oc-plain-dealer 1923-12-17

CLAIMS WILHELM ORDERED SUICIDE DORTMUND, Germany, Dec. 17—Former Kaiser Wilhelm is the plaintiff in a sensational libel suit which began in the courts here today against the Dortmunder, a newspaper, which had charged that the former emperor deliberately ordered Naval Lieutenant Hahnke to commit suicide. Hahnke plunged to his death from a high cliff after heated words had passed between himself and Wilhelm on board the German imperial yacht Hohenzollern, 28 years ago. The newspaper asserted that the kaiser unpaid Hahnke so violently that the latter lost his temper and tried to slap the former kaiser's face. The eupon, according to the newspaper account, the ex-kaiser ordered Hahnke to end his own life. Wilhelm brought suit alleging that the story was a lie and that such an incident had not taken place. Many officers and members of the crew of the Hohenzollern were called as witnesses. They admitted that Hahnke took his own life, but swore there was no connection between the ex-kaiser's rebuke and the suicide. Wilhelm was represented by German counsel. Plain Dealer Classified Ads Always Bring Results STOCKS CLOSE STEADY NEW YORK, Dec. 17. — The stock market closed steady today. Prices in the general list held within fractional range. A number of specialities, however, moved over greater limits and scored good gains. International Paper gained 35%; to 29%. Davison Chemical rose over 2 points to 79½%; Sears-Roeckuck 1¼ to 87; Corn Products 4¼ points to a new high for the gear of 157½%, and American Can 1½ to 106¾%. Oils were in good demand, Pure Oil and General Asphalt gaining one point each. Rails were lower, Union Pacific losing 2 points to 127. Stel was steady. Government bonds unchanged; railway and other bonds steady. GRAIN BULLISH CHICAGO, Dec. 17. — Anticipation of the government crop report later this afternoon proved a bull factor leading to a fairly strong close of the grain market today. Traders believed that the visible supply figures would put a more hopeful view on the buying side. Wheat closed ½ to 1⅓ higher; corn unchanged to ½ c up and oats unchanged to ½ c off. BANK CLEARINGS San Francisco, $33,000,000 Seattle, $8,149,857. Portland, $9,116,218. Oakland, $2,575,400. Long Beach, $1,432,150. Los Angeles, $27,581,315. LOS ANGELES PRODUCERS LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17. — ter 52. Eggs: extras 48; count 45; pullets 43. Powellens 23; boilers 34; fryers 34. LOS ANGELES POTATOES LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17. — tues: Stockions $2.40 @ Idaho Russets $1.85 @ $2.10. LOS ANGELES CITRUS LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17. — gages: Northerns and south navels, best sizes $3.75 @ $200s, and smaller $3.25 @ $Lemons: special brands @ $3.75; market pack $2.00 @ $2.25. Grapefruit: Arizona sec $4.50 @ $4.75; northeastern cial brands $3.25 @ $3.50. NEW YORK CITRUS NEW YORK, Dec. 17. — New market doing better especially 112s and 1176s. Lemon must strong and higher. Navel averages ranged $3.05 to $6.25; lemon averaged from $3.110 to $4.05. Try a Plain Dealer Want "The Christmas Jewelry Store of Quality Gifts" ANSWERS TO "What Shall I Give" This list has been prepared to help you out with a variety of gifts will save time and thought during the last few days of shopping Gifts. Gifts for Boys- Gifts "What Shall I Give This list has been prepared to help you out with a variety of gifts will save time and thought during the last few days of shopping mas Gifts. 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LOS ANGELES PRODUCE LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17.—Butter 52. Eggs; extras 48; case 45; pullets 43. Poultry: 23; boilers 34; fryers 20. LOS ANGELES POTATOES LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17.—Potato stockings, $2.40 @ $2.75. Russels, $1.85 @ $2.10. LOS ANGELES CITRUS LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17.—Oranges; Northerns and southern ones; best sizes $3.75 @ $400; and smaller $3.25 @ $2.50. Special brands $3.50; market pack $2.09 @ $2.50. Grapefruit: Arizona seedless 40 @ $4.75; northern spearbrands $3.25 @ $3.50. NEW YORK CITRUS New York, Dec. 17.—Navel set doing better especially on the 1176s. Lemon market and higher. Navel averages ranged from 5 to 6.25; lemon averages from 3.110 to 4.05. JOHNSON MAY BE LEFT OFF BALLOT WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Last minute developments in South Dakota, involving the possibility that Senator Hiram Johnson's name may be kept off the presidential primary ballot by legal action, today decided President Coolidge and his political advisers to delay temporarily the formality of filing his candidacy with the secretary of state of South Dakota. Charles Burke, commissioner of Indian affairs, who is one of the administration leaders in South Dakota, held a lengthy conference at the White House, in which he explained the new situation which has arisen. Under the South Dakota primary law—one of the most peculiar and complicated in the country—unless two or more candidates file there can be no contest. Burke explained. Thus, should either one of the candidates fail to get his name on the ballot, the people of South Dakota would be unable to express a presidential preference through the primary. President Coolidge, having been selected as the favorite candidate at the recent proposal convention, his name, following his acceptance and filing, would go on the ballot in the right-hand column in order that Johnson might also go on the ballot, five proposal men—as required by the law, entered his candidacy to go in the middle column. This column, however, has been pre-empted by Senator Sterling, Howard G. Fuller, who is running for Congress against Rep. Royal Johnson, and other candidates. These men, appearing before the supreme court of the state, have sought to keep Johnson's name out of the middle column, the matter coming up for hearing today. As the law requires that Johnson's name must be entered as a candidate to be placed on the ballot by tomorrow, Dec. 18, and as legal experts are of the opinion the Sterling injunction will be confirmed, there is considered a likelihood that the senator from California will be kept off the ballot. Senator Johnson's only resource in this tangled political situation, Commissioner Burke explained, will then be to have 13 or more of his friends file a petition—the petition to contain 10,000 signatures—to be placed on the third column under an "independent" heading. Votes then could be cast for the men who, if victorious, would go to Cleveland convention as South Dakota's 13 delegates, pledged to Hiram Johnson. Commissioner Burke strongly advised President Coolidge to enter the South Dakota primaries, but in view of the present situation, suggested that he delay filing for the present. The President has until Jan. 1 to declare himself. An apple at dusk And a bath at dawn Repeat six days—and Your alliment's gone. JAP QUAKE IS LIST TO KITCHEN REPEAT PARIS, Dec. 17.—earthquake was caused by cumulation of kitchen rain on the earth's surface, and an unexplainable inner mound of the earth's molten center. That's the theory of the ed Adrien Guebhard expiration thesis recently read by French Academy of Science Tokyo and Yokohama point and the steady accumulation garbage layer after laying after year, finally browning earth's crust to the supersurface. Then, one fine morning too thrifty Japanese humped into her garden inularly large quota of kitten use. Like the fatal last water and the straw that the camel's back the last garbage destroyed the crust's hydrostatic bounce the earthquake. M. Guebhard's thesis in high-brow French, La Greek, was printed in its Journal Officiel; the paper in which state depublished before they can laws. GREEK CRISIS MONDON, Dec. 17.—A tie crisis in Greece is bell minent, said a press dispair Athens this evening. 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That's the theory of the learned Adrien Guebhard, expressed in the thesis recently read before the French Academy of Sciences. Tokio and Yokohama grow too fast, M. Guebhard pointed out, and the steady accumulation of garbage, layer after layer, year after year, finally brought the earth's crust to the saturation point. Then, one fine morning, a not too thrifty Japanese housewife dumped into her garden a particularly large quota of kitchen refuse. Like the fatal last drop of water and the straw that broke the camel's back the last can of garbage destroyed the earth's crust's hydrostatic balance—enceance the earthquake. M. Guebhard's thesis, couched in high-brow French, Latin and Greek, was printed in its entirety in the Journal Officiel, the newspaper in which state decrees are published before they can become laws. GREEK CRISIS NEAR LONDON, Dec. 17. — A dynastic crisis in Greece is believed imminent, said a press dispatch from Athens this evening. The departure of King George is regarded as most probable. 7 HURT IN PANIC WHEN CARS CRASH LOUISVILLE, Dec. 17. — Seven persons were seriously injured and a panic among more than 150 other severely shaken passengers narrowly averted today, when three Indiana interurban cars crashed in a rear-end collision on the Big Four bridge here, 100 feet above the murky fog-enshrouded waters of the Ohio river. PRETTY ORPHAN'S HUNT FOR KIN ATLANTA, Dec. 17. — Since her mother died two years ago, Ursula Reynolds, pretty 17-year-old Atlanta school girl, has been searching for some of her relatives. Her mother, Mrs. Drnella Blanche, Glimmer, was a widow. When she died she left her little daughter, Ursula, two brothers, Paul and S. M. Reynolds, and two sisters, Miss Ethel and Miss Winnie Reynolds. The girl, however, knows nothing about the two brothers and sisters, her aunts and uncles, except that they live somewhere in the south. She thinks, perhaps, that they live in South Carolina, from which state she and her mother came about two years ago. Meanwhile, the girl is staying with friends of the family here in Atlanta, and is going to high school. Plain Dealer Classified Ads Always Bring Results XMAS TREE BALLS BLOWN IN BUBBLES NEW YORK, Dec. 17. — It is the busy season for Santas assistants, the workmen who make the fancy glass balls so essential in decorating the Christmas tree. The balls are made just as a child blows soap bubbles and, like the bubbles, pass into obscurity after gleaming for a brief period in all their Yuletide glory. To manufacture the ornaments a glassblower heats the end of a glass tube in the flame of a gas lamp. When the end of the tube is at red heat he blows on the other end until the embryo ball has attained the desired size. After the balls have cooled off they are covered with a coat of silver nitrate, giving them a shiny, sparkling appearance. Then they are dyed in the bright colors. CRYER IMPROVES LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17. — Mayor George E. Cryer was today reported recovering slowly from the sudden attack of pneumonia which threatened his life Saturday night, according to reports from his physicians. The mayor has been confined to his bed for the last week. At first his aliment was declared to be intestinal influenza, but Saturday night it was announced there were traces of pneumonia in the left lung. The mayor's physicians announced today that while the city's chief executive is very ill, there is no cause for alarm. Better Furniture Gifts This year, more than ever before, people are spending their Christmas money wisely by purchasing furniture gifts. It seems that they fully realize the fact that such gifts give more and longer pleasure and satisfaction than any others! We are ready to help you now with our greatest gift display. 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