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executive ‘headeg by Mr. Ho: personal differences have long exis between these two departments of. terday they * forward, it 1 THEATRE ~WONOVERBY HAYS TOAIDPRODUGER Appears Unexpectedly Before Exhibitors With Plea to Weld Film Plans. What ts considered by motion pic being the broadest step branches of ture men foward harmony in ali the motion picture industry taken in recent years was afternoon at the Astor Hotel, ‘Will H. Hays appeared unexpectedly fa’a speaker before the regular meet- ing of the Theatre Owners’ Chamber of Commerce and asked that body of exhibitors and distributers for its as- Sistance in carrying forth the aims aad ideals of pictures in this country. i¢ 2Mhe Motion Picture Theatre Own- ere Association of Amerwa, com- {, jMOsed of exhibitors throughout the qoUaniteg States, for years has not been wattle to coincide with the views of the weducing branch of the industry. was the discord existing between the exhibitors and the old National Asso- ciation of the Motion Picture Indus- bry that indirectly brought about’ the! cause for the establishing of a néw organization; Political ang fant chapters wi errrumn nth Btate OWNERS made yesterday when It producing his rent enemies of the had been won » said that he Ho question but tten in the history five years.’ OPENS cent. rate. of business prosperity. declared that a Warrier preventing | than a market ripple. proper functioning of the huge ‘One of the most fiiteresting apéech- es was made by Marcus Loew, Presi- | favorite dent of the Metro Pictures Corpora- MARKET By R. R. Bateon. Although Washington despatches have stated Treasury officials char- acterize reports of @ new imsue of Treasury certificates a& premature, Wall Street bankers hold to the opin- ion that in the immediate future of- éial announcement will be made of an issue of $20,000,000 certificates which will bear interest at a 4 per The importance of such a develop- ment lies in the reported rate of in- terest. If the Government puts out an issue of certificates at 4 per cent., then the Federal Reserve Bank's rate of discount at this centre will almost surely be lowered to 4 per cent. A reduction in the rediscount rate will quite certainly result in further stimulation of the bond market, will probably mean a continuance of the Present inténsive speculation in the stock market and, according to bank- ers, will further accelerate the return There is no indication that the long succession of million share market days is drawing to an end. On the contrary,'the opinion ts becoming more fixed that before the end of the cur- revit market boom there will be a number Of, 2,000,000 shate days. Public participation in the market hag so inereased that during the last ten days a number of large pools have Mquidated their holdings, They had formed the opinion’ that the mar- ‘Theatre Owners’ / et could not get into new high ground without first having a sub- ; . | stantial reaction, One of th Rnbt Chin nt eget: Aime ‘miowk tmpor- | TAN ed by one of the mone an tute operators Wall Street has known e6 J. Walker, one}'™ years, Much to his surprise}Cerro De Pasco. Hquidation of the pool's holdings, of shares of a popular and highly ac- er Cabthet member | tive industrial, eaused hardly more Adams Express Adv Rumely A WW & B Ope pf Am Wool. oa Am Writ Pap pt Am Zin’ Anaoonda Assets Realization Associated Oil. Atehinon Ry ... Atlanta B @ At! All Guit @ WI Atlantic Baldwi Baldwin pt . Balt & Onto... Balt & Ohio pf. Butte Cop & Zino Butte & Buperior. Butterick C Caddo Cent On Calit Packing. Calif Petroleum.. vent Leather pf. ‘Chi Great West pf © & Nwestern Ry ‘At least, as far as known, no new poo] | Chile Copper One of the most influential indorsed ers and exhibiting in him. (ik@rintimated that ; Senator Walker as a lead- ‘ot the exhibitors. Phe bringing togetier of the Thea- tre Owners’ Chamber of Commerce) ‘Ks for depreciation. and his own new producing organiza- tion, the 'tter' havin, amount to 61 per cent, of th, stock of the latter company. troleum. metion picture admittance tickets to yomething like normal. It is yok Kmown that Mr. Hays is strongly in’ favor of finding some way in which this can be brought about. 4 —_——— MAYTE ELECTS PRESIDENT. CAPE HAYTIEN, BEY cutting. : 9€Asnociated Press).—Luis Borno, promi- © Spt the Republic of Hayti by unanimous to Sudre d'Artigue- ‘whose term expires neat month. im succession Se Tet 505 Fitth Ave, Tel. Mor. wr ‘Ave. Tel. Mor, Ypill 7120 Mad, Se 1377 on account of poor business. fture. CURB. 1-4; Anglo-American il, Radio, 3 3-8; 8. O. Ind, 89 1-8, Cleveland Motors, 32, LIBERTY BONDS. Liberty 3 1-28, opened 99,48, up .16; 6. 2; 4 3-4 FIRM 0001 1-2. - Italian lire, .0587 1.3; cables, .0538, up .0001 1 1-2, up .0000 1-2. Drachma, demand, .0458 0455, off 0002. Swiss francs, de- mand, .1946; cables, .1947, up 0003, ble: démand, .2605; cables, Norway kronen, making heavy charges against earn- But stockholders of the company may’ regard the report with consid=| Cuba C ship y.any, but not all, of the Jarge|et@ble eauanamity. One reason proZacers in this country, is consid- «read by motion picture mém to be # ‘high, trihyte. to the @iplomatic powers of Mr. Hays. Other men, they say, had tried for years to effect a eoncili- ‘ation and failed. ‘With the two branches werking|¥ wide by side, ag it was apparent yes~ Proposed to do hence- prompt and ae eres ih ieee at about 134, Pan-American is sell- film outpe#t in this country will be felt. This may affect prices for tick- ets, type of film presented and meth- etm of handling the various actors in! vithe studios. . » It t believed one of the first prob: ‘Jems to’be attacked will be that of the cost of film reels to ex- Dibitors. This will in turn result, if| euccessful, in placing the prices of Cuba isjon & B that the company ts gradually work-|Chi & B Itt pf n ing into a much stronger position, Another reason is that every holder of Pan-American owns approximately half a share of Mexcan Petroleum. Moldings of Mexican Petroleum stock the Pan-American Company Davison . De Peers Mining pL&aw Detroit Edison Dome Mines . Klee Stor Bat . ing at about 64. In other words, it is selling at less than the market valua- tion of its holdings of Mexican Pe- of the probability of a substantial in- crease in the dividend, or a ‘melon’ But this pool now seems to be in something of a dilemma, Reports of] inaianoma Retin. mors regarding earnings it has been officially announced that the company probably will have to close down its Edgewater and Kansas City plants}inter Mer Mar pf simply a reflection of their discom- Magma, 29 3-8, City Service common, 208, up 3; Good- year, 131-4; Eastman Kodak, 100,88, up .02. FOREIGN EXCHANGE OPENED francs, demand, .0854; cables, Marks, demand] most and cables, .0034, off .0001 2610, off .0003. Chino Coppe! been formed in the issue. At any }eiinn (Onn holdings now find their discarded] oo oo gin, 32 points above the}col & southern .. average price they obtained for their}Co! Gas & Blectrio Fisk Rubber Freeport Texas ‘ Corn Products for about two months. } at xor pee Their market campaign was attended | Gt Nor Ore Illinois Central... 107% Inter Agr Corp Inter Motor Inter Paper Inter Mer Marine BODY OF MRS. HAINES I$ INTERRED SECRETLY. Opened firm. Marac., 23 1-4, uP] Mother Shields Daughter siatn tn Dr. Bryson’s Home—Forgt Him Her Death. With the same secrecy » UP] shrouded her life for the past year, the body of Mrs. Helen Kirby Haines, shot and killed Saturday at Cassville, Up .48; 3d, 99.76, uD] Pe, amd for whose slaying Dr. Her- 0, Wb 28; Victory 33-48] pert J, Bryson of New York is beld om a charge of murder, was buried yesterday afternoon from a Tenth Sterling, demand, 4.41 1-8; cables,| Avenue undertaking establishment, 4.41 1-2, up 1-4. F i tank eek cabl pa hae - Mra. Kirby boards With J. J. Con- nolly (who works in Gimbels') and his mother, the mother did her ut- cover the funeral of her 1-4,|@aughter with the same pall of mys- tery which has covered the young She said the doctor, who admitted to Mre. Kirby, accord. ing to her testimony at the Coroner’ Sweden kronen, | inquest, that he had killed Helen, was undoubtedly insane at the time he shot her.. The vials of Mrs. Kirby's wrath were emptied on the head of At No. Brake Shoe.. Am Can ... Am Can pt Care ¥ Linseed 0 pf. Locomotive . Allied Chem .... Safety Ruzor. 8 & Com Smelt & R Steel Poundry Am Sugar Sugar pt Sumatra ‘T Tol & Tel... Am Tobacco Tob cts B Fruit Loco. Saxon Motors Seabourd Air 1 Seuboard A L pt 12 Sears-Roebuck Seneca Copper .. Shell T & T Sinclair Oil Sloma-Sheff Steel. Southern Pac Southern Ry . Southern Ry. pf Stan OM of N J 176% St Oll of N J pf 114% Stowart-Warner Stromberg. . Chem Worth Pump Worth Pump pf B Post Avenue, Kansas City Bo pt Kelty Springtiel Kelsey Wheel . Kennecott Copper Keystone Tire Lacka Steel Lee Rubber & Tire Lehigh Valley Loew's, Inc . Loft, Ine Loone- Wiles Lortilard Maxwell Motor B Meintyre P Mines Mey Dept Stores Mexican Petrol arnt Middle States Ot! Midvale Steet .... Minn & St. Mo Pacific ae Mo Pacific pf... Ment Ward ...... Montana Power MSP &SSM. National Acme Nat ft It Mex 2d National Conduit... Nevada Consol . N York Airbrake. New York Central New York Dock. N York NH & i Nova Scotia Steel Oklahoma P & R. Otin Steel . Owens Bottling . Penn Seaboard 8. People’s Gas .... Pere Marquette . Philada Company. Philitps Petrol .. Plerce Arrow Pierce Arrow pf Pierce Olt ....... Pitts & W Va... Pond Creek Coal Prensed Steel Car Pullman Company Punta Aleg Sug. Pure Oil . Prod & Ref. Rand Mines Reading .......- Remington Type Replogle Stee! Rep Iron & Steel Rep Iron & 8 vf 81% Republio Motor... Royat Dutch N ¥ St Joseph Lead . StL & San St L & Southw.. ta Cec Sul Union Oil .....46 Lek u United Alloy . United Fruit United Food Prod Un Ry Inv Co .. Un Ry Inv Co pt Un Retail Stores. U 8 CI Pipe... U BC I Pipe pt. U 8 Ind Alcohol. . U B Realty & Im US Rubber U u u u Pacific on Pac pt 8 Rub Ist pf.. 8 Smelteri 8 Steel .. 8 Bteel pf. 64 PER CENT. OF WORLD TELEPHONES IN U. S. The United States has 64 telephones of the world, with 16 per cent of the population. In 1899 there were 500,000 per cent, telephones Louls, an 29 175% 114% 40% 58% Low. 8% 98% country, Now there are 14,000,000, Such was the testimony a. to the growth of his busines: given yesterday by 'T, Pp, gyi- van, Vice New York Dany, at the rate hearing be- fore the Public Service Gom- Mr. Sylvan told in detail about the relations and contracts which his company bas with the American Tele- phone and Telegraph and with numerous operating in New York State. AN a bles ct Bruce E. Haines, chauffeur who mission, the Com- companies the Washington married Kirby, and claims that she was still his wife when kil) Dr. Bryson served in the Rainbow Division during the way Helen Last 06% 38M 20% 177% 114% 40% “tg By Robert W.Chambe INSTALLMENT NO. 9. WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY: JACK DROGUE, of discarded title, marching with the Continental Army as Lieutenant under COLONEL DAYTON, who has ordered Jack to place under arrest LADY JOHNSON, retiring in the hunting lodge at Summer House Point since : SIR JOHN, ner rank Royalist husband, broke parole, enlisted Indians and escaped on the Sacandaga Trail. CLAUDIA SWIFT accompanies Lady Johnson and begs PENELOPE GRANT, yellow haired Scotch girl, to remain at the Penelope tells Jack Drogue of a vision of a white shape Her Scottish second sight impresses QUEER QUESTIONS. you, through a mist, coming from thin And dead bodies lay about. Do you believe me?" I made no reply but lay m watching the tamaracks. I stared with flerce satisfaction at Howell's house. There was no gleam of light visible behind the closed shut- ters; but I already had counted nino men who came creeping to that silent And now there arrived the tenth man, running and stooping low; and went in by the east side of “I am attentive, str." “'L suppose all maids en- joy admiration." “1 suppose so."* And do you?” T am a maid, also.” And enjoy it?" Do not you?” “Do not you enjoy admiration? I waited a full minute longer, whistled the whitethroat’s ca said I to Thiohero; and we rose and walked forward. We had not advanced ten paces when three men, whom I had not per- ceived, rose up on the ridge to our hovering over him at war. ack as he sets forth with is well to be armed with experience—jNICK, STONER, good friend and a’ hum-hum—and discretion when one encounters the flattery of admira-| TAHIONI, an Oneida warrior, is met in the woods. THIOHERO, “THE RIVER REED,” the prophetess of the Oneidas, so warns of Mohawks on the Iroquois Trail. SCREECH OWL and WATER SNAKE, Oneida Indians, who pledge themselves to Drogue’s party capture, SAGUENAY, “YELLOW LEAF,” an unpainted Indian who tells also of Mohawks taking scalps on the West River. THE LITTLE RED FOOT is the mark of victims who die fightin bravely. The Oneida maid paints this symbol, on her breast, ani Drogue'’s party adopts the symbol to avenge the scalps the Mohawks have taken. Vhe Saguenay Indian follows Jack as a faithful guide. At West River they meet the Mohawks and battle savagely. T' captured and about to be drowned when the Oneida Indians and Drogue's men counter so bravely the Mohawks are routed far in’ the woods. Lieut, Drogue returns to Summer House Point to report to the He sees Penelope again and kisses her when she offers woolen sox she has knitted for his men. ble ranger, on the trail of the Sacandaga—after Sir John. ‘One of these shouted and fired a gun and all three dropped flat again ’ before we could realize what they h armed, Mr. Droguet” ‘ T called out “Halt!” to my people At that, two of them fired In t! from whence came ; and I heard their bullets pass ing, aimed too high. John Howell's voice bawis out, “I know you, Drogue: and so help me God I shall cut your throat before this business ends!—you dirty renegade and traitor to your King Such a rage possessed me that I scarce knew: what I was about, and I ran across the grass to the bolted door of the house and fell to slashing at it with my hatchet like a madma: IN SCARLET. were firing now so rapid- ly thatthe smoke of their guns made a choking fog about the At @ loss to answer, 1 finally ad- mitted that flattery was @ subtle foe aud that perhaps experience had not wholly aemed me against that per- “And I fear that I lack as much !n knowledge and experience as { do in years, Mr. Drogue, think no evil, nor perhaps even rec- ognize it when I meet it, deeming the It folk unwilling to The Oneida maid is world kind and do me a wrong. Commandant. “Was that a wrong you did me? “Have not others kissed you? I, turning red and feeling mean, But she laughed outright, telling me that it concerned herself and not me what she chose to let her lips en-| '‘8& this miserable man’s identity, ig-| sands of savages; that Albany must burn and Tryon flame from Schenec- tady to Saint Sacrement you and I} |] wrote all down. “Is there more?"’ I him with utter loathing “You are Captain Moucher?"’ He denied it hoarsely; but I, hav- ing now no vestige of doubt concern- 1 learned that we were to be in- vaded from the west, the north and the south by three armies and thou- Suddenly from of the night. ame a fire arrow, whistling, with dry me, and lodged on the roof of Howell's house, Then the door burst open, and Tom Dawling rushed upon lubbed high at uu damned W il Knock your nored his answer. “Do you recollect that we supped in At that I caught her white hand and kissed it; and she blushed and sat} °°™Pany at Johnson H smiling in absent fashion, while I re- | —®24 not so long ago? He had no remembrance. “And Lieutenant Hare and Captain Watts were of the company?" He denied acquaintance with these asked, looking at ou use me sang facon,"* she mur- “Do you use other mured at last. women s0?"* house of John e cabin on the hard ridge yon- the blow and force, but I stumbled to my knees um and Raltus Weed came to the window and shot Had never heard of him. But, ere I could speak again, e speak again, comea}. Te ae ioe iny more dry wood on an express a-galloping; and we saw him dismount at the mainland gate|‘' fre. and come swiftly across the orchard, They meet there."* “The paper I have of you is writ in British military cipher. “Now, before F send you to Colonel the Helmers, Girt with my report of this exam- {Grinnis, Balty Weec what have you to confess that I might add to my report, in extenu- Dries Bowman, “My orders,” said I, and went to fhe edge of the veranda. The letter I received was from| Dayton, Col. Dayton. “I go back to-night,’’ said I. Nick came panting to me where [ sation the bloody gra. o’ my wound and now vomiting. Are you bad?” “To-night!”” ” he asked breadth “Where are they now?" “Hid in the tamaracks—in the bush . ‘To the forest ?”* e ree)- “To the trail Then he ree! He made no answer. by the Drowned Somebody knelt down ind T laid back my head, feeling very sick and faint When again T unctosed my eyes and asked for water I was lying under, the open-faced shed, and it was brilliant sunshine outside. ‘Then I saw the little mald of Aska- “Will you come soon again?"’ “Do you wish it?" John Drogue.’ E had passed through the Con- tinental camp, my Indian and I, and were now going down among the bashes to the Viaie Water, where lay our canoe, when, of a sud- den, a man leaped from the reeds and started to run, Instantly my Indian was on shoulders like a tree-cat, and down went both on the soft mud, my Sa- guenay atop. I cocked my rifle and poked the muzzle into the prostrate stranger's ribs, resting it 80 with one hand while I shined my lantern on his upturned little sister?” Then came Nick, who leaned closer ed your body bark and sumack and has cleansed the wounds and stopped moss and balsam so that they have them with dry my heavy eyes on “@ ‘ said I, ‘Tl have come ba’ through the mist, returning in scarlet. My little sister is very wise. Copyright, 1922, The Bell Syndicate, Inc. (To Be Continue pie PS Vlei HIT HIM FOR REFUSING TO TAKE BACK RADIO SET He wore a Captain's uniform in the Canajoharie regiment; stared up at his throat still clutched by the Saguenay, I found [ was gazing upon the blotched features of Capt. Moucher. “Take your hands from his neck- cloth, cut your thrums, and make a cord to tie him Oneida dialect. Clerk Who Would Louls Green, a stock broker of 410 Riverside Drive, was in Night Cou last night on a charge of disorderly by Merman Hoth a salesman in a sporting goods sture at No. 1 West 125th Green purchased a radio wet in the store Monday and returaed with it last Saying it was no good and de- Roth satd that t Refund Mon “He will not move, It took the Indian a little while to I held my rifle mug. zle to Moucher's ribs. Until his arms werg tied fast behind him, he had not spoken, but now, as he rose to his knees from the mud and then stag- gered upright, he cried. mean to murder me?” “T mean to question you,’ suid I. “Be good enough to step into that accomplish thi conduct preferred manding his money. when he started to explain it was not the policy of the store to refund on pur- chases, he was struck on the nose. Green was fined 35. WOMEN ELECT DIRECTORS. Directors were elected by the Women's He took the place as J directed. ‘Captain Méucher,"’ said 1, “if you think to overturn the canoe, in hope of escape, my Indian will kill you in ‘The canoe slid out into darkness under the high stars. BRITISH CIPHER. OW, no sooner did 1 reach my camp with my prisoner meeting at (he Hotel Plaza yesterday. Ommen, Mrs. AT THAT | CAUGHT HER WHITE HAND AND KISSED IT. Mrs, Frances #, Winslow, Mra, A, Sum<,' Litt and Mias—/ ed sideways and, by accident, set foot ~God knows where!" And instantly went] * When do they rendezvous?" “Toward midnight.’ MIDNIGHT RENDEZVOUS ' midnight we had surrounded Howell's house, east approach, left open for tardy skulkers Esther Shoyer. I drew Nick aside and told him all, |” the Hive coals. You shall take Johnny Silver,” said} ean crazed with fright, jt off instantly for Summer club has cupported the Davenport M. ternity Bill as agalnst 5 ‘Towner bill and Opposes a general gol- ers’ bonus, while urgently advocating every care be taken of all disabled 1 As the Oneida caught him by House and the Continental camp. You] shoulder, to steady him, he shrieked shall deliver a letter to Major West- fall, and then you shall search with|his terror. your lanterns every face you encoun- jer; for 1 am beginning to believe] yelled. “Keep your savages away. | that I truly saw Stephen Watts and] tell you"—strugeling betw in the orchard at}and Joe—“I'n say w Ana] they won't burn me! and cowered, grasping @!oc's arm in “phey mean to murder me!" he which we atill t you wish, if the little maid of Brasses on my left; Askalege, in her naked paint, lay on my eight hand. ressed the trigger of her new rift the stock lay close to her cheek I could hear her singing her Karenna in a mouse’s whisper to herself: Lieutenant Ha Summer House Point this night, if I did, then they are a pair o' damn- hould be taken; OF LIBERTY BONDS Approximately in interest will be payable by He had gone on his knees. Every word was a betrayal of com- “My God," says he, “Lady John-|rades, every whine a plea for his own blotehed skin. To save his neck-—if horrible, Nick? But any hesitation] mjgnt save it—he sold his King, bis makes me a traitor to my own peo- ed spies, and suffer as such} Liberty Loan 4% per cent. bonds on Saturday, of which $40,000,000 will go to coupon holders at the Federal Reserve Bank here, Holders may send their coupons now to the coupon paying division of the bank and checks will be ready for delivery at 9.30 ‘And my one-time friend. “Listen, John Drogue, ‘Though’ we all die. h his comrades, and his own And it ls well, Because I love you."* So, crooning her prophecy, she lay flat in the wild grasses, cuddling the rifle-stock close to her shoulder; her song's low burden of some ‘The Saguenay was holding the pris-}"" 14 go 1 earned of him that Stevie Watts, disguised, had been that night House with Lieut. Hare; that they had brought news to Lady Johnson of Sir John’s safe arrival in anada; that they had met ayd talked had counted our men and made a very accurate report, which was writ in the military cinper which we discovered. r. ePSgearch him," said I briefly. Joe and my Oneida rummaged him It was in his boots they discovered, at last, a sheaf of papers. I could not read what was writ, for | C the writing was in stranj figures; so presently I gave over try- and looked up at my prisoner, who now bad was like the erieket amid the her ens and|to Claudia have the proceeds credited to thelr reserve gge counts upon request, od ‘knows who shall survive She murmured, *But I have seen