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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-18
FUTURE IF OPERA
 IN OPEN AIR UP II CITY COMMISSION
All Members Now in Favor ct Erecting Theater in Park if Plans Are Found to Be
 Feasible

With the plans of the open air the- atre practically completed, 2 cast of the leading voices selected, the Iu- ture of the operas will depend upon the action to be taken by the city commission during the coming week, according to o. Gordon Brickson mus sic director of the city. 1t was un- derstool Saturday that all the com missionsIs were in favor of the build ing of the proposed theatre if Sr- engagements can be satisfactorily made for it's erection.
 A cal has been issued by the mu- sic director for members of the chorus. There will be 60 included, as it IS intended to give relief between each of the performances using ap- proximately 15 in each of the operas planned. Principal singing parts will also be worked in the same method.
 According to the working sketch made by the building inspectors de- pertinent, there will be seating ca- pacity for 1000 at the theatre, which will be erected in Woodrow Wilson park. The back of the stage will be to Eighth avenue and the slope of the ground for the seats is six feet in the distance from the orchestra pit to the last row of seats. This grade will give all present a perfect view of the stage. An attractive fence draped with vines VIII completely in- close the theatre.
 The stage will be the last word in open air construction. At the rear there will be a wall artisicaily dec orated, behind which will be 16 dress ing rooms, eight on the second floor and eight below. All of the scenery will be set and not hung, the sky be- ing the roof The curtain will be strung from wires between the pro ceniums.
 Many we'll known operas have been selected for the program and those especially adapted to outdoor work will be produced. It was stated that either Martha" by Flotow, or the Bohemian Girl" by Balfe. would be presented first, while "Hansu and Gretel" would be the second opera. Several Gilbert and Sullivan operas will also be produced along with Chimes of Normandy" "Cavalleria Rusticana," and the Daughter ef the Regiment"
 While Commissioner Harrison has not. made decision as to the ability of his department to make arrange ments tor the series of concerts, it was learned that he was heartily in accord with the plans Of MT. Brick sop, and that all other commissioners were also Tn 1aVof or the concerts.
 There will be eight operas present. ed during the season, which will start early in June, and two presentations will be made each week. An orches- tra of % pieces will be employed.
 DEWs FAILS TO GET DAMAGES
 T. C. Dews. former federal prohi- bition agent, sentenced to serve three years Nin prison for the. killing of Curtis Tidmore. failed to obtain a judgment of s25,000 for alleged false arrest from J. O.5Peoples when a jury in circuit court Saturday returned verdict for the defendant. Dews ai- legged that Peoples had been instru- mental in causing his arrest on charge of forgery. Dews was ac- quilted before Judge Harrington P. Heflin and then instituted suit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-18

natural cements depended on nature alone for their qualities. The ma terials were taken as they were found. while portland cement is manufactured product. whose com- position is governed by fully con trolled selection, mixing, burning and grinding of raw materials.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-18
DEATH CALLS THEM TO MoBILr

Mrs. John c. Carmichael and Mrs
 R. B. Carmichael have gone to Mo bile, where they were called by the death, Thursday, of their brother, J. Boin Leftwich.
, 1923-04-11

The body Of Mrs. Endo was found
in another room from hat II which
lay the bodies of the three children.
Uiko. 5; Akiko, 2. and Noriro. 15
months old. The woman had been
shot TO death early yesterday. accord.
ing to physicians. The slayer told
the police he had remained in the
apartment all day and had not killed
the child until / o'clock this morning.
They had been stabbed to death.
Officers who Investigated the slay-
ings reported that nearly all of the
famIly's possessions had been packed,
apparently 10 Knowing and were piled
in such a manner to suggest a divi-
sion of property. Endo said his wife
had refused 10 agree to a separation
which would permit him TO eturn TO
Japan. He said he had married
twice, n that his first wife was
dead. but that he had other children
living in Japan.
The officers indicated that Endo
would be taken before a lunacy com
mission.
, 1923-04-11

grand jury on charges made by Paul
Revere White. IT, of Washington, D.
C.. who declared he was logged I'M
mercifully twice a day while at the
camp. White charged hat he was
beaten with a height pound strap be-
he was unable to work as well
as older IND stronger men and that the
drew blood. The flesh on his
hands and feet rotted, he asserted in
an affidavit which constituted part of
the evidence submitted to the Grand
jury. and sores broke out over his
legs and arms.
Roddenburg. White charged. would
not listen to his protests tina he wa
unable to work and told him that sick
convicts always ended up in the
Evergreen cemetery back of the
camp"
HE told me he wanted me to rot
away" declared White in his affda.
Wit, $50 he could bury me in his Ever.
green cemetery. where he burles
whites n negroes side by side"
White was eneenced to pay a
small fine for vagrancy and in default
of 1t. was released to Senator Knabb.
, 1923-04-11
Booze Armada
To Be Visited
By Dry Chief

-r, -Orv ..u =, up,,-
NE" ioN PN
row. is not a myth can by re-
porters but is a tangible thing,
p,nnlvine much Of the Iiouor being
.-,-s -. a.. 80, Co.,
smuseNeu N"'o "e ~ ~
Palmer Canneld' the new iederai
prohibition director for New York
and northern New Jersey has adj
u,....a
49,.
Inc New YORK Herald punlsned
today an invitation Of Mr.. Garfield
TO newspaper men to
~. r,rty y, h h enforce.
hlene oIiieia's VINO Are ariahs
, 1923-04-11

both the woman and the child have
disappeared. according TO the sherin's
office. which is handling the case.
The kidnapping is believed to be
the elimination of n divorce suit in
Denver in which the custody of the
child vas awarded to the father,
l.. G.. Hanna. Both of tho child's
parents remarked. The child's
mother became tho wife Of Thomas
Baty and the couple moved to Cas-
per. The mother ~ said to have
gained possession OF the girl and
brought her to Casper.
Last week the sherin's office here
received a court order from Arapahoe
county. Colorado. to take the girl
from Mr.. and Mrs. Baty and turn her
over TO her blood father. J.. G. Hanna.
This was done and Hanna started
back to Denver Sunday night with
the child. Somewhere between Cas-
per and Cheyenne the girl mysteri'
ously disappeared from the berth on
tho sleeper in which she was sleeping
with her father.
Baty was released on $1,000 bond
yesterday afternoon.
, 1923-04-11
Men Accused of
Being KIdnsmen
GiUen Wild Ride

CINCINNATI, April 11-Bearing
on their backs. in stencil. tho words
The Is n Ku Klux Klanner.' two men.
bllndfolded and CARRIED only in their
trousers and undershirts. were thrown
from an automobile in tho heart OF
this city last night. in view Of scores
OF persons.
Later W men appeared at police
headquarters and reported they had
been abducted by five unidentified
men. who after taking them on a
wild ride in an automobile. took most
OF their clothes and warning them
not to take the matter UP with the
police, under penalty OF death.
threw them out at n downtown cor.
ner and sped away. The men who
gave their names as William Miller
and Erwin j, Burkhardt. statesmen.
denied they We're mombcra OF the
Ku Klux Khan.
, 1923-04-11
CRIMINALS CAPTURED IN GUN FIGK
Secondhand
Still Dealer
Located Here

Eleven second hand stills In per-
feet condition were ~confiscated
Tuesday afternoon when the sher-
ifs deputies made a raid on n fed
craI warrant on the second hand
store operated by Villain Wex-
all Mt the corner of East a and
lBecch streets. Numerous other sec
ond hand stills, which needed re-
pairing before they could be op-
Grated. r said to have beer found
at the establishment.
Wexal. according TO the sherifrs
office. said that the stills had been
sold to him by people who were
afraid to continue operating them
in view of the strenuous war which
has been wagcd on bOotleggers
in tho last few months.
Wexall will be given n hearing
before NJ. J.. Wheeler. u. S. com.
missioner, OF a charge of dealing
in stills. contrary to federal law.
, 1923-04-11
FOUR ESCAPE AT MArrEAwAN

MATTEAWAN, n. y, April H.
Four prisoners at tho Matteawan
state hospital for the criminal insane
escaped today. They oyerpowered n
night Waterman. bound and gagged
him and robbed him OF his keys.
They next overpowcred n guard who
had the keys to the garage from
which they stolc an automobile be.
longing to the superintendent of the
institution and drove north. carrying
tho guard with them as far as
Poughkeepsle. 10 miles north OF here.
where they dropped him.
, 1923-04-11
RANCHER UNDER ARREST
FOR OPERATING STILL
.CONF|sCATED YESTERDAY

William Arswald. Sr.. was arrested
Tuesday afternoon charged with the
operation of a still On his homestead
IL miles west on the Alcova road.
When the deputies from the sherin's
office made the raid they found Fred
Arswald. a son. at the homestead
alone. They are also said to have
found n 3O-gallon still. seven barrels
of mash and other bootlegsing para
phernalia.
on the return trip to Casper the
deputies met Arswald and his other
son on the way out to their home.
stead. Both OF them were arrested
but when the father assumed all re-
sponsibility the two boys were re-
leased. One of the sons is II and the
other 20 years old.
, 1923-04-11
MATTEAWAN, N.

N. Y,
April 11.-Four desperate
and insane criminals made a
spectacular escape from the
Matteawan state hospital
early today. In their break
for freedom they made threatening
use of n struggled revolver. bound
two guards and locked them up after
taking their keys from them. and
kidnapped two other guards and the
Institution chauffeur. The three kid
mapped men were released several
miles north OF Poughkeepsie but ali
trace Of the fugitives was lost.
Those who escaped were:
John Hawkins. New York. charged
With murder.
James corey. rs. New York. safe
by the police to be a notorious fur
thief.
Marquis Curtis. AZ. with a long
prison record; admitted TO the hos
pital after being arrested on a charge
of feloniously possessing explosives.
Frank James. 2s. OF Brooklyn.
charged with burglary.
All four men were inmates OF a
section of the institution in which
the most quiet patients are confined.
One of them obtained n revolver.
which institution officials believe was
smuggled in from the outside. About
1870 a m. the men held up Harry
Wilson. night Waterman. bound and
gagged him and locked him in n bath.
room after taking from him his keys.
The keys. however. enabled them TO
get only as far as the corridor. Here
they concealed themselves until
James Coyle, n guard. approached on
his rounds. They punched Coyle IN
the face. showed the revolver in his
ribs and forced him into the key
room. on their way they met an
other attendant. Edward digger. to
whom they administered the same
treatment. After getting the keyn
to the outer doors the quartet forced
Coyle and digger to accompany them.
on their way to the hospital garage
they met a third guard, William VIII
sSsL and compelled him to join the
party.
bile they aroused Leroy Krom. hos
pital chauffeur. who was promptly
taken captive.
The fugitives made Krom start the
big touring car OF DIR. Raymond II. C.
Kieb. hospital superintendent. They
locked William Wilson in the garage.
but TOOK Coylo. digger and Krom with
them. Hawkins drove the car. Near
Poughkeepsie they turned the two
guards and the chauffeur loose.
The automobile later was found
abandoned near Poughkeepsle,
, 1923-04-11
AirpIanes Join
In Florida Hunt
For Lost Party

MIAMI, Fla, April ~11.-Search for
the t9Amen and 1--WE WOMEN who arc
believed to be or lost some
where between here and Tampa 4. the
Everglades as n RESULT of their at.
tempt to negotiate the first motor
trip through that region, was o be
taken up by air today.
Word has been taken to Fort Myers
by Indian runners of the tourists TO
tho effect that the party. with thirty
miles OF bad lands ahead of them,
were pushing toward Miami at the
rate of one mile n day.
, 1923-04-11

you accomplish between now and the
fatal hour Of 10 o'clock Saturday
night. April 14th, These next few
hours offer a two-fold opportunity. I'm
that the extra votes for NEW sub
scriptions which apply TO both the
Hupmobile Sedan md regular capital
prizes also are reduced after Satur-
day night. These next three days
every NEW yearly subscription will
count l $4,000 extra votes, after Satur-
day night they will only count 10000
extra votes. And not only that. but
there will then remain only two short
weeks in which to win this 81. 900
Hup Sedan.
So many make the mistake of
thinking they can win the prize of
their choice the last week of the race.
lust stop and consider the vote value
of n new six year subscription
CONTINUED on Page Tweive.)
, 1923-04-11
Chinese Navy
Is In Mutiny

SHANGHAI. April 11.-By The As.
ISOLATED Pressl-In a manifesto is.
sued today, the first squadron OF the
Chinese navy. stationed here and con
slsting of one cruiser and four gun
boats, declared its independence OF the
Picking government and called IN the
entire navy 10 join the revolt. This
means that the first squadron has
aligned Itself with the anti-Peking
forces headed by San Ynt Sen. the
Canton leader.
, 1923-04-11
Edwards Flags
Prohibition Ldu

NEW YORK. April 11.-Branding
the prohibition law as ''damnable and
impracticable," United States Senator
Edward I. Edwards, of New Jersey.
addressing the society OF restau-
ranteurs last night. declared he was
enlisted in a war TO stop the eternal
hypocrisy now apparent in connec-
tion with the law.
GLOW can you obey n law when
the very makers OF that Law are the
most consistent violators7" he asked.
II believe when YOU have a law that
is impracticable, II should be repealed.
I think 1t is most damnable. You
are going TO hear from New Jersey
before I finish my service in the
United States senate"
, 1923-04-11
RECKLESS DRIVER SAID
TO HAVE STRUCK BOY

C. b. Kear was arrested last night
at 715 on North Center street
charged with reckless driving. Kear
is said to nav run over Lawrence
Moline, n small boy. and not to aave
stopped to see whether or not his vic
tim was greatly injured.
Young Moline came out OF the acci-
lent with only n few scatches. since
he had not been touched by the wheels
of the vehicle.
, 1923-04-11

2aAh AANAtH
County Attorney Arthur e. Nor
ton and other officials who are in.
vestigatiing tho killing. were reluct.
ant TO discuss the affair and declined
to say definitely what disposition
would DO made OF Mariner A. Brown.
ing and John Browning. Jr,. cou-
sins. held in connection with Ballan-
tyne'a death.
Both OF tho men, who are widely
known throughout the state nre un.
der arrest at the city Jail. booked
under Investigation" They were
arrested at the Ballantyne home af-
ter the shooting. and Mariner, the
police declared. confessed no shot
Balinntyuc in self.defenso.
Tho shooting was tho outgrowth
m am attempt. according to the 20.
lice, by tho two Brown!ngs to
, 1923-04-11

the late II. +. Staplcton, member
OF the news stan Of the Casper
Tribune nj the time he met tragic
death last summer by tho acct
dental discharge OF n gun in the
sherin's Office here. A younger
brother met death some years ago
when he fell from a tree in
Cheyenne.
The family has many friends In
Casper. Both parents and n brother
survive Miss Stapleton.
, 1923-04-11

induce Mrs. Ballantyne to leave hsr
husband and return to her fathers
homo In Ogden. Mrs. Ballantyne u
the daughter OF John NJ. Browning.
noted gun inventor.
The Browninss asserted in =
statement. said TO have been given to
the police hat they wished her to
leave her husband temporarily bo-
cause OF n disagreement between the
husband and wife.
Ballantyne in a death bed state
ment denied ne attempted TO tlil
either of the Brownings and. accord.
ing to tho police. asserted tina tho
two B%rownings tried to break up
my home" John Drowning. Jr.. IL
a son OF the gun inventor.
It had not been decided early tony
whether an Inquest over the body
will be held.
, 1923-04-11
WALLINGF0RD'
is CONVICTED
AT CHEYENNE

CHEYENNE, wyo.. April IL
John A. Green was convicted by n
jury in district court here today and
faces a term OF from n to fourteen
years in the state penitentlary for
having fleeced local people out of
about $4,000 by n get-rich-quick
scheme. Persons sitting near him
when the verdict was returned say
he murmured: "That was the fairest
trial / ever had"
, 1923-04-11

~ CASPER r
FOR CHILD
Rope Made of
Bits of String
Used by Suicide

KAMLooPS. b. C. April 11.-Ar-
thur Hnrloff. 81. war veteran. patient
in n sanitarium here. kept asking Wis
itors to the institution for bits OF
string. He made quite n collection.
Yesterday. having pieced the strings
into a passable rope. he hanged him
self. a nurse found his body.
, 1923-04-11

day that It had cancelled the author
ization under which Nine. Kalinin
had planned to visit the United States
in connection with work of the
American committee for relief of
Russian children.
Despite the ostensibly humanitarian
purpose OF her visit. the department,
in a brief announcemen of its de-
cision. expressed the opinion hat the
''presenco Of Madame Knlinin in this
country is rendered wholly undesir-
able by the deep feeling which has
been aroused by the execution OF
Vicar General Butchkavitch."
, 1923-04-11
GREYBULL PHYSICIAN
TO Be TRIED APRIL 10
FOR MANN VIOLATION

CHEYENNE. wyo.. April IL
Especial to The Tribune DIR. w. s..
Bennett, prominent physician Of
Greybull. Wyo,, pleaded not guilty
when arralgned in the United States
court Tuesday on n charge OF viola
ton of the Mann act. His trial was
set for Wednesday. April is. He is
at liberty under bond.
, 1923-04-11

tel this morning. This means that
the conservation program started by
the association last fall will be con
tinued and that the field will be
drilled with the idea of getting the
oil out OF the ground at n minimum
expense and at the same time getting
, 1923-04-11
CRUDE
PRICES ID

PITTSBURGH. April 11.-Import-
ant reductions in the price of crude
oil were announced here at the open
ing OF the market today. the follow.
ing new prices beng posted.
New York Transit company and
Bradford district in National Transit
lines 81 a barrel, a Reduction OF IS
, 1923-04-11
A OF YOUTH
TODAY.

MADISON, Fla. April 11.-(By The
Associated MISREPRESENTATION INTO
the death of Martin Tabort. North
Dakota youth while serving n SEN
tence in n convict labor camp IL
months ago was started today by tho
Madison county grand jury.
Walter Higginbothhm. alleged boss
OF the convict camp OF tho Putnam
Continued on Page Five
, 1923-04-11

The action, Il was added, Is taken
especially in protest against the
execution"
Many protests against admission OF
the Russian presidents wife were re-
ceived by the state department even
before the death sentence against the
prelate was carried u in disregard
OF an earnest request from the United
States for a respite. Numerous other
protests have since reached the de-
partment, and officials started in con-
nection with action taken that II
would be o response to the protests
as well as a protest in Itself against
imposition OF the death penalty.
, 1923-04-11
Child Disappears from Berth on Burling-
ton Train En- Route to Denver;; Step
father in Casper Is Accused

Thomas Baty, of 933 South Wolcott street wa arrested
Tuesday on a kidnapping charge following the mysterious dis
appearance of fve-year-old Diamond Hanna from a sleeper
on a Chicago Burlington & Quincy passenger train between
here and Cheyenne Sunday night. The girl is the blood
DAUGHTER of Batys wife. FORMERLY Mrs. L. G. Hanna. and
, 1923-04-11

Seattle Man SurrenderS to Police After
Killing Family of -Four, Bodies Are
Found Riddled With Bullets

SEATTLE, Wash, April Endo, 4s, a second
hand dealer, killed his wife and three children because his
wife had refused to return with him to their former home in
Japan, he told police, when he appeared at headquarters to-
day to give himself up. Patrolmen were hurried to the Endo
home and found the four bodies.
, 1923-04-11
THREE DAYS MORE AND SECOND
VOTE PERIOD WILL BE- At END
Saturday Night at 10 O'clock Is the Hour for Last
Ballots in Second Division Of Tribune Race
To Be Cast by the Candidates.

Only three more days; What do these three important
days hold in store for you? 1t is only a matter of a few hours
and opportunity will be gone forever. A few more working
hours and the votes will be again reduced in anticipation of
the lowest vote offer of the entire campaign.
Your Ultimate success depends to a great extent on what
, 1923-04-11
GANG
BOSS INDICTED

MAC CLENNY. Fla. April 11-John
Roddenburg, convict gang boss at the
Baker county %turpentlne camps Of
State Senator II. J.. Knabb. was in
dicted Yesterday by the Baker county
, 1923-04-11
DRlLLING TO
BE CURTAIlED
Salt Creek Producers Vote to Continue
Conservation Policy and Equalize
Density of Crude Production

Probabilities that drilling in the proven Salt Creek oil
field acreage will be confined to 100 wells during the year
starting May l and that the number of wells on respective
leases will be increased to the basis of one well to every 33
acres of productive territory in the Second Wall Greek sand
was the outcome of the meeting of the Salt Creek Producers
, 1923-04-11
MAT IS
SCENE TODAY Of
BOLD BREAK BY
DESPERATE MEN
Guards Are Kidnapped by
Quartet in Escaping
From Insane Hospital;
Auto Is Abandoned.

PoUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. April
lin a running gun fight three
of tho four men who escaped from
Matteawan Slate hospital carly to-
day were captured near Kent.
Conn, this afternoon. Tho fourth
escaped.
, 1923-04-11
WIFE OF RUSS
RESIDENT IS
BARRED BY US.

WASHINGTON, April 11.-As an ayowed protest against
the putting to death by the Russian Soviet government of
VICAR General Butchkavitch of the Catholic church. the
United States government will not permit Ekaterina Kalinin,
wife of the Russian president, to enter American soil.
Announcement was made by the state department yester-
, 1923-04-11
MI MURDER CHARGE
6 p NJ DIN c. IN
SALT LAKE CASE

A L LAX CITY, Utah, April 11-1nformation charg-
ing murder in the first degree was expected to be filed here
today against one or more persons in connection with the
Staying of Benjamin +. Ballantyne, former bank teller, in his
home in a fashionable part of the city last Monday, it was
, 1923-04-11
Weather Forecast

Generally fair tonight and
Thursday. Not much change
in temperature.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-10-26
Yield Of State Hay Crops.

North Carolina grows great many
different varieties of hay crops, per-
haps more than any other state. ac-
cording to Frank Parker, agricultural
statistician of the Crop Reporting
Service OF the Department Of Agricul-
ture, who announced the results of
an investigation into the yield per
acre of hay crops grown in this state.
Mr.. Parker said that. according to
information he had obtained the i'm.
portant North Carolina hay crops this
year have made the following yields
per acre, expressed in pounds and
averaged for the state:
Cowpeas $50 pounds. millet, sor-
ghum and soudan grass. $500 combi-
nation OF cowpeas and sorghum 1855;
clover (all kinds) 2,44O; timothy, in
cluding timothy and clover mixed,
1885, alfalfa 3,10O, soy beans $500;
grains cut green 2170; peanuts lao;
Johnson grass 1850. and the average
for all tame or cultivated hay 2,02S.
AS reported for October !, the acre
age Of all tame hays is somewhat
lie IS this year than last, said Mr.. Par
ker. Due to wet season for hay in
the eastern part Of the state and to
the harvesting Of much land on which
other crops were generally planted
last years hay crop was record
breaker In North Carolina.