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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-23
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KAHN EROS. Q VIRGIN

NEW YORK. Dec. 32.--It was to be ex- pected that todayS session would prove dull and featureless. and this is exactly what happened. Quotations drifted to and fro in a meaningless fashion, but there was considerable activity in Consolidated Gas, which seems to be in the accumu- lation stage. The supreme court decision as to the constitutionality of the dollar gas bill passed by the last New York state legislature Is expected at any timei and 1T 1t is favorable 1t is quite likely that this issue may advance materially from It's present level of S60 a share.
 Four leading so-called and 10 cent stores namely, Woolworth Kresge, Kress and McCrory, are rounding out their best year. For the II months ending Novem- ber 90 combined sales were S275,412,702 or an increase of about IS per cent over 1929. Should the same ratio of increase be shown during the month of December a during the first II months of the present year combined sales for 1923 should be in the neighborhood of sS3o,- 000, ,000.
 Ford Motor company has notified all it's authorized representatives that under their contracts to handle all Ford prod in the coming planting season ammonium sulphate being produced as by products of the Ford coke ovens. This will prove of material assistance to the farming com munities over the entire United States.
 Standard oil of Ohio has completed ar engagements to double capacity of 10000 barrel refinery at Maumee bay, on Lake Erie, at q cost of s5o00 900. and, together with the Standard Oil of New York, will make much greater use of our internal waterways in shipping petroleum products to interior points.
 SHANNON & co.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 22-There has been very little market today, but there has been strong tone and no weakness. and Washington Is being watched most carefully for the likelihood of the passing of the bonus and the tax bills dominate the financial and commercial situation of the country.
 Considering that this Is the late Decem- Der season, the market holds very well. Sales 392,
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POULTRY
 2oo; large. 25o.

POULTRY Hens-6maIl, Zoo; large, 25o, Fryers-33o. Broilers--aSc. Roosters-12o. Stags-22c. Ducks-25c. Geese--22c. Guineas-40o each. Turkeys-40o on foot; 45o dressed. Eggs-Fresh, bBc; storage. 36o.
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STEEI, MARKET

 NEW YORK, Dec. 22.--Steel unchanged.
 BAR SILVER NEW YORK, Dec. 22.--Bar silver. s4% c. Mexican dollars, 49isc. MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 22-Flour un- changed; shipments. sS,917 barrels Bran. S25.50@27,
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LONDON MONEY

 LONDON, Dec. 22.-Bar silver. ssM pence per ounce Money, 1% per cent Discount rates. Short bills, 1-1eG5A per cent; three-month bills. 37-16 per cent
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pnTATO MARKET

CHICAGO, Dec. Z2-Potatoes steadyl receipts, 24 cars; total United States shipS ments 3S7; practically offerings acs count of holiday and unfavorable weather wisconsin bulk round whites, S1.2o.
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GRAIN
 (Birmingham Grain Col No. White-Yellow Corn-S1.2701 No. White Oats-67 D70c. Seven Per Cent Cotton Seed Meal-b2c, Wheat Shorts-45 Q4Tc. Bran Wheat-42 @43c. Corn Feed Meal-60 @52c. Cotton Seed Hulls-26 928o. Cornmeal-$2.46 basis. No. Johnson Grass-sz462s. No. 1 Timothy Hay-s3703s. Choice Alfalfa-s46@ @48. Wheat 6traw-$18 Q20.
 MEATS
 (Swift & Col Silver Leaf Lard-15Mc. Jewel Shortening--14Mo Brookfield Butter-52c. Premium Skinned Hams-25o. Premium Regr Jar Hams-26c. Pork Loins-17c. Premium Bacon--32o, Brookfield Eggs-3Sc. Dressed Beef -,s. No. No. 2 No. s KIDS ..........s.,ss.@ 26o 16o 12o Soins ..ss. s.sssssssss $50 Foo Z0o Rounds .............. 18o 14o 12o Chucks ............... 90 To 60 PigS-No. 1, 1bo: No. g. 1go.
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Horse Hides-$1 42. Tallow-4Q Beeswax-18 O goo. Clear Grease Wool-3o O a2c. Bury Wool-17 Gp1Sc. Clear Washed Wooi--e8 Q Acc. Ginseng-Wild. sSOs.
 FISH
 (Standard Fish Col Gray 6napper-14c. Red Snapper--28 424o. Spanish Mackerel-Scarce, a3o. Speckled Trout-23c. Mullets-10o. Chesapeake Bay Select Oysters--t2ss gallon.
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HIDES AND WOOL

HIDES AND WOOL
 Birmingham Hide & Tallow Col No. Green Salt Hides-6ho. No. and Grubby Green Salt Hides--ec. No. l Green Fresh Hides-5Mc. No. and Grubby Green Fresh Hides-6o No. l Dry Flint Hides-11c. No. g Dry Flint Hides-10c. No. Dry Salt Hides-10o. No. Dry Salt Hides-9o. Iii
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SHANNON & co.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 22.--It has been an- other holiday market, with fluctuations within narrow limits, as selling Is re- stricted by the bullish spot news while speculative interests are reluctant to sup port the market at this level and the
Evening star., 1923-11-25
GEORGE HITS
PACT ON J. s. DEBT
lntimates Baldwin Was Bluff.
fed by Americans-Ex-Pre-
miers Buyr Hatchet.
BY the Associated Press.

by tne Associated tresS.
LONDON, November 24-what.
from an Englishman's viewpoint. was
the most arresting feature thus far
Of the present election campaign oc-
Cured tonight when a public formal
reconciliation between Herbert AS
quith and David Lloyd George, after
about seven years estrangement, was
staged at Paisley. where the two for
mer premiers, to every accompani-
ment Of liberal enthusiasm. appeared
to speak on the same platform in Mr..
Asquith's constituency.
Premier Baldwin, it was remarked
by those present. could scarcely have
forseen what. but a few months ago
seemed such an improbable event
when he decided to dissolve parlia-
ment and appeal to the country. The
town hall, the scene Of the meeting,
holds 5000 persons, but fully 10000
struggled for admission.
The hall was uncomfortably crowd
ed, but the discomfort lid not pre-.
vent the gathering from giving the
two statesmen tremendous ovations
In introducing the speakers the
chairman said the marriage of the
liberals had been celebrated in Lon.
don, but the honeymoon was to be
spent I'm Scotland.
Mr.. AsQuith, rising to his feet first
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1923-11-25
SUICIDES LETTER
CLEARS DEAD MAN
Wolfe Writes His Name Is
Not Arnof, Who Drowned
in 1920.
by the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, November "a
A brief note left by defalcating
accountant when taking his own life
today cleared the name of an in
nocent man and barred a story of
assumed identity reading like a f1c-
ton plot.
DISPATCHES yesterday told of the
suicide of Jacobo NJ. Arnof after dis
coyery that the local office of the
United States Shipping Board had
been defrauded of a large sum of
money through manipulation of the
hooks. Today a confession was made
public in which the suicide made
known that his real name was Harry
Wolfe of New Orleans. He desired
hefore diving, he said. to clear Arnof's
name.
Wolfe declared in his confession
that Arnof, who came from Arkan-
,as was drowned while canoeing
with him here on November z, 1920.
Instead of reporting the death to
the police. Wolfe assumed Arnof's
name and passport. He resembled
his dead companion. except for a
scar on his face. and he completed
the resemblance by making sim
liar scar with acid.
His plan was so successful that he
was able to draw money regularly
from Arnofs father without arousing
suspicion. He obtained a position as
the shipping board accountant and
by systematic methods robbed the
Office Of total Of more than 100000
pesos
Wolfe said he did 1t "by handling
the books 30 nobody was able to
make head or tail of them" He
concluded:
II alone am guilty"
Shipping board officials and the po-
lice express the opinion that the con-
fession is untrue in respect to the
claim that the suicides real name
was Wolfe. They are still Of the
opinion that his name was Arnof.
Evening star., 1923-11-25
Extra Precautions Taken Here
To Guard Embassies From Bombs
Outbreak il, Philadelphia Spurs Capital
to Action; U. S. Expresses
Regret to Victims.

Extra precautions designed to pre-
lude extension to Washington of such
bomb outrages as stirred the con-
sulate district in Philadelphia yester-
day were taken by police guarding
the Spanish and Italian embassies
here last night.
Instructed by police officials to ex-
ercise extra vigilance" guards at the
two embassy buildings were pre-
pared to question suspicious persons
lettering in the vicinity of the Italian
diplomatic headquarters on New
Hampshire. near Dupont circle. and
the Spanish chancery at 10th street
and Park road. Strict watch also was
maintained at other buildings hous-
ing foreign diplomats.
In view of the fact that no request
for additional protection at the en-
bassies was received from the State
Department the police guard was not
increased.
The State Department took official
cognizance of the bombing in Phila-
Evening star., 1923-11-25
By WILL p. KENNEDY.

The federal budget, which Presi-
dent Coolidge is prepared to submit
to Congress the day that body as
sembles, is In no sense a measure
into which each activity of the fed
eral government has dumped its
estimates for all the moneys 1t would
like to spend during the next fiscal
year. and which is then mechanically
passed along to Congress with the
idea of the federal workshop get<
ting all the funds it can manage to
wiring or wheedle out OF the legisla-
tive body.
The federal budget as it goes to
Congress is an honest effort Of the
budget bureau. set up as an aid to the
President and responsible only to him,
to determine the. real needs of Uncle
Sans workshop and the order of rela-
Evening star., 1923-11-25
German Peoples, Nationalist
and Socialist Parties Re-
fuse to Cooperate.
JOURNALS SEE TREND
TO RULE BY MILITARY
Overthrow of Stresemann Trace.
able Directly to Won Seeckt.
Reichwehr Commander.
By the Associated Press

ny tne Associated Press.
BERLIN. November 24.-Herr Won
kardorff was selected by President
Ebert this afternoon to undertake
the task of forming a new German
ministry to take the place OF the
ousted Stresemann ministry. He ap-
appeared willing to undertake the
work. but the German nationalists
refused to cooperate with him.
Thereupon he tried to form a coaii-
ton from among the socialists and
German peoples party. but the Ger
man peoples party declined to CO.
operate with the socialists.
Herr Won Kardorff was therefore
obliged to renounce the task of cabi-
net making. and withdraw.
Throughout the day there were CON
ferences among the various parties.
and among the possibilities for the
chancellorship consulted by Presi-
dent Ebert was the nationalist leader,
DR.. Hergt.
1t was later reported that Dr..
Hergt had expressed to the president
his willingness to attempt to form
a. cabinet
DR.. HerEt to Form Cabinet.
By the Associated Press
LONDON, November 24.-Herr vor
Kardoff has declined President Eberts
invitation to form a new German
cabinet. says a news agency dispatch
from Berlin, and the president nov
is consulting DR.. Hergt, leader of the
centrists.
SEE TREND TO ARMY RULE.
Evening star., 1923-11-25
CINCINNATI BROKERS
FAIL FOR 100000
Channer & Sawyer Able to Pay
About 20 Cents on Dollar,
Head Says.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, November ca
Failure of Channer & Sawyer. \bro-
kerage firm of this city. owing be-
tween 100000 and 100000 was re-
corded in common pleas court today.
August Steinkamp, furniture
dealer Of this city, was the largest
individual creditor. He brought the
suit. claiming s455.000 is due him.
Creditors will receive from Is to
20 cents on the dollar. according to
a statement made in court by George
A. Sawyer, a member of the firm.
Sawyer said the firm had reduced its
indebtedness from s8.00o,oe0 In 1920.
and If not pressed could have paid all
the creditors within three years.
I'm 1920" said Sawyer, 1--WE owed
between sS.000,o00 and ss.o0o.0o0. At
the first of this year we owed S4,-
100000 to New York. BY May 81 our
debts were s2,50o.OOo. Right now we
owe between 100000 and 100000"
The firm, which delt in investment
securities, was one of the best known
brokerage concerns in Cincinnati.
Evening star., 1923-11-25
Federal Budget Reflects Best
In Scientific Financial Study
Thorough Research by Experts in All
+, Government activities Precedes
Submission to Congress.

tive Importance of those needs. II
represents year-round work by ex-
pert Investigators to get the real
facts uncolored by bureau or board
enthusiasm for any particular or pet
line of work. 1t represents much
more thorough inquiry into why the
money should be spent and how 1t is
spent than any committee Of Con-
gress has been able to give in the
past, because Of other important de-
mands upon their time.
This is the third budget under the
new federal budget system" On
the first one the budget bureau had
only about three months in which to
make its Investigations and was
necessarily a hurried Job. The Sec
ond budget, under which we are now
operating, was just as carefully pre-
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Evening star., 1923-11-25
ImpregnabIe Defense of Both
Teams Features Color
full Battle.
MUDDY FIELD REDUCES
STING OF TEAMS ATTACK
Middies Gain ITO Yards to 100 for
Cadets-Kicks Fall Wide
of Goals.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 24.-Army
and Navy fought each other to a stand
still today in the mire OF the Polo
Grounds before the greatest crowd that
ever witnessed the annual service strug-
gle for gridiron laurels. Neither goal
line was crossed in one of the most
bitter contested battles these time
honored rivals have ever waged and
out Of the tangled. heaving mud-spat-
tered mass they emerged at the final
whistle with honors evenly divided.
Begged by the heavy going and in
the face Of defensive bulwarks that
well well nigh impregnable when
threatened. neither attack was able to
penetrate inside it's opponents 25-yard
line. Thus baked, each team tried to
break the deadlock with dropkicks. but
these attempts, too. failed.
Garbisch, husky Army center. boot
ed wide of the uprights from the "a
yard line in the second quarter, and
in the third period Barchet, Middle
halfback. failed to come even close
to the mark from the 35-yard line
tion to score with a 40-yard run on
an intercepted Cadet pass.
$4,000 in Stands.
A throng Of $4,000. that included
Secretaries Weeks and DENLY among
it's host of notables. witnessed the
first scoreless tie since the Army
Navy classic was inaugurated, in
1890. 1t was the second no-victory
struggle in the twenty-six games
staged so far, and left unbroken the
deadlock in the series, which stands
at twelve triumphs apiece The other
1905.
Today's battle was lacking in the
thrills that so often attend the clash
Of service elevens. There were but
occasional flashes Of spectacular play
in q game that for the most part was
fought out on old fashioned. orthodox
lines.
But from the time the blue brigade
Of midshipmen and the gray host OF
to martial music and later took op-
poSltc pidScS III tic was
no want of picturesque display or
vocal activity.
Between halves the Army mule in
effigy was pulled to pieces and an
Army "airplane" sank Navy de
stroyer," but these tokens Of defiance
were in vain. The result was some
thing Of an upset. for Army had
ruled favorite among critics. But
as they fought it out today there
was little to choose between the two
teams. Both played brilliant de-
fensive games, while no more con-
vincing proof of their closely match
ed offensive power can be given than
the fact that the Navy gained exact
ly one more yard at rushing than did
the Army. Though making one less
first down. four. to a total Of five for
their rivals. the Middies gained 10
yards to 109 for West Point in rush
ing plays
Ball in MidfeId.
From start to finish the tide of bat
tie ebbed and flowed around midfield,
neither eleven being able to get in
side its opponents 25-yard mark.
Twice the Cadets got as far as the
Middie's 26yard line. once, in the sec
ond period, when Garbisch's field-goal
attempt failed, and again in the third
Continued on Page 1. Sports Section }
Evening star., 1923-11-25
BRITISH SKIPPER HELD.

GALVESTON. Tex, November "a.
Capt. w. H. Farrell, master OF the
British schooner Island Home, was
arrested this afternoon, charged with
conspiracy to violate the tariff act of
1922 by unlawfully importing whisky.
Hearing was set Monday before
United States Commissioner c. G..
Dibreu. Warrants also were issued
for the crew.
Evening star., 1923-11-25
HELD FOR MURDER
IN LIQUOR DEATH
Two Accused in HyattsviIIe
Case Bound Over to Ac-
tion of Grand Jury.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md. November "a.
For the first time in the history
Of Maryland two men have been
bound over to the grand jury on a
charge Of murder in which poisonous
LIQUOR is alleged to have been the
means used to bring about the death
of victim
This afternoon David A. Dodson,
twenty-five. and c. Morgan Burke,
thirty-five, were ordered held for
Georges county without bail, on evil
dence by Linton S. Evans, federal
prohibition agent, tending to show
that Wister NJ. Parish of Riverdale
died from the effects of liquor he
is said to have brought from Dod-
son. which the latter is said to have
purchased from Burke. Burke also
is charged with making the liquor.
Evans said Dodson admitted this
to him after several hours of ques-
tioning.
BIames DOdson Before Death.
The principal evidence against Dod-
son adduced this afternoon at the
preliminary hearing before Justice of
the Peace Herbert ]. Moffatt, was that
by the mother of the dead man, Mrs.
Lille NJ Parish. She said her son
told her the day after drinking the
LIQUOR: Mother. if I die. 'Dodson's 8
whisky killed me-"
The state offered in evidence and
later withdrew the report of an an
alysis of Parrish's vital organs by DR..
Standish McCleary. pathologist Of
Mercy Hospital. Baltimore. 1t is said
that DIR. McCleary reported he found
no traces of poisonous liquor in the
organs, although admitting that such
poinsoning might have caused death.
He said he found a condition of ne
phritis which could have been
brought about by alcohol. and also went
on to say that he found a variety of
bacilli, among them grip, which also
might has produced the same condition.
Physician Claims Influenza.
The physician who attended Par
rish at his fatal illness testified
that the case was a typical one of
influenza, and that had poison been
In his system he either would have
died more quickly or gotten well
more rapidly.
Max A. Bradshaw, chemist of the
bureau of internal revenue. Wash
ington, said he had made an analy-
sis of the liquor, recovered by Evans
and found 1t to contain poisonous
substances authorized for use by the
government in. certain preparation,
Evening star., 1923-11-25
8 ARRESTED, 6 SOUGHT.
Philadelphians Guard Buildings
and Blame Agitators.

PHILADELPHIA, November ga
Police tonight were holding three
men suspected of being implicated
in the bomb explosions early today
at the Spanish and Italian con-
sulates. The authorities admit, how
ever, that they do not believe any
OF the men were directly responsible
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1923-11-25

delphia. however. by expressing to
the two embassies hero its concern
over the incident and its grat!fca-
tion that no serious damage resulted.
Secretary Hughes telegraphed Gov.
Pinchot request for full Information
so that he might "be, in a position
to communicate all the facts to the
embassies of the respective coun-
tries"
Evening star., 1923-11-25
DR.. HerEt to Form Cabinet
Journals Trace Overthrow of Strese-
mann to Won Seeckt.
BY HIRAM *. MoDERwELL.
By Radio to The Star ana the Chicaeo Daily
NnXa CnnYrirhk 1QCa

By Radio to The Star snd the Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. ia2a
BERLIN. November 24.-Never be-
fore has the German reichstag. in
overthrowing 4 government, been so
utterly in the dark as to what to put
in it's place. The truth is that Chan
cellor Stresemann's overthrow was
blind act of the social democrats.
driven by their own masses. but un-
able to suggest q satisfactory solu-
tion of the crisis they are provoking.
Today no politician nor journalist
has made any suggestion for a new
tains any possibilities of success. The
monarchist papers. however. state or
imply that Fridays vote signifies q
speedy end to representative govern
ment in Germany. The Kreuz Zeltung
says:
Chancellor Stresemanns fall does
not yet mean a change in govern
mental form, but 1t is a clear sign
that such a change must come
knows?'
Predicts Military Control.
The Deutsch Zeitung, an organ
specially of the officers. says:
whether now, or fortnight
hence the president of the reich must
entrust the formation of a govern
ment to him who actually holds the
military and executive power for the
whole nations in his hands," (Mean-
ing Gen. Won Seeckt, commander of
the reichswehr)
Beneath the elaborate trickery
which seems inseparable from Ger
man politics, this fact Is now clear:
The real authority is in Gen. Won
Seeckt. 1t is to him that Chancellor
Stresemann's fall can ultimately be
traced.
The reichswehrs action in Saxony
and Thuringza and it's refusal to act
against Bavaria was the cause for
the withdrawal of support from the
government by the socialists. Chan
cellor Stresemann doubtless would
have been willing to placate them by
suspending or modifying the state of
siege that had been declared. They
(Continued on Page Column 2)
Evening star., 1923-11-25
MARTIAL LAW ENDED.

ATHENS, November 24.-A decree
was posted today abolishing martial
law. The country has been under
military control since the outbreak
of the recent counter-revolution.
Evening star., 1923-11-25
TODAY'S STAR
PART ONE-36 Pages.

General News-LocaI. National, Foreign.
National Political Survey-Paoe 4.
Schools and coIIeses-Pase 1s.
Army and Navy News-Paae 81.
Parent Teacher Activities-Pase 26.
Notes Of Art and Artists-Page 27.
Radio News and Gossip-Paees % and 20.
At the Community Centers-Page 29.
Financial News-Paees 80 and 81.
Veterans Of the Great War-Pase 81.
o, A. r. ActivftIes-Page 80.