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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
Three Youths Under Arrest For
Wounding Of Catholic Priests

wounded of the five. Nineteen shots
struck him in the back and his con-
dition was regarded as serious to-
night The priests and Bruner were
gathered around table checking
some reports when the firing be-
gan.
The attack on the priests home
followed a church conference which
terminated in church social. Some
disturbance having arisen among the
young men. Deputy Sheriff W. +.
Mcdaniel attempted to suppress it,,
but was struck in the face with a
piece Of ice which cut a cash in his
cheek. A number of young men then
are said to have left the social.
The discharge of pistols was heard
soon thereafter. but no one was In
jured 1t was some time afterward
that the attack on the house by per-
sons armed with shot guns took
place, resulting in the wounding of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
Important Neus OF The Day


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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20

POCAHONTAS. Ark. June 10
Four priests and one lay church
officer were wounded when uniden-
titled persons fired into the home
OF the Rev Father Herringer of the
Engleberg Catholic church, five miles
north of here, last night, according
to information received here today.
The house was fairly riddle with
shot.
The injured men are; rather
Straussner of Jonesboro. shot in neck
and shoulder; Father Heflinger Par
agould, shot in neck; Father Her
ringer, Engleberg, slight flesh
wound; Father Froitzhim, Pocahon-
tas, shot in the leg; Joe Bruner, lay
church official. shot in back.
Three youths, Burton Knots,
Henry Daniels and his younger
brother, were later placed under ar
rest.
Bruner was the most severely
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
Torrent Of Lava
Flows InexorabIy

CATANIA. Italy, June 19.-(By AS
ISOLATED Press 1.-The great lava tor,
rent from Mount Etna, bearing in itt
flow great masses of earth and vol
canic stone, is advancing inexorably,
and has already reached the houses
on the outskirts of the town of Linz
guaglossa. Green fields orange
groves and vineyards have been swal-
lowed up, and for miles around the
atmosphere is suffocating with VOL
canic smoke and a cloud of black
smoke and ashes which is covering
the lovely countryside like a pail.
Several of the small houses in Linz
guaglossa have been shaken down
by the frequent earth shocks, and the
once smiling little town which until
continued On Pare TMnl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
5000 L. & N. Shopmen To Get
Wage Increase 2 Cents An Hour

ton of Maintenance of Equipment
Employees. and is effective as follows ::
Machinists, boilermakers, black
smiths, sheet metal workers and cleo
tricians, whose wages are increased
from 70 to 70 cents; motor attend
ants and electric crane operators,
from &C to 6S cents; cabinet makers,
coach and locomotive carpenters, up
holsterers. planning mill men, pattern
makers and coach and locomotive
painters, from 70 to ~ cents; freight
car painters. carpenters and repair
ers, car inspectors. freight air brake
men and wrecking train engineers,
from 60 to 65 cents, and all helpers
from AZ to 40 cenfa
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
EUer Want To Ride
And Didn't Haze A Car?

Sure you have, lots of us have, for that matter
Well here's the way to stop that in the future
join The Age-Herads 100000 Club" and get
your car FREE. Eight autos will be given away
and one of them is for YOU.
On top of the chance to get car, you can earn
in your spare time from S25 per week upwards
in the 100000 Club" and no guess work about it
either. Figure it yourself, IS cents on each new
subscription order-get five of them day and
We'll pay you $50. 50-get 10 day and let us pay
you $51 90 week. Does that sound good? Then
enter yourself today and get busy. A phone call
to Main 1900 will do it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
Executive Has Long lad a
Desire To See The 80 .ntry
OF The Yukon " Work
Out a Policy AZ Alaska
REPUBLICAN, $ffACTIONS
DEVELOP TEMPERAMENT
President, However, Resents
differences That Trip Is In
Interest OF His Candidacy
For Party denomination
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER


(By eLnsed Wire to The Age-Hernld)
WASHINGTON, June 19.-President
Harding's western trip is the biggest
political event of his administration.
In his series of addresses across the
country, the President will defend his
record thus far and formulate the re-
publican party's 1924 platform on the
great issues, such as the world court.
railroads. taxation, agriculture and
prohibition. Several motives dove
tailed to inspire the trip
l. Years ago Harding became fasci-
mated by the magic tales brought into
his Marion newspaper office by pros
pectors returning from the famous
Klondike gold rush. Later, in the
White House. he saw tangled skeins
of red tape retarding development of
the fabulous riches of the great
northern empire. and became obsessed
with desire to visit Alaska, and then
come back and work out a new ad-
ministrative code that would go down
in history as his contribution to the
internal development Of the nation.
2. Harding has not been west of
Kansas since he was nominated, and
for two years there has been demand
from the Pacific coast that he pay a
NlSll luSIe. Every ITeSlQenI III recent
years has made such trip and Hard
ing desired to continue the custom.
9. Republican political scouts have
reported that the prospects of carry
ing many western states in the next
election are uncertain, and that a
tour by Harding through this doubt
full territory would have a helpful eff
feet.
4. In view of the approaching cam
paign. party managers say it is advis-
able that the President focus the at
tention of the country upon the ac-
complishments of his administration.
well-advertised transcontinental
trip is the best vehicle for this pur-
pose.
5. Differences among republican
FACTIONS over many pending issues
require that the President, as head
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
More Villages Go
Under Sea OF Lava
In Stricken HULu
King Victor Emmanuel Dashes To Scene of
Disaster in Battleship to Direct Fight To
Save Isolated Han,lets In Path of Molten
Destruction 80 Twin Mouths of Etna Send
Stream of Death DolUn 6OO-Foot Slope
BY FRANCISCO REA.


according dispatches Mena late
Tuesday night.
threatened
the island Sicily The
Palermo.
left m. where he
uperintend
Early learned that he planned visit the
the Marguerite,
mother undergoing second operation for her
evident that the successful
he departed from Naples
All the
and Mt Cacciatore butresses Of the mighty pile of Etna
the flow all
believed
swerved into the dry bed of a
m. was feet ronC
Pope Plus XI has donated $4,000 lire for relief
BLAZING LAKE SEEN
terrifying spectacle
two small the slopes of Etna.
of the
falling fire, 600foo
lake in the woods below
Commissioner Mcanti head of the Aviation,
directed
above the eruption gathering information the direction
phoograpng
The will fooduffs
Of places blocked by lava.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
PEASANTS SEEK DIVINE AID

darkness rent with the und of caacsms and shot
Mount Ena hell
through their streets the sacred
LAVA CLOSE TO THE VILLAGE
marched through choking
volcanoes wall
being
Repeated crumbng brick walls of
their homes
Thus they prayed to St Eguu patron of the village
legend Lnguaglossa of his
ST. Eguidius
the
Struggling through devastating soldiers
the endeayor houses the path of the destroying flood
the most fertile districts of sicily before
houses and roads had been oblerated.
Giardin FREDDIE
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
MRS. GRUB IS HEAD
OF DIXIE DIVISION
Birmingham Woman H0nOred A
Asheville Convention

Mrs. w. l. Grub, of Birmingham.
was selected as president of the
Dixie division of the American fed
Grafton of music clubs at Asheville.
N. c.. Tuesday, according to advices
received by The Age-Herald. The
Dixie comprises the southern states
and the selection of Mrs. Grubb Is
regarded as not only a distinct honor
for her personally but for Birming-
ham as her home city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
FRENCH MARSHAL HURT

BERLIN. June 19.-(By Associated
Press.)-The French Marshal Petain
was slightly injured and two Off
GERS accompanying him were killed
in the wrecking of the Paris May
ence express last Friday, according
to the correspondent of the Berliner
Tages Zeitung at Frankfort. Mar
shall Petain, he adds, was on his way
to the Ruhr and Rhineland for a
tour of inspection, and parade
which was to have been held in May
ence the next day had to be post
poned.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20

Approximately 5000 shopmen en-
ployed by the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad company in it's various Ala
bama shops will be affected by the
wage increase of two cents an hour
effective July /. it was stated Tues
day night by E. G. Evans, assistant
superintendent of the L. & N. at Bir-
mingham. This number includes
1900 men employed at local shops,
and others at Albany-Decatur and
Mobile.
The increase. according to Mr..
Evans. was agreed on at recent
conference of officials of the road
and representatives of the Associa-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
WILL FIGHT DIABETES
Rockefeller Gives $15O,OOO To Lead
Ing American Hospitals

NEW YORK, June ia gift OF
s150,OoO to be distributed among 10
hospitals in the United States and
Canada to promote the use OF IN
sulin in the treatment OF diabetes
was announced tonight by John u.
Rockefeller Jr, The hospitals are in
all sections of the country.
The purpose of the gifts, MI
Rockefeller said, would be to IN
crease the number of free ward pa
ticnts who could be treated with IN
sulin and to teach physicians in gen
eral practice the proper methods OF
employing insulin in the treatment
u diabetes.
The hospitals. which were selected
nv n committee headed by DR.. simon
Flexner, include: New Orleans, Iou-
ro Infirmary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
HARDING PLEDGED VOTES

SAN JUAN, =. r., June l9-(By AS
ISOLATED Press -President Harding
was pledged two votes for renomina-
tion by the republicans of Porto Rico
in special convention last night.
which also opened new platform
with statehood as the goal and advo-
eating the immediate liheralizing of
the territorial form of government to
include the extension here of the
United States constitution and the
election of the governor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
BerEdOll To Face New Arrest As He
Leaves Prison

FORT. LEAVENWORTH. Kan,
June 19.-All plans have been mada
for the release of Irwin Bergdol.
wealthy Philadelphia draft evader.
from the disciplinary barracks here,
Major j. a. Stevens, adjutant at the
barracks, said tonight. Major Sto.
vens said he had received word from
the United States district marshal at
Topeka that warrant would be
served on Bergdoll at the gates OF
the barracks and that he would pre-
pare to turn the prisoner over to
them if he is called for. a dispatch
from Topeka Tuesday stated that a
warrant charging conspiracy to evada
the draft, had been issued against
him
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
MAY ASSIGN benson
TO CRIMINAL CASES
New Judge Expected To Return
From Vacation At Once

1t was understood at the court
house late Tuesday afternoon that
Judge benson. who was appointed
by Gov. w. w. Brandon to succeed
the late Judge Dan A. Greene In
circuit court until the general cleo
ton in May, 1924, will be installed
some time during the latter part OF
the week in the criminal division. 1t
is thought that he will hear some OF
the capital cases that have been
docketed this week.
Judge benson was out of the city
on fishing trip when word of his
appointment came and is expected to
return to Birmingham mpmentarily
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
DAVIS is DISMISSED

WASHINGTON, June 19.-After
Al years service as an engineer in
the interior department, Arthur p.
Davis has been suddenly dismissed
as chief of the reclamation service.
D. w. Davis, former governor of
Idaho, and banker at American
Falls, Idaho, has been appointed In
his place.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
FINANCIERS CONVICTED

CHICAGO, June 19.-Fred A. Krie-
bel, former head of Kriebel e. Co.,
stock brokers, now bankrupt, and
Henry Pommery, New York represen-
tative of the company. were found
guilty today by a jury in Federal
Judge WIKI erson's court of using the
mails in a scheme to defraud.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
GENERAL TO VISIT u. S.
French War Leader VIII he Guest
OF Rainbow Veterans

NEW YORK. June 10. - General
Gouraud of the French army. the
Lion of the Argonne." will arrive on
the France. June 80, to be the guest
of the Rainbow division during a SIX
weeks tour of the United States, it
was announced tonight
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
THOUSANDS FLEEING INFERNO

RAYMOND NJ HAVENS, international Rotary president
who opened the big annual convention in ST. Louis Monday
The convention will continue until Friday Mr. Ravens,
book manufacturer, is from Kansas City, Mo.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
REPUBLICAN WINS BY
ONLY 325 MAJORITY
District Nominally Overwhelmingly
COP Nearly Turns Democratic

DETROIT. June ia. B. Will
liams, aBttle Creek, manufacturer,
running on the republican ticket,
was elected to Congress from the
Third Michigan district in today's
special election, defeating Claude S.
Carney, Kalamazoo attorney, demo-
crat, by 325 votes in a district nor
mally overwhelmingly republican.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
SAVES DAD FROM MOOSE
PIen OF Young Girl stirs Heart OF
Judge

Judge
CHICAGO, June 19.-On the plea
of his 16-year- daughter that he
be spared the gallows, 1gnatz Fuchs'
who shot and killed his wife, Anna.
during q drunken quarrel, was sen
fenced to life Imprisonment by Judge
George Kersten in criminal court
this morning. The daughter. Cecilia,
who witnessed the shooting of her
mother. plead with the court not to
impose the death penalty.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20
PREMIERS AID VICTIMS
MussOlini Going To Catanfa And U
Il

Inndo To Etna
ROME. June 19-Premier Mussolini
will proceed to Catania upon his re-
turn from his Piacenza visit accord
ing to Giornale D'Italia
Former Premier Orlando VIII also
proceed to the Mount Etna area.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20

SLOSS OPERATING SEVEN
BLAST FURNACES, LARGEST
NUMBER WITH GREATEST
OUTPUT IN ITS HISTORY.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-20

THE ALABAMA FORECAST:
GENERALLY FAIR WEDNES-
DAY AND THURSDAY EX-
CEPT IN COAST SECTION.
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PLAN EVADER'S RELEASE

Continued On Page Two.)
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN

THO choose time is to save
To know truly il to know by
causes.
About nature, consult nature
herself.
Great hypocrites are the real
atheists.
Gold is tried with the touch
stone and men with gold.
A man that studies revenge
keeps his own wounds green.
He that has a wife and chill
dren has given hostages to for
tune.
Natural abilities are like natural
plants that need pruning by
study.
No pleasure is comparable to
standing upon the vaetage ground
of truth.
A man that is young In years
may be old in hours IL he has
lost no time.
Old wood is best to burn, old
wine to drink, old friendssto trust,
old authors to read.
Distrust yourself and sleep be-
fore you fight. IT'S not too late
tomorrow to. be brave.
The fly sat upon the axle-tree
OF the chariot and said: What
dust do raise"
When he departs from the let
ter of the law the judge trans
forms himself into a lawmaker.
It IL heaven upon earth to have
a mans mind move In charity,
rest in Providence and turn upon
the poles Of truth.
Years hence. perhaps, may dawn
an age,
More fortunate, alas! than we
Which without hardness will be
sage
And gay without frivolity.
Matthew Arnold.
Copyright, 1928, Newspaper Feature
Service, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1923-06-15

Wheeler 81
A BOLD, bad man made q
a general display Of himself
A in a Texas town a few
days ago. It seems that he'd
imbibed a sufficient number Of
drinks to become anxious to inn
press the town with his bad
ness, and when the officers
tried to arrest him he backed
up against the side of a build
ing and defied arrest.
A considerable crowd Of citi-
zens, among whom were q
number of drummers from q
hotel close by, bad gathered to
witness the scene.
The bad man was a big,
ferocious-looking fellow with
long, curling hair that fell on
his shoulders, a broad-brimmed
hat, a buckskin coat with fringe
around the bottom and a pic
turesque vocabulary. He was
furnishing a big six-shooter,
and swore by the bones of Davy
Crockett that he would per-
forate the man who attempted
to capture him.
The city marshal stood in the
middle of the street and tried
to reason with him, but the bad
man gave a whoop and rose up
on his toes, and the whole
crowd fell back to the other side
Of the street. The police had q
conference, but none of them
would volunteer to lead the at
tack.
Presently a little, wizened,
consumptive looking drummer
for a Connecticut shoe factory
squeezed his way through the
crowd on the opposite side Of
the street to have a peep at
the desperate. He weighed
about ninety pounds and wore
double-glass spectacles. Just
then the desperate gave another
whoop and yelled:
"Gol darn We, why don't some
of We come and take me? III
eat any five of we without
chawin', and I amt hungry
either-whoopeew
The crowd fell back a few
yards farther and the police
turned pale again, but the
skinny little man adjusted his
spectacles with both hands, and
stepped onto the edge of the
sidewalk and took a good look
at the bad man. Then he de-
hberately struck across the
street at funny hopping kind
of run right up to where the
terror stood.
The crowd yelled at him to
come back, and the desperate
flourished his six-shooter again,
but the little man went straight
up to him and said something.
The crowd shuddered and ex-
pected to see him fall with .
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
SAP AND SALT
BY Bert Moses

Good people do stupid things
more frequently than bad people.
About 30 per cent of experience
consists of mistakes and blunders.
Beautiful wives are rarely 1eal-
Gus, while plain wives always are.
A. woman never outgrows a de-
sire to be admired. and man
never outgrows an itch to give
advice.
It isn't well for your children
to know1it, perhaps, but just the
same, bad boys seem to have the
most. fun.
Since the price OF eggs has
come down 1t is no longer a dis
tinction to have egg stains on
your vest.
After reaching fifty a wise man
sees the uselessness of trying to
understand women, and puts in
the rest Of his life trying to
understand himself.
Hez Heck says: "They amt
much choice between a cinder In
YOUR eve and had hangnail."
copyright. 1919, Premier Syndicate. Ino.l
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
New Gem sahg9E1tO. HENRY
A TREASURE TROvE OF HUMOR FROM HIS
NEWLY DISCOVERED NEWSPAPER WRITINGS
THE bad MAN"

Wheeler Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
HOW LONDON
is KEPT
CLEAN
Coco WgNq R4 WALLSI

ToNDON-K Keeping London
clean is an expensive u1-
- dertaking.
Few people know. for example,
that everys hundredweight OF
refuse removed from dustbins in
the metropolis costs the local au-
thorities q fraction under Cd.
Every day 5000 tons of dirt and
dust are collected by means OF
1920 vehicles.
Some of the tasks that now
confront London's army Of spring
cleaners are gigantic. Take Vic
toria station. Cleaning the sta
ton, which has a bigger area or
glass roof than any other station
Waterloo alone excepted-occupies
the best part Of six months. Over
forty-five tons Of paint, made up
of thirty-four tons of white lead
and eleven tons OF linseed Oil. are
used, at a cost Of approximately
5000 a ton.
One Of the biggest spring clean
ing jobs ever undertaken was the
busting and renovating Of the
British Museum Library. Two
hundred and fifty men were kept
busy for fourteen months. Redec-
Grating the dome and walls OF
the great reading room took $4,000
leaves Of beaten gold.
Another big renovating job car
ried out periodically ie spring
cleaning Tower bridge. Twenty
tons Of paint are used in the proc
ess, which occupies roughly five
months.
Keeping the House Of Commons
clean costs $500 g. year. The
carpet beating bill alone totals
nearly $4,000. while window clean
ing runs into $3.50.
Big hotels like the Savoy and
the Cation are thoroughly spring
cleaned every year. although the
work is so well organized that
few visitors to the hotels know
that it Is going on.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
If We All Saved
On What Should We Live?

An ingenious financial advertisement shows that by
ing $762 for fifteen at cent and reinvesng
at the end Of fifteen would have yearly income Of
$40 and accumulated fortune of $4,000 Hundreds Of
thousands perhaps Millions of Americans would be glad
have after fifteen of reasonable saving annual income
Of $40 for themselves and their children
actually COULD invest $762 every year.
For each individual it would be fortunate the thing
done But what would happen the nation millions did
When you have annual income and live that income
you are not really living YOUR income. You living
those that HAVEN'T saved HAVEN'T an income and
MUST WORK for those that have money
everybody in the United States had income of 100000
q year, 100000 wouldn't mean independence.
For system of civilization it just that the
average man doesn't That keeps us working
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
Close Old Hotel

~ TURBRIDGE, Mass.-Historic
old Films Hotel has closed it's
~ doors after 152 years of con-
tinuous public service. During
the hotels long period of service
many distinguished persons have
stopped there, including Lafayette,
the famous Frenchman.
The giant elm trees from which
the hotel received its name, and
which stand in front of the old
building, were planted about 1910
by the late Governor Samuel c.
Craft, then ten years old.
The present owner, John 8.
Hubbard, plans to make the hotel
his home.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
Our Fire Losses
And Lights in the Sky.

Fire losses in the United States $5OGOOO
year. Three quarters Of the could be saved bv
reasonable Half could be saved sense 1eps
ton The charges of insurance companies extoronate
the fires help them advertising instead hurting thew
not interested in discouraging fires
You told that lights of 5oooooooo candle power will
be located at intervals from coast to coast to guide ers
They will be on towers twenty feet above the ground pointing
upward and rotating like the beams of lighthouses
Couldn't they be attached captive balloons thousand
feet in the air. above fogs mists? wire to
the light could up the cable holding the balloon
The Washington times., 1923-06-15


.45 bullet in him, but he didn't.
They saw the desperate lower
his pistol and run his hand in
his pocket and hand something
to the little man.
Then the desperate walked
sheepishly down the sidewalk,
and the little man came back
across the street.
"Bad man ?" he said; "I guess
not. He wouldn't hurt a fly.
That's Zeke Skinner. He was
raised on the farm next to me
in Connecticut. He's selling
some kind of fake liver medi-
cine, and that's his street rig
he's got on now. / loaned him
So in Hartford nine years ago,
and never expected to see him
again. Thought I knew his
voice. Pay? I reckon he paid
me. I calculate / always col
lect what's owing to me-"
Then the crowd scattered and
the twelve policemen headed
Zeke off at the next corner and
dubbed him all the way to the
station house.