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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
BUMPER MONOPOLY
CONSPIRACY ALLEGED
Government Brings Suit to Re-
strain American Chain
Company.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. July 17.-United States
Attorney Haywood yesterday filed
suit under the Sherman antitrust
act against the American Chain Com
pany, Inc, seeking to restrain it
from alleged monopoly and restraint
of trade in manufacture and sale of
automobile bumpers.
The government. asserting the COM
pany controls so per cent of the au-
t>.nobile bumper industry and that
it will control 100 per cent if it wins
pending patent litigation, seeks TO
restrain it from fixing wholesale
prices TO yield a minimum profit of
not less than 10 per cent for itself
and the manufacturers.
The government alleges that the
company. whose place of business is
in Bridgeport, Conn. has been assist
ed in the conspiracy by the Gemco
manufacturing Company. Milwaukee:
L. F., Holiday Company. Decatur,
H.: BifeX Products Company, Wau-
kegan, Ill: Allith Prouty Company,
Danville. Ill; Wolverine Bumper and
Speciality Company. Grand Rapids.
Mich: New Era Spring and Specially
Company. Grand Rapids; American
Metal Parts Manufacturing. Company.
Milwaukee; Bellevue Manufacturing
Company. Bellevue. Ohio: c. q. Spring
Company, Kalamazoo, Mich, and
Bilt-Rite Products Company, Dan
Vile, Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
STOP ALIENS BEFORE.
THEY START, URGED
Curran Aroused When 500
More From Britain Reach
Ellis Island.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July IA proposal
that American immigration aIlotments
be made at foreign rather than Ameri-
can ports to prevent arrival of immi-
grants in excess of the quotas will be
submitted by immigration Commits
sioner Curran to Walter w. Husband,
commissioner general, who will arrive
at Ellis Island today. Mr.. Curran said
his plan is that steamship companies
shall by cable submit to Washing ton
the number and nationality of the i'm
migrants they are bringing, before the
ships depart.
immigration authorities in Wash
ington then could send word whether
the immigrants were within the allot-
ment and would reserve the number
Indicated against the quotas to In
sure entrance of qualified immi-
grants, 1t was explained.
Announcement of the plan followed
arrival today on the Baltic Of nearly
500 immigrants from Great Britain.
whose July quota already has been
exhausted. When she sailed from
Liverpool on July the British quota
had not been exhausted. 1t was an
nounced that all the immigrants, with
the exception of those who could OBJ
tain classification as tourists, would
have to be deported.
Officials were faced with another
problem in the arrival of eighty
eight immigrants from the Do
decanese Islands. in the Mediter-
ranean. which until recently belonged
to Greece. AS a result of the Graeco-
Turkish peace. the islands have been
Jumped with others of Asia the quota
of which has been exhausted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
SEEK $500, 1000 FUND
TO FIGHT OPEN SHOP
Upholsterers' Union May Assess
Each Member Two Days Pay
for Campaign Cost.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, July IA move
ment to raise a 100000 fund to fight
the open shop" was launched by the
International Upholsterers' Union of
North America at the opening session
of Its biennial convention here today
The action followed a recommended
ton by President William kohn of
New York made in his biennial ad-
dress
Under President Kohn's recommen-
dalton. the fund is to be raised by
assessing each member one days pay
this year and next year.
President kohn declared that the
union had been involved in twenty
six strikes in different parts of the
country in the last two years, OF
which seventeen were complete VIC
tories, two were compromised. three
lost and four are still in progress.
He urged local unions to exhaust
all honorable means of reaching
settlements in disputes and to call In
International officers to aid in these
efforts before going on strike.
Governor Len Small of Illinois was
congratulated in resolutions adopted
for pardoning Edwin F. Graves of
Boston and Roy +. Hull of Chicago,
who were sentenced for alleged con-
spiracy in connection with an up
holstererS strike in Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
DOLLS UP" TO FACE
CHARGE OF Staying
Mrs. Klimek, Convicted as I'm.
kempt Woman, Tries New Tao
tics in Latest Case.
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO. July II. - Marcelled.
rouged, powdered and wearing a new
dress, and with a chic summer bon
ret set on her head at a fetching an
gle, Mrs. Title Klimek. under sen
tence of life Imprisonment for poison
ing her third husband. appeared in
court yesterday to answer a charge
OF assault with intent to commit muir
der in connection with the alleged
poisoning of her fifth and most recent
spouse.
Attorneys and court attaches gasp
Klimek, described during her first
trial as greasy" and "unkempt," and
appearing day after day in the SLOW
emily garb of the alien tenement
dWeller
She was impressed apparently by
the fate of that other stolid peasant
woman. Mrs. ISABELLE Nitti Crudelle.
sentenced last week to be hanged for
killing her husband, and gossip at
the county Jail that such a verdict
would not have been returned had
Mrs. Crudelle been more attractive.
Mrs. Klimek's case and that of Mrs
Nellie Koulik. her cousin, who faces
like charge, were continued until Au-
gust The two women were indicted
after the bodies of several of their
deceased husbands and other relatives
had been exhumed and quantities of
for the state indicated that Mrs Kou-
Xix probably would be brought to
trial. but that in view Of the verdict
already standing against Mrs. klimek
the other cases against her might be
dropped
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
STAY SOUTH, AFRICAN
PRINCE. TELLS NEGROES
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRISTOL. Va.-Tenn., July 17.-De-
claring that ''the south is the best
place in the world for the negro"
Prince Madarikan Deniyi of Lagos.
West Africa, in an address here urged
southern negroes not to migrate to the
north.
"In the. NORTH" the prince said, "the
negro finds more tribuIation than hos
pitality and favor. Don't bite the
hand that feeds you. Many of those
who pose as your friends and induce
you to move to the north get 50 per
head for the negroes who act upon
their advice. Many Of the blacks who
went north with promises of better
conditions have returned to their
homes in the south disillusioned."
Prince Madarikan referred briefly to
the success of missionary work in
Africa, declaring that the missionaries
had accomplished much In the moral
uplift of his country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
SHOEMAKERS RESUME
PICKETlNG PEACEFULLY

BY the Associated Press.
BROCKTON. Mass, July AL
though striking shoe workers of this
city voted yesterday TO resume picketing
today, extra police details at the fac
tories found everything quiet at the
opening hour. Few pickets were on
hand.
Announcement last night that the
strikers had voted to 'call off the
truce" caused the city authorities to
order out the entire police force for this
morning PicketinS operations were
abandoned last week after clashes with
the police during which many strike
sympahizers were arrested. The police
acted under a ruling by the city solicit
tor that picketing was Illegal because
the strikers were violating contract
with the shoe manufacturers. The strike
began in May for abrogation of the
contract.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
FIGHTING is FEARED
IN POLITICAL FEUD
Mexicali, Mexico, Mayor and Sup
porters Barricaded in City Hall
to Resist Arrest.
E. the Associated Press.

E. the Associated Press.
MEXIcALI, Lower Calf. July IL
Trouble was a possibility today. ac
cording to the police, If authorities in
Mexico City upheld the order issued
by the federal court at Tijuana, Lower
Calf, yesterday. and attempts were
made to arrest Mayor Juan Loera of
MeXiCali and his fourteen political
supporters. who have been barricaded
in the city hall here since Saturday
night. when three members of the po-
lice department were killed and
number of other persons wounded in
a shooting ARRAY.
Members of political group known
as the co-operatists. with whom To-
era was said to be allied In opposi-
ton to Gov. Jose Inocente Lugo of the
northern district of Lower California,
were reported gathering here and in
Calexico, Calf, just across the inter
national line from Tijuana. Ensenada.
Tecate and other points in the terri
tory.
a number of Chinese and other for
eigners evacuated MeXicali last night,
and several Mexican business men
closed their establishments earlier
than usual and left for the American
side of the border. taking funds with
them, it was reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
SWIMMER NEARLY LOST
AS FOG GRIPS CHANNEL
Argentinian and Trainer Have
Many Marcy Escapes in Boat.
Will Seek to Swim Across.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
DOVER. England, July 1T.-Romeo
Mactel. the Argentine swimmer, with
his trainer, Nasquez. spent twelve un-
pleasant hours Sunday in the English
channel as the result of the sailboat
in which they had put out into the
waterway preparatory to a swim
shoreward becoming trapped in a
dense fog. Several times the fog
bound party narrowly escaped being
sWamped by the wash of steamers
which passed without seeing the sail
boat or hearing the cries of it's oc-
cupants.
After finally reaching the mouth
OF the harbor the boat narrowly
missed hitting the breakwater
Yesterday Maciel and his trainer
sailed five miles into the channel and
the Argentine aspirant for the honor
of mastering the cross channel pas
sage swan back in four hours
against the tide.
Dan Richards, the Boston swimmar
who attempted to cross the channel
IN 1922. has returned for another at
tempt and cable message has been
received from Charles 10th of Bos-
ton saying he was on the way for
another try at the arduous task
which he attempted last year on two
occasions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
u. S. SHOWS LOUISIANA
NEW MUSKRAT MARKET
Animals Sought for Skins Also
Salable for Food, Disguised
as Marsh Rabbits.
By the Associated Press.

By tne AssOClateu Press.
NEW ORLEANS, July 1.-THE
marsh rabbit" or plain everyday
muskrat, is the subject of a bulletin Of
peculiar interest to Louisiana, just is
sued by the United States Department of
Agriculture and received here. 1t dis
closed for the first time to the majority
of the people of this state that Louis
lana muskratS together with those from
the lower Chesapeake are sold in the
Philadelphia, Baltimore and other east
ern markets as marsh rabbits and are
highly priced by epicures.
The Louisiana marshes produce mill
lions OF them and hundreds of trappers
make their living sharing the animals
and selling their pelts. But it seems
most of the trappers literally are throw
ing money away when they cast the car
casses to the fish after skinning them,
for the government bulletin says a car
cass weighing pound and a half is
worth from 20 to 25 cents at retail
prices as an article of food.
The bulletin gives three recipes, one
for fried, one for roast and the third
for stewed muskrat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
N. Y. DRY LEADER HITS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Anderson Charges Banton With
Derogatory Statements-Ap.
peals to Governor.
BY the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
NEW YORK. July 17.---William H
Anderson and District Attorney Joab
III. Banton are i'll controversy as a
result of the second grand jury in
vestigation OF Anderson's connection
with the state Anti-Saloon Leagues
financial affairs.
Anderson issued a statement last
night charging the district attorney
with having told Mrs. O. Bertsall
Phillips. wife of the principal wit
ness against Anderson. that he would
put Anderson out of business and
that such a step would make me
governor" The dry leader appealed
to Gov. Smith for an opportunity to
submit proof of his charges.
Banton declared II was Mr.. Ander-
sons duty to lay all the facts he had
in his possession before the governor
and that the governor should re-
move me If il is true"
But he won't" added Mr.. Banton
you can't get Anderson under oath"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
FEDERAL DOCTORS
TO RETURN LEPER
Early Guaranteed Here, to
Await Transportation to
CarviIIe Hospital.

John Early, leper, appeared in
Washington yesterday for the fourth
time in fifteen years. He will be
taken to the national leprosarium at
CarVille. La. soon, DR.. Hugh S. Cum
ming, surgeon general OF the public
health service, said today.
DR.. Cumming may keep Early here
Tor a few days to study his condition
before sending him back.
Meanwhile the leper, who has fig
ureo In the annals of the local health
department at various times since
IsoS, is once more at the District
quarantine station near the Eastern
branch.
Refused Treatment.
Early said that he had refused to
take the chaulmoogra oil treatment
at Carville. Despite this, DIR. Fowler
said, he is stronger and apparently
In better health than when he last
came TO Washington in 1918.
Early's case. however. always has
seemed to move in cycles. For a
time he will decline and then the
disease viii remain in arrested state
ana he will pick up.
Dr. Fowler years ago administered
chaulmoogra oil to Early internally
and he compia..ed that it made him
sick. The public health service meth
Cd Is to inject 1t. The health officer
said Earlys experience in taking the
OIL may have caused his refusal to
take the new treatment.
DIR. Cumming told The Star today
mat physicians have had remarkable
success in fighting leprosy with the
chaulmoogra injection. The treat
ment, he said. is not SO effective in
an advanced case as it is when used
in the first stages.
Surprised Clerk.
DR.. Fowler was at lunch yesterday.
when Early surprised Chief Clerk Cole
or the health department by walking
up To his desk and announcing him
selt. Cole telephoned DR. Fowler
lhat Early was waiting.
In talking with his former patient
Or. Fowler learned that he arrived
IN Washington Saturday night and
obtained room al downtown
motel. He spent Sunday around the
city and his presence remained I'M
Known until he walked into the
health department Office at 1870 yes
terday.
Early told DR.. Fowler that lie left
Carvtlle June - and visited Chat
tanooga. Asheville. n. c.: Tyron. n. c..
his old home: Chicago, Milwaukee and
thence to Washington.
The last time Early was contins d
here he broke the bounds OF the
quarantine station and left tho city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
GIRL POSING AS MAN
ARRESTED In CHICAGO
Mrs. Tesmer Sent for in Effort to
Identify Husband
Slayer.
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, July 17.-Another girl
man" this time a girl posing as a
man, was apprehended by the Chica go
police early today. and Mrs, Richard
G. Tesmer. whose husband was shot
and killed hy a girl bandit some
weeks ago. was sent for in an at
t"mrt to identify the slayer of her
husband Fred CT. Thompson, the
man who posed a woman. was in
dtcted by the grand jury yesterday
for the murder of Tesmer.
1t was only after a l>alf hour OF
questioning. during which time the
supposed nineteen-year- old boy re-
turned answers Indicative of life in
the slums that the police took off
the prisoners cap and the long
treSses Of a girl were revealed She
gave her name as Blanche Voorhees,
She said she had a husband in DAN
wills. Ill
-Four youths We're arrested with the
girl. and one las confessed. accord
ing to the police, that the band has
taken part in numerous recent rob-
berries of taxicab drivers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
BRIG. GEN. GOODWIN DEAD.
Retired Cavalry Officer Was Ma.
tive of Virginia.

The War Department Is informed
that Brig. Gen. Edward A. Goodwin,
a distinguished retired cavalry off,
Ger, died at San Antonio, Tex, last
Friday. He was a native of Virginia.
and was graduated from the United
States Military Academy in June. 1870.
Although all his service with the
Regular Army was in the caylary
arm, he commanded the 9TH United
States infantry in the Spanish war
and the 40th United States Infantry
in the Philippine insur1ection. He
was retired in November, 1908, while
colonel Of the 14th Cavalry and was
subsequently promoted to brigadier
general. Most Of his early service
was In the far south and far west.
this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
GEN. ALLEN SEES EUROPE
TURMOIL PERIL TO u. S.
Profounder Misery for World Rap
idly Coming, officer Says,
After Visit Abroad

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 1.-THE tangled
European situation BODIES evil for
this country and for the world gem
orally. Henry T. Allen, former major
general in charge of the American
army of occupation on the Rhine,
said on his arrival yesterday on the
White Star Liner Baltic from Liver
pool.
Questioned as to the outlook in
Europe. he said that it was black
and asserted that the situation was
leading rapidly to profounder misery
for the entire world.
The bulk of public opinion in
France, he said, was behind Poin-
cares policy. despite the loud cries
of a few critics. Mr.. Allen denied
reports that he was taking official
messages to Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
Brothers Hated
Since Childhood,
Slayer Asserts
By the Associated Press.

PROVIDENCE. r. l.. July 17.--Mu-
tual hatred, fostered since childhood,
Is said to be responsible for the
fatal shooting of William B. Buckley.
thirty-one. for which his younger
brother John A. Buckley, is held
without bail.
According to John Buckley's story
the shooting came as the culmina-
ton OF series of threats by William
and of physical encounters, in one of
which the younger brother suffered
three broken ribs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
HELD IN ARMS SMUGGLING.
Two Chinese Alleged to Be in
Oriental Plot,

NEW YORK, July 17.-Said by po-
lice to be Chinese imperialists at
tempting to smuggle arms and am
munition to compatriots in China.
Wong Tee and Foy Hong were ar
rested in Brooklyn last night.
Tee and Hong. police said, were
carrying a package containing 1000
.45-caliber bullets and a satchel hold
ing thirty-six revolvers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
BISHOP ORDERS RECEIVER
FOR AMPLlFIER REMOVED
Installation on Cathedral Altar,
Costing So, 900, Too Modern,
Declares Manning.

NEW YORK. July 17-Bishop will
liam T. Manning has ordered re-
moved from the high altar OF the Ca
thedral of st. John the Divine, a
$4,000 receiver for a system Of ampli-
tiers. declaring the installation was
carrying modernism a bit far
He made no objections to the system
.Rs q whole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
VALPARAISO TO KEEP
0FEN DESPITE DEBTS
Trustees Make Arrangements to
Finance College After
Recent Default.
BY the Associated Press.

VALPARAISO, Ind, July 17-Finan-
cial reverses suffered by Valparaiso
University will not cause the school
to close, 1T was learned today follow
ing a meeting of the directors. Debts
amounting to nearly 100000 were
contracted during the war, and when
payment on part of these were allow
ed to default recently through a mis-
understanding. it was rumored that
the school would close. the announce
ment said.
all financial difficulties. DR.. Horace
X. Evans, president. stated the trus-
tees have decided the school will con-
tinue and have made arrangements
to finance the debts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
JAPANESE BOYCOTT
IN CHINA RELAXED
Violence Disappears and People
Buy Nippon's Articles
Again.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC. July 17.-Conditions re-
sulting from the Chinese boycott of
Japanese goods shipped to Shanghai,
Changsa and Upper Yangtze river
ports have so improved at Changsha
that Japanese who sought shelter in
the Japanese consulate and on board
ships have been directed to return TO
their homes, according to information
to the foreign Office today.
The advices stated that Chinese are
commencing to purchase Japanese
goods in some places in the Yangtze
valley. but Japanese still are dis
satisfied with an apparent lack of
effort on the part of Chinese officials
to suppress the boycott.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
FL0GGED WOMEN, CHARGE
AS 3 MEN STAND TRIAL
Jury Selection Begun-Kidnaping
and Assault AL
legged.
By the Associated Press.

Ute AbSUCIdttU fTtBS.
LUMBERTON, N. c., July 17.-John
'Hedgepeth, B. NJ. Lawson and julie
Brogden, who are alleged to have
logged two white women recently
near Proctorville, will be tried first
on charges of kidnapping and various
forms of assault. 1t was announced
by Solicitor Mcneil here today as
selection of a jury to try the men
was started in superior court here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
ATTACK IN SUBWAY.
Negro Jumps on Throat of
Editor.

NEW YORK, July 17.--Leroy Sper-
ring. a negro. attacked Richard P
Buckmaster. editor of the American
Furrier. in an east side subway train
at the Grand Central station today.
When he was torn from the editors
throat, he fought six Interborough
guards and policemen who took him
to Bellevue Hospital for observation.
He attempted to cash the throat of
one of the men with a. jagged comb.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-22
CHICAGO GRAINS
OPEN IRREGULAR
Oats Show Individual Strength
but Later Weaken,
By United Ftndnctol

By United FtndncidI
CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-Grain prices
opened irregular on the Chicago
Board of Trade today.
Obtaining strength from a higher
Liverpool opening and some buying.
wheat advanced slightly. Selling de-
veloped on the bulge, however, in
duced by large worlds shipments es-
timated at 16,1S7,e00 bushels, COM
pared with 1892 900 bushels the pre-
vious week.
Favorable weather and liberal
country offerings developed weakness
in corn. Traders assumed the selling
side at the outset when it appeared
evident prediction of traders that
country offering would increase this
week seemed to have been borne out
by receipts. Feeder demand dimin-
ished.
Oats showed individual strength,
but lost some OF its early gains when
sellers found few takers.
There were no sales in provisions at
the start and prices remained un-
changed.