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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
FIRPO HAS GREAT FUTURE AHEAD IF
 HE ACTS WISELY
South American Suspects Every One of Attempting
 to Trick Him

NEW YORK, March 27.-Where the path leads for Luis Firpo. the Argen- tine giant, depends largely on where Luis chooses to turn his steps.
 Firpo has more natural fighting ability and he is the best prospect of any of the young heavyweights who sey got his start.
 FIrpo has everything promising. but he has one of the Latin tempera- ments that may spoil what looks like sure fame and fortune for him.
 Because some of his fellow coun- trymen in South America warned him to beware of scheming Americans. Firpo is suspicious of everyone. He looks upon all who approach him as connivers who are out to do him harm.
 Even with Jimmy Dc Forest, who trained him for few weeks whom he first came to this country and who handled him in tho Brennan fight, he is restrained and wary and 1t does not permit him to get tho full value out of tho excellent education that Do Forest is ocapable of giving him.
 As an example. of tho peculiar type of a pupil that Firpo is. Dc Forest tells the story that whom he was working with him last year, ono of Firpo's friends went to him and told him that De Forest was Dempsey'A trainer and that Jimmy would teach him wrong, so that Dempsey could beat him. Firpo became suspicious and quit Dc Forest.
 If he continues to suspect every one he will make the way harder. al- though it might not necessarily keep him from winning the title. Dc For est is about the one trainer in the country who knows enough to make great fighter out of the South American. Resembles Jeffries.
 Nearly all of the veterans who have looked over the South American find in him a striking resemblance to Jim Jeffr;es when he first came out. Tex Rickard. who is one of the most en- thusiastic boosters of Firpo. says that he really is another Jim and that he will be the next champion.
 The most impressive things about Firpo are his ability to take punish ment and his tremendous hitting power. He also has great fighting heart-and little else Is needed. Firpo must learn to box a little, but that is only minor detail. His left hand also needs attention, but Athat also can come with training. It seems now that Dempsey has only two men as real contenders for the title-Firpo and Harry Wills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Winfield High Wins

WINFIELD. Ala, March 27--(Spe- cial Leased Wire. e.)-Winfield High school team defeated Hamilton's all- star nine Saturday on the home grounds of the losers by to . score.
 The Winfield boys got off to a good start, scoring all of their nine runs in the first three innings and gather Ing a total of 13 hits off the Hamilton hurlers during the game.
 Lee, pitcher for Winfield, backed his good pitching with three hits. The Winfield team as whole made a good showing against the Hamilton nine, both at the bat and in the field, in spite of a few errors.
 Batteries: Winfield. Lee and Mc- Donald; Hamilton, Wester and Me- Kinzie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Americans Play Big
 Part m Golf Ouerseas

LONDON. March 27.-A,n American athlete again helped the Oxford Var slty to. victory, when r. NJ. Bacon. ol Harvard. took part in Oxford. Win ming over the Cambridge varsity golf team at Rye Tuesday. But the entire truth is that a pair of American play CTS helped Cambridge to lose.
 Five foursomes were played, Oxford winning to 2. N.
 w. B. Todd, of Summit. x. J., and F. P. Pulling, of Baltimore. both veteran Princeton golfers. were on the Cambridge team
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Willard Is Training

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo, March 27.-A(By Associated ress.)-Jess Willard is fighting here for the right to fight.
 Painfully at first he undertook tl,e Gruelling training imposed by lis determination to fight his way to Jack Dempsey who wrested from him the heavyweight boxing cham ponship of the world. Jess now sn iles at the days drudgery. He now has been training two weeks for his bout with Floyd Johnson In New York May 12.
 The former champion is willing, he said today. to meet Firpo, the South American title holder, if necessary to obtain match with Dempsey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Molla Still Improves And Wins 2 Matches

CANNES. France. March 27.-Mrs. Molla Mallory defeated Miss Emo, of England. without losing a game in a match of two sets here Tuesday. She then took on Madamoiselle Dis cleres and won again, 60. 6-2.
 Mrs. Mallory and Mile. Suzanne Lenglen. her principal rival of the courts. are likely to meet twice th!s week in doubles matches. Mrs. Mall lory and De Morpurgo, of Italy, may encounter Mile. Lenglen and eher Swiss partner Schliman. in the mixed doubles. in the women's doubles, Mrs. Mallory and Senorita De Ava reg are in line for match with Mile. Lenglen and Miss Ryan.
 The American champion is showing steady improvement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Wisconsin Nine Will Play Alaban,a Outfit

MADISON, Wis. March 27. = The University of Wisconsin baseball team will start on it's spring traing trip during the first week in April, and will spend eight days in the south, playing college and university hines of that district.
 The schedule calls for two games. April and ', with the Mississippi A. and NJ, at Oxford. and on April g and 10, two games with Mississippi college at Starkville. The team then goes to Alabama where 1t plays the University at Tuscaloosa April II and 13. It goes back to Mississippi on April 13 asd IA when 1t plays Mis- sissippi university at Jackson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
SHORT PEGS

Babe Ruth's eyes, are so bad he can't read. Maybe he strained them last year with his intensive study of ancient scotch inscriptions. The Babe has made about s2O0, 609. lot of ball players wish they had eye trouble, too.
 Seventeen seasons ago Frank Chance and Fielder Jones were great baseball leaders, miracle men and such as that. Chance tore away from the because they couldn't buy in" on the clubs they had built up.
 Several years later Frank Chance and Fielder Jones were great baseball false alarms, miraculous busts and mess of his job with the Yankees and Jones was worse in St. Louis.
 Here's Chance trying again with another tail-end club, the Red Sox. He has some fine material and prob ably will jack up the team to fifth position or thereabouts thls year. But his failure and Fielder Jones' proved that a manager isn't any greater than the players he has to manage.
 Baseball is back to placid normalcy. The Yankees soviet has been dis banded by blows of the knout, and none is more imperial than the Bloody Ivan of 1922. Babe Ruth, Dutch Routher and Zack Wheat have bent their vertebrae to the yoke Of Uncle Charlie Ebbets and thus an- other rebillon fizzles. The Players union has flopped and Ray Cannon, the commissar of the one big soviet. become the Korensky of baseball.
 Ban Johnson, whilom czar. has been given limited provincial govern ment to play with, John Heydler. president of the National league, who raised his voice against the All Highest Landis, has had his rebel. lious words flung back into his larynx.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
DWELL AREESTED

SHREVEPORT, La, March 2J.--B F. O'Neill of.sBossier City. near here was arrested today and placed under $1,O0O bail on charges sworn to by II. W. Hutchings, justice peace at Bossier City who was assaulted by five armed men Sunday night when they ttemlted to adbuct him. The warrant crages ONeill with lying in wait. assault with attempt to murder and attempted abduction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Atlanta Gets Herman

BOSTON, March 27. = Manager Frank Chance of the Red Sox has sent Babe Herman, recruit infieider. obtained from Detroit. to the Atlanta club and has ordered Jim Stroner, a Chicago semi professional, to report to the training camp at Hot Springs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Gene Criqui Licensed To Battle in the Ring

NEW YORK, March 27.-Eugene Criqui of France, holder of the Flu ropean featherweight championship has received official permission to so around hitting people on their chins. He was licensed as a prize fighter Tuesday by the New York boxing commission. He will box his first chin in a charity show in Brooklyn Wednesday night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
PrTETION DENIED

NEW YORK, March 27.-A petition by two groups of creditors of the Willis corporation that Col. Francis G. Caffey, receiver, be ordered to sell 539,866 shares of common stock of the Willys Overland company. to, sat- isfy their claims was denied by Fed eral Judge Hand today. Tho petition was denied on the receivers declar- ation that he did not desire to sell any more of the rssets at this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Fournier Signs Up

CENTRALIA, H.. March 27- Jacques Fournier, former first base man for the St. Louis Nationals, who refused to report to the Brooklyn Ma tionals after being traded to that club. today signed a contract to man age emi-professional team here during 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
pUCs RELEASE FORWARD

HOT SPRINGS. Ark. March 27.- Bob Forward, pitcher of Nova Sco tia, who entered the United States for chance in the "bis leagues" after some difficulty with the inn migration authorities, has been un- conditionally released by the Pitts burg. National league club. it was announced today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Normal Euens Count

JACKSONVILLE. March 27.-(Spe- cial.)-The State Moral school base ball team defeated Oneonta hoe Tuesday afternoon, 5 to 3. Oneonta won the. game from the Normals Monday. Empires, McNeice and Mat thews
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Millions Use lt-FIne for HaIrl
 Mot Sticky, Greasy or Smelly

Get a jar of Hair Groom" from any druggist for a few cents and make even stubborn, unruly or shampooed hair stay combed all day in any style you like. 'Hair-Groom" is dignified combing cream which gives that natural gloss and we'll groomed efefct to your hair--that final touch to good dress both In. business and on social occasions.
 Greaseless. stainless "Hair-Groom" does not show on the hair because st is absorbed by the scalp, therefore your hair remains so soft and pliable and so natural that no one can pos sibly tell you used it.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28

The fashion of wearing long pointed shoes was originated by Count Fulk of Anjou,, who had them made in this shape to hide his de- termed feet. ,.+ .sL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
RED sOx SIGN CAsT-OFF

BOSTON, Mass, March 27. - Bob Forward. Nova Scotia pitcher re- cruit released by the Pittsburg Ma tionals. has been taken on for trial by the Red SoX. dispatches from Hot Springs, Ark. said today. Andrew Cosha, who pitched in the Northern Michigan league last year,, another Pirate cast-off, has been retained by Manager. Chance temporarily because. of shortage of twirlers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Charlie Says

Good eats keep you healthy and happy :. Come and try . meal with me and you'll know why we ars always busy.
 In Connection With the
 BURDICK BILLIARD HALL
 1922 Second Ave-, North
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
GOINGON AT SPRING
SPRING WORK UNCHECKED

ATLANTA, March 27. Cool and cloudy weather today in a number Of the southern baseball camps did not check the strenuous workouts of the various clubs. Florida training quarters contisued with a little bet ter weather offering than other points, but while the temperature smacked of real summer weather the skies were either cloudy or partly cloudy in most cases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28

Babe Ruth's eyes. are so bad he can't read. Maybe he strained them last year with his intensive study of ancient Scotch inscriptions
, 1923-01-18
1.-THE PUBLIC BE SERVED"

The president of a great eastern railroad once said, baited
by Investigators and reporters, "The public be damned" He
planted rose bushes along a right of way notorious for it's
Ways insisted he might better have planted liies.
He IS no longer president of a great eastern railroad. His
policy was wrong, as his instincts were wrong. Since his de-
Parture the road has prospered; accidents are fewer; serv-
ice Is better; thousands of widows no longer lose their small
savings in the watered stock of the company.
He was not a man who built railroads. He was merely an
unwise executive. To the man who built goes the glory and
honor of opening up the country. Their motto is "The public
be served"
Governor Haskell, who plans to put through the north
south Sad connecting Casper with Salt Creek, Buffalo, Sheri-
dan and the main line of the Northern Pacific, is of the
school of empire builders which bred such men as J. J. Hill
and +. n. Hartman. Casper, which will profit the most by
the acquisition of this new line, must work the most to make
favorable for the completion of this great project.
The north-south line, beside opening up virgin territory
its great natural resources, will mean to Casper an al
most overnight leap in population undreamed of a year ago.
It will mean. among other things:
Good transportation, adequate to the sound industrial
growth of the city.
Increase IN propert, values.
LoweT freight rates.
Wealth to be realized - all, but particularly by shippers,
sheep and cattle men, real estate men and merchants.
industrial and manufacturing activity.
served"
, 1923-01-18
probe ORDERED
into TERRORISM
SCORE ACCUSED
Bridge Bunings on Rail
roads and Lynching
Are Investigated.

HARRISON. Ark. Ian. 1s.-Fol-
lowing tho Indictment OF 25 former
employees of "a Boon county grand
jury yesterday. investigation was to
be continued today by county Off
Gals. assisted by the citizens court.
into bridge burnings and other dep
rotations on the Missouri and North
Arkansas railway and the ,ynching OF
Il. c. Gregor. an alleged STRIKER.
Judge j. NJ. Shinn. of circuit court.
announced last night that rs indict-
ments had been returned and war.
rants were in the hands of the sheriff
for service. Only two arrests had
been made this morning.
The so.called "citizens court" now
holding sessions here. while not leg
ally constituted. is working in CON
junction with the circuit court grand
jury, 1t was alleged. This se,f-ap.
pointed tribunal Is composed of IL
men who were selected by citizens
from counties along the entire line of
the Missouri and North Arkansas rail.
way.
, 1923-01-18

For several weeks complaints had
been coming In from persons who had
sent c. o. u. packages to be delivered
from the Casper office that the send
ers id not receive their money al
though the packages had plenty OF
time for delivery.
Investigation by C. T. Hansen and
G. ID. Lowe. post office inspectors at.
tached to the Denver division. showed
that most of the packages complained
about were special delivery packages.
Very often the money would be
turned in within six or eight weeks
from the time the parcel should have
been delivered. The inference was
that the special delivery carrier was
appropriating the money for at least
that length OF time. Suits of clothes
were specialized in by the alleged
embezzler.
A confession this afternoon revealed
that Minor had started out with good
intentions, had needed $50 which he
collected with the probable hope of
replacing II soon. Holding put $50
was only n starter. for when arrested
he was in arrears $500 with no visible
way OF making It good.
1t seems that Minor would hold out
money until about time for a com
plant ana would then turn It in.
making up through sums collected at
the time Of making good what he had
held out weeks before.
In this way Minor wal continually
in debt to the government, continually
causing complaints. and continually
escaping suspicion by renting just
in time.
in June, 1918. and had been consid-
, 1923-01-18
OPERATORS and
MINERS MEET TO
DISCUSS WAGES
Basis for New Scale Is
Sought in Farley at
New York.

NEW YORK. Jan. IS. = By The
Associated Press.) = Coal operators
and union miner chiefs are prepar-
ing to enter conferences today, which
they hoped would provide a basis for
negotiating peaceful wage scales for
1929. were mutually agreed that "a
nationwide coal strike this year
would be disastrous to the public"
Both the miners representatives
ana the mine owners declared today
they would exert every effort to
agree speedily upon a basis for fix
ing wages and working conditions in
the bituminous fields before April !.
The workers delegation from Ohio
went SO far as to declare there VIII
be no strike this year"
John L. Lewis. president Of the
United Mine Workers Of America, is
here to head the delegation OF union
officials.
, 1923-01-18

OF investigation TO another senate
committee" The public lands com.
mittee already has been charged with
such an investigation but which has
not as yet actively begun 1t.
Senator Brookhart interJected the
Teapot Dome matter into the hea-
ing by saying:
Now with reference to this Nam.
moth Oil company. originally you put
Into that your personal contract with
reference to this Teapot Dome propo-
sition."
~ rave to the committee an offer
made by me to tho company for the
record yesterday" replied Mr.. Sin
clair.
We'll, what did you subscribe or
pay into h Mammoth OIL company
in the way of properly or money or
anything?' asked Senator Brookhart.
~ put In the contract"
"Just the contract? What did that
contract cost your"
I'm dollars7"
Yes"
"It did not cost me any money.
You VIII find in reading that contract
hat we were Obligated to build n
pipe line under certain conditions II
we created a certain amount OF pro.
duction on that property. That pipe
line would cost, we estimated. some
SCI, o0O. oOO."
"Thnt belonged to you after you
built 1t, did it nor
t4Vaa af- We a-aa hoA oNba- ,htg
cations. For instance the drilling %
some hundred wells-I think the full
obligation is 100 or lao wells"
They a'so belonged to you aftei
they were built?"
well. II they were dry wells. I Dc
not think we would want them VERY
badly
THEY would not be valuable to you
but you would still have them
I'VE can not realize them aftei
drilling them. In addition, senator
we were required. If you viii study
the contract. to produce oil from tina
property"
Eve do not particularly care to gc
into that phase of the contract
broke In Senator Brookhart, ''becaus,
that IS to be investigated by anothe:
committee"
II thought you wanted the conxid
Grafton of tho contract" replied NJ
Sinclair.
what 1 wanted to get at. as neal
as / could Senator B%rookhnrs ex
p.ained. was the financial value Of
the Transaction"
II would say at the time we took
the contract the value of that prop
erty was potential"
In the organization of this Nam
moth OIL company. in consideration
of that. what was 1t you received7"
Il received the shares Of the Nam
moth OIL company"
Was the par value OF this put intc
the record?"
The witness replied in the afflrma
tive.
What stock out OF that transac
ton do you hold personality"
Tho witness said he had Furnished
the committee with that Information
yesterday. He was asked concerning
division Of the stock corporation
Continued on Page seven)
, 1923-01-18

ton OF those in the Lander district
which r heavy crudes and which
are purchased on a fiat contract md
is the second for the week, the pre-
vious boost OF the same o hay.
Ing become effective on Monday
Another boost OF 10 cents was an
nounced in Pennsylvania this morn
ing. which II the usual method of pro-
cedure is followed, should become ef-
fective in the Mid Continent fields to.
morrow and here the last OF the pres
emit week.
The following table shows the new
prices posted this morning and those
in effect since the last previous
raise.
, 1923-01-18
GERMAN OPERATORS
STILL HOLD y


ESSEN. Jan. 1S.-tBy The Assocf-
ated Press)-Ruhr valley coal oper-
htors. who thought for a time LAST
night that tho French were TO take
over the mines this morning. found
themselves stin in possession Of their
properties today and learned that only
coal mined and above ground came
under the revised rcqulsltioning order
of tho French.
The magnates also learned they face
courtmartiaI instead OF actual arres
as the result OF their refusal to de-
liver coal to France.
The economic commission IN reach
ing its final decision in the policy to
be followed concluded that because OF
tho shortage OF technical experts, II
would be better to requisition only
the coal ready for delivery and 10 re-
route to France all shipments intend
ed for German domestic consumption.
1t was also said hat certain
nations, notably the United States and
Great Britain. looked with dlsfavor
upon the term "connscations'' as it
had been applied TO the French Ruhr
policy by the Paris press.
What attitude labor would take in
event tho mines were seized occupied
the commissions serious consider
alton. for It is realized the French
would be under n heavy handicap
should the German engineers refuse
to do their work.
The mission today, II was AM
nounced In addition to trouble with.
the coal deliveries, also faced the task
Continued on Page 7evOn)
, 1923-01-18
One PERISHES
IN WAREHOUSE
FIRE ON COAST

LOS ANGTLEs. Jan. 1s.-Investi-
cation was started today int the fire
last night which Quilted the ware
house Of the Barker Brothers Furni-
ture company here and caused the
death OF a Waterman. Firemen
after extinguishing the biazN found
the body of J.. e. Koch, SO years of
age, on the fourth floor of HI ware
house. Death had been due to suf-
location. Lawrence Barker. member
of the firm. estimated the damage rs
reaching $1,000. 900, covered by In
surance.
, 1923-01-18
Reservation Police
Chief Takes Proof
To Federal Court

John McAdam. chief Of the police
on the Wind River Indian reservation,
with headquarters at Fort Washable,
was an interested Casper visitor to-
day inasmuch as he will have charge
of the Indian riders who will appear
in the Casper Rodeo next August.
Chief McAdam is one of the best
known men in Wyoming. having been
in government service for many years
and chief Of police on tho reservation
for the last three years. He is On
his way from Cheyenne to his home.
having six witnesses with him who
testified in a federal case of liquor
violation on the reservation.
, 1923-01-18
.ERRIN CASE
GOES TO JURY


other reason II can not he Justified b.
cause they were not members Of that
organization"
Judge Hartwell instructed the jury
that II It was convinced by the v
dence that the defendants had engaged
in a conspiracy to do an unlawful act
which led to the killing OF Howard
Hoffman, they were guilty OF homi-
eide whether or not they had actually
taken part in tho Staying.
"lf one OF the accused men COM
m!ttsd the crime charged in this tn
dictment and II the other defendants
stood by. aided. or encouraged tho
crime. II is your duty TO ind all OF tho
defendants guilty" the court declared.
After the jury retired, Judge Hart.
well said:
at is murder or nothing
, 1923-01-18
Coogan
To Pay Great
Tax on Bonus

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 1s.-of the
$500. 900 which Jackie Coogan. child
film actor. is said recently to have
received as a bonus for signing a
contract with Metro Pictures cor
poration. $26o,72O will go to the
government in the form OF income
tax. according to figures made pub
lie by Rex B. Goodceli. collector OF
internal revenue.
The collector explained that his
estimate did not include the tax on
Jackie's reported salary of $3.50 a
week. that Of his father of 1000 =
week, or his sixty per cent share
of the net profits of films in which
he is to be starred.