Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1921 — Page 10

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STOCK MARKET TONE STRONG Leading Issues Up Fractionally to Over 1 Point. NEW YORK. April 6—The stock market displayed a strong tone at the opening today, the leading issues advancing from fractions to OTer 1 point. The motors were in best demand, Studebaker selling up to 77%, while Chandler rose 1-14 points to SO% and Pierce-Arrow 1 point to 33%. Steel common was unchanged at 81%. Crucible Steel rose 1% point to 86%. General Asphalt was strong, advancing 1% points to 63%, and Sears-Roebuck rose 1 point to 73 Mexican Petroleum, after selling up % of a point to 140, yielded to 135%. Atlantic Gulf was also under pressure, yielding I s * points to 33%. American Smelting and American-Su-matra rose 1 point each. The market maintained a firm tone all through the first hour, when additional advances were made In many issues, the Bteel industrials being among the most prominent features. Republic Steel ruade a gain of 2 points to 67% and United States Steel, after selling at 81%, moved up to above 82. The petroleum stocks generally held firm. Chandler Motors was In brisk demand, advancing nearly 2 points to 81% and Studebaker rose over 2 points to 79. (By Thomson and: McKinnon.) —April 8— Tnesday morning there was a general dis£osition to tak? a more hopeful view of uropean conditions, ani while thece has been no actual change in the labor situation in England, and notwithstanding the fact that the transportation employes are still considering the question of supporting the miners, it was generally assumed here that conditions are more likely to grow bet'er than worse. From Russia there was an exceedingly encouraging report to the effect that the government had actuallj relinquished control over manufacturing plants and the owners would be permitted to conduct operations. The most favorable point in our own affairs whs the lowering of money rates. The progressive improvement In the position of our banks as disclosed-in recent statements of the reserve banks, leads many to believe that a lowering of the rediscount rate may be looked for In the very near future. Our market, while professionals were still disposed to maintain a bearish position, gave a good account of Itself. There was a fair demand for stocks from commission houses and during the greater part of the day, shorts were on the defensive and whenever thev attempted a covering movement, a scarcity of the aupply of stocks became apparent. We feel that the market has fully discounted unfavorable factors, and that any change for the better will meet with a ready response and advancing value*. TWENTY AVERAGE STOCKS. KBW YORK, April 6.—Twenty Industrial stocks averaged 76.16, up 1 per cent. Twenty active rails overaged 70.46, up .41 per cent. CLEARING HOUSE STATEMENT. NEW YORK. April 6. —Exchanges. $551,745,733; balances, $54,846,746; Federal Reserve Bank credit balances, $49,556,793.

Money and Exchange Indianapolis bank clearings today were $2,368,000, against $1,867,000 a week ago. NEW YORK, April 6.—Eire touched a rew high on the present movement at 4.25 c for cables and 4.24 c for checks at the opening of the foreign exchange market today. This is the. highest price touched since September last. Other quotations were strong, demand sterling moving np %c to $3.91%, Relglan francs moved up 7 centimes to 7.40 c for cables and 7.39 c for checks. Francs were 7 centimes higher at 7.10 c for cables and 7.09 c for checks. Guilder cables were 34.6<>e; checks. ?,4.55c. Swedish kronen iaUles were 23.58 c; checks, 23.53 c; marks were 1.64 c. NEW YORK CARE MONEY. NEW YORK, April s.—Money—Call money ruled 6 per cent; high, 6 per cent; low, 5% per cent. Time rates, steady; all 6%07 per cent; paper, steady. Sterling exchange was steady with bu-l-ness in bankers’ bill at $3.91 for demand. MOTOR SECURITIES. (By Thomson & McKinnon.) —April —OpeningBid. Ask. Briscoe 19 21 Chalmers com 1 1% Packard com 11% 12 Packard pfd 71 76 Chevrolet 100 400 Peerless 23 £6 Continental Motors com 6 6% Continental Motors pfd.. — 88 93 Hupp com 14 15 Hupp pfd 88 92 Reo Motor Car £1 £2 Elgin Motors 5% 6% Grant Motors 33% Ford of Canada £74 280 United Motors 35 65 National Motors 6 9 Federal Truck 19 £1 Paige Motors 19 21 Republic Truck 18 £0 ACTIVE Oil. STOCKS. (By Thomson & McKinnon.) —April G——Opening— Bid. Ask. Anglo-American Oil 16% 17 Atlantic Lobos 964) 1020 Borne-Scrymser 300 390 Buckeye Pipe Eine 82 83 Chescbrough Mfg. Cons 190 2**o Chesebrough Mfg. Cons. pfd. P'o 103 Continental Oil. Colorado... 118 121 Cosden Oil and Gas 5% 5% Crescent Pipe Line £9 SI Cumberland Pipe Line 135 145 Elk Basin Pete 6% 8% Eureka Pipe Line 94 98 Galena-Signal Oil, pref 93 97 Galena-Signal Oil, com 44 46 Illinois Pine Line 174 177 Indiana Pipe Line 83 85 Jlerltt Oil 11% 12 Midwest Oil 1 2 Midwest Rfg 139 141 National Transit T... 26% 27% New Y'ork Transit 143 148 Northern Pipe Line 92 97 Ohio Oil 273 276 Penn.-Mex 36 34 Prairie OH and Gas 470 480 Prairie Pipe Line 195 £6O Sapulpa Refg 4% 4% Solar Refining 3.85 400 Southern Pipe Line 100 105 South Pern OH 230 £:■-> Southwest Penn Pipe Lines. OS 72 Standard fill Cos. of Cal 274 275 Standard Oil Cos. of Ind 67% 69% Standard Oil Cos. of Kan 620 C 35 Standard Oil Cos. of Ky 410 417 Standard Oil Cos. of Neb 4SO 500 Standard Oil Cos. of N. Y... 325 328 Standard Oil Cos. of Ohio 375 390 Swan & Finch 40 50 Union Tank Line lot los Vacuum Oil £BB 295 Waahlngton OH £8 32 NEW YORK CURB MARKET. (By Thomson & McKinnon.) —April 5 Closing Bid. Ask. Curtis Aero com 3 4 Curtis Aero pfd 10 20 Texas Chief 17 21 First National Copper.. % 1 Goldfield Con 7 9 Havana Tobacco ’.. 1 2 Havana Tobacco pfd.... 4 6 Central Teresa S 4 Jumbo Extension 5 7 Internal. Petroleum.... 15% 15% Nipissing 7% 7% Indian I’kg 2 2% Bovtal Baking Powder.. 113 116 Royal Buk Pow. pfd.. SQ S3 Standard Motors 6% 7% Salt Creek 30 35 Tonopah Extension 1% 1 7-16 Tonopah Mining 1% 1% United P. S. new 1% 1% U. S. Light and Heat.. 1% 1% U. S. Lt. and Ht. pfd... 1 2 Wright Aero 3 4 World Film 1-16 3-16 Yukon Gold Mine Cos 1 1% Jerome % % New Cornelia 23 25 Sequoyah 5-16 7-16 Omar Oil 2% 2% Rep. Tire 2% 1% Noble Oil 1-16 % NEW YORK METAL MARKET. NEW YORK, April 6.—Copper—Quiet; spot, 12® 13e; April. 12013 c; May, 120 ljc; June, 12%c bid; July, 12V*c bid Lead —Quiet; spot, offered 4.55 c. Spelter -Quiet; spot and April, offered 4.70 c; May and June, offered 4.75 c.

I, P. S. Company Declares Pividend The board of directors of the Interstate Public Service Company has declared the regular quarterly dividend on It 7 per cent cumulative prior lien stock, for the quarter ended March 31, to be paid April 15 to all stock holders of record at the close of business March 51. N. Y. Stock Prices —April 5 Prev. High. Low. Close. Close. Ajax Rubber .. 82 82 32 32 Allis-Chalm. ... 36% 36% 36% 36% Am. Agrlcul. ... 49% 48% 49% Am. Beet Sug.. 88% 87 &S% 37% Am. Bosch Mag. 59% 59 59 Am. Car & Fdy.122% 121% 122% 121% Am. Can 29 28% 29 28% Am. H AL. com. 9% 0% 9% Am. H.&L. pfd. 43% 42% 43% 43 Am. Drug 6% 6% 6% 0% Am. Int'l Corp. 43% 41% 43% 41% Am. Linseed.... 49 49 49 48 Am. Locomotive 86 85% 86 85 Am. Bm. A Ref. 36% 36% 30% 36% Am. Sugar Ref. 92% 90 92 % 90 Am. Sum. Tob. 177% 71 72% 74 Am. Steel Fdy. 29% 29% 29% 28% Am. Tel. A Tel. 106 105% 105% 105% Am. Tobacco.... 114 114 114 113% Am. Woolen ... 74 71% 72% 71% Anaconda Min... 30% 35% 30% 30% Atchison 79% 79% 79% 79 Atl. Gulf A W.I. 36 32 34% 35% Baldwin L0c0... 88% 86% 87% 87'* B. A 0 34 33% 33% 33% Beth. Steel (B). 56% 55% 50% 55% California Pete. 44% 42% 43 42 Canadian Pac...113% 112% 113% 112% Cent. Leath 37 35' * 30% 3-1 % Chandler Mot... 80% 78% 79% 78% C. A 0 58% 58% 58% 58% C., M. A St. P. 25% 24% 25 24', C..M ASt.P. pfd. 38 37% 38 37% C.R.I.APac 20% 26 26 25% C..R.1.&P. 6% p. 60% 60% 60% 00 Chill Copper.... 10 9% 9% 9% Chino Copper .. 21 20% 21 20 Coca Cola 22 21% 22 21% Con. Cigars 48% 40 46% Columbia Gas .. 55% 58% ES% 6Sv* Columbia Graph. 6% 0% 6% 6% Con. Gas 82% 82% $2% 82 Con. Can 53% 63 53% 52 Con. Candy Cos.. 1% 1% 1% 1% Corn Products . 73% 72% 73% 72% Crucible Steel .. 80% 83% 85% 83% Cuban Am. Su.. 25% 24% 25% 25 ! Cuba Cane Su. . 21% £O% 21% 21 I>omo Mines ... 16% J 6% 10% 16% Erie 12 11% 12 12% 1 Erie Ist, pfd. .. 18% IS 18% is Famous Players 72% 70 71 70 Fisk Rub. Cos. . 1.5% 1.5% 15% 15% lien. Asphalt ... 62% 59% 61% 59% Gen. Cigars .... 59 59 59 .... I Gen. Electric ..137 125% 137 136 ; Gen. Motors ... 14 13% 13% 13% Goodrich 38% 37% 38% 37% Gt. Nor., pfd. .. 71% 7J% 71% 71% Gt. Nor. Ore ... 29 £9 29 28% Hupp Motors .. 14% 14% 14% 14% Insp. Copper .. 30% 30% £O% 30% Interboro Corp.. 4% 4% 4% 5 Interboro. pfd. . 14% 14% 14% .... Inter. Harvester 89% $7% 87% 89 Inter. Nickel ... 14% 14% 14% 14% Inter. Paper ... 58% 56% 57% 55% K. C. Sooth*™ • 25% 24% 25% 24% Kelly-S. Tire .. 40% 39 40 39% Lack. Steel 53% 53 53% 51% Lehigh Valley .. 49% 59% 59% 59% Lee Tire 26 £6 26 £5 Loews Inc 39% IS% 39% 18% Marine com 13% 13% 13% 13% Marine pfd 51 49% 51 50 Mex. Fete 139% 136's 139% 137% Miami Copper.. 17% 37% 17% 17% Mid. States Oil. 13% 13 13% 13% Midvale Steel... £9% 28% 29% 2.8% M. K. AT 2 2 2 2 Mo. Pac. Ry.... 17% 17% 17% 17% Mo. Fae. Ry. pfd 37% 37 37% 36% National Lead... 72 71% 72 .... N. Y'. Central 68% 68% 68% 69 New Haven 17% 16% 16% 17 Nor. A West.... 95 95 95 94 Nor. Pacific 78% 77 77% 77% Ok.P.A Ref. C 0... 3% 3% 3'* 3% Pacific Oil 37% 85% 37 35% Pan-Am. Pete.. 69% 67% 68% 668 Penn. Ry 34% 34% 34% 34% People's Gas 42% 42 42% 41% Pierce-Arrow 33% 32% 32% 31% Pi-rae Oil C 0... in 9% 10 9% Pitts. Coal 62% 61 61% 60% P. Steel Car 87 86% 87 88 Pull. Pal. Car.. 105 104% 105 105 Fure Oil 33% 33% 33% 33 Rev Copper 11% 11% 11% 11% Reading 68% 67% CS% 87% Rep. Iron A S.. 60% 65% 65% 64 Royal D. X. Y... 60% 59% 60% 61% S-Roebuck 74% 71% 72 71% Sinclair 23% 22% 23% 23 Southern Pac. 74% 73% 74% 73 Southern Ky .. 20% 20% 2t>% 20% St. LA S. W . 28 27% £8 27% St. L. A S. P. 21% 21% 21% 21% Stromberg ... 30% 34 36 34% Studebaker ... 77 75% 76% 74% Texas Cos. .... 40% 4040% 40% Texas A Pac. . £1 20% 20% 19% Tobacco Prod. 46% 45% 46% 4-5% Trans. 0re.... 10% 10% -0% 10% Union Oil ... 20 19% 20 20% Union Pacific. 117% 116 117% 116% Utd. Rtl. Stores. 49% 49 49% 48% I". S. Food Pro. 22 21% 21% 21% U. S. Fruit C0...104% 103 lot 102oj U. S. Ind. Alco. 66% 66 66 65% I U. S. Rubher.. 71 % 70 71 69%"] U. S. Steel ... 81 % 80% 81% 80% U. S. Steel pfd. 19'% 110 110 109% Utah Copper .. 48 47 48 47 Yana. Steel 31 29 29% 28% Mr. Gar. Chem.. 30% 30 80 30 Wabash Ist... 20% 20% 20% 20 White Oil 16% 15% 16 15 Western Union 8s % 88 88% 88% YVest. Elec. .. 47% 47% 47 % 47% White Motors. 40% 40% 40% 40 V illys-Over. . 8% 8% S% 8% NEW YORK LIBERTY BONDS. Prev. High. Low. Close, close. L. B. 3%s 90.30 90.34 00 24 00.20 L. B. Ist 4s 87 60 87.56 L. B. 2d 4s 87 06 87.00 87.00 87.00 | L. B. Ist 4%5... 87.68 87.50 87.08 87.70 L. B. 2d 4%5... 87 12 87.02 87 12 87.02 L. B. 3d 4%s 90.34 90.16 9032 90.16 1.. B. 4th. 4%5... 87.20 87.14 87.18 87.12 Victory 3%s 97.54 9752 97.54 97.54 Victory 4%s 97.56 97.50 97.52 97.54 CHICAGO STOCKS. (By Thomson A McKinnon.) ■—April 5 Open. High. Low. Close. Armour Leather 12% Armour pf...d. 90% 90% 90% 90% Curb. A Carb... 63% 5:'.% 52% 53 Libby 10% 10% IO 10% Mont.-Ward .... 18 18% 18 18% Natl. Leather... 7% Sears Roebuck. 72% 74 72 72% Stewart Warner 26% £8 26% 27% Swift A Cos 101% 101% 101 101 Swift Inter 25% NEW YORK WOOL MARKET. NEW Y'ORK. April 6.—W00l was easy today, with domestic fleece, XX Ohio, quoted at 22@14c per lb; domestic pulled, scoured basis, 18072*5 and Texas domestic, scoured basis, 40@82c. NEW YORK PETROLEUM. NEW YORK, April 6.—Petroleum was steady today, with Pennsylvauia crude at $3 a barrel. NEW YORK RAW SUGARS. NEW YORK, April o.—Raw sugars was dull today with flue granulated quot--6.27c per lb, duty paid, while Porto Ricos sold at 6.02 e per lb, delivered. NEW YORK REFINED SUGAR. NEW YORK, April 6.—Refined sugar was dull today with fin granulated quoted at Sc a pound. NEW YORK HIDE MARKET. NEW YORK. April 6.—Hides ; were easy today. Native steer sold at 10c per lb., branded steer, 7c. In the Cotton Market NEW YORK, April 6.—The cotton market opened sharply lower today, 15 to 2b points below the previous close. In re sponse to weaker cables and further disquieting news as to the English miners strike situation. There was selling pressure at the start from Southern interests and commission houses. Subsequently, the list steadied a few points on covering on reports of a bettei Slanchester business. New York cotton opening: May. 11.50 c; July, 12.05 c; August, 12.23 c; October, 12.58 c; December, 12.S$c; January, 13.00 c; March, 13.20 c. LIVERPOOL, April 6.—Spot cotton wa.. quiet at the opening today with prices steady and sales close to 3,000 bales. American middlings were fair. 10.46a; good middlings, 8.36d; full middlings, 7.66d; low middlings, 6.01d; good orai i%ry, 4.76 J; ordinary, 4.01d. Futures were steady.

HOG MARKET OPENS LOWER Swine Prices 2ijfto 50 Cents Off —Cattle Trade Demoralized. RANGE OF HOG PRICES. Good Good Good March Mixed. Heavy. Light. 31 [email protected] $3.80® 9.75 {[email protected] April 1. 9.75 @ 10.00 9.00@ 9.60 [email protected] 2. [email protected] 9.00® 950 10.25 4. 9.75 9.00® 9.50 10.00 5. 9.75 9.00® 9.50 [email protected] 6. 9.25® 9.75 8.75® 9.26 [email protected] With large receipts and only a fair demand displayed at the opening, hog prices were 25 to 50 cents lower on the local live stock exchange today with a top of $10.25 on a few good light hogs and pigs and the bulk of the sales of the early morning hours at S9OIO. The bulk of the light hogs brought close to $lO, while a few of that grade sold at $9.75. Light mixed hogs generally brought $9.7509.85, while mediums generally brought $9.50. Heavy hogs brought $8.7509.25, with the larger number of sales of that grade of swine at $9. Figs brought $9.50® 10.25, and roughs $0.7i0@®7.50, which was about. steady with the prices of the market of the da., before. Receipts for the day approximated 8.000 fresh hogs and about 1,000 that were held over from the Tuesday market. There was a better demand shown by both the order men and the local packers and other buyers after the opening, but it was thought that there would probably be 2.000 left over for the Thursday market unless a better buying movement was started. Some of the order men stated that they would buy more bogs If they had the cars In which to ship them. There was a dull tone to the trade In the cattle market, with fresh receipts close to 1,000 cattle and most of the principal buyers bidding 25 to 75 cents lower on practically all grades of cattle. What few cuttle that had been sold at a late hour in the forenoon were sold at reductions of 25 to 50 cents in prices. A slow beef demand by the public is said to be the principal reason fur the dullness of the market. It was estimated that about half the cattle on the market would be held over for following markets, unless some better movement was shown before the close of the day’s session. Prices were generally steady on calves. Receipts for the day approximated 800. Buying was of a general nature. There was not enough sheep and lambs In the peu to establish a market.

HOGS. Best light hogs, 100 to 200 lbs average $ 9.7501000 200 to 500 lbs 8 75® 9.25 Over 300 lbs 8.50® 8.75 Sows 0.50® 7.50 Best pigs, under 140 lbs 9 504410.25 Bulk of sales 9.00®10.00 CATTLE. Prime cornfed steers, 1,000 lbs and up 8.75(3 9.50 Good to choice steers, 1,200 to 1,300 lbs 7.75® 8.75 Good to choice steers. 1,101 to 1,200 lbs 7.00<3 8.00 Medium steers, 1,000 to 1,100 lbs 6.50® 7.75 Common to medium steers, 800 tu 1,000 lbs 5.00® 6.00 —Heifers and Cows— Good to choice heifers 7 00® 5.73 Medium heifers 5 50® 6.00 Common to medium heifers.. 4 50® 5.50 Good to choice cows 5.00® 6.50 Fair to medium cows 4.00® 500 Cutters 3.00*3 4.25 Canners 2.00®- 2.50 —Bulls— Good to choice butcher bulls. 5 00® 6.00 Bologna bulls 4 75® 5.25 I.ight common bulls 3.50® 4.50 —Calves — Choice veals 030@10,50 Good veals 9.00*3 9.50 Medium calves 7.00® 8.50 Lightweight veals 5.0*194 709 Common heavyweight calves.. 5.00-3 6.50 —Stockers and Feeders— Good to choice steers, under 800 lbs 6.73*8 7.75 Medium cows 4 50(3 4.75 Good cows 4.75® 5.25 Good heifers 5.00® 000 Medium to good heifers 1.50® 5.50 Good milkers 45 00®83 o** Stock calves, 250 to 450 lbs.. 4.5b® 7.5*9 SHEEP AND LAMBS. Good to choice sheep 2.00® 3.00 Lair to comm-'n 100*3 2.00 Bucks 2.00® 2.50 Cull sheep I.oo® 1.50 —Lambs — Common to choice yearlings.. 500 ® 6.00 Good iambs 6.09® 8.00

Other Livestock

CHICAGO, April 6. —Hogs—Receipts, 10,1*4); market, steady; balk, $8.75® 10; butchers. $8.80009.25; packers, $7.75® 8.70; lights, $9.85010.20; pigs, s9s**® 10.20; roughs, $7.5007.75. Cattle Receipts, 12,000; market, lower; beeves, $7,50(39.90; butchers, ss.2f>®9; cannirs and cutters, $2.50®5; stackers and feelers, so®9; cows, $4.75(38; calves, $709.50. .Sheep—Receipts, lT.OOd; market, steudy; lambs, s7®lo; ewes, $2*06.75. CINCINNATI, April o.—Hogs—Receipts, 3.500; market weak; heavy hogs $909.75; mixed, $10010.25; mediums. $10.25; lights and pigs, $10.50; roughs, $7 25: stags. $5. Cattle —Receipts, 4,300; market alow, steady to 25c lower; bulls, steady; calves, $lO. Sheep aud lambs —Receipts, 25; market steady. CLEVELAND, 0., April 6 Hogs— Receipts, 2.000; market steady. Yorkers, $10.50; mixed, $10.50; medium, $9.00@ 9.25; pigs, $10.75; roughs, $7.*3; stags, $5.75. Cattle—Receipts, 000; market slow. Sheep find lambs—Receipt*, 800; market, slow; top, s9*o. Calves —Receipts, 209; market steady; top, sl2 50. PITTSBURGH. April o—Cattle—Receipt* light; market steady; choice. SIOO 10.25; good, $9.3509.55; fair. $7.5008.50; veal calves, |11®11.25. Sheer* and lambs —Receipts ralr; market slow; prime wethers. $5.7500; good, $505 50: mixed fair, $404 75; Bpring lambs. $8 7509. Hogs—Receipts 15 doubles; market higher; prime heavies, $909.50; medium, sll 01125; heavy yorkers, $1101125; light yorkers, $101125; pigs, $11011.25; roughs, s7®B; stags, $506.25. EAST BUFFALO, April 6 CattleReceipts, 75; market active, lower: shipping steers, $8.75010; butcher grades. $s 09.15; cows. $207.50. Calves Receipts, 275; market active, 50c up; culls, choice, $5012. Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 1,690; market active; choice lambs. $10.50 011; culls, fair, $709.75; yearlings, $0.5007.50; sheep, $2.5006.75. Hogs— Receipts, 3,000; market active, steady; vorkers, $11011.25; pigs. $11.50011.75; mixed, $10.75011: heavies, $10010.50; roughs. $808.50; stags, $606.50. EAST ST. LOUIS, ill., April 6.—Cattle —Receipts, 4,000; market lower; native beef steers, $9.2509.40: yearling beef steers and heifers $808.85; cows, so® 7.85; Stockers and feeders, $7.2508.50; calves, sß®9; canners and cutters, $2.50 04.25. Hogs—Receipts, 13,000: market 10c off; mixed and butchers, $9.2509.75; good heavies, $8.0009.25; rough heavies. $7.2507.50; lights, $9.5009.75; pigs. S9.SO 010; bulk of sales, $9.3009 85. Sheep— Receipts, 1,000; market steady; ewes, $5.7506; lambs, $8.50®9; canners and cutters, $1.5004. INDIANAPOLIS PRODUCE, Eggs—Fresh, loss off, 20c. Poultry— Fowls, 2Gc; broilers, 1%@2 lb*. 45c; voeks, 16c; stags, 16c; old 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, 23c; ducks, under 4 lbs., 20c; geese, 10 lbs. and up, 10c; squabs, 11 lbs. to dozen, $6; guineas. 9-lb size, per dozen, $6. Butter— Buyers are paying 47048 c per lb. for creamery butter, delivered In Indianapolis. Kutterfat—Buyers are paring 44c per lb. for butterfat, delivered lu Indianapolis. CLEVELAND PRODUCE. CLEVELAND, April 6.—Butter—Extra, In tubs, 03®03%c; prints, f>4@s4%c; extra firsts. 52®53%c; firsts, 51051 %c; seconds, 39®41c; packing, 12013 c; fancy dairy, Eggs—Fresh gathered northern extras, 28%c; extra firsts, 27%e; Ohio firsts, new cases, 26%c; old cases, 26%c; western firsts, new eases, 25%c. Poultry —Live, heavies, 32033 c; roosters, 22@23c; spring chickens, 32c for choice.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6,1921.

GRAIN TRADE TRENDJRREGULAR Provisions Followed Course of Grain Futures. CHICAGO, April 6.—Fractional Irregularities marked trading In grains on the Chicago Board of Trade today. Prices showed sharp declines at the start, but shorts and commission men made purchases which tended to equalize the bearish tone. Provisions followed the grains In Irregularity. May wheat, opening at $1.36, showed a decline of %c and stood at $1.30% until the close. July wheat opaued up %c at $1.11% and advanced lc subsequently. May corn was %c lower at the opening at 59%c and advanced %e. July corn started at 63c, down %c, and jumped to 63%c. September corn w r as down %e at 65%c at the opening, later advancing to 63%c. May oats opened unchanged at 37%e and shnded off to 37%c. July oats opened up %c at 38%e, and gained another %o. September oats were off %c when lt opened at 39c and advanced %c later. (By Thomson & McKinnon.) April 6 Wheat—As has been the ease heretofore, the decline In wheat prices has been attractive to foreigners and there has been more or less business done, both for May shipment and for July-August shipment. Reliable estimates as to the amount are not forthcoming. Sandstorms were reported In parts of Nebraska but Ignored. The weather bureau weekly crop report mentions damage In southern Illinois and Missouri by the recent freeze. Freezing temperatures are predicted for tonight In the far w-est. offerings from the country nro still very limited in volume. It would seem to us that the most constant foreign demaud for wheat corn and rye coupled with the refusal of the country to sell eah wheat freely, should result In an even stronger cash situation than now exists. The better grades of wheat are selling 12 to 16 cents over the May. The crop report due tomorrow will probably corroborate the private advices of excellent outlook but this has been so widely ad vertised that it hns probably had full influence on values. Corn and Oats—Receipts of both corn and oats have falleu off materially and the country is not selling. Their Is a fair domestic demand for oats and so-me export business In corn but the volume Is not large enough to lighten the he*lg lng load resting upon these two markets \y'e do not expect any permanent show of strength. l’rovisious —Smaller packers were sellers of the provision Use and there was some selling by houses wicli British connection. This market lacks Important support and gives no evidence of uny revival of Interest.

CIIICAG9 GRAIN. —April 6 WHEAT — Open. High. Low. Close. May 1.30 1.3*% 1.34% 1.86% July 1.11% 1.12% 1.09% 1.12% Ct .May~... 59% 60% 59% 60 July 63 6362}* 63% Kept CS’u OtiVu W a <-I*4 °Muy~... 87% 37% 36% 87^ July 38% BV- 38% 3S-x, Be[-t 39 80 s 38 ’ 39% POIIK— Mav .... 17.50 17 50 17.10 17.15 July 17.40 17.00 17.40 17.60 July 10.92 10.92 10.72 10. SO K MavT.... 9.95 9,95 0.55 990 July 10.30 10.30 10 15 10.20 K Ma7..... 1.28% 1.30 1.27% 129% July 1.03 1.04% 1.01% 104 CHICAGO CASH GRAIN. CHICAGO. April 6.—Wheat—No. 2 red, $1.42%; No. 5 red $1.33; No. 1 hard winter. $1.49%01.151 ; No. " spring. $1.36%@ 1.59%. Corn No. 3 mixed. 54%®55%e; No. 2 mixed. 52%052%c: No. 2 yellow, 37%®-V>% : No. 3 w hite, 55%5JD00; No. 3 vellow 55®56%c. Coats So. 1 while, ittle; No. 2 white, 37%0’;86*'; No. 3 white, 36%@37c; No. 4 white, 55038 e. TOLEDO CASH GRAIN. TOLEDO. <>.. April 6 Whent-Gush, $144- May, $147; July, $1.17. Corn—No. 3 vellow. 61®62c Oat*—No. 2, white, 42®,45c. live No. 2. sl.* Harley—No 2, 70c. Cloverseed -Cost (1920). sl2; April. SC 70; October, $9 Timothy < *'a ilics’i $2.50 (1019*. $2 60; cash (1920). April and May. $2.65: September, $3 10. Als ike- -Cash (nowj, $14.15. PRIMARY MARKETS. (By Thomson & McKinnon.) —April 6 Wheat Corn. Oats rhlcngo 85,000 239 W 0 206.000 Milwaukee 8,000 *I,OOO 13,000 Minneapolis ....225,000 11.000 17.000 Duluth 51,000 6,009 8,000 St I ouls 204,000 91,000 108,000 Foledo 8,000 4,000 Detroit 6,000 4,000 14.000 Kansas City ...215.0-10 21,000 3 000 Omaha 55.000 49.000 10,000 Indianapolis .... £.OOO 41.000 10,000 Totals 860,000 504,000 834,000 Year ago 531,000 557,000 002,000 —Shipment* Wheat Corn. Oats. Chicago ........ 100,000 80,000 235,000 Milwaukee 6,000 27.000 25,000 Minneapolis ....186.000 24.000 25,006 St Louis 55,000 62,000 05,000 Toledo 8.000 *.OOO Detroit 2.000 4,000 Kansas City ...246.000 61,000 42.000 Omaha ......... 40,000 52,0*)0 22,000 Indianapolis 13,000 40,000 Total* 643,000 268,000 440,000 Year ago 583,000 286,000 440,0U0 —Clearances — Dorn. W. Corn. Oats. Philadelphia ...160,000 Baltimore 93,000 Totals 253,000 Year ago 5,000 INDIANAPOLIS CASH GRAIN. —April 6 Bids sor car lots of grain and hay at the calf of the Indianapolis Board of Trade were: Wheat Busy; No. 2 red, $1.45. Corn—Easy; No. 3 white, 58059 c; No. 4 white, 37®58c; No. 3 yellow, 57%@58e: No. 4 yellow, 56®07cc; No. 3 mixed, 56 4*. 57 c. uats— Easy; No. Jt white, 40®40%c; No. 3 white, 390!9%e. Hay—Weak; No. 1 timothy, $20.50021; No. 2 timothy, $20020.50; No. 1 light clover mixed, $19.50®20; No. 1 clover hay, sl7® 18. —lnspections Wheat—No. 1 red, 1 car; No. 2 red, 5 cars; No. 3 red, 1 car; No. 4 red, 2 cars; No. 5 red, 1 car; No. 1 hard, 1 ear; total, 11 cars. Corn—No. 1 white, 1 car; Uo. 3 white, 11 cars; No. 5 white, 1 car; No. 2 yellow, 1 car; No. 3 yellow, 4 cars; No. 4 yellow, 4 cars; No. 6 yellow, 1 car; No. 3 mixed, 2 oars; No. 4 mixed, 1 car; sample mixed, 1 car; total*, 27 cars. Oats —No, 1 white, 2 cars; No. 2 white, 10 cars; No. 3 white, 2 cars; No. 4 white, 1 car; total, 15 curs. Ryo—No. 1, 1 car; No. 2, 1 car; total, 2 cars. HAY MARKET. The following are the Indianapolis prices for hay by the wagon load: Hay—Loose timothy, new. *20022; tnlxo dbay, new, $17.50® 19; baled, $19021. Oats—Bushel, new, 43045 c. Corn—New, 03®05e per bushel. WAGON WHEAT PRICES Indianapolis flour mills and elevators today are paying $1.30 a bushel for No. 1 red winter wheat, $1.27 for No. 2 red winter wheat, and $1.24 for No. 3 red winter wheat. CHICAGO PRODUCE. CHICAGO, April 6.—Butter—Receipts, 6,716 tubs; creamery extras, 49c; firsts, 43@47c; packing stock, 16@18c. Eggs— Receipts, 20,730 cases; current receipts, 21023 c; ordinary firsts, 20021 c; firsts, 23%c; extras. 27c; checks, 17%®18c; dirties, 19%c. Cheese—Twins (new), 19%0 20%e; dairies, 20%@21c: Young Americas, 21 %022 c; longhorns, 20%@21e; brick, 19020 c. Live poultry—Turkeys, 40c; chickens, 31c; spring, 33c; roosters, 20e; geese, 16018 c; ducks, 36c. Potatoes—Receipts. 55 oars; northern and whites, per bu, [email protected]. WHOLESALE BEEF PRICES. The following are today's wholesale prices for beef cuts as sold by the Indianapolis markets: Ribs—No. 2 26c; No. 3.22 c. Loins— No. 2,25 c; No. 3,21 c. Rounds—No. 2, 22c; No. 8,17 c. Chucks—No. 2,12 c; No. 3,10 c. Pl&tev—No. 2,10 c; No, t, 9.

Local Stock Exchange —April 6 Bid. Ask, Ind. Ry. & Light Cos. com. ... 60 Ind. Ry & Light Cos. pfd. ... 84 86 ndpls. & N. W. pfd 75 Indpls. & S. E. pfd 75 Indpls. St. Railway 50% 57 T. H„ T. & L. Cos. pfd 80 T. H„ X. & E. com. 1% 5 T. 11., I. &E. pfd 7% 13 City Service com 236 241 City Service pfd 66% 67% U. T. of Ind. com. U. T. of Ind. pfd 7 U. T. of Ind. 2d pfd 2 Advance-Rumely Cos. com ... Advance-Rumely Cos. pfd ... Am. Central Life 235 ... Am. Creosoting Cos. pfd 00 Belt R. R. com 60 Belt R. It. pfd 43% ... Century Bldg. Cos. pfd 90 Citizens Gas Cos 29 34 Dodge Mfg. Cos. pfd 91% ... Home Brewing 60 Indiana Hotel cim 52 ... Indiana Hotel pfd 90 Indiana Pipe Line 82 86 Ind. Natl. Life Ins. Cos 4% ... Ind. Title Guaranty 59 63 Indpls. Abattoir pfd 50 Indpls Gas 42% 50 Indpls. Tel. Cos. com 6 Indpls. Tel. Cos. pfd 89 Mer. Pub. Utl. Cos. pfd 30 Nat. Motor Car Cos. pfd 5% 9 I’ub. Bav. Ins. Cos 2% ... Kauh Fertilizer Cos. pfd 39 Stand. Oil Cos. of Indiana.... 63 71 Sterling Fire Ins. Cos 7% 9% Van Camp Hdw. pfd 92% ... Van Camp Pack, pfd 90 100 ■Van Camp I’rods. Ist pfd 100 Van Camp Prods. 2d pfd 100 Vandalla Coal Cos. com. 3% Vandnlta Coal Cos. pfd 4 8 Wabash Ry. pfd 19% ... Wabash Ry. tom 6% ... BONDS. Broad Klpple 5s 60 Citizens St. Ry. Cos 60 73 ltd. Coke A Gas Os 100 Ind. Creek Coal & Min. Cos 100 Indpls., Col. & So. 5s 88 Indpjs. & Martinsville 5s 54 60 Indpls. & North. 5s 42% 46 Indpls. & N. W. 5s 51 56% ; Indpls. S. & S. E. 5s Indpls. & S. E. 5s 70 Indpls. St. Ry. 4s 69 65 Indpls. T. A T. 5s 10 75 Kokomo, M. &W. 5s 74% 78 ! T. H, I, A E. 5s 46 56 Indiana Hotel 2U 6s 91% ... Citizens Gas Cos 73 78 Indpls. Gas 5s 72 79 Indpls. L A H. 5* 75 80 Indpls. Water 5s 86 91 Indpls. Water 4%s 69 75 Mer. H. A L. 5s 84 90 New Tel. Ist 5* 94 New Tel. L. D. 5s 93% ... South. Ind. Power 0s 100 LIBERTY bonds. Liberty First 3%s 90 10 Liberty First 4s 87 4U Liberty Second 4s {si!-*’’. Liberty First 4%s 87.04 Liberty Second 4%s S7.**4 Liberty Third 4%s 90.34 Liberty Fourth 4%s 87.04 Victory 97.32 Victory 4% i>~M

FARMERS PLAN GRAIN MARKETING Secretary Wallace Approves Cooperative Work. CHICAGO. April 6—Plans for cooperative marketing of grain were worked out by representatives of leading farmers’ organizations of the nation hero today. Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, conferred with the farmers on the marketing plans and assured them of Government asslstai.ee In selling their grain. Wallace declared that there was Just as much reason why the Government should assist the firmer In developing methods for marke.lng his crops efficiently as there is for aiding him 1.; Increasing production. “Farmers must give attention to the business en dos their business If the Nation Is to maintain Its ugrb-ulture on a sound economic basis." Wallace declared. The cooperative marketing plan was worked out by a ‘'committee of seventeen” appointed last July. The meeting here toduy was held to ratify their proposals C. H. Gustafson, chairman of the "coni mlttee of seventeen," In presenting the report, declared the plan will not interfere with existing farm organizations. "It Is purely a cooperative plan offered in competition with the existing unsatisfactory methods." he said. Discussing the proposal for marketing of grain through cooperative organization James R. Howard, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, declared lt marked “sun-up for American agriculture.” Secretary Wallace, In addressing the conference, declared there was no ques tton but that farmers were entitled to organize for cooperative marketing. Wallace described the cooperative marketing plan as one which "will enable us to get our grain from the producer to the consumer more cheaply. In better condition and with less waste." In the past, the American farmer hns been a wonderful producer "but a very poor salesman," Secretary Wallace stated. The Secretary made the following points ns paramount in solution of grain marketing problems: 1. Thorough Inquiry Into cost of marketing at every stage from farmer to consumer. 2 If there are points where men are taking too much toll for service in handling grain, it should be made known. 3. Elimination of guesswork In marketing. "There Is no attempt on the farmer's part to create a monopoly or arbitrarily fix prices," he stild.

On Commission Row TODAY’S PRICES. Apples- Missouri Jonathans, per bbl, $8; fancy Illinois Jonathans, per bbl., $8: extra fancy Grimes Golden, per bbl., ss@7; extra fancy YVlnesaps, per bbl, $7; Bell Flowers, per bbl.. $5; Spy*, per bbl, $6; Baldwins, per bbl., $505.50; Rome Beauties, per bbl., $507; fancy Starks, per bbl , $6; A Grade Kings, per bbl., $5; Spitzenburgs, per bbl., $6; Ben Davis, per bbl., $4.5005. Bananas Extra fancy high grade fruit, 60 to 60 per bunch, per lb.. 808%e. Beuns—Michigan navy In bags, per lb., 4%®5c; Colorado Pinto* In bags, per lb., California Umas in bags, per lb., B®i)c; red kidneys in bags, per lb., 10@10%e; California pink chill in bag*, per lb, 7®Be. Beets—Fancy new, per dos. bunches, 85c; fancy home grown, per bu.. $1.25. Cabbage—Fancy Texas, new per lb., 3%c; home-grown, fancy, old, per lb., l%c. Carrots—Fancy home grown, per bu.. 85c. Cauliflower—Fancy California, per crate, $2.25. Grapefruit—Extra fancy Florida, Blue Goose brand, 545, per box, $0.75; 64a, 70s and 80s, per box, $7; extra fancy Florida*. 365, per box, $4: 465. per box, $1.50; 545, per box, $5; 64, 70s and 80s, per box, $5.50; fancy Florida*. 30s, per box, $3.50; 465, per box, $4; 545. per box, $4.50; 645, per box, $5 Kale—Fancy Kentucky, per sack, $1.50; fancy home grown, per bbl., $2.25. Lemons—Extra fancy Culifornias, 300s to 3lios, per box, $4.25. Lettuce—Fancy hot house leaf, per lb., 16c; fancy hot house leaf in barrel lots, per lb., 14c; fancy California Icebergs, per crate, $5. Onions —Fancy Indiana yellow, red or w'hite, per 100-lb., $1.25; fancy Spanish, per bu. basket. $1.50. Oranges—Callfornlas, all grades, per box, $4.2505.50. Parsley—Fancy large, per do*., sl. Peppers—Fancy, small basket, 85c. Pieplant—Fancy name grown, per bch., $1.10; out-door, per doz., 60c. Potatoes—Fancy Michigan and YY'lsconsln round whites, per 150-lb. bag, $2.20; 5 or 10-bag lots, per bag, $2.10; fancy lowa Gems, per 150-lb. bng, $3. Radishes —Long red. per doz., 30c; Button. home grown, per doz., 35c. Rice —Fancy head, per lb., 8c; Prolific bead, per lb., Cos; fancy Blue Rose, per lb., sc. Shallots—Fancy, per doa., 60c. Spinach—Fancy, per bu. basket, $1.50. Strawberries— Fancy Louisiana, 24-pt. crates, per crate, $4.75. Sweet Potatoes —Fancy Eastern Jersey, per hpr., $203; fancy Indiana Jerseys, per hpr., $2.75. Tomatoes—Fancy ripe, 6-lb. basket, $1.50; fancy ripe, 6-basket crate, per crate, $6.5007.50. Turnip*—Fancy washed, per bu., $1.50; per crate, $2.

Wheat Acreage Said to Be Near Normal Despite the lowest price since prewar days, American farmer* will maintain practically a normal acreage In food crops this year, according to telegraphic information obtained from the chief agricultural areas by the United Press today. Minnesota, (otva and Nebraska repotted the usual wheat acrages. Only Kansas showed a reduced acreage, about 10 per cent less than last year. The Government, through the Department of Agriculture, is Investigating reports of a threatened "farmers strike," but so far has found nothing to Indicate such a move. Cotton planters, however, were said to have reduced their acreage apDreclably.

KANSAS WHEAT DAMAGE HIGH Says Farmers Did Not Plough Under Wheat Crop. SALINA, Kan., April 6.—The rains of the past forty-eight hours In central and western Kansas have Improved the general crop conditions. This especially true of wheat which was "top frozen” by the Easter freeze. The damage done to wheat ns a result of the Easter freeze cannot be estimated for a few days, farmers stating It will be necessary to wait and view the reaction following the rain. The moisture will revive the wheat not killed. Maurice McAullffe, president of the Kansas Farmers’ Union, estimated that the general wheat acreage is one-tenth less than last year. He stated that the Easter freeze and recent March winds have damaged the wheat at least 35 per cent. He is of the opinion that this damage extends throughout Kansas In several counties the xvlud and cold weather damage exceeds 75 per cent, he said. The farmers did not strike, neither was ■nr wheat plowed under this spring, McAuliffe declared.

Weather

The following table show's the state of the weather In other cities at 7 a. m. April 6, as observed by U. S. Weather Bu reaus; Station. Rnr. Temp. Weather. Indianapolis, Ind.. 30.19 59 Clear Atlanta. Ga MO 30 .%S Cloudy Amarillo, Tex. ... :'9.72 38 Clear Blsmark, N. D 29.94 30 Cloudy Boston, Mass 30.-W 46 Clour ! Chicago. 11l 8012 62 Clear i Cincinnati, 0 3<> 20 68 Clear Cleveland, 0 3022 00 Clear Denver, Colo 29 86 28 Cloudy Dodge City. Kas.. 29 70 4J PtCldy Helena, Mont. ... 30.10 22 Snow Jacksonville, Fla. Sous 60 Clear Kansas City. YJo.. 29 84 6*i Cloudy Louisville, Ky go 2tJ 58 Clear Little Rock, Ark.. 29 90 64 PtCldy. Los Angeles, Cal.. 30 08 46 Clear Mobile, Ala 30 08 62 Cloudy New Orleans. 1,a.. 30 04 t'-*I Cloudy Now York. N. I - .. 3<>34 M Clear Norfolk, Va 30.26 66 Clear Oklahoma City ... 29.70 64 Cloudy (►malm, Nob 29*70 60 Rain Philadelphia, Pa. . 90 36 68 Clear Pittsburg, Pa, ... 30.30 M Clear Portland, Ore. ... 30.28 3$ Clear Rapid City, D. D. So ’*2 22 Cloudy Itoeeburg, Or* ... 30.26 32 Clear San Antonio, Tex . 29 70 70 Cloudy Sati Fran-cisco, Cal. 3u*sl 46 Clear St. Louie, Mo 30.02 CJ Cloudy St. Paul, Minn 29.58 58 Cloudy Tampa, Fla 30 10 68 Clear Washington, D. C.. 80.32 04 Clear WEATHER CONDITIONS. The western storm Is advancing slowly eastwtxrd and the arm of precipitation In co ii not ton with the disturbance has reached the Mississippi River States. .Mild temperatures continue la the eastern half of the country In front of the disturbance, bnt temperatures to tlie westward over the Kooky Mountains, upper Missouri Valley and middle-we-tern Canada have fnllen still further, and are now somewhat below normal in those regions. Frosts occurred last night in the North I'adflo States. J. 11. ARMINGTON, Meteorologist, Weather Bureau. PASSES REGULAR DIVIDEND. NEW YORK, April 6.—The Midvale Steel Ordnance Company passed the quar terly dividend of 50 cents a share, which was due at this time, lt was announced, following the directors’ meeting, that operations of the company for the first two months of 1921 showed a loss ano that there was uncertainty as to conditions in the future. WORKING GIRLS HAVE LEAGUES OF PROTECTION Popular Idea That Women Are Traitors to Their Sex Not Exactly True. NT7W TORK ClTY—There still exists today a popular superstition that women are traitors to their own sex. that they fight a petty, guerilla warfare among themselves, and that when a woman is down and out lt is invariably a man who comes nobly and disinterestedly to her rescue. This may be true In some places, especially In the masculine mind, but it isn’t so In New Y'ork. Here "Women for Women" Is a popular slogan in the business and industrial worlds, and the city is filled with feminine clubs and societies whoso sole object Is the assistance or promotion of their own sex. One of the most Interesting of these Is an organization of working girls, known as the Girl's Service League, which is dedicated to the aid and protection of girls who work. Every girl on Its membership list Is constantly on the lookout for signs of distress or unhnppluesi among her friends and acquaintances. When Laura, the landlady's daughter, suddenly falls into deep depression, or when Katie comes to the factory with eyes red from weeping, the G. S. L. member does not remain an innocent bystander. Usually, Bhe puts a tractful arm around Laura or Katie, and says: "Say, kid, If there's anything wrong, come on up to the club and talk it over with our secretary. The league has two clubhouses In different sections of the city, each possessing a free dormitory of some twelve or fifteen beds, and an employment agency. Girls who are stranded In New York are welcome to the clubs' hospitality at any time of the day or night. Girls rescued from various dangers and delinquencies by social workers of the New Y'ork Probation and Protective Association are also taken in at the clubhouses. Those who need medical care are sent to a bospiltal or clinic; those who are out of work are found Jobs through the club employment agencies, and others, whote conditions demands it, are sent to a convalescent home In the country. The league’s clubrooms are large and cheerful, with bookcases full of good books; a piano and Victrola and many games. Including parcheesl and checKers, The girls are privileged to en tecta in their young men friends here or several nights a week, while every Saturday night a club dance Is given. Lectures on health and thrift and working conditions also take place every so often, to which, parents as well as th* girts are often Invited. The objects of the league, as set forth In Its'constitution, are as follows: To protect girls from moral danger. To promote moral education. To encourage i right thinking and clean conversation. To improve conditions of work for girls. | To secure wholesome recreation for gills.

To stimulate faith In the possibilities of life. Every member is pledged to befriend lonely girls in the city and those who are living apart from their families and to reports girls in need of help, or bad conditions In places where they live or work, or find their recreation. She Is also required to study the laws relating to health, labor, recreation and protection and to report violations of these laws. Girls are also encouraged to make suggestions for improving these laws or for securing better enforcement of them. And to all these things the growing membership list of the league subscribes most earnestly, as a few recent Instances will Indicate. There Is the case of Alverta, who even now is being supported by the clue. Alverta was one of a family lived was most Inadequate, also, so that on the day that Alverta became 10 she left and came to New York. Here sire secured a Job In a factory and a tiny room in a miserable boarding house. Although she lived but scantily, her wages could not be made to stretch over the entire week. Always there was one night when she hud to go without dinner. On. one of these impoverished evenings, as she was coming home from work sue met another roomer in the house, a Spaniard. The man took the lean pocketbook out of her hand and opened L. "Only three pennies,” he said. "This must be the night you do not dine—unless you go to dinner with me.” Alverta went. So much Alverta confided to the club director herself. The rest of her story was filled in by Camilla, a young Spanish girl, who came to the club one evening and requested help for Alverta. It seemed that after a few months the Spaniard had tired of taking Alverta to dinner and had transferred his attentions to Camilla, who also llve.d In the rooming house. The man confided the whole affair to the girl and asked her to help hint get rid of Alverta by pretending to be very jealous. He also added that he was afraid trouble might come because of Alverta’* extreme youth. Camilla said nothing, but Inwardly she decided that lt would. A half hour later she arrived at the club in great Indignation.

“1 have seen the girl,” she told the director, “and she Is very young, and therefore so vary stupid. The man, too, is very stupid. He thinks that I, Ca mllla, would help him desert this child, who Is to have a baby.” Yet another member of the league saw her chance to rush to the rescue of her sex when she came across a young girl In the midst of a heated argument with a man lu a corner of a subway station. Without the slightest compunction, she listened to the conversation and heard enough to convince her that the girl was lu serious danger. So, approaching the couple boldly, she asked the girl If she could speak to her a minute. "Listen,” she said, in some embarrassment, as she had never rescued anybody before, "I wouldn’t go with him If I was you. Y’ou can’t trust these New York guys. If you ain’t got any place to go, you can come to our club. It s all right. You can look lt up In the telephone book.” “But how will I get rid of him?” asked the girl, nervously. “Oh, just leave that to me,” said the G. S. L. member. ".Say,” she exclaimed, walking up to the waiting man, "beat it. This girl’s a friend of mine, and I’ll tell her father if you don’t beat it—quick.” At the club the rescued damsel, whose name was Grace, told the director that she was 18 years old, that she had met the man for the first time that evening, that he bad taken her to a chop-suey restaurant, and then had asked her to go to a dance hall with him. But when they reached the door of the so-called dance hall. Grace had sense enough to perceive that It was a hotel. So she had turned and tied to the subway station, where the mac had followed and argued with her. Grace, it seemed, was a Philadelphia girl, who had become rebellious of parental discipline and had packed her suit case and left home a few days before, sfter her family had retired for the night. She arrived In New York at 3:45 In the morning and, calling a taxicab, asked the driver to take her to a hotel. At a moving picture theater the following day she met another older girl named Anna, who took her to a dancing studio. Here Grace had danced with several strange meu, and had been Instructed by Anna In the art of picking up men who would take her to the theater. Grace had tried lt for the first time the night she was found by the G. S. L. member. When Grace’s father came for her, after she had been at the club several days, the director was surprised to learn that she was not IS years old, as she claimed, but only 14. Thus, from the foregoing, lt may bo seen that woman are not as Indifferent to the welfare of their sex as is commonly supposed. As gallantry declines among men, it apparently rises among women. For the ideals of these girls are the ideals of the medieval knight—to succor weakness, and especially the damsel In distress. ’MOTHER COMET WILL VISIT US THIS SUMMER Celestial Guest Will Bring Usual Crop of Omens and Sinister Portent. WASHINGTON, D. C.-We are to be visited this summer by Winnecke’s comet. To many people who do not realize that about five comets are casually hailed by astronomers every year, the approach of tills comet has been taken as significant of war, famine, the end of the earth, or some other great change In the world's fortunes. The superstitions connected with comets are being repeated In awestruck whispers. It seems written In the stars that men 3hould regard the law-abiding comet as a portent displayed expressly as an advertisement of calamity, for all through history comets have been linked with unusual happenings. The fall of Troy was accompanied by the appearance of a comet, according to Virgil, and the deaths of Constantine, Att'la the Hun, and Charlemagne were said to have been announced each by a hairy star passing across the sky. A comet appeared the year Napoleon was born, or perhaps to be more accurate, Napoleon was born the year the great comet of 1709 appeared. An English magazine in ISI2 scientifically explained that "through the influence of the comet of 1811 the winter ; following was very mild—the summer cool and very little appearance of the sun to ripen the produce of the earth, yet the harvest was not deficient and some fruits not only abundant, but deliciously ripe, i such ns figs, melons and wall fruit. Very 1 few wasps appeared and the flies became j blind and disappeared early In the sea- i sou.” Even In 1910, before Halley's comet

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shot past, people In this country sold their property and preared for sudden death, while more conservative alarmist* who believed that Halley’s comet had some mysterious message were on every band. Science says It Is about time that people did a little thoughtful reasoning, stead of flying off at a tangent every they happen to learn that a comet Is lug a few million miles off. It Is regarded as possible that a comet might come Into contact with the earth. The comets that we greet by name every time they wlilz by are speeding around the sun as the earth is. The sun Is pulling on them, but they do not smash Into lt because the la net*, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, or Neptune, also exert a pulL Til's Joint Influence keeps the comet In its path. But if its loses som*- of it* weight, as lt supposedly is doing all the time, the comet travels more swiftly, nr.d the pull of gravitation Is affected, so that the comet's course changes somewhat. COMET CARRIES POISON GAS. If this course changed very radically, In time a comet might head on toward the earth. What would happen then nobody knows, because nobody exactly what a comet is made of. We something about the tail—that lt Is gen’V, erally millions of mjle*B In length, sometimes over 100.000.000 miles. The tall 1* supposed to contain poisonous gas, but so vaporous Is this streamer of light that if lt came Into contact with the earth very little of the poison would withstand the resistance o ftlie earth’s atmosphere. In 1861 astronomers declared that the earth did actually pas* Into the long vaporous tall of a comet to a depth of 273,000 mile, but there was no discomfort nor interruption to business. But If the comet Itself, the nucleus, should strike the earth, lt might easily mean the end of us. A Weather Bureau expert has figured the possible effect, supposing the comet bead were similar In force to a small Iron ball about 84.5 miles In diameter, and weighing 12,000,000 tons. Such a ball traveling as a comet does and overtaking the earth would strike with a velocity of not less than seven miles a second. Comprising the effect of this impact with the effect of a shell fired from a Mg naval gun, he says, the striking energy of the comet would be more than 8,600.000,000 tons —a force so immense that man cannot even dimly comprehend lt. But the jolt would be only one result of (be meeting of the earth with a cornet The heat generated by the impact, he says. If expressed In calories, would have to be written 21.053 followed by seventeen ciphers, or 2,105,300,000,000.000,000,000. If the entire earth were covered with water to a depth of 84.5 feet, this much heat would raise all that water from freezing to the boiling point. The chief consolation, if such a catastrophe were imminent, would be its suddenness. But while all this is considered possible, the weather man adds that the chances of a comet actually striking our little globe are one to 281.000.000. Here again, the figure Is so large that we do uot get much of an Idea of what 1% means. Arngo, the astronomer, lt like this; The danger of death''to each Individual would be exactly equal to the danger he would Incur, supposing that in an urn containing 281,000,000 balls there should be only one white ball, and that he would be condemned to death should he draw the white ball. It seems certain that none of the comets whose ways astronomers have catalogued could endanger the earth for thousands of years. Automobiles, and shotguns, and live wires are a much more reasonable cause for fear than the comets. THIS ONE PROBABLY HARMLESS.

We can, therefore, gaze at Wlnneck*’* comet secure In the belief that it has no intention of Jolting the earth out of space during the next few centuries anyway. YY'lnnecke’s comet Is a good specimen of the gurden variety of comet, lt is interesting to us because it will very probably be visible to the naked eye sometime In June. It ha* not yet been picked up by the astronomers at the naval observatory here, although they say that lt could probably be seen through a telescope now if they knew where to look for It. When the comet has been located the astronomers will be able to calculate the date when It will be most clearly visible, and where It will be found in th eheavent?!^. Comets are rapidly being robbed their romantic possibilities, but comparatively little authentic Information replaces the old mystic ideas. A few centuries ago serious minded people as well as the credulous peasantry could get all sorts of thrills out of a comet. The celebrated surgeon Ambrose Pare, looked at the comet of 152 Sand came away with the following Impression: "This comet was so horrible, so frightful, that some died of fear and others fell sick. It appeared to be of excessive length and was the color of blood. At the summit of it was seen the figure of a bent arm, holding In its hand a great sword, as If about to strike. On both sides of the ray* of this comet were seen a great number of axes, knives, bloodcolored swords, among which were a great number of hideous human face* with beards and bristling hair.”

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