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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08

Dhe Southern league accepted the
draft provisions of the majors under
the agreement at the time of it's
adoption and has been working am
icably and in good faith expects to
continue the present relations stated
President Martin.
The majors recently decided not
to send players to the minors unless
they were later subject to draft This
was considered by the non draft
leagues, as a move by the majors to
force them into the draft or seek
other sources for players. There has
been considerable talk and specula-
ton as to what move the leagues
not in the draft agreement would
make.
Southern Is Satisfied
The Southern league is apparently
satisfied with the draft conditions as
the result of a change made in the
draft clause. Formerly when the
majors drafted a player from the
Southern league they paid $4,000 cash
and an additional $4,000 IL the player
was retained after May Is. If the
player was not retained after May
Is, the club from which he was
drafted had first call upon the player
at the price of $4,000
The ruling was changed so that
the majors pay the full draft price
of $4,000 when the draft is allowed
and the player becomes the outright
property of the club he was drafted
by.
VIII Obey Lands
President Martin stated that exist
ing conditions were satisfactory to
the southern league, and that IL any
complications arose he would be sat
isfied to abide by any decision rem
dered by Judge Lands the high com
missioner of baseball.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08
Jap Tennis Stars Had
Fine Wedding Year

TOXIC. Jan. THREE Japanese
tennis stars were married this year,
Seiichiro Kashio being the last, when
he wed Miss Chiyoki Nagata, daugh-
ter of Rear Admiral Nagata, presi-
dent of the Kobe Higher Mercantile
Marine school. this month.
Zenzo Shimizu and Ichiya Kumagee
were married last January. Kuma-
gaze and Kashio soon will go to the
United States with their brides.
where they expect to join shim!zu
in preparation for the Davis cup
tournament this summer. All will
live in New York.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08
Racer Killed as Car
Turns Turtle at Lap.

Il HOUSTON, Tex, Jan. Earl
Greyg2s, race driver, of Flint Mich,
was killed at the Gulf Coast speed
way this afternoon on the last lap
of the second race. Grey had hit
the inside fence in the previous lap.
bnt continued to drive with piece
of the fence wedged between his left
front wheel and the steering gear.
AS he tried to come out OF the turn
onto tho home stretch in the last
lap the board caught his steering
apparatus, causing him to turn over.
He was caught under the car and
crushed He died instantly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08
Circuit Stewards to
Haze Annual Meeting

TOLEDO. O., Jan, 7.--Horsemen
from all parts of the country began
arriving today for the annual meet
ing of the grand circuit stewards to
be held here tomorrow. ~ s.si,9
The chief item of business to come
before the meeting Isl the adoption
of the 1923 schedule. #ft
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08

YoNKERs. N. Y. Jan. Joe
Moore Of New York won the mems
title, and Miss Hattie Doze of New
York captured the women s. laurels
in the annual tournament for the
metropolitan Ice skating champion
ship today. The other leading point
scorers were all from New York
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08
Hagen and Kirkwood
Stage Great Finish

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. T.
Walter Hagen and Joe Kirkwood de-
feated Gene Sarazen and Jock Hutch
ison, one up, on the Del Paso Coun-
try club links here today, in what
was declared to be e-of the most
sensational finishes ever made, in 2
3H-hole best ball match.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08
SOUTHERN LEAGUE IS
WITH ITS
BIG LEAGUE RELATIONS

MEMPHIS Tenn jan Especial lContinunce of harmonious
mnts entered into expected by the Southern league Thus John
night declaring the policy league regarding the recent de-
con of the majors send players the unless
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08
De Wolf Hopper Clues
His Idea of Perfect
Game AS a Slaughter
ARTICLE III-By JOHN J. MGRAW
Manager of Worlds Champion Giants

The public have discovered doesn't anything about the methods
thinks of his system long he wins.
How often heard baseball the
Il don't particularly which club long
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08

Chineses, navigators used the
magnetized needle arranged so as to
constitute a crude compass from a
period possibly antedating the Chris
tan era.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08
Cuba A. c. Eleuen Wins
From Florida Legion

HAVANA, Jan. THE Cuba Ath-
1etic club football team today de-
feated picked eleven from Amer
lean Legion posts in Florida, 10 to o.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08

More than 100000 ducks were
bag ged from the sunken ground in Ar
kansas in one year before-th they we're
protected by law.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08
NAA Mas zScr
.H HAT long planned invasion of

' HAT long planned invasion of
the east by Claude Wilson is
now coming to pass. Bespec-
tacled Tommy Tompkins led his
youthful box fighter from Birming-
ham Sunday morning and they are
speeding merrily eastward today.
Tommy and Claude will remain in
the east probably two weeks and
will then return. home to stage a
showssat the Birmingham Athletic
club the first week in February.
Monday night Wilson and Tomp-
kins will meet Roy Cohen at the
Hotel Pennsylvania. Then they will
visit Tomhy's home town, Paterson,
N. j., where. on February 10, Claude
Wilson is billed to meet Willie Her
man at the Paterson Sporting club.
CIaude's biggest fight up cast
will take place on January ~,
when he meets Patsy Wallace mt
the Ice Palace, Philadelphia.
After that Tommy and Claude
must look out for themselves, ms
they have no more bouts signed
yet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08

tends making trip of it this time.
Brennan johnson fight at Madison
Square Garden, Gotham, and will
visit other fight clubs and arenas
up east.
In addition to putting Wilson
through several bouts, Tommy
stated that he will probably bring
couple of good boys back with
him, to add to his stable at the B.
A. c. He said that he has his eye on
two battlers in particular, Tommy
Stapleton, Paterson welterweight.
and Young Erne. Buffalo light
weight. Tommy plans to bring both
of these boys south with him early
in February.
II. A. G. devOtees seemed not in
the least downhearted Sunday
over the defeat of the Blues mt
the university Saturday night.
One of them said, i..If our boys
hold them to 25-22 score on
that tremendous court at Tusca-
loosa. they will walIOp them
when they play return game
at the Il. A. G." Those who saw
the game stated that 1t was one
of the best they had ever seen.
Red Herring also plans an eastern
trip. Red states that some time
within the next two weeks he will
go to Louisville, to take on an oppo-
nent or two, then continue to In
danapolis. for a bout with Sid Bar
barian. After that he will probably
go east.
Herring is billed to fight the main
event at West Palm Beach soon,
when the Seminole Sun Dance car
nival takes place.
Red would like to show at the
b. a. c. again soon. 1t may be that
Tommy rompkins will match him up
with that crack Paterson welter-
weight he plans bringing south with
him. 1t would be good trial bout
for the youngster, and a good show
ing against Herring would insure
him popularity with Birmingham
fandom.
Evening star., 1923-09-11

banks and Office buildings is Shtnto
shrine where charms are dispensed.
which aye supposed to be eihcacious
IL such diverse emergencies as snip
wreck, child delivery and being the
victim OF liar.
TokiO's "Newspaper Row.
"2sNewspaper Row is in Kyo-
principal journals. Shiba-Ku con-
tains the Mortuary Temples OF the
Tokugawa Shoguns. A concession or
foreign visitors is indicated by the
announcement, boots need not be
taken off. as covers are provided TO
slip over them
I'm Azahus the American legation
was located in the time of Townsend
Harris. In this ward is a Buddhist
temple. memento of the years before
Shintoism took firm hold.
Shintuism has been kept alive in
Japan from the dawn Of the empire.
Toxic, as Japan's capital, became a
stronghold of Shintoism because Of
ticialdom of Japan supported it
ardently. Shintoism essentially is a
religion of patriotism, and patriot
ism is the corner stone Of empire
building. Furthermore, Shintoism in
culcates a patriotism which pivots
around the imperial family and es-
pecially around the person of the
emperor.
Western monarchs have stopped
at the claim of their divine right to
kingship--the idea that they are
chosen of God. But Japanese en-
perors have gone much farther and
claim that they actually are de-
scended from the Chief Shinto diety.
Mount Vernon of japan.
"Akasaka-ku is notable for con-
Japan, the residence of the late Gen.
Count Nogi, which is preserved by the
city and is a shrine for thousands of
patriotic visitors.
Visitors to the korakuen Garden
in Koishikawa- Ku, one of the most
popular landscape parks of Toxic.
will recall being told how its sym
metry already had been marred by
destruction OF some of its buildings.
its pine groves and it's ponds.
In this ward also is the Koishi-
kawa botanical garden--the popular
name for the gardens attached TO
Tokio's Imperial University. Here,
in glorious profusion, are the flowers
characteristic OF the island--the
plum, cherry, wisteria, azalea. peony.
iris. lotus and chrysanthemum. Here
also are fine specimens of the gingko,
camphor and JuJube. Memo Park, a
ceie ebrated Toxic resort in Shitaya-
ku. extends over more than 200 acres.
Eject of building Innovations.
In strolling through old Toxic
and seeing the frail bamboo and carr
board houses, one could not help con-
sidering that the introduction OF
western building greatly enhanced
the danger from earthquakes--a
speculation now so sadly confirmed.
For the fragile houses might be
burned and often were, but could not
MAIN their occupants under piles OF
mortar and stone. Fircproof ware
houses were provided for groups OF
such buildings and when the alarm
of fire was sounded the occupants
carried of their valuables to these
istorage places a proverb had it Fire
is the Blossom of Yedo," using the
older name of Toxic which was aban-
doned when the mikado took up his
residence there in 1863.
Japan has had her troubles from
volcanoes as we'll as from earth
Evening star., 1923-09-11

invited by the hotel for consulting.
Mr.. Right has been known as an
engineer who possesses an advanced
idea in the architect. He says. The
so-called modern buildings, which are
being built now will be ont of men g
people don't like to see the present
style houses. They consequently de-
mand new style building which has
never been born That the people.
half century hereafter, will be tired
of seeing the present architectural
art, is Mr.. Rights principal idea in
has architectural knowledge.
When we enter the new Imperial
Hotel, we feel as If we were being
led into the Kingdom of the fairyland.
sort atmosphere with strange wall
design calls for our peculiar sensa-
tons. When we stand in front of the
pond. which exists just front of the
main entrance. such an idea that this
Is modern hotel never strikes our
mind. but feel as If we stand on the
land
In general it seems this is very
low ceiling house. and entering the
hail, we feel as if something were
with purple and golden pattern
greatly strikes our eyes The ceiling
is very wide in comparison with it's
height from the floor, so as I told YOU
f1bONe c. Ieet as IT something were
pressing our head.
Words Varied Widely.
Outside the pervadlng sense Of
official regulation there is infinite
variety in Toxic. Exclusive Kajimachi
was very different from bourgeoise
handa. Busy, busting Mihombashi
with its Broadway and 'BilIingsgate'
was far cry from Shiba, village of
the tower gate and giant hill, native
restaurants and distinctive dances
The above mentioned Nihombashi
is principal business quarter of the
city. although each of the wards is
more independent. commercially, than
the various sections of most cities.
The center of Nihombashi and OF
Toxic IS the bridge which in oIden
times was a measuring point for dis
tances to places throughout the en-
pire. Formerly ii was wood; il was
rebuilt in 1911 of granite. II is the
thoroughfarc from each end of this
bridge which popularity is known as
Broadway
I'm Nihombashi is the Bank of
Japan, occupying a building especial
~ designed to be earthquake-pr proof.
One part of the building has three
stories underground for strong boxes.
and this part can be be flooded as
protection against fire.
I'm this same section of modern
Evening star., 1923-09-11

foundations. may itself have placed
the island in rather weak struc
tural position.
South of the central TIonsnu cres~
cent there are two other well-defined
volcanic festoons, one through the
Lu Chu Islands to Formosa: and
another from Formosa through the
Philippines and Borneo into, the great
volcanic complex of the East Indies.
Silent Volcanic Sentinel.
"On Japan's main island, which has
approximately the area of Great
Britain, there are no more than a
dozen volcanoes that may be con-
sidered active and q greater number
that are inactive. The closest and
the most important of the volcanoes
near Toxic are the famous and
beautiful Fujiyama. sixty miles to
the southwest, which has not erupted
since 1907: and Asama, ninety miles to
the northwest, which constantly sends
up a thin wisp of smoke. and now and
then breaks out into a vigorous
eruption.
Toxic has had three particular
furies of her own to harry her over
and over again; pestilence, fire and
Evening star., 1923-09-11

auakes. Scientists are not In COM
pfete agreement about the connection
between the two.
For reasons that geologists believe
to be inherent in the very constitution
of the globe, volcanoes have draped
themselves in surprisingly regular
festoons-like chain of pearls
caught up at intervals-down the
whole Pacific coast of Asia. And of
these crescent shaped string of fire.
mountains, the main island of Japan.
Honshu, itself crescent, forms the
very center.
The northernmost of the volcanic
crescents even touches America. since
it is composed of the Aleutian Islands,
stretching from Alaska to Kanchatks.
The second festoon curves from Kam-
chatka through the Kurile Islands to
northern Japan.
Then comes Honshu. the island on
which Toxic and Yokohama are sit
uated. Those ill-fated cities lie at
almost the extreme bulge of the CEN
trail volcanic crescent where the
island bends into the Pacific toward
a very deep depression. extending
perhaps $4,000 feet below sea level.
This. great trench beside HonsnNs
Evening star., 1923-09-11

earthquake. From the close Of the
sixteenth century when the old fish
ing village of Yedo blossomed into
city at the order of the ruling Shotgun.
these three have from time to time
taken heavy toll of life, and the latter
two of property.
Perhaps the most terrible of the
many fires that have destroyed great
blocks of the inflammable houses of
Toxic occurred in 1861 when 10000
persons are said to have lost their
lives in the flames. The number of
palaces destroyed is placed at SOC
and the residences Of other mobiles at
more than 700. while between 500 and
400 temples were burned.
THE houses of common residents
that went up in flames were almost
beyond number and merely suggested
in the chronicles as enough to fill
1900 streets, Eleven years later
almost the whole of the city was
again destroyed by fire, In the years
since the islands were opened to the
western world the greatest fire was
in 1879, when some 10000 buildings
were burned.
THE greatest epidemic in Tokio's
history occurred in 1873. Nearly
Evening star., 1923-09-11

100000 people, chiefly the poorer
classes. died.
Destructive Earthquake i'm 1908.
AN earthquake in 1903 destroyed
about 10000 lives. The most de-
structive earthquake prior TO the
present disaster. however, was in
November. 1856, two years after
Perry made his historic visit with a
squadron OF American ships. This
quake destroyed more than $4,000
dwellings and a great number of
warehouses or 'gedowns.' while the
lives lost are estimated at more than
100000.
what may be classed. relatively
aa minor earthquake. visited Toxic
and Yokohama in 1880. The results
of this Quake in Yokohama, how
ever, may be said TO have led to the
birth of the modern science of seis-
mology, Numbers of scientists in
various fields from the west had been
invited 10 Japan TO instruct the
newly awakened empire in the west
ern knowledge, and many of these
were living in Yokohama. Their in
terest was fired by the minor quakes
which they felt almost daily. and
after the tremor Of 1880. which level
Evening star., 1923-09-11
WEAPON CARRIER JAILED.

Robert Berry. colored, charged with
carrying a deadly weapon Will
intent TO use same. a pair OF braes
knucks, and assaulting Elsie Vessels
colored, of 1913 Union street south
west Sunday night. was convicted b.
Judge .Schuldt in the United States
branch of the Police Court yesterGay
and sentenced 10 serve six months
on each charge, and on the assault
charge he was fined $50 or thirty
days in Jail Berry explained TO TIE
court that he was just playing witt
the brass knucks."
Evening star., 1923-09-11

ed numctous buildings in the city.
they began the active study of fhr
seismic disturbances.
The crude devices used in record
ing Guakes elsewhere at that time
we're replaced by newly designed in
strumeHts which were the forerunneIs
of the delicate seismograDhs of to-
day. These new Instruments, de-
signed in Japan, were adopted in va :
rious parts of the world and soon
revolutioniZed the study Of earth
qUakes."
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-02
WALDEN COLLEGE TO HOLD
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES


The faculty, students, alumni and
friends of Walden are looking for
ward with unusual hope and interest
to the closing Of the first school year
in the splendid new home Of the Col
lege on City View Hill.
Reverend R. ]. Cox, pastor Of the
new Centenary Methodist Episcopal
Church, Memphis, Tennessee, will
preach the baccalaureate sermon Sum
day morning, June 8. Lawyer E. 5.
Foreman, a prominent and successful
alumnus of the institution, will give
the alumni address, Tuesday evening,
June 5. Bishop /. B. Scott, distin-
guished alumnus and President Of the
Board of Trustees, will deliver the
commencement address.
A very significant feature of COM
mencement will be the gathering of
the alumni to see the new site of their
Alma Mater, to lay plans, as never be-
fore, for assisting in the further stand
ardization of the College, and to ar
range for a great home coming in
1924.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-02
Novelties Found In
Bordered Materials

Bordered materials are strong, with
many novelties being introduced, such
as ten-inch borders Of rows Of button
holes, deep borders Of tiny pompons
and borders that look like rows Of en-
brOidered arrowheads. All are woven
into the fabric.
Crepe is stu good, but crepe satin
with a shlmmering surface Is stronger,
while there are many printed silks.
The designs Of the new printed silks
are unusual, adapted from old Hindu
ChinOis designs or Egyptian and Psrs-
ian helr0glyphics.
Materials with embroidered and
printed borders are overwhelmingly
in the majority. In cotton and linen
fabrics these designs reign supreme.
There Is much white patterned IN coli
Ors, often In strong blues, reds and
green's. All-over embroidery frequently
is seen IN cotton fabrics. "A novelty i'm
white linen shows a col0red border ex-
aetly like the border OF a fine linen
towel.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-02
Trimmings Hold
Sway on Frocks
Embroidery in Odd Corners
or Often Placed in Con-
spicuous Places.

One view Of the spring gowns gives
the impression that there is no decided
change in silhouette. Upon further ex-
animation, says fashion writer In the
New York Times, the intricacies Of de-
tail and trimming begin to stand out.
A frock may be as plain as a pipe
stem to all outward appearance when
In reality 1t Is a combination Of nice
ties 90 cleverly put together that they
create thing Of great beauty.
Many Of the gowns are cut on the
simplest Of all possible patterns-in es-
sence the one-piece dress. Then they
adopt some sort Of original trimming.
1t is hard to say what Is the favorite
trimming. Embroidery, In the spring
openings, has held the foremost place,
but 1t Is not put on In any stereotyped
manner. II is tucked into odd corners
or made to fame out In conspicuous
places, and sometimes 1t goes 50 far as
to cover a whole gown or coat, but 1t
Is best when done by hand with all
that attention to stitchery which the
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-02
WOULD KEEP WASHINGTON
VOTELESS TO DISFRAN-
CHISE COLORED
CITIZENS

Arguing in favor Of keeping the
District of Columbia and the National
Capital voteless, as they are at present,
George Ernest Miller of the Wash
ington Journal, writing in the Service
Record, urges as one of the reasons
for denying the vote to Washington,
that there are so many Negroes there.
Mr.. Miller warns of the danger that
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
would organize $4,000 Negroes in
Washington; They have the dispo-
sition and numbers to be the balance
Of power at the seat Of the govern
ment and will take advantage Of it."
Mr.. Miller refers to the drive now
being conducted BY the N. A. A. c. p.
for 25,0O0 members in Washington,
and states as his belief that if Wash
ingtonians were given the vote
colored people would through their
organization control and dictate to the
government. In the face Of this
danger" Mr.. Miller is willing to con-
tinue DISTINGUISHING the white citizens
of Washington, in order not to have
to givte the vote to the colored
people.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-06-02
One-Piece Garment
Is Much in Demand

There is an increasing demand for
the one-piece garment among women
who dislike bulkiness about the waist
line. The one-piece garment has q
semi-htted bodice with gathered draw
ers attached Just below the normal
waistline. Gathers or plaits are placed
over the hips 30 that the nat back ana
front effect Is achieved.
The costume slip is as important as
the frock itself this year. Often they
are made with the batteau-shaped
neckllnes and are worn in place Of
vests or blouses with the jacket suit
and sports jackets. When used in
place Of the blouse, heavy erepes de
chine or satin-backed crepes, in coIors,
navy, brown, Lanvin green, black or
white. are popular. Bodices may be
embroidered In eolors or batiked to re-
semble the dressy blouse. For sports
wear the plated or tucked fronts are
popular.
With the sheer frock the slip Is
often six inches shorter than the frock
itself, allowing a transparent showing
Of the ankle. For summer wear the
costume slip has a shadow-proof hem
extending to the hip line. White and
flesh sateen slips win be worn with
the washable dress
A pretty underslip was worn at q
recent fashion show under frock OF
tan georgette. The bodice Of the slip
was Of nile-green georgette and the
skirt consisted Of bands OF pink, green,
yellow and lavender georgette hem
stitched together and finely plated.
The rainbow effect subdued by the
overgown Of tan was obtained.
Yellow and pink are the leading col
OH for summer nightgOwns, many Of
which are made with batteau-shaped
neck lines and long arm Sits and with
ribbon or string belts
It is difficult to distinguish the
nlghtgown from the negligee this year,
as this garment takes on negligee
lines. Even where the shoulder strap
effect is used there Is usually a defach-
able lace bertha which ties with rib
bon in front.
Many Of the latest sheer gowns have
gone 80 far as to use long, fun. sleeves.
which are gathered into narrow wrist
bands. With the long sleeve arrange
ment the off-the-shoulder neckllne iB
generally used.