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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
MUSIC STUDY CLUB TO RESUME RADIO MUSIC
First Program To Be Broadcasted At 8 O'Clock Tuesday Night

The Birmingham Music Study club will resume it's radio concerts at s o'clock Tuesday evening. Mrs. George c. Harris, radio chairman, has arranged program for the opening and realizing the great educational value of these concerts, intends to present programs of the highest standard, thereby calling on the best talent of Birmingham. Ii is the hope of the club to raise the standard of music that emanates from Birming- ham and to make Music Study Club Night" the first Tuesday in each month, an event to look forward to.
 The following program will be broadcast over WSY station of the Alabama Power company:
 Solo, Life, (Ronald), Mrs. Mae Shackleford; solo, selected, Mrs Mae |. .Shackleford; solo, selected. Leon tCole; solo, selected. Leon Cole; accom- paniments by Mrs. Frances Hunt. Violin solos, selected. Mir. Kfenk; mel .ody in F (Rubenstein), Miss Celeste Cole; Barcarolle (Huffman), Mrs. Poole; Farewell (Cowen), Miss Mary Kate Parks; Wake Up, Miss Mary sKate Parks; Passage Birds Farewell s(IIildock), Mrs. Shackleford and MT Shackleford and Mir. Cole
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
REvIVAL SERVICES AT OBSERVER ARE LARGELY ATTENDED
Much Interest Centers In Ap- preaching Bessemer-
 C9nterviIIe Game
BESSEMER BUREAU !
 THE AGE- HERALD


 4 series of successful fall t'reytYai services are well under way/at De n semer. with the opening Monday morning of the second big revival at the First Baptist church. Two largely attended meetings were held there Monday, one at 9 o'clock in the morn ing and 7:30 o'clock in the evening, with Rev. J. o. Williams of Athens, oc,cupying the pulpit.
 Rev. Williams has just closed a two weeks series of services at the South Highland Baptist chprch, dur ing9 which time there were a large numherE of additions to the church. Immense crowds attended the daily serVices, and a large choir was led by Marvin Pharr of Atlanta. He will also direct the singing at the First Baptist revivalpduring the next tw2 weeks. .a'H & F sf
 Services at the First Baptist church will be held until October 21. In addition to the daily meeting, there will be cottage and circle prayer services at the homes of the members, who are heirg organized iii various ways to assist the church officers! Under the direction of MT. Pharr a choir of 150 voices is to be orr ganized, 75 of which will be echil- dren of the Sunday school. At the conclusion of the revival services at the First Baptist church, reviva. will be started at the First Presby- teran church the last Sunday in Octo : Der. TAis service will last for sev- eral weeks, and pr. Robert Karr, evangelist of the Southern church will occupy the pulpit. sssss..ss es.sssss
 These revival serviceS will give Besse1her a continuous series of meet ings during the fall, and already great benefits have been felt by the comHunity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
9pu.N FOR FEDERATIoN

\ Plans Will De made by Bessemef club women in the next few days
 for participation in the convention of the second district federated clubs Ito besheld at Oneonta. October II and IF. The four clubs of the city are to elect delegates to the convention and in addition many Bessemer wom- en. plan to attend.
 Mrs I. D. McCollum of Bessemer
 is chairman of the second district,
 and another item that lends interest here is the fact that Bessemer has
 the largest number of clubs belong ing to the state organization of any other town in the district.
 sFAn event of interest at the conven-
 tions will be an address by Mrs. Val IsTaylor, president of the state or Fganization, and other prominent club
 women will take part, including Mrs.
 Brevard Jones and others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09

All circles of the woman's Auxil- iary of the First Presbyterian church will meet in the parlors of the Hchurch Monday afternoon at o'clock.
 The Point of the Needle club will meet Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of Mrs. A. H. Halbrook on Sixteenth street.
 The Parent Teacher association of the Jonesboro school will meet Tues day afternoon at 2:15 at the school.
 The Parent Teacher association or inc Clarendon school wilA meet there Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09

WORLDS FATTEST FAMILY, feature of the nagee of trained and wild animals be in Birmingham Wednesday, October 24, with Ringing Brothers and Banum and Bailey combined shows
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
BAPTIST REVIVAL STARTS

ReViVaI serVices will be started Monday morning at the First Baptist church. at which preparations have been made to care for a nice crowd. The pulpit will be filled in the morn ing bYsMarvin Pharr of Atlanta, who will also conduct the singing during the series of services. The pastor, Rev. w. P Price, will preach at the evening hour and on Monday morn ing Dr. J. E. Haymore of Atlanta is expected to arrive to take charge of the services during the week. The choir loft has been enlarged by the erection Of An adjoining platform, and a feature of the meeting wll be thet singing of the choir of 150 voices The choir Is being organized and milI be under the direction of Mir Pharr. -s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09

Bessemer Bureau: 1912 Second ave- nue. Howe Price correspondent, Phone Bessemer PTS. fH s3a'r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09

office department with statlstlcs upon which the cost of handling the various classes of mail will be based. This Is being carried out by counting | and weighing the various classes ot mail handled, and in-keeping accurate count of time consumed in each transaction for money orders. parcel post insurance and other special serV- ices, which require special clerks.
 Bessemer is the only Alabama post office which is furnishing, data on ! the cost of delivery of mail by car Tier. Only about 20 towns in the country furnish records kept by the carriers, each mail carrier being re-
 quired to record the number of ipieces of the various classes of mail handled. and the actual time con sumed in making each delivery on their routes.
 There are five Alabama offices furnishing records of the handling of lmaiI, in the pbstoffice. This covers all classes of mail matter, records be. ing kept to show the weight and number of pieces of outgoing and in- coming mail.
 The records are being kept on handling of mail for four weeks, be- ginning September 21 and ending october 20. For the first three weeks the Bessemer office will weigh leach class of mail, and three times per day record Is taken to show the time required to distribute beth the incoming and outgoing mails. Dur ing the last week all classes of mail will be counted, and the average number of pieces to the pound of the various classes will be learned in this way.
 While no reason is given by the government for the record and count being taken at this time, it Is gener- ally conceded that it is intended to fix the cost of handling each of the four classes of mail. It is thought that this is being done to learn which class of mail is paying the least revenue for the amount of serv- Flee required, and to adjust postal rates accordingly.
 l This is the most comprehensive survey of the mail service ever un- |, dertaken. It is, the first time tha- records of the volume of all classes 1 of mail altogether with the count. has been made at the same time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
BRIDGE CLUE, TO MEET

Miss Berney Gillen- will entertain
 the Tuesday bridge club at her home on Nineteenth street. Thursday. Mem bers have been asked to note the change of the meeting which will be- gin at o'clock. el.... ..Ns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09

BESSEMER GIVES POSTAL DATA
 Bessener is one of few Alabama cities which is furnishing the post
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IS GIVEN STRESEMANN

Favored In Opposition To German
 Nationalists Or Communists
 BERLIN. Oct. S.-(By Associated Press. )-The Richstag tonight pass ed vote of confidence in the Strese- mann government against the Ger man nationalists, the Bavarian peo- ples party and the communists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
Troops Threaten To
 Capture StambouIinsky

SOFIA, June 12.-(By Associated Press.)-Troops have been thrown around former Premier Stambou- lisky's place of refuge and he has been given until tomorrow to sur render in order to avoid bloodshed.
 Alexander Boteff. former president of the sobranje (national assembly, and former minister of justice Dou- paraniff. were arrested today. (Bel- grade dispatches today said Boteff was one of those at the head of peasant revolt against the new gov ernment.)
 The members of the Stamboulisl1y cabinet will be detailed in prison or under supervision in their homes until the new parliament assemblies and decides their fate. Partisans of the overthrown government have created disturbances in home places but the authorities believe peace will be restored everywhere shortly.
 The ministers of the former Cue choff and Malinoff cabinets, who were convicted or treason under the Stamboulisky regime are expected to arrive here tomorrow. It is certain that general elections will be held but no date for them yet has been set. The Bulgarian ministers at Prague and Degrade have been dis missed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
SEED LAW HEARING
 SET SATURDAY
Weights And Measure Statute Also
 To Be Discussed

MONTGOMERY, Ala, June 12.- Special Leased Wire.)-A public hearing on proposed law to govern the sale of agricultural seed will be held at the capitol by the recess committee on agriculture Saturday at 10 o'clock. It is stated that Ala bama is threatened with becoming dumping ground for inferior seed due to the lack of laws governing seed sales such as are found else where.
 Another hearing set for Saturday before the committee is one on re- vision of the statute relating to weights and measures and the legal weights of farm products, including the advisability of substituting deci- nal weights instead of measures of one eighth, one-fourth and one-half bushels for sale of corn meal.
 There will be another public hear ing on cooperative marketing and the grading and chasing of cotton on Thursday, June II, at o'clock; hearing on laws pertaining to the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers at 10 o'clock, Friday, and on laws with reference to the sale of farm products on commission basis Friday following the hearing on the fertilizer question.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
PEASANT COUNTER REVOLT |S UNDER
 WAY IN BULGAR|A
"YeIIoW Guard" Revolution Against Premier Is In
 Full Swing

BELGRADE. June 12.-Refugees ar irving at Tzaribod report that the yellow guard" counter revolution against Premier Zanhoff is in full swing, armed peasants fighting revo- lutionary units in the steppes north of Sofia.
 No confirmation has been received boulinsky, deposed peasant leader, in- stead he is reported heading peasant guerilla bands totaling 1000 men. who are marching upon Sofia.
 Fifteen thousand government troops, led by Zankoff cavalry and including infantry and machine gun units on trucks, are being rushed into the hills to hold up his advance.
 o o O
 Guerilla Units Active.
 Guerilla units are active throughout Bulgaria. Serb troops have clashed with Bulgarian bandits In the Sec omitza river basin, 15 casualties be- Ing reported
 Unconfirmed Athens dispatches state that counter revolutionists, led by Alexandroff, have entered the out skirts of Sofia. where fierce fighting Is in progress, the Stam boulinsky s.d herents winning on all sides. Women and children are being concentrated in the church of St. Sophia as the revolutionists plan street barricade defenses.
 After @ cabinet session prolonged into early morning hours, orders have been issued for concentration of Jugo- Slav troops along the Macedonian frontier. Units are being withdrawn from the Italian front, and all traffic is held tip as troop trains jam the Save valley, moving south towards Uskub and Skopje. From these points cavalry units are being pushed into the frontier hills.
 Officials here decry any war in- tentions. but assert that the frontier must be held inviolate.
 Sofia Isolated.
 All through trains are held up In Bulgaria. Sofia is isolated. wires be- ing down from Sofia to Varna, the Black sea port. Bulgarian radio fes- sages picked up by Creek warships in the Aegean confirm the counter revo- lution and indicate that a large vel low guard force, believed to be headed by Stamboulinsky, is march ing upon the capital
 Jugo-Slav foreign minister min tisch hastily conferred with rep resentatives of the little entente, in- cluding the ministers of Czecho- Slovakia. Greece and Roumnia at the government house Tuesday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
WIDOW OF CROKER IS IDENTIFIED AS WIFE OF MARONE
Sensational Testimony Marks Hearing Of Croker Will
 Case

DUBLIN, June 12-(By Associated Press.)-A point of tense interest was reached in the Croker will case this mornng when Richard Davies, stand and testified that the woman pointed out to him in court as Mrs. Bula Croker, widow of Richard Cro- ker, was known to him in North ampton as the wife of Guy B. Ma rome. The baroness had lived at his house, he declared.
 MT. Davies testified that Marone, whom he understood to be a tailor rented a room at his home in 1902, and lived there for three years eX- cept for brief periods each summer. In the autumn of 1911 the witness was introduced by Marone to a wom- an whom he called Mrs. Marone and lowing December. The witness saw them nearly every day and conversed with both They called each other husband and wife and the witness heard Marone introducing her as his wife to other friends.
 MT. Davies said he saw the couple in Northampton many times until the summer of 1912. The next time he saw the woman she was in an au- tomobile in Grafton Street, Dublin. Identifies Woman.
 The witness said he recognized Mrs. Bula Croker In court as the woman introduced to him as Mrs. Marone. He testified that he had made no arrangement with Richard Croker. Jr., to be paid any money on the result of the trial.
 On cross ss-eXamination Mir. Davies said Marone was an Italian, about 30 years old. He had never heard him call his wife by any other given name than Virginia. He saw Ma rome two years ago but the woman was not with him and Davies did not couple left their lodging in his home because Mrs Marone was "a very troublesome woman" and Mrs. Davies gave them notice to leave.
 The witness said he had turned over to James Edward Carter. an in vestigator. a photograph of Mrs. Ma rome. He repudiated all reports of interviews he was alleged to have given to American newspapers. Ques- toned in regard to the activities of Mrs Marone while in Northampton, he said her only occupation that he observed was few days service as assistant in a book store.
 MT. Davies was the first witness for the intervenant in the case, Mrs Ethel c. White, who alleges that Bula Edmondson was already the Wife or Marone when she went through the marriage ceremony with MT. Croker Mrs. White is one of the Croker chil- dren who are seeking to break the last will in favor of Mrs. Bula Croker.
 Prior to this testimony. Howard Croker on cross-eXamination, denied that he had attempted to arrange with his sister, Florence, to contest the will before their fathers death. He said he had expressed the belief at the Palm Beach trial of the case that his father was incapable or trantacting business, although he was not "out of his mind"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
RAILROADS ARGUE1 AGAINST GENERAL BOOST IN WAGES
Fort Smith Road Declares Ad- vance Will Force Re-
 ceiverShip

CHICAGO. June 12.-The first two of about 30 railroads involved in a wage dispute with the United Brother hood of Maintenance of Way Elm ployes and Railroad Shop Laborers, began presentation of testimony late today. None of the carriers has snet the unions demand for increases ranging from F to 15 cents an hour, estimated to affect 100000 men.
 Representatives of the Fort Smith and Western explained that carrier is now operating at loss and an increase in wages of it's maintenance men would force it again into the hands of a receiver.
 Testimony for the Texas and Pa cific was confined mainly to presen- tation of compilation of wages paid in other lines of industry, the car rier's representatives that the statis tics indicated no general upward trend of wages in it's territory.
 The Trinity and Brazos Valley rail road will be the first called tomorrow. The hearing probably will be con cluded in the afternoon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
CUMBERLAND MEN MEET
Alumni Association Formed At Gath
 cring TueSdny Night

Cumberland university alumni IT the Birmingham district met in the Chamber of Commerce auditorium Tuesday night and formed the Bir- mingham Cumberland Alumni asso citation. It was stated by w. H. An derson, local attorney, who presided over the meeting Tuesday evening, that there were over 100 graduates of Cumberland university residing in this section, and it is the purpose of the association to bring these men in closer touch with each other.
 Dr. John Royal Harris. president of Cumberland. arrived in Birmingham Tuesday afternoon from Lebanon. Tenn. the seat of Cumberland, and was the guest of honor at the alumni meeting. He made an interesting address, in which he told them of Greater Cumberland" and of the work this famous old southern insti- tuition is now doing. The Rev. w. C.. Bruce, field agent of Cumberland, was also among those present. An other meeting of the alumni will be called some time in the near flu ture, it was announced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
RIGHT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY UPHELD BY RAIL OFFICIAL
Wants Railroads Protected Against Threats Of Gov
 ernment Ownership

ATLANTA, Ga, June 12.-An ap peal for the protection of the trans portation interests of the country against granting to the several states power to discriminate in favor of their own traffic against interstate commerce was made late today by Alfred B. Thom, vice president and general counsel of the National As sociation of Railway Executives, speaking before the conventon of the Natonal Assocaton of Credt Men.
 Other notable speakers before the credt men, who opened ther twenty eghth annual conventon here today. included Gov. John NJ Parker of Louisiana and former Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia.
 Tomorrow's program will be de- voted largely to the subject of bank ing and bank credits with J, H. Puelicher of Milwaukee, president of the American Bankers association making the principal address Mir. Puelicher also will address the Rob- ert Morris Associates, a group of bankers and bank credit men affili- ated with the credit men, in the aft ernoon. Group meetings of credit men also will be held in the after noon.
 Upholds Private Property.
 The institution of private prop erty is the cornerstone of credit" MT. Thom declared in his address pointing out that automatic as the proposition was, there had been no time in the history of the country when attacks upon it. either covert or confessed. have been so constant and insistent."
 Tt is true" he said, that these at tacks have not as yet taken among us the form of attacks on all prop- erty, but having to begin somewhere they have begun with the property of the railroads, and while there are al ready indications of a purpose to ex- tend it to other species of property the effort is at the present time to concentrate 1t for the most part on properties devoted to the public serv- Ice in transportation"
 The speaker declared the two prin- cipal forms of attack at the present time to be: First, the proposal of government ownership and the con- fiscatory processes by which 1t Is to be brought about; and, second, the proposal to vest in the several states the power to discriminate unjustly against traffic other than that which moves solely within the borders, thus in effect conferring the power on the several states to abolish free trade among them and on the more power- full states, the power of discrimina- tory and burdensome terms, to eX clude the traffic of other states from their markets"
 Would Mean Disaster.
 Both of them involve disaster to the nations second largest industry" Mir Thomas said "but disaster cannot come to that industry alone and leave
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
AGREE TO ARBlTRATE

CHICAGO. June 12.-Street car strike clouds which have threatened Chicagoans for more than two weeks while employees repeated their de mands for increased pay, melted away into thin air today when both sides agreed to arbitration at a joint conference engineered by Mayor William E. Dever. The meth- cd of arbitration and the arbiters will be settled upon at further confer ence to be held tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
ADVISES SHOT GUN
District Attorney Wants Rum Rum
 ncrS RepelIed By Shot

DETROIT, June 12.-Instructions to use shotguns and revolvers in re- pelling rum runners on the Detroit river were given to prohibition en- forcement officers late today by Earl J. Davis, United States district attor- ney, as an aftermath of the attack by rum runners on the government speed boat P-103 late yesterday.
 Rum running boats attempted to sink the P-1O3 while she was bring ing in a launch containing 100 cases and 20 kegs of beer.
 Government prohibition enforce ment officers on the river have been armed with sawed-off shotguns and United States army revolver each. State Prohibition Director James R. Davis said late today, but had had instructions only to use them in self defense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13

kee mills garden theatre. Lieutenant Governor Charles S. Mcdowell, Jr., and Mayor H. H. Conner made ad- dresses of welcome, which were re- sponded to by a half dozen former distinguished citizens, Frank Willis Barnett. Birmingham; Judge E. P. Thomas, S. Hugh Dent, W. T. Sheehan, Montgomery; Max Wellborn, Atlanta, and others.
 Miss Caroline Dean Moore was crowned queen, and grand ball at the Country club followed Trains coming into Eufaula today were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
SHOCKED BY LIGHTNING

MOBILE, Ala, June 12.-W. C. Best, who operates turpentine still at Marlow, Baldwin county, was un' conscious for two hours, and the bel fry of the Christian church at Fair hope was struck by lightning ant damaged during lightning storm today. Best recovered after his two hours unconsciousness and is appar. ently unhurt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13


 constipation. Re- alizing what that figure means, mothers should contrive methods of handling their childrenw while they still control them that will prevent these future dan gers. Teach chill dren regularity of