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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
Says Petroleum Industry Now In Midst Of Crisis

TITUSVILLE, Pa, August 27.-(By Associated Press .)-The present crisis in the petroleum industry pre- sents an economic problem which as Vitally affects the gasoline consumer of the future as the gasoline user of today, A. c. Bedford, chairman of the board of the Standard oil Com pany of New Jersey, declared onight iH an address at services to celebrate the memory of Edward Laurentine Drake, the founder of the petroleum industry"
 "Whatever the outcome" he said, mately foretold, the extent of the problem of enormous storage for the CT Ude or gasoline must rest upon the results of such eXpedients as already resorted to, such as the reduction in the price of certain grades of crude, the prorating of runs of other steps designed to curtail production.
 If the task of financing and carrying over a huge surplus of either crude or gasoline is forced on the industry, it will undertake and accomplish this as 1t has before un- dertaken and accomplished tasks be- yond its apparent capacity.
 Tn a highly competitive business such as the oil industry ultimate so- lution of the problem will rest with the law of supply and demand.
 We are now in the midst of a crisis in the industry, and l have no desire to minimize the extremely se- rious aspects of the situation but I must confess that if the petroleum industry ever ceased to be abnormal l think l should find it very dull in- deed "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
COLONEL SIMMONS CONDEMNS KLAN'S PARADE
Says Better Element Of KIna Are "AII Gone Or
 Going"

ATLANTA, Ga, August 27.-The breach between the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and the orders founder and emperor became wide chasm Monday as the result of the rioting attending the breakup of the Blan parade in Carnegie, Pa, Sat urday night.
 Bitterly attacking Hiram Wesley Evans. the Imperial Wizard, and in- timating that Evans and members Of the Klan involved in the Carnegie riots had placed themselves in such a position as to forfeit American citizenship and all rights in the Knights of the Ku kluX Klan, Col. William J. Simmons, founder and emperor, declared in a public state lnent that order had "crumbled at the top" and that the better element of the Klan "are all gone or are going
 Simmons, who has frequently uuarreled with Evans before and split openly with the wizard when Evans protested his organization of the Kamelia. referred to the latter as Imperial Wizard flor the time be- ing" And declared that he was sur rounded In the imperial palace by "gunmen."
 "Evidently he invaded Pennsylva- Dia briStling with guns ana uaH 5 ei9 said Simmons, and his very presence vas an offence against peace and or der and a challenge to peaceful and abiding citizens to either inter cent or expel him and his followers.
 Presence of the "gunmen" here, he charged, had gone long way toward fomenting and preclpatlns g the eruptions of lawlessness which at present are breaking out through out the country"
 "A company of men, purporting 10 represent any cause however patrl- otic or christian, invading soVer- eign state and bearing arms, Is a challenge to the police power ana to the self-respecting American cltl- zen of their state to restrain them and to resist them
 If such company is carrying the name and insignia of klSnsmen, they are not only in the position of TOT feitinp American citzenshp but they have also at the same tme forfelted all rigts in the Knights of the k
 "The stabilizing element of thoughtful, conservative, peace loV- ing and law abiding men that 1 bIilt into the order arc all gone or are going. This great American or eanization has crumbled at the top and is now being so directed as that all of the fundamental principles are being subverted and all of the org insl purposes are being fhwafleo'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
OPPOSES PARDON
 0F WAR PRISONERS
LandiS Strong For Bonus And Man Who Wore The
 Uniform

JONESBORO, ARK, August 27.- K M. Landis, commissioner of base ball, addressing the state convention of the Arkansas department of the American Legion which opened it's sessions here today, declared he hoped to see the election of Presi- dent of the United States who would refuse to pardon single war pris- oner," He vigorously scored the so. cialist party for what he termed it's action in oppbsing the government in the prosecution of the late war against Germany.
 Commissioner Landis strongly voiced his advocacy of the soldiers bonus and directed keen sarcasm against opponents of the measure. In accounting the events leading up to the recent war and the conduct of the war, he asserted his belief that President Wilson had guided the destinies of the county in a re- markab1e manner"
 The speaker urged that the legion exclude from it's membership all per asons except those who wore the uniform" in the late conflict While he could not, he said, become a mem Der of the great service mems or ganiZation, he was able to help bear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
FEAR ALABAMA'S
 WATER POWER
 IS IN DANGER
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CTS contended that Senator Fosters action was inspired by some Of Fords friends in order to get the matter going and insure the legis- lature doing something.
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 wortAinstOn On Job.
 One fact, however, which draws attention to the importance of the situation Is that Col J. w. Worth lngton, Fords personal representa- tive In Washington and for many years a most active figure in Ala bama water power development rushed down from Washington to Montgomery and spent practically all last week at the Alabama capital and participated in numerous conferences in connection with the new develop ments. It was understood in Bir- mingham Monday that Colonel Worthington was still in Montgom- cry and that he and his friends were busy in their efforts to save the sit ress of the attitude indicated by the action of the house on Friday.
 Senator Walter Brewer of Jeffer- son, who was in Birmingham Mon day, was inclined to believe that the resolution was calculated to cause delay in getting the legislature on record for a progressive and safe water power policy. The senator re- gards three of the most important points which should be embraced in such expression of policy would be to follow the federal government in putting a 50-year limit on fran chises for power development, for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
WILL DETERMINE IF
 MONEY IS BERGDOLL'S
Federal Agents To Investigate
 Whole Matter Of Ownership

WASHINGTON August 27.-De- partment of justice agents will en- deavor to determine whether the gold coin reported to have been dug up recently near Hagerstown, Md, by a road worker is the property ot Grover c. Bergdoll, Philadelphia draft evader, now in Germany.
 Announcing tonight that arrange ments had been made with William J. Burns, chief of the departments bureau of investigation for agents experienced in the Bergdoll case to investigate the whole occurance in the vicinity of Hagerstown," Thom- as W. Miller. alien property custo- dian, declared the United States, through this office will be inter- ested," if the money proves to be Bergdolls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
PROJECTED ROAD WORK USES FUNDS TO 1926
Minutes Of Highway Board Cor
 recfed Tn Show This Tact

Project statements providing Tor highway construction work in Ala bama with state and federal funds call for the expenditure of all funds available in 1929. 1924, 1925 and sS50. 0G0 of the fund available in 1926, according to correction of the min utes of the state highway commission made at the meeting Monday after noon on motion of J. H. Scruggs of Birmingham, member from the Ninth district.
 This means that new project state ments must await the coming of 1926 before they can be converted into road construction contracts. At the last meeting MT Scruggs made a motion that the. condition of the high way projects be noted on the minutes of the commission for the conformation of the public. He called attention Monday afternoon to the fact that probably through an error the fact was not included in the minutes. The correction was made without debate. MT Scruggs said he believed the in formation should be placed in the minutes for the guidance of the pub lie in the future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
ARRESTED; TAKES POISON
BENToNYILLE. Ark.. August 2

BENTONVILLE, Ark, August 27. Archie King, 25, becoming i'll shortly after he had been arrested yesterday at Rogers on a charge of breach Of the peace sworn to by his wife, is said to have admitted to a depunty sheriff that he swallowed poison just before he was taken into custody He died half an hour after he had reached the county jail here. In dispatches last night the mans name was enormously given as Rogers.
 it's burdens and work out it's prob lems."
 q always want to he an assistant brother-in-law to the legion" he declared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
ONE MAN KILLED AND NINE HURT IN CRASH
Trans Channel Airplane Falls In
 Enpland

LONDON. August 27-One man was killed and nine injured when French trans-channel airplane crashed in Kent Monday afternoon.
 The man killed is M. Gunther, a Frenchman and wealthy Parisian merchant It is understood that all passengers on the plane were French.
 The machine left Le Bourget air drome, Paris. at 12:45 D. m. Flying over the regular route over northern France. it crossed the channel at a high altitude and was speeding over Kent toward Crydon, the London air port. when engine trouble developed causing the crash
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
DENIED BOND
Tom CIeveIand's Trial Will Be Set
 Today

MOBILE, Ala. August 27-(Spe- , cial Leased Wire .)-The trial date for Tom Cleveland, aged S1 in prison without bail on charge of murder in connection with the death of Step hen Tossing, aged S9 years last Fri day, will be set conference of state and defense attorneys tomor- row. Cleveland has been refused bail following the death of the aged man who was killed when a load of bird shot struck him in the head.
 William Henderson, grandson of the dead man. was today arrested and charged with affray as the resul of his fight with Jack Cleveland, Mo bile county commissioner and father of Tom Cleveland. which is said to have led up to the shooting of Loss ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
CAVE-IN KILLS THREE
, Lives Of SmaI Boys Crushed Out
 At Play

DETROIT, Mich., August 27- Three small boys wkere killed late Monday when a brick wall caVed in on a gravel yard where they were playing. Fifteen other children mar rowly escaped death, but were able to scamper 10 safety The victims were Ponta Peter, '; Louis Frontier, ', and Alex Kostoff 8.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
ng Queen Marie or Rounana Seeks Prince or Wales
SEEK KIDNAPPED CHILD
Five Thousand Boy scouts Join l

Five Thousand Boy Scouts JsiR In
 The Search
 NEW YORK, August 27.-The host of detectives and investigators searching for Lillian Mckenzie, three months old, when she was kidnaped nine days ago, was augmented today by 5000 Boy Scouts and the Salva- tfon' Army in the metropolitan dis trlct. Two clues, that for time, seemed to lead on hot trails, were abandoned after investigation.
 The report of discovery of baby answering Lillian's description on a baby farm on Long Island and an- other like the infant in a nursey in Brooklyn wepe investigated and in each case detectives returned de- iected to report that the infant was not the missing child.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
SWEEPING PROBE OF OIL AND GAS PRICES IS ASKED
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Governor McMaster ordered public service depots of his state to sell gasoline at 16 cents a gallon after which the Standard oil company of Indiana met his price and later re- duced gasoline 6.6 cents throughout the territory served by it. Indepen- dents either met the reduction of the Standard or made smaller reucttons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
ANnTHER CLIMATE ROOsT

LOS ANGELES. Cal. August 27- Native sons and daughters who boast of the wonderful climate and accept the many scandals among movie folks with unperturbed calm want to ig nore the report of the federal revenue agents issued Monday. Of approXi- mately 10,023 stills seized in the United States this year it has fallen to the lot of the Golden State to sur render 3,926 of them, It is reported picture dubbed "Stilled Stills" may be produced soon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
MAY RRACE DANCERS

NEW YORK, August 27.-A device to be worn by dancers to keep their heads in the proper position and their bodies the correct distance apart is wanted by the American Society of Teachers of Dancing, and to this end prizes cf S1O0, $50 and S25 were an nounced today a the opening of the society's forty-sixth annual conven- tion in the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria.
 With the foxtrot and it's variations holding forth almost exclusively on the dance floor nowadays, the society is also out for a new dance rythm and is willing to pay $500 to it's in ventor, according to President R. w. Vizay of Milwaukee. The one-step two-step, half-step and what-not steps are officially in the discard and MT. Vizay says somebody should be able to devise a satisfactory five step, seven-step Or some other step to relieve the monotony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
PUBLIC MUST BE GUARDED AGAINST STRIKE = PINCHOT
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NNHhoHWNW AANm "sN keep confidential whatever proposi- tions he might make in executive ses- sions later concluded his address.
 To the list of unofficial advisers and helpers in the mediation attempt. Governor Pinchot tonight added the name of Bishop Michael J. Hoban, head of the Catholic school at .scran- ton. m the heart of the anthracite territory. A number Of men familiar with past anthracite controversies too already gathered at the capitol while the governor maintained the poAition that he was interested in anybody who might be of assistance.
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 Want S2 Increase.
 Tn dealing with the situation the governors speech emphasized the fact that he considered himself ',repre. sentative of the commonw wealth of nsylvania." There was scarcely mention of the conference held by him previously with President Cool idge, except in the statement that he had been informed he was not run ming counter to federal wishes.
 The unions full wage demand is for $2 a day increase of pay of men employed by the day and 20 per cent increase by the piece rates per ton for mining coal. A contract for two years at this scale, and installa- ton of check off" by which opera tors would be required to hold out pay rolls and turn over to the union dues owed by the employees are among other demands.
 The scale committee suggestion as to the governors intent, found how ever, little to justify it in the first days proceedings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
FAKE RUN ON BANK

DENVER Col, August 2I-An un- known woman, police believe Mon day, was responsible for the run on the Home Savings Bank and Trust company which started Friday night and continued until Sunday Hun dreds stampeded to withdraw their drawing accounts, and many of them said a woman had told them the bank was about to be closed by eX- aminers. Depositors were returning their money to the bank Monday and police continued their search for the woman She is subject to a $500 fine and year in prison if caught.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
party which included at

urday night party which included at least two other men.
 The medical examiner said the two women in the apartment were sisters. He had not asked their names be- cause he had thought there was noth- ing strange about the death. neither had he inquired about details of the party. Suthhen was 36 and married
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
EXPECT FULLER INDICTMENT

NEW YORK, August 27.-Indict- ments against those involved in the many different angles of the D. M Fuller & Go. S6,000 900 bucketshop failure, are expected this week from the federal grand jury Investigating the case, 1t was said today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
CLEVELAND PRESENTED

CLEVELAND, O., August 2S.- Holding the republican national con- vention next year in Cleveland as a momerial to the late President Harding will be an argument made by prominent republicans in this city, who will. withing few days, put the matter before President Cool idle; Ma tional Chairman JChn T. Adams and Rudolph Hynicka of Gin cinnati, national committeeman from q
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
LAST MINUTE
 NEWS BRIEFS
 OFF THE WIRE

LOS ANGELES August 27.-James Kirkwood, 0motion picture actor who was gravely injured in a fall from a horse while riding at Beverly Hills near here, last Saturday, was still unconscious late today and his phy- sicians said that it was Impossible to state at this time" whether he would recover from the basal frac- ture of the skull and brain concus- sion suffered in the accident.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
MAYOR MILAN ILL

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y, Au- gust 27.-Mayor John F. Hylan of New York is confined to his bed here tonight suffering from what his physician declares to be 8 touch of pleurisy and bronchitis.
 The physician does not consider his patient to be dangerously i'll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28

feiture, of franchise rights unless de l velopment is made within a period of five or ten years and small hors@ power unit tax assessable against both developed and undeveloped power to provide fund with which the state could make the necessary surveys to determine the states power possibilities and the amount of power which it is possible to de- velop at the various sites
 It was said in Birmingham Monday that the question had reached the point where it promised to get to the center of the stage al Montgomery within the next few days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28

Above is the. InsigniS of the Society of Practical Psychology. It is concrete symbolical expression of the attributes of the Society. The figure of MINERVA, the Goddess of Learning, and MERCURY, the God of Progress, clasping hands each the equal of the Other-indieating aternalism-NlNERVA with the sword of TRUTH ip her hand, and MERCURY with the torch of Enlightenment in his hand and the wings of Speed on his feet. The GLOBE-meaning the entire Earth
 is our field. The Capitol at Washington typifying that it is now the Capital City of the WOrld--and the Executive Home of our Society. The CRUCIBLE AND GRADUATE indicate Science-the OWL, Wislom--the ALTAR, RevereHce-the OAK LEAVES, Strength-and the LAUREL LEAVES, Victory.
 The INSIGNIA was designed and drawn by member of the Society--a resident of Birningh Charles KOops. Com potent artists and critics to whom it was submitted were unanimous in prOnOunc- ing that it was inspired by his en- thusiasm of the Society's great aims and the work of a genius. Mir. Hoops has promised to have his photograph made soon, when we will take pleasure in hav- ing it printed so that the citizens of Bir- mingham will have the opportunity of seeing and knowing that they have among them a quiet, unobtrusive gentleman and artist that any city in the world would be proud of.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
CENSORSHIP SET Up
OVER TULSA PAPER
Step Taken in Gov. WaIton's
-
War With kIan in
Oklahoma.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, September IA
military censor took up his post in
the editorial room of the Tulsa
Tribune, an afternoon newspaper. at
noon today He ordered proofs" of
all news matter relating to Gov.
Walton and martial law in Tulsa
county to be submitted to him for
approval.
Z The censor is Maj. Roark of Okla
homa City. a former newspaper man
and an officer in the Oklahoma Ma
tIonal Guard contingent here to en-
force military rule.
New military operations threaten
Oklahoma in the war between Gov.
Walton and the Ku Klux Klan over
mob fioggings. These are the outstand-
ing developments:
Muskogee faces martial law unless
w. r. Sampson resigns as exalted cy-
clops of Muskogee Klan, No. 3, to-
gether with his secretary. Gov. Wal
toms ultimatum expires at o'clock
tonight. Simpson announced that nell
ther he nor his secretary would heed
the ultimatum.
i uISd COuLlS W III Dt ldhen over
completely" by troops unless Sheriff
Bob Sanford, Police Commissioner
Harry w. Kiskaddon and the three
members of the county jury commits
sion resign within the next few days.
Oklahoma City and Oklahoma county
are next in line for martial law, ac-
cording to Gov. Walton.
State investigators are running
down fiogging cases In, a number OF
counties. Martial law will be declared
at any place where local authorities
show a disposition to protect whip
pers, it, was stated by the governor.
DIR. J. A. walker, alleged exalted
cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan at
Shawnee, and c. NJ Reber, former
major in the Oklahoma National
Guard, are under $4,000 bond on
charges of riot filed by Claude Hen
don, county attorney of Pottawat-
tonne county. DR.. Walker and Reber
are alleged to have advised and plan
ned the hogging of four men at a
regular. NEE ting of the Shawnee Klan
attended by 500 members. I'VE don't
want martial law in shawnee" said
County Attorney Hendon as he re-
doubled his efforts. to clear up fog
ging cases that have occurred in
that county.