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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-22

'NSl y O0IC1 daJ
 taken up with discussion of the trip to
 San Francisco and quarters there. Mir.
 Sanders read a communication which
 was to the effect that the civic housing
 committee of Gan Francisco had set aside
 twenty rooms in the Somerton hotel for
 use of the Alabama delegates and ther
 friends. After, some discussion, it was decided to embrace this opportunity by
 accepting the proffer and, if needed, 10 try and get additional quarters. Details
 were left to Mir. Sanders The rates at
 the Somerton will be $S a day per room
 with two persons and & for an additiona!
 person. All the rooms have baths. A large assembly room has been set aside
 for the Alabamians. The Somerton IS within easy walk of the convention hail
 and other leading hotels. The route to be taken was also dis
 cussed at length. Messrs. Settle amt Douglass presented a number of routes.
 both going and coming. Prevalent choice was for direct travel to Frisco, with one
 day off at Colorado Springs for rest.
 On the return the party will split u3, route. Each delegate may have his ch oicc | some coming back by the Canadian Pa cific and others by the Southern Pacirc of routes.
 Details of this also were left in Mr. 1 Sanders hands. He will communicate WlIn the deleRateS al NntAI uOlHtS WiIil respect to details.
 The average round trip rate will be l about s125, It was agreed that at least two Pullmans will be required, probably more. Railroad men were notified to re- serve two to start with By motion of Mir. Lusk, the two United States senators and Senatorelect Heflin were especially invited to attend the convention with the delegation and assist zfz ,At- q nal knowledge of national affairs. | It was decided not to organize the dele ' gation until reaching San Francisco on the 25th.
 SENATORS INVITED The delegates decided that they would exchange lower and upper berths each night, allowing, of course, the lowers all the way through to the ladies that may | be along The lower Pullman berth will be $l6, the upper sl3 and the drawing room $60,
 It was the consensus of opinion that the delegation should leave Alabama on June 20, which will put them in San Francisco on June 20, the date on which their res ervation at the hotel Somerton com mences. This reservation lasts until after the convention. Those who wish to make i special stops on the way to the west may | leave earlier.
 l Mir Sanders invited the delegates to write him at Athens, his home, with re- gard to their plans the route preferred and the like. All details are in his hands, and he says he will do the best he can 1 for the pleasure and comfort of the party.
 It was indicated at the meeting that !! at least forty persons have already de- cided to make the trip. All who wish to , go should notify Mir Sanders or thei- committeeman, who. in turn. will notify | Mr. Sanders
 | The delegates talked no politics on the l floor and precious little on the side. What remarks were dropped indicated lack of ! preference for the presidential nominee
 and a predilection to preserve the pro-
 hibition amendment and its enforcing
 statutes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-22

W. T. Sanders, recently elected na- tional committeeman, was elected tenl- porary chairman, and Sterling McDon- aid, of sylacauga, temporary secretary.
 A. G. Patterson, present national com mitteeman, who was recently elected president of the Alabama public service commission, was present, and stated that he and MT. Sanders had alike misunder- stood their relative positions. both think ing that the term of office expired when a successor was elected, but the ruling that the committeeman held over until after the national convention.
 However, MT. Patterson says. he does not know if he shall be able to go to San
 Francisco. in which event he will em- power MT. Sanders with all the author ity he has.
 APPEALS TO HIGHWAYS
 MT Patterson called the attention Of the delegates to the pending Townsend bill, which, if adopted, will put an end to the fifty-fifty federal aid now eN- tended states in building highways and would prevent Alabama's getting this ald for it's highway system after 1923. The Townsend bill proposes that the national government build and operate national highways, leaving the matter Of state highways to state initiation. He desired the delegates to bear the matter in mind with a view to such action at San Fran cisco, to preserve the interests of the state as they might think wise. This ap- peal he presented in the name of the state highway commission. WOMEN PRESENT CLAIMS
 Immediately after the delegates met, and on motion of MT. Burr, ladies repre- senting the League of Women Voters were invited to present their programme to the body. This was done by Mrs. Jack Bowron who was accompanied py
 Mrs. w. D. Nesbitt and Miss Mary
 Dowd Mrs. Bowron said the woman $ league was not partisan body and pro posed to ask both national conventions to insert blanks in the platform that they would suggest. These blanks are: Adequate appropriation for the chil- d-en s bureau
 A federal department of education. Increased federal support for vocational training in home economics. Establishment of woman's bureau in the department of labor. appointment of women in the meditation and con ciliation department of the department of iabor reclassification of the federal civil service with the merit system ana free from discrimination as to sex, etc. Continuance of appropriations for pre- vention of vernereal diseases and for pub lie education in sex hygiene. Legislation giving women the same in- dependent status for citizenship as that which obtains for men.
 Mrs. Bowron left a printed statement of these blanks with each committed man.
 FILLING VACANCIES It was the sense of the delegates that vacancies should be filled by selecting those who ran next highest for delegate and alternate Borden Burr was named committee to ask the state committee to so order.
 The major portion of the meeting wat
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
SOUTH AFRICANS
 TO RETAIN MUCH GERMAN PROPERTY

Capetown, Sept. 16 - Property of Germans to the value of f9,0Oo,0Oo is to be returned by the South African years. This intention of the govern ment was announced recently in the South African House of Assembly by the Premier, General Shuts.
 He explained that enemy assets held by the Custodian of Enemy Property in South Africa totalled 3,000,0O0 of which f3, 900, 900 had already been paid out to Germans domiciled in South Africa. Of the remaining f10,- 900, 900, one million pounds would be temporarily employed applied in sat isfaction of South African claims on Germans for debts or for property in Germany sequestrated by that gov ernment.
 On the balance of f9,000,000, the government of South Africa has de cided to pay interest at per cent, raising the total to f10,0o0,0o0, which will then be held by South Africa as a loan from the German owners for a term of 30 years, the government pay ing owners 4 per cent. interest.
 Premier Shuts added that the gov ernment did not propose to pay this money to the Preparation Commis- sion, which would practically mean confiscation. As there was no guar antee that if the money was sent to Germany it would ever reach the proper owners. he said, it had been decided to take it over as stated, namely, as a loan.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
OF BADEN ISSUES WARNING
 AGAINST RUSSIA

Mannheim, Germany, Sept. 15.-'The present military preparations are only a very minor part of a, world wide offensive which Soviet Russia is now setting in moton,'' declared Prince Max of Baden in the course of a lengthy interview which appears to- day in the Baden State Gazette. Asked whether he saw a way out of the present dilemma for Germany, Prince Max, according to the report, said:
 There is only one very slender hope; it consists in an unconditional maintenance of our neutrality both to the east and the west, and in one last desperate effort to effect re- vision of the Versailles peace treaty."
 Prince Max believes that what he moral invasion of Bolshevism is bound to crumble down if the checking pressure from the west is kept up.
 Ut would be doing scant injustice continued, Eff one were to believe that he is capable of keeping more than a sham peace with So-called cap italistic states. Lenine believes with religious fanaticism in the victorious march of his idea: the dictatorship of the pro1etariat or of the communistic portion of the proletariat He is, of course, enough of a psych o1ogist to any country he wants to disrupt would be the very means of consol- idating it. His plan would rather consist in provoking and fostering civil war in the bordering states so that, when the time was ripe for in- vasion, he would find an open door and a union of comrades
 Prince Max believes that the pros poets of such plan succeeding in Germany are not wholly unpromising, as the moral invasion he declares has already set in and news from East Prussia plainly indicates that the red propaganda among farm. la borers there is already taking effect.
 Europe today is aflame," he con cludes, "and the task of extinguish- ing the conf1agratfon cannot be post poned- The situation demands the restoration of Presidents fourteen points, which constituted the basis for the Treaty, q but which were wholly Ignored at Versailles.
 "A1l artificial edifices erected there have already tunlhled down or are threatened with imminent collapse. The fate of Poland is a horrible ex- ample. The Polish state can only be revived if, in keeping with President Wilson's words. it comprises an un- challengeab1e Polish population
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
FREE SUPPLIES
 IN HEALTH MOVE.

Hartford, Sept. 16-From the ifA flee of the State Tuberculosis Caa- mission in the State Capitol a ir- cular letter has just been sent ouSto the school superintendents of the State calling attention to the helth movement known as the Moiern Health Crusade and offering free supplies for limited amount ofthe material if they will give the mve- ment a trial.
 The crusade enrolled more tan three million school children last Var and will have about six million men< bers the coming school year. It las been extended to every state in no Union and was used in the schoo1sat Hartford Meriden and Middleton of the Connecticut cities and in may of the towns of the State the pat year.
 The State Tuberculosis Commissid hopes to greatly extend its adoptiq in the schools in the state for th next National Crusade Tournamen after the opening of the fall tern Pins, badges and banners are givel to the children and schools whic1 make the best showing.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
TRAIN PRACTICE MAKES
 LOTS OF NOISE

Rockport, Mass, Sept. 16.-The bombardment of moving targets at sea from an artillery train on the Rockport branch of the Boston and Maine railroad furnished the summer colony of the Massachusetts North Shore with novel spectacle and plenty of noise during the first days of this month.
 Military experts were especially in terested in the demonstration as it was designed to show the feasibility of repe11ing an attack of war vessels by means of railroad artillery. At distance of 13 miles from shore, tar gets lowed by tug were a mark for the heavy guns of the Forty-Second United States Coast Artillery The line towing the target was a mile or more in length and the batteries con sisted of eigtt2inch guns, four to a battery, mouhted on specially con- structed railroad cars. The guns, which weigh S7 tons each. carried projecti1es weighing 200 pounds.
 The entire artillery trains consisted of 34 cars. It was moved from Camp Devens in two sections and included cars for tools and ammunition, a ma chine shop, a hospital, fire control, a kitchen, an office, mess, wireless and cars for the personnel.
 The Forty-Second Regiment, which is part of the Thirteenth Artillery Brigade (Railroad), has had a long and honorable record, dating back to Revolutionary times and the Florida and Mexican wars.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
PRIMARY
 RESULT CLOSE

Chicago, Sept. 16.-A close race between the I1owden and Thompson candidates today made necessary a complete count of the state votes cast in yesterdays primary to determine the result. Supporters Of Mayor William Hale Thompson swept Chi cago. winning all county and city nominations for their men, but the adherents of Governor Frank O. Lowden carried the rest of the state by large majority, leaving the pol 1t1cal scales wavering.
 On the Democratic ticket, J. Ham i1ton Lewis, former senator, won handily over Barratt OnHara for the gubernatoriaI nomination, but the race for the senate candidacy was close between Robert E.. Burke and Peter Waller. The Democrats also had tight fight for the nomina- t1on of states attorney for Cook county, the incumbent, McLay Hoyne trailing Michael Igoe on incomplete returns.
 Among the congressional contests was that of Joseph G. Cannon of Danvil1e in the nineteenth district He was in the rear on early returns but finally forged to the front for a victory.
 r. Regardless of the final outcome in the state contests Mayor Thompson won possible control of the election machinery in Cook county by nomin- ating his candidate for county judge.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
ARMY RECRUTTER
 JOINS MARINES

Henry Joseph Parkerton, 15 Spring street, Stamford, re-enlisted at the local Marine Recruiting Station yes terday. Parkerton was formerly con- nected with the Army Recruiting Sta ton on Main street He first enlisted in the Army on October 27. 1919, was discharged June 4th, 1919, re-enlist- ed in the Army, August g, 1919, and enlistmentS were John Francis Farrell (Bandsman), New Haven; Raymond Edward Bollingier, Bridgeport; Philip Fischman, formerly with the 1o2nd; George Angelo Lekas, six years with the Army. Sergeant Sullivan, in charge of the Marine Recruiting Sta
 ion, 1,20S Main street, stated that the Corps is fast filling up and from all indications Bridgeport would lead all the sub-diStrict stations in the Eastern Recruiting Division, which takes in everything east of the Mis- SiSSippi river.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
AUSTRIANS SEND FRANKENSTEIN AS
 REFRESHMENTS

London, Sept 16-Baron F'ranken- stein, a former attache of the Aus -trian Emb mbassy in London, has arrived here as the first repreSe n tative of tn Austrian government after the war, and has taken up his quarters at the beautiful mansion in Belgrave Square where successive Austrian ambassa- dors entertained sumptuously before the war
 The requirements of the Austrian diplomatic representation are on a much more modest scale now, and as the former embassy is extremely ex- pensive to maintain. the new minister is looking for smaller quarters. The German legation is also anxious to find less expensive premises than the palatiaI mansion in Carlton House terrace which it now occupies.
 One of the things tfslt struck Baron FrankenStein most on hhs arrival was, so he said, that for a penny he could have quite a long bus ride which in Vienna would cost 30 times as much, at the normal rate of exchange.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
TO TRAIN HIGH
 SCHOOL PURILS
 IN OFFICE WORK

What is expected to prove to be a valuable addition to the commercial course taught in the Bridgeport High school is now being put into opera tion, school officials stating today that the commercial course, of four years study, is hereafter to consist of one years intensive study ofAgenera1 office practice. This training is to be given during the last year of the course.
 Heretofore the student was merely taught t.pewriting and shorthand, but und,M the new system an elabor- ate training will be given in the use of filing devices. teaching the four systems now mainly in vogue in the business and industrial world, as well as proper operation of standard comptometers, adding machines, bookkeeping machines and duplica- tors.
 High school commercial graduates are no longer expected to greet pros- pective buyers with a Hello. whadiya want" attitude, either at the office or over the telepho1N. for in the new course they also are to be drilled in the most up-to-date methods of ap- proach. conversation and deportmen This department will be in charge of Miss Catherine Collins and Miss Vic- toria Freethy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
FEE DISAPPEARS
 WITH TURK RULE

Constantinople, Sept, 16-With the crumbling of Turkish authority and influence, the fez. the badge which all Turkish subjects. Christians, Jews and Turks alike, are supposed to wear, is rapidly disappearing. Although the Moslenis still wear their fezzes in the streets, they no longer cling to them slavishly indoors. Soon the Turks may be wearing hats with brims in Constantinople. Moslems in other parts of Turkely insist the Moham- medans in the capital lost their re- ligion long ago through their desire to initiate the infidels.
 As all heads must remain covered in the mosques and it is quite impos- sible to touch ones forehead to a, brim, the fez is indispensable to the faithful Moslem who prays daily in Mecca Even military and naval off cers must wear visorless caps.
 The fez still prevails in Anatolian cities In fact it is unsafe for foreign CTS to wear hat in many of them unless he desires to attract a crowd of hooting small boys and run the fisk of starting riot. Osman Agha, the terrorist governor of Kerrassunde, recently checked the tendency of non- Moslems in that city to get away from old customs.
 An Armenian who had just re- turned from Russia walked along the main street of the little city wearing a stiff brimmed straw hat It was worse than wearing a straw hat on the New York Stock Exchange after the season has passed Osma Agha grabbed the hat from the Armeni ian's head, s1ashed the crown from the rim with his sabre. jammed the crown down on the Armenian's head, hit ting it a heavy blow with the sabre and warning the unfortunate chap never again to appear in Kerrassunde in such unholy headgear unless he wanted to go to iail.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
MEXICAN DIALECTS.

From Sonora to Yucatan in Mexico more than fifty separate dialects are spoken. All the inhabitants of the west coast, however, with the excep- ton of some hill tribes of Indians. can understand Spanish. Of these In dians the 5000 Yaquis, with their crude Bacatete hill forts, their weird ceremonial masque dances and their war-like attitude, are easily most conspicuous. Many are enlisted with the federal army or employed as ranch han6s and mine or railroad laborers. The Yaquis with the fed eral troops are termed 'Manzos," or tame" Yaquis; those in the hills, wild and hostile, are the "Bronchos.'' The latter are a vagrant lot, robbing ranches for food and animals, carry ing rawhide drums and water gourdS, wearing sandals of green cowskins- living by their wits. Pressed by hunger. they subsist as well on bur ros as beef.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
BROTHERS IN
 ITALY ARE TO
 BE PROSECUTED

Rome, Sept. 16-The new Italian Premier, Giolitti, has initiated a cam paign against the many sharks as profteers in food and clothing are called, as result of which they have been heavily fined or committed to prison whenever detected. Large for tunes have been accumulated by many of these extortioners by selling foodstuffs secretly at exorbitant prices.
 Nevertheless, the cost of living still is mounting in this country. Statistics issued by the municipality of Turin for the first six months of this year show that there has been an increase of at least 20 per cent. in the cost of food and of 25 per cent. for many articles of clothing.
 In Rome, the result of abolfShing g the fixed price for vegetables and some other foodstuffs has been to send the price upward sharply.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
5000 MINERS
 60 BACK ID WORK

Scranton, Pa., Sept. 16.-Five thousand miners in the Scranton dis trict resumed work this morning and the indications are that the majority of the 70,000 men idle in the local district will be back at work before the end of the week.
 At a session of the insurgents last night a large number voted to go back to the mines and the general sentiment expressed by the diggers was for a full resumption of the work.
 We are ready to go back if the men of districts and do,'' said Enoch Williams, leader of the in SurgentS.
 Miners employed at the Pipe Brook Mine, one of the largest in more collieries of the Pennsylvania Coal Company resumed work today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
YEAR IN JAIL
 FOR DISSIPATION

In the Superior court yesterday afternoon, John w. Mallette or Trumbull was found guilty on the charge of desertion and unlawful CO., habitation, and sentenced by Judge, KeeIer to one year in jail unless he could give bond in the sum of $59ol as a guarantee that he would pay s15 weekly to the support of his chil- dren, His attorney intimated that Mallette would be unable to- give the required bond and as the wife he had deserted has money sufficient to sup port herself and family, John will spend the year in jail.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
BURKE SENT TO
 REFORMATORY

Thomas Burke of Fairfield, who went to New York and stole an auto- mobile which he later drove to Bridgeport where he invited James O'Donne1 to take a ride to New York, meeting with an accident in Fairfield which landed him afou1 the police. was yesterday afternoon sent to the Chesire Reformatory by Judge Keeler The case against O'Donnel was nolled.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
OF NATIONS
 CALL ON POLES

Paris, Sept. 16-The council of the League of Nations which was expect ed to begin it's ninth session here on Saturday, met this morning, the mat ter discussed being the conflict be- tween Sweden and Finland relative to the Aaland Islands.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
CHARMS OF ST. HELENA.

St Helena, situated in the South Atlantic, west of Africa, and famous as the prison of Napoleon I. before the opening of the Suez canal, on November IT, 1869, was very inn portant possession of the British crown, as it was station on the out ward and homeward long sea route between England and India. But from 1879 to the time of the Boer war the population dwindled; it's in dustries and. it's usefulness to the en- pire decreased. Since the beginnin g of this century, however. it has been regaining value. Its climate is ad- mirable, its rainfall sufficient, it's 200 springs Of pure water lend them selves to irrigation and make the in terior, away from the preciDitous barren cliffs that face the sea, "an emerald set in gray lava"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
SOME CAR.

"How do you like your new carp asked the Lizzie Driver. 6
 Great replied the Big Six Driver. "It runs so smoothly you can'tfe e1 it. Not a bit of noise; you can't hear it. Perfect ignition, you can't smell a thing. And speed why it whizzes! You can't see it,
 Must be some car,'' ventured the Lizzie Driver. Cant feel it, can't smell it, can't hear it, can't see iti How de you know it is there ?"- Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
FLASHES

Harry Van Reed, a soldier. shot and killed Max Rabinowitz, furrier and dealer in Liberty bonds, and wounded the storekeepers wife yesterday in New York. The soldier attempted to rob the couple of some Liberty bonds to clear himself from debt.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16

Morris Fox is being held by the UT.Suayan police for the United States authorities in connection with the Detroit trunk mystery.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16

President Wilson has been asked of ficially to compel the withdrawal o1 Serbian troops from territory claim ed by Albania
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16

Marshall Petain, commander-in- chief of the French armies and hero of Verdun, was married to Mime. Har- don at the City Hall in Paris on Tues day. The marriage is the culmination of boyhood romance.