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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

ment of Agricuiture) Cattle. 1000 com
mercial,. 1000 Government compared
friday last week; better grade steers and
yearlings steady to 25 cents lower. choice
KINDS all weight closing steady; lower
grades fully 25 cents lower; heavies scarce
and supply long fed lights small. although
rank and file steer crop comprised light
cattle; early advance in gearing heifers
LOST. but all lower grade heifers sold rela-
lively high; all cows closed unevenly,
lower than weeks high time, but still
higher than pre-strike markets; bulls 25
lower. and vealers so higher; cows and re-
placement cattle very scarce and not
many strictly grass killing steers in run,
these selling mostly at 3.25 to 500; most
ied steers ana yearlings, 6;00as.5 40; choice
ofierinss: all weights; 500 upward. with
yearlings. 500; heller ycarlings. 7.5O.
Sheep, 5000; for week ending Friday
33 doubles from feeding stations, 1890
directs; compared Friday last week. fat
lambs and yearlings around rs cents
higher. sheep and feeding lambs 25 cents
and more up; weeks top native lambs.
7.75; highest in four weeks; late trade
reactionary with finishing bulk at 7.25a
1906 best available Westerns. 7.60; weeks
bulk Westerns. 6.50a7 80; sorts on most
range offerings ranging from 33 to So
per cent; top 94-pound yearlings, $50;
bulk. 5.50a610; slaughter ewes. 2.00s
2.15; feeding lambs. 5.50a5S5.
Hogs. 5000. including $500 direct
market steady with Friday; top. $40; few
early sales at $50 down; pigs below $50
and packing sows so downward; shippers
took 200 and estimated holdoVer 1000.
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STOCK LIST STEADY
AT WEEKS CLOSE
Fresh Buying of Metals
Gives Market Firmer
Appearance.
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer,

NEW YORK. August 1I.-Fresh
buying of the non-ferrous metals gave
the stock market a little firmer ap-
pearance today, but the rest of the
list was all but neglected, and vir-
tually unchanged. The closing tone
was steady. Transfers for the two
hour session were only about 10000
shares.
The market was confused by con-
trary signals provided by Government
bonds and commodities. The Federal
issues declined rather sharply, and
the dollar weakened In foreign ex-
change dealings. These were accept
ed as imitation signals but commodi-
ties, which should have gone up If
the markets generally had been
gripped by inflationary expectations
declined sharply.
Profit Taking Appears.
As a matter of fact it appeared that
the imitation question had little to do
with either the decline in bonds or
the drop in commodities. Grains and
cotton reacted sharply in profit taking,
prompted by rains and crop estimates
little higher than expected in some
cases. The decline in United States
Government bonds had set in several
days before the silver naturalization
had even been rumored, evidently as q
result of putting too many Government
guaranteed issues on the market at a
time when 1t was none too sturdy.
Week end business news was mixed.
Reports from the steel trade mem
toned a weakening in scrap prices,
and indications of some curtailment of
ingot production next week. Retail
trade reports, however, were widely
encouraging.
Overnight news that the Treasury
would issue silver certificates against
metal already held at the rate of
$l.29 an ounce, or more than double
the value of silver in world markets.
stirred the inflationary fires In the
non-ferrous metal stocks, and eyi-
IDENTIFY prompted little more bear
selling of the dollar, but was not re-
garded in important banking quarters
as indicating any significant dilution
of the currency.
u. s. Smelling Climbs.
United States Smelling gained more
than points, and other metal shares
up a point or more included Cerro
De Pasco, Howe Sound, American
Smelling, Mcintyre Porcupine and
Dome. Gains of fractions to a point
appeared in United States Rubber
Issues, General Motors, Union Pacific,
Southern Pacific, Sears-Roebuck and
a few others. United States Steel and
American Telephone were about un-
changed. Western Union lost a major
fraction, in response to its earnings
report.
Cotton futures in the New York
market lost 80 cents to 81 bale.
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CAPITAL STORES
SHOW BIG GAINS
July Retail Sales Volume
22.4 Per Cent Ahead
of Year Ago.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Retail trade In Washington depart
fnent stores Ia going ahead by leaps
and bounds. luding by the July re-
port issued today by the Federal Re-
serve Bank OF Richmond. Business
was 224 per cent better than In
July, 1898
Sales also we're ahead of the Is
per cent average for 81 stores In the
NTH district and more than 10 per
cent better than the average for sos
stores scattered all over the United
States
For the frst seven months Of 1884
Washington stands behind the fifth
district average gain of 20 per cent,
but advances in sales In the Capital
amounting 10 1873 per cent top the
national average Improvement Of 16
per cent
In July sales in this territory
Charleston, w. Va. was the only
city 10 exceed the Washington dollar
percentage rise. That city made q
gain OF 20 per cent and Is now over
"a per cent ahead OF last year in re-
tall trade. Baltimore and Richmond
reported July advances Of more than
IL per cent.
District Ranks Second.
Today's report further shows that
the Richmond Reserve District ranked
second In percentage increases In
July sales In the whole IL districts.
only the Atlanta district making a
larger gain. The sales picture in
the fifth district is clearly revealed
by the following percentage compari-
sons covering July and seven-month
sales with the like periods year ago:
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GRA|NCARRyOVERS.
TOSHR|NKSHARPLy.
World Totals July |, 1895,
Likely to Be Too Small
for Comfort.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August li.--Rapid cur
tailment Of prospective world bread
stuff supplies apparently indicate a
distinct likelihood that July /, 1895,
carryovers viii be too small for COM
fort.
Leading unofficial grain trade au-
thorities said today the swing from
burdensome surpluses to an expected
thin excess of world supply over de-
mand has come suddenly owing to big
shrinkage of European crops as well
as to severe crop shortages in North
American and Australia, with the Ar
gentine outlook at present not more
than fair. The United States Gov
ernment's newest crop report is as
serted to confirm the scantiest wheat
yield in this country since 1896, ex-
elusive Of considerable additional
damage done by drought and abnor-
NAL heat since August l, with domes-
tic Winter wheat areas not generally
in shape for preparation of another
crop.
A burning question today was
whether the sharp rise in wheat val
ues had not at least partly discounted
conditions, for the time being. It
was pointed out by one of the FORE
most market experts that there had
been comparatively little short selling
of late, and that consequently they
we're increased chances for speculative
air pockets to develop with any lull
in general purchasing. The statement
was added that wide fluctuations in
prices were likely in this kind Of q
market.
Tightening of the domestic wheat
supply situation, however, Is testified
to by steep premiums paid for spot
deliveries as compared with futures.
In this connection, the fact is stressed
that the Minneapolis market, where
the Spring wheat movement is now
centering, has been especially strong
Another striking aspect of stringent
market conditions is that upturns Of
prices in the United States have been
outdone abroad, with Liverpool, Rot
terdam, Buenos Aires, Winnipeg and
Australia selling at the highest prices
since 1880.
Among many corn traders, belief
prevails that even widespread imme-
diate rains would not result in any
great improvement of the corn crop
outlook other than causing ears to
I'LL to q better degree. Oats and rye
follow almost every fluctuation of the
sister cereals.
Provisions are especially sensitive
to behavior of the corn market.
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RUSSIA REPAYS LOAN
OF S2,803,444 PROMPTLY
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press,
Russia has repaid the $2,s0S. .444
loan made to her a year ago by the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. 10 pur-
chase American cotton.
Jesse H. Jones. chairman OF the
corporation, announced the repay
ment yesterday. He said the notes
which were for ~ months from the
date of shipment, began maturing
July IL. the last payment falling due
August 5.
Every note, he said, was met on
the day II was due.
Jones also said China, which bor-
rowed approximately $4,000, 900 to
buy cotton. wheat and -four, has been
meeting h9' payments promptly as
they fall due.
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Sales in Other Districts.

The Federal Reserve Board reported
here today that preliminary figures
on the value Of department store
sales show q decrease from June to
July Of somewhat more than the
estimated seasonal amount. The Fed
eral Reserve Boards index, which
makes allowance for differences in
the number Of business days and for
the usual seasonal changes, was 72
in July on the basis of the l923-1925
average as 100. compared with "A in
June and ~ in May.
In comparison with year ago, the
value OF sales for July, according TO
preliminary figures. was per cent
larger. Increases compared with last
year are shown for most Federal
Reserve districts, the largest increases
being in the Atlanta, Richmond and
Dallas districts, while decreases from
q year ago are reported for the San
Francisco and Boston districts.
Percentage increases or decreases
from year ago:
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GOLD STATEMENT.

NEW YORK, August II (R.-Gold
receipts at New York yesterday as re-
ported by the Federal Reserve Bank,
were $209,300 from Holland. SAT 400
from Jamaica and $37,600 from In
dia. There were no exports, and gold
held under earmark was unchanged
The receipt of $5,053, 900 from Eng
land was reported as additional for
Thursday.
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U. s. TREASURY POSITION.
BY the Associated Press.

The position Of the Treasury August .
lures, Sl4,7I3.425. 90; balance, S2,353,-
454,S22 .bs; customs receipts for the
month, SB,111, ,7S0.07.
Receipts for the fiscal year (sinee July
IL, S340. S33. .027T4: expenditures, $780,
007. .23s.03 Uncluding S30s. .02O. 5o6.7p OF
emergency expendituresl; excess Of ex-
pendItures, S295. l74,2l0.2e; sold assets,
S7.974,796.2 .23S.1S.
Receipts for August o, 1898 (compara-
BILE date last year,, SS1,715. .2S7. 90; ex-
penditures, SIS. .026. 1873 .66: net balance
S7S1, 100. .921.67; customs receipts for the
month. $S.456 S63.3l
Receipts for the fiscal year, S236, ,764,-
2b139; expenditures. S300,406. .36t.b1,
including S121, ,7l9,743.33 Of emergency
expenditures; excess Of expendttures
S154, ,731.1 .130.12i gold assets. $3.lo2. ESQ.,
347.04.
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RAILROAD EARNINGS.

NEW YORK. August 10 LP.-Net rail-
way operating income of railroads report
ing today for the month of July included:
1884 1888.
Alton .......... S155.301 $3.50, 772
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NEW YORK BAR SILVER.

NEW YORK, August IL [P.-Bar
silver steady and unchanged at 493z.
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/ TRANSACTIONS ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE


Sales Of Stocks New York Exchange.
100 AN. ..... 10000 1900 Noon..... 1000
Dividend rates as given in the annual
cash payments based the latest quarterly haYery
declarations.
sUnt Of trading less than 100 shares. tParty extra
in Stock Payable in cash or stock Plus 81 in special pre-
Aecunu-
lated dvidend paid this kCompanies reported in
ceivershfp m Plus Ex-dividend.
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INVESTMENT TRUSTS

NEW YORK. August IL 0P.-New York
Security Dealers Association:
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SOFA q Hack w of A tl&J.
Sis Sls Ham Dept Stores.
Ga Sts Hall w T PRINTING!
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NEW YORK BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK. August IL O9.-New York
Security Dealers Association:
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(1926 average equals 1o0l
CCopyright. 1884. std. Statistics CO..
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sJuly figures preliminary In most cities
the month had the same number of busi-
ness days this year and last year but this
July there were four Saturdays. as COM
pared with five q year ago.
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PRODUCE EXCHANGE
NEW YORK. Angus. IL R.-Produce
Exchange stock list:
CLOSING au0tations1

Total sale stocks-9. 900 shares.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-23

The incest collection of childrens coats
we've had for long time. Daring Sale
priced to max the kids happy! Sport
and dress styles! Peggy Pepper" and
twO-piece outfits! Little brother and
sister coats Big girls windswept coats!
Rough wOOlens, epOnge crepes pOlaires,
crepes in brown, tan, red, navy. green, in
sizes to 6, to IA years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-13
Press Comment
AFTER ALL. ELECTION WASN'T OVER THE JOBS
(New Britain Herald)

Scarcely have the election fires died down when there comes a re- port that with the election of Fran cis T. Maloney to the Senate he will have the privilege of helping to solve Connecticut's patronage prob lem with Senator Lonergan.
 Heretofore Lonergan has been in the drivers seat and he caused the patronage selections of Archibald McNeil, national committeeman. to be rejected in the Senate.
 Lonergan has been an Old Guard CT while McNeil had New Guard ideas about the precious jobs. Now along comes M/ Maloney, beholden to the New Dealers and expected to consider Postmaster General Farley as the boss about patronage.
 It is to be hoped that the jobs factions get together amicably. Sen ator Lonergan ought to have no trouble at all in yielding part of the driving to his fellow Democra- tic senator, seeing that he added his verbal bit by making speeches during the campaign.
 The, outlook is for an agreement all around because it seems entirely too illogical to act otherwise. The remaining Republicans in the state ought to be s~ared the spectacle of seeing the victorious Democrats making fools of themselves about federal jobs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-13
So They Say

"Pm the most abused man in public office today. Sheriff John M. Sulzmann, of Cuyahoga County. Ohio.
 Do you know that for 40 years have seen practically nothing of this country other han the beaten paths of the National League clubs? John Heydler, retired president of the National League.
 There can be no partiality in this democratic republics army
 -Presden Niceto Zamora of Spain.
 The business of this country has been under fire from men in public life and in general think 1t has been taking the criticisms lying down. Thomas I. Parkinson, president, New York Chamber of Commerce.
 am sure Russia has more territory than she will be able to develop for long time to come. George c. Hanson U. s. consul general at Moscow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-13

Washington, Nov. 13-It looks, as if the election of Arthur w. Mitchell, colored congressman from Chicago, as successor to Os- car DePriest, also colOred, might cause the New Deal little trou- ble.,
 Already some of the old guard democrats have privately inti- mated objection. What they say is, that they don't mind having a republican negro around, but that a democratic negro con- gressman is different. Mitchell, they say, will be a member of their own crowd and party.
 And it has more significance than merely the opposition of sout h ern cOngressmen. For Roosevelt and his administration have deliberately courted negro support.
 Secretary of the Interior Ickes was once an officer in the Ma tional Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. Oscar Chapman, his assistant, had been a strong rooter f or more funds for Howard univcr- sity (colored) which is run by the interior department. Harry Hopkins, relief administrator, has operated on the assumption that black men can be just as hungry as white.
 Finally, Mrs Roosevelt has conferred frequently with Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People.
 It has escaped the attention of most, but this is the first time in history that the democratic party has sent a negro to con- gress.
 MUNITIONS GESTURE
 The duPonts, largest powder and munitions manufacturers Tn the United States, are planning a comeback at the senate muni- tions investigation committee which hauled them over the coals so brusquely in Septem- Der.
 Although the nature of the comeback is carefully guarded, 1t is understood to be an offer of self-imposed regulation by the duPonts. The gesture is calcu- lated to steal some of the senate committees thunder.
 What the committee is aiming at is regulation of munitions manufactured by the govern ment.
 LAST LAUGH
 When James Roosevelt, father of the president. died, he left his son an estate which was care fully invested and nets about $1D,00O annually.
 The administrator of this es- tate is Philip Roosevelt, a part ner in Roosevelt and Sons, in vestment bankers. He is a cousin of the president and also a close friend.
 Some time ago he wrote his cousin in the White House re- garding the various stocks and bonds in which the trust fund
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-13
Nebraska Sets Example

One of the most significant points of the recent election was an event which has drawn relatively little notice-the adop- tion by Nebraska voters of Senator George w. Norris plan for one-chamber state legislature. It is significant because it is the first real step taken, by an American state to bring long needed reform into the machinery of state government.
 In any democracy, the machinery of government is bound to be more or less cumbersome. No legislative body de- signed to reflect the peoples will can func- tion without some lost motion. But 1t is hard to think of any place where the lost motion is quite as great as in the average American state legislature.
 The legislature is patterned after the national congress-two houses chosen on different representational schemes, oper- ating under a governor whose national counterpart is the president. And be- cause attention usually is focused on the national campaign, on the gubernatorlal contest and on the fights for local offices, members of the legislature are usually chosen on hit-or-miss basis.
 ( What the state legislature may do is ex- tremely important in the life of the citi- zen. Its actions may affect his business, his taxes, his public institutions far more closely than do the actions of the national Congress. Yet it is safe bet that the average citizen could not tell you the name of half dozen members of his legislature if his life depended on it.
 The thing has got out of his reach. It is clumsy and unwieldy. Selfish interests find it easy to seize and hold an unfair aflvantaQe. Small blocs can exercise an 3xfl,sence out of all proportion to their 'eiz6 The people of Nebraska have begun
 Enld reform. Hereafter they will have ! snasIl and compact legislative body. Not
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-13

was invested. He suggested that if Franklin would give him some general information as to certain e m Il s of administration future policy, it would help him, Philip, as administrator, of the trust fund with more benefit to the president.
 To this the president sent the following reply:
 ''Dear Phil:
 "You are the adminisatrOr.
 (signed) Franklin"
 Some days later, the president received from his cousin another letter which read as follows: "Dear Franklin:
 sT have converted all your securities into government (signed) sPhil."
 MAIL BAG
 M. M., Kittery Point, Maine The president sees newsmen twice a week in his office in the White House. One hundred strong and more, they gather in the lobby every Wednesday and Friday, scrutinized as they enter by police and secret service men, who know every face. There is more than a scattering of women in the group.
 When Bill Collins, press gall lery chief, claps his hands, the rush for the door of the presi- dents office is like the rush for a New York subway train en- trance. Places close to the desk are coveted, for Roosevelt is a man to see as we'll as to hear. Never taciturn, as Hoover was, he is always informal, engaging in pleasantries with those near at hand while others assemble.
 When the last man is in, Col lins calls, All in," and chatting stops. It is the presidents cue.
 He leans back in his chair, smoking a cigarette in a holder held in his teeth. Reporters, standing in close pack about him have pencils ready.
 He announces that he has signed a bill, or vetoed one, or appointed a commission, or is- sued an executive order.
 Then the questions pop. Here Is the difference between RoOse- welt and his predecessors. B o t h Coolidge and Hoover required that questions be submitted in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-13

o. What is the salary of the president of the American Fedora ton of Labor?
 A. The constitutional salary is $12,O0O year, but President Will liam Green has accepted a volun- tarS reduction of 25 per cent dur ing the depression.
 o. In what part of the Ameri- can continent do doves breed and winter?
 A. They breed chiefly in Brit ish Columbia, Saskatchewan, Man. itoba, Ontario, and southern Nova Scotia and throughout the United States and Mexico, and locally in Lower California and Guatemala: they winter in southern Oregon southern Colorado, the Ohio Val ley, and from North Carolina to Panama. The dove is casual in winter in the middle states.
 o. What was Paul Deans pitch ing record in September, 1884?
 A. Five games won and three lost.
 0. Where is the University of Illinois?
 A. Urbana, III.
 o. How many daughters has Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson?
 A. Four.
 @. How old is Lawrence Tib- bett, the singer?
 A. Thirty-eight.
 o, Who chooses the place ir which the presidents take the oatf of office? A. Each president chooses hi' own.
 0. Where are the largest stee districts in the United States?
 A. In the order of production they are: Pittsburg; Chicago and Youngstown districts.
 o. What is the name of the red coloring matter in vegetable mat. ter?
 A. Erythrophyl. 0. Whom did Vicki Baum mar ry?
 A. Richard Lert.
 o. Where and when were thu three Barrymores born? A. In Philadelphia; John, Feb urary Is, 1882; Ethel, August 15 1879, and Lionel, April 28, 1878.
 o. Of what religious 'denomina tion is President Roosevelt a mem Der? Is he a Mason?
 A. Protestant Episcopal. He 1: Mason.
 0. Were you not in error 1T stating that the body of John Jacot Astor was not recovered after thu sinking of the Titanic? A. Yes. The cable ship Mackey Bennett, chartered by the White Star line to cruise in the neigh borhood of the wreck and searcf for bodies, arrived at Halifax witt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-13

advance, in writing. Roosevelt is less cautious, but entirely cap- able of avoiding pitfalls.
 "Mr. resident" A newsman tries to draw him into dangerous ground.
 The president grins.
 That's like asking man if he's stopped beating his wife" :" MT. President" A question is asked about a technicality in the housing bill.
 ''FranlIy, I don't know. 1 haven't the foggiest idea" 2
 For the most part his ideas are far from foggy. He gives the press an even break, and better. He is not afraid to confide, to talk "off the record" to say things which, if reported by any one of the scores of listeners, would be disastrous. But his trust is sound. He is never be- trayed.
 Like Quakers who "break meeting" by sensing the mood of the group, so ncwsmen sense the moment to end the confer ence. There is a Hull. Someone says, "Thank you, MT. Presi- dent" Others repeat the phrase. The president smiles, waves his hand, and the group hurry out to the nearest telephones.
 Roosevelt's press conferences are largely and eagerly attended not because he is charming man, but because. knowing the value of a favorable press. he takes pains to hand out g d copy" to repay every newsman for his visit. They can't afford to miss it.
 Copyright, 1884, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc.)