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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
DECIDE TUESDAY
 WHETHER ID QUIT
 WORK ON APRIL 1
Anthracite Scale Takes Up Request That Men Re main at Work After
 Agreement Expires
By Associated Pre-.

New York. March 20.-1'he anthracite mine operators were notified today that the general scale committee. representing the Mine Workers of the hard coal region. will decide next Tuesday whether there shall be a suspension of work April 1, pending the outcome of the ne- gotiations for a new wage agreement.
 The request of the operators that the l7o000 miners in the anthracite field re- main at work after March s1, when the present agreement expires. was discussed al a three hour session of the scale com mittee The committeeman were almost unanimous in their opinion that work should be suspended April 1, unless J- operators agreed to make any waga award retroactive
 Onicials of the miners union addressed the committeeman. asking them not to be too hasty in taking action on this important question. They explained that
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
STUD POKER GAME WITH MARKED CARDS. PLAYED IN COU R !
By Associated Press


 New York. March 20.-A stud poker game with marked cards wns reproduced in court today during the trial krohnberG. shirt mnnu- facturer. who is charged ~ith eb- tninins money in game of chaace by fraud.
 J. VI. Siiaerman, one of half a dozen compiainants. lntd before inc n.aa istratc two hands from deek whleh he said he took from I<rOhn- berG's home. These proved to have shadings in the fIuer de lis design on lbc backs which indicated nature of the cards.
 Iilustrnting with the mark uu deck, SiIberman testified tls V kohnberg saw that the firth card of n stud hand would make hsm have two pairs against one pair for his opponent. and thereby won x5.IO0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
Gist of the News
GENERAL

GENERAL
 Several carloads of red. on way from Pacific Coast to Ellis Island.
 "Pussyfoot'' Johnson opens prohihi- ton campaign in France.
 Naturalization of community work being planned at Washington cnofer- ence.
 Tight-waisted suits for men are ~ merely relic.
 J. 0. Thompson is given authority aa Wood manager in Alabama.
 Senator Conner Is amazed nf tactics of seBate--csn't upderstnnd delay. Private owners for ships are urged by Lewis Nixon.
 Jack Dempsey's trial set for April 2. act in the limeiiEht.
 Vol stock jumps as veterans are signed by EIIam.
 Motor shares monopoIi.iug attention; cotton trading limited to March; rise in corn.
 Patterson-kennedy race is promis- ing some real fireworks.
 Ernie koob VIII pitch in game here: Biil Ellis to pitch for Mobile. Seventeen carloads of trucks on hrrd for AIbnn, show which opens April 6
 LOCAL.
 Miners gather today in all parts of hit-ict to disrusS new contracts. Innbashea. Ed Mckinley traffics in public and sells fpur-footed grief What figures show to past races of candidates for Senate.
 New route signs installed on Rir- mirxham street
 Biyer business Ia now awaiting ves- seis.
 Lock f- i% bein. used n~ drydork. Commander Hopfh of fbe Salvation trsny is tc visit Birmfnghari. Capfain White takes Governor o'>eal to task for stand on Seisterd iiauor net Civic Association to aid city with park problems.
 Baraas play fast Eaue. bps pb.fis wins bs score of 2 te z
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
Return Pact To Wilson
President Will Likely Let Treaty Lie on His Desk While Bitter Controversy It Has Raised Is Fought Out In the Campaign
By A.sOolatsd Pres.

Washington, March 3.-Aft- CT a troubled eight months so- journ in the Senate, the treaty with Germany was back in the keeping of President Wilson tonight with a note appended saying that ratification had been refused.
 What the Presidents next move would he remained conjectural. White House officials declined to comment. The general feeling of officials elsewhere about the capital. however. was that Mir. Wilson probably would let the treaty lie on his desk while the bitter controversy 1t has raised k fought out In the political cam palen.
 White House early in the day by a bevy of officials and messengers from the Senate, in pursuance of an order adopted last night after fourth vote on ratification had failed to muster the necessary two-thirds It was delivered to Secretary Tumulty who receipted for 1t in the name of the. President.
 Scarcely had the bulky docu- ment, the bone of Senate eonten- ton through many weeks of stormy debate and negotiation, passed physically out of the eapi- sol building when some of the senators who worked for rntifica- ton began movement to recall 1t and try more fer compro- mise. Mild reservation republicans and compromise democrats di~- cussed the possibilities of such nn effort with no decision. however, and the prediction of leaders on both sides was that no proposal for another reconsideration ever would tnke serious form
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
REBEL FORCES ARE PREPARIN FRESH
 ATTACK IS BELIEF
Fighting Continues In the Rhineland District Where Armed Strikers Are
 Patrolling Country
sy Associated prc..

Paris. March 2O.--Ten thousand
 armed wOrI<men are concentrated
 at HaIIe-On-snIIe (t1Nenty miles
 northwest of Leipsiet md the
 reicbsyvehr staff Is negotiating with
 them, says n Havns dispatch from
 stuttgart. BoIshcvist clements
 among the ~Orkmen. however, arc
 making settlement difficult.
 Berlin, March 2O- Rumors are cur rent that the Baltic troops have not left the Berlin district and are as- sembled near the geological garden suburban station awaiting a fresh pre- text to enter the city. some troops ara there, but what unit they belong to cannot be asqertained
 Numerous security police are coming into Berlin from the country round about arriing in automobiles One mo- tor car bore the inscription "Charlotte- burg police troops for Ebert.
 The air was filled with rumors Fri day evening that communist troops had assembled in large numbers in Tenn pelhof and Lichtenherg, suburbs of Berlin. but the night passed quietly, the communist forces failing to ap- pear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
SELMA POPULATION IS PLACED AT 15,6O7
 BY CENSUS BUREAU
nv Assoolateh rrrr,

Washington. March 2O.--Census statistics announced today include; selma. Ala, ls,6O7; increase, I.95s, or 14.2 per cent.
 Schenectady, N. Y., SS,S23, an fn- crease of 15,s97. or 2I.S per cent over 1910.
 Hamilton. O., 39.675; increase, 4.396, or 12.5 per cent.
 selma was AIyabama's fifth city In 1910, with n popuiatio of i3649. having increased 4,936, or 53.7 per cent in the ten years from 1900. It's percentage increase for that decade was larger than that of Mobile and Montgomery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
TURKS ASK JUSTICE
 AND WILL GET II,
 SAYS LLOYD GEORGE
Austria ad Germany Were Given Justice-Terrible Justice and Turkey
 Cannot Escape
By AsgocIated Pres,

London March 20---Premier Lloyd George yesterday discussed the Turk ish question with the Indian Caliphate delegation headed bv Mohammed Ali. who declared that Turkey should have all her pre-war territory restored The remier replied.
 ''i do not understand Mir. Mo-
 hnnned Ali to claim inGuigencc
 for Turkey. She claims justice,
 and justice she will get. Austria
 has had justices -S.ermany has had
 Justicc--pretfy terrible justice.
 Why should Turkey escapef
 Turkey thought she had n feud
 with us. Why did she come In and
 try to stab us and destroy liberty
 throughout the world while we
 were engaged I'm this life nnd
 death sfruggief
 ''is there any reason why we should apply different measure to Turkey than we have meted out 10 the Chris ;ian communities of Germany and Aus tria?
 q want the Mohammedans in lndJa O get it well into their minds that we are not treating TurNeY severely be- cause she is Mohammedan-
 We are applying eaually the same principle to her as to Austria, whicr is the greatest Christian commnnity-Y
 itEteFriHs TO the ttilpoFdi power oL inc ealiphate. the premier said he could moi interfere in d religious question in s hich Aiohammedans themselves diff Tered.
 The delegation requested that the Armenian massacres be inveStigated hy an international comm ssion on Nr hich the Moslems were represented.
 Regarding the Armenian massacres, he premier said the allies were bound ii the interests Of civilization to exer- else control Of some sort since the Turkish government was incapable of prot ectine its own subjects
 q want 10 give this feeling to the Mussulmans of India who stood loyal K by the throne and the empi~e.'. said the premier i've recognixe that they have the right 10 be heard in a me.- er which espaeiallv afferss Fs'ar We haee iaysels deferred to their wishes ir the snatterr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21

The test suits were brought by an as- soeiation of bankers. merchants and planters who fought the passage of the law in the legislature and when defeated, immediately organized to bring action in the courts of the state. E. C. Melvin, president of the Selma National Bank, headed the opposition fight
 TEXT OF DECREE
 Following is a text of the decision
 William c. Grimes vs. Eliasberg Brothers Mercantile Company.
 In the circuit court of Dallas county, Alabama iii equity.
 This cause coming on to be heard is submitted for decree on demurrers of re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
State Income Tax Law
 Held Unconstitutional
rcAit GQyu Decision Holds Income Is Property and Pro- ss.asuoo 70 x4.aq.1 Constitutional Provisions Limiting 7s' -d v-H Taxaton-Case Goes to
 the Supreme Court

Selma, March 20( (Specia)n the circuit court here to- day Judge M Miller held the income passed by the recent legislature to be vioave of the fore null and void.
 In the decision handed down the held that income is property and hence constitutional provision limiting the rate of taxation property CO., and that the law discriminatory exempted from taxation the income received interest from recorded and wages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
SPANISH JUDGES AND MAGISTRATES
 CONSIDER STRIKE
sssIs pslul0ossv ks

Madrid. March 20.-A strike move ment is brewing among the judges and magistrates of Spain owing to the neglect of the government to suggest increases in their salaries in the budget appropriations for the ministry of justice.
 A meeting was held yesterday mt Barcelona where protests were ut- tered against the alleged favoritism toward other classes of government servants. including the army and navy officers, while the law officers obtained nothing. 4 committee was formed to consider strike and en- deavors being made to extend the movement to other cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
Distinguished Service Medal Is Awarded to
 Colonel w. P. Screws
Rx Associatsd Press

Montgomery, March 20.-infor- nation was received here tonight of the award of the distinEuished service naval to Col. William r. Screws of the 167th regiment of the Rainbow division. during the war.
 The citation accompanying reads:
 @For exceptional, meritorions and conspicuous service from the time of it's organization through the successive phases of carly train ing. combat offense in the battles in the Champagne and 0urcq. By his high military attachments. sound judgment and devotion to duty, he has contributed in no small degree to the success achieved by the Forty-second divisiop.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
ST. PAUL HAS A POPULATION OF
 234 5o5, ANNOUNCED
sy Al or.slsu r-s~

Washington, March .O.--PopuIn- tion statistics for 1920 announced tonight by the census bureau in- ciuded:
 St. Paul. Miur.. e3f.5o5. nn iu- rre-se of i9.s5i. or g.: per cent over 1910.
 iAany. Y. s'~ 3tt; increase. 2. o9f or 's per .r-nt
 Rf'ek 'siard IT. ~s TIT; increase. if' s.. O. ff-e per cent.
 watei yiiet. \. ,., ir.o.3; increase. asse gr G.s per cent.
 Per~srirar. >- s.. I0.sx3, increase. IT., ar 1 per senf-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
FIGHTING CONTINUES

Berne March 20.-Combats are com tinuing in the Rhineland mining dis trict. Armed bands of strikers and communists, with hand grenades and steel helmets, are patrolling the coun- try
 The Reichswehr Is sending armored trains against them
 Fighting of most violent nature is reported at Essen and Gelsenl<Irchn. but details are unknown here as tele- graphic and telephonic communications with this district has been cut
 The workers are forming a red army at Asehersleben and Quedlinburg, re- spectiyely B and Sl miles southwest of Magdeburg in these towns sharp encounters ocnrred between troops and spartacans and many persons were killed or wounded
 Fighting again started at Lelpsio yesterday owing to the failure Of ne- gotiations The workers put up bar ricades and it is reported that hum dreds have been killed or wounded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
Atlanta Firm Sues Anti-SalOOn League
 For Printing Bill
By Assocls.ed Pre-,


 Atlanta, March 20.-Webb X, Vary Company. printers. filed suit for S4.6O9.5S against inc Anfi-Saioon Leaieue of America here today. aI- legfnE the organization is insoIvent. and asked hearing in superior court with view to receivership. Non-payment of bills for printing was said to be the cause for the suit.
 The petition names defendants "fhe Anti-Saloon League Of America, which nlso trades tke fnterna- ticnaI Antf-Saioon League of Amer lea, and as the Anti-Saioon Lengue of Georgia.r and five individuals connected with the leagues nctIyi- ties here. The petition asserts that the recent "drivey for funds con- ducted by the league was failure In Georgia and other ~tates. Bills for printing submitted rum hack to last November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21

spondents to bill of complaint and the murrers being argued by solicitors for the state of Alabama, and solicitors for the complainant and duly considered by the court, the court is of the opinion;
 The tax laws of Alabama, as written, are discriminatory, or they unjustly dis tribute some of it's burdens.
 Let us illustrate:
 One man invests $l09.000 in cash in Alabama soil-real estate, timber coal or iron ore, parts of earth
 Tt will be assessed at sso.0Oo. 50 per cent of the Sl000O0 The taxes will be 6ls
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
Sentence NeWberry To 7wo Years Al
 Fort LeaUenUorth
Sixteen of Eightyfour CoDefendants Also Found Guilty of Criminal Conspiracy and Sentenced to Pay Heavy
 Fines and Serve Time in the Penitentary
Ru A,soolaied Prs..

Grand Rapids Mich March 20.-Truman H. Newberry, junior States Michigan victed by of having consped criminay in 1918 late the election laws He sentenced by Judge years imprisonment and fined S10000 released pending appeal issued statement declaring the upper decides otherwise the uphods
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
REBEL. FORCES SURRENDER

Copenhagen, March 20. Troops of the von Luettwitz forces, which were beseeed in the castle at Schleswig 70 miles northwetlof Hamburg. have sur rendered unconditionaIly and power is again in the hands of the old govern ment acording to the Nachrichten of Hamburg.
 Of the castle garrison, six were killed or badly wounded on the peo- ple's side one man was killed and one wounded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
SITUATION CRITICAL

Amsterdam, March 20.-The com mander of the government troops at Munster has telegraphed Premier Bauer declaring the situation fin the Rhine provinces to be growing more serious says a dispatch to the Tele-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
GOMPERS ASSA|LS
 WILSON PLAN FOR
 SETTLING UNREST
Says Machinery for Settling Disputes Already In Ex-
 istence Superior to That
 Proposed by Conference
ny A.soelAtsd pre.,

Washington, March O.-Recommenda- tions by President Wilson's conference for the settlement of industrial un- rest were attacked today by samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor.
 The labor leader. in prepared statement said the machinery for ad- justing disputes between employes and employers which has for years been in existence in practically every or ganized industry in the United States is superior toe the machinery now sug- gested by the industrial conference, both in point of simplicity and in point of effectiveness
 The conference. said Mr. Gompers. has devised mass of machinery to be made effective by law composed of national industrial board and local and regional conferences. and boards of inquiry. The whole situation in this report may be summed up as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
GOMpERS' SUMMARY

Tried and tested machinery for con- ciliation and arbitration between em- ployers and employes exists wherever employees are organized
 This machinery functions perfeeciy " hereyer employers forsake the Spirit cf dominance and the attitude of au- tocracy
 Through the use of this machinery it has bee1 fcHnd possible 10 ma iutain industrial peace with no stoppage of " ork of any kind for periods ranging from ten to forty years. No machinery devised by the government or it's agencies or supervised by the govern ment or any of it's agencies could achieve results superior to the results achieved by machinery which has long
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21
WILL DELAY ACTION

The unsettled state of Senate opinion nevertheless had the effect of slowing up the plans of the republican leaders for passage of declaration of peace. and it was decided after many confer ences that the resolution for that pur- pose probably would not be urged be- fore late next week. Preiously the purpose had been to bfang it up Mon day and press 1t for early action
 In making this decision the majority managers in the Senate are understood to have beer influenced in part by un- determined factors in the House which also wopld have to act on a peace res olution and whose leaders baIke< at 9 similar proposal last December Most of the ranking members of the House foreign affass committed in whose hands the peace resolution would fail. were out of town and had not informed their associates of their attitude
 During the day the Senate was not in session, but the question of a peace declaration was raised in the House by Representative Tinkham, republican Massachusetts. who introduced a declaratory resolution and had it re- ferred without debate to the foreign affairs committee. In it's general pro- visions it follows the resolution of Senator Knox. republican, Pennsyf- vania, which is backed by the repub- lican Senate leaders. Both provide for repeal of the declaration of war, for certain settlements with Germany, and for declaration of international pol icy.
 U. s. REMAINS AT WAR
 Until some affirmative action Is
 taken by Congress or the President
 to end the war stntus legally. the
 techaicai position of the country
 remains. officials say just what it
 wns the day after the armistice
 was signed. War legislation con-
 tinues in force and under the wur
 department interpretation of the
 declaration the President retains
 his war powers commander In
 chief to keep his troops at what
 ever posts In Germany he thinks
 necessary to enforce the armi-
 sttce terms.
 The Prjesident has expressed em- phatic dlsapproval of securing d tech- nical peace status by any method eX. cept ratlfiGs tion of the treaty Sena. tors generally do not believe he had. al tered that position, and the republican Senate leaders confidently expect that if they pass peace resolution he will veto It. They hope, however. to secure enough democratic support to repass 1t Oontinued on Page Six.)
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The Pensacola journal., 1920-02-29
BACK FROM
HE'LL With
BOTTLEDSPIRII
BY MAuBERT ST. GEORGES.

Inland China still is the daughter Of
error and the mother Of superstition.
Accustomed from childhood to hear
and see practised everlasting super
stitions, the Chinaman has become the
most credulous being on earth. Nat
uralIy as a result there are thousands
who desire to take advantage of this
and the country is overrun with
BONES, magicians and quack doctors.
While I was in little village not far
from Ian Chow, 1 became indirectly
mixed up with one Of these.
1 had been in this place a couple Of
days when 1 noticed my fever ther-
mometer was missing.
The quack doctor gravely asserted
that his soul had left his body and
taken a trip to the mysterious re-
gions of Buddhic hell, 'Yenwang." And
the credulous natives swallowed. it
whole. especially when he showed
them what he had brought back. For
he was now n professor of 'sin n-fa, !"
new art wherewith to cure people.
He had now a spirit bottled up, which
if they would put it into their mouth,
would speak with their soul and thus
cure them.
a good deal, was by no means exempt
from Chinese superstition, and having
heard about the wonderful man, went
to pay him a visit. Imagine his aston
ishment on recognizing my thermom-
etor as the new diviner of diseases.
He Immediately accused the worthy
doctor of theft. There was a great
outcry, but eventually the thing was
brought up for the judge to decide,
and he ordered that the matter be put
to the test of Lao you tan-tze."
! But the doctor objected. saying that
| his honesty was attacked and that
the test was not severe enough. He
desired the ordeal of "Tou- -tcheu."
! Though this is held the gravel ordeal,
was obvious why the man chose it. The
first consists of snatching a pellet Of
| dough from boiling oil without mark
ing your fingers.
| The second meant going before the
idol of the god Tchenghoang and
making an oath, accompanied by i'm
| posing gestures, of absolute innocence.
! Cinnamon are convinced that perjury
here is always punished. So our
friend went to the temple and burnt
incense before the idol. Then with a
firm and solemn voice he proclaimed
his innocence. begging if he were ly-
! ing that his arms might be broken,
| his legs withered, that he might be-
come deaf and dumb and blind. that
| his wife and children might die and
| so on and so on.
| Next day the man had disappeared.
Naturally the inhabitants imagine
| that he swore a false oath and that
| as a result the evil spirits carried
him away. Personally 1 don't care.
Whether he is in the. hell he claimed
to have visited, or merely in the next
village up to his old tricks does not
! Interest me. All know is that where
ever he may be, he still has my ther-
mometer.