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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-11
by the Associated Press.

Honolulu, Jan. 1.-THE case of Ira
Colver Sparks, late of Peru, Ind, San
Francisco and points east, who ship
ped himself TO Honolulu in a box
labeled freight" is proving n puzzle
to the authorities.
Ira arrived on a japanese steamer
from San Francisco and might have
succeeded in his stoaway scheme had
not the lonliness and confinement told
on his nerves. He lived in the box,
of three cubic feet dimensions for five
days, barely able to move and exist
ing on timed food and water. He
had shipped the box as freight" OBJ
tanned bill of lading and believed
he could dig himself out undiSturbed,
when he reached this port.
The steamship officials turned him
over to a hospital. Then as soon as
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-11
HONOLULU AUTHORITIES ARE
PUZZLED OVER STATUS OF MAN
WHO CAME in BOX AS "FREIGHT"
Pilgrim Carpenter Not An Immigrant Because He Is
u S. Citizen. Not Vagrant for He Has
Money-What Is He?

Iis cramped joints began to operate
he was transferred TO Jail.
Now the authorities do not know
what to do with him, ne is not classed
as an immigrant because he is an
American citizen. He is not a vagrant
because he has $50 and carpenters
tools. He could not be called "pas-
senger" on the steamer because he
came as freight The authorities
hesitate to send him back TO San Fran.
cisco because the custom duties are
unpaid. The question is what to
do?"
Meanwhile. it is understood. sew
eral amusement concerns are trying to
get hold of the box in which SPARKS
arrived. They wish to exhibit it. The
stowaway says he was bound for the
Holy Land where he intended to take
up the work of Moses" is he can't
continue on the voyage. he said he
might decide to stake up the work"
in Hawaii.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-11
PRODUCE MORE OIL
Daily Average Production fIi Week Is
1,152.5OO Barrels.

New Work, Jan. 1.-THE daily aver
age gross crude oil production of the
United States increased 1880 barrels
for the week ending January @, totalEg
1,752, 800 barrels, as compared with J.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES LOSE MISSISSIPPI CASE
State Will Be Able To Collect $750,00O As Result
 Of Decision

WASHINGTON, Oct. S.---(By Asso- cisted Press.)-The supreme court to- day dismissed for want of jurisdic- ton the question of whether fire in- surance companies which subscribe for or purchase the rates of the Mis- sissippi inspection and advisory rating bureau violated the Mississippi antitrust laws in a case brought by the Aetna and 61 other insurance companies against Mississippi.
 JACKSON, Miss, Oct. s.--The state of Mississippi Is expected to collect S750, ,000 and interest from February 24 last, as a result of today's action of the United States supreme court in dismissiing for want of jurisdic- ton the Mississippi insurance case Fines and penalties assessed against the insurance companies originally amounted to $S,000, 900, but this was revised in February by the state su- preme court and reduced to S750,000.
 Attorneys for the insurance com panies said today when advised of the action in Washington that the fight was finished, so far as they were concerned and that the judgment of the state court is now enforceable.
 A majority of the companies made defendants in the original suit with drew from the state Immediately after 1t was filed, but later returned and resumed business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
HERE'S WHY HAY FEVER RUNS RIOT MOST ALL PLACES
RagWeed Pollen Flies High And Far, AWiatorS
 Find

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. S.--The cot ton boil weevil and the hay fever germ" have nothing in common but aviators at Tallulah, La, where the federal department of agriculture is fighting the cotton pest experiment tally by dusting the fields with poll son discharged from airplanes and have learned something that shows why hay fever may run riot almost anywhere.
 pr. William Scheppegrell of this city. an authority on the fever, dis closed for the first time today that the aviators had not been confining their efforts solely to poisoning the weevil. They set out to learn just how high ra&weed pollen, the hay fever producer, ascended Into the air and have brought down specimens from an altitude of 1000 feet and with greater heights yet to be ex- plored.
 eve have been making the airplane experiments for the last month and our work is not yet finished" said pr. Scheppegrell. "The pollen has been found at high attitudes where the land ascended to an elevation of several thousand feet. but until this experiment. we were not aware pollen could be found in the air 4,000 feet above land. Our first experiment at Tallulah was with an airplane flying so miles an hour It an elevation of 1000 feet This revealed the pollen. Samples were obtained by the ex- posture of glycerin coated plates for 20 minutes. Further tests were made at 2.0eo, 5000 and 1000 feet and pollen was found at each level.
 O Q o
 Study Pollen Movements.
 'The result of these experiments will aid us in deductions as to the mo vement of pollen. It Is exception ally light and probably rises to these elevations with the vaporized mois- tura. Then, being light, 1t falls slowly. In dry, warm weather 1t ascends."
 One of the most noteworthy ex- samples of ragweed pollen movement, pr. Scheppegrell said. occurred dur ing the hurricane which swept the gulf coast on September 29. 1915. Charity hospital here maintains a clinic for hay fever sufferers and the records show a large attendance pricr to the hurricane, but not a one afterward. The storm had blown the, ragweed to pieces and carried away the pollen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
ATTORNEYS SEEK
 TO FIND SOLUTION FOR BLUE LAWS
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ties. whether or not the city chooses to invoke any particular section of the state code.
 Monday the city commissioners seemed somewhat disconcerted by the turn events have taken. It was quite evident from what was said that the commissioners had not desired to bring about the situation that ob- tained in Birmingham Sunday, but 1t was just as evident they intend to do what the law provides to the best of their ability.
 Commissioner Cloe. because the matter rests with his department, appeared to be spokesman for the board when he said: Tt is a good thing to protect the Sabbath. My job is to enforce the law"
 May Present Report At Once.
 Just what Measrs Wynn and CaS baniss will present~before the city commission as their. finding in the matter remains to be seen, and there Is strong probability of the report be- ing ready. for the commission meet ing Tuesday, or 6 special meeting before another Sunday finds Bir- watching the crowd have a good time In automobiles from the or watching the crowd from the sidewalk have 8 good time in al tonlobiles, as the case may be.
 Present at tho executive meeting in the city hall Monday afternoon were: President D. E. McLendon, of the city commission, and Commis- sioners Mary Echols, w. B. Cloe, w. l.. Harrison and ". E. Dickson. for the city, and Eugene l.. Brown, k. H. II. F. Badham, Herbert Tut wiler, F. NJ Kilby and others, rep resenting the country club.
 The belief was generally expressed In the city hall Monday that the sub ject of the blue laws will be under discussion at the regular meeting of the city commission Tuesday morn- against the enforcement of the dras tic laws, or for modification by mu- nicipal action, are expected to be heard.
 Blue laws were the one big topic in the city Monday and arguments could be heard or had wherever two or three were gathered together. The general consensus of opinion ap- peared to be against such stringent regulation, but there were very many who belieed the city should have and should enforce such laws.
 It was said the commission, which held a long executive meeting in the morning, ostensibly to discuss the budget, but at which it was said the blue laws and park board were also had considered a nodiflca- tion suggested for the drastic regu- lations for the time being, and then placing the question squarely up to vote of the citizens at the next elec- tion to let them decide for them- selves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
sh Papers Are Fauorabe To 12e Limit War On Rum Sugg
AERIAL WHEELBARR0W IS NEWEST IN LONDON
Four Horsepower Planes Stay Aloft
 Under Own Power

LONDON, Oct. S.-Two aerial wheel-barrows, the simplest motor- driven flying machines yet invented, will trundle from cloud to cloud in the gliding competition at the Lynn pne aerodrome which began Monday and will continue, unless all the planes should crash, until the end of the week.
 The wheel-barrows are engined with motors of slightly less than four horsepower, but preliminary can stay aloft and make progress under their own power. British manufacturers and designers of alr- planes suspect that they allowed themselves to be left astern during the last year when German and French competitors were making im- portant discoveries and establishing records for continuous flight with small machines, both motored and un- motored.
 If the tiny machines with their spunky little engines should make good the expectations of their pt- lots, they will be urged on the public as g necessary vehicle in every well kept garage.
 In addition to the wheel-barrow planes there are several other ma chimes with somewhat heavier engines whose function is, however, merely to act as auxiliary to the drifting power of the planes.
 Larry Carter and Jimmy James, winners of the British aerial derby; Fred Raysham. who shone in the first British gliding competition, and Godfrey De Haviland, designer of the famous ID. H." machines, will cOronete
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
WAR GENIE ETERY IN r RANGE DISRUPTED BY REMOVING DEAD
investigators Report Graves Have To Be Laid Out In
 Different Lines

PARIS, Oct. S.-(By Associated Press.)-Brig, Gen. Cornelius Wander bilt and Martin ". Idttleton, who have been conducting an investiga- ton into the condItione at Belleau Wood cemetery, where many Ameri- can soldiers are buried, today made public their findings.
 We found" said their statement, "that, due to the removal within the past few months of 1,500 bodies 1t be- came necessary to remove and con centrate the location of those re- maining. This necessitated laying out the cemetery on entirely diff ferent lines, which was done with great haste, but the required work of reconstruction, road building and drainage while remaining unfinished, makes the cemetery only partially accessible ana in it's torn up condi- tion 1t presents a disagreeable as- pect."
 The investigators say the work of reconstruction was let to sub-con- tractors without time limit. and con- sequently there is no means of say ing when the work will be com pleted.
 Concerning the colIecuon or money at the cemetery gate for the Bel lean Wood Memorial association" the reports say 100000 francs have been collected and deposited with the Bankers Trust company. Visitors to the cemetery are not importuned to contribute, there being merely sign above the register to the effect that "coptributions are accepted
 Nothing reprehensible or wrong has occurred in connection with this method of collection. 1t is said. The purpose for which the money Is col lected and the motives of all those engaged in the enterprise are char acterized as lofty and deserving or praise. but the report concludes:
 Receipt of money by an official of the government to be administered by voluntary association, is open to n,iseonstruction and criticism and should be discontinued"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
INTEREST IS REVIVED
Old Spanish Trail Association Adopts
 Tax Levy System

Tax Levy system
 \ NLoXLEY, Ala. Oct. s.-(Special Leased Wire. e.)--Naming Repositories for funds and deciding upon the pur- chase of road machines, the Old Spanish Trail association launched 2 revival of interest in highway work here at I4ox1ey Hall. Captain Jose Pose presided at the meeting which was addressed by Attorney Elliott G. Rickerby of Mobile.
 Under the plan adopted, all resi- dents within a two-mile zone of the Spanish trait will be taxed pro rata and graders and. scrapers will be purchased with money raised. A competent manager will be em- ployed to supervise the road work and the highway will be worked every day.
 The levy system calls for an assessment on every resident in two- mile zone on either side of the high way. Residents not owning cars will be taxed $1 month; owners of cars in the two-mile zone shall be as- sessed $2.50 monthly, six ~ months assessment to be paid in advance. All business men or firms shall be as- sessed S7.50 monthly, six months payable in advance, up to s21 a month.
 The Daphne Boat company Is as sessed S21 a month and Is also on the subscription list for $100.
 The Daphne State bank at Daphne and the Loxley State bank at Loxley will be depositing and collection agencies for the association. Gravel will be purchased and spread on the roads and the tractor and grader will be used daily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
RALLY SERVICE HELD
Successful Exercises Conducted At
 Marion Presbyterian Church


 MARION, Ala. Oct. s.7-tSpeclal.)- All over the southern Presbyterian church Rally Day" was observed yesterday when programs were rem dered bearing on Sunday school OK tension and offerings were made for that cause. The services at Marion Presbyterian church were very suc- cessful. The church was filled, more than 400 persons being present. The program was prepared by a committee composed of Mrs. M. H. Wilbourne, Miss Claudia HowZe and Mrs. Sara Rankin Blalock. Every department of the Sunday school was represented. The church was deco ated with ferns and goIdenrod. Five babies graduated from the cradle roll with appropriate exercises. The children were arrayed in college robes and caps and received the degree of "B. g." signifying bache- Tor of sweetness. Miss Mildred Vause, head of the violin department of Ala bama college at Montevallo, rendered beautiful violin solo. Other musi- cal numbers were a vocal quartet, Jesus Calls Today" by Misses 1nez White. Virginia Moore, Lillian Hoover and Virginia Hoover. and a solo, Holy, Holy, Lord" by Mrs. N. B. Mason.
 Rev. ". B. Clemmons. pastor of the church, delivered the certificates and diplomas for the work completed dur ing the past year as follows; thirty certificates for recitying "Child's Catechism," 16 certificates for recit- ing as many chapters in the Bible as the student was years old, three cer- tificates for reciting "Foard's Ques- tions of Presbyterianism," one certif- icate for finishing @ years course in the standard teacher training de- pertinent, eight diplomas for reciting the Shorter Catechism."
 The main address was delivered by Capt. Holmes Rolston, Jr., professor of mathematics in Marion institute.
 For the last three ears the Marion church has won the banner in Tusca- ioosa Presbytery for making the largest per capita offering on Rally Day for Sunday school extension and yesterday the offering was larger than for any previous year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
rom MTfNTCT TC NOlUlNUNE IO
 KICKED OUT AT
 LABOR MEETING
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 pulp sulphite and paper mill workers.
 Fred Mooney of the United Mine Workers of America opened the dis cussion when the convention reas- 4 sesnDica this afternoon by saying < that plrne was here for the sole purpose fof being rejected in order 10 maks propaganda material Tor the consraunist party. 5s Brands Communism.
 William Tracey of Chicago spoke against communism and the soviet government of Russia. He said the fo1loWers of William z. Foster in Illinois had been losing ground. A year ago. he said, in the Illinois State Federation of Labor convention, a resolution for union R1nalgamation had failed by only p votes and this year the same resolution had re- eeived only S1 votes out of 600 dele- gates.
 Dunnc rising to point of order when the discussion on the resolu- tion unseating him had closed, asked any chance to question the "prosecu- tloli' or whether this convention was star chamber session."
 President Gompers took exception to Dunne's attempt to characterize the convention as q "star chamber
 
 given to discussion. He overruled Dunne's motion. A vote by delegates then was called for.
 There was applause when the elec- trical workers, of which union Dunno had said he was member, voted in favor of the resolution un- seating him. When pulp sulphite and paper mill workers voted mo-" there WAS applause from the gall Ieries and President Gompers' gavel fell heavily. He said that if the spectators did not refrain from dem onstratlons the galleries would be closed.
 The convention rejected a resolu. ton to change labor day from Sep- tclnber 1 to May 1. resolution declaring for iimita- ton of tho powers of the supreme court of the United States and cleo ton Of federal judges for definite terms was adopted late today.
 A resolution was adopted com nending Governor Davis of Kansas for efforts to eliminate the cant strike' law of former Governor Allcn.
 The stand of the railway shopmen in the strike last year was approved
 Elimination of the railway labor board. which was characterized tyrannical was demanded in another resolution adopted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
WRIT TIES HANDS OF SIMMONS AND
 | CHICAGO kLANS
Fight Between Two Factions Of Order Heard In
 Court

CHICAGO, Oct. s.-(By Associated Press.)--A bill for an injunction Against William Joseph Simmons emperor of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and three representatives of three Chicago 'klans, against whom q temporary injunction re- gently was granted to prevent them functioning as klans, today was found technically faulty by Superior Judge Foell. The court. howeve~, allowed Charles G. Palmer, attorney and grand dragon of the realm of bill and the injunction stands.
 The three klans are alleged by Attorney Palmer to have seeded and aligned themselves with Elm peror Simmons, who has organized the Knights of Kamelia, which he describes as a higher order of klan craft, and later were banished by the national body.
 The defendants charge that the national offices were administered improperly and that incompetency and tyrannical methods toward klansmen were prevalent and adopt ed resolutions re-affirming their all legiance Co the principals of klan- craft but resolving to operate sepa- rately until Imperial Wizard Evans and his official family should be busted.
 Emperor Simmons has issued q proclamation addressed "to klars- men throughout the nation" to tho effect that he proposes ito elevate to the primary order of knighthood all klansmen. who by their conduct have proved loyal and faithful citizens of the invisible empire"
 The Knights of Kamelia is de- scribed as more strictly enforcing tho secrecy of membership. without no written records of any kind, and without regalia or public demonstra- tions and banning the mask.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
SELMA SUFFE RS
 znnEnT nLATr IAI BIG6kSI BLALE IN QUARTER CENTURY
Flames Bring Total Loss Of $185,000 To Lumber
 Company And Road

SELMA, Ala, Oct. s.--(Special Leased Wire.)--A general alarm of fire, unusual in Selma. rang from the high tower at, city hall Sunday night and in composite tones told the populaco that the town was suf- fering a fire loss, perhaps the big gest In It's history, certainly the largest within tho last quarter of a century. The flames first licked up and totally wiped out the entire branch of tho Central Alabama Luu- Der company, located on the line of the Southern Railway company, com prising the blaming, dressing and sawmills with the dry kilns of the plant, together with the entire stock of lumber in each, and also the lum- Der on the general yards of the com pany. Then jumping 200 yards down the Southern track the flames de- stroyed 3,200 tons of coal and the 45,0000 structure of the Southern coal chute. The total loss is estl- mated by Fire Chief Blakely to be s1S5,000. The loss of the railroad Is placed at s90,000 and that of the lum- Der corporation at about S95,000. s.. Eleven Cars Of Coal Burn.
 Eleven cars loaded and standing in the chute to be unloaded were con- sumed and metal parts of the cars are now hanging from the iron and steel girders of the structure like grim skeletons, relics of the terrible heat. All of the lumber plant was consumed except a small commissary and a storehouse where the com panys hardwood products were kept.
 The scene of the fire was consider ably beyond the city limits and the firemen were never able to get more than one stream of water on the fire and that through q line of hose reaching 300 feet to the nearest hy- drant. Chief Blakely says providence /alone kept three nozlemen from be- ing asphyxiated and then, roasted by the danse carbonized smoke and the intolerable heat of the burning coal. The wind shifted, he said, and we dragged the boys into the air and crisp cold of the night"
 Several Men Are Injured
 Several railroad men were injured, though not seriously in the excite ment and din of engines and bells and loading and moving cars of all sorts of commodities out of the dan ger zone. The burned coal chute stood in the general yard of tho Southern Railroad company where 100 cars were standing. some for un- loading here and some for points elsewhere. None of these cars or their contents were injured.
 The huge mass of coal Is still burning and will smolder and flare up for some time to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
DOWNING STREET MAY COMP PRON|SE ON LIQUOR RULING
Britain Still Fears lnterna- tionaI Ruling On Three
 Mile Limit

WASHINGTON, oct. S.--Expres- sions in British newspapers recently favorable to the acceptance of the F miles limit proposed by Secretary Hughes to curb liquor smuggling in the United States has caught the att tentions of officials here. While hope is entertained that the delibera- tions of the imperial conference will result in the decision to comply with Secretary Hughes suggestion, 1t was emphasized today that no authorita- tive indication has been received that such action would be taken.
 Additional data in support of the American treaty plan for dealing simultaneously with rum smuggling and the inconvenbences occasfoned British ships by enforcement of the Volstead act has been laid before the British foreign office by Amba ssador Harvey. In effect this is in answer to points made in the reply of the foreign office of the American pro- posal and was submitted prior to the meeting of the imperial conference in order that British officials might have a complete statement of the American viewpoint when the confer ence took up the question.
 Great Britafn's reply frankly stated that the foreign office was not fa- vorabIy inclined to the F mile limit of search and seizure proposal The specific objections made arc not con- sidered as insuperable from the Washington viewpoint In the com nlunicatj tjons to the foreign office made by MT. Harvey there 1t is un- derst6od that the American proposi- ton was explained at greater length.
 O O O
 Might Evaae g. Mile Limit.
 The chief British objection has been based on the fear that the plan might invade in some degree the rule of the international law that recognizes the three-mf1e line as the limit of terri toriaf jurisdiction. The Washington government take an exactly contrary view of the probabl effect of a spe- cific agreement to extend that limit up to f2 miles for the stated purpose of preventing the smuggling of con- traband articles into either country. Tn tha American view the agreement would only serve to make tho three mile limit since it was noted In the special treaty that 1t was section from a recognized principle of the international law.