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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24

New Orleans Middling, 29.75c; re-
ceipts. 1904; exports, 4,150; sales, 1874 343
Galveston: MiddIing 20 S5e receipts,
2S;7S$; exports. 1s,o54; sales. 2,ls7; stock,
:. Mobile: MiddIing. 20 .25c; receipts. 81;
Savannah; NIiddling. 29-75c; receipts,
1'6IS; sales, 1,753; stock, 56.7S9.
Charleston: Receipts, 333; stock, 41,585
wilmington: Middling. 20. soc; receipts,
Texas City: Stock, 1863
Norfolk: Middling. 20 CSC: receipts 647;
exports; 800; sales, 1923; stock; s7.45s.
Boston: Middling. 20 45c. stock, IL, 600.
Philadelphia; Stock, 5743.
New York; Middling, 2s.s0c; stock. 6s,-
Minor ports: Receipts, $50; exports.
2,4S9; stock, 1888.
Total today Receipts 9,771; exports
1888; stock 1883
Total for. week: Receipts, s4.67s; ex-
ports. 1855.
Total for season. Receipts. 4sso.s77;
exports. 3,4S5,4s4.
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INTERIOR MOVEMENT

$50; shipments, 1,2So; sales, 2,se; stock
203,376.
Memphis: Middling. 20 soc; receipts,
121.799.
Augusta: MiddIing, 2assc: receipts
1881; shipments, s96; sales, 1.7s9 stock
56.264.
st. Louis; Midding. 29c; receipts s,o65
shipments, S.22S; stock. 1884.
Atlanta: Middling, 29.75c.
Little Rock: Middling, 80 soc; receipts
50; shipments, COZ; sales, 4o1; stock, 49,,
1856.
Montgomery: Middling, 20 soc; sales
Total today: Receipts s.171; shipments.
7.494; stock, 443,11s.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24
NEW ORLEANS COTTON FUTURES

NLN ONItANS, Feb. ZJ.--CUttoH lu-
lures closed steady at net Al points up
TO IA points down net
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NEW YORK. Feb. 23,-Foreign bar sill
YER Size. Mexican dollars, 49hc
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24
NEW YORK BONDS

NEW YORK. Feb 23.-Following are
todays high. low and closing prices of
bonds on the New York Stock Exchange,
and the total sales Of each bond:
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O o o
Gulf states Brenks

speculative disappointment over
the size of the Gulf States steel divi
dend was reflected in a break of more
than points to S91a. the stock rally
ing later to 81 Is. Studebaker crossed
III =, new high record when the
recent 20 per cent stock dividend is
taken into consideration and then
dropped back a point.
Call money opened at u per cent
advanced to "a during the noon hour
and then to 8 per cent. Time money
continued quiet, with funds available
at per cent. Commercial paper is
moderately active with the bulk of the
prime names moving at AZ per cent
Foreign exchange rates were slight
" reaetionary, demand sterling sell
ing under $4.72 and French francs
hovering between Cos and Clio cents
some Of the South American ex
changes were strong.
Days total sales, 1,1O6,0 600 shares.
twenty industrials averaged 1O3. Of
nst loss 80. High, 1928, 1o3.59; low
wenty railroads averaged sop
net ne loss 81. High, 1923. 9O.4s; low,
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NEW YORK, Feb. 2s.-spot colt,
quiet; niddling. 80. soc
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-24

~ NEW YORK, Feb. chopper strong
spot and futures f6M @l6ssc. Tin strong
spot and futures. 44.37c. Iron steady;
prices unchanged. Lead steady. spot 3
n 25c Zinc firm; East St. Louis spot
and nearby delivery 7.40@7 soc. Anti
mony spot, 25c.
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] sAVANNAH Feb. 23,-Turpentlne was
steady, s1.47A; sales none; receipts 133;
liS: stock 6,O12. Rosin firm
sales s95 receipts us; shipments 1856
stock 5,269. quote. B, D, e, F, $3.50;
G. II, 1, SIS; X. SIS 30; NJ, So So; N, So so;
NYG S6.15; WV, So. SIS.
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4 CHICAGO Feb. 23.--Armour of Della
ware. $685. Armour preferred S5A Com
,iaonwealth Edison 1909 Diamond Match,
1854; Libby Mcneil "a Middlewest Util-
aities. so; National Leather, s. Swift &
aCo. I077s Swift international ~ u ;
Union Carbide. 6SAs; United Iron Works,
s5s4 Wahl, san; Western Knitting s3s
yellow Manufacturing b.. 272@; Yellow
ltraxi sc4 Inland Steel, Al.
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10 wilsor&co sf7hs.1osi5 10a 1oq
Wis Cen gen 4s.... Tx Tx TIN
Total sales OF bonds today We're st4-
T5e 900 compared with s1e,452.Gn pre-
vious day and s142s7. 600 a wear ago.
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: NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-Raw silk firm;
prices per pound Kansai double extra
cracks Ss9009.10; Kansai best No. l.,
.65@ss5: kanssl No. l filler, 5000
x so; Shinshu No. 1, $s55@s.75; Canton
extra A. 14-16. $S.i5@S.25; Shanghai
China steam filler gold double deer, IS So
@9.4o.
STEEL MARKET
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REACTION QUIET
AND SOME PRICES
LATER GO UPWARD

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-Raising of
the New York federal reserve redis-
count rates to AZ per cent Wednes-
day, followed by higher call money
rates, encouraged bear dealing and
profit takings in the early part of to-
days stock market. The reaction was
orderly however, and prices in some
sections Of the list turned upward
later in response to higher prices for
copper. sugar and oil products, giving
the list an irregular appearance.
While the rise in the discount rate
was officially ascibed to the in
creased demands for commercial
credits and a desire to bring the re-
serve bank rate more In line with
outside rates, several market OBJ
servers construed it as a warning to
spectators in the stock market with
others actually regarding it as
"bull" factor because of its centering
attention on expanding business OPP
erations. 1t was pointed out that pools
and professional interests still are
heavily loaded up with stocks where
as distribution had been virtually
completed when the rising of the rate
in the late fall of 1919 signaled the
beginning of reactionary trend in
security prices.
Gasoline Higher
Producers and Refiners made the
best response to announcements of
higher gasoline prices, rising nearly
? points to 81, a new high record Most
of the other oils moved within narrow
and irregular limits. American Wool
en- touched a new peak price at 1051a
and then fell back to 1875. up Il buy
ing being influenced by reports of
unusually good grade conditions.
Baldwin was under pressure get
ting as low as 1873, or " points be-
low Wednesdays close. American
Locomotive. however, was strong,
crossing Us and then falling back to
127 s, where it was up nearly
point, General Electric gained
point on a small turnover. American
can was actively traded in between
s7ss and 99ss, closing at 9SA for a
small net loss.
= Sales of raw sugar above nc a
pound was refined at Sc, again at
traeted attention to the sugar issues
Manati jumping more than points
10 62H and Funta Allegro more than
to 59A. Coppers made only a fee
bic response to another increase in
the price of the metal, and the re-
sumption of dividends of the Inspfra-
ton Copper company.
o q
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
INSTITUTED
WELT ARE
IN JAnS
.PenaIogist Was Widely Known
As Builder of Disciplinary
Institutions.

William HI. Meyer, superintendent
of penal institutions OF the District
of Columbia, died early today at
Lorton. Va, the location Of the
District reformatory. Death was
due to a complication OF diseases.
He was sixy-three years old.
Pending the appointment of a
successor to superintendent Meyer,
the Board of Charities. Of which
George s.. Wilson is secretary, has
institutions by Commissioner Cuno
H. Rudolph.
Mr. Meyer was known throughout
the United States as a prison re-
form official and builder. At the
time Of his death, he was engaged
in the erection OF buildings at Lor-
ton and Occoquan.
In July, 1921, Mr.. Meyer was
named general superintendent of
penal institutions for the District
Since heading the local institutions
Mr.. Meyer has organized welfare
leagues among the prisoners and
has encouraged athletics.
Built Atlanta Prison.
Mr.. Meyer became nationally
known while at Atlanta, Ca, where
he built the Federal penitentiary
just outside of that city. At this
penitentiary he abolished the sys-
tenn of compelling prisoners to
wear stripes. did away with the
policy of silencing prisoners, abol-
ished the use Of numbers and sub
stituted names and gave the nris-
oners wider privileges in the mat
ter Of writing letters to friends and
relatives.
Superintendent Meyer is survived
by his wife, Mrs. Katrine Hill
Meyer, one daughter. Mrs. Richard
O'Bierne: a granddaughter, Miss
Katrine Meyer Fisher; two broth
ers, Prof. John w. Meyer, of Wells
boro, Pa, and Samuel G.. Meyer, of
Seattle, Wash; two sisters, Mrs.
Eugene B. Pratt. Of HyattsviIle,
and DIR. Nora Meyer, of this CITY.
Funeral services will be held
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in
the Trinity Episcopal Church, Third
and G streets northwest, with Rev.
D. r. Covell officiating.
Mr.. Meyer was born near Will
Transport, Pa, April %, 1860. He
was enducated in the normal school
in Muncy, Pa, a business college
in Wiliamsport. and National Uni
versitY Law School in Washington.
He was married in 1885. He was q
teacher in the district schools in
Lycoming county, Pa, and later
came to Washington as a clerk in
the War Department, being trans
fered as clerk in the Department
of Justice.
Warden at Sing Sing.
From 1896 to 1908 he was special
examiner in the justice department.
He went to the Atlanta penitentiary
in 1903 as a warden, remaining
there until 1915, when he went to
Sing Sing, N. Y, and stayed until
1919. Then he was named assistant
director Of the department of de-
linquency, board of temperance and
moral welfare Of the Presbyterian
Church.
In 1920 and 1921 he reorganized
the Kentucky State Reformatory
and came to Washington in July,
1921.
Mr.. Meyer was a Republican, a
Mason and Shriner, member of the
Elks, Moose, Capital City Club, and
the Shattemuc Yacht Club at Ossin-
ing, n. Y.
The Washington times., 1923-10-25

by Elias H. Mortimer, of Ph1ia-
delphia, in his sensational testimony
yesterday before the Senate com
mittee. Mortimer testified that
Forbes had asked him to "clean up
a fortune" by helping to privately
dispose of the Governments supply
Of drugs at Perryville.
A protracted investigation Of
alleged graft in hospital construc'
ton has been conducted by General
Organ, it was learned. This In
formation will be turned over to the
Department Of Justice for such
action as the legal authorities
determine
This evidence involves:
One-Allegations of the existence
of profit-sharing Contracting
ring" between Forbes, the Hurley
Mason Company, of Tacoma. Wash.
and the series of firms owned joint
ly by James H. Black and John w
Thompson, of st. Louis, by which
profits on construction of Govern
ment hospitals were to be shared
equally three ways. Black died re
Gently.
Two-Charges of graft in the selec
ton Of a hospital site at Livermoret
Calf, and alleged payment of $64,
900 to Mathew O'Brien, of San Fran
cisco, friend of Forbes, for worthless
plans. This payment was approved
by Charles T. Cramer, general coun
sci of the bureau, who since has
| committed suicide.
Three-Award of q contract to G
D. Hurley, of Seattle, president OF
the Hurley-Mason Company for con
struction of a hospital at American
Lake, Wash. Forbes was a former
vice president in this company.
Four-Award of contract to con
struct a hospital at Northampton
Mass, to the Pontiac Construction
Company of Detroit, owned by the
Black-Thompson interests.
Alleges $38, 500 Loans.
| Five-Alleged loan" of 49,, 900 tt
Forbes by John w. Thompson, OF
st. Louis, during negotiation of con
| struction contracts.
| Six-Alleged loan" of $500 tt
Forbes by Mortimer under the same
conditions.
Seven-Award of a SOS 900 contract
to the Sutherland Company, of St
| Louis, for construction work al
Upper Lake, N. Y, for which Nor
timer received a $4,000 commission
| The Senate investigators, it was
learned, are prepared to present
much additional evidence relating tC
most of these cases when the com
mittee reconVenes Monday.
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
CITY DONATES So, 800
FOR FREE SCHOOL MILK

BALTIMORE, Oct. 25.-Following
IA conference between President
Isaac S. Field of the school board,
and Mayor Jackson, the board of
estimates allowed $2,311.51 to buy
milk for free distribution to BIB
undernourished children in the pub
lie schools, the remainder of the
year. Field showed that milk could
be bought through the Baltimore
dairy council for four cents a pint.
The dairy council furnished the
milk free last session, but was not
able to continue beyond June.
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
p. AND A. PHOTO

GEORGE AND AUGUST SCHICK,
The children George Schk mysteriOusy
Diego broker battling disappearance being nve
gated by authorities determining whether he
murdered and if whom and where the body lies 1t is
asserted that E. D. Clark friend of the broker
Schick
lived with Clark
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
NINE HURT IN ACADEMY
FIRE; STUDENTS SAVED

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 25.-
Authorities in charge of the his
toric Mount Mercy Acadmey, now
known as the Academy of Our Lady
of Mercy, today were setting about
to rebuild the main building des-
troyed by fire last night, entailng
an estimated loss of several hun
dred thousand dollars.
Students at the school were housed
today in the convent and plans
were under way to resume classes
in temporary quarters next Monday.
During the fire seven firemen and
two policemen were injured and
several overcome by smoke.
AS the flames swept through the
big building seventy young women
and children were rescued without
injury by the nuns.
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
WOMAN, 70, LIVING
ALONE, FOUND 81 AIN

ELYRIA. Ohio, Oct. 25.-Mrs.
Hebrand, seventynine. living alone
was found brutality murdered mere
today. The staying is attributed to
robbery.
The victim put up a fierce bat.
tie before being rendered uncon.
scious by a blow from a blunt in.
strument, probably the welding of
a. chair, in which her skull was
fractured from the forehead to the
base of the rear neck.
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
GEORGE e. SCHICk.
Missing Broker.

Above are shown detectives
digging around the love nest
of Everett Drew Clark and Mrs.
Schick, hoping to find trace of
the body of the missing broker.
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
BUTCHER SENT TO CHAIR
FOR STAYING HIS WIFE

SANDUSKY, Ohio, Oct. u.s.
James Brady, a butcher, was today
found guilty of the murder of his
wife. Margaret. The verdict carries
with it a penalty of death in the
electric chair, and was reached
after more than forty hours DELHI
Grafton.
Brady killed his wife at their
home here August 20, 'oeating her
into Inconsistencies with a ham,
mer and then cutting her throat.
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
MELLON AND BLAIR
DEFENDED" BY HAYNES

Attacks made by the Methodist
Board of Temperance. Prohibition
and Public Morals upon Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon and Inter
nal Revenue Commissioner Blair as
officials unfit to direct prohibition
enforcement" were repudiated to-
day by Prohibition Commissioners
Haynes.
HAYNES wrote a letter to the
board in which he defended Mellon
and Blair, his superior officers. and
declared he had found them helpful
and efficient in enforcement mat
tiers.
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
NO FATALITIES WHEN
DEATH STOPS FIGHT

DECATUR, Ind, Oct. 25,-Two
women fought on the street here
over a coat. Death interfered, but
there was no fatality.
Death was arrested for his action
and arraigned sin police court. The
Judge, not fearing Death, fined him
81 and costs.
Deaths other name is Dan,
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
Tons of Drugs NJ

1t was said literally "tons of.
narcotics" are missing.
This situation was touched upon
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
MEET
TURNED
DOWN
Labor and Farm Federations
Not Interested In Third
Party Convention.

Two national organizations.
representing millions Of farmers
and laborers throughout the cOun-
try, today dashed cold water on
the proposal that they throw their
forces behind the movement to
make Henry Ford President in
1924.
Invitations Refused.
These organizations, the Ameri.
can Federation Of Labor and the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
had been invited to attend the ma,
tional conference at Dearborn,
Mich. starting December IL, to form
new party with Henery Ford at ita
ed at the Ford-for-P President meeting
in Dearborn Tuesday night.
Not in Politics That Way.
Most certainly" declared p
Reed, In charge Of the local
OF the Farm Bureau federati01
ing the absence Of Gr
Washington representa-
rope. '.ttbe Farm Bureau
win not attend officially
vention to nominate Ford
a new party. Furtherm
Bureau will not attend an
convention to select q Pres
candidate"
No less emphatic in refusiI.
invitation was o. =. Corrut
the Federation of Labor, who
for Samuel Gompers, president
has not returned from the
convention in Portland. Ore
while Mr.. Gompers, ou
dent, is not in the city, d
it is safe to say that the a
Federation of Labor will
official action to send repI
tives to the Dearborn confer
December" said Corruth.
Course Of Labor.
''It never has been, and I 81
it never will be, the policy
organization to participate 1
nominating convention" Corr
planned. I'VE are not interea
the politics incident to the n
ton of Presidential aspirants.
the nominations are conclud
has been the custom of the d
zation to place a stamp Of apr
on that candidate who seem
promise the most in the way of
fetal acts for American labor.
81 suppose the same thing WI
done in 1924" he added, 'but
1 want to say, until these nom
tons are made"
1t was suggested that the &C
of the Ford adherents in Dearb
seemed rather unpropitious,
view of the known attitude Of Her
Ford to organized labor"
Reeds antagonism to the invi
ton was based substantially al
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
NEW METHOD IN BLOOD
TESTS PROVES A BOON

MADISON, Wis, Oct. ga new
method of conducting blood tests
which will make possible a labora-
tory analysis of blood specimens
from outlying rural districts has
been announced here by DIR. w. F.
Lorenz, director of the Wisconsin
Psychiatric Institute, and DR.. v. y.
Sander, his co-worker.
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
THE WEATHER

r tonight and Friday; slightly cooler
=; moderate west and northwest winds.
The Washington times., 1923-10-25
Duluth Has 100000 Fire.

DULUTH, Mimi, Oct. 25.-The
plant of Cutler-Magner Company
dealers in salt, lime and cement,
was destroyed by fire this after
noon. The loss is estimated at
$500, 900.
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-07

President Harding in announcing this admin
istratton policy not anticipating a popular de"
mand so much as answering it. The truth is that
the American people have within the last three
years adopted nineteen national parks
part of their conception of the greatness of their
nation. Hands off, applies to the national
parks well to Old Glory They eager
to defend them and to keep them involate. And
they have developed organized strength through
the affiation of dozen nationwide organ
izatons to that congress shall legisate wisely
concerning the national parks. The announce
ment of the conservation policy was received with
nationwide delight The national park enthusi-
asts hoped that the conservation policy would be
broadened to uphold Secretary Lanes important
plank.
Yellowstone also gets into the limelight this
season because President Harding paid it a two
days visit his way to Alaska. The Presidents
party went in and out through the north entrance
and did about $50 miles of motoring in seeing
various points of interest. On the Continental
Divide they drove through snowbanks. The Pres
ident went yachting on Yellowstone lake-un-
damned. He saw many wild animals and fed
gingerbread and molasses to black bear and her
cub He saw the Painted Terraces of Mammoth
Hot Springs. Old Faithful geyser spouted $50
feet into the air every sixty-fve minutes for
hm-as it does for every visitor The photograph
reproduced herewith shows the President and
Mrs Harding under escort of Superintendent Hor-
ace NJ Albright, viewing from Artist Point the
Grand Canyon Of the Yellowstone and the Lower
Falls The President visbly impressed by
the sight-One Of the grandest and most beau
tiful in the world.
Just sixty-three OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES re-
ouired to put Yellowstone the map; the Ameri-
can people simply wouldn't believe there was any
such place. The Lewis and Clark expedition of
l8O4-O6 passed close by it, but the Indians never
mentioned it, considering it the abode of evil
Spirits" who punished all talk about them John
Golfer a member Of the party who went back
TO trap beaver, discovered it in 1907. Upon his
return to st. Louis in 1910 the people dubbed 1t
"Colters He'll" and laughed him and his tale out
Of court. James Bridger rediscovered it about
1923 and the public said Just another of Jim
Rridger's big yarns" The gold prospectors of
1862 described it and were set down as liars 1t
took the Washburn-Langf gford expedition of 1870 to
make the people believe in its wonders. The men,
bers of that expedition for pre-emptng the
scenic points and making their fortunes Cor.
nelus Hedges rebuked them and proposed the
national park plan-the first in all history The
park was established by act of congress in 1872
and Yellowstone celebrated its semicentennial
last fall.
Yellowstone contains 3,34S square miles-3.114
in Wyoming, 1913 in Montana and SO In Idaho
Big as it is the plan Is to enlarge 1t by the addi-
tioL of many square miles to the south-the Jack
son Hole country which contains Jackson lake
and the Teton mountains and Is q natural parr Il
the park
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-07
ZE EAzz9DL1GSAY XE<Z0GSZG22XE
GHa5sSag2S2 2g9S33a253ss1 S323a$E8S s13g$z:3S5
l9253.Ope.nin5 Moke5
administration Policy Of
Complete Conservation
for Our National Parks
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

HE national parks lost a good
friend when Warren G. Harding
died. His appreciation and ap-
proval of the national park move
ment were signally shown at the
1923 opening of Yellowstone for
its fifty-first year by an official
declaration of administration pol
icy worthy of it's place as the first
national park in all history and
largest and most famous of all
Americas nineteen public play
Askov American., 1923-04-26
BAND CONCERT
FRIDAY, MAY 4
To be Given at Askov by
the Joint Sandstone
ASkOv Bands.

The date is all set, the musi-
clans in trim and all is in readi-
ness for the big Sandstone-Askov
band concert at Askov on Friday
evening, May A, with the excep-
tion of the daily triple-tongue ex-
ercising by the various blowers
up to the day of the concert-a
thing which is done by all pro-
fessional wind instrument musi.
clans in order to keep in shape
and have a good lip.
The final joint rehearsal was
held at Sandstone Tuesday eve
ming and the players were put
through hard grind of n hours,
tapering them off in good shape.
Local rehearsals will be held by
both bands again next Tuesday
evening.
The program selected for Fri
day evening of next week which
will be given at the ID. B. S. hall
has much variety in band music,
there being one operate selec-
ton, several overtures, concert
waltzes, serenades, a trombone
solo, marches, etc.
Sam Gjertson of Sandstone,
who is heralded as a good Swe-
dish comedian will give a char
acter sketch between the two
parts of the concert. The warn
ing is given out that all should
be prepared for a good hearty
laugh when the "Swede" ap-
pears.
Much time and effort has been
put forth in trying to make this
a good band concert and it is sure
to surpass anything yet offered
here in that line. The two bands
together will have a membership
of about 35 and it will be well
worth your time to hear the con-
cert.
The admission charges are very
nominal as it is desired to have a
large attendance and give every
body an opportunity to hear it.
Read the ad.