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Evening star., 1924-08-14
Rail Executive Dies.

NEW ORLEANS, August 14.--Ed
the Vicksburg. Shreveport and Pa
cific Railway, and one Of the best
known railroad executives in the
South, died at his home here yester-
day.
Evening star., 1924-08-14
FOREIGN,
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.

Roy N. Perry-Main 9s4-Gerald Walsh
THOS. r. NALLEY & SONS
49, ELEVENTH ST. Sc.
Undertlkers. Embalmen
Homelike Funeral Parlors,
Phone Lincoln $50
Evening star., 1924-08-14
Marriage.
SEIBY-SHAW NJ

SELBY-SHAw. NJ ana urs rhos
Shaw Of Silver Spring. Md. aunounce
marriage Of their daughter. GERTRJ
ELiIABETH. t. Mr. FRANK l.. Sell
which took place jane ~. 1874. in the D
enc" Of few intimate friends
Evening star., 1924-08-14

Houses OF paper that could be
scrapped when out Of date were sug-
gested at a health league conference in
London recently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03

Wc scy Q, We Advertise, and Always for Less
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03

Choice of fine, sheer voiles, nainsooks, ba- tistes and crepes, in 36 and 40-inch widths assortment of colors-whie it lasts, at the very special price of, per yard 39c.
 SECOND FLOOR-NEW BUILDING)
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Special Lot Infants
Bath hRObes

Zone sketched). Blankets
OF soft robing, plain pink,
blue and white; some with
white figures, others ribbon
trimmed. Sale Price
Evening star., 1924-05-04

Group 1-Pajamas. Princess Slips, Gowns and En-
velope Chemse, made of the finest lingerie cloth. Trim
mings of aces and embrodery-tailored models with
touches of handwork and ribbon Pink and white
Factory oddments and drummers' samples. At $I.Oo.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
WAGE TROUBLE IN CANADA
Labor Demands Retard Building
Program, Is Report. q

Indications are that the comprehen-
sive scheme for building in eastern
Canadian territory, to be started late
in March, will be greatly curtailed if
the executives OF the bricklayersIh
plasterers and masons' unions. do nots
modify their demands. according to-
News-Record. Recently, the execup-
tives notified the builders and genp
eral contractors of the territory that
for the 1924 season, wages asked"
would be $1.12 per hour, an increase
of 20 cents per day.
Some of the members of the labor
organizations have emphatically re-
fused to agree to a modification of
the demands. The builders have
served an ultimatum that they wifr''
not agree to the wage increase. Cons
ferences have been proposed as a
means of effecting an adjustment of
the situation When asked if thex.,
intended to tender on the construc-,
tion of the new Admiral Beatty Hotel
in st. John, N. B.,smembers of some
of the biggest contracting firms in
eastern Canada replied in the mega
tive. They attributed their unwilling
ness to bid to the exorbitant demands
of labor in, all grades. Therefore il
is likely that this hotel. planned as
the biggest in the maritime prov.
Germ. The United Hotels Company
will add the hotel to their long chairY
of hostelries in the United States and
Canada.
The province of Quebec will not he
affected as the wages for 1924 in thar,
province will continue on about the
same plane as In 1923. =.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
COTTON OPENS STEADY,
BUT REACTIONS NOTED
Initial Buying Orders Quickly
Suppied-Tame Market Is Rec
ord in New Orleans.

NEW YORK, March 21-The cotton
market opened steady at a decline of
six points on December, but gener-
ally four to ten points higher on rela-
lively steady Liverpool cables and an
unfavorable weather map. The initial
buying orders were soon supplied,
however, and the market turned cas-
Ter after tho call. with May reacting
from 1887 to 28.79. and October from
2577 to 1858, making net declines of
about four to nine points. No fresh
factor was mentioned in connection
with selling. which appeared to be
chiefly for local and southern ac-
counts. General business was quiet
and the market yielded under small
offerings.
week end figures, showing a falling
on in spinners' taking caused a little
selling, but the market later turned
steadier on reports of better tone
to 2s.S5 and the market held steady
within or points of ystrday's
closing figures around o'clock
Await Reports OF Experts.
NEW ORLEANS, March 21.-The
cotton market had a very tame open
ing. despite favorable cables and an
unfavorable weather map, showing
general low temperatures and more
rain in the eastern half of the belt.
First trades were five points down to
up. new crop months showing most
Improvement. Prices eased off three
to ten points Immediately after the
call. and then fluctuated aimlessly
within the range of few points.
Traders were disappointed at the
news the experts investigating the
government statistics will not report
until Monday. but the belief continues
that the revision will be bullish
Cables said another strike of British
transport workers were threatened.
Liverpool Prices Easier.
LIVERPOOL, March 21.-Cotton
spot. moderate business: prices easier
Good middling, 1893: fully middling
1884: middling. 1909; low middling
1924; good ordinary, 1924; ordinary
14.74. Sales. 5000 bales. including
2.soo American. Receipts. 5000
bales. including 500 American. Flu.
lures closed barely steady; March
1892; May, 1886; July. 16.49: Septem.
ber. 1888: October, 1887; December
14.47; January. 1898.
Cotton Futures STEADY.
NEW YORK. March 21.-Cotton fu-
lures opened steady: March 28.7S
May, 2s.97: July. 1885; October, 25.75
December. 1886.
NEW ORLEANS, March 21.-Cotton
futures opened steady; March, 1925
May, 1900: July. 2s.15: October, 1888
December. 24.S6.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
ACTIVE u. S. LOANS
|. AT new HIGH LEVELS
Two Issues Reach Point Well
Above Par-Bulk of Buying
Comes From Banks.
BY GEORGE r. HUGHES.

u6ONuE DunESs
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 21.-Bonds re-
sponded in vigorous fashion today to
the phenomenal ease in money testi-
fled to by the lowering Of rates for
call funds to the lowest point since
1918. There was active buying of all
high-grade securities and OF most
middle and second grades, the only
exception being found In the indus
trials. 1t is many months since bond
dealers and traders were so optimis-
tic as to the outlook as today. Sew
eral large trades running into the
millions were reported privately
transacted between institutions.
All the active United States gov
eminent loans made new high records
for the year, the third ANS and the
Treasury ANS both selling well above
the bulk of the buying was coming
from banks which were hard pressed
to find some profitable outlet for
their great surplus of money. Liberty
bonds, because of their ready market,
are always the first recourse in such
situations.
There was also. however. brisk in
Quiry for highgrade rails. Quota
tions advanced only fractionally in
most cases, but the advance was al
most uniform. All the Southern Rail-
way issues were TAX on in large blocks,
Railway general 6s. 1t was noticeable
also that there was a better sentiment
toward the bonds Of the northwestern
railroads.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
$49, 900, 900 TOTAL PAID
FOR R2-YEARTOBACCO CROP
Amount Paid for Yield of 1922 and
1928 in Virginia and Caro-
lima Area.
speei,l Dimateh 70 The Star

RICHMOND. Va. March 21-vir-
ginia and Carolina tobacco growers
nave been paid $49.0O0,0OO for their
crops for the years 1922 and 1928, and
only one payment has been made on
lfeved to be at least 10000, 900 pounds
$16,000.000 of this sum was paid for
the crop during last year. There is
still in the hands of members of the
association many millions of pounds
of tobacco to be delivered, and al
ready there has been delivered to the
association more than the crop of the
membership Of the organization one
year ago.
The cost Of handling the tobacco.
which allows for salaries, rents. man.
ayers, insurance, reserves and all
else, has been kept to about $3.50 per
hundred pounds. which is materially
less, according to the men in charge
and who are familiar with the busi-
ness, than 1t has been in the past
The association is growing in every
direction. and it Is expected that the
the city of Denville will mean that
there will be others in other sections
of the state to handle the crops of
the farmers. All of the small towns
which have the delivery warehouses
are growing and the merchants are
more prosperous than for long time
The farmers are losing less than halt
the time they formerly spent in going
long distances to market, the local
warehouses being to their advantage
Evening star., 1924-03-21
WALL STREET BRIEFS.

NEW YORK. March 21.-Sloss-
Sheffield Steel and Iron Company re-
ports for 1923 net profit of $2,491, ,019,
equal after preferred dividends to
s20.22 share on $10.000,000 common
stock, compared with $57S,S93, or $1.09
in 1922.
Plans have been completed for a re-
organization of the Ontario Silver
Mining Company Of Salt Lake City
providing for a transfer from Cali
fornia to Delaware charter, it is re-
be effected on n share-for- share basis,
without change in the present $15,-
100000 capitalization.
Standard Oil of Kentucky had net
profit of $5,519,1S2 in 1923, equivalent
to 1922 a share on it's $25 par value
capital stock, against $4.461,S74, or
$6.67 a share, the year before
Stockholders of the Consolidation
Coal Company have approved an issue
of 100000 per cent cumulative
preferred stock, to which they will be
given the right to subscribe on the
basis of one share for each four
ceeds will be used to complete pay
ments for the Sandy Valley and Elk
horn railroad and to reimburse the
treasury for other expenditures.
The Commonwealth Edison Com
stockholders $14.4oo,ooo of additional
capital stock, with the privilege of
subscribing to 20 per cent at par.
A dividend of per cent will be paid
in April to holders of the S per cent
first mortgage bonds of the keokuk
and Des Moines Railway under a plan
adopted by the bondholders' committee.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
TEXTILES IN THE SOUTH.
Figures Given Showing Growth of
Cotton Industry.

Interesting figures showing the con-
tinued growth of the cotton manu-
featuring industry in the south are
given in the 1924 textile directory of
the Southern railway system, just
issued.
At the close of 1923 there we're
located at points served by the South
ern railway system 9s4 textile manu-
featuring plants. operating 1885,
055 spindles and 254.520 looms. as
against 935 plants. operating 1870
357 spindles and 242.s00 looms at the
close of 1922.
In all the southern states there are
now 16,747.046 spindles. or 44.5 per
cent of the total in the United States:
In 1928 there was a net increase of
1855 spindles in the south and a
net decrease of s2.51o spindles in
states outside the south. Southern
mills consumed 4.247.74s bales of cot
ton in 1923, this being 63.72 per cent
of the total consumption in the United
States and 1929, ,4O2 bales more than
in all states outside the south.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
SPECULATION A FEATURE.
Readjustments and Irregular
Prices Noted in Stock Market.


NEW YORK, March 2i.- Stock
prices displayed considerable irregu-
larity at the opening Of today's stock
market which witnessed an extern
sive readjustment of speculative ac-
counts. Norfolk and Western dropped
! X on profit taking, but good buying
persisted in the other rails, particu-
larly the Wabash issues Studeba
and Maxwell A showed signs Of re-
covery, but some of the other motors
continued under pressure.
Except for the weakness of Norfolk
and Western, which extended it's loss
to 2S points on reports that the In.
terState Commerce Commission might
not approve the proposed lease to
the Pennsylvania, the rails showed
and New Orleans, Texas and Mexico
each rising 2 points
United States Rubber common and
first preferred dropped II and 2H
each at new 1924 levels, while Amer
Ecan Beet Sugar slumped 1 point to
l36. also a new bottom price for the
year. Central Leather preferred con-
4nued to move upward. but American
Hide and Leather preferred was
heavy: Utah Copper dropped Y. Es-
tablishment Of a new 1924 high by
the French franc featured the irreg-
ular foreign exchange market. =
Uncertain price movements charac-
terized the morning trading. Weak
spots cropped out in several sections
or the list, new 1924 lows being estab-
lished by Gulf States Steel, Vanadium,
Tessed Steel Car, United States
Realty, American Sugar Refining
american Linseed, Eaton Axle and
Chandler Motors, the losses ranging
from large fractions to nearly 2
points. Norfolk and Western con-
tinued to yield on prof1t-taking, but
other rails developed further strength
Lackawanna moving up nearly !
points to 1l9s, a new 1924 top; New
orleans, Texas and Mexico extending
Its gain to rs and Union Pacific and
Chesapeake and Ohio climbing more
than point each. Fisher Body
touched a record high at 21S. Call
money opened at per cent and then
dropped to 2h.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
u. S. TREASURY CERTIFICATES
Quotations furnished by Redmond & Coz
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.
CHICAGO,

CHICAGO, March 21.-Renewed
firmness developed in the corn market
today before trading had gone very
far. Stormy weather likely to cur
tail receipts was the chief strength
ening factor. At first, however, de-
preston of wheat values led to a
brief downturn in the price of corn.
After opening unchanged to q lower,
May IS to ISM; the corn market
fiuctuated within narrow limits, and
then scored fractional gains all
around.
Favorable crop conditions west.
and southwest were mainly respon-
sible for price setbacks in the wheat
market The opening, which ranged
from u to = lower: May 1.04M to
1.04% and July 1.06, was Followed by
slight further declines and then
something Of a rally.
Oats were firm owing to continued
talk of delayed seeding, starting un-
changed to y lower, May AN to
47K, the market sagged a trif1e more,
but soon advanced somewhat.
An upturn in hog values tended to
lift the provision market.
The close was steady for wheat at
the same as yesterday to KaN lower.
May, 1.o4Ka1.05, and July, 1.06A.
On the bulge corn offerings in
creased, but the market showed stub
born resistance to selling pressure.
The close was steady at the same as
yesterdays finish to 4 OF, May 7Sha
7SA to 7SA.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
10000 EMPLOYEES BUY
STEEL COMPANY SHARES
Bethlehem Corporation Reports
Workers Accept Stock-ownership
Plan, Making Liberal Purchases.

More than 10000 employees of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation applied
for a total of over 81 900 shares of its
per cent cumulative preferred stock
in response to the initial offering
under its recently announced en-
ployes' saving and stock ownership
plan, which closed March Is, company
officials state.
The employees applying represented
approximately one-third of the entire
number and the applications averaged
81 shares each. The number Of
shares applied for is about 10 per cent
Of the total shares Of the per cent
preferred stock outstanding.
Although the applications substan
TALLY exceed the estimates made
when the offering was announced.
the trustees under the plan have de-
cided to accept all applications in
full. The applications will be filled
from stock already authorized and
issued.
The number Of stockholders of the
corporation in January OF this year
was 49.4S7. The addition of 10000
employe will increase by
two-fifths the total number OF stock
holders Of the corporation.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
DROP IN MONEY RATE
BOOSTS BOND SALES
Speculative Interests Bring Reac-
tional Advances-Short- Term Sc
curities Quickly Absorbed.
By the Associate Pre8,

NEW YORK, March 21.-The drop
in the call money market rate to 2h
per cent, the lowest in recent years,
today brought a fresh burst Of buy
ing of United States government is
sues. running all the liberty AZ per
cent bonds up to new high prices for
the year. Offerings of short time
securities were quickly absorbed by
banks anxious to place their excess
funds and all high-grade securities
were In good demand. Speculative
interest brought fractional advances
Erie. Chesapeake and Ohio and local
traction lines. but Norfolk and West
ern convertible IS broke three points
In sympathy with a decline in the
stock.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO, March q. Omitted States
Department of Agriculture).-Hogs
Receipts, $1,000 head; 5al0 higher;
good and choice, 160 to 325-pound
weight, 7.4Oa7.55; packing sows, $50
a6.90; killing pigs, strong to 25 high
er; heavyweights, 650a7.OO
Cattle-Receipts, 5000 head; beef
steers and yearlings. fairly active !;
steady; fat, she stock, Gamers, cut
ters, stockers and feeders, slow; veal
ers, 9.00a10.00; fed steers, 8.00a10.00.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000 head; gener-
ally steady; fat, wooled lambs, 1925
a16.75; best clipped lambs, 14.75; fat
ewes, 11.0sa11.25; common kind
around 500; shearing lambs, 15.35a
1kS5.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
NEGATIVE QUALITY
IN T0DAY'S MARKET
Little Fresh Buying Power.
. Sustaining Force Derived
From Short Covering.
BY STUART II. WEST.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WALL STREET, N. Y, March 21.-
During the greater part Of the time,
today's stock market was a negative
affair. Thursdays experiments on
the short side were not followed up,
but on the other hand there was lit
tie fresh buying power and the chief
sustaining force appeared to be de-
rived from short covering.
N. & w. Breaks SHARPLY.
Norfolk and Western broke sharp
1y on the overnight news that the
Baltimore and Ohio would protest the
contemplated lease by the PennSyl-
vania on the ground that it would
unduly strengthen a competitor.
This took away the immediate in
centive from the rail market gen
orally, but there was no weakness.
Northern Pacific dropped below so,
rejecting the low wheat prices which
at the moment seem to point to an
other poor traffic year for the north
ception. Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western ran up sharply on talk of
an extra stock dividend.
N. r. and NJ. Continues Strong.
New Orleans, Texas and Mexico
continued strong around its high
prices. Comparison of this stock with
New York Central has been invited
now that a ten-point difference has
been opened up between their selling
prices. New York Central earned
more than SIS last year, while New
Orleans, Texas and Mexico earned
less than 50. Both pay per cent
dividends.
The street is asking why, then, the
stock of the Southern road should
be quoted 10 points higher The an
swer would appear to lie in the fact
that the New Orleans. Texas and
Mexico has not been showing any
thing like it's true earning power. be-
cause of an extremely liberal main
tenance program.
Rubbers at New Lows
With United States Rubber stocks
at new lows and the dividend meeting
right at hand. the street is complete
ly at sea regarding the action of the
directors.
AS the day went on the main body
of the list picked up. Chandler Mo-
tors, which sold as low as 40, rallied
quite sharply, and there was consid =
cradle short covering in Studebaker
Baldwin Locomotive and steel shares.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
CAPITAL STOCK HOIST.
Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Company
Increases to $50, 600, 900.

wILKESBARRE, Pa, March al
BY a unanimous vote of the stock
holders the capital stock of the
Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Com
pany was increased from s10,000.000
to $3O,OO0,000, divided into $4,000, 900
per ctnt preferred and 100000 in
common stock. The increase, it was
stated. was to bring the authorized
capital in line with the price paid
for the purchase of the coal COM
pany's holdings from the Central
Railroad of New Jersey.
c. F. Huber was elected president
and Douglas Bunting vice president
and general manager.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
RADIO INCOME GROWS.
Corporation Of America, 1928, Az
most Doubles 1922.

NEW YORK, March 21-@ross ;,;rs
come of the Radio Corporatiop, nr
America increased from sl4.sao sSs-
in 1922, to $26,394,7S9 in 1928. anI
net income for the same period jumper
ed from $2,s74.570 to S4,737,774, ac<'
-cording to a report made public yese
terday. The net income for 1891
was only $426,799 y
Gross income from transoceanfr
communication on nine circuits was
$3.l91,558. Gross sales of radio rea-
ceiving apparatus were $22,465. 5.ose
The company operated $50 broadcast
ing stations in the United States dur.
ing the year.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
NEW YORK DRY GOODS.

NEW YORK, March 81 Especially
Trading in the cotton goods market
today was quiet, both in the gray
goods and sheeting sections. Prices
were about unchanged, with print
cloths quoted at cents for 64x60s
and 10N cents for 68x72s. Raw silk
markets again were quiet and un-
changed after their recent furry, at
a level about 35 cents below that ten
days ago.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
NEW YORK DAIRY MARKET.

NEW YORK, March 21.-Butter-
Weak; receipts, 11,061 packages.
Creamery higher than extras, 47xa
4sh; creamery extras coz score). 47k
a47h; creamery firsts (ss to 81 score).
45a46x.
Eggs-Steady; receipts, .35, ,903 boxes.
State, nearby and nearby western
hennery whites, firsts to extras, 26k a
SO; nearby hennery browns, extras.
28a30; Pacific coast whites, extras, 33
a34A.
Cheese - Irregular; receipts, 81, 7s5
pounds.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
PARIS BOURSE ANXIOUS.
Panicky Feeling Due to Domi-
nance of Foreign Orders.

PARIS, March 21.-Heavy selling
orders from abroad continued to dmo-
mate the bourse today, provoking
another precipitate decline in all for
eign shares. The average fall Of
these stocks since the downward
movement began has been 80 per cent,
which is regarded in bourse circles
as sufficient to wipe out the general
run Of individual spectators.
The panicky feeling was much
more pronounced today. Interven-
ton by the banks to arrest further
collapse of the market was discussed
Some OF the biggest banks an
nounced that they would accept no
further operations in future on the
pound or dollar.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
FOREIGN EXCHANGE,
By the Associa ted Press.

BY the As0octahed Press.
NEW YORK, March 21.-Foreign
exchanges irregular. Quotations in
dollars: Great Britain, demand, 4.30;
cables, 4.3Ok; sixty days bills on
banks, 4.27Z. France, demand,
.O523K; cables, .0524A. Italy, de-
mand, .0431%; cables, .0432z. Bel
gium, demand, AT; cables, .041s.
Germany, demand (per trillion) %.
Holland, .3700; Norway. 1882; Swe-
den, 1888; Denmark. 1850; Switzer-
land, .173oA: Spain. 1906: Greece.
OH; Poland, .0000012; Czechoslo-
vakia, .02SsA; Jugoslavia, .0122%; !;
Austria, .0000141s; Rumania, .o051 Y;
Argentina, .3375; Brazil, .11o0; Toxic,
AN; Montreal, 81 3-16.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
GRAIN ExCHANGE~ENJoINEp.

NEW YORK, March 21.-The Ma
tional Stock, Cotton and Grain Ex-
change, Inc, today was enjoined by
Supreme Court Justice Guy from do
ing further business The injunction
was issued with the consent of the
exchange and its president, Joseph G.
Cooper, under the state law known
as the Martin act.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
G.. M. & N. ROAD DIVIDEND.

of the Gulf, Mobile and Northern
Railroad Company today declared
dividend of / Y per cent on the cumu-
lative preferred stock. payable May
Is to stock of record May l. In two
preceding quarters a dividend of 81
each was paid.
Evening star., 1924-03-21

To prepare ground for the con-
struction Of a dam connected with a
California electrfncation project tons
of earth on Mount Shasta were dis
placed by q single blast OF dynamite.
Evening star., 1924-03-21

Dividend rates as given in the above table
are TIE annual cash payments based On the
n 1est ouarteriy haA-yearly declarations.
Uniess otherwise noted, extra or special diyi-
dends are not included.
Hieh. Low. LAs4.
Can Nousy..... s 2h 2h
HOURLY SAlEs OF STOCKS.
II an 26o 800 1p.m..... 496 900
- R...... sc 500 3D.m.... 6S1 800
Evening star., 1924-03-21

j.. approximately rs per cent of all
advertising In 1923 appeared in news
pApera