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Receivership Asked By Graphophere Company Yesterday By Associated Press Wilmington, Del., February 9.-Application for a receivership for the Columbia Graphophone Manufacturing company, a Delaware corporation, was made today in the United States district court. Insolvency is alleged. The amount of the liabilities is put at $19,900,000 to banks and financial creditors in addition to $3,000,000 to creditors. No list of assets is made. Washington, February 9.-Hay dealers and producers before the interstate commerce commission today in the general investigation of transportation rate levels asked for a removal of all the increases in freights on their products which have been instituted since 1920. W. I. Biles, president of the National Hay assoclation, said that the higher freight rates of recent years had localized the hay business. Reductions of 10 per cent and 16 per cent in the rates granted during the last six months, Mr. Biles added. had stimulated the movement of hay but not restored the industry to normal. Indianapolis, February 9.-With reports showing widespread unemployment among coal miners before it, the scale committee of the United Mine Workers of America began consideration today of the wage demands affecting the entire soft coal Industry that will be presented to the union special convention here next week. Waycross, Ga., February 9.-One hundred employees of the Atlantic Coast Line railway were returned to work here this morning, most of them being employed in the car repair department. More than 600 men were laid off just before Christmas, but with the shift put back to work today less than 100 of those made Idle are still out of employment, it was stated. Washington, February 9.-The bill creating a commission and otherwise making provision for the conversion of the $11,000,000,000 debt owed the United States by the allied powers, was signed today by President Harding. Charleston, W. Va., February 9.The naval ordnance plant at South Charleston was under orders today from Secretary Denby of the navy department, to close at once and to lay off hands without pay until June 30, all employees except those necessary for maintenance and protection of the plant. Approximately 1,550 of the 7.000 employees of the Washington navy yard were handed tem, porary furloughs without pay when they presented themselves today for work. Most of the men furloughed were machinists. 1 Atlanta, February 9.-Last legal rites over the defunct Neal bank were performed today when Superior Court Judge John T. Pendleton turned over the remaining assets to W. Carroll Latimer, an attorney, for $500. t New York, February 9.-The grand e jury today commenced an investigat tion into the reasons for failure of ) a number of brokerage houses accused of bucketshop operations. Cases