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“7 Yes per cent dividend is in danger raged by the make-up of they rly statement of earnings of| nited States Steel Corporation, | after the closo of the market} , and the reported refusal of © to agree to the latest repara-! terms of the German Govern- stock market bears made a Agsault on prices as soon as arket opened this morning. ir attack wus centred princi- on steals, oils and other shares ted the recent sharp rise, and in these issues soon ran ‘from sto two points. It seams to be ect of the bear crowd to create in the market's position and outside gelling, but at no ‘Was there evidence of real liqul- and it was noticable that the steel and oll stocks were the railroad shares steadily ined a firm tone, and many specialties actually were, show advances compared with | quotations of last night. was difficult for the bear party 9 Make market capital out of the refusal of the French Gov- it to agree to the latest Ger- jfeparation terms for the reason the foreign exchange markets! comparatively firm. French @ranes and German marks were prac- eally unchanged, while in the fore- moon the rate for demand aterling re- only 1-1 of a cent ‘What fur. substantiated the opinion that the seriousness of the guituation was being exag- for stock market purposes, ‘the statement credited to British | officials that the new German Fiabeeals, while in neod of olaritica- pe will mean a long stap | a complete settlement of the matter. lisfaction over the showing, ‘by the Stcel Corporation In {ts quarteriy statement of earnings was to the amount of surplus! g after the payment of com- momudividends, but to the extent of the @ecline of March earnings com- with those of February and January. it has become a fair as- wamption that the corporation will 20¢ @how its cammon dividend carned n @he current quarter, but no one seriously entertains the belief that ‘of reduction. As a matter of fact, it the consensus of opinion among authorities on steel trade condi- tions that ch earnings will be} to be approximately the lowest aby month of the year. ates Stoel was 1-4, compared with 85, terday, which was also the Mich of the year. Crucible and etic dropped about two points and} hom dropped more than a ‘oint, although the statement of! @rpings to be issued later In the week is expected how a comforta- Balance after dividend payments. ican Petroleum, un-American, Simelair and other leading oils were down from one to two points. Sugar shares, most particularly Ameri- and Punta Alegre, were sold, presumably be- practical demoralization existing in the raw sugar market Ammouncement of the reduction in fhe dividend of the Pennsylvania Railroad from a 6 to a 4 per cent. inmval basis resulted in only a emporary selling flurry, and ap- yeared to have been almost entirely liscounted. Immediately prior to the (nnouncement nnsylvania sold ubove 36 and subsequently reacted to 4. Other standard dividend paying alls gold down fractionally, but. in wnly @ few instances did the low narks touched in final trading go velow those registered early in the ession. sIEGE SHIELDS NOW forced y “OR CHICAGO POLICE ‘ompletes Outtit Consisting of Gas Bombs, Hand Grenades and Heavy Rifles. | dends of 1% per cent. on the common share, payable June 1 to stockholdérs | lar quarterly dividend, pa ers of record May Surgeons Assured by X-Ray beyond born April 10, 1917, and known to all | "# the doctors and nurses in the hospital | (yoy, as after her birth Abbie's antecedents at the hospital, when Her body was cove Huh, Lowe | Ade Ruaely is is 4 | Ajax latte wo HN Me Alaska Colt i 1 Allie Jtralniren si Am Dect Sugar a Am Iewke Shoe, Am Can LIBERTY BONDS, Am Can Pres 2 P High, Low, tam = Seles Am (ur & Hiry ou . SOTO 8846 63.600 49,000 Am Cet Ot the ie S740 86m Am Exper $a 3 . 10 soe " nb. Cd kw ti se Vicwry 3% 7.48 las tet FOREIGN EXCHANGE Sen Toccanotive At 2.45 Sterling Dem. 3.94.1-8, cables Allied hem 3.94 7-8; off 1-$e. im ae ae. French frances det. .0757, cables Am Smelt & Ret 0758; off 00130. Am Steel Wry Lire dem. .0486, oublea 047; off {0 Sy 002¢. ‘tal am, sum, ‘Toto Marks dem. 1-2, cables .01661-2; Am Tel & ‘Tel up .0000 1-2. pol Sven Yen Canadian dollars, demand, .4934, up {= Aye? it 0026. Swedish kr, demand, .2280; am La Pruce. cables, .2286, off .0060. Norwegian kr., Am Wool demand, .1645; cables, .1560, oft 0020, 4m 4m iy Danish kr, demand, .1790; cables, Annonda 17%, off .0010. Argentine pesos, de- Amo Dry Goods mand, .7133; cables, .7143, off 0057, Atchamu Ty 3elgium fr, demand, 0761; cables, Aton iy pt 63. n kr, demand, ,0026; At Comat Line cable: Sy fr, demand, Ath (uit & Wt 17: 1740. Gilders, demand, ‘o i & Wi ot , 3000, Pesetas, demand, Mine love 393; cables, .1396. iMalt & Otto. jasan & Ome sf DIVIDENDS. tech Steal The Continental Paper and Brg |teth Ges 4 9 Mills declared regular quarterly divi- and preferred stocks, both paynble May 16 to stockholders of record Uhittorick Ov, May % Bamalalo B The Eastern Steel Company de-| Cedlo (out Ou clared regular quarterly dividends of | Cait 1% per cent, on the first and second | Calif preferred stocks, both payable June | (airs 15 to stockholders of record June 1 ‘The Iniand Steel Company declared a quarterly dividend of 2 cents a| Cero Che record May 10. G. White & Co. 11.2 per cent. preferred »le June 1 to gtockhold- 16. J GRAFT RIB TO SHIN, SAVING GIRL FROM A GRIPPLE'S LIFE con of Success of Operation; Child Now Walking. bat An X-ray picture proved |, doubt the of alow remarkable operation in bone graft- |!" to-d success thought to be crippled the given a nearly normal leg in | Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Brook- | bin lyn, It consisted in replacing the | Y" . | Brie Tet yf child's shinbone from knee to ankle |i. sy ty with one of her ribs. Paver ke “Abbie.” Abbie's mother died soon | jin Nothing is known of She was received in December, 1918, |.) she was twenty months old. ed with abscesses declared a regu- jun, M & 5) Contionsitad Continental Conden Oil Oravitihe Cmeible Stool gf Stoel B, racking fount . dian Pacific al Leather De Pasco ther Motons & Oluo Intern Min Canady Proicts Cane sigan Cane sugar uf nm ooY & BMW % % & E Li pf % oe Am Sugar... 2 a2 tt Am Saar. 91 fy OW & Hud 6 Artal Apri! 27.—A shield, sim- and her right log was twisted like a | St a used by ancient warriors! corkscre It was utterly unable tol) Nahe besieging walled cities, sustain her weight. Examination re-((j; Soins cm the Police Department here to-d vealed a fractured tibia, It was not|()yr nme sea use In protecting officers while at-, Known whether Abbie would live, | jos oie ea Sains and the i!ttle body had to be built up |ammm, © “re for two years before the operation |; ‘ vemscives in hi Th could be attempted. ' . hd 4% GHlet-proof steel, x construct It was performed by Dr. Thomaa | ij\toe ceual ne id lengthwise, forming V-shaped pro-| A. Spence, chief of the hospital's sur- | jie lefinn f etor, It has a small shuttered window) geons. He removed the entire length | \mennim (amr, Sow n@ loopholes for revolvers or riftes. of the diseascd shinbone and then | jper ree, c A The shield completes the besieging out-, made a bone graft from one of the Toga Gut t bf the police, which includes gas! 8 lower ribs, which, being Very | jae Agr Com. oxy Be cwnncicn ana money Snes was straightened and tied |j,.6 esater os . WSO aay igaments in the leg. e rib | ; acted as a scaffolding for new bone |1m¥ Two en THROWS A RUNAWAY. to grow over. ‘The leg was placed in | !Mer Mer Marine . in - _ a plaster cast and several months of | '™*r Mer Mar ct, Gm Sa vaiting followed. | Jeter, Bick 10% ‘eHceman's Quick Action Saver The little girl can walk and FRc SAM» bites ‘Many Children From Injury, | like a normal child within a sop ol months. Athough the leg is st rel Tee, With his bridle loosened for a feed| |) it does not seem to both editibea 4 horee attached to a Street] patient, for she travels al he ee al ae ning Department wagon broke away fom hitching past on Longwood Ave the Bronx, yesterday, and dashed ato y Street just ax the children tere leaving a public school there. toliceman John E. Musgrave shouted warning to the children, and seizing a blanket from an automobile threw it over the runaw head The horse, kicking and plunging, fin- ue, ward, laughing and playing with + other little patients, HARDING ASKS U. S. TO LOOK FORWARD Tells Bankers We Must Show the Kratnol, Comme Sorat 20M 16% 64M 8 49% Me Tire Steel. 18% alifitell, but got up again and drag; Way to a Righteous | thé policeman, badly injured. more the ame: | 100 gards before ne was finally stopped Settlement, rave was badly bruised and had) WASHINGTON, April 27.—Prestent Hue ganee Injured, but, spectators de- |W ASm Peal 0 r 1 his action undoubtedly saved | Harding haa appeal! 9 bankers in an 160% 0 ghildren from injury address before the District of Columsia 3% — — Bankers’ Association for assistance tn i jomte San Michele, With Crew of| helping to put America “on the forw 8% | 45, Given Up as track once mora.” ] 10% LONDON, April 2 rhe Italian “It ts no boasting,” he sald, “if I re- 15h steamship Mon an Michele, which] mind you that America's place in the Me efGNew York Feb. 2 last, with a cargo | world is as important at this Ume as | jd Fs ain for ¢ a be my given up when the civilization of the world i | Netlone, a nin at and Was to-day added to the a sama) Acme 4 iat of “Atissing’ Ships which | ‘Brennen te . National demi. 116 u6 is Fpeted by Lloyds, e carried a crew our. pi n aftermath of | Nat Gina & Suk’ Rt a3 of # men, » don in Ita war,” he added, “to take our rightful! Nai Boam & Sw 61 a eee leadership among the soverelen nations | National Lad i of the world, T want Amerka to avip san 5 e organ to Be Re-/ ony turn its face forward not only for | \%¢e Onwa 2 Report, the achievements which we may bring |New Or T & M cu WASHING President ourselves, but alvo that we may play our | Sow York Aifirase AN part in showing t world the way to a ‘New York Centuml OY By a ing is understood virtually fa bay Pightoous settlement. |New York Deck Sa a on appointment of Edward } ‘lpia . ¥ 2% Moggan as Postmaster at New York SYN a a 17% 11% ‘tye a position from which he retire, | C. A. Williams, rk of Salem, Dien | & Wentem 95% 94 M44 1 month: >. (Special to The Evening World.) 76) S — NEW LONDON, Conn. April =| 8% President Harding Sheds bil Charies A. Williams, for more than Chinhoma Po & Tt thy i Waistcoat. thirty years Town Clerk of Salem, | Own a ee) WASHINGTON, April President (died there this morning after a linger- |e wre 7 Harding has dropped his tcoat, this|ing fllness. He leaves a widew, (ce Stoel 1% setting the example for t the] daughter, Mra. Harriet Goldie and a (went Botting “ male population of Washington, are}son, John A. Williama of Winsted, Mr, Pacific Gan Org Be tay xperiencing the first real touch of aun-| Williams w born in Preston seven- Mackin «nt mS 7% 8T mer weather, ty-five years ago. Vac To) & Tol a Oe We _ ‘ ( 4 4 1%] Yobscco rod 1% | ramon Ui) Ia] Un tag & Var i} Union oul 1%] Cusou Pretfic . 1S | Union Pacific pt. 1% | United Ds S| United Drug tat of 8! United Prt 9 | Unitet Pood trod s Manyuetto inl Cxsemgaainy WURips Wetralown “4 } Viore: Amow Vere Ou Mitemueg Coat tae Went Va Hand Creek Coal Cullen Company. Anmta Aleg Sugar Pure Oe ‘i Aa Steel Spring. Kay Copper, Mosaaliing Mosantiing Ateaiwog Kouuington ‘Type. Keplagle steel [iiep iva we Heyl Mawr Moyal Dutow NY StL & Ban rar Je de SouLiwmt St ke de oat ue Saute Coe Suwae sam Movan reas dle erck Srare MWe ou Be Sema Copper “mill Se 'L bi 4 owuniera Ky Saud Onl oe Nd 1 $ Rubber Int ot Sune lens Stool Stoel pf. Ch Couper Ura Securities Veautium Steel Vu Oaro Ghemical, Va Caro Chan pf Vivaudou | 1000 Boone on: W Marvhund Me Wert Pacific i a ai 4 Warten Cutan 9 MO HOW ” | Wewtingbouse + 48 4s 4s ‘] wheeling & LB. 9 ” q w Motor 41 4 ai % Yl wnite ou 1% hie 18 Wille Overland Sy & WilymOverld uf aah Wileon & Corse. 4 “ Woolworth . + 116% Vs Worth Pump 4% * ‘Total males, 870,200, —_ = | COOK HIS BEANS WITH SUNBEAMS re Dr. Abbot, Wife Doe: Everything but Fry on Her | Solar Stove. Be WASHINGTON, April 27,—Advan- tages of the Old Sol cook stove. oper- ated 24 hours a day on sun heat alone, were explained to the National Acad- Sciences her by} Abbot of the Smithsonian The device was as luxury, he admitted, but added that {Mrs Abbot had done everything but fry on the solar cook steve at Mount Wilson, Cal He displayed a can of beans ing they were solar cook stove canned looked good and “tasted better "| ‘The apparatus, Dr. Abbot sald, was «|a “concave, parabolic, cylindric 4 | Dector” through which ran a tube of ‘| ordinary cylinder oil to absorb heat 4 | from the reflector and apply it to he cooking compartment, insulation j retaining heat im the oll overnigh .) Cooking temperatures | mut cally regulated by a float dev b while a ple mochanlam kept the reflectors ed to the sun Ao GEORGE P. BENJAMIN DIES. emy of yesterday Dr. C. G Institution yet a say- were auto clock-work said, | t “| poin | at | Manufacturerw Agent Passes Anay uf After Week's Ines : ‘| George P. Benjamin died at his home, , | No 2170 Broadway, yesterday after a |» 8 Llin He was born tn Albar . | For many years he acted in the ¢ a% {of commission merchant and manute |turera’ agent in hardware, met ind lor us Hines. He was for yours u * | mi the New York Dispensury S| wa James's Church +] He was a member of many clubs a 1, | socletion In New York and other lt He Is survived by hls wife, Blixe Ci 15 and one daughter, Mra. Rog ¥ Soares. High. INDUSTRIALS 2300 Acme Coa! 1% tle th “4 ‘1 i 13% tO CHtc & East Tit pt ¢ 30 od % ON 4 10) Inter tubder vas 100 Peerless Moors... “ofS N00 Perfection Tite ' 1 Coat & tron nd Com Tos o ww 4 ta 1% Me & Dustribu mM fh 00 UB Suiy Com “ oS 700 United Prof: Sharing tM 1M 700 United Net Candy 5 ™% STANDARD OILS 20 Anatom OM, me 18 10 Orio O11 418 1k IS 80 $ Ol! of Ind «+ tf INDEPENDENT O1LS 1200 Allied OU 400 Ark Nat Gas THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 tae. 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Joseph Puca money on the bar in ni was counting his cate a West 14th Street at noon to-day.|eierk of 3 531 West 160d Stadt, When he counted $40 a man with| He was searched and found to tif@edl a gun entered and ordered hands up.|a revolver and $40. He was-ee” Fuca obeyed and the strango* can|raigned on charges of robbery Wd away with the money violating the Sullivan Law. $ Pants ALL: FREE ? 4 Wool | Strictly Custom Tailored |. Extra Cash Purchase ' bought for spot cash the entire stock of woolens of Henry Alexander the Tailor, who has been in business on Nassau Street, N. Y., for the past twenty- one years, This wonderful stock of high grade all-wool wor sted suitings were sold for prices as high as $40.00, $50.00 and $60.00. 1) offer them at one un form price of $25.00 and will include a p of extra trousers of the same material free, You will find in this range of woolens a sé lection of Fancy Worsteds, ' Pen weeds, 1 Stripes Herringbones, Scotch Tweeds, Blue and Black Serges and hundreds of other varions Spring styles to Come and this Values Up to $60 wonderful display in my windows, S. HENRY ADLER. see 1750 ALL- WOOL CUSTOM MADE Ready-to-Wear SUITS of are variety that wonderful Herringbones of a and consist Stripes Vhat Veneil so popular this season Also a selection Blue Serges, Brown and Grays—single ; and double breasted mosels in both light anddark colors, Every e suit and top coat strictly Now all wool and custom made CLOTHES m Lb OPEN EVENINGS New York Stores: 118 Nassau St. | 1414 Broadway | Near Beekman s¢ At SUth Street Brooklyn Stores 44 Flatbush Av. Near Neving street a 3 Church St. Near Liberty Street Newark Store: 756 Broadway 186 Market St. Near Flusbiac Avenue | Where Murray's Used te Be -pmnnenrnenpnapeti