Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1921, Page 22

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FIGURE YOUR INCOME, estimate your necessary expenditures, and you can very readily determine what should - be left each week, each month, and during the year. - Now you are ready to save intelligently and systematically. Saving is most worth while * wien done that way. Every pay day, before syou shop, deposit a fixed sum in a Savings Account with the Union Trust Company and your surpl=s fund will grow rapidly and sure- ly. This is the wise way, the business-like way. 2% paid on Checking and 3% on Savings Accounts OF COLUMBIA Cor.1Sth and H Sts. Northwest EDWARD J.STELLWACEN. PRESIDENT Maxgraklagdiai r - Aspirin You must say ‘‘Bayer” PR T e e . tin’ boxes of 12 tablets cost but a few cents—Larger packages. ix the trade mark of Beyer Manufacture of lonoaceticacidester of Sallcylicac this low-cost aid to fite and digestion.‘ throat . clear. Makes your smokes taste better. 7l Parning! When you see the name “Bayer” on tablets, | bu are getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians ! - 21 years and proved safe by millions. Accept only an | pounds, the market being active, with oken package” of “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin,” which s proper directions for Colds, Headache Pain, | othache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Neuritis, Lumbago.} | bacco down for stripping since the ! VRIGLEY'S “After Every Meal” Get the great benefit of | Keeps teeth whife, breath sweet and CURB STOCKS. Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co. Bid. 9 Aetna Explosives . 3 b Allied Oil 13 al American_ Candy &k Atlantic Petroleum . Rig Heart Hoston and Wyoming. . Caledonia ......... Calumet and Jerome "anade Copper. on_ Steel ... Calonial 1 Colum! o Columbia_Syndicate Consolidated Copper Dominlon_Oil Durant Motors . k Basin . rtel Oil arekn Croesus azrell Coal .. illiland Oil . lenrock Ol Gillespie Hercule: { Indian Packing . tinental Knbber ... ional Petroleum (new) Jerome Verde tar Livingston P {Marland Refinery Merritt 0il Hercules 1.0 Byan lida (ad Salt Creek Produc Light aud Heat com Light and Heat pr ren Bros. . yland Ol . Coal Aimour Leather com... Armonr- Leather pfd. Armour ptd. dshy Packing . Libby National Leather Swift & Co. Cnion Carbide LYNCHBURG TOBACCO SALES. LYNCHBURG, Va. February 14— Loose leaf tobacco sales here during the past week aggregated 474.100 prices high on wrappers and fine leaf. continued ally no de- d by “wild five Sales during the coming week are expected to be heavy, as the planters have been unable to take to- Common grades, however, low and there W ains of last week. appe- ) PROAT W RNG) ColpOKs LASTS — ) as 7777 ~12:15 p.m~ sked. | Unauthorized New York-Washington wire by Redmond & Co. City of Paris s 1921 Dominion of Canada 5% of 192 French Government 8x.. Government of Switzeriand 8s. Atlantic Coast Line Ts. Itimore and Olio con Itimore and Oh Itimore thlehem WANT 25,000 MEMBERS. Plans Made to Increase Federal Employes’ Union, No. 2. of meetings deral k First of a serie boost the membership of St. L. St. Louis and St. Louis and Seabourd Air L Seaboard ‘Air Line adj Southern Pac Southern Pacific_cony. Southern Railwa: Southern Railwa. United United United Virg Wilson & Quotations furnisiied Prices at noon Rerlin 4=, Dan : Darmstadt 4%, Dresden Hamburg 3 Hanburg Hamburs Hamburg Koenigsbers I Lo and cutters STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.,‘ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1921 TODAY’S BOND PRICES. Noon prices reported for The Star over direct Pennsylvania gen. mortgage Reading general an 4%, cisco 45, erie rancisco s 1929, X e, Atlantic Re 3 | Continental 1st ref. 4s. umberland tes Rubber tes Steel 8. F rolina Chemi . 1st Bs.. FORE erman gov. 31 ; erman gov. 4x.. 1 of man gov. s . Krupp 4%, Washington about :chairman (the First States Burcau of Ma Lk Receipts, 15.000 head; beer s Sty opening strong: spots higher: e | " 1he e top, 9.50 few held higher: bulk, 7.50 bulk butcher (3T OF | trade. Quotations furnished by W. B. Aprill, York bank {announced. F. Abbot Goodhue, vice president of devote itself primarily to OIL STOCKS. | Anglo-American 0il Co. (new) fining Co. vmser ... ve Pipe Line Co % | Cleseborough Manufacturing ¢ 0it Co.. rescent Pipe Line Pipe 1 Co. ( 1 Co. Tudi ol ¢ | NEW BANK CORFORATION. o D Acce known & tance for business in New York Paul M. Warburg, New who has been chos of "the board of director: National Bank of Boston, me the president of the new nk, it was explained, will p financing foreign commerce and world on Stock Exchange ‘Washingt SALES. Washington Gas 7is—$1.000 at 100°, $1.000 at 1007, 3 AFTER CALL. ctric cons. 55—$L000 at | | Potomac | $1.000 a¢ | ion—5 at 84%. | and Asked Prices BONDS PUBLIC l"l'lLlTlils.nl d. Asked. [ 83 Telephone ction K uburba: | Potomac | Potomac Wash.-Ale Po [ Power G. M. Bs.. Mt Ver. Waslh. Kwy. D. C. Paper Mfg. 6s. Riggs Kealty s (short) STGCKS PURLIC UTILITI®® ad s 1 Washington Rwy Wastington-Virginia Rwy. © Washington-Virginia Rwy. pfd TIONAL BA: District . Farmers and Mec} Federal { Liberty Lincomn | National " Metropolitan ployes’ Union, No. 2, will be held e a meeting tonight at 1123 New York | piockers rand 5 5 | avenue of employes of the federal | =0y Maynage Licenses. board for vocational education. e : - Employes of the rehabilitation divi- | 5 Receipt folurriago licenses have been issued to = sion of the board are to form a 2 P n Saturday's @ oliowluk = - branch of the union. Following this }i"mmmfi‘\)\ermnmln B i others| yonuon T s anniulit Urmems,| will be meetings of thirty branches glow; top, 10.15: bulk of 200 Ibs. and | ', Hutson of Coney Island, N. Y., and | of the union already established. down, 9.90a10.10; bula, 220 1bs. and | Perkins of Farmington, Mo. ashiogton - It is planned to increase the mem- | yp, 0a9.35; pigs, steady to 15} aud Maglan Conw. -Merchants® bership_ of the union to 00 per- | hizher. 2 illium McNaught and Margaret Kimer. | Security S @netiodiofithreeimonthes lambs, to 50 lower: packers' tOD ] “Richurd . Iirooks of Smoot, Va., and Edith | United Stat early, city butcher top. 8.75;( Brooks of this city. % Washington M bulk, G Letoy L. Derrick of Pairfax, Va., and Madge| SOLICIT WITHOUT RIGHT. : Persons Collect Money for Irish Relief. { stree | Persons unauthorized to collect | dore Langl funds for the re { tempting to get mone :f of Ireland are at- v from the busi- | ness men of the cit announcement made today by Andrew I Hickey, assistant secretary of the American committee for the relief in Ireland. everal inquiries have come to my office regarding this matter.” said Mr. Hickey, “and the committee would like it clearly understood that no per- son has a right to solicit such funds, unless he has a duly signed pledged card. coming from our organization. he drive for relief will not start until March 17, and the business men of Washington should be informed that all solicitations before that time are spurious and not authorized by tha American committee for relief in Ireland.” P — PUSH PEARSON SEARCH. Fort Bliss Air Commander Direct- ing Hunt for Aviator. EL_PASO. Tex.. February 14.—Maj. Leo J. Heffernan, commander of avi ation at Fort Bliss, took the air to- day for Sanderson, Tex., where he is fo direct the search for Lieut, Alex- ander Pearson, who has been lost since Thursday. Maj. Heffernan will organize flying expeditions to the Biz Bend district, into Chihuahua and into counties east of those searched the last three days. Aviators from Fort Bliss and other BOY BITTEN BY DOG. fornia ASKS DAMAGES FOR ARREST. George V. in the Post Office Department and former salesman, today filed suit clerk Jocal jewelers. charges false arrest, which, he says, was caused by the defendants Octo- ber 9 last. in the Police Court, to lose his government position, he states. appears for the plaintiff. Bros., JUSTICE IS INDISPOSED. Because of the indisposition of Jus- tice Gould today there was no ses- sion of Criminal Division 1. of William Henry Campbell, charged with the murder of trude H. Mann, a music teacher, last March, was continued until tomorrow. WILL FILED FOR PROBATE. The will of Charles H. Dismer, dat- ed February 18, 1916, has been filed for probate. He gives his household effects_and automobile to 31 Julia C. Dismef. The other personal =i~tinns were continuing the search|property goes pne-third to the widow L. Mo M. Burroug) Joseph Co held in leash by M. C. Mont- cight vears old, 2019 19th! afternoon bit Theo- vears old, 1873 Cali- B both of Ball street on his hip and leg. The| - Langley child was playing in front of , according’ to an jthe Montgomery home when he was bitten. his wounds were dressed by a phy- sician. He was taken home, where four hours: William J. Lhodic L Brenneman, a former David and in the District Supreme Court to re- rancesco cover $20,000 damages from Korman | Luigi and Francesco The plaintift | Erancesco Henry The charge was dismissed but caused him George C. Irvin and Attorney Walter P. Plumley { Jitchell Perry and Deaths Reported. The case colored, rs. Ger- four hours John Gios Stephen —_— 2 Hospital. Robert Hampden street. Catherine his wife. | Ssiizaheth and . and iovanni and Ange Stephen and Josephine Byrn Jobn M. ‘and Edua L. Roane, imothy J. Cullinane, Va, . Orndorfl of this city and Ethlyn lis of Germantown, Md. en and Nellie Cohen, Charles F. Beck “and Mary T. Brownley, timore, Md. irths Reported. The following births have been reported to the health department within the last twenty- . and Kathryn T. Heffner, boy. and Hazel R. Lovelace, girl. ccca O'Grady, boy. dith R. Sullivan, boy. rances Fusco, boy. terson, girl. Lee R. and Catherine Pennington, boy. ey, b Pluma Volland, girl. Fallotta, boy. and Domenica Lo Bianco, girl. Teresino Spadaro, girl. and Giovannina Arcuri, girl twins. nd Rosa Urciolo, girl. . bor. . Gannon, boy. | arrett, irl. an dearing, girl. Laura Wright, boy. aud Hele Mitchell A. and Annic M. Brooks, girl. and Stella Alexander, boy. Cassie Lyles, boy. The following deaths have been reported to the health department within the last twenty- az20, 61, Providence Hospital. . Sosnovec, 23, 622 G street south- nergency Hospital. B, MeTnisre, 33, St Ellzabeth's Providence Hospital. 41, 517 Park road. Spiller, 66, 3108 Mount Pleasant Margaretba Miller, 81, 2002 14th street. Riecks, 5 19 W street northeast. 0"Kane, University Fospital. 2103 D street. George Washington | l uary numbered 31.509,021, compared | Arlington Corcoran Firemen’ Germai National Union - TITLE i Columbia _Title Real Estate Title. MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. Columbla Graphophoue com. Columbia Graphophone pfd. D. C. Paper Mfg. C D. C. Paper pf Merehants’ Tre Mergenthaler Linotype . 0ld Dutch Market com. 0ld Dutch Market pfd. Lanston Monotype Security Storage ! Washington Market . —_—_— LESS COTTON CONSUMED. Cotton consumed during January amounted to 235,233 bales of lint and 23,549 bales of linters, the census bureau announced today. Consumption in January last year amounted to 591,921 bales of lint and 27,243 of linters. ‘otton on hand January 31 in con- suming _establishments amounted to 1,273,067 bales of lint and 231,675 of {linters, compared with 1,952,326 of lint and 276,546 of linters a year ago, and in public storage compresses holdings _ were 5, 3 bales of lint and 336.961 of linters, compared with 3.758,329 of lint and 324,965 of linters. Cotton imported during January amounted to 24024 bales, compared with 104,485 in January last year. Exports amouted to 606,002 bales, including 5,246 bales of linters, com- pared with 929.671 bales, including 7,391 bales of linters. Cotton spindles active during Jan- You will find— "un'ruclxv. eSS 0 ® : leeping Car o from Washington to New York,Pittsburgh, Fairmont, Clarksburg,Wheeling, | Parkersburg, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, : ' Columbus, Chicago, Cincinnati, St.Louis. ) ALTIMORE AND OHIO Sleeper Service - includes everything that has proven itself essential to the highest development of safety, convenience, dependability and l comfort. I Frequent and convenient schedules—all steel trains—latest model Pullman sleepers—luxuriously appointed Club and Observation Cars—a roadbed second to none—alert -and attentive employees, and last, but not least, a Dining Car Service proclaimed by seasoned travelers to-be as unique and satisfying as it is inviting. The Baltimore and Ohio a la carte or table d’hote service is comparable to that of the country’s best hotels. The food is well prepared and liberal portions are served. The prices are reasonable and the service intelligently, quietly and courteously rendered. Established 1827 * And the office of FSts. ickets N. W, until called for. to call, senger. from and Massachusetts Aves. Baltimore & Ohio “ America’s first roilroad * T elephone Main 556 Passenger Agent, Mr. W. V. Ship- tey, 323° Homer Builaing, 13th and wi prepared—make reservations and lay them aside 1f_inconvenient ticket and reservation will be delivered by Special Mes- Tickets, reservations and other inférmation may also be obtained Consolidated Ticket Office, 13th and F Sts. N. W. the Division have your your | ares ito go a long dis | the national debt. {the twelve, b i 1Its total gro: BANKS TG PROTEST TAX ASSESSMENT Income on Non-Taxables Held Exempt—Richmond Bank’s Big Year. BY L A, Froaen the Distriet of Association Te- printed and ture and affidavit, ad- ed to the board of personal t appeals setting e the banks protest Local members of Columbia Bankers' ived protest ready for sign forms, s why ment of per- sonal taxes on e gross earnings -jfrom state, mu und W/ bonls, UPON ewlch even he QMR > wrvwe. i does nug take to collect a tax, 1 oA they are free from all taxes Further protest is made against payment of gross profits tax on divi- dends received from the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank on its stock held by the protesting bank, 6 per cent of the capital of the national banks of city. The protest cites that the said divi- dend 1s not taxable under the laws of the United States, and specifically non-taxable under the specific per- sonal property laws under which the board of personal tax appraisers are assumed to act. | The fourth point of protest is found n the failure of the appraisers to make any allowance for bad debts, or for interest paid to its depositors, or the income received by this bank from the investment of its capital, surplus and undivided profits, the amount of bank’s return. “The premise considered, this bank respectfully asks a reassessment on its gross earning for the twelve months next preceding the 30th day of June, 1920, and insists that its gross earnings in said year, taxable under the personal property laws of the District of Columbia, amount 0 $—. “This bank desires to appear by counsel before the appraisers for a hearing on this its said appeal, and will appear on any dates set by the said board for a hearing. F. J. Hogan, counsel for the District Bankers' Association, drew the pro- test and the association mailed copies to all banks. Chesapenke and Potomae Election. Officers and directors for the Chesa~ peake and Potomac Telephone Com- pany of New York, which operates in the District of Columbia, were elected at meetings held this morning in New X city. The officers of the com- pany remain: A. E. Berry, president: M. F. Buehler, vice president; Burdett Stryker, general manager; D. S Porter, secretary and treasurer, and P. O. Coffin, general auditor. The directors are: Charles J. Bell, A. E. Berry, C. H. Carter, W. S. Gif- tord, John Poole, H. B. Thayer and H. F. Thurber. John Poole was elected chairman of the stockholders’ meet- ing. . In the report to the stockholders from the board it was shown that the operating revenues for the Dis- trict of Columbia were $4,334.812.44 and operating expenses were $3.63 115.17, leaving an operating income of $701,697.27. Deductions bring this total to a net income of $302.566.44. Dividends of $195,000 were paid on the stoc 920, {leaving surplus earnings of $507,566.44 The directors reported the number of telephone stations owned by the jcompany in WasHingt: T s {amounts to $8.080. These are served iby 261,707 miles of wire within the District of Columbia, operated by employes. Personnl Mention. George W. White. president of the National Metropolitan Bank, recently called to St. Louis by illness in the family, will return home tomorrow. coming by way of Chicago. William J. Flather. vice president of the Riggs National Bank. who is convalescing at Atlantic City from a long and serious illness, is ex- pected to resume his business activity in the near future. Made 100 Per Cent Profit. 1t has been frequently stated that the federal reserve regional banks, if permitted to keen their entire profits and not pay a franchise tax to the government, would in time be able ance in wiping out Reserve larg. of and yet it pros; us institution carnings during the ear ended December 31, 1 were 909,143.44, from which expenses of $1.521.947 were deducted, leaving net earnings of § 3 After paying The Bank Richmond is not Federal is~a decidedls member banks 6 per cent dividends amounting to $293. 051.90, on its capital stock, # closetdl the vear with a profit account of $4.- 945.454.06. The total surplus the close of the year 331.67. The federal reserve act does not contemplate the regional banking in- stitutions comings into competition with member banks, but during the of the bank at was $10.561,- last year the Richmond bank pur- chased 11,557 in acceptances, and handled $1L177.740 of paper a day on an averag In 1919 the bank disce ber banks $4,132,942 generous last 8 in bills usiness of the bank was $3,395, . handling 1 checks of member banks, government and other federal reserve district checks. - unted for me: The capital stock of the bank is Capital and reserve, $1 Big Demand for Certificates. Bankers report that the demand for Treasury certificates is decidedly urgent. indicative of the abundance of money seeking safe investment. The fact that there have been no very late calls on banks holding funds for the credit of the Treasury would seem to indicate that income tfxes were coming in fairly well. Local Securities. Today’s action on the local exchange was decidedly slow and uninteresting. The Washington Gas 732 per cent notes are selling at a slight premium, 100%, and that price was bide today. Potomac Consolidated 5s were a little firmer at 82. ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity Assets Nearing $7,000,000 Surplus More Than $600,000 -~ Corner 11th and E Sts. NW. AMES BERRY, President HUA W. CARR, Secretary which items were set forth in tRe,

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