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Evening star., 1949-09-12
Business Briefs
Atlas Tack Corp. DELAYED

Atlas Tack Corp. delayed fin
ancial reports to stockholders and
the New York Stock Exchange
because the company hoped to
avoid confusion by not publish
ing reports until transactions with
Phoenix Apollo Steel Co. were
completed, declared President
Sherman H. BoWles.
United Air Lines flew an esti-
mated 139. .130,500 revenue passen-
ger miles in August, a gain of so
from the previous month and SO
above the same 1948 month.
Scott Paper Co. has boosted pro-
duction above the high rate of
the first six months of 1949 fol-
lowing the addition of new facili-
ties. Overall demand continues
to exceed output.
Revere Copper & Brass, Inc, re-
ported incoming orders for Re-
we're Ware since July Is are the
highest on record. Both retailers
and wholesalers are buying after
a period of inventory reduction,
said Vice President J. M. Kennedy
Ell Paso Natural Gas Co. earned
$5,098,110 or 1921 a share in IL
months ended July 81 VS.. $4,812,-
688 or $2.08 in the previous year
Consolidated Grocers Corp
profit for IL months ended June
80 was $2,506,032 or s2.71 VS.
s2,636,101 or $2.85 in the pre-
ceding fiscal period.
Nineteen Hundred Corp. earned
81 ,224,027 in six months ended
June 30 VS.. $1,709,900 a year
earlier.
BlOomingdale Bros, Inc, profit
for 26 weeks ended July 80 was
$506.251 or $1.52 VS.. $958,665 or
$3.03 in the like 1948 period.
National Battery Co. earned
$592. 900 or SLIT a share in three
months ended July 81, same as a
year earlier.
Pitney-Bowes, Inc, net income
for six months ended June 80 was
$757,054 or "a cents VS.. 1894 ,909
or 81 cents in the same 1948 Pc
riod.
National Airlines earned $38, 1868
or 4 cents share in IL months
ended June 80 VS.. a deficit of
81 ,946,040 in the previous year.
Northwest Airlines has estab-
llshed a new system under which
top priority cargo is given re-
served space and special handling
to speed shipments.
Philco Corp. officials revealed
that supplies of 1850 television
sets probably will have to be allo-
Gated for some time despite ex-
panded production.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. an
nounced the development of a
new silica pigment to permit the
manufacture of tough, strong
rubber products in all colors. For
merly they could be made only
in black.
National Used Car Dealers As.
ISOLATION elected O. D. McCollum
president; E. A. Addison, vice
president; j. c. Downing, secre-
tary; Louis E. Baker, treasurer.
Evening star., 1949-09-12
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO. Sept. IL ,R-soybeans put
on strong rally on the Board Of Trade
today after early weakness. Other grains
also climbed from low points, but the
rally did not hold up
Reports of widespread rains over areas
where where soybesns were about to be har-
cottonseed oil futures prices.
Commission house purchases brought q
rally in wheat, but offerings increased
On On tne upturn; Il was Ieported that
the September price, in store Galveston
for. wheat. This is a cent lower, than
tract here iell below the seasonal low
Large receipts led to early selling in
corn, which later rallied and then faded
At noon soybeans were q to 2 cents
higher than the previous finish, Novem-
Der 2.29A; wheat was W UP to W down,
September 2.06ss: corn was % to W OF,
-.-."nbe- I.26b: oats were v to VI
higher; september 69A., and lard was
z to ~ cents 2 hundred pounds higher,
September 1919.
Evening star., 1949-09-12
Chicago Livestock

G55eA9S 5s:s sfR! u sss!s e sassRs7;
IS to mostly so cents higher; instances
75 cents UP on weights 18O pounds and
los hsh5 sv tses. os4e spts Do1a, SS. :os
and choice l90-2sO pounds, 22. .O0-2S so;
17O-190 pounds, 2O.75-22 25: few 150-
10 pound. 19 l0-21 90; little in butcher
run over $50 pounds; few lots 30O-340
pounds. 20.50o2d so; good and choice
Sounds 1ss5eT7.75; odd head aGaseg ResSieT
sows down to around 1880; early clear
salable cattle. $4,000; salable calves,
300; very active; beef steers and heifers
5Soor So cents aS to 100 higher; some sales
cows COW. and bulls strong 70 50 cents hishsr:
TO prime 1.278-pound steers; several loads
high-choice steers, 80 50-3275; bulk
high-good and choice steers and year.
links, 29.5o-32 OF; bulk highmedium and
medium steers: i7eoeS5 90; 'UOH ioad choice oee
Choice heiters ss5esSoo: SS 0ss sood oG00 cows ana
14.75-17o0: cannes and cutters, 1856
1900; medium and good sausage bulls,
sosFers s1S and and :hess aeeSrs vsseT sIen
70 80 cents higher six loads good 75o-
900 pound Montana feeding steers. $50.
Salable sheep, 1000; practically moth
ing done on native slaughter lambs early;
bidding weak to- so cents lower, or "a. so
Western eS ssTinss steady at sses
decks Westerns, 900; most natives $50
down with heavies and bucks 500.
Evening star., 1949-09-12
AT. Holders Rush
Conversions 10 Get
October Dividend
NEW YORK, Sept. u (NANA)

NEW YORK, Sept. IL (NANA) &.
Stockholders of the American
Telephone g. Telegraph Co. who
exercised their right to subscribe
for 3hs per cent debentures last
May and June are converting these
debentures in large numbers in or
der to have additional shares re-
corded in their names for the
dividend due on October Is.
That dividend will be paid to
stock Of record September Is. so
that is the deadline for CONVEX
sions looking toward the October
Is payment of $225 a share on
the stock. The holder of each
$100 debenture will, upon payment
of $50 in cash, receive one share
Of stock, but the actual amount to
be paid is somewhat greater than
$50 because Of the adjustment of
accrued dividend and interest.
The converting debenture holder
receives credit for interest from
June 20 to the date Of conversion,
but he is debited with the dividend
accrual. A typical example of how
this works out is the case of a
holder of $500 of debentures who
turned in the bonds Thursday
with $3.50 in cash to obtain six
additional shares of stoc.!.: The
difference between the accrued
interest credit and the accrued
dividend debit was $6.o4. This is
the additional sum the investor
would have to pay.
The 3h per cent debentures,
issued last June to the record
amount of $394.372. 900, became
convertible on September /. In
the first two days Of the CONVEX
sion period approximately $38,0o0,-
900 were converted into 100000
shares of stocks upon payment
of about $11 100000 in cash.
That large amount in two days
exaggerates the eagerness of small
debenture holders to increase their
next dividend payment. 1t includ-
ed the completion Of many pro-
fessional trades Of debentures
against the stock for a month or
so before the conversion right be-
came active. These trades are
known in the financial community
as arbitrages.
During the summer brokers who
are now required to pay stock ex-
change commission found some
profit in the purchase Of the de-
bentures and an immediate sale
of stock for delivery on or after
September /. The arbitrages were
aided either by borrowing stock
for immediate delivery or by SELL
ing stock with the stipulation that
delivery would be made after Sep
tember !.
Evening star., 1949-09-12
Produce Markets

Apples---Market dull with weakness un
oertone; demand very light; busket bas
kets lew bushel boxes U. 8. No. l. Mary
land Delicious, 22-inch up, 2.5O-3 90
Jonathans, 2A-inch UP, 1.75; 2Ha-inch up
I.7o-2.25 few higher; Pennsylvania De
liclouS, 2A-inch minimum, 125: 2k-incf
Up, 2.50s?5; few higher; Pennsylvania De.
liclous inch minimum, 1.25: 2h-incl
o,n,ass up: 259,75; few 800; some low as, 400
up. I;5o.z5; few zoo: Rambos., sh-inef hnef
1.5O. w.
Potatoes-Market about steady; 100.
pound sacks, U. s. No. l size A, unwashed
pennsylvania, new and used sacks, Cob.
blers. 2.26-50; Katahdins, 2.5O-S5; mostl,
around 2.75; 10-pound paper sacks Katah.
dins, 33' cents; 15-pound paper sacks
Sobblers, 45 cents; 50-pound paper sacks
katahdins; 1.35; New Jersey Katahlins
2.65- 80; mostly 2.65-75.
Sweet potatoes-Market dull; demand
and Virginia Goldens, 2,OO-25; very few
Poultry Quotations.
Poultry-Oherings very light; too few
sales to quote prices.
Grain Market.
There was no trading in grain on the
Baltimore market today because Of De-
tenders Day holiday.
Butter and Eggs.
Eggs-Market slightly stronger: receipts
light; demand moderate; large, 69-72;
large 5s..61; current receipts, supplies
Receipts-Butter. s37 pounds: eggs, "A
Evening star., 1949-09-12
Stocks Edge Higher
On Hopes for Steel
Strike Settlement
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Sept: 12.-Prices
pointed higher in the stock mar
ket today but considerable eau
ton was displayed.
That was a reflection of Wall
Street hopes that the steel strike
will be postponed and the feeling
that an eventual settlement be-
tween labor and management
could be effected without eco
nonic upset.
Steel shares held gains meas
ured in major fractions after run
ming up around a point in early
trading.
The higher prices, however
were not accompanied by any
marked increase in buying-an
indication that traders intended
to hold off a little while until the
whole steel picture became more
definite.
Throughout all other major
groups in the list there were frac-
tional increase with only a few
OF the leaders showing backward
tendencies.
Copper and gold shares, for
example, were narrowly mixed
and most of the building mater
ials were unchanged to lower.
Radio and television issues were
in the mixed category. In home
OF these groups, however, was
there any selling pressure.
Commonwealth & Southern
was active and unchanged at 51s
At the opening a block of 26,5OO
shares was traded followed by an
other block of 10000 shares.
Coca Cola gained more than 2
points at 1882 and was fairly
active for a higher priced issue.
On the upside were United
States Steel, Youngstown Sheet
& Tube. Republic Steel, Santa Fe,
Southern Railway, Southern Pa
ciflc. Chrysler, Studebaker, Rich
field Oil, United Air Lines, Para
mount (old), American Telephone
d Telegraph, Consolidated Natural
Gas, Homestake Mining, Dow
Chemical, Eastman Kodak, Amer
lean Can, Westinghouse Electric
Philip Morris, International Paper
j. I. Case. and Montgomery Ward
Evening star., 1949-09-12

Hourly Sales on the Exchange Today:
II 100 a.m.- 2eo 600 1900 noon A4o ooc
100 p.m. $50 ooo 300 pm. 600 oec
tUnit of,trading 10 shares. in bank
under the Bankruptcy Act or securities
assumed by such companies: Rates Of divi-
dends in the foregoing table are annual
or semiannual declaration. Unless other
wise noted. special or extra dividends are
not included. sd Called Ex div,dsnd END:
stock dividend Cash or stock. e Paid
last year. Payable In stock. estimated
cash value on ex-dividend date. De-
ciared or paid so far this year. Declared
Or paid after stock dividend or split-up.
K Declared or paid this year. an accumula; !;
this year, dividend omitted. deferred or no
action taken at last dividend meeting
Declared l94s PAYABLE 10 1N4s Lou, ~.
cash value undetermined on declaration
Evening star., 1949-09-12
Market AVERAGES
FOREIGN Exchange

NEW YORK, Sept. l2 PzForeign
dollars, others in Cents; Canadian dollar
in New York open market, 4ss per cent
discount or e5.37h q. 8. cents, un-
Europe: Great Britain (poundl. 4.o2N,
up Il Of . CENT; Great Britain 30-day fu--
Britain so-day futures. s:s7Ts, up Il.
cents; Great Britain 9o-day futures,
sSssIA, up 4 Of a cent: FRANCE M Mdranc,;, .;
September fxed rate, .0O1739; August,
001739i Sweden kronsl. 1885,, un-
36.17s unchanged.
Evening star., 1949-09-12
New York Cotton

lures trading was largely confined to
textile mill buying, with contract sup
piled by hedges. Price movements were
again narrow.
were awaiting developments in connec-
tion with the movement of the new crop
Noon prices were unchanged to 20
bale lower than the previous close
October, 1888; December. 1914, and
March 90 "a :,
Evening star., 1949-09-12
Odd-Lot Declines

The Securities and Exchange Commits
sion reported today these transactions BY
lists on the New York Stock Exchange for
September. 9: 3,OO7 purchases involving
s3,903 shares; 3,237 sales involving
s5,725 shares. including 25 short sales
Evening star., 1949-09-12
Metal Quotations

NEW YORK. Sept IL R.-spot non,
17H cents q pound, Connecticut Valley
lead, :15b cents pound, New York
zinc, 10 cents pound, East St. Louis.
American Export Lines elected
John F. Gehan executive vice pres.
ident. L. S. Andrews, w. H
Dausey and George c. Gaede were
named vice presidents.
Evening star., 1949-09-12

Granite City Steel Co. named
James L. Hamilton, jr., vice pres
ident in charge Of sales; j. D.
STREET., vice president in charge
Of development; N. P. Veeder, vice
president in charge of operations.
Evening star., 1949-09-12

Alum Co Am 2
Am Nat G. 90g
Am Superpower.
Am Writ Pa per
Atlas Corp " "
Barium Stl vi
Brown Rubber !
Cal&Edm Cp 10
Cit Service "a
Colonial Sd & 8
| Colts Mfg
| ICons0EBalt3.6 so
| Creole Pet 2Ag-
Crosley Mot 1se
Crown Drug
Cub Att Sug "a
I'll Bond&Sn t9e
Equity Cp .15g
FansteelMet We
FtPittBrew .60a
Gen Plywood
Golddeld Con
Hart Ray Corp.
Hecla Min I
Imp Oil Ltd "a.
Invest Roy Ola
Kaiser-FraZer
Evening star., 1949-09-12

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Evening star., 1949-09-12

NEW xOnh ~ 4
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FOREIGN ILL
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Australia 5s So o9l
BraZ6hs27 SYST S5L
Canada As 60 1925
CopenhaEn5s 50 eoL
Denmk 5Kas 55- Sol
Grk 6s 68 pt pd 8
Italian lst 3s77 36
Polnd4Ms68 asd 1oh
RioGDSul6s6Sst 26
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| Am T&T 3has59 l13
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, Am TIT 2As6l lc53
Am T&T 2Mssn 99l
Am TIT 2Hsss6 81
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Balt&Oh 5s95G 56s
Balt&Oh 5sM96 5e1
Balt&O5s2000K 56l,
B&O CIV 4h2O1O 453
Balt&Oh 4s75A 663
Bush Term 5s55 95l
Can Pac As perp 3d.
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Con Ed cv 3s SO liz,
Del & Hud Is 63 91l
Det Ed cv 3s 68 11ol
Det Edison $50 lo63
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Evening star., 1949-09-12
Washington Exchange

Potomac Elec Pwr com-1oo at 14A.
american Tel g. Tel-5 at 144a4.
Washington Gas com-1OO at "a.
Pot Elec $500 pfd boo at 40.
washington Gas $425 pfd-2O at lO2, %
Georgetown Gas IS 1961-S1 900 at 11e.
CAPITAL Transit Co.'s at 21h
Garnnckel 4la% pfd-25 at lSh.
Garfinckel com-5O at II.
Potomac El Pwr 5000 Did B-3 at 45h
woodward q Lothrop CONS at SO.
Evening star., 1949-09-12
N. Y. Curb Market
LIST INCLUDES ONLY SELECTED ISSUE

|NLf SELECTED ISSUES
Is Long Island Lta lM
. Lou Land&E la 23A
/ Is
30 McCordCp 15lh
s MidlStPr B .s5e o5A
5A Nat Fuel G 60 1o1s
4 Niagara Hud Pr 13M
Ia Niles Bem-P 80 9i6
Ogden Corp 2st
2lh Panacoastal on. 2L4
4b Pennroad he oA
8 Pepperell "a - 54ih
oA Pioneer Cold 21s
4 Pitney-Bow Goa 121h
; Pitts Metallic l. I'm
2H R-K-O opt war "
6hs Segal Lock & H III
40 Shelter Mfgl 15A
IA Solar Airc .6Oa- 1ozs
oiA Soss Mfg l-- 9
lA Std Pow & 1t 2ib
2 Sterling Eng !
Hs Technical 1.2Og 15iA
l1s Tri-Cont WV - 2lz
osb Unit Air Prod 2H
5lz Unit Lt&RyS II 20H
lH UtShoeMac gas 46A
Syn 20 2i4
Evening star., 1949-09-12
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Sept. IL R.-Dividends
declared: Pc Stock OF PAY.
Rate. riod. record. able,
Revised.
sCt Lakes 60e oon q on
Evening star., 1949-09-12
N. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE
FURNISHED by the Associated PressJ

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Addressog-M "a
Adml Corp .60g- .
| Air Reduction /
Alaska Juneau J
Aldens Inc / "a
Alleghany Corp J
Allegheny Cp Of
Alleg LudSt1 hg.
Allen Indust 60
Allied C&Dye Ga
! Allied Strs 8 !
AlliedStore of 4
Allis Chal 80 :
Anal Leath .10g
Amerada Pet "a
Am Agricul 3a-.
Am Airlines ;
AmBankN 1.60a
Am Bosch J. J
Am Br Shoe liz
AmBrkShoe pf 4
Am Broadcast
Am Cable & Rad
Am Can 3a
tam Can Of z /!
Am Car&Fdy So J
Am Chicle "a
AmCrysSug 1.20
Am Cyan / va
AmCyamloo H2pI
Am Encaust 12a.
Am Export L 2.
Am & Frgn Pwr
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| Am&F Pwr Q pf-
Am Gas & El g.. !.
Am-Ha waiiSS 8
Am Hide&L Ag ]
Am Home goa K
Am Inv Ill / IA
Am Loco lao x
Am M&Fdy SO
Am Metal la
Am Power & 1t
Am P&L D pfsbk- !
Am Pol 8 pf Ok,
Am Rad&SS la
Am Safe Ra2 "
Am Seating Ia I
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Am Stores 1.40a
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tam Tob Of g..
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Am Woolen 3g
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CALLAHAN D.
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Cannon Mills 8
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Evening star., 1949-09-12
N. Y. Bond Market

LIST INCLUDES ONLY SELECTED ISSUES
FURNISHED by the Associated Press.)
NEW YORK CITY IErie 4I,s 2O15 60
Evening star., 1949-09-18
By Jessie Font Evons

BRANDON, Vt.-Signs of fall
appear early in the Green Noun
tain State. The tall. "wine-glass'
elms tower into cloudless blue
skies. spreading their bouquet
like foliage in sharp relief above
erect trunks. Here and there, tell
tale blotches of changing leaves
on NAPLES and birches hint of the
riot of color soon to emblazon
mountains and countryside.
Pumpkins are already mounds
of yellow on farmhouse side
porches.
The clatter of corn binders is
heard in place of the noise of the
moving machines that were busy
in the fields during August.
There must be plenty of feed in
the large barns for the cattle dur
ing the long winter. A Middle
bury cynic is quoted as saying:
Vermont has more COWS than
people. Some folks like them
better"
From white-spired meeting
houses on every village green rise
such hymns as Come Ye Faith
full People. Raise the Song of Har-
vest Home"
Our own Sunday church-going
has included attendance in Middle
bury's historic and beautiful meet
ing house. said to have been de-
signed by pupil of Sir Christopher
Wren. DR.. Bruce of Dartmouth
College conducted the services.
Put Up Some Grape Preserves.
We INDUCED in a harvest activ-
ity of our own, quite unexpectedly.
after discovering delicious clusters
of purple grapes hanging heavily
from vines clinging to the sunny
side of a stone wall near the
second of the red barns. This is
the barn topped by an IRON
horse weathervane and is situat-
ed farthest from the Howes' white
frame farm house.
We made grape preserves, filling
every evaiiable empty jar. Making
Jelly would have involved weigh
ing sugar and we couldn't locate
a kitchen scale; but cup-measur-
ing does nicely with grape pre-
serves and we are proud of our
success.
Not long ago I had tea with DR..
and Mrs. Samuel S. Stratton by
the fireplace in their charming
library. He is president of 149-
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Vermont Sojourners Pay Visit
To Shrine and Mrs. CooIidqe

year old Middlebury College.
Throughout the house were mel
low old portraits and heirloom
furniture.
At Middlebury's summer for
eign-language classes no word of
English is spoken and students
are attracted from all the States
and from Canada.
Visit Birthplace of Coolidge.
On recent motor trip we visit
ed Plymouth. VT. birthplace of
President Coolidge. Plymouth is
now much as it was when Calvin
Coolidge knew it. The town is
hidden away among beautiful
mountains, miles from railroads
or large centers. The house in
which he was born, the church
where he worshipped and the
granite marker in the nearby
cemetery where he rests among
generations of his people, includ-,
ing his younger son and name
sake, are very simple but signif-
icant reminders of an average
American who attained the great
est office within the gift of the
people.
THOUSANDS of tourists are max
ing this out-of f-the-way village a
shrine. 1t symbolizes for them the
opportunities which can stem
from hard work, common sense,
forthrightness and courageous
honesty. The tourist may stand
in the little windowed sitting
room of that typical Vermont
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meetings. Stored as surplus prop
erty in Washington. it was pur-
chased by Herbert Hoover and
Andrew Mellon as joint gift to
Mrs. Coolidge.
Mrs. Coolidge is the same de-
lightful, gracious person whom we
with many others knew when her
husband was Vice President and
then President. Her lovely eyes
sparkle with animation. She is
slender and graceful. Her beauti-
fully arranged hair is worn in
the same becoming style as in the
picture which Howard Chandler
painted for the Pi Phi Sorority
while she lived in the White House.
1t was good to chat with Mrs.
Coolidge again, this time in an
intimate, congenial family circle
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with her sons wife and the two
grandchildren. John Coolidge had
returned to his business interests
the day before our cali.
This greatly beloved lady, dear
to the memories of all who came
into intimate contact with her in
the Washington scene, faces life
serenely and with grace, tact,
charm and poise. She is eager,
vltally interested in world events,
and what goes on at the seat of
government, but I doubt # she
will ever return to Washington.
| believe she has made her sd-
Justments with life and living and
will not alter them again.