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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
WOMAN KILLS
 ALLEGED BANDIT
 IN STREET FIGHT
New Orleans Couple Claim Threats As
 Their Defense
.tBy Associated press.1

NEW ORLEANS, August 30--- Thomas Thomason, an alleged hijacker and bandit, was shot and instantly kill ed today by Mrs. Ethel Thompson as he leaped on the running board of an automobile occupied by her and her husband, Joseph J. Thompson, in the business section of the city. The Thompsons immediately drove to po- lice Headquarters, made statements, were charged with nansIaughter and were released on $5,OO0 bonds each.
 Thomson, according to the police report, had been accused by the hus- band and wife of holding them up in Jefferson parish recently and robbing them of $250. Thomson is alleged to have threatened the couple for filing charges against him, which, it was re- ported, had been withdrawn within the last few days.
 At Biisy Corner
 The scene of the killing was at Com mon and Drades streets, busy corner in the business district. According to Thompson's statement to the police he was about to leave the corner where his car had been parked when another automobile occupied by Tbomason drew alongside. He said Thomson leaped out of the car and jumping on the rum ming board of his machine shouted I've got you," and reached for the keys of Thompson's machine but was blocked.
 Mrs. Thompson stated during the ar gument about the keys that Thomson reached for his hip pocket.
 q thought he was after his gun. ' she declared, tsHe had Threatened oiir lives and I believed he was going to kill us, so turned around to the back of the coupe and grabbed ,our revolver. l shot him once and he fell to the ground" Thomson was shot through the heart and fell from the running board dead.
 Immediately after the shooting an- other automobile. driven hby man be- Lieyed to have been Thomason's com panior, sped away from the scene. Thomason was 46 years old. Mir. and Mrs. Thompson gave their ages as g aud 28 years, respectively.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
YOUTH CONFESSES
 KILLING COMPANION
Hurled Lad In Front Of Train,
 He Says

DENVER, Colo, August so.-Harry Willis, 19, confessed at Great Bend
 Kansas, today that he killed Harold Watson, 19, early yesterday by throw ing him in front of a speeding passen- ger train near olmitz, Kansas. accord ins to a special to the Rocky Mountain News. Wills Is from CircIsviIIs; Ohio. Watson's home is in Denver The news dispatch said the youths had been working on farm near Otis. After spsnding an evening in Roising- ton, kahsVs, they rode the blind" of
 Willis laiS beside the track and slept. lie atNses Watson robbed him as they dozed. Whey fought and willis knocked out tic sNother yonth' T TbSp <, s'i.0 Y, q frenzy of rage, aScoFding to tbe M. New r
 Willis picked up Ah,e unconscious boy
 help him until aNlFain roared nss, s and flung him in fl6st of the engine t | -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
BUYS CHINESE JUNK AS PLEASURE BOAT

STAMFORD, Conn, August 30.- Leroy Lewis, head of the H. J. Lewis Oyster company, has purchased for a pleasure yacht the Chinese junk Annoy, first vessel of this type ever to visit the Atlantic seaboard.
 The Annoy is now moored at Bridge port, where Captain George Ward, a native of Holland, but now a British subject is preparing. his trip back to Vancouver island, where he plans to spend the rest of his days on a ranch.
 The Annoy made the trip from Shang- hai to Victoria, B. O.; in S7 days. For the past two years it has been, sailing from port to port along the Pacific coast, finally coming through the Pan anna Canal and up the coast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
[Continueil from Par. onsl

working. With this accomplished, the government believes the stimulus to England's world trade will more than compensate for any losses she suffers in continental markets. Moreover, it is the conviction here that Germany will ever again become the cutrating com petitor that she was before the war. It is pointed out that before the war Ger man workmen labred for long hours, at small pay, but now, under the repub- lie, they are enjoying short hours and higher wages. This will make a great difference in the prices of German K ports. ,f
 Pact Is Signed
 The reparations settlement became ef- tn various forign powers signed the pact at the British foreign office.
 With this formality disposed of, the French will now begin evacuation of the Ruhr, which must be completed within year. The French troops will first be withdrawn from Dortmund. This move probably will be the first vis- ble accomplishment of the London con ference, although the evacuation was arranged outside of tn rgular Dawes protocols. Also, today's event opens the way to the $200,000, 900 loan to Ger many.
 The afixing of the signatures, despite the significance of the event, was ac- complished casually, with a minimum or ceremony. Ambassador Kellogg rep. resented the United States, but did not slgn the document, owing to the ab- sence of Premier Macdonald in Scot land. Sir Eyre Grove, under-secretary TOT foreign affairs, signed for Great
 Four documents were signed. One deals with the German payment of separations, both in cash and in kind. Another provides for the transfer of German railways to the new regime set up under the Dawes plan. These two protocols were signed by all the al- lies and Germany.
 :. A third, signed only by the allies. de- fines the method of arbitration to be used in case of dispute between Ger many and the reparations commission. The fourth paper outlines the new duties of the separations commission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
Europe Takes. First Steps
 Under Experts Agreement
American Agent General Assumes Control Of
 Preparations Payments

MT. Young got into action imme- diately and started his assistant, Leon Frazier, to Berlin, giving him AS hours in which to get to the German capital and open his office.
 The cessation of economic control of the Ruhr and the delivery of the com plicated railroad system to- the Ger mans will take several weeks. The London agreement contemplated that the first step should be taken August 15 and specified the dates on which each stage must be completed, but au- thorized the reparation commission to hasten or delay the dates, according to circumstances.
 September |, will be the first date, and eight days later the French and Belgians must cease collecting customs between occupied and unoccupied Ger many. Twelve days afterward, or by September 21, the French and Bel gians must have removed the restric- tions on all traffic between the oc- cupied and unoccupied regions, and they must restore various charges on the population and regulations as they exist in Germany proper.
 The Rhineland and Ruhr railroad, however, will continue to apply it's present tariff, as the profits from it go into the reparation fund administered by Mr. Young.
 5-Week Preliminary
 The plan gives five weeks for the completion of all preliminary arrange ments, Such as forming an organiza- tion for creating a bank of issue, or ganizing a new railroad company, desposing railroad and industrial securi- tics, the negotiation of a contract as- surfing an eight hundred million mark loan. The French and Belgians with in two weeks thereafter, or by October 20, must restore the economic and fiscal unity of Germany to the satisfaction of the feparation commission.
 The actual collection of reparations will begin immediately, the Germans the Franco Belgians turning over their collections ten days later to Mir. Young.
 Germany must make up any defici- ency in collections, so that the agent general each month will receive one twelfth of the annual reparation pay ment to the allies.
 Agent General Young and the other officials appointed by the reparation commission, M DeLacroix of Belgium, Signor Nogara of Italy and Andrew Mac Fadayan of England, will go to Berlin Wednesday, ready to begin op- erations, and the reparation commissions in the meantime will complete the organizati tion of the personnel and ratify the various appointments. Most of the staff will be drawn from the commis- sion itself and the expenses of that body will be trimmed so that the ex- rerts' plan will not add any expense for Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
DAVIS TO BEGIN
 3-WEEKS DRIVE IN WEST TODAY
Opening Speech To Be Delivered In Wheeling
 On Labor Day

LOCUST ALLEY, August 30.---John W. Davis is ready to present to the peo. pie of the west his case as the demo- cratic presidential candidate.
 With his material marshalled and a number of his addresses already mapped out, he will leave here to- morrow afternoon for a three weeks drive in the half dozen states beyond the Mississippi. En route he will make at least two set speeches.
 Travelling on a special train. Mir. Davis will go west through his home state, where he will make his first ad- dress of the trip. This will be at Wheeling. ". Va, Labor Day before the Ohio Valley Trades Council.
 Before his train reaches Wheeling. if will stop at half a dozen West Vir4 ginia towns and so the candidate will have his first extended experience in rear platform speaking. He will talk only briefly, however, at each place.
 Mir. Davis will be in Wheeling only six hours, leaving there Monday eve ming for Chicago, where his train is due early Tuesday. He will remain there until September 5, when he will depart for Omaha, where he will speak the fol- lowing night.
 From Omaha the nominee will go to Lincoln. to visit Governor Bryan and then will proceed to Denver. Arriving there September s, Mir. Davis will re- main three days. He will speak at the auditorium September II.
 Accompanying the nominee on the western tour will be his. entire personal staff; his personal physician; Sena. tor Key Pittman of Nevada and Cor dell Hull, former chairman of the demo- cratic national committee, to arrange the itinerary of the journey and dozen newspaper correspondents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
TROOPS AGAIN
 PATROL HEREIN
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 several weeks prior to this, the klan faction and the Knights of the Flaming Circle, an organizations opposed to the Han, had been on the verge of open warfare. '.
 According to accounts of the FebFu- ary outbreaks Sheriff Galligan and Deputy Layman went to a hall in Herrin in an effort, they declared, to prevent trouble at meeting of the Flaming Circle. Reports that klans- men were attempting to break up the meeting caused a riot during which Deputy Layman was shot.
 Charges were made by. the faction opposing the klan that Chief of Police John Ford and two Herrin policemen had fired at Layman and in the ensu- ing excitement it was. reported that the Han had assassinated Layman. The killing of Cagle, an alleged klan sym pathizer, followed.
 Young, who was a dominant figure in Williamson county at the time, inn nediately proclaimed the klan would take control of Herrin and ordered the arrest of Chief Ford and his assistants. Military men were rushed to the town and quiet restored. Later it was re ported that Carl and Earl Shelton had fired the shots, which resulted in the death of Cagle. Subsequently both were indicted by a special grand jury of the Herrin city court.
 This was followed by a series of charges and counter charges and finally the indictment of Young and 55 as- sociates by the same grand jury.
 Young later left the count and with his departure, matters quieted, but soon fIared up again when news was re- ceived that Young and his wife were fired on by assailants in an automo- bile near Okawaville, H., as they were driving toward East St. Louis. Both received dangerous wounds, Mrs. Young suffering the loss of one eye, while Young's right. leg was smashed by a bullet.
 Special Deputy Constables at, Herrin, acting on advices that the car contain ing Young's assailants was en route to Herrin, blocked all roads leading into the city. Later an automobile ap- preaching Herrin was raked by bullets. Jack Shelcher, a coal miner of William son county, was slain and his com papion, a man named Brown" was captured.
 This act immediately caused a flood of charges and counter-charges against members of the klan and others. The two Shelton and Brown, however, were indicted by a grand jury and bound over to the November term of court The automobile in which Skelcher was killed was taken to the J. H. Smith garage, where it has reposed since. Il was this machine, according to Sheriff Galligan that States Attorney Duty or dered him to obtain today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
Paintings To Be Employed
 In Study Of Diseased Minds

WASHINGTON, August 20. = Five oil paintings, the work of widely known artist, Theodore !. Morgan, have been placed in St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane here to be used in studying mental disorders of patients. Psychologists at the hospital, which is under the di- rection of William A. White. the fa- nous alienist who was one of the chief witnesses for the defense in the trial of Loeb and Leopold at Chi cago. will attempt to use the pictures in diagnosing mental troubles of pa- tients.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
COLLEGE IS HELD
 NOT REPUTABLE
Kansas Judge Upholds Decision
 Against Medical School

KANSAS CITY, August SO.-Judge Willard P. Hall of the Independence division of the circuit court today sus- tained the Missouri state board of health in it's action against the Kan sas City University of Physicians and Surgeons.
 Judge Hall ruled the school was not reputable, as that word is used in the statutes dealing with medical schools ''The evidence showed" Judge Hall said, "the school failed to give the ex- perience in operating and hospital work required Nor does it meet the re- quirements set by the American Medi- cal association"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
|. 5. AND MEXICO
 ENTER NEW ERA, HUGHES ASSERTS
General Claims Comnis. sion Sets Wednesday
 For First Session

WASHINGTON, August 30.-organ- ization of the American Mexican gen eral claims commission was effected here today and the body set for next Wednesday the first of a series of meet ings, expected to extend over two years or more, to complete the task of ad- justing claims pending between the two countries and their respective nation ais since 1868 and aggregating millions of dollars.
 The initial session was public and was attended by many members of the diplomatic corps, Latin-Americans pre- dominating. Secretary Hughes. in an address of welcome hailed the negotia- tions as 'an emphatic demonstration of our devotion to the cause of peace" and as the beginning "of new era of mutual confidence in our relations with Mexico"
 Responses were made by commission CTS and agents of both governments and by Dr. c. van Vollenhaven of Holland, who presided as commissioner of a third and disinterested country.
 Peace Cause Triumphs
 The cause of peace, Secretary Hughes asserted, triumphs not so much in am- bilious programs or in counsels of per lection as in the practical work of lfe- moving causes of differences and in pro riding just settlements.
 The convention under which you are organizing as a commission is a docu- ment in every line of which breathes the spirit of justice" he said, There is no desire to obtain unfair advantage on the part of either government, no suggestion of any motive save to pro- mote our friendly relations by the frank recognition of mutual obligations irn- partially determined.
 Jastice Held Supreme
 'sT'he wide scope of the convention emphasizes the intention of both gov- ernments not to exclude from the prov ince of the commission any subject which could appropriately be submitted to judicial determination. No interna- tional document of recent years has more fully demonstrated that the high est national interest lies in maintain ing the supremacy of the principles of international law, justice and equity. !, To Dr. van Yollenhaven of Holland, selected to be arbitrator and chairman of the commission, the American secre- tary said the fact that the two gov Sfnments were able without hesitation to agree on his selection was not mere tribute to him, but ito the coun- try from which he came as we'll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31

Dr. Paul s. Craven, psycholnalyist who will have charge of the experi- ments, said the use of pictures in psychotherapy is new, but he believes some results may be obtained.
 The advantage may be two-fold,v he explained. A patient in deep psychic difficulty may be enabled to free himself from some of his emo tional conflicts and express his sup pressed emotions in dreams. Dreams and art are made of the same stuff. Another advantage is that contact with these pictures may stimulate the patient to produce something of his own, drawing, painting or some other form of self elf-expression.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
RAIN BRINGS BELIEF
 TO CORN COUNTRY
Nebraska Crops Had Begun To Curl In Some Sections

OMAHA, Neb., August sO-Rain came to the corn country of Nebraska last night, not in copious quantities or of long duration, but as relief to a crop which had begun to curl in some sections because of the Irolonged hot winds, according to word received here.
 Although no rain fell at Omaha, more moderate temperatures prevailed. At Lincoln, however, there were showers and south and west of Lincoln short but heavy rain fell. Rain was reported along the Burlington railroad from Ere mont to O'Neil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
SEIZURE ORDERED
 OF H BREWERTES
.6S Arrests Also Made In Phil
 adelphia District

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, August 30.
 Continuing their drive on breweries in this division, federal authorities to- day issued warrants for the arrest of 6S more brewery officials and ordered 17 breweries officially seized.
 Twenty three more brewery warrants have been issued, but will not be served until Monday or Tuesday, according to the United States district attorneys of flee. One woman was included in the list of persons arrested today. Three
 other women were arrested Friday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
NEW LAMP BURNS : 94% AIR
Beats Electric or Gas

A new oil lamp that gives an amaz- ingly brilliant, soft, white light, even better than gas or electricity, has been tested by the U. S. Government and 35 leading universities and found to be superior to 10 ordinary oil lamps. It burns without odor, smoke or noise Iio pumping up, is simple, clean, safe. Burns 94 per cent air and per cent common kerosene (coal oil).
 - The inventor, J. F. Johnson, sos w. Lake St., Chicago, H., is offering to send lamp on 10 days FREE trial, or even to give one FREE to the first user in each locality who will help him Introduce it. Write him today for full particulars. Also ask him to explain how you can get the agency, and with out experience or money make $250 to $500 per month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
M THE AIR TODAY
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 Handel's Oratorio, the Mes siah.
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 WIP, Philadelphia, 500 meters, 6 80 ?. rn.-Program by Comforts Philharmonic orchestra.
 WFAA, Dallas, 475 meterS 9 D. m., Central time.--Gorman Baptist church choir.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
YOUNG TAKES CHARGE
Adjutant Generals Assistant Sent Al
 Once To Berlin --1-

PARIS, August 30.-(By Associated Press. 1.-The Dawes plan really became operative at noon today with the for nal appointment of Owen D. Young as agent-general, although technically and legally the allies latest attempt to .eet separations from Germany will date from Monday, September 1, when fine reparation commission will announce that Germany has passed the required laws and that Germans and allies have signed the agreement of London.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
RAILROAD AUTHORIZED

z WASHINGTON, August 3O.-The Tuskegee Railroad company today re- eeiyed authority from the interstate commerce commission to operate a line of railroad and to construct an exten- sion thereto in Macon county, Georgia.
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