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1 anese, as the cables from Washing ton have disclosed. | Turn to U. s. Now | Now we find that as the hopes of reconstructing Russia communis stical- | ly have grown dinner, the more fre- quently are Russian thoughts turned toward the United States. When Le- nine. busy with his new policy of state capitalism, is asked by a peas ant why he chased away Russia's own capitalists, when now he permits for eigners to como, he replies: Because they will help Us bring electricity to you all. You will have implements as beautiful as the Ameri- can moujiks"
 Krassin's opponents have said 1t Is absolutely necessary to get an under standing with the United States first. Then England and France would fol- low.
 Herbert Hoover's employees, in the remotest districts of Russia, hear that any price would be cheap to pay for an agreement with Washington, for that would soon lead to an under standing with both the new and old worlds.
 All of this has prompted the in- vitations to Tchitcherin and Litvinoff to London. German industry loudly Is demanding assurances that 1t will have & part In the Russian recon struction.
 And Raymond Poincare. who is to be the next French premier. warns his people against letting our dead allies" win this competition.
 European states feel they would be dethroned and poweriess if the United States entered into a commercial as- sociation with Russia instead of mix ing herself politically in European affairs. They hope that England will get the Union Jack to Moscow first.
 My prophecy of 1918 Is fulfilled. Therefore. I dare to make another.
 The British empire will not sep arate from the United States In the Russian affair. She will be glad to stand for white supremacy, relieved as she will be the burden of the Japanese treaty.
 This coalition of the United States and Great Britain, backed by Russia's s indefinite resources. could shape the world economically and banish the fear of colored supremacy within conceivable time.
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POISONOUS GAS IS
 DISCARDED BY THE
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 canceling his steamship reservations for next Saturday.
 If a plenary session is called for next week 1t is not unlikely that among other things 1t will see an- nouncement of a definite agreement for clarification of the four-power Pacific treaty so as to make 1t inap- plicable to the major islands of the Japanese empire. Negotiations for such a formal agreement, either through a reservation or by an ex- change of notes, are understood to have been virtually completed.
 Twenty-One Demands
 Aside from Shantung, the biggest clements of potential trouble and de- lay remaining to be discussed by the conference are embraced in the Chi nese request for consideration of the "21 demands" and in the proposal to take up the problem of the Chinese railway concessions. Both of these may be reached before the end of an other week, however, and 1t is ap- parent that the delegates are in no temper to unduly prolong debate.
 It is the hope of the Japanese that the "2l demands" item will be dis posed of quickly through a Japanese objection to discussion of the sub ject by the conference.
 The Japanese delegation holds that since the~"demands" were not on the agenda of the conference, they cannot properly come before 1t by unanimous consent, and it is evident that this position has some support among the delegates of the other powers
 The railroad problem. however, seems certain to develop much de- bate, for it will bring up Manchurian questions and the tangle over prefer ential rates. Linked with 1t is the old question of spheres of in- fluence," in itself source of con siderable controversy.
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able of doing something in the way of serious reconstruction for Russia and was also the only land not afraid of an infection of bolshevism. I ex- plained that America needed to in- sure her future export of manufac- lures and argued that all other all dances would be powerless against a Russo-America association. Moreover, l said that such a combination be- tween the United States and Russia would keep Japan safely in line.
 Mir. Krassin sighed heavily.
 Would Sooner Sink
 Perhaps that Is the only way to save Russia" he said. with a shrug of his bolshevist shoulders, but we dare not do it. Americans would bring capitalism to Russia and bring 1t in It's most tempting form. Rather than that. let us go down."
 A year after this conversation, the Japanese threatened the road to Lake Baikal and proclaimed war openly on tho soviets. Furthermore, Count Okuma, formerly the Japanese pre- mier, wrote;
 After the destruction of bolshev- ism, Russia will be our strong ally and we will march to the Balkan peninsula, to Germany and to France. We will llberate S00,O00,000 Hindus from servitude and put an end to Anglo-Sa tyranny. The time is past for making English and Ameri- can cooperation necessary to our di- plomacy."
 As Carl Radek let out the other day, soviet Moscow permitted the es- tablishment of the far eastern repub- lie, which was heard from so astound- inRly in Washington this week. and whose democracy Is a contradiction of communism. The new republic was permitted to form because 1t Is anti Japanese-very violently anti-Jap-
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ride prejudice and force Congress, perhaps against it's will, to accept the terms of the Detroit magnate.
 Senator Underwood, when appraised that Secretary Weeks had practically eliminated all bids save that of Ford, expressed no surprise He declared that the Secretary had intimated to him an earnest hope that he would be able to close with Ford. Senator liar ris of Georgia, interviewing the Sec retary today asked that all directors of all companies bidding for Muscle Shoals be published to the end that any possible connection with power or fertilizer trust might be exposed.
 However, negotiations eventuate next week. It is certain that long and bitter fight must be won in Con- gress before any large appropriation Is made In behalf of Muscle Shoals. The great Alabama project in all it's extensive career before Congress never scored a victory in the House of
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BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1922

ordered out of the automobile and to run and while doing so was shot to death a short distance from the road. Ills bullet-riddled body was found several hours later by officers who instituted a search under the belief that the purpose of the attack on the jail was to liberate him.
 Guardsmen Arrested
 Within 48 hours after Baird's body was found, the nine members of Company M, now under arrest. were taken into custody, together with Leslie West, a taxi- driver, who ad- mitted that he drove one of the au- tomobiles In which Baird was ab- ducted but who denied any know ledge of the intentions of the men he carried. All of the men were lodged in the Jefferson county jail for safekeeping, where West claimed to identify seven of the nine guardsmen as being In the lynching party. failing to identify the remain ing two under arrest. West was later admitted to bail in the sum of $5, 900 and was one of the chief wit nesses for the state at the first trial of Lancaster. Last January Lam caster was placed on trial for mur- der In connection with the lyching After protracted trial consuming nearly two weeks, the pjury reported inability-to agree and a mistrial was entered in the case. The remaining cases were noll-prossed and new in- dictments immediately preferred. When the cases were again called for trial in July they were continued at the instance of the defense on account of alleged prejudlcial news paper notoriety.
 owing to the intensity of feeling in the mineral districts of Walker county, where the indictments were found against the guardsmen, mo tions for change of venue made by the defense were granted and the cases were removed for trial to Ham, ilton. the county seat of Marion county.
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FORD OFFER SAID TO BE MOST COMPARTMENTS

Washington, January 7.-Henry Ford, in the view of war department officials, occupies the position of first importance among those bid ding for lease, purchase, completion and operation of the Muscle Shoals, Ala, nitrate and power projects.
 Secretary Weeks announced today after conference with c. c. Thinker of San Francisco, president of the Construction Companyof North Amer lea, who sought an agreement by which his company would complete construction work and operate the plants on semi governmental basis, that the Ford offer was the only com prehensive scheme before him for completion of the project and manu- facture of fertilizer by private en- terprise.
 Both the Thinker proposal and that recently submitted by Frederick E. Engstrum of Wilmington, N. C., 1t was said. related almost entirely to construction work on the dams and other plants and involved the gov ernment in future management of them as well as in paying for the work to be done. The virtual placing of the two offers in the class of con tract bid rather than lease and opera ton proposals brought Mir. Ford s plan again to the forefront of the transaction and removed in the mind of war department officials what ever idea had existed that the Thinker and Engstrum plans were of a com petitive sort as compared to that of the Detroit manufacturer.
 Weeks Motive
 IN 11I Weeks first announced his desire to dispose of the Muscle Shoals prop critics to 8 reputable private interest who would guarantee to operate them to the country's advantage, he was prompted principally by the motive of making them serviceable to the na- ton, guaranteeing their operation rather than letting them stand still, and without asking Congress for the millions necessary for government construction and management Such a desire still exists in the mind of the war secretary, 1t was said, and the Ford offer, it was added is the nearest thing the government has re- ceived for it's fulfillment. That, how ever, is not regarded as perfect full fillment in Its present form of the de- sires of MT. Weeks and the secretary WIFI seek 10 nave It amended Tn con ferences scheduled to begin Wednes- day between war department officials and representatives of MT. Ford or the latter in person.
 Meanwhile, MT. Thinker and F. c. Hitchcock, acting as his engineer adviser, will remain here in confer ence with army engineers. It was of- ficially announced that they would modify the plans they explained to the secretary today. but it waj not stated in what manner the alterations would be made. The Engstrum offer remained in the hands of the chief of engineers, Major General Beach, for study and further report by him to Secretary Weeks.
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accepted the tender after he severed his official connection with the cabinet
 T believe the motion picture people are making a false step," the senator continued. "When they get the big gest politician in the republican party to head that industry we must look upon 1t with suspicion. I know the attractiveness of this man. know he is smart and good organizer. As one who desires to have the industry kept out of politics I regret the tender.
 T am sorry to see the industry come into the cabinet and get mem- Der who was chairman of the repub- lican national committee. The indus try is hurting itself when it stirs up politics like that"
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SENATE ENGAGES IN LIVELY DEBATE
 ON NEWBERRY CASE
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 lar he had if he had never entered the campaign. He has suffered the tortures of hell; he has been villified and accused and blamed, and it's all the worse because I'm convinced it's political job"
 Turning to members on the demo- cratic side, Senator Townsend told them that there must have been a time when some of. them, like New berry had suffered from the acts of their friends.
 Senator Townsend took up the statements of Senator Heflin, demo- crat, Alabama, who declared yester- day that he proposed to submit series of questions which he said might prove embarrassing to MT. Newberry. MT. Townsend asserted that MT. Heflin had no right to treat a colleague in that manner, and added;
 And If he does, shall think less of him than I do now"
 Heflin Replies
 MT. Heflin replied to this by say ing he had no intention to heckle Mir. Newberry.
 Senator Trammell. democrat. Flor ida, also engaged in exchanges with MT. Townsend and into these col loquies entered Senator Spencer, re- publican, Missouri. who is leading the fight for Newberry, and Senator Walsh. democrat, Montana, a strong opponent of the Michigan senator. Senators Spencer and Walsh spared frequently over legal phases of the Newberry case and at times the scene partook of the nature of court room rather than legislative body because of extended technical argu- ments.
 Senator Trammell later spoke for 30 minutes in denunciation of the claims for rentention by Mir. New berry of his seat, devoting his time largely to review of the evidence in the court trial and Senate investi- gation He declared that much of the testimony was so full of holes that 1t was ridiculous to claim it was true.
 Money Everywhere
 Discussing the expenditures in the Michigan primary, MT. Trammell as- serted that throughout the court and committee records alike ran thread of money, money everywhere; money from beginning to end"
 This money was not used" he continued, flor legitimate purposes, but to do the very things which were forbidden by the Michigan statutes"
 "The senator from Missouri, MT Spencer, says there was nothing wrong in manner or morals. If there was nothing wrong in the Michigan case, then the flood gates must be opened"
 The galleries were crowded throughout the session and among the many onlookers were Senator Newberry's two sons, while in an- other gallery sat Alfred Lucking' Henry Ford's counsel.
 Senator Townsend referred to the presence of MT. Fords paid agent In his speech and in that connection mentioned reference by Senator Ken yon, republican,, Iowa, In a recent attack on Newberry to the workings of a "social lobby" The senior Mich igafi senator declared he knew noth- ing of such a force, but added that he would rather be subjected to the influences of friendship than to that of bitter partlsanship and contempt- ble underhand dealing" MT. Town send than told the Senate that he had seen senators talking with the paid agent" of MT. Ford in the Senate lobby
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 MOVIE INDUSTRY
 FOR HAYS OFFER
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 Senate and the House that affect the motion picture industry" the senator stated as he referred to the tax upon it which had been proposed, as well as to items in the tariff bill now pend- ing which might be of importance to 1t.
 ClOseness to Senate
 q do not know whether they think that through his closeness to certain senators here. or because of his at tachment to the President that he can work wonders in the tariff bill or the supplemental tax bill that, will be presented" the senator declared.
 Senator Sutherland. republican, West Virginia, suggested that former Treasury Secretary William c. Mc- Adoo had accepted an offer from the same industry. Senator Harrison re- joined that the nature of the employ ment was different in that MT. Mc- Adoo represented three or four stars and not the whole industry, and had
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cipline of the army is preserved"
 The assembly then separated to meet at II o'clock Monday morning. No agenda for that session is in dicated, and the only notice of a motion Is one by the speaker, Pro- lessor MacNeill, affirming in gen. eral terms Irelands independence and sovereign status. for which all sections of the Dali might unani- mously vote.
 The republic Is completely be- wildered regarding DeValera's in- tention.
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NE TAT heSlH WE < III
 Berlin in an at- tempt to bring about a oommer- cial understanding. M. Joffe, the ami able soviet ambas- sador. had invited me to be the only non-c o m m u n i 8 t guest.
 I told M. Krassin that if I were in his place l would try the United States first. be- cause 1t was the only country cap
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DEATHS

Mrs. Henry Murphy-Funeral serV- ices for Mrs. Henry Murphy, who died at her residence. 1121 Sylvan avenue, Saturday night. following a short illness. will be held from the residence Monday morning at 9 o'clock and from St. Pauls Catholic church at 9:30 o'clock. Interment will take place In Forest Hill ceme- tery with Lige Loy in charge. The following will act as active pail bearers: J. P. Carney. Frank Ca rew, T. A. McGough, Leo billion, S. V. Morrison, M. J. White. Hon orary pallbearers will be: Hugh McGeever, John w. O'Nein A. M. Edwards. E. J. Thornton. Edmund House, c. P. Lichty. o. w. Colgan, N. J. Hanson, Walter McHale. II. L. Russell. Alfred O'Hara, c. E. Or ment and J. w. Featherton. The Ladies auxiliary of St. Pauls church and the members of the Catholic Women's club will attend the flu neral in body.
 A. c. sanford-Funeral services for A c. Sanford. who died suddenly early Friday morning, will be held from his late residence, 1929 Twenty-eighth street, north, this
 
 afternoon at 2:So o'clock. Inter- ment will take place in Elmwood cemetery, Johns In charge. Mem- bers of the Order of Railroad Con- ductors. Division No. 1S6, will at tend the funeral services in a body. The following members of that or- der will act as pallbearers: Wal ter M. Davidson, Walter w. Leon- ard, John R. T. Rives, w. c. Pound. P. H. Hobart and W. c. Hernandez. Miss Katherine A. McG1imery-Fu- neral services for Miss Katherine Machinery who died yesterday in local infirmary. will be held from Johns chapel this afternoon at o'clock. The body will be sent to Louisville, Ky, tonight at o'clock for interment.
 James Clayton Lawson, Jr.--The body of James Clayton Lawson, Jr., 10- month-old son of MT. and Mrs. J. c. Lawson. 2535 Eighteenth street, Shadyside. Ensley, who died at the residence Friday night, will be sent today to Centerville. Tenn, by Johns for burial
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RUSSIA ON VERGE
 OF AN ECONOMIC
 RECONSTRUCTION
Maximian Harden Foresees United States and British Empire Working With Russia in Economic "Entente" in Significant Dispatch
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 Germany's Foremost Publicist Special Cable to The Age-Herald.

lCoPynght I9zZ, by The AgeHeraId.) Berlin January kets has begun
 If write full story of political shall incident the The big hung with sken tapestries spared also with geamng gold the used he stayed at the embassy The boreth of the Car
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THE WEATHER
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By AsbOCIHItu T fcbB
 Washington, January 7.-united States weather bureau issued the fol- lowing forecast tonight:
 Georgia: Probably rain Sunday and Monday; warmer Monday. Alabama and Mississippi: Rain Sunday; Monday clearing; colder on the coast.
 Tennessee: Rain Sunday; Monday fair in west and rain in east portion; no change in temperature.
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FIvE-CENT LOAF

Philadelphia, January 7-Ihe D. cent loaf of bread returned to Phil adelphia today. The pre-war price was announced by one of the large department stores for the 16-ounce loaf. Throughout the afternoon crowds stormed the counter, making necessary the formation of lines.
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LOCAL DATA

F. c. HORTON. Observer. Summary of observations made at sta tions of the United States Weather Bureau during the 24 hours ending at ' D. m.. soth meridian time, January ', 1922:
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A musical note can sometimes be detected in thunder. This happens when the lightning consists of nu- merous successive discharges at brief and nearly regular intervals.
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The guests, however, were extreme boIshevists. Bolshevist Commission
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All Bids Except Ford'S
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