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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-06
ASK CONGRESS ID SUPPLY FUNDS FOR AUGMENT|NG FORCE
 TODEAL W|THREDS
Radicals Fortified by Strong Legal Talent and Slush Fund and Plan Bitter Fight Against De
 portation
ROUNDUP OF REDS IS
 RENEWED IN NEW YORK
By Associated Press

New York. January J.~-Thc sweep ing raids against ssreds" by federal agents. whAch netted nearly 7OO prisoners last Friday, were resumed at 7:30 tonight, when 10 large aufo- mobiles and two army transport wagons left the local Headquarters of the Department of Justice to round up communists and other se- dftion monEers who escaped the first dragnet.
 Chief Flynn announced later that the New York raids were part of another nationwide sweep which he expected to bring as important rec suits as the raids on g cities ccn- ducted last Friday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-06
20 PER CENT CUT IN COTTON RATE
 US. TO ITALY
---- Bv Associated press

Washington. January 5.-A 20 per cent reduction in the rate on cotton from United States Atlantic and gulf ports to Italy was an- noisaeed tonight by the shipping board. The reduction was made to meet the competition of pri- vately owned lines, 1t is under stood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-06
M A,,eeiat.d rr..

Washington, January D. The governments campaign to rid the nation of the more than 5000 aliens, members of the communist labor parties, arrested in the recent raids, promises to be a long, drawn out fight, department of jus tice officials declared tonight.
 With the radicals fortified by strong legal talent and a "slush fund" to finance their opposition to deportation and the immigration service made quately supplied either with the men or the means to handle the situation, the help of Congress was considered absolutely necessary by officials
 Anthony Caminetti, commissioner general of immigration, appeared be- fore the House appropriations commit- tee during the day with an appeal for funds to allow expansion of his force to deal with the hundreds of details involved in completing the deporta- ton proceedings The commissioner asked for at least 10 more lawyers.
 Department of justice officials have promised assistance but the need for a greater legal staff than is in prospect even with the help of Attorney General Paimers stan. was felt, MT. Caminetti dsF-.i 3s54
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-06
HEAVY JAPANESE
 ANNOUNCEMENTS
 SENT TO IRKUTSK
By Ass.sia..d Pres.

HonuIulu. T. H., January 5- Have been rushed to Irkutsk to aid the forces of Admiral Kolchak there, according to . cable from Tokio to the NiPpu Jiii, . Japanese daily newspaper here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-06
WOMAN TELLS OF HORRORS DURING
 EIGHT MONTHSAS
 BANDITS CAPTIVE
Virginia Woman Describes Awful Hardships Suffered By Her Family at Hands of Carranza Troops
 and Outlaws
BY Asseeiatrd Prsst

Washington, January 5.- A dramatic story of eight months hardship and degrada- tion as a prisoner in a Mexican bandit camp was told today by Mrs. Cora Lee Sturgis, Vir-' ginian, before a Senate com mittee Investigating the Mexi- can situation.
 With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Sturgis told how her old mother, worn out by long suffering and humiliation, died of starvation after their plantation had been footed by the bandits. and how she had been forced to go into the hills to cut wood and of long tramp to an bandit to bandit sewed in the sole of her shoe.
 Americans were perfectly safe under Diaz," she said. We had no trouble under Madero, because the people liked him. We had no trouble with Huerta, and folks in my part of the country Chiapas-hardly knew of him. Our first trouble was in 1915, when Carran- ga sent troops to our section to drive away the help. As a result. we lost big crops right on the eve of the harvest1
 It was nearly two years later that the home of the Sturgis family, com prising Dr. Sturgis, a dentist, his wife. the witness today, and her mother, was raided by federal soldiers who charged them with giving refuge to rebels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-06
Growing Trade With
 Germany Is Shown
 In November Report
sy AssocIaied Prsss

WnshinEton. January 5.--Grow- ing trade with Germany was shown in the November report, issued to- day by the Department of Com- mH~ce. Imports from Germany in November amounted to <3,22S810, compared with s2.157 eos in october, and exports totaled $2S,O44.142. against s2O. .663.521.
 American imports from Europe in November were valued at s11O.422,- 7S1, from south America S1,915,6oS and from Asia s112, ,343.61S.
 Exports to Europe for the month amounted to $4S9,fS3,Sf2 and to south America s34.11S,6S5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-06
Democrats Much Interested in
 Promised Greeting" from President Wilson January 8
Kansas City Delegation Is First to Arrive in Wash ington to Put in Bid for National Convention of Democratic Party.
By Associated rrs.s

Washington. January 5.-Announcement
 from the White House that President
 Wilson plans to send Ian important word
 of greeting to the democratic dinner here on Jackson day. January 8, aroused
 great interest among democratic leaders
 arriving today to attend the love feast
 in the quadrennial meeting of the party $
 national committee, both of which are
 to be held Thursday.
 Prominent democrats said they had no
 information as to the message of the
 President beyond the brief announce ment from the White House, and there
 was wide speculation as to whether the
 word of greeting would take up the
 question of third term or would out line the Presidents views on party poli- cies.
 The first of the delegations from the
 six cities bidding for the party's national
 convention arrived tonight in a body of
 Kansas City boosters. The delegation
 was headed by Fred w. Fleming. presi-
 dent of a Kansas City insurance com
 pany and F. NJ. Clerdenning of the Kan
 sas City Chapber of counerce
 OTHERS TO ARRIVE TODAY Gavin McNab of San Francisco also ar- rived during the day to prepare the way for the delegation en route to present the claims of the Pacific coast city. Rep resentatives from Chicago Indianapolis Cleveland and Cincinnati-the other cit ies which are expected to ask for the convention-will reach Washington to- morrow or Wednesday.
 The members of the national commit tee already in Washington were aug ,nented during the day by Vice Chair man J Bruce Kremer of Montana and Committeeman A. R. Titiow, the new member from Washington. succeeding Hugh C. Wallace, BOW ambassador tc France and A. F. Mullen of Nebraska. Committeeman Mullen, soon after his arrival. announced that he would intro duce resolution at the meeting Thurs day of the committee recommending tc the national committee that the two thirds rule for making nominations for President and Vice President be abro' eafad and rra roa ie,ity ,7ta- ha adopted WOMEN TO ATTEND
 The committee arranging for the Jack son day dinner announced tonight that . the following members of the associate women.s democratic national committee would attend the banquet; Mrs. Patt' Rufner Jacobs of Alabama. Miss Mary F Foy of California, Miss Caroline kuut7 Rees of connecticut. Mrs. John K. Ottley of Georgia. Mrs. Myra. II. Wilson o' Illinois. Mrs. Julian F. Landers of In diana Mrs. A. ". Harris of Kansas Mrs Frazier Bonnie of Kentucky. Mrs William R. Pattangall of Maine. Mrs. Su- | san w Fitzgerald of Massachusetts. Dr Emma Bower of Michigan, Mrs. Pete, Olesen of Minnesota, Mrs Dorothy Branch Jackson of New Hampshire. Mrs John Sherwin Crosby of New York. Mis- Mary owen Graham of North Carolina Mrs. Maude Murray Miller of Ohio. Mrs 1 D A. McDougal of Oklahoma, Mrs. W l C. Carhart of South Carolina. Mrs. Will | liam Hickey of South Dakota, Mis-. chario Williams of tennessee and Mrs
 Percy V Pennybacker of Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-06
2.75 PER CENT BEER
 UNCONSTITUTIONAL DECISION RENDERED BY SUPREME COURT
Right of Congress to Define Intoxicating Liquors Up- held By Margin of Only One Vote In Opinion
 Rendered
By Associated Press

Washington, January D.
 By a margin of one vote the
 supreme court today upheld
 the right of Congress to define
 intoxicating liquors, in so far as applied to wartime prohibi- tion. In a five to four opinion renderf by Associate Justice Brandeis. court sustained the constitution of provisions in the volstead pr Y $ tion enforcement act. prohibit e3x$ manufacture and sale of bevery E A-
 taining one-half of l per cer ore of alcohol. Associate Justic Van Devanter, McReynolds an dis scented.
 Validity of the federal psohibition constitutional amendment and portions of the volstead act affecting it's en- forcement was not involved in the pro- ceedings, but the opinion was regarded as so sweeping as to leave little hope among wet adherents Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti Saloon league of America hailed 1t as
 sweeping victory" and in state
 ment tonight he said the only prohibit
 ton question left open by the court
 now is whether the eighteenth amend
 ment is of nature that can be consid-
 cred as a substantial amendment and
 whether it is properly adopted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-06
BEATEN BY cARRANzIsTAs


 Two of Carranza's captains and lou of soldiers came to our home and beat us with guns" Mfrs. Sturgis testified When my husband protested and re- minded the bandits that we were Amer jeans, they pushed him aside and laughed. saying; Your old government is only bluff
 They found no rebels, but they were not satisfied and wanted to search the roof, insisting that l go up with them. | told them I was an American, not roof climber but they struck me on the shoulder with gun"
 Dr. Sturgis reported the raid to the American consul at Frontero who ad- Vised the family to remain at the plan tation, the witness said.
 Mrs. Sturgis said rebel and Carranza forces freqaently worked together. and that both factioas disseminated anti. American propaganda. including d charge that Henry F. Fletcher. Ameri- can am bassador, had accepted S1, G00, 900 to uphold the Carranza government.
 Mrs. Sturgis said she told the bandit who made this charge that 'it was lie"
 "One of the bandits told me that Am bassador Fletcher could not return to that country" Mrs. Sturgis said. 'I don't think MT. Fletcher knew how bad conditions were. Why, things were awful. Once when I went to Mexico
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22

nook and crany of the mcahine, but
to no avail. Jack stood up breath
, less.
81 was afraid we wouldn't find
them here" he said. Then to the
chauffeur, Take US to the nearest
telephone on che way back TO the
restaurant"
"All right, sir. Drug store right
near entrance to the park"
1t really was but a minute, but it
seemed hours before we stopped
again, this time in front of a drug
store. While the taxi was rushing
along, Jack had asked me TO describe
the rings to him.
"a solitaire. quite large, and a plain
gold wedding ring, with r. G. to NJ.
s. inside" 1 said.
When he returned from the tele-
phone his face was downcast.
GAS fast as you can back to the
restaurant" he said.
AS he sat down he sighed heavily.
An Un1uoky Chance Meeting.
81 see they did not find Them"
said despondently.
Not yet, but they will search the
floor at once"
Suppose some dishonest waiter
should find them and pocket them"
Jack tried to smile reassuringly at
me, but it was a dismal failure.
Don't try to borrow trouble ahead.
little girl Rather, hope that they
will have found them by the time we
reach the restaurant"
But suppose that should happen,
and we should suspect ii, could we
have the walters searched? Would
the police"
Margaret" Jacks tone was al
most impatient 1.-The police are the
last people L want to have know of
this. What the police know the news
papers know and above all thing we
newspapers in connection with this
Ioss!'
sank back in my corner, thor
oughly frightened. Jacks voice and
words showed plainly he thought the
situation serious.
Neither of us spoke again until the
taxi drew UP in front of Broquin's.
Then Jack said almost curtly:
"Wait here. L don't think it will
be necessary for you to go inside,
and it might be embarrassing for
you"
He fairly ran up the steps and
inside the door.
SO anxious was 1 to know what
would be The result of his inquiry
that 1 leaned far forward in the
machine watching the door of the
Broquin for Jacks return.
l did not realize my imprudence in
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22
BARLOW FINDS THE WAY,

After a year and half of study and
effort 10 develop some plan of financ-
ing the building of homes in Barlow,
that little city of four thousand souls
seems to have found the way.
The Barlow Board of Trade secured
the cooperation of one of the larg-
est individual companies in the Unit
ed States and also that Of the presi-
dent of one of the biggest banking
houses of Chicago. The plan has
been approved by both and pro-
nounced sound financially. The name
of the company, which is made up of
citizens of Barlow, is known as the
Barlow Home Building Corporation.
1t is incorporated for $4,000 divided
into shares having a par value of
$4,000 each. The stock was sub
scribed by seventy five Barlow citi-
zens in amounts ranging from $4,000
to $4,000. This stock will be paid for
by the subscribers in assessments of
twenty per cent, each on the call of
the directors of the corporation, but
no two assessments shall come with !
in thirty days of each other.
The Barlow Home Building Corpor-
alton will use this capital only for
lending for the purpose Of building
IlOIIlSS III bdflOW. II VIII require
the borrower to have a building lot
or a lot and money together amount
ing to twenty per cent of the value of
the house and lot together will have
when completed. The corpora tom will
also secure for the borrower a loan
from other sources amounting to so
sper cent and if possible, sixty per
cent, of the total value of the house
and lot this loan to be. for a period
of six years at eight per cent and Sc
cured by first mortgage on the prop
erty.
The Barlow Home Building corpor-
alton will loan the borrower the bal
ance to complete his house and take
second mortgage as security for
same. This means that the corpora
ton will actually provide only thirty
per cent of the total value of the
property in the event that the first
mortgage is for a fifty per cent lean
or twenty per cent if the first mort
gage is for sixty per cent. Presum-
ing the average house and lota value
to be 100000, this would mean that
the borrower must have eight hun
dred dollars in lot or cash or both;
that the first mortgage loan would be
100000 and that the cooperation
would loan $1,000 of it's capital and
would be able to make forty -one such
size loans out of it's fifty thousand
dollar capital
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22
COAL AND CAR SHORTAGE

A serious shortage Of coal in ma
sections of the country has resua
from the lack Of railroad cars. IT..
is now in force, and will continue .
til August 81, an order OF the -t
state commerce commission g.5
which the railroads are required 70 ,
lease Immediately and TO ship ~
top cars 10 the mines. Complain,
made by the coal interest that r
order is being evaded in many instar-
with the result that the number 81
is entirely inadequate. The jiffl~
involved. as shown at hearings r.
Quoted by the interstate commerce rr
mission, is that the very indut-
which are suffering from lack ~ RI
also depend upon open top cars for
receipt of their raw materials nd
the distribution Of their finished m
ucts. Spokesman for the steel in'0ra
for instance, declared that "iha So
mills are blocked with products. ma
are closed, and others will D." ~"
July 90, unless some relief can DO lf
II was explained that 28.300 cars w"
be required TO move 100000 tons
steel products which are pilinc
awaiting shipment. The prediction g
made that the present shortage of q.
toge.h with the cOuntry's fg'
needs. would be such as TO srequre
addition Of 100000 cars to the ral
in the next five years. ia,
Willard, chairman Of the advisory I'd
mittee OF the Association Of Ra.w
Executives, took issue with the =.
men on the probability Of the stu.
becoming worse. He declared 'A'
the shippers and the carriers rcut
together and agree on common w'
able scheme Of some sort. the l-1
lem which. the country face 49,
be materially simplified.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22
EARLIER FLORIDA SEASON.

The Chamber of Commerce or
Miami is calling upon other CONNER
ciaI bodies and the hotel men of the
state to inaugurate an earlier tourist
season for Florida. The secretary or
the Miami chamber Of commerce, in
an open letter, declares that the
opening of the tourist season in jan
uary is nothing more nor less than
a habit, formed when tourist trade in
Florida was not one tenth what it is
today, and made later than it should
be now, because of the expense of
keeping the South Florida hotels,
which cater only to winter tourists,
open when business IL not such as to
fill the hostelries.
Attention is called to the fact that
out on the Pacific coast, particularly
in California, the tourist season be-
gins early in the fall. 1t is proposed
to open the hotels of Florida in No
vember and to close them in May.
Miami is now planning a Week of
Joy, or Palm Fest, early in Deem
Der for the entertainment of visitors,
something like our carnival. and the
city has appropriated thousands of
dollars for public concerts and other
forms of amusement for the winter
tourists.
Miami has also appropriated thou
sands of dollars for publicity and is
already making plans not only to en-
terrain the visitors after they reach
the city, but to get them acquainted
with Miami and it's opportunities for
recreation
Pensacola may we'll take note of the
activities which are going on all
over the state in this connection. The
cities of both the east and west coast
OF peninsula Florida are advertising
extensively, calling attention to their
winter climate. Here in Pensacola we
have more to offer the visitor to Flor
ida in the way of climatic conditions
than has any other city in the state.
PENSACOLA has not only a most de-
iightful open winter climate but the
most delightful summer climate in
the world, and is so situated as to Of
fer greater opportunities for out door
sport than any other city in Florida.
Nowhere else in the state can there
be found so many naturally delight
full bathing beaches; such excellent
fishing and such good hunting as
here in Pensacola and it's contiguous
territory. But here in Pensacola we
are so used to these things that we
accept them without question or COM
ment, failing to realize that people
outside of Pensacola, even the people
in our own state. do not know of
these outdoor advantages over other
cities-advantages which are not con-
fined to any season, but are the same
all the year round.
While the cities of South Florida
seeking to inaugurate an earlier win
ter season for Florida, Pensacola
should seek to impress upon the peo-
pie of the United States that this is
an aI-the-year-round tourist town,
with one of he best hotels in the
South, open all the year.
The more tourists, and particularly
of the wealthy class, that we can in
duce to come to Pensacola, the more
Pensacola will grow, for it is the tour
list who becomes the investor. This
has been proven by Miami, West Palm
Beach and st. Petersburg, all winter
and the three leading cities in
Florida in percentage of increase in
population.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22
The State Has a Duty Here.

The Tampa Times calls attention to
the fact that boys who finish their
terms at the Mariana industrial
school do not have any provision for
sending them home. They are given
back the clothes they arrive in-and
which of course they have outgrown
but not even railroad fare to re-
turn home with. The Times instances
three Tampa boys now at the school
who have reached the time where they
should be paroled. Their mother in
Tampa needs them, but is not able to
supply them with clothes or railroad
fare. This is an oversight ands must
be corrected at the next meeting Of
the legislature. Even convict is
given a suit of new clothes and a
small sum of money when his term
expires. 1t may interest a number of
our citizens ito know that there are
now at Mariana a score of boys
who have by hard work and good be-
havior won paroles and would be
glad to obtain work with any man
who will give them homes and fair
wages in return for their services
Ocala Star,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22
THE GHOST OF SONG.
Frank L. Stanton.

Last eve strain of music that you
know
Came-like a ghost from a remem-
bered day,
And led me where the lovelier lilies
blow,
To you-so far away!
And all the grief of all the lonely
years
The desolate, black barriers of
wrong,
Fled: and the sunlight glimmered
through Loves tears
Love took the wings of song!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22

doing this until 1 heard my IA,
called jovially.
well! well, Mrs. Graham, I supps
you are on your way to our sha.
Won't you give me the pleasure
riding with your"
Hat in hand, black eyes dancing
malicious glee, 1 saw standing hsH
me, Harry Underwood. of all Peep.
CONTINUED tomorrow
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22

Governor Cats of Florida and Gov
ernor Clement of Vermont have each
refused to call special sessions of the
legislature of their respective states to
ratify the woman suffrage amend
ment, and thus make the amendment
law. A poll of the members of the
Florida legislature is said to have re-
vealed the fact that they would not
pass the amendment if they had been
called ogether.-DeLandaN News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22

Miss Helen Hunt, of Florida, is to
be one of a deputation that will call
on Presidential Candidate Cox to urge
him to aid in securing the ratification
of the federal suffrage amendment.
Now, if the governor doesn't tell the
delegation that If they want suffrage
they can go to Helen Hunt for it,
Wen admire his forbearance in pas
sing up an old and popular joke
Lakeland telegram
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22

We know man in Pinellas county
uneducated, unlettered, who In about
twenty years amassed a herd of cat
tie which he sold for $4,000. Is there
any other business in which a man of
the above type could accumulate so
much money %and educate a large
family in the meantime? Truly Flor
ida is a, great cattle stated: Clear
water Sun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22

We cannot understand the "Hhr
this abstract Of title business "
we came from when a deed was r
upon the books OF the reg. Tor
deeds, that settled II. LOOKS %
like this abstract business was
ply a graft for lawyers. and ST. .gH
done away with.-Melbourne TH
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22
BROTHER DIckEY SAYS:

I amt worryin' myself bout how
high heaven is. De leadin' question
wild me is-how ter git dar ?
1t may be de rich man has hard
time gittin' into heaven: but it's q
consolation ter think he kin have a
chauffeur ter drive him ter de gates.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22
THREE CHEERS FOR MAMMoN.

(By M. S. D. in Miami HeraId)
How can 1 carve me a classic career?
How can I rival a Byron or Keats,
When all I can sing is the sly profit
teer,
When humorous verses alone bring
me eats?
I'd love to indite to the sorrowful
Muse
Poems painting with passions, to
laurels aspire.
ia rather write odes but I fear to
refuse
TO be funny with H. G. L. going up
higher.
No doubt at all I could polish up
Poe:
Much better than Milton, that dub, r
could write,
Show Swinburne some tricks that he
didn't know
But I'd get no envelope Saturday
night.
Fine it would be with my brows
twined with parsley,
Or laurel or myrtle, whatever's the
rage,
But I'm sure I should clothe me re-
markedly sparsely,
The greater the poet the smaller the
wage.
So 1 shall continue with verses that
vary
On bathing suits, men folks, on Will
son and eyebrows,
The pay is much better when folks
think you merry.
For plutocrats only it pays to be
highbrows.