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Evening star., 1927-10-18
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, October 18 United States
Department Of AgricuIturel-Ho
Receipts, $4,000 head; early market
mostly 10 to is lower; majority good
and choice hogs, 100 pounds up. sold
early; later trading, Is to rs lower than
yesterdays average; top, 11.75: bulk
good and choice. 100 to 200 mounds.
l.00a11.So;. 21o to 800 pounds. 11.45a
Ills; heavier butchers, mostly II .o0a
11.bo; packing sows mostly 9.S5a10, ,15:
few best loads, 10,25a10. so: pigs fully
25c lower; spots off more; bulk. 9.75a
1925. "N' ''''"
Cattle--Receipts, 10000 head: fat
steers strong; spots higher; she stock
steady TO strong; bull weak: bidding
lower on vealers; not much beef in
steer run; stockers and feeders fairly
active at steady prices: better grades.
9.00a1o.25; best fed steers, early. 1850:
some held around 1900; yearlings.
1900; talking 400 on vealers.
Sheep-Receipts. $1,000 head: fat
lambs very slow; Is to 25 lower: few
early sales and most bids on native
lambs. 13.o0a13.25; asking around
1855 for best; good to choice range
lambs eligible, 13.50a13.75; choice West.
erns held above 14.00; few 100 to l25
pound buck lambs, 11.0Oa11.50: cuils,
10.00a10.50; sheep steady. fat ewes,
b.50a6.25: feeding lambs fairly active,
sseadYi early sales, 13.30a14.00.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
GAS PROPERTIES UNITED.

NEW YORK, October 18 R.-Ac-
QUESTION of virtually all the capital
stock of the Oklahoma Natural Gas
Corporation by a new company to be
known as the American Natural Gas
Corporation was announced here last
night. The transaction combines prop
critics in the Oklahoma gas area COM
prising leaseholds on more than 200, 900
acres and total values estimated at
$40 ,0000 Purchase Of control Of
other natural gas properties is con.
templated, including approximately
100, 900 acres owned by the Phillips
Petroleum Co. in Texas. The entire
holdings Of the Phillips Co. in the
Oklahoma Natural Gas Association
have been taken over by the new con-
Germ.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
Commodity News

ST. PAUL, october 1s.-Butter fat
is selling at 4s cents a pound. an ad.
vance OF several cents from the low
point of the Summer. With pastures
good and plenty Of feed, dairying Is
/ continuing to show profits to Mime
sofa farmers.
BOSTON.-Boston has been expe-
riencing a shortage of good beef.
Prices do not seem to count. The
trade Is anxious to take the best at
top prices which are now within Q or
cents Of wartime levels.
FORT WORTH.-The Fall clip of
mohair will total about 5000. 900
pounds, setting record for the
State. The Spring clip was 5000, 900
pounds. Sealed bids are being re-
ceived at concentration points for
stored mohair.
ATLANTA.--Ths Georgia pirnento
pepper industry has spread out this
| year and the estimated yield is placed
at 5000 tons valued at 100000 an in
crease of 5000 tons in IL months.
YOUNGSTOWN. - The Trumbull
Steel Co., largest independent tin
plate maker in this district, has been
running ten more mills during the
first part of this month at its Liberty
| plant.
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REPORT NEARLY READY.

NEW YORK. October 1S OP).-The
report on the three Southwestern
roads. Missouri Kansas Texas, Kan
sas City Southern and ST. Louis
Southwestern, which L. F. Loree pro-
poses to unity and which is being
prepared by the engineering firm OF
Coverdale G. Colpitts, will be COM
pleted the end of next week. Part
of the report is now being studied
by Mr.. Loree. The full report will be
submitted to special committees Of
directors of the three roads on or
about November l.
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The main advantage, however, is
that the vessels will have a speed of
IA knots. It has always been claimed
that it was impossible for ships under
American registry to compete with
foreign lines unless that speed could
be maintained for ocean freights now
run on as strict schedules as do pas
senger liners or railroad trains.
What this will mean to American
shipping can be judged from the fact
that shipping men say shipping en-
tered this Fall in a less favorable sit.
uation than year ago. Then cotton
exports were passing across the ocean
at high rate and there was a huge
demand for American coal owing to
the British strike. The demand for
coal has returned to normal and the
relatively high price OF cotton Is hold
ing down European takings. Grain
shipments now are at their height,
but are not equal to those Of last year.
Despite this, American farmers have
to pay for transportation to the ma
tions WHO buy their products instead
Of being able to obtain an advantage
through use of American vessels.
There Is an excess OF 10,000,000 tons
in world shipping, but that part own
ed by America Is, much of it. so slow
and so uneconomicaI that 1t cannot be
advaYitageously used. If.it can be used
through this new plan, 1t will give an
increased advantage not only to the
American mechant marine. but TO the
American farmer, manufacturer and
shipper.
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BUYS POWER INTEREST.
insults Get Substantial Holding of
Commonwealth Light Stock.

CHICAGO, October 1S R.-Insull
Son Co, Inc, announced here yes
terday they had acquired a substan
tial interest in the common capital
stock of the Commonwealth Light &
Power Co., which controls the Inland
Power & Light Corporation. The In.
land Co. Is a Virginia Corporation
with properties in Kansas, Michigan
Arkansas and Missouri.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
WINS DATE CARGO RACE.

NEW YORK, October Is (P).--The
annual race Of ships with cargoes
of dates from the Persian Gulf to
New York has been won by the
steamship Sharistan, which arrived
ten days ahead of her nearest COM
petitor. Keen rivalry exists among
competitive importing firms operating
in Iraq or Mesopotamia. to land the
first shipment OF Neg crop dates as
the first fruit of the season is in
great demand. A seasons output
of dates has been known to reach
4OO. 900 tons. Every trick of the
trade is used, says the association
of date importers, to load and clear
the ships and get them through the
Persian Gulf on the way to mar.
ket. .... -...----.- -..-..-...----.---
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REACTION TRAILS
| COTTON'S ADVANCE
Early Bulge Meets Selling.
Frost in Tennessee IS Bull
ish Factor.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Rress.
NEW YORK, october 1S.-The cot
ton market opened steady today at an
advance of to 16 points on continued
covering by near month shorts, buy
ing promoted by reports of frost in
the Memphis district and late rally
in Liverpool.
The opening demand was quickly
supplied by hedging or realizing. but
after selling off from 20.S0 to POST for
December, or within points Of yes
terday's closing quotation, the price
firmed up again on the predictions for
light frosts in parts of the Carolinas.
Georgia and Alabama. There was
doubt. however. Of damaging tempera-
lures and the bulge met renewed
Southern or local selling, the market
showing reactions of IL to Is points
from the best at the end Of the first
hour.
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VOLUNTARY POWER RATE
CUT ON EASTERN SHORE
Reduction of Is Per Cent in Four
Counties Across the Bay to
Be Effective December /.
Special Dispatch TO The star.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
BALTIMORE, October ia volun-
tary cut of Is per cent in electric
rates is to be made in four counties
on the Eastern Shore December /,
the Public Service Commission has
been informed by the Eastern Shore
Gas and Electric Co.
The Eastern Shore power concern
filed with the commission a new rate
schedule, bringing domestic charges
for electric current to 13h cents in
most OF the territory served and 14h
cents In Crisfield. The new schedule
follows by less than two months an
order handed down by the Public Serv-
ice Commission in September for an
investigation Of the rate structure Of
the company.
The Eastern Shore company, which
has companion concern of the same
name in Virginia, serves Caroline.
Dorchester, Wicomico and Worcester
counties on the peninsula.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
rR0WBRIpaE PROMOTED.

NEW YORK, October 18 R.-
James r. Trowbridge has been elected
president Of the Franklin Savings
Bank to succeed Ernest X. Satterlee
who resigned recently. He has been
with the bank since 1918 and hereto
fore has been vice president and con
troller. The bank has deposits OF
more than $84. .0O0. 900.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
PRICES ON PARIS BoURsE.

PARIS, october 18 R).-Prices were
irregular on the Bourse today. Three
per cent rentes, 55 francs 25 centimes;
exchange on London. 124 frances 81
centimes; per cent loan. Is francs
rs centimes. The dollar was quoted
at 25 francs 48 centimes.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
PIPE LINE SALE o. KID.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, October IS DR.
The Public Utilities Commission yes.
terday authorized sale by the Pure
Oil Pipe Line Co. to the Buckeye Pipe
Line Co., Lima, of pipe lines in
southern and southeastern Ohio for
100000. The Pure Oil Pipe Line Co.
is a subsidiary of the Pure Oil Co,
Chicago, and the Buckeye Pipe Line
Co. a subsidiary of the Standard Oil
Evening star., 1927-10-18
STEEL TRADE BETTER.

NEW YORK, October 1s R).--
Youngstown dispatches say the ex.
pected Improvement in new steel bust.
ness for the fourth quarter is develop.
ing in moderate way and the trend
Is definitely upward. New sheet and
strip business is coming forward in
encouraging volume, stimulated by
recent price declines in sheets.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
POLISH LOAN GOES WELL.

LONDON, October 13 @.-Appli-
cations have been so numerous for
the London portion of the recent
Polish sterilization loan-f2, 900, 900
in per cent bonds-that the lists
were closed at noon today, indicating
an oyersubscription,
Evening star., 1927-10-18
BONDS ARE CALLED

NEW YORK. October IS OP.-
Piggy Wiggly Corporation has called
for redemption on November Is it's
$1,500.000 of per cent gold deben.
lures, at 105.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
CONDITION OF ALL LOCAL BANKS
SHOWN BY CALL OF OCT. 10, 1927
NATIONAL BANKS.

Following condition Of all the banks Washington
80 call being included comparison:
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SHIP BOARD PLANS
SPEED|ER VESSELS
Reconditioning Of Three Big
Craft to Help Solve Ma
rine Question.
BY J. @. ROYLE.
Special Dispatch to The Star

| Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October 1S.-Shipping
men and shipbuilders in Great Brit
ain, Germany, France, Italy and
est anxiety for the decision OF the
| United States Shipping Board on the
bids for the reconditioning OF three
large and important Shipping Board
vessels. This has become evident
through continued cable inquiries
from abroad for details Of the situa-
ton. The interest among American
shipbuilders and shipping companies
is no less apparent.
It has now become known that a
bid has been received from one of the
great steel corporations of $1,182,O 900
each for changing the Courageous. the
Triumph and the Defiance, big
freighters, from steamships to Die
sci electric drive. Proponents OF the
plan to change these ships so that
they can compete with the newer
ships built abroad claim that this is
a small sum than the ships could be
duplicated for new under the most
advantageous conditions and under
the cheapest kind of labor costs in any
foreign shipyard. 1t Is also under
stood THAT the bid was far lower
than the Shipping Board anticipated.
| 14.KnOt Cruising speed.
| The proponents of the plan state
| that when these vessels are recondt-
toned they will have a cruising speed
of IA knots an hour, which is equal
to the economical speed of even the
best Of the foreign freighters; that
they will have space for 1000 tons
4 more cargo than at present, and that
they will put the feet corporation on
q basis of equality with the operators
Of vessels on the world trade routes
which run under foreign flags.
The scheme employed to make the
cost of reconditioning as low as 1t is
now evident it will be is based on the
| old established American principle OF
mass production. Instead of making
one huge Diesel engine, in construc-
ton Of which the low-cost labor of
foreign builders gives them pre'emi-
nence, the plan provides for the con-
struction Of four smaller engines for
each ship. These will drive electric
generating units, which in turn will
drive the screws and other machinery.
With three ships to work on, each
part will therefore be multiplied by IL,
which will put production on a mass
rather than a single unit basis. The
same will be true Of all steel parts
used in changing the lines Of the YES
sells at bow and stern to permit the
additional speed. Boiler and bunker
space will be conserved and turned
into cargo.carrying space. Low cost
of operation will be obtained through
use Of the Diesel engines and cheap
| fuel,
Evening star., 1927-10-18

When climbing, the honeysuckle
follows the sun from east to wests
Evening star., 1927-10-18
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received By Private Wire Direct to The Star Once
INDUSTRIALS

Following is the list Of bonds and
stocks traded in on the New York
Curb Market today:
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FEDERAL LAND BANK BONDS


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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-31
LOS ANGELES
BANK ROBBERY
POLICE

LOS ANGELES, March 80 P.-A
bank robbery here today was declared
by police detectives to be one of the
most puzzling of recent years in this
city A holdup man, who brandished
two revolvers and had completely
masked his face with bandages and
strips of adhesive tape, dropped down
from a loft room to confront six en-
ployes and escape in an automobile
with $4,000 in cash from the Hoover
street branch of the Merchants Ma
tional Trust and Savings bank.
The detectives termed the robber a
nut" holdup man after they found
scraps of lunches, orange peels, peep
holes drilled through the loft floor
and a cut and rewired burglar alirm
in the loft, which they said indicated
he had been in hiding there about
three days and nights. Phillip Simon,
manager of the branch, said his ap-
pearance struck terror into them all,
he appeared exactly like a mummy.
The bank force was herded into a
rear room, where the robber locked the
door upon them, leisurely scooped up
the cash in the cages and departed in
a car parked near the bank.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-31
FRANCE, JAPAN
WIN VICTORY
AT CONFERENCE

GENEVA, March 80 (P9.-The coun-
tries practicing military conscription,
including France and Japan, won an
other point at today's session of the
League of Nations preparatory COM
mission which is seeking to draw up
a general disarmament treaty A
British proposal to have definite pro-
portion fixed between the numbers OF
officers and men in active service was
defeated through the opposition of the
conscription countries.
Viscount Cecil, England, has sug-
gested that the proportion of officers
should not exceed one to every fifteen
men, but the conscription representa-
tives, led by Paul Boncour, France,
argued that conscript armies being less
efficient than permanent armies re-
ouired more officers for the proper
training of recruits. A compromise
was reached by which each country
would announce the number of its
officers. The commission accepted a
provision that each country shall be
at liberty to send reinforcements to it's
colonies, provided that the total of its
forces at home and abroad, does not
exceed the maximum allowed under the
proposed treaty.
There was an animated discussion
today over whether military organiza-
tions subject to limitation should in
clude police forces, customs officials,
forest guards and other similar bodies. !
Hugh Gibson, American delegate, re-
marked that the formula under debate
would apply to the Grand Army of the
Republic in the United States. Since
these civil war veterans average
around 80 years old he respectfully
doubted whether theirs should be
classed with active military organiza-
,tions. He added that American GUS
toms officers and forest guards are
unarmed and unframed for war pur-
poses and therefore not useful in ,
military capacity. Decision went over
to later date.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-31

mOny had been taken and was asid at
the end of the day of technical argu-
ments on the physical side of the sit
uation.
Further radical alteration of exist
ing policy, the report declared, would
be difficult or impossible to make after
the commissions initial establishment
of a revised system, unless the i'm
provements first made are planned to
provide for them as an ultimate part
of the system"
The ultimate consumer of radio pro-
duction, the listener, and organized
labor also had their say as to what
should be done to improve conditions
and protect available ether channels
from private exploitation for profit"
Francis S. Austrel, president of the
Iowa Listeners league, said the radio
situation was sin mess because of
the petty jealousies between broad
casters" and demanded that they get
together on program that would ease
the situation.
Edward NJ. Nockles secretary of the
Chicago Federation of Labor, operator
of station VIGIL at Chicago, advised
the commission that organized labor
was opposed to property rights on the
air and that radio communication must
be developed for the benefit of all the
people and not as a source of profit
for corporations, private or political
interests"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-31
Gasoline ak Yields
$187,603 Net Revenue

Gasoline taxes yielded net rev
enue of $137 1921 in 1925, accord
ing to data collected by the bureau
Of public roads of the United States
department of agriculture from the
various states. A tax was imposed
in all but four states at rates rang
ing from l to cents per gallon, the
average rate being 2.38 cents The
tax collections indicate that nearly
eight billion gallons We're consumed
in the states imposing the tax and
it is estimated that nearly two
million gallons We're used in the
four states in which no tax was
imposed.
The revenue from the tax was al
located as follows: $129.441,52O TOR
state highways, $43,6O9,479 for coun-
ty and local roads, $5,238,S69 for
l ayments on road bonds and $5,-
"l3,363 for miscellaneous purposes.
Fewer changes were made in the
rate of tax than in other recent
years. In Kentucky the rate was
increased from to- 5 cents, in
Mississippi from to cents, in
North Dakota from 1 to cents
and in Virginia from to 4 1-2
cents. Other increases which be-
came effective after the close Of
the year were an increase in Ala
hama from to cents ana in
Montana from 2 to cents.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-31
CF4ERNIAVSKYS TO APPEAR AT
GRAND THEATRE THIS EVENING

The inspired young Russian vio-
linist pianist and ccllist, Leo, Jan
and .Miscnel Cherniavsa1y, respec-
lively, will be here tonight at the
Grand theatre.
They have brought into the field
Icf music something that mas never
before been discernible, this e:usive
something II aEalyzed, it is a COM
bination of qualities that have not
recently been displayed by visiting
virtuosi. Their unconventionality is
not so much a rebellion against the
interpretive conventions as a spon-
taneous expression resulting from
deep and concentrated thought
emotional exercise and unflagging
practice OF technique No great
artists have proved themselves less
slavish in following preconceived
notions of how the great masters
works should be interpreted.
Among many intelligent musical
people the history and traditions OF
interpretations Of great works have
been so rcverenced that the Cher.
niavskYs work sometimes comes to
them kind of shock. but il Is
one of those shocks that is essential
to awaken the dormant intellectually
and emotions of those who have
permitted themselves to be moulded
into set forms so far as interpreta-
tion goes.
The world of reality must realize
that no standard can be set for to-
morrow; that ever the Imagination
much reach out further, getting
nearer to the original concepts of
the great cid masters. No inter-
prefer can ever claim perfection in
his work, and the Cherniavskys have
that Illumination, mentally and
, spiritually which perceive that the
! interpretations of today are COM
paratively primitive to what they
must be in the future; and they have
refused to allow their extraordinary
rerceptive faculties to become OBJ
scured by the conceptions CT their
predecessors. This does not mean
that they do not respect the tradi
tions relating to interpretation but
they refuse to worship at their
shrines.
The advent of the Cherniavskys in
this city is creating G good deal Of
interest, and they are certain to DC
welcomed by a large audience.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-31
FRIDAY MARKS
CELEBRATION OF
PENNEY STORES

Friday, April 1, a red-letter day
in the history of our company! The
first Gay of our 25tn birthday, The
beginning of our Silver Anniversary!
The day of launching our long
anticipated celebration of business
ideals which through quarter oE
century of steadfast application,
have given a new meaning to the
word Service!
In our usual practical way, ve
shall endeavor to manifest our APP
ureciation during this celebration
of the support that has been ST
literally bestowed upon us by bring
ing our great merchandising and
distributing service TO you in even
more dynamic proportions with
larger and more varied displays of
lew goods--with those outstanding
savings which have SO endeared th;s
company to million of people
throughout the United States.
Again, we want to express our
appreciation and thankfulness for
the privilege of serving and our
desire to be Of even greater service
in the months and years to come.
j. C. PENNEY CO.
AGvt -
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-31
Elks Initiate Large
Class Of 81 Candidates
CONTINUED from Page one)

home. The procession halted at Tenth
and G avenue while the band played
selections and horseplay at the ex-
in Some were tied to post and
others bore ludicrous signs.
The initiation ceremony was one of
the most beautiful and impressive ever
staged by the local lodge, everything
going off in perfect order. The class
of So has the distinction of being the
largest class ever initiated into an
Elks lodge in the statI
E. B. Matthews, district deputy grand
exalted ruler, was present at the cere-
monies and addressed the candidates
on "The Spirit of Elkdom." Visiting
members from Los Angeles, Tucson,
Bisbee and other parts of the state
attended.
After the initiation ceremonies, the
members repaired to the banquet hall,
where a banquet, prepared by COM
mittee of ten ladies, was served.
DR. E. w. Adamson presided as chair
man at the banquet and Attorney CAL
vert r. Guilfoyle was the principal
speaker. He spoke on the Importance
of the Elks lodge in the fraternal
world.
Music was furnished by the Southern
Serenaders and following the banquet
the remainder of the evening was spent
in having general good time.
Arnold White, retiring exalted ruler,
presided during the initiation cere-
monies. He classed the day as the
biggest ever enjoyed by the Elks in
the history of the Douglas lodge.