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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
MEASURE INDORSED,
 IS REPORT Sealed Decision Will Be Read By c. O. P. Lead
 CTS Today LEADERS PLEDGED
 TO BACK VERDICT Executive Urges Few Amendments, Majority
 Senators Believe UNDERWOOD AGREES TO SOME CHANGES Alahamjan Foresaw Difficulties When He Drafted The
 Measure, He Says
LEADERS PLEDGED
 TO BACK VERDICT
UNDERWOOD AGREES
 TO SOME CHANGES
(By Associated Press. ]

WASHINGTON, Dec. IT, The fate of the Underwood a letter from President Cool Muscle Shoals bill is sealed ln idge to republican leaders Tn the senate and will be opened tomorrow.
 In this letter, the excutive makes known formally his attitude on the bill and ma lority members freely admit they stand ready to support his recommends ationS
 From sources close to the White
 House, it is reported the President
 indOrseS the measure with sugseS-
 tions for amendments.
 The principal amendment is said to deal with the financing of the operation of Muscle Shoals under the Alabama senator's bill. which provides for gov rrnmpnt ownership with private or gov ernment opera tions. Some of the Presl- dents advisers, it is reported in senate circles, have objected to the financing provisions and have been suggesting amendments which they think conform more favorably to business demands.
 WithfoIds Advice President Coolidge withheld his ad- ,..nco advice to senate leaders on the measure until he received report from the military experts in war department, which was submitted to the President yesterday. It was understood he would he guided to a great extent of hls sugSes- lions for amendments by this report. Senator Underwood has let it be known that he was in receptible mood for amendments to his bill. He declared he would he glad to receive SugSestlons and that he himself would like to have some amendments made to hlS measure' having refrained from drafting the meas ure according to his exact ideas for fear it would meet with objections lie explained that his bill should be consld- cred more as q charter Tor opefatlons rather than as contract.
 The leasing of Muscle Shoals under the Underwood bill is not expected by administration advisors to meet with serious difficulties. It is understood that several preliminary bids already have been received by the administration for leasing the property under It's terms.
 1 Predict Its Passage
 | Republican leaders tonight predicted unresprvpdly that the bill would pass It the administration amendments were &C., cepted, They added. however. that 1t would he voted down unless the final draft was in accordance with the Presl- dents views.
 some objections to the Underwood bill nave been raised by q few Southern senators. but the democratic leaders be- lieve that with few changes in the llfasure, practically the entire demo- cratic side of the senate will vote tor tine Underwood bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

WILL IRWIN transcontinental rali- eeoPSn,Sm; smson roads appl1ed TOT "relief'' from certain provisions or that same act; and the interstate commerce commission held in various cltles puoiic hearings of the matter.
 who have read the testimony can certify that these proceedings were ex- ceedingly dull-except perhaps to lh- terested persons. They lacked the hu. man and personal quality, the sense or life in conflict. They lacked even the spice of scandal-just set of shippers and chamber of commerce men on one side, party of railroad experts on the ie other, intoning statistics on rates, dll- ferentials and tariffs or introducing volumes of tabulated figures. Yet pe- hind these prosy proceedings ran a great American drama, of which thls act was perhaps the climax.
 The application for relief from fourth section rules mean concerte1 effort on the part of the transcontmentai lines to put the Panama Canal out ol business as competitor. The Gooaiile Lill, framed primarily, perhaps. in the interests of the intermOuntain states ana other intermediate points, was also a
  the transcontinental railroads their way and this. the greatest of American en- eineering enterprises, must hencetortll serve only for the purposes of national defence and of foreign commerce. One of it's primary purposes, the provision of cheap freight transportation between coast and coast, must necessarily be thwarted.
 Fight Is An Old One
 l I have called this crisis the climax of a drama. It is an old, old piece it has been playing since the first loco motives came into competition with the antique, stern wheeled river steamer oi the '40's and sos. Its antagonists art the American railroads on one side anc our inland water transportation on th' other. So far, the railroads are tht winners. Perhaps it is the memory o this uniform success which has em boldened the transcontinental lines t( attack new and dangerous competitor our Panama Canal.
 Now, faced by the facts of situatloI which has hitherto been as blind ant obscure to me as to most of the Amer ican. people, my own memory goes bacl fonr years to little but revealing glimpse of one American river. In tn autumn of 1920, the New York-Phila la,paia rain was crossing the Raritan sat W tn my eyes glued to the parlor car wi low. After six years of war torn and eace-disturbed Europe, . vas tr., ing to see my own country wit frnsb vision. The river burst on us il ,a fash--green banks with glimpses o connty estrtes through the tree-tops, r.u. h'ue surface patterned with tn . 1.ids.,i ons of gentle current, and on
 . sin le rowboat Though the straigh cou7.n If the current permitted a viey for .np miles, no other craft but that
 To ne front of my mind came
 .Heral observation which had beel L, kling my subconsciousiness durin tais Shole swing of the country. ] ha Continued On Page TwO)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
AMBERS HIT BY AUTOMOBILE POLICE BELIEVE Cards In Coat Pocket
 Lead To Identifi-
 cation VETERAN DIES IN HOSPITAL Autoist Finds Body In Center Of Gate City
 Highway

W. T. Chambers, 80, Con- federate veteran, died at TAO o'clock Sunday night at the Woodlawn infirmary from in- juries received some time Sun day night when he is believed to have been struck by an un- identified autoist on Leeds highway, near Gate City, who sped away in the darkness, leaving him in the road to de.
 The aged broken form was found lying in the center of the road With A fractured skull, broken arm numerous lacerations and body bruises. An au- torist picked up the dying man and brought him to Gate City where he was met by ambulances from Vices.
 Dies In Hospital
 He died ten minutes later on the operating table. The man was uncon- scious from the time found until his death and no account or the acclueht which caused his death were obtaln- able.
 The man was found in the center of the road near Arthur's station on the Gate City car line It was rain ing and the body lying in puddle of water was hardly visible at the time, the driver told hospital attendants. No automobile was in sight when the dy- ing man was discovered.
 Has Klan Head
 By cards in his pockets, the man was identified as w. T. Chambers, a blacksmith at Scott station. He wore confederate soldiers medal showing service from 1S61 until 1865. A sec end medal proclaimed him a Grand Wizard of the Knights of the ku kluz Klan, police said.
 A squad of city detectives headed by Chief of Police Fred H. McDuff began an investGat ton into the death and a search for the driver of the death car Sunday night. Coroner J. D. Russum also began probe into the killing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
JORDAN AWARDED
 S25,OOO PEACE PRIZE California Educator Submits The
 Best Educational Plan
(By Associated Press ]

AUGUSTA, Maine, Dec. 7.-Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeri- tus of Leland Stanford university. ed ucator, naturalist and author, has been awarded the prize of $25,OOO offered by Raphael Herman of Washington, D, C.. for the best educational plan cal culated to maintain world peace. An nouncement of the award was made to- d?y by Dr. Augustus O. Thomas, com missioner of education for Maine and president of the World Federation of l Education associations, which directed the contests.
 The award, Dr. Thomas explained, differs from that offered by Edward Box in that it calls for no legislative action and will not be sbmitted to re ferendum vote. The plan selected, it was stipulated, must be world wide and capable of application in all schools.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
H. MOORE HELD
 IN ASSAULT BILL
Married Woman Files Complaint;
 Mother Was Choked

Henry Moroe, 45, 21l1 Thirty third street. north is being held in the city Jail pending warrant charging A statutory offence. A married woman filed the complaint against him.
 The assault is alleged to have taken place late Saturday afternoon at the home of the victim on the Tennessee pike. Moore was arrested early Sunday morning by City Detectives Williamson and Elledge and Officers Bryan and Smith, at his own residence.
 Moore, according to the charge made by the woman, climbed through 8 window and covered her mother and herself with a revolver. When the mother attempted to call for aid, Moore is alleged to have checked her into insensibility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

challenge broadly speaking is that the light of an undivided church shall shine upon torn and exhausted world.
 Too many retreat from Lords ideal for the church. he continued mot because they look upon it incredible but as impossible Nevertheless its fulfment is inevitable The holiness of her membership vital than it's unity the spirit and in the organic forms which the spirit shall ordain.
 "When all believers thus one the Son is with the Father the world will know that He forth the Father Then will the crying need of the be met and its religious hunger appeased We artificial comty dictated by exgency; makebeeves of compromise On the contrary we are denomnatonalized within limits that do not forbid expansion.
 "The discipline of Presbyterianism, the of Angcanism the independence of Congregatonasm the n eleence and enthusiasm of Mehodsm the religious edu- cation of utherans the tranquility of the Friends and the democracy of the Bapsts and all tokens Ill us of Gods ndwelling, many sided wisdom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
CHINESE VICTIM
 OF ST. LOUIS TONG
War Believed To Have ReOpened
 In Missouri

ST. LOUIS, Mo. Dee. 7.-The Chinese Tong war, which has claimed more than a score of lives in recent months broke forth here tonight, it is believed, when Lem Cow, 65, laundry man, was fatally wounded before a building in Chinatown where sixty guests were assembled at a feast in honor of Chinese baby's naturaliza- tion.
 The unidentified Chinese who killed Cow discarded q revolver containing three exploded cartridges and fled down nearby alley. according to Lee Doe. Chinese, the sole witness. Cow was q Hip Sing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
CHINESE BANDITS
 CAPTURE PRIESTS Several PasiOnist Monks Held, Father Creegan Announces
lRy Assnciated Prassl

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Dec. 7.- Father Creegan of Chicago, head of the Passionate Order of Monks, announced here tonight the receipt of the following cablegram from Chenfu Chow, China, relating to the capture of Catholic priests by Chinese brigands:
 Fathers Matthias, Dominic, Edmund and other priests captured by bandits. '
 Father Creegan declared it was his understanding that the company N priests were travelling from city near Chenfu Chow to another city in the northwestern | Tt of the province of Human. The priests We're engaged in missionary work and belonged to the or der of which Father Creegan is the head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
TENNESSEE GIRL
 DIES w STORM
Miss Crow Killed When Wind
 Wrecks Farmhouse
(By Associated Press. )

GIBSON, Tenn, Dec. Miss Ethel Crow, aged 20, was reported killed and several other persons hurt when a farmhouse near here was wrecked by the severe rain and windstorm which swept over west Tennessee today and tonight. The storm caused extensive damage to small frame buildings and paralyzed telegraph and telephone lines tor some hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
MILLIONS LOST BY GOVERNMENT
 IN TAX EVASION
Senate Committee Expo ses Estate Law Gouge
 In Probe
fRs Leased Wire To Age.Herald)

WASHING ItDN, Dec. I.-N Holtsdie evasion of the estate tax law, by which the government is losing millions of collars in revenue each year, has been discovered by the Couzens committed Investigating the internal revenue bu- leau
 As n result of disclosures to the com mittee in secret sessions during the last week. Senator Couzens of Michigan, It's chairman. has called the attention to congress to loopholes in the law for which he urges adequate legislation. The revelations came through study of numerous income returns of wealthy in dividuals, which were dug up in the internal revenue bureau by experts of the committee.
 To Influence Publicity Fight
 In addition to showing the clever tricks and evasions widely employed by tax payers, the results of the investiga lion are expected to extend and have mn influence on the fight later for re- neal of the tax publicity section of the present law. As it has been pointed nut bv one who was close to the in- yestlgation, these costly loopholes in inc law would not have been discovered if the committee had not had power to study individual returns, which was granted last session along with the other provisions opening the amount of tax paid by individuals to public ln- spection.
 Complete returns are available now only confidentally to certain commit tees of congress upon request
 The chief difficulty in the present law deals with the transfer of property be- fore death, by which taxation IS avoid ed. Some interesting cases were dis covered. The law now provides that such transfers are taxable when made "in contemplation of death" and also provides that transfers made within two years before death shall be deemed to have been made in contemplation Of death" unless otherwise shown.
 Characteristic Case Cited One characteristic case is that of man who transferred $2,S00,00O of property on which the tax would have bpen S35S. .000. Senator Couzens thus describes the ease:
 MT. A was 72 years of age when he died. He had been sick for several years He was suffering from spinal trouble, he talked with difficulty, saw with diff culty. and limped. He had had nurse in constant attendance for two years He had not been active in his business for several years and had told hi' 1 friends he did not expect to live long. | Within the two-year period before his death, he transferred his property A revenue agent investigated and rec commended that the transferred estate be taxed After long hearing th' board of review made the same recon mcndation. However, on appeal the So licitor of the bureau held that thu transfer should not be- taxed. Sln" there is no appeal, the tax was lost t' the government,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

BERLIN, Dec. 8.-Republi- canism has triumphed over monarchism and communism in Germany, and the German people have provided the re- publican parties in the Reich stag with a balloted mandate to discharge faithfully all the obligations of the Dawes plan and to send Germany along the peaceful path of a liberal foreign policy. Those are the results of the general election Eheld here Sunday.
 Tine republican victory was lndlcate!' t., from the first, but it was not uhl.' the early hours of today that the over whelming nature of the rebuke 10 LII. extremists at both ends of the poiitie"i line became apparent. ..o | At 8 o'clock Monday morning, tne government formally announced that the socialist party had gained approxima.oso, oo Jy 30 per cent; the democrats 10 10 ~ per cent. tfye centrists slightly, tnt ' nationalists kabout held their own VIII a possible 9in in sight; the extremely reactionary, monarchist fascisti lost D, to 60 per cent and the communists los' 30 per cent.
 Dawes Influence Felt
 Tho socialist. democratic and centrlst parties are the middIe-of-the road repub iican organizations. With the natlon aIists. these three have formed the gov ernmant which has ruled Germany since inc elections of last May. The nation ol;sts are semi-monarchists. The tren enJous gains of the purely repub lican parties at the expense Of the reds and the German black shirts, the lat ter led by the Chauvinistic Ludendorff indicate the the miracle the Dawes plan already has worked in the economic condition of the average Germans.
 Thousands of poor men who voted either for the fascist or the communists last spring because, in their despera ton, they were willing to try anything to escape the misery which then was theirs, turned from the red or black agi tators Sunday and cast safety-first vote for the republic.
 Stresemann, the president foregir minister in the Marx cabinet, is ma tionalist. The republisan groups vii now be able to form cabinet without consulting the semi-monarchist na tionalists, and that may mean that Stressmann has served his full time ir the Wilhelmstrasse.
 Socialists Gain
 The socialist party, which registered the greatest gain Sunday, is the Ger man labor party. It is rather moderate group and is not to be confused with radicalism.
 Nationalist crowds in the fashionable west end of Berlin fought republican marchers who were following a truck plastered with republican colors. Dozens of minor injuries were sustained on both sides.
 The party polls at 8 clock this morn ing were as follows:
 Socialists, 3,52200O; Nationalists. ?, 365,00G; Centrists, 1,511 ,00O; FolkiSts 1881, ,OOO; Democrats, 1,250,000; Com munists, 1,191 ,0O0 Fasiisti, 40S ,000.
 4 few broken heads and a scatterin! of revolver shots marred the Sunda, polling, but the only death so far Wa that of little girl crushed beneath th wheels of truck bearing election post CTS and speakers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

CaQman, BrOOklyn, IN. 1o president of the Federal Council of Churches, pre- dicted in a sermon here to- day.
 Dr. Cadman's remarks were delivered as the "offi- cial sermon" of the council, which has been in session here since Wednesday and will adjourn Tuesday. His prediction came e in connec- tion with a plea for greater comity" between the Pro- testant churches. He also condemned war, and de- clared Protestants could not lay claim to having the "purest form of apostolic religion" until they have disposed of theological dis putes and acrimonious con- troversies."
 In referring to the tasks before Gods statesmen" C1 .o;L +Lo Nf;xo+
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

ulrecJly. D II q V |
 Gooding of Idaho, hay ing lntroduced.a bill to amend the fourth sec tion of the interstate commerce act, caused his committee to take testimony from rail
 roads, shippers and other interested per sons. At about the same time, the great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
STUDENTS VOTE
 FULL CONFIDENCE
 IN DR. DOWELL
Action At Mass Meeting Is Decisive But Not
 Unanimous

AJBURN, Ala, Dec. 7.-(Special) Students of the Alabama Polytechnic institute in mass meeting at Langley hall this afternoon voted full confidence in Dr. Spright Dowell and expressed regret at agitation started by alumni to have him removed as president of the Institution, Resolutions to this effect were drawn up and signed by Clarence Kirk, as president of the student coun- cil and chairman of the meeting.
 The vote in favor of Dr. Dowell was by a heavy majority, but not unanimous, it was stated. Only stu dents were allowed to attend the meet ing.
 Resolutions adopted by Birmingham alumni and presented to Governor Brandon yesterday were read before the assembly. Disapproval of them was voiced and letter to Dr. Dowell was drawn up expressing regret that such matter had been published
 The meeting of the student body toi- lowed action of the faculty, wnlcn na ssed resolutions of confidence yester- day in the president of Auburn. The senior class had previously taken sucn action.
 The alumni resolutions charged that Dr Dowell had failed in the handling of the affairs of Auburn and asked that m outstanding educator be piaceu in his position.
 Committee Reports q. H. Turk of Greensboro. president of the Mems Student council presided at the meeting. A report of the commit tee sent to Montgomery yesterday Dy the senior class for a conference with members of the Jefferson county alumni association was given by s. D. Petersen Inf Chattanooga, president of the senior lciass and quarterback of the tootDail team and C. A. Pruitt, right end or the | football team.
 Afrer a number of talks by various students a letter to Dr. Dowell was read and submitted for adoption by .. D. Rurgo,ne of Mobile, president of the junior class. After discussion vote ioken. an overwhelming majority voting that the letter expressed the feeling or the student body. The letter FOLLOWS:
 Text Of Letter
 "To Dr. Spright Dowel, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala, dear Dr. Dowell
 q. We the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, assembled Tn a called session Dec, [, 1924, unhesita' tingly express our confidence ill you as president of our great college as an executive, and we express our sincere love and admiration of you as our chief executive. ,,
 g. We regret exceedi1"lv the rublic ity that came as a re .a't "t . ''. m meeting of a group oi ,Ur a'2N.+' 1T one of our cities.
 "3. We wish to exI $ 9'lr sn HeTf hope end desire that ainmEi a. friends of Auburn w 'GlF !" large body to carry tt f'! as possible the great .a. VI .. started and which is tp""r nt this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
4utoist Finds Ve:Srun 80, Dying On Georyia HighWay
Cadman Predicts Union
 Of Catholics, Protestants
(By Associated Press)

ATLANTA, Ga. Dec 7.-Some time in the liar future all Protestantism and Roman and Greek Catholic ism will be "subimated in great faith Dr. s. Parkes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
Ry WILL, IRWIN

,rbia ia the first of a series of daily articles in which Will Irwin, who has been called the foremost of American reporters. analyzes testimony reta- ta- '.rcIief' under section " of the inter state commerce act According to Mir: Irwin's interpretation the success or this effort would mean the elimination of the Panama canal as coIiiile; ,;or, ou carrvin0 waterway The rate question involved is toucned on In a bill when went to the house after being passed by the senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

Alabama: Showers Monday; mild temperature.
 Tennessee: Rain. Georgia: Showers. Mississippi: Showers. (Complete weather data is on Page 9.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

trorvr,gbt 1924 in United States, Great Britain and South America by Nortn American Newspaper Alliance Tor ihe Are-Herald. Alrights reserVed')
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

Two important public inquiries C of the last few months got scant pupilc attention, except in few regions whose
 commercial interests they affected most
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
Girls Diary
 To Be Made Publ {:

Sounds interesting, do It f? Well, it is. Beginning tc } Ife ge-Herald will publish maa- velously interesting, unex ate |, illustrated diary-someth s 'h- every woman can use to h'o r| AH tage-facts never before n -Ao
 lie will see the light of da! 'f' these columns.
 DON'T MISS IT!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
THE WEATHER

Before running in to pull out the under Ig, it's well to remember that lots or iangy CUTS and pugnaciOus pups have good licking coming to them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
GERMAN ELECTION
 PROVES TRIUMPH FOR SOCIALISTS
MOnarchism And COm-
 munism Lose Heavily In Landslide
SOCIALISTS GIVEN
 LARGEST INCREASE
Ludendorff's MOnarchist Party Reduced To Vir-
 tual Negligibility
(Ry AssOciated Press. )

BERLIN, Dec. S.-ElectiOn re- turns compiled up to 5 o'clock this morning showed the socialists lead ing with 82 deputies elected to the reichstag. The German nationalists had 3z, the centrists A: peoples party 22; communists IA: demo- cratic party :; extreme nationalists 2 and economic party 2.