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+. n. HELLER, As, DIES
SUDDENLY At HOME HERE

+. N. Heller. As ear OF sse, died
Sunday morning apparently from
heart failure. at his home. 327 South
Beech street. Heller had been in poor
heath for the past year. He had been
working. however, the before he
passed away. He was employed as a
blacksmith At the Texas company
refinery. =
The deceased is xtt'vived by q wild.
ow, two children. Mildred. sged 10,
and Ra ph age 8, and two sisters, Mrs.
N. j. Barclay OF Helena. Mont. and
Mrs. Otto Jensen OF 10, Angeles. Cal.
The body is being held at the Muck
funeral home pending arrangement,
for the burial.
, 1923-05-07

OMAHA. Neb.. May 7.-U. 8. De.
partment of Agriculture Hogs. re-
ceipts IL. 900; slow. mostly csc lower;
bulk 100 to $40 pound butchers to
shippers s7.15@7.25: practical top
s7.25: part load early $40: bulk $40
to 3e5 pound butchers to packers sos
97.1o; packing sows ;e;oo@6.1o: stays
$500.
Cattle. receipts $500; moderately
active; beef steers strong TO 10 to 1b
cents higher; light and handy weights
showing most stlsngth; little improve.
ment in heavy kind: top 50. so; yearl-
ings ss.25; bulk IS. oo@9.0 90; she stock
10 to rs cents higher; bulk cows and
heifers s6.o0@7.5o; bulk canners and
cutters s3.50@4.5o; bulls and veals
steady; bulk bologna bulls $4,000
4.75; packers top yeas s11.oo: stockers
and feeders strong to 10 to Is cents
higher; bulk showing advance; top
feeders $3.50.
Sheep. receipts II 1900: spring lambs
steady; early top California springers
$500; natives $15.5o; fed clipped and
w3bled lambs Is TO Is cents lower;
top wooded lambs s14.50; early sales
fed clipped lambs si2.25@12.5o sheep
fully Csc lower; top shorn ewes $3.50;
shearing lambs strong S14.75@14.9o.
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Market Gossip and Briefs
On Operations in Oil Fields

four thousand acres in the lease of
himself and associates and the well
is down 2.4o0 feet.
They have been shut down for a
few days waiting on repairs for the
machinery which is expected this
week. when the work will be re
sumed Mr.. Catleugh is a resident
OF Idaho. although he has been in
Wyoming In other places, particular
ly in tho Basin country for several
years previous TO coming here. Most
OF the Tough Creek association. out
side Of himself. are well known resi-
dents OF our fair city.
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bslsops It Will maize a good producer
without being shot
2. T. johnson of Minneapolis. who
was here the first of April returned
again the first of the week and ex'
poets to secure a standard rig for
operations sast of town to DO started
within the next two weeks.
But little hole has been made at
Neiber Dome the past week by the
Midwest-wyoming Gas Us water is
still presenting drilling difficulties
and the work is very slow az a con-
sequence.
It Is reported that biologists for
the Haskell interests will shortly
visit this section and II is very prob
able h a acreage will be secured In
several sections of the Big Horn
Basin.
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To Resume Drilling.

SHoSHoNI. wyo.-J. j. Cat'eugh
has been here several days from his
camp. nine miles northwest of the
city. He has q contract to put down
an oil well for the Tough Creek asso-
citation. He states that they have
besn working all winter. which is re-
markable. but the showing is SO ex'
oallent he wants to get down to the
81 as soon as possible. There is over
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Metals

NEW YORK. May o. Copper,
steady; electrolytic. spot and futures,
16h @16%c. Tin, easy: spot and
nearby. $3.50; futures, S44.75. Iron,
steady; No. 1 northern. s3o.5o@ 30 90
No. 2 northern. $4,000 3t.oo; No. 2
southern. s27.o0@2s.oo. Lead. steady
spot. $3.50. Zinc. steady; East st
Louis spot and nearby delivery,
s7.12@7.15. Anthony. spot. $3.50
7.75.
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CHICAGO. May 7.-Potatoes dull;
receipts las cars: total United States
shipments b55; Wisconsin sackeS and
bulk round whites s1.10 cwt.; North
Dakotn sacked whites $1.00 cwt.: no
other old sales New stock slightly
weaker; Florida barrel spauldins rose
number 1, ss.75@9: number 2. Sc: 15o-
pound sacks Number 2. SO: number
3, So.
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Crude Market

several large bond issues were being
held up until after tho government
financing had been completed n the
shelves OF dealers cleared of the rem;
nants of several issues put out and
unsold since tho first OF the year.
Owing to the unsettled conditions
abroad no European financing is con-
s!dered likely for many months to
come.
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NEW YORK. May Tho report
OF the New York, Chicago & st.
Louis railroad as of December 81.
1922. shows total assets of 800 1884,
TAG and profit and loss surplus OF 81
1886. against SIS. $50. ob1 and So.
321.757, respectively. tho previous
year.
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Butter and Eggs

CHICAGO. May 7.-Butter. higher;
creamery extras. 42c; standards.
411sc: extra lrsts, 4194ii5c; ifrsts.
1914 a 40c: seconds, 3s@ssc.
Eggs, unchanged: receipts, 4 .66s
cases: hrsts. 26026hc; ordinary irsts.
23h @24c: miscellaneous. 2b@25hc;
storage pack extras. 2sA @2shc;
storage pack hrsts, 27& @2sc.
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Sugar

NEW YORK. May 7.-sugar fu-
lures closed steady: approximate
sales. 81, 900 tons; July. $500; Sept.
1907; Dec. $3.50; March. $500. There
were no changes in refined sugar
with fine graduated listed at from
$3.50 to $500 but trading continued
light.
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Money

NE wYoRK. May Call money,
arm; high. s; low. AZ; ruling rate,
AK; closing bid. 8: offered at SIX;
last loan, 5: call loans against accept.
ances. Az; time loans. arm; mixed
collateral. 5000 days. 5A: 4-s months,
81 @5h; prime commercial paper.
5Q5k.
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CHICAGO. May T.-Whsat numnsr
2 red 1.2s; number : hard s1.ls&o
1.2oh. Corn number ! mixed fexO
Solsc: number 2 yellow SON Os1c.
Oats number 2 white 4sAo<sAc:
number 3 white 5000. Rye 7sxe
7shc. Barley COG ssc. Timothy sesd
S@6.6o. Clover seed 11z117: Pork
nominal. Lard s1o.5s. Ribs ss.259
$50.
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DENVER, Colo. May l. Cattle
receipts 1880; market steady to csc
higher; beef steers s79s.75; COWS and
heifers s4.50@s.25; calves s4.50@13.5o;
stockers and feecers s6.50@s.
Hogs receipts 1.449; market 15c to
25c lower; top $3.50; bulk s7@7.35.
Sheep receipts 5.o75; market steady
to weak; lambs s13.75@14.s5; feeder
lambs s13.25R14.25; ewes s7@9.:5.
, 1923-05-07
GRAIN ExPoRTs GROW

WASHINGTON. May 7.-Exports
OF grain from the United States dur.
Ing tho last week We're 1901 900 bu..
compared 10 S,os5 900 the week be.
fore.
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Silver

NEW YORK. May 7.-Toreign ar
silver s7ss; Mexican dollars 51%.
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NEW YORK. May Local invest.
msnt bankers reported today ua,
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JOSEPH RICHARDS, BOY
SCOUT, IS IMPROVING

Stedy Improvement has been noted
IN the condition of Joseph Richards.
the ~l5-year-old Boy Scout who was
hurt when a rock fell on hun while he
was out on a fishing trip Saturday.
Young Richards lies at the County
hospital with . slight fracture OF the
pelvis and slight internal injuries. He
10 being AMENDED by DR.. NJ. C. Nkth.
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Cotton

NEW YORK. May 7.-cotton spo:,
quiet middling. $3.50.
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Eyans Te.t M.km Pmxrr..

Excellent progress is being made
with the well of the Evans OIL cor.
poration on h northeast quarter OF
section 25-Ss-79. Salt Creek. with the
hole now drilling below 600 feet.
Terry Barefield, in charge OF oper.
stions during the absence OF "A f.
Drsyton who has the hole contracted.
states that the formations 90 far
penetrated are checking eactly with
other producers In the neld which he
has drilled and expresses his opinion
that oil will be found in quantities
when the second Wall Greek IL
tapped.
The "life tree" OF Jamaica grows
and thrives for months after being
uprooted and exposed to the sun.
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DULUTH. Mimi. May 7-closing
nax, May, 81 20 asked; July, 32.7lI5.
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DEVELOPMENTS of Interest
In Big Horn Basin Region

bsassvs It will maize a good produces
without being shot
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-20
PRESERVING RATE FABRICS

The Birmingham Traffic Associa-
ton seems to be as acutely needed as
it was five years ago when it began
the arduous task of removing the many
freight rate determinations against
Birmingham. That work has been &C
complished and it may be said that
Birmingham has as good a set of in
bound and outbound freight rates into
its consuming territory as any manu-
featuring and jobbing center has. But
these advantages do not stick without
continuous watchfulness. The rail
carriers have a way of coming back
with proposals of increase in estab-
lished rates that keep traffic associa-
tons busy preserving what they have
won. The carriers last fall proposed
an increase in the rate on grain and
grain products from the Memphis
gateway. The notice was short and
CURLY to the effect that the increase
would be operative December 20. The
association secured a suspension and
hearing on merits and the Interstate
Commerce Commission has ordered
the old rate to remain.
The result is saving to Birming-
ham shippers of fifteen dollars, per
car and an inducement to carriers
bringing grain to Birmingham from
other gateways to keep their rates
down. But for the traffic association,
the higher rate would have been in
effect since last December. But for
the association, numerous other pro-
posals for increases in rates would au-
tomatically go into effect, such, for
instance, as the one recently proposing
to advance the rates on blended gaso-
line from Birmingham to Georgia
points, which would directly affect a
Birmingham industry based on use of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-20

than on four acres. AS long as labor
was plentiful and cheap, the low yield
per acre was compensated for by
farming more acres. Now that labor
is scarce and high, every acre must
do its duty. Where there has been
hand labor, there must be machinery,
and where there have been a dozen
mules, each drawing one-horse tool,
there must now be tractor or teams
with modern equipment capable of
taking the place of several men.
Each acre must be sown with the
very best of seed of varieties that will
make the highest yield, and each acre
must receive whatever enrichment of
soil is found profitable. The negro
may cease going north, but he will
still leave the farm to some extent,
for the sake of higher wages in fac
tories. Agriculture can and will so
adjust itself as to atone for his loss.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-20
CHARACTER IN NATIONS

An observant writer on subjects of
national and international import had
an interesting article in one of the
current magazines in which he elabo-
rated on the view that England's
greatest asset is her character, the
factor that provides a bulwark of
hope in the midst of otherwise dis
couraging conditions in that country.
Few of the nations that entered the
World War suffered more than did
England in some respects, and es-
pecially in material losses and bur-
dens. While some of the other nations
were Laundering around trying to
find ways and means whereby to evade
their financial obligation, eve n
through the dangerous policy of per-
hitting their national currency to fall
IN exchange value, England, with her
farsightedness, determined to main
tain her national character through
her national currency and through a
policy of meeting her obligations by
payment of debts at time and under
conditions which strained the courage
and patience of her people. 1t took
character for nation to begin pay
ing her debts to other nationals while
burdened with unemployment, slump
in foreign trade and other trying con-
ditions growing out of great inter-
national conflict. Yet that is what
England did. That same policy, the
maintenance of a high standard of
national ethics through national sac
rifice and national patriotism, is the
manifestation of national character
which long has and long will make
England world power commanding
the respect and confidence of her sis
ter nations.
No nation rises in character above
that of its people. National obliga-
lions are as sacred as individual OBJ
legations. Russia's failure to realize
this principle is doing that country
more injury than any physical condi-
tons existing within her borders. The
government without character need
never hope to attain any permanent
prosperity, because a nation so gov
erned cannot establish and maintain
with other nations business and politi-
cal relations growing out of respect
and confidence
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-20
GRADE CROSSINGS, AFTER ALL

The Southern Railway has made
the startling discovery that automo-
biles have figured in eighty-one per
cent. of Embarrassing accidents. Out
Of 474 such accidents last year the
automobile was accounted for in 3S4.
This information is impaired with all
seriousness as though some new ele-
ment in human relations had evolved
and new problem requiring solution
he'd arisen. There is nothing new
about it. 1t is the Embarrassing dan.
ger, that standing menace to the safet,
of human life and the convenience Of
human traffic, that obstacle to pro-
gressive business and the symmetry of
community development. 1t stands to
reason that automobiles figure in
large percentage Of grade-crossing ac-
cidents, because automobiles are what
people move about in and are an i'm
portant means of getting over railroad
crossings.
The railway company's report fails
of the emphasis that might have been
intended, but does emphasize the
crossing menace and the toll that it
takes. Why were there 474 collisions
with automobiles laden with human
beings on the lines of the Southern
last year and similar numbers on other
trunk lines? Because they maintain
dangerous grade crossings. In former
days it was the horse vehicle, because
men travelled in horse-drawn vehicles.
1t is automobiles now, because they are
the mode of locomotion. The South
ern's statistics with regard to grade
crossing accidents discover only that
such crossings continue to take human
life and bar human convenience as
they have always done.
The city of Birmingham is not in
terested in knowing what percentage
of automobiles figure in grade-cross-
ing accidents, but in having these
death-traps removed, and it demands
their removal at the earliest possible
moment. 1t insists that the Southern
Railway, on its showing of accidents,
be alert to do its part in grade-cross-
ing elimination. The railroads will
eliminate the automobile as factor
in Embarrassing fatalities when they
do away with the cause, namely, the
grade crossing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-20
BRITISH LINE WILL OBEY

AS recently presaged in these col
umns, the big foreign steamship lines
now making our Atlantic ports will
neither defy the prohibition decision
of the federal supreme court nor
transfer their terminals to Canadian
ports. The Cunard Line, largest of
British registry, has already an
nounce its intention of abiding by our
statutory requirements, and it is be-
lieved that others will follow suit.
In reply to a question whether the
Cunard Line would establish supply
ships at the three-mile limit, Sir Ash
ley Sparks replied: "The Cunard
Line will never do anything that is
undignified." This attitude is graft
flying to those jealous of the prestige
of American authority, and is a sal
utary 1'ebuke to those who are "un-
dignified" in this respect either within
our territorial waters or on land. The
British company does not approve of
our law, but it respects our right to
pass and enforce such law. 1t goes
further and announces its intention of
obeying the law. Many Americans
born and bred have failed to attain
that height.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-20
IT COULD HAPPEN ANYWHERE

1.-THE people of Camden, South Caro-
ina, sit in grief over the fire disas-
ter in the Cleveland schoolhouse in
which seventy-three men, women and
children lost their lives. The people
of the entire state are saddened by the
tragedy. The sympathy of the nation
is aroused. The dead are dead, and
they cannot be restored to life. What
Isl done is done, and the record can
not be changed. Those who would
give millions if it had not happened
have, however, something they can do
that will tend to prevent such thing
iii. the future. Those in neighboring
states have something they can do to
avert a similar calamity among their
own loved ones.
:, The building in which the tragedy
occurred was undoubtedly fire-trap,
yet it was a school building where
children had beei. congregating daily
perhaps for years. On any one of
those days a fire was potential
menace, and on any one of those days
a" Similar horror might have been en-
acted. What was true of the Cleve-
land schoolhouse in Camden is prob
ably true of other schoolhouses in
South Carolina. 1t is undeniably true
Of thousands of schoolhouses and other
places of public congregation through
out the nation. In other words, the
fifetrap is widespread and carefully
rlurtured institution u ong us Ameri-
Cans. The Camden tragedy is not the
first of it's kind, nor will it be the
lAst Only those communities can pro-
tact themselves which condemn build
iffgs of the same sort and build them
structures either fireproof or else
which permit means of ready exit for
large gatherings should fire break
opt.
Camden has likely learned her les
son, even as many another community
has learned it in equally tragic man.
Her. Camden will rebuild with fear
faff precaution that such thing shall
not happen again. Perhaps some
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-20
PEOPLE DIsAPPRoVE EXTENSION

.:Jn consistent accord with his policy
as outlined both before his election
and before his Inauguration as chief
executive of Alabama, Governor
Brandon again firmly declares his I'M
aiterable opposition to any monopoly
of the natural resources of this state.
From this it is easily inferred that
the governor is opposed to any such
extension of power rights to the Ala
bama Power Company as will tend to
lay the foundation for a monopoly of
such rights by that company. Those
who speak in support of the company's
petition say that the projected extern
sion to Sheffield would not affect the
final disposition of Muscle Shoals,
hut there are plenty of others who
are as firmly convinced that such ex-
tension would tend to embarrass the
proper development of the Shoals
project. If such a result should fol-
lew, it is believed that the governor
would not allow the extension to
stand, but would even go to the ex-
IRENE of invoking legislative action
to.stop it.
Happily, the Public Service Com
mission has shown itself mindful of
the wider public interest in its decis-
ions and therefore there is hope that
tie protest of the people of the Ten
nessee Valley against the proposed ex-
tension has not fallen on deaf ears. 1t
is true that there are some CONNER
oial interests that demand the extern
Sion, but in a question of this kind
the wider public interest is always of
mere Importance than more narrow
private interest. And so the Alabama
Power Company, by its opposition to
the leasing of Muscle Shoals to Henry
Ford, has built for itself a garrison
Of popular disapproval which now
stands in the way of its ambitions
and sternly bids it halt until the ma
jor question is decided.
1t should be mentioned that this
opposition is explicitly declared to be
based, not on hostility to the power
company, which is performing use
ftil and indispensable service to the
state, but on hostility to any purpose
of the company, explicit or implicit,
to block the popular desire with re-
spect to Muscle Shoals or to gain for
itself all the remaining power sites
of this state. The localities con-
cerned are not without power sup
piled by the company, and the best
they can obtain from the proposed ex-
tension is an improved service, which,
Of course, while desirable, does not
outweigh the major issue. What the
friends of Muscle Shoals ask for is
in accord with this reasonable re-
quest, and it is believed that the pub
he sentiment of the nation, which has
spent so many millions at Muscle
Shoals, is also in thorough accord
with the request for postponement of
the extension until the greater ques-
zion is settled. 1t is believed that the
power company itself would gain by
bowling to the manifest popular will
without further controversy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-20

neighboring communities will do like
wise. But the great majority of COM
nlunities will have their little day of
hcrrified sympathy and go on expos
ing themselves and their children to
similar danger until there is another
tragedy somewhere else, and so on
until mankind's achievements shall be-
gin to measure up to mankind's en-
lightenment. But that is slow pro-
cess. Far better if communities re-
mote and unaffected should begin
now to make safe their structures for
the public.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-20
Bulgarian Plan to Make Communists Commune

Nathaniel saith unto him, Can
there any good thing come out of
Nazareth Philip saith unto him,
Come and see" But pessimism
did not die; it lived on through
the ages. although time and again
goodness and greatness have been
found where men thought they
could not survive.
Still we keep on inquiring, Can
any good come out of NAZARETH"
1t pleases me much, therefore. to
say kind word about something
that took place in Russia. Our
dear departed Bill Haywood was
thrown out of the communist col
ony in the Kuznets mines district
in Siberia because he refused to
work. Here, at last. is an arGu-
ment for communism that / can
understand. 1t Is an argument
that every thoughtful working
man in America ought to con-
slider. Haywood. it will be remem-
bered. preached the doctrine of
communism In this country. He
sought to seduce the American
workingman into believing in the
system. Upon conviction he for
feited his bail, fled our shores,
and as a fugitive from justice
found a real communism where all
his theories were working, only
to discover that he didn't want to
work there any more than he did
in America.
| wish all those who are being
beguiled by communists in Amer
lea would take the trouble to
find out just how much actual
work these communist orators
have ever performed, just how
much property earned by the
sweat of their brow they have
put into the common pot, just
how hard they have exercised
other muscles than those of their
Threats for the benefit of their
fellow laborers. l venture the be-
lief that the common property of
these fellows is the contributions
of half-baked philanthropists in
America. that they never created
anything to divide and never will
possess anything to divide save
these benefactions.
We formed an unfavorable opin-
ion of Bulgaria during the great
war. probably because she threw
in her lot with the central pow
ers. But. again. Can any good
come out Of NAZARETH" 1t Is
proposed in Bulgaria to place all
communists in colonies by them
selves, to take all their individual
property and make It common
property, to require all members
of each colony to go to work. and
to make the product of their labor
the joint property of the commu-
nifty. What heart breaking
condition for Bill Haywood and
his American brethren, that ev-
erybody must work.
Why would 1t not be good
thing in America to make these
| fellows who say they believe In
communism practice little of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-20
PURCHASING PARK AREAS

The city commission cannot but
have been impressed with the presen-
tation of the need of acquiring the
park land near Owenton made by citi-
zens of that section Friday. Especially
forceful was the statement of the con-
stantly rising values of Birmingham
real estate which will year by year
add to the cost of making these per-
manent provisions for a growing pop
ulation. Indications point to the
breaking of the deadlock in the COM
mission vote and the purchase of the
property. The city can find the
money. 1t can always find the money
for a great and permanent need. Let
it be found. The next generation will
therefor rise and call them blessed.