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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
DRY GOODS

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-The cotton goods markets were quiet today, with prices holding about steady. Some offer
 ings from second hands were reported in gray goods markets. Wool goods ruled quiet, and the spring output not sold in excess of possible production. Silks displayed some improvement in printed and fancy lines. Burlaps steady Jobbers reported a seasonably quiet trade
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
BUTTER
CHICAGO Dec. 17--Thn

CHICAGO, Dec. 11.-phe tone or the market on top scores of butter was fairly firm today, though trading quiet. This class of butter was scarce and buy CTS who need it were generally willing to pay the below listed prices:
 Sales of s9-91 scores were made at ir- regular prices, buyers being willing to pay premiums of E to 1c for desirable lines of whole milks. Eighty-eight score butter was hard to sell and some concessions were reported. Cheaper butter was fairly well cleaned up.
 The car market was very quiet. Some pressure to sell was noted but practically the only outlet was delivery on Decem- Der contracts.
 Fresh butter. 20 score 531ac: st score, 52c; 90 score, 49l5c; S9 score. 47hc; sS score, 45c; S7 score. 44c; S6 score 43c.
 Centralized carlots: 90 score, 49hc; S9 score. 47c; sS score 45c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
POTATO MARKET

CHICAGO. Dec. l7.-Potatoes about steady steady; receipts S5 ears; total United round whites United States No. 1, SIG 1.15; Minnesota sacked round whites No l, 90c@S1; Minnesota sacked russets s1.S5; Idaho sacked russets United States No. l fair quality. S1.65@1.75.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
RAW SILK

NEW YORK. Dec 17.-Raw silk easy, prices per pound: Kansai double extra cracks, ss@s.1o: Kansai best No 1. s7.7o ton extra A, 14-16. 's7.70@7.s0; Shanghai China steam i'll. gold double deer. sS.so Q9.15. .'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18

electrolytic, spot and nearby, IsM SISc; futures, 13kc. Tin easier spot and near by. SAT; futures, s46.S7. Iron steady; s2292s; No. 2 southernr. s21 @22. Leaed steady; spot. s7.26@7.75. Zinc steady; East St. Louis spot and nearby. s6.2O antimony spot S9.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
NEW YORK CURB

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-Following is the official list of transactions on the New York Curb Exchange. giving all stocks and bonds traded in:
 Industrials
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
NEW YORK BONDS

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-Following are today's high, low and closing prices of bonds on the New York Stock Exchange, and the total sales of each bond:
 Railway and Miscellaneous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
Weakness or Rau Shares Causes Jnemet Among Standard Lnd
Cotton Letter

NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 17;-The market displayed more staplllty touay as a result of recent extensive hqudation having about run its course ana because of enormous exports from the united States today and more encouraged spot advices from the interior
 Compared with last season eXpores from limited States were 1S5,000 against 4s,oO0; since Friday 221,Ooo against s6,- Ooo; thus far this season, or since Au- gust 1, 2s54.OOO against 2,566'oeo.
 Indications are that exports drol on the United States will pass the S,0oo,O0O mark by next Friday, perhaps sooner, whereas last year exports did not eN, ceed the 5000, ,000 mark until the thlrd week in January.
 If this crop is not more than io,oVv.ooo bales, including linters, of which Amer ioan mills and Canada will likely need al least 6.2o0,OO0 bales America could hardly afford to export more than apoue @ | 4 300 900 this season as the interior was nretty well drained of cotton at the close of last season.
 The excess in exports so far this sea sea. son compared with last is now larger than at any time this season, 2s5,0Oo larger than last year and exports for the whole of last season we're 4,64S,oOo' ex- elusive of shipments to Canada, this sea sons reports are running on a basis TOT the whole season of 5,oSlOoo, with prospects basis increasing since prospects are for continuance of large exports dur ing remainder of the month and perhaps January. ,
 As a matter fact compared with the season before last exports from the United States are 264Ooo larger than they were on even date in 1921, when shipments at this date were only 2,690,O0o for the whole season 6,123,000, exclusive Of Canada. Consequently compared with two years ago exports so far this season are run ming on basis of 6,SS7.0oo compared with season before last.
 The movement of this crop has been so ranid that more than {, ,0o0, 900 bales will be marketed before the end of this month which indicated small receipts after the New Yeas which will likely shrink all the more as the season draws to close ana if weekly spinner takings are compara- lively large the world visible, which has about reached it's peak already, will prob ably shrink week by week at an alarm ing rate.-H. & B. Beer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
BOND MARKET
UNITED STATES BONDS

 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 mum
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
INTERIOR MOVEMENT

Houston: Middlng, S4.35c; receipts. 1s,s10; shipments. 61.4S5; sales. 64l; Memphis: Middiing, s4c; receipts. TAT; shipments. 7.661; sales. $500; Augusta: MiddIing, s4.1sc; receipts, AS; shipments. 3o7; sales. 80; stock. 5l,- 657
 718; shipments, ATS: stock. 5,431.
 Atlanta: Middling, 33.6o.
 Little Rock Middling, 33:5o; receipts, Dallas: MiddIing, s3.55; sales, 2,1e6. Montgomery: Mddlng, 3S.sS.
 Total today: Receipts. 31,923; ship ments, 74,296; stock. 693,462.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
NAVAL STORES

SAVANNAH. Ga, Dec. 17.-Turpentine steady. s6kc; sales 800; receipts PIP; shipments SO9; stock 14,Sss. Rosin firm {; sales s4l;; receipts 9l4; shipments s.o42; S'SSH orote: B. D, E. s4s5; F.. G, H, I. s5.45; wv x. s5.75. " '''''' "''
 JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec 17.-Tur- pentine steady; s7c; sales. 300; receipts. 545; shipments. s2; stocks, 23.171 Rosin firm; sales 1909; receipts l7l5: ship ments, l,19o; stock. 14s,563.
 Quote: R to F. s4.30; G. S4.s21; H. T. s4.S5; M. s4.s5; N. $500; VIC. s5.4o; wv, s5.75.
 NEW YORK, Dec, Special ,-The market is steady this morning, with de- cidedly less speculative liquidation in evi dence. It was reported that good de- mand had appeared for end of the month shipment and that spots displayed a very strong undertone. This fact, taken with the lack of speculative pressure caused a very strong market throughout the day. Business was not active and the close was around the best prices of the season The supply of cotton this year is so small that the market has constant undertone rather the absence of sellers than any fresh demand which advanced toda's mar ket
 The problem of how much cotton will be taken at or about present level of prices remains to be solved. We are in clined to think that for the present a further recovery in the market Is likely Liverpool futures are due tomorrow. Jan uary, 19.s7c; March, 19.65c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
STEEL MARKET

NEW YORK. Dec. l7:--Steel prices f. O. b. Pittsburg per 100 pounds: Blue s4.e5; black sheets. $3.75 Q3S5; steel bars. s24o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
CALL MONEY

NEW YORK Dec 17.-Call money steady: high. A per cent; low. 414 per cent; ruling rate. A per cent; closing bid Az per cent; offered at A per cent; last loan, A per cent; call loans against acceptances Az per cent; time loans firm; mixed collateral, eo-90 days, b06L per cent; 4-6 months, 5@5A per cent; prime commercial paper, x per
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
FOREIGN EXCHANGES

FNFW YORK, Dec, 17.-ForeIgn ex- changes easy; quotations in cents: Great
 slxty-day bills on banks, 4.35. France de- piand. 5.2Sh cables. 5.24. Italy; 4.8312
 4,34. Belgian. 4.5sls&4.95 Germany tss7; 3S.12. Norway, 15 Sweden. 26.32
 Denmark, 17.s5; switzerland, i745
 Czecbosloyakia 2.9S; Jugoslavia. 1.14; Austria .OO14; Rumania, .51& Argentine. -32.S7; Brazil. 9.65; Montreal 97 17-32.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-Following are today's sales high, low and closing prices of stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange:
 Sales TIieh Low Close.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
IONDON MONEY

LONDON, Dec. 17-Bar silver S3& pence per ounce. Money F per cent; dis count rates short bills, A per cent. Three months bills 3k per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
1IvERpooL. CoTroN

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 17.-Cotton mod crate; receipts steady; American mid ding fair, 2o.4sd; good middllng. is.sid: low middling, 1766d; good ordinary, i6.ssd; ordinary. 16.16d. Sales 5000 bales. including 3.700 American; receipts 100 bales, all American. Futures closed bare ly steady December. 19.24d; January. 1e.26d; March, 19.31d; May. 19.21d: July. 1s7sS 1s7ss psssser ssptsmoeFi 5iss October
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
BAR SILVER
HUBBARD BROS. & co.

BAH SILV EH NEW YORK. Dec. 17.--Bar silver, 65Bc; Mexican dollars 5oAc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
NEW YORK METALS

MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Dec. 17.-Flour unchanged. Family patents, s6.05@ 6. 30. Shipments 4,47S barrels. Bran. s26q27.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
,OT COTT0p

NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 17.-spot cotton firm and unchanged: sales on, the. spot ITO bales; to arrive 200 receipts 6.964: stock 25s,S76; low middlng, Sic; mid ding, BAG; good middling, S5.12c.
 NEW YORK. Dec. 17.-Spot cotton steady: middling. 35.bOc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
FLOUR MARKET

spring patents s6. Q6.5O; spring clears s5 c $50; soft winter straights, s4.75Q5; hard winter straights s5.50@6.1O.
 Pork steady mess, $25@ 26.50; family. sSo. Lard quiet; middlewest. s1330@ 13.40.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
HAHN BROS AND VIRGIN

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 17.-Cotton open ed better than expected today in the fact of disappointing cables and after .,, good many dips ran up quickly Tn the last half hor to gains of 133 to 13s points and closed at the top. Reports Of large spot demand from exporters, exports or 1S400O for the day, better dry Eoods news, improving international political Soutlook and talk of small ginnings from the census bureau Thursday were the stimulating influences. report from, a good source was also put into cireuia- tion to the effect that the census bureau was making a special investigation as 10 weights and would report it's results early in January. The professional element was against the market and sold pretty free- ly at times. There was also some Iqul- dation on the early bulges. Cables saying the English spinners will meet soon to discuss organized short time and belief that there is more liquidation to come be- fore the holidays probably induced most of it. Recent sellers. however. appear to have been upset by their inability to make more impression on values and cov- cred freely in the late trading. Most Of the upturn was due to this. The im- proved tone of today's market will un- doubtedly encourage buying but the technical position has been weakened by the covering and there is nothing in sight at the moment to indicate that the ad- vance will go much further.-Fenner and Beane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The general run of news has been bu1lish today. including very heavy exports, with reports of large orders placed for goods and more pend ing while spots are eagerly sought. but offered only in small scattered lots. The market has reflected this in a generally steady tone. but without any sensational developments as speculative interests are shy of getting committed to the long side of this level and will do so only when and if the trade leads the way showing that goods are being distributed in vol ume sufficient to compel further pur- chases of material.
 It is hardly probable that this will hap pen until after the holidays, but based on advlces coming to hand there seems the best of grounds to anticipate that such development is on the way. Pend ing that, the market is likely to prove only a trading affair with rather wide fluctuations around this level but pur- chases reactions look the best and short sales offer no attraction except for possible quick turn after sharp bulge, Post & Flagg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
MEETING OF GEORGIA G. 0. P. FOR SATURDAY
Plan To Undermine Lilly White
 Faction, Leaders Say

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 27-A meet ing of the disssntient factions within the regular" republican party In this state will be held Saturday, with a view to ironing out their differ ences and presenting united front to undermine the sO-called lily white" faction, republican leaders made known here today. ac-
 Plans have been afoot. spokesnen said, for an agreement on the chair manship of the regular" party as between c. P. Goree and Charles Adamson of Cedartown, both of whom have claimed the office. MT. Adam
 son, according to plans, is to step aside for MT. Goree and in the inter- est of party harmony. This agree ment accomplished, the leaders of the movement say, support of the national committee will be withdrawn from J. l.. Phillips. who has been funetioning as state chairman since his appointment by the late PresiA dent Harding about two years ago The Phillips organization was formed avowedly for the purpose of placing the state party in white control. Henry Lincoln Johnson, negro na- tional committe eman from this state, is said to have in his possession the official call for the state republican, convention, given him by the national committee in it's recent meeting in Washington. He will give this call to the chairman selected at Satur- days meeting, thus giving him the sanction of the national committee, those in charge of the meeting said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
CRUDE INCREASES BRING NEW BUYING

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Further In creases in crude prices brought fresh buying into the oil shares in today s curb market but extensive profit taking set in before the close and final changes were of mixed character.
 Standard Oil of Indiana and Mu- tual Oil voting trust certificates, ap- proximately 25,00O each of which changed hands during the day, were the individual features but they showed little change on the day. Prairie Oil and Gas jumped points, Penn Mexico Fuel D, South Pennsyl- vania Oil 4 and Magnola Petroleum 2. Imperial Gas of Canada slipped points and Standard oil of Ken lucky 1s.
 Active industrials as a rule were heavy, Centrifugal Cast Iron Pipe dropping points and Stutz Motors 1ss. Central Teresa Sugar shares improved fractionally on small turnover. Gold Dust corporation gained slightly.
 Trading in the mining stocks was confined largely to the penny is- sues with unimportant fluctuations in prices
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
CLAIM COMF FESS|ON
 OF GIRLS MURDER
Prisoner, Nabbed On Tip, Also Admits Torturing An-
 other Woman, Say Police

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Captured on the tip of 8 keen-eyed employment agent, Frank Benner, alias Collins and Carleton, claiming to be war veteran, today was alleged by the police to have confessed that he murdered Miss Estelle Phillips In this city last October and that three
 weeks ago he attacked Mrs. May Mitchell, a nurse in e. hospital in the Chestnut Hills section of Philadel- phia. torturing her so that she IS still an invalid.
 Detectives were trying tonight to connect their prisoner with the mur- der and mutilation of pretty Ream Hoxie, IT, in New York, in February. 1920, and with similar crimes reported in a half dozen cities by a man answering the prisoners general de- scription.
 Maybe 1t was the war put such l ideas into my head" Bennar was al- l legged to have declared at the end or frank, unemotional confession. T get wild, like maniac. Give me something to eat"
 He is stocky, powerful man, a chef who, since the war has worked in many hospitals and on ocean pas senger ships.
 His father, he said, was a church worker in Montreal, who later had a plumbing shop in Brooklyn. In his pockets were letters received today, one signed Mother and dated from 1 Woodhaven, Long Island. and another from Sister" who Benner said was 1 the wife of a Newark. N. J., bank 1 employe He said he had another sister in Ohio, Mich.
 Miss Phillips, a department store | In Ninety seventh street, next to Benner when he was employed at a recon struction hospital here.
 About midnight on October II, &C., cording to the prisoners alleged con- | fession. he forced entrance to the girls room; attacked and strangled her. denuded and mutilated the body and fled with his belongings after having left in the bathroom a hand | kerchief with tell-tale laundry mark The body was found next day.
 Benner told of seeking refuge in l Philadelphia, where he lived at the Edward hotel and later worked In a girls school in Bryn Mawr, suburb. Later he became acquainted with Mrs. Mitchell, employed at the Home for i Consumptives in Chestnut Hill. One night he accompanied her to dance and, on their return attacked her with a broken bottle, according
 to his alleged confession. He left her half dead to crawl into the in stitution later and tell the story. She Is still under care of doctors.
 T was good boy until I camt out of the army" the prisoner told detectives. i've shifted for myself since l was years old, when my father died; I was in the army three and a half years with the Fiftieth infantry, as company cook His statement to detectives included an admission that he had been con victed for larceny at Washington D. C., soon after being discharged from the army in 1919, and that he was in prison until "early in Feb ruary, 1920" the month the Hoxie
 girl was slain in New York. He stoutly denied knowing anything about the girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
Grain Letters
KAHN BROS. AND VIRGIN

CHICAGO. Dec. 27.-Wheat; The short interests were fairly active on the short side again today assisted by commits sion houses helped to work prices down. Foreign crop summary generally favor- able. Important speculation at the mo- ment Is entirely lacking.
 Corn: Independently strong and scored a good advance in the early trade but some of this was lost near the finish. The advance of l cent in cash was a stimulant Forecast. colder weather but unsettled for some of more important sections which don't promise an immedi- ate increase in receipts. Trade mixed in opinion, some looking for an enlarged movement shortly which is likely to de- press prices, but others are taking hold on all dips anticipating higher prices.
 Oats: Showed very little change, Lo- calls sold on easier tone in wheat, but commission houses took the offerings on resting orders. There is some buying of May on dips.
 Provisions; Dull and inclined to drag Lower prices due to realizing sales by commission houses. Hogs 10 to 16e lower top. S7.25.-Fenner and Beane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
BROKERS SEE LIGHT IN OIL TRANSACTIONS
Middle States Corporation To Ab-
 sorb Southern Company

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Wall Street brokerage houses, which held shares of the Southern States Oil corporation In which trading was suspended by the New York curb market yesterday have accepted the offer of Middle States Oil corporation, another com pany headed by former Gov. c. N. Haskell of Oklahoma, to take up the stock, 1t was reported today.
 The offer. providing for the pay ment of an average of not more than S1125 a share, with Mir. Haskell and his assistants relinduishing their trading margins, brokers said, enabled them to fulfill all contracts without loss. Several stock exchange houses, which at first refused to settle for the stock were reported to have met their obligations today.
 Meanwhile official investigations were continued by the New York Stock exchange and the curb market into its transactions in the stock since early in November, when it ad- vanced from S17 to more than $S3 a share.
 suspehsion of Richards, Hutchinson & Co.,, curb market house which handled heavy orders in the stock, it was said, unofficially by exchange of ficia1s, was due not to financial diff faculties but to refusal to carry out it's contracts in Southern States stock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
BONDS IRREGULAR IN ACTIVE MARKET

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.--Bond prices moved somewhat irregularly in to- days more active trading on the New York stock exchange. A sen EasiohsA jump of more than points v Maitland Oil Ss, with warrants, featured the forenoon dealings. The bonds reacted about points later D. the aaG.
 3aiieoad mo. tgages were easy, selling oeinE part sularly effective In 'eIAu Gt Paul, Denver and Rio Grande 1lo seaboarI AT Line issues. Wash nef oH dlspatches stated that the "0t Jaul hao teen authorized by the ,Pl efsfHfe commerce commission to issge sAo.ae9,ee0 5 per cent general nertssgs Dords to be pledged as collateral for any notes it may issue.
 There was evidence of renewed actioity of public utility bonds sev- eral of which moved upward. While a big assortment of industrial liens fell lower. some of the sugar, cop per and packing company bonds re- corded moderate advances.
 Bankers report a firm though slow market for new securities. It is understood several sizeable issues are ready for offering soon after January l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
CHRISTMAS RU " DEATHS NOW NINE
Three Men And Woman Suc- Cumh To Poison Boot
 leg Liquor

NEW YORK. Dec. 27.-The toll of deaths from holiday bootleg liquor was increased to nine today, when three men and one woman fell vic tims to alcoholic poisoning.
 James Crowe, James Marahan and Edward Churchill died in Bellevue hospital. Mrs. Mary Brennan, after taking three drinks of whisky at a family celebration last night, was found dead in bed.
 Manhattan hospitals reported 123 alcoholic cases. Other institutions in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island also were caring for poison liquor patients. Bellevue hospital alone was treating 92, seventeen of them women. Seven new cases were reported today, and attendants pre- dicted all vacant cots would be filled by New Years Day.