Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1923, Page 27

FINA S BUSINESS HAS BOOM YEAR R lecords Prove Whole Nation! Is Prosperous — Huge Taxes Paid Government. BY J. C. ROYLE. posial D'spatel to The Star. NEW YORK, December tdoor showmen of the country have ad u wonderful year in L They ave pald into the national Treasury 10Te, mon In amusement taxes han all the other outdoor amuse- ts put together, including pro- sional base ball. Of far more sig- ifi however, than the sums ch have accrued to the Treasury lepartnient, or than the fact the owmen closed the season with tock and pocketbooks both fat, he assurance the year has given “hrough the circus that almost all and iines ger part of tha clreus ticket wagons of ad shows, which boust from o cars of rolling stock up to the roival shows, the golden was gathered about 120 100 "z atter are which de companies stock and Jut to paraphernalia. these shows into sury broke @il records both 2 and 1823, and as they formed definite proportion of gross re- eipts [t Is cvident the industry had g vear. al polnt of origin of all r the circus.” sald Thomas . general counsel and com- the Chowmen' ommittee of America, a position somewhat of Com sioner Landis wll and Augustus Thomas ter, “is the pocketbooks people’ living in thousands of towns and villages in every in the Union We have pros- red gro 1y this year. Therefore » folks of this country ecsnnot be poverty stricken.” shows over which his autho v - xtends, however, do mot Include the wrgest cir s ‘'which play only the o1y lurge in thickly populated jots in similar in in of ase i he tt he « that twelve months had been among e best in the history of the saw- the com- n_and a dozen ir statements way back ut ason that wed explalned that rediction on the re- of the Fort Worth, Tex., fat show % showmen say, is barometer. By it they gauge helr outlays, Itineraries and other Jans for the year. it is a tradition mong them that this indicator has r gone wrong. Showmen estimate that earnfval - nd midway crowds during the year umbered far over 100,000,000 people, 1ny of course belng “repeaters.” ctual cash customers who paid their ay into one or more of the various ttractions totaled 90,000,000 men, vomen and f:dren, or more Circus people, how er, emphasized he fact that between the tremendous FUSS receip and the net profits hgre lies a tremendous expense tal.road and other transportation WIS arc enormous even for the small on- ur sh and large sums are re- uired to fred the animals and the e of uits calities have experienced NCIAL ST. NEW YORK CURB MARKET Recdived by Private Wire Direct to Tae Star Office BY WILLIAM F. HEFFERNAN, NEW YORK, Decomber 36.—An in- cldent of interest on the curb market today was the suspension befpre be- ginning of business of trading in Southern States 0il. However, to those who. had watched the mo ment of this stock during the past two months the action came as no surprise. The rise in Southern States from around 13 to above 33 has boet much more than the average for ofl shares of similar valuation. 1t has been & very persistent rise disregarding the fuctuations of the general market and keeping on even during the period when other olls were reacting. Quite possibly it is this fact that aroused susplelon. Some outside houses quoted bids of $2 a share for the stock against offerings of $13, com- pared with Monday's close at 33%, which was the top. It was reported that Middle States 01l directors would meet at Roon large quantity of Southern States Ull stocks” from . various brokers' ac- counts. Both concerns are practical- ly controlled by the same interest. Another incldent was the sharp break in Union Oil Producers' § per cent bonds. The atock here was sym- pathetic with. the collapse (n South- ern States. Gulf States Ofl was an- other weak spot, breaking to 2%, where it was 3% points lower. But the movement of these {ndividual tesues wae entireiy different from that of other ofls. The rest of the up were quick to respond to the 85-cent advance in Pennsylvania Crude Oll, and #ains of from 1 to 5 points were record- «d among the Standard ‘stocke. Promi- | nent among these were South Penneyl vania, up & to 149; International Pe- troleum at a new high on the present | move above 22, and Imperial OIl of Canada up at 116, Delaware, Lackawahna and Western ent recovery, folowing the deciaration of an extrw dividenti of 5 per cent. Motor shares were again firm, and min- Thureday to consider acauirige a ing atocks were active. NEW YORK, December 28.—Fol'c ing ie an official list of bonds and stocks traded in on the New York Curh Mer- ket today : Balos in thousrnds, 10 Am (ot Ol fe.. 20 Am Gus & Eleo 8 4+ Am Thread Ca 6s. 5 Aswo Sim Hiwe 6iu 1 Teaverboard 8s . 4 Deth Steel Tn i Can N 4 Cen > Sa.... Chgo & Narthy B jitten Karvice Tn 1) BONDS. Thigh, 00 041 10114 02 1 100 1 Dunlon Tir & Rub. 10 Flulier Rody 6s. 1 Gair. Tobt 7s. $ Ynitobs 01170 3 Morrs & Co T%n 7 i orf Bob e 5a 814 Northern Bt Pw g8 WA 0o Power §s D p Pa-k Tiiford 6 10 Fhile 3 1"Pub Ser 11 Pare O Bl 8 Read'ng Conl §14. 3 Solves et Cle 8k A Fureks P L.. 198 Gai ol 1500 Humble O & R 20 11 P L. 1410 Tmp O3 50 Ind P L. 20700 Interl Pet hew 115 Prairie P L. 10 Solar Refin 145 Routh Pénn 13900 8 O Tnd ... 40 Sonthern P 1 8 0 Kans new. . BOKy ........ 0 B O N Y new 0 8 0 Ohlo . 50 Swan & Fi 7700 Vacuum O1l new 18 i B 02 43 Monnt Prod 160 Mutual 01 Vot o 48 New Braat Of w i 2 New Mex Land.... Ohio Ranger - Omer ON & Gasll s {:nr ol ({lr‘arp . d‘fi 1 Pennock 1 b 211y Rapulpa Refin s Heabosrd 01l Turman Ofl West Rtates 01 Wilox Ofl & Ga X on a2 L3 .IG.“ e rsm Armour & Co e Atlantle Froit wi Biyn 8hoe Ine..... Brit-Am_Tob Coa.. Bign City R R..C Candy Prod Corp wi Cen Am Gran 8. Centrfugal [r Pipe Checker Cab Mfa A €l Nip B tr nw wi Chiss Co new w 1 Cleveland Auto Cons Gaus new W Cuba Co Curt se 6o 1% bt 219 jo! 1. “ oy 221 Eid 22y ant a8t 12 30 o 1% £ % a3 413 218 2l S e 2 e iz a1, 4 Lehign Val Co 3 Libby, Me Co_pfd o Wi Bauk v A wi.. 1% 18 i i5% Rendg ¢ Rlading Coal w 1. Repetti Candy . Reo Mot .. So €& T new. Stuts Moter ... Swift Taternati Swift & Co . 2 Tobacco Prod Todd Ship T ted Bak Unit Prof 8h new. 5 Unit Retafl Candy. S Lt & Heat ... 8 Lt & Heat pfd 3T 8 Ct Corp A... U 8 Ditritut Univorsal Pipe Tniversal Pipe MINING. 5 Alvarado Min ..... Arzona Globe Cop. Black Oak Gold. .. Hutte & Western. . Coal reached its best prices on the pros- | f WASHINGTON, ' D. GERMANY PLACES BiG FLOUR ORDER 8t. Lounis to Furnish 75,000 Bar- rels—Business Smashes All Records. Special Dispatch 1 The Sta: ST. LOUIS, December 26.—8t. Louls business, both wholesale and retall, 1s concluding o record-breaking year. Extra dividends have been voted by | many firms with which buying has been “strong and steady throughout the twelve months. Christmas bonuses have been plentiful, the banks especlally following | the policy of making a Christmas award of cash to employes. On the other hand, !the general level of prices is lower than last year. An order for 75,000 barrels of flour !has been recelved from Germany by millers of this district. The order wiil be filled in four installments, one go- ing forward immediately to Hamburg and the others in Janu February and March. St. Louis mills will hand'e 25,000 barre's, and mills in the south- west the remainder of the amount. {EGG PRICES DROP; TURKEYS LOWE| iHeavy Supplies in Different Parts of ‘Country Cause Break in Market. Bpecial Dispateh to The Star. KANBAS CITY, December 28.—Eggs continus to fall In this market. They are quoted at 33 cents a dozen whole- § cents lower than last Decem- ber. A deoline of 15 cents has been lramrded in three weeks, dus to open weather. MINNEAPOLIS, December 26 —Eggs are 10 to 15 cents a dozen cheaper than at this time last year, which mits & retall price of 45 cents a dozen for best grades. Prices have dropped 5 to 7 centa in & week. Butter is selling at 65 cents a po wholesale or 3 to b cents lower tl usual at this season. HOUSTON, December 26.—The tur- key crop, large to begin with and sell- for time at satisfactory prices, ed an indifferent profit mak.r af Christmas. Many farmers withdrew their birds from the market, was flooded with conseque prices. Turkeys were cheaper than at any time in five years. DENVER, December 26.—Heavy re. ceipts have forced a decline in pouitry prices here. Jobbers find 3 keys Dlentiful at 14 to 15 cents a pound, and+geese have dropped to 12 and 13 cents, APPLE DEMAND GOOD. Prices, However, Show No Ma- terial Advance. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, December 26.—While he demand was active for fafcy arge-sized greenings today, never- thdless prices showed no material advance. Mont other varleties of apples met only a very limited out- let. ~‘The fresh receipts of barreled frult from New York and other states wore comparatively little h-avier, considerable stock remained unsold ‘at the stores of comm‘ssion moerchants from previous arrivais A grade, 2%-inch greenings eold a from 4.00 to 6.25 per barrel, depend- ing upcn quality as well as conei- tion. Baldwins brought from .50 un. han s O, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER COMMODITY NEWS WIRED STAR FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY i DBETROIT, December 26—Furni- ture was a feature of the Detroit holi- day uying. One house reported today that It mold out its supply of fancy emoking stocks early In the month and was unable to replace Its stock. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Decem- ber 26.—The area sown.to wheat this fall in Oklahoma was 3,374,000 acres, or 8 per cent less than the revised estimates of the agreage planted in 1922, which was 8,687,000,acre . The condition of December 1 was 85, against 0 on Decdmber 1, 1922, and | a ten-year average of 82. FORT WORTH, December 26.— Bhopping for cash was a habit in the holiday season Just pasacd. Trade all over the state a a general rule excevded expectations and resulted in many reorders by merchants who had to replenish @tocks on short notice. / ST. LOUIS, December 26—The latest figures on the Mi souri cotton crop this year place its value at $24 - 000,000, or about $6,000.000 more thin n 1923, ' ATLANTA, December 26.—The Lull- tor Manufacturing Company of this city ‘has acquired the Couch cotton : imils at Atlanta, Greenville and [Thomson. The milla here and at Thomson wili e operated as shirt factories. The Greenville plant will continue as a duck mill. CHICAGO, December 26.—An active demand in the local lumber market [ has sent prices up from $1 to $3 per thousand feet. Southern Michigan, Wikconsin, Iliinois and Indiana retail | yards are reported well oid out and anxious to fill their 1924 requirements immediately. FORT WORTH,. Tex., Deserber 26. The oll market in this section has turned strong. Independent refiners cannot Bec quotatjons ‘from pro- ducers of than $1.50 a barrel for &pot crude, and producers are mak- ing Insistent demands for a premium over present posted prices. Only two months ago this spot oll was a drug on the market. The present strength is due to expectation of price ad- vances after the first of the year. BAN FRANCISCO, December 26. Declines in ofl production and in- crensed consumption shortly will compel the larger oil companies here 10 draw on the reserves stored during the overproduction period. Many producers anticipate advances in prices of the turn of the year. TULSA, Okla., December utput of the refineri ontinent fleld last {further | 3 A {barrels was run through the still 130 refineries. A Fool and Hix Money. The fact that a etock certificate is | printed In fancy greemn scroll work is | no proof that it is worth any more ithan ordinary wallpaper. Thousands of people in Washington would have | saved their money if they simpiy had | asked their bankor to tell them what | | he knew of some supposedly wonder- {2ul investment. CHICAGO SHOPPERS i SPEND $100,C00,000! | | —The | mid- | wed a | 06,125 | i Year's Trade Total Given Tre- mendous Lift During Holi-., day Business. { { | CHICAGO, December 26.—One hun- dred million dollars was ‘expended |weapon in the course of an argument, {of Alexand: | Christmas is attributed to the absence 26, 1923, MILLIONS INVOLVED IN FRISCO PROJECTS Port Fac'lities Have Become En- tirely Outgrown—New Subway | Also Planned. | | Bpecial D'spateh to The Star. L SAN FRANCISCO, December 28.—' Bpeedy’ increase in exports and im- ports passing through this port ha necessitated a harbor improvement program by the state harbor com- missioners whlc)’ will eall for ex-. penditure of nearly 36,000,000. Three | new piers will be bullt at once at a cost of $3,600,000. ! The program also includes the com- pletion of the Chink basip warehouse, & six-story structure with storage &pace of 500,000 mquare feet. When finished it will be the largest and most modern storage terminal on the Pacific coast and will cost §1,400,000. | A mecond terminal also will be erccted for frain stotage and will cost $325,000. Other improvements include a subway to relleve conges- tion at the Ferry building. This wil) cost more than $1,000,000, divided be- tween the city, the street car com- panies and the harbor board. —_— TAX COLLECTIONS GAIN. Chicago District Reports Big Ad- vance During Year. CHICAGO, December 26 —Income tax collections for the northern dis- trict of Iilinois, which includes Chi- cago. increased Thore than $33,000,000 | in 1923 over the returns of 1922, ac- cording to an announcement made by Mrs. Mabel G. Reinecke, collector of Internal revenue for the district. Her announcement also states that more than $2,000,600 in delinquent taxes have been collected during the year. A 18 per cent increase In gross re- ceipts of the post office i shown in the ort of Postmaster Arthur Lueder, where $51,582,091 was teken in during 1928 ds compared with $44,470,304 in 1982, ALEXANDRIA. ANDRIA, Va., December 26 Christmas was observed quietiy than in more-than twenty years, it was said at police headquarters today, despite the fact that twenty-one cases were included on the docket of police court this morning. The cases, however, répre- | sent several old ones which have been | postponed from tin c. Only five ae for v Wilbert R rested with drt { yesterday. rs, Accotink, was ars able Dove, charged % and disorderly con~ duct, in addition to resisting arrest. Jobet Grithin, colored, was arre on A charge of being drunk and dis- orderly and assauit with a deadly he is alleged to have shot Ella Tim- | bers, also colored, in the hand with a | revolver. Edward Greaney, 2 former resident | but’ now of Washing- ton, was locked up last night on a charge of operating an automobile while under the influence of whisky | and for carrying concealed weapons. Other cases of m.nor importance | will ‘be brought up in the court today The quietness of the celebration of | of “bad liquor,” which was In gree! part eliminated by many raids which have been made here during the past few weeks Unconsclous Ninety Hours. For nearly ninety hours Joseph |for Christmas in Chicago alone. § ent stores is estimated to hate done {a business of $55,000,000 for the year. | Four others arc said to have done | One of the big State street depart- [ {ctdent Lias remaine scious In | Alexandriz Hosp where he | s carried aftor an automoblile ac- | night. While no! for his recovery, as his| tractured in addition | Souls the sk FINANCIAL. e S FIRST MORTGAGE NOTES Por wale. Comsult s 1t you bave avallable funds for investment. THOS. E. JAKRELL Member Washington Real Estate Boerd Wesdwurd Bldg. Maia 764 79, First Morteage Notes Beared by frst deed of trast on high class improved D. new homes, for sale in_denom nations of $250 to $5,000, ___ CORY & CORY. §07 15th N. EQUITABLE Co-Operative Building Association UNDER UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION Safety and Interest Guaranteed 4% Savings Deposits 4% 59% Certificates of Deposit5 7 Free Checking Service Banking Hours: 830 to 6 .M. THE DEPARTMENTAL BANK 1714 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W, Organized 1579 Mith YEAR COMPLETED Annets -84,755,170.52 Surplus - $1,245,320.98 Save Systematically The most effactive method of say- ing Iz to adopt a system plan and stiok to it. Join the Equitabln, First Mortgage Loans' - m‘m;.-m sty S | Subscription for the 86th lssue of Stock . Being Received Shares, $2.50 Per Month EQUITABLE BUILDING 915 F St. N.W. JOHN JOY EDSON, President FRANK P. REESIDE, Secy. American Telephone & Telegraph Co 137TH DIVIDEND Suggestions for 1924 g Income Builders A good return upon your money may be had from the bonds listed in our Current Offerings. Tne regular quarterly Doliars and Twenty-Five Cents per sh be yaid Fhursdas. damoary 15, 1024, t stock Thursdas, Docember 20, 1023 H. BLATRSMITH, Treas divid FOR INVESTMENT FIKSE MORTGAGE LOANS Denominations $100 to $6,250 Interest Rates 615% and 7% All loans secured on modern homes und busi- ness property in best northwest sections of the citv. Ask for Intormmation List on request The National City Company ‘Washington— 741 15th St. N, Telephone Main First Mortgages $250 and Up William S. Phillips 16TH ST. AT K N.W. Main 4000, Mortgage Department 913 15th St. N.W. Main 617 80,000,000 business each, and a fifth, | ¢, "j;ternal {njuries, the authorities | ! seem puzzled at his condition. { Prisoners In _the city jall—one {dozen of them—were served yester- ledonta Min ario C rt Con Cop Mit Sales in INDEPENDENT OIL STOCKS. hundreds. 10 Ark Nat Gas. i rmy of human w re every day. On Strictly Cash Basis. However, the circus is one businees to 5.50. Miaccllaneous A grade, 2% -|gixth and seventh stores are esti- inch varietigs brought from 250 to{mated to have done respectively $25, 450 per bXrrel. while unelassified (0,000, $12,000,000 and $8.000,000. trult ranged from 2.00 to 2.60. Managers of the larger stores eay 1 which there is little, if any, waste. t is the one enterprise which is run n a strictly cash basls. BEven the orse feed is bought and pald for aily and each night the circus man- gement Knows exaet, where it tanas 8o far as profits, loss, recelpts . nd expenditures are concerned. Nat- rally a knowledge of this sort en- bles the management to find the caks and stop the The circus a.so reflects conditions n each locaiity with accuracy, since | ts supplies must be purchased at ocal price levels and its receipts de- end on the purchasing power of the nhabitants. One of the features of the year was he aevelopment of the rodeos or cow- 0y &pOrts tournaments into a tactor 1 Roston Wyo Ol 1 Brit-Am Oil . 19 Carib 8ynd 2 Oit Serv 3 Cit Berv pra. 1 Clt Serv pra 10t Sery B cf $3,000 C't Rerv scrp 28 Creole 8ynd 1 Derby 0 & R 1 Derby 0 & R nw wi 30 Engineers Peot 10 Federal Oll 5 Gen Pt ... 10 Glen Roek Oii 2 Granada Oil 27 Gulf 0.1 of Pi 1 Guif 8t 0 & 20 Hudson Ol . 8 Kirby Pet 5 Lat Amer Ol 1 Mammoth Ofl .. 28 Mariand . 10 Mex 0! e 06 1 the amusement field. There has | rown up a rodeo eclrcuit foliawed ¥, professional riders, ropers and vénes uste uring the summer, nthracing Cheyenne, Pendleton and | th d winding up in the | wdison juare ¢ den, | unggest western sports | | 3ROKERS SUSPENDED ON NEW YORK CURB {utchinson & Co. Unable to Meet Obligation—O0:l Stock Also Under Ban. 5 the Associntod Press W YORK, Decomber irokerage firm of Richard . nson and Company was suspended rom membersh'n in the New York ‘urb Market today. The action was aken, accord'ng to an ofcial an- ouncement, after the firm had stated | t was uncble to meot its obligations. _The board of governors of the New o' Cuh M-r-et also ordered a, wspenslon in trading in the stock of | he S uthern States Ofl Corporation | endin® an investigation of the re- ent relatively violent fluctuations of be stock. A statement lssued by C. H. Rowan, dice president of the company, dis- laimed any responsibility for the luctuation of the sto-k, and sald that { he actlon of the curb officlals was | | nfluenced by the inabilitv of a brok- rage house, which had been handling he shares, to mect its obligation. The ;ompany has never engaged in stook narket operations, Mr. %nwm said, wnd would not permit the temporary ack of a trading market for, the ‘tock to influence its operation as n_oll-producing corporation, The company, he said, owns 389 roducing wells in Oklahoma, Texas, Jfontana, Kansas and Arkansas. with . total daily capacity of 12,000 barrela. Southern States Oil has been the most wtiva oll stock traded in on the curb narket for the last two months. In he first six weeks it has doubled its narket value, jumping from a low of 6% in the week ending November 17 0 & high price of 335, established just seforo the close last Monday. Last week more than 500,000 shares vere traded in or nearly twice the total ransactions of all the so-called Stand- «wd Oll subsidiaries combined, Includ- ng Standard Oils of Indlana, —New fork, Kentucky and Ohio, It fluctuated ast week betwoen 28 and 321, openc ng on_Monday with a “spread” quota. xo,;‘;: 32%-52% and then advancing | 0 33%. 1 DRY GOODS DULL. \ dpecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, December 26.—Typical day-after-Christmas business, or jack of business, w: reported in e cotton goods merkets today. quotaticns remained stationary, but there were few inquiries. The raw slk market showed Bome signs of iife and dealers marked prices u 7% to 10 cents a pound. on grades. AR SR % | WAIT LULLOF SEA T0 SAVE 8 IN BOAT Rescuers Prepare for Dash for| Storm-Periled Coast Guard Party. By the Assoclated Prese. NEWPORT; Ore., December 26.—Ex- posed since Monday night to a heavy wind, hail squalls and bitter cold, elght members of the coast guard from the Newport station were still lying out- side the bar here this morning In a small boat walting for the sea to calm or for a craft to go to thelr rescus, At 9 o'clock preparations were being | made to eend the tug ‘Go-Getter' to the ald of the imperiled party and an effort was being made to have the F. A. Douty, a towboat, accompany the Tescue tug. The bar, too rough,all day yester- day and last night to permit an open boat to cross in safety, had quieted little this morning. The coast guard crew left here Monday afternoon in response to a from Waldport, sixteen miles south, where a launch carrying Vic- tor Webb, elghteen, into the open sea. The boat was found yesterday dashed to pleces on the rocks. —_— . HOTEL BANDITS TRAPPED; TAKEN AFTER GUN DUEL Two, Ambushed by Police, Open Fire—Third, Acting as Look- out, Escapes. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., December 26.—An !ambush arranged by police in the: th lobby of the Hampton Hotel Annex'theé grocery store. The grocer was | on north' Pearl street here early todvy resulted in the capture of two hold- up men after an exchange of ~hots, and the return to _the hotel clerk of & small amount of money which the bandits had taken. A third man.who acted as lookout es~aved. When the men, giving their names as Thomas# Graham and Peter Laurie, oniered the hotel lobby, it was &) ently deserted by patrons. The n clerk in respon-e to the command of the pair handed over the' money which they démanded. In response to a tip which had been recelved a short time before, how- ever, several patrolmen had been sta~ tlonadt in z‘ vlcllnl(y. As the hold-up men turned to leave the patrolm: Butrick ey, whe e ooy near the elevitor, stepped forward One of the strangers opened fire, then stepped directly in front of the e the trigge: and pul T four times, but HBolice acrors the strsst, tnm: be olice across stree! the firing, rushed into the lobby -hf the en ;ere captured, zz them ed the gun at his stomach | Mines Cortez dilver Cresson _Goid Crown Reserve Doloies Esper Dismond B1 Bu Emma Sfyer . ke Croesus an M nes feld Deey thorne Mige Top Ner Hoiliager . Howe Sout, Indep Lead . Indian Mines . Kerr Lake Lone Star , enBB8.58., FEE Shlo Cope o Coppet 1111 Park Ttan Mis - S T & 5 Bilverdsle Silver Ifarn > 1 | | { 522,83 0ls RanEER.! B8 s 53! Sa ke i | a3 Delivering Messages to Airplanes in Flight. | From the Kansas City Star. ¥ The British alr gervice in Mesopo- tamia has perfeeted a scheme for delivering written messages to plares | without the necessity of *their land- {ing and stopping to pick up the | documents. A line is stretched between two poles about six feet high and per- haps twenty feet apart. To this lige the message is tied. By spreadl: large piecks of cloth on the groun in a prearranged pattern the pllot of the aircraft is signaled that there is & message for him: the arrange- t of the cloth also Indicates in what direction he must fly to cross the line between the poles at right angles. If more than one plane ia up, the cloth again tells which plane is to receive the message. ‘The selected plane swoops 1o over the poles, and the pllot dangle a line to the end of which is al tached m hook. This engages the line to which the message is tied, and line, message and all are dragged into the air. The pilot reels in his catch as the plane speeds away. If the message 18 to be dellvered the plane simply dives to the point of delivery and drops the message. The pilots have become very expert at picking up and dropying messages in this fashion. — He Was “It.” From the Stage. The tall, nervous-looking man with ¢ long, streaming locks rushed inta | ' not u-ed to such eager customers and hasteneqd to inquire what he wanted. ! #Sell me all the stale eggs you h:’va" demanded the excited individ- “Well, I don't usually sell stale ggs,” said the grocer, “but I could . let you have some If you——0=" i “I must have all you gét” inter- ing to see i rupted the other, “1_suppose you are ‘Hamlet’ at the village 1 tonight,” said the grocer knowingly. . " , replied the stranger, m‘ o:F' around nervously, “I am 7 Inside Stuff. From the New York San. Gladys—Does this bathing suit have the correct shape? ~ Clerk—That depends entirely upon yourself, miss. : B MAY ASK HIGHER PAY. Cleveland 'su-m Car Men Drop Committee Members. Special D'spatch to The tar. CLEVELAND, December 2 cations are that in wages when thelr present ement expifes next May. Only six of the nineteen old members of the execuitve committee of the Carmen's Union were re-clected, and the reason for their defeat, according to Fred for their defat,’ according to Fred Schultze, retiring businees agent, w that they had agreed to o wage pf €0 cents an hour last sprine. g eaE i g RECORD COTTON EXPORT BY SHIPPER IN TEXAS DALLAS, Tex., December 36.—~The largest single ‘shipment of cotton ever made by any one consignor from Texas to Liverpool or other foreign consuming market will go from Houston, December 22, and will be made by the Texas Farm Buraau Cotton Assoclation. The steamship Abercos will carry the 20,000 bales, valued at $4,000,000. The cotton i consigned directly to Englieh manu- facturers. BUSINESS TOPICS. PITTSBURGH, December 28 (8pe- clal).—Demand for fireproofing and other bullding materials {s quite btisk here. National Fireproofing has orders to sup- ply material for more than 300 bulld- ing projects in the middle Atlantic sec- tion, according to President H. M. Keasby. There is fair demand for and ehipments from this district are larger than they have been in & long while. ~ Prospects for 1924 are bright, according to Pittsburgh builders. LO8 ANGELES, Calif. December 36 (Special).—A gain of 60,000 telephone subscribers {m the last year is the re- sult &f extenslon in service here, which cost the Bouthern California Telephone Company $19,200,000. NEW BUTTER RECORD. A striking record In butter produc- tlon in the Auckland, N. 2., province has been established for the year ended June 30, 1933, according to & report to the Department of Commerce from Vice Consul A. R. Preston, jr. Dur- ing that “pqnod the butter recelved at the Auckiand Farmers' anllnf Com - ny grading stores lod 1,448,388 xu."l'-l‘ll t‘:c"."l 321,804, com- pared e previous year, when 1,- 126,534 boxes were received. VISIBLE GRAIN SUPPLY. NEW YORK, December 36.—The A T s Wh decreased 6.“:“'”0' 520, ] creased 1,018,000. Rye increased 264,- 900, Barley decréased 67,000, - —— WOULD ABANDON LINE. The - Pélham &nd Havanna rallroad, now in hands of receiver, sought pe: mission today from the Interstate 1 ‘comm'n:e Cxammll::on to lbrl‘ndonrltl ine and salvage property. The ' road, which is twen& ive n.n!. long, runs froth Cairo, to Havanna, ! Fla, and the application said it could ed without the ] | ments, which ‘would not be able to POULTRY UNSETTLED. R sariio Towier 1521 ootinge, mlun.‘lfli: weese, 1 |Siz Orades Advanced Todsy in $500,000,000 was spent for food and | clothing—the necessitie Specialty stores with jewelry the largest item did £500,000,000, more likely $350, 000,000. No figures have been assem bled on the automobile business, but it has reached n new record. Mer- chants generally say people this vear demanded betfer goods and were whillng to pay the price, but they insisted upon quality. The business in toys was 30 or.40 per cent greater than last year. WHEAT PLANTING HALTED IN TEXAS BY RAINS Spec'al Dispatch to The Star. i FORT WORTH, Tex., December 26. —Continued raink and heavy nows have interfered with the planting of spring wheat in Texas and many Tex. as farmers will pass up this erop en- tirely, according to reports from grain-growing districts of the Pan Handle. The growers of winter wheat have been simi handicapped and the acreage devol to this grain, therefore, is expected to be materially reduced. As a consequence, a large amount of land formerly planted to wheat will be devoted to cultivation fday with ¥ | ¢ l large turkey dipners, the nnual gift of City Sergt. Robert H . Mr. Cox has made thie his an- nual custom for many years, to the delight of the iamates. The dinners were prepared in the kitchen of the ail by the matron ing of the case of T. A. Gana- 1se_car, it is alleged, ran down 4 Arthur Vanchon at the south end_of Highway bridge on the night of November 30, will be he'd in the | office of United States Commissioner J. Barton Phillips here tomorrow motning at 10 o'c’ock. The hearing was post- poned until this date because of the in- ability of the wife and the little daugh- ter of Vanchon, who were injured at the same time, {o be present and testi- fy at the hearing set earller In the month Andrew Travers, John Allison and Henry Elmore, indicted for alleged rob- bery of a railway car from which near- wundred sncks of flour were | taken early this month, will be brought to trial in the corporation court to- morrow morning at 10 o'clock, In the preliminary hearing befors Po- ice Judge Duvall, the men testified that they were €0 drunk at the time of the theft that thay knew nothing of it. The flour was, found in Travers' garage. 800 Auto Tags Issued. of cotton next year. The Texas rice yield i& turning out better than expected. Harvesting is nearly completed. RAIL TERMINAL DONE. Project in Maine City Will End Freight Congestion. PORTLAND, Me, .December, 2 Groups of new buildings and twenty- five miles of new track, main lines and sidings, with a consequant boom in housing accommodations for empioyes, rk the most important rai'road de- lopment project, in this part of New Engiand this yeaf. It ls the plant of the Portland ~Terminal Compgany, at South Portiand, on what was once the Rigby mile track and adjacent land, and is designed to prevent freight car con- gescon. Administration offices, repair shops and roundhouses dot the tract that has been developed. It was @ year in building, 'and is to hand’e long and short hau_freights over the Boston and Matne and Maine Central systems. It is now in operation. —_— WALL STREET NOTES. Stock Incréase Planned——New Of- ferings on Sale. NEW YORK, December 26.— The Glidden Company has notified the New York Stock Exchange of the company’s intention to icrease its capitalization by Issuing $7,500,000 prior preference 7 per cent cumulas tive stock. . 000,000 state of Ili- per cent bonus bonds at 0 fo 4.45 per cent, $6,000,000 state of 4 per cent highway bonds at prices to yleld 4.35 per cent. The Allis-Chaimers Manufacturing Company_has been given an order , by the Public Bervice Company . of Northern Illinols for the installation % a _30,000-kilowat steam. turbine at. Ing approxhnately $700,000. B —_— CRUDE OIL HIGHER. 1 i | Pittsburgh Area. More than 600 auto tags have been iesued to date, according to Willlam L. Solitvan, The clerk has been Tush for the past week and another rm until far past the first of the year 18 antieipated. ; The office 19 at the head of the steps on the west glde of city hall, immediately ingide the Royal street cntrance, and_is open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. The office may be onen “or several nights next week. This, however, hag not been officially an< nounced. The board of directors of the chamber of commferce will meet to- morrow afternoom to considerr sev-| ‘al propositions which ~ wiil brought forward at the next regular mesting of the board, which ls to be held January 14. T ~oeting scheduled for the chamber this week, v The regular luncheon of the Ki. van's Club, which ordinarily would have been held tomorrow, has been ‘allnd off_on a~count of the holiday neason. The first meeting of the wew year, when the newly elected ofcors wiil take charge, wiil be held fapuary 8. Younger Alexandric enjoved iteelf 'ast night at a dance held in Elks# Hall. The proreeds of the dance ‘will 2o to one of the poor families of the ~'ty. More than 100 counles. inelud- ing many visitors here for the holi- tays, attended. . Alaxandria Council, No. 6, Order Wraternal Amerieans, will 'hold ‘a 1pecial meeting this evening in -the nights of Pvthias Ha'l to confer +he degrees of the order to close up work for the year. The past year has been one of the most nrosperons in the existence of the local council. Money to Loan Secured by first Geed of tiust on real eetats. Provailing (oterset 88d commission. Joseph L Weller 8% & § ¥ aukegan, Ill, the contract involv- | PITTSBURGH, December 26.—Six| 8_of crude ofl quoted In the mar- et here were advanced 26 cents a barrel lodna. Pennsylvania grade in New York Transit Company lines and Bradford District Ofl in National Transit Come pany lines advanced to $3.10. 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