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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
PASSENGERS FLEE AS PHILADELPHIA TRAIN SHED BURNS
Thirty Trains Moved To Safe ty-WhoIe City Fire De-
 partment Responds

PHILADELPHIA, June 11.-Pas sengers occupying sleeping cars in the train shed at the Broad street station of the Pennsylvania railroad were routed out of their berths early today by a fire which started under the shed and poured dense columns of black smoke into all parts of the building. A few minutes after the fire was discovered the shed burst into flames in two or three places, Five alarms were sounded summon ing all the fire fighting forces in the center of the city.
 Approximately 30 trains were in the shed and several caught fire before they were moved tC safety. Great excitement prevailed among waiting passengers until ordered from the building.
 Shortly before o'clock q locomo- tive and four coaches crashed through the floor to the ground. mar rowly missing a score If firemen. The roof of the shed collapsed about the same time, sending burning em- bers in all directions. Although the fire is still burning fiercely, it is beloved the flames will be confined to the shed and elevated structure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
BRITISH FACIN c POSSIBLE B RE A K WITH THE FRENCH
Critical Meeting Of Cabinet Puts New Premier In
 Delicate Role
By RALPH H. TURNER LeaSed Wire to AEe-Hera1d)

LONDON. June 10.-The most i'm - portant and most critical meeting of the British cabinet since Stanley Baldwin assumed the premi nip will be held Monday.
 A larger question than that of a mere formulation of a reply to the German note will be at stake.
 The cabinet must also decide the issue of a threatened break with France. Indications are growing that Britain will definitely refuse to ac- cept Premier Poincare's wish that England join in demanding the ces sation of Ruhr passive resistance.
 There is a strong feeling here that Poincare is determined to impose some rigid formula or ultra stringent condition as a preliminary to open ing negotiations with Germany.
 The situation, therefore, broadly resolves itself into two alternatives.
 O o O
 Two Alternatives.
 First, Britain must again capitu- late to French opinion, thus perhaps closing the door of opportunity for q settlement of the Ruhr separations problem at the price of Anelo-Saxon unity. or, second. England must openly disagree with France. follow ing her own policy in seeking to make the latest German note a basis for negotiations leading to settle ntent The London press indicates that there are extremely small chances of Baldwin's following the first course. The British hold that settlement is impossible without negotiation and that now is the opportune time for open negotiations to begin.
 The statement by Chancellor Cuno that it is impossible to make further concessions lends strength to this view.
 O o O
 Terrorism Is Feared.
 The Sunday Times, holding that the German terms are the fairest that can be expected, fears that if consideration is denied them there seems nothing ahead but terrorism ard decay. With Europe, it is liter ally a case of now or never
 It's editorial voices the opinion that if Poincare insists upon the impos-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
Wegra Wa..~.. fA>,<Ms /
 County Officials Do
 Not Visit Mine Camp
Contract Committee Of Citizens Is Told, Provides For Cancellation If Prisoners Are Cruelty Treated. Claims Whipping Strap Has Been Abolished-One Convict Exhibits Wounds

the camp number 160 practically all of whom are worked in the mines, Mir. Gibson told the committee. Their average stay at the camp is five and one-half months. working the "big seam," which inexperienced men can mine, he said. Pick method is used, each man being expected to produce four. five or six tons per day, ac- eerding to the classification set by the state, the committee was told.
 MT. Gibson said no form of pun ishment was in vogue, whipping hay ing been abolished some time ago He declared this problem to be seri- ous and that some means of main taining discipline should be adopted. He said that he did not believe soli- tary confinement to be the best plan. Fed Twice Daily.
 Convicts are fed twice daily he told the committee. They go to work at about o'clock in the morning and come out of the mines at in the afternoon. The men are given each a plug of chewing tobacco and a sack of Dukes Mixture" smoking tobacco weekly, he continued. They but may do so on their own account, being credited by the company, MT Gibson stated.
 A hospital is provided for the men. Three patients were confined at the time the committe visited the camp one of whom had been in fight.
 This building is of wood, as in the dormitory. The white men sleep on the second floor and the negroes on the first floor, MT. Gibson said. Two men sleep in each cell. Five negro women at the camp, employed as servants to the eight guards and the warden, have separate quarters, he told the committee.
 Members of the committee were told different stories by convicts, permitted to discuss conditions while Mir. Gibson left the room. In an evil smelling dormitory, used by negroes, tales were unfolded, according to Dr.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11

Convicts from 35 counties of Ala bama, including Montgomery, Nor gan, Colbert, Lauderdale, Hale. Chero- kee and Calhoun. are worked at Wegra mining camp of the Pratt Consolidated Coal company, with nc provision being made for their well fare by county officials other than clauses in lease contracts providing for cancellation where convicts are cruelty treated, Asa Gibson, warden of the company, told members ot an Investigating committee from Bir- mingham Sunday afternoon.
 Wegra and Banner mines are the two camps of the Pratt company where convict labor is employed, MT. Gibson said. He admitted that no county had sent representatives to inspect the camp.
 Mrs. Solon Jacobs. Mrs Brenton K. Fisk, Rev. Oscar deWolf Ran dolph, Irving NJ. Engel and Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Pearce were members of the party who visited Wegra, which is in Walker county Two news paper men also made the trip.
 O O O
 16O COnvicts In Camp.
 White and negro convictS now at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
MINERS SUBMIT PLAN
 FOR NATURALIZATION
 OF ANTHRACITE FIELDS
Idea As Presented To Coal Commission Seeks Opera ton Under Control Equally Representing Workers Mine Managers And Pubic-Claim Proposal Would Raise Standard Of Living Of Coal Miners

X the main cause Is the ever ac- &. :, ling claims of the holders of acite securities. For every in- q ,se in national demand for coal,
 gr every increase in technology and Productivity, the investor demands the full increment. keeping prices at a maximum which the traffic can bear, and wages at the minimum upon which the miners can be made to exist. There is no solution of the econt mic problem of anthracite until this intolerable grip is relaxed; until the public service function of the in- dustry is frankly recognized, and un til the claims of investors are con- fined to reasonable limits, the stand ard of living of the miners permitted to grow with the productive expan- sion of the country and the price to consumers adjusted to these two factors"
 Big Royalties Taken Out
 Submitting some statements on what present ownership charges in anthracite are, the statement said, that sS.9SO.000 in royalties had been taken by Stephen Girard and his es- tate from 39O acres of land which, in 1880. cost him s2,34o; that probably understated" profits in 1920 on the Lehigh coal and navigation were 13 per cent, of the Lehigh and Wilkes Barre 55 per cent, of the Lehlgh val ley company 4997 per cent, of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company, S3.4 per cent and of the Temple Coal company, 121 per cent.
 As to the coal commission's fact finding operations, the miners state ment said that the industrys own present cost systems were largely de- vised to allow the increased takings of returns. profits, or royalties by owners, and the questionnaires Of the commission developed from existing cost system give no guarantee of securing the desired facts"
 "Certain of the items are bound to be SO seriously distorted that final costs as well as profits cannot be de- pended upon" the miners said. In vestment figures will be wholly in- adequate unless serious attempt IS made to secure actual installation cost without revaluations, as we'll as net sacrifice of investors to date"
 In behalf of the miners, the state trent was signed by Thomas Ken nedy, c. J. Golden and William Bren- nan, presidents of the three anthra- cite sections of the United Mine Workers. and by Ellis Searles and John Moore, presenting the inter- natio nal organization of the union.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11

WASHINGTON, June 10.-A copS plete plan for nationalizatio4 Pennsylvania anthracite mines, .S operation under control
 gers and the public, has A before the United States .31
 mission by the miners n 1t was submitted som< ~ of the commissions press A .ding methods, and rec pubic alternative plan for a& neral re- duction of capital investment and capital charges in the industry also was submitted
 Based on the miners opinion that limitation of the investors constantly encroaching claims upon the net in- dustry IS not in order, the plan was declared to confine the claims of in vestors ito reasonable limits" to provide for permitting the standard of living of miners to grow with the productive expansion of the country" and to bring about adjust ment "of price to consumer to these two factors" The alternative plan proposed the elemination of present ownership of the anthracite mines by the substitution of 6 per cent bonds, based on sacrifice value" for the present stock and other securities, and the setting up of sinking funds WHICH NOulu pay Oll tut DOuuS III ou years.
 Explain Sacrifice Value.
 '"The sacrifice value" in the turn over, the plan explained would be the original cost of the mining prop critics. less any profits over a req sonable return rate which the own CTS have obtained during develop ment and operation. or plus any deficits under reasonable return which they have incurred. The min ers' figures indicated that total value of $400,000,000 would be found on this basis for existing anthracite deposits, and that this value could be retired by a charge of 2S cents per ton of coal mined. as compared with 7S cents. which it was said owners took in 1918 operations, and $1.40 per ton which it was estimated they took in 1922-23. The valuation plan was declared to be suitable fin a monopoly like anthracite" and to ex- press the principle that the anthra- cite industry should pay for capital what 1t has to pay and no more."
 "The law creating your commission provides for full investigation and report into the causes which induce strikes" the miners statement said. We know from bitter experience
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
SLAYER OF FIANCEE
 CRIES FOR EXECUTION
Filipino Arraigned In Court But
 Case Postponed

NEW YORK, June 10.-Crying for execution as punishment for his deed, Eluigo Lozade, Philippine houseman, was taken to West Side court today for arraignment on a charge of strangling to death his sweetheart, Blossom Martin. Despite his plea for quick action, his case was postponed until tomorrow morning.
 Lozade, arrested at EliZabethport, Staten Island, when he attempted to cast the body. which he had bundled into pair of portiers into the river. was haggard and worn when taken from his cell this morning. He had paced his cell throughout the day unable to close his ears to the jeers and curses heaped upon him by other prisoners in the same tier.
 Yesterday Lozade- told police he had killed Miss Martin with his bare hands. He was said to have confessed to them that he became angered be- cause Miss Martin told him she did not think he was able to support q wife. and because he was jealous of her friendship with a married man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
w. K. PICKENS DIES
 AT SOUTH HIGHLANDS

William K. Pickens, prominent citizen of Sumter county, died at C o'clock Sunday night at South High lands infrmary. He failed to re cover from an operation performed last Wednesday. Complications which developed Friday led to his death. It was the first illness of his life.
 MT. Pickens was widely known in the black belt, being a resident of Livingston. Champ Pickens, son. is a member of the present legisla- ture. His entire family was at the bedside when the end came.
 Besides his widow and son, Mir. Pickens is survived by one daughter. Mrs. w. r. Pratt of Livingston.
 Funeral services will be held in Livingston at 10 o'clock M nday morning. The remains were sent there Sunday night by Johns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
Prairie Towns Isolated
 After Another DeIuge

KANSAS CITY, June 10.-After 4S bours of almost continuous ra1nfali, dozens of Kansas towns are cut OH from the outside world, thousands or acres of farm lands are inundated and numbers of families have been left homeless by flood waters.
 One death has been reported from pittsburg. where the body of an un- identified man was seen floating down stream in Whe Spring river ;.
 Wichita is probably the center oi flood damage in the state, with four souare miles of the city under water. Hundreds are homeless and damage Is estimated at more than $l l,OOO,o ooo.
 Many wheat fields ready for har- vest were inundated when small streams, swollen into raging torrents. snread over many acres in the cen tral and western part of the state.
 The Arkansas river went on ram page Saturday night and thousands of acres of rich farming lands in its valley were flooded. The Little Ar kansas reached a flood stage of 24.5 feet Sunday. Normal is foot
 With the Neosho river flooding many acres of farm land and the Cottonwood river within four feet of it's highest flood stage mark. central Kansas farmers stand to lose heavily from the high waters.
 200 Families Homeles~.
 Reports from Winfield said that 200 families there were left homeless by high waters. Red Cross and Sal vation Army posts have been ordered out.
 Dunlap, a small town in the west ern part of the state, was completely inundated, stream of water two feet deep rushing through the main business section. At Madison, re- ports said water one foot deep was in the hotel lobby, with practically the entire town flooded.
 The high waters were not unex pected, and manly families in low lands of river valleys began packing their belongings and moving to higher territory before the flood waters reached their homes.
 Weather forecasts predicted that Kansas would receive still more rain Sunday night and Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
ARMED BANDIT ROUTED
 BY HOT CUSTARD PIE
Drops Gun And Plunges Out At

CHICAGO. June 10. - Taking her ue from movie comedies. Mrs. Mary
 Warner used hot custard pie to rout a six-foot bandit. with a re- volver in each hand, who entered her bakery here today and demanded money. Mrs. Warmers answer to the demand for what was in the till" was to hurl one of the pies she was arranging on shelf into the ban dit's face. The man dropped one revolver and clawed at the custard sticking to his face as he plunged headlong out the door and down the street. Mrs. Warner was preparing another bake when police arrived
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
AVIATOR GIVES ALARM
Calls Fire Department When He Dis-
 covers House Afire

NEW YORK, June 10.-An aviator flying over the Bronx discovered a tenement building aflame today and, circling low over it, sounded loud siren, which attracted not only neighbors to rescue the imperile.l residents, but the fire department. which extinguished the Dlaze. When he saw the firemen reach the fam ing, roof the aviator departed. The loss was about $100.000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
JUDGE FORT WILL REPLY TO GOVERNOR ON LEASE

Members of the statewide com mittee for abolition of the con- vict lease system will meet at o'clock Monday night at the Hill- man hotel. Judge W. F. Fort will issue s statement at this meeting in reply to that of Gov ernor Brandon made Saturday in Birmingham. Reports on Sundays trip will also be made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
 ATTORNEY DROWNS
Prominent Mississippi Man Meets
 Death In Lake

CLARKSDALE, Miss. June To- John Clark Cutrer. aged 80, lawyer and son of John W. Cutrer. one of the most prominent attorneys and land owners of the Mississippi delta. was drowned this afternoon in Moon lake, near here. Mir. Cutrer, guest in house party given by w. F.. Holland, local banker. at the Clarks- dale club on the lake. dived from a canoe for d swim and failed to rise to the surface He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Stella Cook of San Antonio, and two children. The body has not been recovered,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
LOST NECKLACE FOUND

LONDON, June 10.-The S100,000 pearl necklace reported lost by Mrs. William Ellis Cory. wife of the steel nagnate, has been found in Mrs. Cory's automobile at Buissen Le Var Tier. France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11

SHOWlet right Consolidated A.  20OOOOOvo transformers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11
PROMINENT FRENCHMAN DIES

PARIS, June 10.-The Marquis de MacMahon, prominent in the Franco American society. and also an ardent royalist. died last night He was born in 1860.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11

THE ALABAMA FORECAST: CONTINUED LOCAL THUN- DERSHOWERS ARE PREDICT
 ED FOR TODAY, MONDAY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11

JUNE HEADED TO OVER $1,000,000 OF NEW BUILD ING, THE FIFTH MONTH MAKING THAT RECORD.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-10

Of the United States from European
affairs, but believed this country
would have to do it's part in the res
toration Of Europe to peace and sta
bility. This feeling became more evil
dent early in 1923 when he proposed
that America should accept member
ship in the International Court of JUS
tice which had been founded under
the auspices Of the League of Nations.
The President was as insistent as ever
that this country should keep out of
the league, but believed the court was
or would be Independent Of the greater
organization. Against the advice Of
some leaders of his party, he reiterated
this advice on several occasions, and
his plan formed the subject of some
Of his addresses on his last and fatal
trip through the West. He did not
think it would split his party, and
boldly continued to advocate it. Not
withstanding this, it was assumed to
be almost a certainty that President
Harding would be nominated in the
Republican national convention of
1924.
Mr.. Harding's home life was ideal
save that he had no children. He and
Mrs. Harding, who was Miss Florence
King of Marion, were devoted to each
other and she was always his true
helpmate, both in Ohio and in Wash
ington In the national capital Mrs.
Harding quickly made herself loved
by all with whom she came in contact,
and during the Western trip she was
more eager even than the President
to meet and mix with all kinds Of
people.
His Western Trip.
President Harding's Alaska trip was
originally planned for the summer of
1922. He inherited the so-called
alaska problem" Alaska seemed to
be on the down grade, with decrease in
population and mining output, threat
ened extinction of the fishing industry
and numerous other UnfayOrable
symptoms. The situation apparently
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-10

American president to step on Cana
dian soil.
The President arrived at Seattle
July q and reviewed from the bridge
of the Henderson a fleet of a dozen or
so battleships under command of Ad-
miral H. P. Jones, each of which gave
him the national salute of twenty-one
guns Even then he was suffering
from the ailment that resulted in his
death, and soon after that the rest Of
his trip, which was to include return
to the East via the Panama canal, was
Cancelled.
President Harding made public ad-
dress at Seattle, setting forth his views
on the Alaskan situation. Some Of his
points were these:
alaska for Alaskans."
"There is no need of government
managed, federally-pair- hothOuse
development there must be no
reckless sacrificing of resources"
alaska is destined for statehood in
a few years"
wv mere tneFe is POSSIBILITY OL DelleI-
ment in federal machinery of admin
istration, Improvement should and will
be effected"
Other conclusions presented by Pres
ident Harding were:
That generous appropriation should
be made for road building.
That the federal government should
be more liberal in encouraging the
technical, scientific and demonstration
work in agriculture.
That restrictions should be laid on
the fisheries and on the forests.
That the development of the coal
mines must await time and economic
conditions
That the government should retain
ownership and operation of the Alas
kan railroad.
During the Presidents illness the
greatest concern was felt and ex-
pressed in all foreign countries, and
their governments were constantly
advised of his condition.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-10
Plea for the Wild Flowers.

Why should the wild flowers be
picked? The real naturalist loves
them none the less because he Cor she)
leaves them to deck the rocky glen or
CLEAN like jewels rare beside the
mountain stream and quiet pool. This
is where they belong, that all who pass
that way may see and enjoy. l., tle
vase on the mantel and the fruit jar
on the porch rail hold the cultivated
flowers from dollhouse and garden.
They are the suitable and appropriate
ones for such use. The others are not.
B. o. Longyear, Colorado Agricul-
tural College.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-10
Brief Sketch of
Warren G. Harding'S Life

A covenant of limitation to naval
armament between the United States,
Great Britain, France, Japan and Italy.
A treaty between the same powers
as to the use Of submarines and nOx-
ious gases In warfare.
A treaty between the United States,
Great Britain, France and Japan re-
their insular dOminions in the Pacific,
with a declaration reserving American
rights In inundated territory.
A treaty between the nine powers in
the conference relating to principles
and policies to be followed In matters
concerning China.
A treaty between the nine powers
relating to Chinese customs tariff.
France refusing to consider the
limitation of land armament at the
present time, that part Of the confer
ence fell through. But what it did
achieve was considered a great step
toward the attainment of world peace.
The treaties were soon ratified by the
United States senate and the British
parliament, and the other nations fol-
lowed suit, though for long time it
was feared France would not accept
the pacts. However, President Hard
ing lived to see them ratified by the
French chamber and senate.
Favored Entering World Court.
Mr.. Harding had not been long in
the White House before it appeared
that he did not favor entire isolation
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-10

to join pieces of skins together into
garments. In Lapland the natives EN-
brOider their reindeer skin clothing
with needle Of reindeer bone, three of
reindeer sinew and applique of strips
of hide.
Travellers say that in Central Africa,
among the primitive tribes there, the
girls embroider skins with figures Of
flowers and animals, supplementing
the effect with shells and feathers.
Among the ancient Greek textiles
exhumed from Crimean graves are
both tapestries and embroideries now