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The Washington herald., 1919-10-16
BY CABLE:

BY CABLE:
London-Dr. Kuno Meyer,
professor of Celtic language
and literature at the Univer-
sity of Berlin, died in Leipsic.
Rome-Baron Romano Avez-
zano is to be appointed Italian
Ambassador to the United
States.
FINANCIAL:
New York-Stock market
scars to a new high level.
Chicago-Weather conditions
continue poor in West and
middle West. send grain mar
ket up.
New York-Heavy selling
causes reaction. ..
The Washington herald., 1919-10-16
SPORTlNC:

Central High students pro-
test selection of football school
officials.
Baseball magnates after
Johnson's scalp, await court
action.
Edward Whitney puts over
regular coop" at Laurel
course
Technical High eleven have
easy romp in beating St. Al
bans 10 to o.
Leonard and Dundee in light
weight title battle at Hartford,
Conn, October z8.
Western and Gallaudet re-
serves in 7-to-7 draw battle.
Harry Harris will play with
Rex football team.
State leaves today for game
with West Virginia.
Georgetown eleven ready for
Virginia Polytechnic team.
The Washington herald., 1919-10-16
WASHINGTON:
President is improved.
Low temperature yesterday,

So.
Washington Railway and
Electric Company workmen
deny they intended to strike.
Cut wage demand in half.
Women lawyers. led by Mrs.
Ellen Spencer Mussey. begin
battle for rights of illegitimate
children.
Minimum Wage Board low
ers minimum pay for minors.
Lieut.. Com. Albert c. Read,
U. S. NJ. arrives at Seventh
street wharf with trans-At-
lantic seaplane, NC-4.
Postoffice to equip airplanes
with asbestos containers for
mail.
DR.. Louis B. Thomson, aged
Washington physician, dies of
heart failure at his home, 34a3
Sixteenth street northwest.
Rear Admiral Richardson
Clover, retired. died on a train
near Cheyenne, yesterday.
Dennis Patrick Murphy dies
from injuries received in street
car accident.
Allen Stencil, aged 4, struck
by auto while playing in street,
is near death.
Two hundred representative
women meet to plan for
Women's City Club.
Third D. c. Infantry, Ma
tional Guard, plans big organi-
zation.
The Washington herald., 1919-10-16
BY CONGRESS

Vote on Shantung amend
ments to peace treaty expect
ed yesterday will come today.
Delayed by debate.
Senate considering methods
of collection of $500, 900 debt
railroads owe government.
Rear Admiral MCGOWAN,
paynaster of the navy, yester-
day appealed for more ade-
quate pay for all classes of
men in service. 49,. ..'.
The Washington herald., 1919-10-16
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BY TELEGRAPH:

Chicago-Snow and cold
weather continues in west.
St. Louis-Julius H. Barnes,
United States Wheat Director,
favors early end of govern
ment grain control.
AsheviIle, N. C.-Bascom
Coggins, minister, sentenced
to Jail 1hen he refused to
take an oath in court.
New York-Jewels valued at
S1so,ooo stolen from the apart
ment of Mrs. Leyla Brandeis.
Princeton-Licensed vice is
fostered in Korea by Japanese
officials, DR.. Syngman Rhea
said here today.
El Portal Cal.-King Albert
and Queen Elizabeth left here
today for a trip through Yo-
semitic National Park.
Chicago - Soldiers today
raided the I. w. w. headquar-
ters here and set FIRE to all the
literature ready for distribu-
ton.
New York-Brig. Gen. Wilds
P. Richardson, commander
United States troops in Arch
angel, arrived here yesterday.
Tarrytown, N. Y.-Col.
James McNaught of Seattle,
Wash, dropped dead here.
The Washington herald., 1919-10-16
Buriesou Lzuds His Department.

CONTINUED on PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1919-10-16

That b what the people get IN The
Washington Herald. Hit wrong wherever
IL exists, is The Heralfs policy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
W. VA. SETTLEMENT PLEASES.
Committee Had Great DIFFICULTY in
Finding Hon h oIderS.

The committee which obtained the
passage of the resolution of the West
Virginia Legislature providing for settle
ment OF the debt OF that State to vir-
ginia was jubilant yesterday because Of
the success OF its labors. The reSolu.
ton. which has been signed by the Gov
ernor of West Virginia, permits tho pay
ment OF 31.1oo.o00 in cash and s13, 4oo,-
600 in az per cent. twenty year sinking
fund bonds. less s1.10o.0oo In bonds to
be kept in the West Virginia treasury
against certificates OF indebtedness which
have been lost and never presented for
payment by Virginia. The committee
was formed In July, 1898, under the
direction OF Brown Bros. & Co.
Great difficulties were met IN dis
covering the holders OF the bonds and
obtaining united action Many were
held on the other side OF the Atlantic.
Brown, Shipley & Co. were able to bring
into sight more than $4,000, 900 in bonds
held by British bondholders
The total amount of certificates Is
sued by Virginia on account OF West
Virginia's obligation on the ante-bellum
debt OF the old undivided Commonwealth
OF Virginia Is reported as $lS,227, 1850.
OF which s2,745.463 is held by the State
Of Virginia and represents bonds dis
allowed by the Supreme Court. There
Is s15.tS1,691 OF the bonds outstanding.
OF them Sl4.346.607 has been deposited
with Brown Bros. Co.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
COTTON FUTURES
REACT AT CLOSE
Market Is Irregular, but Its
Undertone Is Firm Dur
ing All Of Session.

An early advance was followed by re-
actions in the cotton market yesterday
with the close barely steady net points
lower to II points higher on new style
months. Old style months remained very
quiet, closing at 4 net advance Of to
81 points.
The feature during the earlier trading
was the continued strength of the old
crop deliveries. Trade interests were
again buyers Of May on the early set
back and the persistent support OF that
position seemed to increase the nervous
ness OF the short interest in May and
July. After opening at an advance OF
10 to IL points the market reacted. The
decline was checked around csc. for
May and 10000. for October. and the
market soon turned hrmer. May sold
up to 25.47c.. making a new high at an
advance OF 43 points from Mondays
closing. Later deliveries sold IS to Al
points net higher. As soon as the more
urgent demand for May and July had
been supplied prices turned easier under
realizing and local selling. The close
showed reactions OF about Is to 50
points from the best.
Range Of prices:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02

LONDON. April Following arc the clos
ing metal quotations:
FINANCIAL NOTES.

The street railway property of tho Puget
Sound Traction, Light and Power Com
pany within the city iimits Of Seattle n a
been conveyed to that city Delivery Of
SIS, ZOO, 900 8 per cent utility bonds OF the
city OF Seattle has been made to the com
pany. ''''
Sears. Roeouck 4 Co. report sales for
March as SIC: 7s6,6?s. decrease Of 1883,
sol, compared with the same period last
year.
Atlantic National Bank announced YES,
terday that an extra compensate amount =
Ing to per cent of the amount OF their
salaries was paid to all of It's employees
yesterday in addition to 4 substantial bo-
nus provided for.
Sherwood & Merrihsid arc Offering $3.50.
600 County OF Herkimer. New York, ! per
cent. coupon bonds to investors. They arc
exempt from Federal income tax and tax
Alfred r. Rlsse 10 offering Mexican In
faleincables at around cents OMITTED
states currency. Tho issue termed infal-
sincahleS bls) was author
ICED by the Carranza Government.
cities Service Company. through subsid-
iaries, is beginning the active development
OF Its large acreage of Texas oil leases
II Is probable that tho total acreage Of
Texas land under lease TO the company's
suSsidieries Is between 100000 and s.oo0.-
900 acres.
william n. Compton Company are i.su-
ing their April municipal bond circular,
containing brief descriptions OF municipal
issues attractive to individuals and banks
yielding from 4.36 to 81 per cent
Herman Rumpen. formerly with Colgate,
eral partnership in the hrm of Kelly a
Horton.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
WHITE MOTOR SALES
SHOW Big INCREASE
Gross Is S39,559,793 for 1918,
SO Per Cent. Gain Com
pared With 1917.

With gross sales of sS9,55s,T93 for
1918, the White Motor Company's annual
report issued yesterday shows an ad-
vance of So per cent from tho total
business OF 1917. Increased charges Of
operation. however, reduced the net earn
ings apprecably. so that the surplus
for 1913. after charges and Federal
taxes. was $2.6so.5S5 or 1887 a share
on the capital stock of $50 par value.
The 1917 surplus totalled S3.S00,s0S or
s11.S7 a share on the capital stock.
The total income for 1918. including
an operating profit OF 6,947.4s4, was
S6.3S0,5S5. from which was reserved 3d.
100000 for Federal taxes. After the
payment of sl.2S0.0 900 in dividends. the
surplus for the year was s1.400,5s5. and
the total profit and loss surplus on De-
cember 81. 1918. s6,621,476. A decrease
OF more than sl.0O0,0O0 appears in the
amount carried to surplus as a result
of the big increase in taxes which last
year aggregated only 81 100000.
The report declares that the company
has sold since 1914 to the United States
and its allies nearly $4,000 trucks of a
total value of more than $50. 900, 900 and
was working on orders for 300 addi-
tional machines with an aggregate value
OF s16,000,000 when the armistice was
signed and the orders cancelled by the
Government. The termination of the
war. the report says, finds the company
In excellent position and able to keep
its plant running at capacity on the
company's standard product, without
any change of equipment.
Because of the big Government or
ders as well as Of priority rulings. the
company abandoned the manufacture OF
passenger cars for a time. After the ar
mistice was signed there was such a de-
mand for trucks, according to the re-
port, that the company did not turn its
attention to passenger cars Immediately.
Two new models OF trucks have been de-
signed and put on the market. the re-
port states, and they are meeting popu-
lar favor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
KENNECoTT CUTS DIVIDEND.
President Says Action Is because
of Precarious Market.

The Kennecott Corporation has issued
a circular TO It's stockholders, signed by
its president, Stephen Birch. and ex-
planning the reduction OF the company s
dividend. He points out the rather
precarIous condition of the present cop
per market and declares that the d.
rectors deemed II advisable to conserve
the company's cash as much as possible.
in sending you the enclosed divide nd
check for the quarter ended March 81,
1919" the circular says. Il wish to
state that II was deemed advisable TO
reduce the dividend to so cents share
because of the impossibllity OF disposing
of the normal output of copper on ac-
count of the abnormal condition now
obtaining.
Europe. ordinarily a large consumer
Of copper in normal times, Is buying no
copper at present, but II Is thought that
az soon as financial conditions and the
shipping blockades now in force are
raised so that copper may be shipped
to all countries your company. as we'll
as other copper companies. will be able
to dispose OF it's product
Shareholders of copper companies
are in an entirely different position
from those who invest in ordinary bust
ness enterprises for the reason that
when dividends are not declared on ac-
count OF non-production they are merely
deferred. The product Is still owned by
tho company and when the copper Is
produced and sold dividends will be
paid. Meanwhile the shareholders' prin-
cipal remains intact"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02

less than for the previous year. but the
Price of silver advanced and was finally
iixed by regulations under a Congress
sional act at 10lisc per ounce, which
Is still In effect. Wages were advanced
at all your properties IN conformity with
general advances throughout the trade.
After the signing OF the armistIce
and the consequent stoppage OF demand
from the Government for metals for mu-
milton proposes there was a practical
cessation of tho market for copper zinc
and lead, with an entailed sharp drop IN
prices, which continued well into the
new year.
up to the time OF the signing OF the
arm Stice the cost OF all supplies was
maintained at its previous high level, or
increased. Subsequent TO that time a
very slow decline began in these costs
the effect OF which was not felt to any
great extent In the course OF the last
year. At the end OF the year the book
values OF unsold metals were reduced
10 the market values quoted on Decem-
Der 81, 1913. an arbitrary price OF zoe.
pound beng assumed for copper in tho
absence Of any authentic market quota
ton"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
q. S. SMELLING INCOME.
Before Taxes and After Preferred
Diyidends. Net IL E3.O72,s05.

Tho net income OF the United States
Smelling. Refining and Mining Company
for 1918 before tax provision and after
preferred dividends was equal to sS,072,-
S65, or 1918 share on the common
stock, against a net income OF Sl.7j1,575
after taxes and preferred dividends IN
1917. The net earnings for 1918 after
charges. according to the report issued
yesterday. amounted to t7,:i9,533,
against S5,76s.39o In 1917. There was a
substantial increase In depreciation and
exploration reserves. so that after pro-
vision for 1918 taxes the net profit may
prove about the same as that OF last
year. when s692.500 was paid in taxes
During the year" Gays President w
@. Sharp In his report to the stockhold-
ers the output OF gold and silver pro-
duced by your companies has been IN
creased. while the production of copper.
lead and zink has decreased. The prices
OF copper. lead and ZINC were materially
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
CONSOLIDATED EXCHANGE.

There was little material change in
values at the close OF an active market
yesterday on tho Consolidated Exchange.
Advances made in the general list were
cut substantially by the profit taking
movement in the last half hour and
anal quotations. as a rule. registered but
fractional Improvement steel common,
after going to ssh reacted. and moving
within narrow limits closed with a net
gain of n. There was q good demand
for the copper shares with resultant ad i
vanoes- Oils closed easy and the ship
ping shares lost the major portion of
earlier gains In the final trading. The
rails had q more active market than
usual and closed steady. Trading In
Liberties was In moderate volume. With
prices frm-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
POND CREEK COAL REPORTS.
Showing for 1918 Is Net Profit of
s558,8S0, . Decrease From 1917.

The annual report of the Pond Creek
Coal Company for 1918 shows net prof
Its. after taxes. charges, etc, OF $571,-
6sS. a decline of s17s.32s from the 1917
figures. The 1917 taxes were $500 900
and thus the income Of the company be-
fore taxes was considerably less in
1913 than in the preceding year.
The profits for 1918 totalled s2IS a
share on the capital stock OF the COM
pany against $3.50 a share earned in
1917. Total income was sl.243.647 in
1918 against s1.666,5s6 in 1917 and de-
probation charges totalled s16l,5S9 In
1918 against Sl25,4lS in 1917. There
was a decrease In administrative and
general expenses which declined from
$10o,252 in 1917 to $s4.657 In 1918.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
$1,15o,ooo TRACTION BONDS.
staten Island Rapid Transit Issues
20 Pay Debt TO ID. q O.


The Public Service Commission has
adopted an order permitting the Staten
Island Rapid Transit Railway Company
to Issue s1,150,000 face value OF refund
ing bonds, payable on June ]. 1913 and
bearing interest at 4 per cent. payable
eemi-annually. The bonds are redeem
able ut par and accrued interest on and
after June /, 1925. The bond issue Is
secured under the company's $1,000, 900
refunding mortgage, executed on June 1,
1905. to the Guaranty Trust Company
or New York as trustee.
Tho order recltes that the company
shall sell the bonds to net 1t not less
than the par value of the principal
thereof, besides accrued interest; the
proceeds to be applied for discharge or
refunding of an equal amount of the
company's obligations to the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company for acqui-
sition OF property and construction, com
pletion. extension or improvement OF
facilities.
The application OF the company. un-
der which the hearings were held. states
that the company owes the Baltimore
and Ohio s1,625,000 for cash advances
to the company for construction, much
OF the money being spent for dock and
other improvements in the vicinity Of st.
George, Staten Island.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
ISLAND CREEK COAL REPORT.
Net Profits for 1918 fatal sI.181.-
783, Representing n Decline,

Coal Company In 1918, according to the
annual report just issued. totslled
s1,1S1.763 after all taxes and charges.
which was at the rate Of 81 a share on
the common stock and compares with
s15.S7 a share earned in 1917.
Net income totalled s2.s69.45s against
s3.452.o41 in 1917. and expenses were
increased from $14S,s26 In 1917 to s173,-
051 in 1918. making the balance before
taxes and charges $e.6s6.407 against
sa,S03.116. The amount reserved for
taxes was 100000 against $500, 900 In
1917 and an additional write of of
$113.397 was made for ice flood loss.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
BRAZILIAN COFFEE STATISTICS.
THE GRAIN MARKET.

CORN-In the local cash market tradins
was dull, but prices frm. No. Z yellow and
No. . white quoted at s1.soA, cost and
freight New York.
OATs-The local market was inactive
but prices steady. Standard was quoted
at TsA q fec.; No. 2 white at 7Se; No
white at Tshc,: No. Z white at TiG $50.
clipped white at raw 975c.. ali elevator.
RYE-Markst nrm. No. Western
N.7731.so, cost and freight New York
BARLEY - Market steady. Feeding
t1.os 0i.loi mailing. si.isoi.3o. cost ana
freight New York.
HgOkWHEAT.Markst stesdy. sount
HAY--.Markst quiet. No. 1, ei.7S@l.so
No. .. N.so@1.7o; No. .. $50 9i.SS.
sTRAw-Markst quiet No. / rye. VA q
Is a ton
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
OLD STYLE.
COTTON sTATIsT1cs.
New Orleans Cotton Market.

of conflicting influences to-day cotton
stood at a small net advance during the
greater part OF the session. At the high
est the active new contract months
were 80 to 3S points higher than yester-
days last prices. The close was to 10
points up net. Old contracts closed I'M
changed to points lower net. Old {:
May. 23.62; July, 22.25; October. 1880 {:
December, 1890. New: May, 23.S7 !;
July, 22.19: October. 20.22; December.
1885: Janua~y. 1857. Spot cotton
steady and unchanged; middling, 1928.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
METAL MARKET.

The copper market was strong and
sales OF that metal in fair quantities
have been made by the larger selling
agencies at 16xto 1874 a pound. de-
livered. There was little doing in lead
yesterday. The attitude of both pro-
ducers and consumers continued to be
one OF indifference. Tho tono was
maintained,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
COFFEE MARKET.

The coffee market yesterday had an
other of day with the volume OF busi-
ness small. On the call prices were Z
to IL points higher than at the previous
close and held steady throughout the
session. final prices being a few points
off from the best on scattered realizing.
Closing quotations we're net unchanged
to an advance OF 10 points.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
Appeal Diam nd Coal Decree.

wAsHINoroN, April 1.--Appeals were
to-day filed In the Supreme Court by the
Government from Federal Court DEGREES
Diminishing proceedings Instituted by the
6oyernment 70 recover 1900 acres OF
Wyoming coal lands which II Is alleged
the Diamond Coal and Coke Company
obtained through fraud, The lands are
valued at more than si.ooo.ooo.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02

Coffee Cables-Rio was rs reis higher for 70
Mt 1lso3o. Exchange Lad. lower at Is I'D.
Receipts 1000 bags and stock $4,000 bags In
Santos spots were 100 refs lower and futures
were n reis higher TO Is reis lower. Receipts
20. 900 bags and stock 0. Sos 900 bags. Receipts
at the ports were 1900 bags, against $1,000
had is. 90. against 1000 and 1000 bags, and
Jundiahy 1900. against 1000 and 1000 bags.
respectively.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-02
Penn.xIranla cfuas oiI AIarI1et.

ON err, Apsr ]. Credit balances, -.
Huns I1i.lS2; average. $500, Snip
mezlks 1A.9l3 axera9s. ts,6io. Ar
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-27
potash and refused the German of

potash and refused the German of fers, whereupon Germany sold her output, which was intended for the United States, to Sweden.
 Negotiations, says the Berlin pa per, have now been resumed to en- able the German potash mines, of which 120 are crippled through lack of coal, while others have only 25 percent enough fuel, to buy Ameri- can coal with dollars and recoup by selling potash to America at dollar rates
 Other negotiations are also under way between Germany and Holland for milk and dairy products in ex- change for potash.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-27

If the above assessments together with 10 per cent. penalty are not paid on or before January 1, 1920. the lots will be reported for for feiture, and title revert to the Gov ernment according to Circulars Nos. 45S and 554.
 CARL SCHMIDT, k J-2 Townsite Manager
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-27
OF THE INTERIOR ALASKAN ENGINEERING
 COMMISSION

Office of the Townsite Manager.
 Nenana, Alaska, Dee. 2, 1919. Notice of Delinquency in the Pay niert of Assessments on the Fol- lowing Lots, Nenana Townsi.e:
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-27
SPIRITS IN IRELAND.

The importation of many thou sands of gallons of whisky from America, as a result of prohibition in the United States, has caused alarm in the Irish distilling trade. War restrictions have greatly hampered the Irish trade The dis tillers were prevented in the 1916- IT season from making the usual quantity of whisky. Next year they were closed down altogether, and even in the present year were only permitted to make a reduced SUD- ply. The prices, of course, went up, and distillery shares advanced in the stock exchanges.
 The American whisky can easily be sold at lower price than the Irish article, and it is being freely taken up by the Irish retailers. One provincial ponder is said to have paid nearly s20O,O0o in duty on his consignment What the distillers are most afraid of is that the Am erican spirit may be blended or ''faked-up" and sold as Irish or Highland whisky
 One interesting fact stated in the Dublin papers is that at present no American whisky is sold in Dublin as such.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-27
FEAR RUSSIA.
as such.

A great many Russians whc fought in the armies of former CZar Nicholas prefer lie in Ger man military prison camp to an un- certain existence in their own land. according to Captain G. V. Oill, who recently returned to the United States from Berlin. where he was engaged in special work for the Inter-Allied commission. For six months Captain Oill worked among
 Russian prisoners of war in Ger many, examining them for symp- toms of tuberculosis and seeing that
 those affected were given proper care. :>#> .:.. *-.:.:+ ......:.: ~.# Six hundred thousand Russians
 were held as prisoners of war ili
 Germany when I went there last March," Captain Oil said. When I left, about 2.O0O had been re- ! patriated by the Inter-Allied com.
 mission. In the interval, conditions
 in German prison camps had beer
 improved greatly. Good food was being served the prisoners when
 left, and the general rules of sani, tation were being observed.
 i Captain Oill said many Russians who were repatriated by the Inter. Allied commission returned to the
 strict discipline of the German pris,
 on camps in preference to affiliating
 themselves with free society" un. der soviet government in their own country.