Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1930, Page 14

standard is to be maintained the{ 25% 7% Rio Grande Oil.. i « will have to center very largely in these | 56's 43 Royal Dutch a3.2165, two countries. 122% b1% Safeway Stores.(5).. sponsibility—these two gold piles of the| 76% 40 St L Southwestern , . or a beautiful chair—something to look | 55% 45 Scott Paper (1.40).. : at, It is the life blood of nations. But| 12% 1% Seaboard Afr Lin . States be sufficient to maintain the do-| 32% 10% Sharon Steel Hoop. : | E 3 | its last business summary, concludes that while we are “without doudt at a Report of Short Selling. Jow level of activity, such as has not past, it is apparent that we not in the next few months, but in the —14 = FRANCE INCREASES | 7S GOLD SUPLY Holdings Are Now Second|-3 ** §22'.f'$:§§;°<:’.§.’..’ut 5 / » FINANCIAL. 86% 64% Penna R 1; i 325 212 Peopl 17 22¢ Only to Those of United 101 94% Pere Marg pr pf (5).. 50s States. an 2 ? 5% 2 53 25% 63 BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR. ol he 1% .- Special Dispateh to The Star. % 6 NEW YORK, October 325.—France| 22% 8 - eontinues to be & magnet for gold. She g;: % seems anxious to build up a greater pile| 155 2 66 of gold than any other gation in the| 54 3 ErRineOn & 10 2 . 60 % Prairie Pipe ) 4 2 " ok Acquircd more of the protione metal | T8% 52% Proct & Gamb (. H than England, Russla and Germany,| 11% 4 Prod & Refiner: 2 and her holdings are beginning to com- | 123% 79 PubSvNJ (3.4 o in size with those of the United | 135% 121 PubSvNJpf(7).... 1 131 tes. !;h S: ;ull:nnAnlcorpsuL : o] ded another $43- ] unta AlegreSugar. . .o%‘o::) % :e:neu:am largest w::uy 27% 10% PureOll.... <10 18 increase in all the history of the Bank | 114% 104 Pure Ol pf (8) . 908 105 of Prance. Since July she has added| 88% 52 Purity Bakerles (4).. 18 b54% $254,000,000 to her gold reserves. 69% 20 Radio Corp, 24 o “vears ago French gold Holdmgs| So 171 Radio-Kenh-Orsh French d hol 0 adio-Keith-Orpl h‘:‘:- crensed. $883.000,000 and stand | 58% 19% Raybestos Man .60 20% @t the enormous figure of $1972,000,-| 141% 984 Reading Rwy (4) 97 - 000—really more than the Federal re-| 46l 18 Rem Rand (1.60).... 52 19% serve banks held in the Autumn of 1918 14% 8% Reo Motor Car (80¢). 20’1 44 present holdings of the United States: | 95% 54 Republic Steel pf (6) 1 59 Prance and the United States to-[ 34% 14 Reynolds Metals(2). 2 17% and now only $1,044,000,000 under the| 79% 18 Republic Steel, r hold nearly half of the mone-| §8% 44 Reynolds Tob B (3).. gold of the world. If the gold| 28% 6 Richfield Oil (new) of Europe's reconstruction| 48% 21 Rossia Insur (2.20) But when the latest German loan of | 571 28 StJoseph Lead (13).. $125,000,000 was made not & dollar was | 118% 64% St L-San Fran (8). .. subscribed by France. It is a heavy re-| 101 78 St L-San Fran pt (8). jwo richest blics on earth. 94% 77 St L Southwn pf (5), A gold pile is not like an oil painting | 13's 41 Schulte Retail Strs. . o 8 some governments have put gold in the| 28 3 Seab'd Air Line pf... * same cl the oil 7 Segrave (1.20)... beautiful chair—something to look at. 100% 48% Sears Roebuck 324 1% Seneca Copper. Fuel Output. 131 4% Servel Inc. .. ‘Will the output of fuel in the United| 27% 16 Snarp & Dohme. IS JOTS - PO NN - H 2 . total| 52 26% Shattuck(FG)(11%) nmm m‘l’l,mmpu?nuflc s in| 25% 9% Shell Union Oll..... ofl reached 13,000,000 barrels over | 35 7% Shubert Theaters crude 94% 15 Simmons Co,.. e e D eIy T ean?| 22 18 Binolair Con Oil (3 o jational trial ce| 42 17% Skelly Oll (2)..eeueu Boar s pinted aut that prompt sec| 99% 75 - Skelly Oll pf (6). tion in adopting rvation program | 118 - 95% Solvay Am pr ww 5% a conse = | "30% 11% Sou P Rio Sug (1.40). Ry Qe fon ol 47% Southern Cal £4 (2). Droduced in 1928, | 127 1024 Southern Pacifie (6). Tepresented. domestic con- | 136% 8% Southern Rwy (8)... gaes g3 88 g% ¢ nptio 101 85 Southern Rwy pf (5) it L RONN0 WAk the DL son 11% Sparke Withing (.. “A de 10% pear eeans ol e O O B o States "pased | 25 12 Spencer Keliok{#06). on the situation in 1928, would really| 36% 10 Spicer Mfg...... 52 8% Splegel-May-Stern. Secrense b 200000000 oarrew: | 29% 15% Stand Brands (%) p - T% 3% Stand Comm Tob, D e ey e o a0,000,000 | 129% 704 Siand G & K (3%). Stand Invest Corp. . equivalent to 45,000 | 73 (3% SU0G GeRt Core s 000 short tons of coal, according to the | 106, g5 Stand Ol Exp pf (5. SRunBrbBhoniarnatumnuani® - H b3 5 [-3 ‘Conference Board. 49 19 Stand Oil of Kan (2) Now the oversupply of crude ol 0! 84x 52 StandOllof NJ (12) 10 MIWM‘IH ‘nfl&‘*" vt A blee 40% 25% Stand OIIN ¥ (1.60). 5 . able s Sstimated aversse | 2014 41 Sterling Sec (A). 1 'Mh-ll; mm:'mwsum ‘was the| 48 31% SterlSeccvpf (3). 3 barrel o 1916 47 17% Stewart-Warner (2). 26 o i o il Sl B 113% ~ 52% Stone & Webster (4). 7 ¢ Fuel ofl prices et 'the | 47% 194 Studebaker Corp (3). 17 eheap, but it’s no indication that T - & Dulimacing Bea 7 future oil supply is unlimited and the 13 Superior Ofl. .o 3 oil should not ey 17 8% TennCop&Ch (1)... 4 “The present trend of oil conser-| g5,. ggs, Texas Corp (3). 31 movement proposes to rationin | 67% 48% Tex Gulf Bulph (). 57 plish this result through co-operation,” | 140 "5, Texas PC & Of1. 2 says the National Industrial Conference | 3oy 13 Texas Pac Land Tr.. 90 26% 6% Thermold Co. 2 Surveys OU Situation. 15% 6% Third Avenus, 2 NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office. (Continued From Page 13). Stock and Dividend Rate. Third Nat Inv (2)... Thompson Pr (2.40) Stock and Sales— High. Low Dividend Rate. Add 00. High. B5% 264 Pénick & Ford (1%). 6 39% Thompson Starrett. . ‘Thomp-Star pf (3%) Tide Water As (60c) Timken Det Ax (80¢) Timken Roller (3)... ‘Tob Prod (A) (80¢).. Transamerica (1) Transue &W (1) ‘Tri-Cont Corp.... ‘Tri-Cont Corp pf (6) Truscon St] (£1.20).. Twin City RT pf (7). Und-Ell-Fischer (5) . Union Bag & Paper. . Union Carbide (2.60) Union Oil, Calif ($2). Union Pacifie (10)... Union Pacific pf (4)., Un Tank Car (1.60).. Utd Alreraft. . - Utd Alrcraft pf (3).. Utd Biscuit (1 60)... Utd Carbon (2) Utd Cigar Stort Utd Corp (50¢).. Utd Corp pf (3). Utd Fruit (4). y Utd Gas & Im (1.20)... Utd Piece Dys W (2) Utd Stores (A) 5 SRuReruEBonnE8in Sonnne~taane Y Realty&Imp( nwenunn - = - s ) Univ Leaf Tob (3) Univ Leaf T pf (8) » IO - O ST P o Univ Pipe & Raa Util Pow & Lt A o Va-Car Chem 6% pf. Va El & Pow pf (6).. 108 Vulean Det (4) .12 Wabash..... Waldorf Systm (13%) Ward Baking (A).... Ward Baking (B) Ward Baking pf (7).. Warren Bros (3)..., Warner Bros Plot. ... 282 utn o Sen $ War Bros cv pf (3)..1! Warren Fdy & P (3). Webster Eisenlohr. . Wess Oil & Snow (2). Wess O & 8n pf (4).. West Penn El pt (7).. West Penn P pf (7).. Western Dairy A (4). Western Dairy (B).. Western Md... Western Pacific p! Western Union (8) Westingh'se A B (2). n El Instr (1) Motors (2).... Willys-Overland. . Woolworth (2.40). .. Worthington Pump. , Wrigley (Wm) (4) Yale & Towne (2). Yellow Truek. .. Youngs Spring (3) Dividend rates s given in wmnulnmnm‘.m‘“?: s’ ataRS! Jeader, s bekn ‘n the. Ualted Srates . s & ami-hana survey of the | JROP IN VAN SWERINGEN ‘making situation. The English oil magnate is e “Govlopment ot the Anglo-Fertan STOCKS RESULTS IN INQUIRY Shell, together with hundreds of th —— s sty depost Exchange Officials Start Investigation to barns ol of e Butngon 1| Determine Source of Liquidation. ey company, which o b B e B X Depresscd Issues Recover. nated royal family, I have learned upon good - authority owns from a fifth to a quarter | Special Dispatch to Tise Star. of the mk of this very closely held| NEW YORK, October 25.—The New corporation. York Stock Exchange has begun an in- bearS,company's holdings have DEVET | vestigation to determine whether & bear lhfincuhher:w-:khnmn. ¢ raid was responsible for selling of key iy Db stocks in the Van Sweringen railroad Dr. Jacob G. Schurman, former presi- | structure, it was learned yesterday. dent of Cornell um"rng. recently | The heavy liquidation of these stocks, United States Ambassador ‘Germany, 2 his bility o unders ‘n'wnrep:udln'.b:h:t«‘r’:;iemm what lies at the bottom of the present |Of & Plan to depress Tadirond business depression. But who does? group. Meanwhile, there was circulated “The wisest economist knows these |reports that one large begr operalor disturbances, causing industrial and | hadq been trapped in an attack on the | ¢ e , reoccur every 10 |giock of one of the Van Sweringen Ennorn." says Dr. Schurman. “They | rafiroads. These were accompanied by : lie deep in the foundations and func-|gharp recoveries in all Van Sweringen tionings of our modern system of Pro- |syneks and bonds. + duction and , distribution of material | “roouiry at the Stock Exchange in re- commodities. spect to the investigation of the selling But the capitalistic system is man- | ¢ yan Sweringen stocks was met with made. Business prosperity is man-|ine reply that no questionnaire on the made. 50 is business depression. Some |y hject had been issued. Stock Ex- call the trouble “overproduction,”some | hange investigations become public ‘underconsumption” and some “credit only when these qmmmgauf is- , but the Committee on Business Now, the capitalistic system s not | S L% L0e COmEILEe o8 it old in the world. It is comparatively | gy¢ the circulation of these documents. new. Any system that is man-made i | 1 yas learned that an examination of subject to correction. the books of some members of the ex- And its solution is of vastly greater change had been begun, but had not phan afY piee. 2s yet disclosed the mature of the sell- | the Brookmire Economic Service. in {0y the satisfaction of the committee. often continued for very long in the | of several bear operators to the decine ave not veringen stocks. One story found the bottom, and the Droba- | i rpve s operaior who Mmade & for- ties are that the depression will be rt selling in the break of t further prolonged rather | {ha et wsat. October had sold on n immediate | Thyrsday most of the 72,000 shares of Erie Ratlroad stock that changed hands improvement will become | on ‘that day. When he endeavored to nt by next Spring, according 10 | gptain actual stock for delivery on the and the year 1931 as a discovered that he had whole “will be one of improvement, | COMTacts; De discovered (oat g In- to & return'of approximately | terests that have been associated With Dormal business by the end of the|ine Van Sweringens and that it was to 5 m that he would have to turn to ol There is & growing list of business | (HEM (L% SRUE "Gclvery ‘yesterday in accordance with Stock Exchange reg- than that there will be Tecovery from existing lev Business Jeaders who believe that the present decline will show a real upturn, | 1 AC*0K elosing months of 1931. rt. the house agreed (Copyrisht. 1830, by North American News- g"le::fil?q e stock at's premium of . one-eighth. This had the effect of giv- NEW YORK, October 25 (#)—An-|d8y. chor Cap Corporation and subsidiaries today reported for the third quarter ~ = r last year. : ” Patino Mines & Enterprises reported third quarter net loss of $17 t against net profit of $1,041451, eq al to 75 cents a share, in the third quart- | post fresh amounts of marketable se- 5 yesterday. As usual, neither had any Slock of the Alleghany Cor of ny rporation, which is the king pin in the Van Swer- railroad holding ture, recovered 1% points yesterday and It controls the Ch ration, and stock of this organization advanced 5% points to a closing price of 49. Stock of the Ches- & Ohlo Railway, peake Corporation econtrols, ad- ints to a close of 43%. toda, railroad controlled by the Alleghany |52 !I(;ltg’n, ldvlnbedm‘ ~ vl% points to er gal y Van Swi rallroad stocks were made hym Plate, which gained 3! points to a close of 88%4, and Pere Marquette, which gained 85 points to a close of 108. Pere Mlmu;_t}tl: dropj y. e company struc- closed at 11%. peake CHICAGO ST CHICAGO, October 25.—Fol the complete official list of ks on the Chicago Stock Exchange ped 20 points on Thurs- gains in other Van Swerin- gen stcoks yesterday in some cases off- set the losses of Thursday. Recoveries in Bond Issues. Among the Van Sweringen bonds Al- leghany Corporation 5s of 1944 ad- vanced 7 points, the 5s of 1949 ad- vanced 6 points and the 5s of 1950 ad- vanced 8 points. Chesapeake Corpora- tion 58 of 1947 advanced 3 Curb, Van Sweringen 65 of 1935 advanced 10'2 points. The Van Sweringen Corporation in- denture provides that there be main- tained as additional collateral for the 6 per cent notes 50 ketable securities. holds large amounts of stock in the tion, but it was re- i "ym;t L;u "irmu of the nture recen y depositing Mis- souri Pacific stock. o The Alleghany Corporation agreed as security for its bonds to maintain securities worth 150 per cent of the values of the bonds. The next evalua- tion is to be about November 1. It was reported that the Alleghany Cerporation had collateral availab) der its three collateral trust bond issues amounting to nearly 217 per cent of the par value of the bonds on the basis of Thursday's closing prices for its hold- ings of securities. RAIN MARKET CHICAGO, October 25 (Special).— The wheat market was weak today under scattered selling influenced by the break in Liverpool. opened 79%; to 79%; new, 79%; March, old, 83%; to 83%: new, 83%; May, old, to 84%; new, 85! to 85%. the first half hour, December, old, 79%; new, 797 & March, old 83)2; new, 83%; May, old 83%; new, 85, Corn was easier with wheat. Decem. ber, old, opened 78'4 to 78%; new, March, old 79%; May, old. 82% to 8235. After the 3 old, 78%: new, nV&;‘mrch. old, e R ‘Wall Street gossip linked the names cent in mar- S BES! & TR Corcoran (10) ' J130 t Lak 1950 Grigsby-Grunow 150 Hou Her for deposit un- After some nej tion; according to At his sal EARNINGS REPORTED. | moie stock advanced 5% points yester- The Van Sweringens .control their railroads through a series of holding companies, forming what is sometimes net.profit equal to $1.06 a share on|described as a pyramid. The general m.'lgl common shares, against $1.36 | decline of all railroad stocks recently ahare on 221,088 shares in the like | caused conjecture as to the cumulative December, old, i) S3588s e IR o5 \ EEEFE sma SeselelEsgissssestaals : i i L T e AT it e it Dot December, old, 36%; May, 39%; new, Provldm ‘were quiet. CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET. wBeltaSals = o =3 TP BONDS AR STEADY N ACTVE MARKET Brazilian Issues Make Fur- ther Recovery—Rail Group Stronger. . BY F. H. RICHARDSON. Special Dispatch to The Star. ORK, , October 25.. -Bo nger throughodt the list to- day. What was hailed as the end of the troubles in Brazil speeded up the further recovery of South Americans. | B German issues improved further, with advices indicating a better budgetary position for the news central govern- ment. Other foreign dollar bonds im- proved sympathetically. In the domestic department, junior railroad securities recovered on short covering and the statement of the presi- dent of the Chicago & Eastern ois Railroad that interest due November 1 on the road’s 5 per cent bonds had been Bales. Argentine 5%s provided. The Van Sweringen group | Ch of securities made continued wide re- coveries, partly because of an oversold condition and partly because of im- portant institutionai support. High- grade issues were in demand. Volume was good right from the open=- ing. The initial feature was the strength of Brazilian issues. Brazil 6)zs jumped 2% points. Brazil 8s rose 4!2 points. 1 | Sao Paulo 6s, Coffee Loan 7s, City of Sao Paulo 8 and Rio Grande Do Sul €s, 7s and 8s all made gains. Other strong South Americans were Chile 6s, Argentine 6s, Uruguay 6s, Bolivia 7s and :l, l;e.rll 6s, Buenos Aires 6s and Colom- ia 6s. . German Government 5%s had only & fractional galn, but German Central k 6s and Bavaria 6!2s moved up- + | ward more widely. French, Italian and other European credits were firm. High-grade domestic issues moved more narrowly, but there were gains in Great Northern 7s, Nickel Plate 4145, American Telephone 5';s, Standard Oil of New Jersey 5s, Columbia Gas Youngstown Sheet & Tube 5s and In- ternational Telephone 5s. In the United States Government group, Liberty fourth 4Ys it to & new high for the year. % | " “The convertibles were featured by 6% | sharp advances in the Alleghany 5s of 1944, 1949 and 1950. This reflected strength in the various Van Sweringen CARLOAD OF.RUM SEIZED Vancouver, B. C., Shipment De- clared to Be Worth $25,000. ST. LOUIS, October 25 (#).—A car- load of whisky and beer, shipped from Vancouver, British Columbia, was seized :: m;llbltlmmhlmhd her: lluh{;:let- y. James Dillon, deputy prol lon administ; ted the liquor to rator, estima be worth at least $25,000. the Wabash yards last night. The llm’ior will be destroyed today, Dillon sai Washington Stock Exchange SALES. / Barber & Ross 6155—$1,000 at 87. Capital Traction Co.—10 at 50%, 20 at 50%, 10 at 50%, 10 at 50%, 20 at 5014, 5 at 50V, 20 at 50%, 10 at 30%,. Potomac Electric 6% pfd.—5 at 111. Potomac Electric 5% % pfd.—5 at 108%. National Bank of Washington—10 af National Mtge. & Inv. pfd.—40 at 5. Re:;z Estate Mtge. & Inv. pfd.—50 at AFTER CALL. Washington Rwy. & Elec. prd—10 at Potomac Electric 68 1953—$100 at 105. Bid and Asked Prices. BONDS. PUBLIO UTILITY. Amer. Tel. & Telga B rove o 3 50 504 23 129" ot Power o5 f #e ot Biec. Fower 814 1o 100 Wash. Rwy. . com. (T} Wash, Rwy. & EI. pid. (). 98Y 9 NATIONAL BANK. Capital (14). 220 380 Columbta (12} 400 ... Commercial B3 District (®) 0 % 28 85 208 45 350 Amer. Security & Trust Co. (1 370 g, Beenriy &, T n Mercl ank & Trust ‘( 113% Natl. Savings & Trust (131 495 Prince Georges Bank & Tru 40 Union Trust ( A 250 Washington Loan & Trusi’ (i4 500 SAVINGS BANK. Bk of Bethesda (63). o East Washington R | Potomac (10} 5 5 Security Sav. & Com. 411 500 Tnired states (301, 3w Wash. Mechanics ( 0 60 FIRE INSURANCE. American (12). *300 Firemen's (8) i National Unioi 3 H Columbia (6h 8% 11 Real Estate ( 1357 190 Title & Inv. Co. Md. com. 30 . MISCELLANEOUS. Barber & Ros 18 Chevy Chase % 110 Dy Col. Medical Bl Col. Sand & Gravel p! © \Paper Mis ptd, Dlst. Natl. sec. prd. { Em, romo-Selz. 8855 gsEueseEEs German 5%s German Bank 6. German 7arep '49. 17 Haltl 63 52 Kreug & Toll Lyons 6s'34... 3. Norway 5%s '65. .. 8 13 20 3 1 3 17 12 112% 112% 112% 3 6 2 20 5 1 85 UNITED STATES. (Sales are in $1.000.) Low. Close. 11 10151015 1015 14 10217 10215 102 15 42 10318 10315 10317 111226 11226 11226 FOREIGN. Bales. HI ish. Low. Close. 5 874w 8Ty 87TW 5 94% 94% 94% 95 4% 95 9% 9% 8% 9% T8 103% 103% 103% 95% 9% 96% 103 103 103 108% 108t 1084 3 83% 83 83% 1 834 83% 834 2 97 91 97 4 24 24 3 69 684 68% 1 98 93 93 6 98% 98 98 1 109% 109% 109% 8 0% 94 9w s s g - g 6 102% 102% 102% Norway 6s 43, 1 105% 105% 105% N 4 105% 105% 105% Norway 6s 52. 17 102% 102 102 Orient dev 5% s 3 91 90% 91 Orient dev 6. 3 964 96% 96% 23 107% 107 107 1 103% 103% 103% 26 56 54 55 55% 55 55% :2% :9 69 4 Poland 78 *47 o e gt Poland 32 87 83% 87 0. Porto Alegre 8: Prague 7%s 52 Rhine West 6 eBRow aun ~Rouaklasan At Ref deb Bell Tel Pa Bell Tel Pa Chile Cop Colon Oi1 East C Sug 7%s '37 Fisk Rub u“ 1 Gen PSv6%s°39.. Gen St Cas 53849 IntT&T4%s'62.. 11 Int T&T cvé4u'39 21 96 94% It T&TEs'65.... 12 88 874 Kan CP&L6s A 'll‘ Loe Lorillard 6s '61. Lorillard 6348 '37 Lou G & Ei b5 52.. Midvale Steel 55’36 Mont Pow bs '43 Mont P db 5s A " Nat Dairy 64 s'48. . Ed 41, c Sincl O 6%s 8 SinclOTscvA " St Ol N Y 4% YouSt& T bs'78.. RAL o » = e e T 1 'S0 1 - » B8 mnnBuenBia & = ] H arunZoBan Tex Corp'ev 5344 106 64% 39 1041 104% 2 04 BEVENE~ HalRamaa 89% 88 89 89 102% 102 102 103% 103% 108% 82% 82 8 101% 101% 101% 93 9214 111% 111% 101% 101% 5 106% 106% 104% 103 104% 86% 86 102% 102% 40 40 44% 43% 97 97 10245 102% 94 94 100 98% 84% 84% 100 9% 84 83 102% 102% 100% 100% 101% 101% kil 7 71 0% 80 80 105% 105% 95 9% 103% 103% 90 89% 90 104% 104% 104% 101 101 101 104% 104% 104% 102% 102% 102% 100 . 99% 99% 114% 114% 114% 102% 1025 06% 106% 103% 103% 106% 106 106% 106% 102% 102 104% 104% 106% 106'% 9614 101 100% 93% 93 92% 92y 81% 81% 83 83 9% 95% 78 78 101% 101% 102% 102% 101% 101% 1004 100 925 924 104% 104% 106 1035 100 9o% 101 100% 98% 98y % 693 101% 101% 186 86 8 84 81 804 65 Soenaatemr~ nanenn 104 1 96% 1102 102 102 85 1031 108 108% pound, 36a4: 28; progess, Ta0: v | and” FINANCIAL. Sales. Hish. Low. Close. Atchtson gen s 95 10 | Atch'on ev 434841 B&Oecviln'is Brooklyn Elec 3. . Bklyn Elev 63 Bklyn Un B! . BR&Pitt %857, Can Nat 4%s Can Nat 4348 '8 Can Nat 4386 Can Nat 5s July * Can Nat 6s Oct *69 Can Nor 7s deb 40.. Can Pactfic @b Can Pac 4% s "4 Can Pacific 4% Cent Pacific 5 Ches Corp 58 *4 CB&Qgen 4 C B&Q 1ll1dv Ch Gr West ¢ Ch M St P&P s 15. Ch M & St Padj bs Ch & NW gn 4s'87. Chi NW 414sC 2037 Ch & NW con 4%8. Ch & NW 6348 '36. . Ch Rwys 68°27.... ChR1&Prf4s's4 ChR1cv4y . ChRI&P4KSA.. Ch Un Sta 53 B'63. CCC&St L 438 (E) CCC&SL5sD’63 Colo Sou 4 Cuba R R 68 °62. Cuba Nor 6%s 42.. Del & Hud rf 48 "43 Fla E Coast 58°7¢.. Fond J&G 4%s GrTrafdb Gr Trunk 7 Gr Nor 4%s 77 Gr Ner gen Green Bay Hav El Ry 5%s'51. 111 Cent 4553 11 Cent 4% s 6/ Int & Gr Nor 6s°52. Int&GNad 2. Int Rys C A 68°72.. Kan City Sou 3s'50 Kan City Sou bs ‘50 Kan City Ter Ore Short L 5s gtd. Penna 4s *48 Sta. Penn cv 4%s Penn 4%s 63 0, Read Jer Clen 4551 St L Ir M'nt 63 °31.. StL IM R&G 4s'33. Sou Rwy 6%3 56 Term As StL 5844 0 Third Av ref 4s Third Av adj 6s Un Pac 15t 4347 Wabash 438 78, West Md ¢s°53. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md, Potatoes, white, 100 pounds, 1.50a2.00; | yams, barrel, 2.5083.00; beans, hamper, 150a2.25; beets, 100, 2.0084.00; cab- bage, ton, 16.00a22.00; carrots, 100, 2.00 24.00; couliflower, celery, crate, 1.00a1.! 2.25a3.25; lettuce crate, 5081.00; lima beans, hamper, hamper, 25a50; 75; tomatoes, ham, bushel, 1.00; apples, cantaloupes, crate, 1.50a2.35; damsons, bushel, 1.75a2.00; Cnm, basket, 18a 20; bushel, 1.00a1.75; quinces, bushel, 1.25a1.50. v Poultry, ali und, 21a24 ens, 17224 utter—Good to fancy ladles, 28a30 32a34; store pack B A e e .. Eoneomtnonmmn SnasaE~ o SuakmcANwarwma 8 » B ~Nan = - e @ rem - - BReasnmo mHoSHHREGne Ha oun ~RAaRalS ave Sean~ oo ey - P T S = BRHG AT~ ANNNDRRNRANR BRI AN HHBRBON® N BERNNN " BUSINESS NEAR LOW Baltimore Markeis October 35.— eggplant, crate, spinach, bushel, 50a POTATO MARKET. CHICAGO, October 256 (United States De it of iture) - Colorado, McClures, few sales, 2.00. Steel Plant Operations. 7 e BONDS ) BISNESS UPTURN NOTED IN REVIEWS oz | Dun and Bradstreet’s Reveal Ir-provement in Re- tail Trade. % Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, October 35.—The gen- eral®trend of business is upward, and conditions are somewhat more encour aging than was the case a few weeks g0, according to the reviews of the mer- cantile agencies. Colder weather in the last week has stimulated buying of wearing apparel, although the increase 1s not up to the usual seasonal demand, 1t is stated. It is also noted that spe- cial sales and other means to increase the turnover of merchandise have met with some success, and that sentiment has mmnd._ One reports that raw mate: are ‘entering into consump- tion in greater volume. Bradstreet's says in part: “Coats and other heavy outer cov- ering sold more freely than at any pre- vious time this Fall. Coincidentally there was a pickup in coal buying, this more particularly in the Central West, and the situation in this line, aided by previous close managing of bituminous production, was rather more cheerful than for some time past. ‘In the speculative markets, wheat rather seemed to lead all others, the week seeing a rally of 4 to 5 cents from the low of last week, this partly e):: t: the idea that lhoutdl.he worst. nown as to crops and old sup- plies. Corn sympathized with a rather smaller gain, and, in fact, all were sympathetically affected. “The stock market seemed to move more uncertainly, with many new lows made as late as Wednesday, but with a disposition to follow other markets displayed hm..mum n‘eflwl as Crops was not ly different late, with rains or snows reported ful in some areas to Fall-sown but the extension of cold weather in o POINT, BANK ASSERTS Trust Company Also Quotes Opin- ions That Outlook Is Still None Too Bright. re only 7.3 per cen! 1029, a same period of , | provement over the a1.75; | nine months. On the other hand, in response to the that heavy re- duefionolmnnwfluwddmhmd first factors