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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
DEBT SETTLEMENT PLAN |S PLACED IN HARD|NC's HANDS
RumbIlngs of Opposition Are Heard in Both Houses--Ad- ministration Leaders Pre-
 dict Easy Victory

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-The plan for funding Great Britains war time debt to the United States was turned over to President Harding to- night by the debt funding commis- sion. Accompanying the plan was statement by the commission sug- gesting methods of Congressional ac- ton translating the results of the negotiatioEs into law The state ment vas not made public.
 While the cqmmissa,n wss fcrmu- lating it's vies Aew rumblingg C.. opposition to the plan were heard in both houses of Congress-. At the same time, Senator Lodge of Masss.- chussetts, Senate republican leader, visited the White House to discuss the situation with President Hard ing, and Representative Mondell os Wyoming, the House republican leader, conferred with Representa- tive Burton of Ohio, member of the funding commission, as to ways and means of handling the settle- ment legislation in the House.
 Would Speed Settlement
 Indications are for the President to send the settlement plan. togeth- CT with brief message concerning it. 10 Congress early next week, but this has not been definitely deter  mined The admi niStratlon appears confident that it can muster all the strength necessary to bring action on the legislation before the end of the present session March ., but Mir. Harding is represented as desiring to have everything done in advance that will speed final settlement.
 lncrea sing evidence developed to- day that House democrats planned to oppose the proposed interest rates on the ground that they constituted a discrimination. Several of them de- clared that the rates proposed to be terially lower than the United States applied on the British debt were ma pays on its own obligations.
 Say Acceptance Assured
 Members of the funding commls- sion were said to have discussed the obstacles to be overcome in pushing the necessary legislation through Congress. It was generally agreed, it was said, that complicated legislation should be avoided and it appeared that the recommendatio tion to the President urged that a complete change of the law be avoidel
 Admiaistrat tion officials, although admitting that rocks lay in the path of the debt legislation, insisted that the plan agreed on and acceped by Great Britain was just right and predicted that 1t would be accepted. They pointed out also that a settle ment with. Great Brian would 5e the first move toward breaking down what the British delegation to the funding conference had described as a vicious cycle of world debt and that in fixing the methods of pay ment on war debt, distinct contri- button would be made toward restor- ing the world economic balance. It was intimated that the
 would touch on this phase of the set tlement in his messaca to Congress-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
PRESIDENT WILL SEEK
 TO SAVE THE SUBSIDY MEASURE FROM DEFEAT

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-Presldent Harding was said by his advisors today n be planning to make one final pAlic appeal to the Senate to save thA administration shipping bill from failure.
 It was said that as soon as the present legislative situation had somewhat clarified the President probably would send an open letter to Chairmans J ones of the commerce committee, or some other adminis- tration leader, reiteratfng in the most vigorous language at his command his desire that the bill be brought to a vote before Congress quits on March 4.
 With injection of the British debt question into the tangled Senate sit uation, administration senators are conceding privately that they have little hope of securing action on the ship bill. The debt law revision bill is to follow the annual army Dill now under consideration in the Sen- ate, and is expected to take up most of the ttime remaining before the present Congress with it's big repub- lican majorities goes out of existence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
LEADING EXPERTS TO AID SOUTH IN FIGHT UPON COTTON WEEVIL
WASHINGTON BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD Masllinktnn. ID. C.. Feb. z

Leading experts of the department of agriculture will attend the cot ton conference in Atlanta, Ga., on February 20 and q called to launch the national campaign for boil weevii control by the American Cotton as- sociatiCn under the direction of Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison, the noted scientist and business executive.
 At a conference here Secretary of lAgr+eulture Wallace assured the dele gation that his department would cooperate fully in the movement to fight the cotton boil weevil and Dr. L. c. Howard. chief entomologist. and Dr. W. D. Hunter of the ento- mology bureau will attend the At lanta meeting.
 pr. Howard sounded the first warning against the ravages of the boil weevil more than 25 years ago and Dr. Hunter is the entomologist in charge of the southern field crop in yestigations for the department The delegation calling on Secretary Wal lace to solicit full assistance was composed of Senators Harris and George of Georgia, former Senate Hoke Smith and Representative w C. Wright of the Fourth Georgia district.
 Dr. Hutchison is a native Ala bamian and for a number of years worked with Thomas A. Edison. He has charge of the active campaign against the pest under the American Cotton association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
MISTRIAL IS DECLARED
 IN ARDMORE MOB CASE


 ARp4oRE, Okla Feb. S.--(Gy As s,ciated Press.) .)--Thei jury in .tha case of Jeff Smith, Hcaldton oil field worker, charged with the mur- der of Joe Carroll of Wilson, re- ported to Judge W. F. Freeman at 3;3O- o'clock this afternoon that it could not reach Q verdict and was discharged, The jury started de- Alterations Thursday morning
 Carroll, an alleged bootlegEer, was siot down by masked men who called at his home on the night of Decem- Der l5. 1921.
 Ten other prominent Carter coun- ty citizens are charged with his murder and will be brought to trial next week. The jury reported that it stood seven for acquittal and five for conviction and that there was no possibility of an agreement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
Winters FIowery Kingdom to Experience Bitter Cut When King Boreas Pushes Broad
 cast Over Area Extending
 Even to Southern Florida
TOWN IN MISSISSIPPI WRECKED BY TORNADO
Scores of Persons Are Left Homeless at Savage, Miss. New Seasonal Low Records
 Are Made in Many Sections.
 No Warmth Is Now in Sight

CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-(By Asso- ciated Press. With the entire cen- tral west shivering in the grip of icy blasts straight from the north pole, cold wave tonight was ex- tending from far northwest toward sunny Florida and from New York to San Francisco, rolling down the mercury to low records for the winter.
 In Chicago the mercury tumbled more than 30 degrees in 12 hours and the weather bureau predicted that the bottom would not be reached until it touched six degrees below zero. Eveleth, Minn., the coldest spot in the United States, reported minimum temperatures of 45 degrees below zero. In Min neapolis it was 25 degrees below, while St. Paul and Bismarck, N. D., registered one degree higher.
 New Low Records Made.
 The icy blast brought new seasonal records to the lower region, the Ohio valley, Tennessee and the interior Of the east gulf states and reached to- ward the Atlantic coast, where they were expected to arrlve tomorrow In the southlands the weather disturb ances We're confined to high winds and rains. the most destructive caus ing considerable property damage in the vicinity of Savage, Miss, where scores of persons were left homeless.
 As an offset to depleted coal bins, health authorities reported that the cold wave would act as q curb on the increase of influenza and pneu- monia. This kind of weather is cer- tain to check the spread of flu" and pneumonia, which thrive in the un reasonable weather of the last few weeks, Health Commissioner Bunde- sen said No warm weather Is in sight for the central west, the wealth Y CT bureau here announced, and pre- dicted generally fair weather for the next few days with temperatures be- low the seasonal normal.
 Loss ESTIMATED AT s5o.00o
 SENATOBA. Miss, Feb. S.-Proper- ty damage estimated at approximate ly s50,900 was done by the tornado which wrecked the town of Savage. in Tate county, demolishing several farm buildings in the vicinity of Evansville in Tunica county, and sent Cold Water river over it's banks at Savage and Sara, Miss, according to adviccs received here today.
 Approximately score of persons were injured. One, ". s. Sullivan. an
 fContinued on Page Two)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
EFFORT MADE TO ROB.
 GRAVE OF WAR HERO

NEW YORK, Feb. civilian II. Williams, special agent of the treas ury department, admitted today that an attempt had been made to rob the Brooklyn grave of James Jones, American seaman, in whose coffin the crown jewels of Russia were re- ported to have been smusgled into this country.
 The attempt, Mir. Williams said. was made about ten days ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04

ian population, army service sup plies and limited passenger traffic.
 TREYES, Feb. 3.-(By Associ- ated Press. This city is one of a dozen railway centers in the Rhineland to which thousands of civilians, marooned by the recent railroad strike, after returning from three to five days of hand to-mouth existence away from home, during which time many were forced to sleep in the railroad stations.
 While the service is being reor- ganized, connections are still un- certain, and the German trainmen art returning to work slowly. One of them said to the correspondent today:
 "Wc just had to do some work. We can't stand idleness. The French are glad to be relieved, for 1t wasn't easy to jump in and op- crate a rail system designed to serve T,000,000 people,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
WOLF OF WALL STREET ESCAPES FROM LAW

NEW YOHk, Feb. J.-- Federal agents gong To the Hotel DeFranee to take Davis IAmar. the Wolf Of Wall Street." to the Essex county 'penitentiary to serve sentence for a wartime offense, today discovered that Lamar had checked out of the hotel yesterday and disappeared without leaving an address.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
MEMBER OF JACKSON'S. HOUSEHOLD IS DEAD.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Feb. 3,-Mrs. Rachael Jackson Lawrence, daughter of Gen. Andrew Jackson's adopted son, the last surviving member of the Hermitage household of old Hick- ory's" time, died here at o'clock this morning at "Birdsons." her country home, near Nashville, aged 90 years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
ALABANIANs REJOICE
 WASHINGTON BUREAU
 THE AGE-HERAl.D ! Washington. n. C.. Feb. 2

Since the unconditional indorse- n1ent of the Henry Ford offer for Muscle Shoals by Chairman Madden of the appropriations committee, the most powerful member of the House, the Alabama delegation proceeds to- night under the conviction that there can longer be no excuse on the part of the titular leaders for denying q complete show down"
 MT. Madden, after study Cf adj offers, .his afternoon analysed each and declared the conclusion unequiv- ocally that the Ford offer, from a business standpoint, should be quick ly accepted. He declared that the po- litical element, involved should be given no consideration. There were no interruptions and no interroga- tions. The Madden declaration led to no debate which the Alabama dele gation regarded as encouraging Representative E. B. Almon of the Eighth district said tonight:
 We are delighted with the Mad den verdict. He is powerful mem Der Of Ihe House and his statement will carry great weight with the ma jority. It was not unexpected but the completeness of the indorsement was beyond our expectations. We will strive for vote in confidence that we will win. There can be no further excuse for the republican leader. Mir Mondell, to deny a vote"
 No Promise Made
 At the same time, nothing could be obtained in way of promise by this bureau either from Mondell or the chairman of the rules commit tee.
 In the Senate congestion is appar- ently complete with the shipping program pending and the debt fund.- ing agreement en route. Senator Underwood said tonight:
 ITO obtain q vote we must break the republican column which, on ac- count of it's strength. would appear impossible. If we should break it. Senator Norris could bring about great additional delay.
 The development Of the House. however, is most gratifying. The re publicans are becoming aroused. I believe, to the fact that 1t would be good politics for them to accept the Ford offer.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04

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French Soldiers Break Up Demonstration With Bayonets

COBLENZ, Feb. 3.e (By Asso- ciated Press. )-French troops threatened with bayonets and used the butt ends of their guns at noon today to bareak up a crowd of 5000 persons, noisily protesting be- fore the Rhineland high commission building against the deportation of officials.
 DUSSELDORF, Feb. S.-Rail- road service in the Rhineland is virtually normal, and the lines in the Ruhr region are not occupied by the French in military sense.
 The strike at Mayence continues with some further sabotage report ed, tracks being torn up for 100 yards in the vicinity of Bodenheim
 The French are operating rail road lines encircling the Ruhr for the transport of food Tor the civil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
GO[DENCOUCH. ROM ! OM B. IF PHARAOH.
Crowds Watch Glittering HlppopotamuS Heads as They Come Into Sun
 shine After 5000
 Years in Dark
By ARTHUR WEIGAIL

tSpeejal correspondent. Copyright. 1925 b. North American Newspaper Alliance. London Dsily Mail, New York World, Birmingham AgeHerald, Indiana polls News, San Francisco Bulletin, Los Angeles Times and Louisville Courier Journal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
MADDEN ASKS
 ACCEPTANCE IF FORD BID
Chairman of Appropriations Committee Favors UnquaI- flied Adoption of Plan of Auto Man as Business
 Proposition

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-Un- qualified acceptance of Henry Ford's Muscle Shoals offer was pro- posed today in the House by Chair man Madden of the appropriations committee.
 Representative Madden declared eh viewed the matter purely from a business standpoint and that his desire was to put the great Alabama project in the hands of a man of demonstrated capacity, irrespective of his politics.
 ''I know of no persons who have demonstrated larger capacity to handle an undertaking of this mag nitude than Henry Ford" declared the Illinois member. MT. Madden received an ovation as he concluded, many democratic members from the southern states being among those who rose to applaud him.
 Cant Stop Now"
 "We can't stop now" he said. ''I feel we owe it to the tax payers, the farmers, and the nation to fin- ish the operation. My own judgment is we should accept the Ford offer and get out of the business so as to better provide for the defense in the time of war and the welfare of the nation
 Calling attention that the govern n'ent already had spent $107, 7,000,000 on the project, Mr. Madden said estimafions were that it would have to, expenes additional sA p0,o0o to t N..d ete st i get it inlo opera tion Under government control. Un- der the Ford offer. he added, the government would have to put up another $50.000,000 ito complete the dams and other work and then the drain on the federal treasury would end.
 UnVarnished Facts
 For his part, MT. Ford, he went on. would agree to operate nitrate plant No. 10 its present capacity of 10000 tons of nitrate annually and in addition would keep the other plant fully equipped and ready for operation in event of war. Profits on the sale of nitrate to the farmers would be limited to per cent.
 "Mr. Ford agrees to pay the gov ernment S5,ooo,oO0 for the project he continued. "In addition he would have to put up So9,o0o,0 900 to get the whole works into operation, so he would not get such wonderful bar gain"
 In concluding, MT. Madden said he had tried not to take sides in the matter, but to state the plain un vanished facts" so that the House might draw it's decisions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
THE WEATHER

Alabama; Unsettled and colder Sunday; temperature below freezing Sunday night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
BUY IN BIRMINGHAM

Goods advertised in The Age Herald by Birmingham mer- chants are guaranteed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-15

NEW BRUNSWICK, June Is A
series of court actions have been
started today against Perth Amboy
parties in the Circuit and Supreme
courts:
M. Irving Demarest, of Sewaren,
has instituted a circuit court action
against the Spa Spring Ice Company,
Fred Killenberger, of Perth Am
boy, Hans NJ. x. Hanson, of Perth
Amboy, and Paul D. Kingberry of
Woodbridge, to recover $500, said
to be due for a foundation laid for
the ice company plant at Spa
Spring and also for the sum of
S2,725 for the erection of a wall.
Morris Fieldman, OF the Madison
hotel, Perth Amboy, is the defend
ant In a supreme court action start
ed by the Bronx Provision Corpora
tton of New York for S726.9S with
interest from March a., 1923, alleged
to be due for meats delivered.
The Commercial Casulty Insurance
Company is suing Alexander Sit
nicky of Florida grove road, for
s4S.12 said to be premium due on
insurance of car for year beginning
81, 1921.
John A. Bullwinkle, of Perth AM
boy is sued by Severus A. Hagedorn,
Of Paterson to ecove $303.S5 said
to be due on loan made September
5, 1921,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-15
Award ;
Paving lob Contracts

NEW BRUNSWICK, June 10 -
The Board of Freeholders at their
weekly session yesterday awarded
contracts which will add slightly
over three mile to the permanently
improved highway system of the
county. The municipalities in which
the improvements are to be made
will be notified &c provide for proper
detours as the work is to be got
ten under way at once.
Two OF the roads are to be of
eight inch reinforced concrete and
the other IS to have a wearing sur
face Of three inches of sheet as
phalt laid over a inch con-
GREETED foundation.
The largest Of the three jobs.
Main street, Midtown, was awarded
to the Utility Construction Company
Of New Brunswick, the bid for the
work totaling s59,6 for about one
mile OF pavement. The detailed bids
show that the asphaltic surface of
this road will cost $1.75 a square
yard while the seven inch concrete
base will cost $50 per yard.
The only other bid received on
this Job was from the Standard Bit
ulithic Company of New York which
submitted a figure about $1,000 over
the low bid. The entire cost of this
road will not be borne by the county
as the borough viii pay approxi-
mately twenty-five per cent of the
cost.
Harry n. Scott OF Cranbury was
the successful bidder on the n
and one eighth mile of concrete roac
to be laid from the county line on
The Observation-Disclosures road,
his estimate being $40, 757.
The other bids submitted were
Graham & McKeon, Perth Amboy,
S56,6l1: New Jersey Construction
Company Of Hackensack, $54,123;
Lidd1e & Pfeitfer. Perth Amboy,
S53,4T9; Mercer Construction Com
panv Trenton, S53,975; Utility Con-
struction Company, S51,107.
A firm from the southern end OF
the state the Hill Construction Com
panv of Mt. Holly outbid the local
bidders on the smaller of the three
Jobs and was awarded the contract
OF building the n and an eighth
mile of concrete road in the town
ship of Plainsboro for $SS,72S.
The other bidders on the Plains
boro project were as follows: Ora
nam & McKeon. s44,213; Utility
Construction Company, $39,594; IL
n. Scott, s39,115: Andrew KEYS,
Woodbridge, $4,000; New Jersey
Construction Company, S41,062, and
Liddle & Pfeiffer. S42.669.
A joint delegation representing
the North Raritan Improvement
Association and the Middlesex Coun-
ty Farmers Association, asked for
the cooperate and assistance of the
county fathers in obtaining a re
lief highway" from Metuchen to
Newark by the way of Roselie, in
stead of through Railway and Eliz-
abeth.
The delegation informed the free
holders that the MATTER was taken
up with the Edwards highway COM
mission last year, which promised
to pay two thirds of the cost OF
building the road providing the
counties through which the road
passed would finance the remaining
third, though no action was taken
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-15
TAKEN
On Use Of FLAG

WASHINGTON, June 15:-The
conference called by the American
Legion to consider the adoption of
a definite code for civilian usage of
the American flag met today for ac-
ton on the report of a committee
appointed al the opening session yes
terday to formulate such a code.
Delegates from a number of patriotic
and civic organizations are attend
ing the conference, which was *
pected to complete its work today
by adopting, along with education
plans for its general observance, a
definite set of rules for flag usage
supplant the varied codes being
advocated by patriotic and other or
CARNATIONS.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-15

by the counties at the time.
No action was taken in the ma
ter by the freeholders yesterday, the
members of the board feeling that
il was a matter to be taken UP with
the present highway commission, be-
fore any kind was voiced on the sub
ject by the county authorities.
improvements were also asked for
on the Pumptown-Oak tree road by
the same delegation. and they were
assured by Road Supervisor John
Liesen that the road would receive
attention just as soon as the re-
pairs now underway on Park ave-
nue. are completed.
A supplemental contract providing
for the rebuilding of catch basins on
the Perth Amboy Sewaren road was
authorized at a cost of $3.50.
Another effort is to be made by
the f~reeholders to convince the
state road authorities of the need OF
officers on the Albany street bridge
at New Brunswick empowered to en-
force the traffic laws and make ar
rests if necessary. This action FOL
lows the many traffic jams and minor
accidents that have occurred there
during the past few months.
Inc luOh A+S ShAAS
question up with the old highway
but were never able to
get results, but the feeling now pre-
walls that Commissioners Abraham
Jelin of this city will realize the
importance of the request and will
see to it that the bridge tenders are
given the power as well as the orders
to properly regulate traffic.
Applications has been made to the
war department for the widening OF
this structure by building on n four
teen foot addition to the downstream
side of the bridge, and the freehold
ers were formally notified yesterday
that objections to the project Will
be heard on June % at which time
a decision on the matter will be rem
dered by the federal body.
Arthur Deter of Woodbridge was
named as the county inspector on the
Avenel road that will soon be under
construction, at a salary of SIS a day.
The following report received from
the Raritan arsenal for the month
ending June 10 shows the following
explosive materials TO be in stor-
age: Black powder. $500 pounds;
pyro cotton, 1,370,519 pounds;
smokeless powder, Sass S5 pounds;
high explosive shells, 2.247,959; low
explosive shells. 07.209; shrapnel,
1,414,808; and loaded grenades, g.
779,975.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-15
VIII Is Probated

NEW BRUNSWICK, June 10. -
The will of Thomas Wade. of 500
Washington street Perth Amboy who
died April 10 was probated at the
s%urrogates office today. 1t was
drawn by Wade on a small sheet of
writing paper on May &c, 1921 leav-
ing the entire estate to his widow
Anna. w. A. Clooney and Katherine
Heppenstill were the witnesses.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-15
COUNTY seat Police in Crash

NEW BRUNSWICK, June IS. =
Joseph Curran, John Coleman and
Asher Van Doru, three officers of the
local police force while riding in the
Curran car last night were slightly
injured when another car collided
with the automobile occupied by the
policemen. In spite Of the accident
the men who We're on their way to
work, occupied their posts as usual,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-15
Letters of Administration

NEW BRUNSWICK. June Is. -
Surrogate Forman today issued let
tiers Of administration to Frank
Koyacs, Jr., of Fords on the estate of
his mother Verona who left him a
legacy of $500.