Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1925, Page 6

Ch PRICE REND MIXED IN GRAIN MART Steels Turn Heavy in Early Trading of Short NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Uneven price movements characterized the opening of today's sotck market. American Can moved up % to an- other record top at 1.77 and initial gains of a point or more were re- corded by Crucible Steel, American Chicle, Air Reduction and Du Pont U. 8, Steel common, General Motors and S, Paul preferred opened frac- tionally lower. Steel shares turned heavy es trad- ing progressed, presumably in re- flection of the poor showing made by the Repuplic Steel Company in {ts 1924 report, which has just been published. Losses of 1 to 1% points were registered by U. 8. Steel Com- mon, Republic and Gulf States, Bul- lish demonstrations were conducted, however, in several epecialttes. Unit- ed States Cast Iron Pipe soared 61% points to 230, DuPont climbed 3% to a record top at 150 and American ‘Tobacco preferred, Bayuk Brothers and Natlonal Supply sola 2 to 3 points higher. Baldwin fell back two points and Marine preferred one. Ofla were slow in responding to an other increase in Pennsylvania crude prices. Foreign exchanges opened reactionary, demand sterling selling below $4.77 and French francs fall ing nearly 12 points to 5.14 cents. i a et ta New York Stocks an are ) Car and Found can Locomotive ~ and Ref. — jugar Tel. and Tel. Tobacco American W Works American American ‘American Woolen -~ Anaconda Cop’ Atchison Atl, Cos tanadian Pacifi ntral Leath Mot esapeake and Ohio and Northwestern 1 Mil and St. Paul pfd thicago, R. L and Pacific 6 Coppel 46 lor re =. Northern pfd ~ ates Steel - Houston Oil - Lids Hudson Motors in Illinois Central - rates Int. Hervester aie: Mer, Marine p' Int. 3 ab Kelly Kennecett Copper Lehigh Valley Louisville and > Mack Truck Marland OM! - Maxwell Motors A - Seaboard ON - 1 Tex. - pfd. Ward Northern Pactfic Of Pan American Pet B Pennsylvania - Phila and Rag Phillips Pet. - Pure Ol - Reading Rep. Iron and Steel 16% Reynolds Tobacco B 76% St. Louls and San Fran - 68% Seaboard Air Line - Sears Roebuck Binclair Con. Slors Sheff Bteel Southern Railway - Standard Oil, Cal 1 Oil N lard Stewart We Studebaker ~----- Texan Co ° Texas and Pacific Tobacco Products oo Transcont, Oil - Union Pacific ----- United Drug ex div U. 8. Cast Iron Pipe U. 8. Ind, Alcohol - U. 8. Rubber U. 8. Steel Utah Copper ‘ Wabash pfd. A ---- 644 Westinghouse Electric Winys Overland .-- Woolworth —_ POTATOES CHICAGO, Feb, 14.—Ppotutoes early morning trading slow; ket dull; rereipte 66 care; total U. 8 shipments 838; Wisconsin sacked round whitea $1.00@1.15; — mostly $1.0b@1.i0; froted $1.00; Minnesota sacked reund whites $1.00@1.10 bulk ruset rurels mostly $1.20; Colorado sacked russets $1.90; Idaho sacked cussots $2.000 BUYERS RULE Material Advance in All De- | liveries Scored in Chi- cago CHICAGO, Feb. 14~—Buyers of wheat were in a majority today, and with offerings light the market scored a material advance during the early dealings. Houses with ex- Port connections did considerable purchasing of future deliveries The fact that Liverpool quotations showed some decline was ignored, inasmuch as the market here was already at a substantial discount under both Liverpool and Buenos Aires. Chicago opening prices, un changed to 1%c higher, with May $1.81% to $1.82%, and July $1.54% to $1.54%, were followed by decided gains all arou Cyn d oats rose with w There was an absence of pr to sell, and shorts were buyers After opening unchanged to 1%c higher, May $1.26% to $1.27, the corn market made a general ‘upturn Oats started unchanged to %c up. May S4c-to 64%c. Later, the rise extended to all deliveries, In line grain and hogs, the provision market showed. gains OIL SECURITIES By Wiisom Cranmer & Co. Bessemer Boston Wyoming Buck Créek Burke Ay Blackstone Salt Cheek Chappell -- bine —.. Pipe — nsolidated Ro Cow Gulch ~.. Domino aikhorn . T. Williams Gates Jupiter Kinn Lance ‘coastal —---__ Creek. Royalty. & Gulf 09 Mountain Royalty and Producers Sunset Tae ‘om Bell Royalty Vestern Exploratic st Wester Y oil tes Mountain Producers - enrock Oil alt Creek Prod. Salt Creek Cons New York Oil Continental — S. O, Indiana Oil ..---.. 13 1843 240 68 5965 14% 15% 97 «88 115 110 107 147 Anglo Am. orne Scrymser sebrought Mts. ent -- Cr: Illinois Pipe Indiana Pipe National “Transit - New York Transit Northern Pipe - Ohto Olt International Penn. Mex. -. Prairie OMl Pete 0. Ohio pfa xn and Finch uum .. Washington - Neb. - Humble Big Muddy Mule Creek Sunburst . - ~ 1.20 Hamilton Dome - ~ 1.0 Ferris - = 1.05 | Byron Notches Pilot E Lander Creek — ‘|__ METALS | NEW YORK, Feb. 68% 14.—Bar silver Mextean dollars —_- 52% NEW exchanges, YORK, Feb. 14,—Foreign easy Quotations in cents: Great Britain, demand les, 477%: 60 day bi 473%; France, demand, 5.16%; Italy, demand, 4.1049. 516; 4.10; ————- Jar gael reham is a city commis. andi | ant DUMB DORA---MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT , L Wie 70 GET OVER TO Tt FLORISTS.| BuT I'M Busi. TIAN A ONE-ARZMED WAITE TL HAVEN'T EVEN A Wcep FROM YOU? 1S WAT AKICE WAY 1D TREAT = YOUR SWEETIE ? ———___—__ GOVERNOR’S SON GIVEN JAIL TERM . Feb. 14.—Hal son of Gover- y was sentenc- d to three days in jail for violation the automobile traffic laws. a ey, 18-year —_—_— | LIVESTOCK Chicago Prices CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—(U. S. Depart- ment of -Agriculture)}—Hogs—5,000 narket generally steady to 10 high r; de ble averaging 200 pounds lownward on shipping account show ng most gain; pigs and ight light ong ot higher; mostly 26¢ er; top $11:30; bulk desirable to 290 pound averages $10.95@ BENNIE; DO You REALIZE aN “iis \S VALENTINES DAY ANID 11.25: most 150 to 190 pound kind $10.40@10.90; bulk strong weight laughter pigs $8.50@p9.25; choice pound kind to shippers $9.50 149 to 150 pound avorages @10.20; few packing sows $10.20 710.40; estimatgd hold over 5,000 heavyweigt hogs $10.75@11.30; med- jum $10.25@11.25; Nght $10.00@11.00; ght lg 50; packing hogs smooth packing hogs rough slaughter pigs $8.00@9.50. Cattle—Receipts 500; compared week ago; fed steers 25 to 75¢ low er, mostly 50c off; better grades showing most downturn; extreme top mptured steers $11.25; few big steers stimulating demand for weight above $10.7 choice year- lings scarce: best at $11.50; stock- feeders slow; steady to eak, decline on lower grades; fat 8 stimulating » demand for warmed up offerings on country ac- better grades’ fat cows and h y hette Oc lower; others weak and ff; Nght beef helfers active; higher; bulls 1 to 2 lower; rs nbout ste week's bulk s follow: Fat steers $8.00@ 0.00; stocekrs and feeders $6.25@ 37,50; meaty kind upward to $8.00; $4.25@0.85; beef heifers fat cows $6.00@7.65 canners and cutters $3.00@2.65; ' vealers $11.50@12.75. 000; today's run neludes about ) direct; today's ‘ood fat lambs $17.76 od feeding and shear- ; for week around 112 cars of feed red week ago: Killing to 50e lower; feeding ver; bulk prices ket steady; ht cars of g lambs $17 000 direct and Wwooled lambs $17.25@ 18 $18.30; closing bulk $17 losing top $18.16 nt top $17.50@ 18.00; : ambs $14.50 1@9.60; feed top $17.70. 30 ing p17 Mine V ictims Laid at Rest DORTMUND, Germany, Feb. 14.—y Burial of the victims. of the Stein mino explosion here Wednesday ight has been arranged for next uesday, Government members, church dig- nitarfer and representatives of the miners’ federation and mine opera- tors will participate In the services The official of the bodies brought from the mine ts given as with 14, Jt unaccounted dead. nes continue to be enacted before the building to which the bodies were brought as only male relatives are pgrmitted to identify the victims, women and chil- dren being barreti until the corpses are encased in coffins, for fhe Gasper Dailyv Cribune Howie MY SHEIK WOULD PULL A STUNIT LIKE -CAN'T YoU RUN OUT AN’ UAT ON ME. LD GET SOME UTTLE Gave HM THE VALEAITINIE. Fo? YOURSELF AN’CHARGE tT To ME Nf Tats A SWEET GirL! ve AUDGET BUREAL ASKS MILLIONS FOR NAVY WORK WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—An tn- direct contribution to the contro- versy over the relative value of alrcraft and battleships was seen day in the budget bureau proposal for a $30,000,000 appropriation to carry out authorized naval construc- tion, including $9,000,000 for modern- ization of six of the older battle- ships. ‘The bureau, before Director Lord presented the ‘proposal to the house yesterday, had taken up with the navy department the report of the navy general board on its study of the relative values of aircraft, battleships and submarine as naval weapons. President Coolidge, at whose request the study was made, is understood to have referred to the bureau the report which ts now in his hands and is expected to be made public. next week to add fuel to the present controversy. WASHINGTO} Feb, 14.—Inter- rupting temporarily its examination of witnesses in the airoraft con- troversy, the house aircraft commit- tee was called in executive session today to go over some of the ret- ters that have developed at the open hearings. Also still pending before the com- mittee today was the resolution pro- posing that the committee express itself as opposed to the transfer of Brig. General Mitchell, whose state- ments concerning the relative value of aircraft and battleships have pre- cipitated the present controversy, from his post as assistant chief of the army air service. The hearings took a new turn yesterday when W. G. Schauffler, a eutenant colonel in the army air reservé, told the committee that Rear Admiral Shoemaker, command. ing naval officer in the 1923 bomb- ing tests against the battleships Virginia and sey, nad #0 “blue penciled” magazine article describing the tests that “upon com- pletion there was absolutely no re- semblance of the original state- ment.” ‘ SP ee IN THE LEGISLATURE Indefinitely Postponed House 52—Requiring state to ut!- lize prison labor for manufacture of products needed by state and other states. By House Senate 41—Authorizing achool dis- tricts to Issue funding bonds to pay floating indebtedness. By Senate. Senate 42 — Authorizing counties to issue funding bonds to pay float- ing indebtedness. By Senate, Introduced in House House 212 (W: and Means)}— Budget act, Committee of whole. House 213 (Eaton)—Providing for government of state girls’ industrial institute. Public buildings. By Senate Senate 20—Providing for price standardization, Ayes 14; noes 12. Senate 60—Relating to examina tion of insurance companies. Ayes 24; noes 1 Senate 73—Repealing statute au- thorizing annual conventions of county commissioners and county as. sessors at state capitol. Ayes noes 2 Signed By Governor Senate 37—Relating to qualifica- D GOLLY, [DO FORGOTTEN ALL TIME TS MAKE Tv WELL STILL GOT ton of candidates for county super- intendent of schools. Senate 36—Relating to qualifica- tion of candidates for county attor- ney Senate 35—Relating tto qualifica- tion of candidates for county sur- veyor. U Senate 33—Relating to distribution of reports of the supteme court. Senate 22—Relating to joining of statutory Hens. Senate 28—Relating against recetvers, Senate 40—Relating to removal of clouds fro mtitle. House 40—Relating to registration at primary election. House 41—Relating to bending of collection agents. House 46—Relating to acquisition of parks by municipalities. House 25—Relating to apportion- ment of school funds on basis of drivers for consolidated schools. House 659—Relating to bulls on open range. House 60—Authorizing substitution ef local meetings of teachers for county institute. House 72—Relating to meetings of state board of agriculture, Appointments Approved c. H, MeWhinney, to be commissioner of public lands. F. BR Meyers, Thomas Shaw and C. D. Carey, to be members of rtate board of live stocl® commissioners. .\. W. French, to be stat» veter- narfan A. Loucks, to be utats commis to suits state . Reimerth, to be a member of the state board of accountants. Introduced In Senate Senate 115 (Federal Relations)-— Relating,to soldiers’ exemption from taxation. Federal Relations. Senate 116—(Revenue)—Imposing a special tax levy to raise a fund to meet the State deficit. Revenug. Senate 117 (Spear)—Relating County road supervisors, Affairs. Senate 118 (Burton)—To consoli- date the offices of the State Auditor and State commissioner of insur- ance. Corporations. Senate 119 (Horton)—Providing for the election of members of Con gress when vacancies occur as the result of death, disability or resigna tion. Elections, Senate 120 (Horton)—Prohibiting unfair competition. Corporations. Passed by House House bills 125 to 138, both inclu sive, relating to coal imning. { Indefinitely Postponed House 27—Authorlzing counting judges of election. By Senate, THREE NEGRO WOMEN TAKEN TO JAL; STORE PROPRIETOR ARRESTED Three negro women were arrested Friday evening when the police raided a house in the rear of 228 North Beech street, arrested the proprietor, ‘Slim’ Langford, and charged him with operating a dis orderly house. Tho women gave the names of Maxine Golden, Rose Carter and Thelma Singleton. The police also raided a store at 249 West First street and charged the proprietor, Clyde Stepp, with possession of liquor. Mack MeMIil- lan was taken to the station house as an inmate of the place, The police assert they found a small quantity of quor. to County A Long Time Between Bites. Miss Inquisitive—They tell me you are a very persistent fisherman, Mr. Peck. What's the longest you ever waited for a bite? Mr, Peck—Two years! Miss Inquisitive—My goodness, do you meam years—two whole years? Mr, Peck—Yep! I got married and 1 MEAKST "THAT TODSY 1S SKEEZIX'S GATE Her BaTHDAY TAXI DRIVER CRIMINALS IN N.Y. ROUNDUP NEW YORK, Feb, 14.—Fifty-tive, taxi drivers were arrested and 1,500 served with summonses in a police roundup of criminals operating taxi- cabs without licenses, Thirty-five were arraigned in night court. Nine were sentenced to the workhouse for operating without 1- censes. Fines of $25 to $50 were {m- posed against the others. All available men on the force were pressed into service to inspect the 17,000 cabs in the city. Many drivers learned of the roundup in time to evade the police net. Some drivers abandoned their cars in the streets. Others hurriedly drove their cabs to garages. Auto Parking On Streets Is Nearing an End FRESNO, Calif., Feb, 14—Streets of busy cities can no longer be used for automobile parking purposes, according to J. T. Hurst of Los Angeles, who made the principal address at the Pacific Southwest. Conference of Building Owmers and Managers yesterday. Garage construction hereafter as part of hotel buildings, business buildings or strictly downtown gar- age buildings was stressed by the speaker. The detail is exemplified in Fresno, he said, by the double deck garage beneath the 15-story Pacific Southwest Bank building. The speaker predicted the day when cities will be forced to obtain through municipal ownership or prt vate enterprise, an adequate syste of downtown gagrae: structures, of more than one floor each. FLOUR. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 14.— Flour, 25¢ to 40¢ higher in carload family patents quoted at $9.75 @9.85 a barrel in 98 pound cotton sacks. Bran, $25.00@26.00. JAMBOREE [5 HELD BY BOYS (Continued From Page One) lison, president of the Casper ouncil of scouts, was received yes- terday from H. Roo Bartle, former chief executive of the organization here but now head of scouting at St. Joseph, Mo. The message which read at jamboree, follow ‘Cordial good wishes to all scout- ers both young and old. I am scout ing with you in spirit if not in per- fon, Sincerely hope for successful Jamboree, Let every scout and scout official carry on, playing his. part well In order that scouting may grow !n dear old Casper.” Among thosé attending the cele- bration’s final event were 20 Doug- Jas citizens who were here for the purpose of learning more about the conduct of the Boy Scout organiza. | tion and its activities, having in mind the forming of troops in Douglas tn the near future. Regret ts expressed by local of- ficials that no mention was made in the jamboree program of troop 0. Mr. THE CICKENIS! 1 THOUGHT MaAvee WEDDING ANNIVERSARY OR SOMETHING Uke OVERLOOKED! couldn't get away, 16 which was active ip the con: ‘ tests, ~~~ IT WAS YOUR 1 oe te THET "D> division. BISHOP PENS 10 BE OPEN AGAIN FOR THE QHEARING SEASON Sheep shearing pens at Cadoma are to be under the management of M. L. Bishop, Sr., when the spring campaign opens, according to an an- nouncement: made yesterday. Mr. Bishop is one of tho pioneer sheep- men of Natrona county STAT RESERIE BANK DEFEATED (Continued From Page One) struction program, he’sald, did not contemplate completion until 17 years had elapsed and he argued that gasoline users of today should not be taxed for the maintenance of highways that would not be complet- ed until 17 years later. A bill \Wwhich earlier in the session was rejected by the Ho Inavhich it was Introduced by Representative Vance of Goshen county, late Fri- day, was passed bf the Senate, in which it was introduced by Senator Merchant. It provides for division of counties. into commissioner dis- tricts and the election of one cou: ty commissioner from ‘each of the voted against House 14 urer of all s county. positions: ers, to $1,000. also approved which amends years of age of states ing and | House bill would be | FREE—SERVICE BATTERIES—FREE NEVER MIND, . FOR A VALENTINE ANYWAY. , providing treasurers shall school district treasurers if the dis- The bill in its orig- inal form provided that the county treasurer should ex-officio be treas- districts in the Proponents of the bill pro- duced_an effective exhibit in support of their contention that {t is diffi- cult to brocure schoo] district treas- urers who are competent for the The exhibit consisted of 61 reports of school district treasur- every one of which contained financial errors ranging from $100 tricts so elect. non hazardous special permits, and also Hous providing that building and loan sociations organized under the laws hat do not recognize build- tions organized under the laws of Wyoming, shal not be admitted to Wyoming. 2, the direct primary re peal measure introduced early in the session, was with¢ the announcement that a substitute EEP wr it. act ex-officio chool for p the may be occupations assoc wn Fri ntrod 13-Plate Liberty Garage SERVICE STATION 428 South Elm Street Everything in Building M Vistributors of KONSET Three-Day Cementing Process for Phone 2300 and 62 Office and Yard—First and Cen aterial RIG TIMBERS A SPECIALTY ~ FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS Oil Weils. Casper, Wyo. ter Sts three, districts resulting from the The measure received the~ bare constitutional majority in ¥* Senate, 14 votes. Thirteen senators The committee of the whole House approved, after prolonged discussion that county The committee of the whole House sage House 112, hild Labor" law by providing that children under 16 employed In under ay, with Give Hogan a Lift THE NICOLAYSEN LUMBER C8,