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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
MRS. DEBOUCHEL
WILL RETURN TO
HER HOME TODAY
Attorney Says Client Pleased
With Reception She Has
Received From People
of Georgia
BY Associated Press

Atlanta, October 11.-Mrs. Onezi-
ma DeBouchhel announced tonight
that she would return to her home
at New Orleans tomorrow and con-
tinue the fight To obtain the names
Of the persons who, she said, Asa G.
Gambler, Sr., Atlanta capitalist, told
her brought him reports rejecting
on her and caused him to break his
engagement to marry her.
Mrs. DeBouchele has done al she
could do here said formal state
ment issued tonight by her attorney,
Harry Gamble of New Orleans, who
stated that he would accompany his
client back to New Orleans on an
evening train tomorrow. she has
stated her case. and we feel most
grateful for the splendid response
of the womanhood and manhood of
Georgia" the statement read,
The press has been four square
to this stranger within their gates,
the statement continued. THE old
Anglo-Saxon spirit OF aggressive
sympathy for the under dog has
never been more vigorously DIS
PA Gu,
THE case is now in the hands of
Mrs. DeBouchele's legal advisers. Vim
dication she will have 1t IL now
for them to find the most effective
way to accomplish it,"
MIR. Gamble discounted a statement
made in Los Angeles today by VIII
bur Legett relative to the case. 1T
may be added" his statement as
serted. that the dispatch from Los
Angeles saying that man there as
serts that he is the travelling sales
man claimed by the Gamblers to be
defaming Mrs. DeBouchele, and that II
/, not true, presents mere intrusion on
his part, however we'll intended He
has not been named, and no person
elsewhere than in Atlanta has been
claimed to be making these infamous
reflections on Mrs. DeBouchele."
Employment of local counsel will
be decided on later. probably after
he has had time to go over tht
whole situation with his client AFTER
they reach New Orleans. Mr.. Gamble
said.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
PROPOSE INCREASE
IN CAPITAL STOCK
OF STANDARD OIL
Stockholders Will Act Upon
Plan Proposed by Directors
at Special Meeting,
November 8

New York, October i1.--Following
the lead of other Standard Oil COM
panies, Chairman Bedford of the
Standard OIL OF New Jersey, an
nounced today that special stock
holders meeting has been called for
November to act on a proposal of
the directors to increase the author
lied capital stock from $4,000, 900
to 1926. 100000 and declare stock
dividend OF four new shares OF COM
mon stock or 400 per cent stock
dividend for each share of common
stock outstanding. The par value of
the new shares Will be SIS as at pres
emit
The directors also explained that
they felt that the shareholders
should be advised that. in view OF
the re .uirpments of the company for
capital investment. they have no pur-
pose to Increase the aggregate
amount of dividend disbursements at
the present time. The present divi-
dend is on the basis of 20 per cent
annually.
When this new financing has been
completed there will be $500, 900 900
par value common stock outstanding.
The balance of the proposed increase,
about $125,000,000 Will be held In the
treasury to meet such needs of the
company as may arise, IL was stated.
Heinvest Earnings
Mr.. Bedford declared that since
1899 it has been the policy of the
company to re-invest in its business
all earnings remaining after the dis
bursement of dividends. and since
1911 there has been no change in the
regular rate of dividend then es-
tablished. During this period the
substantial growth of the company's
business. has resulted, he declared
in very considerable augmentation
of it's assets, largely by reason OF
profitable employment of such sur
plus earnings. On December 81, 1921,
the surplus was s592.o21, e32.
The steadily increasing dispropor-
ton between the company's issued
capital and its net assets prompted
the directors to take such action.
This company is the parent COM
pany of the so-called Standard Oil
trust which was dissolved by the
United States supreme court In 1911
into it's 80 companies. Since the ag-
gregate quoted value Of the stocks
of the various companies has in
creased approximately 100000.
The Standard Oil of New York,
which recently declared 200 per
cent stock dividend. had a common
stock capitalization of $4,000, 600
with a surplus OF 100000. In
common with the other Standard Oil
companies of New Jersey. Indiana,
California and Kentucky, 1t reduced
the par value of its shares from 800
to $25.
The Vacuum Oil company in the
Standard OIL group, with $4,000, 900
surplus on a $1E000,oo0 common
stock capitalization. recently de-
clared a dividend of 81 a share in
addition to the regular dividend.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
RECORD-BREAK|NG
RATE IS MADE IN
COAL PRODUCTION
Need For Fuel Still Critical in
Certain Areas-DomeStiC
Supplies Are Low
Due to Strike
BY Associated Press

Washington, October 11.-Coai
production started off this week at
an almost record-breaking rate. which
Fuel Distributor Spens declared in a
statement today was an index to the
effective railroad cooperation OBJ
tanned in the statement to make up
deficiencies in the country's fuel sup
ply due to the miners strike.
The Chamber OF Commerce OF the
United States gave out the results
of survey it has made in co-opera-
ton with the government indicating
stocks OF coal intended for domestic
consumption in most parts OF the
country are practically non-existant
and that there is still a critical ne
cessity for more coal to be moved
into certain areas.
According to reports TO the Amer
lean Railway association on Monday,
40, 596 cars OF bituminous. 1s.1oi more
than on Saturday or last week. were
produced. THIS is the largest days
output since December. 1920. and
amounted to more than 100000 tons.
There was also produced 6.446 cars
of anthracite, 2SS more than on Sat
urday.
Rationing Unnecessary
Mr. Spens declared that railroads
were already being urged to main
tain a movement of at least 11,000,-
600 tons of bituminous per week
and that the records of the present
week were illustrating the effect of
methods adopted by the committee
of rail executives which has been
set up to assist tho office. If the
movement can be maintained, he said,
it will be unnecessary of the In
terstate commerce commission or the
fuel office to adopt restrictions or
priority orders to enforce rationing.
The interstate commerce commits
sion report indicated that domestic
supplies were low, found utilities
with 45 days supply and steel works
and Industries generally also well
stocked.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
ARMOUR REFUSES
TOREVEAL EXTENT
OF SPECULAT|ONS
Packer Defends Wheat Mar
ket-Says Speculative Plan
StabiIizes Conditions and
in End Aids Farmer
Rx Ansoclated Press

Chicago, October Ill. ogden Ar
m6ur. meat packer and capitalist, de-
clined today-for the present at least
to reveal to the federal trade com
mission the extent of his specuiations
in wheat and corn from July Is, 1920,
TO MAY 81, 1922. lie will appear again
Friday after comforting with his at
torneys.
Admitting that he had been in the
market occasionally" as a Spectator,
Mr.. Armour declined to name his
brokers or to reveal the lump sum OF
his long or short lines on any given
day. ~
MIR. Armour defended speculation in
grain and the marketing machinery
which makes It possible because the
farmer is afforded an opportunity TO
sell his produce On any day in open
market. The producer does not al
ways get the price he is entitled TO,
he admitted. but on the average, he
said, the farmer does profit by the
system.
His views were brought out by Vic
tory Murdoch. wee chairman OF the
commission, who recalled his acquain-
lance with P. d. Armour, founder OF
the Armour fortunes and father OF
the present head of the house. II was
p. d. Armour who broke the great
Joe Letter wheat corner in 1897.
do you believe from your own
observation that the speculative plan
Of the future market gives the pro-
Queer square deai?" Mr.. Murdoch
asked.
Stabilixes Conditions
"On the average | think II mas. be-
cause the farmer has place TO sell
his wheat every day in the year" Mr.
Armour replied. "He may not always
get the price he should, the price he
is entitled to. but | think il has sta
bilized conditions. without the spec
ulative future market no trader
would buy until he had ii sold, and
you know that some times you have
to carry wheat a long time before
you can sell it."
Mr. Armour said he was not IA
miliar with tho rules OF the board OF
trade. had nc opinion as to the fair
ness or unfairness of tile emergency
car load delivery" rule and did not
know whether on the two occasions 1t
has been invoked. il operated to his
advantage or disadvantage. The ruie
permits delivery in cars when the
public warehouses are full
when engaging in future transac-
tions do you notice any effect on the
grain price due to the purchase Or
sales made by your the examiner
asked
NO. sir. Nothing noticeable
Mr.. Murdoch attempted to learn
whether Mr.. Armour eases in or
out Of market through small lot
purchases or sales. or whether he
accumulates his long or short line
in large lots. After considerable
sparring, the best he was able to
learn WAS that depends upon circum-
stances"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
NEGRO POPULATION
CENTERS IN GEORGIA

Washington. October 1i.-tspe-
cial.)-The center of negro popu-
InhOn In the United states Is the
extreme northwestern corner OF
Georgia latitude 34-46-52. longi-
tude S5-30-4s) the census bureau
nn "nced tDday.
This imaginary point is In
Dnde county about ia miles
northeast Of Rising Fawn, less
than five miles from the Ala
bama line.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
T no Boys Indicted
mPerjuryCases

Selma, October 11.-(Special. AT
a special session of, the Dallas county
grand jury this afternoon w. d.
Moore, Jr., son of the county license
Inspector, was indicated for subordi-
nation of perjury, and Jimmy Vance,
son Of the Broad street shoe repairer,
was indicted for perjury.
The cases grew out of the trial
Monday Of Moore on a charge of vio-
lating the prohibition law. On the
strength largely of vance's testimony
he was ordered freed by the judge.
But it was charged that he swore
differently in the grand Jury room
when the Indictment for violating the
prohibition law was returned. The
nudge consequently ordered an in
vestigation and the two indictments
as related were returned.
The two youths were released on
Il 200 bonds each. Subordination is
defined as inducement to commit per-
jury. M
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
My Favorite
Stories
BY IRWIN S. COBB
Urging On the Elements

Neil told that landed with
troupe the parade
awaiting the depot large reception
of negroes
Every the JOB
paid
the for the added glory of taking the
This small and struggling however which boad but
silk big
grabbed the passed off the and chung it. fight
ing off a opposition
AS he started proudly the street. with the faepo resting in the
of beled
almost dragging the color bearer off his feet and forcing him
tack and jbe to keep from being capzed bodily.
his the sidewalk Sick him. wnd" ~ yelled
"Sick hmr'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
Farrar Will Sell Mementos
OF Her Long Stage Career

and enough beads, earrings. bracelets.
castenets. girdles. hair combs and jet
trinkets to outfit cigarette factory
full of Carmens
Many Wigs Displayed
Farrar's wigs fill several show
cases. for she invariably covered her
own black tresses with a wig even
in operas where her role called for
black hair. There are auburn wigs
for Fiamette and Zaza: blonde wigs
for Marguerite and That's: light
brown wigs for Manon; dark brown
wigs for Mignon: black wigs for
Butterfly and Carmen.
All are of human hair except two
worn in the early scene Of That's.
These are of gold thread.
Among the brightest spots of the
exhibit are the kimonos worn in But
terfly. There are 10, each vieing with
each for the ultimate in gorgeous
ness.
There are two notable souvenirs
missing, however. One Is the red
velvet robe worn in Tosca. Farrar
presented this. when she said fare
well to an assistant stage manager
who long had admired it. The other
is the table knife with which she
stabbed Scarpia in Tosca The knife
"a trick one-was a prop" and
still is laying actors low on the met
ropolitain stage.
Feather De1eted
One of the most interesting Farrar
hats is the famous affair with the
blue. yellow and green ostrich
plumes which she wore IN Tosca. The
first night she wore it. 1t also con-
tanned red feather. but this caused
SO many gasps that everybody agreed
the red feather should be deleted.
Among the trappings of her ro-
nance with Lou Tellegen offered for
sale are a Louis XVI drawing room
set; Farrars bedroom set OF ivory
enamel. the old rose damask hang
ings and Tellegen's bedroom set OF
kingwood with yellow striped hang
iIgs. done a la Louis XVI.
Even a picture which stood on
Farrar's dressing table. showing the
singer and her mother in the days
of the Berlin triumphs. which pre-
coded her American debut. is for sale.
Besides. there are linens. tableware
and the like, all initiated IT, OF
&C. r. T." and--the doormat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
REALTO2sE,so FAIL
TOEN~&DLSPUTE|
WITH UTILITIES
Commissioner Harrison Declares Breach Is Wider Than
Ever After Conference of City, Corporation and
Mediators at City Hall Yesterday

Efforts by the Real Estate influential bring
city and the Birmingham Railway Light and Power
failed and the breach between the
wider than according William follow
ing a engt
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
LEGETTE DEFENDS
CONDUCT OF WOMAN

Los Angeles. OCTOBER 11.-Wilbpr
Legette, formerly of Atlanta, Ca,
now living here. volunteered tho
statement today thaat he was the
travelling salesman mentioned by Asa
q. Gambler in the statement pub
lished by Mrs Onezima DeBouchele.
involved in an alleged report of visits
to her rooms in Atlanta during
Confederate reunion in 1919.
"The whole story attributed 70
Gambler Is a lie," declared LegetteS
fco,tinued ON Page Two.)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
Today
Intelligent Gratitude.
We Live Longer
And Still Are Foolish.
Reactionary Revolution.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

In England the tory 'die-hards"
and labor people try to get rid Of
Lloyd George. Foolishness from the
tories surprises nobody. They always
hated Lloyd George. never forgave
him for saving them from German
rule. The labor men, some of them.
should know better. Lloyd George
financed them. directed them, won
for them and paid them wages from
public funds when they faced idle
ness because of the war
Whatever there is left of the
British empire. whatever prospects it
has ahead. should be credited. 30 per
cent. to Lloyd George. And they
want to get rid of him. Such is the
gratitude of intelligent "self-govern-
ing" human beings
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
ASK INJUNCTION TO
RESTRAIN SEIZURE
OF SHIPS ON SEAS
American Steamship Owners Will Peacefully Abide by
Daugherty Decision, Although 1t Will Mean Loss of
Money-Busness Already Dropping OFF

New October 1oficials of the
ship proceedings
officials Selling
orthe aboa the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12

Human beings are living longer
than they did. Infant and adult NOR
tality diminish steadily. Soon there
will be the old cry of more people
than the earth can support" But
that won't come. Texas. under in
tensive cultivation, could support all
the people on earth today. And as
The human race improves families
will be smaller. A mouse may have
loo children in a year. an elephant
has about four in 80 years.
Men live longer. but seem little
wiser. The BARRIERS Supply Dealers
association in Chicago shows that
men buy tweezers to pull out their
eyebrows and do other foolish
things Eyebrows were made thick
on our ancestors to protect eyes from
the sun and from perspiration and
rain. Heavy eyebrows are a sign of
strong primitive character. which has
resisted the softening effects of en-
vironment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12

Morris Hillquit. able lawyer, one
of the few rich American socialists.
returns from Europe with an inter
esting report on the condition of af-
fairs in italy. The Fascist, adopt
ing methods of Communism" utilize
them in behalf of the lower bour-
geoisie and have actual control of
Italy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12

France denounces the United States
ruling against any liquor on Tor
eign ships. The French don't drink
liquor" as we understand It, They
would think cocktail-and- whisky
drinking American crazy. But 80
per cent of the French drink light
wines. To tell them they can't have
wine on their own ships coming to
America, Is as though France should
forbid American ships landing az
French ports to bring drinking water
of any kind. The French talk of
reprisals. and perhaps the most ef-
fective reprisal would be TO forbid
American vessels bringing drinking
water to any French port.
w. H. Vanderbilt. great grandson
OF the first William H.. has decided
to be a banker and becomes a clerk
in Wall street. You wish him luck,
but wonder at his lack of magma
ton. When you have enough money
II must be rather dull spending your
LIFE trying to get more. The son
of the richest man in Rome went to
the wars with Caesar died younger
than he need have done, but made
reputation. Even his father tried
tc be a soldier, without much sue
cess.
Samuel Rseszewski. 10-year- old
Jewish boy from Holland, played
chess eight hours against Edward
Lasker, one of the greatest American
players and forced Lasker into an
adjourned game. A wonderful thing
that childish brain must be. Too
bad to use il in that way.
And a strange game is chess. In
no line of effort could child of 10
by any possibility compete with
adults of real ability.
The price of gasoline in Chicago
is cut cents. Users will pay 19
cents at the tank wagon, I'll cents at
service stations. That interests users
in other places, nearer the edge oil
the Atlantic, where they pay rs
ccpts.
The company in Indiana announces
that the cut means saving OF
sa.5o0,o00 month for motor owners
in that neighborhood. The saving
will be welcome. 1t emphasizes the
fact that corporations possess a
power of taxation without repre-
sanitation that would have made the
Americans of old King Georges day
sit up.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12

They have notified the government
that they will take possession and
that as Mr. Hiliquit says, is no boast.
They have the power The Fascist
represent something never before
seen in history. reactionary revo-
lutionary movement. 1t is a rebel
lion against the government for per-
hitting too much latitude to tho other
kind of radicalism. And the body of
reactionaries working on revolution
airy lines is led by men that former
iy were leaders of the socialist party.
You never can tell what war will
produce.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-12
FRANK G. CARPENTER

worlds most famous correspondent,
begins new series from Europe in
Sundays Age-Herald.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-12
MANY HARDSH|PS
BRAVED BY WOMAN

Mrs. A. r. Robinson, who is now
living in Phoenix, is q pioneer of Ar
izona who has suffered hardships
in her early life such as few worn
en- are called upon to endure. She did
the work of a man in establishing
the family home in this state and
helped her husband build their first
log cabin at Show Low. near Snow
flake
When Mr. and Mrs. Robinson came
to Arizona from Utah in 1875. Mrs.
Robinson drove the team and at
tended TO the harnessing and unhar-
Messing of the horses while her hus-
band was in charge of herd OF cat
tie They settled OF Show Low and
lived there for 10 years when Mr..
Robinson was murdered by Apaches.
His body was mutilated and thrown
into a waterhole. Mrs. Robinson then
left the ranch with her small chill
dren, never to see it again. and went
to Snowflake.
A short time later she returned to
Utah on visit and returned to Ar
izona later. Fifteen years ago she
moved to Phoenix.
Mrs. Robinson, in spite OF the hard
life she led, raised family of chill
dren and provided for them until
they grew up. Eight of her children
are still living in different parts Of
the state.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-12
FINANCIAL AND MARKET NEWS

lac off, oats unchanged to 1sc down.
and provisions unchanged to a set
back of 90 cents.
1t had been expected by many
wheat traders that in view OF yester-
days advance in values on this side
of the Atlantic the Liverpool market
this morning would show an upturn.
Disappointment in this respect was
emphasized particularly by a decline
IN sterling and by advices of dis
turned financial conditions in Greece.
Besides. export demand was slow,
and the view was pressed that all
known bullish factors had been fully
discounted for the present.
Better milling demand at st. Louis.
Kansas City and Omaha helped
somewhat at one stage to rally the
wheat market here. but toward the
end OF the day a renewal OF weak
ness became evident owing more or
less to gossip that two Minneapolis
mills were offering to sell in Chicago
hard Winterwlleat which had been
purchased in the southwest. Selling
OF 100000 bushels here to go to store
was also a late depressing factor,
especially as to the May delivery.
Unfavorable crop reports from parts
of Kansas were virtually ignored.
Persistent rainy weather made the
market for corn and for oats rela-
lively steady. Business, however,
lacked volume.
Provisions as a rule were lower in
line with hogs and on account of in
creasing stocks of lard.