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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
By Associated Press

New York. December l.---Broa1way, at Fifty-second street, was suddenly Transformed late this afternoon from a scene of bustling activity to one of desolate wreckage, when nine-stor~ house under repair collapsed burying several persons beneath the debris. At least one person Is believed to have been killed and six others are unaccounted for.
 Broadway was crowded with shop pers, workers hurrying to their io:nes and afternoon theatre goers when terrific crash rent the air and me building toppled into the street. For tunately the bulk of the debris fell into Fifty second street. which was con, pa raj lively freo from vehicular and pedestrian traffic. although tons of wreckaGe slid into Broadway itself. Six persons. three Of them buried in he wrecka-e and later rescued, were in- iured. scachers expressed fear tonight that other pedestrians seen passing the building may have been caught be- meath the tons of wreckage covering the sidewalk in places to a depth of six feet.
 Smaller crashes occurred at intervals tonight, as sections of the wall which remained standing after the first col lapse gave way Other tottering sec tions threatened the lives of firen sn and policemen who searched the ,ehris for bodies in the glare of searcilights.
 only the ground floor was occupied,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
Rx Assoeiated rress

Harrisburg, Ia. December l-Goyer- nors and goternors-e!ect representing more than half the states of the union, voted at their annual conference here today to begin an inquiry into what was variously called the racute.'' alarming and tragic" situation facing farmers of the country, with a view to recom- mending federal legislation to assist them.
 As first step toward carrying out their plan which was suggested by Gov ernor Harding of Iowa. the conference appointed a committee consisting of Gov errors Harding. Bickctt Of North Car olina, Hplconb of Connecticut. Parker of Louisiaua and Goodrich of Indiana. to make a, preliminary survey and report back before the conclusion of the con- ference After that. 1t is contemplated to send the committee to Washington to urge legislation before Congress which convenes this month.
 The objectSof the state executives which is said to beNwithout parallel in the his- tory of American government, is for the organization of governors to suggest to Congress and actively advocate passage O. legislation necessary to refund the deots of farmers who are pinched by surplus products on hand. so as to give them a year or more in which to re- coup losses and wait for strengthening market It is proppsed to do this through extension -cr adaPtatioh of the federal reserve system.
 A second proposal. also scheduled to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
NEGROES REMOVED
 FOLLOWING RUM0RS . OF LyNCH|NG PLANS
Black Who Was Believed to Have Been Lynched Had Been Kept Hidden By
 Officers
By Associated Press

Thomasville, Ga, December 1.-Ralph Wilson, negro, charged with having as- saulted young woman of Thomas coun- ty. was removed from the county Jail here tonight by the sheriff, whp said he in- tended to take him to Albany for safe keeping as the result of ruinors that the jail would be stormed during the night.
 Wilson disappeared last night after his capture. and it was believed he had been lynched. Officers said today they had kept his whereabouts secret in or der to avoid mob violence.
 As a result of the assault, negroes of the Barwick and Pavo sections, near where the crime was committed, are be- ing subjected to q reign of terror, accord- ing to reports received here. Many ne- groes were horsewhipped last night, it was reported, and others were said to have been tortured today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
Seueral BeLieued Killed In
 Broadvay Building Collapse
One Is Known Dead and Six Unaccounted for Are Feared Buried Beneath Debris of Nine-Story Apart
 ment House Wreck

an automobile concern having it's of- fees there. The injured persons were mainly employees of this concern and workmen employed in repairing the building. Three girls in the autom obile estabI Iishment were buried beneath the wreckage, but were rescued, suffe ing only from cuts and bruises.
 Police tonight held back crowds in Broadway while workmen engaged ty the city building department riskcd their lives in an effort to relieve the weight on the upper floors and pre- vent the sagging wall on the Broadway side of the structure from giving way. Digging in the debris in the street was stopped when walls still standing in parts of the Fifty-second street side and along Broadway threatened 10 tol- lapse.
 The man believed to have been killed was Jeff Smith, foreman employed by the wrecking company. A fellow em- ploye working near Smith on an upper part of the building, reported that he saw the foreman carried down in the falling debris with the first crash
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
Gist Of the News
GENERAL

Waish investigation committee ter- minntes session.
 Troop commander orders Williamson cleaned up.
 New method of saving phosphate very economical.
 Trend of stock market reactioaary yerterday.
 Irregular day in stock trading on New York market.
 Willard to meet winner of big bout.
 STATE
 ynSdaIs destroy graveyard monu- ments with dynsnite.
 E'eastinx vuIturem lead searchers to body of murdered hoy.
 NcEss rob bank at Guin and make escape
 Delegates named to Memphis bank ers' meeting.
 selma man awarded s27,Soo for purchase drive.
 Masonic grand lodge conveees in Montgomery.
 Allied armies te direct drive for anti tubercul0sis funds.
 Traffic Bureau makes record in set- tling claims.
 Local hank elearins~ near biiiisa dollar mark.
 Brcfhcrhood of man essential to world peace. says krnss.
 Brisk local demand for live stock and farm products.
 Mrs. Pitts Is killed by automobile truck. / Further pI.sras made for air mail Tcute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
LEGAL OBSTACLES
 ID TRUST" PROBE
 ARE CLEAREDAWAY
Girl Admits Destroying Much Sought "Quotation Cards" of Building Bureaus Esti-
 mate System
By Assscistsd Prcss

New York, December 1.-The legal ob-
 scle to prevent the joint legislative committee Investigating the "building trust from making inquiry into the ac- tivities of the builders supply bureau was cleared away tonight. when Supreme Court Justice Hotchkiss decided the com mittee could retain possession of the books and records seized as evidence at yesterdays hearing.
 Justice Hotchkiss also refused Martin Conboy, counsel for the bureau, a stay to prevent the recall of Joseph Penny, chair man of the organization, as witness before the committee.
 While blocked in it's investigation of the books of the bureal-by the injunction which Justice Hotchkiss vacated, the committee today progressed with it's in- vestigation,N hearing an admission from Miss Elizabeth O'Dea, stenogra pher en- ployed in the bureau. that she had de- stroyed the much sought quotation cardos" fo the bureaus card system on estimates.
 Miss O'Dea, who wasSonce cited for con tempt by the lesislative committee de- t'aied she shad eestr5 yed the cards at the direction of a member of the bureau. whose name she could not recall. She aS- Some months before the launching of the inquiry. and after the system had ceme into discuse.
 SOUGHT AS EVIDENCE
 The quotation cards" were sought as evidence by the committee, which heard testimony today to the effect that the card system was employed by the bureau to establish a uniformity in price.
 The card system, which it was alleged not only resulted in uniform but high CT prices" was operated by Miss ODea, whose appearance before the committee counsel for the organization had attempt ed to prevent by court action several days ago.
 While the committee was hearing testi- mony regarding the activities of the bu- reau and the association of dealers in mason builders supplies, number of witnesses, including six employees of John T. Hetrick, alleged promoter of the lime stone ring were being heard by the ex'. traordinary grand jury Investigating the housing situation.
 The trial of George Baclser. millionaire builder, charged with perjury in connec- ton with testimony before the commit tee, was temporary halted today when the court took an adjournment until Thursday morning out of respect for the memory of Judge James T. Malone, who died today of apoplexy. The jurors were permitted to go to their homes instead os being locked up for the night as had been intended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
DOOR OPENED ID
 FURTHER RAISES
 FOR MINE WORKERS
Government Not to ll@e fere With Any Change in ment of Federal Comb
 sion, Says Wilson
By Associntsd Press


 Washington, December 1.-The door tV further wage increases in the anthracite coal industry, beyond the r per cent raise awarded by the federal commission last August, was opened today at confer ence between tn anthracite joint scale committee and Secretary Wilson of the department of Ia DOT.
 The government. Secretary Wilson ad- vised the committee, would not interfere with any changes which the committee might agree to make in the federal com missions agreement This position was understood to mean that the scale com- mittee may increase mine wages above the scales laid down in the agreement under which the mines are now ope-at- ing, providing the operators consent to such raises.
 Secretary Wilson's statement was an ir rterpretaton of President Wilson's re- cent letter regarding revision of the fed eral commission award and was issued after today's conference with the joint scale committees comprising representa- lives of both operators and workers or ganizations. ,ttt
 The operators and miners of the joint scale committee of the anthracite coal field" the statement said, 'have had a misunderstanding concerning their au- thority under, the communication of the President reconvening the scale commit tee It is definitely understood that the agreement now in existence will continue in force and effect during the time for which it was entered into. The seere- tary of labor has interpreted the cQn- munication to mean that the government will not interfere with the joint scale committee in making any changes which thcy mutually agree should be made in the agreement. sF
 This was supplemented by informal an- nouncement that the joint scale commit tee would resume it's deliberations next Monday afternoon at Philadelphia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02

General Cavigla, in a proclamation to be conveyed to D'Annunzios forces by airplane, says it is the intention of the Italian government to enforce the con- ditions of the Rapallo treaty without de- lay. This announcement Is made in a newspaper dispatch from Triest.
 The proclamation invites the poets le- gionaries to withdraw behind the iron tiers of the free state of Ffume and refrain from useless resistance to the energetic measures the Italian govern ment is prepared to take.
 STATE OF WAR ANNOUNCED
 London, December 2.--The Milan cor respondent of the London Times, dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
DISORDERS CEASE

Albany Ga, December 1-Disorders in the western part of Dougherty county, which followed the killing of a white farmer across the line in Worth coun- ty have ceased and negroes are return ing to their homes, Sheriff Taryer said here tonight.
 Several white men have been indicted by the grand jury here, called to investi- gate the situation, but their names and the number indicted has not been made public pending arrests. The rowing bands of white men which harassed negro fami- lies and drove many from their hoiyfes, was said to have come from another county. It was said by Solicitor General Ecll they would be put on trial this week if arrested in time The indictments were said to include assault with intent to murder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02

According to MT. Wiseman, the HaaAs were ordered by District euRt- c. E. Breniman, with head quarters here, and the evidence secured is being collected in the office of the local federal bureau sf fnvestiSation. Department of justice agents here are known to be busy transIating documents se4sed during the raids, and a num- Der of important arrests are ex- pected to follow.
 Among the documents obtained are several manifest0s announcing the aiAs and purposes of the new "stefsrniista" movement, the Iead- CTS of which are expected to be caught in the drAgnet now being drawn in, Mir. Wiseman said,
 Lacio Blanco, former Carranxist general, is the head of the new revolutionary movement, according ts the accepted belief i'm local Mex fcan circles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
GOVERNMENT LOSES ON AMENDMENT ID HOME RULE BILL
Object of Amendment, Which Was Lost 120 to 36, Was to Safeguard Minority
 Southern Unionists
By Associated Press

London, December 1.-The govern- ment suffered defeat in the House of Lords tonight when an amendment to the Irish home rule bill providing for the establishment of a senate for south ern Ireland was carried against the government by a vote of 120 to 36. It was explained that the object of the amendment on the ground that such a minority southern unionists.
 Lord Birkenhead, lord high chan cellor for the government opposed the amendment of the ground that such senate must be preponderantly no nina tive, and there uo hope of forcing such a seconf rrr nber on southern Ireland He % sized the govern- ment's desire . q .e question of Tram Ing a senate be left to the cen tral council.
 Lord Shan ~u owed an amendment providing fl HE joint session of the southern a g 2 tthern serates as a substitute SSs Irish council. Lord Birkenhead c ght 1t preferable to discuss tn $ ect at later stage. Earl Midd' o lrged that nothing was mora likef cad to some settlement than Lord $ Ion's proposal.
 This amendment was adopted. 4S to 34.
 In later discussion Lord Birk .n- head, referring to Lord Shanfon's amendment, said that the council was an essential part of the governments scheme This now was swept away ty Lord Shandon's lamentable and reck- less amendment. He doubted whether the bill will survive such severe plcw.
 An amendment bestowing second chamber on the Ulster Parliament was also adopted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02

cussing the semi-official announcement of the proclamation of the blockade or Plume, says that the communique eX- plains that the blockade is only in- tended to prevent any eventual hostile movement and not to hinder commerce. The correspondent adds:
 "D'Annunzio has replied that he Will instruct the regency s representative at Rome to ask for his passports and VIII consider the regency Of Guarteno at war with Italy from December 3.
 "In private letter to the national society at Trlest, DAnnunzio, after is- viting the nationalsts to erect barri- cades, calls Caviglia traitor and madman" yrN4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
U. s. Chamber of Commerce
 Opposes National Boards
By Asso.sated presa

Washington, December 1.--Estabiish- ment of national railroad boards of la- bod adjustment, as proposed by railroad employes, is opposed in, resolution adopted by directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce. The rail- road committee of the chamber, in a report submitted with the resolution, asserts that the powers sought for the boards would give them national scope in the railroad field, which would not be in the public interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
To Transfer Seventh Division

Washington. December 1.-The Sew enthi division of the army. with the ex- ception of the Eighth field artillery. and one company of tank cofps. will be transferred from Camp Funston. Kan. to Camp Meade. Md. for permanent sta- tion. 1t was announced today at the war department. The Eighth cavalry will go to Hawaii for station and the. tank oomDAny e Camp Pike. Ark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
ANTI -0BREG0N REVOLT PLOT MATCHED IN U. 5.
Department of Justice Raids Along Border Bare Euidence
 OF Revolutionary Movement
Many Documents Seized Are Being Translated and Inn portant Arrests Expected-Former Carranza
 General Heads Movement
By Associated Press

San Antonio Tex December 1Whoesale raids by depart
 ent of justice officials conducted simultaneously Monday at various border points, including Ell Paso Eagle Laredo Brownsville and this city, netted of ev dence of the formation this side of the border utionary against the Obregon lco according statement made here tonight by w. A. man, special agent for the department of justice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
yTLLA CONGRATULATES

Mexico City. December l.-Amons hundreds of congratuiatory telegrams pouring in today to President Oregon was one from Francisco Villa, the for- mer bandit, from his ranch in Durango. Although the contents of the telegram are not disclosed. they are described as "very effusive."
 One of the last acts of the retiring provisional president. Adolfo De La Huerta, was to forward to Villa the title to the hacienda which the gov ernment gave to him when he sur rendered last summer.
 After the, assembling of the new cabinet this morning. President Obre- gon received more than a thousand persons at an official reception. in cluding the accredited diplomatic rep- resentatives
 Roberto Pesqueira. the Mexican con- fidential agent at Washington, who returned here yesterday. said that he had delivered to Senor De LaHuerta the provisional President. last night Secretary Colby.s proposals pertaining to the recognition of Mexico by the United states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
MACNEILL AGAIN
To Inspect Prisons

Montgomery, December 1.--(Special) Dr. Glenn Andrews, state prison inspec- tor, left Wednesday morning for sani- tary and medical inspection of the prison camps at Flat Top. Bell Ellen, Banner and Aldrich.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
Court Has Busy Term

Livingston, December f.--(Special) According to the report of w. K. Pick ems. clerk 57 criminal and eight civil cases were tried at the fall term of the circuit court. Two civil and nine crim- inal cases were continued.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
Church to Improve

Tuscaloosa. December l.-(Special)-- At meeting held by the building com- mittee of the First Presbyterian church it was decided to let the contract for the cement foundation for the Sunday school room Wor kwill start immedi- ately
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02

Rome December It is announced that as the govern m hind the frontiers had not been obyed General Cayiga ommander of vent the free departure of Italian the of Plume He
  Vegia aandAr rbe and the neigh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
SOUTHERN PACIFIC DECIDES
 ON DIVISION OF PROPER TIES
Declares
 War Against Italy
 And Plume Blockaded
sy Associated Press

 Trest December 1-D Annunzio has ultimatum to Italy from Fume declaring state of from December B. London December 2Gabriee DAnnunzio, the Plume, Milan dispatch the London Times. The O will begin Friday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-02
67a KILLED THIS YEAR

London, December 1.--Persons to the number of e73 have been killed or wounded in Ireland up to November 27 of the present year by anti-governnent elements, according to statement is- sued today. by the home office. The deaths do not Include 20 persons killed in Londerry and 62 in Belfast during the summer rioting, nor IS cadets killed in the Kilmichael ambuscade Sunday night.
 The statement says that 151 poHce- men have been Killed and 23o wounded; that AT soldiers have met with death and 10S wounded. Civilians to the number of 41 have been killed and i01 wounded Sixty-seven courthouses have been destroyed and 52S police tar racks have been destroyed and 161 damaged. There have been SS0 aids on mails and 45 raids on coast guard stations and lightohses. In addition to these there has been 2.ss1 raids made for arms
 Another official statement says the arrests in Ireland averaged consids -a- bly over 100 weekly. During the last three weeks of November 4o6 persons were taken into custody for political offenses, including 169 during the last week of the month.
 SCOTLAND 1ARD BUSY
 London, December 1.--Operativss of Scotland Yard who are dealing with the Sim Fein organization in London continued today active searching of residences and business houses in vari- ous parts of the city. The searches were carried on mostly in the south west portion of the city. which is largely residential district for the middle classes.
 Two men were detained as a result of the searches. One of them later was released, no charge having been lre- ferred against him. The police are maintaining great secrecy with reg lrd to their operations.
 MACNEILL AGAIN ARRESTED
 Dublin. December 1.--Prof. John MacNeill, Sim Fein member of Parlia- mont, was again arrested last night. He had been released from prison the previous day. having been arrested in Dublin on November 26. A large par ty of auxiliaries took Professor Mac Neill and his son into custody. An other son is already in Jail.
Arizona republican., 1920-02-06

Probably no sporting event of recent months has aroused so much interest among hoenix sportsmen as the Young Gotch-Gus Pappas finish wrestling match to be held in Arcadia hall to- night. Fans from all sections of the valley will be on hand when the two noted head spinners are called together tor final instructions.
 This match, undoubtedly the most important ever held in Arizona, win do much to clarify the muddle now eX- isting in the middleweight wrestling ranks. More than that. the winner is assured a bout to a finish with Chris Jordan in this city February DO all ar engagements for the appearance of the worlds champion having already been completed with Jordan. subject, of course, to acceptance by the winner ot tonights match.
 Are Leaders in Glass
 Fans of the community realize tha. in Young Gotch and Gus Pappas they are being given an opportunity to wit ness two of the very best men of their weight in action Pappas is a season. tried veteran with stores of knowledge of the wrestling art. And if one IS to disbelieve that there is any art con- nected with the wres ting game. they will be afforded a splendid opportunity to disprove that theory tonight
 Young Gotch, so far as age is con- cerned. is a mere youngster and l. was not until ai year ago that he jumped