$1,640
#38 £15
£31
2134
Do.
Do. (London) ... Uhartered Banks'... Marcantile Bks "A" "0"
**
£39 £131
96 961
351
84 83
83 841
Montreal Silver —Maroh "Silver Official
63.65 68 60
14.35 53,00 1.85 01. 64) 131
$275
$900
Dow Jones Averages
Underwriters
30 Industrials
110.7%
84.38 101.00
...... $1.25
Union Insurances.
$480
20 Rail
56.94
3.80 33.48
Caina Fires
20 Utilities
37.73
-17.00 17.25
$490
LA 5460
H.K. Fires
$228
40 Bonds
96.86
84.73 96.29
International Assca, 3.
11 Commodity Index 88.45
41.98 57.90
$3
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M
Shipping
140
Douglases
$30
Last Sule
Steamboats
$7
Stock & DIV.
Jan. 30 Jan. 31
320
Indos (pref.)
130
Adams Express
61
61
Stock & Div. Goodrich
$34
Do. (def.)
$35
Air. Reduc, (3)
111
· 111.
Goodyear
|52/14
Shells.....
63/
$132
Waterboats
$13
Alaska Jun' (1.00%)
17
177
Herc. Pwdr: (3d)
Mining
Allied Chem (6)
135)
136
Пlinois Central
ex er 81 ots. Allis Chalmers
161
164
Int. Cement
Am. Brake Shoe
In Hary (60)
(80).
27
26 ⚫
Int. Nick 1.60)
.313
¡19 st.
.
10 st.
Amer. Can (4) 1124 Am... Comm. Alcohol
(.25)
1121
Int. Tel. & Tel
Johns Manville
271
271
Kennecott (150)
21cts. Am. Cyanamid "B"
Krog. Gro. (1.50z) ... 25
(25dr.)
16}
17
Lehman (2.40)
135pte
Am. Express (6) ....
102 *
102
Lig. Myers "B" -71
16 ct..
Salacot Mining......!
15hots.
Am. For. Pwr
4}
(4)
Ipo Mining.....
4 cts.
Itogons ...............................
Am. For. Pwr. $7 1st
il
Liq. Carb. (1)
19/3
Kaliano
...............
19,-
PI.
174 184
$15
Langzata (single) S.;
SIB
Am Locomotive
161 171
Lori. (1.20)
15
Exploration........
Am. Metal Co.
16
16
McIntyre (22)
$8
Shanghai Losus d.
$6
$3.50
Raubs
$8.40
Am. Pwr. and Lt
31
32
Mont. Ward
15.
Tenezuels Gold Fids
544
Am Radiator
14
141
Nash (1)
12
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Insurances
Cauton transce..
| $11
85 ots. Amtamoks
Balatros
37. ots
Baguio Goki 37 cta. $141 Benguet Consolidated
18 ct Do. Exploration
10 ots. Do. Goldasid
10. Big Wedge
22hots, told ver. 39ct
Gold Creek.............................
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QUOTATIONS
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-Hay
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Last Today's.
High Low Close Close Change 4.67 4.87 4.87) 4.66 unchanged Quiet 12.45 12.41 13,43 - 19.42 - unchanged
12.95 19.86 12.88 · 12.90 · 104 up
蛋
unchanged
High-1933/34 Low; Jan. 29. Jan 30. Change
Loew's (1)
.69 up .3Я up unchanged .02 ON .18 up
LATE NIGHT-
CABLES
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London Forecast
Stocks: General sentiment con- tinues to improve on Wall Street. Business at present is restricted pending Washington development
Cotton: The cotton market is ex- pected to open apathetic with prices unchanged. The proposed legislation for regulating the Com- modity Exchanges is checking busi- ness. The market is technically sound.
Rubber: Rubber prices are ex- pected to be better at the opening. Wheat: The wheat market is anticipated to open unchanged. The weather is continuing to be milder. Traders are awaiting the crop report.
A.O.F.C. New York Cables Proctor and Gamble Company of Cincinnati announced purchase of business and property of Philip. pine,
S.E. Levy & Co.'s Cables
The following cabled reports were furnished by Messrs. S. E. Levy & Co. Inst. night:
London Silver:-Spot: 24-5/16, down 1/8; Forward: 24-7/16, down 1/9.
London Silver Comment:-India sold while America bought. Mar- ket rules steady. "
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101.69 33.75
17.24
96.37 58.17
Last Sale Jan. 30 Jan. 31
97. 93
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22
221
751
137
134
28+
28$
40
41
231
234
91
g
49
50+
16
162:
251
-71
104
1051
27
274
321 324
191
194
381
371*
251
28
15+
16
Docks, WharTÉS,
Godowns, ata.
Am. Smelting
34
341
Nat. Bisc. (2)
261
28*
Am Sug. Ref (2)
62
61
Nat City Bk. (1)
221*
211*
$113
H.K. & K. Wharves
3114
Am. T. and T. (9)...
104.
1041
Nat, Da. P. (1.20)...
16
16.
NOVELIST DEAD
CORRESPONDENTS FOR
Providents (old). $1.25
30 ets.
Do. (new) 10 cts
440
HK & W. Docks...
112)
S. China Motos' A'
Do.
g"
Am. Tob "B" (5).... 82 Am, Waterworks (1) 13 Am Waterworks $6
pret (6)
82
Nat. Distillers" ........
28
261
13
Nat. Pwr. Lt.. (.80).......
7
WHITE, WELD & Co.; NEW YORK,
London, Feb. 1.,
Nat. Steel (1)
474
481
56 *
57.
NY. Central
171
172
$120 153
Shanghai Docks S
18
Anaconda 'Copper 101
+
104
N. Amer. (50c, 4%) 123
124
The death has occurred of the novelist Mr. J. S. Fletcher, who was the author of two hundred
and
New Engineerias: 3.
35
Atch. T. and 6. F.
Nor. Pacific
171
.174
thirty books:-
*309
Hongkowe
(2sd.)
454
454
Otis Elec. (.50)
· 144
144
Lands, Hotels," and
Reuter.
Atlantic Ref (1) .....
241
247
Owens-II, GI."(8)
861 87
Buildings
Atlas Corpn.
8+
8+
Pac, Gas (1.50)
141 14
$101
$5
360
3231
$12,
H.K. Hotels
$5.10
Auburn Automobile 231
237"
Pac. Ltng. (3)
214 217
$123
$10
$5.10
| E.K' Lands.......................9.) 349)
Metropolitan Lands....
H.K, Realties.......
8:21 Chins Do.....5.
Do. Debenturess.
Humphrey..
60
Do. 4% Debentures
Baldwin Locomotive
Packard Motors
DUKE OF GLOUCESTER
44
44
IN FIJI
Shanghai Lauda...>
Baltimore & Ohio...
111
11
Pennroad Corpn.
17
17
Bendix Aviation
151
151
Penn. Rly. (1)
211
211.
142
Bethlehem Steel
201
301
Phelps Dodge
Suwa, February 1.
131 .141
Boeing Airplane
94 9
Phill. Petro (1)
151
15 t
Borden Co. (1.80)
241
247
Pierce Arrow
New Asia Hotel
$45
Borg. Warner (1dr.)
201
294
Pro- & Gim(1.50)...
45)
- 451
of Gloucester aboard has arrived and he will stay six days in Fiji- Reuter.
NEW YORK STOCK
STOCK AND COMMODITY QUOTATIONS
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Jan. 31
Asia Realties “A”S.
Brook Man (3)
Pub. 6er N.J. (2.80) 26
281
Feb. 1 Close Open 10.30 10.45 11.00
$20
Do,
"B".
Cal..Pack (1.25)
39
39.
Pullman, Inc., (3)
,481
484
Sterling, New York-London
4871
487 487
$88
China Estates......
Case
541
55),
Radio Corpp.
51
5*
Cotton: March
12.36
12.36 12.35.
487 12.33
Cotton MI
Canadian Pacific
127
131
"Radio Keith Op...
2
2
NEW PORTRAIT
Cotton: July
12.43
12.42 12.42 12.40
$8.90
$9.10
374
S'hai Cottons(old)S.
Caterpillar Tract
377
38
Repub Steel
137
141
Rubber: March
12.75
12.65 - 12.66
12.66.
$74
315
Do.
(now)9.
Celanese
293
30%
Rey. Tob."B" (3)
477
48
#442
39.3
Zoong Sings......
89.40
Ch. Nat. Bk.. (1.40)...
251**
247*
Schenley
244
251
OF BOSWELL
Rubber: July
13.01
12.93 12.94 12.94
Wheat: May
961
1t
96 961
100
Wing On Textiles() 151
C'Peake Corp. (2.50) 391*
39+
Sears Roebuck
331
331
Wheat: July
882
88
88
Public Utilities
C'Peake Corp. and
Shell Union Oil
7
7
Corn: May
841
831
1201
Tramways
$201
Ohio (2.80).
4211
422
Simmons Co,
D
91
10
Poak Trauss (old).......] $61
Chrysler (14) .........
361
371
Soc.-Vac. (60)
...
131
141
$7
Do.
(new)...
บ
54
19
Star Ferries
Col, Gas & Elec. ....
61
7
Bra, Cal.. Ed
(1.50)
111
12+
$2
Yaumati Ferries
144
$803 $22
Com, Invest. Trust.... 57
581
Southern Pactac
151
154
***
$9.90
3701
Chins Lighta (old)... 39.90
$9.90
Comm Solv. (60)... 21
211
Southern.R......
124
121
Do. (now)...
L
Comm Sthin.
11
''
Stan. Brands (1)
177 177
H.K. Electrics $70
$25
12
*
$251
$25.00 $25
7/.
$104
Macao do.
Sandakan Lights ...
Telephones (old)...
Do. (new)..
$12.40 China Buses.....S.
Tractions
Do. (pref.).
Comm. Sthrn $6
Stan. Gas we
.4 ..37
cum. Pf. (6)
341
35
Sta, Oll Cal. (1)
$251
Congo-Nairn
(1.80)
32+
321
Sta O NJ (1)
$104
Cons. Gas. N.Z (2)
193
194
Ster. Pro. (2.80).........
Cons. Oll (28).
71 7
Studebaker. Corpn
30 30+ 407 41 591 502 11 -14
FAR
Cont. Can (3)
65
65.
Texas C. (1) .......
194.
$21
$1.95
$%
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Industrials
181
Malabon Sazare
TH
$20.
Caldbeck, (orded.
$191
Canton-Lou
$3.89
Cont. On (25)
174
171
Texas G, Bulp (2)
Corn Prod (3)
623
63
Transamerica (1.124)
331 51
Coty Inc.
52
61
Un
3243
$1.85
50 sta
531
$21
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$1.86
371
Maogrogors [pref..
Vements
Kopes
Miscellaneou
Dairy Farms ----,
Der A Wings..........
Amusements......
Ch. Etainmenta......
Constructions, (old) 31
Do. (now) 50 ots.
Lane Crawforda.... Mackintosh
Nanyang Tobacco...|$4.55
Sinceros #+#27344:39. Watsons $1.30
70 eta. Wm. Powells...]
***
Cwn, Cork $2.70 P
Car. and Carb (1.40)
451
46
$2.90
(2.70)
$1.95
14
3 cta
| Curtiss-Wright pos Curtiss Wright "A"
--2-----21
Un. Pac. Rlys. (8),.. 100. - ̄ ̄ ̄1017
Da. Aircraft Corp. 134-197-
Bh
Un. Air Line Trans....
Delaware & Hudson 354
$234
Douglas Aircraft '.....
+
Du Pont (2.60%) East. Kodak (4) .... 1124 Elec. Autolite Co.... 24 Elec. Bond & Share
224 937
36-1 .331
United Corpa. ...........................
24
21
Uni. Gas Impr. (1.20) 12)
943
Univ. Leaf Tob, (2), 521
-1121
US. Indus. "Alcohol...
25
8. Pipe Fdry. (50) 18
61
U.S. Rubber
$34
Elec. Bond 45 PT (5)
364
361.
US Rub. $8 1st Pf. 36k
Elec. Bond 30 PT (6)
41
+407
US Steel
++
18.10
Elec. Power & Light
2
21
U.S. Steel $7 PL. (2) 90
Fox Film "AN
107
101
Vanddium
155 ata
Frec. Texná (1.20)
201
21
Vick Chem (2.40z). 34
$2
M. Greyhounda
$1.35
S.. Enterprises
Gen. Am. Tr. (1.008a)
38
361
Warner Bros. Picta
$1.25
prem. prem.
United Thestras...
[Ch.G. 541926 G. Bda.)
H.K. Govt. 4% Loans
Do. Wallace Harper $105 ELK Wing Un
S'kal Vibro Pilong
Gen. Elec. (.80).
23
23+
West Union Tel. 294
90%.
Gen. Foods (1.80)
341
34 t
8%
Gen. Motors (14)
27%
Gen. Rly." Sigs....-(1),. Gillette Saf (1)
301 31 201 **26 • 138 134
West Air Brake (1) 25 West E. & M. (65) 37 Wilcox Oil and Gas 221 Woolworths (2.40)
*******) $203
$105 104
$101
Glidden Co. (1) Gold Dust (1-20)
• Bid
241 24
Call Money.
161
I possible mutilation
RAS TAFARI'S
Lack
showed himself alive to the advan- tages of modernising Abyssinia.
His task, however, has been no easy one. He lacks competent as- sistance. He is also faced with the opposition, open or. veiled, of a large and powerful section of
of Competent the nobility and priesthood.
Special Air Mall Servion)"
London, Jan 12 Ras Tafart has long anticipated the present tension between Abvs sinia and Italy.
Although his country is still in the feudal Middle Ages, the Em- Deror himself is by no means a Conservative...
On his visit to London in 1924 he
The former, occupy all the key positions in the Government: The latter comprise nearly a quarter of the male adult population."
Himself a man of peace he will keep w restraining hand the Jingces who remember with pride
.on
10
1 ex. div.
GOLF RULES
No Changes This
Year
(Special Alr Mall Services
London, Jan, 12, There will be no changes in the rules governing the game of golf during 1936.
Dec...
one cannot be quite certain of the Mar. 12.71 12.82 12.82 12.74 12.75 correct attribution, but Gainsbor- May 12.86 12.94 12.97 12.86 12.80 ough is written all over the por- July 13.01 19.08 13.08 13.01, 13.01 trait. It has all his zeatness of Sept. 18.18 13.26 13.27 13.19 £3.22 handling and all his certainty of Oct. 13.24 13.34 13.35 13.27 13.27 The Rules of Golf Committee composition. In the Interests of Total gales: 240 lóta.
13.49 13:50 13.438 13.438 undertake one of the most im- art scholarship and in those of portant and onerous tasks in con- the owner it would, however, at nection with the game..
this stage be unfair to insist up- Annually this small body of on go great a name. men have to adjudicate upon all sorts of questions and problems raised by the biggest and the lost Gainsborough. Even then It smallest clubs in the country.
would be of much historical in- terest.
Among those who take an ac- tive part in this aspect of golf government are such well-known men as W. Norman Boase, R. E. de Montmorency, and Roger We thered, while a Frenchman, Baron Members of the Rules of Golf Francois de Bellet, and an Amer Committee of St. Andrews the ican; 3. Frederic Byers; have been But that was before the days controlling body of the game, met co-opted in order to attain unani. of aeroplanes, tanks and all the in London recently but no Eug-mity between Great Britain.
gested changes were discussed. scientific warfare.
France, and the United States,
the battle of Adowa in 1896, when
an Italian force of over 13,000 men was cut to pieces,
Chicago Wheat May 201 90 961 DOT 901 „July do 884 87188 851 881 Interesting Riddle
Sept 867 864 864 874 87 Conceivably it is a copy of a Wednesday's sales: [9,015,000
bushels
Chicago Corn
831 831. 841841 791791
unquoted
December
817 811 82 82 New York Sugar a
Old. Old 1.37 1.85/86 1.85/87
New
New New 1.85 unq 1.83/85 Old Old..
1.91 1.89/911.81/91
New New New .1.89 1.88/90 1.88/89
Old Old Old 1.05 1.94/95 1.85/90
New 1.94 1.93/94 1.93/94 "Old Old Old
New New
2.00 1.99/00 2.00/00 New New New 1.99 1.97/88 1.08/98 Old Old Old"
2.06/07 2.07/08 New New New
2.03/05 2,05/08- Total sales: Old: 1,000 tons; New!
1,000 tons, m
New York Suk Mar 1,351 1.35 1.361 1.35) 1.36 May 1 364 1.36 137 136 1.364. July1.35 1.381 1.361 1.381 1.361- Total sales: 44 lots.
Montreal Silver
801 801 Mar. 54.25 53,77 54.10 52.70 53.007
Gainsborough, it will be remem- May 831 bered, was not until the end of July 791 his life in Reynolde's good booka Sept. 77 and Reynolds being through Total sales: 5,280,000 bushels Johnson, the intimate friend of
Boswell, it would hardly be ex- pected that the biographer would e
so that
sit for Reynolds's chlet rival. ner Gabisbatough died in 1788.
It appears the new portrait Boswell was born shows that he did.”
he would be 43
It is in the artist's latest man- died.
May 54.65 54.40 54.55 53.95-53.85 July 55.45 55.10:55.10 54.35 64.55 Sept. 56.15 85.65 55.00 55:10 55.20 Total sales: 127 contracts A
A
New York Metal
Jaz 28
Jan 31
30.30%
6.15 50.58
Der March19
111
37:
534- 37* :19
141
147
37
36
37
90 †
Portrait Gallery),
A Gainsborough
Work?
(Special Air Mall Service?
London, Jan 12,
A hitherto unpublished portrait of James Boswell, Johnson's bio- grapher, has just come to light in Leicester.
E. Bond and Share
Int. Tel and "Tel Loew's Inc. Montgomery W. National Distillers New York Central Standard Oil Co. of NJ. US. Steel.
COMMODITIES PRICES
194
It is a small picture, but shows 344
Boswell full-length, and .. 51
is of peculiar biographical interest be- cause it exhibits: Boswell in a characteristic pose, standing un- der-a-lordly-tree-with-bat-in-one hand and an elaborately tasseled cane in the other, an epitome of elegance and arrogance.. ju
The head is exceedingly well } painted and the likeness perfect, as far as one can judge from the few portraits of Boswell 'which have survived (see especially the Dance drawing in the National Mar. 12.38 12.37 12.37 12:35 12.36
Closing Opening Closing
May 12.42 12.42 12.42 12.42 12.42
Winnipeg Wheat May
*823
04 822821
STOCKS
American Smelting
341 347
341
342
Consolidated gas of N.Y. Du Pont......
191
193
· 191
943
041
61 61 CL
General Motors
31
311
307 31
31
9
9
9
9
327
321
329 -321
26
261 251 357 257
261
261.
174
201 171
281 28号
174 17
417
413
37
418 45
30
·361861
41
3=-=-E-S
341
19%
941
9
321
361
Winnipeg Whent
May July
824 82
New York, Feb. 1. York Cotton
January 31
821 821 824 822
Old
March"
Old
181
·181* 351
31
.37
291
25
371
The picture, which is the pro- July 12.44 12.42 12.43 12.43 12.43 May perty of Mr. EF. Miles is at Oct. 12.35 12.33 12.33 12.25 1235 present obscured by at least one Dec 12.42 12.41 12.41 12.42 12.42 coat of old and dirty varnish. It Jan. 12.42 12.42A 12.42a 12.43 12.43: was in this condition when the (1935); present owner inherited it from Spot 12.60 his parents many years ago,
Juk
12.60
New
York Rabber:
538 54 1% 1%
Until the varnish is removed
Sept