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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
,33,6O4 PUPILS IN
 PUBLIC SCHOOLS
 ON OPENING DAY
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the showing of the schools for the first day.
 The platoon system, or the work Study-piay plan has worked out most satisfactorily. It was a neces- sity for the board to devise some method for handling the large num- bers of children who would return and be eligible for school this year, and the platoon system, we believe, has solved the problem, at least until amore buildings can be erected to care for the large enrolment"
 Schools officials are of the opinion that by Wednesday all children will be registered and down to work with full periods in all schools. Co., operation on the part of the patrons of the schools is given as a direct cause for the smooth workings of the schools during the first day, as many parents anticipated the last hour rush and took care of the en- rollment of their children early. Exercises At Phillips High.
 Formal exercises were held in the auditorium at the Phillips high school at 9:3o o'clock Monday morn- education and the superintendent of schools were on the opening pro- gram. Dr. Glenn made a short talk on the value of an education and hoped that the children entering the schools would take advantage of the splendid system of schools which was offered for their benefit.
 Mrs. Mary Echols, commissioner of health and education, also spoke to the assembly. as did Erskine Ram say. president of the board, and Dr J. NJ. Broadly. Clarence Going, su- perintendent of the rev Phillips high, presided, end several numbers were sung by Miss Sarah Dryer. Al the close of the musical numbers all new members of the faculty were introduced to the students. Mrs. J. R Estes, representing the Pelham chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution. presented a flag to the school
 Members of the officers reserv, training corps in the three higs schools were assembling the new material for the various battalion' under the direction of Col. R. NJ Nolan. commanding officer. Capt, W A. Hedden, who has been at Cam Perry, O., on the rifle team, wil return to active duty with the unit One other officer is to be appointed The following sergeants will be at tached to the Birmingham corps F. Steirhoff. Uniforms are now be ing issued to the members of th' companies. and other material vii be issued about the first of october
 The following Is the comparative enrolment at all schools of tho years of 1922 and 1923:
 TOTAL ENROLMENT
 End of First day, September IT, 1923.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
CALIFORNIA CITY SUFFERS FROM
 FIRE DISASTER
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avenue is burned from Shasta south to Hilgard.
 Sporadic fires broke out from IIil- gard south to University campus, All though the houses on upper Le roy are destroyed, as well as all the houses on La Loma avenue.
 Faculty Is Homeless.
 Half of the faculty of the Univer- sity of California is homeless
 A quarter mile square extending from Cedar to Shasta streets to the east of Euclid avenue is in ashes. In that sector about 90 homes were con sumed by the flames. Another area south of Cedar street and west of Euclid avenue was razed and 40 homes destroyed. Homes in another area extending to Spring street are either burned or burning,
 The path of the flames has been generally southwSrd and southwest from the Berryman reservoir, ,the seat of the conflagration From this source it extended in sporadic blazes until it reached the business section of the city at University avenue.
 Reinforced by members of the stu dent body at the university and by citizens into service. the police threw a guard about the whole burned area shortly after o'clock. Another problem which the hremen had to face was the congestion of auto mobiles. In some of the residence streets the cars were so damned in, that it was impossible for the fire apparatus to traverse them, Several automobiles were burned.
 By 4 o'clock in north Berkely ev-
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been unable to secure the necessary finances for needed and contemplated improvements. The removal of the jitneys eliminates the main obstacle from the utility's emergence from the receiyership, officials state, and in it's strengthened financial position it
 will, it is believed, be in q position to approach sources of financial sup ply with proposition that will make the needed funds available.
 It was stated at the city hall Mon day morning that emergeRce of the utility from the receivership is not looked for until near the first of the year, as a great amount of statistical and other data must be compiled. and other details attended to before the company's position can be satisfac- torily presented in financial circles and arrangements made that will satisfy the federal court that the utility Is ready to be handed over to control other than that of the receivers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
ITALY'S REF USAL TO ACCEPT LEAGUE RULING |S DEBATED
Chilean Declares Monroe Doctrine Worth More Than
 Article X Ever Could Be

GENEVA, Sept. 17-(By the Asso- ciated Press. )-The machinery of the League of Nations whirled today as never before. The delegates at tackled problems of vast interest and the council of the league in note worthy public session, frankly de- bated tho question of Italy's refusal to recognize the competency of the league in the Greco-Italian crisis.
 The famous Article x of the cove nant, which was the main subject of debate in the United States Sem ate when the question of American adherence was before the American public. furnished renewed interest be- fore the commission, when Senor AL Narez, the Chilean diplomat, present. ed powerful defense of the Mon roe Doctrine, which he declared was worth more to the American states than Article x of the covenant ever could be- And this was so he enl- phasized, because the American na- val and military forces stood ready to enforce this doctrine, which for bade any European state from in- terferinE in territorial sense in the affairs of the American conti- nent.
 There occurred 8 lively discussion on the question of the proposed pact for mutual assistance which the commission on the reduction of arm Sments will later submit to the as- SemDlE. u IS pIOJeCL diHltu at the prevention of war.
 No Decision On Italy.
 No decision was taken today on the issue of the competency of the covenant, which Italy had defied. Signor Salandra asked for time in which to reply, but Lord Robert Cecil. while insisting that this ques- ton must be settled to avoid fu- ture misunderstanding, declared he wanted the world to know that the council had fulfilled it's full duty in in madly. insisting on the league right of intervention, but had calm ly, in observance of the fundamental aim of the covenant, collaborated with the council of ambassadors and had secured an amicable settlement of the conflict.
 Chile's support of the Monroe Doc trino came when the subcommittee presented a resolution founded on the Canadian amendment and calcu- hrated Article x, which the Vene- zuelan delegate said during the course of the debate constituted the real reason why the United States Senate did not subscribe to the lea que covenant.
 supported by NJ. Rolin, the Belgian jGrist, and others, set forth that the council must take into account the geographical and special conditions of each state if it believed military measures should be resorted to be- cause of aggression and that the par llamentary authorities of each coun- try must decided to what extent, If any. they Should help to preserve another country's independence.
 NC c o
 Wilson Rcfcrrea, To.
 There were manr references to for mer President Wilsan and the United States during the discussion, which evsntuallv was a3iourned. The Frs ked that all ,,a he deemed Ar g the covenant
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cry kind of vehicle that could be pressed into service carried salvage from the blazing houses. Refugees crowded all streets leading out of the burned area at about 4:3O in the af ternoon when shift in the wind hurled the smoke and flames back on them.
 Men, women and children, driven out of their homes in the fashion able residential section, walked in processions, many of them carrying their most cherished possessions. making their way to place of refuge and safety.
 Ten injured were brought into the Berkeley general hospital but only erly women whose homes were de- stroyed They are suffering from shock and remaining in the hospital
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
Red Cross Supplies
 Army Cots And Blankets

BERKELEY. Cal, Sept. 17-Oak- tonight supplied the Berllley chapter with 100 army cots and blankets. It was though that these would take care of families who were burned out and had not been cared for by friends
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
BRIDE FATALLY WOUNDED
Gun In Hands Of Husband Is Acci-
 dentnlIy Discharged

MORGAN CITY, La, Sept. 17.-Nrs, Adeline Lomas Aucoin, IS, a bride of two months, was fatally wounded near here Sunday when a gun in the hands of her husband was accident ally discharged. The couple were hunting squirrels at the time the ac- cident occurred and the young wo man was rushed to a hospital where she died.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
FIGHT UTILITY BOARD
However, No Indictment Returned
 Against Carolina Commission

RALEIGH, N. C., Sept. 17.-In an article carrying the date line of Wilmington, N C., and circulated Saturday afternoon, September 15, 1t was stated a presentment had been made by the grand jury of New Han over county, North Carolina, against the North Carolina state corporation commission on the ground that the commission had beeu iax in its en- forcement of state banking laws and referring particularly to the failure of the Liberty Bank of Wilmington.
 It has been ascertained that the article was erroneous as there was no presentment made, Solicitor
 Woodus Mellum. of New Hanover county, said today "a criticism of the corporation commission was made by the grand jury in it's report to the court, but there was no presentment returned"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
FOUR THOUGHT KILLED

SCHENECTADY. N. T., Sept. 17.- Four men are believed to be buried in the Mohawk river, near this city, under tons of wet concrete which forced them under water when wooden scaffolding on the Greas Western Gateway bridge gave way late this afternoon. One of the men is Kenneth Davidson, superinten- dent of construction for the entire bridge. Six other men. have been taken to the hospital seriously in- i,trad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
RuDGET DISCUSSED

WASHINGTON. Sept. .17.-Director Lord of the budget asA.before him complete estimates for expenditures for the next fiscal year and hear ings were begun today, at which de- partmental, bureau and divisional chiefs will have opportunity to dis cuss the estimates they submitted. The budget director announced to- night that he has no intention of diGressing from the policy of the ad- ministration to hold the estimate to q billion dollars, exclusively of postal and public debt expenditures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
oat Defends Monroe Doctrine League or Nations Session
MARRIED STRANGE MAN
Finds Years Afterwards That He Husband Is 4 Woman

: 53IACROssE, Wis. Sept. 17.-Th strange story of William Taylor the woman who for 40 years live the life of a man, was capped todd by still stranger story of tf woman who spent two score years a William Taylor's" wife, When lt cated at the home of her siste Mrs. Marcus Ames, at Viroqua, MT Taylor declared she had not know until Sunday that her husband" VIZ a woman. Her husband" died hel Friday from cancer.
 She recounted how they lived Ross for some months after the mai riage in 1882, of some time which sf spent at Prairie du Chien, of 8 yea spent in Huntington, Tenn,, "tE most miserable year of my life she said, and then of establishir their home in Lynxville, where the lived for more than S5 years.
 It was when they lived at Hun ington, Mrs. Taylor said, that sl first realized what 8 peculiar so of man she had married.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
GASOLINE CHEATED

NEW YORK, Sept. 17.-The tank reduced 1 cent gallon in New Eng land and eight Atlantic seaboard states by the Standard Oil company of New Jersey and the Gulf Refining company, The new price ranges from IS cents in Washington, D. C., to 21 cents in Virginia, where there is state tax of cents a gallon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
SETTLE HANKS, AFFAIRS

HAVANA, Cuba. Sept. 17.-C1arence Marine, member of the temporary bank liquidation commission, ap- pointed by the Cuban government to settle the affairs of banks that failed after the 1920 deflation pc riod, sailed today for New York via Key West in an effort ts make final arrangements with New York cred itors for winding up the affairs of all but two of the institutions by the end of the year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
Soldiers Arrive To
 Patrol Devastated Area

BERKELEY, Cal. Sept, 17--One hundred soldiers from Fort Scott ar rived at the fire zone at o'clock to assist in fighting the fire and patrol the devastated area.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
FREED IN MORSE CASE

NEW YORK, Sept. 17.-William A. Barber. former attorney general of South Carolina, today was cleared of complicity in the Charles w. Morse case when Federal Judge Hutcheson dismissed the indictment returned against him April 27, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
WARS ON SALOONS
Mayor Will Try To Put 1000 Place
 Out Of Business

e CHICAGO. Sept. 17--Mayor Willis F.. Dever will try to put 1000 ChicagI saloons, which operate as soft drinI parlors, out of business.
 Drastic regulations and an eSorbl tant license will be used to InaI them quit, it is said. ..
 Last week Dever placed guards d all breweries with tho result thd only imitation beer is now procu able from bootleg bartenderes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
FORD JUMPS BOARD BILL
Worlds Richest Man Wires Dealer
 To Settle, However

To Settle, However
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.--lienry Ford, the worlds richest man, jump ed two days room and board bill at the George Washington hotel here m his hurry to<get back to Detroit asst week. The bill was paid by a peal Ford dealer whom the manu- acturer telegraphed to pay .1le ac- unt of A. Henry, tho name Ford ed while stopping here.
 Franco has 500 gas companies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
FLEET TO ASSEMBLE
Al NarshipS Ordered to Porte
 Rico

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. 17--Ad- miral Robert E, Coontz, commander of the United States fleet, today an pounced that 141 warships and auxiliaries with 30 battle planes, scout planes and bombers, had been ordered to assemble early in Jan uary on the east coast of Porto Rico. This fleet will carry out the win ter maneuvers in the Caribbean sea,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
ALIENS ESCAPE
Held For Deportation But Rrei
 Jail

Jail
 CRoOKSTON, NIinn.. Sept, IT. Nine aliens being held in the Pol county jail for deportation escape today by unlocking the cage do' from the inside and leaving tho js through a window, the bars of whit had been sawed, A general alar has been sent out. The men believed to have left the city an carly morning train.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
MINUTE
 NEWS BRIEFS
 OFF THE WIRE
MORE FUNDS FOR JAPAN

WASHINGTON, Sept. l7.-Addi- tional subscriptions of more than SloO,O00 to the Japanese relief fund were reported today tG the American Red Cross, bringing the total to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
KHAN MUST BE
 DRIVEN OUT OF
 STATE---WALTON
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 than retaliation for the conviction of floggers In Tulsa. have sent four men to the penitentiary from Tulsa and 100 more are on the way, They will not be pardoned or pa roled."
 Mentioning the sheriff in the course of his two hours speech Gov ernor Walton said. John Russell is 8 good man and doing good work, but he does not quite understand things here'
 Governor, Walton was frequently cheered by his auditors. It was rain- ing hard when the governors train arrived in Henryetta, but in spite of the downpour big delegation met him and he rode from the train to the auditorium behind band and at the head of labor union parade.
 Barclay Morgan, prominent Henry etta business man, one of the speak CTS who preceded Walton, made an attack on the Ku Klux. .klan and spoke of the governor as the man who will drive the klan out of Okla homa"
 Morgan cautioned people to ''be careful what you say, for we are sitting on a powder keg' He declared the klan lis a dastardly mean organ ization, born in sin and conceived in perdition."
 CALLED MASKED MARAUDERS
 HENRIETTA. Okla. Sept. 17.-- There is a pardon already waiting on my desk for every man who kills a masked marauer," Goo. Jack Wal ton declared here Monday.
 The governor explained his decla- ration of martial law in Oklahoma and his determination to drive the ku Klux Klan from the state.
 "I have instituted a military board of inquiry and intend to see that anarchists of this state are indicted he said
 There will be no grand jury ses- sion: if there is any investigation it will be done by the military court.
 "Arrned force does not appeal to me, and I thought until recently l could avoid using 1t, I was compelled to declare martial law against my will"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
PROBE INTO COLLISION

MOBILE, Ala, Sept. 1.-The off cial investi gation of the collision in the Gulf of Mexico a few days ago, in which the coast guard cutter Tal- lapoosa, the Japanese steamer Malta Murs and the shipping board tug Bascobel were damaged, was started here today by Lieutenant Commander E. l.. Broadway of the coast guard service, who was ordered here by the Washington office to make the inquiry. The investigation is being held on board the coast guard cutter them had made any complaints to the warden, or to those in charge. Only ono man complained of the work. His complaint was the work was too heavy. His reply was, when asked what he was required to do, that he had been given eight tons of coal to load a day, and the reason he could not load it, was that he had never loaded coal. but ha' wo~' IS 2 ton man.
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few resent the stopping of the jitneys and have not yet taken to the street ears Owners of private cars car ried many who stood waiting for jitneys. forgetting that their service had enGed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
Wilson Referre9. 10.

There were many references to for mer President Wilsan and the United States during the Discussion, which eventually was adjourned. The Frs ked that all ,,-p he deemed Ar the covenant
 at all,
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France has 500 gas companies,
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End of First day. Septembe IT, 1s23.
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Hickey-Fr
make clothes like that

You get more pleasurc-more downright sat- isfaction out of wearing them than any clothes you can buy. And they take their time about wearing out, because the woolens are right and the workmanship is right. Yet their price IS only
The Winslow mail., 1923-05-11
Whales Not Disappearing.

Can the whales multiply with sufi-
cient rapidity to prevent their sxter-
mination by man? The whalemen
themselves are convinced that they
can. They estimate that there are
tens of thousands of whales in the
seas, and at present the various whal-
ing stations have been able to catch
all the whales they need without going
more than two hundred miles up and
down the coast and out to sea. Each
station has undoubtedly already taken
more whales than would be natural
residents of the waters in which they
operate, hence the losses in that area
can only be made up by other whales
swimming in from other parts Of the
sea.
The Winslow mail., 1923-05-11

then he seen the 1oak and LATED
hartilly with US.
Saturday-Grate game of bali to-
day We beat the South End Ruff
Necks 81 to 10. I personly nocked
a 8 Dagger for 8 Bases. 1 CESS I
made name for myself all rite A
comeing home on the buss I give UP
my seat to a oder lady and she sed
Thank you I hate to Deprive you out
of yure seat bot l replyed and sed
1t wassent no Depravity tall
Sunday-Got all the Sunday papers
but not a wird of my Dagger and
still these noosepaper men calls there
self sporting Editors. This goes to
show how we'll they are onto there
Jub.
Monday-Pa cum home sick this
evning and ma puts mustard
Plaster on his he'd and put his #. in
boiling water and he smiled distur-
bedly and sed he felt like the Candle
witch was getting burnt at both ends
at once.
Tuesday, asst ma what was the
reason that sum men makes money
& others has a hard time getting a
long. And she sed we'll sum men
sells there self to the wirld vile
they are other men witch just give
there self away. And then she give
a look at pa witch sed nothing and
repeated it over.
Wensday-1 of are neibors is in
venter and now he says he has in
vented a machine witch will do 4
wimmens wirk. Frum what pa sed
ma thinks she married 1 of them.
Thirsday-Are preecher told ma he
was a going to preech good SER
mon about Liars. But ma pirswad-
ed him to put it off it was a nice
day all the people he wanted to hit
wood be out on the Golf link a play
ing there favoret past time.
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STATS DIARY
By RUSS FARQUHAR

Friday-Well me and pa had a good
oak on ma today. Haveing bin sick
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and i'll for a cupple
days the DR.. had bin
comeing evry once and
a vile to see her & asst
a lot of fulish ques-
lions and etc. we'll to-
day the preacher frum
are chirch Gums to see
how was she a getting
along and when he
Gums in and asst her
how did she feel she
was absent minded and
put out her tung at
him like she had bin
in the habit of doing
at the DR.. & he did
dent hardly no what
to think till he seen
me and pa splitting are
sides Open laffing and
The Winslow mail., 1923-05-11
Sure Enough.

"Ten dollars? Aren't YOU over
harging meT
Haven't you ten doiarsT
ooh, yes"
"Then how can be overcharging
you"
The Winslow mail., 1923-05-11

Note.-This legend bears a marked
similarity to a legend of Death told by
the BIackfeet and credited to Nabi, the
semi-human God of earth, who, ac-
cording to the Blackfeet, is second
ary god to Manitou himself. Grinnell
In his "Blackfoot Legends has quoted
this story, although no mention is made
of the after-life and the test is made
In a distinctly different manner.