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New-York tribune., 1917-09-07
Foreign Trade in
July Took Slump
Values of Both Imports and
Exports Fell OFF From.
June Figures

WASHINGTON. Sept. 6.-The for
eien trade of the United States suf-
fered a drop of approximately s2S2,OOO'-
900 in July last, as compared with the
month previous, according to hgures
made public by tho United States Bu-
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce to-day. 1t slumped from $751;
100000 to s6OO,0O0,000 Exports for
July were valued at s374,OOO,OOO, ap'
proximately S2Ol 100000 less than in
June. and the lowest on record since
February, 1916. Imports in July were
valued at s226,OOO,OOO, or s8l,o0O,OOO
less than in June. The imports for the
first month OF the current fiscal year,
however, represented gain Of spproXi-
mately s43, 100000 over July, 1916.
Figures for Seven Months
The export trade for the seven
months ended with July 81 last, val
ued at s3,664 ,OOO,O 900, represented an
increase of approximately S2,463, 3,OOO,-
600, over the seven corresponding
months, of 1914, the last normal perl
cd. A similar comparison Of the I'M
port trade shows an increase of ap-
proximately s639 100000 over the last
normal seven months period prior to
the war. The imports for the seven
months ended July 81, 1917, were val
ued at 1,779 100000, as against ST.
lac, 10000 in the corresponding period
of 1914.
The total export trade for the twelve
months ended July 81 last was valued
at S6,22l 900, 900, the high record Tor
any twelve-month period, against 81
$50 900. 900 in 1914, the twelve months
preceding the outbreak Of war. The I'M
mort trade for this period was valued at
S2,O73 900, 900, as against Sl,9lo,OOO,OOO
in the twelve months ended July 81,
1914.
Free imports in July, 1917, were
sl58 900. 900, and dutiable imports sos
600 900. For the seven months ended
July, 1917, the free imports were ST.
259 OOO,O 600, and the dutiable were Son..
600 600. Merchandise entered free OF
duty in July amounted to 70 per cent
of the total, and in the seven months
to II per cent.
Exports of Gold Rise
Imports of gold, in July, 1917, were
s27. 600, 900. and S505, 100000 in the
seven months ended with July. Exports
of gold in July were S69,00O,OOO. and
S272OOO. 900 in the seven months ended
with July, 1917. Imports of gold were
s9i2 900, 900 and exports $4,000, 900 in
the twelve months ended with July,
1917, an excess Of s59O,O0O,OOO in i'm
ports.
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07
The Dollar in Foreign Exchange

Quiet conditions prevailed in the
local exchange market yesterday, with
a recovery in Swiss francs as the prin-
cipal development Of Importance. The
Swiss rate, which had been declining
steadily for several days, rallied from
4.72 francs to the dollar to 4.62. ltal-
ian lire were easier, but no change oc-
CURED in Russian rubles, which held
steady at 1712 cents. Sterling and
francs were steady and showed no i'm
portant change.
Closing rates yesterday, compared
with a week ago, are given n the table
below. American bankers have sus-
pended all dealings in German and
Austrian exchange, so that daily quota
tions for either marks or krOnen are
no longer available.
(Ouotfd dollars TO the pound.l
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07
Canada Prepares for
Another War Loan

OTTAWA, Sept. 6.-Canada's fourth
domestic war loan will be foated in
November and will probably be for
500, 900 and at rate which will
net the subscribers nearly per cent,
although the definite amount and terms
will not be known for some weeks. Sir
Thomas White, in making this an
ncuncement to-day, said that between
now and November nationwide or
ganization would be established to
make the loan & success.
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07
Elections

Ferdinand W. Roebling, jr., treas
urer Of the j. A. Roebling Sons Com
pany, has been elected a director and
member of the executive committee
of the Mechanics and Metals National
Bank, to fill the place left vacant by
the death Of his father.
Bertram Cutler has been elected a
director of the Virginia Carolina
Chemical Company, TO succeed Lucien
Oudin, resigned
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07
Other Cities

Rate Increases Suspended.-WASH-
NGTON, Sept. S.-Proposed increases
of 80 to 80 per cent in rates on dried
evaporated or fresh fruits and vege-
tables from California to New York
and intermediate territory which were
to have become effective to-day have
been suspended by the Interstate Com
merce Commission until January next
pending investigation.
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07
Current

The above rates express The cost Of
foreign money in terms of the Ameri-
can dollar You Guy an English pound
sterling at, say, $4.751s. The intrinsic
parity is $4S6fs per pound. Thus, you
say either that pounds are at discount
or that dollars are at a premium, which
is owing TO the fact that in England
the demand for dollars with which to
settle accounts in this country is great
er than the demand in this country
for pounds with which to settle sc-
counts in England.
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07

inactive, Rates held firm at TO 5it
per cent.
Official rates of discount for each OF
the twelve Federal districts are as fol-
lows:
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07

Gold Currents.-The Sub-Tressury
transferred s1,5oo,OOo to San Francisco
by telegraph yesterday on account OF
the shipment of an equal amount ol
gold to Japan.
Gold bars valued at s1.O00,000 were
Withdrawn from. the Assay Office for
shipment to Peru and $l25,00O for ship
ment 10 Chile. Gold amounting TO
$4,000 was taken for export 10 Spain.
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07

Below is given the current exchange
value of foreign money in dollars and
cents, together with the intrinsic gold
parity, as calculated by the United
States Mint:
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07
News Digest
Foreign

London Market.-LONDON, Sept. g.
The stock market was quiet to-day, but
the steady undertone continued in most
of the departments, especially gilt
edged securities, rubber stocks and
Japanese bonds. The latter advanced
on redemption purchases. Spanish
bonds were better, with a favorable
move in exchange, but Russian issues
were weak after temporary frmness.
Argentine rails were easy on strike
rumors and American securities moved
irregularly.
Paris Bourse.-PARIS,S Sept. 6.-Trad-
ing was quiet on the Bourse to-day.
Three per cent rentes, 81 francs 80
centimes for cash. Exchange on Lon
don, 81 francs 18 centimes. Five per
cent loan, So francs.
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07
Bank Clcarings.-The days clearings
at New York and other cities:

Sub-Treasury. - New York banks
gained from the Sub-Tressury s2,4es,-
900.
Silver.-Bars In London, 4Sitd, un-
changed; New York, e5%c, unchanged;
Mexican dollars, 76c, unchanged.
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07
Money and Credit

Although the undertone continued
firm In the local money market, there
WAS an absence Of the tension that pre-
vailed earlier in the week when the
call loan rate went to 6 per cent. The
ruling rate for call money yesterday
was Al, per cent, compared with 4 per
cent the day before. Some loans were
placed as low as pa per cent, and the
closing rate was 224 per cent
In the market for time loans based
on brokers' Stock Exchange collateral
offerings were light yesterday and rates
remained unchanged. For loans on
industrial collateral the quoted rates
ranged from 5A to ga per cent.
Ruling rates for money yesterday,
compared with q year ago, were as fol-
lows:
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07
Paris Bourse.-PARIS, Sept. 6.-1
New York

Two Expelled From Exchange.-Th
New York Stock Exchange announced
yesterday the expulsion from its mem
berShip of p. y. Sproule and Louis R.
Hammerslough for violation of one OF
the bylaws of the board. The psrticu-
lar section under which they were eX-
PEELED reads:
"A member who shall have been ad-
judged, by majority vote of all the ex-
isting members of the governing COM
mittee, guilty of wilful violation of the
constitution of the exchange, or of any
resolution of the governing committee
regulating the conduct or business Of
members, or of any conduct or proceed
ing inconsistent with just and equit-
able principles of trade. may be sus-
pended or expelled. as the said COM
mittee may determine. unless some
other penalty is expressly provided for
such offence"
Sproule had been a member OF the
exchange since 1890 and was a floor
trader. Hammersslough, who was a
trader, was admitted to the exchange
in 1908.
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07
Sinclair Oil Notes Offered.-A bank

ing syndicate under the management Of
of Kissel, Kinnicutt & Co., White, Weld
& Co., J. & w. Seligman & Co., Mont
gomery, Clothier & Tyler and Spencer
Trask & Co. announced yesterday the
offering OF the balance of s20,000,000
Sinclair Oil and Refining Corporation
first lien Of per cent notes, due in
1920, Mt 1929 and interest.
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07

Bank of France-PARIS, Sept. g.
The weekly statement of the Bank Of
France shows the following changes, in
francs:
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07
Chicago Currency Movements.-CHI-

CAGO, Sept. 6.-Currency shipments
to the interior by Chicago banks IN
August amounted TO S19,136.174. against
SlS,572.643 in the corresponding month
OF 1916. Receipts from the interior
were $9,692,9OO, against SS,O34,OOo.
New-York tribune., 1917-09-07

The bank rate remained unchanged
at per cent.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-03-22

was. little lad was not without its
influence. Perhaps after all this girl
was not well-bred enough to fit in with
his people.
Small boys as a general thing are
exceedingly democratic. A common
object brings them together on the
same footing. True there are some
times small snobs who are the fruit
of the training of the big snobs; but
no wholesome, ordinary boy is born
snObbish. Birch Parks, and jay Ben
son were of the latter class. They af-
filiated cordially with Teddy Carr
whose adventurous spirit not only at
tracted them, but made him kind of
leader.
1t was through the small boys that
Vera came to know more of Jerry
Parks. He was especially popular
with them all, and some of the stories
about him that came TO her ears made
her think she would really like to
know him better, even If he did be-
long to the cottage SET"
Teddy Carr was always promptly on
hand for luncheon, so one day when
he did not appear 1t was opined that
something rather unusual was detain-
ing him. Vera took the small row.
boat, and started out to search. A
slightly sprained wrist made the han
ding of an oar rather painful, but she
was not the sort to be kept back by a
personal hurt, so she went on. She
was making for one of the little is
lands in the bay when she heard the
chug, chug of motor boat. II was
Jerry Parks launch, and the next
moment he was beside her.
"Ship ahoy" he called out. Then
he noticed the bandage around her
wrist. HAD an ACCIDENT" he asked.
"Oh inst little sprain. turned II
yesterday"
"And you're trying to row with
| that !" he exclaimed. "ttSow don't do
II. I'll give you a tow right away"
And he shut of the engine and started
up for the rope.
She stopped him with; "No please
Tn looking for Teddy. and may be
gone quite WHILE" y.
"And Tn looking for Birch. I'll
bet my hat they're together. and we
might as wen join forces. Ill GIve
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-03-22
Two Bold
Buccaneers
*
By HI AKERS
Copyright, 1917. by W. O. Chapman.)

Jerry Parks had taken notice Of
Vera. He liked her voice, the way she
spoke, her firm, swinging walk, and
the straight gaze other gray,eyes. But
things had not gone much further than
few words between them, which came
about through his helping her to res
cue a floating oar. Talk about Amer
lean democracy Well, at a summer re-
sort it's about as easy to establish So
cial relations between the cottagers
and n clearinghouse keeper as II IS
to get lady's maid on the calling list
of the duchess of Parchester. Veras
mother took summer boarders in or
der to be able to live through the win
ter when there were not any. She
had "seen better days." and the re-
membrance of them had made her
careful to instill into the mind of her
daughter the fact that she was not
to allow herself to be patronized by
the cottage set" The bitterness of
her own ostracism caused her to lay
rather an undue stress on her advice.
But Vera did not seem to even have
to repel patronage, she was simply ig-
nored by the social leaders. Still this
did not in the least trouble her. The
social swim was not with her a burn
Ing ambition, and she was too busy
helping I'd run the house, and keep
track Of Teddy, a particularly adven-
turous, small brother to have time to
be unhappy.
When Jerry preached the subject Of
vera's attractions to his mother, a
| fashionable matron of the exclusive
set, she gave him such hard, cold,
emphatic settler on any attempt at
social recognition in that quarter that
the young man went off by himself to
ponder over the prose and cons of the
situation, and whether after all the
so-called best society" was not in
need of 'hurry call" treatment, and II
TRANSMISSION of blood were not neces.
sary for It's continued existence. Re
bellion was rising In his soul, but his
mothers teaching from the time he
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-03-22
Was He Really stupld2

A young foreigner was being tried In
court and the questioning by the law
yers on the opposite side began.
snow, Laszky, what do you do?'
"Ven?" asked Laszky.
"When you work, Of course" said
the lawyer
"Vy, work"
"I know" said the lawyer, but
what atf"
"At bench"
"Ohw groaned the lawyer. where
do you work at a bench?"
"In a factory"
"What kind Of a factoryT
"Brick."
"You make bricks?"
"No, de factory is made Of bricks"
snow, Laszky, what do you make in
that factory?"
Eight dollars a week."
"No, no! What does the factory
maker"
81 dunno; a lot NV money, think"
SNOW, listenl What kind of goods
does the factory producer
"Oh," said Laszy, "good goods"
81 know, but what kind Of good
goodsT
''rhe best"
"The best of what?"
"The best there is"
"Oh what2"
"Of dose goods"
"Your honor" said the lawyer. II
give up."-New York Sun.
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Knicker-We shall have compulsory
military training for schoolboys.
Rocker--And Il is all can do TO
mex my son as Il is.-New York Sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-25
RUSS AMBASSADOR
BEFORE CONGRESS
Bakhmetieff Tells Wildly Ap-
plauding Members That Slav
Democracy Will Remain
True.

Washington. juno 24.-The new
Russia's devotion to the cause OF
democracy against autocracy was re,
pledged in ringing phrases yesterday
by Special Ambassador Bakhmetieff,
head OF the Russian war mission
speaking to wildly applauding joint
session OF the senate and house.
with all emphasis" said the am
bassador, may state that Russia re.
jects any idea of separate peace
What Russia is aiming at is the estab.
lishment of firm and lasting peace
between democratic nations. The tri.
umph OF German autocracy would
render such peace impossible. Rus.
sia will not fail to be worthy part.
ner in the league of honor"
No previous incident OF the war
has stirred the senate and house to
such enthusiasm. Senators and dep
resentatives who had restrained thei,
applause at the appearance OF Marshal
Joffr. and Foreign Secretary Balfour
threw away all reserve and cheered
the Russian envoy to the echo.
Speaking in English the ambassador
explained first Russia's wrongs under
the autocracy and then the story OF its
political regeneration. The democ.
racy and its policy of continuing the
war relentlessly, he declared, has wor
the support of the Russian people and
is opposed only by small groups oi
extremists,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-25
SLAVS WARNED OF
TEUTONIC PLOTS
President of American Rights
League Sends Message to
Russia Decrying Peace
Proposals.

New York, June 24.-Warning the
Russian people against an 'insidious
German propaganda" in behalf OF
German-made peace that would force
anew on Russia the chains just broken
by your glorious revolution" the
American Rights league, of which
George Haven Putnam is president,
today made public an address for
warded to Russia for general publica-
ton there.
In the address it is related how the
United States was flooded with Ger
man agents who secretly employed as
their tools "honest and well meaning
citizens" to promote their aims. I'm
pressed by their own unfortunate ex-
perience," says the address. "the
American people have viewed with
deep anxiety propaganda pushed by
German agents, based on the appeal OF
certain Russian parties for peace
without annexation or indemnities.
The kind of peace Germany seeks
is one that will pave the way for a
later war with world domination as
the goal, with every prospect of ulti-
mate success. German plans would
forever stife the growth of Russia by
closing her only southern outlet TO
the seas"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-25
Red Cross Auxiliary Is
ORGANIZED at AnSeIm0

Anselmo, Neb., June 24.-(Special.)
"A local Red Cross chapter was or
ganized here with the following Off
GERS: Mrs. c. E. Bass, president;
Mrs. J. E. Fodge, secretary, and Mrs.
Mary Dickson, treasurer. Former
Postmaster Haumont of Broken Bow
assisted in the organization. Judge
Sullivan of Broken Bow addressed a
meeting at the Methodist Episcopal
church in the interest of the national
Red Cross campaign and about fifty
persons joined the society. He is to
address another meeting here next
Monday night, when subscriptions to
the national fund will be taken. Great
interest in this work is manifest and
good!y amount, it is expected, will
be raised al that time.
While driving from Sargent to An
selmo, d. F. Toolcy OF this place had
the misfortune to lose his six-cylin-
der car by fire. The entire body was
ablaze when discovered by the driver
and only prompt action on his part
saved any part OF the car. The en-
CINE and chassis are not much
harmed, nor are the wheels badly
damaged, but the body, upholstery
and top are a total loss.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-25
Grand Island to Have Auto
And MOTORCYCLE Races

Grand Island, Neb., June 24.-(Spe-
cial.)-The Fourth of July races at the
Bradstreet tracks will be diversified
sufficiently to meet the most exacting
sport. w. E. Bowersox, the Omaha
aviator, will be one of the features.
Another feature will be the Ford race
for a purse of $500, open to any
chassis with Ford engine. There
will be two motorcycle races-a forty
mile free-for-all, for a purse Of $50,
and a twenty-hve-mile free-for-a all for
a purse of 500. Another stunt will
be fat mans Ford race for purse
of SIS. The contestants in this must
run 100 feet on foot, crank the car,
and go around the track once. An
Owners" automobile race for a
purse OF $10O will be another novelty.
In this only touring cars will be en-
tered. The cars are to be driven by
the owners with one or more pas
sengers. A Young Mems Christian
association boys bicycle run, for lads
under l6 years of age for purse of
SIS, completes the program. The
proceeds we'll go to the Young Mems
Christian association war fund. .
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-25
Make Patriotic Addresses.

Wilbur, Neb., June 24.-(Special)-
Miss Sarka Hrbkova, of the Univer-
sity of Nebraska, and John L. Bouchal
late vice consul from Prague,
Bohemia, gave addresses at a Red
Cross rally last night at the court
house here, to large crowd. Mr..
Bouchal talked on the work the Red
Cross was doing during the war, and
Miss Hrbkova made strong plea for
the fund and the reasons we should
contribute literally, stating the causes
of the war and the work the Red
Cross hopes and expects to do in each
community and in the war districts,
During the afternoon Miss Hrbkova
assisted by Mrs. Armstrong and Red
Cross nurse from Lincoln instructed
the Bandage Circle workers on the
work they have undertaken to do.