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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-04-24
Local News

Faust" 30.-adv.
Highest cash paid for hides, at
Nc Laughlin Bros.-adv.
Miss Vera Walker spent Sunday at
the home of her parents in Roberts.
Miss Mary Bradley spent the
Easter recess at her home in Nenom-
onie.
Ed. P. Evans has been reelected
chief of the New Richmond fire de-
partment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peske of Minneapolis
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Otto
Sombke Sunday.
Neal Bartholomew was horne from
the university of Minnesota during
the Easter recess.
Mrs. Sheldrew and daughter, Miss
, Bernice, and Mrs. H. Wood spent
Monday in St. Paul.
Did you get one of those cheap
Moline Spreaders? If not, why not?
c. Carisch & Son.-adv.
A vaudeville program of sever
acts is to be given at the high school
tomorrow friday evening.
Mrs. f. E. Schroeder of Marshfielc
spent the Easter vacation at the
home of Mrs. J. H. Patterson.
Miss Helen Ellis Ellis of Mime.
apolis spent Easter here with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. D Hills.
"a Bigger and Better Maiden
Rock" is the slogan of booster as
ISOLATION just organized in that vii
lage.
The pickle-salting station at
Spring Valley, idle the past two
years, is to be operated again this
summer.
Black dirt for sale; delivered any
place in the city for very reason,
able price. Johnson & Blegen, phone
| 611.-adv.
Mrs. Ella Taggert spent Easter
Sunday with her son and daughter
Paul Taggart and Mrs. Ralph Dodge
in Minneapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Baird anC
Mrs. Brown, of Minneapolis, were
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
| Geno Van on Sunday.
Strawberry plants 75s hundred
Raspberry plants, So hundred
/ Gooseberrys and Currents 15c q
plant. Coley Krauth.--adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zeb. Eaton of An
Mandate, and Mr.. and Mrs. Oces
Phillips and children, of Minneapolis
were guests at the H. Fredeen home
Sunday.
The Hudson Star-Observer ans
wers the Junction depot facing ques
ton with the statement that thu
building fronts the mainline tracks
at an angle of five degrees west o.
northwest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hooking
who had been spending the winter
in California, returned home las
Friday. Their daughter, Miss Nettie
who has been teaching, is home fol
the Easter recess.
Misses Nina Colwell and Evange
line Brathovde, who are taking ;
course in Kindergarten Methods Al
the Superior normal school, spent thu
Easter recess at the home of thu
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. P
Colwell.
Evening star., 1924-02-07
BUSINESS TOPICS.
Employment in Philadelphia
Slumps-Farming Revival.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, February !. -
This city continues to show q steady
falling off In employment. The aver
age decline in the last month has
been Az per cent, but the tobacco and
chemical Industries show gains run
ming az high as SO per cent. The
textile industries showed the largest
percentage OF loss.
ST. PAUL, February 1.--North-
western railroads forecast tre-
mendous revival Of homesteading and
farm settlement this year as a result
of new homeseekers rates. These
rates are applicable to points in
North Dakota. Montana, Idaho. Ore
gon and Washington.
Evening star., 1924-02-07
AUTOMOBILE OUTPUT
ON HIGHER SCHEDULE

NEW YORK, February Auto
motive Industries says: "a large
number Of the major automobile pro-
ducers are operating on capacity
schedules Other makers are main
taining high manufacturing schedules.
these to be increased gradually, so
that by the end Of February the en-
tire Industry will probably be work
ing along the same level as featured
the best months last year.
1T is estimated January output ap-
proximated 100000 more cars and
trucks than were built in that month
last year.
The sales outlook is distinctly en-
couraging. business in some sections
being reported above normal The
open winter has a market effect on
sales and has kept demand up to
n high point during a generally slow
period"
Evening star., 1924-02-07
:JAPAN'S LOAN MAY
TOTAL s27Q,0D0,0l0
U. S. Bankers Expect to
Handle Over HaIf-0ther
Wall Street Briefs.
Ey the Associated Press.

Gy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February wall
street today induiged in considerable
speculation regarding the Japanese
loan as indications pointed to an ear
Iy Offering. Estimates of the total
amount were raised to S210,000.000 of
which il was said $150,000,U00 would
be sold here and the remainder in
determined to take care of all re-
funding and reconstruction needs in
one financial operation. With "a
coupon of about per cent it was eX-
DecIed that the new issue would be
priced to yield more than per cent:
New Oil stock Listed.
Proceeds derived from the recent
sale or 100000 shares oil Marland Oil
stock to j. T.. Morgan IL Company
will be used to liquidate current bank
loans OF the company totaling So
$4,000 and the remainder of approx
lmately S3,000.000 will go ~ pur
chase oil and gas leases and enlarge
the company's pipe line facilities. The
new shares have been listed on the
New York Stock EXcnange.
Sale of the S1l,604.O00 Illinois Cen
tral and Chicago, St. Louis and New
Orleans joint refundin- bonds met with
d quick response To-Day. Books were
closed within few minutes after the
opening.
Foiiowtng authorization by directors
OF the Brooklyn Edison Company of an
increase IN capitalization from $4,000
nUo TO SI0,0OO.UOu, application has been
haue 10 me liuDilc service commission
to offer Sl5,000.009 of the new common
stock to stockholders at 500 a share.
The sale will increase the company'S
outstanding capitalization to s5S.3S2,
600.
Total profits of the Republic Iron and
steel Company jumped from S2,520.96I
IL 1922 to S3.261,795 in 1928. Net PROFITS
We're $6,2J2,2lS, an increase of more
than $5,g00,000 over the prec ceding year.
business confidence has been strength
ened by the Mellon tax plan, Chairman
John \. Topping reported to stockhoid-
erS.
Evening star., 1924-02-07
FREIGHT TO INCREASE
IN EAST DURING 1924
By the Associated Pres

bH tIS Associated freSS.
NEW YORK, February 7.-Railroad
irtiAnt shipments in the east this
Year are expected to exceed those of
last year about 10 per cent, but the
situation can be adequately handled.
as box cars will not have to be ex-
ported to tho west to handle gram
traffic, as in former years the Middle
Atlantic states Regional Advisory
Board announced last night.
Inc uoaiu. Mil.,n Was med Jan
uary 3, met to complete its organiZa-
tlon. 1t was originated by shippers
III New York. eastern Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey,
TO Cooperate with the car service di-
vision of the American Railway AS
ISOLATION, whose functions Include
distribution of freight cars through
out the country.
NJ. j. Gormley, chairman of the car
service division, told the poaru there
were $4,000 more box cars west of
Chicago now than ever before, that
roauo operating In that territory have
more box cars of their own on home
lines than at any time in the las,
seven years, and that fewer box cars
heIoneing estern carriers were in
the east than ever before.
Evening star., 1924-02-07
COMMODITY NEWS
WIRED STAR FROM
ENTIRE COUNTRY

ST. LOUIS. February 7.-Advances
in the prices Of cotton goods have
resulted In sharp demand for silks.
NEW ORLEANS. February T.--Buy-
ers are displaying unmistakable signs
of hostility TO advances in the prices
OF dry goods, especially white cotton.
Department store heads say, however.
that there is little danger of any
sharp advance, as practically all the
local stores have bought spring and
summer stocks.
PITTSBURGH, February 7.-Build-
ing continues active. despite the cold
weather, and materials, including
window glass. are moving briskly,
with prices stable.
ALEXANDRIA. Va. February o.
Three months must elapse before
quarries in New aHampshire can de-
liver the tifty-seven stone columns
for the George Washington Masonic
National Memorial Temple here.
Hence work has stopped on the prof.
ect until next spring.
SEATTLE. February Value of
furs shipped from Alaska in 1928
reached s1,794.159. Muskrat skins
led the list with total Of 1881
pelts. valued at s367,553. White fox
476, while beaver skins brought trap
pers s215.000.
ATLANTA, February THE Atlanta
Commercial Exchange has made ar
rangemen1s to resume distribution of
pedigreed cotton seed on larger
scale than last year, when ii inaugu-
rated Il movement to restore the
famous north Georgia 1 1-16-inch
staple.
KANSAS CITY. February Reg
ular customers for established brands
have taken fair quantities of -four In
the last week. but there has been
little new business. Shipping direc-
tions on old orders however. have
been good and mills are running close
to capacity.
Evening star., 1924-02-07

The only Chinese woman who holds
the distinction Of membership in the
Order of the British Empire Is Mrs.
Lee Chooe Guam, who received the
reward for the active interest she
took during the war in various char
table enterprises in Singapore.
Evening star., 1924-02-07
PLANTING BACKWARD
IN SOUTHERN STATES
Retail Trade Shows Drop in New
Orleans-Railroad Plans
100000 Outlay.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW ORLEANS, February Back
wardness Of spring planting Is MAX
ing itself sharply felt in the business
situation Of this section. Sales of
country merchants are being held
down to a minimum and they are ex-
tremely careful in making forward
commitments. Collections are slow
ing down. The greatest losses shown
in the retail lines in this city have
been In jewelry, musical Instruments
silks. millinery and cotton goods.
The Louisville and Nashville rail-
road has just started work on freight
sheds which will cost 100000, and
has announced a program of yard
roundhouse and repair equipment
costing $596.0O0.
Evening star., 1924-02-07
FIERY CAREER OF WOMAN
RADICAL ENDS IN DEATH
Nine. Sorgue, Noted Throughout
Europe for Flaming Adventures,
Found Dead In London.

LONDON, February Mime. Sorgue,
the famous continental syndicaIist, was
found dead In bed In London hotel
today. She was here as correspondent
for Belgian newspaper seeking inter-
views with Premier Macdonald, Mr..
Lloyd George and other notables.
Mime. Sorgue was a daughter Of the
French philosopher. Durand Degros, and
her grandfather was the Russian Gen.
Kripkoff. In the course of her flaming
career she has been described as
"Europe's most dangerous woman, the
stormy petrol and mime. Trouble"
She headed the women's hunger march
to Tower Hill in 1912, and four years
previously attracted notoriety as being
the only journalist at the Lisbon inter-
national peace congress to remain
seated on the entry Of King Carlos. Few
women, If report Is correct, ever had
such remarkable adventures as Nine.
Sorgue. She once delivered a fiery
revolutionary oration in Florence while
looking down the rife barrels of the
gendarmes and was waylaid in France
by mob sworn to kill her. But she
always escaped and never tired of de-
claring that she adored revolution.
Evening star., 1924-02-07
GENERAL MOTORS SALES
LARGEST IN HISTORY
By the Associated Preaa.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February Met sales
of the General Motors Corporation,
totaling $685., 100000 in 1923. were the
largest in the company's history. ac-
cording to the preliminary earnings
report. Net profits also established a
net high record, mounting to S61,S2J,-
n00. as compared with s51,496,136 in
1922.
sales of the corporation last yearwere
approximately s235, 100000 greater
than in the preceding year and ex-
ceeded the total of 1870, the previous
largest sales year, by more than $780,
100000.
Earnings available for the common
stock increased SO. 100000 to 55,000,-
coo, equivalent to $3.50 on each share,
as compared with s219 In the pre-
vious year. With the add't,on OF
earnings from the Fisher Body Cor
Eoration total earnings on eacn of
the 20,646,327 shares outstanding
amounted to 1912, rs compared with
$3.50 III 1922.
Evening star., 1924-02-07
APPLE PRICES FIRM.
Moderate Receipts Reported From
New York.
speciaI Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, February 7.--Barreled
apples were In only moderate receipt
today. but prices were practicall. un-
changed with trading very slow.
Fancy fruit of all varieties were
sought, but little was available. A
grade 21s Inch greens ranged from
$3.50 to Sc per barrel, while Baldwins
brought from $3.50 to So. Miscel-
laneous varieties sold at from $3.50
TO 81.
White potatoes were in fairly lib
eral supply, with the market steady,
particularly for fancy, bright, we'll
graded stock.
Evening star., 1924-02-07
CHICKENS IN U. S. WOULD
REACH 10000 MILES

CHICAGO. February IF all the
chickens raised in the United States
i'll 1928 were lined up tatl-to-head
they would reach around the world
six times with sic full-grown hens
left over, according to figures COM
piled by the Sears -Roebuck Agri-
cultural Foundation and announced
today.
The statistics show that the egg
and chicken crop OF 1923 has an es-
timated value of $923.315.7S0.
Evening star., 1924-02-07
LISTED ON BIG BOARD"

NEW YORK, February THE
committee on stock listing Of the New
York Stock Exchange has authorized
the admission to trading Of the fol-
lowing securities: Kingdom Of Nor
way, s20,000.000 twenty-year 6 per
cent bonds; Willys-Overland Com
pany, S524,255 common stock, and
MarIand Oil Company, 5000 shares
of capital stock without par value.
Evening star., 1924-02-07
LEAGUE TO PREPARE
ARMS SALE TREATY
Subcommittee to Draw Up Conven-
tion to Control Interda-
tional Traffic.
BY the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA. February 1.-The dis
armament commission OF the league
of nations, which has been ip session
here the past few days, decided to-
day to hold a subsequent meeting in
Paris. beginning March "a, to draft a
definite convention for the control of
the international traffic in arms.
The work has been intrusted to q
subcommittee, Of which Joseph G.
Grew, American minister to Switzer-
land, who has been attending the
commissions sessions, is a member.
Evening star., 1924-02-07

Children's Rompers, 75c
Were ST. 2s in tan, brown. red and green.
Sizes range from 2 to years.
Chidrens Gloves 10c pr. 100 pairs wool gaunt-
lets and two-clasp fabric gloves, in camel,
brown, gray and navy. Sizes to Z.
Princess May Pants and Drawers, pieces for
SOC. $50 garments, fleece lined For children.
Broken sizes.
Children's Union Suits, CSC; were more. 100
pairs fleece lined suits for boys and girls from
2 to years. High or low necks., Long or
elbow length sleeves and knee ankle length.
ChIdren's Socks, 10c. 80 pairs cotton socks
with fancy colored tops. Broken sizes.
Boys Sweaters, 75c
Were more. Is wool slip-on sweaters. Navy
and blue. Broken size range.
BOys' Slip-0n Sweaters, $2s were $3.9S. Double
and single knit sweaters with shaker collars.
Navy, gray and black. Sizes % to "a.
Boys Blouses, 4Sc. 75, madras and percale
blcuses, seconds and samples OF higher grade.
Sizes to Is years.
Boys Trousers. 81, were $780, IS pairs wool
mixed trousers. lined throughout. to Is years.
Boys Night Shirts, 6scs were $1. As, of fan
neIette, in a variety of colors Broken sizes.
DOWN STAIRS STORE
Evening star., 1924-02-07
FORMER FILM STARS
DEATH TO BE PROBED
Lillian Drew, Chicago, Victim of
Overdose of Sleeping Potion,
According to Mother.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, February "A coroner's
investigation is to be made of the
death of Lillian Drew, forty-one
years old, one time Essanay film star
and stage actress. who died Monday
after taking an overdose of sleeping
potion, according to her mother, Mrs
Marguerite FIannery.
She was the wife OF Z. II. Calvert,
also formerly screen actor. who is
said to be living in New York.
Evening star., 1924-02-07

Statistics show that fewer girl
babies are born In almost every civil
, liZed country. But the girls usually
are made of stronger stuff" and so,
when adult years are reached, they
are always in a majority, in spite Of
the initial handicap.
Evening star., 1924-02-07

10 Fancy Elastic Girdles, radically reduced.
Girdles, 85c. 20 at this reduced price. Sizes
range from "a to 81
Bandenux. 2sc. 40. Sizes SO to 40 in the lot
X & G C0rsets s1.45. Only 90, sizes % to 26
COrsets 2Sc. Just 25. Sizes range from 20 to 81.
Lace Brassieres. 3sc. %. in sizes from 80 to 4O
DOWN STAIRS STORE.
Evening star., 1924-08-24
Rumania Seeking
Pact With Vatican

The difficulties in the way of a
agreement between the Rumania
government and the Vatican in re
spect to the status of the Catholic
Church in the New Rumania are moi
proving easy of settlement. Tht~
Roman Church has 100000 adher-
ents in the province of Transylvania,
and owns valuable properties, the
title to which was formerly vested in
the King of hungary.
Representatives of the government
have been in Rome for several weeks,
and the basis of an agreement has
now been submitted to the govern
ment by its representatives. Accord
ing to the published outline of this
agreement, the Vatican is prepared to
place certain, but not all, of the
Church's properties in Transylvania
under the control of the state and
within the limits of the Rumania con-
stitution. Coupled with this, how
ever, the Vatican insists that there
must be no discrimination against the
free exercise of the Catholic religion
in the new provinces, and that Cath
Ollie schools must remain under the
control of the Church, subject to their
being administered within the regu-
lations prescribed by the ministry Of
education.
Evening star., 1924-08-24

the railroad employe 10 credited with big
wages in fact ha Aoas not get excessive wages
because he lies idle SO much.
Wants Stabilized Employment.
What the railroad worker wants, and what
the union officials are trying to get for him.
is stabilized employment. IF we can get
steady. year-round employment for the men,
they can afford to work for lower wages" the
union leaders in this new industrial co-opera-
tion try-out told me.
Under the old frequent furlough conditions
it was ridiculous to urge the men to hustle
on Job and do their work thoroughly and
well. because like organized labor whole,
they felt they would be simply working them
selves out Of job and Fastening the day Of
their lay-off To this add the accidents and
untimely delays resulting from the careless
work of these dissatisfied. demoralized men.
Consider also the deterioration Of the crafts
man through loss of pride in the quality of his
work.
William H. Johnston president of the Inter-
national Association of Machinists. figured out
that all this could be stopped II the railroads
could be induced to do their own work in their
own shops instead of buying all parts. or hav
ing locomotives and cars repaired in outside
manufacturing plants. or even buying new To-
comotives and from such other plants.
The railroads could save money, he figured by
doing this work in their own shops, especial
ly during the customary furlough periods. Thus
steady work would be afforded the shop crafts
1t has been the custom of railroads to
buy so per cent of such rolling Stock or parts,
or repaired work in the outside market.
Sought Employer Co-operation.
During the period of Federal control and
operation of the railroads, President Johnston
of the machinists announced publicly that his
association was searching eagerly for pro-
gressive employer who would. on the basis of
full recognition of the union. accept co-opera-
ton by the union machinists for increasing
efficiency and the furtherng of economy in
the interests of service to the public.
The Congress attempted to solve the prob
lem that had arisen because % employer
was paying his machnists so cents, his boiler
makers. 81 cents; his blacksmths. So cents;
his helpers, Sc cents, and his apprentices from
80 cents to so cents an hour because his COM
petitor paying the same, regardless of the
quality of work or the amount of waste; and
(2) because piece work could not be honestly
and fairly computed. Congress created a tr-
bunal to fix rules and wages for railroad en-
ployes, and of the most disastrous and
far-reaching railroad strikes in history
suited.
With this background thoroughly familiar to
Evening star., 1924-08-24
Striking Results Gained by Cooperation
Between Railroad and Its Shop Employees

him, Daniel Willard. president of the Baltl-
more and Ohio system, familiarly known
among his men in the big Baltimore and Ohio
family as Uncle Dan," agreed with Presi-
dent Johnston of the machnists that 1t would
be well worth while to try out the new scheme
of industrial cooperation" by having repair
work done and parts made in their own shops
mostly in what had been furlough periods.
Started with Brakeshoes.
Lets show you what we do" said the
union officials. The Baltimore and Ohio has
daily need for some 1880 brakeshoes. The un-
ion officials took an abandoned foundry in
Newark and with help that was paid 70 cents,
as against 80 cents in the outside shops, turn
cheaper
Then the Baltimore and Ohio had an unserv-
iceable locomotive, and got bids from two of
the largest locomotive building concerns in
this country for undermining 1t. The Baltimore
and Ohio machinists in the Mont Clare shops
did the job for several thousand dollars less
than the lower bid. Now the Baltimore and
Ohio Is having some $50 locomotives modern
lied in its own shops and generally In what
would have been furlough periods.
The machinists get steady work. and are con-
tent. happy, proud of their craftsmanship
while the railroad gets modernized switching
engines at big saving.
Try-Out in Big Shop.
In January 1923. the details of this
system of cooperation between the Baltimore
out roughly in Washington and Baltimore and
inaugurated in the Glenwood shop, Pittsburgh,
February IL, 1923. The Glenwood shop is one
of the three major shops the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad system. and when fully
manned, employs about 1900
Production in this shop, quality of work and
morale of the workmen have sunk to extremely
low levels. When operating economies were
imperative. the railroad management always
shut down the Glenwood shop first and kept
he In of
it ranked about SIS per cent compared with
the Cumberland shop.
p. ]. Conlon, vice president Of the Interna-
tional Association of Machnists. who had been
designated to take charge of trying out the
plan in behalf of the railroad machinists,
says: I'VE felt we had started effort in the
graveyard of the Baltimore and Ohio
pair department." 1t became necessary to clear
up some misunderstanding between the men
and the management. This was done in confer
ences to which some men who were considered
troublemakers and whose services were not
desired by the management were invited. The
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