New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1921, Page 9

Financial /ALL STREET STOCK EXCHANGE REPORTS Wall street, 10.30 a. m.—Speculative lasues, particularly those which fea- tured yesterday's last rally, were ac- tive and strong at the irregu.ur open- ng of today's stook market. Cali- ornia Petroleum, Gy noral Asphalt and Manhattan Elevatcd were the out- standing issties, rising 1 to 1% points in the first few transactlons. Can- dian Pacifie, Ameorican International, urrlt-n Smelting, Américan Wool- Corp Products and U. §. Rubber ed large fractions. Offsetting tures coprised American Sugar, erfcan Car, Republic Steel, North- b Pacific and Food Products at re- s ranging from fractions to a oint. Exchange on London for- d part of yestorday's extreme ad- nee. all Ptreet, Close.—General As- it, ®>mmon and pfd., and food, and shipping shares regis- s further Iimprovement Ilater, of the steels and rails easing ately on profit-taking The osing was strong Sales approximated 750,000 shares. » (New York Stock Exchange quefa- ns furnished by Richter & Co., jbers of the New York Stock Pxcimnge.) RISChalmers m Beet Sugar. . Can nCar & Fdy .. Catton Ol , . 2 H & Leather Tocomotive. . p Smelt & Ref B Sugr Retf com Sumatra Tob hacco .. ..130 ten <, ... 69% n Copper 40 P &SF 8I% e West 174% An~Loeo "y are. & Ohlo 36% NB.... 0% HRap Tran 14 n Bacific.117% .37 1% 06 % i 29 3% X 30 idated Gus 82 yod Ref.. 78 Stoel . 1003 > Sugar . 4% leptt-John .. #07% pra ... wWaw .. re , .6 on prd 15% “Mar L1689 r Mar pfd 567 . 5% 57 551 % 165% 33 10% 2% 2% 21y L102% LR} 36 katewt ; 4 %4 % % 6% 76 6% 49y 5 419 . 26 28 P .. 0% 60 Steel Car 8T% NT% Cop ... 14 137% seseeccss 8B% S48, 681, 05% Arrow ... sh Coal REY . ... G Refin W 1. cific . Ruttway eor Co ... Products it Ol 0% 113 YOURSELF | extenordinary situstion that | the stock market today. | G OPPARTUNITIES ‘ wimost bewlldering in their #re open for profitable in- YOU AFFORD TO sok ehances like these ASK US to send you our END REVIEW and PLEMENT and FOR NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 192 MARCH 4 THE BIG STAGE S (Let’s Ship the Old Front Porch to Washington) 0 X MARKS SPOT WHERE- HARDING STANDS . 0 83% 1113 583 38 S U 8 Rubber Co U 8 Steel .... U 8 Steel ptd Utah Copper ‘ Va Car Chemical . Willys Overland . T0 68y . 84 3 JA11% 110% . 69 56% 38 85% .. 8% i CLEARING Exchanges, . . Bilances .. . LOCAL STOCK MARKET HOUSE REPORT. $654.170,007 H A TODAY D14 Askoed Hartford Klectric Light . Southern N. K. Telcphone . rigan Hardware X fcan Alomiery erican Brass .. Bristol Hross . Billings & Spence Colt's Arms Bagle Lock Ladders, Frary & Cla New Hritain Machine Bement- com Norsh & Judd B Peck, Stow & Wi Sianley Works . Standard Screw. Scovill Mfg. Co Traut & Hine s Union M(g. Co. 5 ox com SHIPPING BOAR Mecans of Accounting for the $3,000,- 000 Fund Described by Col. E. A. Abadic, Former Comptrolier, New York, Jan. 19.-—Means of ac- counting for the fund of meore than $3,000,000,000 handled by the Ship- ping Board were described here !o-‘ day by Col. E. T1. Abadie, former general comptroller of thé boatrd, in testimony before the Wdlsh génate committee investigating shipping board- affairs. The witness said $215,796,000 was due the board on Noyember 1, 1919, in uncoliected accounts; and of this #um more than $2,000,000 was due from foreign governments Difficuilties {n_gollection he said, were enhanced by fdilure to have proper supporting documents to substantiate claims. One of the early abuses corrected | by the comptroller was lack nfi traveling expenses of employes of the board. e said as high as $30 a day was paid for traveling expenses nl’v nine exeeutive employes. High fees pald “experts” and their assistants were also criticized by the witness. Dex:hs and_Funerals | James 1. Shipman. James lsaac Shipmar ged 65, died this morning at his home at 23 Madi- son street. He was a native of Shef- field England. and had been a resident of New Britain for nearly 40 years, 35 years of which he had spent in the employ of the S ley Works. He was a member of Lexington lodge, I. 0. 0. F., Comstock F mpment, Sir Francis Drake lodg of & George and the Stanley Works Mutual \id association. Funeral service will be held tomorrow afternoon from the home at 3 o'clock. Rev. Willlam Ross pastor of the First Baptist church, will officlate and burial will be in | Fuirview cemetery. Sons Mrs. J. C. Irving. The funeral of Mrs. Jennie Carter Irving was held this afternoon at 3 o'clock from the late home at 70 Gar- den strect. Rev. Dr w. €. Hil, of the South Congregational | church, officiated. Burial was in Fair- view cemetery. The bearers were E. J- Skinner. J. M. Burdick, A- A. pastor CITY ITEMS Removal sale at Besse-Leland's.— advt. Engine Company No. 2 was called to the home of James F. White at 42 Trinity stree tthis morning. Steam pouring from windows in the house caused someone to telephone for the company. No damage was done, The fire department was called out about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon from Bex 334, for a fire in-the cellar of a house at 80 Silver street. A marriage dicense was takon oyt this afternoon by Antoni Krulak of 40 Gold street, and Michalena Kasprowicz of 200, Nofth streef LA WANT TWO PLATOON Board of Five Commsssioness Will Reccommend Adoption ‘nr Working I Plan 10 Council Tonight. The board of fire commissioners, at the request of the firemen will pres- ent a request for addption of the two- platoon system in he department, at this evening’s council session. The matter will probably be referred to the board of finance and taxationm. The matter was before the council last year, and was similarly referred, but no appropriation was made foér its ‘adoption. A special the coufi¢il will be held at 8 o'ctork to fill éxisting vacafcle$ In the ofite of corporation. counsel and prosecu- tor of the police court. HARDING'S APPOINTMENTS Hert and’ Houston, Southerners, Be- lieved Sure of Cabinet Selection— - = To Write \ddr at Miami. 5 19.—President- Harding plans write his in- augural address during his stay -in Miami according to Frederick W. Up- ham, national republican treasurer here to help *“shoo away the crowds” as he expressed it A T. Hert of Louisville, and R. M. Houston of Chattanooga, will doubt- less be chosen for cabinet positions, said Mr. Upbam, adding that Mr. Harding was determined to wipe out the imaginary political line that di- vides the north and south. Jan to SOLDIERS WANT $8.000 HOME Resolutions will be sent the coun- cil this evening by the local posts of the American Legion and the Veter- ang of Foreign Wars asking that body to appropriate £8,000 for a service- men’s club house to be built in city. meeting,. of | o |-said Mr. Edgren, “‘and 1 was informed | this | {MUCH ADO IS HEARD ABOUT PRIZE FIGHT Whether or Not Dempsey-Carpentier | Forfeit Money Has Been Posted | Causes Trouble ! London, Jan. 19.—Georges Carpen- tier declared today there was nothing in fhe report from New York that his match with Jack Dempsey had been abandoned because of the non-deposit of forfeits, the Exchange Telegraph announees. Carpentier said his own | forfeit money-‘had-heen deposited last November.- C. B. Cochran, the boxing promoter, said he had heard that ~ the French zovernment would not allow Carpen- 's money to leave France, although “rancois Destamps,” his manager, had made every effort to send his $50,000 {to the United States. He added that if the bout was aban- doned for any reason he was prepared to give a purse of 100,000 pounds for the men to box in England in June Los Angeles, Jan. 19.—Robert d- gren, stakeholder in the Dempsey- Carpentier bout. said here today had been ‘informed right alonsz that all money had been posted, as required by the contract. ““Jack Kearns told me it had been,'’ in Carpentier's forfeit was France and was to be deposited forwarded, of New York. s # ‘1 recently heard reports that all de- posits had not been made. however, and I wrote to the trust con e ny to find out. T have not received an answer.”” LOSS NOW PUT AT $800,000 Revised Estimates, Made Later Today, .Show Fire at Springfield to Tia Been Very Costly. Springfield, Mass,, Jan. 19-—Revised estimates of the damage to the Hins- dale Smith and Co. tobacco packing plant occupying five buildings in the business district which was last night, place the loss at $800,000 The buildings contained the entire season’s harvest of the company from | Agawam and Westfield plantations on | whieh insurance of $750,000 was car- ried. This is a total loss. The dam- age to buildings is estimated at $30.- 000 or more. CONFESSES T0 MURDER al Mess Attendant at Annapol’s Tel's Autherities Killed Nurse. Annapolis, Md., Jan. 19.—Henry W Brown, negro naval mess today confessed that he Harriet wanaugh, naval = I here, whose | found last Friday night near pital. Robbery was the motive authorities stated,. in announcing confession. | i | Killed nurse at body M tie wiu the the { H, DAYTON HUMPHREY TENDERED SURPR Humphrey, 2 and__ins PARTY . well known e Dayton real estate burned | attendan'. | the hos- | il RISING TEMPERATURE IS SPEEDING ONWARD ! Fair and Warmer Predicted—Cloudy ] Weather Is Promised for N Thursday. New Haven, Jan. 19.—For New Ha- Ven and wvicinity: Fair ‘and warmer tonight; Thurs- [dny cloudy and warmer probably fol- lowed by rain or snow. For Connecticut: Partly cloudy and not guite so cold tonight: Thursday {cloudy and warmer, probably .fol- lowed by snow; fresh north shifting to southeast winds. Weather conditions: Te ridge of high pressure which has been moving across the country during the last three ¥vS now tends from the lower St. Lawrence valley southwestward to Virginia. Tt is causing ple. nt weather with low temperatures in the eastern districts A dis kota is causing cloudy and weather from the Rocky Mountains castward to Pennsylvania. Rain ex- tends as far east as Indiana. The tem- perature this morning was zero throughout New England except on the south coast. The lowest tem- perature reported was 24 below zero at Northfield, Vit The temperature is rapidly rising from Pennsylvania westward to, the Rocky Mountains. Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather with slowly rising tem- perature followed by <loudiness. unsettled Story of Greek Defeat Not Confirmed by Later Report. London, Jan. 19.—Official reports re- ceived in London,seem to controvert claims of the Turkish Nationalists t ex- | irbance central over North Da- below . increasing that they have broken the Greek front in Asia Minor. Both diplomatic and military ports state conditions: on the Greek front are very quiet and that if any advance has been made it has been on the part of the Greek troops. Ev- erything, according to these reports. points to -the strength of the Turkish Nationalist forces being greatly exag- gerated. NEW SOVIET ORDER. 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