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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
Flat Crepe, $2.95

For conservative dress, there is nothing 90 popular and beautiful as flat crepe All the new Spring shades. You will do well to com pare this with other crepes before buying
 Burgers silks-Annex First Fioor)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
Colored Ratines, 38c Yard

Fifty pieces of 36-inch ratines, in white and all the pretty Spring shades in demand for dresses, coat suits, etc. Extra special, 38c yard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01

Beautiful quality of new silk and cotton plisse crepes so much in de- mand for undergarments, gowns etc. Comes in stripe or plaid effects, in beautiful shades, such as pink, hello, blue, honeydew, also white. 63o yard.
 Burgers Cot
Evening star., 1923-06-02
$50, 900 AND WHISKY
SEIZED BY RAIDERS
Money Found in Cedar Chest
Held as Evidence of Ex-
tent of Business.

Sixty thousand dollars in cash and
large number of pints and half
pints of whisky were found in the
home Of Charles Brown, colored, Ala
n street northwest, last night, when
the place was raided by Lieut.. Davis,
Sergt. McQuade and Detective Bauer,
the raiding officers say.
The whisky was done up in attrac-
tive packages, ready for delivery
The money was found in a cedar
chest. The whisky was confiscated
and the money placed in charge of an
officer.
Sergt. McQuade. one Of the raiding
party. said that Brown has been ar
rested number of times for violat-
ing the national prohibition law and
has paid large fines McQuade says
that Brown operates a line OF taxi
cabs for hire as a camoufiage for his
bootlegging, the man being described
by McQuade as one of the largest
bootleggers in the city. The cash
police as evidence of at least some
proportion of the business conducted
by Brown in the alleged Illicit sale of
WHISTLES.
McQuade says that the whiskies
confiscated last night from Brown
were rye whiskies made before the
Volstead act went into effect. When
Brown was taken by the police seven
other men We're arrested. but they
on q $1.500 bond. He was arraigned
in the United States branch of Police
Court today and pleaded not guilty
and demanded a trial by Jury. The
case went over for assignment. The
bond was renewed.
Evening star., 1923-06-02
BY STUART r. WEST.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, June 2-The out
standing features of the past week
in the financial world have been a
renewed decline in the commodity
markets, further recovery followed
by swift reaction on the Stock EX-
change, dwindling interest in in
vestment bonds and another collapse
in the German mark.
Wheat and cotton have gone down
not because demand has fallen off.
but because both the grain trade and
the cotton trade had been setting too
much store on the unusually cold
spring. retarding farm operations and
reducing the prospect for the new
crop. The government estimates on
cotton proved to be we'll above eN-
pectations. The course of the wheat
market has suggested that similar
miscalculation has been made there'
too.
Farm Prices UnsettIing Factor.
At all events the decline in farm
prices. calling into question the fu-
ture buying power of the harvest
states. has been an unsettling factor
in the situation. Another disappolnt-
the Judgment expressed in the copper
industry a week ago, that the read
justment in this quarter was COM
plete The price of the metal, after
having turned upward from Is to Is y
cents pound came down to 14s4 thus
wiping out all the gain since the
middle Of January
At the same time the latest figures
on oil production have shown that so
far the price cutting has not had
the desired effect of reducing output,
but that, on the contrary, there has
been some increase. Under these cir
cumstances talk of a still further
decline in crude oil prices is not un-
reasonable.
New Steel Bookings DwindlinE.
Up to now the reaction in steel quo
tations has been comparatively small,
the output at the mills has been we'll
maintained and there have been no
cancellations to speak of. But, on the
other hand, steel plants are oper-
ating to large extent on old busi-
ness. New bookings have been fall
ing further behind current shipments
than they were even a week ago.
This raises the doubt whether con-
sumers will fill their full require
ments for the third quarter until
there has been more of a concession
in prices.
These sum up what may be classed
Evening star., 1923-06-02
PROPAGANDA G|LDS.
POISON RUM FLOOD
Smuggling Tales Give Ped
dIerS Chance to Unload
Same Old Stuff.

The news being whispered around
town that huge quantities of first
class "smuggled" hooch has been re-
ceived in Washington will be used
next week as propaganda by boot
leggers to casual customers in uu
loading liquor unfit for human CON
sumption.
Indications of this was had today.
when it was learned that corn whisky.
doctoTed and artifically colored to the
approximate tint of rye and Scotch
was being handed out to purchasers
with the smooth whisper that this is
in from the rum fleet"
Regret Stock on Hand.
The fact that Washington holds al
ready considerable amount of whIs.
KY that is just as good as pre-war
prominent dry" exponents. but tba
situation that the spread of sucb
news has brought about in giving
constituencies poison purveyors an.
opportunity to dupe their "lambs'|
with the word that they are handling
"smuggled goods" that are genuine
Is declared to be even more deplora-s
Bile.
Plans have been completed for run
ming in hundreds of gallons of rye
whlSky next week; which is to be a
combination of either corn liquor or
alcohol. caromel colorings. fusel oil,
and some favoring extract. This is
known in the inner circle" of the
less aristocratc bootleggers. Orders
already are being placed for some Of
this supply. Ways and means f6rS
getting in past the Gordon of drs
agents surrounding the District have
ben laid out.
Prohibition enforcement experts do
not hesitate TO brand the talk Of
good liquor coming into Washing
ton already as bootleg propaganda"
favoring the element specializing in
stomach-rotting beverages. {
Chance to Unload. :,
Ralph Ruby, assistant divisional
chief of this Jurisdiction. a few DAYS
ago in a statement said:
Much Of the talk of good LIQUOR
getting into town is being heraided
street-corner peddlers. They're glad
to hear that such word is being
spread. 1t gives them a chance TO
unload their worse stuff
Edgar \. Read, divisional chief Of
the dry forces here, concurs in this
statement. He declared that all pos
sible precautions are being taken to
keep the liquor out of Washington.
but that all the force in the world
cannot stop seemingly intelligent
men from investing in terrible stuff
in the belief they are getting genuine
LIQUOR
cases out of ten" one of the prohibi-
ton men declared. For every quart
of good liquor that is sold at least
nine quarts of a beverage that is
detrimental to the health of the
drinker is sold.'
Evening star., 1923-06-02
BIDDER FOR FLEET
ANSWERS LASKER
Man Who 0ffe. ed Billion for
U. S. Vessels Hits Shipping
Board Policy.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SILVER CREEK. y. Y. June p
John W. Slack, whose billion dollar
bid for the United States govern
ment's merchant marine feet was
characterized by Chairman Lasker of
the Shipping Board as a summer
dream" last night issued his first
official statement. 1t is largely an
attack on the Shipping Board and
particularly on Chairman Lasker's
advertising methods and concludes
with a refusal TO answer the two
questions that have been put TO him
from many angles. These questions
are: "Why did you do it?" and Who
s back of your"
A local paper praised Mr.. Slack. as
member Of the publicity committee
putting Silver Creek on the map"
Still Seeking Bond.
Slack says that Chairman Lasker
did not invite him nor representa-
tive OF his company to meet the
Shipping Board committee in New
York, and also intimates that he is
still negotiating for million dollar
bond that would have been required
had the Shipping Board decided to
take up the details Of his bid.
statement that if our proposition is
summer dream" he said, the SELL
ing methods of Chairman Lasker may
be described as a horrible nightmare
Mr.. Slack mentions Henry Ford IN
his statement, but only in an indefi-
mite way. Mr.. Ford passed through
Silver Creek May is. but there IS
nothing to show that he met Mr
he did meet the Detroit manufacturer.
Henry Ford" the statement says,
had to beg his friends. with tears
in his eyes. for lew mlsera bic
thousands which gave him his start
on the greatest business career in all
history. All bankers have turned
down the proposition of the Shipping
Board. just as they turned down
Henry on the one occasion when they
thought he needed large financial
support. The American people need
to save what is left OF ruin; not the
timid support of few narrow
1rinded bankers, but some real busi-
ness brains"
Says Ford Can Speak for Self.
Does your reference to Henry
Ford mean that he was or is inter-
ested in your bid?" Mr.. Slack was
Let Mr.. Ford speak for himself"
he replied.
One part of the statement carries
the inference that Mr.. Slack is con-
Slderlng WltnOraWal OF MS DIG,
but, like other parts of 1T and his
interviews, a direct statement is
avoided.
Due to the business methods of
Chairman Lasker," the statement
SAYS, I've are now in position
where we may either go ahead with
this proposition and unmask Chair
man Laskers batteries completely, or
we may withdraw with considerable
grace and eclat. The question we
have to decide is whether or not we
are willing to involve others in finan-
cial responsibility"
NAMES NOT MADE PUBLIC.
Evening star., 1923-06-02

President Steward. National Fed
Grafton Federal Employees, charges
personnel classification board breaks
law in using bureau OF efficiency
forms. Smoke screen in rum car
crash, five hurt. City preparing for
Shriners; lunchroom owners blame
higher pay for food increase. Classl-
fication board will make no reply to
Steward attack. President Joins So
Joufners' Club. Department of JUS
tice investigates charges of profiteer-
ing for Shriners. Check on account
ing system at bureau OF engraving
snd printing. Jesse w. Smith, Daugh-
erty aide. kills self with pistol. Pres
ident leads nation In Memorial day
exercises, says United States duty to
further peace of world. Mrs. Hard
Ing plants tree to war dead HAYNES
says dry net tightens on Shrine con-
Vention. Downtown parking ban
Evening star., 1923-06-02
PRICES OF GRAIN :
IN SHARP TUMBLE
Prospect of Much Bigger
Wheat Crop-More U. S. :.
Regulation Feared.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 2.-Likelihood that
the 1929 production of wheat in the
United States will be much larger
than, was expected has had much 10
do with bringing about a big drop
in wheat values this week. Compared
with week ago, wheat this morning
was SIS to IA lower. corn 5sa& 70
"a a2as down, oats Ia a17s to off
and provisions at to I decline.
According to the latest authorita-
tive private estimates the domestic
wheat crop will total $4,000. 900
nusheIs. or nearly s much as was
losses both in winter and spring
wheat apparently have been balanced
py improved conditions on the re-
naming acreage. Inasmuch as prices
OF tate have been based to a consid-
cradle extent on prospects of a
heavily decreased yield this season,
the new outlook has had a discourz
aging effect on many holders and
led to a good deal of liquidation
Pronounced absence of speculative
demand for wheat was in some quar-
ters aScrIbed to government regula.5
i've measures. and whether or not.
TINS view was correct little, if any,
new buying appeared TO result from
announcement that every open ac-
count reaching 100000 bushels or
more must be reported TO the Secre-
tary of Agriculture. A suggestion
that dealings which aggregated less
than 100000 bushels would be un-
objectionable failed apparently to
stimulate bullish sentiment, and the
siowness of demand was further
shown by the May delivery finally
going to discount under July
scarcity of corn supplies tended to
hold corn and oats relatively steady
In the face of the setback in wheat
values. At last shorts in the May de-
livery of corn, who until the end Of
the month refused to settle. suddenly
We're squeezed out of more than sc
additional as a consequence,
In the provision market, continued
good demand acted as nearly an off
set for lower quotations on hogs.
Evening star., 1923-06-02
MAIL FLYER PLANS
2O-H0UR FLIGHT
Frisco-to-New York Trip to Be-
Attempted in Plane of Own
Construction.

A twenty-hour coast-to-coast flight
in a homemade airplane will be at
tempted within the next ten days by
Clare K. Vance, a Logansport Ind,
air mail pilot, the National Aero=
nautic Association announced yesterday
Vance plans to go it alone, without
mechanic or alternate pilot. go
A request for official recognition by
the contest committee of the associa-
ton has been filed by A c. Nelson of
Salt Lake City. superintendent Of the
western division of the air mail serv-
ice but it was explained that the trial
ould take place while Vance was on
leave of absence and would not be
considered as under Post Office De-
partment auspices. "
Vance's machine, which he built.
himself weighs. fully loaded 4.209
pounds and has a gas capacity of $50
gallons and maximum speed Of 122
miles per hour. He plans to leave
San Francisco at 10 o'clock at night
and arrive in New York the follow.
ing evening. Last February in a
snowstorm Vance made the first suc-.
cessful landing on the crest of the
Sierra mountains. a.
Evening star., 1923-06-02
sa0,000,0o0 PROJECT OFF.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 2.-The
Moreland Courts apartment buildings.
q $40, ,0o0. 900 project started by Josiah
Kirby, former president of the Cleve-
land Discount Company, in Shaker
Heights a village near here, were to-
day in the hands of receiver. The
buildings, work on which stopped
when the discount company went into
receivership, were intended to house
5000 persons.
Edward o. Peck, secretary of the
discount company, was named re-
ceiver for the property late yester-
day, following suit in foreclosure
brought against the North Shaker
boulevard Company by receivers for
tie discount company in behalf of
the Hartman National Bank Of New
York, trustee of the North Shaker
company's $3,ooo.o0o first mortgage
bond issue.
The North Shaker Company itself
is not involved. it was said
Evening star., 1923-06-02
THE WEEK
Epltome OF Events Up to =
June 2, 1923.
FOREIGN.

War clouds pass as Greco-Turkish
row is adjusted. Chinese soldiers open
attack upon bandit retreat. Casual
ties heavy as reign of terror grows
in Germany. Kaiser junks Old Testa-
ment ana writes new preface to
Bible. Great Ruhr communists ex-
tend control. Russ reds plot revolt
in United States. Great Ruhr strike
comes to an end. 100000 men work.
Two dead in German riot as mark de-
Evening star., 1923-06-02
JURY URGES MERCY
FOR GUILTY VETERAN
Baltimore Man Convicted of OBJ
tanning $4,000 in Bonds Un-
der False Pretenses.

BALTIMORE, June 2.-Louis Rem
sen de Roode was found guilty with
recommendation for mercy last
night on charge of obtaining
$4,000 in bonds by false pretenses.
The jury was out over seven hours,
Final arguments were concluded yes-
terday before Judge Stanton in crini-
nal court, after a trial which lasted
all week, and the case went to the
jury at 2:30 pm
De Roode based his defense on the
plea of insanity. and his counsel piG
tured the strain and suffering de
Roode underwent in France, where he
was badly wounded twice while sery-
ing with the American forces in the
world war. The prosecution called
many witnesses, the burden of whose
testimony was that de Roode was sane
before the war and mentally capa BILE"
on March 10. when he is alleged to
have obtained the bonds by means of
bad checks.
Evening star., 1923-06-02
Problem in DC.
ShrinRs Beside
This Villages
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC, Iowa, June 2.-The
twenty-seventh annual national con-
vention of the Danish Lutheran
Churches Of America IS in session at
Elkhorn, Iowa, a Danish settlement
about 100 miles north of here. More
than 500 delegates from all parts of
the country and many church off,
cials from foreign lands are ALREADY
registered. and it is said that more
than Z,ooo Will be in attendance be-
fore the end of the session Sunday
night. Elkhorn, with a population of
zoo, is overwhelmed by the throng,
and accommodation is at a premium
Evening star., 1923-06-02
Conference Member Claims Pro-
posals for Purchase of Fleet Ships.

NEW YORK, June 2.-Although in
vited to attend, John w. Slack of
Silver Creek, n. V, the billion dollar
bidder for the government fleet, did
not appear at the conference between
bidders for emergency fleet vessels
and a special committee of the Ship
ping Board, which ended its sessions
yesterday.
Definite proposals were submitted
during the conference which may lead
to the sale Of numerous vessels of
the fleet, Mayer Lissner, member of
the comforting committee. stated. He
refused, however. to make public the
names Of the bidders or the amounts
offered.
The special committee will make a
report of the conference to Chairman
Lasker of the Shipping Board in
washington Monday.
Evening star., 1923-06-02
BANKERS ACCUSED.

ROME, June 2.-William Carconi
president of the board of directors
of the Banca Italiana di Sconto, and
the entire directorate of the bank
which suspended payments in Decem-
Der, 1921, are named among those
accused of Irregularities in connec-
eion with the Institutions failure,
according to the Giornale d'Ilatia.
Evening star., 1923-06-02

again extended Dr. j. NJ. Sterr. t.
founder of All Souls Sterrett Me-
mortal Church. shoots self dead at
home. Plan 10000 Shriners to greet
imperial potentate Sunday. DIR. James
E. Freeman, rector of Church of
Epiphany, elected Bishop of Wash
ington, to succeed Bishop Harding.
Evening star., 1923-06-02
Commodity Price Declines
Are Vital to Financial World
Action of Wheat and Cotton Outstanding q
Features of Week-Less Interest Sho,rn
in InUesment Bonds.

as the doubtful or relatively un-
favorable elements in the business
situation. On the one side Of the
picture there is the record Of bank
clearings not only keeping up but
running ahead in May. as compared
with April. There are the remark
able figures on railway car loadings
which show that the general volume
of freIght being moved not only has
not decreased. but has steadily in
creased. 1t now surpasses all rec
ords for this time of wear and is
within 21a per cent of the greatest
ever known. reached in October, 1920
Clearances through the banks and
railway gross tonnage are the ira
diuonal measures of trade activity.
1t Is impossible, therefore, to recon
Gle this data with the idea of any
general business reaction
There has been falling off in Ger
tain important lines, with the prob
ablilty OF further downward revision
both in prices and in production. But
SO far, the general volume of com
sdeFce m Is mas oeen holding up well. and
SO long as there has been no over
speculation and no overstocking. the
ground work Of a serious setback. let
alone period of depression, is not
here
Plight OF German Currency,
The plight Of the German cur
rency appears at the moment quite
oSSpeIdIe lie marx, measured in
terms Of the dollar. has shrunk full
100 per cent from the figure at which
lt was 'pegged" from the middle of
February to the middle of April. 1t
is impossible to forsee the outcome
when German financial leaders them
serves have given up efforts at stabil-
lzatlon and have confessed that thew
can see no limit to the decline
Ihe Austrian crown ceased 10 de-
preclate when the league of nations
took hold and arranged for a foreign
loan on condition that paper note in
nation should stop. The German mark
is considerably lower now than the
austrian crown, and assistance from
the outside is quite out of the oues-
ton until the problem of reparations
is settled. Even in case of a settle
ment foreign capital would not take
hold of German government securi-
ties unless there was assurance that
Germany could balance her budget
and put an end to the terrific outpour
of paper notes.
1t would be far more difficult for
Germany to do this than it was for
Austria. although the Austrian case
was certainly miserable enough. IT
was under conditions of depreciation
nothing like as bad that the old
French assignats of the revolution
were virtually repudiated and a new
and enormously reduced currency unit
put in its place.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1923-06-02
NATIONAL.

Forty noted Americans deny science
and religion conflict. Lieut.. Crocker
flies De Haviland plane from gulf to
lakes in twelve hours. L. S. action
against Veterans Bureau heads for
fraud is seen. Daugherty denies he
will quit cabinet. Billion dollars bid
for Shipping Board fleet. Chinese pig
tails furnish United States girls $780,
1876 nets. Thirty-six slain or hurt
in ak crimes in Alabama in forty-two
months. Claud Kitchin, former mi
nority leader of House. dead at VIII
son, n. c. Gov. Smith. New York
opens hearing on dry repeater. Lasker
will thoroughly investigate billion
dollar bid for Shipping Board feet.
Gov. Smith signs Cuvillier bill re-
pealing state prohibition code. ex-
Evening star., 1923-06-02
LEPER LEAVES CITY.
South American Girl Taken to New
York Hospital.

Miss Carmen Gownder. the young
South American girl, who was quar-
antined here ten days ago as a leper
by Health Officer Fowler, has been
taken to skin hospital in New York
state for treatment, DR.. Fowler has
announced.
Evening star., 1923-06-02

cIines. Ink and tar freely applied
in Paris socialist-royalist row. Exc
cute hundreds in Russian plots.
France and Japan protest ship liquor
ruling.
Evening star., 1923-06-02

One hundred thousand eggs are pro-
duced by a queen bee in one season.
Evening star., 1923-06-02

Infections of the nose and throat
are the cause of 40 per cent of the
absences among store workers.
Evening star., 1923-06-02

A bill has been passed in Australia 2
denying the right to recover money
lost on bets .iAi
Evening star., 1923-06-02
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

planning, however. state peace Of
ficers must enforce Volstead act.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-02-22
sHERIFF.s SALE

BY Virtue of q writ of execution is-
sued out of the Clerks office of the
District Court of Sedgwick County
and State of Colorado, and to me di-
rected, whereby am commanded ia
100 Dollars ($49.2O) and costs of
suit. the amount of certain judg-
ment recently obtained against E. p.
Murdock and Bertha Murdock, hus-
band and wife in favor of E. NJ.
Sigsbee out of the lands, tenements,
goods and chattels of the said E. p.
Murdock and Bertha Murdock. hus-
band and wife have levied on the fol-
lowing property, to-wit:
All of lot seven CD and the West
fortyfive (45) feet of lot eight (8).
in Block seventy-nine (79) of Clark
sons Second Addition to Denver
Junction, now Julesburg, Colorado.
Therefore, according to said COM
mand. shall expose for sale, at Pub
lie Auction, all the right, title and in
terest of the above named E. P. MUIR
dock and Bertha Murdock, husband
and wife in and to the above describ-
ed property, on Saturday the 10th day
of March. 1928, at ten o'clock A. NJ.
at the South front door of the County
Court House in Julesburg, Colorado.
Dated at Julesburg. Colo. this 18th
day of February, 1923.
w. E. CUNNINGHAM,
Sheriff of Sedgwick County.
Robson & Hendricks, Attorneys.
First Pub. Feb. 15, 1923.
Last Pub. March 8, 1928.