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The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
CAPITAL TRACTION
| nets INCREASE In
! NOVEMBER INCOME
Months Figure of $112,-
091.34 Compares With
$S6,67S.36 Last Year.
BANQUET FEB. 2!
Plans for Annual Celtic.
gether of A. !. B. Classes
Are Being Formulated.

The Capital Traction Company
was operated at a net income of
$112.0s1.34. compared with $S6.67S,-
Sc for the corresponding period of
1920, and with a net income of
H21,s5S.33 for October. 1921, ac-
cording TO a statement of earnings
Preaching the Public Utilities Com
omission yesterday.
The total railway operating in
come for the period in question
amounted to s445.12L41. with rail-
way operating expenses totaling
$256,12S.61. Taxes assignable to
railway operations amounted to
IS45,S2S.7O. with total deductions
from income aggregating s29. 3i9.29.
A Incorporating income of S273.53
was reported for the month.
Revenue passengers carried by
the company in Maryland and the
District during the month totaled
6.1SS.249, compared with 5,9s3,53l
for the same period a year ago. or
an Increase of 2.59 per cent.
!, Total net expenditures of the
company from January l to Novem-
Der 80. 1921. amounted to s3si,-
S5O.07.
A. i. ID. Banquet.
Plans for the staging of the an
nual banquet Of the local chapter,
American Institute of Banking, to
be held in both bathrooms of the
New willard Hotel, beginning 1850
p. m, February 25. are already be-
ing formulated. according to OIL
Gals of the Washington Chapte:
yesterday.
4 w. A. Dexter. vice president of
the local body. has been designated
by the chapter to head the dinner
committee. Mr.. Dexter states that.
while nothing approaching definite
ness has been worked out as yet.
indications already point to an at
tendance in excess of five hundred.
Others who will have an active
part in making the arrangements
are as follows: c. II. Taylor. of
Riggs National Bank, who is chair
man of the entertainment commit
I, tee: Harry V. Haynes. president of
the Farmers" and Mechanics Ma
tional Bank of Georgetown, who is
chairman of the committee ON
speakers: Norman f.. TowsOn, of
the Washington Loan and Trust
Company. who will supervise the
decorating. and Francis 6. Addison.
1jr, vice president of the Security
is chairman of the seating commit
tee
w. ii. Burnside. of the Farmers
and Mechanics Bank, is secretary
of the dinner committee, and ]. G..
CLANCY. of the Commercial Nation
al, is treasurer of the body.
Personal.
Col. Wade II. Cooper. president of
the Union Savings Bank. spent yes
terday in Baltimore on business
pertaining to his banking institu-
tions.
Local Securities.
Public utility bonds held the CEN
ter of the stage on the local stock
market yesterday. when trading
was brisk. the activity IN bonds in
New York being reflected in the
trading of Capital finaPciers.
Two sales of Washington Gas
71ss were made at lO4&, $4,000 in
that security changing hands. After
call two sales of that company's
IS, for $1,000 blocks each. were
transacted at ssh. A later sale
of a $1,000 block of the same issue
brought SSS.
After call five $1,000 blocks of
Washington Railway and Electric
As were made at 651s.
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ing pressure on the market from the
opening this morning. Moreover. the
wheat and stock markets showed a
natural rallying tendency from their
breaks of yesterday. This caused a
good deal of covering Of shorts and
enough new trade buying to turn
prices up FOR the general contract
list. The rally extended to 80 points
on the average from yesterdays clos
ing break of about IS points from
last Fridays final quotations. This
was helped along by a
rally at New Orleans. less Southern
selling pressure and local bulls bid
ding up prices.
Furnished h. M n VIVA,
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LAST HOUR CAINaa
net ADVANCES MI
IRREGULAR STOCHa
Technical Conditions OF
Temporary Nature
Responsible. =
SUGARS ARE STRONG
Call Money Declines TO 40
For First Time Since
November Is. @

NEW YORK. Jan. l.-Most o. the
financial markets showed a natural
recovery after yesterdays disturb
snces. Their behavior sire Myth
ened the belief that the previous
movement found its origin in tech
nical conditions OF a Temporary
nature. On the stock exchange
trading was active during the
morning. Prices were firm during
the first half hour. reacted until
about noon and then recovered
rather quickly. After lapsinE into
dullness during the early after
noon. a wave Of buying during the
last hour brought further moderate
advances. Toward the close many
industrials showed net gains Of a
point or two while rails were frac-
tionally higher. Strength in sugar
stocks was a feature. Call money
opened at So per cent was re-
duced to S early in the second hour.
TO az during the noon hour and
to Z at about 1880. This is the first
4 per cent rate since November Is.
Turning Points.
The point at which any industry
turns the corner Is never definitely
established until economists begin
writing the history Of a given bust
ness cycle. Even then individual
opinions will differ. Despite dis
heartening setbacks Wall Street
believes that since the summer OF
1921 the corner has been turned in
railroad traffic. oil. rubber. silk and
textiles. Sugar and steel are on
the doubtful list Conner IS he
lieved TO have reached bottom. and
the recent sharp rise in stocks 90
that description is looked upon az
a movement to discount a definite
turn for the better in the not far
distant future. A more recent dis
counting movement has been w.
messed in the sugar stocks VIII N
started their recovery a day or two
before the cut in raw sugar last
week. That movement was inter-
rupted yesterday by the general
market reaction. but the sugars
were the first TO recover toda-.
The United States steel Corpora
tons statement Of untitled orders
as of December 81 will he released
next Tuesday. Despite an accumu-
lation Of orders during the past
week Wall Street believes that the
report will show decrease ~
about 100000 tons. The corpora
tion is now said TO be operating
from 40 To - per cent of capacity.
as compared with So per cent in
the middle Ct November. The
slump is described as a seasonal
development.
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METAL MARKET

NEW YORK, Jan. "A further
drop is reported in London tin prices,
spot being Fl lower at E167 LIS Cd.
and futures lis sd lower at 1859 t2s
Sd: sales. so tons and 42O tons. Spot
standard copper is IS lower at f65
l12s Sd. and futures 2s sd lower ut
ESQ 12s cd; sales, 50 tons and $50
tons. Electrolytic is unchanged at
E73 los. Spot lead is 2s cd lower
at E2I IS. and spelter unchanged at
fz7 I'd.
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LOCAL
CIV. ID. Hibbs q Co. Hibbs BiAg.
Meabers wsshingtss Stock
Exehange.D
STOCKS.

Washington Gas TVS. $1,000 at Io4s..
5000 at 1o4E.
Washington ny and Eiee seni . $1,000
at o5h.
wsshington ny and Elec CON. 10 at 10,
10 at 30. 10 at 30. 10 at 80. 10 at 30.
Washington Gas Light. / at l9L, I at
49h. I at 4ok. 2 at feis..
AFTER CALL
Washington Gas Is. 1900 at ssh. 1900
at ssh.
Washington Ry and Eice a.. $1,000 st
65Is. $1,000 at ST.. $1,000 at $50. $1,000
At s5h, 81 900 at 65n.
Wash Ry and EIec Eenl g. 81 900 at 95Jz
Potomac Eiec Eenl 8s. 81 900 at 9sh,
Lsnston Monotype. 8 at 71h.
Washington Gas TVS. 500 at I04E.
Washington Gas Re. 8. o0o at ssA
Money, call loans. 3 and per cent
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Furnished BY W. B. Hibbs & co.,
Selling Pressure Abates
In Cotton Transactions

NEW YORK, Jan. with bet
ter Liverpool markets than expected
IN view of the sharp break in prices
mere yesterday. together with the alb
sence OF any further unfavorable de-
velopments. there was much less SELL
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COMPLETE N. Y. BOND SALES
w. nIbsl Bids Me.ser. r. stock Ex.h..se,

NEW YORK. Jan 4Total
ssoss7ooo against soeo year s7s7OO
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sure domestic and export demand for
corn showed improvement, while the
sales of 100000 bushels oats to the
domestic trade were the largest re-
ported in some weeks Exporters
took $4,000 bushels corn here. Coun-
Try offerings dried up as the result
OF the decline of the previous day.
ana very little was secured on over
night bids.
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they were a geological "order"-as
one might say "hoofed mammals" or
the like.
The hoofed mammals are many;
the dinosaurs were legion. By no
means should it be imagined that all
of them were monsters. Their species
must have numbered thousands. Some
of them, whose footprints are found
in Connecticut rocks, just as they left
them millions of years ago. were no
bigger than good-sized dogs. For a
long time these footprints, three-toed,
were supposed to be those of birds,
but TO- it is known that the lizards
which made them walked kangaroo
fashion on their hind-legs. In the
American Museum of Natural History
New York. City,, is a model of a
'bird-catching dinosaur." no bigger
than a good-sized rooster.
Ferocious Lizards OF Prey
The hugest lizards were plant
eaters, like the elephant and hippo
tamus of today. They were sluggish
and stupid Gas shown by the small
ness Of the s~kull-cavities that held
their brains), and so had no chance
to escape from the incredibly active
and ferocious reptiles which sought
them as prey. But some of them. like
the brontosaur and diplodocus, were
able to seek refuge in the water. while
others were provided with means of
defense in the shape of impenetrable
arnlor.
We are more or less acquainted with
the armadillo, a mammal two or three
feet long native to Mexico and Central
America. 1t possesses no means OF
defense except a o a of armor scales
that envelops It from head to end of
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erect on its hind-legs the top of its
head was twenty feet above the
ground. It's fore-limbs were remark
ably small but its hands were armed
with tremendous claws-used, It IL
likely, to tear out the eyes of its
victims.
A visitor at the Museum of Natural
History, in New York. may see .
wonderful group" representing a
tyrannosaur feasting upon the remains
of a slain b~rontosaur. The skeletons
only are shown, but they are real ones,
and so vivid is the picture they present
to the eye that one is Mortified by the
spectacle of a monster so huge. SO
fierce, and so formidable.
The great ~flesh-eating lizards seem
usually to have walked on their hind
legs, like kangaroos. They must have
been astonishingly active, and were
undoubtedly tremendous leapers. The
tyrannosaur could probably jump
thirty yards at a bound; so how could
any sluggish plant-eating reptile
escape from him? His Jaws were
four feet long, armed with sharp
pointed teeth that projected six inches
from their sockets!
A Brain To Wag It's Tail
Now and then a prey to the tyran-
nosaur, perhaps, was the "stegosaur''
"a dangerous beast to tackle, how
ever. Relatively to its size (its length
twenty feet or SOY, it had the smallest
brain Of any known vertebrate. But
in its pelvis 1t had a sor of secondary
brain, ten times as big as the one in
its skull, which was a power station
to wag its tail. The wagging was
dangerous. the tail being armed with
two pairs of mighty spikes. One WELL
aimed blow with those spikes. and
1t was all over with the adversary.
But the most remarkable feature of
the stegosaur's anatomy was a series
Of immense plates of bone standing
erect along the back of the animal
from head to tail. The biggest of them
were four feet across. A sheathing of
protected the body and throat.
Not all the reptiles hat lived in
that epoch have passed away. We
still have crocodiles, ~alligators, and
turtles to remind us of an age which
z~oologically was the most remarkable
in the history of the world.
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stretched upon the elongated fingers
OF what might be called their hands,
as the cover of an umbrella is ex-
tended on its ribs. A huge bony crest
at the back of the skull served to
balance the great beak.
The bones of this flying lizard were
hollow and papery, and the creature,
despite its size, did not weigh over
twenty pounds. 1t was built for light
ness, and its manner of flight must
have been like the fitting of a moth.
A Duck-Billed Monster
One of the most remarkable of It's
contemporaries was an amphibious
lizard, thirty feet long. which had a
bill like that of a duck, and a mouth
furnished with 1000 teeth arranged
in rows. about sixty teeth in each row.
Its head was nearly a yard in length,
and. walking erect on it's three-toed
hind feet, 1t stood fifteen feet high.
The front part of its skull was ex-
handed into a broad beak that was
covered with a horny sheath, and
which was used for pulling up rushes
and other water plants. its food.
The strange animals described in
this story Of the past were dinosaurs"
"A name, meaning terrible lizards"
which Professor Marsh coined. 1t is a
name the proper significance of which
few people understand. h dino
saurs were not merely a species. not
merely a genus or a family of reptiles:
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Plesiosaurs and Other Gigantic Reptiles Which lnhab-
tied This Country When America Was Young
Some Walked On Land, Others Swan
ter, and Yet Others Flew in theAir.
BY Rene Bache

skeletons are found in the rocks OF
that region-sandstone rocks which
represent huvial deposits on the bot
tom of the sea in question.
At hat early period the Rocky
Mountains did not yet exist, and the
region now occupied by that mighty
chain was a low swampy area with
many sluggish streams and tropical
vegetation. 1t was the home of many
extraordinary and even monstrous
reptiles, some OF them Oike the
plesiosaurs) of amphibious habit.
When they died. it often happened
that their bodies became buried in
mud. or in the silt carried by rivers
to the shallow sea, and thus it comes
about that along the eastern flank of
the Rockies, in Wyoming and else
where. great numbers of their bones
are now dug out OF the s-edimentary
rocks.
It is the discovery OF these bones
that has enabled scientists, putting
them together. to reconstruct the
animals to which they belonged. Thus
at Como Bluff. Wyo, Prof. o. c.
Marsh found a skeleton OF the bronto-
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I" SCIENTIFIC expedition is now
on its way from this country
to Argentina, its chief errand
being TO kill or capture a
p~lesiosaur which is said to have been
seen in a Patagonian lake. The de-
scription given did certainly corre-
spond with accuracy to that OF the
giant lizards OF that species, which
were supposed to have become ex-
tinct long ago. II any of them still
survive, proof OF the fact would be
most interesting to naturalists.
The plesiosaurs of pic seem to have
been exclusively American. At all
events. no bones of theirs have been
found on other continents. They were
hsh-eating reptiles, attaining a length
of 80 feet, with turtle-shaped bodies.
like those of a whale. and
enormously long necks.
They were exceedingly numerous in
a vast inland sea which a%nciently ex-
tended all the way from the Gulf of
Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. covering
Texas. New Mexico. Kansas and other
States northward. Many of their
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once in the desert. many days from
water, the natives obey Malkalla's in
structions and cut the water bags.
Malkalla and his men attack.
Benson fees with his two compan-
ions. the natives pursuing. AT their
last gasp they come upon a river and
escape by canoes. Benson heads his
craft into a tiny opening in the rocky
wall of the river but not before an
arrow has pierced Klein Lungs heart.
Benson's progress is checked by
herds OF crocodiles. Malkalla falls
the ravenous beasts. He
vanishes and his terrified followers
retreat In haste.
After burying KEN Lung. Helen and
Benson push on through the narrow
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tail. Thus It was with many of the
scribed-for example. the "ankylo-
saur," whose body was clad with
plates of bone. Even its eyes were
provided with bony shutters which
could be closed over the eyeballs, so
hat all the vulnerable parts of this
animated fortress were protected.
Another h~erbivorous monster, the
"t~riceratops," must have been able to
defend himself stoutly. That he was
often engaged in combat is proved by
broken and healed bones of his species
that have been found. He was twenty
feet long and stood eight feet high at
the hips. His skull measured eight
feet, part of 1t taking the shape of a
great bony frill which projected back
ward over his neck like a fireman's
helmet. Over each eye was a massive
sharp-pointed horn, directed forward,
and his nose bore a smaller horn.
Tyrannosaur A Terror
At the time these animals existed,
all of that region presented a physical
aspect much like that of the Ever
glades of Florida. 1t was covered with
vast swamps, with dry areas here and
there doubtless. and occasional higher
elevations. diversified by wide water
courses that were constantly shifting
their channels. The climate was warm
and the vegetation luxuriant. In these
modern times we know no c~arnivorous
animals that approach in size and
ferocity the f~iesh-eating lizards of that
distant epoch. Consider, for example
the "tyrannosaur," or tyrant lizard,
which was the largest c~arnivorous
creature that ever lived on land. 1t
was forty feet long and when It stood
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be brought before him. The power
of the white mems presents arouse
the envy of Malkalla, the witch doc
tor, who thinks that the power is
hidden in the Jewel which Helen
wears.
Next day Malkalla puts fear in the
hearts of the white mems bearers and
they return TO their own country. The
witch doctor tells Benson that King
Makombe will give him bearers and.
his promise being kept. the expedition
esumes its way the next day. But
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cavern and encounter a massive steel
gate. Benson pushes this apart and
there before them. in all of its ages
old glory, teeming with life and lux
ury. stands Ophir. the magic city Of
their quest
The Newlyweds
The Buster Keatonc are an ideal
married pair. Buster Is well known to
film fans. his wife was Natalie Tal-
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\ Champion Vamp- Fools First THE Angel of
Crooked Street. Gay and Devilish"- "The
Mistress ofthe World" The Buster Keatons'

hand of fair Doris May in Gay and
Devilish." Miss May plays the part
OF a young girl who is forced to marry
a observation-disclosures for purely
financial reasons. But IL uncle has
it on his nephew by several millions,
the younger man is some hundred
pounds lighter than his rival. And
although her ardent suitor tries dill
gently to lose some of his two hun
dred and fifty pounds he can never
make himself as light and handsome
as the nephew.
Otis Harlan plays the rotund uncle.
who starts the plot a-rolling. and
Cullen Lands will please all his ad-
mirers as the leading man. Jacque-
line Logan is the chum of Miss May.
Doris May has never had a gayer
picture, and as to the devilish part
well that remains TO be seen. It's a
story of the battle of a lightweight
against a heavyweight. with the light
weight winning after a hard fight.
1.-THE Angel OF Crooked Street"
AS Angel Face. Alice Calhoun in
THE Angel OF Crooked Street." plays
the role of a young girl who Is rail-
roaded to Jail in place of the real
criminal. After serving a term she
comes out OF prison with but one Idea
to wreak vengeance on the woman
who falsely accused her of a theft.
The son of the woman who had
wronged her falls IN love with Angel
Face and then the girl proceeds
through her crook friends to work out
her plan of revenge. Angel Face.
however. Is too innately good 10 be-
come one with the gang and besides
the god Cupid steps in and takes a
hand. "The Angel of Crooked Street"
gives Miss Calhoun a "A opportunity
to display her splendid dramatic
qualities. Ralph Mccullough is her
leading man
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madge, the younger sister of Norma
and Constance
Lloyd Hughes
1t Is rumored around Hollywood
that Thos. H. Ince has decided to star
Lloyd Hughes. whose wonderful work
in Hail the Woman" and Mother o.
Nine" and. lately. "Ashes OF Hate"
has caused the Goddess OF Stardom to
turn favorably toward him
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THE Mistress OF The World"

The story OF 1.-The Mistress OF the
World" ~recounts the exploits Of Helen
Nielsen (Mia May). a young Danish
university student, searching for the
fabulous riches of the Queen of Sheba,
in the lost city of Ophir. in the wilds
OF Africa She Is accompanied by
Frederick Benson and DR.. Kien Lung.
All seems well until they encounter
the warriors of King Makombe. When
the King learns that the trave lers
bring him presents he orders them to
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Aquatic PIant-Feeders

hips, and weighed in life about twenty
tons.
Aquatic Piant-Feeders
More recently have been brought to
light the bones OF the "~diplodocus."
which was even bigger. 1t Is repre-
sented in the Carnegie Museum at
Pittsburgh by a skeleton eighty-four
feet long. These enormous creatures
must have lived in the water, wading
lazily or floating about while feeding
on the aquatic plants that provided
their food, for their legs were not
strong enough to support their mas
sive bulk on land.
1t vas a strange world they lived
in. Numerous in the great inland
sea were "~mosasaurs." sixty feet long,
which correspondent pretty well to our
modern notion of sea serpents. and
f~sh-eating lizards called "ichthyo-
saurs," with yes a foot in diameter
held in bony cups.
And, If n could only have been
there to witness the weird show. one
would have beheld pterodactyls skim
ming over the surface of the waters
and plunging into them now and then
TO catch a fish. OF all the animals
of that epoch they were perhaps the
most extraordinary. Their enormous
wings somewhat resembled those of
bats. a covering membrane being
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@STELLE TAYLOR, a beautiful
brunette. has been selected to
play the vampire in "a Fool
~ Theirs Was" She played various
roles opposite william Farnum. and
more lately in while New York
Sleeps" and Blind Wives. She was
a decided sensation in the last two
productions. and was chosen for the
1922 model vampire after fifty other
actresses had been looked over and
found wanting in some particular.
Fools First"
.'Fools First" concerns Tommy
Frazer. a product OF the underworld,
and Ann Whitaker. a pretty young
stenographer. who sees Tommy taken
to Jail and meets him when he comes
out after serving his term.
Tommy decides to continue his
career as a crook with more deter
mination than ever and Ann, realizing
how useless it would be to try and
change him, tells him that she too is a
crook.
They Join forces. Ann gets Tommy
a position in the bank where h
works and before long the young man
gains the confidence OF his employer.
The time arrives when the big haul
is 20 be made. Situations OF a thrill
ing nature lead up to the moment for
which Tommy has been waiting and
working for a year-and then he de-
cides he cannot go through with It.
BY a twist of circumstances Tommy
is called upon to prevent the theft
of the very deposit he was about to
steal. 1t all ends well however, when
Tommy learns that the banker and
Ann have been in cohoots to save
him from himself.
Richard DIX and Claire Windsor
play the leading parts
@Gay And Deyiiish"
Uncle and nephew are rivals for the
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a u thunder lizard). which was 10
feet long. stood 16 feet high at the
hips. and weighed in life about twenty
tons.