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Evening star., 1937-01-17
BOAT SHOW SALES
BEST IN 6 YEARS
Attendance at New York
Event Up About 20 Pct.
Demand Is Brisk.
BY J. G. DONLEY.
.. raA Gtor


NEW YORK. January 16.-Rocked
in their own Cradles" proud sea going
yachts. powered with heavy Diesels,
have been moored all this week right
alongside pert little 6-foot sailboats.
For the national motor boat show,
which this year has set up the best
sales and attendance record In six
years, is something of study in con-
trasts.
Because the Cradles" set on skids
to enable the riggers to roll the big
boats into the Grand Central Palace,
lift the keels about feet of the
floor, the visitor gets sort Of a fish,
eye" view. which makes a 54-footer
look about as big as an upside-down
house. And those big cruisers have
all the comforts Of home.
Crowds visiting the show seem to
be quite as much taken with anything
that floats as the motor show crowds
are enamored of anything on four
wheels. But this writer observed that
motor boat show customers seemed to
have "a little more beam" on the
average than the automobile enthus-
lasts. And If We judged the tailoring
Alright. they also have a little more
keel under the pocketbook and plenty
Of ballast in the bank account.
There Is q marked trend this year,
the boat builders representatives say,
toward the higher priced sport fisher
men," running $4,000 and up, deliv-
cred afloat at the shipyard. And the
fishing boats are faster-up to 80 or
IS miles per hour-to get 'em to the
fishing grounds and back in less time,
so that more time may be spent ac-
tually fishing.
Everything in the nag locker seems
to have been hung out on the front
Of the Grand Central Palace this
week, and II you can read the code
it means attendance up 20 per cent
over last year and around $1,000, 600
In new business, not to mention sales
after the show.
tcopyrisht. 1937J
Evening star., 1937-01-17
Furniture Sales Are Larger
But Lag Belo,v Expectations

than they expected or hoped" he
said.
Haake hastened to add, however,
that there Is no occasion for fear or
misgiving regarding the rest of the
year, even considering the strike sit
uation, 'for the forces making for
further recovery are sufficiently strong
for our industry to carry through"
He indicated many dealers appat-
emily deliberately held on because of
the widespread industrial strike and
because they are not yet convinced
that prices will stay Ut the current
level.
If . $500, ,000, 900 production year
materializes in furniture manufac-
turing, it will be the first since the
boom years. This would compare
with preliminary estimates of around
$3.50, ,000, 900 for 1896. $500, 900 900 for
1885, 5000. .000. 900. the low, in 1882,
and $500, ,ooo, 900, the peak In 1925.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
ADDED
T0BU|LD|NGPLANS
|NSTEE[ INDUSTRY
Carnegie. illinois Reveals
Huge Additional Sum
Will Be Spent.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, January 16-Leaders
of the steel industry viewed q new
SIC, 900, 900 mill and found it good
so good they speeded preparations to-
day for pouring 100000 into con-
struction and improvement of other
plants.
They tranped through the Carnegie
Illinois Steel Corps new plate mill at
Homestead and saw the latest type
machinery heat, squeeze, shape and
shear steel into completed plates.
Then at banquet they heard w. A.
Irwin, president of United States Steel,
parent company of Carnegie-Il Illinois,
outline the expansion program.
Millions Already Spent.
Roughly the program, adding to the
millions already being spent by the
steel industry in Improvements and
construction, provides:
/. Forty-five million dollars for con-
struction of hot strip and cool reduc-
ton mills with an annual capacity Of
100000 tons for production of sheet and
tinplate at Clarion, Pa.
z. Fifteen million dollars for build
ing a 1000, ,000-ton slabbing mill at
Braddock to supply slabs for the
Clarion mills, and installation Of new
electric power producing equipment.
The program is another. of many
steps toward what some steel observers
said may be a general improvement
and construction drive throughout the
industry in 1887. Many large and
small companies already have some
projects under way, such as an i'm
provement program at the Jones and
Laughlin mills in Aliquippa, Pa, and
Pittsburgh, estimated to cost between
$500, 900 and s2,000,000.
Contracts Due Soon.
Irwin said contracts for the Carnegie
Illinois expansion will be let shortly
and expressed the opinion the pro-
gram should be completed early in the
Summer of 1888.
He said no estimates have yet been
made of the increased employment to
be provided by the expansion. The
Clarion plant now has pay roll Of
about 5000 and approximately 1000
are employed at the Edgar Thompson
mill in Braddock.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
BUILDING GROUP
SHOWS LARGE GAIN
Citizens Association of Montgom.
cry County Reports Assets Rise
of $172,933 in 1885.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Srecial Dispatch to The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Md, January Is.
The Citizens Building & Loan As
sociation of Montgomery County at
its annual meeting Of stockholders
reported gross assets of $787,115.14 for
the calendar year-an increase Of
$172,933 over 1885.
Undivided profits have grown from
$18.866.92 to $41,6l163, and reserves
built up from $4,000 to $4,000, as
compared with the previous year, 1t
was reported.
Directors were elected as follows:
Capt. Frank L. Hewitt, George M.
Wolfe, William F. Prettyman, Frank
B. Severance, Harold E. Doyle, DR..
Claude w. Mitchell, william r.
Pumphrey, jr.; DR.. Howard H. How
lett, Howard Mac. NARROW, Garland
w. Wolfe. William Henderson, A. r.
Selby and Roy M. Heizer.
Officers elected are Capt. Hewitt,
president; Garland w. Wolfe, Doyle
and Severance, vice presidents;
George M. Wolfe. secretary-treasurer,
and William F. Prettyman, attorney.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
Steel Production
Remains Steady
Despite Strikes
BY the Associated Press.


CLEVELAND, Ohio. January 16.-
Daily Metal Trade today says:
Steelworks have yet to indicate by
their operations any marked effect Of
the labor disturbance in the automo.
tive industry. Production Is holding
steady. Sheet and bar demand has
been effected by hold-up orders to
some extent, but a heavy tonnage
continues to move to miscellaneous
consumers.
At the same time the heavy prod
ucts are experiencing an active call
from the railroads, equipment builders
and other users. Farm implement
and tractor manufacturers are ac-
counting for substantial tonnages.
Structural steel demand is more
active than had been anticipated. The
tone of the market continues very
strong and considerable new business
is reported developing at the higher
prices which recently went into effect.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
INVESTING COMPANY
STOCK INDEX CLIMBS
Srecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January Is. The
investment companies common stock
price index advanced last week to
new highs for the recovery as evil
denced by the averages compiled by
Distributors Group. Inc, topping the
1888 high point of 24.12.
The average for the common stocks
for 10 leading management compan-
les influenced by the leverage factor
stood at 2512 at the close of Janu-
ary IS, compared with 24.48 on Janu-
ary 8.
The average of the mutual funds
closed at 1882 January IS. compared
with IT'S at the close Of the previous
week.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
~ the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, January 1e.-Furniture
buying failed to attain the volume
some optimistic manufacturers ex-
pected during the two weeks WHOLE
sale markets which closed today, but
the industry got of to q good start
for q year in which, according to
competent authorities, production may
aggregate half a billion dollars or
more.
It was not q wild market, this
curtain-raiser for the new years busi-
ness, and retail dealers generally did
not scramble for merchandise, but
it was q reasonably healthy, though
mixed, market, according to A. p.
Haake. director of the National Asso-
citation Of Furniture Manufacturers.
Some manufacturers sold heavily,
but most Of them are somewhat dis
appointed because the buying was less
Evening star., 1937-01-17


This will be the fifth meeting of
the kind, the first conference having
originated here in 1882. Headquarters
will be at the Wardman Park Hotel.
Other committee chairmen and vice
chairmen, announced yesterday, follow:
Commercial Exhibits Committee
r. Earle Haycock. Riggs National,
chairman; James D. Barrett, Ameri-
can Security & Trust Co.. vice chair
man. Entertainment William B.
Mehler, jr., City Bank, chairman; A.
e. Yeatman, Columbia National, vice
chairman. Finance H. Norman
Glasco, Union Trust Co.. chairman;
Will r. Swetnam, Bank of Commerce
& Savings. vice chairman. Hotel
Harry L. Downey, Washington Loan
& Trust Co., chairman; Lewis E.
Thomas, Liberty National Bank, vice
chairman. Arrangement
Gerald E. Keene, Second National,
chairman; ]. c. Elgin, w. B. Hibbs g.
Co., vice chairman. Publicity Mil
lard Yeatman, Hamilton National
Bank, chairman; j. F. Bridges, Riggs
National, vice chairman. Reception
A. S. Offutt, City Bank, chairman;
Mrs. Vera M Rhine, Morris Plan, vice
chairman. RegiStration-William M.
Harris, Lincoln National Bank, chair
man; d. D. Whitcraft, Riggs National,
vice chairman. ject-Speakers-
Arthur ]. Linn, Hamilton, chairman.
d. C. Retail Trade Holds Up.
Department store trade in Wash
ington stores during the last week
was 1873 per cent better than in the
corresponding week a year ago, the
Commerce Department reported in q
review of business in 81 important
cities. Business, however, was only
slightly ahead of the previous week,
weather conditions making conditions
rather spotty.
The survey stated that bank clear
ings totaled $24,802,985, slightly
lower than the previous weeks figure
OF. $24,981. .057, but well ahead OF the
$50, ,468,049 figure in the same week
in 1886. Building permits issued in
Washington totaled $4,000, under
the 100000 mark of the previous
week, but way above the $289, 900 to-
tai in the corresponding week year
ago. Tourist business fell off, the
number of visitors being below the
previous week and also the same
week q year ago.
Washington Stock Exchange fol-
lowers saw two bank stocks make new
high marks during the week. Riggs
National Bank common sold at $355
for the first time in years, and Amer
ican Security & Trust hung up q
similar record when it was sold at
$310 share. The weeks final bid
for Riggs common was $50 and for
American Security, 300. Yesterdays
business was very slow. the weeks
fnal sale being in Potomac Electric
Power 8 per cent preferred at ll2.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
STAPLES CONTINUE
ADVANCE IN GRIP.
of HEAVY DEMAND.
Hit Peak Since Early 1880.
Index Up II Per Cent
in Few Months.
BY A. A. PATTON,
Associated Press StatiStician,

NEW YORK, January 16.-swing-
ing up to the highest level since early
1880. commodity prices continued in
the grip of the heaviest industrial de-
mand in many years this week.
The upward drive that has carried
the Associated Press weighted index
OF IS wholesale commodities up IL per
cent in little more than two months
however, lost some of its impetus.
The important food and farm prod
ucts were mixed, with lower prices pre-
dominating.
The index, led by sharply advancing
non-ferrous metal quotations, pushed
ahead to 9036 per cent of the 1925
average, compared with 90.16 week
ago and 1928 in the same period last
year.
Copper Climbs Cent.
Copper rushed up another cent a
pound during the week, carrying the
index to a six-year peak. In somewhat
less-enthusiastic vein, antimony. tin
and zinc were boosted. This index
has risen ~ per cent in the past six
weeks.
The fast pace set by heavy industry
during 1896 was credited by most an
alysts with causing the current short
age in many lines that has played 50
big q part in recent gains.
A compilation by the Standard Sta
tistics Co. indicated capital goods out
put last year rose 81 per cent, while
consumer goods lines picked UP but II
per cent.
This has combined with worldwide
drought and restriction agreements
between monopolistic foreign pro-
ducers of such items as rubber, tin and
cocoa to bring world stocks to the
lowest level in years.
Lumber Again Rises.
Lumber moved up another notch,
with the West Coast shipping strike
the most important factor in the up
turn. Hides and rubber also were
higher, while bituminous coal and tur-
pentine dipped.
Textile prices marched ahead to new
highs, cotton cloth and silk both i'm
proving.
Agricultural staples were slightly
higher, the index chalking up a new
top. Corn, wheat, oats and cotton con-
Cured in the rise. Rye dipped slightly.
Live stock prices were generally lower.
Food items slumped as supplies out
weighed demand in certain heavily
weighted commodities. Eggs. sugar.
lard and butter slid OF. Cocoa and
cofiee-both foreign-controlled sta
ples-moved into new high ground.
The index, with its components,
comDared as follows:
Evening star., 1937-01-17

tion for the East
ern r gion al
Con I e renee of
B ank Auditors
and Controllers,
to be held here
on April % and
"a, Millard Yeat-
man, chairman
of the section re-
ported yesterday.
1t is expe C t e d
that $50 men,
bers of the ma
tional association
will attend, rep
resenting banks
along the entire
Eo efarv, Caohoorl
Evening star., 1937-01-17
Sugar Consumption Climbs
$4,000 Tons or More IN 1896

Federal sugar experts said the De-
cember figures from the sugar cane
mills should push the national total
well ahead Of the previous year.
Deliveries for the last two years,
computed today by the A. A. A. from
preliminary telegraphic reports. showed
refiners supplied 4.43s,017 tons in
1896 and 4,444, ,429 in 1885: beet fac
tories, 1.a7s,267 and 1.478.753. and
importers, 7l5,483 and 6l4.589.
Stocks held by cane sugar refiners
as 1887 started were reported at 1884,
1872 tons Of raw, an increase Of 41,2l6
tons, compared with a year earlier,
and 270,566 tons Of refined, an In
crease Of 5,992.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
CURRENCY REFLECTS
PERUVIAN RECOVERY
ny the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LIMA, January ia steady rise
in the value Of the Peruvian sol was
ascribed by officials here today to
considerable improvement in Peru's
financial and economic situation, and
to increased gold production.
Quotations today were at the rate
Of 3.s8 soles to the dollar (approxi-
mately 25.755 cents to the soD.
(There has been little movement in
the Peruvian currency recently in the
New York market. Quotations today
ranged between $500 cents to the sol
and $3.50 cents)
Evening star., 1937-01-17
B! the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, January 16.-The
Stock Exchange is getting ready to
tighten its entrance examinations for
those seeking membership in the ex-
change or partnerships in member
firms.
This conclusion was reached through
out the financial sector after study
of the letter sent this week by Charles
r. Gay, president, to members and
their partners.
Gay revealed Tie a1n0ding con.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
Exchange Prepares to Tighten
Membership Examinations

mittee which passes on qualifications
Of prospective partners had revised
its admission requirements, and that
the committee dealing with applicants
for membership has been working
to perfect its procedure" for their
examination.
The disclosure attracted attention
because it was conjoined with remarks
in which Gay reminded the exchange
members and partners Of their re-
sponsibilities to the public. which
amounted. he said, to q "fiduciary
relationship"
Evening star., 1937-01-17
JOINS INVESTMENT FIRM.

NEW YORK, January Is R.-
Washburn & Co., Inc, investment
bankers, Of Boston announced Sh>-
win c. Badger had become associated
with their New York office. He for
merly was editor Of Barrons and an
editorial writer on the Wall Street
Journal.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
Bs the Associated Press.

The Agriculture Department esti-
mated yesterday that sugar consump-
ton in this country increased $4,000
tons or more last year above 1885.
The Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
reported that deliveries
Of refined sugar by refiners. beet fac
tories and importers, totaled 6.532, ,767
short tons. raw value, for 1896. This
was 5,004 less than in 1885.
A. A. A. spokesmen said, however.
these totals did not include the pro-
duction of Louisiana and Florida sugar
cane mills, which in the first IL months
of 1896 was 124,32l tons of refined,
compared with 60,552 tons in the same
1885 period.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
PRUDENTIAL PURCHASES
WESTERN PACIFIC ISSUE

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 16.-Pru-
Dental Insurance Co. Of America was
the high bidder. at 100.34 per cent,
for 81. $40, 900 Of Western Pacific Rail-
road Corp. 3 per cent equipment trust
certificates,
Evening star., 1937-01-17
Position Regarded as Step
Toward Presidency of
Association.
REPORTS TO BE HEARD
AT Meeting TOMORROW
Raymond G. Marx, Riggs Control
Ter, Selected as Chairman of
Auditors Section.
BY EDWARD C. STONE,

Archibald McIachlen, secretary and
treasurer of the McLachlen Banking
Corp, has been appointed general con-
vention chairman of the nineteenth
annual conclave of the District Bank
ers' Association, to be held at White
Sulphur Springs. w. Va. the last Of
Evening star., 1937-01-17
OIL BURNER ORDERS
WELL ABOVE YEAR AGO
~ tie Associated Press

BY TIE ASSocIated PreSS.
NEW YORK, January 16.-The Oil
Burner Institute has announced new
orders for domestic oil burners for the
first II months Of 1886 totaled 1S3, $50,
an increase of 40 per cent over the
like period of 1885 when orders totaled
131, ,686. Orders for distillate oil burn
ers during the same period totaled
384,113, a gain Of 81 per cent over
the 248,718 in the corresponding 1885
months.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
PURCHASE IS APPROVED.

NEW YORK, January Is R.-The
New York Stock Exchange announced
its Governing Committee has au-
thorized the purchase of 100000 OF
New York World Fair 4 per cent
debentures.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
RUBBER CONSUMPTION
WELL ABOVE 1885 MARK
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 16.-Con-
sumption of crude rubber by manu-
facturers in the United States during
1896, according to the Rubber Manu-
facturers' Association, is estimated at
573,522 long tons compared with 491,-
544 (revised) for the year proceeding.
Evening star., 1937-01-17

May, 1t was re-
ported yesterday.
The appointment, a
made by Presi-
d e n t K arl w.
Corby. was an
nounced by Vice
President Thomas
J. Groom.
This is the most
! m por t ant ap-
pointment in con-
nection with the
convention. His
committee aides
will be n a m e d
shortly. The new
81 airm an has
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-20
EVANGELIST OF
 HARLEM SOUGHT

New York, April 20-(UP)-Po- lice today broadcast an eight-state alarm for the arrest of Father" Divine, Harlem Negro Evangelist who calls himself God, on a charge of felonious assault in con- nection with the stabbing of a pro- cess server. At first, police said they wanted only to question Di- vine in connection with an attack on Harry Green, 37, of Weehawken, N. J., who was taken to a Harlem hospital in a serious condition after he attempted to serve papers on the Evangelist. Shortly afterward, however, a charge of felonious as- sault was filed against the Negro and numerous detectives were put on his trail.
 Green was stabbed In the abdo- men and beaten, police said. Sev- eral ribs were fractured. InveSti- gators said Green attempted to serve Divine while the bald headed Evangelist was conducting service for approximately 2,500 of his dis ciples in 8 Harlem Heaven" The process server was attacked, police said, and Divine disappeared during the confusion. Officers arrested three Negroes for questioning but were able to learn few details of the assault.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-20
|BOYLAN GIVEN SECOND AWARD
Sues Owners of. Auto The vOIved = City Valves
 Rights on Conditions

The City of Waterbury today waived any rights to funds received by James Boylan in civil action against Hartford and New Britain defendants, although BoyIan had previously received more than 9l,. 900 as compensation from the city on the same grounds. In return Boylan released the city from any further responsibility for medical or hospital treatment of his injuries.
 Boylan was injured August 3l, 1884 while working for the city. The city gave him partial award by stipulation on May 1, 1935, which amounted to $l,O95.6o. Only recently Boylan settled his suit against the operators of the cars that injured him, for $275. The action had been brought in the court of common pleas. Attorney Patrick Healey apr peared for Boylan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-20
Cupid Working Overtime For New June Mark

The '1Ove bird" was definitely at large over the weekend, from the number of marriage intentions filed a& the office of the town clerk. Here they are, nine in all:
 Frederick A. VOlman, Prospect, Elizabeth M. KOhlstrunk, Pied- mont street extension.
 George J. Buscher, 3sO West Main street; Grace M. McCabe, New Haven.
 John Vechione, 61 Railroad Hill street; Anna DeBrigida, Scott road.
 Felix DiChiara, 20 Railroad Hill street; Elizabeth Ranaudo, 394 Baldwin street.
 Victor ,. Meskunas, 9l Congress avenue; Nell Lusas, 151 Charles avenue.
 Joseph Polletta, 15 Bergin street, Mary c. Basile, II Bergin street.
 Joseph w. Senesas, 17 Jacobs street; Emma CharrOux, 27 Ray mond street.
 Thomas F. Moher, 191 Hillside avenue; Anne !H. Guarrera, .10S Walnut street.
 Charles Mastropietro, 537 North Riverside street; Angela C0lella, 92 Congress avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-20
Daughter Named

The will of the late Frederick U. Higgins, filled in probate court today, leaves hte entire estate to a daughter, Freda. The document, drawn July 5, 1917, was executed before the late Judge Michael J. Byrne of pro- bate court.
 Under the will the estate was to be divided into three parts, with two parts going to MT. Higgins wife, Lillian, and the remaining third to the daughter, Freda. However, Mrs. Higgins predeceased her husband and the will provided that in that case the entire estate should go to the daughter.
 MT. Higgins died April II.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-20
|THREE STRIKES MAY BE SETTLED
They Have Been Going on in New England for
 Several Weeks

Boston, April 20-CUP)-Three New England strikes neared settle ment today. At Clinton, where strike of 37O to $50 employees has crippled work at the Colonial Press, Inc, President l.. M. Adams agreed to abandon his plan to move the plant to New York and will submit "the entire labor disagreement. to a federal labor department con- ciliator.
 In Providence, R. l., the Vesta Underwear company, where several hundred workers struck three weeks ago for higher wages, shorter hours and union recognition, announced willingness to draft @ temporary agreement after State Chairman Joseph Salerno of c. I. O.'S textile workers organizing committee de- layed bringing charges before the national labor relations board.
 One in Providence Another settlement 1oomed in Providence in the machinists' strike in the jewelry industry. Officials of the American Federation of La- bor's International Machinists as- sociation deferred bringing charges to the labor relations board against manufacturers and announced that they expected 8 federal concilia- tor to arrange immediate negotia- tion.
 A showdown in the Hathaway Shirt company strike at Waterville, Me, is expected tomorrow with ar- rival of Federal Conciliator Anna Weinstock and Regional Director A. Howard Myers of the national labor relations board. They are ex- pected to poll workers on whether o. I. O.'s Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, sponsors of the strike, or the Independent Shirt Makers associates should represent workers in collective bargaining.
 In Lewiston and Auburn, Me, where c. l. O.'s United Shoe Work CTS of America has called "gen- eral strike" among 500 shoe work CTS, a man was arrested after win- dows were smashed in 8 non- strikers home.