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, 1923-04-05
WASHINGTON

The early potato acreage this year
will be the smallest since 1919, accord
ing to a forecast announced by the
Department of Agriculture. Based on
areas already planted in Southern
states, on the known intention OF
planters in Northern states, an estl-
mate of 260,3s0 acres has been made
for the twenty early and intermediate
potato states.
Extension Of vocational training
and medical rehabilitation to the
$4,000 veterans of the world war serv-
ing sentence In federal and state penal
institutions is planned by Director
Hines Of the Veterans bureau, who
conferred on the subject with officials
of the department of justice and rep
resentatives of the American Legion
and Disabled Veterans of the World
War.
President Harding has been urged
by Richard Dana, president of the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform League to
end the practice of making political
appointments" to first, second and
third class postmastershlps and con-
1Ab0 Nlltb0 W A0 BtACOh SNulullH Alku-
est on the civil service eligible list.
The United States Ship Operators
Association, second of the organiza-
lions representing interests identified
with the American merchant marine to
respond to the shipping board request
for cooperation in formulating n
policy, recommended that the board
scrap all un~serviceable tonnage, sell
Its good tonnage to American operat-
ors and strictly withhold any tonnage
from aliens.
Assistant Secretary Moss called on
Deputy Collector Stuart Of the GUS
toms house at New York for n full
explanation OF the order issued March
10 by Thomas w. Whlttle, surveyor of
that port, permitting passengers on In
coming steamships TO land with one
quart of liquor for medicinal purposes.
Mr.. Moss Indicated that the order
probably later would be materially
altered.
Grand jury investigation Of the re-
cent Increase of sugar prices was
urged by Basil NJ. Manly, director Of
the Peoples Legislative service, who.
in a telegram TO President Harding,
declared that American households are
being robbed OF millions Of dollars each
week by conspiracy to Increase sugar
prices and continued manipulation.
Eight alleged members Of the Indus
trial Workers of the World are under
sentence Of from n to fourteen
yen ench In the California state
penitentiary. The men are convicted
Of criminal syndicaliHm.
, 1923-04-05

Names Of Similar Meaning.
Margaret, Marguerite n Marjorie
are all really the same. and mean
pearl, being derived from the Greek.
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Old families always engraft pride in
their family tree.
, 1923-04-05

Aim at the top. 1t may help you to
land in the middle.
Luck is a good thing to trtst to-if
you aren't hungry.
, 1923-04-05
GENERAL

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Of Minnesota to eat more wheat and
thus consume the surplus which he
said is the cause of present low wheat
prices, was issued by Gov. ]. A. o.
Preus.
Two men, one believed to he Louis
Burston, manager of n motion picture
producing organization bearing his
name, were killed and a young woman
possibly fatally injured, when an auto
were racing u train was struck at a
grade crossing nea Pomona, Calf.
Fifteen prohibition agents swooped
down ON the Blue -Four restaurant in
the heart of the theatrical district,
New York, ordered the hundreds of
diners in evening clothes to leave as
quickly as possible and then proceeded
to conflscate seventy-flve cases of
whisky, champagne and other liquors.
The proprietor, Peter Anselmo, and
the head waiter were arrested. De-
parting patrons Missed as the liquor
was being loaded on trucks.
The fatalities resulting from the
eight-story fall of n passenger eleva-
tor at the Randolph hotel In Des
Moines, Iowa, recently were brought
to four, with the death of two more
of the cars occupants-Harry w.
Hill, Earlham, Iowa, and Clifton J.
Perry, the negro operator of the ele-
vator. Two others-Lucille HOskins,
aged 10, and Helen Hosklns, aged "a,
- - III 49,
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Don't rob yourself by calling other
people hard names.
, 1923-04-05

"This," we often hear people say. "is
a very critical time.'
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FOREIGN

of coal, an amount which has not been
equaled since 1913.
The German Zeppelin Construction
Company has undertaken to build the
alrships to be used on the new postal
service between Seville and Buenos
Aires.
Picking police reports for twenty
days In February disclose that the
municipality furnished 467 collins for
persons who starved or froze to death
In the streets of the capital. OF these
BAT were unidentified.
Women teachers in London must in
future resign when they marry. This
decision was made n few days ago by
the education committee of the Lon
don county council. The 1000 mar
ried teachers at present working in
london county council schools will not
be affected.
The French authorities have dis
covered q secret German customs
bureau in the Rubr, where German
s~hopkeepers are paying taxes to Ger
many instead of to the French, 1t has
been announced. Twenty-Five German
officials and n number Of ~shopkeepers
have been arrested.
Paul d. Rogers, ex-governor of Sulu
province, p. l., and Juan Majares,
former cashier of the Jolo branch of
the Philippine National Bank, were
sentenced to three years imprlson-
ment for obtaining by fraud more
than $4,000 from the Philippine
National Bank.
The body of Nine. Sarah Bernhard
was removed a few days ago from her
late home on the Boulevard Pereire to
the Church of st. Francois de Sales, in
a nearby street, and thence conveyed
to the cemetery of the Pere-Lachaise,
the last resting place of hundreds of
Frances famous people of all times.
The majority of musicians employed
in the theaters and motion picture
houses of New York have voted for a
strike to enforce a wage increase of
from $12 to S25 u week, Paul Vaccar-
ELL, business manager Of the Musi-
clans Mutual Protective Union, an
nounced. The governing board of the
union will decide the time of the
strike, he said.
Hope has been abandoned that
Nicolai Lenine can ever return to ac-
tive political life, said n Moscow dis
patch. 1t is understood that, at the
next meeting of the Communist Con-
gress, leaders of the Russian Com
munist party will propose that either
Leo Kameneff or NJ. Ronefeld be
elected successor to Lenine in the
Soviet government.
Archbishop Zepliak, head of the
Roman Catholic church in Russia, and
all the sixteen priests on trial with
him charged with opposing the Soviet
government, were found guilty recent
ly. Archbishop Zepliak n Vicar
General Butchkavitch were sentenced
to death. The central executive COM
mittee ordered a stay of execution of
the death sentence.
A serious situation exists in Hun
gary with fighting in progress between
government forces n insurgents
led by General Kronoy. Many per-
sons are reported to have been killed
and wounded. The trouble started
when the value of Hungarian money
began to fall on the exchange market
and prices began to rise. A general
strike was proclaimed.
GENERAL,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
Dr.. Blair Denies Convict
 Is In A Serious Condition

In a statement today Dr. F. F. Blair, physician inspector of the state board of convict supervisors stated that the report of the alleged seri- ous condition of one of the convicts whipped following the Banner mine strike Is false.
 In making his statement, pr. Blair stated that all eonvicts involved worked in the mines September 1s. following the mutiny of the tenth. He also joined in with other state officials in taking a fling at "agita- tion" over the convict question.
 Following is Dr. Blair's statement;
 q left Banner mines on the night of the nineteenth of September at 8 worked in the mines that day, and have just been in conversation with the physician in charge at Banner. He informs me that they all work ed yesterday the twenty-first and are at work today.
 Just such misrepresentation as this, in my opinion, is what caused the regrettable occurrence at Banner on the tenth of this month. If this agitation and misrepresentation Is kept up, I feel sure we are going to have other occurrences similar to this one we had at Banner on the tenth, and probably they will be more serious. This agitation makes it hard on the convicts. for they are all excited over the investigation that is now going on and the newspaper should know, that discipline must be maintained.
 Such agitation makes 1t doubly hard on the officials who have to ad- minister the affairs of the convict department"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
TRAFFIC HEAVY AT .LONDON'S AIRDROME
Flagman Directs At Level Crossing
 At Entrance

LONDON, Sept. 22.--(By the Asso- ciated s.)-or' the first time since its creation many Londoners who stayed in town on bank holiday dis covered London's great airport at Croydon, and were duly surprised 10 find it very like a mainline railway station.
 There Is a level crossing near the entrance where a flagman holds up the road traffic while big Handley- Page and other planes roar across the roadway prior to leaving earth for Paris, Rottedam, Cologne or Hamburg. Once past the flagman, the visitor comes to compact will lags in which headquarters of va rious air services are situated round an up-to-date hotel adjacent to Q post office, meteorological office, air administrative headquarters and cus- toms establishment.
 Enormous charts are set up on which the progress of various ser vices are Jagged by an official who is in constant wireless touch with planes on their way to and from xa- rious capitals. Should any particu- lar plane be arriving late. it is or dered to wait and taxi around until an outgoing liner is clear and so avoid risk of a collision.
 On the ground there is rush of porters and interpreters to meet in- coming and outgoing planes. After being in the heaven several hours, conditions, on alighting, are very similar to those at a railway sta- tiOn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
NATIONAL COMMUNION SERVICE AT CHICAGO
Brotherhood St. Andrew Convention
 Closes Sunday

CHICAGO, Sept. 22.-A service of preparation and celebration of cor porate communion, conducted by the very Rev. D. T. Owen of Hamilton, Ont, featured tonight's session of the international convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrews.
 The service was for the mems branch of the conference only. the boys having 8 camp fire and devo- tional on the south shore of Lake Michigan. The Rev. Floyd w. Tomp- kins of Philadelphia. and the Rev. Bernard Iddings Bell, president of the St. Stephens college, spoke to the boys while they refreshed themselves In true camp style.
 Following the closing business ses- sion and a forum on how to secure the best young men for officers in the church army most of the day was occupied with ceremonies at the birthplace of the organization--St. James Episcopal church-at which many tributes were paid its founder. the late James l.. Houghteling.
 All visiting clergyrnen. l9yme@ and bishops have been assigned to speak in pulpits of churches throughout the Chicago diocese at the Sunday serv- ices tomorrow
 Christian citizenship" is the theme of the Sunday afternoon joint con- ference which will be addressed by the Rev. L. Ralph Sherman of Tor York, publisher of Our World, and Bishop Thomas F. Gailor. president of the national council of the Epis- copai church. ag4a~
 The convention closes Sunday night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
TIME FOR WOMEN TO TAKE CHARGE, CLAIM OF LEADER
Mrs. Belmont Deals Tradi- tions Solar PIexus Blow
 In Address

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Sept. %. (By Associated Press.)-Declaring that it was time for women to take over world affairs. Mrs. O. H. P. Bel mont of New York, president of the National Woman's party, In an ad- dress today before the western divi- sion of the organization dealt tradi- tions and established order a solar plexus blow.
 For 20 centuries men have been running the world" Mrs. Belmont de- clared. Now it is time for women to take over affairs, and as they very power at this time the day may be not so far distant as old party lead CTS may imagine when there may be set up a woman's government by women for women. children and hu- manity in general"
 Mrs. Belmont declared she has never voted and would not vote until of woman's party. and asserted that she long since despaired of making what she described as women Lf leasure and luxury" awaken to a sense of responsibility and duty in a world where they have earned no place for themselves.
 For nine years l have been as one crying in the wilderness to women of wealth and leisure to give over their pleasures and frivolities and do something to justify their existence. I have cried in vain. No reform ever appealed tC people who have all they want. Mrs Belmont said.
 Now. don't construe my meaning as being that of woman opposed to men," Mrs. Belmont continued. T am for men, but for women and chill dren first. Men have forgotten us during the past, but we are going to remember them and take them right up and onward with us.'
 In addition tC Mrs. Belmont, other distinguished women visitors from other states present were Alice Paul, vice president of the National Wom- ans party; Anneta Pollitzer of South Carolina, Miss Sue White of Ten nessee, Mrs. William Kent of Cali fornia and Mrs. Henry Ess, former president of the Missouri Federation of WLmen's Clubs and prominent figure in many national organiza- tions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
WOULD SETTLE ACCOUNTS
Attorneys Want To Bring "VNiId"
 Claims Into Open

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Sentiment of the executors accounts of the estate of the late Solomon Wexler, Il banker of New Orleans and this city. who died April 22, 1921, was applied for In surrogate's court today to bring about division of the estate and according to the executor,s at torneys to "bring into the open wild claims made since Mr Wexler died"
 One of the claims is for S125,000 brought by Thomas Ross Bennett, state superintendent of Georgia banks His attorney contended in court today that the surrogate lacked Jurisdiction to allow distribution of the estate as the claim is in federal court.
 The claim involves J. s. Bache & Co.,, of which MT. Wexler was a mem Der The state of Georgia claims that money misappropriated by official of the Marietta (Georgia) Trust and Savings bank was invested with the Bache company and that it is liable for restoration of the funds.
 The Wexler estate is valued at $953,239.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
ANTI-SAL0ON LEAGUE LEADERS COME HERE.
National Convention Program Con- mittee To Hold Meeting Monday

Leaders of the Anti-Saloon League of America arrived in Birmingham late Saturday night to attend meet ing of the national convention pro- gram committee at the Tutwiler ho- tel Monday morning. Plans for the meeting to be held in Birmingham during December will be partially completed at the Monday conference.
 Dr. Ernest A. Cherington, member of the national committee of the league and in charge of it's publica- tions. and Dr. Howard H. Russell founder of the league, both of Wes- tervil1e, O., came in Saturday night and registered at the Tutwiler. Dr. Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the league. will, arrive Sunday night from Montgomery, where he win address an audience in the Chris tian church during the day. Col L. B. Musgroye Of Jasper will be in Birmingham for the conference Mon day He Is also a member of the national committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
GE ERMANY IS I AGED
 WITH DIFF |CULTy FROM EVERY ANGLE
Either Acceptance Or Refusal Of Ruhr Proposition Will
 Prove Embarrassing

BERLIN, Sept. 22.-Whatever the outcome of the new Stresemann pro- posals on reparations and the Ruhr, the German government will find itself in an embarrassing position.
 Should the offer be accepted on conditional abandonment of passive resistance the government facesbit- ter internal objections.
 If the offer is blandly ignored, the continuance of the Ruhr struggle means increasing economic chaos.
 But while 1t is indicated that the allies are still discussing the pro- posals, it Is also apparent that the condition involved in surrender of passive resistance is unacceptable at least ina detail The offer made through the Belgian minister may pave the way to ultimate new terms, but these terms will have to be even broader than those the Germsn chan cellor proposed.
 By full equalization Stresemann can achieve the object with which he entered office-the Liquidation" of the Ruhr and Rhineland embroil- ment.
 But the mere hint of equalization has raised storm of protest in die hard quarters. The government re- alizes that the first step toward normalcy via the surrender route might lend to internal opposition and disorder that would wreck restora- tion plans. The reactionary group would use every lever to precipitate the downfall of the Stresemann min .istry.
 Position Would Be Easier.
 If the government can surrender, and continue in office, their position Is easier As it is, their main problem Is to convince the country that the terms offered Belgium were not equalization. but adjustment. It is necessary to create, if humanly pos sible, an impression that surrender of passive resistance carries with 1t some kind of moral or actual vic tory.
 As gloomy hints of negotiation leak out of Paris and Brussels, the Wilhelmsplatz has denied that any memorandum was given to Belgium. This formal, official denial is cor rect. There has never been any question of a formal memorandum. or note to the allies, embodying the new terms. The proposals were made in consultation between the chan cellor and Belgian minister, De La Faille. But they were made in con crete form, and were received and forwarded as concrete offers.
 Official circles have not yet aban- doned hope. Time and again off cial documents have been rejected. Germany is in a poor position, ln- ternally, to face another frigid re- lection of a public document. Her latest and most far reaching offer was made in a fashion that per mitted alteration and compromise. Berlin still hopes that 1t may lead to a formal conference.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
ABEL TURNS OUT BIG ORDER FOR WAGONS
Fifty Vehicles Being Built In Bir-
 mingham Plant

'Lonnie" Abel is now the man. ager and owner, and pretty nearly the whole works at the A. H. Abel Wagon company, and Lonnie must be & pretty good manager for he landed the big gest order for wagons that has ever been placed in Birmingham, or most any other town for that matter. When the Jefferson Dairy company, the new dairymen's combine, wanted 50 dairy wagons to deliver the output of their new plant Lonnie told them he could build them satisfactorily and economically-and he did. These wagons, or rather most of them are ready for delivery and they were built from the ground up and painted handsomely, right here in the Abel wagon works. This concern is one of Birmingham pioneer institutions, being established in 1882. It makes a business of building bodies for wagons, trucks and automobiles, mo- tor car painting, trimming, making tops, blacksmithing and repairing of all kinds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
GODCHAUX IS LOW
 SCORER IN TOURNE

NASHVILLE. TennY Sept 22- Frank Godcnaux, Tennessee state golf champion, took low medalist honors from Horace Horner here this afternoon when he qualified in the Inglewood Country club city lnVl- tation golf tournament with par 72. He was out in sS ana Tn Iass 34 Going out he took u birdie on the first hole, and coming in he took birdie on the fifteenth and sixteenth holes. Horner qualified xUith a TT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
SCHOOL RALLY AT MORRIS
Speeches Made By We'll Known Lead-
 CTS Followed By Ball Game


 An educational rally was held Fri- day afternoon at Morris in reference to better school conditions and schools with speeches made by B. w. Self, MT. Jenkins, L. Little, c. D. Etter of Warrior E. B. Erwin. as- sistant superintendent of education and nr. N. R. Barker, county superin- tendent. The rally was held as community affair and several hun dred were in attendance.
 During the afternoon a ball game was held between Hueytown High school and Mortimer Jordan High school with the former winning, g to 0.
 Saturday afternoon the district trustees from district 5-A, comprising the territory of about 100 square miles, northeast of Birmingham, met at the county board of education off, flee and passed resolutions calling on the county board to ask the board of revenue to call an election for a three-mill district tax at once. One of the things which is desired, it was stated, to come from the tax, should it pass, Is a new high school to cost at least $45,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
RIG SHIP BACK HOME

LAKEHURST, N. J., Sept. 22.-The ZR-1 arrived at the naval air station here at $50 o'clock tonight after completing a successful flight to Washington. D. C., and return.
 The Leviathan of the skies glided gracefully from banks of low clouds just as dusk was falling and was shunted into its hangar for the night
 The trip to the national capital, the longest flight the dirigible has made since being launched, was pro nounced complete success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
RitoIa Wins Race

NEW YORK, Sept. 92.-Wilie Ri toa. crack distence unper of the Finnish -American A. C.. today cap tured the National A. A. U. steeple- chase championship over Emile course at the annual ia; games of the New York Athletic cub on Ira vers Isand. Marvin Rick ot the New
 York Athletic ,,lub. former Princeton star, finished second, 25O yards be- hind Ritola. Russell Payne of Ohio State university was third. Ritola' s time was 10 minutes. 45 S-4 seconds,