Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1923, Page 27

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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 31.—Or- ganize the world for peace was the ap- peal of Former Justice John H. Clarke of the United States Supreme Court, in a Memorlal day address before the American Legion. “A plea to our young to organize the country for peace” was his subject. Another world war confronts the people, according to the utterances of military leaders and others, who es- timate that it may come in three years or ten years, but that it is inevitable, the former justice said. Mr. Clarke referred to a story that the senators of Venice, their “hands-too stiff to grasp the sword hilt" after viewing Galileo's telescope, ‘exclaimed : “This glass will give us a great advan- tage In time of war." Game of Old Men. “Thus,” sald the speaker, “it is the truth of history and the lesson of sester- day, that the batties of the world are fought by Boys sent to premature graves by ambitious, proud old men. without a_chance to serve mankind or o taste the joys of life. Yes war is the game of old men in which the stakes are the lives of the youth of the world. “But 1 am not here to counsel a revolt of youth agalnst its elders. much as the manner in which the aftairs of the world have been con- ducted during the past nine years might justify such discussion, but L have come to urge on you young soldiers the imp to our coun- try and to yourselves of your join ing in a united demand upon your government that it take some kind of acticn in an attempt, at I organize the world for peac nternational alliances, coalitions, ententes, four-power and other trea- ties hav d to promote rather seen in any nation in the world,” he added. Former Justice Clarke Says|’ U..S. SEEKS RULING . ON RAIL MERGERS Application of Transporiation Act to Be Bettled in-Suit Against . Western Combine. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL. 3inn., May, 3L.—A decree sctting forth the. extems'to which, the. transportation act of 1920 -relieves ‘the'| railroads from the provisions of the' Sherman anti-trust law was sought here today in United States circuit court of appeals by Sollcitor General James ¥ Beck of Washington. The case, which came before the court todsy om the solicitor general's action. was the government's suit to bresk up- the Southern Pacifie-Central Pacific railroad combination. Mr. Beck expect- d to present a United States Supreme Court decision for the dissolution of the two roads and to ask the circuit eourt for a decree carrying out the higher court’s mandate. The wording of the circult court's order, which will tend to show the scope of the decision, will be of im- portance to the railroads, the Inter- state Commerce Commission and the Department of Justice In determining the status of railway combinations in the future, it was said . ANARCHIST THROWS TRACT AT MUSSOLINI Opening of Italian Parliament In- terrupted by Former New York Resident. ROME, May 30.—While Premier Mussolini was about to apen the sitting of parliament today, a man shouted from the visitors' gallery. “T will open the sitting.” At the same time the mian threw in the direction of Musso- Iini_a packet of pamphlets, entitied “Capitalism and Liberty.” The pamph- let began with the words: “I come as the herald of a storm.” - The man was Cicco Cocoaza, a Nea- politan anarchist. who, for many years, resided in New York. He had been re. sponsible for many similar interrup- tions in the past, and was today placed under arres SIX LOSE JOBS AS LIQGUOR QUIZ PERILS HIGH-UPS ———— @irls Involved-in Alleged Plot to 3 Release Whisky From Fed- eral Warehouse. By #im Assactated Press. CHICAGO, May 31.—Investigation of the alleged plot to release thousands of gallons of liquor from federal ware- house through bogus withdrawal per- mits sad by prohibition officials to have Beéen uhcoverdd with the arrest of At- torney Jobn K. Mohahah, a former pro- hibition office employe, already hds caused the suspension of six employes, | several of them girls, and may reach “higher ups,” according to Joseph J. Merensky, assistant district attorney. One woman employe has confessed that she received money from Monahan to withdraw the permits, supposedly made out to Catiolic church and char- ity instQutions, from the mails and handed them to Monahan, who obtained the liquar from the warehouse, Mereg- sky said. She was introduced to Monahan by a former congresyman, Merensky said the woman stated in her confession, and was told any favors she could do him “would be appreciated.” Three girls, according to Merensky, were given $105 each to obtain the sifps for Monahan. Monahan now is under $2,600 bond, pending a hearing June 5. LIGHTNING KILLS THREE. Couple, : Returning Home, Find Children Dead, Fourth Badly Hurt. COLQUITT, Ga., May 31.—Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lewis of near Jakin, re- turning from Donalsonville to the home of a neighbor, where they had left their four children, found thres of the children dead, the other un- conscious and the neighbor, Mrs. John Widner. also unconscious. They had been struck by lightning. Mrs. Widner and the injured child may recover. - WOMAN'S DEATH ACCIDENT. SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 31.—Pelice investigating the death here last night of Mrs. Chester Johnson, who was killed when she was struck by a bullet from a rifle which exploded in a house adjacent to the Johnson home, declared they were convinced the shooting was ‘accidental. The oc- cupants of the house in which the riffle was kept; who were taken in custody following the shooting, were released when it was learned they were absent from home when the ac- cident occurred. Our stock of used cars being de- pleted, we will give you a very fair price for your used car on a "DURANT Open Evenings and Sunday Until 9 P.M. HARPER MOTOR CO. 1128 Connecticut Avenue Franklin 4307 TREASURY BALANCE “NOW_s30p 00000 The United States Treasury today finishes the: eleventh month of the fiscal year 3923 with more than $300,- 000,000:in, -the. daily balance with which to,¢et expenses. A _qdartérty tax payment June’ 18~ Czd this ~payment Tr borrowings are paid off Probably will carry to the: next tax et September 15, with "a''dom- gnlunc-. although some jasuty:”finaficing to meet contin- gencies: of the floating debt may be necessary meantime. & The end of the fiscal yéar, June 30, will find that Uricle Sant tas not only lived within his inconte, but has a comfortable ‘baldnce to ‘go into the next year: This balsdcs may be as large ‘as §140,000.000.\"Thig is not all of the cash he will have on hand. The cash balance in Uncle Sam's pocket will be much larger, but at the end of the year he can 100k on an excess of income of over outgo of more than $100,000,000. The June tax payment will run up his cash in pocket, but it will be needed to meet the lean months of summer and fall. The Treasury, on the basis of pres- ent taxes and expenditures, is in a comfortable position. The funded debt is being met and the floating debt is being cared for on advanta- geéous terms. is due after COMMODITY NEWS WIRED STAR FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY PORTLAND, Ore, May 31.—Im- provements and betterments costing $6.500,000 will' be made by the Ore- gon-Washington Rallroad and Navi- gation Company this year, according to General Manager J. P. O'Brien to- day. Of this sum $1,285.34¢5 will be spent for new locomotives and ca- booses, a number of which will be ready for service shortly. EAST 'ST. LO May 31.—Hog prices mow are. lower here ihwm—for many years, the gemeral-average Jbe- ing around $7.65 per-hundrod pounds. The drop--is-beidg refiected in car prices, FALL RIVER; Mass: May 31.—Flint No. 1 mill h€re has closed down in- definiitely dnd three other cotton mills will be.closed fhis week. About a dozen mills now are operafing om a four-day-a-week schedule. Sales of print cloths continue light. CONNELLSVILLE, Pa, May 21— Spot furnace coke is quotable today at $5 and $5.50 and third-quarter con- tract at $6. NEW ORLEANS, May 31.—This week brought with it the first warm weather of the season and retail trade was brisk. especially in men's clothing, wash suits, underwear and furnishings. Turnover in shoes and hoslery also has improved greatly. TOPEKA, Kan. May 3i.—Kansas will produce~90.000.000 tc 100,000,600 bushels of wheat: this year. acéord- ing to estimates made public tdday. It is estimated that Texas will re- quire 10,000 harvest hands. By the time this army moves north with the harvest into Oklahoma and Kansas about 30,000 will be required. . CLEVELAND. May 31.—Motor pro- duction here is swinging along at nigh speed tod Chandler_is tarn-- ing out 130 ears daily, and May Wwss company. 5 R YOUNGSDEWN; 'filafi?’. During thefpast ] tions on thé e e e clined 10,000 tans: 2 i amount in comparisop . With --the plant's annual capaéity..of ‘£500.000- tons of finished products. In thirty days the Sharon Steel Hoop: Company shipped 21.000 tons and specifications for 20,000 tons. the peak month in the histgry &f thas | received | American e JE w" L REFINING NOW SECOND IDUSTRY Pétroleum Leaps to Front. Held Twenty-First .Rank . in 1905. By the Asscciated Press, . NEW YORK, May 31.—Petroleum refining ranks second in importance among manufacturing industries, ac- cording to advices received by the American Petroleum Instituts from the census bureau. In the manufac- turing census of 1921, just completed, petroleum products’ were valued at £1.727.440,000, and were exceeded only Ly slaughtering and wholesale meat racking, with products valued at 2,200,942,000. In the census of 1919 petroleum: refining ranked seventh among the leading ndustries of the country. In 1905 it was twenty- first. The daily average grogs crude oil production of the Uhited States in- creased 50,200 barrels for the week ended May' 26, totaling 2,002,050 bar- rels as compared with .850 for the preceding week, the weekly sum- mary shows. The-daily average pro- duction_east of the Rocky mountatns 1, barrels, as _compared 50 barrels, an increase of California production was barrels, as compared with €85,000. According to figures. collected by the institute, imports of petroleum (crude and refined oils) at the prin- cipal ports for the week ended Ma totaled 1,768,000 barrels, a daily a: age of 252,571 compared with 1,40 C00 barrels, a daily average of 201,080, for the week ended May 19. Receipts of California oil (crude and refined oils) at Atlantic and gulf coast ports for the week ended May 26, ta- taled 483,000 barrels, a daily average of 699714 barrels against 1,314,000 barrels, a daily average of 187,714 for the w May 19. STOP OIL DRILLING T0 AID CONDITIONS Oklahoma Producers Reack ;&gr!e- ment—-Other Wall Street Briefs. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Mas —Tulsa, Okla., dispatches state that an agreement for a suspension of drilling opera- tions in the Tonkawa fleld until there is an improvement in general condi- tions, has been reached by the large producers of that territory. E. R. Perry, vice president of the Cosden company, is chairman of the commit- teg ifl chagge. 7 The offer of the Kennecott Copper Corparation to shareholders of the Utalr Copper Tompany :to_exchange one and three:quarfers share of Ken- necott for one of Utal éxpires today No official estimate,cold be obtained s.to the amount of stoek turned in, but it ‘was sdidthat there was no | ff;?:m” 4L, extending the exchan. £ W T Naw | stock the American Loco- wotiye: dn$, of which holders of prseat fesne will receive two £ share now held. has ok value of $110.75 a Qurfrent earnings are reported B Be at the rate of 320 a share. V - Reports are current in the financial community that a recapitalization plan is Being worked out -for the Cogton Oil Company, to strengthen its'financial structure. but West' by storm. They will capture you, too, when you hear them reproduced by Vocalion Red Records—-with the lasting brilliance of tone by no other records. that it does not involve a merger with any other company. Current earn- ings are reported to be satisfactory. NEW YORK STANDARD OIL cAlbert E. Short says yow’ll know his reasrmeasETaTe ResaRE e masrisonT H . VOCALION RECORDS €SPECIALISTS IN~ PIANOLAS AND REPRODUCING: PIANOS™ '6'3‘! DemoLtL EMMONS $.SMITH 'Wadnbweag;: AEOLIAN HALL ~ Tuelfth and G Streets i Complete Stock of Vocalion Records Racords Are Red Dance Dreams of India— Fox-Trot Down in Sweetheart Town—Fox-Trot Aldert E. Short and Iiis Tivoli Syncopaters 14552 10-inch § .75 By the Shalimar—Fox-Trot Long Ago(MidApple Blossoms)-Fox-Trot Albert E. Short and His Tivoli Syncepators 5 14553 10-inch $ .75 Wolverine Blues—Fox-Trot Liza from “Liza"—Fox-Trot ABert B. Short and His Tivoli Syscopaters 14554 10-inch $ .75 Farewell Blues—F ox-Trot Aunt Hagar’s Blues—Fox-Trot Gene Fesdick’s Hossiers 14535 10inch $ .75 Marcheta—Waltz Just An Old Love Song—Waltz The Bar Harbor Society Orchestrs Vocal Chorus 14539 10-inch $ .75 La Golondrina (The Swallow)—Waltz La Paloma-—Tango-Fox-Trot The 14543 10-inch §.75 Down Among the Sleepy Hills of Ten- nessee—Fox-Trot Don’t Be Too Sure—Fox-Trot rehestra Seloin’s O = 14544 10-inch §$ .75 ‘Who's Sorry Now—Fox-Trot Wildflower—Introd. “April Blossoms”— Fox-Trot from *“Wildflower” Ben Bernis and His Orchestrs 14555 10-inch $ .75 Don’t Think You'll Be Missed—Fox- Orchestra Trot—Seloin’s Seven or Eleven (My Dixie Puir o’ Dice) —Fox-Trot — Selvin’s Orchestra, Vocal Chorus bly Ernest Hore 10-inch § .75 Operatic La Donna & mobile (Woman is Fickle) from “Rigoletto” (Verds) (In Italian| Giulie Crimi, T ‘enor 30178 10-inch $1.25 possessed You may hear these new Tivoli numbers at your dealer’s today. 4+ Mad Scene from “Lucia di Lammer- 4 color. moor” (Domizetés’ Caro Nome (Dearest Name) from *‘Rig- oxlnl(n'.“iln Italian) (Verds) ey, S 2l - o Qopmr ? 12-inch $2.00 Voi 1o sapete (Well you know, Good Mother) from ‘‘Cavalleria Rustica-- i) (In Italian) 52048 12-inch $1.75 Standard Loch Lomond (Trac Comia’ Thro® the Rye M Scoxch Air) 'etersen, no i 60005 10-iach $1.5 Absent (Glenn- Meicalf) Jokn Cherles Thomas, Baritone 30169 10-inch $1.25 In Dublin’s Fair City (Old Irish Air) Just a Bit of Irish Lace (Christy-Soiman) Calin O'More, Teno ot 34000 10-tneh $1.25 For a Kiss (Brenon-Tosti)— Chas. Hars, Tenor | (Orred-Harrsson) In the Gloaming (¢ Alice Louise Mertens, Contralto 14550 10-inch § .75 Instrumental Canzonetta (D’ Ambrosio) Salvatien Army Staff Bend 35019 13-inch $1.25 Cocoanut Dance and Banjo Solo Fred Ve Eps with Piano Diste STedity~Fred on By Basja Solo o ‘an 14551 wt.fl Basket of o ’lfi"hl!"fl-'“‘lgflll- Afl&diun Solo 'Dowd’s Fa Reel Medley Michaol Colemes, Violin Solo 14541 10-inch § .75¢ Harwaiian ‘That Naughty Waltz Sweet Hawalian Moonlight Ferveva and Fronchini 14515 10-inch $ .78 Hawailan Smiles Waltz ; 14517 16-inch § .78 Isle of Paradise—Waltz On Hilo Bay—Waltz Fa Frasnchini ond Green s 14516 10-inch § .73 Sacred Nearer lgflcod to Thee H'_:_u b, Soprano, Cherles Horrisem, Whnfi Roll Is Called Up Yonder Lewis James, Tenor—Elliett Shew, 14542 10-inch § .75 Popular Man in the Moon from “Caroline” - I'm Only a Pilgrim from “Caroline’” J. Hareld Murray 14549 10-inch § .75 Jones and Hare, deinyam. Accom. 1 Love Me—Billy Jones 14556 10-inch § .75 Down Among the S1 Hills of Tean- nessee—Irving ond Jack Kenfmesn, Tenors Dearest (Yon'n‘m N-{_m to My 5 Orchestra Accompanin: 14567 10-inch § .75 Beside a2 Babbiing Brook Who's Sorry Now? Irving Kesfman, Tenor, Selvin's Orch. 14558 10-inch §$ .75 14559 10-inch $ .75 Yu_m cordially invited to hear the new June Vocalion Records at all Aeclian Stores and Vocalion Dealers ANl Vocalion ON SALE 122 G Street NW. _ MAKERS THE AEOLIAN COMPANY , NEW YORK - - - Complete Library of Vocalion Records Ready Lansburgh & Brother 420-430 7th Street N.W. Large Stock of Vocalion Records Always on Hand <o GIBSON COMPANY 917-919 G Street N.W, Call Us for Any Vocalion Records 1210 G Strest N.W. New York and London C. GROVE, INC. ... DUR ANT Just a Real Good Car Sedan . .cvviere o ot Business Coupe .. . . Sport Touring .. Sport Sedan . . ... $890 $890 e stienon. 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COMPANY-HAS NEW HEAD Pratt Sucopeds: Folger, Who Be- comies Chairman—Action on Stock Iucrease Put Off. By the Associated P\‘ll NEW YORK, May 31.—H. L. Pratt. formerly vice presidant of the Stand- ard OiFCompany af New York. today was_elscted president, succeeding H. | F. C. Folger. F. S. Fales was elected cretary. succeeding C. M. Higgins, nd the other officers were re-elected. Mr. Folger was elected chalrman of the board. a new office created by an amendment to the bylaws. ‘A special méeting of stockholders to approve the proposed increase in capital stock from $225,000,000 to $300,000,000 of $25 par stock was postponed because an _insufficient number of proxies were received. BUSINESS AT GLANCE. The Largest Earth-Fill Dam Is Planned—Big Store Leases. WORCESTER, Mass. May 3L— ‘What is sald to be the largest earth fill dam in the world will be con- structed by the New England Power Company on the Deerfleld river. It will be 200 feet high, 1.200 feet wide at the base, 1300 feet~doug and will impound 3,00.008,000-gsilons of wa- ter. The company Is seiling $1800> 000 first mortgage bodsathe proveads. of which will be used im pPart:te a6 fray the censtruction expemses. RICHMOND, Va., May ’31.—More cars of strawberries = are belng shipped from commercial bélts on the eastern shore of Virginia to narthern markets than for many .yeafs. " A record vield is expected despite the short season. due to unfavorable weather. A scarcity of pickers is.re- ported. | MEMPHIS, FTenn, May 31.—Two forty-ycar leases involving $6.79,998 have been recorded here. They were made by B. Lowenstein Brothers, Inc.. to the Peabods payment for an eight-story depart- ment store building. which will be erected at a cost of $2,500,000. OY, N. Y., May 31.—Thomas A. Eg:i' has notified :eity ‘officials that i1l begin on.the Green Island storage battery plaut #his vear. The buildings will be adjacent -to the largé;plant now being built by Henry Ford." BACK LOANS. Sy 1 Dispateh to Tha Starrh < & LOUIS; May 3i~~Bendand mort- Anamies: founs _on T 13 % ‘deetming o ::\‘nnchnl cutldys.! This action has not been - concerted. but_has caused a pause in buflding. Symptoms of a decline in prices of duilding materials are now apparent, especially in" hard- wood and pine lumber. Prices of labor and materials in the building trades have advanced 35 per cent in the last sixty days. Skilled labor is at the peak of wages, brick- layers and carpenters receiving at- tractive bonuses. MEAT MAY DROP. £ May i ia o)fxffi. Sl g EYS néflgml'. hbuse.products c#utious ticipating e “further | @ lower. mar] coming In faster than the outlet. for them warrants, - Company and cover | NEW EG& MARKETING EXCHANGE-1S PLANNED BALTIMQRE, May 31.—As soon as 100,000 .or miore laying hens are rep- fesented by Ifaryland producers, a co-operative eg® Marketingiekchange will be opened in this ify." " This is the agresment enteted into recently by the ducers’ A: will do ctual marketing, the Maryland State Poultry -Association, ‘the ex- tension service ‘9% the -University of Maryland and:the Maryland Parm Bu- reau Federatfon. The campaign plans now in the hands of a committee of five, with Edwin Warfleld, jr., vice-president, Stewart, seeretary of the _ Farm Bureau. Federation, esenting the latter organization. Through. the. propesed plan, con- sumers in this city, it is said, will be certain to get fresh, graded and un- broken eggs, obtainahle every market day in the year. SETS BUTTER RECORD. — Holstein Assdociation Reports on Yegr‘s Production Tests. NEW ‘' YORK. Sfay 31.—Californ Pieterje’ Bloom Megd; a pure bred Holsteln: cow, osimed ‘and bred by the University . ot. proia, has just vorfipleted @ test: which makes her the'" sixty-seventh Holstein in the Uhited States ts produce over 1,000 pofinds of butterfat ih.one vear. In 365 days she produced’ 28.238 pounds of milk containtnig 1,004.62 pounds of butterfat, according to official an- nouncement from the Holstein Asso- clation of America. This fat produc- tion s equal to 1,255.77 pounds of butter. —_— SHORT-TERM SECURITIES, 1l Tel. of Canadian Nor. 5 | Cent. Argentine Rwy Ceatral Leather Gy 1 e, C, & & Chicagn Du Pont Goodsear T, Great Northier. | Hocking Val Humble 011 Kanses City | Kenneeott € Libby, MeN: M. | P enna. R. 30, ! St. Paul Union Depot 3%: Ts TREASURY CERTIFICATES (Quotations fumfshed by Redmond & Co.)