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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30

pected steadily to appear until the gov ernment estimate of December 8.
 The problem before the trade is sim ply and solIy the revival in business. It is obvious from the steady absorp- ton of this crop to date that this re- vival is marked. If it Is to go as far as to bring about a pre-war basis of con sumption the size of this crop is rela- lively of lesser importance because of the fact that we began the season with so small a carryover.
 We are undoubtedly faced with wide ize N.
 This Is reflected in the stock markets but not in the cotton market as vet because of the size of this crop. It is probable this influence will be accetu- ated the coming week but whether or not 1t will be even temporarily domi- nant remains to be seen. The local traders believe that this crop influence will prove irresistible in the immediate .g,ure It is that thought which brings about speculative selling in the face of the steady trade demand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
COTTON REACTS
 AFTER ADVANCE
January Breaks From 23.67 To 23.39 With
 Other Months Off

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-An early ad- vance in the cotton market met in- creased offerings today, followed by re- actions under liquidation and southern selling. January broke from 23.67 to 23. 3.39c and closed at that figure, the general market closing barely steady at net declines of 12 to 15 points.
 The market opened steady to an ad- vance of points to a decline of 6 points. Active months sold about g to Is points net higher in early trading on covering and trade buying. The latter was supposed to include some price fix ing for European trade interests and the advance was encouraged by the rel atively firm showing of Liverpool.
 Reports of a firm spot situation in the south failed materially to stimulate around 2346c for December and A.02c for March by a renewal of liquidation, sufficient to ease prices off. In the late trading reports of southern hedge selling sent December down to 23.23c and March to 23.76c. Last prices were at the lowest of the day on most po- sitions.
 Private cables reported quiet mar ket in Liverpool with prices sustained by trade calling.
 Adyices from Memphis said cotton was hard to buy and there were reports also of a very steady basis in some of the eastern belt markets, which. however, appeared to attract compara- lively little attention. Part of the liq- uidation was supposed to result from a tendency to increase crop estimates owing to continued good weather in the south and a disposition to wait for a revival of activity in cotton goods markets or the next government crop report scheduled for publication De- cember 8.
 The amount of cotton on shipboard awaiting clearance at the end of the week was estimated at 139,155 bales, against 209,617 last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
STOCK AVERAGE CARRIED TO NEW
 MAXIMUM LEVEL
Sales Exceed One Million Shares, With 50 Rec
 OrdS Established

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Aggressive bulIish operations continued with un- abated .vigor in today's two-hour ses- sion of the stock market, carrying the price average of industrial issues to the highest point in several years and that of representative rails to within a narrow margin of the recent high rec ord. Trading continued at a vigorous pace, total sales exceeding 100000 shares.
 With the weekly mercantile reviews testifying to a material improvement in general trade, buying orders were spread over a wide list of industrial shares in the steel, motor, chemical, copper and merchandising groups. More than 50 new high records were estab- hshed, the list including many leading railroad and public utility issues.
 Atchison led resumption of the upward movement in the rail stocks mounting three points to 115%, the high est price in 13 years. A heavy rush of buying at the close was on expecta- tions of an early increase in the divi. dend rate, now on a $6 annual basis The brisk rise in Atchison exerted a tonic effect on the entire market and carried half dozen other rails, in cluding Frisco, Western Pacific and Pittsburg and West Virginia, to new ground.
 Bethlehem Steel replaced UnitedStates Steel common as the leader of this group, when the premier industrial is- sue was forced to absorb an enormous volume of realizing sales. Bethlehem at one time sold as high as 50, scoring . net gain of IF points, with Crucible and Sloss-Sheffield keeping pace with the rise.
 Expectations that a general increase fin business prosperity would stimulate purchaBes of motor cars led to re- newed Inactivity in this group. Stude- baker and General Motors led a variety of theilautomobile shares to new high ground,
 Othes, stocks which showed conspicu- ous strength were Americana Water Worksy American Bank Note, American Smeltiiig, Allied Chemical, General Bak- ing, Continental Can, Otis Elevator these issues ranging from 1 to points.
 Trading in the foreign exchanges was extremely dull.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
4 NuRR EXCHANGE

NEW WORK, Nov. 29-Selllng pres sure developed in a number of the more speculative issues on the curb exchange today, tfe trading being influenced to some extept by the reactionary trend in baking stocks. Continental Baking sus- tained ahs early loss of more than points and. declines of about point were recorded In others of that group. Part of these losses was recovered on a later rally. Public utilities followed an irregular course. The strong fea- lures were ¬ed in the coal shares.
 Petroleum issues encountered profit taking but the supply was not disturb ing in view of the material advances recently Exported in that group. Stand ard Oil of, Nebraska yielded points. Prairie QAs held around its recent trad ing leveEts
 The class of securities traded on the curb this week was of a far better level than that which previously constituted this, market and included high priced 4hdustrialAe important railroads, repre- sentative radio issues and public utili- ties as veil as leading Standard oil and miscellaneous oil shares. In the rail- road group the two new Nickel Plate issues commanded attention, and there also was activity and strength in Den yer and Rio Grande preferred on when issued contracts.
 There were wide fluctuations in many of the public utilities. American Gas and Electric ranged from 103% to 115h and National Power rose from "A to 190 Thermiodyne Radio made a new high record and there was heavy trading in Deforest and Freed Eisemann. United Bakeries made an advance of 10 points to 155. Continental Baking A rose z points to 111M, but receded today.
 The feature of the Standard Oil is- sues was Standard oil of Ohio, which advanced from 33S to S77 on heavy trad ing. Royal Canadian moved up nearly 2 points to above 2, a new high for re- cent trading. International Petroleum rose points to 24A and Imperial Oil of Canada made a gain of points to 115. Many other stocks in this group rose from to 10 points.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
BOND MARKET CONTINUES DULL Prices Held Steady As Profit Taking Is
 Lifted

NEW YORK, Nov. 2s.-Bond prices held fairly steady today as profit talk ing was lifted from the market. Trad ing continued dull and irregular. fresh buying being discouraged by the popu- larity of stocks and fears of rising in- terest rates. The upturn in railroad stocks today brought a better demand for bonds of the carriers, which re- gently had been yielding to realizing sales. Moderate gains were scored by Baltimore and Ohio 4s, Atlantic Coast Line 4s, International Great Northern adjustment 6s. .xaty" 6s and 6s and Erie general 4s.
 Price changes in the industrial group were insignificant. Ajax Rubber & recovered about point, and a frac- tional advance In Anaconda 7s reflected Improvement In the copper group. wil- son & Co., Virsinia- Carolina Chemical and Republic Steel issues lost ground. Liberty honds continued to waver with foreign government, obligations showing little change.
 Bond market averages: ~e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
LIVERPOOL COTTON

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29.-Cotton spot small business; prices steady. American middling fair, 14.77d; strictly good mia ding, 14.27d; good middling, 1392d; strictly middling, 13.72d; middling, 13.47d; strictly low middling, 13.22d; low middling. 1272d; strictly good ordi- nary, 1232d; good ordinary, 11.72d. Sales 2,000 bales. including 1,4O0 Amer ican. Receipts 1000 bales, including $500 American. Futures closed steady; December, (1924 13.17d; January, 13.21d; March, 1326d; May, 1329d; July, 13.22d; September, 12.94d; October, 12 74d. Official noon closing: November, (1924), 18.22d value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-The usual call cotton covering in Liverpool on the last day of the month caused prices there to be higher than due this morning. These operations, which are usually to be found reflected in prices abroad at the end of each month, are accentuated this year by the revival in the trades of the world. Locally, the market present. ed no new feature, declining under the scattered selling induced by large esti- mates of the crop, which are to be ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30

NEW YORK, Nov. 29-Under the in- fluence of short covering and calling by spinners, Liverpool was sharply bet ter than due but our market made a very disappointing response to cables and liquidation was said to have been from Texas and carried prices off about a dollar bale.
 The speculative element locally con- tinue against the market expecting fur ther large crop estimates to make their appearance prior to the government fig ures on December 8, while the south hedges on the advances with the trade giving support on the decline. In view of this years assured production specu- lation is slow to leave the grain and stock markets for a venture in cotton and without such support the steadi- ness of cotton is truly remarkable Fenner &s Beane to Kahn 6 Virgin,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
PUTS AND CALLS

You can trade fin active stocks like Baldwin. Can Steel, etc., for as small a as SlO without th. possibility of greater loss than this amount wbiIs your profitS arc only limited by the activity of ihs stock market. This method affords good oppornitJa for big profits with small capital Explanatory eir cular No. s9 FREE. sN 60 William ,et. New Ysrh c,.v-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
HUBBARD BROS. & CO.

Members New York Cotton ExchanRe. New Orleans Cotton Exchange. Now Members Liverpool Cotton Association. future delivery. Special consignment of spot cotton for delivaSv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
RICE MARKET

RICE MARKET
 NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 29.-Rough rice strong; no sales; millers' receipts, SIT sacks. Clean rice strong; sales, SIS Honduras, 6Ac; 1,726 Blue Rose, 60 6.40c; 187 Edith, 7c; 150 early prolific 6Acs 19S screenings, 6% 43hc; receipts, 3,2o0 pockets. Bran and Polish un- changed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
POTATO MARKET

CHICAGO, Nov. 29-Potatoes trading light, market dull on northern, weak on western stock; receipts, 98 cars; total United States shipments, 58S; mostly fair to ordinary quanty; Minnesota sacked round whites 70Q80c, few higher; wisconsin sacked round whites, 75QS0c; few fancy, 9OQ95c; Idaho sacked rus sets, $1.75Q2.00, mostly $1.S5Q1.90.
 STEEL MARKET
 NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Steel prices unchanged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
THE BIRMINGHAM AeEHERALD, SUNDAY NOVEMBER 30,
NEW YORK BONDS

NEW YORK. Nov. 29.-Following are today's high, low and closing prices Of bonds on the New York Stock Exchange. and the total sales of eacn
 UNITED STATES BONDS
 United States bonds are quoted in doiiars and thffty- of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
NATAL srnRrs

SAVANNAH. Ga. Nov. 2s.-rurpen- 7s5; shipments, IA; stock, 12,750.
 Resin firm; sales, 1,158; receipts, S,6a1; shipments, none; stock, s0,Ss5.
 Quotes: B, D, B, F, G, H, I, S6.25; x. $6.85; M. S6.40; N, s6.75; Wg, $7.SS; Wv, $8.10; x, $S.30. ,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
SPOT COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 29.-Spot cot ton steady, 10 points down; sales on the spot, 119; to arrive, 325; low mid ding, 221oc; middling, 2360c; good mid ding, 24.10c; receipts, 2s,615; stock, 1861.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30

the rains do set in, they may continue through the winter and enter the spring which is usually wet, which would de- lay farm work all the more and the weevil will have to be considered.-H, 6 B. Beer to J. B. Willingham & Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
SPOT COTTON
FLOUR MARKET

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Cotton spot quiet; middling, 23.75c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
NEW YORK CURB

NEW YORK. Nov 29.-Following is the official list of tranSactions the New York Curb Exchange giving all stocks and bonds traded in:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. D. Flour unchanged; shipments, 65,843 barrels.
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NEW YORK COTTON NEW YORK. Nov. 29.-Cotton futures closed barely steady.
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NEW ORLEANS coIIoN
PORT MONEMEMT
INTERIOR MoVEMEN

1ot-- soH-.g .I :. .I IVV0sI OV011I 9IsUIIUIoU Receipts-Week. 70. .992; week, 4,787, ,3S5. ExDorts-Week. SO.s4I; season. S.05s.2s3.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK. Nov. 29.-Foowins are today's sales. high low and closing prices of stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange:
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Total today
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
Headquarters Located At All Twenty-First
 Street

Headuuarters of the Alabama Motor ists association, official organization and mouthpiece of automobile owners of the Birmingham district, have been selected at All Twenty-first street, north. on the ground floor of the brick building adjoining the Piedmont hotel, President Paul II. Earle announced Sunday.
 Equipment will be placed ill the asso- ciation's new home in the next few days and an office staff, composed ot exnerts in their line, placed in charge, Mir. Eatle said. A long lease for the quarters has been signed.
 We feel we have obtained the pest possible location" said Mir. Earle. we have plenty of room to take care of the rapid expansion we expect, and the location is convenient. Our members, and the general motoring public, will find at our headquarters at all times complete and accurate road information. We are organized to assist car owners in every possible way, and our activities along this line are already under way.
 The executive committee of the asso- citation is meeting weekly to plan com prehensive program for the coming year, and a general meeting of the membership will be held soon. New memberships are being received in large numbers, and the various standing committees are hard at work on the ambitious program which the organization will carry put.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
TRIAL OF 4 MEN ON FRAUD CHARGE TO OPEN MONDAY
Officials Of Walker Con. solidated Co. Named
 In Indictment

Trial of the four officials of the Walker Consolidated and Petroleum company, A. W. Walker, Harold Walker of Dallas. Texas: D. Sidney Menasco of Indianapolis, Ind, and Hudmun Hopson of Birmingham charged with using tine mails in de. fraud during the expansion period of the Walker company, will begin Mon day morning in federal court, before Judge M. I. Grubb.
 c. B. Kennamer, prosecuting attor- ney and Jim c. Smith, assistant at torney, will try the defendants.
 A number of defending attoreys for the various officials of the Walker Consolidated and Petroleum company arrived in Birmingham during the week end, in readiness for the trial which is considered the leading local battle of the year.
 Defending the indicted officials vii be Borden Burr, and Earle Pettu' of Birmingham, Cullen F. Thomas oi Dallas, o. D. Street of Guntersvlllt and l.. B. Rainey of Gadsden. There are 34 counts named in the indictment charging the use of the mails to defraud w. $. Esco, R. E. Capser Joseph $. Church, Adolphus Hlrch Joe c. Hail, E. N. Loftin and number of others by misrepfesentlnt the condition of the company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
Hats On In ElevatOr!' Edict Stirs Birmingham Dispute

clerk and perhaps the most popular woman in the city hall, thinks differ ently.
 Ut really doesn't matter" she as serts, land l, for one, don't care wheth- CT the men remove their hats or not. All men are absent-minded, and some of them have big business in their minds when they're riding elevators. Mems hats stay on in street cars why Iot in elevators?"
 Habit Is Habitual
 Major Matt Murphy, attorney and American legion leader, says elevator hat doffing is habitual with southern gentlemen and should be continued.
 ''I'm for it, says D. E. McLendon, president of the city commission. Its no trouble to take off your hat. The women like it, and i believe in doing everything possible to please them"
 But the office building sign, inviting the men to keep their hats on, will not be torn down. The building manager is not putting the kayo on chivalry, he maintains, but is merely making it easier for folks who ride his lifts. Chivalry, he contends, doesn't mean inconvenience. While shedding sky pieces in elevators does
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
Demand Equal Terms
HALEYVILLE CASE
 TO BE HEARD HERE
(State Cpaital Bureau.l

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. T. Commissioner Frank P. Morgan of the Alabama Public Service commission is going to Birmingham Monday for a further hearing on the petition of citi- zens of Haleyville versus the Northern Alabama railroad, involving depot fla ciities at Haleyville. The Haeyville eepot burned in May and citizens are seeking new depot facilities. Hearing of the case will begin at 9 o'clock Mon day morning at the Chamber of Com merce, Birmingham.
 The public service commission has on it's dockets for further hearing Thurs day, December II, the petition of the Georgia-Alabama Power company and Georgia Utilities for approval of sale of their Alabama utility proper ties to the Gulf Electric company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
RONDOUT ROBBERS
 JAILED AT ATLANTA
Fahy And Murray Start 25-Year
 Prison Terms

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 7,-William J. Fahy and James Murry, "brains" of the $2,OO0,000 mail train hold-up at Rondout, H., last May, were trans formed Sunday from individuals to numbers" and started on new stretch of life.
 Fahy and Murray were officially in stalled at Atlanta federal penitentiary, where they must serve for 25 years in exriation of their part in the daring mail robbery.
 ''Tell the boys back home that we had pleasant trip and have been well treated by the officers was their only statement to newspapermen before the prison gates closed behind them. Prison officials will assign their new wards to regular duties about Tuesday or Wednesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

Is southern chivalry nursing a black eye because many of the men don't re- move their hats in elevators any more
 When w. H. Parker, well-known cit izen, wrote The Age Herald letter anent this subject few days ago, he started controversy that now has tongues wagging in every downtown office building.
 Much of the chatter centers around the "hats on in elevators" decree pro. mulgated by one of the large office buildings. which objures mere man from doffing his chapeau.
 Some of the women are dismayed over the edict. Keeping ones hat on in an elevator is all right for the north But in the chivalrous south
 70 shades of Sir Walter Raleigh Englishman turn over in his grave. It will never do,' they say.
 Other women assert that it's all wrong-this elevator hat dOfflng. 1t works an inconvenience on the men and slGuld not be required, they declare.
 Birmingham men appear to be evenly divided in opinion. Sheiks of the sleek haired variety side with the women Wilo laNOf mats OH. OIner types VIE crouSly applaud the emancipation eff fort.
 Demand Equal Terms
 Women aIe on equal terms with us everywhere else," say spokesmen of th' latter type. "Why shouldn't they be il elevators, too?'
 Mrs. Margaret Copeland, pr'minen club woman and president of the Demo cratic Womens club, sides with tn woman who think the brown derbic should come off.
 The practice emphasizes our famed southern chivalry, and most women ap preciate the token of respect reflected Ly men when they remove their hats, she says.
 Mrs. Eunice Hughes, assistant cit!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
DECEASED ELKS
 ARE IGNORED
Annual Memorial Services Held Sunday By
 Local Lodge

Judge Leon McCord of Montgomery delivered the oration at the annual me morial exercises of Birmingham Lodge No. 79, Benevolent Protective Order ot Elks, held Sunday afternoon at the Third Presbyterian church, which was filled to its capacity with members of the order and families and friends of deceased members of the lodge in whose memory the exercises were held.
 The program included appropriate selections by Frank Davidsons orches- tra, special numbers by the church choir, solo, 'There Is No, Death rendered by Owen Gillespy, and violin solo by Carl McCool.
 The exercises commenced with the opening of the lodge by Joe E. Saks, exalted ruler, assisted by Zac F. smith. esteemed leading knight; w. H. An derson, esteemed loyal knight. and .. S. Sennewald, esteemed featuring knight. Dr. J. A. Bryan, pastor of the church and honorary chaplain of the lodge, gave the opening prayer.
 Exalted Ruler Saks introduced Judge McCord "as one of the most widely ana favorably known public men in Ala bama, and an Elk who carried out the teaching of the order in every day lite: Judge McCord gave resume Of the oD- iects of the Elks memorial exercises, and that while they could not help the dead they could help the living for the examples set by their lives. He urged a better, broader understanding with each other.
 An impressive feature of the exer- cises was the calling of the roll of "The Absent Brothers" by the secretary. As each name was called, Father Time, represented by $. R. White, clipped a flower from a huge buch and laid it on the altars.
 Judge w. P. McCrossin was intro duced and gave the eulogy to the memo " of the deceased members-number- ing nearly 100-and stated in his in trOductory remarks that he had personal acquaintance with almost every one Of them. He pointed out d few shining ex- amples of men who loved their God, their country and their fellowmen," and urged his hearers to emanate them in their devotion to the principals of the order and their self f-sacrificing service to humanity and the community in which they had lived. With the sing ing of the lodge hymn, Great Ruler of the Universe" and the benediction pro- nounced by Dr. Bryan the exercises were brought to close.
 The Elks committee in charge were Dr. B. A. Fox, chairman; John F. Antwine, Dr. John w. Perkins, George w. Brown, Ben Mendlesohn, A. II. Moore and G. w. Parrish.