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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-30
BY J. C ROYLE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, November 30.-What-
ever the final outcome of the huge
dealing in the stock market at present
and the wave of speculation which
swept over the public may be, for the
time at lest it has served to spur for
ward some industries The telegraph
and telephone companies have protited
undoubtedly So have many of the
retail merchants, the steamship COM
panies, the furriers, the jewelers. and
other distributors.
A careful survey Of the financial dis
trict shows that on the recent big
market days Offices which handle most
of the Wall Street business delivered
over $4,000 messages as compared with
around 10000 in the less active market
times. This, of course, is outside the
cable business, which is heavy, eS-
pecially with London, and the private
wire messages passing over the brokers
wires.
Wire Costs Heavy.
The telephone calls in the financial
district in recent weeks have been SO
per cent heavier than in normal times
This reflects in some measure the fact
that the tickers have been so far be-
hind trading on the floor, but no small
amount of it is accounted for by actual
orders to buy and sell. Scores of
brokers are paying more than $250,000
a year for private wires. It costs that
much annually for private wire be-
tween New York and San Francisco, and
some houses have a network of wires
all over the country. The volume of
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HUGE DEALINGS IN STOCKS
ARE AID TO RETAIL BUSINESS

business they must do can be estimated
when it is considered that their revenue
comes from commissions ranging from
$3.50 hundred shares up.
The increase in the amount OF money
orders handled by telegraph offices IN
the financial district has been about 25
per cent. These orders usually come in
as a result of the activity of market
services" and tipsters.
It must be remembered that for every
profit on the stock market somebody
loses at least on paper, but the recent
volume of buying is unquestionably due
to successful spectators spending real
or paper profits. Many persons who
have made money in the market have
liquidated a part of their holdings and
bought something they have wanted fol-
years, like diamond rings, pearl neck
laces, fur coats, automobiles, motor
boats and other luxuries. They still are
hanging on to the major part Of their
holdings.
Aids Building Industry.
Scores of the cooks, buffers, maids
and chauffeurS in Westminster, Long
Island, the North Shore districts of the
Chicago suburbs, in Radnor and Ger
mantown, in the Boston, Pittsburgh
Cleveland Cincinnati, San Francisco
Detroit, Toronto and other market dis
tricts now have not only their own cars
but their own motor boats. They keep
their jobs only because of the tips the
jobs enable them to pick up.
The trend has aided the real estate
market and boosted building construc-
ton for many people who have, or think
they have, a profit sufficient to own
their homes.
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AUTOMOBILE TRADE
|. OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT
Steel, AirpIane and Radio In
dustries Also Face Hope
full Future.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, November 30.-Busi-
ness, both wholesale and retail, hit the
bumps of the holiday road this week
The main feature of the week Is that
the industries in which prospects are
better than good are increasing While
the list which faces poor outlooks is
growing constantly smaller. 1t is
easier to take the latter first. 1t con-
sists of coal, paper, sugar, shipping and
street railways.
A wide realignment of the methods
of using coal is necessary before the
soft coal industry can occupy a satls-
factory position and this is mater
of months and years.
The paper industry seems to feel that
it has gone far toward solving It's oil
fculties because many of the American
and Canadian mill owners have agreed
to restrict production. Agreements dlo
not prevent a price war short time
ago and many experts believe 1t Is
doubtful if the present agreement Will
be sufficiently binding to bring produc-
ton and consumption within meeting
distance.
In about q month the Cuban pro-
ducers will commence to pour sugar
into a market already supplied by
American and European beet and cane
producers.
The street railways are not in thor
oughly satisfactory condition, but is bet
ter than it has been for long time
Now to look on the bright side. Steel
automobiles, auto accessories, airplanes
agricultural implements, radio equip
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ment and chemicals are all prospecting
and likely to continue to do so. Steel
output is slackening seasonally, but
orders indicate strong revival after
holiday time. The automobile trade is
active, but competition will be more
severe than ever before.
The agricultural implement manu-
facturers will not have the slump usual
in the next few months, since foreign
trade will supplement domestic demand.
Chemicals, especially fertilizer chemi-
Gals, are in a strong position, while in
dustrial alcohol is finding many new
outlets in industry. The building
trades are remarkably well engaged.
Copper is experiencing an unusual
demand and the mines and smelterS
are jubilant. The electric light and
gas producers are having their great
est season in history
The railroads are busy and viii con-
tinue SO for some weeks, when the pre-
holiday freight slump may be 'ant1ci-
mated
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crates, s.ooas.5o; fancy stripped, s.5oa

| crates, b.OOab.5Oi fancy SLrlppeo, o'oud
TOO.
Lettuce-supplies moderate; demand
light, market steady; California, crates
Iceberg type: AS dozen, 475a5.00;
Florida, i l2-bushel hampers, big Boston
type, fair quality and condition, 2.5Oa
Onions-Supplies light; demand light
market steady; Indiana, lO0-pouno
sacks, yellows u. S. No. l, medium to
large size, 500: Michigan, 100-pounc
sacks, yellows, medium size, fair cond1-
ton, 400.
Potatoes-Supplies moderate; demand
| light, market steady; Michigan, 15O-
pound sacks, Russell Rurals, U. s. NO. l!
sacks, round whites, U. S. NO. !, LISA
200; Idaho, l00-pound sacks, RuSset
Burbanks, u. S. No. l, $50; 50-pound
sacks, RusSet Burbanks, q. S. No. l, .25.
Sweet potatoes-Supplies very light;
no early sales reported.
String beans-Supplies light; demand
| light, market steady; Florida, 9 -bushel
hampers. green Bountifuls, 500; Ref
ugees, 450; some fair to ordinary quail
ity and condition, 3.50a400.
PepperS-Supplies very light; demand
light, market firm; Florida, pepper
crates, fancy, 1000.
Squash-Supplies light; demand light,
market steady; Florida, pepper crates,
white, wrapped, 500.
Peas-Supplies moderate; demand
light, market steady; California, crates,
700.
Cucumbers-Sup light: demand
light, market steady: Florida, square
crates, fancy, best, 600; fair quality,
4.50a500 choice, 3.50a4.Q0.
auliflower-Supplies moderate; de-
mand light. market steady; New York,
Long Island, crates, 265a2.75.
Tomatoes-Supplies light; demand
light, market steady; California, Tugs,
ripss, wrapped, 3.00a3.25; small size,
$50: repacked in Baltimore, unknown,
origin, IS, ripes, wrapped, fancy count,
6.50a700: choice count, 5.50a6.00; Ohio
10-pound baskets dollhouse stock, small
size, 200; medium size, 2.75a3.00;
large size, 2.25a2.50.
Oranges-Supplies moderate; demand
moderate, market steady; California,
boxes navels. medium to large size, 600
a650; small size, 500a5.50: Florida,
boxes, various varieties, best medium
to large size, 400a4.50; small size, 800
a350; fair quality and condition, me-
dunn to large size, 3.50a4.00; small
size, 250a300.
Grapefruit-Supplies moderate; de-
mand moderate, market steady; Florida,
boxes, medium size. No. /, 4.00a4.25;
No. 2, 3.25a3.50.
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other industrials of lower price that
have doubled in market value in the
greatest period of stock market expan-
sion in the history of the world.
Stocks that were selling at 800 or
lower last year have gone up into the
5000 to $500 share class and several
of them have entered the exclusive
group of $500-per- share issues. On the
basis of Wednesdays high price the
new General Electric stock represents a
value for the old stock of approximately
$500 share.
The symbols of the old-fashioned
Thanksgiving were sheaves of wheat
and shocks of corn representing the
abundance of the harvests out of which
the prosperity of former generations
was produced. This years prosperity
would be more accurately symbolized
by sheaves of stock certificates and es-
pecially those of corporations that had
relatively little financial standing when
the general Thanksgiving for the ending
of the war was proclaimed in 1918.
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BUSINESS IS QUIET
AT D. c. MARKET
Lower Prices Reported for
Chickens and Turkeys
Following Holiday.

Municipal Fish Market this morning
did not present the usual scene Of Fri
day morning activity, business seldom
being brisk the day after a holiday, ac'
cording to dealers
Dealers had large quantities Of prac.
tically every variety of fish, oyster:
were plentiful and they had large sup
plies of crabmeat from Chesapeake Bay
shippers and also some from packers OF
the Gulf of Mexico.
Market is Draggy.
Everything is plentiful and cheap
remarked a dealer, prices being about
as low as during the Summer season
when big nets are in operation.
A slight increase in the demand fol
oysters was reported early in the week
Only stormy conditions in the near flu
ture, it is stated, is likely to affect prices
to any considerable extent.
Dealers reported a generally draggy
condition Of the market this morning, a
condition that was anticipated, and eff
forts were being made to clean up stock
left over from the holiday market
Poultry dealers reported lower prices
for chickens and turkeys. while prices
of most other commodities remained
unchanged.
Today's Wholesale Prices-JobberS'
Prices, Slightly Higher.
Butter-One-pound prints, 53a54;
tub. 52a53: store packed, 30a32.
Eggs-Fresh, selected, 47a48; hen
merry, 53a55; current receipts, 45a46;
storage, 33a35.
Poultry alive - Turkeys, 35a38;
Spring chickens. 27a28; Leghorns, IS;
fowls, 25a26; ROSTERS, 19a20; keats,
young, 60a80; old, 80. Dressed turkeys,
40a45; Spring chickens, 30a32; Leg
large, 40a45; small, 30a35; ducks, 30a32;
keats, young, 80a1.00.
Meats, fresh killed-Beef, 18a25; veal,
81; lamb, 20a25; fresh pork loins, 19a
%; fresh hams, 81; fresh shoulders,
10; smoked hams, 25a27; smoked
shoulders, %: bacon, %; lard, in tins,
1919; in package, 14a15.
Live stock-Calves, 1919; lambs, IS.
Fruit and Vegetable Review.
The daily market report on fruits and
vegetables compiled by the Market
News Service Bureau of Agricultural
Economies, says:
Apples-Supplies liberal; demand
light, market steady. Boxes: Washing
ton, medium to large size, extra fancy
Delicious, 3.25; Romes and Staymans,
mostly $50; extra fancy Jonathans,
some ripe, 1.75a225; few very large
size extra fancy Romes. 2.25. Bushel
baskets: Maryland and Virginia, U. S.
No. 1, 21a inches up, Grimes, 1.25a1 SO;
2% inches up, Staymans, 1.50a1.65;
Maryland, u. S. No. 2, Staymans, "a
inches up, lbs.
Cabbage-S Supplies light; demand
light, market firm; New York, 100
pound sacks, Danish type, few sales,
$50.
Celery-Supplies liberal; demand lin
tied, market about steady; California,
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CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET.

CHICAGO, November 80 up. - But
ter Higher; receipts, $3.50 tubs;
creamery extras, 501a; standards, 4814;
extra firsts, 4712a49; f1rsts, 45a4612;
seconds, 42a44.
Eggs - Lower; receipts, 3,740 cases;
extra firsts, Isaac; firsts, 40a47; ordi-
nary firsts, 30a38; refrigerator extras,
3012; refrigerator f1rsts, 80.
Poultry, alive = Steady; receipts, 6
cars; fowls, 20a25; springs, 2512a2612;
ROSTERS, 20; turkeys, 25a32; ducks, TIA
81; geese, 81.
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COTTON MILLS URGED.

GASTONIA, N. c., November 80 Up.
Merger of three CASTOR County, N. C.,
cotton mills into what is to be known
as the Hanover Mills, Inc, capitalized
at $1,000,000, was announced officially
here. The mills involved are the Han
over, Rankin and Pinckney.
A G.. Myers, president of the Citizens
National Bank of Gastonia, was named
president and r. G.. Rankin, also OF
this city, secretary-treasurer.
Proximity of the plants and the sim
ilarity of the product manufactured was
announced by officials as the reason
for consolidation.
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Canadian Trade With U. S.

OTTAWA, Ontario, November 80 Up.
trade with the United
States amounted to $1,318, 1851, 648 for
the IL months ended October 81, an in
crease of $123,731,81 over the pre-
vious II months, figures made public by
closed.
Imports amounted to 1905, 4S2 PIT, an
increase of S98924,094, and exports.
$492 1872, $3.50, an increase of $40, 2O4,752.
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POTATO MARKET DULL.

CHICAGO, November 80 Up Omitted
States Department of Agricultural. -
Potatoes-Receipts 1856 cars; on track,
1872 cars; total United States shipments
Wednesday, COL cars; Thursday, 1875
cars; trading very slow; market dull;
Wisconsin sacked round whites, 80al 90;
Minnesota and North Dakota sacked
round whites, 80a95; sacked Red River
Ohios, 90a1.O5; Idaho sacked ruSsets,
l .4Oa1 go; few fancy shade higher.
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October Lead Exports.

NEW YORK, November 80 P.-
October exports of lead in unmanu-
featured form by the United States to-
tailed 1O,448 metric tons, according to
the American Bureau of Metal Statis-
tics. This compares with 1886 tons in
September. October imports by Great
Britain totaled 81, 499 tons, against 49,
161 tons in September.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-30

BUCHAREST, Rumania, November
80 (P).-The Petroleum Industry Trust,
formed a year ago to prevent home COM
petition and regulate sales and prices,
has been dissolved. This opens the
way for unlimited domestic competition
The dissolution resulted from recent
new combinations.
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CHRISTMAS CLUB CHECKS

Special Dispatch to The Star. ~
FREDERICK, Md, November 30
Five local banks will mail out checks
totaling more than 100000 to Christ
mas Club members on Monday. Banks
throughout the county will increase
this total to near the 100000. APP
proximately $4,000 persons will receive
checks. New Christmas Club accounts
will be opened Monday.
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Seaboard Business Gains.

BALTIMORE, November 80 Especially
November car loadings on the Sea-
board Air Line Railway are running
slightly ahead of last year, and net
earnings for this month probably will
show some improvement, compared with
the corresponding month last year.
when the surplus was only $42,674.
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Will Offer Stock Issue.

NEW YORK, November 80 o.
Kroger Grocery & Baking Corporation
of Cincinnati, will offer 96,778 common
shares at sos share for subscription
by stockholders in ratio Of new share
for every Is shares held. Proceeds will
be used for expansion.
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Demand for Zinc.

NEW YORK, November 80 R).--
Excellent demand for zinc and an
active call for lead were noted in the
market for non-ferrous metals in the
past week. Engineering and Mining
Journal reports. Copper has been in
average demand. Tin prices moved to
higher ground on speculative support
abroad and fair buying by consumers.
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Coal.

CLEVELAND-A new high record for
coal shipments on the Great Lakes has
been established this season, which end
ed today. While figures are lacking, est1-
mates place the total at 33,068,00O tons.
This compares with 32,851, 681 tons last
season.
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Mexican Debt Statement.

MEXICO CITY, November 80 [P.-
The Treasury Department has given
out figures showing that the national
and internal debts amount to 773,112,-
600 pesos. This Is approximately $780,
600 900 in United States money.
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$4,000 for Curb Seat.

NEW YORK, November 80 CP).-A
membership on the New York Curb
Market has been sold for $4,000, Il
new high price and $4,000 above the
preceding sale.
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Dairy Products.

MILWAUKEE.-But markets con-
tinue firm at high levels. The technical
position is strong and the shortage De-
cen1ber /, probably will approximate
100000 pounds.
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Commodity Notes
Wheat.

DULUTH, November 30-On the
evening of the ending of the regular
insurance rates on the Great Lakes. no
orders have been placer here for moor
ings for vessels loaded with grain. Most
of the garin cargoes loaded in the last
few days will be stored at lower ports.
A few more grain freighters will be
loaded and take chance" on the
weather however.
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NEW YORK BANK CLEARINGs,

NEW YORK, November 80 (Spe-
ciaD New York bank clearings, ST.
770,000,000; New York bank balances,
S160,000,000; New York Federal credit
balances. Sl58. 000. 600
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CHICAGO.-The announcement that
the Federal Grain Futures Administra-
ton believes the situation warrants
higher wheat prices has aroused bitter
controversy such as attended the an
nouncement of the Secretary OF Agr1-
culture about cotton prices some time
ago Interest in wheat trading is at
low ebb.
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U, S. TREASURY RECEIPTS.

Treasury receipts for November, 1927
we're S4,133, 05667, expenditures, $5,564,
65077; balance, $109, 634,0 0808.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-06-15

several boot-leggers killed IN
Chicago and some fine innocent
folks, but taking the 'Tribunes 5
word for it, it will take a number
Of years before they catch up with
the work Of just one year of Just
the side entrances, say nothing
of the front door.
Not long ago heard a man talk
ing. When in the course of his
remarks he said that closing of
the saloon had driven the Ameri-
can people to drugs, let us look
at the facts, The fact that is well
established is that drugs and Ii
quor work hand in hand. The i'm
portation of Opium has fallen
steadily, notwithstanding the enor-
nous increase in the population.
Take the import for the ten year
period 1S90-99 we imported 513,-
700 pounds. For similar per-
iod since prohibition we have I'M
ported l44,S05 pounds. In 1911 we
imported cocoa leaves to the
amount of l,226772 pounds. Now
take into consideration the increase
Of population at the same time and
you will soon realize how the law
Is working
Take the automobile accidents
from intoxicated drivers: In 1917
there We're IFS fatalities for l00,-i
GOO cars In 1926 there 95 fatalities
per hundred thousand cars.
"A-La-Liberte" said French
lady as she lifted her glass of!
wine at a Partisan dinner table,
nodding significantly TO an Ameri-
can yis-a-vis.
" A-la-prosperity returned theI
American woman thus challenged
as she raised her glass of water
Statistics bear out the Americana
Bon Mot.
Yours very truly,
$. J Steffenson
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-06-15

some statements that are so far
from the mark that they become
a slap at the intelligence of the
American citizen. Prohibition.
which has opinions to the contrary
been drastic failure" Such
statement puts me in mind of the
story that's been told often about
the man who was asked by the pre-
siding Judge how it came about
that the jury could not agree on
the case just closed. The reply was
that What could you expect sir
with eleven ignorant, stubborn
men on the iury7" The fact still
remains that a handful of Ameri-
can folks, and some of them with
capacity for observing facts, still
cling to the notion that the ex-
pertinent is a success.
Mr.. Ridgeway one of he lead
ing steel men of the state of Penn
sylvania says, No law or procla-
nation in the United States has
contributed so much to the pros
perity and general happiness of
the masses as the 18th Amendment
since the close of the Civil War. !"
Or read the report of the indus
trial commission sent from Ger
many to study conditions in Amer
lea The chairman stated that.
most of the working men in Ameri-
ca had car and lived in good
homes and dressed and lived well
and that Prohibition was the
greatest contributing factor, not
withstanding the hue and cry of
a wet subsidized Press.
Ask the old manager Of the Kee.
ley Institute Of this state, where
5000 were taking the cure at that
time. and at times more than that
on the waiting list. | am informed
that more folks died from al
coholism in one year at that In
stitution than die now in the
whole state for five years for the
same cause
One more statement is made
that | must mention, namely,
True we got rid of the saloon,
but saddled ourselves with some
thing infinitely worse !" Such a
statement shows that the man thar
made it has forgotten or that his
capacity for judgement is sadly
Let me quote from "The
Chicago Tribune one of the wet
test newspapers of America.
Eighteen years ago last fall the
Tribune" had this to say about
the saloon "The American Sa
loon is the cause of more crime,
more poverty, more shame and de-.
gradation, and more death, than
any other agency in our land. 10
900 young women in Chicago alone
find their way TO an early grave
annually through the side of
family entrance of the saloon, and
the victims are drawn from homes
far and near" True, we have had
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.CLASSffzED ADVERTISING

C. Park, Red 90. 4-2O-tf
80
WANTED-'rraetor work. New
plows and disc Louis Deppman.
Phone Red 1871. 3-2-tf
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WANTED-Your eockerels and
chickens, Highest prices paid.
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sHINGLING and ROOF Repairs
Call Red I'LL Evenings, William
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LOCAL TAXES TAKE
THE DOLLARS

One might almost say that when
he writes the check for his proper
ty tax, the dollars sc to local tax,
es and the cents take care of
others. Local taxes raise the re-.
venues for county city, town, town
ship and school, as well as most of
The drainage, park, road and SINH
lar funds.
How those figures have grown
since 1913 is indicated by figures
compiled by the finance depart
meut Of the United States Cham
Der OF Commerce. Tie amount has
increased until every day $4,000.
600 must be earned TO pay expen-
ditures by local units OF govern
ment.
The increase in taxes, it is point
ed out, grew faster than the popu-
iation, SO that the revenues thus OBJ
taincd lin 1926 amounted to 1884,
~ per capita instead Of the period
of high prices improvements were
made at an excessive cost. Mann
g community built a 500, 900 high
school plant that few years la
ter would have been just as proud
of one costing one-Half that
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