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Evening star., 1939-10-29
Erie Asks Injunction
To Save Property
By The Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, Oct. 28-Erie Rail-
road trustees today sought in FEEDER
al Court an injunction restraining
Attorney General David T. Wilentz
OF New Jersey from selling railroad
property to meet disputed tax delin-
quencies.
Attorneys for trustees of the road,
now in reorganization, said the petit
ton seeks to extend a general re-
stralning order granted a year and
a half ago.
The general order, issued after
the railroad entered reorganization.
enjoined AL persons from ievying
on properties of the company.
Wllentz, attorneys for the company
said, ignored this order on the
grounds it did not apply to him as
attorney general.
The delinquencies, disputed by the
railroad, total about 100000, an
Erie representative said.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
McGiII Staple Index
Steady During Week

Special Dispatch to The Star.
AUBURNDALE, Mass, Oct. 2S.-
Industrial commodity prices held
steady during the last full week end
ing in October. The Index of All
Commodities compiled by the McGill
Commodity Service declined to 1877
as against 742 a week earlier. The
lower index number was directly at
tributable to lower prices for live
stock.
OF the IA individual group classif-
cations comprising this index, three
were higher, seven lower. and four
unchanged from a week earlier.
In the Industrial Index declines in
hides and leather, paint materials,
fine textiles, and vegetable oils were
exactly balanced by advances in
fuels, paper and pulp, and coarse
textiles.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
KeIsey-Hayes Wheel
Earns $11,416 for
Third Quarter
Result Contrasts With
$780, ,634 Loss in
Same 1888 Period
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Oct. 28-The Kel-
sey-Hayes Wheel Co., Detroit, and
subsidiaries reported today for the
three months ended September 80
a net profit of $l1,416, equal to four
cents share on the class A stock,
contrasted with loss of $486, ,634 in
the comparable 1888 period.
Figured into the latest quarterly
income was $45,l99 profit on pur-
chase of the company's bonds and
debentures.
American Bank Note.
American Bank Note Co., for the
third quarter showed net loss of
$143,739 against profit of SAL ,403
equal to 46 cents share on the Sc
preferred, in the September quarter
last year.
Newport Industries.
Newport Industries. producer of
naval stores, with plants in the
South, reported for the nine months
ended September 80 net profit of
$265, ,S12. equal to 43 cents a share
on the capital stock, contrasted with
a net loss of s63 in the correspond
ing 1888 period
New York & Honduras.
New York & Honduras Rosario
Mining Co., for the three months
ended September 80 showed net profit
OF S237,645, equal to s126 a share
on the capital stock. compared with
S189, 1926, or $101 a share in the like
1888 period
Gannett Co.
Gannett Co. and wholly-owned
subsidiaries reported for the nine
months ended September 30 net
profit of s845, ,328 including equity
OF Gannett Co. in undistributed net
profits of controlled companies
which totaled $15l, 1923. This COM
pared with net profit of s746445 in
the comparable 1888 period.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
H. D. Barber Appointed
Erie Vice President
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 28.-The Erie
Railroad Co. announced today the
appointment of H. D. Barber, of
Jersey City, N. j., as vice president
in charge of operating and main
tenance, succeeding Robert E..
Woodruff.
Barber has been general man.
ager of the railroads Eastern dis
trict. AS vice president, he will
have headquarters in Cleveland.
His advancement followed the
appointment of Woodruff as trustee
by the United States District Court
on october 49, Woodruff was made
chief executive officer with jurisdic-
ton over all departments.
Evening star., 1939-10-29

portion is used for payment of rent,
insurance premiums, for amuse-
ments and travel and some is re-
turned to the banks and placed in
permanent savings accounts.
The number of bank patrons who
opened Christmas savings accounts,
but failed to keep up the payments
throughout the year, was about the
same as usual. To meet costs of the
extra bookkeeping, some Washing
ton banks place a 5O-cent charge
on all members who drop out of
the clubs.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Central New York
Power 10 Double
Plant Capacity
Additional 100000
To Be Spent on New
Generating Unit
BY the Associated Press.

OSWEGO, N. Y, Oct. 28.-Alfred
H. Schoellkopf, president of Niagara
Hudson Power Corp. announced
today the steam-electric generating
station under construction by Cen
trail New York Power Corp. will be
Immediately doubled in size.
A second turbo-generator unit
equal in size to the 10000 kilowatt
unit being installed, will double
capacity and cost an additional ST.
100000.
He said the two units are expected
to be as efficient as any in the
world and to produce a kilowatt
hour of electric energy for each
85/100 of pound of coal burned,
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Trade Climbs Sharply
In Third District
Iy the Associated Press.

BY The ASSOClated PreSS.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.-Retail
trade sales in the third Federal
Reserve district, including all of
Pennsylvania except extreme western
counties, increased per cent more
than usual from August to Septem-
ber, the Federal Reserve Bank re-
ported last night.
The report, compiled from repre-
sentative department, apparel. shoe
and credit stores. said the advance
for the third successive month went
to the highest level in the last two
years. Sharpest gains were reported
by shoe stores.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Changes Are Reviewed.

Savings deposits in trust COM
panies here show large gains over
1880 levels in contrast with declines
in savings banks and national banks.
Totals for savings banks, however,
have scored the sharpest increases in
the last five years. Totals of national
banks have registered smaller varia-
tons and are not far from 1890
levels.
1t is we'll to remember there were
II national banks in 1929 % savings
banks and trust companies. BY
1882, the savings banks had been re-
duced to II and the trust companies
to 5. In 1884 there were 9 national
banks, 8 savings banks and 5 trust
companies. or a total of %. which
are in operation at the present time.
Savings deposits in the three
classifications on fall bank call dates
IN various years, except 1886 and
1897, follow tadd 000):
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Refrigerator Sales Gain.


OF interest to the electric appli-
ance trade here is a report from the
Edison Electric Institute showing
that sales of household model elec-
trio refrigerators to dealers and Job
bers in the District of Columbia
climbed to 1919 units in the first
eight months of this year, compared
with 13,508 in the same 1888 period.
Sales to dealers in August, how
ever, totaled only 1850 against 1907
in the 1888 month, probably because
OF heavy orders placed in July, when
the sales total ran up to 1904.
Sales of domestic electric ranges
to dealers and jobbers here totaled
1919 in the first eight months of
this year. No comparisons with a
year ago were given. August sales
included 293 units against 218 in
the previous month.
Rail Travel Expands.
Railroad passenger traffic through
Union Station is averaging around
45 900 persons day, which is we'll
ahead OF the autumn average for
1929 or any recent year, railroad
officials report.
Autumn daily passenger averages
OF various years follow: $1,000 in
1929, 10000 in 1888, $4,000 in 1887,
10000 in 1888 and $4,000 in 1899.
Buying Power Higher.
The Capital continues to lead the
come per family, the magazine Sales
Management reports.
For the IL months ended July 81,
the magazine places the Districts
average at 1886, against $3,794 q
year ago.
These averages are higher than
for any other area and contrast
with q national average Of t2,1s6
currently and 5000 for . year ago.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Contrast With 1929.

Official reports to the controller
OF the currency on the October 2
call revealed further increases in
loans and discounts while holdings
OF Federal Government securities,
both direct and guaranteed, de-
creased.
However, the latest trend has not
gone far enough to modify to any
extent the tremendous change in
these two items from 1929 levels.
Holdings Rise Sharply.
Holdings of United States Gov
ernment obligations on October 2
amounted to 26.6 per cent of total
assets in contrast with the 1929
date when they amounted to only
7.8 per cent of assets.
Loans and discounts, Government
security holdings, and total bank as
sets on autumn bank call dates of
various years follow (add OOO):
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Nearly $5,OOO,OOO in Yu|e
Savings to Be Paid Here

Within the next 30 days, WASH
ington banks which maintain
Christmas savings clubs will dis
tribute between $4,5O0.OOO and S.
100000 to approximately 10000
members, Ord Preston, president of
the District Bankers Association,
announced yesterday.
Christmas savings funds always
give substantial lift to holiday
trade, bankers state, as most of the
money goes for the purchase of
Yuletide goods. At the same time a
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Receipts Of Tobacco
At DunviIIe Soar
By the Associated Press.

ASSUCIH FITSS.
DANVILLE, Va, Oct. 28.-Tobacco
poured into Danville today as moist
ure in the air made the leaf plant
for the first time in a week. The
warehouse district was jammed with
wagons as race to reach the first
sale warehouses began. The market
was expected to be filled to capacity
by sales time Monday.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Minor Joins Board
Of General Electric
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 28.-Clark H.
Minor, for IA years president of
international General Electric Co.,
yesterday was elected a director of
General Electric Co. He already
is director of many other for
eign companies affiliated with Gen.
eral Electric.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
New Mill Planned

WHEELING, w. Va, Oct. % (R.
"A new butt-weld mill to cost ap-
proximately $1,0OO,OOO will be con-
structed at the nearby Benwood
Mills of the Wheeling Steel Corp,
the firm announced today,
Evening star., 1939-10-29

ed $16,321,551.16.
q substantial
gain over SIS
556, 6,72l.58 in the
like 1898 pc
riod, it was re-
ported at head
quarters of the
big chain sys-
tenn here yes
terday.
Profits avail
able for the
common stock
a m o u n t e d to
$476,381.6 81, or
Evening star., 1939-10-29
D. 6. Securities

Quotations by Johnston. Lemon h COY
Yesterdays closing bid and asked quota.
lions on washington securities which are
'-aded over-the-counter follow:
Evening star., 1939-10-29

Also extra or extras
Quotations furnished by National Asso-
clatlon OF Securities Dealers. which states
they do not necessarily reflect actual trans
actlonS or firm bids or offers but should
indicate approximate prices
Evening star., 1939-10-29
W tadd 000) ::

Accounts Trend Shown.
The number of accounts in the
three classifications on autumn calls
OF various years follow:
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Big Sales Gain
Disclosed by
Peoples Drug
$1.94 q Share Earned
In 9 Months Against
$1.57 Year Ago

BY EDWARD c. STONE,
Net sales of Peoples Drug Stores,
Inc, in the first nine months of
this year total
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Insurance Stocks

NEW YORK. Oct % educational As
soclat.on Of Securities Dealers Inc:
Evening star., 1939-10-29
u. S. Treasury Notes

NEW YORK, Oct. % P-Prices quoted
In dollars and thirty-seconds
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Stocks Decline
Fractions 10 81
As Ra||yFai|s
Gains Among SteeIs,
Motors, Aircrofts
Soon Erased

What Stocks Die
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-13
How People Talk

When submarine sinks, with many living souls trapped beneath 240 feet of water, and telephone communication is finally established between the doomed ship and rescurerS on the surface, what sort of words pass along that wire? If you are romantic soul .: addicted to fiction, you envision some stirring business of Courage, comrades! We shall soon rescue you from that watery grave! Bear up be brave, help is coming"
 That isn't what really happens, how ever. The conversation between the com mander of the Sculpin, rescue ship, and the Sunken Squalus, has now been incor- porated into the report of Admiral Cole on the tragic event. The first words to pass over the line, from Lieutenant Wilkin of the Sculpin to Lieutenant Nicholas of the Squalus, were brief, to the point. They were exactly the words one might use in addressing an auto tourist stranded by the wayside.
 Said Lieutenant Wilkin to Lieutenant Nicholas: What is your trouble?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-13
Bank From Bankruptcy

Attorney General Murphy has plan to take the bank out of bankruptcy He recommends paying bankruptcy referees a salary instead of elastic fees. He may have something there. The bankruptcy situation comes close to being national scandal, and it is becoming truism that by the time bankruptcy officials and lawyers have been pried off the carcass of dead business, nothing but the bare bones usually remain for creditors Long delays, excessive expenses, inefficient management, ridiculous fees, have often made bankruptcy farce.
 Bankruptcy is never pleasant. But after all, the interests of creditor, owner, and employe ought to count most. It is hard to see why referee should not work on salary like anybody else, in- stead of on basis of all the milk that can be squeezed out of a dying COW.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-13

Should more come of the Levitt protest on the so-called judgeship ideals" it will be interesting to watch the proceedings. Action has to be brought in Hartford County, for that would be the place where any alleged violation of the in- volved statute would have taken place. This would mean that States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn, ST., would be the insti- gator of legal action. His son, Hugh M., JF is House MaoTy Leader cdGs and also He is also an Assistant State Attorney, as is also Representative Harold E. Nit chell, Judiciary Committee member, too. Another son, Howard Alcorn, was named judge in the Suffield Town Court
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-13
. HIGHLIGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS
When Rome Had A New Deal

H. J. Haskell, editor, Kansas City
 Star, has written a startling
 comparison of governmental re-
 form measures in modern Amer
 ica and ancient Rome. Typical
 of the interesting analogies MT.
 Haskell draws is the following
 from "The New Deal in Old
 Rome" (Knopf: $2.50).
 This essential policy of prudent spending by Tiberius brought on hard times which eliminated in the panic of A. D. s.. . Distressed debtors, perhaps stirred up by shy sters, began to prosecute their creditors for usury. There were so many cases that the government al- lowed a period of IS months in which offenders might adjust their affairs in accordance with the law. This precipitated a crisis because loans were called and land values collapsed. To bolster the market the Caesarian law was revived and len- ders were ordered to invest two thirds of their capital in Italian land.
 The effect of the edict was the direct opposite of what was in- tended. With falling market, rein- vestment in land was postponed for lower prices, and the collapse con- tinued. Thereupon the government set up a Home Owners Loan Cor poration, the modern HOLC It was authorized to lend distressed landowners five million dollars from the treasury, without interest for period up to three years. :.
 Two. more New Deal experi- ments come within this period. An Agricultural Adjustment Admin istration, the familiar AAA, was set up under Domitian, A. D. 91, and Farm Credit Administration, the FCA, fe wyears later under Nerva and Trajan. Italian farmers, espe- cially the big landowners. had found wine and oil more profitable than wheat. When vineyard cultivation was an infant industry the Italian farm bloc had been able to induce the government at various times to restrict the planting of vineyards in the provinces. Nevertheless provin- cial competition had continued. In the year 9l there. was Sbad wheat harvest and an oyer-production of wine. To stimulate the reduction of wheat and at the same time to pro- tect the vineyard interests, the de- partment of agriculture provided an AAA. In decree dthat no more vine- yards be planted fin Italy and that half the vineyards in the provinces be destroyed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-13

Tolls to be collected by the motorists using the Merritt Parkway will be col lected as soon as the bill becomes a law. Highway Commissioner William J. Fox plans to erect temporary gates" within the town limits of Greenwich at which the 10-cent levy will be collected. Fair field County residents who use the road daily will have a chance to save some money, for they will be eligible to buy season plates to be attached to their cars which will cost them $1O. This means a saving of about $50 for a man commut- ing daily between his Fairfield County home and New York. These special plates will be issued at the Motor Vehicle De- partment in Hartford Communication tic kets for shorter periods will also be sold. The toll station will be at least 4 or 5 miles from the N. Y. state line and motor ists coming into Connecticut can swing off the parkway before reaching the toll gate if they desire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-13

ences which Europe is now including with each and every sale as a dubious bonus.
 Bolivia, for instance, is one of the coun- tries subjected to a heavy German pressure at the moment Bolivia has tin. We need tin. Though we don't smelt tin much right now, there is no reason why we can't learn. Wisdom ir. the spending of this great fund can double its benefits to everybody concerned, both to the United States as buyer and to friendly countries as sellers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-13
DIR. MAHER'S SERVICE (Hartford TimeS)

Dr. Stephen J. Maher of New Haven had been connected with the organized effort to reduce the rav- ages of tuberculosis in Connecticut almost ever since there were such efforts. During his long career upon the state tuberculosis commission he had become one of the outstand- ing figures in the nation in this health effort, indeed had interna- tional recognition.
 Dr. Maher never lost the zeal of a pioneer in the field. He was con- stantly studying the disease, seeking new methods for its treatment and eradication. Veteran though he was. he was often so far in advance of fellow workers that they sometimes scoffed at his ideas.
 He was not, however, of the type to be dismayed by skepticism. The outstanding place which Connecti- cut holds in the treatment of tuber- culosis is largely owed to his con- stant search for fuller information and new means of attack, as we'll as to his leadership in organizing efforts against the disease whose toll has been so remarkably re- duced in the last generation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-13
Express Many Hidden Thoughts

Professor Albert Levitt of Bedding may mi pet very far with his demand that States Attorney Hugh M Alcorn of Hart ford County arrest members of the 1853 Legislature for what he alleges to pc trafficking" in judgeship appointments, but he certainly has struck a responsive chord. Perhaps we should have maoe It discord. The end of the legislative term with the consequent necessity ot Cover nor Raymond E. Baldwin naming OH cials in dozen or more courts on Wnlcn legislative leaders could not agree ooes not set too well on StomachS made ready for court reform.
 The Bedding independent and former federal judge at the Virgin lslanos ciallns that the General Statutes were violated. They are concerned with bribery of execu- five or legislative officers. The penalty for violation is a fine of not more than S2 900 or not more than 10 years in prison or both. So it can be seen that the law which MT. Levitt invokes regards the crime as a severe one. Whether or not he has any grounds on which to clam an actual violation of this statute Will only be revealed if the authorities see 1lt to take his complaint seriously.
 In all due respect to the Legislative leaders it might be said that the so-calleo i,1dgeship deals" in which they are Accused of participating this year were more or less conferences at which were drawn up slates of court officials that I,at would be acceptable to all groups in the Legislature and which would represent all groups. So far as the public knows V. there was no outside pressure brought Io force through appointments. It would be a very hard thing to prove such a clam as this.
 The fault lies with the system, as The Democrat continually maintains In these columns. Only complete minor court reform can end the complaints ana the criticism. Only reform will remove the stigma that many fine court officials or recent and long years standing in our Judiciary bear and are forced to su11er for the sins of the unqualified.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-13
IN NEW ENGLAND GARDENS (New Haven Journal Courier)

The yellow roses are out.
 Not the proud hybrids of patented fame, but grandmother's yellow roses not listed in catalogue, but found in old fashioned gardens precious with years of blossoming background. Those single sunny roses that gleam like sunshine on their ram- pant briary stems. The tall strag- gling bushes covered with flowers and the opening buds among the fine green leave~. Sunshine roses that make the perennial borders gay. Young summers yellow roses that come when the clove pink blooms and the lemon lilies mass their golden trumpets to herald per- feet days. Roses that match in color the yellow warbler singing his secret from the fragrant locusts. Roses that with abundant pollen lure the honey bee, until laden, it crawls out of a heart of gold to take to the June scented air Old English yellow roses transplanted long ago to old New England and responding to the new worlds touch with such tenacious hold that every struggling garden was transformed, as housewives carried roots from friend to friend.
 Yesterdays yellow roses still rnak- ing today's gardens gay with cher ished remembrance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-13
Use It Wisely

The bill providing for purchase of $100,- 100000 worth of Strategic and essential war materials has been signed by Presi- dent Roosevelt. It is possible to make every dollar of this fund work twice If 1t is wisely spent. It can be made to bring one benefit by securing the United States against possible wartime shortage of es- seutial materials. But 1t can be made to bring another if it Is srent in friendly countries in need of American exchange with which to buy American products. Specifically, it can bring greatest benefits ~ spent in American countries now Threatened with undue European com u<rc|4| influences and the political influ-