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DISBANDING OF KU KLUX KLAN TO BE CONSIDERED AT CONCLAVE
LAWLESS,
’ME
SAYS
Ex-Wizard and Founder Calls
Meeting After Writing
Coolidge.
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 31.—The
future of the Ku Klux Klan will
be determined at a national con
clave to be convened in Atlanta
February 16, by Edward Young
Clarke, one of the founders, and a
former Imperial Wizard of the
klan, it was announced here today.
. Clarke will issue a proclamation
. Thursday night summoning klan of
-7 ficials from every State of the
Union to the conclave. At this
national meeting, it was said, Clarke
/-Will call upon klan officials to de
tzkie whether the organization
..Should be continued “after a house
cleaning** or disbanded “because of
lawlessness within its ranks.’*
Statement By Clarke.
"I will issue a proclamation for
the national conclave at a meeting
of the Atlanta klan Thursday
night,** Clarke said today. “Such
a meeting is imperative because of
♦ha tendency toward lawlessness on
the part of certain elements within
' the klan organization. Klansmen
are becoming inoculated with the
Idea that some times the/ are
right in violating the law. If the
klan is to be saved, its conscience
must be shocked and I propose to
do it. I want to do this too with
m little violence, bloodshed and
strife as is possible. But I intend
to do it. I have laid out a path
e£ action and I will follow it down
line.
"The Klan today is recruiting most
ks its new members from two groups,
fine group does not believe in any
mw and order and the other believes
it has a God-given right to controL
Marts and judges, legislators and
Follows Coolidge Letter.
"Unless these two groups are
Mbnlnaxed from the Klan it must
■row into a serious menace to all
American institutions. To change
this course I will issue a proclama
tion summoning Klansmen here for
h national conclave at which the
future of the Klan will be deter-
announcement today fol
fows ' up his‘Ritter last week to
President Coolidge in which he of
fered to assist the Federal Govern
ment in anv investigation of the.
Ku Klux Klan and charged that
the organization was being used for
bolttical purposes and as a law-and
prder league.
50N1NHIFE
HELD IN DEATH
OF MOTHER .
Man, Accused As Accessory,
| Upholds Action of
His Wife.
By International News Senice.
ATLANTA, Ga.. Dec. 31. The
Elton county jail had an addition
Its “women slayers’’ today, as
■s. Frank Hughes paced the prison
floor after being charged with the
- murder of her mother-in-law, Mrs.
C. Hughes. In the same prison
•|vas her husband, charged as an ac
tessory in the murder of his mother.
The shooting culminated from
♦ears of domestic friction, accord
ng to Hughes, who stoutly upholds
lie wife’s action. The slain woman
Etered the home of her daughter
law yesterday afternoon, and was
Searching a trunk for goods which
ihe claimed had been taken from her
she was armed with a possessory
Warrant and two officers were stand
fog by.
While the woman was going
Ihrough the trunk, the young Mrs.
Hughes walked into the room, took
leliberate aim at her mother-in-law
Ind fired, causing Instant death.
. I he officers were the only witnesses.
Out the False—
Ring in the True”—.
4 Kobert Louis Stevenson says
that we should never lose
tourage because: “Men and
komen in every stage of his
tory, all the world over, un
!ler every abuse of error, un
ler every circumstance of
ailure, without hope, with
out help, without thanks,
Itill obscurely fighting the
lost fight—still cling to some
tag of honor—the poor jewel
their souls!”
In4_«o with the ringing in of the
. |/ew Year, let us repeat history
1 Ind “ring out the false, ring in
Vie true" and cling to the jewels of
fur souls.
' AMERICAN
ICE
COMPANY
World Is Prosperous,
i 17. 5. Data Show
By WILLIAM HARD.
On this last day of this year the reports of Government
boards and bureaus and departments at Washington unite in
showing the following world situation: •
Instead of sinking into chaos and ruin, as predicted freely
by numerous pessimists, the world in fact is making a steady
general advance in effectiveness and prosperity. To this rule
the only considerable exception is to be found in the districts
immediately exposed to the consequences of the French oc
cupation of the Ruhr.
. The United States Government ♦
’ has recently issued thousands of
pages of data bearing on world
conditions. A survey of this ma
terial shows that this year is end
ing, and the next year is beginning,
, on a note of high hope broken only
' by the problem of the relations be
-1 tween France and Germany. It
- shoWs also that even this problem
L is not producing outside of Ger
, many the ruin which the pessimists
* have predicted.
1 Britain Forging Ahead.
! In Great Britain, in spite of all
■ the propaganda spread through this
t country regarding British unem
ployment, it is now shown by fig
ures available in the offices of the
! Federal reserve board that 86 out
! of every 100 British insured work
( ing men are at work.
It is also shown that the actlvi
t ties of the British merchant marine,
. instead of being paralyzed, are at
* a level 16 per cent above the level
of the year immediately preceding
the world war.
In France, in the city of Paris,
three years ago there were more
than 30,000 French workingmen
who were entitled to receive, and
who were in fact receiving, munici
pal aid because of being out of
work. In October of this year the
number of such workingmen in
Paris had sunk to exactly fifty-two.
At the same time the foreign
trade of the United States, instead
of disappearing because of the al
leged world chaos, has been grow
ing steadily. In every month of this
year it was at a far higher level
than in the year before the world
war broke out.
Money Saved by Investors.
Meanwhile our investors, in spite
of high taxes: have been able to
DIPHTERS
ESCAPE FROM
“PEN”
Four Tunnel Under Wall and
Make Getaway in
Atlanta.
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 31.—Federal
and State officers today were con
ducting a nation-wide search for
George Anderson rfnd three fellow
prisoners who late yesterday, ob
tained their freedom after the most
sensational jail delivery on the rec
ords of the Atlanta Federal peni
tentiary.
Anderson, “buddy” of the notori
ous Gerald Chapman, who has ef
rected several escapes and is still
at large, was serving a twenty-five
year sentence for participation in
, the million-dollar New York mail
truck hold up, for which Chapman
also was convicted. The other three
fugitives are Hiram Lepper, Ludwig
Schmidt, and Frank Haynes.
Lepper was serving fifteen years
for altering United States obliga
tions. He figured in another es
cape some time ago but was • re
captured in Milwaukee. Schmidt
was serving ten years for robbing
the* malls and was sentenced in
Rochester, N. Y. Haynes was serv
ing the last few months of an
eighteen months’ sentence for coun
terfeiting after being sentenced in
Chattanooga.
The men excavated a small tun
nel from the center of tubercular
tent in the prison yard under the
fifty-foot stone wall and to freedom
on the outside.
Although three men leaped from
the Royal Palm passenger train
near Macon, Ga., last night /they
escaped before officers could cap
ture them. It was generally be
lieved that these were three of the
men. Other than this authorities
have no clue as to their where
abouts.
FILIPINO SPEAKERS URGE
FREEDOM OF ISLANDS
Prediction that the Philippines
will win their independence- was
made by Congressman Edgar How
ard of Nebraska in an address to
the Filipino Club of Washington
last night at exercises at Carroll
Hall, in commemoration of the
twenty-seventh anniversary of the
! death of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, Filipino
I patriot.
■ Manuel Roxas, speaker of the
1 Philippine house of representatives,
. and chairman of a special commis
sion on independence to the United
States, told the audience that he
- had come to urge the immediate
’ independence of his people. Pedro
Guevara, resident commissioner
- from the Philippines, also spoke.
Mgr. C. F. Thomas, of St. Pat
» rick’s Church, delivered the irwoca
' tion. Others on the program were
* Franklin Jackson, Pablo M. Silva,
i Jose Topaclo Nueno, Edward L. Sul
livan, Daniel Chwalow, Miss F.
Buck and L. J. Schaben. The pro
gram was closed by the audience
c singing , the Philippine national
y them” 3nd Arnerjcan national an
t ‘
' SIDNEY LEECH HEADS
r"Y" LEADERS’ ALUMNI
Sidney last night was
elected president of the Boys "Y”
Leaders Alumni at the annual meet
ing and banquet held in the Boys
Y. M. C. A.
Other officers •chosen were Fran
cis Hayden, vice president; Ix>uis
Joynea, secretary; Charles W. Wan
nan, treasurer.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES ' • * The National Daily * MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1923.
f save large sums of money for in
-1 vestment abroad. To the one coun-
- try of Chile, a country of less
than 4,000.000 people, our investors
, since the year of 1921 have sent al
r most 370,000,000 in the purchase of
- Chilean securities.
t AV home our retail department
i stores, which are taken by govern
. ment statisticians as an important
? index to domestic prosperty, are
selling approximately 50% more
goods than they were in 1919.
Our mail-order houses, which tem
-1 porarily suffered a depression be
-3 cause of the depression among
’ farmers, are now beginning to re-
■ vive. By October of this year they
5 were exceeding their 1919 business
1 by approximately one-third.
In these circumstances it is
thought that world conditions in
’ general have to be regarded not
> with despair but on the contrary
J with satisfaction and optimism. It
1 is also thought that the world’s
> one remaining great trouble —
namely, the relations between
• France and Germany—should be
5 approached with a conviction that
1 its evil results will probably be
1 only temporary.
‘ Suffering in Germany.
Figures supplied by the Depart
i ment of Commerce show indeed that
■ there can be no doubt that some
‘ 20,000,000 people in Germany are
now suffering severely. The two
. regions of the world where outright
i relief is thought by the Secretary
‘ of Commerce to be suggested by
present circumstances are the in
dustrial districts of Germany and
the northwestern agricultural dis
-1 triet of the United States.
1 That certain measures of relief
both for German sufferers and for
suffered in our Northwest will
I presently be undertaken is a pros
pect which every day here becomes
1 more likely.
It is increasingly believed here
that the problem in our Northwest
and + he problem in Germany will
not y.eld to any immediate political
measures and that meanwhile it
will be necessary to adopt outright
relief measures in both cases in
order to alleviate the intense im
mediate suffering among men and
women and children.
French Recovery Rapid.
I The improved and improving con-
1 dition of the rest of the world will
enable it -to grant relief readily.
France itself, which five years ago
was thought to be crippled for a
1 generation, has now in its “devas
tated region*’ rebuilt 75 per cent of
its devastated homes and 10 per
■ cent of its devastated factories,
• while at the same time it has re
stored to cultivation almost 100 per
; cent of its devastated fields:
These facts about France show
the rapidity with which the world
can recover from blows thought
’ temporarily to be fatal.
The political part of the Govern
ment at Washington is often over
whelmed with fear about the world’s
! future. The statistical part of the
Government shows today that Asia
‘ and Africa and Australia and South
‘ America and ’North America and
most of Europe are emphatically on
the upgrade and the remaining part
1 of Europe will have it in its power
to make a similar recovery it once
the problem of reparations and of
the Ruhr can be brought to a settle
; ment.
(Copyright, 1923, Washington Press
Service.)
IHRETMEN on
RAFT MAY BE
OFDIXMUDE
!
Rough Water Holds Up Rescue
of Survivors in Gulf
, of Gabes.
>
, By Internationa] News Service.
5 PARIS, Dec. 31.—Officials of the
‘ ministry of marine today anxiously
’ awaited further word from Sfax, on
I the Gulf of Gabes, regarding the
s three living men who had been
5 sighted at sea on a raft, in the hope
they might be survivors of the lost
> French dirigible Dixmude. .
, Violent gales were raging over
j the Mediterranean at the time the
3 Dixmude was lost, and it is gen
a erally believed that the men were
9 survivors of some foundered fish
r ing craft rather than the balloon.
. It was pointed out that, even if
- they saved themselves, with para
-8 chutes, they would be without
• means of constructing a raft.
- A fishing boat was put into Sfax,
• reported sighting the raft with the
• three men but was unable to aid
“ them on account of rough weather
1 and water.
' Virtually' all officials now be
lieve that the Dixmude went to the
bottom of the Mediterranean and
that all of the fifty persons on
. board perished.
I The body of Lieut. Comdr. Du-
R plessis de Grenedan, of the Dlx-
• mude, is on its way home to Tou
. lon.
s It is anticipated that the official
investigation of the loss of the
. Dixmude and the circumstances
s under which the voyage to Algeria
. was undertaken December 18, will
.result in sensational disclosure*.
ARLINGTON CO.
OFFICERS WAR
ON ‘PETTERS’
Couples on Virginia Road De
clard to Have Been From
CLARENDON, Va., Dec. 31
Early yesterday morning, Special
Officer Howard A. Smoot, Bruce
Smoot and E. B. Ross routed 'out
several “petting parties,” who had
picked out spots thought safo from
the county police.
The officers in each came were
met with the same, excuse by the
couples, who, it was found, were
all from Washington, that they
had only stopped for a few min
utes* chat, but when a possible
night in the county jail was
hinted tears would begin to flow.
After being warned not to be
found on the roads again, the of
ficers ordered them to leave.
The condition of Commonwealth
Attorney Frank L. Ball, who has
been confined to his hojne with a
severe cold for the past several
days, was reported as much im
proved today.
At 12 o’clock tonight the keys of
the Arlington county jail will be
turned over to Howard B. Fields
who will become the sheriff of
Arlington county, and A. C. Clem
ente will retire to private life.
Z. O. Kines, who nas been Arling
ton county jailor, has been appoint
ed State traffic officer by Col. H.
G. Sherley, chairman of the State
Highway Commission.
The different organizations of Mt.
Olivet Methodist Church, of Ballston,
will tonight join in a famly holiday
party, to which all the members of
the church and their friends are
welcome. At 11 o’clock a service will
be held in the auditorium of the
church and later merge into a watch
meeting. )
The Cherrydale baseball team will
give a dance in the Firemen’s Hall
tonight. Dancing will start at 8:30
o’clock and colntinue until 12:30, to
allow those in attendance to dance
the New Year in. The proceeds' will
be used to help defray the expense
of conditioning the new ball field,
which has been made possible
through the courtesy of the firm of
Lyon and Fitch, owners of Lyon
village. '
CHUM IS
HYATTSVILLE
ISSUE
First Presbyterian Pastor De
fends Stand of Funda
mentalists.
HYATTSVILLE, Md„ Dec. 31
"Let not the noise of theological
battle create or increase alarm.
The personality of our Lord has
been spoken against since His first
coming into the world, .and will
continue until He comes the ‘second
time for judgment.’
“The modernist dlspufer was
never more persistent, but the dis
ciple had never more encourage
ment. He whom the dissenter seeks
to discrown has said, ‘The kingdoms
of this world are become the king
doms of our Lord, and of His
Christ, and He shall reign forever
and forever.’ ”
Thus did the Rev. Dr. Joseph M.
Anderson, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church here, in a sermon
yesterday morning, defend the fun
damentals of the Christian faith.
Speaking before a large congrega
tion yesterday morning in Pinkney
Memorial Protestant Episcopal
Church, the rector, the Rev. Charles
L. Monroe, said that the publicity
occasioned by statement of two
clergymen of New York city and
the Impending trial of another in
Texas has brought the Issue of lib
eralism before the general church
in away that makes our considera
tion of the whole subject not only
timely but imperative.
“The lover of peace is usually a
patient soul and endures many con
tradictions before he will risk con
troversy,” he said. “The light arid
superficial thought that many are
apt to lend to such a discussion is
in danger of viewing the contro
versy as another of those disputes
in which schoolmen of all ages
have taken delight, and which are
so confusing to the average layman
that he thinks it had best be left
to the doctors of theology.
“We warn against this attitude,
for while there may be fine points
involved, yet the underlying issues
ere very clear to those who value
truth and who seek it. And that
they are not trite differences of
opinion but fundamental doctrines
upon which God has built His
church we shall endeavor to make
clear.”
LIBRARY HOURS FOR
HOLIDAY ANNOUNCED
The central building of the Public
Library will be opened tomorrow
from 2 to 6 p. m. for reference use
and the circulation of books. ■
The Takoma Park and the south
eastern branches will be closed
throughout the day. The central
building and both of the branch
buildings will be closed at 6 o’clock
tonight.
ROYAL WARDROBE HAS
TWO PAIRS OF PANTS,
VIENNA, Dec. 31.—Austria’s ex-
Crown Prince Otto, ex-Ernperor
Karl’s son, owns only two pairs of
trousers, says a Vienna paper. A
collection started for the benefit of
young Otto in Tyrol realized about
175,000,000 kronen, or $250, at the
present rate of exchange.
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THE REV. PAUL HARRIS DRAKE,
Marlsboro (Mass.) minister, who was given notice to quit his parish, the Marlboro Universalist
Church, on March 1, after he had produced a pint of whiskey in the pulpit as evidence that it was
zeing sold freely in the town. He has taken to sawing wood, making good his statement that he
would remain in town and "saw wood, at least.” -
500T0SUPP0RT
TOWN'S FIRE
FORCE
Rockville’s Fund Drive Suc
ceeds—Roster of 1,000
Expected.
ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 31.
Watch-night services will be held
in the Baptist Church here tonight.
They will begin at 11 o’clock and
will be conducted by the pastois
the Rev. P. Rowland Wagner, who
will preach. Preceding the services,*'
there will be a social hour with
music and other features.
More than 500 residents of
Rockville and vicinity have beeri
enrolled as “supporting” members
of the Rockville Volunteer Fire De
partment by agreeing to pay one
dollar a year toward themselves as
hopeful the number will reach 1,000
before, the drive for such members,
which has been in progress for
some time, is concluded.
The funeral of Benjamin Frank
lin Dyson, prominent Poolesville
district farmer, who died suddenly
of heart disease at his home near
Dawsonville Friday evening, aged
fifty-six years, took place yesterday
fromf the family residence, many
persons from various parts of the
county and elsewhere attending.
Burial was in Monocacy Cemetery
at Beallsville. Mrs. Dyson, formerly
Miss Clare Mannakee, of Kensing
ton, survives.
A series of union evangelistic
services will begin in Grace Metho
dist Church, Gaithersburg, Sunday,
January 6. Excepting on Mondays,
services will be held every after
noon and evening, the preaching
to be by Evangelist William B.
Waters, of Rockville.
The public schools of .Montgomery
county will re-open Wednesday
morning, after having been -closed
since noon on December 21.
In St. Paul’s Methodist Church,
Kensirigton, last evening, the choir
rendered the cantata “The Gift of
God,” it beinff enjoyed by a large
gathering. Saturday evening the
annual Christmas entertainment of
the Sunday school was held in the
social rooms of the church.
K. OF C. SENDS SANTA
TO SCORES OF ORPHANS
Santa Claus and Toto, interna
tionally famous clown, brought joy
to hundreds of children, of local
orphan asylums yesterday after
noon when some 350 were enter
tained at the annual Knights of Co
lumbus Christmas tree party in
the Knights of Columbus Hall.
Those unable to leave the institu
tions were visited by delegations of
knights.
Among the entertainers were hte
Knights of Columbus Band, Miss
Edna Mulligan, accompanied by
Miss Weber; Miss Doris Mullan, ac
companied by Mrs. A. J. E. Mullan;
Mrs. Edna Hillyard Howard, accom
panied by Miss O’Dea and Miss
Eileen Lally.
The party was arranged by the
following committee; J. Paul Rat
cliffe, general chairman; Thomas
Fitzgerald, John E. Burns, James
T. Ryan, John Dowlan, Charles
Fahy, Thomas Trodden, Charles
Montgomery, and Louis F. Dorsey.
HARVARD GLEE CLUB WILL
GIVE CONCERTS IN D. C.
The Harvard Glee Club will bring
its regular annual concert tour to a
fitting close with a visit here to
morrow. The choristers will arrive
on a special train at 9 o’clock.
Headquarters will be at the Racquet
Club.
A recital in which will be heard
its huge choir of fifty voices will
be given at Masonic Auditorium
tomorrow evening. Two perform
ances will be given in the morning
before disabled war veterans at Mt.
Alto and Walter Reed hospitals.
These entertainments will be
under the auspices of Chief Justice
Walter I. McCoy and Col. George
Weitzel, secretary of th* Harvard
Club.
Wide World
(Continued from First Page.)
for the suit—the Indian damsels
represented therein are scarcely
Pocahontases.
Princess Louise of Saxony,
tired of a "stupid husband,”
deserted six children for their
tutor, then married an Italian
pianist and now receives the
fiddler’s bill. A 20-cent daily
income won’t meet it.
Archduke Leopold of Austria,
scion of the same royal house,
is in such abject poverty that
he must seek pauper’s aid.
All in all, George of Greece
did very well by himself. Fate
wasn’t nearly so kind to fellow
ex’s.
Nowadays and Thenadays.
PRINiCE DIMITRI, Grand
Duchess Xenia’s boy, is
selling cigars and cigarettes.
Prince and Princess Andrew
conduct a supper club and make
sure of three square meals.
The Princess Yourviesky,
reared to "command the appear
ance” of divas and virtuosos, has
accepted a vaudeville engage
ment. And Princess Bariatin
sky, mannikin for a Mayfair
dressmaker, preens plumage she
can no longer afford before
beefy profiteers* wives and h-less
war contractors’ daughters.
A bitter road from Palace to
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Scho—-from Crown to Crust!
"The first shall be last and the
last shall be first.” /
Their Majesties of England
will graciously dance with the
domestic staff at Sandringham,
taking for partners two senior
members of the servants’ hall.
And don’t you believe they'll
—enjoy it a bit!
Grandmother Victoria would
have preferred abdication.
But pride has learned to wear
the curb since empresses reigned
and czars fell, and "idle and des
olate commoners” were forbid
den "to assemble to discuss news,
treat of politics, make portraits
of their masters and bring min
isters to trial.”
(Copyright. 1933, by Kin* Features Syn
dicate, Inc., and Herbert Kaufman.)
TWO WOMEN CHURCHGOERS
REPORT THEFT OF MONEY
Two women attending services at
the First Presbyterian Church, John
Marshall place and C street north
west, yesterday, were robbed of J3O,
it was reported to the police.
Misses Ruth Beuchart, 430 K
street northwest, and Grace Miller,
2016 G street northwdst, were in
the vestryroom witti other mem
bers of the congregation eating a
light lucheon. When they returned
to their places where they had left
their coats and pocketbooks, the
money was gone.
BONUS m
PUSH FOR
ACTION
Congressmen Supporting Plan
Say Caucus on Question
Is Assured.
By International News Service.
Republican Congressmen drifting
back into Washington today at the
end of the holiday season were met,
when they put In their appearance
at the Capitol, with appeals from sol
diers’ bonus advocates to sign the
petition designed to get the compen
sation bill voted on within the next
wpcks.
Congressman Royal Johnson of
South Dakota and those associated
with him in a campaign to get the
bonus ahead of the Mellon tax re
vision plan on* the legislative pro
gram, declared today that when Con
gress reconvenes Thursday they
would have enough signatures on
their petition to assure a Republican
caucus. . .
• Caucus to Act on Resotatlou.
This caucus, which win be called
by Congressman Sidney Anderson
(Rep.) of Minnesota, will be asked
to adopt a resolution directing the
Ways and Means Committee to
place the bonus bill before the House
ill time for a vote on or before Jan
uary 21.
The effort to get the bonus out of
the committee ahead of the admin
istration tax bill will be discussed by
the committee when it meets Thurs
day, and it is expected that pro
posals will be made for the commit
tee, in advance of the action ,of the
Republican caucus, to change its
plan for considering the bonus and
the tax reduction at the same time.
Sends Letters on Tax Cut.
Chairman Green, of the committee,
has sent letters to persons and or
ganizations interested in the form of
the tax revision, notifying them that
they will be advised in the event the
committee decided to hold hearings
on the revenue bill.
Until a final decision is reached
as to which measure the committee
will take up first—tax revision or
the bonus—arrangements for hear
ings are still up in the air.
CARPENTER KILLED WHEN
WIND UNROOFS BUILDING
LANCASTER, Pa., Dec. 81.—Car
ried with the roof oft which he was
working by the high wind at Duke
and Marshall streets. Oliver KBne.
a carpenter, of Highville, employed
by Alvin Brenner, of Millersville,
was instantly killed. The wind car
ried with it seven roofs of ten houses
now under construction by W. T.
Denlinger and Charles E. Bowman*
Kline was carried with one of the
roofs to a nearby field. Other work
men rushed to his assistance and
the General Hospital ambulance was •
summoned. He died before reaching
the hospital
The winds reached almost the pro
portions of a gale. Kline was wak
ing on the top of a roof. WltnsaUes
to the accident say the roof was
fairly lifted off the brick wall* and
dashed to the ground.
Prices realised on Bwlft e CenpMy
■alee of carcass beef In
for week ending Saturday, Deoomner 28.
1923. on shipments soMLont. ranged from
10.00 cents to 18.00 cents per pountfsad
averaged 13.32 cents per poll nfl Sdvt,
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