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EXCHANGEREFIECTS
BOOM IN BUSINESS
*OTH OILS AND RAILS HOLD UP.
EQUALS RECORD MADE
LAST MARCH
HIGHEST VOLUME SINCE 1920
Activity I* Credited To Uriversal
Betterment In Business Condi*
tions Throughout Country
New Yorx. — Dealings In all classes
of stork on the New York stock ex
change recently amounted to about
1,576,000 shares, the largest of any
session since 1 {*2o, when market values
were subjected to considerable depres
sion.
The number of stocks traded in,
mostly at extreme gains of 1 to 6
points, was estimated at between 440
and 459 separate issues, this about
equaling the record made last March.
Quotations were higher by fractions
to one and a half points at the very
outset, and gains were extended in al
most everv quarter in the enormous
turnover of the first and second hours.
Steels, equipments, oils and many of
the minor, or low grade, rails wore the
center of activity.
Realizing sales, or profit-taking, be
came effective in ihe final hour on
call money's rise from 4 1-2 to 5 per
cent. This encouraged shorts to re
sume operations, although such com
mitments were tentative or moderate
ai best.
rn several notable Instances, such
ns felted States steel and Independent
shares of tne same group, g’alns were
much Impaired or altogether cancel
ed. These reactions were more than
balanced, however, by the more vig
orous adv nice of oils, especially the
foreign division Mexican petroleum
rose over (! points, nearly nil of which
was held, and rails, especially coal
ers and Texas A- Pacific, added sub
stantially to their early improve
ment.
Prices were somewhat lower at the
feverishly active do«>e, hut gains pre
dominat'd, particularly In speculative
Industrials and rails.
Trading in bonds was more orderly,
but a great ninny Issues in that list.
Including Liberty ,'l l-2a and several
of the 4s and I l-4s moved up to
higher ground, or new records since
the time of their deflation.
The extraordinary buoyancy and ac
tivity was predicated on indications
that general economic conditions
throughout the country are working
hack to normal. This, in the opinion
of observers, seems to find its clear
est reflection In the recent expansion j
:>f the steel and iron industry, more i
favorable railroad earnings and the
confident attitude of the" investment
public.
TEXAN EXCORIATES FELLOW
MEMBER BEFORE CONGRESS
Washington.—For the third time
within a year the house, the other
day. was thrown into an uproar, with
Representative Illanton. Democrat, of
Texuß he of anti • organized labor
tame the object of attack.
In a fiery ten-minute speech, Rop
resentntive Garner, dean of the Texas
delegation, declared that Mr. Illanton
was “as common a liar as ever spoke
n word of English In this country.’’
Mr. Illanton. however, was not there
to hear the characterization, for lie
left tile chamber at the outset of the
verbal attack, after shouting that he j
would "hold tlie gentleman personal-1
ly responsible to me If he calls me a
liar."
March Reports Show Fewer Idle Men
Washington lncreased employ
ment ranging up to 2S per cent over
the preceding months was reported to
the employment service of the depart
ment of labor, the other day, from 43
of t?!> representative cities for the
month ending March .’ll The automo
tive and allied industries, iron and"
steel and their products and lumber. I
headed the trades showing improved
activity. The net Increase front the
country, figured on reports from 1.42 S
firms, was 2.5 per cent. Employment
In the South indicated a generally Im
proved tone during March, the report
said, with indications that further
progress would l>e recorded in the I
next 30 days.
After 20 Years Mother Finds Son
Ottawa. Ontario. After a nventy
vear search extending to all parts of
this corn burnt, Mrs. Louise F Losuer
of Boston has found her son. Everett,
who is now a member of the Canadi
an mounted police. She said her son
disappeared from her home more than
twenty years ago, and that she had
sought him in every large city in the
I nited Sta’es and Canada. Lesuer has
been a wanderer and adventurer over
half the face of the globe, having join
ed the mounted police in 191!*. His
mother had o n his picture In a paper
General Semenoff Arrested In N. Y.
New York - Arrested here upon his
arrival from Washington in connec
tion with a civil suit involving the
theft in Transbaikalin iu 1919 of goods
valued at $4 75,000. General Gregorle
Bamenoff. anti-Bolshevik military lead
er in Siberia, was released on $25,000 ;
bail shortly afterwards, after being
held under guard in the Waldorf As
toria hotel for five hours The arrest i
was made in civil action, involving
nearly hall a million dollars, on an
order issued by Supreme Court Justice
Delelianiv
i TO GIVE LONG TERM CREDITS
Senate Bill Would Give Farming Inter
-1 : ests Same Credit Facilities As
| I Those Os Commercialists
Washington.—Creation of a federal
• | institution similar to the federal re
! serve bank system to provide long
term credits for farmers was pro
1 posed In a bill introduced by Senator
Simmons, Democrat, of North Carolina,
former chairman of the senate finance
committee, which was later referred
l' to that committee. The bill would
set up an agricultural banking system
with regional districts and other, at
| tributes of the federal banking sys
,! tern.
Establishment of a "national agrl
j cultural credits corporation,” to ab
i sorb the war finance corporation, with j
$500,000,000 capital for a revolving
fund, all to be subscribed by the gov
ernment, was proposed under the bill.
Loans would run from one to three
years. The governing body would be
' a board of five members, headed by
the secretary of agriculture, appoint
; ed by the president and confirmed by
the senate.
Senator Simmons told the senate his
bill would give farming interests the
same credit facilities that commer
cial interests receive from the federal
reserve system. Mr. Simmons said
| his plan was a “sound, workable and
, well-balanced system of financing the
agricultural operations of the country.”
It would provide for farmers “bank
ing and credit facilities comparable if
not equal to the federal reserve sys
tem,” he said.
MONTREAL CHURCH GUTTED
BY BLAZE; LOSS $500,000
Blaze Was Second Within A Few
Days—New York Church
Also Burns
Montreal. —The Church of the Sa
cred Heart, one of the largest religious
structures in the city, was recently
j destroyed by fire, 1 with a loss of $500,-
000.
Scores of spectators narrowly es
caped death when the 175-foot spire
crashed. The crowd had broken
through police lines, wiien the steeple)
was seen lo sway. Then came a mad
dash for safety.
The church, of Gothic design, was
built twenty years ago. Its interior
was noted for its richly decorated altar
and carved pews.
The blaze was second within a few
days to raze a Canadian church.
New York.—While firemen were
fighting flames in St. Ann's Catholic j
church, men, women and children j
knelt in the streets nearby and prayed
that tlie blaze would be kept from j
spreading. The fire was extinguished!
with slight damage. Overturned enn
| dies started the fire, it was said.
$35,000 Salaries Refused By House
Washington —The house puts its:
! foot down firmly on a proposal to pay I
j salaries of $35,000 to four shipping
hoard officials, refusing by a unani
mous vote to approve the conference j
report on the independent offices ap- \
propriation bill, which would have
authorized payment during the coming
fiscal year of salaries of between sll,-
000 and $25,000 to six employees in
addition to the four who would re- i
ceive $35,000.
Artist And Author Stage Fist Duel
San Francisco.—Harry Leon Wilson,
nationally known author and play
wright, and Theodore Criley, artist,
fought n duel, according to a story
printed in the San Francisco Exam
iner, There were no clashing blades
nor silver mounted pistols. It was
i fought in a sheltered glen near Car
mel, an artist colony, 70 miles south of
here, on the Pacific coast, and at day
light, the traditional hour of duels.
The weapons were fists, encased in rid
ing gloves and backed, in Wilson's
case, with a weight of specially trained
bone and muscle.
Subsidy For Marine Cost $52,000,000
Washington.— Establishment of a
privately owned merchant marine
; through government, aid. as proposed
by President Harding and the ship- ■
ping hoard, would necessitate a max- 1
mium treasury outlay of $52,000,000 an
nually, senate and house committees
considering the ship subsidy bill, were
told, the other day. by Chairman Las
ker of the board. Enactment of the
legislation, however, would put an end.
he continued, to the $50,000,000 year
ly loss the shipping board is sustain
ing in operating in vessels.
Marine Suspected In Woman's Death
Norfolk. Ya A United States ma
rine is being held under observation
at the barucks here in connection
with the death of Mrs. Ruth Mercer,
whose body was found on the bench
at Ocean View. No arrest has been
made, but Norfolk detectives have vis
ited the barracks and after securing a
partial identification of him as the man
with whom it is claimed the young
woman was last seen, it is said, asked j
that he be not allowed to leave the
reservation His name could uot be
. learned from the police.
Bids For Hospital For Negro Veterans
Washington.—Bids for construction
of the in w hospital for negro veterans
at Tuskegee, Ala., will be opened May '
1. it is announced by the assistant
secretary of the treasury. The hospital
is to cost $2,250,000 and will have a
capacity of 600 beds, of which 230 will
be for tubercular patients and 270 for
shell-shock cases. Actual work on
the new negro hospital should be un
der way bv the middle of May. as the
contracts for the mechanical equip
ment and building work on the insti
-1 tution wil be let by May 10.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR. MT. VERNON. GEORGIA.
VOTES TO DEPORT
j ALIEN BOOTLEGGERS
I
HOUSE PASSES BILL TO DEPORT
ALIENS CONVICTED FOR
SELLING WHISKEY
LEAGUE'S COUNSEL SCORED
Narcotic Peddlers Are Also Included
—Anti-Saloon League Is
Attacked.
Washington.—By a vote of more
than 3 to 1 the house recently pass
ed and sent to the senate a bill au
thorizing the deportation of aliuns
convicted In state or federal courts j
on charges of having violated the nar- j
cotic and Volstead acts.
Described by prohibition advocates
as a step toward better law enforce- !
ment and characterized by Representa- )
tive Graham, Pennsylvania, ranking I
republican on the Judiciary commit- 1
lee, as "a monstrous piece of legis- [
lation,’’ the bill as p resented by ;
the immigration committee stood up
against all attacks.
A motion to recommit so that the i
provision relating to conviction in j
state courts might be eliminated was
defeated and the measure was put
through, as framed, 222 to 73.
Representative Walsh, republican, i
Massachusetts, a member of the ju- |
diciary committee which wrote the j
original Volstead act and who offered !
the motion to recommit, declared he J
believed now as then that the enforce
j ment law was made too drastic at the
j start.
Warning was sounded to prohibi
tionists by many members, including j
Representative Mann, republican, Illi
nois, a veteran of the house, that they
were going too far, that there was dan
ger of disrupting the whole system of
law enforcement and. that jurors
would he unwilling to convict those j
who ought to go to jail if it also meant j
deportation.
There were many references to the .
Anti-Saloon league and Wayne B. j
Wheeler, its general counsel. Repre- j
sentative Hill, republican, Maryland, i
charged that “The American bootleg
gers’ union” and the league were j
standing hand in hand and fighting j
under one banner to get the alien ;
bootlegger out of business. Mr. Walsh j
said that Mr. Wheeler could not be j
classed by the bootleggers as an en- !
I eray, since "he is the man who has j
made it possible for them to ply their j
i trade.”
Describing the measure as the “ex- J
trenie limit of unreasonableness and |
hypocrisy,’’ Representative Huddle
ston, democrat, Alabama, declared that I
“sortie of the highest in the land are j
| violating the prohibition law,” and that |
' alien violators were no more reprehen
| slide than Americans.
PENNILESS. ALONE. OLD.
ACTRESS PRAYS FOR DEATH
Rose Coghlan, Os “Lady Teazle” |
Fame, Takes Tragedy
Role.
I
New York. —Rose Coghlan, adored
| comedy star of the 'Bos, has taken ;
her first tragedy role.
It is that of a broken, penniless, old I
woman, waiting and praying in her |
rooms in the "roaring Forties” for |
death to come and take her away j
from a world that has passed her by.
The “Lady Teazle," who graced the
boards of Wallack’s theater in the
| 'Bos, and piled up success on suc
cess as the years went by, ended her
last stage part—a small one —last
May when "Deburau” closed.
Since then she obtained two en
gagements, but in each case the pro
ducers, divorcing sentiment from
business, came to her after a few days
of rehearsal and reluctantly told her
she “wouldn’t do.” v
Three weeks ago she collapsed
while working over an income tax re
- turn on earnings long since consumed.
And she has not left her rooms ill
- West Forty-second street since.
Girl Bandits Rob Galli-Curci, The Diva
Los Angeles, Calif. —Two girl ban
i tilts, operating with skill and daring, j
robbed Mine. Amelita Galli-Curci.
the opera diva, of jewels valued at
$45,000 at Fan Juan Capistrano, ac
cording to reports to the sheriff's of
fice here.
Alleged Oil Fraud Shown In Bostor
Boston, Mass. —An alleged oil fraud,
said to involve the loss of $1,000,000
to investors here and possibly mil
lions in other parts of the country, has
been disclosed by federal attorneys,
who have made public the names of
, IS oil financiers in New York, Bos
ton and Holyoke, who have been in
dicted secretly by the federal grand
jury for fraudulent use of the mails.
Frederick E. Hersey of the Motor
Specialty company, of Waltham, is oue
lof those arrested. The allegations con
jee rn the Petroleum Corporation,
Ricci Os Italy Protests 1910 Census
Washington.—Communications ad
dressed to the state department by
j Ambassador Ricci of Italy, appealing
against the use of the 1910 census fig
ures as a basis for fixing the three
per cent quotas under the immigration
restriction act, have been forwarded
by Secretary Hughes to Chairman
Johnson of the house immigration
committee. In doing so Mr. Hughes
makes the observation "that the re
strictions imposed are of a general
: character and therefore not of a dis
i criminatory nature.”
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Bainbridge.—Darbvshire Brothers,
of Donalsonville, have found cat-tail
millet to be a profitable farm product.
They have realized 30,000 pounds of
clean seed from last year’s crop and
have sold 25,000 pounds at 12 cents
profit on the dollar.
Sparta.—Friends of J. T. Rhodes,
chairman of board of roads and rev
enues of Hancock county for several
terms, are strongly urging the prison
commission to appoint him to fill the
vacancy of superintendent of the state
farm, at Milledgeville, created by the
death of the late Pope Brown. Pe
titions numerously signed have been
I forwarded to the prison commission
> in indorsement of Mr. Rhodes.
Decatur. —A centennial celebration
| is planned in DeKalb county during
October, according to an announce
ment by Commissioner T. Y. Nash. ■
| A mass meeting will be held in Deca- !
j tur soon during the superior court ,
j session to make preliminary arrange- j
ments, it was stated. The county was j
| authorized by the general assembly j
i December 9, 1822, and about one year j
later, Decatur was established.
Fairburn. —Charles L. Cochran was
found not guilty by a jury in superior
court here recently of attacks on two
young girls, relatives of his, which in
volved a capital offense. Trial on a
felony growing out of the charges was
for the August term of court. Coch
ran who was a candidate for post
master at Fairburn charged that he
was the victim of a "frame-up’’ by
persons who sought to prevent his
i nomination.
Savannah. —The record of Frank
Leeks, who was tried four times and
j convicted four times in one day, on
burglary charges, was matched in su
perior court here, when Josephine
Washington was tried four times and
convicted four times within less than
four hours —for burglary. She ex
ceeded the record by going on trial
the fifth time and was again convict
ed. Her aggregate sentences are
more than twenty years.
Rome. —At request of the officers
themselves an investigation was held
recently at the Commissioner’s room
in the City Auditorium, by City Man
ager King and Police Chief Harris
into charges made against officers
Lamar Talley, and Frank Hicks. The
charges were based on alleged actions
of the two officers recently at the
Franklin rooming house on Broad
j street. The allegations were that the
two officers had visited one of the
rooms and invited a woman to take
an auto ride.
Savannah.—Savannah is agog over
the introduction in council recently by
Alderman A. J. Garfunkel of an or
dinance prohibiting “all forms of jazz
dancing, jazz music and syncopated
music at public dances’’ in Savannah.
Some ministers and the head of the
woman’s club, Mrs. H. D. Weed, ex
press themselves in favor of the pass
age of the ordinance. Several danc
ing teachers, heads of musical or
ganizations and others oppose the
measure as “tyrannically ic fringing
upon the liberty of social life.’’
Dublin. —A rastic step toward re
duction of expenses of Laurens eoun
j ty was taken recently at a meeting
| of the commissioners when a decision
' was made to withdraw from the serv-
I ice of road building and road mainte
' nance all vehicles using gasoline.
> Gasoline plows and tractors are to be
removed and a saving, according to
estimates of the commissioners of $3.-
000 per month will be made' Several
employes were “laid off’’ for duty,
also, and there is possibility that
| further reductions will vet come.
Milledgeville.—Truck farms, peach
trees and crops in general suffered a
heavy loss in Baldwin recently when
a wind, rain and hail storm swept
over the county doing heavy damage.
The heaviest loss was sustained at
the Georgia Training School for Boys,
several miles from this city. A por
tion of the three-story dormitory for
negroes was destroyed, while the
white dormitory and several outhous
es also were damaged. The truck
crop at this inistitution is a com
, plete loss. Hundreds of trees were !
uprooted by the wind and telegraphic j
| communication with other cities cut
off several hours. The hail storm
i lasted for two hours and was one of
the ucav;est in the county's history.
Americus. —Total delinquent taxes
; in Americus are placed by auditors
now working upon the city’s tax
books at approximately $70,000. j
Os this sum around $45,000 is j
due for 1921 taxes, while $25,000 or
$30,000 unpaid taxes appear upon the
city's tax books as due during pre
vious years. The total amounts due
from the 1921 tax levy is a third of
the total of the ad valorem tax,
which amounts to approximately $119,-
000. As a result of the disclosures.
City Marshall C. B. Pouneey has been
. rdered by the finance committee of )
■ city council to levy fi fas immediately
! and force collections 'of the entire j
amount due in delinquent taxes.
Moultrie.—The presbytery of south- |
west Georgia will hold its spring j
meeting in Moultrie on April IS-19.
The opening sermon will be preached j
by Rev. C. A. Campbell, of Donalsou- i
ville. The sessions of the presbv- I
tery will be attended by leading min- I
isters and laymen of the denomination
from all of the churches in this sec- |
tlon of the state. According to re- j
ports received in Moultrie all of the
churches In the presbytery have en
joyed exceptionally good years and ex
ceptionally good reports are antici
pated. '
“—and we are a healthy,
TINGLING with abundant energy, appetites hearty, nerves
strong and steady and their faces radiant with the glow
of perfect health, the entire family of Louis Gingras, 9 Har
rison Ave., Providence, R. I„ are an eloquent tribute to the
powers of Tanlac, the greatest family medicine the world has
ever known.
j “I've put Tanlac to the test four
: times rigiit in my own family and it
hasn’t failed me once,” declared Mr.!
Gingras. “My wife, my son and my
daughter, as well as myself, have all
been built up from a half-sick, run
i down, worn-out set of people into a
healthy, happy family brimful of new
life and energy.”
And the experience of this family is
only typical of thousands of others
whose statements are on file in the
Tanlac offices. Hardly a day passes
that does not bring scores of such mes
sages of praise from every part of the
United States and Canada from fami
lies where mother, father, son and
daughter have all found health, con
tentment and the joys of living
through simply taking a course of
Tanlac.
Take, for instance, the case of John
Widner, 1571 Roosevelt Ave., Los An
gelos, Calif., who says: “My wife, my- j
self and little boy are now- as healthy, j
happy family •as you will ever see — :
and it’s all due to Tanlac.”
Or that of Mrs. John Marquis and
her family of sixteen living in Man
chester, N. H„ at 292 Belmont St.,
She says: “Tanlac has been the only
medicine used in our house for two j
years and it has kept every one of the j
sixteen here in the best of health.”
In Chicago, Frank It. Richards, of
443 South Wood St., writes: “We will j
never he without Tanlac in our house j
after the remarkable way it lias built j
up my u'ife, my son and myself to
where we are the very picture of
health.”
He Knew the Kind.
Two men were having a talk at din
ner time one day and the health of
a fellow workman’s daughter was the
subject of the conversation.
“Well,” said Jack, “if Tom would
send liis lass up to the hospital on the
hill she would be cured in a month.”
“Ah, but,” says Rob, “is that a con
valescent hospital?”
“Oh, no,” replied Jack; “it’s a cor
rugated iron one.”
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that It
Signature
In Use for Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for .Fletcher’s Castoria
Honesty the Best.
“I’m afraid dad will find out that
we disobeyed him last night.”
“The best way to keep him from
finding out is to tell him. He never
remembers anything.”—Nashville Ten
nesseean.
WARNING! Say “Bayer” when you buy Aspirin.
Unless you see the name “Bayer” on tablets, you are
not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians
over 22 years and proved safe by millions for
Headache Colds Rheumatism
Toothache Neuralgiai Neuritis
Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain
Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proper directions.
Handy “Sayer” boxes of 12 tablets—Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists.
Aspirin U tVe trade taark of Barer Manufacture of Moooaeetlcactdester of SallcrUcaclS
IcARDUI]
jj The Woman’s Tonic \
Representative of New York is the
I case of Chas. E. Van Colt's family, re
siding at 129 Fourth Ave., Albany. He
says: “Every member of our family Is
enthusiastic over Tanlac. It’s certainly
a medicine for all the family.” .
From far-away Canada comes this
message: “My little girl, my son and
myself are all enjoying splendid
health now and Tanlac brought It all
about.” Mrs. Bert Hewer, 193 East
Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
“We call Tanlac ‘The Family Medi
cine’ here in our Virginia home, be
cause it restored my mother and sister
to perfect health, just the same as it
has done me,” is the enthusiastic
statement of Mrs. J. F. Robertson,
Danville, Va.
And on through the list, men, women
and children from every state in the
Union and every province of Canada
unhesitatingly come forward and tell
j in words ringing with sincerity of the
wonderful benefits of health and hap
piness that Tanlac has brought into
their homes that were formerly dark
ened by tbe gloom of sickness, suffer
ing and despair.
And should yours be one of those
homes where any member of the fam
| ily is thin, run down and weakened
from loss of appetite, caused by indi
' gestion and stomach troubles, you have
at your very door the means that will
’ no doubt bring the sunshine of vigor
; ous health back into their lives and
I yours, just as it has done in so many
thousands of other cases. Do not de
lay. Get a bottle of Tanlac from your
druggist today.
Folks and Flowers.
Mrs. Kawler —Those new neighbors
of ours must be rich, judging from
the clothes they wear.
Mrs. Wyse —That's a poor way to
judge, my dear. Some of the most
gorgeous flowers haven't a scent. —
Boston Transcript.
YOU CANNOT AFFORD
To let your little hurts and ail
ments get bad.
Keep Vacher-Balm handy for Burns,
Boils, Cuts, Corns, Piles, or Soreness
anywhere.
Ask your druggist. Avoid imitations.
—Advertisement.
Evident.
Ted —Is Tom henpecked?
Ned —Judge for yourself. His wife
went to the barber’s and left instruc
tions as to how his hair was to be
cut. —New York Sun.
There is a tendency to believe that
I the farther away apples are raised the
I tetter they are.