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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10
RESENT ATTEMPT
TO SELL RAILROAD
Claimed Sale Would Discontinue
Through Service

MOBILE, Ala, Dec. 9.-Sections OF
Louisiana and Mississippi served. by
the Mississippi Central railway are
considerably aroused over the at
tempted sale by the Gulf. Mobile and
Northern of it's Beaumont branch to
the Tatum interests of Hattiesburg,
Miss, r. G. Cobb, traffic manager of
the Mobile Chamber of Commerce, re-
ported today following his return
from hearing before the Mississippi
railway commission to determine the
validity of the sale. The hearing
which commenced Thursday was re-
cessed Friday night until Tuesday.
Vicksburg, Miss; Natchez, Miss;
Hattiesburg. Miss, and other cities
of these states, together with Louisi-
ana and Arkansas railway, the Mis-
sissippi Central railway, the Mobile
Chamber of Commerce and the Ala
bama public service commission are
interceding in the case, Mr.. Cobb
stated.
The ground on which the various
interests are voicing protests that
the sale of the Beaumont branch. 20
miles long, and reaching from Beau
mont to Hattiesburg. will result in
the discrimination of through serv-
ice by the Mississippi Central between
Mobile and Natchez, Mr.. Cobb ex-
planned
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10
COOLIDGE IS READY
TO LAUNCH DRIVE
Republican Leaders Flock To
Washington For Meeting
Of National Committee
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
(By Leased to The Age-HeraId)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The Cool
idge campaign will enter it's active
stage here this week during the
meeting of the republican national
committee, which has brought all q.
o. P. leaders of note flocking to
the capitol.
The organization which. will ad-
vance the Coolidge candidacy is be-
ing formed under the direction OF
William NJ. Butler of Massachusetts
who will act as the Presidents per-
sonal representative. This announce
ment was made Sunday night by
Frank w. Stearns of Boston, per-
sonal friend of President Coolidge.
The understanding is that Butler
will pay particular attention to the
raising of funds and that he viii
call to his aid an outstanding polit-
ical manager like George Harvey.
Coolidge leaders have been busy
behind the scenes for weeks, but
the next few days will see the boom
emerging from the shadows. Two
developments during the last week
have impelled Coolidge's managers to
strike now:
l. The unexpected victory over
Senator Hiram Johnson in the South
Dakota proposal convention, which
showed the President to have 4 good
Following in the wheat belt.
2. The favorable reaction toward
the Presidents message to Congress,
which was well received even in the
democratic press. with such well
known journals as the New York
World, New York Times and the At
lanta Constitution voicing their ap-
prevail of the significant recommend
dations which the President made.
Bearing out the forecast made
some weeks ago, William NJ. Butler,
national committeeman from Massa-
chusetts, and man with many bust
ness connections in New England,
has been made financial director of
the Coolidge forces. This insures Il
large warchest for the Presidents
campaign, as Butler has had long eX-
perience in moneyraising.
o o o
To Confer With President.
He is here for the national COM
mittee meeting and will confer Mon
day with the President, so as to be
in a position to speak with authority
when he mingles with his fellow
committeeman in furtherin& the in
terests of the President.
The plan now is to select a cam
paign manager not now affiliated
with the national committee. George
Harvey, retiring ambassador to Great
Britain, now a guest at the White
House, Is the most likely choice.
There is no question about his polit-
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10
Eats Forty
Waffles And
Collects Bet

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. O.
Nashville claims the champion
waffle eater of the world.
He ate 40 and is still hale and
hearty.
The champion is Lloyd McKeel,
prominent worker in the Nash
Vile Junior Chamber of Com
merce. McKeel was boasting Of
his superior eating capacitvs
II can eat 40 waffles," he &tid,
rubbing his stomach.
Twenty dollars says you &
can't" countered a compa fl{uf1sl
They repaired to a cafe ord
Mcneil downed the two-score
and his companion on the wager.
He collected the twenty. The
cafe proprietor was so proud of
the feat that he donated the
waffles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10
Home Stretch Is On

The home stretch is Hourly increasing their Wig
pace, and gaining such remarkable momentum as
time slips by that verabe torrent of is sweeping
into the club headquarters, members in The Ageerads
great $2480000 Help Yourself Club working at top
speed in the crucial period that will decide their fate
Only five days remain of the big campaign 1t
closes Saturday night, December 5th.
you have not given your subscription to your favore
candidate NOW is the time Don't put it off until it's
late The subscription you give may be the one which
will put your favorite in the winning list
NOW is the crucial time of the campaign Now is the
time to make every hour until the close
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10
FARM EXPERTS WILL
DISCUSS CONDITIONS
Sterilization Of Marketing Will Be
Topic At Meet

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. Con
servation of farm products and
sterilization of marketing conditions
through uniform state laws will be
discussed by agricultural experts
from many parts of the country, who
Will meet here tomorrow at the sug-
bestion of c. e. Baughman, commits.
sioner of the Texas markets and
warehouse department. The confer
ence will continue three days.
Uniformity of state laws dealing
with bonding of warehouses, the is
suance of receipts and the sort of
state supervision back of the receipt
Standardization of grade and class of
farm products, weights and meas
ures; and rural credit acts supple
mental to the federal credits act.
are among the principal features to
be discussed. 1t is hoped to agree
upon basic principles and urge the
legislatures in the several states to
enact them into law.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10
DRY RAIDS
Two New Orleans Cabarets Ar
SNnrched

Two New Orleans Cabarets Are
Searched
NEW ORLEANS, La, Dec. 9.-While
jazz bands blared and patrons jostled
on the dance floor, federal prohibition
agents, operating under Mack Over
peck, divisional prohibition chief.
early today raided the "Ringside'
cabaret at Cont and Bergundy
streets. The agents reported they
found liquors to the amount Of $500
and said charges would be filed.
Another cabaret, the LA Veida,"
half a block away also was visited.
The agents said they found small
quantity of liquor there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10
ROBBERS LECTURE
VICTIM AND FLEE
One Scoops Up Cash From Regis
ter While Other Does TIE Talking

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 9.-Police
were without clue Sunday to the
two masked bandits who on Sat
urday night gave George w. Dunlap,
laundry owner, a lecture on the Ills
of society and then took $l,227 from
his cash drawer as their fee.
Five persons were in the office
when the two men entered. All were
forced to lie on the floor and then
the bandit spokesman began:
"Society-it is curse. Look what
it has done for u.s."
The robbers pal was scooping the
bills of large demonstrations from
the draper.
The two men fled in a motor car
containing two other bandits.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10
TWO AVlAT0RS KILLED

Hundreds Witness Fatal Crash At
Houston, Tex, Field
HOUSTON, Tex, Dec. 9.-Lieut. l..
J. Mclaughlin. 26. and Capt. e. T..
Wagner 30, We're killed at $3.50 p. m.
today at Ellington Field when the
wing of training plane in which
they We're flying collapsed and the
machine plunged 500 feet to the
ground.
Hundreds of persons. who had
gathered to watch gunnery practice
of the forty third pursuit squaI don
h re from Kelly Field, witnessed the
accident
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10
$4,000 FIRE

PARAGOT Ark, Dec. 9:-Fire
which DESTROYED the Hurt Wholesale
Grocery pany ana threateueu
ntber builflfngs in the business dis
trict Of thiss own, was brought under
oontrol early today after causing a
lass estimated at $250.000. The
oAigin Of the first has not been deter
mined.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10

WEATHER FORECAST: RAIN
AND MILD TEMPERATURE
MONDAY; RAIN AND COLD
Err TUESDAY.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10

A MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERA-
TURE OF 60 DEGREES IS
BIRMINGHAM'S PROOF OF
AN IDEAL CLIMATE.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
SCORES PR0HIBlTIONISTS
FOR EFFORTS HERE

The Association Against the Prohi-
bition Amendment yesterday made
public statement by w. Fl. Stayton,
founder and executive head, criticiz-
ing the efforts made by prohibitionists
to line. up President Coolidge against
congressional modification of the Vol
stead act, on the basis of past official
acts and utterancesT
Recourse has been made by the
drys," Mr.. Stayton said, ito Mr.. Cool
idge's veto of an act passed, by the
Massa chusetts Legislature when he
limit prescribed for wine and beer by
the Volstead act was set aside. This
Veto II has been claimed, indicates Mr..
Coolidge's belief that the laws of the
land cannot be modified to permit the
sale of beer and light wines.
'In his veto Gov. Coolidge re-
Trained absolutely from any express
sion on the merits of prohibition. He
referred, however, to the adoption of
the prohibition amendment and to the
act known as the Volstead act passed
by Congress for its enforcement, and
to the question of the constitutional
ity of both as existing at that time.
Naturally, Mr.. Coolidge as Presi-
dent stands for law enforcement, Just
as he did as governor. So do law
abiding citizens everywhere, including
all members of this association.
The prohibitionists themselves ad-
nit that MIR. Coolidge has never pub
licly stated his views as to the move
ment to. liberalize the Volstead act
Efforts to distort his veto of the
Massachusetts legislation into ap-
proval Of Volsteadism merely indicate
the straits in which they find them
selves and the desperate extremes to
which they will go in their endeavors
to fasten that piece of fanatical legis-
lation on the people"
Evening star., 1923-09-15
The Joker Joked.
From Judge.


A tail, lank, taciturn mountaineer
was guiding an OK team, to place his
log wagon at the chute, in a southern
sawmill village.
The off steer was a particularly
ugly animal, gaunt, raw-boned, brin-
died. one-eyed, evil-looking. He had
one long horn, ornamented by g. brass
thimble on the point; the other horn
had been broken. He had lost all the
hair off one entire side by scalding in
q steam boiler accident, which left
that part of his hide slick and NANCY
looking. He was as disreputable in
appearance as steer could be.
A hardware drummer, whose hair
was of fiery red hue, had been anus
ing a crowd at the expense of the OK
driver. He gave much useless advice
and asked ridiculous questions, as the
countryman brought his charges to a
stop.
whats the matter with that
brindle steer-does he sleep on one
side only?" he asked. as the crowd
laughed.
Nav"
Had the murrain. the .one-sided
kind, hadn't he?
Nav"
"The good Lord kind of run short
of hair when He was making that
steer, didn't Her.
Nav" replied the mountaineer,
splitting deliberately. HE had q
plenty of hair left, sich as hit was,
but hit was red, and He wouldn't put
red hair on no decent steerw
Evening star., 1923-09-15
NEED OF CLOTHING
!. IN Japan STRESSED
Salvation Army Issues Ap-
peal for Immediate Ship .
ments to Stricken Areas.

In addition to its campaign for a
million dollars for Japanese relief,
the Salvation Army has issued q ma
tion-wide appeal for secondhand
clothing for immediate shipment to
the stricken areas in Japan. Thou
sands of people in Japan are home
less, 1t Is pointed out, and have no
equipment to help them face the se-
verify of the coming winter.
Salvation Army wagons win be able
to call only for contributions where
large supplies are involved, and, in the
interest Of the speed necessary to pre-
vent suffering, contributors are urged
TO take their bundles to the Salvation
Army headquarters In their own cars.
Care I'm Marking Urged.
If bundles are sent by mail ex-
press or messenger they should be
marked For Japan" and addressed
to Adjt. George Paxton, Salvation Army
Social Service Center, 102-116 B street
northwest
The Salvation Army has been in d.
rect communication with Japan, and
is fully advised of the type of articles
most needed. Arrangements have
been made by the Japanese steam
ship companies for free and imm medi-
Already carefully selected assort-
ment of $4,000 garments is on the
way to Japan from New York. Upon
arrival these garments will be deliv-
cred to the Salvation Army officers.
who have set up emergency quarters
in Yokohama and Toxic.
Articles Most Needed.
Only certain articles can be used
in the devastated section of the coun-
try and those who make contribu-
tions toward alleviating the distress
of the people in Japan are asked to
be guided by the list below, which
has been compiled upon advice from
Japan:
For men-suits. overcoats. under
wear, shirts, socks. shoes, caps or soft
felt hats. For women-Dresses, un-
dergarments, stockings, shoes, cloRks
or coats.
s. For children-Any and all children's
garments, with shoes. Miscellaneous
Blankets. sheeting. face towels,
shawls, wraps, cloth, soap and dress
making supplies, such assneedles and
thread, tape, braid, buttons and pins.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
LETTER TRAP FAILS,
But TWO ARE HELD
MIR. and Mrs. FIeishman
Charged With Opening
/ Note Sent to Harris.

The unsuccessful springing of trap
laid for Sam Harris, wanted in New
York for jumping his $4,000 bond on
charges of promoting a blind" pool.
which is alleged TO have cost victims
millions of dollars, led to the arrest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Raymond
Fleishman, divorced couple, some weeks
ago. on charges of tampering with the
mails. 1t was disclosed today. Details
of the arrest had not been given previ-
ors!y.
To trap Harris. who was believed to
be in the city, surety company opera
tlveS from New York and local detec-
tives collaborated in dispatching a reg
istered letter to him to the home of
Mrs. Fleishman. A return receipt was
requested. When the receipt was re-
turned to the senders they thought
they had located Harris.
They discovered, however, that some
one had received the letter for Har-
ris. The result was the arrest of
Mrs. Fleishman. who was later re-
leased under $1,000 bond pending a
hearing, and Fleishman. who was at
her home visiting his child, who was
released under $1,000 bond. by De-
eectiyes Thompson, Mansfield, Darnall
and Springman.
Harris meanwhile had escaped the
country. police believe. An operator
from a New York surety company.
which provided the bond, had been in
town a week trying to put his hands
on Harris before calling in the local
police. Some word of the presence of
the operator reached the suspect. it is
believed
Attorneys Paul Cromelin and Bo-
Iitha Laws, who have been retained
BY Mrs. Fleishman, announced that the
defense would show that she had re-
ceived power of attorney to receive any
mail addressed to any occupants of the
house in which she lived
Evening star., 1923-09-15

A cage full of cannibals, direct from
balmy South sea island and the only
members of their species in captivity,
Zoo.
They are Laysan finches, a tiny but
ferocious species of bird that is found
nowhere else in the world but on the
little Island of Laysan, an uninhabit-
ed bit of land in the middle of the
Pacific ocean. at the extreme end of
the Hawaiian archipelago.
They were sent here by DR.. Alex
ander Whetmore of the Agriculture
Departments biological survey bu-
reau, who has just returned to the
Cnited States from q business trip
to lonely Laysan. So far as is known,
DR.. Whetmore is the first person sue
cessfully to capture any of the Lay
san finches alive, the only other rep
resentatives of the species being stuff
fed ones in a London museum.
Went to Kill Rabbits.
DR.. Whetmore was sent to the island
some months ago on an extraordinary
mission. An English mariner who
visited Laysan some years before
President Roosevelt declared it a gov
ernment bird reservation, abandoned
two pet rabbits. In the years since
that time the offspring of that cou-
pie has multiplied so rapidly that
mariners passing close to the coasc
reported the island literally cover
ed" with them.
When investigation disclosed that
the rabbits We're destroying vegeta-
tion faster than 1t could replenish it
self, DIR. Whetmore was ordered to
Evening star., 1923-09-15
MAINTAINS
ARMAMENT STAND
Refuses to Change Article 2,
Providing for Aid to
Attacked.
By the Associated Press.

by lne ASsoSlhleu
GENEVA, September 15.-Progress
was made yesterday in the work of
the league of nations assembly on the
proposed international pact of mutual
assistance, the aim of which is main
tenance of world peace, when several
more articles were approved by the
commission on reduction off arma-
ments.
Amendments to article were re-
jected. This article is practically
duplicate of the famous article 10.
AS approved today 1t calls upon the
signatories to furnish assistance to
any state which is attacked, on condi-
tion that the country attacked has
conformed to the pact stipulations
concerning reduction of ornaments.
The league commission also adopt
ed article III, which provides that
when any signatory power feels that
another state has exceeded the arma-
ments laid down by the pact, or
threatens to open hostilities upon her,
such state may appeal to the league.
1t also approved article w, which au-
thorizes the council of the league to
decide within four days which state
Is the aggressor.
The commission likewise adopted in
principle article v, which outlines
the nature of the assistance to be
accorded to an attacked country, and
arranges for an economic and flnan-
cial boycott against the offending ma
ton.
The action of the council of ambas-
sadors in settling the Greco-Italian
dispute has been communicated to all
the members of the league of nations.
who now await a report from the coun-
ell of the league on the question of the
competency sof the covenant of the
league, which Italy refused to recog-
niZe.
Both the Jugoslavian and italian
spokesmen said that they expected the
Fiume problem would be settled peace
fully by direct negotiation.
In a public address Lord Robert
Cecil scourged those people who he
said idly attacked the league. without,
at the same time, suggesting some or
ganization to take its place on an
equal or better footing. He declared
that the league was not all-powerfuI
and did not claim to be, but unless 1T
could be built into a powerful and eff
fective institution the present genera
tion and future generations would live
to regret 1t.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
GERMANY'S OUTLAY
IN RUHR ENORMOUS
Minister of Finance So De-
cIares in Urging Speedy
Solution of Conflict.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, September 15.-Speaking
in the reichstag, Minister of Finance
Hilferding said, the expenditures on
the Ruhr account had increased enor-
mously and that the population in the
occupied region was being largely
supplied from the reich's exchequer.
Capital for trade and industry in
those regions. he asserted. must be
provided to an ever-increasing extent;
hence efforts must be made to solve
the conflict by speedy negotiations.
Cessation OF Help Impossible.
Sudden cessation of help for the
Ruhr population was impossible, the
minister continued, but in view of the
currency market, expenditures could
not be continued on the present scale,
although the curtailinent would be so
conducted that the population would
not suffer.
Other expenditures must also be
cut, Herr Hilferding asserted. adding
that If the people did not realize
that imitation was really the heaviest
form of taxation, there would be no
hope of salvation for Germany.
Care should be taken. however, he
SAID, not TO start panic against the
paper mark. which was legal tender
and could not become valueIess.
Herr Hilferding concluded his re-
marks with an appeal to the nation
to avoid civil war and to hold out
until a solution of the country's ex-
ternal difficulties could be reached.
Striking Miners Fired On.
BEUTHEN. Germany, September Is.
Striking miners. who attempted to
storm the town hall here yesterday,
were fired upon by the police. One
woman was killed.
Isolated disturbances occurred to-
night. but the town was otherwise
quiet, with the police patrolling the
streets.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
TEN IN WARD Jury
TO REPORT MONDAY
Wife of Murder Defendant in
Court-TiIts Mark Court
Session.

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. September
l5.-Ten tentative jurors had been
chosen for the trial of Walter s.
ward, millionaire bakers son,
charged with the murder of Clarence
Peters, ex-sailor, when Justice wag-
ner concluded the third day of the
trial yesterday by adjourning court
until Monday morning.
. Three possible members of the jury
were selected from the forty-four
examined during the DAY. Mrs Beryl
Curtis Ward, wife of the accused,
was present and seemed more nervous
than yesterday. This and the fire.
quent tllts between former Justice
Isaac n. Mills of the counsel for the
defense. and Justice Wagner, marked
the day.
The adjournment was taken after
the defense had peremptorily chal-
lenged the 121st man examined since
the trial started This exhausted the
regular yenire and a special panel
of seventy-five talesmen has been
ordered to report Monday.
Legal Clashes Frequent.
Clashes between Attorney Mills and
Justice Wagner were frequent. Dur
ing examination of the first taIesman
of the day, Justice Wagner silenced
Mills by pointing his finger at him,
and declaring he didn't believe he
could be further enlightened" about
the talesman.
The ire of the justice was provoked
again when Mills announced he had
lost his skull cap. The trial was
halted until it was discovered the at
torney had been sitting on it.
Attorney General Sherman an
nounced that Mrs. Ward had been
subpoenaed for the state in the trial
of her husband and not as a witness
before the extraordinary session of
the grand jury when it resumes it's
Inquiries Monday. Much speculation
as to how far the attorney may go
in endeavoring to get Mrs. Ward to
testify against her husband has been
caused by this. She can fatty refuse
to testify against him. 1t was said.
however, that the state might be able
to compel her to testify to certain
facts in the case.
The prisoner himself, although ap-
parently more nervous than yester-
day, smiled frequently.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
AMERICAN SAFETY
LIST In QUAKE GAINS
Asiatic Fleet Radios Many Names
in Addition to Those
Published.

The following additional names of
Americans in the Japanese earth
quake zone whose safety has been
established was received by Navy
radio today from the Asiatic fleet:
Miss Abbott and brother, Z. S.
Beyers, C. Bleauwelt, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. L. Buchanan. Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
jamin Bum and three children, E. S.
Abbott, A. K. Bennett, Cranor Box,
Miss NJ. L. Cowley. John Conroy, j. S.
Corstairs Mrs. Danforth. Mr.. and
Mrs. T. L Demott, Miss Ina Everley,
J. T. Flatto, two Graft sons, 1. /.
Gollob. wife and three sons; G. H.
Gillette. r. T. Hickman, L. H. Jenks.
Mrs. G. A. Jeccery, H. r. Mills. Grace
and Dorothy Dills. r. L. Moor, Cath
crime McGrigg, Capt. ]. Martin, wife
and daughter; W. L. Dunn. Okamot
o. Y. Oldt, j. Perkins. Andrew Pater-
son. p. E. Spangler, Mr.. and Mrs
George Sokolsky, George F. Scid,
A Y. Satterweight, A. T. Smith, P. P.
Torg, L. D. Sturgeon. ]. T. Tran
phagen, E. L. West, Berba and Jack
Vest, Miss Evelyn Virley, DR.. and
Mrs. Webb, George and Mrs. Warn
and J. NJ. Zeller.