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CALL MONEY

NNEw YORK, Dec. 12.-Call money easy
mi < ner cent: low. 494 per cent; rul-
Ing rate, 5 per cent; closing, bid ~ PEI
can't offered at 8 per cent; last loan, ~
mar cent; call lpans against acceptances
"a per cent. time loans firm; mixed col
lsferal six to ninety days, 5@6A per
cent: four to six months. per cent
Mime commercial paper, 5@5h per cent.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Copper quiet !;
electrolytic spot and nearby. l2A q 1914 c I;
futures. 13Ac. Tin firm; spot and near
by. s47.62; futures. $3.50. Iron steady
prices unchanged. Lead steady; spot
s7.25@7.60 Zinc quiet; East st. Louis
$S.60QS.70.
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DRY GOODS

NEW YORK, Dec. 12-Cotton goods
were slightly firmer today If the govern
ment crop report was issued. Trading
showed a little activity. Yarns were IT.
regular, wool goods were irregular. con-
siderable price cutting being reported on
odd lots of accumulated goods for early
use. Burlaps were barely steady; silks
showed no marked change.
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RAW SILK

prices per pound Kansai double extra
cracks, $7.95@S.1o; Kansai best No: l.,
$7.7007.S0; Shinsu No. /, $7.60@7.70;
Canton extras A. 14-16, S7,70@7.75;
Shanghai China steam fill, gold double
deer, IS 906D9.15.
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NEW YORK CURB

NEW YORK. Dec 12-Foliowing is the
official list of transactions on the New
York Curb Exchange. giving all stocks
and bonds traded in:
Industria1s
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BOND MARKET
UNITED STATES BONDS
ION Stock Exchangel

Readers should note that Liberty bonds
are quoted in dollars and thirty seconds
of dollars instead of dollars and cents
The fractions are designated by giving the
numerator only.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON FUTURES
LIVERPOOL COTTON

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 12.-Cotton quiet
spot prices steady; good middling, 20.0Sd
fully middling. 1874; middling, 1920
low middling, 1920; good ordinary.
1880; ordinary, 16.73d Sales 1000 bales.
including 1900 American: receipts $4,000
bales. including $500 American; futures
closed barely steady. December, 943d
January, 19.41d: March, 19.31d; May.
19.16d: July. 1s.67d September 16.S2d
October. 15.62d; December G92D, 15I1d.
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Spectators For Advance Regain Control And Stage Bs Demons
NEW YORK BONDS

NEW YORK. Dec. 12.-Fonowing are
todays high, low and closing prices of
bonds the New York Stock Exchange,
and the total sales of each bond:
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BANK STOCKS
INSURANCE STOCKS
"Ar my
LONDON wool

LONDON, Dec. ia good selection
amounting to 1894 bales was offered at
the wool auction today. There was a
brisk demand Home. continental and
American buyers purchased freely. Greasy
mariners are now 10 per cent higher than
when the series opened.
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Short Market Flashes

NEW YORK Dec; 1 IT,, issue ssny s Of
year per cent gold bonds. Series a, Of
f4red by a syndicate headed by the Ns-
tfnnal CITY company, was subscribed Win
III a few minutes after the books were
Opened today.
%NEw YORK, Dec. 12.-Net profit &c, Of !.
ss,003.148 for the year ending september
se. 1873, was reported by the euoanI
american Sugar company as compared
with Sa.02S,447 the preceding II months
NEW YORK Dec. 12.-David r. Schultz
bs,,d Of The schultz company. tobaccon-
SIS announced today that his company
was negotiating for the control OF the
philip Morris company, but denied rep;o 'ai
fAat any stock of the newly organized
esnntinental Tobacco company would be
,sffered i'm exchange for purchase OF the
Philip Morris stock.
NEW YORK Dec. IA few, days be
ft,Te Scott. Norris & Co., odd lot cotton
brokers failed last November IT, large rye
saiins of money were taken from Its ac,
count and that of a dummy concern ana
usid over to relatives of the firm mem
bsrs ii was declared today at hearing
before bankruptcy referee.
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LOCAL SECURITIES
STATE AND MUNICIPAL BONDS

Bid. Ask
Alabama 3hs. 1856 ........ 81 81
ALABAMA AIS, iSso-s5. is4s-s. 80 1oi
City of Birmingham. $50 o 500 basis.
jefferson county. 4.60 % 500 basis.
jefferson county warrants, 5.25 Q6. rs basis
a
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FOREIGN BONDS
ION Curb Market)
POULTRY AND PRODUCE

CHICAGO. Dec. 1.-THE butter mar
ket here today showed little change from
yesterday In that trading was light. Sup
plies were generally ample and the tone
of the market was about steady; medium,
hard to mobe. The supply of cars was
light but demand Indifferent. Most
of the better grading cars We're being de-
livered on December contracts There
was very little interest in storage butter.
Fresh butter: 90 score 5Sc; 81 score 52c;
90 score 49l5c; SO score 47tac; IS score
45Rc; 81 score 44c; sc score 43c.
Centralized CARROTS: 80 score 49c; 50
score 4S1ac; IS score 4412 case.
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NEW YORK STOCKS

today's sales. high. low and closing prices
OF stocks listed on the New York Stock
Exchange:
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SAVANNAH. Ga. Dec. 12.-Turpentfne
firm, s6lsc; sales 1872; receipts 74s; ship
ments s.; stock 14.241.
Rosin firm; sales 1895; receipts 2,2s1;
shipments 3,203; stock 135,43s.
Quote: B, ID, +, r, G., H. $3.50: T.
s4S2h; X, s4.45; M, AIS; N, s4'95: We
$685.; WV X, $50
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FLOUR MARKET

MINNEAPOLIS Dec. 12-Flour 10
Bran, $26Q27.
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LIVERPOOL, Dec. 12.-Extra session
7:40 D. m.: Closing cotton strong. De-
cember, 2O.14d; January. 2o.10d; March.
god; May. 1851; July. 19.S9d; September,
16.9od; October. 16.15d; December G924,
15.64d.
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NAVAL STORES

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Butter UNCHANGED
Eggs lower; receipts 1914 cases; firsts
Al 942c; ordinary flrsts. S4 3sc.
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POTATO MARKET

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Potatoes steady
receipts 81 cars. total United States ship
United States No. and partly graded
and North Dakota sacked Red River Ohio
United states No. /, S1@1.1O; Minnesota
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 12.-Tur-
pentine steady, s7hc; sales co. receipts
359; shipments .; stock S1.596.
Rosin steady; sales 9s5: receipts 1899,
shipments none: stock 144,23S.
Quote: B TO II. s4.25; l, $3.50; K, $40;
NJ, $4.75; VIC, 1886; WV, $50.
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CHICAGO STOCK

CHICAGO, Dec. I2.-Armour pfd. So
Libby Mcneil, Az; Swift and com pany
1904; Swift International. 17%; Unior
Carbide, Sc u; Wrigley 40; Yellow Mfg
B. IS; Yellow Taxi, 1876
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NEW YORK Dec. 12.-Butter unsettled.
receipts 1o.14l; Creamery higher than
extras, 81 Q55 &c; creamery extras COZ
score), 6412c. Eggs irregular receipts, IL
1853. New Jersey hennery whites closed
selected extras, 64c; nearby hennery
whites, closely selected extras, SAC; state
nearby and nearby western whites firsts
to extras, 57@63c Pacific coast whites,
extras, $40 6Sc; do firsts to extra firsts.
81 @60c; refrigerator frsts, 27IA629c
Cheese unsettled, receipts I59ls7
pounds.
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OIL CITY REPORT

OIL CITY. Pa, Dec. 12.-Credit ball
ances s2.35; runs 1915: average 57.45s:
shipments 66.4s4; average 1857.
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KANSAS CITY. Dec. 12.-Eggs 1 cent
lower; firsts 42c; selected, Acc Butter,
poultry and potatoes unchanged.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Poultry alive easy:
fowls 14@201ac; springs, 17hc; ROSTERS,
l2hc; geese. lie; turkeys zoe.
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NEW York; Dec. 12.-Live poultry
steady; broilers 35@42c; fowls 22@32c;
dressed poultry firm; chickens, 23Q44c;
fowls 1890
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ST. LOUIS. Dec. 12.-Hens lie: others
eggs. Acc; butter unchanged
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NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Produce articles
unchanged.
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GERMAN CAPITAL BEING INVESTED IN CHINA.
Shines Interests Already Have Two
 Million Invested In Coal Mines

LONDON, June 16.-(By Associated ess.)-German trade magnates are seeking control of the coal, iron and oil of China. according to informa- tion supplied to the British Board of Trade from trustworthy sources.
 The Shines interests have S2,000,000 already invested in coal concessions in Ho-nan, Human. and near Pukow. This group has found oil in Che- kiang, and Is interested also in coal near HangChow. The big Siemens corporation of Germany has S4.00O,0 900 invested in coal interests in Shan tung, Ho-nan, Human and near HangChow. In Saghalien this com pany has something like s1.o0G 900 in- vested in coal and Iron concessions Thirty-eigh German engineers are now waiting in Shanghai for instruo- tions to proceed to various centers
 The pressure of the new economic conditions imposed upon Germany by the results of the great war and the difficulties arising out of the pay ment of reparatiCns, has prompted German capitalists to seek a profit able outlet for their capital in the east. In pre-war days the main in- terests of Germany lay in the west. Many of the western markets are now more or less closed to her, and reports are accommodating of schemes for the extension of the commercial interests of Germany in Russia, China and other eastern markets.
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MACHINES SOON TO D|SPLACE
 HAND LAb0RERS
Scarcity Of Labor Forces Large Scale Production
 By Machinery

CLEVELAND. June 16.--A new in- dustral revolution Is going on in America without Americans general ly realizing it. according to several leading foundrymen of the country who were here recently tC attend the convention of the American Foundry mems association, the technical or ganization of the foundry industry.
 The return to prosperity. coupled with the restriction df grafton and the present shortage of labor, is bringing about an overturn in the iron working trade, a change des- tined to dislodge hand labor in the next ten years and largely eliminate the old fashioned small foundry of mass production. the foundrymen claim.
 Leaders in the foundry industry foresee common labor growing more and more scarce; they foresee labor saving machinery developing tos de- grees never ina agined before; the automobile industry calling for greater mass production, and the engineer and trained technican talk ing the place of the old rule of thumb bosses who have managed the foundries fer years.
 O o O
 Mechanic Disappearing.
 Albert E. Howell of Somerville, N J., newly elected director of the as- sociation, predicted that in the new era of the machine in foundry prac
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THURSDAY MA TAIL
 DAY IF GREATEST AUTO | ND USTRY
Ford Company Will Celebrate Its Twenty Years Of
 Achievement


 DETROIT, Mich., June 16-The great Ford Motor company will be 20 years old next Thursday. This birthday anniversary finds the concern enjoying the greatest prosperity in it's history. and Henry Ford, Its guiding genius and owner. rated the richest man In the world. With all plants working at maxi mum capacity, the company expects this year to turn out more than 100000 cars. a number claimed to be in excess of the output of all other makes of cars in the United States. Whereas but 1.70S automo- piles were turned out during the first year of the Ford company's op- eration, following in corporation June 16, 1903, production now aver ages mere than five times that num- Der per day.
 The growth and expansion of the Ford interests is said to have been the most phenomenal business rec ord ever established.
 The capital originally sub bscribed In the company was S1000,000, of which only s2S,ooo in cash was ac- tually paid into the treasury. Among the I2 original stockholders in the company, Henry Ford held 25 per cent of the stock.
 Sold His First Car.
 Ford sold his car to the public from the start by practical demon stration. He piloted the first Ford racer and won race after race in all parts of the country. Driving old "999" on an ice track at Baltimore Bay. Mich, Ford was the first to break the mile-a minute record.
 In 1907 Ford acquired additional stock in the company. bringing his holdings up to 5Sia per cent. De- velopment of the Ford automobile since 1908 has brought it to the fore most position in the automotive in- dustry today.
 Industrial Standard Set.
 In 1913. new standard for the industrial world was set by the fa- nous s5-a-day minimum wage for Ford workers, and the s10,00O,0 profit sharing plan.
 Edsel B. Ford, Henry Ford's son, assumed the presidency of the com pany and purchased the remaining 4ta per cent of company stock held by outside stockholders.
 On July 9, 1919, the company was reorganized under the laws of Dela ware for an authorized capitaliza ton of s100 900, ,0oO.
 The first Ford was manufactured in June, 1903, and was sold in the fol- lowing month. To date some 7,S00.- 900 cars have been turned out and have been sent to all parts of the globe. More than 6,000,000 of them are in use in this country.
 Manufacturing methods of the company are considered the most scientific of any large concern in the world. Methods have been standard ized and production costs cut to the minimum, from the raw material to the finished cars.
 O o O
 Best Shipping Facilities.
 The company owns it's own coal mines in West Virginia and Ken lucky, and iron ore mines and forests in northern Michigan. The Ford rail- road, the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton,
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WNDORLESS OFFICE
 BUILDINGS PREDICTED.
Declared Less Expensive And More
 Sanitary

CLEVELAND, June 16.-The down. town buildings as well as the factory of the near future is destined to be without windows, and to depend upon artificial means for light and pure air, according to officials of the Nela Park research laboratories of the General Electric company here.
 "Interior lighting for every work ing purpose has been perfected to a stage where it even surpasses day light" said Dr. Matt Luckiesh of the laboratory.
 According to pr. Lucl1iesh. prelimi- nary findings in the research work have demonstrated that daylight ac- tually costs more to factories, office buildings, museums and public build ings than electric illumination. I've congratulate ourselves on our free sunlight" said Dr. Luckiesh, yet we pay dearly for it. In the first place. buildings securing most of their il- Illumination through window panes ment of glass and general maintain ance of cleaning, as well as for sills and window frames
 Secondly. we have discovered by actual tests that in large number of buildings the loss of heat is 25 per cent over that in buildings having no windows.
 Thirdly, there Is the tremendous cost incidental to the fading of deco rations and the cost of removing the large quantities of dirt and soot that blow in through windows each day.
 Probably the greatest costs to factories and public buildings, how ever, lies in the ground areas given over to courts or light shafts. Be- sides the initial cost of this property, usually a total waste, the taxes ex- pended in keeping it clear for day light each year is staggering"
 Ventilation in windowless build ings. Dr. Luckiesh says, can be ob- tained free of all dirt and soot and with purified air from artificial vents.
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SEEK COMP PR0M|SE
 IN SH|P LIQUOR
Congress May Modify Law If Foreign Nations Will
 Cooperate

WASHINGTON. Juno 1s.-Congress will refuse to modify tho Volstead act so that liquor may be brought into American ports under seal, un- less foreign nations assist in sup pressing rum smuggling by permit ting search within 12 miles of shore, in the opinion of high officials here.
 This means that foreign govern ments have only ono hope of relief from present comp1ica ttons-they will have to approve tho 12-mile sugges- ton made by Secretary of State Hughes. Officials hero say Congress could not be expected to revise the ship situation If other governments permit rum smugglers to lie three miles off shore under protection of foreign flags.
 Approval of tho Emile search zone would show & desire to assist in enforcement of the prohibition amendment. This would bring re- an exception for liquor stores brought into port under seal.
 Suggestion Fair.
 No conference Is likely to be.oalled for the discussion of the liquor treaty proposed by the United States. The suggestions are simple and would re- quire little discussion. If they are acceptable. the treaty can be drawn up. If not, the whole matter may be dropped and the present situation allowed to continue. Officials here regard the proposals as fair to all. The United States would obtain as- sistance in dealing with rum snug glers while foreign nations would be permitted to brins liquor into port under seal.
 Constitutional lawyers sec nothing in the eighteenth amendment to pre- vent foreign ships carrying scaled liquor stores into port. The consti- tutional inhibition is on transporta- ton of intoxicating liquors flor beverage purposes"
 Aquor sealed while in American waters Is not being brought in for beyeraHo purposes.
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CUNO UNRELENTING


 BERLIN, June 16.-"The new and terrible deed will not break German resistance" Chancellor Cuno wirh six Dortmund families Friday in con- necton With funerals of Germans shot by French Ruhr troops.
 The hope is expressed. however. that negotiations with France will still be possible on the basis of the last German separations offer, and certain concessions will be made by Germany, according to well-informed opinion.
 French cavalry forces are concen- trating south of Hoerde, and 1t is feared further territories in the south will be occupied.
 Residents of unoccupied Germany have been forbidden to enter Co., logne for a month. German busi- ness men are thus cut off from all markets on the south of the Rhine.
 Minor sabotage activities continue
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Every member of many Detroit families Is employed in factory work and this gives laundries there an Increase in family washing that is taxing their capacities.
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throughout the Ruhr. while French repreSsive measures are being strengthened.
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LAW ORDER MARCHES
Thousands of Women VIII Stage
 Demonstrations

NEW YORK, June 16.-Organiza- tons representing 10,000,oo0 Ameri- can women, including Mrs. Henry Ford, wife of the automobile manu- facturer. will stage law and order" marches in the principal cities of the country on the eve of the 1924 elec- ton.
 This was decided on Friday by the national committee of 100 for law enforcement, of which Mrs. Ford Is a member.
 The conference adopted creed claiming allegiance to the constitu- ton and Observance of all law, es- pecially the prohibition law, be- cause today that Is the front where the battle against lawlessness has to be fought.
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doesn't happen often, but blue and "I understand the nothing deep them many to out with such wrong headed conviction.
 The wise manthe who is quite likely begin under little about it, the scholar the of knowledge realizes how little he knows So this man. omenfolks usually summons cearcut girl with
 with bevy of little pink dovewnged goddust headed camoring around it. For she always allied with love mans mind, and she and love togetherhe devious trails they paths girls follows because ove's beckonng, the
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VIENNA DISC0NTINUES FREE TICKET THEATRES
Heavy Losses Incurred By State By
 Practice

VIENNA, Juno 18.-The commiS- sioner of retrenchments has put stop to the heavy losses incurred by the state theaters in the granting of passes and the sale of seats under the standard price. Being state in
 stitutions, the theaters In the past have been bled by state functionaries to a degree that promised financial ruin. Only 43 per cent of the tick cts were placed on sale at standard prices; tho remainder was subject to heavy discounts or free distribution.
 Henceforth only a few boxes will be reserved for complimentary al- lotment to persons of importance; the public will have a fair chance to buy every other seat In the house.
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connects with practically every transcontinental line. affording the best of shipping facilities.
 The company operates the largest Ioundry in the world at it's River Rouge plant, near Detroit. This plant covers 1,200 acres. The company also operates it's own blast furnaces, ma- chine shops. body plant, saw mill, coke ovens, cement plant, paper mill, power plant. glass factory, locomo- i've repair shop and the Fordson tractor plant.
 The parent plant at Highland Park, here, occupies BOO acres, and is the largest of them all, housing the home offices.
 There were 34 branches of the com pany In the United States, 2S of which are assembling plants Foreirn branches are also maintained in all important foreign cities, with repre- sentatlves In every land on the globe.
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the fascinating bafng puzzle that finds child the funny prankh dvertng sybi standing foresight, counsel.
 One day he finds her trusting another critical kepc he marvels her perception the willing to tell the world that girl thought straight will Here the of the heartdemure pian responsive Theeto his dumbounding than takes dumdddy-s resistant full sorrows mpacabe poutng look the Orloff diamond for her her." this as her nor without her'
 NELL BRINKLEY
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tice, the old fashioned all around mechanic was disappearing.
 "Molders and laborers are both very scarce in the east" MT. Howell said. Fewer young men are going i.ltG molding, partly, I suppose, be- cause they fear their places are likely to be taken by machinery. Foundry workers are becoming specialists, trained to handle special pieces of machinery. The all aruond man in the founGries is going the same way as the all around man iii many an- other metal working industry.