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Evening star., 1923-11-15
new BOND ISSUES
PROVING POPULAR
Much Switching to Various
Recent Offerings Reported.
High-Grade Bonds Sold.
BY GEORGE r. HUGHES.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, November 15.--Un-
usual activity, but with small price
changes. prevailed in the bond mar
ket today. especially in the trading
"over the counter"
There seemed to be much switching
from old to the new securities, those
recently offered. Also there were a
number of large blocks of higher
grade sea soned bonds offered. Trad
ers were at loss to forecast the
trend Of the market under these con-
ditions. Testimony to the ease in
the money market was found in a
renewal of the gossip about the prob
ability of cut in the federal reserve
redlscount rate.
Buying for foreign account was
also relied upon to sustain the quota
tions for the best bonds. But there
was continued competition from new
offerings and the feeling that invest
ment bankers could easily again over
load the market before all the new
offerings had been actually digested.
Foreign Group Holds Well.
Foreign bonds seemed indifferent
in the exchanges. Only fractional
changes were noted in the French
group. while the mid-European bonds
were reasonably steady. There was
heavy trading in United Kingdom
5 les of 1897 around the low of the
issue, non-callable, without conver-
sion privileges and payable In dol
lars.
Considerable irregularity appeared
In hfgh-grade bonds. General Electric
issues were active, both the 32s and
the ss, principally in the outside mar
ket. New York Central mortgage
31zs was another active issue and
fractionally higher. Atchison adjust
ment As were In demand. United
States government loans were firm.
Railroad Bonds Active.
Missouri Pacific obligations were the
leaders among the speculative rails.
both the general As and the first and
refunding 6s OF lS4s being in demand
at higher prices.
The action of the market today
would indicate a belief that substan-
tial improvement had come into the
affairs of the company. New Haven
and Erie obligations just about held
their Wednesday gains. St. Louis
San Francisco adjustment 6s and in
come Is. however. both displayed
strength.
Among the industrials Virginia
Carolina Chemical rs and 7las with
warrants were strong. United States
Rubber IS and 7i.s were steady
American Writing Paper IS were
weak. Third Avenue adjustments
continued their recovery.
The principal new Offering was
81 100000 in per cent first lien bonds
of the Nevada California Electric
Corporation priced at 81 to yield 6.45
per cent.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
LOSSES IN STOCKS
ARE UNAVOIDABLE
No Traders Judgment Can
Be 100 Per Cent Correct,
Declares Financial Editor,

NEW YORK, November l5.-"A great
many people hold the impression that
when a man understands the stock
market he has the world by the tail
and he can make about million dol
lars minute, but in actual practice
1t does not work out that way" saws
Richard D. Wyckoff. editor of the
Magazine Of Wall Street. ITO be a
successful trader in stocks you must
make series of transactions in equal
amounts of different .stocks, and at
the end OF a few months, or a year,
or few years. you figure up your
transactions and find that you have
made a number of profitable trades
and number of Improbable trades.
You also have sundry expenses, Just
like any other business. These in
stock trading are composed of COM
missions that you pay to your broker,
taxes that you pay to the federal and
state governments, and interest on
the amount of your debit balance
with the broker. The final result,
credit side of your trading account.
shows whether you have been sue
cessful during that period or not.
Traders Method. Studied.
81 have personally known and
studied the methods of a great many
leading operators, big floor traders.
large outside operators and members
of the public, both large and small
many thousands of the latter-and /
have never yet found a man who
could trade actively in blocks, or in
actively either. for that matter, whose
Judgment was SO accurate that he
never had a losing trade. Hence,
anybody who expects to deal in the
stock market without taking occa-
sional losses might as we'll not begin.
1t would be just as reasonable for
the general of an army to say that he
could go into battle and not have
some of his men killed or wounded.
II is the final result of the contest
that counts.
Trading in stocks is more than a
business; it Is an art, a science,
profession - whichever you choose.
Those who seriously engage in it
should make 1t a business. because it
is one that demands the utmost study
and concentration If a person Is to
make a success of 1t"
Evening star., 1923-11-15
BIG OIL DEAL CLOSED.
Mexican Seaboard Gets Big Con
tract From Standard Oil.

NEW YORK. November 15.-Presi-
dent Harris Hammond of the Mexican
Seaboard Oil Company announces the
closing of a contract OF supply the
Transcontinental Petroleum Company.
Mexican subsidiary Of the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey, with
32.sSO.O0O barrels Of Panuco crude oil
at the rate of 10000 barrels day for
three years.
The price to be paid, Mr.. Hammond
said, would be that posted for bunker
oil for New York harbor as of the
date of delivery. At present prices 1t
was stated the Mexican Seaboard
would receive approximately $4,000 a
The Standard Oil Company will CON-
struct additional pipe lines and other
facilities to handle the oil at a cost
of approximately $1,500.000.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
COLUMBIA GRAPH0PH0NE
PUT OFF EXCHANGE

board of governors OF the New York
Stock Exchange announced late yes
terday the suspension of trading in
the stock of the Columbia Graphic
phone Manufacturing Company. for
failure to maintain "a New York stock
transfer office.
Receivership proceedings are pend
ing against the company In friend
ly action instituted in federal court
recently. and a committee of the COM
pany has announced plan OF reor
promulgated at an early date.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
SUGAR PRICES LOWER.
Heavy Selling in Both Raw and
Futures Markets.

NEW YORK, November 15.-The
raw sugar market was easier early
today. Spot Cubas were held at =
cents cost and freight. equal to 72S
9or Later arrival were offered at con-
cessions. There were sales of $500
bags of Perus for late November ar.
rival to a local ref1ner at 13-16
c. i. f., or 4 below the quoted price
of Cubas.
There was renewed selling pressure
IN the raw sugar futures market and
prices at one time showed net losses
Of Is to 16 points. Toward midday
there was a partial rally on covering,
but the undertone was still unsettled.
Trading was fairly active. with noon
ouota tions 9 to IL points net lower.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
BLAME PUT ON RUHR.
Paris Market Heads Try to Elk.
plain Irregular Prices.

PARIS, November 15.-An official
bourse communique today attributes
the unsatisfactory condition OF the
market to the situation in the Ruhr,
.accentuated by the growing d.
vergencies in the French and British
viewpoints"
Trading was unsettled on the
bourse today, owing to the latest
deveIopments in the Ruhr situation.
Three per cent rentes 54 francs 80
centimes. Exchange on London, 80
francs so centimes.
Five per cent loan, 80 francs SIS
centimes.
A712 centimeS.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
WOOL AUCTIONS END.

LONDON. November 15.-There was
a large attendance and brisk selling
at unchanged prices at the closing
session of the wool auction yester-
day For the 1854 bales offered prices
were firm, as compared with the clos ~
Ing level for the September series of
sales. During the sales the home
trade bought 10000 bales. the conti-
nent $4,000 and America 1000. Nine
teen thousand bales were held over. y
Evening star., 1923-11-15
s15,000,OOO POWER PLANT
Hinge Generating Business to Be
Started Near Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, Ohio. November IS
An enormous electrical generating
plant to cost between $12,000.000 and
s150000 900 is to be erected in -Cincin-
natl or at a point up the Ohio river
by the Union Gas and Electric Com
pany, according to a statement by w.
w. Freeman, president of the company,
published here today.
The plant, il is understood, will be
the main source of electrical power
with which the company is to supply
Cincinnati and adjacent cities and in
dustries which derive their light and
power from the plants of the Columbus
Gas Company, the Union Gas and Elec-
trio Company and allied corporations.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
TREASURY CERTIFICATES.
touo.. rions furnished BY Redmond 4 ca. /,
START BONUS PLAN.

NEW YORK, November 15.-Dis-
tribution of Christmas bonuses to
stockholders was begun yesterday by
several large corporations. which
voted extra dividends payable around
the holidays. Scores of other COM
panies are understood to be contem-
plating similar action,
Evening star., 1923-11-15
LIVERPOOL COTTON.

LIVERPOOL, November 15.-Cotton,
snot. moderate business; prices firm
Good middling. oops; fully middling,
1905; middling, 1855: low. middling.
1870: good ordinary. 1873; ordinary.
1920. Sales, 5000 bales. including
4.5O0 American, Receipts, 1000 bales.
including 1000 American. Futures
closed steady.
November. 1878; December, 1859;
January, 1859: March, 1898; May,
1911; July, 1852; September. 1853; /;
October. 1913.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
NEW YORK DAIRY PRICES.

NEW YORK, November 15.-Butter
Firm; receipts, 12.426 packages;
asa: creamery extras (92 score). So;
do. firsts (SS to 81 score). 46a5211;
Eggs-Steady; receipts, 10,374 cases.
Cheese-Firm; receipts, 57,125 boxes;
state wholemilk fats, fresh, average
run, 24ha25; state whole milk flats
held, average run, 25ha ha26h; state
whole milk twins; fresh, average run,
2ta24k.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
FoREIGN EXCHANGE.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 15.-For-
ejgn exchanges irregular. Quotations
Gin United States dollars)-Great
Britain. demand, 4.S3 15-16; cables.
4.34 3-1S; sixty-da bills on banks,
431l1-l6. France, demand, .0526 E !;
cables, .0537. Italy, demand, .0426k;
cables, .0427 Belgium, demand,
.O45S1s; cables, .0459. Germany, de-
mand, .000000000C0025: C b e s,
.00O00OOOOO0O25. Holland, demand,
1880; cables, .3735. Norway. demand.
.1434; Sweden, demand, 1921; Dem
mark, demand, 1851: Switzerland, de-
Inand, .1745: Spain, demand, 1924;
Greece, demand, .o153; Poland, de-
nand, 00000050; Czechoslovakia, de-
RAND, .02SS; Jugoslavia. demand,
.uI14ls Austria, demand, .o00014: Ru-
~,u..nia, demand, .0052k: Argentina,
demand, .3162; Brazil, demand, .0SS0;
Montreal, .9S 9-32.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
RITTER Is LOWER.

lower: creamery extras 51k; stand
ards, 40; extras, firsts. 49a5o1s; firsts.
Haas; seconds, 42a42k.
Eggs. unchanged; receipts, 2,1sS
Evening star., 1923-11-15
DOLLAR AT NEW HIGH.

PARIS, November 15.-The dollar
made the new high record of 1858 on
record was 18.251s, established on Au-
gust IA last.
Evening star., 1923-11-15

Jean La Marr, formerly secretary
to the attorney general of Louisiana.
has turned to the stage for career.
In Egypt women are regarded as
strictly inferior in households where
Evening star., 1923-11-15

Miss Dolly Tree has achieved fame
jn Paris, where she creates designs.
for theatrical productions.
Evening star., 1923-11-15
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.
TODAY's CHICAGO PRICES.

CHICAGO. November 15.-Eastern
buying, together with the fact that
offerings were light, gave an upward
trend to the wheat market today in
the early dealings. Bulls put some
stress on reports that Minneapolis
prices were too low to permit of
Canadian imports at Minneapolis. On
the other hand. word from Washing
ton that wheat tariff hearings were
likely to take several months tended
to nullify efforts to lift prices. The
opening, which ranged from u de-
cline toka2s advance. December
1.03I to 1.O3B. and May, 1.08h to
1898, was followed by moderate
general upturns.
Corn was weak: largely as a result
of assertions that hog feeding was
being conducted at q loss.
After opening, unchanged to u
lower. December 1855 to 1855 the corn
market underwent a decided general
setback.
Oats, governed by wheat rather
than by corn, started at shade low
er to Is higher. May, 44B to 44k, and
held near to the initial figures
Provisions were easier In line with
hnO
Evening star., 1923-11-15

HOURLY SALES OF STOCKS.
II a.m.... .S15 100 12m...... SOB 300
PM. $50 900 2p.m.... 772 800
Evening star., 1923-11-15
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
gr,iA Received BY Private Wire Direct Star oRce
Air Reduction. .

! Air Reduction.
| Ajax Rubber.
Alaska Juneau.
Allied Chem. -.
Allis Chalmers.
Am Agr Chem.
Am Ag Chm pf.
An Bank Note.
Am Bosch. .....
Am Brake Shoe.
Am Csu ........
Am Can pr.
Am Car & Fdy..
Am Chain (A).
Am Cotton OIL.
Am Cot on IF.
Am Druggist.
Am Express. -.
Am Fl & Leath..
! Am II & Lea pf.
Am lce.........
Am Tnternat'l.
Am Locomotive.
Am Radiator.
Am Roll Mill pf.
Am Safe Razor.
Am Ship & Com.
Am Smelling.
Am Steel Fdy...
Am Stl Fd pf.
Am Sugar.
Am Sugar pf. -.
Am Sumatra.
Am Tel G. Teleg.
Am Tobacco. :.
Am Tobac (B).
Am Tob pf (n)..
Am Water Wks.
Am Wooden.
Am Woolen pf.
Am Writ Pr pf.
Anaconda. =.
Ann Arbor pf. >.
Armour of Del pf.
Asso ID Goods. :.
Associated OIL.
Atchison
Atchison pf.
Allan Bir & Atl.
Allan est Line.
Atlantic Fruit.
Atl Fruit SITS.
Atlantic Gulf. :.
Atlas Tack.
Austin Nichols.
Baldwin Loco.
Baldwin Loc pf.
Baltic & Ohio.
BALTIC & Ohio pf.
Barnesdall (A).
Barnesdall (B).
Bayuk Bros.
Beech nut Pack.
Beth Steel.
Beth Stl 7%(n)..
Booth Fish 80.
Bklyn Edison.
Brklyn-Man Tr.
Brkln-Man T pr.
Bklyn Rap T fp.
Burns Bros tA)-
Eutte Copper.
Butte & Super.
Butterick .....
Caddo Oil. ......
Calf Petrol.
Callahan Zine. :.
Canadian Pac...
Case Threshing.
Central Leatn.
Cent Leath pf.
Cerro de Pasco.
Chandler Mot.
Chesap s. Ohio.
Ches 6 Ohio pf. :.
Chi & Alton pf. .
Chi & East Ill. =.
! Chi & E Ill pf. =.
Chi Great w pf.
Chi Mil & st P.
| Chi NIL &St P pf
| Chi G. Nor thwn..
Chi Pneu Tool.
| Chi r I & Pac...
Ch r / & + So pf
| Chi r I&P 7%pf.
! Chile Copper.
Chino Copper.
| Cluett Peabody.
| Coca-Cola. .....
| Colo & South. =.
| Columbia Gas.
| Coium bn Carbon
| Comp Tabulat..
| Congoleum Co. :.
| Cons Cigar.....
! Cons Gas of NY.
| Cons Textile. -.
| Cont Can.......
| Continental Mot
| Corn Products.
| Cosden & Co. -.
! Crucible Steel.
! Cuban-Am Sug.
Cuba Cane Sug.
Cuba Cane S pf.
Cuban Dom pr.
Dawson Chem.
Del & Hudson.
, 1923-04-04
Real Motoring Comfort In
the New Goodyear Red
Tubes

The tubes and not the c2sings hold
the air which cushions your car.
To do this they must keep on hold
ing air u%nfaiIin2Iy. There n at not
be a weak spot in then. They must
not be uncertain in heir p-ssibiIi les
for long service. There must be no
slOW-ieakn to lessen the effective
ness OF the cusEion for the car.
Have you had unfortunate expert
ences with porous tubes?
Goodyear RED Tubes are Of lamin-
ated construction, that is, they arc
built up layer upon layer Of The purest
gun stock and other ma eriai in such
a way that any leaking due to polosity
IS quite prevented.
Nor is there any leaking around the
valve in a Goodyear RED Tube for
the valve patch IS vuIcamzed into the
tube and no. st stuck on as in the
case OF mauy inferior tubes.
Goodyear RED Tubes not only pro,
are entitled to, but they are TOW IN D
tempted to buy.
Why accept any tube Of lesser DUAL
, 1923-04-04
Publication.

IT is hereby brought to public no
= tice that the Government has
this date authorized Reverend C.
F. BROOKlNS to perform civil
religious functions in the Virgia
Islands of the United States.
Government of the Virgin Is
lands of the United States, st.
Thomas, % March, 1923.
}. j. GAFFNEY.
Government Secretary.
Evening star., 1923-07-15
CLARENDON PARK
SITE IS DONATED
Frank Lyon to Loan Tract of
Several Acres to
Citizens.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLARENDON, Va, July 14.-Sev-
eral acres of ground owned by
Frank Lyon in the center of Clar-
ondon soon is to be converted into
public park, according to an an
nouncemennt made today by A.
Frank Snyder, business manager of
the Clarendon Community Band.
Mr.. Lyon, according to the an
nouncement, has agreed to loan the
ground for park purposes and also
has promised to install equipment.
When all improvements are COM
plete, it is said, the park will in
clude scores of comfortable and
permanent benches, swings and 9TH
or playground paraphernalia and
bandStand.
The tract, which Is bounded by Vir-
ginia avenue and Birch street, Taylor
and Washington avenues. is ideally
located for the purpose it is to serve.
1t is within a stones throw of the
Clarendon car station. Little can be
added to improve the landscape at
tractiveneSs of the ground.
Mr.. Lyon has long been strong
advocate Of the establishment OF
public parks in the county. He gave
ground in Lyon Park several years
ago for recreational purposes.
Erection of the bandstand and
benches will be started in the very
near future, II is said. A committee
Of the Clarendon Community Band
consisting of Director Marcus, Ham
ilton Myers, Harry Maycock and A
+; Snyder has an appointment with
Mr.. Lyon tomorrow for the pur-
pose of considering several angles
be visited and the location of the
bandStand selected.
Evening star., 1923-07-15
HYATTSVILLE.

HYATTSyILLE, Md, July IA (Spe-
ciaD.--Plans are complete for the
lawn fete and supper Tuesday from
to 10 o'clock, on the lawn of Mrs.
Fl. s. Roome. Maryland and Carroll
avenues. The function will be under
the auspices of and for the benefit of
the Rectors' Aid of Pinkney Memorial
Church. and will be In charge of a
committee of which Mrs. George H.
Lanhardt Is chairman.
Southern Maryland has fur
nished professional base ball with a
number of first-rate performers, bu.
1t is doubtful If any of them ever
started their careers with more pros
pect of success than Oscar Hiser, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Hiser of Ed
monston. near Hyattsville. who has
just signed a contract with New
Market, in the Shenandoah Valley
League in Virginia and has reported
for duty.
An older brother, Henry Hiser,
also is regarded as an unusually
clever amateur performer and has re-
ceived a number of offers from pro-
fessioinal clubs. So far. however.
none of them has appeared suffi-
ciently attractive to him.
Evening star., 1923-07-15
BRENTWOOD MAYOR
NATIVE OF DISTRICT
Just Elected for Second Term
Town Makes Rapid Strides
Since Incorporation.
srecial pispatch TO The star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BRENTWOOD, Md, July 14.-Lloyd
V. Moxley, just elected for the second
term mayor of Brentwood, the baby
municipality of Prince Georges coun-
ty, is a native of the District of CO.
lumbia and is forty-five years of age.
AT the age of seven years his family
removed to what was then known as
the Highlands, now a part of Brent
wood. He is a son OF the late l. Mox-
ley, who conducted the Washington
bill-posting enterprise. He was edu-
Gated in the public schools, and at
the age of nineteen entered the en-
ployment of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company. where he is now
employed. He has large circle OF
friends among the officials and en-
ployes of the company, In which he
has held various important positions
June IL, 1922, Brentwood, by vote
of the citizens, was Incorporated, and
Mr.. Moxley was elected July of the
same year as Brentwood first execu-
tive. He defeated John May. During
the first year of the towns existence
no tax levy for general purposes was
permitted under the terms of the
charter, the principal sources of rev.
enue being from license fees, permit
fees and the road rebate fund The
revenue from these sources aggregat-
ed $1,9592a.
Evening star., 1923-07-15
FUGITIVE BANK HEAD
MAY BE RETURNED
Spurgin, Practically Penniless in
Mexico, Likely to Be Brought
to Chicago.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 14.-Warren G.
Spurgin. former president Of the Michi-
gan Trust Company, who has been a
fugitive since the banks collapse in
1921, is in Mexico. virtually without
funds and i'll, and his friends may sur
render him to Chicago officials. accord
ing to the Chicago Journal today, which
makes the statement on the authority
of John S: Lord, an officer of the com
pany which bonded the officers Of the
bank for 100000. John w. O'Leary,
receiver for the bank, also confirms the
facts, according to the Journal.
Evening star., 1923-07-15
Detective SHOOTS
MAN AFTER ARREST
Richmond Officer Says Bus Driver
Brought Revolver From
House.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, July 14.-Mack r.
Kee, a bus driver, is in a hospital
with u bullet in his shoulder and
Detective Griffin Is suspended pends
ing an investigation as to why he
shot the driver.
Griffin said he agreed to buy liquor
from the driver, and when II waa
delivered placed the man under ar
rest.
Kee was accompanied to his home
to get bail for court appearance and
the officer says he came out OF the
house with a pistol in his hand.
A number of shots were fred by
each man, but Kee was the only one
hurt The affair occurred in a fash
ionable residential section.
Evening star., 1923-07-15
.HIDERS OF CHINESE
WIN WRIT Of ERROR
Four Convicted After Seizure of
Motor Truck Gain Legal
Point,
BY the Associated Press.

by ztSsUcIHrtu FrtsB-
RICHMOND. Va, July 14.-An order
allowing a writ of error In the case
OF Louis Milan. Angelo Cacciatore,
Pasquale Cacciatore. alias Joe Leto,
alias Giuseppe Leto. and Ignazio An
tonori charged with harboring and
concealing seventeen Chinese who had
unlawfully entered the United States,
was entered today in federal district
court here.
They were arrested by federal prohi-
bition agents on August 16 last when
the officers seized a truck in Dinwiddie
county which they thought contained
liquor, but which was found to be
transporting the Chinese. supposedly
from Florida to New York The four
men were sentenced to six years each
viction in United States district court
here.
Evening star., 1923-07-15
They Were ALI Brown.
ro,r the Detroit Free Press

From the Detroit Free Press.
A strange family moved into the
house next door A few days later.
as was sweeping the front porch,
"a child came out to play.
what is your name, little giri?'
I ventured.
'Oh. my mammals name is Ethel
and my daddy's name is Jim, and
my baby brothers name is Lester,
and my name IL Bessie. and were
oil Brown" was the reply.
Evening star., 1923-07-15
Foxy at Early Age.
From the Associated Housekeepers.


Little Bob (about to go out with
mother)-Mamma. you must take
some money with you.
Mother-No. Bob, I'm not going to
use any.
Little Bob-Yes, you must have
money for chocolate. might start
crying ON the street. you know.
Evening star., 1923-10-10

Since early have been working this event We planned
result 200 ha for fabric fashion and fit hold
their head high At $3.50 prepared to
value that will look better and better and better them
along For although believe
do believe comparisons And that you do that
Compare these with offered in other good
much higher prices Then let's have
Big Burly UlsterS---EngliSh Type Great
Coats---Straight Box Back Coats
Chesterels modelfor OF
The illustrations
an ulster and great sketched from stock.
There is no Competition You'll when you
uperb @ so completes needs qualities that will
keep warm we'll dressed this winterand
For this the opens 8AM
The Hechf CO.
Seventh F
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-23
WRESTLER GIVES
OFFICERS SLIP
Texas and Hampstead County
Officers In Chase After
Jack Reece.

Jack Reece and another pro-
fessional wrestler named Lar
ry appeared on the mat at
Hope Thursday night of last
week. They also registered at
a Hope hotel Larry and a wom-
an. it is alleged, as man and
wife. They cleaned up fairly
well and lived easily. They left
Hope Monday morning, pre-
sumably for Smackover, in a
car. Close behind them Officer
Jim Bearden and two Texas Of
ficers followed.
A warrant was sworn out in
Hampstead county for the trio
by Texas officers, for violation
of the Mann Act. Larry is
said to be responsible for bring
ing the woman across the state
line," stated the sheriff.
Deputy Bearden returned to
this city Tuesday night empty
handed. The elusive wrestlers
made their escape and left no
clue as to their whereabouts.