Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1925, Page 7

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1925 ee Oil :: Finance WOOL TRADE SHOWS _ HESITANT TREND IN WEEK JUST ENDING Testing Tim eFollowing Rapid Increase in Prices at Hand in Large Markets; Current Business is Small BOSTON, Jan. 28,—The Com: | The London sales are dragging mercial Bulletin will say: along in a very dull manner with “The wool markets of the world are in a somewhat hesitant frame of mind at the moment, the testing time for which many have looked forward, having arrived. It remains to be seen whether the strong sta- tistical position of wool or the r sistance of buyers, Gue to the pres- ent high price ievel, will prevail. Current business on Summer strect is .of minimum proportions, al- though the manufacturers are by no means disinterested in the cur- rent offerings. “The forelgn markets are fairly strong as. regards cross bred but somewhat vaccilating on Merinos, FIRE IN THE CENTRAL SCHOOL EXTINGUISHED WITHOUT DAMAGE HERE Fire, which at six o'clock Thurs- day evening threatened a serious conflagration at the Central school, was extinguished by prompt action by the janitor, Angus Morrison. Be- ing in the downtown district, the blaze attracted several hundred peo- ‘ple within a few minutgs but the fire’ was out before the arrival of the majority of them. Tho conflagration started in the waste paper chute and was noticed first by Morrison who was working on the top floor, He promptly turned on the hese, had his wife telephone for the fire department and had _the fire under control before the lat- ter could arrive. MONEY NEW YORK, Jan. 24,—Call mon- ey firmer: high 8; low 3; ruling rate 3; closing Did 3; offered at 3%; last loan~ 8; call loans against accept- ances 9%; time loans steady; mixed collateral 60:90 days 3%@3%; 4-6 @ Prime commercial heavy withdrawals of wools. London, still, however, world. Growers’ ers almost exclusively. goods by the America: pany are expected eit! months labor and raw materials. quest." EVENING SERVICES AT: ~ FIRST PRESBYTERIAN terest to the public, ity and Every Day Life." service, ber. are doing. of the churth, Miss Ji Edna jomas accompanist, will include fine musical numbers. eet For re Ai try Tribu: Downright Value! Smart SUITS Ata Bed-Rock Price *25 Downright value! That alone sums up this special offering! Woolens that are un- questionably good plus extremely careful tailoring plus styles that fit the fastidious or the conservative—there is VALUE at $25,00—Downright value! Let us prove it. 1 'ScottClothing Co. Where Best Costs Less 240 SOUTH CENTER ST. speculators is slightly the dearest market in the Little new is heard trom the west where the National Wool convention has been oc- cupying the thoughts of the grow- ‘Initial showings of heavywelght ‘Woolen com: ler February 8 or 9, with prices likely to show a five to 10 per cent advance over six go on the present cost of “Mohair is steady on Mmtted re- CHURGH ARE FEATURED For several weeks specia) atten. tlon will be given in the First Pros- byterian Tabernacle to the evening services, with programs of great in- Sunday, Jan. 25th the subject will be “Immortal- On Feb. ruary ist the elders of the church will conduct the service. Business men are especially invited to this On February 8 the West- minster Guild will have charge. The Gulld has a large membership of business girls and teachers and has much fine talent among their num- February 15 will be Ladies’ Ald night, with a fine program show ing what the women of the church This society has the largest membership of all the socle- ti Members will have part in the program. Febru- ary 22nd there will be a sacred mus- ical by the large choir directed by Mac Agnew, with Mra. All services*will begin at*7:30 p. my. and ee ee Bonds | New York Stocks | Lest fale Allis Chemical & Dye ~. 83 American Can --..--.-------- 164% Amerilan Car and Foundry -. 198 American Locomotive ...--~-- 115% American Smelting and Ref. . 99% American Sugar ~------------ 65 American Tel, and Tel. --.--~ 18346 American Tobacco ----------- Amorican Water Works ----. American Woolén -...-.----- Anaconda Gopper ------~----- Atchison .... nd Atl, Coast Line ~.-.-.----0-0- Baldwin Locomatife --------- Baltimore and Ohio -.------. Bethichem Steel — California Pet. -----------—-- Cafiadidn Pacific Chesapeake and Ohio -. Chicago and Northwestern -- Chicago, Mil. and St. Pau! pfd. Chicago, R. I. and Pac. 46% Chile Copper -. 36% Coca Cola -.-.. soeues 100m. Colorado Fuel --c.---eree---= 43% CONMUOUM warayrennennena--- 42 Consolidated Gas ----. 78% Gorn Products ----—------=-- 3947 Cosden Ol! ~~~. General Asphalt --...--~-. General Blectrio -.--—-. General Motors weneemwnnee THM Great Northern pfd, --------- 60 Gulf States Bteel --.-—------ 87% Houston Ol .-.. joavnce= 80% Hudgon Motora --------—---- 36 Illiriols Central ---------.---- 115% Int. Harvester .--------e---- 10914 Int. Mer, Marine pfd. --.----- 46% Kelly Springfield ~----------- 15% Kennecott’ Copper .-----0---- 55% LAhigh Valley -------<neer-- 76% Louisville and Nashville ~---- 107% Mack Truck wecewnnevenn-- 122% Marland Oil ecmrewnenes 44h Maxwell Motors A ----------- 7944 Mex, Seaboard Oil ‘.--.. 16% Mo,, Kan, and Texas Missour! Pacific pfd. -------- 78% Montgomery Ward. ---------- 52% National Biscuit ------------- 71) National Lead ~-------ee-n--- 161% New York Central ---..--. N. Y., N. H., and Hartford - Norfolk and Western - North American -. Northern Pacific .. Pacific Oll Pan. Am. P Pennsylvania Phila and Rdg. C. and I, --.- Phillips Pet. Pure Oil .-. Reading Rep. Iron and Steel - Reynolds Tobacco B St. Louls and Ban Fran. ------ Seaboard Air Line Sears Roebuck -.-. Binclair Con. ----res----eeer- Sloss Sheff Steel ...---—.--- ee Standard O11 of N, J. --. Stewart Warner ---.----. Studebaker Transcont. Ol ey Union Pacific United Drug --. U, &. Cast Iron Pipe Us 8, Ind Alcoho! ~~... U. 8 Rubber -. ‘Wabash pfd. A ..-.. Wertinghouse Electric --. Cumberland Eureka ~~ Gal. Bigs. Com, ----. Ba 60 Gal, Sig. Old pld. ------ M3 115 Gal. Sig, New pfd. --.. 102 105 Tilinois Pipe -- Indiana Pipe ~--0e~ 81 National Transit ~~ 23% New York Transit -.. 7m 74 Northern Pipe ~-------+ 8544 86 Ohio Ol ~---. International Pete . Penn, Mex. Prairie Ol -. Prairie Pipe Solur Refg. So. Pipe .,. So, Penn. Ol) ~~~. 8. W. Penn Ol! 8. O. N. Y. 8. 0. Ohio - 8. O. Ohio pta, Swan and Finch ,..., 26% 27 VACUUM ------eeenseve- 81% 51% Washington ----------- 30 33 256 8. O. Neb, --.-.~- oe CRUDE MARKET Big Mey semarereriws BUNDUTE orveg mrernenese-----= Hamilton Dome Ferris mid For results try a Classified ad. he Casper Daily Cridune Stocks Blackstono Salt Creek .15 Chappell -------. +05 Columbine -----.. 04 Central Pipe ---------~ 1.00 425 Consolidated Royalty-. 1:06 1.08 Cow Gulch Domingo Elkhorn E. T. Williams .. Gates Jupiter. Kinney Coastal .. Lance Creek Royalty. .00% .01% Mike Henry ~--------- 00% .01 Mountain and Gult 1.25 «1.40 Picardy —.. 0 03 Preston .. 01K 014 Red Bank . 28.00 30.00 Royalty and Producers .03 Sunset Tom Bell Royalty Western Exploration — 2.25 Western States ,--..-- .10 yon. 04 Mountain Producers -. 20,50 Glenrock Ot) - Salt Creek Prod. Salt Creek Cons, New York Oil - Mutual -... ‘S, O, Indiana . LIVESTOCK Omaha Quotations. OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 23,-—-(U,. Department —16,000; mostly steady bulk 200 to 250 pound butchers. $10.15@10,60; top $1065; desirable 160 to 210 pound weights $9.65@ 10.15; good 140 to 150 pound selec tons $9.35@9.60; packing sows $9.90 @10.00; bulk of al! sales $9.90@10.60; average cost Thursday $10.20; weight 215. Cattle—1,500; fed steers sind yearl- ings generally steady at $7.00@9.10; she stock and yeals steady; bulls slow; week; bulk butcher cows and helfers $4.25@7.00; practical veal top $10.00; bologna bulls $3.75@4.25; stockers and feeders scarce, nom! nally steady, Sheep—2,000; lambs steady to 10¢ higher; bule fed. westerns $17.50@ 17.75; top $18.00; sheep dull, ' fat ewes $7.50@9.85; no choice light ewen here;. feeders steady; flashy lambs to country upward to $17.50. AD land 8 IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE Introduced in Senate, Senate 13 (Gardner)—Relating to recording of brands. Stock Raising. Senate 14/(Fgwer)—Relating to re- demption of ‘real estate. Pubjic Lands, Senate 15 (Education committee)— Providing for the reading of the Bible in public schols, lucation, Senate 16 (Judiclary committec)— Relating to disposition of ofl and other mineral royalties arising from lease of school lands. Education. Senate 17 (Sibley)—Relating to the employment of children. Judiciary, S. J. M, 1 (Pree}—Memortalizing congress to make oll royalty provi- sion for financing tue Casper-Alcova ‘eclamation project. Federal rela- Hons. Senate 18 (Puble Institutions com- mittee)—Relating to duties of clerks of court. Public Institutions. Senate 19 (Mercer)—Relating to filing fees of domestic and foreign corporations, Corporations, , Senate 20 (Merchant)—Relating to standardization of prices of commod- tt’ Judictary. Senate 21 (Judiciary committee)— Relating to filing transcript of Juds- ment of district court. Judiciary, Senate 42 (Judiciary committee)— Relating to jolning of actions involv. 8. of Agriculture).—Hogs to strong; Ing statutory liens. Judfolary Tatroduced in House House 39 (Mines comm! Re lating to of mine foreman Committee of whole 40 (Platte delegation)—Re: appointment of registry ctions, (Blections committee}— Repealing direct primary law, Chan- ter 169, Wyoming compiled statutes, 1920, Elections. H. J, M: 1 (Brough)—Memortatiz- ing congress not to Increase postal rates. Committee of Whole. House 41 (Grier by request)—Re- lating to the bonding of firms and corporations en 1 in the collec tion of accounts. Corporations. Passed by House, House 34—Making an emergency appropriation for State Examiner's office. Ayes, 57; noes, 0. Senate 10—Relating to the state census. Ayes, 55; noes, 0. House Second Reading. House 19—Authorizing police jus- tices to issue search warrants, Killed by House. M. Hw. J. j.—Memorfalizing con- gress to refrain from inereasing postal ri Ipdefinitely postponed, House 21—Abolishing the office of constable. Indefinitely postponed. Passed by Senate. House 34—Making an emergency appropriation for the State Ixam!: ner's office. Aves, 18, noes, 0, r Senate 10-—Relating to the ate census, Ayes, £0; noes, 0 Signed by Governor. HH, ©. A. 2 (0. H. B, 84)—Making an emergency appropriation for the State Examiner's office. SILVER NEW YORK, Jan, 23.—Bar sii- ver 68%; Mexican dollars 62%. 'S AND QUOTATIONS B¥ LEASED OIL SECURITIES : Grain OILS STRONG . IN STOCK MART Week-End Profit. Taking Brings Decline in Many Other Issues NEW YORK, Jan 23.—Week, end Profit, taking and sporadic bear sell- ing halted the general upward move- ment of prices in today’s market, but not until after many Issues, in- cluding U. 8. Steel common, had at tain their highest prices in yea Olle were in good demand as a re- sult of widespread gasoline and crude oj] prices advanced. Total sales approximated 1,650,000 shares, Active buying of the railroad shares in anticipation of favorable director earnings statements, now beginning to drift in, featured Jatter Operations,, Chicago and Eastern Illinois preferred extended its gain to 3 points as‘repyrts that Pennsyl- vanin, Railroad fssues were also tn demand at rising prices, Atlantic Coast Line moving up 2% points. An upward movement in chemical stocks was led by Commerical §ol- ents A, which responded with a ris of,over 3 points on tho announce: ment that the company's 1924 earn- ings exceeded $1,000,000 contrasted with a deficit {n 1923. Pnited States Cast Iron Pipe reached a new reeord high price at $1.77%, up 7 points, Gatna of 2 to 3 points were scored by Davison Chemical, Jersey Central, , International Tiarvester, American Can and American Sugar, United Sta’ Steel foll back to 128%, and several other ptvota) in- dustrials were ehaded fractionally. Call money renewed at 3 per cent, Squeezing of the short Interest in American Sugar since the publica- tion of its financial statement, caus. ed a further rise to 68, a gain of 7%, with a later relapse to 65. A week ago it sold at 47%. United States Cast Iron Pipe went up 14% to 185, Jersey Central 8, Continental Insurance 4%, Worthing Pump, five and South Porto Rican Sugar, 4, Tho commercial Solvents shares dropped 8 to 9 points on realizing, Nash Motors 15 to 245, and Ameri: can Woolen 81%. The closing was trregular. Profit taking sales became more general in the late trading but bull- ish demonstrations continued in the oil shar Amerlean Woolen fell below 55 on unconfirmed rumors that, the preferred dividend was {n danger. Ee GASPER YOUTH CAUGHT WITH STOLEN AUTO Joweph Peste, North Casper youth, arrested last nicht by the sheriff's office white he was joyriding in an automobile belonging to Hal Curran, local attorney, is being held and grilled today to find out if he has had any connection with the two lo- cal grocery store robberies this week. Peete was caught last night a mile west of Evansville and {sa said to jave implicated Joseph Valdez in the ar theft, Valdez was arrented at a local dance hall a short time later and is also being held in connection with the robberies. Peete has been in trouble with the authorities before and is now out on ® parole from the district court, poaleke Bb Scndarbd es SUGAR NEW YORK, Jan. 23—No changes were reported in list prices of re- fined sugar which ranged from $6.10 to $6.25 for fine granulated, but some business was accepted below thése levels, Trading was light. Refined fu- tures were. nominal. ca SRS A SR Flour. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Jan. 28. —Flour 10 to 2c higher; family patents $9.90@10.10, Bran, $30.00@ 31,00. Globe WHEAT PRICES GORE GAINS Advance of Cent a Bushel Witnessed on Opening , Sales Today CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—Fresh record breaking high prices came quickly in the wheat market today, a jump of a cent a bushel being witnessed at the very outset. Overnight ad- vances in quotations at Liverpool and Buenos Aires, together with re- ports of immense Russian buying of flour at Bremen gave new strength to the market here and brought about active general buying, Au unusual proportion of the purchas- ing here, however, was in small lots, and this circumstance tended to arouse caution in some quarters heretofore friendly to the upward movement of values. The opening which varied from unchanged f! ures to Jo higher, May $1.934%@1.94 and July $1.70@1.70%, was followed by an all around rise which carried May to $1.04%. Subsequently, the market scored a sharp additional upturn, May reach- Ing $1.96. All deliverjes of wheat and rye as well went above any peak heretofore attained this season. Roalizing sales, though, led to a re- action at the last. Wheat closed un- settled at Kc net lower to lo gain, May $1.93%@1.94, and July $1.69% @1.70, Selling on the part of houses with country connections weakened the corn market. After opening un- changed to %o off. May $1.35%@ 1.85%, corn raflled a little, but then underwent a decided general set- back. . Oats traders took thelr cus from the action of corn. Starting un- changed to 4c up, May 62% @62%4c, the oats market soon declined to a moderate extent. Provisions held about steady, Notices of corn stitpments both from Iowa and Illinois increased, Corn closed nervous 2\c to 3\c net Open. High. Low. Close WHEAT— May .$1,03% $1.96 $1.93% July -.1.70 1.72% 1.69% Sept. % 1.5615 cORN— May -.1.85%4 1.85% 1,924 July --136% 1.36% 1.83% Sept, --1.56% 1.36% 134 OATS— 61% 61% 59 1.69% 1.73% 1.60% 1.55% 1.35 1.36 Jan, ---16.23 18,05 May .--16.60 16.50 RIBS— Jan. --. ~ May ---16,00 16.00 15.97 is YOUTHS HURL LIQUOR FROM AUTOMOBILE ON OFFICERS” APPROACH When traffic officers slipped up on a car driven by two youths still in their teens, Inst night at C and McKinley atreet, they expected to arrest them for driving with only one light. The car stopped, a crash of glass was heard and the offjcers assert one of he lads threw a gation jug. containing lHauor on the pavement. Both are being held on the more serious charge of violating the li- quor laws, Total arrests for traffic violations yesterday afternoon and vening amounted to 10, ee CHICAGO, Jan, 23.—Butter high er; creamery extras 3c; standards te; extra firsts 3603610; firsts 3442 @35 tac; seconds 32@33%c. Eggs higher; receipts 2 cases firsts 6444 @bbc; ordinary firsts 50@ refrigerator firsts 44@45c Circler Is Forced Down In Rough Sea Companion Plane Carries News of Dis- aster to Destroyer in Securing Aid for Helpless Crew By LOWELL THOMAS. Copyright, By the Chicago Tribune Clure Newspapers Syndicate) Anxious to catch up with Nelson and Harding, who had flown through to Iceland after death in the fog, Flight Commander Smith and Lieuts. Wade, Arnold and Ggden were From the appearance of the sky at day for flying, and at 9:18 the Chicago and Boston took off from Scapa Flow, taxied over the submerged banks of tho seup- pered German fleet, and amid the cranking the movie cameras, the shrill whistles of oteamers, and the cheers of the weather en Ork: ney fishermen, they finshed over Girkwall, and wero off for Iceland. “There was a stiff breezee on our tall and were were clipping it off at Newepapers Syndicate and the Mo their. miraculous escape from up early next morning. irkwall it was an ideal a hundred miles an hour,” said “Lea" Arnold, “Leigh always flaw at our right and kept the Boston a few yards astern, By turning our heads just the least bit we could k tab on Wado and Ogden. But about 11 o'clock I glanced around, and the Boston had vanish: ed, It had been there just a jno- ment before, Bo we looked around Livestock :: All Markets to’ the left and there we saw Leigh and ‘Hank’ turnring back,heading into the wind, and gliding for a landing on the ocean. “We, of course, turned tmmediate- ly, circled as close as we dared, and watched them land. In spite of a long swell and mountainous waves, Leigh brought her down perfectly. Tiying low to get their signals, we saw oil on the water and all over the plane. Seek Help for. Wade. “Leigh signaled frantically for us not to land. Because of the swell ho figured that 1f we came down beside him we would never get off again, and then we would both be help: less in the middle of the ocean. But we didyhate to leave them sitting out thePo in that remote part of the North Atlantic. However, after circling around a time or two we headed off on our course and flew with the throttle wide open. The nearest destroyer was the Billings by. But she was hundred miles away, near the Faroe islands “As we passed over the Faroes Wwe saw a telegraph Ine, which we followed around Sybero island until over a we came to a village, where we dropped a message. A bit north of the Faroes we picked up the Bill ingsby. But before we reached her Lowell had written two notes, each identical, describing Wade's mis- hap, the peril he and Ogden were in, their exact location, time of landing, and the condition of both sea and wind go that the naval officers could estimate how far the wind might blow them in the interval before a rescue could be effected. “The first note we put in a mes- sage bag, but tho destroyer happen- ed to be under way, making fully 20 knots, so I missed her deck by several yards. Wo had only one note left and every moment was precious. It was tmperative that this ono should get to the captain of the Billingsby. So I tied it to my one and only Mf preserver, and when I dropped it this time again missed the deck, but a sailor dove overboard and fished it out of the fea. Sea Greyhounds to Rescue. “The note ended with a request that if they understood and would at ance start to the rescues, to give us threo blasts from the whistle, We circled around, saw the captain selze tha message, read it, run across the deck, and shout his commands, A moment later we saw three long white streaks of steam coming from the whistle, and al- most at tho same moment clouds of smoke poured from the funnels, and the destroyer shot ahead and was off ike a flash. It seemed to jump Just like a greyhound. Ntver have I seen a vessel leap ahead like that. Later wo learned that she had traveled so fast sho had burnt all the paint off one of her stacks. “As she raced through the sea at 31 knots the captain wirelessed to the cruiser, Richmond and the latter immediately started to the rescue at a speed of 33 knots. “We now returned te our course, and from here on to Iceland flew through light rain and fog. In or: der to see the ter we had to fly 50 feet off it for over 300 miles. But the wind was still with us and we continued to average a hundred miles an hour, Through i and rain we flew over the cruiser, Ra leigh, and although he had no way of checking our compass course, Lowell piloted us right in to Horna fiord. After mooring alongside the New Orleans, Erik and Jack pitch ed in and helped us service up, while crowds of Icelanders, de scendants of the Danes, came out in rowboats propelled by funny shaped oars. “There on the shore, in a large fisherman's hut, with a ring of grim mountains, a smoking volcano, and five glaciers for a background, we anxiously awaited word from Wade and Ogden.” No Warning of Trouble. Lieut. Wade In describing the mis- fortune that befell the Boston de- clared that everything had seem ed ideal for a quick trip to Iceland right up until the moment when the | accident occurred, Their trouble came without warning ‘All of a sudden I noticed the ofl Preasure going down,” Wade said In a few seconds it dropped all the way to zero. So there was nothing to do but land at once and take no| chances on the motor freeaing | our falling {pto a spin. Our alts tude was approximately 600 feet fo I had no difficulty {nm turning and leading into the wind. “When We reached the water I discovered how deceiving the sen {+ when you are above {t. Frem 600 feet it had looked fairly smooth, But when we landed we found it 0 rough that the Jeft pontoon wrapped itself completely round the lower wing and snapped two of the vertical wires. "At first I thought the oll tank had burst and let the entire supply drop out, But it was still full. 60 we knew that our trouble was simp: ly due to the failure of the ofl pump This meant that our repaira could not be made at sea + “Smith and ‘Les’ were vireling around us, and I was fearful that they might land and crack up also. That was why we signalled so fran- tically for them to stay in the alr Wo indicated to them that our en gine had failed, that our repairs could not be made at sea, that the should hurry on to the nearest de stroyer, and that we were utterly helpless, The last we saw of them they were disappearing In the direc on of the Faroes. Conserve Food Supply “Tho first thing we did was to fasten the anchor to the bridle and heave jt overboard, But we hadn't been bobbing up and down on the waves for many minutes until we discovered what a nuaty business tt was to be in midocean on a fvagile Plane with the swells hitting {t at right angles, We beth soon grew dizay and our heads werg fairly spinning. But wo realized that un, PA GE SEV fixed. Then, climbing into cockpits, we settled down for a vacation near longitude 5 deg: and 2 minutes west and 60 deg? and 40 minutes north. “We were just about midway tween the nearest points from wi help might come, Our oil pr could hardly have picked out @ 1 remote spot in which to let us do Knowing the approximate locat! of both the Blilingsby and the R mond, Ogden and I figured that very earliest we might expect I would be late in the afternon. course, if fog setled down over there would be no telling when would be picked up, Fearing t fog might cause us to be maroo) for eral days, we decided not drink our meager supply of fr water and not to eat our emerger rations until driven to It by hun. and weakness, “It was exactly 10:56 a. m, wl we landed on the water. Two ho went by during which we saw living thing, not even @ porpois: only those cold, gray swells t! kept us from having a momer 5 The waves looked moi tain high as they rolled toward Only the superb workmanship. a the strength of the materials wh. Donald Douglas had put into thé crulsers prevented the Boston fr: being knocked to pleces within hour, “The first sign of life that we s: was a sea gull. As {t swoop down to have a look at us we f a bit like Noah and the inmates the ark must have felt when t dove came back the first tin ‘Hank’ remarked that we must near land or we would not be see! any birds, but I pessimistically « sured bim that gulls fly many hu dreds of miles out to sea. Missed By Rescue Ship “Nevertheless it was comfort! to even see one bird and we felt th wo at least had one friend in th part of the world. As we drift: about the ocean the waves wou carry us farther away from t) bird, But after we had drifted fifi yards or so the gull would taxi o and come alongside again. “I urged ‘Hank’ to get a bit « sleep because I knew that we mig? have to take turns all through tt night, So he curled up fin his coc! pit while I kept @ lookout. Abor 2 o'clock, away off on the horizo to the starboard, I saw a wisp smoke, Shouting to ‘Hank,’ crawled out on tho top wing an waved a sheet of canvas while b fired flares with the Very pistol. A though this boat remained tn sigh for a half an hour, and although w signalled frantically ali that time our efforts were tn valr "Up to this moment our spirit had been high. We had felt sur that it would not be long before boat would pick us up. But nov we realized that a ship had to b fairly clgse in order to see us, be causd we were such a tiny speci hobbing «bout ovt there on that gra: expanse of water. A drizzly rali and fog started closing In on wu from the northwest, and the win: was picking up fast. 80 wo begar to wonder just what our fate wa. going to be. Never in ourtives hax either of us felt so lonesome, go ut terly helpless, Had wa been 4: midoceon in a rowboat {t wouldn't have been so bad, because than we at least could have kept our bogies warm and our minds occupied by rowing.” REPS EES LE Ss Market Gossip | Oil Summary, Standard Ol of Indiana increas ed gasoline one cent a gallon Humble Ol) advances Bast Central crude ol] 15 cents a barrel to $1.50. The Texas company met advanec Offering of $12,500,000 Mid Unent Pete. corporation first. mort- gage 10 year sinking fund gold bonds at 97% and accrued interest to yield over 6.34 per cent to turity Phillips Con: Petroleum contracts of about 15,000 barr lantic refiner Mid Continent ls dafily and salo approximates 27,000 ended pte income of $1,947,29 om and « tion but before interest and federal taxes Standard Oil of New Jersey ad- vanced price of gasoline 2 cents nin North and South Caroli Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, and 1%-cents in New Jersey. This brings tank wagon prices throughout company’s territory, 16 cents net Magnolia Pete, company haa ad- vanced crude oll in Oklahoma, r kansas and Texas 36 cents a barrel for highest gravity oll, Lower gravities also were advanced and a new echedule of grades posted. New prices are under 28 gravity, 75 cents barrel. nine 1924, after deprect shows ne! Corrning crude advance 20 cents a barrel, Output of Wortham pool has de creased to 120,000 barrels a day. It recently was above 160,000 barrels Standard QOll of Kentuel ad- vances gasoline to 3 cents throughout its territory Thought that the Shell Union Olt dividend will be {nereased or an ex- tra dividend declared at the end of the February gra quarter. Bradford district Pennsylvania crude oj] advanced 25 gents a bar- rel. A POTATOES CHICAGO, Jan 23,.—Potatoes less the vertical wires were repaired the ship might not ride out the sea until help arrived 80 we managed to crawl on to the wing and get it early morning trading moderate; market firm; recoipts 72 cars; total U. 8, Shipments. 926; Wisconsin racked and bulle round 31.10@1.20; fancy shade North Dakota: sacked round whites $1.20; Idaho sacked russets $2,.4@ @t2.60,