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The Scarlet Tanage A, Stery of Secret Service and Diplomatic Intrigue ta BY J. AUBREY TYSON (Copsrigh:, 1922, by the Macmillan Comp R S . Y room 412 or Mrs. Enderbrook?” “None whatever. I have told you that was said Leaning forward, Rennison his elbows on his knees “I think that is all he said. thoughtfully. ime, however, that the key 1412 1 i1 feel {sce [mu ontinued_From_Yesterda tar) v refersuce was made by either s to tlme location of his room.” yourp taik with Enderbrook over teleglione did tell him the ber of the 1ooms that had been assignefi to him and Channing?” Johngon thought carefully erul 1goments es. T did,” res! Fou have t to ro! you rtain that ke supply, me with a duplicate k and wiil 1et me have the use of room tonight, 1 shall be obliged.” “You that again. you will ne sev- he repiied. {lie v/us speaking he broke off a sen- \u fe suddenly and asked me the numb::r of the rooms. T told him.™ ‘*You were carrying those numbers |im Your nena 'r Yes. Only a few minutes hefore | hud given the numbers to the cashier be charged in accordance with the | lh\n mentioned in the reservation XNA[ b While { shall have Worthington as Johnson 3. then he added. “T think, in perhiaps, my curios. |eircumstance pardonable. captain. Might I it. of course, said t off for ¢ can tell you now fter. Whether or not the guests ap-|in ;D“'rvh‘ the charges the {mon dvanced were to date from 2 o'c in the afternoon. The asso-|Later [ may tell you more jeiation of the guest names a roon nothing in the affair that will retl Inumbers is the readiest thing in the jou the o L d to a hotei clerl {member of your staff. Every eff i "So far as you kno Will be made to avoid publicity.” this hotel.”” Rennison “The crime may have been commit | by this woman or by some one el interrupt against no one woman after No one saw or in the act . then the hotel suw this Tn 4 few moments a beliboy ente; he went to her roo het in the hall, elevato iof leaving the hot “I know of 1o one who saw her “T will cAuse inquiries to be m jto that effect.” put in Worth ngton ! “wWell. now let's get to Channiug {Rennison swid. “What was said by Iyou and Cha t the time he ar- iriy plicate key waid troub! the wa Ttennison ed ot know de CHAPTER 1IN DIVIDING PATHS aving the eleva onrlh floor Rennison hurried to ro ,n.v The policemen {stationed in the hall were gane. ldoor of the room was unlocked Inison opened it nd steppad saw 1) U land tr nin, 1 at the hotel” ie merely sald: 'T am Oliver Ch lnm" of New York. 1 understand & ‘rnmn has heen reserved for me by i Mr. FEnderbrook.' replied: ‘Yes, #15. Will you go to it now he answered the to a belboy T 'ne'\vnnk did not he said. He n- R in. come was | the coroner and [kad lert. Towndrow and jwere there. however. him gloomily | Fuailing to ph was_wade. then. to see the black travel rillowease into which thing had been thrust, nison ked jthey wers nlained they had been sent to by one of the “plain-cloth men who had been stationed outs “Well. then. | guess we're done here” Ttennison sald. have |;..5‘ uother room on this Weekly |Let's get to it . | “Tomether the three men left Cruises by Steamers (reat iroom and crossed to room 412. Th White Fleet {Rennison opened the dovr. When 22.Day Tour, 3350 Up | were in the Army man closed the d locked it Sl is T o'clock. Program Upon Fidelity Tourist Co. ght still is holding 1406 N. Y. Ave. N.W. Washington, D. this inside bon than the other und we'd bet Phone Main 7967 Towndrow wh West Indies AND Central America e wndr: cavest. the electric light. Full do ades, will you. Towndrow rned on the switch and. shades were lowered. he wo chairs toward the table at whi cliair already was in position, W eli ain, we un at We have been seeking ldraw asked as they sat down [ o1 tninic Rennison we confider “But there is much to nd we must work quickly.” Why have y aken secret service man queried. | “Because 1t v cupied, for m [than an bour preceding the the woman who suspected muttered As quickly STEA \MSHIPS H ONOLULU The Well Fauipped Roral Mail Steamers, $ ”lnmnu" (13,600 tons)...Feb. 23 Apr. 27 “NIAGARA'' (20.000 tons)...Mar. 30 Jume Sail from Vancouver. it ¢ Pac. Bailway, or to Washingto! Winch Building. committed as much.” as possible Renni NGTON, 1. felefniminiadei=dyud’ then informed his companions of .u' Mr. Johnson. 5 1ot been returned to the desk. 1f, therefore, you greatly He hesi- is that n]mmm: was murdered and robbed Thers is uracter of your hotel or an) “You ~ (0 go with me, son, who had been|her efforts The t the body had been removed|With Coughiin {also Both looked at | there are with him all who were present The secrel service man lnfllh'!’- floor. “But, nesr Town- this room murder, Towndrow MOVING, ncxme & STORAGE| %! C.,, TUESDAY, lie had learned from Johnson. When he was done he addressed the chy de- 3. tective. 4+ | “Coughlin, there are three ends to 40 this thing and each of us will have to handle one of them,” he suid. “Town- drow, with the ald of the secret serv-| lice and the New York police, will tryv | to establish the identily of the man| {who Is known to us as Enderbrook. 1t s plain that, in some manner or other, this fellow had the confidence of Channing. He knew Channing car- ried with him a certain important document, who he was to sce in Washington, at what hour he was to| arrlve in this city, and, all the time. v\ls able to communicate promptly iwith the woman by whom the crime was committed. It was he who en- gaged both rooms, and it is probable that each detail of the crime was worked out by him.” He was something of a } said moondily. 1 “Undoubtedly. That is w T re-i {gard the identification of Enderbrook las of primary lmportance. We may zet the womun later, but the papers we seek probably are in the hands or, om | har male confederate, We must get to him at all ted old i maste: Now. Coughlin, it's up to you to learn all you can concerning the ac- tions of the woman while she was in this hotel” Rennison went ~on. “Worthington will give you all the assistance In his power. But it ) especially essential that you learn the point from which Enderbrook tele- phoned to Johnson this afternoon. If it was a long-distance call the op- erator of the hotcl switchboard will have gome record of it. It may have come from New York. There 18 rather more than a possibility, how- ever, that {t came from some point newrer Washington—if not from = point in Washington itself.” “You think, then, that after post- ing that special delivery letter 1n New York the fellow came on here?” Coughlin inquired “I am {nciined to helieve that at the time of the murder he was not far from where we are sitting now though 1 do not think he was in the Totel.” “In_that case he probabiy already has the papers we seel.” Towndrow ver e the ap- the the ity 1 ed. ted 1se. eot ort Towndrow grumbled red who directed once.” “T'm on. en- ow, He [tinued. oughlin muttered, Towndrow,” Rennison con- wish you would arrange Mearschon to have him in in the War Department. i ‘ant room 43X, from 8 o'clock to midnight to mee to it that at midnight| ian iat our conference t 1 think it will be well Merschon in room 43X, the center of our activities for the night, in order that we may keep in touch’ with one And, Coughlin— his| He paused abruptly. While he was ex” |speaking he had besn moving slowly de.{wbout the room with a thoughtful in|&aze on the floor. en-| Now he had stopped and was look- ng #t a point where the edge of the carpet ‘met ome of the walls. Hey the {pressed it lightly with the toe of on ere{0f his shoes, then he stooped ana alt}fumbled with the carpet’s cor | MOment later he drew back and looked at the tip of g fhumb. Seeing it was not bleeding. he took a little knifs from on pockets and opened from it out|file. With this he pried from in]the edge of the carpet a piece ter{metal. “After picking this up he ros wn{ As Re:nison. stepping under I'ght above the table, examined s afternoon. {o have Capt. th ere eage sharpl ow the the “when |object critically, his companlons rose moved jand glanced at the metal curio Tt wuz rtes! und about eight inch long. Dekpite the fact that it er{peared to be round, i cdges. The to have been broken sometning. red{measured a little less than haif an dofinch acress. From the top it grad- ually diminished until it came to & sharp. fine, two-edged point t do you make of that, cap- e |tain?" Coughlin asked wonderingly. Rennison took an envelope from one the {of the pockets of Lis coal and passcd fch o the metal. “Fairly sharp.” son | examined the cut it had made & paper. “It's lucky 1 didn't cu thumb with it when I tried to take it " under the carpet.” as ne the s muttered x T Sloga MOVE RED Quick—Snre—Safe RED BALL TRANSIT C The Largest Trucking omnunun in UNITED AMERICAN Jomnt Service with HAMBURG AMERICAN NEW YORK to EUROPE Plymouth Cherbourg Hamburg By Luxwrious New Steamers RELIANCE-Mar. 31 Mav 1 Mav 29 June 26 July24 Aug.21 RESOLUTE-June 12 July10 Aug. 7 Applyzo UNITED AMERICAN LINES 39 B'dway. N. Y.. or Loeal Agents. ! MOVING, ! 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Goods insured {tained was formally turned over (o t looks like the blade of one of those fancy stilettos the Itaha fearry.” Towndrow mused. icinch, though, Channing 0. | to his death by that.’ “Oh. ne,” Rennison assented ab- Istractedly. “But I was about to sug- gest (o Coughlin that he ask Dr. Al dn't come ertson to make his autopsy report ito Capt. Merschon before | mldnight as possible.” 11 get in Y ouch with him at once. captair,” the detective answered. Laying & hand on one of the shoul- ders of Coughlin, Rennison said: “Well. old man. here's where our paths separate for the time being. Now get busy. Keep in touch with me through Merschon. Call up the ioffice at least once an hour.” l In a few.moments the detective was off. i "I have to get to Merschon soor { Towndrow said. a little irritabls “I'm sorry to have kept vou here so {long.” Rennison replied. “but when 1 jasked vou to come with me I had & reason for it. I had no time before leaving Horsford and the others to be more fully informed concerning the destruction of the Dragonfly at Haynerville. 1 suspected then, and am’ satisfled now, that the circum- stances incident to the destruction of the Dragonfly were intimately related as much in the Weymouthshire affair. When I say ‘intimately’ I mean that the two incidents were not the results of the operations of two groups of conspira- tors. but of one directing hand—a person who had not more than one or two confederates.” “The same idea has been in my mind,” sald Towndrow thoughtfully. “THe Dragonfly was destroyed by an explosion at 9:30 this morning.” “Yes.” “And at the time Channing left the Dragonfly, at 5 o'clock yesterday aft. ernoon, the motor boat and all it con- officials of the government? NAVIGAZIONE GE"ERAIE s ITALIANA Who Moves You = Is Just as Important as ‘Where You Move Phone Main 6300—Our padded vans and_experienced and careful mea are ut_vour service. 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At 7 o'clock morning an_official inspection showed the seals to be still intact.” “During the night there had been no guard on the Dragonfly *No. But sround her had been thrown a cordon of guard boats—two submarines. a destroyer and four small motor vessels. By the crews of these she was carefully watched through the night. The shipyard, off which the Dragonfly was anchored, Jjwas also carefully patrolled.” “No protecting subsurface net was thrown around the Dragonfly”” *None, I understand. “Leaving Haynerville last did Channing return to New {alone?” No. | Adimiral nyder. But, later in_the evening, Chan- I ning went to his laboratory in Louden- {field, N. 3 “Yey He e. ‘Where did Longley and Reifsnyder o ' Longley took an evening train for the naval training station at New- port. Reifsnyder took the midnight {tran for Washington. ““That arrives_at the Union station lttle before 7.” “Bix-forty-five, to be exact.” “Did he come on alone? “1 believe so. “Did Reifsnyder go north for the sxpress purpose of being present at the test of the Channing apparatus on the Dragonfly?” “He might have done 50, inasmuch as he is attached to the bureau of experimentation.’ “Did he leave Washington on the day of the test?” No. He left two days befors. On fthe morning of the day of the Dragonfly test he was at Sandy Hook.” *“What was he doing there” “Well, as you know, he is an exper( on the subject of 'explosiv Sandy Hook he directed the tes ofa new aerial bomb—a bomb to be dropped from airplanes—the inven- tion of a young machinist employed in the Washington navy vard." “Whst is the name of the inventor of the bomb?" “Andrew McCormick* “Where does Re.fsnyder night, York He was accompanied by Rear Longley and Capt. Reif- went to Loudenfield I | 2 . stop ‘When JANUARY {prison. {anything { bo fwit | sition Ask ham | | would by | Ay a corner of it over one of the edges of | with those with which we have to do | 30, WOULD GIVE BODIES FOR REPARATIONS | | i | 1923 Bulgarian Premier. in Satiri | cal Speech, Declares His Country Cannot Pay. § B the Avsaciated Press : | SOFIA. Rulgaria. January V.- {bodies of members of the bourgeois| party were offered by Premier Stan boulisky in a blunt satirical speech in | parliament as reparations if the allies insisted upon payments which the! premier declared Bulgaria was un- able to make. He refrained from naming those to whom he referred, but as the members of the Guchkoff, Daneff and Malinoff cabinets are still in jail awalting trial it is assumed he meant them. The premier said: he representatives of foreign powers have made allusion to the subject of the fate of the former bourgeois minister, who are in I answered that T cannot do for them if the foreign|{ powers do not abolish the burden of reparations and do not give an outlet to the Aegean sea. 1f we are asked for reparations payments in human ! corpses we will _deliver over the! Beois purties.’™ i amboulisky admitted that N flirting with Moscow nd add- | ed. “T a working for the interest of | the people. Why quarrel with the wiels, when they have defended us”, However, 1 s tcions as to definfre relations with Moscow, asx wed ELE h Angora, are unfounded The premiar reminded parliament that Bulgaria was in the best po- of the defeatcd powers. He| feared no attack and promised ne trality if Greece. Rumania or Jugo-| via were attacked. A people's tri- to try the Guchkoff, Daneff and falinoff cabinet is provided for in a bill. which passed its first reading in parliament Saturday. The tribunal he required to pass judgment within a month without the usual vJLd""ll procedure. It would be com- Iposed of three judges appointed by the government nd eleven elected the county councils. These coun-| riles are controlled by the peasants cils are controlled by the peasants behind the present bill. The (rlhun’.ll would be empowered to impose the death =entence. LONGWORTH PRAISES | G.0.P. ACCOMPLISHMENTS | M was Fiscal Year Probably Will Be Closed Without a Deficit in Gov- ernment. Says Representative. 1 Prese | Kan, January 30—Ac- of the Harding admin- 1 Congress in carrying | publican party pledges for| and cutting down govern- ppropriations and expenditures reviewed here jast night in an | address b Representative Nicholas ongworth of Ohio, at the annual; banquet of the Kancas Day Club, rated the statement made 3 by President Har Washington that the present veur probably will be closed without u deficit, as compared with a deficit 59.000.000 at the beginuing of { al year July 1. 1921, and one of $698.000,000 1ast July 1. Meanwhile he sald, the repeal of certain tayes— surtax and so-calied nulsance taxes— reduced the government's annual in- come about $850.000,000 a year. URGES RESPECT FOR LAW iSenator Ferris Declares Prohibition | j Does Prohibit—“Howl1"" Proves It. | l HILADELPHIA. January 3 ed States Serator Woodbridge X, tratl out th cconom: 1ne were on Ferris of Michigan urged strict’ ad- erence to the laws of the home by | both children and parents to aid the! states to enforce their laws, in an ad- dress at a mass meeting under the' auspices of the Anti-Saloon Leagus of | Pennsylvania. He said that “the statement so often made that prohibition does not pre hibit,”” was not true. "It does prohi he deciared, “or eclss there would mot be euch a howl about it. The indus- | trial world has been a wonderful factor doinz awar with the saloon. and un iless there i3 some world catastrophe the same reasons would not permit its | in New Yorl At the Scotbrae And he was ut the Scotbrae last night prior to leaving New York for Washington ™" “Yes—tor several hours. tered there. A iittle chuckle escaped the lips of Rennison. Now, on his knees. he was Jooking under 'the bed. Towndrow frowned irritably as he drew out his watch and looked at its face. Tou seem to be particularly well informed concerning the movements of Capt. Reifsnvder during his b- sence from Washington.” Rennison remarked as he rose and brushed off the_knees of his trousers. “Naturally.” the secret service man replied. “It was from Capt. Reir- snyder that I obtained most of my in formation concerning the Dragonfly and its inspection. 1 have known of { the Dragonfly’s destruction since 11} o'clock this mornt: “Who is handling the secret service end of this in New York:” Rennison asked. “The chief himsel “That's fortunate.” Rennison said thoughtfully. “Are ¥ou in a position to keep in constant touch with him throughout the night”" Yes, through Capt. Merschon. That is why I have been so anxious to get back to the Navy Department.” “In vour communications with the chief has the name of Enderbrook been mentioned? No. You were the first mention the name.” “Well, it seems plain this fellow ! Enderbrook was in communication with Channing while Channing was in Loudcnfield or on his way from| there to Washington. In the circum- | stances, T will agk you to request the! chie? to learn whether any telephone message was sent to Channing &t Loudenfield last night and also to locate the point from which it was sent. At his Loudenfield laboratory Channing doubtless had an assistant or one Gr more servants, perhaps. 1 would suggest that they be inter- rogated on this subject with as little delay as possible. All right. captain: T'll get to Mer-| schon's office now and try to- reach the chief on the New York wire, | Meantime you are going to keep ]f!!r( the woman? He regis- | i { { T heara Rennison, who had passed into tha bathroom, made no reply. The scerst sorvico man stepped to the bathroom door and looked in. He saw that Rennison, stooping, was picking up something that had been dropped be- tween the head of the bathtub and the wall. It was a table napkin. As Ren- nison held it up before him and spread it out he saw it had been cut i several places and that some of the little slits were parallel. “Eh, Towndrow?” he asked absently. “What was that You were saying?" 1 said I'll be getting to Merschon's now, and I asked you if you were going to keep after the woman. ‘As abstractedly as before, Rennison answered him. Yes—yes, Towndrow, get on—to Merschon's.” he muttered. “Yes, as you have said, I will keep after the woman.” He was gazing &t a name that haa been stamped in red on a corner of the napkin. It was “Henneshaw.' For several moments a frown dark- ened his features; then his face clear- ed siowly. Towndrow went out._ i Tuded b Tu.aorrow’s Star.) i whole situation involving these stocks. | A CIAL. NEW YORK CURB MARKET Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office. BY WILLIAM I. HEFFERNAN. NEW YORK. Junuary 20.—The ac- tivity that hus prevailed in curb trad- ing during reccnt fons subsided somewhat toduay and the price mov ment was more uncertain Durant issues were the center speculative Interest. The mur tinued to express its distrust of the | entire Fisher b to have a stimuls With the brewk stocks, people whe had been the Durant issues, for the most at a profif, hastened to unload this selling has been going on modically ever since. There was other such selling wave todar unde which Durant of Delaware bro : points and the Indians sharcs @ new low for the year at 18 few odd lots of Ford Motors | Canadu their appearance the tape during the course of t at & point under the lust previ of last week Foilowing rece cents a barrel fn the price of Mid and Fastery crudec and all of Wyoming crudes, Standard 1tuckl Wak & weak spot umen the Stundard ofls. Low-price men bers of the independent nils came for a good deal of ind we higher ozt ng efect in Fisher 200 failed Body holding part and ot con- | 3 s which was brought to a head when the Fisher Bod\ Corporation last week mude its extraordinarily low of- fer on its new stock to shareholders. ! As the Durant interests were commit- ted to the position that Fisher Bod was worth at least $200 a share, the price of $76 fired on the new capitali- zation was a ver. the offer of W. ( us & advances of 18 of Ken bad blow, and even | Durant to buy the NEW YORK. January 20.—Follow- ing Is a list of today's highest, lowest and 2:45 prices for the most active bonds and stocks dealt in on the New York Curb Market: LONDE Higl %0 Hurdshell Min Hill To Hecla NN Independence 12w Tron Blowsom Joroma Tayedor Kerr I nox ¥ Allied Packers &s. Alum Amer Light i . © Light 64 w Roiling M AmT& T 6 conda 6 Ohio Copper Ray Ilercntes T Red Hill Flor Kew (ane Richmond Copper. . wndstorm Kendul ersmith Mine v Qaeen M Cory Siiv Mines of Am.. Simon Silver... So Am Gold & P Spearbead Gold.. Succoss Mins. . Superetition. i and Dev Hughes opah Telmont Totopei de.. Fonopal: Lxtens iy Canadinn Pacific Cent Steel % Detroit €y 6 § Dunlop T & Fither Hods Ga " Gair Robt T enn Sig 011" 22 Gnit 011 of Hood Rubber Kax City Pow L Laciede Libhs. MeN & T Toutsviile G & Morrin & Co 7T National Leather 8x Min 1016 oy nelimne 18 Trited Ex 10 3 0 . COTTON PRICES HIGHER AFTER EARLY DECLINE NEW YORK. January rpool to hold ar v ad ness over Europea were regarded re opening decline the cotton marke 0 100 k1, .01 1045, 1072 & St L 6 C. Ohio Poser . Southwest Boll Th Sun O 6 .. f—The fai TOREIGN BOXDS rarl Arzentaw 7o e th0n, & of Neth s R Rus Gov 5. Eus Gov 61 5 Russian Gor 87ss 21 Swisy Gov Sige.. 180 TS of Mex 4s S in wn.te 10 o7, . 1085, 38% STANDARD OIL IS8T here today nitixl tone wa< barely steads siderable liqui outher: peared to e rea was o scatte the afferings ap absorbed srou May ac n 5 points « closing. on a renewal late buying movemen' evidently encouraged by rpool after the reports that Lanc: abandoned the time schedule. ('otton futures opened barel i March, 27 Ma : Ju | October, 25.00: December, 2 | 11:45 am. bids—Marc) and need | vesterdar's vesterday o @ Ohio Oil new . Prajrie 01l & Praivie P I, short Vacuum Ol nes Carib’ Synd cimben 23 3 Cit Serv pi ; o it ! Cremie N Clishing Dot Tarhy Fat . tober, 25.11: Decembe: LIVERPOOL. January ot quiet: prices eas: . 18, fully middling. middling. 15.86; low middling, good ordinary, 15.11; ordinary Sales, 6,000 bales American. Receipts, | cluding 1.200 American January 80.—Cottor Good mid 13.96 15.61 14.8 1400 bales, 11 Futures closec Maret Hodson 011 Harris Cons Keystone R Latin Amer Ofl. Livingston Pet Lowrs 01 . Lrons Per . Mammoth 61 Marlund Retin Marland . 4 Maracatho 00 Maracatbo 0 Merritt 05 May i Decem: {ROAD TO SPEND $1.00,000. ew Eng Fuel 01l Nobie Ofl & G > Omar Ofl & Gas A 0 Peanock Oit. 1 | Central of Georgia Announces Im- portant Extensions. ATLANTA. Ga.. January 30.— Agrer ment between the city of Col J"\b.l‘ Ga.. and the Central of Georgia rail road has been effected. whereby the latter {s to expend $1.000,000 in track. i age and extensions and elimination of 4 | dangerous crossings east of Colum- {bus. Work 8 to begin at once. Some *1$500.000 is to go into yard improve ments. These extensions are made necessary, accoTding to the manager by reason of the big increase in bus ness of tihe Columbus territory GRAIN NEEDED ABROAD. American flour will the Austrian market. Department i Commerce Says. Fach month Austris require from 50,000 to 60.000 tons of bread-grains and flour. American flou: ia considered 10 or 15 per cent inferio to Hungarian brands. s bleached flour i= not _in favor. Government keeps on hand 60.000 to 160,000 tons of flour, a | important factor in the regulation of { bread prices. Sweden will 2.000.000 bushell to have the sam grains avalilable as in 1% i CRUDE OIL ADVANCED. { PITTSBURGH. Pa. January 3 The price of Corning crude oil w. advanced today by the principal pur chusing agencies 15 cents, to $2.15 « ibarrel. Pennsylvania crude and ali other srades remained unchanged. FINANCIAL. Sapulpa Refla Beaboard O1... . Southern P & B... . Sou States Ol .... Trxon 041 & Land . Tidal Osags O Torman O Weer Stat Wilcor 01l & G INDUSTRIALS. Acme Coal . Acme Pack ¢ ! | Loather vfd Isn City R R idy Buds ... pbell Noup pfd. r Light ... Centri Tron & Pipe. Chicago Nippie .... Cuyamel Fruit Drubllier C & mmo Durant Mot ... Turant Mot ot Fleischman ... ¥ord Motor €5 ( Gardner Motor again dominate need to import ahour each of wheat and i amount of brear Heyden Chem Hudson Co pfd. Hydrox Corp Hydrox Corp pfd. Inland Steel ... Kuppenbeimer, BECo Kuppenheimer, B pf Lupton F M Tacey Mfg Mercer Mot Mer Mot vot cfs Mesabl Iron.... Nat! Sop of Dai... ey Fictlon Fub G5 XY w N Y Tra .-mmon X ¥ Canners. Oselda_ Corp Philip Morris. Phoenix Hos Phoenix Hosiery pfd Prime Radio Co.... . 2 Pyrene Mfg Radio Corp. 2 Radio Corp pf.. Reynolds Spr rights Repetti Cundy .'nael.ir«:‘a ORI nvo'* Techalcal Prod Todd_ B Price 971/, We recommend _Vertientes Sugar Company First Mort. gage Sinking Fund 7% Gold Bonds, due December 1, 1942 which, at 97!; and interest Yield about 7.25% to maturity Wiilys Corp iat prd 1 Yale & Towne new. MINING. 5 Alacks Brit-Colo 10 Beicher Extens .. 240 Big Ledge . 10 Bison Gold 5 4 Caloveras Corp .- 40 Canada Cop . rio Copper %0 Chndelaria Tin - 22 Con Cop M tem cfy. 20 Crackerjack Mine .. 75 Cortea Blver 4 Cresson Gold 23 JBub Bei i 3 Gireular giving details of this attractive issue sent upon request The National City Company W shington—741 15th St. N.W. Telepbone—Main 5176 RRiRRR 140 Eureka Croests 210 Fortuna Mines 100 Goldfleld B] Bell M 140 Goldfeld Dev ...... 20 Goldfield Deep Min 3 Goldfield Vlorence. 18 Golateld e 320 Goldfield Jack Tut.. =3 £33