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OF PROFITS OF CORPORATIONS CONTINUES RISE 44.5 Billion Dollars on Annual Basis, U.S. Report for Third Quarter Says. By RICHARD DUDMAN A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch, WASHINGTON, Jan. 23-Corporate profits for the third quarter of 1955, before taxes, climbed to an annual of 44.5 billion dollars, continuing 8 continuous quarter-to-quarter gain since fall 1954, the Department of Commerce reported today. The new rate 1s 1.5 billion dollars over the 43-billion-dollar level on which Secretary of the Treasury George M.

Humphrey said last week the narrowlybalanced 1957 budget was based. A continued upswing could mit an income tax cut, which he ruled out for the present on the ground it would necessitate an increase in the national debt. On the NBC radio-television program "Meet the Press" yesterday, Humphrey emphasized quarter to quarter fluctuations of corporate income and stood by his estimate. This rate of corporate profits before taxes, up 1.5 billion dolJars from the second-quarter rate, still stood below the peaks late 1950 and early 1951, when inventory gains had been far larger, but was higher than in any other period. The current steady upswing has been in progress since a dip to less than 34 billion in the third quarter of 1954.

After-tax profits in the third quarter are estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 22.2 billion dollars. This compares with rates of 21.4 billion in the previous quarter and 16.7 billion in the third quarter of 1954. The effective rate of federal and state taxes on corporate income has remained stable at about 50 per cent through this period. The Commerce Department put national income at an annual rate of 326 billion dollars for the third quarter--five billion or percent above the second-quarter figure and nine percent over the figure for the third quarter of 1954. Manufacturing and mining made the sharpest gains, it was reported.

Employes' compensation for the first nine months of 1955 was at an annual rate of 219 billion dollars, compared with 208 billion for 1954 and 209 billion in 1953. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission reported that the nation's manufacturing corportions made profits after taxes of 3.7 billion dollars in the third quarter of 1955. Their report said these profits were down somewhat from the preceding quarter but were 41 per cent higher than in the third quarter of 1954. Profits after taxes for the first nine months of 1955 are estimated at a record 10.9 billion dollars, 34 per cent higher than in the corresponding period of 1954. Sales for all, manufacturing corporations third quarter of 1955 were estimated at 69.2 billion dollars, compared with 70 billion for the previous quarter and 60.6 billion for the Business Outlook READING BETWEEN LINES OF BUDGET.

By J. A. Livingston. Secretary of the Treasury A preview of President over and over again: a in personal income tax rise but no change in corporation contradiction?" Over and over again, Secre-, tary Humphrey explained, with patience and good humor, that there will be more people on jobs. Total wages and salaries will be up.

"Every time some fellow makes money he's working for us--the Treasury." But the same statisticians figured that corporation profits would be unchanged. Therefore, cortaxes would stay level. poration is it possible, reporters pursued, for people to earn more money, for business, in effect, to expand, without corporations a making picture," more commented money? Richard L. Strout, of the Christian Science Monitor, "of business men running around and around more active than ever and not making any more profits. That's a pretty gloomy picture." "Nothing Gloomy About It." That happens, countered Secretary Humphrey.

competition increases, business men often shave their prices. They provide better service to customers. "It might be terribly bullish a consumer's point of view, from wage earner's point of view. It is perfectly simple. You can have an increase in gross and not have an increase in net, and there is nothing gloomy about it." The reporters have more history on their side than the Secretary on his.

Rises and falls in personal income and corporation profits don't synchronize perfectly. But in 26 since 1929, only six times has personal income increased without some increase in corporation profits before taxes. And, usually, you explanations for such deviations. Thus, 1944. and 1945 were of war years.

In 1944, with many corporate contracts the Government were renego-tiated-at lower prices. In 1945, corporations had extraordinary expenditures reconvert in from war to peace. In 1952, the subsidence of the Korean war brought a sharp drop in prices. Result: Inventory losses. Search for Hidden Reserves.

Nineteen fifty-four, however, supports the Secretary's point. Personal income rose, though business fell off. And because of competition, profits fell. That was the year of the "hard sell." The reporters were trying to find out if the Treasury had some "hidden a future cut reserve concealed third quarter of 1954. Sales in the first nine months of 1955 were a record 204.8 billion, an increase of 11 per cent over the figure for the corresponding period in 1954.

U. S. TREASURY STATEMENT WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP) -The cash position of the Treasury Jan. 18: Balance, Deposits fiscal year July 1, Withdrawals fiscal year, Total debt, Gold assets, 158,443.

$472,189,399.05 debt not subject to statutory limit. What's Thirsty as a Cactus? New MAYTAG No Vent Dryer See Today's Post-Dispatch, Page 7C NOW FEATURED AT TRIANGLE APPLIANCE 2830 CHEROKEE PR. 1-1234 WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. George M.

Humphrey's press Eisenhower's Budget, reporters kept "How is it that you figure on receipts in the 1956 fiscal year, income tax receipts? Isn't that a in the Budget estimates. For example, in the fiscal year which ended June 30, the Treasury collected 000 from corporations. Now this year, the year which ends June 30, 1956, the Treasury counts on $20,300,000.000. And again, in fiscal 1957, the same amount. Yet corporation profits before taxes are estimated to have risen nine billion dollars between 1954 and 1955, as follows: Estimated Corp.

Year. Profits. 1054 $34,000,000,000 1955 43,000,000,000 And the Treasury projects corporate income at 43 billion dollars for fiscal 1957. Therefore, this question arises: Since the corporation tax rate is 52 per cent, isn't it logical to expect that revenues will be up more than two billion on a nine billion jump in profits? A Prudent Man's Budget. Secretary Humphrey insisted not.

He emphasized that projections, like election forecasts, are hazardous until the returns come in; that the returns won't come in on profits until March a and April; that many times before, actual receipts have not come up to expectations based on estimates of profits. Furthermore, celerated pay-up by corporations under the Mills plan has ended. The Secretary left politically-minded reporters unconvinced. They "felt" that estimates of revenues were low, estimates of expenditures were, if anything, liberal. Reasoning: Humphrey's a man, a sensible man, a business man.

He'd rather figure income low. In an election year, good politics. that's, receipts prove to be "strong," Secretary Humphrey can propose to President Eisenhower a tax cut. Good for votes. If business isn't so good, of then the President's Council Economic Advisers can suggest a tax cut-to stimulate producemployment, and sales.

tion, Good for what ails the economy -and votes. The reasoning continued: A "tight" 65 billion dollar budget, which barely balances, boxes the Democrats in. If they propose a tax cut, they're fiscally irresponsible. If they propose higher expenditures, again fiscally irresponsible By controlling the budget esticontrols the legislative initiative. FUND QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan.

23 3 (AP) tions furnished by National Association of Security Dealers, which states do not necessarily reflect actual transactions or firm bids or offers but they should indicate approximate prices and unless otherwise indicated, are 85 quoted by the sponsors or issuers. (Jan. 20) Based on previous session closing prices. Security. Bid.

Asked. Allifiliated Fd 5.80 6.27 Am Bus Mut Fd Shrs 8.21 4.06 8.97. 4.33 Assoc Fd Trust 1.47 1.62 Atom Dev Mut 13.76 15.01 Houghton 5.97 26.18 6.49 Axe Houghton 24.09 Boston Fund 16.33 17.65 Bullock Fund 11.83 12.97 Canadian Fd 17.48 18.91 Chemical Fd-- 15.28 16.53 Comwith Invest 8.96 Dividend Shrs 2.60 2.85 Eat How Bal- 20.81 22.24 Fidelity Fund 13.82 14.94 Founders Mut Fd 7.06 7.67 Fundamental Inv 14.85 16.27 Group Sec. Chem 11.81 12.93 Group Sec Steel- 14.04 15.37 Incorp Income 8.90 9.73 Incorp Investors- 17.16 18.55 Keystone Cust 11.20 12.22 Keystone Cust 19.75 21.55 Keystone Cust 11.65 12.72 Loomis Say Mut 42.94 42.94 Manag Fd: Auto 4.84 5.33 Manag Fd: Gen Ind 4.01 4.42 Manag Fd: Petrol 2.98 3.29 Manhat Bond Fd 8.21 9.00 Mass Inv Trust- 31.24 33.77 Mass Inv Growth 9.34 10.10 Mutual Trust 3.21 3.49 Nation Sec Bf 19.40 20.71 Puritan Fund 6.51 7.04 Selected Am Sh 8.80 9.52 Telev Elect Fd 10.89 11.87 Unit Accum Fd 10.119 11.08 Unit Income Fd- 9.53 10.36 Value Line 6.51 7.11 Value Line Income- 6.27 6.85 Wellington Fd. 25.87 28.20 EXECUTIVES LEASING A CAR COSTS LESS THAN OWNING ONE! ARLIN OLDS NOW LEASING BRAND NEW '56 Look at these Benefits! OLDSMOBILES NO DOWN PAYMENT! AS LOW AS I NO TAXES OF ANY KIND! NO INSURANCE PREMIUMS! 00 NO LICENSES TO BUY! PER NO FINANCE CHARGES! MONTH NO CAPITAL TIES UP! LEASE or BUY CHOOSE ANY BODY STYLE Rent principal payments may be FREE OIL CHANGES applied at any time to purchase of car being leased.

SERVICE AND LUBRICATION INCOME TAX DEDUCTIBLE (in Business) Our Leasing Plan is open to. both indivduals WE'LL BUY YOUR CAR and companys. Find FOR. CASH! out about it ARLIN Buying OLDS DEALER Most or in IN Leasing Generous This Area TON TODAY! 7700 CARONDOLET at HANLEY Open Evenings PA. 1-8914 JUDGE CONNOR FILES FOR Circuit Court Jurist Cites Ill Health -On Bench 21 Years.

Circuit Judge William S. Connor, who has been on the bench 21 years, has filed an application for immediate retirement, it was announced today at Jefferson City. Judge Connor, 74 years old, said he is in ill-health and unable to perform efficiently the duties of the court. The application, filed in the State Supreme Court, will be referred to the State Judicial Retirement Commission for a hearing at Jefferson City Feb. 10.

If retirement is approved, Judge Connor will receive onehalf his $14,000 annual salary until the expiration of his present term, Dec. 31, 1958. Thereafter he will be eligible under another statute, for retirement status as a special commissioner of the Supreme Court, at one-third the salary of a circuit judge. A vacancy In the circuit bench is filled by appointment by the Governor, from three nominees submitted by a nominating committee, under the non-partisan court plan. Born Shannondale, Judge Connor attended St.

Vincent's College, Pittsburgh Law School and Washington University School of Law. Beginning the practice of law here in 1904, he was an assistant circuit attorney from 1917 to 1920 and was an associate prosecuting attorney the next two years. A Democrat, he was elected circuit judge in 1934, was reelected to terms in 1940 and a 1946, and was retained six under the court plan in 1952. Judge Connor lives at 929 Buena Vista avenue. His son, James, is executive director of the St.

Louis Crime Commission. HERMAN H. LARK, ACTIVE IN STATE LEGION, DIES STEELVILLE. Jan. 23 (AP)-Herman H.

Lark died at his home here yesterday, apparently of a heart attack. He had held most offices in the can Legion, was state comstate department of the A Amerimander in the 1930s and national vice commander in 1943- 44. He was 68 years old. Survivors include two brothers. John Lark of Steelville and William Lark of St.

Louis. Funeral services will be held here Wednesday. NAMED BANK VICE PRESIDENT Donald N. Brandin has been named vice president of the Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis, Harry F.

Harrington, president, announced today. He will be in the commercial lending division of the bank. Brandin was formerly with the Bankers Trust New York. Bank Names Officers. ier of Manchester Bank of St.

J. P. Flanagan, a assistant cashLouis was elected assistant vice president of the bank. Frank A. Schaetzel, manager of the booking department, was elected assistant cashier.

Odd Lot Transactions. NEW YORK, Jan. The New York Stock Exchange reported today these odd lot transactions principal dealers on the exchange for Jan.20: purchases of 284,027 sales of 200,936 shares including 925 shares sold short. River Stages Flood Stage Change Stage 7 a.m. 24 hrs.

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LOUIS 30 4.1 Meramec St. Park 11 1.2 0.0 Union 15 1.1 0.2 Valley Park 14 0.0 Cheater, Ill. 27 0.0 Be listening for HENRY J. TAYLOR with his penetrating analysis of domestic and foreign news 7:00 TONIGHT and every Monday over KSD 550 on your Radio Dial The TRUMAN MEMOIRS health legislation in a special message on May Survey by FSA Head Ordered. Continued From Page One.

to the nation's problems in medicine and health. The fact is that at no time during administration did the American Medical Association ever offer anything workable as a substitute for the proposal of compulsory, health This opposition from the Association not new. The A.M.A. had fought against public health departments, against proposals for county and community hospitals, and against the Hill-Burton Act for constructing hospitals and clinics throughout the country. The Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill was killed in the second session of the 79th Congress.

I renewed the fight for national 19, 1947, In January, 1948, the Federal Security Administrator, was directed to undertake a comprehensive study possibilities for raising the level of the nation's health, and to report to me on feasible goals which might be realized in the next 10 years. The study, completed in September of the same year, made it of plain doctors, that dentists, nurses, hospitals and other medical facilities unless' Federal actions were taken, serious shortages would continue to grow. With these facts in hand, I transmitted to the Congress in April, 1949, four recommendations, asking for (1) legislation providing for national health insurance. (2) legislation to help medical schools expand, (3) increased aid for the construction of hospitals and other medical facilities, and (4) an increase in the amount of Federal grants aid local governments in preventing and controlling disease, to promote maternal and child care services, services for crippled children and general public health activities. The final recommendation included request for additional funds for medical research in the form of fellowships and grants to both private and non-profit agencies.

This program, the message said, would save a great deal more than it would cost. Already four percent of the national income was being spent for health care. An infinitesimal portion of this expenditure was for prevention of disease. A national health program, I stressed would save untold millions in productive working hours alone, although its real value could never be estimated in dollars and cents. This was essentially the same program I proposed in 1945.

The opposition was still the same--political opponents of my administration, reactionaries, and leaders of "organized medicine." The same false charge of "socialized medicine" was used to discredit the program and to confuse and mislead the people. In a move to offset the propaganda the opposition ar executive order was issued on December 29, 1951, creating the President's Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation, with the intention of setting a completely non-political and biased commission of doctors, labor leaders, farm leaders, educators and industrialists who would be able to investigate all aspects of the national health situation and to make recommendations based on facts. Dr. Paul B. Magnuson, former medical director of the Veterans Administration to bead up the commission.

He selected fourteen representatives from all parts of the country to serve on the commission, and the critical study of the country's total health requirements began. After twelve months of painstaking research, public hearings, panel discussions of experts held in all parts of country, interviews and meetings, the Commission presented the findings and recommendations to me on December 18, 1952, in the form of a report entitled "Building America's Health." Findings of Magnuson Commission. The commission reported that the present system of financing personal health services through voluntary prepayment plans was indaequate to the needs of the people. It ascertained the fact that a serious shortage of doctors existed and predicted that by 1960 the United States would need from 22,000 to 45,000 more doctors. It found a shocking deficit in total expenditures for medical research, observing that more money was spent during the preceding year for tombstones and monuments than research.

It discovered hospitals were shamefully overcrowded and many them obsolete. At least 230,000 new that, eral hospital beds were needed, the report stated, plus 330,000 more for mental cases. The commission made positive recommendations regarding the financing of personal health services, the creation of more doctors and medical personnel, provisions for increased facilities and research, organization of health services, and perpetuation of the work of the commission itself. The principal recommendations of the report were: (1) A broad extension of prepayment plans, to operate through large use of group practice and through community -hospital centers. (2) Federal grants-in-aid, which would be matched by the states, to bolster prepayment insurance plans.

(3) Creation of a post of Health and Security in the Cabinet. (4) Creation by Congress of a twelve-to-eighteen-member permanent Federal Health Commission to make a continuing study of the nation's health status, with an annual report to the President and Congress. (5) Federal grants for aid to medical education, medical research, local health services, for hospital construction and for pilot studies in organizing medical services on a regional basis. What the commission was recommending, basically represented a compromise between national health insurance program, requested in 1945 and throughout my administration, and the current system of private payment to doctor for each separate service rendered. It suggested that efforts be made to extend voluntary insurance to millions people not covered, and that the Federal and state governments pay the premium for those who could not afford to pay them.

The cost of the program would be an estimated one billion dollars a year in addition to the billion which the government was already spending for health." 'Sound and Democratic While the insurance. program was not the same as the one proposed earlier I felt that the Commission on the Health Need the Nation had accomplished a monumental task and that workable outline for raising our national health standards was now available. It was a thoroughly sound and democratic approach to an urgent domestic problem. A statement released simultaneously with the publishing of the report, urged the continuation of the fight toward maintaining and improving our people's health: of course, cannot say what the next administration will do in carrying on the work we have undertaken in the health field. It is my hope that careful consideration will be given to the Commission's findings and recommendations.

This report deserves the attention of every American. It would be most unfortunate if the same emotionalism which has prevented open-minded study of major health proposals advanced during the past few years were to hinder the proper evaluation which this report merits In the nation's capital, as was shown in the case of compulsory health insurance proposal, a small well-organized group can succeed in making itself heard and heeded. The vast majority people have no such organized voice speaking for them. only the President who is responsible to all the people. He alone has no sectional, no occupational, no economic ties.

If anyone is to speak for the people, it has to be the President. In 1946 I signed the Legislative Reorganization Act which, among other things, provided that lobbyists had to register and disclose the sources of their income and their expenditures. Although this provision was helpful, the real problem of pressures and influences in the legislature can not be altogether solved in this way. My service in the Senate has taught me that in some instances the representatives of special interests groups can be useful around Capitol Hill. At times they provide Congressional committees with facts and figures that otherwise might be hard get.

The experienced legislator knows how to use the "good" lobbyist and how to avoid the "bad" ones. 1956 by Time, Inc. (Publisher of TOMORROW: Mr. Truman explains the Federal budget. "I think that the virtues of a 'balanced budget' can at times be exaggerated." FTC CHARGES SHOE COMPANY WITH FALSE ADVERTISING Special to the Post WASHINGTON, Jan.

23-The Federal Trade Commission charged Vaisey-Bristol Shoe Co. of Monett, with false advertising claims that its children's shoes assured proper growth and improved general health. An FTC complaint listed the following as false claims made for the firm's children's shoes, called "Jumping-Jacks that's the pair the doctors say they ought to wear. Tiny arch and tiny while they grow. Helps bones toes stay strong and healthy and muscles grow straight and strong, preventing foot defects.

Helps your youngsters walk straighter." The complaint gives the company officers, Sam Vaisey and Joe McCaffery, and their advertising agency, Storm Advertising Co. of Rochester, N.Y., 30 days in which to file an answer. A hearing is set for March 20 at Monett. KNOWLAND ENTERED IN ILLINOIS PRIMARY Petitions in Republican Presidential Contest Filed by Chicago Woman. SPRINGFIELD, Jan.

23 (AP) William F. Knowland California was entered today--the dealine for filing-in the April 10 Illinois Republican presidential primary. The petitions, placing Knowland in the preferential primary as an opponent of President Eisenhower and Gen. Douglas MacArthur, were submitted by Mrs. Durive Troyak of Chicago.

They were said to contain 4200 ea signatures. She described herself as an admirer of the Senator and said she had not been in touch with him. Consent of a candidate to enter the presidential voting is not required, but he may have his name withdrawn on request. In Washington, Knowland said he would delay any action until he has received official notification that petitions have been filed. Mr.

Eisenhower's petitions were filed last week by Gov. entered on the same day by Stratton. A MacArthur's name was Lar Daly of Chicago without his consent. Mr. Eisenhower has raised no objection to the filing of his name in Illinois, but the White House has carefully noted this signifies neither assent nor dissent on the President's part.

The Illinois presidential primary is a test of popularity and is not binding on convention delegates. The name of Adlai E. Stevenson, former Governor of Illinois and 1952 presidential nominee is being entered today in the Democratic presidential primary, No opposing Democrat is expected to file. Sidney M. Ward, Benton atto torney and former county judge, also filed in the 1 Republican race for Governor.

Ward, 62 years old, called himself "the downstate candidate for governor." U.S. ATTORNEY NAMES MAN INDICTED IN OIL DEAL Homer W. Snowden, a Dallas oil promoter, and an associate who is being sought in Texas have been charged with mail fraud in sale of oil and gas leases, United States Attorney Clifford M. Raemer announced in East St. Louis today.

Two suppressed indictments were returned by a federal grand jury in Danville, last Wednesday. Although these were based on sales to 15 residents Illinois, Raemer said the defendants had operated in other states, persuading people to invest large sums. There have been reports that some St. Louisans put up money, Raemer said about $2,000,000 worth were involved in the The two men were selling unregistered securities and making fraudulent claims. The indictments asserted that investors were promised if a well in which they purchased an interest did not prove to be a commercial producer, they would receive an equal interest in a producing well.

RUSSIAN REPUBLIC LEADERS CONVENE; BULGANIN ABSENT MOSCOW, Jan. 23 -The Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic, the Soviet Union's biggest republic, opened its annual session today to approve the 1956 budget and decrees issued by its presidium in the past year. Premier Bulganin, who along with other members of the national presidium is also a member of the Russian Soviet, was not present. Attending were Communist party Nikita S. Khrushchev, Foreign Minister V.

M. Molotov, first Deputy Premiers L. M. Kaganovich and A. I.

Mikoyan and others. Bulganin has not appeared at any public functions since Jan. 3. Unofficial reports heard by westerners in Moscow last Friday said he is on vacation and will return to his job by the end of the month. 3-MAN BOARD WILL LOOK INTO WESTINGHOUSE STRIKE TRENTON, N.J., Jan.

23 (AP) -Gov. Robert B. Meyner said today he and Gov. George M. Leader of Pennsylvania have agreed to appointment of a three member fact finding board to hold a public hearing on the 14-week-old Westinghouse Corp.

strike. Meyner said Leader would name the board which would "prepare findings of fact" and present them, without recommendations, to the two Governors, the CIO-AFL United Electrical Workers' Union, Westinghouse Corp. and the press. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and a group of 16 other persons yesterday formed a citizens' committee to help settle the strike.

John M. Carmody, a Washington industrial consultant, was designated as chairman. THOMAS MOONEY FUNERAL TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY Funeral services for Thomas J. Mooney, production manager for Laclede Steel will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday at St.

Luke's Catholic Church, 7230 Dale avenue, Richmond Heights. Mr. Mooney died Saturday at St. Louis County Hospital where he was taken after collapsing in a market in Clayton. He was 64 years old and lived at 6362 Alamo avenue, Clayton.

He had been with Laclede Steel for 40 years and became production manager in 1920. Surviving are his wife; a son, Thomas F. Mooney, and -a sister, Mrs. Catherine Schonbeckler. MONDAY.

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to p.m. Monday through Saturday. DEATHS 14 AUST, JOHN RANDALL Jan. 21, 1956, beloved husband of Virginia Aust. Burial in Nashville, Tenn.

BARRETT. ANNE P. (nee (Schramke) 4727 Clifton fortified with the Sacraments of Holy Mother Church, Jan, 22, 1956, 3:30 a.m., beloved wife of E. Walter Barrett, dear mother of Mary Nita and Geraldine A. Barrett, dear sister of Gertrude, Raymond and Elmer Schramke, our dear sister-in-law, niece, aunt and cousin.

Funeral from SULLIVAN'S, elid at St. Louis, Jan. 25, 8:30 a.m., to St. Gabriel Church. Interment Calvary.

BATCHELDER, NATHANIEL HORTON, in Osterville (Oyster Harbors), Jan. 22, 1956, noted educator, age 75 years. father of Nathaniel Horton elder Jr. of East Hampton, Mass. A memorial service will be held Jan.

25. at 2:30 p.m., in the West Parish Meeting House, West Barnstable, Mass. The family requests that flowers be omitted, but gifts may be made to the West Parish Foundation, West stable, Mass. BERNEKING, AUGUST, 1956. 1112 N.

8th. Jan. 22. 8:40 a.m., beloved husband of Mary Dorris Berneking (nee Congleton), dear stepfather of Mable Preston. Mattie Dorris, Mary Kraeger, rine Sabbath, Frank Dorris, dear brother, brother-in-law.

father-inlaw, grandfather and uncle. Funeral from the JOS. P. FENDLER JR. Funeral Home.

7128 Michigan at Nagle. Jan. 25 1:15 p.m. Interment National Cemetery. BINGESSER.

See Weiss. BIRDNOW. MAMIE MAY. 6703 Manchester Jan. 22, 1956, beloved wife of the late Ford Birdnow, dear mother of Elsie Drury, Lela McGill, Ernestine Hunt, Ruth Dick and Geraldine Haney, Chicago, Fay Strader.

Ray and John Birdnow and Willie Jo Adams, dear sister, sister-In-law, great mother-in-law, grandmother, and aunt. Funeral Jan. 25, 1:30 p.m.. from MOYDELL'S. sippi and Allen avs.

Interment 8t. Matthew's Cemetery. BLOSTON, HARRY, 9914 Affton husband Jan. 23, 1956, beloved of Elsie Bloston (nee Graf), dear brother of Hattie Shames, our dear brother-in-law and uncle. Funeral from ZIEGENHEIN BROS.

Mortuary, 6409 Gravoin at Holly Hills, Jan. 25, p.m. Interment Sunset, Burial Park. BRAVER, PHOEBE (nee Pursley), of Pacific, beloved wife of the late Fred Brauer, dear mother of Freida Brugnone, Eugene and Raymond Brauer, our grandmother, sister, mother-in-law and aunt. Funeral Jan.

24, 1956, 2 from the Baptist Church, Pacific, Mo. Interment Pacifio Cemetery. Mrs. Brauer at the THIEBES Funeral Home, Pacific, Mo. BRENDEL.

ANNA (nee man), fortified with the ments of Holy Mother Church, Jan. 21, 1956, dear mother of Dora Tillman. Henry Redel and Elizabeth Patterson, dear sister of Jennie Hoffman of Freeburg, Steve and Joseph Holterman of Wasco, our dear mother-inlaw, grandmother, great mother, aunt and cousin. Funeral from the ROBERT D. Mortuary, 2228 St.

Louis Jan. 24. 8:30 a.m. to Holy Trinity Church, 14th and Mallinckrodt. Interment Calvary Cemetery.

CATALANO, VINCENT. 3446 Utah Jan. 20, 1956, fortifled with the Sacraments of Holy Mother Church, dear husband of the late Jennie Catalano (nee Lanza), dear father of Clara Delia, Rosalie Loduca, Albert, seph, Mary Geraci and Eugene Catalano, dear father-in-law, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncle, uncle, and great-great-uncle. Funeral from KRIEGSHAUSER'S, 4228 S. Kingshighway, Jan.

24, 8:30 a.m., to Pope Pius V. Church. Interment Calvary, COMBS, FRANK 2850 mingo drive, Miami Beach, beloved husband of Ella Pomarede Combs, our dear uncle. Funeral from ARTHUR J. NELLY Parlors, 3840 Lindell Jan.

24. 8:30 a.m., to St. Louis Cathedral. Entombment Oak Grove Mausoleum. In parlors after 2 p.m.

Monday. CROWDER, IVA (nee Rhyne), 3832 Penrose, Sat. Jan. 21. 1956.

2:10 a.m., widow of the late James T. Crowder, dear mother of Grace Stacey, Bessie Keton. Maude Dempsey and Chalmer Crowder. dear sister of Jonah and John Rhyne, our dear mother-in-law, grandmother and aunt. Funeral from the JOSEPH P.

FENDLER JR. Funeral Home, Jan. 25. 10:30 A a.m. Interment 7128 Michigan at Nagel, Park Lawn Cemetery.

6 TIRES WORTH $873 STOLEN FROM TRANSPORT TRAILERS Six truck tires, valued at port trailers the Fruehauf $873, were stolen, from transTrailer at a parking lot at 2019 Papin street, employes discovered yesterday. Mrs. Julia Martin, operator of a restaurant at 5324 Natural Bridge avenue, reported that $616 was stolen by burglars, who broke into establishment Saturday night. She discovered the loss yesterday. Automobile parts valued at $671 were removed from the repair shop of Lawrence O'Dell at 3201 Eads avenue over the weekend, police said today.

Two homes in the block of Loughborough avenue were entered by burglars while the families were absent Saturday night. Jewelry valued at $300 was taken from the home of Robert Shantz, 6227 Loughborough. A man's watch, value not given, was taken from the home of Ted Satterfield, 6239 Loughborough. In each instance entry was gained by prying open kitchen window. To get in or out of business, follow the Business Opportunity ads in the classified section of the Post-Dispatch.

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