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FEVERISH TRADING IN STO MARKET Nearly All Groups Advance Sharply in Today's TwoHour Session. BY JTIABT P. WEST. Special Dispatch to The Star. NUW YORK.

December this morning's continued expansion and buoyancy In the stock exchange dealings there were at least three explanations: First, the market wu relieved from sa-called "tax selling" which had been going on for over a month, and the latter people, who lad sold to establish their losses, were hurriedly buying back. Second, the new year predictions regarding the business outlook were beginning to conte in and all of them were optl mistic. This and the prospect 01 many more similar forecasts during: the next few days were undoubtedly 1 motives for the buying. Third, there was the announcement of a 25-cent per barrel advance in Pennsylvania crude oil, which bore out a little ahead of time expectations, long held, that a rise in oil prices was near. Oil Shares Advance.

Oif shares naturally took the lead, 4 Aan.flltt1v vlrnr. I dui me am Jiiu an ous in stocks which had suffered most from the tax At the same time there was an all-around re- sumption of pool activities, which gave the market much the same appearance as it had in October. It was the liveliest two hours, in fact, that Wall street has seen since the culmination of the autumn campaign. The activity lay mainly alone speculative lines. The foreign exchanges were generally higher.

French francs advancing for the third day in succession. Tire Stocks Also Jump. Even marks went higher, in spite of the achievement of the German in putting its paper note circulation across the trillion mark. The buying movement in the stock market kept on with undiminished Intensity up to the close. Sharp advances in the rubber and tire groun were a feature of the last quarter of an hour.

The oils. Studebaker and other leaders left off well Up to the top. The advance of 23 cents to $2.25 a barrel for Pennsylvania crude oils had been expected by well informed people soon after the start of the new year. Tt simply came a little ahead of time. The idea now is that the raisfnc of Ppnnsvlvania auotations will he followed by an advance in MidContinent Crude within the next thirty days, and the stocks of some companies having an interest in the MidContinent territory were exceptionally strong.

I.ow-Prlced Shares Popular. Several brokerage houses report Quite a bit of shifting of accounts into low-priced shares. This switching is being dene by traders who have sold i out high-priced issues and now look for some stocks which have been selling around 10 and up to 20. In this group are Callahan Mining. Butte.

Copper and Zinc. Packard Motor. Fifth Avenue Bus. which is a newcomer on the stock exchange; Pay and Nevada Copper, Tennessee Copper and Spicer Manufacturing. i mnpiiRW Between $10,000,000 and $12,000,000 Will Be Spent for New Equipment.

Br the BALTIMORE. December Orders for 5,000 freight cars have been placed with half a dozen car builders by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, it was announced at the executive offices of the company today. Four thousand are to be allsteel hopper cars and the remainder steel gondolas. It is understood the cost will be between 110,000,000 and J12.noo.000. The company also stated that bids are being considered for between 1 000 and 2,000 steel under-frame and steel center-sill box cars.

ROAD'S EARNINGS GROW. BALTIMORE. December Western Maryland Railway Company's statement of for the month or" November shows a decrease of $30,038.22 In net income, after an Increase of in operating: revenues. This was due to an increase of $574,847.30 in operating expenses. Total operating: revenues for the month were $1,905,518.10.

However, the earnings of the company continue to grow, as is shown in the statement of estimated earnings for the week ended December 21, hich amounted to $401,351.36. against for the corresponding veek last year, an increase of Estimated earnings for the year to December amounted to an increase of $848,640.13. or per cent over the corresponding week last year. BOSTON WOOL MABKET. BOSTON.

December 30 Today was a typical pre-holiday wool market. Mohair was in limited supply with numerous inquiries. Dealers were asking 83 cents a Demand for carpet wools, so good at times during the week, fell off SECURITIES. (Quotations furnished by Redmond A Co.) Close. Hid.

Offer. Ahiminnn) Amor. 1925. 103'i 103Vs Al'iminum Co. Amer.

7s 1933. 106 A i 'fiifnn on 1921 96 96 American Sugar 6a 1937 American Tel. A Tel. 6a 1924.. lOOtf 101A Tel.

A Tel. 6a 1923.. Anaconda Copper 6s 1929 i Anaconda Copper 7s 1929 Anglo American Oil 1925... A 19341 Steel 7a 1923 i Canadian Pacific 1924 IMA 101A 4 cntra! Leather 5a 1923 99 r. A sr.

L. 1929 10114 4 opper Export 8a 1924 102 Copper Export Sa 1925. 109 Pont 1931 I T. St R. 8s 1931 fireat Northern 1932 VaPey fl? 1921 I wmhle Oil 1932 98 City Terra.

6a 1923 101 Copper 7a 1930 105 1 J.ibby. MeNail A Llbby 7a 1931. 100 8t. P. A 8.

S. M. 1981. 104 Morrfa A Co. 1930.

R- R- 7a 1930 fr. Paul Tnion Depot 1923. Roebuck A Co. 7a 1923.. Southwestern Pell 7a 1923 randard Oil of Calif.

7s 1981.. 100 dewater Oil 1931 1'nion Tank Car 7a 1980. A sruum Oil 7a 1936. "Western Union 1936. 112 E.

A M. 7s 1981. 107 TREASURY CERTIFICATES (Quotations furnished by Go.) Bid. Offer. 1 4 4k March 15.

1933 109 June 15. 1933 100 Jt September 15. 1923... 99 13-10 100 June 15. 1921 103 September 15, 1924...

101 9-10 101 13-10 March 15. l4S5 December 13. 1928.... NU rtC March 15. lttfl lOOtf-H 100IMS K-ptcmh-r 15.

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83 83 (8 (3 California Petrol. 6714 6814 MM 68 California pf. 84T4 86 0414 OS Callahan Zinc 014 10 014 10 Canadian 14414 14414 14414 14414 Case Plow Worka. 8 8 8 8 Central 8214 8114 Central Leath 6811 COM 6W4 Cerro do 44 4814 44 4614 Chandler 0614 67 6614 67 Chesap'ke A Ohio. 7H1 7111 7114 7114 Chi A Alton 214 214 ill Chi A East 111 2611 Chi Great Weatrn.

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70 70 70 70 Cona Clear 69 6974 36 26 Cons Gaa of 12174 122 121 121 Conaol Gaa 1 6074 61 60S Cons Textile 1174 1174 1074 1174 ContCan 11174 11674 11174 11674 Continental Motors 1074 11 1074 11 Corn 13274 13374 13374 133H Corn Products 12074 12174 12074 12174 CosdtnACo 64 63H 64 Cosden pf 10074 10074 10074 10074 Crucible Stssl T1 7174 7074 70'. Cuban-Am 2674 2674 2674 Cuba Cans 8 40 40 3974 Davidson 32 62 32 32 Del Lack 6k 127 127 127 127 DuSSA 474 474 474 474 Dupont (E I) 108 112 W9 111 Eastman IW Bli 89 89 ElectricStor Elk Horn WWW Endlcott-Jobnaoa. Erie 10H 11 Erie 1st pf 1ZH 1W 14H lHi Erie 2d pf 11 UH 11 Famous 91 91H Fifth Ave Bus Fisher Body 909 909 Flsk Rubber UH 12 13 Freeport UH Gen Am Tank Car. 69 68 Gen Am Tank 161 Ml Gen Asphalt 49 Gen Asphalt 90 80 80 80 Gen Electric Gen Elecspl Gen Motors Gen Mot Gen Mot Glmbel Bros Gimbel Bros 07 97 (814 0614 Glldden 1014 10H MH 10H Gold win Corp 4tt 4H 414 Goodrich SH HU Granby t4H Z4H 8414 2414 Gray 4k DavU I2H Great Northern pf. 7414 T4V4 Great Nor Ore SO 80 Guantanamo 10 10 10 10 Gulf Mo Nor 44 44 44 44 Gulf States 8014 (014 SO 80 Houston Oil ffl'k 7014 Hudson 17 2714 Hupp Motors 2814 28V4 28 26 Illinois Ill 113 111 113 Indlahoma 1214 1214 1814 1214 Inspiration 1814 2814 8614 Interboro 14 14 14 14 Interboro Met 14 14 14 Interborouph 19 19 1(14 lntl Asrl Chem pf.

81 81 81 31 Intl Mer 914 074 014 014 l.ttU.pMirllliBf 4414 4414 44 44 Intl Nickel IK 1M IW Intl Nickel pf 5844 5844 Intl Paper 6174 SZ74 6244 Intl Paper 75 75 7344 75 Invincible Oil 1444 1444 1444 1444 Iron 45 45 45 46 Island OH 44 44 44 44 Jewel Tea 3044 2044 2044 2044 Jewel Tea pf 74 74 74 Jones L'ghlln pf. 10744 10744 10744 10744 Jones Tea 5144 55 5Z44 5544 Kansas A Gulf Co. 144 144 144 144 Kansas City 1544 19 1544 19 KansasCSou 5544 6544 5544 6344 Kayser (Julius). 62 4244 42 4544 Kelly-Spring Tire. 4944 49 4544 49 Kelly-Spring 544 pf.

109 182 102 102 Kelsey Wheel 109 t09 109 100 Kennecott 5544 3544 5544 5544 Keystone 9 944 544 944 Laclede Gas 56 85 56 65 Lee Tire Rubber 27 2944 27 2944 Lehigh Valley 7044 7044 70 70 Lima 49 69 69 69 Loews Inc 1944 1944 19 19 Mack Truck IN KH B7H Mack Truck 0 0 0 0 Mac? Co MacyCopf 113 112 112 111 Maima UN 11H 01H UH Malllaon A Co Wt 0 Manhattan 41H 47H Manhattan El ctfo. IM BH Mt Manhat Elac to 10 to to Manhattan 4fH 4Bl (Hi Market St Ry 9 Markot St ton Market St Ry 0 41 40 41' lfhrket St Ry S4N Mi a Marland Oil 0H 0N 39H 39N 0H mi 2SH 41 0 44 40 Maxwell (A) tOH (ON icon Maxwell (B) UH UH UH 1SH May Dept 0 0 a Mclntyre 1TH II UH Mexican Seaboard. IM ffit 11H Mexican UH UN UH MM Miami Copper BIN ITH 11U BIN Middle UN UH UN UH i CK EXCHANGE Direct to The Star Office Opts. Hlfh. taw.

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Remington 2d 80 80 80 80 Replogle Steel 24 24 Rep Iron 49 48 Reynolds Springs. 22 22 22 22 Reynolds Tob (B). 49 48 Royal Dutch St Joseph Lead 19 19 8t LA San St Louis Southwn. 20 SO SO 80 St Louis Sown Sears 88 8 88 Seneca Shell Union Sinclair Oil 84 65 24 86 Sinclair pf Skelly Oil 81oss-Sheffleld so r-orto sugar. si Southern 8914 8946 89 8914 Southern Railway 28 1814 28 26H SplcerMfgCo 21 21 2ul4 2044 Standard 88 88 86 86 Stand Oil of Calif.

119S 12U4 119H 121H Stand Oil of wl 398, 4186 19H 41H Steel A Tube 86V4 881, 1814 8814 Sterling Prod 6244 f2H 6214 6214 79 74t 79 Stromberg 66 634, 66 Studebaker U6J? 117 118V4 117 Submarine 7 7'4 1 714 Superior Oil 6 BH 8 6H Sweets Co of 2 lis 2 Tenn Copper 1014 10H lor4 49 49 4814 4814 Texas Gulf Sulphur eo 60 61 21 21 2044 20H Texas Oil. 21 21 Third Avenue 18H 16H 1814 Tide Water OH 124 124H 124 13414 Tlmken 33 2314 33. 3314 Tobacco Prod 87S 67H t74s 874s Tobacco Prod 88'4 84 83'4 84 TolStLA 67l6 BTH 67'4 Trans Contl 14 14 1314 W4 Union Bag 6614 6616 6616 Union Pacific 138 138H 138 138 Union Paciflc 7814 7814 7S'? 7814 Union Tank 85 85 88 88 United Alloy Steel 34 34 34 34 United Drue 7916 7914 T9V4 7916 United Drug 471. 4744 47H 474. United Fruit 16444 166 166 United RFlnv 1114 United By Inv 27 27 2744 United Retell Sire.

74 74 Cast Ir US Food Prod 4'i Hoffman 20 21 20 21 Indus Alcohol. 8 6844 t8 US Realty US Rubber 6644 Rubber 1st pf. 99 99 19 S9 Smelt US Steel 10744 10644 Steel pf Tobacco 66 65 Utah Copper Vanadium Van Raalte 63 63 24 24 24 24 Va-Car Chemical pf 62 62 62 62 Vivadou Wabash Wabash pf 2444 Western 113 118 lis lis Western Md 11H 1144 Western Md 24 24 24 24 Western Pac Western Westhse Air Brke. Westbse Eles 4k M. 60 60 Wheeling 944 Wheeling vn j7U Eagle 28Vi 2874 m(4 2SV4 White Motor 48 white on sh am Wilson as MM SS MM Wilson 4c Co pf.

87 8T 87 87 674 ri 6vt Wl Willys-Overland pf 42 42ti 42 Woolworth 219 Jyti 219 Worthington Pmp. 3274 3274 Odd lot. COMMODITY NEWS WIRED STAR FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY BOSTON. December current buying Is not of large proportions, normal conditions prevail in boots and shoes and the factories are well engaged In this section. CLEVELAND, Ohio, December Grain shipments on the great lakes in 1922 fell about tons short of the 1921 record.

They are estimated today at 15,000.000 net tons, as against 19 At A lout PHILADELPHIA. December 30. mills here estimated today that the export business in artificial silk hosiery this year would exceed 30.000 pairs. PORT WORTH, December of cattle Into Mexico continues today at an unabated rate. About 0,000.000 head have been crossed at EI I'aeo alone in the last week.

BOSTON, December current furnished customers by the Boston Edison Company Mast week reached a peak load of 3,011,011 kilowatt hours. This Is the first time It has passed the 3,000,000 mark and compares with a peak distribution of 1.621,00(^ In 1031. BUTTER MARKET QUIET. Surplus Puts Week's Prices in Psvor of Buyers. CHICAGO, December the holiday season, the butter market for the week continued dull, with a steadily decreaslns demand for all stocks.

A surplus threw the market In favor of the buyer. This year's holiday ssaaon was marked by a greater degree of unsteadiness and dullness than anticipated by dealers, who based their calculations on its firm statistical condition. Only two markets, however, showed a change from the opening of last Monday on nlnety-two-ecoro stock. The closing prices yesterday follow: Chicago, to, 1 point loss; New York, 04, unchanged; Boston. Si.

point loss; Philadelphia, 05, unchanged. LIBERTY ISSUES ALLGOHIGHER Substantial Advances in To( day's Short Also Strong. BY GEORGE T. HUGHES. Special Dlapatch to The Star.

NEW YORK. December the stimulus ot what was apparently i genuine Investment demand bond prices made substantial advances today. -Liberties were all Arm and higher. The tax exempt 3Vas In particular were in demand. The rise In the Arst hour being cents on the flOO.

The Arst crossed 99. The second, third and fourth 414s sold only slightly below that Agure. The fourth 4 were largely jlealt In. Rail Boade Higher. High-grade railroad bonds shared the improvement.

Atchison general 4s moving up toward a Aat 414 per cent basis. The demand for this class of security must come from trustees and savings nanKS wno are remnuw legal investments. The individual purchaser subject to Inoomc tax can get a higher return elsewhere. In connection with the Inquiry for high-grade Investments. attention should be called to the Arm tone maintained by all the Dominion of Canada Issues traded in in this market.

This has been evident all the week and particularly so today. While technically foreign bonds. Canadian government obligations rank next to our own liberty! In the estimation of American investors. Foreign lasses Quiet. Foreign bonds generally were not much changed.

It la worthy of note that French bonds have not been affected by, all the reports as to American aid to Europe. It is not easy to see Just how a commission of International financial experts could help French credit much except insofar as It removal flie present uncertainty. Nothing but a balancing of the French budget could do that. The St. Faul Issues continued their advances begun a couple of days ago.

Nor was there any slackening of the pace. Puget Sound 4s, generally considered a sound Investment Issue, gained more than two points. Market Street Railway 8s and Chicago Railway Ss were Arm. Steel and tube 7s gained ground among Industrials. geriHeaving briimaos U.

S. Commerce Officials Declare Conditions Are Fast Improving. German industry is pulling away from what appeared a few weeke ago lO UV IIIC UI11IIV U1 Vltava auu a turn in the economic tide in that country is due. according: to opinion! expressed by some ollicials here on the basis of Information received, relating to shipbuilding and tobaccogrowing in Germany. Reports to the Department of Commerce disclosed what was believed to be a rapid recovery in the shipbuilding business with Germany restoring 1 her merchant fleet at a rate that, a few months ago.

appeared impossible, As for the tobacco-growing industry, Germany produced 77,140,000 pounds in 1922. an increase of more than 15 per cent over last year's output. This gain in production offset decreases in other European countries and left the continent with a net increase for the year of about 10.000.000 pounds. The 1922 figure was reported at 274.405.000 pounds. with registered tonnage ol only about 400.000 through wartime i losses and operation of the terms of the treaty of Versailles, the German shipping interests apparently set to work to All the gap at once.

At the end of September, according to information supplied Consul Huddle at Hamburg, tlxe German fleet aggre-? 1 aO AAA Art A gaira gi uos tons. A large percentage of the new boats were designed for oversea traffic. Additions to the eet in September alone, according to Mr. Huddle. Included six craft aggregating 32.700 gross tons and eleven rhlpx completed, but not launohed, totaling 60.700 gross tons.

Building Smaller Craft. Officials called attention to the apparent policy of the German shipbuilders to construct smaller craft than was their custom In pre-war days, when some of the largest ocean palaces afloat were of German origin and ownership. Whether their studies of operating economics bad convinced the Germans that the smaller type of 'craft would pay better was not disclosed In the IIIIIIICU iiiiui iiioiiuu miu iibuico atauable, but officials her? predicted that the German merchant marine of the future would be made of a greater number of ships and of a smaller type than before the war. Make Own Reports Gloomy. Extreme pessimism still characterizes the German utterances on the shipbuilding subject as well as other economic conditions.

Mr. Huddle reported. The gloomy forecasts, he said, were made privately as well at publicly, and by ship owner and operator alike. But the published reports. he asserted, gave no warrant for dissemination of tho statements In German quarters that the shipping business was dead.

ROAD GIVEN AUTHORITY TO ISSUE CERTIFICATES I. C. C. Grants Bights to Denver and Bio Grande Western Bailroad. Authority to issue ana jo.oso,000 In receiver's certiiiCates agalnsl the property of the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad was (ranted today by the Interstate Commerce Commission to Joseph H.

Young, the receiver appointed by the courts conduct the affairs-of the corporation Approximately $1,200,000 of the proceeds will be used as a cash payment on purchases of new equipment, while the balance will be spent on addition! and betterments. Receivers of the Chicago and Alton also procured the commission's approval for an issue of $2,000,000 in receiver's notes, the proceeds to be used for repairing equipment and payment of debts. CLEABEJQ HOUSE BEP0BT. NEW YORK, December actual condition of clearing bouse banks and trust companies for the week (Ave days) shows that they hold in excess of legal requirements. This is an increase of M.054,0(0.

KOBE MEAT SHIPPED. CHICAGO, December $0 Shipments of cured and fresh meats from Chicago for the week ending today were 10,442,000 pounds, against 22.177.000 pounds the same week a year ago. ON NEW YOftK fcocotvsd hr Private Win. UNITED STATES BONDS. BaIM (81.000).

Blgh. Lew. Clow. Liberty S14 71) 101M 10002 10100 Liberty 2d i 98 28 (828 (8? Liberty let 414 71 0908 0890 09 08 Liberty Id 478 11(4 8( 40 98 (4 Liberty Sd 188 (904 (0(2 Liberty 4th 414a 741 1801 0080 00(4 Victory 484a'28 83 10OS4 10002 100(4 1(8 (004 (0(0 (0 (4 FOREIGN GOVERNMENT, STATE AND MUNICIPAL. 8alw Blah.

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18 97 Rio da Jan la 1647.. 3 47 tW 67 Sao Paulo. City, I 8814 8814 8614 Sao Paulo. St of. 2 8SH 1614; Seine, Dent of.

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9 9414 94 9444 I North States Pow 6s. 6 9214 Northwest Bell Tel 7s 14 108 10744 10764 Otls'Steel 8s 6 984 9844 9844 eza 1 PacTel A 18 91'i fil'l SIM Packard 1074 107 lOTVj 1 Phila Co ref A 18 MM 694 894 Producers A Ref is 10S 108 108 Producers Ref Ss 2 123 123 Sinclair OH 7a 79 1004 10OH 1C04 Sin Crude Oil 2 9SS 98k. 98S Sinclair Pipe Line 5s. 64 884 C8M 884 Sou Por Rico Sue 1 100H 1004 10OT1 Stand OH of Calif 2 101 lOS'i ice Steel A Tubs 7a 11 103 1024 103 Tide Water Oil 1 103 103 108 Toledo Edison 1st 7s. 8 1084 IS8N 106M Rubber 1st ref Ss 16 888.

684 684 Steel 5s 36 1C3 108H Utah Power A Lt 8 9214 92M Va-Car Chemical 8 97 97 67 Va-Car Chem 7Hsw. 8 S3 9284 83 Warner Sugar 7s 2 104 104 104 Western Union 7 112 1114 1114 Wlckwlre Spencer 7s. 19 98 68 88 WUson A Co 1st 2 101 101 101 Wilson iCocv 8 1024 1024 10ft a 'I NEW WAGE AGREEMENT. Glass Workers to Get 13 Fer Cent Fay Increase. CLEVTLAND, December new ware agreement tor the period beginning January 29 and ending June 11 was effected here yesterday by representatives of the National Window Glass Workers Association and the National Association of Window Glass Manufacturers.

Under the agreement workers in all hand plants of the country will receive a 13 per cent Increase In wares over that granted last September i for the period ending January 27. The increase, however, includes a 10 per oent raise which became ef- feotive December 1. when the price of window was advanced 10 per oent. A clause in the agreement provides that when the price of glass goes 1 up the workers' wages must be Increased. DIVIDENDS.

I Stock of Powder jj-or Bf Manhatiai Co.7'm 20 1 stock. Bath Terminal s.a., so 5 s-a pf 8 is Clifton Mfr. stock Hjmliloo 80 19 I Loeser 89 10 i "wr 80 IS Cera'deiT 81 1 28 10 Shaffer Oil' a Pah. 1 V. 8.

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of pf Dm. JO Jaa. BIG STOCK' INCREASE. BATON ROUGE, December JO. Standard Oil Company of Louisiana yesterday increased Its capital stock from (10,000,000 to the increase coming from the surplus which the company has aci cumulated during the years of its ex' istence, officials of the company announced.

The stock of the company is held by the Standard Oil Company' of New Jersey. i W)S STOCK EXCHANGE Direct The Star Ota. RAILROADS. Illlg (H.om). Htffh.

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BOSTON. December is a list of today's highest, lower and closing prices for the most aclive stocks dealt in here: High Low. Close Ainaiie 43 43 43 Ahraeek 67 67 67 Arcadian Cona 44 4V6 1114 111 4 111 Boa ton A Maine 174 174J Copper Kange 364 66V, 34V Deals Dally East Butte 84 84 Eastern 8 8 84 84 84 Gardner Motor 10 10 10 1aland Cfeek 10614 1044 Mats Gas 864 May ower 84 34 Mohawk 68 68 66 Oscaola 82 82 83 Bwlft A Co 107 4 441. riivr Kisiu 4 Trinity Ventura Oil 29 Waldorf Walworth 8 Winona FOREIGN EXCHANGE. furalahed by W.

B. Hlbba A Nominal Selling checki gold value, today.11:45 London, 4.8005 4.64% Montreal, dollar 1.00 1.00 Paris, franc 103 .0735 Brussels, franc Berlin, mark .000142 Rome. Urn 108 .0011 Zurich, franc 108 .1807 Athens, drachma 108 .0110 Madrid, peseta. 103 .1575 Vienna, crown 2020 000015 Budapest, .2020 Trague. crown 2020 .0814 Warsaw, mark .00008 Copenhagen, .208 .2088 Christlanla.

crown .188 Stockholm, crown 208 .2707 RECORD APPLE SHIPMENT. New York Big Carre From Pacific Coast. NEW YORK. December tersest single shipment of apples thii season from Pacific coast has jus reached New. York, It was announce) by the State Department of farmi and markets.

It came by way the Panama canal in a ship with cooling rooms. The cargo of 84.714 boxes wai shipped from Seattle. Portland. 8ai Francisco and other west coas points. Nad the consignment beei shipped by rail It would have require.

118 frieght cars. Some of the frul Is evidently Intended for reshipmen to European countries, tbe marks department reported, but much of 1 will be sold In New York. The total exportation of apple form the United and Canadi this aeaeon up to Decemeber 10, wai and 1.102.100 boxei tbe announcement said. NEW EXCHANGE BTTLE. NEW TORK.

December committee on of the Ne? York Stock Exchange flxed com on all sellinr for lesi than tl and not than (0 centi at 1 cents per share. On stocks sell ins for than (0 the com mission may be motually upon. Grain, Produce and Live Stock LOCAL WHOLESALE MARKET. i Light and good demand i materially Increased the price of poultry morning, the price of turkeys going to 50 cents. The advance, however, will not mean that dealers will meet the losses sustained In the slump a week ago.

Butter and eggs remain firm, the outter market being very firm. Increased receipts of fresh eggs have 1 resulted in a decrease of 2 cents a dozen. Market on storage eggs con I tlnues firm with a tendency to Increased prices. Fruits from Florida end the west are plentiful, and dealers have ample supplies to meet all demands. fresh, selected, candled, per dosen.

48a50: average receipts. 47a48; southern. 48. Cold storage eggs. 80a83.

Live per 14; turkeys, per Jo; spring chickens. Per 26a27; keats, young, each, 80; fowls, each, 24a26. Dressed spring chickens, per 30a32; hens, per 27a28; roosters, per 18; turkeys, per 36a48; keats. young, each. 70a80.

Live choice, per i 1SH; medium, per 12; thin, per 8a8. Lambs, choice, per 18: live pigs, 3.00a3.00 each; live hogs, per 9. Green per 1.75 S7.00; per bushel basket, nearby. 75a 1.00; Delicious. No.

1. per 6.00a 1 7.50. California oranges, per crate. t.OOaf.OO; Florida. 4.00a4.80.

Lemone. rlr box. 6.00a7.00. Grapefruit. 3.00a 75.

Tangerines. 3 50a4.50. per No. 1. 1.50a2.00; pe.

sack. 3.00a2.25; No. 2. iOal.OO. Sweet potatoes.

North Caro- line. 75al.50; nearby. 2.0oa2 30. Let- tuce. per crate, southern.

1.00a2.25. RORiilnf lettuce, per crate, Iceberg lettuce, pee, crate. 6.25*6.75. Cabbage, northern. 1.75a2.00 per 100 nearby cabbage, per 1.50a 2.00.

Eggplants, per crate. 4.00*7.00. Tomatoes, per box, Florida, 4.00*7.00. Beans. 2.60*4.60 per basket.

Peas. 2.00*7.60 per basket. Peppers, per crate. Florida. 2.50*4.00.

Kale, per 1.60*2.00. Spinach, per 2.00a 3.60. Celery, per 1.00*1.25: California. per crate, 7.60*8.00. California grapes, per crate.

3.00a4.00. GRAIN ABO PROVISIONS. BALTIMORE. December 30 white, 100 pounds. 50 al.25; 150 pounds.

15: sweets, barrel, 1.50*2.50: bushel, basket. yams, barrel, 1.60*2.00; bushel. Beans, bushel. 2.50*2.50. Beets, bushel, 75a90.

Broccoli, bushel, Brussels sprouts, quart, 20a26. Cabbage, ton, 20.00*25.00. Savoy, bushel. Carrots, basket. 50a(6.

Cauliflower, barrel, 3.00*6.00. Celery. 100, 6.00*7.00. Cucumbers, crate, 3.00*6.00. Eggplants, crate, 4.00a6.00.

Horse- I radish, bushel. 3.00a4.00. Kale, bushel, i barrel, 1.60*2.00. Onions, 100 pounds. 1.60*3.00.

Oyster plants. 100. 6.00*8.00. Parsnips, bushel, 1.00*1.26. Peas, bushel, 4.00*5.00 Peppers, crate, 2.00*3.50.

Spinach, bushel. Squash, crate. 3.00*4.00. i Tomatoes, crate. 2.60*6.00.

Turnips, basket. 1 Apples, packed, barrel. 2.00*5.00; bushel. loose. 100 pounds.

1.40 al.65. basket. Cranberries, barrel. 12.00*14.00. Grapefruit, box.

2.25 Oranges, box. 2.00*4.00. Plnei apples, crate. 5.00*8.00. Strawberries, i quart.

Tangerines, half-strap, 3.00*3.75. i Selling Prices at I3i36C 1 red winter, epot. no quotations; No. 2 red winter, spot. 1.33 t'e nominal; No.

3 red winter, spot, i no quotations; No. 2 red winter, gari licky. 1.324 nominal; No. 3 red winter, garlicky, no quotations; December, 1.32H nominal. lot of nearby by sample at 90.

corn. new. 4.00 per bar1 rel; contract, spot. 34 per bushel; No. 2 corn.

spot. 35la; No. 4. no quota1 tions: track corn, yellow. No.

2, old to better. 88 per bushel, i lots of new white at i wharf at 80 per bushel; bag lots of new yellow" at wharf at 854. i No. 2. 55 per bushel asked; No.

3. 54 4. S5a95 per bushel; No. i 2. western export, spot, 1,00 per bushel; No.

3, no quotations. 10 tone; market for top grade of timothy and light clover mixed. 16.00a20.oo per ton, and for good mixed, 10.00al7.50. 1 tangled rye, 18.00a 10.00; No. 1 wheat, 10.00all.00; No.

2 oat, nominal, 12.00al2.50. TODAY'S CHICAGO PRICES. CHICAGO, December values fluctuated rapidly here today i during the early dealings after an unsettled opening. The Liverpool wheat market failed to reflect the share break in nriees on this side of i the Atlantic yesterday and values here soon broadened. December acting the most erratic, touching 1.2J on a break and rallying later to 1.27.

Po rapid were the fluctuations that val1 ues varied half cent between trades. There was some scattered liquidation in evidence in the May delivery, with an easing oft in price after the openi Ing. News developments had little or i no effect early, some traders who had sold out earlier in the week being in a quandary, helleving theTc has been break enough, but not Inclined to reInstate long lines, and were awaiting further The opening, which varied from decline to 1 advance, with May 1.22 to 1.22 tj and July to 1.12 Vi. w-aa followed by a further setback all around. Corn and oats were unsettled In line with the action in wheat, there being considerable evening up under way i for over the year end.

After opening i 114 lower to higher, with May 7114 to 7114. the corn market underwent slight further losses all around. Oats started unchanged to 14 down. May to and later declined a little more. i i Provisions were unchanged to 2 off i at the start.

I WHEAT? niah. Tyro-. Close December 1.27** 1.27*4 1.23 l.SflC M.J 1.22 1.22% 1.20'j 1.22S 1 December 74 .7544 1 M.J 71 "i .773 July -721. .72 OATS? .42 M.J .45 44'i July 41S .4144 -42', 1 I LARD? January 10.75 10.57 10.75 10.57 May ,....11.00 11.12 11.00 11.10 RIBS? January 10.57 May 10.05 DAIRY PBODI CTS. BALTIMORE.

Md, December 30 46a50: old tome. 40; poor and crooked breasts, 35; spring chickens. 23a26: Soor and leghorns, 20a23; old hens. 2a2(; small and leghorns. 20; old roosters, 15al6; ducks, 20a27; geese.

22s2t; pigeons, pair. 30a35; guinea (owl. each. 40a70. Dressed poultry? Turkeys.

45a52; old tome, 40a42; poor and crooked breasts. 35; young chickens. 27a2S; old and mixed. 25a3C; old roosters, 17alS; ducks, geese, 24s30. off; native and nearby firsts, dot, 43; southern, 46.

fancy, 54a 56; prints. 5ds57; nearby creamery. 34a35; ladles, rolls. 33u35: store packed, 32; dairy prints, 34a35; proI cess butter, 41s42. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD EARNINGS SHOW GAIN PHILADELPHIA.

December i Pennsylvania Railroad Company for the 1 month of November shows a rain of $0,326,938 In Its railway operatlnr revt snuss over 1921. The flrures for the period wire $69,410,370. Railway operatlnr expenses were $49,999,104, an InI crease of $7,221,383 over the same time i of last year. Net operatlnr revenue from railway operations was $9,411,286. a decrease of $396,460 from the previous year.

Net operatlnr Income was a decrease of $1,184,069. as contrasted with 1921. From January 1 to November 30 ralls way operatlnr revenue was $388,907,646, an Increase of $21,041,631 over 1921. Operatlnf expenses were $486,612,634, a loss of $10,049,021: net operatlnr rev onus $103,394,912. an Increase of $31,090.603, and net operatlnr Income of $07.131,699.

a rain of $30,431,839. as conI treated with the same period of last year. GOOD WILL BEING TURNEOINTO CASH, Many Big Corporations Are Adopting New Policy, Which Aids Stockholders. BY J. C.

BOYLE. Kpacisl to The Star. NEW YORK. December discounts good will and particularly at thla aeaaon of tho year, but acorea of companlea are datarmlned to own their own. In other worda they are turning the asset of good will ae car rled on their hooka Into It from themselvea.

The lead wae taken by the F. W. Wool worth Company. whose director! approved an appropriation of 82p.000.000 of the company's profit and loae surplus to be applied to the reduction of good will, which It eatlmated recently at 880.000,000. The company plana to amotrlze thia good will until ench time aa the Intangible value haa been turned Into tanglbla assets or Thla preaent move will leave 818.000 000 an Intangible good will aaaetn of the Woolworth Company, aa 812.000 000 under thla head conalata of least- holds Other "is in? Wooiworth example.

Some ere adding to their own good will assets by turning their employee into etorkholdere. Standard Oil of New Jersey employee are watehirg the end of year quotations for they have the right to subscribe for the common stock of the company at a price I determined by the average selling price of the company's stock during the last three months of the year Traatees Fix the Prfee. Trustee! flx the price at not mo. than average, and not less than 10 pe cent below average, for the last three months, and employes have the righ' to subscribe 20 per cert of their sets ties for such purchases, with the company adding 50 cents for each dollar so subscribed. Scores of other companies are buj tng back thetr good will, or whs amounts to the same thlr.g.

under other name, the loyalty of their employes. The New York Telephone will accept only such employes as psychological tests wi't prove loyal. The American Smeltlna and Refining Company makes stmllat discrimination In selecting Its officers workers and executives, latyalty is I sn asset, but labor turnover is a lisbillty and manufacturers and large employers are firm in the policy of eliminating the one and adding to the other. Heavy Storks of Cottoa. I.sss than 300.000 bales of cotton.

elusive of ttiat in transit, remains Jn th? Interior of Texas. Stocks at Galveston. Houston and other ports ere not included. Good news was brought to the wool market bv announcement that the Southwestern Wool Growers' Association still had 265.400 pounds wool and mohair for tale. About I36.ooo pounds sold by the association brought prices of from 24 to 51 cants a pound for wool and 40 to 75 cants for mohair, It Is expected by oil man that tha Standard Oil Company of New Jersey In carrying out Its contract with the United States Shipping: Board to furnish ten million barrels of fuel oil in 1973 will draw tha larger part of this supp'y from California.

Balldlng Still Beasifii. In soma sections of tha building contractors are finding 1: necessary to pay a commission besidetha Interest charges on loans to finance building operations, but in other sections funds for home-building operations are readily available without commission charges. In Chicago It is estimated that December has been the biggest building montli the city has ever seen. Expenditures for the year Increased about oon. Tha Georgia department of agriculture.

which purchases calcium arsenate for all the farmers of the state with which to fight boll weevil and which resells It to planters at cost, has made no movement toward contracting for the season's supply because of the charge that the market has been manipulated or cornered Reports that a large amount of cot- ton for export had been bought through the Co-operative Cotton Growers' Association could not be verified, but are firmly believed by planters. Copyright. 1972.1 aahtpata rnnrinu wis turn SHIPUNE SUITS Brief Filed Citing Companies Fail to Show U. S. Coni sented to Proceedings.

The federal government, in a. brief filed in the Supreme Court today, held that the of the foreign steamship lines against the recant prohibition decision of Judge Hand, at New York, had failed to show that the United Rtatee had conaented to be sued, and that the cases could not therefore be prosecuted. The government also insisted that the court did not have Jurisdiction fo: the further reasons that the appeals "do not present a cause of action In equity under the Constitution of the United States," and "does nvt disclose a cause of action equitable In Its nature. civil in its character and arising! under the Constitution of the United States." It also was declared In the brief that the facts alleged In the appeals arr Insufficient to constitute a valid cause of action In equity, and that the steamship companies have a complete remedy at law, which they should follow rather than the course they have 1 pursued. ONE KILLED, 2 WOUNDED IN FIGHT AFTER PARTY Shooting of Schoolgirl Starts ant may me.

By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. December of three men early today shot a high schoolgirl as she was en route a school entertainment, killed a policeman and In turn was shot and probably fatally woundsd by another i patrolman. The girl. Miss Minnie Flnkelsteln, seventeen, was shot through tbe hip.

Her wound was not serious. The dead officer was William J. O'Malley, a probationary policeman. Miss Flnkelsteln said the three men accosted her and another girl, who were walking with her brother and another high school student. When she protested one of the men began firing a pistol, all three running when the girl fell.

Patrolman O'Malley. hearing the shooting, dashed up. only to be shot three times. His partner shot the gunman. At a hospital the wounded man refused to Identify himself..