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Evening star., 1922-12-03
NERVOUSNESS SEEN
|NSTEEL MARKET
Good Business During Week,
But Many Buyers Await
Possible Developments.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 2-The steel
market was a little nervous this week
over the futures. and buyers showed
disposition to await developments
Nevertheless there was q good deal
of business in progress. with rail-
roads and automobile makers the
most conspicuous buyers. Mills are
maintaining their recent output on
old orders and prices hold steady. Pig
iron was slightly more active in some
localities. with prices irregular.
Copper was Q1iet but fairly steady,
although some producers who had
been holding for II cents delivered
we're again willing to cell around
the 1873 cent level toward the end
Of the week. With lessened demand
for finished copper and brass. manu-
facturers seemed to be awaiting de-
velopments. especially the effect Of
increasing South American production.
The statistical position has strength
ened SO materially. however. that
leading producers show little DISPOSE
tfon to force metal on the market.
Tin has lost its recent gain owing
to increased imports together with
offerings from dealers and operators
and lack Of interest on the part of
consumers.
Lead, firm and without much change
Demand has slackened, although the
movement into consumption on old
orders is large.
Zinc was firmer owing to a better
foreign inquiry. However, domestic
demand remains light. Antimony,
quiet and unchanged.
Evening star., 1922-12-03

week and large fat baking stock Is
especially in demand. % and %: small
TO medium. 21 and %. but leghorns and
small and poor chickens are slow
sale at II to 20. Receipts of old hens
are light and under a good and cor
slant demand the market rules Arm at
% for large. fat: 20 and 21 for small
to medium, and II and Is for small
and leghorns. Old roosters plentiful
at "a: market for ducks and geese
steady. with fat stock selling fairly
wen. but poor. thin fowls unde esirahle
large pekins selling % and "a: pud-
die. % and %: muscovy and mon
ere!. 10 and 20. with small and poor
draggy at II and IS.
Nearby geese will bring 2a and -.
and Kent Islands. &c and %. With
only moderate receipts Of pigeons and
these lines rule steady at 2S to 80
a pair for the former and 10 each for
the latter when young and 40 to As
for old.
with the higher prices prevailing for
native and nearby strictly fresh eggs
day. buyers generally turning to cold
storage and western stock. and the
market dropped. closing easy at IS
cents a dozen and 81 for average re-
ceipts.
The white potato market continues
ample. especially OF ordinary Maryland
and Virginia McCormicks. for which
the demand Is slow. but the move
ment is fairly good on prime round
and long we'll culled other grades OF
stock. which sell 100 to 1.10 per 100
pounds. with McCormicks bringing
Is to SIS. No. 3 stock. all sections:
selling mostly 20 to so. Sweets and
yams are in free supply and only
fancy bright stock attracts attention
at 100 to 1.25 barrel and 80 to IS q
bushel for the former and 1.bO to 200
a barrel and 65 to IS bushel for the
latter. Native and nearby garden
truck continues In ample receipt. with
prices mostly In buyers favor. at the
following quotations.:
Beets and carrots. 800 to 400 a
hundred; broccoli and kale, 26 to 36
bushel: savoy cabbage. 40 to 80
bushel: caulilower. 8 90 to 600 q bar
rel: Eastern Shore. Nd. and Virginia
lettuce. SO to Is box or basket. and
native, 25 to rs bushel: onions. 200
to 250 per 100 pounds. and 1.26 to
1.50 for No. IS: oysterplants. 500 to
SEQ a hundred: parsnips. 80 70 l.0o
bushel; spinach, so to 7b bushei;
turnips, SO and so bushel. and pump
kins, 1000 to 1000 a hundred. The
apple market continues easy. with
little or no change in prices from las.
week, and receipts moderate. but
ample for all trade wants, under slow
movement
Evening star., 1922-12-03
Credit Conditions But Little
Changed During November
Federal Reserve Bank Report Sho,cs No
Pause in Business Actiuity-Other
Financial Ne,us.

offset new borrowing. These gold re-
ceipts have also been largely responsible
for the power Of the banks to exceed
their investment accounts.
The second factor has been accunu'a-
ton by many concerns, during the quiet
period, Of considerable reserve in the form
Of investments or bank deposits. which
they could draw upon for active opera
tions without having to resort to banks.
A third and more important factor,
that business is now being carried on
cautiously with a minimum Of future
commitments.
Trade Conditions.
Dun's report on trade conditions has
: this to say:
The final month of the year begins
, with the usual seasonal characteris-
/ tics of stimulated retail distribution
and diminished demand In most other
| channels. With lower temperatures
and development Of holiday require
; ments. the movement Of goods to con-
sumers is expanding. and favorable
! results In this field are foreshadowed
I, 1t Is an inventory period In different
| primary markets. however. and not
| quarter Is to be expected for the pres
ent.
There would be large buying now
even with annual accounting In prog:
| resS, If needs for some time ahead mad
not been we'll covered in many cases
! by recent commitments. or If diff
! Guilty was not being experienced In
! securing supplies Of certain COM
modities. The transportation conges-
| tion, If still the main WoacR. is
not the only obstacle to the prompt
delivery of merchandise. for some
producers are so fully engaged on
preytous business that additional Or
ders cannot be readily filled.
To Encourage Thrift.
, More than 500, 900 worth of Christ.
mas stamp certificates were sent out
yesterday by the Citizens Savings
Bank to those members OF the
banks thrift clubs who are aiding
the shop early movement inaugu-
rated by the post Office authorities.
Hurley Company Expands.
Announcement has just been made
that the Hurley Motor Company. local
distributors of Nash cars. has been
appointed sole agents for the District
Of Columbia, Virginia and five coun-
ties In Maryland. -,
The local organization VIII con-
tinue retail sales of Nash products IN
the District and surrounding terri
tory, but in the outlying territory 1t
| will be represented by associate
dealers.
wholesale distribution In the territory
outlined. the company has provided
, for an issue OF S per cent cumulative
, preferred stock, in the amount OF
| 100000 par value. The balance shee'
| Of the company after giving effect tc
this financing shows total assets OF
more than $500 600.
Evening star., 1922-12-03
sfinor Strikes Tackled.
BALTIMORE PRODUCE.

BALTIMORE. Md. December 2 (spe-
oial).-Since the holiday trade re-
ceipts Of dressed turkeys have been
light and the market eased OF, but all
arrivals Of choice to fancy stock find
ready sale at 45 to 48 q pound. and
~ to a. for fair to good. Old toms
slow sale at 40. while poor and crook
ed breasts are neglected at - and
IS,
Choice to fancy fat chickens. ducks
and geese are in better demand and
more activity is noted on these lines
at "a and -25 for choice young chick
ems. 22 and 20 for old and mixed
choice to fancy ducks sell "a to 2a
and geese, 25 to 80. Old roosters, plen-
tiful at Is. In the live poultry market
considerable turkey stock was car
ried over from the holiday and this
has . tendency to keep tho price
down. Young birds. eight pounds and
over. are selling at Is: old, g. and poo'
epriag chickens have been In bet
ter demand the latter part Of thu
Evening star., 1922-12-03

The New York Federal Reserve
Bank in its December review Of
credit and business conditions says
movements during November Of the
various factors rejecting credit con-
ditions were in the same direction as
October.
"rhe volume Of credit in use as in
dicated by the commercial loans Of
member banks and by earning assets
Of reserve banks increased at a
slower rate than in September and
October" says the review. Mote cir
culation Of the reserve banks fiuc-
tuated within narrow limits. and In
terest rates remained at substantially
the level reached about the first OF
November. This greater stability OF
the factors rejecting credit condi-
tions does not appear to indicate that
! business activity. For the past few
| weeks such figures as are available
appear to show a continued gain In
| Industrial output and the distribution
| OF goods.
Steady Trade Advances.
There was q considerable increase
| throughout the country In the volume
of production and trade in the past
year, but this increase has gone for
ward with relatively smal! demand
| upon the banks for credit. Since
March of this year. when borrowing
was at a minimum, the total loans and
Investments of member banks in prin-
cipal cities. where the effects OF In
dustrial activity would be felt most.
have increased $1,250.000.000. or over
S per cent. But this increase Is as
cribable not so much to loans for
business purposes as to loans on
stocks and bonds and to investments
made for the purpose OF putting sur
plus funds to work The amount lent
directly for business purposes, as far
as can be segregated In the returns,
declined until the END OF August.
Since that time. however, it has ad-
vanced $267.000.O00.
The New York reserve bank points
out that earning assets. the best measure
Of total accommodations which reserve
banks are extending to business. in
creased $146.000.000 between August 3
now stand at approximately $1,000. O.000,-
900 and the trend Is upward.
Vital Credit Factors.
Three factors dominate the credit sit
! uation, according to the New York re-
serve banks, which. taken together. have
obviated the necessity Of business and
, ,commodations despite increasing volume
of trade and higher wages and prices.
The large gold reserve has contributed.
serving to liquidate borrowing by indi-
viduals from their banks and borrow
I ings BY banks from federal reserve
, banks. Liquidation from this and other
! sources has up to recently more than
Evening star., 1922-12-03
HEIRESS STILL INSANE,
ASYLUM DOCTOR SAYS

BOSTON. December 2.-The supreme
court heard testimony that Dorothy
Gordon, who is an inmate Of the Nc
Lean Hospital while the courts ore hear
ing q contest over her guardianship and
he control Of her 100000 estate. is still
Dr.. Frederick H. Packard. super
fntendent Of the hospital, testifytng
in the habeas corpus proceedings
brought by John Gardiner OF Bald
opposed by William F. Jardine Of
winchester. her former guardian, IIsa
Miss Gordon was a victim of demen-
tia praeco1. but was improving: Hs
strange voices and that at one time
she had q suicidal mania
Jardine testified that Miss Gordon
went to the hospital willingly when
she was depressed He testified IS asstrsiat that
sig times BY the use of sheets, and
,dded that she was often incoherent.
The court ordered sthe parties to
the case to agree on an alienist to
examine Miss Gordon.
Evening star., 1922-12-03
FILES MOTION TO REOPEN
26 DROPPED DRY CASES
Oklahoma Assistant State Prosecu.
tor Plans Sweeping Probe Of
County Attorneys Office.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
TULSA. Okla. December 2.-Clif-
ford w. King. assistant state attorney
general. late yesterday filed in county
court here twenty-sixe motions seek
ing to reopen liquor cases dismissed
by County Attorney w. r. Seaver and
announced that he would immedia tely
begin Investigation Of Seavers ofiiciaI
acts to determine IL he would ask
for the suspension Of the Tulsa county
attorney. The local prosecutor. on
disnlissing the cases, declared that
tho people don't want prohibition
King said his investigation. besides
the liquor cases, would take UP other
matters in Seaver's Office.
He spent most of the morning clos
eted with County Attorney Seaver
and announced after the conference
that Seavcr had given him access to
all files and books in the office and
permission to question all assistants
and offered his aid In every possible
way,
Evening star., 1922-12-03
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
BALTIMORE. Nd. December 2 Is

BALTIMORE, Nd. December z t6pe.
ciaD.-The live cattle market ruleR
steady to firm under moderate re-
! ceipts Of top-grade stock. for which
common to ordinary cattle not active
and slow. Sale quotations today at
Light street wharf:
Calves Choice. handy weight.
pound. 12h; choice. fat. heavy veals
10: fair to good. 9a10; heavy rough
Lambs and sheep-No. ! sheep,
pound, 5ae: spring lambs. choice. 60
to 10 pound averages. Halls: fair to
good. 12a13: lambs weighing 40 to 80
pounds. 10a12; poor, small. common
and thin. 7as.
Beef cattle-First quality. pound.
7as: medium. 5ae; bulls. a. to quality.
4a6; cows, choice to fancy. SAT: COM
mon to fair. aa4: oxen. as to quality.
4a6: milch cows, choice to fancy. per
head, 30.00a75 90: common to fair, per
head, 20.00a40.O0.
Hoes-straight, 8; sows. as to
quality. 6aS: stays and boars. 4a5;
live pigs, as to size and quality. 8a10:
shoats. as to size and quality. Sa10.
ceipts, 1900 head; 16 to 20 lower;
! bulk, ITO to $50 pound averages -
as25: few choice butchers, s.30aS.s5:
top. S.35: packing sows. mostly 7.50a
7.75: desirable pigs around 3.2b: estt-
mated holdover. 5000 head; heavy
weight. s.1oaS.so; medium weight, SIS
as.3o; light weight, s.16aS.sb; light
light, s.16aS.Sb: packing sows. smo I"
7.6oa7.s0; packing sows. rough. 7.sba
7.so; killing pigs. s.26as.S6.
F.: Cattle-Reooipts. 1000 head. COM
pared week ago. native hset steers
largely Is higher: stock l 90 up: west
i treme top yearlinEs fed with show
; cattle, lass; best yearlings on heavie:
excepting show offerings. 1885 and
1925, respectively: beef cows and
heifers, steady to IS higher: Gamers
and cutters. weak to 10 lower; bulls.
. strong to is higher: veal calves. un-
| evenly rs to 1.s5 higher. Week bulk
prices follow! Native beef steers. Is
a10.25; western grassers, 6.00a7. 90:
stockers and feederE. 5.75a7.0o: beef
COWS and heifers. 3:15as.76; Gamers
and cutters, 2.90a3.6o; veal calves.
+. sheep-Rsosipts. s.sse heads; mar
I kee steady; compared with week ago
fat lambs toa76 higher: best yeariins
wether scarce, nominally 100 higher;
Evening star., 1922-12-03
Got His Price.

From the Afg0naut.
The late Dennis Spencer was sitting
at his desk one day when q Chinaman
entered.
"You Mees spenceh7p he asked.
Yes, John, what can I do for you?''
'You lawyuh?"
"Now-a-a-h, Mees 'spenceh. spozzin'
one China boy killum mother one, how
much you cost gitte him off::'
Of living, SO Spencer said:
"Oh. about $500 for defending per-
son wrongfully accused Of murder"
"Fi' hunnet dollah! Chez Chli!' said
the astounded oriental and went out
mans avarice. Spencer forgot him un-
til about two months later, when the
Chinaman entered and, plunking down
$500 on the desk. saA casually, "An
light, killum."
Evening star., 1922-12-03

lothsr Financial Nsvs On Hage Sc
Evening star., 1922-12-03
WILL GET $500, 900.
Alpaca Company's Employees t
Share in Years Profits.

HOLYOKE. Mass, December p
Announcement was made today that
dividends amounting to II per cent
Of their earnings Tor the last year
and totaling fully 100000 would be
distributed to the $500 employees of
the Farr Alpaca Company under the
profit-sharing plan put into effect in
1913. The regular profit sharing
dividend is Sc cents, but an extra
dividend Of s per cent has been added
this year.
Evening star., 1922-12-03
INDUSTRIAL BO0MS
RIVAL WAR YEARS
Federal Reports Show Idle
Cut From $500, 900 to
100000 in Year.

Although there are still between
$4,000 and 10000 bituminous miners
out OF work in the Connelsville sec
ton and in Cambria and Somerset
counties. in Pennsylvania. and about
Is, 900 shop crafts workers still un-
signed on major railroads. the indus
trial situation. according to reports
to tho government yesterday. Is In
better shape than at any time since
the war boom year Of 1913.
One hundred and thirty-five Of the
largest railroads Of the country have
signed agreements with representa-.
tires Of the shop crafts unions. Out
Of $4,000 men reported to have been
out during the peak OF the shop
one-tenth. or about $4,000 men. are
still unsigned. Some Of these have
found work on other railroads. Ahou'
1000 potters are out in the middle
west In the only other large contro-
versy in the United States. The
England 10 reported to be almost en-
tirely cleared up. with only a rela-
lively small proportion OF the strik-
ing textile workers still out OF em-
ployment at scattered mills.
Only DFifters Idle.
Estimates of the unemployed
throughout the nation differ. but gov
ernment authorities agree that. for
virtually every man out Of work
take 1t. Probably tho total Of un-
employed throughout the nation does
not exceed 100000. as against the
100000 reported jobless at this time
last year. during the Presidents con-
ference on unemployment. Those un-
made up OF "drif'ers," who do not
stay on ono Job long enough to be
classed as permanently employed.
Tho status Of the situation in the
bituminous regions in Pennsylvania
will be laid before Secretary Of Labor
Monday morning. Wage controversies
are said to be not tho basis Of the
unemployment of between 5000 and
10000 miners in tho Connelsville.
Cambria and Somerset. but rather
certain legal hindranses sss, to 90 opening ming
operators do not care to take a
chance.
Miner Strikes Tackled.
The industrial situation thus has
developed from one Of the most
troubled periods in tho domestic his
tory Of the nation last summer. when
200. 900 mon. counting both tho miners
and the shop crafts workers. were on
strike. to one Of the most peaceful
periods In the nations history.
Conciliators on tho neld stan Of
the Labor Department have been
enabled to transfer their activities
from the two major controversies,
which took up all their time last sum-
NOR, to scattered and isolated strik es
or controversies involving no great
number of mon, or any national issue.
The Labor Department yesterday
reported it had settled q strike among
workers Of tho Glen Alden Coal Com
pany. at Nanticoke, Pa. involving
800 men.
Evening star., 1922-12-03
u. S. BONDS AT A GLANCE

sheep around steady: feeders strong
to 25 higher: closing top fat lambs.
1850 to city butchers: 16.40 to pack
ers and shipping accounts; bulk. 1915
1850: choice October clipped Michigan
fed lambs. 1875: fresh shorn. 13.26a
13.40: good s2-pound fed yearling
wethers. 1890: heavy fat ewes. i.75
a6.75; lighter weights upward to 7.60;
week top feeding lambs. 1925; bulk
desirable kinds, 13.50a14.00.
NEW YORK. December 2.-Cattle-
Calves--Receipts, 4e7 head; steady;
veals, 10.00a15.0O.
Sheen and lambs-Receipts. $500
head: steady: sheep. 4.00a7.5o: culls.
sboa3.5O: lambs. 12.ooal6.2b; culls.
s,OOa100O.
Hoes-Reoeipts. 1880 head: firm:
medium to light weight. 9.25: heavy
hogs, S.75a9.0o; roughs. 7.o0a7.b0.
Evening star., 1922-12-03

poison t. a. lrs. sick headac!.e,
dizziness ! cr sour stomach
when y"u i. the morning.
More met. .n.d children take
Cascnrets Tor liver and bowels
than ell other laxative-cathartics
combined. 10-cent boxes, also IS and
50 cent sizes Any drug store.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
Handle School Traffic

It Is possible that the principal of Godfrey school in Grand Rapids
 Mich, may have been a bit surprised last October when a delegation aof Boy Scouts in the school waited upon him and offered to undertake the responsibility of managing trafflcsat the noon hour and the after school dismissal, but he was good fellow and believed in Scouting, so he said, "Go ahead. We'll try it out" TAey did, and from that day to this the scouts have managed the business in way that does credit to them selves and the movement During the rains last spring, when the street ran rivers of water in both gutters. the scouts carried the kiddies across, keeping small feet high and dry and by the second day they had temporary bridges built All other traffic is sus- pended when the children cross and the scouts watch each youngster as carefully as If they were all their own brothers and sisters. Tho originators of the plan. who are in charge of it's performance are Hefiry Vos, oliver Biepenhorst. Ray Schulz and Albert Smith. The honor of being trained by these leaders for this im- ortant work Is eagerly sought by
 ther members of the troop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
4 4 |Mgm
NUFF TO MAKE
 ANYBODY WEEP;
 HE COULDN'T GO
By Mignon Hall
By ENoCH WILLIAMS

It was enough to make any Scouts heart bleed if he was left out of the bunch which collected last Saturday at Capitol park in readiness for the trip to general camp.
 They were there, a big raft of them. with their camp tools, baseball ott- fits and bathing suits.
 To see them scrambling aboard the trucks made you sort of wish that you might find way to go with them even if you were not Scout and without a chance of becoming ona any time soon. Just to look at those bright wideawake faces all full of sunshine attracted downward from the sky by the gladness in their hearts and 10 imagine the great times they were going to have, made you feel as if you were missing one of the greatest pleasures of life. And if you'll ask some Scout about 1t he'll more than likely tell you that you missed more than you could possibly have imagined
 There was always room for one more when it came to loading the trucks. If there wasn't any room in the truck then that was a good ex- cuse to ride away up on the big top so as to catch pleut yof air Oh, just any way to hang on until they got to camp!
 When they rolled Into camp and the boys unloaded. can you imagine any of them standing around with their hands in their poekets2 Not if they were human. When a boy goes to camp he finds more to do in a minute than he can in an hour at home. There's the creek and the woods and every bug, beetle and but lerfly yelling It him to get to play ing instanter tfl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
The Promoting Of Scouting
 In Church Is Discussed

The educational committee of na- tional headquarters met on Nay l3. There were present Dr. John H. Findley. ehairman; Dr. S. $. Baker, James E. West, chief scout execu tive. Dr. George Fisher, and Lorne W Barclay. Very important plans were discussed about a bureau for the promotion of scouting in churches. On a national basis the idea would be to have special or ganizer give his full time to this work in cooperating with all the churches of the country wherever the demand might arise. The organiza- ton of scout troops in churches is going ahead with very noticeable steps of progress. Also in connee- tion with the general extension of scout work, the field was very thor oughly gone over concerning the possibilities of having clubs in other universities similar to the one in Yale University.
 The Scout club of Yale University is one of the outstanding examples of the co-opera ton between scout ing and students and a university. The objects and plans are simply stated as follows:
 1-To provide an opportunity for the men in the university who have been scouts to get together and get acquainted
 2-To promote the scout idea and an interest in it among university students.
 3-To asss. local troops of scouts with leadership such as assistant scoutmasters, special instrutors, hike masters and examiners.
 4---ro provide through college channels. such as papers ane large meetings on the part of the student