Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1923, Page 9

STANDARD OIL HAS BIG GAIN IN PROFITS $5,000,000 More Paid First| « Quarter of 1923 Than Same Period Last Year. NEW JERSEY UNIT LEADS Payments Are Largest for This Time of Year With Ex- ception of 1913. cial Dispatch to The St NEW YORK., March 17:—Dividends paid by the Standard Oil group of companies in the first quarter of 1923 totaled $33,333,920. compared Wwith 208, the corresponding fiod of 1922 and with $43.000.349 the last three months of 19 this quarter are the corresponding period olution of st, with the when the Standard of New Jersey ordered distribution from repa ans by former subsidiarie - the large inc payn this quarter. according to a compilation prepared b n Oil securities, paid out Ly increased cuyitalization of companies —whi distributed stock dividends. The con nilaticn_does not_in e South Tenn Ol Company, tailed teclare a dividend during the -quar- vor under review. Dividends b members of the so-called groun follow ‘rescent Pipe Line: Company addition to u quarter! dend of 1) . yments gest for the ear since the Mant onl he reason f Standard the larger Hounts Standard $2 Sig e the Goubled the amount The Stand- New Jersey made ment to stockholders. paid to common sckholders und $3,471,121 to ferred stockholders. Other compa making payments in excess of $1,00 rgest pa 21 being More Than $1,000,000. rd Oil Company of Indiana, Standard _Oil”_Company of OH Company. $1.800.00 Pipe Line Company. $ and Prairie Oil and Gas, 31,080,000 ¥ dissolution of the parent )il Company of New Jersey various companies have paid 89.144 in cash dividends to stockholders. geous Easter Flowers, rown specimens from —Advertisement. ARCTIC TRIP IN JUNE. Plans to Seek Educa- tional Motion Pictures. PORTLAND, Me.. March 1 Don- ahl B. MacMillan expects to get away early in June on his next Arctic ex- pedition in the schooner Bowdoin and may go as far as Etah in Green- land for a series of educational mo- tion pictures, he said in a letter re- ceived today -by George F. Cary, treasurer of the MacMillan Arctic As- sociation. He now in_Michigan and will return to menth, - PARMENTIE RRESIGNS. Head of French Debt Mission Quits State for Business. PARIS, March 17.—Jean V. Par- mentier, director of funds at the ministry of finance and head of the French debt mission to the United . resigned today. understood he is to enter a big ial house. He will be replaced 's director of funds by M. de Mouy, his assistant. —_— RAIL SOCIETY BROADENED. By the Associnted Pross Mo.. March 17.—The mittee of the Interna- Association of Railroad Supe of Mechanics. at a spe meeting, here this afternoon, Voted to_amend the by-laws to admit all »ad employes holding super- sitions to membership in the Heretofore member- skip has been limited to supervisors of mechanics. Macmillan ook ke ke ek ok ke ok ok ok kk Large Office for Rent STAR BUILDING This office is bright, &% private lavatory and run clerks. and ice water 224 2524 23424242 2222 2 2 525 256 2 2 202 5 34 il to! '|St Patnck s Day March Un- Gude, | ew England next | for light manufacturing or office employing many Rent, $200 a month including heat, light SeCoND FLOGR (Scale of drawing: APPLY ROOM 621, STAR BUILDING or Telephone Main 5000 Br. 3. Ckk ok & &k kA k **** ook ok ok ***’b BACKS OLD CONCESSIONS Declares Legally Given Contracts Prior to 1917 Should Be Recognized. By the Associated P; MEXICO CITY, March 17.—The sec- retary of industry and . commerce, Miguel Alession Robles, today told the chamber of deputies that conces- slons legally granted before the adoption of the new constitution in i February, 1917, should be recognized. The secretary’s statement was in reply to a question by Chairman Puig of the chamber's oil committee at the extraordinary sitting of con- 9: t which a bil} regarding ar- of the' constitution, dealing lands, is being considered. Backs General Law. ! v Robles said he approved | in general the law under discussion. The chamber, he added, should be | formed in regard to all concessions | granted or to be granted, publicity should be given to all contracts and | concessions und speculations should | bo_curbed. * Puig_specifically ¥ to “state vour law discu national interes: mere than article a thorizes or leas than- reduited agreements between government and the le 2 i with oil ed epinion re- Backs Prior Concessfons. The s. replied that the law was aceeptable, tiough subjict minor modificati He reterr Sencr Pu'g to ecretary flnance for the to the auestion. THe chair nest d opinion tie answer Ia nan of the oil committee | anded regardin 7, to “Which the | tly and sinterely declare obinion that the concessions ¥ granted prior 1o adoption of o taq i oustitution should be ac- cepte —_— Reserve Seats Passion Play. Main 667, — \d\;xlhmn( nt. 3,00 POLICE GUARD | PARADE IN GOTHAM | disturbed, However. ! 8,000 in Line. soctated Press. NE YORK, March 17, ¥ hundred members of the pollce de- | partment, detailed to prevent possible | clashes between Irish Free State and republican sympathizers, —guarded | some 8,000 marchers in the annual Patrick day parade through 3th | avenue this afternoon. The nearest thing to a disturbance was created at. 42d streef when an | aged woman, elbowing her way through the crowd to the curb, shout- | . “Ow, ye dirty robbers!" The laughter she caused disgusted her and she moved on. 5 ] “Politely Pushed” Aside. | Several republicans, bearing plao- | lards scoring the ¥ree State, attempt- | ed to join the procession, but were | politely pushed behind the police | lines. t Thirty patrolmen were stationed in | | each of the eighty-four blocks along | the line of march, while member: f the bomb squad and the detectiv vision walked alongside the automo- biles of the marshals. A squad of | mounted patrolmen headed the pro- | cession. Extra details of trafiic men | and several hundred reserves were | pressed into duty. Mayor Hylan Absent. The greater part of the parade w made up of uniformed students Catholic schools, the old 69th Regi- ment in full quota, a dLlACh“l(‘fll of | the Rainbow Division, A. E. some Spanish-American war ve Most all_the bands .played Wearing of the Green” to the exct sion of whatever else they knew. Gov. Smith and his staff reviewed i the procession from a stand at 64th i street. Mayor Hylan, for the first time in his career as a public offici: failed to join the Toviewin: purey. Archbishop Hayes review: ! the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedrral. _has southern exposure, ning ice water. Suitable rrice-a 90 sasv 1-16 inch=1 foot.) @* MEXIBAN SEGREI’ARY | IMPRESSIVE SERVICE MARKS OBSERVANCE OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY. stitutionality of the federal trans- partlllon act of 1920. The suit was' a test case, RAILROADS T0 PAY $7.000,000 FUND IFederal Judges Fix Amount of Contingent Money to Be Handed U. S. by all rallroads. to every railroad whose earnings Amount to more than § per cent for the last ten months of 1920 and the full year of 1921. The decision was upon a petition for an interlocutory injunetion filed by the. Dayton-Goose ~Creek Railroad Company of Texas. line, only twenty-six miles long, but traverses the rich Goose Creck :oil fields. The contingent fund is prov \ded for {in the railroad taxation ad money to railroads suffering from financial depression or to enable rail- roads to buy equipment. This act wa: passed at the time the railroads re verted. from governmental to private ownership. e RECEPTION FOR DENBY. Admiral Jones Entertains for Sec- retary Aboard Flagship. BALBOA, March 17 (by Radio).— Admiral Jones, commander-In-chief of the Atlantic fleet, gave a reception tonight aboard his flagship, the bat- tleship Maryland, in honor of Secre- tary Denby ¢ SUIT WAS A TEST CASE Decision Applies to Every lbulroarl Showing Earnings Above 6 Per Cent. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, March 17.—Rail- roads of the United States must pay into the federal Tailroad contingent ! fund approximately $75,000,000 as half Go Mrs. congr Morrow and members of sional _party accompan; This is a short | 't to lend | . Morrow of the Canal Zone and | | ng | BLAME LOSS FOR DEATH. ana_the | resuit has been awaited with interest | It applies directly | Newark Man Vietim ;150000 ou in Movie Venture, Report. | J EY CITY, N, J., March 17. | The los= of $150,000 in motion pie. ture enterprises is believed to have | prompted William A. Bushfield, body has been recovered from Newark bay. to commit suic A president anc erican Venc Late last night dockmet at Danforth avenue saw a man lea into the bay nd disappear, where Mr. Bushfleld's body was u few hours later. | EMBEZZLER GETS 5 YEARS. CEDAR PIDS, Jowa. March E. H imers, v..,;».— of 5 ia. to emberzlement of more than $100 000 from the company's funds, wat sentenced to an i | not to exceed O. Anderson today. | used the money to cover stock marke losses. LENIN IS IMPROVING. By the Associated Press. court *#t**‘**&*‘***’#****4**!»ll»*******ii***l&**}*)&*** The mass at § Order of Hibernians in a body. LIQUOR SEARCH WITHOUT WARRANT HELD ILLEGAL Court Declares U. S. Agent Exceed- ed Authotity—Orders Liquor Returned to Owner. e Associated Press RA €, N. Y.. March 17. John el of Buffalo, court here today agents have -Judge in federal | declared prohibition rbsolutel ke Hazel character of prohibition agents a office as in flagran mpt of Judge ction followed ring on three Utica cases. He o the immediate return to Gus Ttica of -four g.allons MOORE & HILL, Inc. MEMBERS CF THE CHEVY CHASE, NEAR AND LIVINGSTON Price $15,750.00. : Bl e e e e Chevy a tiv det ure shows high dignitaries of the Catholie Church in procession, which preceded the solemn high Patrick’s Church yesterday in honor of Ireland’s patron Archbishop Fumawoni-Biondl, the new apostolic delegate, is shown in the center. — int, which was attended by the Anclent BANDITS FOILED BY EXPRESSMAN; CHEATED OUT OF $15,000 PARCEL ¥ the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash., March 17.—Three men held up the train crew and pas- sengers of a Northern Pacific train | to take the $15.000 package from the safe and hide it elsewhere. was forced to join the train crew and twelve passengers lined up on the at South Prairie today, were cheated | station platform, but refused to lell‘ out of a $15,000 parcel by Express|where the money was hidden. Messenger C. 1. Going and later two| As the bandits rode through Buck- were wounded and captured by n‘le)', a nearby town, posse. was riddled with bullets by citizens | As the train stopped at Southjand a few miles further on a posse | Prairie, the three bandits fired in the | overtook them. The third man, un- rning which enabled Going wounded, escaped. KANSAS BONUS SIGNED. of lquor seized in a raid upon his home without a warrant by federal He also ordered the return | of four trucks seized from | po amer and John Falvo, both of | PAYS previously ‘ordered returned by St resigusly qpdered returned 2¥ | Philippines and Boxer Uprising. | ToPEKA. March 1 the _attorney _representing J. M. Davis today ched his signa- amer and Falvo to prepare papers ture to the bill providing for a bonus in'a motion to punish Brennan for | eonte ¢ W not complying | 2 . e PIVINE [ (3781 4 day for residents of Kansas | Who served in the Spanish- | with the order. In a third case Judge Hazel the Philippin | derea a truck returned immediately. | (he Boxer uprising in 1898-1900. | bill provides @ bond issue of $1.000, | provided the owners posted u $1,000 bond 000 with which to pay the bonus, or- 1420-22 “H”” St. N.W. WASHINGTON REAL ESTATE BOARD. CONN. AVE. NEAR 14th ST. AND PARK RD. STREET Price, $10,000.00. of the . two colonial front porcl will wide Chase homes on the Tt has electric lights, celleat condition: owner, on premises give immediate possession. WASHINGTON HEIGHTS Price $12,000.00. convenient to two CLEVELAND PARK e welt, Bullt Brick honse i Price $14,500.! Aetached home of e house has eight spacious rooms, hot-wate foors and a bulit-in garage. 2 make attractive terms NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE Price 313.500 NEAR let and “M” STREETS N.W. First Commercial Zone. 5th STREET N.W., NEAR MASS. AVE., $7,500.00. Price A well built bay-window brick. containin (four bedrooms), furnace heat and “This property is in the first commercial zone and is well adapted for remodeling. NEAR 14th AND HARVARD STS. Price, $13,500.00. An excellently located home on one of the best streets Just a step from the 14th st This home has seven rooms and bath, excepti well constructed, with glassed-in porches, Hot-water h hardwood floars and a 't in” Columbia Heights, line. electric lights. There is a fot 1813143 ft. to & 20-ft. will give pessession hot-water heht, clectric is in very excellent shape and this property onably priced MT. PLEASANT Pnce $13,500.00. The lot is 501 and give immedia rooms, floors, hot-water heat, electrie lights, and rear porches. large aftic and built-in garage occupant will give immediate possession. AN EXCELLENT INVESTMENT PROPERTY. Price $22,500.00. offering condists of six two-famil 00 ! owner within only one horoughly mod electric lights deep lot to & 8. are rapldly advancing Thents of four rooms ‘nd batn tach month. bufiding: the owner zage of $15,000 for three ¥ A BARGAIN IN AN APARTMENT HOUSE Located on & prominent business street northwest. This 5 building has a frontage of 100 feet on & business thorou, seven rooms fare and contains 21 housekeeping apartments in éxcelient in perfect condition. 000, o due’ to 1ts loc “Price $125,000.00. NEAR 10th ST. AND MASS. AVE. Price $15,000.00. Excellent value in a three-story brick bi ing ffteen rooms and three baths. arranged for ments; Bot-water heat a 30-ft. alley: one-car garage renting for 203 per month. ble at the above fgure. part lot 24 fI. wide by 135 ft. deep to in very good condition aud garage! This property is very regson wo-car paved alley. "Owher Kelvinator Electric Refrigeration for the Home Keeps Milk Sweet for Two Weeks Of course, no houswife would think of keeping milk for two weeks. But the fact that it can be done shows how efficient Kelvinator refrigeration is. Kelvinator is the refrigerating equipment which fits tlght into the ice-box you have now. [Its refrig- eration is fully 10 degrees colder than ice. .Kelvi- nator supplies dry cold, and keeps your refngera— tor at the same even‘temperature the year "round. Kelvinator is the oldest electric refrigerating ‘ma- chine made. Owners who have had their Kelvi- nators for years will tell you of its dependability and its great efficiency. 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