Evening star., 1937-05-21
LIQUID CARBON|C
EARNINGS JUMP
SHAFTS Net for 6 Months
Contrasts With Loss of
$193,436 Year Ago.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 2l.-Liquid Car
bonic Corp, manufacturer and dis
tributor Of soda fountains and car
bonic gas, reported today for the six
months ended March 81 net profit Of
SHAFTS, equal to 80 cents share on
the capital stock This contrasted
with net loss Of sl93,436 In the
corresponding period of the previous
fiscal year
The company noted an interim
audit was being made of certain ex-
pense items and figured it might show
net profit for the six months in excess
of s25o000. Similarly. it added. loss
for the comparable period of the pre-
ceding fiscal year might be cut to
about 100000.
Weston Electrical.
Weston Electrical Instrument Corp,
Newark. N. j., reported for the quarter
ended March 81 net profit of s1o4,o2l,
equal to 56 cents share on the COM
mon, against S46,299, or l8 cents a
share, in the first quarter last year.
Midland Steel Products.
Midland Steel Products Co., with
plants at Cleveland and Detroit, re-
ported for the March quarter net
profit Of s558,215, equal to sl44 a
common share, compared with s4lo,-
725, or 81 cents a share, in the first
quarter last year
Commonwealth Edison.
Commonwealth Edison Co. reported
April net income of sl,le6,O35, which
compared with s569,977 (adjusted
f1gures) for April, 1896. Four months
net this year was s5,667.5l5, compared
with the adjusted total of s3,slO,752
for the corresponding 1886 period.
S. S. White Dental.
S. S. White Dental Manufacturing
Co. OF Philadelphia, reported March
quarter net profit of sl38,404, equal
to As cents share on capital stock.
against S7l,393 or "a cents share in
the March quarter last year.
Associated G.. & F.
Associated Gas e. Electric Co. and
its subsidiary, Associated Gas g. Elec-
tric Corp, in a report for the 12
months ended March 81, showed a
balance Of s3.466,922 after fixed in
terest deductions. This compared with
balance of s349,545 for the IL months
ended March 81. 1896.
The report. the company stated, in
cluded results of new properties only
from dates of acquisition and were
after provision for retirements. Fed
eral income taxes, charges and pre-
ferred dividends Of subsidiaries and
f1xed interest charges of the corpora
ton and the company.
Pan-American Petroleum.
Pan-American Petroleum & Trans
port Co. reported for the quarter ended
March 81 consolidated net profit Of
S869,948, equal to 18 cents a share
OF capital stock. This compared with
S607, 7,844 or 13 cents a share, in the
March quarter last year.
A change in the companys system
of setting up depreciation charges,
effective January 81, 1887. increased
first quarter earnings $4,000 over what
they would have been under the old
depreciation rates, the company re-
ported
F. E. Myers g. Bro. Co.
F. E. Myers & Bro Co. reported for
the six months ended April 80 net in
come of 1926, 6,562. before undistributed
profits tax, equal to S313 a common
share. This compares With s394,l21.
or Sl97 share, in the like 1895
period. For the quarter ended April
30 indicated net profit was S32l,795,
or sl.6l a share, against S3O4,767, or
Sl.52, In the preceding quarter, and
$l83,327, or 90 cents, year ago.
Waukesha Motor.
Waukesha Motor Co. reported for
the nine months ended April 80 net
profit Of S7l2,l44, before the undis-
tribtued profits tax, equal to $1.7s a
capital share, compared with 1881 ,453,
or 95 cents, in the preceding like
period.