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Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03
BY HENRY WOOD
UNITED Press Staff CorreSpondent)

GENEVA Sept. 3.-With the
clockwork regularity and precision
of mechanicism that has had Il
thorough try-out for three years,
the Fourth Annual Assembly of the
League of Nations convened today
for four weeks session.
Delegations from ali corners of
the world, many of them requiring
weeks to arrive, showed up with
the punctuality of school boys, and
took their places on the plain
wooden benches of the Reformation
Hall, where the Assembly meets.
OF the fifty.two states that are
members of the League nearly all
had delegations present.
AS usual Geneva was fairylaand
of flags and color in honor of the
occasion. Flags of virtually every
nation of the wr;d floatcd from
about every point of vantage to
which it was possible to attach a
flag.
Although the United States is
not Il member of the League, the
American tourist travel via Gc-
neva is at its annual hcighth, and
the hotels especially which main,
tain the keenest competition for
American patronage were flying so
many American flags that an un.
informed observer would certainly
have had every reason to believe
that President Wilson original
idea of American entrance into the
League and American domination
thereof were accomplished facts.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03
4th Assembly League
OF Nations in Session
Influence of United States Strong, in
Spite of Her Lack of Membership.
Ireland Coming In



Elect Ireland the fifyhird state member of League
Launch of
pledgng
ca citizens o all league
adopt limiting production opium and harmful
70 worlds medical scientific needs.
immediate international
direction Abraham FleX-
o the Rockefeller Institute.
International
international Health and the
permit collaboration
the Leagues international health
of the councipresumabv Chill,
Argentine China, Czecho Sovakia, Sweden and Spain
8Eec Ruy Barboa judge the
Ilagde tribunal.
9--Intepret precise meaning of Article TO-
10-Take against slavery N Abyissinia.
(ompec
International Transit in November
2Iaunh settlement 100000
fugees in Greece
3-Open complete discussion
i-Contnue various projects towards disarmament especially lmita
ton naval abolition poison prohibition private
trlf in war
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03
What Labor
Day Means

3over one hundred years ago, they
went in as individuals. They were
used to break strikes and lower the
standards of life men were trying
to set up. They soon found that as
individuals they were helpless. AS
far back as 1925 the tailoresses of
New York were forming the first
women s union. Spinners, weavers
and shoe workers followed.
Today women form an important
part of the labor movement. In the
needle trades, for example, once a
sweatshop industry, where the
unions have brought about amazing
advances, it is women who make
up well-nigh half of the member
ship.
Labor Day is to working women
o symeol-the symbol of accom-
plishment, and also the symbol of
hope and courage to face difficulties
and to face them together.
Labor Day means the trade agree
ment with the employer. Through
that method all women can speak
sand be heard when the individual,
sbecause she dare not speak, is dumb.
Il ROn every Labor Day, as it returns,
ethe workers, men and women to-
gether, pledge themselves anew to
'ro-operate for the making of bet
ter world, where there shall be no
child labor, no twelve-hour day, no
seven-day week, but freedom, edu-
cation and leisure for all.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03
NEW CABINET
FACES NIPPON
EMERG E n G. Y

SAN FRANCISCO, September
3.-Announcement of the forma-
tion of the new japanese cab
met was received here this morn
ing from Tomioka, Japan, by the
Radio Corporation Of America.
Premier Yamamoto heads the
cabinet as premier and foreign
minister. The office of home
minister is to be filled by Goto,
finance by Inque Junnosuke; war
minister, Tanaka; agriculture,
commerce and justice, Den; COM
munications and education, Inu-
kai; railway, Yamanouchi and
navy, Takarage.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03

. the Sacramento in southern Chinese
waters which would be used if neces-
sary. .
At noon neither the Japanese
ambassy, the state department nor
the American Red Cross had receiy-
ed shred of information from their
connections in Japan.
President Coolidge today directed
the shipping board to be ready TO
send ships to Yokohama if needed
to remove the refugees from the de-
vastated area. Officials here believ-
ed, as the news dispatches disclosed
the growing extent of the disaster,
that many Americans, if they es-
capped, would be destitute and
would have to be brought home by
the government.
A. R G. Relief
PEKIN, Sept. 3-(UP)-Ameri-
can red cross relief machinery is
moving in aid OF the sufferers
from Japan's devasting earthquakes
and fires along the eattern coast
of Nippon. Relief is being started
in through the China branch of the
Korean government along the south
Manchurian railway. Quantities of
food are being sent to Japan.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03
Americans Present

American flags, however, were
not the only American things pre-
dominating the occasion. With the
American tourist travel at its
height for Switzerland the Secretar-
lat was DombarGed with endless re-
quests for tickets of admission, des-
pite the fact that Americans have
no especial grounds on which to de
mand admission. In fact there
were more requests by Americans
for tickets .than from all other na-
tions combined.
Most of the American got in.
The press. gallery had an Amer
lean scontincnt of bver thirty cor
respondents far exceeding that of
any other nation.
Furthermore, as if to contradict
America S aloofness from the
League, the agenda as distributed
at the opening of the session show
ed no less than four questions in
which the United States is already
playing leading role
me llfSl OF these IS congressman
Portcr's American program reducing
the world S production of opium and
harmful drugs to actual medical and
scientific needs.
The second is Miss Grace Ab-
bott s resolution calling for an inn
mediate international investigation
of the present status of the white
slave traffic under the direction of
Abraham FleXner of the Rockefeller
Institute. 41a r.
The third is the plan elaborated
by Surgeon General Cumming of the
United States Public Health Service
that will permit of the cooperation
of the United States in the
Leagues international health work
Continued on Page Two)
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03
TerrOrs FOIIOW
Japanese Quake
Race of Nippon Will Lose Fourth
Place Among Nations. Fire,
PLundering, Tidal Wave

history one OF the
greatest unprecedented toll OF
Toxic Saturday with ap-
been killed by earthquakes
districts totally destroyed
miles from the capital which
reporting apane and from Pekn where
official intercepted
phe first believed
TOXIC Japans dern construction has been re-
villages that still in
while the lie hapd III the streets or buried beneath
tidal
having away part city well engufing
adjoining
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03
by United Press Leased Wire

SAN FRANCISCO, September B..
Six Koreans apparently looters,
were shot dead near the UenO sta
ton of Toxic today, according to
II message received here this morn
ing from Tomioka, Japan, via Ra-
dio Corporation of America.
Martial law had previously been
proclaimed in the earthquake and
fire stricken capital of Japan. =
The message received this morn
ing stated:
Provisions are being supplied
in front of the central station. This
station and the central postoffice
are safe.
"Other principal buildings burn
ed down are:
"Peeress school, official resid4-
ence of the minister of the impe-
rial households; Meiji University;
double bridge of the imperial pa
lace; the military preparatory
school; the imperial museum; Nip
pom Denki company; Eisei zairio
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03
Ruhr Miners Will
Work With French
by United Press Leased Wire

by United Press Leased Wire
DUSSELDORF, Sept. 3:-A ma
.ioritv of the Ruhr miners from the
Ische, Humboldt and Rosenblum-
endt mines voted today to resume
work under control of the French.
Five thousand workers discussed
the project of ceasing resistance
and II per cent voted favorably.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03

GENEVA, Sept. 3.-Cuban Am,
bassador Torriente. to Washington
today was elected president of the
assembly of the league of nations.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03

''desgnated measuress
Epirus Belgrade
precptated assassination
refusal
of Mussoinis utimatum
will Italian permanently
the Adr, invasion of Jugolavian rights
the little q
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03

The Dodecan is large of islands in the Aegean The
islands Italy Turkey ceded by
Greece, with the exception of the island of Rhodes
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03

ATHENS 3Itali warshp laying mine field
Con
italian troops reported Lenros largest of tn
Imperial Valley press., 1923-09-03
Italian Ships Are
Draluing Gordon
War Ships From Smyrna to Adri-
attic; Mine Field Being Laid;
Jugo-SLauia Ready to Act

Sept 3taian boats Smyrna have
join Adriatic fleet Immediately
Evening star., 1923-03-30
Plans for Industrial Zone
Along the Potomac Outlined

Substantial progress looking to
the establishment Of an industrial
zone along the Potomac river water
front adjacent to Alexandria was
made yesterday afternoon at q meet
ing called by n. b. Harlow Alex
andria business man and originator
of the plan. The meeting was held
at the City Club and was attended
by prominent business men of Wash
ington and the Virginia city.
The proposed zone. which has
been tentatively named the Ma
tional Capital Industrial and busi-
ness xone." will take up part of Ar
nngton and Fairfax counties. in Vir-
gomery counties, In Maryland. Stress
was laid on the fact that. although
Washington would participate In the
6ud OF nearly he 10
encroach on the beauties of the Dis
trict by unsightly factory buildings.
States Purpose OF Conference.
Mr.. Harlow in outlining the pur-
poses Of the conference, pointed out
that the location near Alexandria
With the river on one side and rail-
roads on the other. he asserted that
no better combination could be
John L. Weaver, former president
of the National Real Estate Associa-
tion, in a brief address said 1t was
necessary, IN tho development of the
plan. to consult with the Fine Arts
commission and Army engineers. and
that the first step should be to have
| & comprehensive survey made so that
prospective buyers of the land could
be in a position to know exactly what
they were undertaking.
Maj. Max Tyler Of the United States
engineering department and promi-
nent in local engineering projects.
said that use Of the Potomac river
! was entirely feasible with ships not
drawing more than twenty-five or
| twenty-four feet OF water. He point
| ed out. however. that there were
many seaports which were ideal in
every respect, but which had no water
traffic.
a beautiful harbor. Up to a thousand
| feet from the shore there is more
than forty feet OF water. But there
is no trafic. Gentlemen. business will
have to be created before the ships
will come to Alexandria, Not only
business coming In, but outgoing
business as well. In my opinion. the
then the ships will come auto
| matically."
Depth Of the Potomac.
The speaker said that the present
depth Of the Potomac, with possibly
small amount of dredging, would
be suff1cient for a harbor Of the sec
| ond class at Alexandria He asserted.
however, that TO increase the depth
Of the river would be an undertaking
which would run into so much money
that its feasibility was doubtful.
Mai Tyler announced that his ONCE
! was at present compiling reports on
all harbors in the United States. with
comprehensive plats. When the re-
| ports are completed. he said, they Will
| be Immediately available to the COM
mittee.
Committee to Take Up Project
/ On suggestion of Mr.. Weaver an
| executive committee of seven will be
Evening star., 1923-03-30
222 YALE CHEMISTRY
STUDENTS GET DEGREES

Special Dispa tch to The Star.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. March 30
Two hundred and twenty-five stu
dents in chemistry and physiological
chemistry have received the degree
Of doctor OF philosophy at Yale. ac-
cording to list published today in
connection with the dedication of the
Sterling chemistry laboratory April &.
Fifty per cent OF, these chemists are
engaged in teaching IN ffty-three
COLLEGES and universities
Thirty-five states. Hawaii. the Phil
fppines, Canada, Nova Scotia, Italy,
Ceylon, China and Japan claim Yale
chemists at the present time. All Sec
tions Of the country are represented.
Connecticut has the largest number.
Is. while New York has "a. Penn
sylvania IL, Massachusetts, 10. Illi-
nois and Michigan s each and New
Jersey z
Evening star., 1923-03-30
CREW SAVED IN sHIpWREcK.

CHATHAM. Mass. March 38---rhe
crew OF ths ive-masted schooner
Dorothy Palmer. which went aground
on the western edge OF the new chan
mel of Stonehorse shoal, was taken
of late yesterday by the crew OF the
Monomoy Point coast guard station.
The schooner was reported as full Of
water and likely to be 4 total loss.
She was on her way from Norfolk to
Portland. Me. with a cargo of 1000
tons OF soft coal,
Evening star., 1923-03-30

appointed to take up tho project In
detail. Mr.. Harlow was authorized
to make the appointments A meeting
of the special committee is expected
to be held in the near future to de.
termine along what lines the entire
committee will proceed.
Assurances were given the commit.
tee from railroad representatives
present at the conference that every
effort would be made to cooperate to
make the plan success
Evening star., 1923-03-30
KITCHIN IMPROVING.
Democratic Leader Has Suffered At
tack of Influenza and Pneumonia.

RALEIGH, N. C.. March 30.--Re-
ports that Representative Claude
Kitchen. leader OF the democratic
minority in the House of Representa-
tives. was In feeble health, brought
the information from his home at
Scotland Neck last night that Mr..
Kitchens condition is the best IL has
been for many months. He suffered
attacks Of influence and pneumonia
have fully recovered He was out
walking and driving yesterday and
anneared TO be in fine spirits.
Evening star., 1923-03-30

The clauses of the constitution deal
Ing. with tho jewish question proved
tives In parliament. all OF whom voted
for adoption.
Evening star., 1923-03-30
IT'S DANGEROUS GROUND THAT

,R0US GROUND THAT
you stand on--wtth n
cough or n cold, and
your blood igspwRs. Out
of such conditions come
grip and pneumonia.
You must do some.
thing. DIR. PIERCE
Golden Medical Dfseov-
cry relieves severe, IiD-
gering Coughs, Bron-
chial and Throat AMec-
lions, and diseases that
cna be reached thYouK h
! the blood. When you're
weak after an attack Of
grip OF feycr-you will
build mp health and
strength ana put ON
needed flesh by taking
the "Discoveryn
SITS. Liquid or tablet.
Evening star., 1923-03-30
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED.

BUCHAREST, March 3o.-King Fer
dinAnd. In the presence Of the crown
prince. the cabinet ministers and the
preAdents Of the chamber ct deputies
the new constitution which was voted
recently by both houses Of parliament
The constitution now becomes law.
Tho now Rumanian constitution In
sores TO all Rumanians without diStinc.
ton Of race or religion the same rights
and liberties. There is but slight diff.
ference between the new constitution
and the old. The most important fea-
tures Of the new fundamental laws are
naturalization OF the subsoil and ex-
propriation Of wooded lands for the
creation OF communal forests.
Evening star., 1923-03-30

The elegance of the mode % supreme In the SASH
lied, around model Of rich Lustrosa the s-os.
grain ribbon overlapping In border effect and orna-
InsntIns collar and sleeves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-06
CONGRESS IS PRAISEDI BY PARTY COMMITTEE

WASHINGTON. March 5.-More was enacted by the Sixty-seventh Congress than by any Congress in peace times. it was declared in a statement issued today by the re- effect of this splendid record" it was added, was visible on every hand"
 The tremendous and in many in- industrial activity, in number of wage earners, in pay rolls, in bank deposits, in savings accounts, in all wholesale and retail business which has taken place during the past two years" the statement said, has not been accidental. Conditions have grown steadily and consistently bet ter from month to month since March 1921, during all of which time the Sixty-seventh Congress was practically in continuous session. This improvement would/not, indeed could not, have taken place had that Congress been enacting laws hostile to or hurtful of the industrial, agri cultural, commercial and financial interests.
 Declaring that the outstanding work of the Congress which ad- journed yesterday was it's fiscal leg islation, the committee statement pointed to enactment of the budget law, which it said was easily the most constructive piece of legisla- ton of this generation" and had re- suited in a drastic cut in public ex pendtures and in decreasing the number of federal employees by near ly 10000 The Congress, 1t was stated. also clipped 000,000,oo0 a year from the country's tax burden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-06
r AM0US MERIDIAN.
 RATE CASE AGAIN
 COMES ID FRONT.
Montgomery Protests Rate Advantage of Selma and Tuscaloosa as Estab-
 Iished in Meridian
STATE CAPITAL BUPEAU l
 THE AGE-HEHALD

Montgomery. Ala, March i
 The Meridian rate case which has haunted Alabama for several years and under which railroads operating in west Alabama increased their rates on classes and commodities in order to prevent discrimination against Meridian. Miss, bobbed up again before the public service commission today.
 The Chamber of Commerce Of Montgomery called upon the com mission to do anything in it's power to prevent Selma and Tuscaloosa from receiving an advantage in in- trastate rates on the Mobile and Ohio railroad. The railroad came before the commission and an swerei the complaint by admitting E that there is now discrimination against Montgomery and in favor of Selma and Tuscaloosa and that it is brought about by the decision of the interstate commerce commits sion in the Meridian rate case. The railroad told the commission the matter should be worked out by the commission.
 The Selma Chamber of Commerce and Tuscaloosa Chamber of Com merce intervened in the case be- cause they are involved as we'll as Montgomery. Their rates now gives them business for which Montgom- cry houses desire to compete.
 The commission took the petition under advisement and allowed ths railroads and the commercial organ izations involved time to prepare briefs in support of their conten- tiOnS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-06
DOINCS OF DAY
 IN WASHINGTON

President and Mrs. Harding with party of friends left for a month in Florida.
 recess appointment as comp troller of the currency was declined by James G. McNary, southwestern banker.
 The civil service commission was directed by President Harding to give preference to war veterans in .xami- nations.
 Elmer S. Landes, Ohio, republican. and Merton l.. Corey of Nebraska, democrat, were given recess appoint ments as directors of the federal farm loan board.
 Dr. Hubert Work took up his du- ties as Secretary of Interior while Harry S. New, retiring Indiana eena- tor, succeeded him as Postmaste General.
 President Harding vested in the alien property custodian his authori- ty under the act providing for re- turn of seized properties worth s10.000 or less.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-06
Second Herr Trial Are Identified By WHn

by. badly wounded. but still breath ing.
 Heres that-ex machine gun ner." Cairnes quoted Fontannetta as saying. Then he placed gun to Shoemaker's head and blew the side of his face off
 Just before the shooting began, the witness said, an automobile drove up to the crowd that was escorting some 30 unarmed prisoners taken from the Here comes Willis"
 Board Member on TrinI
 Hugh Willis, state board member of the Illinois Mine Workers, is one of the men on trial charged with the staying of Antonio Mulk ovitch, one of the 22 non-union workers killed during the riots. Cairnes said that he could not identify anyone in the automobile.
 The witness testified that the workers and armed guards in the mine of the Southern Illinois Coal company had been attacked June 21.
 Cairnes declared the defenders raised a white flag about five o'clock that afternoon but that the firing continued during the night. He said the fire was returned from the pit but that the next morning about 50 men remaining in the mine, a score having fled during the night, laid down their arms and surrendered. The witness said he saw J. K. Mc- Dowell led away ty two men, one of whom was Otis Clark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-06
DEPARTMENT HEADS TO MEET

Governor Brandon will hold month. ly meeting of the heads of all depart ments of the state government in or der that the problems of the various units may be discussed by all persons responsible for the success of the government, he informed his cabinet Monuay at a meeting of the state of fcials.
 Governor Brandon will be ex-officlo chairman of the cabinet. while $. II Elan, secretary of state, was elected secretary of the cabinet A meeting will be held at least once each month and special meeting may be called al any time the governor desires the CO., operation of the heads of the depart ments.
 Governor O'Neal inaugurated the cabinet meetings in 1911. but since the end of his administration they have not been held regularly. The meetings are purely voluntary and are not required by law. Governor Brandon believes suggestion of per sons who have been elected by the people or have been made responsible e for particular work of the state will be valuable during his administra- tiOn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-06
VICTIM POINTS II MEN IN COURT AS MEMBERS 0F MOB
Union Official Is One of Group of Miners on Trial for the Herrin Mine
 Massacre

MARION. Ills, March 5.-(By As sociated Press.)-William Cairnes one of the survivors of the Herrin riots, from the witness stand today pointed three of the six defendants on the trials as either having taken part in the tragedy or been present with guns in their hands.
 While lying beneath an overturn- ed barbed-wire fence with F buck shot in his back ana bullet in his side, the witness testified that he had seen Phillip Wontannetta. the youngest of the defendants, walk up to John Shoemaker, assistant super intendent of the mine where the trouble started, who was lying near
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-06
TO PATROL HIGHWAYS.

Montgomery county board of rev enue proposes to furnish additional. assistance to the sheriff for pa- trolling of the county highway. It adopted resolution today directing a conference with the sheriff. Indi- cations are that the board will em- plcy motorcycle officers if necessary to break reckless driving and the hauling of liquor over county roads. Complaints have been made to tho board that automobilists have con- verted the highway into a speed. way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-06
MORE STILLS CAPTURED

In IS hours ending with Sunday night, state law enforcement off cers, assisted by federal and county officers. destroyed IT stills in Ala bama, according to reports to Walter k. McAdory, chief supervisor of the department. Monday. officers were active in all sections of the state and reports up to date show that A ar rests have been made since March l..
 Stills were destroyed in the follow ing counties: Montgomery, 1; Mobile. 1; Shedby. B. Cleburne. ?: Baldwin. ?: Madison, l; Autausua, 8. and Jeffer- son 1. Tweolve persons were arrest ed on charges of operating stills or having stills in their possession.
 FRANKLIN MAN APPOINTED
 Democrats regained control of Franklin Monday when Gov. Bran don appointed Fletcher Reid of Phil Campbell as member of the board of revenue, succeeding S. M. Mates, who vacated his office when he moved to Colbert county. This appointment gave the democratic party a majority ot and on the board while chairman of the board che probate judge, lis now democrat. Mir. Reid was in- dorsed for the appointment by the county democratic executive commit tee of Franklin county.