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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
$6,00O,000 MOVIE
 SUIT WITHDRAWN BY
 VTAGRAPH COMPANY
Will Hays instrumental In Bringing About
 Agreement

NEW YORK, June 12.-Withdrawal of a ss,00o.oOo suit brought by the vitigraph Company of America, Inc. against the Famous Players-Lasky corporation and other defendants, was announced today, by the latter firm. Efforts of Will Hays. director general of the motion picture industry, were said to have been instrumental in bringing about an agreement.
 The Vitagraph company alleged in it's complaint that Famous Players had conspired to control first run" motion picture theatres. thereby sup pressing competition and restraining interstate trade and commerce. Vita graph declared it had been injured to the extent of $2,000,oo0 by the alleged practices and, under pro- visions of the sherman law. asked federal court for thrice that amount.
 The suit was brought last Novem Der. Albert E. Smith, president of the Vitagraph company, today con- scented to withdrawal of the com plaint.
 The federal trade commission fer some weeks has been investigating the Famous Players-Lasky corpora ton in an effort to determ inc whether the company constitutes a trt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
STATE 3. '. ?. U.
 MEETING !. !: OPENED
Play By Iudson College Girls Features Tuesday Night
 Session

Visitors T ar and d. delegates s,t sue toNthe annual convention of the AIapama Baptist Young Peoples Union Tuesday after noon numbered more than 300
 The program Tuesday was opened by a general discussion, led by Mrs Herman Orr of Montgomery. Henry Rogers of Ragland, Ala. made an in teresting talk. using as his subjec, Looking Unto Him Through Daily Prayer"
 The principal address of Tuesday was delivered by Frank H. Leavell of Memphis. who spoke on Training in Stewardship" MT Leavell is secre- tary of the Baptist interboard stu dent commission. He outlined in con- else form stewardship requirements, the training needed and advocated a more devout attitude toward duty to God a s being necessary to proper administration of church affairs.
 Sunset service was held Tuesday afternoon at o'clock, led by Miss Madaline Dix. Practically the entire assemblage participated In this im- pressive service, which proved one of the most interesting and instructive yet held.
 feature of the session was the presentation Tuesday night of a play by the girls of Judson college, en- titled, Robert and Mary" led by iss Georgine Foley of Marion. Several hundred delegates and students wit messed the play, which was well pre- sented. Tuesday night was officially set aside as "college night" Follow ing the play a social period was held at 930 o'clock. led by Mrs. J. E. Lambdin and Miss Agnes Durant.
 Baseball, tennis, rowing and swim ming were major features of reore- ational period enjoyed during the day, and which will be continued through out the entire week under the direc- ton of Carl M. McCool.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
Flood Waters To Reach
 Highest Stage In History

FORT SMITH, ArkS June 12.Con- tinuing to rise rapidly. the Arkansas river late Wednesday or Thursday will in all proba bility reach a crest cast issued tonight by the local weather bureau.
 The 1898 flood, the greatest in the history of Fort Smith, was 3o.2 feet. This afternoon the stage was ZHo feet. ..
 Late this afternoon the levees at Cross Lane, 12 miles south of Van Buren, gave way in one place and also near Mulberry. At the latter town the stream is eight miles wide and is rising at the rate of two inches an hour. Persons residing in the bottoms have been forced to flee in boats for safety. In some instances logs, taking none of their personal effects except clothing they wore Much live stock has been drowned. The gauge at Van Buren shows 29
 feet and is expected to reach S1 feet tonight. The river is five miles wide at Lees creek, with crops 70 rect
 under water for many miles in the | bottoms.
 At Moffett. Okla, opposite Fort Smith, the surging waters started backing up Garrison creek and were soon overflowingA All highways At o'clock tonight Fort smith was com pletely isolated from Oklahoma by
 vehicular travel. The miliion-d dollar free bridge spanning the river be- tween Fort Smith and Oklahoma Is now rendered temporarily useless, as highways leading to its approach on the Oklahoma end are submerged. Residents in lowlands from Chero- i kee Junction, Oklahoma to Van Blu
 ren, Ark, a distance of 10 miles, have been removed to safety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
Kansas Slowly
 Recovering From Flood

KANSAS CITY, June 12.-Kansas was slowly recovering Tuesday from one of the worst floods in the his tory of the state. High waters at Arkansas City Wichita and Coffey- vile were reported falling Tuesday night, a few rivers in the western part of the state were at stand still however, it is believed that the flood has reached its crest and with clearing skies no further flood dam age is expected.
 Reports from Hutchinson, Dodge City, Garden City and Great Bend. in the western part of the state, said the Arkansas river was steadily falling.
 A tenth of foot deep in the Raw river was recorded here Tuesday while Topeka reported over half foot drop there.
 With no heavy rains expected Tn Kansas within the next 36 hours F: Connor. weather observer here, said he believed Kansas has passed dan- ger of additional floods.
 As reports continue to come in the property damage lists mount higher. Millions of dollars damage has been done to property of railroads. Farm . CTS owning lands in the river bot toms have lost all their crops, while in Arkansas City and Wichita the loss of homes and household goods wills be great.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
MEYER SAYS EUROPE
 DOESN'T NEED CREDIT
Declares Little More Would Be Pur-
 chased From America

WASHINGTON. June 12.-Euro- pean purchases of American products can be stimulated little if any, by more liberal extension of credit from the United States, Managing Direc- tor Meyer of the War Finance cor poration. declared tonight in statement summarizing observations made on his three months tour of Europe Buying on the continent. he said, is confined to supplies suf- ficient for current requirements and extension of credit facilities will do nothing to alter the policy.
 Viewed in the light of their rela- tion to- general conditions in Flu rope MT. Meyer said he was more than ever impressed with the sound ness and economic usefulness of American cooperative marketing as- sociations The attitude of the Eu- ropeans in curtailing purchases has made the cooperative association movement a benefit to industrial and agricultural interests, he declared adding, that the value of the move ment could be increased by more intelligent understanding by Ameri- can bankers of changed conditions abroad.
 "The reduction in the stocks of all kinds of materials customarily
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
RAIN VARIATIONS HAVE ONLY SLIGHT AFFECT ON YIELD
Driest May Followed By Larg- est Cotton Crop And Wet
 test By Next Highest
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD

Variations In rainfall seem to have little to do with the crop yields in Alabama. according to a comparison for the past seven years, which was made public today by F. W. Gist, ag- ricultural statistician. The compari- son shows that the driest May of the past seven years was followed by the largest yield of cotton, while the wettest May was followed by the next highest yield.
 Citing the rain distribution this year, MT. Gist said: The rain dis tributon for May of the present year est found in the past eight years, but Is only 10 per cent higher than May of last year. Crop reporters gave the condition on June l last year at so per cent, this year at 73 per cent. The ratio between the two reports was exactly equivalent to the ratio between the rain interference of the two Mays"
 MT. Gists statement follows:
 "A universal belief exists that a dry May Is necessary to the produc- tion of a good crop of cotton. It is also confidently stated by many per sons that the month just passed was so much Wetter than any May ever experienced that great disaster must necessarily follow. When compared with records of former years. both these popular beliefs are found to be disproven by the facts.
 O O o
 Distribution Main Factor.
 The factor in rainfall which most seriously affects farm labor and plant growth is not the amount of rain which falls as measured in inches, but the distribution of the rainfall over a given area. This dis tribution may be referred to as rain interference, and It's importance may be measured in terms of the propor- tion of the area over which rain falls each day in the month. From such a record the average or percentage of interference is easy to determine
 From the records of the weather bureau this percentage of interfer- ence for the month of May has been calculated for the past seven years. At the same time this record has teen compared with the annual yield of cotton. The record is as follows:
 Rain Yield
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
BANDITS YIELD
 TOPRESSURE AND
 RELEASE VICTIMS
(COntfnued From Page One)

pressions' of satisfaction that the prisoners had come through the or deal safely. It was indicated. how ever, that questions of indemnity and of guarantees against repetition of such outrages would be taken up by the diplomats in Picking at the first opportune moment.
 So far as is known here the Pe- king diplomatic corps has not as yet worked out any definite proposals as to the future guarantees to be re- quired of the Picking government. There have been some exchanges of views in that connection but the task of preparing a program that would have practical value and also be within the power of accomplishment of the government sitting at Picking is involved in peculiar difficulties that have their origin in the historic attitude of the Chinese people against wide powers to any central government. In dealing with the Picking government the diplomatic corps at the Chinese capital always has recognized the sharp contrast be- tween western civilization and that of the Chinese. It also must con- slider, it is said, in working out solution for the bandit outrages against foreigners which have be- come more frequent in China within recent months,
 U. S. To Require Guarantees.
 There is no doubt in the opinion of informed officials here that spe- cific guarantees will be required of the Peking authorities. Many propo- sitions have been advanced from various quarters in that connection. including proposals that more rigid police protection along the Chinese railways be provided by the govern ment. In whatever is done. it Is ex- pected. the diplomatic corps at Pe- king will continue to act in concert and that the attitude taken by the western powers and Japan in dealing with the situation will be to insist upon the responsibility of the Pe- king government for the security of all foreigners engaged in legitimate occupations within it's Jurisdiction.
 By what means either the present Picking ministry or whatever fac tion or group in China may succeed it will be able to enforce its will upon the provincial and lesser offi- cials throughout the bandit infested region does not appear since the Pe- king government was able to ob- tain the release of the captives by the bandits only when Roy Ander- son, an American, long resident of China, gave his personal guarantee that the Peking government would carry out it's promises.
 It is noteworthy in the view of observers here that throughout the exchanges between the Picking dip lomatc body and the Chinese gov ernment to determine bandit lead CTS responsible for the outrages and demands of punishment was made by the powers whose nationals were victims.
 The entire trend of negotiations made it clear that the Peking diplo- mats recognized the weak hold of any Chinese central government on such a situation and that 1t was probable that only by buying tho bandits off as was done, could the lives of the captive foreigners be protected. The same situation un- doubtedly will have a bearing upon the negotiations for permanent guar antees now forecast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
TWO SENTENCESARE AFFIRMED IN COURT
 OF APPEALS DECISION
Legality Of Bessemer, 0rdI- nance Affecting Prop
 erty Owners Upheld
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD :

Thee ourt of appears affirmed the decision of the lower court in the case of Robert Shumate of Marshall county, who received a two-year sen tence for killing Hugh Haney. and also affirmed the conviction of Eu- gene Watson of Lee county, who re- ceived a five-year sentence for kill ing Merrill Clements.
 The court reversed the decision of the Colbert circuit court, in which der in the second degree and sen tenced to 10 years. Gotcher was charged with first degree murder for killing Fletcher Bell. The court of appeals held that the trial judge erred in permitting the states wit opinion as to the relative positions of the deceased and the defendant at the time the fatal shots were fired, holding that this was an invasion Of the province of the jury, to whom the wounds had been described.
 The court also reversed and re- manded the case of Clarence Lumpkin of Marshall county. who received nine-year sentence for killing John Vann.
 Moonshiners were in hard luck so far as this weeks decisions are con- cerned. the following convictions for distilling being affirmed: Mack Fur ner, Madison county: Isaiah Horsley, St. Clair; Lee Wallace. Dale; Donie Bruce. alias Thomas, Barbour, and John Harris, Crenshaw
 The court upheld the legality of an ordinance of Bessemer which pro- Vldes penalties for owner or tenant of property to operate or permit to be operated a whisky making device. and which makes the discovery of such an apparatus prima facie evil dence of guilt with the burden of proof upon the owner or tenant to show ignorance off presence. This ordinance was pronounced in accord with the prohibition act of 1919 and the charter of the city of Bessemer. The court of appeals affirmed the sentence of conviction imposed upon Will Russell alias Will Turner. by the Bessemer recorder, the defendant being convicted of violating the or dlnance and receiving a fine of S100 and sentence of 1SO days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
Interference Of Cotton
Average ........ 20.7
 N
No Relation Indicated.

Tt Is true that the driest May in the last seven was followed by the largest yield of cotton, but the wet test May was followed by the next h ghest yield. The lowest followed May which was quite close to the average of rain distribution. Only enc dry May in the seven was fol- lowed by yield above the average W hle the other six were equally divided between dry and low, wet and low. ond wet and high In other words. satisfactorily analyzed, there IS found no relation at all between May rainfall and the yield of cotton.
 ''The rain distribution for May of the present year is found to be 3s,5. This is the highest found in the past eight years. but is only 10 per cent higher than May of last year. Crop reporters gave the condition on June l last year as so per cent; this year at 73 per cent. The ratio be- " cen the two reports was exactly equivalent to the ratio between the rain interference of the two Mays. This is only another proof that the farmer c1or reporters know more about crop conditions than the arm chair reporters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
DISMISS OIL CHARGES

WASHINGTON, June 12.-FormaI complaints bv the federal trade com mission against the Associated Oll company, Inc, the Adey- Johnston company, inc; E. A. Adey. Jr.; 5. B. Coleman, and B. " Johnston, all or New Orleans, charging misrepresen- tation in the sale of oil stock, nave been dismissed the commission am nounced today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
COUNTY URGED TO
 KEEP TRAFFIC OFF
 INCOMPLETE ROADS
Those Who Fail To Heed De- tour Instructions May
 Face Charges
TENNESSEE VALLEY BUREAU
 THE AGE-HERALD ! Albany-Decatur Ala ,June l2

Tourists and other drivers who failed to use detour roads when in structed to do so probably will feel the heavy hand tf the law used against them. Contractors appeared before the Morgan county board of revenue in regular session here to- day and urged that the county aid the contractors in keeping the teams and automobiles off the roads now under construction.
 Members of the beard expressed in dignation that the public was render ing no more cooperation than the report indicated. The county now has finished and has under construc- tion nearly s400,o00 worth of roads and officials are determined that con- tractors shall be given every oppor- tunity te bring the thoroughfares strictly up to specifications.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
LECTURE SERIES BEGUN
Yslc Professor Will He In Auburn
 For Two Weeks

AUBURN, Ala, June 12.-(Spe- cial.)-Dr. George S. Counts, profess sor secondary education, Yale uni versity, began series of special lectures here Tuesday at convocation exercises held in connection with the Auburn summer school. Dr. Counts arrived last evening from New Haven, Conn. and will be in Au- burn two weeks. In addition to his discussions of secondary education problems pr. Counts will deliver series of lectures on the general theme of the Place of Secondary Education in Democracy"
 In his first address at conVocatlon hour Dr. Counts spoke on the modern tendency in education to em- phasize in the schools work for the gifted child, i. e. the child with spe- cial mental talent. He sald Una. heretofore the public school had dealt largely with the child or only average ability resulting in sacriflc- ing the child with special talents. The speaker declared that ne Was Was in entire agreement with the new tendency to give special attention to the gifted pupil because, as IS op v.ous. we need in democracy large number of gifted, well tralneo Individuals, but he added the proVlso that such emphasis must be divorced from the idea of self aggrandlze- ment the emphasis on individual ln- struction being developed in such way that the gifted individual may lave the vision for social serVice'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
FAVOR SEVEN STATIONS

seven agricultural experiment sub stations will probably be recon mended by the recess committee on agriculture to the legislature, ac- cording to a statement by a member of the committee today. It was stated that no definite action has been taken as to the number to be recommended, but that seven are contemplated, study having re- vealed this number of soil types re- quiring different forms of research. The committee is unanimously com mitted to the establi shment of such stations, it was said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
I'D TRANSFER OFFICE

The suboffice of the Veterans bu- reau at Mobile will be transferred to Montgomery and the division office here will have supervision of the thirteen counties which have been Nobile's territory This announce ment was made today by Major D.. H. Jackson, manager of the division office. on his return from Mobile. The transfer will be made about July and after that time only small office will be located at Mobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
Y. M. C. A. CLASS ELECTS

c. W. Matthews, master mechanic of the L. and N. shops here, has been named chairman of the Y. NJ. c. A. Sunday school class. The follow ing additional officers have been elected: H. J. Jones. vice chairman: M. Tillery. secretary; J. R. Johnson, treasurer; Rev. Noble R. Edwards. teacher; Prof. J. D. Garren. assist ant teacher; MT. and Mrs. McCulloch, musical directors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
STRIP OLO M IN [ .=0F MACHINERY TO .ET0WAH PRODUCER is -
 liHIabama Company Not To ass Wait For Arrival Of New
 K Equipment
GADSDEN BVRFAU ] THE AGE-HERALD [ dadeu Ala .vupe I2

So anxious is the Alabama company ts'to get the Etowah iron mines in anorth Gadsden back into production. st has stripped an old mine near Bir- Birmingham of it's machinery and Is Ebringing 1t here. Hoisting engines, Hair oompressors and cables that have esSeen much use will be put up here until new machinery can be obtained. it is said. Transformers are being placed and it is expected that several electrically operated centrifugal pumps will be on the ground by the time the Alabama Power company is Ready to furnish current.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
TO HAVE EvANGELISTs

The Ramsey tVangelists will be brought to the twin cities this fall, according to a decision reached by the Pastors union Of Morgan county. The pastors met in extra session to make some decision regarding the negotiations in progress and prac- tically unanimous vote was cast to bring the evangelists here in union revival campaign. The evan gelists may use the building con- structed several years ago for Bob Jones CT 1t may be found necessary to build a new structure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
COUNTRY BANKERS ID SEEK RELIEF. FARM BLOC.
Decision UphoIding Par Clear ance Is Called ''FearfuI
 Blow"
WASHINGTON BUREAU l
 THE AEE-uERALD } WaahingtOn. ID. C.. June F

Country" bankers in southern states, to counteract the effect of the decision of the supreme court today upholding the contention of the fed eral reserve board that checks of that systems customers must be cleared at par, will demand legisla tion at the hands of the farm bloc, it is made clear today.
 No sooner had news of the decision been made public than a number of telegrams, addressed to members of Congress still in Washington, were received. The decision in eac hwas characterized as fearful blow to country" bankers. not members of the federal reserve system, who have. from time immemorial demanded small sum for their trouble in cash ing checks. In some southern states. notably Alabama, Georgia. Mississ- ippi, South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida, it is estimated that the total revenue accruing to non-mem- Der banks from the fee demanded for cashing checks approaches $1,OOO.OO0 per annum. The federal reserve board refers to the habit of country bank ers' of "pinching" checks as form of petty graft"
 It was regarded as problematical by some members of Congress today, who are not prepared to commit themselves either in favor of the member or non-member banks, whether or not the non-member banks will be able to obtain relief" by Legislation. Governor T. w. Hard wick of Georgia, while member~of Congress, offered an amendment 10 the federal reserve act permitting country" bankers to take pay for cashing checks, but the amendment did not prevail. It is regarded as certain that the federal reserve board and all member banks of the system would aggressively fight an effort to legalize the taking of fees by non- member banks.
 The Wilson administration, under which the federal reserve act was prepared and put into operation, op- posed the amendment introduced by My Hardwick. Former Governor w. G. Harding of Birmingham, during >ls entire administration fought the effort of country bankers in Georgia and Alabama especially, and he had the support of the Wilson and Hard ing administrations.
 The cases decided by the court to- day originated In Georgia and North Carolina.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
NOT IN BANKRUPTCY
Error Is Made In Connection Wito
 Apptston Tee Cream Company

Through misreading of petition filed with the clerk of the unlteo States district court Monday, The Age Herald Tuesday morning stated that an involuntary petition Tn pank runtcv had been filed against the An niston Ice Cream company, Anniston. Ala. The petition was filed on blank not usually used for that pur- pose.
 The article should have said that the Anniston Ice Cream company was one of the petltionins creottois against V. O. McInnish of Oxford. The Anniston Ice Cream company was recently taken over by Ben K. Sawyer, president of the sawyer Printing company and one of the leading business men of Anniston. MT. Sawyer is also secretary treas urer of the Polar Ice & Coal company and actively interested in other bus inesses at AnniStOn.