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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-16
Stock Letters
KAHN RROs E vrRcyN

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.--Aithough trans actions In stocks during the week have been in volume. movements have been conflicting and may be chased largely professional. The rails were subjected to a temporary setback early in the week. Chicago and Northwestern railroad. but 1t is now believed that & rate of at least per cent will be paid in 1924. As the selling that resulted therefrom was checked after the first day from that time on the rail list has been quietly firm The oil group has been consistently strong and announcements of further advances in activity.
 Steels arc acting well and in some quarters higher prices are predicted To- days market rallied from yesterdays re- action with the oils leading the upturn, although certain industrial issues devel- .oped considerable strength.
 Corn Products has been affecting the trading for many months and continues to forge into new high territory. Talk of of this company are reported as reasons for the buying power. It Is also grad ually becoming realized that the stock is very closely held. PanAmericans, Cast Iron Pipe, Pacific Oil. Allied Chemical and Standard oil of California were strong and after the. first hour many stocks were in urgent demand.
 The short interest Is large and those who have been predicting a dull reac- disappointed. as from present indications stocks are harder to buy than to sell although absolutely there has been great distribution of stocks bought much lower down. Final tone strong. Total sales, 632,3oo shares.-Fenner & Beane.
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supply, wool natives, s13.25@1s.75; south west kinds s11.60@12: culls ss.5o: fall shorn lambs. s11:75@12; fresh clipped. s11 ; yearlings. s1o@1o.5o; light mutton ewes $696.5o.
 n1s.,S,s KANSAS soc CITY Mo. De pso. ,s-cattl.: Handy weight fed % Steers sV' and yeaTlngs Mfeg steady. short feds and weishty classes un- fs sSe 2sG stock o Soa ssc Ster grades and cutters steady: medium fed heifers Soc to s1 lower; bulls 35c to 4Oc lower stoclsers and feeders 26c lower; plainer kinds 25c to 40o lower; bulk short feds s7@s; beef cows, s3.5o@6; canners and yeals. ss@s; fleshy feeders. up to s7.S5; bulk stockers and feeders, se@7.5O. babsr Hoss b bEHeeDt' 1t 2so0 str9Dg to & of desirable s1o to 2so pound butchers $sSo 96.s5; packing sows, mostly s6.S5 sheep: Receipts 800. For week: Lambs about steady; bulk fed lots and better grades natives, s11.eo912.6o; sheep strong to l6e higher; bulk ewes to killers
 NEW YORK. Dec. l5-cattle: Receipts Sas ssS5io 'ssTs eoWs. caiVes 'ass receipts 2.1so: steady; veals. sls@13.5O; culls and little calves, @s9S5o; grassers
 Sheep and lambs: Receipts. 2s2o; steady; sheep. $4.5o@s.5o; culls. $2@325 Lamps, $o;zo Wi4; culls. sS410. medium weights. s7.259T5o; pigs, s7S 7.ss; heavy hogs. s715@7.3o; roughs, $6 @626.
 CHICAGO STOCKS
 CHICAGO. Dec. 15.--Armour preferred 79M; Libby McNeill, 4M; Swift & Co., 100a; Swift International, IS; Union Car bide. 56h; Wrlgley, S9ss: Yellow Manu- featuring, B. 9S SA i; Yellow Taxi, t26A.
 RAW SILK
 NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Raw silk dull; prices unchanged.
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FOREIGN ExCUANCE

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Foreign ex- change steady. Quotations in cents: Great day bills on banks 4.s5%; France, de- mand 5.esh, cables 6.So; Italy. 4.S4h and 4:s5; Belgium 4.soh and 4sl; Germany 3s.15 and 3s.20; Norway, 15.oI; Sweden 2s.3o; Denmark, 1zs1; Switzerland. 17.43; Czechoslovakia, 192h; Jugoslavia. 1.14 Austria. .0014; Rumania, .511s; Argentina 32.37; Brazil, 96.40; Montreal, 87h.
 BAR SILVER
 NEW YORK. Dec. 15.-Bar silver, s51ac Mexican dollars soc.
 prs LARD MARKET
 NEW YORK. Dec. 15.-Lard steady; middle west. 13.80013.4oc.
 CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-Lard, 1a.sec. Ribs -(6o-pound averages).s 1oc.
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NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 16-Spot cotton steady. 75 points lower: sales on the spot GAS; to arrive, 1000. Low middling. 31c; ; middling, 34c; good middling, 3512o. Re- ceipts, S.2Sl; stock. 272.433.
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II. & B. PEER


 has been extensive the past week, values showing a decline of about cents from the peak of the bull movement at the close of November. It is likely that a steadter market will probably be wit messed next week, when statistics are likely to be less bearish and exports prob ably be large, in which case stocks may be reduced materially. Fundamentals or the situation have not changed to any extent and when considered from supply and demand point of view the outlook is satisfactory, since there is prospective shortage. Indicated crop, about 10 500 900, including linters. Probable consumption. Il, 500. .O60, perhaps l2,00O, 900.
 The release of the governments crop estimate for a yield of 1o,0Slo00 bales famine until next summer and as prices were high already. spinners refratned from entering the market for their nearby wants and the speculative public was more disposed 10 Iouidate than to enter into new commitments with approach of tho holiday period,
 arc at value again and the lower prices will likely be tho means of attracting more buying on the part of the trade and the speculative inclined.
 Exports from the United States, which already are 2,7S2,Qoo bales against 2.4s2,. 5000, GOO by the end of this month. where as America can hardly spare 50O,oOo for tho whole season.
 taken one-half of their season require ments. so far taking 5.129.oo0 bales against 5,687,00o to even date Inst season, when they took 12276.0o0. Therefore. mills of the world have to buy much more of the staple for their future wants, and 1t Is possible that there may not be enough merchantable cotton to go around later In the season.
 For the timo being. however reaction lsts seem to be in the saddle, but on the first sign of a revival in the trade demand shorts will probably be put to flight.
 Technically, the position of the market due to the recent extensive liquidation and perhaps not little short selling should be in healthier position.
 Statisticaliy, the situation will likely become stronger again after the New Year. when the receipts are likely to show perpendicular falling off.
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SHANNON N 70.

NEW YORK. Dec. 16.-The oils oon- tinue to be the feature of the market and today they have made new high rec ords. The general list has, however, shown the effect of the heavy profit talk ing sales to establish tax loss which were the feature of Thursdays and Fridays market
 The tone of tho market today has been generally steady and fluctuations have not been very great either way. Sales,
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MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 15.-Ffour un- changed; shipments, 45,407 barrels. Bran,
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Rrrm AIARKET

NEW ORLlsANs. Dec. 1b.-Rough rices firrn. no sales; millers' receipts, 4llf sacks Clean rice steady; saies,.-6s9l9 Blue Rose at 4ss 0D47sc 211 screenings at 1ss co eisc 4a7 brewers rice at 1l-16c; re ceApts 3297 pockets. Bran and polish uncnanged.
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SDnr Cnr,rnN

SPOT COTTON NEW YORK. Dec. 15.-Spot cotton quiet; middling. 34.35c.
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KAHN BROS. & VIRGIN

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 16.-The cotton market was under heavy pressure again one time sold at over 100 points lower for the day. There were one or two good sized rallies, duo in large part to sellers cashing some of their profits, but they did not hold all the gains. Weak Liverpool, report that London and English specu- lators were liquidating heavily and the upset confidence resulting from yester- days break were the unsettling influence There was good buying at the start and 1t looked for time like it would prove a bull day, but offerings came out in too great a stream after the first half hour for the market to take them. Meantime spot houses appear to be securing the country and are picking up all the spots holders are willing to sell at these prices The character of the selling of the past two days indicates that moro of the same kind is to come and values may shrink further before 1t runs it's course. The fundamentals are too strongly bullish to follow the selling side far, in our opinion and those who do are apt to find condi- tions entirely different when they stop selling and try to realize.-Fenner X Beane.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-A very weak Liverpool and general liquidation cost cotton values about a cent today. Liver pool sold here at the start, commission houses sold and in the last hour New Orleans was a big seller. The contracts were taken by shorts covering for the weekend and the trade. The general statistical situation in cotton was no less bullish, but advices from Carolina mills were less encouraging. The main factor however, in the break of 250 points since Thursday morning Is the decidedly smaller volume of bull speculation, which Is due no doubt to the recent wide fluctuations Majority sentiment seems to be that per haps some further setback is probable temporarily, with higher levels in prospect later on.-Fenner & Beane.
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KANSAS CITY. Dec. 16.--wnsat, No. 2 hard, s1.O2@1.ta; No. 3 red, sl.0e o iio. Corn, No 2 yellow, 68e; No. mixed. 66Is Qs7c. Oats. No. white. 44@44hc E, No. mixed, 44c.
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BAR SILVER
. LARD MARKEr

NEW YORK. Dec. 15.-Bar silver, sB F Mexican dollars. soc.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-FolloWing are to days opening, high, low and closing quo tations on grain and provisions;
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HITTER MARRET

FLAX MARKET DULUTH, Dec. 15.--Close, flax: De oember and January, S2.44h; February $2.45A May, s2.39A.
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CHICAGO STOCKS

RAW SILK NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Raw silk dull i; prices unchanged.
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NEW YORK COTTON FUTURES

NEW YORK, Dec. 15-Today's quota tions on cotton exchange:
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CHICAGO. Dec. 16.--Lard, 12see. Ribs (so-pound averages). 1oc.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-03
HELD IN 81, 900 BONDS
ON CHARGE OF FORGERY

Fritz F. Marx, thirty-seven years
old, was yesterday held in SIC, 200
bonds for the grand jury by Judge
Hardison in Police Court, on charge
Of forging and uttering check
for $450 to Whitemore, Lynn Und
Alden, local jewellers. The check
had been drawn on the Federal
Trust Company of Newark, N. j.,
according to police.
Marx Is said to be wanted in
other cities in connection with
check forgeries. He had recently
been released from the penitentiary
at Trenton, N. J., after serving
three years on a similar charge, it
was learned by Detectives O'Brien
and Livingston, who have been
working on the case. The check
is alleged to have been given in
payment for diamond ring. Marx
was taken into custody by the
Washington police one hour after
the report Of the forgery had been
made.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-03
5 LIONS CLUBS
Of DISTRICT
TOlN|EET
annual Convention Will Be Held
at Willard Hotel on
April IS.

Five hundred members Of the six
Lions Clubso forming the local dis.
trict will meet in washington April
20, when the annual convention win
be held at the New willard Hotel.
The first birthday Of the Wash.
ington Lions Club will be celebrated
as feature Of the annual banquet
that night, the charter meeting
having been held April a last year.
Two business. sessions will be
held, a morning session from 10 to
IL o'clock and an afternoon session
from 2 to s. Edward Voight, presi-
dent Of the international organize
ton. will be the speaker ct the
luncheon at 1880 o'clock.
While the afternoon session II IN
progress, the women accompanying
the delegates will be taken on an
automobile tour OF the city.
The annual banquet, which will
begin at 7:S0 o'clock, will be fol.
lowed by q dance and entertainment
program.
The local district comprises the
District OF Columbia, Maryland and
Delaware. The six. clubs are To-
Gated in the following cities: Wash.
inEton, Baltimore, wilmington, Ha-
gerstown, Frederick ana Cumber-
land.
One OF the items Of business to
come before the convention viii be
the election Of d new district head,
to succeed George Bond, Of the Bal
tiInore club. James p. Schick, pres.
ident Of the Washington club, has
been prominently mentioned for
this office.
The convention committee Is COM
posed OF the pfesidents Of the six
clubs. The banqtiet committee is
headed BY Fred w. Walker and In.
cludes 4. w. Brahany, e. T. Good
man. John "A. Rooms, g. r.. Sharp,
John A. Waters, Roger y. Whiteford
and william e. Yost.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-03
nice
To G0RL|SS,
SHE SAYS
Mother Of Palmer Girl Back n
Georgia Home After Six I
Months Visit.

MACON, Ca, April S.-Mrs.
James Simone, mother Of Corliss
Palmer, beauty prize winner
ana film star whose relations
with Eugene Brewster. owner 81
the Brewster publications, recently
led to a divorce settlement with
Mrs. Brewster out Of court, lie back
home in Macon, but expects to re-
turn to New York In the fall, If
everything works out all right"
Corliss Palmer, and her younger
sister, Innes, said to be even more
Of a beauty than Corliss, remain
with Brewster in his beautiful
home at Morristown, N. j., &C.
cording to their mother.
Gene as she calls Brewster,
is nice boy and is so good to
both my girls" Mrs. Simone stated.
"Corliss il busy with her maya
zine work and I know that every.
thing il all right between he- and
Gene"
Asked If Innes also was engaged
in magazine work for one cS the
Brewster publications, Mrs. Sinlone
said, mo, she is Just staving there
Gene is nice to her, too"
Their mother spent six months
with Brewster and her daughters
after the divorce settlement.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-03
HIGH OFFICIALS
OPEN GROT To
Funniest
Various Organizations VIII At
tend Carnival on DIFF
ferent Nights.

Approximately 5000 Washing.
tonians attended the opening last
night OF the two weeks funfest OF
Kallipolis Grotto. Mystic Order Of
the Yelled Prophets Of the En-.
chanted Realm. at the Central Golf
scum.
The affair was formally opened
by q. Craige Pelouze, of Richmond,
Va, grand monarch of the order.
District Commissioner Cuno n.
Rudolph made the address Of vel.
come.
Just before the formal opening
the present and past officers Of the
grotto, headed by the fraternityse
band and drill corps, marched
around the auditorium. In the pro.
cession were Grand Monarch Pc
louze. Past Monarchs Edward 8.
Schmid and z. w. Libbey. Monarch
II. J. Gompers, Chief Justice VII
liam p. Jacobs, Master OF Cere-
monies Paul F. Grove, Treasurer
Joseph II. Curran and Commissioners
Rudolph.
Arrangements have been made by
Arthur C. Shaw, chairman of the
committee on invitations, to have
the various fraternal organizations
attend on different nights Of the
carnival. Tonight will be grotto
night and tomorrow will be Blue
Lodge night when Master Masons
win be guests of the order.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-03
RAIN WILL CUT
CHICAGO 5
VOTE
Dever, Democrat, Favored for
Mayor in Betting-Lueder
Claims Victory.
BY international News Service.

CHICAGO. April 3.-A light driz-
zle fell today as voters of Chicago
went to the polls to elect q mayor
to succeed William Hale Thompson,
Republican. The rain was expected
to cut the vote down to about 700,-
900. In spite Of the weather, how
ever, much enthusiasm was in evil
dence.
Either Judge William e. Dever,
democrat, or Arthur C. Lueder,
Republican, will be elected to the Of
flee, it was conceded by politicians,
although there is third candidate
William A. Guinea, socialist.
Street talk, betting and straw
ballots have all favored Dever ia
win.
Both Dever and Lueder predicted
victory.
The polls opened at a. m. and
will close at 4 p. m. Besides a
mayor there will be elected a city
treasurer, city clerk and twenty
aldermen; also Congressman to
succeed the late James r. Mann.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-03
SUGGESTSNORK
FOR MARRIED
WOMEN
Prof. w. c. Alice, Of Chicago
University, Says It Would
Aid Birth Rate.

BERKELEY, CAL, April 3D.
Work for married women Is .adve'
Gated. hare by Prof. w. G. Alice, oi
the University of Chicago as q
means Of making practicable the
increase OF the birth rate.
Prof. Alice has been lecturing on
biology at the University Of Cali.
fOrnta. He will resumes his posi-.
ton at the Illinois Institution early
this week.
THE married woman Of today
lives in comparative idleness. do
Ing only homework. The task Of
providing for q wife and several
children falls upon the husband
and often his wages are insuffi-
Gent Prof. Alice said.
The biologist was upholding early
marriages. He stated that where
q man and woman married when
over thirty, the birth rate suffered,
q condition biologists condemn,
The solution lies. in my opinion,
solely in the wife entering the
business world and contributing to
the support of the children. This
- the only way we can return to
the partnership so common in the
days Of our grandparents"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-03
COP CHARGES PRISONER
TRIED TO ASSAULT HIM

Becoming disorderly while he was
being held at a patrol box by Po-
liceman r. L. Jones last night,
Rudolph Wood, colored, eighteen
years, Is alleged to have attempted
to tear the uniform off OF Police
man Jones and assault him.
In his report to the precinct sta
ton Policeman Jones says that he
was forced to use his baton on
the colored youth and that as 4
result he was treated at Freed
mans Hospital and later taken to
the GalIinger Hospital for treat.
nlent. Policeman Jones says that
he arrested Wood for being intoxi-
Gated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-03
HER ART
BACK FROM AMERICA

ATHENS, April 9.-Dr. Basford
Dean, director Of the Metropolitan
Museum, has written to his col
league of the chronological and His
.torical Museum of Athens that he
will ask permission of the An,eri.
can authorities to have sent back
to Greece various helmets and sets
of armor belonging to the time
when the Venetian republic was
mistress of Greece in the fourteenth
century.
The Athens museum is poor IN
such specimens, but the American
museums are rich in them. More.
over, most specimens of this par.
ticular period in Greek history now
in America were taken from Greece
at a time when the Greek govern
ment failed to protect artistic and
archaeological treasures.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-03
President VIII Act on
Canadian Rum
Protest

Another job for President
Harding to tackle when he re-
turns to the Capital was found
for him today. h
Officials who are concerned
with the protest filed by the
Canadian government against
restrictions against rumIfun-
ming imposed BY the Shipping
Board in selling its vessels to
foreigners decided to leave the
whole matter rest until 1t can
be put up to the President next
week.
In the meantime, Secretary
Of State Hughes is receiving
advice on the subject from the
Department of Justice, the
Shipping Board and the Depart
ment Oe Commerce.
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or COAL
UNAFFECTED
BY STRIKE
Ten thousand Idle Miners
Cause Only Slight Loss
IN Industry.
BY HARRY WARD
Interrlational News Aarvice.

While approximately 10000 coal
miners are on strike in various
parts OF the country. their idleness
Is causing only, a slight loss In coal
production, Labor Department OIL
ciials declared today. With the
combined production OF anthracite
about 12, 500 900 tons per week, the
production of the miners now on
strike, estimated at 10000 tons per
week, is of insignificant proper
tons, it was stated.
Aside from the strike In Ken
lucky, involving 5000 miners, and
in Washington State, where about
1000 men are affected, the other
mine disputes are of q local char
Eacter and of little consequence.
Kentucky miners were working
under an old agreement, which did
not expire until April I.
Have Separate Agreement.
While the big strike Of last year
called out the miners throughout
the country, John 4. Lewis. presi-
dent Of the United Mine Workers,
kept the Kentucky miners at work
as they were operating under 3
different agreement from that of
the balance of the country. Miners
and operators in washington, 1t
was stated, have not signed up
under the basis Of the so-ca1led
New York agreement, under which
practically the entire unionized
bituminous mines OF the country
are working today.
II Conciliators of the Labor De-
partment, working under direct
orders OF Secretary OF Labor Davis,
are now in the Kentucky fields en-
deavoring to bring about q new
agreement between operators and
miners.
Dispute on Time Period.
The stumbling block iii the way
OF negotiating such an agreement
ID merely the time period, the
agreement, while the miners off.
cials want the agreement to run
for two years.
John L. Lewis. president o. the
United Mine Workers, 10 now in
Europe, and the handling OF the
Kentucky strike has been intrusted
to Vice President Phillip Murray.
An amicable settlement of the
controversy is expected to be
reached before the men have been
out very long, Labor Department
officials said.
A few hundred miners are also
idle in other parts of the country,
but their ordinary production is so
small that the Government Is
taking no official notice Of their
troubles.
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BELIEVE WOMAN ATTACKED
WITH BRASS KNucKLEs

Police believe colored man wear
ing brass knuclzles attacked Nary
Smith, of the 7. w. G. A., 17i0
Thirteenth street northwest, yester-
day. Miss Smith says that she dis
covered the man at the door at the
z. w. c. A., and that as she opened
It he struck her on the arm with
d sharp weapon, breaking the skin
in three places.
The woman screamed and the
man made his escape.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-03
DECATUR HEIGHTS ASKS
BUS SERVICE TO SCHOOL

Residents Of Decatur Heights
want the Washington Railway and
Electric Company to run It's bus
line to Bladensburg School in the
event the company abandons its
trolley line from Fifteenth and II
streets to Riverdale.
At q meeting to be held at the.
home Of George Williams tonight
the question viii be discussed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-03
Virginia Silver Gift
To Be Placed on
New Cruiser
BY International News Service.


RICHMOND, Va, April 81
Secretary of the Navy DENLY
has declined to return to the
State of Virginia the silver
service presented by the State
to the battleship Virginia, ac-
cording to q letter made public
here today.
The Virginia legislature I'M
dertook TO have the service re-
turned for preservation when it
was learned that the old battle
ship was soon to be strapped.
DENLY informed State Off
Gals, however, that the service
would be preserved by the Navy
Department and placed aboard
the new cruiser Richmond.
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D. c. to Spend 100000

Marion Hargrove, District pur.
chasing officer, yesterday opened
bids for the purchase Of 100000
worth of supplies for use during the
next fiscal year. Schedules of the
needs for which bids were submitted
contained 400 different items.