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The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
STRESEMAN IS
NOW DICTATOR

BERLIN, Oct 9.-The Reichstrat,
which is composed of representatives
of the component states of the Ger
man Republic, adopted the draft of
q bill today giving authority asked
by Chancellor Streseman which
makes him virtually dictator. Ba-
varia and some of the Prussian
provinces voted against it.
BERLIN, Oct. 9.-The Reichstag
last night voted confidence in the
Steseman government.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oct. 9.-Mrs.
Emily Glover, Seattle film actress,
was found dead In bed last night as
the result of taking some certain
kind of acid. She had been dead
for at least three days and sui
eide verdict will be returned from
all indications. 1t is said she was
despondent over love affairs and also
her health.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
Every Cent in Bank
Is Stolen by Bandits

OAKLAND, Oct. 9.-Three bandits
entered the West Oakland branch Of
the Oakland Bank at noon today and
took $11 1000. every cent in the insti-
tuition, and escaped in an automo-
bile.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
Two Killed When Auto
Hits Street Car Headon

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9.-Two
men were killed and a woman badly
hurt and two other persons were in
jured when an automobile In which
they were riding collided with a
street car head0ns this morning.
The automobile was returning from q
beach resort. ii9sst 1ys
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
Former Justice Loses
Suit Against Editor

DIES MONIES, Oct. Ben l. Sal
niger former Justice of the Iowa Su-
preme Court has lost his $4,000 libel
suit against Senator Lafayette
Young, editor of the Des Moines
Capital.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09

COLUMBUS, Oct. 9.-Application
has been made to the Secretary of
State for the incorporation Of the
Harding Memorial Association for the
purpose of erecting mausoleum at
Marion and acquiring the Harding
homestead at Marion. President Coo
lidge, all cabinet members and IL
Marionites are the incorporators.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
Episcopal Archdeacon
Takes Life in Hotel

KANSAS CITY, Oct. Q. Rev.
John William Jones, recent arch
deacon of the Southwestern Episco-
palean area. committed suicide here
last night in u hotel ropm.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
COAL MINERS
IN WALk-0U1

SCRANTON, Pa, Oct. 9.-Fifteen
thousand anthracite Mine Workers of
the Hudson Coal Company struck to-
day The grievance committee an
nounced the strike was because the
company failed to adjust numerous
complaints.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
u. S. Government Libels
japanese Liner; Charge

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9.-The
liner Shinyo Maru has been libelled
by the Federal government for $780,
335 for illegal transportation of mar
cotics.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
HUGHES plan
IS BEST SAYS
LLOYD GEORGE

MONTREAL. Oct. 9.-Secretaary
Hughes proposal made for the ap-
pointment of experts to determine
Germany's reparation capacity was
declared by Lloyd George as "abso
lutely the best hope of settlement
and not now too late"
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
Wings Drop from Plane;
Aviator Meets His Death

y ST. PAUL, Oct. 9.-Harry Quinn,
aviator. was killed here today when
wings on his snonoplane fell off 500
& feet up In the air,tad 47S yaiss H'
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
Vancouver Longshoremen
Strike for 10 Cent Raise

VANCOUVER, B. c.. Oct. g.
Thirteen hundred longshoremen
struck today to enforce demands
for q dime raise hourly and fifteen
cent raise per hour overtime. 4
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
French Garrison Is
Massacred by Natives

DAKAR, West Africa, Oct. 9.-The
French garrison go miles north OF
Timbuctoo was massacred by natives
on September 20. according to report
received here.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
Cattle Loans Closes
Bank in New Mexico

SANTA FE, Oct 9.-The Carrizozo
N NJ, Exchange Bank has closed its
doors. Cattle loans are believed re-
sponsible. ~
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
BIG MOTORSH|P
KENNECOTTH|TS
ROCKS AT NIGHT
Craft of Alaska Steamship
Co. Piles Up on Rocks
Near Dixon Entrance.

SEATTLE. Oct. 8. Motorship
Kennecott. of the Alaska Steamship
Company, carrying 5000 tons OF
copper ore, went on the rocks south
of Dixon Entrance last night and
is reported high and dry on the
rocks.
The Coast Guard Cutter Unalga
and the steamer Northwestern are
Fastening to the scene to aid the
motorship.
The Northwestern is expected to
reach the Kennecott about o'clock
this afternoon.
Steamer Queen which cracked a
cylinder while northbound and made
temporary repairs at Ketchikan, Is
reported proceeding south instead of
attempting to aid the Kennecott as
had been reported.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09

PORTLAND, Oct. 8. After a
heated debate of the molten TO un-
seat William f. Dunno. OF Montana,
ties, the American Federation OF
Labor passed a resolution denounc-
ing the Federated Press a syndicate
serving labor papers with radical
propaganda.
Later the Federation revoked
Dunne's credentials as delegate.
The Executive Councils report
presented to the American Fedora
tion Of Labor today denounced the
Ku Klux klan as government
usurpation.
Acting on the report the Fedora
tion delegates adopted resolution
denouncing the Fascist movement.
Another resolution adopted by
the delegates attending the annual
convention declares for limitation
OF Federal and Supreme Court pow
ers and for the election CT judges
for certain terms instead OF life ap-
pointmcnts.
One resolution ccmmends Cover
nor Davies, of Kansas. in his efforts
to eliminate Governor Aliens no.
strike law.
Another resolution passed ap-
proves elimination of the Railway
Labor Board and approved the rail-
way shopmen's strike.
The convention rejected the Labor
Day change to May l.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09

Edward j. Eivers. of Portland,
Ore, National President of the
Forty and Eight Society of the
American Legion. is shown wear
ing the official headgear his COM
rades will display at the annual
gathering of the Legion in San
Francisco, October 1919. The
Forty and Eight Society is based
on the experiences of the army in
France, where the little boxcars,
used for peace pursuits, are
marked 40 men or 8 horses"
when mobilized for war.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09
LABOR DELEGATE
LOSES HIS SEAT
IN CONVENTION
Credentials Of Montana Mem
Der Revoked Account
Communists Views.

BULLETlN-Poftlan Oct. 9.--The
American Federation of Labor this
afternoon decided against the forna-
ton Of a political party on roll call
uphoIding the resolutions committee
In the report against resolutions pro-
posing a separate party.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09

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The Alaska daily empire., 1923-10-09

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30
A NORTHERN. EPISODE

A dispatch from New York which was published in half a dozen lines under small headlines in Southern newspapers carried information which would have been played up with screaming headlines by number of Northern papers which are not dis posed to make reasonable allowances for the difference of existing condi- tions, had the incident occurred in Alabama or some Southern state. The dispatch told of a mob of one thou sand men in New York City storming a garage where policeman had bar ricaded himself and negro prisoner whom he was trying to protect. The negro, who was charged with attempt ing to attack white girl, had been rescued from the mob by policemen. Reserves were called out to compose the situation.
 There is nothing unusual about this. Similar incidents frequently occar in the larger cities of the North and West. But for their large police pro- tection lynchings would be much more numerous than they are in the cen ters where there is any considerable number of lawless negroes. The mob spirit is not confined to any section. Race feeling and race antagonism are nationwide.
 If the percentage of negroes were as large in Northern centers, as in Southern towns and rural sections, and police protection equal in both, there would be. as many lynchings in one as in the other. Conditions are to be considered before sweeping con- demnation is made. There is less sym pathy and cooperation for the negro among the whites of the North than among the whites of the South. It would be demonstrated if the percent age of negro population in the North should approach what it is in the South. Human nature is pretty much the same the country over under simi- lar conditions. It is gratifying to note, too, that during the last six months the number of lynchings in the South showed large reduction, while there was none in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30
BEAUTY AND JUSTICE

An interesting bit of news comes from Chicago which may change some peoples view that the Windy City is intensely prosaic without any concep- tion- of aestheticism. For To these many years there has been a wide spread notion in the East associating the Mid-Western metropolis with grain gamblers, slaughter-houses, abnormallv large feminine feet and such. Not many pictured Chicago as a center of art, literature, fancy and things like that. "We live to learn," however, and now comes the information that a woman was convicted of firse-de- gree murder and sentenced to hang because she couldn't measure up to the standard of feminine pulchritude which appeals to a male jury's sympa- thies. That is the dope which oppo- nents of capital punishment in that locality are putting out.
 Fatal beauty has been favorite theme of poets, sculptors, painters and disciples of the imaginative school since away back in the days of Helen of Troy. Now perfectly practical folks of the Western worlds packing center claim that if the woman in the Cru delle case had been favored of face and form, the jurors would not have sentenced her to the gallows. Chicago is all excited over it, and petitions are being circulated and funds raised to upset the verdict.
 It does appear unfair that the homely woman should face such a fate when one considers how many comedy maids and handsome matrons of late pumped full of lead their suitors and husbands and got away with it. A long list of accused beauties may thank their stars that they were good to look upon. It is not pleasant picture, that of woman mounting the gallows. Why should beauty regu- late court verdicts, even though it has shaped private and public destinies? A woman is not responsible for her looks over and beyond a certain point. Many women are better, many worse, than they appear in Sthe survey of vision. If justice is to be admins tered according to the comparative degree of pulchritude, it will be most unjust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30

worth producing. There are other crops that would pay almost as well if the same amount of energy and in telligence is used in their production as the Limestone farmer uses in rais- ing his tomato crop. Anything, al most, will grow in Alabama soil, and many things would be more profitable than all cotton"
 Time and again profitable experi- ences of Alabama farmers who aban- doned the all-cotton habit and en- tered the diversification field have strengthened the view that the division of large plantations into smaller tracts for the raising of vegetables, fruits, livestock, dairy products and a variety of things for which there are growing demands and markets, is the solution of the labor problem on the farms of this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30
ONE RAILROAD IS READY

The Louisville and Nashville Rail road has gained in the public esteem
 by the disposition it has to cooperate with the city of Birmingham in prepa- ration and provision for beginning work on the subways at Twentieth and Fourteenth streets. The management has notified the city that its ground survey for track rearrange- ment is complete and ready to be acted on. This means that the railroad is to go ahead. The officials of that company admitted in the begin ming that they would prefer waiting a while, but said that they would not stand in the way of prompt execution of this community improvement. The road has kept it's word and shown that it transacts business honorably and needless delays and postponing tactics. The citizens of Birmingham will bear this in mind and accord the Louisville and Nashville the apprecia- ton of it's attitude toward this city to which it is entitled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30
TRYING TO MoLLIFY FARMERS

The question of wheat is one that the Republicans cannot evade. As long as only the Democrats placed the blame upon the Republicans for the low price of grain there were many who attributed the charge to party politics. But when the farmers themselves, those of a region which had been part of the backbone of the Republican party, began to declare that their economic condition was due to party failure to take the necessary measures to insure a market for the surplus, the party could not overlook nor ignore the challenge. Now it is said that special session of congress may be called to look into the situa- tion Experience shows that, while that may be good political strategy, congress as at present constituted has, as a body, shown practically no under standing at all of the economic side of the farm dilemma.
 It would appear far more feasible to follow the suggestion that the farm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30
BUSINESS BEAUTIFUL STATE

Business should not whimper be- cause buyers are exercising caution in ordering for fall and winter sup plies. Good business is not whimper- ing because good business recognizes that it is better to sell a little less and have bills paid than to sell more and have bills unpaid or customers can ceiling orders. It is better to have smaller stocks on counters that de- mand will move than larger stocks on which inventories may have to be marked down.
 The tremendous buying of last win ter and spring was not thoughtless buying. The steel and iron melter had orders warranting purchase of raw materials. The railroads had money in hand with which to pay for the cars, the rails and locomotives which they ordered in record tonnage and numbers. The country had worked off the surplus stocks coming over from the period of depressed bus mess and which were marked down before they moved. The buyer bought much because he had large needs and in accordance with those needs. There necessarily was a slowing down after such record production and consump- tion. Business is pursuing the same tactics now as it did this spring; it is remaining within its budget. It is playing safe. It follows that, accord ing to it's legitimate needs, business will be in the market this fall and win ter the same as last fall and winter. It will hold itself within the limit of it's requirements and that is always wise procedure.
 Above all, be it borne in mind that sheets are clean and that the business which fair crop prospects indicate will come with no shop-worn accumu- lations to be worked off, but that it will all be done with new and shining dollars entering into new and un- shackled financial, commercial and in- dustrial transactions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30

granaries be designated by the secre- tary of agriculture as warehouses, so that farmers may borrow for their immediate needs on their stored grain as collateral and thus be spared the necessity of selling outright at loss. The suggestion already heard in some political quarters that congress be called to establish a minimum price for grain might, if achieved, send the Republicans back into office, but it would be a death blow to our eco- homie balance. The price of wheat is low because there is no ready mar ket for the surplus. Such a market can be found only abroad. If con- gress feels equal to that task, well and good. Meanwhile, the American people are skeptical as to what con gress may achieve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30
SOLVING FARM LABOR PROBLEM

In connection with the exodus of laborers from the farms of Alabama it is interesting to note what North Alabama farmer did on one acre planted in tomatoes. Hear him tell it: 'T planted one acre entirely in to- matoes this year." said Lewis Guschke, a farmer of Limestone county, "after I had experimented with them for sev- eral years. The acre will net me a profit of $450 after all expenses have been paid. I cannot understand why any farmer in the Tennessee Valley could not net from $500 to 1000 each year in tomatoes alone; the soil is admirably adapted to their growth" 7"
 Here is a lesson in diversification that is worthy of the attention of hun dreds of farmers in Alabama who have long practiced the all-cotton habit There are many other crops that would bring more profit than cotton alone in Alabama with far less labor require ments. The Anniston Star, comment ing on the situation, says: "The Lime stone farmer is setting an example which other Alabama farmers might follow with profit and satisfaction. A crop that will pay $450 to the acre is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30
JOHN KOREANS
,reams of Holding n Prayer Book


 While in most cases dreams of sacred things foretell peoceful days and happy contentment. one exception exists. This is the vis- lon in which a woman dreams of holding a prayer book. It is i'm mafc,ial whether she be at hoIre whether at church. or wnrtllrr sn , ,s in the house of a fir end, this dream always tells ner that a i"a':cr for deepest thought ard concern, one )f the incidents in life which make us turn to our Maker in the search for advice and consolation, will cross her path. This dces not mean, If course, that the dream will be followed by unhnOpiness or that there will veXation is past. It simply tells her that the time will spDl ap- proach when she must give se- rious consideration to m1st lm- portant and vital probirm. when she must make up her mind which way 10 travel.
 In many cases the dream fore shadows an offer of marriage from man for whom the woman in question feels no love and yet, outside of this, cannot advance a really good reason for not en- trusting her destiny into his hands. Unfortunately the vision does not tell her what to do. It merely advises her to give tho ripest thought Ito the problem, not to act rashly, not to take the ad- vice of the first person that may offer 1t. but to use her own judg- ment and only after the deepest and most careful contemplation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
 MEN
The Mother of Martin Van Buren

The Mother of Martin Van Buren
 Her long life was adorned by domestic virtues of the most use- ful kind"
 Those words are carved on the monument of Mary Hoes, the mother of Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States. Mary Hoes was a Dutch girl, a descendant of one of the Dutch settlers of the Hudson river region In the neighborhood of Kinderhook. Those who object to the changes that take place in the names of foreign born Ameri- cans might take notice that the Dutch name Hoes" was an Americanization of the real name. Goes" Perhaps Hoes was the better name, for it signifies work
 and the Hoes family certainly worked clearing land, raising crops and selling farm produce in the good old thrifty Dutch man. ner. They owned their own land; they saved their money; they ac- cumulated property; they gained influence.
 Mary is one of the best of us," said her father. She does all that we do, but she does it better" The household of the prosperous Dutch landowner was like that happy household that Washington Irving describes in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" the home of Katrina Van Tassel. Mary Hoes, the rosy checked Dutch girl mar ried a Dutchman early in life. Her husband died, leaving her plump matron of thirty-five with three children to take care of. Still she had such an air of health and happiness and prosperity. such good sense, such ease and charm, that she unintentionally won the lave of Abraham Van Buren, whom she married.
 The son of this worthy couple was Martin Van Buren, who be. came the eighth president. It Is said that he drew his happy man ner of meeting men; his clear good sense, and his ambition from that same plump, rosy-faced mother.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30
ONE TRICK A DAY
An Ensx Card Trick


 Take a pack of cards and look at and remember the third card from the bottom. Now split the pack into two piles, faces down. From the stack which formerly constituted the top of the pack remove a few cards. These will include the one you have looked at. Place one of these cards on one of the piles. another on the second pile. Give the third card to the spectator. You already Know what this card is, but he will not even suspect 1t. Have him look at it, place it between the two piles, and let him shuffle to his hearts content After all his trouble, you willsfind his card in a second
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30
JEWISH LAUGHS By Jacob Richr n
It Wns Nothing New

A Jew who returned from Wilma was greeted by friend.
 Hello. Reb Yankel," said the erony, just coming from Wilma? Whats new there?"
 Nothing new" stated the newly arrived one laconically.
 Nothing new!" reiterated the other incredulously. Tn a big city like Vilna? How is it possible ?"
 Nothing" said Reb Yankel. lex cept that a little dog parked.
 "A little dog bark ed? Why?"
 ou see crowd gathered in front of a house wherein was a little dog. and naturally the canine parked"
 A crowd gathered, little dog parked' repeated the other.. What do you mean? Why did the crowd gather?"
 They were talking about your brothers arrest"
 My brothers arrest What was he arrested for?"
 For forging a check"
 It's nothing new for my brother to forge a check; he does it every day"
 Ihats just what I said, there was hothlng new in Wilma"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-30
"NnterIoo" For Civilixa ton


 Lausanne has proved to be. what most careful observers feared from the beginning of the fatal confer ence, a Waterloo" for civilization. The conference itself should not have been possible; the victors of the great war should have die tated and enforced terms to the Turk. But, having been made possible through the grossest blundering and criminality on the part of several European cabinets. victory could still have been gained had there been capable and determined diplomatists at Lau- same, backed by capable states men and governments at home. As 1t was, the Turks. stupes and generally ,dupes at diplomacy, have browbeaten and out-maneuvered the second-rate and tenth rate men sent to the conference table by incapable or timid governments, and have actually terrorized Flu rope and America, and snatched from the victors what should have been the best fruits of the war.