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A. B. & A. Cotton
Case Continued by
U. S. in Anniston
ANNISTON, Ala., May 7.—Th-'
government continued its efforts
.o prove that 1.‘600 bales
cotton alleged to have been shipped
to North Carolina concerns by the
Savage Cotton company had been
lost by the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic Railway company, and that
the company, to cover the loss, had
made shipments of bolley bales, lint
ers and motes instead.
This is the basis oC the case which
the government has built up in an
effort to prove that D. H. Riddle.
VY. A. and A. M. Savage and others
r'twnpted fraud in a cotton transac
tion involving $500,000. The case is
being tried in federal district court
here, the specific charge being an at
tempt to use the mails to defraud.
A E Hconft’-, Attallg banker. Thurs-
For More Than Forty Years
Cotton Growers have known that
POTASH PAYS
More than 11,651,200 Tons of Potash Salts
had been imported and used in the United
States in the 20 years previous to January,
1915, when shipments ceased. Os this 6,460,-
70? Tons consisted of
KAINIT
which the cotton grower knew was both a plant
food and a preventive of blight and rust, —with
it came also 1,312,400 Tons of
20 per cent
MANURE SALT
•
which has the same effects on Cotton, but which was
used mainly in mixed fertilizers.
Shipments of both Kainit and Manure Salt have
z been resumed but the shortage of coal and cars and
high freight rates make it more desirable to ship
Manure Salt, which CONTAINS 20 PER CENT OF
ACTUAL POTASH, instead of Kainit, which con
tains less than 13 per cent actual Potash.
MANURE SALT can be used as a side dressing
on Cotton in just the same way as Kainit and will
give the same results. Where .you used 100 pounds
of Kainit, you need to use but 62 pounds of Manure
Salt, or 100 pounds of Manure Salt go as far as 161
pounds of Kainit.
MANURE SALT has been coming forward in
considerable amounts and cotton growers, who can
not secure Kainit, should make an effort to get
Manure Salt for side dressing to aid in making a big
Cotton Crop.
Muriate of Potash
50 per cent actual Potash, has been coming forward
also, —100 pounds of Muriate are equivalent to 400
pounds of Kainit or 250 pounds of Manure Salt.
These are the three
Standard GERMAN Potash , Salts
that were always used in making cotton fertilizers
anil have been used for all these years with great
profit and WITHOUT ANY DAMAGE TO THE
CROP.
The supply is not at present as large as in former
years, but there is enough to greatly increase the
Cotton Crop if you insist on your dealer making the
necessary effort to get it for you.
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
day identified a draft for $1,600, al
leged to have been paid to the Savage
company for the alleged shipment
made by the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic railway. J. M. Lassiter,
agent for the Southern Railway com
pany, at Talladega, testified the cot
ton was loaded on the order of W.
O. Wooten, at that time manager of
the Talladega Compress company. He
also testified the bills of lading were
issued on a shipping order signed by
Mr. Wooten before the cotton had
been delivered to the platform.
Ethel Hayes, of Charlotte. N. C.,
swore Wooten appeared in the office
of the Lamkin company, at Char
lotte. several times during the period
of the alleged fraudulent transac
tions.
At the hearing Wednesday testi
mony was given that H. T. Lamkin,
of Charlotte. N. C.. head of the firm
through which the alleged fraudulent
shipments wer6 made, was chief
classer of cotton for the firm of
Knight-Yancey and company, when it
figuied in a cotton fraud case some
years ago. *
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COTTON
NEW YORK, ".—The cotton market
opened firm today at an advance of 10 to 32
points owing to relatively firm cables and
reports of an increased .Manchester demand
after the settlement of the Lancashire wage
disput. July sold at 38.60 c and October at
36.83 c on the call, and there was some
Liverpool buying here, while spot houses
were buyers of July. May notices estimated
at ahgut. 1,000 bales were reported in the
southwest, and the market soo; turned
easier under scattering near month liquida
tion and realizing. May sold off from 40.00 c
to 40.35 c, or 15 points net lower, while
later months lost all but 6 dr 7 points of
their initial advance.
The break extended to 40.10 for May later
in tlie morning, or forty points below last
niglifs close and new crop months sold
thirty-eight to forty-eight points net lowe
under liquidation. Wall street and south
ern pressure. The more favorable view
of weather conditions and tile easier ruling
of the spot month promoted bearish
icactionary sentiment, but July held rela
tively firm on covering and prices rallied
pretty sharply during the, middle of the
day on the forecast for showers in the
eastern b'elt. October sold up from 36.13
to 36.34, and May rallied to 40.50.
Old crop months held fairly steady during
the early afternoon with July selling around
38.30, or about 7 points net higher, but the
new crop was unsettled owing to further
scattering liquidation and unfavorable re
ports from the goods trade. October broke
to 3.10, or 41 points net lower after 2
o’clock.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in
the exchange toda.vf
Tone, easy;, midling, 41.10 c. quiet.
Last Prev
Open. l High. Low. Sale. Close. Ch e*
Jan. .. 35.35 35.47 34.50 34.50 34.50 35.12
Mar. .. 34.85 34.85 33.88 34.00 33.88 34.60
May .. 40.60 40.70 40.10 40.10 40.10 40.51
July .. 38.50 38.60 38.03 38.03 38.03 38.23
Oct. .. 36.6836.8235.8535.8735.8536.51
Dec. .. 35.95 35.95 34.98 34.98 34.98 35.68
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, May 7.—Better cables
than due opened the market at higher levels
today, but after advances of 23 to4o points
the market reacted sharply under selling
stimulated by reports from Texas that rains
had fallen in nearly all the drouthy sec
tions of that state. At the end of the
first hour of business the trading months
were 4 to 9 points under the close of yes
terday. July rose to 38.38 and fell off to
The decline continued until it amounted
to 5 to 31 points, but after- July touched
37.99, the market steadied on complaint
from Texas that too much rain was filing
in some sections. July rose strongly on
what looked like reversing of straddles and
late in the morning stood at 38.40, or 36
points over yesterday’s close, Aat the same
time the new crops remained at net declines
of 9 to 20 points, straddlers who were re
versing being sellers of October against
their purchases of July.
It was an unsettled market in the late
session, and at one time prices were 5 to 47
points down net. Irregularity became pro
-nounced, and toward the dose the active
months were 26 points up to 42 points down,
compared with yesterday’s finals. The near
months were much stronger than the distant.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices In ths
exchange today:
Tone, easy; middling, 40.25 c, steady.
i.flst f rev
Open. High. la>w Sale. Close Close
Jan. .. 35.30 35..30 34.45 34.45 34.45 35.02
slar. .. 34.75 34.94 34.03 34.03 34.03 34.54
May .. 39.52 39.79 39.42 39.43 39.42 39.50
July .. 38.15 38.40 37.99 38.15 38.08 38.04
Oct. ,r 36.50 36.70 35.83 30.85 35.83 36.31
Dec. .. 35.60 35.92 34.99 35.03 34.99 35.52
NEW ORLEANS SPOT OSTTON
NEW ORLEANS, May 7.—-Spot cotton,
steady and unchanged; sales on the spot,
989 bales; to arrive, 485. Low middling,
31.25 c; middling, 40.25 c; good middling,
44.25 c. Receipts, 1,222: stock, 337,413.
SPOT COTTON MARKET
Atlanta, steady, 42.25 c.
New York, quiet, 41.10 c.
New Orleans, steady, 40.25 c.
Philadelphia, steady, 41.35 c.
Galveston, steady, 42c,
Montgomery. 40.50 c.
Norfolk, steady, 40.30 c.
Savannah, steady, 41,50 c.
St. Louis, steady, 42c.
Houston, steady, 41.25 c.
Memphis, steady, 42c,
Augusta, steady, 41c.
Little Rock, steady, 42c.
Dallas, steady, 40.85 c
Mobile, steady, 40.50 c.
Charleston, steady. 40.50 c.
Wilmington, steady, 40c.
Boston, steady, 41,75 c. z
Boston, steady, 41.60 c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Atlanta spot c0tt0n42.25c,
Receipts 470
Shipments 1,055
Stocks2s,o7o
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Tone steady; sales, 4,000; good mid
dling, 28.88 d, ®
Prey.
Open. Close. Close.
January 23.47 24.35 23.57
February 23.16 23.40
March 23.12 22.97 23.23
April 2.81 23.08
May 25.53 25.66 25.69
J tine 25.55 25.43 25.60
July 25.31 25.26 25.29
August 25.01 25.18
September .... 24.64 24.80
October 24.30 24.25 24.41
November24.ol 23.90 24.10
December 23.67 23.51 23.77
LIVERPOOL COTTON STATISTICS
LIVERPOOL, May 7.—Weekly cotton sta
tistics:
Total forwarded to mills, 63,000 bales, of
which American 56,000.
Stock, 1,199,000 bales, of which American
926,000.
imports, 47,000 bales.
American, 19,000 bales.
Exports, 6,000 bales.
AMERICAN COTTON AND
GRAIN EXCHANGE
COTTON QUOTATIONS
The following were the opening, highest,
lowest, close and previous close quota
tions on the American Cotton and Grain
Exchange of New York:
Prev.
Open, High. Low. Close. Close.
Jan 35.35 35.35 34.60 34.(H1 35.10
May ;... . 40.60 40.60 40.10 40.10 40.75
July .... 38.56 38.56 38.02 35.02 38.45
Oct 36.82 36.82 35.83 35.83 36.32.
Dec 35.98 35.98 34.90 34.90 35.57
COTTONSEED OIL
Opening. Closing.
Spots 19.20 bid
Mav19.20(71,19.20 19.24fa19.2G
June19.35fa19.60 19.30© 19.60
Ju1y19.55@19.57 19.57MJ9.ti0
Augu5t10.55@19.62 19.57©19.65
September .. 19.57© 19.62 19.70@19.72
Octoberl9.oo@l9.4o 19.20@19.40
Novemberlß.oo©; 19.00
Decemberl7.so@l9.oo 17.75@19.50
Tone, steady; sales. 10.400.
ATLANTA COTTONSEED tRODUCTS
MARKETS
(Corrected by Atlanta Commercial
Exchange.)
Crude oil, basis prime, tank 10t5.515.25
C. S. meal, 7 per cent ammonia. 100-
ton lots 67.00
C S. meal, Ga. common rate point.
100-ton lots 66.00
No. 1 linters. 9c; No. 2 linters. sc: No.
3 linters, 3c. , ...
Cottonseed hulls, sacked, carlots .... 24.00
Cottonseed hulls, loose, carlotslß.oo
COTTON MARKET OPINIONS
Moss & Ferguson: ’ We continue our ad
vice to buy new crop months on declines.
Hubbard Brothers & Co.: “We expect
that further rains will maintain the bullish
sentiment, but there is some little disposi
tion to pay attention to the increasing evi
dence that goods prices have at last pro
voked the consumer.
S. M. Weld & Co.: “We are inclined to
think that chances favor higher prices.”
R. H. Hooper & Co.: “Cotton appears to
be in a strong position and declines are like-
Ay to prove of a temporary character.”
Munds, Rogers & Stackpole: “Market
shows excellent tone and likely work high
er, although we favor further purchases
only if market reacts.”
J. W. Jay & Co.: “Active and irregular
movements can be expected for some time to
come.”
Moyse & Holmes: “We continue our ad
vice to buy Hie distant options or all weak
spots.”
J. S. Bache & Co.: “Unless weather con
ditions improve and remain so for four to
six weeks we believe cotton should be bought
on all substantial setbacks.”
E. F. Hutton & Co.: “The cotton market
for the present is largely dependent upon
the weather.”
HESTER'S COTTON STATEMENT
NEW ORLEANS, May 7. —Hester’s week
ly crop movement: 4
(1920) (1919) (1918)
Overl'd w’k 7,845 31,110 47,711
Season ... 1,210,597 1,225,180 1,427,500
Into sight . 64,552 114,582 69,288
Season .. 11,139,134 10,026.976 11,065,903
Sou. con’sn 10,000 8,000 18,000
NAVAL STORES
SAVANNAH. May 7.—Turpentine, firm,
1.78%; sales, 41; receipts, none; shipments,
19; stock, 2,756.
Rosin, firm; sales, 842; receipts, none;
shipments, 513; stock, 19,485.
Quote: B, .$15.00; D. $17.65; F. $17.90;
I; $18.05; K, $18.30; M, $18.45; N, $18.65;
WG, $18.95; WW. $19.25.
GRAIN
CHICAGO, May 7.—Trading in corn and
oats was very light at the start today, bo’li
markets being sensitive to commission
house buying or selling. Opening prices of
corn ranged from .%c to %c lower. The
downward tendency was soon checked and
there was a really no scattered buying,
witli May leading the upturn.
Corn closed strong, % to 3c net higher.
Oats were dull and about steady at yes
terday's close.
Provisions were slightly firmer.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
I'he following were jibe ruling prices li
the exchange today:
Prev
Open. High. Low. Close. Close.
CORN
May ... IS9 195 188% 191% 188%
July ... 171% 174%> 171% 173% 171%
Sept. ... 162% 164% 161% 163 162%
OATS—
May .... 106 106% 105% 105% 105%
July ’■.... 92% 94% 92% 93% 92%
Sept 77% 78% 77% 77% 77%
I’oRK
May 36.00 35.00 36.00 ....
July ... 36.60 36.95 36.60 36.80” 36.65
LAUD
July ... 21.15 21.30 31.12 31.20 21.1 J
Sept. ... 22.00 32.19 21.90 21.97 21.90
BIBS—
May ... -.i 18.40 ....
July ... 18.85 18.97 18.80 18.92 18.85
Sept. ... 19.50 19.55 19.50 19.50 19.42
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS
CHICAGO, May 7.—Cash wheat: No. 2
hard yellow, .$3.00.
Com—No. 3 mixed, $2.00; No. 2 yellow,
$2.03G2.05.
Oats—No. 2 white, $1.14@1.16; No. 3
white, $1.12@1.14%.
Rye—No. 2, .$2.18%@2.20%.
Barley, $1.60@1.84.
Timothy seed, $10.00@11.50.
Clover seed, .$25.00@35.00.
Pork, nominal.
Lard, $20.40.
Ribs, ?17.50@1S 50.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
Close.
Januaryls.o9-10
February 15.09-10
March 15.09-10
April 15.09-10
May 15.31-32
Junels.46-47
July 15.61-«2
August 15.41-42
Septemberls.2l-22
Octoberls.l.6-17
November 15.12-13
Decemberls.o9-10
1 NEW YORK, May 7.—Coffee, Rio No.
7, 15%.
METAL MARKET
NEW YORK, May 7.—Copper steady; elec
trolytic, spot and near-by, 18%@19; June
and July, 19%.
Iron firm and unchanged.
Tin, spot, $58.00; May and July, $57.23.
Antimony, $10.12.
Metal exchange quotes lead, stealy; spot,
$9.00 asked; May. $8.62 bid; zinc, steady;
East St. Louis, May and June, $7.73@8.50.
At London: Standard copper, spot 101
pounds 2s 6d; futures, 103 pounds 17s 6;
electrolytic, spot, 12 pounds; futures. 114
pounds; tin, spot, 314 pounds ss; futures,
317 pounds 15s; lead, spot, 36 pounds;; fu
tures, 37 pounds ss; zinc, 46 pounds ss; fu
tures, 48 pounds.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
EAST ST. IX)UIS. 111., May 7.—Cattle-
Receipts. 2,200, including no Texans; mar
ket steady; no quotations.
Hogs—Receipts, 13.500; market 10@25c
lower; mixed and butchers, $15.40; good and
heavy, $13.50@14.50; roughs, sll.oo@ 12.00;
light, $15.00@15.40; pigs, $13.00@14.75;
bulk, $14.75@15.25.
Sheep—Recenpts, SOO; market steady; no
quotations.
CHICAGO, May 7. —Cattle, receipts, 10,-
000; supply largely beef steirs; trade slow;
beef aud butcher stock with bids unevenly
lower; calves steady with Thursday’s close;
bulk, $12.00@ 12.50; stockers unchanged.'
Hogs, receipts. 30,000; top, $15.35; bulk
light, sls.oo©s! 5.25; bulk, 250 pounds and
over, 1.53.75@514.50; pigs, steady, bulk
$13.75@ 14.75.
Sheep, receipts, 8,000; strong to 25c
higher; prime shorn lambs, $19.10; bulk
shorn, $18.75@519.10; spring lambs, S2O;
good shearing lambs, S2O.
LOUISVILLE, May 7. —Hogs, receipts,
1,200; active, 225 pounds up, sl4; 120 to
225 pounds, sls; pigs, $11.50@513.00; throw
outs, $10.50 down.
Cattle, receipts, 300; slow. Heavy steers.
sl2©sl3; beef steers, $8.50@512.50; heifers,
sS@sl3; cows, $4.75@511; feeders, $9 all;
stockers. $7.50@510.25.
Sheep, receipts, 50; steady. Spring lambs
$18; sheep, .$lO down. t
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO, May 7.—Butter, creamery, ex
tras, 59c; creamery standards, 59c; firsts,
54@5Sc; seconds, 42@50c.
Eggs, ordinaries, 39@40c; firsts, 42@43c.
Cheese, twin, 27c; Young Americas, 29c.
Live poultry, fowls, 34 %c; ducks, 38c:
geese, 26c; turkeys, 35c.
Potatoes, 36 cars; Wisconsin (per 100
lbs.), and Minnesota (per 100 lbs.), 08.15.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, May 7. —Flour, quiet and
strong.
Pork, dull; mess, $42.00@43.00.
Lard, irregular; midle west spot, $20.70
G 20.80.
Sugar, raw, firm; centrifugal, 96 test,
19.56; refined, firmer; granulated, 18.30@
23.00.
Coffee, Rio No. 7, on spot, 15%c; No. 4
Santos, 23%@24%c.
Tallow, quiet; specials, 14%c; city, 13%c.
Hay. steady; No. 1, $3.15@3.20; No. 3,
$2.90@3.00; clover, $2.90@3.10.
Dressed poultry, steady; turkeys, 50@53c:
chickens, 38@43c; fowls, 29@44c; ducks,
32©38c.
Live poultry, weak: geese, 18@20c; ducks,
20@22c; fowls, 36@38c; turkeys, 25c; roost
ers, 19c.
Cheese, firm; state milk, common to spe
cials, 20@31%c; skims, common to spe
cials. s@2lc.
Butoter, weak; receipts. 1,953; creamery,
extra, 59%@60c; do. special market. 60% @
61c; state dairy, tubs; imitation creamery,
firsts. 45%59%c, nominal.
Eggs, quiet; receipts, 23.400; near-by
white fancy, 52%@53c; near-by mixed fan
cy. 4G@slc: fresh firsts, 43@49%c; Pacific
•oast, 47@53c.
NEW YORK SUGAR MARKET
Close.
Januaryls.9o@ 16.10
February .. 14.70@14.75
May 18.50@15.75
June18.35@18.75
Ju1y18.59@18.60
Augustlß.s7@lß.6o
Septemberlß.4s@lß.so
Octoberlß.4o@lS.so
Novemberlß.3o@lß.4o
Decemberl7.49@l7.so
JOHN F. CLARK & CO. COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS, La., May 7.—The irreg
ularity of the opening and subsequent action
of our market were characteristic of the in
fluence at work. July opened a few points
higher, but when New York quotations
showed 30 points advance in that position
the latter positions here opened as much as
25 points up and the market soon traded to
36.70 c for October on small buyuing, but a
decided scarcity o' sellers owing to the
contrast and the action in New York. Then,
there >ias a sharp reaction to last night’s
closing level cn advances of more general
rains in Texas, and when they were con
firmed by the weather map liquidatio in
creased and the market broke to 36 cents,
but support was then applied and gooil ral
lies resulted.
Support at the opening appeared in the
light of a tactical move by bull interests to
break the effect of the favorable change in
weather conditions.
Liberty Bond Market
NEW YORK, May 7.—Liberty bonds, clos
ing prices:
3%s 91.90
First 4585.90
Second 4s 85.10
First 4%s 86.68
Second 4%s 85.22
hird 4%s 89.06
Fourth 4%s ••• 85.70
Victory 3%s ... ... 96.00
Victory 4%s 96.04
O’Strich Regains “Pep”
At Seeing Lost Love
LOS ANGELES, Cal. —Gracie Ann
is the happiest ostrich on any os
trich farm in Los Angeles county,
for she has found again the friend
from whom, it was believed, she had
mourned for six months.
That friend is Mrs. E. S. Smith of
Riverside, Cal., who knew Gracie
Ann when Gracie Ann left her shell
and the incubator and tipped the
scales at two pounds three years ago.
She took a fancy to Mrs. Smith and
followed her around the yard. Even
when Gracie Ann reached a height
of 6 feet she still played Mary’s lit
tle lamb td Mrs. Smith’s Mary.
Then came a separation six months
ago, when Gracie Ann was moved
into Los Angeles county. She grew
morose and actually sick, the ostrich
farm people said.
And recently Mrs. Smith called on
Gracie Ann. Gracie Ann saw her
and rushed up to the fence to have
her head scratched. When that had
been done. Gracie Ann’s eyes grew
bright again and she regained her
appetite for tacks and pennies and
pins.
She is said, to be the only ostrich
ever known to love a human being.
At present the richest gold field in
the world is in South Africa, which
yielded in 1910 a value of $175,000.-
0)0, somewhat exceeding the com
bined yield of the United States and
Australia.
One-third of the babies in Indian
die before their second year.
SOUTHEAST FAILS
TO GET MAN ON
COMMERCE BODY
(Ths Atlanta Journal News Bureau)
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, May 7.—Removing
the last hope that a man from the
southeastern states would be named
to fill the only remaining vacancy on
the interstate commerce commission,
the president has sent to the senate
the nomination of Mark W. Potter, of
New York. The selection of Mr. Pot
ter fills the only vacancy on the rate
making board, and the contest waged
by southern senators has come to
naught.
A few days ago the president filled
two of the three vacancies on the
commission. He named a Princeton
professor and a former vice president
of the American Federation of Labor
from Massachusetts. Selection of
these men from New England encour
aged southern members of congress
to hope that the remaining place
would go to some . competent man
from their section, and it was ad
mitted that Mr. Maxwell stood out
among the candidates named. How
ever, the president settled the thing
by sending in the name of a New
York lawver. Mr. Potter is also a
product of the Carolina, Clinchfield
and Ohio railroad —but that is as
near as the south comes to getting
the place.
The Southeast’s Arguments
The action of the president is re
ported to have created considerable
discussion in senate lobbies among
senators from the southeastern
states. Although the interstate com
merce commission is not a sectional
board, it was argued in statements
presented to the White House l£ 1 .
the entire southeast, from the Vir
ginia coast to the gulf, had no repre
sentative on the commission, and haa
not had since the retirement of
Judge Judson C. C. Clements, of
Georgia, several years ago. When tne
president recently sent in the names
of Henry J. Ford, of Princeton, and
James Duncan, of Massachusetts, as
two members of the commission, the
southern members of congress perked
up and believed that the final ap
pointment would certainly go to
someone from their section. Mr. Ford
is a professor and the author of sev
eral books; Mr. Duncan is a fo UPer
vice president of the American Fed
eration of Labor and former head of
the Granite Cutters’ union.
The presdent now goes to New
York to fill the only other vacancy
on the commission, and his selection
has admittedly displeased the sen
ators from the southeastern tier ot
states. Senators E. D. Smith, of
South Carolina; Senator Lee Over
man, of North Carolina; Senators
Hoke Smith and William J. Harris, of
Georgia, and Senator Simmons are
among those who are disappointed
by the latest selections. How tar
their opposition Will go has not been
determined, but they seemed today
to be inclined to raise considerable
protest against the failure to recog
nize the southern section of the
country. , .
When the president began to riH
vacancies on the interstate commerce
commission, he had three selections
to make. One was brought about
bv the retirement of Commissioner
Harlan. The two additional places
were authorized in the Cummins-Esch
railroad bill which passed congress
several months ago.
Nominations to Go Through
Southern members of congress
urged the White House to recognize
that section in filling at least one
of the three places. The only man
in the commission who can be called
a southerner is Commissioner Woo
ley of Virginia, and Mr. Wooley has
lived in Washington and Kentucky
for a number of years.
Before his appointment he had long
been a Washington newspaper cor
respondent and was manager of the
Wilson publicity campaign in 1916.
Before that Mr. Wooley was special
statistician of the Stanley steel in
vestigating committee which investi
gated the steel trust at the direction
of the house of representatves about
seven years ago.
The probabilities are, however, that
the president’s nominations will go
through, ’ and if the south wants rep
resentation on the commission it
will have to wait awhile. In sending
in the name of Mr. Potter the presi
dent grievously disappointed numer
ous senators who talked of their dis
pleasure and even hinted at sena»-
torial opposition, but the chances ars
that the nominations will stand, and
the southeastern states, with their
freight rate and port problems, will
wait for some other vacancy.
Senator Harris, of Georgia, made
the following comment on the latest
nomination:
“I had hoped that one of the new
commissioners would be some one
from a southeastern state, as the
great interests of the five southeast
ern ports, together with the new
freight rates from the middle west
make our position vital. Naturally,
I wanted to see a Georgian appointed.
We must be alert in fighting to pre
serve our natural advantages, and
those which have come to us through
years of hard work.”
Smoked to Grow Thin,
Husband Asks Divorce
NEW YORK. —Mrs. Nellie Archer,
in a suit filed recently, sets forth in
support of her application for $1,006
counsel fees and SIOO a week alimony
from Leon Ascher, manager of a
Broadway cloak house, that she
smoked to reduce her weight.
Mr. Ascher informed Supreme
Court Justice Gavegan that his wife
was a cigarette smoker. Mrs. Ascher
says: , .
“My husband used to complain
about my stoutness. A friend had
told me that smoking would help me
reduce.”
“Couple 109 and 104 Able
To “Shake a Lively Foot”
BARLEY MILK, N. Y. —It may or
it may not have been a coincidence
that the first piece struck up by
the jazz band when Lon Tiller, 109,
and his wife, 104, joined the dancing
class at the town hall here was,
“He may be old, but he’s got young
ideas!” Tiller and his wife have
taken several lessons and are now
as proficient at the new steps as the
younger couples. Mrs. Tiller was
especially interested in learning the
“shimmy” and danced it with youths
of this village, among whom was
her great-grandson, Franklin K.
Tiller.
“It would be hard to find a girl in
her teens who can shake a livelier
foot than my grandmother,” declares
young Tiller.
The elder Tiller asserts that he
owes his longevity to keeping abreast
of the times as far as the modern
dances are concerned. He declares
that he has been dancing since he
was a youth of 16 and expects to
live at least another decade.
Rochester Swain Went
Beyond Law for Presents
ROCHESTER, N. Y. —Deftly rais
ing a window in the bedroom of Miss
Rose Lipshitz of No. 66 Vienna
street at 2 o'clock this morning,
Abraham Arthur Berman, twenty
eight, entered the room and took a
seat on a trunk near her bed. For
half an hour Berman, with a loaded
revolver in one hand and a flash
light in the other, watched the girl.
Berman had been keeping company
with Miss Lipshitz for two years or
more and had given her many pres
ents, including a beautiful set of
furs. Recently the girl dismissed
him. Berman made efforts to rein
state himself in her favor and fail
ed. Then he sought to recover his
presents.
When he was moving about the
room in search of his gifts Miss
Lipshitz awoke. She saw the rays
of the flashlight and. screamed. Har
ris Lipshitz, father of the girl, ran
to his daughter’s aid, Berman tried
to escape through the window and
became wedged. When Lipshitz seiz
ed him a struggle ensued Lips
hitz was shot in the right hand.
Berman was over powered by other
members of the family and. held for
'■the police.
SATURDAY, MAY" 8, 1920.
PROFITS, AND NOT
WAGES, BLAMED FOR
HIGH LIVING COST
(Continued on Pago 1)
the consumer has been paying the
food corporations whose reports are
available over two and one-halt
times as large profits as were con
sidered acceptable before the war.”
Stock Value Doubled
The profits in a pound of sugar,
Mr. Lauer, showed, was three times
as great during the war as before.
“The high price of sugar,” he said,
“was the direct result of speculation.
The net profits of 12 refining and
producing companies as shown by
their reports totalled $11,000,009
fluring 1912-14 but rose to $34,000,-
000 during 1916-18 that is from 6 1-2
to 19 per cent on capital stock.
“Four hig meat packing houses
earned during the year 1915-17 a to
tal of $140,000,000. Such profits
were made despite enormous deduc
tions for excessive salaries, adver
tisements and overhead charges. Al
together in 1912-18 these concerns
took one quarter of a billions dollars
in profits or nearly double the pre
war value of their stock.”
Mr. Lauck also submitted treas
ury data to show that of 392 bitu
minous coal companies reporting,
334 showed net profits of 25 per
cent after every possible deduction;
218 over 50 per cent on capital stock,
while 118 earned net profits of over
100 per cent.
” Demands
Concluding his study, Mr. Lauck
submitted the following general de
mands in the name of the railroad
workers:
“1. Labor in general, and railroad
labor in particular, must have wage
increases proportionate to advances
in living costs.
“2. /In the present crisis, and for
all time to come, producers and mid
dlemen must be restrained from ad
vancing prices in excess of increases
in labor and material costs.
“3. Producers and middlemen
must refrain from including income
and excess profit taxes in their
costs and passing them on to the
consumer with an added profit.
“4. The prinicple of a living
wage must be accepte dand estab
lished in order that normal produc
tion may be restored and increased
production hoped for in all fields of
industry.”
Laughing Gas Creates
Student’s Intoxication
LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Scores of
Occidental college men students took
advantage of the opportunity of (be
coming intoxicated under jurisdiction
of the faculty, and sthey apparently
enjoyed it thoroughly.
“Laughing gas” caused the intoxi
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students. Dr. Elbert E. Chandler,
head of the department of chemistry
at the college, administered the gas
as a demonstration to the students
to show ho wit affects them.
“Charles,” said the teacher to a bright
pupil, “correct the sentense, ‘I kissed
Jennie two« times.’ ”
“I kissed Jennie three times,” was the
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