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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
3l INMATES OF ASYLUM IN MAD RUSH FOR LIBERTY
One Insane Man Killed and Two Guards Stabbed
 26 Escape

CHESTER, H., July 22.-One in mate of the Illinois hospital for criminal insane was slain by guards when S1 inmates battered their way through the bars of the institution and made a break fer freedom The delivery was affected after the in- mates had stabbed two guards. Four of the inmates were recaptured, 26 being at large.
 The inmate killed was named Jack son. who was sentenced from Chicago for murder. Until recently he had been confined in the state peniten- tiary at Joliet.
 The guards who were wounded are Ralph Dilday and Denny. Physi- cians who attended them stated they had little chance for recovery.
 The insane criminals made their escape from an iron cage known as = e Dull pen" which Is in the yard in the southeastern corner Of the building. About 75 inmates were in the bull pen" when the break was made They had been brought there under the surveillance of two guards to get an airing before being con fined to their cells for the night.
 At moment when the guards re-
 
 inmates, who had secretly armed themselves with knives, fell upon them. As the Illinois law forbids the guards carrying weapons inside the bull pen" they were easy victims for their assailants.
 moment later more than a score of the inmates seized chairs and benches and began an assault upon the iron bars of their prison. The bars, which are three -fourths of an inch thick, did not long resist the terrific battering, and before guards could arrive from other parts of the building, passage way had been created. Thirty-one poured through the opening and scattered in all di- rections. The arrival Of guards pre- vented further escapes.
 Jackson, who was one of the last to leave the bull pen." was shot to death in fight with a guard.
 Within few minutes after the escape 40 guards from the hospital and from the southern Illinois state penitentiary, which also is near Chester, had taken up the pursuit of the fugitiVes. Numerous citizen posses were organized and placed in charge of officers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
RUM SHIPS DEVISE MANY
 WAYS TO PUT VESSELS IN
 TRADE AND AVOID SEIZURE
Haynes Says Some Southern Bankers In Coast Cities
 Connive At Smuggling By Aiding Money Transac- tions-Cheap Barges Used To Bring Liquor Ashore

There appears in the Bahaman pa pers an inconspicuous legal notice to the effect that one John Doe, a mer- chant of some Bahaman port, has in stituted libel proceedings for debt against certain yacht. the owner having failed to pay for stores and equipment provided by the merchant for the vessel. In due course court proceedings are had, the ship owner or his representative admits the debt and professes inability to meet the account and the ship is ordered sold.
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 Changing Ships Nationality.
 At the sale either John Doe him self or some other citizen of the colony purchases the vessel. Her reg istry changes almost automatically to the nationality of her new owner, and thereafter she is a British shin under protection of the British flag. All this seems regular. But take the facts that lay behind the specific case I am citing.
 In that case we know that the owner who professed inability to meet debt of few hundred dollars was fairly well-to-do resident of a certain southern seaport of the United States. We know that after continued 10 be deeply interested in her subsequent career, and that she turned to smuggling rum almost as soon as the British flag rose at her staff.
 What Is the only construction to be put on those facts? The main point involved in this case. which (COntinued On Page Three.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
MINUS 3 WHEELS, CAR DESERTED BY OWNER
New Nash Auto, Otherwise Un-
 scratched, Unclaimed At Garage

One of the most novel automobile accidents in several years occurred Sunday night in Milner Heights when the wrecker from the Whitman Taxi cab company was called to bring in a new Nash car on which three wheels were smashed. At the time of the ar rival of the wrecker, which was op- erated by J. w. Culberson, no one could be found near the car and the owners were unknown at a late hour Sunday night.
 The car appeared to have been driven less than 500 miles and no in juries were found other than the three smashed wheels. The body of the car was not scratched in any place nor was any glass broken. Roy Britain of the Whitman company. who has been engaged in the auto business in Birmingham for several years. characterized the accident as "one of the most novel in his exper- ience." The cars number was A-6l72.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
ANTI-BOOZE ARMY BEGINS CAMPAIGN FOR DRY GERMANY
Teuton ProhibitioniSts Launch Huge Propaganda Drive
 Against Alcohol
By FERDINAND JAIN Heased Wire To The Age-Hersld. :.


 BERLIN, July 22.-German "drys" have inaugurated a huge propaganda campaign to put prohibition across in this country.
 Evils f liquor drinking are being proclaimed in the schools, in the press and even in such gatherings as lodge meetings. There IS a separate fraternal order whose sole aim is said to be to preach "pussyfootism" in Germany; the lodge, known as the International Order of Good Tenn plars, meets regularly with men and women present.
 This lodge has the usual organiza- tion--a chaplain, a high templar, vice templar and other dignitaries as we'll as many brothers" and sis ters." privates in the anti-bGoLe army.
 The chaplain prays for all those who drink, the speakers denounce and after lodge-as the sisters drink their weak tea and strong coffee the discussion continues.
 The lodge Is alleged to have so- called storm troops who act as missionaries among the thirst quenching brethren. They. have a fighting song" with which they open their meetings.
 In the Altonaer museum in Ham burg Is an exhibition on the evils of alcohol. The press, commenting on this innovation, declares other cities in Germany might well take up such clty-inspired plan of education ger of this peoples poison may be kuCwl and a scientific program of study of the evils of drink may be Introduced in the schools"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
Heat renzied Mobs Quorum Beach Resorts

NEW YORK. July 22-Heat drove 100000 New Workers from their attics and delicates- sen apartments to the beaches and play places Sunday.
 Rain drove them back.
 As 500,O00 disported them selves at Coney Island, clouds. driven by a 40-mile- -an- hour gale from a low pressure area around the great lakes, swept toward New England, scattering pail. fuls of water on the sweltering crowds below. Trains that had carried heat-frenzied mobs from the pavements a few hours be- fore, now carried the same mobs back to those same pavements.
 A million more, at the beaches in tl.' Greater New York zone, found no more need for surf bathing after the storm broke. A stream of heavily loaded au- tomobiles, skidding on the slip perry asphalt, headed toward home.
 Four heat deaths, numerous prostrations, eight drownings and several scores of rescues from drowning. marked the days casualties; bathing resorts, after making dressing rooms in tended for one do for two. hung out the mo more room" sign at noon; hundreds of disappointed motorists, arriving too late for a swim, parked their cars out side the gates and rested after getting out of their Sunday finery into bathing suits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
PO|NCARE REPLIES ID LATE ADDRESS IF LLOYFD GEORGE
To Place France And Ger many On Same Plane Is
 Called IniquitouS
v1LLERs - coTTERETs, Franc

VILLERS COTTERETS, France. July 22.-(By Associated Press)- Pr enlier Poincare today spoke here at ceremony at the unveiling of 9 monument to the soldiers who fell in the World war. He made no allusion to the British note concerning repa- rations.
 M Polncare began his address with dramatic outline of the French counter-offensive in the summer of 1918, and then replied to the recent speech of David Lloyd George. for mer British prime minister, describ- ing the prosperity of France. A considerable portion of the speech dealt with the German general ncmic annihilation for France, drawn up in 1916 by specialists, of which we have authentic copies.'
 To place France and Germany on the same plane, as Mir. Lloyd George did, was "iniquitous," NJ. Poincare declared. When Germany rebuilt her mercantile fleet, developed her railroads and dug new canals, was she repairing damages or undertak ing Improvement? Was she paying for these improvements from avail able resources or to the detriment of payment of her debt to the Allies" the premier asked. All of this might be amusing, as MT, Lloyd George said he found it, but for France it was sad-even unbear- able"
 "Why didn't they go into the Ruhr with us?" asked NJ. Poincare. They would then better under and what the real dangers are"
 The premier then described the organization of German industry as having not only vast horizontal car tels, but as prodigious vertical con- cerns controlling all forms of pro- duction, from raw materials to fin- ished products, thus holding a mo- nopoly on national wealth and domi- hating the state more and more daily. He said the German republic was being subjected to a new caste, naughty and as violently opposed to the liberties of the people as the junker, which was the master of the Berlin government and of the Ger man press.
 If we commit the imprudence to- day of enclosing Germans capacity for payment in a fixed and perma- nent frame" declared M Poincare, she will quickly evade us; arbitrary influence of this extraordinary az by reconquering economic supremacy will impose upon the world the scan dal of a most retrograde and Inn moral policy"
 Great Britain, Belgium, Italy and France, said NJ Poincare. must unite closely to avert this peril and not be led astray by the false Illusion of an impoverished and forever powerless Germany
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
SEVEN BADLY HURT IN
 WRECK NEAR ATLANTA
Motor Bus Crashes Into Car Of
 Persons On Outing

ATLANTA, Ga., July 22.-Seven persons were seriously injured when an automobile collided with a motor bus between this city and Douglas vile today.
 The injured are MT. and Mrs. D. T. Coggins and their daughter, Miss Mamie Coggins; Mrs. D. F. Snyder; Miss Maude Ager: Mrs. E. l.. Talent, and her 1S-months boy. All are resi- dents of Atlanta. and were en route to Bolton, nearby for Sunday outing. According to Miss Coggins, who was driving the car, the motor bus, en route from Douglasville to Atlanta, came over to the left side of the road to crash into her car. It was travel ing at high rate of speed, she said, and although 1t is understood to have carried several passengers, none of them was reported hurt.
 The baby, which s believed to have received interal injuries, was hurled 30 feet into a field.
 MT. Cogins was believed to have sustained the most serious injuries ot the older people. His back was wrenched and 1t was thought he sus- tained a fractured skull.
 The identity of the bus driver had not been learned early tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
JOHNSON TO BE EG|N SECOND QUEST FUR RES|DENCY TODAY
Returns From Europe To Find Republican Insurgency
 Growing Vociferous
ny RAYMOND CHAPTER neased Wire to The ASe-HcraId

WASHINGTON, July 22.-Senator Hiram Johnson will enter upon his second quest for the presidency when circumstances strikingly similar to those which faced Theodore Roose- welt on his return from Africa In the Taft administration.
 Johnson returns after five months in Europe to find the insurgency of the congressional elections last No vember growing more vociferous and struggling to break it's swaddling clothes. He also comes back to find that administration leaders who were rather complacent last March in the confident expectation that the pro gressive movement would soon wear itself out, now are openly expressing their fears as to what may happen in 1924.
 Take Advantage of situation.
 Johnson's friends have quickly taken advantage of this situation to advance his cadidacy against Har- ding. The President has control of the party machinery and is certain of majority of the nominating con Yention. But his ability to win the election if nominated is being queS- toned in many republican quarters.
 Harding has made no public state ment hmiself. but Attorney General Daugherty and number of other political friends have said he will be candidate for reelection. He may be persuaded to retire by those who argue that his renomination means certain defeat, but on the other hand there are large number of Harding appointees who owe their political lives to him and who will plead with more, there is the frank statement of Senator Jim Watson that not to renominate is to confess failure be- fore the campaign begins.
 Two Courses Possible.
 The Johnson movement may take either of two turns. 1t may remain purely fight against Harding with in the republican party, or 1t may reach out and attempt to gather in a large independent following with the idea of forming a party that would stand midway between the conservatism of Harding and the progressive LaFollette group.
 Either coure is studded with ob. stacles; LaFollette has established his leadership over the progressiYes. many of whom formerly favored Johnson but were allenated by his tendency toward republican regular ity in voting for the Fordney-Mc- Cumber tariff and his failure to ar rive in Washington until the day af- ter the Newberry custer vote. John son thereby fenced himself off from his most promising hunting ground His strength now lies largely among the moderate progressives in the reg ular republican group. Some of these are suggesting he wait until 1928 and do what he can this time to aid the republican party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
Ky ROY A. HAYNES United States Prohibition Commits.
 aiOner


 The inviolability of any national flag at sea, the fine principle of mu- tual respect and regard among na- tions which the centuries of human intercourse have handed down to us has come to be a cloak under which shelters the despicable rum-running trade. Neither has English maritime ls " round means to prevent it. Tha. Golluslon exists among the principals Tn many cases of ownership trans placed under foreign registry, must repeatedly be the conclusion reached py colonial officials. Indeed. digni- tied Judges have admitted their cer talnty; yet this practice has con tinued.
 Many of the rum-fleet craft origi- nally were American owned and flew the American flag. They have passed to British registry by the score since rum running became a popular and profitable year-round pastime in the southern colonies. And the very cun- ming of the men who conceived the scheme Is, indeed, ingenious.
 For they have worked out 8 sys- tenn of killing two birds with one stone. They not alone obtain the un- willing protection of the British flag for the'r smuggling operations. but also provide through this same transaction tangible assets to serve as security for load after load of liquor bound to our coasts. This is the way they do 1t. I take a typical case from our records, although I shall emit names.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
United Mine Workers Call On
 Federal Coal Commission
 For Investigation Of Ala
 bama Convict Lease System DECLARE HUGE PROFITS REALIZED ON CONNECTS Report Coal Operators In Alabama Pay Lowest Wages And Are Most Prosperous Of Any In United States
WASHINGTON BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD [ WashingtOn. n, C.. July 22

Formal request that the convict lease system as it is operated in Ala bama be investigated was filed today by the United Mine Workers oS America before the federal coal com mission.
 According to the memorandum, the nation has been stirred by reports of the ''terrors of the brutsI xsstem 1t is predicted that if the investiga- tion is made, the country will stand aghast at the revelations" It is al- legged that the state makes 8 huge profit from working it's convicts in mines. It Is charged that Alabama coal companies are the most pros porous in the nation; that they pay the lowest wages in the United States, and that free and convict miners are compelled to labor under conditions that are not surpassed anywhere for misery"
 Reference is made to the fact that operators in Alabama have succeeded in preventing the union obtaining firm foothold" in that state.
 Brutaiities Charged.
 In part, the appeal to the commits sion follows:
 The entire nation has recently been stirred again by reports pub lished broadcast depicting the ter TOTS of the brutal system under which non-union coal companies in Alabama employ convicts of that state in their coal mines. These re- ports tell of inhuman practices ia ttese mines, by means of which these convicts are compelled to suffer tor lures which break down their health, take away arm or leg or cause other bodily injuries, all in order that these non-union coal companies may reap q profit from this system. These reports say that the state of Ala bama makes profit of several hum
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
BELLE:AUWOOD DEDICATED TO J. {. WAR DEAD
French Flag Hauled Down Al
 FoCh's Command And Stars
 And Strips Run Up. Many
 American Citizens Present HARDING LETTER PRAISES FRIENDSHIP OF FRANCE Marshal Foch Assures Amer
 ica Soldiers Buried There Will Ever Be Guarded Re- ligiousIy By All Of France

CHATEAU THIERRY, France, July 22.-(By Associated Press.)- Belleau Wood, which Marshal Foch today called the cradle of victory was consecrated to the memory of the Americans who died there. The French flag at Foch's command was hauled down to trumpeting by French buglers and the Marseillaise by the marine band from the U. s. s. Pitts burg, and the American flag was run up to the strains of the Star SpanEied Banner.
 A group of Americans from many states and relatives of the dead as sembled inside the ring of French villages, the homes of which the Americans saved. The wood was for mally dedicated as permanent mem orial by the Belleau wood memorial association, represented by the presi- dent. Mrs. James Carroll Frazier, who directed the plan to buy the land and preserve the battle field, with trenches, and machine gun nests and erect a monument and place descrip- tive tablets.
 Marshal Foch reviewed the cam paiEn from the end of May, 1918, to the middle of July. He described the Beileau wood battle as the turning point of the war, the jumping off place of the final allied offensive and march across the Rhine. Tears crept down his cheeks as he reverently assured America that the men who died here are safe; they will be guarded by us rligiously."
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 Letter From Harding.
 Col. T. Bentley Mott, the military atraCnn representing the American ambassador, Myron T. Herrick, who was i'll read letter from President i H rd4ng and a message from Genera PqrsainN 9as. lattsr raferred g5 u } 5a.tie ground as "a patriotic shrine where for generations to come the traveller will pause to contemplate
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
TO BURY ADMIRAL

WASHINGTON, July 22.-Rear Ad- miral Charles D. Sissbee. who com manded the battleship Maine when 1t was sunk in Havana harbor. will be buried at Arlington National cemetery here Monday within a stone's throw of the mast of his fla nous ship.
 The mast was salvaged when the sunken hulk was raised some years ago and now stands in the cemetery as 8 memorial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
THIEVES STEAL HOUSES
Homes Taken From Foundations And Sold In Other Parts Of Paris

PARIS, July 22.-Houses are so scarce in Paris that an organized band of thieves is stealing homes parentis selling them to home-seek- CTS in other parts of the city. This is the latest case reported to the pre- lecture of police Sunday:
 M. McLlvert. a resident of Saint Ouen. near Paris, bought lot in Rue pleyel and built small frame house on it. Before taking possession he made a trip to the country and when .he returned the house was gone.
 Several other similar cases have been reported
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
STORM HITS KNOXVILLE
Damage Estimated At $25,OO0 Is
 Caused Fly Disturbance

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July 22.-Dam- age estimated at $25,00O was caused today when one of the severest cleo trical storms in the history of this section swept over the city. Tele phone poles and trees were blown over while large plate glass windows in downtown stores were broken | by the gale which accompanied the storm. The family of W. E. Kidd mar rowly escaped when lightning struck his home. The front porch was wreck ed Several other homes were touched by the bolt, but no one was injured seriously.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
ASK AMERICAN AID
DeNalera Pleads For Funds To Sup
 port Republican Candidates


 DUBLIN, July 22.-Pleading for American aid for the cause of the Irish republic, Eamonn DeValera Sunday addressed a message to the American Association for (Recogni- tion of the Irish Republic. He urged that America contribute funds and support to his candidates in the forthcoming election.
 The step indicates that DeValera, who recently repudiated armed re- sistance against the Free State, is now seeking to win at the polls the domina ton of Ireland he failed to gain by force. Speaking for the re- publicans, DeValera himself made this point in an intervew:
 As far as we are concerned, the war is finished. We shall devote ourselves to social reform, educa- tion and the development of the economic and material strength Of our nation politically"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
SEISM0GRAPH RECORD
 SEVERE EARTHQUAKE
Shock Lasts For Two Hours-4,900
 Miles Away

WASHINGTON, July 22.-An earth quake of severe intensity and of two hours duration. estimated to have oc- cured 4.900 miles from Washington, was recorded today on the George town university seismograph. The disturbance continued from 9:29 a. m. to 11:S0 a. m., with the greatest intensity between 10 o'clock and 10:10 a. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
CRASH KILLS TWO

Aviator And Woman Passenger Die
 When Airpiane PIunges
 LOS ANGELES, July 22.-WilIiam l.. Cross, an aerial photographer, and an unidentified woman were killed at Santa Fe Springs. an oil field suburb, today when the plane Cross was driving suddenly went into a nose dive from an altitude of about 100 feet and crashed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
20 GET DUCKING

Score Thrown Into Water WhA@
 Yacht Is struck By Steamship
 NEW YORK, July 22.-Twenty of hlrty passengers on a private yacht were thrown into the waters of New York harbor tonight when the craft vas struck by the steamship Alber- tina, It was believed all were picked up by lifeboats lowered from the ship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
ASSAILS LABOR BOARD
Effort To Create Hostility Between ROnd And Employees Is Charged

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 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 22.--W. W. Atterbury, vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad. In a speech here, charged that the United States railroad labor board Is trying to create hostility between Pennsyl- yanla executives and employees.
 Atterburys speech was delivered before an employees meeting and was an answer to the labor board s recent reprimand of the Pennsylvania for failure to obey the boards order to hold an election for wage repre- sentation among employees.
 An effort is being made to create hostility between men and the man agement and make the men feel that only by industrial warfare can they obtain fair play" said Atterbury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
CALLED "GOLD DIGGERS''

Natives Believe MacMillan Polar
 Party Duplicate Of Others
 BOSTON, July 22.-Capt. Donald MacMillan's polar exploration party is being taken for "a party of gold diggers," according to a radiogram received from the explorer at Grady, Labrador. Because Of the gold rush in Labrador. natives believe Mac Millan's party is duplicate of ice fields.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
ASK FEXJERAL PROBE OF LEASE

MARCONPS GREAT INSPIRATION.-Mrs William Mar con wife of the inventor who has been honored by the Queen of Italy by being made her lady in waiting The Marcon home is in Florence where their children be- ing educated The inventor has called the wife and mother his great inspiration