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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
FOR GOOD OF
 THE COMMUNITY
Birmingham End of the New Steel Merger Pre-.
 sents it With an Exceptional Opportunity

not for Bnghams stimulation that
 chickens before they legitimate cause of encouraging fOrethugh visualize what might well be the logical outcome of that which has nspred and points to the fu point bearing shipment of Birmingham of that reads:
 Mobile, June Hive going loading
 gay eargo or cast iron ppe pig ron steel rails coal and coke
 from the Birmingham district The solid of Birmingham products
 Delco pier loading cargo pipe and pig iron for Pacific
 American Pant pier g. loading cargo for the west
 Wooden steamer Nka loading pipe pig for the Pacific
 Japanese Kyufuku pier B. loading Japan.
 Danish steamer Nordfarer loading
 Steamer Munisa sailed for Cuba with Havana caberen staples for Manzanla
 Recent shipments products Argentine and Pacific
 This coast Orient Cuba and South America and that which via port of Mobile and from the Birmingham district Birmingham and Mobile only but to all the iron and country They peca realized this last when this operated base than other
 Inland. Midvae and Republic companies are in They have combined capacity The Republic has three blast edge of this city and large plants mines and mite quarres scattered the district
 Birmingham properties of the company adjacent those of the Steel Corporation and just the gulf via nucleus for steel making here The transportation The sa ton with regard and the When Judge Gary looked properties he declared that they situated be sou the southwest and for then been built and in operation with ships carrying Birmingham steel and iron products the Pacific the on ne would have included that territory Bngham 
 What the merger will be forecated sensible to whom opportunity of it's use Birmingham is logical squitur The little the ante peu period the certain progenors Eney as surely as that plants will according season. It is not good to chickens they ha is the part of wisdom to realize connection of things
 Yours for upbulding
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
REVIVAL SERVICES
 DEGREES AT SELMA

Selma, June 2.-(Specia1.)- university for negroes closed here yesterday with appropriate exercises for It's forty-third commencement. Forty-three degrees were conferred. 10 boys and 33 girls. pr. R. T. Pol lard, president of the institution, an- nounced that this years enrolment showed 250 boys and 400 girls. com ing from all parts of the south and many points in the north.
 The school confers the bachelor 8 degree in the college Of arts and the school of theology. Courses in the teachers professional department, the normal and high school are also given by the institution, which had S2 regularly employed teachers dur ing tho past term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
l. STARLIGHT T T
 By DAH MoLoNE GIBSON The Thrilling Experience of Virginia Fairfax in the Movies

became grave. T didn't ask you to dance for the sake of dancing. want to say something to you. I ha en't been able to get word alone with you all day"
 Cant you walt until morning. I am awfully tired"
 No. l am going to say 1t now while I am thinking of it. virgie, St-atton is cad over heels in love with you. I wanted to punch hls head d -- ag the scenes when he was bending over you on deck"
 I'll have to call you silly now, as you did me. You must remember, Eddie, that by bending over som girl before camera and making love to her as she did to me today. Is the reason Theodore Stratton is a great moving picture actor"
 The rest of the way home was passed almost in silence for we were all too tirec to talk very much and some of us were rather anxious about the next days work.
 Mrs. Chester had courteously given her room to Aunt Virginia and gone back across the hall 1 was glad that my aunt was too tired to talk to me, and l was very happy when her deep breathing told me she was asleep.
 l could not sleep much and l was glad that the next days action would call for drawn. frightened express sion.
 T almost wish that Aunt Virgin a was not going said to Mrs. Ches- ter who bad come cross the hall while l was dressing.
 ''Virgie, wild horses could not keep her away"
 Just then we heard her call from the other room asking if it were time to get up.
 Yes, dear. I've ordered coffee and toast sent up and as soon as yod are dressed we will start" Don't worry about her. whispered M Chester. "I'll take care of her while you on the boat. Just think about yourself and what you have to do.'
 There was an air of subdued ex- citement about the boat when I got there. To my surprise I found the boat anchored about 200 yards from shore and l was rowed out to It. I climbed aboard Aunt Virginia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
City Undertakes to
 Form Aerial Board to
 Foster AeronauticS

Steps to organize a Birmingham air corps board arc being taken by the city commission and President McLendon has addressed letter to the heads of tho various civic clubs in the city asking that representa- tives be- named to form the board.
 Letters were sent out today to the following clubs; Rotary, Kiwanis. Civltan, Chamber of Commerce, Civic Association, Community, Optimist, and Exchangs clubs. Real Estate board, Flyers club. and also 10 Maj J. A. Meissner, Ensley. commander of the Flying squadron of the Ala bama National guard.
 President McLendon states the pur- poses of the board in the following letter to the clubs;
 Tn fulfillment of the promise made to Rear Admiral w. F. Fullam, U. s. navy, who recently visited Birming- ham. the city commission is under taking to organize an air board corps area which would be a part of the National Aeronautic association of the United States of America. The object of this national association, to be made up of local units in the principal cities of America, such as the Birmingham Air board. to further aerial navigation and it's adaptation to everyday national life.
 Among the specific purposes Of the organization will be to urge upon Congress a more liberal policy to ex- tend aerial mail service wherever jractical Also 1t is planned to mold practical Also It is planned to mold which will enable the air and navy department to improve the air de- fense of the nation to keep pace with other first-class powers in aviation. It is also desired through the joint efforts of the air boards scattered throughout the entire country to multiply landing fields to make more .. ea a..ira aIa.. i.. -tha lLnitnd Statns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03

and Mrs. Chester were left on the
 dock. but Eddie came with me. He
 brushed aside the assistant directors
 curt refusal to let him on the boat
 by saying, Either I go with Miss
 Winston or she doesn't go at all"
 When I,reached the deck I found
 neither Maud samson nor Theo There were two strange men. one in clothes like Maud's and another dressed to look like Theo.
 tSo they both deserted you. the towards" ragged Eddie furiously, but he couldn't give vent to his feelings any further for the director ordered him out of the way.
 Coming toward me, the director praised me. saying: Miss Winston, I certainly admire your courage. Your determination to play Il e part means a great deal to the success of the picture. The public will see your face upon the screen instead of the back
 of the head of someone who is talk ing your part. We can make great publicity of it. Now please listen at tentively to what I have to say as we will have no rehearsal, and only | one take
 Pay no attention to anyone else. l Think only of yourself. When I say I Ready the cameraman will begin to | grind. The doubles for stratton and ! Samson will drop over the side and l We will have a closeup of you at the l rail saying Good luck When the | doubles have had time to get out of l the picture the assistant director will l pick you up and throw you In the 1 water in the direction of that broken spar. It is anchored to buoy. Just don't lose your head, that's all"
 l Copyright. John F. Dalle Co.) Monday: "A DanEerous& M"m.rt-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
COUNTY TO GIVE AID TO
 NEIGHBORHO0D HOUSE

Mrs. solon Jacobs and Mrs ster- ling Foster appeared before the board of revenue yesterday to request an appropriation for the Neighborhood House which they stated was in im- mediate need of funds. They were assured by D. c. Ball. chairman, that the board would take up the whole matter of contributions to charity before the end of the month.
 The Neighborhood House is one of the institutions to which an appro- priation can legally be made by the county, according to an opinion by Assistant Solicitor John C. Morrow, concurred in by Attorney General Harwell C. Davis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
INCREASE MEMBERSHIP
Meridian Chamber Will Add 250 New
 Members

Meridian, Miss, June 2.-tspeeial) The Meridian Chamber of Commerce at a largely attended meeting of members has decided to inaugurate a membership campaign at once with the intention of increasing the pres ent number by at least 25O. There are already about 300 members of the organization. President T. J. Bolster has been authorized to appoint tho necessary campaign committees.
 The plan to fight for an increased membership followed talks made by President Bolster. Gus C. Kendall. A. D. Simpson. Marks Rothenberg k Threefoot. Thirtyfour new members were secured before the meeting was closed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
ENLARGE SCHOOL

Huntsville, June 2.-(Special. )-The Madison county board of education has approved plans for the enlarge ment and improvement of the dis trict school in West Huntsville, which will be undertaken during the sum- mer. The number of class rooms will be increased to 10 and there will be a large chapel added. The district 1t is expected. will have ample funds, the three mill school tax having re- gently been voted to apply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
THREE

at Repton, died here yesterday morn Ing after being brought here for medical treatment Mir. Hudson was 37 years of age and leaves, besides his wife and four children, two sis- ters. two brothers and father Fu- neral services were held at Monro- vile this afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
SOCIETY GETs SURPRISE

wetumpka. June 2.-(special )-At the regular monthly meeting of the Baptist Womau,s Missionary society Monday afternoon, the members were given delightful surprise. At the conelusion of the session all present were Invited by circle two into the attractively decorated Sunday school rooms, where most pleasant social hour was enjoyed.
 A delightful program was rendered by Misses Inez Collins, pianist; hela Leslie Bailey. reader; Asenath Robi- son. violinist. and ;sibyl Mcdonald. soprano. with Mrs. Bonnie Huff and Miss Collins as accompanista,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
MISS LULU HoNoRED

wetumpka. June Specially Miss Ida Belle Lull, an attractive wetumpka girl, has been appointed one of the two delegates to represent tho Y. w. C. A. of Judson college in the southern assembly. which is to be held in Blue Ridge, N. c. Miss Lull left Wednesday for North Caro- lima.
 She will be joined by friends in Clanton and 3. Birmingham and the party will stop at points of interest en route and at Ashevi1le. N. C.. for a few days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
BILL IS DRAF TED TOCONT|NUE WAR
 FINANCE AGENCY
War Finance Corporation, Slated to Die June 30, Has Rendered Good Service,
 May Continue
By HUGH ". ROBERTS Washington Bureau, Tho Axe-HerAId.
 800 Davidson Buflding

Washington, June 2.-tSpecialO.- The war finance corporation, since its operation was revived January (, 1921, has advanced for agricultural purposes a total of 1852, ,625.SS, ae- cording to a reoapitulation completed May 20, and announced tonight
 Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House committee on banking and currency, expresses him . self as certain that the House in t1e immediate future will pass & bill ex- tending the life of the corporation for an additional year beginning July l. similar bill has already passed the Senate. While the House hill is substitute for the Senate bill, no serious apprehension of a deadlock in conference Is entertained. Under existing law, the corporation would go out of business June 30.
 The operation of the corporation apparently justifies those who made the fight for it's revival. 1t Is con tended that the heavy advances in favor of agriculture contributed ma terially to the bettered condition of farmers throughout the country. AS result of another years service, it is argued farmers will regain entirely their financial legs. Already evidence or improvement IS 1ound Tn the laCs u at farmers are beginning to reim- turse the government for their loans.
 Loans Divided
 The leans of the corporation, as investigation at heaquarters today reveals. have been divided as fol- lows;
 To cooperative as-
 sociations .......,.,S 64.654.6S4.0o To banking and tinan-
 cial institutions ..... 279.l5l,2S2.4f To exporters ........ S,965, 70S.s9
 Total ......s........ ..$S52,17l,6 6So.0S
 Of the above sum, s50,250,120.03 was advanced as assistance in finan- cing exports of which amount. the great bulk. $33.572,373.21 moved cot ton 10 foreign markets.
 Of sSo2, ,521, ,5o5.3o which went to banking and financial institutions and cooperative associations for agricultural and livestock purposes" sS3. o00, ,039.02 assisted live stock; s23.- 04.200.52 cotton; 2f.2so.1ss.31 grain: s10000, ,000 tobacco; S9,996.000 sugar beets; while the bulk, s14S,67S,742.45 was advanced for general agricul- tural purposes" Sugar cane, dried fruits, canned fruits. peanuts and hay also received financial attention, though to less degree.
 In securing loans, Iowa banking and financial institutions led all tha thronUh hanEere fOllow-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03

Five southern states secured loans through cooperative associations as follows: Alabama. s1oo,0oo; Georgia, $350, 900; Mississippi, s5.06o, ,06o.29; 1; Texas, s10,047.5 .566.5o: Virginia, s5, 327s33.65.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
FEDERAL AGENT
 SPEAKS AT SELMA

Selma. June -(Special.)-J. B. coglan, field agent of the American Farm Bureau federation, spoke in Selma this morning to a group Of bankers and business men on the movement for the purpose of pool ing some 200, ,000 bales of the states cotton production for cooperative marketing. The speaker told his hearers of the success of the move ment in his home state. Texas, where the plan was worked last season.
 Dallas county, the group was told, has signed contracts for delivery of 1000 bales to the pool. while Ala bama as state signed more than 130.o0 bales over to the pool.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03

fear would fill Whitefoot's heart that the stranger was running away. Copyright, 1922, by T. w. Burgess.1
 The next story: Love Fills the Heart of Whftefoot"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-03
l.. < N. AGENT DEAD

Selma. June Especial. )-Henry E. Hudson, depot agent for tho Louis ville and Nashville railroad system
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-03-17

it's position as an international stream. Under the constitution all streams of an international character or whose waters are navigable, are government tally controlled, and even congress cannot change this character, except by adjudging them non-navigable. No matter what. action congress may take it cannot divest the United States of it's right in an international stream, and must at all times exercise sover- eighty over it. And this is the con- dition of the Colorado river. It must at all times be under the jurisdiction of the federal government and any work carried on in it must be con trolled absolutely by the government, which takes the development of the stream, control of its water and any power developed along its thousands of miles of reaches, out of the possl- biity of private control. Its ramlfl- cations are too great to allow private
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-03-17

develop nearly 100000 horsepower of electricity. It will have capacity to supply the necessary water for the reclamation of 6,0O0,000 acres of land, which would care for every acre in Arizona, California and Mexico. A highline canal, reaching out from Boulder Canyon, would carry water into the interior of Arizona, many miles above Yuma, on the Gila, and cover large acreages in Mohave and Yuma counties. It would safeguard at least 500,000 acres from overflow along the river, these lands being the richest in the world. So great would be the possibility for good that this project would create that it reaches far beyond the perspective of the pres ent day and the people of the future will bless those who had the fore sight to bring it into being.
 While the development of our agri- cultural resources will be the first blessing to come to the people, the Boulder Canyon project, completed, will be of enduring benefit to the min ing industry of every section of the state, as it will furnish cheap power, which has grown to be heavy bur- den on all forms of mining. So great has been the burden imposed by pow CT costs that the copper mines report that should they not get some form of relief in two years all copper mines will have to close in the state. So from this we may see what a pass power costs has brought the industry that made Arizona great. And to get this relief the copper companies of the state are preparing to build dam in the Colorado river at Boulder Can yon through which they expect to cut the power costs to a minimum.
 It is said by the government that should the Boulder Canyon dam be- come reality power may be distrib- uted from it to all the southwest at a maximum cost of not to exceed three-quarters of cent horsepower, from which the entire cost of the pro ject would be returned inside of twen- ty years, no charge being made for the distribution of water. This low rate would make possible the use of this power for heating, as well as light and power.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-03-17

campaign in the Imperial valley the people sent forth appeals for help from the encroachment of flood waters. As the years went by the menace of floods became greater and greater until the last year saw the crest of one of the greatest river floods in history eating away the bar riers that had been built to divert the flood waters from tearing the heart out of the reclaimed lands of the Salton basin. Only after the ex- penditure of a great sum of money was the danger averted. But this year the same performance will have to be gone through and year by year, as the level of the river rises, the danger of overflow will grow greater and greater until there will be n0 | stopping of the ravages of the mighty stream. And the only sure way to curb the stream is by building the great dam at Boulder Canyon, where the flow of this mighty river may be impounded and let loose only when there is demand for the waters for use in the fields along it's course. In place of being a raging torrent the Colorado river will become one of the most useful streams of the world, do- ing the bidding of man, furnishing it's lifegiving waters to bring fruitfulness into the parched desert lands. It will also become useful to every form of industry, it's water flow being con- verted into power for use of every in dustry in the contiguous states.
 The benefit that will accrue to Mo- have county alone cannot be comput- ed. It will make possible the opening of the low grade mines, the develop ment of all forms of industry, and the furthering of agriculture. Without the building of highline canal there would be brought into cultivation close to 150,000 acres of rich lands along the river, while canal would reach still greater area, and at the same time could be made to develop a large amount of power at the distri- button point. So great would be the influence on the industries of this county that we may look for every section of our broad land to take on wonderful development under this be- .nign impetus.
 Operations have proceeded to such point in Boulder Canyon that the Secretary Of the Interior has reported favorably on the project and is us ing every endeavor to provide the funds wherewith to proceed as soon as possible with the building of the by-passes and the final building of the great dam. This dam will stand about 600 feet above normal water level ano may flood the town of St. Thomas Nevada ,and make lake 34x40 miles one of the greatest lakes ever made artificially. It will hold approximately 40,0O0,000 acre feet of water and will
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-03-17

corporations to get look in at this wonderful stream, because the interest of the whole people to be benefited by the waters and the power are al ligned with government ownership.
 But leaving all questions of who is to build the dams for the considera- tic1. of congress, let us look into the projects that are under consideration. In the first place the Colorado river is a menace to every interest lying along it's broad valleys, because Of its yearly overflow. While there was no attempt to use the waters of the stream little thought was given to it's annual floods, but after the reclama- ton of large area of lands in and around Yuma and the big reclamation
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-03-17

time the general government through the federal reclamation service con- templates the building of the dams. It is this power that effort is being made to take away from the reclama- tion service, giving it to the Colorado river commission, the commission to not only build the dams, but also to al locate the power and water under the dams, going so far as~to accept the aid of private corporations in the pro- jects, these private corporations to cei11e in for big part of the power, after the states have secured their al lotment.
 Now, it may not be generally known that there is one feature of the Colo- rado river that cannot be overlooked
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-03-17

No one feature in the Union today is so fraught with possibilities to the Nation at large and to the southwest in particular as the conservation of the flood waters of the Colorado river. This vast stream has a watershed of approximately 3OO,OOO square miles and carries volume of water second only to the Mississippi, the Missouri being second to it. It has fall of
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-03-17

the first power projects on the Mag ara river, when lovers of scenic grandeur objected to the destruction of the only great waterfall of the eastern states and Canada. Not until the subject was put up to Secretary of the Interior Lane, in 1918, did any of the people of the country realize it's potentiality. The widespread notor- iety gained for the project through the
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-03-17
Boulder Canyon Dam Will
 Furnish Cheap Power for
 Operation of Oatman Mines

pose of this commission, the general belief being that it was organized to build the big dams and distribute the water and power. This is not so. The commission was appointed primarily to inquire into the rights, or what the states consider their rights, in the dis tribution of water and power that may be created by the building of dams in the river, while at the same
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-03-17

several thousand feet from Green river junction to the mouth of Black Canyon, the greater part of this area being susceptible to water impound- ment and power development, while at Boulder Canyon water could be di- verted through a high line canal over at least 100000 acres of the finest land that God ever created. And while water diversion might be had at Boulder Canyon project there would make possible the development of at least 100000 horsepower of electric energy, enough to cover the needs of both California and Arizona.
 The Boulder Canyon project has created more concern in the minds of the people of the country than even