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6 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. DO IT NOW Soil and Crop Service Potasli Syndicate H. A. 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I mean just what I mj-CU R-E-D, and not S merely patched op for awhile, to return worse than before. Now. Ido ant care what all yoo here need nor how M many doctors hare told yoo that ynq coaid not be cured—all I ask la jast a chenre to show yoa that I know what E9 lam talking about. If you w>ll write me TODAY. I will rend you a FREE TRIAL of my mild, K| teed cure that will convince you more in a day than lor anyone e’ue could in a month’s time If you are disgusted Kg and discouraged. I dare you to give me a chance to prove mv claims. By writing me today you will enjoy more real H I comfort tbao you bad over thought this world holds for you. Just try it. and you will see lam telJin# you the truth. ■ DR. J. E. CANNADAY 1164 Park Square SEDALBA, MO. g Refarencea: Third National Could yoo do a better art than to Bend thia ootlco to umm ■■ Bank. Sedalia, Mo. pvor ouffarer ot EercmaT g 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. * cause it is one of the most thor ough blood purifiers known to med ical science. This fine old remedy cleanses the blood of impurities, and acts as an antidote to the germ of rheumatism. S. S. S. is sold by druggists everywhere. For valuable litera ture and advice address Chief Med ical Adviser, 107 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga. x 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. 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