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Evening star., 1927-11-12
BOSTON STOCK MARKET.

By Special Leased Wire to The Star
BOSTON, November 1o.-Following
Is list of today's highest, lowest and
closing prices for the most active
stocks dealt in here:
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Contrary Conditions.

The situation is one distinguished by
an unusual number of contrary con-
ditions. This is evident from the oppo-
site tendencies that have been dis
played for months in different groups
of stocks. There have been many new
prices quoted at the same time that
high record levels were being estab-
lished in other parts of the list. This
week has not been without its evl-
dence Of distress in the affairs OF
number of concerns whose dividends
have been reduced or passed while the
earnings of competitors have been suf-
ficient to justify increased disburse-
mentS to shareholders
This holds true in practically every
line Of comercial activity. though it is
not present in such a marked degree
in the field of transportation or that
of the distribution of electric power.
It Is the effect of a steady integration
of industry into larger units as we'll as
the spread of the same tendency
throughout the merchandising world.
The steady increase in the number of
commercial failures does not mean
that business is poor and the public a
tardy buyer. What it reveals is the
pressure of highly equipped and eff
ficient modern plant on the under
equipped one and the selling ad-
vantage that the national distributor
has over one confined to local ter
ritory. This is one of the economic
changes of the age that has many col
lateral effects.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct 70 The Star Office

Following is the list Of bonds and
stocks traded in on the New York
Curb Market today:
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Large Crops Help West.

Owing to the large crops that have
developed from the remarkable wealth
er in the last three months, it may
be found that the territory Of great
est promise for a while will be the
section between the Mississippi River
and the Rocky Mountains as far
South as the Gulf. The Southern
States that have raised fair crop
of cotton are able to sell it at sub
stantial profit, even after the break
of ) cents per pound.
The position of the Northwest since
the Spring wheat and small grain
crops have been harvested has been
conspicuously better. The credit of
all concerns in that region has auto
matically improved. When it was
evident there would be a good harvest
of wheat in the Northwest, it was
equally certain that the yield of corn
would be low and probably the small
est in 25 years. But monthaby month.
with ideal conditions Of temperature
and moisture, the crop developed and
actually turns out to be 100, 100000
bushels greater than a year ago, and
nearly 500,000,000 bushels in excess
of, July predictions. Corn has de-
clined about 35 cents a bushel during
the progress of the crop, but it is still
well above the price at which it was
marketed in 1926. With high returns
on live stock the Middle Western
farmers ought to be able to show a
very satisfactory balance sheet for
1927
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New England Faces Tasks.

The coal trade is in the dodrums.
Various commodities have declined
this week after holding up during the
earlier part of the season. The New
England flood has duplicated in minia-
ture the losses of life and property
that occurred this Spring in the Mis-
sissippi Valley. The damage to rail-
roads. power plants and textile COM
panies has been considerable. and the
work of repair and reconstruction will
be costly. Northern New England
faces hard Winter. during which its
purchasing power will be low.
Railroad traffic returns are unsatis-
tory and will be the remainder of this
year. The results for nine months TO
September 80 are a loss of $110. 200, ,000.
or 21@ per cent in gross. and of $685.
600. 600, or 9 per cent. in net operating
income. These figures are likely TO
be worse rather than better when the
additions of the last quarter are made.
There are, however. a number of rail-
roads that could we'll afford to pay
larger dividends than they are pay
ing and still maintain n conservative
policy. 1t is doubtful if they will do
so in view of the trend of earnings and
the jealous eye which all rate-making
bodies give to any suggestion of alb
normal profits.
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VEGETABLE GLUT
KEEPS PR|CESL0W
Fish Scarcity Partly Offset by
Plentiful Supply of
Oysters.

High winds and rough seas this
week affected the fishing industry
along the East coast to the extent or
upsetting all calculations of dealers at
Municipal Fish Market. There was a
scarcity of fish throughout the Week.
especially about the time for the FRI
dav and week end trade, and dealers
found it difficult to supply the trade
at other than greatly advanced prices.
Fortunately for dealers and con-
sumers. inland waters were not SO
seriously affected. and oystermen were
able to send immense quantities OF
bivalves to dealers to help them out.
It is deemed highly probable. how
ever. that oyster prices soon VIII ad'
vance.
1t was reported by dealers that the
oyster supply for the week end trace
was about equal to the demand at
prevailing prices-$2.25 for standards,
s.. 50 for selects and $50 bushcl Tor
she'll stock. oysters received during
the week were OF splendid quaNty' ac'
cordng to dealers. and gave fun sat
iSfartiOu.
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Apples Are High.

Apples from nearby Maryland and
Virginia, sold last season as low IA
so cents bushel, were quoted at 81 SO
and 81 today. Agricultural Depart
ment reports of the condition of the
apple market in the West. box stock,
the past few days, were as follows:
Boxes Washington. medium to
large size extra fancy Delicious, most
ly 400. few higher; extra fancy Stay.
mans, 3.00a3.15: Jonathans. 300a3.25.
Bushel baskets-Pennsylvan un-
classified Yorks and Staymans and
Black Twiss. 2M inches up. windfalls.
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Railroads Burden Heavy.

Their position would be stronger in
respect to increased disbursements Ii
the tax adjustments now proposed
were put into effect. In connection
with the suggestion that the corpora
tion tax be reduced by the next Con-
gress, figures have been presented
showing that the railroads in 1896
paid to State and local governments
$3.50, 900, 600, an increase of nearly 200
per cent in Is years. AT the rate OF
taxation in the first. eight n'onths of
1927, the tax bill this year will be be-
tween 1926. 100000 and $3.50, 900, 900. or
not much below the amount distrib-
uted in dividends. There is certainly
cause for complaint on the part of the
carriers over the burden of expense
which they have to bear in order to
promote the fortunes of some Of their
seVerest competitors in the transpor-
tation field.
Attention has been drawn to condi-
tons abroad this week by the success
full method which France has adopted
in the refunding of her per cent
bonds and by the letter which Agent
General S. Parker Gilbert wrote to the
German government criticizing the ex-
penditures of the state and of the
various communities as tending to
handicap the country in making its
proper reparations payments. French
securities have advanced, German
bonds have s,umped. In the near flu
ture we may expect to see the stabili-
cation of the franc and efforts to
bring about fixed rate for Italian
exchange. and possibly higher dis
count rates in Berlin and London.
, 1927-03-09
UPPER SAGE


The hard times dance held at
the club building Thursday drew a
large crowd. Prizes we're given
to the most suitable costumes.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. ]. Donovan of
Meeteetse were visitors at the W.
A. RAIDER home last week.
Mrs. David Freeborg entertained
the members of the F. e S. R. on
Wednesday.
Art and Lou Pearson motored to
Powell last Friday.
The H. G. Fritzler family were
among those attending the party
for the newly-weds, Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Thomson Thursday evening.
All those interested are invited
to attend the poultry school at the
club building March 18th. 1t is to
be an all day meeting.
Axel Brown received word last
week that his mother who lives at
Bend. Oregon is very i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. RAIDER were
Sunday evening dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. e. Dunn. e
A number of our men met Sat
urday with Samuel ]. Brendel an
oil man in regards to leasing land.
The creamery meeting was also
well. attended.
Callers at the Hutchinson home
last week were: Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Thomson, Mr.. and Mrs. A. C.
Brown and children, Mr.. Mckenzie
and Miss Mildred
A few or our wool growers were
in Cody last week attending the
meeting.
Miss Margaret Hoaglund IL
spending a few days in Cody with
her sister, Mrs. Boron.
Carl Hoaglund became the owner
of a Ford bug last week.
, 1927-03-09
GRAZING AND OIL LEASES
GRANTED STATE BOARD

Eighty-two grazing leases, seven
of which were contested, were issu-
ed Friday by the State board Of
land commissioners.
The board was in session two
days. 1t granted, in addition, ten
oil and gas leases at 5000 each in
Park, Fremont, Sublette, Weston,
Washable, Lincoln and Natrona
counties.
Indications point to active oil
development in Park county, ten
of the Is oil and gas leases being
granted in hat county.
Coal prospectors' leases of 800
each were granted to the Gun
Quealy Coal Co. in Sweetwater
county and the NJ. & NJ. Coal &
Petrol Co., in Hot Springs county.
Harry c. Young obtained a stron-
ium nitrate lease at 500 in Con-
verse county. A permit for a camp
site and sawmill in Carbon county
was granted the Wyoming Timber
Company.
, 1927-03-09
IRMA FLAT


E. Hammerstrum surprised his
family by arriving last Monday
from Dover, Idaho. They will be
on the Flat for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. e. Bartlett and
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Trueblood were
callers at the Pfrangle home Tues
day evening.
Mrs. Ivan Long visited Mrs. c. A.
Bradbury Tuesday afternoon.
Guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hans
Nelson at Sunday dinner were, Mr..
and Mrs. f. A. Chisholm and baby,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Hempstone and
Mrs. Kingsley of La Grange. Ore.
Miss Della Ballard spent the
week end visiting Mrs. Evan Hol-
man at Ishawooa.
The Farm Bureau meeting was
well attended Saturday night, after
the meeting and program, a social
evening was spent. -
Mr.. and Mrs. w. e. Bates attend
ed the sale at Ralston last week.
Mrs. Pete Nordquist and Frank
Morris made a trip down from
Northfork Saturday and returned
Sunday.
Club met last Thursday with Mrs.
f. w. Schmidt in Lake View. The
next meeting will be the st. Pat
rick's party at the Nordquist home.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. e. Bartlett at
tended the surprise party given for
G.. e. Norton Friday evening.
, 1927-03-09
REQUIEM HIGH MASS
FOR VOLCKMER TUES.

The Requiem mass service was
given by the Rev. Father Spillane
at st. A%nthony's Catholic church or
Thursday morning for all that re-
manned earthly of the late Richard
/. Volckmer, and his body was laid
to rest by friendly hands at River
side cemetery. The service vas q
beautiful one and the bounteous
flowers attested his host of friends
who paid their last respects to him
on hat day.
Richard Irving volckmef was
born in the city of New York Feb
ruary 16, 1859, and died at his
home in the city of Cody February
2S, 1927, at the age of So years
and IL days. He spent his early
the printers trade, becoming an
operator of the large rotary presses
on which the larger dailies are
printed. He was identified for many
years with the New York Times
and later at Chicago run the Chi
cago Chronicle. A sad accident in
mid life robbed him of an arm, and
he was forced to quit the printing
work.
In 1911, suffering with an en-
c%roaching lung trouble he came to
Wyoming, and for many years
busted himself about a small ranch
which he and his wife developed
just west of Cody. A few a
ago the Volckmers moved to Cody
and "Dick" as he was Familiarity
known by his friends, took a great
interest in local affairs, serving
under the Trueblood administration
as police judge. and held that Pc
sition until failing health forced
him to resign.
His was a fighting spirit. AL
though of slight stature, and having
fell into the grip of a disease which
he had not the strength to throw
off. he made a most gallant fight,
living in Wyoming sixteen years
after the best doctors of Chicago
told him there was no hope of q
recovery. He was never afraid to
stand up for the things he believed
in and p.oved a good loser when
h time came for him to go.
, 1927-03-09

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Bertha M. Rousseau,
County Clerk.
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point" had about been reached in this
country in the public ownership and
use Of automobiles, the reports Of the
manufacturing companies have since
shown a steady and large addition to
the output Of new cars. Practically
all OF the motor makers are enjoying
increased prosperity. The trade in
both new and used cars shows rising
line on the industrial graphs.
AS a consequence the traffic prob.
lens in the cities are becoming more
serious. Streets are being widened,
country roads are being made broader,
new roads are being built and new
bridges are being thrown across rivers.
And the more space that is provided
for motor traffic the more is required.
The record of the Camden Bridge may
be due, in some part, to a wider pub
lie acquaintance with the advantages
of that route in reaching the Jersey
coast, but it is undoubtedly due In
large measure to the increased num-
Der of machines in use.
1t is not the usual experience for
financial estimates regarding works of
public character to be proved wrong
on the right side of the ledger. This
present experience shows that In all
pertaining to transportation,
and particularly individual transporta.
ton, it is necessary to figure on
greater use, to err on the side of
liberality rather than conservatism.
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Increasing Motor Transit.

Proof OF the speed at which traffic
o. developing in this country is afford
ed by reports just made public regard.
ing the use made by motorists Of the
Delaware River Bridge between Cam
den and Philadelphia during the first
ten months of it's service. The bridge
commission had estimated that the
traffic for the first year would not ex-
coed 5000 900 motor cars, and on the
basis of this expected use computed
the term for the liquidation of the con.
gtruction debt. Figures now given out
by the commission show that during
the first ten months of bridge use
6,292, 653 automobiles crossed the struc'
ture. At this rate the first year VIII
show use of the bridge by more than
$500, 900 cars. or twenty-five per cent
more than the estimate. Consequent
ly 1t is computed that the debt may be
liquidated in from three to eight years
earlier than was first believed possible.
Although q year or so ago 1t was
felt by some people SUPP sedly quail
Ned to Judge that the 'saturatieR
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Millions Mourn Doctor Clark,
Founder of Christian EndeavOr

Millions mourn DR.. Francis E. Clark,
founder of the Christian Endeavor
Society, and his death is the occasion
for glowing tributes to his influence
as a leader of young people through
out the world. Emphasis is placed
upon the fact that although he ere.
ated and developed so great an or
ganiZation, he died a poor man.
''Dr. Clark interpreted a Christian
ity beautiful and shining and ever
young" according to the estimate of
the Portland Oregon Journal. He
stirred the hearts of youth with the
aspiring ideals of nobility and truth.
There are hopes that rise but fall
below the flame: there are ambitions
that fail of fruition; there are lives
that close in midday. But in the
realization of his hopes, In the attain
ment of ambition. in the fruit of good
works and in the answer to his pray
ers Francis E. Clark passed on.
Youths reverence and love write his
epitaph."
CDR. Clark made it popular for
young people to laugh and play in
church. He did it through bringing
them into active religious efforts
without requiring them to seem other
than youthful" says the Kansas City
Journal-Post, adding that in spite of
opposition to his theory and princi-
pie, he "triumphed in his purpose, and
the society which came from that aim
spans the earth and numbers its mem
bers by the millions"
x X X II
"Few leave greater monuments"
declares the Newark Evening News.
"He gave the young people something
which was their own to direct and
carry on in their own way and in
association with young people all over
the world. Young people like to be
by themselves, free from the superin-
tendence and restraint of their elders.
For them the Christian Endeavor So
ciety was an emancipation and grad
uation into the ways of older folk"
The Youngstown Vindicator adds its
view that what the Christian En-
deavor has meant to millions of young
people can only be understood by
those who know how empty the lives
of young people are in communities
which lack the inspiration it has pro-
vided."
Against all the lures of this 'frivo-
lous age, observes the Pittsburgh
Gazette-Times, this organization has
stood firm. convincing to all but NOR
bid minds that there has been no gen.
eral decline of the morals of the
young. AS the founder of Christian
Endeavor and the chief shepherd of
it's millions of members for more than
twoscore years DR.. Clark was
of mankind and widely
loved as SUCH" The Harrisburg Tele-
graph records that Having seen it
grow and prosper like the proverbial
green bay tree. he was wise in keep
ing it true to the simple program
he had laid down for it, and free from
creed or tenet"
1.-The young peoples societies have
still greater mission. perhaps. than
DIR. Clark foresaw." remarks the
Houston Chronicle. "As education be-
comes more and more secularized, as
secular education comes to demand
more and more of the students time
and mental energy, there will be a
still greater need for effective re-
ligious and moral training to supple
lreut the worlenaf the schools: FL
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great difficulty, for the President to
go to his Western Summer residence
on a certain date, it was obviously
proper to provide for Lindbergh's re-
turn in ason.
Lindbergh became a representative
Of America as soon as he landed in
Paris. He was not a private citizen,
whatever the status Of his fight. 1t
was, therefore, most suitable that he
should proceed directly to Washing
ton, to be received at the Capital by
the President. It was not suitable
that he should reach this city by a
devious route, to be acclaimed unof-
ficially on the way. The President Of
the United States cannot with pro-
priety or in keeping with established
tradition go out Of the Capital to meet
and greet guest. The most distin-
guished Of visitors have to come to the
place of official residence.
The test Of this matter lies in re-
versal in theory Of the form Of pro-
cedure. Suppose the President had
allowed the program for Lindbergh's
return to be developed in a manner
that would bring him to this country
after the departure Of the Chief Elk
ecutive for the West, in accordance
with his already established plan.
What a clamor would have arisen in
criticismi Those who are now charg-
ing that politics" has dictated the
present course would be themselves
foremost in the assertion that the
President had sighted Lindbergh.
There would have been a plenty of
politics" then, in the making, in crit
icism of the administration and it's
chief.
The fact Is that the simplest and
the most appropriate program has
been followed in this case. A young
who has startled and thrill
ed the world by an achievement Of
great significance and who has won
the highest admiration for his bearing
in triumph, is coming home to receive
the thanks Of his country, most At
tingly expressed first by the Presi-
dent, and most properly at the Cap.
ital. That is all there is to it. If there
is politics" in such an arrangement
it Is only that which is made by the
critics themselves, who in launching
their carping comments are only ex.
plotting the courtesy Of the President
in paying the highest honor in his
power to a youth whom he, along
with all other Americans, admires and
respects.
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Commercial Body Held
Ignorant of Its Wants
From the Wall Street Journal.

From the Wall Street Journal.
Mingled with regrets that after
seven years the Interstate Commerce
Commission does not know what it
wants, but only what 1t does not want,
in the way Of consolidation technique,
the financial community can draw GER
tain broad conclusions from the deci-
sion against the proposed Southwest
ern rail merger. One of these-and
perhaps the most practically valuable
is that the commission condemns the
stock market approach to unification.
In substance, the commission objects
to preliminary ascendency" of one
carrier over another. That condition
prejudices the determination of equi-
table terms of union. 1t leaves minor
ity stockholders in the unenviable po-
sition Of ignorance as to how and
when they will be dealt with and how
their property will be cared for pend
ing complete merger or consolidation.
It involves a possible violation of the
antitrust acts prior to that license to
disregard them which only the COM
mission can give. 1t may lead the
dominant carrier into financial obliga-
tions at least temporarily out of pro-
portion to it's resources.
To the contention Of applicants that
formulation Of a plan for dealing with
minoritieS in advance of the commits
sion's approval Of a desired grouping
of properties might create speculative
sentiment or tend to influence antici-
patory purchases of stock, the COM
mission replies that the whole f1nan-
cial scheme must be before it in order
to permit of a decision on it's merits.
The commission might more tellingly
have met this contention by pointing
out that accumulation of stocks for
the achievement of preliminary as
tendency" itself creates an atmosphere
Of speculative excitement. 1t is likely
to be worse in that respect than
frank declaration at the outset Of the
terms on which all stockholders af-
fected may come into a proposed
merger.
In respect to underlying principles
the present decision is consistent with
what the commission has said in the
past. 1t Is true that the commission
rejected the first Nickel Plate plan be-
cause of its financial provisions, and
that there an allinclusive set of terms
for exchanging existing stocks for the
stock Of a merger corporation was pro-
posed. But in that case, as in this,
the commissions objection was to the
preliminary ascendency" of one cor
poration over another. It holds that
the place for the steam roller is not in
banking offices or in stockholders
meetings.
But it remains to be said-and a
strong minority Of the commission did
say-that it is the business Of an ad-
ministrative body to tell those whom
it governs what they may do, as we'll
as what they may not. Otherwise the
commission is in danger Of degenerat-
Ing into a mere obstacle to progress.