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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31
TREMENDOUS SUCCESS OF
 AGE-HERALD'S BIG AUTO RACE MEANS EXTRA GOLD PRIZES
Popularity Of Movement And Enthusiastic Interest Taken By "50000 Club Members And Public In General Prompts Addition Of Liberal Extra Gold Prizes For Ef- fort Between Now And Saturday, August A. 9 P M.

campaign has prompted The Age Herald to make this wonderfully lib eral offer of extra gold prizes be- sides double regular credits on the subscriptions this week This is the Gne big remaining chance to drive home victory and make certain of success on August IS when the eight automobiles go out.
 Division Of Prizes.
 Here 1t Is: Three extra gold prizes will be given the three members of the "50,o00 club,' regardless of dis trtct who secure and turn in the three largest amounts of new sub scriptiCns this week The one turn
 ing in the most new subscriptions wins first prize. S1oO in gold; second most wins $50 in gold. and the third most wins $25 In gold. Only new sub scriptions count for these extra gold prizes. And new subscriptions also count for double credits this week toward the automC piles. Can you equal that for opportunity? No. sir, not by a whole lot. This is a truly great offer, and one that comes just two weeks before the automobiles themselves will be awarded. Think of 1t. just two weeks from Saturday night, the Jewett the Columbia the Essex and the five Fords will be given away.
 Now is the time to make sure of victory. Every new subscription you turn in this week will do double duty and will have an important ef feet on who wins the eight cars or August IS. Never again will such a liberal inducement be offered. Mem bers who have heretofore done very little can start off this week, Twin the geld prizes and make sure of an automobile at the same time. The wonderfully liberality of this extra gold and double credit offer places everybody on an equal basis. Any member can win the gold prize and win an automobile, too. There is very little to choose between any of the leaders thus far and those who have been trailing along in the back stretch can, by a little energy and determination. forge to the front this week, win gold and win automobiles to boot
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maid. Her quaintneSs and grace all spoke of her stage ability.
 George R. Taylor as Le Sang Kee a prosperous Chinese merchant of San Francisco. was perhaps best among the actors in the cast. His emotions and expressions would have been hard to an America drama, much less a Chinam4h. James Blayne, as Bully Benson, the principal Ameri- can in the plot. handled the role with ease and force.
 To leave out Raymond Bramley as the villain, Charlie Yang, of "chor suey" fame, would leave the criticism blank. As a fifty-fifty American Chinaman he was clever Russell Fillmore demonstrated his clean abil- ity as comedian.
 Franklin George. A. s. Byron, Law renee Keating. Hazel Reading, Melba Palmer and Edith Speare. as support ing members of the cast ,all de- served much credit.
 The prologue, the Love Boat" is a scenic masterpiece, and received the applause from the entire audience when the curtain first arose.
 But to get back to the plot of this interesting comedy drama. there are rare occasions when fans can obtain such downright entertainment than the show which is being offered for the balance of the week by this popular com pany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31
36 LIVES ARE TAKEN
 IN SABBATH CRASHES

CHICAGO, July 30.-Thirty- five persons were killed and ten injured yesterday and early today in nine railroad crossing accidents in various parts of the country.
 One Pennsylvania train struck two automobiles within d few hours, four being killed in the first crash and nine in the second. The first accident occurred at Highland, Ill.,, where an automobile apparently became stalled on the tracks as the speeding pas senger train approached. A few hours later the same train struck another automobile at a crossing in Lig sett, Ind, eight miles from Terre Haute, nine persons being killed.
 At Iron Mountain, Mo-, a Missouri Pacific express train struck an au- tomobile and killed four persons. Five persons were killed when a Long Island passenger train struck an automobile at Rockville Gen. ter, l.. l.
 A report from Alameda, Cal. said that three persons were killed and three injured when car in which they were riding was struck by a Southern Pacific passenger train At Wadesboro, N. C., a Seaboard train struck an automobile killing two and injuring one probably fatally.
 Two persons were killed and two seriously injured at Robanna, N. J., when their automobile was struck hy a Reading passenger train and Rutland. Vt,, reported that one per- son was killed and one injured in an accident at railroad crossing there.
 At Augusta, Kas., two persons were killed and one injured when an au- tomobile in which they were riding, was struck by a Santa Fe motor car.
 In Chicago three persons were killed and one injured when Pan- handle train struck the car in which they were crossing the tracks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31
PRICES IF STOCKS BRIGHTEN AFTER
 EARLY DULLNESS
Presence Of Bargain Hunters Becomes Important Factor
 In Trading
Ky WALTER E. BROWN
 Editor New York Commercial. (Leased Wire to The AEe-HerRId)

NEW YORK, July 30.-Although the stock market started out today with the same exhibition of top heaviness that has characterized re- cent trading, sentiment improved considerably during the day and at the close the market rested on a considerably higher basis. Weakness during the morning session appeared to- be more a reflection of the pes s1mism born of last weeks reaction ary tendency than any response to weekend developments.
 In the late trading the marke showed obvious relief from the pres sure of liquidation of weekly mar gins accounts, while at the same time the presence of bargain hunters became more of factor in determin- : ing the trend of the days operations. Activity of the odd lot traders is Usually accepted as an accurate gauge of the markets possibilities. This class of trading does not be- come a factor until the larger trad CTS wait until the market has sold down to levels which challenge the buyer. For this reason bargain hunting" or sharp shooting" is ac- cepted as an indication that the major movement in either direction has eliminated for the time being. Foreign Exchanges.
 As usual the foreign exchanges presented 8 more accurate picture o1 under-surface conditions and oper- ations than did the professional backing and filling in the stock mar = ket. French francs were off about 3 points from Saturdays finals with other exchanges slightly lower. It Is entirely possible that the reaction IT the franc is more reflection of the interest payment of $10000,000 to be made by the French government on Wednesday.
 To some extent the situation in Germany must be accepted as the basis for the unsettlement in all the exchanges. However, the failure ot the various revolutions and counter revolutions which were scheduled for the weekend to materialize mas robbed the German cables of much of the power which they had last week
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then, evidently tired by a night of watching all the strain of encounter, went to sleep on deck. The boat careened, toppled the cases upon them and crushed them to death.
 While the bootlegger for obvious reasons does not inform on the high- jacker, the high jacker does some times turn inft rmer against the boot logger. In such cases the highjacker generally does so because the boot legger is receiving protection" from local or other officers A case of the kind which occurred in Louisiana. furnishes an illustration of the big prizes for which highjackers play. In this case the highjackers were thwarted not by bootleggers, but po- licemen acting as guards. The dis appointed highjackers went to the prohibition agent with their story.
 The agent said;
 T was awakened by Local Agent
 -, who had four men with him. These men are what are known as highjackers-that is, whisky thieves who prey upon bootleggers. aThey in- formed Me of a large quantity of stored liquor which was to be moved before daylight. with alleged protec- tion of two policemen"
 The highJackers said they had witnessed the unloading of this whisky from a boat and that two officers were present during the un- loading as protection against them l accompanied these men to premises. where we lay in wait L a. mr meanNh' having secl s search warrants, and finally SC liquor and champagne said to worth between s5O,OoO and $75,
 We found the place filled W sacks, casks and cases of liquor. rum was piled high in the corno and lay all over the floor. I. champagne was in a separate TO, and was half covered. I am sat fled that they had protection as i lated and I am certain of securi sufficient evidence for arrests"
 A somewhat similar case occur in San Francisco, in which thu members of the police force were rested.
 tTo Be Continued Tomorrow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31
SAY BOOTLEGGERS FEAR HIGH JACKER MORE THAN LAW
tContinued From Page oneo

rampant from the Caribbean to the Grand Banks. It prevails. too, along the reaches of the Great Lakes where little beats run whisky across from the Canadian side, and on Puget Sound. where ships slip out to snug gle cargces of whisky into the states along the Pacific coast.
 Automobile roads across the Cana dian border and across the Mexican border, too, have their bands of highjack CTS; so does the inland coun- try. east, west, south and north. h short, we know that wherever crimt- nals go with illicit liquor the chances are that other criminals wait to take it from them.
 Playing Always Lone Hand.
 There Is sort of organization among the bootleggers and those who supply them with their wares It may be loose and it may change from day to day-in fact, it Is loose and does change-but generally the man who peddles liquor in any city of the country could not be sure of his supply were it not for the or ganizat ation which links him with the moonshiner or the smugGler. But the highjacker plays alone. Of all the motley gang, he goes 1t alone. He may have partner or he may hire a gunman or so, but he has no understanding with any other high jacker or with any branch of the illicit trade.
 Dry land highjacking is. perhaps, IS months old. It began to develop when the supply of genuine liquor ran low. It's object was high class goods. To this day the ghjacker pays little attention to moonshne or the synthetic liquors made from pure or redistilled denatured alcohol.
 Stories of highjacking first ap- peared in the neighborhood of New Orleans. though 1t probably sprang up all over the country at about the same time. Today it is impossible 10 say that there is more of 1t in one part of the country than in any other.
 Along the Canadian border from Maine to western New York, and again from Minnesota to the Pacafic coast. high jackers operating along automobile highways crossing the border generally have fast, high powered cars. Apparently they watch from some convenient place, prob ably a town near the border, for the passage of illicit liquor cars. The highjacker times himself to overtake the laboring liquor car at a point of his own choosing along the road. Most of these meetings proba bly, are bloodless, but some of them, on the other hand, without doubt are deadly. The desperation with which the aver age bootlegger fights the highjacker and the relief he manifests when he finds occasionally that he has been halted by an enforcement agent prove that the highjacker does not deal gently with those whom he robs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31

Bootleegers say that the highjack CT frequently shoots from pure cruelty. Methods Of The Fast Traveller.
 Up to this writing there has been no three -cornered encounter of boot logger, highjacker and enforcement agents. Agents have struck the hot trail of the highjacker, however, all most immediately after a holdup. The highjacker travels fast. Some of the agents, particularly those operating along the northwestern border, be- liever that highjacker cars are ire quently geared for higher speed than the cars used by automobile drivers generally.
 Along the costs of the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico. the Pacafic. the Great Lakes and Puget Sound the highiacker operates to some extent along the automobile routes, but his main eff fort appears to be to intercept liquor at the point of landing, sometlm es holding up the crews of the small boats used to bring the liquor ashore, sometimes waiting in concealment un- til the boat is gone and the liquor is ready to be concealed or taken away. On the Great Lakes, on Puget Sound, and probably on other waters where conditions are favorable high jackers requently operate in swift little motor hoats, intercepting their victims far enough off shore to be out of range of observation. Many small boats on the Great Lakes are engaged in smuggling liquor from Canada. If two or three are scuttled or set adrift by highjackers, nobody is the wiser except the band of outlaws who owned them. and they keep silence. Com plaint to the authorities would be confession of their own misdeeds
 Puget Sound, with miles upon miles of indented coast is another rum runners hunting ground which is frequently turned into an inferno by the high jackcrs. Whisky crosses Puget sound en rout- for three des- tinations. Some cargoes go legiti- mately to Mexican points on the Pa cific, from which some of the liquor Is later smuggled across the border into the United States. Another DOT tion Is consigned to Mexican ports, which 1t never reaches, eing surrep- titiously landed on the coast of Washington, Oregon and California. The third portion is transplanted n small boats for landing at obscure points along the AIerican side of the Sound. These shipments ar3 the special prey of the highjacker. al though the others by no mea- who'll ly escape him. When the little boats are intercepted generally it is when they land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31
SEES I3 KILLED
 AFTER 25 YEARS. WITHOUT TROUBLE.
Engineer On Verge Of Ner- vous Breakdown Follow
 ing Sunday Tragedy

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July So.- More than a quarter of century at the Throttle of railroad engines with out an accident-then 13 persons killed before his eyes In less than three hours.
 That Is the record of Glen E.. Duffy of Terre Haute, engineer on the New York limited, "crack train" of the Pennsylvania railroad between St Louis and New York. It left him Monday on the verge of nervous breakdown. White and shaken after q sleepless night, .Durfy's nerve is gone, and his friends believe he will never be able to enter his engine cab again.
 T instantly saw the car was full of women and children" Duffy said, telling of the crash at Liggett, Ind, where nine were killed late Sunday afternoon. The other accident at Highland, Ill, where we had killed four about three hours before was weighing on my mind.
 With one hand on the brake valve and the other on the whistle, l did my best, but I knew we would hit them if the driver didn't swerve his car. But he came on"
 The engineers voice broke; he was unable to go on.
 He spoke, with trembling voice, of the body of boy taken from the pilot of his engine at Highland. Just about the size and age of my own little son." he said.
 Sunday is day of dread for all engineers, and we are always afraid something will happen. But we go on, although sick or shaken. We know the road, and we would be even more uneasy with another driv- ing our engines.
 Eternal vigilance is the watch word of all engineers.
 Frequently I've had as many as .'Sozen scares day. But never any .hing like this. And so many of Them-,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31
POOR REPORTS ON CANADIAN CROPS
 SHOOT WHEAT UP

CHICAGO, July 30.-Unfavorable crop reports from Manitoba and Saskatchewan had much to do today with lifting the value of wheat here. Prices closed unsettled, 7s to 1s cents net higher. September, 96% @96R cents and December. $1.00@1.00%. Corn finished at range varying from 13s Q1% cents decline to ss cent advance. Oats at B cent setback to 1s @A cent gain, and provisions, Q10 cents down.
 It was prevalent opinion that with spring weather production both boundary likely to be a good deal less than had of late been looked south, the selling side of the mar ket had little if any immediate charm. According to current gos sip the total yield in Manitoba and be cut by rust and blight to hardly more than last years harvest. Very low temperatures in parts of Canada were also ctnstrued here as a bullish were also construed here as bullish big receipts in Chicago, 1,791 cars, failed to count as depressing in fluence especially as 1t was said large part of the arrivals had been hedged beforehand.
 Throughout the day and in partic- ular during the late day, previous sellers were on the buying side of the wheat market. Some of the buy ing was due to unexpected strength in Liverpool quotations, result ascribed mainly to smallness of world shipments and to a consequent lib eral decrease of the amount of wheat on ocean passage. AS a direct mar ket influence, no special notice ap peared to be taken today of the pos sibility of further congressional en- actments to regulate dealings in grain.
 Corn and oats averaged lower, chiefly owing to month-end adjust ment of accounts and to beneficial showers in the corn belt.
 Provisions were bearishly affected by decline in hog values.
 CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
 CHICAGO, July 30.-Follo wing are to-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31

Gold,
 Piles of it!
 Bright, glittering, glorious gold all free for the members of The Age Herald's great "50,000 club" au- tomobile race. Extra reward for eX- tra effort between now and o'clock next Saturday night, August f.
 Besides the three extra gold prizes, all new subscriptions turned in this week will count for double the regu- lar number of credits. Did you ever hear of anything like it? Could any thing be mere liberal, more lavish or more appealing? Surely the pre- diction is coming true that The Age Herald's great race is the most llo- eral greatest and most successful circulation campaign ever attempted by any newspaper in the south.
 The tremendous success of tn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31
DANGER DENIES DIVORCE
Irene Castle AddS New Touch Of
 Mystery To Matrimonial Affairs

NEW YORK, July 30.--Irene Cas- tie, the dancer, today added another touch of mystery to her matrimonial affairs when returning on the La fayette she announced that contrary to cabled advices. she had not ob- tained a Paris divorce from Robert E. Tremain, manufacturer of Ithaca, N. r., tG whom she was mar ried shortly after the death of her first husband, Vernon Castle.
 "I have not a divorce and I have not instituted proceedings for one, declared the dancer, who added that she would meet MT. Tremain when he returned to New York next week on thS Majestic.
 She was firm In her denial despite dispatches received last week quot Ing court records to show that she had been granted a divorce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31
LIVE STOCK MARKET

LIVE SIOth MAhhEI
 LOUISVILLE, Ky, July 30--Csttle: |: ss@s; beef steers: @s.6O; helfers, s5a stockers, .ss@s;76. Hogs; Receipts, E. 200; steady; .165 pounds up, s7,75; 12O to i,ss5 pounds, s76!; pigs; 1ao pounds pSSs.. down, ceipts, 1.7oO; active; lambs, sl2912.5O; i; sheep. $S.5o@5.
 KANSAS CITY, Mo, July So-Cattle Receipts 25.OOO; calves, 1000; few early sales better grade beef steers around plainer grades fed steers and westerns weak to lower desirable cows and heifers. steady; others classes, weak to 15c lower bulls, weak; veal calves, around steady; top light vealers. $s; heavies and me feeders, feeders steady. Hogs: Receipts, is,ooo; ; few early sales to shippers and traders 2o@25e lower trader t0R oH;2ss; few, pound averages, s6. 35 q 50; packers hold ing back, taking sharply lower; packing sqws 25o qwsr bulk % 's7sss ssSssi StsSk $6.35. Sheep: Receipts. 5000; killing classes steady to sfr0ngi iss best Idsho t1sd. amss sass hsi,sr others frasss % o;iT f"p fii!t7i56;; Texas weihers. s72S@I5O; Texas ewes, s6.50.
 nscsips ciMssNNSssHaio ssao oatS; sos sSe sse loSsr heavy s7?6 g75Q packers so and butchers S ss 5at s'ws catss Rsceps P ssSo % sood duli; steers, $4bOQ1o,s5; heifers. s4@ $50; cows. $275G7; calHes' lSe' active stg 6; lambs. strong, s4QlS'6o.
 CHICAGO. July ao.--cattle: Receipts. 20. .0oo moderately active; better grades rsp popnds; 4'GS several loads sii.25 Sif.5o best long yearlings sli.sS; lower nu,os grade bsef e even. about steady; in-between grades Tat cows, canners and cutters weak to lbc stockers and feeders about steady; bulk good desirable bulls s4.50 a 6.25 bulk veal CTS to packers around s1Q; bulk stockers and feeders s5 5Q6.25; bulk better grade beef heifers s7.50@s:5o
 Hogs: Receipts s1,ooo; good kind fair y active So to ,ed 2SS sInd p'9sGs ase o mos lower at close; bulk 1So to 25o pound av- craze s1;so@77S; top. s7ss bulk sSS to soSs ssS Say Rt'Dss ps sS5o@7; estimated holdover, ss,O0o.
 sheep; Receipts, 2o,ooo; fat lambs weak other grades and classes generally steady; @l2.s6; top to city butchers si2.76: bulk cuiis mostly ss@s.5O; medium handy weight ewes. s5@s.6o; heavy. ss.5o 9+.2b; ightweght upward to saet sS so city butch
 EAST ST. LOUIS. H., July 30.-Cattls: Receipts. 5000: native steers steady: bulk. S8.25 Q l0.25 western steers lower: light yearlings steady to strong; spot 26c high CT at @a.25Qs.76; beef cows. ss,2b Q .26; ; canners. s2.2592.50; bologna bulls steady shade lower; bulk. A9s; light calves s1 lower at Sl0Q1025.
 Hogs: Receipts. 21ooo; slow to butch CTS and shippers active to big packers; generally S6o to Soc lower than Saturday; top. $770t bulk desirable light hogs. S7.so @765i 2lo to 26o pound butchers. $7.4o9 7.66. few 250 to 326 pound butchers, S7.40 G7.4S; heavy hogs irregular little change; pigs dull, little change; bulk, ts:so@7i
 sheep; Receipts. S'ooo; stsady: Quality medium: no choice natives on saie: top, $12So; bulk, sl1df11.5o: ouiis largely s1: good light mutton ewes. $50: hesvies. s3.5o: canners and cullA. $lUS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31
Three Extra Added Gold Prizes
 Double Credits

First prize .........s s10o in gold Second prize ........ 50 in gold Third prize ....... 20 in gold
 The member of the "50, ,000 club" regardless of district who turns in the largest number of new sub scriptions up to 9 D. m. Saturday next. August 1, wins first prize of S100 in gold.
 To the one turning in the sec ond largest number Of new sub scriptions this week goes the sec ond prize of $50 in gold.
 To the member turning in the third largest number of new sub scriptions this week goes the third prize, $25 in gold.
 These are extra prizes for this week and are in addition to any other award a member may win.
 Double the regular number of credits will be allowed on all new subscriptiC turned in this week. This simply means that new subscription is worth 50,000 cred it's besides counting to win the extra gold prizes. All new sub scriptions count two ways, for ex- tra gold prizes and double credits toward automobiles.
 Go get them now!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31
GRAIN EXPORTS

WASHINGTON, July 30.-Grain exports from the United States last week amount ed to 2,776,000 bushels. compared with 3, 715. 900 bushels the week before.
 Figures made public by the commerce parsons of grain exports last week with those of the week before:
 Barley. 22S.ooO bushels against 6s5.ooo bushels.
 Corn. 219Ooo against ss7,ooo.
 Oats, 26,000 against 51.o0o.
 Rye, 442,000 against 2S7,000.
 Wheat, 1,s45,000 against 2,375,0o0.
 Flour. 1o9,0o0 barrels against 5000 barrels.
 Exports of Canadian grain from United States ports were 2s7000 bushels against 282, 900 the week before.