Evening star., 1951-10-23
Southern Shows Gain.

GrOSS operating TeVeIlueS VI tIle
Southern Railway Co. for the first
nine months were $l90,854,704,
UP $2l,555.079 from sl6s, ,299 ,625
for the 1850 period.
Net operating income was $l8.-
52S.653, compared with s20,23o.l25
in 1850. Balance remaining after
charges was $11,388,609 as COM
pared with s12.662, ,S60.,
September gross revenues were
$20,576.674 against $20.840,656 in
September. 1861 decrease OF
1858, 1892. Net operating income
was 81 ,602 ,546 in September, COM
pared with $2,759.964 in 1850
Balance after charges was $732 .65e
for September against $1,874,816
in 1850.
Southern has ordered 100 addi-
tional diesel locomotives at a cost
Of $16.5 million. Delivery is ex-
pected during 1852.
Sloane Elects Director.
w. E. S. Griswold. jr., president
Of w. & j. Sloane. today an
nounced the election Of Charles E
Smell of San Francisco. Calf, to
the board Of Sloane. Mr.. Smell is
vice president and manager of the
Sloane store in San Francisco. He
succeeded Ruskin B. Hamlin who
retired from the organization last
June. His election took place at
the last meeting Of the Sloane
board.
American University students of
Business Administration will visit
the Gichner Sheet Metal Works,
1900 Kendall street NE. tomorrow
at 10:45 am. Lawrence Gichner,
president. will conduct a tour of
the plant and describe technical
and administrative problems. Mr..
Gichner has just returned from a
vacation in Paris.
Doyle Named to NPA.
J. c. Doyle, of Detroit. central
regional sales manager. Ford Di-
vision, Ford Motor Co.. has been
appointed a member Of the auto
motive section of the National
Production Authority in Washing
ton. He is on leave from the Ford
Co. for the second time in recent
years to render emergency service
to the Federal Government.
During World War II he served
from 1912 to 1945 as special as
sistant to Brig. Gen. r. E. Hardy,
chief of the ammunition division
in Army Ordnance.
Goodrich Names Wolff.
The appointment of James F.
Wolff as Washington representa-
tive of the B. F. Goodrich Chem
ical Co. was announced today. He
succeeds r. Fl. Williams. newly
named Washington district man
ager Of the industrial products
sales department of the B. F.
Goodrich Co. Mr.. Wolff formerly
was on the Chicago sales staff.
TWA Passengers Gain.
Revenue passenger lines flown
by Trans World Airlines totaled
1.423.188,000 in the first nine
months of this year. an increase
OF 30.7 per cent over the same
period in 1850, it was reported to-
day. In the same period the air.
line carried 34,147,000 ton miles
Of cargo. an increase of 25.6 per
cent over the comparable period.
Passenger mileage onTWA's do
mestic routes in the nine-month
period increased by approximately
40 per cent, and on its interna-
tional routes by 6 per cent. Cargo
ton miles on domestic routes in
creased 37.2 per cent and by nearly
10 per cent on international
routes.
Franklin Chace, instructor OF
accounting at Strayer College of
Accountancy, was guest speaker
last night at the first of a series
of sales training meetings spon-
sored by the Washington Station
ers' Association. Cooperating ir
these meetings is the Distributive
Education Division Of the District