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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-12-31
Port Movement

New Orleans: Middling, 40c: receipts,
1896 bales; sales, IL; stock. 1925.
Galveston: Mildling, AZ. 35c; receipts 1s, 100
bales; sales, 1916; stock, s1s54s
Mobile: Middling, sS5oc; receipts, 1850
bales; stock, 2t$33
Savannah; Middling. $500; receipts, H.
047 bales; stock, S56,S21
Charleston: Receipts. 11s7 bales; stock,
nG2.
Wilmington: MiddIing. CSC; receipts. 1852
bales; stock, 52,76S
Texas City: Stock, Ss,023 bales
Norfolk; Middling, 3S.25c; receipts, 1S4S
bales; sales, 294; stock, s7,2os
Baltimore stock, 525s bales
Boston; Middlirg. se25c; receipts. III
bales; stock, 500
Philadelphia: Middling. $500; receipts,
215 bales; stock. u 63S.
New York: Middling, Ss.25c; stock, g. 1851
bales.
Minor ports: Stock 27.s46 bales
Total receipts today, H,s57 bales; stock,
1,54S,5is
Total receipts for week, 114,csi bales;
exports, S9,963.
Total receipts for season, s,T4,sl7 bales;
exports. 2.755S, $50
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||GH MONEY RATES
PUT RESTRAINTS ON
THE STOCK MARKET
all Loans Opened at Is Per
Cent, Rose to Is and
Closed at This Advanced
Figure

New York, December So.-High money
s.tes imposed further restraints upon
te stock market during the early and
ddie stages Of today's session. but this
[as more than offset later by encourag-
b Industrial prospects
Fall loans opened at Is per cent, the
Eyhest renewal rate Of the year, and ross
Is per cent later, closing at thai
rotation. There was further eager bid
ing for time money at to s1k per cent,
He very little was forthcoming, borrow
|.s being informed that few new loans
build be negotiated until after the jan
Try interest and dividend turnover.
EAmong bankers there was much spec
alton respecting the outcome Of the
Inference called by the federal reserve
bard for the early part of January,
ben the question of discount and inter-
h rates is to come up for earnest dis
lssion.
i The days favorable developments in
Luded another advance in the price OF
Upper metal and reports of additional
Pavy bookings by steel producers. Some
it was declared, have
Hen obliged to refuse further orders.
Several stocks stood out In the days
regular movement, especially American
kooien and United States Rubber, at
EtTcfnS dQFdilCcS VI Id 10 10 pclibo re-
eectively on prospective extra divi-
Ends.
|Steeis, equipments, motors and oils
Eso participated in the vigorous rally
the last hour with metals, shippings.
sather and several of the rails, al
Tough the latter as a class made COM
irtiveiy little Roadway.
Grading in bonds was on the largest
tale OF almost any day of the year, but
he trend was lower, especially among
bills and industrials. Total sales, par
blue, were So, $1,000. Old U. S. bonds
,ere unchanged on call.
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New York Futures
BY Associated Press
New Orleans Cotton

New Orleans, December 30.-Higher
prices prevailed in cotton throughout the
greater part of the session today al
though in the early afternoon a reaction
carried the market off to net declines
Covering of short contracts made for re-
newed steadiness late in the day, and last
prices were at net gains of II to IL
points, January closing at 39.05c
Ir the early trading much better Liv-
erpool market than due and continued
favorable trade reports created demand
on which the strongest months rose
about s. bale. Toward noon highest
levels were reached, and the trading
months stood at net advances of As to IS
points. At these levels the market felt
heavy selling, induced by higher call
money rates in New York and the slump
in foreign exchange and gradually all
of the gain was lost, while in the carry
afternoon there was drop to decline of
5 to 10 points under the final prices of
yesterday.
When short sellers of the middle part OF
the day tried to take their profits they
found few contracts to trade on. and
there was a brisk rally late in the ses-
sion.
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SPECULATION IN
GERMAN MARKS TO
BE INVESTIGATED

Chicago. December 3o-Assistant Attor-
ney Geerral Raymond Pruitt today began
an Investigation of speculation here in
German marks scores of brokerage
houses which Geal exclusively in the
marks have sprung up recently. Accord
ing 10 reports reaching Prutt The in
vestigation is to determine whether the
brokers actually have the marks. or
whether the transactions are bucket shop
ping.
Dealings in marks here totaled hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, it is said.
The mark now sells at little over two
cents, although worth about quarter ar
par. Spectators are said to be buying IN
expectation that the German coins VIII
go un as soon es the peace treaty is rati-
fed, with consequent harvest for than.
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Live Stock
nv Ax<rrt~k.A pr..s

East St Louis, December S0.-Hogs, re
ceipts 1900: 30 to 40c higher: top, s14.45
bulk, $i4 Od14 $50; heavy, s14. 5o6145 50; me-
dunn, $14Dd14-55; light. $1S 7$Q114.55; light
light, $1S.5o@14.40; heavy packing sows
smooth $12.75@13: packing sows, rough
81. S@12.B; pigs. sta614.sS.
Cattle. receipts $500 uneven; beef steers
medium and heavy weight. choice ant
prime, none; medium and good. $500
16 so; common, $825@11. %; light, good anc
choice. s13 75G. 1876 common and medium
s.. 75d1350; butcher cattle, heifers, s7016
cows. S@125o; Gamers and cutters, $500
SIS; veal calves, light and handy weight
s13. 50017.50 feeder steers, S6.75012. SO
stocker steers. Sc. 25@1o2 %.
Sheep, receipts $500; steady to strong
lambs. 81 pounds down. s1561S; culls an6
common. N-5oG1450; yearling wethers, 81.
dn5.75; ewes. medium and choice, s7410
culls and common. s+Q6.5O.
Chicago, December 0.-Hogs. receipt,
5000; mostly zoe to 25c higher: bulk
sl4 15G14s5; top, $44o; medium, 14.2oa14.4o
pigs, s13@l4.
Cattle, receipts 1900; slow; beef steers
5000; butcher cattle. s6.2501475: veal
calves, s15.75@d7; feeder and stocke1
steers, sSdd2 s.
Sheep. receipts $4,000; lower; lambs
Sl2. SoplS. 40; ewes, $4.25@10 rs
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COTTON WAS Up AND.
down ALL DAY BUT
CLOSED AT A GAIN
General List Finished at a
Net Advance of Is to AZ
Points Over Mondays
Final Figures

New York, December s0-An early ad-
vance due largely to foreign trade buy
ing was followed by declines in the cot
ton market. but prices frmed up again
in the late trading, and the close was
steady at net advance of IS to AZ points
After selling at IS CSC March broke to
IS. 4oc, but close dat IS Sic compared with
S5- 5oc at the close last night.
The market opened steady at an adj
vance of so to 70 points on August and
September and IS to 80 points on other
months in response to unexpectedly
strong cables and bullish goods trade adj
vices. Prices eased off several points
right after the can, but houses with Liv-
erpool and other foreign connections were
good buyers, and it was reported that
continental interests were buying late
months here against forward sales of
yarns and clothes. This demand absorbed
the scattered offerings and before the
end of the morning active months sold
IS to 50 points net higher with May
touching "a .13c and July 80 .5Sc. After the
close of Liverpool the buying became less
active, and prices weakened under real
izing. southern Wall street and local
selling, which was supposed to reflect ner-
vousness over the continued advance in
cali money rates and rumors that the
conference of bankers in Washington next
week would be followed by tightening
UP Of the time money market. Prices
broke sharply with May selling orr to
SO 55c and July to 33.06c, or about 8 to
20 points net lower on the more active
positions, after which the market rallied
on renewal of foreign buying. covering
by early sellers, firmer stock market
and favorable peace treaty rumors, Last
prices showed rallies of about 30 to 40
points from the lowest Reports that the
census bureau would deduct from its end
January figures all cotton included that
had been ginned from crops of previous
years had no appreciable influence
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DIR. Stuart to Hold
Watch Night" Service

DR.. George R. Stuart will hold a watch
nisht service in the auditorium of the
First Methodist church tonight at II
. clock. The meeting will close at L
O'Clock. DR. stuart says this is the first
service Of This kind he has held.
Preceding the watch. service there WIN
Be a banquet for the young people of the
church at O'Clock in the dining hall.
Albert Branecomb will be POSTMASTER
More than $50 have made reservations
for this banquet
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Liverpool Cotton
BY Associated Press

Liverpool, December S0.-Cotton, spot in
limited request; prices strong, good mid
din. SO42d; fully middling, 2917d: mid
ding, H.S2d low middling, 25S7d: good
ordinary, 22.92d; ordinary, 2i.92d Sales
5000 bales, including 400 American: re-
ceipts $1,000 bales, including 2l.7o0 Ameri-
can. Futures closed very steady; De
cember, E.S0d; January, s6.27d. March.
2+sid; May, 2S.s4d; July. 22.s6d; October,
1967d
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MARINE NEWS

New Orleans. December so Cleared i:
Steamers Heredia, Bocas Del Toro via
Cristobal; Korsfjord (Nor). Havana
Lake Mattato, Cuban ports
Cleared: Schconers Adamstor, Port
Oporto: Luzitania, Port Oporto.
Port Eads, La. December S0-Arrived:
Steamers Belvernon (Nor.l. Progreso;
Costello. Kew West; Cubadist Matanzas;
Lake Narka Haiti; Limon, Port Limon
Nelson, Cienfuegos: Santa Alicia (BrD,
Mexico.
Sailed: Steamers st. Augustine, Copen-
hagan, Denmark, via Bothenhurg.
Sweden.
Mobile, December a0.--Arrived: none.
Sailed: Steamers Western Chief, New
Orleans Lake Freeland. New York Met
apan, New Orleans: schooner Lucy Ever
lyn, Aguadillo. p r.
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Money Market
BY Assoeiatnd Press

New York, December 30.-Mercantile
paper, per cent; sterling 60-day bills
1911 X; commercial 60-day bills on
banks. S.T1h; commercial 60-day bills.
S.71; demand, 3.76; cables, 3.77. Francs
demand, 1915; cables, 1914. Guilders,
demand, 37S cables, 37S. Lire, de-
mand. 1890; cables, 1915 Marks, de-
mand, 2.0e; cables, 2oS Government
bonds, heavy. Time loans, strong; so
days. 80 days and six months, TX per
cent bid. Bar silver, 1881; Mexican
dollars, $1.00z.
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to restore trade. and ne gave Berker-
helm letters to government officials here
asking that he be permitted to ship out
piled-up stores Of flax and hemp valued
at $S0o0o0,oC0 awaiting export in posses
sion of the eo-operatives and to impor.
machinery, shoes. sugar and medicine
Out OF this, Mr.. Hapgood said. grew
the false charge that he had made re
peated overtures'' III Wall street to IL
rance the boisheviki.
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Covernment Stores on Wheels

New Orleans, December S0.-Wheeled
stores for the sale of United States army
quartermaster supplies will make trips
in the residential sections of the city hers
tomorrow, Col. e. s. Walton, zone supply
office, announced here tonight. The first
truck loads for sale will be canned to-
natoAS
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Metal Market
Nv AsseeJst,A Pro-.

New York. December 30.-Copper.
steady; electrolytic, spot. s1s.4 @1sA
first quarter, 1s@1sA. Iron, steady;
prices unchanged. Anthony, 9.75.
Metal exchange ffuotes lead strong,
spot and January. 1921 bid 1874
asked. Zinc. easier; spot, $50 bid; $40
asked. At London spot copper. f116 Is
Cd: futures, f119 Is Cd; electrolytic snot.
f125; futures. f12S. Tin spot f342 Is cd
futures. 1914 rs Cd. Lead spot, f45 los;
futures. f45 15s. Zinc spot esq 15s: flu
lures, EST lis Sd.
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New Orleans. December 30.-Federa
agents made the second charge here to-
day % sugar profiteering when Mike b.
iogno. retail grocer, was held by United
states Commissioner Browne in 5000 bail
Bologna is alleged to have sold sugar at
% cents a pound. for which he paid 10
cents
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New York. December so.--Cottonseed
oil was firm and higher on the bullisn
showing in lard and cotton. Trading.
however. was quiet and of a pre- -holi-
day character. Final prices were 10
rs points net higher. Sales. 1890 bar
reis. Tender January contracts. 500
This market will adjourn at 10 o'clock
on Wednesday. Prime crude. zoe nom
inal; prime simmer yellow spot. 21.soc:
January, 21.50c; March, 2231c; Nav.
22.4oc. Prime winter yellow and sum
mer white nominal
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Coffee Market
BY Associated Press

New York, December 30.-There was
some covering by near-month shorts
and a little buying by Wall street
houses with European connections in
the market for coffee futures at the
opening today, and first prices were
to rs points higher In the absence
of official cables there were no quota
lions from Brazil, but there seemed an
impression that primary markets were
well sustained, and there may have
been little buying on indications of
an increased trade demand after the
first of the year. After selling at
l4.S5c, December broke to 14s5c. but
there were only two or three transac-
tons in the maturing month, and ex-
cept for decline from 1550c to 15.40c
for July under realizing, there was lit
tie other change with the market clos
ing net unchanged to 16 points higher.
January, 14.S0c; March, 1906; May,
ls.2Sc; July. 15.43c; September and Oc-
tober, 1926.
Spot coffee dull, Rio rs, 15c: Santos
IS, z4@ 25c. There were rumors that
Rio rs had sold at 14Hc on spot, but
they were not confirmed Cables from
Brazil were delayed and offers very
irregular including Rio rs at 19.2O@
1s.40c, London credits, and Santos As
for July-September shipments at 22&c.
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Interior Movement

Houston Middling, A.50c; receipts. io,Sse
bales; shipments. 12,eSf; sales, 21ss; stock.
215,92S.
Memphis: Middllng, 4oc; receipts, 5000
bales: shipments, 1910; sales, $500: stock,
2S1, CAT.
Augusta: Middling, ss25c; receipts. 257l
bales: shipments, 1918; sales, s4S; stock,
211,SS0
st. Louis Middling. 40.5oc; receipts, 1919
bales; shipments. 1474; stock. s6PS
Little Rock: Middling, 4o5oc: receipts
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BY AssocIated Pfess
New York, December S0.-Cottoa goods
we're firmer today and yarns very firm
in the fine numbers. Staple ginghams ad-
vanced J cent a yard to 23ISc Burlaps
were firmer. Raw silk was higher with
top prices restored.
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AS bales: shipments, 1892; sales 1892
stock, 5S,5l2
Total receipts today. q, go bales; ship
ments, 22,ss7; stock. S12,74.
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Sugar Market
BY Associated Press

New York. December so.-Nothing
definite has developed as yet in regard
to the continuation of government
control in sugar. The weekly cable
from Cuba reported the weather as
fine with 10S centrals now in opera
ton. as against 81 at this time last
year, and "a two years ago. Receipts
for the week in Cuba were larger.
amounting to 57,05S tons, and exports
also showed an increase, aggregating
22,7S5 tons, all to the United States.
With the movement increasing. the
market is more or less unsettled and
offerings are more liberal. although
buyers are inclined to hold off and
await developments.
There was no change in refined SUI
gar as far as old crop supplies are con-
cerned, which are quoted on the basis
OF cents for fine graduated, although
little II any business is being done at
that level. One refiner is said to have
sold all his January production at
l5.20c for graduated, while another is
said to be accepting business at 1sc
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Denver & Rio Grande ref. ST.. 4e%
Dominion of Canada IS (193D. 81
Erie gen. As 3sK
Illinois General ref. 4s....... 76%
Int. Mer. Marine IS .......... IS
Kansas City Southern ref. 5s.-.. 73
Liggett & Myers SIS ......... IS
Louis. q Nash. un. Is ... IS
Mo. Kan. & Texas LIST IS ... SO
Missouri Pacific gen. 4s.... 5755
New York Central deb. 6s..... 90%
Norfolk & Western CIV. Is. ...... 104A
Northern Pacific As .......... 10
Pennsylvania Con. 4ks.... 90h
Pennsylvania gen. IS ........ 901k
Reading gen. As ......... so
Republic Iron & Steel SIS (1940) 90
st. Louis & San Fran adj 6s. 60
Seaboard Air Line adj. 6s.. s4A
Southern Bell Tel SIS - "a
Southern Pacific CIV. SIS . 100
Southern Railway IS .... S6X
Southern Railway As .. so
Texas Co.. CIV. IS, bid .. 1o2
Texas g. Pacific LIST, bid . sax
Union Pacific As ........ SS%
y. S. Steel IS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 9e
Virginia-Car. Chemical 5s. bid. ssS
wabash LIST 81
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HOW THEY CLOSED

~ Aseeeiatpd Pres
New York. December 3O.-FinaT
prices q Liberty bends today weres
31ss. Se.7sy first A., 83.2O; second
4. S1.0es first 4As. 9S.4O; second
4As, 91.SO, third 4As. o4.74, fourth
4Ns. Elsa, Victory 33zs. oe.02; Vic
tory 49<s, e0soz.
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Savannah, December 3o.-Turpentine
firm, $1.s0A; sales. 1o7: receipts, s2s
shipments, Is; stock. 1918. Rosin
irm; sales, 1141; receipts, 1891; ship
ments. 1908; stock, 5s,425. Quote: e
D. e, $1s.42h @1s.5o, F, $1s.450l6.55:
g, $1S.45 1850: H. s1s.45@1s.s0: J..
17.o5@172o; X, 1880: M. $1s; N, $1e.75
@2o; VIC. $2o.25; WV, $2125
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Low middling. s3.25e middhng, Acc;
good middling, 41.75c. Receipts, 5Sss,
stock. 473,235.
New York. December 3g.-spot cotton,
steady; middling, S925c.
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Spot Cotton
NJ Ass~a;~t.L 0~~~s

New Orleans, December 30.-Spot
cotton quiet and unchanged. Sales on
the spot, Ill bales to arrive, none.
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City OF birmingham. -.... various SOD oasi
MISCELLANEOUS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
MADERO FREED IF l LARCENY CHARGE
Was Technically Though Not Morally Guilty, But
 Pleaded Guilty
By Associated Press

New York. February 1Q-Ernesto Ma dero, one time Mexican minister of finance was freed on a suspended sen tence in the county court here today oi charge of grand larceny, to which he pleaded guilty several weeks ago. With the record in the case were filed letters from several banking institutions in terested in the transaction which prompt ed the indictment. expressing the belief in Madero's honesty and integrity and urging that the ends of justice would be met without imposition Of a sentence.
 Madero and two others were indicted on a charge of fraudulently obtaining S102 300 in a sale of copper sulphate to the National Bank of Commerce. acting as agent for the National Bank of Greece.
 The shipment was short of the speci- fled weight when the transaction was closed, a fact which MT Madero discov- cred three weeks later and sought to This was before the consignee was aware of the shortage, put befora Madero could make it good the indict- ment had been returned.
 MT Madero's attorneys advised him that as president of the sulphate firm he was technically, though not morally guilty, and advised his plea of guilty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
FIRST LIEUT.. HENRY L. BADHAM. JR.

First Lieut.. Henry L. Badham, Jr., re- turned to Birmingham yesterday after an absence in France of 16 months, during which he was seriously injured in an airplane accident and confined to base hospital for six months, thus being denied the opportunity to get into active service.
 Lieutenant Badham, the second son of MT. and Mrs. H. L. Badham of this city, entered the service at the out break of the war as a cadet aviator and was imm mediately ordered to Avord, France, where he received his prelim- tion last winter he was assigned to Is- soudon, France, for additional training, and last March while taking off," or making an ascension, his machine col lided with a steam roller and besides suffering other injuries his leg was broken at the knee.
 Nearly half year later the injured flyer was able to leave the base hos pital at Issoudon, but when he returned to the aviation field his commanding of ficer informed him that the accident had rendered him unfit for active serv- ice, and that he could either return to the United States or remain in France as an instructor. Lieutenant Badham close the latter and in spite of the fact that his knee bothered him considerabl on altitude flights, made a splendid rec
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
Germans Are Rebuked by French Delegate
 to Socialist Conference
By Associates Press

Berne, February l0.-Pierre Rena- udel, French delegate to the inter- national socialist conference. rebuked the German majority socialist dele gates for their demand that German prisoners be returned by the allies.
 You continue to insult the allies" he declared. "by pretending that French militarism is retaining the German prisoners. You forget the deportation from Lille and from Belgium You try to influence our working classes by all leging that the use of your prisoners is unfair competition for our working men. This is our business, not yours. You continue your propaganda in favor of the former German government, but if you desire to reach results you must adopt an altogether different attitude"
 M. Grumbach, the delegate from up- per Alsace, protested against the speech made in the German general assembly at Weimar by pr. David, the president of the assembly. in which David de- clared that Alsace Lorraine belonged to the German people. Grumbachs re- marks were indorsed by Karl Kautsky German independent socialist, and de- cla1 ed that the election of pr. David as president of the national assembly was challenge to the entente.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11

1 ord as an instructor during the closing
 months of the war
 Lieutenant Badham regrets keenly | that he was unable to get into the fight but declared that his stay in France 1 was intensely interesting and full of | enjoyable occurrences. When seen by
 an Age Herald representative yester- day afternoon Lieutenant Badham was in the act of buying an outfit of 'citz
 clothes" but stopped long enough to
 answer a few questions about his expe- riences abroad.
 Outside of my tough luck in being bunged up in an accluent. l really had fine time in the army" he said. "Al- though incapacitated for active service southern France in my ship and the memories of these delightful little air
 journeys will long remain with me. Lewis Ford, Birmingham boy, was cadet while I was instructing at Is- soudon and he turned out to be dandy flyer Lieutenant Badham spoke of seeing other local boys in France He stated that his brother, Lieut. "Bill" Badham, the famous observer. who brought down several Hun planes, was now with the army of occupation near CoblenZ.
 Lieutenant Badham returned to this county about two weeks ago and was stationed al Mineola, l.. l. at the time of his discharge. He stated that Capt. Eddie Richenbacker was also at Min cola and declared that the "ace of aces" was one of the most popular and mod est flyers in the service.