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Evening star., 1937-02-15
ATCH|S0N NETS
S9,998,126 PROFIT
Years Earnings Are Equal
to $1.56 a Share, Against
$1.38 in 1895.

NEW YORK, February l5-Earn-
ings of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway system for 1886 were an.
nounced today as s9,9s8.126. equal
after preferred dividends to s1.56 a
common share, compared with $685.
3l5 or $1.38 share in 1885.
United Carbon Co.
United Carbon Co. announced its
net profit last year was $2,202,s or
1854 a common share, compared with
s1,872, ,405 or S470 in 1885
Columbia Gas & Electric.
Columbia Gas g. Electric Corp. re-
ported today for 1886 consolidated net
earnings of s13.223, ,242. or So cents q
common share, compared with SILL.
944,326. or 43 cents, in 1885. In the
December quarter net income was
S4.285, ,490. or 81 cents a share, against
S3,504, ,760, or IS cents. in the like 1885
period.
General Fireproofing.
General Fireprooflng Co. and sub
sidiaries reported net profit Of
1884 ,62l, after $4,000 surtax on un-
distributed profits, or $16O a common
share, against $685. or $l.o9, in
1885. The company manufactures
steel and aluminium furniture, filing
and other Office equipment. and has
plants and headquarters at Youngs-
town, Ohio.
Ohio Leather.
Ohio Leather Co. reported for 1895
consolidated net income Of s203, ,790
after undistributed profits tax, equal,
after preferred dividends, to $3.50 a
common share, against $171,753 or
81. "a in 1885.
Allegheny Steel Co.
Allegheny Steel Co. reported 1885
net income of $1,829.l37 after the
undistributed profits tax. equal, after
preferred dividends, to s2.l2 common
share, against $l,l5l,454 or $3.50 IN
1885 The company has plants and
offices at Breckenridge, Ohio.
Commonwealth Edison.
Commonwealth Edison reported 1885
consolidated net income of $l0943,-
742. after s706,627 undistributed
profits tax, equal to s6.7s a common
share. This compares with adjusted
net income of s10,455,588. or S6.5l a
share, in 1885.
Phillips Packing.
Phillips Packing Co. reported con-
solidated 1886 net income OF 1882 ,224,
equal after dividends on the 5t per
cent preferred-issued in April, 1886
to sl.67 common share. In the pre-
ceding year the company had net in
come of S729,O58 The company's S
canning facilities are located at Cam
bridge, Md.
Phoenix Hosiery.
Phoenix Hosiery Co. reported 1895
net income OF s53,oo8, equal to s2.l4
a share on the 500 par 7 per cent
first preferred stock, on which arreages
amount to S20.l2 a share. In 1885 net
income was s2sl, ,147, equal to SLIT q
preferred share.
McKeesport Tin Plate.
McKeesport Tin Plate Co. reports
consolidated net income for 1886 OF
s1,770,314 after undistributed profits
tax, but exclusive of flood losses OF
1921 .485 charged to surplus. This was
equal TO $500 a capital share In
1885 the company had net income OF
s2,l35 ,O96. or $7.12 share.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
NEW YORK PRODUCE.
tReported BY Chas. D. Barney " Co

NEW YORK February IS lP,.-Esgs.
cn,IaO, irregular. SDecia! packs, "4-@4l4;
standards 23l.; nrsts 2"Iz-@3. mediums.
oO-@l; dirties No. !. COCOA; AVERAGE
checks. 10: refrigerators. nrsts. 1olz-20i2i
seconds, ls-lsi2.
Butter. 12.lO7. frmer Creamery. high
er than extra. 34l,-35i4; extra L92 scorel,
34i.; frsts. (SS-9l scoresD. 1924: sec
onds (s4-s7 scoresl. 30ia-31la; central
ized 900 score), 33h4-l7.
Cheese. 1l5,3o6. steady. State. whole
Live poultry steady to Arm. BY freisht.
chickens: Leghorn. II; Rocks unquoted
fowls: colored. 1920: Leehorn, 1915;
roosters. IL; turkeys. IS; ducks. 14-15.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
BOSTON WOOL MARKET.

BOSTON February IS up tU g. Dept
AgrD-A waiting attitude prevailed gen.
orally IN the Boston wool market today.
Few inquiries were being received for
domestic wool. and holders on the other
hand. were not making an effort to move
spot wools.
Asking prices on spot domestic wools
were unchanged from last week. An oe-
easional house was showing q willingness
to make slight concessions from their ask
Ing prices in view Of the quiet demand and
the irregular price tendency abroad.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
Spiegel, Inc, Plans
$lO,OOO,OOO Issue of
Preferred Shares
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. February 15.-Spiegel,
Inc, has announced plans to issue
sl0,000,000 Of new convertible cumula-
tive preferred stock and to call the
presently outstanding s4053,6o0 of 612
per cent preferred The balance Of
the proceeds from the new issue would
be used for working capital. The COM
pany conducts a mail-order business
and has headquarters at Chicago.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
CHICAGO GRAIN
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated PTess.
CHICAGO. February l5.-Late ad-
vances in wheat prices today more
than overcame earlier losses in new
crop futures, July and September.
The advances followed reports Of in
creasing severity of damaging dust
storms in domestic Winter wheat ter
ritory Southwest. A further check on
selling was a decrease in the United
States visible stock Of all grains the
second week in succession.
At the close wheat was 70 lower to
q higher compared with Saturdays
finish: May. l.37sal.37A; July,
1.191sa119A. Corn. . of to % up;
May. 1097sa1.l0; July. LOAN a1.047s.
Oats at 20 decline to Is advance, and
provisions, unchanged to 80 cents
decline.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
COPPER STOCKS GAIN.

NEW YORK, February IS P).-
With an increase abroad offsetting
decline in this country. trade circles
reported today net January gain OF
$40 tons in world stocks of refined and
blister copper. The increase was at
tributed to expansion in foreign output
following the recent rise in prices and
upward revision of production quotas
of mines abroad. Apparent world con-
sumption was up 1880 over December
and was running ahead of 1929 aver
age monthly figures.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
BALDWIN ORDERS RISE.

PHILADELPHIA, February Is CP)-
The dollar value of orders received in
January by the Baldwin Locomotive
Works and subsidiary companies
amounted to S2,234,86l, an increase
Of s383,753 over January, 1895. Con-
solidated untitled orders February l
amounted to S29, ,s50.9l8, decrease Of
$3.50, ,497 from January /. 1887.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
CURbL|ST MIXED
|NNARROWRANGE
Some SpeciaIties Go Down
About a Point-0ther
Issues Hiqher. =.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. February 15.-Shares
in the Curb market swung both higher
and lower today. but with a few excep-
tions moves we're held to fractions.
A few specialties were lower by
around a point, including Wayne
Pump, Sherwin- Williams and Allan
tic & Pacific. Jones & Laughlin
Steel lost 2l2 and Northern States
Power "A" United Gas and Gulf Oil
were off by fair fractions.
Gamers included National Automo-
tive Fibres voting certificates, which
were nearly higher. and Pantepec
= Oil, Pennroad, Sunshine Mining and
United Wall Paper all a shade up.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
CONTINENTAL CAN
EARNS $9,03S,7S8
Net for Year Compares With
S11,223,578 for Pre-.
vious Period.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ShSSia' OIepatNh 70 no St4r.
NEW YORK. February l5.-Conti-
mental Can Co.. Inc. today reported
net earnings for 1885 of ss,o3s, ,7ss
after deducting all charges, including
s1,6l6,12S for income taxes and sur.
tax on undistributed profits.
Earnings for the year were equiva.
lent to s317 a share on 2,853.97l
common shares outstanding at De-
cember 81, 1896, compared with net
earnings Of $ll,223,57s in 1895, or
s421 a share on 2,665,1sl shares out
standing at the end of 1895.
During the year, outstanding COM
mon shares increased by 1873, 780
shares. This increase is explained in
the report as resulting from the sale
Of 177,679 shares on rights to stock
holders in May, and the sale Of II, ,l0l
shares to officers and employees In
December under subscription plan
previously approved.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
new YORK COTTON
b. the Associated Press.

Bv the AsSOclated Press.
NEW YORK, February 15.-Cotton
vas quiet but steady today, with small
and irregular price changes. Trade
buying of the near months and scat
tered liquidation and hedge selling in
the forward positions accounted for
most of the trading.
May sold up from 12.44 to 1880 and
was selling at l2.47 in midafternoon,
when prices generally were 3 points
net higher to 2 lower.
The trade was waiting for Wash
tngton developments in farm legisla-
ton and for possible changes in the
current loan cotton release program
Futures closed steady. 4 higher to 2
Evening star., 1937-02-15
FEDERAL LAND BANKS
NEW YORK February IS R-Federal
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK February Is tP,-Foreien
exchange firm: Great Britain in dollars,
others IN cents. Great Britain. demand
4.saIs; cables. 4S9is. 6O-day bills.
4.ss!,. France demand 465ss; cables
4b5ss. Italy. demand, 5261a, cables.
5.@Giz
Demands-Belsium I6SfI2: Germany
-: Holland "a 30: Norway, ~ 80;
Sweden, 35.25; Denmark. 2ls6; FINLAND
: II; Switzerland, $50: Spain. unquoted
1896; Czechoslovakia. 34e: Yugoslavia
. "a; Austria. ls.73n: Hungary, 1880;
Rumanis. 0.15: Argentina, 80 .63n: Brazil
= S0i4n: Toxic. 2S.5S Shanghai, % so;
Honekong. 3O.45; Mexico City $50;
Montreal in New York. 99.967s; New York
in Montreal. I0O.O3ls.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK. February Is R..-Copper
steady; electroiytic. spot and futures
SPOT and nearby. 81 .oos5 81 IL: futures
so s5a50Q5 Lead steady: spot. New
York, 8.00a6.O5; East St. Lsuis. 5.s5
Zinc steady; East St. Louis. spot anc
future. $40 Iron quiet No. 2, fob
Eastern Pennsylvania. oo.00: No. ., fob
Buffalo. 2IO0: No. 9 fob. Alabama
100 Aluminium, 1a0Oa2o 90. Anti
mony. spot. 1925. Quicksilver. o3.ooa
rs. 90. Platinum, $500. Wolframite
Evening star., 1937-02-15
VISIBLE GRAIN SUPPLY.

NEW YORK, February Is CP).-The
visible supply of American grain shows
the following changes. in bushels:
Wheat decreased 2,0l8.ooo. corn de-
creased 100000. oats decreased 1856,
rye decreased $50, 900: barley decreas-
ed $4,000.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
Chicago Cash Market.

Cash wheat. No red. l.43; No. !
hard. l.43; corn. No. 5 mixed. l04 l2-
OF. No. yellow, 1.l012-l4l2; No. 4
yellow, l07-llh; No. 4 white,
l.12l.-i2: oats, No. / white. SAL. =
55la: No. 2 white, 54la-65la; soy
beans. No. 2 yellow, 1901; No. 4 yell
low. l.58: barley, Illinois mailing,
1.43: feed. s0-l.oo. nominal; mailing,
l.o0-46. nominal; timothy seed. 800
Is hundredweight: new crop. SIS
500: clover seed, 2s00-35oo hundred
weight.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
NEW YORK BAR SILVER

NEW YORK, February IS (Pl.-i'ar
silver steady and unchanged from
Thursday. February II, at 44a4.
Evening star., 1937-02-15

Approximate Sales of Stocks the N. Exchange
II 90 A.M.------ 100000 1900 Noon. 80, $4,000
annual cash
latest quarterly hayeary declarations
Unit Of trading less than 100 shares Annual rae-no
including Accumulated dividends
Paid Companies
reorganiZed Ex dividend
Evening star., 1937-02-15
FREIGHT LOADINGS.

NEW YORK February Is GP,.-Rev-
enue freight csrloadinss on railroads re-
porting today for week ended February
l3 included;
Wk Feb l3. Pv. vk. Last VI.
Baltimore & Ohio 50 a65 4s.os9 43.s97
Evening star., 1937-02-15
DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED

NEW YORK. February 15.-Dividends
declared:
Rate riod. record. able.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
Raltimnra Quntatians,

BALTIMORE. February Is iP,-Wheat
No. red Winter. sarlicky. spot, domestic
l.41i4: February. l.41lA.
Evening star., 1937-02-15

Schtf Co.-January sales were ur
IL per cent.
Evening star., 1937-02-15

Dividend rates IN dollars based on last
nual rate-not including extras tAc.
cumulated dividends Paid last year
being In bankruptcy OF In receivership. o.
being reorganized under the bankrvDtcy
act. or securities assumed b. such con.
pAutoa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-19
Praise For Both

The House of the Connecticut Legis-
lature acted with commendable purpose
this week on two pieces Of important leg
iSlation. While this action is not final
and there is still the Senate to be heard
from, we feel that to the House must go
full credit for taking the initiative on
these vitality important pieces of legis-
lation We refer to the bill granting to
women the right to qualify for jury
service and also the bill calling for the
ratification of the Child Labor Amend
ment to the federal constitution.
On the first mentioned measure the
House did what it had failed to do in
bygone sessions. 1t approved the bill
despite the fact that the judiciary COM
mittee had reported unfavorably upon it.
This report was overthrown and the
House thereupon proceeded to make
passage of the bill itself unanimous. In
the Senate 1t is admitted that the DEM
ocratic majority will sweep the bill right
into Governor Cross office, where he will
surely sign it as jury service for women
is a campaign promise of the democrats.
On the Child Labor Amendment there
was much splitting of party lines, but
Connecticut, SO far as the House is con-
cerned, will have no part in adding to
the Constitution of the United States any
amendment allowing Congress to regu-
late child labor. This is the fourth time
the proposed ratification has been voted
down. 1t surely should be convincing
enough But there remains the posi-
bility that the Senate may differ with the
House. Still we doubt it in view of the
overwhelming defeat in the House.
We can see no wrong in either course
Of action as dictated by vote of the
House.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-19

Now that grim disaster has strobe
across east Texas we presume that off,
cialdom will hasten to "put the finger"
on school or local authorities for neglect
of duty or some such thing. The destruc-
ton Of hundreds Of children is one OF
the worst disasters that the United States
has known. In our memory we have not
read of such wholesale slaughter OF lnno-
cents and we hope that we do not live TO
read again Of any such comparable
incident.
It's odd how fate stalks its victims.
There were but ten more minutes OF the
Thursday session left when the myster-
ious and tremendous explosion rent
asunder the New London school -
S 100000 structure, set in the midst OF
productive oil wells. There were seven
hundred pupils and forty teachers In the
building, practically all gathered in the
assembly hall. Then came the terrible,
ear-deafening roar and accompanying
upheaval of the building.
Even the most hardened person must
shudder at thoughts of what took place
when those hundreds of youngsters were
hurled this way and that and then buried
in the debris. That and the latter scene
Of frenzied mothers and fathers tearing
at mounds of stone and brick in an
effort to find lost ones or ferverishly
scanning the long rows OF mutilated
bodies in temporary morgues are ones
that stand out clear and distinct. The
sympathy of the nation goes today to
New London, Texas, and it's sorrowing
households.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-19

what Of it?e Somebody viii have TO be
disappointed; something viii have to be
sighted or overlooked. The money isn't
there and until It can be found, it can't
be spent. The expansion of the state
hospital in Newtown heads the list, not
In size of appropriation, but necessity. TO
it is allotted $2,225, 1913. The school or
home for feeble-minded in Southbury at
present cost Of $3,000,000 comes next.
The veterans home at Rocky Hill Is
placed third and given $2,500,000.
The next on the list Is the state farm
for women at Mantle with what he
termed small appropriation Of only
$260, 900 as compared to the others. We
are glad to see Connecticut State Col
lege comes next, but with only $4,000
how much can be accomplished? Three
tuberculosis Sanatoria-thoS at Hart
ford, Norwich, and Meriden-complete
the list of institutions. They don't get
what has been sought for them. Maybe
they're lucky to get anything with so
much asked and SO little to 60 around.
We could start now and enumerate many
more worthy causes for millions in ex-
penditureS, such as the state parks and
forests or the State Hospitals at Norwich
and Middletown, but why do that when
it simply impedes progress. We presume
we should be glad that something can
and is being done for our much-over-
looked state institutions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-19
Selected Poem

SUNSET
(Perley A. Gilmore New Haven, in the New Haver
Journal Courier
The day is done.
In flame OF glory sinks the setting SUM-
Another span of LIES brief race is run
The sky is all aglow with lingering light
Still burning on the western altar bright,
Night has begun.
Now far away,
Receding from the peering moonbeans spray,
The fading embers of the dying day
Burn low-and lower still. Nights sable pail
Drops softly down and darkness covers all
Gone is the day.
Tho scarce begun,
Our lives haste onward towards the setting sun,
And all too soon life's little day is DONE
We toll unceasing through the fieeting years,
Lies wine we find too oft infused with tears,
Ere life is done.
Lord. we pray
nlumc us with Thy light-Thou who dost know
Our frame-that we are dust. May It's pure glow
Keep iifes fast fading embers ever bright
That we mt last behold-not hopeless night
But endless day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-19
What More Could Be Done?

With Governor Wilbur L. Cross as ar
bitter of the $11 100000 building fund,
disposition of the money available for
building purposes in the coming bien-
MUM will be along slightly different
terms than those planned by persons in
terested in development of several state
institutions. In short the governor does
not intend that any more than the SILL
900, 900, to be available after the states
present deficit is retired, will be used for
capital improvements. Had he shown
the opposite tendency he would have
been flooded with requests for millions.
We can appreciate his position.
We have endeavored to show in these
columns the last few weeks that two and
three times the amount planned could be
spent on Connecticut institutions and de-
partments and still there would be de-
mandS for financial aid. We are at a
point now where the maximum is re-
quired In state assistance and the MAXI
mum Is not available. We procrastinated
years ago and the result of this policy is
certainly being brought home today.
Many OF the needs that will be fulfilled
this year or next year could have been
cared for years ago. They were just as
apparent and vital then as now.
We don't suppose that complete APP
prevail for the schedule of expenditures
az now arranged can be secured. But
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-19

The current issue of the New England
News Letter has something to say about
the Merritt Parkway, but not in criti-
cal manner. It is more in the line OF
strict news. The parkway is pointed out
as the beginning of a new route into New
England that will provide easy access to
this section of the ste e for tourists and
visitors, as well as relieve congestion on
present existing routes. We note that
the "letter" says three miles of the park
way on the New York end have just been
opened to traffic. Those miles are actu-
ally not part of the Merritt Parkway,
but part Of the Hutchinson River Park
way and are in Westchester County, New
York. They extend this well-known road
right up to the Connecticut boundary
and all that remains now is for this state
to speed up it's work and link up the
thirty-three miles of the memorial route
that traverses virgin territory in Fair
field county as far east as Stratford.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-19


tions In Maryland, where pro-
z gresslveA labor and regular
! New Deal democrats already
are holding their noses when
Tydings comes their way. They
not only held them tighter but
began 70 throw brickbats after
the North Carolina speech.
Prior to this. Tydinps. had ac-
;cepted an invitation TO speak at
the University club OF Baltimore
on ''The Supreme Court ISSUE
But the hostile f,,rore had It's e.
feet.
s,,a,,.,,iv ,,a ,,oti,,.., ~. o,,,h
that he y,o,,Sd chansa h;s s,,hD
iect to .Th S Ph, S i TsS.r ~I
' ~ '
The Washington publicity agent
Of the Tennessee Valley power in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-19

Some German officials DEGREES arouse
our pity. There is the recent one in
which it is forbidden to advertise butter.
Editors are told to stop building up taste
for butter by ads or by watering
pictures of foods requiring butter in their
preparation. Butter is scarce, and the
less attention is called to it, the better.
Certain foods are still plentiful and
these are to get much publicity. Every
effort will be made to promote generous
use of sugar, marmalade, fish, potatoes,
cottage cheese and barley Any such
privation, thought trivial compared with
what the Germans endured in the World
War, must remind them of that bitter
time. Do they realize that in another
great war they might fare still worse?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-19

Bridgeport points to the recent an
nouncement of plans for expanding the
Bridgeport Brass Company as an indi-
cation of more normal conditions and
expansion of the city. We feel the same
way about it here in Waterbury where
industrial expansion was noted over
year ago when other communities hadn't
even begun to emerge from the effects
Of the depression. Despite all claims to
the contrary Waterbury under demo-
cratic administration does not drive in
dustry from its doors. If it did, estab-
lished concerns would not be acquiring
additional land nor building new struc-
lures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-19
Nothing But
Entertainment.

< I know that what has gone be-
fore lays the writer open to tie
charge OF being a blue nosed Sab
batarian, q puritanical bigot, q
cherisher Of ailkancieflt' grudge, O
spoiled sport. and one who while
willing to live himself Is unwilling
to let anyone else live. As matt
ter OF truth I don't care whether
theaters are open or closed on
Sunday. II the community IN
which reside decides to license
Sunday theatrical shows 1t Is al
right with me. 1ftit decides not
TO license them 1t Is also all righE
with me-. My contention now, as Il
has always been, Is that the theater
Is o place where amusement or en-
tertainment n furnished to tho
public for q price. AND THAT 1T
Is NOTHING ELSE. When buy
my admission ticket to q show
and ! have always bought my
tickets--I expect to, and have the
right to see, o show. I do not ex-
pect to have my eyes blinded look
ing at paid advertisements insert
ed In the middle Of O news reel, or
before Q feature picture, calling
attention to the marvellous quail
tiles Of Finkleberg's full-fashioned
under drawers, Fiaherty's seduc-
tive step-irls, Hassenpreffer's bull
frogs milk, or Mace lintock's gem
uine Scotch scenes. !, like other
persons who have paid their gate
money, 60 to see o show. Not 70
be the victim Of Q chiselIing adj
vertislng racket. If state theat-
rical circles" honestly seek to firiu
sufficient time TO run of q COM
plete performance at the last
show on Sunday night they can
get It by cutting out the advertise
ments for which they get paid TO
display. Give Gable, and 10y,
Michael Mouse and Donald Duck
the leeway allotted to the Finkle-
bergs, the Flahertys, the Hasserl-
pfeffers, and the Mace lintocks.
II they would do that little thing,
and also cut In half the "Previews
Of Coming Events the customers
would be delighted, Che box office
would profit, and the entertain
ment world be imEineAsrrably IN
creased. am Just wondering II
the added running time allotted
By the General Assembly for the
last Sunday might show will pc
given over to entertaining the pa
irons Or 30 further exploitation
Of the screen rs an advertising
medium for articles Of sale ann
barter.