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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-30
WALL STREET GOSSIP

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-The Street
has passed the General Motors 25-
cent quarterly common dividend. 1t
now remains to be seen what action
will be taken by the directors next
week Doubtless the payment could.
in the interest of conservatfveness,
have been passed some time ago.
Business has fallen off, accessory
subsidiaries have lost part Of their
demand and new construction has
taken quite a little money. The Nne
question in the minds of traders. how
ever. Is whether the aptly named
House of the Zodiac" has disposed
of it's holdings Of Duraht's stock.
Sources of recent selling make 1t
appear that at least part has been
disposed Of, and this does not tend
to strengthen what remaining hope
there is for q continuatit Of the
Daym0nt.
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GERMANY CIRCULATING
100000, 900, 900 MARKS

BERLIN, Dec. 30.-New currenc,
to the amount Of $500. 100000 marks
was placed in circulation during tho
third week of December, II Is shown
by figures available yesterday.
The total currency issue is now
09, 900, 900, 900 marks.
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DUN & co. AVER RIVAL
BOOK COPIED REPORTS

NEW YORK, Dec. 30-R. G.. Dun
& Co. yesterday applied in Federal
court for an Injunction restraining
the Credit Guide Publishing Com
pany from distributing it's revised
rating book, which. 1t is alleged. was
copied from Dun's reference book.
Trap" names of fictitious persons
are reprinted, according to the COM
plant, including &C. Dekoor," which
read backwards speels crooked"
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Foreign Exchange Irregular,

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-The foreign
exchange market opened irregular to-
day, with demand sterling nc lower at
1920. Francs were 1 centime lower
at 500 cables and 7.99 checks. Lires
yielded 81 points to APT cables and
4.26 checks. Belgians were off cen.
times to 1855 cables and 7.64 checks.
Marks were IN points lower to .0053.
Guilder cables 1852. checks $3.50; Swe-
den kronen cables isis, checks 1910
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-30
Cotton Opens Firm.

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-The cotton
market opened firm at the beginning
OF business today and prices advanced
10 to FL points. Good cables, with re-
ports OF big business at Manchester
and buying for Wall street, New
orleans and Liverpool account, caused
the early furry. Commission houses
were chief sellers. Later trade was
barely active and quotations were
about 9 points above initial levels.
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. Liverpool Cotton Market.

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 30.-Spot cotton
opened quiet. Prices steady. Sales.
5000 bales. American middlings. fair,
1881; good middlings. 12.11; full mid
dlings. ILL; middlings. 11.36; low mid
nary, 1858. Futures opened quiet.
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corporations
Quarterly, January 1, 1897
ationalN &
1K%
Note Mortgage Company Indianapolis Ia
SemrAnnualiy, January l. 1921.
L. 31sS
Manufacturing Liberty Ind Sh%
3K%
Indianapolis
Mnholand Indianapolis Ind ahs
Fabcaing Corporation, Indianapolis Ind 3h%
semiAnnuaIly. Due 15 1872. .tra.
Bronze Corporation. Berwyn Pa 3h%
Philadelphia. 3k%
American Motor Truck Company Newark Ohio 3h%
e. Shoe Company, Columbus. Ohio Sn%
4
The Myrkranz Company, Columbus Ohio 9h1
sandusky. Ohio SIS
McCambridse Company Philadelphia
Ohio 4x%
Florida Industries Company, Columbus Ohio 81
Company, Philadelphia
Ohio 1x$
Ohio 8X&
Meadvine. SKIS
The Corporation
semiAnnualy, Due February I 1872.
vG Baking Company. Allentown 3K%
Checks be MALE on
PORTER CHAs. H. PIETSCH
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Envoy To Panama In Office.

The State Department was advised
today that John Glover South, Amer.
lean minister to Panama has pre-.
scented his credentials and has assumed
office. William J. Price, the retiring
minister, has started for the United
States.
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N. Y. Clearing House.

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-Clearing
house statement: Exchanges $751;
100000. Balancse, s71 400, 900. Fed.
eral reserve bank credit balances,
S44,SOO, 900. '-, -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-30
italian Failure not Alarming.

While a part of Wall Street was
inclined to be scary over the news
of the failure Of the Banca Italiana
di Sconto of Italy, international
bankers familiar with conditions In
that country told the worker that
there is little occasion for alarm.
The bank. although quite large, IL
only a few years old, and is not one
of Italy's old established banking
bulwarks by any means.
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BY HARRY GUSACK.

the property was purchased a
y Few days ago by Eugene A. Smith.
VICE president of the Lawyers Title
apd Guaranty Company, possession
TO be obtained in ninety days. As
soon a. possession is obtained, the
building viii be entirely remodeled,
the title company taking the entire
] first floor. while the other two floors
I will be leased to real estate opera
tors and financial men.
Our business has grown to such
an extent that we had to have new
quarters, and we are very glad to
get right into the heart of the real
estate and financial district Of Wash
ington." said Mr.. Smith today. 1t
Twill be<a big advantage not only TO
! ourselves, but to every real estate
operator and investor in Washington"
Officers Of the Lawyers title and
Guaranty Company are r. l..
Schmidt. president; ]. M. Saunders.
vice president; Charles w. Stetson,
vice president: Eugene A. Smith,
vice president; Harry M. Packard.
secretary-treasurer. and r. j. Vier-
buchen, assistant OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Italian Bank Stronger.
The reported failure of the Banca
1taliana di Sconto, of Rome, followed
w the closing of the Italian Discount
rand Trust Company. of New York.
yesterday, will have no effect what
ever on the International Exchange
Bank of Washington, 1t was stated by
officials of that bank today.
The International Exchange Bank,
with John Schiavone president, Is
what is known as Washingtons Italian
- ~ I'D od tod
q member of the District of Columbia
Bankers Association.
Z According to Frank j. Kaufman,
cashier, the International Exchange
Pank had only one transaction with
the Rome bank, which transaction was
completed several months ago.
4 Nearly all of our Italian transac-
tions are handled by the Banca dell
Italia Neridionale, of Naples" said
Mr.. Kaufman, $50 the reported failure
OF the Rome bank and the closing OF
the New York bank will have abso-
lutely no effect on our institution. We
pect to grow greatly during the COM
ing year."
Dividend Declared.
Announcement was made today by
the local offices of the r. L. Dollings
Company, investment bankers, lis
Fifteenth street.: OF the payment of
regular quarterly and semi-ahnual
dividends, payable January and is,
ton all corporations financed by it.
They also report that their industries
are operating in satisfactory man.
liner, and that business is good
The r. l.. Dollings Company, Of
Philadelphia, Columbus. and India
napolis, predict a year Of exceptional
prosperity during the coming year,
following survey of the entire coun-
try. The local office is managed by
Charles II. Pietsch, assisted by G. A.
Birch, r. ]. Quinn, Charles d. Church,
Horace Browning, r. K. Miller, and
Mary v. Beckham.
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Local Stocks.
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE

WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
One hundred shares of Columbia
Graphophone preferred were sold to-
day on the local exchange at az,
following that stocks rapid decline
In the New York market.
Few sales marked the day, five
transactions before coll and three
after that hour comprising the ac-
tivity.
The largest sale of the day was a
$1,000 block Of Capital Traction IS
Mt y4&.
After call a $1,000 block of Wash.
ington Railway and Electric As
changed hands at IS.
The sales Of the day
70 SALES.
Capital Traction S., $1,OOOQ94a..
Washington Railway Electric
COM, 10QS7.
Washington Gas Light, 1o@49k.
Columbia Graphophone pfd., 1000
On cash.
AFTER CALL.
Lanston Monotype. 20072.
Capital Traction, 1OQ95.
Washington Railway 4 Electric is.
s1,0OO0s6.
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Opening Cotton Prices.

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-Opening
cotton prices: January, 1897; March,
1885; May, 1910; July, 1871; Octo-
Der, 1903.
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u. S. Should Be Wary
OF Finance Farley"
Trade Writer Cites European Chaos as Farcca Factor
in Proposed World Congress.
BY GEORGE W. HINMAN

the worlds business is to get the United States into
international conference Europes finances It
urged daily.
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Old Mexican Embassy
To Be Realty Center

Lawyers Title and Guaranty Buys Building to
Remodel For Kindred Interests.
BY HARRY GUSACK.
What promises to become real estate and financial
headquarters in the heart of Washngton financial district
announced today by the Lawyers Title and Guaranty
Company which has just acquired title to the three story
building occupied by the Mexican embassy at 413 street
northwest, The purchase price not made public
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Columbus
Pittsburgh
Indianapolis
Philaaelphia
Washlngton
Ckoveland
THE R. L. DOLLINGS co.
INVESTMENT BANKERS

Washington Office, 72S Fifteenth St. N. w.
Announces the payment Of the following dividends by
corporations financed by it
The New York herald., 1921-09-26
SAILOR ABSOLVED
IN FATAL FIST FIGHT
Brother of Victim Says Family
Accepts Death of Goddard
as Accidental.

The body of John J. Goddard, seven
killed in fight with William T. Har-
kins. another reservist. at the close Of
an Eagle boat cruise Saturday morning
when the two decided to settle per-
sonal argument with their fists. was
taken yesterday to the home of his
parents. at 5i4 West Thirty-ninth street
William Goddard. his brother said
last night that the family had accepted
the death as accidental and attached no
blame to Harkins.
II had talk with Harkins yesterday"
William said. "He wanted to come to
the funeral II they will let him. We do
not think it was anything but an acci-
dent"
Besides the parents, MIR. and Mrs.
Samuel Goddard there are five sisters
and the brother. William. in the family.
Capt. G. L, Vogelgesang, con1mandant
of the Third Naval district. has ordered
an inquest to determine the cause of
death. He said that he had not yet
received a report OF the alteration,
which occurred at the West Ninety-sixta
street landing as the reservists were put
ashore at the completion of the cruise.
The report probably will reach him to-
day, and he said he would then deter
mine Upon course of action. IL ap-
peared to him to be a peculiar 1ni
unfortunate accident. he said, and there
was nothing more to the fight than an
attempt to settle dispute with fists.
Physicians who examined Goddard
said that death was due to skull frac-
ture. due to being Knocked down. God
dard enlisted a year ago in the Seventy
first Regiment of the New York National
Guard. and Joined the naval reserves
last October. He was six feet tall. He
and Harkins. according to all reports,
were the best of chums. and the differ
ences that arose between them were OF
recent occurrence.
The New York herald., 1921-09-26
BURNS TO SHAKE UP
THE SECRET SERVICE
Chief Not Satisfied With
Present Personnel.

William :. Burns. chief os the Bu-
reau Of Investigation OF the Department
OF Justice. has looked over Federal de-
tectives and Federal detective methods
and doesn't think much OF them. Burns
says the sleuths Of the Department OF
Justice have got 70 80 TO school and
learn their business.
We are going 10 teach our men to
set results" he said yesterday. slip
thod investigation and relying on luck
TO solve cases have got TO stop. Men
who cannot be taught to do effective
detective work will be dropped. Fed
eral investigators have got TO learn that
their cannot flash their shields for their
own amusement and they are going to
learn that the real object OF this bu-
reau Is 20 protect citizens and prevent
crime. not just to arrest crooks We
are not going 10 set the world ahre. but
we are going TO give this country de-
tective service OF which It's citizens can
be as proud AZ the English are OF
Scotland Yard"
Edward J. Brennan. division super
lntendent. said that recruits would have
TO put In a month OF study before being
placed on active duty.
The New York herald., 1921-09-26
CALLS SON A DISGRACE;
URGES JAIL SENTENCE
Brooklyn Father Charges Dis
orderly Conduct.

Urging that his son be sent to prison
as he was disgrace to his parents
and wife. Jacob Kemmer. 65, Of sos
Sumpter street. Brooklyn. appeared yes
terday before Magistrate Brown in the
Gates avenue court against his son, John,
~. Of 11s Nostrand avenue Brooklyn
charging disorderly conduct. AS the
son had been In court twice before on
similar charges. the Magistrate COM
mitted him to the Raymond Street jail.
pending report by the probationary
officer.
hemmer said his son abused him and
his wife and that on Saturday night he
was intoxicated and created n disurb-
ance. When he completed his story.
Kemmer said:
Your Honor, send this man to Jail.
He IL disgrace to me and my wife,
and jail IS the only place for him."
The son spoke up and said that he
was married and had FIVE children.
And | carry a message from his
wife," the father said she wants him
put in jail. lie IL useless to her. lie
does not work and apends for drink
money she gets by taking In washing"
The New York herald., 1921-09-26
PARACHUTE JUMPER
BREAKS HIS SPINE
Henry Karnshitz Up Only 100
Feet When He Sees Rip
iii Balloon.

Attempting to escape from a torn ball
loon only hundred feet from the
ground. Henry Karnshi.z, parachute
Jumper was probably fatally injured
yesterday afternoon in the signt OF
hundreds at Hillside Park. Newark.
Hundreds of people gather avery
Sunday and holiday at the park, where
the chief attraction is thrilling drop
from a balloon. Yesterday Henry Wurn-
ing, the regular chute jumper, was Ill. so
the management engaged karnshitz.
whose home Is in Union Hill, to substi-
tute
The big bag, tied to two guide posts
and held down by guy ropes. was filled
with gas and Karnsaitz took his place
on the trapeze below it, with the re-
lease cord of his parachute gripped In
his hand. AS the word to let go was
given sudden guest of wind swept the
balloon hard against one post, ripping A
gar in the silk. A shout of warning
came from the men standing around.
but Karnshitz was already being borne
aloft.
At height of n hundred feet Karn-
shitz saw the gap. Despite the fact
that a parachute usually requires a
drop of more than that distance to open
the ba!loonist jumped from the trapeze.
He dropped swiftly and just before his
body hit the ground the parachute
opened, but Karnshitz struck with great
force He was picked up unconscious
and rushed to st. Micaael's Hospital.
where 1t was said his spine was broken.
The New York herald., 1921-09-26
TWO HEARTSICK GIRLS
TAKE POISON IN DAY
One Falls at Railroad Station
as Reconciliation Fails.

Two young women disappointed in
love affairs took poison yesterday. Miss
May Farley, %. of Asa Lafayette ave-
nue., is In st. Johns Hospital. Brooklyn.
Miss Rose Emmeise, 10. of 229 East
106th street is at Metropolitan Hospital
Both are critically i'll.
Miss Farley fell on the Nostrand ave-
nue. platform of the Long Island Rail-
road IN Brooklyn, after returning from
Broad Channel, Queens, where she had
made an unsuccessful attempt to patch
up quarrel with young man to whom
she was said to have been engaged. She
was accompanied by Herman Stark of
1710 Himrod street. Brooklyn. who told
the police he had simply taken the part
OF n friend desrous of seeing the trouble
smoothed out.
As they left the train, Miss Farley
drank from a bottle, crying
II can't live without Eddiev'
TIL sight of her former fance passing
along :he street with another girl made
Miss Emmeise so despondent that she
ran 70 her room, the police said, and
took poison tablets. Her sister. Anna,
~, found her lying on the bed in great
pain. The girl had been in love with a
youth TO whom her parents objected. 1t
was said, and the girl had been melan-
cnnly.
The New York herald., 1921-09-26
INJURED GIRL is PUT
UNDER OBSERVATION
Second Time Ida Cooper Has
Been in Psychopathic Ward.

Miss Ida Cooper. who jumped Satur-
day night in front of subway train at
the Times Square station, was trans
ferred yesterday at Bellevue from the
accident ward to the psychopathic ward
for observation. Her injuries proved
not to be serious. At the hospital 1t was
said records showed that she had been
in the psychopathic ward in 1914.
Miss Cooper at first gave her name as
Topper, but later said Cooper was her
true name. She said she mad n brother,
Frank Cooper, living at 3515 West Fif-
teenth street Chicago. Miss Cooper
has been living for three weeks at n
rooming house at 90 West Fifty-elghth
street. 1t was said there that little was
known of her.
The New York herald., 1921-09-26
THIRTY DAYS SENTENCE
FOR INSULTING WOMAN
Subway Guard off Duty
Pulled From, Train.

William Morrison, subway guard.
was sentenced to thirty days In the
workhouse yesterday in Jefferson Mar
kot Court on charge of annoying Mrs.
Frederick L. Cook OF 225 West Eleventh
street Saturday night while she was on
. subway train with her husband. Nor
rison was Off duty at the time but Mr..
Cook said a train guard whom he re-
nucSted 10 call policeman failed TO
comply with the request. At the Chris
topher street station Mr.. Cook pulled
Morrison from the train and held him
until q policeman arrived.
The trouble started at the Columbus
Circle station. according 20 Mr.. Cook.
iic left his wife 10 ask a question OF a
guard. and when he returned found
Morrison standing near her. Mrs. Cook
said Morrison had asked her II she was
alone o. IL she was with that guy"
indicating her husband.
II didn't insult her" Morrison said in
court. II Just asked her II he (pointing
70 Cool) was taking her home"
You never saw her before ?" asked
Magistrate SHERMAN.
mo. sir"
II don't know what you call an in
cult said the Magistrate. imposing SEN
tcnce.
The New York herald., 1921-09-26
BURGLARS GET
JUDGE HANDS BEST SUITS
Jimmy Into Home Near Police Station and Rip Open
Bags Containing His Evening Clothes-Sver-
ware in Storage on His Vacation.

The home of Judge Learned Hand of
the United States District Court. IN i4a
East Sixty-flfth street two blocks from
the East Sixty-seventh street police sta
tion. was entered by burglars in broad
daylight on August 80 and considerable
wearing apparel stolen, II was learned
Yesterday.
The residence. three stories and base
ment. has not been occupied since the
middle Of August, when Judge Hand ard
his family went on vacation to Wind
sor VT When Judge Hand returns on
October 10 he will find two garment
bags broken open and several OF his
suits missing.
The robbery occurred between 3 and 4
o'clock in the afternoon, and was dis
covered by a patrolman during his round
or duty In that vicinity. The thieves
had Jimmied open the outer iron barred
door to ~ basement and cut open the
inner wooden door, giving access to the
lock on the inside
According to the police records. a pa :
trolman tried the basement door shortly
before O'Clock on the day OF the rob-
berry and found nothing suspicious.
When he returned about o'clock he
discovered the place had been entered,
The New York herald., 1921-09-26
CITY TIME CHANGED
WITHOUT CONFUSION
Only the Few for Whom Day
light Saving Is Too Much
of O. Puzzle Suffer.
NEW RAILROAD SERVICE
Time Tables Revised as Me-
tropolis Goes Back to East
ern Standard Schedule.

Back went the clocks TO the old
standard time yesterday. the change
taking place officially at A. NJ. What
had been A. NJ all summer suddenly
became l A. NJ. and will stay so until
the long. warm days OF April make day
light saving worth while again.
The experience of few years has ac-
customed most people in View York and
in other large cities to the invisible and
inaudible transformation in time record
ing, known as daylight saving, but
there always have been a certain num-
Der who cannot get it through their
heads and who are always an hour too
fast or an hour too slow.
Instances were reported of persons
who went to church long before the
clergyman and the rest of the congre-
cation arrived and who failed to wait
for the hour services. possibly out of
chagrin over their own thoughtlessness
Other people forgot about the change
of time that put time square with rail-
road time, and went to stations an hour
earlier than necessary. There were
mistakes in keeping appointments. and
doubtless good many fancy alibis and
explanations had to be arranged by
careless sinners
The faithful Chronos who has been
regulating the clock of THE SUN and of
THE New YoaK HERALD for many years
more than generation--was so
weary that he could scarce lift an arm.
All the day before and good part of
Saturday night he had been at work
changing. testing and regulating 900
clocks In the great newspaper offices, the
larger banks and the big mercantile es-
Establishments. He labored seventeen
hours on this task. which gives one
notion of the manual labor involved in
changing the clocks of a metropolis.
While the official change was set to
take place at 2 A. NJ. on September 25
hand much earlier-most folk before
they went to bed. The Metropol-
itan Tower stuck 1t out until the official
time, but the clock of the tower of the
Jefferson Market Court was changed
early Saturday night.
Suburban trains which changed sched-
ules last April generally went on re-
vised schedules yesterday. The New
York Central, Long Island. Lackawanna
and New Haven railroads have issued
schedules covering the changes.
The Pennsylvania Railroad announced
that improvements in service would be
made with the general change in time
tables. The winter schedules are now
in operation. From New York and
Philadelphia new sleeping car line
will be established to Louisville and
Memphis via Cincinnati and the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad. the train
leaving New York at s 40 p. M. and
the Broad street station in Philadelphia
at II p. VI.
A new train from New York and
Philadelphia to Baltimore and Wash
ington will be established by extending
through the 6 r. M. express from New
York to Philadelphia to Washington.
The running time of the Commercial Ex-
press from New York to Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati and ST. Louis will be quick
ened by an hour
The New York herald., 1921-09-26
THIS LIGHT STAYS LIT
AFTER IT'S TURNED OUT
Ingenious Device to Be Fea-
fure at Electrical ShoU.

A light that stays lit after IL Is
turned out and which ought to appeal
10 any person who. In sudden darkness,
has stumbled over a rocking chair on
the way to bed, will be shown for the
first time at the Electrical Show which
opens on Wednesday. In the Seventy
first Regiment Armory. Park avenue and
Thirty-fourth street. The light stays on
for one minute after the extinguishiag
switch Is turned. The brief illumination
gives time to leave cellar without
stumbling or time to get to bed without
stubbing toe and using violent Ian
guage.
All this is made possible by an in
genious contrivance which by pulling a
switch or pressing button establishes
a contact which keeps the light burn
ing for a brief time. Then q ther-
mostatic control acts. the circuit is
broken automatically, and the light goes
out. BY that time you would be out.
too. and all would be well. Anyway. It's
cracked up to do all these wonderful
things and will be one of tho features
OF this years electrical exhibition.