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JL F. OF L. FIGHTS
Stand Widens Breach With
C. I. 0.—Committee to
( Quiz G. M. Officials.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
tabor’s internal differences were in
the spotlight again today as the Amer
ican Federation of Labor and the
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion held fast to contradictory stands
on proposed legislation giving the De
partment of Labor power to subpoena
records and testimony in industrial
disputes.
Proposed by Secretary of Labor Per
kins, in letters to majority leaders of
' both House and Senate, the legislative
suggestion now bears the indorsement
of John L. Lewis, chairman of the
C. I. O., and the condemnation of
William Green, president of the A. F.
of L. The latter manifestation of sen
timent was expressed yesterday at vir
tually the same time that implied sup
port was being reported at the White
House.
With sentiment thus divided on ad
visability of invoking a method by
f which some settlement might be forced
In the current tie-up in the plants of
General Motors Corp., the Senate com
mittee investigating espionage and co
ercion In labor relations, announced
last night that it plans to bring the
giant automotive concern on the car
pet on February 8 and 9, to explain
alleged “interference with the rights
of labor.”
To Hear Agents.
As a preliminary to questioning "va
rious officials” of General Motors, the
committee next week will hear officers
and agents of the Pinkerton National
Detective Agency, of which General
Motors has been an important cus
tomer.
k Opposition of the A. F. of L to the
Perkins proposal for increased strike
powers for the Labor Department was
made known yesterday afternoon by
Green. Calling a press conference
shortly after he had appeared before
a Senate committee to indorse the
O'Mahoney licensing bill, Green de
clared:
• Legislation fraught with such far
reaching consequences should be con
sidered only when economic and in
dustrial conditions are approximately
normal. It is inconceivable that Con
gress would base the enactment of
such important legislation upon inci
dents which arise out of one indus
trial controversy.
Sees Bitterness Fanned.
“Proceedings initiated under au
thority of such compulsory legisla
tion would take on the character of
a trial in court • * • and thus the
bitterness of the industrial contro
versy become more intensified. Such
procedure ought to be avoided. The
Department of Labor should be a
mediation instrumentality. • * •
"It is only a step from compulsory
attendance at hearings and the com
pulsory submission of testimony under
oath, and the books, papers and rec
ords, to the compulsory acceptance
of departmental decisions. That would
be compulsory arbitration to which
the A. F. of L. is uncompromisingly
opp<*ed.”
——.-• .—
Pepco
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6'j per cent, ordered last January, is
a testimonial to the prosperity of Pepco.
The new rates ordered by the com
mission follow the proposals made
Monday by the company.
Of the total rate cut domestic con
sumers having schedule A are al
lotted a cut of $255,702. There are
141,254 such. For the first 50 kilo
watt hours the schedule A rates re
mains at 3.9 cents. For the next 50
kilowatt hours the rate is reduced
from 2 9 cents to 2.3 cents, for the next
100 kilowatt hours from 1.9 to 1.8
cents. For power in excess of 200 kilo
watt hours the rate remains at 1.5
cents. The minimum charge remains
at 75 cents a month.
Schedule D Users Benefit.
Of the total rate cut, 23.300 con
sumers using schedule D, the smaller
commercial and industrial consumers,
were allotted benefits totaling $217,
791. This figure includes reduction
due to shifting of schedule D con
sumers to schedule E. For the first
100 kilowatt hours, the schedule D
rate remains at 3.8 cents. For the
next 150 kilowatt hours the rate Is
reduced from 3 cents to 2.8 cents, and
for the next 3,500 kilowatt hours from
3.7 cents to 2.5 cents. For power used
In excess of 3,750 kilowatt hours, the
rate remains at 2 cents, the minimum
charge remaining at 75 cents.
Of the total rate cut, 165 consumers
In schedule C for apartment house
lighting and similar uses, were alloted
a rate cut of $2,162, although there
was no change in rate, the reduction
being due to schedule C customers
changing to schedule D or E.
Domestic consumers numbering 1.657,
who are on a special rural A schedule,
were alloted a rate reduction of $4,450.
For the first 50-kilowatt hours, the
rate for these consumers was reduced
from 8.7 cents to 6 cents. There was
no change In the remainder of this
rate schedule, which is for the second
60-killowatt hours, 3.5 cents, for the
next 100-kilowatt hours, 2 cents, and
. all over 200-kilowatt hours, 1.5 cents.
* there being a minimum charge of
$1.25 a month.
There are 130 consumers on com
mercial schedule E, available for elec
tric service for any commercial service
except auxiliary service, who were
alloted a reduction of $21,530.
Beginning Monday, the charge of 1.8
cents will be applied to a first power
bracket use of 5,750 kilowatt hours,
whereas this rate heretofore has been
charged to the first 13,750 kilowatts.
The new rate then will be for the
next 8,000 kilowatt hours, 1.6 cents;
for the next 25,000, 1.1 cents; for the
next 150,000, 0.7 cents, and for all
over 188,750, 0.6 cents. The old rate
bracket above the first 13,750 kilowatt
hours at 1.8 cents was for the next
25.000 kilowatt hours, 1.1 cents; next
150.000 kilowatt hours, 0.7 cents, and
over 188,750 kilowatt hours, 0.6 cents.
The other reduction allotments for
various classes of service were small,
s The commission ordered a new
f system for adjustment of bills in
cases where defective meters are
discovered. If the meter fails to
register, a bill will be estimated on
the basis of a special meter reading
taken 30 days after the mater has
been adjusted or replaced.
If the test shows the meter has
had an average error of more than
4 per cent, the company must make
a refund to the customer for excess
charges over a period of six months,
In the case of overcharges, and the
company may bill the customer for
additional power for a similar period
If the meter was found to run slow by
pan than 4 per cent.
Ball Park Turned Into Flood Refugee Camp
Tents were erected in the ball park at Marianna, Ark., to shelter thousands who ned to escape the Mississippi flood. Above are
shown some of the refugees gathered in front of their temporary homes. —Copyright A. P. Wirephoto
Flood Relief
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American Red Cross
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and acknowledge funds for the Red
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able to the District Chapter, American
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Previously reported _flfi.15n.11
B H. Good in.no
Mrs. Roy R Clark - 1 on
Miss Della Lee Clark - , 50
Lulu H. Anderson 5.£0
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Waterman 5.00
F. Harper Craddock „ — 10.00
Mrs. Josenh Clyde HemDhill- *J 00
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin T. Bode — - no
Nannie Lee Sorsey j’-'1'1
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Low 10.00
"Officials and employes. Green
Bel' Project. Resettlement
Administration. Berwyn Md. ,89.28
Ell and Kay Bldg, and Invest
Co- Woodley Park Towers __ 2.V00
Mrs. Cleora D. Hildreth- --- gJJJ}
Prances L. Peak y-22
Mr and Mrs. Richard H. Lewis 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. J. Leonard Mitchell
and Daughter Edna , 4.00
: Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah A. Davis - 00
Ralph H. Warner - 5'22
Ernest W. Kisner - * on
| Mrc. WiUiam Woelfert- 10J>
Miss Peggv Sanders- i-22
! Mrs. H. H Heath- 100
i William Huff Wagner- IJJ.Jio
i Anna D. Woods- 7'22
C. A. Cuthrell - 5 22
Emma Bauer Gaegler- 5 0"
John A. Bauer - 1-22
Thomas F. Jones - ®-22
Joseph F. Zegowitz - ' ■
Tire Bie Sisters of D. O- lo.no
Lucy Curtis Bowman - l- •
, Mahlon Marsh - g UJj
MrTand Mrs. John W. Tanner- 2"0
A friend -
Annie S. Hughes -
Phi of Phi Chi „ - 10 00
Employes Singer Sewing Ma
chines . — ‘' 22
H. O. L. C. Bowling League — 24.00
n IT M _ 1
William D. Hoover -- 10«.OO
Sara H. Schiller g'"’
Sumner Maeruder School- JJ.45
Minerva O Neale - % £
H. Beck . - 2.00
Si am a Chi Fraternity Epsilon
Chapter , _ BO.OO
Wane! a Council. D. of Poca
hontas A™
Mrs. Estelle Stewart - l oo
Mrs. Nannie L. Webb- 5 00
Henry Edward Wold-— \
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Mr. and Mrs. W. Gigons —- lo.no
g g Q 0.1)0
Mr. and Mrs. Lee L. Merchant — 5.00
Mary A. Cramer o.on
Mr. and Mrs. Max Scher 10.00
Irwin Stein. 1r.. and Barbara
Stein —- - 122
Sadie P. Terry - 2.00
Mary E. Stallings ... .. - "6 00
St. Martha Guild of former
Church of the Advent - 2.00
p 2.00
W. P. B. _ — 100
Women’s Auxiliary. Master , „„
Plumbers’ Association of D. C. 100.00
Mrs. Isabel Gassenhelmer- 10.00
Lawrence Gassenhelmer- 10.00
Mrs. Bessie E. Stimmel- 3.00
Helen C. Fox ..._ 6.00
E. A. Bean 3.00
Miss Ida Peaner- 1.00
Mrs. L. Host _ 1.00
Donald D. Wright . . . ., - 5.00
Annoymous cash contributions— 78.37
Albertina S. Cleary . l.oo
Mr. and Mrs. Ross A. Bremer,. 10.00
Lamron Club — - - 10.00
Immaculate Conception Boys
School 20.11
William M. Bower_ 1.00
Mary F. Hines __ . 10.00
Kenneth H. Nash Post- No. 8.
American Legion _ 25.00
William C. Lee_ 5.00
M. W Blakey _ 6 00
Miss L. C. Randolph. DrlnclDal.
Margaret Murray Washington
Vocational School . 2.00
Miss C. E. Douglass. Margaret
Murray Washington Voca
tional School 1.00
Miss S. V. Jennings. Margaret
Murray Washington Voca
tional School 1.00
Mrs O. J. Lancaster Margaret
Murray Washington Voca
tional 8chobl . . 1.00
Junior Red Cross Club. Mar*
garet Murray Washington Vo
cational School — 8.00
Students. Margaret Murray
Washington Vocational
School . .. _ 10.00
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Hess_ 6.00
Mrs. C. Van Wyck Mott_ 25.00
Bernard Danzansky .. 6.00
Thursday Afternoon Bridge Club 6.00
Marilyn and Ruth Rubin_ 1.00
J. Douglas McCue_ 6.00
Mrs. J. C. _ 1.00
Shirley O'Hara — _ _ 6.00
Webster Lodge. No. 7, Knight*
of Pythias _ 5.00
John Byrne x- Co. -_ lo.no
Taft Junior High School_ 108.no
Miss Maxwell Galloway__ 5.00
Elizabeth M. Maxwell_ 6.00
Libbye H. Diets . 6.00
Mrs. L. B. Greenberg and Mlse
Flora Brock _ 5.00
Grace J. Hughes.. ... — . 2.00
National Capital Temple. 659.
I. B P. O. E. W_ 5.00
Lillian S Groseclose _ 6.00
Asbestos Covering & Roofing Co. 10.00
Miss John Frances Steele__ 5.00
Annetta L. Purdy . 10.00
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Finley Pat
terson 10.00
Burton. Parsons & Co__ 10.00
Mrs. Lillian B. Lear_ 5.00
E. W. B. _ 1.00
W. 8. Crawford_ • 2.00
The Rowe family - _ _ lo.oo
Mrs. Mary F. O'Callaghan_ 3.00
Mr. and Mrs. George Sheets_ 5.00
Mr. Jacques E. Haeringer__ 5.00
J. and L. _ 6.00
Carl A Weber 2.00
Louis Smith Merriwether_ 1.00
Mazo Brothers Co. _ 25.00
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Bowe_ 6.00
Emma Meyenberg - 2.00
Frank M. Thompson- 6.00
Rev. G L. Baker - 1.00
Baby Stanley Sokolove_ 1.00
Oswald L. Blueee- 8.00
Clvde D. Harrison _ 6.00
William T. Talbott - .5.00
Employes. Marshall Flooring Co. ln.no
Marshall Flooring Co. - lo.oo
Pringle Construction Co,—.— 5.00
Harry M. Packard- 10.00
W. Lefflngwell -- 2.on
Mary C. Adams _ 2.00
Katherine E. Mehl .- 6 no
Caroline Vonderhelde-- 10.00
Lucille G. Wright-- Lfp
Georie P. Thorne- - 1.00
Old Glory. Council No. 12.
Daughters of America- 10.no
S. C. C. _ 4.00
A. Carney - ft 00
Mrs. A. G McGrath- 1 00
Lett a Bailey - ft 00
Walter A. Powell- 1<>00
M. P. G - 2 00
Anne Street - 100
Error tn addition- 101.00
Total_ S18.260.00
Cairo
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' that the levee across the river guard
ing Tennessee has broken. The re
ports are not true."
The Mississippi reading at New
Madrid was 47.25 feet at the 51-foot
levee, a rise of 0.22 in 12 hours, where
as the rise for the previous 12 hours
was 0.32.
Their last great precaution taken—
a 3-foot emergency bulwark rimming
the mammoth dike—the people could
only watch and wait for the crisis.
Anxious and tense, they were aet to
rush in with reinforcements wherever
a weak spot might appear.
Down the Mississippi, below this
levee-hemmed confluence of the two
streams, the flood kept pouring into
a man-made catch basin designed to
relieve pressure here, but the Ohio
crept gradually higher on the Cairo
gauge.
The officially predicted crest of 61
feet Is due to arrive by Wednesday.
With its hurriedly-built bulkhead of
boards and earth the seawall measures
63 feet.
All the way down from Pittsburgh
the Ohio has done its worst. But
Army engineers here were confident
Cairo would again escape disaster just
as it has through all the floods of the
last 79 years. “We have definite con
trol of the river fight.” one said.
Other cities of ‘‘Little Egypt.” up the
river, were deserted or in the process.
Mound City, scene of a levee break,
was vacant. At Mounds. 300 persons
awaited daylight to be rescued from
second stories.
Red Cross officials estimated 1,400
were moved out of the flooded area
yesterday and the remainder would be
carried to safety today.
At Kamak and Ullin, small towns
farther north on Cache River, back
waters of the Ohio forced residents to
higher ground. Communication from
those points here was meager.
Rescue work was hastened in the
vast floodway of Southeastern Mis
souri, where 131,000 acres between
Birds Point and New Madrid were sac
rificed to the water for the larger
purpose of lessening destruction up
stream.
Spillway Serves Purpose.
Engineers said the spillway, "about
full,” was “functioning as had been
expected.” Embracing a 27-mile levee
set back from the main course of the
Mississippi, the project was built in
1931 at a cost of 621,000,000.
Rev. A. B. Cooper, a Red Cross of
ficial at Charleston. Mo., said only a
few of the basin’s 5,000 residents had
not been brought out.
Two brothers and their families,
totaling 13, told of riding a crude
raft for a week, driven out of their
sharecropper homes. Mrs. Sally Jack
son and Mrs. Nida Jackson related
how their husbands fashioned a crude
cabin and set it on logs as the water
advanced.
“We had food and everything
seemed all right until the engineers
started dynamiting the levee,” said
Mrs. Nida Jackson. “That let in so
much water In the spUlway aU at
once it set up a big current. Our raft
started tossing.
“We had tied up to a tree after
floating Into timber country, but the
way that raft bobbled scared me to
death. I thought any minute it would
upset and throw us in the water.”
“And that isn’t all,” put in Mrs.
Sally Jackron. “When the boats
picked us off we didn’t have a bit of
food left.” The children were suffer
ing from colds when taken to Bast
Prairie, Mo.
Scattered through other towns in
the Missouri “bootheel” were refugee
camps where the homeless were given
food, shelter and medical care. Hun
dreds of men worked to strengthen the
setback levee.
Radek
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case of the war he so frequently pre
dicted would come this year.
Valuable Background.
Radek, the Soviet’s most brilliant
newspaper writer, also Is a veteran
of the Russian diplomatic service and
an expert in foreign affairs with a
valuable revolutionary background.
Should there be war, auHwttatlvo
sources predicted, the Kremlin would ]
find it expedient to accept Radek's
word he had broken completely with
Trotzky and take him back again into
the fold.
His caustic, trenchant pen has been
sorely missed from the Russian press
during the six months of his imprison
ment awaiting trial.
It was known also, Joseph Stalin Is
loath to see Radek die, despite his ad
mitted treachery, because they long
have been close friends.
Stalin, general secretary of the
Communist party, was said recently to
have disclosed he received a 36-page
letter from Radek just one day before
the writer confessed—Radek profess
ing his unqualified allegiance to the
Stalinist regime.
The theory spread that Gregory
SokolnikolT, former Soviet Ambassador
to Great Britain, was given his life In
exchange for his full confession, which
was understood to have come before
the others and to have helped the
prosecution clear up many points In
the conspiracy.
The whisker-fringed editor strode
off to prison between two guards with
his Icy indifference unshattered.
Other defendants wept openly as
the three judges of the military col
legium of the supreme court returned
their verdict after eight hours’ de
liberation.
Radek, M. S. StrollofT and Gregory
SokolnikolT, once Soviet Ambassador
to Great Britain, went to jail for 10
years, and V. V. Arnold, who had
said he was once an American citizen
and veteran of two enlistments in the
United States Army, was imprisoned
for eight years.
Prosecutor Asks Death.
Prosecutor Andrey Vishinsky, who
had pieced together the intrigue to re
store capitalism to Communist Rus
sia, had demanded Radek's death,
holding the publicist most responsible
for the plot, Involving Japan and Ger
many, because of his confessed con
tact with exiled Leon Trotzky through
letters.
The judges said the four who es
caped death were equally as guilty of
treason as the others, but had not
actually engineered the terroristic
plots to which the others confessed.
Gregory Piatlkoff, former assistant
commissar for heavy industry; J. A.
Llvschitz, former vice commissar of
railroads, and I. A. Kniazeff. former
chief of the southern railways, were
among the most conspicuous defend
ants sentenced to death.
They had admitted complicity In
successful plots to wreck railroads and
paralyze mines.
Nikolai Bukharin, former newspaper
editor; Alexis RykofT, former commis
sar of communications, and others
were expected to face the court in new
trials as did the 17 conspirators today
and the 16 defendants executed after
the famous Kameneff-Zinovieff trial
last August.
Many other suspects, linked to the
Trotzkyist faction by testimony, have
been arrested. How many Is not
known, but It is virtually certain the
number is in the hundreds—Including
Trotzky’s son, Sergei, and Alexander
Georgivltch Belaborodoff, reputed
slayer of the Czar.
Thousands of Muscovites gave up
their free day to march through Red
Square in bitter weather to demon
strate their asserted solidarity with
the court’s verdict in the trial of 17
conspirators.
With the mercury at 15 below,
heavy-overcoated Infantrymen and
cavalry troops and workers gathered
at dusk In all streeta emptying Into
the famed square and streamed past
the Lenin Tribune in a procession
much like revolution anniversary
parades of November 7.
Secretary General of Trades Unions
Schwemlck, in a spirited address from
the Tribune, called on the workers
for new evidence of their solidarity
with the Soviet government in the
face of revelations of the Radek trial.
He particularly stressed that the Soviet
Union is strong in defense despite al
leged traitorous actions of the trial
defendants.
Hastily painted banners, professing
the people’s gratitude that 13 more
men are to be shot, were carried along
with old banners salvaged from pre
vious parades.
SOVIET OVERTHROW PLOTTED.
Sabotage, A—hiatton and Foreign
Entanglement! Weapons.
B> tbc Associated Press.
The 17 defendants of the just-ended
Moscow trial were charged with Soviet
crime No. 1—plotting to overthrow
the Socialist Soviet state.
Methods by which the conspirators
said they planned to achieve their
aims—sabotage, assassination, entan
glement in foreign war, partition of
jSuseiv-ell had aa « the
ousting of Joseph Stalin and his re
gime. The confessed conspirators im
plicated the exiled Leon Trotzky as
their leader. From Mexico City
Trotzky Issued vigorous denials and
challenged Moscow to prove it.
Trial evidence, made unnecessary
by the defendants’ guilt pleas, con-,
tained few documents such as would
have been necessary in American
courts to clinch the case if "not
guilty” pleas had been entered.
The lack of documents, the enthusi
asm of confession of the defendants,
adding to the inevitability of their
doom, and the 'absence of guilt de- j
nlals by any of the 17 facing death ;
amazed Western European and Ameri
can observers.
Some attributed it to the Russian 1
legal system, establishment of guilt
or innocence in the preliminary ex
amination before the trial proper
begins, and the defendants’ willing
ness to confess, perhaps to save other
members of the alleged Trotzkyist
organization, since they themselves
were substantially found guilty in the
preliminary inquiry.
Principal item of the evidence, as
expounded by Prosecutor Andrey
Vlshinsky In his opening statement
and quoted throughout the trial, was
a letter Radek asserted he received
from Trotzky outling the conspirators’
alms. Radek quoted the document
from memory. Apparently it had beea
destroyed long since.
"Trotzky felt the Fascists’ victory
in Germany meant the Fascization of
all Europe, and the defeat of the
working classes. The alternatives were
to kill leaders and seize power or gam
power through war,” Radek quoted
the exiled leader.
The 13 condemned to death were:
Gregory Platikoff, former assistant
commissar for heavy industry.
L. Serebryakoff, former assistant
commissar for communications.
J. A. Livschitz. former vice com
missar for railroads.
J. N. Drobnis, former secretary cf
the Moscow Soviet.
M. S. Boguslavsky, former member
of the presidium of the Moscow Soviet.
I. A. Kniazefl, former chief of the
Soviet Southern Railways.
S. A. Rataychak, former head of the
chemical industry.
B. O. Norkln, former head of the
munitions trust.
J. D. Turok, chief of exploitation
of the Perm Railway.
N. I. Muraloff.
A. A. Shestoff.
I. J. Grashe.
G. E. Pushln.
At announcement of the verdicts,
G. P. U. (secret police) officers im
mediately surrounded the prisoners,
hurried them from the court room to
a truck and took them back to
Lubianka Prison.
DIFFERENT IN ENGLAND.
Inskip Supports Dismissal of Sabotage
Defendants.
* COSHAM, Hampshire, England,
January 30 OP).—Sir Thomas Inskip,
minister for co-ordination of defense,
declared'last night in an address sup
porting the government’s dismissal
of naval dockyard workers suspected
of sabotage: "I am thankful we
don’t do things in this country as they
do in Russia.”
Sabotage* on ships, he said, is easy
to commit but almost impossible to
detect.
(Five workers at British .naval
dockyards we'rt discharged recently
without trail. Sir Samuel Hoare. first
lord of the admiralty, declared in the
House of Commons Tuesday their dis
missal was the result of "premeditated
and malicious’’ damage to British
warships, at "the Instigation of some
superior organization.”)
Floods
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its worst and the light against disease
and the mammoth Job of restoration
became the concern of many cities
and towns.
Admonished by Kentucky’s Gov
ernor to “keep your chins up and the
sun will shine on Kentucky homes
again,” Louisville mapped a program
to prevent epidemics as chugging ma
chines began to pump the slime and
silt from the city's streets.
The cleanup was underway in
Portsmouth, Cincinnati and other
cities, as President Roosevelt ordered
a Federal commission to begin Sunday
a week’s tour ol the Ohio flood region.
Probably the greatest exodus in the
history of the country, leaving 1,033,
000 persons homeless, at least tempo
rarily, created a vast problem for the
Red Croes and hospitable cities.
Scattered through towns in the Mis
souri “bootheel” vers several refugee
camps where the homeless were given
food and shelter and medical care.
This was in the vicinity of the great
new Madrid floodway which was
opened Monday to save Cairo from
the pressure of flood waters.
In the Mississippi River basin a
large army of physicians, nurses and
volunteers waged an uphill light
against death in ministering to 125,000
disease-menaced refugees.
EVACUATE PADUCAH.
Officials Order Force, If Necessary, to
Remove Remaining 8,000.
PADUCAH. Ky„ January 30 (JP).—
Police and military authorities began
today complete evacuation of about
8,000 persons remaining in downtown
office buildings of this flood-stricken
Western Kentucky city.
The McCracken County Board of
Health ordered the evacuation after
the Ohio River reached an estimated
stage of 60 feet and inundated from
2 to 20 feet an area of more than
8 square miles.
County Judge Brady M. Stewart
authorized use of force, if necessary,
in removal of the citizens, and Padu
cah officials were authorized to arrest
any persons who failed to obey im
mediately the request to leave the
flooded area.
City Uninhabitable.
The order 'ollowed reports to State
Health Commissioner A. T. McCor
mack that the city was uninhabitable.
Dr. McCormack, informed persons still
in the city were without lights and
heat, demanded immediate action as
a health measure.
"Health conditions are bad and it is
impossible to feed them,” he said.
Considerable sickness had been re
ported last night at the emergency
hospital, but doctors in charge said
then there was little danger of an
epidemic.
Authorities yesterday withdrew
passes authorizing persons to go into
the downtown district and, to pre
vent looting, began confiscating all
small private boats. Chief of Police
W. E. Bryant said, however, there had
been little looting reported.
In issuing the order the Board of
Health recommended "the utmost
courtesy” be shown In its enforcement
and directed that it be read to all
persons before compelling their evacu
ation.
Many of the refugees, Isolated In
upper floors, were in school buildings
and churches.
Suburban Avondale Heights and
Arcadia, where nearly 17,000 refugees
were quartered, were the only parts of
the city not under water.
It was impossible to compute the
river stage accurately, as river gauges
were under water, but W. E. Barron,
Government meteorologist at Cairo,
111., predicted the flood crest, not ex
pected here before Tuesday, would
send the water level up to about 62
feet.
President
(Continued From First Page.)
and Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress
administrator.
This will be the President's first
birthday party since the death last
April of Col. Louis McHenry Howe,
his principal secretary and close per
sonal friend for many years. Mr.
Howe, in years gone by, generally
made the arrangements for these din
ners and paid particular attention to
working out the entertainment details
and arranging the stunts and fun
making, which had become a dis
tinctive feature at the annual affairs.
In deference to his memory the cus
tomary stunts will be omitted tonight.
The party will be entirely informal
and will afford an opportunity for an
exchange of anecdotes and remi
niscences by members of a devoted
following who have been very close to
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
through many, many years.
The birthday anniversary group will
ait with the President when he, at
11:24 o’clock tonight, speaks over a
Nation-wide radio hook-up to the
many birthday anniversary parties
being held in his honor throughout
the country.
Outside of the birthday anniversary
party to be held tonight the birthday
anniversary was just another working
day so far as the President's routine
was concerned. However, hundreds of
greeting cards have been received from
admirers from all sections of the
United States in addition to messages
containing felicitations from personal
friends and foreign potentates.
The President, pronounced in ex
cellent health by his physician, Capt.
Ross T. Mclntire, received more than
15,000 menage* from well-wisher*
Textile Industry
Affected Little
By High Waters
Bl the Associated Free*.
CHICAGO, January 30.—Trade
sources here ventured opinions that
flood in the Ohio Valley will have little
effect on the textile industry.
L. F. Barnes of Wellington Sears
Co., Chicago, one of the larger pro
ducers of cotton goods, said in com
parison with the number of textile
mills In the United States the number
In the Ohio Valley flood area Is small.
Retailers, wholesalers and jobbers In
the flood area will have to replenish
stocks ruined by flood waters, he said,
expressing a belief that this was the
principal affect of the flood.
A major flood In the Southland
would affect large mills in Louisiana,
Tennessee and other Southern States,
however, he added.
NEWYORiTcOTTON
Bt tl:e Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 30.—Cotton
futures opened steady, unchanged to
6 points advance with higher Liver
pool cables partly offset by week end
liquidation. March. 12.83; May, 12.05;
July, 12.47; October, 11.93; December,
11.89; January, 11.88.
Trading was moderately active with
near months steadier on continued
trade buying, while later months were
barely steady under liquidation.
Overnight reports of credit arrange
ments between the United States and
Italian bankers to purchase American
cotton, following yesterday’s report of
completion of barter arrangements to
move cotton to Germany, stimulated
near-month buying. Flood news was
exerting less influence.
More resistance developed at the
initial level of 12.65 for May and
prices reacted partially. Late in the
first hour May had sold off to 12.62, I
leaving prices generally net unchanged
to 2 points higher.
Liverpool advanced on heavy trade
buying against good sales of cotton
textiles.
Reports from domestic textile mar
ket* this week were less encouraging.
Demand let up and offerings appeared
at slight concessions.
Futures closed very steady. 7 higher to
1 lower.
„ . High. Low. Last.
March -3 2.85 12.80 J2.8;i-84
May _12.66 12.62 12.67-68
July - 12.50 12.46 12.49-50
October -11.95 119.1 11,94
December_1191 11.87 lisv I
Jan ...._11.91 11.88 11.sen
Soot steady; middling, 13.33.
n—Nominal.
Cottonseed Oil.
Reachable cottonseed oil futures closed
steady. March. 11.31b; May, 1131b:
July. 11.36b; September. 11,33b. Sales.
147 contracts, b—Bid.
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Sew Orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS. January 30 OPV—Buy
ing brought cotton up to small net ad
vances in early dealings today.
Prices moved ahead from 1 to 4 points
In comparatively active dealings. For
eign markets were Improved.
March opened up 4 points In New
Orleans at 12.73. May at 12.HO. July at
12.44 and October at 11.01 showed small
er advances. Near months continued to
be the more eateriv sought after.
Cottonseed oil futures opened steady:
February. 10.82b: March 10.88b: May
lo 00b: July. 10 04b; September. 10.91b.
b—Bid.
Liverpool Quotations.
LIVERPOOL January 30 .Pi.—Cotton,
l.oon bales nil. Spot in fair demand:
prives five points higher: puotatlons In
pence: American, strict good middling.
8.18: good middling. 7.88: strict middling.
7.58: middling. 7.39: strict low middling.
7.11: low middling 8.84: strict good ordi
nary. 6 34: good ordinary 604. Fu'ures
closed steady. March 7.14: May. 7.11;
July. 7.os: October 6.65 December. 6 50.
January. 6.58 O'scial noon closing Janu
ary 11937). 7.14 value.
CHICAGOGRAIN
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 30. — Wheat
values averaged mostly higher today,
with leading trade specialists empha
sizing that transfer of stocks to the
show window does not increase the
supply.
The reference was to extra big ship
ments of Argentine wheat overseas
and to a consequent probable relative
dearth of wheat soon south of the
Equator. It was added that persist
ent smallness of domestic primary re
ceipts of wheat and rapid decreases
in the visible supply were attracting
attention and were likely to become
more and more impressive.
Besides, it was noted that Liver
pool stocks of wheat are only one
third of what they were a year ago.
Cold weather over the week end fol
lowing on the heels cf a good deal of
rain in parts of domestic wheat ter
ritory was talked of as threatening to
cause more or less damage to crops.
Especially in the western two-thirds
of Kansas, where temperatures this
morning were lower, fresh ice cover
ing* was reported in the fields.
On the other hand, likelihood of
large unloadings of Argentine corn
that has been strikebound of late
tended to turn the corn market down
ward at times, and to act as a drag
on wheat price advances.
Large shipping sales today of oats
were noted.
Provisions traders took their cue
chiefly from action of corn.
Around the midsession wheat was
t;a*8 higher, compared with yester
day's finish; May, 1.277/8; July, 1.11 H, J
and corn was unchanged to *» up; j
May, 1.06*4: July, 1.01.
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.
CHICAGO. January 30 UP> (United
State* Department of Agriculture).—Cat
tle. 200: calves. 100. Compared Friday
last week, choice and prime medium
weight and weighty steers 50 lower. 1,400
1.800-pound kinds oft most: comparable
yearlings 25 lower: good to near-choice
weighty and medium-weight steers 6(> to
1.00 down: common and medium grades
weak to 25 lower: medium to good grade
yearlings 50 lower: toppy light yearlings
comparatively scarce: medium to good
grades all weights recently employed ts
substitutes for choice and prime offerings
Sredominated and suffered . maximum
reak: extreme top. 14.50. paid early for
weighty steers: long yearlings. I4.:i5; light
yearlings. 14.00: heifers. 12.00; very lib
eral supply weight bullocks. 12.75a 13.50;
steers scaling 1,100 pounds predominated,
bulk being 3 to 5 month fed offerings:
Stockers and feeders 25 lower; all heifers
50 lower; short-feds predominating at
7.00a!).00, little above 10.25: beef cows
25 to 40 lower: cutter grades 15 to 25
lower: bulls 15 to 25 off. and vealers gen
erally 25 to 50 lower.
• Sheep. 3.000. Including 2.500 direct;
for week ending Friday. 9,200 directs.
Compared Friday last week, fat lambs
closing 25 to 35 lower: sheep weak to 25
off. bulk Western ewes showing full de
cline- week's lamb top. 10.90. paid early
for choice fed Western offerings, closing
top 10.35 on comparable kinds to shippers
and small killers: week's bulk fed West
erns, 10.25al0.75: natives. 10.00alo.75:
choice yearlings. 88-102 pounds. Thurs
day. 9.50: merely good late Fall shorn
lambs scaling 74 pounds. 8.75 on Wednes
day: week's top slaughter ewes. 8.10: bulk,
6.00aH.10, but little above 5.75 on closing
rounds.
Hogs, 3,000. Including 2.500 direct: few
trucked In and stale hogs telling about
steady with Friday’s average duality con
sidered; medium and good. 180-240
pounds. 9.00S9.85: quotable top. 10.00;
shippers took 200: estimated holdover.
500; compared a week ago. general mar
ket around 50 eents lower; pigs and sows
grading below choice 75 to 1.00 lower In
instances.
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS
NEW YORK. January 30 (P.—New York
Security Dealer*’ Association.
Bia. AsKea.
Bk of Man <1V4>- 36 37
Bankers' Tr (2) — 75 77
Cen Han Bk & Tr (4>-141 144
Chase Nat 11.40) - 6614 5J14
Chem Bk 4 Tr <1.80)- 72 74
Commercial (8) 23< 238
Cont Bit 4 Tr (.80)_ 20 211.a
C5?ri Ex Ik & T (3)- 70Ji 71»,
Empire Tr il) . _- 31V* 32‘/s
First Nat <Bos) (2)- 50 68
First Natl (100) 2436 2476
Guaranty Tr < 12)-388 3i3
Irvine Tr <.«0)._- 18 10
Manufacturers’ Tr (2)_- 8314 8614
Manufacturers’ Tr pf <2»_ 5. 60
Natl Cltv <1)- 401s 51*4
N Y Trust (5)_161 164
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CURB BONDS
DOMESTIC BONDS.
High. Low. Close.
Ala Power 4'4s '67_ 92% t*s% 92%
Ala Power 5s ‘51_102 102 102
Ala Power 5s ’08- 97% 97% 07%
A him Co 5s '52 -106% 106% 106%
Alum Co Ltd 5s '48- 106% 106% 106%
Am El P Ks '57 mat___32% 32% 32%
Am O & E 6s 2028 _ 107 106% 107
Am P . L 6s 2016_105 105 105
Am Seat 6s ’.'IB stpd... 105*4 105% 105%
Ark P & L 5s ’56_103% 103 103
As El Ind 4%s ’53_ 63 62% 62%
As O A E 4%S '49_ 155% 55 65
As O A E 5s ’50_ 62 62 62
As O A E 5s 68 __ 60 59% 59*4
As T A T ftVis ’55 A __ 8H% 86*. 86%
Baldn Lo Its '38 xw __ 174 162% 174
Baldn L 6s ’.’IP ww stp. 180 180 180
Baldn L 6s'38 xw stp . 174 161% 174
Bell Tel C 6s ’56 A_113% 113% 113%
Bell Tel C 5s ’57 B_121 121 121
Blrm El 4Vis ’68 08% 98% 98%
Binning Oss 5s '59_ 86 85 86
Brood Rv P 5s 54 A 100% 100% loo%
Buff Gen El 5s ’56 A._ 105% 105 105
Cen No Pw 5s '53 A_ 104 104 104
Caro Pw A Lt 5s '56 105% 105 105
Cen I1PS 4%s '67 F. . 103% 10.3% 103%
cent I1PS 6s ’68 G .. 103% 103% 103%
Cent I P8 4%s ’Ml H - _ 103 103 10.3
Cen O LAP 5s ’50 A . 103% 103% 103%
Central Pw 5s ’57 D_ 92 92 92
Cent Pw A Lt 6s ’56 .. 98'/, 98% 08%
Cent _8t _EI_5s_ '48__ 69 69 £»
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Comw Ed“s *5s"’53 A.— 111 ' 111 111*
Comw Ed 4s ’81 F_106% 106 106
Comw Ed 34.* ’65 H -- 105 105 105
Comw Sb 5%S ’48 A_102% 102% 102%
Comuty P A L 5s ’57 87% 87V. 87%
CGU 6%s ’43 A ww mat 41 41 41
Cont G A E 5s ‘58 A _ 97 80% 97
Det Int Bg 7s ’52 _ 3% 3% 3%
Dixie G O 6tis ’37 A 101', 101 101%
East G & P 4s '56 A _ 94V, 94 94%
El Pw & Lt 5s 2030.95% 94 95
El Pas El os '50 A-103% 103% 103%
Fed Wat 5Vas ’54 _ 92% 92% 92%
Florida P A L 5s '54 loo 99% 99%
Gary EAG 5s ’44 stp xw 100% 100% 1(10%
Gatineau Pw 6s ’56 . 103% 103*. 10.3%
Gatineau P 6s '41 B 101*. 101*. 101*.
Gen Pb U 6%s ’56 A 99% 99% 99%
Gen W W A E 5s ’43 A 97 96% 97
Georgia Pw 5s '67 ... 104% 103% 104
Georgia PAL 5s '78 86% 86% 86%
glen Alden Cl 4s ’65.. 88% 88% 88%
Hall IWPl 6s ’47 stp loo*, loo', loot.
if,yg£5de. 7d„Hs. '4e A 61% 81% 81%
X 1 Pw A L 6s ’53 A . 105% 105% 105%
1*1 Pw A L 6%s ’54 B 105% 105% 105%
HI Pw A L 5s ’56 C . J04 J04 J04
III Pw A Lt 5%s ’57 . 99 99 99
Indian E C 5s ’51 C.. 96% 90% 96%
Indiana Ser 5s '50 _ 77 77 77
Indno PAL 6s '57 A 106 106% 105%
Ind Hy-El 5s '58 A 97% 97% 97%
Int! Securities 5s '47 . 101 % ]ni % ini V»
Interst Pw 5s '57 _ 74 74 74
Interst Pw 6s ’52 68 68 OR
Interst P S 4%s '58 P 87 87 87
Jer C PAL 5s 47 B 103*, 103% 103%
Kentucky Ut 5s ’HI 97 97 97
Kentucky U 5s '69 I 96’, 96 % 96%
K**n U 5%s '55 F . 102% 102% 102%
Kimberly C 5s ’43 A 10.3% 10.3% 10.3%
I^hleh P 8 6s 2026 A . 1 10% 110% 110%
Lex Util 5s '52 . 104% 104% 104*.
Libby McNAL 5s ’42 . 106% 105% 105*.
Long Is L' 6s '45 . 105% 105 105
McCord Rad 6s ’43 104 104 104
Midlan VRR 5s ’43 . _ 95 95 95
Minn PAL 4%s '78 102% 102% 102%
Miss Pw A- L 5s '57 98% 98% 98%
Muns 88 6%s'37 ww cod 12 12 12
Nat P A L 6s 2026 A _ 107 107 107
Nat P A L 5s 2030 B 95% 95*. 95*.
Nat Pb S 5s '78 cod 49 49 49
Nrvad Cal El 5s '56 . 99 99 99
New Ams Gas 5s '48 12o% 120% 12o*»
New E GAE 5s ’47__ 84 83 84
New E GAE 5s ’48 . 83 ‘82% 83
New E GAE 5s '50 . 83*. 82’. 83%
New E Pw 5s '48_ 99% 90% 99%
New E Pw 5%s '54 100*. 100% 100%
NY P A- Lt 4%s '67 . 106% 106% 106*.
N Y 8 EAG 4%s ‘80 . 103% 103% 103%
N Y A W Lt 4s 2004 . 103% 103% 103%
No Ind P 8 5s '66 C .105% 105% 105%
No Ind P S os ’69 D . 105% 105% 105%
Ohio Pub S 5s '54 D 105*. lns% lost.
Okla O A E 5s ’50 A 103*. 103% 103%
Ok a P a W 58 48 A 07*. 87*. 87%
Okla N G 4%s ’51 A 99% 99% 99%
Par Invest 5s ’48 A .. 101 % 101% 101 U
Pac PAL 5s '55 . 90 89% 90
Penn CLAP 4%s ’77. 104% 104% 104%
Penn O E 5%s 59 B . 105% 105% 105%
Penn O E 6s ’50 A 105% 105% 105%
Pa Wa A P 4%s '68 B 106% 106% 106%
Peop G LAC 4s '81 B 98% 98*. 98%
Phiia Elec C 5s *66 110% 110% 110%
£h'l? J?. •*'•** ’T~ - llo% lio’. 110’,
Portland GAC 5s ’40 . 83% 82% 83%
§*L,N J Hs rt,s - 142% 142% 142%
Pub 8 Okla 4s 06 A 103% 103% 103%
Pug S PAL 5%s '49 A 96% 96% 96%
Pug S PAL 5s ’50 C 95% 95% 95%
Pug S PAL 4%s so D 90*. 80% 80%
Schul RE 6s 35 xw . 34% 33 33
8 E PAL 6s 2025 A . 107% 107% 107*4
Sou Cal Ga 4%s HI . 104% 104% 104%
Sou Caro 5s ’57 .101 101 101
Souw As T 5s '61 A. 103*. 102*. 102%
Souw LAP 5s ’57 A _ 10.3 102% 102%
Souw PAL 6s 2022 A _ 103 103 103
Std GAE 6s '51 A _ 88 87% 88
Std GAE 6S '66 B _ 85’. 85% 85%
Stand Inv 5%s ’39 ._ loo 100 100
Stand Pw A Lt 6s ’57.. 86% 85*. 86%
Super of II 4%s ’68 _ 105% 105% 105%
Texas Elec 5s ’60 ... 105*. 105% 105%
Tex Pw A- L 5s '56 __ 105% 105% 105%
Therm os 37 5t ww . 105 104% 105
Tlde Wat P 55 '78 A . 104 104 104
Toledo Ed is AS '62 . 106% 106% 106%
Twin C RT 5%s ’52 A 93 93 93'
Ulen A Co 6s 44 nist 49% 49 49
Unit Lt A Pw 6s ’75 87% 87% 87%
Unit LARD 5%s ’52 95’. 95% 95%
Unit P M ,,s A 114 114 II4
Utah PAL 4%s 44 101% 101% 101%
Utah P A L 6s 2022 A 103 10.3 103
Va Pub Ser 6s ’46 103 102% 103
Va Pub S 5%s ’46 A . 102% 102% 102%
Wash Gas Lt 5s ’58 ... 106V. 105% 105%
West Pa os 2030 _ 105 105 105
West T Ut 5s ’57 A 99% 99% 89%
Wheeling El 5s ’41 105% 105Vs 105%
Wis-Min LAP 5s ’44 .. 106 106 106
Wls P * L fts ’5,i E -- loots 100*. 100%
Yadkin Riv P 5s ’41 _ 107% 107% 107%
York Rwy Co 5s ’37_ 100 100 100
FOREIGN.
Buen A P 7%s ’47 st 81% 91% 91%
Cauca Val 7s 48 16 16 16
Chile M B 6s '31 mat 15% 15% 15%
Com Prv B 5%s ’37 _ 55 55 55
Cuban Ft %s ’41 A . 99 99 99
Erco M El 6%s ’53 A . 70 70 70
Fin R M B 5s ’61 st 101*. 101% 101*4
Guant A W 6s ’58 A 60% 60's 60%
Isarco Hyd El 7s ’52 . 75 75 7S
Ital Su Pw 6s ’63 A . 7(1% 69 70%
Lima City 8%s ’58 20% 20% *’o%
Medelin Col 7s ’51 19*. 19*. 19%
Mendoz P 4s ’51 stp 92% 82% P”%
Pied El 6%s ’60 A 72% 72*. 7°*»
Rio de Jan 6%s ’59 30 30 30
Sante Fr Arg 4s st 45 70% 70% 70%
Stln H 4s 46 st cod 2nd 49 49 49
Ternl-Soc 6%s ’53 A 74% 74% 74%
Washington Produce
BUTTER—92 score. 1-pound prints. 37:
'.-pound prints. 38; tub. 36; 90 score,
1-pound prims. 38: V.-pound print*. 37;
tub. 35.
MEATS—Choice, beef. 17: calves. 21;
veil. 20; lamb. 17: pork loin 21: fresh
ham, 2.7: smoked ham. 26: sliced bacon,
3.3: slab bacon. 28; compound. 14%;
lard. 16.
LIVE STOCK—Pick. 9a9%: light hogs.
9’ialO: medium hogs. 10ain%: heavy
hogs, 9»10; roughs, 6a8%: calves, 6al3;
lambs. 6al0.
Prices paid shippers—net t. o. b. Wash
ington by the United States Bureau of
Agricultural Economics:
EGGS—Market about steady gt un
changed prices. Current receipts 21a22:
hennery whites. 22a23. Government
graded and dated white eggs (net prices
paid shippers, f o. b. Washington): U. 8.
extras, large. 24*4: U. S. extras, medium,
21%: U. S. standards, large. 23%.
LIVE POULTRY—Market steady. Prices
unchanged. Fowl: Colored, heavy ]6al8:
Leghorns. 10*12. Chickens: Virginia Rocks,
broilers and fryers. 18a21: Delaware
crosses. 18a20. Guineas, young. 2 pounds
and up. 40 each; under 2 pounds. 25*30
each: old guineas. 20*25 each. Turkeys:
Yount hens. 18sl9: young toms, under 19
pounds. 15alH: 20 pounds and over. 15;
No. 2’s. 12; old hens. 14: old toms. 14.
CUBAN EXPORTS TO U.S.
CONTINUE TO INCREASE
BT the Associated Press.
The Commerce Department says
that Cuban exports to the United
States have advanced steadily since
1933, when a record low level was
registered.
In 1936 shipments to the United
States totaled *113,687,794, compared
with $96,088,798 in 1935, *78.340,317
In 1934 and $56,073,845 in '1933.
J. I. Case enjoyed one of its pe
riodical flurries, advancing about T
points at Its top.
CHICAGO PRODUCE.
CHICAGO. January 30 UP)—Poultry,
live, three trucks; steady; prices un
changed.
Butter. 6.701; steady. Creamerv spe
cials (03 score). 32V»a33: extras (02), 32;
extra firsts (00-01). .'ll1/*; firsts (88-89).
3la31Vj; standards <9o centralized car
lots). 32V*. Eggs, 10.146; steady; prices
unchanged.
Potatoes. 64: on track. 270: total United
States shipments. 686: old stock, steady,
better feeling prevailing, supplies rather
liberal, demand slightly better, especially
Westaern stock: trading light. Sacked, per
hundredweight: Idaho Russet Burbank*.
U. S. No. 1, 3.06a30: Colorado Red Mc
Clures. U. 8. No. 1, 3.10*35: partly graded.
3.00: Washington Russet Burbanks, com
bination grade. 2.90: Nebraska Bills Tri
umphs. 60-Dound sacks U. 8. No. 1 and
partly graded. 2.75 hundredweight: Wis
consin Round White. U. 8 No. 1. 2.30a35:
U. 8. commercial. 2.15a25. New stock:
Texas stock slightly weaker. Florida about
steady: supplies moderate, demand slow;
less than carlota, Texas. 50-pound sacks.
Bliss Triumphs. U 8. No. 1. few sales
generally fair quality. 1.80 a sack: street
sales. Florida, bushel eratei. Bliss Tri
umphs. U 8 No J. 2.15: fair quality,
2.00: U. 8. No. 2. 1.90 a bushel crate.
MONTREAL SILVER.
MONTREAL January 30 —Silver
future* closed steady, unchanged to 15
higher.
Sales. High. Low. Oloia.
1 March ... 44.7ft 44.75 44.sft
1 September.— 44.85 44.85 44.40b
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