Evening star., 1921-04-21
SUCCESS Of DINNER
IS NOW ASSURED
Over 400 Acceptances to
Bankers Association
Gathering.
By !. A. FLEMING.

, Accertances to the dinner 20 be
| given at the New willard next Tues
! day evening by the District Bankers
Association. have been received to the
number of over 400, assuring the
affair as one Of the most successful
ever given by the association
Arthur Reynolds. president of the
| Continental Commercial Bank Of Chi
| cago. and D. r. Crissenger. controller
of the currency. will be the only
| speakers. both being given full lee
way in the choice OF subjects
number Of stunts" will be in
| troduced during the dinner. Members
of the committee having these mat
| ters in charge are secretive as to
! their nature
| X ~ Harper. president of the as
sociation. this morning said. "Accep-
! tances are coming in at rate tina,
| suggests attendance equal to full
seating capacity. and it may be neces-
sary for us to close the guest book
| in the immediate future. Members
/ who have not notified the committee
| OF their intention to be present should
DO SO at once. il they are coming"
| Mr. Harper has great hopes of hav-
| ing PRESIDENT Harding as guest"
nah"1y common 1t u.
Railway common touched g. on to-
| days local stock market. marking the
| high on the recovery. with so shares
| sold at that price
| ca pital Traction was slow at S72.
Earnings for the first quarter of the
year are said to be s39.92S greater
| than for the first quarter Of 1920
Lanston shares were entirely nomi-
, nal but they were decidedly firm. as
evidenced by bids of 77as, with no of
ferings under 1Sa
Mergenthaler was little stronger on
small sales at 40 to 1909.
Business was very light.
| its common dividend of $50 a share for
Allotments Vary.
In making allotments of the last
Treasury certificates the rule Of first
come first served evidently prevailed
Some orders were scaled 10 Der cent.
some 25 per cent. some IS per cent
Bankers who placed their orders with
the first announcement of the issue
| tions.
Wall street Notes.
In many directions indica tions are
NOR" favorable for resumption of in
dustrial activity
| b. f. Goodrich Company has passed
its common dividend of 150 a share for
the quarter. usually paid May H. A.
n IliHeS anu f1dTOiu STANLEY, vice
/ presidents Of two New York banks.
| were elected directors.
Stewart-Warner Speedometer Com
pany has its quarterly dividend
In two. declaring so cents a share for
! the quarter payable May Is to share
holders of record April so
They traded in 26.1OO shares of Co.
| lumbia Graphophone on the New York
Stock Exchange yesterday. common
stock. with an advance to 91a. Some
insiders" must be covering their shorts.
| long time open. The preferred stock
sold to As, 6-point advance
Delaware and Hudson showed an out
put Of anthracite but 1.41 per cent less
| in 1920 than in 1919.
Chile Copper showed deficit of
$596.4S0 for the fourth quarter Of 1920
For the three months ended win
March 81. 1921, the Republic Iron and
=, Steel Company earned AZ cents a share
. on the preferred stock, after taxes
and charges.
A. S. Burleson, former Postmaster
General. is on his way to Europe to
! arrange for the sale of severa, hun
dred thousand bales Of cotton.
| 1t is stated that Congress is less in
| clined to force the abolition of the
| Office Of controller of the currency
since the advent of the new admins
| tration. than it was. A bill for the
! purpose of abolishment was intro
| lNNN'N 'pO,NS e'h'C dSo pS representa-
| tive McFadden, chairman of the
House banking and currency commit
| tee.
1 Delaware. I-ackawanna and West
, ern will distribute $1,000. 900 in stock
as stock dividend to its sharehold-
| ers, the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion having given it's approval pro-
vided it issues evidence of the in
debtedness of the leased lines to it of
! $lO.314.04S. carried on it's books as
advances to leased lines
| Commercial paper Is active, with
the supply at ~ per cent very large
| Call money anywhere from ) to 6 nor
| cent: light demand only