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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

DULUTH, Mimi. April 3o.-Closing:
Flax seed. May. s3.12ia asked; July. Ss.s6
asked.
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CHICAGO. April 30.-Onons steady:
Texas crates. white wax best, $3.50 $50 !;
poor So: yellow Bermudas $2.75@ 3: or
binary. $2.50d2.75 poor, s161.25. Sweet
pers, Nancy Halls s1.5061.65. Celery.
slightly stronger; Florida. crates. golden
self blanching. 4-6 dozen. S2.50n3; s
dozen. $2m2.5O; French strain. 4-6 dozen.
fair. s2@2.25. Tomatoes firm; Florida
repacked 6s fancy. s6@6.5o few. $500
best. $3.50; choice. s5@5.5o; few. $3.50;
best. $3.50. Spinach steady; Texas. bush
els, broad leaf, s1.2561.5o: Louisiana bar
rels broad leaf. s5@5.5o. Strawberries
weak; Louisian crataes good. mostly
$3.50: few, 1865: fair, s3@325: poor,
$3.50; Alabama pony REFERS, poor. zoe
quart. Cabbage weaker: Alabama, Louisi-
ana barrel crates, flat, $4.5065.
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FOREIGN RONDS
NAVAL STORES

SAVANNAH. Ga. April 2o.-Turpentine
firm. s1.2o: sales. $50; receipts, 1872; ship
ments. 1859; stock. 2.777
Rosin firm: sales. 1879: receipts, 5o6
shipments o090: stock SIS. $40.
Quote r to NJ. s4.s71ais N. $3.50; Wg,
$3.50; WV. $40
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RANK OF GERMANY STATEMENT

BERLIN. ApriT 3O.-The .staIentht %,
ethe Imperial Bank of Germany as OF
April 20 sows the following changes
Total coin and bullion increased 2,3lb,-
$4,000 marks Gold decreased Si.92l,O 900
marks. Treasury and loan association
notes increased 124,337, 45S,o00 marks.
600 marks Bills of exchange and cheques
increased III. ga 900 marks. Discount
and treasury bills increased 37S.46272S, o0o
marks Advances increased 2,776,7I0,OoO
marks Investments increased 65a56. 600
marks. Other assets increased &c. O65, 235, :.
600 marks. Notes in circulation Increased
95s 0s7ss1 600 marks. Deposits decreased
517293. OBI 900 marks. other liabilities de.
creased 2s.s1i.212.O00 marks. Total goid
holdings $4,000 MARKS. OF whlch lo4,-
1Sc.Gnn marks are depOsited abroad
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CHICAGO. April 30.-Armonr preferred
rs: Comm onw eaIth Edison. 12si2 Diamond
Match ia: Libby Mcneil. SIS; Middle
west Utilities 4s National Leather. 5.s ::
standarh Gas. 29iA; Swift e. Co. 1oo z :
swift International. 10: Union Narnide
sl5s: Wahl aO yellow Mfg. Il, go; yell
ii
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HORSES AND MULES

EAST ST. LOUIS. ILL.,. April 3O.-Horses
and mules steady. Demand for mules
favored rugged of LOO pounds and up
Horses, good to choice drafts, s155 q 1ao.
medium to good drafts. |115@155; good to
chunks s45 so; choice southern horses,
800 %; fair TO good southern. SS0@55;
smooth outhed southerners. S1o@3o
Mules Draft, 16 to II hands s1S5 q $50;
sugar. 16 to 1872 hands. s175@225 mine,
IS to 15.2 hands. s126@175; top cotton
15.2 to Is hands. $3.50 q $50; cotton, is OF
16.2 hands. s100@125 cotton. small.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW yORK April 30.-Foreign eX-
change easy: quotations in cents: Great
Britain. demand, 4.s3l4 cables, 4.6S
6O1day bills on banks, 461&. France, de,
mand, SAL; cables 6.75. Italy, 400 and
4.s01a; Belgium. 5.s1A and 5.s2; Germany;
.o03ila and .oo31 q: Holland, 1913 ana no
denmark. 1853; Switzerland. 1909; Spain,
1927: Greece 40: Poland. 90. 81; Czecho-
Sloval<ia 2.97; Argentina. S6.45; Brazil,
1910. Montreal, 9S 3-32.
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JACKSONVILLE. Fla. April 3o.-Tur-
pentine, nothing doing 1870; no sales: re-
Rosin firm: sales. $50; receipts. 1854;
shipments. 3.770; stock. 115,4s2.
Quote: q to s4.sod 4.ss; F to I, s4.s5
x. s4.s5m4ao: NJ. $4,000 500; N, $500;
WIG, $3.50; WV, $40
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POPULAR ISSUES
DROP FROM ONE
TO SEVEN POINTS,

NEW YORK, April 30-Stoek
prices, after having fluctuated with
in a narrow 3-point trading area
since early in March. broke sharply
in the last hour of today's stock
market. Popular issues dropped 1 to
Z points and railroad favorites 1 to )
points below Saturdays final quota
tions, many of them TO new low
prices for the year.
The apparent failure of the mar
ket to respond to good news in the
last few weeks, combined with I'M
favorable developments in the sugar
and oil industries. encouraged bear
operations. although there was moth
ing new in the days news to greatly
Influence prices.
The rapidity of the decline, partic-
ular!y in the last hour. when APP
proXimately 40 per cent of the days
business was transacted. resulted IN
the wipin3 out of number of weak
erea marginal accounts. This forced
liquid alton, together with the calling
ei loans by banks in anticipation Of
May | requirements. accelerated the
downward trend.
United states Steel broke below
% for tho first time this year. es
tablshing a new low at lo2is OF rs
points below last weeks final sale.
Other stocks which dropped To new
& : Aloohol at 50. Famous Players
so, Brown Shoe at 81. Sears-Roebuel
~ 81. Reading at AZ. st. Paul ut
21la and New York Central at 92$s.
the extreme losses ranging from /
10 points.
y heavy tone was apparent at the
outset Wees end reductions in the
Prices OF refined sHsar and grow
lug props ganda for a BUYERS strike
brought about Il rather free Offering
Of the sugar shares. which yielded
readily TO selling pressure. Reports
of another cut in Md-Continent
er1da oil prices was used IS an eX-
ci.se to depress the oil stocks.
The only outstanding stocks TO
show Il net gain were Consolidated
Cigar, National Cloak and Suit, Rand
Mines and Union Bag and Paper,
each of which advanced about
point. but the turnover in each case
WAS small.
Gail money opeue1 and renewed
AZ 81, per cent. but advanced to g
in the late afternoon Some short
time loans were arranged at "a per
cent. but bankers continued to hold
out for 5is per cent for the Longer
maturltics. Trading IN commercial
paper was quiet. with prime names
commanding ) and "a per cent.
Prc-holidaV :ullncss in the Eu-
ropean foreign exchange markets
resulted in a small volume of bust
ness here, the principal rates show
ing little change on the day. De
mand sterling held fairly steady
around s4.63A and French francs
eased slightly to Cts cents
DAYS total sales. l,15A,o0O shares
twenty industrials averaged 9S.Ss;
net loss, 225. High 1928, 1898; low,
$685..
twenty railroads averaged $3.50;
net loss, LA. High 1923. 9O.6o; low,
S4.53.
LONDON MONEY
LONDON April 3o.-Bar silver So sis
pence per ounce. Money, IA per cent
Discount rates: Short bills, Ia "a a per
cent: three months bills, per cent.
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CHICAGO VEGETABLES

BAR SILVER
NEW YORK, April 30.-Foreign bar
silver 6S7sc Mexican dollars, 52ssc.
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NEW YORK. April 3O.-Flour quiet !;
spring patents. s6.75@7.25; spring clears
s5.5O@6.40. Buckwheat inactive; Amer
lean, s2.O5T2.10; Canadian, $1.s661.Ss.
Pork quiet; mess s27.50@2S: family. s32@
s11.75@11s5. Tallow easy; special loose.
sac; extra sac.
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OIL CITY REPORT
OIL CITY, Pa, April 3o.-Credit bal
ances. 1915 Runs, 1850; average
5l,020; shipments, $1,000; average
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NEW YORK, April so.-Cattle: Re-
ceipts. 1850; market irregular; steers,
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LONDON April Solar silver, So S-16
nence per ounce. Money, IA per cent
Discount rates: Short bills, l y a u per
cent; three months bills. per cent
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EAST ST. LOUIS. ILL.,. April so.-Sheep.
higher. Top, SEES; bulk, s1225@l2.35:
receipts, 1000; clipped lambs. % to soc
other classes steady. Bulk spring lambs.
no; clipped wethers. $500 clipped ewes,
$3.50; no wool lambs or wool ewes on
Evening star., 1923-03-31

U.S.. A static Fleet
Leaving Manila
On Way to Japan

BY Wireless to The star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1923.
MANILA. March 31.-The north
ward movement of the American
Asiatic fleet. with Rear Admiral
Edwin A Anderson in command.
aboard the flagship Huron. started
at l am. this morning, the first
contingent Of the feet sailing to-
ward Japan.
Six destroyers of the thirty
eighth division will follow in
week. The honor of visiting Japan
is being accorded vessels Of the
fleet scoring the highest records
in general efficiency during the
winter mancuyers. Three de-
stroyers of the division with the
flagship Huron will divide the time
between April 6 and 20 in visits
to Yokohama and Kobe. Other de-
Stroyers arriving later will remain
at the same ports until May 3. The
visit to Japan is part of the
fleets annual courtesy" calls at
ports of varions nations in the
orient.
Evening star., 1923-03-31
Ex-COMMISSIONER
J. B. WIGHT DIES
Official Here From 1897 to 1900
Succumbs at Montclair.
N. J., Home.

John Brewer Wight. Commissioner
of the District from 1897 to 1900. died
today at his home in Montclair, N. J..
Mr.. Wight was knocked down by a
truck In New York two years ago.
and injuries received at that time are
understood to have led to his death.
Funeral services will be held at
4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at
Montclair. after which the body will
be brought to this city for interment
at Oak Hill cemetery
Mr.. Wight was born in the District
in 1858, the son Of o. c. Wight. head
of the old Rittenhouse Academy He
was supervisor of the Gallaudet Col
lege in 1876. Later he entered the
real estate business. He was one of
the first secretaries of the Board Of
Trade.
Always interested in the civic develop
ment Of the National Capital, Mr.
Wight was appointed Commissioner in
1897, holding the position for one term
Of three years. Following this service
he resumed business connections here
Mr.. Wight was member of the
Sons Of the American Revolution and
of the Society Of Colonial Wars. He
was prominent in the affairs of the
First Presbyterian Church and later
in the Church Of the Covenant
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Anna X. Wight; a son. Goulding
Wight Of fMontclair, and a brother and
sister, Lloyd 3. Wight and Miss
Mamie Wight, both of this city.
Evening star., 1923-03-31
6 REPORTED KILLED
BY FRENCH IN ESSEN
Military Turns Machine Guns
on Threatening Krupp
Plant Workers.
20 OTHERS WOUNDED
Invaders Seize More Coal Mines.
Monarchists Believed Plan
ing New Move.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 31.-Six German
workers at the Krupp plant in Essen
have been killed and twenty injured
in a conflict with the French military,
says Central News dispatch from
Essen today.
The trouble occurred through the
French Unexpectedly proceeding to
occupy certain of the Krupps motor
works. whereupon the workers stop
ped the machinery and went outside
to offer opposition, the message states.
The officer in charge of the French
tried to persuade the men to return
to duty, but they refused and sur
rounded the troops, threatening them
with attack unless they withdrew
The officer pointed out that he must
carry out his orders. but the workers
were obdurate. declaring they would
defend their plant.
Four machine guns then opened
fire. adds the message, and six work
ers fell dead. while twenty We're seri-
ously wounded. The remainder scat
tered and the French then proceeded
to occupy the works.
Evening star., 1923-03-31
DUNK" SAYS BURNS.
Federal Chief Declares Bomb Con-
fession Unworthy Of Belief.

NEW YORK, March 31.-The report
from Los Angeles last night that Her
bert Wilson, former evangelist,
convicted of murder and charged with
robbery. had told the police he could
solve the Wall street bomb explosion
mystery Of September IT, 1920, today
was received differently in different
quarters.
Bunk" pronounced Chief William
J. Burns of the bureau of investiga-
ton. of the Department of Justice,
when the report was shown to him at
Interesting, if true" commented
Agency here, when they were inform
ed. They predicted that If Wilson re-
veals amy names, we shall be able to
Bunk" echoed William J. Flynn,
former chief of the Departmnt of JUS
tice, when the dispatches were read to
him here.
New York police officials expressed
their belief that the bomb "confes-
stay the execution Of his sentence
for murder. They requested the Los
Angeles authorities. however. to
forward Wilson'S Bertillon record and
details Of his story 80 that they
might check with information on file
here.
The report of Wilson's confession
emanated with the Los Angeles
Times. which published a story to-
day quoting Wilson as having con-
officials. there that he made the bomb
himself and sold it to a man who has
been charged with the guilty knowl-
IContinued on Page 2, Column Al
Evening star., 1923-03-31
FAIR BUT COLD DAY
EASTER PROMISE
"Rising Temperature Forecast
Holds Out Hope for Tomor-
rows Paraders.

Get out your new Easter bonnet!
Tomorrow, the weather man says.
may awaken fair and cold, too cool
perhaps for those dreaming of a gay
and dazzling Easter parade. but it
will be fair. and. with rising tenn
perature."
The blustery March wind that SEEM
ed ready last night and today to
blow the month out Ike two lions
failed, to the relief Of the entire city,
TO bring forth the rain and snow fore
cast for today. The bright cold
ering on their way to get the last
fair bits of Easter regalia. in fond
hopes for the morrow.
The wind, too, will subside, ac
cording to the prospects. But let the
weather forecaster tell you the whole
story:
"Fair tonight and Sunday; contin-
ued cold tonight and Sunday morn
ing, followed by rising temperature.
Lowest temperature fortnight, 20 de-
grees or slightly lower. Rapidly
rising temperature Monday. Strong
northwest winds diminishing to-
night"
generally fair for Easter, according
TO reports to headquarters. Today
the temperature is considerably be-
low normal east of the Rocky noun
tains, but somewhat above west of
the mountains. There was some lit
tie rain during the past twenty-four
hours only on the two coasts, Atlantic
and Pacific.
But, watch your step. because to-
morrow is not only Easter. it 10
April fool. .. q.
Evening star., 1923-03-31
ENDURANCE FLYERS
ARE FORCED DOWN
Engine Trouble Prevents Army
Ayiators Continuing Effort to
Break Record.

Nv the Associated Press.
DAYTON, Ohio, March 31.-The at
tempted endurance flights of Lieuts.
7. H. Macready and Oakley G. Kelly
ended in failure today when the IT,,
rebuilt Fokker monoplane, developed
engine trouble and the two were
forced to land at Wilbur Wright
Field.
There was no indication today as
to when the flight would be attempt
ed again. The two are seeking to
better their own endurance record
of AZ hours, is minutes and Is seconds.
However, at noon today twelve
ships will take off at Wright Field
in an attempt to break the 500 and
1000 kilometer speed RECORDS estab-
lished in France yesterday by Lieuts.
Battelier and Carrier, who flew 500
and 1000 kflometers in hours AZ
minutes and 81 3-5 seconds and 6
hours 80 minutes and 20 seconds,
respectively.
Half will try for the 500-kilometer
record and the other. half for the
1000 -kilometer mark.
Macready and Kelly were forced
down after they had covered 527
miles and flown seven hours and
fifty three minutes. They landed at
1905 They had taken off at 4:12
yesterday afternoon.
The T-2 had just been outfitted
with new 400-horsepower liberty
motor and 1t was the same sort of
engine trouble which compelled them
to land last fall on an attempted
transcontinental flight.
Evening star., 1923-03-31
DISTRICT SOON TO HAVE MODEL
TIN CAN TOURIST CAMP OF u. S.

Extensive improvements are being
made at the public tourists camp in
Last Potomac Park and when these
will have been completed, within the
next month or so Col. Sheriff., officer
in charge of public buildings and
grounds, is of the opinion that the
National Capital will have camping
facilities for the so-called "tin can
tourists" that will compaye favora-
bly, with any in the United States.
Not only have the camp grounds
been extended so as to accommo-
date more tourists, but numerous in
lovations have been introduced to
add to the comfort ard convenience
of the thousands who will patronize
the place. Most prominent among
the Improvements is the introduc-
tion of large headquarters or ad
ministration> building. This building,
which formerly was used by the
general supply committee of the
government as a garage and store
house, has been remodeied and fitted
up to serve the convenience of the
tourists.
Besides serving as a general ad-
ministration building and headquar-
ters for the automobile tourists it
Evening star., 1923-03-31
ORDERED TO WORK.
Rail Strikers Must Return to Jobs
or Leave District.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DCESSELDORF. March 31-Gen
DeGoutte's proclamation that all
striking German railway workers In
the occupied zone must either return
to work or be expelled finds the allies
in possession Of all Ruhr and Rhine
land rail lines except those in the
British area.
Enforcement of the order, it seems,
will OFFER the transportation officials
something of a problem, for approxt-
mately half a million persons. includ-
ing the families of the men, may be
affected 1t is expected that the proc
ess of expulsion will take several
weeks. and special transportation to
the frontier must be provided
The 10000. 100000 marks and 10000
French francs which French customs
officers seized in an automobile at
Hoechst yesterday would be used to-
ward defraying the expenses of
French troops on the left bank of the
Rhine. The money was being shipped
TO Wiesbaden by the Frankfort
branch.
Evening star., 1923-03-31
BIG FIRES THREATEN
CHESAPEAKE BEACH
AND BOILING FIELD
Four Men Hurt When HANGAR
Here Is EnveIoped After
Chemical Blast.
D. c. FIRE APPARATUS
MAKES RECORD RUN
Damages May Reach 100000.
High Winds Add 10 Troubles of
Those Fighting Flames.

Two OF the most disastrous blazes
III recent months today sent the
Washington fire apparatus on rec
ordbreaking long distance run to
Chesapeake Beach, Md. and taxed
the utmost efficiency OF the fire de-
partment in preventing the destruc-
tion of the Army air service station
at Boiling Field. In both instances
northwest winds of galelike velocity
spread the flames and added corsid-
erably to the total damage.
The Photographic headquarters
and a hangar, together with one
airplane and much valuable equip
ment, were destroyed in the Boiling
Field fire. The blaze at Chesapeake
Beach completely wiped out the
Belvedere Hotel and a combined
cottage and grocery store in its
vicinity. Damages by both fires. it
is believed, will run up to S500000
Evening star., 1923-03-31
PRIEST LIVES DESPITE
DENIAL OF CLEMENCY
Appeals From Foreign ENJOYS Fail
to Change Decision of
Soviet.

MOSCOW, March 81, > p.m.-The
Heath sentence imposed on Vicar Cen
eral Butchkavitch, Communication Of
which was denied by the central ex-
ecutive committee. has not yet been
ca4ricd out. it was said at o'clock
this afternoon.
The general impression last night
seemed to be that there was slight
proba bility of the central executive
committee changing its decision to
grant no clemency to the prelate. Ap-
peals have been made to the foreign
office by the heads Of the Polish, Brit
ish. CzechoSlovakian and Italian mis-
sionS.
Under ordinary circumstances, when
clemency is refused an execution is
carried out within a few hours.
Whether the central executive COM
mitteo net again yesterday to recon-
slider its decision in view of the many
erbal appeals could not be ascer-
rained officially this morning
Father Walsh, representative of the
catholic welfare board, told the cor
Respondent he mad had no answer to
| his request that he be allowed to ad-
minister the last sacrament to Mgr.
IBuychkavitch.
'fhe foreign legations which asked
That clemency be granted to the prel-
te were with,u informal tion at noon
as to whether he had been executed.
Evening star., 1923-03-31
ARMY OFF|CERROW
|SORDEREDP PROBED
Secretary Weeks Requests
Gen. HeImick to Investigate
Conger-RandIe Case.

Secretary Weeks has ordered Maj,
Cen. Eli A. HeImick inspector gen
eral of the Army, to make an official
investigation into the controversy be-
tween Col. Arthur l.. Conger. COM
manding the Goth Infantry in Texas.
and Capt. Edwin IL. Randle of the
same organization.
The investigation will begin i'm
mediately under an officer attached
to Gen. Helmick's office on duty at
corps headquarters at San Antonio.
The War Secretary said the investi-
cation had been ordered before Louis
X. Karns of indianapolis reached
Washington and discussed the case
with him today.
Secretary Weeks decided that the
investigation should be made after
reading a letter from Mrs. Randle,
sister of Mr.. karns. which is under
stood to have alleged that she. as the
wife of Capt Randle, had suffered as
a result of remarks concerning her
which are reported to have been
made by Col. Conger.
Mr.. Karns conferred briefly with
the Secretary, and is understood to
have said that the action already
taken was entirely satisfactory to
him.
Evening star., 1923-03-31
BOMB CONFESSION
ST|RS j. S. AGENTS
Probe of Wall Street Outrage
Resumed After Convict Ad-
mits Designing Machine.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Calf, March 31.-
Many Of the details OF the purported
confession of Herbert Wilson, con-
vlcted murderer, alleged mail robber
and former evangelist that he manu-
factured the explosive in the bomb
which killed thirty-nine persons and
destroyed property valued at thou
sands Of dollars in Wall street, New
York city, September II, 1920, are
withheld from the public for the
present" it was admitted today by
county and federal agents.
Wilson, prisoner in the Los
Angeles county Jail, has been ques-
toned at length many times by
groups Of deputy sherifrs and postal
inspectors, according to the Los
Angeles Times, and these officers ex-
pect others of various branches Of the
federal government, including W. ].
Burns. director of the bureau Of in
Testigation of the Department of
Justice, to come here to try to obtain
RULER information than they yet have
persuaded Wilson to give.
Admits Designing Bomb.
Wilson is said by Los Angeles off,
GERS to have told them he had de-
signed the bomb and manufactured
some of its most intricate parts at
his home here, while under the i'm
preston It was to be used by bank
burglars who wanted to wreck a
vault to hide evidence of having
opened it by using the combination.
He stated he went east in August be-
fore the September tragedy. and, at
a point near New Yory city. met a man
who employed him to construct the
over only few days before the ex-
plosion.
Later, he was quoted, he learned
from friends in the underworld"
what use had been made of the bomb
and still later recognized a publish
ed photograph of a man in Warsaw
Poland. as that of the purchaser of
the internal machine
While officers said they viewed the
alleged confession with more or less
skepticism. "the fact remained that
Wilson had made it," and they could
see little he could hope to gain if it
been convicted of murder, still faced
possible trial for mail robbery-the
government preferring to keep that
in abeyance pending the result of his
trial for the murder of Herbert r.
Cox, his alleged accomplishment also
faced trials for other felonies grow
ing out Of a break from Jail last Octo-
Der. Wilson indicated he was actu-
ated by regret for earlier mistakes"