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New Britain herald., 1924-05-27

OUT OF SILENCE by A. D. Fickc.
 This new book Of poems exhibits the versatility of the author and show how clearly he has mastered his tech nique."
 OFFICE MACHINES. AppLIsNC ES
 AND METHODS by Walter Des-
 borough,
 X PLAIN MANS PRAYER BOOK
 "A compilation Of prayers gathered from many sources extending from the 10th century down to our own day" Lit, Rev
 PRACTICAL ELEcTRO-pLATING by
 W, Ia b. Bedell.
 SANDS OF TIME by Waiter sichel
 "Recollections and reflections Of the Victorian age"
 soNNErs AND VERSE by 1iilaire
 Belloc.
 MT. Belloc's collected poems en- Enthusiastically written" SUNRISE TRuMrETs by Joserh
 Anslander.
 "l.yric poems. intense. fragmentary. abruptly lovely: their chiscled imar- cry entirely unhackneyed and often overwhelmingly beautiful" Time. THE TEACHING WORK OF THE CHURCH hy Committee on the War and the Religious outlook. A THREAD OF ENGLISH ROAD by Charles stephen Brooks.
 "The author writes in an easy. dis coursiyc style Of his bicycle trip through England and comments whmsically and amusingly on all that he observes. Occasionally he forEets his narrative entirely and launches forth into what for all practical pur- poses is an essay and when in this vein he is particularly engaging. ''- \. r. Times Blk. Rev.
  THE WORLDS BEST Ep1GRAMs by James e. Lawson.
 "The author has made it caay 10 consult. a handbook ofN- brilliantly pointed speech covering over two hundred subjects"
 YOt' TOO by Roger BurIinga1nc.
 "A delightfuIiy written book on 2 mans struggle between chosen vo- cation and woman. The vocation is advertising and as treated by the au- thor sheds so much light on the bunk" in American business that no one with sense Of humor can fail to enjoy t'."-I.it Rev.
  WHAT THE BUTLER wINkED AT by Eric Horne.
 General impressions Of one who has been butler for 'Hfty-seven years in service with the nobility and gem try Mir. Horne's book. which owes its distinctiveness largely to the fact that it i. written by a man entirely without literary training or preten- iions, reads as engagingiy as fiction" N. r. Times Book Review.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-27

THE ORAL STUDY or LITERA-
 TURF by Algernon de viv1tr Tsssin
New Britain herald., 1924-05-27
A LIVING UNIVERSE by Lawrence

\ lsiA l4Nh NlN IitCb le i1d liH1t
 rcarsall Jacks.
 "The authors exposition Of the philosophy Of living universe r doubly interesting because he is con stantly turning aside tO mako prscti- cal application of il to the practical affairs oT today" \. Y. Times.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-27

MANY MINDS by C. (. Van Dorcn. i "The author continues his work of the appraisal of American writers in these thirteen essays. Tn manner NIT. Van Doren is cool. academic, genial, a little skcpticai,' showing q sefsc nf perspective which gives the reader confidence in his judgments"
Evening star., 1924-03-29
Decline IN Market Prices
Past Week Held Not Unusual
Drop Not Due to Happenings in Washing.
ton-AItered Vie,u of Trade Condi-
tiOns Among Cited Reasons.

the last month or so has been the
decline in agricultural prices. Cotton
Is on II cents in the pound from its
high. Yet 1t appears that prices of
even this decline cannot encourage
a resumption of mill operations, be-
cause the mill owners must still
operate at a loss. The cotton goods
trade is unquestionably the darkest
spot in the business situation at the
present time, and it can be cured in
only one of two ways. either through
a further curtailment in the output
of cotton goods. or through such an
increase in the 1924 crop as will force
raw cotton prices down to more at
tractive levels.
The prospect confronting the wheat
farmer is good deal worse than this.
Last year was as Improbable as any
that the wheat trade has experienced.
Yet cash wheat is now selling some
27 cents bushel under what it was
a year ago at this time, and the July
and September options, representing
the new crops, are down 10 to IL
cents. The decline in wheat has up
set the rest Of the grain market and
the provision market, both of which
have continued to drop.
Steel Trade Outlook Not Bright
Next in Importance to the dubious
agricultural outlook is the increasing
lower prices in the steel trade. Here,
too there is a decided change as COM
pared with two months ago. Pr1ces
of basic commodities like from and
trade is much depressed and in the
opinion of many a state OF over
production is threatened in the motor
industry.
On the other hand, it is well to note
the points in the situation which ap-
in q cOIOrg
they did at the beginning of the year.
First, there is the extraordinary ease
in money, which other things being
equal, assures continued support for
investment securities and the ready
absorption of new corporate offerings.
Second, the oil trade, which was the
weakest of all a year ago, is now in
strong position, with production OF
crude oil below consumption, and
with everything pointing toward
investigation is over. Third the
prospect is undiminished of sugar
producers having another prohtaole e
year, with the chances favoring their
getting even higher prices than they
did in 1923.
Fourth, the distributive trade, as
represented by chain store, depart
ment store and other similar organi-
zations, is running ahead even or the
remarkable totals of a year ago.
Fifth, copper production is in proce ss
of readjustment, so that this INDUS
try, so long in its unsatisfactory shape.
can fairly look ahead to a season OF
greater profit. Sixth. there are the
record figures on railway
tonnage and the very fiattering re-
suits Of railway operations in Febru-
airy, which seem likely to be repeated
in the current month
Business Situation Irregular.
1t will thus be seen that the busi-
ness situation is extremely irregular.
and can neither be adjudged or de-
scribed as a whole. The same may
be said for the stock market, with the
qualification, however, that even in
groups representing Industries in an
unproitable condition, the decline or
the last six weeks must have dis
counted a good deal
Evening star., 1924-03-29
SALES TO STOP LOSSES
HARD ON OATS AND WHEAT
Prices in Chicago Markets Past
Week Forced to Low Records.
Setbacks Noted.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 29.-Selling to
stop losses in every kind of grain
this week forced wheat and oats to
low price records for the season, and
for the first time in some time put
corn down to about an even ratio
with hogs. Compared with a week
ago, wheat this morning showed AS
to AZ decline. Other setbacks for the
week were: Corn, 3a3 s to 3 IS; oats,
2S to 3ka3A, and provisions, 2 to
IL.
Wheat led the downward procession
of grain values, and 1t was contended
that the world supply was SO much
in excess of needs that exporters
were independent of the United
States.
Reports that New England was i'm
porting oats from Canada, duty paid,
had a disconcerting effect on wheat
and corn as well as oats. Shipping
inquiry here for corn was slow
Weakness of the New York stock
market and of cotton also counted
at times as depressing factors as to
grain.
Provisions were partly steadied by
predictions of a falling off in the
volume of hog receipts here as soon
as farmers start field work
Evening star., 1924-03-29
BROKER is INDICTED.
New Yorker Charged With Making
"Wash" Sales of Stock.

NEW YORK. March 2s.-Charged
with having made sales of stock, and
with manipulating prices in 1919,
John Farson, head of John Farson,
Son & Co., stock brokers, was in
dicted by the grand jury today and
was held in $4,000 bail.
Farson was expelled from the New
York Stock Exchange early this wear
for alleged participation in wash
sales and for alleged violation of the
exchange constitution. His dismissal
after trial before the board of gov
ernors was based on charges con
nected with the fotation of stocks of
oil companies which later went into
bankruptcy.
A statement issued today by Will
liam Farson on behalf of the firm
said:
THE indictment of John Farson is
unjust and unfair. Farson has been
sacrificed in war between the stock
exchange and the district attorney.
The district attorney denied US the
right of a preliminary hearing before
a magistrate. Our firm is abundantly
solvent. Neither John Farson, nor
this firm ever participated in the
rigging of any market or in any
hctitious transactions"
Evening star., 1924-03-29
PHONE MERGER PLANNED,
Southern Bell Company Would Alb
sorb Line in Florida.

In a joint petition filed with the
Interstate Commerce Commission to-
day the Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company has asked federal
authorities for absorption of the Rre-
ward County Telephone Company in
Florida. The properties which the
two concerns have petitioned to be
taken over by the Bell interests in
clude exchanges in Smyrna, Titusville
Cocoa, Melbourne, Vero, Fort Pierce
and Jensen, Fla The Bell has agreed
to pay $4,000 to the Brevard stock
holders for their holdings
The Brevard county company in
formed the commission in it's petition
that it was unable to properly finance
its operation and that if adequate
service were to be rendered hereafter
new financial backing must be sup
piled. 1t believed the merger pro
posed in the joint plea would serve
that end.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
PIGGLY WIGGLY ORDER
IN FAVOR OF SAUNDERS
Court Grants Petition for Injunc-
ton With Permit to Operate
Under Restrictions.

By the Associated Press
JACKSON, Tenn, March 29-Judge
]. w. Ross of United States district
court late last night granted Clar-
ence Saunders petition for appeal of
the injunction suit brought against
him some time ago by the Piggy
Wiggly Corporation.
The order permits the operation by
Saunders of grocery and other stores
under certain restrictions. 1t pro-
vides that the restraining order still
applies to patents, trade marks and
instrumentalities and devices sold by
Saunders to the corporation several
years ago. However, Saunders may
engage in business under his own
name as an individual
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 29.-Clar-
ence Saunders announced that he
would open the first unit of his chain
stores system here at once as a result
OF the order issued by Judge ]. W.
ROSS In jackson las night. The order
modifled the restraining order grant
ed by Judge Ross on March 6, which
enJoined Saunders inaugurating the
new system.
Saunders said he had arranged for
an elaborate opening. He has en-
gagged two or three bands.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 20 (Spe-
ciaD. - Resuming their operations
after nearly a week of quiet, bur
glars. who have plundered more than
q score of Alexandria homes, yester-
day morning entered two houses in
Mount Ida, taking. as usual. only
small articles.
At the home of A W. Petersflia a
diamond and sapphire ring. valued at
e1eo, and pocketbook containing
several dollars were missing. An
overcoat and pair Of trousers were
missing in the home Of ]. B. Kirk
man.
Upon investigation by Sergt Dris-
coll of the Potomac police force, it
was found that entrance in both cases
had been gained through rear win
tened. In neither instance was there
any sound to arouse the occupants of
the homes.
Henry, alais Guy, Wood Of Prince
street, was placed under arrest last
night when officers. found two and
one-half gallons of corn whisky in a
coke pile in the rear Of his home and
a small quantity in a jar which was
in the house. He gave bond in the
sum of $500 for his appearance in
posed OF later.
Mrs Mary E. Rogers, widow of Will
liam Rogers, died yesterday at her
home, 1913 South Fayette street, after
ans illness of more than a year. She
is survived by one daughter, Mrs.
Mahlon p. Davis, and by two sons, Eu-
gene and Everett Rogers. Funeral
arrangements have not been made.
Funeral services for Mrs. Alice L
Brooks, who died Wednesday after
room, are being held this afternoon
att the home, zoos Duke street
Services will be conducted by
Grace Church, and burial will be in
Bethel cemetery. Mrs. Brooks Is sur
viyed by FIVE children: Edgar O..
Charles W. and earle Brooks, Mrs
AEv. Grouse and Mrs. Charles owens.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Virginia Nails, who died Thursday in
Staunton, will be held at Wheat
Isys chapel this afternoon at 8
o'dock. Rev. F.. L. Vernon, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church. will
conduct services and burial will be
in Bethel cemetery.
John Bayliss was exonerated of
blame In the case in which an auto
mobile he was driving struck and Sc
verely injured Jerry Barrett. mes
senger for the Alexandria National
Bank. The accident was classed as
unavoidable.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
BY STUART p. WEST

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 29.-The Wall
street markets of the last week are
to be analysed in much the same way
as they were a week ago. Prices
have not gone down because of any
thing that has happened at Wash
ington, although these happenings
have been commonly played up as
the alleged reason The decline may
be partly ascribed to an altered view
Of trade conditions and partly to a
shifting of large speculative inter
ests from one side of the market to
the other.
For the last two years it has been
the practice for a stock exchange
movement to pass from advance to
decline and vice versa without any
Intervening period of indecisive fuc-
tuations. n has been the history Of
these two years that every such
swing, whether up or down, has ex-
aggerated outside business condi-
tons. The market of November,
1922, went down quite violently in
face of the plainest indications that
trade was on the mend. The market
OF February and March, 1923, went
to the other extreme and pictured
an era of imitation, which there was
no warrant to expect In the same
way the decline from last April to
october overrated the extent of the
industrial recession and the upturn
from the close of October to the close
OF January overrated the business
prospects for 1924.
Speculative Compaigns Noted.
The point is that modern specula-
tive campaigns, on whichever side
they occur. are inclined to excess.
In their later stages they become
artificial and misreprese ntative on
the situation on the outside. The
opinion was expressed in this column
Two months ago. and repeated fire.
quenty since, that Wall street in
January had taken altogether too
rosy a view of things, that it was
acting as If there was to be a 5usi-
ness boom, which there was not, and
that 1t was failing to take account
of the numerous instances among in
dividual industries where conditions
were unsatisfactory.
The decline in the market, pretty
continuous since early February, has
htted in with this attitude. The ques-
ton is, however, whether the same
speculative forces which cverdid
things in the early weeks OF the year
on the side of rising prices will not
go too far now in the other direction
Nobody seriously believes, that is, in
the more substantial Wall street
quarters, that the scandals and hints
of scandals unearthed at Washington
have undermined confidence in the
business world. There a.e few who
think that these disclosures have
hurt the conservative cause at the
coming election. but they are in
very decided minority. The best
judgment is still that political de-
velopments have been of compare
lively slight consequence, and that
the market would have gone down
anyway. partly by way of readjust-
ment from the excessive midwinter
advance and partly because things
had occurred which ceased to war
rant the indiscriminate optimism pre-
vailing at the start of the year.
The most unfavorable incident of
Evening star., 1924-03-29
WIFE SHOT TO DEATH;
HUSBAND HELD IN JAIL
Staying Alleged Result of Woman's
Refusal to Turnover
Check.
BY the Associa ted Press.

By the Associa ted Press.
CAPE CHARLES, Va, March %
Mrs. BERTHE Holston Melvin, twenty
two years of age, was dead today and
her husband, Capt. Austin r. Melvin,
forty-eight, was in the county Jail at
Accomack, charged with shooting and
killing her at their home on Chinco-
league Island late yesterday. Sher-
iffs deputies declared Melvin does not
deny the shooting, which they said
followed the woman's refusal to give
him a check she had received from
the War Veterans Bureau on account
of the death of her brother, who was
killed in France.
The authorities also claimed that
the disparity in the ages of the cou-
pie had much to do with the affair.
The husband should have reported on
his boat more than a month ago, but
remained at home, the deputies said
they were told by relatives and friends
of the family, in order to watch his
wife.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
ARRESTED FOR S63 BILL.
Frank Siger Declares tDope" Was
RESPONSIBLE for Act,

Frank Sliger Declares fDope" Was
Responsible for Act.
Charged with failure to settle a sss
board bill at Washington Hotel more
than year ago, Frank Bennett
S1iger. thirty-one, Montclair, N. J.,
was returned here last night from
New York by Detective Sweeney.
Sliger was arrested yesterday morn
ing on being released from BlackwelIs
Island, where he had served a year on
a charge Of theft.
Sliger, university student, told the
detective he had become addicted to
the habit of smoking dope" His
family had but little to do with him,
he said, and he did not blame them
for 1t, but now he is cured of the
habit, he added, and intends to work
and repay the hotel bill and regain
the confidence of his family.
II believe he has been fully cured, I"
Detective Sweeney declared, "and
would like to see him given an oppor-
tunity to obtain employment and get
on his feet again."
Bennett will be arraigned in Police
Court Monday unless some settlement
is made Of the bill before then,
Evening star., 1924-03-29
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star once

! " points. Humble Oil lost over
half point, and larger losses were
made by higher-priced Standards like
Chesebrough O,d, Prairie Oil and Gas
and Borne and Scrymzer.
A noteworthy incident in the in
dustrial section was the overnight
advance of a half point in F. and W..
Grand Stores, following the sharp
rise of more than 5 points friday
At 50Z 1t was selling over 3 points
above the close last Saturday.
The selling Of the oil stocks check
ed any further effort at recovery In
other parts of the market, and prices
generally moved within fractional
limits.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
PLANS TO REORGANIzE,

NEW YORK, March 29.-Reorgani-
zation of the Southern Cotton Oil Com
pany. subsidiary of the Virginia-Caro-
lima Chemical Company. which fol-
lowed the latter into receivershfp sew
eral weeks ago, shortly will be effected
under a plan whereby it will be di-
vorced from the parent organization, it
was learned today
The services of George K. Morrow,
who last year successfully reorganiZed
the American Cotton Oil Company. ID
was reported, would be sought TO read
just the company's finances. Rumor
that two cotton oil departments would
be merged are confirmed
Evening star., 1924-03-29
TIME FOR FILING REPLY.
7. C. C. Concession Relating tc
New r. 3. Line in Florida

Tho Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion has granted the request of tho
Florida Western and Northern Rail-
road Company for an extension OF
time to May 1 for a fling Of full
reply to the commissions question
naire asking details concerning that
companys plans for construction Of
a new line from West Palm Beach,
Fla. to Coleman, Fla. pending before
the commission. Reply to the Ques-
tionnaire was due March "A. but
upon representation by tho Western
and Northern counsel that a new
survey and considerable field work
between Coleman and Sebring, the
commission agreed to the requested
extension. The company's counsel
said also that revised estimates
would be submitted Immediately upon
completion of the field work.
AS a result of the delay granted by
the commission 1t now becomes i'm
possible for the commission to give
consideration to the application for
authority to construct the property
until after May l..
Evening star., 1924-03-29
GOOSE LIVER PIES
MADE TOWN FAMOUS
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
The little French town of Stras-
bourg has been made world-fomous
through it's manufacture of goose
liver pies, of pate de foie gras. -
This delicacy is said to have been
invented in the latter part of the
eighteenth century by a famous chef
Clause, employed by the Marechal
de Contades, one-time governor of
Alsace.
There are about twenty-five man
ufacturers in Strasbourg. The geese
are supplied by the farmers. Some
families have been engaged in rails
ing geese for generations. 1t is
necessary that the liver of goose
reach its maximum size before be-
ing used for pies
Evening star., 1924-03-29
EQUAL RIGHTS ADDRESS.
Miss Cain, Woman Legislator, Will
Speak Tomorrow.

Speak Tomorrow.
why the Minnesota farmer-Iabor
groups indorsed the equal rights
amendment, and why they passed a
resolution demanding that the Mime
sofa progressives support this meas
ure without further delay" will be
told members of the National
Woman's Party at headquarters, 1st
and A streets northeast, tomorrow
afternoon at 4 o'clock, by Myrtle
Cain, the youngest woman legislator
in the country and a farmer-labor
representative in the Minnesota legis-
lature.
Miss Cain, who arrived in Wash
ington Wednesday, has been a worker
in the labor movement since 1919. She
is twenty-seven years old and is the
former president of the Trade Union
League, the secretary of the Henne-
pin county committee of the farmer
labor federation, and a member of
the City County Employees Union.
Lucy Branham will preside at to-
morrow's meeting.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
MOVIE STARS RENEW
UNITED ARTIST CONTRACT
Pickford, Fairbanks and Griffith
Sign Up-Chaplin Still Has
Eight Pictures to Make.
Rv the Associate Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
NEW YORK, March 29.-Mary
Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles
Chaplin and D. w. Griffith, at a
stockholders meeting yesterday,
agreed to carry out their existing
contracts with the United Artists
Corporation, which distributes their
motion pictures, it was announced
last night.
Miss Pickford, Fairbanks and Grif-
fifth, it was announced, also signed
new three-year contracts, Chaplin
not doing so because he had eight
pictures yet to make on existing con-
tracts.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
Renew Mine WAGE
SCALE FOR 3 YEARS
Central Pennsylvania Operators Ac-
cept Proposal Of Union
Officials.

By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 90
The Central Pennsylvania Bituminous
Coal Operators Association today
agreed to accept the proposal of the
United Mine Workers to renew the
present wage scale for three years.
Representatives of the operators and
miners will meet later to enter into
a formal agreement
Evening star., 1924-03-29
SAUNDERS OPENS STORE
WITH COURTS SANCTION
Former Piggy Wigg1y Head Wins
Right to Start Anew-Use OF
Patents Denied.

BY the AseociAted Pres.
MEMPHIS, March 2s.-Clarence
Saunders OF Piggly-Wiggly fame,
opened his new store here today with
the sanction of the federal court.
Judge J. w. Ross late last night
granted Saunders petition for an ap-
peal of the injunction by the Piggly
Wiggly Corporation and modified the
restraining order granted March so
as to permit Saunders to operate gro
cery and merchandise under his own
name. but not to use certain patents.
trademarks, names and Instrumental
ities'' which the corporation claimed
to have bought from Saunders.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
NEW YORK DRY GOODS.

NEW YORK. March 90 Especially -
The market for cotton cloths showed
little activity today. Prices for 64x60
print cloths were unchanged at 81
cents, but 6Sx72s advanced frac-
tionally to 10H. The drop in raw
silk prices continued, with 20-22 at
$6.55, AxB at $3.50, extra at $40,
best No. TX at s6.35. Cantons dron,
ped cents a pound.
Evening star., 1924-03-29
UNIVERSITY GUSTS
PACIFIST STUDENT
Northwestern Action, Following
Demonstrations, Declared Due
to 'Iow Marks"
By the Asocia ted Press.

BY the AEsocnted Pre1o.
CHICAGO, March 2s.-David Wal
lins, Northwestern University student,
who is alleged to have participated in
recent pacifist demonstrations Of
Northwestern students. was suspended
for tho semester yesterday by univer-
sity officials, who said, however. that
the action had no bearing on the
pacifist question.
Low marks in his studies was one
of a link of circumstances that re-
suited in the action taken, James
Armstrong, dean Of men, said. Presi-
dent Walter Dill Scott refused to
state any reasons for the action.