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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
AGREEMENT REACHED ON ENTIRE ADRIATIC
 CONTROVERSY, REPORT

(Continued From Page One) ing was held they have no definite of any decisions taken.
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Dr. Mays Treatment conquers worst cases of Epilepsy. Spasms, Convulsions. Nervous Disor-. ders. Generous $2. % bottle sent free SrArp ACT DR.W. H. MAY, 543 PEARL ST., NEW YORK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29

number of officers which would be- re-
 auired for navy of 25e,oo0 was placed by Captain Leigh at 37,714.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
Point 5 in President Wilson's 14

Point in President Wilson's 14 points for peace was as follows:
 Free. open-minded and absolute i'm. jartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the population concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
Pure Tested Household Drugs

American Cod Liver Oil,
 per pint :. .$1.OO American Mineral Oil,
 per pint ............. soc Bicarbonate Soda, per ID. 15c Boric Acid, per lb. :. .35c Cascara Sagrada, { OF.
 bottle .35c Castor Oil, 4 OF. bottle. .25c Chalk & Orris, 1 OF. pkg. l3c Chloroform Liniment,
 OF. bottle. 4Oc Cocoa Butter, half-pound
 cake soc Compound Licorice Pow
 der, 4 OF. package. .. .2Oc Dobell's Solution per pint S5c Epson Salts, per lb.. ... 12c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29

rrencn Ollve Oil, per pt. $I.1O Glycerine, 4 OF. bottle. soc Glycerine & Rose Water,
 4 OF. bottle. ... .2Oc Gum Camphor, 4 oz.. .$1.1O Lime Water. per at. bottle 25c Moth Ball, lb., package. zoe Moth Flakes, lb. package zoe hnubarb & Soda .aixture,
 OF. bottle. =. '. .. BOG Rochelle Salts, 1 OF. pkg. soc Solution Boric Acid, half
 pint ... .15c Stokes Expectorant, 4 oz.
 bottle tle....:........... .. .3Oc Tincture Iodine, 2 OF.
 Dottlc .35c Witch Hazel, per pint. .45c
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Texas Roundup of Oil Fakers

Texas, it appears from Dallas ad-
vices, is indulging itself in frenzy
of speculation in wildcats oil shares
1t is asserted that the gambling" in
securities Of this character, about
which many Texans are losing their
heads and also perhaps their bank
rolls, is beginning to arouse the serious
concern Of thoughtful men in the
state. The American Exchange Ma
tional Bank of Dallas has gone so far
as to forbid its employees to buy any
promotion companies stocks or even
go into the so-called coil exchanges"
where such stocks are now being sold
The president of this bank in his edict
said: "If any Of our employees go into
these places or buy stocks through
them it is equivalent to turning in
their designations" Bills proposing to
regulate the selling of stocks and
also to regulate the organization Of
stock companies are now being pre-
pared by the Texas Legislature. One
Of the reasons why there is beginning
to develop a strong feeling against the
worthless stock promoters, it is said
is the fear that when these gentlemen
have finished their ork there will re-
main so many individuals who have
lost their money on worthless oil
stocks that the legitimate oil industry
Of the state will be made to suffer
unjustly.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Holders of Russian
Bonds Seek Aid at Paris
American Banker Will Present
Petition to the Peace
Conference

American holders of the old Impe-
rial Russian Government 512 per cent
bonds have taken steps to have their
interests protected at the peace con-
ference. AT the Offices of A. B. Leach
g. Co. it was said yesterday that a
representative of the firm would be
sent to Paris by the next steamer to
lay before Secretary of State Lansing
petition urging to impress upon the
Allied peace delegates the necessity
OF definite action on behalf OF hold
ers OF the Russian war loan. This
firm estimates that. between $4,000 COO
and S3,000,o00 of the bonds were sold
in this country.
The bonds were issued in 1916 and
soon after their hotaton here they
enjoyed an active speculation. They
have sold as high as 375. but after
the overthrow of the late Czar and
the statement of the Lenine and Trotz-
ky regime that all the former gov
ernment's debts would be repudiated
they declined to 80. The current mar
ket is around 1856
New York bankers declined to di-
vulge the identity of their representa-
tive who has gone to Paris. The rea-
son offered was that making public
his name at this time might frustrate
the purpose off his, trip abroad
A. r. Johnson & Co announced yes
terday that unregistered coupons of
the Russian 5a per cent internal
loan bonds of 1916, due February 10,
1919. viii be cashed upon presenta-
tion at the Offices Of the Russian Amer
lean Line, at 55 Broadway.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Cotton Prices Rise:
Report Mill Labor
Crisis Has Passed
General List Advances More
Than One Cent a Pound
Agitation for Reduced
Acreage an Influence

An advance of more than a cent a
pound in the price of cotton on the
Cotton Exchange yesterday was at
tributed to more favorable labor re-
ports from mill centres and continued
agitation for reduced acreage. MAY
contracts sold up to 22.8O, or 127 points
above Saturdays final figures, and
closed at 22.74. The general list closed
at a net advance OF from lOS to 131
points.
Prices reached the highest points of
the day in the late trading. May CON
tracts at 2280 showed a recovery of
SD bale from the low level of Jan
uary. There was an advance of 35 to
DC points at the opening on short COW
ering and buying by Liverpool. Later
realizing caused some irregularity
with reactions of 25 to 30 points.
These losses, however, were of short
duration.
In Cotton Exchange circles much i'm
portance is attached to the campaign
for reduced acreage end holding the
remainder of the old crop for higher
prices. Local brokers attributed some
broadening of commission house de-
mand to those factors. Reports from
the South suggested that the move
ment in this direction was being sup
ported by bankers and merchants gen
orally.
New England advices' indicated that
the danger of any general strike in
the mill centres was over. at least for
the present. AT some points where
workers arc insisting upon fifty
four hours pay for forty ght
h trct ri
pected, but in other places manu-
facturcrs have granted the demand for
reduced hours. 1t is expected that with
labor conditions improved and South
ern spot no ders sitting tight there
will be better demand for goods
The local market for spot cotton
was steady and 40 points higher, at
27.S5c. for mddling upland, compared
With 26.75c the day before. A year ago
the exchange was closed because of
heatless Monday.
The ranUo of nricoc foIlo,vc.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Philadelphia Co. Notes
Will Yield 7.3O Per Cent
Three-Year 6 Per Cent Issues
Will Be Offered at 96 6l.2

Lee, Higginson &, Co. have organized
syndicate to offer slo,OoO,ooO Phila-
delphia Company three-year per cent
notes at 961z to yield approximately
730 per cent. Other banks interested
in the financing include the First Ma
tional Bank, the Chase National Bank
and two or three others.
The purpose of the issue is to pro-
vide working capital and additional
funds to meet $7,00O,000 notes, which
mature next April. Last August a
syndicate headed by Harris, Forbes &
Co., the First National Bank and
Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. sold at
961a and interest $10,000,OOO three
year 6 per cent notes of the Duquesne
Light Company, a subsidiary.
A sufficient number of the stock
holders of the Philadelphia Company,
it was stated yesterday, have approved
of the new financing to permit of the
public offering at this time.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Financial Path to Syria Open
Imperial Ottoman Bank May
Correspond With Branches

A channel for forwarding remit
tances to Syria has been opened. Since
the signing of the armistice the need
for such a means of financial com
munication has been keenly felt. it
is said. Brown Bros. & Co. yester-
day announced that the Imperial OF
toman Bank, of London. has received
permission to correspond with it's Sy-
rian branches and to hold at their
disposal sums received in London for
payment in Syria.
Ia accordance with the terms Of the
arrangements which have been made
the bank will advise it's branches as
to all funds so received. Payments.
it is announced. can only be made
to persons not enemies, or who are
not the allies of enemies, resident in
those parts Of Palestine and Syria ex-
tending as far north as the line from
Alexandretta to Alepno and. as far
east as the Hear Railway.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Confscatory Oil
Measure i'm Mexico
Is Pigeonholed
No Action Will Be Taken
Until September Unless
Carranza Calls Special
Session of Congress

The proposed new petroleum code
which came up during the last sessio
of the Mexican Congress, against
which American and other oil interests
with properties in Mexico have been
making vigorous protest, was not
pressed for adoption and the Cong ass
adjourned without having taken any
action, it was learned yesterday. This
code, which was proposed by President
Carranza and his advisers, contained
provisions reaffirming the confscatory
features of Article 27 of the Mexican
Constitution, and if made into law
meant the possible loss to the oil
companies of 80 per cent of their
properties.
According to "The Oil Trade Jour
nal, unless special session of the
Mexican Congress is convened or an
executive decree issued, no action will
be taken by the Mexican authorities un-
III the next regular session in Septem-
Der. 1t is stated, however, that plans
are under discussion to call a special
session in April.
Before adjourning the Mexican Con-
gress voted power to President Carran-
"a to increase or reduce import or ex-
port taxes at his discretion. 1t is
assumed that this move was taken to
help straaighten out the tangle caused
by the proposed levyins of confisca-
tory taxes on oil produced in the Tam
plco and Tuxpam districts.
The departure of U. S. Ambassador
Fletcher from Mexico City to Wash
lngton," says "The Oil Trade Journal
'where he will discuss with the State
department questions now pending be
tween the United States and Mexico,
has been accompanied by the revival
OF various rumors in Mexico CITY.
These rumors have it that the confer
ence in Washington would be con-
nected with the reported request for a
loan to Mexico by American bankers
and with the decision of TIE American
interests in Mexico to send deIega-
ton to the peace conference. Ambassa-
dor Flether left Mexico City on Janu-
ary 25."
1t was recently reported in Wall
Street that the Carranza government
would like to borrow $500 COO 900 in
the United States. At the time bankers
said the prospects of Mexico raising
such loan were rather slim.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Would Consolidate Debts
Oxford Professor Proposes In.
ternatiOnal Promotion Fund
NeW Yo7ic Tribune

NeU YoTi Tribune
European Bureau
Copyright, 1919. New York Tribune Inc)
LONDON, Feb. 3.-Professor Jacks,
Of Oxford University, proposes as a
financial adjunct to the league of ma
tions body which would provide for
consolidation of all war debts, includ-
ing those of the enemy, under inter-
national control, administration and
guarantee. Under his plan each nation
would contribute proper proportion
of the annual sinking fund charges,
and this fund would be used for the
promotion of productive and we'll cred
tied enterprises in all parts of the
world. The profits would be used to
meet interest and sinking fund charges
on the amalgamated debt. Any state
incurring disapproval of the interna-
tlonal court of trustees would be sus-
pended and would forfeit all payments
made. Professor Jacks considers that
this would be a powerful deterrent to
violation of international laws.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
National Leads Prospects

Buying of National Lead comHon for
the last few weeks, it is stated in
brokerage circles, has been largely for
the account of interests in the paint
and color trades. 1t is said that the
company is no longer dependent on its
lead corroding business. Other in
dustries in which the company is inter-
ested include the cartridge business
through the United States Cartridge
Company; the paint business through
control OF the Heath & Milligen Man
ufacturng Company, of Chicago, and
the Bass Hueter Company Of San Fran
cisco, and the pig tin smelling business
through ownership of an English patent
by which ore from South America is
Smelted
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

The National City Bank has opened
its new building at so Wall Street, and
all deliveries of receipts, securities
and business pertaining TO the treas
urer's department will be handled at
that address The general and execu-
tive Offices will remain in the National
City Bank Building
The Bankers Trust Company has
peenI appointed registrar of the Bah
cock Printing Press Manufacturing
Company's preferred stock.
The New York banking firm of Brown
Brothers & Co. win remain closed un-
til after the funeral of their senior
partner, Charles d. Dickey, except for
the transaction of necessary business.
The $4,000 registered per cent
bonds Of Mount Vernon are being Of
fered BY Sherwood & Merrificld at
10li0, to Weld Az per cent.
E. G. Ottinwill and Harold Whitten
have been appointed assistant trust
officers OF the United States Mortgage
and Trust Company
Leonard f. Cazan has become as
sociatcd with Charles l.. DOYLE 4 Co.
in their unlisted securities department.
A copartnership under the firm
name Of Hanson & Haneon hus been
formed to transact general brokerage
business III stocks and bonds.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Shipping Board May
Waive Preferences

WASHINGTON. Feb. >. 2.-Expectatson
that the Shipping Boards allotment
Of South America will be sufficient to
take cnrc OF all cargo offered for these
markets in the immediate future
caused the War Trade Board to-day to
consider waving shipping preference
procedure after February Is.
"If it should develop during the
next two weeks said statement 's-
sued by the board to-day. that there .
sufficient shipping to enable exporters
to move their cargo without the neces-
sity of any preference being given 70
old business. the shipping preference
procedure will be cancelled on Fcbru-
ary 49,
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
telephones
Beekman 5000
Beekman 8243

mand for locomotives. Neutral
countries, having no production of
their own, could not obtain engines
from Great Britain and this coun-
try, the two principal manufacture
ers, during the war. We needed
all our locomotives for ourselves.
This has led to railway equipment
the world over being used beyond
its time, to say nothing of the de-
ferment of expansion. The devel-
opment of a large export demand
would not be surprising.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Southern Ry. Notes Offered at eela

The price realized by the Southern
Railway Company through the sale of
s25,000,O0O three-year per cent notes
tc Halsey. Stuart & Co. and the Con-
tinental and Commercial Trust and Saw
ings Bank of Chicago was 97%, ac-
cording to the syndicate letters sent
out to New York bankers yesterday.
The syndicate anticipants will get the
notes at 9S, while the managers are
allowed q commission Of Z. per cent
for handling the transaction. The price
at which the notes are to be offered
to the public is 99l4. A selling com
mission of Il per cent is allowed the
members Of the syndicate. The notes
are to be dated March 1 and are to
have the same collateral behind them
as is carried by the issue to be retired
at its maturity on March 2.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Soldiers Not Heavy Buyers

"Eyen at the present high prices our
ealcg of oyereoats and suits were fairly
good during the months og December
a5d January" said the mems clothing
bH9er for one Of the big department
stores. lowing u the mild weather,
sustz bave gone better than oyercoats.
ysfontrary 20 popular opinion, we ase
got selling any great volume Of cloth
ifsx to returned and discharged sol
dfkfs. We have had some of that
aSffppDsed 10 much in the total volume
ofsYssles. Many ~ tae discharged soi-
d1ssf, | am told, will wear their uni
fop6ns or old clothing they had on hand
wfifp they left fer camp until the time
eefneg fof them ~ purchase spring out
Gte.7
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
'sBig Four" Railroad
r Buys Connecting Line

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 3.-The stock
holders of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati,
Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company
met at Pittsburgh to-day and author
lied an increase in the Indebtedness
Of the company by the issuance of s35,
100000 of debenture gold bonds.
-'fhey also authorized the purchase Of
the Indianapolis & Frankfort Railroad
for. $6,000G01, being the full cost
thereof, which gives the company
direct line OF its own between Louis
yli& and Chicago. The contract with
thetompany's railroad during the peri
cd sef Federal control was not ready
Tor" action, and the stockholders ad-
journed to meet on February II. 1919,
to take up that question.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Cuba Cane Financing Aprroved

A majority of the stockholders CT the
Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation is now
understood to be in favor of the pro-
posed financing plan which contem-
plates the issuance of $25,000,000 bonds,
maturing serially in ten years. 1t
was reported yesterday that provision
may be made for a sinking fund by
which IS per cent Of the company's
profits after interest, depreciation and
preferred dividends may be applied to
the retirement of the bonds. Henry
Evans, president of the Continental
Insurance Company, who, last week an
nounced his opposition to the general
financing plan, it is understood favors
the sinking fund feature 1t is also
understood that Mr.. Evans's proposal
for an investigation of the company's
affairs by accountants and sugar prop
erty experts may be carried out.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

Relevant Comment
A Record Listing Statement

In admitting to trading on the Stock
Exchange yesterday $5O,740,S00 s per
cent cumulative debenture stock and
S6S,742,a 800 additional common stock of
the General Motors Corporation, the
governing board had presented to it
the most voluminoLs statement of any
company's affairs on record. The docu-
ment consumed 27 pages and contained
detailed information not only of the
parent company, but also of all it's sub
sldiary properties. An additional ST.
100000 first and refunding mortgage
twenty-five year bonds of the Northern
States Power Company have also been
admitted to trading on the exchange.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

The Federal Reserve Bank of New
York has put in force the following
schedule of rediscount rates which
apply to bankers acceptances: Ma
TURTLES up to Is days, per cont; 16 to
60 days, inclusive, Az per cent; 61 to
90 days, inclusive, Az per cent.
Bank Clearings.-Bankc clearings yes
terday were:
Exchanges. Balances.
New York ....$701 ,499,006 $72,51o715
Chicago ..... 91,365,606 7,570,344
Sub-Treasury. The Sub Treasury
lost $489,000 to the banks on Saturday.
Silver.-London, 4SiSd, unchanged; {;
New York, 101hc. unchanged: Mexican
dollars. THE, unchanged.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
- Large Bank Merger
Three Louisville Institutions
ice Join Forces

sIOUISvILLE. KY, Feb. "a ma
tiouaI bank merger, notable in finan-
ciaf'circles in the South, formally was
accomplished here to-day when the
National Bank of Commerce, the
Asnerican Southern National Bank and
t1e National Bank of Kentucky became
org institution and their respective
fSfrfer presidents, James b. Brown.
Earl s. Cwin and Oscar Fenley, were
elected respectively president, vice
president and chairman Of the board
Of directors. Deposits Of the combina-
tpg. total $42,000,000. with resources OF
$4,000, 900. Business was Continued
Under the name OF the National Bank
of Kentucky, which has been in exist
eaee since 1864.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Cities Service Advances

Cities Service Company common
stock sold on the Broad Street curb
market yesterday at 319, the highest
price since 1917. 1t was reported that
the advance was based on the idea that
the directors are again considering a
plan by which an exchange will be
made of the present shares of $10O par
value for a larger number Of shares
either of no par value or of lower par
value.
Henry l.. Doherty, presiden; or the
company, denied that either of these
plans was now being considered and
warned against the recurrence of ac-
tivity in the shares that took place
about a year ago based on similar re-
ports.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Money and Credit

AS result of freer offerings Of
funds, call money rates declined on the
Stock Exchange yesterday to 3s per
cent, the low rate Of last week The
opening and the rate for renewals was
Az per cent Throughou. the day
loans secured by industrial stocks were
made at Y per cent higher than these
quotations. save at the low rate of
3&, when loans on all-industrial col
lateral could be obtained at per cent.
Bankers were willing to offer little
more money yesterday at 5M per cent
for fixed date funds OF sixty and ninety
Gay maturities. The rate on indus
trial collateral ranges from 5A to 5h
per cent, with 5l4 prevailing for mixed
industrial and railroad collateral.
Yesterday. Year ago.
Per cent Per cent
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Southern Spot Markets Follow

Southern Spot Markets Follow.
Galveston steady, unchanged at 1925;
sales, 500 bales. New Orleans steady,
unchanged at 27.50; sales. 757 bales.
Mobile nominal, 80 points higher at
24c; sales, nil. Savannah nominal. 100
points lower at 29c; sales, nil Norfolk
quiet, 100 points higher at Csc; sales,
1928 bales. Augusta quiet. SO points
higher at 25.s8; sales, "a bales. Mem
phis dull. unchanged at 28c; sales, 800
bales. Houston steady, unchanged at
27.50; sales. 1,211 bales. Little Rock
quiet, 25 points higher at 26.75; sales,
81 bales.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
NOTICE OF
ANNU AL MEETIN Nc OF
INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURES
ALES COMPANY OF AMERICA, INC

tVtNakt7
SALES COMPANY OF AMERICA. INC.
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the stock
holders of this company will be held on the
18th day of February, 1919. at II O'Clock in
the forenoon. at the office of the corporation.
Woolworth Building. New York for the plf-
purpose of electing a Board of Directors Two
inspectors to serve at all elections Of stock
holders during the ensuing year and receiving
and acting upon the reports of the officers
and for the transaction of such other nilsi-
ness may properly come before the meet
ing.
Dated February 3rd. 1913
l.. N. BURNS. Secretary
Per II. w Ruhino
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
ROCHESTER 6 PITTsBURGH
RAILWAY COMPANY

I'VI'ItsIIOs OF Three Dollars per sha re on
me preferred stock and Two Dollars per
snare on the common stock of this Company
nave nave been declared, payable February Is,
lSls, 10 stockholders of record February 49,
1873. ERNEST ISELIN. Secretary,
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
DIVIDEND NOTICES
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company

ST Louis Mo. January 2Sth. 1919
A quarterly dividend of three per cent
GSPo) was this day declared upon the
Company, payable on March 1st. 1918. to
Common stock holders of record at the
close of business on February nth 1919.
Check will be mailed
T. T. ANDERSON. Treasurer.