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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22

willing to be exploited or killed for the
promotion of private or selfish ends.
THE constantly growing system of the
international acceptance and recognition
of trade union cards is anothe" intlu-
ence that is quietly and surely creating
a fraternal spirit among workers of all
lands.
Labor organizations the world over
have committed themselves to the policy
of international peace-Teace with jus
tice and honor in international politics as
well as in industry"
IndOrse Churchill's Proposal
Two resolutions indorsing Winston Spen-
Ger Churehilrs proposal that the United
States, Great Britain and Germany dis
continue warship construction for d year
were adopted.
The convention virtually declared war
on the Brieklayers, Masons and Plaster
ers' international union. which is alleged
to have made an agreement with the Ma
tional Association of Marble Dealers, by
which the union undertakes to do work
properly belonging to the marble workers,
The briclIlayers are not affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor.
The fight between the marble workers
and bricklayers has resulted in strikes in
Milwaukee, Lexington, Ky, and else
where and threatens to involve the whole
building trade
The federations executive council WAS
instructed To take such actions as will
secure the control of work of marble and
stone on the interior of buildings to the
International Association of Marble
Workers" City and state bodies under
the federations jurisdiction were in
structed to expel all bricklayers and ma
sons local unions within 30 days after the
close of the convention.
The jurisdictional dispHe between the
steam engineers and lonGshoremen over
the steamshovel and dredgemen. which
has been before the convention l. years
was adjusted. A charter will be issued
to the steamshovel and dredgemen and
members of the union also may retain
their longshoremen and engineers MEM
bership.
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Knew His ~ ell
From Tid-Bits.

From Tid-Bits
It was a contested will case and one
of the witnesses, in the course of giv-
ing his evidence. described the testator
minutely.
Now. sir" said the counsel for the
defense. q suppose we may take it,
from the flattering description You
have given og the testator. his gSod
points. and his personal appearance
generally that you were intimately ac-
quaineed with him?"
Him exclaimed the witness. HI
was no acquaintance of mine!"
Indeed! Well, then. you must have
observed him very carefully whenever
you saw him?' pursued counsel
Il never saw him in my life.' was
the reply.
This prevarication, as counsel
thought it, was too much, and he said.
Now. now, don't trifle with tie
court, please! How. / ask you, could
you, in the name of goodness. describe
him so minutely if you never saw him
or never knew him.
"Wen.' replied the witness, and the
smile which overspread his features eX-
tended to the faces of those in court,
"you see l married his widow"
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conditions that sometimes justified
war within nation and between ma
tiors.
President Gompers said the subject
had taken much time of the executive
council which had listened to repre-
sentatives of both Mexican factions
and had had much correspondence on
the subject.
I'VE are unconcerned in that con-
test" he said, "if 1t means displace-
ment of an armed man like Diaz by
another armed man."
Mr.. Gompers eulogized Madero, de-
nounced Huerta as an assassin and
pointed out the Importance OF main
tanning the Monroe doctrine. He con-
tinued:
president Wilson has approached this
subject in a statesman-lke way. We
ought to strengthen his hands in trying
to find q peaceful solution of the prob
lem; but I don't think we ought to en-
able Huerta to say organized labor will
not permit Intervention and that he may
go on with his bloody record
The main question was brought Up after
the convention had adopted a declaration
in favor of international peace, as fol-
lows
1T is not lack of love of country which
prompts the toilers to protest against in
ternational fratricide, but they are un-
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batteship Louisiana, Lord Cewdray an
sWered: Certainly 1t is bound to pro-
tect my interests"
Lord CowdraY expressed the opinion
that he had made a great mistake in
Keeping silent 50 long under the charge
that he was "a concession monger' He
said the last oil concession he had OBJ
tained from the Mexican government was
at time slightly under eight years ago.
His company had the right to bore on
any government land, a right. which he
added, had not been exercised to the
limit Any request he had made to the
Mexican government since the granting
of the last concession, Lord Cowdray said
has been for facilities to carry ON his oil
business, such as the building of railways
and pipe and telegraph lines and for
certain customs exceptions.
The real offense he had committed In
Mexico. Lord Gowdray continued, was
in daring to invade the territory of the
Waters-Pieree Oil company Since then.
he said, he had been bitterly pursued and
been victim of a press bureau engaged
ito misinterpret his operations.
Certain portions of the American
press" Lord Codray added. have ac-
cused me of being a concession monger
President Wilson apparently does not re-
member that the American government
assisted in the building of the transeon-
tinental railway in exactly the same man
ner that the Mexican government has
assisted my operations in Mexico, which
is in a state that still necessitates gov
ernmental assistance for her develop
ment.
81 went in as a pioneer and had to
have some guarantee back of the enor-
nous sums l was spending to develop
my oil properties. 1 might say ab the
same time l am not seeking and never
have had an oil monopoly either in Mex
leo or Colombia"
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Demands for Cash
Carranza Attacks Wilson


Magdalena, Mex, November 21.-Gen.
Venustiano Carranza, head of the Mex
lean constitutionalists, declared in an
was attempting to force Provisional
President Huerta to appoint Pedro
Lascurain to succeed him. thus maxi :
ing Huerta's retirement possible
1T is impossible to believe" said
Carranza, that the President of the
United States, a man of such high
moral personality as is shown in his
works that | have read, would initiate
the political methods of a man of such
low morality as Huerta
1T is impossible to believe that Pres
ident Wilson intends to act in the man
ner attributed to him by certain press
reports that have reached me. This
action would be equivalent to approv-
ing the abominable political proceed
ings of Huerta.
"Huerta, in fact" attempted to hide
his treason and assassinations by fore
ing the designations of President Ma
dero and Vice President Suarez and
then elevating the more easily con-
trolled Lascurain to the presidency for
a few brief minutes so that he, Huerta,
could be named minister of goberna-
cino In this position he was enabled
to usurp the power of Lascurain and
eject him from the presidency.
eff President Wilson now intends to
commit the same crime through the
person of Lascurain the only differ
ence between this contemplated act
and that of Huerta is that Huerta, who
to our disgrace is a Mexican, acted
within the realm of internal politics.
while President Wilson would make
the affair one of international poll
tics"
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OF the onlool6ersi It was not till the
banker returned that it was discovered
that the cinema thieves" We're reaH
early in 1911 film was taken show
ing a burglary at a goldsmiths shop IN
croydon. The film was exhibited and
very shortly after the shop was broken
INTO, the thieves getting away with
tz00O worth of gold ornaments. They
mad watched the film, noted the ar
fangments of the interior of the shop
and using this information, carried out
their burglary successfully.
Since then tradesmen have been ex-
tremely chary in allowing their shops
or houses to be used for moving pic
lures! One film, showing the robbery
of bank safe, had to be withdrawn
Tor the same was actually robbed sev-
eral times in a few months. Now, If a
bank robbery is shown on the screen
the pictures are taken in such a way
that no important details of safe con-
struetion or protection for doors, and
SO on, are allowed to appear.
Last year there was a great-and a
Justffiable-outcry against the way
crime was shown at picture places. In
a very few days number of cases oc-
CURED where boys and young men
We're arrested for crimes which they
copied from scenes on the screens. One
boy at Sutton gave a most vivid ac-
count of two men who attacked him.
and the entire metropolitan police
force We're kept busy searching for
them.
He went thoroughly into details One
man, he said, WAS about 95 years of
age and wore a morning coat and
dark trousers. The other was about 25
and he further stated that both men
wore false boards. The description nf
the men was circulated throughout the
police stations and it was not until 1t
transpired that the description of the
two men tailed exactly with two ac-
tors in a recent moving picture that
the police realized that the attack was
a cinemaginative one!
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Confidence Strengthens

Such a favorable attitude by other ma
tions generally strengthens the confidence
of the Washington administration that
the power of the Huerta regime is crum-
bling.
The fact that many members of the
Catholic party did not by previous ar
rangement attend the sessions of Con-
gress remained as another evidence of
the loss by Huerta of one of the chief
sources of his previous supporters.
While no positive steps are being taken
and no action of a summary character
is looked for or is so far as is known
planned the disposition of high officials
is to await the slow but what they deem
inevitable process of forcing Huerta to
retire.
There was no cabinet meeting today
The President saw Secretaries Garrison
and Bryan and Acting Secretary Roose-
welt of the navy concerning dispatches
received from Rear Admiral Fletcher
These related to asylum for Evaristo and
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was a very offensive person. even more
pushful and impertinent than the aver
age American reporter seems TO be, and
he Immediately began to ask some very
intimate and personal questions.
At last. Madame Bernhardt found It
absolutely necessary to refuse to reply.
and then, finding that his victim fatty
refused to be drawn into making indis-
Greet replies, the man began to get ir-
ritated.
But you must answer my questions.
he protested. you don't seem to under
stand. Madame I am a reporter"
With her sweetest smile, and in her
most sympathetic tones. the actress re-
piled: I'm so sorry
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Lord Cowdray Denies Charge

London, November 21.-Lord Cowdray
who has large oil, railway and other con-
cessions in Mexico, in an interview today
said he had learned with great interest
from the newspapers that a British war
ship had been despatched to the Puerto
Mexico terminus of the Tehuantepec rail-
way, which he owns, because while that
line is still running the Mexican gov
ernment lines which join it have been
cut and therefore, several thousand en-
ployes for whom he is responsible could
only be aided by a warshp.
Asked if he would be satisfied with the
protection that could be given his in
terests at TuXpam by the United States
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
4 Onestinn of Choice

From pearsOn's Weekly.
The announcement that a new col
lection of the essays of James Russell
Lowell is to be published has recalled
number of good stories told of this
famous writer.
A motherly old lady once ventured to
cross examine him on the subject of
his having remained bachelor for 50
many years.
Are you a bachelor from choice?"
she asked.
YES. I am" was the prompt reply.
But the lady protested. isn't that
rather ungracious and ungallant?"
The novelist smiled. you must ask
the ladies'" he said. 1T was their
choice, not mine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
Federals Pursued

Douglas Ariz, November 21.-In
their flight to Mazatlan, the federals.
who were defeated last week at Gull
iacan, are being closely pursued by in
surgents under Colonel Dieguez, ac-
cording to messages received here to-
day by constitutionalists. Numerous
skirmishes between the federal rear
guard and rebel advance forces were
reported and in one of these % fed
erals, nearly all officers, were said to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
Death of Mrs. McHugh

Selma, November 21.-(Speeial)- Mrs.
Minerva McHugh, an aged and well
known resident of Selma, died at her
home on East Water avenue late last
night after an Illness of about a week.
The deceased was the widow of Patrick
McHugh. Services over the remains were
conducted at the Catholic church Friday
afternoon at. $3.50 O'Clock, and the inter-
ment was made in Live Oak cemetery
The deceased is survived by five children,
Mrs. T. E. Phillips, Mrs. c. l.. Burns,
Mrs c. r. Carter and Messrs. C. p. and
j. 2, McIIugh.
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FILM CRAZE: MAKES
EXCELLENT COVER
FOR SMART CROOKS
Clever English Thieves Sc
cure Booty While Police
Innocently Observe
Them Make Film"
"ston. thief Stop. thief!'

stop, thief! Stop. thief"
As the man came running down the
street about 100 yards ahead of the
crowd a big, eterimined-looking NAVY
stepped forward and gripped him
firmly.
That's right gasped the almost
breathIess runner. Jerk me aside-we
are doing this for camera picture
His captor, with a laugh. at once
released his hold and the man, dart
Ing swiftly round the corner, continued
his flight and disappeared. He was a,
real thief! This incident occurred re-
Gently. 1t seems that a woman had
been looking in shop window in the
Finchley road London, when a man
snatched her handbag and bolted, says
Pearsons Weekly. Though a hue and
cry was raised at once, he escaped
by the ingenious ruse related abovei
1t Is more than probable that he OBJ
tained his idea from a recent film,
which actually showed this very Incl
dent on the screen. And he is not the
first criminal who has called in the
aid of the cinema.
Last December a gang of thieves
robbed a banker in Paris of 10000
worth of yaluables in an exceedingly
clever way The banker was away
with all his family and the constable
on duty near his house was accosted
by 10 well dressed men, who produced
letter, stating that they had per-
mission to make cinema film at the
bankers house, and requested the po-
lice to keep the public out of the way
of the actors
Seized by "Police"
One of the strangers placed a cinema
machine in position and vigorously
turned the handle, while the others
reared ladder against the wall, broke
a window and entered the house. Sew
eral of the men, dressed as policemen,
pretended to hide themselves round the
corner, in order to surprise the sup
posed burglars when they emerged
When the factors" taking the part of
burglars appeared with sacks on their
shoulders and We're seized by the "ac-
tors" dressed as policemen, the real
policemen watching were greatly
amused They laughed still more when
they read in the evening papers an ac-.
count of the bankers house having
been burgled. They thought the re-
port was joke on the part of one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
What Could He Say?

New York. November 2l.-Profciency in
II languages would not, in the opinion of
the immigration authorities, necessarily
fit a man to support himself In the United
States. Although Lucian Canala, a Rou-
manian immigrant proved that he. could
speak all these and seven Slavsh dialects
besides, he was detained at Ellis Island
today pending further inquiry. Canala
said he served as interpreter for some Of
the Boer generals in the South African
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
Mrs. F. A. Freeman

Meridian, November 21.-(Special.) Mrs.
Louise Caroline Freeman, wife of the
Rev. F. A. Freeman. a we'll known Bap-
tist minister of this city, died Thursday
at the family home in this city, after an
illness covering several months. and from
a complication of diseases. The funeral
services were conducted yesterday morn
ing at the residence by the Rev II. j..
Shipman, pastor of the First Baptist
church, following which the body was laid
to rest in Oak Grove cemetery. The de-
ceased is survived by her husband, one
daughter, Mrs. j. ID. Harris, and three
sons, Ed, Will and Frank Freeman, all
of Meridian.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
Johnnv's Mind Elsewhere

From the St. Louis Republic.
Teacher-"Johnny Binks. describe the
earth
Johnny-"The edrth is lilxe-is like
lis round like a baseball"
Good. Now what are the four sea-
sons?"
"The earth is round like a baseball and
has four seasons"
yes. go ahead"
"Flrst base, second base third base
and home"
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Gus Rupert

Funeral services over the remains of
Gus Rupert aged 80 years, who died in
Elmwood Place, o., arrived in Birming
ham yesterday morning in care of Lige
10y. The funeral services took place from
the residence of the mother of the de-
ceased, Mrs. Christopher Rupert, 2330
Avenue II, yesterday afternoon at 2:3o
o'clock. Interment followed in Elmwood
cemetery.
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BELIEVE HUERTA
WILL GIVE IN
BEFORE PRESSURE
Continued From Page one)

as the steady and gradual disintegration
of the Huerta regime.
The official view is that should the
Congress act on English oil concessions
pending, such acts will be regarded as
invalid not only by the United States,
but by Great Britain.
A perfect understanding is understood
to have been reached between London
and Washington.
Inasmuch as foreign governments gen.
orally have signified their assent to the
American policy, as thus far outlined, it
is being taken for granted that so far
as the nations of the world are con-
cerned, the new Mexican Congress may
legislate as it WILL but it's acts will not
have international sanction as the con-
stituted lawmaking body of the repub-
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II. S. ASSURED THAT
INTERESTS IN MEXICO
WILL BE PROTECTED
CONTINUED From Page One,

conclusion that he was making a political
blunder by permitting the Mexican people
to believe he would submit to American
dictation if he succeeded in defeating
Huerta.
This was said to have led to the story
of the demand for Hale's credentials.
Rumors are heard here of disagree
ment between CarranZa and General Villa
which threatens to disrupt the constitu-
tiopalist ranks.
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Deaths and Funerals
Inhn z Mnnn

John F. Moon, aged 76 years, died
last night about o'clock at his late
residence, $50 Emma avenue, of heart
failure. The remains of the deceased
will be sent this morning to Waco, Ga,
for interment by the Johns Undertake
ing company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
Matter for Symnathy

Prom Pearson S Weekly.
Madame Sarah Bernhardts reappear-
ance at the Coliseum has revived a num-
ber of stories told of her wit.
During one of her American tours a
journalist attached to a New York news
paper obtained an interview with her He
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
Hale in Tucson

Tucson, Arr, November 2l.-William
Hale arrived here last night. 1t is un-
derstood that his conferences will be re-
sumed with General Carranza If Wash
ington directs at Carranza's request, but
without the presentation of credentials
necessary.
Any further conferences it was reported
would take place at Hermosillo
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have been cut off from the main col
umn and all either killed or wounded.
II was reported that the Sonora gov
ernment had repudiated both its own.
issue of fiat money and Mexican gov
ernment currency in payment for eN-
port taxes Yesterday at Naeo only
United States money was accepted and
this at the rate of one American dol
lar for two Mexican
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Mrs. ]. B. Hutchins

Lyerly, Ga, November 2.-(Special)
Mrs. J. B. Hutchins, aged 55 years, died
at the family residence in Broomtown
valley, near Summerville Wednesday
morning, death following a brief illness of
pneumonia. She was the daughter of the
late John B. Alexander, for many years
one of Chattooga county's well known cit
liens. She is survived by her husband
and one son, John NJ Hutchins, Jr.; three
brothers, J. o. and William Alexander,
of this county, and p. II. Alexander of
jamestown. and one sister, Miss Maggie
Alexander. Interment took place this
morning in the Alpine cemetery near
Menlo.
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T. II. Goes to Chile

Mendoza, Argentine, November 21.-Col.
Theodore Roosevelt left here today for
Santiago, Chile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

WANTED-Young man cook for short
orders at once. 1900 4th ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22
INTERVENTION NOT
CONDEMNED BY THE
LABOR FEDERATION

CONTINUED From Page one,
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Daniel Madero and some of their fol-
lowers who have been liberated from the
Vera Cruz prison, and have applied to
Consul Canada for protection. IT was in
dicated that they probably would be taken
aboard an American warship. Felix Diaz
had this honor.
Demands for Cash
A demand was made by the federal
military authorities on all the foreign
business concerns in Monterey for cash
to provide for the maintenance of the
army in that district.
From the Monterey Steel company q, coo
pesos was asked, and from the Waters
Pierce Oil company 15,0o0 pesos. Others
were taxed in proportion to their import
ance. The managers of the Waters Pierce
Oil company instructed their represen-
tatives in Monterey to refuse payment of
the levy and to place themselves and
the property of the company under the
protection of the American consul there.
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JOHNS Undertaking Co. Phone 1907
LICE 10y. Undertaken. Phone To
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-22

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only of all chronic or private diseases.
NO man is too poor to take our treat
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no more than you will be glad and will
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consultation and advice always free.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-20
MAKE FINAL TESTS
OF ALASKAN COAL

Washington, May 19.-Final tests to
determine the value of Alaskan coal to
the navy will be made by the cruiser
Maryland during the present summer,
according to officers who testified today
before the Senate territories committee.
Lieutenant Commander David F. Boyd
of the bureau of steam engineering, told
the committee that incomplete tests of
coal from the Bering river field indi-
Gated it was of high grade Paymaster
John S. Higgins said the government paid
So a ton for coal on board coleries at
Norfolk and Baltimore. and that delivered
on Pacific coast points, Hawaii, or the
Philippines ii cost between $3.50 and IS. %
per ton. About 2500o0 tons per year are
sent to the Pacific, he said, most of it in
British bottoms.
The whole American commercial fleet
would be needed, with a consequent
paralyzing of industry, the paymaster
testified, to furnish the nation with col
leries in war time to take coal to the
Pacific.
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LARGE WAGE CUT
is THREATENED

Chicago May ia cut to the star
walton point in the wages of women
workers in Illinois, provided an eight
hour law is passed was threatened to-
day in an open hearing before the state
senate subcommittee on labor. A COM
mittee of the state senate has such a
bill under consideration.
A. b. Mccall, representing the fruit
canning industry, said it was his pres
ent practice to ignore the 1O-hour law
and pay fines assessed against him be-
cause of the violation, he declared 1T
impossible to get enough girls to han
BILE ripening crop and that it is nec-
essary to work long hours to keep
it from spelling.
w. S. Hobbs of the Aurora Cotton
Mills company said the average wage
woman in his factory is $3.50 week,
the maximum being $l2 and that he
did not believe he could get girls to
work for less. The only alternative left
in event of passing an eight-hour law,
provided it was found impossible fur
ther to reduce wages, would be to
move to another state.