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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
MARKET I MEN URGE SUPPORT FUR CITY PLAN
Chamber Of Commerce Backs Efforts To Obtain Help In Making Municipal Establish ment A Going Plant
PARKING SPACE FOR CARS URGED BY DELEGATION
A$ss jon Suggested For Sale 5 Produce, Now Handled , 3y Truck Growers On Mor-
 ris Avenue Property

Something must be done to st1m- ulate better public cooperation for the municipal market, Birmingham city commissioners were told Tues day. when delegation from the Chamber of Commerce and one from the market men themselves appeared simultaneously at the city hall with the same purpose in view
 O. L. Bum, general manager of the Chamber of Commerce, and Carl Wittichen, chairman of a committee to investigate the municipal market situation and report recommends tions were those who discussed the situation on behalf of the civic body. The market men reported that busi- ness has not been good, the public seeming slow to take advantage of the superior conditions of sanitation. guaranteed quality of meats and other advantages offered by the market.
 Four of the commissioners talked to the callers informally, Mrs Ech- ols being absent
 MT. Bum and Mir. wittichen of fered the suggestion that city-owned property across the street might be used advantageously as parking place for automobiles and recom- mended that it be cleared and used, because it would attract the auto marketing trade to the market The commissioners said this plan would be given consideration.
 O. o o
 Use Also For Produce.
 The same space could be utilized part of the day as a depot for truck wagon vendors, if was pointed out One serious drawback of the Munich pay market, in the opinion of MT. Bum, is the fact that produce IS not offered for sale in it, and people who go marketing. he said want to buy their meat and vegetables in the same vicinity The truck growers at present use the place at the cor ner of Morris avenue and Twenty fourth street for their open market If they were permitted to use the lot near the municipal market, the Chamber of Commerce spokesmen said, it would be to the publics ad- vantage as we'll as theirs.
 Another suggestion discussed was the possible re-routing of street cars so that the municipal market would be better served in this respect.
 The commissioners will appoint a committee headed by Commissioner w. l.. Harrison. it was promised, to confer with Chamber of Commerce committee and thoroughly discuss the matter from all angles.
 Resolutions will be passed by the directors of the Chamber of Com merce at their monthly meeting strongly advocating public cooperation to make the municipal market more successful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
FRANCE FURTHER RESTRICTS QUIZ
German Representatives Will Go Before Preparations
 Commission Soon

PARIS, Nov. 13.-(By Associated ss.)--Action on Premier Poin- cares suggestion that the reparation commission appoint an expert com mittee to conduct an inquiry into the reparatlon question was deferred by the commission today until German delegates shall have been heard re- garding the reich's capacity to pay.
 The suggestion, made through Louis Barthou, was that the expert committee be charged with estima- tion of the present" capacity of Germany. Sir John Bradbury, the British representative, is understood to have declared that this would pro- vide for an even closer restriction of the inquiry than that proposed by the French in the case of the Hughes plan.
 The French idea was that, after es timating the present resources of Germany at home and abroad, the committee should fix the amounts Germany could pay during the en- suing three years. M, Barthou dwelt especially on the necessity of ascer- taining the total German assets in foreign countries. Any new scheme for the payment of reparation based on the committee's report, he said should take into account the old schedule fixed at the London confer ence of May, 1921.
 Col. James A.s Logan. the Ameri- can observer, was present at the meeting,
 The German request for a hearing was granted without opposition and without restriction, the date being left. open in order to allow them to make arrangements for their repre- ,sentation. but it is thought the first hearing Will take place in about ten days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
STADIUM MEETING CALLED THURSDAY
Progress Of Stock Selling Campaign Will Be Report
 ed By Junior Workers

A public meeting in the interest of the stadium campaign will be held at o'clock Thursday night in the Chamber of Commerce auditorium by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Reports on the progress of the sta- ditm campaign wIlr be made by M. II. Sterne, chairman Of the general committee, and c. A. Jones, Jr., chairman of the committee in charge of the canvass for subscriptions to preferred stock.
 General discussion will be invited and plans will be made for the fur theranee of the stadium cause. Ap- proximately 725 subscriptions of $100 have been reported, or a total ot $72,500 secured from sale of the pre- ferred stock. The remainder of the total issue, which is S100,000, is ex- pected to be subscribed shortly. The remaining s175,O00 necessary for the stadium, will be realized from tile sale of $75,000 in common stock and $l0O,0O0 bonds. It is expected that these securities will be disposed of in short order, because many busi- ness men are lHleIeSleu III Nie Pio7 ject from straight investment an gle. The sale of preferred stock in, Sl0O blocks was designed to reach athletic enthusiasts who will buy tickets to the football games that are played in the stadium and only small subscriptions were solicited
 An interesting feature of Thurs day nights meeting will be a drill demonstration by Boy Scouts, under the direction of Roland Shine, execu- tive secretary of the Birmingham association. MT. Shine will tell the meeting something of the scouts ,~lr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
BIG INCREASE IS SHOWN BY BANKS
Increase In Country's Ma tionaI Bank Deposits Is
 Half Billion Dollars

WASHINGTON. Nov. 13.--The grow ing strength of the country's national banking system Is reflected in a composite statement of the condi- ton of the national banks as of Sep tember IA, made public tonight by Comptroller Dawes, of the currency. The statement discloses that, all though there were S.239 national banks In operation on that date, one fewer than year ago. almost every item figured into their combined re- sources showed increases over the bank call on September Is. last year.
 Total resources of $21 ,712,S76,000 in- cluded loans and discounts of $11,- 934556,000. or an increase of $700,- tsO,000 in the latter item alone. Holding of government securities also were larger by s200,000,000 than in September. 1922, although the en- tire volume of government securities outstanding has decreased materially in the year covered by the statistics. There was, moreover, an increase of about $100,000,o00 in the value of securities, other than those issued by the government which were held by the banks.
 The total deposits September 14, of $17,O40,530, 900, represents and in- lars over the deposits reported in the call of September Is, 1922.
 Reserves of the national banks held in twelve federal reserve banks, however. had dropped off slightly from the amount year ago. The latest figures show the reserves at sl.169, ,o00, 900. while in September of last year they were reported above s1.200. 100000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
REDUCE COSTS AND N | I PRODUCTION
Heads Of Two Big Film Or ganizations Advocate
 New Policy

NEW YORK. Nov 1s.-Heads of two leading moving picture produc- tion organizations. Jesse L. Lasky of Famous Players-Lasky corporation. and F. J.- Godsol, president of Gold wyn Pictures corporation, in state ments independently issued today, to better the industry rather than curtailment of the number of films as has been suggested.
 There are too few leading film artists. outstanding directors. con tinuity writers art directors and others for the yearly production of pictures, with the result that all pro- ducers are continually bidding for the same people," MT. Godsol asserted. This he added. "is problem the individual producer can solve only by development of unknown artists and by the employment of uncele- hrated directors on reasonable terms" He advocated greater production to reduce overhead.
 To increase revenues of both pro- ducer and exhibitor. he recommended merger of all booking and distribu- tion systems and rental of films on a percentage basis.
 At present." he said. there are
  trolled cities getting pictures at mere fraction of their value"
 MT. Godsol specifically complained against unnecessary extra time taken by directors in the production of their pictures" and said, this Is and has been difficult to control be cause of the arbitrary attitutss as sumed by the present day director of importance.''
 Mir. I4asky. who has lust returned from Hollywood, said the curtilment of production announced by some companies is indicative only of a movement to eliminate waste and that no step would be taken toward cheaper pictures. Those unproduced, he said, are not good enough and should be improved
 We are, simply determined" he said, to make every dollar spent in production return us a dollar value on the screen, and we will make better pictures"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
TALLADEGA UNDER THREAT OF BLAZE
Henderson Drug Company And Hubbard Grocery
 Are Burned


 TALLADEGA. Ala. Nov. 14.-The business district of Talladega was threatened by fire early this morn ing, following discovery of flames at 10:3O o'clock last night on the sec ond floor of brick building oc- cupied by the Henderson Drug com pany, The store of Hub Grocery company. housed in the some build ing, was also badly damaged.
 The fire department made heroic effort to prevent the flames from spreading. At 1915 this morning the fire was still burning. The cause of the blaze is unknown. It is not known the amount of insurance carried. At 9:30 o'clock the barn of the Morgan plantation, near here, was destroyed, including a number of heads of cows, horses and sheep.
 TALLADEGA, Ala Nov. 13-Fire of undetermined origin destroyed three stores in the heart of Talladega early tonight entailing a loss of ap- proximatelY $40,000. In one of the burned buildings was located the home office of State Health Officer $ w. Welch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
N0RMALCY RETURNS SOON AFTER HOLIDAY
Tuesday Sees Traces Of Armistice
 Day Observance Obliterated

Although Birmingham was. fig- uratively, turned upside down wish excitement over Armistice Day Mon day the city had strengthened out the kinks and settled down to bust ness so absolutely by Tuesday the big celebration might have been a matter of six months ago for all the traces it left.
 Monday started with suppressed expectancy during the working hours of the morning, was abristle with &C., tivity by noon and a ferment of ac- tivity with the starting of the pa rade. Evening brought entertain ments. dances, dinners and meetings where the festivities ran high. Tues days sunshiny and summer like dawn found the town sober. ear nest and digging away at its usual pur- suits as though nothing had ever happened within the city limits but hard work.
 Decorations were being taken down Tuesday, the streets had been cleaned uniforms hung up, ~5galia set aside and normality in full pos session again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
P|NCHOT ASKS GOVERNORS TO COAL. MEETING
Declares Justice To Great Body Of Anthracite Con-
 sumers Must Come In National Unity Of Action ALABAMA EXECUTIVE IS INCLUDED IN INVITATION
Recent Anthracite Strike Set In Motion An investigation
 Of Coal Prices, And A Plan
 Of Action Mapped Out

HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. 13.-Gov. Clifford Pinchot tonight sent letters to the governors of 29 anthracite consuming states inviting them to a conference here November 26 to con slider program of federal legisla- tion designed to reduce coal prices
 The letter, it was announced at the governors office, was sent to the chief executives of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Illi- nois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Ken lucky Louisiana Michigan, Minneso- ta, Missouri, Nebraska, North Caro- lima, North Dakota, South Carolina, bama, Massachusetts and West Vlr- ginia.
 Declaring Justice to the great body of anthracite consumers must be reached mainly by national ac- tion," the governor said such action could be secured most certainly and effectively after the governors of the anthracite consuming states unite in "a single specific program" He said he was prepared to submit a suggestion for such a program and invited the governors here to con slider 1t, and if it is found practicable to agree upon a definite plan of leg lbldllOI lO be ldlu OElOIC NOilS CSS at the coming session.
 Price Conferences.
 Since the coal strike was settled in September, I have taken up the question of price in a series of con rcrences with the members of a com rlittee of the operators" the gover- nor wrote. "On Friday last this committee finally decided to recom- nerd to the coal industry that 1t should clean it's own house of extor- ton as I have been urging it to do.
 We do not have to prove the ex- istence of abuses in the antnracus industry or If crying injustice to the consumer In extortionate prices. They are matters of common knowl- edge. It would have been merely the most elementary common sense for the committee of operators to take these evils in hand. Being the pro- ducers of the coal. they have the power to do so most effectively. They could, if they would. not only give the consumer a square deal, but at the same time free their indus>ry of the public condemnation which now rests upon it. They have de- clined to do so. Then we must turn elsewhere.
 Since the settlement of the coal strike an investigation of anthracite prices mas been Tn progress at liar risburg and has resulted in the out line of definite plan for national legislation and for state action.
 About 90 per cent of the anthra cite mined In Pennsylvania is burned in other states. Therefore. justice to the great body of anthracite con sumers must be reached mainly by national action. Such action can be secured most certainly and effec- lively if the governors of the anthra- cite using states will unite in sup port of a single specific program"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14

HRRzNG RE4CT7oN 70 7REA5URERs T7X REC0MEND4 zI0NS
SOUTHERN BLOC IS PLANNED TO FIGHT FOR A SQUARE DEAL

as assiduously, 1t is alleged, as east erners. A resolution providing for the purchase by the government of S10,000,000 worth of Chilean nitrate and calcium arsenate. with which to destroy the boil weevil, offered and put through the Senate by Sena tors smith of South Carolina and Harris of Georgia was killed for political reasons by republicans, led by former Representative P. P. Campbell a westerner.
 If plans materialize, in another and all succeeding Congresses the south will assume more aggressive atti- tude, and will cooperate with west erners with the distinct understand ing that when benefits are forthcom- ing the south shall not be neglected. It is cited today as another instance of discrimination due to the south'S lack of aggression that on govern ment boards, holding the fate of en- tire sections in their hands. the south is scarcely represented It is also true that, whereas reclamation legis- lation, which has made the west. was put over only by the cooperation of the south and with the distinct under standing that the south was to have the aid of the west in reclaiming by government aid its own sterile soil. the south has been wholly neglected.
 The convention promises to be at tended by representatives and sem ators from all southern states. En- thusiasm today is high, and the indi- cation is that the south is about to abandon it's position of supplication and assume one of command.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
CHILD HINTS AT
 FOREIGN POLICY
Says People Want To Know Exact Plans, Not
 Phrases

BOSTON, Nov. 13.-Richard Wash burn Child, ambassador to Italy, ad- dressing the Boston City club today. said that nothing could be more foolish than to suppose that our in- flaence in the world would be great CT if we dropped into pool"
 "lnaeod." he said, ii. might be immediately less. 1t might be that the easiest way to dismiss OUT moral responsibility would be to drop 1t into pot, the quickest way to adulteIat our useful power would be to mix it into the unknown con tents of some international bottle wearing < pretty label.
 "1he moral obligation to be in- telligeut is TOW squarely placed in the stewardship of the American people. They will not fail to meet proposals for changes of cur foreign policy by asking for exact plans rather than empty phrases"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
WESLEY WINS CUP M EPWORTH RACE
First Methodist Church Group Leads Leagues Of Bir-
 mingham or Six Months

Wesley league of the First Meth odist church was declared winner of the City Union Epworth league ef- ficiency contest which closed Tues day night at the First Methodist church. During the past six months the, Wesley league amassed 1455O points. leading their closest com petitor by 516 points.
 At o'clock Wednesday night the winning team will be presented with a sterling silver loving cup, donated by J. A. Boatrite. The presentation, 1t Is understood. will be made by William L. White, president of the City Union.
 The rating of the teams in the con- test were as follows: Wesley league, 14,550; Wylam league, 13,936 Pratt City, 13,904; Woodlawn, 10,272; Owen- ton, 10.192.
 The deciding of the contest and the presentation of the cup are extra features of the Efficiency institute of the North Alabama Epworth league, which is holding it's annual session at the First Methodist church
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
CAMP PA|GN FUND IF WAL LTON IN PROBE
Testimony Is That Governor Continued To Collect
 After His Election

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Nov. 13. (By Associated Press.)-The inn peachment trial of Gov J. c. Walton moved forward today through 8 maze of figures. Virtually the entire day was devoted to a review of campaign fund solicitations by Dr. E. T. By mum, former adviser to the governor, and an investigation of the execu- tive's bank account and building and loan stock investments.
 Dr. Bynum testified that he was only one of several agents who sought campaign funds for the gov ernor and that he did not have a rec ord of the amount he obtained. He said a wild guess of the sum would be about s7,Oo0 or sS,0o0 and denied that he had collected s75,000, as de- fense counsel Implied.
 The witness explained that collec- tionS were continued after the cleo tion for the benefit Of 9overnor Walton's organization" This "or- ganization," he testified. was the name given by the governor to group of his supporters.
 Tt was a term he used" the wit ness said. He would bring men in and ask that they be paid for serv- ices rendered either in the campaign or afterwards. MT. Bynum testified that when funds ran low from such disbursements, he went out and col lected more"
 The witness told the court that he refused on one occasion to pay some of the men $500, despite the orders of the governor to do so, because the organization had dsintegrated and most of the members were on the state pay roll"
 Try To Impugn Witness.
 
 tually all morning, and his cross examination by defense counsel pre- cipitated the noisiest demonstration of the trial. After he had testified that he talked with Blake as to the advisability of placing hidden tele- phonic apparatus in the governors office to protect him against mys- terious goings-on in other state de- partments." the defense plunged into a line of questioning that soon had the court in an uproar.
 Dr. Bynum was asked if he had not been removed from the faculties of two universities; if he had ever been forced to kiss the American flag. and finally if he had not been knocked down in a local hotel for making pro-German remarks. The witness replied in the negative to each of the questions, members of the court protesting at the same time against what they asserted was "un fair questioning" At length, when the question regarding the alleged pro- German statement was put, the storm broke. A member of the court demanded to know what the questions were designed to show, and when Warren K. snyder. who was piled with a bitter personal attack against the witness. Ills words were in a roar of obections and when quiet was restored his remark was eXpunged from the record.
 R. o. Brewer, vice president of an City building and loan as sociation, testified that since March, 1920, Governor Walton had invested
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
FOLLOWERS BELIEVE LEADER NOT DEAD
Frederick RawsOn, Prayer Healer,
 Is Expected To Rise Again

NEW YORK Nov. 13-Kneeling figures in a darkcned room at August Eickelberg's undertaking parlor, just one block from the gay whirligig of Broadway. are praying against time for the return of their spiritual lead CT from death.
 Frederick L. Rawson, a London prayer-healer and leader of a religi- ous cult, has been dead. as medical science understands death. for three days. His followers believe his teachings of immortality of the body and hold out hopes that he will arise.
 But If he has not done so by We'd nesday morning, the state of New York will step into the case and pre- clude all further possibility of his doing so, by requiring that the body be embalmed.
 Four days is as long as the law permits Eickelberg to defer action.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
Congressman Claim They
 Helped West, And Now They Want To Help Own Section
WASHINGTON BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD / Washington. D. C.. Nov. I3 [

The convention of southern mem bers of Congress. called by Repre- sentative B. G. Lowrey of Mississippi for Washington, November 30, will result in the formation of southern bloc, according to indications on every hand today.
 Prior to the convention, those ar dently supporting the purpose in volved have very little for publica- tion to say. They declare privately. however, that the time is ripe for the south to assert itself, and point out innumerable instances wherein the south has acted In cooperation with other sections and been euchered out of its fair share of the benefits.
 Fertilizer and boil weevil poison are absolute necessities. according to Mir Lowery Had western members, with farming constituencies sup ported the south in the previous ses- sion with the ardency that the south supported the west in farm legisla- tion. the southern farmer would have both fertilizer and insecticide within his grasp, it is pointed out. West erners played politics respecting the Henry Ford offer for Muscle Shoals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
CALL|-CURCI WON'T SING IN CHICAGO
Dispute Over Opening Opera Is Cause Of DiVa'S
 Refusal

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-Madame Galli- -Curci announced tonight that she would not sing with the Chicago company next year because the man agement had refused to show her consideration in the choosing of the opening opera in which she would appear.
 Madame Galli-Curci charged that commercialism was responsible for the Chicago managements policy and said her only plans called for her appearance with the Metropoli- tan Opera company.
 The refusal of the management to allow her to appear in "Dinorah,' ,'' her favorite opera and the one in which she scored her initial success in New York. Madame Galli-Curci said, was responsible for her deoi- sion. Officials of the opera com nany she added, requested her to sing in "Lakme"