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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
Only Three Days Lcuding Today Which Pay Your PoN
Federal ReSerUe Board Is Blamed
 For High Prices
By Associated Press

Cleveland, January 2S.-The high cost of living owes its existence in part to the federal reserve board, pr Har- vey w. Wiley national pure food ex- pert. declared today in an address be- fore the thirteenth annual convention of the National Gamers association,
 The remedy Dr. Wiley said, lies in the gradual withdrawal of inflated cur rency and the establishment of food as the standard of value instead of gold, The pre-war standard will never return, he said.
 Canned foods received the indorse- ment of Dr. Wiley. but he said that many features of the pure food law are held in abeyance.
 Sugar and milk absorbed the atten- tion. of the convention today. Gamers were assured by Frank c. Lowrey of the Federal Sugar Refining Company of New York that the high price of sugar is an effective food administrator, in making conservation inevitable He pre- dcted a large crop for 1920.
 The present supply of fresh milk is more than sufficient for domestic con sumption, representatives of some of the country's largest condensaries an nounced No change in prices is pre- dcted.
 Produ13on canned milk has in- creased le8 per ia the last three yea " T Rar1ia of lHics ro declared. For uer cent ot this is cNpo- cd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
BAKER APPEALS TO
 STATE GOVERNORS
 FOR COOPERATION
February 22-29 to Be Made National Enlistment Week Throughout the United States, War Secre-
 tary Announces
sy A.socia,sd Press

Washington January 28.-Secretary Baker has addressed letter to the governor of each state requesting his official corporation in the nation wide recruiting drive to be inaugural ed by the war department and to be intensified during the week of Febrn- ary 22 to 2s. which is to be made na- tional enlistment week. The gover- nors were asked to issue proclama- tions calling the attention or their clt- izens to the importance of the ad- vantages offered in the new citizen army and to otherwise assist in the effort to bring the army up to the full authorized strength.
 Army officials said today minimum of 75.000 new enlistments would be required before March 31 in order that the best results can be obtained from the training of the reorganized army. Of this total. 3s.0o0 would become eligible for transfer to the regular army reserve and practically all of the remainder are one-year enlistments. which will be terminated in the near future.
 The national campaign. 1t was said,
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
Still
 Worrying Radio
 Operators Here
By Associated Pres,

Washington, January 2S.-Interest manifestly outweighed skepticism among radio experts at the navy de- partment today in discussing Signor Marconfs suggestion that Mars may be attempting to communicate with the earth by radio. Proponents of the the ory said they would enjoy the advantage of having no competent disputant, at least until science in some other way accounted for the mysterious interrup- tions that had been experienced ever since wireless telegraphy was perfected.
 These interruptions, or influences are entirely distinct in their registering effect from influences readily traceable to atmospheric or static conditions" said Capt. W. S. Bryant of the naval communications service. They record with feeble or mushy melody intensity as compared with the clashing effect of static disturbances. l confess they have been much greater source of annoy ance, however, than of interest. Whether or not they emanate from Mars, as suggested by Marconi, seems to be an open question, so far. It is
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
DRASTIC STEPS ID
 FIGHT FLU TAKEN
Epidemic Spreads Through out Virginia-Emer-
 gency Hospital Opens
By Associated pre.s

Richmond. Va. January 2S.-Business activities in Richmond were divided into four groups tonight with fixed working hours so arranged that crowds will not congregate on streets while going to and from work This action was taken by health offiicals in an effort to combat influenza.
 Health reports tonight showed one additional death. making 4 total of eight besides several of nneumonia. New cases reported were 244, bringing the total up to 1.131
 Welfare Director Lew tonight issued orders to the traction company de- handing thorough ventilation of all street cars once during each day ana calling Cor the. openine of four ven- tilators on all cars
 Director Levy expressed surprise al the report from Washingtnn that 50o beds were to be sent here and hos pital opened
 They offered me some beds and I told them I would take fiftv." said Di rector Lew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
INCREASE OF 1000 PER CENT IN BANKS
 RESOURCES SHOWN
Decentralization of Banking Re- sources and Widespread Distri- button of Wealth Is shown
 in Williams Report
py As.oeIaisa prs..

Washington. January 2S- Decentral- ization of the countrys banking re- sources and widespread distribution of wealth. indicated bv an increase in banking resources of 1000 per cent or shown by a comparison of present bank resources with conditions twenty years ago, issued today by John Skelton Will Hams. comptroller of the currency.
 The banking power of the country twenty years ago was concentrated mainly In the east. the report said. and national banks in New England and eastern states. comprising but per cent of the territory of the United States. held almost 60 per cent of the total resources Of all the national banks in those states 10 All others now has fallen to 4s7s per cent although the resources of the national banks In those states have increased 277 per cent. or S7.7f0.937.000.
 Every section of the country has shared in the tremendous increase In wealth since 1899. but the report shows that the Pacific coast has experienced the largest percentages of increased national bank resources amounting to 1,S4o per cent
 The south also has shown a huge in- crease both actual and comparative.
  all the national banks in the fourteen southern states were $3is.554, GOO. the total now is s3,097 TOT. 00O--an increase of sS9 per cent The nronnrtion of the resources of all national banks now held ip the southern states is 15.s5 per cent as against 75o per cent twenty years ago.. M
 The increase in resources has amounted Ito. more, than 100 per cent in every state except Rhode Island, where the increase was only 21.s3 per cent.
 Commenting upon the remarkable growth, Comptroller williams pointed out that the resources Of the national banks in the states os Texas and Okla homa today are almost as great as the total resources of all the national banks ih the New England eastern states. except New York. as reported twenty years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
DANIELS KNOWS WHO
 WILL BE PRESIDENT. DECLARES IN SPEECH
By Associated Press

Philadelphia, January 2s. 2s.-Secretary of the Navy Daniels started considera ble speculation here tonight as to whom he meant when he said in speech that he could tell who would be the next President of the United States. but that he did not know to which party the man belonged
 The secretary was addressing the grad uating class of the Pierce School on the work of the navy and on Amercanisn As he concluded he swung around and. looking at j.. Hampton Moore, Philadel- phia's republican mayor said:
 can tell you who the next President of the United States is going to be- Do you want me to tell you who he is? | don't know whether he belongs to my party or yours. If he has one drop of reactionary blood in his veins he will not have chance of election No old- fashioned politician will do. He must be progressive and meet the new conditions. the new problems.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
Still Searching For Men Who Ran Down
 Aged Man ln Mobile

Mobile, January 2s.-d elaE Ai though every detective connected with the police department has been at work on the case, authorities tonight were without definite clue that would lead to the arrest of the drivers of two auto- mobiles which ran down and killed w. J. Walthers, an aged man, as Inc stepped from a street car at Govern ment and Everett streets last night. The police have established the fact. they state, that the second car which passed over he body of Walthers was occupied by two or more women. That the persons occupying this car knew they had run over some one, is the charge made by Charles J Winters. who was a the scene of the accident as he stated that occupants of the car screamed and appeared greatly ex- cited
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
PRESIDENTS LETTER

President Wilson's letter. addressed 10 Mr. Glass, follows:
 'f considerable regret I have no- t'j uou he press that Congress is AetaE E sa anting of authority for tie eSten ompt and generous
 ltet ga tn portion of Europe, he e4c Ang importance of which. es9eeiai.y ta fa pqet to Poland, Austria Rad Arnenfa have fully explained te 'tfy means committee. It
 at sh to me that we should
 tAhn snt those people who are in N0 al and physical distress the as- ee which can be rendered by making available on credit osal pros portion of our exportabIc suruiae of food which would alleviate &ha Mee ton. While l am sure tha4 You m0ai have explained fully to tle vaHs qua means committee the apal as siQaatlau in those parts of Europe Nnre ntsN women and children are faa dv54e If starvation and the urgent aeesaSi < For prompt assistance, I beg sf reu 6hat you make another appeal 70 Coperess. am informed that throl sh fhs Dua lished reports of hearing aefoFe fAa ways and means commit ss sks Cor gress has now been furni ea asfta ia4 controvertible facts showins fn6 aaeea+ sity for immediate affirm fiss actioa. This prosperous republic auese ooE ta bear any part of the resp ,a thlts slv for the moral and material chaaa tsaf ipuaa result from an unwilling esa 5n on8 part to aid those less fo ara tla ourselves. We cannot m rs3 a W band a small proportion 0 Hs s permit the happening ot
 catastroDhe"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
CONSERVATION IN
 LONDON AS RESULT
 ; CONTINUED DECLINE
Exchange Decline Mus Checked Without Delay or ol-
 Chaos Will Result Vie
By Associ.
SsxeYork danus

SeXr York; January les oa Lon don and an the princil A peea eer- ters continued to dwin xe ueys lov records today, through CT weisnf sf offerings from domestic and ffrei &a sources. Today's decline eyfea5Ad .e the Orient, the rate moving 7Aa 5eEans CT the first time in more asa a yaar There was little trading in n'uese eiils ecause of the inability of de s to SC lure definite quotations
 Advices from London indicata hAf keling akin to consternation h,a aea bssession of the British capita waeh hr generations dominated the won ca- bange markets. Neither in London sfis r here however. was any solut en of problem offered, although it was eS.'. pd that matters now have reached $ age where further delay may ca 2 orid-wide chaos
 primarily, the situation as viewed cse most concerned, hinges on the fac al nearly all the European countries te heavily in debt to the United Statsr nly by the organization of an intern l, onal exchange commission, and the w pness of American bankers to extei, ke5its already contracted can existing hnditions be overcome, in the oprnIon leading mercantile interests.
 fodav's low rate of s3.49 on demand as of the pound sterling marked a de- he of 6 cents from yesterdays low cord. and implies a discount of slightly ra than 2s per cent. French and Bell n francs. also fires, all normally quot
 at 5.fsss to the dollar. fell to levUz sring from 60 to 70 per cent unce; fnaal. German marks rose from 1.06 to
 an almost infinitesimal recovery,
 eyer. in view of their normal or pre-
 value Of 3.s.
 ates on the north European centers,
 eh suffered their first severe reaction
 rday, also registered further depre-
 bn today, although sales of such bills
 reported as comparatively light
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
Maher Named Head
 Of Norfolk & Western
By Associated Prsm

Philadelphia, January 2S.-N p. Maher was today elected president of the Norfolk and Western Railway Com pany. At present he is regional direc- tor of the Pocahontas region. He be- gins his new duties on March l.
 L. E. Johnson retired as president and will become chairman of the board
 William G. Mcdowell, vice president in charge of finances and accounts was relieved at his own request atter 40 years of service. He Will become assistan to the president.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
RAPID PROGRESS IN
 SELECTION OF JURY
 FOR SENATOR'S TRIAL
Eight Prospective Jurors Passed For Cause and Two Others Excused
 By Court Yesterday
Ry A,,oelatsd Pros.

nd Rapids, January 8.-Rapid prog fsa vas made today in the selection of at the trial of United States Sem asc uman H. Newberry and 12 CO., de IS charged with conspiracy to fansgte federal statutes in connection with ns SIS eaatorial campaign. Eight pros cSet4ys Jurors were passed for cause and taG aAneEa were excused by the court sereiartors eaallanges will not be exer- ised tns8 twelve men have been passed.
 Each ssaa offered ehallenge for cause aAd EttA were overurled. The defense S bleefs1 z Aspg Mcintyre. a bookkeeper af 9pynf 'ts. the first man called. The gosernnneat esaHsnged Fred Smith of ak Aapi~s aig fe had stated that he w as segts Hsse vsA nine of the defend
 ,eeu sinpsa aspiase seven)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
Ask Review of Decrees Which Award Judgment
 Against Mine Officers
By Associated Prsss

Washington. January 2S.-The su- preme court. in petitions filed today, was asked to review federal court de- crees awarding judgments for y600.000 against officials and members of the United Mine Workers of America in favor of eight independent non-union bituminous coal companies in Arkansas The lower court sustained charges that the union engaged in conspiracy in violation of the sherman antitrust act to decrease the independent companieS production of coal
 The c>~npanies involved are the Prairie Creek. Mammoth Vein. Coron- ado, Hartford. Sebastian County Nam moth Vein Royalty. Bache, Denman and the Denman Coal Companies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
IrHERs LISTED FOR RESERVE

n addition to these ships the army
 Knsport service has listed other ot the n.~man liners for the transport reserve
 V are the Amphion, Freedom, Philip
 las. raeviathan, Agamemnon, Won
 H,ben. George, Washington. Martha Washington, Nausamond and Mount Yer sIon.
 Bids on the liners, which include the famous Ieviathan, were received up to and including January 20, and were con si,.ered today by the shipping board dl- re tors. In all twelve tenders were re- ceaved: one of these was for the entire group of ships and another large pro portion of the vessels. After the meet ing of the directors today Chairman Payne said he was not prepared to make any statement regarding action of the board on the bids.
 In his letter to Chairman Jones Of the Senate commerce committee MT. Baker requested that before hearings on the postponed legislation now pending be- fore the committee and bearing upon the future disposition of government owned tonnage, were closed, that the war de- partment be given an opportunity to pre- sent certain information relative there to- He added a request that Brigadier General Hines, chief of the transporta- ton service, be called.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
! DiotorS Carrying Military
 Message Held By Mexicans

who are attached to the air station here, were carrying . message, duplicate of that which was sent from Fort Brown to NogaIes in an- ether plane today.
 They became confused in fog and followed the solado river from Zabata Into, Mexico instead of pro- eeeding up the Rio Grande. Thirty miles up the SOIad0 river, the plane was forced to land, and there the
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
CYST OF THE NEWS

 Gompe falls flat
  
  abamas shippers havein n ra Hobb predict prices am be dvance
 
  apDer in out over T C. l. a s Prospect rgh for o To million suddenly Cincinnati
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
EattIemen Decide On
 Headquarters Today
By Associated Pres

Montgomery, January 2s. - The Southern Catt1emen's Association will decife on permanent headquarters for the association tomorrow.
 "A committee met tonight and heard lie claims of Montgomery. New Orleans Memphis for the headquarters.
 he annual business meeing at which
 cers will be elected and the next
 rention city selected will be held to- ii ow night.
 address by T. A Martin, Jr, of ahoma City, on Cattle Loans" fea- ed today's session Mir Martin ad- ssed party of bankers tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
PRESIDENT REVIEWS
 PLEA FOR CREDITS
 TOFEED EUROPEANS
Letter Asking S15O,OOO,OOO For Poland, Austria and Armenia Is Presented
 to House Committee
By Associated Pres,

Washington January 2s.-Through Secretary Glass President Wilson to- day renewed the appeal 10 Congress to grant credits of sl5o,oOo.ooo for Poland, Austria and Armenia to alleviate con dttions which threaten moral and ma terial chaos in those countries.
 Secretary Glass presented the Presi- dents letter to the House ways and means committee without comment and the committee deferred consideration of it until tomorrow, when it will have further conference with treasury offi- eials regarding the loans and she fihan- eial situation generally Thee was no indication when the committee would act finally on the request of Mir. Glass that the credits be authorized
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
Health Officers to Meet
By Assoclated Press

Chattanooga. Jane8ry eS. The associa- ton of the food. feed and health offi- cials of southeastern states. embracing government state and city health offi- cials, has been called in annual conyen- tion here on April l2, al which time va rious problems will be considered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
BOOTBLACK MAKES S225 A WEEK; $50
 ALIMONY SOUGHT
By Associated Prss

New York, January 2S.---Peter B. StefanO, Brooklyn bootbtack, makes $225 n week shining shoes, according to his wife. Mrs. Josephine Stefano. who entered suit in the Brcossf~s suprewe cou~t today for separation. She eharges~eraea and fnhuman treatment, and declares ftbat her husband refused to give her 10 cents to go tO a movie" De- cision was reserved on her request for $50 a week temporary alimony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
EPIDEMIC IN ROANOKE

Roanoke. Va. January 2S-Roanoke gradually is becoming the center of an influenza epidemic. according to of flclals of the local health department
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
Dasher Named Candidate
By Associated Press

Washington, January 2S.-Charles l. Dasher. Jr, of Macon, Ga, has been designated as a candidate for the March entrance examination to the Military Academy. the war department an nounced today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
AGREEMENT ON
 PACT COMPROMISE SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE
Deadlock Believed Reached on Eve of Final Bi-Parti- san Conference Making
 Compromise Unlikely
By A,soeIatsd Pres.

Washington. January 2s.-Prepon- derance of Senate opinion on the eve of another and perhaps final bi-parti- san conference of republican and dem- ocratic leaders was that deadlock had been reached making agreement very unlikely at this time on com promise peace treaty reservations.
 Reservations to Article 10 and for preservation of the Monroe doctrine promised to be the center of variance between the leaders of the two fac tions at tomorrows meeting, and it happened that should a break come it would result from inability to agree on these two points.
 Article 10 and the Monroe doctrine. 1t became known today. were the only subjects on which tentative agreement has not been reached by the bi-parti- Sa n conarnftfee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
MARTENS TESTIMONY IS INTRODUCE AT
 TRIAL OF SOCIALISTS
Evidence Admitted Over Protest of Socialists, Who Then Demanded That the Testimony Be
 Read in Entirety
ey Associated Pres,

Albany. N. Y, January 2S.-In it's eff fort to link the socialists of America with the bolsheviki of Russia in a con- spiracy to overthrow organized gov ernment here, the prosecution at the "triaP of the five suspended socialist assemblymen, charged with disloyalty today succeeded in introducing in evi- dencei the testimony obtained by the joint legislative committee investigat- ing radicalism from l.. c. A. K. Mar tens. self-styled Russian soviet ambas- sador to the United States.
 The assembly judiciary committee conducting the investigation admitted the evidence after protests by the so- cialists' counsel
 Seymour Stedman then demanded that, if the testimony be read at all. it be read in it's entirety.
 The reading began and seemed due to continue for two or three days, when MT stedman and committee counsel reached an agreement where by the testimony is to be printed and presented to the defense.
 Then both sides will read into the record such portions as they desire.
 SPEECHES INTRODUCED
 Reading of the Martens testimony then was suspended and the prosecu- tion put into the record more speeches made in New York at a meeting held to celebrate the second anniversary of the Russian revolution. These includ- ed remarks by assemblyman Charles Solo non, a defendant. who presided; speech by James O'Neal. editorial writer for the New York Call, and an- other by a representative of the Bos ton Police Union.
 Solomon's remarks were chiefly In the nature of an appeal for funds for the striking steel workers, discussion of the political situation and in de- lending soviet Russia. He had com pared the revolution there with the American revolution and the red guards with the sons of liberty.
 The chief witness of the day was Mayor George R. Lunn of Schenectady who testified he had been busted from the party after he had appointed a re- publican to office instead of social ist and had refused to discharge from office a socialist who had voted for other than a socialist candidate.
 The prosecution. which claims that
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
APPROVED CHANGES

Among the changes approved by the committee were the following:
 Modification of thel preamble so that instead of requiring specific affirma- tive acceptances of the reservations by three of the four other great powers, such acceptance would be taken for granted unless objection were made be- fore deposition of the ratifica tion by the United States.
 Qualification Of the reservation of voting strength in the league so the United States would not be bound, ex- cept in cases where it prevously had given it's assent. by secisions in which any member had mor. than one vote In the republican reservation this ex- ception was omitted
 Change of the withdrawal reserva- tion to make it provide that notice of withdrawal from membership in the league shall be given by joint reso- lution' of Congress instead of may be given by a concurrent resolution"
 Deletion of direct reference to Japan or China by name in sne Shantung res ervation so the United States simply would withhold assent to the shan tung articles and reserve liberty of action in any dispute arising under them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
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 Accordin @ naehsa g. vereis ed here tenigl ,na the esfstsrs Tsey have t>en P algra hsfr gseess~a tomof oW.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-29
COMPLETE REDRAFTINC

Complete redrafting of the two of the resolutions so they would require that 10 representative 70 fhe league be appointed without congressional au- tion of the league resarding arma- ments would be valid until approved by Congress.
 Numerous qualifications of language in others of the fourteen reservations That providing that the United States would accept no mandatory except by
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