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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-01-18
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
S435,OOO IS TOTAL FOR CHEST FUND
Majority Of Pledges Col |ected-Sum Soon To Be
 Divided x.

Final auditing shows $4s5,ooo in Birmingham Community Chest, w. Carson Adams, director of the cam paign, announced, Thursday.
 The sum Is sufficient to insure the needs of the 31 organizations sup ported by the Community Chest and probably to leave balance, the leader asserted. The surplus fund is expected to increase steadily, and possibly will reach the S450,0O0 mark eventually.
 Full accounting of the funds and the results of the campaign will be completed by January 1, 1t was an- nounced. The figures will be com piled in the form of a booklet for public distribution.
 At this time the chest will be di- vided among the organizations for which it was raised, and the needs of each association are expected to be thus met.
 Unpaid pledges will form a small portion of the chest budget. and the entire fund probably will be avail able at once, 1t is said.
 Employees of the National Cast Iron Pipe company have reached the 100 per cent mark with a fund of $7,400. The American Tar Products company, of Bessemer, sent s100 to MT. Adams Thursday. Contributions of all kinds continue to come to the headquarters of the chest, Room T, Steiner building. 6s sss z
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
GRADE CROSSINGS
 MEETING SUBJECT
City Commission To Bring Up Question At Adjourned
 Session Friday

viaducts and underpasses at dan gsrous railroad crossings in the city limits, recognized by city officials as Birmingham's most pressing need, will receive consideration of the city commission the adjourned session to be held | -iday morning, 1t was learned at the city hall Thursday.
 This will oe the last meeting of the year, and the commissioners plan to discuss various improve ment projects, planned for 1924.
 A big bond issue to care for the needed improvements is the tentative plan of commission members. Such an Issue would include funds for a new sewerage and an incineration system, substatiors for the police de- partment, and for the proposed via ducts and underpasses. The ftrst problem that saould be considered, in the opinion of President D. E. Me- Lendon, is the crossing at the Louis vile and Nashville passenger station on Twentieth street. At this cross. ing pedestrians and motorists suffer great inconveniences daily from block ades, and the crossing also is re- garded as one of the most dangerous in Birmingham, although 1t is not blind one.
 Commissioner W. l.. Harrison win be out of the city. but the other four commission ers will attend the Fri day session. Other than the discus sion of 1924 projects, only routine matters are scheduled TOT consldera- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
WORSE THAN. SYSTEM NOW USED, CHARGE
Prison Reform Executive Says Convicts Would Have
 Fewer Rights Than Now Under Present Proposal LETTER TO GOVERNOR IS ANALYSIS OF SITUATION
Gives Added Immunities To
 Mine Owners And Takes Away Last Privilege Of Convict, Says Judge Black

Convicts of Alabama will have fewer rights than they ever have had and the lease system will be made infinitely worse. instead of "abol- ished,'i if the proposed convict lease contract which the state is reported to be negotiating, is put in effect ac- cording to a letter addressed Thurs day to Governor Brandon by Juugo H2go L. Black of Birmingham, presi- dent of the Alabama Prison Reform association.
 The contemplated system will not do away with the lease system, but will increase and extend its burdens Ju'lge Black declares. It will resul. ih giving added immunities to the operators of coal mines employing convict labor under the new system and will take away from convicts and their relatives the legal right tc bring suit for damages in the event of the death or injury of convict so employed.
 Judge Blacks open letter 10 Gov ernor of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala
 Hon. William W. Brandon, Gov ernor of Alabama, Bontgomery, Ala,
 Dear sir:-I have noted certain newspaper articles with reference to a proposed new contract, which is JSpuLeu to De 1nLGHQeQ as an dDOll- tion of the convict lease system. As reported therein I cannot see how tho proposed contract would accom- plish the avowed purpose of abolish ing the system. On the contrary, Ii is my judgment, that If reports are correct, 1t will but extend it, with new burdens and no added benefits to the state; with diminished rights and privileges of the convicts ano with added benefits and immunities 10 the operators with whom the state contracts.
 Under the present contract (which I believe to be fundamentally wrong) there are rights and benefits which the proposed contract, as reported takes away from the state and con- vict.
 State Assumes Burden.
 The present contract, I am in- formed, places the burden of paying guards, purchasing explosives. pur- chasing and maintaining equipment, upon the operator working the con vict. Of course, if the state makes a bona fide lease of the mine, it will assume this burden.
 If reports are true, the proposed new contract, puts the stale in the business of mining coal. It enters upon this business with it's hands tied down by contracts with few of tne coal operators of the state. It ostensibly leases the most dangerous mines in the state. The mines se- lacted by the state for it's new ven-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
UTILITY TRANSFER MAY BE DELAYED
Mass Of Detail To Be Handled In B. R., L. & P.
 Co. Sale

Another delay in releasing the Bir- mingham Railway, Light and Power company from the hands or receivers has become necessary, it was learned Thursday from W. B. White of the law firm of Tillman. Bradley and Baldwin, who recently has made sev- eral trips to New York in connection with the companys affairs.
 Lifting of the receivership had been set for January l. but a mass of detail remains to be worked out anG it may be a month or even sev- can be made, MT. White said.
 e"There is nothing that can be an- nounced at this time" said the at torney, except that it will be some time before the receivership can be lifted. We are moving fast as pos Sible but great amount of work still is to be done before the neces- slry procedure in United States court can be started,
 Date Is Indefinite.
 "Plans of the company for the re- lease of the receivership and for its subsequent reorganization will be am they are completed. When this will be cannot be definitely stated now"
 Announcement of the delay came as a surprise, in view of the recent trips to the east taken by the re- eelvers. 1t had been generally ex- pected that everything would be in readiness for the company to change hands immediately after the Christ mas holidays, and the view had pre- vailed that a subsidiary of the Gen oral Electric company would take over the property and operate it.
 It was learned at the offices of the company that fleet of new street cars, ordered several months ago at cost of approx imately S100.000, will begin arriving in Birmingham within the next few days. These cars are the latest models, it is stated and will be pressed into service imme- diately on their arrival
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 To Make Improvements.
 Under tentative plans in connection with lifting the receivership, it is learned, the new owners of the com pany will proceed immediately after they take charge to make widespread improvements in the service through out the city.
 City officials had no comment to mane on the announcement that the receivership would continue in force for some time longer. President D. E. McLendon expressed the belief that the rlans were taking shape as rap idly as possible.
 He did state that it was to be hoped the new management would adopt a different attitude on the question of paving and widening First avenue between Forty First street and East Lake. The present has declined to pave the avenue between it's tracks unless given parking privileges, and East Lake citizens have started a deter mined campaign to prevent this. City and county officials have been mak- ing plans to begin the work early next year, regardless of the com pany's refusal to pay it's share.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
PERSONNEL OF NAVY MAY BE MAINTAINED
Appropriation Bill Expected To
 Carry Necessary Provision

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The House subcommittee framing the naval appropriation bill is expected to recommend that the present en- listed strength of the navy-S6,0O0 men-be maintained during the fiscal year beginning next July l. Hear ings are now in progress and the sub committee plans to have the bill ready in January.
 Two years ago just after the Wash ington arms conference, bitter fight was conducted in the House to cut the navy's enlisted personnel to 67,000, but the House, disregarding the recommendation of the sub committee in charge of the measure, fixed the maximum at s6,000-a fig ure that was retained a year ago.
 At today's hearing Admiral Eberle, chief of operations, presented, at the sub committees request, a detailed report of the Honda destroyer dis aster. The information had been re- quested for use in the printed record of the sub committees hearings so that it could be made available to members of the House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
AssaiIant Under Arrest And Police Are Rounding Up Radicals

TOKYO, Dec. 27.-A wide police roundup of anarchists and commu- nists Is under way in Tokyo, fol- lowing the sensational attempt to assassinate Grown Prince Hirohito, prince regent and ruler of Japan.
 Hirohito, idol of the Japanese people, escaped unscathed when a youth named Namba fired on the automobile in which the regent was proceeding to the diet.
 Members of the Japanese cabinet have presented their joint resigna- tion as a mark of their humiliation over the attempt on Hirohito's life, but it is expected that the regent will refuse to permit them to quit office.
 Tokyo newspapers Thursday aft ernoon did not carry any stories of the attack, the news presumably having been suppressed, but word that Hirohito's life was in peril had spread through the city, and feel ing against the communist and an- archist groups is at fever pitch. Occurred Near Diet Building.
 The shooting occurred as the prince regents automobile reached Toranomon, near the diet building. Namba, who had apparently made careful plans to assassinate the reg ent, approached within few rect or the automobile and fired.
 The prince, however. had noticed the youths approach, and leaped for ward in the seat of the automobile as the shot rang out. The oulleS crashed through the window beside which Hirohito had been sitting. Wis count Iriye, Lord Chamberlain, was riding beside the prince. He was slightly injured by broken flying glass. n,ou,h,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
FIRST DRY COURT IS HELD ILLEGAL
Tribunal Of Internal Revenue Department Quickly Halted
 By Injunction

ST. PAUL, Minn.. Dec. 27.-Amer- icas first prohibition court, estab- lIshed here by the internal revenue department to collect fines and ex- else taxes on the manufacture and sale of spirits, was declared illegal Thursday. The court had just start ed to function.
 Federal Judges Wilbur F. Booth and John F. McGee granted tempor- rary injunctions, preventing the pro- hibition tribunal from taking any &C., tion.
 It had not collected when halted, and had tried only one case, Ed Si- mon, of Wacona, Minn., was fined $500, and the fine turned over to the internal revenue bureau for collec- ton. That department. which has been unable to secure the money. will make no further effort.
 Forty five cases are on the calen- dar. The court hopes to reopen next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
STILL URG|NG
 MUSGROVE TO 'GE I IN RAGE.
Important Developments In Presidential Primary Situa- ton Expected By Supporters Within Next AS Hours
JASPER MAN IS SILENT ABOUT MOVE UNDER WAY
Supporters Insist Time Is 0p- perfume For Another Contest
 Before People Between Former Senatorial Rivals

Indications multiplied Thursday that the friends of L. B. Musgrove of Jasper have not abandoned the plan of inducing the Walker county man to enter the presidential pref erential primary next March against Senator Oscar W. Underwood. In fact it was stated by some of his ntimates that important develop ments might be expected within the next 4s hours.
 MT. Musgrove returned to his home in Jasper Thursday afternoon after several days spent in Bir- mingham and he himself has been silent about his intentions. Friends however, have at no time concealed their desire to have him enter the race for President and 1t is known that many of them have had the subject up with him in recent days Some of them went so far as to says that before the night of Decem- Der 31, the date for entries to close, there will be conference of his friends and supporters, from all over the state, at which MT. Musgrove will be pressed to make definite de- cision to run. It is not unlikely that he may be actuated in making his decision by the reports which Will De md0e to nun dI lnlS COHIeT- ence. At least if he himself can not be present it is assumed that the results will be laid before him for his guidance.
 Cause Unique Situation.
 If the Jasper man decided to seek Underwoods defeat before the voters of the state 1t will bring about unique situation. The special pri- mary which was provided by the last legislature was designated especially for Senator Underwood and to en- able him to name the Alabama delegation to the democratic nation- al convention. Under this law, if Musgrove should win in the special name the Alabama delegation, and would of course name delegates who were favorable to himself. He would thus be put before the national con- vention as Alabama's candidate for president.
 Some of Musgroves friends Thurs day called attention to the fact that William Jennings Bryan had em- phaized that he had southern can didate in mind for President but that be has not so far called his name. Their intlmations was that the Jas per man might be the name the Florida democrat had in mind.
 Since the last race for the Senate in Alabama when Mir. Musgrove ran against Senator Underwood and made such sensational race, his supporters have not abandoned hope of bringing about another contest in the state between the two and tLey claim to see in the approach ing preferential primary suitable opptrunity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
MARRIAGE TOPIC OF SOCIOLOGISTS
Birth Control Seen An En- couragement Rather Than
 Obstacle To Matrimony

WASHINGTON, Des. 27.-(By Asso- ciated Press)-Eight national so- cieties in convention here today held a technical and scientific discussion on widely divergent subjects, among which were the benefits of marriage, the Main street" habits of New York, the education of women the minimum wage laws and child labor legislation.
 That married men are less liable to disease, insanity, and the com mission of crime than bachelors and that manufacturing cities show a greater proportion of marriages than cities where activities are bound up largely in trade, were conclusions presented by William Fielding Og- burn of Columbia University, before the American Sociological soci esV.
 MT. Ogburn said the marriage rate in the United States has increased 4,6 per cent in the last 30 years and that birth control encourages, rather than discourages marriage.
 The need of revised educational program for women was discussed oy Warren S. Thompson of Miami uni versity, also said the larion must ser,orsly undertake the task of re- modelling school training for giils and women in order to focus the cen ter Of their interests where 1t must naturally remain-in the home.
 New York was described as a city of more than hundred villages, each with its provincial Main street hab- it's" by Leroy 0. Bowman of Colum- bia university who addressed the National Community Center associa- ton.
 The European situation, the agri- cultural situation and the business cycle were classed by pr. Charles o. Hardy of the University of Iowa as the principal factors to consider in judging the economic outlook for 1924. He spoke at a joint meeting of the societies.
 The Justification of minimum wage laws for women was discussed by Leo Wolman of the new school for social research at the session of the American Association for Labor leg islation. He declared the freedom to hire at any wage diverts the atten- ton of industrial leaders from ma jor problems of industrial organiza- ton to minor problems of fixing the hiring wage of his employees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
MOBILE OFFICIALS ASKED ID RES|GN
All Those Indicted In Liquor Cases Called On By Kan
 To Quit

MOBILE. Ala, Dec. R.-(Speclal Leased Wire)-The loca! Ku hlux K1an in an advertisement appearing in the Mobile Register calls upon all Mobile county officials indicted by the federal grand jury to resign untii the charges against them are hearu' The advertisement says
 "An officer of the law must be above reproach to command respect for his office and law and order.
 "P T. 'shaughnessy. chief of po- lice. arrested December l9, upon ln- dictment of federal grand jury, re- signed as chief of police on Decem- Der 22 and rightly so, because ne could not hold office while under In dictment. ,,.
 Aubrey Broyles. federal district attorney. when arrested by county officials. immediately asked to be re- lieved until he could be cleared or state charges.
 What will You Do:
 "What will your action, under the same indictment by federal grand jury MT. Cazalas, Mir. Holcombe, MT Donaghue. MT. Hudoff, MT. Moore MT. Blackman, as olllcels oA law?
 what will be your action, under an indictment by federal grand jury, Mr Ward. as a commissioner of Mobile countyr
 What will be your action, under indictment by federal grand jury MT. J. H. McEvoy and MT. Jake Zu- herman, as members of the county democratic committee?
 If chief of police or police com missioner or sheriff, or deputy sheriff, paid to know about law Vio- lations, did not know of such law vio- Iations, as did the general public and federal government is he compe- tent to longer serve the public? Wants House Cleaning.
 If a chief of police or police com missioner, or a sheriff or deputy sheriff, paid to know about law Vio- lations, did know of such law Vio- lations, as did the general public and federal government and did not stop law violations, is he fit to longer serve the public?
 "The eyes of the citizenship of Ala bama are upon the port of Mobile and if we fail to clean house" now, we may lose further state aid Should any mon or men be permitted to en- danger our future?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
---s- -e BE HONEST, URGES [. KORETZ OF SON
Missing Promoter Wants His Boy To Follow In Path
 Of Right

CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-A warning against disohnesty and weakness was issued to his son by Leo Koretz, missing promoter, who Is alleged to have swindled his customers out of $5,00o.0o0. a week after he disap- peared in New York. Dr. Milton Mandel, Koretzs family physician. testified today at the bankruptcy hearing to determine Koretzs assets.
 The warning was contained in a letter post marked New York, De- cember 10, in which the promoter declared he was victim of selfish ness and desire to receive the acclaim of the world, and in which he asked that his own fate be a warning to his son, Dr. Mandel testified. The let ter, he said, read sfollows:
 My dear son: This is probably the last communication you will have from me. 1 am a fugitive without family or friend. I am a victim of selfishness, idleness and my desire to receive the acclaim and appla use of the world.
 You have an adorable sister and
 
 and strong. If you are ever tempted. or feel yourself slipping, think of the fate which awaits me. Your father LEO KORETZ."
 Dr. Mandel said the letter was en- closed in an envelope accompanied with a note which read: If you thinh my son should have this letter, give it to him. He said that he had conferred with the boys mother, whl after reading the letter, tore it up without giving it to her son.
 The doctor said that he had in- vested s22,600 in Koretz sock, from which he had received s10,6O1 in 1ivi- dends.
 Miss Sarah Mandel, tie doctor sister, testified that she had invested s9,000, her life's savings, in Koretz' stock and had received $2,441 in dividends.
 Samuel Cohen, an attorney who had represented Koretz before his disap- pearanee, expressed the opinion that the promoter had left for the South Sea Islands with a million dollars in cash. For year, he said, Koretz had been apparently fascinated by tales of adventure in the south seas. Cohen said he had invested $i0.000 with Koretz and that he had received about $7,300 in dividends
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-28
FRENCH D|R|G|bLE REPORTED SIGHTED
Message Saying It Was Seen South Of Desert Not Given
 Much Credit

PARIS. Dec. 27.-(By Associated Press.)-A message from Tunis, which however, Is received with reserve, says the missing French dirigible Dix nude was sighted south of Ain Salah large oasis In the Sahara desert, yesterday travelling in southerly direction. Ain Salah is about 6S miles southeast of Tangier.
 The message quoted dispatch from Ourgla reading as follows:
 'Insalah (Ain Salah) telegraphs on December 27 that the Dixmude was signaIed going toward Hoggar. about 120 miles south of Insalah, at 8 o'clock Wednesday, flying at the same height as when it passed above Insalah. The wind was light, blow ing in the direction north-northwest to southeast"
 No such advices have been received by the ministry of marine and in view of the circumstances some doubt is cast upon the reliability of the report