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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
AMERICA IS SQUARELY BEHIND HER SEAMAN
Government Has Not Given Up
 Fight For Adeuuate Service

WASHINGTON, March S.-Notice that the government is standing square1y behind" the American sea man was given today by Acting Chairman O'Connor of the shipping board in an open announcement ad- dressed to The Seamen of the Amer ican Merchant Marine"
 "The failure of the ship subsidy bill,' the statement said. "should not be understood to indicate that the government has given up the ship. The board still is governed in it's functions by the purpose expressed in the merchant marine act that we develop a merchant marine sufficient to carry the greater portion of our commerce and to serve as naval or military auxiliary until such times as 1t can be transferred to private own ership."
 MT. O'Connor called on the officers and men of the American merchant marine to continue their efforts to build up the service, in which he said, the public is showing increas- ing interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
OFFICIALS CONFER ON OLD RAILWAY DISPUTE
Hooper Seeks To Settle Case With
 Pennsylvania Railroad

CHICAGO, March S.-Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the railroad labor board. conferred here today with E. T. Winter of Chicago, act ing vice president of the Pennsyl- vania railroad and E. II. Sennef of Philadelphia. general counsel. re- garding the controversy of nearly two years standing between the road and the labor board.
 The trouble started when the la bor board maintained its right to force the railroad to place the names of labor unions on ballots when the Pennsylvania's employees were voting on who would represent them in wage and rules disputes with the carriers. The railroad maintained the unions were not employed and re- fused to place the union names on the ballots.
 As the labor board was preparing 70 cite the railroad for failing to obey the boards decision, the car rier secured an injunction prohibit ing the board from criticising the read. The injunction was in effect until about three weeks ago when it Was dissolved by the supreme
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
ICE FLOATING SOUTH
Vessels Arc Given Usual Warning
 By Government Auth0rities.

Vessels Arc Given Usual Warning
 By Government Authorities.
 WASHINGTON, March 8.-Gradual movement of large ice fields towards the north Atlantic steamship lanes lis reported in dispatches received by the government ice patrol. The situation has not reached the stage. however, where officials consider 1t warrants more than the routine Warning.
 Among the points reporting heavy floats are the stations of St. Paul Island. Cape Bay and Flat Point, maintained by the Canadian signal service. The coast guard utter Seneca sailed from New York today to patrol off the grand banks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
CLOUDS. HANGING OVER.
 RUHR VALLEY.
Gloomy Pictures of Industrial Conditions Painted Work men Depressed, While Hungry Families Are
 Seeking Food

LONDON, March S.-(By Associat- ed Press.)-Gloomy pictures of the situation in the Ruhr, with warnings of an impending crisis. are painted today by some of the London news paper correspondents.
 A Dusseldorf dispatch to the Telegraph says that employment is increasing and that the political sit uation is dangerous. Economic con ditons he describes as disastrous asserting that 25,O00 persons are without work in Dusseldorf alone and that the unemployment wages are insufficient. The workmo- are noticeably depressed, the ,correspon- dent adds, and rumors are current that they are beginning to doubt the issue of the struggle.
 The French, this dispatch asserts, are preparing to deal with the food problems which will undoubtedly arise with the increase of unemploy- ment. Their soup kitchens, boycotted at 1lrst, are now popular.
 Conditions Pitifui.
 The Cologne correspondent of the Daily Express reports that conditions Tn Essen and Bochum are pitiful and that the death rate among the children has risen 20 per cent in the last month and milk is almost unobtainable. The phrase hunger blockade is on the lips of the whole German population. The French military authorities have given defi- mite orders to admit all foodstuffs to the cities, but some of the truck s never arrive and part of the ship ments are stolen
 Education, the correspondent adds, is al standstill for the French have occupied the schools. The passing of each day finds public feeling more embittered.
 The impression that the cauldron in the Ruhr may boil over at any time with fearful results in blood she'd is expressed by the Cologne representative of the Westminster Gazette. He continues:
 Tt is the opinion of those best able to judge that unless an agree ment is soon reached it can only be matter of time before another war breaks out. I am told that rance would not hesitate to declare war and bomb the German cities, includ- ing Berlin, if her forces are at tackled"
 The correspondent adds that it Is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
Former Vice President Says Democracy Is Not Real When Laws Have to Be En-
 forced Through the Use of PIatoons of Police
HIS MIND IS OPEN AND WANTS TO KNOW TRUTH
Asserts That John Hays Ham, mond Is Fairest, Squarest and Most Unbiased Man of
 Ability It Has Ever Been
 His Good Fortune to Know

Peace in the mining fields of the United States is the objective of the federal coal commission, Asf I see it." declared former Vice Pfesl- dent Thomas R. Marshall member of the commission, Thursday after noon at the Tutwiler hotel. speaking to an Aee-Herald representative ham and after he had consented to pose for an Age-Herald staff pho- tographer. MT. Marshall. accowo--@ led by Mrs. Marshall. ca =oas Jacksonville. Fla, early n5 =d0s afternoon. They made tn coros mission party here conn Clark Lowell. Atlanta publishe g5ne arrived early Thursday aIag. John Hays Hammond, cha 1l Eaa first of the commissio. sha ground. reaching Birming aA, as- day afternoon.
 With turmoil general pe, the one steady nation of ee5rl3 should continue so." MT. Mars al SdpQ. W Q say Wc nave q dcnOCIdCys but if we should have to enforce laws with a platoon of police. 1t would be no Justification of denfoc- racy. What We want is stabilization of conditions along the principles 0f right and justice.
 Speaking AS Individual
 T am speaking merely as an in. dividual and giving merely individ- ual impressions. The desire and pur- pose of this commission, as 1 see It, IS to recommend changes. if changes be necessary, in mine field condi- tions which will place those condi- tions within those principles of law and democracy we all recognize and respect.
 We have all come to Birming- observation of conditions. If l may say 1t. unequivocally. John Hays Hammond, my boss, Is one of the squarest and fairest, and most un- biased men I have ever had the good fortune to know. He Is also a bril- liant engineer and knows how to grasp true conditions.
 T confess at once I know nothing of coal mines. I have no personal lHleTestS III tHeHl anu nave never owned a coal mine. I have never worked in one. But do believe know the principles of law and right necessary to peace. I am much interested in peace and that Is our mission, IS l see tito stabilize con- ditions and establish peace in miu- ing fields of the country.
 o O o
 Learns Through Ears.
 My way of learning things Is through my ears. I feel that I can learn more from what others tell me than I would otherwise know of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
interstate Commerce Con- mission Gives Most Encour- aging TabuTation for Jan- uary of This Year as Com pared With One Year Ago
EARNINGS $60,654, 700 AS AGAINST $29,485,00
Record -breaking Increase of Business Responsible for Im- provement Representing In- come of 5.54 Per Cent An-
 nualIy on Value of Property

WASHINGTON, March 8.-Railroad
 earnings during January were more
 than twice those in January, 1922,
 according to tabulations of inter-
 state commerce commission reports
 made public today by the Associa tion pf Railway Executives. They
 amounted to $60.654.70o. against
 s29.4s5,000 last year and represented
 the associations statement said, an
 income of 5.54 per cent annually on
 the value of property investment in transportation service.
 T The returns include practically all the Class 1 carriers, this group in- fluding the corporations which own
 90 per cent of all the countrys rall
 mileage. The earnings resulted from 3 record-breaking increase of busi- hess.
 ll27 Per Cent Gain.
 Glass l carriers in January re- ported total operating revenues of $500, 6S3.o00," the executives state- ment said. This was an increase of Approximately 27 per cent compared with January last year, though in- complete reports indicate an increase in freight traffic alone compared with the same month in 1922, of nearly 39 per cent. Freight traffic m January was the heaviest for that month in the history of railroading iOOeratinP exDenSeS for that mont h amounted to $407.615,00o, or an in- crease of 2l per cent over January ;pf last year."
 Il In addition to operating expenses lhaxes, rentals and other charges not Ekhown in the executives expenses lhre subtracted from the total reve- lhues before net income is estimated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
MORE FACTS GIVEN M0REHOUSE JURY
 IN MOB LAW PROBE
Davenport Star Witness at SeSsion-NorsWorthy De- SCribeS His Relations
 With Ku kIux

BASTROP, La, March s.-tBy As sociated Press.)--The Morehouse parish grand jury continued today
 its investigation of the Kidnapping and slaying of Watt Daniel and T. F. Richard, the witnesses who appeared including Tot" Davenport, made captive with the two men near here last August "A. Of the five men made prisoners by the masked band. Davenport was the only one un- harmed. He was questioned and permitted to return home, while J. L.. Daniel, father of Watt, and w. c. Andrews were questioned and flogged before being released.
 All of today's witnesses with the exception of J. w. ("Big Jim") Nors- worthy were among the persons stopped on the Mer Rouge -Bastrop highway August 24. Their testi- mony at the open hearing here in January virtually was along the same lines. A masked party of ap- proximately l5 men lined both sides of the highway mile from Bastrop. All wagons and automobiles bearing persons returning home from base ball game and barbecue at Bastrop were halted and inspected.
 Are Made Prisoners.
 Daniel, his father. Richard. Daven- port and Andrews were made pris- oners and just at dusk were placed, bound and gagged. in q small motor truck and whisked away Three of the men were released at Collinston. eight miles from here, later in the night.
 Noteworthy testified at the open hearing that he had been a member r of the Ku kluX klan, but that not liking some of it's methods he had asked that his name be dropped from the roll. He said he had attended only two meetings. He told of re- ceiving instructions from Capt. J. K. SkipWith. exalted cyclops of the Morehouse klan. to assist in taking a white man and two negroes to the Arkansas state line after whipping them and to order them not to re- turn to the parish. Big Jim" re- fused to obey the order.
 Mrs. B. D. Carlisle, who was among those halted on the road and who had testified that she had rec ognized Newt" Gray as one of the mesked men. was among todayfs witnesses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
$l00, IS TOTAL OF PERMITS FOR BUILDING
Twenty Residences, Theatre And
 Store To Be Erected

Twenty Residences, Theatre And
 Store To Be Erected
 Twenty-three permits, aggregating approximately $1oo.ooo. for one the- atre, one store. one office and 20 residences, were issued by the build ing inspectors department Thursday. The theatre will be built at Twenty seventh avenue and Thirtieth street by Graham Purdue and will cost $11,5oo. Permit for the store, cost- ing $4.5oo. was issued to D. o. whil- din, to be built at Seventeenth street and Fourth avenue, and the office will be erected at 515 Twenty-first street and will cost $10.000.
 The residences to be built will cost s64,175, and permits were issued to the following: J. W. Jones, Cliff road and Essex road, residence $S,000: l.. K. Mackey, Clairmont ave- $S,000; J. W. Mallory, Ella avenue and Eighth street. residence. $2.000; Erby Zeigler, four permits, resi- Avenue I, $2,5QO; two at Twenty ninth and Avenue H. s2,500 each; i; Twenty sixth and Avenue F, S2,500, all in Ensley; c. N. Wood, Twenty sixth and Avenue F, Ensley, resi- dence, $2,500; c. H. McCauley, Thirty third avenue and Red Mountain road, residence, s6,000; A. A. Adams. Forty-second street and Summite avenue, residence. $6,000; Gray Brothers. four permits for residences at Norwood boulevard and Sixteenth avenue. $2,500 each; l. c. Hick, 1920 Elm street, south, residence. $3,100; E. Cline. three permits for resi- dences at Twenty-fifth street and Thirty-second avenue, costing $1,600 each: Will Rice, 705 Fiftieth street. south, residence, $1,275. and J. Chand- Ter Hatcher 610 Forty-sixth street, south. residence, $2,500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
OFFICIALS ARE SILENT
|A appointment Of Hardwiclk As Special Prosecutor Withheld.

Ik kppOlntmcnt O1 HardW1ck AS Special Prosecutor Withheld.
 | WASHINGTON, March 8.--Depart- 'hent of justice officials declined to- Hay to comment on the statement issued yesterday by Governor Hard wick of Georgia in which he an bounced he would accept an appoint nent, effective July l. as a special
 assistant attorney general on the ad- l2isory council of tho war transac-
 lions section, department of Justice. N Jnasmuch as Attorney General
 Oaugherty is in Florida recuperat-
 ng from illness. no one ct the de- |partment knows whether such an
 Appointment actually would be made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
WATERSPOUT OFF CUBA
Stream Arises To Height of 10 Metres
 At Havana.

HAVANA. Cuba. March s.-A waterspout rising out of the ocean to a height of 10 metres suddenly ap peared off Morro Castle at the en- trance to Havana harbor shortly after noon today and moved to the en- trance of the harbor. where it sub sided.
 big tree near La Punta Castle, across the harbor mouth from Moro Castle, which has resisted storms of a gentry or more, was torn up by the roots and one wall of house near the presidential palace was crushed in. Several automobiles were wrecked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
SOUTHERN ORDERS 200 CARS FROM ANNIST0N
Kilby Manufacturing Company Will
 Build New Equipment

The largest new railroad equip ment order in some time was placed this week by the Southern railway. the total including 6,135 cars.
 The kilby Manufacturing com pany of Anniston, obtained an order for 200 stock cars, the remainder of the large order being placed as follows:
 Standard Steel Car company. 1000 box cars and 1,500 composite hop pers.
 American Car and Foundry com pany. l.500 box cars and 1865 com posite hoppers.
 Mt. Vernon company, 57O box cars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
M'ADO0 BOOSTED FOR
 NOMINATION OF PARTY
Texas Legislators Form Committee to Fight for Former Official

AUSTIN. Texas. March S.-Organi- zation of q "McAdoo for President" club was perfected here last night by approximately 100 members of the Texas legislature and others. The club will urge the candidacy of Will liam c. McAdoo. member of Presi- dent Wilson's cabinet. for the presi- dency. Marshall Hicks of San An tonic was elected president of the organization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
ABANDONS HIS PLAN
French Will Not Use -merican
 Negroes Ina Ruhr Valley

NEW YORK, March s.-(By Asso- ciated Press.)-AHarry DouSherty, member of detective agency. which specializes in furnishing labor to in- dustrial concerns, has given up his hope of helping France exploit the coal mines of the Ruhr through the medium of American negroes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
ENGLAND EXPLAINS
Closing Of Newcastle Consulate h
 Subject Of Note

| LONDON, March 8.-(By Associ-
 IRted Press.)-The British govern
 Ilnent made public today Foreign sssecretary Curzon's note of December
 I27 last to the American government
 Iin regard to the dispute over the Aclosing of the American consulate at Newcastle on-Tyne. The note said Hin part htat Great Britain had noti- .fied the United States that Consul Brooks and Vice Consul Slater were persona non grata a month before 1t wit. drew their exQuateurs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
ALLEN IN WASHINGTON
American Commander In German y .,....... a...,,,ut nc Stoxrord < h fl q.

American Commander In Germany Preparing Account Of Stewardship.
 WASHINGTON, March s. - Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, who commando ed the American army on the Rhine. reported to the war department to- day on his return from Germany and was assigned to duty with the general staff to prepare his report, which will close up the affairs of the American forces overseas. Gen- eral Allen retres from active ser vice early in April and his work on this report will occupy him until that time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
BLOOD MONEY IS USED
Students Sacrifice Life Fluid To Pay
 College Expenses


 BALTIMORE. March S.-Students at the Johns Hopkins Medical school are paying for their tuition with blood money, literally, and without invidious connotation.
 They are selling their blood for transmission purposes at $50 a trans fusion.
 It is an easy way to make money, according to Dr. John c. Huek, pro lessor of medicine. All the student has to do is to lie down. sacrifice little blood and then collect the $50 But the fly in the ointment, from the students standpoint. is that all are not eligible to be bled. The sub ject must in the first place be per fectly healthy Then his blood must 514eagf "N~tain standard. & fef or transfusion 7t ps Me than a movie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
COSTUMES ARE SOLD
Clothes Worn By CarusO Bring Only
 Small Sum At Auction

NEW YORK. March S.--The gor- geous, brilliantly colored costumes worn by Enrico Caruso in some of his most popular roles were placed on the auction block yesterday and sold for little more than song. The highest price paid was $70. This was for the costume that Caruso wore as Radaemes in Aida" Another cos tune tor the same character was sold for S45.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
EARNINGS MUCH LARGER
Steel Boundaries Company Has Pros
 porous Year In 1922.

perOus Year In 10.2.
 CHICAGO, March S.-Net income of $3,779,S66 for 1922, as compared with only $356,S63 in 1921, is shown in the annual report issued today by the American Steel Foundries com pany. After payment of preferred and cash dividends. the company's 1922 surplus was SS60,264, in striking contrast with $2,173,69S final deficit reported in 1921
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
RELIEF WORK TO STOP
Conditions In Russia Are Reported
 Grently InnraXed.

Greatly ImprOVed.
 NEW YORK, March S-Work Of the American relief administration will be continued among the chil- dren of Russia until after the next harvest, but it is doubtful whether it will be continued further than that Secretary Hoove lst5 5s N- of the A. F. A., arae@UFed easFY after meeting of ihe Seup committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
PUBLISHERS WORK ENDS
l.. V. AshbnuGh Of St. Paul Passes
 Away At Home,

Away At Home.
 ST PAUL. Minn., March S.-L. V. Ashbaugh, 57, publisher of the St. Faul Daily News. the Omaha Daily News, the Rural Weekly and the Min neapolis Rural American, died at his home today after an illness ef sev- eral years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
BALMY AIRS FORECAST
Fair Weather Welcome To Expo
 nents Of Outdoor Sports

nents Of Outdoor Sports
 Fair and warm weather through Friday was forecast Thursday night by F. c. Horton. with slight climb of the mercury in evidence. though slight change in temperature is ex- pected.
 weather of Wednesday and Thursday Is expected toaprove welcome not only tc Joe 5suun and his athletes Spt he entiFe ctty or Birmia@hah as wssl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09

RON OUTPUT FOR THE STATE
 DF ALABAMA IS RUNNING 90
 FER CENT AHEAD OF PRO- DUCTION ONE YEAR AGO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09

THE FORECAST FOR ALABAMA IS FAIR AND SLIGHTLY WARMER FRIDAY; SATURDAY CLOUDY AND UNSETTLED
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-17
HUNTINGTON

HUNTINGTON, May II. - G. J.
Parker, Misses Ruby and Bessie
Parker and Grady Parker, of Leslie,
attended the services at Pleasant
Grove Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Cannon and
children, of Americas, were the
guests of their brother, Reuben Can
non Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. L. W. Hayes and Miss Vera
Hayes were the spend-the-day guests
Tuesday at the home of Mrs. NJ. c.
Harris.
Rev. E. T. Moore, of Americas,
was the dinner guest Sunday of Mr..
and Mrs. Claude Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. J. Hill, Jr., and
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Perry motored
to Plains Sunday afternoon.
Miss Maude Cheek leaves today
for Molina and Atlanta on an ex-
tended visit to friends and relatives.
Mesdames L. w. Hayes, Mrs. M.
c. Harris, Misses Vera Hayes and
Beula Harris were visitors at the
home of Mrs. 7. NJ. Ethridge Friday
afternoon.
The many friends of Mrs. J. L.
Perry viii lregret to learn of her
illness at her home near here.
Mrs. J. A. Bray and little son,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-17
Plains

PLAINS, May 17.-Friday eve
ming at the home of Mrs. S, H.
Zimmerman the Hospital auxiliary
gave a benefit rock party. Sweet
peas, yerbena and larkspur were
used to decorate the rooms. At the
conclusion of the game sandwiches
and iced tea were served. Playing
were thirty-two
The Barbecue club gave the usual
dinner Monday evening at Magnolia
Springs.
Mothers Day was observed at all
The church in Plains Sunday. Each
church had prepared an appropriate
program for the occasion.
Rev. Jason Shirah left Monday
for Cusseta where he will assist in
q series Of revival services at the
Methodits church there.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Harris and
young son, Louis, of Milledgeyille,
were guests Sunday Of Mrs. j. r.
Logan.
Mr.. Burgin Of Atlanta, spent Sun
Jay here with his brother, Sam Bur
gin.
Miss Sarah Crawford has return
ed to her home in Doerun after a
pleasant visit to her sister, Mrs. Wal
.or Wise.
Friends OF R. T. Jennings, who
has been i'll for several months, viii
regret to know his condition is criti-
cal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Arnold and
children, of Parrot spent Sunday
here with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs, w. A. George and
daughter, Catherine, of Cuthbert,
were guests of Mrs. w. r. Arnold
Monday,
Mrs. H. Arnlod, of PARROT, spent
Monday here with her son, DR.. John
Arnold, of Parrott, who recently
underwent an operation for append
citis at the hospital.
Mrs Fannie Jennings has return
ed from a visit to relatives at Sum-
ter and in Americas.
Jesse Woodruff, of Lumpkin, and
Miss Marie Patterson, of Renfroe
were guests Sunday Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Woodruff.
Miss Maggie Jenkins, of Milledge-
Vile, was the guest Sunday Of Miss
Alice Ruth Zimmerman.
Otis Jones, of Fort Valley, was
the recent guest Of his mother, Mrs
Sally Jones.
viii Wise and children, Davis and
David spent Sunday with relatives
in Brentwood
Miss Kate KILLER attended the fu-
neral Of Miss Eula Patton at Re
hobeth Sunday.
Mrs. Cecil Walters spent Satur-
day in Americas.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Spann spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. H,
Spann at their home near Weston,
Miss Marble Minis, of Americas,
was the recent guest of her brother,
George Minis, at his home here.