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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
BY OWEN L. SCOTT.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, February 26-The next
move in the wheat price situation
which now has reached the point of de-
Farm Board, in the opinion of grain
traders.
But what the board can do more than
it already is doing is matter OF mys-
terry. With prices nearly so cents under
the seasons top and 20 cents down
from the prices prevailing on January
l of this year, all in the face of efforts
of the Farm Board to stabilize the
price level. it appears that something
more than Government action will be
needed.
AS a matter of fact, the Farm Board
has enough situations on hand to keep
it running around in circles.
Other Commodities Fall.
While wheat is crashing, a somewhat
similar crash has been going on in other
commodities which form the backbone
of cash income for farmers.
Butter is selling Is cents, or more
than 25 per cent, under year ago.
with unprecedented storage stocks of
more than 100000 pounds on hand.
bonflreS to burn butter substitutes as a
protest against one form of COMPETE
ton to the industry.
Eggs are 80 1-3 per cent under last
year and at the lowest price level for
this season in more than 10 years. Rec
ord-breaking supplies are, on hand
Sheep are selling at the lowest level
in nine years, materially under the
prices paid by herders for these animals
as feeder stock earlier in the year.
Cotton has almost duplicated the fall
in wheat, again in the face of Farm
Board efforts at sterilization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
CURB SHARES FIRM
IN QUIET MARKET
Few Issues ActiVe-UtiIitieS.
Trusts and Air Stocks
Featured.
By JOHN A. CRoNE.
ecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, February ga hand
ful Of stocks from various sections of
the Curb list were active in today's
moderately strong market, but the ma
Jority barely budgeo.
Utilities. trusts, aviation and radio
shares led the upside. Oils remained
irregular. Industrials exhibited raixed
price trends and Natural Gas spares
quoted
The market leader, Electric Bond g.
Share, headed the rally, moving up
about 2 points. It was followed by
American Superpower. Niagara Hudson
Power, United Light & Power A, Utili-
ties Power & Light common. American
Cities Power & Light and Electric
Power Associates A and common.
Indian Territory Illuminating Oil fea-
tured the oils, rushing to a record high
price on a huge turnover. Cities Serv-
ice, after 4,000-share opening, quieted,
but held steady. Imperial Oil of Can
ada hit new low for the year Vac
uum was moderately active, ranging
NlJnln point OF its previous close,
while General Petroleum was a shade
higher. Standard Oil of Indiana Jagged
and Softened
Marine Midland, going to a new high
Tor the year, featured trust dealings
Reports that it planned TO acquire
Fidelity Trust Co. here on the basis of
two Marine Midland shares for one
Fidelity share started the move United
States and International Securities first
preferred and certificates, which were
up ga and 6I2 points, respectively,
Tuesday. we're whirled again today.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific rights
made their debut coming out at l and
later selling at rs.
These rights give common and pre-
ferred shareholders of record March Z
the right to subscribe to S32, 223, 900 of
Az per cent convertible bonds at 95
and interest to the extent of IS per cent
of their holdings. The rights expire
May g.
Douglas Aircraft was the early air
leader, due to reports of increasing or
ders. Aviation Corporation of America,
National Aviation and North American
Aviation also pointed upward
In the radio list Gold Seal Electrical
dropped to new low record, while
Eisler Electric climbed to a new peak.
Canadian Marconi again featured the
communication division.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
TranscOnt. Oil
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES,

Every one who has followed Wall
Street affairs at all during the past year
or two is familiar with the Juror in
speculative circles whenever 1t is sug-
gested that a popular stock is to be
split up meaning that two or more
shares of new are to be given for each
share of old. Somehow or other traders
believe, or act as if they believed, that
giving of two pieces of paper for one
gave them something that they did not
have before
Now comes Transcontinental Oil with
a proposition exactly the reverse of a
split-up. Instead of giving two new
shares for one Old it asks the STOCKHOLM
ers to surrender two old shares for one
new. The result will be that the in
weston who now has 100 shares of Trans
continental Oil will, under the new set
up, have so shares. DiSregarding for
the moment the reasons for this step
ana supposing, for the sake of argu-
ment, that there are no other changes
In the form of capitalization, each In
divldual stakeholder will have exactly
the same equity in the company after
he has turned in his old stock for his
new that he had before He will have
lost moth ng whatever, Just as the stock
holders in those other corporations
whose stock was split up gained moth
ing.
Simply for purpose of illustration: If
a company has 1000 shares of stock
outstanding and you hold 100 shares,
you own one-tenth of the company. If
nov the capitalization in common stock
Is cut in two, as is the plan in the case
OF Iranscontinental Oil, and the num-
per OF shares outstanding is reduced to
QUO, your holdings will have been re-
duced to so shares and you will still
own one-tenth of the company-no
more, no less. There are advantages in
split-up when the market price of a
stock goes so high that the small in
vestor hesitates to purchase it, but there
IS no increase in value. There are some
times good reasons why common stock
capitalization should be cut down, but
mere Is ON that account alone no de-
crease in value.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
EXPECT FARM BOARD TO HALT
RAPID DROP IN WHEAT PRICES
Grain Traders Believe Next Move in
Situation Is Government Action.
Other Commodities Fall.

The situation in the dairy industry
has arisen in a field where cooperative
marketing has been carried to a rela-
lively high degree of organization. 1t
is result of the cry of recent years for
diversif1cation as solution for farm
ills. So many farmers have gone in for
dairying that they have glutted the
markets with products.
Farm Board Loss.
AS a result of it's activity in wheat
the Farm Board already has a STABLE
loss on its investment. The Farmers
National Grain Corporation and the
Sterilization Corporation, backed with
Government funds, have bought we'll
over 100000 bushels of wheat, ac-
cording to trade estimates. The price
paid averages well over 81 20 bushel
while at present levels this represents
a loss of about 10 cents bushel. The
board, through its agencies, was paying
its guaranteed price for grain from CO.
operatives on Monday, while values were
sinking rapidly.
In Canada the premiers of the three
western provinces are meeting to decide
to what extent the government should
back the Canadian wheat pool, which
already has suffered severe losses as a
result of advances made to farmers on
their 1929 crop. They hold hundreds
of millions of bushels for which there is
no market apparent at the moment.
Chairman Legge of the Farm Board
points out that farmers who have joined
a cooperative can sell their wheat at
profitable prices, no matter what the
conditions on the spot market, but with
most of last years crop marketed and a
new crop about to start growing, the
grain growers concern is over the
1880 situation, which the present fu-
lures largely represent. On that basis
the outlook is not bright.
(Copyright 1871
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26

Advances today in Liverpool wheat
quotations were ascribed here to late
upturns yesterday in Chicago and to
flrmness with which asking prices on
Argentine offerings to Europe were be-
ing maintained. However, evidence of
any special improvement in export de-
mand for wheat from North America
was lacking and bears were taking par
ticular notice of messages from Duluth
saying that the new regulations for OBJ
tanning prices equal to the Farm Board
loan basis were being enforced on wheat
arrivals from the country and were en-
tirely eliminating commission mer-
chants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
NEW YORK COTTON.

NEW YORK, February IS (P).-The
cotton market opened steady today at
an advance of S to 10 points on rela-
lively firm Liverpool cables and the
upturn in wheat. May sold up to l5.40.
At the end of the first half hour
trading was quiet and the market was
about steady at net advances of to Z
points on the active months, with May
selling around 1886.
Liverpool cables reported continental
buying and covering with shortage of
contracts in that market, but said that
business in cotton cloth for India was
restricted pending the announcement of
import duties and that yarns were IN
active with stocks increasing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
RUSSIA TO ERECT SIS
FOOD CANNING PLANTS

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, February 26.-Soviet
Russia plans to erect SIS food canning
factories at cost of nearly S35. 900 600
before 1888, according to semi-oficial
advices reaching this country from
British tin producers. The details of
the plans have been announced in Lon
don by M. Shostak. director of ARGOS,
who says that at first the tin plate to
be used in the factories will be bought
mainly in Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
NEW PLANT FINISHED.

Atlantic Coast Line officials at Tam
pa, Fla, announced completion Of a
new 100000 phosphate terminal at
Port Tampa. Coast Line has for years
operated the largest phosphate terminals
in the world at its Port Tampa term
inals and shipments via the port con-
stitute more than half of the total tom
mage out of Frodida. The Florida pro-
duction is estimated at approximately
30 per cent of the world total.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
Steel Outlook.

NEW YORK. February 26 (P.-James
j. Campbell, chairman of the Youngs-
town Sheet & Tube Co.. reports that
the steel industry is in better condition
than was anticipated after the market
crash. He believes business will con-
tinue to improve.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
TREASURY BALANCE.

The United States Treasury balance
announced today as of close of business,
February "a was SCI 1884, 259.95. Gus
toms receipts for the month to date
were $28, 701 ,848,19. Total ordinary ex-
penditureS, $7,198, 802.93.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC.
Nv the Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
Freight traffic on railways began to
increase with the middle of February.
the American Railway Association in
dlcated today in announcing the latest
totals OF car loadings. Figures which.
follow give the total of cars loaded with
revenue freight for the week and COM
parable periods on trunkline systems:
Week ending February Is. sci ,597 cars
preceding week .......... 886,581 cars
same week last year. -. 957,498 cars
same week 1928. ......... 888, $50 cars
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
SILVER QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK, February IS (P)-Bar
silver, 4212; Mexican dollars, 315s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26

BONDS.
BY the Associated Press.
From Yesterdays S 80 Edition.

I Total sales (par VaIue), S8,S97,UOO.
| Copyright. Standard Statistics Coz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
NEW YORK CURB MARKET s.:: n, ST.: ss

NOtice-An stocks are sold in share lots
excepting those designated by 65s (2S5s),
which shows those stocks to be sold odd only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26

u
Dividend dollars quarterly semi
annual
'Ex-dvdend Party extra tPlus extra PAYABLE in
ash stock Payable Payable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
FOREIGN BONDS.

WW--WIth Variants.
xw-Without warrants.
n-New.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-14
ART Will AID
c. BLACKBERRY

DALLAS. Feb. 14-tR-Modest Art
Shires. wonders what a sphinx Is
good for, was quoted by the Dallas
News today as saying he was going
to wear his fists out this coming
reason making George BLACKBERRY.
nome run slugger de lux, make good
with the Chisox.
Modc-t Art Is the Chicago Amer
lean league first baseman-when he
Is not under suspension and when
mis- contract Is signed-and Black
erby Is a rookie outfielder from the
Texas league who ambles all over
the outfield and bats as well as Art
talks.
Here Is the way the News quotes
Art as talking TO George here in
Dallas q few days ago:
The only difference between o
and a lot Of other fellows who are
drawing major league salaries is
that you are a better hitter than
they are, but they have the con-
fidence which you lack. You get the
idea that the pitchers in the majors
have an axe on you, and conse-
quently they have.
If you wete to have one day in
which you slammed one of these
pitchers for four out OF five, they
never would be able to get you out
again. And you r going e this
season, or I'll wear out my fists
trying to make you"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-14

night, next. presents a huge bath
room in which Winnie Lightner,
musical comedy and screen star,
sings. supported by Bull Montana
and a male chorus Of fifty. Ned
Washington, Michael Cleary, and
Herb Magidson OF Warner Bros.
song-writing staff are the compos-
ers Of "Singin' in the Bathtub"
with which the comedy Bull sere-
nadeS Winnie.
Others among the scores upon
scores Of stars Of footlights and
films who contribute to the man.
moth The Show of Shows are
John Barrymore. Dolores Costello.
Monte Blue, Beatrice Lille, Georges
Carpenter, Ted Lewis. Frank Fay,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-14

role OF an entertainer. first In n
small club. and later in q very
lavish one.
LLOYD Bacon directed She
Couldn't Say No" Chester Morris
is featured with Miss Lightner, and
Johnny Arthur. Tully Marshall and
Sally Eilers are the leading men,
bers Of the supporting cast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-14
ARCADIA HARLT,

The premier Valley showing Of
The Trespasser" at the Harrington
Arcadia Theatre Saturday midnight
srow offers local movie fans their
first opportunity Of hearing Gloria
Swanson presented for the first
time on the audible screen.
Miss Swanson reveals a stage
voice that is a boon to jaded crit
les. Her tones are rich and we'll
northumberland quite in keeping
with the role Of the lady OF refine
ment that she essays in The Tres
passer." Another revelation Is Miss
Swanson's soprano singing voice.
That she well might have succeeded
on the concert stage Is indi-
Gated in her singinL OF two
numbers that give Lyrical
heights to the feature. One Of the
pieces Is ToSselli's "Serenade," q
standard work. The other, Love"
was composed especially for Miss
Swanson by Elsie Janis, co-author
Of The Trespasser."
With a background laid in the
fashionable Lake Shore Drive dis
trict OF Chicago, this production
enables Miss Swanson to appear in
a role as millions of theatre-goers
love to e her-as the gorgeously-
gowned American lady.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-14
~RIvOLI-SAN BENTTO

Winnie Lightner's claim to the
title Of the female Al Jolson," Civ
en- her by her stage admirers in
New York, is firmly clinched in
pictures with her appearance here
at the Rivoli theatre, San Benito,
Sunday, in she Couldn't Say No."
a Warner Bros. and Vitaphone
production.
Jolson is noted for his lad lib
bing," his wisecrackS, his impromp-
tn comedy antics and his ability to
magnetic an audience through mis-
personality and songs.
That Miss Lightner can do the
same thing for her sex is shown in
this picture, which gives her the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-14

Irene Bordoni, Myrna 10y. Grant
Withers, Noah Berry end Betty
Compson. Over five hundred are
in the ensembles.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-14
QUEEN

QUEEN
Rex ingram smashes precedent
with his production Of The Three
Passions" showing at the Queen to-
day and tomorrow, acclaimed by
many good judges as by far the
best picture Ingram has made in
Europe.
1t is the first picture Ingram, ia
nous for The Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse" "Scaramouche,'
and The Garden OF Allah" and as
the man who discovered Rudolph
Valentino. Alice Terry. Ramon No
varro. Barbara La Mari and Ivan
Petrovitch, has made for a British
company. The unit responsible for
The Three Passions is st.
Georges Productions. Ltd. Capt.
Alastair Macintosh, managing di-
rector.
THE Three Passions is also In
grams first United Artists picture.
CAPITOL
The widespread custom OF giving
vent 10 operate spasms in ones
bathtub is such a universal pas
time that a song has been written
about it.
One of the most uproarious num-
bers in SHOW Of Shows" Warner
Brothers Vitaphone super-revue N
technicolor which comes to the
Capitol Theatre Sunday, opening
with a midnite matinee Saturday
The Washington times., 1930-08-05
.l.~e I12As5
! At Resort

The Minister of Guatemala
and Nine. Adrian Recinos are
spending short while in At
lantiC City, where they are
staying at the Ambassador.
Irving w. Bucklin has left for
Chicago, where he will be pre-
sented in a special series OF
radio broadcasts over a period
of 10 days, starting August y,
from station VIGIL.
At the conclusion of this en-
gagement he will pass some
time in Colorado Springs as
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. I.
A. Greene before returning to
washington in the fall.
Capt. M. A. McFadden, A.
c., u. S. A., has arrived in.
washington from Maxwell
Field, Montgomery, Ala, ac-
colnpanied by Lieut.. J. W..
Persons and Mai. w. r. Weaver,
and is stopping at the Carlton.
MRS. Lindsay Russell, Of
washington, is sat the Carlton
for D few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Hamil-
ton, of washington, are at the
Carlton for several days.
The Washington times., 1930-08-05
Betroth hal Is
Announced
In n. Y.

A romance of international
interest is that of Miss Caro-
line Ryan and Ronald Lambart
Basset whose engagement was
announced yesterday by Mrs.
,Clendenin j. Ryan, of New
York, mother of the bride-to-be.
f Mr.. Basset is the son of Mr.
! and Mrs. Arthur F. Eton, and
served in the World War with
the Eton Brigade.
While the engagement is Of
great interest in New York and
London it is no less interesting
in washington where the family
of Miss Ryan Is well known.
She is a granddaughter Of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas For
tune Ryan and one of the heir
esses of the vast fortune left
by the former.
She attended the Foxcroft
School in nearby Virginia and
later was student at Mile.
Mousseux' in Paris. She was
presented to society by her
mother in New York in 1928.
Mi. and Mrs. Clendenin Ryan
are at present occupying Coop
ers Neck Lane residence of Mrs.
Frederick Martin Davies at
I Southampton. Miss Ryan is
with them.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
H. 4
Miss Helen Foster. of Wake
field. Mass, is at the Carlton
for a few days.
The Washington times., 1930-08-05

NEW YORK. Aug. 5.Years
$50 you-or rather your mother
might have thought 1t took
lot cf courage to buy q fall dress
III august.
BUT today it would take q lot
Of courage not to buy one.-.
when there are such lovely, new,
different. becoming. individual
land AL the other superlative
adjectives in The dictionary
! dresses is there are for this faIl.
OF course, women give q lot Of
thought to this first fan dress.
II isn't something to choose
hastily. Because while they
want d real new fan model, they
also want something they can
wear right now. Get ahead OF
the rest.
That's why so many women
are choosing q dress, with
bolero treatment for their first
fall appearance.
It's q dress that looks we'll
without q coat. And that's the
way they're going to wear it for
the first few weeks.
N@vv TP@akpMAAka
Noof course. we know the
boIero idea isn't new. But
things don't have to be new 70
be in fashion. And. there are
new ways Of treating this bolero
that everybody likes 50 well.
And that mark q. dress unmiS-
takably falI 1880.
It may be draped and tied
In the front. It may have a
lingerie frill to set 1t off. 1t
may be made Of intricately cut
and scanned bands. which
give the bolero effect, rather
than an actual bolero. It may
be just q little ruffle where the
edge of the bolero would nat
urally come. It may give the
effect Of fastening with q but
ton-like the dress we've had
sketched.
1t all depends on the type
which you choose. You want 1t
The Washington times., 1930-08-05
Scotch Moors
Lure Sport
DeVOteeS

Mr.. and Mrs. Axel Wichfeld,
who now make their headquar-
ters in Paris, are leaving the
French capital on August 10 to
60 to Scotland for the shoot
ing.
Mrs. Wichfeld, who before
marriage was Mrs. Clarence
Moore, of Washington. widow Of
the late Clarance Moore, who
lost his life in the Titanic
disaster. She was born Mabel
Swift, Of the famous Chicago
family.
Following their custom M.
and Mrs. Wichfeld will take for
the shooting season the famous
Blair Castle. owned by the
Duke of Atholl, and one Of the
most historic spots in Inverness
Shire.
The old castle was stormed
in 1643 by Cromwell and was
occupied by Bonnie Prince
Charlie just before the Battle
of Culloden. The Duke Of
Altholl is the only British sub
ject permitted to keep q stand.
ing army. and there during the
second week in September he
heads q picturesque gathering
of highland clans.
Not far away another Amer
ican chatalaine will do the
honors at an ancient Scottish
castle during the season. The
lady, formerly Mrs. James Mac
Donald, Of Cincinnati and
washington, IS now the March
ionesS Of Huntley, wife Of the
premier marques of Scotland
Huntley Arms is. always tho
gathering place for q group Of
devotees of the sport during
the grouse and pheasant season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aksel Nystedt,
of Rjnkan, Norway, have been
at the Dodge Hotel for several
days accompanied by the Rev.
and Mrs. David Segerstrom, Of
Arlington, Mass.
The Washington times., 1930-08-05
Mrs. Elliott Will
Sail for Greece
On August Is

Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott will
sail on August Is on the Sat
urnia for Athens, Greece. Mrs.
Elliott, as a guest of honor, is
accompanying the pilgrimage to
Athens being made by the
George Wilboh Post 697, Amcri-
can Legion. of New York. She
is going to Greece to be present
at the dedication by the Greek
government of a memorial bust
of her father, DIR. Samuel Grid
le.' Howe, who was one Of the
Americans who a hundred years
ago helped materially in the
winning Of Greek independence.
BuSts of Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster and Edward Everett
win be unveiled at the same
time.
Mrs. Elliott expects to be gone
only q month. She is particu-
larly anxious to be back in New
port before the races for the
Americas Cup are ended.
II II -
Mrs. Samuel e. Foreman has
returned from Paducah, KY.
after a visit of several weeks
and will entertain at dinner
for a few friends tomorrow
evening at the Mayflower.
She is leaving Sunday for
Saratoga Springs for the races.
At Bar HarbOr
DR.. and Mrs. Stanley P.
Woodard have left the Plaza,
New York, to pass the re-
manned OF the summer at the
Malvern, Bar Harhor.
Mrs. z. H. Jennings, jr., Of
Pittsburgh, is at the Dodge
Hotel, accompanied by her
daughter, Miss Jane Jennings.
Mrs. C. e. Saul, of Fort
Wayne, Ind. is, a guest at the
Dodge Hotel with Mrs. N. B.
Ormsby, Of Natchez, Miss.
se Married
Miss Mabel Carmichael, the
daughter of Mrs. Donald Car
michael of New Haven, was
married Saturday afternoon at
4 at Greyrock, Branford, the
summer home of her mother,
to DR.. II. Houston Merritt, jr.,
of Boston, the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. Houston Merritt of
washington, NJ. G. The cere-
rnony was performed by the
Rev. j. d. Prigmore of Centre
Church, New Haven.
Given in marriage by her
brother-in-law, John Menzie Of
New Haven. Miss Carmichael
had as her only attendant
Miss Harriet Hughes Of New
York. DR.. William r. Wilson
of New Haven was DR.. Merritt's
best man. A reception followed
the ceremony.
Following a wedding trip DR..
and Mrs. Merritt viii sail on
August 30 for Germany. They
viii pass q year in Munich.