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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
BIRKHEAD GIRL GETS
AN INSANITY ALIBI
fey The AsaoeIated Pressl

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March S1.-An in
vestigation of the reports current in
Memphis and Jackson for some time
that man arrested here last Decem-
ber had admitted selling quantity of
liquor which he told officers was to
be used for lobbying purposes in
jackson, Miss, will be made immedi-
ately by Clifford Davis, secretary to
Mayor Rowlett Pain, who has been re-
tanned by Governor Russell of Missis-
sippi as one of his attorneys, in the
suit brought against him for 100000
damages by Miss Frances Birkhead.
The announcement that Davis had
been formally retained by Governor
Russell followed the publication here
Of story that Miss Birkhead, in order
to establish an insanity alibi" in case
her mental condition should be brought
into question by the defense in her
suit against Governor Russell, had
voluntarily submitted herself to OBJ
servation by mental specialist by
spending a week at local hospital
under his care.
Thomas r. Foster, Miss Birkhead's
attorney, later confirmed this report.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
WASHINGTON CALMLY WAITS
STRIKE, HARDING BELIEVING
FURTHER EFFORTS USELESS
Report Many Non Union Fields
Will Pay No Attention to
Unions Persuasion.
tsy The Assoelatsd Press

WASHINGTON, March 31.-Con-
WINGED that every reasonable effort
has been made to prevent national
coal strike in anthracite and bituni-
nous coal mines tomorrow, but be-
lieving that although these efforts
have been without avail, existing con-
ditions and surplus coal assure price
protection and current supply for the
general public, official Washington
settled back tonight to await the event
with considerable calmness.
In a finaY White House discussion
it was said that the governments long
negotiations with the parties to the
controversy and continuous study Of
the industry's production volume had
convinced the administration that inn
mediate intervention, in legal or ex-
ira legal ways, would be futile and
unnecessary, and that while the fu-
ture might sharpen the breach be-
tween employer and employe in the
mining camps. for the present even
peace was unnecessary.
Harding Refuses to Act.
President Harding was urged DUR
ing the day by delegation represent
ing the protestant Federated Council
Of Churches of Christ and the National
Catholic welfare Council to make a
further attempt to get operators and
miners together and to set up a com
mission to adjust their differences At
the White House, however, it was said
later that no action was advisable at
this time.
A house committee also was told
by Edward G. Tyron, coal production
statistician for the geological survey,
that $4,000. 900 tons OF coal, equivalent
to q 81 day supply for every consumer
was in storage at this time. These
stocks officials estimate, will be sup
plaxnented indefinitely by large out =
puts from nop-union fields In West
Virginia and elsewhere, where opera :
tors asserted today that miners would
pay no attention to the unions attempt
to have them cease work. Labor de-
partment officials also were interested
in reports from union fields in West
ern Kentucky, where 1t was estimated
that approximately 5000 miners were
considering staying on the job under
Continued on rage Two.l
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
AIRMEN OF FLYING
CIRCUS ARE BURNED
One Envelope in Gasoline Flames
Runs Down Railroad Track
Like a Human Torch.
(Ry The Associated Press)

MACON, Ca March 31.-W. L.
Fisher, said to have been a member of
the royal flying corps Of the English
army during the world war, and two
companions, Ray Roundtree and John
j. Costa, automobile racers, received
burns and injuries in an airplane
wreck here late today that cost the
life of Costa, who died tonight.
According to other aviators who saw
the accident, the plane struck down
current just after hopping off this aft
ernoon, causing it to strike a 60-foot
smokestack A guy wire from the
stack became entangled in the ma
chinery Of the plane and in an instant
1t was in flames.
Two Of the men, helpless in the
wreckage, were pulled out by railroad
men, who smothered the flames that
were eating into their bodies through
gasoline soaked clothing by throwing
loose earth upon them. The third,
Costa, was thrown free Of the machine
and ran down the railroad tracks like
a human torch. A prize fighter
knocked him down and rolled him In
the sand to put out the flames.
Fisher had been flying for eight
years. Fisher gives his residence as
Mack, Colo; Roundtree at 191 East
Thirty-third street, Portland, Ore, and
Costa at Anthony, Kan
The machine was used in Mabel
Cody's flying circus that appeared here
early in the week, the liers intending
to go to Atlanta, thence to Texas.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
ENDURANCE TEST
ON MISSISSIPPI
Rivers in Arkansas Out Of Banks
and Rising Fast-HOIding
Break at Old Town.
10y The AssoeIated Pressl

MEMPHIS, Tenn. March S1.--The
uood situation so far as the. levees
Oetween Cairo and Memphis holding
.sfe has resolved itself into an en-
0urance test, engineers say tonight.
With the crest OF the flood expect
% At Memphis tomorrow, when the
rVer here is expected to reach stage
VI - feet, levee officials say that there
Y no danger of a break above Mem
PMS during the present flood. Con-
unuous rains throughout the central
ALLEY increases the necessity for
'lossst Watching Of the entire levee
"stem for week or more.
Rivers Out.
Ihe Arkansas, st. Francis, White
.nd other rivers in Arkansas are out
Y taeir banks tonight and rising fast.
uOuSands OF acres in the valleys are
nuer water. Farmers got out their
'0''ock, but much Of the work done
TopS will be loss. kilograms
uOn Mariana, Ark, say that refu-
80 Tom the bottoms along the Ian
ss. .us river are arriving there. Con-
1aoie land along the ST. Francis
A. white rivers is also reported un-
~ water with thousands OF acres
my The Yazoo and tributaries in
wa Mississippi.
Av.. W. oid Town, Ark, where the front
NJ. soughed off, the workers have
Ibut continuously busy for SO hours,
|h9 +aVe returned to Helena, a sand
|lEet0ss ss'noankment having been COM
Aers The United States engineers
'Dd NJ T,Onight sent quarter boat to
6e ao"n' on which the workers on
ser 'ee will be housed until the dan
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
HOLD FORD OFFER
TO NEXT SESSION
In Meantime Plan for Engineers
to Finish Wilson Dam
and Dam Three.
(sY The AssoeIated Pressl

WASHINGTON, March 31.-Post-
ponement until congress convenes in
December Of a decision respecting the
acceptance or rejection of Henry
Ford's and other offers for private op-
Grafton; lease, purchase and compile
tion Of the governments war initiated
project at Muscle Shoals, Ala. ap-
peared probable today with the return
of the congressional delegation.
Senator Norris. OF Nebraska, an
nounced he would introduce a meas
ure for appropriating money with
which the army engineers could begin
work of completing the Wilson dam
this summer. and for the construction
&C dam No. on the upper Tennessee
river
Chairman Kahn of the house mill
tary committee issued call for the
committee to meet tomorrow to dis
cuss the offers it has been investigat- :
ing.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
MILLIONS FOR
VETS HOSPITAL
Congressman Bland Says Bureau
Director Like Gander in
a Hail Storm.
(sy The Associated Prsss)

WASHINGTON March S1.-An pa
preparation of $17oOo.ooo to be used
In providing additional hospital facili-
ties for war veterans would be au-
thorized by bill passed late today by
the house without record vote. The
measure now goes to the senate.
The bill would place the director OF
the veterans bureau in charge Of all
activities, including selections of sites.
plans for new buildings and for re-
modelling Of existing structures.
Debate on the bin was marked by
an attack on Director Forbes of the
veterans bureau by Representative
Bland, repu bltcan, Indiana, who de-
clared that the bureau had no respon-
sible head and very little efficiency.
"That fellow, the director over there,
Is like a gander in a hail storm and
does not know what it is all about"
Mr.. Bland shouted. HE has men un-
derneath him who are giving him bad
advice and he takes it."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
CHURCHILL GIVEN
HIGHEST PRAISE
Attitude of Followers of De-
Valera Now Cause of the
Greatest Anxiety.
tsy The Associated Press)

LONDON, March 31.-Troubled Irish
history today entered new phase
with the double achievement of the
free state bill safely reaching the
statute book, and the conclusion of
the agreement between the north and
the south and the imperial government
opening a better prospect for eventual
Irish unity.
If Premier Lloyd George was the
hero of the Irish treaty Winston Spen-
Ger Churchill, secretary for the colo
MES, admittedly is the hero OF Thurs
days agreement. Mr. Churchill has
been the recipient Of universal tributes
of praise and admiration, beginning
with Joseph Devlins speech in the
house of commons Thursday evening,
as mainly responsible for bringing the
opposing parties in Ireland together.
Warning voices, however. are heard
in the press especially in Belfast, and
Mr.. Churchill himself in the house Of
commons today begged the house not
to indulge in optimistic delusions.
In Dublin today the signing OF the
agreement was received with great
rejoicing. There seemed TO be an inn
preston that Michael Collins, head OF
the provisional government in Ireland,
and Sir James Craig, the Ulster pre-
mier, would hardly have signed the
agreement without having first arrived
at a tacit agreement as how best to
deal with the admittedly difficult prob
lem of activities of the Irish republican
army in Ulster The attitude of the
followers of Eamon DeYalera gives
L greatest cause for anxiety. but on
this subject little reliable opinion could
be obtained today.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
ALL INDUSTRIES
FOR
STRIKE ORDER
order Issued Already for Sus.
pension of Trains on Penn
sylvania Lines.
MOST STEAMER LINES
USING OIL BURNERS
Those Needing Coal Will Be Able
to Fill Their Bunkers at
{ Foreign Ports.
tsy The Assoolated Pressl

4 NEW YORK, March 31-Eighteen
thousand railroad workers in the state
5ot Pennsylvania will be thrown out Of
work tomorrow as q direct result Of
ahe anthracite coal strike, Phillip Muir
Aay vice president OF the United Mine
sWorkers of America, announced here
aoday
I This, Mr.. Murray asserted, will be
9only a prelude to the far reaching
suspension OF industry which is
bound to follow idleness at the mines"
II Order Trains Stopped.
officials OF the Pennsylvania rail-
Soad, the largest single carrier of an
hhracite in that state, tonight revealed
Ahat plans for suspension of certain
$freight trains were already under way.
sThe first trains will be taken OF to-
morrow, they said, and others as fast
as the present supply of coal at the
snlines is distributed.
Other roads where the strike will
be most keenly felt include the New
York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio,
The Chesapeake g. Ohio, the Delaware.
hackawanna & Western and the Le-
high Valley, according to the miners.
Huge Stores at Ports.
Steamship lines, as well as other
public utilities, have taken precautions
10 avert shortage of fuel due to the
strike, It was revealed today. For
such craft as use coal. chiefly freight
erA supplies sufficient for several
months have been stored At Atlantic
coast fueling stations, it was SAID. No
lshortage is anticipated unless euspen-
Jston OF the mines continues more than
Hour months.
Installation OF oil burning mechin-
cry has been made on virtually all
passenger liners and in many of the
larger freighters. In the event Of a
fuel famine. coal burners could I'LL
their bunkers at European stations,
where there is reported to be an over
supply, or at South American ports.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
YELLED WOMEN TO
REPRESENT RUSS
Laughter in French Chamber
When Poincare Says He Re
fused to Meet Lady
Delegates.
(Ry The Associated Press)

PARIS, March a1.-Premier Poin-
cares announcement this afternoon in
the chamber OF deputies that the Rus
sian soviet government had taken the
initiative toward resumption of rela-
tions with France and had sent sew
eral emissaries asking for parleys be-
fore the opening Of the Genoa confer
ence created a sensation in the cham
Der.
It was somewhat tempered by hilar-
ity, however, when the premier added
that the emissaries were veiled women
carrying letters under their wells, and
claiming to re resent Karl Radek and
Leonid Krassin.
The chamber, with the exception Of
the communist delegates, was unani-
nous in its approval OF the premier s
refusal to have representatives meet
the boisheviki.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
CANNIBALISM PREVALENT IN
RUSSIAN PROVINCES REPORT
AMERICAN EYE WITNESSES
Steal Bodies of the Dead to Eat.
One Man Killed Wife and
Picked Body.
(sy The Associated Press)

NEW YORK, March 31.-Graphic
stories Of starvation and cannibalism
in Soviet Russia were brought back
today by three men who arrived on
steamers from Europe, after tours of
the famine district.
Two, Simon Brailove of Washing
ton, and Morris D. Barron of Brook
lyn, who returned on the Polonia, had
gone to Russia to rescue relatives,
who, they heard, were starving. THE
third was Professor NJ. Atkinson, head
of the department of economics in
Melbourne University, Australia, who
entered Russia as a representative Of
the British dominions famine relief.
He was a passenger on the Maure-
tania.
Rrailove said he found his brother,
Peter, formerly a prosperous grain
exporter Of Moscow, starving in a lit
tie town 200 miles from that city.
Barron said he found two sisters at
Riga, penniless and on the verge Of
starvation.
Professor Atkinson declared he had
established to his complete satisfac-
ton that cannibalism was rampant"
at least in the Saratov district Of Rus
sta.
There have been numerous thefts Of
bodies Of the dead, he declared and
unmistakable proofs have been found
that they were eaten by the starving
peasants.
One man, he said, was executed for
Staying his wife and preserving her
body for food purposes in picking
brine.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
OFFICERS EXONERATED
FOR KILLING BAD MAN
ray The Associated Pres.l

ward F. Newberry of Mason, T. &c.
Nelson Of Dublin and j. T. Drake of
Adrian, federal and state prohibition
revenue officers, were late this after
noon exonorated of charges against
them by three justices at a prelemi-
nray hearing given them In connec-
tion with the death OF p. Barwick, who
was killed near here week ago in a
gun battle with the officers.
Mrs. Will Moore. in front Of whose
home the pitched battle occurred, tes-
titled that Newberry fired the first
shot. Other witnesses said Barwick
was a 'Sbad man."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
INJUNCTION AGAINST
MARYLAND ROAD MEN
(ey The AssoeIated Pressl

BALTIMORE, Md, March 31-Judge
Rose in the United States district
court tonight issued temporary order
directed against the striking Western
Maryland railway shop workers, indi-
vidually and as members and officials
of their respective unions, restraining
them from acts of violence, intimida-
ton, threats, illegal picketing and the
like in connection with the strike.
This move was surprise to officials
Of the big four brotherhoods, who had
come to Baltimore earlier in the day
for conference with President Max
well C.. Byers.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
SAYS RAPPE GIRL WAS
DRUNK AND IN AGONY
(ey The AssoeIated Pressl

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 81
Reading of depositions Of Chicago ply
sicians and a nurse took up most Of
today's session in the third trial of
Roscoe C. Arbuckle. They were in
troduced by the defense in an an
-nounced effort to prove that Miss
Rappe suffered from chronic bladder
trouble 10 years ago.
Henry Seymour, Culver CITY, Cal,
testified that Miss Rappe, with friends,
once came into his cafe and that Miss
Rappe, who, he said, appeared to be
intoxicated, tore at her clothing, held
her abdomen and writhed as If in
agony.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
COLONIAL AT NASSAU
BURNS TO THE GROUND
{sy The Assoelated Press)

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, March
81 .---AA ra1io message received late to-
day by III. e. Benis. vice president of
the Florida East Coast hotel company,
owners of the Colonial hotel at Mas
sau, Bahama Island, said the hotel
laundry, power house and all other out
buildings were completely destroyed
by fire there today.
There were about $50 guests in the
hotel, most Of whom were from New
York No lives were lost. The hotel
had about 500 rooms.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
AFFIDAVITS
AGAINST BURCH JURORS

LOS ANGELES. Cal, March b.
At the resumption OF the trial Of Ar
thur c. Burch, charged with the mur-
der of J. Belton Kennedy, today, Paul
w. Schenck, chief defense attorney,
submitted affldavits in support OF q
challenge directed at the jury panel.
Schenck offered to produce "15 or
.16 jurors who, he said, were willing
toy testify about attempted investiga-
tions Of themselves.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
MERRIMAc SURVIVOR DIES
(By Tho Associates Prsssl

NORFOLK, Va, March 31.-Andrew
j. Dalton, one of the last three sur
vivors Of the crew Of the Merrtmac,
which participated in the historic bat
tie with the Monitor in Hampton
Roads March 9, 1862, died at his home
here tonight after brief illness. He
was 78 years old.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
REPORT 700 FRENCH
KILLED BY TRIBESMEN
tsY The Assoelated Pressl

LONDON. March 31.-Seven hun
drsd men belonging to two French
columns have been killed or wounded
IN surprise attack by tribesmen In
the Moulouya valley of French Mo-
rocco, according to dispatch to the
London Times from, Huelva, Spain,
dated Thursday, quoting private adj
vices received from the Ell Araish, Mo-
rocco, wireless station.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
CHILDREN TRAMPLED
IN MOVIE THEATER FIRE
ADV The AssoeIated Prsssl

oCILLA, Ga, March S1.-Several
children were trampled upon in a
panic of patrons OF the Recreator thea
tire. destroyed by fire that broke out
at tonight.
The theatre was filed with 500 peo-
ple. many of them women and chill
dren, when the fire was discovered at
the rear Of the theatre. film ex-
ploded and the binding fash caused
q rush for the exit.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
BANDITS GET $1,000
FROM N. Y. TRIBUNE

NEW YORK, March 31-Three ban
dts walked into the counting room
of the New York Tribune in Park Row,
across the street from City Hall po-
lice station, at 10:30 o'clock tonight,
held up two clerks and a watchman
and escaped with $1,000.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
IRISH BOMB INJURIES
THREE IN FAMILY AND
KILLS A BABY BOY
(ey The associated Prsss)

BELFAST, March S1.--A bomb
thrown tonight at the home of a
laborer named Donnelly, killed
Donnelly's three-year -old son, crit
ically wounded a son IL years old
and also injured a daughter II
years old and Donnelly himself.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
cHARLEs oETTlN0 MORSE

FUNCHAL.. Madeira, March 31.-The
condition OF former Emperor Charles
OF Austria Hungary, who is suffering
from pneumonia, today took a turn
for the worse.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
BANDITS ATTACK MAcYs

NEW YORK. March 31.-Three men
held up the employees in the Bronx
distributing station Of r. H. Macy &
Co. late tonight. shot and seriously
wounded the manager, Charles De-
Lorne, and fed without making an at
tempt to take bag containing about
$4,000, the days receipts.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
MINER SHOT FROM
AMBUSH THE FIRST
STRIKE FATALITY
(sy The Associated Prees,

BLOOMSBURY, Pa, March a.
Anthony Gagnine, said by the police
to be a non-union miner, was shot
from ambush today on his way to
work in the mine of the Beaver
Valley Coal company. in Scotch
Valley eight miles from here. Ply
sicians said his wound probably
would prove fatal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01

LONDON, March 31.-Raiders to-
day seized the cargo of explosives,
chiefly geHgnite, aboard an admiralty
ship off the Irish coast and slowed it
safely in some unknown place, ac-
cording to a dispatch to the London
Times from Cork.
The movement of large numbers Of
motor lorries, which were comman-
deered in Cork Wednesday and driven
to an unknown destination, is now ex-
planned as being part of the coup to
intercept the admiralty vessel.
More than 100 lorries were seen
Wednesday going in the direction of
Middleton and Youghal. Trees We're
being felled behind them across the
roads. probably to prevent pursuit.
AS part Of the plan, a tug boat ly-
ing at the deep water quay, Queens
town, was seized by raiders. The tug
boat followed the ordnance ship until
Ballycotton was reached, when it
overhauled and captured her and
transferred the cargo to the lorries
which had arrived at Ballycotton from
Cork. The lorries were returned to
Cork Thursday and restoreed to their
owners.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01
SECRET ORDER
TO N OBILIZE
irish TROOPS
Fear Trouble Over Move Ex-
pected of Republican Section
of Army for Sunday.
WHOLE SHIPLOAD OF
HIGH EXPLOSIVE SEIZED
Irish Raiders Capture Ship and
Transport Gelignite in 100
Stolen LOrries.
tBy Ths AssoeIated Pr.,,l

LONDON, March 31.-A dispatch to
the Daily Mail" from Belfast says the
republican committee had ordered a
secret mobilization of the republican
section of the Irish republican AMY
for Sunday, possibly with the inten-
ton of violent action.
The dispatch adds that the provis-
ional government has issued warn
ing to the men.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01

SIAMoKIN, Pa, March 81. - APP
proximately 10000 anthracite workers
brought their tools up from more than
rs collieries tonight.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01

GIAZELTON, Pa, March 31.-Min-
ers of the Lehigh and Panther Creek
coal fields to the number of 10000 left
their working places tonight.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01

SCRANTON, Pa, March 31.-Near-
~ $4,000 mine workers left their posts
today.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-01

DENVER, Colo, March S1.-Mor,
than 1900 miners of Colorado obeyet
the order to suspend work at mid
night.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-07-24
BIBLES FOR ALL. THE WORLD
Society Reports the Greatest Year In
's"s' rs History In the Volumes u
II Has Issued.

The biggest year of Bible circula.
ton since the high levels Of the war
period, IS reported by the American
Bible society IN the annual report just
issued. This reportFsays':
"The total number Of volumes cirGu.
lated during the year was 4,S55. A64.
which is more than a million i'm excess
Of the distribution of the sprecediny
year. The largest, Increase is shown
IN China, where 2,ssa,73o We're circu-
lated. From Japan, the Near East
and all Of Latin America, there has
come an increased demand So; great
that the society has Been unable to
meet it.
'"The revised Spanish New Tesla
ment has been completed and will be
ready for distribution during the COM
ing year. Translation work has gone
forward also in Luragoli for missions
In British East Africa; in Quecllua for
the Bolivian Indians; in Zulu for the
black people of South Africa; in
K'pelle for use In Liberia. In China
large parts Of tine scriptures have
been issued in the new. phonetic script,
which is a simplified written form in
dorsed and promoted by, the govern
ment"