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FIRST CALL OF NEW MEN
Includes Those Of 10 and 20 And from
20 70 rs.

IncIudcs hose OF Iy and 70 And from
80 to SO.
Washington, Sept. 10-ProvOst Mar
shall General Crowder announces to-
day that the first call to colors OF men
who register Thursday viii linclade
the nineteen and twenty year classes
and in classes from 80 to SO years in.
elusive. Questionnaires will be sent
first to registranls first with WITHIN
these specified age limits, aid local
boards will be ordered to classify them
first in readiness for calls beginning in
October.
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FOR SNIE--At once. On easy terms.
several desirable houses. with gardens.
Mrs Il. b. Huling, POS South street I,
tel 53l-M eat25
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FOR SALE-Save fuel and labor by
installing pipeless furnace this tall.
Two of the best makes in stock. Your
old stove will be taken in exchange.
Also full line Of heating and cook
stoves A. II. WinslOw, 3l5 Main
street 92tf
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LOW PRICED ADVERTISING
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Chunk stove and rus
sian pipe; No. Z kitchen range rus
Sian pipe Apply Sl2 Main street. 93t6'
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WANTED-Chairs to cane Herman
f. Dressed, 1874 Park street, tel dim.
90t6'
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MISUNDERSTANDING to do at home.
Call III Union street. s2tb'
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WANTED

WANTED-A cook Apply to Mrs.
Nanderpoel Adriance, South street.
Wiliamstown, Mass. s5t6
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WANTED--To buy second hand heat
ing and cook stoves. We pay cash.
Phone 3SSM. a. H. Winslow, Sl5 Main
street VII
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TO RENT

TO RENT-Stores, offices, tene-
ments. shops stables individual st)r.
age lockers. furnished apartments aid
rooms all centrally located. Geo. NJ.
Hawks, 1926 Main street 76tf
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Save TRADEMARKS from
Rabbits Cleanser

BABRlTS l776 AND BABDITS LYE
Hiring 80 10 wilIoughby's Dept. store
FOR n useful premium. Several tp Sc
lcct from. oot-o
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WANTED--Woman for cook or gen.
eral house work, no washing. Apply
Mrs, A. S. Carpenter, Woodford city,
tel. 1874. Sltf
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wANTED--Several men for labor
ing and mill work. Boarding house
for single men. tenement housea for
married men. highest rate Of wages.
Fillmore & Slade. Tel 500. 96tf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Sinclair Oil
Passes Dividend
Necessity of "Conservation of
Cash." the Official
Explanation

Directors of the Sinclair Oil and Re-
fining Company at a meeting yester-
day voted to pass the quarterly divi-
dend of S1.25 a share, the declaration
of which is due at this time. "In view
of the present conditions" said the
official announcement. "this was
deemed the conservative policy, in that
the first financial consideration in any
company to-day is the conservation OF
cash."
The company on August 10, 1916
lnaugurated the payment of dividends
on 100000 shares ono par valued OF
stock outstanding at the rate of So q
year. The action of the stock for the
past few weeks has indicated that divi-
dend payments would either be re-
ouced or passed entirely. Yester-
days closing price of 267s compared
with 80, the high price for 1918.
In the announcement yesterday it was
stated that the construction programme
approved two years ago and recently
further enlarged is now nearing com
pletion, and that as a result the cor
poration is now to large degree in.
dependent of railroad transportation ir
that the pipe line from Oklahoma anc
Kansas to East Chicago has been com.
pleted and is delivering oil to the new
refinerics al Kansas City and East
Chicago.
The directors have authorized the
extension of the pipe line sevent,
miles into the "Garber" Oklahoma
field.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
New York

Cuban Sugar Acceptances Arrive
Announcement was made yesterday
that the first instalment of acceptanccs
drawn under the credit granted by an
American banking syndicate, headed
by the Guaranty Trust Company. the
National City Bank and the Chase Ma
tional Bank, to finance the Cuban sugar
crop will arrive within week. These
bills, which will run for ninety days,
all payable in New York, will include
acceptances of banks and banking
houses located in thirty of the leading
cities Of the country. According to
the announcement, it has been deemed
advisable, in the interest of the dis
count market, that the acceptances
should be offered in the open market
rather than privately by the banks
themselves or offered in the first in
stance to the Federal Reserve banks.
The banking syndicate has designated
the National City Company, Solomon
Brothers & Hutzler, +. S. Smithers &
Co., and Bernhard, Scholle & Co. to
act as selling syndicate for the bills,
which will be offered in the near fut-
ure at the discount rates prevailing at
the time of their arrival.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Elections

Elmo l.. Gridlcy has been elected
treasurer of the Union Tank. Line
Company, and Edward c. Sicardi was
elected director, succeeding William
II. Hutchinson, res gned.
At the annual meeting Of the West
enr Union Telegraph Company, Charles
B. Segcr, Julius krnttschnitt, Howard
Elliott and T. DE Witt Cuyler were
elected directors, succeeding tho late
James Stillman, Joseph J. Slocum. Rob-
crt S. Lovctt and Robert c. Clowry.
The other members Of the board cf di-
rec:ors were reelected.
Harrison K. Bird, director of the
Hartman National Bank, has been
elected trustee Of the Manhattan
Savings Bank.
A. J. McAllster has been elected a
director of the Haskell e. Barker Car
Company, to fill a vacancy on the
board
f. R. Dane has been elected a dircc-
tor Of the Alloucz Mining Company
succeeding Benjamin Joy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Dividends
Regular Declarations
Land Title & Trust Company.-Quart

Land Title & Trust Company Quarterly
dividend of y per cent, payable May ].
Otto Eisenlohr & Bros. 1nc.-Quarterls
dividend of ! per cent on the common stock
payable May Is to stockholders of recort
May J.
American District Telegraph Company OF
New Jersey.-Quarterly dividend of ] pei
cent. payable April 20 to stockholders of re-
ord April 49,
Burns Brothers.-Quarterly dividend of 2l
per cent on the common stock. payable Mas
Is to stockholders of record May also. regu
lar quarterly dividend of IA per cent on the
preferred. payable May l to stockholders Of
record April Is.
Commonwealth Power. Railway & Light
Company. Dividend Of l Il per cent in scril
on the preferred stock. payable May t,
stockholders of record April II.
Fort Worth Power & Light Company
Quarterly dividend Of "a per cent on tbs
preferred stock. payable May to stockhod
OF record April 20.
Kanawha & Michigan Railroad.-Quarterl,
dividend Of / a per cent. payable April ..
to stockholders of record April Is.
Keystone Telephone Company.-Semi-an.
nual dividend of 3 per cent on the preferred
stock. payable May / to stockholders of rec
ord April 20.
National Biscuit Company.-Qu Quarterly divi-
dend of ia per cent on the preferred. rayt
bic May 81 to stockholders of record May Is
and q per cent on the common stock, paya
bic July 10 to stockholders of record June -
Nevada Wonder Mining Company
annual dividend of 10 per cent. payable Ma!
20 to stockholders of record April 80.
New York Central.-Quarterly dividend OF
a per cent payable May to stockholders
of record April 10.
Pacific Development Corporation.-Divi
dend of IA per cent. payable May Is tc
stockholders Of record April -.
Poole Engineering & Machine Company
Quarterly dividend of l12 per cent payable
April l6 to stockholders Of record April 10.
Slower Manufacturing & Engine Company
Quarterly dividend of x per cent on The
preferred stock, payable May ! to stockhold-
of record April l9.
F.. w. Woolworth Company.-Quarterly
dividend of So per share on the common
stock. payable June l to stockholders of rec
ord May !.
Corn Exchange Bank.-Quarterly dividend
OF per cent, payable May to stockholders
Of record April 30.
Cleveland. Cincinnati. Chicago & st. Louis
Railway Quarterly dividend Of a per cen,
on the preferred stock. payable April 20 t.
stockholders of record April 13
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Cunlife's Farewell

Lord CunllfFc, who was member of
the English financial commission which
VISITED the United States shortly after
TINS country entered the war in 1917.
has formally retired as governor of the
Bank OF England, although he remains
director Of the "old lady Of Thread
needle Street Copies Of London pa
pers lust received here tell Of Lord
Cunliffc's farewell speech to the stock
holders Of the bank "Thc most inter
sstin,g part Of his speech" saws the
LONDON "Iines," "was his allusion to
the proposals for reform Of the bank
Any 'dea that opposition to reform ig
ijkeiy TO arse at the bank itself NAV
clearly henceforth be set aside. On the
contrary, Lord Cunliffc puts in the fore
front OF the difficulties with which the
BANK OF England was faced when war
broke out That they we're working with
AZ ahtiauatcd instrument, though at
the same time he expressed a belief
that II the cohesion in the Landau
banking world had been as close at the
start az it il now the moratorium in
1914 would not have been necessary.
The point OF greater importance lis that
on behalf OF the bank Lord Cunliffc
goes beyond merely accepting the neces-
city OF reform and Of amendments in
the bank act Of 1874, and announcing
that the committee which has been an,
pointed TO consider this problem among
others Is fully alive TO the need of re.
yls1on in the terms Of the banks char
ter. He states that better and more
up-to-date machinery is actually in
course Of being get up, and that il
would, he hoped, be ready for Parlia-
rnentary sanction in time to meet the
new sitnation which must arise after
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11

A decrease of 232,049 tons in the
fulfilled orders on the books of the
United States Steel Corporation
might, under conditions other than
those which now prevail, be more or
less disturbing as indicating a de-
cline in the demand for steel; but the
fact is, steel plants have all the bust
ness they can do for many months.
and new bookings are held down only
because capacity is reserved for gov
ernment requirements. AS "The Iron
Age" remarks: "The American steel
output will at length be so far taken
Up by the government and it's allies
as to leave little for so-called ordi-
nary uses, whether at home or
abroad" 1t is probable that heavier
shipments accounted in large part
for the decrease in untitled orders
last month. Transportation condi-
tons were so much better that ship
ments probably improved at least as
much as production, which was so
per cent larger than in January.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Bankers Confer ON
Discount Company
Meet to Discuss Formation Of
$5,000,00O Organi-
cation

Plans for organizing an American
discount bank by a powerful group of
Wall Street financial institutions were
discussed formally for the first time
yesterday at meeting in the Offices
of the Guaranty Trust Company, which
has taken the lead in the movement.
Hitherto consideration of the company,
which will be modelled after the dis
count banks of France and England,
has been confined to informal CONVEX
sations.
Charles H. Sabin, president of the
Guaranty Trust Company, stated after
yesterdays conference that all the
plans connected with the projected
bank were still in tentative stage.
They are expected, however, to take
more concrete form at another meet
ing to be held in the near future.
1t is understood that the tentative
proposals provide for bank with a
capital Of not less than 100000.
which will be underwritten by the
financial institutions interested in the
enterprise. In addition to the Guar
anty Trust Company, banks that will
prooaoly snare IN the underwriting
include the First National Bank, the
Chase National Bank and the Bankers
Trust Company. j. p. Morgan e. Co.,
1T is understood, are favorably dis
posed to the formation Of the bank.
The first definite step in the forma-
ton of an American discount bank
was taken a little more than a week
ago, when the Foreign Trade Banking
corporation was organized by George
A. Castor, Of CASTOR, Williams & Wig
more !lncD, with a capital of $1,000
600. This institution will open for
business next Monday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Want More Castor Oil
American Production To Be
Increased Greatly

Efforts are being made by the gov
eminent authorities at Washington to
stimulate the production of the castor
bean IN this country, in order to fur
nlsh the raw material for making the
castor oil needed for the fabrication
o OF american and Allied airplancs. The
War Department is pushing the move
ment for a great increase in the pro
ductlon of this particular kind of bean
IN the Southern states in the hone
that 200,O00 acres may be planted to
the crop this year. To this end CON
| tracts have been made with certain
contractors for the delivery Of castor
beans at $3.50 bushel, permitting the
latter to guarantee to the growers of
sub-contractors So bushel. 1t is hoped
mat the efforts now in progress will
about $12,OOO,0O0
According to the National City Bank
of New York, the United States is the
second world producer of castor oil
Prior to the war this country produced
approximately 100000 worth of the
oil.
Much of this output of the factories
OF the United States was produced
from castor beans imported from India.
| the worlds chief source of that prod
uct' Formerly the United States pro
ouced, especially on the Pacific Coast
and in the Southern states, consider
able quantities of the castor bean. but
when the development of the petroleum
industry produced more satisfactory
lubrlcatlng oil, and at much less ex
pense, the castor bean and oil industry
tailed to keep pace with the growth
Of other manufacturing industries of
the country. AS a consequence, most
of the castor beans used in producing
the moro than $1,OOO,O00 worth of cas-.
tor Oil annually turned out in the Unit
ed States have been imported, the guam
been, in 1913, 844 900 bushels: in 1910
when the Importance Of the oil for
acroplanes began to be recopnized
I1S,o36,ooo bushels, and in 1917, 1,O41.,
600 bushels.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Stocks Strongly Held

Favorable comment is heard in many
directions regarding the tirmness OF
stock prices in the face of the disturb
ing news from France. The following
is an excerpt from the current letter
of Spencer Trask g. Co.: "ln so far as
stocks are concerned, their action
when the loan was announced, and the
response they made at the height Of
the German drive, were in every way
discouraging, and indicate that the
amount of shares held on margin in
commission houses is quite unusually
small, stocks having gone into strong
hands during the course Of the iiquida-.
ton of last year OF this study OF
brokers' balances had previously con-
Nirccd u.s.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Lackawanna Steel Co.
Earns 1854 a Share

Net earnings Of s3,759,9S7 were re-
ported yesterday by the Lackawanna
Steel Company for the quarter ended
March 81. This sum. which compares
with s4,369,649 for the corresponding
period of 1917. was arrived at after de-
Quoting operating expenses and a sub
stantlal deduction for Federal income
and excess profits taxes.
After allowing for further charges
aggregatlng $163,24o for interest, rent
ais, depreciation, etc, there was a hal
ancc of $2,996,747, &C uivalent to sS.54
a share on $35,096,5OO capital stock.
compared with $685. a share earned in
the quarter ended March 81. 1917. In
filled orders on hand at the close Of last
month totallcd 70S,199 tons, decline
OF 2S3,S97 tons from 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Central Paws Its Dividend

In March the New York Central di-
rectors postponed action on the divi-
dend due at that time, on the grounds
that it was not yet known definitely just
what the compensation under govern
ment control would be. Yesterday
the directors met and declared the
regularly quarterly disbursement of
~ per cent. Although the company
agreement with the government under
the Federal control act has not been
made, the inference was drawn in stock
market circles that after the meeting
in March the management reached an
understanding with the railroad ad-
ministration on the dividend matter.
Under the terms Of the control act
the road should receive on the three
year average basis Of compensation
the equivalent of approximately II per
cent upon its stock
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Imports Fall OFF

Imports Of merchandise at the Port
of New York in February last amounted
to $94,303,999, decrease Of $3,550,ss
as compared with the corresponding
month last year, according to figures
made public at the Custom House yes
terday. Duties collected on direct i'm
portations and Withdrawals from ware
houses we're S8,077,779, or $2,722.5l7
less than in February, 1917.
Exports of merchandise during the
month amounted to $167,136,944 as
against $222,360,l2l in February last
year.
Imports Of foreign gold were S92,l2o
less than in February. 1917, while the
amount Of domestic gold that went out
Of tho country decreased ss.17d.S77
i!nportatio1s Of foreign silver increased
by 1856 16, and exports Of domestic
silver fell of $3,087, 100.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11

Manhattan Electrical Supply Com
pany.-A special dividend of i per cent
on the common stock, payable May to
stockholders of record April 20.
Charlton Cotton Mills Corporation.
Extra dividend of l per cent has
been declared in addition to the regu-
lar quarterly dividend of 2 per cent.
both payable May l to stockholders of
record April s.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Pledges Loan Support

The Stock Exchange formally pledged
itself to the Support Of the President
and the third Liberty Loan" in rcso
luton passed yesterday by the govern
ing committee which reads as follows:
"Whereas, On the anniversary Of oul
entry into the war our President has
marked our one and undertaking course
TO be force, force to the utmost, force
without stint or limit; and
"Whcrcas, This means bringing to
bear the entire man power, industrial
power and financial power Of the ma
ton; therefore be it
Resolved, That the New York Stock
Exchange pledges itself and its mem
bcrs to the energetic and resol ute sup.
port of the President and the third
Liberty Loan"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
The Dollar in Foreign Exchange

Exchange on Italy displayed weak
ness again yesterday, the rate falling
to S.9S lire to the dollar, closing at
S.91As. The lire rate is now close to
the low record level established few
weeks prior to the announcement that
the Italian government had formed an
institute for the purpose of controlling
operations in lire exchange.
Spanish exchange was strong, with
pesetas selling up to $3.50 cents for
checks, new high record. The adj
vance in pesetas here followed a SINH
lar upturn in the London market. Other
exchanges showed no important change.
Closing rates yesterday, compared
with a week ago, follow:
Quoted dollars to the pound.l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Reflex in Stock Market
AR. Z. T. Financing

The comment of Timothy S. Will
Jams, president of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company, yesterday on a re-
port that the company had applied to
the War Finance Corporation for a
loan of $6O,OOO,O00 follows: "It is I'M
founded. The War Finance Corpora
ton directors have not yet been APP
pointed. No application for loan has
been made up to the present time"
On July l next the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit has maturing $57,735,000 six
year per cent gold notes. This is
one of the biggest maturities of the
year, and as yet no plan has been an
nounced providing for it, Colonel
Williams assured stockholders at the
annual meeting last January that the
notes would be taken care of whether
the necessary financing was under
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11

The above rates express the cost of
foreign money in terms of the Amcri
can dollar. You buy an English pound
sterling at, say, S4.752s. The intrinsic
parity is $4:865s per pound. Thus you
say either that pounds arc at a discount
or that dollars arc at premium. which
is owing to the fact that in England
the demand for dollars with which to
settle accounts in this country is greater
than the demand in this country for
pounds with which to settle accounts in
England.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
A Ticker for Bonds

Plans OF the Stock Exchange to
establish a separate ticker service for
bond transactions are said to be near
ing completion. They have been hast
cned by the recent heavy dealings in
Liberty bonds and the expected con-
tinuation of heavy volume of trading
at least during the period of the war.
Although the current dulncss in the
stock market makes it unnecessary to
have a separate bond ticker at pres
cnt. it is realized that should the mar
ket become active in the near future
it would be difficult to keep up with
the dealings on the floor Of The cx-
chanpc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
News Digest
Foreign

Paris Bourse.-PARIS, April 10
Trading was quiet on the Bourse to-
day. Three per cent rentes, SO francs
35 confines for cash. Exchange on
London, q francs II centimes. Five
per cent loan, So francs as centimes.