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The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-12-06
Says Vajjgrt
MadeThreat
on Brother
Lana Tells of Visit With Ac.
cused Slayer of Farm
= hand in Jail at
Seward.
State Rests Its Case
By X. II. PETERS.

Seward, Neb. Dec. 5.--Tonight the
state rested its case in the trial of
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Vajgrt and their
daughter, Abby. who are jointly
charged with first degree murder.
Announcement that the prosecution
had completed its case followed a
heated argument between defending
and prosecuting attorneys over the
admissability of the testimony of
6hfs. Glen Pendell. the states female
detectives, and the decision of the
prosecution to keep Mrs. Pendell off
the stand concluded its long list of
witnesses.
The greater part OF the afternoon
was taken up with the testimony of
Jerry Lana, brother of the dead man.
who paid the Vajgrt family several
visits after the mother, father and
daughter had been placed in the coun-
ty jail.
Quotes Father Of Girl.
He caused a mild sensation when
he told the court that Adolph vajgrt
declared that that cripple" refer
ring to Tony Lana. wasn't even worth
being shot. but has testimony was
discounted in cross examination when
the defense chief counsel got him to
admit that none of the Vajgrts had
ever stated in his presence who had
actually killed Lana.
After testifying that he had gone
to the county Jail and been greeted
by Vajgrt as friend, Lana was In
srructed by Deputy County Attorney
c. F. Barth to tell the jury what
Adolph said.
Well, he said to me, he was a bad
thing, meaning my brother" the Wit
ness said. when he told me that I
said. Why didn't you have my
brother arrested IL you thought that.
He didn't answer me. but started to
walk about the room.
Told Of Threat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
PRESIDENT REA URGES
RAIL CONSULTATIONS

PHILADELPHIA, June 23.-Rail-
road consultations should be en-
couraged to eliminate unnecessary
corporations, according to Samuel
Rea, president Of the Pennsylvania
railroad. who appeared as a witness
yesterday at a hearing conducted by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
on it's tentative consolidation plan for
uniting the railroads of the United
States into twenty -one systems.
Mr. Rea said if there is any doubt
as to the present provisions of the
transportation act regarding the
power of the existing railroad COM
panies to eliminate unnecessary exist
ing railroad corporations, and to do 1t
free from the restrictions of the anti
trust laws or other restrictive legfs-
lation. federal or state. then new
consolidation act should be passed
which would permit railroad consoH-
da ton under terms approved by the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Mr.. Rea said he would aim to reduce
the 1900 or more separate railroad
operating and lessor corporations
that form an essential part of the
continental transportation system of
the United States into the 1856 class /
railroad companies and the fourteen
important switching and terminal
componies and then reduce the 1S6
carriers to a relatively small number
of systems, as about twenty-five
recognized railroad systems now earn
SIS per cent of the transportation
revenues of the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
EASTON TO HAVE BIG
FOURTH CELEBRATION
Bicycle Race and Many Novelty
Events Are Arranged for
Community Park.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dlspatcn 10 L ne Sthr-
EASTON, Md, June 23.-The mem
bers of the Mems Community Club of
Easton, through a special committee
appointed to manage the Fourtn OF
July celebration to be held at Com
munity Park, are hard at work and
expect to make the celebration one
of the biggest in history. The pro-
gram:
som bridge on the state road leading
from Easton to oxford to Community
Park This is open to all riders In
Talbot county. First, second and
third prizes will be awarded.
Three-legged race-Any two men
or boys from any part of the county
willing to have one leg strapped TO a
Mariners can compete for the hand
some prizes to be offered to the win
ners The race starts at 1890 am.
Honeymoon race = This race Is
unioue, to say the least. A man and
a woman run with suit case TO
given point When this is reached
the case is opened and bride and
groom, after dressing for the cere-
mony run for starting point. WIN
ners receive valuable prizes.
Jericho road race-Two men start
from Jerusalem to Jericho, one on the
others back. When Jericho Is reach
ed the man riding takes the position
of the donkey and carries his partner
\
/, ners will be awarded handsome
Mother with most children of her
own. all appearing at the park, will
receive a worthy prize.
Bag race-Men and women may en-
ter this race. The feet are put in
sack, with the top drawn about the
waist In this condition the race is
run, the winner to be given ralu-
able prize.
LODI nd Ia
man run to a certain point, where
the lady is given a bag of peanuts.
She opens them, feeds them to her
partner and both return to the start
ing point with the shells. Attractive
prizes will await the winners.
Shoe race-ConteStantS must wear
black lace shoes, to be removed and
placed in a pile. At the crack of the
pistol a run is made for the shoes
and the one returning to the start
ing line first with his own shoes on
and properly laced wins the prize.
The handsomest baby under eight
cen months Of age will receive a
prize.
! A base ball game and other events
yet to be decided.
The children of the Orphans Home
Of Easton, numbering between thirty
and forty, under the direction Of the
matrons of the home, are spending
this week at Camp Davenport, located
at the Wilderness, the beautiful home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Ramsey Speer. on
the Choptank river near Trappe, Tai
bot county The children will stay
there and enjoy the bathing. boating
and the playing of games up to the
time the camp opens for the reception
of the boys of the Easton diocese of
the Protestant Episcopal Church.
which is composed of all the counties
on the eastern shore Of Maryland.
Scoutmaster Cannon Virgin is in
charge of the camp.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
ROCKVILLE.

ROCKVILLE. Nd, June % (SpeciaD.
work of teaching, a large number of
the public school teachers of this
county will enter the summer schools
of a number of the leading colleges
of the country for courses of six
weeks. In this they are encouraged
by the county board of education,
which pays about one-fourth of their
expenses. Those who will take these
courses and the institutions they will
enter have been announced by Prof.
Edwin w: Broone, county superin-
tendent of schools, as follows:
Johns Hopkins-Mss Mabel Hav-
enner, Miss Ruth Burroughs, Miss
Lille Shuman. Miss Pauline Horsey,
Miss A. Grace Baker. Miss Violet
Young. Miss Hazel Warfel and B. w.
Powers; George Notwithstanding
jean H. Aud. Miss Ravenel Monred,
Powers, Miss Eva Walters, Miss
Laura Souder. Miss Geneve Bordeaux
and Harry S. Beall: University Of
Maryland-Mrs. Pearl Clements, Miss
Margaret Groomes, Miss Maude Ash
ton. Miss Mildred Shorb. Mrs. Court
Katherine Pyles. Miss Virginia Gar
trell. Miss Carolyn Howard. Mrs.
Byrtle Bates. Mrs. Archibelle Will
liams, Miss Evelyn McAtee and Miss
Mary Rice; Columbia College
Thomas w. Troxall, Miss Sara John
Beebe, Thomas w. Pyle, Miss Cath
crime Cook; University of Virginia
Miss Louise McCeney, w. E. Furnas,
Mary ]. Atwater. Miss Nevis DUNCAN.
Miss Victoria Jones; Peabody Teach
ers' School, Nashville, TENN. NJ.
Bishop. Miss Georgia Mae Taylor,
Miss Marjorie Ring; University of
Maryland-Miss Isabel B. Jones, Miss
Mary ShanholtZ, Miss Mary E. Green
and Miss Anna Fawcett: Asheville
Normal School, Miss Ruth Beall;
University of Wisconsin, Robert l..
Miss Ara Lee Hicks; Harrisonburg
Normal School, Miss Leila Hendrick
Maryland State Normal School, Miss
Edith o. Burdette.
Walter P. Plumley of Takoma Park
has filed with the supervisor of cleo
tions here certificate of his cam
didacy for the republican nomination
for states attorney for the county,
and has made the cash deposit re-
quired to insure his name being
placed on the official republican pri-
mary election ballot. He is the first
Mr.. Plumley practices in Washington
and this county and is well known.
Two years ago he was an unsuccess-
full candidate on the republican ticket
for the house of delegates.
Maggie Pratt, colored, was found
guilty in the police court here of
keeping a disorderly house at Ken
gar, near Kensington, this county, and
was fined 500 and costs by Judge
Samuel Riggs. She noted an appeal
to the circuit court and the case will
be tried again at the November term
of that court She released
ball.
A license has been issued by the
clerk Of the circuit court here for the
marriage of Miss Gladys NJ. Rogenmoser
and Thomas j. Quinn, both of Wash
ington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
Caution of Public in Buying
Stocks One Reason for Crash
Money Tied Up in Ne,U Securities Also.
Called Factor IN, Weekly Reuie,v
of Financial World.

that there has been no undue infa-
ton in commodity prices.
The only past occasion of serious
disturbance with which the present
situation could be at all compared
was the summer of 1903-the year
OF 'undigested securities" The sini
l&rity lies, however. only in the fact
that new capital issues during the
last twelve months have been ex-
cessive, that they have by no means
hands and that distributing houses
are still carrying good-sized amounts
of new stocks and bonds, which they
would be glad to sell.
But the position in this respect is
far from being acute the way it was
twenty. years ago. when marketable
securities of all sorts had to be
thrown over in order to protect what
could not be sold.
1t is impossible, therefore, to re-
last month or two in Wall street, as
any precursor of financial crisis or
OF a really serious falling off in trade.
The only logical reasons to be
had are, first-the condition already
referred to-where certain large sums
that would ordinarily have come into
declining market, are tied up with
unstable new securities, and second
that the investing public have shown
an almost unparalleled reluctance to-
buy stocks at present prices, which,
on the basis of company earnings
ana dividends, would seem attractive.
How far this timidity is due TO
mistrust Of Wall street, because of
the publicity given to the numerous
failures and how far it is due TO po-
litical considerations, especially the
anti-railroad agitation that is bound
to come, is question. AT all events,
whatever the cause, the Indifference
of outside investors, greatly curtail-
ing the normal buying power, ac-
counts better than anything else for
the In. success attending the recent
bear" campaign.
The stage eventually comes in any.
such market, however. where values
reassert themselves. and the recoy-
cry at the week end was sufficiently
RAPID to suggest that such a stage
was near at hand, if it had not been
finally reached.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
PRICE C0LLAPSES
-
DUE TO FAILURES
Banking Support Puts Check on
Sensational Break, Weekly
Review Shows.
BY the Associa ted Press.

o' lhe Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 23-Stock nricos
collapsed TO new low records for tho
year this week as a result of unusu-
ally heavy forced and frightened
liquidation and short selling, result
ing from two stock exchange fail
ures. Strong banking support and
INSIDE buying set in later, however.
ana brought about rally in which
most of the loss was recovered. Rond
prices moved in sympatbv win
STOCKS but the fluctuations were not.
as extensive.
Commodity prices, as a rule, also
lost ground with another cut of 25c
barrel in Pennsylvania Crude Oil A.
one Of the chief features Sales of
corn at $1.04A a busheI, new high
event in the cash commodity market
Heavy overproduction in the Cali
fornia fields is the predominating
cause Tor the weakness of oil shares.
prices during the week. Copper deal
ers report better domestic and for
eign demand for the red metal, which
has been quoted at 15c a pound and
One of the most significant trade
developments of the week was the
report that June buying of iron and
steel has been at larger rate than
that of May. There have been few
cancellations and consumption, and
prices show little change Steel
stocks, however. weakened with the
rest of the market. Sugar shares
showed slight improvement in re-
Spouse to the increased domestic de-
mand for the refined product and the
improvement in the Java sugar stu
alton. Automobile production appears
to have reached its peak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, June % (Spe-
cial Correspondence).- Julian Y. Will
liams of this city was elected presi-
dent Of the National Association of
at it's annual meeting held in St.
Paul, Mimi, yesterday. He has been
active in I. p. A. circles for many
years and is a member of the ma
tional Legislative committee of that
organization. He is district presi-
Kiwanis Club, past president of Post
F, Travellers Protective Association,
CT this city; member of the chamber
of commerce and actively identified
with many civic and fraternal or
ganizations. He had the Endorsement
of the Virginia delegation for the
Office of national president. Mr..
Williams is manager for the Ameri-
can Agricultural and Chemical Com
pany here.
lent and Protective. Order of Elks,
Monday night will initiate a large
class. This meeting will be attended
by a delegation of Washington MEM
pers. who will submit a proposition
to the local lodge. The entertain
announces that ladies' night will be
held next Friday night.
Edgar Warfield, jr., and J. E. W.
Timberman will leave tomorrow
evening for Virginia Beach, Va. to
attend the forty-second annual meet
ing of the Pharmaceutical Associa-
ton.
Mrs. Bena Cox has sold to Mrs Rosa
M. Keene lot 10, block 4. section l.
George Washington Park. A deed Of
conveyance has just been recorded in
the office of the clerk Of the court.
The dance given by the Old Domin-
ion Boat Club at its new clubhouse
last night was we'll attended and was
the first of the season given at the
new clubhouse. Music was furnished
by the Krazy Kat Orchestra.
AS the result of Illness caused by
the heat Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Brown.
seventy-four of Richmond, Va, died
Wednesday at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Weaver of North Washing
ton street. The body was sent to
Richmond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
OVATION GIVEN RETIRED
MARYLAND TEACHER
Citizens and Children Pay Tribute
at Cumberland to Forty-Nine-,
Year Service.
SneciaI nisnatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, June 70
Miss Laura NJ. Young, teacher IN
tho Allegheny county public schools
for forty-nine years, who retired at
the close of the school session TINS
week, was accorded an ovation at
the commencement exercises OF ~.
nior High School by. nearly l,0oo
assembled in the auditorium.
Prior to the presentation Of the
diplomas TO the class, County Super
intendent Edward F. Webb told of
Miss Young's great career as
teacher. The large audience ex-
pressed approval of his sentiments
with a rising vote and enthusiastic
applause.
After teaching in the county for
a few years Miss Young was pro-
NOTED to the then new Union street
building, where she has since been
stationed. The Union street school
was the only one in the city at one
time and Miss Young continued as
member of the Junior High faculty
az new high schools were erected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
GIRL KIDNAPPED,
FORCED TO We'd
Maryland Father Appeals to
Police to Capture
"Deakamak0S."
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTON, Md, June 23.-De-
claring that his fifteen-year- old
daughter. Pata Galamis. had been
been kidnapped from her home
in Pottstown, Pa. by Nicka Deaka-
makos, twenty-eight years old, and
brought to Hagerstown where she was
forced to marry under threat of
death, G. Galamis, the father has ap-
pealed to the local authorities for
help in dealing with Deakamakos.
Galamis said the man came to his
home and, placing a revolver at his
daughters head, threatened to kill
her unless she accompanied him to
this city. The girl came here, where
Deakamakos obtained a marriage Ii
cense. Her age was given as eigh-
teen years, and her home as Hazel
ton, Pa. The license was issued and
the girl claims that they were mar
ried here, but so far the police have
been unable to learn who married
them.
Following the ceremony Deaka-
makos took the girl to the home of
her father and is said to have de-
SSi tCo hCi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
WILL HAYS FORMS MOVIE
TRADE BOARDS IN CITIES
Movement Designed for Adjusting
Disputes Among Producers
and Distributors.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. June 23-Formation
of motion picture boards of trade in
thirty-one cities by Will H. Hays,
president of the Motion Picture Pro-
ducers and Distributors of America,
for the settlement of disputes, has
been learned.
Each board is made up of three
exhibitors and three distributors
Their work in effecting compro-
misses without court action, it was
said, has been so successful that the
film industry expects to save between
$5,000,000 and 100000 a year.
One important step in the new
policy, 1t was asserted, was likely to
see the removal of some of the prac-
tees which have been the subject
of frequent complaints before the
Federal Trade Commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
CLEVELAND DISCOUNT co.
SELLS TWO BUILDINGS
Bankrupt Firm Liquidates Largest
Real Estate Holdings in
That City.
By the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 23.-Sale
of the twenty one story Cleveland
Discount Company Office building to
the Union Discount Company for
S4,500.000 and another building for
S435,0 to Maurice Gusman was au-
thorized by Common Pleas Judge
Pearson late yesterday. The sales
liquidate two Of the largest real es-
tate holdings Of the company.
The petition asking permission to
dispose of these properties was filed
by Receivers William l.. David and
Gardner Abbott of the Cleveland Dis
count Company. The Discount build
ing was bought in by the receivers
in a foreclosure sale instigated by the
Hartman National Bank of New
York, as trustees for a two million
dollar bond issue. and resold to the
Union Discount Company.
The Union Company was formed
several months ago by stock and
bond holders of the Cleveland Dis
count The company bought the
building as an investment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
WOMAN RAIL HEAD
OFFERS STOCK PLAN
Mrs. C. B. Williams Says Southern
Railroad Wants to Cancel
Outstanding Bonds.

Mrs. Cora B. Williams, who is pres
ident of the Georgia, Florida and
Alabama Railroad Company, cor
poration operating a line Of railroads
in Georgia and Florida, desires to
cancel the outstanding bond issues
against that line. according to finance
made today to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission. The
desires permission to in
crease it's capital stock, which now
has q par value of s45o,Ooo, to s2,6S5,-
O0O All of the new stock will be de-
livered to Mrs Williams, who will
give up in exchange for it S2,113.001
in bonds issued by the company and
will forego collection of $4,000 in
interest and premium which the COM
pany also owes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
BY STUART r. WEST.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 23.-In retracing
during the second half of the week
more than three-quarters of the
ground lost during the first half, the
stock market demonstrated what its
true view was of the Importance of
the two big failures which created
such a sensation. The danger was
that the country outside would get
the impression that there was some
fundamental weakness in the finan-
cial structure which would eventually
extend to general business. This dan
ger seems to have passed.
People now see that the financial
houses which went down were those
whose strength had been lowered
man and Austrian clients and for
which the recent decline in stock
prices was only the finishing touch.
To hear the Secretary of the Treas
ury Cf he was correctly quoted) SO
much as refer to 1893, and take pains
to explain that we were not in a
similar position now, was most sur
prising. The fact that stock ex-
change prices drop some Is to 80
points over a two-months' period, and
TWO wall street houses go TO the
wall. affords not the slightest ground
for even imagining a currency panic
like that of 1893 and it's prototype
of 1907.
No OverprOduction in Evidence.
The essential points of difference
with the situation of 1920-1921 have
already been elaborated upon enough.
1t is sufficient to note that federal
reserve rediscounts-which are the
measure of the country's credit ex-
pansion-amount to S73G000,000 now
as against we'll over $3,000,0O0,00O
their peak of 1920 This shows the
difference on the side of the money
market
ON the business side it consists of
the two big facts, one that there
has been no overstocking of goods
and hence no overproduction, like
there was three years ago; the other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
MARYLAND SHOWS
VALUATION GROWTH
Howard County Tax Basis Increase
of $3,600,oG0 Promises
Rate Cut.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star. ..
BALTIMORE, June 23.-The in
crease of $3.600,00O in the taxable
basis of Howard county, which Is
considered good assessment barom-
eter for the rest of the state, indi-
Gates that the state may be found
sitting pretty" with a total. increase
in the taxable basis that will reach
very near the s75.oOO,OoO mark.
Howard county's tax rate, as a re-
suit of the increase in the taxable
basis, will drop off 4 or cents.
With the possible exception of one
or two of the southern Maryland
counties 1t is thought that all of
the new assessment figures Will show
an increase comparable to that of
Howard.
The State Tax Commission has not
yet complied all of the county fg-
ures, because in most of the counties
the utilities assessments are still to
be added to the figures that have been
submitted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-23
FOUR HURT AS TENT
CRASHES IN STORM
1000 Endangered at Revival Meet
ing in Suburb of
Richmond.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va. June 22.-Four
persons were slightly injured at
Longdale, a suburb. last night, when
a huge tent in which a revival meet
ing was being conducted collapsed
during a wind storm. Approximately
one thousand people were In the tent
at the time.
The congregation had grown rest
less as the rain fell in torrents and
the wind whipped the big canvas. The
noise OF the storm drowned out the
voice of the evangelist, Rev. Ed G.
Caldwell. and the meeting was turned
into a song service. The evangelist
sought to reassure his congregation
and had just announced a hymn when
the tent collapsed.
Considerable damage was wrought
by the storm, which was accompanied
by severe electrical disturbance
Several buildings We're damaged by
lightning and innumerable trees were
uprooted.