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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
CYST OF THE NEWS
GENERAL

Federal soldiers are in control of revolt in Mexico.
 Coal production decrenses in 1921. DeyaIera speaks in city of Cork. G. o. P. jockcying for position on bonus meaSure.
 Alabama Power company believes the demand is sufficient for all the u~vvex It can generate In the ssuth.
 STATE C3tixens of Attalla indOrse the Ford offer.
 Florence civic bodies will hold mass meeting ou Shoals question to- night.
 AshIand has beeOme one of states leading poultry eenters.
 LOCAL Onr negro dead, another fatally wounaed by officer.
 Eighteenth amendment here to stay, says Dr. stuart. Sites selected for camp houses of Ffxhermen's club.
 Candidate for chanceilorship makes announcement.
 National music week is observed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
AUBURN STUDENT D|ESOF INJURIES
 IN FOOTBALL GAME
Members of Student Body Off, fer to Give Blood to Save Life of Football
 Player

Auburn, February 1s,-(SpeciaL)- The death of Robert Franklin Boyd of Sumter county, which occurred at Montgomery early this morning cast dark shadow over all Auburn.
 Since being injured in a class foot ball game here more than week ago. It had been known that he was seriously ill., but up to Saturday night, reports had come from Mont gomery that he was cn the road to recovery. Immediately after the sad news reached Auburn this morning representatives of the faculty and different student groups left for Montgomery to assist with the fu- neral.
 Coach M J. Donahue, who was at the bedside of the deceased Satur- day, returned to Montgomery on the first train, as did Prof. M. T. Fullan of the athletic committee. The ju- nior class, of which the deceased was a member sent it's president, George Purifoy of Brewton. and the "A" club sent John Shirey, who was coach of the junior football team. on which Boyd was playing when he received his fatal injury.
 The fraternity, of which he was a member, sent two representatives and four of the Sumter county students in Auburn will also accompany the remains of their friend to his last resting place near his home at Emelle.
 For three years Boyd had been a student at Auburn and little more than one year stood between him and graduation. Among the students he was popular as attested by numerous offers to give of their blood in order that he might live. He was a student in the general course and looked to as a young man of much promise by his professors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
Opium, DenS of Chinatown Are
 StOrmed by Police
By Associated Fress

New York. February IS.- Rudely disturbed In the peace that for years hns brOOded over it's crooked streets and nyste- rious dwellings, Chinatown awOke at dawn to5ny tS the sound of pistol volleys and the rending crash of barrieaded doors ns police raiders storAed a succession of lsng susPeeted opium dena.
 Eight PersOAS were arrested. including a woman whose back was thought to have been broken in a leap from a second story window. 4 man whose plunge for freedom she initiated Nyas only slightly injured.
 Two of the stOrmnR party had narrow escapes frOh injury Bullets fired by unseen defenders passed through the hat Of . de- tective and graEed the shoe Of a federal narcotic agent.
 Large quantities of Opiuw, with nipes and other parapherHa- lia were eonfiSented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
Corr0 Harris Was First Woman to Be
 Deputy in Georgia
Rx Associatnsi Prns.

Atlanta, February I9.-Mrs. Cora Harris, Georgia author, has the dis tinction of being the first woman deputy sheriff in the state. having been sworn in at Rydal, Ga. Septem- Der 10, 1921, it became known here tonight And she has not met with even the slightest difficulty in dis arming men.
 Sheriff James Lowery of Fulton county announced several days ago that he had sworn in Miss Ruth Huie as deputy sheriff and that she was the first woman to hold such an of flee in Georgia.
 Friends of Mrs. Harris asserted that the author was the first woman deputy sheriff and in order to settle the controversy the Atlanta Consti- tuition telegraphed Mrs Harris for information. Her reply follows:
 T have been deputy sheriff since September 10, 1921. This is a secret which you may now publish But it was not necessary sor me to be a deputy sheriff for me to take a gun from man whom it was my duty to disarm. l have been doing this since the year 1918 and not one of them ever made the least objection to being .disarmed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
Await Action of Congress Before
 Selling Vessels
By Associated Press

Washington, February 1s.-Chair- man Lasker announced today that none of the larger passenger liners now being advertised by the board, together with virtually the entire shipping board fleet for sale to the highest bidder, will be sold until Congress acts on the ship subsidy plan which President Harding ex- poets to submit by the end of this week.
 The larger ships of the fleet in- clude the Leviathan, George Wash ington and new vessels of the 535- foot and the 502-foot class as allo- cated to the Munson Line. Admiral Line and Pacific Line. All the ves- sells of 50o-foot class. Mir Lasker said, are being advertised with tbe cargo vessels and the former German and Austrian cargo and passeneer vessels in conformity with the Jones act. so that if favorable action is taken on the subsidy proposal. the bids for them will be in hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
South America to Send Delegates to
 Women's s Cont ference
Rx Associated Press

Washington, February 1s.-Sever governments of Central and South America already have accepted invi- tations to send delegates to the Pan American conference of women to be held in Baltimore April 20-2s, it was announced here today by the Ma tional League of Women Voters. on whose behalf the invitations were ex- tended to the Latin governments by the American state department.
 Acceptances have been received from Peru, Chile, Ecuador. Costa Rica. Nicaragua, Haiti and the Do minican Republic, and word. has been received at the league Headquarters here that virtually all the republics of Hispanic America as well as the Dominion of Canada have evidenced favorable consideration of the invi tation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20

Writing, as he explained, on the. golden anniversary of his first cleo ton to the House. Mir. Cannon said that in turning back his commission he did not wish to shirk any rc@ponsi- bility of public duty. but simply to open the door of opportunity to younger men.
 Addressed to Republicans
 Addressed to My Fellow Republic ans of the Eighteeth District" MT. Cannon's letter said in part.
 '-The Illinois legislature having ad- vanced the primary from August to April. the republicans of the Egiht- eenth congressional district will, In two months. select a candidate for representative. will not be a can didate. and make this announcement now that none of my friends shall be influenced by sentiments of personal loyalty to me in withholding declara- tions of their candidates or in giv- ing their support to others.
 ss You have honored me with un- paralleled confidence for full half century. and l appreciate that confi- dence more than I can express. have tried to merit it. but it has been said that all that grow. grow old. and whf3s hsps have grown in vfs-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
By Associated Press

HazeIhurst, Miss, Febrary 1S- Positive Identification Of the chRrred and mutilated body Of a woman fOund in ravine near here last week, as that of Mrs. Ada Drury Converse, formerly of Wichita Falls and Warsaw. TexaA. wAa made late today by her son. Walter Drury, 20 years old, who says that when he last aSw his mother alive on Decenl- ber 3S, she was living with her third husband, Thomas P. Con- verse. Rt Selma. Ala.
 Young Drury. who saya he ts Mrs. COnverse's son by a former marriage, said that there could be no doubt that the body found here was that of his mother. He identified the key ring found Hear the body. and also sntd that the description of the body taiifed in every particular with that of bis mother, including sosae pecuiIarRritier of the teeth, Drury, who came here from Texas, said he heard from his mother In January. but said that the discovery of the body was the first knowledge he had that she had left her home in Selma.
 According to information given by him. authorities here to- night teIe&raphed to selma, in an effort to locate Converse. He will, If found, be asked to come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
NEGRO SOCIETY ASKS
 DEFENSE OF BULLOCK

Hamilton, Ont, February 19.-Tele- graphic instructions to defend mat thew Bullock. American negro, whom the authorities of Norlina. N. C., will make a second attempt to extradite next Friday. were received today by Controller F. E. Treleaven from the New York office of the Society for the Advancement of Colored People Norlina officials ask Bullock's extra dition on an attempted murder charge. after having failed to obtain a warrant on a charge of melting to riot.
 It is understood Bullocks' attor- neys will argue that 1t does not fol- low murder was attempted, merely by engaging in an assault. Bullock told the authorities he feared he would suffer the fate of his brother, who was iynched. if he were returned to North Carolina.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
Landis to DeUote Time to American
 Legion Activities
By Associated Pr...

Chicago, February 1s.--Judge K. A Landis. who announced his resigna- tion from the federal bench yester- day told of his plans to devote more time to the American Legion besides his duties as the supreme dictator of organized baseball.
 The American Legion is the great est insurance policy this nation has" he said. Tt is our standing guaranty of peace and liberty. l am deeply de- voted to the legion and shall heln in whatever way can."
 Judge Landis said that one of tbe first things he will do when he leaves the bench will be to make a swing around the baseball training camps in the south. "Pm a rookie at tbi, game myself" he said. T want 10 study the training system. There has been some complaint that promising rockies have not been given a fair show. Some of them claim that they have arrived but are not given an opportunity to prove it. Some of them, on the other hand, think that they have arrived when they are not ripe. I want to have Look at this spring training system and study it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
CONGRESS WILL NOT. KEEP UP OLD SH|PS,. KELLY ANNOUNCES.
First Class at Annapolis in June Will Be Turned Back to Civil Life, Chair
 man Declares
By Associated Pros.

Washington, February 19.-Con- gress will not spend one dollar for the upkeep next year of old warships that are unable to contribute to na- tional defense, Chairman Kelly of the subcommittee on appropriations, which will frame the new navy bill, announced today.
 Opposing the appropriation of s55e. eco, 900 asked for by Secretary Denby. Chairman Kelly declined to indicate how much might be cut from the Secretarys estimate. By carrying out his program of junk ipg worthless vessels" IL was inti- mated by the chalrman's associates that the figure would be reduced to $210.000,0o0, or possibly s2o0, 0,0OO. .000.
 T believe that Congress will be willing to furnish the necessary men and money for that part of the navy which has military value Mir. Kelly declared. But there are scores of ships costing millions every year which are worthless. l am not going to vote 10 keep these old ships In commission. nor will Congress, un- less it can be persuaded that that IS the thing to do"
 Annapolis Graduates
 Asked how he stood on the ques- ton of turning the 54O members of the first class at Annapolis hack 10 civil life in June. Mr. Kelly said
 Tt may be hard. but the first class will not be commissioned. We vii! have to be conservative in cutting me officer ps psssonnei, and in this emergency We cannot swap men for boys. Some of the first class may be taken in to give sprinkling of fresh life and energy, but with the wholesale reductions necessary the class will have to go. It's members have received fine education, they ,are ready for the struggle of life, and their loss will be more sentimental than financial.
 An enormous saving can be eff fected in junklng old and worthless ships. especially some of the oldsr cruisers" said Mir. Kelly. Take the old Olympia. for example. last year the cost of her operation was $1,179,- voU. There is fine sentimental de mand to save her. but she ought to be put some place where there will be no such tax burden. The old cruiser Brooklyn. commissioned in 1896, cost $7s0,000 last year. and the Rochester, commissioned in 1893, cost 91 .f54 900.
 Worthless for Defense
 Just go on down the line and you will find other old hulks costing millions of dollars that are not worth a tinker's damn for defense purposes. These old craft, with small gnns. are back numbers; they car snrve nc Esefui srsipinR purposes. We have got to tic them up"
 MT. Kelly said, however. he wanted to emphasize that there would be no ruthless cutting of appropriations and that new ships which really make up the treaty navy would D. kept in full commission. The enlisted personnel total would depend, he said. upon the number of ancient ships re1egated to the junk pile.
 There will be no new construc- ton next year" MT. Kelly said, but o,eoo, 900 will be needed to com puiete ships allotted by the treaty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
PILLARS OF NATION
 ARE BEING BROKEN. LAFOLLETTE STATES
Conference oSt Washington Soughts World Safe
 Ss -MSm, WiScon- sn senator Charges
By Associated Press

Milwaukee, February 19.-The
 twin pilIarss' of the American
 nation. freedora and independence.
 are today being battered down
 by the 'vandnIs of privilege and
 monopoly who haVe secured con
 trol of every branch of the gov
 ernnent and are asaDg its great
 powers, both in domestic aAS for
 eign policy, to protect and extend
 their enornOns wealth. Senator
 Robert M. LaFoIiette today tola q
 meeting in eommemOrAtSoa of
 Cen. Frederick von Steuhem. the
 revolutionary leader.
 The Washington conference, which, he declared. had only one primary object ito make the world safe for imperialism" was condemned by the ton of President Harding for what he called its attempt to encroach upon the congressional prerog atives. to hamper the agricultural bloc and to thwart passage of the soldier bonus bill
 Fundamental Principles
 The people of the United States must determine" Senator LaFollette declared, whether they will return to the fundamental principles upon which their government was estab- hshed. and devote their lives and en- ergies to building up a great people or whether they will follow the path along which Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding have attempted to lead them, of becoming a great west ern empire. party to the worlds lhtrlsues, hated by all peoples and respected by none.
 President Har1ing. 1t would seem. elther did not take the meaning or the last election seriously to heart or has forgotten it altogether" he continued, for on July 12. 1921, when the bill to provide compensation for the veterans of the World war was unoer consideration, he so far over stepped the perogatives of his office as to appear before the Senate and argue against the passage of the pending measure"
 Foreign Policies
 running to a discussion of foreign policies, Senator LaFollctte sad thai the lesson of the defeat of the League of Nation by Congress had apparent iy been lost on the present adrnfnts- tration or else the forces which con troiled President Wilson and also con trol President Harding are so power fpl they both prefer political extinc- tion to resistance.
 Afhe ink is 9tard Iyl fastfs dry ., 4a n, < senator said. upon the signatures of the delegates of the United States to new treaties and a new alliance which Tn many respects are more in- iquitous and fraught with greater perils to the United States than was the treaty of Versailles.
 The four-power treaty is nothing more or less than a binding alliance with the three great imperialistic nations of the present time, which pledges the United States to place all her resources of men and money at their disposal whenever they are attacked"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
BEAUTIFY MASONIC HALL

Roanoke, February 19.-(Special.) ) The Masonic fraternity in Roanoke, which is large and flourishing one, have just completed a thorough over hauling and beantifying of their hall of meeting on the third floor of the Masonic temple. piano has been placed for the use of. the chapter of Eastern Star, the gift of the Mssons themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
BELFAST QUIET Rx Associa+.dip-.s

Belfast, February ls.-With the exception of few minor incidents the week -end in Belfast passed quietly man named Hunter. re- turning from church this morning was hot and wounded by an armed party in the Springfield road At tClones the situation now is quiet. The patrols are moving about un- armed Members of tho special con stabulary who were Kidnapped are still being detained at Newton, But Ter and Rosslea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
MOVE TO NASHVILLE

Roanoke, February 1s.-tSpecial.)
 Rev. and Mrs W. K Simpson. who have been occupying the superan- nuate home for Methodist ministers in this city the past three months. leave Monday for Nashville, where they will make their future home. Mir. Simpsons health has improved since he came to Roanoke, and he leaves to accept position in the Methodist Publishing House at Nash vile MT and Mrs. Simpson have made many strong friends during their brief stay in Roanoke. who re- gret their leaving. They will be succeeded in the superannuate home here by Rev and Mrs F. A. Yam. who arrivel Saturday from Talladega.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
WORK DONE ON STREETS

Koanoke, February 19.N(SpeciaI.) ] A movement was begun in Roanoke e this week to work the streets by vol unteers. Many business tmen and others have donned their work clothes and put in full Ii he, while others have furnished han ds, teams and trucks and contributed money. It is proposed to keep up this plan until all the streets are worked. This will give employment to ma ny other wise idle, who are willing tp do this werk at 2. very reasonable irica-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
Mass Meeting hdorses
 Ford's Offer For Shoals;
 Power Co. Bid Criticised
Alabama Should Not Submit to Power Company's Offer Governor O'Neal Tells Large Audience-Says
 Bid Is "Sideswipe' at Ford

Henry Fods offer for Muscle Shoals favored the bid of Alabama Power criticised meeting imatey 2000 yesterday at
 Ex-Governor ONea formerly of Florence enumerated the posa accepted by Bes the passed calling the off of the Oetroi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
COURT OPENS

Roanoke. February 19.-(Special.) The spring term of circuit court for Randolph county begins in wedowee Monday. Judge Brewer will preside. The civil docketis lengthy one, but owing to the serious illness of R. J. Hooton. who is retained in many of the cases, there will be number of postponements. Mr. Hooton is now improving
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
HAS YOUNG MARCoNI

Roanoke, February 1s.-(speciaI. Roanoke has a young Marconi in the person of John Thomas Lassiter, He is now IS years of age, and for the past two years he has been experi- menting in receiving wireless mes sages with an apparatus he has him self provided. He has become quite proficient in catching messages from the air.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
Old Heads Must Glue Way
 To the Young, "Uncle Joe" Cannon Tells His Friends
By Associated Press

Washington February sUnce Cannon who will from the House of Representatives after conclusion of his open repub-
  young hearts, nd dvipo hodies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
PLAN HONEY MOON

London. February t19.-Princess Aary's honeymoon will be spent at the Villa Medica, Florence, after a comparatively short stay at Westo Park. Shifnal, the home of the Earl and Countess of Bradford. according to the London Times. The bridal couple will visit Paris for a few days on their way to Florence. The lord chamberlin has announced that owing to the serious illness of one of the occupants of St. James pal ace the king has commaned that the afternoon and evening parties ar ranged for February 21 and 23 shall take place in Buckingham palace. Only portion of the wedding pres ents will be transferred before then for public view
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
MEET OLD FRIENDS

''Ihe Gumps7 m coI0rs every Sun day in The Age-Herald Others areI Gasoline Alley" Mir. and Mrs" and
 Tom Sawyer
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-23

word. back in the days before money. when mans
wealth was measured in the number Of cattle he
assessed
The accumulation OF great fortunes originally
began with the domesticauon OF cattle. Primitive
nan was a rover. He could not take his crudely
titled land with him but ne could drive of his
cattle. Being movable and internationally valu-
abei, IL the real wealth. from the days when
the cave man stopped milking the Giant sloth.
big that its heelbone IS inches long and began
tanning the wild cattle that roamed the earth.
Mix cows in our country total about "a O0O, 600
or. roughly one for each ~ Americans They
worth about $50 a head.
The faithful old American COW last year produced
nearly 100000. 900 pounds OF milk.
L Will amaze even many farmers that the dairy
COW gives the nation moro wealth than wheat corn
or cotton.
over vaudreuIl Quebec Holstein COW
named Dekal PLUS segis Dixie. recently smashed
records by giving, in year, 32,66s pounds Of
milk which yielded 1899 pounds Of butter at. That
Is neary eight times pig the average.
The city man forgets Bessie. but the farmer
doesn't Constantly he is striving to improve the
breed Of cattle-better cows also better milk and
butter and more OF IT,
President Harding has called a conference Of
dairy experts from all over the world. Bessie de-
such attention, and is entitled to extra
loud moo" OF pride