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New Britain herald., 1928-02-25

Whitefoot the Wood Mouse was exploring in the Old Orchard. He was. sitting on one of Farmer Browns bee-hives just at the edge of tho Old Orchard nearest Farmer Browns dooryard. He hadn't been able to get into the hive. There was some wire over the entrance to it. It had been put there to keep out just such little explorers as White foot. And Whitefoot wanted to get into that hive more than he had ever wanted to get into any place before that he could remember.
 Al he sat there on top of that hive he saw that there were num- ber of other hives. Perhaps l can find one that can get into thought he. Anyway, it won't do any harm to look.''
 So Whitefoot continued his ex- ploring. He climbed all over the next hive and was disappointed. He did the same thing to the third hive, with no better results. The fourth hive was just like the others he had tried to get into. But on the fifth hive he found when he tried it that the wire covering the little en- trance was loose. Yes, sir, it was loose. whitefoot went to work with teeth and claws. He gnawed away a little bit around the entrance. He tugged and pulled at the wire and it became more loose. All the time him that there were just as inter esting things inside that hive as in- side the first one. But while he worked he kept a watchful eye open for Hooty the Owl or Spooky the Screech Owl. and it was well he did Just In time he saw Spooky coming through the moonlight. Whitefoor whisked around underneath th" hiv" and there he chung Spooky passed on without seeing him.
 ''If only l can get inside Spooky can hang around all he p1eases." |" muttered Whitefoot. as he returned to work at the little doorway In q fow minutes he had T place that he could squeeze through. Just inside he stopped. It was dark in there. But Whitefoot didn't mind that. He was used to moving about in the dark. He stopped 10 find ont all he could by means Of his nose. II vas the first time he had ever been in. AsA Ao II lr t,.- home of bees. His nose told hIm that. His nose told him that thore was a great mass Of bees inside. You zee. he had been in hollow trees Tn which bees were living. so he knew the smell of honey and the smell of bees. Also he knew that, while tn summer it wouldn't hara been pos sihle for him to enter that hive. m winter the bees were asleep and he could enter in safety.
 "Id like 10 live here" said Whitefoot to himself. "It N ould i,c 2 spendid place to spend the rest Of the winter. It is warm. there's pleu- ty 10 eat right at hand and no one would ever. eyer think of looking for me here. When warm weather comes can move out. l believe I'll do it. Yes sir. I believe I'll do II. All I need 10 do is to make a place in the back here and build a com- fortable nest. All those bees are al the top; they won't bother me at all. The dead ones will be good eat ing and there are always dead ones Yes. sir, this is the place to spend the rest of the winter. I wish l had come over here earlier now"
 Copyright. 1928, by T. w. Rurgess)
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New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
MPSTICkS FUl, SWANS

New York, Feb. :5 - Add to what the fashionable young man will wear this season---a lipstick. Joseph F. PolitZ, who made a. tour of all that is smart for men in Europe, said so upon his return. He predicts that the craze will soon become popular in America, and the wise boys will start now with advance lessons from their kweeties.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
SNAPPY lOkES

Top-coats affect novelty by in numerable different and snappy yokes. 4 black velveteen coat has drop-shoulder yoke 'ha, meets the body and sleeves ill deep points, corded for emphasis.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
TWIN BELTS

Some frocks 20 in so strongly for belts this spring that one does not suffice. A green and white printed silk has two one-inch suede belts. the fog one white. the bottom gr-en. They are placed [" inches apart.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
PRINTED COAT

The printed coat over plain ma terial in the frock Is one of Paris interpretations of the mode. Black sha allowed chrysa anthemums on white background makes the coat | of one white frock.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
IiAIIA-( 'Nl'I.,

\ lowered lemon colored chif- orange Of is decoration 10 feature q half-cap" that extends over just the left side front and back.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
LINED DRAPES

If your window drspes are of some medium weight material. lin- ing them with sateen in matching shade or the shade of your walls giyes them luxurious weight
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
YOUTHFUL MODELS

Expressing the vogue for youth in costumes, the jacket and jabot combination is gaining popularity. Navy blue taffeta and cream lace make one charming interpreta- tion.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
WHITE JADE

White jade kid pumps and san- dals will he worn this summer with white dresses. White jade Is an off white of soft beige tone.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
GRAPEFRUIT SALAD

A variation of the usual grape fruit salad may be achieved by us- ing watercress. sliced grapefruit and
 French dressing with Roquefort cheese
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25

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New Britain herald., 1928-02-25

Chiffon hosiery. in opal mauvs. is a newcomer. 1t answers tho question of what to wear with the new purply silades of silks.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
By Thornton ". Burgess
WhitefOot's Discovery

Discovery has a thrill its own. Especially if you're alone.
 -Whitefoot the Wood Mouse
Evening star., 1928-12-27
Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, Md, December 27.--
Potatoes, white, 100-poundS, LOCAL .25;
sweet potatoes, barrel, 150a25O; bushel,
75a1 so; yams, barrel, 1.75a275; beans,
bushel, 3.00a400; beets, 100, 4O0a6 90;
broccoli, bushel, 60a75; brussels sprouts,
quart, 10a20; cabbage, ton, 30.00a40 90;
carrots, 100, 4.00a5 90; celery, crate,
1.50a3.00; cucumbers, bushel, 4.00a60 90;
eggplants, crate, 5.0Oa75O: lettuce,
bushel, 75a1.50 onions, 100 pounds,
1.50a4.50; peppers, crate, 4.00a8.00;
squash, crate, 400a5.00; savoy cabbage,
bushel, 75a90 spinach, bushel, 50a75:
tomatoes, crate, 200a4.00; turnips, bas-
ket, 25a35.
Apples, bushel, 1.00a2. 90; cranberries,
one-half box, 8.00a10.00; grape fruit,
box, 200a400; oranges, box, 250a4.50;
tangerines, one-half strap, 2.00a3.50.
Dairy Market.
Live poultry-Turkeys pound, 40a45;
old, 33a38; Spring chickens, 20a28; Leg
horns, 2Oa25; old hens, 22a30; Leg
horns, 22a24; small and poor, 20; old
roosters, 17a2O; ducks, 25a30; small, 20;
geese, 25a30; guinea fowls, each, 40a
80 pigeons, pair, 80.
Dressed poultry Turkeys, pound, 40a
As; old, 35a4o young chickens, 30a35;
old and mixed, 25a30; old roosters, 20;
ducks, 25a30; geese, 24a30.
Eggs-Receipts, 2716 cases; native
and nearby, free cases, dozen, f1rsts,
AZ; current receipts, 40; butter, good
to fancy, creamery, pound, 48a53;
prints, 53a55; blocks, 51a53; ladies, 38a
40; store packed, SO; process butter,
43a44.
Hay and Grain Prices.
Wheat-No. 2 red Winter, garlicky
spot, 1.30: December delivery, 1.30.
Corn-No. export, December de-
livery, 997s; No. 2 yellow, 1.01a1.0 .02; cob
| corn, 4.75a4.85.
Oats-No. white, domestic, spot
57l2a58; No. 3 white, domestic, spot
56a57.
Rye-Nearby, 1.15a1.25.
Hay-ReceiptS, none. While hay is
arriving here in limited quantities only
it is more than ample for the demand
which is being supplied mostly by truck
from nearby points, few carloads being
received. There is not enough business
passing to establish prices on the vari-
| Gus kinds on merit at a range of 16.00a
| 1880 per ton of timothy and clover hay
Straw-No. wheat, 1l.00a1200 pei
ton; No. oat. 12.00a13.00 per ton.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
BY KENNETH S. VAN STRUM.

NEW YORK, December 27-In spite
of the fact that the market for new
securities has received severe jolt this
year, it looks as though the total amount
of new stocks and bonds issued will
closely approach the record levels of
last year. The most interesting differ
ence is that in recent years over rs per
cent of the new securities have been
bonds and only 25 per cent stocks. This
year the figures will probably show
about SIS per cent bonds and as per
cent stocks. Stocks have gained on
bonds, although bonds are still in the
majority.
Back in 1923, when around $257,-
100000 new securities were issued each
month, TIL per cent were bonds end
2" 9 per cent stocks. Although the vol
Ume Of business increased rapidly dur
ing the next four years, these relative
proportions did not change materially,
for in 1927 with $628,500,000 new Sc
curities offered monthly, 76,7 per cent
were bonds and 23,3 per cent stocks.
Thus, while the volume of securities Of
fered to the buying public had more
than doubled, the popularity of bonds
had grown with the greater demand for
stocks. This was rather remarkable, in
view of the fact that during that period
the popularity Of stocks as permanent
investments had grown by leaps and
bounds. and one would naturally have
expected that a larger percentage of
stocks would be turned out.
Tables Are Turned.
This year, for the first time, there
have been some radical changes in the
proportions. During the early months
of the year bonds maintained their su-
premacy fairly well, but in the early
Spring new bond issues began to fall,
while stocks increased. BY July the old
relationship had almost reversed, with
only SO per cent bonds and 81 per cent
stocks. Since then larger proportion
of bonds have been issued, but as yet
they have not regained the wide mar
gin of leadership held for so many
years. 1t looks as though 1928 will
produce SIS per cent new bonds to 45
per cent new stocks.
AS yet it is too early to decide
whether or not stocks have increased
in public favor at the expense of bonds.
In appraising the situation several fac
tors must be considered.
Investment bankers realize that new
Evening star., 1928-12-27

securities can best be fioated on ris-
ing market. A bull market creates a
public interest and confidence in new
security offerings of stocks and bonds;
falling market puts buyers in pessi-
mistic frame of mind. Because bonds
are more stable and the demand is
steadier, new issues of bonds are not
so radically affected by a falling mar
ket, but it is extremely difficult to sell
new issues of stocks when the market
is declining.
Since 1923 up to the first of this
year both the bond and stock markets
have risen steadily. While the number
of new securities has increased rapidly
throughout the period, the proportion of
stocks to bonds remained about the
Same-one stock to three bonds.
Credit Stringency Upsets Bond Market.
Early thes Spring, however, the stu
alton changed. The Reserve banks de-
cided that too much money was being
employed for speculative purposes in
the stock market and began to tighten
credit by raising the rediscount rate
and selling Government securities.
Bonds are always first to feel the effect
Of tighter money, and after April bond
prices declined sharply. On the other
Evening star., 1928-12-27
CORN PRICES GAIN
ON INITIAL SALES
Active Buying and Small Receipts
Start Upward Swing.
Wheat Steady.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 81. - Active
buying of corn and fresh advances in
price went together early today, but
selling broadened out on the upturns.
Receipts of corn here were meager, 209
cars, and rural offerings were mostly
above the market. Opening at "a of
to g UP, corn subsequently at times
showed gains all around. Wheat start
ed at 12 decline to Is advance and
afterward held near to initial figures.
Oats were firm. Provisions kept about
steady.
Bulls in corn had the advantage
much of the time today. but the mar
ket was by no means altogether one
sided One of the striking features was
that a house with export connections
sold December delivery of corn and
bought May. Meanwhile deliveries on
December contracts here were at
minimum, arrivals small and the coun-
try giving evidence of reluctance to part
with holdings.
Some aggressive selling Of wheat was
done here today, apparently for Win
nipeg account. Bears put stress on the
fact that the domestic visible supply is
the heaviest ever known - 50000,000
bushels more than last year-and that
prices here are above world parity.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
CURB STOCKS SHOW
| EFFECT OF SELLING
Traders Reduce Holdings as
| Credit Situation TightenS.
Utilities Exception.
BY WILLIAM F. HEFFERNAN.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 27.-The
main body of stocks on the Curb Ex-
change today was influenced by the
developments in the credit situation.
With the year-end strain in money
definitely asserting itself, the disposi-
tion was to tighten speculative holdings,
although the selling was orderly.
There were the usual exceptions to
The general trend, but where stocks
moved higher the advances were
limited, The place of prominence was
maintained by the new Ford Motor,
Ltd, which again moved forward to the
highest since listed. Opening on a
block Of 10000 shares at 2394, the price
compared with the previous final of
22A, and subsequently pushed
through "a
Having appreciated in market value
more than 300 per cent from the price
at which it was offered for public
subscription it was plainly evident that
the advance was due to nothing more
than the technical condition existing
in the market for the shares. The
question in the mind of the speculative
element was how long this could con-
tinue before the necessary corrective re-
action set in. The more conservative
had in mind the SequelS to the unwar-
ranted speculation for the rise in both
Bancitaly shares and Canadian Marconi
earlier in the year and viewed with
Snisgivings what was now taking place
IN Ford Motors, Ltd.
Announcement of plans for extensive
corporate changes by directors of realty
associates, which are expected to in
Clude declaration of 900 per cent stock
dividend, failed to have any material
effect upon the market for the stock
AT 481 the price was a point above the
previous final.
Some of the utilities resisted the
selling better than other issues, notably
American Super Power issues, Middle
West Utilities, the Commonwealth
Edison. The last named at 227 was at
a new high and up IL points on the
day.
Mining issues failed to be influenced
by. the further advance in the price
for export copper.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, December 81 Up CU. S.
Department of Agriculture .--Hog3-
Receipts, $4,000 head: market opened
10ai5 lower, later trade mostly 25a35
lower: top, 900 paid early for load of
200-pound butchers; medium to choice
250-300 pounds, 8.5oa8.95; 200250
pounds, 8.50a900; 10000 pounds, $50
a9.00: 130-160 pounds, 800a8.85; pack
ing sows, 7.60a8.25; pigs, medium to
choice, 90-130 pounds, 725a8.50.
Cattle-Receipts, 1000 head. Calves
Receipts, 1000 head. Weighty steers
slow, except on meager supply of choice
offerings; light steers and yearlings
along with fat she stock and bulls
strong to 25 higher; vealers, 100 up;
speciality yearlings and heavy steers,
100 and 1915, respectively; slaughter
classes, steers, good and choice, 1900
$500 pounds, 13.25a16.00: 1,100-1 300
pounds, 13.25a16.25; 950-1, 100 pounds,
13.O0a16.75; common and medium, $50
pounds up, 9.00a1325; fed yearlings,
good and choice, 750-950 pounds, 1878
.al5.25; heifers, good and choice, $50
pounds down, 11.00a1400; common and
medium, 8.00a11.35.
Cows, good and choice, 8.75a11 .25;
common and medium, 6.75a875; low
cutter and cutter, 5.75a675 Bulls, good
and choice (beef), 950a11.50; cutter to
medium, 7.50a950. Vealers milk fed, &,
good and choice, 14.50a1650; medium,
13.00a1450; Gull and common, 7.50a
1900. Stocker and feeder steers, good
and choice Gall weights), 1050a12.00;
common and medium, 8.50a10.50.
Sheep-Receipts, $4,000 head; early
trade unevenly steady; light and moder-
ately sorted lambs, 14.75a1500; closely
sorted kinds, 1925; extreme top, 1880;
top fat ewes, 800. Lambs, good and
choice, 80 pounds down, 1415a15.50;
medium 1250a14.15; Gull and COM
mon, 9.00a12.50; ewes, medium to
choice $50 pounds down, 5.50a8 90; Gull
and common, 2.25a6.00. Feeder lambs,
good and choice, 13.00a1450.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
Lodge Officers Elected.

Special Dispatch to The Star
POTOMAC, Va, December 27.-Wil-
liam F. Kerwin has been elected wor-
shipful master of Henry Knox Field
Lodge of Masons, with George M. Carr,
senior warden; j. Frank Moriarty,
Junior warden; II. Joseph Price, treas
urer; r. Leon Eddington, secretary; H.
Roy Dale, senior deacon; W. E. Sellers,
senior steward, and William Morgan,
junior steward. Percy E. Cliff of Alex
andria, district deputy grand master of
district No. 2, installed the newly elect
ed officers.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
CONVENTION OPENED
BY BACTERIOLOGISTS
Richmond Mayor Greets American
Society Delegates at Thirteenth
Annual Session.
By the Associated Press.

RICHMOND. Va, December 81
Assembling delegates from all parts of
the country, the thirtieth annual con-
vention of the Society of American
Psychologists opened its three-day
session here today. Mayor j. Fulmer
Bright delivered the address of welcome.
Business meetings were held through
out the day with a public gathering
programmed tonight for the address Of
Prof C. E. A. Winslow, professor of
public health in Yale University Medical
School, on the Significance of
Bacteriology"
Alice c.. Evans of the United States
Hygenic Laboratory, president of the
society, is to speak tomorrow night at
the annual banquet which will conclude
days program filled with group meet
ings and general business assembly.
Group discussions are programmed for
the final day.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
POTATO MARKET DULL.

CHICAGO, December 81 (AP) Omitted
States Department Of Agricultural -
PotatoeS-ReceiptS 80 cars; on track
1853: total United States shipments, 325
cars; trading slow, market dull; Wis
consin sacked round whites, 80a1 90;
fancy shade higher; Minnesota North
Dakota sacked round whites, 80a90;
Idaho sacked russets, 1.45a1.65 fancy
1.70a1.80.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
COTTON PRICES DROP
IN EARLY DEALINGS
Market Opens Slightly Lower Fol-
lowing Disappointing
Cables.
BY the Associated Press.

By Jhe ASSoclated PreSS.
NEW YORK, December 27-Prices
opened 1 to 4 points lower on the cot
ton market today in response to rather
disappointing Liverpool cables and some
near month liquidation. due to the cir
culation of a few additional January
notices. The offerings were well enough
taken to give the market fairly steady
undertone, however. Trading was quiet
after the call, with prices holding
around 1920 for March and 1898 for
July at the end of the first half hour,
or within point or two of yesterdays
closing quotations. Private cables said
there had been London. Bombay and
local liquidation in the Liverpool mar
ket absorbed by trade calling on the
decline and that business in the cloth
and yarn market had not been fully re-
sumed following the holiday.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
BUYS Theater Chain Stock.

NEW YORK, December 81 CR-
Paramount-F t-Famous-Lasky Corporation
has acquired privately 10000 additional
voting trust certificates of Balaban &
Katz Corporation, Chicago theater
chain, giving Paramount 87la per cent
of the corporations outstanding voting
trust certificates. Paramount issued 1.6
shares of its new stock for each Bala-
ban & Katz share.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
AMERICAN ICE EXTRA.

NEW YORK, December 81. (SpeciaD 4.
The American Ice Co. has declared
an extra dividend of 81 on the COM
mon stock and the regular quarterly
dividends of so cents on the common
and $1.50 on the preferred, al payable
January 25 to stockholders of record
January z. Earnings have established
a record this year.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
Financial Agency to Close.

MEXICO CITY, December 27 CP.-
The treasury department announced to-
day that the Mexican governments
closed on January /. All financial
transactions after that date will be
handled through the consul general.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
Stock Increase Voted.

NEW YORK. December q P.-
Stockholders of j. c. Penney Co. of
New York today authorized increasing
the common stock to 100000 shares
from 1,250,000 This paves the way for
offering to common stockholders two
new shares at 81 a share for each COM
mon share held.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
fDING' LAUDS NEWS WORK
Cartoonist Sees Newspaper Office as
Best Training School.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (P).-J. N. Dar-
ling, the cartoonist, best known as
"Ding," calls two years in newspaper
office ''the best postgraduate course"
for "any profession"
1t offers opportunities for self-eXpres-
sion, he told luncheon club here, and
initiative that come in most professions
only after several years experience.
I'm my IL years experience as car
tooniSt I never have been asked to curb
my convictions or to change my policy"
said Darling.
Evening star., 1928-12-27

hand, since the business outlook was
ued to rise.
At this point the old ratio of IS per
cent bonds and IS per cent stocks was
upset, for the declining bond market
was unfavorable to the issuance of new
bonds, while rising stock prices led to
record volume of new stock fiotations
During the last few months only about
Al per cent of the new issues have
been bonds, with SO per cent stocks.
The pressure brought to bear on the
credit situation has caused an artificial
situation, which most authorities believe
cannot last. Normally stock and bond
prices move together, and today alb
normal credit conditions have caused
Evening star., 1928-12-27

bonds to decline, while stocks have con-
tinued upwards It is not to be expected
that this will continue indefinitely.
When the stock and bond markets again
move together and public interest Is
more evenly divided, It is probable that
a larger proportion of bonds will be is
sued.
(Norvr;oht 1oooN
Evening star., 1928-12-27
NEW YORK BANK CLEARING:

NEW YORK, December 81 (SpeeiaD
New York bank clearings. 81 ,423, ,000,-
900; New York bank balances, $179,-
100000: New York Federal Reserve
credit balance, $120,O0O000
Evening star., 1928-12-27
Stock Rights Decision.

NEW YORK, December 81 (P).-The
New York Stock Exchange announces
Mengel Co.'S common and Atchison,
Topeka 6s Santa Fe stock will be traded
ex-rightS on December 28.
Evening star., 1928-12-27
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office u

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 27.-Follow-
ing is list of stocks and bonds traded
in on the New York Curb Market today:
Evening star., 1928-12-27
SILVER QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK, December 81 OP).-Bar
silver, STA; Mexican dollars, 433s.