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Evening star., 1935-06-27

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pint' whHe .ooe
pas-Sse FABRIC AFTERNOON
GLOVES and ehamos shade 25e
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S5o-25c DERMAY TALCUM POWDER
60o-5oc pERMAY BUSTING POWDER.
5050c DERMAY TOILET WATER. honeysueke lavender soc
1e-s0 DORSAY FACE POWDER. rachel natural 500
ss-srIO DORSAY MASCARA
Se-&I CARRYALL rubber lined SOC
special skin tonic
MAGNKYTNG MIRRORS. asserted styles.
Se-sI6O BRUSHES. bristss $40
MIRROR PERFUME TRAYS. fSe
IsO0 DERMAY COMBINATION package taeum powder and to
POWDER BOWLS. Imported
CHERAMYE POWDER. rachel soc
s4-Sr5e DUSTHG POWDER metal
12-S1 FRENCH SOAP SOC
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ROYAL TOILET WATER and Dustnr Powder see each
Jewelry-Street Floor Hal Price
36-a0O CARDS, decks. Soc
CARDS, decks zoe
3!-5se PLAYING CARDS decks pc
s1%SsS sssETFE eSMfAG1s s casE : . % silver cloth
In
EVENING JEwELRY. for Summer
Evening star., 1935-06-27
Maryland.V Virginia
Social Activities

Maj. and Mrs. George Stetekluh
snd son Robert left their home In
Aurora Hills, Va. yesterday. for jack
son. Mich, to spend the Summer st
their cottage on the lake shore.
Evening star., 1935-06-27

Mrs. Charles !. Corby Of Bethesda,
Md, Is spending a few days In New
York City.
Miss Doris Beck was hostess at
luncheon yesterday In the home Of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Leo A.
Beck, in woodside. Nd. The guests
included Miss Peggy Bailey, Miss
Maerita Burke, Miss Virginia Can't
WELL Miss Virginia Clements. Miss
Pat Daue, Miss Nellie Hewitt and
Miss Agnes Rougeau, all of whom are
members of Iota Chapter. Beta Mu
Sorority; Miss Ramona Altenreid Of
Woodside and Miss Kathryn Coombs
and Miss Mildred Darbie Of Washing
ton, who are Miss Beek's house guests
this week.
Mrs. George Bushnell Of Pasadena,
Calf, who has been the guest of her
son-in-law and daughter, Capt. and
Mrs. Eugene Ferry Smith Of Bradley
Hills, Md, for a month, left today
Evening star., 1935-06-27

Miss Malcena Cleek Of Warm
Springs, Va, IL In Fairfax as the
guest Of her uncle and aunt. Commits
sioner Of the 6evenue and Mrs. James
U. Kincheloe.
Evening star., 1935-06-27

SWEATERS ip-cn STYLES hand-knh e.e
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pockets button fronts brown and black IN feken Hs
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Misses SOaIS- nlIQ IlOOI Halt Price
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cnATs maddox checks,
II to Is fiSo
COATS furless
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Evening star., 1935-06-27

Mr.. Marshal Wilson OF Kansas City,
Kans.. Is the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs:
Fred Wilson In their home In Takoms
Park, Nd. for week. Mr.. Fred VIII
son returned last night from q three
week stay In Buffalo, Ny.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
METAL QUOTATIONS
SHOW STEADINESS
Tin Receivers Most of Midweek
Losses Later-Copper Trade
Watches Conference.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 9.-With the
exception of tin, non-ferrous metals
ruled steady in moderate trading last
week.
Sharply irregular fluctuations in
sterling exchange had their direct
reflection in tin quotations here, but
midweek losses in the metal price had
been almost completely recovered as
the week closed.
Interest in copper centered in the
arrival here on Friday of leading Eu-
ropean producers who are expected to
confer Immediately on world copper
marketing agreement. Although Off
cials have remained non-commital,
the impending conference was re-
fected by a slightly steadier Euro
pean market on moderate business.
The domestic Blue Eagle price re-
manned unchanged at 9 cents, although
buying picked up moderately in the
past day or so. Reported sales thus
far in March are about 1000 tons.
After few offerings had been
absorbed at slight concessions at the
opening of the week. SO ton ad-
vance in zinc reported in the previous
week was generally established.
Demand for lead was irregularly
distributed at unchanged prices. Anti
mony was quiet and unchanged.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
Exports Decline
Still Further During Month

1903 ,216 900 pounds. The new quota
is 23.5 per cent less than actual i'm
ports from foreign countries during
the corresponding two months of 1884.
The United States quota is 81 per
cent. That gives this country ap-
proximately 8,36O,000 pounds, COM
pared with 10,215,o00 pounds actually
exported during May and June last
year.
For the last two seasons actual i'm
ports of apples and pears into France
from the United States have exceeded
the quota auotments. This tendency
prevailed in the first quarter of the
1934-35 season, when actual imports
we're more than three times the size
of the quota allotment.
1t seems probable, in view Of the
short supplies Of dessert apples and
pears in Europe, that the United
States again will find good outlet for
such fruit In France during the last
quarter Of the season.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
INVESTORS STUDY
1934C0RPORAT|0N
REPORTS CLOSELY
Management and Financial
Policies Show Wide
Variations.
BY THOMAS E. FLANAGAN.
Associated Press Financial Writer.


NEW YORK, March 9-With
ledgers closed on 1884, between 10
and 20 millions of investors are now
poring over earnings reports and bal
ance sheets of companies in which
their savings are placed.
1t is important for the investor to
know whether net has been chopped
by extraordinary charges, such as
processing taxes.
Statements must also be searched
for unusual additions to income
profits made which will not appear
again-from such things as the sale
of real estate or securities or otner
out -the-Way sources.
While a company's money-making
abilities hinge always upon general
business conditions. management and
financial policies also play big part.
Statements Are Theoretical.
These things are to some extent re-
f1ected in the balance sheet. These
statements are high theoretical and
give only a relative idea of what re-
SOQ4lCS d SO1ISCI41 AGO nAAN -
owes as of a particular date.
For instance, in the matter OF as
sets, every accounting apprentice Is
Immediately taught that about the
only two items which mean what they
say are cash in banks" and "securl-
ties at market
One example of the extent to which
theory enters into every balance state
ment is seen in the entry plant and
equipment" Whereas a factory in
cluded in this item may be valued at
100000, its essential worth to the
company as a money-maker might be
far less than that sum, or even
nothing.
Although it may have cost $1,000
900, it may have become run down,
its machines out of date and its pull
ing power reduced to zero by some
shift in economic trends, or the dis
covery of a substitute which renders
its products obsolete.
Book Value" Differs.
Another factor which admits OF
wide theory is a book value" the
amount which would return to the
common shareholder after prior claims
if the company were to liquidate as
sets as carried on the balance sheet.
No two companies follow the same
accounting practices. although con-
Germs in the same field tend to show
some degree of uniformity. Differ
ences in methods among companies
IN the same industry are matters OF
individual policy.
1t is automatic in financial circles
that balance sheets can be made to
do tricks calculated to befuddle even
expert accountants and bankers close
ia the company.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
TRADE UNSETTLED
AS BRITAIN SEES
POUND CO LOWER
Flow of Funds From London
Anticipates Paris Cheap
Money Policy.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, March 19.-Cables
and radio dispatches to Business Week
give the following survey of business
abroad for the week ending today.
LONDON.-"The weeks furry in
the foreign exchange market-with
the rapid decline of sterling-has un-
settled business in England but is
causing no panic. The rapid flow of
funds from London to Paris, which
is causing the drop in sterling, is
caused by the desire of the French
to get their gold in Paris before the
governments cheap money policy be-
comes operative. First Withdrawals
from London began as long ago as
January. 1t is believed possible in
London that Holland and Belgium
may be dragged off gold by the new
competition from British exports as
the pound says below its old parity of
s4.86. r
frightened by the move, however,
politicians are eagerly turning to trade
reports to prove to the public that
business has not suffered under their
guidance, and that there should be
no sharp shift to labor and socialism.
d Industrial production in 1884 was
about IL per cent greater than in
1888, and 18 per cent above the 1882
output. Manufacturing industries
showed the greatest expansion in ac-
tivity, their output last year being
nearly per cent above the 1929
figure. Britain's IL per cent increase
in production compares with an in
crease of "a per cent in Germany and
4 per cent in the United States"
Paris Is Not Worried.
PARIS.-"For the present, France is
not worried over the decline of sterling
exchange, but if the movement con-
tinues and is followed by further dol
lar devalustion, the situation will be-
come serious, not only for France but
for all of the countries remaining on
the gold standard. Flandin can be
expected to handle the situation
firmly. Fortunately. his backing is
stronger new than it was several weeks
ago, though it could change quickly
since the agrarian bloc in France is
solidly opposed to him.
THE business outlook has not i'm
proved. Activity on the Bourse is
restricted. Employment has not re-
covered. Deposits in the postal saw
ings banks have increased 700000,000
francs in the last two months, thus
relieving the treasury of the need to
borrow.
Following the reorganization of the
country's broadcasting system so as
to include owners of receiving sets on
the new control boards, the govern
ment has issued decree co-ordinat-
ing all forms of transportation and
setting up local boards composed of
transporters and clients. These local
groups are to make recommendations
to a central board of transportation
which will in turn back legislation
making the proposals compulsory"
BERLIN.-"The Leipzig Fair, DR..
Schacht's new plan to subsid1ze ex-
ports, the furry in sterling exchange
Continued on Second Page)
Evening star., 1935-03-10
SECOND GOLD RUSH
TO ALASKA STARTS
Procession of Machines Features
Search for Metal at Higher
Price Levels.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash, March 9.-The
second great gold rush to Alaska is a
procession of machines.
Prospectors and miners will swarm
into the territory in the Spring, but
today Alaskans says the gold rush
of the machines" is under way.
Giant dredges, drills and other
heavy equipment Is being rushed to
Alaska on orders prompted by the
$35 an ounce price for gold, and hopes
the price will go to SAL so this year,
making it possible to derive great
profit from workings heretofore dis
regarded.
"Great quantities of heavy mining
material are being taken to Alaska
by ship, transported to airplanes, and
flown into the interior. in the ex-
pectation of tremendous gold rush" )"
said Eugene Allen, Alaskan editor.
To-day, a man can cover ground IN
two hours that would have taken him
six months in the old days, so more
gold territory is being opened up"
Evening star., 1935-03-10
STUDEBAKER REDUCES
PRICES ON 1885 MODELS

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, March 9.-Free
from legal entanglements and fit for
action, the new Studebaker Corp. to-
day sharply reduced delivered prices
of the 1885 cars.
"Studepaker is down to fighting
trim" said Paul G. Hoffman, president.
We've shaken off many burdensome
expenses. We have millions of dollars
in new capital. We have no bank
loans. We have no preferred stock.
Our plants have been written down
from s49, 9,000,OOO to $15,000,O0O. All
these things have reduced our manu-
featuring costs-and we're passing the
reductions on to the public right away.
"The price reductions are made
without reducing the quality OF our
cars in any way"
Evening star., 1935-03-10
WOOL TRADE ACTIVE
AT BOSTON IN WEEK
y the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCIATED freSS.
BOSTON, March 9 Omitted States
Department of Agriculture) AN ac-
tive trade in the Boston market dur
ing the last week included moderate
quantities of fairly wide selection
of domestic woods and large quanti-
ties of fine wools.
Lines for which demand was
heavy were original bag lots of shorn
French combing and. clothing Gas
and finer territory at $3.50 cents
secured basis, average French comb
ing at 60-63 cents, and average IL
months Texas woods at 61-63 cents.
Sales Of Ohio and similar feeces in
cluded strictly combing staple at
1921 cents In the grease for fine or
64s and finer, at 27-28 cents for 58s,
COS, " blood; at 1927 cents for 56s,
ss blood, and at 23h-24 for 4ss,
Sos, K blood,
Evening star., 1935-03-10
Retailers to Weigh Plans
For Pushing ''Trade-ln" Sales

been widely adopted in the depart
ment store field, according to T. l..
Blanke, general manager of the Mer.
chandising Division. The study Will
seek to unearth the disadvantages as
well as benefits to be found in trade
in" methods, he said, and record the
experiences of department store MEM
bers in the organization in the prac-
tice.
Not only Spring weather, lending
the urge to American home owners
to dispose of out-serviced merchandise
for new furnishings, opens the posi-
bilities of the "trade-in" market, but
the influence of the Federal Housing
Administration and other Government
agencies in encouraging home mod
ernization and home building will
broaden the sales potentialities in this
field, according to the Merchandising
Division.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
COUNCIL is APPOINTED
TO HELP BANK CHAIN
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. March o.
John M. Grant, president of Trans
America Corp, has announced the d.
rectors had appointed an advisory
council of IA to assist A. P. Giannini,
president of Bank of America, in di-
recting the activities of the banks
controlled by Transamerica.
L. M. Giannini, son of the builder
of the far-fung Transamerica system
and former president of it, will head
the council.
THE council will be expected to
devise ways and means to take imn1e-
diate advantage of any Federal legiS-
lation that will permit branch bank
ing" Grant said.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
United STATES agricultural
exports are showing further
decreases.
~ According to the Division
of Foreign Crops and Markets
the export index on A leading farm
products stood at So for January. the
lowest for that month in more than
two decades. For all commodities
except cotton, the index dropped to
43 or less than one-half the pre-war
level. o..
Cotton showed the lowest January
export index since 1928; wheat in
Guiding -four, one of the lowest
monthly exports on record; fruit, the
second lowest January index since
1923, and lard. one OF the lowest
January indices so far recorded.
May and June imports of cured pork
into the United Kingdom from non
Empire countries may not exceed
Evening star., 1935-03-10
U. S. STEEL SHIPMENTS
INCREASE IN FEBRUARY

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 9.-The United
States Steel Corp. reported today that
its shipments of finished steel prod
ucts in February increased 49,082 tons
to 583,137. The shipments in Janu-
arv totaled 534,055 tons. In February,
1884. they were 1886, 500 tons.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
GLASS TREND FAVORABLE.

NEW YORK, March 9 R.-Active
demand for certain plate glass prod
ucts. a gathering momentum in the
glass container division and further
Improvement in the Stemware and
tableware section are the prime favor
able factors in the current glass trade
picture, says the American Glass
Review,
Evening star., 1935-03-10
LOWER COSTSA AID
RETAIL CL0TH|ERS
Larger Stores Take Lead in
Lifting Margin of Net
Profit in 1884.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tle ASSOCldteQ FIcSS.
CHICAGO, March e.-Men's ap-
parel merchants experienced a fair
turnover and lower costs and came out
of 1884 with net profit, the sixth
annual Nationwide business survey
made by the National Association of
Retail Clothiers and Furnishers shows.
Summary of the recently completed
survey indicated profits were created
in 1884 on a different basis than in
1888, one of several unusual circum-
stances in the trend of clothier's busi-
ness.
The margin Of net profit among
smaller stores, the survey revealed,
was Just a shade better than a year
ago-36 per cent, as against 81.
Among larger stores, it jumped from 2
per cent to So per cent. The survey
showed big volume clothiers had the
edge because of more efficient mer-
chandising. Their profits were higher
even though expenses were greater.
Pointing out that salary and other
expense items declined substantially,
the survey indicated small stores could
hardly blame the retail code for their
less desirable showing. On the other
hand, said the National Clothier, trade
journal of the association, raising
prices-forcing the merchant to cut
his mark-up-would be circumstance
confronting large and small stores
alike, and "the larger firms were ap-
parently unharmed by it to any great
extent"
Other highlights of the survey we're:
Advertising costs for small stores
increased: for large stores it was less
than for the previous year.
Busheling expense was less for the
small stores; greater for the large ones.
Taxes were lower for the small
group; higher for the large group.
Accounts receivable charged of we're
slightly lower for the small stores;
slightly higher for the large ones.
Evening star., 1935-03-10

The increase in food prices has been
steady over the last two years, the
table revealed, but now apparently is
continuing at a somewhat slower rate.
Officials have predicted further gains.
While high food prices find little
favor in populous centers, they are
sought by the administration to give
farmers higher earnings for their
produce. A principal complaint of
agricultural interests in recent years
has been against the relatively low
prices of farm products.
The increase in prices, however,
has not all gone to the farmer. The
distributors charges have risen also
as a result of paying higher wages
and for other reasons. Some farm
ers failed to benefit much last year
because their crops virtually were
wiped out by the drought.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
LUMBER MILLS REVEAL
JUMP IN SHIPMENTS
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 9.-Lumber
shipments from mills for the week
ended March we're the heaviest OF
any week of the year and we're % per
cent above those of the corresponding
period of last year, reports the Ma
tional Lumber Manufacturers ASso-
citation. New business was above the
average Of previous weeks.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
FOOD PRICES SOAR
FAR IN TWO YEARS
Nationwide Rise Placed at
34.2 Per Cent by Fed.
eraI Experts.
BY J. r. BRACKETT,
associated Press Business Writer.

Associated Press Business Writer.
The rise in retail food prices since
February, 1898. was estimated Off
cially yesterday at 34.2 per cent.
This was a countrywide figure
calculated by experts Of the Depart
ment of Commerce. It was made
clear that the increase was smaller
in some sections and larger in others.
Figures for the different regions were
not available.
The following table shows the per-
centage that food prices increased
from three different dates up to
February Is this year:
Evening star., 1935-03-10
By the Associated Press.


Another sharp slump in the British
pound sterling upset foreign exchange
markets yesterday.
Increasing seriousness of the Bal
kan war situation and the recent sub
stantial advance ir the British cur
rency were believed to have invited
both profit taking and short selling
during the short session of all markets.
In London the dollar gained rs
cents, closing at S47734 to the pound
sterling and in New York the British
unit later extended the decline to 234
Evening star., 1935-03-10
BRITISH POUND SLUMPS
AGAIN AT WEEKS CLOSE
Seriousness of Balkan War Situation
and Recent Advance Blamed
for Sharp Recession.
cents, ending at s4.76, the low of the

cents, ending at s4.76, the low Of the
day.
In Paris the dollar was steady at an
equivalent of 6.673 cents to the franc
and in New York francs were .0i of a
cent higher at SOS cents. Other lead
ing gold units, including Dutch guilders
and Swiss francs, also were higher in
terms of both sterling and dollars.
Based on the france at its final New
York rate the dollar was at discount
Of 70/l00ths of per cent compared
with 54/100ths or Friday and pre-
MUM Of 69/100ths a month ago.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
GRAY CLOTH STEADY.

NEW YORK, March 9 R.-The
price situation in the gray cloth mar
ket has not shown any particular
improvement, although inquiry broad
ened considerably with number of
sales going through at current price
levels.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
Grocery Volumes
Far Ahead of 1884
On TonnageBasis
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, March 9.-Dun g.
Bradstreet says in a special survey
of the grocery trade that the volume
of sales now exceeds that of the
same period last year by 10 to IS
per cent on a tonnage basis and 20
to 25 per cent on a dollar basis. One
reason for the sustained increase.
the survey says, is constantly mount
ing prices, which have spurred con-
sumers to lay in supplies for the fu-
ture.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
SUGAR MELT INCREASES.

NEW YORK, March 9 P.-The
sugar melt of the 13 United States
refiners from January to March 2
was $4,000 long tons against $4,000
in the like period last year. De-
lveries amounted to $4,000 tons
against 475,000.
Evening star., 1935-03-10

w WITH housekeeping time i'm
\ I minent in American homes,
NV department store mer-
Y Y chants are planning t.
study the possibilities Of
the "trade-in" market existing in
used merchandise which might serve
as the stimulus for new purchases in
retail stores.
While questioning whether or not
the practice is sound merchandising
policy, the Merchandising Division Of
the National Retail Dry Goods Asso-
citation announced its intention of
making a thorough-going survey Of
"trade-ins" during the next few weeks.
Although furniture stores have come
to accept the trading in of old furni-
ture. refrigerators and radios as an
established practice in their business,
the practice up to this time hasAnot
Evening star., 1935-03-10
Richmond Gains Shown.

CHHoHu UdIHS SHU"H'
Sharp rises in bank
debts pointed the way to business
improvement in virtually all lines in
the fifth district. Baltimore, Rich
mond and Charlotte made particularly
good showings. Washington noted a
substantial pickup in residential
building operations. Maryland new
car sales were double 1884, and gen.
eral industry was active in plant and
equipment rehabilitation. Wholesale
Continued on Third Page)
Evening star., 1935-03-10

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