Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1938 — Page 14

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i to a new low. Oils. ~viations, motors,

.. 000 lire in 1936.

=. $144 in 1936.

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COVERS RP DIP,

Variety of of Causes Blamec for Brea’.

NEW YORK, Mar-h 29 (U. P).— Stocks broke 1 to mo = than points after an irregularly lower opening today, steadied a: 3 ‘came back slightly from the lo7s. Volume in- _ creased on the decline. It dwindled when prices steadiec. : Market experts ascribed the break to a variety of ca%ses, including selling by traders ciiappointed aver passage of the Reo: ‘zanization Bill, weakness in Londc:a. silver uncertainty and impai >a counts. The Dow-Jones —zilroad average and the average fol -70 stocks made new lows since 1932. Second-grade rail bonds made record lows. Industrial and utility stozk averages were at new lows since 1035, Steel and mining issues were hard hit. U. S. Steel made a new low at 401%, off 3%. Howe Sound was at 25, off 33%. American Telephone broke

~~ rails and chemicals weakened. Utili- . ties held better tI'»n other sections. # ' #

Today's Business At a Glance

GENER 3USINESS

Dun & Bradstiet reports week ended March 24 business failures - 256 vs. 299 in pre ¥ ous week and 189 ~ year ago. "Federal Reser: he Bank of New York reports firs: three weeks of March total dep: irtment store sales in New York Fgceral Reserve District 13 per cept below year ago; sales in New Y¥Ya:: City 19 per cent lower than year ago. Oil & Gas Jounal estimates week ended March 26 Fide oil output in U. 8S. averaged” 3,405,619 barrels daily, off 23,953 fzom previous week.

CORPORATION NEWS

.- Amerjcan Airlines, Inc., 1937 con- _ _solidated net loss, $93,627 vs. net in- | come $4589 in 1936. Associated D:y Goods Corp. (in- . cluding all vholly-owned * sidiaries and © so Lord & Taylor,

majority of whose stock-is owned) |garrows nd Gi Gilt: en an

~ fiscal year ende: Jan. 29, net profit, $1,215,535, equa: to 2 cents a common share vs. $1,701 433 or 84 cents year ago. Banca Com °rciale Italiana 1937 net profit 34,9¢7,000 lire vs. 18,300,-

-~ ° Bendix Avia ion Corp. 1937 con- -. solidated net profit $2,255,133, equal to $1.07 a shire vs. $3,025,490, or

-* Canadian P:-ific Ry. Co. Febru- - ary net operati 1g income $324155 vs. $990,738 year : -o. Carrier Cor... 1937 consolidated net income $25,794 equal to 64 cents a share vs. $50 624 or $1.30 in 1936. Connecticut iver Power Co. 1937 net profit $1.4 13,825, equal to $2.29 a common sb ‘re vs. $1,448912, or $2.28 in 1936. : Federal Wa! r Service Corp. 1937 .consolidated 1 st income $1,107,008, * equal to 3 ce is a share on Class - “A” ys, $1,033,156, or 6 cents. in 1936. . Louisiana ' é' Arkansas Ry. Co. February surplus after interest $17,958 vs. $15: 120 year ago. Mountain Cty Copper Co. 1037 net income 8 1059, 299 equal to 45 cents a share = 5. $728,999 or 31 cents in 1936. 5 Northern Ficific Ry. Co. week ended March 26 carloadings 8305 vs. 7768 pre ious week and 9490

Power Co, week electric output $24,hours, up 2.6 per

: year ago. S

eaboard subsidiaries 1 130 equal 19: 485,676 or 3 : Valspar ie monthe or GQ Feb. 28 net profit $168447 v(* 1226, 193 year ago. . IVIDENDS Gardner. ener Co. regular quarterly 25 ¢ {4 fis s Bn common payable April 20, eC; April 8. Investor: #ind-C-Inc. quarterly 10 cents uz rahle April 15, record

March 31. (Copyri Lhe 1838, by United Press)

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Rr INDEXES ’ Inited Press (0 20 jhdus. Rails 51.8 55.7 64.9 97.1 91.8 70.0 51.8 .

. of Delaware and por net profit $2,447,[197 a share vs. $2,Aq

20 60 ull ‘Bonds 89.1 2.9 90.9 B3 93.3 79.8 103.0 97.7 04.9 96.2 4 825 89.1 2.9 106.0 100.7 23 #11 106.2 100.2 0. 108.5 93.3 3 JSiandary Statistics Co.)

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All Weights Hold Steady

relation with nearby. competitive points when values held steady on all weights in the face of losses elsewhere, according to the Bureau -of Agricultural Economics. Demand

a creditable clearance of estimated 6000 hogs was expected.

pound butchers. At steady to weak prices, there were more heavy sows

good medium and heavyweight offerings ranging from $7 to $7.50, with the practical top $7.75 on lightweights.

opportunity to adjust live and dressed values and approximately 40 loads of steers grading mostly good slowly and weak to lower. Al midsession the bulk remained in first hands, carrying bids around 25

week.

The cream of the crop consisted of two loads of strictly choice weighty steers sold on packer shipping account at $9.50 and $9.75 for the eastern seaboard. Most steers Shpeated to be cashing from $7.75 to $8.50. The she stock market held steady, stimulated by a broad outside demapd. Good to choice 680-1b. heifers made $8.35 and $8.50. Vealers held steady, with the best handy-weights again at $10. Fat lambs advanced’ 25 to - cents in early trading, top on west-

erm wooled lambs resting at $8.65 c dig

near the noon hour when afo 1500 wooled and clipped lambs were still in first hands and held above $8.65 on some wooled offerings. .

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SHEEP AND LAMBS

—Receipts. 3216— Lambs— i

Pood and choice ‘Common and medium ......

CHICAGO, March 29 Ho s—Receipts. 14,000, Jee ects; na eH gan

ibs. top. 38 35@8. 180

U. P ) Livestock: Including 5000 diven 10 to 25 Sente lowbs.. $8.75

9: 250-350 ibs., [email protected]: fs Rx ki =H! 8. sows. [email protected]. Sac cng

file—Receipis, 7000; calves, 2500; tse done on Siete: dg reely steer

Junst prospec oxy Pp. $9.90; De held Bigher."} iaasiy 809 she-stock

on sale; fed h nd to strong; 1s rons

fo lo¢ Scares, steady higher; vealers, dull. uneven: veal-

lo. i $6.40.

steady on i A

PT. fo March 29 {U. P.).—H ke 5 Jower: -220 ibs. 160-180 1bs.. $8.65: 220-240-260 1bs. $8,657 80-280 I i i: 100-120 lbs.,’ 3 stags. $6.25; calves, $10;

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15 240.475 Ton | @8 | rou Calves,

.80: 220-240 1bs.. $8. ase: .80; $8. peas 80: 275-325 ! og. 18 160-200 1bs 268.5008, 10; pigs, $8. 38:

#130 dow ‘lambs. $7.50@8.

CINNATI, March 29 (U. P.j.—Hogs— pts, 2760; none “airect; no no ro

to 25 cen So $8.90; 1 Bro 25@8; bulk

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h 8.38; beef cows. s nd clsess. $4.25 1s, $6.75:

. direct:

y: prac eipts, none

Ca. 200:

! steady? good ewe and ether wool Jambs.

$8.50 common $6. 008: Suni? ewes 2 mainly "1 wo 5.50.

~ See Final Edition of the Times for Closing Stock: Quotations |

At Midsession|}

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on outside account was good po Bald Loco

around the $7 figure, bulk of the|Z

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LAFAYETTE, Mareh 29 ? Marked, steadv to 10 cents Tower; 005330

bulk | £YiTe | Manutactureis””

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Month ARO cosvosoessesnecce. 42.41 +0.24: Year ag0 ...c..ievineiinoai.. 61.25 +1.04 High, 1938, 44.42; low. 33.22. High, 1937, 69.67; low, 38.87.

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GRAIN RISE HALTED BY STEEL DECLINE

Heavy Receipts | i

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Pressure, Felt in Corn Trade.

CHICAGO, March 29 (U. P).—A

Steel on the New York stock market . had a depressing effect on ‘wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade today and early gains were lost. At the end of the first hour wheat was unchanged to 1% cent higher, corn was % to % cent lower, and oats were unchanged to }s higher. . New crop futures led the decline on news of the break in stocks bit

“| May wheat offered some resistance,

although even in the nearby month most of thé day’s gains disappeared in the liquidating movement. The domestic stock market development overshadowed firmness in Liverpool and eéven took the

peared probable the snow and fros would hit a large part of the wins ter belt, near-freezing tempers? | tures being forecast even for north west Oklahoma and West Texas. Receipts were 16 cars. Corn selling developed for the ace count of cash and shipping interesis and the pressure on wheat spread to the secondary grain. Receipts, 238 cars, were heavy and tis too kept prices down.

WAGON WHEA1

Cit sain Sevata s are paying for No. 2 red, 80c; r giades on thet He rits. Cash corn i No! 3 vellow 45c.-Oa ts. 36¢

FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW YO March » , P.).=-Fo exchange iy r ) ~foreian 1.97 , i is

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+-| TORNADO KILLS THREE Ei Sion

iis FERRIDAY, La, March. 20 w. P)—A father and two sons were | killed, nine were known injured and unestimated la damage was wrought today by a freak

Turtle Lake ‘community near ‘here.

BABY SUBSIDY ANNOUNCED | ‘MUNICH, Germany, March 20 “1 (U. P.).—Subsidies for all ‘German

place of weather developments in| the Southwest Winter Belt. It 2

| attitu

| families ‘having more than two chil- 4

In Federal Court.

Attorneys ‘today filed a bret in ‘Federal Court outlining the scope of

Public Service Commission, | In the brief, Ralph E. public counselor, declared that

try the case anew means that neither the District Court nor the parties are bound by the forme evidence introduced with r. the situation in 1033, except so far as that evidence goes to establish a hii and confiscation at a later pe The U. S. Supresic Court on appeal of the Indiana attorney general Juled that Judge Baltzell had fajled to take into consideration changing price trends and ordered the case retried in District Court. hl

In 1935, Judge Baltzell, | after hearing before Albert Ward, | spec’al master in chancery, set a valuation figure and ordered new rates on the ‘basis of 6 per cent earnings. Litigation in the seven-year-old | case was postponed March 9 by D trict Judge Robert C. Baltzell pending fulfillment of $1,500,000 construction program by the company.

The case was opened in 1932 when

%| the water company appealed to Fed-

{ eral District Court here following a Public Service Commission order setting a new valuation and lower rates. The utility charged Hie rates were confiscatory.

INTEREST DUE ON UTILITY FUND

Escrow Payments by Citizens Gas & Coke Ruled - Open to Assessment.

The Citizens Gas & Coke | Utility's escrow payments to the Indiana National Bank are public funds upon which the bank“ should pay the State an inferest assessment of onehalf of 1 per cent, Atty. Gen. Omer Stokes Jackson ruled today. ‘These payments now total approximately $700,000, it is estimated. Bank officials previously ' claimed they were not public funds, accord=

| ing to the legal definition of that | term, and that no assessment should

be paid. The ruling was made atl the request of the Indiana Board for De-

positories. ‘. When fhe dianapolis Civil City tok over the Citizens Gas Co., it at-

tempted to retire the bonds of the

|| Indianapolis Gas Co., which owned || most of the distribution system.

Indianapolis Gas Co. | security holders refused to give up their holdings, and the City refused to honor the contract which the old Citizens (Gas Co. had with the Indianapolis Gas Co. for rental of mains. Pending final settlement of litiga< tion, the City agreed to set aside in escrow the payments that would have been made if the contract had been honored. This money is to revert to the Indianapolis Gas Co. security holders if the courts. decide eventually in their favor. | :

KANSAS CITY VOTERS TREK TO POLLS TODAY

Pendergast Dominance Is Disputed by Coalition,

KANSAS CITY, Mo. March 29 (U. P.). — Voters determine tod whether the Democratic organization dominated by Thomas J. Pendergast and known as the Middlé West's “Little Tammany Hall,” is to be continued in oie another four years. The machine has ti oiled Kansas City for 12 years. y it faced a coalitionist opposition which has waged a vigorous campaign. The Mayoralty, eight Co nic seats and two municipal judg ips were at Sas. : ¢ coalitionists, comprised of Democrats, Republicans ‘and independents, n paign material in the cnrrent gaaiaiss ma. cution of vote frauds the 1936 general election; in which all Pen-

dergast candidates were ected.

Predict Clean Sweep The Democratic org tion was not perturbed. Efficient precinct captains had surveyed the political of each of the 215,629 votérs. on the new permanent list, and their tabulation showed that the machine would make a

| clean Twos. even defeat

anti

“tyrister” which dipped down on the | the Uni

7+Year-0ld Litigation | on: : Rates and Valuation Now | }

evidence admissible in the | | new | | hearing of the ‘Indianapolis Water Co. rate case against the (Tufte ; “the. U. S. Supreme Court mandate tof

aY | House,

sion to be unsatisfactory and ‘not

Ss. | had been sabotage.

d | sentation of a plan for 1938 by April

NOTRE DAME; ‘Ind., March 2. : —Dr. Irvin Abell of . Louisville, American Medical Association president-elect, is to receive the Laetare Medal, the Rev. John F. O'Hara, University of Notre Dame president, announced today. The award has been made by the university annually since 1883 to outstanding :Catholic laymen in the United States.

WASHINGTON HIGH HONOR ROLL HAS 93

Honors . for First Period of “Second Semester Are Announced.

High , School honor pupils today were named on the high ‘honor roll for the first period of this semester. They are: Cecil Whaley, Betty Jane Smith, Robert Brockman, Mabel Mohr, Mary Lascu, Warren Angrick, Dorothy McCalment, Suzanne Van Talge, Grace Buchanan, Dorothy Asher, Lyndell, Dickerson, Robert Drees, Jean Inman, Eileen Newby, .Doris Smitha, Herbeit Reese William Beasley, Betty Dunn, Doris Ernst, Marshall Hudson, Louis. Kunstek, Betty Litchfield, George Mellinger, Mary Louise Mines, Doris Scoggan, Lois Shelby, Louise Cunningham, Joan Kellgm, Herschell Brittenback, Wrex Wratten, Kenneth Goslin, Robert Jones, Raymond McClure, Carl McCombs, Dorothy ‘Mueller, Clara Naumsek, Shirley Newton. Joan Smith, Charlotte Burkert, Barbara Yount, Don Cauble, Martha Davidson, Trois Jean Dial, Ruth Downey, Irene Goodlet, Norma Jackson, Anne McWethy, Warren Rairden, Harold Taylor, Gladys ‘Ward, Laverne Warner, Phyllis Webb, Janis Lee Hawhee, Dorothy League, Daisy Silverman, Dorrell Roach, Martha Davidson, Betty Fiedler, Thelma Bloomenstock. Virginia Burres, William Krogh, Eleanor Lornston, Lois MecCreery, Maude Mingus, Regina Nichols, Charlotte Padgett, James eofanis, Jack Trager, Albert Walker, Lewis Walker, Louis Stanich, Mary Alice Waltz, Virginia Wright, Joe Alexander, Marjorie Burton, Leona Colbert. ; Jean Edwards, Edgebert French, June Gray, Martha Harris, Clarence McIntire, Mary Mouron, Marie Pierce, Millicent Plowman, Norma Poffenberger, Betty Schuck, Jean | Spear, Helen Stansberry, Joanne

Wade, Helen Austin, Joe Kassler,

Russell, John White, Mary Helen Burke and Oliver Zieher.

KIN WILL ACCOMPANY HOUSE BODY TO TEXAS

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NEW YORK, March" 29 (U. P). —The body of Col. Edward M. America’s international statesman and confidential adviser to President Wilson during the World War, leaves by train at L 05

p. m. today en route to Houston, Tex., for burial.

Mrs. House and a son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss, will leave with the body aboard a Pennsylvania train. In accordance with Col. House's wishes, there will be only a burial service at the family plot in Houston.

SOVIET ORDERS PURGE | IN POLAR SEA BUREAU

MOSCOW, March 29 (U. py The Government ordered a purge today of “doubtful elements” in the Northern Sea Route Administration, headed by Prof. Otto Schmidt, Russia’s greatest polar exploration expert. : The People’s Commissars Council, declaring the work of the commis-

accidental,” intimated. that there

“The Council called for a detailed report on the work of 1937 and pre-

15, buy which time the “doubtful elements” must be cleared out.

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