The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-16
By As.oeIstsd Pru


 Miami, Fla. January 15.-yhe United states training ship Sturgeon Bay, hard aground oI Elhotts Key. F miles south of Miarai, with 2s9 naval recruits on board. is in little danger, according to crews of wrecking vessels which returned today Several boats are standing by.
 Miami, Fla, January 15.-The shipping board steamer Quoque. which struck the reef at Carysfort Light Tuesday and ran hard aground, is rapidly breaking to pieces in high sea, according to word brought here late today by the sub marine chaser 2O3. The Quoque is lying on top of the old Anna M. Bell wreck, and her position is given as the principal reason for the terrific pounding. A large part of the cargo of coal has been thrown overheard and little hope is held for say ing the vessel
 Washington, January 15.-Decentraliza- ton of the country's banking power is indicated in an analysis of the nation banking resources issued tonight by John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the cur rency, of the 120 national banks with re- sources above s25, ,o0o,0Oo each, 2 are in New York, while 20 years ago the sta tistics show, 14 of the 19 banks in this class were located in that city. The l20 banks covered in the analysis are scat tered in 39 cities, as compared with the centralization of the 19 large banks in five cities in 1899.
 Washington, January 15-The steamship Edellyn, which left New York yesterday for Vladivostok. and which will be joined shortly by tts American and the Presi- dent Grant, will be used only for the re- patriation of ho-Slovak troops from Vladivostok to Trieste, the war depart ment announced tonight. United States army transports will assist in the evac- uaton of the American forces, it is un- derstood.
 New York, January 15.-Charging that 'hyphenated and un-American influ- ences" have dominated the Senate in it's consideration of the peace treaty and the League of Nations coven At, Secretary Daniels, in an address tonight at the Holland Society dinner here, declared the nation faces the danger of having the fate of the covenant decided not upon considerations of merit, but through fear of a foreign controlled vote"
 New York. January 15.---It would be better for college professors to strike III d uOuy loT nlSHST pay lnaH tW strike individually by leaving their profession, declared Miss Helen Taft, acting president of Bryn Mawr Col lege, in an address here tonight as a meeting held at the Bryn Mawr Club in behalf of the colleges endowment fund campaign.
 Washington, January 15-Extension to all mail lines of the space basis system in paying the railroads for transporting the mails was prescribed in new regulations issued by the in- terstate commerce commission today in deciding complaints of the railroads for changed methods of compensation.
 London, January 15.-Sentence of death will be imposed on enemies of the soviet Russian government here after only when approved by the all- Russian extraordinary commission, &C., cording to a wireless dispatch from Moscow today. The bolshevik an- nouncement asserts that return to methods of terrorism will be made necessary only by renewal of attempts on the part of the entente to hinder the workers and peasants in estab-