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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01
CONTIN INUES
 TO BREA WORLDS INITIATION RECORD
Twelve Hundred Candidates Friday Will Swell Mem-
 bership To 6,200

Twelve hundred candidates Friday will be initiated at the birthday cere- mOnial of Kamram Grotto in Bir- mingham. w. l.. Weyman announced Sunday night, bringing the total membership of the organization to 6,200 in years time, another world g record.
 The ceremonial will be preceded by a huge parade with eight floats, rep resenting different towns who have members in the Kamram branch and six bands at intervals throughout the half mile parade, There will be a uniformed body of 200 men besides the ceremonial costumes worn by the candidates. These will be the new uniforms purchased from the proceeds of the circus.
 The parade will move at o'clock in 21 sections, from Capitol park down Twentieth street to Third ave- nue, and east on Third avenue to Twenty first street, south. It vii! go down Twenty first street and across the Rainbow viaduct and dou- ble back to First avenue; turning west it will go to Nineteenth street. From Nineteenth street it will pro- ceed north to Eighth avenue and east back to Capitol park.
 Floats carrying officers and the queen of Kamram Grotto will fea- ture the parade. Beautifully dec loosa. Gadsden. North Birmingham, Bessemer, Anniston, and Ensley will take part
 Candidates will report at the Ma sonic temple at 10 o'clock Friday morning. where they will be mustered in for banquet in the basement of the temple. Immediately following the banquet they will form at Capi- tol park for the parade.
 The ceremonial will begin at 3
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01
PERSONAIs

Miss Mary Mildred Woodrow left sunday for Nashville, where she will enter Peabody college.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Waldrop an nounce the birth of a son, whom they have named Charles Bradford.
 Professor and Mrs. James Webb have gone to Chicago, where they will spened the winter.
 Mrs. T. c. Donald has as her guest. pie, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01
WHITE WAY LIGHTS TO BE PLACED ON BESSEMER STREET
Promotion Day Exercises Are Observed In The Sun-
 day Schools
BESSEMER BUREAU l THE AGE-HER tIp !, Ressemer. Ala, Sept. 30

A contract for the construction of a white way on Nineteenth street between Second and Third avenues, will be let this week to the B. R.. L. & P. Go. All merchants whose stores face this block on both sides of the street have agreed to the ln- sta.aliGn of the. lights, the agree ment FaYlng been made through rhe Chamber of Commerce.
 There will be eight lights installed o. this block each to be 900 watt. They will be sufficient to Illuminate this block, each light to be equipped with a reflector toward the opposite side of the street.
 It is planned to extend the white way around Nineteenth street in both directions and also to cover Second and Third avenues later. The lights to be installed at this time are tp be the neucles for system of lighting which will require several months to work out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01
BARNEY GOOGLE |S IN TO WN TO-DAY
Spark Plug Chartered At The Jefferson, Ready For
 Rise Of Curtain

Billy Debeck's Barney Google and Spark Pulp of which William K. Wells, author of the book, who is also author of George Whites Scandals. Ted Lewis Revue and the new Greenwich Village Follies, and the music and Con Conrad, author of the biggest song hit of the year Barney Google" has met with a vogue that is little short of amazing you can really call the thing a triumph without feeling that you are using a chesty word. Barney Goo gle not only has fun qualities of the very highest order, but 1t has a char acteristic that makes 1t unique that makes it impossible to quote any thing like Barney Google" This characteristic Is covered by the fa- miliar designation the race track comic"
 Barney Google and Spark Plug" bubbles and sparkles to overflowing with witty dialogue and funny situa- tions and is from the pen of William K Wells who used the famous car toons by Billy O'clock for a founda- ton. Considerable comment of a very favorable nature Is heard of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01
PROMOTION DAY HELD

Promotion day exercises were ob- served Sunday morning in all the ,randed Sunday schools of the city
 hen certicifated of promotion were i.iven to hundreds of children. The members of each class were trans serred to the higher grades, and ap- ropriate exercises were carried out ;et the Il o'clock services at all churches.
 All departments of the Sunday schools, their officers and teachers 1ol; part in the program, which were aried with music, readings, and a umber of interesting addresses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01
onIM CHOSEN pREsIDENT

j. r. Drum was elected president | the Industrial Mems Bible class ',a the First Presbyterian church
 unday morning. Plans for the com
 ag year were talked over and the following officers were chosen: k. E. y l>ean. first vice president; John 'agan, second vice president; w. K ehanz teacher; ". l.. Schwartz, sec TlatN treasurer; Gordon Jones, hairman entertainment committee; {; l'gul Burmeister, leader of orches-
 ra; George Houston. musical direc- t1r
 A meeting of the newly elected of licers will be held Wednesday eve ning at 7:S0 o'clock in the parlors of the church when definite plans for the year will be decided on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01
.[EO CARRIL[O TO
 PLAY AT JEFFERSON
Popular Young Star Ap- pears Next Monday In
 Magnolia"

An event in the local theatrical season will be the presentation of Leo Carrlllo in Magnolia" a new American comedy by Booth Parking ton, at the Jefferson theatre next Monday and Tuesday, with a mati- nee on Tuesday.
 This is surely worth while. Mir. Carrillo is the most popular of the younger stars before the American public today, and Booth Tarkington as playwright and novelist needs no introduction. It was in "Lom- bardi. Ltd," that MT. Carroillo scored his greates success. He is well re- mem mbered here as Tito Lombardi.
 Mir. Tarkington's achievements in- clude such plays as "Clarence." "The Man From Home," Monsieur Beau caire," and "Penerod.' Two of his novels have won the Pulitzer prize. Magnolia" is a colorful comedy of southern life in three acts. with the scenes laid on a Mississippi planta- ton and in a NatChez gambling house in the early forties. You meet the aristocratic old southern planters in the days long before the Civil war. you hear the darlies singing as they come from the cotton fields you are introduced to the gaming rooms. where the young blades of the town
  runs an appealing love story. There is an abundance of laughter in store and there are moments of vivid dra- matic intensity. MT. Carrillo is seen first as a mild-mannered youth who comes to his ancestral halls from the guardianship of a Quaker uncle in Philadelphia, but 1t Is not long be- fore he gains a reputation as the most desperate man among those who make their living in the card rooms or the Mississippi river steam boats. At the end he becomes a re- spected citizen and wins the heart of the little girl who had never for gotten him. Here Is a real American play by an established American au- thor and with an American star of the first rank. Alfred F. Aarons, Inc, has supplied a supporting com pany of exceptional merit. including Martha Bryan Allen, J. K. Hutchin son, Phyllis Schuyler, John Ruther- ford Ethel Wilson. John Nicholson, Elizabeth Patterson, James Brad bury. IT.. John Harrington, and Bar ringtOn Carter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD

o'clock Friday afternoon in the audi torium of the temple, and will be fea- tured by an address by LaMar Fields, grand stewart of the supreme coun- cil, and by the Grotto dramia
 Another attractive feature of tho afternoon program will be the pre- sentation of a 14 kayat gold card to w. E. Weyman, master of ceremonies g and organizer of Kamram GrottoF All of the official information Is engraved in the card, which gives him first place on the fraternitie's roster.
 The ceremonial Is expected to be concluded by 6:30 o'clock, after which candidates and members will all march in a body to the circus, for the first evening performance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01

artistic and effective scenic equip ment, also of the chorous of beau ties" direct from the great white way. Dan Dody. the producer for Bd Wynn in "The Perfect Fool" the producer of the ensembles and he dances.
 Barney Google" will be shown at the Jefferson all this week beginning tonight with matinees Tuesday Thursday and Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01

a democrat to President Coolidge.
 pavey asks the President to make. an urgent request" of the interstate commerce commission to investigates freight rates, and suggests that the President can order tariff reduction. under the flexible provisions of-the tariff act.
 CoSlcar girls are beginning to taKe an interst in sports.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01

group of chorus girls on Broadway of their little romances. of their bic hauls from wealthy Wall Street ftnan eiers having more money than brains. Jerry is the queen of the gold diggers, but she remains a good girl amid her exciting experiences, and even cerYes to patch up a cracked romance, and fall in love with the gentleman who was doing most of the cracking to the said romance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01
KILLED ON ISLAND
Two Stage Battle With Shotguns
 One Dead, One In Jail

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 3o.-In & battle with shotguns on an island in the Mississippi river near here late today, Luther Wood, aged 42, was killed by E. Bunfill. aged Al, who surrendered later at police headquar- ters. Bunfill declared, according to police, that Wood had ordered him to leave the island on which the two had been hunting and fishing When they met late today, police quote Bunfill as saying. Wood opened fire and was killed T. ~'-- >---'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01
CURLING THEIR ELooUENCE

First Attorney-Your honor, un- fortunately, I am opposed by an un- mitigated scoundrel.
 Second Attorney My learned friend Is such a notorious liar
 Judge (sharply)-The counsel will kindly confine their remarks to such matters as are in dispute,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-01
WANTS TARIFF CUT

Says Reduction In Freight Rates
 Would Also Help Farmer
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.-Reduc- ton of 35 to 40 per cent in freight rates and a substantial reduction in tariff rates on everything the farm CT buys Is the cure suggested for the agricultural depression in a letter from Representative Davey of Ohio
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-22
State Regulatory
Commissions Must
Supervise Railroads

Washington, Jan. 21.-F'ederal pow
err to regulate railroads, though far
extended in recent years. still leaves
a wide field in which state regulatory
comm ssons can and must operate if
transportation service is to be properly
supervised in the public interest. Chair
man Meyer of the Interstate Commerce
Commission declared in a letter, made
public today, to the National Associa-
ton OF Railway and Utilities Commits
sioncrs.
Speaking for the full commission,
Chairman Meyer responded to COM
munication from John T.. Benton, So
licitor for the association, which had
asked for statement of reasons why
state commissions should be maintain
ed and supported.
Although the Interstate Commerce
Commission has been given power by
Congress under certain circumstances
to fix conditions for transportation
services rendered solely within state,
Chairman Meyer said, it seeks to cXer-
else that power in cooperation with
state commissions. Further. he dcclar-
ed. Congress has specifically left many
questions arising in the control of
railroad and telegraph service solely
to treatment by state authorities.
1T is thus manifest" the chairman
said, that under existing federal law
there are important regulatory fields
cmbra cling perhaps one-half of the pas
sensor traffic and one-fifth of the
freight traffic of steam railroads. as
well as the bulk of the telephone serv-
ice, which are left untouched and un-
cared for unless the states continue to
maintain their own regulatory bodies,
embodied to cover those fields"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-22
Dartmouth Students
Work 9 Hours Daily
Girls Get 5 Minutes

Hanover. n. H.. Jan. 21.-The av-
erage Dartmouth undergraduate
works nine hours daily, sleeps eight
and one quarter hours. and spends
four hours in recreation each day,
according to data collected by The
Dartmouth, the college daily news
paper. The schedule was arrived at
by tabulation of records kept for a
week by 200 students selected at ram
dom from the college catalogue.
The average undergraduate works
% hours a week. the tabulation
showed. his activities being divided
among study, classes, extra -curricu-
lum work. fraternity effort, time de-
voted to self-support and compulsory
athletics. Freshmen spend most
time at study-four hours 40 min
utes each week day. Each class
higher pares off some of this study
time until the senior brings it to
three hourc.
Recreation, taking up four hours
on Saturdays and five hours on Sun
days. includes the following daily
quotas:
Conversation, an hour and one
half; physical recreation and read
ing, three-quarters of an hour each :
movies. an hour and a half: attend
ing games. half an hour: girls and
music, five minutes each, playing
cards. 20 minutes.
Seniors and juniors play cards
four times as much as freshmen and
twice as much as sOphOmOres. ac-
cording to the review. Seniors give
five times as much time to girls as
men of the other three classes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-22
Enlarged Council
League of Nations
Session on Thursday

Paris. Jan. 21.-By a. P.)-The
first session of the enlarged council
of the League of Nations will be held
in Paris beginning next Thursday.
One of the first questions to be
brought up VIII be whether the
council shall, in accordance with the
suggestion made at the last assembly.
call an international conference to
deal with the extension OF the wash
ington naval agreement to naval
powers which We're not represented
at the Washington conference.
1t will also consider the issuance
of an invitation to all states to ad-
here to the Washington treaty re-
lating to submarine warfare and the
use of poison gas. and the question
of calling an international conNcn-
ton to discuss restrictions In the
private manufacture and trade in
arms. The assembly of the League
of Nations passed a resolution re
ouesting the council to consider tins
question and to call a conference If
it should be thought wise. The prln-
cipal point of the council Will be
to consider whether such n confer
encc will be agreeable to the United
states government. which has not
vet ratified the Saint German agree
ment on the same subject.
The relations between the Allied
mowers and Germany will have the
floor in connection with the protest
of the German government against
the presence of troops in the Saare
Valley and the jurisdiction OF french
court martial there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-22
French to Reconcile
Breach With Vatican

Paris, Jan. 81. (By A. P.)-The
French government has shown fur
Their disposition to heal the breach
with the Vatican by introducing in
Parliament a bill authorizing the In
stitute of tie Brothers of Christian
Schools to re-establish headquarters
in France and operate sixteen insti-
tutions designed to train mission
aries to develop French influence in
the colonies and abroad.
The bill was filed in the Chamber
about the end of December but in
the excitement attending the budget
debate and the Ruhr plans. its sig
nificance is only now realized. This
is the third step in the long sought
for reconciliation between France
and Rome. The first was the govern
ments appointment of an ambassador
to the vatican. This was temporary
and without parliamentary approval.
but it now seems certain that the
post is definitely restored and, with
it. diplomatic relations.
The present measure is the first Of
the kind to meet with success. as
nearly 500 applications from the most
important orders were presented
jointly and rejected seventeen years
ago. after the separation Of the
|church and state.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-22
Renewed Discussion
European Affairs
Expected in Senate

Washington, Jan. II America S
part in European affairs. especially
the reparations tangle, is promised
renewed discussion, with action pos
sible, in the Senate this week.
A new move. probably tomorrow.
looking to the recall of Roland w.
Boyden and other unofficial American
representatives on the reparation
commission, is under consideration
by Senator Johnson of California.
Republican 'irreconcilable" while
several other senators had speeches
i'll preparation.
The debate would have opened
sooner but for senators desire to
place no obstacle in the path of the
Capper farm credits bill, which was
passed Friday. \ number of senators
now are ready to break the two
weeks silence Of the Senate on inter-
national affairs.
Senator Robinson. Democrat. Ar
kansas, is expected to speak soon on
his resolution before the foreign re-
lations committee proposing appoint
ment Of official American represent
tativeS on the PREPARATION commission.
lie has withheld any comment
while the resolution has been before
the committee, but the general Sen
ate debate predicted is expected to
bring the Arkansas senator into the
discussion.
Further information from Secre-
tary Hughes regarding the work of
the Boyden commission is to be given
to the foreign relations committee for
its use in considering the Robinson
resolution This date, it is believed,
will be received before the week END.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-22

Newport, r. l., Jan. 21-With skulls
battered in as if by a hammer, the
bodies of James A. Frazier McLeish
and his wife, Madeline. were discov-
cred by fire men today when a blaze
swept their home on the summer es-
tate Of Mr.. and Mrs. PAUL Fitzsim-
mons. of this city and New. York
Police expressed the belief that the
murderer. after killing the couple, set
fire to the house.
McLeish was employed as Il gar
dener by the F'itzsimmons' at the
lodge occupied by his wife and him
self, near the entrance to the estate.
The woman's body badly burned, was
found in bed. McLeish was dscov-
cred by the firemen in the bathroom.
At first it was believed that the
couple had been trapped by fire and
burned to death until medical exam
nation revealed the condition of the
skulls.
Police took a negro found near the
burning lodge, into custody shortly
after the discovery of the crime. He
was grilled but the police We're I'M
able to connect him with the MUIR
ders. Efforts We're being made to
have him give an account of his
movements previous to the SlayiEgS.
The fire was discovered by u pass
crby who turned in the alarm. 1t
spread rapidly and by the time the
firemen arrived, the house was a
mass Of flames. Battling their way
into the lodge the firemen found Mrs.
McLeish's body. \ moment later
they came upon her husband lying
dead in the adjoining bath room.
Both McIeish and his wife were
natives of Newport. and so far as
the police We're able to determine to-
night. had no enemies. McLoish was
about so years old and a wounded
veteran of the World War.
The lodge was half mile from the
Fitzsimmons mansion which. with the
extensive estate. is regarded as one
of the show places of Newport.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-22
Woman Inspector to
War Against Petty
Smuggling at Calais

st. Stephen, N. B.. Jan. 21.-Ef-
forts of Canadian customs officials
to halt smuggling by women of
clothing and other articles from Ca
lais. Maine, has resulted in the ap-
pointment of woman inspector.
said to be the first to be employed
to wage such a campaign along the
New England boundary.
The campaign opened Saturday
night when women crossing the in
ternational bridge from Calais, were
carefully searched. Complaints by
merchants in ST. John, Woodstock.
and Fredericton. that business had
fallen off because Canadian women
were buying across the line. led to
the appointment, is was said.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-22

Essen, Jan. c1.-(By A. PD-The
army Of German mine workers in
t,e Ruhr will be idle tomorrow. A
general strike was declared by the
miners unions at Essen tonight.
This will seriously impede the
mans Of the French and Belgian
occupying authorities. but strikes
were foreseen after the active pro-
tests made by the employers of the
Thyssen and other plants against the
arrest Of German mine directors and
industrial leaders. though the French
had expressed confident hopes that
the miners would remain at work.
There is a transportation crisis and
a strike of railroad workers in the
Dortmund- Bochum district already.
with the possibility of its extension
throughout the entire area.
The German residents and occu-
patton forces INDUCED in a respite
today after a succession of penalties
and counter-actions during the past
week. The two sides are watching
each other warily-German wits and
non.co.operative resistance against
the wits and active measures OF
France. Belgium and Italy.
Behind the policy of Germany
stands primarily the Ruhr's great
economic army of laborers. while the
chief support of the Allies rests with
some 10000 armed troops. Up to
the present labor had proved its 10y
atty to the fatherland by baking at
every Allied attempt to obtain it's aid
in carrying out the program of occu-
patton.
Up to today seven mines were idle
on protest strikes. and with the clos
ing down of all the other mines. the
spectre of general railway strike
hovers over the region. The strikes
up to today were confined to prop
Continued on Page S, Col. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-22
COal Production
reaches 4: High Levels

both hnI . IL, Jan. 2-Production of
il nor luminous coal and anthracite
az ,bis greater than it ever has been
| TO estin season Ct the year, according
The Gs ea,tes made public today by
endinr o,oosical Survey. For the week
bitI,m;,s saturday. the total OUTPUT of
borhnna was placed in the neigh
thracitoa Oh 100000 tons, with an
2,0ON nm production approximately
mn, 4ss aases in the daily average ont .
have baaa me bituminous mines, which
HOLIDAYS a noted since the Christina
trihutsss' 'he Survey said, can be at
ton coua 70 betterment of transporta =
ppi ri 'o East of the Mississ-
have h oe. II was added, consumers
coal II s taking every ton of soft
and tn mas been possible to mine
the d empap' the supply has exceeded
down down. operations have been closed
S,,n, reeause of lack of market.
prodnotiuns up the results of 1922
fields .', .p efforts in the anthracite
during me me survey pointed out that
tons december Il total of S,43O,OO0
amN,rt" vas turned out, greater
min"aht than was ever nreviouslv
the Ave- eu , the same period. due to
outnm Me month miners strike, the
howsuU..so OF anthracite for the wear,
comn,ra' was only 52,4S5,O0O tons. as
'eu with 90,473,0OO during 1921.