More Mergers

Perfection Heater & Manufacturing Co., of Cleveland, makes heaters for taxicabs and luxurious motor cars. Its assets, patents, trademarks and physical properties were bought last week by the Eaton Axel & Spring Co., also of, Cleveland. The equipment will be transferred to Eaton's bumper factory.

J. I. Case Plow Works, incorporated in 1876 at Racine, Wis., grew to be a $1,000,000 company, employing 600 persons. Last week it was bought by Massey Harris Co. Ltd., of Toronto, Can.

Blair & Co. (Bankers) with the Keith-Albee-Orpheum organization (vaudeville and cinema houses) control the Pathe Exchange; which controls the Pathe News Reel, Cecil B. DeMille Pictures, Producers Distributing Corp., Metropolitan Pictures (Christie features), Producers International Corp. To this list of subsidiaries was added last week the Film Booking Office (FBO), largest non-theatre-owning producers & distributors of cinemas (60 annually).