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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-02
MAGIC CITY FINANCIAL l HOUSES BUY WATER BONDS AT TALLADEGA

TALLADEGA, Ala, March 1.- Special. )-The Talladega Water Works bonds were sold Wednesday to three Birmingham bond houses. The total amount is s239,000 and they are to bear 51a per cent inter- est. The bonds were purchased by Caldwell & Co.,, Steiner Brothers and Ward Sterne & Co.
 The money will be at once avail able, and with the survey already made, the blue prints now in the making. the city will soon be ready to ask for bids upon the construc tion. While the work on the water works will soon be under way, it will take quite time to complete the plant and pipe line from Taylor's Mill.
 NO HOSPITAL AGREEMENT
 Messrs. J. B. Garber and w. G. Oli- yer, who came to Talladega Tuesday to confer with the local committee in regard to the Baptist hospital, re- turned to Birmingham without def mite agreement being reached. How ever, they will return to Talladega at an early date for further confer enCe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-02
GREENSBORO RATE.
 ! 0N WATER UNJUST, :C|T|ZENS DECLARE
Alabama Water Company Seeks Valuation on Jasper Property-Belt Line Dr.
 der Modified
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU |
 THE AGE-HERALD


 Alleging that the rates charged by athe Alabama Water company are un- reasonable. the city of Greensboro to- day filed a petition with the public kservices commission for the establish Fment of a schedule of reasonable i. rates. The commission set the case for hearing March ?.
 {; The labama Water company filed 1 a petition for the esta blishmcnt of a valuation on it's property at Jasper | consisting of a water works and for schedule of rates based on the val :, nation. This petition was set for ! March 12.. also.
 9l Three cases which had been set for the March meeting were post poned-S The petition of the Birming ! ham Hollow Tile company and the Birmingham Traffic association against all railroads operating in Alabama for reasonable rates on Earston hollow building tile from Ensley to all points in the state was postponed until April ? at the re- quest of the petitioners.
 The petition of the Southern rail- way for an investigation by the com mission to determine whether or not any rate now in effect applying to iron ore shipped from mines near Attalia to Alabama City and Gadsden was postponed until April at the . request of the petitioner.
 Because of the illness of the owner sof the Roanoke Telephone company, the commission postponed without 1. date the petition for authority to abandon telephone lines from Roam oke to Milton via Abanda, from Roanoke to Wadley and from Roam oke to Wedowee. \ date for this hearing willSfbe set later. MODIFY BELT LINE ORDER
 In order not to interfere with the construction of a switch for the use s of the Birmingham Ice and Coal Storage company, the public service commission today made a slight mod f fification in it's order requiring the |. maintenance of double track on portions of Aveeue E in Birmingham by the Birmingham Belt railroad. In- { stead of the double track being maintained on Avenue E from the east side of Twenty first street the l, modification will permit the starting 1. of the double track so feet from the { east side of the street. No oppo- Z sition was shown to the petition of the belt line for the modification of the order.
 APPOINTED RATE CLERK
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
Blue Leads Him On,
Advises Y. w. c. A.,
Red Is Taboo

CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-"Red is
a color that young girls who
go to meet young men should
not wear" This is the con-
clusion of the Y. w. C. A., as
told to q class of girls by
feminine professor in the effect.
Of coIors on male passions.
Red is inflammahle and milf
kaI1t. Blue is disarIning It.
soothes and leads men on III y
nice way,".-she warns.
While green is pleasant, a
man is instinctively "a little
wary of the girl who wears it.
It is q danger signal, warning
him of mercenary ideas in tho
little lady's head, not that the
girl may be mercenary at all,
but "Jim" or "Jack" can't help
thinking she is, if she wears
that color. ~
White. while pretty and
modest, doesn't call out the pro-
tective instincts of the mascu-
line caller. Black and purple
tend to suppress emotions.
The Washington times., 1923-10-22

8 JAILED IN
LAMBERT
Staying
Patron Of Va. Moonshiners Is
Accused Of Shooting State
Prohibition Agent.

With the arrest of eight men
by posses working under Sheriff
Z. w. Edwards, of Leesburg,
county officials believe that they
have found the murderer or mur-
derers of State Prohibition Off
Ger ]. D. Lambert, ambushed
Thursday night as he was at
tempting to raid a still near Bel
mont, Va.
Those arrested are W. H. Jor-
dan, C. o. Jenkins, w. E. Ball,
Maurice Poole, E. v. Jenkins,
w. E. Milstead, Clarence Cos
tello, and johnson Jackson. With
the exception of the first and last
named, all are white.
Accuse Costello.
The still, police state, was owned
and being operated by C. o. Jen-
kins, w. E. Ball, and Maurice
Poole. while police charge that
Clarence Costello fired the shots
that resulted in Lambert's death.
According to the versions of
those arrested, the fatal shots were
fired by Costello, a patron Of the
moonshine still.
Those arrested all declared that
with the exception of the three
named owners of the still, they
were patrons, and had gone from
their days work to the rendezvous
Of the moonshiners for a drink and
Q craps game.
Game interrupted.
While they were engaged in the
game. Lambert and his deputy, c.
L. limbaugh. jailer at Leesburg
approached the still.
Those participating in the game
started to flee, and Lambert fired
his revolver into the air, telling them
TO halt or he would shoot. 1t is al
legged by both the moonshiners and
the patrons that Costello then fired
on the prohibition agent as they all
ded.
The funeral Of the prohibition
agent was held yesterday and at
tended by more than 1000 people
one Of the largest services ever heIc
in Loudoun county.
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
WEBB CLEARED
IN DEATH Of
WIFE
Bx international News Service.

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Oct. 22.
Charles H. Webb, husband Of the
late Mrs. Gertrude German Webb,
wealthy clubwoman, today was
completely exonerated Of all respon-
sibility for the death Of his wife,
in a presentment returned by the
westchester county grand jury.
Mrs. Webb died September 25 at
the exclusive Observation-Disclosures
Country Club. Friends and rela'
tives charged that bichloride Of
mercury had been given her during
her illness and caused her death.
The grand Jurors reported there
was no foundation, In fact. for
charges made that Mrs. Webb's
death occurred under suspicious cir
cumstances.
The estate left by Mrs, Webb ia
valued at more than $2,0o0.OOO.
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
j. s. SHIP SENDS
WIRELESS
FORA|D
Steamers Rushing to Aid Of
Liner San Gil in Distress
off Nicaragua Coast.

REV YORK, Oct. 2.-The United
Fruit liner San Gil, with passengers
on board, is in distress off old Provi-
dence Island, ITO miles east Of Blue
fields, Nicaragua, according to TWO
urgent wireless messages picked up
today by naval communications
here.
The vessel is believed to have
struck a reef.
The San Gil left Boston October
IA, bound for Havana, Colon and
Port Limon.
Several steamers have altered their
course and are rushing toward the
stricken ship, according to wireless
information.
The first message was received at
Sis this morning and was signed
"Mathers, captain"
The second was couched in urgent
language and broke off in the middle
of a sentence leading to fears that
some disaster has befallen the ship.
Weather bad. pounding heavily.
Expect to put passengers in boats,
one of the messages said.
Another message more urgent
than the preceding two, was picked
up by the Independent Wireless
Company of East Hampton, N. Y.
1t said:
Help. Quick"
The wireless broke off abruptly
and attempts to raise the San Gil
were without success. This led to
fears that either the wireless room
had become inundated with water
or that the vessel had gone down.
The East Hampton station imme
diately broadcasted the "S o s.
calls to sea and responses were
quickly received. The steamships
POrtola and Pastore messaged they
were rushing to the San GIL. Other
ships are also believed to have
changed their course towards the
| stricken vessel.
The San Gil is known to have
eleven passengers and a crew OF
| fifty-one on board.
| BOSTON, Oct. 22.-According IL
advices received by the local office
of the United Fruit Company, the
steamer San Gil, is on a reef of
Providence Island, near Colon
Two of the company's steamers arr
standing by and no fear was fei
for the safety Of passengers ant
Icrew, according to Boston officials
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
MARTIAL LAW IS
PROCLAIMED
IN ATHENS
By International News Service.

ATHENS, Oct. 22.-Martial law
was proclaimed here today as a re-
suit Of the agitations OF monarch.
lists who are charged with plotting
counter revolution against the
Gonatas government.
While a warship had been held
in readiness over the weekend for
members of the government II they
decided to flee, they elected to re-
main and fight.
An appeal was issued to the peo-
pie to remain calm.
Two Peloponestan generals who
were understood to be behind the
royalist agttations, were denounced
by the government in public
statement as "cowardly traitors"
A Communist demonstration was
held In the de luxe moving picture
theater when the royal family was
denounced. One speaker said Con-
stantinopie's family cost Greece
1900, 900 last year.
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
SHOCK BY LIGHT FIXTURE
KILLS MAN ON WETFLOOR

PORT CHESTER, N. Y, Oct.
22.-John Colantino, 80, was elec-
trocuted when, standing on a wet
floor, he attempted to insert a
high powered electric bulb in a
drop light socket in his garage at
Main and Mill streets.
It is believed there was a short
circuit in the lighting fixture.
Samuel Maiden attempted to pull
Colantino away and was himself
severely shocked. Colantino died
within a few minutes.
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
rhine MOVEMENT SPREADING
Baby ''Off Color, /" So
Mother Abandoned
Il, Is Charge

LEESBURG, Va, Oct. 22.-
Carey Brigsby, twenty-three-
year-old unwed mother of a
seven-month-old baby girl, was
arrested today and lodged in
Jail here on a charge of infanti-
eide.
According to the woman, who
is a mulatto, but passed for
white woman, the father of the
child had told her that if it
was a white child he would sup
port her and the child, but il it
was not white enough she must
keep it.
The child proved to be "off
color" the girl declared, and
she took it two miles from her
home, into the woods and aban-
doned it. The body was found
two days later.
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
| Il IS GIVEN At
VET BUREAU
PROBE
mot True" Forbes Shouts As
Gen. Organ Tells Of Waste
and Mismanagement.
BY international News Service.

A clash between Maj. Gen. John
f. O'Ryan, Government Investigation.
and former Director @. II. Forbes,
featured the opening session today
Of the Senate's investigation into
alleged waste and mismanagement
Of the United States Veterans Blu.
reau. Charges by Organ that the
bureaus business was mot always
conductly honestly" brought forth q
hot denial from Forbes.
The clash created intense excite
ment, but the hearing continued
after Forbes was informed he would
be given an opportunity later to
reply to the charges.
Organ First Witness.
The hearing is being conducted
by a special Senate committee com
posed of Senators Reed Rep) o1
Pennsylvania, Oddie Rep0 OF
Nevada, and Walsh (Dem.) OF
Massachusetts,. General Organ
was the first witness.
During the year 1922 and the
early part of 1923 the United States
Veterans Bureau was not function
ing effectively" said O'Ryan. "Great
sufas- of money were being ex
pended for the relief of disabled
veterans and these expenditures
were on scale never before known
for any such purpose. Despite
these lavish and unprecedented ex
penditures there existed a growing
feeling of dissatisfaction among the
disabled.
Cites CrificiSns
Veterans complained Of delay in
getting rellef, unreasonable rulings
denying relief and insufficient hos
pital facilities. Criticisms were
made of the projects OF the bureau
for the rehabilitation of the disabled
and finally there developed rumors
that its business was not always
conducted honestly and solely In
the interest of the disabled and OF
the Government, but that sites for
hospitals were selected in some
cases to satisfy the demand of those
who had land to sell, and in others
that inordinate profits derived from
the sale of land might be divided
among those Immediately concerned
in the transaction"
In the midst of Organs state
ment, Forces who had crossed the
continent from Seattle to attend
the hearing, leaped to his feet with
a hot denial.
"NOt Tr'ue," Forbes Shouts.
II object to that statement,
Forbes shouted. "It Is not true"
While Forbes and O'Ryan glared
at each other Chairman Reed inter
Vened.
Colonel Forbes, the committee IL
anxious to hear you and we will
Continued on Page 2. Column 5.)
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
stokes IN
ROLE Of
Ghost
Played Part to Get Divorce
Evidence, Lawyer Charges. !
Wallace to Testify.
BY JACK CARBERRY,
InternatIonal News Service.

NEW YORK, Oct. %. VIII
liam Earl Dodge Stokes, seventy
three-year-old millionaire, today,
closed his suit for divorce from
Helen EIwood Stokes, HIS pretty
young wife,. sitter using twenty
one witnesses in an effort to
prove she had been friendly with
Edgar =. Wallace. Most Of the
witnesses were negro servants,
who testified they had seen Mrs.
Stokes at Wallace's alleged "love
fat" on Fifth avenue.
Anxious 70 Hear Stokes.
Wallace, the correspondent, was
In the court room as Stokes closed
his case, prepared to take the stand
to refute the charges against him
self and Mrs. Stokes.
One witness was called today for
Stokes. Samuel Untermyer, coun-
sell for Mrs. Stokes, announced that
his client waived her rights which
forbid the husband TO testify against
her. and said he was anxious to
have the husband take the stand.
In questioning the last witness
today, Untermyer charged that
Hattie Johnson, negro detective
employed by Stokes, had been act
ing as a spiritualistic medium and
had held seances for the sixteen
negro women and four men who
testified for Stokes.
Charges Stokes Appeared.
He alleged that Stokes had ap-
peared at one of these seances,
garbed in a sheet and holding aloft
a scroll with the words:
"A bill of divorce"
This, Untermyer charged, was ga
design from Heaven" according to
the Johnson woman's statement to
the witnesses.
Untermyer made an unsuccess-
full effort to force Stokes to take
the stand, his motion to that
effect being overruled by Justice
Mahoney.
When Stokes closed his case, he
had forty-eight witnesses under
call.
Wallace brought with him from
Chicago a suit case full Of evidence,
enough to blast all charges made
against him and the wife Of the mil
lionaire turfman.
1.-THE most damnable outrage that
ever got into ar American court, +"
Wallace said OF the Stokes charges
that Mrs. Stokes was a frequent
visitor at his New York bachelor
apartments and sometimes break
tasted with him attired in negligee.
Mrs. Stokes, he asserted, was a
good woman, the victim Of an evil
marriage"
Most OF Wallace's evidence is
aimed to destroy the testimony of
the ''lingeric breakfast"
This is the worst lie Of ALL" he
stated, land fortunately have
documents by which l can disprove
every word of it.
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
CROOKS ARE ACTIVE
AS POLICEMEN DANCE

HAZLETON, Pa, Oct. 22.-While
the annual ball of the Hazleton
police force was in progress, the
baggage and waiting rooms at the
Lehigh Valley Railroad station were
robbed, the thieves taking seven
sacks Of United States mail and $50.
They also ransacked the produce
establishment. Of Beilman & Eroh
nearby. The mail pouches were
ripped open and numerous letters
stolen
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
BavarlaIl Threat.

The latest Bavarian threat Is Il
Minister of Defense Gesaler carries
out his threat to blockade Bavaria
from the bal4nee Of Germany Munich
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
Road Extension Is Asked.

Application was made to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
and st. Paul for permission to oper-
ate an extension OF five miles
within the limit OF st. Paul, Min.
nesota. The extension will run from
st. Clair street to the site Of the
new Ford Motor plant.
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
By s. D. WEYER.

s0y 0s Os w 411 4Skee
BERLIN, Oct. 22.-The founda-
tion Of the German Reich was
cracking today under the strain
of secession, hostility between the
states, public distress and labor
troubles. Up to early afternoon
few serious disorders had been
reported except from the occupied
districts. For the most part the
people are apathetic and indiffer-
eent.
Large Cfties Ba1k.
The separatist movement has
swept through part OF the Rhine
land beginning at Aachen [Aix -
Chapellel but apparently has met
with opposition in some quarters.
French reports that Mayence, Wies-
baden and other large Rhenish
cities are supporting the movement
was officially denied, but Berlin ad-
mits that the Rhineland republic
has been accepted by Muenchens
GIadbach and Aachen.
There is talk of a general strike.
central Germany are idle with about
200 900 miners on strike.
The working masses are warning
Berlin not to give in threatening to
strike II Berlin does so. The situa-
ton between Berlin and Munich Is
made more acute by the action or
Bavaria in taking over the seventh
division of Reichswehr.
Bavaria did not demand formal
oath of allegiance from the troops,
but compelled them to subscribe to
a pledge. After reading proc.a.
nation to the soldiers they were
given the following pledge to sign:
In Service Of State.
upon the basis Of the Bava-ian
| proclamation I hereby declare
have been placed in the service or
the Bavarian state government as
trustee for the German people,
pending establishment Of accord
between Bavaria and the Reich.
hereby renew my pledge OF
obedience to my superlors.
The executive committee or the
statewide workers councils named
a committee OF ten, consisting or
communists, socialists and trade
unionists to "observe all develop
ments vigilant1y and to prepare Tor
general strike"
Reichsrat to Decide.
Feverish attempts are being made
60 settle the Bavarlan crisis arnica-
bly, leaving the decision whether
Bavaria Is right or wrong to the
Reichsrat, which Is the representa-
tive body of all the federal States
in Germany.
The Reichrat win meet tomorrow.
Bavaria prevented an open break
over Sunday by not attempting 70
swear informally members OF the
Reichswehr.
In the meantime the official state
ments being given out at Munich,
while threatening Berlin. indicate
that, for the tiIne being, the Bava'
rians will be content to watch the
result OF the secessionfst move
nent in the Rhineland,
Two alrplanes were sent cut BY
the Berlin ministry Of defense to
scatter a million copies Of the
German governments proclamation
of warning over all Bavaria. Or.
Won Kahr, the Bavarian dictators
had suppressed 1t.
BaVarian Threat.
The latest Bavarian threat is II
Minister of Defense Gesaler carries
out his threat to blockade Bavaria
from the balance Of Germany Munich
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
JUGO-SLAV GENDARMES
KILLED IN OUTBREAK

LONDON, Oct. 22.-Twelve Jugo-
Glav gendarmes were killed and
many others wounded in a revolu-
aionary outbreak in the Prizorend
district, said a Brindisi dispatch to
the Daily Mail today.
The Washington times., 1923-10-22
THE WEATHER

Partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday; little change in
temperature; moderate to
fresh north and northeast
winds.
New Britain herald., 1923-06-06
HOOCH PEDDLERS REPORTED
 DOING BUSINESS IN SHOPS
Hip-Pocket Bars Said to Be Patron tzed in Several Factoriee-No
 Complaints to Police.

Although no official complaints have been made to the police depart ment, it is understood that several well known bootleggers in this city, who have already been arraigned in police court, have succeeded in smug- gling their liquor into several fac tories where they have found ready purchasers among the employees.
 When questioned by a Herald" representative. Chief William c. Hart said that he has not received any complaints of liquor being sold in the factories. If such complaints were received. however, they would be in- vestigated. he said.
 The fact that liquor was being sold in the factories of this city came to light recently when an attorney in the Berlin court admitted to police men that his client had been selling "moonshine" among the workers of q New Britain factory.
New Britain herald., 1923-06-06
SHIP LIQUOR QUESTION IS
 ONE FOR U. s. TO DEAL WITH
Foreign Diplomats at Washington Told America Will Not Discuss
 Question in Conference.

Washington, June 6.--Diplomats in Washington who have discussed the ship liquor question with state de- partment officials have had it point ed out to them that the question is purely one of American domestic jur- isdiction and therefore not subject to treatment through any joint interna- tional conference.
 The American government does not propose to seek such method of ad- justnlent or to accept any proposals of that nature from an outside source. The question of rules and regulations under the supreme courts interpre- tation of the prohibition enforcement act is wholly q matter for congress, it is held. and so far as known that viewpoint has not been challenged if the correspondence with various gov ernments.
 Prohibition Headquarters declared today that the widely heralded in Aux of eastern Canadian whiskey into the United States had failed to ma terialize and that smuggling through New England now is confined almost entirely to small lots in suitcases.
New Britain herald., 1923-06-06
LIGHTNING SHOCKS FAMILY,
 THROWING MAN OUT OF BED
Burns Garage and Auto, Knocks Hole in Wall and Hurls Furnish
 ings Around.

Waterbury, June 6.---Damage done when lightning struck and complete ly destroyed a garage and an automo- bile at 29o Tudor street. this city, early this morning is estimated to be S2,00o, Moses Cheverette, owner of the property. was thrown from his bed and suffered numbness in his legs. and the other members of his family were badly frightened and shaken, The lightning followed an electric wire into the garage and caused much damage there and also followed the same wire to the house, where 1t knocked a hole in the wall, threw pictures and electric light fix lures from their holders and scorched the ceiling in several places. No flames resulted in the house. The garage and automobile with paint and tools were consumed by the blaze.