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A—12 #% D.C. INSURANCE NEAR 1933 MARK 1936 Total Shows Decline of Only 1 Per Cent Dur- ing Year. BY EDWARD C. STONE. New life insurance written in Wash- ington in 1936 came within 1 per cent of the 1935 total and exceeded the national average, which was 4 per cent under the mark reached in the previous 12 months. The yearly figure was much better . than the Decem- ber record alone, which was 7 per ecent below ihe December, 1935, returns. Virginia was one of 19 States which increased sales during 1936, busi- ness being 1 per cent higher than the previous year. South Carolina sales were up 3 per cent in 1936 and Florida made & 6 per cent gain. Maryland lost 3 per cent for the year, West Virginia 2 per cent and North Carolina 6 per cent. In December Virginia wrote a total of $6,970,000, a gain of 2 per cent; South Carolina gained 1 per cent by writing $3,098,000. West Virginia’s new business amounted to $5,033,000, while North Carolina turned in a total of $7,633,000, which was 4 per cent under December, 1935. District of | Columbia agents wrote the substantial | amount of $5379,00 in the final| W. B. Wasner. 1936 High. T4% 03 108'3 1528 64 36 FINANCIAL, THE EVENING By Private Wire Direct to The Star Stock and Low. Dividend Rate. 59 Acme Steel (4) ___. 9% adams Exp (abbe). 17% Adams Millis(a1%) 2214 Address'graph 1) 1% Advance Rumiey 58 Afr Reduction (11). 2 AirWay Elec Applt 13 Alaska Jup (160c)— 215 Alleghany Corp-_. 128% Alleg pf w $30 w 124 Alleg pf w $40 Wo_- 27 Alleg pr pf «d) 26% Alleg Steel (a1.65)- 1567 Allled Chem (6) 6% Allied Stores(b20c). 35% Allis-Chalm (t13%). 19% Alph Port Cmt (1)-. 4 Amal Leather - 32 Amal Leath pf (3).. 75 Amerada Corp (2) 49 Am Ag Ch (Del) a4. 36 Am Bank Note (1) 65 Am Bnk Note pf (3) Am Can (14) 30 Am Car & Foundrv 31 Am Chain&Cab(a4) 20% Am Comel Al (a50c) 16% Am Crys Sug(b50c) 89 AmCryss Ist pt(6) 31 Am Encaustic - 6% Am & Foreign Pwr. 29% Am & For Pw 87 pf. 12 Am & For Pw 2d of. 13 Am Hawafian (1)__. 4% Am Hide & Leather. 31% Am Hide & L of (3) 37 Am Home P (12.40). 2% Am Ice 16's Am Ice pf 9% Am Intrnat’l 28% Am Locomotive = 66 Am Locom pf (a3)_. 21 Am Mach&Fdv(tl) 10 Am Mach & Met 60c. 27 Am Meta: 3 7% Am Power & uxht. 36% Am Pwr&Lt pf (5). 43 Am Pwr&Lt pf (6). 18% Am Radiator(160c). 23% Am Roll M (11.20) 18 Am Seating(a2}).. 25% Am Shipblde (2) 56% Am Smelt&Ref (3). 104 Am Smé&Ref pf (6). 136% Am Sm& Ref pf (7) 20% Am Steel Fdry (al) 24% Am Stores (2) . Sales— Add 00. High. Net Low. Close. Chge. 65% 65% 184 18% + % 26% + % 35 % + % 8 -% o5+ W 4% + % 4% 48 +1 46% + % u 2 + % 1 237% ZS‘H' 231% +lh 17% 17% 17% — 83 82 8215 — \i 36% 35% 36U + % 8 % % 48% 47 4T - % 109% 107% 109% +1% 1100 100 100 -1 3 40% 40%, 40% + % %8s 72 72 T2 6 mu llZ% 112% -1% 63% + 71!& 77* 1% + 28% 28 28% + 321 32w 32% + - 9T% 97X 10 9% 13% 134 68% 66% 37% 19% 8% 45% 49% 4 24% 1596 EEFRR S‘#*###f#‘# 28% 12% 60 14% lIlh. 46 69% Stock and 3 0ow. Diviaena te. 26 Contl Steel Corp(1) 55% Corn Ex Bk&Tr (3) 689: Corn Prod Ref (13). 4 Coty Inc 24 Crane = 15% f‘m-ley R-dlo aly% 43% Crown C'k&Seal (2) Tl Crown Zelleb'k vic. 28 Crucible Steel_____ 1% Cubs CO.- ... conmmne 9 Cuba RRpf.ccceae 6% Cuban-Am Sugar-.. 35% Cudahy Pkg (2%).. 16% Curtis Publishing.. 4 Curtiss Wright . 10% Curtiss-W (A) a5ve 52 Deere&Co .. . 27 Deere & Co pf(1.40) 36% Delaware & Hudson 14% Del Lack & West.__ 4% Den&Rio GW pf (d) 9% 163 128 Detroit Edison (t4) 40% 34% 95% 61% 12% 82% 36% 1% 3 8% 18% 42 Devoe & Rey (A) 13 30% Diamond Mtch 1% 18% Dist C'orp Seag Ltd. 93% Distillers C'p pf(5). 41'% Dome Mines (12) 7% Dominien Storet 50% Dourlass Atrer: 13 Dresser Mfg(B)a: % Duluth 8S Atl . 1% Duluth S S & Atl pt. 4% Dunhill Internatl__ 13% Duplan Silk (1) 184% 133 Du Pontde N a6.10. 21% 5% Eastern Roll Mills_ 186 156 Eastman Kod (16). 16% 29% 474 5% Eftington-Schild 22% El Paso Nat G(1.60) 30% Elec Auto Lite 72.40 l‘lB 110% Elec Auto L pf (7). 17% T% 25% b65% 1% 6% 69 16% 10% 10 Elec Boat (a60c) ... 6 KEl& MusindalSc.. 6% Klec Pw & Lt - 39% Elec Stor Bata2¥% . % Elk Horn Coal (d).. 1% Elk Horn C pf (d)_. 53% Endicott-John (3 T4 Eng Public Servi 5% Equit Off Bldg bl0c. 11 EreRK 22 16 Erle RR1stpf . 12 Eureka Vac C (30¢) 23% Evans Product(t1). 4% Exchange Buffet___ 2% Fatrbanks Co 815 Fairbanks Co p! 34% Fairb’ks-Morse(t1) lflfl 00. High. 1% T0% 69% 53% 924 Low. Close. cn.- 31% — % 0 — % 69% — % 8 + W 53 — &% 26% — % 924 +1% 23% — % 58% + % 2% 16% + % [ - ® 900069 59 O 3 03 1t 1t 14 20 2 O9 1 1 =3 00 e b VRO a1t o N o= Rat¥ 3% 4% 221 68y aigh. 131% 110 109 Stock and Low. Dividend Rate 27% Mack Trucks (t1)_. 40% Macy (R H) (2)__. 34% Magma Copper (a3) 1% Manati Sugar (4) .. 7% Manati Sug pf (4)_. 7 Mandell Bros (b1) .. 12% Man El ma gtd (d). 17% Mlnhl! Shirt (1)__. caibo Ol ExB_ S% erlnl Miara t40c. 2% Market St Ry 2d pf. 18% Market St Ry pr pf. 41 Marlin-Rock (12) _ 11% Marshall Fleld & Co 6% Martin Parry 13% Maytag Co (a50c)... 12% Mead Corp 55% Melville Shoe (15)-. 6% Mengel Co 50 Mengel Co pf 40% Mesta Mach (b75¢) - 5% Miami Copper 17% Mid-Cont Pet al.16. Mid St) 1st pf (8) 88 Milw El R&L pf (6) 12% 6% Minn Moline Pwr 94 2% 61 29% 9% 33% 22% 62 47% 19'% 155 383 3% 32% 28% 57% Minn-Moline pf(a3) 1% M St P&S S Marte . 2% M St P&SSMisIn 16% Mission Corp(a45c) 512 Mo Kans & Texas 14'4 Mo Kan & Tex pf A. 2, Missouri Pacifictd) 3% Mo Pacific of (d) . J9% Mohawk Carp +1.20. 79 Monsanto Chem t1._ 35% Montgom Ward(t2) 1# Mnt Wrd rts Jan 29 605 Morris&Essex 1% ) % Mother Lodeal2%¢ 28% Motor Prod (12) 15% Motor Wheel (1.60) 11% Mullins Mf(B)as0c 14 Murray Corp (a50c) 43 Myers(FE) & Br(3) Nash Kelvinator(1) 20% Nashv Chat & St L. 122 Natl Acme (a75¢c) .. 915 Nat Aviation (al).. 28% Nat Biscuit 1 60) 30% Nat B'd & Inval.ll. 21% Nat Cash Reg (al). 21 Nat Dairy Proal%. 112% 107% Nat Dairy P pf A(7) 244 10 Nat Dept Stores % Net Dist Prod (t2). Nat En & Stpg (2)_. Nat Lead (150¢) 601 Sales— Add 00. ae RTINS 08 208 1 9 4 3 4 1 19 130s 3 35 24 10s 108 35 2 106 106 106 10% + % 15% — % 31% +2% 82% -2% 14% 133 61 21% - % 31% + % 119 + % 14% 48% 36% 24% 37 43% 18% 13% 9% 27% 2% 3% 4T 48% 31 T0% 8% 24% 30% 15% 91 125 6% 42% 3T ++ FE OFEFEF FP STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1937. TRANSACTIONS ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 1036 Sow. 3 % Seaboard Afr L (d) 2 Seaboard A L pt(d) 30% Seaboard Oil (1)... el Inc (11) 20% Sharon Steel (11.20) 89 SharonStl B n! (8). 4% Sharpe & Dohm. 43% Sharp & D pf (l%) 11% Shattuck F G(150¢c) 380% Sheaffer Pen (2) 14% Shell Un O1] (a25c). 121% 102 Shell Un Ol pf 63 . 8% Sliver King (60¢c).. 19% Simmons Co (a3)... 3% Simms Petrol ... 19% Skelly O1) ——— 97% Skelly Oil pf (6)___ 54 Sloss-Sheffield Stl._. 65% Sloss-Sheft pf (7). 40% Smith (A O) 21 Snider Packing . 12% Socony Vac Oil a70c 3% So Am G & P(a30c) 26 South Port 8 (+2) 25 SoCal Edis (t1%)-. 2315 Southern Pacific 12% Southern Rallway.. 19 Southern Ry pf ... 6% Spalding (AG) . lll% 101% Spang C C pf (a16) 9% 5% Sparks- Withington 29% Spencer Kell (1.60). 15% Sperry C'p vte (al). 13% Spicer Mfs (a3) . Spiegel, Inc (b25¢c) - 21% Square D (B) al1% . 14% Stand Brands 180c. 129 1207% Stand Brands pf(7) 9% Stand Com Tobaceo 5% Stand Gas & E) (4). 914 Stand G&E 34 pf (d) 26% Stand G&E 87 of (d) 2 Stand [nv Corp. 35 Stana O of Cal (11). 32% Stand Ofl of mmd 11. 25 Stand Oil of Kanal 51% Stand Otiof NJ (11 65 Sterling Prod 13.80. 16% Stew-Warner t50¢ 14% Stone & Web (aZbc) 9tk Studebaker Corp -- 70 Sun Ofl (11) 118 Sun Ofl pf (6) 3 Superior Ol 9% Surerior Steel 23 Sutherind Pap *1 FINANCIAL. Adfl 00, High. Low. m Dhll. 2 1% 7 45% 10% 8b% 21 2 STOCKSIRREGULAR AT WEEK'S CLOSE Few Utilities, Specialties and Oils Gain—Others Show Hesitancy. 16%+ * Stock Averages FE SEESFEFEEERERE, Indust Rafls OG Net change . .1 ‘.’lluunlc‘ fxlxll‘g Today, close 98.7 399 534 725 Prev. day._. 98.6 39.8 53.4 72.5 Month ago.. 946 374 51.0 69.3 Year ago.__ 763 330 47.3 582 '36-37 high__ 99.3 435 54.0 1728 1936-7 low.. 734 302 434 55.1 1935 high_.. 763 31.2 44.7 56.1 1935 low.... 495 185 21.6 348 1932 low____ 175 87 239 169 1929 high.._146 9 153.9 184.3 157.7 1927 low.... 516 953 618 618 (Complled by the Assoclated Press.) BY VICTOR EUBANK, Associated Press Financial Writer. NEW YORK, January 23.—With strikes and floods tempering market sentiment, stocks found the going a bit difficult today, although oils, utili- ties and specialties continued to find favor. ‘While buying ardor was lacking in most categories, a number of new post-depression highs were registered and even the motors and steels exhib- ited resistance. ‘Transfers were around 1,000,000 shares. The General Motors unionization | struggle was being watched closely, with Wall Street still hoping a settlement will be reached before the controversy spreads to other sectors. 11i4+4+) ¥ EEFEFE i Stocks received little help from bonds and commodities, the majority 54% 6% + h 12 12 63% 48% Am Sugar (3) _ 145 129 Am Sugar pf (1) 26% 20% Am Sumatra Tob Natl Mal'ble&St! a2. Nat Pwr & Lt (a0c) month of 1936. The total December business for the South Atlantic States | 20Y% Swift & Co (11.30).. 12214 Fairbanks-M pf(6). T 28% Swift Intl Ltd «2) 31% Fajardo Sugar (2)_. FEFPEFES 6115 was $51,354,000 and for the United States $560,729,000. Delaware, which is listed in the South Atlantic group by the Life In- surance Sales Research Bureau at Hartford, topped the national record in December with a 61 per cent jump, while Oklahoma had the hardest luck | with & 24 per cent loss, although the Western States as a whole did better | than the Eastern States, the report | shows. Warner Heads Manufacturers. The Washington office of the Na- | tional Association of Manufacture: s announced today that C. M. Chester, | | chairman of General Goods, had been | elected chairman of the board of the association for 1937 and that William | B. Warner, president of the Mcca!lj Co,. was elected president. He is also chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Woolen Co. and last year served as vice president of the | manufacturers’ organization. At the same meeting in New York Thomas E. Wilson, chairman of the board of Wilson & Co., Chicago pack- ers, was elected first vice president; | &. Clay Williams, former N. R. A. ad- ministrator and chairman of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. of Winston Sa- lem, second vice president, and Wal-‘ ter J. Kohler, former Governor of | Wisconsin, third vice president. | ‘Warehousing Officers Elected. ! Col. Wrisley Brown was re-elected president and general counsel of the | Terminal Refrigerating & warehous- . ing Corp. at the | January meeting of the Board of | Directors held | yesterday after- noon. Col. Brown is also presldenp of the Potomac | Freight Termi- | nals Co. and is a | director of the| Norfolk & Wash- | ington Steamboat Co. and_the Na- | tional Bank of | Washington. | Other officers | re-elected were: | Vice presidents, William M. Hannay. Fred Ophuls and Simeon T. Price; secretary, Jerry P. Johnson; treasurer, Morris W. Bennett; controller, Rob- ert D, Marshall; supervising engineer, ‘Walter E. Bernd; assistant secretary, Philip R. Vrenier, and assistant treas- urer, Ernest M. Merrick. ; Store Accounts Grown Rapidly. | At the convention of the National | Retall Dry Goods Association in New | York, A. L. Pond, credit manager of ‘Thalhimer, Richmond, Va., cited re- tail credit figures showing cash busi- | ness of department storgs had dropped | ta about 47 per cent in 1935 compared with 65 per cent in 1925, indicating | the growth of credit merchandising in \ the meantime. “I believe an account that is opened | on a basis of character in good times | will not change in bad times,” he said. Many people who felt temporarily | in arrears during the depression had | paid up or reduced debts with the re- | 1 Wrisley Brown. 190% 102% 104 18 27% 881y 49 54% 35U | 118% 24 30% 149's Am Tel & Teleg (9) 87 Am Tobacco (5)_ 8815 Am Tobacco B (5 87 Am Type Foun 19 Am Wat Wkaa0c. 7% Am Woolen 528 Am Woolen pf (a4). % Am Writ Faper (d) 414 Am Writ Pap pf (d) 3% Am Zinc & Lead 24 Am Zinc & Lprpf.. 28 Anaconda Cop (t1). 15‘4 Anchor Cap (60¢) Anchor Cap pf(6%) 9 Andes Copper 3 AP W Paper 37. Archer-Dan-M (12) 4% Armour (1/linols) 66% Arm‘'r(Ill)or pf (6) Tl Arnold Const(b50c) 813 Artioom orp 12% Asso Dry Goods . 59 Atch To&S Fea2. 90%, Atch To&S Fe pf(5) 21% Atl CoastLine(al) 13's Atl Gulf&W I pfal. 26% Atlantic Kefin (1) 109 Atlantic Ref pf (4)_ 48 Atlas Powder (12)_ 14 Atlas Tack (1) 26% Auburn Auto 291 Austin Nichols pf A 4% Aviation Corp (Del) 2% dwin LOco 2% Baldwin Lo a 33% Baldw L pf asd(d). 15'» Baltimore & Uhlo_ . 21 Baitimore & Oh pf 39 Bang & Aroos (2%) Bang & Aroos pf(5) 21 Barber Co (a75¢c) .- 13% Barker Hrothers Bark Bros pf (2%)_ 14% Barnsdall Ol (1) .. 16% Bavuk Cigars t75¢ “ 100 Beatrice pf ww (5) 13 Beiding Hem (1) 21% Bendix Aviat(alls) 20 Beneficial L (b45c 48 Best&Co(72%). - 45% Bethlehem Stlall% 16% Beth Sti 6% vf(ly 18'% Black & Decker 25¢ 14! Blaw-Knox (a80c)- 167 BoeingrAirplane 40% Bohn Alum&Rr «3) 39 Bon Ami (B)b62%¢ 25% Boraen Co 11 60) . 64 Borg-Warner (4) .- 6 Boston & Maine 1% Botany Min A «d) 12'» Bridgp't Brass t40o 43% Briges MIg (12) 47 Briggs & Strat (3) 41 Bristol-Myers 12.40 40% Bkiyn-Man Tr (4)- 412 BKlyn & Queen 8 Brunswick-Balk 87 Bucyrus-Erie 9% Budd (E G) Mg 8% Budd Wheel (a20c). 20% Bullard Co (al%) .. % 11% Bulova Wateb __ 25 Burr Ad Mch(160¢c) 214 Bush Terminal (d) 14% Bush T Bidgzs pf(d) 7% Butler Bros 1a60c) 29% Butler Brospf 1% 2% Butte Cop & Z(abc) 16's Byers (A M) 54l Byers (A M) of 22 Byron Jackson t1 304 California Pack (2) & Callahan Zinc-Lead 6 Calumet & Hec a750 30 Campbell Wy (11) 10% Canada Dry G A 10% Canadian Pacihe . 37 Cannon Mills (a4) . 12% Cap Admin(A) (al) 45% Cap Aam pt A (3 91 Car Clin&O stpd(5) 68, Carriers & Gen a3ic ISW. lflah 183% +* 97% — 9% 184 27% 14 T5% e 979‘ 18 2% 13% FEESF FEE ¥ | - 167 21% 5% Tdw T4% 103 102% 102% 46% 46 46% 2n 42% 424 35% 34% 35% 15 115 115 82, 81% 81% 1% 17T% 17% 32y 32 32 41 41 41 8% 8% 8% 9% 9% 9% 8l 8% 8% 93 93 93 22% 224 22% 367 36!z 36% 2 42 42 42 208 106 1051 105% 3 39 381 38% 31% 30% 31% 4% 41 4l 341 34l 34% 19% 19% 19% 102% 102% 1027 145 14% 14% 27% 27% 2% 22 224 22% 58 58 9% T8% 19% 19% 38 37% 25% 254 36 44% A% 21% - o [P R P T T +HIEEE I+ FEEFER SEFFELESEEFS 3 H t+140 SR A SrEEs FH0+ FER F OFEFE FE FOF FFEFFEESE 45 “n 28% 43% 3 17% 338% 31 16% + % 60 17% - % 51 -1 + % -2 104 104 % 8 159 159 1231 118 72 31% 18% Federal Lt & Trac - 7% Federal Mot Tr 40¢. 214 Fed Water Sve (A) 38 Fidel Phoe F 1+1.60 24% Firestone T & R (2) 40 First Nat Strs t2%_ 30% Flintkote C'o (1) 461 Florence Stove ad 25% Florsheim(A) (11)_ 37 Follansbee Bros «d) 32 Food Machine (1).. 24% Foster-Wheeler ___ Francisco Sugar.... 231 Freeport SulCo (1). 3114 Fuller Co 24 of 3%, Gabriel Co (A) 15% Gar Wood Ind a5c_ 8% Gen Am Inv ‘a7ic). 42% Gen Am Trans'ta3. 10% Gen Baking (160c) - 7 Gen Bronze - = 5% Gen Cable 17 Gen Cable A - 70% Gen Cable pf (a7) - 49 Gen Cigar (v4) 34% Gen Electric (1) .. 33% Gen Foods (2) .- 7 Gen Gas & Eleoc (A) 14 GenG&E 6%cv pfA §8 Gen Mills (3) 53% Gen Motors (a4%). Gen Motors of (5) 38 Gen Print Ink (a5). 315 Gen Pub Service . 32% Gen Ry Signal (1).. 2 Gen Reaity & Util __ 26% Gen Realty & 17 pf_ 33% Gen Refrac (a31)- 32Y% Gen Sti Casting pf 17 Gen Theatre E (a2) 13% Gillette Saf R (u). 6% Gimbel Sros 84 Gimbel Bros pf (6 394 Glidden Co (2) 37 Gobel (Adolf) 6% (Goebel Brew (t20¢) 13% Goodrich (BF) (a)) 21% GGoodvear T & R 105% 100 Goody T&R cu pf 5. 116% 4% 11% 6% 87 Goodyear $7 pf (4)_ 2 Graham-Paige 1% Granby Cons (new) 314 Grand Unlon ctfs 16 Grand Un pf (al%) 2815 Graat(W T)(11.40) 324 Grt Northein pt 16 Grt North'n Ore (1) 31 GrtwtnSugt 22 Green (H L) (11.60) 50'3 Green Bay & W (5) J48, Greyhound (180¢c) . 1% Guantanamo Sugar 28% Gulf States Steel 33 Hack WprA (1%). 125‘6 104 Hamilton W pf (6). 55 30% Harb-Walker (¢2)_ 115 104 HatCopr ww (63). 9 21% 41 150 49% 124 108 4% Hayes Bodv 12% Hecker Prod (60e)- 25% Hercules Mot (t1) .. 84 Hercules Pow a5 - 30% Holland Fur (a1%) Holland Fura pf(6) 19% Holly Sugar (12) 22% Houd-Her (B) t1%. 54% Household Fin (4)_. 66% House Fin pf(4.68). 6% Houston V11 vic 48% Howe Sound (13) 314 Hudson & Manha 8t3 Hudson & Man pf._. 131 Hudson Motor Car_ 1 Hupp Motors. - 18% (llinols Central 4% Indian Refin (a1) % 25% Indu Rayon (11.68). 147 106 24% Th 18% 5% 18% 5% AT% 105% ingersoll-Rand(12) 6% Inspiration Copper. 5 InsSh Mdcfsa2lc. 10% Inter Rap T vto (d) 215 Intercont] Rubber.. 9% Interlake iron . 2% Int Agricultural .. 22% Int Agricul prpf._. 56% Int Harvester 2% . 28 10% 514 45% 4% 49% 41 3 - —mRaAN e D 2 = ] © ORR oA RS R e e (RN F1ENAES 108% 1231 - - - 2 - =t PYPYS o} - PSS-S [ x| 5 L+ L+ 0+ P+ |+ 11% 3%, 13 Natomas (150ic) Newp't Indus a6lc N Y Alrbrake a2% . NYCenual RR N Y Chicago & St L s NYChm&StLof . ¥ Dock pt Y Investors NYNH&H (d) ... Y NH & H pf (d) Y Ontario & West N Y Rvs of «d) \ Shiptullding N Y Shipbuilding pt N ¥ Steam pf (6) Norfolk Southn (d) Norfolk&Wn pf(4). North Am Aviation North Am Northern Norwalk T lr-&Ruh Ohio Ot (a6oc) Jltver Farm Equip. Omnibus Corp vte Otis Stee Otis Steel pr pf Pac Am Fish (t1) . 4 Pacinc Coast . *acific Coast 1st_. Pacitie Coast 24 Pacific Finan t1.80_ Pac Gas & Elec (2)_ Pac Lighting <3) . Pacific Mills (al) . Pac Tel & Teleg a7- Pacific T&T pf16) _ Pac West O (abic) - Packard Mot(a45c) Panhandie Pro & R Panhancle P&R of Paraffine Co (t2)... Paramount Piet Para Pic 1st pf (6). Param’t 2d pf a60c- Park Utah Parke Davis (al%) Parker Rust P t1% Parmelee Transp't_ Patbe Film Corp.-.. Peeriess Motor __. Penick & Ford (13). Penney(J C) (a7%) Penn Coal & Coke Penn Dixie Cement Penn Dixle C of A Penn Gl S'd cfs ab0c Penma Rallroad(a2) Peoples Drug (11). Peoples Gas Ch} Peoria & Eastern _ 4 Pet C'p of Am ad%0c. Pfeiffer Brew (1.20) 25% Phelps Dodgeali. 3% Phila Rap Tr (d) 1% Phila& Read C& 1. 66 Phillip Morris (3)_ 7% Phillips Jones 38l Phillips Pet (a23%). 5'2 Phoenix Hostery ... 8 Plerce Oll ot 1'4 Plerce Petroleum__ 28t Pllisbury ¥1 (1.60)_ Tis Pitts Coal . _. 35'3 Pitts Coal pf o T'3 Pitts Screw ab2%c. 23% Pittsburgh Steel Co 14 Pitts Term Coal pf. 2% Pitts United Corp... 5814 Pitts United Cpf.. 21 Pitts& W Va. 1% Pittston Co 117 Plymouth Oil ( 12 Poor & Co (B) 44 Porto R Am Tob A_. 1% Porto R Am Tob B_ 6% Postal Tel&C pZ (d) P ™ 0 B 1 FR—ARR RIS - S aD S @ S e — (U o T Ol ¥ & FES 2T T4 184 27% 224 12 38% 9y 4+ 1 | 149% 1 100 | 31% 324, 22 33% 968 9% 48" | 16 105 8% 87 19% 134 23% 20 39% 1254% 20% 62% 59 9% 18% 63% 19% 49% 101 5% 9% Vit L+ +4+ 8% « 115 7 2% 57 30% 48% 8l FELLERT T+ 4404401 o= 154% 115% 15 Symgton-Gould ww. 12% Symingtn Gould xw 6% Telautograph (6Uc) 5% Tenn Copaise 28% Texas Corp'n (11) 4% Texas Gulf Pr (abe) 33 Tex Gulf Sul (12) _ T4 Tex Pac C & O a25ec. 9% Texas P L T (al0c). 33% Thatcher Mfg (11)- 8% Thermotd Co ... 3% Third Avenue 8% Thomp'n (JR) t50¢c 4% Thompson Starrett 26 Thompson Star pf 14% Tide W A880 O 60c. lUGLy 100% Tide Wat A O pf(6) 12'4 Timken Detroft(t1) 56 Timken Roll B (12) 11 Transamerica t40c 14% Trans&Wn Air a25c 10% Transue&W (160c). T Tricontinental ai0c 221 20th Cent FF(11%) 47 Truax-Tra Cla2sc) 31% 20tn Cent F pf 1% 8% Mwineity RT 65% Twin CR T pf(al4) 2% Ulen & Co 74% Und-Ell-Fish(a2%) 38% Union Bag&Pap (2) 71% Union Carb & C 3.20 % 20% Union Ofl Calif (1). 081 Unton Pacific (6) 90% Unton Pacific pf (4) 22% Union Tank C 1.20 20% Unit Aircraft a50c. 13 Utd Alr L (a20¢) ... 24% United Bise (1.60) 68 United Carbon (13). 5% United Corp (a20c). 40% United Corp pf (3) 10% United Drug (a75¢c) 93 United Dyew of (7) 4 United Elec Coal .. 66% United Fruit (t3) __ 14% United Gas Imp (1) 6% United Paperboard 10 U S Distributing pf 13 US& Forn Secur.. 24% U 8 Freight (1) __ 80% U S Gypsum (12).._. % U S Hoffman 49 U S Hoffmezn pf 2% 31% U 8 Indus Alcohol 4'3 U S Leatber vtc 10% U S Leather A vic 21% U 8 Pipe & Fdry (3) 7% U S Reaity & Imp 16% U S Rubber - 47 U S Rubher ist of 6815 U S Smelting pf 3% 46% U S Steel U S Steel of (7) Utd St Yd (a12%e). 5 United Stores (A) 50 Univ Piet 1st ot 3% UtilPw & Lt A (d). 1 Vadsco Sales Corp 30 Vadsco Sales Co ot 16% Vanadium Corp ... 40 Vick Chem (12). Va-Car Chemical . Va-Car Chem 6% ot Va El-& Pwr pf (6) Va Iron Coal&Coke Vulcan Detin of (7) Wabasb (d) Waldorf Sys ¢1.20. alker (H) (2). s WalworthCo ____. Warner Bros Pict Warner Bros pic pf. Warner-Quin (d) % Warren Bros kesha Mot Webster Eisenlohr Well. Wesson U&S(50c) Wesson O&S pf (4) West Pa Elec A (7) West Pa Elec of (7) o= MO~ AR DN ». | of which shuffied about unevenly. Share gainers of fractions to 2 | points during the greater part of the quiet two-hour session included At- + 1y lantic Refining, Barnsdall, Standard 1, | Oil of New Jersey, Amerada, Pure Oil, | Consolidated Edison, North American, 14 | Container Corp., Mead Corp., United Electric Coal, Mohawk Carpet, Omni- % | bus, United Paperboard, Penn-Dixie, " | Thompson-Starrett preferred, Johns- Manville, Howe Sound, Douglas Air- | craft, Du Pont, Dejaware & Hudson | and Southern Pacific. | Narrow were General Motors, Chrys- |ler, United States Steel, Sears, Roe- ' | buck, United States Rubber, Goodyear, | Western Union, Anaconda, Kennecott, Santa Pe and Warner Bros. — 1 | In the backward department were + 1» | Westinghouse, Indian Refining, Ameri- | can Can, General Electric, J. I. Case, + % | Deere and Texas Corp. + Y| Declaration of a 15-cent dividend 2 | by Armour & Co. failed to stimulate ‘this stock. A better outlook for construction activities in coming months aided builing material shares. TR % i BALTIMORE STOCKS | epecial Dispateh to The Star BALTIMORE, Jaauary 3 Sales. STOCK: i Baiumore Fransit Deck ¥7 Consol Ga: A 1 5 Eastern unr Afiso(‘ — 1% [ 150 Eastern Sue . As of +1 1) Fidelty & Guar 1 Finance Amer % + T+1+ 1440 CHICAGO PRODUCE CHICAGO. January 23 (#.—Poultry, trueks; steady: hens over 5 pounds. 5 pounds and 'less, :_Leghori £, colored Springs. Plymouti br 31: Leghorn ghorn roost- 1%; young toms, 16: ducks. 4 up. white 3 smal. colored. 15: Northern geese. 15: pounds up, 3 firsts (8R- 10, centralized car- prices unchanged. 274: total United en N “old_stock Stronger undertone <u¥ steady. sligh | erate. demand light account cold Sacked. per_hundredweight: I Burbanks. 1. 325 set_Burbanks. c Colorado Red MeChires, O eeonsin Hound Whites. U s Michigan Russet Rurals, new stock. demand_light. Late sales Friday. Pl rldn el_ mus( Blisy Triumphs. Briis. ‘January. 155 Pebruary Potato futures. Idaho Russet: March, No. 1. 3.85: M First Mortcace Loans District of Columbia— & FEeE FE turn of better times, he observed. | 9215 Case (J 1) Co «4) ino Ad. | 143 116 Case (J 1) Com (1) e ated Ahc Federal Fouing M| 91 stn CaterpiliafTrac 63 's loan guaranty program | g, s Celanese Corpall to stimulate credit expansmn and | 116 106 Celof AmprofA7. employment a “wise move. 28% 173 Pressed Stee! Car 56 40% Proctor & Gam (12) 122% 115% Proc & Gam of (5) 50 39 Pub Service NJ 2.60 69% 367 Pullman Ine (1%) 24% 16 Pure OlI - 124‘1 115'6 12% 4 l’/fi 9% 96'a West Pa Pwr pf (7) ' Western Maryland Western Paocific Western Pacific pf West'n Un Tel b75c 2% int Hydro Elec (A) 4% Int Mercantile Mar. 10 intl Mining (a90c) . 43% Intl Nickel (a1.30)_. 3% int Paper & Pw1A) 129 129 96% 98 30% 30% lO'l!h 107% 35 5 + % | 10% 8 18% 663 23% Homes Apartments 3715 26% Jent Axuire «*lle) Insurance Officers Named. ‘The annual meeting of the share- holders of the Home Plate Glass In- surance Co. of the city of Washing- ton was held Thursday at the office | of the company, 918 F street, and the following trustees elected: Byron S. Adams, Wiiliam H. Baden, Charles R. Brown, George M. Emmerich, Philip L. Gore, Charles E. Hood, Al- bert W. Howard and William H. Som- ervell. The board subsequently elected the follownig officers: Byron S. Adams, president; George M. Emmerich, vice president; William H. Somervell, secretary-treasurer, and William H. Marbury, assistant secretary-treasurer. The company was incorpo un- der the laws of the District ®f Co- lumbia on February 11, 1882, and is now 55 years old. Bankers Guests at Dinner. Many special guests attended the dinner at the Washington Hotel last night in observance of the 70th anni- versary of the National Savings & Trust Co., at which H. Prescott Gatley, the bank’s president, presided. Among the guests were Marriner S. Eccles, chairman Federal Reserve Board;. M. 8. Szymczak, member Federal Reserve Board; Hugh Leach, president Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; C. H. Pope, vice president Munsey Trust Co.; Harry G. Meem, president Washington Loan & Trust Co.; Ord Preston, presi- dent Union Trust Co.; Walter Bastian, president District Bar Association; Marcy L. Sperry, president Washing- ton Gas Light Co., and I I. Chorpen- ning, chief national bank examiner of the fifth Federal Reserve district. ‘The bank’s own officers and directors were present and several New York bank officials were also guests. Herman L. Knoppel, Hyattsville, Md.; H. E. Williamson, Silver Spring, Md.; J. A. Doyle, Chevy Chase, Md. George T. Stewart, Morris E. O'Harra and H. O'Day Presson have returned from a three-day convention in New York of 150 wholesalers agd distribu- tors of Norge electrical a] 914 2315 19% 72 38% T8 84 2% 145 33% 2% 5% 4 12% 24% 65l 3 8 8 30% 14% 138% 23 13% 46% 4T 21% 663 1 lfih 86% % 23% 103 45% 136% 84% 128 9% 24% 5% 82 15% 4d% 25% 48% 109 Th 95 17% 106% 6% Central Foundry Co 2214 Central Violeta Sus 8% Certain-teed Prod 571 Certain-teed pf (6) 19 Champ Pap & F ¢1) 51 Ches & Ohio (12.80) 27% Ch) & East 111 pf(d) 1% Chi Grt West (d) . 4 ChiGrt Wopf(d) . 25% Chi Man Ord(t1%). 1% Chi M1l St P&P (d) 2% Cht M St P&P of (d) 2% Chi & N W (Q) 6% Chi& N W pf (d)__. 1214 Ch1 Pneumatic Tool 40% Chi Pne T pf (a3%) 1% Chi R 1&Pac «d) 3% Chi RI&P 6% pf 1d) 3% Chi R 1&P 7% of(d) 17% Chickash Cot Of1 __ 7 Cht'ds Co 85% Chrysler Corp(al2) 15% City lce & Fuel (2). 4% Citv Stores 23% Clark Equip(11.60). 33 Clev Grapb Br (2) . 13 Colgate P-P (50¢). 3915 Collins & AIK 13 107% Collins & Atk of (1) 28Y Colo Fuel & Iron___ 21 Colo & Southern .. 19% Colo & Soutb 1st pf 14 Columb G & Eadlc 80% Co) G & E pf (b) 31 Colum Pict vto (11) 94 Colum Carb etc(t4) 44 Comcl Credit (t4). 100% Comcl Credit of 4% 55 Com'l Invest T (t4) 14% Comc’l Solv (160c) - 2y Comw & Southern 59% Comw & Sou pf (3). 7 Conde Pud 30% Congoleum N 11.60 16 Congress Cigar (a2) 27% Consol Ed NY 3 _ 102 Consol Ed NY pri6) 4% Consol Film 3% Consol Laundries. 11% Consol Ofl '80a) _. 101 Consol Oil pf (5) . % Consol Testile (d) . 2 Cons Coal (Dsl)vte 10% 22 18% 1% 51 66% 10% 3% 70 +1% 2% + % 7 T% — % N -% 37% 37% 3T% 20 20% 20% 58% 58% 58% 111% 111% 111% 46% 46% 46% 23% 23% 23% 28 28 28 19 18% 18y 97% 97% 9T% -1 1 37% 37% 37% — % 1 128% 123% 123% 6 66% 66% + % 111 -2 6% +1% 20% 3% - % % + % 15% + % 39%% 40 — % 19% 19% + % 49% +1% l 1069: um. 106% + % 10 5% 6% 5% —% 1 114 1% 1% - % 111 16% 16% 16% 1 105% 105% 105% +1% 20 1% 1 1% 1 8% T+ ++1 40 FRRESFRES 20% 3% % 14% 21% Cons C ( Del) of vte 190- 15% Container Corp 1.20. 10% Cont) Baking «A) - 1% Contl Baking (B).. 63% Cont’l Can (13) .___. 17% Contl Dia Fibre(2). 35% Contl Insur (+1.60). 2% Cont) Motors 28% Contl Oil of Del(t1) 14% 8% 98% 30 93 19% 37% 22% 31% 93% 2Y% Int Paper & Pw (B) 1% [nt Paper & Pw (C) 20% Int Paper .- Pwpf.. 23 Intl Salt (t1%) _ 50 Intl Silver pf (a4) - 11% int Tel & Te) 10% Intersta DS (b2%). 156 Intertype Corp (1) 24% lsland Creek (2) 5815 Jewel Tea (t4). . _ 88 Johns-Manville(13) 125&4. 121% fohna-Manv of (7) 132 50% 26 75% Jones L 7% pfad¥% 393% Kalamazoo S (11) 13 Kans City Southern 17 Kauf'nn DS +1.60.. 237% Kayser J & Co (2)-. 19% Kelsey-H (A) a1l 17% Kelsey-H (B) al;_ 28% Kennecott (a1.70) 17% Keystone S&W blsc 8% Kin (GR)Co . 4% K Dept Strs .. 201 Kresgze (88) (1) - 36% Kress (S H) (1.60). 19x Kroger G&B(11.60) 20% Laclede Gas (St L). 15% Lambert Co (2) 12 Lee Rub&Tire:60c) 15% Leh Port Cmt (1%) 2 Lenigh Valiey Coal 9% Lehigh Coal pf. 8% Lehigh Valley R R. 89 Lehman Corp (13)_ 12 Lehn& Tinkall% 4T% Libby-Owens-G1(6) 7 Libby, McN& Lal. 97 Ligg & Myers (14) , 9T% Lizg&Mvers B (14) 67 19 Lily TulipCup t1% 25% Lima Locomotive _ 821% Liquid Carb (2.60) .. 43 Loew’s Ine (13) 108% 1043 Loew’s Inc pf (6%) 3% 61% 8% 45 ll: 26% 2 Loft Inc 85% Lone Star Cmt(12). 3% Long Bell Lum (A) 38% Loose-Wiles (2)... 107 Loose-Wiles pf (5). 21% Lortllard (P) 11.20. 151 140 Lorillard (P) pf(7) 20 Louisv GEEDTA 1% 57% Louisv & Nash b2% 22% Ludlum Steel (1) 124 McCrorv Stores 16 McGraw-Hill 12%e¢. 38% Mcintyre Porcu (3) 83% McKeesp't TP (t4)- 8% McKesson & Rob .. 37% McKess&Rob ot 11% McLellan 8t (b75¢. 97% McLellan Strs nm) T++ 1401401 oo D 1 00 10 s e 3 2310 1O B0 = S ~Sam® 19% %% % 13% 13% 110 110% 110% 111 21 21% + 63% 64% +1 L+ 4+ +++ 1 110 110 ey % 3 60 02\-42 9% 9% + % 8T%h — % 13% - % 45% — % 16% 118 91Y% Pure Oi1 6% pf. 133% 103 PureO118% pf 20% 19% 10% 49% 9% Purity Bak (t40¢) .. 16% Quaker Sta Ref 80c. 9%, Kadio Corp 68t Radlo Corp pf A 3% 5 Radio-Keitn-Or (d) 11 R R Sec L1} Cent 287 Raybestos-M t13%.. 9% Real Silk Hostery . 17% Rem Rand (160c) . 81 Rm Rnd pf ww 4%_ 4% Lteo Motor Car 16% Revublic Steel 77 Repub Steel pfal2. 8% Kep Stl pr of A (6) 90 Revere C&B pf a3l 221, Reynolds Met (1) 25 Reynolds Spring t1. 50 Revnolds Tob B (3) 19% Ritter Dental (1) . 74% Ruberoid Co (t1)__. 5% Rutland R R pf 27 Safeway Stores(13) 114% 110% Safeway Strs of (7) 50% 3% NEW 22 StJoseph L (al)_- 1% St L-San Fran (d). 2% St L-San Fr pf (4). 7% St L Southw'n (d) . 37% Schenley Dist (13). 93 Scuentey D pf (6%) 13 Schulte R Strs (d)_ T8 Schulte R S pf (d)- 5315 Scott Paper RUBBER FUTURES. YORK. January 23 (). —Crude rubber futures ‘closed easy. unchanged to wel N tands ‘September, ~ Decem oked rlbhed. spot, 20. EOn. n—Nomin Money for Construction Loans Loans on Improved Properties 52% FIRST DEED OF TRUST ONLY GEORGE 1. BORGER 643 Indiana Ave. N.W. Wat'l 0350 1+ 4+ FEers FREE Fare 50% 153'3 28% 1634 87% 42% 9% 160 123% ‘payments based reorganized Westinghse A B (l) Westh'se Kl (a5 Westhse E 1si '3“/: 22% West'n El Inst a8bc Weston Elec A (2) Westvaco Chlor (1) Westvaco 6%pf 1% Wheel & Lake Erie Wheeling Steel ___ White Motor 13% White Rk M 8(1.40) 16 White Sew Mch pf. 2% Wilcox Ol & Gas 6% Wilson & Co (50c).. 70 Wilson & Co pf (6). 44% Woolworth (2.40) 23% Worthington Pump 56 Worth Pump ot A 47 Worth Pumpof B . 625% Wright Aero (a1)._ 33% Yale & Towne 160c- 8% Yellow Tr & Coach 8314 Yellow Tr&C pf a35 41% Younxs'tn Sheet&T 122 1056 Ygstn S&T pf(5%) 21% Zenith Radio (b50c) 5% Zonite Products 11:00 A.M. Approximate Sales of Stocks on the N. Y. Stock Exchange. | 520,000 ‘Total Sales for the day, 1,120,000 Dividend rates as given in the above tsvle are the runual cash on the latest quarterly or half-yearly deciarations. * Annual ra‘e—not a Paid 5 dcom:nmu reported in receivership or being Nearby Maryland — and /.vq-ma—- Business 5 Properties " Terms from 3 to 15 Years Also Monthly Payment Loans Randall H. Hagner & Co. Incorporated MORTGAGE LOAN CORRESPONDENT| New York Lite Insurance Co. 1321 Conn. Ave. N.W. DE. 3609| First | Mortgage Money For CONSTRUCTION LOANS and tnis year. In a plant at Nanking the first Chinese automobiles are being made. REAL ESTATE LOANS RESIDENCE and SMALL BUSINESS PROPERTIES. -FRED T. NESBIT 1010 VERMONT AVE. DISTRICT 9392 SecoTrluo %% "'WIII-OI‘III money l“ on_ owner-occupied -n L, Sha ngary e S Ve Uni Finance Co. 5% INTEREST CONSTRUCTION LOANS AND STRAIGHT 3-yr. LOANS Prompt Action on Applications Real Estate Mortgage LOANS ON IMPROVED PROPERTY in the District of Columbia Nearby Maryland and Virginia 5Y2% Promp: Action B.F.SAUL CO. “95 15th Street Natl. 2100