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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-04
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FOUND IN LONELY
WOODLAND HOUSE
Son Of Noted Radio Engineer
Unframed BY His Alb
duCtorS

WATERFOWL. n. Y, May a
Vernon Alexanderson, 6-year- old kid
nap victim, sat on the floor of the
sheriff's office here Thursday night
and begged to listen to his fathers
radio broadcasting station which had
delivered him from the hands of his
abductors.
The boy was found Thursday aft
ernoon in a little woodland cottage
on Red Lake. near Theresa, 81 miles
north of here. after amateur wire
less operators throughout the United
States had been asked to assist in
the search for him.
Sheriff Jackson Immediately tele-
phoned The lads father. E. F. W.
Alexanderson OF Schenectady, n. Y,
who set out to drive in an automo-
bile over the northern half of the
state for his son. Before leaving
Schenectady, however, Alexanderson
who is chief engineer of the Radio
Corporation of America, hroadcasted
from wireless station WGY of the
General Electric company the fact
that the hunt was over.
Thanks Amateur Operators.
Il thank the amateur operators
who have helped me in the search,
he said. Il believe the abductorS
were driven from cover by the warn
lngs sent out by radio. The entire
nation has helped in this"
Werner, chatting happily with his
new friends in the sheriffs office,
knew nothing of the fuss that had
been made over him since he was
lured away in an automobile by two
strange men from in front of his
parents home in Schenectady Monday
afternoon.
Il want to play wireless he said,
referring to the game of listening
in" in which ne had joined his faith
er almost every night back in Sche-
nectady.
Though radio is thought to have
played a large part in keeping the
kidnapers moving, it was daily pa
per that conveyed the information
leading to the finding of the boy,
Ned Jarvis, boatman at Red Lake.
had read Of Verner's disappearance.
So when two men rented the summer
cottage from him Thursday and In
stalled flaxen- haired boy and an
aged woman cook, he notified the
sherff's office of his suspicious.
Roy Found with Dog.
When the sheriff reached the spot
lust before dusk he found the boy
nell, the cook. said the two men who
had hired her at Alexandra Bay ear
lier in the day, were som heres
about in an auto" Jackson found
ard confiscated the automobile but
could find no trace of the men. Ihey
are believed to have escaped from
this wooded area, followed the shofe
of Lake Ontario and crossed the ST
Lawrence into Canada in boats by
wav of the Thousand Islands. A
posse was organized at once to fol,
low them to the national border ana
cut them off IL possible.
"Dodo," as the kidnapped boy is
called by his mother. could not give
a clear account of what happened TO
him after his abductors gave him an
auto ride ITO go for some rabbits.
He stopped i'm many places,' he said
but could not tell where. The men
at no time mlstreated him.
Mrs. Grenell, the cook. was re-
leased after proving she knew MOTH
ing of the affair. She could not sup
ply a motive for the kidnapping, she
said, as the men who hired her were
reticent in her presence.
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bONUSALMOST
To PASS
NEXT SESSION
Count Of Faces In New Con.
gress Indicates Measure
Will Get More Than Two
Thirds Vote Plan
May Be Included

WASHINGTON, May 3.-Sentiment
for soldiers bonus among the mem
bers of the new Congress is worrying
the administration. a rough count of
noses made by Senator Reed Smoot,
who will be chairman of the Senate
finance committee, has disclosed that
a bonus bill probably can be passed
by each house by a two thirds ma
jority With a general election com
Ing on next year. Congress can be ex-
pected to make another effort to
write a sweeping soldier relief meas
ure on the statute books.
Harding resisted the pressure last
year and vetoed the bonus, knowing
that he had a sure margin of five
votes in the Senate to support him.
But when Congress again sends it's
bonus bill to the White House the
President will find it far more diff
ficult to attach his veto. Many of his
advisers who agreed with his pre-
vious veto, will take different view.
arguing that with Congress almost
certain to override a veto, and with a
general election coming, he should
affiX his signature to the bonus bill.
Provide Revenue Clause.
Harding could consistently sign a
bonus measure only if it carried a
revenue clause which would provide
the means of meeting the payments
contemplated. based his rejection
of the Fordney bill on the ground
that Congress had neglected to in
elude a money-raiSing feature The
next bill will endeavor to meet this
difficulty. Several ways have been
suggested among them a general
sales tax and diversion of the pro-
4. 10, 1,tt > III, Ial IT.
proposal really evades the problem,
for the British debt is to be used only
in paying off Liberty loan issues. and
if it is diverted to bonus payments
the war loans must be met through
some form of increased taxation.
Therefore, to meet the Presidents
stipulation that the bonus measure
finance itself. taos will have to be
raised. That adds a political liability
to the bonus which may entirely off
set the advantages in it. Congress is
just as reluctant to increase taxes as
1t is anxious to grant the bonus. At
this time sentiment in Congress has
not erystalized around any practical
method of meeting this dilemma.
Soldier Vote Important.
The soldier vote is playing a con-
spicuous part in the considerations of
party managers in both parties as
they analyze the problems of the COM
ing presidential campaign. Senators
and cengressmen who voted against
the bonus saw the effect of their
stand reflected in the elections last
November. Many of the western pro-
gressives like Brookhart made the
bonus an important issue.
One reflection of this situation is
the quiet hunt being made by some
prominent republican politicians for
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PARADISE UPON EARTH
Globe Trotter Finds Place To Take
Life EnSX

SAN FRANCISCO, May "A para
disc on earth has been discovered by
Rev. G.. l.. Morrill, author and globe
tortter. of Minneapolis he declared
on his arrival here today after a six
months ramble in the Far East.
ION the Isle of Hah. peo-
Pile are as close to paradise as any
people on earth" Rev. Morrill, said.
Men roam about with flowers In the
air. The women trips hither and
yen, clothed in innocence. smiles and
wreaths of flowers or leaves
There are no lawyers. and crimi-
nails and bags of rice langush In the
Jail, which is used as a general store
house.
THE visitor has a soft time of 1t
in Bali. The natives let him do what
he Will, Rest if he IS tired. Eat if he is
hungry. and provide pretty girl to
rout dun care if he is lonely"
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To BOND JITNEYS,
IS C|TY'S PLAN AS
HARRISON GIVES It
Realtors Told One Man Cars
Will Continue On
Some Lines

Through regulation and placing
them under bond, the jitneys will be
handled" Commissioner w. L. Harri-
son told the realtors at their lunch
con Thursday afternoon in the Tut
wiler hotel.
Commissioner Harrison had been
invited to discuss before the member
skip the present settlement between
the city OF Birmingham and the Biz
company.
Mr.. Harrison prefaced his talk
with the statement that it would
probably be Saturday before COM
plete negotiations between the city
and the car company were adjusted
are subject to change before the or
dinance covering the subject finally
Is adopted, but the principal features
OF the negotiations, he believed. had
been arranged. These, he SAID, in
cluded the restriction of the jtneys
to such an extent that they would
not interfere with the regular bus
mess of the street car lines.
Arrangements have been made for
reducing the street car fare. he con-
tinued. Difficulty was met in the
discussions with the street car COM
pany about paving. the main trouble
heing the company's complaint that
as soon as they aided in improving
street the jitneys would swoop
down on the new, smooth roadway
and skim the cream of the street car
business. With this matter settled
First avenue paving provided for.
the car company, when 1t energies
from the receivership, can go ahead
with other paving projects.
o O O
Some One-Man Cars To Stay.
All points were settled, Mr.. Harri
son said he understood, in the matter
of the application of the Jim Crow
car law, the one man cars being
eliminated. save on a line or so
where there Is no difficulty expe-
rienced in this regard, and double
entrances provided for other lines.
He said the lighting contract had
been gone over carefully and had
been, in substance, settled to the sat
isfaction of all. Gas and light ex-
tension matters will be taken up and
handled as soon as the B. r. l.. and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-04
800 COUNTY STUDENTS
TO GRADUATE IN MAY
Between 700 And $50 Students To
Go Into Senior High Schools

Approximately 900 students will
graduate from high schools of JEFF
ferson county during commencement
exercises to be held during the week
of May 20-25, according to N. r..
Baker, superintendent. Thursday.
About 100 pupils will graduate from
the county high school. While about
200 will finish from the Birmingha m
high schools and the IL other high
schools of the county.
Between 700 and $50 students are
expected to be sent to the senior high
schools from Junior high schools,
while about 1900 pupils Will be sent
to junior high schools from the diff
ferent grammar schools. EXamina-
ton papers for all schools of the
county are now being prepared, it
was stated
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HERE TAKE THIS!
wartime Officer Wins $4,000 On
Flight And Offers 1t To Airmen

WASHINGTON, May 3.-Franklin
r. Kenney of New York, wartime
executive officer of the army air SER
vice. telegraphed the following mes
sage today to the army air service:
81 win $1,000 if MacReady and
Kelly are successful in nonstop
flight viii you wire my expense
MacReady aryl Kelly asking them if
they will accept the $4,000 as gift
to celebrate the greatest achievement
in our aviation history. OH explain
to them and make the g;Sant young
bull pups take it."
Air service officials followed in
structions and awaited tonight
reply from the two lieutenants before
answering the message received from
Mr. Kenney.
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TWO AV|ATORS KILLED
UPON PACIFIC COAST
Observation Plane Crashes Near San
Diego During Practice Flight

SAN DIEGO, Cal. May 3-Two
United States naval airmen of the
air squadron's battle fleet base at
North Island were killed instantly
today when Vought observa ton
plane in which they were making a
practice flight through the back
country crashed in the vicinity of
SWeetWater.
Aviation Chief Carpenters Mates
II. II. Tattman and II. II. Erdkamp
were the victims. Officers stated
that the plane was so demolished
that an idea of the cause of the
crash could not be obtained from it.
The Vought plane was on prac-
tiCe flight
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SIMPLIFY LANGUAGE
Speech Is Devised by
Chinese Police

NEW YORK, May S-Soundless
speech devised by Chinese detectives.
was described at the international
police conference today by c. r.
Wang, inspector general for the Pro
vince of Kiang Su. AS the Chinese
delegates explained each province in
his country has it's own peculiar dia-
lect, SO that while the printed lang
uage is national. the police of two or
more cities are unable to talk to one
another. 4 system of communicat
ing by means of gestures and facial
movements was worked out and the
Chinese alphabet, a ponderous affair,
was coded into silent phrases and
sentences.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-04
1000 People To Participate
Great Parade Through FL
A7ciaI District Of New
Drk Today As Protest To
irons Over Price Boost
400L CHILDREN ARE
|. HELP IN CAMPAIGN
my Women's Organizations
avIng Part In F.ight-Quo-
Etions Thursday Are Low
st In Several Weeks-Prom-
lent Men To Address Meet

iEW YORK. May 3.-The sugar
lcott which has spread all over the
Fntry has netted its first results
price of the commodity was
led down Thursday.
law sugar declined to SIC a
I'D. the lowest quotation in sew
{ weeks. Two large wholesale SUI
companies also cut their prices.
Federal Sugar Refining company
he'd its price hc to 912c a pound
lie the American Sugar Refining
}pany and others announced cut
.c pound to 5000.
raders declare that realization
the boycott is effective. together
y the knowledge that people never
ie up for their refusal to buy by
eased purchases later on, has
ed the reduction in price.
70 to Parade.
twenty-five thousand New York
hen and children. carrying mo
le sugar" banners, are to parade
lay in protest against the high
les. The parade, which Is to be
tby Mrs. Louis Reed Welzmiller.
be formed at the city hall and
tsh through the financial district.
ter the marchers wind through
| street, they are to return to
lefty hall, where Mayor John Hy-
the Rev. DR.. Percy Stickney
ut, Senator Copeland and Balm
sge Colby, former law associate of
drow Wilson, are to address the
ID on. the timely subject.
my organizations of women met
h,
rs to combat the high prices. The
is have been enlisted in the fight
, president Harding has been Pc
led to exert every effort to force
zprice of the important commodity
onward.
les. Welzmiller has invited some of
: largest sugar magnates of the
ltry to appear before mass
ting to be held next week and
lain their positions but no an
srs have yet been received to the
itations.
IooI Children Summoned.
he million school children of
kter New York have been sum-
ed to the banners of the boycott
! DR.. William l.. Ettinger, SUI
fltendent of schools, Friday will
leach pupil to take this pledge:
10 long as the spectators have
f ted the price of sugar out of rea-
"A we, the school children of the
u peldge ourselves not to uee more
"A than we actually need, and
xnever possible tL use substitutes,
n as fruits, dates, figs, honey and
atsses."
Y committe headed by Mr.. Welz-
Yer is engaged in visiting homes in
q city. urging that purchases of
Err be curtailed and are also call
upon the leading wholesalers and
pliers. asking them to slash prices.
embers of the committee state
four large chain stores, con-
ling several thousand stores in
city, have agreed to reduce the
Eli price Ct sugar from 10Rc to
Ia pound.
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Army AViators Step Onto
Pages OF History AS They
Leave Plane After Crossing
American Continent--Mac-
Ready And Kelly On Pacific
ENTIRE NATION OFFERS
TRIBUTE TO DARING MEN
at Was A Terrible Trip
Says Officer As He Hears
Los Angeles Praise His Great
Feat-Dream OF Pioneers Is
Realized In The Flight

SAN DIEGO, Cal, May 1.-TWO
young men. grotesquely fat in their
fur-lined aviation suits. hoped from
the cabin of the hugh army mono
plane To, at Rockwell field, North
Island, Thursday afternoon and into
the pages Of American history. Lieu
tenants John A. MacReady and Oakley
Kelly had crossed the American con-
tinent, from Roosevelt field, Long
Island, just outside New York City,
in IS hours, so minutes, 40 2-5 sec
onds. the first nonstop flight ever
made from coast to coast.
The big, grumbling bird was first
sighted here at 1920 Thursday aft
ernoon. Seven minutes later it had
swooped to a landing outstrippins
two army planes that went aloft to
extend a greeting and escort the
celebrity TO it's goal.
Hey. Greetings" the two young
officers shouted, scrambling down
from their coach into the midst of
frenzied crowd which shouldered
them as though they were infants.
and carried them to an automobile.
To them the uproar was all one
against their ears without a mo-
ment's let up ever since 1877 Wednes-
day afternoon. They were deaf to
the compliments paid them by the
Sirens of the city's factories, by their
fellow officers and by local officials
who told them in extravagant Ian
guage that they had Just that mo-
ment made their names historic.
young girls showed flowers into
their arms. Newspapsr photograph
ers struggled in swift rousihouss
to shove aside erstwhile digaified
officials and shoot snapshots for
permanent record of an immortal
moment.
More Than c.403 Miles.
From New York to San Diego is
about 2.403 miles, but Lieutenants
MacReady and Kelly are believed to
have gone quite some distance furth-
e- for they ran into rainstorm near
Kansas City during the night and
reeled up the cleaning thread of the
Missouri river northward for time,
to get their hearings.
But regardless of the details, tho
two have established a new record
for continuous cross-country flight
and in the brief span from one noon
time to another have achieved the
dream which the long forgotten pio-
neer Cal Rodgers tried to bring TO
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-04
DISH WASHING CHAMP
FORD For World Is Claimed by
Pennsylvania Girl

WHEY. Pa, May g.
. marathon dish washing record of
world was claimed today by Miss
>ie Hotlock. of the village of Co
e. near here. Susie, aged % years,
a job in the kitchen of the Pan
Z hotel, several months ago. Some
her friends were discussing mara
in dancing last Monday and the
|versation eventually centered on
subject of cleaning the family
he 4 wager was laid and Susie
A-ted on her record making dish
fhiny expedition.
r only the old-time methods
eloth, pan. hot water and soap,
~ Eetlock continued her opera
Nor 81 hours without a stop.
4 Ron the wager and the hotel
Eer rewarded her by ordering
i@-day vacation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-04
SEVEN PERSONS DEAD,
81 INJURED IN WRECK
Death List Increased When Injured
Mother And Babe Die

SALT LAKE CITY. May 3.-Seven
persons are dead and 80 injured as a
result of the wreck on. the Denver
and Rio Grande western train No. .,
eastbound, at Woodside, utah, al II
o'clock last night. The death list
was increased by two this morning,
when Mrs. Irene Mohr and her infant
daughter died aboard a special train
upon which they were being brought
to Salt Lake City.
The other dead:
Arthur Hockey. attached to the ma
val training station, Great Lakes. III.
Mrs. f. C. White. Soldiers summit,
Utah.
Ed Partridge, Provo. Utah.
f. Il, RAIDER. engineer Grand juno
ton, Colo.
Albert Anderson, fireman, Grand
Junction, Col.
The train baggageman, according
to adYiceS is missing,
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GET WAGE INCREASE


CHICAGO, May 3.-Twenty thou
sanu maintenance of way and rail.
road shop employees of the Atchison.
Topeka and Santa Fe railway have
been granted increased wages. effec-
tive May l, through an agreement
Just negotiated, A. Il. Stout, vice
president of the United Brotherhood
of Maintenance of Way Employees and
Railroad Shop Laborers, announced
today. The increase will range from
one to three and one-half cents an
hour, MIR. Stout said.
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YERBY CASE SET IN JUNE
Alleged Slayer or Airline King VIII
Go To TrIaI 18th OF Next Month

Trial of william NJ. VERIFY. Mount
Pinson dalryman. charged with the
murder of Airline King. will prob
ably be bro@ght before the criminal
division of the circuit court during
the week of June IS, set aside as
capital week. Jack o. Bougus, taxi
driver, will also probably be tried
during. the Same week on charges of
attacking an 1S-year- old girl.
VERIFY has been scheduled for trial
five times previously. The last two
times set for trial. May % and April
80. the case was ordered continued
by the court because of certain ar
ticles appearing an afternoon news
paper, which were alleged to have
been prejudIcial to the defendant.
VERIFY is scheduled for trial on May
IS in the criminal division of the
circuit court in connection with the
kidnapping and flogging of DIR. ]. ID.
Bowling, health officer
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DR.. PROVINE SPEAKS
Mississippi Teachers Hold Eonven-
ton At Meridian

MERIDIAN, Mssr May 5.-Ine
outstanding features of the opening
session of the thirty eighth annual
convention here tonight of the Mis-
sissippi state Teachers association
was the annual address, by DR.. j. w.
Provine of Clinton, president of the
association and president of the
Mississippi college and the address Of
Martin q. Brumbausn former COVER
nor of Pennsylvania and noten
authority on books of educational
Subjects
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VERDICT ACCIDENTAL"
Coroner Concludes Investigation Into
Death or Pelham Man

verdict Of accidental death" was
returned by Coroner ]. d. Russum
Thursday for investigating circum-
stances of the death of Frank John
son of Pelham, who was killed We'd
nesday morning when his automobile
plunged over an embankment near
Rosedale on the Montgomery high
way.
Funeral services for Johnson were
held at o'clock Thursday afternoon
from the New Hope church, with bu
rial in New Hope cemetery.
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REFLECTS NEW BUSINESS
Louisville & Nashville Report Shows
Incrense In Freight Cars Handled

Among the showings OF Increased
business on the rail carriers operat-
ing in and out of the Birmingham
district is that of the Louisville and
Nashville, which in the week ending
April 81 moved 10 per cent more
freight cars than in the same week
in the preceding year In that week
the road handled 32.307 revenue pro-
ducing freight cars, compared with
20 600 in the same period last year.
Movement of forest and lumber
products during the week ending
April 81 showed a marked increase,
the total being 1867 cars, compared
with LOO in the same week OF 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-04
LENINE LEAVES BED
Stricken Soviet Premier Hear
Crowds Cheering Him

MOSCOW, May 3.--Premler Ntkolai
Lenine left his bed for the first time
since his recent illness on May day
when he heard the crowds in Red
square, not far from the kremlin,
cheering him. He was assisted Co the
window by his sister and nurse and
there viewed his enthusiastic sup
porters. Lenine. who recently suf-
fered a second storke of paralysis. is
still unable to use his left leg.
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SEES MORE GOOD TIMES
Otto Marx Says Present Prosperity
Slated To Continue Indie finitclY

Otto Marx of New York head of
the local firm of Otto Marx & Co.,
looks fir prolonged continuance of
present excellent business conditions
Mr. Marx, who Is here on a period
zeal visit, says that financial and
commercial circles are agreed that
the present prosperity has tentacles
deep down on solid bottom and that
there seems no cause to look for an
early slowing down of the country
wide business activity. The east is
quite familiar with Birmingham s
growth and industrial status, says
Mr.. MARI, and has made a special note
of the recent records that Birnnng-
ham has made in banking, iron and
steel manufacture
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PAPERS OFFICE BURNS
Only American Newspaper In Mexic,
Loses Plant

TAMPICO, Mex, May S.-The Of
fices of the Tribune, the only Amer
lean newspaper in Mexico, and the
building of the Young Mems Chris
tian association were destroyed by
fire yesterday. Two persons were
killed and 10 injured all Mexicans.
The loss probably will reach 100000.
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RUSSIA AGAIN ANGRY
Send Another Protest To Near East.
ern Conference

LAUSANNE. May 3-(By Associated
Press. IN. Varousky. the soviet rep
resentative, today sent another COM
munication to the near east confer
ence demanding an early answer to
the Russian complaint that a soviet
diplomatic courier had been prevent
ed from reaching Lausanne by the re-
fusal of the Swiss legation in Berlin
to wise his passports. If the confer
ence answer is unsatisfactory, No-
rovsky added. Russia will reserve the
right to adopt the necessary meas
ures."