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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
CH|NK NAMED IN
 MURDER IS GONE.
Wong Lee, Accused by Fields in Taylor Killing, Quits
 Los Angeles
By Associated rr.ss

Los Angeles, February 23.--A Chi nese bearing the name of Wong Lee the same as that of the Chinese said by Harry M. Fields, in Detroit, to have been a member of the group of three persons he drove to the home of William Desmond Taylor. the night the film director was mur- dered-1eft Los Angeles for China town two days ago, 1t was announced tonight by sheriffs deputies at work on the case.
 The officers said they had nothing to lead them to believe that the Chi nese had anything to do with the staying of Taylor. but they pointed out that his departure was simulta- neous with the first intimations from Detroit that Fields might have inn portant information in connection with the case.
 According to Fields story as tele- graphed by Sheriff Irving I. Coffin of Detroit to Sheriff William l. Trae ger here, the murder of Taylor was plotted in a hop joint at Venice, beach suburb of Los Angeles.
 Arrangements were completed shortly before noon February 1, eight hours or more before Taylor was killed, the telegraphed details con tinued. At that time woman nam ed by Fields as Jennie Moore and Woyz Lee. a Chinese, and an Amer ican, Johnnie Clark, sat in dingy room in Venice and reviewed alleged plans for staying Taylor because of their belief that he was interfering with the drug traffic.
 Fields, who claimed the owner ship of a small automobile said he was offered $900 for driving the murder party to the Taylor apart ments at 404 B, South Alvarado street. Los Angeles, near West Lake park. but he maintained he was not invited to take an active part in the murder.
 At 3:s0 o'clock the afternoon of February l. the statement added. the party left Venice. On the way to Los Angeles they passed through waited until after dark, and at 7:30 o'clock drove to the Taylor apart ; ments. They stopped the car, ac- cording to the language of the so- called confession. mine doors south of the Taylor bungalow on Alvarado street and on the other side of the street"
 At this point. according to the De- troit messages, Fields resorted to his own theory as to what then took place in the Taylor apartments But, Fields was said to have declared, the woman carrying an automatic pistol of heavy calibre, the Chinese holding a .3S-calibre breakdown pistol. and Clarke, carrying blackjack, left the automobile and disappeared into the bungalow court.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
MORE INDICTMENTS
 AGAINST RICHARD
Sports Promoter Now Under Four Indictments and
 Bail Is Raised
By AssocInted Prrss

New York, February 23.--"Tex" Rickard. sports promoter. tonight was under four indictments charging him with misconduct with four school girls. whose ages range from II to f5.
 Two of the indictments alleging ab- duction of Nellie Gasko. IA, and Anna Hess, II, wero returned today by a supreme court grand jury. The other pair. handed down several days ago, charge the promoter with criminal assault upon Alice Ruck, IA, and Sarah Sehoenfeld. l5 over protest of Richards counsel. Justice Wasservo- gel raised Rickard's bail today from S1O000, fixed for him when the first two indictments were returned. to s25, 900.
 The promoter pleaded not guilty to all of the indictments and sup- piled the s25,000 in cash.
 District Attorney Banton asked for $500 bail, saying he understood Rickard no longer was connected with his business interests in this city. including the management of Madison Square Garden. Immeditely, Max D. Steur, the promoters lawyer, argued that Rickard was anxious to remain in New York to establish his innocence and would stay here to that end
 Today's indictments alleged that Rickard abducted the Gasko girl on November 12, last. and the Hess child on December IS, tho latter date being the one on which he was accused of assaulting her companion, Alice Ruck, in a Forty street apartment just a few steps from Fifth avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
JOHN ). HAS NOT
 APPROVED MATCH
Consent for Granddaughters' Marriage to Horseman
 Not Yet Requested
By Associated Press

Chicago, February 23,-Miss Ma thilde Mccormick. 16-year-old daugh- ter of Harold F. Mccormick, president of the International Harvester com pany, and Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc- Cormick has not received the con- sent of her grandfather. John D. Rockefeller, Sr., to her marriage with Max Oser, aged 10, riding master of Berne, Switzerland.
 A close friend of the family today denied that Mir. Rockefeller had given his approval to the match and added that such approval has not as yet been sought.
 Miss Mccormick and her father are going to Florida the latter part of next week, this family friend said. but not with the idea of getting MT. Rockcfeller's permission for her mar riaee to take place.
 Mrs Mccormick, who obtained d divorce two months ago. has so far declined to comment on her daugh- ters' engagement
 It was explained that recent re- ports that Mir. Rockefeller had ap- proved the match were due to a mis- Understanding. A telegram signed Uncle John" expressing congratula- . tions was received and 1t was gener- ally supposed that it came from John D. Rockefeller, ST, but instead it was from John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
FUTURES CONTRACT
 METHOD DEFENDED
Hester DepIoreS Suggestion of Laws to Regulate Cot
 ton Exchanges

New Orleans February 2s.--A de- fense of the futures contract in deal ing with cotton was voiced by Col. Henry G. Hester. for 5l years seere- tary of the New orleans Cotton ex- change, in an address before the com missioners appointed by the various governors of the cotton states. who began study of problems affecting the cotton industry here today,
 We must remember that cotton is the most liquid asset known to the worlds trade and through futures, every minute of the day and night from one end of the year to the other. cotton may be purchased" declared Colonel Hester He deplored the fact that laws have been suggested to Congress whereby the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges may be regulated as to their dealings in futures. He warned the lawmakers present at the conference that while it might lie in the power of the gov ernment to regulate the New York and New Orleans exchanges, that Havre. Liverpool and other foreign exchanges could not be regulated.
 "You are here to devise a system of education for both white and col ored that will teach them to properly grow cotton of high grades" said Colonel Hester. Your aim should be to do away with trash or unspinnable cotton. You will also have to devise some method whereby the public can be enlightened and enlist the aid of the national and state governments to ,get us out of the mud"
 Angus ". Mclean, member Of the war finance corporation and former assistant secretary of the treasury, d delegate from North Carolina fol- lowed Secretary Hester with brief address in which he discussed the IT. nancial phase of the cotton growing problem.
 State Senator R. o. Everett of North Carolina was made temporary char mar of the conference. A committee on organization was named to pre- sent recommendations as to the per manent organization. This commit tee was also asked to formulate permanent program for future action 10 be recommended to the various states represented by commissioners and to seek the cooperation of those states not represented in the confer ence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
EVERY VEST|GE OF
 WRECKAGE OF ROMA HAS BEEN REMOVED
Parts of Great Dirigible Are Taken to Newport News to Be Tested by
 Experts
By Associated Presr

Norfolk, February 2S.-Every ves- tige of the wreckage of the Roma. which crashed to earth at the army base with a consequent loss of s4 lives, had been cleaned up tonight
 Parts of the machine were taken to Newport News where the final in- vestigation into the accident is being held. It is expected these parts will be tested later to ascertain where there might have been defect in ma- terial or workmanship.
 Charles w Dvorack, superintendent of airship construction at McCook field, Dayton, O., stated today fail ure of the control to work was not necessarily the cause of the trouble with the Roma.
 In discussing the letter purporting to have been written by Lieut.. Cliff ford E. Smythe just before the trial flight in Washington, MT. Dvorack re- fused to commit himself, but did state that changes were made in the ship after that trip. New motors were installed and the fuel system changed he said.
 Maj. John D. Rearedon, one of the injured now at the Public Service hospital, said that the wreck of the Roma was undoubtedly due to failure of controls"
 Major Reardon said he was stand ing next to. Lieutenant Burt, who was operating the elevator and when it was seen that the ships nose was dropping, attempts were made to ele- vate it. Everything possible was done to bring the ship back on an even 1xeal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
Ny FaUorite Stories
Tuesday Would Be Just Like Sunday
By IRWIN s. COBB

small Tennessee old member who voted the demo- cratic ticket felt that this devotion the of the Cau prevailed that deserving of recognition a substantial Accordingly the administration promptly created depart men of street ceanngsomehng of which the municipality had seriously felt the need before This department consist of two namely foreman or and staff Naturally, worthy old black conferred the honor being the staff which other political holding public office regular and siderable theess the he reported for cession the convennae he did bring shovel along with him white selected had different obligations which he owed the municipality determined that under him should be idle No had the old show eled the piles rubbish of the from the public horughe than the of the boss spied least half similar mounds which to his thinking seemed to require immediate attention afternoon before psed and chagrned and paned old had time to blow the
  O lul the
 
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 Look ant nohn to do cept jes think things fur to do?'
 Yep said the white brky that's all objust keep busy"
 Well suh said the old softly fin dat you'll prob1y be to ant goin' to be workn omorrer."
 Copyright 1922 by the Central Press Asociatonl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
CYST OF THE NEWS
GENERAL

GENERAL Final session of grand lodge held at Meridian.
 Converse is held on charge of mur- dering his wife. Dixie colleges begin cage meet Tor title today.
 Southern refuses to postpone fi1- ing Of maximum rates. Varied dealings could not hold up an early rise. FIeecy staple takes m upward swing yesterday.
 STATE Eight held at Mobile on charge of using mails to idefraud. Tuscaloosa man Is shot to death by robber.
 LOCAL Everybody k digging m now. Homemade goods posters denied show window use. Cast iron pipe orders assured or demand on blast furnace production Large crowds attend state cage tourney.
 Louisville man K under arrest on forgery charge. First Methodist church plan fif- teenth anniversary. Chief McDuff probes whipping of Clark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
OsEK DECLINES TO
 DISCUSS NARRIAGE

Zurich Switzerland, February 28.-- Swiss society may buzz with inter- est but Max Oser simply does not talk about his forthcoming marriage with Miss Mathilde Mccormick, line youthful granddaughter of John b. Rockefeller. What the public learns of him must generally be gleaned from his friends who are willing to talk
 .'He is one of the finest horsemen in the Swiss army" said an officer friend today.
 Oser lost his father and mother long ago and he now lives alone. He has only one younger brother who is at present in South America. He has no relatives whatever in the United States. He is of studious and artistic character and neither has nor seeks many friends. Some of his friends chaffed him a year. ago con cerning his romance with Miss Me Cormick whom he met when she was eight years old.
 According to the Swiss marriage law. the fiancee will be obliged to 90 through the same civil marriage process as Mrs. William B. Leeds. who married Prince Christopher of Greece, and other prominent Ameri- cans who haze been welded in Switzerland. The bride-to-be must reside in the country at least three weeks before marriage. The couple must have their full names, ages, professions and residences placarded in large print on the wall of the town hall facing the street for three weeks before the ceremony. The SWISS law which allowed marriage as foreign consulates was repealed by the federal government in 1911
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
FIVE KILLED IN
 WRECK OF FLYER
By Associated Press

Minneapolis. February 23.-Five trainnen were killed and five injured and scores of passengers shaken up when train No. 10, through flyer on the Great Northern railway, and a snow blow collided head-on between Delano and Montrose, 30 miles west of here, late today.
 The dead were buried under the wreckagc of three engines. No. 10 was bound for Minneapolis, carrying a heavy load and pulled by two en- zines.
 Passengers from trains Nos. 14 and 32, which had been stalled, were being taken to the Twin Cities on No. 10.
 All the dead trainmen were resi- dents of St. Paul and Willmar, Minn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
Grand Jury duplicates
 Negro in Recent Ak Case

bosom, drew 1t and began firing. Mrs. Loreno. who was in the kitchen adjoining the store, was attracted by the shots and came to the door with n baby in her arms. She was also struck over the head. The two victims were taken to the HiIIrAn hospital whey for days they struggled for IF hey remained in the hos- <M, about three weeks. appeared at the court yesterday to testify before
 grand jury. Gardner with
 ate Avery, was arrested Feb ruary 1 by Special Deputy Sher- if Thomas r. Street. Gardner wns taken before LorenO at the hospital then and 1t Is said was identified. He has been in the county jail since on two charges of assault with intent to murder.
 The grand jury brought 2S indictments yet to he made pub lie. Recess was tnken until March 15.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24

Tom Lee Gardner. negro, was indicted yesterday by the grand jury in one of BIrmingham's eele- brated assault cases.
 Ills is accused of striking Tony LorenO and his wife. Rosa, over the heads at their store at Twelfth street and Avenue D and robbinE them of $s. Two fn- dictments are returned, one fo- robbery and the other for as~ 50 with intent to murder. ~
 The assault on the .A
 and his wife occur. 70 -y night, January 25. A -ame into the store, accordf to Lo- reno. and asked for some meal. As he leaned over to scoop up the meal he was knocked over the head The negro then walked toward the rear of the store.
 Lorenos who had a pistol In hIa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
By Associated Press

Washington, February 23.-The longstanding dispute between North Carolina and South Caro- lima as to which state produced Andrew Jackson was debated in the House today. but there was no decision.
 A photostat copy of letter by Jackson saying he was born in South Carolina was presented by Representative Stevenson of that state because there had been eengrafted into the perma- nent volume of the Congressional Record the myth that Jackson was born in North Carolina"
 Representative Hammer of North Carolina, standing up for his own state, insisted the records accepted as authentic showed beyond question that North Caro-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
Guaranteed Merchandise

following the New York Tribune speaks for itself. Mr Dan Petit, Business Manager Age-EersId. Birmingham, Ala.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24

tee on military affairs today that Ford would so agree. He had never before agreed to do more than in- vestigate the feasibility of fertii- izer production.
 The testimony of Gray Silver, legis- lative agent of the American Farm Bureau federation, in favor of the Ford offer today, was disappointing to Alabamians. But the testimony of R. r. Bower, an officer Of the same organization. was most effective.
 Representative Oliver of the Sixth Alabama district said; '"rhe testi- mony of Bower was all that could be desired by advocates of the Ford of fer. He was the most forceful wit ness that l ever heard testify"
 Thomas W. Martin. president of the Alabama Power company, will take the stand tomorrow before the com mittee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
What the Gentleman From North Carolina
 Said to the One From South Carolina
 tn Regard to Andrew Jackson's Birth

lima was entitled to the honor
 As the discussion became heated Representative Byrns of Tennessee broke in.
 While there may be doubt as 10 where Jackson was born," he declared, there was no doubt as 10 where he moved. once he reached his majority. He went to the volunteer state of Ten nessee, there to live and die"
 During Che friendly wrangling members wanted to know ex- actly what it was that the gov ernor of North Carolina said to the governor of south Caro- lima on ceptain historic ocea- sion antedating the Volstead law. Mir. Stevenson swept away all doubt on this point by de- claring chat he actually said
 Ut is a devil of long time be- tween drinks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24

SupGfllclal lnNeStigatlon.
 "i feel reasonably sure" said
 the senator, that the Ford con
 tract will be accepted by the Sen-
 ate. Of course, if the admin
 istration brings pressure to bear
 an entirely new phase, Of the sit
 uatiOn would be presented. But
 at the present time, the outlook
 iS propitious. l cnn say nothing
 respecting its changes in the
 House"
 Representative Almon of the Eighth Alabama district, however, says that there is no danger insofar as sthe House is concerned. Every one agrees that Mir. B'ords willing ness to guarantee in the contract the production of minimum quantity of finished fertilizer. will materially el- nance the chance of his contract for adoption. W. B. Mayo, Ford's en- gineer informed the House commit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
Leigh Hunts Letter


 February IS, 1922. Ed Barrett Esq,
 Editor Birmingham Age Herald.
 Birmingham. Ala.
 My Dear Ed Barrett: Your devo- tion to the homeland and particu- larly to the south. stand out in my recollection of you and the days when we were pals together in the far east; so long ago you may have for gotten those interesting days, but doubt it.
 T haven't been able to follow your career as closely as l should have liked. owing to absence in foreign lands many of the intervening years, but am sure you must be the same E Barrett, always on the job, when ever the interests of your southland are threatened.
 Now, the purpose of this letter is to call your attention to danger that threatens our cotton planters if they continue many more years planting the normal acreage. If l can convince you of their peril, I am sure you will exert yourself to awaken them to the importance of making other plans for the future. It would seem that with the ever rising cost of labor and the constantly increas- ing need of fertilizer. your planters have enough to worry them, but even with these uragements, l believe they might prosper. were it not for a more formidable obstacle which the immediate future will surely develop. The last f20 years. except during the Civil war, England has been getung three -fourths of her cotton from us. the other one-fourth from Egypt and the West Indies, which means the Lancashire mills afforded us land ling place for the bulk Of our sur rAlus cotton. Nuw, My Dear sarrett,4st want to go on record as predicting that in less than IS years, England will be growing within her empire all the cotton she can spin. with a surplus of raw cotton to compete with us in other markets; besides, her spindles will have increased rather than diminish d in number.
 Cotton in Sudan
 When organized the Sudan Plantations company, limited, In 1905,
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-24
MERITS OF BL|MP ID BE SUBJECT OF
 GENERAL INQUIRY
Purchase or Construction of New Vessels of the Roma Type Likely to Be
 Abandoned
By Associated Press

Washington, February 2S.-An iu= quiry by the army air service into the whole question of military value of the lighter than-air craft is eN- pected to grow out of the Romo dis aster. Officers of the air service said today that such an inquiry because of the loss of the Roma had entirely upset training and operation pro- grams for that branch of the serv- ice. From the inquiry. it is under stood, will come a decision as to whether there is sufficient military value, direct or indirect. in the em- ployment of the army of dirigible aircraft of great size to warrant recommendations to Congress for the acquisition of new craft of the light CT than air type.
 Secretary Weeks in this connecticf. said today he had not discussed with his military advisers the replace ment of the Roma, but felt there was no justification for asking the pur- chase or construction of d new ves- sel of the same type.
 Cause of Accident Fixed
 The secretary of war, after con ference today with Major General Patrick, chief of the army air service. who had just returned from Langley field where he made d personal pre- liminary investigation of the disas- ter, was represented as satisfied on the present information that the ae. cident was due to the breaking of elevating rudder controls or of the supports for the eleyating gear and Chat there was no structural defects involved of 8 nature that probably could have been detected in advance. Mir. Weeks said, however, that he would have department records in Yestigated fully to see what reports had been made by operating officers at any time as 10 the condition ot the ship.
 He had no knowledge, he said, of any complaint in connection with the ability of the crew to control .he flight of the Roma except for tire motor difficulties which led to the replacing of the original Italian on- zines with American built Liberty motors.
 Should Have Reported
 If any officer of the Roma had weaknesses of the vessel or strue- tural or other defects which ren- dered her in the least unsafe for operation. MT. Weeks said, il was the duty of that officer to report the facts to his superiors for the protee- ton of himself and Of his associates on the ship.
 Secretary Weeks and General Pat rick took issue with published state ments seeking to blame Congress in connection with the Roma disaster
 T have noticed articles in the press said the secretary in formal statement. fin which Congress IS blamed for the loss of lives in con nection with the destruction of the Roma. Such an attack on Congress is unjust and is in no sense justified by the sentiments of officials of the WAT department or officers of the air service of the army An in- vestigation is being conducted to de termine the cause of this most un- fortunate disaster and specific recom- mendations may result therefrom.'