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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30

Ruth. the Decided Sunday school be-
 gins at 9:9O a. m.; senior and intermediate
 Epworth league meets at p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday evening at o'clock
 Dr. Preston Blake, pastor, will occupy
 the. pulpit of the Southside Baptist
 church this morning at Ii o'clock and
 this evening at 7:45. His subject in the
 morning will be, Looking Through the
 Heart" and that for the evening, "Ac-
 knowledged by Jesus in the Presence of
 the Angels" The sermon in the morn-
 ing will be especially adapted for young
 people. The chorus choir, led by Rob-
 ert Lawrence, will sing at both services
 Sunday school begins at s:30 Baptist
 Young Peoples Union meets at 6:45 D. m. /;
 prayer meeting at 7:45 p. m. Wednesday.
 Dr. Henry Pearce Atkins, pastor, will
 occupy the pulpit of the First Christian
 church this morning at Il o'clock and
 this afternoon at , o'clock. His sub- ject in the morning will be, "The New Creation and that for the afternoon, The Wrong Approach" There will be no services at night and the pastor will speak at the Woodlawn Christian church at 7:45. Sunday school begins at 9:3O; Christian Endeavor meets at 6:15 p, m. Services will be held at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, this morning at II o'clock and this evening at 8 o'clock. John Sparrow is first reader and the sub- ject for today is Everlasting Punish ment." Sunday school begins at 9:SO a. m; testimonial meeting Wednesday eve ming at 8 o'clock. Reading rooms, III American Trust building, open daily, eX- cept Sunday, 10 a. m. to D. m.
 Services will be held this morning at ii o'clock at the F'ifty-seventh Street Christian church and again this evening at 7:45. P F. Cheek will occupy the pull pit this morning and pr. Henry Pearce Atkins will preach at night Sunday school begins at 10:15 a. m. Officers meet ing at-2:3O p. m.
 l The Rev. Marvin R. Heflin. pastor will occupy the pulpit of the North High l lands Methodist church this morning at Il o'clock and this evening at 7:45. His 1 subject in the morning will be, Earth s Prettiest Picture and that for the eve ming, From Home and Back" Sunday school begins at 9:30; Junior league meets | at D. m, Senior league meets at 6:3O 1 p. m; prayer meeting Wednesday eve- | ming at 7:30 o'clock.
 l Dr. J. D. Simpson, pastor, will occupy I the pulpit of the Owenton Methodist tchrHeh this morning at II o'clock In l the evening the Rev. Carl Gregory will preach at 7:30 o'clock. Sunday school be- l gins at 9.4Jaa. m.
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TABLE D'HOTE AT
 NEWSPAPER CLUB

The menu and musical programme for the regular Sunday evening table dhote dinner at the Newspaper club this even ing are announced as follows:
 Fresh shrimp cocktail Ripe olives Hearts of celery
 Salted almonds Cream of chicken la Reine Broiled spring chicken with bacon New cauliflower en Bichemel
 New English peas
 Grapefruit salad Tutti Fruit ice cream
 Egyptian marble cake Philadelphia cream cheese
 Toasted crackers
 Demi tasse
 Served from to D. m.
 MUSICAL PROGRAMME. Poet and Peasant (overture) (Suppe). ''Evelyn,'' from ''Pom-Pom' (Felix). Serenade, Flute Solo, (TitD, Miss; Jacobson.
 "Faust'' (selectfon) (Gounod). Rachety Coofrim, "Katinka" (FrimD. -'Pierrot Serenade' (Randegger) (violin solo), Miss Rees. Hungarian Dance (No. D (Brahms). Brown Skin' (Williams).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30
COTTON FAMINE COMING

''Mr. Chairman, our failure to obtain fertilizers which foretells a very small cotton crop, the very small cotton sup ply, and the increasing demand and con- sumption show condition in the cotton world which at an early date will ap- proach close unto cotton famine. Sup ply, demand, consumption and every stat istical fact warrant higher prices for our cotton. Our cotton goods trade was never better and cotton goods of every char acter are bringing good prices and the price is consta ntly increa sing. The prices of cotton goods and linters really jus tify 20 cents a pound for cotton. If cold spell should come, as has been the case just when the tender plant is coming up and kills it, or if we should have a long wet spell and the seed should rot in the ground, as has been the case, the south is going to be confronted with a serious problem There will not be seed enough to replant. Cotton seed oil, meal and iinters were in such great demand that the farmers sold every seed that they could possibly spare and complaint is now being made that seed for planting purposes are not plentiful The Farmers union of Texas, and in fact all over the south, the union is urging reduction of cotton acreage.
 LESS COTTON, MORE MONEY
 MT. Chairman, by a long and bit ter experience the cotton farmer has money for a 10000. 000-bale crop
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 than he can for a 15,oo0, ,ooo-baie crop and his common sense has told him that if he will produce more food sup plies and less cotton he will be better off in every way. The cotton mills of Italy, Russia, France and Eng land must have a great deal of cot ton in the next three months and there are not 100000 bales of spinnable cotton in all Europe.
 But for the conspiracy among bear operators on the New York cotton ex- change we would have received 15 cents for cotton sometime ago. The daily conduct of that exchange shows clearly that there is market manipula- tion carried on there I am convinced, and have been for sometime, that there is concerted action among the bears to depress the price of cotton. Let me show you why I say that.
 Time and again we have seen the spot marketJin the south 12 cents and the future market i'll New York about s cents. and our farmers would often ask why is it that you are paying only l. cents for cotton here and it is bring ing 13 cents in New York? Then he was told that the difference in favor of the New York price was account ed for in freight charges from the southern market to New York. And that was true. Now then, ask, why is it that the spot market in the south is higher than the future market in New York? And the reason for that IS the law of supply and demand is not so easily suspended in the spot market as it is in the New York cot ton exchange.
 MT. Chairman, I contend that when the contract price in New York is low CT than the spot price in the south it is proof positive that conspiracy exists on that exchange and that these prices are manipulated by bear spec ulators. We propose to have Congress investigate the conduct of the ex- change"
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Congratulates Bulgarian

Berlin. April 29.--(By Wireiess.) )-By or der of King Constantine, the Greek mas ter of the horse has visited M Passarow.
 Bulgarian minister. and congratulated him upon the failure of the recent at ten pt to blow up the Bulgarian legation by a bomb, according to an Athens dis patch issued today by the Overseas
 agency. Premier Skouloudis and Minis ter of the Interior Gournaris also visited the Bulgarian diplomat. Experts. after examining the unexploded bomb. declared that it was of French origin" says the
 agency dispatch.
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MOBILE AND NEW ORLEANS SUFFER BY
 DISCRIMINATION MADE FOR GALVESTON
 FromM to the eSameR By Secretary

Congress be appealed to in the effort to remove the discrimination.
 The senator, in reply to Secretary Houston, expressed the idea that the Secretary would be justified in declining to put into operation an act of Congress palpably contrary to the constitution of the United States. He suggested further. that the law under which tick infested cattle are admitted into Texas might be abridged and the discrimination against other southern ports removed through the exercse-in a negative manner-of the discretion. imposed on the Secretary.
 And there the controversy hangs fire"
 OTHER PORTS INTERESTED
 The question, while it hinges on law cealing with the Importation of tick in- fested cattle, is a big one in it's bearing on New Orleans and Mobile.
 For as the senator, in one of his let ters to Secretary Houston states, the dis crimination defects commerce and makes Galveston the port favored by all the nations to the south with which ex- change of trade is possible.
 Mobile and New Orleans brought the matter to the attention of the senator some weeks ago, and since that time in a very quiet manner-he has been un- usually busy. The indications are that if the Secretary is not eventually con- vinced thnt the senator's argument is in controvertible, the discrimination in vio- latiorf of the constitution will be brought to the attention of Congress.
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Washington, April 29.-(Special.)- )-Sena- tor Underwood contends that the Secre- tary of Agriculture is discriminating though in advertently-against the ports of Mobile and New Orleans when he sanctions the admission into Galveston of tick infested cattle and denies the ad- mission of such into other southern ports. Secretary Houston contends that irrespective of his opinion of the con- stitutonality of the act of Congress under which he is given discretion in favoring Galveston, it is his duty and the duty of his department to obey the direction of Congress.
 From the standpoint of New Orleans and Mobile, the controversy between the senator and the Secretary is of great inn portance not because of the importation of tick infested or any other kind of cat tie, but because the law or it's interpre- tation by the Secretary defects commerce from one port to another in violation of the constitutionsof the United States defects commerce because cattle bearing ships bear other articles of trade, and as a rule, after delivering a cargo, re- load at the port of entry.
 THE LAW CITED
 Soma years aYo Conp-ress amended an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30
Predicts Cotton Famine This Fall in Speech in
 the House
SIGNIFICANT FACT
 IN PRICE SITUATION
Southern Spot Prices Higher Than Future Market in New York, Indi- eating Bear Conspiracy to De-
 press the Prices Paid South

Washington. April 2e.-(Special.) )-Dur- appropriation bill today, Representative Heflin spoke on the cotton situation. He said in part:
 MT. Chairman, cotton is in great de- mand today. and is being put to more uses than ever before. The automobile factories of the United States last month sold 2S,600 carloads of automobiles, a gain If the present record continues, the Wash ington Post says, there will be at the end of the year 35O0, 900 automobiles in the United States. The average gain of the automobile industry has been about 40 per cent a year, and vast quantities of cotton are being consumed in making. automobile cushions, tops and tires
 The cement industry is one of the greatest in our country, and hundreds of thousands of cotton sacks are used in handling cement.
 The paper making industry in the Uni ted States buying inferior cotton, cotton waste and linters to be used in making paper. So acute is this situation, MT. Chairman. that the paper making indus try is buying all of the old cotton rags that can be obtained and it is paying 21a cents a pound for them. Old cotton avn ing is being used for this purpose, and selling at cents per pound, and the paper making industry is paying from to cents per pound for old cotton towels and raplxips
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30
REPLY Is COMPLETED

London, April 29.--The Berliner Tagblatt says the Germany's reply to the latest American note has been completed, and will be deliv- cred at the beginning of next week, according to dispatch from Copenhagen to the Exchange Tele- graph company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30
USED IN SURGERY

More cotton is being consumed in sur gical lint, gauge and medicate cotton than ever before. Great quantities of cotton are being consumed in the manufacture of gunpowder and explosive shells. The cotton mills and powder factories of the United States are consuming at the pres ent rate 100000 bales of cotton a year, and bear in mind that we produced only Il ,O00, GOO bales lats year Now then, with the rapid increase in the consumptive demand for cotton, and with the small and fast diminishing supply. what is there to prevent cotton from going to 15 cents, and more in June and July?
 Let us now take into account the prospects for the cotton crop of 1916 NIu- riate of potash is @ very necessary in gredient to the production of cotton ill three-fourths of the cotton growing states. A serious situation confronts us in the south. Potash cannot be had at any price. It sold in 1913 for S39 ton, and it is now selling for $500 a ton. The lack of acid phosphates and potash, formerly used in abundance in the pro- duction of cotton, means nothing else but a small cotton crop this year. In many states it will take four acres to produce acre when these fertilizers were freely used. The cotton acreage of the south will be no larger than it was last year, and India, the large@t cotton producing country in the old world, has again re- duced her acreage. Last year she planted 23,000,000 acres in cotton and this year she has reduced her cotton acreage to 100000 acres. Russia has reduced her acreage again, and in both countries this was done for the purpose of producing food supplies for the allied armies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, April 29.-Forecast for Alabama: Fair Sunday and Monday.
 Georgia: Fair Sunday. warmer in east portion; Monday fair.
 Florida: Fair Sunday, warmer in northeast portion; Monday fair.
 Tennessee: Partly cloudy Sunday. probably followed by local showers Sunday night and Monday.
 Mississippi: Fair Sunday and Mon day.
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Weather Conditions

Weather Conditions Summary of observations made at United States weather bureau stations
 during the 24 hours ending at p. m.,
 75th meridian time April 29. 1916:
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udTy 9. oS Relative humidity a. m., 70; p. m., 27; p. h.. 34.
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THE LAW CITED

Some years ago Congress amended an old act by giving the Secretary of Agri-
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-06-01
POTASH EXTRACTED
FROM WYOMING LAVA

1t has been known for a number of
years that lava in the Leucite Hills
Sweetwater County, Wyo.. is com
posed largely of leucite, a mineral
rich in potash. This lava, called WV
omingate, is there very abundant
and the total quantity of potash II
contains is immense, estimated at
z0OO00,0OO tons. Like the gold in
sea water, however, it has not vet
been profitably extracted. In a series
OF experimental studies of the reac.
tions OF various salts on wyomineite
under cretain conditions, Roger q
Wells, OF the chemical laboratory of
the United States Geological Survey
has obtained interesting results nc ~
the extraction of potash from wvo.
mlnglte, which are published in tho
surveys Professional Paper 9S-D
Mr.. Wells paper may prove sup-
gestlye to chemists who are studvino
methods of extraction of potash from @
lgneous rocks. oiii
A copy of the report NAV he oh
tanned free on application to the Di-
rector of the United States GeoIopical
survey, Washington, d. G.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-06-01
INNES CHARGED WITH
MURDER OF NELMS GIRLS
THIS THE STATE WILL ATTEMPT
TO PROVE AGAINST INNS

ATLANTA, Ca, May 29.-The state
will attempt to prove that Victor E
Innes of Eugene, Ore, not only tool
S3,745.20 from Mrs. Eloise Nelms
Dennis, but that he murdered Mrs
Dennis and her sister Beatrice
Nelms, Solicitor-General Hugh Dorsey
announced here today at the opening
of Innes' trial for larceny after
trust. The Nelms sisters disappeared
in San Antonio, Texas, in June, 1914,
and Innes and his wife later were
acquitted there of charges of muir
dering the two Atlanta women. Both
husband and wife later were indicted
on larceny charges.
The state today elected to try In
mes first after the defense had won
its point that the two should get sep
arate trials. First witnesses called
were intended to show Innes alleged
connection with the murders, and
Solicitor Dorsey produced sausage
mill in which he asserted he would
prove the women's bodies were
ground up at San Antonio. On OBJ
lection of the defense Superior Court
Judge Ben III. Hill. presiding, ruled
that the state first must show that
the $S745.20 mentioned in the lar
ceny indictment was entrusted to
Innes, before taking up any other
part of the case. 1t was intimated
the state would bring evidence re-
garding the murder. Mrs. John wv
Nelms, mother of the missing women4
then took the stand and after noon
testified as to letters
she said her married daughter re-
ceived from Innes who is said acted
rs attorney for Mrs. Dennis prior to
her disappearance.
Mrs. Nelms referred to Innes as,
hat demon" and was told by the
court that such language would not
De allowed
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-06-01
POTTERY PLANT
LOCATED AT ERWIN
WILL BE LARGER
Capital Stock Has Been Raised From
S150,OO0 to $700,0OO- Be Used
For Manufacture of High Grade
Products.

ERWIN, Tenn, May 29.-It has
been announced that the capital OF
the big pottery plant which is to be
located here has once more been in
creased. This time the increase is
from $35O,O0O to 100000. The plant
was first organized with a capital OF
only $150,000.
The site chosen for the plant is
neal the feldspar grinding plant, just
outside the city limits. This is the
most convenient location, as the plant
will be used for the manufacture of
only high grade products and will
therefore require a large amount of
ground feldspar This is the first
plant Of its kind in the entire south.
On account of the greatly increased
size of the plant the Holston corpor-
alton has withdrawn all the land
which it had rented out for farming
purposes near the town. 1t is soon
to begin the erection of a large num-
ber of residences on a part OF this
land for the employees Of the new
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A LESSON IN A VERSE
OF EIGHT LINES

Here is a little verse by .McKinsey,
of the Baltimore Sun, that any one
can stop in the fuss and fret of the
day and rea over several times. 1t
is little stanza floating out by it
self and seeking a lodgment in any
warm heart
Not where we live, but how;
Not what we know, but feel
Not crowns upon the brow,
But in the hand true steel,
To strive, and though we lose,
To find in strife the gain
They gather who refuse
To falter or complain!
( Each line is thought Take the
second 1t is the very cornerstone
of the real educational idea. 1t makes
no difference how much a person
knows, if he cannot feel it, it will do
him little good. How pat does the
simple incident related by Jas. Gals
worthy fit here. He tells of a father
calling the attention of his little boy
to beautiful sunset and saying to
him: i don't care what you think
of it, but do you feel it?' There is
the test of knowledge. How few
pass the test.-Ohio State Journal.
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DISAPPROVING OF
OPERATION OF THE
BANKRUPTCY LAW
Campaign to Have Law "Substanti-
ally and Properly Amended as Soon
As Possible"


MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 27.-Resolu-
tlons disappearing of the operation
OF the national bankruptcy law. while
upholding the law in principle. were
ADOPTED at a conference here Friday
night of several hundred Southern
business men and manufacturers.
Ihe resolutions provide for the
inauguration of a campaign to have
the law substantially and properly
amended as soon as possible" and if
such efforts are not successful within
reasonable time to work for its re-
peal.
Amendments proposed would put
the administration of the law more
directly under the supervision of the
Federal government so as to insure
greater protection against fraud and
extravaganza and provide just and
business-like system"
The conference, while held in con-
nection with the convention of the
Southern Wholesale Grocers' Associ-
alton, which concluded it's annual
meeting here Friday, was attended
by representatives of other trade in
terests in the South. The speakers
included j. H. Trego of New York,
secretary-treasurer of the National
Association of Credit Men, who ar
gued against the repeal of the law,
and 0. 3. McGlasson of Chicago, pres
ident of the Anti-Bankruptcy Associ-
alton, who favored the absolute re-
peal of the act.
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WEALTH Of
THE NATION
5000, O,OOO,OOOOOO Is GOVERNMENTS
ESTIMATE.
SAYS SECRETARY MCADDO
THE GROSS NATIONAL INCOME is
$4,000, 100000.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 29.--
Secretary McAdoo today informed
Chairman Lobeck of the house com
mittee on expenditures in the treas
ury department that the department
is enforcing the income tax law with
all the yigor which the small force
authorized by congress will permit, .
but that an adequate Office and field
force for the investigation of returns
must be provided ii the government
is to get all it is entitled to under
the law.
Mr.. McAdoo's letter, which replies
to the Keating resolution regarding
alleged income tax frauds and eva
sions, expressed regret that congress
authorized only half of the one mil
lion dollar increase asked for to pro-
vide an adequate method of collect
ing the income tax and says it is
hoped that the remainder may yet
be granted. 1t denies a report that
the government is losing $320,000,000
annually by income tax frauds, ex-
planning that this estimate was based
on the assumption that the annual
national income is $46,0000 100000.
The governments actuary, Mr. Me-
Adoo says, estimates the gross ma
tional income at $2O,000,00 and
the net income at $16,000,000, 900 or
about $3.50 per family and the total
wealth of the country at about $780,
000,000,000 of which only 100000
100000 is earning income
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DR.. WAITE RECEIVES
DEATH SENTENCE
RECEIVES DEATH SENTENCE FOR
FOR MURDER OF j. Il. PECK.

NEW YORK, May 27.-Dr. Arthur
Warren Waite has been found guilty
of the murder of his father-in-law
John E. Peck, the Grand Rapids mil,
lionaire.
Guilty of murder in the first de-
gree was the verdict of the jury,
returned after it had been absent
from the court room one hour and
twenty-five minutes.
Waite was remanded to the tombs
to await imposition of sentence on
June l.
While the jury was deciding his
fate, Waite was eating a hearty din
ner in a room in the court house. Be
lieving the jury would return quick
verdict, the spectators remained in
their seats while it was out Mrs.
Clara Peck Waite, with her friends,
sat in a corner behind the jury box
while Waites father and brother,
Frank, remained in the court room.
When the jury came in with it's
verdict Waite was brought into the
court room, but was not allowed to
take his usual seat. Standing be-
hind the rail of the court room with
his face pale and showing signs of
nervousness, he watched the jurymen
take their places. He stared at the
jury without making any movement
as the foreman, replying to the ques
tion of the clerk, said the verdict was
guilty"
Walter R. Deuel., Waite's counsel
asked that the jury be polled, and
the request was granted Each jury
man replied that he found the de-
fendant guilty in the first degree.
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TAFT is GUEST AT
WHITE HOUSE PARTY

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 81
Former President Taft, who is here
attending the meeting of the League
to Enforce Peace, was a guest at a
lawn party given yesterday by Pres
ident and Mrs. Wilson on the White
House grounds. AS he reached the
President in the receiving line Mr..
Taft stopped to chat for few min
utes, and later he held an inrpromp-
tu reception of his own in another
part of the lawn, meeting many dip
lomats. officials and members of
congress.
Count Won Bernstorff, the German
ambassador, who has not BEEN seen
at White House social affairs re-
Gently, also attended the party. He
was greeted cordially by the P'esi-
dent and later talked with Mr.. Taft
at length.
None of the ambassadors repre-
senting the allied governments was
present, but several of the attaches
of their embassies were-+among the
guests.