Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1929, Page 15

FINANCIAL. d BOWIE HIGH SCHOOL HAS COMMENCEMENT Third Annual Exercises Arc Held. | Elementary Classes Also End Studies. TUESDAY, 15 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, ers. Most of the big stores are paying as much attention to ventilation and ir refrigeration as the theater owners, vho have proved that Summer weather | need not keep patrons away. | ‘The majority of the big stores in tha metropolitan distriets are taking steps through mail campaigns to keep in touch with customers who have left town for the Summer. A goodly num ber are extending rath: than curta: ing their delivery services and some now deliver with thelr own wagons to point fifty to sixty miles from the store.| They are elso making a special effort to fill orders receivec by mail, express or parcel post in order to meet and overcome the attractions offered by the mail order houses, which have been able to fill orders to Summer resort customers with & minimum of delay JUNE 18, 1929. {COURT TO DETERMINE WAR VETERAN’S STATUS rMuSt Decide_;hether or Not R. A Pryor Is Dead—Big Docket for Grand Jury. Received by Private Wire (s T|ES FEAT”RE Direct to The Star Office - ! By Special Leased Wire to The Star. 2 Noma Eiec 4, 2 e P N ] ; PLAN BUSY SEASUN TRAD'NG DN [}”RB NEW YORK, June 18—Following fs 33 Nor Amer Aviation 11% § Eflfosnis M oe - al wowis 3 . : : : 0T a list of stocks and bonds traded in on 1 pirest Cot Mil 8 the New York Curb Market today with !{vl,“"’i_}czl LT‘;‘?':: { the volume of sales and priccs up to S on Btk o | and including the clos2 of the market. ' ceu Poi 5a ' Pise) earte. oy 2 {neau Pow s Store Owners Take Steps to P, TDUSTRIALR 11 Georeia Bow 'ss 07 Overcome “Dull Summer” 78 Acoustic Prod 3 Hood Rub 5'gs '36 bt B ’ 12 Houston G G 8as /43 i {Aero'aun Mt B’ 1ol € 1Ind Ol & G 6530 Period. ¢ . 1 Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., June 1 ‘fl‘tldfl'l&. Dlstrlczhcoun here at i . : - By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | e ey BOWIE, Md, June 18—The third| Pryor, World War veteran, as to wheth- annual commencement exercises of the | €r he is dead or not. Pryor, shell Bowle High School were held last night | $hocked, returned from Prance and was ¥ |in camp near Norfolk in 1919, during | with Dr. Charles S. Richardsen, head | which time, it is thought, he drowned Reports of Mergers Increase Activity in Many Power Stocks. 2 Qutboard Motors 1 Oiiuoard Motors 4 ¢ E Ist pfd id Eiec Co rd El Mot n wi Pend D Groc A. 1JC Penney pfd. ... 3¢ Bern Qhio Ed Low. Close. | 41Ind P&L 55 A 1Intl Pow 8 7s E ‘87 52 Ainsworth Mfy 2Intl Sec Amer 5s 1Ala Gt So prd BY HARRY H. BECKER. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, June 18 tions m a number of public utility stocks, directly or indirectly allled with plans for the creation of new super- power holding systems, featured trad- ing on the Curb Exchange today. These efforts to resume the advance | ‘were climaxed by a spectacular demon- stration in Consolidated Gas of Balti- more, which rose 5 points between sales to a new record price of 160 against, the previous closing of 117, and then broker violently when an official of the company in a public denial character- ized rumors that the company w to be included in a merger as without foundation, Affects Entire Group. The rise and fall of the issue had its | the entire utility | effect on_practically group, which turned abruptly down- ward after a series of swift advances to new high prices in those favorites selected for leadership. Penn Water & Power, after rising more than 17, lost two-thirds of the gain, and rapid changes were witnessed also in North- ern States Power A, Long Island Light- ing, Central States Electric, Allied Power & Light and Electric Investors, all of which rose to new peaks before Teacting. S Commonwealth and Southern, Ameri- can Super Power new and most of the former leaders were quieter and heavy, Wild_gyra- 3 Alexander Indus 4 Aliled Aviat Ind 13 Allied Pack 7Alim Co Ame 1Alum Co Ame. 2 Alum Goods M¢ 7Am & For Pow va 1Amer Bev | 2Am Br Bov EI F | |38 Amer citles PsL 127 Amer Cit PAL B 13 Am Commonw P A 33 Am Commw P op war | 60 Am Osanamid B n 1Amer Dept Stores 40 Amer Gas & Fl 2% Amer Lt & Trac 1Amer Meter 2 Amer_Nat Gas 1Am Sta Pub Ser A 428 Am Superp n X ris 894 Amer Superp B ric 3 Amer Super 1 pia 1Anchor Post Fence 12 Anglo Chil Nitra 3 Apex Mg 5 Arcturis Radio T 4 Arizone Power 61 Ark Natl Gas. 38 Ark Natl Gas A | 5 Asso Dve & Print 44 Asso Elec Ind 36 Asso Gas & F1 A | 20 Ass0c Gas & € deb 85 Asso Oas & El n 1t 2 Asso Rayon. 2 Asso_Rayon pid 3 AUl Coast Fisheries 3 AU Fruit & Sue 3 auto Vot Mach 4 Auto Vot M cvi pr pi 7 Aviation Co of Am... 59 Aviation Corp. .. 3 Aviation Credit | - 1Aviation Soc 1 Axton Ficher A | aBaleb & Katr cis %d | 5 Bellanca airc vic Bensen & Hedges Good demand, however, was noted for | General Public Service, United Gas Im- ent, Electric Bond & Share and | an Gas & Electric. Announcement shortly after midday that the Niagara-Hudson Power Corpo- ration, new Morgan holding company, would offer_all holders of Buffalo, Ni- agara and Eastern, Northeastern Power and Mohawk Hudson Power an ex- change of securities helped & recovery in those issues. Miscellaneous industrials were un- affected by the situation in the utility list and made more headway on the re- covery. Libby Owens Glass was a fav- orite with a gain of more than 10 points before midday. There was better de- mand also for Firestone Tire, up more than half a dozen points, and for a ma- jority of the motors, aithough Ford imited opened at & new low. Strong Stocks. apolis Honeywell, at a new high, and cluded Aluminum Corporation, Alns- worth Manufacturing, Taggart, Minne- apolis Honeywell, at a new high and the financing company shares. Checker Cab and the other taxi manufacturing company issues continued to sag, while the aviation issues barely changed. In the mining list Noranda was firm, but Roan Antelope was influenced by profit- taking after its recent rise. Very little change was noted in the sentiment toward the oils, a majority of which were unchanged. Consider- able -activity developed in Cities Serv- ice new, in which one block of 27,000 shares changed hands during the course of a fractional advance to the ‘best price in several weeks. BRANDYWINE HIGH AWARDS DIPLOMAS Dr. Discusses Recent Changes in Secondary Education and Asks Liberal Support. Powers By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BRANDYWINE, Md., June 18.— “Recent Changes in Sccondary Edu- cation” was the theme of Dr. J. Orin Powers, assoclate professor of educa- tion, George Wasl n University, ngaaklng before the graduating class of the Brandywine High School last night. Citing some of the changes that had taken place in the last 20 years, Dr. Powers called attention to the standard and “extra” curriculums now in vogue and showed how industrial changes had effected secondary school courses. He solicited a more liberal support of the new courses which are being un- dertaken all over the country. « The exercises were held in the audi- torium of the high school, with D. J. Mtller, principal of the school, award- ing the diplomas. ‘The program was interspersed with choral numbers by the graduating class, ‘while other musical features were ren- dered by Mr. and Mrs. Anton Nim- merrichter. Rev. Mr. Dulaney delivered the invocation and benediction. ‘The graduates are: Academic course— ‘Mary Frances Elizabeth Davis, Mary Elizabeth _Outten, Francis Ellsworth Furgang, Wilbur Alvin Lusby, Willlam R. Price. General course—Evelyn Ro- mance Luysby, Olive Elizabeth Tayman, Nelson Fitzhugh Billingsley, Alton Els- worth Lusby, John Matthew Rawlings and Lloyd Schuyler Townshend. TRIO TAKEN IN CAPITAL IN MARYLAND SHOOTING One of Party Charged With Fatal- ly Wounding Man in Anne Arundel County. Three colored men from Annapolis, Md., one of them wanted to answer a charge of shooting and probably fatally wounding another man in Anne Arun- del County. were arrested in this city shortly after 1 o'clock this morning by Pvt. I. H. Umbaugh of the twelfth precinct. The pistol alleged to have been used in the shooting affair in Maryland was found in the car in which the three men were riding. Leonard Curry, 26 years old, member of the trio and alleged to have done the shooting, was accompanied by Mack Galloway, 35 years old, and Thomas Kent, 21 years old, who, police said, are alleged to have been with Curry when the shooting was done. Sheriff Michael P. Carter of Anne Arundel County, who requested Curry's arrest, told local police he would come for the prisoners this afternoon. DIVIDENDS. Pe- Pay- Stock of Corporation. = Rate.riod. able. _ record. Attock Oil Co Ltd. .Tla0 — 192 Adams Exp init stk.17, 8-A July Biin Man 1:00°Q July do bf.. do bl do pf.lll do pf.. can Dry Ginger ‘Ale & B Brist, Myer Brick Stec” Mills 5 Bkivn City R R 7 Budd Mg ris.. 125 Buf Niag & E P 131 Buf Nisg & E P A 15 Burma ® Corp 9 Burroughs Add’ Mach 9 Cable knd Tube vic 18 Can Marconi W. ... 7 Gapital Admin A iCapital Admin A pid 6 Garnation Milk xd... 17; Caseln "Co....... 1 caterpil Tract 3 Gelan Cor Am 6 Cent’ Atl Sta Sér 'vie 3Cent Pub 8 A 1§ Gent States El 1 | "SGent States El war | 1Cent States El s pf 1Gent Staies El 65 bf 7Cent St EI cony. bt 3Gent St E bf 1Chein Store 21 Check Cab M 843 Cities Ser n..... 2 Gities Ser n %id 3 Gitles Ser pt %CILS P &L 6 icit S pa L 1Gleve Elec Til.. 8 Cleve Tragt . Il iGohn & Poseibéréer 36 Col Graph Sub rts.. 1Colt's Pat_Fire = Columbia® Pletures. . 2§ Golumbus El Pow § Commonwlth, Ed. ... 1453 Commonw ~ Southern. 912 Commonw Sou Q@ bt 5 Cons Alrcraft.... ... 6 Cons Auto Mer vic!. 3 Gons Auto Mer pfd ¥; Cons Gigar war-ur... 4 Gonsol’ Datry P. 5 Consol Fiim. 83 Consol G Bali s Cons Gas Util A. 1 Gonsol Instru. .. ' 1 Consol Instru s 7 'd. 2 Gonsol Laund " .. ... 1 Gont Diamond Fibet: 1 Cont G&E pr. pid. i Gopel Prod’ A 1Garroon R.. 3 2 Carroon & R pfd Al 2 Courtaulds Ltd.. 13 Crocker Wheeler . 1 Gurtiss Aero Exp. . 18 Curtiss Airport_vic 19 Gurtiss Flying Serv 1 Davegn Inc 5 2 Davenport Hos 1 Davis Drug allot ctis 1% Deere & Co... 12 De For R C. 1" 3De Haviland A 1 1 Dictograph Prod... 1 Dinkler, Hot A ww 1 Dixon (3) Crucible 3 Doenier Die G C 13 Donner 501 pr pt 3 Dougias Aireraft. & Dubilier ¢ & R 8 of G East States Pow B.. 39 Eisler Elec .......... 1 Bond & Sh' x4 Bond & Sh pf Invest Inc pf P & L optl war.. 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GrA&PTCopld. ! & Gr A&P T C non vic 1Grigsby Gru n xd 2 Ground Grip Shoe. 1 1 orn_ & Hard Huylers Strs of Hygrade Food Prod.. Indust Pinance ctf . ZInsur Co N A 4Insur Secur .. 8 Insur_Shares ‘A 2Intl Perfume . 3Intl Prod . 32Intl Project n 4Intl gaf Raz B 11nt Bhoe 1lIntern Util' A 20 Intern Util B 2 Intern ULl pf 1Intern Utl_war 11Interstate Hostery 5 investors Equity Irving Air Chute 19 Ital Superpow A. 4 Johnson Mot 2K C Ps vic pf A. 5 Kermath . A 1 Keystone ‘Alrcrafi. 3 Kolster-Brandes. awan Sec 3 2 Lake Super C...01 010 1Lakey Mound & M. Leh Coal & Nav. Lerner Stores Libb Owens Sh Gl Libby McN & L n. .. Lily Tulip Cup..... ] 54 Long Isl Lt. ] 19 Louisiana_Land & Ex Baum pfd.. 1 2 2 1 8 2 1 1 1 1 6 1 2 Marc Wire Lond B.. 1 Marfon Steam Shov n 1083 s 2004 32 a0 17 12 1214 10620 n 6l 14 3810 3610 4812 195 37 1 118% 13510 202 pin'T 95 pf.. 1 100 19% 11299ty 3% 18, 550! 3 Ford Mot Co Can rts 5 Household Pinarnce pf 50 Del 553283034431 sresans! e ENLNanEEE, SEegsns . awthe waswmen Bt s Penn O Ed p p! 23 Penn O Ed optl d0Penn O Fd B war _2Ponn B & L s pid 17 Penn W 50 Petrol Corp_1st iy pot Mk prd Bhilip Morris 1 Philippe (Louis) lerce” Governo: 8 PilotRadio Tube 3 P.tney Bowes P 15 Pittsb & Lake E 1 Bitts Sor & Bolt 1Po inbow Lum P’ A hestos ance N 40 ol 30 e A Revnolds Metal ‘B Rhodes Isiand Pub wuite Real Est wuite Un 5s-§1 Six c Gen Am Inv pid Seeman Bros. egal Lock & HAw Selected Indust lected Indus Inc nr Safety Contr El v s Water Pow.. Southe P & L p.pid 34 Southe P & L war 1 Southe P & L war uf 180u Royalty e 180u Grocery A 78tand Pow & Lt.. 15 Stand P & L pfd . 2 Stand St 1 8tarrett Co: 9 Stein_Cosme 1Sterchi Bros Strs 4 Sterling Sec A wi 12 Sterling_Sec ptd 2Sterl Sec pfd allot 3 Stetson J B 11 Stutz Mot iy Superheat Co iswite mu ra W Mach 33 Taggert . Corp 8 Tampa EI 2 Thermoid 3 8 Thomps Prod A ... 2 Tishman Realty & C 1Todd Ship 3 Toddy vic B. 3 Tol Ed cum pid Trans Am 2 Transcon Air Trsp 4 Trans Lux DLP 8 A. 42 Tri Cont Corp ... 4Tri Cont Corp pid. . 1 Trunz Pork Stores %: Tubl At S B .. i Tune ‘Sol Lamp 1Tung Sol L A . 1Union Amer Invest 1Union N G Can .... 3 Union Tobacco 8Uni Chem pr ptd 1Uni Drydoek 1598 Uni 2 Uni Corpn_rts Elec Bond rts. Gas ur s Elec Ser 1 Gas cash Gas Co . Gas, rts G tmp CILI0LL G Imp Cn'.lll G Imp rts wi G Imp C n ptd. 9 Lt&PA ... 4% LtaPB 50 Uni Stores Corp wi.. 26% ni Stores Corp A wi 5034 o e & For Sec & For S 1si pid. Freight of Del Gypsum. Lines. .. e versal Aviaiion. .. W West Auto Su Western Alr Exp: .l Western Air E ris.. Whitenight Inc ... . Food Prod. . Caf...... hundreds. 10 Ariz Globe C. 1 Chief_Cons Min 2 Com Tun & Drain 1 18 Cons Cop Mines. ... 1 Cresson Con Gold... . 1Eng Gold M Ltd inc. 1First Ntal Copper 5 Gold Coin 13 Golden Center M 10 Goldfid Cons .... 3 Hecla Min ...".. 1 Hud Bay Min'& 3 Kerr Take 0 00 remier Gold ‘M. ed Warrior. .. 3 an_Antelope’ Gop.. East Min..... ni Verde Exi. Unity Gold..... 1 Walker Mines 4 1 Wendon Cop 1% 11 Sales INDEPENDENT OIL STOCKS. in hundreds. ¢Am Con Oflfids 6 Am Maracaibo Co 3 Cartb Synd...... 3 Colon Ol 3 Columbia Synd 1 Cons Royalty. 2 Gosden Oil. 18 Creole Pete 2 Crown Cent Pete iDarby Pete AT 14 Derby O & Ref.. 2 1EG&E T cuni bid ot £ G % cum pfd 106% 1Guit OIl Pa. Sors oo 193 8 Homaokla_ Ofl 7 Houston Gulf Gas 17 Intercorit Pet... 2 Leonard Oil. 1Lion oM. i 13 Lone Stai G ‘Del $ Marland Mex 1Mount Gulf,. & Mount Prod . 3Nat Fuel Gas 3 New Bradford O 1N Y Pete Roy 1Nor Cent Tex Ofi.. 2Pac Western Oil 1Pandem Ol ... 21 Pantepec Oi1 1110 1 Reiter-Foster Oil ".1] 10 Salt’ Ck Prod 9 Savoy” Oil : 2Texon Oll & Land n' 1Transe Ol pfd o4 18 Transe Oil rts . 1Venezuelan Pet STANDARD OIL ISSUFS AND FORMER SUBSIDIARIES—STOCKS. Sales in units. 2600 Cont Oil ... ... 2100 Humble O & R 2800 Imp O Cen n. : 200 Indfana P L i 600 Inter Pet Ltd nl... 800 Int Pet Ltd.,........ 600 Nat Traasit 800 Obio Oil 300 South Penn’ O 100 Southern P L 42008 O Indians %00 § O Kansas. ... 708 O Kentucky n 308 0 Ohlo pt. 100 Vacuum Ol Sales in thousands. 2 Abitibi P&P 55 A '53 85% 5Ala Pow ‘4'as 67 ... 937, 4Allled Pk 6539 ¢ 6'd 49 Allied Pk 85 '39 ¢ 0 d 48 sy BONDS. 'Specill Grand Jury Convened to 1 1 Manit Pow 51us A '51 3 Mass Gas 5lgs 1 McCord Rad 3M 65 43 < E 541 88% NY P&L dizs 7. 91 NyFor Tnv 5'3s A4B g0 Falls 1 88 “50: 100 ¥ 6t G35, 1085 Onio Pow 55 °52 B, .. H G & B a8 BT c Inves 55 A '48... Wn' OIl” 6las '43. 9514 \ Oh Ed 6sA. 50ww 100 19 Peoples Lt & P o8 T, . 90t 2Phila & P 8ies T2, 10830 8% 1095 10 Poor & Co 6s '3, . 1 19 Queen B GAE 4135 ‘33 93 1 Reliance Bragt 8s '44 9914 2 9 1Richfid OIl 65 A 41, 9914 1 GRichfld OIl 6 44 AL 9914 4 RICHAG Ol 8755 31 100 18 Roch Cent B 8 A '53 8% 1San Ani P S 53 B 53 9ais SUL Gas & C 65 47 85 Wyom € 6 47 ; Shef 65 '35 " tider” Pack gs 3 Solvay Amer 85 A 42 10 Southe P&L 65 A 2035 13 Sou Car Ea'de’ 177 ou Ca s 5200 6South Cal G 58 91 '93n 1South P&L 65 A 2032, 101 5 Staley Mfe 65 41.. | 3Stead P & L 65 57 90 9912 911y 9513 102 - 100t a8 39 & Co 5s 32 3 Texas Gas 55 ‘48 9 Texas P & 1L 5s 1Uni Lt & R8s n_Oil Prod 8 Rub 6las Rub 6155 '3 Rub 8ias 5 Rub 6} 7 Rub 6135 34 Rub 6135 40 P & L 55 '5) Pow 8los A Cent 55 '30. FOR thousande. TR 1 Aeri Mor T8 " 14 Berlin © DR 1 Buenos Alres 7s '52.. 101 15 Buenos Aires 7las ‘47 104 SEu Mtg & In 75 C '67 86% 1 Frankfort 8'us '53... 91 24 Free St Prus 61as ‘51 941 8934 96 Sales in Ba E 14 Gelsen Min 65 34 6Ger Cons Mun Ts '47 2 Hamburg E 7s '35 13 Hamburg E bl "33 2 Hun Ital 70 163 25 Ttal' Superpow 65 163 1 Mansf M&S 7s’ 1 Mendoza 7728 5! 4 Mor Bk Bogota 1 Mor Bk Bog 7s ‘47 n 3 Mor Bk Chile 6s '31 5Parana 7s 'S8....... 4 Ruhr Gas 68 ‘A *53 10 Russ G 6145 '19 cfs n 8Stinnes H 7s '36 28tinnes H 7s ‘46 wa 3Uni Stl Wks 6'2s A'47 xd—Ex-dividend. wi—When issued. n—New. ww—With warrants. SWIFT TRIAL ASKED IN MARTIN SHOOTING Hear Case of Ed Newman, Held for Indictment. Special Dispatch to The Star. STUART, Vi June 18.—A special grand jury and s swift trial were asked this morning of Judge Turner Clement in the Patrick County Circuit Court, which reconvened for the indictment of Ed Newman, charged with shooting John Lewis Martin near Shuff on Sun- day night. "The sheriff found six bul- lets in the dead man's body, one of them entering from behind, gnd his head severely clubbed.. It is charged that each man believed the other had reported him for illicit distilling and that both carried re- volvers for some time. On Sunday !vinlng Newman is said to have waited for Martin in the road where they renewed their quarrel. Martin is said to have been the first to draw a re- volver on emerging from his automo- bile. As he did so Newman opened fire. Martin's revolver was found to be fully loaded. BALTIMORE UTILITY GETS LINE EXTENSION Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, June 18—The Public Service Commission yesterday gave the | Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & | Power Co. of Baltimore permission to | construct an electric light and power | line to Owings Station, Calvert County, provided the line be completed within 2 month. The franchise for the territory in- volved was given about & year ago to the Suburban Electric Power Co. When the Consolidated applied for permis- sion to enter the territory, however, residents of the section indicated that they were eager to take advantage of the Baltimore company's rates. They also expressed impatience with the Suburban’s failure fo extend its lines into the territory, according to com- mission officials. Declaring that the construction of the Consolidated's line is ‘“necessary and convenient for the public service,” the commission gave the Baltimore utility permission to construct a line along the Solomons Island road from Friendship. Anne Arundel County, to Owings Station, COTTON TRI&DING QUIET. NEW YORK, June 18 (Special).— July liquidation caused a decline of 10 points in that month today in the cot- ton market, with the balance of the list about unchanged from last night under a very quiet market. Spot prices were reduced 10 points to 18.80. Low. Close. 37 December January March May 1920 WHEAT PRICES GAIN. ‘CHICAGO, June 18 (#).—Wheat scored price gains in the late dealings today, notwithstand earlier setbacks. Advances were ascribed largely to re- ports indicating need of soaking rains in North Dakota and elsewhere North- west. Central and northern sections of Alberta province, Canada, also were reported as badly short of moisture. BY J. C. ROYLE. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, June 18.—Retail mer- chants have started this week a vig- orous campaign against the “Summer | slump” in retail business. They have seen the manufacturers plow through the periods of usual decline without a | check this year and are determined to | do likewise. For the day has passed | when the merchant Is content to sit | down and assume that he is in for a | dull period in the Summer. | Vacation schedules are veing more | | carefully worked out than ever before, | although vacations for sales forces will be more extensive than in the past.| The more experienced and compeient clerks will not be allowed to leave in- discriminately. A backbone of ex- perienced workers will always be left to stiffen the efforts of the newcomers and substitutes. Vacation Time. Department store clerks in most cases are given a vacation after one yea service and vacation time with pay is extended to a fortnight with continued length of service, but employers con- ider a vacation so important nowadays that the most advanced ones are giving their clerks from a day or two to a week in the wintertime as well. They realize that the hot, tired, short- tempered clerk brings with added em- phasis to the buyers the fact that they also are hot, tired and short-tempered. Many stores are so arranging their electric fans so as to give the clerks the utmost comfort &5 well as the custom- MDBE and more shrewd truck- buyers are turning to this owing to the opening of new warc. houses and stores. The larger unifs of the department store class are scattering warehouse: of thelr own at advantageous points from each of which a line of trucks starts out each day. Even those with- out such warehouses overcome the dif- | ficulties by having some of their trucks run approximately 50 miles from the store before starting to make deliveries. “It has proved highly advantageous in the past for the stores to increase rather than diminish their advertising | vace in the city papers. families who spend the Summer out | of town have their local new. sent to them regularly. Advertis thus_brought to their attention hor wel em- | e the type of goods they are able | poem and a humorous monologue and | ccure at their home store in com- | a play featured the class night exercises parison with the limited stocks of the |of small shops in the less densely popu-| lated Summer resorts. tempers and vour cu: be mer it at their cle tunity. omers” and ham- ks at every oppor- | i chi Vanishing Oxen Teams. l Although oxen teams have not entire- ly disappeared from New England farms they are well on the way to the vanish- | ing point. In early lumbering operations oxen were invaluable in the Maine and New Hampshire logging camps. But | now they have been replaced almost | entirely by horses, and In some locali by motor tractors, in thi est land, Graduating ceremonies for who received seventh grade | certificates from the Bowie Elementary chool were also held yesterday, Thom- as P. Littlepage making the comence- ment address and presenting the cer- | tificates. | slouching thoughts, at our expense of the public speaking department of | himself. the University of Maryland, delivering | ford County, are making claim for the prineipal Huffington, principal, awarding diplomas | largely prohibition charges, is to go to o the five members of the graduating | the attention of the grand jury. Thus clage. Cora Herman presented the valedic: | tory, and Louise Smith the salutatory | this” year being the first time thnsctby Federal prohibition agents. Bowie. | Other members of the graduating class | Thelma Harman, Jeahette Wild- man and Frances Davidson. Most of the |school song, written to the tune of | “Gypsy Love Song.’ was sung by the papers | school as the closing feature of the pro- | ments | gram. | Reading of the class history. prophecy | address, and Paul nors have been given at Te: the graduates last Friday. Special commencement services for | the seniors were held at Bowie M. E. nally, executives are placing the | Church on June 16 by Rev. H. H. Row- | { utmost stress on the slogan “Keep your ing new at Bowie. the ildren | Do Your Thinking on Your Feet. Some say that holding oneself arect duces pleasent thoughts, that deportment breeds and ird-rate thinking. The new | the last two graduation events | evil sitting down means His family, who live in Bed- | $10,000 war risk insurance. E.| " A considerable docket of new cases, {far there are about 20 charges, which include a number made here last Jan- uary, following & week of activity here James H. Hill, former stock play producer here, is under bond to appear fore court to answer iudictment charging him with not disclosing assets when filing a petition in bankruptey. $600,000,000 POWER MERGER IS PLANNED | By the Associated Press. 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And it is the flexible speed, the vibrationless power, for which BUICK engines are famed; excellent insurance of long, eco- nomical service-life. In every detail these trucks offer value that is possible only through unusual manufacturing advan- tages. They are modern in the truest, most practical meaning of the word. Prices contain no padding; top allowances are made on trade-ins —but no bloated excess allow- ances.Time payments are financed through our own Y. M. A. C. at lowest available rates. When we ask you to investigate we put real meaning into the suggestion by ourWork-Test offer. Accept it. S. O. S. Call—Franklin 505 ENGINEERS T \ Truck shown is 10,0001bs. Straight Rating Capacity (Maximum allowable gross weight). ‘1685 Others $1393 1o $3315 PONTIAC-powered for light duty; 7 types, 3,800-8,000 Ibs. Straight Rating Capacities, $625 to $1085. BIG BRUTE-powered for heave jest duty; 2 types, 28,000 lbs. Straight Rating Capacity; $4250 and $4350. ' NOTE: All prices given are chassis only, f. o. b. Pontiac, Michigan. Dealers CHARLOTTESVILLE, V: Motor Co. — Carpenter s TER TRUCK SALES Wheat closed strong 1 to 1% above yesterday's finish. Corn closed % to 1 up; oats at % decline to a shade ad- vance, and provisions varying from 2 setback to a rise of 17. WHEAT— High. July S . 1% September 111% December 1 Let CORN-—— July . 1% September o3 December 8% A3% Alum Co Amer 55 62 10115 Alum Ltd 55 48 ..... 963, Am Commonw 6s 44’ 1017 Am Gas & EI bs 2028 9412 4Am Pow & Lt 6s 2016 10414 Rad 4105 '47 ... 9574 Roll Mill 55 '48.. 9634 Seating 6s_'36, 3 Appal El Pow 55 '56. BAIE P & L 5s 58 MADISON, Va.—J. B. Carpenter. COVINGTON, Va.—Wright Moter Co. ROANOKE. Va.—Martin Bros. GLOUCESTER, Va—T. W. Turner, SUFFOLK, Va.—Briggs Motor Co. BROADWAY, Va.—Miller-Hoover Motor Co. STAUNTON, Va.—Motor Sales Co. PHOEBUS, H. M. Tessler. NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—Sheffleld Motor Truck Co. LYNCHBURG, Va—J. W. Fretwell. ORANGE, Va.—Smith-Hood, Elcar Co. 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