Show PH PHONE Nf IN INCREASE EXCEEDS x GAINS AINS I It p POPULATION W May 11 7 7 AP AP- AP I Growth of ot telephone phone service and andI u use e during the tle year tin period I endI ending end end- I ing Dt December 21 61 1927 9 was nearly I four times the estimated inc increase of ot the country's population during the same flame period I The Tue dt department of commerce anI announcing an an- I flouncing th the results of its Us quin quin- tennial telephone census figured that th the telephones In use at tile the end of ot U 27 represented t an anI I increase of ot 71 71 per tr c cent nt over 1922 1112 while th tha population real increase for forthe forthe i the period was placed at 7 73 per percent t cent In JR 1927 1027 the department said aid 51 M- calls were made suede mad an Increase in increase In- In crease of 8 S. S per rent cent over 1 ICS 1522 Tho The wire mileage e of was I per cent greater than the 19 1922 mileage and the number of oC em tm plops had bad increased from to 3 2 Eer Every state stale In the Union showed 1 an m Increase In number of telephone in n u Ut ue e. e led hy by Florida with a a. 1037 1937 per rent cent gain aln Three states tate Cali CAU ii fornia Indiana and New Jersey had increases increase exceeding BO 60 pr per 1 c cent nt Only Ony Indiana Iowa South uth Dakota Nebraska and Montana showed gains of ot less than 10 per cent |