Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1923, Page 28

£l PINANCIAE, NOVEMBER FINANCIAL, Grain, Produce and AR | N PLANS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, BOND QUOTATIONS D. C. FRIDAY, [ ev ~onx BONDS 7o s Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office, 23, 1923, pr 128 TREND IS UPWARD | NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office ON STOCK MARKET Special Issues Gain, While Others Hang Fire—Bald- win Strong. BY STUART a1 Dispateh to The Star IW YORK. Nove main price movement market today w ward. While a s dividual stocks we other parts of the list were hanging tire Among the was Allis Chalmers. fnes figures showe dollar dividend was not by any impre The net for this period amoun 3 » common. "natur the company dits cannot be r til the close of the year, and it is fore ble to suppose that final results will be considerably ter than would be inferred from the nine-month return. Other members of the clectric roup were more in demand, Cestinghouse getting across and neral Electric running up sharply. Speelalty Stocks Strong. pecialty operations took in a wid yange of stocks. Maxwel Motors the fluctuations in which have been very mystirving, 1 quite ~olent jump to the animent of the familiar rumors rding a deal with some other automobile company. New York Air Brake was on its earnin which are be running ove a share asses of stock, as against vidends. @ vevival of The stock up- in- the once more e number of taken up t earn- four- new favorit The lat that the being sive busine certain or koned in so-called interest in Company., and also in s in Industrial Alcohol on ame from hous redited with doing b to the & stock, however, after rly ‘today ran’into a #00d deal of realizing. Iarnings are suflicient to warrant a return to divi- dends, but the recent movement has Teen based more upon the unusually yrofitable conditions cxisting alcohol indust Baldwin Off, Then Rebounds. t selling had followed the dec- of only the regular dividend in Locomotive quickly sub- The stock ran up again today American Locomotive was sym- frally strong. Buving was in- orts of a larger in orders flowing ent compani well Motors stocks rer much of i mystery as ever. rumor that Studcbaker was mtrol was denied recently, sport persists, However, who have studied the ion consider on, particular than earnings n Maxwell Motors wa a banking syndicate furnis 0 cash, taking over a amount of the So the strest has 1 view that the vt of a well planned valgn to permit distribution Tire Stocks in Demand. a rising pric r und tire industry have to hind in the shape of con- ts for cquipment with automobile cturers. The tir themselves much in dem into ned as The buying but the persons Maxwell or cam- trend h o on erican nticipat is 45 on common s are running 1t such action dividends of aid zular mnually are being ing Lively at Close. nt on the great triul spe “ffeet upon the advance was still not nd in some directions ernoon w on the p 1t started th the declara- ividend_on United therefo s ve for 15 some unea Anglo-French relations, no speak of hus occurred. of th Jdern market is to move - 11 the other. rre down again rath compared with carly in the week Imost exactly half the recovery which of the agree the wount of th ugh is that had extended interest in b up on the idea t would break up. The: e assadorial aris effected a compro- CLOSING IRREGULAR. Steel Strong—Good Demand for Motor Accessories. By 1 NEW YORE lutive interest November Specu- in today m Lot shifted to comparatively minor intc when the s ders sho s of faltering rmit- ot Mit-taking and selling we the list i spotty net gain n exc loss the el Sales mated 0,000 share e elosing viness deve s in usual Int was irreg Toped in the afternoon in resp week end - profit-taking. tes Cast Iron Pipe contin- climbing more than 614 and’ there was od demand e motor accessories issues. Speculation w ier in a num- ber of the ordi tive stocks in_ th new high reco tublished, i Schulte A block of entioned Tidewater S points, ather showed lar_ Some leading 1 cluding nd Cast Iron ) Products. of the last hands at 61%. Oil extended its decline but quite a number of industrials and specialtles advances of 3 to 4 points. changed SHORT-TERM SECURITIES. (Quotations furnished by Redmond & Co.) ~—Noon.— . Bid. Ofter. 14 1023, Mirris & o Penna. R, Wester Weatiglouse £, & M, 75 ing forward | | { Adams Express. Adv Rumley pf. Afr Reduction. Ajax Rubber 1% 281 67 6% All Am Cable Allled Chem. l Allis Chalmer Am Agr Chem. . Am Ag Chm pf. Am Bank Note. . | Am Beet § 1 Am Br Sho ! Am Bosch | Am Can. !Am Can pr. jAm Chain (A | Am Chicle Co. Am Cotton Oil. . Am Cot Oil pf. Am H & Leath. . Am H & Lea pf !Amlce.... |Am Internati.. Am La France Am Linseed. Am Linseed p Am Locomotiv IAInska Juneau.. 1 . {Am Metals. . | Am Radiator. { An: Safe Razor. Owing to the | i Am Sugar {Am Tel & { Am Tobacco. { Am Tobac (B). {Am W W 6% pf. Am Woolen. ... Am Woolen pf. |Am Writ Prpf.. i Am Zinc & Lead Am Zinc&Ld pf. | Anaconda. | Armour o 1. Asso D Goods. ... XssoD G Atchison. . | Atchison pt. { Atlan Cst Lin Atlantic Fruit I:\lll\nllc Ref. {Atlas Tack. |A chols. § Austin Nich pt. i Baldwin Loco. . | Balto & Ot Balto & Ol *Bank ot Com. . Barnesdall (A). Beth Steel. Beth St17%(n).. Booth Fish. . i Bklyn Edison. Brklyn-Man Tr Brkin-Man T pf Bklyn Rap T fp. Brown Shoe pf. . Butte & Super. Caddo Oil Calif Pack. . Calif Petroi.... Callahan Zine. . anadian P: arson H Centras Leatn. ! Cent Leath p | Cent RR of NJ Cerro de Pasco. Chandler Mot. Chesap & Ohlo Chl & Alton. Chi & Alton p! Chi & East I11. Chi & E 111 pf. Chi Grt West Chi Great W pf. ChiMil& StP.. Chi Mil &St P pf Chi P'neu Tool. . Chi & Northwn. Chi R1& Pac. ChiStPM&O. .. 1 Chile Copper... Chino Copper. CCC&StL. Cluett Peabody. Cluett&Pby pf. Coca-Cola. Colo Fuel... I Colo & South Columbia Gas. . Columbn Carbon Comp Tabuiat. . Congoleum Co Conley Tin Foil. Cons Cigar. Cons Gas of Cons Textile. Cont Can. . | Continental Mot { Corn Products... | Cosden & Co. . Crucible Steel. . | Cuban-Am Sug. Cuba Cane Sug - {Cuba Cane S pf. Cuban Dom'can. Cuban Dom pf.. Cuyamel Fruit.. Davison Chem. {Deere Copf..... 63 D Lack & West. 118 | Dome Mines 184 | Douglas Corpn.. 11% Dupont (EI)... 1284 | EatonAxle &Sp. 225 Elec Stor Bat... 64k Endicott-John.. 65% Endicott-J pf. Erle. Erie 1s . Erie 2a pf... Famous Players Fifth Ave Bus... Fisk Rubber. Fleishman. Foundation Freeport Tex: Gen Asphalt. ... Gen Baking.... Gen Cigar ! Gen Electric. Gen Elec spl. .. Gen Motors { Gen Mot 7% deb. | Gimbei Bros. . Glidden. Goodrich. . Goodrich pt. Goodyear pf. Goodyear pr pf. Granby Consol Gray & Davis. Gt Northern pf. Great Nor Ore. .. Greene-Canan Guantana Sug. Guif St Steel. Harbishaw Cab. Hartman Corp Hayes Wheel | Hendeo Mg Househ'd Pro Houston Ofl. Hudson Motor: Hupp Motors Hydraulic Stl. Iilinols Central 111 Cen pE(W 1) {1nd Oll & Gas. Indiaboma Inspiration Interb Rap Tr. jIn Ag Chem .. {Int Cement. .. In Combust B... | Int Harvester. Int M Marine pf. Int Nickel. Intl Paper. . Int Tel & Teles. Intertype Corp. Invincible Oll. .. Iron Product Iron Prod ctfs Ir Products pf ! Jewel Tea. {Jewel Tea p | Jones Tea. City S (Julius) Kelly Spr Tire.. Kennecott. ..... Keystone Tire Kinney G R..... Lee T & Rubber. Lehigh Valley Lima Locomo. Loews Inc. Loft Inc. ... Loose-Wiles Louis & Nash. Mclntyre Por. Mack Trucks. Mack Trucks 1st Macy Co. .. 10% 14 96" 48", 9% 13% bk 40 24% Open. 101 109 91§ 42! 8644 24 118, 198 | Open. High. 314% 603, 2% 23% 9% 65t 27% 42 60 1% Manatl Sugar. Manhatn El guar Maracatbo Oil Market St Ry. .. Market St prior. Marland Oil. . : Mathison Alkiil. Maxwell (A) Maxwell (B) May Dp Stores. . Mex Seaboard. . Mex Seabd ctfs. { Miami Copper | Miaate st o, | Midvale Steel. .. Minn StP & M. . 125 Mo K & Tex pf.. 31m ‘o Pacific. ..... { Moon Motors. | Mother Lode | Mullins Body. | Nat1 Acme. Nat Biscuit. Nat! Enamel Natl Lead. Natl Ry of M t Supply..... Nevada Copper. N Or Tex & Mex. ¥ Y Alr Brake. . Air Brk (A). Central. ... Chi & StL.. " Chi N ¥ Dock NYNH&Hart N ¥ Shipbldg North Amer. North Pacific. Oklahoma Prod. Orpheum Circuit. Otis Steel. . .. Owens Bottle. .. | Pac Coast 2a pt PacificOll. ... | Packard Mot pf. Pan-Am Pete. .. Pan-Am P (B).. Pennsylvania. Penn Seabd Stl. People's Gas Pere Marquette. Philtp Mor . Plillips Pete. Pierce Ar pf. Pierce Oil. ... Pierce Oil pf Pitts Coal. Pitts & WV | Pressed Sti « Produc & Ref. .. 'ro & Ref ctfs.. P'rod & Ref pf. Pub §ervice. Pullman Co. . Punta Alegre... Pure Oll. .. Pure Ol $% pf.. Railway Stl Sp. Ray Con Copper Reading. . - Reading 1st pf.. Reading 2d pf. . Remington. .. .. Hemin 2d pt. Replogle Steel. . Lep Ir & Stee! Rep Ir & Sl pf.. 4 4 Reynolds Spr. .. . 1 Rey Tobac (B).. 0t Royal Dutch . 491, St Joseph Lead. St L&San Fran.. L&San Fr pf. t L Southwn... Schulte Stores. . abd A L pt Sears Roebuck. . cneca Copper. . a hell Tr & Tran. 3 Shell Union. ... 15% Simms Petrol... 10 Simmons. ...... 274 Sinclair Ofl..... 21 L 86 19°% 53% 8l 5813 881y 36 H 6814 Spicer Mfg Co... 14% St Oil of Calif... 56 6% Stand Oil of NJ 363 StOilof NJpf. 117 terling Prod... 57% tew'd-Warner. 877s trombg Carb 541 Studebaker..... 104 Submarine Bt. ., 2 23, Superior Oil. 2 2% Sweets Coof A.. Tenn Copper. ... Texas Company. Tex Gulf Sulph. 61% Texas & Pacific. 204 Tex & PC &Oll. 8% Third Avenue... 9% Tide Water Oil. . 120 Timken Bearing 37% Tobacco Prod... 60% Tobacco Prod A. 9014 Prans Cont Ofl.. 2% Transue & Will. 34 Twin CR Tran.. 68 10 26% 21% 86 Sielly Oil. loss-Sheffield. . Toss-Sheff pf. 0 Porto Sugar. outh Pacific % 35% 1171 e 89 40% United Drug Union Pacific. Un Cigar Strs. United Fruit United Ry Inv U S Cast I Pipe.. 7S Cast Ir P pf. {oftman M.. ndus Alco. . U S Rubber. ... U S Rub 18t pf. U s Steel. U S Steel pf. U S Tobacco Utah Copper. ... Jtah Securities. 15% 64% 8612 B 95% . 119% .. 106% 641 16 Vanadium Corp. 30% va-Car Chem... 9 -CChem pf... 29% | Va-CChem (B). 4% Vivadou........ 15% Wabash pf (A). Waldorf System. Web & Hellbrn. Western Md. ... West Air Brke. . ‘Westhse EI&M. . White Eag Oil.. White Motor. White OIl. Wickwire. . Wilson Co. Wiltys-Overl pf ‘Wisconsin Cent. ‘Woolworth. Worthington. Wright Aero. *0dd lot. CallMcney..... 4% 4% HOURLY SALES OF STOCKS. 11am.....305 000 1p.m. 773 000 12m......496 000 2p.m. 0 000 000 —_— TREASURY CERTIFICATES. 75| Rate—Maturity. 48 December 15, 19 | $3is Maurcn [ 3 [ 352 Reptemmiar 4%0s March 15, 122 D | 4%s March 16 DRY GOODS DULL. Most of Today’s Trading in Small Lots Today. 3pecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, November 23.—Cot- ton goods markets continued quiet and irregular today, with most of the trading in small lots. Print cloths were quoted at 10% for the 64 by 60 and 12% for the 68 by 12. Raw silk markets were steady but quiet. " TURN IRREGULAR Liberties and High-Grade Rails Hardly Change—For- eign Group Steady. BY GEORGE T. HUGHES. Special Dispatel to The Star, | NI3W YORK. November 23 —lrregu- !larity marked today's bond market, with attention concentrated on spe- cific issues rather than on any one Nefther liberty loans nor the high- grade rails or industrials were much the break in Pere Marquette first 5s, following the dissolution of the syn- te which offered the additional bonds last month. The ring price was 93%, and trading been steady around t figure until s were dow but there was a ver All this has nothing to do with the security of the investment. It is simply a matter of market conditions. The same thing ppened in the case of other new es during recent months. Tractions Make Slight Gninx. tior ded by all th terborough ssues, while the Brook- were firm._Hudson Manhattan refunding 5s were . a condition for which there is no explanation in the financial status of the compgny. Earnings show im- nt, wd interest is being paid Adjustment income 5s, which are the junior issue, as well as divi- dends upon the preferred stoek industrials, Cuba Can were both firm first 5s were again heavy Hing below ¢ tle 1 Interest in lagged for th attention p: to rails of which 45 is a type bond year. In the foreign group there sharp advance in Mexican amounting to between two points, The uropean is steady, but dull Today's New Insues Today's new offerin 000,000 in Northern cent notes per 2 Coast joint stock cent bonds 101, General American T equipment trust certif was announced that ¥ would pay off from sury the 6 per cent and the 11 cent consolldated mortgag, bonds maturing on Dec v St and that a bond issue of about 600,000 would 1 te later to imburse the t ury one time the speculat moment. Nor was much the ‘middle grad caboard Air Line first Ithough this particular soid around it's high for the was @ honds 1d three nks 900,000 in per cent t par Lehigh hin its land 1 per | CLAINS GRANTED TOTAL §1.982.19 German-American Board An- nounces Adjustments of Long Pending Cases. in mixed nnou The German- commission had ifty e ards. totaling $1 9 to American firms and individuals with war claims against Germany. Interest was allowed in each The larger awards were made in the following case: ! Virginia-Carolina Chemical : wel, 1 Climan, r. sus firm of wh nited ates rtners of th n, $237,000: 1 Products Company, $1 Interna- tional Mercantile Marine Compan ; Pfaudler Company, $1 - Watch Case Com Steinway Sons: Disinfecting Compan tate of Benjamin A. Berry Southern Cotton Oil Company. 000, Kosheloff, Medicine Company, § Seeding Machine 'Ce A. Behrends & Co Packing Company, 2 S Ullman, jr., attorney for Leo Kallir and Ernestine Ullman, as executor and executrix estate of Charles Uliman, _$1 ¢ M. Justi Henry D. Justi & Son. $6,230.88: vannah Valley Lumber Compa 353.53; Frederick Post Compan ; 080.24; Quaker Oats Company, $2,000. MILLS MORE ACTIVE. Big Textile Plant Steadily Increas- ing Schedules. N. H. November wur more mills of the Amos- | keag Manufacturing Company cotton { division will resume operation Mon- Gay, November 26, the company an- nounced today. The four mil icholas will provide work ! for appro 600 operatives. Several o le now operating on part time will go on a full-time schedule, More tha e-half of number of 16,000 workers i now are employed. SUGAR MARKET FIRM. Refined Product 15 Points Higher in Today's Trading. YORK, November 23 —Raw sugar was firm and unchanged early today at 5%, cost and frelght, for bas, equal to 7.53, at which basis 7,000 bags of Cubas were sold for early December arrival. Raw sugar futures while somewhat less active, continued firm. They opened 4 to 11 points higher and after advancing 1 to 2 points further to the basis of 5.81 for December, eased off [slishtly under reabzing, and at rid- {day wers about § points net higher. Refined sugar continued firm with prices unchanged to 15 points higher, on the basis of 9.00 to 9.15 for fine granulated. : MADE OIL OFFICIAL. W YORK, November 23 { nouncement is made of the election of A. E. Watts, a vice president of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corpora- tion, as chairman of the Interna- tional Barnsdall Corporation to suc- ceed Robert Law, Mr. Law will continue as chairman of the board of {the Barnsdall Corporation. —_— e ELECTRIC ROAD EARNINGS. Nineteen electric_railways operat- ing In Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbla showed an fn- crease last year ,as compared with 1917, of 61.9 per cent in gross op- erating revenues. An increase of 90.2 per cent in operating expenses and an_ increase In net income of 30 per cent, also are shown in flgures an- nounced by the Census Bureau. ‘8° figures show a slight decrease in Pack mileage and an increase of 115 per cent in the number of pas- sengers carried. he normal the mills NEW { changed. An interesting incident was | 1 Commonwth P 6a.. 1 - | Empire G&F 7% 8 | Fisk Rubber 83 Indiana Steel Gs o (Sales ars in $1.000.) UNITED STATES BONDS. (Fractions represent thirty - seconds. Example: 98-3 means 98 3-32.) Sules. High. Low. Lib3%s...... 13 99-22 99-20 Lib 2d 4 . 198 98 Lib 1st 43 26 98.2 97-31 Lib2d 4%Ks... 506 (98 97-29 1185 99-2 98-30 Lib 4th 4%s.. 607 98-1 87-31 USé%s1963. 149 9917 99-14 FOREIGN. Salen. High. Low. 102% 102 87 86% 97% 9% 96 96 99% 98% 86% 84% 5 76% T6% 9% 9% 9%5% 95 99% 99% 101% 100% 99% 99% 99% 99% 104% 104% 103% 103% 106 104% 954 94% 106% 108% 88 87% 89% 89K 9215 92 108 107% 9% 24 80 89% 5% 95% 947 944 88% 88 97 96% 93 2% a1 91 75 4% 91k 91% 80 30 76% 176 76 5% 50 28% 864 94% 110% 93 83% 88 69% w 105% 100% 884% 9% 2815 9814 83 66 80% 2% 1084 100% 42 7 Belgium 6s. < ¥ Belgium 8s. 21 Bolivia 8s. Canada 55 1931 Canada 5s 1952 Chile 85 19 Chile $5 19: Chile 8s 19 | Chile 7s 194 Christlanta 8 Copenhagen 5%s. . Cuba 53%s ctfs ; Czechoslovakia 8s. Denmark 8s. Denmark 6s Dutch E 15 Dutch East I 68 Dutch East I 68'62. 1 Framerican 734s. French Govt French Govt Halti6s. ... Holland-Amer 6s.. Japanese 2d 4%s Japane: Lyons . Marseilles 68 Mexico bi Mexico 4s... Montevideo 7s. Netherlands 6s. Paris-Ly's-Med Prague 7% | Queensiana { Queensland 6s Riode Jan 88 1948, Rio de Jan §s 1947. Rio Gr Do Bul 88 Sao Paulo.Stat, Seine, Dept of, 7s. . Serbs Crotes Slo 88 Solssons 6s. . Swiss Confed 8s. .. Ud Kingm 5%s'29. Ud Kingm 6%s'37. MISCELLANEOUS. Afax Rubber 8s... 2 Am agr Chem Am Cotton OIl bs. . Am SmIt&R 18t 63, 26 | Am Smit&R 68 Am Sugar Ref 6s.. AmT& Tev6s AmT & T cl tros.. AmT& Tl trds.. 1Am T & T deb s " ;Am Writ Paper 6s. 5 Anacondacvdbis. 6 Anaconda 1st 6s... 20 Armour & Co 4%s. & Armour of Del 5%s 2 Asso Ol 6s rets. 40 Atlantic Refin 3. . Barnsdalls f 8 Bell Tel Pa bs. Beth Steel 5% Beth Steel rf 6 YT PO Brier HSt 1st5 Bklyn Edison 7 Bklyn Ed gen 6s. .. Bush T Bldg 68'60. 2 Calif Pete 645 w 1. 25 | Central Leather 68136 Cerro de Pasco 8s. . 21 Chile Coppe: 13 Con Coal Md 1st 5s. 21 | Cuban-Am Sug 8s. 37 lCnszlnucvdE .11 Cuba Cane cv 7830 17 Det Edison ref 6s.. 19 | Donner Steel7s..." 3 Du Pontde N 7%s. 13 Dugquesne Light 6s 30 Est Cuba Sug T%s. 29 Goodrich 6% . | Goodyear 85 1931. . Goodyear 82 1941, | Hershey 63 1942... | linols Bell 1st 58. Int Mer siarine Int Paper 1t 5s B. KCP&LtSsA's2 { Kelly-Spring $s. .. i Liggett & Myrs 78. { Liggett & Myrs 5s. { Lorillard (P) 5 Lorillard (P) 7 Magma Cop cv T { Manati Sug st T%s i Marland Ofl 7%s. . | Mexican Petrol 8s. Midvale Steel 53 ct.. Montana Powe: New Eng Tel & N Y Edsn 15t 6%48. NYG EL H&P 4s. NY Tel6s'4l... N Y Tel 6549, .. N Y Tel 43 Nor States Pow Nor States Pow 6s. Northwst B Te: Is. Otis Steel THs. ... Pacific Gas & El 53 Pan-Am Pete 7t ®hila Co 5% '35 { Phila Coref 68 A.. Pierce-Arrow 8s. .. Pierco Oil deb 8s. . Producers & Rt Public Service 5 Punta Alegre 78 Saks &Co s £ T { Sharon Stl H 8 Sinlalr OI1 7 Sinclair Ofl 6%s | Sin Crude Ol1 5%s. Sin Crude Ol 6s... Sin Pipe Line bi So Por Rico Sug 7 Steel & Tube T Sug Est Orlent 7s.. Tenn Elec Pow 6s. Tide Wat Oll 6% Tobacco Prod sf Toledo Edn 1st 7 Union E..3 & P 6 Unit Drug cv 8 U'S Rub 18t rf b8 U S Rubber 7%s U SSteel s 68 Utah Pow & Lt b Va-Car Chem Ts. Va-Car Ch 7% Warner Sugar Weat Union 6%s. . Wickwire Spen 7s. 12 Wilson & Co 1st Wilson&C cv 748. Wilson & Co cv ‘Winchester A 7% Youngstn S& T 6s. 11 NEW YORK EGG PRICES. (EW YORK, November 23.—Eggs— Weak; receipts, 12,206 crates. Fresh | gathered, extra firsts, 58a62: do.| firsts, 50a56; New Jersey hennery ( whites, closeiy selected extras, 82a86; | nearby hennery whites, closely se-| lected extras, §2a86; state, nearby | and nearby western hennery whites, | firsts to extras, 66a80; Pacifio coast whites, extras, 71a75; do, firsts to extra firsts, 62a70; refrigerator firsts, 30a31%. 9 10 b e 0 10 2 83 01 1O BT b DTS i i 0 19 2 1S 8 00 83 €1 e 300 1 €1 O3 o 590 €1 e 0 18 00 - e 13 s - @ } DIVIDENDS. | Par- Rate. Perlod. able. . Dec 51 Jan 2 Stock Corp. of Rec. Adams_Expres Bkiyn Union G Marconi Wirel Quaker O do_pf. Va. Tron do pf. Waldorf Syaie “do 2d pro.. £22200000! { Chi Rys 6 | Gr North gen 5%s | Mo Pacific 6s Mo Pacific gn 4 {San A & Arn P4s.. | Seab’d 4 L 4 S | wabash 2a 5 | Weatern Md | cables, ]-1298; Greece. RAILROADS, . High Ann Arbor 48 57 88% 80% 81k 96% 80% 101 8 84 7% 95% 66% 671 [ 89% 78% 9614 100% 86% 89% &8 B4y 31y, 99 % 484 45 51% 50 55% 71 56 1% 77 107% 108 4% 84 4% 113% 72 1017% 102% 944 81% £3% Low. Clo 57 88 9% 81% 96% 0% 100% 82% R4 % 85% 66% 67 73% 89% 78% 964 100% 86% 89% 87% 84% 31% 98% % 48% B&Ogoladsr ... & Bao B&O PLE&WV 4. B&OSW div3iys B & O Toledo 4 Bklyn-M Bklyn R T bi Bklyn R T 7s'21 Canad Pac deb 4; Car Clinch & O 6 Central Pacific 4 Ches & Ohlo cv b Ches & O cv 4348 Ches & Ogn Chl & Alton 3%s. Chi B&Q 1st rf b Chi & ETll gn bs ChiGreat West 4s. Chi GrWest 4a (n). CM & Puget Sd 4s ChiM &St Prf 4% Chi M&St P cv bs. . Chi M&St P 4525 Chi M&S P cv 4 %8 Chi M&St P 4s°34. . CM&StPgnds Chi&NW 6% Chi&NW1s ChiRI&Pgn 4 Chi RI& Pacrf 48 Chi Un Sta 6% Chi & W Ind cn 4s. CCC&BtLrfésA.. Cleve Term G, Cleve Term 6 Colo & Sou 434 Cuba R R 68, Del & Ha 1at rt ds. Den & Rlo G cn 4s. D&RG 1strt 6 Det United 43s. .. Erln 15t con 4s. ... Erle con ext 7s. Erie gen 4s. Erie convds A Erfe conv 4s D Gr Trunk sf db Gr North gen 7s. OB NEED o~ A B malntedantoam o » Havana ERL&P 53 Hud & Man ref 6s. Hud & Man aj 5s.. 111 Cent ref 68 '65. . 111 Central 5% Int Rap Tran 6s. .. 110 Int Rap Tr s stod. 22 Int Rap Tran 6s... 21 Int Rap Tran 7 3z Int & G Nor aj Towa Cent 1st 58 Kansas City 8 bs. Lake Shore 48 '28. Lake Shore 4s '31. Louls & Nash 5. Louls & N 6s 2003 ote Manhat Ry cn 4s.. Market St cn b M & St L 1st rf 4 M StP & SSM 6% . MK&T1stds.. MK&TprinbsA. MK&T6sC. MK & T ad) bs. oamNwe NGSUGH-E5a8 ontrl Tm 1st 5s. . O Tex & M in 6. Y Cent gen %48, N Y Cent deb NYCentrib New Haven ¢ New Havend 45 57. New Haven 7 ew Haven 7s fr NY Rysadibsct.. N Y State Ry 4%s NY W& Bosd% Nortolk & W cv Northern Pac 4 Northn Pacr | O Short L cn 5846, Ore Short Liref 43. Pennsyl gen 68. Ponnsyl gen 4% Pennsyl 6%4s. Pennsyl gold Pennsyl con 4 Pere Marq lst Pere Mrq 18t 45 ‘66 Rio G Went cl 48 St L IM&S R&G 4s. StL&SFplésA. StL &8 F prin bs. StL&SF inc StL &S Fadj StL&SFplésC. StLS T 1st4a.... St LS W con 4s'32. StP & KCShL 4%s. o x& ac 32 ShBfeuaStirannnan S - S e nERRRROE, =3 @ Seab'd AL Seab'd A Ladj Seab'd A L con 6 Sou Pacific 481929, Sou Pacific ref 4i Sou Pacific clt 4 Southern Ry lat 5 Southern Ry gu 4i Southern Ry 6% South Ry dv és wi. Third Ave ref 4s Third Ave adj 58, Tol StL & W 4s. Union Pac 1st Union Pac cv & Union Paccv Union Pac 1st rf Virginia Ry 1st 5 Va Ry & P 18t 5 ‘Wabash 1st 8. o @i ey o mrBenuawemalinaNRE ORI R e o ‘Western Pacific ‘West Shore 18t 4: Whel &LE rf 4%3. TOTAL SALES (Par Value): 31a.m.. 3041000 12noon 4752000 1p.m.. 5828000 2p.m.. 76¥9000 (Quothtions furnished Londo Montreal, Berlin, mark... Romwe, 1 Zurlel, franc Athens, drachin. . 00060 026081, (00001 en, crown Christiania, crown Stockholm, crown. .. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, November 23.—For- oign exchanges easy. Quotations (in United States dollars): Great Britain. demand, 1.37; cables, 4.37%; sixt. : bills on banks, 4.38%. France. de mand, .0537; cables, italy, demand, .0431; 5 Bel- gium, demand. ; cables, 04631, demand, .00000000000020 000000000020, Holland, de- mand, 379 3803. Norway. demand. demand. Denmark, 1749 land, demand, . ‘demand, .00000050; Czechoslovakia, demand, .0291; Jugoslavia, demand, 0115: Austria, demand, .000014; Ru mania, demand, .00503; Argentina, demand, .3150: Brazil, demand, .0890; Montreal, .97%. BETTER WOOL BUYING. Improve in Boston Market. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘BOSTON, November 23, — Trading was active in practically all grades ot raw wool today and prices were strong throughout. The higher prices Teported at the Melbourne auctions strengthened sentiment which had been looking for a higher price level on this side. The export movement is gradually petering out, but with do- Mestic demand increasing dealers are not s0_keen to send their wool abroad. —— The League of French Women, es- tablished in 1582, today numbers 90,000 members. All Grades | 2.00a4.00. } southern, WHOLESALE MARKETS. Home-grown tomatoes are fast dis- appearing from the market. There are some yet to be had, however, and the best stock is commanding £00d prices. Growers expect their sup- plies will become exhausted In a few days. Hothouse tomatoes and the ripe vegetable from California are in evi- dence in the local market. The for- mer are quoted at 30 cents a pound while the Baltimore quotation on the “alifornia stock is from $3 to 34 a crate. Home-grown lima beans are still to be found in the local markets, the $10000000 SALE Bureau Announces New Credit Bank Issue—Trading Firm on Exchange. The Federal Farm Loan Board to day announced the sale of an add tional $10,000,000 of intermediate price being quoted at from 40 to 60 |credit bank 4% per cent debenturs cents. There is no scarcity of let- tuce, home-grown stock being quoted at 50 and $1, southerh stock selling at $1 and $1.50. bonds of six months' maturity, com pleting its program of obtalnink funds for financing this year's crops Eggs—Strictly fresh, selected, can-[This jssue 1s the third of the kind and dled, per dozen, 58a60; average re- ceipts, 56; storage, 35a36. Live poultry—Ros turkeys, per b, 36a3 ens, per 1b., 21a 60a70; fowls, per ib., 20. Dressed ' poultry — spring chickens, per Ib.. ers, per Ib., 28a30: hens, per Ib., turkeys, per 1b., 40a4d; keats, young, cach, 30485; TOOSt per_1b., 15, me—Rabbits, ber dozen, 00; No. No. 1, : 00a2.40. Live stock—Calves, choice, per 1b., 2; medium, per lb., 11; thin, per 1b. 8al0. Lambs, spring, per Ib.. 13. Live .00a5.00 each; live hogs, perlb, er basket, 50 g Califor- 6.004 5 reen fruits—Ap : per barrel, oranges, Florida, 4.00i4.75. Grapefruit, 3.00a one-half barrel. 200 per bl 1.00a1.50; Had.50. potatoes, 8.75 lettuce, 50a1.0 northern, Cabbage, hel busket, nearby, per’ ba per basket, 3.3045.50. erye per i rough, fornia, Peppers, per crate. Kale, per bbl, 7oal bbl., 1.50a Zgrown linia beans, Limu beans, per basket, Southern _cucumbers, —per I, 4.50a5.00. Carrots, 100-1b.” sack, 50. GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. BALTIMORE, November 100 pounds, bushel, Bro- russels 104400 sprouts, $.00a6. barrel, 2.00a4.5 Grapefr 4.00a4 Selling Prices on Grain. 2 red winter, spot, 3 red winter, spot, 1.06; No. winter, domestic i export, red win- ter, garlicky, winter, A Sale Corn— new, 4.20 and 4 vellow; 4.00 for white per bushel; No. 2 corn, spot, no quotations; track corn, vellow, Ni new, 93. sand five hundred low, new, at ¥ crate, 1063 spot, 1 spot, Hay—Receipts, erence in buying bales in good timoth: ver, mixed. and stric of which sorts there is no oversupply. Heavy baled hay, however, offered and such has to be disc tor sale. Quotations tons. The pref- hay is for s nd lig No. 1 No. 1 No. ‘0. 1 light clover, 3 004230 Ne. timothy, mixed No. 1. 00; 1 elov- 00. 1 straight rye, 25.00 per 1 tangled rve, 15.00a16.00 2.00a14.00; No. 1 oat. tion of 25 cents per barrel -milled Lrands of flour announced this morning. DAIRY PRODUCTS. BALTIMORE. Md, November (Special). — Live poultry — Turk per pound, 36a40. Spring chicken: Leghorns, 0; Leg- 15a16 1415, Ducks, 16a21. pair, 25a30. Gut Eggs (loss off) firsts, dozen. 58; Native and nearby southern, 54a35. good to_fancy, 57; near- 34a35: proc-, per pound, 50a! by creamery, rolls, 28ad ess butter, 35a39; CHICAGO LIVE CHICAGO, November 23 States Department of Agric Hogs—Receipts, 45,000 he. around 10 lower: good and cho pound’ butchers, 7.0047.23 desirable 160 to 200 pound J packing sow grades weighty kill: ing pigs, largely 6.0046.40. Cattle—Receipts, 2.000 kiiling qu: (United Iture).— uneven stecrs scare fully stead 4.00a5.00; ! and above; cutter nati ; bulk tockers and medium to bulls, to pac] feede: 000 he: ly st lambs natives, feeding heep—Recelpts ive; market gene chofce fat 12 cull 6.00a6.75; nd top. 10.00; lambs, TODAY'S CHICAGO PRICES. CHICAGO, November 23.—Commis- | sion house selling led to a downturn soon after a in wheat prices today pening. The little advance at the inftial gaing were ascribed to cover- ing on the part of shorts. Bears con- tended, however, that rallies were due chiefly to pit conditions and would, as a . consequence, be transient. The opening, which varied from unchang- ed figures to % higher, with Decem- ber 1.03% to 1.04 and May 1.08% to 1.00%, was followed by a moderate gen- eal declin: Corn and oats were easy with wh Demand lacked volume. Aft- er opening unchanged to % higher, May 733% to 73%, the corn market underwent a sag, deferring deliveries in_particular. Oats started at a shade off to % up. May 447 to 447a45, and later tended lower. Provisions were bearishly affected by lower quotations on hogs, Open. High. Lo . Le3Ty B December 4 3 Mas - oo 3 41y July . E A3 B B RO A 1.6 | drs i vas | next few | Interstate Coi { i }ter supply makes a total of $30,000,000 obtalned by the sale of securities. With this obligation, the interme diate credit banks have made avail able a total of $50,000,000 for aiding the farmers under the agricultura! act. Commissioner Cooper of the rm Loan Bureau said loays to date gETegate $32,000,000, and that in the opinion of the board the remaining $18,000,000 will be sufficient to mer “ll requirements from those seeking government credit, The agricultura priated £60,000.000 tal, but thus credits act appro- the banks' cap! hoard - only $20,000,000 pital. In the opi no more will be another year, be- feel that it 18 a o obtain funds through debentures rather than by drawing on the Treasury. Loeal Stock Trading. for local securities unchanged in today's relu- “ion on the Washing change. Washingtor was off to 47% at th but firmed up to 43 as the arket closed, Washington Gas 6s of 1933 were slightly stronger, the majority of sales of this issue being made above City and Suburban sold_a 7912 and Railway 4s brought 69. Ga s changed hands at 9315, £10,000.000 Insxue Closed. The fssue of $10,000,000 Northern States Power Company of Minneso! Convertible 61z per cent goid notes was closed simultaneously with the opening of subscription books at 9 o'clock” this morning. the Guarant Company ~w York. which head ed the dicate. announced The loan was offered terest to vield over Prices firm to rul and St Louis today asked © Comimnission ¢ 100000 in re e bonds, Most ¢ e used to pay off »f the corp: rority to funding and mort the procee: existing ind nd its subsid nee will pay fo terments. The additions and be joard Air Line also applie for $1.683.000 v mortgage bonds. Most fssues will he deposite with the United States Treasury for loans already de. Moody's Weekly Review. Moody's Weekly Review of Finan- cial Conditions says in _part “Whatever may be the immed future of the stock d bond markets surely the foundations are belng gradually laid for better trade and security values some 3 » high operating costs small margins of profit and pelitical radicalism which caused the unset- tle: t of 1923 are slowly being cured. Costs, as applied to the future, anyway, are already being reduced by the substantial majority of de- clines s ach weel fn com- modity prices. Later on they und to be reduced = » by higher icienc f labor, be ¢ unemp! has heen gradually spring. and this me time within ment since months output inish. ndations is always a dif- 1d one cannot say that not be sharp breaks be job is completed. But if trends continue we shall by Pring or summer enjor more rate prices for raw materials, f labor. and a bet- riking capital and investment capital at lower rates, ay nothing of an improving polit utlook. Here are the real stuffs which prospe and bull n made. n afford, the . nfidence and tu gard any trade unsettle may occur during the months as & portion of th ng of foundations. terling exchange appears getting Into a better position. Britisi trade With Germany seems to have already fallen to the minimum. Ger man importations have held well this year, and since April German unem- ployment has been diminishing. Fur thermore, various currencies having a gold basis are coming into ciroula- tion there. and it may be that Ger- man prosperity 13 turning for the bei- er. PROBE OF BROKERS METHODS ORDERED Trader Travels 1,600 Miles to Claim $8.000 and Urge. Legal Prosecution. of are to be By the As<ociated Press. W YORK, November 23.—An in- vestigation of the bankrupt cotton brokerage firm of Scott. Norris & Co. was begun by the district attorney’s office yesterday, after com- plaints had been received from D. D. McElveen, cotton planter of Frankiin- ton, La., who sald he had claims agains: the concern for $8,000. Mr McElve traveled 1,600 miles to New York to tell rosecuting authoritie~ cution against the failed early this month wer. made by Assistant District Attorney Richard C. Gibbs. who also urged that federal officlals determine whether th. defunct brokerage concern had violated the postal laws in soliciting orders. Mr. McElveen in his complaint said that three weeks ago he ordered all he cotton which the firm was carry ng for him sold, and that the broker. wired back a confirmation of the sale He failed to receive his money, how ever, he asserted, and later was noti- fied ‘that creditors of the firm wer combining to avert a bankruptcy ac tion. Before he could reach New York the company failed. The cotton planter told the distric attorney that he began trading with Norris & Co. in Sefftember he had received lefters of - fering to handle his orders for a $4 deposit_on 100 bales of cotton on overnight trading and a $2 aeposil on day transactions. Prior to Marci McElveen said, he had done $2,000 worth of business with the company and had been paid back all money in- vested, plus his trading profits. When the market began to advance lari 8.50 | gpring, he said, he started trading on 9.00 |, larger scale, and when the firm BUTTER LOWER TODAY. CHICAGO, November 23.—Butter, lower; creamery extras, 50%; stand- ards, 47 extra firsts, 43a50; firsts, 14246; seconds, 41a42. Egss. unchanged: cases. receipts, 3,206 failed he had invested $2.300, while profits swelled his clalm to $8,000. The district attorney's office or- dered the receiver to hold for exam- ination all records of the firm. It also began investigation of a report that a_man not officially connected with the concern had left the city coincident with the disappearance of $200,000 of the firm's assets.