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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09
HARRISON MEETS
 WITH DEMOCRATS

a WASHINGTON. D. C., Aug. B. Senator Harrison of Mississippi was among those who attended the meeting Of democratic leaders here today, at which plans were discussed for arganiz- ing and prosecuting the campaign. Be cause of his engagements in Mississippi, Senator Harrison has been unable to attend this series of conferences, but at the request of Clem L. Shaver, athe chairman of the democratic national committee, he rushed to Washington to be present at today's session, at which the plan in it's final form practically was agreed upon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09
HAD FAKE PASSPORTS

PARIS, Aug. S.--At the request of the American consul general the Paris police have arrested 12 Italians carry ing false passports. When questioned the prisoners said they obtained the papers from an association at Naples for 1,250 lire each. They were as- sured, they said, that the documents would get them across to the United States without any trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09
NO WHITE ARRESTS
Negro Offenders MonOpollze Jail Most
 Of Friday

Of Friday
 Despite a total of 24 arrests, which is slightly higher than the average, no white person was placed in the county jail, Friday, the wardens docket showed at 6 o'clock. Of the 24 persons arrested, % were negro men and two negro wom- en. The majority of offenses consisted of gaming, there being 17 negro men jailed on that charge. Other offenses were divided as follows: assault, three vagrancy, two; peace proceedings, one, and grand larceny, one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09
SATTTNG TS DEI,AYEn

NEW YORK, Aug. S.-The scheduled sailing of the steamship Leviathan has been postponed from noon August 16 until six p. m., of the same day to end a report that she would race the Ma jestic. Both vessels were scheduled to sail at the same hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09
AUBREY BOYLES
 IS REINSTATED ]. BY GOVERNMENT
Charges Against District Attorney Are Mol
 Pressed

MOBILE, Ala, Aug. S.-(Special Leased Wire. )--United States District Attorney Aubrey Boyles, who at his own suggestion, had been relieved of active duty pending the outcome of the complaint made against him by Will liam H. Holcombe, Jr., was reinstated to office today after the charge was mol pressed in federal court on motion of Solicitor B. B. Chamberlain.
 Harlan F. Stone, attorney general, reinstated the district attorney by tele- graphic communication from Washing ton. Attorney General Stone's action followed the receipt of advices that the proceedings against Mir. Boyles had been dismissed.
 Mrs. Nobel Walker Willebrandt, as sistant attorney general in charge of prohibition enforcement, who arrived here from Washington yesterday, said shortly after the IHolcombe complaint was mol pressed that Mir. Boyles would be immediately reinstated as district attorney
 Attorney General Stones telegram to MT. Boyles, containing announce ment of his reinstatement, was received yesterday afternoon and read as fol- lows:
 "Am advised that all criminal pro ceedings against you have been dis missed. Your suspension as United States attorney was during the pend ency of these criminal proceedings. They now being terminated by dis nissal, you are hereby reinstated as United States attorney, southern dis trict' of Alabama"
 During the period that Mir. Boyles was relieved of active duty as district attorney, the work of the office was di- rected by Joseph w., John, assistant district attorney, who was named act
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09
TWO BALES SOLD

SELMA, Ala, August S.-Selma had the unique experience of selling at public auction today two "first bales" on the new cotton crop, both bales having reached fhe city Thursday the Eame hour. The first bale brought 46 rents and went to M. Hopenberg &
 Co. while the second bale, little
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09

2,000 votes less than Eslick. c. W. Turner was third and less than 200 votes behind Salmon. T
 With returns in from 194 precincts ous of .242 in the district, including Wayne, Humphreys and Dickson coun- ties complete, the vote stood: Eslick 6.717; Salmon 4,715; Turner 4,579 1; Hall 2,025.
 Returns from the republican congress sional contests in the first district were reported slowly and the vote of only 4T precincts out of total of 226 in the district had been tabulated tonight. This tabulation showed the following vote: B. Carroll Reece, incumbent 3,462; ". E. Jones ASIA.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09
JULY ARRESTS IN BIRMINGHAM
 TOTAL 3,4I2

FTNRAFFIC law violators led the of
 arrested persons in Birmingham for the month of July, accord ing to figures compiled by Sergeant c. V. Kicker of the police depart ment. The report shows that 3,412 persons ware arrested during the months of which number 2,9SS were for traffic violations. Gamers were said to have run second and liquor law cases third.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09

sioner. act which becomes effective in November, 1925, provides for life teunre in office of certain officials.
 This. commission bill," he said, twas passed. without notification to the peo- pie. Our government was changed by a few, strokes of the pen. and the peo- pie most vitally interested did not even know 1t. Did 1t not deserve clipping !? l think it deserved a headline, but it got neither, so far as I know and be. lieve."
 Judge Allen was greted by a pro- longed wave of applause when he con cluded. Called back to the platform. he appealed to the citizens of the city to take a greater interest in their gov eInment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09
HOLDS
 LEAD OF ll,359
 OVER SHIELDS
Governor Peay Renoni- mated By 55, ,4O1 Plural
 ity Over Neal

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. S.-With re. ports from 1,510 of the states 2,118 precincts, General l.. D. Tyson tonight maintained a lead of 11,359 votes over Senator John K. Shields, his nearest opponent in Thursdays democratic sem atorial primary. Judge Nathan L. Bach man tfailed, 11,516 votes behind Sena- tor Shields.
 Only meager returns from the repub- lican gubernatorial contests were avail able tonight. These came from widely scattered precincts and were hardly suf- ficient to indicate the result in that con- test, although Thomas F. Peck contin- ued to lead his nearest opponent, P. H. Taeh, by about two to one with W. N. Beasley trailing far behind.
 Governor Austin Peay was renomi- mated as the democratic candidate for governor with plurality of 55, ,401 over John R. Neal, while Harvey H. Hannah apparently was renominated for rail- road and public utilities commissioner by 16,T72 votes over Sam D. Hill.
 The. vote for governor: Peay 77,592; Neal %, ,191. For railroad commissions CT: Hannah 4S,695; Hill 31,923.
 Virtually complete returns from the democratic congressional primary in the seventh district indicated the nomina- tion of B. E. Eslick over field of three opponents, including ". C.. Salmon, in cumbent, who was in second place with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09
SEN. LA TOILETTE
 DENOUNCES KHAN.
Continued From Page One. )

OOHGlUueu From rage Uno. over the political and economic life of the American people.
 This power controls every important branch of industry--mining, manufac- turing and transportation. It controls markets and credits and dictates the price of every product necessary to feed, elothe, warm and shelter the human family. To control that which sustains life is to control life itself This is eco- homie slavery. Free government can not long exist side by side with eco- homie despotism.
 ''To this issue, in so far as l am able, shs1 hold the attention of the voters Of this country. From this position shall not be turned aside.
 Exclude Real Question.
 Hence, l deem it most unfortunate that questions involving religious opin- ion and other questions unrelated to ( the vital issue of the restoration of gov ernment to the people, have been raised in this as in other critical years of our national history. Such controversies involving the very life of government it. self.
 'This brings me to say in response to your inquiry as to my stand on the Ku Klux Kan that l met this ques- ton luxurious forms during my public I:fe,
 Any one familiar with my record. especially in, my own state, knows that have always stood without reservation against my discrimination between races, classes and creeds. hold that every citizen is entitled to the full exercise of his constitutional rights.
 T am unalterably opposed to the evident purposes of the secret organiza- tion known as the Ku Klux Klan, as disclosed by it's public acts.
 ''lt cannot long survive.
 Relying upon the sound judgement and good Sense of our people, it is my opinion that such a movement is fore doomed. It has within its own body the seeds of its death.
 Abraham Lincoln, nearly seventy years ago, set forth his views on this question in a letter to his friend, Mir. Joshua F. Speed, dated Springfield, Illinois, August 24, 1855:
 x you inquire where l now stand. That is a disputed point I think am a whig, but others say there are no whigs and that l am an aboli- tionist.
 "I am not a know-nothing that is certain. How could l be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in de- generacy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by de- claring that "all men are created equal" We now practically read it ''all men are created equal except negroes" When the know w-nothings get control, it will read ''all men are created equal except negroes and foreigners and Catholics. When it comes to this, shall prefer eInigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving hberty-to Russia for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alley of hypocrisy.
 Your friend forever,
 A. LINCOLN"
 Refers To Jefferson.
 AL H,ys
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09
" Your friend forever,
 "A. LINCOLN '"
Refers To Jefferson.

with this statement from Abraham Lincoln I would join also passage from a letter written by Thomas lief ferson to Edward T. Dowse in 1903:
 "'I never will, by word or act, bow at the shrine of intolerance, or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opin- ichs of others
 Upon these statements of Jefferson and Lincoln, expressing the sentiments which I am happy to believe the vast majority of our citizens cherish and to which they will ever Ngidly adhere, and upon my own views expressed in this letter, I am content to stand without qualification or evasion.
 Sincerely yours,
 ROBERT NJ. LA TOILETTE"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09

Some of them look rather forIorn and bed. raggled from handling, but that'I come out in the wash. There are genuine Lorraine seer- suckers and Spanish suitings, Prado cords and few white poplins. Not more than two to a customer, please.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-03-27
HEAD LETTUCE CONTRACTS

Recently the State Market Direct
or. Mr.. Passaneau, called meeting
of lettuce growers from the different
mountain districts for the purpose of
making plans for State Federation
of Lettuce Associations. Nearly every
lettuce district in the State was rep
resented and State Federation in
operation within the next twelve
months is a probability. The meet
ing was held at the Capitol building.
Members of the Colorado Co-opera-
awe Lettuce Association whose office
is at Buena Vista, are cooperating
in the plan
The Buena Vista Association is in
the best condition it has been in dur
'ng its history for handling to good
advantage to the grower the crop of
this year. There is plenty of ice in
the Association icehouses and it was
put there at a cost of about half
what was paid for ice last year.
Crates for the coming crop have been
DcoShs az q odsiiiS vi tiDOuI SlA CculS
per crate over last year. Amounts
saved on these items go to the ship
pers of lettuce, caulihower and peas.
The Colo. Cooperative Lettuce As
sociation has recently been incorpor-
ated under the new State marketing
law. This means that all growers
who expect to ship lettuce ETC., thru
the association will have to take out
contract with the association. The
Association will not handle prod
ucts for those who have not signed
contracts. A certificate in the asso-
citation Goes not take the place of a
contract Persons expecting to ship
products thru the association should
apply at once for contract to the
board of directors at Buena Vista.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-03-27
20 YEARS AGO

Ed Hawkins returned from trim
to Delta
c. c. Custer made business trip
to the county seat.
Miss Matte Smith was passenger
for Gunnison first of the week.
Mrs Vernon Brown went to Gun
nison for short shopping trip.
Miss Nettie Monroe came from
Denver to be with Miss Oney Coombs
who was quite ill.
Robert Brooks returned from Bue-
ma Vista, where he had been recuper-
ating from recent illness.
The following nominations were
made for town dads at a caucus held
on Saturday evening: Mayor, ]. NJ
Custer; Trustees, Jas F. Chrystal. ].
H. Wagner and C. w. Winslow. p
John Lejune, father. of Andrew Le-
june, of Pitkin, died at his home in
rLeyden, New York. He was born in
Lorraine, Germany, and was 81 years
old. He was a veteran of the Civil
War.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-03-27
THE WOMAN PRO OFFICER

Back in 1874 when the first prohi-
Georgianna Hopley went out with the
Bucyrus group to clean up that Ohio
town. Her husband, John Hopley, was
editor of the Bucyrus Journal. OF
their children seven are now active
newspaper men and women.
The eighth, Georgia Hopley, has
graduated from newspaper work into
a job that combines the ambitions of
both mother and father. She writes
on the letterhead of the United States
Treasury department and signs Seen
eral Prohibition Agent. Constructive
Information Bureau, Prohibition
Unit" and with flash of humor re-
Gently added. "Thats ALL"
She is said to have been the first
woman in Ohio to enter active news
paper work. In 1000 Governor Nash
appointed her representative of Ohio
women at the Paris exposition. She
remained abroad for many months
and has since made frequent trips to
England and France. AS women have
become more and more active in poll
tics she has given much of her time
to political publicity campaigns.
Whatever else Miss Hopleys bust
ness cards say they always have in
the lower left-hand corner, Home Ad-
dress, Bucyrus, Ohio. "It isn't civic
pride alone that makes up my loyalty
to the old home town. she insists.
"Bucyrus is always on the map"
A large part of her work for the
prohibition unit consists In public
speaking. Reporters who have fol-
lowed her meetings are astonished
into commenting on the fact that she
Is broad-minded, with all her enthusi-
asm for prohibition. She comes with
official power, they say, but she is con-
tent to let the question rest with the
public She is spending her time just
telling folks about it," She tells
them what the enforcement forces are
doing. She tells them what great OBJ
stacles have been thrown in the way.
She pictures those which are used ma
liciously and those used by the unin-
formed and the unintelligent.
Controlling the malicious wet forces
isn't the part of the job that this
skilled newspaper woman is interest
ed in. Education of those who are
uninformed and Indifferent carries to
Georgia Hopley the thrill of being as
practical as a shoe-selllng campaign
and as idealistic as the dreams of her
mother.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-03-27
Hut of Beer Bottles

Far out on the Mojave desert, be-
tween Searchlight and Silver City, Cal,
is Il house that revives memories of
days gone by. 1t is constructed to a
great extent of beer bottles. the Los
Angeles Times relates.
Light ones and dark ones, many of
them bearing labels of former we'll
known brewers, are pressed into the
walls of the adobe structure. Twenty
layers of bottles line each wall, max
ing total Of some three hundred dozen
bottles that attest the mighty thirst of
the unknown desert rat" who con-
structed the unique habitation.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-03-27
PARTCH
Gunnison Empire.

Gunnison Empire.
Sunday morning, March 90, Mrs.
Pansy Sorensen Partch passed away
at the home of mother, Mrs. S. Sor-
enson.
Mrs. Partch was borni in Nebraska
twenty-five years ago, coming to Col
orado with her parents at the age of
one and one-half years, and living at
Ohio City. The family later moved to
Gunnison, Mrs. Partch entering High
School. During her high school days
she met Joe Partch, whom she later
married in 1917. At that time Mr.
Partch went to war and Mrs. Partch
resumed her school studies. The un-
ion was blessed with two children, a
boy, who passed away two months ago,
at the age of two years, and a little
daughter, Toodles, four.
Mrs. Partch's death was very sud-
den, she being ill but two days. Death
was caused by eclamptic convulsions
following kidney disorder. She leaves
beloved husband and little daughter,
her mother, and brother, Albert
Sorensen.
The funeral was held from the
Community church Tuesday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock The organ vol
untary was played by Mrs. Manuel,
and two touching songs We're given
by Mrs. Wightman and Mrs. rutland
Many beautiful flowers were in evil
dence Rev. VIM. /. Jones officiated,
and Mrs. Susie Miller had charge of
all funeral arrangements. The pail
bearers, who were all ex-service men,
were T. X. Kreuger, Uly McWilliams,
Fred Staples, Cyril Mcdowell, Earl
Mcdowell and Clifford Stone. Inter-
ment was made in Masons' and Odd
Fellows cemetery.
Empire extends coincidence to the
bereaved ones in the untimely loss
of this beloved one.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-03-27
B0NEHEAD TAX ARRANGEMENT

There has been no more e1arinS ex-
ample of bonehead craftsmanship in
years than the present INEQUALITIES
in taxation as applied to non-taxable
securities on the one hand and omni-
taxable mining stocks on the other.
The result has been that every year
sees an increasing tide of money re-
leased for municipal and other tax
free bonds, while mining-the basic
industry and mother of all industries
-languishes for development capital.
Under the present system the prof
its tax and the income tax, which
bear down with full force upon the
mining companies, leaves many less
speculative concerns "Scot-free." The
situation has been well summed I'm
by Secretary Sharpless of the A. I. M.
q NJ Engineers as follows:
Owing to Federal taxes on large
incomes, mining companies are no
longer spending millions of dollars
year seeking new opportunities.
up to the time the United States
entered the war, many of the older
mining companies and many new ones
spent hundreds of thousands of dol
lars annually
When our Government began to
levy taxes to pay for the wars ex-
penses, large incomes appeared to be
the most fruitful source of revenue tn
meet these expenses.
This inevitably led the owners of
large incomes to invst surplus funds
in non-taxable securities rather than
in speculative industry, where they
stood a chance of losing everything
in the event of failure or having the
Government take away a large por-
tion of the profits in the event of
success"
We doubt if there has been a great
er governmental mistake in taxation
since the Boston Tea Party than the
above cited The Tea Party episode
had its origin in the British Isles. a
policy the American colonists called
Taxation without representation"
The present situation might be
termed Taxation without brains"
The unfair tax duty on tea was ap-
parently case of bull-headed colo
nial administration. The present un-
Just and unwise mining profits taxa
tion-in terms of the great American
game-must be chalked up as a bone
head play.
The tax schedules which have ap-
piled since the war times have utter
ly failed to consider the fact that
mining is speculative industry, that
ore reserves are constantly diminish
ing and mine can be worked only
once Fortunately the new "Plan''
now before Congress shows better
attitude towards the miner. In the
event of substantial tax reduction
on mines and mining the West can
take hope again. Taxation was made
for man, not man for axation.-Min-
eral Age.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-03-27
PUBLIC MEETING

Pref. Harry H Smith. of the Agri-
cultural College Extension Work, will
address our people Saturday after
noon at 1870, at the Court House.
Special invitation is extended to Cat
tlemen and Dairymen, as matters
closely effecting their interests will
be discussed. Mr. Smith will present
ideas for irrigated pastures to enable
owners to hold cattle in the low re-
sious until after danger of poison
has passed.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-03-27
OF
REV. BERNARD GEIsER

At 7:30 o'c ock Tuesday morning a
preliminary communion service took
place at the Episcopal church, which
was held for all church members
prior to the Ordination of Rev Geiser.
At 1890 was the service of ordina-
tion. To the strains of Handels
Largo played by Mrs. Theo Kreuger
on the violin, accompanied by Miss
Redding at the organ, the solemn
procession of Acolytes, Choir and
Clergy came up the aisle and took
their places in the chancel. Most inn
pnessive in this procession was the
Bishop, wearing cope and mitre, pre-
ceded by his Chaplain, who bore the
PASTORAL Staff, symbol of the Apos-
tolic order of Bishops.
The choir sang the hymns and rem
dered the Choral Eucharist in an
able manner.
| The solemenity of the service was
presented before a crowded church,
as the centuries-old ritual proceeded,
leading to the beautiful climax,
where the Bishop, vested in his robes
of office, together with the officiating
clergy laid his hands upon the can
didate in like manner as Moses did
to Josiah and the Apostles to their
successors, which chain of hands on
heads has stretched down through
history The significance of this
act is the following out of the Com
mandment of God whereby and
through which is impaired the char
isma of the Priesthood and the gifts
of the Holy Ghost, by which the
priest is endowed with power and au-
thority to execute the offices of his
calling. 1t is the power of the Holy
Ghost impaired through the author
ity of His Church that makes valid
and gives character to the sacraments
which He ordained, without which
they would be mere symbols without
life or grace giving power.
Bishop Ingley acted as Ordinand,
the Preacher for the day was Rev.
R. Y. Davis of Meeker; Rev. Edwin
Johnson of Glenwood Springs, was
Epistoler; the Presenter OF the Can
didate was Rev. j. S. Foster of Mont
rose, the Master of Ceremonies, Rev.
| w. McMurdo Brown of Grand juno
tion.' The Guests of Honor were VIM.
|. Jones, Pastor of the Community
church, and Father Jas T. Cotter of
the Catholic church, Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Geiser of Monte Vista,
Immediately after the service I. a
short informal reception was held at
the Rectory for the new Priest and
guests After the reception the La
dies of the Episcopal Guild served
delicious dinner at the home of Mrs.
Susie Miller, to the new Priest and
visiting Clergy. The guests were DIR.
and Mrs. Quigley, Miss Todd, Miss
Green, who were old schoolmates of
Father Geiser, and Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam L. Jones. Mrs. Russ and Mrs.
Dickinson.
Father Geiser's many friends who
were unable to attend his Ordination
wish to express their heartiest con-
gratulations for his success and or
dination.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-03-27

-ls per cent higher express rate and
exa.tly the same parcel post rate as
does San Francisco although Denver's
mileage is but 19 per cent greater.
These handicaps must be overcome
before we can hope for the expansion
and prosperity we are aiming for.
Yours very truly,
(SigneD GEORGE j. KINDEL,
1878 Yates ST., Denver, Colo.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-03-27
Doing His Rest

Judge Ito victim of hold-up)-
While you were being relieved of
your vnluables, did you call the po-
lice?"
Victim-"Yes, your Honor, every
thing | could think of."-Judge.