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Evening star., 1922-11-18
SOFT COAL PARLEY
FAILS TO AGREE
Adjournment Taken Till De.
cember With Six Plans to
Be Considered.
by the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 1S.-The joint
conference Of bituminous coal op-
orators and miners representatives
meeting here in an effort to arrive at
some basis for conducting wage neso.
tiations next January and without az
riving at an agreement. voted last
night to adjourn until December s.
John L Lewis. president Of the
United Mine Workers Of America, and
P. H. Penna Of Terre Hsute. Ind, an
operator, who acted as chairman of
the conference. issued the following
joint statement when the meeting sd.
journed:
1.-THE joint commission Of operators
and miners has devoted itself dill.
gently to the matters for which the
convention was called. Some SUBJ
stantial progress has been made and
there are grounds for believing that
be agreed upon by representatives Of
the operators and miners. In order
to give additional consideration to the
matters in hand the committee has
unanimously agreed to take q recess
until Wednesday, December s, when
"0 "hA COAtchO ASAlu III Lul0 ClLy.
Half . DoseA Plans.
The conference which has been in
progress for four days considered half
q dosen suggestions for q basis for
wage negotiations to be started in
January. These include national
agreements, district agreements, ne
Eotiations on the old central COM
petivs-f1eld basis and negotiations
on the central competitive held plan
with the addition Of western Ken.
lucky. central Pennsylvahia and west
Virginia.
The operators and miners went
homo with the central competitive
field basis as the outstanding fav-
orite. Whether this plan will be
adopted 10 not known, but both opera.
tors and miners had expressed hopes
that an agreement might be reached
on the central competitive.fleld basis.
Rupture Was Rumofed.
Yesterday's conference recessed
after President Lewis was At first re-
ported to have voiced opposition to
an adjournment and after . new sub.
committee OF operators had been
named, when the original subcommit-
tee appointed to confer with the
miners failed to reach an agreement.
The operators will meet here two
days preceding resumption Of the
joint conference and 1t was also an
nounced that the Illinois operators
will meet here next Friday to can.
vass the situation and attempt to
reach an AEreemeat as to the atei.
tude OF Illinois operators.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
WESTERN FREIGHT TRAFFIC.

NEW YORK. November lS.--An in.
dicauon OF the trend Of freight move
ment in the west was shown yes.
terday in preliminary reports of some
of the prominent carriers OF that ter
ritory. Grouped freight loadines Of
ern, Illinois Central and Rock Island
for the first week Of November were
shown at 207.716 carloads, as against
172,62S Q year ago, and the feature
Of the report was said to be the sharp
increase in grain movement. The
suriingtoa showed gain Of a.sss cars
watn Of 1.13S cars. Illinois Central 4
gain Of ga cars. Rock Island. ga
cars and Atchison, $40 carr. Agsre-
cate oil loadings increased $3.50 cars.
coal was up 3.401 cars and live stock
Increased 1,511 cars.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
BY WILLIAM F. HEFFERxAN.

Special Dispatch to The star.
NEW YORK. November 1s.--Shares
Of Standard Oil Pipe Lips Company
were again the center Of interest in
today's short session on the curb ex-
change. Following the declarations
Of extra disbursements by New York
Transit and Northern Pipe Line Fri
day there came Announcements over.
night that Buckeye Pipe Line and In
diana Pipe Line had declared special
dividends. The declaration OF q 100
per cent stock distribution by Stand
ard Oil OF Ohio was also announced.
Have Large Surpluses.
All these three companies have large
surpluses, and it had been expected
for some time that there would be
some sort of distribution. However.
that the action in all instances mao
not been fully discounted was eviaent
by higher prices Immediately eitsr
the opening. Buckeye Pipe Line
NEW YORK. November ls.--Fol'
lowing is a list Of today's highest
lowest and closing prices for the
most active bonds and stocks dealt
in on the New York Curb Market:
Evening star., 1922-11-18
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wite Direct 70 The stAr o4be>

opened ~ petnts. sbovs the last sale
q e. Fs:say r;!s ana sSie as to 1o6 0efore
Indiana Pipe Line responded with
q jump Of two ro.Ats Ct the epening
and q further advance later. The ac-
ton Of STANDARD Oh Of ohie dit4etors
brought about IN ADVANCE - nve
points, while New Yerk Tfaneit con.
tinued to move forward.
shares lgsve In sympathy.
Other standard issues moved syIa,
pa.hetieaily.: PVT sanI 1es Ssas rhsss
was little feature 10 the stadins th
the Industrial section. Tfadofe were
disposed to even accounts over the
week end. The new shares OF Con.
solidsted Gas started hi9nsE ..,st SH.
the movement Of the old shsfss on
the stock exchange.
Packard Motors continued 70 fe"
flect the prospects Of favorable dtvi-
dend action ana reached : :. nv e nsns.e nn,sn
motor shares maintained their ad-
vances Of the previous session.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
CHAIN STORES BANKRUPT.

NEW YORK, November 1e.-Tcur
involuntary pstitions Ia .ss,l. can.kfspSsey ,sSe
sgainst concerns alleged 70 De IN.
debted to the Manhattan Pi1gly WIZ
t1y Corporation. . chain grocery store
concern, against which petition was
filed yesterday. In each case Perciva!
Wilds as receiver for the corporation
is. the principal creditor.
Ths ps,neipSi case rs.,u"es y tsss = ,ias ias
ers, Inc. Liabilities were placed e
$500. 900 ana assets e sioo:ooo. This
ing stock ana controlling .teets Of
other corporations. NJ. Wilds claims
S250,o0e for money sSeStv1d - A9eaS
81 the Msnhsttsn fisgly Wisely Cor.
pofation.
Corporation. WITH iiabiiitiea Of as6.
and assets Of $4,000: the Piggly
WixsIy EastSrn Company, with iia-
biiities. Of $4,000 and assets Of $780,
900, and the Connecticut PigYly Wig
ely Corporation, with liabilities Of
10000 and assets Of $4,000.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
0NE-HALF Of TAXES
DUE THIS MONTH.
Will Take Out $5,000,0 900
From Banks - Local
Stocks Are Soft.
BY I. A. FLEMING.

One-haIf of the real estate, per-
sonal and intangible taxes. all OF
which have heretofore been payable
during the month of May. must now
he paid during the month of Noven-
ber
This method of payment will take
about s5.0Oo.oO0 out of the banks
twice a year instead of s10.o00.000
with the May payments as formerly.
1t is understood that the Clearing
House Association will make no ef-
fort this year to secure redeposit
OF a portion of the tax money in local
national banks. a custom that has
been maintained consistently for many
years.
Secretary Mellon. on the last two oc-
casions. when asked by w. I: Gailiher,
representing the Clearing House AS
sociation, for a redeposit refused, CIV
ing as a reason that the government
needed the money-was borrower In
the open market, paying more than
per cent the rate of interest that gov
ernment deposits carry from banks.
Personal Mention.
". w. Spaid Of w B. Hibbs & Co.
has returned from a weeks vacation,
spent in New York city.
George W. White will be at his desk
Monday morning. He is attending to
getting his utilities notes cash today.
The payment of taxes In two in
stallments is in no wav an aid to the
banks, taking no small part OF their
cash away earlier than usual. but il
is in the nature Of a boon to the tax
payers. dividing their burdens into
two payments.
Park Savings Pays Extra.
Directors of the Park Savings Bank
have voted the payment Of an extra
dividend of per cent. payable No
renber 90. This is in the nature of
a Thanksgiving offering. and the
shareholders will no doubt be duly
grateful.
Looking at Bank Buildings.
John Poole and two members of the
building committee OF the Federal
American National Bank spent FRIDAY
of this; week in New York city look
ing over bank buildings and studying
interior arrangements.
1t is likely that a committee Will
make visit to midwestern cities.
looking over some of the bank build
irgS of late construction before max
ing any decision on their building
project.
Local Securities.
The sum and substance OF trading on
foday's session of the local exchange is
embodied in $1,000 Potomac Electric
Refunding and General Mortgage 1e. the
first at 106 and the second at 105@.
There was something more than that
II, making of quotations, for Lanston
was offered at IS. while the best bid
was s6ta ex-dividend.
Moreover. the drop in the high-grade
per cent bonds was Unusual and unex-
pected.
1t looks very much as if the local
market is in the dumps and will be,
probably for some days to come.
The question of ownership of the big
block of Railway common is settled to
the satisfaction of most people. although
it is hard to make some localities be-
Iieve that local banking interests are
not participating with the buying
syndicate.
Railway common was held at Sc with
63ia bid. while the preferred was Il
bid and IS asked.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
IL RESERVE BANKS PASS
THEIR EIGHTH BIRTHDAY
Resources Since 1914 Show
Enormous Total Gain Of
1855, ,o34, 900.

The Federal Reserve System was
eight years, old on Thursday. The
twelve rs6ional federal reserve banks
opened for business November Is.
1914. IN that year the banks held
gold totaling $2o3.415,000 and their
total resources were $246,435,000.
This year the gold held by the twelve
federal reserve banks amounts to
33,0e0,75s.0o0 ana their total resources
are $8,105.459.000. In 1914 redis-
counts at the banks were $5,e07,000
and in 1922 they have amounted to
9S40,4S2,000.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
WILL MAKE NO REPORT.
Bureau of Mines Not to Pass on
Spangler Disaster.

The United States Bureau Of Mines
viii not Issue 4 report on the prob
able cause OF the fatal mine accient
at spsnslsr. Pa. twelve days ago.
which resulted in loss OF life to tw }
score miners. George 8. Rice. chief
mining engineer. who returned yes
t1rdAy from Spangler. where he
worked in cooperation with the
Pennsylvania state mine authorities
In the investigation. said the federal
nuresu would not ascribe officially
the cause Of the accident to any
9ivSn circumstance In = public re-
HS ADDED, however, that certain les
sons were learned from the accident
which may be useful in preventing
similar accidents.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
WAIT TO DE q. s. CITIZENS.

Arthur MAXWELL, hfty-six years old. \
native q London, England, and q silver
Gnitsl by trade, arrived in New York on
fhA President Garfield last Thursday
and today applied to tho District su-
preme Court for his first naturalization
naDer1. HIS son, William. twenty years
sd, accompanied his father, and also
declared his intention Of becoming an
Ameftcen citixen. The wife is still in
England, II was sisted. but expects soon
TO come to America.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
OUTSIDE interference
BANNED, SAYS MEXICAN
Foreign Secretary Tells Deputies
q. s. "commentsd" On Proposed
Petroleum Law.
By the Associated Press.


MEXICO CITY, November 1.-THE
chamber Of deputies. At fts .sessien
last night. was informed ~ F9reien
SECRETARY Pani Of several cemnohica-
tions passing recently Between tho
foreign office and the American chafee
d'affaires. george +. summsrlin. in
which the American state Department
is said to have commented on the pro-
posed petroleum law. which 10 to b
considered by the lower house.
Secretary Pant explained that he
told Mr.. Summerlin that President
obreeon and the other hi4h ofieials in
the Mexican government had not seen
draft Of the proposed law, and were,
therefore. in no position to discuss 1t.
and furthermore that the Mexican gov
ernnnent could not submit to outside
Interference in matters affecting itS
own legislation.
The statement evoked applause from
the deputies. and q vote Of thanks WIS
extended to 0sor6tAfy Pank
Evening star., 1922-11-18
LEADS IN WHEAT RAISING.

OTTAWA, November 1s.-The Unit
ed States leads the world in wheat
production this year with s10.l25.000
bushels. Canada ID second with 3sS.-
773.o0O. These official figures, made
public today, also showed that India
and France fourth with 233.3So.0o0.
Last year France held second place,
leading Canada by about $4,000. 900
hushels
Evening star., 1922-11-18
WOOL PRICES QUIET. :.

Do8ToN, November 1s (special).-
The Summer street wool market
wound up IN inactive week today
with prices still Arm and apparently
on the upward trend. The progress
OF the Texas auctions indicated that
lever prices are not being consid::
renewed evidence Of L willingness OF
buyers n contract for 1898 clips
.NeN II Aavaaee, even IT present high
prices,
Evening star., 1922-11-18
80 STRIKES ON IN U. S.
Not Any, However, Of More. Than
Local Importance.

Thirty-n strikes. none Of which
involve any considerable number Of
workers, are now before the Depart
Department announces today. In ~.
dition, the department 10 handling
nine controversies which have not
reached the strike state.
During the past wsek agents Of che
department sdjudicatsd . Dispute In
the coal mining industry q wilkes
Barre. Pa. involving 1.soo w1fksrs
the United States Cast iron Pipe Com.
pany ct Scottda1s. Pa. involving 700
men also was adjusted.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
pRY GOODS PRICES rI1x.

NEW YORK, NovemDef 70 (eD4eial).
The market Ter cotton oioths
marked time for the greater .Do9t ef
the session today. Buyers md SELLERS
were equally eautioue 70 MAKING
the market for the raw staple unset.
tied. Print cloths an6 steetinSs Do.
vAl6psd some business, but most eef1.
sgruotions were Quiet, Although prices
were pretty wslI nfeinta3n1d.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
Seek Cnptives' Release.
Maryland Town Names.
Tfon9 Sho 00It1mes0 NtWo.
MARYLAND citiAa and tow,

Maryland cities ana towns receiv-
ed their names largely from indian
tribes, their lodges once dottins the
shores OF Maryland's fine streams.
The Maryland Academy Of Sciences
mentions the following tribes which
have left their imprint on the state,
although the hafneS now In use have
been changed somewhat. The eecowo.
ssnfs. ss11s't The e Yico Yawscomicos til The Patax.
snts, the Wteheemicus, the NAneieokAa
and the Del4W4fes.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
Counterfeit STAMPS.
Spurious Issue Of 1919 War sav-
inRs Out.

A new and dams srous counterfeit Of
the blue 1919 war savings stamps haS
appea red on the m srket, eccofdinE to
warning sent out today by the Pest
Once Department 10 postmasssrs OF
the country.
The counterfeit 10 declared 20 be
few Of the dsfscts Of previous spun.
ous stamps. The only means Of de-
tectinE tho counterfeit, poStmaoters
are informed, Is that the top Of letter
"e' In the word savings" 10 too thin.
and the letter -" In United States"
- almost broken.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
VERDICT, NOT GUILTY.
Promoter Of Florida Town Aequit-
tod Of Nail TrAuds.

PENSACOLA, FLA, November 1s.-.
A directed verdict Of not yuilty vas
returned In FEDERAL court here today
in the case Of NJ. r. Cartwright, J.
F. Goss and Leslie and c. A. PeffinS.
charged with conspiracy to us6 the
mails to defraud In connection with
the development Of the town Of Val.
pAraiso, OkAiooHA county, Fla.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
THIRD j. S. citizen
KIDNAPPED IN CHINA
Bandits Seize Mission Work.
er in Presence of Wife.
Protest Made.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PEKING, November ls.--Georse
Olaf r. Holm, an American member
Of the Lutheran mission. has been
kidnapped by bandits in Honan prov
ince. The powerful bandit army Is
growing bolder and it apparently
dominates the entire province. A
dozen towns have been sacked and
burned and the Inhabitants forced to
flee Upward Of 900 Americans in
the danger zone are greatly alarmed,
according to the American consul at
Hankow.
Mr.. Holm is the third American
missionary to be carried off by the
Honan bandits, who also are holding
Anton Lundsen and Einar Borg
Bresn, together With the latter's five.
year -old son. Holm was born in Nor
way. but 10 q naturalized American
citizen.
A body Of armed bandits entered
the Holm residence at Chen Yang.
seized the missionary in the presence
OF his wife and two sons and marched d
him of into the country. So far 10
known here all the kidnapped mis-.
sionaries are safe and unharnled and
are permitted to communicate with
their families.
Bandits Burn Towns.
Reports from Honan indicate that
the bandit activities are becoming
parsntly in full control of the
province, and 4 dozen towns in ashes
in the wake Of their march.
Foreigners in the unprotected COM
munities have been advised by their
consuls to fee to Hankow, and scores
Of missionaries already have arrived
there. Hundreds. however, still are
districts, including approximately 500
Americans. The entire star of the
American Mission School at Chikung-
shan has fed to Hankow. whore mar
tial law has been declared.
The head OF the Lutheran mission
armed with machine guns. are footing
the cities in that section and are
robbins the missions. They are
threat ming to carry Of all foreigners.
The Chinese foreign oflce, replying
to the Joint note from the American,
British, French. Italian s..,as ana Swedish Swedish
ced today that It had appealed to Gen.
WI Psi-ru, military power Of north
China, to attempt to conciliate the
bandits. It is feared that II force is
used against them 1t would jeopardize
their capt1ve6
seek CaDtivss' Release.
Gen. wellington Koo, foreign min-
lister, said that the government was
making every effort to obtain the re-:
that the bandits are ssisinE foreign.
ers in an effort to force the govern
ment to incorporate them in the Chit
nese army. Or. Koo asserted that the
government WAS reluctant 70 trant
this request for two reasons. first, be-
cause it would encourage other out
laws to adopt . similar course and en-
danger more foreigners, and, second,
because that would increase the size
Of the army, which already was too
Dr. Koo also pointed out that China
had betn urged to disband unneces-
sary troops by resolution adopted by
the powers at the Washington confer
ence.
Evening star., 1922-11-18

Mfy. Sydney Small. the only woman
alderman Of Toronto, Ont, has been
visiting New York, Washinston and
ntci0al eoteraneht.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
WOULD ISSUE BONDS.
Southern Railway oMciA1s Make
Appeal to I. c. G.

The Southern Railway Company
applied to the interstate Commerce
Commission today for authority 70
issue Ss.o00.ooo Of its Development
and general mort taee Gold bonds.
payable April 1, 1855. The BOND issue
h 10 be used for improvements and
bettermSnts to its road, the railway
told the commission.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
1rs1anAT1oH AcurpTzD.

The resignation Of First Lieut..
Morrison j. -Chittarfp6, Coaat Artil.
lsf9 cefps, has bean Aeeeuts4 ey the
President.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
SUGAR FUTURES EASY.

NEW YORK, November 1s.-sugar
futures closed easy: approximate
xalss, $3.50 tons; December, 3.7S;
March, 3.33: Hay, 3.@7; July. ssh
Evening star., 1922-11-18
notion STOCK MARKET.

POTION, November 1S.--Followine
n p fiat Of today's highest. lowest and
olooine trices for the most active
senAkS AAalt in hero:
Evening star., 1922-11-18
Washington Stock Exchange

SALES
Potomac Electric Power 9. m. and ref. Is
81 900 at los, 81 900 at 1853.
BONDS.
Bid and Asked Prices.
Evening star., 1922-11-18
CHICAGO STOCK MARKET.

CHICAGO, November 1S.-Followine
n q report Of today's sales. high, low
and closing quotations at the Chicago
Stock Exchange:
The Adair County news., 1922-02-14
U. S. LOST LEADERSHIP
Former President Woodrow Wilson
Comments on Failure OF Senate
to Rstity League Of Nations.

San Francisco, Jan. 16.-Woodrow
Wilson declared In a letter written by
him January 8 to John H, Williams
Of San Francisco that failure of the
senate to ratify the treaty Of Yer
sailles deprived the United States Of
the leadership Of the world. His let
ter, in reply to one from Williams
saying his work had made pCsSible
the Washington conference On llmita-
ton Of armament, said:
you are right In thinking that the
United States was entitled to leader
ship in the League Of Nations; indeed,
the countries associated with us In
the war, and the many less powerful
governments which had benefited by
the results of the war, had already
accorded us leadership; and the pity
of the failure of the senate to ratify
the treaty of Versailles was not only
that the nations who took part in the
framing OF the treaty were denied by
our act the justice they sought to Sc
cure by its terms, but also that the
United States was deprived of the
leadership of the world"
The Adair County news., 1922-02-14
LAWYER KIDNAPPED IN SOUTH
Counsel for .. w. w. Taken From
Louisiana Hotel by Masked
Men.

Shreveport, La, Jan. 16-Search
was being made in this vicinity for
Harold Mulks. said to be an attor-
ney for the American Civil Liberties
league of New York, who was seized
in the lobby of a local hotel by two
masked men. placed in motor car
and whisked away from the city in a
westerly direction. Mulks, II was said.
was to have appeared in court here as
attorney for three men sentenced to
the parish farm for vagrancy and who
are declared by the authorities to be
Industrial Workers of the World. One
of the men, said to be AM. w. w.
organizer, appealed his case and It
WAS announced that habeas corpus
proceedings TO bring about the release
of the two others had been instituted
MuIks. it was stated, was interested
i'm the cases of all three.
The Adair County news., 1922-02-14
Burkesville.

Well as we sit here in our
study and look out on the scene
ry before us we see many things
to present real thought. Among
the many things is the busy far
mer. who is making good use of
these sunny days and as we be.
hold this spirit of industry we
bow our heads in shame when
we think how much we owe the
tiller of the soil who derives so
little for his products and pays
high prices for his machinery
and other things he buys from
the manufacturer. Here we
pause to ask ourselves some
questions as to the cause of this
present calamity? l know very
well the old saying, "A man.
who has no children, is best fit
ed TO inform his more fortuate
brother, and the man who owns
no land and is not a farmer,
knows best how to inform the
man who does farm. This may
be true nevertheless there is a
way to solve this problem.
Fist we must be reminded that
every one owes debt to God
for his origin and life, and Sec
ond we owe to the farmer a debt
of gratitude for his faithful work
to produce the crop under the dir
ection and help Of the good Lord.
Were it not for these two great
factors this world could not sue