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Evening star., 1924-06-27
COMMODITY NEWS
WIRED STAR FROM
ENTIRE COUNTRY

ST. PAUL, June 27.-The st. Paul
post Office has contracted for $4,000
gallons of gasoline from the Parafine
OIL -ompany, whose bid Of 12k cents
a gallon was accepted.
PHILADELPHIA, June 27.-Glazed
Kid is the one bright spot in the
output going abroad. Sole leather is
quiet, with demand limited to imme-
diate needs. Betting butts are quoted
at 5S to 60 cents for No. l and Sc to
So for No. 2
BOSTON, June 27.--Owing to lack
Of orders the Nashua Manufacturing
Company will be closed next week.
The Lonsdale Company of Rhode Is
land will also be closed for the same
period.
NEW ORLEANS, June 27.-Heavy
shipments have overstocked this mar
ket in practically all lines of fruits
and vegetables except oranges and
lemons. Prices to producers are low,
but the public has not benefited.
DALLAS, June 27.-Elberta peaches
will begin to move from the Texas
orchards in volume in the next week.
Texas watermelons now are being
shipped north.
DETROIT, June 27.-Retail sales of
Chevrolet cars from January l to
June / totaled 1854, as compared
with 131 ,445 last year, and June sales
are expected to beat sales of June,
1928
ATLANTA, June 27.-The cotton
crop will be costly to raise this year
but growers are confident that the
small carryover will insure them ade-
quate profits. Country bankers are
freely financing farmers who have
their crops well in hand.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
SUIT WOULD REVOKE
TELEPHONE CHARTER
Indiana Concern Claimed to Be
Run by Dummies" Under Control
of American Tel. & Tel. Co.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, June 81
Suit seeking forfeiture OF charter and
the appointment of a receiver was
filed in the Marion County Court yes
terday by Attorney General l.. s.
Lesh against the Indiana Bell Tele-
phone Company. 1t is charged that
the manner in which the Indiana Bell
has conducted its business affairs
in violation of the laws OF this state
constitutes a grievous abuse of its
corporate franchise for which its
charter should be forfeited"
The appointment of a receiver is
requested with power to take charge
of it's corporate property and fran
chise" and Ito operate the business
pending the sale and disposition of
the property and the settlement of
it's obligation, and for all further re-
lief found proper in the premises"
1t is declared in the complaint that
the directors of the company are mere
dummies" under the control of the
American Telephone and TELEGRAPH
Company of New York; that the di-
rectors not only are not bona fide. as
required by Indiana law, but that
none of the directors is a bona fide
stockholder in the company.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.

CHICAGO, June 81 Omitted States
Department of Agriculture) Hogs
Receipts, $4,000 head; fairly active,
to 10 cents higher: lightweightss
show full gain: packing sows AROUND 6!
10 cents up: killipg pigs scored 25 to
so cents advance; shipping demand
more active; good and choice $50 to
$40 pound butchers, 7.20a7.30; top,
80: better grades. 160 to 225 pound
weight, largely 675a7.15; majority
desirable 140 to $50 pound averages,
6.4Oa66O; bulk packing sows, 6:40a
go: good and choice strong-weight
heayvweight, 7.O5a7.30; medium
weight. 7.O0a730; lightweight, 6.45a
715: light light, 5.60a6.S5; packing
hogs. smooth, 6.50a6.S0; rough, 6.10a
$50; slaughter pigs, 5.25a6.0o.
Cattle-Receipts.- 1000 head; trad
ing dull; around steady; buyers
low-priced cattle held during week
without bids; shipping orders light;
best n1atured steers today early, 1925;
yearlings, up to 9.75; bulk fed steers
and yearIings, 7.50a9.25; she stock,
very slow; light shipping orders for
bologna bulls. upward to around
45o for best heavies;z bulk vealers to
$50 to outsiders; little trading in
stocker and feeder division.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000 head; active;
fat native lambs, steady to 25c high
Or; bulk to packers, 13.00a13.25; out
Aders, upwards to 1875; early sales,
Medium to good rangers, steady at
1900; no good or choice grades Of
fered; sheep yearlings and Gull lambs,
fully steady; ewes, upward to 5.75;
yeariing wethers. 11.00; wethers, 500;
Gull native lambs. S.00aS.50; heavy
feeding lambs. about steady at 11.25.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
CLAIMS TROTH TO WE'D
WAS ONLY CONDITIONAL
Philip M. shaw Testifies in Own
Defense It Breach of
Promise Suit.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated freSs.
NEW YORK, June 27.-Philip NJ.
Shaw, testifying in his own defense
in the breach of promise suit for
100000 brought against him by Miss
Madrienne Dever of West Somerville,
Mass, yesterday admitted that he had
promised to marry her, but said he
had done so ''conditionally."
About three months after our en-
gagement we agree to postpone the
wedding" he said.
Mr.. Shaw, who was forty-six at the
time he proposed to Miss Dever in
1919, when she was twenty years old,
told the court that she had stated
several times she was willing to
wait" Soon after the suit was
brought the defendant, who was mar
ried at the time Of the proposal, but
since has been divorced, offered to
Marry Miss Dever Immediately.
During cross-examination the plain
tiff's attorney asked Mr.. Shaw if it
was not his indiscretion in proposing
to Miss Dever when he was already
married that had caused her to give
up a stage career and had brought
her to her present straits"
No" he answered, Il regard it as
her own indiscretion when she re-
manned in New York after 1 had ad
vised her to leave"
While Mr.. Shaw was on the stand,
Miss Dever left the courtroom sew
eral times, weeping.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
LULL IN BUSINESS
STILL GRIPS NATION
Federal Reserve Board Cites De-
crease in Commercial Loans
as Greatest Proof.

Business showed few signs of i'm
provement in May and the first half
of June, the Federal Reserve Board
says in a business review. The board
appears pessimistic over the stu
alton, reviewing conditions as fol-
lows:
Production of basic commodities
and factory employment showed un-
usually large declines in May and
early June, and were considerably be-
low the level of the same date last
year. Purchases at wholesale and re-
tail also declined during the period
covered by the survey and were
somewhat below last years volume.
Commercial loans at member banks
decreased, and there was further
decline in money rates.
Special attention was called to the
continued decrease in demand for
commercial loans rejecting lull
in business. General reports ap-
peared to indicate that much of the
business of the country was await
ing some sign as 10 what the future
holds and will merely run the coun-
try's manufacturing plants sufficient
to supply week-to-week demand
under present conditions.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

had abandoned its well in Southern
Alberta was emphatically denied by
officials. 1t was stated that drilling
operations had been resumed and that
indications pointed to a large produc-
tion. The stock continued active to-
day at fractionally advancing prices
The break of almost = points in
Durant Motors was due t6 the offer
ing of a large amount of stock at a
time when the market was compara-
lively bare of bids. McCrory Stores
B continued its remarkable rise ad-
vancihg six half points overnight to
So, while McCrory Stores new gained
3. Persistent strength in shares of
chain store organizations has been
attributed to increased sales and i'm
proved earnings.
The following securities were ad-
mitted to trading, but attracted little
attention: Pines Winter Front, class
A and b common: Miller Rubber is
sues, American Window Glass pre-
ferred and the various stocks of
Waltham Watch Company.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
35 RAILROADS TAKE OUT
S26O,OO0,OO0 INSURANCE

NEW YORK, June 27.-Group life
insurance policies aggregating more
than $3.50, 100000 have been taken out
bv thirty-five railroads, covering
more than 200 900 employees, to the
committee on public relations of the
eastern railroads. This gives the
railroads. leadership among corpora
tions in that form OF insurance. The
Southern Pacific carries the largest sin
gle Croup insurance contract, exceeding
Sic, 100000. others are the, Union
Pacific, SGo.00O,000; Central of Geor-
ria s20.oOO.OO; Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western, $23, 900; Lee
high Valley, SIS, 100000.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
NEW SERVICE TO IRELAND
Freight Boats From Baltimore Will
Make High Speed.


BALTIMORE. June 27.-An express
service between Baltimore and Irish
ports, to start within the next month
was announced yesterday at the Of
flee of the United States Shipping
Board. The new service will be han
died by the Consolidated Navigation
Company, which makes Baltimore it's
home port.
Sailings from Baltimore will be
fortnightly. The first vessel to sail
will be the steamer Coelleda, leaving
here July -. The steamers Schenec-
tady, Connehatta and Blair will fol-
low
Both to and from Ireland the yes
sells will stop in New York, Balti-
more being the terminus of the line
There will be twelve-day service
across the Atlantic, one of the fast
est freight services in the world
Ports in Ireland to be visited will be
Cork, Dublin and Belfast.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
BUS Line MERGER
PLANS COMPLETED
Fifth Avenue and Chicago Motor
Coach Companies Will Now
Operate $50 Cars.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NE" YORK, June 27.-Plans for
the merger of the Fifth Avenue Coach
Company and the Chicago Motor
Coach Company were completed late
yesterday at meeting of officials Of
both companies. The new company
will be known as the Omnibus Com
pany of America
As a result Of the consolidation. the
lnteroorough Rapid Transit Company,
which now controls 81 per cent Of the
voting stock of the Fifth Avenue
Coach Company, will relinquish its
voting control.
John A. Ritchie, formerly president
of the Fifth Avenue Coach COMPANY.
will be president of the new com,
pany.
The Chicago Motor Coach COMPANY
at present operates 335 double-deck
motor coaches over 110 miles of Chi
cago streets on twenty-year fran
chise. The Fifth Avenue Company
operates 315 busses over twentv-nine
miles Of streets in New York City.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
FINANCIAL NOTES.

NEW YORK, June 27.-Directors
of the Continental Paper and Bag
Mills, Inc, have declared initial. divi-
dends of / II per cent on the common
stock, ~ per cent on the preferred
and q per cent on the prior prefer
ence stock, all payable July 81 to
stock of record July II.
Wall street hears that plans for
foreign borrowing to meet capital re-
quirements of large exporting fr>Er-
ests of Finland are being actively
fostered by the Finnish government,
which regards the plan as one of
great economic Importance to the
country.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
CALL MONEY RATE
LOWEST Since 1903
Loans Made on "0utside"
Market at ! IA Per Cent.
Banks Fight Lower Interest.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, June 27.-Cau money
ioahs on the Outside" market yes
terday, 1t was reported, were trans
acted on a BASIS as low as IL per
cent, the lowest rate quoted since
l9os- In that year, however, the
onlclal stock exchange rate dropped
10 IA per cent, while yesterday it
stlll ruled at 2 per cent under big
board"
With the surplus of funds again
plllng up, coupled with a further ease
OF time money rates and outside"
call loanS, prospective borrowers are
speeding up their preparation to place
new bond issues before the bloom is
Off the bond market. Because of the
recent sharp rise of foreign issues,
bankers are said to be about ready
70 offer portion of the Hungarian
loan. Americas share is expected to
be about $lO,000,000, with the bonds
bearing 7l2 per cent coupon and
offered to yield over per cent.
Mutual savings banks, which had
paid 4 per cent interest for years,
are opposing a movement to reduce
rates on savings deposits growing
out of the Federal Reserve Bank cut
in it's rediscount rate to 3l2 per
cent.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
SPACE FOR u. S. EXHIBITS
Paris Wants Manufacturers to Dis
play Domestic Appliances.

The French National Office of Sci
entific and Industrial Research and
Invention plans to devote a section
of the second annual exposition of
Domestic appliances to be held in
Paris, October 21 to November 9. to
articles and products of United States
manufacture and invention, accord
ing to advice received by the United
States Department of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce.
1t has been conceded that greater
advances have been made in the de-
velopment of labor saving domestic
appliances in the United States than
in any other country.
The committee is composed of Ny
ron T. Herrick, ambassador to
France; J. J. Jusserand, ambassador
to the United States, as presidents;
Dal PiaZ, president of the French
Line, as vice president.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
PENNSY'S INCOME DROPS.
Gross Revenue for May Shows De
crease of Over $2,OOO,OOO.

NEW YORK, June 27.-Decreases
of more than $13,000,OOO in gross rev.
operating income compared with the
same month last year are reported by
the Pennsylvania Railroad. For the
five months of 1924 gross was $751;
2S4,591 against $291,742,522 in the
corresponding period of 1923, while
net operating income totalled $780,
96S.187 compared with $33, ,507,59
year ago. Chicago and Northwestern
also had a sharp drop in May net op-
Grating income to $3SS,652 against
$1,049,9S1 in May last year.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
LUMBER ORDERS PICK UP.
Production and Shipments, How
ever, Slump During Week.

With 353 of the larger commercial
sawmills of the country making re-
ports for the week ending June 81,
says the National Lumber Manufac-
turers Association, new business de-
creased, compared with similar re-
ports of 1873 mills for the preceding
week. AS compared with the cor
responding week in 1928, there was
d considerable increase in new busi-
ness, and noticeable decrease in
production and shipments.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
BY WILLIAM f. HEFFERNAN.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, June 27.-After a dis
play of firmness throughout the first
half session of the curb market trad
ing today realizing sales had their
effect in several directions, and the
general body of stocks moved with
great irregularity.
The high prices reached Thursday
attracted profit-taking sales by those
who had purchased earlier in the
week and slight reaction occurred in
radio stocks and in various public
utilities. Ware Radio lost half
point on rather heavy offerings and
the rise in Dubilier was checked.
OH shares. however, continued to
attract considerable attention and no
material weakness appeared. Prairie
OH and Gas selling ex. the 81 quar-
terly dividend had little difficulty
making up the amount which came
off the selling price
The report that the Royal Canadian
Evening star., 1924-06-27
CUT IN RATES DENIED,
I. c. c. Considers Petition of Mis-
souri, Pacific Unfair.

A Missouri Pacific railroad petition
for permission to cut freight rates
ION grain and grain products moving
from st. Louis, Mo-, and Cairo, Ill,
via Memphis to Mississippi River
points was denied today by the Inter
state Commerce Commission. Tho
railroad sought to make the reduce
tions to the territory described with
out reducing the rates to intermediate
points, and the commission held that
the violation Of the long-and-shortS
haul statute involved was undesira-
BILE.
Evening star., 1924-06-27
Washington Stock Exchange
SALES.


Washington Gas 5s-Sl 900 at 9slg.
Washington Gas SIS '33-Sl 900 at l0l
Capital Traction Co at 92&., 10 at ga
20 at 923. 80 at 92a4.
Washington Gas Light-l0 at 49,. .
Washington Rwy. & Elec. COMB at ~, lo
at II 10 at &C. 10 at rs, 10 at IS.
Mercenthaler Linotype-16 at l5sHi-
Washington Rwy. & Elec. pfd.-s at d. -
at 10.
AFTER CALL.
Capital Traction 5s-sl.000 at 81 Sl,no
at 97I, $1,000 Mt 91i4. $1,000 at 81
Washington Gas 5s-s5o0 at 9sh, 5000 at
9Sl. 81 900 at 9Si4 $500 at 9si4, Sl.ooo NJ
9Si4 ,oo,,
METROPOLITAN Railway 5s-s5 600 at 100%s.
Washington Rwy & Elec. $500 at -
National Mtge. & Invest. pfd.-oO at SIS.
Lanston Monotype-3 at 1214. ] at I2l2
Washington Gas 6s '33-Sl. 900 at l0l4,
$500 at 10ol. $500 at 102h. 500 at 1o2
Washing ton Gas Light-1o at 4s. at 49,
Washington Rwy. & Elec. pfd.-1J at 80.
) 10. An
at ~.
Money-Call loans and per cent.
UNLISTED DEPARTMENT.
Evening star., 1924-06-27

NEW YORK, June 27.-Following
is an official list of bonds and stocks
traded in on the New York Curb
Market today:
Evening star., 1924-06-27

The largest lodge of Elks is Brook
lyn Lodge, No. %, with approx.
mately u,636 members.
Evening star., 1924-06-27

Before You InveSt-Investigate
Ever notice that the fellows who
try to get rich quick are always
broke2
Evening star., 1924-06-27

Nearly 500 radio books have bean
published in the last two years.
Evening star., 1924-10-15
''Most for
Your Money
BY DR.. John w. Laird

When the thousands of government en-
Pioyes get their pay envelopes today, they
will Immediately consider the very practical
problem of how to get the most of life's
necessities out of the money they have at
hand. The home needs an article of fur
niture, a member of the family needs wear
ing apparel, certain amount of money has
to be set aside for recreation. A hundred
and one demands will be made upon the
contents of that semi-monthly ''reward of
daily labor
1t is reasonable to assume that in great
Anniversary Sale, where more than half
million dollars worth of attractive mer-
chandise is being offered at prices that make
possible superlative values, the man or
woman who takes advantage of this re-
markable price reduction will stretch out
the buying power of their pay envelope far
beyond its usual reach. In other words, by
increasing the buying power of his salary
ten, fifteen or twenty-five per cent, as the
case may be, one actually increases his
earning power accordingly.
In order that the government employees
might be given all the advantages possible,
we have made special preparation for
Thursday, Friday and Saturday-the days
Immediately following pay day: Although
the first days of the Sale have surpassed the
first days of any sale the Palais Royal has
ever held, nevertheless the completeness of
the stocks is such that in all departments
replacements have so adequately enriched
the supply that the last days will be as great
as the first
Good will is worth great price. If in
this 47th Anniversary Sale the Palais Royal
can increase the good will of its public by
giving values that truly represent saving
of money to the customer, then, whatever
the cost, the Sale will be considered para
mount success.
This is our ideal, our purpose, and our
goal.
Evening star., 1924-10-15
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
IN SAME LAW CLASS.
Alfred Klein and Spouse Ad-
/ mitted to Bar With 47
Other Applicants.

The unusual spectacle of q hus-
band and wife being admitted to the
practice of law at the same time was
presented today in the District Su-
preme Court, when John Paul Ear
nest, chairman of the examining COM
mittee. moved the admission of AL
fred Klein and his wife, Pearl e.
Klein, who were successful, in the
examinations held last June. The
kleins have arranged to open Offices
at once.
Mrs. Klein has been active in social
service work, being a member of the
board of directors Of the United He
brew Relief Society and of the Coun-
Gil of Jewish Women. Mr. Klein has
been correspondent for several
Jewish newspapers and for an inter-
national Jewish press association.
Both are gradutes of the National
University Law School.
Three Other Women in Class.
Three other young women and A
other men were given authority to
practice law today. Miss Dale Eliza
beth Hoffman comes from Missouri
and took her law course at George
Washington University. She is en-
ployed with the Federal Reserve
Board
Miss Mamie Jackson, also a gradu-
ate of George Washington, halls from
Texas. She is employed at the Treas
ury Department, in the Income Tax
Bureau.
Mrs. Ida Lundquist came to Washing
ton from Indiana in 1914 to enter the
Government service. She resigned some
months ago after completing her law
course at the Washington College of
Law. She expects to enter upon actual
practice at once.
Lawyers of Male Persuasion.
The new lawyers of the male persua-
sion are: John Thompson Hicks, Vir-
ginia; James John Hayden, Wisconsin
o. F. Hunter, South Carolina; Richard
H. Hert, District of Columbia; NJ. c.
Harris, Maryland; julius Allen Hob
Son, jr., District of Columbia; Edward
j. Hart, New Jersey Edwin NJ. Hamil-
ton, West Virginia; John E. Jackson,
Pennsylvania John H. Jackson, Mary
land; John w. Joralemon, New Jersey
William D. Jameson, Iowa; E. H. Ker-
win, Pennsylvania Louis Norman Kap-
Ian, New York; James NJ. Heating, New
York; George Kramer. Massachusetts
James Harold Kilcoyne, Connecticut; G.
d. kneip, Ohio Joseph w. Kennedy,
New York; A Stockton King, District
of Columbia; Alphonse c. F. Kenou-
ski, Pennsylvania
John Morrison Kerr, Kansas; Clar-
ence c. keiser, Maryland; Alton E.
w JONI raul 1AdDO-
fish, District of Columbia; Nathaniel
Henry Leden, Connecticut; John G.
Lerch, New York; Richard H. Lewis,
Illinois; Karl B. Lutz, West Virginia;
Marx Lewis, Wisconsin,; Jacob Levy,
District of Columbia; Herman G.
Lauten, District of Columbia. Nichols
Lambadekis,~ District of Columbia;
Arthur McGregor, Utah; Elton Nc
Cardell, Maryland; James A. McDon-
nell, District of Columbia; George l.
McGurn, Massa chusetts; Harry Il.
Mckenna, District of Columbia;
Charles 8. Mclnnis, Alabama; Will
liam Thomas Mckeown, South Da-
kota; Joseph Z. Mccarthy. MaSsa-
chusetts; Daniel T.. Mcdonald,
Georgia; John j.. McGinnis, District
of Columbia; Hugh NJ. McCaffrey, Vir-
ginia.
Evening star., 1924-10-15
Beauty Parlor in Bankruptcy.

Petitions in voluntary bankruptcy
have been filed by William j. and
Katherine L. Ogilvie, who conduct a
beauty parlor at 1908 Connecticut
avenue northwest The liabilities of
William are placed at $7,016 and his
assets at $3.50, while the debts of
the other petitioner are given as
5000 and her assets as $3.50. At
torneys Wilton ]. Lambert and Alfred
NJ. Schwartz appear for the petition
erS.