The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-31
By H. s. RYALL
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 | MARY PICKFORD REMAINS IN
 SUCH A LITTLE QUEEN" Mary Pickford and Harold Lock- wood in Such Little Queen" remain at, the Colonial today. Although an other picture play was booked, Man ager Abernathy was compelled to heed the insistent requests of many of his patrons that Such a Little Queen" be shown one more day to give them an opportunity to see this splendid pie ture.
 Do you know how to make a COW act? If you have any suggestions on this important subject, kindly forward same to Frank Reicher at the Lasky studio in Hollywood. The COW is nom mated in the script of Marie Doro' 8 next Paramount picture which Reicher is directing and, though he has no diff fioulty in making Miss Doro register horror whenever the COW approaches her, he cannot seem to distract the at tention of the bovine from it's cud.
 Wireless advices received recently at the Lasky studio declare that Sessue Hsyakawa and his, company of play CTS were having rough time of it on their voyage to Honolulu. The play CTS ran into a heavy storm which was so wild that Director Marshall Neilan sent an aerial wall to the effect that the chips kept falling off the table and completely spoiled the game
 Emmett Flynn, Jane Wolfe, Mrs. McCord. Louise Morrison and Charles Osle are among the cast selected for Mae Murray's next picture. Robert I,e onard is the director.
 Among Marie Doros supporting cast in her next production, which will be directed by Frank Reicher, includes Elliott Dexter, H. B. Carpenter Billy Elmer and Lillian Leighton.
  market down, and that it was good time to get all your friends into pool?"
 No sir'' said White
 CAMPBELL INSISTENT
 Campbell tried to learn what White and Lawson talked about at their various meetings in New York about the time the peace situation was big factor in the stock market. White said they talked "in general terms about the war and it's "economic effects He could not re- call ever having discussed the German peace proposals, the Lloyd George speech in reply, or the arrival of the Deutsch- land and the U-53 ''or President Wilson's attitude
 You had advance information on the arrival of the U-53 didn't you?" asked Campbell.
 q did not. I knew nothing of it until I saw it in the newspapers"
 Do you think Lawson ought to be in an insane asylum, or behind the bars which?"
 q have no opinion on that It is not within my jurisdiction" replied the wit ness, with laugh
 Didn't you realize when you saw Law sons testimony published that there might be an issue of perjury raised be- tween you and him? How was it you made no effort to have him retract?'
 This is my first appearance before the committee" replied White, and I didn't think the manner in which he my name very important"
 Do you think" interrupted Represen- tative Chiperfield, that your conversa- tions with Lawson were equivalent to a full course in romance 1iterature?"
 "I couldn't say that I didn't take his seriously"
 BARUCH RECALLED
 Barney Baruch was then called to the stand.
 Baruch declared voluntarily that he was ready to answer any questions fully.
 "On December H." he said, T bought 5000 shares of steel, expecting 1t to rise, but it didn't"
 Then came the address of Chancellor Sethmann- Hollweg to the Reichstag which forced it's effect on the mar 1et, he said, on December 13 when he sold short, dealing in 23,400 shares of steel that day
 Baruch declared he believed history would show that Won Bethmann- Holl- weg's speech marked the turning point toward peace.
 T realized" he said, that the peo- pie minds, heretofore thinking only of war, would turn to thinking of peace; that outside of the better things they would think of what effect peace would have on business and finance and that ] man ought to act quickly in selling securities
 Baruch said he was guided in deal ing on the market solely by informa- tion gleaned from a ticker service, and the newspapers. He always bought se- curities outright, he said.
 BEGAN TO SELL
 When he learned of the Bethmann- liollweg speech, Baruch said he was in the office of another firm negotiating the purchase of some securities.
 "I didn't buy them,' he said q went back to my own offices and began to sell everything I had"
 He said he sold steel because it was al he top"
 The technical situation was bad" he said. but the Bethmann- Hollweg speech was the principal reason l sold, and that speech still hangs like a pail over the situation
 Were you watching for peace?"
 T knew when peace came, it was going to raise the mischief in the mar 5et"
 The broker said that his town men, tal operations' undoubtedly repre- sented those of all who dealt in the stock market.
 Baruch went into detail as to his stock market operations. On December IA, he sold short 1900 more shares, bringing his commitments up to 25,000 shares.
 Every cent of this profit, he declared, speeches by Chancellor von Bethmann- Hollweg and David Lloyd George as peace was coming.
 Not a single transaction he made, he said, was influenced by advance infor- nation that the President was about to dispatch a peace note He received no such information, he asserted.
 As proof of his assertion that he was unaware that a note was forthcoming from the President, he was on the buy ing side of the market when news of 1t became public, he said. Neither he nor any other man would have been caught