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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26
My Fauorite Stories
By IRWIN s. COBB
 Driven Beyond His Strength

Armstrong of he called by the title Pany and the Pisene and while parlor story who living sandwich Encaed front back like turtle she'll between broad boards
 
 he plodded his shining sidewalk Instantly he his with difficulty because of his wooden wastco he ctched fingers his Then his throb of joy. He wealthy beyond his widest ambitions.
 the excavation for building straps squares pankng kicking them with gad xultan he flung the shattered embm the hole below Then sagtay depart ed for the nearest saloon and stalking n triumphant figure the bar called for drink of whisky and succession drinks of whisky joled him the side He his might be nerupng his when he looked wa motioning him
 protested naturally bung starter with skill born of long practice squarey found himself prawng the sidewalk happy visions ever
 melancholy filled with deep disappointmen and deeper of injustice he got his feet started limp 
 the saloon barber this there emerged Bowery mission elderly of benevolent aspect his pink ow newly scraped and his he climbed the the level of the gentleman bent refasten aloosened shoelace.
 of his knowledge belief had the missionary but the latter
 
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 astonshment and pain the away - his with both hands Why did kick mel" "Oh said the sandwich you're always
 Copyright 1922 by the Central Press Association.l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26
VOTE ON ALLIED
 DEBT BILL MAY
 BE TAKEN TODAY
Borah Says Attempts to Ad- just Foreign Debt Is Futile Until European Situa-
 ton Is Changed
By Associated Press

Washington, January 25.-Dis- cussion of economic conditions in Europe and an attack on the consti- nationality of the measure marked Senate debate today on the allied debt refunding bill. Chairman Nc Cumber of the finance committee. in charge of the measure, told the Senate before adjournment that he hoped to get final vote tomorrow.
 The situation in Europe was brought into the debate by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, who do. clared that the key to the policy" there was tho economic destruction of the German people. He declared that while the treaty of Versailles remains the law of Europe" 1t would be futile for the United States to seek a satisfactory adjustment of tho for eign debt, and that any assistance that this country might seek to rem der European nations would be of little avail.
 If the treaty of Versailles were TO- vised and the allied nations reduced their armies even to reasonable ex- tent, Senator Borah said, these na- ticns not only could meet the inter- est payments due the United States, hut could retire part of the principal of the debt as well. Under present conditions. he said, no man could say when the debtor nations could begin to pay interest, adding that 1t was proper for him to call attention that so jong as present policies were pur- sued in Europe we are ussified in transacting this matter on a purely business basis"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26

tried for anything. It's the person who tries who succeeds, and it's a cinch you can't win if you never send
 our photograph to be examined. But maybe you have sent your picture to some contest before and didn't win. Try again. It may be a different type of girl entirely tiAt MT. Cody wants. It probably is. No two people. want the same thing, usually.
 No matter in what corner of the city or little town yol live. send the picture along. Address it to The Age Herald, care of the Motion Picture Contest Editor.
 A committee will decide which is the winner. and Mir. Cody will give her the tryout,
 You know Mir. Cody is considered one of the greatest tssreen lovers" in the world. and is tho dream man" type to many girls. However, that is only in his world of fmake-belisve. He is declared to be very much of a good companion, true friend and all- round mans man-and to resent the title of ''vamp" that has often been given him because he has played that role 50 often.
 Get your picture in ntw! Send it. bring it--mail 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26
J. 5. BEING DRAWN. INTO THE LEAGUE OF.
 NATIONS, COX SAYS.
Former Democratic Candidate Attacks Republican Party in Vigorous Address at
 Banquet
By Associated Pres.

Dayton, O., January 25.--James M. Cox, democratic candidate for Presi- dent in 1921, and former governor of Ohio, tonight told democrats gathered here at Jackson day ban quet, that their party stands just where it did "when the votes were counted" and is ready for the next fight" Public opinion, he declared, has steadily borne the destiny of America nearer each day to the seat of the League of Nations at Geneva" 1"
 In his first public address since the campaign of 1920. Mir. Cox as- sailed the policies of the present ad- ministration, condemning the work of the Washington armament con ference. declaring that America had refused to accept world leadership and that financial depression was due to the "treachery of Lodgeism." |" Thousands of republicans, he declared, now realize that the leaders of their party, in the making of policy, have profaned republican history by for saking the soul of Abraham Lincoln ACi buC spAccu LII t1eHAy AdDOL LOORe.
 MT. Cox Said, in part:
 "As l interpret proprieties the de- feated candidate for the presidency should hold to the unspoken word un- til time has brought the unmistak- able evidence of payment or default by those in power on campaign pledges.
 Present Conditions
 Almost a full year has elapsed and very properly can we apply an an- alysis of It's developments. The ruins of war still mar the international perspective. Willing industry is without the aid of financial credits. Countries solvent, If not rich in natu- ral resources. are in idleness and misery. The reaction, true to prophecy Is upon us and every com munity Is affected. The echoing cry of America First is a mockery to human intelligence, as unhappy expe- rience tells us that we are a part of the whole world, in soul by the will of Almighty God and in practicalities hy the logic of natures laws~vrepub- lican dictum to the contrary, notwith- standing.
 Farm products have diminished in price much below the labor cost of production; vast inventories of shop and mill have followed the down ward trend, until thousands of farm CTS and business concerns are hope
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26
HARDING JOINS IN
 EFFORT ID SOLVE
 SHANTUNG ISSUE
Importance of Chinese Jap anese Dispute Becomes Evil dent-No Changes Made
 in Naval Treaty
By Associated Press

Washington, January 25.-The aid of President Harding has been enlisted by the arms delegates to bring Japan and China into agree ment on Shantung.
 Taking a direct hand in the Wash ington negotiations for the first time, the President today urged the Chinese to accept the latest compromis of fer and thus remove from the field of controversy subject which has become serious barrier to the prog ress of the whole conference.
 Whether the move is to succeed appears to rest largely with Peking The Japanese already have indicated informally their willingness to make the principal concessions proposed. and the President approached the Chinese only after the Japanese em- bassador had informed the state de- partment that his government was ready to accept tender of good of- fiees.
 Return of Railroad
 The settlement plan sponsored by MT. Harding deals only with the return of the Tsingtao Tsinanfu rail- road, substantially all other questions having been agreed upon in the sepa- rate exchanges between the Japan ese and Chinese. Under the proposal Japan would abandon her proposi- tion for & loan to China and the latter would purchase the road with treas ury notes payable at option five to 15 years hence. China would receive possession within five years, but would withdraw her opposition to retention of a Japanese traffic man ager and chief accountant during the period of payment.
 Although several days may be rs- Quired to reach final decision, one immediate effect of the days de- velopments was to bring into relief the importance of Shantung in the general scheme of conference accom- plishments. As the negotiations have bean drawing to q close the eyes of the delegates have turned more and more frequently to the simmering feud over Kiaochow and it is pri- vately admitted that it Is not by acci- dent the big issues of the conference stand halted Just short of conclusion. It is an open secret that until shan tung is settled. most of the commit ments partially entered into here must remain indefinite.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26
ANDERSONDENIES FARM DELEGATES
 WERE HANDP|CKED
Agricultural Organizations Were Consulted in Making Up Representatives,
 Chairman Says
By Associated Press

Washington, \January 25.-Pro- posals looking to development of American agriculture as a self-sus- taining industry were considered to- day by the national agricultural conference while its committee con tinued work on suggested measures to relieve the present acute situation and provide for general pshabilita- tion.
 The addresses which covered mar keting problems in many phases were interrupted long enough 10 permit Chairman Anderson to deny the charge voiced in some quarters that the delegates to the conference were hand picked"
 Mir. Anderson said that Secretary Wallace. despite the shortness of time in which to select delegates after the conference was called, had consulted farm organization leaders and others in making up his list.
 Governor Parker of Louisiana, one of the speakers on the program, who was the first to mention the "whis- pered' talk of hand picked" deIe- gates at today's meeting. also de- fended the conference.
 Commodity Financing
 A proposal for establishment of commodity financing through loans to farmers running from six months to three years was indorsed today by subcommittee working on this phase of the rehabilitation program. The proposal was said to provide for creation by the government of any agency for discounting farmers notes based on agricultural commod. tiles and live stock paper. This was said to be one of the important steps necessary to ameliorate the present situation.
 A number of informal conferences were held today both before and dur Ing the conference session by dele- gates who were said to be consider ing the proposal of resolution in dorsing the farm bloc" in Con gress Considerable informal discus- sion of the farm bloc" has followed President Harding's address Monday. 1t was said, and delegates favoring action in support of 1t are under stood to be canvassing to determine what reception such resolution would be likely to receive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26
RUCK GIRL CLAIMS SHE WASATTACKED
 BY TEX RICHARD
Girl Is on Stand Nearly Three Hours = Mother Says Charges Against Pro-
 moter Are Ease
By Associated Press

New York, January 25.-Alice Ruck, 15-year- old Eastside schoolgirl, testi- fled tonight fin city court that she had been assaulted several times by Tex Rickard. internationally known sport promoter.
 The little girl was on the stand nearly three hours. MT. Rickard sat almost hidden by friends, who sur rounded him. Because of the nature of the testimony all persons not directly interested in the case were barred from the courtroom
 The Ruck girl said MT. Rickard first attacked her in, his office in the tower of Madison Square Garden last August While she was describing this, sobbing bit and talking in a whisper, her mother, domestic, rushed before the magistrate and shouted
 q don't think MT. Rickard had any thing to do with my child"
 Mother Removed
 The mother was removed to an ante-room and after the case had been adjourned for the night she pleaded to be allowed to take her child from the custody of the chil- dren's society which preferred the charges
 The girl testified that RIckard sub sequently attacked her on several oc- casions in several apartments near Fifth avenue on Forty seventh street. the last time on New Years Day. On all but one occasion she went to the place with her 11-year-old compan ion, Annie Hess. she said Each time. she said, the promoter gave them money and asked them ''not to tell anybody"
 pr. w. Traves Gibb. physician Tor the children's society. gave testimony tending to confirm the girls state ment that she had bean attacked.
 Story Was Fiction
 It was brought out in cross-exami nation that the story the two girls told at Bellevue hospital when they said they had taken iodine upon re- porting there late at night on Janu- ary 13 was fiction. They told lie, the witness admitted, in telling hos pital attendants that they had been Kidnapped and rag soaked in chloro- form put over their faces. These stories were told, she said, in an at tempt to get lodging at the hospital overnight. as they feared to go home at a late hour.
 The girl. who appears much younger than her age. testified she had a predllection for motion pictures and said she carried a newspaper pho- tograph of Rickard in the cuff of her coat sleeve for three months.
 The hearing will be resumed next Monday night
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26
NEGRO OFFICER
 SHOT A PRIVATE,
 WITNESS ASSERTS
No Direct Testimony Concern ing Illegal Hangings Is Civ
 en Committee Investi-
 gating Watson Charges
By Associated Pres.

Washington, January 25.-None of the 16 or more witnesses ap- bearing today before a Senate in- vestigating committee was able to present direct testimony relating to charges that American soldiers had been hanged without trial in France. Others will be heard tomorrow.
 Henry Gentry, negro of Lawrence. Kan, who served in the regular army prior to the wary declared that he saw negro officer. Mai Joseph Phillips of East Orange, N. J., shoot William Patterson, negro private but he could not say positively whether the soldier died or whether Phillips was tried by court martial. The shooting. he said, followed the soldiers refusal to help an army cook slice bread.
 Three medical officers attached to Base Hospital No. g, near Chateau Roux, testified that there was no truth in charges by former service men that the bodies of nine men. killed by the military police, had been sent to the hospital. Then half dozen former soldiers declared only two men were hanged at Is-Sur- Til, the number listed on the war depart ment's hanging report at that point. Previous testimony was to the effect that about a dozen" soldiers had been put to death there
 RosenwaId's Speeches
 Speeches made by Julius Rosen- wald, president of Sears. Roebuck & Co. of Chicago. to troops in France, while there as representative of the Secretary of War. were mentioned by a couple of witnesses, who assert ed Mir. RosenwaId had assured ne- gro soldiers that they would receive better treatment at home after the war and that this had created some bitterness in camp. The committee was trying to dig into reports about lynching when the Rosenwald incl dent was mentioned. and one of the witnesses said some of the white sol diers felt like lynching the speaker All agreed however. that in what ever rows resulted among the men nobody was killed.
 From the testimony of minister attending a soldier hanged. in France it developed that letter was writ ten to the mans brother in this coun- try stating that he had been hanged Testimony on this point heretofore indicated that the war department concealed the fact of the hanging in notifying the families of II men officially listed now as having been executed after trial by court-martiaI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26

Mrs Rosa Loane lies the death her husband Lorane 50, critical condition result of night about o'clock their at Twelfth and Avenue The still early hour this morning peced live The though ana of the
 According
  the bin the him the dead started towards the 
 Lorane, who had and started shooting the the without hitting him. wife adjoned the with baby blow from the that crushed the left skull Turning the assaant stopped keeper emptd double disappeared D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26
GROCER AND WIFE VICTIMS OF THIRD AK ASSAULT
Muscle Shoals Contract
Charge Conspiracy
 to Defraud United
 States of $2,OOO, 1000
By Associated Press

New York. January 25.--Met- vfl1e C.. Newmark. actuary of the American Fur Dealers association of New York, yns arrested bE agents of the department of jus tice tonight on complaint charging him with being impli- csted in conspiracy to defrRud the federal government out of fur sales taxes said to approx innate e2,000.oOO
 Morris ROsenbIum. q former deputy collector of internal rev. enue. and Herman schuss were arrested yesterday on similar charges Newmarl<'s part in the alleged conspiracy was to con- meet RosenbIum and Schuss with fur manufacturer involved in the so-caiIed plot to defraud. schuss and Rosenblum are ai- legged to have provided about 50 New York furrfers with forged receipts for the 10 per cent tax due the government monthly on fur sales
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26

That famous screen star will be nAere in. person next week at the AL cazar theatre. And whoever wins in the contest will have the wonderful privilege of appearing with him on the stage Thursday, Friday and Sat- urday' in a skit
 Th& city and MT. Cody and the AL cazar will be so proud of the lucky gfri they won't know what to do.
 Ugly Girls, Too
 eorne of the worlds greatest stars have been chosen just in this way. But sdont get 1t into your head that a giHl must be pretty to have chance. Thtiak of the ugly screen stars you knoSw-there are many, many of them. The best actresses are the ones who scr1een and act well. And you may be just the one person who is wanted Very badly However. you haven't got forever to send the photograph in. For the contest will close next Tuesday at o'clock in the evening.
 Mir. Cody is going to help all he can, and Is intensely interested in the ' contest. The south is known as hav- ing produced some of the most bril- liant women in the world-maybe you are one of them who Is poor, or who never had . chance. Maybe you never
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26
CYST OF THE NEWS
GENERAL

GENERAL Barton Hepburn dies in New York. Pope'x body will he entombed today. Defense witnesses testify in Ar buckle trial.
 STATE Cooperative sales add nearly SG2.- GOO to farmers profits. Fraternity houses at university nre footed.
 Candidates In Limestone are busy.
 LOCAL Brown named director of South eastern Express company. Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad contracts for additional coql supply.
 Bond issue talk by Rogers k Ito- tary feature. Fifteen thousand poll taxes remain to be paid before February z. Jones jailed on murder charge after killing.
 Harrison Hays ministers stand on dancing issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26

When Assistant Chief Tom Chris tan. with Officers Weisman and Hand arrived. Lorane was staggering through the store with the shotgun still in his hand and his wife was lying in the kitchen doorway in pool of blood. The two victims of the assault were taken Immediately to the Hillman hospital by Lige Loy ambulance. which arrived shortly after the police.
 Later they were transferred to the South Highlands infirmary, where the woman is not expected to live Ae cording to the hospital physicians. the injuries were inflicted by blunt instrument, the skull in the case of Mrs. Lorane being crushed IS lt hs the blunt end of an ax.
 Lorane was unable 10 give an sc- curate description of the assailaut, save that he was medium sized ne gro.
 Two small children a girl of ana boy of {, in addition to the three months old baby were in the rooms adjoining the store when the tragedy occurred.
 Fourth Since June
 This is the fourth assault of this kind that has been perpetrated in Bir- mingham within the past seven months. On July 13, last, MT. and Mrs. Charles Baldona were assaulted in their store at 4512 Tenth avenue north, three children. On December 2i. MT. and Mrs. Joe Mantione were murdered in their combination store and residence at 3224 Church street, q 10 months old baby being left un- harmed in the room. On January 10, 1922. Mir. and Mrs. Crawford were at tackled in their grocery store at Ave nus D and Fifteenth street, Mrs Crawford being killed instantly and her husband dying a week later.
 The entirs locality fig being combed by every available police and detec- tive, according to Assistant Tom Christian, and with every avenue of escape being watched. the assailant is expected to bs apprehended within the next 14 hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-26
HOUSE MEMBERS CLASH OVER DYER
 LYNCH|NG BILL
Wisconsin Republican Ac- cusses Mississippi Con- greSsman of Advocat-
 ing Mob Rule
By Associated Press

Washington, January 25.-De- bate in the House on the Dyer anti lynching bill was concluded today and the measure was taken up un- der the five-minute rule which af- lords members an opportunity to offer amendments.
 Republican leaders, announcing that the bill would be kept before the House until a final vote was reached, said they were confident it would be sent to the Senate late to- morrow or Friday.
 Roll calls during the debate indi- cated that proponents of the meas urs were in majority but il iu ex- pected that a number of drastic amendments will be offered in an attempt to alter provisions calling for heavy penalties and for officials who, through negligence. fail to prevent them. The bill as 1t stands also provides that counties in which lynchings occur must forfeit s1o.O00 to the families of the victims.
 Democrats are said to stand prac- tically solid in opposition although two minority members, Representa- tives Cochran and Griffin. both of New York, spoke in favor of the bill today. Several republicans have expressed opposition to it and a num- Der of republican members are ex- pected to vote in the negative on the final roll call.
 Verbal Clashes
 The session today was marked by a verbal clash between Representa- tive Sisson, democrat, Mississippi and Cooper, republican, Wisconsin, which threw the House into confusion with several hundred negroes in the galleries joining in demonstration that was silenced with difficulty.
 The flare-up occurred when Mir Cooper declared Mir. Sisson had ~operiy advocated" mob rule Mir Sisson. during the attack on the bill had described conditions in the south and had contended that mob violence could not be stamped out until black rascals keep their hands off the throats of white women"
 Advocating federal action as & means of checking lynchings, Repre- sentative Mondell, republican leader; declared that states had failed ut- terly 10 assert their authority If permitted to go unchecked, Mir. Mon dell contended, lynching will break down and destroy law and order and civilization.
 
 Representative Garrett, Tennessee, democratic leader, appealed to mem- bers from the Pacific coast. who. he said, were confronted with a per picking race question, to stand with opponents of the Dyer bill in resist ing interference of the federal gov ernment in state affairs.
 Whatever you people in the west decide to do in working out your problem, we of the south will un- derstand." said Mir. Garrett.