Evening star., 1939-08-15
Columbia Gas Nets
d Cents a Share in
Six Months
Profit Contrasts With
Is Cents q Shore for
Same 1888 Period

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-Columbia
Gas & Electric Corp. and subsidi-
aries today reported net income for
the six months ended June 30 at
s8,513, ,145, or 43 cents share on
the common stock, compared with
$6,333 ,90l. or Is cents a common
share, in the same period last year.
Earnings for the year ended June
80 were $12 2,409 99l, equal to 40 cents
a share on the common, against SILL
1886, or 43 cents a share, in the
preceding II months.
In the June 80 quarter net profit
totaled 50 2,980.470, or II cents a share,
compared with 1884. .104, or cents
share, in the 1888 quarter.
Columbian Carbon.
Columbian Carbon Co., manufac-
turers of carbon blacks and inks, re-
ported consolidated net profit for the
six months ended June 80 of $685.
599, equivalent to $304 a common
share, against $1,377072, or $2.56 a
share. in the first half last year.
Indicated earnings for the June 80
quarter were 5000, ,721, equal to s1.50
a share on the common stock, COM
pared with $669,917, or $l24 a share,
in the same period year ago.
Duplan Silk Corp.
Duplan Silk Corp, manufacturers
of silk and rayon fabrics, with prin-
cipal plants in Pennsylvania, re-
ported net income for the fiscal year
ended May 81 of $420,182 or $103
per common share, against 1881 ,436
or 70 cents share, the year before.
Greyhound Corp.
Greyhound Corp, national bus
transportation system, reported con-
solidated net income for the six
months ended June 30 at ST ,992 1897,
or II cents common share, COM
pared with $1.483. .628, or 50 cents a
share, in the 1888 period Net in
come for the first half of the year
included S75,2l6 interest in earnings
of Exposition Greyhound, operating
buses at the New York Worlds Fair.
Pepperen Manufacturing Co.
Pepperell Manufacturing Co,
makers of textiles, with plants in
New England and the South, showed
preliminary net profit for the year
ended June 80 of S87l 900, equal to
1896 share on the common stock,
compared with net loss of 1876, 1863
in the preceding year.
Central & Southwest.
The Central & Southwest Utilities
Co. and subsidiary companies report
earnings for the three months ended
June 80, 1889 after deducting divi-
dends requirements on preferred
stocks of subsidiary companies held
by the public of $704,11692, COM
pared with S509,91316 for the cor
responding period of last year; also
Sl,274,737.5 SO for the first six months
OF this year, compared with $1,OO4,-
595.24 for the corresponding period
Of last year.
United Public Service.
The United Public Service Corp.
and Kentucky Power & Light Co..
subsidiary company, in a consoi-
Gated statement, report net income
OF S14,92902 for the three months
endedtJune 80. 1899, compared with
S,477'76 for the corresponding pc
ROD OF last year; also S23 .43 for
the first six months of this year.
compared with Sl5.9977O for the
corresponding period of last year.
American Public Service.
The American Public Service Co
and subsidiary companies report net
income of S162,983.l5 for the three
months ended June 30. 1899. COM
pared with s92,O61.23 for the cor
responding period of last year; also
s247.615.93 for the first six months
OF 1899, compared with s182 1862 "a
for the corresponding period of last
wear