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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
DR. WOMAN TELLS gF
 AMERICAS NEEDS
Armenia's Claim to American Sympathy Told at Real
 tors Luncheon

Gripping tales of gruesome atroci- ties perpetrated in Armenia by the Turks and the Kurds were narrated to members of the Birmingham Real Estate board by pr. James Yonan at the luncheon given at ! o'clock yes terday at the Southern club.
 Armenia, as the oldest Christian nation in the world. has every claim upon the sympathtes of America in her time of need, pr. Yonan declared. Dr. Yonan Is a prominent Assyrian, and represented Armenia at the peace conference.
 Armenians have been fighting for Christianity for more than l,50o years. Millions of inhabitants have been tortured and killed by the mer- clless Turks. making them martyrs to their religious beliefs, he said.
 Armenia ranged herself on the side of the allies during the war. and lis now paying the penalty. he said, through the butchery of the women and children by the Turk and his vassal. Those who are not massa- cred roam through the wastes of what was once -cities and fertile fields, naked and without food other than roots and barks of trees, he asserted.
 It is to relieve these conditions that he is making an appeal to Amer jeans. the only people who can help the starving women and chil irsn of CT ristian Armenia. he declared
 Dr. Yonan was introduced by Miss Gertrude $. Pearson of Chicago, worker for the Near East Relief, who will be in Birmingham for several weeks in connection with the cam raign. Miss Pearson spent two years in Armenia. ministering to the wretched inhabitants. and was visi- bly affected yesterday during the luncheon. when Dr. Woman spoke of the atrocities of the Turk in Ar menia.
 William T. Giles. supreme lecturer of the Loyal Order of Moose, spoke of Mooseheart,. the proposed home of the aged and infirm and Moose ideals.
 Col. Hartley A. Moon. adjutant gem eral of Alabama, was also a guest at the luncheon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10

fore trains will be able to run into Pueblo again.
 Here in Colorado Springs the dam age has been great and is growing all the time. Joywild and Stratton park are under water, and part of Manitou has been washed away. Rux- ton avenue caved in this morning and no one is allowed on the streets there this morning. Mountain creek TUT 5 through the springs and many .icdses along it have been swept away. Out of the mountain passes great vol umes of water are pouring dowu into here and going into the Fountain river, causing great damage between here and Pueblo and at Pueblo. It is still raining here, and there is no telling yet what the consequences will be. There are still great dams hold ing. Should they break there will be another page written in the disaster book that will by far surpass any thing that has happened yet.
 Caught in Mountains
 There have been many people caught in the mountains and many hair-rais- mfg escapes have been reported. It was pitiful sight at Bruins Inn, four miles up North canon. when the Pue-
 
 day a big school picnic was being held there by Puebloans and their school children. They were cut off there and they were all frantic to hear from their people at home. Up to date there has been no wire communication with Pueblo, and this once merry party of picnickers is being cared for by people here and they are frantic, almost fearing their fathers and mothers and loved ones have been lost.
 The Red Cross, Elks, Masons, churches. Salvation Army, all have thrown their resources and energy in- to the rescue and are doing great good there. They are clothing and feeding the homeless.
 Men worth millions yesterday are homeless and penniless today. Some of the leading men who yesterday owned great stores have nothing to show today but devastated, wrecked business, with all stock washed away and building wrecked by the water.
 Some of the leading men and women of Pueblo lay in morgues, silenced by one of the greatest disasters ever re- corded in the west.
 PitifuI Scenes
 Here and there you will see a child crying for it's parents, a mother cry ing for her loved ones, a sister cry ing for a brother. and so on. No mat ter how stout your heart may be, your eyes fill with tears when you pass among the refugees and see just what has befallen them.
 An eyewitness was talking to me who was at the depot in the board ing house district (here the water stood 15 feet) said: 'I nearly went mad standing on the roof of the depot when I saw rooming house after rooming house full of screaming wom- en and children tumble over and go racing down with the torrent"
 There is no way of estimating the dead. It will take time and the waters will have to recede before any accu- rate list can be compiled.
 wish I could send some pictures, and may tomorrow. of conditions there. But any way you see it has been an awful disaster. These people are asking aid. Every one out here is giving and doing. Birmingham, big, broad minded and loving, no doubt will add her mite to Pueblo's needs. Sincerely, JOHN D. KOERBER. 115 S. Sth St. Col. Springs, Col
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10

Colorado Springs, Col June 6, 1921.
 Dear Age Herald: Being near the scene of one of the greatest disasters the west has ever known, 1 thought would give you few sideiights on what is going on in the way of res cue work and amount of damage done by the flood.
 Pueblo is 40 miles from here and has practically been wiped out, all ex- cept the portion that Is built on the Mesa. The Arkansas river runs through the town and is held by a big levee on the west side. This break ing caused the most damage. Great walls of water came pouring down Main street and it rose a foot a min ute. until at the Vail hotel it stood Is feet high.
 The rise was so rapid that people did not have time to get to higher ground. and it was here the loss of life seems to be the heaviest The Fountain river on the east flooded, too, and this caused more life loss. as lots of the refugees had gone on this side of town seeking safety. Two trains. Denver and Rio Grande and Missouri Pacific were lost at Pueblo one at the station and the other one on big bridge there. Twenty-Five out of about 200 estimate ted were saved from the two trains.
 The lowlands are completely washed away. There are bodies of men. wom- en and children and stock floating around in the great made lake that have pot been rescued. Every able bodied man has been called on to help and relief parties from here and all the neighboring towns have respond ed and arc working day and night doing what they can at rescuing the dead, building bridges and alIevIating the suffering.
 Doctors and nurses are leaving in automobiles by the score from here today. The roads are impossible now and great gangs of men are working night and day trying to fix them so they may bring aid to the stricken town.
 The first man to reach there was Ford C. Prick. reporter on the Evening Telegraph here. He went in an air plane, but the water was so high he could not land. Later Jack Lawson of the Gazette planed down and land ed near there and has been giving the news to the outside world by phone. Sunday a few trucks of provisions WcHL tHTOuSlt put tOudy more DIE res ervoirs in the mountains have broken and water at Pueblo is again rising. adding more death and destruction there.
 Everything is being done that is possible and many men have opened their stores here to trucks to load full of needed things and take them there.
 Many heartrending scenes have been caused by the flood and your hair stands straight up on your head to read about just what has happened there.
 MT. "Bill@ Hawkins and family and Nick Hickman of Birmingham were there on a visit from here the day of the flood, and just did get away from there in time to miss 1t. Mir. Hawkins said the clouds were hanging low and looked menacing and they decided that they would pull out for home here, and well they did, for if they had decided to stay they would no doubt have been lost there--some of them, any way.
 Bridges All Conc
 Every bridge in this part of the state is gone, and it will be weeks be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
SPEAKERS ID TELL OF HUMAN NEEDS
 AND SUFFERING
Campaign for Near East Re- lief to Start-Miss Pear son Outlines Distress
 ing Situation

1nlSS 0eIbIuu Ao. cal oOl O1 SHi- cago, who recently returned to the United States after an IS months tour of the near east, where she was relief worker, arrived in Birming- ham yesterday to take part in the Near East Relief campaign, which will continue throughout the month of June.
 Miss Pearson is national speaker for the Near East movement, and will di. rect the various appeals which will bt made to the public of Birmingham through the churches. the, schools, clubs and civic organizations.
 Graphically Miss Pearson outlined the distressing situation now existing among the peoples of those stricken countries.
 "The United States saved 1000 900 lives last year by organized, united effort. There are that many human beings of our own white race who now stretch forth their bony arms crying for bread from our flour bins. We have done our part some pros- porous people will blandly say, but if must be somebody's business to play the good Samaritan's part.
 states Organized
 livery state in the union has It's calls added to calls, and drives driven into drives until some people are desperate over the demands made upon America Yet every state in the union has gotten into line, fully or ganized under the Near East Relief. chartered by an act of Congress, Au- gust 6, 1919 and as a nation we are going to save the near east
 .These people are white folks they are highly intelligent, and deep ly religious They have furnished martyrs, not by the hundreds, but by hundreds of thousands They arSvery arduous and truly industrious people; they were our allies during he war and helped to save the day.
 "Birmingham is being called upon not to put on a drive but to hear and heed a unique appeal Ciuos' lodges, churches and organizations generally are asked to let one or the several speakers now in the city set forth the SLOIy OL hulioh t'o and need.
 Nc Personal Canvass
 ssNo personal canvass will be made, but it is asked that orphans, llo,o00 of whom must be fed and clothed daily, be adopted by individuals. It takes only $5 per month or sSo per year to feed an orphan; $1So to feed, clothe, house and teach one. The slo- gan of our campaign will be, Say It With Flour and it is expected that half of the money raised in Birming- ham will be devoted to the purchase of flour from local dealers, and the other half will be used for medicine. clothes and other necessary articles.
 Col. T. O. Smith is chairman of the Birmingham organization. Other members are Jay Smith. vice chair man; o. L. Bum, Claude Estes and Mrs. J. R. Hornady.
 The speakers team. which will visit all the churches, lodges. clubs and civic organizations is composed of Richard w. Lewis, leader; c. H. Moor man, formerly of Birmingham; pr. Jesse Woman and wife. and pr. Isaac Yonan. native Assyrians, and Miss Pearson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
ANTI-FLY CAMPAIGN
 TO START MONDAY, )FLyLESS CITY CLAIMED

Birmingham is soon to be flyless, according to George M. Formby. who was in the city yesterday.
 He is blaming to conduct vigor- ous anti-fly campaign beginning Monday The agent used in destroy ing the flies will be a specially de- signed fly trap, specimen of which was on display at the city hall yesterday. Each trap is capable of catching literally bushels of flies, and with d minimum of 10000 traps, which he intends distributing over the city, he claims the final day of the Birmingham house flies is near at hand
 The officials of the city health de- partment assured MT. Fromby Of their hearty support in the cam paign, and the Chamber of Commerce promised to act on the health boards recommendations.
 Mir Fromby has just come from a successful campaign in New Or leans. The proceeds of the campaign will be given to the Anti -Tubercu- losis society.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
MORLEY MINISTRIES
 NET $400 FOR THE
 WLAM RELIEF FUND

Dave Moxley, who promoted and the proceeds to be applied to the re- lief of the distressed unemployed of that community, announced last night that over s400 had been taken in at the two performances given Tuesday and Wednesday nightsf
 The amount has been placed in the hands of three prominent business men of Vivian to be distributed where most needed.
 Mir. Moxley, who took leading part in the performances. gave much of his time and talent to making the affair success. and expressed his appreciation of the other members Of the cast who materially aided in the success attained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
A DRY MONTH


 This morning will mark the beginning of the thirtieth day, exactly a month, since anything like a healthy shower of rain has fallen in Birmingham.
 This is the statement made yesterday by k. c. Horton, the local weather observer, who says that the worst part of the long dry spell is that he can see no relief in sight.
 Also, according to records at the weather bureau this morning will mark the beginning of the eighteenth day in which on all the proceeding days the mercury has registered at least S9 de- degrees in the shade at the hot test periods. At the hottest pe- riod yesterday the mercury reg istered 93 degrees in the shade and the low for yesterday was Tl which was early yesterday morning, says the weather man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
CUBAN PRESIDENT
 CALLS WELLS ID
 BANK CONFERENCE
Island Republic Without h. stitutionaI Supervision of Finances = Planning
 to Adopt System

Oscar Wells, president of the First National bank of Birmingham and member of the Cuban bank liqui- dation commission, will leave Bir- mingham today on another official visit to Cuba in connection with his duties as member of the liquida- tion commission.
 MT. Wells has been summoned by the new President, Alfredo Zayas, and presumably the object of the President is for conference with the liquidation commission with re- gard to new banking laws tending to better regulate the Cuban banks than heretofore. and in so doing to pre- vent recurrence of the banking crisis through which Cuba has re- gently passed.
 Just what the Cuban President wishes of the commission at this time I am unable to say, and will not know until I reach Cuba" said Mir. Wells. The duties of the liquidation commission are well known. It was for the purpose of handling the tam g;ed banking affairs of Cuba
 Give Counsel
 Having a representative of the federal reserve system of this coun- try on the commission was for the purpose of extending to the Cubans such counsel, suggestion and the like as might be of aid to them in adjust ing their affairs.
 At what point the Cuban mem bers of the commission and the new President have arrived in forming plans for the future of the banks 1 do not know, and will not until 1 arrive and they inform me, but Presi- dent Zayas has asked my presence, and I shall leave for Cuba Friday at noon"
 In an Associated Press dispatch from Havana, referring to the sum- mons of Mir. Wells extended by Pres ident Zayas. it is said that: Plans for bank legislation reforms had ad- vanced to a stage that necessitated the presence of the reserve boards representative"
 Plan Better Banking
 The tenor of the dispatch indicates that the new Cuban President and the Cuban members of the bank liqui- dation commission have formulated some tentative plans for better bank ing laws and wish to have the bene- fit of the advice and experience of the American member.
 Cuba has loose banking laws, or rather no real banking laws. Cuban banks are simply chartered and then go their way. There is an absence of such checking and auditing systems as the United States and the various states have. They are not inspected and supervised as they are in this country.
 The intention of the Cuban officials and liquidation commission members, it is understood. is to put through system of banking laws providing for the inspection and supervision such as exist in this country. They ap- pear ready to go ahead on the adop- tion of reform bank legislation, and hence the call for MT. Wells
 Local Trade
 Much interest exists in Birming-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
MAIL LETTERS EARLY
 URGES POSTMASTER

Postmaster R. B. Smyer is still urg- ing the business and professional men of Birmingham to mail their letters early in the day. There is q tendency to wait until five or six o'clock when the offices and stores are closed before mailing the letters of the day. Not only does this prac- tice inconvenience the officials of the post office, but it leads to poor
 CT mail service and delay in send ing the letters off on the night trains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
WITNESS UNAVAILABLE

An eye witness in the case or Charlie Mareo, who was acquitted of the murder of Joe Rose yester- day morning, was taken to the state hospital at Tuscaloosa yesterday by Walter Dean. transfer agent for the county.
 c. A. McWilliams, the witness. failed to appear in court when the case was called and an attachment was issued for him. He was arrested and lodged in the county jail It Is stated that when brought into court he seemed demented. It was stated in court he had previously been an inmate of the institution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10

B. H. O'Brien, salesman for the R. D. Burnett Cigar company, stated yesterday to an Age-Herald report CT thar occupants of the apartment house had been awakened twice in the earlier part of the night by peo- pie who they believed were trying to steal one of the several automo- piles which were parked in the street in front of the apartments.
 Twenty on Watch
 Mir OBrien stated that about 20 men in the house kept watch for awhile, but as the suspected thieves did not return they all went back to bed except two, who were to keep watch for an hour or so and then they were to be relieved by others. Mir. O'Brien stated that this watch was kept up because during the past week more than dozen attempts had been made to steal the cars.
 Shortly before ? o'clock yesterday morning Mir. O'Brien stated that he was awakened by one of the watch CTS, who said someone was trying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10

ham in regard to the stage of the bank liquidation matter in Cuba. Bir~ mingham manufacturers of sugar houses and sugar house machinery, as well as manufacturers of soil and water pipe and coke do large busi- ness on the island when it Is in a normal state. They base hope of a revival of normal trade relations there on the rehabilitation of the Cuban banking system. and the es- tablishment of such additional safe- guards in the banking business there as will permanently atabilize finan- cial conditions and avoid the trade interruption that has recently oc- cured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10

to get one of the cars started. MT. O'Brien said they awakened others ia the house and they went to a window to watch while another went to a phone to call the police.
 Shot Rang Out
 While they were waiting for the police to arrive the thief, it is al- legged, attempted to get out of the car and as he did so a shot rang out and he was struck one time in the shoulder. Mir. O'Brien stated he fired the shot which struck Mil Ter, after called upon to halt, and that the minute he did so Hud- son automobile at the foot of the hill below the apartments, with three men in it, started off. and that Mill Ter attempted to get to it before IL got away.
 Brown and Wiseman, police off cers, arrived soon afterward and car ried Miller to theN Hillman hospital, where his injuries were dressed. He was later carried to the South High lands infirmary. Miller is said to be resting well, but his wound Is still considered dangerous by attending
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
TO START REVIVAL

At Il o'clock next Sunday morning a two-weeks' revival campaign will begin at North Highlands Methodist church, Seventeenth and Jasper streets, J. E. Norris, pastor. The Rev. l.. D. Patterson of Menlo, Ga, will have charge of the services and the Rev. A J. Notestin of Anniston will direct the singing.
 The Rev. John Barton Reese Texas will also be associated with this evangelistic team. He will have charge of the young peoples meet ings and will direct in personal work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
GRAND JURY WILL
 MAKE FINAL REPORT

The Jefferson county grand jury will meet this morning at 9 o'clock at which time the work of investigG- ton started several weeks ago will be continued. Many cases will be taken up at thfs time and it is prob able that the final report will be made to Judge H. P. Heflin this aft ernoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
Birmingham Man Writes Of Colorado Springs Damage
 and South TolUard Pueblo
Mantou Also Sufferer-Stratton Park Under Water. Many Picnic and Outing Parties Caught in Noun tains-Marooned School Children Unable
 to Get Back to Pueblo

John D. Koerb former empoye of The Ageerad but Colorado Springs, writes the following fleets of the flood Springs territory along the Fountain and river
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
A automobile Owners Set
 Watch for Alleged Gang
 of Car heiUes, One Is Shot

Miller 20 this morning in the South Highlands inrmary
 
  Al D. Stafford White Famont 1t and aven and
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-10-25
POWER COMPANY SUES
Cotton Mills Refused to Pay Increased
Rates

Cotton MlIlS heruseo TO ray "S'
Rates.
Suits were filed last Thursday by
the Southern Power company of Char
lotte against 10 leading cotton mills
in this section of the state for alleged
failure to pay their power bills as al
lowed by the last rate increase under
the ruling of the Corporation COM
mission.
The aggregate of the suits amount
to somewhat between $50,OO0,000 and
$4,000.
The initial papers were filed in
Greensboro by w. S. OBJ. Robinson,
of the legal staff of the plaintiff COM
pany. The hearings will be in federal
court for the Western district OF
North Carolina at time and place to
be fixed by the court.
The 10 mills against whom the suits
were brought are: The Jewell cotton
mills of Thomasville; Wiscasset mills
company, of Albermarle; A. NJ. Smyre
Manufacturing company of Gastonia; !;
Patterson Manufacturing company, of
China Grove; Kesler Manufacturing
company of Salisbury; Groves mills,
Qnc.) of Gastonia; Efird Manufacturing
company, of Albcrmarle; Carbarrus
cotton mills of Concord; ArazOn cot
ton mills of Thomasville, and the
Cannon Manufacturing company, of
Concord and Kannapolis.-
The suits represent the difference
between the old rates and the new
rates. which is greater in some cases
than in others, though each of the
suits Involves amounts well above $3,-
900. There has been no difficulty in
collecting the charges under the old
rates.
The bills unpaid are for August and
September.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-10-25
PAYING TAXES WITH CORN
Money is Scarce but There is Plenty
of Corn in Georgia.

The following story relating to 4
very rovel way of paying taxes was
e; thered at the Richmond County
Court House from one who has re-
Gently returned from Evan, Colum-
bia county, and who actually saw
taxes paid in that manner, relates an
Augusta. Ga, dispatch.
1t seems tl.at tn" offic!%l: OF CO.
lumbia county have hit upon a most
convenient and unique system Tor
collecting taxes H. that they allow the
citizens Of that county to pay their
road tax in corn, not the liquid but
the commodity. The corn is valued
at one dollar a bushel and is accepted
at that rate in lieu of cash in the pay
merit Of road taxes. Many of the clti-
2ens are taking advantage of that mover
way of selling crop and paying their
taxes by the wagon load.
The probable reason for this unique
method of collecting taxes is the fact
that money is SO scarce and the frelGht
rates so high that the profit from Il
crop would he very little more TO the
farmer if il were sold than If ii were
used to pay the taxes and also the fact
that Columbia county needs corn as
food for It's stock The idea has It's
aprcal and its advantages to both the
county and the farmer.