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Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-04-14

APPEAL TO U. S. AMBASSADOR
Dublin, April 13.-Acting Lord Mayor
O'Neill, Of Dublin, and High Sheriff
McWalter appealed Intellectually to John
w. Davis, American ambassador, after
consul at Dublin to intervene for the
Irish hunger strikers.
A message signed by O'Neill and Nc
Walter and received by Ambassador
Davis, says:
we had an interview with your con-
sui this morning concerning ameliora-
tion Of the condition of the political
prisoners at present on hunger strike,
He stated he had no diplomatic power
and referred us to you; therefore we
ask for your personal appeal to the
Right Hon. Andrew Bonar Law to re-
lease, as we have already requested him.
such OF the prisoners who are seriously
ILL.,"
Ambassador Davis in reply telegraphed:
The consul was quite correct in his
statement OF his powers, and my own
90 not extend to any representatives
except in behalf of citizens Of the United
States"
FREE TWO PRISONERS.
Dublin. April 13.-Two of the prison
ers in Mount Joy prison have been re-
leased because the military authorities
decided not to prosecute them One If
them was hunger striker
The strike which began Tuesday in
Ireland. except in Ulster. in sympathy
with the political prisoners here and
was general one 1t could
not have been more complete. All kinds
OF business was suspended. The banks
and the stock exchange hero whi.;,
to keep open during the anti
strike. were compelled 20
close. Even the officers II che govern
ment departments found it Impossible to
work. v.,noIe -
Dublin for the Punchestown races wer:
marooned in hotels. where they We're
compelled to cook their own food and
make their own beds.
During the day planes sailed over the
crowds, at times almost touching the
housetops.
The Irish bishops meeting at May
mooth issued a statement condemnng
the governments conduct.
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-04-14
R. R. WALk0UT ONE PHASE
Of WORLD REVOLUTION Is
VIEW CABINET WILL HEAR
Tips From Canada Lead to Discovery !. W. w. Is
Deep in Agitation; Source Of Funds Still Mystery;
Propaganda Reveals Arguments Of Reds to Stir
Discomfort Against A. F. L., Roads and Nation.


New Orleans April 13-Forest c. Pendleton department
of justice agent here at the head of of department
operators raided hall in which meeting of 200 members
of the local yardmen association being held tonight and
arrested six of the leaders warrants charging
with interfering with the United States mails.
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-04-14
n. ?. mEw REFUSE TO GO OUT.

Spokane, April 18.-Ninety- switch
men employed by the Northern Pacific
railroad in this vicinity, at meeting
here. refused to 60 on strike or to af-
filiate with the 'outlaw" switchmen Or
9anizatiOn.
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-04-14
APPEAL TO U. S. AMBASSADOR

day, armed detectives rushed in and
took possession of the building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
BLAST FURNACES
 MORE ACTIVE HERE

While blast furnaces numbering 103 ago, Birmingham blew in an additional one.
 The outlaw strike of the spring did not touch the district. The east was again blowing out furnaces. the Bir- mingham district adding to it's produce tive capacity. None of the upheavals following the war has in the least retarded produc- tivity in the Birmin gham district. No blast furnace. steel mill or foundry has suspended operations for lack of ma terial and labor. Pig iron production for the nine
 months of this year has been 1.S33.7S1 tons.
 This is an increase of 337.7S7 tons, or 22 per cent for the period. The production for the year will be
 about 2,50000O tons. compared with
 2lo0, 900 tons in 1919 This years production of iron has sold at price bringing fair profit on operations. The year began with base of $40 with the exception of one in- terest, which remained on a $SS level, and the vast bulk of the bookings have been at $40. and then at the level of SAP. which has been standing several months.
 At $40 per ton this years gross value of Alabama pig iron will approximate
 sloO. Oo0Oo High wages have been paid and labor
 has come in for it's share of the profits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
International Race For Balloons WilL
 Start On October 23
Birmingham Entertain Thousands of Vsitors-Italy, Belgium and France Send Competitors Who Are On Way Here Now-Double Entries
 in Some of the Events

Come to the international balloon Birmingham Oc tobef 23 the slogan which will be broadcast through the United States during the week.
 1t will eers cards papers, parcels and all matter mailed out of the city Moreover will be the lips every Birmingham person who travels out of the city, and the now pororc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
|b|RM|NGHAM-MADE STEEL SHIP PARTS

Birmingham steel was seen first in freighter on December 29 1919. just two days before the new year set in. Since that time four more such ships have come from the ways of the Chickasaw Shipbuilding and Car Company.
 The first ship, the Chickasaw City, made her maiden trip to Holland, the Birmingham City made hers to China and Japan. the Ensley City followed to Holland, and the Mobile City is on her way to the orient. Each carried about 5000 tons of Birmingham steel mill products.
 The total number of ships of this class under contract to be turned out by the Chickasaw company is fourteen.
 The Chickasaw yards were begun In 1917 and they and the plate mills of the company at Fairfield were completed almost simultaneously.
 Now under construction at Fairfield as an adjunct. or rather as a componet part of the plate mills. is a modern pressed steel car plant. Some cars have alrealy been fabricated there. but the car plant as such will not be completed and in operation for several months. The plate mills at Fairfield and the shipbuilding yards are connected by the Warrior river, the plates manufactured at Fairfield being floated down the river to Mobile in bargeS that tie up at the shipbuilding plant.
 This combined achievement of plate mills and shipbuilding plant with rail and water connection is regarded as among the greatest achievements com ing to head in Alabama in many years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
6,000,0O0 TONS 0F COAL USED A YEAR $5,00O,OOO a Year Saved in Coke and By-Product Gas
 at Birmingham

With the addition of 334 ovens which
 were completed during the spring O.. the year, there are now 1,171 by-pro- duct coke ovens in Alabama.
 They have coal consuming capacity of 6,000,000 tons per annum1 and a coke producing capacity of 4,500,000 tons Each ton of by-product coke repre- sents an economy of $2 per ton in the production if pig iron. The total saw ing in the production of pig iron alone 1 by use of the by-product coke, there fore,a is around $5O0O,0oO per annum. That is a considerable item. The reve- nue from the chemical by-products is another net return.
 The new plants added this year con- sist of the 120-oven Semet- Solvay type plant of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and iron Company, the 60-oven Koppers type plant of the Alabama By-Prod- ucts Company and the 154-oven addi-
 ton to the Koppers type plant of the
 fennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company at Ensley
 City of Birmingham, which consumes 2oo0o00 feet of gas per diem, is about to change from water gas to the by PAouuCt SdS, Wnlcn VIII De furnished by the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company. That concern will set the gas from the surplus supply of the Sloss-Sheffield Company The coal now going into the by- product coking plants of the district Is one third of the entire output of the state. Industrial captains foresee the
 time when there will be practically no
 use for coal in the industries until it Eas been converted into coke Alabama now has seven of these by product works. those of the T. c. l.. the Sloss Sheffield, the Alabama By Products, the Woodward Iron, the Gen.
 tral Coal and Iron, the Semet-Solvay
 and the Gulf States Steel Companies The gas of the Sloss- Sheffield Com
 pany will be used under boilers that
 drive engines that. in turn, operate
 machinery producing electricity. This
 electricity will operate all the mines
 and quarries of the Sioss- Sheffield
 Company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
B|RM|NGHAMP
 PUTS CITY 0N SEA Waterway Connection Con- meets City With Worlds
 Maratime Trade

Perhaps thesmost far-reaching exploit of the year has been the building of the Port of Birmin gham, twenty three miles from the courthouse and ten miles in an air line from the city's steel mill center at Fairfield and Ensley.
 Citizens of Birmingham, large and small, raised $250oo0 for this connec- ton with the canalized Warrior. .Elec- trically-driven cranes lift stuff from barges to cars and vice versa. The Ems ley Southern railroad enables connec- tion with the city and the entire terri tory embraced in the privilege of ship- ping at 20 per cent under all-rail rates via the Port of Birmingham. This ter ritory extends into Mississippi on the west into Tennessee on the north, to Atlanta on the east and to Montgomery on the south.
 In November an amendment allowing g county aid for further development is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
'SUBTREASURY IS
 ESTABLISHED HERE
Eastern Capital Also 0rganiz- ing Great Financial Insti-
 tuition in City

Just as Birmingham was turning into Harding. governor of the federal re- serve board, came here and announced that his home city had been made a subtreasury. aN That name is no lonEer used. but the same functions exist, so there is no diff ference.
 The federal reserve branch bank here becomes a subtreasury and does the
 work. The steel vaults to hold the money that is to be readily available for this territory have been ordered. Bir- mingham has wanted a subtreasury for fifteen years. That wish has been grat- flied.
 Birmingham has progressed substan- tially from a financial standpoint this year Bank clearings for the nine monthrs total s736, 3,000, an increase over 1919 of 55 per cent Deposits have increased in proportion.
 Very recently the Realty Improve ment Company. Newark, N. l., purchased the Jefferson County Bank building for -s1,500,000. It proposed establishment here of the southern branch of S25,- 000,000 mortgage and trust company now being organized in the east. Spe- cial emphasis is to be laid on lending money on adequately protected real es- tate.
 The general purpose Is to bring the money of the east into closer relations with the south to serve mutual interests.
 Several coteries of local men of means propose to kick in" with the eastern CTS through formation of a large bank.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
RAINBOW DIVISION
Mortimer Jordan Chapter to Enter
 tain at Smoker Tonight

The Rainbow division voters will be en- tertained with a smoker tonight at the Chamber of Commerce auditorium by the Mortimer Jordan Chapter, Rainbow Veterans Association.
 The speakers of the occasion will be Maj. H. B. May of the local recruiting station and Mai Dallas B. Smith ot Opelika. Major Smith will talk on the "reminiscences of the Argonne and Major May will discuss the victory medal. reit- erating it's importance and how it may be secured.
 A number of Rainbow men are at tending the government vocational tram ing schools in Birmingham who are not members of the Mortimer Jordan chap ter. These men are cordially invited 70 attend the entertainment tonight.
 The second publication of the Rainbow Reveille, the veterans magazine. will be distributed by the president of the local at the meeting tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
BIRMINGHAM TRADE EXTENSIVE ABROAD Millions of Dollars Spent in District by Foreign Lands
 for Metals

Export trade of Birmingham has been extensive during 1920.
 Five ships have left Port of Mobile laden each with 5000 tons of Fairfield and Ensley steel products for Europe and the Orient. Four of these ships were made of Birmingham steel from the same shops.
 Japan has taken 1000 tons of water and gas pipe in two cargoes of 2,000 and 5000 tons respectively. Pipe has gone to Batavia in Java and to Cuba.
 Immense quantities of sugar house equipment have gone to Cuba. Bir- mingham firms are handling machin- cry. lock and key jobs," that amount to as much as $4,000,0 each. They di- vide the work. some making the vats, others the engines and boilers, still others the structural steel
 Coke has gone to Chile for smelting purposes, and Chile has sent in return nitrates for Birmingham powder mills via Mobile and Port of Birmingham.
 Brazil has taken steel rails and sent back manganese ore for steel mill pur- poses at Ensley and Fairfield.
 The Gulf States Steel and the Amer ican Steel and Wire export wire mill products to more than thirty countries. Birmingham steel hoops have gone all over the world.
 Semi-export movements of water and gas pipe have beeu large. The Pacific coast has taken four cargoes since May, an aggregate of 15,000 tons via ship out of Mobile. The saving in freight over all-rail rate to the coast has been more than $15 per ton. Had the pipe moved down the Warrior. as it may do here after, there would have been further saving.
 school fof foreign commerce has been established by Howard College to educate Birmingham young men to take hand in the growing export business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
INVEST MILLIONS
 IN NEW BUSINESS Factories, Homes and Indus tries Steadily on Increase ..,
 During the Year

Structural operations during the year have been on a large scale. Many miles of permanent county road have been built. Hundreds of new homes have risen in the manufacturing suburbs of the city. In the city proper total of build- ing permits for nine months of the year aggregates $S,3s2,o an increase over 1919 of 3S per cent
 The Masonic temple is under con- struction. The $1Oo0000 marble post office hears completion
 Foundation work on the $750,O00 high school building at Woodlawn Is under contract and plans are being made for the $1,500, 900 Central High School
 The county has expended around s40o,000 for new schoolhouses this year
 More than a hundred "simplicity''' homes have been erected by those who preferred building now at what they could afford than pay rent pending lower prices for building.
 The new manufacturing construc- tion includes the by-product works of the Tennessee Coal Iron and~ Railway, the Sloss- Sheffield and the Alabama a By Products Companies, amounting to $l5,000.000; the Unit Stove Works and a half dozen new sanitary pipe works.
 Several apartment houses and nu- merous garages, some of the latter of very large proportions, have been built.
 The Fairfield plate mills are in com pleted form and a pressed steel car plant is being dove-tailed with that.
 The Lehigh Portland Cement Com- pany is laying off the ground for a s3,000,000 plant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14

i equipment of two peIfeatly fitted dout balloons. Sunday or Monday, from New York.
 Captain Hirschauer of the French team will arrive in New York on the steamer Lorraine in a few days, and Lieut., De Muyter, who has charge of the Belgian entry, has arrived in New York and will be in Birmingham shortly.
 The contestants and representatives of the Aero Clubs of America will be- gin coming in to Birmingham Sunday night to make the tests and preliminary preparations for the race. J. s. McKibben of St. Louis will enter the race as an independent flyer under the rules of the aero clubs. He will not be contestant for the Gordon Bennett trophy, for which the qualified en. trants will compete. ALTERNATIVES Lieut.. Raffe Emerson, who seeks to make a new endurance record with the Baby" blimp belonging to the United States navy and MT. McKibben have been appointed as a1ternates in the in- terna tional race in case any of the qual- flied American contestants fail to show up.
 pO lar all or the contestants nave S]g- nified their intention of being here for the start, and if anything prevents it will be an unforeseen accident.
 BEST EVER HELD
 The take-offs of the national race, which started from Birmingham Sep- tember 25, were called the most suc- cessful that have ever been made in any balloon race under the supervision of the International Aero Clubs, by AL len R. Hawley, former president of the Aero Clubs of America. They were ab- solutely successful not a single acci- dent was suffered and the weather for the races was ideal.
 Twenty thousand people who wit messed the national race testified by their lusty cheers that the e-offs were thrilling sight The eleven gold and silver bubbles as they swan above the little round baskets, straining at the ropes which held them to the ground, were certainly beautiful.
 Birmingham has pledged herself to make the international race a bigger and even more beautiful event than the other.
 It is free and every body is invited to come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
WABASH APPOINTMENTS
W. c. Kidd Is Now General Agent at
 Birmingham

Formal announcement of the appoint ment of W. c. Kidd as general agent of the Wabash railway with headquarters in the Jefferson County Bank building. effective October 1. has been made.
 Effective the same date and with the same headquarters, M. A. Carroll is appointed travelling freight and passen- ger agent, reporting to MT. Kidd.
 The announcements are made by C. H. Stinson, freight traffic manager, and Il. F. Watts passenger traffic manager, and approved by Vice President W. C. Maxwell St Lopis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
ELECTRIC POWER
 FROM FIVE STATES
Half a Million Horse Power Hydroelectric Drive in Serv-
 ice From Alabama Plants

The year 1920 has witnessed real work and great progress made on the construction of the Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals, which is being equipped with machinery to generate 3O0,O0O horse power of hydroelectric current.
 Before babes now born are weaned' this current will be available for Ala bama cities, car lines, mines, mills and factories
 The Alabama Power Company re- gently ordered machinery for the in stallation of another unit at lock No. 12 on the Coosa river. The new unit is to generate 10000 horsepower and will make the total of that plant 115,0 ,000 horsepower.
 In addition the Ala bama Power Com pany has filed it's application with the federal board for permission to build another power dam on the Coosa river.
 A still further and important feature of> water power development in Ala bama this year consists of the trans mission line being built from near Gadsden to a point across the Georgia line, where connection will be had with the water power Of the Georgia Rail- way, Light and Power company, which, in turn, is connected with the water power systems of the Carolinas and the state of Tennessee.
 Through this connection the hydro electric current of the five states will be susceptible of being shifted from place to place in any of the states ac- cording to the existing power needs of the localities
 Use of hydroelectrfcity in Alabama has extended so rapidly that the Ala bama Power Company cannot supply all applicants.
 The year 1920 shall have brought Alabama very close to supply of 500,= GOO horsepower of hydroelectricity with that much more on the horizon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
31 GALLONS OF LIQUOR
 AND FORD AUTO SEIZED

After chase of three miles. Alloy Bardoff, Harry Cotton and c. M. Green were arrested yesterday by Deputy Sher- ifs V, Sandefer, Lee White. w. SanGe- fer and E. w. Morris on a charge of transporting liquor in violation of the prohibition law. They were arrested Tn Shelby county and thirty-one gallons of corn whisky and the Ford automobile were seized by the officers. The men were released under sSoo bond seach.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
- MAY BE THE MAN

George Fitch, alias Ray, wanted hy the police authorities of Rochester, N. Y., on charge of grand larceny, as and lodged in the city jail yes terday afternoon by City Detectives Brannon and Lyons. Arresting officers allege that Fitch stole s496 from J. J. Mercy & Co.,. of New York city. He was arrested at 2224 Fourth avenue, north, and had a ticket in his pocket for Buffalo, N Y, at the\ time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14

to be submitted. The district proposes to get on the Warrior as Los Angeles got on the ocean.
 Modern steel craft, especially designed and built for the Warrior, is heading south from the building plants at St Louis and Jeffersonville. The river and Port of Birmingham are prepared for general merchandise freight from and to Mobile and New Orleans.
 Inland transportation over the most adaptable stream in the United States is now enabled in broad and progressive manner.
 The government is about to build a coal terminal at Mobile to handle Ala bama coal for bunkerage and export purposes ~
 Port of Birmingham is about to be- come the shipping center of a territory embracing more than 100000 people and their activities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
Bids for Curhstone

Bids on furnishing and placing a new dressed granite curbstone around the new postoffice building are being asked by D. E. Mckinley. city purchasing agent. The curb which is around the building now is old and ragged and de- tracts from the appearance of the build- ing, according to MT. Mckinley who has charge of the work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14

come and SeeN the big bubbles be- longing to the powerful nations of the earth sail up into the sky and away with the will of the winds, taking their chances with the elements and the god of luck for a safe landing and victory Come and enjoy our big event with us.' That is the invitation which the city and every loyal citizen is extending.
 FOREIGN NATIONS
 There will be entries from France Belgium, Italy and four from the United States, including Lieut.. Raffe Emerson, who will not compete in the International distance race for the Gordon Bennett trophy, but will en oeavor to break the national endurance record which now stands at fifty hours in the air.
 ofticial entries from the four com- peting countries in the international distance contest are:
 France-Captain Hirscbauer. pi- lot; Commander NJ. Nathan, aide.
 bci&ium-Lieut. Ernest Denuy- ter pilot; NJ. Lebrousz, aide; ball. loon "BeIgica.v
 Aaaiy-Maj. Cheva1ier Joseph ChefatIer DOm- inique Leone. aide; Capt. Auguste berrerO. alternate aide; balloon ''Audens;7 Maj. Hugo Madori, pilot; Capt. Aldo GusIiemetto, aide; Lieut.. Auscinfe PirazzoI, alternate aide; balloon. "FriumphaIe VI"
 America-iiaiph Upson, present holder international title. pilot; w. II. yan Orman. aide; balloon, 'Go9dyenr II;7 Lieut.. Richard E. Thompson, pilot; Second. Lieut.. Harold E. Weeks. aide; United StAtes Army balloon; H. F. Honey well, pilot; Jerome kingsbury, aide; balloon. "ISansas City H." Birmingham will have an individual balloon which will bear the slogans and streamers of the city and will drop literature in every town over which it sails
 BIRMINGHAM'S ENTRY The Birmingham entry will be pi- loted by R. F. Donaldson and will be loaned to the city by Maj. W. A. Lem bert of the balloon race committee of the Aero Clubs of America:
 Captain Craven, director of avia- lion for the United States navy, is considering allowing the navy dfriSible now stationed at Pensa- cola, Florida, to fly to Birming-
 
 He received wire from Virgil V ENans, local chairman of the Chamber of Commerce committee On arrangements Tuesday and nis final answer to the request to send the navy blimp to Birmingham is expected at balloon headouar- tcrA today.
 Invitations have been extended to he am mhassadors of France, Italy and Bel gum to attend the event in Birming- ham. Besides the foreign dignitaries the following officers have been in. vited to come.
 General Menohcr, chief of mir service;. Gen. William Mitchell, air service; Col. c. de r. Chandler, air service; Gen. Peyton c. March, chief of staff; Capt. Van Ostrand, air service, Washington, ID. C.; Com fnnnder John r. Towers, navy de- partment; Hon. Oscar Underwood, Captain Craven. director of avia- uoni Prof. c. F. McHarvin, chief of united States weather bureau. News of the arrival in New York of Maj. Chevalier Valle, in charge of the Italian balloon teams, was received yes- terday at local headquarters. He will come to Birmingham with his staff and