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Evening star., 1926-04-06
PRICES ARE STRONG
IN BOND MARKET
High-grade Investment Is
sues Set New Top Marks
for the Year.
BY GEORGE T.. HUGHES.
to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 6.-Demand
for prime investments continued
vigorous in today's bond market.
At least four high grade issues
made new 1926 tops. Chicago and
Burlington and Quincy SIS, Central
Pacific 5s Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern SIS and American Tele-
phone and Telegraph 51as. Atchi-
son general As We're within quarter
point of the years high and Treasury
4Ms at 10S, We're only one sixteenth
below the best previous 1926 price.
st, Louis-San Francisco prior lien
"A 4s We're firm around 80. and un-
usual interest was shown in st.
Louis Iron Mountain and Southern
River and Gulf As. There was good
demand for all the Northern Pacific
issues. Not all the gains We're held,
but reactions were generally trit1ing.
Speculative rails followed the in
Vestment issues, but industrials and
fractions We're more irregular. Sea-
board adjustments We're active and
ran up point. Missouri -KanSaS-TeXaS
adjustments were higher and so were
st. Louis-San Francisco adjustments.
Erie general As did little better.
Third Avenue adjustments advanced
nearly point, but later reacted. Chi
cago Railway 5s were down at one
time. over a point. International Mer-
camille Marine 6s held we'll despite de-
malls of the report that the company
was to be taken over by British in
tereStS.
Foreign bonds, as group. were
firm. Belgian issues were not dis
turbed by the new break in Belgian
exchange. There was unusual buying
interest in Australian SIS. Hungarian
712s crossed 95 again. An advance
in Peru 712s was associated with the
proposed new Peruvian loan of $14,-
$50. 900. Brazil Is iuctuated errati-
cally.
The new $65 900, 900 Associated Elec-
trio 5i2s offered today at 95l4 to yield
over $40 per cent were heavily over
subscribed. This is the largest electric
light and power issue on record, and in
the utility field generally has been ex-
ceeded only by the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph issues. A new
offering is expected shortly of Cana.
dian Rail and Harbour Terminals,
Ltd, of Toronto. bonds.
Evening star., 1926-04-06
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, April Omitted States
Department of agricultural. Hogs
Receipts. 10000 head: unevenlY 10 to
% lower; most early trading 10 to 10
lower on shipping and yard trader
account; later bids 10 to % lower;
light and extreme heavies off most
early top. 140 to 100 pound averages,
1850: bulk. $50 to 200 pound kind,
l2.75a130O: 240 to 260 pound averages,
II .75a12 200: ma jority 275 TO $40 pound
mostly 10.00a10.50: pigs, very scarce:
few plain kind up to 1850; heavy
weight hogs, 11.00a12.00: medium.
II 1.25a1290; light, 12.00a13.45: light
lights, 12.25a13.50; packing sows, 1000
alO.5O: slaughter pigs. 13.20a13.60.
Cattle-Receipts, 1900 head; fed
steers and she stock at standstill:
largely a steer run; very little done;
biding full % lower: spots more; kill
ing quality of steer run medium to
good: bulk. S.75a9.75; prospects of
liberal carry-over she stock tending
lower: feeders dull: bulls fully steady;
vealers weak, 1000 downward.
Sheep-Receipts 10000 head; few
early sales of. fat and handy-weight
lambs. steady to weak: several loads
of wooled lambs, 13.75a14.00; latter
price paid by shippers; few desirable
clipped lambs. 10.75a11.60; outside
price paid by small killers; market
looks weak to lower on heavier Of
ferings: few early sales of fat ewes
fully steady at S.75a9.25; nothing done
on shearing lambs: talking steady on
q few available loads.
Evening star., 1926-04-06
WHEAT PRICE LIFTED
BY SEEDING DELAYS
Foreign Markets Strength An
other Factor in Upswing in
Grain Values Today.
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, April 6.-Infiuenced by
unexpected strength of Liverpool
wheat quotations and by firmness of
security values at New York, the
wheat market here took an early up
ward swing today. Continued unfa-
vorable weather in the Northwest.
likely to bring about further delay
to seeding of Spring wheat, tended
also to lift values.
Crop experts pointed out that late
seeding Spring wheat is more subject
to subsequent injury as result of
rust and that consequently delayed
seeding causes apprehension.
Chicago opening prices, Is TO IA
higher. May new 1.5812 to 1.59 and
July 1886 to 1861, were followed by
moderate additional gains and then
something of reaction.
Corn and oats synpathized with
wheat strength and also reflected
stormy weather as well as smallness
of corn receipts here. 81 cars today,
with country offerings to arrive mea-
ger. After opening at "a off to a
up, May 71A to 71as. the corn market
scored a slight general advance.
Oats started 1saA to Il higher,
May Ala to 41as. and continued to
harden.
Provisions were easy owing to
Evening star., 1926-04-06
STOCKS co HIGHER
IN TRADING TODAY
Lowering Call Loan Rate Has
Sentimental Effect on
Market.
BY STUART y. WEST.


Special Dispatch TO Inc Sldi-
NEW YORK, April 6.--Prices went
higher on the Stock Exchange TO-DAY
with somewhat enlarged volume OF
business.
The lowering of the rate on stand
ing call loans from Az to 4h4 per
cent had sentimental influence al
though these surface money changes
have not been any great factor IN the
stock changes in recent years. 1t ;"
bappened there was short interest
particularly in the motor shafeS' III
the equipments and in various oIhei
5,7lStriais which was ready to rum
and the indications of a sun easier
money position furnished the excuse.
Tho leaders in the motor group
we're Hudson and General Motofs.
Most of the motors had done reiilarh
abIy little In the trading of the day
before They went forward TO-DAY
,,,,ircinally because short sellers rear
ized they had been wrong in gausins
The amount of liquidation likelS -
come out around the current leNei'
was entirely technical Sltualloii aiiu
had scarcely anything to DO win @ 1Ie
nnSitinn or the Hlolol tis'NN'
Nulys-Overland report showing earn
,nrs of S4.36 a share on the common
after preferred dividends had some
effect. as also did the statement OF the
president of the company that tie
Volume of sales domestic ana fofeish'
VAS the largest on record.
The market seems to nave uls-
counted the report that Standard ,Ias
anw Electric was taking over various
new properties in the public utinty
field. The one that Wall street s was
most interested in. of course, Was
philadelphia co. The buying OF utll-
ity shares recently had suggested
snecial cause, but today specula,oIs
v no had bought on what they though,
,-as advance knowledge We're inclined
- sell. Both Standard Gas and PM
o5elphia co. came down sharply,
selling of International Mercantile
,ra,.;na nreferred appeared when II
y'as disclosed that there was no oasls
for reports that English interests were
seeking control of the company
Evening star., 1926-04-06
NEW SPARROWS POINT
STEEL PLANT OPENED
Bethlehem Company to Start Work
Soon on SIS, 100000 Pipe Mill
on Maryland Property.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

SpecIdI Dlspdtcn 10 Inc star.
BALTIMORE. April 6.-The new
wire, rod and nail mill of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation at Sparrows Point
started operation today, giving en-
plOyment to 500 men. increasing the
Of employees at the Point" to
approximately 1000. a record figure
The plant is one of the largest
and most modern mills of it's kind in
the United States and will manufac-
ture plain and galvanized wire, fenc-
ing and nails.
The plant is close TO the tin and
si.eet metal mills of the company. The
combined output of the three units
will exceed 10000 tons of wire, tin
and sheet metal products monthly.
Monthly production of nails alone will
be $4,000 kegs.
Work is expected 10 start shortly on
the 5000, 900 pipe mill. This will be
the only plant of its kind on the
Atlantic seaboard and one of the
largest in the United States.
Evening star., 1926-04-06
Selling Prices at Noon.

wheat-No. red Winter. spot, DO
nestle. no quotations; No : red "in-
''I 'cIornECob. new. spot. 3.75a3 50 per
barrel as TO delivery; domestlei hesnei. yei. eH
,,orts 10. ,. 77i4 asked; No. 3. 14a4
70 0ats-No. .. 5Oa5Q12 asked No. .
rev, y Ne Se9rbv, new, S5a9o; No. 3
,.,e snot. no quotation.
HavIReceipts. none. a better grade
of timothy and choice light clover
,,,ixed has been moving out fairly
uell the past few days, and there Is no
"ver-supply of good hay on the mar
Eet Medium and lows grade hay is III
annie supply. however. Poor hay is
hard TO move at any price.
Quotations per ton today 10: tlhl-
othy %. 50a24.00: no. } tnmothy'
2l ,ooa22 90; No. light clover mixed mixed
% 00a23.50; No. , light clover mixed
% ooa2 90; No. / clover mixed, z5.oo'
10, clover, 23O0a23.5o; No. , clover
1S00a20.00. ,oo ~.
I oat. IA 00a 80.
Evening star., 1926-04-06
MERGERS RUMORED.

NEW YORK, April R.-With
the abandonment of plans for a mer-
ger of the Texas Co. and the Cali
fornia Petroleum Co. Wall Street
would not be surprised to see the
Texas Co. bid for other important
Pacific Coast and Mid-Continent prop
critics. Recent reports have linked
the Union Oil Co. of California and
the Phillips Petroleum Co. with the
Texas Co., and these have been given
color by the apparent need of meet
ing competition from the new East
and West combinations of the Tide
water Associated Oil Co. and the
Standard Oil of New York General
Petroleum merger.
Evening star., 1926-04-06
CLOSING Is STRONG.
New Leaders Brought Forward III
Final Hours of Trading.

<E,W YORK. April OP).-ihe
o,osinc was strong; new leaders were
brought forward in the hnal houI'
giving additional breadth TO the Ioi
ward movement ana lnl uslliS o',+h
80 ;n+n constructive operations. South
t,o,,tn Rico sugar rallied 7l2 points
ana Loose.Wiles Biscuit 6$4. while
a',u o'irs If : to 6 points embraced OTIS
Steel preferred, General Electric, May May
Stores, coca Cola. Atlantic Coast
;, ;ne and louisville and Nashville.
sales approXimated 100000 shareS'
Evening star., 1926-04-06
PORT TRADE GAINS.
special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch 10 ! IIt NVdI.
BALTIMORE. April 6.-Both inn
ports and exports through the port of
Baltimore for the week ending Satur-
dav increased more than a million dol
lars over the previous week, the report
of Charles II. Hoffman, collector of
customs. shows.
Imports were valued at S3.010,S25
of which S2.479, ,542 was free of duty.
Total imports, free. and duitable,
showed a gain of 1.4S0,756 over the
week ending March %.
Fxports were valued at S2,221 .932. a
gain of S1,175,257 over the preceding
week. Among the principal articles
entering were rubber, sugar. ores. oil
and seed. Some chief exports were
electric machinery, rubber tires. cot
ton. refined sugar and metal products.
Evening star., 1926-04-06
GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

BALTIMORE. April Special
potatoee-White. 100 pounds -.ooa
& 90: aspaagus. dozen. 5,ooa'.oo' pealls'
hushel 3.00a6.00; cabbage hai.,pei II "o. l.
q ooa2 30. sweet potatoes. barrel, z.ooa
: W.. -yams barrel. 200a4.75; carrots,
,','.bei 75a2 90: caulitlower, crate,
P's2aSij 5a2 90: celery, crate, 2:5oa3.75: Gu
l;ITe, ,,Imbers. crate. 6.Ooalo 90; eggplant,
@''l. "0aS 90; kale, barrel. 1.75a225; let, let
,uce basket, 25Oa4.oo; onions ,nM 100
mounds. 2.5oa35o: oysterplants 1Oo'
3 ooa : 90; parsnips, basket, 5Oa60; TO-
matoes. crate, 3.0Oa6oo; spinach, par par
,,aI ,,lI' 5oa 90; radishes, basket. 3Ooa
4 90. tIrnips. basket. 30a40.
Apples, barrel, 2OOa 90; m nusnel. ,,o,". .oa
rs: grapefruit. box, 3.ooa DIV orallsTt'
49,, 00a5 %. strawberries, quart,
a0a65
Evening star., 1926-04-06
INCOME GAINS go PCT.

NEW YORK April 6 LP).-Gross
income of subsidiaries of the Middle
West Utilities Co. for the first two
months this year exceeded $6,5O0 900
a month, an increase of more than so
per cent over the same period of 1925
for the subsidiaries then owned. The
1926 figures do not include the bust
ness of the Southwestern Light &
Power Co., acquired by Middle West
subsequent to March l.
Evening star., 1926-04-06
wool MARKET QUIET.

BOSTON, April 6.-The Boston raw
wool market continued quiet today.
with dealers still devoting most of
their attention TO contracting in the
West for new clips. Some OF the Utah
and Montana growers are showing 4
disposition To hold their wool for 40
cents, but local dealers are closing
with others at 33 to 81 cents. Mont
evldeo woods We're active today. NOV
ing at So cents grease basis in bond
for 3s. Fine territory combing wool is
moving at $l.0S clean basis
Evening star., 1926-04-06
RUBBER IS LOWER.
pecial Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 6.-Crude rub
Der, standard grade was quoted at
noon today at 5S cents. This COM
pares with 5S12 cents yesterday. 551a
cents a month ago and 421s cents a
year ago.
Evening star., 1926-04-06
Markets at a Glance

NEW Stocks higher: stand
- ,-,i1s and industrials lead recovery.
1ru Bonds is'' f firm: public utility issues rise
Foreign exchanges steady: trench ',l
franc firm. Cotton barely steady; un,
favorable cotton goods reports. sugar
lower. cuban selling. totfee easy
lower Brazilian market
CHICAGO-Wheat barely Ste.uA :
favorable crop news southwest. totll
steady. unfavorable weather 'attie
AM and lower. Hogs lower
Evening star., 1926-04-06
PARIS PRICES FIRM.

PARIS, April 6 R.-Prices were
firm on the bourse today. Three pei
cent rentes, As francs, so centimes.
Exchange on London, 139 francs, 90
centimes. Five per cent loan, s.
francs, 20 centimes. The dollar was
quoted at rs francs, IA centimes.
Evening star., 1926-04-06
RUTTER IS LOWER.

CHICAGO. April P).-Butter
lower: receipts 1876 tubs: creamery
extras. 40; standards. 40; extra firsts'
39t aS9ls; frsts, 3Sa3SA: seconds,
96i%a37l9. Eggs higher: receipts
Se. 500 cases; firsts, 2S14a2S12: ordinary
firsts. 2715: storage packed extras
g01o. storage firsts. 30.
Evening star., 1926-04-06
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
,ouo,ations furnished By W. B Hibhs & Col
Nominal Selling checks

NEW YORK, April LFp.-Foreign
exchanges quiet: quotations Gn cents)
Great Britain. demand, 4.S5 7s; cables
S6l4: 60-day bills on banks, 4.S1 1916.
France. demand, 3.47; cables, 3.47 Y
Italy. demand, 4.0l 7s; cables; 4.02 a
2279: Holland. 40.0S: Norway. 21.45
sweden, $3.50; Denmark, 26.16: SwitZ
erland. 1927; Spain, 14.13; Greece,
I.32: Poland, 1850; Czechoslovakia,
2.96; Jugoslavia. 1,76; Austria, IA;
Rumania, Al y; Argentina, 1852 IL
Brazil 1406A: Toxic. 46.l212; Shang
hai. 72.25; Montreal, 99.S712.
Evening star., 1926-04-06
CAPITAL TRACTION
STOCK SCORES GAIN
Jumps Point and a Half Over
Saturdays Closing in
Trading Today.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Stock of the Capital Traction Com
pany scored gain of a point and q
half on the Washington Stock EX-
change today over the closing price
last Saturday. Twelve shares changed
hands on two sales at 106. Two bank
stocks also came out in today's trad
ing. 10 shares Of Riggs National sell
ing at 459, while Continental Trust
brought par on the transfer of two 10.
share lots.
Ten shares of Washington RAILWAY
ana Electric preferred brought 90l4
Nine shares of Potomac Electric
Power preferred sold at 1O6 and the
stock then advanced half a point on
the transfer of a 10.share lot at 1861
National Mortgage and Investment
preferred again was active, 80 shares
going at S14 and 40 at 8as.
Inere was q good deal doing in the
BOND division. Capital Traction IS
sold at par, the price being the same
as Saturdays close Washington.
Baltimore and Annapolis 5e opened ~
% and dropped to 81 Washington
Gas 6s were lower today. selling az
l02 hat on small turnover. POto-
mac Electric Power general and re
funding Is registered 1868 on one
transaction.
Evening star., 1926-04-06

That the wearing of n jade neck
lace was a sure cure for kidney trou-
hle was at one time 4 popular DeHet.
Evening star., 1926-04-06

are the annual cash payments based on the
latest quarterly or half yearly declarations.
Unless otherwise noted. extra or special divi-
dends are not included.
Paid this year. no regular rate. b'or
optional in stock. "Partly stock. tPartiy
extra. sPayable in preferred stock. tPlus
41 in stock payable | % quarterly. fPlus
az in stock payable / IN 20 quarterly.
Evening star., 1926-04-06
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06

| "b. Thru indefatigable socialist
propaganda in the cooperatives to
help the workers better understand
The idea of the class struggle and
socialism.
&C. At the same time to endeavor to
bring all the different forms of the
labor movement to as complete unity
as possible.
1.-THE congress also declares, that
the producers cooperatives benefit the
fight of the working class only when
they are integral part of the consul
mers' cooperatiyes."
Lenin's thesis was not adopted.
However, the fighting attitude Of
Lenin and the other revolutionist
members in the subcommission COM
PEELED the reformists to present to the
congress a resolution in which the
main principles about cooperation as
advocated by Lenin were adopted.
Lenin considered the cooperative
question as discussed in the Copen-
hagen congress so important that he
wrote in the .bolshevist newspaper
Social Democrat a special article,
"The Cooperative Question in the In
ternational Socialist Congress at
Copenhagen" In this he points out
that in the main the cooperative re-
solution adopted contains right inter-
pretations OF the principles, but that
it is not clear enough because it was
a compromise resolution. The article
concludes with: 1.-THE fight against the
reformists is only postponed. and will
Inevitably be resumed"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
After the Revolution.

The revolution changed the social
conditions in Russia. The exploiters
were overthrow and workers cap.
tured political power. Therefore, the
purpose of cooperation changed ac-
cordingly. Lenin's last article which
was published after his death was
about cooperation. In this he en-
phasizes the importance of coopera-
ton. Now the producers cooperatives
and credit unions in villages are Of
great Importance. The consumers CO.
operatives have also different purpos.
es than before the revolution. The
class struggle has attained it's high
est outcome, the dictatorship of the
proletariat. Now is the time to build
the new society. In this work the
cooperative organizations of the peas
ants and workers must be brought
nearer to each other. A t.s -
q The gist of Lenin's teachings about
cooperatives is that before the revolu-
ton the cooperative movement must
help the workers to attain state
power, and after the revolution the
cooperatives must help the workers
to build the new society.
ut appears to me that we pay too
little attention to the cooperativesI"
said Lenin. This is true even in Anne
RIGA. The cooperative movement, al
tho at present comparatively weak,
is movement which we must not
ignore, but on the contrary try to
solve in the light of how can the
cooperative movement best serve the
class struggle?" To solve this prob
lem. we must take part in the prac-
tical work of the cooperatives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06

ception of cooperation, we give it
here:
Thesis Proposed by LeHin.
"The congress declares:
81. That the proletarian consumers
cooperatives improve the conditions
of the working class by reducing the
exploitation Of all kinds of middle
men, by exerting an influence in the
working conditions of the workers in
the distribution of products, and by
giving them better conditions for its
own employees.
ION the other hand, the congress
declares:
Il. That the betterment achieved
thru the help of the cOoperatiyes is
Insignificant so long as the means of
production are in the hands of that
class whose overthrow is essential
for the realization of socialism.
"2. That the cooperatives are not
organs of the immediate struggle
against capitalism, and that they
with other similar organizations of
the other classes, may develop the
illusion that they (these organiza-
tions) are means by which the social
question can be solved without class
struggle and overthrow of the bour-
geoisie. s-
"The congress demands the work
ers Of all coutries:
"a. To join as members in the pro-
letarian coopreatives, help their dew
elopment and thereby to defend the
democratic character of these organ
izations.