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SCHOOL ESSAY
CONTEST OFFER
The Subject: "Wings Across
America"-Many Prizes
Are Offered
NATION AIR MAIL WEEK

wings Across America" is the
subject of a nation wide school es-
say contest announced by James
]. Cahill, State Chairman, who has
just received the Rules and Regu-
tions koverning this contest from
Paul R. Younts, Executive Chair
man. The essays are to be based
on the progress, dependability and
future possibilities of this method
of modern communication. State
Chairman James ]. Cahill is end
ing every post Office in Delaware
a supply of the Rules and Regu-
lations' governing this contest
which will, without doubt, create
more interest in aviation than has
ever been known in the nation as
every high school pupil in America
has an even chance to win one of
more than a hundred valuable priz-
es, including some fifty air plane
trips to Warrington, Hollywood or
Miami
Who Are Eligible to Enter Contest
Mr.. Cahill states that every high
school pupil or those having high
school curricula in Delaware are
not only eligible to enter this con-
test but are urged to do so. The
prizes are certainly worth trying
for. Here are the prizes: There
will be two prizes for some bright
boy or girl in every state Of the
UnUion. The first state prize to
be an airplane trip from the win
ners nearest airport to Washington
and return. The second state prize
will be a trophy to be presented by
the Delaware Air Mail Week Cam
paign Committee.
The Grand Prizes
The essays Of pupils winning a
trip to Washington and return will
be. entered in a National contest
in which the winner will be given
an airplane trip with expenses paid
for five days from Washington to
Hollywood The second National
prize will be trophy, while the
third National prize will be
plaque to be presented by the Ma
tional Air Mail Week Committee.
Mr.. Cahill states that the basis for
judging essays will be on origin
ality of ideas so per cent, contin-
uity and construction 25 per cent,
spelling and punctuation and neat
ness 25 per cent. All essays are
to be certified by the school prin-
cipal as to the eligibility of the
contestant. Essays must be post
marked not later than midnight,
May 1, 1888, and addressed State
Chairman National Air Mail Week
Contest" in care Of your local
Postmaster. All essays winning
either in the States or National
contests will become the property
Of the Committee for use in
prompting the growth Of aviation.
Mr.. Cahill is very anxious that
every school pupil eligible in Della
ware should enter this contest.
For further particulars or a copy
Of the "Air Mail Week Contest
Rules and Regulations" see either
your school principal or your post
master for the contest will close
at midnight, May 1. 1t is believed
that every ambitious boy or girl
eligible in Delaware will enter this
unique contest.
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plete feeling of exhileration felt by
all the students of this school.
Now, let Spring come; it will be
met with all the pent-up emotions
encompassed in the body of every
pupil.
There are now, only small re
sponsibilities, such as Alcohol
Themes, Term Papers and still
less significant details to be polish
ed off.
Freedom and liberty, are oursl
Priscilla Collins
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Aftermath

lis done. No more worrying,
sleepiess nights, or nightmares.
once more one can talk sensibly-
10y answer questions with part of
one 3 mind on declamations or use
ueclamations as the sole subject of
conversation. Another epic of
oehooi is finished. 1 know / do not
ana cannot express here the COM
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er, sanitary sewer and storm sew
er systems at Milford Ten bids
were opened by Milford Council at
a special session. Councilmen said
this contract called for the en-
ployment of more labor than the
other projects in the municipal i'm
provement program.
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Attention! orobestra
a'1 11pg9th.rhile gtas activities. gIae,-
h ,,'rs NJ, during the Assem- assem-
b E'l,r R,'Is i basketball games. afSer
11n u i nd On many 2 tnsi
h. al'r vel known fact ..anoI tnai
IL : " without our scho0i
]. !. such an important
! : !, !. : ,saOol, shouldn't the
- ss,s the proper equlP
/, a',f s,.iIitiss to make Their
| more slcVeo- ..,tr,,ments
s,,s,e instructor, but tney
s,,r:. Did you ever see {
s,sd without uniforms
N should the John e.
Il. School Band be an ex /
La .,king the School to
q !, ,nvone to give them
ne are tryms y .,on.
n We think is 2 gooo p-an,
| |sIing magazines EVERY
~ - !, andeavoring to
[rsv tOr the band by sell
sfpss issued by the Cur
tshing Company
I sell you an interesting
magazine Or re-
4 subscriptions.
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Dover Firm Low Bidder

George and Lynch, of Dover,
was low bidder at $50, ,9S0.34 on the
contract for extensions to the wat
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Mrs. Leona Short, wife Of John
NJ. Short, of Georgetown, sustain
ed a fracture of the left shoulder
Thursday afternoon as result of
a fall from the porch of her home.
She was taken to the Milford Tn
ergency Hospital for treatment.
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Fiect Nearing Completion

lect Nearing COmpieIl0n
Be AIR. clubs gas
POpey', is in the final
construction. We are
doping the ship and
it in the air within
weeks. The engine
g gear have not yet been
the landing gear is
is at the present time
|pon be attached to the
shts for the plane will
q
3 conducted On the ath-
with limited fuel alto
We shall probably have
egular fights in a larger
f1er to eliminate the
collision with a fence OF
This by the way, is one
sst worries Of the build
a head-on collision
ba6ly destroy the engine
y damage the model.
members are confident
lds ship will fly success
y working hard to have
sometime in April! 50
L, will you?
Reynolds Jones
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DR.. Benjamin B. Peters, 76-year-
old physician, was found dead in
his Christiana home recently, a
bullet wound in his right temple
and a revolver beside him on the
bed. Coroner William Smith, Jr.,
said that circumstances pointed to
suicide.
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Notice To Taxpayers

The Kent County Assessment for 1898 will be
hung in the following places for the inspection,
before April 10, 1885, and will remain there until
the appeal days are over:
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NsrcL, CitOyons

N the Seniors Of the high
kTs had a benefit movie,
n ! series Of attempts to
Eeylin sufficient amounts
Washington trip.
kshts the Roxy Theatre
Swing Your Lady" a
comedy starring Louise
and Humphrey Bogart
tlng the currently popu-
Apple Tree"
II benefit will be a mar
boE on April 6. This will
tlcatiOnal feature for all
yOu for supporting our
| Dorothy Attix
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BRIEF ITEMS OF
THE PENINSULA
Brief News Items of People
We Know i'm and Around
Larger Peninsula Towns
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

Rising Sun and Lebanon w. G..
T. u. met at the home of Mrs.
Frank Richardson on Tuesday,
April 5th, at o'clock. Text
word Onward" Members were
asked to bring their budget en-
velopes.
The Delaware Industrial Acct
dent Board will meet at IL o'clock
TODAY. THURSDAY, in Dover for
hearing in the case of John Mills
VS.. short and Walls Lumber Com
pany on the question of medical
services.
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Subscribe to The Smyrna Times
S1.50 per year, in advance.
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tfom the Diary Of a
Fishing Lure

Il Taken off tbo
I aOus many others.
'etler than the others
r.1ont ~. have been chos-
IN Gp and sent to some
dOnn Smith, osh-
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Warren Bensinger, "a, of Will
mington, was killed recently, and
his companion injured when the
motorcycle he was driving crash
ed into the side of a car driven by
L. Weldon McComas, of Owen
Mills, between Rising Sun and
Conowingo, Md.
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Mrs. Hazel E. Cobb, At, of Will
mington, died in the Wilmington
General Hospital recently several
hours after having swallowed six
poison tablets. Coroner William
Smith, Jr., said the case was one
of suicide. ?
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COnoWmgO, Mo.
Speaking before the Georgetown
New Century Club recently on the
subject, Conservation of State
Forests" w. S. Taber, superin-
tendent of the state Forestry De
partment, stressed the necessity of
a campaign of education through
out the State on conservation.
Preliminary work on the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company's S15,-
900 automatic safety gates at
Frogtown crossing has been com
pleted. The gates will be so con-
structed as to permit cars caught
between them to drive out, but
will not permit other cars to enter.
The changeable weather is CIV
ing fruit growers their annual
headache" Visions of late sleet
storms, frost, even arctic blasts
haunt them as balmy days with
temperature in the 70s and sos
brings out blossoms. Many peach
trees are in bloom. Pear and ap-
pie buds are swelling.
The end of high tides flooding
Red Lion Causeway, near Della
ware City, is in sight with the
State Highway Departments deci-
sion to go ahead with repairs to
the river bank in the Quigley farm
area, between the mouth of Red
Lion Creek and the Delaware Ray
on plant below New Castle.
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not know how it will work out.
Treasury Secretary Morgen-
thau's announcement pointed
out twice in the course of its
three short sentences that the
step had been preceded by only
three days negotiation. He
could also have said the first in
timation he had of the move
came only six days before it was
conSummated. Instead Of TAX
ing the matter up with him di-
rectly. the French government
then got hold of the American
financial attache in Paris and
told him what was contem-
plated.
This seemed to be rushing
things amazingly upon such an
important step, which really was
primarily necessary only because
the French have to find some
more money to pay for their
new deal.
Nor is there any assurance
In the best official viewpoint
here that this will be the last
French devaluation.
The French government says
30, but everyone knows it may
not be long before they have
to tap the till again.
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RETA TO RETURN
TO FOSTER HOME

Reta Lowell, 18-year-old unwed
mother who was found by the
washington Times while police
were conducting a nationwide
search for her, is to be given her
eight-weeks-old baby son and re
turned to the home of her foster
mother in New York.
The girl yesterday pleaded
guilty in Greensboro. N. c.. to a
charge of illegally surrendering' =
the baby to Watson futile, a
truck driver who had picked her
UP while she was hitch-hiking.
She was ordered to pay the court
costs.
Tuttle, who also entered a tech
meal plea of guilty to a charge of
separating mother and child, has
agreed to pay the costs.
Miss Lowell accused a young sol
dier at Fort Myer of being the
father of the baby, but he refused
to marry her.
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1000 MEET HERE.
TOOPEN SESSION
OF B'NAI BIRTH.
TrienniaI Convention
Closes Thursday

Approximately !, 900 members of
B'nai Birth, international fra
ternal organization, are in Wash
ington to attend the triennial
convention beginning today, in
the Willard Hotel. The conclave
will last through Thursday.
The program will open with
registration of delegates at 7:30
tonight. The convention will be
called to order at 10 a. m. tomor-
row by President Alfred M. Cohen,
of Cincinnati, following which an
address of welcome will be de-
livered by Elwood H. Seal, cor
poration counsel.
DIR. PELZMAN TO SPEAK
The Rev. Abram Simon. pastor
of the Washington Hebrew Con-
gregation, will deliver the invoca-
ton. DR.. Ivy A. Pelzman, presi-
dent of Argo Lodge, District
branch, will speak. Business SEES
Sions tomorrow will be devoted to
the appointment of the creden-
tials and rules committees.
Members of the organizations
and the ladies auxiliary will be
guests of the local organization
at a supper and entertainment at
10 p. m. tomorrow, at the Club
Troika.
Speaker William B. Bankhead
will give an address at the ban
quet Monday night. James Roose-
welt will deliver message from
the President. Secretary of Treas
ury Henry Morgenthau, jr., and
a number of members of Congress
will be among the guests.
REPORTS MONDAY, TUESDAY
At the business sessions of the
convention Monday and Tuesday,
reports will be made on the &C.
tivities of B'nai Birth during the
past three years, including the
work of the Authorization
League, the Hillel cultural in the
colleges, charity reports, and re-
ports on contributions to organi-
cations whose work includes the
care of Jewish refugees in PaleS-
tine.
Election of officers is scheduled
for Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON PRODUCE

11%15Os, 9Oc0$1; SO-1OOs. $1.25@1.S5;
wasy SO aS:, as to size; Delicious u.
Golden Delicious, 118-168s. 75c Qsl; So
zoos, $1.25@1.6O: Romes, 113-13Ss $40
Ito; 72-100s, $1.2501.75; C Grade: De-
licious. 75c@$1, as to size.
Asparagus-No carlot arrivals: no cars
on track. Supplies light; demand moder-
ate; market slightly stronger. Pyramid
crates. dozen lunches: New Jersey, very
large size, $2Q2.25: large size. $l.7562:
medium to large size, $1.5O@1.75:
sizes, &1.2501.5O
Cabbage-No carlot arrivals; no cars
on track. Supplies moderate: demand
moderate; market steady. South Caro-
lima, 1l4-bushel hampers Domestic Round
type. 4OQ5Oc.
Celery-No carlot arrivals; broken
cars on track. Supplies moderated: de-
mand moderate; market steady. Florida.
Florida standard crates and 1s-inch
crates trimmed tops &2@2.5O: few
Lettucs-Two California arrived; 3
broken and unbroken cars on track.
SUPPLIES moderate; demand moderate;
Western crates Iceberg type. 5-dozen.
S5.5o@6: 6-dozen, $4.25@4.5O; South
Carolina, Eastern crates. Iceberg type
S2@2;5O; few wasty. $1.5OQ1 rs; North
Carolina. 5-peck hampers. Big Boston
Onions-Three Texas arrived: broken
and two unbroken cars on track. Sup
piles moderate: demand moderate: mar
ket. weaker. Texas, 5O-pound sacks. yell
low Bermudas, U. s. commercial, $3.50
@1.6O.,
Peas-No carlot arrivals; 1 broken car
on track. Supplies light: demand mod
crate; market about steady. South Caro-
@75 cents.
Strawberries - Truck receipts liberal;
demand moderate; market stronger Nor
folk section. Virginia. 24-quart crates.
various varieties s4@5; few low as $3.50.
rious varieties, 1905: mostly S404.75.
.; North Carolina. 4-quart crates. va
hious varieties. $3@5: mostly s4@475.
P"tat"es-Old stock: One Maine ar
rived; l broken car on track. Relief:
One Maine arrived: l unbroken car on
track. 10O-lb. sacks, L. s. No. l: Maine.
Green Mountains. $14O01.50: Idaho.
Russet fairbanks, $1.75@2; New stock:
One Florida arrived: broken and 8
unbroken cars on track. Florida, dou-
Ble-hesd barrels spauldng Rose. u. =.
No. !. 1925 $50: Katahadns y. s. No
!. $3.25 $50; Alabama. busheI crates
Bliss TriumphS, u. s. No. /. $4.25. Sup
plies moderate; demand moderate; mar
ket steady.
Sweet Potatoes-No carlot arrivals; no
cars on track. Supplies moderate de-
mand slow; market weaker. Bushel
baskets: North Carolina, Nancy Halls
5c@$1; Puerto Ricans. 75@35c.
Tomatoes-Three Florida arrived:
unbroken cars on track. Supplies mod
crate demand moderate: market steady.
Florida. lug boxes. ripes and turning
wrapped. 6x6, $15O@1.75; few, 81; SKI.
81 25615O.
Mixed Vegetables-One Texas arrived
1 broken on track.
Snap Beans-No carlot arrivals: 1
broken car on track. Supplies moderate
demand moderate; market weaker. Flor
ida, Georgia and South Carolina. bushel
hampers green, flat type. $1@1.25;
Round Stringless. $161.25, few higher.
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take the initiative for lifting
the Spanish embargo. But, after
all, the war is about over, and
the liberal-radical crowds have
been making faces at the New
Deal, so it might be found politi-
cally expedient to let the Nyc
resolution, lifting the embargo,
go through Congress.
In situations like this, Mr.
Roosevelt usually plays dead
officially, while unofficially en-
couraging his liberal friends to
60 ahead and change his policy.
If there is really any wide
spread interest in the matter
outside the interested pressure
groups. it is not apparent here.
Half the kilograms showing upon
the House Foreign Affairs Chair
man McReynolds came from
Brooklyn and other parts OF
New York city.
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Gardens Opened
In Georgetown

Today is the last day George.
town gardens will be open to the
public. For the benefit of the
Georgetown Children's House, the
following will place their gardens
on exhibition from 1870 to $50
p. m:
Mrs. F. L. Belin, Evermay
1923 Twenty-eighth st. N. w; Mrs
Herman Hollerith, 1917 Twenty
ninth st. N. W.: Mrs. Robert Allen.
1925 Twenty-eighth st. N. W.; Will
liam H. Taylor, 1881 Twenty-eighth
st. N. W.; Mrs. John Ihlder, 2811
P st. N. W.; Miss Katharine Dou.
gal, 5000 P st. N. W.; Miss Lucy
Bentley, 2918 P st. N. w.; Mrs.
Walter Peter, 1927 N st. N. W.;
Mrs. Henry Leonard, entrance on
Thirty-first st. N. w., and Mrs
Harold Walker, 1924 Thirtieth st.
N. w.
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WGge-Hour Fight

THE wage-hour maneuverS now
l. appear to be centering in
side a clear-cut effort by North
ern manufacturing legislators to
abolish cheaper competition in
the South.
A private poll made by legisla-
tive leaders a few days back in
dictated then that 26 of the %
New England Representatives,
for instance. would sign the petit
ton for the new bill on the
ground that it eliminates lower
wage differentials for the
South. Nineteen New England
ers voted against the bill last
timeO
This may be only temporary
phase of the fight, however. Re
gardleSs of what the House does,
all factions know the Senate
will never avoid a Southern fill
buster unless differentials are
allowed.
Thus the Republicans now
flocking to the House bill stand
an excellent chance to be caught
short in the final form of the
legislation-if it ever gets to a
final form.
DR.. Hugo Eckener might just
as we'll have saved his passage
money. The chance that tie
Administration will relent a 4
let Hitler have helium is re-
mote.
Two excellent political rea-
sons will continue to stand in
the way even if DR.. Eckener sue
ceeds in proving Hitler would
not use the gas for military
purposes.
No. /: Congressional elections
are at hand, in which the anti
Hitlerites far outweigh the po-
litically insignificant Nazis.
No. 2: The adamant Mr.. Ickes
has been tipped that Repub-
lican Senator Vandenberg has
a multiplying bill drafted and
ready for introduction the mo-
ment the Administration relentS.
In fact, the congressional bushes
are full of Republicans with bills
proposing to bar the shipment
in case Ickes authorizes it.
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P ROFIT-TAKING
DRIVES MARKET
DO WIN SLIGHTLY
List Rises in Early Trade
But Is Forced Lower
By LESLIE GOULD

NEW YORK, May Z 0NS).
Profit taking, attracted by yes.
terday's broad advance, turned the
stock market irregularly lower to.
day. The list had been up for a
time in the second hour, but sold
off easily in closing transactions.
CHANGES SLIGHT
Price changes in the majority Of
issues were of minor proportions,
with a number of leaders holding
on to small part of early gains.
Closing prices follow:
American Telephone 131, I'D "a;
American Water Works, 9A, up
u: Consolidated Edison 25h, off
%; Electric Power & Light 10H,
off "a; Allied Chemical 148, up g.;
American Can 88. up N; Amer
lean Smelling 80, off "a; Ana
conda Copper 1894, off u.
OTHER PRICES
Bethlehem Steel 48, off "a;
Chrysler 443s, off "a; Dupont
103A, off /; General Motors 80,
off "; Standard Oil of N. J. 491s,
off 70; U. S. Steel 441a, off 11s;
New York Central 1917, off "a;
Steel IA, off %; Radio
SIS, up 70; Atchison 28B, off %;
B. & o. 57s, off 70; Westinghouse
1872, off "a.
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PhiIoteIic
Falls Church Gets
Special Issue

FALLS CHURCH, Va, May T..
In observance of National Air
Mail Week, May 1921, the three
Falls Church post offices will use
a cachet showing the facade Of
the Falls Church, the historic
house of worship for which the
town was named.
The cachet will mark all letters
stamped for air mail during the
week, and also will be used to
stamp collectors covers. 1t will be
in use at the East Falls Church,
West Falls Church and town post
offices.
Postal officials said the Airing
ton post office also will use a Spe-
cial cachet for the week.
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disappointment Felt

DEGARDLESS of the rosy
~ announcements, you may
be sure:
(a) Both London and Wash
ington tried to talk the French
out of the move.
d. The whole thing has left
sharp inside disappointment
here that the tripartite agree
ment is working only for two of
the parties.
No one wants to see this none
tary game get into round OF
roodles with deuces and treyS
wild.
Phantom hands are stirring
the embargoneutrality soup
again. Plots and counter-plots
are being poured in so far no
one seems to know yet what it
will boil down to, if anything.
Behind the bestirrings seems
to be the guiding fact that
neither the President nor the
State Department is anxious to
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Many of the boys in this
group were members of the Cor.
onation Choir. All come from
the London Choir School,
founded by the conductor, Carl.
ton Borrow, to care for the
training and education of boys
for the choirs of London's
churches.
Mr.. Borrow is suborganist Of
the Chapel Of Savoy and it i'm
mediately became evident that
he is master of the best tradi-
lions of the English school
which, in this department, is
the most noted in the world.
The boys adde'i airs, duets, an
thems in several parts to the
service and intoned the Greed
and the General Confession. It
was a service remarkable for its
feeling Of reverence as we'll as
for its musical beauty.
The folk-Song festival begun
in Constitution Hall yesterday
is the sort of quaSi-educational
program which has been exhib-
tied in several cities during the
past three years. The town crier
of Provincetown, Mass, one
Amos Emanuel Kubik, who
made the initial announce
mentS, was an authentic accent
in the program. Provincetown
has had a town crier for 800
years.
The ballads and hymn tunes
by the group from the Kentucky
mountains. and especially the
lovely folk-song offered by Es-
ther Eugenia Davis of West Vir-
ginia, delighted all students of
Americana.
SUGGESTED
Too many numbers, however.
suggested the professional. The
Indians looked like stage In
dams, though their song was
sufficiently primitive to be con-
Vincing and their dances, not
ably those executed by children,
were generally liked. A Mexi-
can group was colorful and
confident and also had some
youthful dancers who were
much admired. The old fid-
dlerS' tunes, with banjo and
guitar accompaniment, or pre-
Sented without accompaniment.
were stirring, rhythmical and
quite definitely American. I'm
happily this phase of our folk
music has become so widely
current on the radio that it has
acquired a professional back
ground.
The square dancers from
Tennessee and South Carolina,
who employed these instrument
talists were animated and ex-
pert. The audience liked their
vigor and their precision which
seemed too disciplined for anna
teur effort.
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Bond Issue Value
Rises in Months

NEW YORK, May 7 Q.N.SD.
The New York Stock Exchange
reports that there were 1873 bond
issues aggregating $48.270,2 24,071
par value listed on May l, with
total market value of $42, 1898, 688,
1913 and an average price of 1882.
This compares with the same mum.
Der of issues with $48,36O,358,911
par value, SAL, 450,248,31l market
value and average price of 1911
on April l.