The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06

| Washington. May g. = Forty-nine mail sacks containing ballots cast in tn. Ford -Newberry senatorial election in Michigan reached here today and were locked up, pending a recount by 1 direction of the Senate. Other ship ments are due later No time has been fixed for beginning the count. | Washington. May 5.@The Mexican gov ernment. according to mail advices | 10 the department Of commerce, has increased the export duty on petroleum | from 30 cents to 54 cents ton. The tmessage did not say when the new | tariff would become effective. l Washington, May 5--Protracted bi- partisan opposition in the Senate today 1 to the bill designed to protect the dye ! industry by licensing foreign dye i'm l rorts for three years caused leaders of l both parties to consider revision of | the measure. A conference is to be held tomorrow to consider elimination | Of the licensing plan
 1 Washington, May 5.-Secretary of 1 Labor Wilson ruled today that member 1 ship in the communist labor party i does not of itself constitute sufficient | ground for deportation of aliens. In ! Oi utTlIB CdHCclldliOu OI d Wdil alt LII der which Carl Miller, a German, was held because of such membership, the secretary declared that while extracts from the organizations platform indi- l cated an extremely radical objective, tEere was no evidence of intention to use force of violence toward organized l government
 New York. May 5-Eleven hundred 1 M. ooA 4o 1 convention of the Grand Lodge of Free to work as manual laborers in order | to complete this fall the Masonic sail l ors and soldiers memorial hospital in | Utica. Work on the institution has ! been held up for various reasons, in- 7, cluding fseries of strikes among
 workers employed in it's construction.
 Madrid May 5.-Senor Condo De Torata has been nominated councillor to the Spanish embassy at Washington Alfonso Danvila has been appointed to similar l post at Buenos Aires.
 Berlin, May 5.-The Deutsch-American- ische Petroleum Company, which belongs to the Standard Oil group, has concluded a ten-year contract with the German gov ernment, according to the Vosssche Zei- 
 preferential treatment by Germany of all company's oil products on a fixed scale All business is to be on a cash basis | Chicago, April 5.-Co-ordnation of the l activities of Roman Catholic laymen and of score of lay organizations of semi religious, charitable or fraternal charac- ter throughout the United States by
 means of the organization of one grea, national body, was begun today by dele gates from all parts of the country. Rep resentatives of the American Federation of Catholic Societies, the Knights ot Go. | lumbus, Catholic Order or Foresters
 Knights of St. John, Associated Cathorre Charities of Chicago and other cities participated in the discussion preliminary
 to the adoption of a programme.
 St. Louis, May 5.-Demands that lay men be given equal representation with ministers at quadrernial judicatories were made today at the general confer | ence of the African Methodist Episcopa Church in session here.
 San Sabe, Tex May 5.--Ike T. Kendrick uncle and adopted father of Uniteo States Senator John E. Kendrick, oi Wyomins, died in his home here today He reared the senator from childhood ano was a pioneer Texas cattle man.
 TolSio, May LA war office communi que says that protocol was signed al Viadivostok on April 29 the Russians agreeing to the latest Japanese terms These included withdrawal for a distance
 of thirty kilometres from the occupied I districts.
 Washington. May 5.-Dr. L. s. Rowe chief of the Latin-A American division oi the state department, was elected direc- tor general of the Pan-American Union 1 today to succeed John Barrett, who will retire September l.
 St. Petersburg, Fla, May 5.-Mayor elect Noel A. Mitchell. head of the over alls club here. distributed 300 pairs oi overalls to club members today at St cents pair. MT. Mitchell ordered from 1 army stores.
 | Omaha. May 5.-Sugar of seven con cerns. amounting to 67,1Oo pounds, seized | by the government last week, was re leased today. The owners agreed to p'aS' it on sale at margin of cents a pound making the price 2l cents a pouno II | n ost cases.
 l Chicago. May 5.-An investigation o1 l food prices In Chicago lunch rooms vii | be made By the newly appointed city 1 council committee on high prices, it was announced today by Alderman Mas
 Adamowski chairman.
 /! London, May 5.-A bolshevik communi- cation issued Tuesday dealing with the | operations with the Poles say: Tn the region of kiev our troops are fortifyins | themselves in new positions west of that city"
 Schenectady, N. Y. May 5.--Nearly 2.00l employees of the local plant of the Gen eral Electric company are now out on strike, between 1.500 and 1,700 having quit l work because the company refused to compel delinquent members of the Inter national Brotherhood of Electrical work MASONIC NOTICE birminsham Fraternal Lodge No. SS4, A. F. X A. M. All members Ol Dfrminsham Fraternni are requested to meet ut the Masonic Temple at | p. m. to attend the funeral services oS our late Brother Edward H. CoiIey. Services at the grave. Interment Elm wood cemetery. All MasOns frater- naIty invited.