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Evening star., 1934-10-24
DU POINT REPORTS
SHARE NET
Profit for Common Stock
Totals $34, ,333,O75 in
Nine Months.
BY the Associated Press.

WILMINGTON, Del, October "a
The consolidated income statement of
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. for
the nine months ended September 80
shows earnings applicable to the COM
mon stock of 34,333,075, equal to
S31O a share on the average shares
outstanding.
This figure, which includes divi-
dends from the company's investment
in General Motors Corp. equivalent to
$1.13 on each share of du Pont COM
mon stock, compares with S21, ,724,642,
or Sl.98 a share in the first nine
months of 1888. which included divi-
dends from the General Motors invest
ment equal to 68l2 cents share on du
Pont common.
For the third quarter earnings ap-
plicable to the common stock were
Sl3, 3,760,367 or S1.24 share, which in
cludes dividends from General Motors
amounting to 68 cents du Pont
share. In the third quarter last year
total earnings were equal to 95 cents
a share on the du Pont common
which included 2212 cents a share
from General Motors
For the first nine months net in
come from operations, after provision
for depreciation and obsolescence of
plants and equipment, was S24,541,-
SIS, and for the first nine months of
1888, il was Sl7,544,736; income from
investments was S17,773,183, which
included S5,276,375 income from mar
ketable securities, and S12, ,496,808 from
General Motors. In the same period
in 1888, income from investments was
.S11 ,664,510.
After making provision for Federal
taxes and interest on bonds of sub
sidiary companies, net income for the
first nine months was S38,727,8l8,
compared with S26,437,238 in the COM
parable period in 1888. Dividends
paid on the debenture stock in the
first nine months amounted to S4,9l6,-
238,
Evening star., 1934-10-24
SWINGS
AGAIN TO DOLLAR
Currencies of Gold Bloc
Register Sharp Drop
During Week.
BY W. r. HUFF,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, October 24-The cur
rency pendulum. after moving away
from the dollar for several months.
now is swinging back heavily in its
favor.
The currencies Of France, Belgium.
Holland, Switzerland and Italy-the
so-called gold bloc have declined
abruptly in the last week All, except
Swiss francs, are below par and at the
lowest levels since early August, when
Americas silver naturalization sent
the dollar tail spinning.
The sudden dive of the gold bloc
currencies conceded with a meeting at
Brussels to discuss defense of the gold
standard in the few countries where
it remains unsullied. The conference
has been described locally as "a tri-
umph Of statement-making and not Of
results"
The term gold countries" is not an
accurate one for these nations. Other
countries, the United States included,
AAhNS cOAAAO cOlb VI 6OAu
Italy, on the other hand, controls its
currency so rigidly that the gold stand
ard applies there only in a very broad
sense.
Members of the gold bloc have one
attribute in common: They have not
devalued their currencieS during tie
current econQmic depression. Holland
and Switzerland, alone in the world,
still have their pre-war gold PARTIES.
The financial and monetary policies
of the gold bloc are uniformly de-
f1ationary. aimed at cutting down ex-
penditures, balancing budgets, re-
stricting imports and reducing the
costs of production. Thus, the cur
rencies of the gold bloc are "defla-
ton" units, as opposed to the in
f1ationary aspects Of other nations.
Many well-informed quarters con-
slider it merely matter of time until
France and its currency allies decide
to devalue in order to meet new world
conditions
Evening star., 1934-10-24
RISE CONTINUES
IN RETAIL SALES
Washington and Miami Show
Largest Gains Over
Year Ago.
Dispatch to The Star.

Special OlSpdLCQ 70 nc otdG.
NEW YORK, October 24.-Retail
sales through the country swung high
er during the first half of October.
the National Retail Dry Goods Asso-
citation reported today.
In a midmonthly survey among
stores n rs representative cities, the
association estimated that department.
store dollar sales through the coun-
try as whole increased approximately
per cent in the first Is shopping
days of october as compared to the
similar period in October, 1888. This
gain follows per cent increase in
department-store sales in September,
compared with September, 1888. as
reported by the Federal Reserve.
Miami with a gain Of 43 per cent
and Washington with an increase of
% per cent headed the list of report
ing cities.
What was considered Of especial sig
nificance in the results of the poll
was a considerable increase in the
number CT unit sales in the reporting
stores The association figured the
-NlOC I'LL CooS AL IL l1d41odNI1o
for the drst half of October as against
last year amounted to CTS per cent
probably the greatest advance in this
figure achieved over a period of many
months.
Buys on Larger Scale.
It means that the American pub
lie generally is buying on favorably
larger scale. a factor which previously
has been largely absent, although price
increases have helped expand dollar
sales to a considerable degree dur
ing various phases of the recovery
movement. The increase in the value
of department-store sales in the first
part Of october was primarily due
to this increase in transactions, for
prices at the end of September were
estimated at less than 2 per cent higher
than at the same time in 1888.
The most notable increases in dollar
sales were reported by stores in the
South, Southwest and on the Pacific
Coast, according to the N R. D. c. A
tabulations. New England showed the
smallest increases. estimated at 2 per
Evening star., 1934-10-24
FOREIGN MARKETS.
iy the Associated Press.

LONDON Trading on the Stock Ex-
change was generally dull today. British
funds. Kafsrs and brewery issues improved
on fair support. while Arsentine rails
hardened on wage awards. and other sec
llons were easy. The market closed dull.
PARIS Minister Of Finance Germain-
Msrt!nS report that Frances treasury was
IN good shape caused rentes TO gain on
the Bourse today despite fear OF cabinet
crisis IndustrialS. especially Citroen
issues were higher. while only oil shares
which we're Influenced by the price war
IN the United States declined. The closing
was nrm.
dull today and prices. after slight declines,
recovered partially.
Evening star., 1934-10-24

cent; increases in the Middle Atlantic
States were reported at slightly more
than 4 per cent: the Middle West, SIS
per cent; the South, IL per cent: the
Southwest, IL per cent, and Pacific
Coast States, 1875 per cent.
Results of the survey on dollar sales
increase included reports from stores
in these key cities and these sales in
creases:
Boston, 2 per cent: Bridgeport,
Conn, 9; New Haven, /: Springfield,
Mass, 5; Brooklyn, N. Y, 6; Buffalo,
8; New York City, So; Philadelphia,
7; Reading, Pa, Z; Rochester, 4;
Scranton, 2.75; Chicago, 2; Cleveland,
IA: Cincinnati. 8: Milwaukee. SIS;
Pittsburgh, 2; st. Louis, 6; Spring
field, ILL.,, /; Wheeling, 25 (decrease) ;
Atlanta, IL; Miami, 43; New Orleans,
10; Washington, %; Dallas. IA; Salt
Lake City, IL; Sacramento, 12; San
Francisco, q; Seattle, 8, and Portland,
Greg, 12.5.
Fall Demand Heavy.
The prevalence of the heavy Fall
demand Tor W0menS ana mems clotn-
ing was plainly shown in portion OF
the survey in which stores reported
the six outstanding departments
showing the greatest sales increase in
relation to total store sales increase
in the first part of october. Those
departments mentioned most fire.
quently as among the six leading de-
partments of the stores in relation to
sales increase were listed by the
N. R. D. G. A in the following order:
Women's apparel, basement depart
ments, mems clothing and furnish
ings, house furnishings, furs, elec-
trical appliances. piece goods. shoes
hosiery. furniture. linens and domes-
tics, curtains and draperies, and art
needleWork.
Evening star., 1934-10-24
Colgate Orders
Extra Dividend of
25 Gents a Share
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 24.-Directors
of the Colgate-Palmolive-P Co. to-
day ordered an extra dividend of 25
cents and the regular quarterly divi-
dend Of 1912 cents on the common
stock. both payable December ! to
stock OF record November 8.
A statement issued by the company
said payment of the extra disburse-
ment 'is justified at this time based
solely on actual earnings to date and
estimated earnings for the balance Of
this year."
Sherwin- Williams Co. declared the
regular quarterly dividend of rs cents
on the common stock, payable Novem-
Der Is to stock of record October 81.
Evening star., 1934-10-24
FORM OIL COMPANY.

BALTIMORE. October "a (SpeciaD
Martin Mccarthy, Richard R. Chen
owith and Needham c. Turnage, all of
Washington. have incorporated the
Metropolitan Petroleum Co. of Mont
gomery County, Md, to deal in petro-
leum products. etc. with capital stock
of $50 shares common stock, no par
value.
Evening star., 1934-10-24
CURB DEVELOPS
IMPROVED TONE
Metal and Store Shares
Active, but Utilities
and Oils Sag.
BY G. A. PHILLIPS,

HosOOIdttu fItbb rILdIICIdI WIIVeI
NEW YORK, october 24-The
Curb market improved in tone during
late trading today. Metals and mer-
chandising shares were in active de-
mand but oils and utilities still Jagged
behind. ~
Gains Of to points were made by
Lake Shore Mines, Great Atlantic g.
Pacific and Heyden Chemical, and
advances up to y point occurred in
Sherwin Williams, Wright Hargreaves
and Montgomery Ward "a"
Losses of minor fractions were made
by American Gas, Electric Bond g.
Share, Creole Petroleum and Pitts
burgh Plate Glass.
Evening star., 1934-10-24
Y ukon Gold.

DIVIDEND rates in dollars passed on last
quarterly semi payment tPartly
extra fPlus 4Es in STOCK. Payable IN
cash or stock. Payable IN stock Plus
SO in stock. Plus so in stock Pay
able in script Plus SO IN stock Paid
this year-no regular rate. m Accumulated
dlvldends paid this year. Plus l0G in
stock Paid last year-no regular rate
r Companies reported in receivership
Evening star., 1934-10-24
FREIGHT LOADINGS.

NEW YORK. October "A dP-FrejVh.
loadings on the Chicago. Burlington q
Quincy system for the week ended Octo-
Der 20 were 26.334 cars. against 26.a34
in the previous week and 26,S90 in the
like 1898 week.
The Rock Island system loaded oo446
cars, against 22,966 in the previous week
last year.
Missouri Pacific loaded $4,000 ears.
week and 22.7o3 IN the week q year ago.
Loadings On other railroads include:
Week Prev. Last
Oct. 20. Week. Year
N. Y. Csntral... y2.S2S 90S97 o9.I97
Evening star., 1934-10-24
RUBBER FUTURES.

NEW YORK. october "a lP,.-crude
yubber futures opened dull. lower 70 8
hirher October l3qSb: December.
i4I7b: January. 1892; March. l4.55.
A-B!d
Evening star., 1934-10-24

NEW YORK BAR SILVER.
NEW YORK, October "a LP>.-Bal
silver steady, unchanged at SO.
Evening star., 1934-10-24
Washington Exchange

SALES.
AnacoStia g. Potomac r. R. 5s-sl 900
at 1914.
Capital Transit Colo at 2712, 10 at
27l4. 10 at 27l4, 10 at 2714, 10 at
27l4.
Mergenthaler Linotype-l0 at %.
AFTER CALL.
Mergenthaler Linotype-75 at %, is
at %.
Washington Railway e. Electric pfd.-
10 at 1904.
Evening star., 1934-10-24
FOREIGN BONDS.

Ww-With warrants
Hv-Without warrants.
n-New
wi-When issued
81 fStpl-Stamped
tNecotiability impaired BY maturity
Bonds fully listed on the Cub EX-
change, others are dealt in as unlisted
issues
tCompsnies reported in receivershp.
Evening star., 1934-10-24

Blue Ridge Corp.
Blue Ridge pf(a3)
Bohack (H CO..
Brazil Trac Lt&P.
Brown Co pf.
Brown Forman.
Buckeye P L 3D..
Butler Bros. .....
Evening star., 1934-10-24

THOUSANDS, amazed by news Of
j this quicker acting new yeast, have
asked question after question. Here
are DR.. Lees answers:
/. What led to its Discovery?
Years of research by many of the leading
scientists in great American medical COL
1eges. A noted bacteriologist finally iso-
lated this new yeast was astounded
by its quick action when tested.
Evening star., 1934-10-24

Davenp't Hos(2)..
Distillers Ltd
(k74 7-10c)
Distlllers Crp-Sea.
Dow Chemical (2)
Duke Power (3).
Evening star., 1934-10-24
2. But isn't all Yeast alike?

Mol There are dozens of "strains" or
varieties. This new one (known as ''XR"
Yeast to scientists) is the strongest ever
found . acts most vigorously-faster-
in the body.
sits very rich in hormone-like substances
(body "activators'O which speed the flow
of your digestive juices and strengthen
digestive action all through you astonish-
ingly.
Evening star., 1934-10-24
N. Y. CURB MARKET

Stock and Sales
Dividend Rate. Add 90. High. Low. Close.
Evening star., 1934-10-24
8. How do these juices affect Con.
stipation and Indigestion?

Most constipation, indigestion, etc, start
when these juices slow up! This new
yeast makes your juices flow faster and
muscles work harder from your ston-
ach on down.
Thus your food is better "churned"-
digested. Your stomach empties sooner,
food is passed along and qpt of you more
Evening star., 1934-10-24

Ea st'n Ga as&Fuel
(A) (k30c).
Ea st n Sta Pwr....
Ea st'n States
Pwr (A).....
Ea sy Wash Mach
OBJ (50c)
Eisler Elec Corp
Elec Bond&Share..
Elec Bd&S pf (6). .
Elec Pw Asso 40c..
Elec Power Asso
tA) (40c).
Elec Sharehold'g.
Emp Pw part( (kl).
Equity Corp'n.
Ex-Cell-O A&Tool.
Evening star., 1934-10-24

quickly. You shouldn't feel STUFFED up"
or have indigestion after meals. Constipa-
ton usually stops entirely in short time.
Cathartics, which act harshly only on
part of the bowels, can't really correct
constipation at all. "XR" Yeast actually
''normalizes' you!
4. The Skin clears quicker, too?
Yes! Most common cases of "bad skin,"
it is now known, arise when poisons from
clogged intestines try to get out through
your skin.
'XR" Yeast speeds up your digestive
system and feeds pure nourishment into
your blood-not poisons. Your skn gains
''tone," becomes healthier. Pimples, ETC.,
should soon disappear!
5. How does it five you Energy?
By cleansing you inside and helping you
get more good" from your foodl People
over 4O,Nespecially, need "XR" Yeast to
correct the slowing up of digestive secre-
tons often occurring rapidly after that
age. . and in this way to relieve one of
the greatest causes of premature "old
age" 1t helps often in rheumatism, by
correcting the bodily auto-intoxieaton
Evening star., 1934-12-23

editor of the Daily Plain Dealer at
Creston, Iowa. He became convinced,
however, that the weekly newspaper
was a better field, and after a few
months on the staff of the Des Moines
Register and Leader, he went to Fry
burg. N. Oak, where he purchased the
Fryburg Pioneer.
Joins Non -Partisans.
Fryburg, young Nye thought could
be made the county seat, although at
the time he went there it had only so
inhabitants. Although it never be-
came couny seat and its population
remained about the same, Fryburg did
have the only newspaper published in
that county.
When the NOn-PartiSan League
movement started among the farmers
in North Dakota, Nye Immediately es-
poused the leagues cause, although
most of the well-establlShed newspapers
opposed it. The farmers in the league
began taking over O. starting news
papers of their own, league organs in
a way Nye aided them all he could.
He had good offer to go to Michigan
to publish a paper and was about to
make final acceptance The Nom
Partisan Leaguers, however, did not
wish to lose him. He was pursuaded
to go to Cooperstown to look over a
newspaper plant they had bought
there. That was in 1919 So favor
ably impressed was he with the people
and their reception of himself and
Mrs. Nye-he had married three years
Evening star., 1934-12-23

returned to the jurisdiction of the
Senate.
The second big investigating job
turned over to Senator Nye was in
1880. when he was chosen chairman
of the Senate Campaign Fund Com
mittee. 1t was this committee which
turned up the fact that Mrs. Ruth
Hanna Mccormick Simms, then Mrs.
Mccormick, who won the Republican
senatorial nomination in Illinois, had
expended more than 100000 in the
primary contest she had with the late
Senator William B. Mckinley. The
same committee went at length into
the efforts of grocer by the name of
George w. Norris to muddy the Sen
ate primary waters in Nebraska when
Senator George w. Norris, veteran
Progressive. was up for denomination
on the Republican ticket.
The career Of the North Dakota
Senator reads almost like a tale by
Oliver Optic, popular writer of boys
stories 80 or 40 years ago. He was
born in small town in Wisconsin,
Hortonville, and two years later was
taken by his parents to Wittenberg.
also in Wisconsin. There he grew up
and went to grade and high school.
His father was a publisher Of weekly
newspapers. Gerald Nye, as soon as
he had left school, took over the
Review, weekly at Hortonville, which
his father owned. He made a 60 of
it. and eventually bought the paper.
His next venture was as manager and
Evening star., 1934-12-23

strument Of q united concert Of Eu-
rope.
The Council of the League has an
advantage over the diplomatic In
struments of the pre-war era because
it is permanently in being and can
therefore be invoked more promptly.
There Is at Geneva a machine without
previous parallel and a technique
which represents marked gain over
the past. Geneva is therefore more
satisfactory means by which the great
powers can impose their will, when
they are agreed, than anything which
has ever existed. Its fatal weakness
lies in the fact that it has no re-
sources of its own to impose its will
and thus to avert conflict when the
great powers are in collision. For all
of the great powers under such cir
cumstances are bound to follow the
example of Japan in 1881 and no
great power will lend its strength to
the League to enforce a decision OF
Geneva.
Looking at the League from the
outside and listening to the propa-
ganda Of the friends Of Geneva in
this country, it is easy to conclude
that there is in the new institution
itself some force calculated to in
sure peace. Seeing League proceed
ings at close range, however, 1t be-
comes obvious at once that progress
or paralysis is entirely contingent
upon agreement or dispute between
the great powers. Within themselves
the great powers collectively always
have possessed the means to prevent
war in Europe whenever they con-
sent to act together. What was lack
ing In 1914 and Is still lacking in
1884 Is any means to prevent war
when the great powers are themselves
divided or when. as in the case OF
Japan, the other great powers are un-
willing to employ their resources to
coerce q power whose course has been
condemned by League decision but
which can only be arrested by force.
(copyrisht. 1934J
Evening star., 1934-12-23
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

IF YOU want a man to investigate
graft
Or to make the arms barons sigh,
L To make 'em shell out
You have only to shout
For Senator Gerald P Nye.
The Senator from North Dakota,
Mr., Nye, bids fair to 60 down In his
tory as one Of the great investigators
of the Upper House: to take rank with
the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh Of
Montana and with former Senator
James A. Reed of Missouri. And yet,
unlike these famous inquisitors, Sen
ator Nye Is not lawyer, member Of
the bar. He is newspaper man.
Today he is pre-eminently in the
limelight because of his inquiry into
the operations of war munitions max
ers. This inquiry, ordered by the SEN
ate when it adopted a resolution in
troduced by Nye at the last session of
Congress, has already caused wide ex-
citement In some foreign chancellories
and disclosed tremendous profits to
munitions makers in time of war.
Now why has Senator Nye, a young
man without legal training, become
widely known as a senatorial inveSti-
gator in a day when Senate investi-
cations rank high in the realm of in
QUESTIONS? Simply because Mr.. Nye
has been willing at all times to tackle
tough jobs which other, and older,
Senators have been loath to take on
When he first came to the Senate
back in 1925. he was 80 years old, one
of the baby members. He was ap-
pointed by the then Gov. Sorlie Of
North Dakota to fill vacancy grow
ing out of the death of the late Sem
ator E. F. Ladd. Through a set of
fortuitous circumstances for him the
youthful Senator was appointed a
member Of the Senate Committee on
Public Lands, and within a year he
became chairman of that committee.
He was chairman of the committee
when 1t was winding up the famous
Teapot Dome oil inquiry, which mad
been started by Senator Walsh of
Montana and SO ably prosecuted by
that Senator.
Learned From Walsh.
Senator Nye regards his service on
the committee with Senator Walsh
during the oil investigation as one of
the most interesting and valuable in
his career. He learned lot about
conducting investigations from Mr..
Walsh, a lot about the tremendous
amount of labor and preparation that
must be gone through preparatory to
the interrogation of witnesses.
And Senator Nye looks back with
some satisfaction to the fact that it
was several questions propounded by
himself that Harry F. Sinclair, oil
magnate, declined to answer and for
which Sinclair finally went to jail.
They were simple, direct questions to
obtain information which his lawyer
colleagues on the committee had
sought in vain to draw from Sinclair
by a more circuitous route.
He was chairman of the Public
Lands Committee when 1t was going
into the activities of the Continental
Trading Co. This inquiry resulted in
the Governments recovering some
S11,000,000 in income taxes-more
money, Senator Nye likes to remind
critics of congressional investigations,
than all these inquiries ever cost since
the Government began. Some of the
men involved in this money-making
scheme fed to Europe and have never
Evening star., 1934-12-23
LLOYD GEORGE CREATES
STIR In BRITISHPOLITICS
Wartime Premier Blasts His Way Out
of Retirement With Plan
for 'New Deal"

tunity Naturally. at this stage of the
game he has not done anything so
crude as to declare his Labor SYM
pathies. BY means of a remarkable
speech in Parliament, and subsequent
1t plain that he had British version Of
the New Deal which would make Pres
ident Roosevelt's look weak and hesi-
tating by comparison. He added that
he would welcome the support of the
non-partisan lines.
At one step Lloyd George thus as
sumed a strategic position of some
strength. 1t is already obvious he will
put forth nothing that could not be
accepted by the most orthodox Labor
ite: equally, that some of his schemes
will affect Left Wing Tories and Lib
erals who are disappointed at what
they feel to be the limited extent Of
Britain's trade revival.
During the coming year, therefore,
Lloyd George will be able to offer his
wares to the highest bidder. If Labor
is cold to him, and if his plans for a
national regeneration attract support
in other quarters, it is possible he
might find himself at the head of a
bloc which would hold the balance of
power after the next election. II, on
the other hand, Labor decided to for
get its very real distrust and fear of
Lloyd George and welcome him as its
leader "a development which admit
tedly seems unlikely, 1t would pacify
middle class opinion to an extent
which is impossible with the party's
present makeup.
Morrison Has Strength.
Perhaps the issue will narrow down
to one Of personalities. For, various
reasons, such older Labor leaders as
George Lansbury and Arthur Hender-
son are likely to cancel out each other.
Labor's dark horse is Herbert Morr1-
son, chairman of the London County
Council, q man of great ability but
relatively inexperienced in a national
sense. Speculation now Is turning to
the possibility of Morrison, who Is q
political realist, recognizing that Labor
alone cannot hope for majority, but
that with Lloyd Georges aid it might
scrape through. In that event Morri-
son might be well content to permit
Lloyd George to assume the premier
ship with himself as lineal successor.
1t is even suggested that Lloyd
George, having reached the pinnacle
Of age and fame where he Is without
ambition In the ordinary sense, would
be willing to serve in q subordinate
capacity In any government that would
carry out his policies. But there is q
touch of the dramatic in the Welsh
mans makeup, and few who know
him doubt that he would like to end
his career with triumphant vindica-
ton as peace-time as well a. wartime
premier.
tCopyright. 1934.)