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Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-08-30
A BILIOUS ATTACK.

When you have bilious at
tack your liver fails to perform
its functions. You becomes con-
stipated. The food you eat fer
ments in your stomach instead
of digesting. This infames the
stomach and causes nausea, vom-
iting and a terrible headache.
Take three of Cham berlain's Tab
lets They will tone up your
liver, clean out your stomanh
and you will be as we'll as ever.
They only cost quarter.
Get ready for the Fourth Lib.
erty Loan.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-08-30
mot A NATION"

They said that we were not q
nation;
Just a medley from various
lands;
No national heart and no ma
tionaI soul;
With no hope and no wish to
Join hands.
Nothing to hold US together;
No aims and no dreams that
we shared;
Ideals and backgrounds all diff.
ferent;
We couldn't make war-f we
dared.
Then the word biared forth to
the country,
"cIose ranISi For the Flag Of
us aIIIs
And the faith that brought 10
together
Shone out at the Colors' call.
One cry came back from the
people,
From Latin and Norman and
slav: .
"AmerIeai hsedom 10 threat
snedi
.rake all that we are and
I'VE know what We soupht when
we came here;
"What we're working for.
everyone,
"And that work has bound us
together,
sN will hold ell eternlty's
done
I'VE give you our lives and our
dollars.
I'VE will work; we Will fight;
we Will de;
"For the faith that has bgilded
nation S4St3
aFrem the four winds 81 nth.
and the sky"
Lucy Jeanne Price.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-08-30
lOVE-TRAGEDY

Miss Columbia loved her lover
As a sweetheart lady should;
He swore by stars above FER
He loved and always would.
She liked to be called "dearle,"
And "Iove," and "snook." and
"pet."
OF darling" she'd ne'er weary;
They would be lovers yet
She killed him right at table
With q weIl-aimed wheatless
bun,
When his mem'ry slipped Its
cable
And he up and called her
"hon."
A. NJ. corrigan.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Head for Steel
Merger Not Picked
Reports That w. c.. McAdoo
Was Selected Not
Confirmed

Reports that William G. McAdoo was
slated to head the projected combina-
tion Of independent steel producers
who have plans under way to unite for
foreign trade were not confirmed in the
financial district yesterday. "The mat
ter of choosing a president for such
an organization" said an official Of the
Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company,
"has not yet come up for discussion"
The special committee appointed to
work out the details Of the organiza-
ton of the proposed combine will
meet in this city next Tuesday for fur
ther consideration of the plans A.
G. Dinkey president Of the Midvalc
company, as chairman of the commit
tee, may issue statement at that
time giving general outline of the
scope of the new company's suggested
activities.
In selecting a president it is be-
lieved that the chief requisite for the
Office will eb that he is an expert on
foreign trade matters, particularly in
relation to the iron and steel industry.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Col. Thompson Out
AS Copper Co. Head
c. F. Kelley Succeeds Him as
President of Inspiration
Property

Further evidence of the community Of
interest between the Anaconda Copper
Company and the Inspiration Consoli-
GATED Copper Company was furnished
yesterday IN the announcement that c.
L. Kelley, president of the former, had
been elected president to succeed Col.
William B. Thompson, who retains a
connection with the Inspiration Com
pany as a member of the board of
directors. According to the last Off
clal hgures, approximately $4,000 900
Of the company's S23, ,639, ,345 stock out
standing was held by the Anaconda in
terests. No information that these
holdings had been increased since
January l was forthcoming.
John D. Ryan, who in addition to re-
tlrlng from the presidency of the Ana
conda Company to become an Assist
ant Secretary of War in charge of air
craft production, also resigned AS =
member OF the Inspiration directorate
was again made a director as result
OF his being relieved of his government
duties. 1t is expected that Mr.. RYAN
Will also resume his former office as
active head of the Anaconda Company.
Development of the Inspiration mines
was one of Colonel Thompson's great
est exploits. He organized the com
pany about ten years ago, and his early
forecasts of it's future found MANY foj.
lowers. The company in its first wear
OF operation more than paid for ali tho
outlay incident to ACQUISITION and
equipment - $4,000. 900 profits were
earned that year. The market valne
Is now about 500, 100000.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Says Marine Deal
With Govt Is Closed
Preferred Stock Gains as
Statement From Capital
Is Awaited

The United States government looks
upon the deal between the Shipping
Board and the International MORGAN
tile Company as closed, according to
leading director who reiterated yester-
day that the transaction if consum-
mated would involve the transfer to
the holding corporation of approx
rately S130,0c0,000 cash, free of all
taxes.
Directors of the Marine Company
held another special meeting yesterday
tor the purpose of discussing further
the new turn in the negotiations for
the sale of the assets ef the British
owned subsidiaries. but no formal an
nouncement was issued as to what
progress had been made. Informally it
was limited that the Washington au-
thorities would probably issue in the
near future. an additional statement
explaining fully the reasons why the
shipping Board had requested that it
be- substituted for British syndicate
as the buyer of the company's ships
under English registry.
Wall Street was all on edge awaiting
any new development in the far-famed
Marine deal" These who anticipated
additional favorable information
seemed to be in the majority, judging
from the action Of the preferred stock.
Opening ~ points up, at 116, it nd
vanced later to 11S and closed the day
at 11o%, for a net gain of 1a points.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Sugar Divisions
Will Denobilize
Action by Food Administra.
tion Effective De-
cemher Is

The sugar divisions Of the United
States food administration throughout
the country will begin to demobilize
about December Is, it was learned here
to-day, in anticipati ton of the arrival of
Cuba's sdgar crop in January. Modifi-
cation OF restrictions affecting consum-
ers will become effective earlv next
week.
Tho sugar divisions, which have
complete control over distribution by
refners and. through the refinere, over
distribution by wholesalers and gro
GERS, will on December l discontinue
their certificate system under which
sugar has been allotted to manufacture
ers and dealers as a wartime measure
to conserve this commodity Manu-
facturers will, however, be required to
limit their purchases each to q thirty
day supply until the free arrival of the
Cuban raw sugar, about January 10
or Is.
While restrictions on the use Of
sugar in public places will continue in
effect for the present, four pounds of
sugar will be allowed to each person
Monday or Tuesday. This, it was de-
clared, was the normal consumption
prior to the war. The present allot-
ment is three pounds.
The sugar divisions had not intended
to relinQuish control until the end of
the year, but the decision was reached
to-day that the situation had so i'm
proved that the mobilization would
begin two weeks earlier.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Extra Dividend Omitted
Lackawanna Directors De.
clare Only Regular
Distribution

Directors of the Lackawanna Steel
Company at a meeting yesterday failed
to declare an extra dividend on the
$35,097, 500 common stock. Only the
regular quarterly distribution of IA
per cent was announced, payable De-
cember 81 to shareno lders of record on
December 10.
Regular dividends at the rate Of 6
per cent were begun in September,
1916, and extra dish, rsements were de-
clared twice year from November,
1916, up until last May. In November,
1916, 3 per cent vas declared; MAY.
1917, 27a per cent; November, 1917, 1a
per cent, and May, 1918, 2A per cent.
At the last quarterly meeting of the
directors of the United States Steel
Corporation the extra disbursement on
the common stock was cut from per
cent to 2 per cent.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Southern Pacific Up

Southern Pacific, selling with the
quarterly dividend Of 4 per cent Off,
advanced for net gain of 4 points
yesterday. 1t was the outstanding feat
ure in strong market for the rails.
Early in the day the stock sold at 81,
subsequently climbing rapidly to 1884 ;,
closing at 1925. Dealing approximated
$4,000 shares. The unusual strength
and activity in the stock was generally
attributed to the operations of the
same pool, which not long ago was
held responsible for forcing the price
TO 110,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Commodities
| N d u s tri al
Cotton

A moderate opening advance seemed
the cotton market yesterday and there
was a sharp break in prices during the
later trading. Business was by no
means active or general and compara-
lively few contracts changed hands,
notwith standing the violence of the
price movement. January declined from
27.65 TO $3.50 and closed at that
level, with the general list closing
barely steady at net decline OF ~
to 130 points. The appearance of in
creased selling orders from the South
helped to unsettle sentiment in the late
trading, but Southern spot advices re-
ceived during the day were almost
unanimously bullish and the chief fac
tor talked of on the decline was the
unsettled state of affairs in the goods
market.
The market opened steady at an ad-
vance of to 81 points on relatively
firm cables over the domestic holiday,
bullish spot news and continued indi-
cations of an increased export move
ment. The early demand was soon sup
piled by scattered realizing, however,
and the market became unsettled dur
ii.S tHC He ldilQlc w NC
mand to broaden, as 8 result of bullish
spot and crop advances and the reports
of increasing exports was evidently
to recent buyers, who
liquidated during the late trading.
Houses with Liverpool and Japanese
connections were among the earlier
sellers and there was considerable sell
ing here from New Orleans account in
the later trading. December broke
from 2S.36 to 2750 and March from
1862 to 1858, closing at the lowest
points of the day.
Further reductions were reported in
marine insurance rates, and, according
to wires received here from Savannah,
insurance is now obtainable for Ant
werp, Holland and Scandinavian points
at approximately the pre-war rate. War
risk rates are said to be down to one
fifth of per cent and yesterdays early
reports from the South stated that
exporters were in the market for spot
cotton. There was very little sign of
trade buying around the local ring,
however, and there seemed to be an
unsettled feeling as to conditions in
the domestic goods market. The wage
dispute in New England appears to
have settled for the time being, as
New Bedford advices reported an agree
ment to continue the old scale until
trade conditions shaped themselves
more clearly. London cables reported
that cardroom operatives in Man
chester had threatened to strike be-
ginning with the second week in De-
cember il they were not given an ad-
vance of 40 per cent in their pay
Exports for the day were 45,184 bales,
making 1,244963 so far this season,
against 1,723,536 last year. Southern
spot markets were unchanged to 63
points lower.
The local market for spot cotton was
quiet and 70 points lower, at 1905 for
middling upland, compared with 2s. Is
Wednesday and 31.0O the wear before.
There were no sales of spot Yesterday.
The range of prices follows:
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Agriculture in NORWAY

Big things are planned for Nor
weglan agriculture in the next wear.
Large areas Of new land have been
tliicd with a view to giving the coun-
Try as much grain as possible, accord
ing. to advi!ces from Copenhagen. and
u Is hoped that Norway will IN the
future be able to take more indie.
penuent POSITION with regard to these
imports Recently a meeting was heId
by representatives from ali parts NJ
the country to discuss the prospects
for the 1919 production, and it was
stated that 100000 acres had alradv
been titled this year,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30

The reversal of form in the stock
market yesterday was not unex-
pected. 1t was a natural sequel of
the declining markets of earlier in
the week. The tendency toward i'm
provement represented mainly a
shifting in the position of the pro-
fessionals, for the bulk Of the busi-
ness originated in that quarter. The
pronounced strength in the railroad
department of the market was an
interesting development. At the
beginning of the week Wall Street
had rushed to unload railroad stocks
because of new uncertainties in the
general railroad situation brought
to a head by the announcement of
the resignation of Director General
McAdoo and the agitation begun for
the return Of the roads to their
owners. Yesterday the Street COM
pletely reversed itself and bought
back q part of the securities sold.
The explanation for the change in
sentiment was furnished in uncon-
tirmed reports that spread through
out the district that President Will
son favored return Of the roads TO
the stockholders and would tell
Congress so in his message. Much
of the buying of railroad stocks, as
we'll as in other parts Of the list,
represented repurchases for the ac-
count of traders who had previously
sold for the decline.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Steel "Ex" Dividend

Stock market observers have n
theory that when stock fails to sa-
cover any part Of its dividend the day
It is selling Eek" that is a sign of a
bear market In view Of the recent
action of Steel common mauv traders
started in to sell at the opening ves-
tcrday, apparently in the belief that
with the quarterly dividend of 3M per
cent off the price would recede further
Their initial efforts were successful
as at "a Steel showed decline CT more
than points But at that point it
seemed that the ammunition of the
bears had been exhausted for it was
rot long before announcement ap-
peared which indicated an easing in
money restrictions. Steel common
closed at 90, net gain of "a.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Prosperous California

Approximately $4O,OOO.OOO has been
realized this year by California orou,' oo''
crs and shippers Of deciduous fru;ts
According to the American Nationaj
Bank. of San Francisco, moro than
$1,000 carloads Of fresh fruit wnra
shipped from that part of the country
1rlces in many instances were tho bast
ever obtained. The orange cron ia
about ready to come on to the market
and yield of more than $4,000 .OO0
boxes is predicted. ''o0
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Relevant Comment
Constructive Factors

The tone Of the whole market showed
Improvement yesterday following the
announcement that the money commit
tee had decided to remove the restric-
tions with respect to loans on bonds
and notes. This action is expected to
find immediate reflection in the invest
ment market, as it will permit the i'm
portant distributing houses to expand
their operations. Buying of railroad
shares was said to have been accel
Grated by the belief that the Presi-
dent, in his message to be delivered
TO Congress before he sails for France,
will have something to say in opposi-
ton to permanent government owner
ship.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Erskine Here To-day

A. R. E1skine president of the Stude-
baker Corporation, is expected to be
in the financial district to-day, and it
was limited yesterday that he may issue
formal statement on the recent re-
ports that the company has new financ-
ing plans under way, involving en- issue
of second preferred stock. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Erskine has been in
of the Capital Issues Committee. After
declining to new low price of ATS
on the current downward movement,
Studebaker recovered the greater part
of its earlier loss and closed at A9,
of II
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Sending Funds to Enemy Still Banned

Fred I. Kent, director of the Foreign
Exchange Division of the Federal Re-
serve Board, notified the banks yester-
day that hereafter it will be possible
for them to make remittances to points
in Belgium and Alsace-Lorraine, which
are occupied by Allied troops. The
only condition attached is that Gus
toners must submit the usual state
ment assuring non-enemy interest. At
tention is called to the fact that the
enemy territory is still in force.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30

Almost everywhere the tendency
IS toward conservatism. Business is
going slow and feeling it's way, so to
speak. This is a normal reaction to
the developments of the last month.
Trade and industrial reports are
more Irregular" says "Bradstreet's. :"
than at any time since the peace
armlstlce was signed, cancellations
OF government orders vying in in
terest with reports of former nom
essential lines starting up or nre.
parlng to assume their old imnor-
lance and the general tendency is to
strike a waiting attitude pending
clearer views of future supplies and
prices OF materials and labor. Withal.
there is apparent a well-defined
VEN Of optimism in most of the re-
ports, and disposition manifested
20 take hold in large lines where
reasonable assurance can be had of
the near future. There is a good
zeal OF talk OF potential large export
trade' but as this IS complicated by
DOUBTS as to transportation facilities
Offering. the tendency is to look
more narrowly at the presumably
large volume of banked-up domestic
trade waiting to be accommodated
at price"
The situation in the labor mar
ket is that while labor is rather
more plentiful. all surplus supplies
seem so far to have been readily
absorbed.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
Coffee Committees Confer

The interest Of the coffee trade was
centred yesterday in 8 special meeting
between the coffee section of the food
admins jstration, the Coffee Exchange
Committee and the Coffee Advisory
Committee, the latter being appointed
by the government. 1t is believed
that the result of the conference will
be handed to the board of managers
Of the Coffee Exchange, which in turn
is expected to call a meeting of the ex-
change members. A feeling persists
in trade circles that an agreement will
be reached, permitting the reopening
of the exchange under satisfactory
conditions
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30

In the merging Of twenty-eight
independent steel companies solely
for export business there is a re-
ninder of the great tendency tow
ard consolidation in the industry
which eliminated in the fall Of 1915
in the formation of the Midvale
Steel and Ordnance ComEar.. At
that time. some observers Of eco
nomic changes in this country be-
lieved it likely that all the inde-
pendent steel companies would COM
bine and form great rival to the
United States Steel Corporation.
An inquirer then asked a director of
the Midvale company whether his
organization would unite with the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and
he replied, "There is one insupera-
BILE obstacle: the antitrust laws"
And for three years the antitrust
laws stood as a great dam against
the rushing waters OF a colossal
merger. The Webb-Pomerane act,
passed by Congress last winter, re-
moved a part of the obstruction which
prevented further consolidation.
That law, in permitting competitors
to form combinations solely for ex-
port business to make price agree
ments and to unity advertising and
selling campaigns, virtually nullifed
integral provisions of the antitrust
laws, so far as foreign trade is con-
cerned. The concession was made to
enable American houses to compete
on an equal basis with foreigners
in the worlds markets. But the
Webb law does not change the
status of similar combinations for
domestic business. Thus the new
act III substance asks corporations
and firms to be associates abroad
and competitors at home. Industrial
leaders who are planning to build
new structures under this law see a
weak spot in this distinction, which
Endorses the principle of combina-
tlon abroad and continues to con-
demn it at home. The conception OF
the legislation may be Realistically
sound, but business men are already
beginning to question it's economic
validity.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30
DIVIDEND NOTICES
The Farmers Loan and Tru.
Company
lOnlpany
16, 1s, 20 and % WILLIAM STREET
New York City.

16, 1S, 20 and 22 WILLIAM STREET.
New York City.
Coupons and Dividends due inDscen
Der are payable at this Office on AMI
after December LIST, 1918, ,as follows
Armour & Company
Ciego de AviIa Water Supply 4 Else63
Company
Durham County, N. c.
Johnstown, N. T., City Of (Water Boud,)
Larchmont Water Company
Midland Terminal Railway Company
MiIlard Lumber Company
Mobile & Ohio Railroad Compny, III
Mtge., 602o
New York Business Buildings Corpora6os
Napanee Water Works Company
New Castle City Water Company
New York Business Buildings Corpondsl
(Registered interest)
Peoples Street Railway Company
Sharon Railway Company
Scranton, City of
DECEMBER 2ND. 1918.
New York Business Buildings Corporate
(Registered INTEREST,"
DECEMBER 18TH. 1918.
Durham County, N. c.
DECEMBER 17TH, 1918.
Village of North Pelham
DECEMBER BOTH. 1918.
ChurchilPs, 10
Sleepy Hollow Contry Club (Res. lnssre,S
DIVIDENDS.
DECEMBER 2ND. 1918.
Sheffield Farms Company, incorporated, Fa
ferred
F. W. Woodwork Co., Common
New-York tribune., 1918-11-30

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
October gross. s18, ,261 057 Inc S5. .735. .632
Net oper. deficit. 1853. 746 Inc. 1879 9o4
Ten months gross 143. .3o32o3 Inc a2. 13s, ,25o
Net oper. income. 6.e55,ot3 Dec. 1853 a31
Carolina. Clinchfeld & Ohio Railroad Co.
Ten months gross 1851 $50 Inc. 4ss'1s1
Net oper. income. e2s154 Dec s73,12e
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
October gross. $6,72e,s12 Inc. 81 ,ases75
Net oper. income. 2,o13973 Inc. 173,6o4
Ten months gross. $685. 1923 Inc a421718
Net oper. income. 13,74e.672 Dec. 1.453748
Cleveland, Cinn., Chicago & ct. Louis r. r.
October gross. $7,t37. $50 Inc. $2.o73. .35s
Net oper. income. ,247 757 Inc 2154 233
Ten months Rross. SO, ,93s 2t2 Inc. 1908 o1a
Net oper. income. 1887 ,220 Inc. a,2o5. .079
Long Island Railroad Company
October gross. sses,s1s Dec. s1ts,2s2
Ten months gross ts,s61a7s Inc. 4.2ssi
Net oper. income. 4,307.457 Inc e16,s57
Norfolk & Western Railroad Company
October gross. SO, o27,s5o Inc. $1,727. .o27
Net oper. income. 1855 SAT Dec. 23o77s
l Ten months gross 81 ,264 .435. Inc. 1855 scr
Net oper. income. 15,o28,817 Dec. 5.32S371
Pennsylvania Railroad Eastern Lines)
4stobsr 4s. onsr saa
Ten months gross 800, ,253,436 Inc. SO SIS OSt
Net oper. income. 17,614.e65 Dec. 27'814 sos
Pennsylvania Railroad Co. western Lines,
October gross. =. sic, 1868 1924 Inc. 81 $50. $50
Net oper. income. 1.236.e03 Dec 2o9. .e5e
Ten months gross. 77,375.670 Inc. II .34s, ,9o4
Net oper income. 3sas.373 Dec. 6,639.e24
Philadelphia & Reading Company
October gross se.7so,1e7 Inc. s556o7s
Net oper. deficit. 1858 Inc 1.54243O
Ten months gross Sc, ,32o. .5e3 Inc 1o.4e1 ,ss2
Net oper income. s.o6a.e25 Dec 4.47s,s2s
Southern Railway Company
October gross .st2.26e.7s8 Inc. s3.1ao,2se
Net oper. income 3.45s,S1t Inc sol. .45k
Ten months gross 1o5, ,3so.25e Inc 81 .532 sY
Net oper. income. 26. 6.273.689 Inc 5,427, 1885
Toledo. St. Louis & Western Railroad Co.
October gross. S767,4s9 Inc. $50 2so
Net oper. income 17o,712 Inc. 6.323
Ten months gross. 6.8o1.es9 Inc. e1e,a7a
Net oper income. 9O2,93f Dec. 1887
VirRinian Railway Company
October gross. st,23t,s45 Inc. $sa7,,7e
Net oper. income. 68.s5e Dec. 31o,s7o
Net oper. income t.s3s.3a2 Dec. 1.s47,s1o
Central Railroad of Now jersey
October gross 80. $4.4346a5 Inc 81. 134 qoa
Ten months gross. 81 .526 ,5s2 Inc. s4so o1as
Net oper. income. e,912.595 Dec. 1.c0s oea
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Companx
October gross -. $7,4e7 .62s Inc. az 421 oas
Net oper. income. 2.o67. .794 Inc. e1asf1
Ten months gross. 1885,, 1853 Inc. IA ssS az
Net oper income. 1921 .2o2 Inc 8s'sS7
Greet Western Power Company
October sross..... ssot.765 Inc. sss.oaa
Twelve mos. gross. 4,4Ss.Sss Inc. Ass7ss As'7ss
Balance 762.ssc hos as.se7