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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
WHEAT ATTAlS
 NEW HIGH PRICE
Rye And Oats Also As cend To New Tops For
 Season

CHICAGO. Dec. 16-New high rec ords for the season were scored tooay bv all deliveries of wheat, rye and oats. Wheat led the way, with active puy- ing due to reports Of a wet harvest both in Argentina and Australia CLOS ing quotations for wheat were @ iirin' 1Ec to 2hc net higher, May $1.70h to s1.7o% and July s1.4sss to 1.4s%. Corn finished at 1ac to 1c gain, oats 1c to 1Ac up, and provisions showing 2Oc to COG advance.
 In connection with reports of rain intereferring with harvest progress in the southern hemisphere, the fact that Liverpool quotations showed an unex- pected advance was taken nS significant by wheat traders here, and so were an- nouncements that for the first time this season the worlds available supply of wheat had been reduced to less than at a corresponding date last year. Gen. eral commission house buying of future deliveries of wheat began early to broaden in volume, and with demand we'll sustained the final quotations were near to the days top level.
 Foreisners were credited with a con- sidrable share of tn buying of future deliveries of wheat, but new purchas- ing today for immediate shipment to Europe was said to have been confined largely to low grade wheat from Cam ada Some export business, however, in domestic hard winter wheat was said to have been done for the first time in several days. Current forecasts that the government report As to wheat would be somewhat bearish were virtual ly ignored.
 Cold weather likely to increase feed ing helped to lift corn and oats, but heavy profit taking sales of corn were something of an offset, despite we'll founded gossip current that the gov- ernment report on corn would prove
 buflish.
 An unlocked for decrease in stocks of lard strengthened the provision mar ket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
STOCK LETTERS
NEW YORK,

NEW YORK, N. r., Dec. 1e.-The same undertone of buoyancy was in ev- idence during most of the day, various stocks responding to individual influ- ences. American Sugar made a new high on the current move during the forenoon, following a rumor regarding a change in management. On prospects of large holiday business the tobacco stocks were eagerly purchasaL, American Tobacco "A" and "B" advancing sharply. In the oil group the favorable dividend action of Prairie oil aided sentiment and the selling pressure which has been so apparent in issues like Sin clair, which have suffered from tax loss selling was no longer present. Dur ing the final hour "a wave of profit taking swept over the list but heavy buying orders under the market pre- vented serious declines.-Fenner and Beane to Kahn and Virgin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
BOND VALUES
 l WORK UPWARD
Trading Featured By In. dependent Gains In
 Rails And Utilities

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Bond prices worked moderately. higher today with trading featured by a number of inde- pendent advances in railroad. public utility and industrial issues. Renewed buying of standard investment rail liens were in evidence.
 Trading in the public utility group was enlivened by a rally of six points in Brooklyn Union Gas sevens of 1923, 1882, moved up two points. Traction bonds shared in the strength Of the other utilities, although the list as whole showed little change.
 Strength of various railroad shares and continuation of freight traffic at an unusually heavy volume for this period of the year promoted accumula- tion of the carrier bonds. Atlantic Coast Line first fours were one of tho chief gathers, advancing 2% points. Gen. tral of New Jersey lives, influenced by the spectacular jump in the roads stock, moved up a point and Big Four" refunding lives ID" scored similar gain. St. Paul issus6 were lower on reports that the company might fail to earn its fixed charges this year and the bonds of the so-called Van SweringenI roads yielded to profit-taking. -'s
 With the possibility that funds still may be remitted to meet the interest payments on the Chinese Hp-Hiang railway lives which were defauted yes- terday the bonds recovered partially from their sharp break. Success of the $11,000,000 American portion of the Greek loan, to be offered tomorrow, already mas been assured by the large number of advance subscrfp- tions. Bankers are prepared to place a Belgian loan on the market Thursday morning if negotiations now pending h Brussels are concluded in time. Wall Street heard today the offering prob ably would take the form of a 30-year six per cent issue, priced to yield about seven per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
PROFIT SALES
 CHECK UPRUSH
 IN STOCK PRICES
20 Rails Attain New High With Jersey Central
 Main Performer

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Heavy profit taking and bear selling checked the brisk advance of prices in today's mar ket closing quotations showing curl ous mixture of gains and losses. Ihe averages of 20 leading rails attained the highest levels since 1917, but the gen eral industrial average lost ground. The days sales fell slightly short Of 2,000,000 shares.
 Sixty issues, including ten motors and accessories, nine rails and eight public utilities attained new peak prices for the year.
 Jersey Central was the sensational performer, soaring 21 points to 259, record top, after its remarkable 1s-point gain of yesterday. Wall street was ob- viously mystified as to the reasons be- hind this advance, although the con- current strength of the Reading issues, which touched the highest price since the segregation of the coal properties, and Baltimore and Ohio, which also es- tablished a new top at S1b, led the widespread reports of a deal involving these three properties.
 Buying of the other rails was stimu- lated by the publication of the freight loadings statistics for the week ended December 6, which totalled 96S,2 cars, the greatest voume ever handled during the first week of December, Lehigh Val ley, Great Northern preferred and Southern Railway preferred all broke through their previous 1924 maximum quotations, the gains running as high as 4 points. Wabash preferred A was heavily bought just before the close, climbing more than points to 60A
 The spirited advance in United States Cast Iron Pipe, Worthington Pump and Savage Arms indicated to many ob- servers the partial retreat of an over bought shorL In.eres., ..---~--
 ;irt.nor-'v "1ntestin~ the rise Of th"r' dividend paying issues to new high ground.
 Another brisk advance took place in the Commercial solvents issues. the A stocks showing net gain of s& points at 119, and the B stock closing 10 points higher at 119k. Allied Chemical and emulation.
 Motors continued to give good dem onstration of group strength, Jordan touching a new high at 52%, as com pared with low of 2124 last May, and Maxwell attaining a new peak price at S4h as against low of 38 last April.
 United States Steel common closed A point lower at 118 after having sold nearly point above that figure. Amer ican Can showed a new gain of 1& 150h points and Baldwin closed frac- tionally higher at 124B. Other strong spots included American Sugar, Wool worth Chicle, Iron Products and Uni versal Pipe preferred, all of which closed from 21a to seven points higher.
 Call money ruled unchanged at three per cent. Time money and commercial paper markets were more active but the rates were unchanged.
 Foreign exchanges held steady with trading fairly brisk. Demand sterling was quoted around $4.69 and francs at 53sc. The so-called silver exchanges were lower in sympathy with the de- cline in silver metal prices.
 Stock market averapes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17

CASE GRAIN ST. LOUIS, Dec. 16.-Cash wheat: No. ?, red, $1.SS; No. red, $1.72.
 Corn: No. white, $1.25; No. 2 yellow, SIPS.
 Oats: No. white. sshc; No. 3 white. 60h Q61c.
 Close wheat: December, s1.eaMc; May, $1.70h.
 Corn: December, SPA; May, s1.s1. i Oats: December, 60%c; May, 65Nc.
 TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 16.-Cloverseed, old, $1s.9o asked; new and December, $1910; February, $19.40. Alsike, ol, $12.50; new, $1260.
 Timothy seed, cash and December, $3.20.
 KANSAS CITY, Dec. 16.-wheat: No. ? hard. $1.5s@1.74h; No. red, s175@ IFS.
 Corn: No. ? yellow. s1.2o@1.2oh: No. 2 mixed, $1.17A @1.18. | Oats: No. 9 white, 62h h@63c. CHICAGO, Dec. 16.-wheat: No. 2 red, $1.79A; No. 2 hard, $1.65X,
 Corn: No. 2 mixed, $1.26A @1.2Sh; No. 2 yellow. $1.27@1.2s.
 Oats: No. 2 white, 61% %@62%c; No. 8 white, 5s@60c.
 Rye: No. 2. s1.41@1.42A; barley, s1 @95c; timothy seed. $5.s507o0; clover seed. $2476932oo; lard, $16.75; ribs, $14.75; bellies. $15.75.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 1e.-FIour firm, soft winter straights, $7.s5@s.1o.
 Rye firm; No. 2 western, $150A f. O. b. New York and $1.4sh c. i. f. export. I Lard easy midle West, $16.75Q1685. Other articles were unchanged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
COTTON sEED or,

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Cotton seed oil advanced to new high levels today through general buying. prompted by the pronounced strength displayed in lard and grains and firmer crude mar kets. Closing bids were near the top and 31 to 36 points net higher on the active positions. Sales, 49,20O barrels. Tenders, 400 barrels. Prime crude, S9 .75. sales and bid; prime summer yellow spot, $11.40 bid; December closed S1152: January, $11.61; March. $1176; May, S12.07, all bid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
DRY GOODS

NEW YORK, Dec. 16-Cotton goods were more active in the print cloth di- vision today, sales of 15O,OOO pieces be- ing reported for December, January and February delivery to bleachers and printers at Sc for 64-5x60 and 10Ac for 68X72s. Quotations were advanced bc late in the day Sheetings, drills and convertibles were quiet. Raw silk was purchased sparingly, although prices were called attractive. Wool markets continued firm with wool manufac- turers more doubtful of their ability to sell freely for fall at curenrt prices. New lines of wool blankets were opened by the American Woolen company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
CURB EXCHANGE

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Curb prices today resumed their upward movement but the spirited advance in many issues naturally invited profit taking which caused some irregularity in the later dealings.
 Declaration of the regular dividend on Prairie oil and Gas, which had been reported in danger and resulted in an initial advance of seven points to PIP in that stock. It later fell back to 203h and then rallied to 206 for net gain of one point on the day. Prairie Pipe, Imperial of Canada and Cities Service also closed point or so higher while Galena Signal. Standard Oil of Kansas and Vacuum were heavy.
 Public utilities developed several points of strength, American Gas and Electric, American Light and Trac- tion, American Power and Light, Appa- lachian Power, Lehigh Power securities and Tennessee Electric Power closing one to three points higher.
 Revival of speculative activity in the Curtis airplane issues and the estab- lishment of a new record by centrifugal pipe at 30 points were the features of the industrial list. Radio issues were mixed. Thermiodyne and Hazeltine touching new peak prices. Fish Dody, (new stocD was admitted to trading.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Curb prices to- day resumed their upward movement butt he spirited advance in many issues naturally invited profit taking which caused some irregularity In the later dealings.
 Declaration of the regular dividend on Prairie Oil and Gas, which had been reported in danger and resulted in an initial advance of seven points to PIP in that stock. It later fell back to 2031 and then rallied to 206 for a net gain of one point on the day. Prairie Pipe, Imperial of Canada and Cities Service also closed a point or so higher while Galena Signal, Standard Oil of Kansas and Vacuum were heavy.
 Public utilities developed several points of strength. American Gas and Electric, American Light and Traction, American Power and Light, Appala- chian Power. Lehigh Power securities and Tennessee electric power closing one to three points higher.
 Revival of speculative activity in the Curtis airplane issues and the estab- lishment of new high record by cen- trifugal pipe at 30 were the features of the industrial list. Radio issues were mixed, Thermiodyne and Hazeltine touching new peak prices, Fisher Dody, tnew stock) was admitted to trading.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
NAVAL STORES

SAVANNAH, Ga, Dec. 16.-Turpen tine firm, .7714 sales 53; receipts 736 shipments PAP; stock 14,106.
 Resin firm; sales 792; receipts 3,223 shipments POS; stock 94,326.
 Quotei B to D, $6.41; E to H, $6.42h I. $6.47h; K, $6.55; M, S6.5o; N, $6.s5 Wg, $7.65; Wv, $8.50; x, $8.75.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
YEGETARLES

CHICAGO, Dec. 16.-Peppers Florida crates fancy $6.O0@6.5o; choice $4.00@ BOO; smaller $3.00Q3.50.
 Sweet potatoes Tennessee hampers Nancy Halls $2.25@25O.
 Tomatoes Florida repacked sizes fam cy $S.50; choice $7.50.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
RAW SILK

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Raw silk easy; prices per pound: Kansai double extra cracks, $6.45Q655; Kansai best No. 1, $6.00@6.10; Shinshu No. 1, $5.900 500; Canton extras A, 14-16, $5.75@5.S5; Shanghai. China, steam fil gold double dere, $7.10@7.30-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
RICE MARKET

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 16.-Rough. rice strong; sales, none; receipts, noen!S Clean rice, strong; sales, 17O pockets Honduras. 6%c; 331 Japan, 6c; 2,7O1 Blue Rose, 6A @6ssc; 29o second heads, 4%c; receipts. none. Bran and polish unchanged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
InNnnN NInNEx

LONDON. Dec. 16.-Bar silver, s2 5-16 pence per ounce; money, 2% per cent; discount rates, short bills, 311-16Q3% per cent; three months bills, 8% per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
HUBBARD BROS. & co

Members New York Cotton Exchange, New Orleans Cotton Exchange. Now Members Liverpool Cotton Association. Orders solicited for the purchase and sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed Oil for future delivery. Special consignment of spot cotton for AelivArv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
NEW YORK BONDS

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Followng are todays high. low and closing prices of bonds on the New York Stock Exchange. and the total sales Of eacn bond:
 United States government bonds in dollars and thirty seconds of dollars).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
POTAT OMARKET

CHICAGO, Dec. 16.-Potatoes trad ing draggy, market dull; little change in prices; receipts, 40 cars; total United States shipments, 3s5; Wisconsin sacked round whites, fair to ordinary, 90@95c; poor, S5c; few fancy higher; Minnesota sacked round whites, 90@95c; poor, 80 @s5c; sacked Red River Ohios, few sales, $1.10@1.15; Idaho russets few sales, $1.75@1.90.
 STEEL MARKET
 NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Steel un- changed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
cHIcAeo COTTON.

CHICAGO, H.. Dec. 16.-Weakness developed in the cotton market here today and prices closed with most of the early advance lost. being Il points higher to 2 points lower for the day. Commission houses bought actively early. Heavy realizing took place on the advance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
NEW YORK CURB

500 Standard oil of Kansas. 36 S5h S5H 200 Standard oil of Ky. ...ll9N ll9X ll9N go Standard oil of Neb. ....254 253 254 2OOO Standard oil of N. Y. .... 49% 42S 43
 80 Standard oil of Ohio s52 $50 a52 100 Swan & Finch oil Corp. .. 24 24 "A 2900 Vacuum oil ...:.......... s1A 7e& 79% 10 Galena Signal oil old pfd. .1lO l1O no 800 Prairie oil Gas wi.... 52A 51 5l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17

NEW YORK. Dec. 16.-Following Is the official
 list of transactions the New York Curb Exchange
 giving all stocks and bonds traded in: lNnuSTRIAIc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
SPOT COTTON
SPOT COTTON NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Cotton spot steady; middling 24,0oc.
 SPOT COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 1.-Spot cot ton firm and unchanged; sales on the spot, 3,670, to arrive, 1,262 Low mid ding, 22.35c; middling, 29.S5c; good mid ding, 24.S5c; receipts, 15,9s6; stock, 523,- AS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17
PORT MOVEMENT
INTERIOR MOVEMENT.

Receipts-Week. l52. .583; season. 5.609. .737. EIports-Week. lSl .667; season, 3.754.624.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17

NEW ORLEANS COTTON. NEW ORLEANS. La. Dec 16.-Cotton futures ,losed steady at net advances of l to points,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-17

CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-14
Royal Wines and Liquors
 Sold in Imperial Palace

Vienna, March 14.-The ground floor of a magnificent wing of one of the most imposing imperial palaces of Vienna soon is to be opened to the public as a fashionable restaurant. cake shop, and wine room. In the last named will be dispensed the choicest vintages of the former imperial eel lars. Thus has Vienna found par tial answer to the problem of how to use advantageously the many build ings which for generations have been in the possession of the ruling family of Hapsburg.
 The structure in question was built to be the residence of the ill-fated Archduke Rudolph. son of the late Emperor Francis Joseph. Its windows look out upon beautiful private gar dens. The upper floors will be used as a museum. library, and public reading rooms. while on the top story 1t will be possible for business. firms to rent officeS
New Britain herald., 1924-03-14
GERMANY LACKS SAILORS

Hamburg. March i4.-Sixty thou sand German sailors and officers to find other jobs when the German fleet was dismantled under the Versailles treaty. The mercantile navy today has recovered half its pre-war tonnage. and there are not enough sailors to man the ships. This is because the old-time marine men have mostly gone into other work and, as a ma iority of them were capable. have ob- tained positions which they do not care to surrender. Some have gone 10 other countries. Consequently Ger many is now forced 10 begin the train ing of large numbers of sailors, and new schools for sailors are being organized.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-14
COMP ARES LAXITY
 ID l3TH CENTURY
Army Acted as the Censor in
 Europe 700 Years Ago

Iowa City, Ia, March t4-Censor- ship 700 years ago consisted of calling out the army and ''mopping up everybody and everything offensive to the ruling puritanical minds accord ing to Prof. Nellie Aurner of the Eugish department, University of Icu.a
 From about the middle of the tuelfth century to early in the thir- teenth. sheiks and Sahara Sarahs were having their heyday in the TO- mantle sex literature of southern France and black oxen" roamed wild through Provence" says Prof. Aur- ner. "Troubadour poetry reflected the spirit of the times.
 50 romantic had the people of this region become that they put loyalty in ones liege lady above everything g else, even the church and state.
 This smacked too much of the heretical to suit those in power. The Albigensian crusade of 12os was be- gun to correct the situation. South ern France saw so much bloodshed and brutality people sickened of the affair. Troubadour poetry and all its kind went into decline. When the smoke lifted the censors had won. but the idea carried over in the stories that grew up about King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table.
 The, preesnt school of sentimental literature Is a recrudescence, with i'm portant differences, of the thought of the earlier period. The church in
 t of departure from the puritanical style which characterized the accetped school of both ages.
 No one style is suitable to the fex- ible demands of the modern world with its varying phases of a highly complex civilization. In spite of the fact that there is much that is crude and disgusting in our present litera- ture the best of 1t points to something finer and richer"
New Britain herald., 1924-03-14
Women of old Castile :
 Balk at Driving Autos

Madrid. March 14.-In spite of the fact that motoring is popular in Spain. only A women in the entire country have, up to the present time, taken out licenses to drive their own cars.
 The reason for this scarcity of fe- male drivers probably is found in the restrictions which govern the issuing of licenses. A woman desiring to drive must submit a certificate of good conduct, another as 10 her general health, sight and hearing: and her birth certificate giving the year in which she was born. Girls under age must have the written consent of their parents. and married women that of their husbands.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-14
.SKIIERS SMUGGLE GOODS
 OYER GERMAN MOUNTAINS
Leave in Morning for Wild Mountain Passes Toward CLechosloyakia
 and Return With Food

Breslau. Silesa, March lA-Almost everybody on this side of the Czecho- slovakian frontier this winter is de- voted to skiing, Skis never before were in such demand. and the call for them increased as the cost of food in Germany went up,
 Parties of skiiers leave every morn ing for the wild mountain passes leading towards Czechoslovakia, and come back before nightfall with knap- sacks full of sausages and cheese, fresh meat and canped goods.
 Over the hills, on the other side, runs the explanation. things to eat and drink cost less than half what they do in Germany, for in the noun tain passes the snow lies too deep for the Czech customs officials to prevent smuggling,
New Britain herald., 1924-03-14
LABOR LEGISLATION
Son of England's Premier Makes Statements Which Forecast Good for Labor Government.

Oxford. March i4.-speaking re- gently at the Oxford Union on the motion that this house welcomes the advent of a labor government" the Prenlier's son, NJ. Mcdonald, said:
 At the present time there is no practical possibility. with the position Of parties in the house, of introducing kcciaiistic legislation. Nevertheless. we cannot ignore the fact that there Is possibility in the near future of a ] labor majority which will permit such work Would changes in society Of a socialistic nature then be un- natural or illogical? Not so. The interests cf the people can olyy be esfeguarded by. making political ins etitutions democratic. Socialism, go far as it effects industry; means exactly the same evolution going on in industrial institutions" D., '.' '''
New Britain herald., 1924-03-14
University Aids Pupils
 In Choosing Careers

Reno. New. March 14.-It is planned to have a faculty vocational committee at the University of Ne vada to conduct psychological tests with a view of suggesting to students the vacations for which they seem best fitted. Since students often come to college without a definite ca- reer in view. it Is believed that the scheme will be helpful. Freshmen students then will be offered the course of studies considered most helpful to the business or profession favored. The plan was proposed by pr. J.. R. Young. professor of psychology.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-14
NEW SOUTH WALES WILL
 TRY GROWING OF COTTON
Experiments Work Out Slick and Steps Will Be Taken to Found
 Industry in That Country

Sydney. N g ". March i4.-cot- tan growing on an extensive csaie on the north coast is to be tried as a re- suit of the success attained on two small plots. On one, worked by a farmer and his two sons, the net re- turn was 45 pounds to the acre and the quality was such that a sample took first prize. at cotton show Tn Sydney. The other plot yielded 70 pounds 10 the acre. In the first in- stance the growers had no previous experience.
 A Sydney business man is erecting cotton spinning mill with 12.ooo spindles. Anumb CT of operatives brought from England have declared the Australian-grown cotton to be Of excellent quality.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-14
MORE OPTIMISTIC
Frcuch Financial Circles Today Have
 More Bright Outlook

Paris. March 14.--The black pes of last week has been replaced by optimism as result of yesterdays rout of the bears on the exchange market thanks to the siho.ooo. .ooo and 5o.ooo,ooo pounds thrown into the battle for the franc by Frances Am ericsn and British allies.
 2 Official circles admit that the allied
New Britain herald., 1924-03-14
DUKE OF ORLEANS DEAD

Paris. March it,--The Duke of Luines. representative in France of the Duke of Orleans, pretender 10 the French throne is dead, He never re- covered from the shock of the death of his eldest son, the 20 year old Duke of Chevreuse who was killed during the war while serving 6s sn aviator.