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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
OIL KINGS HELPED WALTON BUY HOME
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man, testified that he declined em- phaticaHy to purchase three of the notes. After he had already con tributed more than $12.oo0 to Walton's s campaign expenses.
 q did not consider it a good busi- ness proposition. I told him there was not a thing doing" Wrightsman de- clared. Wrightsman said Caldwell had asked him to take half the notes, explaining that Charles Page, another wealthy Tulsa resident, would take the other half.
 why were you indignant? Indig- nant at Caldwelrs proposition?" member of the court asked. Under No Obligations.
 Because I was under no obligation to Walton and certainly under none to Caldwell, resented his presump- tiousness in trying to induce me to pay for this paper"
 "Do you understand that this was presented to you as good business proposition?" the senator continued.
 obviously not" the witness re- piled.
 Answering a query of another mem that he understood his taking the notes would have been the end of it.
 Wrightsman, who is president of the board of regents of the University of Oklahoma by Governor Walton s appointment, testified that he gave from s1,Ooo to s1.5Oo" to Governor Walton's primary campaign fund and that following the primary he con tributed s11.000 more.
 Dr. E. T. Bynum, former confidant governor at night, told the court that trip he made to Ponca City to con fer with Marland regarding the financing of the executive mansion ,.1.o xrr1,f fnl1 ho consummated.
 Marland, he said, recommended the purchase of a less expensive home for the governor and offered to advise the governor in the purchase of stock "so the governor could make the money himself.' The witness said that when he told Governor Walton of Marlands conversation the execu- tive commented that he didn't see why Marland couldn't as well take the notes"
 The court refused to accept deposi- tions made by Marland and voted to ask him to appear in person when he is able. He is i'll at present.
 KInn Ruled Out.
 At the morning session today the first attempt to introduce the Ku Klux Klan as an issue in the trial met swift rebuff by the court.
 Homer D. Martin, a lieutenant in the OKlanoma national guard, WnO testified that for a year and half he had guarded the residence of the governor at night told the court that the executive had been threatened with death.
 Wasn't that about the time that MT. Walton, as mayor issued a proc lamation directed against the klan," defense counsel asked.
 The prosecution entered a protest and Tom Allngln, president of the Senate, moved to strike out the ref erence to the klan. He was sus- talned by an oral vote Of the court. Both the prosecution and defense were seemingly surprised al the decisive action.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
HOHENZOLLERN TO RETURN TO POWER
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 prince was stopping at 8 hunting lodge ten miles distant from the cas- tie, which in pre-war days was favorite haunt of his.
 It has also been suggested that, fearing international complications because of his taking hasty leave of Holland in the face of the entente's s protest, he has gone into seclusion somewhere in Germany and is being safely concealed by his friends.
 Whether the mystery is to be ac- counted for along these lines only time will disclose. At any rate, cumulative impatience growing out of a day of watchful waiting here has provoked varigated speculation regarding the real reasons for Fred erick Williams non-appearance, and unless he shows up in the next twelve hours, it would seem that Oels will for a time at least disappear from the news map and that the former crown prince will have been hooked for elsewhere,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
SHAKESPEARE IS LIKED IN BERLIN
Merchant Of Venice" !" "As You Like It," And Others
 Popular

BERLIN, Nov. 12.-(By Associated )-Shakespeare figures promi- nently in autumn offerings of Berlin
 theatres, most of which have aban- doned the sketchy musical comedies which drove legitimate drama out of the German capital throughout the summer. Merchant of Venice," As
 You Like It." Merry Wives of Wind. sor" and Midsummer Nig-it's Dream"
 are already being offered in four theatres and Macbeth" "Othello," and virtually all of the best known Shakespearean tragedies are sched- uled for production later at the State theatre and various independent play houses.
 The productions are not new and many of them are doubtless revived because of low earnings of the the-s atres under the financial crash and the inability to make new produo- never seem to tire of the classic drama. "William Tell'' is now be- ing offered in two Berlin theatres. "Faust'' seldom fails to draw crowd. Lessing's Nathan the Wise" Is also
 a steady favorite. Old plays and old operas apparently appeal to Germans more than modern products. Stock Companies Continue.
 Stock companies live on indefinite ly in Berlin as well as in provincial towns, playing only old favorites. Drama and opera alternate in the smaller cities, and the only variety afforded Is through visiting stars who interpret the leading roles. Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw plays have reappeared this season in many of the theatres and "Charley's Aunt has
 been revived. Man and Superman" and Lady Windermere's Fan" have been played almost constantly in Ber- lin for many years.
 Three Berlin theatres are now de- voting all their time to Wagner and
 other grand operas. It Is no uncom- mon thing to have three Wagnerian | performances in the German capital the same night as well as Wagnerian | concerts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
TRUTH TWISTED BY HAYNES |S CHARGE
Head Of Reform League De- nies Enforcement Condi-
 tions Improving

WASHINGTON, Nov 12.-Prohibi- tion Commissioner Haynes is ac- cused of outrageous misrepresen- tation" of actual prohibition en- Prohibition Inside Out" by William Dudley Foulke, president of the Ma tional Civil Service. Reform League, in an article In Good Government the organ of the league.
 MT. Foulke denies that enforce ment conditions are improving and declares that no real improvement may be expected until the present prohibition force has been weeded out and the service placed thereafter under the merit system.
 He contracts what he says is the commissioners statement that there has been "a general decrease ip ar for crime in general" with the re- cent report of the Attorney General covering the enforcement of the Volstead act itself, which. tells us that during the fl months period since the act was passed each year tions and convictions; that there have been at least 10000 more con- victions this year than last and 15,- 900 more than the year before"
 Says Conditions Worse.
 NOW, IT, according to MT. Haynes, diminished arrests and convictions show improvement as to other laws" MT. Foulke argues, does not an in- crease in convictions for violation of the Voistead act show that condi- tions in regard to it's enforcement are growing worse?"
 The inevitable inference," he con- cludes, lis that violations of the enforcement act are increasing day by day and month by month and that the failure of the bureau to enforce the law under the spells system is becoming more apparent each year. The only possible chance for any amelioration of present conditions in the prohibition enforcement bureau is to provide that every place under the commissioner, from top to bot tom, should be included in the classi- fled service and that examination sl all te held not only for new ap- pointments, but in regard to places which are held so largely by men who are now violating the law; that the men now holding these places be required to compete with other applicants. and that a thorough in- vestigation be made by the civil service commission as to the char acter, integrity and other qualifica- tions of those who apply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
OFFERS ID NAIVE
 CASH COLLECTORS
Can Furnish List Of Witt nesses To Connect Up Pay-
 ments, He Declares

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-William H. Anderson, state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, today wrote Fl. Edmund Machold, speaker of the as- sembly, offering to furnish any prop erly constituted committee armed with adequate power new informa- tion bearing directly upon corruption of the police department involving the owners of a large distillery located in New York state who are nationally known for another product
 Anderson, himself facing trial in January on indictmentss charging grand larceny, forgery and eXtortion, returned in connection with tnves- tigation of the leagues financial af- fairs. through his letter injected him. self directly into the controversy in- VolVing Police Commissioner Enright, Assemblyman Cuvillier and Magis- trate Corrigan. Judge Grain, sitting as a committing magistrate on charge es of criminal libel brought by Enright against Cuvillier and Corrigan, who had intimated the police were in league with bootleggers, last week held Cuvi1lier guilty of libel, but ex- onorated the magistrate.
 Offers To Give Names.
 In his letter, Anderson referred to the Enright- t-Cuvillier- -Corrigan dis pute and then said:
 T will furnish the name Of a ram many leader who collects money from this concern for political pur- poses and the name or names of em- ployers or officials, or both, of this company who pay the money or know of It's payment.
 T will furnish the. names of the employe or employees of officials, or both, of this company who handle the gift of cash at Christmas time to the motorcycle policemen in New York city Gfor protection for the trucks of this concern"
 MT. Anderson stated he would also furnish the names of the employe or employers and the officials of this same concern, ''who made or were party to the payment of a large sum of money to o. B. Phillips. the dis trict attorneys star witness against me for his alleged evidence"
 'In short" Mir. Anderson continued, "T will give to a proper body rep resenting the assembly the names of the witnesses who have information that will connect up through this one liquor concern the payment of money to the police force for protection and the payment of money for testimony used by the Tammany district at torney in an effort to stop enforce ment by disrupting the enforcement agency of the dry Protestant churches"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
Declines To Insure That America Shall Retain Con-
 troI Of oil

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-Secretary of State Hughes has definitely declined to use the offices cf his department to insure that America shall retain control of the Chester concessions in Angora, now incorporated as the Ot- toman- American Development com pany. 1t was disclosed today In a let ter from Henry WoodhCuse, largest stockholder, to others interested in the venture.
 As representative of the Ottoman American company. Mir. Woodhouse had suggested to the department of state that it might desire to verify newspaper reports that Americans had obtained the concessions. He also asked what would be the de- partment's attitude toward insuring American control of the development corporation under 8 proposed read justment of stock interests.
 Tt Is contrary to the practice Of this department to intervene in the internal affairs of private com panies," was the reply MT. Wood house quoted from a letter written for Mir Hughes by A: M' Dulles, chief of the division of Near Eastern af- fairs. The state department is there- fore not in a position tc comply with your requests" ..,-
 O O O
 Promoters Misinformed.
 MT. Dulles wrote further that pro- motors of the development company appeared to have been misinformed in asserting that voting trust agreement entered into last Decem- Der was drawn at the request of the state department.
 "This was by no means the case, he wrote. Nor was the department aware until after the agreement had gone into effect that it contained a reference to the department It is hardly necessary to add that this reference was entirely unauthorized and was significant only of the sign ors, and not of the departments policy"
 MT. Woodhouse announces to stockholders in the corporation that, because of the attitude of the state department and the recent resigna- tlon of several trustees who were to have undertaken to finance the Ches- ter concessions for several hundred million dollars, the voting trust would be discontinued and the 50,000 shares of stock voted henceforth by individual owners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
SANCTUARY GIVEN TO WILD BUFF ALO
Canadian Government Dedi- cates Preserve In Wilder
 ness Of Alberta

OTTAWA, Ont, Nov. 12.-(By As sociated Press.)- of new wild game preserve in northern Alberta dedicated in perpetuity as the wilderness home of two herds of 1,5O0 wild wood buffalo. have just been announced by the Dominion government.
 The entire habitat of the two herds has been enclosed in the sanctuary. It Is heavily timbered and includes several mountain ranges, lakes ana rivers. The area of the new park is 10.50o square miles. Throughout the park cabins have been built for war dens which will facilitate an efficient patrol service the year round.
 Existence of these wild herds in the Great Slave Lake country has been vaguely known for years, but their numbers were never estimated above 250 until a year ago when govern ment survey party saw the herds and by rough count figured the total as 1000 animals. The only other known herd of wild buffalo in the world Is in the remote fastnesses of Yellowstone Park and numbers not more than 100 animals.
 With the largest number of wild buffalo, Canada boasts also the ment park at Wainwright, the larg- est game preserve under fence in the world. The Wainwright herd now numbers more than 5000 Two thou- sand bulls on the Wainwright range will be slaughtered this fall as of no value to herd propagation and to conserve pasturage. Their meat will be marketed In the United States and Canada and @ large part of it made into pemnlican for distribution among Artic trading and fur posts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13

nowr' observed ono elderly woman in the crowd outside the castle gates today.
 A certain faction, however, well comed the exile and Deutschland Ueber Alles" resounded In the leading beer hall today. Telegrams and flowers are pouring into the castle and servants are beginning to show irritation over the number of callers endeavoring to find out what Is go- ing on within the moat which en- circled Polish, Austrian and German princes in turn through four cen turtles of Silesian turmoil and war.
 Oels itself was apparently little affected by the late war. It ac- quired an extra working population of several thousand men when the war industries were active, but these have left or have been absorbed by agriculture.
 It has the familiar medieval ap- pearance-narrow, crooked streets and public buildings and churches which reflect Polish and Austrian rathGr than German architecture. Food Is abundant and far less ex- pensive than in the cities, and the population shows less of misery and strain than does that of Berlin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
ONE HURT, ONE DEAD IN WRECK

OZARK, Ark, Nov. 1s.-Evelyn Conroy, 17year-Gld daughter of a Hartford, Ark, coal operator. was killed, and John Vaile of Fort Smith was probably fatally injured late to- day when the automobile in which they were riding overturned at 8 curve In the road three miles east of this city Two other occupants of the car were less seriously injured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
Due In Gels Today

BERLIN. Nov. 12.-tBy Associated Press.)-FredericlS William is due al Oels Tuesday, according to semi official information here. He Is re- ported to have made several convent ent stops on his way from the bor- der, spending Saturday and Sunday nights on the estate of his old friends in southwest Brandenburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13

Nearly all sections of the British textile trade and some sections of the clothing trade showed consider able decreases fin the number em- ployed in August compared with the previous month. The percentage un- employed among members of trade unions from which returns are re- ceived was 11.4 at the end of Au- gust, compared with III at the end of July.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13

Portland cement was discovered and patented in England 99 years ago. It's manufacture was carried on principally in England, France and Germany until about 1872, when its production was begun in a small way in the United States. The av- craze annual production in the United States in the 70's was about 5000 barrels. It had grown to a lit tie over a half million barrels in 1892; to about 17,000.000 barrels in 1902, and to nearly 115,O00,o00 bar rels In 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
LUDENDORFF EXPLAINS

MUNICH, NOV. IZ.-(By Associateo ress.)--General Ludendorff, in 8 statement printed In the Neueste Mach richten today, explains that when given his parole last Friday he did not undertake to abstain in the future from participating "in the popular movement" he declared. He declares that only through this popular move ment can the recovery of the Ger man people be established.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
KELLoGG CoNFERs

WASHINGTON, Nov 12.-Frank B.. Kellogg, recently selected to succeed George Harvey as American ambas- sador to England, conferred today with President Coolidge and Secre tary Hughes. He said it had not been determined when he would leave for London. MT. Harvey will arrive in Washington tomorrow to spend sev- eral days as White House guest, and he Is expected to have several conferences with MT. Kellogg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
SToKEs CASE AGAIN

NEW YORK, Nov. 12,-Mr. and Mrs, W. E. D. Stokes, who last week com- pleted five-week court battle, which ended with a denial of the hotel mans plea for & divorce, again win take the lists against one an- other tomorrow. Tomorrow's legal war concerns Mrs Stokes suit for separation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
SEES DESIRE FOR PEACE

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Nov. 12.-"The most inexplicable fact disclosed since the war;" said United States Senator Joe T. Robinson, minority leader in the Senate. addressing an Armistice Day gathering here today, ''ls the uni versal desire for international peace, and at the same time the lack of unanimity among those who desire the abolition of war respecting a practicable means of settling inter national disputes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
DELEGATES ARRIVE

GREENSBORO, N. C., Nov. 12.-- More than 100 delegates from nine states have arrived here for the eighth annual convention of tho Southeastern States Vetenary Medi- cal association. Today's sessions were marked by several practical and technical addresses by leading mem- bers of the association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
DIAMOND

Half carat. white. s1s5; s-4 carat. white, one slightest imperfection, $25o; so-10o III fine white, $425 4 carat, white, s6e6; 2ia carat, blue white, magnificent stone, $s76. Why buy on partial payments and pay 15 to 25 per cent more? Apply PIT Brown Marx Bldg, City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
OUGHT TO HAVE STAYED OUT

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-The United States was not attacked in the last war, and "it would have been better for the world as things turned out if you had not gone at all" Israel Zang will, English author, today wrote as part of his reply to Stanford Menken, president of the National Security league, who, in a speech at Perth Amboy, N. J., last night challenged MT. Zangwill's recent criticism of things American.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
TRIO OF MURDERS PUZZLES BUFFALO
Federal Prohibition Officials Among Those Mysteri-
 ously Slain

BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov. 12.-Three unsolved murders, within a period of less than 60 hours over the week end, continued to baffle police to- night:
 Early Sunday morning George A. Stewart of Salamca, N. r., United States prohibition enforcement agent, died in a fusillade of shots In a cabaret. His body was found pierced by nine heavy calibre bullets, his own revolver clutched in his right hand one cartridge discharged. The same day, shortly before mid night. Mrs. Mayme Bigham was sho; dead by an ambushed gunman as she attempted to close 8 safe in the rear of her husbands drug store while the proprietor and his clerks were held up by three armed men. and aided his companions In rifling the cash register before they es- caped in an automobile.
 Friday evening Elizabeth Bonadio was watching her brother, Anthony, paint piece of furniture in their open door behind her and she fell with a bullet in her heart. Wit nesses declared that Michael Ter rinova, a rejected suitor. ran from the house with a smoking revolver in his hand. He is still at large. Search Assai1nnts.
 Federal authorities today were di- recting the search for Salvatore and Ralph Pannavia, believed to have been the principals in the staying of the federal agent. City police ere developing a theory that Stew art was the first victim of a series of planned slayings In an organized warfare to be directed by Buffalo and Niagara frontier Illicit liquor operators against the dry enforce ment forces. Stewart. 1t was said had received letters threatening death If he did not Hay off" Other agents. police said, had been simi- larly marked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
SENTENCED TO LIFE

MEMPHIS. Tenn, Nov. 12-Rennie Elward, who, after shooting and fa- tally wounding his divorced wife, Mrs. Lillian N. Schneider, at her home here several months ago, attempted to kill himself with the same weapon, pleaded guilty today to the staying of Mrs. Schneider, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
STANDARD OIL FEARS STINNES COMPETITION
Reported German Capitalist May
 Start Company In America

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-w. c. Teagle, president of the Standard oil company of New Jersey, dis played interest today in cable dis patches to the effect that Hugo Stinnes, German industrialist. was planning to organize an American oil company, which would compete with the Standard Oil groups.
 we have no knowledge of MT. Shines plans,' he said, and have heard nothing of the requirement by him of any source of supply, other than fields abroad"
 Agents of Shines in New York also denied knowledge of the pro- posed entry of the German million- aire into the American oil business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13

bany with Ruby Horne. 1s, of 12s South Washington street, to Atlanta, registering at the Gate City hotel. He claims to have stolen Ford car from a drive-it-yourself company in Atlanta, and to have later stolen cars in Louisville and Philadelphia while travelling with the Horne girl. Re- gently, he says, the girl deserted him, eloping with another man to West Virginia. He was incensed at this and was planning to gG there and kill both the girl and her new affinity when he decided to surrender to the police. he says. ..t
 During August 22 cities reported changes in the wage scales of em- ployes of one or more of the crafts in the building trades.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-13
LAST MINUTE WIRE BRIEFS
CREW REsCUEn

NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 12.-Capt. Fred Stoltz and eight members of the crew of the fishing smack Algoma of the Warren Fish company of Pensa- cola, Fla, which was wrecked on a reef in the Gulf of Mexico 800 miles from Tampico in a hurricane during the latter part of September, were brought here today aboard the Nor wegian motGrship Tampa. from Vera Cr11z