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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
FORBES STRIKES BACK AT ORPHAN
Also Said To Have Dared Daugherty To Prose-
 cute Him

WASHINGTON. Jan. s.-Colonel Charles R. Forbes, former head of the veterans bureau, today hit back at General John F. O'Ryan. who, in a report to the Senate veterans bureau Investigating committee charged Forbes with being party to a con- spiracy to defraud the government.
 In a telegram to James Easby- Smith. his counsel, Forbes denounced as without the foundation of truth" many of ORyan's statements.
 Forbes Is i'll at the home of his mother in Boston. Easby Smith, sup plementing Forbes statement, de- clared O'Ryan had made statements in his report which were not sus- tained by the record of the Senate's 8 inquiry.
 Tt is extraordinary for the prose- cutting officer to publish his report and opinions before the submission to the tribunal which heard the evi- dence." Easby-Smith said.
 Forbes is understood to have writ ten Attorney General Daugherty vir- tually daring him to prosecute Forbes for alleged irregularities In the conduct of the veterans bureau and threatening to present evidence which would cause a much greater upheaval in government circles than was caused by sensational testimony at the Senate inquiry.
 The Senate investigating committee took O'Ryan's report under copsidera- ton today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
KHAN INFLUENCE |S
 AMONG | H RCES {
Six Specifications Filed By Mayfield's Opponents In
 Election Contest
By PAUL R. MALLON Geased Wire To Age-Herald)

WASHINGTON. Jan. S.-Influence of the Ku Klux Klan on the election of Senator Earle B. Mayfield, Texas, was included among the six counts upon which his expulsion was asked when a subcommittee began inves- .tigation of charges that Mayfield's election was irregular.
 Senator Spencer, chairman of the subcommittee, said one of the six counts is:
 NThere Is alleged to have been a general conspiracy in which the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are specifically mentioned both in the primaries and the general election" Ballots To Be Counted.
 Spencer announced the committee had decided unanimously to have the ballots of the election brought to Washington and counted. The six specifications filed by Mayfield's op- ponents as outlined by Spencer are:
 1. Qualifications claimed by George E. B. Teddy, contestant for the of flee.
 9. Illegal votes alleged to have been counted in behalf of Mayfield and legal votes not counted for Teddy.
 8. Undue advantages and discrim- nations alleged to have been given Mayfield fin the election.
 f. Allegations that the primary was controlled by secret influences and by fraud. money and lawlessness.
 5. There is alleged to have been a general conspiracy in which the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan arc specifically mentioned. both in the primary and general election.
 6. Qualifications Mayfield possess ed for office.
 Mayfield's answer has been pre- pared and will be filed soon.
 Agreement was reached when the committee resumed this afternoon to have forty men sent to Texas to col lect the ballots. Twenty will be se- lected by Teddy and twenty by May field. When the ballots are collected they will be brought to Washington and counted in the basement of the Senate office building in tho same room where the Newberry ballots were counted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
SUSPENDS TRADE IN TEAPOT DOME
Curb Committee Finds Only 5 Per Cent Of Stock
 Owned By Public

NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-Senate dis closures in the Teapot Dome inquiry at Washington recently to the effect that less than s per cent of the stock of the Mammoth Oil company, a Sim clair subsidiry, was in the hands of the public, led today to an order sus- pending trade in the stock by the listing committee of the New York curb market.
 The company was incorporated in Wyoming on August 19. 1922. to de. velop and operate under a lease from the federal government, 8 section known as Teapot Dome, q naval oil reserve. Its capitalization consisted of 100000 shares of no-par value non-voting class A stock and 5000 class B shares, the latter having ex- elusive voting powers.
 Only the class A stock was listed on the curb. Harry F. Sinclair. oil magnate and turf sportsman. is presi- dent of the company.
 has been active. the last sale recorded being 100 shares at 5s. in the last week in 1923, 1t Is understood that curb officials after learning through MT. Sinclair's testimony that a ma- .iority of the stock was closely held, decided there was an insufficient distribution to permit the free and open market required on the subject of grazing lands.
 railroad embargo was placed against the shipment of war muni- tions of Mexico while treasury agents at border points and ports were or- dered to present illegal shipments to the rebels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
BASSETT AND NINA DENY REPORTS
Absolutely FaIse,' Says Au-
 thor, While Chauffeur
wEST PALM REACI

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Jan. 8. Denial by Ellsworth R. Bassett, busi- ness manager for Nina Wilcox Put nam Sanderson. of a report from Madison, Conn, quoting his wife as saying that Mrs. Sanderson had at- tempted to induce his wife to divorca him, and the almost simultaneous de- nial by Mrs. Sanderson that she had ever approached Mrs. Bassett re- garding the matter of a divorce. gave added interest today to the in- volved divorce proceedings of Mrs. Sanderson.
 Mrs. Sanderson left her winter home at Delray and arrived in New York last night to discuss with her attorneys the voiding of her divorce from her husband by the judge who had granted it to her pending proof that her residence in Providence. R. l., had been sufficiently long to war rant her to institute such proceed ings there.
 "The story Is absolutely false" Mir. Bassett said He Is in Mrs. Sander sons household "as her personal busi- ness representative" he said. MT Bassett has been staying at Mrs Sandersons winter home at Delray.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
BattIeship Which Drifted Is Taken In Tow By Cutter. ]
 Crew Safe

NORFOLK, Va, Jan. s.-Headed, for the junk pile, the former battleship Louisiana which drifted helplessly. at sea a distance of 70 mills with a skeleton crew of seven aboard her be- fore she was sighted by the coas, guard tug Mascoulin and the cutter Manning yesterday morning passed in Che capes shortly after g a. m, today in tow of the coast guard craft. Ine seven men aboard were well in spite of their exposure to the storm:
 The tug Peerless met the Louisiana just outside the capes today and came in with her and the vessels nav ing her in tow. The tug Wood, which, with the Peerless, had the old battle ship in tow when they were forced by the gale to abandon her, is in port for repairs. The Wood limped in yes- terday with five feet of water in he
 bow, . plate strained and the win dows in her pilot house shattered by the force of seas which swept over her.
 The seven men on the Louisiana, Capt. Charles Chambers, Hairy Spicer, Machinist Miller and four negro iron workers of the Boston Iron and Metal company of Baltimore, Md. who bought the battleship scrap for her metal, will go with the ship to Balti- late today or tomorrow. The Louis. jana is said to be apparently none the worse for her experience before the wind and on the ocean currents which carried her from a point IT miles southeast of Assateague to s5 miles east of cape Henry within g. hours. a I,- L
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
MACDONALD TALKS AT LABOR RALLY
laborites Sing MarseiI|aise
 And Raise Red Flag At --,.. Albert Hall

V : LONDON, Jan. s.-(By Associated Press. )-In a great demonstration In G Albert Hall tonight. the British la Dor party celebrated its victories in it's united efforts to con 5Istructive work toward the rehabili- tations of Great Britain, Europe and
 the world at large. if called upon
 as seems certainty within 10 days to assume the task of governing the
 British empire.
 a. We have been in the battle, and i, we have brought back the trophies ' 11te said Ramsay Macdonald, the party - leader and principal speaker. On 192 labor members of the House of Commons.
 ' The meeting began with the sing ing of the "Marseillaise and closed i with tlte Red Flag" The labor ad- a.! herents failed to chant or sing the si! speakers did little radical talk and made no predictions of approaching } [. millenium. In fact they gave every evidence that labor does not intend Macdonald pleaded with the press |. for fairness if labor assumed power. The crowds cheered while he mildly feproved about 50 reporters grouped around the table before the report oral shortcomings in chronicling la bor news.
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 s~ 8ianes Newspaper Combine.
 "If capital leaves the country it { will be because of the panic-mon- 2 gers." he said, "and if Parliament Is blown up. metaphorically speaking, as the headquarters of the modern Guy Fawkes will be in the newspaper .,,s combines not in labor headquarters. Ecleston Square" MT. Macdonald mentioned the word socialism only once in his speech. and then coupled it with a broader term, as he pro- claimed democracy and socialism" to be the aims of the labor movement. The only opportunity for a demon stration by the radicals with Rus 2 Sian leanings came when MT. Mac e Donald said that one of the first acts of labor would be to end the ponpous folly of aloofness. Scat tered shouts of approval bursts from widely separated sections of the crowd, but 1t was nothing to com :. pare with the ovation later accord ed Margaret Bonfield. a frail little " oman whose voice carried to the 'e toftiest galleries of the big build t 'fngs. She seemed to touch the hearts of tho whole audience and verybody there joined in applaud ing her simple recitation of the story Of "A Man Named Jesus" whose creed was the brotherhood of man. The labor party, she said. wanted to walk fin His footsteps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
GLOWING FUTURE
 SEEN BY BANKERS
New York Financiers 0pti- mistc At Stockholders
 Gathering

NEW YORK, Jan. s.-Heads of . score of banking houses painted a bright future in addresses today at the annual meeting of stockholders of their institutions. Except for . few minor changes in directors, none of the shareholders meetings ef- fected any departure in the manage ment of the larger banks for the year 1924.
 Declaring that the American public, during the period immediately fol- lowing the close of the World war, over emphasized the importance of Europe to American business. James S. Alexander. chairman of the board of the National Bank of Commer rec, said that the 1924 outlook points to a continuance of ample supplies of creditor and reasonable and fairly stable rates-a condition favorable to prosperity"
 "Our own markets" Mir. Alexander said, absorb the largest part of our products. We have had good busi- ness in 1923 because the United States Is more self contained than any other country and because at present 1t has a dominating influence in the international markets"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
MURDOCK T0 GIVE LADIES' MATINEE
Special Performance Ar. ranged At Masonic Audi
 torium For This Afternoon

The Ladies Only sign will appear at tte box office of the Masonic auditorium this afternoon, when Mur- dock will give his special preform- ance, at which girls under 16 will not be admitted, and, of course, positive ly no members of the so-called stern- CT sex, curious as the latter might be
 Questions of a more personal na- ture may be asked Murdock at this time, and will be answered directly and comprehensively. It is also an- nounced that Murdock will distribute a limited member of souvenirs, Orien- tai gazing crystals, horoscopes, spiri' paintings, etc. The performance will begin promptly at 2:30 o'clock, and the seats are now on sale at the auditoriuv box office.
 The evening performance will be- gin promptly at S:30 o'clock.
 While the local engagement is under the auspices of the Drill Corp of Cyrene Commandery, the perform ances are open to the general public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
SEAT SALE HEAVY
 .E0R BLOSSOM TIME.
Charming 0peretta Will Re- turn To Jefferson For Three
 Days Thursday Night

Tomorrow night at the Jefferson theatre, tho Mess. Shubert's "Blos- som Time" returns to Birmingham for three days, with the same cast that was seen here a few weeks ago. Great as was the demand for seats during its initial engagement here some few weeks ago, it was com paratively small to that for the re- turn engagement. and those who are anticipating seeing this musical play order their seats immediately so as not to be among those who will be unable to get seats at all.
 Birmingham theatregoers who saw "Blossom Time" when here before understand why 1t has been the tremendous success that it has. not only here but everywhere It played, and why it will never grow old. There are four companies on the road this season. and each is doing capacity business. but the same company that played hero before will return. which will also be good news. for 1t + the opinion of everyone who has seen 1t is one of the finest ever seen in the city.
 The sams cast, as has been said be- fore, is returning here headed by Greek Evans who socred his usual success as Franz Schubert. and Mar garet Merle. who is establtDhing her self as a favorite everywhere. not only because of her winsome person. ality, but her truly great voice. The others who came back are Robert Rhodes, Robert Lett Allen. Fenita de Soria, Alma Keller, Bee Brady-ir fact as you saw Blossom Time" { few weeks ago you will see 1t again
 rho who will see it again. Blossom Time is like a gorgeous gem. something tt revel in its beauty, and lovers of the real things on the stage will not miss it this time-if they were unfortu- nate enough to last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
FARMERS 5 | \ R J. SCORES VICT | BY
Minneapolis Chamber Oi Commerce Methods Of
 Competition Held Unfair

WASHINGTON, Jan. s.-A federal trade commission decision had handed down today found the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, said to be the largest organized grain exchange ir the United States, guilty of unfair competition against a farmers co. operative grain marketing organiza. tion and ordered 1t to desist.
 The Equitp Cooperative exchange at St. Paul. Minn.. the farmers or. eanization concerned, was refused business connection with the Minne- apolts market and qutation service from that market, the commission as- serted because 1t returned the earn the form of patronage dividends"
 Commissioners Gaskill and Van Feet dissented from the majority position taken by the trade commis. sion.
 The St. Paul grain exchange an or. ganization to which the Equity ex- change belonged. was likewise said to Minneapolis marketing group, and tho commissions order was extended tc forbid continuation of alleged dis crimination against 1t. Officers, di- rectors and members of the Minnea- polls chamber. the Manager Publish Ing CoHphuy WHICH prints gram trade paper called the "Co-operative Manager and Farmers" and editors ot that periodical, were named in the commission order and finding.
 o o O
 Ten Years Practice.
 By means of boycott and threats of boycott, the Minneapolis chamber and members thereof conspired an( agreed among themselves, and with others, to induce it's members and others to refuse to buy from. sell to or otherwise deal with the Equity Cooperative Exchange or the mem bers of the St. Paul Exchange" tho decision said. "The respondents for more than ten years last past have been engaged in an agreement and conspiracy to annoy, embarrass and destroy the business of the said Equity Exchange, its stock holders and the St. Paul exchange and others
 These activities on the part of the retained for them a monopoly of the grain trade at Minneapolis is, and within 100 miles thereof, unduly re- strained and hindered competition in interstate commerce"
 The chamber is ordered by the cim- mission to refrain from compelling its members to avoid dealings with the equity organization and its members to cease preventing telegraph com panies from furnishing price quota tions on wheat to the equity concern tion of grain growers or shippers membership In the Meinneapolis chamber when objection to such mem bership Is based on the ground that it pays patronage dividends" out of profits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
GIRL PLAYED PART OF DAUGHTER TWO YEARS
Fathers 2S-Year Dream Is Bfghted
 By Her Arrest

OJ 8kGA <AAAVoS
 ST. LOUIS. Jan. S-Realisation of his dream of a years-tAat of seeing his daughter again-was blighted for George Johnson of this city last night when he learned of the death of his daughter two years ago and of the dual role of the daughters former chum, Olga Ann Cumberland. who. through her letters, has represented herself as the Johnson girl since last March. =. r
 Johnson's disillusionment came with q dispatch from Washington, D. C.. to the effect that the police had arrested Miss Cumberland who admitted representing herself as Johnson's daughter. Hazel Agatha, through letters ana photographs which she has sent here.
 Johnson said last night that his daughter, when six years old. went to Florida in 1901 with Reuben R. Lise noy, father of his first wife, and he lost track of them, later hearing of Lisenoy's death. He says. he. em- ployed every means to locate his daughter and failed, until last March, when ne recelveu cdEu rum the Cumberland girl in which she repre- sented herself as Hazel and gave thanks for having found her par ents." -.
 There followed long letters of en- dearment. containing expressions of hope for reunion. But all letters from Johnson were addressed to Hazel in care of the Cumberland girl.
 The deception came out when Washington detectives arrested the Cumberland girl upon complaints of department stores on charges of ob- taining goods under false pretenses. She admitted receiving a death bene- fit of $295 on Hazel's insurance policy at her death and said she paid $195 for funeral expenses and kept the rest. This, she said, had led to the deception that followed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
WITNESSES ARE BARRED
Film Attorneys Claim They Are No
 Receiving Fair Treafmeu+

0A-AnA AuCy AF0 N0C
 Receiving Fair Treatment
 JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. S-Ex. am1ner E. c. Alvord for the federal trade commission. today denied at torneys for the Famous Players Lasky corporation permission to Introduce witnesses, who. they sav were prepared to testify that where the Southern Enterprises, subsidi- ary of the film corporation. ac- quired control of or erected theatres the character of the service was i'm proved greatly as compared with previous services rendered by the same theatres or in the same towns which the Southern Enterprises en- tered.
 Robert T. swaine, Bruce Bromley and John D. Robb, New York attor. neys, stated they would protest to the federal trade commission thai Examiner Alvord Is not allowing them to refute testimony which has been offered by the government Tn it's suit for dissolution of the film corporation for alleged unfair meth ods of competition and which, if un refuted would. they say, prejudice their cause.
 The witness list, which the attor- neys stated they wanted to present. included the names of many promi- nent Floridans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
No Divorce Intended

NEW HAVEN. Conn.,. Jan. S.-No court action is contemplated-eithe for divorce, seperation or alienation of affections-by Mrs. Ellsworth Bassett of Madison, whose husband Is business representative of Mrs. Nina Wilcox Putnam Sanderson. 1t was stated in her behalf today. While Mrs. Bassett had a conference with her attorney. Mrs. Sanderson did not appear and was not expected in spite Of reports that she had expressed a desire to meet Mrs. Bassett. There was no indication that Mrs. Sander son had come to this city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
28 MEN ABOARD
 SINKING STEAMER
Fate Of Crew Not Known. Cutter Fastening To
 Aid

NORFOLK, Va, Jan. S.-The fate of 2S men aboard the Italian steamer Zoriso, reported sinking, is unknown. Coast guard headquarters at Will mington, N. C.. reported that cutter was hastening to the steamers as- sistance.
 A wireless message from the coast guard Apache said the craft had suc- ceeded in floating two small vessels, the names of which were not given, which had been driven ashore by ice flows in the upper waters of Chesa- peake bay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
BAN BIG DIVIDEND
Hawaii Firm Is Denied Right To Pay
 50 Per Cent

WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-By di. vided decision the interstate com merce commission today refused the Oahu Railway and Land company ot Hawaii authority to paly 50 per cent stock dividend amounting to $2,500,o00 and incidentally held that railroads are not entitled to capital ize new values arising from ap. preciation of old assets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
DYNAMITE KILLS TWO
Man And Wife Arc Blown To Pieces
 By Explosion At Home

By EXpIOsiOn At Home
 SPARTA, Tenn. Jan. s.-News has been received here of the death by a dynamite explosion of M. Lockwood and his wife sat o'clock this morn ing at their home near Eastland. Both bodies were mangled by the ex- plosion, Lockwood's head being blown off. Children sleeping in other parts of the house escaped injury.
 The Lockwoods were we'll known residents of Eastland. A diovrce suit between husband and wife had been adjusted at a recent session of court and the couple was again liv- ing together. It Is reported that one theory Is that Lockwood. who Is said to have shown signs of mental un- balance since the divorce suit was in- stituted, had placed the dynamite, fired the fuse and returned to bed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
WINS LOAN SCHOLARSHIP
Brooklyn Woman Selected As Rene.
 ficiary Of Club Federation

ficiary. Of Club Federation WARRINGTON, Jan. S.--Miss Edith Brooklyn. N. r.. and at Epresent head of the division of shome economies, University of Tex fas, has been awarded the medical Eioan schol arship of the General Fed SsEration of Women's clubs, Mrs W. S. %Jennings, Jacksonville, Fla. vice @Spresident o1 the federation and chair T-man of the scholarship committee. &sreported at the semi-annual board meeting of the organization here to- day.
 owing to delay in announcing the award. Miss Hershey was unable to accept the scholarship this year and the committee granted an extension until 1925, whom she will begin her
 tudies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
BOOSTS EDUCATION
Kentucky Governor Urges $I3.OOO, ,OO<
 For Schools Of State

FRANKFORT, Ky, Jan. s.-Gov. William J. Fields, in his message to the Kentucky legislature, which con vened here today, paid particular at tent4on to the need of the advance ment of the state through education and asked submission by the legisla- ture to the people of a $13,0OO, 900 bond issue for this purpose. This bond issue was included in a general bond issue of s75,OO,OOO that he recommended, S50,000.000 of which would go towards good roads
 Repeal of a staute creating the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
FORMAL STATEMENTS
Dawes And Young Only Will Issue
 News Of Probe

PARIS. Jan. s.-Any statements emanating from Brigadier General Charles F. Dawes and Owen B.. Young. unofficial representatives of the United States on the expert com mittee which is to investigate Ger many's situation, will be issued for mally by them. This announcement was made tonight by General Dawes and MT. Young
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09
PREVENT INFLUENZA

The Tonic and Laxative Effect of Laxative PROMO QUININE Tablets will keep the system in a healthy condition and thus ward off all at- tacks of Colds, Grip or Influenza. 30c.-Adv,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09

In less than a week, the green color of early picked oranges, which are. suitable for eating. is changed to the characteristic golden tint by the action of fumes of gasoline and kerosene Y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09

Peasants in some districts of Rus sia are importing camels to take the place of horses in the regular farm work, 1t is said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-09

position of oil inspector for each county would remove a heavy bur den from the users of gasoline, the governor recommended.