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Evening star., 1924-06-18
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA. Va, June IS tSpe-
ciaD BUS service between Alex
andria and Washington will be re-
established July /. according TO in
formation given out by Robert L..
May of Bancroft. Mr. May has a
certificate from the state corpora
ton commission, which, however. may
be revoked at any time. He purchased
last February, the rights of the old
Blue Bus line. The Washington
Virginia railway contested his opera
tion before the state corporation COM
mission and a decision has not been
made. 1t is expected a decision will
be made shortly.
fleet of twenty busses will be
started. This, according to Mr.. May,
will be increased as travel demands.
The lines will serve that part of
Arlington County not easily accessi-
Bile to the Washington Virginia cleo
trio road and which raised such a
disturbance in the bus line-railroad
George r. Buddin, for eight years
superintendent of the Washington di-
vision of the Southern railway, with
headquarters here, has resigned. ef-
fective today. He is TO be replaced
by NJ. f. Madden of Birmin CHA m, who
has arrived to take up his duties to-
morrow.
Mr. Buddin would give no reason
for his resignation and said that he
had nothing definite in view: 1t was
understood. however, he will be re-
tanned in the employ of the southern
although no official announcement mas
been made.
MIR. Buddin is considered very eff
cient as a railway official. having
worked up to the position of super
intendent from telegraph operator.
Mrs. Mary Lee hewitt of Pohick
Fairfax County, widow of George c.
hewitt, died at her home early today
Funeral services will be held at Po-
hick Church tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock, conducted by the rector
Rev A. Campbell Tucker.
Alexandria's first year-round play :
ground was authorized by the Alex
andria Fairgrounds Association yes
terday when it approved the appoint
ment of Miss Gene Smith or Rich-
mond as supervisor. The queen street
grounds are now open and according
to present plans, Will rendih oPeh
the entire year.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon from Wheatley's chapel for
Sergt. Charles Mckee, retired, VINO
dropped dead here Sunday. Services
will be conducted by an Army chap.
lain from Fort Myer, and burial VIII
be in Arlington national cemetery.
Little Mary, three-week-o -old bapy
found Monday morning on the door
steps of sol North Washington street
will be adopted by the Alexandra
Hospital, following failure of an in.
vestigation to locate the parents OF
the child She will take the place
formerly occupied by Sunny Jim, the
hospital baby taken by his parents
after living at the institution for
more than a year.
Evening star., 1924-06-18
BIGGEST SOAP FIRM
VOTES YEARLY EXTRA
Proctor G. Gamble Company to Pay
Total Of 8 Per Cent to Stock
holders of June Is.
ANOTHER UTILITY
DEAL
Production of Pig Iron Falls Off
in England-Schulte Sales Up.
BY the Assoria ted Press.

BY the Assoria ted Press
NEW YORK, June 1S.-The GUS
tomary annual extra dividend of 4
per cent on the common stock Of
Proctor & Gamble Company, larg-
try, payable in common stock Aug
gust Is, to stock of record June Is.
has been declared in addition to the
regular quarterly cash dividend of 3
per cent. To insure payment of the
annual stock dividend in 1925, the
q W. d capital stock 900. coo sha.es
- 20,00h,000 shares. The company.
II was stated, also plans to increase
the cash dividend on the common to
20 per cent annually.
Another Utility Deal Nenr.
Another utility deal. in which the
Columbus Railway Power and Light
Company, an Ohio property, may be
taken over by one of the large pub
Wall street, Otis & Co, members
of the New York Stock Exchange,
having been mentioned as bidders.
The stock of the company advanced
yesterday to los bid and 112 asked.
This bid price was 96 two weeks ago.
Stone Il Webster. Inc; Cities Serv-
ice Company, and the Electric Bond
and Share Company, a subsidiary OF
the General Electric Company.
Production Of pig iron in Great
Britain dropped to 6I8.400 tons in
April, compared with 66S, 900 tons in
March and 652. 200 tons in April last
year, according to the Bankers Trust
Company of New York, while produc-
tion of steel ingots and castings to-
tailed ill,500 tons, compared with
$4,000 tons in March and 1894 in
April 1929. Imports of iron and steel
since September, 1921. Exports Of
iron and steel totaled 336.800 tons. IA
rise of nearly $4,000 tons over the
previous month.
other Wall street Briefs.
In accordance with liquidation
plans, the Tecumseh Cotton Mills. Fall
River. Mass, declared a cash dividend
of 40 per cent, payable July !. A
cash dividend of % per cent was paid
last April.
sales OF the Schultz Retail Stores
CORPORATION in the five months of
1924 aggregated S12.799,351. an in
crease of $2,174,524 over the same
period last year.
Stockholders of Northern States
Power Company will vote July 10 on
"A proposed issue of 500, 900 shares of
new stock to be known as class Il
common, calculated to yield $4,000 900
for construction purposes. The new
stock will be superseded by the pre-
ferred and present common stocks as
to assets and will share IN DIVIDENDS
with tn. present common after the
per cent preferred dividends nave
been paid.
Evening star., 1924-06-18
EVERYMAN'S
INVESTMENTS
By George T. Hughes
THIRTY-SECOND ARTICLE,
Public Utility Bonds,

Public utility bonds as a class rank
next to those of railroads as.invest
ments. In some respects the public
utility bonds have the advantage
Both the railroads and the public
utilities are subject to regulation nv
the state. but in recent wears this
regulation has been more intelligent
ana more fair to the companies in
the case of utilities than with the
rails. There are, of course excep-
tions locally, but the rule Is as stated.
For one thing the utilities have been
wiser in their handling of their pub
lie relations than have the railroads.
and the customer cam
palgns nave been great success in
furthering these good relations.
II is significant that the CORPORA
tIon which has the largest number
of stockholders of any organization
in America is a public utility the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company. Like the railroads, the util-
tiles furnish an absolutely essential
out telephones, gas or electric light.
Every year the demand for this kind
of service increases. There seems TO
be no limit to the expansion of the
telephone service, and continually
new uses are being found for cleo
tricity in the house, on the farm and
in the shop. 1t is not surprising, then,
that conservative investors look with
favor on the bonds and the preferred
stock of well managed companies fur
this service. When there is
a long record Of profitable operation
and conservative financing even com
mon stock of such companies COM
mands an investment rating.
1t is true that some states, such as
New York and New Jersey, do NOT
allow savings banks to buy first
mortgage utility bonds. but there is
no good reason for this discrimina-
ton. 1t is a relic of the days when
only government and municipal bonds
and railroad issues were considered
good enough for the savings bank to
invest in Some of the states are
more liberal in this respect and their
is bound to grow.
Railroad bonds of the savings bank
class bring an artifically high price
in many instances, making it still
more advantageous for the individual
investor to select utilities not legal
but to all practical pur-
poses just as secure.
(Conyrixns ,aaa. By Consolidated Press A..
SocuaaA
Evening star., 1924-06-18
IMPROVEMENT NOTED
IN HARDWARE TRADE
Lawn Mowers, Garden Hose and
Motor Accessories Lead
Weeks Business.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 1S.--Hardware
Age says:
Reports received from hardware
jobbing centers throughout the coun-
try show that there has been an in
crease in business during the past
week. Several days of good weather
have done much to increase the sales
of seasonal merchandise such as lawn
mowers, garden hose. screen cloth.
etc. Automobile accessories are also
selling well. while sales OF builders
hardware continue to maintain their
high average.
Although conditions have improved
somewhat there is still much to be
desired. II is the general opinion,
however, that there will be no decided
change for the better until the politi-
cal aspect becomes more settled than
il is at present. and until the weather
becomes warmer than il has been.
A few price advances have been
recorded, but the greater number of
changes during the week have been
in the nature of reductions.
Evening star., 1924-06-18
w., B. & A. DIVIDEND
ACTION DISCUSSED

Special Dispatch TO The star.
BALTIMORE, June 1S.-Holders of
the preferred stock of the Washing
ton, Baltimore and Annapolis electric
railroad anxiousiy await action on
the quarterly dividend on the pre-
ferred stock, which, in the ordinary
course, would be paid July /.
Opinion in the financial district is
that the board is not likely to take
action until the Public Service Com
mission of Maryland decides the rate
case wherein the company has asked
for permission to increase fares. If
the decision is favorable. the chances
are that the dividend will be paid
on the other hand. if the case goes
against the company. IL is uncertain,
to say the least, what action the
board will take on the dividend
Evening star., 1924-06-18
COMMODITY NEWS
WIRED STAR FROM
ENTIRE COUNTRY

PITTSBURGH, June 1S.-In view
of overproduction in Pennsylvania oil
fields as well as western areas, local
crude quotations, following today's
drop of 25 cents a barrel on Corning
grade to $3.50 per barrel.
SEATTLE. June 1s-Imports of
raw silk and silk goods for the week
ended June 16 amounted to $6,974,00O
at this port. The extensive silk
July /, when the Japanese exclusion
act goes into effect.
PAWHUSKA. Okla, June 1s-About
sold a auction here June 80. includ-
ing several tracts in the Burbank
field Five tracts adjon those which
brought highest prices at the March
sale.
SHREVEPORT. June 1S.-The Mag
nolia Petroleum Company will en-
ploy 500 expert wellers to join the
gas line from the northern Louisiana
gas fields to Beaumont, Tex. Work
nf clearing the right of way has be
gun. The total cost will be over $3,-
900, 900.
DODGE CITY, Kan, June 1S.-With
the exception of scattering fields, the
wheat in this section OF Kansas ana
northwestern Oklahoma Is the pest IN
- years, according 10 Secretary r.. j.
Smiley of the Kansas Grain Dealers
Association.
LANCASTER, Pa, June 1S.-All of
the land available for tobacco raising
in this district has been pre-
pared for the crop. but only about Is
per cent has been planted. Plants
are ready for transplanting after a
few days of dry, hot weather.
ST. PAUL June 18.-The new Min
nesota Potato Growers Exchange has
acquired title to 800 farmer-owned
warehouses valued at approximately
100000.
Evening star., 1924-06-18
IRON AGE REPORTS
STEEL DEMAND DULL
Mills Still Operating at Only As
Per Cent Capacity-Pig
Iron Active.
Rv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 1S.-"Another
week has passed without signs OF
improvement in demand for steel or
in the operation Of rolling mills
Iron Age says. ''The general average
for active steel capacity about Pitts
town and .Johnstown mills here 30
per cent. For the country the aver
age is under As per cent. The condi-
tions of recent weeks are repeated in
that pig iron is fairly active and at
the same time buyers OF nnisned
nroducts show less need of steel
"Further curtailments in consum-
inp Industries have made it plain that
stock replenishment will be for some
time on a scale we'll below what was
the rule in the first quarter OF the
year"
Evening star., 1924-06-18
MOTOR SALES HOLDING UP.

NEW YORK, June 1s.-Deliveries of
motor cars produced by the General
Motors Corporation to consumers in
only per cent below those Of the cor
responding period of 1928. Alfred P.
Sloan, jr.. president of General Motors,
announced today. Mr.. Sloan said that
the corporation hereafter would issue
monthly figures on deliveries in order
to indicate the trend Of the automobile
industrV - ,-.,.L
Evening star., 1924-06-18
rynEpENDEST OH, STOCKS.
Washington Stock Exchange.
SALES

SALES
C.oita1 Traction 5s-sl 600 at %. $500 at
81 -
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone 's-
81. 600 at 9s ~ y..,
washington. Alexandria and Mount vernon
Capital traction 5s-a at 9212. 10 at OOH.
10 AT s21a D at 92as, 10 at 92ss. 10 at S2es
Washington Gas Light at 4sas-
washington Ray. Elec. ptd-" AT -
4 at 741a ) at 14s4, at i4a4-
AFTER CALL.
Potomac Elec. 6s '5s-s2 900 at lnS. S. 900
at Ios. $4,000 1na, 5000 at loS' s-'""
at 1903. oo-,
Capital Traction Co.-lO at a2Ht. lo "a a.
eo7s 10 at 93. 10 at 93. 10 at %. 10 at 49,
10 at 93
National NJ. & Inv. pfd.-l0 at 81.
Washington Rwy. Elec. pfd.-2o at 14&4,
l6 at -. 400 ~ :, aoo
o. 81 900 at 91i4
Lanston Monotype-2o at 72i.
Mopey-Call loans. and per cent.
Evening star., 1924-06-18
NEW 1925 AUTO NODES
ARE NOW ON MARKET
,mcia, Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch 10 The star.
DETROIT June 1S.-From this
time on new automobile models will
commence to make their appearance
on the market. The Cadillac already
has exhibited a new five-passenger
closed car priced at $3.50 making
the fourteenth Cadillac model.
The Cleveland Automobile Company
has brought out q 1925 model listed
at S1.095 for the touring car. s1,195
for the so-called de luxe model tour
ing car, S1,495 for the four-door Sc
dan and 1895 for a passenger
sedan. All models are equipped with
four wheel brakes. balloon tires and
a new patent lubricating system.
Evening star., 1924-06-18
GREEN HAY STARTS FIRE.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG Va, June 49,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. June 1s.-
The large frame barn of John NJ
Peed in King George county was
burned with it's contents Sunday,
while the family was at church. The
fire is supposed to have started from
spontaneous combustion in a quantity
of green hay put in the barn a week
before The pile of hay was stirred
before the family left for church, in
order that the heat could have an
outlet, but about l O'Clock neighbors
heard a muffler report and the build
ing was almost imm ediately envel-
oped in flames. Besides the hay, the
building contained twenty barrels of
corn, fifty bushels of oats, binders,
mowers and other farming imple-
ments. The loss is estimated at
& 900 with partial .inS9EAncA
Evening star., 1924-06-18
N1NE-YEAR DISPUTE ENDS.

NEW YORK, June 1s.-Reorgan1za-
ton managers of the Denver and Rio
Grande Western railroad system have
declared operative the plan of read
justment designed to put the road back
on a solid footing after nine years of
receivership. Agreement of the state
of Colorado to raise no more objections
to the plan removed the last obstacle
in the way of it's execution.
Evening star., 1924-06-18
TOBACCO CASES DROPPED.
Federal Trade Commission Finds
No ''Price Conspiracy"

The Federal T~de Commission has
dismissed complaint against the
Tobacco Products Corporation, the
F'aIk Tobacco Company of New YORK
and the Cincinnati Wholesale To-
hacco Association of Cincinnati.
chairman Thompson of the commits
sion dissented from the issuance of
the dismissal regarding the Falk
Company on the ground of alleged
nrice-fixing conspiracy. The firms
we're charged with conspiracy to
maintain a resale price system in the
sale of tobacco products.
Evening star., 1924-06-18
GASOLINE STILL LOWER.
Other Business in Northwest Waits
for Hot Weather.
Snecial nisnatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
ST. PAUL. June 1S.-Northwest
trade conditions are good hasically.
but immediate trade impulses are
waiting on the weather. Favorable
weather until about July Is is neces-
sary to assure large crops in this sec
tion and encourage farmer-buyipg
There has been a slight slackening of
railroad shop work. track construc-
tion and mining, but the demand for
men on the farms is absorbing the
spare labor relea aSed.
Gasoline prices are on the down.
ward path owing to cooperative
selling by automobilists. The pre-
vailing price at filling stations in
the northwest now is IS cents.
Evening star., 1924-06-18
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

Adirondack Power Commonwealth
Power reacted over a point at the
start, but hardened later: 1t was an
nounced after the close of business
Tuesday that the ragular quarterly
dividend of $3.50 on the preferred
stock and a dividend of Slo0 on the
common had been declared.
Among high-priced speciaities, Ma
tional Tea new was exceptionally
strong. getting up five points over
night
Evening star., 1924-06-18
A Fool and His Money.

The fact that a stock certificate II
printed in fancy green scroll work Is
no proof that 1t is worth any moro
than ordinary wallpaper. THOUSANDS
of people in washington would have
saved their money If they simply had
asked their banker to tell them what
he knew of some supposedly wonder
full investment.
Evening star., 1924-06-18
HIGHER SUGAR EXPECTED.

NEW ORLEANS. June is (SpeciaD.
The withdrawal of price guaran-
tees has been accepted here as
forerunner of another advance in re-
fined sugar prices. Considerable bus
mess has been booked by refiaers at
6.65 cents a pound, but this price
soon jumped above 6.se. Stocks are
Evening star., 1924-06-18
$4,000, 900 LAND FIRM.
Baltimore Men Plan Business OPP
erations in Florida.
SneciaI Dispatch to The star

Special Dispatch TO The star
BALTIMORE. June 18.-The Florida
Land and Development Company capi-
talized at SIG, 6,O00,o 900, has taken out in
oarnoration napers. The charter fee
NJ s1 900 was the largest received this
wear by the state tax commission.
Incorporators are r. Parks Jones,
William Tyler Spencer and Paul Sny-
der, all of Baltimore. interests asso-
ciated with the Seaboard Air Line are
lid to be back of the enterprise.
Evening star., 1924-06-18
BY WILLIAM r. HEFFERNAN

NEW YORK, June 1S.-The curb
market displayed hesitating tend
ency throughout the early dealings
this morning and the majority of
stocks went fractionally lower
Several public utilities were in de-
mand again, notably American Light
and Traction common up over two
points, East Penn Electric and
Evening star., 1924-06-18

NEW YORK. June 1s.-Following
is an official list of bonds and stocks
traded in on the New York Curb
Market today:
Evening star., 1924-03-14
FRIENDS Of GYPSY
OVERRUN HOSPITAL

Officials at Emergency Hospital
have found that an operation for
appendicitis is matter of country
A few days ago Steve Evans, one
of a wandering tribe of gypsies, Wis
tied Emergency Hospital, where it
was discovered that an operation for
appendicitis was necessary.
He went home, there was a tribal
consultation and the man returned
with his wife and Il crowd OF his
friends. Steve was sent to the
operating room Immediately and, re-
fusing to leave him, along trooped
his friends. Anxious and very much
excited nearly thirty of his com
panions attempted to force their way
into the operating room. With deter
mined persistence they kept up tneir
essary to place guard outside the
About the time the operation was
over more gypsies began coming III.
some coming from as far away as
philadelphia. The operation was
success, but further difficulty was
encountered when nine of the anxious
friends wanted to spend the nlght
with Steve and take care OF him. A
compromise was arrived at between
the hospital authorities and the
gypsies that resulted in allowing the
mans wife, his stcpmother and his
brother to stay with him. While
this is in opposition to the rules OF
the hospital, the authorities felt
that the compromise was necessary
in order to prevent a small riot.
Meanwhile the mans four-month-
old baby had been left to shift for
itself. The next day the mother re-
turned for the baby and brought it
ailing to the hospital The nurses
persuaded the steDmother and broth
er to go home and, now Steve, Mary,
his wife, and the baby are in the
hospital day and night. while dur
ing visiting hours there is a con-
atant stream of tribal friends to see
him ~
Evening star., 1924-03-14
Learned Politics in College.

There was in those days a good
deal of skepticism as to how Mr..
Wilson would fare with the political
strategists in Congress. One day he
read an editorial in a New York
Evening star., 1924-03-14
Ice Helps 20
Make the Nut
Butter "Ccn1e"

) In the manufacture of Nut
Margarine it is ice that forms
the rich oil from the snowy
meat Of the cocoanut and the
rich milk with which it is
churned into crystals. The
crystals are taken from the ice
fountain" in to tempering
rooms, where they gradually
soften-and blend"
-4nd it is ice that brings your butter
or margarine frcs!, and Ssceet-dnd
The ice ~ your refrigerator that keeps
ff SO.
Evening star., 1924-03-14
Opposition Helped T'uInuity.

Certain influences were working in
1912 to bring about the selection of
some one other than Tumulty to be
private secretary to the President. 1t
was not due to any lack of confidence
in Tumulty, but to a belief that some
one who had experience in larger
affairs might be more of a help to
Mr.. Wilson. There was time when
the name of Newton .. Baker was
given serious consideration for the
post of private secretary. He was at
that time mayor of Cleveland and had
made a very favorable impression
during the 1912 campaign.
Mr. Wilson's mind was made up
more or less along this line-he
wanted Tumulty to continue. but he
was ready to be convinced if any one
could show him why some other type
should be selected.
Curiously enough, the opposition TO
Tumulty was one of the things which
crystallized Mr.. Wilson's determine
tion to appoint him. Mr.. Wilson re-
tanned the office of Governor of New
Jersey while he was President-elect
and made his home in Princeton, COM
muting every morning the twelve
miles between his home and his office
The author rode with him many morn
ings and discussed various questions
relating to the news of the day. On
one occasion when we had been rid
ing along in silence for several min
utes. Mr.. Wilson suddenly said: You
would be surprised to know the num-
her of letters I have been receiving
telling me 1 must not appoint a Cath
olic to be my private secretary" His
jaw set, his eyes flashed. II would
like to ram that appointment down
their throats," he added.
Newspapers began to predict that
Tumulty would be selected. but he
never had the slightest information
to that effect until about two weeks
before the Inauguration, when Gov.
Wilson called him into his Office one
day and offered him the secretary
ship.
Learned Politics in College.
There was in those days a good
deal of skepticism as to how Mr..
Wilson would fare with the political
strategiSts in Congress. One day he
read an editorial in a New York
Evening star., 1924-03-14

, work are obtained. We are doing
everything that we can to ward off
such a civic calamity. This cam
paign is part Of that. fight 1t is
on behalf of every man, woman and
child in the District he declared.
Gifts may be deducted from income
tax returns. i\ was pointed out.
Questions have been asked at head
quarters by some as to the Necessity
of IL MUSES. home. Here is the
answer given by the directors. "The
value Of II hospital depends largely
upon the quality Of its nursing force.
If Emergency is to keep a sufficient.
competent and dependable nursing
force il must give them a decently
comfortable home.
Will Have More Space.
Moreover, the nurses home now
being built will release space IN the
Hospital and directly increase the in
stitution's capacity for taking care
of patients. The new building will
also provide means for the further
educational facilities of the nurses.
Several means of giving have been
suggested, including Il ''siX-payment
plan.' which consists of a donation
of specified amount every six
months for two and q half years.
Memoria! gifts also are solicited. Do
nations may be made toward the con- :
struction of some definite part of the
nurses home or the present hospital
building.
1t is pointed out both by officials
and doctors at the hospital that the
campaign is not FOR them or for the
hospital, but FOX service to the people
OF the city. Every penny of the money
given toward the fund will be used
for the hospital The expense of the
campaign will not be taken out of the
campaign proceeds. il is stated.
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