Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1937, Page 7

BUSIESS PROFTS SET AT BLLINS 1936 Szen Best Year Since 1929 Peak for American Industry. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 4.—American industry made a long stride in 1936 toward prosperity of thumping pro- portions, analysts agreed today as they studied data indicating net profits ex- ceeded $7,000,000,000 to rank it as the best year since the 1929 peak. The tentative estimate, which would indicate a 30 per cent advance from 1935, although 40 per cent under the $11,654,000,000 earned in 1929, was based on statements from 1,000 corpo- rations and experience with reports of previous years. Reports already available indicate a 80 per cent hike in net profits over 1935, but statisticians, in placing total net profits at $7,000,000,000 or possibly more, pointed out that wider gains usually are shown in the earlier reports in a period of recovery. ‘The 1930 net was $6,429,000,000. Pay Boosts Seen Result. SBome analysts saw in the vastly im- proved condition of American industry & partial explanation for the readiness with which hugs corporations in the motor, steel and other industries have Jacked up wages in response to labor demands for a larger share in the fruits of recovery. Many large companies have still to report and the complete tabulation of earnings of 500,000-odd concerns which file income tax returns will not be available for two years. The push toward former peaks has been led by heavy industry recently. Many important groups employing millions of workers are estimated to have had the best year since 1929. ‘These included automobile and auto parts manufacturers, machinery mak- ers, chemicals, oils, non-ferrous metals and others. Chemicals Show Gains. Although no large industry bettered its previous income peak, several ap- pear to have hung up the second or third best record in history. Chemi- cals, for instance, topped both 1927 and 1928. So did machine firms. Auto- mobile accessory units beat their 1927 income. The biggest gainers during 1936 ‘were steel and paper companies, which almost trebled income of the year be- fore, according to the recent survey of the National City Bank. Department stores picked up 156 per cent, followed closely by building ma- terials, up 154 per cent, and heating and plumbing, up 140. Other big gamers included rubbers, agricultural implements, machinery and sugars. ‘The only profit decline noted in the | bank's compilation was for woolen = companies. This was due principally | to the unusually heavy demand in 1935. RANKIN URGES DELAY IN PENSION DRIVE Veterans’ Committee Member Asks Assurance From Organ- ization. Chairman Rankin, Democrat, of Mississippi of the House War Vet- erans’ Committee told representatives of World War veterans’ organizations yesterday that the country should have some assurance a drive would not be started for a pension system. His statement was made at a com- mittee hearing on measures to extend pension provisions for widows and orphans of World War veterans. Millard Rice, legislative representa- tive of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, replied he was in no position to make s promise that pensions would not be sought. “I think this is a matter your or- ganization should take up this year at your convention,” Rankin said. The chairman said he believed that | World War veterans should not seek | pensions except for those in the upper age brackets. TEST SPENDER READY Replaces Teeth With False Set on Learning of $200. IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, March 4 UP).—Aged Rufus Pack, Townsend test spender, put a set of false teeth first yesterday on his list of what to buy. He was awarded $200 raised by merchants as an experiment. “As soon as I learned I would be the one to get the $200,” Pack said, “I had my teeth pulled—and ordered false ones. I haven't decided what all T will buy besides.” “A CUBE MAKES A CUP” GIRL’S FRIGHT DEATH BRINGS MURDER CHARGE Tennessee Carpenter Indicted ‘When Body Is Found on Aban- doned Railway. B) the Associatec Press. KINGSTON, Tenn, March 4—A 41-year-old carpenter was indicted on a murder charge yesterday in connec- tion with a girl's death which a physician attributed to heart attack brought on by fright. Sheriff Chester Davis listed the man as Gene Boles of Rockwood. The girl, Rose Allen Ashbrooks, 18, was found on an abandoned railway track near Rockwood November 16. Sheriff Davis said her sister, Mildred, told him they were walking when she discovered they were being followed. Rose Ellen, she told the sheriff, fell and Mildred ran for help. When returned with Paul Fickey of Ro wood, they found Rose Ellen dead, she said. s Dr. J. F. Register said the girl died of fright that brought on a heart attack. Boles was arrested. 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Open for registration 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. BOYD GRADUATES WIN THE PRIZE POSITIONS BUYU SEHUU 1333FST.N.W. NATIONAL 2338 WHEN “"FAGGED O0UT” You n‘cd a cup of hot Steero, the delicious beef drink. Chases that tired feeling, brings new pep and energy. Made in a jiffy... just drop a cubein- to a cup and add boiling water. Atall. drug, grocery and delicatessen stores. American Kitchen Products Co. 281 Water Street New York Distributed by Schietfelin & Co. NEW YORK CITY NewlOctrielsize, Also tins of 12,50 end 100 cubes. STEERO — THE ORIGINAL SOUILION CUBE A THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 4, CONVICTED JUDGE RESIGNS OFFICE California Justice Heads Off Two Legal Efforts to Oust Him From $10,000 Post. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 4.—Assocl- ate Justice Gavin W. Craig of the State District Court of Appeals head- ed off with announcement of his resignation yesterday two legal efforts to prevent him from continuing in his $10,000-a-year job while serving a year for conspiracy to obstruct his counsel as the State Supreme Court prepared to take up om rehear- ing the question whether Oraig was entitled to continue in ofice. The court previously ruled Craig’s convic- tion on the Federal charge May 5, 1935, in connection with the Italo Petroleum Co. mail fraud case did not automatically remove him from the bench. Craig was in jail at Sacramento awaiting a State Assembly committee hearing Monday in ouster proceedings. Chairman Kent Redwine said com- mittee action would depend on word from Gov. Frank F. Merriam on the resignation. Chief Justice William Waste of the State Supreme Court held the only question remaining was whether the TAXICAB ORGANIZER HELD GUILTY IN RIOT Baltimore Jury Convicts Harry Cohen—Six Other Counts Pend- ing Against Him. ‘BY the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, March 4—A crimi- nal court jury found Harry Cohen, taxicab union organizer, guilty yester- day on one count of inciting riot and disorder during a taxicab strike. Sentence was withheld pending the possibility of & new trial motion. Cohen 1937. remained free under a $15,000 bond arranged earlier. State's Attorney J. Bernard Wells announced he would bring the union organizer to trial Monday on another of six remaining counts charging him with inciting disorder on different dates. Before his first trial ended, Cohen went to the stand to deny he ever urged the striking drivers to riotous conduct. He said that instead he did all he could to prevent rowdyism. Mayor Howard W. Jackson and Po- lice Commissioner Charles D. Gaither were called to the stand as character witnesses for him. They said their relations with him had been peace- able, but that they did not know much about his general reputation. *% A—7 REFORESTATION URGED |the Porestry News Digest. addressed a luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club A yesterday at the Willard Hotel. Proposing the $3,000,000 appro- “Every idle man in the United States pristed for the Jeflerson memorial| oould be put to work for the next 25 might be better spent on & soil resto- | vears on such a project,” he said. OLD GOLD AND SILVER will bring you the area comprising the Louisiana Purchase, the land Jefferson bought for us, Russell T. 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