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Evening star., 1923-09-22
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Coz
September 90. 1s2S-10:51 am.
Nominal SaII;nr cbacp,
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, September 22.-For-
eign exchange firm. Quotation Gn
United States dollars): Great Britain
Demand, Assn: cables. 455ss; 60
day bills on banks, 4.52k. France
Demand, .06o11z; cables, .Oso2. italy
Demand, .o451, cables, .04511k. Bel
gium-Demand, .05121s; cables, .0513.
Germany-Demand, .0000o0o07; cables,
.0o0000007. Holland-Demand, 1890;
cables, 1886. Norway--Demand, 1900.
Sweden-Demand, 1880. Denmark
Demand, 1902. Switzerland-Deman
.1783. Spain-Demaild, 1885. Greece
Demand, .01S0. Poland-Demand.
000004. Czechoslovakia - Demand,
.0299h. Jugoslavia--Demand .O1OS
Austria-Demand, .000014 Rumania
Demand, 0046h. Argentina-De-
mand, 1878. Brazil-Demand, .1012
Notwithstanding 80 11-1k
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o. s. TREASURY CERTIFICATES.
(ouotations furnished by Redmond & Co.
CLOSING SUGAR PRICES
(sales are in 81, ,ooo.)

NEW YORK, September 22-Sugar
futures closed irregular; approximate
sales, 1o,6o0 tons. October, $50; De-
cember, 4.s1; March, 3.ss; May, 3.sS.
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SILK VALUES EASE OFF.

NEW YORK, September % (Spe-
ciaD.-The raw silk market was quiet
today. Prices eased off 10 to Is cents
a pound. The cotton goods market
was steady on light trading. Print
cloths Were at Fridays figure
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RAILS AND SUGARS LEAD.
Baltimore and Ohio One of To-
days Market Features.
BY STUART p. WEST.
.nncinl nisnatch To The Star

crccial Dispatch to The Star.
NEW. YORK, September 22.-The
baltimore and Ohio among the rails
were the leaders of today's markets
The buying of Baltimore and Ohio
las been very persistent and the
street believes that there has been a
al accumulation of the stock in an
t Cipation of a dividend before the
crd of the year.
Punta Allegro, with larger un-
sod supply OF sugar than any Cuban
J uducers. will be the chief benefi-
" dry of the present situation in the
Igar market The stock is prac-
tically certain to be restored to a
dividend basis early in October
Other Sugar Stocks Strong.
The only question is whether the
distribution issue will be at the rate
OF 81 or IS. Good opinion believes
that it will be So. Other sugar stocks
were very strong. Cuban Cane Sugar
referred was selling is points higher
nd Cuban Cane 3 points higher than
their low of the early summer.
Railway shares were drawn along
moderately by the special strength in
Baltimore and Ohio. but they We're
Cosden dividends failed to affect the
tock, and this was taken as one
more proof of a sold-out condition in
the oil shares.
Steel common got above IS. but
with the demand from the short in
terest backing the stock fell back
ngain. Baldwin Locomotive. at lis.
vas up over points from Fridays
close.
Market Closes strong.
The market closed strong and well
up to the best prices. Punta Allegro
md Cuban Cane preferred were ac-
lively bought right up to the end
signs of increasing nervousness on
the part of the short interest were
apparent in the oil shares.
lnaSnuch as little attention has
been paid to the recovery in French
francs while stocks were going down,
there was no sense in connecting the
strength of the days stock market
with the rise in the francs above the
sfx-cent level. Gable advices from
Berlin do not indicate that the latest
German proposals will include the
abandonment of Ruhr resistance with
out reservations. Therefore the Of
fetal attitude of confidence assumed
At Paris may be viewed with much
skepticism.
But even assuming a complete sur
render by Germany the question of
very serious import for the future of
French finances is whether the Ger
man industrial structure has not been
brought so near breakdown that
collection of reparatioifs on any large
scale will have TO be Indefinitely post
pOned
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WOOL MARKET UNCHANGED.

BOSTON, September % (Specia).-
The week in the local wool market
closed on an optimistic note as the
result of recent buying of fair vol<
ume. Generally speaking, prices were
no higher than last week.
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BUTTER LOWER TODAY.

CHICAGO, September 22.-Butter
lower; creamery extras, 451z; stand
ards, As; extra frsts, 44a45; firsts,
411ka421A; seconds, 40a401a.
Eggs unchanged; receipts, 1885
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PRICES IRREGULAR
IN COTTON TRADING
Early Declines Are Largely
Offset in Later Evening
Up of Contracts.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, September 22.-The
cotton market was lower during to-
days early trading under further
liquidation and scattered selling pro-
NOTED by the easier showing of
Liverpool and reports that Lancashire
mills using American cotton would
continue on half time during October.
cline of to 35 points and was un-
settled after the call with October
easing off to 1906 and December TO
2S.57. or about % TO % points lower.
Some trade buying was reported
at the lower prices, while there was
covering for over the week end, which
was probably influenced by the pros
pect for increasingly cloudy weather
in the southwest.
Futures closed barely steady. Oc-
topsr 2s25a2saS 9s pseem6sr 9ssen be 2ssSs s
2S.35a2S.43; May. 2S.19a2S.30. Cotton,
spot quiet; middling. 1910.
Gains I'm New Orleans Market.
NEW ORLEANS. September o.
Dry weather over the greater part of
the belt and poor cables caused SELL
ing on the opening of the cotton mar
ket To-Day, ana prices dropped ~ 10 II
points under the close of yesterday. to
28.10 for October. New buying was
felt at the decline, and by the end of
the first hour of trading it caused re-
coveries to within to 10 points of
yesterdays final prices, October COM
ing back to 1927.
Cotton futures closed steady at net
gains of 3 to IA points. October,
2s.48-50; December, 2S40-45: January,
1922; March, 28.03-0s; May, 27.s3-S7.
Spot cotton quiet and unchanged.
Sales on the spot, none; to arrive, $50;
low middling, $500; middling, 1900;
good middling, $3.50.
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.


CHICAGO, September % Omitted
States Department of Agricultural
Hogs-Receipts, 1000; uneven; most
sales steady: few desirable light,
steady to 10 lower: weighty butchers,
steady to strong; bulk, better grades,
1885 TO 240 pound averages, S.S0a8.90:
TOP. $50; desirable. 260 to 800 pound
butchers mostly S.60aS.70; packing
sows. 7.5Oa7.70: killing pigs, % to
so higher; few desirable, strong
weight, 7.00a7.75; estimated hold
over, 5000.
CattIe-Receipts. 1,ooO:. compared
week ago. matured beef steers, large
ly so lower; yearlings, 25 to 80 low
er: top matured steers. 1900; best
yearlings, 1850; Gamers and cutters
and bulls, strong; vealers, so higher:
stockers and feeders, steady to 20
lower. Weekbulk prices follow: Fed
beef steers, 9.15a11.25: butcher cows
and heifers, 4.00aS.50; Gamers and
cutters, 2S5a3.50; vealers, 12.75a1S.6o;
stockers and feeders, 6.00a7.5o.
Sheep-Receipts, 5000: compared
week ago. fat lambs, SO lower, fat
sheep and feeder lambs. 20 lower;
closing top natives, 1925. Weeks
bulk prices: Natives, 1S.25a14. 90;
oulls. natives, 9.5oa10.00; yearling
wethers, 9.50a11,00; wethers, S.26a
SIS; fat ewes, 5.50a6.15; feeder
la ambs 1325a13.75.
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CLEARING HOUSE REPORT.

NEW YORK, September 22.-The
actual condition of clearing house
banks and trust companies for the
week shows a deficit in reserve of
s6.354.S60. This Is a decrease OF
S17.64A6aQs --------.----...--
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DAIRY PRODUCTS.

BALTIMORE, Md, September p (Spe-
ciaD Live poultry-Spring chickens,
23a2s; Leghorns, 22a25. Old hens, goa
81: Leghorns, 20a22. Old roosters,
I5a16; ducks, 17a24; pigeons, pair, 20;
Guinea fowl, each, 40a45.
ErRs-Loss off, native and nearby
6rsts. dozen, 40; southern, 81.
Blitter-Creamery, good to fancy,
pound, 45a4S; prints, 4sa60: nearby
creamery, 35a40; ladies, S4a35; rolls
31a33: store packed, 81 dairy prlhts'
31a33; process butter, 3SaSS.
Evening star., 1923-09-22
TODAY's CHICAGO PRICES.

CHICAGO, September %. In
creased selling on the part of COM
mission houses led to a decline in
wheat prices today during the early
dealings. Besides, less aggressive
support for the market was in evil
dence. and rallying power appeared
TO be limited. Reports of heavy snow
in the Canadian northwest failed to
exert any notable bullish influence.
The opening, which ranged from 1s
to SAL lower. with December 1.02 70
to 1.02Ss and May 1.0S to 1.0S1s, was
followed by a slight further setback
and then something of rally.
Corn and oats were firm as result
of active demand for Immediately
available supplies of corn. After
opening unchanged to q higher,
December, 67A to 671z, the corn
market continued to ascend.
Oats started unchanged to Is
higher, December. Ss% to 39& a39A,
and later held near to the initial
range.
Provisions were steady, in line with
hog values,
Evening star., 1923-09-22

TOTAL SALES (Par vaiue):
IL am. SAT 900 ~ noon 2 9s7 600
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The Middle of the Road Leaves
Civilizations Hope Unanswered

why they stand back OF a government
which would rather keep Germany
weak than allow her to get strong
enough to pay reparations. They look
for another war. Wars always come.
and they always will" French
fatalism!
And in Germany Bertram Pollard
Peeps into the psychology of the Ger
mans. One comes to believe if some
more lenient treatment had been
accorded them. they might have been
drawn into something like brother
hood and also the French have now
embittered them for who knows how
long, so as to make fraternity i'm
possible.
In this book one finds a fearful
picture of the famine in Russia and
an appreciative description of the
work of the American Relief Elk.
redition. And then after all his
troubles. the story Of the loves,
hates and entanglements comes to an
end which is full of hope for the chief
characters.
Whether there is hope for civiliza-
ton is the problem propounded by the
book itself. And left unanswered!
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Bv HERBERT QUICK

n N his aew novel. The Middle of
the Road" Sir Philip Gibbs has
thrown on the screen a picture Of
the condition of Europe, and at the
same line has given us a novel OF
exceptional interest And it seems
to me chat this is paying the book
a very high compliment.
The reader gets from 1t a concep-
ton Of the way England was all shot
to pieces by the war. The chief char
acter of the book IS half irish. half
English, and unwilling to go with his
aristocrauc wife and her people. with
the Sim Fein, or with his bitterly
anti.Irish father. He wants. in an
insane world, to walk the SANG way,
between the crazed Right and the
crazed Left. in the middle Of the
road.
And then the tragic plight Of Ire,
land is shown. One feels after read
ing it he mas made a visit to Ireland
and found out something of the rea-
son why the Irish are numbering
each other and calling the murders
executions"
The hero is sent to France, and one
gets from his studies Of the common
people of France the explanation of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-05

In finally signing the prohibition
enforcement repeater Governor Alfred
Smith Of New York fulhls his ante
election promises TO the vets Of his
State and issues a 5.000-word expIa
nation OF his act.
Which WAS totally unnecessary. II
Al did right, no apology was indi-
Gated. If he did wrong. no amount
Of explanation can make it right.
The Governor speaks Of the alleged
hypocrisy Of "fanaucal drys." Twas
ever thus. DO we wish an excuse for
moral turpitude? The other fellow is
the hypocrite Look at Deacon Jones
with his solemn face passing the
plate on Sunday and robbing the
widow on week days
The hypocrite"' we say. and 20
out and proceed TO commit our pet
sin. Al, this hypocrisy excuse for
moral obiquity is as old as the Pilt-
down skull-and as musty
But II Al would attack hypocrisy.
how about his own proposed middle
Of the road platform" which would
lay course between the "fanatical
vets and fanatical drys" and allow
AHHb wines ana DARK peers
1t IS said that Al has his eye on
the White House 'Twere a worthy
ambition, but a poor method OF at
talnment,
A nation half slave and half free
cannot long endure!" said one in '5S
and he became President of the
United States because he was ever
lastIngly right Al Smith is wrong.
and by his error has run his political
course,
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BY c. A. RANDALL.


Governor Smith has signed the bill
repeating the New York State prohi-
bition enforcement act. As It was
within the power Of the Legislature
and the executive to create this law.
so was it also within their power to
withdraw II.
That's the gist Of the hectic doings
at Albany.
There is no question Of treason"
or Secession Though these words
flow easily from the lips of fanatics.
they find no application to Governor
Smiths action.
Neither is there justification for the
excited enthusiasm of the vets. 1t
is a long, long way from the repeal
of the New York Law to light wines
and beer.
That he would be damned If he did
and damned if he didn't. was Gov,
ernor Smiths comment when he was
still considering his disposition Of the
repeater.
Regardless or the accuracy Of this
forecast. there can be little doubt that
thinking men and women everywhere
will at least give AL Smith his due
as an honest and courageous man.
The country has become accustomed
to public men in high places casting
their votes for dry measures and at
the same time adding to the stocks
~ liquor in their cellars
That the Governor Of the most
populous State in the Union departs
from this practice is an indication
double dealing is not necessarily part
CT a statesman's business.
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hilltop to which she had lured her
victim last July.
1t YVES this penchant for fighting,
upon which the authorities relied for
her eventual apprehension. Sheriff
William Traeger had insisted that
she could not hide her nature; that
something would provoke her and
provide a clew.
Jesse Carsen, ex-convict and. by
her statement. the man who sawed
her Los Angeles cell bars. did the
provoking. Carsen was Mrs. Phillips
travelling companion. On the journey
through Mexico into Honduras where
the arrest was made. Clara posed as
Carsen's wife.
They had been Joined by Mrs.
Phillips younger sister, Eta Mae
jackson. But when her liberator
dropped his pose Of chivalry and took
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1t was while in the Los Angeles
county Jail awaiting decision on ap-
peal that Clara escaped in December
through sawed cell bars from solitary
confinement, scaled the roof. gained
the street and was whisked away by
confederates, remained hidden in the
city for several weeks, reached New
Orleans in disguise and with Carsen
and her sister sought refuge in. Cen
trail America.
The nature OF the crime, her es-
cape. the drama of a 10,000-mile chase.
the election Of her younger sister to
share Clara's flight and fate, her re-
ported near success in vamping her
way to release in Tegucigalpa, the
suspense inherent in extradition pro-
ceedings-+au these give the case all
the elements Of a criminal classic.
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Ego Makes Fighting Tiger Woman of Clara Phillips

cate of probable cause, a technical bar
rier to her immediate removal to San
Quentin.
Clara Phillips was convicted largely
on the testimony of Mrs. Peggy
Caffee, former chorus girl chum and
asserted eyewitness of the Meadow
girls death under the failing hammer.
Leaving her victim horribly mu-
tilated Mrs. Caffee to drive away with
her in the auto by which Alberta had
gone to her doom.
Then, as the convicting jury heard
the grewsome tale. Mrs. Phillips
threatened to kill her companion if
she told, confessed the crime to Phil
lips. was by him put aboard a train
and next day arrested in Arizona. She
was convicted on a compromise verdict
and sentenced under the California
indeternlinate law.
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himself for granted as sutton, Clara
says, public squabbles arose. The be
havior Of the trip. for which each
blames the other, blazed the trail for
pursuit, providing the trace confident
ly awaited by Sheriff Traeger.
In the Honduran Jail Clara's bra
vado fared anew. She slapped a
guard She buffeted newspa permen
and smashed cameras. Wearing a
chip on her shoulder. Sharp of tongue
and fist. as she is reported to have
been at home and in the stage chorus
she once dominated.
Returned to Los Angeles. the mer-
curial Clara proposed to reopen the
fight" to disprove guilt for the muir
der she has disclaimed since her hus-
band told officers of her confession and
instigated her arrest. Her effort to
secure retrial was based on a certifi-
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TOM SIMS
SAYS:

= T will soon be time to decide,
where you are going on
N your vacation besides
broke
Some men think twice before
they speak, while others speak
twice before they think
Country bedbugs are sharpen
ing their teeth and getting ready
for the city folks
A New York hold-up man VIII
be held up for twenty years
Automatic cigarette lighters
don't work so well. Some men
are automatic cigarette lighters.
These Princeton seniors who
say they have never kissed girl
do not say what girl.
Chuckle and this world chuck
les with you. Don't chuckIe
and this world chuckles at you.
Finding a wife is so simple. .
Just be doing something you
shouldn't and she will show up.
"There are too many boot
Ieggers, says an official, failing
to mention how many is enough. j.,
A policeman tells us good
man is hard to fine.
Some of the fish caught early
this spring are six feet long now.
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CAN HENRY FORD BE PRESIDENT?
Politicians Take Boom for Auto King Seriously
BY FRANK j. TAYLOR

Times Staff Correspondent
w Henry Ford be RESIDENT Snssi -''
First, can Henry keep his
peace for a whole year? Or, If he
can't. can he avoid pulling a political
boner?"
Politicians now take the Ford po-
litical boom seriously They recog-
nize Ford as an outstanding figure in
the public eye
Some draw parallel between Henry
Ford of 1925 and Herbert Hoover of
1919. Hoover Debated his amazing
boom with one word. Yes" to those
who wanted him Republican candidate
in the California primaries
Some Curious Angles
There are some curious angles to
this Ford boom. For instance, who or
what started it? Independents and
progressives say it is a spontaneous
outburst of popular sentiment.
Practical politicians who don't be-
lieve in fairies in politics. deny it is
spontaneous. Those who know Henry
Ford intimately concur. They say he
was stung by the presidential bee back
in 1916.
They recall 1915 as Henrys year
Of interviews" 1t was then the humble
motor manufacturer first awoke to his
power as a publicist He talked on
anything and everything.
1t was Mrs. Ford and Jim Couzens.
pal Of Ford and now Senator from
Michigan, who first realized the inter
viewers were making Henry seem
peculiar" in the public eye. They
conspired TO get him away to Califor-
MIA. They kept him out of the cities
and away from newspaper reporters
for a year.
Studied Politics
When Henry returned. he was an.
other man. very cautious. He began
the study Of politics and publicity. as
he previously had studied industry
and business. Management of his fac
tories he turned over to his son.
Edsel
Since that time in his naive way.
Henry has been playing" first one
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ITALIAN INVENTOR WORKS
IN SHADOW OF GALLONS
FOR GOOD OF POSTERITY
Acknowledgements Motor Is
Goal of Convict Await
ing Death,
BIZ NFA Serrice

BIZ NEA Service
RT EW ORLEANS, June 5.-Un-
- selfish altrulsm comes even
- from the shadow of the gal
lows.
Joe Bocchio. "a. Italian poet and
mechanic. sits in his cell in the death
row at New Orleans parish prison
here, awaiting the hangman's com,
ing.
But his thoughts are not of him
self. Twice the courts have decreed
he must die. He protests his Inno
cence. but accepts his fate philosophy
cally.
Thinking of others day after day
he bends over his blue prints, work
ing on an invention which he believes
will be a blessing to humanity In this
great mechanical age.
CircumstantiaI Evidence
Bocchio and five other Italians soon
must pay the penalty the State exacts
for the murder of Dallas Gaines. res
taurateur of independence. La. They
were convicted on purely circumstan-
tai evidence. Intervention by the
Federal Supreme Court is all that
can save them now.
Joe contends he never was in In
dependence He maintains;
That neither he Tor his five com
nanions wee there on the night
Gaines was slain while attempting
70 rout bandits looting bank near
his lunchrooIn.
That there IS a conspiracy on the
part of the real murderers and their
friends to shift the blame upon
others shoulders
Was Skeptical
But to return to the invention
Joe had been In jail only a few days
when he learned that Capt Archie
Rennyson. prison warden. had wide
knowledge Of technical mechanics. To
him, Bocchlo confded his secret Of
an electric motor upon which ne
worked two years prior to his arrest
Regarding II only as another sly
move on the part Of a condemned
man to gain sympathy. Captain Rem
nyson was skcptical at first.
But he soon saw Joe was sincere
He went to the district attorney and
asked that the young Indian be
given, permission to complete his in
ventiOn
Nothing could be done. The law
holds no tools or implements with
which he might end his ufe can be
given 70 a condemned man.
So Bocchio was forced 10 rely solely
on drawings and data. He will place
these in the hands Of his counsel with
instructions 10 turn them over 10 his
brother Of Novara, near Milan. Italy.
The brother. Bocchio says, Is chief
electrician In tho submarine division
Of the Italian navy.
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IN CHILE IS
BOOMERANG
Nice Time Was Had by ALL
but Nothing Was Ac7
c0mnLiShnd.
BY CHARLES P. STEWART
NEA Service Writer


wv ASHINGTON. June 5.-The
w Pan-American conference at
Santiago, Chile. recently,
passed of very pleasantly.
Which means that il didn't accom-
plish anything.
1t wouldn't have been so pleasant
if the Latin-American delegates had
said what they thought.
|. Their newspapers are saying 1t now.
According Ola PFensa Of Buenos
Aires, leading Latin-American daily
the most important proposition on the
conference program was formation Of
a league Of American nations; the
second IN Importance was armament
Limitation.
The league was Uruguay's scheme.
The North American delegates sensed
that all the others were against it and
sat on the suggestion before it had
been more than barely mentioned.
The United States was back Of the
armament Limitation plan.
In proposing it, says La Prensa,
the United States committed n mis-
take which was one more result OF
the lack of reliable information con
corning events in this part Of the
American continent"
In fact, La Prensa asserts. the
very advocacy by the United States.
Of Argentine participation in a plan
to limit the latter's military strength,
at the same time that American Of
1cers are helping Brazil to strengthen
her navy. must result in influencing
both these countries to encourage
militarism and to endanger peace"
Argentina Is the republic which
resents Brazils activities most. but
the others don't like them. either, and
the Brazilians themselves recognize it.
The whole South American press,
says the important formal do Brazil,
has ranged itself unanimously against
US. Even Uruguay, our traditional
friend has joined the current Of hos
fifty against Brazil"