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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10

Lawrence E. Coffin. as the public will note, needs no introduction to the patri- otic American. His uniform tells the tale he is not yet through with the task of humbling the Hun, either. When he left Birmingham he was getting his mail at 1767 Thirteenth avenue, south. and he can now be reached with the Twen- ty-ninth division in France The photo graph which is reproduced herewith was made on the Swiss border, and he came through some of the hardest fighting of the war without a scratch. ittEi
 Lawrence Coffin was one of the most popular members of the Kiwanis club being active in all of it's work before the war, and as soon as the call came he was one of the first to offer himself to Uncle Sam and soon, went, across the big pond, where he has contributed his part to the downfall of Fritz. He has a splendid record as a soldier, and when he comes back home Kiwanians are go- ing to celebrate his arrival in fitting way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
DEPARTMENT READY TO SETTLE UNPAID
 ALLOTMENTS AT ONCE
Office Opened in New Orleans to Ad- just All Claims of Men in or Dis
 charged From the Navy

The navy department is very anxious to have all cases of unpaid allotments of men in the navy and those who have been discharged, adjusted as soon as pos sible, and insurance and allotment of fees have been opened in New Orleans to take up all navy cases. Payments on these applications are made by the bu- reau of war risk insurance in Washing ton and persons concerned in this mat ter are requested to give the mans tull name, where the application was regis tered, date of registry. where his ac- counts are now carried, name and ad- dresses of all dependents named in the application and a statement of what has and what has not been received to date.
 If the above information is forwarded at once to district insurance officials, No. II Canal street New Orleans. La, this matter will be immediately attended to and the case settled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
Dr. billiard s Subject
 "The Reign of Jesus"

Paul believed in the ultimate and eternal triumph of Christ Jesus said pr. billiard in his morning sermon yes terday at the Southsde Baptist church.
 His faith has been justified Jesus is reigning today by the influence of His ideas and ideals. Hugo said: You may resist an army of bayonets but no na- tion can resist an invasion of ideas The ruling ideas of our day may be traced to the words or the spirit of Jesus Christ
 .Tn the realm of politics the ruling idea is democracy. brotherhood, the equal rights of men. Jesus said, All ye are brethren In the industrial world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
CIVIC FORUM HEARS
 DIR. DYER TONIGHT

Dr. Gus w. Dyer, Vanderbilt university professor and lecturer on chautauqua cir cults, a noted economist and one of the best platform orators in Tennessee. vii, be the speaker tonight at the Civic forum in the Civic association auditorium at o'clock.
 Dr. Dyer will speak on 'The Present Unrest" and his discourse is anticipated with great deal of interest by all mem bers of the Civic forum. and the public in general is urged to attend and hear the lecture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
INCOME TAX
Larger Tax Payers Requested to Pur-
 chase Certificates From Banks

John D. McNeel,- collector of internal revenue for Alabama and Mississippi. re- quests that the larger taxpayers pur- chase from their local banks certificates of indebtedness-prefera the issue due March 15, for use in payment of their 1n- come tax. He states that if the taxpay- CTS will do this, it will be of much bene- fit to the treasury department at Wash ington, and especially will it be of help to the local banks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
|Dr. McAdOry Cables
 He Is Sailing for U. s.

Mrs E. D. McAdory last night received a cablegram from her husband, Dr. E. D. McAdory, in which he stated that he was sailing for home. and would arr rive in New York at an early date.
 Mrs. McAdory was of the opinion that the cablegram was sent just before he embarked and that he will reach Amer lea within the next week or lQ days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
Pickp0cketing Charged

Jim Wade, negro. was arrested Aes- terday afternoon by Detectives Propst and Richardson and lodged in the city jail on charge of pickpocketing. It is alleged that he lifted purse from the pocket of Eugene Davis. another negro. containing $15. According to the officers purse containing that amount, and which was Identified by Davis, was found in his possession.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10

Mrs. Kirtley immediately phoned to the residence of W. T. Sims. next door. and in few moments news of the kill ing had spread throughout the neigh borhood and friends of the family hur- ried to the residence, where they, found the grief-strieken woman surrounded by her four little children all apparently dazed by the ghastly sight of their dead father lying in a pool of blood.
 MT. Sims was the first to arrive at the Kirtley residence after the shooting. Someone called me over the phone and said come at once, MT. Kirtley is dead, MT. Sims said to an Age Herald repre- sentative yesterday morning. "l ran over next door and found Mrs. Kirtley and her small children huddled together in the room in which the killing had occurred She told me that MT. Kirtley had attacked her with a poker and threatened to kill her when she grabbed a shotgun and fired upon him."
 JUDGE GREENE ON HAND
 Other prominent citizens, neighbors and intimate friends of the Kirtley family, who were present. soon after the killing were: Walter Moore, Judge Dan Greene, John Stone, John Armstead, A. l.. Full enwider and John H. Frye. T summoned Judge Greene as soon as l heard about the shooting, said MT Moore. Tn spite of Mrs. Kirtleys first statement that she had killed her husband l knew it was some one else as there was blood all over Mrs Kirtley's clothes. which knew could not be the case had she fired the shotgun When Judge Greene arrived he immediately suspected that the boy had done the shooting and was being shielded by his mother, so he called Robert off to one side and the little fellow calmly told him that it was he who had killed his father and not Mrs Kirtley.
 After the boys confession Mrs. Kirt- ley admitted that she had not killed her husband, but declared that the boy had done it only to save her life. She stated that Mr. Kirtley had abused her for a long time and had threatened to kill her on several occasions.
 She declared that on yesterday morn- ing MT. Kirtley had used vile epithets at the breakfast table before the chil- dren and that when she remonstrated with him he ehoked and otherwise abused her. He started to go out to his office and when leaving the front door Robert came in to breakfast after being out since early morning carrying his papers. According to the statement of Mrs. Kirtley, which is corroborated by each of the four children, MT. Kirtley began to chide Robert as soon as he entered the house.
 SHOOT, ROBERT, QUICK"
 "He used profanity frequently in
 abusing the boy. Mrs. kirtley told
 neighbOrs, "and when remOn-
 tstrated with him atOuf if he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
Young Boy Kills Father leDefending Himself and MotherFron1A Attack
J. A. Ktey Shot and Killed by I1YearOld Son at the Family Residence, Roebuck Springs-Mother Att tempts to Shield Her Boy and Take Respons-
 ibility for Tragedy-Judge Greene
 Takes Charge of Boy

J. Krey aged 45 chief train dispatcher of the Louisville and Nashville railroad shot and instantly killed yesterday morning S45 o'clock by his 1yearod Robert kirtley at their Roebuck Springs residence.
 killing which Mir kirley alleged attacking his poker when the boy his to his father with fatal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10

Knights Templar of Cyrene Conn mandery are requested to meet at tho temple at 3,30 o'clock this afternoon fer the purpose of conducting templaE Spnersl services for William J. Thom- aston,
 Funeral services in temple begin at 4 o'clock. Full uniform required. JACK RIDDLE.
 Commander.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
FIRED AT FATHER

He showed Coroner Rives exactly how the whole affair had occurred, go- ing from one room to another and eX- plaining how his mother was being as- saulted, how he hurried back to his own room, got his 16-gauge shotgun, went to the sideboard and loaded it with one shell and returned to the bed- room where he fired at his father not four feet away.
 Officials of the sheriffs office and Coroner Rives were notified promptly yesterday morning, and went to the Kirtley residence, where they made an examination of the premises and took charts of the house. After conferrlne with Judge Dan Greene and others present, they decided to leave the boy in Judge Greeens custody and to make no arrests. An inquest will be held this morning.
 The Kirleys have lived in Roebuck Springs for more than eight years ana were widely known by the large colony of prominent citizens who reside in that vicinity. Rumors of domestic trouble in the family had been heard for some time by their neighbors, and on two or three occasions Mrs. Kirtley had com plained to friends about the way her husband had beaten her and showed bruises and other body marks, brought about by his treatment.
 ON HONOR ROLL
 Close friends of the family assert
 that Mir. Kirtley had always been
 very hard on the boy and had Kept ?
 him cOwed at times. Blob is on
 (Continued on Page seven)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10
SHOOT. ROBERT. QUICK"

"He used profanity frequently in abusing the boy. Mrs. Ixirtley told neighbOrs, "and when remOn- strated with him about it he grabbed a poker and rushed toward .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10

me, saying that he would kill me
 and the children would be better
 off without me. He struck me with
 the poker. \ then grabbed hold of
 his arm to keep him from hitting
 me again, and as I did so Robert
 ran back to his room, got his shot
 gun and returned. As soon as MT.
 kirtIey saw him coming he said,
 "I1I kill you. tO0,r and rushed to-
 ward Robert"
 "I shouted, .ShoOt, Robert; shoot
 quick and he fired"
 When found the dead man was lying on his face by small stove, against which he had evidently fallen after be- ing shot Mrs. Kirtley was slightly di- sheveled from the scuffle and her waist was covered with blood, which had spattered over it while she was hold ing on to one arm of her husband when he started for the son and was killed.
 The little fellow gave the officers and neighbors present a very calm and frank account of the killing, stating that his father had ordered him to stay at home yesterday morning and to do some work in the chicken house; but that his mother had wanted him to go to Sunday school
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-10

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-05
PUBLIC BUILDING
TO BE ENCOURAGED
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. Feb. 5. = Encour-
agement of public building with a
resultant employment Of thousands OF
men through the granting Of authority
to Federal Reserve banks to mako
conservative building loans was sug-
gested to the department Of labor to-
day by Mark Temple Dowling, chair
man of the Massachusetts, commission
to revive building. Congress, Mr..
Dowling said, should give Federal Re-
serve banks the power to loan Is per
cent of the actual cost Of the land and
buildings for a term of five or ten
years at rate not to exceed five per
cent. The loan should carry NOR
tization provision that 2h ner cent
be paid on account of the principal
each year.
practically fifty per cent of the
labor of the United States Is employed
in building operations and its widely
allied material industries" Mr.. Dowl.
ing said. .'If you wish to keep labor
busy, if you wish to avoid disaster, If
you wish to kill Bolshevism in the
country. then furnish the money. Un.
less this is done, all the talk at Wash
ington, at he state house or from the
city hall put together will not result
in the accomplishment of one single
private building enterprise"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-05
Loss of St. Mihiel Was
Determining Factor in
Defeat, Says German
fRy Associated Press,

LONDON, Tuesday, Feb. Amy
idea that the Germans final collapse
was due to revolution or solely to
blockade is secuted in an article in
the Frankfort Zeitung by the military
writer, Major Paulus.
General Ludendorff was beaten"
Says Paulus, when he commenced to
retreat to the Antwerp Metz line. for
this line could not have ben held
Neither flank was secure. In the
north the Dutch frontier left no room
for any retreat which would not have
ben catastrophe. In the center, Yer
dun provided an invitation to the
enemy to breaw through.
.'The line from Diedenhofen to
Metz was already outfanked when the
ST. Mihiel salient was lost while the
whole Of our southern front was full
of disadvantages and too close to the
Rhine to be held stubbornly without
risk of catastrophe"
Paulus therefore maintains that Lu-
dendorf was right when, at the end of
Septeml er, he announced 1t was i'm
possible to continue the war any
longer This was not due. saws Paul
us. to anything that had oce .rred in
Germany, but because OF the military
situation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-05
CARRIED LIQUOR IN
FLOOR OF TRUCK

Fines of 500 and costs and thirty
days in Jail were the sentences given
in city court Wednesday morning to
Jacob M. McClain and E. Robinson,
for violation of the liquor law.
The men were caught Tuesday after
noon with large empty cattle-truck
with a false floor. When the truck
was examined at police headquarters,
eighty quarts of whiskey and dozen
bottles were discovered hidden be-
tween the false and the true floor.
Both men pleaded not guilty. Rob-
inson said that he had been asked by
McClain to accompany him beyond
Connersville, from the home of both
near Franklin, ito move guy"
The expected mover did not develop.
Instead McClain drove to Eaton, left
Robinson there while he got the liquor
and came back for him. Robinson
said he was entirely innocent, al
though he had "kidded" McClain about
having liquor.
Mccain said that the liquor buying
was his own business entirely; that
he had made arrangements with a
man in Indiana to bring the liquor
over; that he had not found the liquor
he was told to bring and had bought
what was found in the truck as q
venture of his own. He said Robinson
knew nothing of the liquor.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-05
LEAGUE TO ENFORCE
PEACE IN SESSION
(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Feb. with more
than three thousand delegates regis
tered, the Atlantic congress for
league of nations began a two-day
session here today. The congress is
under the auspices of the league to
enforce peace and its state branches
in New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia
and West Virginia. 1t is the first OF a
series Of nine congresses to be held
this month throughout the country.
To assure the formation OF a
"strong" league OF nations and the ac-
ceptance of such league by the Unit
ed States senate, it was announced
that plans will be outlined at these
congresses for an intensive campaign
reaching every city and town in the
country.
Ex-president William H. Taft, as
president of the league to enforce
peace, called the congress to order
and delivered the keynote address.
The topic of the morning session was
"The Plain Necessity for League OF
Nations" Other speakers were Nor.
man Hapgood, president of the league
OF free nations association, and Steph
en- S. Wiss, rabbi of the Free Synago
que, New York.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-05
QUESTION OF new
COUNTY AGENT IS
up BEFORE BOARD
Township Trustees Call Spe-
cial Session of Board of Edu-
cation to Decide Matter.

A special session of the county board
Of education will be called as soon as
possible to decide whether the pres
ent county agent. ]. c. Kline, shall
be retained another year or Purdue
asked to recommend another man for
the Wayne county job.
County trustees at the regular
monthly trustees meeting held a con-
ference Wednesday morning with
Walter Fulghum, of the Better Farm
ing association. and attended by Will
Keller, attorney for the association,
and T. A. Coleman, state assistant
leader of county agents, at which this
decision was reached.
The trustees meeting was opened
by routine business. Superintendent
c.. o. Williams then introduced Full
ghum, told the trustees he had asked
to meet them on a special matter on
behalf of the Better Farming associa-
tion, and left the room.
Want Agent Retained.
Fulghum said that it was the unani-
nous opinion of the Better Farming
association that the county agent as
an institution should be retained; that
the association realized that there was
some opposition to the present agent.
and asked for an opinion on the office
and the present holder from each man.
Individual trustees were slow to ex-
press their opinion, but the feeling Of
the meeting seemed to be that while
there was no question as to the good
the office could do, that Kline had
failed fully to do all the good he might
have done as county agent.
That he had not come out and met
the farmers but had worked In his
office. visiting in the country only at
rare intervals.> was the main criticism
developed.
Should Be Retained.
After these expressions Fulghum
asked Coleman to state Purdue's feel
ing in the matter.
Coleman said that Purdue was
ready to do anything the county ask
ed for but he believed the present
county agent should be retained for
another year, as his experience in the
county would make him more valuable
than new man could be.
Will Keller, attorney for the asso.
citation, told the trustees that under
the law the country must have g
county agent. the same as it had a
| county surveyor or county auditor
but that they were perfectly free to
recommend any man whom they
chose for the place.
He said that the war work Kline
had been ordered by his superiors tc
do had interfered greatly with his
work as county agent, just as every
one elses work had been hampered
but that he believed the next yeal
would show a different record.
Fulghum then suggested that the
county board of education be called ir
session to decide the matter as soor
as possible, as the county agent IL
appointed the first of April and time
is limited.
This proposition was agreed to by
the trustees, and the meeting the1
closed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-05
FOE PROPAGANDA
FOUND IN ARMY
(By Associated Press)

COBLENZ, Feb. 5-Three Germans
have been convicted in military courts
here during the past few days on the
charge of circulating enemy propa-
ganda among American troops in the
occupied area of Germany. The dis
tribution of material which intelli-
gence officers regard as propaganda,
has been carried on in various ways.
1t has been given away as postcards
and sold in stores.
One shopkeeper was convicted after
having offered for sale watch-fob
with the American and German flags
crossed upon it. At Treves, recently.
a thousand postcards were confiscated
by American officers. They pictured
a beautiful German woman with a
handful of strings and at the other end
of the strings were comparatively tiny
French, British and American soldiers
dancing to her caprice. By order of
French military authorities the study
of French language has been taken up
in the schools of Bingen on the Rhine.
according to German newspapers.
With the Inauguration of the study of
French, some difficulty is being ex-
perienced in finding suitable teachers.
1t is said that the teaching Of French
will be undertaken in other Rhine
towns as soon as convenient.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-05
man REPORTED DEAD
BY WAR Department
IS ON WAY HOME

News that her husband, reported
dead in France by the war depart
ment, is still living and is now in New
York, has been received by Mrs. VIII
liam H. O'Connor Of S03 North Six
teenth street.
In January Mrs. O'Connor received
papers from the war department, with
the instruction that she fill them out
in order to obtain the war risk in
surance for her husband, whose death
was reported as occurring in France
Oct. II, 1918.
Mrs. O'Conner had received at that
time a postcard from her husband
dated Nov. 10 and letter dated Dec.
8. Inquiry was made for her at Wash
- gton by the Red Cross Home Ser.
vice department and it was learned
that two William Henry O'Conners
were members of Co. c Sind Ammuni-
ton train, and that one was killed in
France. Investigation showed that
the man who was killed was w. II
O'Conner from Texas and that the
Richmond man was well and is now on
his way home.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-05
QUESTION OF
ENFO R Gin G
LEAGUE LAWS
IS DEBATED
Peace Congress Considers Use
of Moral and Physical
Forces-Two Drafts Con-
sidered for Organization.
BRANCH

PARIS, Feb. 5.-The question be-
fore the commission on a society, of
nations today was whether the force
by which the league is to make its
decisions effective shall be moral or
physical. Although plans have been
suggested for abolition of ornaments
and for an international police force.
the delegates incline toward no such
radical measures.
The most popular proposal Is for q
reduction of each nations military es-
adjustments to a point consistent
with internal safety. The league
would determine the size Of the army
leaving the method of providing the
FORCES to the separate governments.
Forces Required.
Great Britain and the United States
almost certainly would rely on volun-
teers. attracted by good pay, France
and Italy possibly would return to con-
scription. on the ground they could
not pay wages corresponding to those
in the British and American armies.
Whereas France had conscript army
of 100000 before the war, it probably
would need only about one-fourth OF
that strength under the league. In the
case Of Great Britain and the United
States, the number of soldiers would
app roximate their former standing
armies 100000 for the British and
$4,000 for the Americans). When the
central powers were taken into mem
bership the league would fix the size
Of their armies.
Only emergencies would be likely
to call these armies to distant points
In the event of trouble on the Ameri-
can continent, the United States would
be directed by the league to take
action. Similarly European troubles
would be settled by use of the armies
nearest the affected district. It IL
believed this plan would receive the
approval Of all countries, since it
overc0mes the natural prejudice
against sending troops to distant
lands.
Two Plans Considered.
Exchanges of views by the various
powers indicate that one feature of
the new freedom of the seas" laws
will be prohibition of floating mines
and prohibition of all mines outside
territorial waters. Such mines would
have to be anchored and designed so
they would be made nonexplosive II
they broke free. The three-mile limit
to territorial waters possibly will be
extended, however, due to the fact
that modern guns, both land and navy.
have a greater range.
Two plans for the complete league
structure are being considered by the
commission. Both are regarded as
embodying the American views, al
though containing articles from the
British, French and Italian drafts.
In it's original form the first plan is
generally regarded as more democrat
ic, and, therefore, more acceptable to
the small powers, whereas the revised
plan is not SO acceptable to the small.
powers, as it eliminates them from
the executive branch Of the proposed
organization and is long step toward
the creation of an International su-
preme court, with fundamental basis
of codified international law.