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Evening star., 1923-09-19
TRADING BROADER
IN BOND MARKET
Steel and High-Grade Rails
PopuIar-Liberties Are
Steady-0iIs Weak.
BY GEORGE II. HUGHES.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September 1s.-Bond
trading was on broader scale today
than for some time, but the movement
was highly irregular, particularly in
the prime investment class. There
was a good deal OF switching from
one high-grade issue to another. and
would have been more If buyers and
sellers could have agreed upon the
price. The uncertainty as to the fu-
ture of money rates, as well as OF
business, seems to have been the rea-
son for this almost nervous anxiety
to make exchanges.
Large blocks of United States Steel
sinking fund 5s and such high-grade
rails as New York Central 5s and
Illinois Central 5s were for sale fTac-
ttonally above the market. Sellers,
however, did not press their offerings
and, at the same time. there was good
inquiry for other prime issues to
yield about the same.
Rail Bonds Neglected.
Second grade railroad bonds were
either weak or neglected. Examples
of the former were Missouri Pacific
5s of 1855 and Colorado and Southern
4Rs. Here the heaviness could be
traced to dissatisfaction with the
earning position of the roads con-
cerned. There was very active trad
ing in Denver and Rio Grande As
around II.
Remarkably slight interest was
shown in the entirely speculative
railroad bonds. The best tone was
displayed by the Erie descriptions
and the Missouri. Kansas and Texas
adjustments. Missouri Pacific general
Is were weak. st. Louis. San Fran
tisco incomes were firm. Interna.
tional Great Northern adjustments
were irregular.
Oils Are Again HeaSy.
Among the industrlals the oils were
again heavy, notably the Sinclair
8 12 s and the IS and Producers and
Refiners' Ss. Some interest was shown
In the sugar issues in response TO
the declaration of a dividend by the
Cuban American Company. Among
the fractions Hudson and Manhattan
refundtng 5s were fractionaIly lower.
but otherwise this group was ignored.
fhliadelphia company refunding 6s
sold below par.
French Issues Firm.
The feature among the foreign
ponds was the firmness in the French
issues. These issues show remark
able resistance TO unfavorable news.
Department Of the Seine Is and City
or scissors 6s were notably strong
to-day Paris-Lyons and Mediterra-
mean 6s were also fractionalIy higher.
The Cuban 12s turned weak again
and declined half point under heavy
selling.
United States government loans
were steady, with the most attention
paid 30 the third and the fourth 4A 8.
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BUTTER rs LOWER.

CHICAGO, September 19.-Butter,
lower; creamery extras, At stand
ards, 451a; extra firsts, 45a46 "; firsts,
421s a433 seconds, 405aa411 X.
Eggs, unchanged; receipts, 11,275
GaseA
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RosToN STOCK MARKET.

BOSTON, September 1s.-Following
Is a list of today's highest, lowest and
closing prices for the most active stocks
dealt in here:
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Call Money. AZ 81,

HOURLY SALES OF STOCKS.
IL am. .271 200 lam. 4S9 500
1p.m..... 579 500 2p.m... 655 700
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DIVIDENDS.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co. }
September is, l929-lO:52 am.
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Reports from Winnipeg are that
wheat shipments on Canadian western
lines set a new high record Monday.
The Canadian Pacific loaded 2.762.l6S
bushels and the Canadian National,
1,7S4,000.
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TOTAL SALES (Par Vaiue):
IL a.m.. 20s9 900 IL noon. 340S 600
1p.m.. 863 600 2p.m.. 6523 600
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The American Petroleum Institute
reported crude oil production in Cali
fornia in August averaging $4,000
barrels a day. against S14,906 daily in
July.
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The Daily Metal Trade reported soft
er prices are moving pig iron in the
Cincinnati district. Some smelters
hold off buying in hope of obtaining
lower quotations, while others are
placing tonnage in preference to max
ing purchases on a rising market.
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Domes Mines declared regular quar-
terly dividend of 81 on the common.
payable October 20 on stock of record
September %.
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Sterling Products declared regular
quarterly dividend OF 81. Northern
Pacific declared regular dividend.
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BONDS
Received by Privatc Wire Direct to The Star Once
tssies are in si.eee.)

NUESoa hfb tH yAIvVV'J
UNITED STATES BONDS.
Fractions represent thirty SECONDS.
EXample: A6-3 means 9R 2-32.l
Evening star., 1923-09-19

American Brass Company reduced
it's prices on brass and copper prod
ucts II cent pound, in line with re-
duction in price of electrolytic copper.
Evening star., 1923-09-19

Examiner Keller of the Interstate
Commerce Commission in tentative
report finds rates on fruits and
vegetables from producing points in
Indiana and Illinois to Chicago are
unreasonable. and recommends estab-
lishment of a new and reasonable
scale of rates.
Evening star., 1923-09-19
DAIRY PRODUCTS.

BALTIMORE, Ma. September 10
Live poultry-Spring chickens 25a
81; leghorns, 22a25; old hens, 20a2S
leghorns, 20a22; old roosters. 15a16;
ducks. 17a24; pigeons. pair. 20a25;
guinea fowl, each, 40a65.
Eggs-Loss off, native and nearby
firsts, dozen, 40; southern, 81.
Butter-Creamery, good to fancy.
pound, 45a4S; prints, 4Sa50; nearby
creamery. S5a40: ladies, 34a35: rolls.
Sass; store packed, 81: dairy prints,
31a33; process butter 3Sa39
Evening star., 1923-09-19

There is no sign of reduction in
productivity this fall, according to
Secretary Hoover in EXPIRE ssing his
general satisfaction with industrial
outlook
Evening star., 1923-11-26
Papers Turned Over to Sem
ators Said to Detail Disap-
pearanCe and Later Arrest.
MISSING FROM Fl. MYER
SOON AFTER ENLISTMENT
Restored to Ranks and Finally Dis
charged as Sergeant After
Faithful Service"

Papers said by War Department
officials to show that at one time
Charles r. Forbes. former director
of the Veterans Bureau, was drop
ped from the rolls of the Army as a
deserter were turned over to the
senate veterans committee today by
the department.
The record, sent to the committee
at it's request, was said also to show
that later Forbes was apprehended,
served out his term of enlistment
and was discharged without having
been brought to trial.
The attitude of the department at
this time, it was said, was that the
case long ago had been disposed of
and there was no intention of taking
any further action, since the matter
now was in the hands of the Senate
committee.
Members of the committee declined
to say what use would be made of the
information given by the department.
During the veterans; Investigation,
in which Forbes was a central figure,
efforts were made to bring the former
directors service record into the pub
lie hearings, but Chairman Reed rul-
ed 1t out on the ground that evidence
should be confined to the period after
Forbes became head of the Veterans
Bureau.
Enlisted in 1900.
The service record put in the hands
of the committee was summarized by
War Department officials as follows:
Forbes enlisted in the Army as a
private in March, 1900. at Boston.
Mass. About two months later. in
May of that year, he was dropped
from the Army rolls for desertion.
At that time he was serving at Fort
Myer Va, as a first-class private in
the Signal Corps.
He was apprehended and restored
to duty without trial by the depart
mental commander. He then COM
discharged from the Army as a first
class sergeant with character de-
scribed as excellent and services said
to be honest and faithful"
During the world war he was COM
missioned reserve major in the Sig
nal Corps and served overseas with
the 41st and 33d divisions. He was
promoted to a lieutenant colonel, Sig
nal Corps. in october, 1918.
May Take More Testimony.
The first draft of the report of the
committee is now in preparation by
John F. O'Ryan of New York city,
general counsel, in consultation with
the members of the committee. 1t
probably will not be completed under
.wo weeks.
Decision as to whether the commits
tee is to hear Mrs. Katherine Morti-
mer, wife of Elias H. Mortimer, of
Philadelphia, the star witness against
Forbes, still is in allegiance, as is the
question of whether her testimony,
taken in executive session, is to be
made public 1t is certain, however.
that the committee will hold few
additional open sessions for the ad-
mission to the record of a number Of
kilograms and other documents re-
lating to matters which have come up
in the open hearings.
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PRESIDENT URGES
. MEMORIAL BRIDGE
Anxious for Work to Begin on
Structure to Span the
Potomac.

President Coolidge is especially
anxious that there be no unnecessary
delay in getting under way IN the
actual construction of the Arlington
Memorial bridge. which is to span
the Potomac river and serve as a
direct connection between the Lincoln
Memorial and the Arlington national
cemetery.
The Presidents deep interest in this
memorial bridge was made known
today to Representative Langley Of
Kentucky, chairman of the House
committee on public buildings and
grounds. During the discussion Of
the project the President, who is
chairman of the special commission
named by Congress to approve the
plans and carry out the construction
of. the memorial bridge, told Repre-
sentative Langley that he does not
care to have this important matter
lag, and in order to arrive at some
definite agreement he will very
shortly call meeting of the commits
sion. to be held at the White House.
Besides the President and Represen-
tative Langley, the other members of
the commission are the Speaker of
the House. the President of the SEN
dte gnu oeHdtoT brdHueBee, chairman
of the Senate committee on public
buildings and grounds.
Approaches Already Designated.
The commission already has selected
the location of the north and south
approaches of the bridge and have
tentatively approved the plans of the
structure itself. The latter, accord
ing to architects and experts in such
matters, will be one of the handsome
and at the same time one of the most
practical bridges in the world. These
plans also have been approved by the
Fine Arts Commission and have been
used as the basis by engineers Of
the office of the public buildings and
grounds in making the preliminary
survey, which work was provided for
in an act of Congress last year.
Representative Langley said it is
very likely that the necessary legis-
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FORMER SLAVE SUES
EDUCATED HUSBAND
Reared Family While He Studied,
Only to Have Him Get
Divorce, Is Charged.

: Emma Mingo, colored, today filed
suit for maintenance in the District
Supreme Court against William Mingo,
jr., an employe of the Naval Observa-
tory. The plaintiff says she and her
husband were born in slavery In Texas
and are about sixtyfive or seventy
years old. Shortly after marriage her
husband suggested that he would like to
get an education and while she also
wished to be able to write her name
she consented to take over the burden
of rearing the family while William
went to school. Later William Sc
cured a position as a teacher in
Texas and afterward obtained a gov
ernment position here.
When she wanted to come here he
told her living expenses were too
high and advised that she remain in
Texas. Only once did he send her
money, she declares. and that was
when one of the children had the
smallpox he sent $40. She has now
learned that her husband obtained a
divorce from her in Texas without her
knowledge. She asks that the court
ignore that decree and award her
alimony.
They were married December IS,
1879, and lived together until 1913.
Attorneys Bell, Marshall & Rice ap-
pear for the Wifes
Evening star., 1923-11-26
Spiritual X-Ray,'WorldP Panacea
'Inuented' by d. C. School Head
University President, Facing
y. S. Fraud Charge, Sees Med
ic0I Science Doom.

While the Oriental University here
has been graduating doctors of
medicine by the score, DR.. Helmuth
+. Holler, its president. against whom
a fraud order recently was issued by
the Post Office Department, has been
busy perfecting spiritual X-ray,"
which he declares will soon exter-
inmate that science and the American
Medical Association with it.
Assisted by the unseen spectres of
famous surgeons and medical prac-
titioners who have passed into the
great beyond. Dr. Holler claims his
spiritual X-ray" will ferret out the
most battling affiictions and make it
possible for the departed specialists
In his employ to cure them without
the aid of scalpel or drug.
THAT is why I am being hounded,'
said the president of Oriental Univer-
S1ty, violently grabbing at his right
side in the proximity OF that kidney.
complaining all the while that he had
been suffering for several days from
a pain in that vicinity.
The medical association knows
that once my spiritual X-ray' becomes
Evening star., 1923-11-26
NEW CARNEGIE GIFT
ASSURES LIBRARY
100000 Appropriated for
Magnificent Branch at
Mount Pleasant

An additional 100000 has been ap-
propriated by the Carnegie Corporation
of New York for erection of the Mount
Pleasant branch of the Public Library,
insuring that the branch to be estab-
lished at 10th and Lamont streets will
be structure in keeping with the
other fine buildings in the vicinity.
This was announced today by DR..
George F. Bowerman of the Public
Library, following receipt by him of
a letter from DIR. Frederick P. Keppel
of the Carnegie Corporation, telling of
the appropriation, which makes total
of 100000 available for the new
branch.
Put on Other Projects.
1t is understood that the corporation
deferred other projects in order to give
the National Capital a fine branch
library in this populous section.
Resolutions adopted by trustees of
the Carnegie Corporation provide that
the 100000 cover the cost of the
building complete. including all indis-
pensable permanent furniture, fixtures
and equipment.
DR.. Bowerman hopes that ground
may be broken on the building Janu-
ary l next, following submission by
the Commissioners of requests for
bids upon the plans drawn up by Ed
ward l.. Tilton, the architect who de-
signed the southeast branch library
The budget contains an appropriation
for the maintenance of a staff for the
Mount Pleasant branch, beginning
January l, 1924.
DR.. Bowerman pointed out that the
new branch will serve a population
estimated now at between 100000 and
10000, which is growing rapidly.
VIII Have Two Stories.
The Mount Pleasant branch will be
a two-story building, with basement
built upon site already purchased
for $4,000. the money having been
appropriated by Congress. The lot
on the southwest corner of 10th and
Lamont streets, is behind a little
green triangle. The building will
face toward Sacred Heart Church.
The plans of the architect call for
a building modelled after the Massimi
palace at Rome. Al distinguishing fea-
ture will be an outdoor reading room
which in winter will be closed in with
great windows. This outdoor room
will be reached by the main corridor
Another feature is to be a great
in the open, which will lead directly
to the children's rooms on the second
floor. Every provision found good in
modern library construction will be
incorporated in the Mount Pleasan,
branch.
Evening star., 1923-11-26
9Th PRECINCT PROBE
ORDERED BY OYSTER
Commissioner Takes Action After
Disclosures in Recent
Dry Raids.

Commissioner Oyster today direct
ed Maj. Sullivan to make an investi-
cation of conditions in the sixth pre-
cinct.
The Commissioner indicated that
his action is result of the fact
that the vice squad, headed by Lieut..
Davis and assisted by prohibition
agents, went into that precinct last
week and conducted a raid in which
they discovered large still and con-
siderable amount of liquor.
The Commissioner said he felt that
some inquiry should be made by the
superintendent into conditions in the
precinct.
Reports were current to the effect
that there might be some changes in
the personnel of men assigned to that
precinct, but it Is not likely that any
definite action toward transfers will
be taken until the major has COM
Qleted his investigatlons ----------
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ROLLING STOCK SEIZED.
Belgium Acts When Ultimatum
Gets No Reply.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, November 26.-The Bel
gian government today seized Ger
man rolling stock at Duisburg and
Hamborn. in view of Germany's fall
ufe to reply to Belgium's ultimatum
demanding an indemnity of 1,250,000
francs for the assassination of Lieut..
Graft near Dusseldorf in March, 1922.
The time limit fixed by the Belgian
ultimatum expired last night. Bel
gium had previously rejected an offer
from Germany to submit the question
to The Hague tribunal for arbitra-
tion, and the Berlin government was
notified that the amount claimed as
indemnity would be confiscated in the
occupied regions should Germany fail
to pay.
Police Claim Error.
Lieut.. Graft was shot while he was
riding in a street car between Ruhr-
ort and Walsum. His slayers, four
members Of the German green police,
pleaded mistaken identity. declaring
Continued on Page 2, Column 3.)
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LODGE CALLSG. 0.P.
CAUCUS SATURDAY
Candidates. to Be Chosen for
Leaderships-Demo-
Gratis to Act.

A formal cali for a conference of
Senate republicans next Saturday
went out today from the office Of
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,, the
republican leader. The purpose will
be to select the majority candidate
for President pro tenn. and the party
leader and whip.
Senate democrats, under present
ulans, will hold their conference next
Monday, two hours in advance of the
convening of the Sixty-eighth Con-
gress.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas is
assured of election as democratic
leader, while Senator Pittman Of Ne
vada is likely to be the minority can
didate for President pro tenn. and
senator Gerry of Rhode Island as
democratic whip.
Cummins Undecided.
Senator Cummins of Iowa still is
considering which of his present two
Jobs he will give up in the coming
Congress-President pro tenn. Of the
Senate or chairman of the interstate
commerce committee, on which SEN
ator La Toilette of Wisconsin. a
leader OF the progressive bloc, 10 next
in line foE the chairmanshiN --l--
Evening star., 1923-11-26
D. c. RECE|VERSH|P
ASKED FOR ROAD
Washington-virgini Com
pany BondhoIder D. C. Su-
preme Court Petitioner.

The District Supreme Court was
asked today to appoint an ancillary
receiver for the property within the
Washington-Virgin Railway Com
pany. Attorney Charles H. Merillat,
representing Mrs. Matte NJ New
conner of Maryland, bondholder of
the company, filed an intervening pc
tition, in which he requests that a
receiver be appointed with the cour-
age to take hold of the situation, re-
port fearlessly to the court and adopt
such action as conditions demand"
Justice Hitz has set down arguments
on the application for this afternoon.
Judge Brent at Fairfax, Va, last
Friday appointed Arthur l. Reynolds
as receiver for the company in Vir-
ginia. The designation of Mr.. Rey-
nolds as ancilIary receiver in this
jurisdiction is requested in three
suits filed today against the company
by three corporations of Philadelphia.
The plaintiffs who are asking for the
same receiver are the Pennsylvania
Company for Insurance on Lives and
Granting Annuities, the Bank of
North America and Trust Company
and the Real Estate Trust Company
of Philadelphia.
Point to Virginia Action.
These three petitions set forth the
proceedings in Virginia and the
action of the court there and request
similar action of the local tribunal.
1t is alleged that the road is in
solvent and has defaulted in the pay
ment of interest on it's bonded in
debtedness since 1920. Attorneys
John F. Barbour and Hayden Johnson
appear for the plaintiffs.
The intervening petition OF Mrs
Newcomer alleges that the company
issued bonds far in excess of the real
value of the plant and charges that
100000 disappeared overnight from
the office of the treasurer of the COM
pahy and that the affairs of the cor
poration' were not conducted in the
best interests of the stockholders.
This vast sum of money disappeared,
it Is stated, in 1919, and no action to
redress the wrong has been taken by
those who have since been in control
Of the corporation.
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z KILLED, 8HURT
IN MINE EXPLOSION
All Others of 922 Workers in
Illinois Mine Blast
Believed Safe.
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, November 26.-Two miners
are dead and eight others badly burned
are in the West Frankfort hospital, but
all others who were endangered by an
explosion this morning in the north
western part of the Chicago, Whining
ton and Franklin Coal Company's mine
No. 1, near West Frankfort, one of the
largest, if not the largest, mine in the
world, are believed to be above ground,
according to a message received at the
company's offices this afternoon. The
mine employs more than 1000 men, s22
of whom were in the mine when the
explosion occurred.
The latest information was to the
effect that about thirty-five men were
working in the section of the mine
where the explosion, believed to have
been due to combustion of gases, oc
CURED. All of these, according to the
last message to President George B.
Harrington, now are believed to be
out of the mine.
The message, stating that two were
dead, eight in the hospital and all
others believed to be above ground,
was taken to indicate that rescuers
had succeeded in entering the affected
section of the mine.
1913 KILLED IN MONTH.
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1913 KILLED IN MONTH.
Mine Accidents Take Heavy Toll
During October.

1t cost more than two lives to mine
each 100000 tons of coal mined
during October, the bureau of mines
announced today. One hundred and
fifty-three employees of coal mines
were killed in coal mine accidents
during the month. Output of coal
was 57,S95,000 tons, fatality rate of
2.65 per million tons mined. The rate
for October last year was $50 per
million tons.
Most of the fatal accidents during
October occurred at bituminous mines.
Total number of fatal accidents at
all coal mines reported for the first
ten months of 1923 was 2,059, COM
pared with 1,443 fatalities in the
same period last year.