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The Washington times., 1922-09-11

Hutchinson blew up In the
ninth. He issued a pass and hit
a batsman, this latter act forcing
in a run. Then the redOubtable
Heinie Webb. Printer manager,
climbed the hill.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
DRESSED AS WOMAN.
BANDIT. AND TWO PALS.
ROB DYER, IND, BANK
By Associated Press

DYER, Ind, Dec. 20.-Three bandits
this afternoon held up the First Ma
tional bank and, escaped with $4,000.
One bandit, who was dressed as a
woman. was shot by John Keilman. a
grocer. and apparently wounded. His
companions threw him into their au-
tomoDile and fled west on the Lin
coin. highway. The bank was robbed
I. year ego in the same manner ny
bandits, who got away with $4,000.
William Gettler. bonkkeeper. was
alone in the bank at 3 p. m. today
when the man in woman's clothes en-
tered and covered him with q re-
ivolver, then signalled to the other
two, who came In and cleaned put all
the money in the vault.
AS the trio turned TO run to their
automobile. Gettler stepped on bur-
glar alarm. Merchants along the
lstreet armed themselves and opened
fire.
The bandit In womans clothes fell
ITO the street. with blood -ptrting
from wound in his chest.
The other two paused long enough
to throw the mans body into tht
tonneau OF their touring car, AMI
then sped west. with quickly organ
lied posse 4 ~"-."a4
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
JOINT CONFERENCE ON
PROPOSED WADUCTS
HAS BEEN POSTPONED

Conference between city commits
sioners and officials of the Seaboard
and Frisco railways on proposed VIA
ducts over Tenth avenue, north.
scheduled for Thursday morning, has
been postponed to January 8. accord
ing to information at the city hail
Wednesday.
The time agreed upon proved UNI
satisfactory to one of the railways,
according TO President ID. e. Nc
Lendon. and the change was effected.
1t is understood that the city Will
present TO the railway men proposal
for construction of one or more via
ducts over their tracks on the north
side to correspond with program
contemplated for grade examinations
on Railroad avenue.
1t is believed by those in close
touch with the situation that the
city will ask for a viaduct either
at Twenty third or Twenty tn
streets over Railroad avenue, and one
at one of these points on the north
side. with probably an additional one
over Twentieth street.
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81 BUILDING MATERIAL
CONCERNS FIX PRICES;
PROMISE TO QUIT IT

WASHINGTON. Dec. 20.-Manufac-
turers of gypsum and similar build
ing board have agreed to enter into
a consent decree designed to prevent
them from continuing certain trade
practices. including alleged price-fix-
ing through the medium of their ma
tionaI organization. Col. William
Hayward. federal district attorney at
New York. disclosed today in the
course OF statement before the
House committee investigating the
Daugherty impeachment charges.
Colonel Hayward said it was hoped
to make this decree a basis for SINH
lar agreements between the govern
ment. and other national trade orr
ganizations. He declined to go into
details OF the terms pending the fill
ing Of the decree in the federal court
at New York. probably next week. 1t
was learned, however, that about 90
manufacturers are a party to the
agreement which was reached here
last nigh. at conference between
their representatives and law Officers
of the government.
This agreement grows out of gov
ernment action on disclosures made
before the Lockwood investigating
committee at New York
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
MATTHEWS HEADS
zAM0RA TEMPLE
FOR YEAR OF 1923

Ernest e. Matthews, Birmingham
attorney, was elected and installed
as potenAate of Zamora temple, Mo-
bles of the Mystic Shrine, at the
temples annual meeting Wednesday
night In Ben Hur temple, 1S09ia
Fourth avenue. north. He succeeds
Eli Shortridge, potentate during
1922.
Charles J. Geohegan was reelected
for the twenty-third time to serve as
recorder Of Zamora temple, and
w. T. Lathern was reelected
trsasurer.f other members tof the. Of
Ificial divars elevated inTaccor6ance
with custom, are II. G. Crelly.r chief
rabban; Lew Salter, assistant rab-
ban; George f. Wheelock, illustrious
high priest and prophet; j. B. Patter-
son, orieDtal guide.
The offices of first ceremonial
master. second ceremonial master.
marshal, captain of the guard and
outer guard are appointive APP
pointees will be announced later.
Representatives to the imperial
council elected are: Ernest L. Mat
thews. Eli Shortridge, Thomas A.
Bowles of Albany and Governor elect
w. w. Brandon. Trustees of the
Masonic Temple association are: Mo-
bles Matthews, Shortridge, Frank
Shepherd. Jr.. Charles Geohegan and
A. l.. Reese.
The usual donations to charities
were made.
Mrs. Eli Shortridge was presented
with a beautiful chest of silver by
members of the temple. The retiring
potentate received an embroidered
20 frnv 70 INN fal
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY
TO LOOT NAVAL BASE
SHOWN BY OFFICERS

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Details of
an alleged big conspiracy to loot the
Brooklyn navy base were revealed
today with the arrest of 22 civilian
employees.
Twenty three persons were indicted
recently by federal grand jury. The
twenty third civilian had not been
found at nightfall
The others We're rraigned before
Federal Judge Garvin and held in
$1,000 bail each. None could furnish
this amount and the court indicated
1t might reduce bail II an early date
for trial could not be fixed at the
next hearing, January 3.
Although authorities at the navy
department in Washington tonight
declared their reports of the thefts
in Brooklyn indicated a total of only
1920 involved. the indictments re-
turned against the % persons ar
rested charge thefts totaling $1,000
under three headings of $500. 500
and $1,000.
Officials taking part in the inves-
tigatiAn pointed out tonight that de
spite the small amounts specifically
charged, the alleged thefts have been
carried on over period of two
years and more than a score of per-
sons have been indicted while many
more are to be involved. Therefore.
the Investigators said. the present
charges are only an opening wedge
and before the case is complete it
should show thefts certainly not less
than 500, 900 traceabie to the
group of persons Swallowed during
the past three months.
1t may be, the Investigators said.
that when all the losses since the
war are checked up the total may
reach a far greater figure
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21

CASHIER OF CHICAGO
BANK SHORT $4,000;
PLACED UNDER ARREST

CHICAGO. Dec. 20.--National bank
examiners. it was announced this aft
|ernoon. have discovered a shortage
of $4,000 in the First National bank
of Chicago the second largest bank
ing institution in this city. Seth An
derson. manager of the banks out
clearfngs department. was arrested
on warrant obtained by r. e. New
hall. cashier of the bank. Mr.. New
hall said the shortage had been first
discovered by the banks auditing de-
partment. The bank Is fully pro-
tected by insurance, he said.
Anderson. 80 years old. had been
an employee Of the bank for 20 years.
starting as messenger boy at the
age of Is and rising to a post Of
trust
Bank officials said tonight it would
be several hours before they could
determine the exact amount of the
shortage. the period the embezzle-
ment covered and other details.
United States marshals who arrested
Anderson said he admitted taking the
money. Later Cashier Newhall said
the defalcations apparently had ex-
tended over period OF five years,
and that the money was all obtained
through juggling of the books of Mr..
Anderson's department..
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
KILBY DECLARES He.
HAS HAD ENOUGH OF
POLITICAL POSITIONS.
WASHINGTON BUREAU
THE AGE-H EkALD
Washington, -, e., Dee. 20

At the conclusion of his term, Gov
ernor Thomas e. KIlby win retire
to private life-for good according
10 statement made by him Ia
Washington following the recent
conference between the President
and the executives OF several states.
The governor has extensive bank
ing and manufacturing interests in
Admission, and has important holdings
In Birmingham. 1t is not so much
that these enterprises require his
personal attention as that he Is anx-
ious to get back to them.
The conversation was initiated by
a suggestion that the governor mi ght
find life in Washington allurng. He
shook his head.
II am through, he said Il have
had enough of office holding" He
has been councilman, a mayor. a
state senator. Acknowledgement
and a governor. These Jobs" have
consumed much OF his time. He has
admitted. however, that he enjoyed
the work each entailed. lie has dis
played a fondness for tackling diff
cult problems in public service and
solving them.
For that reason, the idea obtains
among his friends in Washington
that he VIII again hear the cali and
heed II. But the governor declared
with serious mien that he had had
enough
Someone reminded the governor
that a boy after eating Christmas
dinner had an idea that he would
never want to eat another one, but
that always he did. The governor
just smiled. however. and repeated
his statement:
m attieo1tpb
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
ARBUCKLE Is GIVEN
CHANCE TO COME BACK
INTO PUBLIC FAVOR

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2O.-Roscoe
Arbuclsle, motion picture comedian,
has a job In the pictures and he may
work at it. Whether he comes back
to the place he once occupied is now
distinctly up to Arbuckle and to the
American people, is the gist of Sc
ries of statements given out here to-
day by Will Hays, chief of the mo-
ton picture industry; Jesse l.. LasiSy
of the company that formerly dis
trbuted the Arbuckle comedies
Joseph Schenck, producer, who will
employ ArbuclSle, and the comedian
himself.
Mr.. Hays requested the producers to
Withdraw the Arbuckle films and to
make no more Of them last April He
took that action after Arbuckle had
been thrice tried on a charge of man
slaughter arising from the death In
San Francisco of Miss Virginia
Rape. an actress. Since then Ar
buckle has lived quietly, taking an
occasional trip away, but keeping
out OF the public eye.
Mr.. Hays announced today he saw
no reason why Arbuckle should not
be permitted to 90 back to work
IL he wished to do so. Mr.. Hays
said Arbuckle had been tried and
acquitted: he said that he believed
that every man should be given a
chance to redeem himself. He made
1t plain that he neither sponsored
Arbuckle's future nor his films. but
that he was simply putting things
into trim so the actor could worl.
out his own future, unhampered by
any restrictions from within the in
dustry.
Mr.. Arbuckle declined to comment
on the new conditions other than
to say he would accept and try to
Improve 1t. Neither would his en-
ployer, Mr.. Schenck, comment on
their plans. The only definite an
nouncement in the matter, other than
that Of Mr.. Hays, came from Mr..
Lasky. who said his firm had no
intention of putting existing Ar
buckle films on the market now.
Mr.. Hays departed to spend Christ
mas with his family at sullivan, Ind.
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FORMER OFF |C|AL
Of BANK IS GIVEN
PRISON SENTENCE
Term of Four to SixYears I'M
posed on Benjamin Lloyd
Gaddis, r.--0ther Indict-
mentS QuaShed
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU 1
THE AGE II EItALD
Noufponerx Ain HE. On

Benjamin Lloyd Cadets, Jr., presi-
dent of tie Merchants bank of Mont
gomery at the time it was taken over
by the state banking department De-
eember %, 1921. pleaded guilty to
an Indictment charging the making
of false entries and was sentenced
from four to six years in the peniten-
tiary by Judge Walter b Jones in the
circuit court Wednesday,
Gaddis was carried TO kilby prison
al once by w. O Robbins, state trans
fer agent Judge Jones, after impos-
ing the sentence In one case granted
the motion or the state for the dis
missal of all other indictments re-
turned against Gaddis. Gaddis was
indicted IN seven cases shortly afteF
the bank doors We're closed, but be-
cause the indictments we're against h.
l.. Gaddis, instead of Benjamin Lioyd
taddis, Jr. five additional ones were
returned recently.
Tho specific Indictment to which
Gaddis pleaded guilty charged that he
entered an item of $1,000 on the pass
book of the Hall-Beale Cotton com
pany of Montgomery and failed TO
credit the company's account on the
bank book.
Gaddis Issues Statement
In accepting the sentence Gaddis
issued statement in which he told
of the charge of which he admitted
and stated that he did not profit one
penny from the banks losses. He said
in this instance he sought to protect
the interest of the bank and in doing
so permitted his personal affairs to
become involved and intermixed with
the affairs of the bank He further
declared that at the time he entered
the deposit of $1,000 on the pass book
of the cotton company he intended
to credit its account with the money
but in the crash which followed he
forgot to do SO. Shortly after the de-
post was entered the cotton company
failed, owing the bank about 100000.
The failure Of the Merchants bank
just before the Christmas holidays a
year ago caused sensation in Mont
gomery. Since the doors were closed
the state banking department has
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
REGULAT|ONOF
J|TNEYS WILL
Be STRINGENT
Number of Cars Operating on
Each Line to Be Limited
Under Provision of New
Ordinance for Bir-
mingham

Details of Commissioner w. B.
Cloe's jitney ordinance, now being
drafted by the legal department,
were announced at the city hall
Wednesday and include among
other stringent regulations, limita-
ton on the number of cars allowed
to operate on each line. The IL
white lines now operating will be
limited to 200 cars, and the four
negro lines to 81 cars.
Cars of each line will be num-
bered numerically and will be re-
quired to run on schedule. No car
will be allowed to pass another I'M
less by reason of accident or me-
chanical trouble putting one car out
of commission. A checker probably
will be required at the terminus
of each of the white lines that use
more than II cars. Several lines,
it is said, have already put on such
man.
Jitneys will be required to stop
near the right hand curb for receiv-
ing and discharging passengers. The
number of hours that driver may
work consecutively will be limited,
although 1t was said that the number
has not been determined upon.
Keep off Gar Lines
Investigation will be made to deter
mine whether ordinances now in ef-
feet regarding persons hanging on
running boards and on the outside
of jitneys are sufficiently stringent.
II not, provision will be included to
cover this. Jitneys will be required
to eonfine their route as much as pos
sible to the right half of the street
and keep Off car tracks.
Following are the jitnex lines and
the number of cars that viii be al
lowed to operate on each: fSgs
West End go Glen Iris rs, South
Highlands 20. Chestnut Hill s, Noun
tain Terrace s, 'Woodlawn, seventy
seventh street, 90, Norwood ~, North
Birmingham 90, North Haven 10,
Fountain Heights Z. Birmingham-E Ems
ley 35.
Negro lines: Collegeville 10. Enon
Ridge II. Graymont 30, Montevallo rs.
a. {. Smith, jitney inspector, SAID
that two or three other lines will
probably be added shortly after the
new year, running the total number
of jitneys to 500.
Examination of Drivers
Stringent enforcement of ordi-
nances already in effect governing
examination of jitney drivers as TO
knowledge of traffic laws and opera
fiou of automobiles will he exercised,
Racing and certain questionable prac-
tees of jitneys will be eliminated as
nearly as possible in the campaign
to clean up the BUSH chat is being
conducted by Comm aar Cloe.
1t was said that r,iinance VIII
probably be ready 10. tne mex, meet
ing of the commission Tuesday, al
though it was said that some add
lions may be made at that time that
will necessitate postponement of ac-
ton
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
DESERT RAILROAD
MEN GUILTY Of.
CHARGE, SAYS JURY
Eight Persons Identified With
Recent Shopmen's Strike
Will Soon Receive
Court Sentence

Los ANGELES, Dec. 20.-Eight
railroad men, alleged leaders OF the
strike movement which resulted In
the abandonment by their crews of
20 passengers in the California -Ari-
IONA desert last August, were con-
victed in federal court today of con-
spiracy to obstruct Interstate COM
merce. The men. enginemen, train
men and others, Will be sentenced
Tuesday.
The defendants are all of Needles,
Cal, c. l. Fox, e. Arkbauer, T.. IL.
Reynolds. L. e. woodbeck. L. +.
Frazeur, r. II. Clements. c. e. Holly
and John A. Stecklein. Their at
torneys announced an appeal would
be taken.
The accusation against the men
was that they plotted to bring al bout
n tie-up OF Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe trains to assist the railroad
shopcraftmen who have been on
strike since July i'last.
About twenty trains were aban-
doned in the desert country of Cali
fornia and Arizona. The walk -out
lasted nine days, but trains were
moved in the meantime by railroad
officials, passengers reaching their
destinations from three to five days
late.
Clements and Holly were connected
with shopcrafts organizations and
the. others with the big Four"
brotherhoods.
The government sought to prove
by kilograms that the eight defend
ants had brought about the walk-out.
This was denied by them. They de-
clared the wallS-out was directed by
a mass meeting of brotherhood men
who believed that their lives were
endangered by having defective
equipment assigned to them and by
the presence of armed guards.
Railroad employees OF the different
affiliations as brought out In the
trial were
Fox and Holly Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers; Reynolds,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
ard Enginemen. Arkbauer, Order of
Railway Conductors; Clements and
Steclslein, Railway Machinists Union;
Frazeur. brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen. and Woodbeck, Switch
mems Union of North America.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
SURVIVORS IDENTIFY
DEFENDANTS IN TRIAL
OF Mine RIOT CASES

MARION. ILL.,, Dec. e0.-Peter Hitler
and Otis Clark, two Of the five de-
PENDANTS on trial charged with MUIR
der in connection with the Herrin
riots, were pointed out in court by
two of the four survivors who took
the witness stand today.
The survivors who occupied the
stand most of the day were William
S. Cairns, P. j. O'Rourke, Bernard
Jones, guards. and Robert officer, a
bookkeeper at the strip mine where
the riots started which resulted in
the death of 20 non-union men.
Cairns testified that the As men in
the mine surrendered early in the
morning Of June % and were marched
out of the pit with their hands above
their heads after being told that
they would not be harmed. He said
hel had seen c. X. Mcdowell, the
crippled superintendent of the mine.
led away by Otis Clark. who had a
guh, and another man.
1--WE were marched on until we
caane to a barbed wire fence" he said.
"anu some one shouted, All men
with guns line up TO the right and
then some one else cried. Now you
fellows rum Then the firing started"
When he was wounded and lying
beside the fence with two bullets in
his body, Cairns said he saw Peter
Hitler come up to another wounded
man who was leaning against a tree
and II e into his body after shout
ing: You great big -, can't we
kill y)u?"
The witness said he saw another
man approach John Shoemaker. as
sistai t superintendent at the mine.
who was Tying wounded in the field
and say. Here's that - machine
guifaer," Cairns declared the Speaker
ther drew a pistol and blew Shoe
makers head off.
The witness said he was picked up
and taken to hospital by Sheriff
Thhxton about an hour later.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
FIRE PROFESSORS FOR
MAKING HOME BREW

RALEIGH, y. G.. Dec. 20.-Resig-
nations Of four instructors a. North
Carolina state College of Ag-icul-
ture and Engineering here have been
requested as result of charges that
they made home brew" !, In their
rooms, DR.. W. g. Riddick. president
OF the institution. announced today.
The president did not give any
further details except TO confirm re-
ports that the action followed an
investigation BY students who con-
Quoted a private probe. The names
OF the instructors who were said to
have offered their designations as
requested were given as c. v. Busbe,
4. b. Parks. c. B. Buckner and J.
g. Miller. No further action is con-
templated. it was said.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
TROOPS CALLED%T0 SOLVE MOREH0USE MYSTERY
Republican Senator Raps Enemies of Ford Proposal
Daugherty and War Frauds
Feature Washington Ne1Ds

Representative Upshaw, demo-
crat, of Georgia, in a speech in the
House, called on high federal and
state government officials to "sac-
redly declare" they would not drink
bootleg liquor.
Federal reserve banks were au-
thorized to purchase or rediscount
bankers aeceptanees of six months
maturity drawn by growers of sta
pie agricultural products or coop
erative marketing associations.
A bill was introduced in the Sem
ate by Chairman Wadsworth of the
military affairs committee author
izing the War Department to sell
nearly so pieces of property not
needed for military purposes and
located in 90 different states.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-(As-
ISOLATED Press News Summary -
Announcement was made that the de,
partment of justice was preparing
to file a suit against the Wright
Martin Aircraft corporation to re-
cover $3,601,715 war claim.
Hearings by the House judiciary
committee on the Keller impeach-
ment charges neared conclusion
with the examination of Department
of Justice officials who refuted
them.
Republican leaders decided to de-
fer further consideration by the
House of the Green resolution pro-
posing a constitutional amendment
to prohibit issuance of tax-exempt
securities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
ACTION UPON BUTLER
NOMINATION BLOCKED

, WASHINGTON. Dec. 20.--Action Of
the Senate on the nomination Of
Pierce Butler OF st. Paul, MIMI, to
be an associate justice of the United
States supreme court was again
blocked today by an objection to cor :
sheraton.
Senator Norris, republican. Me-
braska, was understood to have en-
tered the objection. but Chairman
Nelson OF the judiciary committee
was said to have served notice that
the would call up the nomination
again tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
DAUGHERTy MUCH PLEASED
OVER RESULT OF TRIAL

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-Attorney
General Daugherty expressed gratifi-
cation tonight on the outcome of the
trial in Los Angeles OF the trainmen
who deserted their trains in the des-
ert during the strike last sum-
mer. 1t was his opinion. 1t was said,
that the conviction OF the men who
were charged with being responsible
for a Conspiracy" in Me Santa Fe
case, was 'vindication" of the at
titude Of the department of justice
in resorting to the injunction pro-
ceedings at Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-21
MYSTERIOUS FLEET OFF
g0AST NOW EXPLAINED

Y BUENos AIRES, Dec. 20.-A mys-
terious fleet of war vessels. reported
recently off the coast of Brazil. was
in realty flotilla of coast guard
boats purchased from Germany by
Argentina and bound to her for de-
livery. According to dispatches from
Bahia, Brazil. which say the flotilla