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Evening star., 1925-08-04
STRATON OFFERED
BRYAN'S MANTLE
VIII Challenge Darrow to De-
bate, Says New York
FundamentaIiSt.
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, August 4.--The lead
ership of the fundamentalist forces,
of which William Jennings Bryan
was the outstanding figure, has been
offered to the Rev. John Roach Stra-
ton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church
here and long a foe of modernism.
In making this announcement at
Asbury Park, n. j., yesterday, DR..
Straton said he was not at liberty
TO reveal the names of those who had
urged him for the place. They We're,
however, prominent New Workers
who had formed an organization with
which to prosecute nation wide war
against the teaching of evolution in
tax-supported schools.
DIR. Straton said he would chal-
lenge Clarence Darrow to series of
from 10 to 20 debates on evolution.
New York. Chicago. Philadelphia
and Atlanta are four cities he named
rs having already been selected for
he said, Dudley Field Malone will be
challenged.
In an address at Asbury Park last
night DIR. Straton blamed evolution's
glorification of the flesh" for the
ethical collapse" of the modern gen
Grafton.
Monkey men make monkey NOR
ais" he said. The modern dances
reflect the pervading philosophy of
antma lism. The theater is reeking
with moral infamies as a result of
its f1eshly tendencies. 1t was this re-
Election of evolutionary philosophy
that destroyed Germany
Evening star., 1925-08-04
Sour Stomach
Phillips Milk of Magnesia"
Better than Soda


Instead of soda hereafter take a
little "PhiIfips Milk Of Magnesia" in
water any time for indigestion or
sour, acid, aassy stomach and relief
will come instantly.
For fifty years genuine "PhilIips
Milk of Magnesia" has been pre-
scribed by physicians. because it
overcomes three times as much acid
in the stomach as a saturated solu.
ton of bicarbonate of soda, leaving
the stomach sweet and free from all
gases. IL neutralizes acid fermenta-
tions in the bowels and gently urges
the souring waste from the system
without purging. Besides, il is more
pleasant to take than soda. Insist
upon "PhiiIips." Twenty FIVE cent
bottles, any drug store.
Evening star., 1925-08-04
ST. LOUIS JAIL TAKEN
FROM SHERiFF'S HANDS
Court Order Succeeds in Brin ging
Row Before Judge for
Decision.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS. August "A temporary
restraining order issued by Circuit
Judge Rosskopf hast night compelled
Sheriff Schuler to relinquish posses
sion of the city Jail. which he gained
through a strategic move yesterday.
1t also had the effect of bringing the
sheriff's contentious squarely before
the courts for ultimate adjudication.
Meanwhile, City Jailer Lehman re-
mains in charge of the Institution.
which will continue under the juris-
diction of the city administration at
least another year and a half, as
no matter how the case is decided in
the Circuit Court. it will be appealed
to the Supreme Court. A hearing was
set for Friday.
Lehman explained that, although
Sheriff Schulers deputies seized the
Jail easily, it did not follow that an
outsider might duplicate the feat
Evening star., 1925-08-04

Printed Crepe Dresses the plain sihouetteidea for
early Fall wear-reduced for immediate clearance!
Many of them suitable for travelling All OF them
worth decidedly than the we're asking them now.
They're good range Of coors including black white and
navy and white Many border effects Most every
size in the lot. Real bargains at $lzo5.
Kann's-Seeond Floor
Evening star., 1925-08-04
RITCHIE MAKING TOUR.
Going Down Bay With Earle in
Interest of Conservation.

interest or conservation.
Special Dispatch TO The Star
BALTIMORE, August 4.-In an en-.
deayor to carry out the States con.
Servattye program, Gov. Ritehie and
Conservation Commissioner Swepson
Earle Will leave this afternoon for q
two-and- halliday trip aboard the
State steamer McLane
The first meeting will be held al
Solomons Island this evening. To-
morrow st. Marys City will be visited
on st. Georges Island a meeting
will be held aboard the steamer
Crossing Tangier Sound TO Crisfield
an important conference will be held
with committee of the Fish. Oyster
and Crab Association.
According to Commissioner Earle
The organization of the Chesapeake
watermen is having a marked in.
huence by increasing interest and co.
operation.
Evening star., 1925-08-04
Assigned to Dispensary Duty.

Maj. Arnold d. Tuttle, Medical
Corps, at Carlisle. Pa, and Capt.
James G.. Morningstar. Dental Corps,
at Walter Reed General Hospital,
have been assigned to duty at the
Army general dispensary, this city.
Evening star., 1925-08-04
PHONE FIGHT LOOMS.
Virginians to Oppose c. & p Rate
Increase Friday.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SPECIAL Dispatch 70 The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, August 4.-There
will be 20 or more communities rep
resented here Friday to take part in
the organized opposition to be made
to the petition of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Co. for a gen.
eral increase in rates. The fight will
be made before the State Corporation
Commission.
Evening star., 1925-08-04

Aim, the son of a Roman emperor,
could catch fruit in his mouth; a pear
lodging in his windpipe killed him.
Evening star., 1925-08-04


COUNDS like an extremely
~ simple method-but very
often it works wonders:
Eat several Peppermint Life
Savers after meals. They have
a delightful stimulating effect on
the stomach and frequently COR
rect certain forms of indigestion
where nothing else seems to help.
It'e the old principle our
grandmothers used of taking
peppermint for the stomach.
They are ZHEM
Life Savers SL63S&N
as an aid NSSWJE,E
to digestion &S$0SNN
Evening star., 1925-07-18
STRAW HAT FACTS
BEFORE PRESIDENT
Manufacturers Seek Higher
Import Duties to Check
Growing Competition.
snecial pisnatch TO The star.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
BALTIMORE, July 1S.-Straw hat
manufacturers are anxiously await
ing the Presidents decision regard
ing import duties Oh their product.
The Tariff Commission has COM
pleted it's deliberations upon COM
petitive conditions in the mems
sewed straw hat industry and will
transmit its findings to the Presi-
dent within the next few days.
In hearings held before the com
mission it was contended that the
present tariff of 60 per cent is in
sufficient to equalize production costs
on the cheaper grades of hats. which
are now competing seriously with the
products of American factories.
One Of the problems which the
commission has been called upon to
decide is where to draw the line be-
tween the cheaper hats involved in
the complaint and the foreign hats of
high quality which do not compete
here to the disadvantage of domestic
producers.
Should it be found that the Tariff
Commission has met the requests of
the domestic producers and the i'm
porters of the better grades of hats
by recommending different duties on
similar products of different value 1t
will be the first time such action has
been taken, 1t is said.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
SEEKS MARYLAND FIRM.
Electric Power and Light Com
pany After Southern Firm.

NEW YORK, July 1S P).-The
Electric Power & Light Corporation
will use part of it's recent increase In
authorized capital stock to acquire
control of the Southern Power & Light
90 of MARYLAND Preferred stock
holders of Southern Power will re
ceive 16,1S1 shares Of preferred and
s. 600 ne-half shares Of common stock
of Electric Power & Light for 16,181
shares of Southern Power outstanding.
Southern Power stockholders have un-
til September l to deposit their stock.
Electric Power & Light is a newly
organized holding company for utfl-
tiles supervised by the Electric Bond
e. Share Co. in Idaho, Utah, Louisiana
and other States.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
S4OO CASH DISTRIBUTION
BY CHEMICAL COMPANY
Virginia-C Concern Has
Funds From Sale of Southern
Cotton Oil Company.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. July 1S.-The Cen
trail Union Trust Co. trustee under the
first mortgage of the Virginia Carolina
Chemical Co. has announced that a
cash distribution of $500 on each 81 900
bond of the first mortgage 25-year
Z per cent sinking fund gold bonds,
series A, would be made July 81 out
of proceeds of the sale of stock of the
Southern Cotton Oil Co.
The bondholders' committee an
nounced that 1888 per 1000 bonds
would be deducted from the $40O for
certificates of deposit bearing a nota-
ton of advance installment of inter
est, June /. 1924, and would be ap-
piled to repayment of the advance,
with interest of 6 per cent from June
8, 1924, to July 1, 1925.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
OIL EARNINGS REPORTED.

NEW YORK, July Is LP.-PhilIips
Petroleum, first large oil company to
report second quarterly earnings,
shows net of $6,090,O92 after ex-
penses, taxes and interest. but before
depreciation and depletion, against
$4.366,40l in the preceding quarter
and $3,949.053 after expenses in the
second quarter of 1924. The half
years net was $I0,456,494 before ad-
justment of inventories, depreciation
and depletion.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
MORE FLOUR EXPORTED.

BALTIMORE. July 18 (SpeciaD-
Exports of grain, as reported by the
Maritime Exchange for the week end
ed yesterday, show an increase in
shipments of grain compared with the
previous week. Altogether, 253,7SS
bushels of grain were exported, repre-
sented by 1S5, 1866 of rye, $4,000 of bar.
ley. 1890 of wheat and / 1892 Of malt
Flour exports slightly advanced, there
being 1852 barrels shipped, against
3,534 in the last report.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

and United Gas and Electric reaching
their best prices for the year. Buy
ing in stocks of electric refrigerator
companies was resumed in expecta-
ton of substantial increases in earn
ings. Kelvinator, just below 43. was
within a small fraction of its high
record and Sery-El Corporation gained
q point to 20.
\ number of the oils were inclined
toward lower levels.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
World Needs Large.
TODAY'S CHICAGO PRICES.

CHICAGO, July IS Cp).-Under the
influence of general selling on the
part of commission houses, the wheat
, market took an early swing downward
today.
Lack of any aggressive buying al
lowed corn and oats to sag with wheat
After opening at . to / Is off, Sep
tember 1.0612 to l07. the corn market
underwent a further decline. Septem-
Der touching LOG.
Oats started at IS to rs lower. Sep
tember ASP to 46. and held near to
the initial range.
Provisions were responsive to weak
ness of hog values.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
SEES CORNER TURNED
IN COPPER INDUSTRY
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July 1s.-More stable
conditions in the copper industry and
better prices are forecast by G. T.
Kelly. president of the Anaconda Cop
per Mining Co, who says his COM
pany is doing a larger business than
at any time, and except that the basic
price Of copper is low, it's operations
are being conducted satisfactorily.
Demand for metal products has
been very large, and business in cop
per and copper products in the first
half of 1925 exceeds any like period
in the history of the industry" he
said.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
TOBACCO ACREAGE CUT.

MADISON, Wis, July IS (SpeciaD.-
The smallest acreage Of tobacco in 25
years, 16 per cent under a year ago,
has been planted in Wisconsin. Wis
consin tobacco, used for cigar binders,
has met with serious crop reverses
the past two years, due to early frosts,
so that only $4,000 acres were planted
this season.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
MIDDLEWEST UTILITIES
GETS MAINE CONCERN
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 1S.-Acquisition of
the controlling interest in the Central
Maine Power Co. was announced to-
day by the Middlewest Utilities Co.
The Maine organization has approxi.
mately $3O,000.000 invested in hydro
electric projects, serving 1913 COM
munities, about one-third of the
States population.
Through subsidiary operation COM
panies, the Middlewest Utilities co.
now furnish utility services to l,2o9
communities in 18 States.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
Stock Market Averages Reach
Ne,U High Point During Week
Public More Actiue-Money May Go
Higher-Better Profit Margins
Predicted-The Outlook.

improved domestic demand, following
consistent efforts TO limit production.
Bank clearings are set down as eX-
ceeding all previous records. Rail
road traffic is 10 per cent ahead of
Il year ago.
The trouble with the business sit
uatiOn al along has not lain with
the volume bat with the profit
margin. The former has been salts
factory. the latter has not. But now
prices in important lines have either
stopped going down or have begun to
turn upward. If this drift continues
it Will mean a good deal for cor
porate earnings in the second half of
the year. The present Wall Street
dealings are going ahead on the con
ception that this is the way the stu
alton will work out.
Some Advances Very Sharp.
The reason why the current market
does not invite the suspicion which
attached to the market of January
and February is that there have been
no similar excesses on the buying side.
Some of the public utility stocks and
few Of the specialties have been bid
up rather extravagantly. But in the
main body of the list the forward
movement has been orderly and has
| involved no such wild speculation as
accompanied the rising market dur
ing the Winter.
July is normally month of crop
deterioration. 1t is a dry weather
time, and 1t is a period when reports
| of the inroads made by drought and
| insect pests are taken full advantage
of by spectators in grain and in cot
| ton. The present year has SO far been
no exception.
Plenty of Cotton in Sight
But during the past week the cot
| ton trade has begun to realize that
such drought as has occurred would
have to have very serious results in
deed in order to Offset the facts Of the
statistical position.
A crop of 13,6l8 900 bales last year,
when domestic situation was curtailed,
means large carry over, and on top
| OF this the Department of Agriculture
has estimated for 1925 a harvest of
l4,339. 600 bales, which with one ex-
ception is the largest estimate at the
same period in the last eight years.
Under such circumstances the condi-
tions of the next two months would
have to be extraordinarily bad in
order to produce much of change in
| he price outlook.
Foreign Exchange Stabilized
The foreign exchanges evidently
| have come 10 rest around their pre-
| vailing levels. In no week for a long
! lime have fluctuations been so small.
| Sterling is holding virtually at par.
While the Bank of England continues
| TO accumulate gold and it's reserve
ratio stands much the highest since
| he beginning of the war.
French bank note circulation and
government borrowings are both at
| record highs. but this has not affected
| the franc, because of the confidence
| felt in the new regime. which has had
| the courage to recognize the facts
and propose TO balance the budget in
| the only way possible, through in
creased taxation.
(Copvright 1927
Evening star., 1925-07-18
Query the Promoter.

Determine how much of his own
money the promoter Is putting into
his scheme before you decide to risk
yours. Don't take his word for it
make him prove it.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
MINING.
BOSTON STOCK MARKET

BOSTON, July 18.-Following is a
list of today's highest, lowest and clos
ing prices for the most active stocks
dealt in here:
Evening star., 1925-07-18
Textile Trade Still Slow.

There is undoubtedly some improve
ment in the textile situation through
out the country, but It is an improve
ment of sentiment in many instances
rather than in actual business. The
silk manufacturers still are going
strong and the demand for rayon is
such that a shortage in some grades
has developed. The wool markets are
active and prices firm. but it remains
to be seen whether the workers of
the American Woolen Co. will accept
the 10 per cent wage cut scheduled
for July q and whether other mills
will follow the example.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
BY STUART p. WEST.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

opcciaL Dlsphtcn 10 Inc star.
NEW YORK, July 18.-The past
week ended with prices on the stock
exchange at a new high average. They
were up some 80 cents a share from a
week ago and $S.35 a share from the
first Of the year. This was quite the
largest rise which has occurred in any
week since the elimination of the mid
Winter speculation. Accompanied as
is was by a decidedly heavier daily
turnover, 1t testified to an increasing
public interest and to a vitality
greater than July markets usually
have.
1t has often been said that low
money rates were one of the reasons
back OF the rise in stocks. This is
hardly true. When call loan quota
tions came down from a high Of per
cent, a week ago, to a low of "a per
cent. II probably eXerted some senti-
mental influence upon a market move
ment which was looking around for
excuses for higher prices. But actually
for the last three years stock ex-
change fluctuations have not been af-
fected by money changes. They have
been governed solely by business
changes.
Higher Rates Expected
There are no immediate signs OF
money working higher, yet the belief
is that this is what is going to hap.
pen. This belief is founded first upon
the larger use of Federal Reserve
facilities. Rediscounts for the system
as a whole are up $3.50, ,000. 900 from
a year ago, and in the New York
district are up from 1861 900 10
1921 TAP 900. The general reserve ratio
is down from S2.6 per cent to 76.1, and
the New York ratio Is down from S4 2
1 q -
differences, yet they denote more of a
tendency TO appeal, under the urge o:
increasing business, to the rediscount
privileges of the Federal reserve
Secondly, the expectation of higher
money is based upon the idea that
commercial prices struck bottom
sometime ago and are now pointed
higher, that the business volume viii!
further expand, and finally that the
season IS approaching when the usual
requirements for the crop moving viii
have to be met.
Bonds Slowing Down.
The stock market is not rejecting
this view as yet, but the bond market
is doing so. Bond prices have not
come down, but there are certainly
a good many more sellers than buy
ers around current prices.
The stock market, however, looks
at the difference between the present
Federal Reserve ratio of 76.1 per cent
and the Al per cent of November,
1919, and is not worrying about the
sufficiency Of the credit supply or
about the estimates made of the huge
total of brokerage loans. It is con
cerned with trade developments. and
these have been mostly favorable.
Profit Margin Increasing.
Steel prices have steadied after a
prolonged decline, and incoming bust
ness, while perhaps not quite up to
shipments from the mills, is ap-
preaching an equation. The copper
metal is advancing as the result of an
Evening star., 1925-07-18
COMPLETE LOCAL
BANK REPORT OUT
Seasonal Decreases Noted in
DepoSitS-0ther Finan-
CiaI Notes.

Banks and trust companies of the
District of Columbia showed a net
decrease in deposits of S3,0449l9SS
between the April and June 80 bank
calls of the controller of the cur
renCy, according to a compilation OF
returns made by Audley A. p. savage.
auditor of the National Savings and
Trust Co.
Decrease of the national bank de-
posits was S2.3OI, ,16l.52; of the sav-
ings banks. $S2,174.56, and of the
trust companies 1861 ,5S3.S0.
Only four national banks, the Bank
Of Washington. District, Farmers and
Mechanics and Liberty, and two trust
companies. Merchants Bank and
. Muusey, showed increases for the
period. All of the saTings banks of
the city registered increases with the
exception of six.
Building Bonds offered To-day.
A Boston and Philadelphia syndicate.
with Crane, Paris Il Co. Of this city
participating, offered today S2,500eOo
first mortgage 6 per cent i5-year sink
ing fund gold bonds ON the new Wash
ington Building. to I've erected at New
York avenue and Fifteenth street, by
The Washington Central Trust The
bonds are dated June /. 1928, and ma
ture June j, 1870
Interest Will be payable semi-annual
ly. June l and December /, and the
securities will be callable as whole
or in part on any interest day on so
DAYS notice at l05 and interest
lo3 and interest prior to maturity.
They are coupon bonds, in denomina-
tions of 1000 and $500.
The syndicate making the offering
of bonds today is Coffin & Burr, Inc,
of Boston and W. H. Newbold's Son
d Co.
Business Failures Increase.
Bradstreet's compilation of business
failures In the United States for the
week ended July s puts the number
a Z 34S, an increase of ~ over the
week before and II less than the
corresponding week last year.
Bradstreet's further says: Midsum-
mer conditions and the desire TO
await developments among the later
Sown crops make for a certain de-
gree of quiet, but most of the usual
measures point to a fully fair volume
business doing, in this respect occu-
pying a sort of middle ground be-
tween the fun activities of last Au-
'tumn and the depressed conditions of
last year at this time.
Sugar TO Remain Cheap.
The extremely slow demand for re
fined sugar makes it questionable
whether any attempted advance in
prices could be maintained at this
time, declares Federal Sugar Refining
90. in its review Of the industry
Practically all sellers are very anxious
TO move sugar i'll large volume dur
Ing the heavy consuming season.
Will Open Broker Office.
T. J. Mehlman and L. c. Witkowski
of this city have organized Mehlman
& Co, brokers. with offices in the In
ternational Building, TO trade in un-
listed and local stocks and bonds.
Evening star., 1925-07-18
BY WILLIAM f. HEFFERNAN.

NEW YORk, July IS.-ODeratiOns
for the rise were in the ascendant as
the week on the curb exchange today
closed, but the upward movement did
not make the progress it had earlier
in the week. Several new high rec
ords were established. but they were
not as numerous.
Public utilities maintained perma-
nent place, United Power and Light
Evening star., 1925-07-18
Crop News Favorable.

The weather still is dominant fac
tor in the agricultural situation, but
corn is doing splendidly and the cotton
situation is fine in many sections. The
Spring wheat output estimates are In
creasing. The thing which offers the
greatest threat to wheat prices at
present is the probable large yield in
European countries and the prospect
of 4 Canadian crop ranging from
365 900. 900 to 400, ,000. 900 bushels.
Both crude oil and gasoline have
registered price advances in, some
districts and the technical position of
the commodity has improved this
week.