TOO; medium to gooo,
500 to 500; fair to medium, 400 to
500; plain to fair, 800 to $50; com
mon to plain none.
Bulls-Good TO prime none; good to
choice none; medium to good, 400 TO
4.25; fair to medium, $50 to 400; plain
to fair, 325 to $50; common to plain
800 to 3.25.
Cows-Choice to prime none, good
TO choice none; medium to good, 3.Io
TO 400 fair to medium, 3.25 to 3.75;
plain to fair, $50 to 3.25; common to
plain, l.50 to ESQ.
Heifers-Choice to prime, none; good
to choice, 500 TO $50; medium to good,
4 so to 500: fair to medium, 400 to
4.5o; plain to fair, 800 to 400; COM
mon TO plain, $50 to 800.
Fresh COWS and Springers, 5000 to
5000. ,-
Sheep and lambs - Receipts, l25
head; light supply; market steady;
sheep. 100 to 800; lambs, 400 to 7.5o;
Spring lambs, none.
Hogs-Receipts, TOO head; light sup
ply, market lower; lights, 4.50 to 4.95;
heavies. 4.25 to ASS; medium, 40 &c
495; roughs, $50 TO 3.75; light pigs
AGO to 44O; pigs, AIS to 4.65; trucked
hogs, none.
Receipts, so head; light sup
ply; market steady; calves, 400 tc
600; extras, none.
Evening star., 1932-01-20
WHEAT FLOUR EXPORTS
TOTAL 9O5 900 BARRELS

BY the Associated Press.
United States exports Of wheat flour
in November amounted to 9O5,0o0 bar
rels
More than a third CT this amount
was shipped TO China, including Hcng
Kong and KWantung, records of the
Commerce Department showing that
total Of $4,000 barrels were shipped to
this destination through the customs
districts of oregon, Washington and
San Francisco.
Other leading customers during the
month were Cuba, which absorbed Co.
900 barrels the United Kingdom,
which purchased $4,000 barrels, and
the Philippine Islands, which took AS
900 barrels.
Evening star., 1932-01-20
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, January 20 P).-Hogs
$1,000 head, including 1000 head di-
rect: slow; 1910 lower; l7o-2l0
pounds, 395a4O5; top 4.l0; 22o-25o
pounds, 3.75a3. 80; 26O-3oO pounds, 365a
3.75; 14O-l6O pounds, 3.65a39o; pigs,
3.OOa3.25; packing sows, 3.25a3 40; light
light, good and choice, l40-l60 pounds,
365a3.95; light weight, 10000 pounds,
385a4l0 medium weight, 2OO-25O
pounds, 3.75a4lO; heavy weight, $50
$50 pounds, 3.60a385; packing Sows,
medium and good, 275-5o0 pounds, 3.25
a3.5o; pigs, good and choice, lo0-l3o
pounds, 300a3.60.
Cattle-Recepits, 10,5o0 head; calves,
1000 head general trade almost at
standstill; few early sales weak to 25
lower on practically all killing classes;
better grade steers and yearings shar-
ing decline; largely steer run, but she
stock In vary narrow demand. Slaugh-
ter cattle and vealers-Steers, good and
choice, 100000 pounds, 675a1l 90; 900
LOO pounds. 675a1l.00; l,l00-l 300
pounds 6.75al0.75; I,300-l 500 pounds
6.75alO75; common and medium, 600
1900 pounds, 3.50a6.75; heifers. gooc
and choice, 550-S50 pounds, 5.25a7.oo;
common and medium, 3.25a5.25; cows
good and choice, 3.50a4.75; common anc
medium, 275a3.50; low cutter and cut
ter. L75a2.75; bulls (yearlings excluded
good and choice (beef), 3.75a4.25; cut
ter to medium, 300a4.l0.
Vealers milk fed. good and choice
7.O0as75, medium, 60oa7,0o; Gull anc
common, 3.50a6.oo. Stocker and feeder
cattle-SteerS, good and choice, 500.
1850 pounds, 4.75a575; common anc
medium, 300a475.
Sheep, $4,000 head; few sales about
steady with yesterdays close; good tc
choice lambs, 5.75a6.25, top packers
closely sorted natives bid 635; asking
upward to 665. Lambs, 80 pounds
down, good and choice, 5.75a6.65; me.
dium, 475a575; all weights, common
4.00a4.75; ewes, 90-l50 pounds, medium
to choice, 20oa3.50; all weights, cul
and common, l.50a2. SO; feeding lambs
5o-75 pounds, good and choice, &75'
5.25.
Evening star., 1932-01-20
CHEWING ELECTED
MORTGAGE OFFICER
Harry M. Crandall Withdraws as
Vice President, but Remains
on Board.

E. T. Chewing, a director of Fed
eral Security & Mortgage Co., sue
ceeded Harry M. Crandall as vice
president of that company at It's an
nual meeting of directors yesterday, Mr.
Crandall remaining on the board. Of
ficers and directors reelected were the
following: Morris Cafritz, president
George w. Huguely, vice president and
treasurer; Morris Gewirz, secretary and
general manager; M. D. Rosenberg
general counsel; J. M. Macdonald, as
sistant secretary; directors, Harry M
Crandall, E. T. Chewing, Morris Ca
fritz, Charles A. Goldsmith, w. w
Griffith, Morris Gewirz, George w.
Huguely, Paul Himmelfarb, Vernon G.
owen, M. D. Rosenberg and James E
Smith.
Evening star., 1932-01-20
PRODUCTION OF OIL
D0WNLAST WEEK.
Oklahoma, Reduced 10000
Barrels, Leads Way to
7s,z, Lower Output.
nr TIE Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED fTess4
TULSA, Oklahoma, January 20
Under the impetus of 40,o00-barrel
decrease in Oklahoma production, the
crude oil output of the United States
took a 28,075-barrel nose dive last
week to a total daily average Of 2,19l,-
383 barrels, the Oil and Gas Journals
table shows.
Oklahoma production wis AL ,o85
barrels daily, as compared with pre-
vious average of 481,l15 barrels.
East Texas production Increased g.
5e4 barrels In the daily average to an
average of 333121 barrels. The increase
was due wholly to new compilations;
The daily total for the entire State
of Texas was 848 ,446 barrels. The
reading the week ending January 9
was S40,778 barrels daily. Kansas pro-
duced s8,s45 barrels daily, drop OF
1890 barrels.
California production increased from
500 600 barrels to 508,25o barrels in the
dafiy average. Rocky Mountain output
decreased from S4,8o4 barrels to 3D.
1872 barrels daily. o
Eastern flow was stationary at 1922
900, barrels.
Evening star., 1932-01-20
MILLS DOUBLE BUYING
OF NEW EQUIPMENT

Southern knitting mills at Charlotte,
N. c., were active purchasers of new
equipment during 1881, installing a
total OF 4,575 additional knitting ma
chimes during the year, figures COM
piled by the Southern Textile Bulletin
show. This does not include equipment
bought for replacement and is almost
double the total Of 2,503 additional ma
chimes installed in 1880.
The bulk of this equipment Is cir
cular knit machines, but includes a
large amount Of full fashioned equip
ment. For some years past the knitting
mills have grown faster than any other
division of the Southern textile in
dustry.
Evening star., 1932-01-20
OIL TARIFF BILL DRAWN.
Independent Petroleum Association
Agrees on Tentative Duties.

BY the Associated Press.
A tentative bill has been drafted by
the Independent Petroleum Association
of America for placing duties on im-
ported petroleum and refined products,
After referring in the preamble to
the report Of the Tariff Commission
on the difference between the domestic
and the foreign costs of production OF
crude and its products, the bill pro-
poses the following rates of duties: On
oil. 81 per barrel: on gasoline, lubri-
eating oils and all other products OF
refining, SO per cent ad valorem.
The bill specifies the rates shall be
applied on the American selling price,
except when there is no similar COM
petidye article produced in the United
States. Under the latter condition the
ad yalorem rate shall be based on the
United States value.
It is further provided that oil i'm
ported for manufacture and re-export
shall be exempt from duty.
Evening star., 1932-01-20
RIGGS BANK RATED
18TH IN SIZE IN u. S.
Continued From Thirteenth Page)

both well known in the insurance field
here, Mr.. Lipscomb having conducted
a general insurance business for the
past Is years. Mr. Ashton was for
merly associated with the local office
of the Equitable Life Assurance Society
of the United States.
North American Co. has declared the
regular quarterly dividends Of 2k per
cent in common on the common and
rs cents on the preferred stocks, both
payable April l to stock OF record
March S.
S. r. Prince mas been designated as
general counsel Of the Southern Rail-
way, succeeding the late L. Z. Jeffries,
who died here suddenly while attend
ing hearings upon the four system
Eastern railroad merger proposal.
Evening star., 1932-01-20
WALLPAPER SALES GOOD.

NEW YORK, January 20 (P.-Jan-
uary buying of wall paper is said to
be running in good volume. Retailers
are placing substantial orders for Feb
ruary and March delivery, according to
reports in the trade. Medium priced
materials is in the greatest demand,
and imported papers are attracting less
buying interest
Evening star., 1932-01-20
PRICE PEGS" DROPPED.

BALTIMORE, January 20 (SpeciaD
Effective today, the Baltimore Stock
Exchange removed the pegs" from the
following securities, which have been
traded at a fixed price since last Sep
tember: Isaac Benesch 6s Century
Parkway 6s, Denville Traction 5s, Glib
son Island 6s, Maryland Pennsylvania
Evening star., 1932-01-20

Brokers understand that large part
Of the recent buying In Alaska Juneau
originated from California.
Evening star., 1932-01-20
STOCKS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.

Amer Tel. & Tel. ts) .......... 1917 90.
CAPITAL Traction Co. oo9....... 55sh 20
N g. w. Steamboat l2l l,....,. $50 2l0
Pot. Elec Power 81 pfd. ...... ITO ....
Pot Elec. Power 5l2Fo pfd .... 1903 49,.
Wash. Rwy. & Elec. com. %. 800
Wash. Rwy. & Elec. pfd. G). SO 94i2
Evening star., 1932-01-20
AFTER CALL.
Bid and Asked Prices.
PUBLIC UTILITY
MlSCELLANEOC

Barber & Ross, Inc, 6Hs...... so 80.
Chevy Chase Club 5l2s: :...... SO 100
Columbia Country Club 5l2S.,. 100 lOS
W. M. Cold Storage SIS. "a ...
Evening star., 1932-01-20
U. S. TREASURY CERTIFICATES
Washington Stock Exchange
SALES.

SALES.
Potomac Electric 512s pfd.-5 at 10314.
Washington Gas IS "A"-S1 900 at 100.
Mergenthaler Linotype-6 at ST., at 81
AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas IS "A"-$1 900 at 100.
Potomac Electric 512 pfd.-l0 a 1034
CAPITAL Traction 5s-Sl 900 at so.
Evening star., 1932-01-20


1880 AM........ 100000 1900 Noon 100000
1870 P.M........ 100000 2:1o P.M........ 100000
Dividend rates given IN the abov tabs are ths hnnu. a1h
tPArty tPius
s% stock Paid last REGULAR rate
in Plus SOC in special preferred sosi Plgs
stock .
Evening star., 1932-01-20

6s. Zonite Prod Corp % 2 Tn
Sale. of Stocks IN New York e
Evening star., 1932-01-20
NATIONAL BANK

Amer. Sec. & Tr. Co. N5) ...... 299 8
Natl Sav. & TT. Q2tl ......... 375
Union Trust (8s1 s1".' l9l 2
Wash. Loan & Tr. G4......... 400 4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-29
A Big January Thaw

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
just set in motion at Washington, can make
loans as high as S100,000,000 to great
banks or insurance companies or railroads.
and loans little enough to relieve the neces-
sites of an individual farmer. When this
institution gets under way. as it will imme-
diately. business should start moving. One
of the first steps will be to help railroads
refinanee their maturing bonds Thus It
will not only relieve the railroads themselves
but will support and stabilize their securi-
ties, to the advantage of insurance COM
panies. banks and other institutions holding
railroad investments.
BY lending to insurance companies, on
sound security, it will enable these vast saw
ings institutions to meet the demands on
them from policy loans and payments, thus
reassuring millions of policy holders. By
lending to building and loan companies,
with their mortgages accepted as security it
will thaw out their frozen resources and
enable them to make new loans BY lend
ing to banks on sound securities not now
eligible for acceptance by Federal Reserve
banks. it will enable them to pass on the
help to their own customers and clients.
Thus the benefits should soon trickle down
to everybody.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-29
Thrift in Government

A survey report of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States urges the imme-
diate curtailment of federal activities costing
$500,000.000 year. The government
could reduce its budget this much. says the
report without impairing its efficiency or
otherwise affecting it, except to withdraw
it from activities originally conceived to
pertain to the states alone" 1t may be
urged, on the othefAhand, that if the federal
government does not do these things, the
states will have to do them. To which it
may be answered that many Of them arc
now being duplicated by the states, and that
many others are unnecessary.
The states themselves have been almost as
fertile in their extravaganza as the national
government. In a recent overhauling of one
of the state governments it was discovered
casually that for years the state had operated
a bureau for new services" The state was
employing group of experts to devise new
ways for spending its money. There will
be less of this sort of thing the next few
years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-29
Air Express

Air express transportation for small
freight is only four years old Starting in
1927 with a volume amounting to five
tons. it has been doing business this year at
the rate of about $50 tons. This kind OF
freight is naturally carried in units ranging
from half pound up to 200 pounds, Reck
oned in pounds, the stimated 100000
pound total for 1881 looks more impress
sive.
1t will be much greater next year. slim
ulated by the new rate schedule announced
by the Railway Express Agency. Reduc-
tons run as high as 80 per cent. When
$40 charge is reduced to 81. almost any
shipper sits up and takes notice. Though
the rates are still higher than straight rail
rates, the service in hundreds of cases is SO
much quicker as to be worth the money for
small and valuable shipments and for emer-
geneies.
This extension of the Railway Express
service, by railway -airway combination.
goes naturally with the rail-air hookup of
passenger service. The railroads seem to be
pioneering in the new airplane field more
than in the motor bus field Eventually,
as the country gets its transportation system
modernized there may be a grand hook-up
of all three.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-29

but he had wife and weekly salary Of
$40.
In 1891 he went to Chicago and started
the idea of premium with his sales. Event
ually that premium became chewing gum.
which soon sold better than the main pro-
duct. BY 1911 Wrigley was established
and proceeded to purchase the Zeno Manu-
featuring company from whom he had been
securing his gum. From then on his pro-
gress was marked. He became one of the
living disciples of the value of newspaper
advertising. The Wrigley company is still
heavy advertiser. Its founder said. "Ad-
vertising is pretty much like running a fur
mace. You've got to keep on shoveing coal.
Once you stop stoking. the fire goes out. It's
strange that some peoples Imagination can't
compass this fact" There is one thing
certain. Wrigley certainly never stopped
shoveling the coal. And much of his finan-
eial success is due to that selfsame fact.
Watch for his biography. 1t can't be far
away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-29
William Wrigley, Jr.

johnson had his Boswell, William Wrig-
ley. Jr. certainly was as inspiring figure
as the melancholc photographer. IF some
body doesn't produce biography of the
gum magnate within the next few months.
good material will be going to waste. Talk
about romance and real life coupled in the
one the story of William Wrigley. Jr.. is
simply replete with incidents and high
lights that would commend themselves to
the true painter of men in living words. His
death at the age of 70 ended career of
spectacular achievements - career thst
started with such an inauspicious start as
running away from school to New York.
Follow the career of Wrigley. though
once he had put aside his school books for
good and it becomes more evident that the
youth had his own ideas of carving niche
in the Hall of Fame. What he may have
lacked in early education he more than made
up for in the school of hard knocks which
he entered entirely upon his own initiative
Had Wrgley SO desired, he probably could
have run the gauntlet of grammar and high
school and even college. His father was a
soap manufacturer in Philadelphia. For a
time the youngster sold soap on the road for
his father when most boys are toting school
books and engaging in pranks.
His career as a salesman started early and
never ended. He was one right up until his
death. He had few precepts which. he
had worked out for himself in his many
years of selling wares to the public and he
never forgot them. Experience always stood
him in good stead. Wrigley may even have
visited Waterbury in his travels. 1t is said
that when peddling his fathers soap his
territory included New England and the
middle Atlantic states. That was probably
as far back as 1875. or thereabouts. Wrigley
may have been thirteen or fourteen years old.
Six years later he was still peddling wares
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-29
Here, There And Everywhere

territory: or (2) to set UP state
liquor control. after 1t had been
ratified by the people of the state.
In this way the return Of the
saloon system would be guarded
against; dry states could .eally be
dry; and wet states could legally
be wet. The eighteenth amend.
ment would remain In the Consti-
tuition for those states which want
It; the twentieth could be employ
ed by those which oppose prohibit
ton.
If the democratic convention
alone should adopt Mr. Raskob's
plan, II still might win two-thirds
vote In congress should the demo-
cratic national candidates be elect
ed in 1882 by large majorities II
both party conventions should &C.
cept It, or something like 1t. a ref
erendum, which seems reason
able way to test national sentiment
and achieve the reform of the in
tolerable conditions which have
sprung from prohibition, would be-
come certainty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-29

The Yale Daily News has revealed that
already Yale students are putting to test re-
cent declarations of Dean Mendells that
beer of per cent alcoholic content is good
for college students. Patronage at the
Oyster Club has gradually increased lately
as the news spread through collegiate circles
that its beer more nearly approached that of
pre- prohibition days than any heretofore
mbibed Incidentally the club is under stu
dent management and is not being banned
by university officials. Beer is the only
liquor served Perhaps this test will prove
something after all. If it can wean college
students away from hard liquors entirely its
purpose is accomplished.