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The Washington times., 1935-03-04
Mail Ship
Sailings

The following table shows the
names of ships. the lines operat-
ing them, their time of sailing
from New York. and when their
regular and supplementary mails
close. Dates after names of ports
indicate scheduled dates of ar
rival. Star C) indicates mails
must be specially addressed by
this steamer. Dagger (f) indicates
supplementary mails will be &C
cepted on pier up to 10 minutes
before sailing time.
TRANSATLANTIC
Tomorrow
BLACK TERN (Black Diarond) Ant
werp March 16-Mails close 1880 p. m.
parcel post for Belgium, Belgian
Congo and Luxemburg.
Wednesday
ALBERT BALLIN Hamburg Amer
1can). Cherbourg and Southampton
March IA and Hamburg 15-Mails close
p. M; sails midnight-Mails for
$Europe.
PRESIDENT HARDING CU. s. Lines>,
Cobb March IS, Plymouth and Havre
"A and Hamburg is (seapost-TMails
close a. m. tsupp. mails 10 a. M;
sails noon-Mails for Europe, Africa,
West Asia. "Aden, British India,
"Ceylon, cyprus, Egypt, "Gold Coast,
"Irak. *Ivory Coast, Madeira, "Pales-
Hine, senegal, ~Sierra, Leone and
"Syria: parcel post for Irish Free State
Great Britain, Northern Ireland, France.
switzerland, Germany, Austria, Czecho-
Nlovakia. Hungary, U. S. S. r.
SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA,
WEST INDIES AND CANADA
Tomorrow
ALA s. An (American Hawaiian),
Cristobal March H. etc, to Pacific Coast
ports.-Mails close 5 p. m. (supp. mails
4 p. m): Mails for Canal Zone, PAN
Bahia de Caraquez, Esmeraldas and
Mania in Ecuador; parcel post for
Canal Zone and Panama.
PAN BOLIVAR tR. l. Hague) Aruba
March 12-Mails close a. m: Mails
for Aruba; parcel post.
Wednesday
CARACAS (Red D.. San Juan March
II. La Guaira 13. Puerto Cabello IS,
Curacao 16, Aruba H. and Maracaibo
1S-Mails close $3.50 a. m. (supp. mails
$50 a. m.) sails noon: Mails for Vene-
zuela Except Caripito and Ciudad Boil
Var), Curacao and "Puerto Rico and
"Aruba: parcel post.
ORIENTE (Ward). Havana March 3
Mails for Cuba (ordinary printed mat
teri and "other mail for Cuba; parcel
QUEEN OF BERMUDA (Furness Ber-
muda). st. Georges and Hamilton, Ber-
nuda March S--Mails close 1880 o. m. !.
sails . p. M: Mails for Bermuda; parcel
post.
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COTTON PRICES
LOSE GROUND

NEW YORK, March 4. Q.N.So.
Selling pressure in distant
months turned the cotton market
lower today. as the list was un-
settled by fears over possible re-
percussions from the further ad-
vance in gold and silver prices
abroad.
Feeble attempts to rally the
list were unsuccessful. Traders
were looking forward to the
meeting of New York Cotton EX-
change members after the close
of the market today, at which re-
ports submitted by the special
committee of six on the suggested
changes in the futures contract
will be discussed.
Noon quotations were 7 to 9
points lower, with May off 8 at
1887, July off 7 at 1245, october
off 9 at 1888, and December off
9 at 12.45.
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Pic IRON YIELD
UP 70 PER CENT

Pig iron production in Febru,
ary effected another substantial
gain for the fifth consecutive
month, ringing up an output total
of 1.615,207 tons, or go per cent
above January, the magazine
Steel reports. Daily average pig
iron production in February was
57,868 tons. an increase of 20.9 per
cent over the preceding month.
These tonages were the largest
since last June. the publication
points out. The number of active
stacks was increased by to a
total of So as February ended.
Pig iron output for the first two
1885 months aggregated 3,093 $50
tons, an increase of 23.9 per cent
over the like 1884 period.
Steel ingot production dropped
two points to 48 per cent last week.
Steel says:
There are strong indications
that the February daily average
will vary little from the January
level, when tonnage figures are
announced this week. From the.
fact that the rate declined only
2 points to 4S per cent last week
1t is believed much of the weak
ness in the situation has been
overcome, and operations are at
least becoming more stable"
This far this year the steel rate
IS 13 points above the average for
the year 1884, tending to duplicate
the 12-point gain made in 1884
over 1888, says the publication.
Due largely to an outpouring of
scrap from the auto industry's in.
creased operations. and a slower
demand, scrap prices again have
declined sharply. Steel's scrap
composite is off AZ cents to $11.16,
the lowest since the middle of De-
cember. Due to the decline in
scrap, SteePs iron and steel price
composite is down 8 cents to
$32.42. The finished steel index
holds at $54.
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GRAIN FUTURES
POINT LOWER

CHICAGO, March 4 G.NS0.
Grains were heavy in early deal
Ings today. reflecting bearish
weather news and further drop
in sterling.
May wheat dropped a cent to
o6A before substantial buying de-
Veloped to check the downtrend.
May corn was about cent lower
around 83A.
Near mid-session wheat was 34c
off, corn and oats 5sc off and
rye Sec to 34c off.
Liverpool wheat was 5s to B
pence up in late trading, Winni-
peg "a to Ac off at mid-session.
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Coal Output Off
In Pennsylvania

Anthracite production in Penn
sylvania during the week ended
February % was 821,0 net tons,
a decrease of 1896, 900 tons from the
preceding week, according to the
Bureau of Mines.
Production of soft coal was g.
$4,000 tons, a decrease of 199,000
tons from the preceding week.
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REFORMS
SEEN BEST

NEW YORK, March 4.-Scien-
tific restudy of proposed changes
in banking control and practice is
recommended by the National
City Bank in it's current monthly
bulletin in order to avoid repeti-
tion of past mistakes by too hasty
legislation.
Calling for mature thought and
deliberation on the proposed
amendments to the Federal Re-
serve act affecting self-govern
ment of the system, broader ell
gibility requirements and national
bank loans on real estate, the
bank declared:
ut is difficult to see how any.
thing will be gained by haste.
1t is easy to see how much will
be lost.
"There can be no doubt that
the country would feel far more
secure, and the chances of reach
ing wide conclusions are greater,
If this section of the bill were
reserved for more extended study
and debate"
Without offering any counter
proposals, the bank expressed its
belief that the question is not
whether reforms are needed so
much as the best way to go
about obtaining them.
Endorsing Title I of the bill
before Congress for amending
the Federal deposit insurance
law, the bank said that on the
whole the bill as introduced rep
reSents a vast improvement over
the present permanent insurance
plan and with appropriate modi'
tication ought to be acted upon
at this session."
Discussing business conditions,
the bank found February produc.
ton practically unchanged from
the January rate although buSi.
ness men are hopeful in their
expectations but conservative in
their operations.
The late Easter and the open
ing up Of outdoor occupations are
seasonal factors which the bank
believes will help to sustain
business and may give new sup
port to some industries.
However, it contended, it would
be expecting a great deal to look
for the industries as a whole to
pile further gains upon those al
ready achieved.
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687 Listed Stocks
Lower Last Week

Index of 687 stocks listed on the
New York Stock Exchange, com.
piled by Hamershlag, Borg & Co.,
showed an average price Of $23.36
as of the close last Saturday, COM
pared with an average price Of
$23.55 the previous week.
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despite soaring prices Tor gold
and the fresh rise in silver. Dome
and Mcintyre lost more than a
point each in the gold division,
while losses of practically as
much were shown by the silvers.
Johns Manville was the weak
point in the industrials, falling
two points to a new low for the
year. Other building shares were
carried down as we'll.
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least 1t is clear
t h a t divergen.
cieS Of move
ment have been
numerous. The
m a r k e t" has
been less uni
form than at
many times in
the past.
For example,
the other day
a considerable
group of stocks
made new highs
or 10 3 8 5,
while at the
same tina on.
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points IN lnQuS-
trial issues.
The reaction
ry influence
" as a n e W
crash in sterl-
ing, which fell
to the lowest
level since 1888
against the dol
lar and hit a
ecord low
a g a ains t gold
bloc currencieS.
E en- t h e
mining shares
felt this defla-
tionary factor
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NET NEARLY DOUBLED

United States Playing Card
Company for 1884 reports a net
profit Of $800,440 after charges,
equal to $2.03 a share, compar-
ing with $409,725, or 104 q share
in 1888.
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Sterling Slides
To Lower Level

NEW YORK, March 4.-The
sterling continued its downward
flight today followed somewhat
more slowly by the dollar. The
table:
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Additional financial news
including the Washington
produce quotations will be
found on page 20.
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LIVESTOCK MARKETS
CHICAGO

CHICAGO, March 4. G.N.s).-Hogs-
Receipts 10000; 10c higher; holdovers
1000. Top. $3.50; bulk. Ss@s.5O;
heavy, $9.3O@9.6O: medium, S9.SO@
$50; light, $s.2O@9.5O; light lights,
$3.50 O $50; packing sows, $S.5O@9;
pigs. $7@S.75.
Cattle-Receipts 10000; steady. Calves
choice, $11@1S.sO; common and med
ium. $7@11; yearlinEs, S10d13.6o.
Butcher cattle: heifers, $5@11; cows,
$3.50 @S.50; bulls, $4.75@7; salves,
$3.50 $3.50; feeder steers, $5@85o;
heifers. $4@6.5O.
Sheep-Receipts $4,000: 25c lower.
Lambs $S.5O@9; common, s55O07;
yearlings. $S@7.75; feeders, $S.5O@7.5O;
ewes, SS.506525
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MARKET SEEN
SELECT|VE
AFFAIR
By LEWIS HANEY
professor of Economics,
New York University

Perhaps the outstanding point
in the stock markets action Of
late has been "selectivita." At
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|NDUSTR|ALL|ST
LEADS DECLINE
! IN MARKET
BY LESLIE GOULD

NEW YORK, March 4. 0.N.S0.
The stock market was heavy to-
day, losses running to nearly 2
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CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND. Ohio, March 4. G.Ns)
Hogs-Receipts 1000; market active
and steady; top and bulk, 1915.
Cattle-Receipts, 50: market active
on all grades; some prices strong.
Calves-Receipts 500; all prices
steady with very good action,
Sheep-Receipts 5000: market slow
and lower on all grades; practical top
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as 31s Zonite Sh IT,.
(a) Optional (b) Partly extra (c) Extra
stock and cash. (d) Extra In (e) Paid in 1893.
D On account of accumuIatons (E) regular rate;
latest payment (h) Payable n stock (m) Special
(n) Paid this year. tww) warrants (xw) Without
warrants (") Ex-dvidend (+) '
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Montreal funds in Now York X8.8O
discount at $1,000.
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2O5l Yale & Towne L6o). 2lI 2l}l 219l-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-19
Why Not Rustic Benches, Too?

Nothing will satisfy Fairfield county but stone bridges along the proposed Mer- ritt highway. This became clear last week when after plans had been dis played calling for bridges faced with con- crete the Fairfield County Planning As sociation voiced protest. The complaint went like this, Fairfield County has a right to have parkway just as good as the Bronx River Parkway, and not what we see now" Unfortunately most of those parkways in Westchester County are county financed and not state-built.
 And we might add that due to the ex- pense of a good many of those that have been built in recent years through Vest chester County, the countys bonded ln- debtedness has risen to new high levels. If Fairfield county had wished to vie With Westchester County it should merely have secured legislative aid to do so. h. stead 1t secured the right to issue bonds which will not be retired by the county, but by the state. So in reality the Mer- ritt Highway is no more a Fairfield county project than 1t is New Haven or Litchfield county.
 As to the stone-faced or cement-faced bridges along the route We think that US something that the mere layman might well trust to the engineer. If the former can be substituted for the latter w. don't think anyone will exercise any serious ob- iections from some other corner of the state. The idea in most peoples minds right now is to have the road built and opened so that it can be used. Had the state been left to its own devices when 1t became evident that parallel route to the Boston Post road must be built across Fairfield county, we think it would be built and in operation now. But having be- come parkway 1t passed out of the category of mere road and becomes project. Let's hope we can pay for 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-19
Campaign Will Continue

Publication of the letter that Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt sent to Mar. tin H. Cardmody, Supreme Knight or the Knights of Columbus, in connection with the Mexican outrages will, we re- alize. not satisfy the Catholic organiza- ton. It still will continue to press pub lie officials at Washington for a more definite stand on the Mexican situation than that taken to date and the one that the President adopts in his letter-a hands-off policy.
 There is no doubt but what President Roosevelt is going to find plenty or support for his stand. Non-intervention in the domestic affairs of other govern ments is eagerly desired by many Ameri- cans. But the Knights of Columbus did not ask for intervention that would cause either the United States govern ment or any of its peoples any undue embarrassment. It merely asked that this country, in which tolerance Is sup posed to be rampant, interpose a word or two in one where religious intolerance has reached new peak.
 Such intervention is not unheard of in our American history. On many an oc- casion an American president has felt impelled to take issue with various gov- erlments for acts of cruelty or intoler- ance, not, mind you, to American citi- zens, but to those of other nationalities. All of which may or may not have any connection with this particular case, de- pending upon how you regard 1t. The K: of c. having failed to enlist support of this government might well now carry the fight to the seat of the offending government, Mexico City Perhaps If sufficient weight is put into protest 1t might in time carry conviction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-19
Investor Protected

If your enthusiasm got the better of your Judgment back in 1929 and led you to buy copiously of some stock which is selling today at tenth of its 1929 price, you might be interested in the case of Michael J. Meehan, stock market specu- lator. The Securities and Exchange Com mission has ordered Meehan to answer charges that he had been manipulating an aircraft stock on the New York Curb Exchange in violation of the securities exchange act.
 The order calls on him to show cause why he should not be expelled from the stock exchanges of which he is member. Members of the SEC stated that they believe he has been entering matching orders" in aircraft shares since last April, creating actual and apparent active trading" for the purpose of boosting the security's price and inducing its purchase by others.
 Whether the present charges are sub- Stantiated remains to be seen. The im- portant thing is that the SEC is at last moving against traders who seek to manipulate the market and in that way, is offering real protection for investors.
 0QCkk 1tldk41PuAebU1OAA Wo0 0 SSAAAAASAA practice back in the 1929 boom. When a new stock was offered to the public, a canny operator would be retained to make the stock look good. Frequently his activities would take the form of pro- noting a series of sales from his right hand pocket to his left-hand pocket, so to speak. The volume of trading in the stock would rise, the price would begin to 20 upward, and the innocent outsider, beholding only that which appeared on the surface, would edge himself up to the conclusion that here was an excellent buy.
 Then the new issue would be marketed, and the operators careful work would keep the market active and the price firm until the last of it had been disposed of. After which the operators interest would cease - and if as not infrequently hap pened, the price had been artificially maintained above the level warranted by the stocks intrinsic merits, the eager in- vestors would presently find themselves holding large and empty bag.
 Accounting this history, of course, does not mean that Meehan has actually been doing this sort of thing in the case cited by the SEC. He has not yet had his day in court. But the point is that an arm of the federal government is at last reach ing out to check such practices.
 The result, in the end, should be highly beneficial to both the investing public and the bona fide industrialist who seeks new capital in the securities markets. If the public has real assurance that stock prices really reflect actual values, instead of being produced by the clever work of insiders who are trying to sell something, the whole securities market will be in better shape.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-19
Two.Cent Fare

Railroad fares are now getting down to bedrock, meaning two-cent fare. This foundation rate has been adopted by western railroads at a Chicago confer ence, for all the lines west of Chicago and the Mississippi river. The action concludes a two-year experiment, dur ing which the lines reducing coach fares from 3.6 cents a mile to 2 cents gained 50 per cent traffic. Recovering business conditions doubtless had something to do with this, but the low rate was big factor.
 The western schedule, along with this basic passenger rate for coach fare, pro- vides cents mile for first-class travel (Pullmans), 1-2 cents for transcontin- ental trip coaches and 2 cents for tour list sIeepers. Various experiments are being made with round-trip rates. Rates approximating this schedule may soon prevail also Throughout the East and South. When they do, the railroads will doubtless find themselves better able to compete with automobile and bus traffic than they have been for many years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-19

It remained for Benedict M. Holden, prominent Hartford republican, to put the quietus on any talk that his party might attempt to snatch the mayoralty from the democrats. Speaking last week on the death of Mayor-elect Pilgard he said, "The voters of the City of Hart ford had a full, fair opportunity to ex- press their preference and did so at the last city election. It was clear man. date of the majority of the voters of the City of Hartford that the management of city affairs should be taken from the republican party and turned over to the democratic party. Hartford would not approve any hocus-pocus or techni- cality to thwart the will of the people. It is not question of legal principles, so much as 1t is practical problem to be solved by the application of common sense in a spirit of fairness" Others will share the same idea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-19

Walter Russell's several models and designs which will comprise the actual Mark Twain memorial at Hannibal, Mo-, when completed are on exhibition in New York now. The exhibit includes work ing plaster model, twenty-one feet long, design model, seven feet long, and twenty two bronzes of the various characters comprising the group. There are Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Nigger Jim, Duke, and others known for the part they played in Twain's river stories. The monu- inent is sponsored by the novelist's daughter, Mrs. Clara Clenens2 Gabrilo- Witsch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-19

The $30,000 plant for the manu- facture of vacuum cleaners has just been completed and is all ready for operation. But the gov- ernment has been barred from claiming 1t, although 1t put up the money for It's construction. And the contractor, who still has $l6,000 due him, can not take possession because the property is on government land.
 The fantastic muddle Is all due to ruling by Comptroller Gen. eral J. R. McCarl, which he in turn planes on an ambiguity in the law.
 McCarl held that the law au- thorizing subsistence homesteads did not authorize the construc- ton of factories which had no direct connection with hon1e- stealing.
 A small canning plant now in operation at Rockville - and which he okayed - met the re- quirements of the law because 1t is used for the processing of goods produced by the home steaders. But the vacuum factory, McCarl contended, will not man. ufacture homesteaders' products, therefore is out of legal bounds.
 Stymied New Dealers, plus the disappointed homesteaders, plus the bewildered contractor are scratching their heads wonder ing what is the next step-if any. Project Boosters
 So, too, are Reedsville's two leading boosters - Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gerard Swope, head of the General Electric company.
 The first lady was chiefly re- sponsible for launching the mod el community and for inducing the General Electric company to erect the factory.
 At first 1t was proposed to build Q plant to manufacture post office equipment. But when this word leaked out an Indiana concern, which has @ monopoly on post office equipment, rushed to congress with Q loud wall of anguish. So the factory was banned.
 At this point the socially minded Swope came to the res- cue. If the government would build Q factory, he said, one of his General Electric subsidiaries would lease 1t and manufacture vacuum cleaners.
 Exuberantly the government planked down $30,0o0 and began
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-19
Question Box
1895 NEA

c. Do army regulations forbid a soldier on leave to wear civilian clothes?
 A. No.
 e. Where and when did the acc cident occur in which Mrs. Christy Mathewson, Jr., was killed and her husband Lieut.. Mathewson was ii1- jured?
 A. January g, 1893. The airplane piloted by Mathewson crashed on the banks of the Whangpo river near Lunghua, China.
 e. When playing Poker with @ deck stripped of the deuces and treys, can @ hand containing an Ace, four, five, six, and seven be called a straight9
 A. Yes.
 c. How many canaries are im- ported into the United States an- nually?
 A. Tn 1884 imports amounted to slightly more than 100000.
 c. What is the standard weight for bronze turkeys, and where are they chiefly raisedp