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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
SENATOR CONSENTS
 TO AMENDMENTS
Alabamian Willing To Ac- cede To Reasonable
 Changes
NORRIS WILL FIGHT
 FOR OWN MEASURE
Jssue To Be Held Before Senate
 Until Definite Action Results
lRy Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, Dec. G. Senate republican leaders are hopeful that the end of the long fight over Muscle Shoals is near. They expect Presi- dent Coolidge Monday to en- n dorse the Underwood bill, provided Senator Underwood democrat, Alabama, consents to certain amendments. The Alabama senator, in the view of senate leaders, will accede and the bill will pass toward the end of next week.
 This would send the Issue nack to the house, which adopted Ut the as' .. session bill to lease the propertN ~, .e Henry Ford, who has since witnafawn his offer. With administration suppor' behind the measure, leaders or the ma aiority party believe it Will pass tne horse. and end a controversy that,nas been raging in congress for nearly tnree years.
 Would Draft New Bill
 If an agreement cannot be reached hotween the republicans and Senator Underwood, the administration forces ,Ion to have voted down both the Underwood and Norris bills and draft new bill.
 Senator Underwood said today he was xv;ll;n0 to to submit to "any reason ohle amendments." He conferred with Secretary Weeks during the prepara- fion of his bill, and since President Coolidge is expected to be guided some what by the war department's report on if it is believed by majority leaders that A compromise can be reached.
 Senator Norris, chairman of the sen ste agriculture committee, which re- norted the Norris bin, is determined to fight for the passage of his own meas ,,re. lie declared today he did not understand how any senator from the sonth could vote for the Underwood bill" :. = Senate leaders plan to hold the IS v,,a hefare the senate until some definite oct;on is taken. and altheught the Isle >of Pines treaty is slated to come up Wednesday. the Muscle Shoals ques- tion will have the right of way. Since several senators have expressed the III tention to speak on the subject, 1t IS not believed by leaders that vote can be taken until after Wednesday,.
 The Underwood bill would dedicate Muscle Shoals to national defense, pro vide for perpetual government owner ship and favor first private operation but in the event of failure to procure a suitable lessee; it would call for govern ment operation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
HUNDREDS OF S0VIETS ARRESTED HerriOt Orders Wholesale Raids On Communist
 Headquarters CALL TO ARMS
 PLANNED BY REDS Police Seize Paper Warm ing Bolshevists Of Near-
 ing Revolt - - SCORES ARE HELD
 FOR DEPORTATION Coup In French Capital Was To
 Have Occurred Next
 Week
SCORES ARE HELD
 FOR DEPORTATION
U,eased Wire to Age-Herald)


 PARIS, Dec. 6.-Sociallsm and communism were at death grips here Saturday night fol- lowing discovery of an alleged plot for a bolshevist coup in the French capital. Hundreds of police and republican guards swept through the city on orders from the Herriot socialist government, arresting known communist agitators who will be deported by wholesale next week. Raids will go on uninterrupted for several days, it was an- nounced, until "the last vestige of the red peril has been eliminated"
 Certain documents seized reveal a "call to arms" for coup against Parls next week. 'The signal will be given at an hour to be agreed upon through channels of which you know," said one of the papers taken. "The necessary materials will be placed at your dis posal and all will be ready ln each section"
 Wipe Out Threat
 Whether these papers were planted by royalists, or even by the police, IS not known, but the determination of the Herriot government to wipe out every possible threat held by the fred menace" is unmistakable.
 The vigorous raids continued all aft- ernoon and evening, beginning within less than 24 hours after Austin Cham berlain had finished his conference with Premier Herriot on Friday. At this conference, the ''bolshevik menace" was discussed at length, and Herriot agreed to take action. It is quite possible that Chamberlain called to the French premier's attention certain facts in con- nection with the situation with which Herriot was not completely aware.
 The communist deputy (Dormoy) is alleged to have been involved in the proposed bolshevist "coup," in which foreigners, principally Swiss, Germans and Russians, are said to have been the most active. M
 Scores of communist nests in the suburbs were broken up, and their oc- cupants either arrested or scattered.
 Spectacular Raid Made
 The most spectacular raid occurred at the Lenin School in Bobigny, where 400 men and women were trapped as they listened in more or less vicious rapture to the lecture of a Professor Marion on "The History of the Russian Revolution and the New Geography of Europe" A score of the professors listeners were arrested, among them ths communist deputy (Bourloi).
 The police, before they came upon the alleged evidence of a sensational coup, also claimed to have revealed constructive campaign of the soviets to establish themselves firmly in France under the inspiration of French recog- milton of Russia and the arrival of the
 Continued On Page Two)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
GENE s. PORTER
 NOTED NOVELIST,
 DIES OF INJURIES
Auto Accident Fatal To Popular Authoress In
 Los Angeles
(By Associated Press.)

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6-Gene novelist and short story writer, died tonight from injuries su, stained when her automobile colllded with |. street car earlier in the evening.
 The accident in which the writer was fatally injured happened a short distance from her home while she was on her way to call on her brohter, Jerome Q. Stratton.
 Taken to the receiving hospital, the writer never regained consciousness. Physicians at the time announced that her chances for recovery were slight.
 Husband Notified
 The writer's husband, Charles D. Porter, a banker of Rome City, Ind, whose arrival here for Christmas was expected by Mrs. Porter, has been notl- fled of the accident.
 Mrs. Porter has ben resident of California for five years, during which time she continued her writing and produced some of her books i'll motion pictures. Mrs. Porter was born on a farm in Indiana in 1868, the daughter of Mark and Mary Stratton. In 1886 she married Porter. at Wabash, Ind.
 Was Noted Author
 Mrs. Porter was noted as an author and illustrator, her two most noted works being 1.-The Girl of the Timber lost" and "Freckles." She was the author of more than 15 books, among them being several on birds and bird life, on which subject she was recog- nized authority. For two years she was on the natural history staff of Outing Magazine.
 In March of this year Mrs. Porter moved from her 120 acre tract of land, a haven for birds and little animals of the forest, on Sylvan Lake, near Fort Wayne, Ind, and came to Los Angeles. In connection with these productions, Mrs. Porter organized the Gene Strat- ton Porter, Inc, a Delaware corpora ton, to handle the motion picture 'mak- ing and exploitation of her novels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
ROOSEVELT PLANS
 TRIP TO SIBERIA
Will Take Six Months Hunting
 Expedition, He Says
(By Associated Press. )

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 6.--Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the navy, who is on a hunting trip in Cameron parish as the guest of former Governor John M. Parker, told friends today he would sail next summer for a six month hunt ing and exploration trip in northern Siberia.
 1T have not set the day of sailing yet, but I have decided definitely that l will go next year." he said. II want to hunt some of the bigger Siberian man. mals, but there is a lot of Investigating I want to do into the bird life of Si- beria, and lot of chronological re- search there that I have been plan ming for some time" Colonel Roose- welt is a trustee of the American Mu- scum of Natural History at New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
SIMMONS FREED
 ON $2,5OO BOND
Texan To Face Early Trial On
 Oil Fraud Charge
lBy Associated Press. ]

TEXARKANA, Texas, Dec. 6.-Bond in the sum of $2,50O, approved by the United States commission at Fort Worth, Texas, was filed in the western district of Arkansas here today in behalf of W. R. (Bob) Simmons, charged with violation of section 215 of the penal code, use of the mails to defraud.
 Simmons is one of the men indicted at the recent grand jury session, when 16 fraud indictments were returned. The indictment charges that he stated to prospective investors that he intended to sell only $35,000 worth of stock in his trust organization, for development of holdings in the Arkansas oil fields. It is charged that in his correspondence and advertising he made pledges of q return of $10O,00o in sixty days for every $1 .000 Invested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
SAUNDERS ASKS COURT TO DROP
 RECEIVER SUIT
Former Piggly Wiggly Head Petitions To File
 New Motion
(By Associated Press. ]

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. 6.-Clarence Saunders, former head of the Piggly Wiggly corporation, today filed a mo- tion here for presentation to Judge Smith Hickenlooper of the United States district court at Cincinnati, sit ting by designation in the Saunders Piggly Wiggly litigation, which, among other things, asked the dismissal of Saunders prayer for receiver, or re- ceivers, for the Piggly Wiggly cor poration.
 Saunders motion does not ask dis missal as a whole of his suit against the chain store corporation and was accompanied by a request for per mission to file supplemental bill setting out new matters developed during hear ings and pleadings in the course ot the litigation between Saunders and the corporation in support of his con tention that, while acting as execu- tive head of the corporation he was vested with authority to buy stock on margin for account of the Piggly Wiggly corporation.
 Question Arises
 ? The question as to whether Saun- ders was actually invested with such authority by the executive committed of the corporation-an aftermath oi Saunders ineursion. into Wall Street at the head of a stock buying pool in 1923-was one of the main points raised by Saunders in his legal battle with the corporation.
 Briefly the reasons assigned for sub mission of the motion were:
 That since the original bill was filet the, Piggly -Wiggly corporation has agreed to pay a contested loan oi tai to his stock market venture.
 That by virture. of funds received since the litigation began there has been changed condition in affairs of the defendant company.
 That the conspiracy alleged by thu complainant is mo lenger of further consequence to the complainant fol the reason that he is no longer in terested in who controls the defendant corporation or Piggly Wiggly stores Inc.
 And to prevent Piggly Wiggly iron pleading that it continues to be haras sed by the 'pendency of receivershil proceedings"
 Saunders further states that his prin cipal concern at the present is not thu recovery of money which he asserts is due him personally but "that hii character and reputation may b, cleared of the stigma sought to b, placed thereon by the defendant cor poration," Hearings in the litigation will be resumed before Judge Hicken Iooper early in January.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
YEATS SENTENCED
 ... TO 5-YEAR TERM
Unfrocked Minister ElOped With Choir Girl, IA Years Old
(By Associated Press)

NOWATA, .Okla., Dec. 6.-Joseph E. Yeats. unfrocked minister convicted by jury last week on a charge of abduction in connection with his elop- ment with 14-year-old Georgia Field, was formally sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary by District Judge Charles Baskin today Motion for a new trial was overruled by Judge Baskin and attorneys for Yeats filed notice of appeal to the criminal court
 of appeals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
THRIFT MENACES NATIONS HEALTH, SAYS CUMMINGS
Government Economy Is Aiding Spread Of Dis
 ease, Report Shows
u,eased Wire to The Age-HeraId.)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Goyern- ment economy is being carried to such great extremes that it is endangering the nations health, Surgeon-General Hugh $. Cummings of the United States public health service, declared in his report here today.
 "There is an almost universal ten dency," the surgeon general said, Ito, wards dimunution on the part ot government health agencies, national state and local, due to the necessity ot economy in official business"
 Government agencies designed to check epidemics. and control disease generally are suffering, Cummings de clared., He said that small pox had in creased in the past year and that fed eral measures for the suppression oi plaques, in all states except California had been suspended in 1922.
 Explains Coast Plague
 California will continue to be in fected by plague for years to come be cause of infected squirrels and rats, ac cording to Cummings.
 "This reservoir of plague in the Unit ed States should ever be kept in mlnc and vigilance in maintaining squirrel free zones around rat infested cities in these infected communities should never be relaxed"
 Despite the inroads of economy, tho past year showed steady progress 1T prolonging the average term of life Cummings said This now stands al 56 years, as compared to Al years 1T 1870, 25 years in 1890 and IT to 2t years prior to 1700. He said thai small pox remains the most widely dis tributed vaccination. About one-fiftf of all small pox in the world last veal was in the United States.
 Children III
 Studies made by the public healtl service in child hygiene showed aver age child is ill during the ordinary school session on an average of Z; times. involving a total average lost oi "a days per child per school year or Al per cent of the possible days O. attendance.
 The common cold and headache wer' found to be the most common causes o absence from school, with digestive dis orders next and other diseases in thu following order of frequency grippe influenza, tonsilitis, sore throat ant measles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
BRITISH SECRETARY
 ARRIVES IN ROME
Austin Chamberlain To Cement
 Good Will Of Nations
lRv Associated Press

ROME, Dec. 6.-Austin Chamberlain, the British secretary of state for foreign affairs, arrived here today from. Paris 10 attend the sessions of the council of the League of Nations. He was greeted; at the station with much cere- lnony by Italian officials. '.'''-' ..'-'
 MT. Chamberlain authorized state ment in which he referred to British sympathy with Italy which has been strengthened by comradeship of Italian and British soldiers during hte World war. He said he hoped by his visit to gain a fuller understanding of the Italian feeling and to strengthen the excellent relations existing between Great Britain and Italy.
 Tomorrow the British foreign secre- tary will visit Premier Mussolini. After wards King Victor Emmanuel will give luncheon in honor of Mir. Chamberlain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
2 TENNESSEANS
 DROWN IN CREEK
Woman And Two Men Die Az
 Auto Takes Plunge
(Ry Associated Press),

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 6.-Duff Mynatt, 25, and Ralph Graybeal, 20, of Hulls Cross Roads, Tenn, and Miss Mozel Smith, IT, of Fountain City, Tenn, were drowned in Bull Rup creek. 13 miles north of Knoxville on the Maynardville pike. late tonight when an automobile in which they were riding skidded from a bridge spanning the creek and, turning over, trapped them. A fourth occupant of the car, Mildred Smith, sister of the drowned girl, escdped weath when she was thrown from the machine as it left the bridge and managed to swim out of the water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
Solution Of Edlpnrds Murder Mystery Belieued Nea1
Auburn Students To Pass On Resolutions Of Alumni
 Asking Dowell's Removal
Faculty And Seniors Ex' press Confidence In
 Executive

Deyelopments in the movement 1n itiated by groups of alumni of Auburn college for the removal of Presiden Spright Dowell on charges of lack Q and vision" came Satur day as follows: v
 ing of the student body at Auburn Sunday afternoon to act on the resolutions adopted at the Birming- ham alumni meeting Thursday night.
 2. A committee. from the senior class met the Birmingham resOlu- lions committee in Montgomery and discussed the affairs of the in- stitution, but members of both com mittees withheld details of the con- ference.
 ,. 8. The Auburn faculty gave Dr. Dowell rousing vote of confid- ence at a meeting held at the Ma sonic hall in Auburn.
 4. A committee representing the Birmingham alumni meeting pre- .sented resolutions to Governor Brandon urging him to call the trustees together to select suc- cessor to Dr.. Dowell and pledging the, alumni to pay the difference be- tween the salary now paid Dr. DOwell and the salary required "to secure the desired head of our in. stitution." The governor promised to call the board into special ses- sion if petitioned to do so by four of the IF members, as required by the state code.
 5. Dr. DowelI, over long distance telephone, told The Age Herald he would issue no statement until he gives the situation further cOnsid- eration. Meanwhile, he said, the college activities will go forward uninterrupted. ,.l Dispatches from Auburn Saturda told of an informal but enthusiast meeting of senior class students, 2 which vigorous speeches in defense ( Dr. Dowell were delivered. Action wa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
PHYSICIAN, 65, GOES TEN DAYS
 WITHOUT FOOD

NTEw YORK, Dec. 6.-Dr. ". z. VI Kummler, 65-year-old physi-
 elan who on November 26 be- can fast of indefinite duration to- day observed the tenth day of his abstention from food by walking A miles. He reported that during the first five days of his fast he took no water or fluid of any kind, but he now takes small quantities of water. Since the first few days he has felt no hunger. He intends to continue the experiment as an aid to health, until he feels a craving for food, he said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
PERSHING ARRIVES
 AT PERU CAPITAL
U. s. Special Ambassador Will
 Attend Centennial Event

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 6.-General John J. Pershing, carrying the title of special ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Peru, arrived here today at the head of the United States delegation which will attend the cen tennial of the battle of Ayacucho, here on December 9. This event is celebrat- ed as the anniversary of Peruvian inde- nendence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
MACHINE RECORDS POSITION OF SUN
Shaw's Seismograph Also Indi-
 cates Slightest Movement

BIRMINGHAM, England, Dec. G. The family of J. J. Shaw, weather ex- nert. was always puzzled as to how, sit tinp in his windowless underground laboratory, he could tell when the sun went down or anyone was walking up or down stairs.
 Shaw disclosed the secret when he de- clared in a lecture here that his seismo- graph for recording earthquakes was so delicate that it recorded the atmos- pheric pressure caused by anyone nov ing about the house, and the expansion and contraction of the walls as the sun appeared or disappeared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
SOLID SOUTH STANDS
Democratic Vote About The Same As
 In 1920 Election

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-Whatever may he the future of the Democratic party, A final analysis of the official compila- tions of the 1924 vote shows that both in the solid south, where republicans and independents tried to horn in this fall. and in the country at large, the party stands now in much the same posi- tion in relation to the G. o. r. as it did after the elections of 1908.
 Here are the tabulations for southern states, now available. showing the con tinuance of the old ratio between the two major parties:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
KING GEORGE PUNCTUAL

LONDON, Dec. 6.-One reason why King George is so punctual is the mess that results when he is late. The per formance of the Blue Peter had begun at the Princess theater last night when the King and Queen tried to slip un- observed into their. box. They were seen, however, and the audience cheered so lengthily and loudly that the play had to be stOrtad again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
THE WEATHER
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The old man who has been over the road, slow, can rOint out the bumps and mary places to the yOungster who Is trnv- SIinx the Same rOHd too fast.
 Alabama: Generally fair in south; probably showers in north.
 Tennessee: Showers.
 Georgia: Partly cloudy.
 Mississippi: Fair in south; rain in north.
 (Complete weather data on Page | 1O).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
AGED ARKANSAN
 BURNS TO DEATH
B. G. Shower, 75, Loses Life In
 $15,OOO Fire
(By Associated Press. )

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark, Dec. 6.-B. G. Shower, 75, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the electric light plant at Manila, Ark, near here late last night.
 Shower and his son owned and ope- rated the plant. The aged man escaped from the building when the fire was first discovered but he went back to recover some .valuables, and never emerged. The damage to the plant is estimated at $15,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
Will Irwin

declares the evidence shows a con- certed effort leading to every corner of the United States to kill off the Panama Canal as a competitor of the railroads.
 Here is an issue with ramifications into nearly every essential phase of the country's industrial life. City is lined up against city, the U. S. Steel Corporation sees eye to eye with certain radical senators, inde- pendent producers take their stand beside transcontinental railroads. And the outcome touches every pOcketbOOk in the United States. What does that dry testimony mean? Will Irwin--gives his expla- nation in these lucid articles, FILLING UP THE' PANAMA
 CANAL,
 Beginning in The Age-Herald on
 Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
MRS. ALSOP SUES

PARIS, Dec. 6.-Mrs. Edward Al. sop of Atlanta, Ga, filed suit today for divorce from her husband, who lives in pittsburg, Pa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
Filling Up The Panama Canal

a series of articles which makes a vivid fact story from congressional testimony. In this serise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
The Gooding Bill

It's on the House calendar. Dry stuff-railroad rates and such things.
 But there's drama in it-a drama for the whole American nation.