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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-25
WEEVIL IS HELD NATIONAL MENACE
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tackled. This experiment was so suc- fear of failure in the campaign against the weevil and subsequent experiments proved that the proper distribution of the poison from the planes was the principal problem.
 A given amount of poison dis charged from plane speeding at 100 miles an hour is distributed over more territory than from one moving at 80 miles It is believed this han dicap has been overcome by the de- velopment of a funnel shaped tube with the large end forward. Poison is placed in hopper above the tube and Is drawn into the latter by the vacuum created when air rushes through it. The greater the speed
 the plane the greater is the vacuum in the tube, resulting in the discharge of larger quantity of poison. The plane in it's rush through space creates a downward rush of air currents and it is these currents of in discharging poison above the fields.
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 Harvie Jordan of Atlanta also was among the speakers, his address be- Ing confined to efforts of the Ameri- can Cotton association to combat the pest.
 The big rush of incoming delegates began tonight, and they came from virtually every state east of the Mis- sissippi river and from many in the west An international touch was given the conference by the pres ence of pr. Demetrius Borodin, a representative of the Russian de- partment of agriculture. who is in America studying conditions and gathering data applicable to Russian climates and soils. The cotton grow CTS of Turkestan have not yet had to cope with the boil weevil, he said, but they have other pests to con tend with and he hopes to obtain in- formation at the conference that will assist them to solve their problems.
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AMERICA AWAITS BID FROM EUROPE
Lloyd George Will Find U. s. In Thoughtful Mood When
 He Sees Coolidge Today
BY RAYMOND CHAPTER Leased Wire to AEe-HeraId.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24-When former Premier Lloyd George meets President Coolidge and the heads of this government Thursday, he will find them in a more thoughtful mood regarding Europe than at any time since the Hughes reparations plan was rejected by France year ago.
 American officials feel it would be out of place to renew the Hugres suggestion for an expert commission to fix Germany's capacity to pay. It can be stated definitely, however, that they would be gratified to join in this proposal upon receiving a favorable hint from the powers. But this government will act only upon 8 unanimous invitation from the all lied nations.
 UnIocl1s Doors of Silence.
 Ambassador George Harvey's fare well speech in London has served to unlock the doors of official silence which have been closed since the Hughes plan came to an untimely end because of foreign Indifference. The ground had been prepared by the evangelistic work of Lloyd George, who has lost no occasion in this coun- Premier Shuts of South Africa has added the voice of one of Britain's leading statesmen to the general de- mand for American participation in a new settlement.
 The political situation in tho United States with a presidential campaign in the offing, inclines this gov ernment to action, provided some suitable avenue of approach Is opened
 Here is an authorittive statement of the attitude of the United States, made in view of the new situation In Europe and the general demand for American aid:
 The situation is one that calls for a financial plan; the abandonment of passive resistance creates a situa- tion where 1t seems quite desirable that there should be some financial plan. It cannot be settled without the agreement of the parties con- cerned. We cannot agree for them. They have the right to determine their own interests. We desire to be helpful in any practical way. but we cannot expect governments to abro- gate their functions.
 Matter For Congress.
 It is perfectly futile for people to start something which indicates we will take the initiative by cam ceiling our debts. The President cannot do it; the Secretary of State cannot QO It. u lS a nlaIler TOT Con gress to deal with.
 The fundamental thing is to set tie the question of reparations and then the United States could deal in the light of the conditions, with the problem of deSts due this country. Our disposition has always been one of helpfulness in arriving at terms, interest rates and methods of pay ment.
 The point is that thc situation has developed to such a degree that 1t would seem a financial plan is in order.
 Of course if Germany Is going to pay, there ought to be Germany to pay.
 This is the last word on this Eov- ernments policy and one which can be taken as covering the whole question Of reparations and war debts in the light of the abandonment of passive resistance and Germany's in ternal situation
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ORDER POWER co. TO SUPPLY DATA
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 water power commission as Project No. 349, Alabama that the said li- censes provide;
 Upon completion of the construc- tion of each of the separable parts of said project for which dates of completion are specified in Article 2 hereof, the licensee shall file with the commission, under oath, a statement in duplicate, showing the actual le- gitimate cost of construction thereof as specified in Regulation 20, Section of said rules and regulations of the commission. Such statement shall include all proper and legitimate costs whether incurred prior to date of issuance of license or on and aft CT such date; and the licensee shall, if requested by the commission, show separately on such statement the items and amounts of cost incurred prior to the date of issuance of li- cense, with such other details with respect thereto as the commission may require. Each and every item of cost included in such statement shall be supported by proper voucher or other evidence; Snd any such voucher or evidence, or certified copy thereof, in support of any item properly in- cludible in said cost shall become a part of the pefmanent records or said project and shall be kept and Teldlneu Dy the llCSHSSe III luS Hloh- ner required by the commission.
 Tt is. therefore. ordered by the commission that the said Alabama Power company be and it is hereby required to file with this commission copies of such reports as it has filed or may hereafter file with the fed eral water power commission under the provisions of that section of the license above quoted, and that copies of said reports heretofore filed with said federal water power commission shall be filed with this commission within 30 days after the date of this order and copies of such reports as are hereafter filed with said federal water power commission shall be filed with this commission within 30 days after filing same with the federal water power commission"
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NEW RED-HAIRED WOMAN AT TRIAL
Witness In Stokes Case Bears Remarkable Resem-
 bIanCe To His Wife

NEW YORK, Oct 24.-samue1 Un- termyer, attorney for Mrs. Helen El- wood Stokes, dealt a body blow at the W. E. D. Stokes suit for divorce Wednesday, when he made the jury see two red-haired women where there had been, until that moment. but one-Mrs. Stokes.
 Untermyer's legerdemain produced Mrs. Howard Peil, of Titlan tresses and a remarkable resemblance to Mrs. Stokes who testified that she is the Mrs. Margaret Wynn whom sew eral witness mistook for Mrs. Stokes at the house parties at the Con- man and Thomas D. Bander. Since 1914, she has been married to Peil, prominent New York broker.
 Pell followed her on the witness stand, testifytng that he was with his wife at the house parties, and that neither Mrs. Stokes nor Edgar T. Wallace, correspondent in the present trial, was present.
 Untermyer directed his client to stand up for moment while Mrs. Pell was on the stand, em eiasizing the striking similarity of their features and coloring.
 Another witness whose testimony weighed heavily for Mrs. Stokes was Clarence K. Mccormick, who Is named by the plaintiff as a com panion of Wallace at Bunceton, Mo-, during the alleged visit of Helen FL wood to the Wallace home there 19 years ago, is well over six feet tall, gray-haired and dignffiAd His testi- mony palpably impressed the jury.
 Mccormick declared that he had never seen Mrs. Stokes until he con fronted her in the court room; that he has never been in Bunceton, Mo-; that he was in Europe in the summer of 1904, and that he was not a close personal friend, but only a business associate of Wallace.
 Pepperman also testified that he had met Mrs Stokes but once, while she was still Miss Elwood, and never saw her after that, nor ever learned until this trial that she had become Mrs Stnlac
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TELLS OF BURNING
 IF ALCOHOL SHIP
Youthful Captain Declares Torch Was Dropped Into
 Cargo For Rum Fleet

NEW YORK, Oct. 24-(By Asso- cieted P-ass.-A first hand story of the adventure of the William s. Mc- Donald, a three sticker, loaded with alcohol, that sank IS miles off Sandy Hook today after being set fire by her crew, was told by her youthful skipper, Captain Morris Randall, of Lahave, N. S., when he and his six men were brought to safety by the tanker, San Manuel.
 Randall, whose life has been spent on the sea, declared that in all of his sea-going trips he never had known such thrills as came to him after the schooner fell into the teeth of the storm that swept down from New Foundland Monday night.
 He was at kome, Lahave. October 8, when the owners of the schooner asked him to undertake to carry a cargo of alcohol from Havana, Cuba, to Nassau in the Bahamas. He agreed and then selected his crew four adventurous } uths and two seasoned veterans .4ld sailed for Ha- vana.
 The cargo loaded they set canvas and sailed back to Lahave, under new instructions from the syndicate that had Chartered the Mcdonald from he- owners. Arriving at Lahave Randall was told to sail back off the point of the American coast known as Rum Row" where schooner known as the Margaret Bachman would meet them and take their cargo, valued at more than $So,o0o.
 It was fair weather when the Me- Donald reached Rum Row." Some hours waiting and the Bachman ar rived. The transfer of the alcohol was underway when a storm broke, so furious that 1t blew the schooners apart.
 Describes storm.
 The Mcdonald, part of her rigging gone, wallowed about in the heavy seas through the night and began taking water. Randall, after con- ference with his men, decided to att tempt to bea2h the craft on the Long Island and risk salvaging what re- mained of the cargo later. Then the Mcdonald ran up on shoals. The heavy seas threatened to crush her at any moment.
 Then" said Randall. i've pre- pared for the worst. It looked like five healthy young men and two old seadogs were going down to explore the sea floor. But the fate was against that"
 A kindly. if furious sea washed the Mcdonald off the shoals and gray dllu Tdln- " tplJ LII Oh0s A distress signal was hoisted. few hours later the tunnels of the San Manuel appeared and drew closer. The San Manuel signaled that she would ali them ana Randall and his crew prepared to abandon the ship.
 Before they left the little three sticker, however, the crew, obeying one of the strange laws of the rum nsrs of liquor, dropped a lighted torch into her hold.
 Randall and his men were heavily armed when they cIimed aboard the San Manuel, but readily assented to a request of the tanker's skipper that they turn their weapons over to one of the ships officers.
 Randall expressed a willingness to tell his story to American customs officials for he said he had not vio lated any of the American liquor
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WITNESS TELLS STORY OF GRAFT
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gotten into difficulties with the government on war contracts and then was under indictment" but added that he did not know whether this was knoynss
 DENIES MoRTIMERs CHARGES :.
 ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 24.-John W. Thompson, financier, railroad con- tractor and head of the firm of Thompson & Black, with offices here, Wednesday declared that neither his firm nor any firm with which he was ever connected had ever bid on any government hos pital work, and denied virtually all of Mortimer's allegations. James w.. Black, his partner, died February 13.
 Thompson said he knew Mortimer distantly as agent for the Chesa- peake Engineering and Contracting company, a firm financed by Thomp- son, Black and a group of their friends for the purpose of buying and scrapping surplus government boats.
 He said he knew Charles Kramer, former chief of the veterans bureaus legal division. but denied that he attended a drinking party in April, 1922, or had heard of it.
 Black, as well as being associated with Thompson under the firm name of Thompson 6 Black, was head of the James w. Black Masonry and Construction company. Both men were interested in other concerns and have promoted numerous large building projects throughout the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-25
NATION DRIVE: ON CANCER |s URGED
Specialist Declare Diseases Annual Toll Greater Than
 U. S. War Loss
BY JAMES MCLEAN Geased Wire to Age-Herald.)

CHICAGO, Oct. 24-Cancer kills more people in the United States every year than were killed by guns and diseases during the ceuntry's two years in the World war, but 50, 900 lives would be saved annually if the public and surgeons would unite in & war on this deadly malady.
 This statement, made by Dr. John Wesley Long. a cancer specialist of Greensboro, N. C., on behaIf of 5000 leading American surgeons, late Wednesday, came as the climax to a day which the American college of surgeons devoted almost entirely to conferences and clinics on the treat ment of cancer.
 Cancer is the most fatal disease against which we are now fighting" Dr. Long declaI ed in his warning to the public. "Ninety-nine per cent of the cases allowed to run are fatal. One American dies from it every six minutes.
 Disease of Adult Life.
 "Cancer Is not contag gious; it is not hereditary. It is strictly an individ- ual disease, and a disease of adult life only. Eighty-five per cent of those who died from cancer are past 45 years old; of those reaching 40 years of age, one man in every twelve and one woman in every eight died from cancer. Deaths are increasing at the rate of 2.5 per cent annually, and the cancer death rate now is 7S.9 per cent, which means that 1t is fatal to 90.000 people year."
 Visiting surgeons compiled a list of factors which, as far as they know, are the cause of all cancers. It is
 1-Irritation from habitual smok- ing of Q short-stem pipe, the irrita- tion being partly mechanical and partly due to nicotine.
 "A broken or rough tooth which causes irritation in the mouth.
 3-Moles or warts which are so prominent as to be easily irritated by friction.
 4-Too much sunlight in dry, windy country where alkali dusts irritate the skin.
 5-Chronic irritation of a part of the body.
 s-Habitual "gulping" of hot tea. coffee or other beverage.
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 Early Operations Advised.
 Cancer may be cured when 1t is discovered in time to operate before of the body; after that it Is seldom cured.
 Dr. Long predicted that sufficient knowledge of the origin of caalcer will be gained with the next few years to conrtol this fatal malady by preventative steps.
 Now i've must teach the people what cancer is and how and when 1t can be cured" he concluded.
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trsed Bv Three Generations

q use Foley's Honey and Tar per- sonally, give it to all my children and now to my grandchildren with the same good results: l trled many kinds of cough medicines, but never want anything but Foley's Honey and Tar" writes Mrs. E. K. Olson, Su- perior, Wise. Foley's Honey and Tar was established in 1875 and has stood the test of time serving three gen erations. It quickly relieves colds. couphs. and croup, throat, chest and bronchial trouble. Sold everywhere Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-25
PARocHIAL SCHOOL BURNS

PITTSBURG, Pa, Oct. 24-Fire tonight practically destroyed the Academy of Our Lady of Mercy, To- cated in the Oakland district. entail- Ing a loss estimated at nearly half million dollars. Eighty children, stu dents at the academy, and 150 nuns hurried from the building in fire drill formation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-25
FINDS BRIDGE COSTLY

CHICAGO, Oct. 24.-Mrs. Inga Froller, a pretty widow of 31, worked 13 honest years as a cashier for local cigar firm. Then two years ago she took up bridge.
 T had to pay my iosings some wayy she said calmly, as detectives arrested her Wednesday on a charge of embedding $7,000.
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burn, president of the Central of Georgia railroad; l.. A. Downs, vice president and general manager; c. T. Airey, vice president and traffic manager; Col. A. R. Lawton, first vice president; H. D. Pollard, general superintendent, all of Savannah, and Claude Baldwin, superintendent of the Birmingham Columbus division of the road. of Birmingham.
 Three new members were received into the Rotary club at the luncheon. These were: Coleman J. Hudson, manager of the Tutwiler hotel Leo E. Bashinsky, president of Bashin- sky, Case & Co.,, and A. N. Chappell, president of the Anco Manufacturing company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-25
RAps oFFrCIAL DRINKERs

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 24.- "No quarter should be granted to of ficials in public life who privately drink liquor which the constitution has outlawed, Congressman William D. Upshaw of Georgia, declared to- night in an address before the an- nual convention of the New Jersey Women's Christian Temperance Union here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-25
YARBRoUGH JURY STILL OUT

MACON, Ga, oct. 24.-The jury in the case of Dr. c. A. Marlborough, charged with fioting In connection second night at 10 o'clock tonight. The jury has had the case nearly 30 hours. This is the third trial of Dr. Yarbrough, the first resulting in &C., quittal and the second a mistrial
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SPECIAL ELECTION SET

JACKSON, Miss, Oct. Ex-Governor Russell today ordered a special elec- tion Nov smber 27 in the third con- gressional district for the purpose of the selection of Q representative to serve during the unexpired term of the late Representative B. G. Hum phreys.
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worrID PREVENT RoDEos,

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-A commits sion to fight the production of rodeas and wild west shows, termed as the most fragrant examples of cruelty to animals was organized today in reso- lutlons adopted by the American World Humane conference. The reso- lutions were submitted by Mrs. V. A. E. Dustin of Cleveland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-25
rIACs pATERNAITsN

BOSTON, oct. 24-The American nation is plunging into an abyss of communism, Floyd Eugene Thomp son, chief justice of the supreme court of Illinois, said tonight in an address before the Associated Indus tries of Massachusetts in which he denounced "Governmental paternal- ism n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-25
TWO MORE BODIES FOUND
Believed To Have Driftcd Ashore
 From Wrecked Schooner

From Wrecked Schooner
 PENSACOLA, Fla, Oct. 24.-Two more bodies have been found on Perdido beach, near here, by fisher men and buried where discovered. according to a story told by Mrs. NJ, Walker, who, with her husband. conducts a fishing lodge on Perdido bay. about one mile east of Inerarity Point.
 The bodies are believed to have been those from the wrecked schooner Bluefields and had drifted ashore. The fishermen who found the bodies reported they were so emacl- ated that it was almost impossible to say whether they were white or cClored
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Points Finger, Drops Dead
Queer ElectrOcution Proves Battling
 To Electrical Experts

EVERETT, Mass, Oct. 24.-While showing 30 visiting engineers about a transformer station of the Maiden Electric company here today, John H. Grimmons of Somerville, an elec- trical engineer employed by the company, was electrocuted in a man ner which experts present said they were unable to explain.
 Grimmons pointed to high power switch, witnesses said his finger be- ing at least three inches from the metal. He suddenly collapsed and died
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DIR. BORIS sIDIs DIES

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Oct 24.-Dr. Boris idis, internationally known ex- pert in psychology and psycho- pathology. died suddenly today at his home here. He was 56 years old.
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KILLED IN ARGUMENT

YAZOO CITY, Mss Oct 24.--W F. Dorse. an insurance agent, was killed here late today during an argument with A. J. Reeves, a mer- chant, over suit of clothing. Reeves surrendered and is being held on charge of homicide.
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English women want houses so built that there will be less work, rather than their being equipped with labor saving devices. according to recent exhaustive survey.
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ITS POLISH STUD NOW

LONDON, oct. 24.-Hereafter 1t should be called the Polish potato. Ireland used to be the home of the "spud." But now Poland raises 2,750 pounds of potatoes annually per head of population, against Ireland 1,760.
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Railroads of Finland are giving up wood and buying coal as the coun- try's currency situation improves. be- cause the black fuel must be im- ported iron. the United States and England. and more stable exchange
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The imperial state crown. worn by George V at the Delhi Dunbar, con tains an Indian emerald weighing 34 carats. emeraids. sapphires and 6,170 diamonds
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Frigate, or man of-war bird, has the smallest feet for its size of any fowl, because it spends the greater part of it's lie on the wing.
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Had paIdwin,s Approval.

It is understood that in the sig nificant speeches of Tuesday night, General Shuts spoke with the knowl- edge and approval of Premier Bald win, while Ambassador Harvey out lined the, finite policy of the United States in light of the present situa- tion.
 Premier Baldwin has not yet writ ten the speech which he will>deliver Thursday before the unionist con ference at Plymouth. He is waiting until the last minute to do so.
 Government circles expect that un- less something happens to clarify the situation the premier will make a statement of exceeding significance.
 The British have recently been hop ing against hope that some unforeseen avenue would lead out of the mud dle. But the situation still appears hopeless and it is already predicted that the present negotiations for a conference will fail.
 France is Poincare, and will not accept" was the frank answer to the question: Why Is failure predicted?"
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SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. 24.-walter J. White pleaded guilty today to second degree murder for the slay- ing of Patrolman Charles F. Stew ems in pistol fight two months ago and accepted the maximum sentence of twenty years in the penitentiary. Stevens was killed when he attempted to arrest White on charge of drunkenness,
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Cake may be mixed much easier and quicker, by use of newly in vented tiny motor attached to a mixer
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a of settling the situation.

hopes of settling the situation.
 8. l., as is feared, France obstructs the move, Britain is pailing policy of isolation from continental affairs, similar to the of the United States
 4. If French obstruction causes failure of the move both England and the United States would demand pay ment of the French debts.
 5. Furthermore, England, in iso- lating herself, would begin arming against possible French aggression in the way the United States armed against Japan before the Washing ton conference. England's defense, however, would include aerial forces.