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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-04-06
Farmers Meet to Plan
Increased Exports
(By Federated Press)

Washington - Representatives of
American farm organizations met
with members Of foreign embassies
and legations at Washington in in
formal conference, called by the
| Farmers National council, to con-
slider the best methods for exporting
American farm products and the Sc
curity which the various countries
had to offer.
This international" conference, at
which friend and recent foe sat side
by side, is part of the farmers pro-
gram to have the War Finance cor
poration extend credit to foreign cor
eign corporations and cooperative
organizations in order that they may
be able to buy farm products in this
country.
The foreign nations represented by
secretaries of embassies and COM
mercial attaches, were: France,
Graf Britain, Belgium, Germany,
Italy, Austria, Denmark, Sweden,
Cxechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Mexico.
The farm organizations represented
were: National Grange, Farmers
National council, National Farmers
union, United Farmers of Montana,
and the Nonpartisan league of North
Dakota.
Future conferences are being plan
ned by the farm organizations to work
out programs for increasing export of
American farm products so as to Sc
cure fair price to farmers here and
reduce prices to foreign consumrs.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-04-06
Favors Popular Vote
To Elect President

Baltimore, Md.-The president and
vice president of the United States
must be elected directly by the peo-
pie, declard Congressman Schall of
Minnesota in speech in this city.
National conventions, the speaker
said, are "beyond the jurisdiction Of
state government and without the
jurisdiction Of federal government"
at is no crime in these national
conventions to admit YOU got the
money, openly show it and boast of
it. How can the "eople expect real
representation through bodies of this
kind where the desires and wishes Of
the PEOPLE are put to rout through
determined, selfish interests with .un-
limited resources at their command,
and where party platforms are too
often made for election only, and too
seldom carried out; where men who
adopt the profession of political
bosses, whose services are for sale as
any other profession, manipulate the
delegates of their respective states.
"You cannot secure reform or per-
manently mend the breach in the wall
OF our independence ana llpefCy Will
out fixing this hole in the constitu-
ton. You can form new parties with
principles of the highest resolve, but
they will avail you naught. For the
moment your party becomes big
enough to have chance of electing
it's candidate, the same sinister influ-
ence will creep in and nominate their
candidate"
Congressman Schall said his pro-
posal for the popular election of
president and vice president is the
first amendment of its kind intro
duced in congress. He said it re-
ceived no attention in the last con-
gress, "but the time is coming, and
very soon, when people understand
ing the situation will demand its con-
sideration and passage"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-04-06
Illinois Constable
Opposed to CossaCkS

Oak Park, Ill.-Opposition to the
Illinois state constabulary bill pend
ing in the legislature at Springfield
is expressed by Constable John j..
Havey of Oak Park, on the plea that
the police control should remain in
local hands. He says:
Local control of authority is the
backbone of the lawzgoverned Amer
lean state. 1t gives to the citizens of
a community the mower to command
good police service and honest. law
enforcement.
"Once again the Illinois Legislature
is being urged to emasculate the To-
cally controlled police power estab-
lished by the constitution of the state
and to revert back to the centralized
state-controlled police system of au-
tocratlc governments"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
WOULD TAKE LAW IN HIS OWN HANDS AGAINST DREAMER
Doctor Makes Threat Against ''Poison Pen" Let
 ter Writer

CHICAGO, July 3.--Dr. Burton M. Mack declared today he would take the law into his own hands if he found before the authorities did the person guilty of poison ren" let ters and annoying telephone calls, with which he and his wife have been bombarded within lne last three years.
 The latest menace to the Mack household came last Saturday after the birth of baby at the Mack home. Some one telephoned news paper what purported to be notice of the death of Dr. MacK and 1t was published.
 The physician said ne had com plained to the police and federal au- thorities.
 In serious manner, pr. Mack declared that if he could lay his hands on the author of 32 letters and 200 telephone calls directed against him and his wife and their domestic happiness within the last three years, he would break his or her neck"
 Mrs Mack, with a new baby by her side, nearly collapsed Saturday when some one telephoned the house ask ing about the report that Dr. Mack was dead. Last March, a letter which the physician believes was written by woman, threatened to kill the Mack baby girl, Patricia, on. the twenty ninth of the month.
 On the night of March 29, Dr. Mack said, a brick was thrown through window of his home, mar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
FRANCE REPLIES TO
 ENGLAND'S QUESTIONS
French Viewpoint On Ruhr Disap-
 points London Statesmen

LONDON, July 3.-(By Associated Press.-Frances long awaited reply to the British memorandum on repa- rations was presented to Foreign Secretary Marquis Curzon this after noon, but it offers no solution of the indemnities problem.
 Count de St. Aulaire. the French ambassador, in an earnest talk with Lord Curzon, set forth Frances views on various phases of the Ruhr ques- ton, but failed to define in specific terms his country's exact position on some of the points raised in Lord Curzon's recent questionnaire.
 The general verdict of those in a position to know what took place at the conference is that it was 'un- satisfactory and inconclusiVe," but these authorities were quick to add that the way was left open for further discussion This is taken to continue for another week and perhaps longer
 Count de St. Aulaire's conversation with Lord Curzon occurred soon after the Foreign Secretary had given Baron Moncheur the Belgian ambassador nearly an hour. It is understood the baron's talk showed Belgium to be in general accord with France on the principal issues of the separations controversy. There was undisguised disappointment in Brit ish official circles that neither of the allies showed disposition to recede on their previously expressed de- mands. At the same time talk of a rupture is dismissed and the sugges- tion of independent action by Great Britain is but lightly accepted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
MARRIED LIFE TRAGEDIES
Incidents In The Life of NewIyweds
 Which Are Humorous

11CAC LO tIIe very HSWly HdTTleu.
 It was winter and the young hus- band complained bitterly of a beast ly' pain in his back; lumbago, pleu- risy; Heaven knows what" he gloomed to his terrified spouse. And talked largely of more life insurance. Terrified into action she recalled her mothers remedy for such mysterious aches and pains.
 boiling hot bath, and-wasn't it boraX? On this fateful morning she therefore drew the bath, arranged the towels and seeking in the kitchenette equipped for her while on her re- cent wedding trip by her feminine relatives-she discovered the borax in a large box. Uncertain of the quan- tity, she flung the contents into the tub and ordered her husband to soak. He did, from crown to toe.
 After which there were scenes. The borax was starch.
 And then there was the bride, who on a cruise with her bridegroom in a A sailing sloop, in the midst of a really terrific storm when the crew less captain and owner was strug- gling with sheets and centerboard, called loudly from the cabin, I've shall capsize!" He groaned, but fled to her rescue, and found her sitting on a rocking camp stool. She smiled sweetly when he entered.
 Would you mind" she asked ten- derly, "buttoning my shoes"
 And about the bride whose husband demanded sausage meat-the kind one fries, you know, the back home sort, served in little sizzling cakes? How about her when she went to her butcher and, learning that no sausage meat was to be had at the moment, bought with gravity and hard earned lucre a dozen or so small fat sausages and ordered the patient butcher te strip off the skins and dig forth the succulent innards How about herr How about them all, bless them ?'-New York Sun and Globe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
FALL STUDYING OIL
 PROJECTS IN RUSSIA
Sinclair Company Head Inspects
 Soviet PrOSpectS

MOSCOW, July 3.--ormer, secre- tary of the Interior Albert B Fall, and two groups of American oil men, interested in Russian oil, have -ar- rived here by way of Warsaw. Presi- dent Harry Sinclair and General At tornev c. T. Sanford of the Sinclair company, together with Secretary Baldwin, formed one group. President Robert Law and General Attorney V. D. Louckes of the Barnsdall corpora tion, President Mason Day of the International Barnsdall company and Secretary Bond, were another group.
 Mir Fall is not interested in either group, according to MT. Sinclair, but is accompanying him for a general inspection. Some of the party includ- ing MT Sinclair may visit the Barns dall development project at Baku.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
CHRONIC |NvAL|DS HAVE GREAT TRIP UPON "DRY" LINE E
Doctors On s. s. Berengaria Are Kept Busy Writing
 Prescriptions
By RALPH H. TURNER By Leased Wire to The Age-HeraId)

LONDON, July 3.-One or the merriest groups of chronic invalids Tuesday on the S. S. Berengaria, dry" Cunarder from dry" New York.
 When they had boarded the ship all seemed we'll Their suitcsses and hip pockets had bulged suspicously, but no one guessed that the bulges were medical supplies needed for their failing health.
 Once outside of the three-mile limit, however, hundreds of shaken. broken, despairing cripples lined up outside the doctors office. They jaw, champagne complex and va cuousness of the hip pocket. One and all the hundreds clamored for doctors prescriptions to lift a quota of the ships medical supplies" Got Prescriptions Fast.
 They got little slips of paper as fast as perspiring medicos could write the prescriptions; they rushed to tho booze locker; they doused themselves in medicinal portions of champagne, Scotch and soda, gin, ale, beer, beapjolais, medoc, capri, mouet ct chandon, and other drug store merchandise. Men who told the doc tor they were going blind and needed hootch to relieve their sight scorned
 
 by tho, tumblerful. Some were so determined to recover their health that they drank their medicine di- rectly from the bottle.
 Don't assume that this was a wild drinking party. In fact the ships bar was closed. Absolutely no one could get drink-unless he had a prescription with the doctors rub Der stamp signature. If they hadn't these prescriptions they couldn't get any of the scant medical supplies that New York customs officials had allowed the ship to retain after the raid. The scantiness of these sup plies was indicated by the fact that the medical beer" lasted until one day out from England
 Describe. Drinking. l
 Derwent Caine, son of Hall Caine the novelist, told how the passengers formed before the doctors office.
 Doctors, he said. asked all corners how much they wanted saying there was sufficient aboard for all mod crate drinkers.
 The applicant specified what quota of champagne, cocktails, beer and wine he considered necessary for his health, a typical requisition being "a whisky in the morning. cock tails and wine at lunch, something in the aft ernoon to guard against seasiclIness, wine and liquors with dinner and d nightcap before going to bed"
 There was a prohibition on drink ing in the public rooms. but gay par ties were held in staterooms all the way across.
 The saddest of the invalids aboard were those who, fearing for their sacred health, had bought cases of bootleg hootch in New York and smuggled them aboard the ship. They never drank the stuff, for the Berengaria's medical supplies were better and cheaper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
GROW COTTON IN AUSTRALIA

NEW ORLEANS, July 3.-For the first time in it's history, cotton is being grown in South Australia thIs year and that product instead of fruits will be produced henceforth in the irrigated districts of Victoria and elsewhere if it is found that the wages demanded by labor are low enough to make competition with American cotton possible, according to E. Bloomfield Rees of Melbourne, member of the Australian parliament, who arrived here today on a gov ernment mission to this country to investigate cotton conditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
GADSDEN WILL NUT PROHIBIT USE OF WOODEN SHINGLES
Postal Receipts For City Are Greatly Above Last
 Year
GADSDEN BUREAU l THE AGE-kERAI.D ! Gadsden, Ala, July 3

The proposed ordinance to prohi- bit the use of wooden shingles in Gadsden was killed by the council Monday night, the vote being to 2. Considerable pressure was brought to bear against the measure by shingle manufacturers in the district, but it was never popular with the alder men. Its passage was strongly ad- vocated by Mayor Christopher and local newspapers. The council added $10 a month to the salaries of the chiefs of the fire and police depart ment and S25 a month to the pay of the city attorney.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
POSTAL RECEIPTS LARGER

Gadsden post office receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30, totaled S45,769.S4 as compared to $42.394.11 for the same period year ago. The receipts for the first five months of 1923 were $23,33O.12 as against $20530,6 6S for the first half of 1922. These figures are taken to indicate the receipts for the calendar year ending December S1, 1923, will be much larger than in 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
WOMAN FoRGER ACTIVE

A woman forger Is said to be op- erating in Gadsden and police declare that her work is the crudest they have seen in a long time. Four checks for small amounts, all pur- porting to be signed by w. P. Coop CT, well known travelling salesman were passed on four of the largest dry good houses in the city Monday and experts declare that they were written by a woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
HEADS VETERANS

Berto H. Johnson of Montgomery was today elected commander of the Ala bama branch of the Spanish -Ameri- can war veterans organization, at their annual encampment here. Com mander Johnson succeeds E. E. E. Spanenberg of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
MEMPHIS LAWYER HURT
Prominent Teunessean Injured h
 Auto Wreck In Mississippi

MEMPHIS Tenn.- July 3.-Gus Fitzhugh, prominent Memphis attor- ney and former candidate for the United States Senate, was reported recovering today from injuries re- ceived last night when the automo- bile in which he and his son, Gus T. Fitzhugh, Jr., were riding, over- turned near Lake Cormorant, Miss. south of here. Mir. Fitzhugh was brought to a hospital here last night where an examination by physicians showed that he sustained two broken ribs, a cut above one eye and numer- ous bruses. His son received minor injuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
SUSPICIOUS SILAS

A countryman, suspicious of city ways, was visiting New York, and coming to the art museum he was amazed to find that admission to that splendid Building cost nothing. He mounted the steps and entered.
 Your umbrella. sir" said uni- formed attendant, extending his hand.
 The countryman jerked back his gamp laughed scornfully, and turned on his heel, murmuring: q knowed there was some cheat about 1t, when yet got in ."-Boston Transcript.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04

One hundred twenty eight persons have signed a petition for the reln- statement of Policeman c. c. Bowen, who was dismissed from the force by Mayor c. Christopher Monday aft ernoon for alleged incompetency. The council has ordered the finance and police committees and the chief of police to investigate the charges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
STORES TO CLOSE

With few exceptions all of the bus mess houses will close Wednesday at 1 o'clock for the Fourth of July, but the city is offering no special at fractions and the day promises to be quiet one 1nglenook's fast baseball team and Gadsdeh's unbeat- able outfit. will play morning and afternoon games at Dwight park.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
I. q. WILLIAMS DIES

in North Gadsden Monday night as result of throat trouble which brought on blood poisoning during the last few days of his illness. The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock Wednesday, with burial at Forest cOmeterN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
KHAN WILL PARADE

The Ku Klux Klan announces that 1t will parade in Gadsden, Attalla and Alabama City Wednesday night between 7:30 and S:30 o'clock and that following the demonstration it will hold a public speaking in front oH the court house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
INpoRsE TRAINING CAMPS

At meeting of the Etowah county post of the American Legion Monday night the military training campA throughout the country were in- dorsed by resolutions and the young men of the community were advised tot ake advantage of them. The post was forced to cancel it's Fourth of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
GIVEN THREE MONTHS

J. c. Jenkins was fined s25 and sentenced to three months at hard labor following his conviction in county court Tuesday on the charge of passing a worthless check
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
FAVOR TAX EXEMPTIONS

The city council decided Monday night that it could not legally ex- rmpt new factories from taxation because of state laws, but it went on record as favoring exemption and adopted a schedule of exemptions which it will incorporate into an or dinance if the legislature should re- peal the present laws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
WILL IMPROVE LAKES

At meeting of the board of gov- ernors of the Country club Monday night it was decided to put a white way around the smaller or the two swimming lakes and to otherwise improve them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
MAYOR REPORTED III,

Mayor w. A. Burns of Alabama City Is reported to be seriously i'll. He is suffering from some kind of fever and his conditions is regarded as unfavorable, although it IS thought that he will soon be on the road to recovery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
LITTLE GIRL DIES

Alvie Lee, eight-year- daughter of MT. and Mrs. C. w. Adams, died
 at their home on Lookout mountain Monday night IS the result of al at tack of typhus. The funeral and burial took place Tuesday afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
PLAN BIG CELEBRATION
GcOrgiana Will Hold Great Fourth
 Of July Barbecue

GEORGIANA, Ala. JuIyy 5.-CBy Special Leased Wire.)-Elaborate te preparations have been made by the Chamber of Commerce for Fourth of July barbecue picnic on the high school campus Wednesday. Music, athletics. speaking, community sing ing, double -header baseball and plenty of feast are on the program.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
SEES LONGER LIFE
Death By Many Fatal Diseases Soon
 Will Be Crime

ATLANTIC CITY, N J., July g. Death under 75 years of age by dia- betes, Brights disease, cardio vas- culiar ailments and perhaps cancer, soon will be a crime. according to pr. Claude A. Burrett of Rochester. of the American institute of Home opathy, said at the institutes annual convention yesterday.
 Modern scientific methods will add 20 years to mans average span ol life within the next half century, he declared, asserting that present day research soon would make 1t as great a crime to die young of one of the now supposedly fatal ailments as 1t now is to die of typhoid fever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04

rowly missing Patricia and another child In the house.
 Other letters have flooded Dr. Mack's mail as well as that of his wife, intimating that the physician was familiar with another woman.
 Dr. Mack, who is married the sec- ond time, declared the attacks upon him are, in his opinion, an attempt to destroy his domestic life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
worLD REINsTATE OFFICER

July steamboat excursion because so many of the members will have to work during the forenoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-04
WALKER TO HOLD
 BIG CELEBRATION
Fire Destroys Handsome Home In
 Jasper
WhJI HIIb "DHtH3ahO THE AdiE-HERALD .Jaaner Ala ,Iuiy 2

Jasper. Ala. July 3
 Walker county had prepared to celebrate the Fourth of July on an elaborate scale. Picnics. barbecues, athletic contests, speakings are to be held at various points in the county. The best advertised event is the big Fourth of July and road opening celebration to be held at Cordova. This is to be a get-together meeting of the people of Cordova, Dora and Jasper. who will assemble at Cor ., dova for the purpose of celebrating frae nationa, holiday and the open ing of the CCrdova highway, which is desiNned to bring Jasper, Cordova and Dora closer together.
 Sipsey IS to celebrate the Fourth with a big Tarbecue and double header when the Sipsey team meets the Standard Oil team from Birming ham.
 Calumet will also have a barbe- cue and baseball game between the Calumet team and City league team from Birmingham. Oakman. Marylee and Supreme and many other points in the county are also going to celebrate Tn grarhd style.
 HANDSOME HOME BURNS
 Fire destroyed the handsome home of T. V. Rainey in East Jasper Sat urday night The flames Were dis covered about midnight and, accord- Ing to the firemen, the building could have been saved with , only slight loss if there had been pres sure enough. For 20 or 30 minutes the pressure was only sufficient to throw the water about 20 feet high. The building. a 10-room structure, was destroyed. MT. Rainey valued the building at between $S,ooe and s1e,oee, on which he carried S4, 4,00o insurance. The furniture, the greater part Of which was saved, was insured for s1o00. MT. Rainey says the fire originated from sparks on the roof Mir. Rainey has not de- cided whether he will rebuild.
 HOFFMAN DIES
 Funeral services for Charles J. Hoffman, age 43 of Charleston, S. C., who died at the home of his brother in-law. c. V. Sloan, in this city, were held at tho residence Monday after noon at o'clock, with interment taking place at Oak Hill cemetery. MT. Hoffman had been in poor health for some time but his death was unexpected. He is survived by his wife and several brothers and sis ters. MT. Hoffman was a veteran of the Spanish-American war He enlisted in August, 1898, in Company A, Second South Carolina regiment, and was discharged April 16, 1899. He re-enlisted in the Fourteenth United States regiment of artillery in January, 1900, and served until 1903.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-12

~ HE looked at her daughter.
- why, you know who that is.
Mildred" she said, casually.
It's that Alice Adams father,
Mt it? Wasn't his name Virgil
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-12

represssd even In her present emotion,
nevertheless had tendency to quaver.
It's true Frank bowling was going
TO see her one evening and he saw
Arthur sitting on the stoop with her,
and didn't go in. And Ella used to
go to school with a girl who lives
across the street from here. She told
Ella"
"Oh, understand" Mrs. Palmer
interrupted. Suppose he does 20
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-12

long walks together. That's why he
hasn't been here"
OF Mrs. Palmer's laughter there was
left only her indulgent smile, which
she had not allowed to vanish. well,
what of it?" she said.
"Mama!
Yes" said Mrse. Palmer. What
of it?"
But don't you seer" Mildrsd's we'll
tutored voice, though modulated ana
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-12

about It, and that you and papa said
clear that she was mentioned By 40
cident, and so was her father. What
an extraordinary mani II Arthur
makes friends with people Ike that,
he certainly knows better than TO sx-
poet TO hear favorable opinions OF
them. Besides. it's only littls pass
ing thing with him"
''Nian1ai When he goes thsrs &fnaost
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