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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
BEGINS .FOR s200,000 .SANAT TOR|UM
Voluntary Advance Gifts Lend Impetus To Swinging Start By 100 Teams Who Take Field Monday
 Morning
Jefferson county's citizens Tues.

 dar 5ill take the field In a campaign ta x. $200,000 fund for a tuber- .S sanatorium. swinging into t rS.g offensive which has gathered l9etus from advance voluntary Subscriptions totaling more than s25,0O0 and speeches in vaudeville and moving picture theatres. The speaking campaign began Monday night, under direction of W. V. M Robertson, Jr.
 Heartening reports from Birming ham, where corporations and individ- uals have already begun a response are strengthened by those from M. E Morris, chairman of the campaign outside Birmingham. Monday aft ernoon at New Castle and Lewisburg committees met with good results Mir. Morris said. Employes of Brad ford mines have all promised a days work and A. G. S. Conductors No. GIT have subscribed s200, according to MT. Morris. Leeds plans to raise S1,000 Tuesday morning within three hours.
 O O O
 Voluntary Subscriptions,
 Voluntary subscriptions Monday were; National Cast Iron Pipe com pany, s1,00o; George W Connors 5000; John L. Kaul. s1 200: J. Frank Rushton. s1.0eo; Morris Adler. $500; R. b. Burnett, $500 Mrs. H. E Pearce, head of the womens division reported at campaign headquarters Monday afternoon with additional subscriptions of $400 from Mrs. So- phie Shelby, $100; Miss Sarah Phelan S25O; and II. E. Shropshire X sons $50.
 According to General Chairma n R. A. Brown. the first official census of returns will be made at the lunch con of team workers in the ball room of the Tutwiler hotel at 1 o'clock Tuesday. Committeeman will as- semble each day during the week and make reports. Beginning with the Kiwanis club Tuesday, the lunch con club meeting in the ball room that day will be in charge of ar engagements.
 Presidents of Federated clubs are requested by Mrs. Peyton Eubanks, Third district manager, to meet her in campaign headquarters, 320 Twen- tieth street, north. at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday morning.
 Speakers Monday night were Oscar deWolf Randolph and Dr. Henry Edmonds at the Lyric an l Bijou: Senator Walter Brewer, Strand; David ]. Davis at the Alea- : gar William Fl. Sadier at the Gafax; Arle Barber at the Trianon.
 O O O
 Free To Needy Sufferers.
 The sanatorium will be free of cost to needy tuberculosis sufferers. It will be supported by an appropria- ton of s40,o00 annually, the county and city having pledged an equal amount.
 w. H. Hassinger, Mrs. Mary Echols, T. F. Huey. R. A. Brown and E. l.. Brown are members of the commits sion which will build the institution. The campaign will continue through Saturday.
 O o O Luckie Tent Chips In.
 Luckie tent. No. ?, Maccabees. at a meeting held Monday n.ght, de- cided to contribute s25 to the cam paign, to be turned over to R. A. Brown, general chairman. Tuesday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
MOBILE POLICE HEAD AND MAYOR ROBBED
Taylor And Crawford Lose Change When Asleep In Hotel
 STATE CAPITAL BUREAU
 THE AGE-HERAID
Montgomery. Ala AnriI %

Mayor R. V. Taylor and Police Commissioner George F. Crawford of Mobile were robbed of their pocket change when they were asleep in a hotel here last night. The door to their rooms was left unlock ed. and when they arose they found that Mayor Taylor had been relieved of about s60 and his associate had lost s15. The Mobile commi ssioners came to Montgomery to appear before the state highway commi misson.
 Two negroes employed at the hotel were arrested on suspicion @of being the ones who sneaked into the room and obtained the money. Police Com missioner Crawford reported the raid on his quarters to the Montgomery police department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
LUDlN GOES ON TRIAL
Chfcnpo Political Boss Charged With
 School Fraud

CHICAGO, April 23,-F'red Lun- din, who calls himself the poor Swede", but is known to others as the erstwhile big boss of the late Small -Lundin-T Thompson political ma chine. went on trial Monday with Virtus Rohm, his chief lieutenant, and 20 other defendants, on indict- ments charging them with conspira- cy to defraud the local school board of more than a million dollars.
 Lawyers declared it might be sev- eral weeks before a jury was secured to try Lundin and his associates.
 The jury will be called on to de- eide whether Lundin. using his poli- tical power, picked school officials and then spread out school business contracts among. political favorites and dummies" at excessive costs.
 The defendants include five offi- cials of the school board. including former President Edwin s. Davis former City Prosecutor Louis Pi- quett. and several politicians. con- tractors and printers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
AMERICA WILL SEE INDICTMENTS LIsED
 JUSTICE |S GIVEN n PLAY POL|7|Cs.
 u HER CITIZENS MARSHALL ASSERTS
ReputationS Are Besmirched Without Evidence, Declares
 Former Chief

P1TTSBGRG, April 23-Attorney General Daugherty was accused os having used the power of indictment In the war camp contract cases for political purposes and of having be- smirched reputations without evl- denee to "even decently" support his charges In speech here today by R. C. Marshall. Jr, chief of the con struction division of the army dur ing the war.
 MT. Marshall, who formerly held the rank of brigadier general. said the department of justice. after five years and following investigations costing the government hundreds of thousands of dollars" had the "un- mitgated effrontery" to plead un- preparedness In several of the cases, tors of inefficiency for having built whole cities in 90 days.
 "Posted ns Self-Seek..rs."
 The spectacle of these men tthe war camp contractors) pillorled in the public press, posted as evil self seekers in the time of the nations travail" MT. Marshall said lis the result of our fluctuating political power. There are men and processes actively at work in thls great de- partment today who, unless re- strained. cH;. so dlscredit the func- tioning of that organization that the confidence of the people in it will be lost"
 Plans for letting contracts under which wartime camps were con structed. he continued, were the only plans under which they could have been properly built in the time re- qured. The form of the contracts, he said. were identic with those gen. orally employed in commercial work and contractors who bullt the camps received less than 2 per cent gross profit and less than 1 per cent net profit when taxes and other charges not rembursable were deducted.
 MT. Marshall denied charges that tl ere was an unconscionable waste of material and labor and declared 1t was bitter irony that the men who built the camps at time when enough skilled laborers were impos sible to find" now were accused of fraud because they produced re- suits with the second and third and fourth rate men available"
 Testimony on which the indict ments were based, he said. was given by hand picked witnesses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
MEASLES INCREASING
Fifty-Three Cases Reported In One
 Day At Health Department

It is estimated that there are near ly 500 cases of measels in Blrming- ham now and new cases are being reported daily. Monday the report sheets of the health department showed 53. the largest number for one day so far.
 pr. J. D. Bowling, city and county health officer, says 1t is estimated that reports of cases reaching the city authorities represent approxi mately one In ten. for many people do not call in doctors to attend chill dren who have contracted the mall ady.
 From what we can gather through reports reaching us from other cities and towns, similar condition seems to be prevalent throughout the state" said Dr. Bowling. He added that epidemics of measels have oc- cured about every three or five years and there Is nothing alarming in the present situation, but care is urged in prevention of contact of i'll and convalescent children with others. especially in regard to keep ing them away from school, Sunday school and similar places where their presence will mean trouble and sick ness for others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
MELLON SEEKS. PEACE WITHIN. EPART MENT.
Office of Comptroller of Treasury Clashes With Farm Loan Board Over Provisions of Agra
 rian Measures

WASHINGTON, April 2S-Dual ad- ministrative provisions of the agri- cultural credits act have brought federal agencies charged with di- recting the new farm credit system
 It has reached the stage where Secretary Mellon proposes to at tempt to "straighten out" differ ences which have arisen between the federal farm loan board and the of flee of the comptroller of the cur rency
 Disagreement between the two units of the treasury arose first, 1t was said, when the loan board issued circular suggesting that national banks might organize adjunct loan corporations under state laws as an added facility for those seeking to use the new credit system. This suggestion. 1t appeared. was disap- proved by Comptroller Crissinger of the currency, who was said to have viewed the action as a move by the loan board to upset q long estab- lished policy of the comptroller's of flee which had discouraged organ ization by national banks of any ad- junct corporation which would not be subject to supervision under the national banking laws.
 O O O Asks Explanations.
 Officials of the farm loan board contended that they would have complete control of the corporations whose organization they had sug- gested, but that did not satisfy the comptroller's office. It was said an official explanation of the loan boards circular was asked for by Under Secretary Gilbert several weeks ago when he was acting sec retary of the treasury. The cor respondence at that time, it was said today, served to end the clash tenn porarily. but there has been no change in the attitude of the loan board
 Secretary Mellon was said to be prepared to determine whether any thing detrimental to the general Urea suary policy had been done, and whether the Lenroot- Henderson sec tions of the credit law contemplate encouraging the formation of redis- counting corporations under state laws that might prove dangerous" to the national banking system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
UNDERWOOD ELECTED UPON CARNEGIE BOARD
Alabama Senator Will Fill Place Re
 signed By Williams

WASHINGTON, April 23.-tSpe- cial) - Senator Oscar w. Under wood of Alabama was today elected to the board of trustees of the Carnegie endowment for interna- tional peace, according to notifica- tion given the office of the senator this afternoon by the secretary of the organization.
 Senator Underwood was elected to fill the place assigned to the south. He will succeed former Senator John Sharpe Williams of Mississippi, who on retiring from Congress last March resigned. Others elected to- day were former Gov. Frank O, Lowden of Illinois and Charles s. Hamlin of Boston, member of the federal reserve board.
 Each of the trio is an avowed apostle of American cooperation in world affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
Delegates At Lausanne Look Forward To Peace In Near
 East

LAUSANNE, April 23-By Asso- eiated Press.)-Safeguard of the legitimate national interests of the United States and or the principle of commercial opportunity for all ma tions was officially set forth today as the guiding rule of the American representatives when the Near East peace conference resumed it's labor In an endeavor to restore peace be- tween the allied powers and Turkey and between Greece and Turkey.
 Joseph c. Grew. American minis ter, said the United States welcomes the resumption of the conference. It had reconvened on substantial ba- sis; an understanding had already been reached on a variety of impor- tant subjects and upon this firm foundation the United States expects soon to see erected that edifice of a just and stable peace for which the world was waiting with eagerness. Of the position of the American rep resentatives, he said
 We are here for the same pur- poses and in the same capacity as before the adjournment, participating in a full representative capacity and with full authorization and compe- tence to speak on behalf of the gov ernment of the United States"
 Turks Uphold Concession.
 After affirming that. during the deliberations. the United States wished tC see legitimate national in- terests and equal commercial oppor- tunities safeguarded. MT. Grew de- clared that if other issues arose or should amplification of the Amer ican position be desired. the Amer ican representatives would avail themselves of the privilege of fur ther statement or comment. He con cluded:
 "As far as may be within our proper functions, and tG the extent of our power. we wish to assist in serving the cause of peace"
 No mention was made at today s inaugural meeting with the Turks of the railroad or other concessions granted either to Americans or other foreigners. but the Chester cLnces- sion continues to be the great topic of private discussion.
 The Turkish delegation. through it's spokesman, declared that the Chester concession was entirely valid,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
CORONER HEARING CASE
Man Who Ram Down N. C. Whitfield
 Not Yet Rearrested

Investigation of the death Satur- day of N. c. Whitfield. aged em- ploye of the Louisville and Nashville shops at Boyles. struck by a truck driven by John Manigini. Route G. Birmingham, will be completed Tues day by Coroner J. D. Russum A partial hearing took place Monday
 Funeral services for Whit field were held Sunday afternoon. Mani gini. released on reckless dri,ing bond Saturday morning before the death of Whitfield. has not yet been reported rearrested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
THREE MAJOR ISSUES DUE FOR DISCUSSION
First Avenue Paving, Single En-
 trance Cars and Lights Up

Discussion of the paving of First avenue from Forty first street east to Eiyhty-fifth street. dispensing with one-man street carf. and the drawing up of ntrae' fer the furnishing of city lights are three of the matters to be discussed at the meeting of the city commissioners and officials of the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company to be held Wednesday mo ing at 10 o'clock in the city hall.
 Because Commissioner V. r. Dick son Is at the bedside of his father. A. o. Dickson. who is Ill in A,rt ,kville, Ala, and the absence from the city of several officials the street car compan, the meeting was o-t- poned from Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
After 10 Years of Friction
 And Guerrilla Warfare, Dove Is Now Towering Over Two Nations-0bregon Govern
 ment Will Be Recognized
FOUR COMMISSIONERS TO GO OVER ALL TROUBLES
General Understanding AL ready Reached Between Off, fIcias-President of Latin
 Country Will Give Guaran- tees To The United States

WASHINGTON, April 23.-Peace with Mexico. after 10 years of inter mittent friction and guerilla war fare, is now just around the corner.
 Secretary of State Hughes has an nounced that a conference will be held soon at Mexico City for the purpose of reaching mutual under standing. This meeting will be &C., tually in the nature of a peace con ference. By secret informal ex- changes during the past few weeks, the state department and President reached a general understanding as to the chief points to be covered in the treaty. which will be put into documentary form at the fortheom- ing conference. Each government will have two commissioners whose James will be announced soon.
 The state department Monday night, issued the following state ment:
 With the view to hasten the reaching of a mutual understanding between the governments of the Unit cd states and Mexico, two American commissioners and two Mexican commissioners will be appointed to meet for the purpose of exchanging impressions and of reporting them to Il cir respective authorities. The hospitality If Mexico City has been offered to the American Commis- sioners as the citXs guests of hon or and the eommi ssion will convene there The names of the commis- sfoners will be announced later
 Lamont Meets officials
 A similar announcement is being made at Mexico City. Thomas La mont of ]. P. Morgan & Co, conferred with officials here prior to the announcement.
 In the last few days, the Mexican en bassv here has received commu- u.catton from it's government which have convinced Secretary Hughes that President Obreeoh Is ready to give the guarantees regarded as es- sential by the United States.
 The Obregon government is thought to be in a sounder position than any since the Porfiro Diaz regime The agreement negotiated with the international committee of bankers in New York last June by hich Mexico's eAterral deht was founded and her railroads turned lack to private control ''~der a f. nancial arrangement sat% etory to the foreign bond holdele. has done much to stabilize the government and make t secure.
 WI 'e formal diplomatic relations
 tContinued on Page TwD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
SCHOONER IS BURNED
Master And Crew Take To Small
 Boats

MOBILE, Ala, April 23-The American schooner Stranger, 51o tons, Capt Frank Vincene, master, burned last night at o'clock to the waters edge. 40 miles off Sand Island light, according to information re- eeived here today. by H. T. New berry, the owner. The master and crew and eight men took the small boats and rowed to Gulfport, Miss, where they reported the burning of the vessel, The schooner was formerly the Por tuguese bark LucCcar and was built in 1918. The loss is covered by in surance. The schooner sailed from Mobile Saturday with a cargo of 210,000 feet of lumber. and was bound for Havana Cuba.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
GAIL0R IS HONORED
Memphis Prclate Made Knight Of
 Holy Scpulchre

NEW YORK, April 23.-The insig- mia of Knight of the Holy Sepul- chre for Bishop Thomas F. Gailor of Memphis has been brought here from Jerusalem by Bishop James Henry Darlington of Harrisburg, who ar rived yesterday on the steamship Nieuw Amsterdam
 The order was conferred by the Patriarch of Jerusalem. The insig mia, Bishop Darlington explained contains a splinter from the cross on which Christ was crucified.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
DENIES LEAGUES WORK
Porter Claims Trade In Drugs Has
 Been Legalized

WASHINGTON. April 23-Assertion that action taken by the League of Nations assembly on the opium traf- fic was intended to legitimatize and thereby continue to encourage the sale of large quantities of the drug" was made by Chairman Porter of the House foreign affairs committee in letter published today. to Lord Robert Cecil. leading British pro ponent of the league. MT. Porter took sharp issue with statement in an article by Lord Robert that the league had struck vigorous blows" at such world evils as the sale of opium and cocaine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
TWO AIRMEN KILLED
Navy Avtators Die As Sea
 Crashes Into Bay
Seaplane

WASHINGTON. April 2S.-Two navy aviators were killed today when the seaplane in which they were cruising above Hampton Roads crashed into the bay. The bodies have not yet been recovered. the navy department was informed by telephone from the Hampton Roads air station. Ensign Gordon Gun ther of the Naval reserves. and Chiet Machinist Mate w. Hills of the reg ular navy were the victims, Ensign Gunthers home was In Cam bridge, Mass, and Hill was from Ocean View Va
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
CHILDREN ARE HURT IN TENNESSEE STORM
Chimney of High School Building
 Swept Down By Winds

NASHVILLE, Tenn, AprII 23- During a severe wind and electrici storm at Donelson, this county, late this morning the chimneys of the county high school there were blown down. the debris tumbling into the school rooms and injuring num- Der of children, variously estimated at 12 to 20. Five of the children have been brought to the city hos pital here. The most seriously in- jured are: O. V. Whiteside. Jr., IT,. a fractured skull. and Mark Benson, fractured skull and probably inter- nal iniurieS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
IMPORT MUCH LIQUOR
Billions In Fluid Sent To America
 From Bahamas

LONDON. April 23.-Five billion dollars of liquor was shipped to the Bahama islands from England dur ing the last year and then snug gled into the United States.
 This statement was made in the House of Commons Monday by Col onial Undersecretary Ormsby Gore.
 After one member declared that H. quor sent to the Bahamas should be rationed for the sake of Ameri- can friendship" Ormsby- Gore said if Bahama importation were cur tailed the liquor would probably go to some other point nearby.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
CONTINUE WAGE LAWS
State Statutes Not Affected By Re-
 cent Decision, Claim

MADISON, Wis, April 23.-The states of New York, California, Ore gon. North Dakota and Wisconsin will continue to enforce their mint mum wage laws for women and mi nors, Attorney General Herman Elk ern of Wisconsin declared here Mon day. Ekern.r in announcing that Wis consin would continue to administer her minimum wage law az a valid statute under the state industrial commission, declared that the same course had been decided upon by representatives of the other four states at conference in New York last week It is held that the United States supreme courts decision knocking out the minimum wage law in the District of Columbia will not be permitted to affect similar laws in these five states until they are ruled against specifically.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
PROMINENT MEN ARE
 INDICTED AT BOSTON
Lieutenant Governor Charged With Effort To Defraud Stockholders

BOSTON, April 23.-William R. Aleen, former Lieutenant Governor of Montana, is among the men named in a secret indictment returned by the county grand jury last week charging conspiracy to defraud stockholders of the Boston and Mon- tana corporation and it's subsidiary companies. The other men indicted include: George Gallup, former judge of the circuit court of Michi- gan, and his son, Charles E. Gallup.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
SOvIETS EXPORT GRAIN
Though Population Lacks Food, Much
 Wheat Sent Out

LONDON, April 23.-Ronald Mc- Neill, undersecretary for Foreign Af- fairs, stated in the House of Com mons Monday that reports from Mos COW indicate that 300.000 tons of sia this year despite the fact that Britain's representative in Russia de- clares that the population of Moscow is suffering from a severe grain shortage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
LAF0LLETTE TO SPEAK
Wisconsin Senator May Follow
 Harding Around Circle

MADISON, Wis, april 23.-(By As sociated Press. )-Senator Robert NJ. L.aFollette will take the stump to carry his ideas to the people of the country sometime in June ac- cordIng to word from his son and secretary, Robert M. LaFollette. Jr It is regarded as likely here that the Wisconsin senator may take up the trail of President Harding, should he swing through the west
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
WILL HONOR PAYNE
Ground Broken For Replica Of Song
 Writers Home

WASHINGTON. April 23.-Ground for the construction of replica of the home of John Howard Payne immortalized in his Home, Sweet Home" as an exhibit during the coming Shrine convention. and also a feature in the Better Home movement, which will be celebrated in Juna
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
COURT TALK PURE BUNK
Young Says Republican Fate Does
 Not Hnux IA Balance

WASHINGTON. April 23.-Any de- clamation that the fate of the re- publican party hangs in the balance because of President Harding's world court proposal should be character ized as pure bunk" Representative Young, republican of North Dakota, said in statement issued today giving his experiences in trip over 19 states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
DIRECTOR SUSPENDED
Head Of Federal Dry Officers In HI.
 nOiH Out Of Job

WASHINGTON, April 23.-Acting Prohibition Director Roscoe Andrews of Illinois was suspended today by Commi ssioner Haynes pending an in- vestigation into the case of the Grommes -Ullrich distillery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-24
SEELENFREUND DIES
Was International Secretary Of Order
 Of B'Nai B'Rith

MEMPHIS. Tenn April 23.-A B Seelenfreund, 56. uf Chicago inter national secretary of the Order Of B'Nai B'Rith, died suddenly at q hotel here today