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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
Earlier Reports
 Not Exaggerated

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. s.-(By Associated Press. .)-Every report re- ceivcd from Japan throughout the day either confirmed or increased previous estimates of the havoc wrought in death and destruction by the quadruple catastrophe which has befallen the central eastern sec tion of Hondo, largest of the islands of the Japanese empire.
 Beginning at noon Saturday with series of earthquakes which razed most of the city of Tokio and large sections of Yok johanna and other cities in the vicinity. the disasters was continued by fires which broke out
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
Labor Day Finds
 Strike Parties Inactive

PHILADELPHIA Sept. 3.--Labor Day found both sides in the anthra . cite wage controversy which has re- suited in complete suspenslon of production practically inactive. The conference of operators and miners
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
JAPANESE PRINCE BEAD

Nasayc hi Nrtsukata Dies Ol In-
 jurics Received Tn Quukr
 NAGAS-Ai<I, Sept. 2. -tBy Asso- ciated l'Fess.l -Prince Mfaayosui Matsukata, former premier and lord keeper ot the prity seal has d.eu from injuries suffered n the earth qia<e, according to a .eport rccei, cd by the Nagoya railway bureau,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
WHEAT FREIGHT RECORD
Barge Line Saves 80 Gents A Bushel
 In August

In August
 ST. LOUIS. Mo. Sept. S.--All pre- vious records of the federal barge line for the movement of wheat down the Mississippi river were broken during August, Assistant Manager of the line announced here today. He said that 1.364,707 bushels were car ried by the line last month with a saving in transportation rates to shippers, compared with railroad rates of S5S,223. or 3.9 cents bushel. Higgins added that the tonnage O.. all commodities hAno: ed by the line amounted to S5.000. the second largest in the history 1f sha servica-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
FOOD RIOTS RAGING AT TOKYO
DA VZS ASKS JOBS FOR AMERICANS FIRST WANTS GATE GURL

CITIZEN OF BIRMINGHAM POSES-Secretary of Labor James J. Davis iron puddler in the rolling mills here 29 the guest of Birmingham and Birmingham lodge Mo- 447 Loyal Order of Moose. Monday He is the national head of the Moose order Here he with Dr. H. A. tIkourie (right), dictator of the Birmingham lodge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04

JEFFERSON COUNTY TAX ASSESSMENTS THIS YEAR.
 $240,509,000, AN INCREASE OF $1,62s,452 OVER 1l922
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04

FORECAST FOR ALABAMA: CLOUDY EARLY TUESDAY, WITH PROBABLE SHOWERS
 TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12

TOR the first time in history a demonstration of mass games
and ~play-foral will be part of the program of the Olympic
games of 1924 in Paris. The idea and its application are an
American contribution. Strange as it may seem, the war gave
opportunity and impetus for the spread of these things as never
before. Outdoor games, basic in the formative life of most
Americans, from childhood up, the American way of reasserting
individuality, an ideal way of gaining worth by self-mastery and
cooperation While American athletics are distinguished by fine
and complicated technique, it is in America too, that group and
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12

work, and fostered moral fitness;
strengthened elements essential to
civic and military efficiency.
The most trying period for our
army in France followed the armis-
tice. The words, I'VE want to GO
home," then gained real meaning.
The real job seemed finished. Here
again athletics proved of extraordi-
nary service. Features of that time
were the building of the Pershing
Stadium near Paris and the holding
there of the great games which have
had a volume devoted to them
"The Inter-Allied Games"
There were many other forms of
entertainment. One phase has had
still another volume given to it,
Entertaining the American Army"
published by Association Press in
1921. Winthrop Ames said: EN-
tertainment has been discovered to
be not a luxury but a necessity-as
vital as sugar or food" And Angus
tus Thomas put it: Gas necessary
as a change of air in a room" Ames
and Edward H. Sothern, returning
from France, reported on April %,
1918. to the largest group of the
theatrical profession ever brought
together. The result was the or
~ganization of the Over There
Theatre League.
Funds and management were fur
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12

section of our population showed a
natural tendency to divide its athle-
tics between the great majority, the
%"fans," on the one hand, and the
actual teams on the other. The goal
was to make participants of all.
There were gathered in the sum-
mer of 1917 in the 10 officers train
ing camps those who we're to be
junior officers. Here the Y.M.C,A.
sent some of its foremost physical
directors. They were pioneers,
thrown largely on their own re-
sources, but pioneers In fertile terri
tory where they won from future
officers that cooperation which ulti-
mately produced the gigantic total
of 100000 participants in various
games at home and overseas.
With congenial occupation pro-
vided for leisure time, the great
majority of soldiers freely chose
it in preference to indulgences. They
found contests and games so ar
ranged that not the picked men of a
group but all the men were matched
against all of a similar group.
The major results were concrete.
They contributed directly and i'm
mediately to the primary task. They
helped to make good soldiers. They
increased physical agility, stimulated
the fighting spirit promoted team
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12

bling have come in to destroy morals,
weaken the individual.
An army properly representative
of America must not only be a we'll
equipped, we'll drilled army, but a
victorious army, no matter what the
tide of war. Both officers and folks
at. home determined that 1t must be
a happy, healthy army, a clean army.
They were united in the determina-
ton to provide proper recreation as
a change from the monotony of end
less restrictions and for relief from
the strain of front-line service.
The American army as a cross
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12

nished by the Y.M.C.A., 1900 pro-
f~essional men and women enter
tainers were recruited, and four play
factories" set up for the organization,
training and equipment of soldier
shows. AT the height of its activi-
ties there were 700 soldier shows and
200 soldier actors in this organiza-
ton. The leading of singing and
organizing and equipment of soldier
orchestras should also be mentioned.
Long before the armistice, individ-
uals and small troupes were sent
wherever American soldiers were
in France and in the British Isles.
In 1917 General Pershing had in-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12

of S31 Washington. street, died sud-
denly at her home this morning. She
was taken i'll and died of heart dis
IA a half hour after a physician
was called. Besides her husband she
is survived by five children. Ar
rangements for the funeral are being
completed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12
AUTOPSY PERFORMED

NEW BRUNSWICK. Oct. 49,
An autopsy on the body of Max N.Y.
son. of Newark, who died a few min
utes after he had complained of ill
ness at st. Peters hospital here
will be performed sometime today.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12

structed the Y.M.CA. to take charge
of "the biggest star overseas" the
movies. III April, 1918, the Com
munity Motion Picture Bureau,
which had been supplying aims in
the home camps, extended hs service
overseas and became the cinema de-
partrnent of the Association. During
the height of its activities at home,
on transports and overseas, this
undertaking exceeded in size az #
the great commercial companies.
One of the lessons Of the Great
War is thar clecn diversion IS re
salvation of IN s-my anu a protec-
uon for the clsl:an POPULATION.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12
o h W.

Seymour Cohn, who is
helping make the streets of Kenosha,
Wis, safe for school children.
Pupils in the upper grades there are
empowered to arrest motorists who
do not respect speed laws near school
buildings.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12

! While the authorities are satisfied
that Myson's death was due to nat
ural causes, the autopsy will be per-
formed to abandon any eventuality
over it that may later arise.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12

The major results of continual recreation for 1eisu re time were Co
renewed, physical agility, promoted team work, a nd fostered mora
group OF soldiers are arrayed for amateur theaticals. Many of these CT
mass games have had their largest development.
The moment that the young men of America began to be drawn
into the environments it became necessary to provide entertainment
and relaxation. This task was relatively as formidable as organiz-
ing the military undertaking; both had to be achieved on an un-
~precedented scale. Officers had neither time nor experience for
directing recreation, so the problem became one for the welfare
organizations.
ENDLESS COULD NOT BE ENDURED
The first lessons of the recruit could he be left to his own resources
were discipline and drill, but no in times of relaxation. It is in the
soldier. be he rookie or veteran. relief from discipline after battle
ea.II nD on..ea:a ~. - -as:aa dsha.shsr. nj uan.s
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12

could he be left to his own resources
in times of relaxation. 1t is in the
relief from discipline after battle
that rapine. debauchery and gam
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-12

The first lessons of the recruit
were discipline and drill, but no
soldier, be he rookie or veteran.
could endure endless restraint Nor
, 1923-04-13
No Chances on
18th, Man Will
Remain In Bed

MACON. Ga. April 13.-J. A
Paraham. Macon business man. an
nounced that he would spend today,
Friday the 18th in bed. in the hope
that he will get through the day
safely. He gave as his reasons:
while working on a machine in
his garage n steel splinter struck
him in the eye. destroying the sight
ON the thirteenth OF the month.
THE following month. also on
the 18th, he broke an arm while
%cranking an automobile.
"Then in the mex month. also on
the 18th. he slipped on grease In
his garage and broke his leg.
For two months thereafter. by
using extra precautions. he got by
without a mishap.
"Then the 13th rolled around
again. and while he was watching
mechanics at work on an automo-
bile a block broke loose from its
fastening. fell or his foot and
mashed 1t.
Last month, on the 18th. his
garage was destroyed by fire."
, 1923-04-13

The guaranteed. net PAID circula-
ton of the Tribune is now rapidly ap-
preaching the IL, 900 mark Figuring
an average of four readers TO each
paper-which is the customary basis
for computation-that means that
about 10000 persons daily are read
ing the Tribune. Ninety-five percent
OF the people of Casper, and
thar / 5000 outside the city itself. are
Tribune readers. Think of what that
means to the advertisers.
As anyone realizes who knows any
thing about advertising. the PAID
circulation is tho only kind that
counts. 1t is only the small-timer. the
man with a fy-by-night proposition
or the merchant on his last legs who
trusts to the "handbiu' type of ad-
vertising for getting his goods before
the public. No reputable business
house In all America which adver-
tises nationally uses anything but a
with a PAID FOR circu-
lation. And no reputable business
house but demands an A b. c. ac'
counting: thai they may be sure they
are spending their money where they
will get returns
You would not think of going into a
big deal without examining the books
of the company in which you were
going to buy an interest, say. That
would not be good business. And 1t
is equally true that IL is not good
business to buy advertising without
KNOWING what you are getting.
Az A "a q renort ia YOUR protection.
The A. b. C. INVESTIGATES for you.
You have neither the time nor the
facilities for knowing whether a
newspapers circulation is what the
paper says It is, or whether 1t Is a
, 1923-04-13
FRENCH PLANS
BEING COMPARED

PARIS. April 13.-By The As
ISOLATED PresseA ~re-welding OF the
i%nter-allied front is expected to result
from today's meeting OF the Franco
Belgian ministers heree. at which a
~reparatlons plan drafted by the
French experta will be compared to
one drawn up by tho Belgians.
1t is understood that the two differ
only slightly. inasmuch as Premier
Poiuscare through Louis Loucheur,
and the Belgian government through
its representatives in London. havn
sounded the British government as to
its attitude toward the question.
The French plan was prepared by
the foreign office experts in close coll
liberation with the r-eparations COM
mission. lie Matin. which prints a re-
sumo of the drafts, says it leaves the
total German indebtedness at 1872. 00O.-
900. 900 gold marks. out provides for
n method OF payment which would
lessen the burden OF the debt and at
the same tine accelerate the Install
ments during the next few years. II
France I'm that period is able. through
international credit operations. to get
26. 900 900 900 gold marks. represent
ing the "a and "B' German bonds
us well as her past and future expen,
diture for the devastated regions, she
is ready to make concessions for the
remainder. says tho newspaper. .
Part Of tho German debt. mobiin-
Continued on Page Five.)
, 1923-04-13
every water ORDER HOLDS
MEANING ALL ITS OWN; HILL
CREST IS In ON GREAT SECRET

So II transpired that after a little
amateur Sherlock Holmes work,
with a toucch OF Hawkshaw thrown
In, the Hill Crest manager learned of
certain local home brewing activities.
Now a manager for a spring water
concern does not have TO tell the
revenue or enforcement officers al.
he knows. and he loo not customar-
lily impart such Information int the
sheIl-like ear of the sheriff. There
is nothing compelling him so to do,
and naturally he would not do It. 1t
wouldn't be good business-whnt
with the ten gallon orders coming
in so fast they could rot DO filled the
same day. But the Tribune learned
from the officials of the Hi Crest
that this is about what happened:
Scme months & a gentleman of
pleasing manner wandered in to Cas-
per. In his pocket he had a little
leather case, containing Walls of var
ious kinds and colors. The Walls CON
tanned samples of n grape concen-
trate-nothing but the Juice of tho
grape, concentrated without heat.
with fermentation properties intact.
There IL no alcoholic content in
these walls. No test can be made
which reveals more han half Of one
percentum Of forbidden stuff. Neither
is their any alcohol in the five gal
IONS of concentrate sent TO anyone
in n fifteen gallon key, on payment
of n few coarse American dollars,
Therefore the gentleman OF the pleas
ing amer. who shall be nameless.
is selling nothing Illegal.
! OF course, II you get ten gallons of
water-it must be soft, spring water
and add It to the five gallons of
concentrate in the key. pouring 1t
In at a tepid temperature with the
addition Of a few yeast cakes. certain
things are bound to happen. Dame
Nature is a careless old party. and
thinks nothing OF breaking the law.
Ono would think some times that
Dame Nature had never heard of the
Eighteenth Amendment.
The gentlemen OF the pleasing man
ner warns you that II you add ten
gallons of boiling water to the five
gallons in the key, It win never fer
ment. SO OF course you heat the WA
ter TO a boiling point. OF counsel But
on this point the information of the
Hill Crest officials gives out.
"I amt saying nothing" observed
tho spring water manager. sagncious-
ly. ''but II ! was to order ten gallons
of Hill Crest water to put into an
innocent looking fifteen gallon keg.
/ wouldn't boil it. Boiling spoils
things. And besides. Hi Ores,
coesn't need itl-
And II. after adding tho tepid wa
ter. nature should take Its course
II fifteen gallons OF Burgundy. or
Sautelle. or Rhine wine. or Sherry,
or Port. or Chant grew in your eel
lar where only five gallons OF non-al.
ccoholic fluid bloomed before. would
you object.
No. The chances are you would OBJ
serve the marvels OF Mother Nature
with what oalmness you could com
mhnd and wonder how william II
Anderson was getting on
, 1923-04-13
COURT FIGHT LOOMS OVER Child
MRS.. THOS. BATY SEEKS CUSTODY.

and Mrs. Roland Tansey. Anna
Grace. the daughter. with two other
children. were awarded to the father.
and the mother subsequently married
Thomas Baty. The couple moved to
Casper some time ago.
The grounds on which Mrs. Baty
will make her fight to retain the girl
is that in 1929, two years after the
original award, that a second court
order gave the custody OF the girl to
State Land Commissioner Haven and
his wife of Denver. The couple are
tho foster parents of Mrs. Baty.
Mrs. Baty also declares tina Judge
Dunn. OF Littleton, Colo. who granted
the divorce. was prejudiced in favor
OF Mr.. Tansey through friendship
with the latter's father who is the
mayor Of Littleton. and this may have
been partly responsible for his giving
the girl to the father.
Wyoming officials entered into the
case for the frs time last Satur,
day when Mr.. Tansey arrived in
Continued on Page FiveA
, 1923-04-13
OCCUPATION TO
FIZzLE UNLESS
PRODUCTION IS
GIVEN INPE
New Plans Considered IN
Franco Belgian Farley
AT Paris to Map Out
Reparations Program.

PARIS, April 10. - (By
The Associated Press.)-The
premiers of France and Bel
GUM, with their principal
ministerial advisers, met here
today in an important confer
ence on h reparation question.
Ono of tho main objects is the de-
vising OF new measures to make the
Ruhr occupation productive. 1t is
commended that as lonS as the Ruhr
is unproductive OF coal II will be diff
ficult to persuade the Germans to 40
cept the Belgian viewpoints.
While the French and tho Belgians
are issuing figures 10 show that since
the Brussels conference the daily coal
and coke production has increased
from 5000 tons to 5000 tons, the
German reparation delegates in Paris
declare that after three months of
occupation tho two allies are obtain
ing less han 1000 tons daily.
Those who are in touch with tho
| official German viewpoints declare
that Germany will not negotiate so
long as the allies occupy tho Ruhr
ana tney contend inc Two al1e0 pow
ers arc ''killing the goose that laid
the golden egg since the Ruhr now
is unprofitbble ara Germany's ability
to pay any ~reparations is diminish
ing.
The explanation offered of the suo-
cess OF the German passive resistance
is the attitude of tho worlSmen who.
1t is asserted. will not now. and mover
will, work in tho presence of French
troops.
When the French and Belgians en-
tered the Ruhr early in January the
allies as n whole were receiving a to.
tai of 1900 900 tom of coal monthly.
OF which the French share was l..
900 900 toni 1t is said hat Italy,
is receiving her full quota of Goa as
provided under the 1929 re~parntions
schedule. o.
Germany has been able likewise to
continue her shipment of GAL to
Switzerland and Holland under h
old ecoonmic agreemets. separate
from the r~eparation questions. {
, 1923-04-13

Following a conference this morn
ing with their attorney. w. @. Harris.
state humane officer and E. H.. Eos
ter. prosecuting attorney, Mr.. md
Mrs. Thomas Baty of South Wolcott
street have decided to make a strenu-
Gus fight to retain tho custody OF
Mrs. Baty's daughter, f~ive-year-old
Anna Grace Tansey, for whose alleged
Kidnapping from a Pullman sleeper
last Saturday night Mr.. Baty was ar.
rested.
The farther along the case has gone
the more complicated it has become
and at the present time there are a
dozen officials from two states, the
principals and several interested
friend involved. No further action
will be taken in prosecuting the case
until a conference is had with the
Colorado officials.
A recital of the Incidents in the case
reads like modern fiction with the end
OF the story not yet in sight.
The trouble gained its inception In
the divorce in Colorado in 1920 OF Mr.
, 1923-04-13
LAST CHAPTER IN
TRAGIC ROMANCE

MUSKOGEE. okla. April 1s.-By
The Associated PressSThe execution
of Paul Hadley ends the most tragic
romance ever recorded in official
documents of Oklahoma.
Since 1916. when Hadley and his
bride. Ida. were tried in district court
here for the murder OF Sheriff w. II,
Giles of jefferson county. Texas, the
pair had held n unique in the place
of crime of the state.
Their story was ono of love that
led to tragedy. hope that lived fit.
fully and then today to death and
despair.
The trial perhaps was the most sen.
sational ever held in the state.
Hadley was being returned from
Kansas City TO Texas to answer a
minor charge when Sheriff Giles was
killed.
Giles. the father of a large family,
could not refuse the pleas of Ida
Hadley hat she be allowed to accom-
pany her husband and permitted her
to be with him on the trip.
Az the fast Missouri. Kansas and
Texas railroad train crossed the line
between Muskogee and Mcintosh
counties. tho woman. mad with the
thought hat Paul might be taken
from her. shot the sheriff, Jerked the
bell cord and. as tho train came to
n stop. Jumped with her husband,
from the car into n nearby thicket.
Fol "a hours posses from Muskogee
and MsIntosh counties searched the
countryside. Finally the pair was ar
rested in Mcintosh county.
They were tried here. h was &C
quilted. but the husband was found
guilty and sentenced to life i'm.
prisonment.
Ida begged to accompany her hus
band to the penitentiary. Her pleas
unvailing she led an attempted jail
break. was captured IND sentenced to
the p-enitentiary. Peace officers de.
clared 1t was only a plan 10 obtain
her entrance into the st ateprison.
Her sentence was ten years.
At tho penitentiary. guards often
found It necessary to lead her to her
husbands cell and let her calm her
self by talking to him.
Two years ago Hadley. then a trus.
ty. was released from the p~enitentiary
to perfect an invention. He never no.
turned. The first word from him
came from Tucson. Ariz.. where un.
der tho name of William s. Estaver,
he was on trial for the murder of Mrs.
CONTINUED on Page Flve.)
, 1923-04-13

AS the priests body slipped to the
floor. Dillon according to his story
gave Father Mccullough a phial con-
tanning holy oils and told him to ad-
minister the sacrament of extreme
JUNCTION at once
IT knelt before God and prayed that
something would happen to that
man." Father Dillon was quoted as
saying in a statement to Prosecutor
Stephen H.. Wattles.
II had no right to kill Father
O'Neill; not one right in the world
the statement said. IT took hat in
my own hands and ] killed him. I
want to go to Jackson tthe state
PRISON.. I'd rather have the chair.
~ never did any harm in my life
never took a sent from anybody. The
gentle little children all over Mich
igan will tell you they love me-"
, 1923-04-13

w Nhc AA+]OAa acoclN Al NNOfSAACSA
1921.
In tho group of IS persons who wit
messed the hanging was Peter John
son, husband of tho slain woman
at thu time his wife was killed. was
the states principal witness in Had.
ley's two trials.
Not until nearly midnight was
hope abandoned for a stay of execu.
ton for tho condemned man. His at
torney. John l.. Van Buskirk of Tue.
son. made an eleventh hour appeal
TO Governor Hunt for a further hear
ing on the plea for a commutation OF
sentence to life imprisonment but was
unsuccessful
Hadley's body unclaimed by rela
tives, was buried on the prison
grounds. At his request the mask
was not removed from his face. He
is survived by his aged mother, two
divorced wives and two children. &c
cording to his attorney. Mrs. Ids
Hadley, the second wife, who served
with him In tho Oklahoma peniten
tiary, secured a divorce recently
The first wife inc two children ar
living in New York, but the attorne.
refused to disclose her name.
, 1923-04-13

with honors thus far about evenly
now famous prize campaign are pre-
pairing with feverish haste and in
tensity to make their final stand for
victory before 10 o'clock this coming
Saturday night-the close of the sec
ond period schedule of votes.
Surging forward at the rate of sew
eral thousand votes n clip. all OF
tho leading candidates r dashing
through the final days at top speed
s%training every nerve in their final
Efforts for supremacy.
Action Grows Faster.
More general and concerted action
should take place during the next
few days than at any other time since
the contest began and with the race