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Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-31

The man was roughly dressed. In
the pockets were dice, a pack of
cards, cigarettes and $1.06.
-Four days the body lay in the
morgue, unidentified. Then exami-
nation of navy records showed by
f~ingerprints the slain man was Clar-
ence Peters, of Haverhill, Mass, q
sailor during the war, and recently
enlisted in the marines at Paris
Island, S. c.
CHAPTER II
The day following Petnr3' iden-
LITIGATION a lawyer phoned Sheriff
Werner that Walter S. Ward, 81.
vice president of the Ward Baking
Company, living in the neighboring
suburb of New Rochelle, would sur
render as the slayer of Peters. The
sheriff waited from Saturday to
Monday.
Ward surrendered. He said he
had shot Peters in self defense as
the elimination of a bIackmail plot.
in which he had been forced to pay
100000 in sums of from $1,000 to
$4,000 "in order to keep sIme Sc
cret they knew about" He refused
to tell the secret-but SAID a final
payment of $4,000 was demanded
the night of May Is under penalty
of death for himself, his wife and
his two small children.
CHAPTER III
1t was 4 a. m. May 16, Ward said,
when he drove in his coupe to meet
Peters, Charley Ross and Jack"
They appeared in a roadster, he said
- TDNNo.- -1.x.l11 ,-t@ L. $40
with drawn revolver. Ward, who Is
left-handed, jumped out toward him
seized his assailant's right hand with
his own right. so that when the
others gun went off the bullet went
through the coupe window; stimuli
~taneously he drew his own gun with
his left hand and shot Peters
through the chest. .
Peters spun and fell dead in the
road. Ward ran toward the other
car. and exchanged eight or nine
shots, he says. with the other two.
who then started their machine and
fled. Ward left the body lying in
the road,
CHAPTER "
With the sheriff, deputies and de-
tectives Ward toured Broadway
CdDdTetS Ill ANcW ioih, StaiNiiiS "
Charley Ross and Jack" He
called n a race track gambler
and the other a hired gunr1an.
Young Mrs. Ward said: TIN with
my husband"
Allen r. Campbell, Wards lawyer
said he had a package of blackmail-
ing letters. He refused to say
whether q woman was concerned in
A. .Jzt hut nIy,it+o1 If ga rto6 at
a race track.
Ward was held for the grand jury
and released in $4,000 bal.
CHAPTER v.
Sensation. Ward admitted that
six weeks before, he took poison and
narrowly escaped death. The doc
tor and Mrs. Ward said it was acct
dental.
Sale. Mrs. Ward: There is no wo-
man in the case. l have absolute
confidence in my husband and know
he will be entirely cleared"
Ward is said to have confessed the
entire blackmail story to his vito
Immediately after the shooting.
Wards father. who returned from
Europe the day of the shooting. re-
ported to have refused his sons
last appeal for blackmail money,
saying: I'll not spend a cent for
blackmail, but any amount to Jail
the plotters."
Said Peters father: Wards story
sounds fishy."
CHAPTER VI.
Criticism became rife against dis
trict attorney, sheriff and coroner.
Coroner Fitzgerald puzzled by dis
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-31

injured at Smith and King streets
late last night. when Augustus En-
gelson, of $50 State street. ran into
four year old Constantine CASTILLO
of State street. The child is said
to have stepped in front of the En-
gelson car. Patrolman James No
Ian had the child taken to DIR.
George w. Fithian where 1t was
found that its hurts were confined to
minor bruises.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-31

between Gary, Ind. and Chicago.
The wreck according to the police.
was to have marked the beginning
of a new reign of terror on railroads
throughout the country.
Frank r. Hartman was held as
the ~ringleader of the alleged con-
spiracy. His companions are ]. J.
Boyle and c. A. Iagham. who. the
police salad are striking New York
Central shopmen. At last two other
men are sought.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-31

rest of three men early today Chi
cago police declared they had barred
a plot to dynamite the western
express Of the New York Central
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-31

LOOKING o a place to live? Read
the real estate ads in the classified ad
section.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09

A visitor reached the White House with fly trap guaranteed to rid the world of flies in two days and offered to donate $5,ooo,Ooo to President Harding. A secret service man gently, but firmly led him away.
 < An old-fashioned father has bobbed up in Lincoln Center, Kan.s Arrested for trying to kill his daughters suitor, he said, q wasn't going to stand for my daughter marrying a dude"
 When "perfect loverS showed his latest love that she was Number 51 on his list she shot him. You might say there were lex tenuating circumstances" There is no use speculating about what will happen to Russia when Lepin dies. When country has struck bottom it can't go any farther in that direction. bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives to make the daisy the national flower. For obvious reasons the violet wouldn't do. Q Chemists say most of the bootleg whisky sold is poisonous. Their pronouncements don't seem to be hurting the trade.
 < < #
 
 is laboring under Perhaps he mutters Wood row. in his troubled dreams.
  One reason why Lillian Russell was so pop ular was the fact that she kept her artistic temperament under control.
 * < < The supreme court has refused to deter mine what ouija board is. Just offhand we'd say it was nuisance. There is little doubt that the Philippines need General Wood more than the University of Pennsylvania.
 x The trouble about most tperfect lovers" is that they don't know the first principles of perfect love-
 * < Probably due to Birmingham's enlightened example, two men were flogged in shreve- port.
 x < New York bod carriers are paid ST day. As cub reporter might truthfully remark Mot bad"
 * After while people will talk about flying around the world, with extreme nonchalance
 < < < For country that has been sung about so sweetly, Ireland is mess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 A painful duty is best performed by substitute.
 A corner in grain isn't necessarily on the square.
 It is easier to hear of good luck than it is to see it.
 Two heads are better than one-except in the family.
 Drinking to mans health never prolonged his life.
 It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
 We appreciate hard facts when they come in the shape of silver dollars.
 Gentlemen are necessarily conceited be- cause gentleman never forgets himself.
 There may be plenty of room at the top, but victims of that tired feeling never reach *.
 And the more energy man expends in talk ing the less he will have left to assist him in making good
 A New York physician has succeeded in making a mute woman talk; still some folks imagine that it is impossible for doctor U outlive his usefulness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
NEW YORK AND GENOA

From the London Spectator.
 If the Americans had felt able to attend the conference they would have found good deal to remind them of their own superb New York It is true that the architects of the Middle Ages and of the Renaissance did not dare to build as high as their soaring brethren of New York. They pever even dreamed of houses LOGO feet high. But the problem was the same, and according to their mechanical powers they faced it in the same way. Yet in truth the two cities thoungh they may have certain essential resemblance, are more marked by contrasts than by similarities The Latin spirit has been true to itself in Genoa, and it is at once beautiful and exact, smiling and regular. A true product of the North. New York shows a Nordic heart. It faces the world with expression aloof and almost ter rible in the magnifcence of the imagination that has raised and crowned it's mountains of stone-a lowered city if ever there was one. But it shows, also, that dark and true and evea tender is the North. The place destined to be not only the greatest of all cities as well as the greatest in which the English ideals and Eng fish culture followed is far subtler, far more full of turbuent mystery, than Genoa is or ever has been or can be. There is a touch of tragedy in the American city in spite of her splendor and her strength. She is the lady of the ocean, seated amid her nnumerabe ships and her incalculabe wealth. The sounds and winds of the sea are in her streets, and for all her apparent hardness and glitter and crude efficiency she has caught something of the tumule, the sternness and emlancholy of Atlantic waves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09

firm withdrawing entirely from butter-making to handle milk exclusively, and another lean ing preferentially to the milk business This leaves one strictly butter concern, compara- lively small one at that.
 Is Birmingham going to make good on It's promises to these farmers? Is it going to see that the butterfat being offered is accepted? Is it going to get behind the butter-making business here and see that it becomes real industry?
 The Selma creameries paid out $24oo, GOO to farmers for butterfat last year and ship cheese and butter by carloads. They have in- creased their capital by 100 per cent. Their butter, being of superior quality, market is easily found for every pound~
 The agricultural committee of the Chamber of Commerce is busy this week trying to save Birninghams reputation in northern Alabama and devise ways and means of keeping a promise, besides establishing a permanent in- dustry. When this committee comes to the business men of Birmingham with their plans they should meet with that response which pride in the city and the merit of the propo- sition justify.
 Birmingham cannot afford to hold out in- ducements to trade here and then turn her back on those who make investments for trad ing with her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
IN HONOR OF vERDUN

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Verdun is synonymous with the most heroic manifestation of Gallic valor and stubborness. It was at Verdun that the French nation de- termined to withstand the onslaught of the in- vading Prussian hordes. It was at Verdun that the French did stand till the was won. The defense of the city was incomparably the greatest defense recorded by history. Its signi- ficance in the shaping of the future of civili- zation cannot be estimated. At Verdun de- mocracy stood almost at it's last ditch, and hurled at absolutism and kultur the immor- tai defiance.
 .'They shall not pass!"
 It is peculiarly fitting, therefore, that the United States should bestow on Verdun the medal which marks departure from Ameri- can traditions. Not before has an American decoration been bestowed on any community. Possibly the Verdun medal will ever stand alone as the only one of it's kind. There can be no criticism of American discrimination. With but one medal to bestow the western republic has bestowed it on the one city whose name is most significant of freedoms invinci- bilty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
A MORNING PRAYER
x 3t PAY YOUR MONTHLY BILLS AND KEEP BUSINESS MOVING

The Merchants Credit association and the Associated Retail Credit Men of Birmingham have a message for every person in Birming- ham who runs charge account. It consists of just two words: 'Pay up." Bills made during May are payable on June 1. After June 10 they become delinquent.
 Prompt pay means fair play toward the mer- chants who extend credit. The Blue Book rating is to large extent an index of char acter. People who dodge their responsibilities impose a hardship on the business men who trust them, but they suffer more themselves in impaired credit and loss of confidence.
 The credit men are not unreasonable. They are willing to help when the occasion warrants. People who fall behind in their accounts nthrough no fault of their own will be helped
 Ind advised if they will call on the credit men
 nd tell them what their troubles are. Mer- chants are willing to carry accounts to oblige people who are honorable and want to do the fright thing but most of the delinquency is due to carelessness, for which there is no excuse. People who can pay promptly and won't are ,fetarding business and by their own negligence prevent firms they owe from paying their debts.
 1 Credit is the basis of all modern business. It k Indispensable alike to the millionaire, the salaried man and the wage earner.
 Inspire confidence in your integrity and tain 1t by meeting your just obligations A good rating in the Blue Book is one of the best assets any citizen can have. In time of stress it may mean everything to man and his family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
MoRAL srANpARp oF BoYs RAISED


 T have noted within the past two or three years a great improvement in the morals of the boys downtown, and do not know to what this should be attributed if not to the work of the Boys club" said Judge s. D. Murphy of the juvenile court. "There are fewer cases coming to the juvenile court from among the boys who frequent the downtown district than in former years and this nat urally means that there is some good influ- ence working in some quarter.
 q have kept pretty well in touch with the work done through the Boys club, and know that it is accomplishing good results. have at times turned over boys from my court to the club, and have found that the de- sired results have been obtained with these boys in many cases. I can not urge too strongly the support of the movement to give to the boys of Birmingham club home where they can have all surroundings that will tend to build them into men of higher class, both physically and morally"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
WARRIOR TRANSPORTATION IS SAVED FOR A YEAR

The Warrior river scored this week when the conferees of the House on the army ap- propriation bill accepted the Senate amend ment to increase the appropriation for the river barge line from $30,00O to $330, ,000 This will assure the operation of the barge line for another year.
 The unanimous decision of the conferees indicates their conviction of the merits of the Warriors claims. As pointed out by MT; r. 0. Ashburn, head of the inland and coast wise water service, the Warrior should not be declared failure until outstanding handicaps are removed. These handcaps include small CT allowance of joint rates with railroads than the river hauls justify, non-completion of the New Orleans industrial canal, which will save the cost of rebarging at New Orleans, and the need of more craft on the river especially adapted to certain freight movements. The matter of upstream package freight is in the hands of shippers That is their duty.
 The main thing is to secure the joint through rail and water rates that apply be- tween lai caiiieIs Witn Tar olvlslon or the rates. That would enable the Warrior to serve a dozen states instead of portions of five and give it the revenue that it should have for the work done.
 Rail carriers voluntarily operate on through rates with vessels from Philadelphia, New York and Boston via southern ports and thence by rail to the point of delivery. They |should be forced to operate in the same man. ner with an inland carrier, because it is as much a carrier as the coastwise steamship hines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
WHERE TROUBLES BEGAN

q was surprised recently to find several If my friends referring to me as lawyer, and upon inquiry discovered that I was listed as an attorney in the business section of the telephone directory" said Aubrey Cooper.
 "Just the other day lady came to my real estate office and asked that I get divorce for her. was surprised and embarrassed as explained to her that I had never taken up the law. Occasionally receive friendly jests about my double life and guess it is about time I have the mistake corrected in the phone book"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
SCOUTS CHALLENGE RoTEs

"Boy Scouts have challenged the Rotary club to a swimming match on the occasion of the clubs visit to Camp Andrews next Wednesday," said Dan Dimick. "At the lunch con Wednesday team was selected from the club and we are accepting the challenge. We have some pretty good swimmers, too.
 "The scouts are also going to have tug of-war with creek separating the two con- testing teams, so it looks like somebody is going to get dueking.. A number of other stunts have been planned for the entertain ment of the club. We leave the Southern club in cars at 12:3o o'clock next Wednesday, and almost every Rotarian has signified his in tention of going.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
CLASSIFYING A SoLON

Jay E. House, in the Philadelphia Public
 Ledger.
 q say to the President of the United States" the newspapers quote Senator Stanley as shouting, "that this is not Austria; this is not Russia; this is the once-free America"
 Ours is a busy life. We had not previously given much thought to Senator Stanley or made any attempt to classify him. But for the moment, and pending further considera- tion of the matter, we will put him with the obsolete wind instruments
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
INDUSTRIES SUBSTANTIAL

T think that Birmingham industries have stood up well under the strain of the war;" said Judge Edmond H. Dryer, referee in bankruptcy.
 "Of course, there are many little concerns going into bankruptcy, but even this is not to such great extent. However, the big corpora tons have stood the strain of the war well, and with conditions getting back to normal shows that they have weathered the storm suc- cessfulv"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
NEW DISTRIBUTING AGENCY

"The great advantages enjoyed by Birming- ham as both distributing and consuming cen ter have led my firm to select this city as it's distributing point" said R. M. Monk, who has recently arrived here from Holt, Fla, to serve in the capacity of sales manager for the Porter interests of Florida, with headquar- ters at Holt.
 "The Porter Interests of Florida are plac- ing the market genuine syrup made from the ribbon cane, which is grown so luxurious ly in the light lands of Florida They have about 10000 acres of this land and they are putting up their syrup under the brand of Kanfla, and it is to be introduced to the thousands of housewives of Birmingham with in the immediate future. I shall establish headquarters here and our product will be manufactured at Holt Fla, and distributed from Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
ENsLEY VIEWS PROSPERITY

"Ensley is facing a great period of pros perity," said J. E. Lindsay, president of the Ensey Mortgage and Real Estate company. "The plants are now running 100 per cent basis and I understand that the mines will soon be running at full blast.
 "With all classes of business in the district showing improvement it seems to me that Ems ley is going to set the pace for the rest of Birmingham in growth. It is easy to see renewed spirit of confidence in the air which bespeaks prosperity for us all.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
CLOSE OF FISCAL YEAR NEARING

"The American Legion. will soon close it's official year." said George Lewis Baes, Bir- mingham post commander.
 'The post has been very active during the past year with it's employment bureau, chow house and other movements to further the interests of the ex-service men, and I expect the officers will have some interesting re- ports to read to the members at the annual meeting next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
CITY MUST KEEP FAITH WITH THE FARMERS

Birmingham invited farmers of northern Alabama to buy dairy herds and ship butter
 fiat to Birmingham creameries. The farmers responded. They got the herds, bought cream
 1eparators and have shipped butterfat for but Fer-making in growing quantities.
 Instead of increasing the butter-making fa- |cflities of the city have lately declined, one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
LETTERS TO EDITOR
MIR. FoRD's PHILANTHROPY
Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 A few days ago, while I was waiting for car at Drennen's corner, poorly clad negro dropped a coin in a blind mans tin cup she passed, and a few steps further on a small child that she was leading by the hand, said, rather wearily, Nanny, let's wait for the car; and the woman answered, Come on, we done give our money to the blind man now, and we got to walk As I wondered f this was not indeed a parallel case to the down Second avenue calling out Alabama Power company gives $20,000 to Auburn; read about it. Naturally I recalled the power companys gift to Muscle Shoals during the war to the federal government, valued then at half million dollars.
 Some of us think that Henry Ford is the wealthiest man that has ever lived in the world, but when has he given penny to the cause of progress? How many poor boys has hs educated? Where is the friendless widow that smiles over his bounty? Where is the sick child that gets bottle of milk from him? When did any tin-cup of the blind jingle with one of his
 
 he pays for? What substantial gift stands to the credit of MT. Ford anywhere?
 Why, then, should the farmer see visions and dream dreams about the beneficence of Mir. Ford? What, indeed, has Mr. Ford actual ly done for any farmer? Will some real farm CT, who sweats and blows, hold up the fore finger of his good right hand and point out one act in the whole life of MT. Ford for which he did not get his own price in cash and in full And kept it after he got it!
 Why, if you please, should any farmer ap- plaud or approve the insistant demand of Mr Ford before the Congress of the United States for the Gorgas steam plant, which is the prop erty of the Alabama Power company? Think of it! The injustice, the impudence the pre- sumption, the garish assurance, the callous in- difference to the property rights of the power company.
 Like produces like What man has done is what he will do. If Mr. Ford desires the Gorgas steam plant why don't he take his own money and buy it, just honest men every where buy things that they want. But trad ing may get it without money and MT. Ford is a Nestor among traders! Always a winner
 What, then, prompts his recent devotion to the farmer? As prime result of this new de- votion is he not now enjoying the political pressure of the farmers on Congress to us. the power of the federal government in talk ing the Gorgas steam plant from the Alabama Power company for his personal use? He pays the farmer in promises while using the farmer as a leverage to place in his own hands under lawful contract a hundred millions for a hun dred years.
 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over him all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat; and shall send him away by the hand of fit man into the wilderness"
 LOUIS w. ROBERTS. Birmingham, 1921 Seventh Avenue, South, June s, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
MISSING IN AcTIoNa

Winifred Ballard Blake, in the Poet and Phi losopher. Honing, they sing Glad Victory! No word they bring From thee! As drear winds blow And days depart, Beats low and slow My heart! The moon grows wan And the salt seas sever An, art thou gone Forever?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
DIsBURDENINC HIs MIND

Tt doesn't do you any good to swear at that motorist," said the meddlesome old gem tleman. He's on his way and can't hear you"
 Mind your own business" snapped the irate pedestrian. I'm making few remarks for my personal satisfaction. I'm not the kind of public speaker who has to be encouraged by 9 round of applauseH'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
PLEASED WITH APPOINTMENT

q am certainly delighted to hear of Tom Kennamer being confirmed as United States district marshall said Charles Robinson, as- sistant United States district attorney.
 T was in Washington at the, time charges were being brought against Kennamer, and after hearing all of the witnesses must say that I heard no one word of evidence that could have harmed Kennamer in any way"