Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1924, Page 29

PROGRAM FOR 1924 $28,960,000 Outlay in bne City Alone—Great Power Strides Assured. BY J. C. ROYLE, Special Dispatch to The Star, NEW YORK, January 18.—The tre- mendous program of electrical devel- apment for 1924 has already forced | the large manufacturers of electrical “quipment to take steps to enlarge their producing capacity. This pro- STam 15 being added to daily by an- louncements of mnew hydro-electric wnd steam generating projects and hrough consolidations of power com- Danies and development of super- power systems. Continuous employment to thou- ds of workers is sure to result and Prospects of the producers of cop- apA other raw materials is bright- CWNg noticeably. The General Elec- tric Company and the Westinghouse lectric and Manufacturing Company, largest makers of miscellaneous iipment, started 1924 with about 75,000,000 {r: unfilled orders on their oks. The former company is ad- ding to plants {n St. Louis, Warren, iio; Philadelphia” and Los Angeles, 1‘;: ;m Xh;me\;‘ lshlncrusmg capac- : sburgh, S| s e Liebute aron, Kansas City Great Plant Expansion, The first unit of th Plant of the' Westorn Elecirie Coms pany at Kearney, N. J., will be com- 1leted next fall, 'when 5,000 workers will begin manufacture of telephone cquipment. In the meanwhile leased ants are being operated at Newark #nd Jersey City. New factory units have been added at Chicago and ad- ditlonal space leased there. Some idea of the requirements tel- €phone and telegraph expansion will impose may be gained from the an- Touncement by the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Company that its budget for 1924 will provide $270, £00.000 "for plant additions, an in- crease of $30,000.000 over the amount spent in 1923. por cent more telephones will be add- d to the Bell system this year com- pared with last, which was the larg- st the system has ever had. $28,000,000 Oatlay in One City. The Michigan Bell Telephone Com- yany wi expend $28.965.000 in ex- jansion in Detroit alone in the next tive years. Of this sum $4,742.000 will b spent this vear. This program i{s based on a care- iul survey of the probable growth of the community,” sald Frans C. Iuhn, president of the compan “Detroit now has about 190,200 tel phones, or one for each six people. The 200,000 mark probably will be ched early this spring. We an- ticipate that by 1928 Detroit will be using 300,000 telephones. Plans this yrar also call for extensive additions in other Michigan citles. The Pacific Telephone and Tele- raph Company will spend more money In general construction work in California this year than in any frevious annual period. Major items volved will be additlons to lands, \ulldings, equipment and outside Jlants, which are necessitated by {n- sreasing demands of the system. The mpany, in expectation of the future apid growth and development of the tate, 1S preparing for a net increase of 110,000 telephone stations, a gain ) 50 per cent over 1923. Surveys by rgineers of the company indicate l.at the growth of the system will be eneral throughout the state, and will i.aterially affect the agricultural dis- tricts. Enormous Pewer Program. The production of electric power in the United States during 1923 is conservatively estimated at 55.000,- 060,000 kilowatt hours, as compared ith 47,659,000,000 kilowatt hours In 1922, Expansion of central power itations already planned lead elec- trical engineers to predict an even ireater increase in thig year. The heavy electrical equipment involved will bring enormous orders to the manufacturers. For example, application has just heen made at Topeka by the United Power and Light Corporation to ab- sorb fourteen light and power com- j:anies and increase it's capitalization ‘rom three to nine million dollars, md to issue $3,750.000 in bonds to surry out the changes necessary. ome engineers go so far as to say frankly that the future of the bitu- minous coal industry is closely link- »d with the production of electric chergy. The glant powel survey au- thorized by Gov. Pinchot of Pennsyl- vanla now is investigating closely the advantages to be gained by locat- inz power plants at or near the coal mines and transforming the energy of the fuel into electrical units for transmisslon to industries over long Iigh-voltage lines. Conl Transmftted by Afr. In this connectlon powdered coal has been successfully transported through steel pipes distances of a nile between mine and power station by compressed air. Steps are now being taken to in- crease the North American Company's (Cahokia plant, opposite St. Louis, to 2 capacity of 300,000 kilowatts, at ‘n ultimate cost of $28,000,000. n completion this will be the world's argest electrical generating station perated with pulverized coal. All the North American's subsidi- rles, including those in Cleveland nd Milwaukee, are substantially in- reasing capecity. More than $536,- 10,000 was spent last year for new ower plants and extensions and \ere Is every prospect this record ill be surpassed this year. — . Refore You Invest—Investigate. Ever notice that the fellows who ry to get rich.quick are always oke? 0 MEN ENTCMBED IN MINE RESCUED ot Believed Seriously Injured in|W Spite of Tons of Earth ‘Which Collapsed. ‘pecial Dispatch to The Star, CUMBERLAND, Md., January 18.— Tames K. Jones and his brother, Dan- 1 B. Jones, were entombed in the Tackson mine of the Georges Creek Coal Minidg Company at Lonaconing 1ast night, and forty miners worked four hours (o reach James, ‘while [ranicl was rescued in less than two! It is expected that 15| Recelved by Private Wire BY WLLIAM F. HEFFERNAN. NEW YORK, January 18.—The out- standing incldents on the curb mar- ket today were the persistent strength in radlo stocks and the active deal- ings accompanying the listing of the Lehigh Valley Railroad rights to sub- scribe to the shares of interest in Lehigh Valley Coal Company. Cer- tificates for 1,212,160 shares of inter- est In the stock of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company also were admitted and sold Initially at 32. Previous to list- ing the rights bids of from 15 to 25 Wwere made by varfous brokers, The plan of segrogating the coal company from the railroad provide that stockholders of the latter com- pany be given until April 15 next to exercise their rights. They opened at i’l:l:rl:ound midday and sold under 30 Radlo Corporation common wi F an ac- tively taken at fractionally nigher prices. The buying was stimulated NEW YORK, Jan :l":ndo‘mcm Iist o}“gnfii ed in on Ny Rot o the New York Sales in -Following. and_stocks Curb Mar- Low. 023 33.. Cot Ofl @a . Am Sumat Tob 73 Am T et Gt Anaconda ‘6 Am 9 Am P 8y wi ta B 56 wi X Cit Serv Ta D, Con Gas Dalto 5148 E 68 Cons Gax Hal 6a A 3 Conu Textiles 8 Deere & Co T%; Federal Sugar isher Body Gx '27. sher Body fs "28.. Gen Asphalt Ss. Int Match Blgw 93 Kaosas Cy Tor Sign 1:\0:2 oHeg New Orl Pub Ser'5s 831 North State Pw 6l4s fhig Ohlo Power 58 B... 87 Pen Power & Li Phila Elec 514 Ture Ol 8as it Pub Sery of 2 X Sun 011 6y Switt & Co fa . Tn Oil 8« B " Tn Ry of Yir Ry Co on . 0 Web Mills 6%e wi. 102 FOREIGN BONDS. Russlan Govt 5%; 35 Rusaian Govt 6! 24 Russian_ Natl . 4 Swi 814 3 Bwiss Govt Bs. 11 U 8 of Mex C Sales In units. BTANDARD OIL ISSUES. 100 Alglo-Am O .. 15% 18 1100 Continent OIl “new. 4745 43 ° 10 Galena Signal OU.. 633 a8y, 700 Humble 0 & R new 38y, 88 210 Impi Ofl of Cannda 110% 135% 10 Ind Pipe Line. 83" 93 2000 Inter Pet Co itd. 95 Magnolia Pet. 200 Natl Transit. Y Traosl 800 Oblo Ofl mew. 540 Prairie Ol 460 Prairie Pipe 100 Rolar Refin 100 South Penn new. . 8% INDEPENDENT OIL STOCKS, in hundreds. ?‘6 58% 1 Ark Nat Ga 22 Roston_Wyo 01l § Carib Bynd 514 Cit Bery . 15114 801, o $7,000 Cit Rery C serip, 15 Creole Synd Washington Stock Exchange. SALES. pital Traction 55—$1,000 at 953 shington Rwy. & FElec. 45—31,000 st $2,500 at 70%. shington Rwy. & Elec. com.—10 at 70%. ahisgton Rwy. & Elec. pla—10 at 1%, at 75%. golmeriean Security & Trust Company—10 st Ca Wi ational Union Fire Insurance Company— 7 at 9%. AFTER CALL.. Washington Gas s '33—$1,000 at 100%. Merchants” Bank and Trust Company—i0 at 129. ‘Washington Rwy. & Elec. com.—10 at 69%. Money—Call loans, § and 6 per cent. BONDS. Bid and Asked Prices. PUBLIC UTILITY. Bid. RE P Asked. American Tel. & Telga. 4s. American Tel. & Telga. 4 Am. Tel. & Tel. ctl. tr. 3s. Am. Tel & Tel. conv. Gs. Anacostia & Potomac Be. ‘Anacostia & Potomac gut C, & P. Telephone C. & P. Telephone of apital Traction R. R. Clty & Suburben 3 Georgetown Gas 1st 55, Metropolitan L. 1. G Potomac Elec. 1st 5s. Fotomac Elec. cons, - £ Bajt. & Annap. 5 Washington Gas bs. Washington Gay 6 Wash. Rwy. & Elec. 4s. MISCELLANEOUS. STOCKS. PUBLIC UTILITY. American Tel. & Telgs. Capital Tractl 250 2 150 180 260 jiours. Neither man is thought to be seriously injured. Daniel Jones was ueezed about the lower part of his ody, James was held by tons of flebris on his lecs. The fact that mine timbers fell peross a car in the room probably aved the Jones brothers from instant leath. Six men working on the opher! {de of the car escaped -uninjured. Villlam Richardson was injured about he legs when struck by a boulder while attempting to provide air space 'or James Jones. After rescuers had tunneled welve-men shifts for four hours bpening large enough to admit one an through to where James Jones a8 pinioned was effected. The mine s a new opening started in Decem- er in an attempt to recover coal ibandoned by the old American Coal ompany. o e om Life. Father—I saw a man with two heads pu_Xia shoulders lnst night, g ughter—In a museum,. I suppose Father—No, in this house; and ome ag yours! in | Uslon Tru Cor Me National Savin rebants’ East United States. Washington Mechanics”.... FIRE INSURANCE. 210 120 18 9% ol 5585l TITLE INSURANCE. Columbia Title..... ki Seal Estate Titie. m* MISCELLANEOUS. . C. Pa td. . glrshlllle:lnl(!r & Storage.. 110 Mergenthaler Linotype. 0ld Dutch Market pfd. Lazston Monotype. Becurity Stora, Washington Mark Yellow Cab. *Exz-dividend, 12! 8% % extra dividend, 2as.| Direct to The Star Office by the statement that the. company had sufficient cash to pay the prafer- red dividend and that it is likely a disbursement of 1 to % per cent will be considered this month. The report for 1923 is expected to show net income around $5,000,000 before charges, amortization, etc., after al- lowing for the 7 per cent preferred dividend this would leave a balance of 63 cents a share available for the common. Dubilier Radio sold up to its high record of 143. Candy products also came in for attention around its top. Ofl stocks were neglected, Ohio ofl went higher for a while, but subsequently re- ceded. Ng action was taken at the directors’ meeting regarding the pro- posed merger between Ohlo and Mu- tual Oll. The new Issue of the government of Argentine National 6 per cent bonds of 1923 series “A" were admitted and changed hands at_a _subscription price of 96%. The bonds are dated 1957 and will yield 6% per cent to ma- turity. Market Street Rallway first mortgage 7 per cents of 1940, also admitted —_— Engineers Pet Federal Ol 2 Glen Rock Gult Oil of Py Gn 8 0 & R MR Wi Hudson Of1 . K Keystone Ranger Lago Pete . Leader Prodn . Livingaton Pet Marland . Mount Prod ", Peer Ol Corp Pennock Ofl . Pan Pet & Tr 1t wi Red Bank_0il Roy Can OIl & Rait Ck Conn Salt Ck Prod. Sapulps Refin Seaboard 01l : Tidel Osage O 23 Wilcox Ofl & Gax.. INDUSTRIALS. 3 Amal Leather pf.. 1 Am Hawallan 8 8. 2 Am Multy 0 . 3 Rorden & Co... . 2 Bkiyn Shoes Tnc .. 1 Bridgeport Ma w i 2 Buirn Cits B R. 1 Car Light ... 2 Centrif Iron Pipe 2 Chic_ Nip new w | 3Ch Nip B tr ow wi 1 Childs Co new w 1 13 Contl Tob Co. 2 Cuba Co . BDL&W 41 Dubllier C & 3 Dunhfil Tatl 1 17 Durant Mot R e 2B E R E ol 4 2% BEBR,. PR RS 214 11 Heyden Chem Ha 8 Hnd & Maon R R Hnd & Man R R pf 2 Hudson Co pfd ... 2 Intl Con Ind Corp. 4 Unit Ret Can.. 5 Kresge Dept Stores 57 Lebigh Power eec 7 3b Ten . Lehigh Val R w i.. Lig Myers Lucey " Mfg . Midvale Co....... Natl Dairy Prod... N Y Transportation Park & Tilford. o E 2 “ 88 & BIEY 2014 3% o Radiy Corp Reo Motor 5 Rosenbaum s Corp Royal Typewriter Shelton Looms 34 Singer Mfg. 4080 C & 1 new | 3 Stutz Motor 7 Swift Intern Todd Ship . Transport T United Bakeri Tnit Pfe Shar new Tnt Re Can Foun sa U8 Lt & Heat. 17 8 Cities Cor A U 5 Dist new w i Tniv Pipe ptd w 1 Ward Bk A w .. Ward Bkg B w | Willys Corp 1at b Cor 1st pf cfa d 4Y Taxi CoN ¥ rts M1 10 Boston 3font Cory 32 Canario Copper 20 Candelaria Min 7 Cent Amer Min 2 Chlet Cons ~Mining 8 Cons Cop Min new €8 Cortez Silver .. 30 Diamondfid Bik B, 10 Ely Con: 10 Fortuna Mines. 40 Goldfleld Deey 100 Gold Zone 100 Hardshell M! 25 Hawthorne Ml 1 Hollinger 1 Hecla Mine 10 Indian Mige . 20 Kelly Ext Mines. 5 Kerr Lake . 10 Lone Star S 40 Torrain Cons Mines. .. 10 1 { 111 Ohto Cop 10 Piymouth 20 Red Hill Florence. 180 Am Gold & P. 10 Spearnead Gold 14 Stewart Mines . 10 Teck Hughes 10 Tonopah 1 United E: 1 Walker Mine 29 Wendea Copper 80 West End Ext .. 0 10 Wett Lorrain Silv. .13 MENIAL ANCESTOR OF KINGS. | Mother of William the Conqueror ‘Was a Washer Woman. From the Kansas City Star. The long line of British sovereigns, and the present king himself, have owed their place in life, and their right of succession, to an {llicit love for a peasant girl who pounded clothes upon a stone beside a Nor- man_ stream. The father of Willlam of Normandy looked down from his castle window one day on a line of washers by the stream side. His fancy was fascinated by the peculiar grace and beauty of one of them, a young girl of humble parentage, and she became the mothcr of Wil- liam the Conqueror. To this day the washtubs for the clothes of Normandy are just as they were before the conquest—the running streams, or little slab-lined pools at their edges. The women kneel on rows of stones laid just In the current of the stream, or around the pools. The washing is done by beating the clothes vigorously upon rocks. As Many Phones as London. From the Red Ball Transit News. Only seven citles in Europe can boast of more than 100,000 telephones each. This number was exceeded a short time ago by Milwaukee, accord- ing to figures published by the Tele- graph and Telephone Journal of Lon- don. The Huropean ciffes are Lon- don, Berlin, Paris, Hamburg, Copen- hagen, Stockholm and Vienna. In the United States, which has a population of only a quarter of that of Europe, there are fourteen cities that already have passed the 100,000 mark in telephone development, the ‘Wisconsin public utilities bureau here adds to the above report. ————— “Low Down” on the Lion. From the Argonaut. Lord Dewar, an enthusiastic big game hunter, delights to tell the story of a Manchester business man who paid a visit to a planter friend in Uganda who was & keen sports. man, Not without considerable mis giving, the visitor allowed himself to be prevailed upon to go lion hunting. His first night in the jungle was a sleepless one. Next morning the two friends start- od out early and had gone but & short distance when they came upon fresh tracks which the enthuslastic sports- man identified as being those of a full-grown lion. “Tell you what we had better do,” sald the Manchester man, brightly. “You go ahead and see where he went and I'll go back and ses where he came from!” &) + [mately ol | U. S. GASOLINE SENT ALL OVER WORLD| 500,000,000 Gallons Shipped to 80 Different Countries, Colonies and Protectorates. WAR EXPORTS EXCEEDED Value of 1923 Shipments Placed at About $75,000,000. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 15.—The American horseless vehicle which ls 80 rapidly Invading the markets of the world {s at the same time draw- ing its “food supply” from its native country, the United States. Figures complled for the Trade Record of The National City Bank of New York show that the exportation of that ab- solute requirement of the horseless vehicle and flylng machlne—gaso- ine—is now nearly five times as much as a decade ago. The total quantity of gasoline exported In 1913 was a little over 100,000,000 gallons and In 1923 is estimated at about 500,000,000 gallons; the value in 1913 was $17,- 000,000 and in 1923 approximately $75,000,000. Exports During War Exceeded. That this demand for our gasoline by the automobiles and flying ma- chines of the forelgn world is a per- mancnt one 1s evidenced by the fact that our exports of gasoline are now much greater than in the biggest year of the war perfod when the re- quirements of the military operations iin Europe greatly intensified the d % [demand upon us as the world's chie producer of gasoline. While the official export records of the United States now combine the {gasoline figures with those of naph- jtha under the title of “gasoline, :naphznn and other light products of distillation,” a study of the official ifigures during the years in which o 'Basoline was separatély stated seems 1 |10 Justify an estimate that the 1925 % {exports of gusoline alone are about {600.000.000 gallons, with & value of {about $75,000,000. Even this big export of approxl- 500,000,000 gallons in 19 iadds ‘the Trade Record, is a sma \quantity when compured with the figures of total production, since the {recent census of manufacturers shows |the quantity produced in the United {Btates in the calendar year 1921 as lover 5.000,000,000 gallons, and this |suggestion’ that w about nin tenths of our product is in line with the recent statement Inuu»nmb“--a are owned in the United |States. 1 Snpplies to Ninety Countries. Th 500,000,000 gallons of gaso- {line which we are exporting go to every part of the world. Ofcial fig- ures for 1921, the latest year in iwhich gasoline was separately shown {in the export record, shows shipment lof gasoline to ninety different coun- {tries, colonles and protectorates. in- cluding not only the chief countries lof every grand division, but als imany of the smaller and Younger po Mtical divisions. such as Palestine, IKwangtung, Chosen. French Indo- IChina, Siam, Madagascar, Belgian [Congo, Jugoslavia, Finland and Ice- {land, And in all of these countries {to which gasoline {s sent it American automobiles awaiting larrival. i finds its FOUR STEEL FIRMS MAY BE UNITED Maryland Rolling Company Out to Buy Other Concerns—Wall Street Notes. | | By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, January 18.—Negotia- tions are being conducted by the Maryland Steel Rolling Company for the purchase of three small steel companies, including the Trenton Steel Strip Company, accordng to re- ports in Wall street. Plans provide for formation of a new company with a capitalization of $1,500,000. Net profits of the Endicott-Johnson Corporation in 1923 totaled $4,154. 278, A decrease of $1.307,440 as com- pared with 1922, Sales of the com- pany and its subsidiaries, however, increased more than $2,000,000, total- ing §66.565,812 for the year. Reports of a Japanese loan have been revived in Wall street. Confer- ences are sald_to have taken place between New York bankers and Ja- panese interests relative to the rale of $70,000,000 of that country’s bonds in this market, but no agreement has been reached on terms. Four banking groups were expected to bid today on $7,200,000 Norfolk and Western railroad CQll!nml‘nl bonde. The lssue probably will bear a 63 per cent interest rate WHOLESALE BUYING GAINS Rise of 4.2 Per Cent Over Nation Since First of Year. NEW YORK. January 18.—The in- creased actlvity in the country's Wholesale markets since the first of the new year is reflected in a rise of 4.2 per cant in the wholesale buying throughout the country as a whole ithis week compared with the previous | week, according to the weekly mer- chandising activity report compiled by the credit clearing house. Al to the gain, the largest increase be- ing shown in _the eastern section, where a rise of 5.6 per cent was reg- istercd. L YEAR’S STOCK LISTINGS. Figure $1,414,177,080 Under Rec- ord Reached in 1922. NEW YORK, January 18.—Listings on the Stock Exchange in 1923 had a total value of $2,697,315,525. Al though this sum was '$1,414,i77,090 under the record listings of 1923, it was, nevertheless, greater than the total for 1921 and 1922. Bonds listed were slightly larger than the total of stocks, according to Dow, Jones & Co.. reversing the order of 1922, "The division for the year was $1.- 435,320,600 bonds and $1,261,994,9%5 stocks. —— NEW EXCHANGE HEAD. NEW YORK, January 18.—Edward F. Diercks has been elected president of the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange. Other officers elected are: Carl H. Stofffeden, vice president; C.[ago, the figures for the first week of F. Middendorf, treasurer. —_— ‘WOULD INCREASE STOCK. NEW YORK, January 18.—Stock- holders of the New Orleans, Texas 2nd Mexico Railway Company will meet at New Orleans on February 4 to vote on a proposal to increase the authorized capital stock of the com- pany from $15,000,000 to $25,000,000, Subject to the approval of the Inter- state Commerce Commission, a'10 per cent stock dividend also has been roposed. PARIS MARKET STRONG. PARIS, January 18.—Prices opened stronger but closed irregular on the bourse today. Three per cent rentees, 54 francs 95 centimes. Exchange on London, 93a francs 20 centimes. Five per cent loan, 70 francs 95 centimes. The dollar was quoted at 21 francs 99%. centimen » consume at home | that about nine-tenths of the world's | sections of the country contributed | Tips for Taxpayers No. 17, Taxpayers who discovered a debt to be worthless in 1933 and have in that year charged the account off their books may claim the amount as a deduction In thelr tn- come tax returns for that yedr. Bad debts may be treated in one or two ways: (1) By a deduction of the amount of the bad debts from gross income; (2) by a de- duction from income of an addi- tion to reserve for bad debts. Taxpayers who adopted for the year 1921 elther method must con~ tinue the use of the same method, unless permission to change is ob- tained from the commissioner of internal Permission to adopt the reserve method is re- stricted to taxpayers having a large number of accounts, wher credit 1s extended over a consider- able period, and is not granted for the purpose of handling one specific bad debt. Bad debts may be deducted in whole or In part. When deducted in part, the taxpayer must be able to show with a reasonable degree of certainty the amount uncollec- tible. Partial deduction are allow- ed with respect to specific debts only. To be allowed as a deduction a debt must be charged off in the year in which its worthlincss was discovered. The taxpayer should attach to his return a statement showing the propriéty of any de- duction claimed for a debt. Where the surrounding circumstances indicate that a debt {s uncollect- ible and that legal action in all probability would not avall, proof of these facts is sufficient evi- dence of Its worthessness. A valid debt proved to be worth- less is not always a proper deduc- tion. For example, unpald amounts representing wages, salarics, rent- als, or similar ftems of t income, are not allowed ductions unless the claimed as deductions have been included as income in the credit- or's return for the year in which deduction is sought or previous years. Unpald loans made to needy rela- tives or friends with little or no expectation of thelr repayment are not deductible, but are regards ed s gifts. COMMODITY NEWS WIRED STAR FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY NEW ORLEANS, January 18— |White goods sales have been a big |success here this year and retail dry goods sales the last week have been 115 to 20 per cent 2head of last year. The turnover of wenring apparel, {underwear, overcoats and shoes has been unusually good. Ohlo, January 18. ; department of the Repubiic Rubber Corporation is op- lerating at capacity and the output {of the mechanical rubber goods de- | partments shortly will be increased. {T'nfilied orders for mechanical rub. {ber goods now are double what they Were ™ “month ago. ~This is due Jargely to purchases by automobile Imanufacturers. { PITTSBURGH, January 18.—Op- {erations on the part of Pennsylvania ol producers have been encouraged by the recent advances in crude oil iprices and many operators expect further advances within thirty days. tri | HOUSTON, January 18.—A total of {51.243 bales of cotton was exported {from Houston to forelgn ports the first half of this month and the total for the season so far is 867,000 bales. FORT WORTH, January 18.—Farm- ers in Texas are far behind with Ifheir work owing to the cold dry |weather since January 1. i TODAY’S COTTON PRICES. Yesterday's Sharp Declines Fol- lowed by Rallies. NEW YORK, January 18.—Tester- da harp decline was followed by | railles in the cotton market, which opened firm at an advance of 15 to 28 points today. Covering was pro- moted by relatively steady Liverpool cables, favorabla Manchester trade adv and reports of a firmer spot basis in southern markets. Some trade buving was also reported and the market advanced to 33.20 for March and 33.38 for May during the rly trading. or about 30 points net Continued complaints of a demand for cotton goods in domestic markets seemed to hold ing in check. er. La., January 18.— points was scored half hour of trading in . the market belng sup- ted by rood cables, private ad- from English spot firms that were meeting a better inquiry for actual cotton from mills on the continent and the cold weather over the belt. March rose to 33.23 and October to 27.6 NEW YORK futures, 1 i uary. Jul .05; NEW ORLEANS, La., Janjary 18.— Cotton futures noon blds easy. Jan uary, 32.47; Mareh, 32.65; May, 32.4 July, 31.60; October, 27.22. DRINKWATER DIVORCED. Wife Gets Decree From Author of “Abraham Lincoln.” By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, January 18.—Mrs. John Drinkwater ‘was granted a_dlvorce here today from the author of “Abra- ham Lincoln,” “Robert E. Lee" and other historical plays. The decree was awarded on statutory ground Mrs. Drinkwater was Kathleen Wa pole an acrtess. Since her marriage in 1906 she appeared only infrequent- 1y on the stage. January 18.—Cotton {DECEMBER SHOWS D. C. BUILDING DROP Labor Demand Seen, However, by Employment Bureau Report. Further decrease in building oper- atlons was geen in Washington dur- ing December by the United States employment eervice, which asserted in a statement today, however, that there is practically no unemployment existing among building tradesmen and allled mechanics, Employment in the Capital was stimulated by the holiday business, which was exceptionally good, the statement said, although a consider- able proportion of it was of a tem- porary nature. A falr demand for good gtenographers and typists exists, with the usual surplus of clerical help still in evidence. Demand for colored domestics still is large and some difficulty is being| experienced in securing a supply, due to the fact that this class of labor prefers what is known as day work. There is a small surplus of skilled and unskilled labor in Washington. Wages pald in the building indus- try have kept above material prices and rises in the cost of living, t Labor Department announced today, and bullding mechanics have had gome chance to make up for “adverse conditions in the earlier vears. Building materfals showed a steep slump in the latter part of 1920 and Ithe first of 1921, went up until May, {1823, and were back at an index f lure of 182 In September from an i jdex of 300 in April, 1920, or three times the average price of 1513, In 1923 wage rates paid building construction workers had more than doubled over the 1913 rates. From 1913 up_to and including 1920 wages in the building trades did not keep up with cost of living, but in_ the three years since 1920 wages have held steadily above living costs. REBEL GENERAL SEIZED WITH STAFF IN TEXAS Mexican Officers Accused of Mak- ing Illegal Entry—Waded Across Rio Grande. By the Assoctated Press. SAN _ANTONIO, Tex., January 18 | Gen. Vicente Davile, ‘Mexican rebel {general, who was routed by Mexican | federals at Allende January 7, was arrested by United States officers near Langtry, Valvende county, after he and his staff of eight officcrs men had made liegal entry tnto this country. Ho ~was accompanied by one colonel, one leutenant colonel two majors, a captain and thre privates. Gen. Davila and his staff | are being held at Del Rio. They are Icharged with violation of the im {migration laws in enterin a point {not a port of entry. They waded {across the Rio Grande at Langtry. { The Mexican general said he and {his staff had been cut off from th rest of his men by federal troops at Allende. HOLD ZONE LAW BROKEN. Commissioners File Suit Against Property Owners. The District Commissioners today flled sult for an injunction in the ! District Supreme Court against John {J. McCanna and Hetzel H. Lovett to prevent an salleged violation of the |zoning law by parking a number of trucks on a vacant lot near 28th and P streets northwest. Justice Staf- ford issued a rule on the defendants returnable next Friday The Commisstoners claim twenty three residents of the neighborhood which 18 zoned as restdential, com- plained to the zoning commission of the nolse made by the trucks and of the alleged violation of the law. OATS HIT B.Y FREEZE. Truck Crop Escapes Damage in Florida Cold Wave. ATLANTA, Ga, January 15.—The ground in most of the, southeast, ¢ {cept in Florida, according to the mid- month crop report for the states of {North and South Carolina, Tennessee Alabama, Florida and Ge issued today by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture. “Part of the oats may come o the report stated, “if weather condi- ltions are favorable. On account of {the fatlure of this crop a prospective shortage of feed is already affecting the plans of the farmers in Guorgia.” Truck crops in Florida suffered lit- tle damage from the cold according to the report. The condition of cab- {bage, celery and lettuce was ported as fair, but strawberries w retarded by the cold and are moving from the Plant City section. JAILED MAN ESCAPES. Frank A. Kane, thirty-four, whose address was given as 1222 O street northwest, escaped today from the District jall. He was serving a term of ten days for an minor law, jail officials reported to the police, and he walked away while doing chores about the bullding. o 10,000 BODIES ORDERED. NEW YORK, January 18.—Stewart McDonald, president of the Moon M tor Car Company, announced yester- day that the company has closed a contract with the Pullman Company for 10,000 closed bodles. The Moon Company 1s placing these bodies on its new light six and expects, begin. ning in February, to start shipments at the rate of 2,000 cars a month, a 60 per cent iIncrease over the corre- sponding period of 1923. RADIOGRAM FROM AUSTRIA. NEW YORK, January 18.—The first idirect radlogram from Austria was recelved {n this country yesterday by Irving T. Bush, president of ~ the | Chamber “of Commérce, from Pre dent Quiedenius of the Vienna Ch: ber of Commerce, in which the latter expressed the hope that this means of communication will be a factor in d veldping commercial relations be- tween the two countries. REVENUE FREIGHT GAINS. Loadings of revenue freight for the week ended January 5 showed a slight recovery as compared with t final week of 1923, ris! to 703,269 cars, according to figures just made the American Rallway Association. | Compared with the same week a year January showed a decrease of 64,027 cars. BIG ADDING MACHINE YEAR. DETROIT, January 18—Burroughs Adding Machine had a most succ ful year in 1923. show total sales of $27,600,000, of which $23,000,000 represents United States business. With exception of 1919 and 1920 this is largest sal total in the company’s history, an in- crease of 27 per cent over 1922 and 9 per_cent over 1918. HEADS BANK AT 28, RIDGEFIELD, N. J, January 18.— Bernard C. Liekman,” who sf been elected president of the Ridge- field Park Trust Company, is believed to be the youngest bank president in the United States, being only twenty- elght years old. He is & graduate of Syracuse Uaiver: public by the car service division of Preliminary figures HALF PRIiCE on moving 1o or Jersey, New York and ail during January and February. Transjort Movers, 321 8. 18th oL, N. 3. freeze of January 5 killed oats to the | infraction of a | ia,ooo RUSSIANS EXILED TO ISLAND IN WHITE SEA Commissar of Justice Announces Banishment of the “Objection- able Elements” From Moscow. By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, January 18.—Commissar of Justice Kurski announces that 3,000 persons have besn banished from Moscow to the island of Solo- vetsk in the White sea or to Siberia !in connection with the campalgn to iTid the city of objectionable elements. {01 this total, he said, only 217 were | \under a political ban; the others were | ‘mpeculators who the Moscow soviet | \decided should leave for the best | igood of the community. The com- ) | imissar added that the deportations had about come to an end. i |APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS | 'B. & 0. IN ACCIDENT CASES Special Dispatch to The Star. { ANNAPOLIS, Md., January 18.—Two |opinions were delivered in the Mary- land court of appeals today pertain- ing to the law of personal Injuries, the Baltimore and Ohlo Rallroad Com- pan «Ing a party in both instances. In & case appealed from the circuft court for Montgomery county, in which Willis T. Windson was the {plaintift, the accident took place near Buck Lodge station. The plaintiff, with others, who were in a truck, were struck by an express. _It was held in that case that the, fact that an automatic bell at the | crossing or other safety device failed | o work did not relieve the plaintiff ! of responsibility to take due care, and | that it was a question for the jury ! to decide as to whether or not he| used such care. | In the case where the widow and | daughter of Edward T. Anderson, who | was killed while walking on the track | 1var Harwood station in Howard county, sued for damages on account of his'death, it was ruled that the | deceased was a trespasser In walk- | ng on the tracks, and that proof that th operators of the train had been cgligent in causing his death wus ury before there could be a re- i The judgment in favor of the rall- voad company was affirmed in both | SIFT LIQUOR MYSTERY. | Custom Officials Seek $50,000 Sup- ply Missing in Detroit. Customs officlals today were investl- ing the disappearance of about ,000 in liquor from a ocustoms ware- | se in Dertoit. The MHquor had been | scized by government agents in raids on rum runners, and was sald to have zinated mostly on the Canadian side. | DETROIT, Mich., January 18.—Carey | Ferguson, collector of customs for | port of Detroit, refused to discuss | report from Washington that an in- been ordered {into rees that liquor seized by customs horities here had disappeared. Mr. *crguson eaid most of the liguor taken £ authorities was in small | tities brought across the border by iduals. | i PILSUDSKI M.ISSES B('JMB.i Unexploded Missile Found in Hall| Before Lecture Hour. | Dy the Associated Press. WARSAW, January 18.—An unex-| {ploded bomb was found last mgmi !\n a Rall where Marshal Pilsudski, former chief of state, was going to lecture The incident has drawn attention |K" the acute controverey between the adh s of Marshal Pllsudski and o nationalists. 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