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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
EIGHT ALABAMANS WORKING IN JAPAN
 ARE FEARED FOR
Three Birmingham Citizens Stationed Near Tokio As
 Missionaries

Fear is being held for eight Ala bamians, three from Birmingham. working as missionaries in the dis tricts of Japan destroyed by Satur- days earthquake. Two of the mis- sionaries were known to have been in Tokio where the quake did the most danger.
 Mrs. Maud Palmore Henderson (Methodist), sister of MT Robert N. Bell of Fulton Springs, was stationed at Osaka. MT. and Mrs. Collis Cum nigham (BaptisD, were at Tokio. Mr. Cunningham, is a graduate of Howard collegel and the Baptist Theological Seminary of Louisville. Mrs. Cunningham is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. J. H. Faulkner of Ox- ford, Ala.
 Other missionaries from Alabama were: Miss Ruby Van Hooser (Methodist). of Athens, Ala; Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Ray (Baptist, represent ing the Southside Baptist church. but not residents of Birmingham Mir and Mrs. c. w. Bouldin of Scottsboro. who were stationed at Hiroshima. Baptist officials do not know the home ad- dress of the Rays. Methodist head quarters do not know where Miss Van Hooser Is stationed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
WORKING GLASS |S'AMER|CA QUICKLY 0UST|NG OLD PARTY ASSUMES LEAD IN
 BROOKHART SAYS AIDING NIPPONESE
Farmers And Laborers Find- ing Common Ground For
 Political Action

TAYLORvILLE. IL, Sept. 2-tBy Associated s.)--Farmers and la borers are finding common ground for political action and 'are defeat- ing the old guard senators of both parties as fast as they can get at them" Senator Smith w. Brookhart of Iowa declared in Labor Day ad- dress prepared for delivery before the Central Trades and Labor Assembly here today
 Capital is taking an unfair profit on the products of the laborers and formers. the senator said and added that small business ventures also N etc sune.lng at the hands of "big combinations"
 Senator Brookhart advocated the re-enactment of the excess profit taxes to raise funds fer bonus for eX-service men.
 "The ideal situation would be that farmers, labor and capital she uld CO., operate. But they do not, because of the inequality and injustice in the distribution of their earnings.
 "The question is, who gets the un- just share? As soon as this is de- termined, the various groups knt W who Is their common enemy and in this they surely find bond of sym pathy and union.
 q have investigated farming and the total increase in agricultural values during the last 13 years will not exceed 3 per cent year and part of that Is covered by indebtedness" Senator Brookhart pointed out, and all the work of all the farmers and all the return upon all their capital tnly adds per cent year to their total wealth.
 "The next premise IS that the prof. its should be divided between labor and capital' the senator said. A 50-50 division would not be unfair to capital. It therefore follows that the basic earnings to which capital is justly entitled is only 11a per cent. As soon as this fact is knt wn it is apparent that the big combinations of capital are the offenders. and are taking more than their share.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
England To Go Limit In Backing League

2 LONDON, Sept. 3.-(By Associated Press. )-Great Britain will go the limit in supporting the covenant of the League of Nations in the Greco Italian imbrouglio, 1t was stated to- day in authoritative quarters. Lord Robert Cecil has been instructed at Geneva to support the covenant un- reservedly and the British hopes are centered on his ability and eXperi- ence in league affairs
 The British attitu5e has been strengthened with the return of For eign Secretary Marquis curzon to London. is to leave the entire ques- tion to the league until that body finally disposes of it. .Abstention meanwhile by the Individual members of the league from all semi-official expressions, suggestions and recon mendations as to what should De done. is also favored.
 Should the league fail to settle the difficulty. it is held. 1t will then be time for discussion of some form of action.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
League Hopes For
 Balkan Settlement

GENEVA. Sept. 3.--fBy Associated Press. )-The fourth general Assembly of the League of Nations w4& opened here today There was n0 formal mention of the Greco Italian crisis. but the delegates in the ante rooms expressed themselves as hopeful that a road would be found leading to a solution of the conflict. so far as the leagues relations to 1t were con cerned.
 The inaugural session was marked by an impressive expression of sym pathy to Japan from the 5l nations represented, who joined in a solemn resolution voicing the worlds con dolence over the terrible disaster af- flicting the Japanese nation.
 Viscount Ishii of Japan. acting president of the assembly although greatly affected by the news of the
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
QUAKE DISASTER WAS PREDICTED BY
 TOKYO SCIENTIST


 SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. S.-The earthquake disaster which has swept eastern and central Japan was prop hesied in May. 1922. by Or. s omorl, head of the earthquake research de- partment at Tokio Imperial Univer- sity and one of the worlds foremost authorities on the seisomograph.
 The Tokio district may be visited by an earthquake next year that will be far worse than the disaster of 1855 which killed about 1,200 people" pr. Omori told newspaper men at that time.
 If it does not .ome then it will come at the end of one of the follow ing five year periods within the next 30 years" he declared.
 Dr. Omori exhibited a map showing the center of every earthquake rec orded since the invention of the seso- nlograph. This map tended to prove that u3heavals Of the earths crust were mosc severe at the end of five to six year cycles and that the center of the earths tremors. which traveled away from Tokie after the disaster of t855, had swung around forming a circle and were getting nearer to the city every year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
 Reported That Mines Have Been Laid Around DodeCa- neSe Islands, While Italians gather Fleet
 ITALIAN FLAG BURNED AS DEMONSTRATION STAGED Casualty Report Of Corfu Bombardment Shows That 20 Died, 16 Of Whom Are Said To Be Children
BULLETIN

ATHENS, Sept. 3.-lBy Associated Press.)-A violent demonstration against Italy took place today after solemn funeral services had been held in the Catholic cathedral for the vic tims of the Corfu bombardment.
 The crowd burned an Italian flag and attacked the Italian legation.
 LONDON. Sept. s.-(By Associated Press.)-Italy is holding Corfu which commands the Adriatic, as d pledge tor Greek reparations and Is wait ing grimly for Greece to comply with her ultimatum. Greece, having ap- pealed to the League of Nations is also waiting, and Italy thus far has ignored the protest of the council of ambassadors against her action in seizing Corfu.
 The Greek legation here made public the text of the Greek reply to the ambassadors council, proposing the appointment by the council of d commission consisting of three mem bers for an inquiry into all the cir cumstances of the Janina crime, and declaring readiness, if Greece is found in any way responsible. to grant all separations decided upon by such commission. The reply re- quests the intervention of the coun- cil with Italy.
 The prospects of an early settle ment are not improved. The Italian government takes the stand that 1t die not sign the theaty of 1864, syNicn confirnied the neuIrahty of Corfu. and Is therefore not bound by the treaty. Further. Premier, Muss- olini has instructed the Italian repre- sentatiVes at Geneva to abstain from further discussion of the affair and the only hopeful aspect is that Italy seems disposed to have the court of the international justice pro- nounce on the leagues competency to deal with such an international dis pute. The British government stlll is firmly supporting the view that the dispute is eminently one of the League of Nations and regards the whole question a. ubjudicial. pending the leagues decision. In the event of the leagues councils abstaining from intervention, it is stated that the Scandinavian delegates are re- solved to withdraw from the league, ds did Argentina in 1920.
 Great despondency prevails in Ath- ems, where the fact that Italy was able so quickly to land fifteen tnous-. and men in Corfu is considered proof of Mussolinis determination. The occupation of Corfu seems to be complete and the Italians have thoroughly organized tke place as though for a long stay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
President Coolidge Appeals To People Of U. s. To Help
 Stricken Japan

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.--The Unit ed States moved swiftly today to bring the full force of the govern ment and the people to the aid of stricken Japan.
 While government executive de- partments were directed to assist in the work, the public was urged in an appeal issued by rresident Cool idse to the public through the Amer ican Red Cross for giving relief to the people of Japan. The Red Cross at once announced it had started the fund with contribution of sl00000 for the relief of the victims of the earthquae and appropriated from it's reserve funds of S10,000 for the as- sistance of Americans caught in the disaster zone. Arrangements were made at the same time for individual contributions to be received either through the national headquarters or through any Red Cross captain. The funds will be sent by the American
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
.ENORMITY IF
 AN'SLOSS NOT YET TOLD
Every Report From Stricken
 Cities Brings News Of Even Greater Destruction With
 Casualties Than Estimated TOXIC AND YOKOHAMA VIRTUALLY O8LITERATED Over Hundred Mile Area From Capital Swept By Catastro-
 phe, Destroying Structures And Filing Dead Everywhere

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. S.-(By As- sociated Press.) )-Food riots have briken out in Tokio. according to ! radiogram received here tonight by the Radio corporation from Iwaki station. 155 miles from Tol1io The gendarmeries are reported in these dispatches to have eXerted the most strenuous measures to suppress the disorders, even attacking the rioters with their swords.
 A number of Koreans were in the mob, the advices said.
 The advices confirmed earlier re- ports of a great fire m Yokohama and an estimate that there had been at least 10000 casualties there.
 The fires. the message said. were caused by or followed by the ex plosion of oil storage tanks in the city, where reserves of fuel oil for the merchant and naval marine were kept.
 The advices also confirmed earlier reports of the submergence of the Island of Enoshima. Picture Island" one of Japans most beautiful spots. This island. the message said, was swept away by a tidal wave, as were also Honomuhu and Isolo. villages in the vicinity of EnOshima.
 Many Europeans, visitors and resi- dents of that section. are missing
 Nogeyama, better class residen- tial section of Yokohama, Iseyama, another section, where stood a n3- table statue of To Naosuke, prime minister of the Shogun at ohe time Japan was opened to foreign inter course and kamonyama, A third sec : tion, all were destroyed. leaving thousands in extreme misery.
 There has been no news received Tn Japan from the Bonin Islands, on which is located q cable relay station and it is feared. the adNices declared, that the land there was submerged by the tidal wave following the trem-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
USE CAUTION IN ADMIT TING IMMIGRANT TS
We Will Permit No One To Let Down Bars To Lower Wages After 150 Years Raising Standards"
 UNEMPL0YMEN ABROAD IS STRESSED IN ADDRESS Eight-Hour Day For Wives Of Workers Plea During Ring ing Address To Audience In Woodrow Wilson Park

James J. Davis, secretary of the United States Department of Labor, brought round after round of cheers in his Labor Day address to 8 repre- sentative throng of some 5000 men and women of the Birmingham dis trict in Woodrow Wilson park, when he said
 "Regardless Of from what ahgle we look at the Immigration question, we must keep before us always the fact that we must get jobs for Amer jeans first.
 '.Immigration is not republican problem, it is not democratic prob lem. It is at all times fundamental business problem of the whole United States. It Is Americas business. l am republican and proud of it, but l take off my hat to democrats for the support they gave the immigra- ton bill that saved America.
 Some 5000 miles from our coast there are 40O,000,000 Chinese with ship power enough to bring 100000 a year to America. Japan has the available people and the ships to send 750,0 900 annually. India could send 100000 a year, and the old en- pires, with their hate and envy and Jealousy, have 3,000,000 a year to swarm in on us.
 T say as a representative of toll, we have been 150 years raising the standard of labor, and we will permit no one to let down the bars 10 lower wages and to let in peoples who will work for 50 cents a day where our workers are getting s5 and more, to let in labor competition that lives with whole families in ne~roorn, that bring their own merchants with them, and which would in a few years reduce our country, if they came in such numbers, to the wage level of the Orient.
 Tells Of European Tour.
 Friends, there is scarce 8 rom ance like the history of Birmingham. Here 8 great work has been done. a great contribution made to the history of steel, the history of labor, the his tory of well-provided and happy Americans. have Just returned in the past few weeks from tour of Europe, where I went to get infor- nation concerning immigration, con ditions there and to see European conditions for myself. In Great Brit ain alone there are 1,250,0900 men eling out a livelihood from the gov- ernment soup bowl, the 'dole.' They have had no jobs since the end of the World war. England has paid out $2,000,O00,000 in doles. for which not one stroke of work has been done. There SS7,000 farm hands are looking for work. From 500,000 to
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
PATHFINDERS OF AIR SAFE AFTER FORCED LANDING
Skill Or Luck Saves Life Of Pliers In Flop In Corn
 Field

CHICAGO Sept. S.--Skill or luck saved the lives of Lieuts. Kenneth Garret of Pine Bluff, Ark. and Victor L, Bertrandias of San Francisco, army pathfinders, they asserted to- night as they rested after their forced airplane landing here in the dark last night.
 Ut was the biggest thing l was ever in, and I've flown five years" said Lieutenant Garret, recounting their experience in landing in a corn field about mile southwest of Franklin Park after dark. Were couple of lucky dogs" They intended to land at Haywood field, but could not locate it.
 "Our success shows what maneu- vering can do," said Lieutenat Ber- trand. but l sht uldn't want to try 1t again
 The officers left Mitchell field Friday on the first lap of a $500 mile patnfinding tour across the United States They were driven out of their course by storm which they encountered after passing Mount Clemens, Mich
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
BALKAN PROBLEM VIRTUALLY KILLED AS LEAGUE ISSUE
pr. Cosme De La Toriente Of Cuba Chosen Head Of
 Assembly

GENEVA. Sept. S.-(By Associated Press.) )--Dr. Cosme de la Torrlente Peraza of Cuba. was today elected president of 9the assembly of the League of Nations.
 pr. de la Torriente received 24 votes and pr. Giuseppe Motta, former president of Switzerland, received 19 Forty five nations voted.
 PARIS, Sept. S.--News was re- ceived here this afternoon that the Italian representatives had informed the council of the League of Nations that Italy refused to accept the leagues Jurisdiction in the Greco Italian dispute.
 This was taken here as disposing of the proposition for league inter- probable tha; a direct meeting of Greek and Italian representatives will be held within Q day or two, probably at Athens. Information received at the French foreign office from Greece indicates a desire to part of the Athens government to talk directly with Italy and a disin- clination to insist upon action by the league.
 It is declared in diplomatic, circles that the league council has already set aside a precedent against inter yention in case which Is before the ambassadors council. It is recalled that when Albania demanded league intervention to present encroach- ments upon her territory by Jugo- Slavia, the league council decided 1t could not take up the matter SC long as it was in the hands of the ambassadors.
 Great confidence prevailed in French official circles that these di- rect negotiations between the repre- sentatives of the countries would promptly settle the conflict. The impression gained ground after a visit of the Italian ambassa dor to Premier Poincare. Through his ann bassador Premier Mussolini assured the French government that Italy had not the slightest intention Of making war on Greece.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
Nashville Business Men Install Playground

NASHVILLE. Tenn. Sept. 3.-Two hundred leading business men of Nashville. all members of the Nash vile Exchange club. observed Labor Day in overalls, welding picks. shovels and other constructor and mechanical instruments in com pletely installing a playground for children a the Davidson County Tu- berculoss hospital
 Five thousand dollars was spent for outdoor equipment by the club Intended tt help the children in their fight against disease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
VOLCANOES RUMBLE
 AS JAPAN TOTTERS
Sleeping Monster Mount Fuji May
 Have Awakened

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.--(By As sociated Press. IA dispatch from Nagasi fast night reporting the de- struction of the Fuji spinning mills near Mount Fuji and the death of 5000 operators, also stated that number of volcanoes were reported to be active.
 If Mount Fuji is among the erupt ing volcanoes. it is the first time 1t has exploded since l707, but through out its long rest, it's deep red-hot crater at the summit has afforded an ominous sign that it might be aroused to fury at any moment.
 There are about 200 volcanoes, 50 of which are mG>e or less active. in the three volcanic ranges in Japan, the Kurile FuJi and Kirishima.
 Torijima. 1902, killing l25 island CTS; AgaJsuma. 1903. killing two; Bandaisan, 1888; Sakurajima. 1914; Aso a complex volcano. with it's highest cone. towering 1909 meters is perhaps the largest volcano in the world It's crater extends about 15 miles north and south and ten miles Cast and west. Nasu. Kirishima, Q9hina and 'fea are almost per kS---s-..- aA-4 SAi4.=.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
SECRETARY DAVIS SENDS TON ING0T OF STEEL TO ROLLS

Immediately dressed and faultlessly groomed. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis visited the scenes of his boyhood about the iron furnaces of Birmingham on Monday. So great was his in terest in the big steel plants of the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad company, that he went through several of the big steel mills as indifferent to the in tense heat of the molten ingots as the sweating men who han dled them.
 He paused at the door of a huge furnace at Fairfield where hundreds of tons of steel blocks awaited their trips along the roller way to the reducing roll CTS. Sweated to the refinem ent of physical condition. a large negro. 1.-the as a panther, manip- ulated the lever or hook that sent the two ingots along their way.
 Lets see that hook" said the Secretary.
 The negro grinned: "Cap'n, 1t takes a man to handle dat hook an it's hot; bes' doant touch it." 
 Then the Secretary of Labor grinned. caught the big bar in his hands, there was a twist to his shoulders. heave. and 2,000-pound hunk of scarlet, spit ting steel was wrenched from it's bed amid the other great in gots, gave lurch and went rumbling along the rollers to the mill.
 
 Great goodness" exclaimed the negro, "looka dis white-col- lar german doin' niggah's work"
 Secretary Davis dusted his hands, one against the other; shook himself, and smilingly satisfied that his hands had not lost their cunning in 30 years of rest from such work, retoined the group of officials that consti- tuted his escort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
Unions Participate In
 Labor Day Parade

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Sept. 3.--La- bor Day was fittlngly celebrated here today by organized labor. A parade passed through the business section this morning In which va ri1us unions participated, including menhers in automobiles and on foot, and numerous floats. This afternoon a formal celebration was held at Chilhowee Park. J. F. MoCary. in- ternational representative of the railroad earmen's union, came from Washington 10 deliver the address. Rural mall carriers of the Second Congressional district alao assem- bled in celebratitn and Senator John K. Shields was Invited to address them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
Important News Of The Day

Frenzied aftermath pestenc sweeps earthquake stricken PAGE ONE James Davis secretary of the United department of labor gates to country guarded; jobs for Americans FACE ONE hurt wild
  Athens torn by Muso gimy bides waits PAGE ONE Balkan problem killed will assembly arbtrate PAGE ONE Picture of death starvation Alabama lawmakers Day holiday PAGE THREE
 
 
 
 playing of second affair at New Orleans TWELVE cup Johnson and Tda win final
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
EXPLOSION KILLS THREE
Fifteen W0rkmen Missing In Pulaski
 Furnace Accident.

ROANOKE, Va. Sept. 3.-Three men were killed and 20 were seriously in- Ljured early today by an explosition | in the blast furnace of the Pulaski Iron company, Pulaski, Va, according to reports received here by telephone, At least Is workmen were reported missing. Volunteer relief workers were searching the ruins for other victims.
 Later advices said the plant was wrecked and that rescue workers were experiencing great difficulty in searching the ruins. The message added that not more than five men were missing.
 The bodies of William Bird of Pu- laski and two unidentified negroes have been recovered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
BATTLE BLUE LAW

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 3-Open- ing of what is expected to be wig ~lrousiy contested legal fight to de- termine the constituionality of a state law passed at the last session of the Tennessee legislature prohibit ing motion picture and theatrical en tertainments in general on Sundays was deferred today until Wednesday when police court hearing of II thea Ire managers. arrested yesterday Vas postponed until that day. Tho etate law became effective Saturday All of the motion picture houses and theatres opened yesterday and con tinued after the managers submitted to arrest and posted forfeits for their appearance in police court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
WOULD ABOLISH QUOTA IMMIGRATION METHOD
Wood Returns From Europe After
 study Of Question

-'E,W YORit. Sept S.--,by Asso- ciated Pres l---RcpresentattVe W. B. Wood of Indiana, chairman of the republican natioEa, congressional committee, who returned on the Le- yiathan today from Eprope where he made a study of the immigration question. announced he Noull intro- duce bin at the next session of Congress doing away with thc quota method in rea1ricting immigration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
SECRETARY DAVIS WILL A ADD K E 5 s ALABAMA SOLONS
Will Leave Birmingham Tues- day Morning To Accept Re-
 cent Invitation

James J. Davis. Secretary of Labor in President Coolidge's cabinet. will address Tthe Alabama legislature Tuesday. He announced Monday night that he had accepted the invi- tation kindly extended recently.
 The Secretary will leave Birming- ham Tuesday mLrning at 9;17 o'clock and will arrive at the capital about noon. The hour for his appearance at the capital will be at the pleasure of the lawmakers