Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1921 — Page 10

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SLUMP HITS STOCK MARKET Atlanta Gulf Touches Lowest Level Reached in Years. NEW YORK. March 17.—A sudden break in Atlantic Gulf "B” featured the Initial trading on the stock market today and caused nnsettlement in many issues after a strong opening. Atlantic Gulf first rose % of a point to 84% and then crumbled away under heavy offerings to 30%, anew low record for recent years. Other stocks, after opening at advances. showed a reactionary tendency. Steel common sold off of a point to 80%. Mexican Petroleum first rose to 146% and then declined to 145. Reading, after selling up to 70, fell back to 69. United Fruit dropped over 1 point to 10214. Studehaker advanced to 64% and then sold off 1 point. General Asphalt, however, was In good demand and rose to 54, a gain of 2 points. Although the market was one in which there was an increased demand at the beginning of business, the improved tone was of short duration. Before many minutes passed, liquidation and bear raids started in large volume and during the greater part of the first hour movements were to materially lower prices. The feature of the trading was the heavy selling of New Haven, which yielded 2% points to 14%, anew low record. The previous low of 15% was made in December last. Columbia Graphophone Issues were heavy, the preferred falling 5*4 points to anew low record of 40. United Retail Stores became prominent when It yielded 3 points to 45%. Pennsylvania yielded over 1 point to 38*6. Steel sold down % of a point to SO. and Baldwin, after selling at 87%, dropped to SO. Mexican Petroleum yielded 2 points to 144%. (By Thomson Sc McKinnon.) —March 17— The market was again strong at the opening Wednc-sdaj. The supply of stocks was very limited, while the demand was more general than in some time. Commission houses played the most Important part in the trading, the public evidently being impressed by the action of the market Tuesday afternoon, which disclosed an oversold condition. Sentiment was materially strengthened by the excellent showing made in the reports of the Studehaker romnany and American Smelting, anc particularly by the gratifying Increase in railroad traffic. freight loading showing the first increase in a considerable period. During the early afternoon a reduction In the call money rate was an additional stimulant. The announcement by the war finance corporation of assistance to several banks to aid in financing the export of cotton is a matter of vast importance, as It indicates a policy to aid business. Technically, we have a strong foundation. and all that Is needed at this time Is a helpful influence to encourage the public in taking a more optimistic view of conditions. With my encouraging news the market improvement could continue with ease CLEARING HOUSE STATEMENT. NEW YORK. March 17.—Exchanges. $678,150,543; balances, $75,884,717; Federal reserve bank credit balances. $68,006,539. Money and Exchange Indianapolis bank clearings today were $2,075,000, against $2,204,000 a week ago. NEW YORK. March 17.—The foreign exchange market opened irregular today with demand Sterling %c higher at $3.90%. Francs were unchanged at 6.92 c for cables and 6.91 c for checks. Belgian cables were 7.25 c; checks, 7.21 c. Dire cables were 3.78 c; checks. 3.77%c. Guilder cables were 3 440-; checks, 3 435. Marks were 1.59%0. Swedish cables were 2.265 c; checks, 2.2G3e. NEW YORK CALL MONEY. NEW YORK. March 19.—Money—Call money ruled 7 per cent; high, 7 per cent: low. 6 per cent. Time rates, steady, all 6*4 to 7 per cent. Time mercantile paper, steady. Sterling exchange was steady with business in bankers’ bill at $3.90 for demand. MOTOR SECCRITIES. , (By Thomson & McKinnon) —March 17— —Opening— Bid. Ask. Briscoe 15 17 Chalmers, com 1 I*4 Packard, com 11 11*4 Packard, pfd 70 75 Chevrolet 100 400 Peerless 23 25 Con Motors, com C C% Coil Motors, pfd 85 90 Hupp, coin 12% 13% Hupp, pfd 88 92 Reo Motor Car 21*4 Elgin Motors 5% 6% Grant Motors 33% Ford of Canada 250 270 United Motors 35 65 National Motors 4 6 Federal Truck 19 21 Paige Motors 19% 29V4 Republic Truck 15 16 ACTIVE OIL STOCKS. (By Thomson A McKinnon.) —March 17 — —Opening— Bid. Ask. Anglo-American Oil 17*4 17% Atlantic Refining 970 1020 Borne-Scryniser 360 390 Buckeye Pipe Line 82 84 Chesebrough Mfg. Cons 185 200 Chesebrough Mfg. Cons. pfd. 99 102 Continental Oil. Colorado 110 115 Cosden Oil and Gas 5% 5% Crescent Pipe Line 29 31 Cumberland Pipe Line 135 145 Elk Basin Pete 8% 9 Eureka Pipe Line 95 9!* Galena-Signal Oil. pref. new. 92 97 Galena-Signal Oil, com 43 45 Illinois Pipe Line 166 172 Indiana Pipe Line 83 85 Merritt Oil 12 12% Midwest Oil 1 1% Midwest Rfg 135 137 National Transit 26% 28 New York Transit 147 152 Northern Pipe Line O’ Ohio Oil 268 272 Point.-Alex el Prairie Oil and Gas 450 460 Prairie Pipe Line 201 2t).j . Sapttlpa Refg 4% 4% Solar Refining 380 395 Southern Pipe Line 100 105 South Penn Oil 220 224 Southwest Penn Pipe Lines.. 65 70 Standard Oil Cos. of Cal 296 300 Standard Oil Cos. of Ind 69% 70% Standard Oil Cos. of Kan 575 590 Standard Oil Cos. of Ky 390 405 Standard Oil Cos. of Neb....,440 446 Standard Oil Cos. cf N. Y 328 332 Standard Oil Cos. of Ohio 375 390 Swun A Finch 40 50 Union Tank Line 106 109 Vacuum Oil 200 300 Washington Oil 28 32 NEW YORK CURB MARKET. (By Thomson & McKinnon.) —March 16— —Closing— Bid. Ask. Curtis Aero com 3 0 Curtis Aero ptd 10 20 Texas Chief 7 12 First Nat. Copper % 1 Goldfield Con 7 9 Havana Tonacco 1 1% Havana Tobacco pfd 1 2 Central Teresa 3 4 Jumbo Extension 4 7 Intermit. Petroleum 14% 14% Niplssing 7% 7% Indian Pkg 2 3 Royal Baking Powder 113 116 Royal Bak. Powder pfd 80 83 Standard Motors 6% 7% Salt Creek 22 26 Tnopah Extension 1% 1 7-16 Tonopnh Mining 1% 1% United P S new 1% 1% U. S. Light and Heat 1 1% U. S. Light and Heat pfd ... 1 4 Wright-MatUn 1-16 3-16 Yukon Gold Mine Cos 1 11-16 Jerome % % New Cornelia 14 16 United Verde 26 28 Sequoiah 5-16 7-16 Oniar 011 2% 2%

N. Y. Stock Prices —March 16— Prev. High. Low. Close. Close. | Adv. Rum. com. 16 16 16 Ajax Rubber 31% 29% 31 28% Allis Chalmers. 36% 35% 36 35% Am. Agricult... 49% 49 49% Am. Beet Bug.. 43 41% 42% 41 Am. Bosgh Mag. 55 54% 55 52% Am. Car &- Fdy.,122% 121% 122*4 123% Aran. Can 29 27% 29 27% Am. H. & L. com 9% 9 9% 9% Am. H. &L. pfd 44% 43% 44% 42% Amn. Drug 6% 6% 6% 6*4 Amn. Internatl. 43% 41% 43% 41% Am. Locomotive. 86% 85%. 86% 54% Am. Suit. & Ref. 40% 39% 40% 35% Am. Sugar Ref. 91 80% 91 89% Am. Sum. Tob.. 80% 79 80% 79% Am. Steel Fdy. 30*4 30 30 % 29% Am. Tel & Tel. 102 102 102 102 Am. T0bacc0...116% 114% 116% 115 Am. W001en.... 64% 62% 64% 64% Anaconda Min.. 37% 37 37% 37% Atchison 81% 80% SI 80% | Alt. Gif. &W.I. 36 32% 33% 35% Baldwin Loco.. 87% 85 56% 85% B. & 0 33% 32% 33% 32 Beth Steel (B). 56% 55% 56% 54% Brok. Rap Tran. 14% 13 14 12% Can. Pac. Ry 113% Jl2 114% 11% Cent. Leather.. 39 38 39 37% Chandler Mot.. 76% 74% 76% 74 C. & 0 59% 58 59% 57% i C M & St P pfd 39 38 39 38*4 1 Chi. & Nw 67% 66% z 7% 66 j CRI & P 26 25 % 26 25% CRIAP 6pc pf 59% 59 59 59% I C R I & P7pc pf 72 71 72 70 Chili Copper 10% 10 10% 9% Chino Copper.,. 21 20% 21 20% [ Coca Cola 21*4 21% 21% 21 | Columbia Gas... 58% 58% 58% 57% | Col. Graph 7% 6% 7 7% j Contin. Can 58 58 58 57% j Con. Candy Cos.. 1% 1% 1% 1% ; Corn Products.. 72% 70% 72% 70 Crucible Steel... 88% 85% 87% 85 ! Cub. Am. Sugar 27% 26% 27% 26% 1 Cub. Cane Sug.. 22% 21% 22 21% I Dome Mines 15% 15% 15% j Eudieott 61 59% 60 58% Erie 12% 12% 12% 12% Erie Ist pfd.... 18% 18*4 18% 18 Fam. Players... 69% 66% 69% 06% Fisk Rub. C 0... 14% 14 14% 13% Gen. Asphalt 52 47% 52 49% Gen. Cigars 59 58% 59 Gen. Electric 131 131 131 131 Gen. Motors 13 12% 13 12% Goodrich 36% 26 26% -'ts% Gt. North, pfd.. 74% 72% 74V* 71 ; Gt. North. Ore.. 31% 31 Vi 31% 31 Houston Oil 67% 04% 67% 64 Illinois Central. 87% 87% 87% Inspir. Cop 33% 32 33 32 Inter. C’orp 5% o 5% 5% Inter. Harvester 98 I*6 98 9.''' s Inter. Nickel.... 14% 14*4 11% 13% | Inter. Paper.... 56% 51% 55% 54% Invin Oil 19 18 19% 18 Kan. City 50... 23% 22% 23% 23% Kelly-Spg. Tire. 40% 28% 89% 39% Kennecott Cop.. 17% 17% 17% 16% Lacka. Steel 51% 51% 51% 51% Lehigh Valley... 51% 50% 50% 50% Loew’s, Inc. ... 17% 17% 17% 17% Marine, com. ... 13% 13 13 12% Marine, pfd. ... 51 50 50% 49% Mex. Petrol. ...146% 142% 146 143 Miami Copper . 17% 17% 17% 17% ! Mid. States Oil . 12% 12% 12% 12% Midvale Steel .. 30% 30% 30% 30% M„ K. A T. ... 2 2Vi 2% . 2% Missouri Pac, . 18% 13 1-8% 17% Nat. En. & Stp. 5.8 58 58 55% Nat. Lead 72 71 72 70*4 Nev. Con. Cop.. 10 9% 10 9% N. Y. Air Brake 78% 78 78% N. Y. Central .. 69% 68% 69% 69% New Haven .... 17% 16% 16% 18 Norfolk &W. .. 96% 96% 96*4 95 Northern Pac. . SO% 79 80*, 78% Okla. P. & Ref.. 3% 3% 3% 3% Pan-Am. Petrol. 70% 68% 70 68% Penn. Ky 37H 36% 37% 36% People's Gas ... 40 ‘ 39 40 39 j Pierce-Arrow .. 27% 25% 27 25% Pierce Oil Cos. .. 10% 10% 10% 10 Pittsburgh Coal 59*4 59% 59% 59% ] Pressed Stl. Car 86% 85% 86% 94% Pull. Pal. Car .106 10T>% 106 104 Pure Oil 34 33 33 % 33 Ray Copper ... 12 11% 12 11% Heading 69% 67% 69% 6s Rep. Iron A Stl. 66% 65% 66% 64% Ryl. Dtch., N. Y. 63% 62 63% 62% Rears-Roebuek . 77% 75% 76% 75 Sinclair 23% 22% 23% 22% So. Pacific 75 73% 74% 73% So. Railway.... 21% 20% 21% 20% Stand. Oil N. J.. 135 135 135 137% St.L. A S.F.eom 21% 21% 21% 21 Stroin. Curb 33% 33 35 % 32 Studehaker 64% 60% 63% 60% Tenn. Copper... 7% 7% 7% 7% Texas Cos 41% 39% 41% 40 Texas A Pac.... 21% 30% 21% 20% I Tob. Prods 52 51 51% 51 Trans. Oil 8 % 7% S% 7% Union Oil 19% 18% 19% 19 Union Pacific ...118% 116 118% 115%! U. Retail Stores. 52% 51 51% 51 U.S.F.Prod Corp 21% 20% 21*4 20% j United Fruit Co.l<K% 99% 103% 100% U.S.lndus. Alco. 68% 66% 68% 65% U.S. Rubber 69% 67% 69% 67% I U.S. Steel 80% 79% B>>% 79% U. S. Steel pfd.loß*4 108*4 108% 1 Utah Copper 50 49 50 49 Van. Steel 31*4 29 % 30% 30% Vir-Car. Chetn.. 32*4 32 32 31 Wabash 7% 7% 7% 7% Wabash pfd 19% 19 19% IS% West. Union 87 86% 87 West. Electric... 47% 47 47 46% •White Motors... 39% 39% 39% 39% W-OTerland .... B*4 7% .8% 7% Wilson A C 0.... 41 41 41 40 Worth. Pump.... 47 47 47 46 •Ex-Dividend. NEW YORK LIBERTY BONDS. —March 16— Prev. High. Low. Close, close. L. B. 3%s 90.80 90.52 90.62 90.60 L. B. Ist 4s 86.92 L. B. 2d 4s 87.00 86.84 87.00 86.78 L. B. Ist 4%s 87 64 *7 18 87.50 87.16 L. B. 2d 4%s 87.18 86.90 87.04 86 88 L. B. 3d 4V*s 90 24 90 14 90 16 00.18 L B. 4tb 4%s 87.40 87.06 87 24 87.10 Viteorr 3%g 97.28 97.34 97 28 97.26 Victory 4%s 97 30 97.26 97.30 97.24 CHICAGO STOCKS. (By Thomson A McKinnon.) —March 16Open. High. Low. Close. Armour Leather. 15% Armour pfd 90% 90% 90% 90 Carbide A Carb. 54 55 54 54% Libby 10% 10% 10% 10% Montgom.-Ward. 17% 17% 17 17 National Leather 8% 8% 8% 8% Sears-Roebuck... 75 77 75 76% Stewart Warner. 31% 32 31% 31% Swift A Cos 101% 102% 101% 102% Swift Inti.. 25% TWENTY STOCKS AVERAGE. NEW YORK. March 17.—Twenty in dustrial stocks averaged 75.20, up 1.33 per cent. Twenty active rails averaged 71.02, up 1.46 per cent. NEW YORK METAL MARKET. NEW YORK. March 17.—Copper—Dull; spot and March offered. 12c; April and May offered, 12%e. Lead—Dull; March offered, 42e; April offered, 4.23 c. Speller— Dull; spot and March offered, 4.85 c; April offered. 4.95 c. NEW YORK WOOL MARKET. XE’.Y YORK. March 17.—The wool market was steady today, with domestic fleece, XX Ohio, quoted at 24@45c per lb; domestic pulled, scoured basis. 18 (a 75e and Texas domestic, scoured basis, 40 @S2c. NEW YORK PETROLEUM. NEW YORK, March 17.—Tlie petroleum market was steady today, with Pennsylvania crude quoted at $3 a barrel. NEW YORK RAW SUGAR. NEW YOKK, March 17.—Raw sugars (centrifugals) were weak today. Cubas were quoted at 6.02 c per lb, duty paid, and Porto Ricos, 6.02 c, delivered. NEW' YORK REFINED SUGAR. NEW YORK, March 17.—Refined sugar was steadier today, with tine granulated quoted at 7.75 c per lb. NEW YORK HIDE MARKET. NEW YORK, March 17. Hides were steady today, with native steer quoted at 12c per ib and branded steer. 10%0. CLEVELAND PRODI CE. CLEVELAND, March 17.—Butter—Extra In tubs, 51%@52c; prints, 52%@53c; extra firsts. 50%@51c; firsts, 49%@5)c; seconds. 38@39c; packing. 14@17c; fancy dairy, 30c. Eggs—Fresh gathered extras, 37c; extra firsts. 36c; Ohio firsts, new cases' 34c; old cases, 33c; Western firsts, new cases, 33c. Poultry—Live, heavy fowls. 36@37c: roo iters, 22@23c; spring chickens. 34@35c. CHICAGO PRODUCE. CHICAGO, March 17. butler— Creamery extras. 43%c; crenine y first. 40c; firsts. 37@42c; seconds, 30(g'35c. Eggs— Ordiuaries, 26%c; firsts, 20%c. Cheese — Twine, 25c; Young Americas. 25c; Live poultry- Fo^ls.. 34c; dul'ks. 36c; geese. 16@18ct spring chickens. 34c; turkeys. 40c: rooster*. 32c. Potatoes —Receipts. 50 cans; and Minnesota, $1.20®

LIGHT HOGS 25 CENTS HIGHER Other Grades of Swine Steady —Calves Up 50 Cents. RANGE OF HOG PRICES. Good Good Good March Mixed. Heavy. Light. 11. $ll.OO Iff 11.25 $10.50011.00 $11.35011.75 12. 11 [email protected] 10.50 @ 11.00 [email protected] 14. 11.25011.50 10.750 11.25 11.75011.50 15. 10.75011.00 10.25010.76 11.2r,@11.50 16. 10.25 9.75010.25 10.25010.60 17. 10.25010.50 [email protected] [email protected] Despite the fact that there was a lower tendency In prices on some of the other principal hog markets of the country and regardless of the fact that there were 2.000 stale hogs left over from the market of the day before, prices on the hog market of the local licestock exchange today were steady to 25 cents higher, with a top of $10.85 and the bulk of sales at $10.50® 10 75. Hogs under 200 pounds in weight were fully 25 cents higher, while other grades j were practically steady. Light hogs gen-1 erally brought $10.30® 10.75, but t lie re ; was a top of $10.85 on one or two loads of that grade. Fresh receipts for the day approxi- j mated 5,500, but there were early Indications that not all of the fresh hogs would be sold unless a better spirit was in- 1 .stilled into the market before the close. | What buying there was was of a gen- ! eral nature, with both the shippers and; the local packers active. With 1.0,0 fresh cattle on the Miarket and considerable stale stuff left in the pens from the trading of the day before, prices were steady to weak, with ail grades practically steady except steers, which were weak to 23 cents lower lu Instances. There was a fairly active tone to trade I and a good clearance for the day was anticipated. Calf prices were strong to 50 cents higher today, with a top of $14.50, and the bulk of the choice calves at Good calves generall}* brought sl2@'l3, and mediums, sll@l2. Other grades were strong, with common stuff bringing si@ Receipts for the day approximated 500 f With 50 lambs on the market and ho sheep, prices were generally steady. HOGS. Best light hogs, 100 to 200 lb* _ r 1 average [email protected] 200 to 300 lbs 'k’iS-o SHI 3 '".'—:ToSfS: Best pigs, under 140 lbs Bulk of sales [email protected] CATTLE. Prime cornfed steers, 1,000 lbs and up [email protected] Good to choice steers, 1,200 to 1.3140 lbs 9.00<g 9.50 Good to choice steers, 1,100 to 1,200 lbs 8 00® 8.75 Medium steers. 1,000 4o 1,100 lbs B.OC® 8.50 Common to medium steerH, 1 800 to 1,000 lbs 6.25® 7.*5 —Heifers and Cow*— Good to choice heifers §.75@ 9.75 Medium heifers \ 06® 8-50 Common to medium heifers... 4..j0@ 075 Good to choice cows 6.50® 8.90 Fair to medium cows 5.00® 0.00 Cutters 3.25® o os Canners 2.25® J.aO -BullaGood to choice butcher bulls. 5.50® 6.25 Bolognu bulis 5.00® 550 Light common bulls 4.00® o.Od —Calves— Choice veals H’LU!s®t'oo i.od veals I^.ooto.lA.*l Lightweight veals ldg.itweight veals 7.00® 9.00 Common heavyweight calve*. 5.00® 8.00 Stockers and Feeder* — Good to choice steers, iguder | 800 lbs 7.25® 8.20 Medium cows 5.00® via Good cons i'!,. Good heifers o ia® 6.20 Medium to good heifers 6.20@ 0.-3 Good milkers 50.00® 100.00 Stock calves, 250 to 450 lbs.. 5.25® 2>.20 SHEEP AND LAMBS. Good to choice sheep 3 00® 3.00 j Fair to common 1.50® 2.00 Bucks 2.0.4® 2,50 Cull shtep 1-60® 1.30 —Lambs— Common to choice yearlings . 5.00® 7.00 Spring lambs B.oo® 9.00

■ j Other Livestock CHICAGO, March 17.—Hogs—Receipts, 26,909; marke.t 10®25c lower; bulk. $8.75 ® 10.35; butchers, $8H)®9.45; packers. $7.75®8; lights, $lO 15® 10.59; pigs, $9.50® 10; roughs, $7.73@8. Cattle Receipts. 9.000; market slow, steady; beeves, sß® 10.50; butchers. $5.50®9.25; canners aud cutters. $2.75®5; sto'-kers and feeders. [email protected]; cows. $5®7.86; calves, $9.75® i'j.2s. Sheep- Receipts 17.000; market weak, lower; lambs, $7.75® 10.50; ewes, $2 @ 6.35. CINCINNATI. March 17.—Hogs—Receipts, 4,500; market 50®75c lower; heavy hogs. $9 25®10.25; mixed and mediums, $lO 50® 10.75; lights, $10.75; pigs. slo® 10.75; roughs, $7 75; stags, $5®3.50. Cattle—Receipts. 700; market weak; bulls, steady; calves, sl4. Sheep and lambs — Receipt*. 300; market steady; sheep, $1.50 @5.50; lambs, s6®ll; clips, ss@lo. CLEVELAND, March 17.—Hogs—Receipts, 2,500; market 40c lower; yorker, $10.85; mixed, $10.85; medium, $9.50® 9.75; pigs, $10.85; roughs, $7.75; stags, $5.75. Cattle—Receipts, 209; market steadv. Sheep and lambs —Receipts, 500; market 25c lower; top. $lO. Calves—Receipts, 301*; market 50c up; top, sls 50. PITTSBURGH. March 17.—Cattle- Receipts light; market steady; choice, slo® to.,‘>o; good, $9.50@10; fair, [email protected]; veal calves, sl4® 15. Sheep and lambs— Receipts light; market steady; prime wethers, [email protected]; good, [email protected]; mixed fair, $5.50®6; spring lutubs, $10.75@11. Hogs—Receipts, ,25 doubles; market lower; prime heavies, $9.50@10; mediums, heavv yorkers, light yorkers and pigs. "?)@11.50; roughs, [email protected]; stags, $5 @5.50. ...w>T BUFFALO. March 17.—Cattle— Receipts, 325; market fairly active; shipping steers, $9.50® 10.75; butcher grades, [email protected]; cows, [email protected]. Calves—Receipts, 225; market active, $1 up; culls to choice, S.Vo 16.50. Shoep and llambs —Receipt*. I, ; market active, steady; choice lambs, siO,so@ll; culls to fair, $7.50@10; yearlings. $H®9; sheep, [email protected]. Hogs—Receipts, 4,000; market slow; yorkers $11.25 @11.50; pigs, $11.50® 12; mixed, $10.50® 11; heavies *9.50® 10; roughs [email protected]; stags, s([email protected]. EAST Si. LOU'S, March 17.—Cattle — Receipts, 13,000; market, slow aud steady; native beef steers, $9.59®! 10; yearling beef steers and heifers, [email protected]; cows, s7® 7.20; Stockers and feeders, [email protected]; calves, $11.25® 11.50; canners and cutters, S3 50@4. Hogs—Receipts, 7,500; market, lights steady, others 25@50e off; mixed ai I butchers. $10.50® 10.60; good heavies, [email protected]; rougli he ivies, [email protected]; lights, [email protected]; pigs, slo® 10.75; bulk of sales. slo® 10.60. Sheep—Receipts, 500; market, steady; ewes. $0.90®0; lambs, [email protected]; cauners aud cutters, $1.50@3. In the Cotton Market NEW YORK, March 18.—The cotton market opened firm at an advance of 12 to 13 points, reflecting higher cables, better reports from Manchester, local support aud a demand from Wall street houses. Oflerings were light and scattered. Among room traders a more bullish feeling prevailed, partly on the better foreign news, but the market still lacked auy confident outside support. It was steady at the eud of the first twenty minutes and about 10 points net higher. New York cotton opening: March, 11. May, 12.00 c; July, 12.30 c; September, 12.b8c bid; October, 12.89 c; December, [email protected]. LIVERPOOL* March 17. —Spot cotton was quiet at the opening today, with prices firm and sales approximately 4,000 bale*. / American middlings were fair t*c 11. Old ; good middling, 8.71d; full middling. Slid; middling. 7.36d; low .middling, 6.46d ; good) ordinary, 5.21 and ; Wdinary, 4.40d. A \ mil"*

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, Iml

GRAIN PRICES SUFFER LOSSES Lack of Buying Proves Chief Market Influence. CHICAGO, March 17.—Grain prices declined on the Chicago Board of Trade today, due to lack of buying and general dullness of the market. Interest was lacking. Most of the transactions were local, with little export buying. Provisions were higher. March wheat opened unchanged at $159% and lost l%c before the close. May wheat opened off %c at $1.51% and dropped 2%c subsequently. May corn opened unchanged at 69%c and lost %c before the close. July corn opened off %c at 71%c and lost %c subsequently. May oats opened unchanged at 43%c and dropped %c later. July oats opened off %c at 44%e and slumped an additional % c before the close. (By Thomson & McKinnon.) —March 17— Wheat—Evidence of a better flour demand, together with the export business done recently strengthened Wednesday's wheat market. The betterment in the situation showed In the cash wheat, premiums being advanced in all markets an dexporters finding offerings from first hands insufficient. Premiums here were improved 1 cent, in Minneapolis and Kansas City from 1 to 3 cents. Premiums for export wheat gulf shipment, were 1 cent higher, 4 cents higher than Saturday. It is believed that rather liberal sales for shipment have been made by interior cash handlers and seaboard exporters against which the actual wheat has not yet been secured New York exporters say that while nothing prominent in the foreign demand for flour, there Is at the same time a rather steady business for small quantities; the total result being of sufficient size to become a factor in the nltimate result. Europe was said to be buying Argentine wheat at considerably less than I’nlted States varieties. Nevertheless, France and Greece are inquiring for round lots of American hard wheat. There is no particular anxiety as to the growing crop In the Southwest, but it is admitted that more moisture would be beneficial. This condition Is in a limited territory only. There is no particular broadening of the interest in the market, neither is there any enthusiastic or over-confident buying. On the other hand, the demand seems to come from merchandising sources. We do not expect au.v radical advance In price, but feel that the hardening of the cash markets will keep the undertone of the deferred deliveries firm Corn and Oats —It ia widely reported by country points that the fanner is not selling and it is commonly accepted that the receipts at terminal markets from this time forward will decrease. This has been a moderate strengthening influence. but it can not be said that the demand, either for immediate or for future purposes, is of any breadth. We anticipate a stubborn undertone In these grains, without any material improvement in price. Provisions—Fear of labor troubles bad considerable to do with the weakness in the hog market, which In turn induced unimportant selling of products. Market is neglected, and gives uo Indication of any important change in prices. CHICAGO GRAIN. —March 17— WHEAT —Open. High. Low. Close. March... 1.59% 1.60% 1.56% 1.57V* May 1.51% 1.62% 1.48% 1.48% CORN— May 69% 69% 68% 88% July 71% 72 70% 70% OATS— May 43% 48% 42% 42% July 44% 44'* 43 % 43% July 44% 44% 43 % 43% PORK— May 20.90 20.90 29.40 29.80 LARD— May 11.55 11.80 11.55 11.80 July 11.90 12.12 11.90 12.12 KIRS— May 11.30 11.50 11 32 11 47 July 11.75 11.82 11.60 11 80 BYE— May 1.30 1.40% 1.37% 137% July 1.18 1.19% 1.16% 1.17% CHICAGO CASH GRAIN. CHICAGO, March 17.- Wheat--No. 2 hard winter. $1.59%® 1.63; No. 1 Northern spring, $1.60%. Corn—No. 2 yellow. 67%@68c; No. 3 white, 62%@64e; No. 3 yellow. 63@66%c; No. 4 white. 61 @6l %c; No 4 yellow, 61002 c. Oats -No. 1 white, 43%@43%< ; No. 2 white. 42%@43%c; No. 3 white. 41@42c.

PRIMARY MARKETS. (By Thomson & McKinnon.) March 17— Wheat Corn Oats Chicago 87.000 333.000 130.000 Milwaukee ... 11.000 133.000 32.000 Minneapolis . 215.000 38,000 43.000 Duluth 32.000 24,000 55.000 St Louis 85,000 1)0.000 112.000 Toledo 13.000 4.000 2.000 Detroit 2.000 4,000 4.000 Kansas City.. 122.000 81.000 22,000 Peoria 2.000 16.000 13.000 Omaha 43.000 78,000 14,000 Indianapolis . 4.000 34.0J0 42.000 Totals 010.000 841.000 475.000 Year ag0.... 500,000 002,000 424,000 —Shipments— Wheat Corn Oats Chicago 22,000 475.000 202.000 Milwaukee ... 28.000 88,000 21.000 Minneapolis . 181.000 40,000 23,000 Duluth 10.000 2,000 St. Louis 82,000 114,000 100.000 Toledo 7.0(H) 14,000 8.000 Kansas City.. 203.000 20,000 20.000 Peoria 6,000 53,000 18,000 Omaha 72,000 101,000 4,000 Indianapolis.. 1,000 38,000 18,000 Totals 012,000 057.000 420,000 Year ago .. 493,000 381,000 477,000 —C'lea ranees Dom IV. Corn Oats Philadelphia . 20.000 Totals 20,000 Year ago ... 113,000 INDIANAPOLIS CASH GRAIN. —March 17— Bids for car lots of grain and hay at the etill of the Indianapolis Board of Trade were: Wheat—No sales. Corn Firm; No. 3 white, 65@66Vic; No. 4 white, 63 >,*1 04Vic; No. 5 white* 61@C2c; No. 3 yellow, 66®67Vic; No. 4 yellow, 03Vj07<44Vie; No. 5 yellow, 61Vi@03Vie; No. 3 mixed, 04® 65c; No. 4 mixed, 62Vi@ 63Vic; No. 5 mixed, tflg£62c. Oats—Finn; No. 2 white, 45@46c; No. 3 white, 44@45c. Huy—Weak; No. 1 timothy, $20.50®21; No. 2 timothy, s2o® 2050; No. 1 light clover mixed, $19.50(jg20; No. 1 clover hay, sl7<&lS. —I nspectlon 8 — Wheat—No. 2 red, 2 cars; No. 2 hard, 1 car; No. 1 mixed, 1 card; sample, 1 enr; total. 5 cars. Corn —No. 3 white, 4 cars; No. 4 white, 2 cars; No. 2 yellow, 2 cars; No. 3 yellow, 3 cars; No. 4 yellow, 5 cars; No. 5 yellow, 1 car; sample yellow, 1 car; No. j 2 mixed, 1 car; No. 3 mixed, 1 car; No. 4 ; mixed, 2 cars; total, 22 curs. Oats—No. 1 white, 1 car; No. 2 white, 13 cars; No. 3 white, 7 cars; No. 4 white, I car; No. 1 mixed, 1 car; total, 23 cars. Hay—No. 1 clover mixed, 1 car. HAY MARKET. The following are the Indianapolis prices for liay by the wagon load: Hay—Loose timothy, new, s2l @22; mixed bay, new, sl9<*j2l; haled. (21®23. Oats—Bushel, new, 45@47c. Corn —New, 65@6<sc per bushel. WAGON WHEAT PRICES. Indianapolis flour mills and elevators today are paying $1.55 for No. 1 red winter wheat, $1.52 for No. 2 red ana $1.40 for No. 3 red. INDIANAPOLIS PRODUCE. Eggs—Fresh, loss off, 24@26c. Poultry— Fowls, 28c; broilers, lVi to 2 lbs, 45c; cocks, 16c; stags, 16c; tom turkeys, 30c; young hen turkeys, 35c; young tom turkeys, 35c; cull thin turkeys not wanted; capons, 7 lbs and up, 42c; ducks, 4 lbs and up, 25c; ducks, under 4 lbs, 20c; geese. 10 lbs and up, 16c; squabs, II lbs to doz, $6; guineas, 9-lb size, per doz, $6. Butter—Buyers are paying 49®50c per lb for cream butter delivered in Indianapolis. Butterfat —Buyers are paying 44c per lb for butterfat delivered at I udianapolls. WHOLESALE FEED PRICES. The following are today’s wholesale market prices for beef cuts as sold on tbe Indianapolis markets: Ribs—No. 2. 26 Vic: No. 3,17 c. Loins— No. 2,33 c; No. 3,21 c. Rounds—lio. 2, 22c; No. 3,18 c. Chucks—No. 2,13 c; No. A lie. 2. 12c i No. 3.10 c.

Wholesale Prices Show Big Declines WASHINGTON, March 17.—A continued recession in wholesale commodity prices was shown during February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today. Wholesale prices In February were 5% per cent lower than in January and 38% per cent lower than the high peak reached in May, 1929, the report stated. Food articles and building materials showed the greatest decrease, beth classes of prices declining approximately 7 per cent in February. Farm products dropped about 5% per cent during the same month. Local St'yck Exchange —March 17— STOCKS. Bid. Ask. Indiana Ry. St Light Cos. co. 60 ... Indiana Ry. & Light Cos. pfd. 84 86 Indpls. & N. W. pfd 75 Indpls. & S. E. pfd 73 Indpls. St. Ky 52 60 T. H., T. & L. Cos. pfd 70 T. H.. I. & E. com 2 6 T. H.. I. & E. pfd 10 19 City Service com 230 240 City Service pfd 66 67 F, T. of Ind. com U. T. of Ind. pfd 6 16 U. T. of Ind. 2d pfd 2 Advance-Rumely Cos. com ... Adwince-Rumely Cos. pfd ••• Am. Central Life 235 Am. Crensoting Cos. pfd 90 Belt R. R. com 60 66 Belt R. JR. pfd 44 50 Century Bldg. Cos. pfd 90 ... Citizens G_s Cos 28% 35 D'Hlge Mfg. Cos. pfd 31% ••• Home Brewing 60 Indiana Hotel cem ..... 51% ... Indiana Hotel pfd 90 Indiana l’lpe Line Ind. Nat. Llife In*. Cos 4% ... Ind. Title Guaranty 59 71 Indpls. Abattoir pfd Indpls. Gas 42% 50 Indpls. Tel. Cos. com 6 ... Indpls. Tel. Cos. "IS 89 Mer. Pub. Util. Cos. pfd 26% ... Nat. Motor Car Cos. pfd 6 10 Pub. Sav. Ins. Cos 2% ... Riuh Fertilizer Cos. pfd 45 Stand. Oil Cos. of Ind 68 Sterling Fire Ins. Cos 7% 9% Van Camp Hdw. pfd 90 Van Camp Pack, pfd ... 100 Van Camp Prods, Ist pfd I**o Van Camp Prods. 2d pfd 100 Vand.illa Coal Cos. com 3% Vandalla Coal Cos. pfd 9% Wabash Ry. pfd 18% ... Wabash Ry. com 6% ... BONDS. Broad Ripple 5s 60 70 Citizens St. Ry. Cos 69 71 led. Coke & Gas 6s 100 Ind. Creek Coal A Min. Cos. ... 190 Indpls., Col. & So. 5s 88 ... indpls. A Martinsv. 5s 55 Indpls. & North. 5s 42% 46 Indpls. A- N. W. 5s 51% Indpls. A- St, E. 3s 45 Indpls. Shei. A S. E. 5s 70 Indpls. St. Ry. 4s 60 65 Indpis. T. A T. 5s Kokomo, M & W. 5s 75 79 T 11., I. A E. 5s 50 56 U. T. of Ind. 5s 51% 57 Citizens Gas Cos 73% 79 Indiana Hotel 2d 6s 91 Indpls. Gas 5s 72% 80 Indpls. L. A- H. 5s 75 80 Indpls. Water 5s 87 90 Indpls. Water 4%s 69 75 Mer. Heat and Light 84 88 New Tel. Ist 6s 94 New Tel. L. D. 5* 93% ... South. Ind. Power 6s 100 LIBERTY BONDS. Liberty first 3%a 1*0.42 90.70 Liberty second 4s 80.90 Liberty first 4%s 87 3.8 87.58 Liberty second 4%s 87.00 87.16 Liberty third 4%s 00.20 90.50 Liberty fourth 4%s 87,1*0 87.38 Victory Loan 3%s 97 22 97.50 Victory Loan 4%s 97.20 97.30 —Sales—s2,ooo K , M. A W. 5s at 76 $2,450 Victory 4%s at 97 20 S2OO Liberty third 4%s at 90.20 S2OO Liberty fourth 4%s at 87.20

On Commission Row TODU'B PRIC ES. Apples Missouri Jonathans per bbl.. $8; fancy Illinois Jonaiti in, per bb!., $7; extra fancy Grimes Golden, per bbl., $5.50®8; extra fancy Winesaps, per bbl., $9; Bell Flowers, per bbl.. $5; Baldwins, per bbl., $4®5.50, Spies, per bbl., $6 Rome Beauty, tier bbl., $8; Malden Blush, per bbl.. $5; Greenings, per bob, $5.50; choice Jonathans, per bbl.. $6. Bananas Extra fancy high-grade fruit, 50 to 60 per bunch, per lb, B@B%c. Bean*—Michigan navy, in bags, per lb., 4%@5c; Colorado pltitos, in bags, per lb., | 6®7e; California limns, in bags, per lb., 8®9o; red kidneys, in bags, per lb., 10® 10%c; California limns, in bags, per lb., 6@9c; California pink chili, in bags, per i lb., 7®Bc. Beets—Fancy, new, per doz, bunches, 85c. Beets—Fancy home grown, per bu., $1.25. ! Cabbage—Fancy Texas, new, per lb., 3%c; fancy, old, per lb., l%c. Carrots—Fancy nome grown, per bu. 85c. Cauliflower —Fancy California, pet crate, $2.85. Celery—Fancy Florida. 3 doz. crate, pel crate, $3.25; fancy Florida, 4-5 doz. crate, per crate, $3.50; fancy Florida trimmed, per bbl., sl®l.lo. Cocoanuts—Fancy, per doz., $1; per bag of 150. $7 Grapefruit—Extra fancy Florida, 16* and 545. box. $6,75; 645. 70s and 80s. box, $7; 965, box, $6; extra fancy Florida, Ind. River Orchid brand. 465. box. $4.50; 545, box, $5; 645, 70s and 80s. box. $5.50; 963, box. $5; fancy Florida*. 365, box, $3.50; 545. box, $4.50; 64s und 70s, box, $5; 80s, box, $5. Kale—Fancy Eastern, per bbl, $2.25. Lemons—Extra fancy Californius, 300s to 3605, box, $4.50. Lettuce—Fancy hothouse leaf, per lb, 23c; fancy hothouse leaf in barrel lots, per lb, 20c; fancy California Iceberg, per crate, $4.50. Onions—Fancy Indiana yellow or red. per 100-lb. bags. $1.25; fancy Indiana white, per 100-lb. bags, $1,40; fancy Spanish, per large crate, $5.30. Oranges—California, all grades, $3.73® 4.75. Oyster Plant—F’ancy, per doz, 50c. Parsley- Fancy large Bikes, per doz., Peppers—Fancy, small basket, 85c. Pie Plant—Fancy home grown, per bunch, 85c. Potatoes—Fancy Michigan and Wisconsin round whites, per 150-lb bag, $2.50; 5 or 10-lb bugs, i>er bag. $2.40; luncy Idaho Getns, per bag, $2.50. Radishes—Button. large bunches, per doz, $1.50; long red, per doz, 40c. Radishes—Long red, per doz, 35c. Rutabagos—Fancy Canadian, per 50, SI.OO. Shallots—l’ancy, per doz, 80c. Spinach—Fancy, per bushel basket, $1.50. Straw’herrles —Fancy Louisiana, 24-pt crates, per crate, $6. Sweet Potatoes—Fancy Flastern Jerseys, per hamper, $3; fancy Indiana Nancy Halls, per hamper, $2.25; fancy Indiana Jersey, per hamper, $2.50. Tomatoes—l’ancy ripe, 6-lb basket, $1.50: fancy ripe, 6-basket crate, $8.50. Turnips—Fancy washed, per bu, $1.50; per crate. $2. W HOLESALE FEED PRICES. Ton. Cwt. Acme bran $32.00 $1.65 Acme feed 33.00 1.70 Acde middlings 35.00 1.80 Acme dairy feed 43.50 2.:!<! Y.-'/j daily teed 33.75 1.75 Acme H. A M 35.00 1.80 Acme stock feed 26.25 1.35 Cracked corn 33.25 1.70 Acme chick feed 43.25 2.20 Acme scratch 39.25 2.00 E-X scratch 37.00 1.90 Acre dry mash 45.00 2.30 Acme hog feed 41.50 2.10 Ground barley 43.25 2.20 Homllck white 28.00 1.45 liolley bailey 43.25 2.20 Alfalfa moll 3.8.50 1.95 Cottonseed meal 40.00 2.05 Linseed oil meal 50.00 2.55 Acme chick mash 49.00 2.50 Acme red dog 44,00 2.25 FLOUR AND MEAL. E-Z bake bakers' flour in 98-lb cotton bags .$9.95 Corn meal in 100-lb cotton bags.... 2.00 TO ADDRESS JUNIOR CHAMBER. Ed Jackson, Secretary of State, will address the members ot me Junior Chamber of Commerce Friday evening. The meeting wilt follow a dinner at the Chamber of Commerce Building at 6:30 o’clock.

NEED OF NURSES IS NATION-WIDE; DRIVE STARTED Many Volunteered During •War, but Returned to Regular Lives. SITUATION IS CRITICAL BY FREDERIC J. UABKINWASHINGTON, D. C.— Where 1* the girl who wants to be a nurse? The national nursing organizations of the country are looking for her, because lately, she doesn't seem to be looking for them. Nursing has always been a woman’s work. Out of every class of high school graduates, or even out of grammar school graduating, classes, there have Invariably besft some’ girls who would be nurses. Now, one big hospital In New York reports that Instead of having thirty-five or forty pupil nurses entering each year, it gets only about four. That proportion is repeated all over the country, and conditions are worse in the smaller hospital schools where facilities for training are not so attractive to student nufses. When the war offered adventure and dramatic service to volunteer nurses there were thousands of women who studied and worked untiringly—even to sacrificing their health, some of them—so long as the fighting lasted. After that, like the soldiers, most of them wanted to get back to their regular lives. Nursing with them was war work —incidental. So the war did not flood the country with nurses seeking civilian employment. On the contrary, the lack of nurses for hospitals and homes has become acute. And because the future looks still more critical, the national nursing associations have started a campaign to interest girls in nursing as a profession. This campaign has already been taken up enthusiastically in twenty-four States, for the need for more nurses is nation -WijJ*. W hile recruiting is being pushed, the nursing organizations are also trying to awaken the hospitals to the fact that they cannot expect to attract the kind of girls that should be in the nursing profession unless student life is made eisier and more profitable. The hospitals were beginning to ree this for themselves and a reform Is under way. OVERWORKED STUDENTS CAUSE OE SHORTAGE. In the past, the student nurse worked twelve hours a d-Jy. Her classes were moved about from one hour to another or left out entirely wherv her services were needed about the wards. In fact, these conditions still obtain In some training schools, but they will not last long, because girls wtll not enter these schools. Progressive hospitals have shortened the pupil nurse's duty to eight hours, though in some • wools studying and class work has to be done outside of this period. What the nurses' organizations sre saying is that no hospital should take students for the purpose of getting free labor. If a hospital is going to conduct a school it should understand that its obligation to the students—to give them a thorough training—is ns great as its obligation to the patients—to give them proper treatment. That they do not all feel this obligation toward the nurses they are to send out to all sorts of responsible positions is proved by such facts ns those given by a State inspector of training schools. This inspector figures that 90 per cent of the training schools that he visits are to varying extents ''taking unfair advantage of their pupil nurses by surrendering the rights of the pupils in the alleged Interests of the sick.” , One way in which the pupil nurse Is oft > i carelessly used to help the hospital is that sometimes a patient in the hospital desires a nurse exclusively for his case but cannot pay the rate of a graduate. He says he will take an undergraduate nurse, and one of the pupils is detailed to him at about half the graduate's fee, the money going to the hospital. Now, If this work, lasted a few days, even a week, It might, be practical experience for the student. She would learn something of that particular type of disease. But the case may go on for weeks or mouths, and the nurse is gaining nothing. Besides too long hours and a too flexible system of instruction in training sohoolj, pupil nurses have had to put up with oad rooming conditions In one hospital here an unused ward le fitted as a dormitory for the pupils. In another school the students live In houses across the street from the hospital, four or five girls In a room. The desirable standard for nurses' quarters Is a comfortable residence well lighted and. heated and aepurate from the hospital, with single rooms for the students Hospitals are having to meet higher standards because they can no longer overlook the fact that young women are more cautious about starting upon a career now than they once were. No girl who enters a hospital with any understanding of the work expects to have an ensy time, but she does expect and demund a broad course of training under livable conditions. other vocations MORE INVITING. There are so many other vocations open to the high school girl graduate now that she no longer takes up nursing as the alternative of a life of teaching school. That is the main reason why the army of nurses has dwindled. Business, law and other professions are offering big rewards, while the hospitals have gone on complacently thinking that the groat opportunity for service through nursing would continue as sure an attraction ns ever. Most women who take up nursing as a profession are impressed by the possibilities of the work, but nowadays a girl who is interested in this kind of social service* Is generally Interested enough to find out exactly what she will get by her course of training. For instance, there are fewer girls entering those hospitals, sanatoria and private hospitals that are not able to register their graduates. Not to be registered In the State means that the graduate with her two or three years of training cannot become a member of the Red Cross Nursing Association, an Army or Navy nurse, nor would she be admitted as a staff nurse In most hosptials of recognized standing. Training school standards are rising and so are the standards for nurses. At one time girls just out of grammar school were In a great many hospitals admitted ns probationers. The tendency now is to demand a high school diploma and to make the nurses training approximate a college or normal school course with a B. S. degree. Over twenty colleges now maintain schools of nursing, usually giving -a five-year course. The Army also has an excellent training school where a three-.vear course Is given. Nurses—really trained nurses—are going to be needed lu ever increasing numbers as we aim at higher standards of health and sanitation. Right now. more public health nurses are needed for child welfare work, visiting nurse associations and medical social service departments. Graduate nurses for permanent hospital staffs are scarce—one reasons why the student nurse has had less time for study during her hospital training. The Army is conducting its own campaign for more students. Nurses for home duty and for missionary work are also scarce. And yet these branches offer a more varied or a more highly specialized career than nurses have ever been offer .0 before. Thje nurses’ associations have oijgnnized, their campaign on a remartgbly systematic basis. Red Cross chasers, wonien’s clubs, boards of educational nd other local organizations aTe tJK to form, a local committee to cond^^B*ch

GIRLS SPORTING FALSE LASHES Paris Innovation Applied With With Gummed Tape. LONDON, March if.—-‘Now, where did I put those eyelashes?” Such a question may come to be heard from any madatne at her toilet. Already popular In Paris "for evening wear." false eyelashes are said to put soulfulness and a trusting expression Into the most lack-luster eyes. Tiny stripe of fleece-colored adhesive tape are used to gum the lashes to the lids. But let Intending wearers reflect that there must be no ‘‘returning home with the milk" in their new adornment. The remorseless light of early day has a way of showing things up. Let them consider, too, their predicament if the adhesive tape comes unstuck —a fringe of lashes hanging by a corner of tape! It will not be a slipper that the future Cinderella will shed in her flight to provide a trail by which Prince Charming may follow her —It will be a string of eyelashes. campaign. And from that point the campaign is a series of posters, speeches, literature and moving pictures until the town or State gets the recruits fieeded. “Recruiting may continue for months, even years,” says Major Julia Stimson, superintendent of the Army nurse corps, who is chairman on the national resulting committee. “The drive has just begun, but the outlook Is hopeful because already the States are getting recruits, and people are beginning really to understand how Important the trained nurse is—and how many of her kind are needed." Weather j The following table shows the state of ; the weather at 7 a. m., March 17, as observed by United States weather bureaus: i Station. Bar. Temp. YVeath. j Indianapolis, Ind.. SO.W 41 Cloudy Atlanta, Ga 30.12 09 Cloudy I Amarillo, Texas .. 30.04 46 Clear Bismarck, N. D.... 39.02 32 PtCldy 1 Boston, Mass 30.06 40 Clear ! Chicago, 111 29.92 42 Cloudy j Cincinnati, 0 3008 42 Cloudy j Cleveland 0 30.02 34 PtCldy I Denver. Colo. 309*6 50 Cloudy ! Podge City. Kan.. 30.06 48 Clear ; Helena, Mont 29.82 48 Cloudy ! Jacksonville. Fla... 30 16 64 Clear I Kansas City, M 0... 29.96 52 Clear I Louisville, Ky 30.< 44 Cloudy i Little Rock, Ark... 30.06 58 Cloudy I Los Angeles, Cai... 29.98 60 Clear t Mobile, Ala 30.16 68 PtCldy New Orleans, La... 30 18 66 Cloudy i New York. N. Y... 30.14 42 Clear ! Norfolk, Vs 30 18 52 Clear I Oklahoma City .... 29 94 64 PtCldy i Omaha. Neb. 29.94 52 Clear I Philadelphia, Pa... 30 20 42 Clear Pittsburgh, Pa. ... 30.12 38 Cloudy ; Portland, Ore 29.82 54 Rain Rapid City, S. D.. 30 08 38 Clear i Roseburg, Ore. ... 29 98 52 Rain j Ban Antonio, Texas 30.08 68 PtCldy San Francisco, Cal 30.12 52 Clear St. Louis, Mo 29 98 46 PtCldy ! St Paul, Minn 29.84 40 Clear ! Tampa, Fla 30 20 66 Cloudy | Washington, D. C. 30.18 44 Cloudy W EAT HER CONDITIONS. Since Wednesday morning rains have occurred In the far Northwest ami at scattered points In the Southeastern States. Elsewhere, except In a few localities, fair weather has prevailed. It Is colder generally In the Eastern States, but warmer over practically the entire region fjom the Ohio and Middle Mississippi volleys northward and westward, due to the development and advance of the Northwestern dlsturlmnce which nowshows depression centers In the Lakes region and Alberto, respectively. J. H. ARMING TON, Meteorologist, Weather Bureau. New Journalism Course for Women I MADISON, Wls , March 17— Newspaper | B nd magazine departments of Interest to j women, the first course of the kind to be given in any school of journalism, has been Introduced at the University of Wisconsin by Mrs. Genevieve Jackson Boughner, an experienced newspaper woman. Burglarized 1 Night, Held Up the Next CHICAGO. March 17.—Just twenty-four hours after their home had been burglar- ! ized to the extent of $2,000. two bandits ! held up Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Pergfison and drove away in their new $5,- | 000 motor car. The. machine was recov- ! ered along with SB,OOO in gems the two : hold-up victims had hidden. Marriage Licenses ,Tule E. Murphy, Terre Haute 23 Marie Johnson. Terre Haute 21 Karl Klenn, 734 W. 31st st 25 Laura Jarrett, 2415 E. Michigan 5t.... 19 Clarence Wharton, 728 W.- North st... 24 Nlmer Jenkins. 514 Spring st 25 Lee Grisoo. 2819 N. Illinois st 2*5 Agnes Waggoner, 1856 N. Morris st... 19 Joseph Weakley, 1924 Cornell st 36 Lulu Hampton, 1506 E. Pearl st. 39 John Dodsworlh, Chicago 42 Johanna Y'ollmer, Chicago 30 Orville Simms, Wheatley, Ky 25 j Edith Lillard, 635 W. Michigan st 19 Frank Murphy, 36 E. St. Joseph st... 23 Frances Ryan, 2621 E. New York 5t.... 22 Samuel McCoy, 822 Harlan st 23 Rachel Buentlng, 1450 E. 10th st 23 Columbia Huddleston, 1531 Vandes st. 29 Mabel Jackson, 806 W. Walnut st 22 Homer Peters, 569 Lynn st 22 Wilma Dalpe, 70S N. Elder av 18 Births Leot: and Maude Hall, St. Vincent’s Hospital, boy. Joseph and Laura Hill, ISI4 Ingram, boy. Albert and Reatha Day, 615 Langsdaie, boy. George and Ruth Van Duren, St. Vincent's Hospital, boy. Albert and Elizabeth Moffitt, St. Vincent's Hospital, hoy. Charles and Grace Fisher, St. Vincent's Hosjiital, boy. Forrest and Hilda Marlette, St. Vincent's Hospital, boy. I.ew-is and Cora Stalnaker, St. Vincent’s Hospital, girl. Bruce and Matilda Carr, 1241 Calhoun, boy. Thomas aud Ida Williams, 29 North Keystone, boy. Joseph and Stella Farnan, 907 North Illinois, girl. Albert and Eva Tyner, 1402 Roaehe, boy. Everett and Eliza Chalfant, 1015 North Bellvleu place, boy. Emery and Lottie Landstim, 19 Richwein, boy. Michael and Anna Murphy, 1656 Bellefontaine, boy. David and Ada Taylor, 437 South New Jersey, boy. Deaths Rose Mary Hays, 1, 1130 Knox, broncho pneumonia. Martin A. Snider, 42, 1140 East Market, cerebral hemorrhage. Homer Walker, 24, city hospital, diabetes mellitus. Martha Retherford, 73, 425 South Temple, chronic nephritis. Earl C. Griffin, 4, 2001 Applegate, lobar pneumonia. Hallie Warmoth. 25. Deaconess Hospital, chronic myocarditis. Allie Cushenberry, 38, 515 East Court, mitral regurgitation. Mar- C. Ballenger, 70, 2029 Ashland, chro* :c myocarditis. Vary L. Dickerson, 1, city hospital, r ltnasis. William F. Flick, 67, 713 North Noble, oerehral apoplexy. Willie Berry. 49, Central Indiana Hospital, tuberculosis.

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COPS IN PARIS TAKE HAND IN WAR ON H. C. L. Detectives Find Evidence of Collusion to Keep Meat Prices Up. PARIS, March IS.—Without watting for Parliament to enact new legislation, the Paris police have begun an energetic campaign to prevent further Increases In the cost of living. Several days ago meat prices in th* central markets showed i* sensible decline, for the first time since the war. The newspapers reported the decline, but not a single housewife found a meat dealer who had cut his prices. The newspapers took up the cudgfl| in behalf of the housewife aud to find out what Intermediaries be-nefitting. Suddenly the arrival of and other meats at the central market* almost ceased and prices began to soar again, even above tbs old figures^ Prefect of Police Raux sent a squad of detectives into the markets to find out what was going on. They began operations by rounding up a number of big dealers and going through their clothes as if they were common criminals. STOP MEAT SHIPMENTS. In one man's pocket was found a batch of telegrams he was about to send to out-of-town dealers, instructing them to send no more meat to Paris until further orders. Another man had replies fTOia several of his agents, acknowledging receipt of similar instructions and promising to carry them out. The police went further than this. Detectives went to a farm in Normandy and bought a number of cattle. They branded them so there might be no mistaking their identity. They resold the cattle for shipment to Paris and returned to watch the results. In a series of deals among Parts speculators the cattle finally were sold for slaughter at a price nearly triple the sum originally paid, with the cost of shipment not taken into consideration. However, the police activities have brought no decline in meat prices to the housewife. Butter and eggs are slightly cheaper than they- were a year ago, but this gain to the householder is much more than offset by the climbing price of meats and of apartment rentals. APARTMENTS SCARCE. Apartments are probably harder to find In Paris this spring' than at any time since the war ended. To cite examples, one apartment that rented for SIOO a month (current rate of French exchange) one year ago has just been leased for slßs.'the American tenants being ejected. Another tiny flat of bedroom, dining room, kitchen and bath, for which SIOO was asked a year ago, now brings Speculation has reached such a stage thur many landlords refuse to sign leases, preferring to search each month for anew tenant who will offer more. Occasional arrests and fines have had no effect upon speculation in apartments. One thing dear to the heart of the French laborer has come down in price ind improved in quality. The glass of beer that once cost him sixty centime* now sells for only forty. Gardner Not Excited Over Half Million CHICAGO, March 17.—Mathias Bova, gardner at the Rosehill Cemetery, isn’t getting excited over the $509,000 he shortly will inherit from his sister, Mrs. Theodore Trieur, in Luxemburg. "What will I do? Well, I’ll go right on smoking comfortably like always, and I suppose I'll take a long rest when I get all ready to arrange about it. I've had a lot of adventure in my life. Now I like to be comfortable, that’s all. “I ran away from Luxemburg when 1 was a little boy and went to Argentina. I came to America on a German freighter. I’ve been everywhere. "But I never liked any place better than around Chicago. I’ve been wording in the cemetery for ten years. "I have four children—all good chil™ clren, too. Three of them are married.* They'll be glad to hear about all tiiiM money. Gladder than I am, perhaps, cause young folks always need money and think it's important. I used to. Now I know that happiness is always first, aud if there comes money—welcome!” Save fife of Man Who Cut Throat BOSTON, March 17. Thirty-thres ounces of blood, given by Albert J. Kehoe of South Boston, saved the Ilf* of his brother, Edward J. Kehoe, who had cut his throat with a razor. The transfusion was accomplished by Dr. William E. Browne, chief operating surgeon at the Carney Hospital, wher* the wounded man was taken. , Dr. Browne also inserted a sliver tube into the windpipe of Edward Kehoe aud sewed up the severed tissues. Juror Got Wreath, but Wasn’t Dead DETROIT. March 17. —After receiving a beautiful floral wreath from his fellow members on the jury who believed him dead, A. E. French of 73 Montcalm street. East, walked into court and thanked them, but assured them positively that he was alive and kicking. He. was serving on the Jury in Circuit Court and when he did not report for duty it was announced that he had died. The jurors contributed for a beautiful wreath as a token of esteem for their departed member, and it was sent to his home. French explained that he hfid mixed up the dates on which he was ordered to report. Find Lost Brother y* in Insane Asylum CLINTON, 111., March 17.—Edward O’Brien, who disappeared from his home here in 18)4, finally has been located ini the State Hospital for the Insane atl Kankakee. He failed to recognize twol brothers, John of this city and Thomas of Champaign, when the two recently greeted him for the first time in twenty-seven years.

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