davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1936-05-29
DUN N&BRADSTREET
SHOWS SALES GAIN
Retail and Wholesale Busi-
ness Improvement Is
Found in Centers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 29.-while there
was conspicuous absence Of spectacu-
lar gains In any one division, no slow
ing Of consequence occurred during the
week in the tempo of trade progress,
Dun g. Bradstreet says in their re-
view Of the week.
Weather influences brought less
uniformity to the ascending trend of
retail distribution" the review states,
but wholesale buying was stimulated
by the earlier release THAI usual OF
forward commitments for Fall delivery
and the more numerous recorders. The
small reduction In some of the heavy
goods branches was Offset by gains in
other departments of industry.
Stability was demonstrated by the
leading industrial indices, the few
minor reductions being insufficient to
affect adversely the general average"
In retail trade, the review stated
that largest gains were In mems cloth
ing and straw hats, women's dresses of
cotton and prints, hosiery, millinery
and coats. Sportswear was in heavy
demand in most sections.
Midwest Sales Boom.
"Due to perfect shopping weather" :"
the review said, retail sales In the
Middle West ran ahead OF the 1885
comparative by Is to 20 per cent,
with some cities reporting up to Is
per cent. Recovering from the dull
two weeks preceding. the Northwest
went to IL to IS per cent ahead and
the South continued to report the
strongest demand in five years Al
though some parts of the Pacific
Coast failed to improve, the average
was above last years level by 10 to
IL per cent"
The review said that, despite the
slight easing away from the years
high by steel production and the
first substantial decline in automobile
output In II weeks, industrial, as q
whole, held close to the forward posi-
ton attained during the best weeks
Of the Spring season.
Improvement in other industrial
divisions was more in evidence" the
review stated. furnishing unmistak-
able evidence of continued stability.
The latter was bolstered strongly by
the rising schedules of manufac-
turers of refrigerators, electrical sup
plies, metal goods. rubber products,
farm equipment. tractors and food
stuffs."
Review in Tabloid.
NEW YORK, May 2s.-Tabloid re-
view of business, reported by Dun g.
Bradstreet, Inc, in the four divisions
OF wholesale and jobbing, retail trade,
manufacturing and industry, and COL
lections this week. compared with the
corresponding period last year. Active
(A). fair (F) means equal to: good
go, above; quiet (Q); slow, (s) be-
low last year.
Evening star., 1936-05-29
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

CHICAGO. May 90 GP.-Poultry. live,
and less. ,17l2; more than 5 pounds. III:
Leghorn hens. l5i2 Plymouth and White
Plymouth and White Rock broiiers. IS:
eolored. a; barebacks. 21a33: Leehorn.
7 pounds up. ~; less than IA pounds.
20: roosters. 13l2; Leghorn rooSters. 10;
turkeys, 4al7: heavy old ducks. IA; heavy
colored. 10; gee;e pa
G. Potatoes. 80; on track, "21: total United
states shipments. 604 new stock slightly
weaker supplies moderate; demand fairly
eooo at sllshtly lower prices. Bliss Tri-
!, 3;75a3.sO; fair quality $50; Louisiana
y. 8 No L. 3 60a3.75: washed. 3 7Oa3 30:
v. ,. NO. =. 2.55; Texas. generally fair
9uanIy and condition. showing some scsb,
: loao 90; LOUISIANA Russet BurbankS, U,
g NO: l. 3.55; California White, Rose. u
steady; supplies light; demand hsht;
sacked per hundredweieht Colorado RUS
set Burbanks. fair quality. medium . 40.
Mlchigan Green Mountains. fair quality
sno so conoltion. showins spotted sacks. 40;
MlnneSota Green Mountains, fair quality
s1;a sna condition; showing sprouts. ,e.3Oa2 40;
Sorh baEotpa EsTiy SirdonaTg oiggs qTaly
unclsssifed. :,05a21O: Wisconsin Round
whites. fair quality and condition. c.IO,
Butter, 1881: steady; creamery spe-
cials (93 scorel, 2Tl3a2s: extras (93) 81:
extra frsts ta0-9D. .2G9la27; firsts ,ss-
s9D, 25sIae6i4: standards 40 centralized
local go EssT ears asiaa sS .sS sfsd.s sss
hrsts. local. 1872; cars. 20; current re-
ceipts. 1872: storage packed. extras, 20:
storase packed, flrsts, 2l24.
Evening star., 1936-05-29

publishing field in Chicago as man
aging editor of a number of different
publications. In 1909 he Joined the
staff of the Salt Lake Tribune. of
which he was later city editor and
news editor. During his residence in
Salt Lake he was publicity represen-
tative for the late Gov Simon Bam-
berger of Utah, for Senator William
H. King in his first campaign and
for Gov. George H. Dern of Utah,
now Secretary of War.
In 1928 Schmidt organized the pub
licity and handled the press work for
the motion picture productions of the
late Gene Stratton Porter. He was
thereafter staff writer for the Los
Angeles Times and for two years
managing editor Of the California Oil
World. the leading oil publication on
the Pacific Coast.
Evening star., 1936-05-29

/ so painfully hurt. 1t was to escape
that hurt that Price had fed his
dream, gone to the city, worked with
desperate recklessness that had
carried him to wealth and fame in
10 short years.
With flash Of insight Price UNDER
stood what had lain behind that inn
pulsive decision to revisit Cloverville:
he wanted to see Heather. Perhaps
He had never married; if she
had waited, too! He shut his eyes to
imagine Heather at %; she had been
glamorous at 1S. Then he was OF
the bench, walking back toward
Franks.
LIE CAME out of the drug store in
a few moments. his head bowed.
She hadn't waited, of course. Why
should she? For the last eight years
he hadn't even written her. But he'd
found out her husbands name-How-
ard Martin; the fat, good-natured kid
they'd called Tubby and bulhed idly
throughout his youth. Tubby had in
herited his fathers dry goods store.
Naturally. with Heather's mother
pulling the strings, the match was
inevitable.
Why shouldn't she forget? Until
today Price thought he'd forgotten.
too. He'd just 60 by Tubby's house
and reassure himself; then back to
the city, where things were real,
where a man could forget visions.
He might have been in doubt about
the house, but just as he passed by
a tow-headed youngster scampered Of
the lawn in pursuit of bali.
PRICE had picked up the ball where
it rolled at hi feet. and now he
handed it to the smiling youth, feel
ing suddenly the weight of 10 years.
Of schening and bullying in the stock
market, Of loneliness that he knew,
somehow, would always be a part Of
him now He saw his own selfish
lifetime reflected in the child's eyes.
and looked ahead to empty years.
Forgotten; and no one cared!
He forced smile. You're bright
young lad" he murmured. What's
your name?"
Jack" the tow-head grinned.
Jack Martin"
Price turned wordlessly away. But
on the plane that nigat he found his
bitter regret tempered by resignation.
Heather-she was gone; but some
where in her heart was a tender spot
reserved for him alone. Price knew.
And he mentally resolved that Mr..
and Mrs. Tubby Martin were going
to receive an amazing. anonymous
gift-for a tow-headed kid who was
named for Jack Price.
tCopyright 1g3b)
Evening star., 1936-05-29

transcont1nental run. It seemed that
the North-South and the East-West
airlines met here, and planes stopped
to exchange mail.
He could still see the amazed ex-
preston on the stewardess' face when
he'd taken his bags and calmly an
nounced that the plane could 60 on
West without him. But he liked i'm
pulsive action, and impulse had cer-
tatnly provoked this stop-off in
Cloverville. But he wished he had
his roadster. When the small-town
boy who'd made good came home, he
should cut figure, attract attention.
He chuckled, imagining the amazed
gossip the roadster would have caused.
STRANGE how, after 10 years,
everything seemed the same:
stranger yet how everything seemed
irrevocably associated with Heather.
The railroad station just ahead.
where he'd stared. heartsick, out of
the window of the departing train,
seeking and not finding her face
among the loiterers on the platform
Franks drug store across the street,
where they'd grown up together
through the penny candy, the ice
cream cone and the chocolate sundae
ages.
ihe ball field across the tracks.
Frank stared again and con-
graduated whatever group of progress
sire citizens had conceived the idea
OF landscaping the ball field and
turning 1t into this tidy, green little
park. The benches in the park were
inviting; Price found one shaded by
a great elm and sat down.
Now, more than ever, he felt
Heathers nearness. He wondered at
the power of her memory. A vision
he thought had died proved to have
been merely sleeping, drugged by too
much work, too much scheming-too
much money. But now, back among
these familiar scenes, that vision
sprang again to life.
Price stretched his legs, stared idly
up through the branches and dreamed.
He dreamed of the girl and boy they
had been, walking excitedly to tell
her family of the mystery they had
discovered within themselves. He
dreamed again of the plans that had
surged bravely through his mind that
silent. shadowed night-dreams of
himself much as he was now)
wealthy. famous, with the world at
his feet, proudly offering that world
to Heather.
THEN that scene in the parlor.
Heather's mother listening calm
ly to his story-calmly!-then quietly
Evening star., 1936-05-29
RETAILERS AIDED
BY F|RMER PRICES
Iron and Steel Industry Also
Benefit-Future Planning
Inspired.
sr-tcial Dispatc to rhe Star

SItcial Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May 29.-In two di.
rections, flrmer prices seem likely Il
assure fair profits which were not 81
long ago In doubt. Retail trade Is on.
of the beneficiaries, while the othe,
Is the iron and steel industry. If tn,
trend Is maintained, more confident
planning for the future is to be ex.
pected.
Because of the firmness in price.
and the recent lift in consumer de.
mand, many retailers have been able
to make the best profit showing ii
five years or so. Mark downs" have
been fewer than in some time and
while goods are moving freely and
prices at wholesale hold firm, it re-
mains possible to replenish wanted
items on a basis which assures a
profitable turnover. With the boost
to sales expected to flow from the
bonus payments still ahead of them,
retailers seem to be in line for q
further run of good operating condi-
tions.
Steel Meeting Taxes.
The expected advance in steel prices,
needed to bring selling quotations into
line with advancing costs Of produc-
ton. particularly as these costs are
affected by taxes, came at the close
OF last week. Initiated by a subsidiary
OF the United States Steel Corp, the
movement got of to a good start. and
this week was carried along by leading
producers of semi finished steel. bars.
plates and shapes, all grades Of sheets
and hot-rolled strip steel. The gen.
eral increase amounts to 50 a ton.
with prospects that steel rails may be
marked up to $40 a ton.
As a general rule, the new prices do
not apply to shipments before July /,
SO that something Of a rush for de-
livery before that date is expected.
Demand is apparently getting a bit
ahead of deliveries even now, for the
Iron Age says that many users who
had become accustomed to meeting
their needs from day to day are hard
pressed for tonnage. Tin mills are
nearly all engaged at capacity and are
turning away casual customers who
Enthusiastically shop around for
their needs" A high rate of demand
from other users of sheets is. in some
instances, taking up the slack caused
by diminishing activity at automobile
plants.
Power Output Good.
Raw steel output was we'll main
tanned this week, ingot production de-
Ginning only p point to SO per cent
OF capacity, according to the Iron
Age. Electric power production was
also of slightly from the previous
week, but continues to run more than
Is per cent above the level of a year
ago, which keeps it in new high
zone for this season of the year. The
current rate of output has never be-
fore been reached save in the Winter
season of minimum daylight.
Bank clearings for the week ended
May 81, according to Dun & Brad
street, were up 0.8 per cent over the
like period year ago. The average
gain for 81 cities outside New York
was Ill per cent. but a decline at
this center pulled down the total.
Pittsburgh, Atlanta. New Orleans and
Dallas showed gains of better than Is
per cent.
tCopyright 1850
Evening star., 1936-05-29
We. Industrial operations unchanged;

tive. Industrial operations unchanged;
no indications of recession as yet.
KANSAS CITY.-Nearly all retail
lines benefited by the warmer weather;
sales only slightly higher for week,
but went ahead of last year by IS to
20 per cent. Best week for whole
salers since early March; orders from
country merchants increased rapidly
as more rain dispelled drought fears.
Most crops in good condition. Re-
duced receipts advanced live stock
quotations.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and in
dustrial production continued to show
Improvement. Heavy movement of
lumber and building supplies. Whole
sale orders 5 to 10 per cent larger
than year ago, with rising volume in
dry goods and hosiery. With shoes,
house furnishings and mems and
women's apparel leading. retail sales
averaged 10 to Is per cent better than
for the like 1885 week.
Shipments Improve.
PITTSBURGH.-Scope of industrial
improvement reflected in originating
shipments, which were about so per
cent above comparable 1885 period.
After holding steady for several weeks,
steel rate eased points to SO per cent
of capacity. Retail trade brisk, quick
ened by warm weather; sales 10 to 20
per cent ahead of last year. Dry
goods, apparel and heavy hardware
featured wholesale buying.
ST. LOUIS.-Output of shoes,
stoves and electrical speciality items
curtailed slightly; operations in other
industrial divisions increased. Retail
sales up per cent for week and 10
to Is per cent ahead of last year.
Wholesale volume off somewhat, par
ticularly in clothing and dry goods.
but remained 10 per cent above 1885
week. Orders for footwear higher by
20 to Is per cent.
DO.-Manufacturers of auto
mobile parts and accessories increased
operations. Employment in 81 local
plants up $50 for week; about 1000
more than year ago. Output of safety
and container glass well maintained.
Retail sales gained only slightly, but
surpassed total of 1885 week by 1s to
20 per cent. Building far below
normal, but has improved during
recent weeks.
Evening star., 1936-05-29
DAILY SHORT
RESIGNATION

PRICE felt he
was being a
sentimental fool.
This was the sort
Of thing make-be-
lieve people did In
books, and he GER
tainly was no
make-believe. Ask
the brokers on the
Street" the men
who had felt Jack
Prices fine hand
more than once In
their buying and
selling.
When he'd set
out by plane for
the Coast he'd not
e We n considered
the romantic thing
he was doing now.
He hadn't even
known that Clover
vile had an air
port, much less
that it was a regu-
lar Ston m the
Evening star., 1936-05-29
CHAIN STORES GAIN.

NEW YORK, May 20 (P-The
monthly review Of credit and business
conditions by the Federal Reserve
agent at New York states that total
April sales of reporting chain store
systems were 5.3 per cent higher than
last year, larger percentage increase
than in March. The 10 cent and
variety chains reported more favorable
comparisons in sales with a year ago
than in the previous month, while the
grocery and shoe chains had smaller
advances in sales in April than in
March.
Evening star., 1936-05-29
Comment on Conditions.

comment on COnolt10nS.
BALTIMORE.-Higher temperatures
accelerated retail distribution, which
rose nearly per cent for the week
and IL TO Is per cent from the 1885
total. Wholesale buying also expand
ed, with a wide gain in orders for
Summer clothing. sportswear, dry
goods and electrical appliances. Spread
of activity in the majority of divisions
offsetting seasonal decline in few in
dustries.
CHICAGO.-Retai sales substan-
TALLY above preceding week and Is to
20 per cent larger than year ago.
Wholesale volume larger by 10 to Is
per cent than in like 1885 week, due to
gain in recorders for Summer items
and heavier commitments for dry
goods. Some price confusion in latter.
High industrial level maintained; steel
rate unchanged at "a per cent Of
capacity.
CLEVELAND.-Steady operations Of
steel and automobile divisions keeping
industrial average at high rate. May
holding to April level, with little in
dication of the usual seasonal decline
with the approach of Summer Warm
weather pushed retail sales 20 to Is
per cent over the 1885 comparative.
Fall wholesale buying in some lines so
per cent ahead of year ago.
Auto Plants Retarded.
DETROIT.-As some plants returned
to a four-day week, automobile pro-
duction declined from l17,156 a week
earlier to 109,s21, which compared
with 100,705 units for the correspond
ing 1885 week. Other industries ad-
vanced operations. Retail sales rose
8 per cent from preceding week and
8 per cent from total of year ago.
Wholesale volume averaged IS to 1s
per cent more than for comparative
1885 period.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at retail
continued to expand, with sales up 10
per cent for week and Is to 20 per
cent from 1885 total. Orders for dry
goods and kindred lines as to 80 per
cent larger than year ago; orders for
hardware and farm implements gained
20 to IS per cent on years compare
Evening star., 1936-05-29
OMITTED DIVIDEND
HITS FISK RUBBER
Nine-Point Break in Stock
Features Curb in Late
Trading.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, May ga sharp
break in Fisk Rubber preferred, fol.
lowing announcement of omission OF
the $3.50 quarterly dividend, was the
feature Of the curb market in the late
trading today The stock declined
about points. The common declined
fractionally.
- The general list moved upgrade and
was holding at moderately higher levels
in the late trading.
Such groups as oils and industrials,
which were under pressure yesterday,
showed improved action. Utilities re-
NAMED quiet
Gains ranged from fractions to
around point In stocks like Aluminium
>Go., American Cyanamid "B," Creole
Petroleum International Petroleum,
Lake Shore Mines and Niagara Hudson
Power.
Evening star., 1936-05-29

=. WASHINGTON. May 20 R,-The posi-
Sfns sion Of the Treasury May 81: Receipts.
O5S.59 Net balance. S2.3S9. .7eb 500 .SS;
customs receipts for the month. $2S. .061,- :
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July ~.
$3.571 zig .555. .06; expenditures, So, ,5O2.
473.12s.49. including $3.01S,222. .451.76
penditures. $2,g3i. .26O. .573.43; gross debt.
S31 .643, 720. .479.eS. an increase of S53,-
67l.452.50 over the previous day. Gold
date last yesr,. sios; ;S7e. .S$SS; ;sf: espenai-
629. sos; So 90; customs receipts for the
Receipts for the nscal year, S3, ,32s; 49,
Including ss.aie.34i. .347.79 Of emergency
expenditures: excess Of expenditures, .$2.s
aos; sois ssssis. s sass ss.sss.Szo.
Evening star., 1936-05-29
SCHMIDT IS NAMED
up. VICE PRESIDENT
Former Publicist for King and
Dern Is Promoted by
Railroad.

OMAHA, May 90. - The appoint
ment Of Edgar c. Schmidt to the ex-
ecutive position Of assistant to the
president, in charge Of public rela-
tions, was announced today by Presi-
dent Carl r. Gray of the Union Pa
cif1c Railroad Co.
Schmidt has been with the Union
Pacific since 1927 as director of news
Evening star., 1936-05-29

service and ed
itor of the Union
Pacific Magazine.
Schmidt is a
native of Dayton.
Ohio, where he
began his news
paper work as
high school cor
respondent for
the Dayton Daily
News in 1900.
After graduating
from Western
Reserve Univer-
sity at Cleveland
he was associated
Evening star., 1936-05-29
Few Attend Church.

Only 10 per cent of the police In
London attend church regularly. while
the percentage in the provinces is IS
per cent, reports Rev. T. G. Mohan,
assistant secretary Of the Church Pas
toral Aid Society.
Evening star., 1936-05-29

leveling his dream
castle with a shake
Of her head.
1T wouldn't do,
Jack. You're both
too young. Heather
shouldn't choose a
husband for years
yet"
Himself, stun.
bling down the
porch into a night
gone suddenly hos
tile; the same
seductive warm
breeze that had
promised so much
mocking him.
Heather was q
dutiful girl and
she obeyed her
mothers orders to
the letter. OF
course, it was
Understandable in
the older woman,
to Price now. But
Young BOYS can be
Evening star., 1936-05-29
MONTREAL SILVER.

MONTREAL. May 90 LP,.-silver futures
opened steady. 20 lower to 90 higher July.
- Dob; September. A. sob; December.
A Dob. Bid
Evening star., 1936-05-29

DIVIDEND rate IN doilars based on last
quarterly or semi mf-snnnal payment tAn.
nuaI rate-p plus extra Accumulate dlvi.
dends q PAID thfs year bPai1 last year
dCompsnies reported In receivership or
being rsorganised ePayable In stock
Ex-divtdend
Evening star., 1936-05-29
DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED

NEW YORK May 2e-Dividends an
nounced prepared by the Standard Sta
tistics Corp):
Resumed.
Pc Stk of Pay
Rate. riod. record able.
Equitable once Bldg--l0c - o-15 III
Puget Sound Pwr g. 1t
prior pf---R-S1.a eco 1-l6
Accumulated.
aluminium Co. of Am
So pf-----50c - els IL
stock.
Kalamazoo Stove 500 6-13 6-o2
Increased.
Noranda Mines -Sl25 6-l0 $50
Evening star., 1936-05-29

Carolina Power & Light Co.-Pre-
ferred share earnings, IL months ended
April 80, we're $8.f8, VS.. S7.65.
Evening star., 1936-05-29
RAILROAD INCOMES.

NEW YORK May % P.-Net operat-
ing income Of railroads reporting today
for April included:
Canadian Pacific 81 1.337,45s S1,4i2'5es
Pitts. & W. Va 1862 53'1q5
Gulf. Mobile 6 No. 1874 Ss,7T3
Evening star., 1936-05-29
NEW YORK CURB MARKET

STOCK and Sales
dividend Rate. Add 90 High Low Close.
MINI Mining
q Mfg t70c) zoos 29M 29S 29N
Mohawk q "a pr. Sos 53h 53h 531s
Molly bdenum Corp sM SM Sss
Mont Ward A (7)- 1905 1914 I5l1s 1914
Evening star., 1936-05-29
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK. May % Q7,-Security
Dealers Association:
Evening star., 1936-05-29
INSURANCE STOCKS

NEW YORK. May % R).-Security
Dealers Association:
% nm. ouotations)
Evening star., 1936-05-29
U. s. TREASURY POSITION.

s-Declared or paid 50 far this year.
Evening star., 1936-05-29

20s 40H 40k 40A
70s 96h 95& 96Is
25s "a 2& pa
600s TN 10 II
275s 31x 80 3i%
l ia ~ 7k
SOS 1872 122 122
sos l6h l6N l6k
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-11-28
THE STRIKE AND CHRISTMAS

With government-chartered ships scheduled to
arrive in Alaska within week with supplies, there
from the controversy the coast the possibility
that the major strike itself may come to an end in
the near future Most optimistic report of Mayor
Ross of San Francisco is that settlement may be
reached within 48 hours He may well be en-
thusiastic but there definite indication that the
break is to come.
1t may TO Alaska than trans
oceanic. That is aside from the government boats.
1t is the coastwise operators which would include the
private lines running to the north, who reported
a settlement than any of the Others 1t will
be recalled that the coaStwise operators and unions
had reached a tentative agreement when the strike
called and it is probable they would have been
able to continue operations under terms had
not the situation grown far beyond the negotiations of
the coasters.
1t is probable. too that the government charts
will have bearing settlement. 1t may logically
be argued that if the government operate boats
to Alaska, and perhaps Hawaii, that it can operate
them generally to all ports OF course there is not
the crying need Tor such service in continental United
States in the Territory and Islands, which are
solely dependent water transportation for necess-
ties of life But doubtless the will figure in the
future discussions by both sides
In the meantime. with Christmas but matter OF
days away, Alaskans look forward with renewed
hope to the coming holiday. We assured of gov
ernment-chartered ships and there is the possibility
that the private lines will be back on the job before
very long. In view at the frightening situation il
wouldn't be bad idea to start considering that
Christmas problem and get the shopping done SC
that parcels for the Outside can be dispatched in
ample time to reach their ciestinat ion