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The Delta independent., 1924-08-01

late summer and early fall but due to
high mortality in all stages of de-
velopment of this brood there is no
loss of Importance from them.
Control
In small areas such as garden patch
es it is sometimes practical to hand
pick the adults and larvae of the first
brood. Especially is this true where
the beans have been planted early
and are nearly mature before the in
sect can cause much damage Early
planting has been one of the most
practical means OF control thereby
maturing the plants before serious in
jury occurs. Early planting makes
spraying more practical for II the
plants are well developed by the time
injury begins one application of spray
will keep the foliage well covered dur
ing this entire period while il the
plants are growing rapidly the insects
go to the new unprotected leaves and
number Of applications may be ne
cessary.
Spraying of beans for the control Of
the Mexican bean beetle is a compli
Gated matter because the bean plant
is very susceptible to arsenical injury
and because of the feeding habits OF
the insect which makes 1t necessary
to cover the undersides OF the leaves
with poison. The latter requires very
careful and dilIgent application.
The following portion OF a summary
of Colorado Experiment Station Bulle.
tin 271 on the Mexican bean beetle
gives briefly the best spray method
for control.
"The most satisfactory means Of
control is spraying with arsenite OF
zinc Of lead.
Beans are very susceptible to In
jury from arsenical sprays.
The least injury has occurred from
the use OF arsenite of zinc.
The injury from arsenite OF lead has
not been serious enough to make its
use impractical
Arsenite OF zinc should be used at
the rate Of one pound Of the powder
to forty or fifty gallons OF water,
preferably the latter.
Arsenite OF lead should be used at
the rate OF one pound OF the powder
TO forty gallons OF the water.
The spray should be applied to the
under surface of the leaves.
One. two or three applications may
be necessary, depending upon con
ditions.
only beans OF the bunch or dwarf
type should be grown.
Early planted beans OF an early
maturing variety are most easily pro.
tected and are generally most success
ful in badly infested sections"
Beans that are to be used as snap
beans II sprayed when not over two
inches long will have very little poison
on them when ready for picking
Beans that are sprayed at a later
date should be thoroughly washed be-
fore perpared for consumption.-Sign
ed, j. H. Newton. Deputy State Ento-
mologist.
The Delta independent., 1924-08-01

ly eaten. The percentage of injury
ranges from to 10 per cent to total
destruction OF the crop. There is a
second brood OF beetles during the
late summer and early fall but due TO
high mortality in all stages of de-
velopment of this brood there is no
loss of Importance from them.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
COMMODITY NEWS
WIRED STAR FROM
ENTIRE COUNTRY

SPOKANE, May 6.-Reports from
the apple districts of eastern Wash
ington and Oregon indicate the recent
freeze affected about half of the best
producing sections with damage rang
ing from 40 to Is per cent in the
areas touched. the worst loss in the
history of the industry in this sec
ton. Shipments will be far below
10000 cars and may total only 10000
cars
SAN JOSE, May 6.-Forecasts ear
Iier this year that the apricot crop
would be damaged by drought seem
to have been erroneous Growers re-
port their orchards in fine condition
and say the crop will be but little
below normal
CHICAGO, May Meat packers re-
port that a distinct slowing up in
collections, notably in the east, re-
fleets retarded purchasing power
due to slight drop in industrial ac-
tivity during the past few weeks.
While the trade in beef continues to
be very slow, there is a fair activity
in pork.
CLEVELAND, May 6.-The City Ice
and Fuel Company and the Federal
Ice = Refrigerating Company, which
control plants in many Ohio cities,
have put drivers on a salary and COM
mission basis and will shortly offer
employees stock on part pa aynent plan.
SHREVEPORT, La, May 6.-The
Arkansas Invincible OIL Corporation,
a subsidiary of Invincible Oil, has
bought the holdings of the Smith Re
lining Company in the Smackover
field. consisting Of twenty-five pro-
ducing wells and 200 acres of land,
with equipment, for S1000,000.
TULSA, May GA report compiled
by the Western Petroleum Refiners'
Association shows 303 refineries in
Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Ar
kansas and Louisiana with a daily
capacity of 1,222,065 barrels Of crude
oil.
PHILADELPHIA, May e.-Some of
the local retail coal dealers will alb
sorb the advance in anthracite Of 10
to Is cents a ton marked up by the
mine operators and will keep prices
to consumers unchanged
PITTSBURGH. May 6.-Some con-
tract tonnages have appeared in the
Pittsburgh coal market, giving the
first signs of a revival of interest in
the local trade, which has been stag
nant for several weeks
ATLANTA. May 6.-Rright leaf to-
hacco will be grown in more than
fifty south Georgia coun ties this sea-
son as the major crop. Cotton has
been made TO take second place by
the small farmers of that section
BOISE, May 6.-Tne early sales Of
Idaho wool have brought lower prices
than were expected, some clips going
organizing pools TO hold for higher
Evening star., 1924-05-06
"FREAK" BANQUETS AGAIN
POPULAR IN LONDON
Sensational Stunts of Pre-War
Days Seem About to Re
turn to Favor.
From the London Mail

From the London Mall
Experts Of the restaurant world
say that the ten years twilight of the
sensational banquet is about to lift
Yet it is hardly likely to have the
vogue it did. Before the war people
fingered much more over their meals:
today the strains from the ballroom
are too insidious and much too con-
uuering to justify a very lavish set
ting for banquet.
Perhaps the most remarkable ban
quet that was ever given IN Lonoon
was that which George A kessler
gave at the Savoy some years ago
1t aroused more talk than any other
banquet in the world.
He decided to hold it in floating
gondola, and to enable this to be done
the courtyard at the back of the
hotel was filled with water, after hav-
ing been made watertight. Then the
gondola was floated and the surround
ings were transformed into a corner
of Venice. The courses had to be
paddIed across the Take" to the gon-
dola. where the dinner was served
by walters in Venetian costume.
The famous red dinner" at the
same hotel was a wetrdfy strange ex-
perience- This was given by man
who had won heavily at roulette on
the Riviera and rouge had been his
fortunate color.
Everything in the room was red
the ceiling, the floor and the table
ciOCn- Inc "dALtTS "tlo vi CooCo C'h-
tirely in red even to their collars.
The electric fights were red The
chef provided a menu in red or red
dish, food. and the table itself repre-
sented a huge roulette table
If the freak banquet comes back
into it's own the reversed menu will
probably be called upon to do it's
share That idea was instituted when
Gustave Hamel and B. c. Hucks were
entertained at the Royal Automobile
CIub altar looming the loon, and they
began their dinner with the coffee.
After this spell of comparative
allowance it is possible that the ban
ouets of tomorrow will have a touch
of real sensationalism- New York
has already led in this respect Lions
from menagerie were introduced
at one great feast held there not long
ago, and they wandered round among
the guests. And there are the an
nual banquets of the New York Rep
tile Society, the members. of which
often take their pet snakes to dine
with them.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

overdiscounted and the stock opened
two points higher at As. One of the
weak spots in the independent group
was Redbank Oil. The break of al
most three points was merely the re-
suit of profttaking.
With banking support withdrawn
from the market for Doehler Die
Casting. the stock sold at a new low,
under 20 Around this figure it COM
pared with the subscription price or
%. An outstanding point of strength
in the industrial section was Amer
lean Hawaiian Steamship which
reached new top. This stock was
responding to improved conditions in
the shipping industry generally.
Among public utilities no effort
was made to bring about further ad-
vance. On the other hand, few OF
these stocks went somewhat lower.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
WALL STREET BRIEFS.
By the Associated Press.

Dy Lne asSoClAteu GTDS.
Wall streets principal topic OF dis
cussion this week is the question
whether the bear market which be-
gan in the spring of last year has
ended. While professional traders
thold varied opinion on the sub
been a marked let down in profess
sional selling and a resultant in
crease in operations on the long side,
although TO date these have not been
aggressive in character except in a
few special stocks.
The American Beet Sugar Company
reports net income of $1,515.972 for
the year ended March 81, equal after
preferred dividends to $50 a share
on the common stock, compared with
$686,482, or $2.57 a share in the pre-
ceding year. Surplus was $44455l,
a gain of s93,S96. Gross receipts
totaled $6,41S,674, an increase of
$761,S7s
Expansion of public improvement
programs throughout the country this
spring was reflected in an increased
volume of state. county and municipal
bonds marked in April, when a new
1924 monthly record of $121 1855
was established The total exceeded
that of the same month in 1928 by
So, 100000. Despite the heavy flow OF
these securities into the market, the
demand has been well sustained and
prices gradually have advanced since
the first of the year.
Just as the oil trade was beginning
to receive encouragement from the
increase in consumption of gasoline,
sentiment was hard hit by the publ
cation of the governments statistics
showing a 100000. .000gallon jump in
stocks in April. Heavier production
of crude oil in the California fields
also created some uneasiness.
Sales of S. S. Kresge Company in
the four months of 1924 aggregated
S25.720.669, an increase of 1904 per
cent over the same period last year.
April sales were s7,369,7So. against
$5,S61,797 in April, 1923.
The Fyrac Manufacturing Com
pany, Rockford, ILL., is reported 10
have bought complete business. good
will and assets of the elmer Manu-
featuring Co, Denver. Both com
panies manufacture spotlightS that
operate through the windshield glass;
Operation of the two companies Will
be continued separately.
Several Canadian industrial stocks
now actively traded in on the Mon
treal exchange. soon will be listed on
the curb market. it is reported in the
financial district. and Application for
listing on the New York Stock Ex
" IA ne "IcH lHty
are more widely distributed. The
concerns mentioned were Abitibi
Power and Paper Company, Ltd;
Brompton Pulp and Paper Co, Ltd:
Spanish River Pulp and Paper Mills
Co, Ltd, and National Breweres.
Sales of the Hartman Corporation
houSefurnishcrS and general depart
ment stores. in the four months OF
1924 were S7,051,7l3, a gain of s32S.-
AIS over the corresponding period last
year. The regular quarterly dividend
of 81 was declared.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
SURGEONS SESSION BUSY
Additional Clinics, Round Table

TRENTON, N T., May 6.--With ad-
ditional clinics, q round-table discus
sion of hospital problems and the
presentation of d scien tific program,
the convention of the American Col
lege of Surgeons was continued to-
day.
Clinics were held at St Francis
and Mercer Hospitals, and, in addi-
ton, DR.. John p. Mccullough of this
city performed eight operations and
is giving a surgical demonstration at
Mckinley Hospital.
The discussion of hospital problems
was under the direction of DR.. Nal
com T. MacEachern of Chicago. The
scientific program. was participated
in by DR.. Emory G.. Alexander, Phila-
delphia, who discussed 'Pyloric Ste
nosis in Infancy; DR.. Charles g Nor
ris, Philadelphia The Use OF Radium
IN Gynecology"; Dr. Joseph c. Blood
good, Baltimore, Methods OF dag
nosis and Attack in Tumors Of the
Jaw and Bone" and Dr. William
Francis Campbell. Brooklyn. The
Hernia Problem"
Evening star., 1924-05-06
Circuit Court Com1enes.
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK May 6 (SpeciaD.-
fruit and vegetable receipts from
New York state today were light and
with earlier arrivals the supply was
quite sufficient The demand was
about normal
Baldwin apples, A grade, 2h Inch,
sold at 800 to 400 per barrel A few
brought 4.50.
Potatoes were decidedly dull. New
York state No. /, round whites in
bulk, brought from 500 to $50 per
180 pounds, but mostly from 3.25 to
3.35- The same grade in sacks brought
from ESQ to 2-75 per sack Maine
Green Mountains, in bulk, sold at
from 100 to 4-35 per $50 pounds
Carrots from upstate ranged from
500 to $50 per barrel Long Island
carrots brought from 3.25 to $50 per
bushe1 and Texas new crop $50 to
4-25 per basket
Onions ranged up to 1.40 per 100
pound sack Hudson Valley rhubarb
brought from to per large bunch
and Long Island from III to S.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK, May 5-The cotton
mar ket oponed steady at an advance,
bf TO points on steady Liverpool
cables and overnight buying orders,
but turned easier after the cali un-
der realizing and southern selling,
accompanied by reports of benenclaI
showers in the southwest May eased
off to 29.49 and October to 24.l9, max
ing net declines of 10 to 90 points
.-on the active months There We're
3rade buying of new crop positions,
however, and further covering oy
la crop shorts. which caused rallies
70 about yesterdays closing quota
Prions by the end of the first hour
General business was quiet Much
of the selling here seemed to come
from New Orleans and other south
u I'm points
IA General business remained quiet.
mt some trade buying of October
las reported and the market held
enerally steady. New crops ruled
n thin a point or two of yesterday
losing at midday, with May selling
o 1858, while later months were
points net higher. with October
+ 24.40 One of the private Liver
oool cables said that English spin
hers were reselling some cotton, but
#gaye no details as to the amount
or style of the staple.
NEW ORLEANS. May 6.-The cot
#f0w market ndu d very QulCL OpChLA6
& n est trades lower 8 points down ON
and up on October with no
Trading in the other months at the
&call. AS Liverpool was lower than
Edue. weather adviceS were generally
favorable, the feeling was rather
easier in the early trading, but there
vas little disposition to trade until
the character of the showing by the
u-eather map should become avail
able July eased off to 27.30 and Oc-
Kober to 23.4S, or 12 to 1S below the
nreyious close, soon after the open
ing call, but most of this loss soon
was recovered.
LIVERPOOL, May g. Cotton
spot. quiet; prices easier. Good
middling, 1891; fully niddling.
g7.46; middling. 1896; low middling.
fs.11; good ordinary, 15.11; ordi-
hary, 1851; sales, 5000 bales, includ-
3ng 1900 American; receipts, $4,000
bales, including 7,400 American. Flu
kures closed barely steady.
closing-May. 1852; July. 1914;
zZ,ctober, 14.15: December, 1874; jan
80, 1854; March, 1853.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
SHOW KEEN INTEREST
MANIFESTATION
Stock Market Dealers Acutely Dis
aupointed in Senate's Defeat
of Mellon Plan.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May 6.-Inasmuch as
A great deal has been made of tax
reduction legislation in its bearing
upon the financial and business OUT
look. Mondays extraordinary vote III
the Senate afforded an Interesting
test for the Wall street markets to
day. The Mellon plan has obviously
gone beyond recall Even the pros
pect OF a compromise when the OIL
goes to conference was admittedly
rendered slight.
Blow to Dealers Hopes
ADOPTION of the Democratic 40 per
cent surtax maximum was blow to
the hopes which the business and
financial communitie have held for
the last six months. The Mellon
schedules, involving a maximum or
2s per cent, had been carefully ad-
iusted so as to make it to the ad-
Vantage of persons of wealth to come
back into the regular investment
market or to put their money again
into industrial enterprises instead OF
hiding in tax-exempt securities. Ine
tax measure as passed by the senate
would not accomplish any such re-
suit.
political rather than economic The
idea OF keeping the burden heavy
upon the rich entirely ignores the
larger question of how it would be to
the public advantage to unloose the
vast sums now locked up in tax
exempt bonds into the ordinary chan
nels of investment and trade.
Would Welcome Veto
AS matters stood today, with such
tax bill passing the Senate and
with little chance of anything much
better coming out of conference Wall
street did not care-in fact would
rather have welcomed a presidential
Veto Upon the stock market, now
ever, the effect was only temporary
Professional traders offered down
prices at the start, but were quick
to change their position when they
found that no real stocks were com
ing out Again there were more
points of strength then weakness
among individual stocks and this
from the practical standpoint, was
the most important feature.
|. II. on the one hand, securities were
not depressed by the ppointing
course of tax legislation, they were
not. on the other hand. enthused over
further indications of extremely easy
money.
Low Rate ON Loans.
For the first time this year loans
for periods of over ninety days were
offered at IA per cent. The discrep-
ancy between this very low borrow
ing rate and the yield OF anywhere
from 5A to z per cent on the better
grade OF stocks stood out strikingly.
Yet it could not be said, any more
than it could have at any time dur
ing the last six months. that. this
comparison was proving a stfmulous.
Even in the bond market where
money conditions should be first to
sbow.-fhcre. was little action.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
Boat Fire Roasts Shad.

South Washington fire companies,
who responded to a call from the
Municipal market, foot Of 18th street
fire on the fishboat of T. A Willett,
Cross Roads, Md
Before the arrival of No Is engine
company, stationed only a. short dis
tance from the wharf, the fire had
ruined the cabin and turned a. num-
ber of shad into banquet food
1t developed that an oil stove left
lighted in the cabin had caused the
fire, which nearly burned the cabin
to the waters edge. The boat was
damaged to the amount of more than
800, while damage to the fish
amounted to $75.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
DRY GOODS MARKET.

NEW YORK, May Especial -
Business in cotton goods was report
ed quiet today in the Worth street
markets, but prices registered mod
crate advances. Print cloths were up
u aSA for 64x6p and 1ok for 6SxT2
The raw silk markets again were
weak, both here and IN Yokohama
Local prices on Japanese grades de-
cIining another to 10 a pound.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
Miss Rachel Matthews Dies.

Miss Rachel Matthews, eighty-one
years old, a native of Baltimore
County, Maryland, a resident of this
city for the last twenty-five years,
died at her residence, 1922 Rhode
Island avenue, Sunday night Funeral
services are being conducted at her
late residence this afternoon In
terment will be in the Gunpowder
Cemetery, Baltimore County, tomor-
row at noon.
Miss Matthews was the daughter
of the late Elias and Mrs. Mary Mat
thews. She is survived by a brother,
Edward Matthews, and two sisters,
Miss Sophia H and Miss Sarah r.
Matthews,
Evening star., 1924-05-06
METAL MARKETS.

NEW YORK May Spot copper
firmer. Electrolytic, spot and nearby,
Is; futures, 13$a1314. Tin easy,
spot and nearby. 1875: futures, 1857.
Iron steady and unchanged. Lead
quiet, spot, 7.50a775. Zinc quiet; E.ast
st. Louis, spot and nearby, 5.82a5. S5.
Antimony, spot, 900.
LONDON, May 6.-Standard copper,
spot, s65 los; futures, G64 Is Cd;
electrolytic. spot, 969; futures, G6s
los. Tin. spot G233 12s Cd; futures,
s235 IS Sd. Lead, spot, 6 2S 15s; fu-
lures, f27 rs cd. Zinc, spot, $50
Is cd; futures. $50 IS cd.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
RAW SUGAR MORE STEADY.

NEW YORK, May 6.-The local raw
sugar market steadied early today,
with prices lie higher to the
basis of $50 for Cubans duty paid.
Sales were reported of 5000 bags
Porto RicanS to a local refiner for
prompt shipment at $50, and 10000
bags of Cubans for second half May
shipment to an operator at $50.
Raw sugar futures were firmer on
covering and trade buying, inspired
by the advances in raws- Prices at
midday were > to l o points net higher
The refined market was unchang
at 7.60 to 7.70 for fine granu1ated
Refined futures were nominal
Evening star., 1924-05-06
LONDON WOOL AUCTION.

LONDON, May 6.-The third series
of wool auctions opened here today
with a large attendance. The 9.046
bales offered met with a fair demand
from home and continental buyers
Compared with close of previous
auctions fine and medium crosSbreds g
were firm and coarse crossbreds
easier, while Cape of Good Hope and
Natal grades were quiet
Evening star., 1924-05-06
BY WILLIAM #. HEFFERNAN.
Received by Priv
pisnatc 10 The Star.

sUtclAI UlSpaLch 10 The star.
NEW YORK May 6.-Price f1uctua-
tions during the greater part of to-
days trading in the curb market were
the smallest of any during the first
half session. but hardened later.
Early weakness here was based on
government figures on gasoline in
storage at the end of March.
Declines in the leading Standard
Oils did not extend beyond a half
point An exception in this group
was Swan & Finch, which had been
offered down following announcement
of a recapitaliZation plan.
This action appeared to have been
Evening star., 1924-05-06
ORDERS STREET CAR FLOATS.

BALTIMORE, May 6-The Balti-
more and Ohio railroad has awarded
contracts for the construction of four
street car floats. Two of the floats
will be built by the Bethlehem Ship
building Corporation at it's Sparrows
Point plant The Sun Shipbuilding and
Drydock Company will construct the
other two. The floats are TO be 2s5
feet long and 80 feet wide and Will be
used in New York harbor.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
BAKER ELECTED MAYOR.
J. W. Stoh1man Elected as Somer-
set, Md. Executive.

set, Md, Executive.
J. William Stohlman, Georgetown
baker, nnsed out William Cis.baugh-
president OF the local Rotary Club.
by four votes in the race for the
mayoralty of Somerset, Md, just
across the District line on Wisconsin
avenue, yesterday.
OF a total of eighty-four cast StohF-
man received forty-four.
The incumbent members of the
council were defeated by narrow
margins Parker Dodge and Paul B.
Dunbar each received forfy-three
votes for councilmen, while George
c. Spencer and William B. Horne. in
cumbents, received forty-one and
thirty respectively. A number
Of scattering votes were cast
Judges at the election were z F.
Phillips. H R Watkins and NJ. H.
Sutliff- J. E Swigert was clerk of
the elections
Evening star., 1924-05-06
DAIRY PRODUCTS.

BALTIMORE, Md, May (SpeciaD-
Live poultry-Winter chickens, per
pound, 4oa45; syringe 45a55; Leg
horns. 40a50; old hens, 27a2S; Leg
horns, old. 25; old roosters, 16a17;
ducks, 2oa27; pigeons, pair, 35a4o;
guinea fowls, each, 40aso.
Eggs-Loss of-Native and nearby
firsts, free cases, per dozen. "a: south
ern. %.
Butter-Creamery. good to fancy,
36a3Sa; prints, 39a41; nearby cream
cry. 33a35: ladies, 2Sa30; rolls, 26a2S; !;
storepacked. 26; dairy prints, 26a2S:
process butter, 81.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
NEW YORK MONEY RATE.

NEW YORK, May Call money
steady; high, 3l.; low, Il: ruling
rate, 3h; closing bid, 3i5; offered at
3A; last loan, 3Ia call loans against
acceptances, az; time loans steady;
mixed collateral, sixty to ninety days,
~ a4h; four to six months. AZ; prime
commercial paper, AZ
Evening star., 1924-05-06
Italy's War Loan Above Par.

ROME, May 6.--The shares of the
war loan floated by Italy in January,
1916, passed par today for the first
time, being quoted on The stock ex-
change here at 10n25- Italian con-
soils reached 1856.
Evening star., 1924-05-06
Both Equally Sweet

From LIE Petit Parisien.
They say that blonds hayeSWeeter
dispositions than brunettes."
"Bah, NV wife has been both, and
I can see no difference"
Evening star., 1924-05-06
ApARIs BoURSE IRREGULAR.

PARIS, May 6.-Prices moved ir-
Sularfy on the bourse today. Three
h cent rentes, 54 francs 15 .centimes.
q %9change on London, 81 francs 90
Confines Five per cent loan, So
francs Is centimes.
The dollar was quoted at Is francs
40 centimes-