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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
EXPERTS SENT. .OU TO HELP GRAIN GROWER
Special Commission Of Gov ernment Officials Going Into Central Northwest At Cool idge's Request
COOPERATIVE MARKETING OF WHEAT WILL BE URGED
Director Meyer And Frank W. MondeI In Party Which Will Explain Government Offer Of Financial Aid

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7-(By Asso- ciated Press )-The special commits sion of government officials, headed by Managing Director Meyer of the war finance corporation, left Wash lngton today to go among the wheat farmers of the central northwest to carry out President Coolidge's direc- tien to aid in the promotion of CO., operative marketing associations.
 MT. Meyer was accompanied by Frank ". Mondell, a director of the war finance corporation, and Fl. $. Yohe of the bureau of agricultural economics. department of aEricul- ture the other two members of the commission, and Floyd R. Harrison, the managing directors assistant.
 The delegation will stop in Chi cago where a series of conferences is planned for tomorrow by which the itinerary of the trip thereafter will be determined.
 Urge Cooperative Movement.
 The three officials carried with them detailed data of methods in use by the cotton, rice and tobacco grow CTS of the south and the fruit grow CTS of California in cooperative mar keting and are prepared also to eX- plain 10 the producers how the gov ernment may aid them in q financial way, either through direct loans from the war finance corporation and the new intern ediate credit banks or, indirectly, through loans to conner cial banks in communities where the co o-operatives may be organized.
 Simultaneously with the departure of the commission headed by MT. Meyer the federal farm loan board made available figures on loans by the credit banks. which disclosed that more than s2,000,o 900 had been advanced to cooperative wheat mar &etfng associat tions-sincs the banks began functioning early In June.
 1Iore Loans Made.
 Comparison of the loans made since June l by the credit banks with ad- vances made last year by the war finance corporation--the only agency then in eXistence-shows that loans by the former this year were nearly twice as large as the total amount made the latter to wheat producers between June 1 and the end of it's year, last November 80.
 President Coolidge took another step today to gather information as to what may be done to encourage or aid the formation of co operatives. He called former Senator Kellogg of Minnesota to the White House for a conference, at which the latter went over legislation he had fostered in the last Congress designed to encour- age cooperative marketing. The whole subject of cooperative mar keting was gone over at the confer ence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
FOOTBALL STAR IS DEAD FOLLOWING INJURIES INV GAME
University Of Kentucky Gen. ter Dies After Being Hurt
 In Cincinnati Game

cial. )-Price Mclean, center on the University of Kentucky football team. died here tonight as the re- suit of injuries received in the game Saturday between the University of Kentucky and the University Gf Gin cinnati He was removed from the game after being injured and, later, seemingly recovered. and was in eX- celleHt spirits on the train while re- turning to Lexington Saturday night Later. however, he became worse and was taken to the hospital, where it was found that he was suffering from fractured skull. An operation was performed in the vain hope of saving his life. What effect this will have on the schedule of the Ken lucky eleven has not been decided, but it is expected that it will be cLmDleteu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
SEES EUROPE IN. ROUTINE NORMAL STRUGGLE TINIXT AT PRISON AFTER
 HOPE AND DESPAIR THREE-DAy SIEGE
Lloyd George Says Canada Not Beset With Plague Of
 MateriaIiSm"

MONTREAL. Oct. IA curtailment Tn the program previously arranged for David Ilovd George former pro mier of Great Britain. in his tour oi Canadian cities was announced to- night because of hoarseness of the throat which has developed The American program as tentatively ar ranged still stands, it was said, and 1t is hoped no change in it will be necessary.
 MONTREAL. Quebec, Oct. 7.-CBy Associated Press.)-Europe is in the midst of grim struggle between hope and despair ana in that strug gle Is becoming materlalistic, Lloyd George. war time premier of Great Britain, declared in an address to- day. Speaking briefly at open air services during which he turned the first sLd for the new West Mount Baptist church. he declared he was glad Montreal and Canada were not the victims of the plague Of ma terialism which is threatening to engulf the world"
 q am glad" he added that you here do not live by bread alone"
 Attendance at the ceremony was the only break in 2 Sunday spent quietly with friends after a period of several days intense activity. Ac- companied by Dame Margaret and Miss Megan. the former premier at tended morning services at the First Baptist church and then went to the home of Lansing Lewis, president of tn, Welsh society of St. David for a reception. He was the guest at lunch con of Senator J. F. B. Casgrain, where he met prominent French Canadians and this evening was the dinner guest of Lord Atholstan. pro prietor of the Montreal Star.
 Win Conserve Strength.
 Realizing that he mas strenuous program of several weeks before him. MT. Lloyd George made it clear t. day that he intended to conserve his strength and his voice. Although in apparent full vigor and with face tanned by the sun and wind, he ad- mitted that his speaking last week in New York city and from his special train in its run yesterday through New York state had tried his voice and care would be necessary to main tain it's proper condition for the two weeks ahead.
 Wherever he went lie was sur rounded by eager crowds who waited patiently t. obtain glimpse of him.
 Travelling in an open automobile from the Mount Royal hotel to the First Baptist church this morning he passed between a continuous line of people to whose cheers he responded by doffing his silk hat and lowing. At the close of the church service, at which the Rev. Dr. M F. Me Cutcheon preached he was formally welcomed to Canada by speakers in behalf of the Baptists of ontario and Quebec.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
FEMALE OF SPECIES IS MOST EXPENSIVE
Millinery One Of Most Important
 Items, Tax Figures Show

PARIS, Oct. 7.--The female of the species is more expensive than the male, according to luxury tax figures just made public by the French gov ernment.
 Feminine millinery is one of the most important items Girls who pay more than so francs for their fall or winter hats-about S4--must meet the tax collector face to face.
 The legal untaXable limit for pa iamas--malo and femalo--is l5o francs But since hatiks, spots and stripes of silk materials arc tho pride of Paris it is thought unlikely tnat few win be able to escape Che luxury tax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
Two Fresh Mounds And Wrecked Mess Hall Re-
 minders Of Struggle

EDDYVILLE, ky, Oct. 7.-(3y As aociated Pregs.9,-~Two graves in the \ cemetery of the little western Ken Ftucky stato penitentiary over. which the earth was freshly heaped and the bullet scared mess hall in the cen ter of the prison area were mute and solemn reminders today of the last desperate stand of trio of convict murderers who killed three guards were besieged for Sl hours in the mess hall and found dead from bull let wounds when storming party entered the barricade late yesterday afternoon.
 Members of the storming party en- tered the mess hall after it had been filled with ammonia fumes, prepared 10 meet three desperate gunmeu. and found Monte Walters Lawrence Griffith and Harry Ferland stiff with the rigor of death
 All Dead 3G H0nrs.
 All of the guumen had been dead for st least 56 hours. and in the cases of Griffith and Ferlaud, whose indi- cated death was from suicide, opinion was expressed that the end ght have come 48 hours before the siege was raised. Walters, believed to have been tle last to die, was shot through the head and had been struck by a rifle grenade,
 Prison routine, disrupted when the gunmen shot four guards three fla tally. in an attempt to win clear of the prison Wednesday morning and then were cornered in the mess hall practically was restored to normal Troop C., from the national guard machine gun company at Hopkins vile. and a detail from the Mayfield guard company. ordered to the scene of the riot by Gov. Edwin r. Morrow, left for their homes today
 Electric power lines, cut by bullets fired by the besieging forces, with a result that lights and water, the lat ter from electrically driven pumps. for the prison and the town of Eddy vile, had been repaired.
 Begin Restoring Routine.
 Prison authorities today directed their efforts to restoring the ma chinery of prison routine. A press ing problem was the repairing of the equipment in the prison kitchen, To- cated on the ground floor of the bullet-torn mess hall. The dining room was on the second floor of the building held by the desperadoes, and during the siege it was necessary to feed the approximately 53Q prisoners in the cells with emergency rations and food cooked in the small kitch ems of the prison hospital and the warden's quarters.
 Authorities are expected. as soon as the more pressing matter of re- storing prison machinery to its peace time basis has been completed to initiate searching inyestigat to determine the manner in which Walters and his companions obtained the pistols with which they fatally wounded Guards Hodge Cunningham, V. B. Mattingly and ". r. Gilbert and shot William Gillian seriously.
 Mrs. Lillian Walters, widow of oun Louisville for questioning in couuec- tion with the break for liberty by the desperate trio. It also was re- ported today that the Lyon county grand jury will be asked to inVesti- gate this affair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
CITRUS MAGNATE DIES

sEBRING. Fla. Oct. 7.-Dr. R. l McMurray, 70. physician, owner of extensive citrus properties and oil interests, and wealthy property holder of St. Francis. H.. died hel e this morning. He is survived by his widow and daughter, Mrs. Alice Bryan and three grandchildren, The body will be taken by the family to st Francis for burial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
CHICAGO AWAITS PREMIER

CHICAGO Oct. T.-The city's busi- ness and civic leaders were preparing today the program of entertainment for David Lloyd George, scheduled to visit Chicago with his wife and daughter. October l6 and IT, Briga dter Charles q. Dawes is chairman of the committee,
 The former premier and his party will arrive shortly before noon Oc tober 16, according to the schedule.
 On Wednesday Mir. Lloyd George will deliver what Is expected to be his first comprehensive public utter ance in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
WOMEN VOTERS WILL
 HEAR DAVIS TUESDAY
Solicitor To Tell Story of Banner
 Mines Mutiny InyeStOgatiOn

Members Of the Jefferson County League of Women Voters executive committee will meet at II o'clock Monday morning at the Hillman hotel headquarters of the league, according to announcement Sunday by Mrs. Brenton K. Fisk, secretary.
 Members of the league will meet at o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the ballroom of the Tutwiler hotel to hear Solicitor Jim Davis explain the situation arising out of the Banner mines mutiny investigation by the grand jury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
MANY HURT IN RIOTS
50 Dangerously Injured And Scores
 suffer Hruises And Commissions

BELTHLN, Lpper slIesla, Oet. l-- Twenty persons were injured danger ously and scores suffered bruises and contusions in snti-semitic riots which prevailed here all night
 More than 1000 demonstrators paraded the streets stopping all Jews and beating them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
SIXTY TRAMPLED TO
 DEATH IN RUSSIA
100 More Injured When Fire Alarm
 Sounded h SynagOgue

RIGA Oct. 7.--SiXty persons were trampled to death and about 100 in- pured last night during a stampede in a Synagogue at Kieff, a dispatch from that city says.
 More than 2,000 persons were m the church attending services when the electric lights suddenly extin~ guished and unknown persons sound- ed the alarm or fire. A panic fo.- lowed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
CONDUCTOR INJURED
Southern Freight Chief Steps From
 Train And Falls Down Embankment

". O. Grey of west Point, Ga, con- ductor of Southern freight train No. 52. was seriously injured at 7:30 o'clock Sunday night at mile post No. 79l on the main line between Bir- mngham and Atlanta. when he stepped from his train and fell over a 40-foot embankment.
 He was pick ed up by passenger train No. go and brought to St, Vim cents hospital by Johns. He sustained q broken leg and lace lacerations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
LEASE WORKERS MEET
Judge Fort Issues Specal Call For
 Session At HiIIman Monday Night

Members of the state wide commit tee for abolition of the convict lease system in Alabama will meet at s o'clock Monday night at the Hillman hotel in answer to a special call from Judge William F. Fort chairman ac- cording to announcement Sunday night.
 Discussion of plans for the state wide meeting set for october 3l and the grand jury's report n the Banner mines mutiny will come before the committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
 23 MINERS KILLED
Explosives Stores Threatened By
 Fires Spreading In Mines

BERLIN Oct. 7.-Twenty-t three miners were killed in two disasters in Upper Silesia Sunday. according 10 a dispatch from Kattowitz.
 Seven were killed in the Kleophas mine when props caved in, and 16 in fires in mines in the Dombrowaer district.
 after smouldering for more than a week. Dynamite and powder store rooms were threatened and there was no water to fight the flames.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
Important News Euents Of the Day

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08
RELAPSE SUFFERED BY OBREGON
Mexican Executive Is Reported
 Critically LII In MeNicn Civ

S-NN ANIONlO, Tex, oct. 7.--Presi- dent Dhregou, who has been ilN for lerM days, has suffered a relapse, and grown weaker. following which consultation of physicians took place at ChaptUltepec castle. As 8 rt suit of recent complications, the President is said to be critically i'll, dispatches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08

LLOYD GEORGE STARTS AMERICAN TOUR.-Hereyyith shown likeness of the former British premier after he foot on American soil for the first time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08

MORE THAN $15O,O00 TO BE SPENT ON LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE LINES IN ALA BAMA WITHIN THE YEAR
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-08

FORECAST FOR ALABAMA:
 MOSTLY CLOUDY MONDAY; SHOWERG IN EXTREME SOUTH PORTIONS TUESDAY.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-24
AGRICULTURAL AIDS

Tie suggestion is made by Dr.. w. N. Evans, chief of the division of insular experiment. stations of the Department of Agriculture that cone of the great needs of Alaska is the eN- tension of the experimental stations work Ill teaching the best methods for cropplng"
 Observers of the farmers problem Will hardly agree with the doctor as regards the extension of demonstration or governmental stations: those we have are doing excellent work, and reaching the farmer What IS actu- ally needed, if the Government is doSlrouS of hrnino Alaskan agriculture, is some system whereby cheaper livestock and implements may be placed in the reach of the farmer. Ehr
 Ne. l,,,v2.crt to a~ricuIhlro is this lack ot
 .~,--.:.v c.-.aHti21S For instance, fight rates n G2:..-.-: machinery to Alaska brings the .., ,c to ~rmotA,1g like 50 per cent hl&ho' .nan or<-'.'n. "nl cvou higher for livestock A farmer may have nice crop of hay ano o,,pn feed, but in the absence of a hay-ba]"r c2nnot market it unless he finds an lndINIduaI customer The absence of a soedei for gram and moving machine for hay also stands m thr vav of success If the Agricultural Depart mcnt is desirous of populating the farm lands of Alaska with experienced farmers let II work ont a plan for cheap transportation o1 agricultural machinery and make the eN- 1r r,npntal farms thc distributing point for livestock on terms equal to the purse of the tionpcr fa1mer-Anchorage Times.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-24
FEW FACTS ABOUT NEWSPAPERS

You hear occasionally loud mouth pro claiming: "Gee, there s no news in the paper!' or 'Thcres mistake in the type!' or "That isn't what happened; the man didn't slip and fall, he stumbled.'
 It takes as many kind of people to read a newspaper as it takes to make the world, and nobody has yet achieved the distinction of pleasing everybody so it is not surprising that newspapers-no matter, how conscient- |iously edited and printed-have severe critics, some of whom cannot, for lack of intelligence or understanding, sec why mistakes ares oc- casionally made in newspapers, and Others who do not want to see them because,-;they like to keep their little hammers busy.r ~..- I. 7.
 Now, few real newspapermen give a hang about such criticisms, so long as they, them selves are satisfied that they are doing the best that can be done within the limits of time and space allotted to each publication. The newspapermen know these critics don t know what they're talking about, and that if thev did they wouldn't talk loud enough for an intelligent person to hear them.
 Of course newspapers make mistakes. Every newspaper does. The perfect newspaper IS vet to be published Newspapers must be so human that they have all the weaknesses Of humanity as we'll as all the virtues To err is certainly human.
 Often judges and juries take weeks to de eide what are the facts of an event that a newspaper must chronicle in five minutes. Facts do not change, but no two persons see with the same eyes, and sometimes more than one version is correct although each seems at first glance to include all facts having an 'l1l- iporta1.t bearing upon the pr1nclple occulrehc''
 Some people recognize that more sk1ll con ,entration and training is demanded for the )preparation of newspapers than m great nnn,cr of other professions and trades while every newspaper error is public property and equal errors in other works are covered up.
 The "few'' put in several miserable years while they hear the "many' .'pan' the''' work, until they come to realize that tne :'many'' never even know master cra1s1ll"''' until the "fcw" have pointed him out.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-24
BIG ALASKA MAIL ROBBERY
(Continued from page |

Government carpenter who had kept to all the Government buildings, started for the outside. He was sus- picioned of knowing something of the robbery and a telegram was sent, to the police at Selkirk ordering his arrest and return to Dawson. The arrest was made. and constable was returning the man to Dawson. but as the steamer was being landed the accnaed man shot and killed him. self In a stateroom. Later a portion of the gold. was found in a mail sack hidden beneath the Dawson school house, but the greater, part of, it was never recovered. A. Dawson business
 man who made a business of buying
 gold dust was suspicioned - as a
 "fence," but nothing could be proven Ion him. It was noticed, however,
 that he lost no time in setting his
 house in order and leaving the coun.
 try bOOu diltI DclLB IclcdSeu lIOul
 custody.
 Another robbery of northern gold took place on the steamer Humboldt the fall of 1911 when mail sacks cached in the room of the purse1 were extracted and cut into when be
 tween $4O,O00 and $50,0OO worth of
 gold was taken. Just how so much weight could be gotten from the steamer was never satisfactorily eX plained, but several months later g
 number of men and women, sus picious characters who had come out from the Interior and went south or
 the Humboldt on that particular
 voyage, were arrested and a portion
 of the gold was recovered. It was said that the women of the party
 kept the purser interested while theil confederates turned the trick.
 At another time gold bricks tC
 the value of $3,O00 were stolen from a mail sack on the deck of the
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-24
WEDNESDAY,, JANUARY 24, 1923
SEATTLE IS WORRIED

Seattle is lying awake nights and tossing to and fro on her pallet of straw through worry over what "wildcatters'' will do after oil is discovered in the Cold Bay dlstrlct-as there is every probability that it will be. They are so worked up that mass meetings are being held to bemoan the fact that ''wlld- catters'' will do things to the new oil district and that both Seattle and Alaska will be VIC timized to farewell by oily tongued indl- viduals who wear spotted vests over protrud- ing fronts.
 It is very kind of Seattle to assume so much responsibility in the case, for the truth of the matter is Aaskans are not worrying the least little bit about what wildcatters' and Wall ineforCs are going to do to her oil fields. Alaskans are not crossing any bridges until they come to them, neither are they going out of the well-trodden paths to meet trouble. 1t will be time for Alaskans to join the sob bunch in Seattle after few wells begin spouting oil toward the azure dome of heaven and "Wlld- cattars' begin crowding them off the side walks.
 And until time and drills demonstrate that they are in danger of being scratched, gouged and bitten by "wildcatters,' Alaskans will continue to wind the clock, shake down Fldo s rug behind the front room stove and go to bed to sleep the sleep of the just.
 IL Seattle is so fearful of 'Wildcats, she might do well to put out little ''pzen,' and we venture the further suggestion that 1t might be wise to put it out in her own back yard-Stroller's Weekly, Juneau.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-24
EIGHT PAGES

steamer Selkirk, but the bricks were later found hidden beneath a hatch where they had been placed by thief whose identity was never known ,:-
 During the many years that White Pass stages were operated between Dawson and Whitehorse hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold dust and bricks were transported and no robberies were ever com mitted. The mail would be strapped in, the stage boot" at Dawson and left there until it arrived at White horse and was never molested.
 l. y, Other mysterious; :: robberies, sey- eral of them believed to have been preceded by murder, occurred in past years in the Interior. .. Fiddler John" and Dutch Marie, were said to have large amount of gold dust on leaving the Koyukuk. They were murdered. their bodies being later, discovered on a bank of the Koyu- kuk river near. where they had made camp for the night A character known as the "Blueberry Kid" was suspicioned of that and other similar crimes and he was hunted practically all over the continent but never To, cated.
 A man now serving life sentence in an outside penitentiary for mur- der is believed to have cache of over $10,000 worth of gold dust somewhere in the lower Yukon coun- try. He was proven guilty of the murder and his victim was known to have gold to that amount, but none of it was found on the murderer and no amount of coaxing, threatening or argument could persuade him to reveal the location of his plant. He confided to an officer, however, that he hoped to be pardoned after few years when he will return to the North and lift his cache.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-24
OBSERVATIONS
have observed:

We have observed: -...'
 That making mistakes seems to be necessary part of mans educa tion. 1-s,-.-a.~. '.--. ...--
 That the harder you are to please the less your friends will, try.
 That more people will accept mans cigars than his advice.
 That a man cannot become popu lar unless he is willing to be bored occasionally.
 That the fact that life is d grind is what sharpens many mans wits.
 That when woman doesn't enjo, spending money she needs a tonic
 That it takes born diplomat tf disguise the interest one feels in one self.
 That every time man does { charitable act some vinegar-visaget msanthrope says that he has an axt to grind.
 Our idea of a pessimist is a fellow who gets a lot of pleasure out O telling bad news