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Evening star., 1924-08-09
SERVANTS GET ESTATE.
Wealthy Kentuckian Bequeaths
Property to Negro Aides.

LEXINGTON, Ky. August "A
farm estate, including home, stock.
equipment and 273h acres, goes to
Ellen Davis, an elderly negro serv-
ant, through the will of her late en-
ployer, John T. Hughes. wealthy
farmer and horseman, who died re-
Gently. Alex. Rankin, negro in
Hughes employment for 40 years, was
bequeathed 961s acres on Haley pike
The larger grant is valued at approx
imately 100000, and was the most
important of several divisions pro-
vided in the will
Besides various cash awards below
$1,000, two churches and Kentucky
Female Orphans School received
gifts.
Evening star., 1924-08-09
MAY EVICT UNION MEN.
Special Court Session Asked in
West Virginia Field.

MORGANTOWN, w. Va, August 9.
indications that a number of coal
companies in this region will resume
operations on an open shop basis next
month, were given yesterday when
counsel for the companies requested
County Circuit Judge l. G. LaZelle to
call d special session of court early
in September to handle eviction cases.
The companies the attorneys said
would evict union miners from com
pany owned houses.
Evening star., 1924-08-09
SEIZE ALCOHOL SHIPMENT
Supply Valued at $3.50 Taken
at st, Paul.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, August 9.-A ship
ment of 1900 gallons of grain alcohol,
labelled "disinf ectant' was seized BY
police in warehouse here yesterday
The school is said to be valued at SIS, 600.
The shipment was consigned by a
New York firm to a st. Paul man.
whom police were unable to locate
THEY turned the liquor over to Fed
xxal prohibition agents.
Evening star., 1924-08-09
BOOSTER LADS HERE.
Members of Petersburg Boy Cham.
Der Travelling to Advertise City.

Three young members of the Boys
Chamber Of Commerce of Petersburg,
Va, arrived here en- route on bicycles
for Atlantic City on a tour in which
they are advertising their home with
booklets and pamphlets.
The boys are Elliott Smith, IT; John
Ayres. 16, and Stuart Short, IS. They
left Petersburg early Monday morning,
and passed through Richmond, Fred
ericksburg and Alexandria on their way
here. They will proceed tomorrow to
Baltimore, thence to Wilmington and on
to Atlantic City. On the way back they
will travel by way of the Eastern Shore
routes to Norfolk, Portsmouth and New
port News.
Evening star., 1924-08-09
4 DROWNED IN RESCUE.
Children Saved, But Helpers Go tc
Death.

PIEDMONT. Quebec, August g.
Four persons were drowned in the
North River here yesterday when
they went to the rescue Of children
who had fallen off raft. The chill
dren were saved, but their would be
rescuers-tWo women, boy and a
girl-were unable to get back to
shore and sank.
A troop Of Boy Scouts got the chill
dren to safety.
Those drowned were Mrs. A larry.
Mrs. A. Beauchamp, Pauline Jarry;
13, and Claude Boucher, son Of DR..
Napoleon Boucher. - :
Evening star., 1924-08-09
K. OF C.. TO BEGIN WAR
ON IMMORAL BOOKS
Supreme Headquarters Is Asked by
Committee to Combat Harm
full Literature.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 9.-Action
which contemplates immediate steps
by the order against dissemination
Of immoral and harmful literature
was taken before the forty-second an
nual convention Of the Knights Of CO.
lumbus, closed Thursday. The recon-
mendation was made in committee
report and the convention referred
the matter to supreme headquarters
for organization and financing OF the
movement
North Carolina's bid for the next
annual meeting was placed in the
hands Of the supreme board of direc-
The convention voted s3s, 1000 to re-
place the statue of Christopher
Columbus at Aguada, Porto Rico, COM
memorating the landing place Of
Americas discoverer on his second
voyage. The original statue was de-
stroyed by an earthquake several
years ago.
Evening star., 1924-08-09

Farmers Of Ohio sold their eggs last
year for prices varying from 16 to
SIS cents a dozen Wheat prices for.
the 1928 crop varied from IS cents to
SI.05 and more bushel.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
COUPLE, ON TOUR, FIGHT
AND DECIDE TO SEPARATE
Husband Goes One Direction and
Wife Another-Latter, Penni-
less, Given Aid.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG Va, March IL.
A singular domestic separation was
brought to the attention of Justice of
the Peace w. G. Sneed at Stafford
Courthouse when Detroit couple en-
route home from Florida had falling
out and the wife disembarked from
her husbands automobile at Stafford
following the quarrel,
The husband, said to be a painter
in Detroit, continued his journey
northward, leaving his wife and e
four-year-old son stranded at the
county seat. Justice Sneed sent an
officer after the man, hoping. to effect
reconciliation or to have him pro-
vide his penniless wife with sufficient
funds to take her home. The husband
was overtaken at Occoquan and
brought back to Stafford Courthouse.
but his fretted spouse declared they
had come to permanent parting of
the ways and refused to return with
her husband, who also was apparently
short of funds.
Through the generosity of the clerk
of Stafford circuit court, James Ashby,
the stranded woman and her little son
were provided with railroad fare from
Brooke station to Baltimore, where
the woman said she had friends and
could procure employment.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
TODAY'S COTTON PRICES.
Figures Fall Of After Gains in
Opening Market.

NEW YORK, March 11-Settlement Mt
of the Lancashire labor dispute ap-
poars to have been discounted in the
cotton market yesterday. Today's
cables from Liverpool were lower
than due, and after opening steady
cline of nine points the local mark ct
eased off under some southern selling
and commi ssion house liquidation
Houses with Liverpool connections
also were sellers here on the decline
which carried the price of May con-
tracts off to $3.50, or twenty-six points
net lower. Business was compare
lively quiet during the early trading,
being restricted by delays in the wire
service resulting from the storm.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
REDUCTION FEARED
IN STEEL OUTPUT
Present Orders insufficient
to Keep Plants at Present
High Speed.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

Special Dispa tch to The Star
PITTSBURGH, March 11.-Although
activity in the steel market has been
swinging downward for three or four
weeks, there is still a good volume
Of buying.
However, il is considered doubtful
by manufa acturers here whether the
present rate of buying will be suf1i-
cient to maintain production at the
current high rate. All buying now
is against definite requirements of the
near future.
Steel deliveries would indicate that
consumption is very heavy and labor
employment and freight car loadings
all point in the same direction. Dull
ness continues in the pig iron mark ct,
and, while consumption appears to be
large, there is said to be a decided
indisposition to cover for the future.
The last sale of basic iron was
1000 tons at $22, valley, late in Feb
ruary. Bessemer has moved only in
small lots, bringing $3.50, valley
Retail trade here is about normal for
the season. Building permits for
February totaled $2,134,000, an in
crease of $335,000 over February, 1923.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
EXPECT APPROVAL
Of RAIL MERGER
Bankers See Dissolution of
Hill Company-0ther Brief
Wall Street Notes.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 1l.-Wall
street bankers are expecting ap-
proval by the Interstate Commerce
Commission of the. proposal to merge
the Great Northern. Northern Pacific
and Burlington into one system be-
fore the end of the year. II is re-
ported preliminary steps have been
taken to work out the new organiza-
ton. The step would require dissoIu-
tion of the Northern Securities Com
pany. created by James j. Hin In
1901 to hold control of the three
holders are considering.
Mack Truck Earns s20.7i.
Mack Trucks. Inc. In 1923. earned
$20.71 s.hare on it's 2s3. los shares OF
no par value common stotsk. more
than double the year before. Net
profits In 1923 were s7.003. .656. com
pared with s3.952.2T9 In 1922. or tp.84
a share. Surplus was ~. .4a5.74.
against $2.b32.5bt in 1922.
Famous Players Earnings.
The Famous Players Laskey Cor
poration reports net Income OF 81
245.7S3 for 1928. equivalent To $40, IN
por cent on IFS outstanding preferred
stock before dividends Compa rcd
year before. Current assets were
$50, 0,4S6,S5S, against s1S.s72.526 in 1922.
The regular quarterly dividend OF 81
a share on the preferred was declared
payable May | to stock OF record
April 10.
Sumatra Reports LOSS.
Net loss OF si60,105 in the six months
ended January 81, 1924, is reported by
the Sumatra TOBACCO Company. COM
pared with a net loss of s433,348 In
the same period the year before.
Loose-wiIes Dividend.
Directors of Loose-w wiIes Biscuit
Company declared a dividend of 81 a
share on the second preferred for
1923, payable May /. to stock OF rec
ord April IS: also the regular quar-
terly dividend of $1.75 on the first
preferred, payable April 1, to stock
OF record March 20. This clears UP
accumulation on the second preferred
Canadian Pacific Surplus.
The Canadian Pacific railway reports
as sure a surplus of s31,224.399 for
1923. after taxes and preferred divi-
dends, equal TO s12 share on the
common stock, against S30,317,S64, or
Sll.66 a share, in 1872.
Threshing Machine Profits.
The j. !. Case Threshing Machine
Company had net profits of $634633 in
1923. equal to $3.50 share on $I3,-
100000 preferred, against $321,269, or
$2.47 share, the year before.
Stock Holdings Reported.
The Replogle Steel Company now
owns 80 per cent of the outstanding
preferred and common stock of the
Empire Steel and Iron Company, off,
cials revealed in statement attrib-
utfng the disappointing result of the
year to restricted operations.
Plate Glass Earnings.
The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Com
pany reports net profits of S19,113,l l25
for 1928, against $9,275,so3 the year
before. This is equal to 1886 a
share on 4S5.542 shares of capital
stock, compared with $249S a share
on 371,394 shares in 1922.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
COMMODITY NEWS
WIRED STAR FROM
ENTIRE COUNTRY

FORT WORTH, March 11.-Full ex-
tent of the damage to the fruit crop
of east Texas by the freeze Sunday
night probably will not be known for
several days. The crop promised to
be a record one until the freeze came
NEW ORLEANS, March 11.-Pro-
duction at mills of the Southern Pine
cent over the week previous. Orders
increased per cent and shipments
decreased "a per cent Orders on
hand Monday totaled 257,1oS,342 feet.
BOSTON, March 11.-Although the
Amoskeag mills have curtailed work
in some departments, operations are
about IS per cent normal. The print
works of the Pacific mills has re-
sumed operations of it's fifty printing
machines on a three-day week basis.
PoNCA CITY, Okla, March IL
Northern Oklahoma is now undergo
ing an active oil leasing campaign.
Drilling is being resumed on many
wells that had been shut down dur
ing the dull season.
PITTSBURGH, March 1.-THE coal
trade is very slow, with prices weak.
mines at $1.40 to 50. coking coal $3.50
to s2.15 and gas coal $2.25 to $3.50.
NORFOLK, March 11.-Heavy stocks
Of bituminous coal at Hampton roads
are having a depressing effect on the
Some shippers report a slight i'm
provement in the export trade, some
shipments having been made recently
to Brazil and to Italy.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
REPORTS GOOD EARNINGS.
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Has
Fine Year.

NEW YORK, March 11.-Net in
come of the Pittsburgh and West Vir-
ginia Railway Company for 1923 ex-
elusive of West Side Belt railway
277,247 in 1922 After dividends Of
$544,242, surplus was $1,331,632, COM
pared with S733,005 the year before.
West Side Belt had net income Of
$211,028 against $122,100 in 1922. The
consolidated income amount of both
roads showed surplus of $1,542,660,
equal to $5.O5 a share on 305.000
shares of Pittsburgh and West Vir-
ginia common stock, against $S55,155
or $3.50 a share in 1922.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
BIG INSURANCE CHECKS.

PHILADELPHIA, March 11.-Rod-
man .Wanamaker has just received
two checks totaling $276.504 and rep
resenting what is considered in in
surance circles as probably the
largest dividend settlement ever made
bY life insurance company.
The checks were drawn by the Mu-
tua1 Life Insurance Company, New
York, and represent distributions on
two ordinary life plan policies issued
to l. Rodman Wanamaker in Febru-
ary. 1904. The policies were for ST.
ooo: 900 and 100000, respectively, on
which no paid annual premiums of
S4e,716.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
STEEL COMPANY REPORTS.

NEW YORK, March 1.-THE an
nual report of the Penn Seaboard
Steel Corporation, made public today,
alton during 1928. compared with a
loss of $515,447 the preceding year.
The idle plant expense for the year
has been reduced, the report stated,
from $214,277 to $S6,2S0, and since
1920 current and long-term notes also
have been reduced by about $780,
900.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
NOTES TRADE CHANCES.
Commerce Expert Calls India Mar
kets Unlimited.

India offers American manufac-
turers virtually unlimited markets
for industrial equipment at the pres
ent time, Walter H. RastalI, chief of
the industrial machinery division of
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, told the members of the
Philadelp phia Export Club yesterday.
Controlling influences in England
and India since the world war see
that India must be seif-supporting,
instead of depending on the mother
country for it's manufactured goods,
and, while British firms try to get
their goods in, good salesmanship
and improved American products are
finding ready sale.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star cnee
meet Friday and take action on the
dividend.

meet Friday and take action on the
dividend.
Some quarters had it that another
distribution in stock is to be consid-
cred. Chesebrough old stock came
off about points, but the new shares
of $25 par did not move with the for
mer and held firm above Sc.
Among independents, Mutual gained
fractionaily on the report that the
company had brought in a new well
flowing 300 barrels daily on the
Boundary Butte structure in Utah.
Offerings of Lago Petroleum, one of
the members of the South American
group, were heavy, resulting in q de-
cline of 3 points.
Chain and department store stocks
were not influenced by the strength
in this group on the stock exchange
and were practically unchanged.
: Jordan Motors and Durant were
under pressure. but the decline did
not extend beyond a point. Little
happened in the dealings in mining
stocks
Evening star., 1924-03-11
NEW YORK EGG PRICES.

NEW YORK, March 11.-Eggs firm
receipts, 2s,868 cases. Fresh gather
ed, extra firsts, 26ha27: do, firsts,
25 1Sa26; do, seconds and poorer, 24k
a25; New Jersey and other hennery
whites, firsts to extras, 27a34; nearby
hennery browns, extras,f 30a31; Pa
cific coast whites, extras, 32h asa; do,
frts to extra firsts, 28a32.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
BRISK ADVANCE
IN FRENCH FRANCS
Heavy Buying in New York Proves
Great Help to Foreign
Exchange.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March IL. Active
buying of francs for the French gov
ernment today caused a brisk upturn
in the price to above q cents.
After lowering around $40 cents in
the early transactions the rate mount
ed ten points at one time and subSe-
quentIy steadied around 3.75.
Reports that the French govern
ment had obtained a $50, 900 900 credit
from American banks to stabilize its
currency remained unconfirmed.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
GOODS MORE ACTIVE.
New York Orders Improve-Prices
Hold Steady.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, March 11.-Cotton
goods markets were more active to-
day, both for gray goods and sheet
ings, but prices remained for the most
part unchanged. Print cloths were
quoted at cents for 64x60s and II
cents for 67x72s The raw silk mar
kets were very quiet, with price re-
cessions of 2h cents pound in some
grades.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
RECORD FREIGHT MOVED.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The StR.
CUMBERLAND, Nd, March IL
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company established a freight record
Saturday, with thirteen trains of L.
222 loads dispatched from Keyser, and
twenty-one trains Of 2,052 loads from
Cumberland, totaling 1874 loads.
There was an average of ninetye
seven cars per train and the move
ment was easy with the new Santa
Fe type of engines.
The best previous record was o.
795 loads.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
BY WILLIAM F.. HEFFERNAN.

NEW YORK, March 11.-Trading on
the curb market was quieter today
than on many days and the general
body of stocks moved over a mar
row range. No attempt was made to
bring about higher prices in the oil
group and this section appeared to
have discounted the advance in crude
Oil quotations
Professionals working on the short
side were not inclined to take ad-
vantage of the lack of outside par
ticipation, while pools which have
been active for some time in work
ing for the rise in selected stocks
were not as aggressive as on past
occasions.
Buying appeared at times in a few
of the oils. but was encouraged by
special reasons. Prairie Oil and Gas
gained points early when it sold at
242k. Directors are expected to
Evening star., 1924-03-11
The Sun and the Moon.

The sun rises and sets on the moon
just as it does on the earth. How
ever, the sun shines for about twenty
nino Of our days on the moon, and
then is below the horizon for unequal
length Of time.-Nature Magazine.
Evening star., 1924-03-11
WOOL EXPORTS START.
Dealers Weary of Waiting for Do
mestic Buying.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOSTON, March 11.-Continued
price resistance in the Boston raw
wool markets has led some dealers to
start an export movement in a small
way, it developed today. The move
ment is not expected to be great. how
ever, as the supply of wool suitable
for export is small and most dealers
retain confidence that prices will bet
ter here soon. The market today was
quiet at unchanged prices.
Evening star., 1924-03-11

Have You Been StunE Yeti
Some men have to get stung good
and hard before they learn TO be eau
tfous in making investments. Be-
fore you invest-investiEate!
Evening star., 1924-03-11
Washington Stock Exchange.

SALES
Capital fractions at e6.
AFTER CALL.
Merchants Transfer and Storage Co.-1o ut
Money-CaIl loans, 3 and per cent.
Evening star., 1924-03-11

NEW YORK, March 11.-Following
Us an official list of bonds and stocks
traded in on the New York Curb
.darket today:
Evening star., 1924-03-11

CONTINUED in Tomorrow's Starr
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-11-28
CHAPLIN SACKS CORPORATION
ELECTS new HEAD

The Chapin-Sacks Corporation at
its executive offices in Washington,
D. c., elected Mr.. Edward S. Perot,
Sr., as its President, who replaces Mr..
A. A. Chaplin, deceased. The other
officers elected were Herbert j.
Adair, Vice-President, Samuel C.
Redman, Secretary, and H. w. Shaw,
Treas. The Board of Directors will
consist of: Edwin C. Brandenburg,
w. A. H. Church. C. j. Cockerel. E
C. Graham, Samuel c. Redman, L. M
Ogden, H. H. Obear, H. j. Adair, Ed
s. Perot, DR., A. NJ Adair, Frederick
E. Noting, James Mullen, A. c. Viii
Iliams, j. E. Richards, and R. H
Weber.
Mr.. Harvey L. Kessler will remain
the General Manager of the Chaplin
Sacks Corporation in Woodstock.
The same quality and service will b.
maintained by the new management
1.-THE Velvet Kind is quality ic,
cream which is known throughout tn
South.
The Chapin-Sacks Corporation own
and operates plants in the followin
cities Washington, D. c., Richmond
Woodstock, Petersburg, Suffolk, Nor
folk, Danville, Va, Charlotte, Greens
boro, Wilson, Rocky Mount, Hendei
son, High Point, Burlington, Mort
Carolina; Knoxville, Sweetwater, Mary
vile and johnson City, Tenn; Pint
vile, Kentucky; Jacksonville, Florid
and Savannah, Georgia.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-11-28
DR.. JOHN MEEM. DIES In BRAZIL

Lynchburg, Va, Nov. PA cable
gram from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, an,
nounces the sudden death of Rev.
John G. Meem, D d., for thirty years
an Episcopal missionary there. He
was son Of the late John G. Meem,
formerly owner of the famous Mount
Airy estate in Shenandoah County.
He-is survived by his wife and five
children and was a brother of Mrs
Randolph Harrison, of Lynchburg;
James G. Meem, of Brooklyn; Stephen
H. Meem, of Bluefield, W. Va, and
Lawrence Meem, of Mount Airy.
DR.. Meem was a graduate of Vir-
ginia Military Institute and the Vir-
ginia Theological Seminary at Alex
andria, having been substitute pro-
fessor, two years at Virginia Military
Institute before beginning his theo-
logical work.
DR.. Meem in his earlier life was a
frequent visitor in Woodstock and
was we'll known to many of the older
generation.
His cousin Mrs. Daniel Kelliher of
Seattle, Washington, spends much Of
her time on the Mount Airy estate, il
now being owned by her husband, ont
of the leading bankers of the North
twest.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-11-28
SALE or CHRISTMAS SEALS

] The Annual Sale of Christmas seas
viii open on November 2sth and ne
posters and seals for The 1924 sale
have Just been received by Rev. i :
Brown, Chairman for Shenandoah
County.
This seal is the most artistic ever
lproduced in all the II years during
which the annual seal sale has become
recognized and popular institution.
| 1t is done in beautiful shades OF req
blue and gold. 1t is printed on oetter
paper than ever before. The adhesive
material on the back is more efflcienI
and the seals are guaranteed to Stuck,
The color process is perfect iitho
graphing job.
The seals are so artistic as to be
the equal of any commercial seal ever
put on the market and advertising ex-
perts declare they should sell 'reaai'y
merely for their decorative value.
The design contains the words
"Health, Christmas, 1924. !" Tn
double barred cross on white shield
bordered in red symbolizes the world
wide movement for the prevention Of
tuberculosis in which are enrolled the
International Union against Tubercu-
losis, the National tuberculosis AS
ISOLATION, 43 state associations and
about 1000 local associations. inns
campaign has resulted in saving OF
millions of lives throughout the world
and in the United States alone has
effected a reduction in the death rate
in the past is years from 202 per
hundred thousand to 81. This is the
greatest life saving work in which the
local association is participant.
AT the left of the seal there is a wo-
mans figure clad in gold drapery,
holding aloft a torch which smybolizes
the hope that has been brought to
mankind through the successful efforts
of the public health movement-a mes
sage to the i'll that tuberculosis can be
cured and to the well that it can be
prevented.
The word ''Health" on the seal in
dicates the enlargement OF the tuber
culosis movement into general work
for the betterment of public health in
all directions. The health program is
based on the theory that any educa-
tional effort or sanitary measure that
tends to improve general health con-
ditions or to prevent any form CT dis
ease leads to the eradication of tuber-
culosis The seal was designed by al
celebrated artist, George V. Curtis of
New York.