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| ON FRAUD CHARGES Two Men, Convicted in School e e EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1922 NEW TRIAL SOUGH NEW YORK’S CHRISTMAS By the Associated Press. NEW YOR! December 22.—New York’s Christmas mall is expected to be the heaviest in the city's history, today. Yesterday outgoing parcels were 35 per cent greater tham on the letters totaled 6,000,000. The average MAIL BREAKING HEGORDS'H;AMESI DESIR"Y NOTEDR. R STATION same day » year ago and incoming; Dearborn Street Building in Eight roads—the Atchison, Topeka | Erle—use the station as a termina ;nd Santa l-‘e,rcalcago-1Wut(e_rn In- } iana (owner of the station), Chicago | cago-West. Indiana, last night in- |and Eastern Tilinols, Chicago, Indian- | timeted the old siructure would be lapolis and Louisville, Wabash, Ches- | remodeled if possible at a cost of apeake and Ohlv, Grand Trunk and ! $200,000. ADVERTISEMENT. H. G. Hetzler, president of the AD\ RTISEMENT. ' When you eat Bran for consipation corlain that it is ALL BRAN: etc., ete. Other Useful Gifts, for Motorists ROBES . GLOV | auto crocks at— 3555 to $33.00 500 to 1225 7.50 to 1300 . 1000 to 2500 ly sold for $7.50 to $65. SOCKET WRENCH HOOD COVERS at Christmas time. FOLDING CHAIRS CUSHIONS ... 185t 500 BLUE BOOKS .. 200t 300 - Such reduction on similar mer- chandise are rare indeed—partic- alarly just before Christmas. Our suggestion is that yon make your selection at the earliest possible moment. PARKING LAMPS . ... Open Saturday, * . Dec. 23, Until 6 p.m. ONAL ELECTR]( /uPPLY COMPANY Xmas Puciding Especially for Your Christmas Dinner We will deliver it to you Satur- day, Sunday, Christmas Day and all during the holiday_u in half gal- lons or more at our regular prices. 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T00L KITS 330 1see| tatc to present such practical remembrances as early as possible, in order that we may give you prompt service. i Phone LINCOLN 5900 —is owr shapes as Standing Twurkeys, Pumpkins, Roast Turksys, Ears of Corn, Pears, Apples, Senta Claus, Qrapes, Peaches—all shown A Graft Case, File Appeals. number of 5,000,000. whatever, Receipts CHICAGO, December 22.—Convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Calcago board of education, Willlam Bither, |$: 0 a follower of Gov. Len Small Ye: olie Mayor Thompson in politics, and Henry W. Kaup, a realty dealer, today prepared to obtain a new trial, a mo- tion for it being docketed for hearing December .26. Both men were found guilty by & jury last night which sentenced Bither to prison for one to five years !and udded a fine of $2,000. Kaup was | sentenced to nine months in the coun- ty jail and fined $2,000. same day These two convictions marked the |y tfirst since Robert E. Crowe, state's attorney, and Attorney General Brundage undertook an investigation | of alleged {rregularities in the school board's transactions. - Several other r:uard ‘members have been indicted a York post hicles_are New York. distriets. number of nd a spec.al grand jury is making further investigation of the board’s iuflulrsv Bither was a former attorney for the board and it was because of his advice to board members to disre- gard a court order preventing the removal of Superintendent of Schools Chadesey that he and six others were convicted and sentenced to jail and fined for contempt of court. Bither and four men went to jail and two women paid fines. ? The state presented evidence alleg- ing to show that Bither and Kaup fraudulently gained control of build- ings on land purchased by the school board and collected and held rent fees amounting to $45,000. NEW “ROM PIPE LINE" FOUNDBY U, S, AGENTS New Orleans Headquarters for Big Syndicate With Elaborate System. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, La., December 22. Agents of the bureau of internal revenue have discovered a new “rum pipe line” with headquarters in New Orleans and branches in seven states, said here today. The “line.” operated by a syndicats of bootleggers with a regular sched- lule of shipments, has been in ope tion several months and has tran ported millions of dollars’ worth of Tiquor, federal agents said. Two other “rum rings.” one of which established a recelving station in Chicago and specialized on train porters carrylng suit case lots, and the other operating by means of ex- press shipments, transporting cases of liquor in tin cases as well as in trunks, have been disbanded as a re- sult of investigation by federal agents, the authorities claimed. The new syndicate, it is charged, employed at regular salaries agents who travel between New Orleans and branch stations scattered throughout | Texas and centralized in other states in Chicago, St. Louls, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Memphis, 'Nashville and Birmingham. Each agent, federal officers said, poses as a traveling salesman and carries large “sample cases."” \ Reports are on file here, they said, | of “agents” who engaged staterooms and travi with as many as four |g trunks, each containing from fifteen to thirty cases of liquor. Arrests will be made soon, the federal men an- nounced. —_— SLAYER IS ACQUITTED. Jury Frees Man Who Killed His Brother. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., December 22 —Alva C. Bowen, slayer of his younger brother, Walter C. Bowen, was acquitted on a charge of murder n district court here late The jury deliberated minutes. The defendant pleaded emotional insanity, claiming that his brother had wrecked his home. Bowen and his divorced wife, Ger- trude Bowen, with whom he aileged his brother had been too friendly, re- married at the courtfouse following the verdict. M’SWINEY PRIEST IN U. S. Father 0’Connor Will Become Mem- ber of Oregon Clergy. 2 BEND, Ore., December 22._Father Dominic O'Connor, spiritual adviser of the late Terence MacSwiney, for- mer lord mayor of Cork, has arrived here and in company with Father Gabriel Harrington has started on an automobile trip to visit the Catholic missions of central Oregon. No _demonstration or reception marked the arrival of Father O'Connor, Who has come here to be a member of the local Catholic clergy. >0 You could never have given this gift before now LAS'I' Christmad litde Jokn or little Mary got something from you, but it wasn’t the following: Late THIS summer a daddy Artist invented @ new way for children and W 1THO U T paints, powders, brushes, crayons, or water! Now patented. New. Simple. Learved almost instantly. Nomuss, nomess, mofuss. JUST RUB, and beauti- ful colored pictures appear. . Artcraft brings out the child’s Originality fou can gire the children some- thing they have neser seen beforel S0 i ARICEAFT Pi-ture g4l n Coler 11 channels clear—no congestion M. Morgan's comment as he prepared for the rush today. g daye of December at the central New .| $293,000 than for the same period last be dling of the Christmas mail and 346 government-owned automobile trucks and seventy-seven horse-drawn ve- drawn trucks have been hired to move deliveries in the resident mail Postmaster Walter C. Burton of the Brooklyn post office said that the office yesterday exceeded that for the ncoming mail was 10 per cent heav- ler than a year ago. ——— letters received daily is was Postmaster Edward for the first seventeen office were greater by aid. Two armories have over to facilitate the han- being used downtown In addition 100 horse- parcels forwarded by his last year by 20 per cent. 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