Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1924, Page 11

TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1924- Saturation In Long Way Off at This Time By J. C. ROYLE (Coypright, 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, March 24.—The au- tomobile industry has been sur- rounded during the last few days by a ewirling flood of rumors regard- ing the possibility that overproduc- tion was taking place, that factory curtailment’ were in prospect, and that the market was approaching saturation. A careful survey of con- ditions, however, failed to show that these rumors have a solid basis. At least they have failed to tmpress executives of leading manufacturing companies. Officials of the Ford company simply laugh at the reports and in answer to them, quote figures showing that Ford dealers are tak- ing cars as fast as fac! can turn them out. Genoral Motors executives take al- most the same position. They look upon a check to demand as merely temporary and refuse to take alarm. The big Willys-Overiand plant at Toledo and the huge Studebaker company are running a’ eapacity and in both cases the com- panies have a greater volume of un- filled orders on thelr books today than they had at this time last year. General Motors sold more than 80,000 cars in February compared ‘with 60,959 in January and 65,427 fm February, 1923. Freight bills for tmeoming materials for the subsi- @laries of the big company are run- /ping even heavier than for last Year when the Olds Motor works alone pald out to the railroads $423,- 000 for freight on raw and semi- fintshed materials. _ Distributors, in expressing their ‘views of the situation, explain that automobiles do not move from deal- ers to the public in the same vol- ume in cold weather that is reached in mild weather. Dealers- undoubt- edly have large stocks on hand, but this is a condition which they hhaye always desired in March. In- they have complained bitterly im previous years when stocks were Small at this time of the year, “ * If March had been mild instead of Market Gossip Motor World cold the cars would have moved fast enough into the hands of the pub- lic. Distributors declare it is sim- ply a case where dealers will have to keep their money invested in cars until spring arrives. Overproduction ts a piling up af- fair, no manufacturer can achieve it in a month. If there was no over- Production in February, manufac- turers take the stand that over- production cannot have been achiev- ed in the last three weeks. It is possible, some state that the cur- rent rate of production may be too high to be extended over the entire year but that still remains to be proved. At least, reports of other in- dustries show no signs of slack- ening or of a general overproduc- tion of goods, nor do they show any signs of a drop in the potential Power of the public to consume the goods. The president of one of the large automobile companies said today: “Our field investigation in the last 48 hours have satisfied us that while investigations Washington may have excited the stock market it is not going to prevent people who want automobiles from buying thein.” B. 8. Jordan of Cleveland, prest- dent of the Jordan Motor Car com- pany says there will be no infla- tion of business this year. He be- Hevés that the number of cars bullt Will be under 5,000,000 and basis this assertion on the fact that he ex- pects dealers to have difficulty in handling second-hand cars rather than on the inability or lack of de- sire of the public to absorb new machines. Some auto accessories manufacturers in the Cleveland dis- trict are findiug it necessary toe add to their plant capacity. Industrial employment in Detroit, which gives an accurate reflection of activity in automobile manufac- ture has risen to a total of 241,263. This compares with 218,260 for the corresponding week of last year and with a high point for all time of 242,- 331 reached February 2, this year. and Briefs On Operations in Oil Fields Petroleu:.: Club Meeting « Regular meeting of the Wyoming Petroleum club will be held this evening at the county court house, beginning at 8 o'clock. Those to ad- the meeting are R. W. Loucks of the Carter Oll company. His sub- Ject will be ‘Production Problems.” #0. Simmons will speak on the uses of 3-in-1 water softener and purifier for ofl field boilers. © There will probably be a third speaker on the program, Warning Is Issued That owners of land in Platte county thought to be valuable for ol! or gas refuse to tie up leases with other than big of] compantes, is the advice issued in Wheatland. It is suggested at the same time that no Fespo. sible company wishes to de- velop purely wildcat territory on checker-boarded land, but must com- Plete contro] of structures. Diamond Drill Test Arrangements have been made by the Wyotah Oil and Gas company for a diamond drill test of its acre- age in the Piney La Barge field in southwestern Wyoming. ‘This test is slated for sec, 34-27-113. OMl Conservation Secrets The ingenious method Lord Bear- sted adopted during the European ‘war with regard to the conservation of Sarawak distillates has been _al- lowed to remain secret until the Present week. It has considerable significance to the petroleum indus- sty generally, During 1916, tt will be remembered the cry went up for more quid fuel for admiralty pur- poses, and the Sarawak fields sup- quantitios, But this led LOWELL, Mass., March 25.—The > sachusetts cotton mills here to- @ay are on a three day a weok Schedule after having operated for a /month at four days a week. Potatoes PORTLAND, March 25.—Several carloads of Burbank potatoes have recently been sold here at $2 per hundred weight net to growers, There is scramble for burbanks, ‘with California leading the demand. There is interest in number 2 stock and commercials also, with the latter quoted at $1.70 to $1.75 and the for- mer at $1.60 to $1.65. Livestock AUSTIN, Tex., March 25,—The condition of the ranges in this state 4s unusually high, experts placing it at 91 per cent. Cattle are estimated 90 per cent and sheep at 98. Fur | 8T. PAUL, March 25.—The vol- of fur business last year jounted to $8,000,000. The As- oclated Retail Fur Dealers an hounce that the trade has grown 00 per cent in six years. Steel CLEVELAND, March 25,— Ac- vity in the stec] industry has made Jarge hole in the ore on hand, to an abnormal state of affairs on the fields themselves, for’ while liquid fuel supplies were vital there Were little or no facilities available either for storing the distillates,.or shipping them abroad. It was in these circumstances that Lord Bearsted got to work, and Sarawak was advised to return the distillates to certain wells which Were. known to have almost become exhausted of their oil contents; No less than 300,000 tons of distillate Were pumped back into wells, and two or thre years later, when normal conditions returned, Practically one half the total quantity was recover- ed in the form of a light crude oil, while much of the remainder migrat- ed to other oll horizons and rendered the crude ofl of a lighter character. This method of conservation was Particularly -brainy, and stands out in contrast to the old-time procedure of burning the light products on the Gelds, In Black Shale. Entering a stratum of soft black shale at a depth of 4,282 feet, the Billy Creek test being drilled in Johnson county is: now down 4,254 feet. Progress is now much more rapid due to the softness of forma- tion. A_week ago it Was. thought that the Muddy sand would be en- countered at close to 4,230 feet. No new estimate on objective depth has yet been set. Baxter Drilling Resumed. After a shutdown of some dura- tion work has been resumed on the deep test of Baxter Basin being drilled by the Midwest Refining company. The hole is being under- Trade News Nearly 4,467,000 tons were consum- ed last month and stocks on hand total nearly 1,009,000 tons less than @ year ago. CHICAGO, March 25.—Scrap tron prices have suffered another price drop of fifty cents a ton for nearly oll «grades here. Youngstown, March 25.—Sheet mill operation in this district has been increased by putting tn opera- tion six units of Thomas Steel at Niles. The plant had been {dle 16 months, ‘S. March 25.— The United Railways company has asked permission of the federal courts to build 100 cars at a cost of $1,050,000, SHREVEPORT, March The Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific railway has purchased 400 freight ore for immediate delivery at a cost of $1,250,000. Oil TULSA, March 25,—The Redbank Oll company has brought in a 4,000 barrel well. The company last week paid $220,000 for a lease in the Paw- huska Indian sale. —_.—____. The length of the course over which the great English Derby in run is one mile, four furiones and twenty-six yards, New York Stocks Last Sale =— 108% American Car and Foundry ~ 159% American International Corp. 18% American Locomotive --.... 12 American Smelting and Refg 69 American Sugar --.--.--.... 50% 128% SsAnacon(a Copper --—... Anaconda Copper Atl, Gulf and W, Indies .... Baldwin Locomotive --..... Baltimore and Ohio ---.—.. Bethlehem Steel ~~... California Petroleum Canadian Pacific Central Leather — Cerro de Pasco Copper -..-.. Chandler Motars -..._.. Chesapeake and Ohio -.. Chicago and Northwestern -_ Chicago, Mil, & St. Paul pfa — Chicago, R. I. and Pac. -.--. Chile Copper Chino Copper Consolidated Gas Corn Products .. Cosden Ol Crucible Steel -..-.....-. Cuba Cane Sugar pfd. -—-. Erie — Famouns Players Lasky —- General Asphalt -—._.. General Electrio General Motors ---_.. Great Northern pfd ~~. Gulf States Steel -—-—.... Illinois Central Inspiration Capper International Harvester ex dt Int. Mer, Marine pfa ------ International Paper — Invincible Oil _-------- Kelly Springfield Tire ---_ Kennecott Copper -. Limo Locomotive —2----2-~--V----§ Louisville and Nashville --. Mack” Truck Marland Oi] -..----—-----.. Maxwell Motors ---------.— Middle States Oi! -.-.----. Misrourl Kan. & Tex new-. Missourt Pacific pfd. -------~ New York Centra] -...—-.-— N. Y., N. H. and Hartford Norfolk and Western Northern Pacific Pacific Otl — Pan American Petroleum B ~~ Pennsylvania = Pecple’s Gas ~—.-.---------. Producers and Refiners ----s Pure Ot} ~.-.. od Republic Iron and Steel --- Republic Iron and Steel --_ Sears Roebuck ~--------—--_ Sinclair Con Of] -2------ Southern Pacifica Southern Railway -----. Standard Oil of N. J. ---—-- Studebaker Corporation .~-_ Texas Co, -- wceenk 5. Texas and Pacific ----—--- Tobacco Products A -----—- Transcontinental Ol] ---~--.. Union Pacific -.--..-------— U. 6. Ind. Alcohol -.-—--. United States Rubber ---- United States Stee] ---—-._ Utah ie Westinghouse Electric -.-... Willys Overland —------ American Zinc, Lead and Sm Butte and Superior ~~~... Colorado Fuel and Iron ~~~. Montana Power Nationa! Lead eee Asked Angio - 17% Buckeye Continental Cumberland Galena 18% 70% 46 a7 oe a ER N. Y¥. Tran --------- Nor. Pipe Ohio Ol! ~..--..------- 7 Pratriq Of] —--------— 234% 237% Prairie Pipe --.---— 104% 105 Solar Ref. 205 Sou. Pip 93 43 110 240 42% 326 63% 159 CRUDE MARKET Cat Creek <-20----enee-e--o--- $1.95 Lance Creek -. Osage ~~~ Grass Creek light ~---~-----.. Grass Creek, heavy ---..--.-_ Torchlight en- ===: (OR ge ae Elk Basin ~--..--.-... Rock Creek Salt Creek -. Big Muddy Mule Creek -.. Sunburst Hamilton Dome ---------.--- Ferris . .-. Byron - Notches Pilot Butte Lander Butter and Eggs CHICAGO, March 25,—Butter low- er creamery extras 4414;c standards 43;c extra firsts 48@44c; firsts 42@ 42% ic seconds 41@41%c. Eges higher; receipts 27,505 cases; firsts 21% @21%c; ordinary firsts 20 @20%sc; storage pack extras 24c; storage pack firsts 23 %c. The metric system of measure- ments will be used by the Olympic committee for all distan in the ,®ames at Paris this summer, Che Stocks Blackstone Salt Creek Chappell Columbine Central Cow Gulen -. Consolidated Domino Elkhorn Kinney Coasta! .. Lance Creek Royalt Marine -.-.. Mike Henry Mountain & Gulf New York Oi! Picardy -. Preston Royalty and Producers Sunset Tom Bell Royalty --- Wyo. Kans ..--..-. .75 Western Exploration. 3.55 Western States - 2° | ee NEW YORK CURB Bild 17.75 33 00 8.25 11.50 32.00 35.12 11.75 60.75 Asked | Mountain Producers 18.00 | Glenrock Of Salt Creek Prds 2 Salt Creek Cons, New York Oil Prod. and Refrs. Cosden Mutual 8. 0. Indiana .. LIVESTOCK Chicago Prices CHICAGO, March 24.—(U. 8. De- partment)—Hogs — Recetpts 33,000; Uneven, lightweight mostly 10¢ low- er than yesterda weight 10 to 15c lower than time or 10c under averag terests buying; bulk good and choice 160 to 240 pound averages $7.45@ $7.50; limited showing top at $7.5) bull desirable 160 to 235 pound but- chers $7.30@$7.40; better grades 140 to 150 pound weight largely $7.25@ $7.45; bulk packing sows $6.60@ $6.75; bulk desirable strong weight Killing piss heavy: weight hogs medium $7.25 @$7.50; ight 5 @ $7.55; light ight $6.600$7.50; packing sows smooth $6.70@$6.85; packing sows rough $6.55@6.70; slaughter pigs $5.50@ $7.10. Cattle—Receipts $11,001 slow; quality generally plain: early trad: ing around steady with Monday's close; best matured steers averaging 1450 pounds $12.10; yeaitings $11.75; few steers or yearlings in run eligi- ble to sell above $19.00; canners and cutters slow, weak; bulk §$2.85@ $3.75; bulls around 10 lower: few strong weight bolognas above $4.75; bulk desirable vealers to packers $9.00@$10.00; stockers and feeders around steady. Sheep—Recelpts $12,000; slow; few early sales fat wooled lambs 15 to 25c lower; sheep steady; feeding and shearing lambs mostly 25c lower; early sales fat wooled lambs $15.75 $16.00; one load to shippers $15.40; few odd ylots fat ewes $11.25; best Kilirig lambs $ ; , March Department of receipts, 2 OMAHA, Neb. 23—Ww. 8, Agriculture).—Hogs 000; medium and strong welght butchers. mostly 10c lower: Ught hogs steady; bulk 210 to 100 pound butchers $%.10@7.20; top nt $7.20; desirable 1*£° ‘» 210 pound weights $6.75@7.10; packing sows $6.35@6.40; average cost yesterday $7.16; weight 240, Cattle—Receipts 8,800: moderate. ly abctive; beef steers and yearlings generally steady; spots weak to 100 lowe killing quality plain; top steers $10.70; bulk beef steers and yearlings $8@9. shipping cows and heifers strong to 10@15c high- er; others steady; other killing classes. stockers and feeders steady; bulk butcher cows an@ heifers $4.85 @7.25;'canners and cutters $2.50@ vealers to packers $9@9.59 bologna. bulls $4.25@4.50; bulk stockers. and feeders $6,75@ 7.75. Sheep—Receipts 8,500; slow: early sales wooled lambs $15.75@15.85; 15c to 2c lower; clipped lambs slow, about steady; few head native springers $17; sheep scarce, short deck ewes $10:25; seatdy; shearing lambs «trong: three loads §3 pound Denyer Prices DENVER, Cole., March 2 Department of Agriculture). Receipts 3,300; few opening sa steady; late sales mostly 10 to 1 lower; top, $' ; Some held higher; bulk, medium to choice, pound averages, ing sows most 5.75; 120 to 149 pound kind strong to 10¢ higher. Cattle—Receipts 1,450; steers $8.50; good grades heifers around $9.25; no desirable hetfers offered; best cows $6.60, averaging 1,150 pounds; medium to fairly good heifers, $5.50@6.00; choice vealers, mostly $11.50; three loads yearling and two years olds, $8.00. Sheep—Receipts 8,500; slow, few sales fat lambs, steady to 10c high- er; few sales $14.75@15.00; sheep searce; no feeder lambs sold early; late yesterday one load 70 pound feeder lambs, $14.90. SILVER NEW YORK, March 25.— teady $6.00@6.10 medium | bled Casper Daily Cribune OTOGK PRICES FORCED LOWER} ON TOBOGEAN), Dividend Passing and Call- ing of Loans Cause Decline NEW YORK, March 25.— Omis- ston of the extra dividend on Amer- {ean Can “and the calling of loans, which sent call money from 3% to per cent was used as excuses by bear traders’ for another attack on today's stock market. Prices crum- throughout the list, nearly fifty tssues touching new low rec- ords for the year. Sales approxi- mated 1,050.00 shares. NEW YORK, March 25.—Con- siderable irregularity developed in Prices at the opening of to- mar! with losses pre. dominating in a list of small frac- tional changes. Motor shares gen- erally continued under selling pres- sure, although Studebaker advanced fractionally. A number of the oils also lost ground. Heavy buying of American Can brought abou short covering and imparted a somewhat firmer tone to the market. Its advance of more than a point was accompanied by ilar gains in other speculative ts. including Central Leath Davison Chemical and U. 8. Rubber St preferred. Studebaker extend ed its gain to a point and General Electric resumed its upward move- ling of Austin Nichols drove that stock down almost a point to a new low at 21%. Foreign ex- 1anges opened steady. Omission of the extra dividend on American Can brought a flood of selling orders in that stock and other speculative industrials, giv- ng the entire market a decidedly reactionary tone. Nearly 100,000 shares of American Can changed hands before noon, the stock ad- vancing about a point on short cov- ering in the early trading and then y's .| breaking nearly 3 points below yes- terday’s close to 110% Baldwin was hammered down 2% to 1.18%, a new low, and new bottom prices also were established by Texas Gulf Sulphur, American Sumatra To- bacco common and preferred, and Stewart Warner Speedometer, the net losses ranging from 1 to 3 points. Rails also turned heavy, Lackawanna dropping 2% and Union Pacific, Wabash preferred A and Atlantic Coast Line about a point each. Call money opened at 3% per cent. Many shares declined prectpitate- ‘y under the increased volume of of- ferings thrown on the market after midday. merican Tobacco and the B stock, Woolworth, General Elec- tric, National Lead, Stewart War- ner ¢:opped 4 to 6 points. Baldwin got down to 117% and American Can to 1.09. Studebaker, Mack Truck, Chandler and Bethlehem, Republic and Crucible Stesls were among the many important issues which touched new minimum prices for the current decline, The closing was weak. Short cov- ering pulled up some of the leaders slightly in the final hour but lqul- dation of the tobaccos increased, American Tobacco falling 7% points. Sn METALS NEW YORK, March 25.—Copper easy; electrolytic, spot and futures 13% @13%. Tin easy. Spot and nearby 5250; futures $50.62, Iron steady; prices unchanged. Lead steady; spot $9.00. Zinc steady; spot and futures $6.37@$6.40. Antimony spot $12.00. Foreign Exchange " NEW YORK, March 25.—Foreign exchanges irregular. Quotations In cents: Great Britain demand 429%; cables, 429%; 60-day bills on banks, 426%. France, demand, 7; cables, 6.88. Italy, demand, cables, 4.31%. Belgium, de- mand, 4.26; cables, 4.27. Germany, demand per trillion, .22. Holland demand, 36.92; 13.67; Sweden, Denmark, 15.81, Switzerland, Spain, 12.98; Groece, 1.72; Poland, .000012; Czech Slovakia, 2.90%; Jugo Slavia, 1.23%; Austria, .0014%; Rumania, .52%; Argentina, 33.75; Brazil, 11.25; Tokio, demand, 41%; Montreal, 97 15-32. MONEY ‘EW YORK, March 25. — Call money stronger; high 5; low 314; ruling rate 3%; closing bid 5; of- fered at 5%; last loan 5; call loans against acceptances 3%; time loans steady; mixed collateral, 60-90 days 4%4; 46 months 4%: Price commer- cial paper 414@4%. SUGAR NEW YORK, March 25,—Refined Sugar continued quiet and prices were unchanged at $8.40 to $8.60 for fine granulated. Refined futures were nominal. rway, Sugar futures proximate sales 3 $5.08; July $5.15; October $5.12; closed 900 firm; tons. ap- May ; September $5.15; December $4.61. COTTON NEW YORK, March 25,—Cotton ver 63%; Mexican dollars, 48% spot quiet; Middling $27.35, New Low Price. Record for Year Set In Chicago Trading CHICAGO, March 25. — Fresh Nquidation forced the wheat market down today to new low record prices for the season. The decline brought into action numerous standing or- ders to sell at certain limits, and this elrcumstance accentuated the weak ness. Some traders, however, who of Inte have been especially bearish turned to the buying side of the market and brought about a sub- stantial rally. The opening, which ranged from %e to le lower, with May 103 to 102%, and July 103% to 104, was followed by a little further setback and then by an upturn which in some cases touched yester- day's closing figures. Subsequently, increased selling pressure carried the market lower than before. Prices rallied some- what, however, after all deliveries had again broken the season's low price record. The close was un- settled, % to %e net lower, May $1.01% to $1.01% @$1.02 and July $1.03%. Corn and oats showed stuborn resistance to selling pressure, After opening unchanged to %c off May 77% to T7%c, the corn market under. went a slight additional sag and then scored moderate gains all around. Another sethack ensued, but once more the market took an upturn. The close was firm at the same yoxtenanys fintsh to %4o higher, May Oats started % to %4o down, May 46% to 46%c, but soon reacted to slightly above yesterday's finish. Provisions were easier in line with the hog market. Chicago, March 25. 2 ‘Wheat: Open High Low Close May 1.02 1.02% 1.01% 101% July 1.08% 1.04% 1.03 1.03% 1.0445 1.05 1.03% 1.04 17% 78% 78% 78% 79% 19% “17 48% 78% ATH 4B% AMM Aly 46% 44% Aly 10.92 10.97 11.22 9.47 9.82 10.35 10,70 Cost Grains and Provisions CHICAGO, March 25.—Number 2 hard wheat $1,04@$1.06; number 3 hard $1.06. Corn number 3 mixed 75% @76%c; number 2 yellow 80c. Oats number 2 white 48140; number 8 white 46% @47%c,. Rye no sales. Barley no sales, Timothy seed $5.50 @38.00. Clover sed $16.50@$23.50. Lard $10.85. Ribs $9.37. Bellies $10.25. POTATOES — CHICAGO, March 25.—Potatoes about steady; receipt 63 cars; total U. 8. shipments 692; Wisconsin sack- ed round white $1.20@1.30; Min- nesota and North Dakota sacked Red river Ohios $1.30@$1.40. Idaho sacked Russets number 1, $2,80@ $2.90. LIBERTY BONDS NEW YORK, March 25,—Liberty bonds closed: 3% $98.24; first 4%s $99.21; second 44s $99.17; third 445 $99.17; third 4%s $100.2; fourth 4\s $99.19; U. 8. Government 4\s $100.13. fo ak Wyoming Oils. NEW YORK, March 25, of Wyoming oils at 2 p. m. today were listed on the New York curb as follows: Standard Of! Indiana, 60%; Moun- tein Producers, 18; Mutual, New York,, 12%; Omar, 63; Creek, Yee TEXAS FRAUD INVESTIGATION IS PROTESTED WASHINGTON, March 25.—Pro- testing at the manner in which the senate investigating into alleged land frauds in the Rio Grande valley is being conducted, Senator Hefling, Democrat, Alabama, author of the Investigation resolution, announced today he would carry the fight to the senate floor. Chief Postal Inspector Simmons was testifying and George Hill, at- torney for R. B. Creager, Republi- ‘can national committeeman from There were questions also by Chair- Texas, was examining the witness, man Moses. Senator Heflin protested against what he termed the “cross'cut saw arrangement the chair has with Mr. Hu” Chairman Moses denied that any such arrangement existe: Salt At forty years of age, Leon Mer- edith, the- English amateur cham- pion cyclist, succeeded in lowering the record he had established te years previously. FOREIGN. Czechostovak Rep., & etfs. ---— Danish Municipal $A Dominion of Canada, French Republic, Tis Japanese, 4s - Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdo mof Norway, Rep. of € 8s, 1246 . State of Queensland, U.K. of G. B. & L,b%s 37 Ralwi American Smelting, 5s ~ American Sugar 6s American Tel, col. . Anaconda Copper, 7s, Anaconda Copper, 6s, 1955 — At. T. & San. Fe., gen., 4 Baltimore and Ohio cv., Bethlehem Stee! con., Ca n cific deb., 4s --. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy re: Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul cv Chile Copper 6s Goodyear Tire, Great Northern 7 Montana Power Northern Pacifi Northwestern E Pacific Gas ant) Electric bs Penn. R. R. Gen. Sinclair Con Ol! co uthern Pacific cv.. Union Pacific first 49 -. u § Rubber 5 Power an tern Union tinghoure Blectric Wilson and Company ioas - BUSINESS BRIEFS CLE AND, March 25.—New tn- dustrial construction planned in this district this year will require expen- diture of over $18,000,000 according to a survey completed Monday. This does not include hotel construction or the program for expansion of electric power stations which will cost $30,000,000, ‘The majority of the work will be done by the steel compantes, GRAND RAPIDS, March 25.—Em- ployment here is on the increase. Eight industries each of which em- ploys 500 or more men, report a de- cided In ase in the number on pay- rolls since February 1, Demand for farm labor {s good but the supply is very Umited. ATLANTA, March 25.—Practical- ly every public utility company in this state showed higher net earn- inga in 1923 than in the previous year, according to official figures just compiled by the state public utilities commission. KANSAS CITY, March 25.—The matin offices of the National Fidelity Life Insurance company are being moved from Sioux City, Iowa, to this city. Police are searching for perpetrators of a bomb plot in Detrolt. Photo shows one of two coffee shops that were shattered by explosiver. DENVER, Colo,, March 25.—Un- fermented grape juice instead of the usual wine, will be used in the cele- bration next month of the Passover, by Temple Emmanuel, the largest Jewish synagogue in the city, ac cording to an announcement today by Rabbi W, 8. Freidman, At the same time, Rabbi Freldmah an- nounced that since prohibition he never hdd made application for sac- ramental wine, “Fermented wine is not essential to any religious ceremony," Dr. reidman announced and “in temple manuel we have long since sub: stituted grape juice for wine. While the prohibition law permits the use of sacramental wine, I have taken the position that {t is better to use unfermented grape juice than to take a chance of putting temptation Liquor Is Seized at Middleton Home The touch of “a wee bit of home” s given to the record of D. W. Wes" Middleton about 5 o'clock Jast night when police authorities raided his house at 306 uth Jackson street and went away with a 10- | gallon keg of liquor, two bottles of the same, one case of home brew and 17 empty whisky kegs, Middle | ton was down town at the time, Grape Juice to Replace Wine in Celebration of Passover at Synagogue in the way of any Individual,” So far as could be learned today none of the other churches tn the city have joined with the Temple Emmanuel in dispensing with sacramental wine and subétituting Brape juice. Rabbi C, H. Kauvar of Beth-Hame- drosh Synagogue, announced several weeks ago that as soon as the pasa- over was past he would participate in @ movement here to abolish traf. ficking in/ sacramental wines and would substitute grape juice for wine in all of his religious services, —————<—<—_—__ NEWS BRIEFS Daiias, Tex., March —Lieuten- ant General BE. W. Kirkpatrick, de- partmental commander of states west of the Mississippi of the Unit- ed Confederate veterans, died of pneumonia last night at Rincon, N. M., according to advices receiy- ed here today. WASHIN trict Att quested special sel in the oil ca him in E March don 25.—Dis- today re- government coun- Ds to ate with 's contempt ed with apd Sen